AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AMONG CHURCHILL DOWNS INCORPORATED, TOMAHAWK MERGER CORP.,
Exhibit 2.1
AGREEMENT
AND PLAN OF MERGER
AMONG
XXXXXXXXX
XXXXX INCORPORATED,
TOMAHAWK
MERGER CORP.,
TOMAHAWK
MERGER LLC
AND
XXXXXX.XXX,
INC.
Dated
as of November 11, 2009
AGREEMENT
OF PLAN AND MERGER
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
I THE MERGER AND
SUBSEQUENT MERGER
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2
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Section
1.1
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The
Merger
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2
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Section
1.2
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Effective
Time
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2
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Section
1.3
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Effects
of the Merger
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2
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Section
1.4
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Charter
and Bylaws; Directors and Officers.
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2
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Section
1.5
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Conversion
of Securities
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3
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Section
1.6
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Exchange
of Shares
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4
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Section
1.7
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Dividends;
Transfer Taxes; Withholding
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5
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Section
1.8
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No
Fractional Securities
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6
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Section
1.9
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Return
of Exchange Fund
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6
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Section
1.10
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Adjustment
of Per Share Merger Consideration
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7
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Section
1.11
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No
Further Ownership Rights in Company Common Stock
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7
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Section
1.12
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Closing
of Company Transfer Books
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7
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Section
1.13
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Lost
Certificates
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7
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Section
1.14
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Further
Assurances
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7
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Section
1.15
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Closing
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8
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Section
1.16
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Subsequent
Merger.
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8
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ARTICLE
II REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT, MERGER SUB AND MERGER LLC
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8
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Section
2.1
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Organization,
Standing and Power
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9
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Section
2.2
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Capital
Structure.
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9
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Section
2.3
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Authority
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10
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Section
2.4
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Consents
and Approvals; No Violation
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11
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Section
2.5
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SEC
Documents and Other Reports; Internal Controls and
Procedures.
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12
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Section
2.6
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Information
Supplied
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13
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Section
2.7
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No
Undisclosed Liabilities
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14
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Section
2.8
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Absence
of Certain Changes or Events
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14
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Section
2.9
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Litigation
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14
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Section
2.10
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Permits
and Compliance
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14
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Section
2.11
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Tax
Matters
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15
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Section
2.12
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Ownership
of Company Common Stock
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15
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Section
2.13
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ERISA
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15
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Section
2.14
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Opinion
of Financial Advisor
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15
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Section
2.15
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No
Vote Required
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16
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Section
2.16
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Reorganization
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16
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Section
2.17
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Brokers
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16
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Section
2.18
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Financing
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16
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Section
2.19
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Operations
of Merger Sub
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16
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Section
2.20
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Operations
of Merger LLC
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16
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ARTICLE
III REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
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16
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Section
3.1
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Organization,
Standing and Power
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17
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Section
3.2
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Capital
Structure.
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17
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Section
3.3
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Authority
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18
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Section
3.4
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Consents
and Approvals; No Violation
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19
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Section
3.5
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SEC
Documents and Other Reports; Internal Controls and
Procedures.
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20
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Section
3.6
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Information
Supplied
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21
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Section
3.7
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No
Undisclosed Liabilities
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21
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Section
3.8
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Absence
of Certain Changes or Events
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22
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Section
3.9
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Litigation
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22
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Section
3.10
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Permits
and Compliance
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22
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Section
3.11
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Properties.
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22
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Section
3.12
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Tax
Matters
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23
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Section
3.13
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Company
Rights Agreement
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24
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Section
3.14
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Certain
Agreements.
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24
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Section
3.15
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ERISA.
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25
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Section
3.16
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Compliance
with Worker Safety and Environmental Laws
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27
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Section
3.17
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Labor
Matters
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27
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Section
3.18
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Intellectual
Property.
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28
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Section
3.19
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Information
Technology; Security and Privacy.
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29
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Section
3.20
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Customer
Approval
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30
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Section
3.21
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Advance
Deposits.
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30
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Section
3.22
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Insurance
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31
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Section
3.23
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Opinion
of Financial Advisor
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31
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Section
3.24
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State
Takeover Statutes; Certain Charter Provisions
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32
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Section
3.25
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Required
Vote of Company Stockholders
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32
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Section
3.26
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Reorganization
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32
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Section
3.27
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Brokers
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32
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ARTICLE
IV COVENANTS
RELATING TO CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
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32
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Section
4.1
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Conduct
of Business Pending the Merger
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32
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Section
4.2
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Conduct
of Business Pending the Merger
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36
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Section
4.3
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No
Solicitation.
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37
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Section
4.4
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Third
Party Standstill Agreements
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40
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Section
4.5
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Reorganization
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41
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ARTICLE
V ADDITIONAL
AGREEMENTS
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41
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Section
5.1
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Preparation
of the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement
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41
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Section
5.2
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Company
Stockholder Meeting.
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42
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Section
5.3
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Access
to Information
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43
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Section
5.4
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Current
Nasdaq Listing
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43
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Section
5.5
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Company
Stock Options
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43
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Section
5.6
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Reasonable
Best Efforts
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44
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Section
5.7
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HSR
Approval.
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44
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Section
5.8
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Public
Announcements
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46
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Section
5.9
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State
Takeover Laws
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46
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Section
5.10
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Indemnification;
Directors and Officers Insurance.
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46
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Section
5.11
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Notification
of Certain Matters
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47
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Section
5.12
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Employee
Benefit Plans and Agreements.
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47
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Section
5.13
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Tax-Free
Reorganization Treatment.
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48
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Section
5.14
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Nasdaq
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49
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Section
5.15
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Company
Board of Directors Representative
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49
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Section
5.16
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Section
16 Matters
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49
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Section
5.17
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Certain
Litigation
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49
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Section
5.18
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Reservation
of Parent Common Stock
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49
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ARTICLE
VI CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT TO THE MERGER
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50
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Section
6.1
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Conditions
to Each Party’s Obligation to Effect the Merger
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50
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Section
6.2
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Conditions
to Obligation of the Company to Effect the Merger
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50
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Section
6.3
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Conditions
to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub to Effect the
Merger
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51
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ARTICLE
VII TERMINATION,
AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
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53
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Section
7.1
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Termination
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53
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Section
7.2
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Effect
of Termination
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55
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Section
7.3
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Payments;
Obligations.
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56
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Section
7.4
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Amendment
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57
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Section
7.5
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Waiver
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57
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ARTICLE
VIII GENERAL
PROVISIONS
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58
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Section
8.1
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Non-Survival
of Representations and Warranties
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58
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Section
8.2
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Notices
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58
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Section
8.3
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Interpretation
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59
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Section
8.4
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Counterparts
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59
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Section
8.5
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Entire
Agreement; No Third-Party Beneficiaries
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59
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Section
8.6
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Governing
Law
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59
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Section
8.7
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Specific
Performance; Submission To Jurisdiction
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59
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Section
8.8
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Waiver
of Jury Trial
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60
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Section
8.9
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Assignment
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61
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Section
8.10
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Expenses
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61
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Section
8.11
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Severability
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61
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Section
8.12
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Definitions.
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61
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Exhibit
A
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Form
of Voting Agreement
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Exhibit
B
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Form
of Certificate of Formation of the Surviving Company
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Exhibit
C
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Form
of Operating Agreement of the Surviving
Company
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iv
AGREEMENT
AND PLAN OF MERGER
AGREEMENT
AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of November 11, 2009 (this “Agreement”), among
Xxxxxxxxx Downs Incorporated, a Kentucky corporation (“Parent”), Tomahawk
Merger Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent
(“Merger Sub”),
Tomahawk Merger LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly owned
subsidiary of Parent (“Merger LLC”), and
Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).
W I T N E
S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
the respective Boards of Directors of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company have
approved and declared advisable the merger of Merger Sub with and into the
Company (the “Merger”), upon the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, whereby each issued and
outstanding share of common stock, $0.001 par value, of the Company (“Company Common
Stock”), together with the associated Company Rights (as hereinafter
defined) issued under the Company Rights Agreement (as hereinafter defined), not
owned directly or indirectly by Parent or the Company, will be converted into
the right to receive (i) shares of Common Stock, no par value, of Parent (“Parent Common Stock”)
and (ii) the Per Share Cash Consideration (as hereinafter defined);
WHEREAS,
the respective Boards of Directors of Parent and the Company have determined
that the Merger is in furtherance of and consistent with their respective
long-term business strategies and is in the best interest of their respective
shareholders or stockholders, as applicable;
WHEREAS,
immediately following the Merger, Parent will cause the surviving corporation in
the Merger to merge with and into Merger LLC in accordance with Section 1.16, on the
terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and in accordance with the
Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the “LLC
Act”);
WHEREAS,
simultaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as a
condition and inducement to Parent’s and Merger Sub’s willingness to enter into
this Agreement, Parent is entering into a voting agreement with the members of
the Board of Directors of the Company and certain stockholders of the Company,
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (each, a
“Voting
Agreement”); and
WHEREAS,
this Agreement is intended to constitute a “plan of reorganization” with respect
to the Merger and the Subsequent Merger (as hereinafter defined) for United
States federal income tax purposes pursuant to which the Merger and the
Subsequent Merger, taken together, are to be treated as a “reorganization” under
Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”).
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, representations, warranties and
agreements herein contained, the parties agree as follows:
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ARTICLE
I
THE
MERGER AND SUBSEQUENT MERGER
Section
1.1 The
Merger. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
in this Agreement, and in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law
(the “DGCL”),
Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company at the Effective Time (as
hereinafter defined). Following the Merger, the separate corporate
existence of Merger Sub shall cease and the Company shall continue as the
surviving corporation (the “Surviving
Corporation”) and shall succeed to and assume all the rights and
obligations of Merger Sub in accordance with the
DGCL. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at the
election of Parent, any direct wholly owned Subsidiary (as hereinafter defined)
of Parent may be substituted for Merger Sub as a constituent corporation in the
Merger; provided that such
substituted corporation is a Delaware corporation which is formed solely for the
purpose of engaging in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, has
engaged in no other business activities and has assumed all obligations of
Merger Sub under this Agreement. In such event, the parties agree to
execute an appropriate amendment to this Agreement, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Parent and the Company, in order to reflect such
substitution.
Section
1.2 Effective
Time. The Merger shall become effective when a Certificate of
Merger (the “Certificate of
Merger”), executed in accordance with the relevant provisions of the
DGCL, is filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; provided, however, that, upon
the mutual consent of Merger Sub and the Company, the Certificate of Merger may
provide for a later date of effectiveness of the Merger not more than thirty
(30) days after the date the Certificate of Merger is filed. The
filing of the Certificate of Merger shall be made on the date of the Closing (as
hereinafter defined).
Section
1.3 Effects of the
Merger. The Merger shall have the effects set forth in this
Agreement and in Section 259 of the DGCL.
Section
1.4 Charter and Bylaws;
Directors and Officers.
(a) At
the Effective Time, the certificate of incorporation of Merger Sub, as in effect
immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall become the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter changed or amended
as provided therein or by applicable foreign, federal, state, local or municipal
laws, statutes, ordinances, regulations and rules of any Governmental Entity,
including all Orders (“Laws”); provided that Article
FIRST of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation shall
read as follows: “The name of the corporation (which is hereinafter referred to
as the “Corporation”)
is Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc.” At the Effective Time, the Bylaws of Merger Sub,
as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, shall become the Bylaws of
the Surviving Corporation until thereafter changed or amended as provided
therein or in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving
Corporation.
(b) The
directors and officers of Merger Sub at the Effective Time shall be the
directors and officers of the Surviving Corporation, until the earlier of their
resignation or removal or until their respective successors are duly elected and
qualified, as the case may be.
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Section
1.5 Conversion of
Securities. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and
without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Company or the holders
of any securities of Merger Sub and the Company:
(a) Each
issued and outstanding share of common stock, $0.01 par value, of Merger Sub
shall be converted into one validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share
of common stock of the Surviving Corporation.
(b) All
shares of Company Common Stock (“Company Shares”),
together with the associated Company Rights, that are held in the treasury of
the Company or by any wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company and any Company
Shares, together with the associated Company Rights, owned by Parent or any
wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent shall be canceled and no capital stock of
Parent or other consideration shall be delivered in exchange
therefor.
(c) Subject
to the provisions of Sections 1.8 and
1.10 and, if
applicable, Section
1.5(d), each Company Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to
the Effective Time (together with the associated Company Rights), other than
Dissenting Shares (as hereinafter defined) and shares to be canceled in
accordance with Section 1.5(b), shall
be converted into the right to receive (i) 0.0598 (such number being the “Exchange Ratio”)
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable shares of Parent Common Stock
(“Parent
Shares”) (including the associated Parent Rights (as hereinafter
defined)) (the “Per
Share Stock Consideration”) and (ii) $0.97 in cash without interest (the
“Per Share Cash
Consideration” and, together with the Per Share Stock Consideration, the
“Per Share Merger
Consideration”). All references in this Agreement to Parent
Common Stock and Parent Shares shall be deemed to include the associated Parent
Rights unless the context requires otherwise. All such Company Shares
and the associated Company Rights, when so converted, shall no longer be
outstanding and shall automatically be canceled and retired, and each holder of
a certificate representing any such shares shall cease to have any rights with
respect thereto, except the right to receive any dividends and other
distributions in accordance with Section 1.7,
certificates representing the Parent Shares into which such shares are
converted, the Per Share Cash Consideration and any cash, without interest, in
lieu of fractional shares to be issued or paid in consideration therefor upon
the surrender of such certificate in accordance with Section
1.6.
(d) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, to the extent that the aggregate
number of Parent Shares issuable pursuant to Section 1.5(c) (the
“Total Stock
Amount”) would be greater than 19.6% of the Parent Shares outstanding as
of immediately prior to the Effective Time (such amount, the “Stock Threshold”),
(i) the Per Share Stock Consideration shall be decreased to reduce the Total
Stock Amount to the Stock Threshold and (ii) the Per Share Cash Consideration
shall be increased by an amount equal to the product of (x) the amount of
such reduction in the Per Share Stock Consideration pursuant to the preceding
sentence multiplied by (y) $30.71.
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(e) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Company Shares issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, together with the
associated Company Rights, which are held of record by stockholders who shall
not have approved the Merger and who shall have demanded properly in writing
appraisal of such shares in accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL (“Dissenting Shares”)
shall not be converted into the right to receive the Per Share Merger
Consideration as set forth in Section 1.5(c), but
the holders thereof instead shall be entitled to, and the Dissenting Shares
shall only represent the right to receive, payment of the fair value of such
shares in accordance with the provisions of Section 262 of the DGCL; provided, however, that (i) if
such a holder fails to demand properly in writing from the Surviving Corporation
the appraisal of his or its shares in accordance with Section 262(d) of the DGCL
or, after making such demand, subsequently delivers an effective written
withdrawal of such demand, or fails to establish his or its entitlement to
appraisal rights as provided in Section 262 of the DGCL, if so required, or (ii)
if a court shall determine that such holder is not entitled to receive payment
for his or its shares or such holder shall otherwise lose his or its appraisal
rights, then, in any such case, each Company Share, together with the associated
Company Rights, held of record by such holder or holders shall automatically be
converted into and represent only the right to receive the Per Share Merger
Consideration as set forth in Section 1.5(c), upon
surrender of the certificate or certificates representing such Dissenting
Shares. The Company shall give Parent and Merger Sub prompt notice of
any demands received by the Company for appraisal of such shares, and Parent and
Merger Sub shall have the right to participate in all negotiations and
proceedings with respect to such demands except as required by applicable
Law. The Company shall not, except with the prior written consent of
Parent, voluntarily make any payment with respect to any demands for fair value
for Dissenting Shares or offer to settle, settle or negotiate in respect of any
such demands.
Section
1.6 Exchange of
Shares. Parent shall authorize a nationally recognized
financial institution selected by Parent and reasonably acceptable to the
Company to act as Exchange Agent hereunder (the “Exchange
Agent”). Immediately prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall
deposit with the Exchange Agent for exchange with outstanding Company Shares,
together with the associated Company Rights, all cash and certificates
representing the Parent Shares (or appropriate alternative arrangements shall be
made by Parent if uncertificated Parent Shares will be issued) payable or
issuable pursuant to Section 1.5(c) and
cash, as required to make payments in lieu of any fractional shares pursuant to
Section 1.8
(such cash and Parent Shares, together with any dividends or distributions with
respect thereto, being hereinafter referred to as the “Exchange
Fund”). The Exchange Agent may only invest any cash in the
Exchange Fund as directed by Parent; provided, however, that such
investments shall be in obligations of or guaranteed by the United States of
America or any agency or instrumentality thereof and backed by the full faith
and credit of the United States of America, in commercial paper obligations
rated A-1 or P-1 or better by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. or Standard &
Poor’s Corporation, respectively, or in certificates of deposit, bank repurchase
agreements or banker’s acceptances of commercial banks with capital exceeding $1
billion (based on the most recent financial statements of such bank which are
then publicly available). Any interest and other income resulting from such
investments shall be paid to Parent and any risk of loss shall be borne by
Parent. The Exchange
Agent shall deliver the Per Share Merger Consideration contemplated to be issued
and paid pursuant to Section 1.5(c) out of
the Exchange Fund. Parent shall instruct the Exchange Agent, as soon
as reasonably practicable after the Effective Time, to mail to each record
holder of Company Shares, which at the Effective Time were converted into the
right to receive the Per Share Merger Consideration pursuant to Section 1.5(c), a
letter of transmittal (which shall be in a form reasonably satisfactory to the
Company and shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and
title to the Company Shares shall pass, only upon actual delivery of the Company
Shares to the Exchange Agent), and shall contain instructions for use in
effecting the surrender of such Company Shares in exchange for the Per Share
Cash Consideration and certificates representing Parent Shares (or appropriate
alternative arrangements shall be made by Parent if uncertificated Parent Shares
will be issued), and cash in lieu of fractional shares (the “Transmittal
Letter”). Upon surrender for cancellation to the Exchange
Agent of Company Shares, together with the Transmittal Letter, duly executed,
the holder of such Company Shares shall be entitled to receive in exchange
therefor the Per Share Cash Consideration and that number of whole Parent Shares
(after taking into account all shares surrendered by such holder) to which such
holder is entitled pursuant to Section 1.5(c) (which
shall be in uncertificated book entry form unless a physical certificate is
requested), cash in lieu of any fractional share in accordance with Section 1.8 and
certain dividends and other distributions in accordance with Section 1.7, and any
Company Shares so surrendered shall forthwith be canceled. Subject to
Section 1.5(e),
until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 1.6, each
Company Share shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent
only the right to receive the Per Share Merger Consideration (and any amounts to
be paid pursuant to Sections 1.7 and
1.8) upon such
surrender.
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Section
1.7 Dividends; Transfer Taxes;
Withholding. No dividends or other distributions that are
declared on or after the Effective Time on Parent Common Stock, or are payable
to the holders of record thereof on or after the Effective Time, will be paid to
any Person entitled by reason of the Merger to receive Parent Shares until such
Person surrenders the related Company Shares, as provided in Section 1.6, and no
cash payment in lieu of fractional shares will be paid to any such Person
pursuant to Section
1.8 until such Person shall so surrender the related Company
Shares. Subject to the effect of applicable Law, there shall be paid
to each record holder of a new Parent Share: (i) at the time of such
surrender or as promptly as practicable thereafter, the amount of any dividends
or other distributions theretofore paid with respect to the Parent Shares and
having a record date on or after the Effective Time and a payment date prior to
such surrender; (ii) at the appropriate payment date or as promptly as
practicable thereafter, the amount of any dividends or other distributions
payable with respect to such Parent Shares and having a record date on or after
the Effective Time but prior to such surrender and a payment date on or
subsequent to such surrender; and (iii) at the time of such surrender or as
promptly as practicable thereafter, the amount of any cash payable with respect
to a fractional Parent Share to which such holder is entitled pursuant to Section
1.8. In no event shall the Person entitled to receive such
dividends or other distributions or cash in lieu of fractional shares be
entitled to receive interest on such dividends or other distributions or cash in
lieu of fractional shares. If any portion of the Per Share Merger
Consideration is to be paid to or issued in a name other than that in which the
Company Shares surrendered in exchange therefor is registered, it shall be a
condition to the registration thereof that the surrendered Company Shares be in
proper form for transfer and that the person requesting such delivery of the Per
Share Merger Consideration pay any transfer or other similar Taxes required as a
result of such registration in the name of a Person other than the registered
holder of such Company Shares or establish to the satisfaction of the Exchange
Agent that such Tax has been paid or is not payable or otherwise
applicable. Parent or the Exchange Agent shall be entitled to deduct
and withhold from the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement
to any Person such amounts as Parent or the Exchange Agent is required to deduct
and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code or under
any provision of state, local or foreign tax Law. To the extent that
amounts are so withheld by Parent or the Exchange Agent, such withheld amounts
shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the
Person who otherwise would have received the payment in respect of which such
deduction and withholding was made by Parent or the Exchange Agent.
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Section
1.8 No Fractional
Securities. No certificates or scrip representing fractional
Parent Shares shall be issued upon the surrender for exchange of Company Shares
pursuant to this Article I or upon the
cancellation of Company Stock Options pursuant to Section 5.5; no
Parent dividend or other distribution or stock split shall relate to any
fractional share; and no fractional share shall entitle the owner thereof to
vote or to any other rights of a securityholder of Parent. In lieu of
any such fractional share, each holder of Company Shares who would otherwise
have been entitled to a fraction of a Parent Share upon surrender of Company
Shares for exchange pursuant to this Article I or upon
cancellation of Company Stock Options pursuant to Section 5.5 will be
paid an amount in cash (without interest), rounded down to the nearest cent,
determined by multiplying (i) the per share value calculated as the average of
the closing sale prices of one Parent Share for the five (5) most recent days
that the Parent Common Stock has traded on The Nasdaq Global Select Market
(“Nasdaq”)
ending on the last full trading day immediately prior to the Effective Time by
(ii) the fractional interest of a Parent Share to which such holder would
otherwise be entitled. The parties acknowledge that payment of cash
in lieu of fractional Parent Shares is solely for the purpose of avoiding the
expense and inconvenience to Parent of issuing fractional shares and does not
represent separately bargained-for consideration. As promptly
as practicable after the determination of the amount of cash, if any, to be paid
to holders of fractional share interests, the Exchange Agent shall so notify
Parent, and Parent shall deposit such amount with the Exchange Agent and shall
cause the Exchange Agent to forward payments to such holders of fractional share
interests, without interest, subject to and in accordance with the terms of
Section 1.7 and
this Section
1.8.
Section
1.9 Return of Exchange
Fund. Any portion of the Exchange Fund which remains
undistributed to the former stockholders of the Company for one year after the
Effective Time shall be delivered to Parent, upon demand of Parent, and any such
former stockholders who have not theretofore complied with this Article I shall
thereafter look only to Parent for payment of their claim for Parent Common
Stock, Per Share Cash Consideration, any cash in lieu of fractional Parent
Shares and any dividends or distributions with respect to Parent Common
Stock. None of Parent, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange
Agent shall be liable to any former holder of Company Common Stock for any such
Parent Shares, Per Share Cash Consideration, cash in lieu of fractional Parent
Shares and dividends and distributions which are delivered to a public official
pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar
Law. If any certificate representing any Company Shares shall not
have been surrendered prior to five years after the Effective Time (or
immediately prior to such earlier date on which any Parent Shares or any
dividends or other distributions payable to the holder of such certificate
representing any Company Share would otherwise escheat to or become the property
of any Governmental Entity), any such Parent Shares, dividends or other
distributions in respect of such certificate representing any Company Share
shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, become the property of Parent,
free and clear of all claims or interest of any person previously entitled
thereto. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary,
none of the Company, Parent, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation, the
Surviving Company, the Exchange Agent or any other person shall be liable to any
former holder of Company Shares for any amount properly delivered to a public
official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar
Law.
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Section
1.10 Adjustment of Per Share
Merger Consideration. In the event of any reclassification,
stock split or stock dividend (including any dividend of securities convertible
into or exercisable for Parent Common Stock or Company Common Stock) with
respect to Parent Common Stock or Company Common Stock or any change or
conversion of Parent Common Stock or Company Common Stock into other securities
(or if a record date with respect to any of the foregoing should occur) prior to
the Effective Time, appropriate and proportionate adjustments, if any, shall be
made to the Per Share Merger Consideration, Exchange Ratio, Per Share Stock
Consideration and, to the extent required by Section 1.5(d), Per
Share Cash Consideration and all references to the Per Share Merger
Consideration, Exchange Ratio, Per Share Stock Consideration and Per Share Cash
Consideration in this Agreement shall be deemed to be to the Per Share Merger
Consideration, Exchange Ratio, Per Share Stock Consideration and Per Share Cash
Consideration as so adjusted.
Section
1.11 No Further Ownership Rights
in Company Common Stock. All Parent Shares issued
and the Per Share Cash Consideration paid upon the surrender for exchange of
Company Shares in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (including any
cash paid pursuant to Section 1.8) shall be
deemed to have been issued and paid in full satisfaction of all rights
pertaining to the Company Shares, together with the associated Company
Rights.
Section
1.12 Closing of Company Transfer
Books. At the Effective Time, the stock transfer books of the
Company shall be closed, and no transfer of Company Shares shall thereafter be
made on the records of the Company. If, after the Effective Time,
certificates representing Company Shares are presented to the Surviving
Corporation, the Exchange Agent or Parent, such certificates shall be canceled
and exchanged as provided in this Article
I.
Section
1.13 Lost
Certificates. If any certificate representing any Company
Share(s) shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an
affidavit of that fact by the Person claiming such certificate representing
Company Share(s) to be lost, stolen or destroyed and, if required by Parent or
the Exchange Agent, the posting by such Person of a bond, in such reasonable
amount as Parent or the Exchange Agent may direct as indemnity against any claim
that may be made against Parent, the Surviving Corporation or the Exchange Agent
with respect to such certificate, the Exchange Agent or Parent will issue and
pay or cause to be issued and paid in exchange for such lost, stolen or
destroyed certificate representing any Company Share(s) the Parent Shares, Per
Share Cash Consideration, any cash in lieu of fractional Parent Shares to which
the holder thereof is entitled pursuant to Section 1.8, and any
dividends or other distributions to which the holder thereof is entitled
pursuant to Section
1.7.
Section
1.14 Further
Assurances. If at any time after the Effective Time the
Surviving Corporation shall consider or be advised that any deeds, bills of
sale, assignments or assurances or any other acts or things are necessary,
desirable or proper (a) to vest, perfect or confirm, of record or otherwise, in
the Surviving Corporation its right, title or interest in, to or under any of
the rights, privileges, powers, franchises, properties or assets of either of
Merger Sub or the Company, or (b) otherwise to carry out the purposes of this
Agreement, the Surviving Corporation and its proper officers and directors or
their designees shall be authorized to execute and deliver, in the name and on
behalf of either Merger Sub or the Company, all such deeds, bills of sale,
assignments and assurances and to do, in the name and on behalf of either Merger
Sub or the Company, all such other acts and things as may be necessary,
desirable or proper to vest, perfect or confirm the Surviving Corporation’s
right, title or interest in, to or under any of the rights, privileges, powers,
franchises, properties or assets of Merger Sub or the Company and otherwise to
carry out the purposes of this Agreement.
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Section
1.15 Closing. The
closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Closing”) and all
actions specified in this Agreement to occur at the Closing shall take place at
the offices of Sidley Austin LLP, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
at 10:00 a.m., local time, no later than the second Business Day following the
day on which the last of the conditions set forth in Article VI (other
than those conditions that are by their nature to be satisfied at the Closing,
but subject to the fulfillment or waiver of those conditions) shall have been
fulfilled or waived (if permissible) or at such other time and place as Parent
and the Company shall agree.
Section
1.16 Subsequent
Merger.
(a) Immediately
after the Effective Time, Parent will cause the Surviving Corporation to merge
with and into Merger LLC (the “Subsequent Merger”),
the separate corporate existence of the Surviving Corporation shall thereupon
cease, Merger LLC shall continue as the surviving entity (the “Surviving Company”)
and all of the rights and obligations of the Surviving Corporation under this
Agreement shall be deemed the rights and obligations of the Surviving
Company. The Subsequent Merger shall have the effects set forth in
Section 18-209(g) of the LLC Act. Immediately following the
completion of the Subsequent Merger, the Certificate of Formation and Operating
Agreement of the Surviving Company shall be in the forms attached hereto as
Exhibit B and
Exhibit C,
respectively.
(b) The
Merger and Subsequent Merger, taken together, are intended to be treated for
federal income tax purposes as a “reorganization” under Section 368(a) of the
Code (to which each of Parent and the Company are to be parties under Section
368(b) of the Code) in which the Company is to be treated as merging directly
with and into Parent, with the Company Common Stock, together with the
associated Company Rights, converted in such merger into the right to receive
the consideration provided for hereunder.
(c) Each
of the parties hereto shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, treat the Merger
and Subsequent Merger for all Tax (as hereinafter defined) purposes consistent
with Section
1.16(b) unless the Continuity Requirement is not satisfied or unless
required to do otherwise by applicable Law.
(d) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Parent shall have no obligation to
cause the Subsequent Merger to be consummated under this Section 1.16 or
otherwise if the Continuity Requirement is not satisfied.
ARTICLE
II
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT, MERGER SUB AND MERGER LLC
Except as
disclosed in the Parent SEC Documents filed or furnished with the SEC since
January 1, 2007 but prior to the date of this Agreement (but excluding any risk
factor disclosures contained under the heading “Risk Factors,” any disclosure of
risks included in any “forward-looking statements” disclaimer or any other
statements that are similarly predictive or forward-looking in nature, in each
case, other than any specific factual information contained therein) or in the
letter delivered by Parent to the Company immediately prior to the execution of
this Agreement (the “Parent Letter”),
Parent, Merger Sub and Merger LLC represent and warrant to the Company as
follows:
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Section
2.1 Organization, Standing and
Power. Parent is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Kentucky and has
the requisite corporate power and authority to carry on its business as now
being conducted. Merger Sub is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
the requisite corporate power and authority to carry on its business as now
being conducted. Merger LLC is a limited liability company duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware and has the requisite limited liability company power and authority to
carry on its business as now being conducted. Each Subsidiary (as
hereinafter defined) of Parent that is a “Significant
Subsidiary” (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X) is
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the
jurisdiction in which it is organized and has the requisite corporate (in the
case of a Subsidiary that is a corporation) or other power and authority to
carry on its business as now being conducted, except where the failure to be so
organized, existing or in good standing or to have such power or authority would
not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect (as
hereinafter defined). Parent and each of its Subsidiaries that is a
Significant Subsidiary are duly qualified to do business, and are in good
standing, in each jurisdiction where the character of their properties owned or
held under lease or the nature of their activities makes such qualification or
good standing necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified and in good
standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material
Adverse Effect.
Section
2.2 Capital
Structure.
(a) As
of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of Parent consists
of 50,000,000 Parent Shares and 250,000 shares of preferred stock, no par value
(the “Parent Preferred
Stock”), of which 50,000 shares have been designated as Series A Junior
Participating Preferred Stock. At the close of business on November
9, 2009, (i) 13,688,740 Parent Shares were issued and outstanding, all of which
were validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights;
(ii) no Parent Shares were held in the treasury of Parent or by Subsidiaries of
Parent; (iii) 246,336 Parent Shares were reserved for issuance pursuant to
outstanding options, warrants or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire
Parent Shares under Parent’s plans or other arrangements or pursuant to any
plans or arrangements assumed by Parent in connection with any acquisition,
business combination or similar transaction (collectively, the “Parent Stock
Plans”). Between November 9, 2009 and the date of this
Agreement, except as set forth herein and except for the issuance of Parent
Shares pursuant to the Parent Stock Plans, no shares of capital stock or other
voting securities of Parent were issued, reserved for issuance or
outstanding. Parent has 50,000 shares of Parent Preferred Stock
reserved for issuance pursuant to the Rights Agreement, dated as of March 19,
2008, between the Company and National City Bank (the “Parent Rights
Agreement”) providing for rights to acquire shares of Parent’s Series A
Junior Participating Preferred Stock (the “Parent
Rights”). All of the Parent Shares issuable upon conversion of
Company Common Stock at the Effective Time in accordance with this Agreement
will be, when so issued, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid,
nonassessable and free of preemptive rights. As of the date of this
Agreement, except for (i) this Agreement and (ii) as set forth above, there are
no options, warrants, calls, rights, puts or Contracts (as hereinafter defined)
to which Parent or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of them is
bound obligating Parent or any of its Subsidiaries to issue, deliver, sell,
redeem or otherwise acquire, or cause to be issued, delivered, sold, redeemed or
otherwise acquired, any additional shares of capital stock (or other voting
securities or equity equivalents) of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or
obligating Parent or any of its Subsidiaries to grant, extend or enter into any
such option, warrant, call, right, put or Contract. As of the date of
this Agreement, Parent does not have any outstanding bonds, debentures, notes or
other obligations the holders of which have the right to vote (or convertible
into or exercisable for securities having the right to vote) with the
stockholders of Parent on any matter. There are no Contracts to which
Parent, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers or directors is a
party concerning the voting of any capital stock of Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries.
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(b) Each
outstanding share of capital stock (or other voting security or equity
equivalent, as the case may be) of each Significant Subsidiary of Parent is duly
authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and, except for
director or qualifying shares, each such share (or other voting security or
equity equivalent, as the case may be) is owned by Parent or another Subsidiary
of Parent, free and clear of all security interests, liens, claims, pledges,
options, rights of first refusal, limitations on voting rights, charges and
other encumbrances of any nature whatsoever. Exhibit 21 to Parent’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), constituted a
true, accurate and correct statement in all material respects of all of the
information required to be set forth therein by the regulations of the SEC as of
the date thereof.
(c) Section
2.2(c) of the Parent Letter sets forth a list as of the date of this Agreement
of all Significant Subsidiaries and material Joint Ventures (as hereinafter
defined) of Parent and the jurisdiction in which such Significant Subsidiary or
material Joint Venture is organized. Section 2.2(c) of the Parent
Letter also sets forth as of the date of this Agreement the nature and extent of
the ownership and voting interests held by Parent in each such material Joint
Venture. As of the date of this Agreement, Parent has no obligation
to make any capital contributions, or otherwise provide assets or cash, to any
material Joint Venture.
Section
2.3 Authority. On
or prior to the date of this Agreement, the Boards of Directors of each of
Parent and Merger Sub, and the managing member of Merger LLC has (i) determined
that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, including the
Merger and the Subsequent Merger, are, based in part upon the opinion referenced
in Section
2.14, advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Parent, Merger
Sub and Merger LLC, respectively, and their respective shareholders,
stockholders and members and (ii) approved this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the Subsequent
Merger. Each of Parent, Merger Sub and Merger LLC has all requisite
corporate or limited liability power and authority, as the case may be, to enter
into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent,
Merger Sub and Merger LLC and the consummation by Parent, Merger Sub and Merger
LLC of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the
Subsequent Merger, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or
limited liability company action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub and Merger
LLC, subject to the filing of appropriate merger documents as required by the
DGCL and LLC Act. This Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby have been approved by the sole stockholder of
Merger Sub and the sole member of Merger LLC. This Agreement has been
duly executed and delivered by Parent, Merger Sub and Merger LLC and (assuming
the valid authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company
and the validity and binding effect of this Agreement on the Company) except to
the extent enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and by the effect of general principles of equity
(regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law), this Agreement constitutes the valid and binding obligation of Parent,
Merger Sub and Merger LLC enforceable against each of them in accordance with
its terms. The filing of a registration statement on Form S-4 with
the SEC by Parent under the Securities Act of 1933 (together with the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Securities Act”), for
the purpose of registering the Parent Shares to be issued in the Merger
(together with any amendments or supplements thereto, whether prior to or after
the effective date thereof, the “Registration
Statement”) has been duly authorized by Parent’s Board of
Directors. Parent has delivered or made available to the Company
complete and correct copies of the Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation of Parent (the “Parent Charter”) and
the Amended and Restated Bylaws of Parent (the “Parent Bylaws”), the
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of Merger Sub and the Certificate of
Formation and Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement of Merger
LLC.
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Section
2.4 Consents and Approvals; No
Violation. Assuming that all consents, approvals,
authorizations and other actions described in this Section 2.4 have been
obtained and all filings and obligations described in this Section 2.4 have been
made, the execution and delivery of this Agreement does not, and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and compliance with the
provisions of this Agreement will not, result in any violation of, or default
(with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give to others a
right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or the loss
of a material benefit under, or result in the creation of any Encumbrance upon
any of the properties or assets of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries under, any
provision of (i) the Parent Charter or the
Parent Bylaws, the
Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of Merger Sub or the Certificate of
Formation or Limited Liability Company Operating Agreement of Merger LLC;
(ii) any material Contract applicable to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their respective properties or assets; or (iii) any judgment, order,
decree, injunction, statute, Law, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to
Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or
assets, other than, in the case of clauses (ii) or (iii), any such
violations, defaults, rights or Encumbrances that would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect or materially impair the
ability of Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC to perform their respective
obligations hereunder or prevent the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated hereby by Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC. No filing or
registration with, or authorization, consent or approval of, any domestic
(federal and state), foreign or supranational court, commission, governmental
body, regulatory agency, authority or tribunal (a “Governmental Entity”)
is required by or with respect to Parent or any of its Subsidiaries in
connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent, Merger
Sub or Merger LLC or is necessary for the consummation by Parent, Merger Sub or
Merger LLC of the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, except for (i) in connection, or in compliance,
with the provisions of the Xxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976
(together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “HSR Act”), the
Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (together with the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Exchange Act”); (ii)
the filing of the Certificate of Merger and the filing of the certificate of
merger in connection with the Subsequent Merger, in each case with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware and appropriate documents with the relevant
authorities of other states in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
qualified to do business; (iii) such filings, authorizations, orders and
approvals as may be required by state takeover laws (the “State Takeover
Approvals”); (iv) such filings as may be required in connection with the
Taxes described in Section 5.13; (v)
applicable requirements, if any, of state securities or “blue sky” laws (“Blue Sky Laws”) and
Nasdaq; and (vi) such other consents, orders, authorizations, registrations,
declarations and filings the failure of which to be obtained or made would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect or
materially impair the ability of Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC to perform its
obligations hereunder or prevent the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated hereby by Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC.
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Section
2.5 SEC Documents and Other
Reports; Internal Controls and Procedures.
(a) Parent
has timely filed with the SEC all documents required to be filed by it since
January 1, 2007 under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (the “Parent SEC
Documents”). As of their respective filing dates, or, if
amended, as of the date of the last amendment prior to the date of this
Agreement, the Parent SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and,
at the respective times they were filed, none of the Parent SEC Documents
contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein,
in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The consolidated financial statements (including, in each
case, any notes thereto) of Parent included in the Parent SEC Documents complied
as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and
the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, were
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) (except, in
the case of the unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC)
applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be
indicated therein or in the notes thereto) and fairly presented in all material
respects the consolidated financial position of Parent and its consolidated
subsidiaries as at the respective dates thereof and the consolidated results of
their operations and their consolidated cash flows for the periods then ended
(subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit
adjustments and to any other adjustments described therein). Except
as disclosed in the Parent SEC Documents filed with the SEC prior to the date of
this Agreement or as required by GAAP, Parent has not, between January 1, 2007
and the date of this Agreement, made or adopted any material change in its
accounting methods, practices or policies in effect on January 1,
2007.
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(b) Parent
is in compliance in all material respects with (i) the applicable provisions of
the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act”)
and (ii) the applicable rules and regulations of Nasdaq.
(c) Parent
has made available to the Company true and complete copies of all written
comment letters from the staff of the SEC received since January 1, 2007 through
the date of this Agreement relating to the Parent SEC Documents and all written
responses of Parent thereto through the date of this Agreement other than with
respect to requests for confidential treatment. As of the date of
this Agreement, there are no outstanding or unresolved comments in comment
letters received from the SEC staff with respect to any Parent SEC Documents
and, to the Knowledge of Parent, none of the Parent SEC Documents (other than
confidential treatment requests) is the subject of ongoing SEC
review. To the Knowledge of Parent, as of the date of this Agreement,
there are no SEC inquiries or investigations, other governmental inquiries or
investigations or internal investigations pending or threatened, in each case
regarding any accounting practices of Parent.
(d) Parent
has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures and internal
control over financial reporting (as such terms are defined in paragraphs (e)
and (f), respectively, of Rule 13a-15 and paragraph (e) of Rule 15d-15 under the
Exchange Act) as required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange
Act. Parent’s disclosure controls and procedures are designed to
ensure that all information (both financial and non-financial) required to be
disclosed by Parent in the reports that it files or furnishes under the Exchange
Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and that all such information is
accumulated and communicated to Parent’s management as appropriate to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to make the certifications
required pursuant to Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act. Parent’s management has completed an assessment of the
effectiveness of Parent’s disclosure controls and procedures and, to the extent
required by applicable Law, presented in any applicable Parent SEC Document that
is a report on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q, or any amendment thereto, its conclusions
about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures as of the end
of the period covered by such report or amendment based on such
evaluation. Based on Parent’s management’s most recently completed
evaluation of Parent’s internal control over financial reporting prior to the
date of this Agreement, (i) to the Knowledge of Parent, Parent had no
significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of
its internal control over financial reporting that would reasonably be expected
to adversely affect Parent’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial information and (ii) Parent does not have knowledge of any fraud,
whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a
significant role in Parent’s internal control over financial
reporting.
Section
2.6 Information
Supplied. None of the information to be supplied by Parent,
Merger Sub or Merger LLC for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the
Registration Statement or the proxy statement/prospectus included therein
relating to the Company Stockholder Meeting (as hereinafter defined) (together
with any amendments or supplements thereto, the “Proxy Statement”)
will (i) in the case of the Registration Statement, at the time it becomes
effective, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein not misleading or (ii) in the case of the Proxy Statement, at
the time of the mailing of the Proxy Statement and at the time of the Company
Stockholder Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to
state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are
made, not misleading. If, at any time prior to the Company
Stockholder Meeting, any event with respect to Parent, its officers and
directors or any of its Subsidiaries shall occur which is required to be
described in the Proxy Statement or the Registration Statement, such event shall
be so described, and an appropriate amendment or supplement shall be promptly
filed with the SEC and, as required by Law, disseminated to the stockholders of
the Company. The Registration Statement will comply (with respect to
Parent) as to form in all material respects with the provisions of the
Securities Act, and the Proxy Statement will comply (with respect to Parent) as
to form in all material respects with the provisions of the Exchange
Act.
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Section
2.7 No Undisclosed
Liabilities. Except as reflected or reserved against in the
balance sheet of Parent dated September 30, 2009 included in the Form 10-Q
filed by Parent with the SEC on October 28, 2009 (or described in the notes
thereto), neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries has any debts, liabilities,
commitments and obligations, whether accrued or fixed, absolute or contingent,
matured or unmatured, determined or determinable, known or unknown, asserted or
unasserted, including those arising under any Law, Action or any judgment,
order, writ, award, preliminary or permanent injunction or decree of any
Governmental Entity (an “Order”) or those
arising under any Contract (“Liabilities”), except
(a) Liabilities incurred since September 30, 2009, in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice which, individually or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect and (b) Liabilities incurred in connection with this Agreement or
the transactions contemplated hereby.
Section
2.8 Absence of Certain Changes
or Events. Except as disclosed in the Parent SEC Documents
filed with the SEC prior to the date of this Agreement, since December 31, 2008,
(i) Parent and its Subsidiaries have conducted their businesses, in all material
respects, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; (ii)
there has not been any action taken or committed to be taken by Parent or any
Subsidiary of Parent which, if taken following entry by Parent into this
Agreement, would have required the consent of the Company pursuant to Section 4.2(a) or
4.2(b) and
(iii) there has been no event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or
development which, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably
be expected to have, a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
Section
2.9 Litigation. There
is no material Action by or before any Governmental Entity or other Person
pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, threatened against Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective properties or assets and neither
Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any Order.
Section
2.10 Permits and
Compliance. Each of Parent and its Subsidiaries is in
possession of all franchises, grants, authorizations, licenses, permits,
charters, easements, variances, exceptions, consents, certificates, approvals
and orders of any Governmental Entity necessary for Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries to own, lease and operate its properties or to carry on its
business as it is now being conducted (the “Parent Permits”),
except where the failure to have any of the Parent Permits would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect, and, as
of the date of this Agreement, no suspension or cancellation of any of the
Parent Permits is pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent (as hereinafter
defined), threatened, except where the suspension or cancellation of any of the
Parent Permits would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent
Material Adverse Effect. Neither Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries
is in violation of (i) its charter, bylaws or other organizational documents;
(ii) any applicable Law; or (iii) any Order, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and
(iii), for any
violations that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent
Material Adverse Effect. No notice of any such violation or
non-compliance has been received by Parent.
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Section
2.11 Tax
Matters. (i) Parent and each of its Subsidiaries have filed
all federal, and all material state, local and foreign, Tax Returns (as
hereinafter defined) required to have been filed or appropriate extensions
therefor have been properly obtained, and such Tax Returns are correct and
complete, except to the extent that any failure to so file or any failure to be
correct and complete would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent
Material Adverse Effect; (ii) all Taxes (as hereinafter defined) shown to be due
on such Tax Returns have been timely paid or extensions for payment have been
properly obtained, except to the extent that any failure to so pay or so obtain
such an extension would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent
Material Adverse Effect; (iii) no material issues that have been raised in
writing by the relevant taxing authority in connection with the examination of
the Tax Returns referred to in clause (i) which if
resolved adversely would have a Parent Material Adverse Effect are currently
pending; (iv) all material deficiencies asserted in writing or assessments made
in writing as a result of any examination of such Tax Returns by any taxing
authority have been resolved; (v) during the past three years, neither Parent
nor any of its Subsidiaries has been a distributing or controlled corporation in
a transaction intended to qualify for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of
the Code; and (vi) during the last five years, neither Parent nor any of its
Subsidiaries has been a party to any so-called “listed transaction” identified
by the IRS for which reporting was required.
Section
2.12 Ownership of Company Common
Stock. None of Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC is, nor at any
time during the last three years has been, an “interested stockholder” of the
Company as defined in Section 203 of the DGCL.
Section
2.13 ERISA. Except
as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect, (a) each Parent Plan (as hereinafter defined) complies in all respects
with its terms, the terms of each applicable collective bargaining agreement,
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), the Code and
all other applicable statutes and governmental rules and regulations, (b) no
Parent Plan, nor any trust created thereunder, has failed to satisfy the minimum
funding standard as described in Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived,
(c) neither Parent nor any ERISA Affiliate has withdrawn, and neither has
knowledge of any facts or conditions that could result in a withdrawal, from any
“multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA), and (d) no
liability under Title IV of ERISA has occurred or is reasonably expected to
occur.
Section
2.14 Opinion of Financial
Advisor. Parent has received the written opinion of Imperial
Capital, LLC, dated as of November 11, 2009, to the effect that, as of the date
of this Agreement, the Per Share Merger Consideration is fair to Parent from a
financial point of view, a copy of which opinion has been delivered to the
Company.
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Section
2.15 No Vote
Required. No vote of the holders of Parent Common Stock or any
other securityholders of Parent is required under Nasdaq rules and regulations,
by Law, by the Parent Charter or by the Parent Bylaws or otherwise in order for
Parent to consummate the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby.
Section
2.16 Reorganization. Neither
Parent nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken any action or failed to take any
action which action or failure would, to the Knowledge of Parent, jeopardize the
qualification of the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken together, as a
“reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code. To
the Knowledge of Parent, the representations set forth in the form of Parent Tax
Certificate attached as Exhibit A to the Parent Letter are correct in all
material respects as of the date hereof, assuming the Merger and Subsequent
Merger occurred on the date hereof.
Section
2.17 Brokers. No
broker, investment banker or other Person, other than Imperial Capital, LLC, the
fees and expenses of which will be paid by Parent, is entitled to any broker’s,
finder’s or other similar fee or commission in connection with the Merger, the
Subsequent Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement based upon arrangements made by or on behalf of Parent.
Section
2.18 Financing. Parent
and Merger Sub have, and will have at the Effective Time, sufficient funds
available to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby (including, if
applicable, Section
5.5).
Section
2.19 Operations of Merger
Sub. Merger Sub is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent, was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions
contemplated hereby, has engaged in no other business activities and has
conducted its operations only as contemplated hereby.
Section
2.20 Operations of Merger
LLC. Merger LLC is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent, was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions
contemplated hereby, has engaged in no other business activities and has
conducted its operations only as contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
Except as
disclosed in the Company SEC Documents filed or furnished with the SEC since
January 1, 2007 but prior to the date of this Agreement (but excluding any risk
factor disclosures contained under the heading “Risk Factors,” any disclosure of
risks included in any “forward-looking statements” disclaimer or any other
statements that are similarly predictive or forward-looking in nature, in each
case, other than any specific factual information contained therein) or in the
letter delivered by the Company to Parent immediately prior to the execution of
this Agreement (the “Company Letter”), the
Company represents and warrants to Parent, Merger Sub and Merger LLC as
follows:
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Section
3.1 Organization, Standing and
Power. The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
the requisite corporate power and authority to carry on its business as now
being conducted. Each Subsidiary of the Company is duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction in
which it is organized and has the requisite corporate (in the case of a
Subsidiary that is a corporation) or other power and authority to carry on its
business as now being conducted, except where the failure to be so organized,
existing or in good standing or to have such power or authority would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse
Effect. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are duly qualified
to do business, and are in good standing, in each jurisdiction where the
character of their properties owned or held under lease or the nature of their
activities makes such qualification or good standing necessary, except where the
failure to be so qualified and in good standing would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section
3.2 Capital
Structure.
(a) As
of the date of this Agreement, the authorized capital stock of the Company
consists of (i) 100,000,000 Company Shares and (ii) 1,000,000 shares of
preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share (“Company Preferred
Stock”), of which (A) 400,000 shares have been designated as Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock and (B) 100,000 shares have been designed as Series
B Junior Participating Preferred Stock (the “Company Series B Preferred
Stock”). At the close of business on November 9, 2009, (i)
42,826,170 Company Shares were issued and outstanding, all of which were validly
issued, fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights; (ii)
1,099,335 Company
Shares were held in the treasury of the Company and no Company Shares were held
by Subsidiaries of the Company; (iii) 6,804,594 Company Shares were
reserved for issuance pursuant to outstanding options (the “Company Stock
Options”) to purchase Company Shares pursuant to the Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc.
Equity Incentive Plan (the “Company Stock Option
Plan”), warrants or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire the
Company Shares; and (iv) no shares of Company Preferred Stock were reserved for
issuance, other than 100,000 shares of Company Series B Preferred Stock reserved
for issuance pursuant to the Rights Agreement, dated as of March 31, 2009,
between the Company and American Stock Transfer & Trust Company LLC (the
“Company Rights
Agreement”) providing for rights to acquire shares of Company Series B
Preferred Stock (the “Company
Rights”). The Company Stock Option Plan is the only benefit
plan of the Company or its Subsidiaries under which any securities of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries are issuable. Each Company Share
which may be issued pursuant to the Company Stock Option Plan has been duly
authorized and, if and when issued pursuant to the terms thereof, will be
validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive
rights. No shares of Company Preferred Stock are issued or
outstanding. Except as set forth above and except for the issuance of
Company Shares upon the exercise of Company Stock Options outstanding in
accordance with the terms thereof, no shares of capital stock or other voting
securities of the Company are issued, reserved for issuance or
outstanding. As of the date of this Agreement, except for (i) this
Agreement and (ii) as set forth above, there are no options, warrants, calls,
rights, puts or Contracts to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party or by which any of them is bound obligating the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to issue, deliver, sell, redeem or otherwise acquire, or cause to
be issued, delivered, sold, redeemed or otherwise acquired, any additional
shares of capital stock (or other voting securities or equity equivalents) of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or obligating the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to grant, extend or enter into any such option, warrant, call,
right, put or Contract. As of the date of this Agreement, the Company
does not have any outstanding bonds, debentures, notes or other obligations the
holders of which have the right to vote (or convertible into or exercisable for
securities having the right to vote) with the stockholders of the Company on any
matter. There are no Contracts to which the Company, its Subsidiaries
or any of their respective officers or directors is a party concerning the
voting of any capital stock of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
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(b) Each
outstanding share of capital stock (or other voting security or equity
equivalent, as the case may be) of each Subsidiary of the Company is duly
authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and, except for
director or qualifying shares, each such share (or other voting security or
equity equivalent, as the case may be) is owned by the Company or another
Subsidiary of the Company, free and clear of all security interests, liens,
claims, pledges, options, rights of first refusal, limitations on voting rights,
charges and other encumbrances of any nature whatsoever. Exhibit 21.1
to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2008, as filed with the SEC, constituted a true, accurate and correct statement
in all material respects of all of the information required to be set forth
therein by the regulations of the SEC as of the date thereof.
(c) Section
3.2(c) of the Company
Letter sets forth a list as of the date of this Agreement of all
Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures of the Company and the jurisdiction in which
such Subsidiary or Joint Venture is organized. Section 3.2 of the
Company Letter also sets forth as of the date of this Agreement the nature and
extent of the ownership and voting interests held by the Company in each such
Joint Venture. As of the date of this Agreement, the Company has no
obligation to make any capital contributions, or otherwise provide assets or
cash, to any Joint Venture.
(d) Section
3.2(d) of the Company Letter sets forth a true, complete and correct list of all
persons who, as of the date of this Agreement, held outstanding Company Stock
Options indicating, with respect to each Company Stock Option then outstanding,
the number of Company Shares subject to such Company Stock Option, and the
exercise price, date of grant, vesting schedule and expiration date
thereof.
Section
3.3 Authority. On
or prior to the date of this Agreement, the Board of Directors of the Company
has (i) determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby,
including the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, are, based in part upon the
opinion referenced in Section 3.23 below,
advisable and fair to and in the best interests of the Company and its
stockholders, (ii) approved this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby, including the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, (iii) resolved to
recommend the approval and adoption of this Agreement by the Company’s
stockholders and (iv) directed that this Agreement be submitted to the Company’s
stockholders for approval and adoption. The Company has all requisite
corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and, subject to
approval and adoption of this Agreement by the stockholders of the Company, to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution and
delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of
the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger and the Subsequent
Merger, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part
of the Company, subject to the filing of appropriate Merger and Subsequent
Merger documents as required by the DGCL. This Agreement has been
duly executed and delivered by the Company and (assuming the valid
authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement by Parent, Merger Sub
and Merger LLC and the validity and binding effect of this Agreement on Parent,
Merger Sub and Merger LLC) except to the extent enforceability may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by the effect of
general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law), this Agreement constitutes the valid and
binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance
with its terms. The filing of the Proxy Statement with the SEC has
been duly authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors. The Company
has delivered or made available to Parent complete and correct copies of the
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Company (the “Company Charter”) and
the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Company Bylaws”) and
the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws (or comparable organizational
documents) of each of its Subsidiaries.
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Section
3.4 Consents and Approvals; No
Violation. Assuming that all consents, approvals,
authorizations and other actions described in this Section 3.4 have been
obtained and all filings and obligations described in this Section 3.4 have been
made, the execution and delivery of this Agreement does not, and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and compliance with the
provisions of this Agreement will not, result in any violation of, or default
(with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give to others a
right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or the loss
of a material benefit under, or result in the creation of any Encumbrance upon
any of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under,
any provision of (i) the Company Charter or the Company Bylaws; (ii) the
comparable charter or organizational documents of any of the Company’s
Subsidiaries; (iii) any Company Contract; or (iv) any judgment, order, decree,
injunction, statute, Law, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or
assets, other than, in the case of clause (iv), any such
violations, defaults, rights or Encumbrances that would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect or materially impair the
ability of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or prevent the
consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby by the
Company. No filing or registration with, or authorization, consent or
approval of, any Governmental Entity is required by or with respect to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the execution and delivery
of this Agreement by the Company or is necessary for the consummation by the
Company of the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, except for (i) in connection, or in compliance,
with the provisions of the HSR Act, the Securities Act and the Exchange Act;
(ii) the filing of the Certificate of Merger and the filing of the certificate
of merger in connection with the Subsequent Merger, in each case with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and appropriate documents with the
relevant authorities of other states in which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is qualified to do business; (iii) such filings, authorizations,
orders and approvals as may be required to obtain the State Takeover Approvals;
(iv) such filings as may be required in connection with the Taxes described in
Section 5.13;
(v) applicable requirements, if any, of Blue Sky Laws and Nasdaq; and (vi) such
other consents, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings
the failure of which to be obtained or made would not, individually or in the
aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect or materially impair the
ability of the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or prevent the
consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby by the
Company.
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Section
3.5 SEC Documents and Other
Reports; Internal Controls and Procedures.
(a) The
Company has timely filed with the SEC all documents required to be filed by it
since January 1, 2007 under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (the “Company SEC
Documents”). As of their respective filing dates, or, if
amended, as of the date of the last amendment prior to the date of this
Agreement, the Company SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the
requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and,
at the respective times they were filed, none of the Company SEC Documents
contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein,
in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The consolidated financial statements (including, in each
case, any notes thereto) of the Company included in the Company SEC Documents
complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect
thereto, were prepared in accordance with GAAP (except, in the case of the
unaudited statements, as permitted by Form 10-Q of the SEC) applied on a
consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated therein
or in the notes thereto) and fairly presented in all material respects the
consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries
as at the respective dates thereof and the consolidated results of their
operations and their consolidated cash flows for the periods then ended
(subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit
adjustments and to any other adjustments described therein). Except
as disclosed in the Company SEC Documents filed with the SEC prior to the date
of this Agreement or as required by GAAP, the Company has not, between January
1, 2007 and the date of this Agreement, made or adopted any material change in
its accounting methods, practices or policies in effect on January 1,
2007.
(b) The
Company is in compliance in all material respects with (i) the applicable
provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act and (ii) the applicable rules and
regulations of Nasdaq.
(c) The
Company has made available to Parent true and complete copies of all written
comment letters from the staff of the SEC received since January 1, 2007 through
the date of this Agreement relating to the Company SEC Documents and all written
responses of the Company thereto through the date of this Agreement other than
with respect to requests for confidential treatment. As of the date
of this Agreement, there are no outstanding or unresolved comments in comment
letters received from the SEC staff with respect to any Company SEC Documents
and, to the Knowledge of the Company, none of the Company SEC Documents (other
than confidential treatment requests) is the subject of ongoing SEC
review. To the Knowledge of Company, as of the date of this
Agreement, there are no SEC inquiries or investigations, other governmental
inquiries or investigations or internal investigations pending or threatened, in
each case regarding any accounting practices of the Company.
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(d) The
Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures and
internal control over financial reporting (as such terms are defined in
paragraphs (e) and (f), respectively, of Rule 13a-15 and paragraph (e) of Rule
15d-15 under the Exchange Act) as required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the
Exchange Act. The Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are
designed to ensure that all information (both financial and non-financial)
required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or
furnishes under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported
within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and that
all such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management
as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to
make the certifications required pursuant to Sections 302 and 906 of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. The Company’s management has completed an
assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures and, to the extent required by applicable Law, presented in any
applicable Company SEC Document that is a report on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q, or
any amendment thereto, its conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by such report or
amendment based on such evaluation. Based on the Company’s
management’s most recently completed evaluation of the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting prior to the date of this Agreement, (i) to the
Knowledge of the Company, the Company had no significant deficiencies or
material weaknesses in the design or operation of its internal control over
financial reporting that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the
Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information
and (ii) the Company does not have knowledge of any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant
role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Section
3.6 Information
Supplied. None of the information to be supplied by the
Company for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Registration
Statement or the Proxy Statement will (i) in the case of the Registration
Statement, at the time it becomes effective, contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) in
the case of the Proxy Statement, at the time of the mailing of the Proxy
Statement and at the time of the Company Stockholder Meeting, contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. If at
any time prior to the Company Stockholder Meeting any event with respect to the
Company, its officers and directors or any of its Subsidiaries shall occur which
is required at that time to be described in the Proxy Statement or the
Registration Statement, such event shall be so described, and an appropriate
amendment or supplement shall be promptly filed with the SEC and, as required by
Law, disseminated to the stockholders of the Company. The
Registration Statement will comply (with respect to the Company) as to form in
all material respects with the provisions of the Securities Act, and the Proxy
Statement will comply (with respect to the Company) as to form in all material
respects with the provisions of the Exchange Act.
Section
3.7 No Undisclosed
Liabilities. Except as reflected or reserved against in the
balance sheet of the Company dated June 30, 2009 included in the Form
10-Q/A filed by the Company with the SEC on September 8, 2009 (or described in
the notes thereto), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any
Liabilities, except (a) Liabilities incurred since June 30, 2009, in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice which,
individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect and (b) Liabilities incurred in connection
with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
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Section
3.8 Absence of Certain Changes
or Events. Except as disclosed in the Company SEC Documents
filed with the SEC prior to the date of this Agreement, since December 31, 2008,
(i) the Company and its Subsidiaries have conducted their businesses, in all
material respects, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice, (ii) there has not been any action taken or committed to be taken
by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company which, if taken following entry
by the Company into this Agreement, would have required the consent of Parent
pursuant to Section 4.1(a),
4.1(b), 4.1(d), 4.1(e), 4.1(f), 4.1(k), 4.1(l) or 4.1(o), (iii) the
Company has not filed any Tax Return inconsistent with past practice or, on any
such Tax Return, taken any position, made any material Tax election or changed
any material Tax accounting method that is inconsistent with positions taken,
elections made or methods used in preparing or filing similar Tax Returns in
prior periods, except as required by applicable Law and (iv) there has been no
event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development which,
individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be expected to
have, a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section
3.9 Litigation. There
is no material Action by or before any Governmental Entity or other Person
pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or their respective properties or assets
and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any
Order.
Section
3.10 Permits and
Compliance. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in
possession of all franchises, grants, authorizations, licenses, permits,
charters, easements, variances, exceptions, consents, certificates, approvals
and orders of any Governmental Entity necessary for the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to own, lease and operate its properties or to carry on its
business as it is now being conducted (the “Company Permits”),
except where the failure to have any of the Company Permits would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect, and,
as of the date of this Agreement, no suspension or cancellation of any of the
Company Permits is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company (as hereinafter
defined), threatened, except where the suspension or cancellation of any of the
Company Permits would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company
Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is in violation of (i) its charter, bylaws or other organizational
documents; (ii) any applicable Law; or (iii) any Order, except, in the case of
clauses (ii)
and (iii), for
any violations that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company
Material Adverse Effect. No notice of any such violation or
non-compliance has been received by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
Section
3.11 Properties.
(a) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries owns any real property.
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(b) Section 3.11(b)
of the Company Letter sets forth a true, correct and complete list of all real
property leases, subleases and other occupancy arrangements to which the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party and each amendment thereto (the “Real Property
Leases”). Each premises subject to a Real Property Lease is
hereinafter referred to as a “Leased
Property.” The Company has made available to Parent a true,
correct and complete copy of each Real Property Lease. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has transferred, mortgaged or assigned any
interest in any such Real Property Lease, nor has the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries subleased or otherwise granted rights of use or occupancy of any of
the premises described therein to any other Person. With respect to
each Real Property Lease: (i) such Real Property Lease is in full force and
effect and is valid and binding on the Company and its Subsidiaries, as
applicable and, to the Knowledge of the Company, each other party thereto and
enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, rehabilitation, liquidation,
preferential transfer, moratorium and similar Laws now or hereafter affecting
creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a
proceeding at equity or law); (ii) neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party to such Real
Property Lease, is in material breach or violation of, or in material default
under, such Real Property Lease; (iii) the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’,
as applicable, possession and quiet enjoyment of the Leased Property under such
Real Property Lease has not been disturbed in any material respect and, to the
Knowledge of the Company, there are no disputes with respect to such Real
Property Lease; (iv) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries owes
any brokerage commissions or finder’s fees with respect to such Real Property
Lease; (v) no event has occurred or circumstance exists which, with the
delivery of notice, the passage of time or both, would result in such a material
breach or violation of, or a material default under, such Real Property Lease,
or permit the termination, modification or acceleration of rent under such Real
Property Lease; (vi) there is no pending, or to the Knowledge of the
Company, threatened condemnation or similar proceeding affecting any Leased
Property and (vii) the use and occupancy of the Leased Property by the
Company or its Subsidiaries complies, in all material respects, with all
applicable zoning restrictions or other Laws.
(c) Each
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in all material respects, (i) has good
and valid title to all of its properties, assets and other rights that would not
constitute real property (other than Intellectual Property), free and clear of
all Encumbrances and (ii) owns, has valid leasehold interests in or valid
contractual rights to use, all of the assets, tangible and intangible (other
than Intellectual Property), used by its business free and clear of all
Encumbrances, in each case, except for Permitted Encumbrances.
Section
3.12 Tax
Matters. (i) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have
filed all federal, and all material state, local and foreign Tax Returns
required to have been filed or appropriate extensions therefor have been
properly obtained, and such Tax Returns are correct and complete in all material
respects; (ii) all material Taxes shown to be due on such Tax Returns have been
timely paid or extensions for payment have been properly obtained; (iii) the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with
all rules and regulations relating to the withholding of Taxes; (iv) any federal
income Tax Returns referred to in clause (i) have been
examined by the IRS or the period for assessment of the Taxes in respect of
which such Tax Returns were required to be filed has expired; (v) no material
issues that have been raised in writing by the relevant taxing authority in
connection with the examination of the Tax Returns referred to in clause (i) are
currently pending; (vi) all material deficiencies asserted or assessments made
in writing as a result of any examination of such Tax Returns by any taxing
authority have been paid in full; (vii) during the past three years, neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been a distributing or controlled
corporation in a transaction intended to qualify for tax-free treatment under
Section 355 of the Code; (viii) no withholding is required under Section 1445 of
the Code in connection with the Merger; (ix) during the last five years, neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been a party to any so-called
“listed transaction” identified by the IRS; (x) the Company has not waived any
statute of limitations in respect of Taxes and (xi) there are no liens for Taxes
upon the assets of the Company except Permitted Encumbrances.
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Section
3.13 Company Rights
Agreement. The Company has amended the Company Rights
Agreement to (i) render the Company Rights Agreement inapplicable to the Merger
and the transactions contemplated hereby and (ii) provide that Parent shall not
be deemed an Acquiring Person (as defined in the Company Rights Agreement), the
Distribution Date (as defined in the Company Rights Agreement) shall not be
deemed to occur and the Company Rights will not separate from the shares of
Company Common Stock as a result of entering into this Agreement or consummating
the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby.
Section
3.14 Certain
Agreements.
(a) Except
as filed as exhibits to the Company SEC Documents filed prior to the date of
this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or
bound by (i) any Contract which is a “material contract” (as such term is
defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act); (ii) any
Contract which materially limits or restricts the manner or localities in which
the Company or any of its Affiliates (including Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries following the Merger) may conduct business or which contains most
favored nation pricing or exclusivity or non-solicitation provisions with
respect to customers or suppliers; (iii) any Contract which requires any payment
by the Company or its Subsidiaries in excess of $100,000 in any year and which is
not terminable within one year without penalty, or which requires any payment to
the Company or its Subsidiaries in excess of $100,000 in any year and which is
not terminable within one year without penalty; (iv) any Contract relating to or
guaranteeing indebtedness for borrowed money to the extent the aggregate
principal amount outstanding thereunder exceeds $100,000; (v) since January 1,
2005, any Contract relating to the acquisition or disposition of any business
(whether by merger, sale of stock, sale of assets, indemnity insurance or
otherwise); (vi) any Employee Agreement (as hereinafter defined); (vii) any
Contract of indemnification or any guaranty by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries other than any Contract entered into in connection with the sale or
license by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of products or services in the
ordinary course of business, (viii) any Contract to provide the full source code
owned by the Company to any third party (other than to consultants or
contractors of the Company that are subject to appropriate and reasonable
contractual non-disclosure obligations with respect to such source code) for any
software product or technology that is material to the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (ix) any material Contract, other than end-user
licenses, sale Contracts and related maintenance and support Contracts and other
licenses or agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, to
license any third party to use, manufacture or reproduce any Company product,
service or Intellectual Property Right or any material Contract to sell,
distribute or market any Company product, service or Intellectual Property
Right; (x) any settlement Contract which materially affects the conduct of the
Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ businesses; (xi) any Contract related to
pari-mutuel wagering rights or source market or market access fees; and (xii)
any Contract related to the formation and/or governance of a Joint Venture,
strategic alliance or other similar arrangement. The Company has
previously made available to Parent complete and correct copies of each Contract
of the type described in this Section 3.14 which
was entered into prior to the date of this Agreement. All Contracts
of the type described in this Section 3.14 shall be
referred to as “Company Contracts”
regardless of whether they were entered into before or after the date of this
Agreement.
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(b) All
of the Company Contracts are valid and in full force and effect (except those
which are cancelled, rescinded or terminated after the date of this Agreement in
accordance with their terms), except where the failure to be in full force and
effect would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material
Adverse Effect. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Person is
challenging the validity or enforceability of any Company Contract, except such
challenges which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company
Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries and, to the Knowledge of the Company, none of the other parties
thereto, is in breach of any provision of, or committed or failed to perform any
act which (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) would constitute a
default under the provisions of, any Company Contract, except for those
violations and defaults which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have
a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Section
3.14(c) of the Company Letter sets forth the total amount of indebtedness owed
to the Company or its Subsidiaries from each officer or director of the Company
and its Subsidiaries.
Section
3.15 ERISA.
(a) Each
material Company Plan is listed in Section 3.15(a) of the Company
Letter. With respect to each such material Company Plan, to the
extent applicable, the Company has delivered to Parent a true and correct copy
of (i) the three (3) most recent annual reports (Forms 5500) filed with the IRS;
(ii) each such Company Plan that has been reduced to writing and all amendments
thereto; (iii) each trust, insurance and administrative Contract relating to
each such Company Plan; (iv) a written summary of each unwritten Company Plan;
(v) the most recent summary plan description or other written explanation of
each Company Plan provided to participants; (vi) the most recent
determination or opinion letter issued by the IRS with respect to any Company
Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code; (vii) any
request for a determination currently pending before the IRS; and
(viii) all correspondence with the IRS, the Department of Labor, the SEC or
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation relating to any outstanding inquiry,
controversy or audit that would reasonably be expected to result in a material
liability. Each Company Plan complies in all material respects with
ERISA, the Code and all other applicable statutes and governmental rules and
regulations, and the plan sponsor of each Company Plan is in compliance in all
material respects with all filing and disclosure requirements imposed on it with
respect to such Company Plans. Neither the Company nor any ERISA
Affiliate sponsors, contributes to, or has any liability with respect to (x) a
plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, including any defined benefit plan (as
defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA), a multiemployer plan (as defined in Section
3(37) of ERISA), or a multiple employer plan subject to Section 4063 or 4064 of
ERISA, (y) a multiple employer welfare benefit arrangement (as defined in
Section 3(40)(A) of ERISA) or (z) a plan subject to Section 302 of ERISA or
Section 412 of the Code.
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(b) Neither
the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has any material liability of any kind
whatsoever, whether known or unknown, direct, indirect, contingent or otherwise,
(i) on account of any violation of the health care requirements of Part 6 or 7
of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA or Section 4980B or 4980D of the Code, (ii)
under Section 502(i) or 502(l) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) under
Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or (iv) under Title IV of
ERISA. No fiduciary (within the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA) of
any Company Plan subject to Part 4 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA has
committed a breach of fiduciary duty with respect to that Company Plan that
could subject such fiduciary, the Company or any of the Subsidiaries of the
Company to any material liability. There is no pending or, to the
Knowledge of the Company, threatened action, claim or lawsuit relating to any
Company Plan (other than routine claims for benefits) that could result in a
material liability. There is no audit, inquiry or examination pending
or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened by the IRS, the Department of
Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other governmental body
with respect to any Company Plan. All Company Plans that are intended
by their terms to be, or are otherwise treated by the Company as, qualified
under Section 401(a) of the Code have received a favorable determination or
opinion letter from the IRS (or a timely application for such determination or
opinion is now pending), and no loss of such qualification nor material penalty
under the IRS Closing Agreement Program is reasonably expected to result if an
IRS audit or investigation were to occur. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries has any liability or obligation under any Company Plan to
provide health or life insurance benefits after termination of employment to any
person other than as required by Section 4980B of the Code or applicable state
law.
(c) Except
to the extent set forth in Section 5.5, neither
the execution of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement (either alone or in combination with another
event) will or is reasonably expected to (i) entitle any current or former
director, officer, employee or consultant of a Company to any payment (including
severance pay or similar compensation), any cancellation of indebtedness, or any
increase in compensation, (ii) result in the acceleration of payment, funding or
vesting under any material Company Plan or (iii) result in any increase in
benefits payable under any material Company Plan. No amount paid or
payable (whether in cash, in property, or in the form of benefits) in connection
with the transactions contemplated hereby (either solely as a result thereof or
as a result of such transactions in conjunction with any other event) will be an
“excess parachute payment” within the meaning of section 280G of the Code, or
would constitute an “excess parachute payment” if such amounts were subject to
the provisions of section 280G of the Code.
(d) Each
Company Plan which is a nonqualified deferred compensation plan within the
meaning of, and subject to, Section 409A of the Code has been at all times
administered, operated and maintained in all respects in accordance with its
terms and according to the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, except for
any failure that would not result in a material liability to the
Company. No person is entitled to receive any tax “gross up” payment
from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of the imposition of a
Tax under Section 409A or 4999 of the
Code.
(e) With
respect to each Company Plan not subject to United States law (a “Company Foreign Benefit
Plan”), except for any failure that would not impose a material liability
on the Company, (i) the fair market value of the assets of each funded Company
Foreign Benefit Plan, the liability of each insurer for any Company Foreign
Benefit Plan funded through insurance or the reserve shown on the consolidated
financial statements of the Company included in the Company SEC Documents for
any unfunded Company Foreign Benefit Plan, together with any accrued
contributions, is sufficient to procure or provide for the projected benefit
obligations, as of the Effective Time, with respect to all current and former
participants in such plan based on reasonable, country specific actuarial
assumptions and valuations and no transaction contemplated by this Agreement
shall cause such assets or insurance obligations or book reserve to be less than
such projected benefit obligations and (ii) each Company Foreign Benefit Plan
required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good
standing with the appropriate regulatory authorities.
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(f) Except
for any occurrence that would not impose a material liability on the Company,
the Company, with respect to employees outside of the United States, (i) is not
under any legal liability to pay pensions, gratuities, superannuation allowances
or the like to any past or present directors, officers, employees or dependents
of employees; (ii) has not made ex-gratia or voluntary payments by way of
superannuation allowance or pension; and/or (iii) does not maintain and has not
contemplated any pension schemes or arrangements for payment of the pensions or
death benefits or similar arrangements.
Section
3.16 Compliance with Worker
Safety and Environmental Laws. The properties, assets and
operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all
applicable federal, state, local and foreign Laws, rules and regulations,
orders, decrees, judgments, permits and licenses relating to public and worker
health and safety (collectively, “Worker Safety Laws”)
and the protection and clean-up of the environment and activities or conditions
related thereto, including those relating to the generation, handling, disposal,
transportation or release of hazardous materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”),
except for any violations that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have
a Company Material Adverse Effect. With respect to such properties,
assets and operations, including any previously owned, leased or operated
properties, assets or operations, there are no events, conditions,
circumstances, activities, practices, incidents, actions or plans of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries that may interfere with or prevent compliance or
continued compliance with applicable Worker Safety Laws and Environmental Laws,
other than any such interference or prevention as would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section
3.17 Labor
Matters. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a
party to any collective bargaining Contract or any labor
Contract. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has engaged
in any unfair labor practice or violation of state or local labor, wage and
hour, or employment laws with respect to any Persons employed by or otherwise
performing services primarily for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the
“Company Business
Personnel”), and there is no unfair labor practice complaint or grievance
or other administrative or judicial complaint, action or investigation pending
or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries by the National Labor Relations Board, the California
Labor Commissioner, any comparable state or federal agency, or any other third
party with respect to the Company Business Personnel, except where such unfair
labor practice, complaint, grievance or other administrative or judicial
complaint, action or investigation would not, individually or in the aggregate,
have a Company Material Adverse Effect. There is no labor strike,
dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company,
threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which may
interfere with the respective business activities of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, except where such dispute, strike or work stoppage would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse
Effect.
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Section
3.18 Intellectual
Property.
(a) Except
for computer software licensed pursuant to a “shrink-wrap” or “click-wrap”
agreement or pursuant to a commercially available license agreement with annual
license fees less than $50,000, the Company and its Subsidiaries either own,
free and clear of all Encumbrances
except Permitted Encumbrances, or have a perpetual
royalty-free right to use under a valid and enforceable license or other
agreement, all patents, trademarks, trade names, service marks, domain names,
copyrights and any applications and registrations for any of the
foregoing, trade secrets, know-how, technology, computer software and
other tangible and intangible proprietary information and intellectual property
rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property
Rights”), as are necessary to conduct the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as currently conducted by the Company and its
Subsidiaries. Following the Closing, the Company and its Subsidiaries
will continue to have in all material respects all such Intellectual Property
Rights. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has
infringed, misappropriated or violated in any material respect any Intellectual
Property Rights of any third party in the past six (6) years. To the
Knowledge of the Company, no third party is currently infringing,
misappropriating or violating, in any material respect, any Intellectual
Property Rights owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(b) Section
3.18(b) of the Company Letter contains a list as of the date of this Agreement
of (i) all material registered United States, state and foreign trademarks,
service marks, logos, trade dress and trade names and pending applications to
register the foregoing; (ii) all United States and material foreign patents and
patent applications, (iii) all material registered United States and foreign
copyrights and pending applications to register the same and (iv) all registered
domain names, in each case owned by the Company and its
Subsidiaries.
(c) Except
as set forth in the Company SEC Documents filed prior to the date of this
Agreement, as of the date of this Agreement there are no actions, suits or
claims or administrative proceedings or investigations pending or, to the
Knowledge of the Company, threatened that challenge or question the Company’s
ownership or right to use Intellectual Property Rights of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries.
(d) The
Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps to maintain the
confidentiality of or otherwise protect and enforce their rights in all
Intellectual Property Rights owned by them (“Owned Intellectual Property
Rights”), and to protect and preserve through the use of customary
non-disclosure agreements the confidentiality of all confidential information
that is owned or held by the Company and its Subsidiaries and used in the
conduct of the business. To the Knowledge of Company, such
confidential information has not been used, disclosed to or discovered by any
Person except as permitted pursuant to valid non-disclosure agreements which
have not been breached.
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(e) During
the past six (6) years, to the Knowledge of the Company, all personnel,
including employees, agents, consultants and contractors, who have contributed
to or participated in the conception or development, or both, of the Owned
Intellectual Property Rights (i) have been and are a party to “work-for-hire”
arrangements with Company or one of its Subsidiaries or (ii) have assigned to
Company or one of its Subsidiaries all ownership of all tangible and intangible
property arising in connection with the conception or development of such Owned
Intellectual Property Rights.
Section
3.19 Information Technology;
Security and Privacy.
(a) All
information technology and computer systems relating to the transmission,
storage, maintenance, organization, presentation, generation, processing or
analysis of data and information whether or not in electronic format, necessary
to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries
(collectively, “Company IT Systems”)
have been maintained, in all material respects, in accordance with reasonable
and commercial standards suggested by the manufacturer of third-party-owned
systems or in accordance with standards reasonably prudent in the entertainment
industry and the electronic commerce industry, that are designed to encourage
proper operation, monitoring and use. The Company IT Systems are
currently in good working condition with respect to the performance of
information technology operations necessary to conduct the business of the
Company and its Subsidiaries in all material respects. The Company and its
Subsidiaries have in place a commercially reasonable disaster recovery program
that provides for the regular back-up of, and addresses recovery of, the data
and information necessary to the conduct of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (including such data and information that is stored on magnetic or
optical media in the ordinary course), and as of the date hereof, such disaster
recovery program operates under normal circumstances without material disruption
to, or material interruption in, the conduct of the business of the Company and
its Subsidiaries.
(b) All
right, title and interest in and to the confidential and proprietary data
included in the Owned Intellectual Property Rights that is material to the
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and contained in any database used
or maintained by the Company or its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company Data”) is
owned by the Company or a Subsidiary, free and clear of all Encumbrances except
Permitted Encumbrances. All computer programs included within the
Owned Intellectual Property Rights are not licensed pursuant to a so-called
“open source” license and do not incorporate and are not based on any computer
programs that are licensed pursuant to a so-called “open source”
license.
(c) The
Company and its Subsidiaries have established and are in material compliance
with written information security procedures covering the Company and its
Subsidiaries that are in accordance with current standards reasonable in the
entertainment industry and the electronic commerce industry, and that the
Company believes in good faith are reasonable and sufficient to protect Company
Data and provide reasonable assurance that adequate internal controls can be
maintained over Company IT Systems, and (i) includes reasonable safeguards
for the security, confidentiality, and integrity of transactions and
confidential or proprietary Company Data and (ii) is designed to protect
against unauthorized access to the Company IT Systems, Company Data and the
systems of any third party service providers that have access to
(A) Company Data or (B) Company IT Systems.
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(d) The
Company and its Subsidiaries have operated their businesses in compliance, in
all material respects, with all applicable Laws relating to wagering
transactions, horseracing, data collection, privacy, marketing and all
contractual requirements that regulate or limit the maintenance, use or
transmission of customer information made available to or collected by the
Company in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and has implemented in all material respects all confidentiality,
security, protective and other measures required by those applicable Laws and
contractual requirements. With respect to applicable Laws related to
privacy and security and all privacy and security commitments undertaken by the
Company in any policy, contract or promise regarding protections for, or
restrictions on the use, storage, transfer, disposal or other processing of,
personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”)
collected, maintained, disposed of or otherwise processed by or on behalf of the
Company (the “Privacy
Commitments”), (i) the Company is in compliance, in all material
respects, with the Privacy Commitments; (ii) the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement will not violate any of the Privacy Commitments; (iii) the
Company has not received written (or, to the Knowledge of the Company, oral)
inquiries from any Governmental Entity regarding the Privacy Commitments; (iv)
the Privacy Commitments have not been rejected in any material respect by any
applicable certification organization that has reviewed such Privacy Commitments
or to which any such Privacy Commitment has been submitted; (v) the Company has
confidentiality and data security agreements in place with all affiliates,
vendors or other persons whose relationship with the Company involves the
collection, use, disclosure, storage, disposal or processing of Personal Data on
behalf of the Company, and such agreements require confidentiality and data
security obligations consistent with current standards reasonable in
the entertainment industry and the electronic commerce industry; and (vi) the
Company has adopted and implements, in all material respects, and has designated
an appropriately senior Company employee to be responsible for, a comprehensive
written information security plan (“Information Security
Plan”) designed to protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of
Personal Data, and to protect Personal Data in the Company’s possession or
control, or in the possession or control of the Company’s agents, vendors or
service providers, from unauthorized access by third Persons, including the
Company’s employees and contractors, and which Information Security Plan
complies with all applicable Laws, Privacy Commitments and standards prudent in
the entertainment industry and the electronic commerce industry, including
appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards, including
encryption. To the Knowledge of the Company, there has been no unauthorized or
illegal collection, disclosure, transfer, use of, processing, disposal or access
to any Personal Data in the possession or control of the Company, or on behalf
of the Company, in any material respect.
Section
3.20 Customer
Approval. Since January 1, 2008, the Company and its
Subsidiaries have undertaken the verifications described in Section 3.20 of the
Company Letter with respect to all new customers prior to such customers placing
any xxxxxx; and the verification procedures described in Section 3.20 of the
Company Letter comply in all material respects with all applicable
Laws.
Section
3.21 Advance
Deposits.
(a) All
advance deposit wagering conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries was
conducted in accordance with all applicable Laws in all material respects, and
the policies and procedures of the Company and its Subsidiaries applicable to
advance deposit wagering comply, and have at all times complied, in all material
respects, with all applicable Laws.
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(b) All
withdrawals from all accounts established by or on behalf of the Company and its
Subsidiaries for wagering activity, deposit or other purposes were used solely
for the purposes authorized by the account holder.
(c) The
Company and its Subsidiaries have withheld and reported to the Internal Revenue
Service in all material respects all xxxxxx placed by U.S. residents or citizens
to the extent required by applicable Laws.
(d) Neither
the Company nor its Subsidiaries nor any of their respective directors,
officers, employees, agents or representatives, nor any Person acting for or on
behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries, has violated the Bank Secrecy Act,
USA PATRIOT Act, or the Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Strategy Act of
1998 in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries in any material respect. The Company and its
Subsidiaries, the businesses of the Company and its Subsidiaries and employees,
agents, and representatives thereof, as well as all Persons acting for or on
behalf thereof, are in compliance in all material respects with the USA PATRIOT
Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Strategy
Act of 1998 as well as any recommendations made by the Financial Act Task Force
Against Money Laundering in connection with the operation of the business of the
Company and its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has received any notice from the Department of the Treasury or any
other Governmental Entity regarding the violation of any money laundering
statues, including the statutes cited in this Section
3.21(d).
Section
3.22 Insurance. The
Company has made available to Parent prior to the date of this Agreement copies
of all material insurance policies which are maintained by the Company or its
Subsidiaries or which names the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as an insured
(or loss payee), including those which pertain to the Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ assets, employees or operations. All such insurance policies are
in full force and effect and all premiums due thereunder have been
paid. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in breach
of, or default under, in any material respect, any such insurance policy and, to
the Knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
have received notice of cancellation of any such insurance
policy. There is no material claim by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries pending under any such insurance policy covering the assets,
business, equipment, properties, operations, employees, officers and directors
of the Company and its Subsidiaries as to which coverage has been questioned,
denied or disputed by the underwriters of such policies.
Section
3.23 Opinion of Financial
Advisor. The Company has received the written opinion of
Moelis & Company LLC, dated as of November 10, 2009, to the effect that, as
of the date of this Agreement, the Per Share Merger Consideration is fair to the
Company’s stockholders from a financial point of view, a copy of which opinion
has been delivered to Parent.
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Section
3.24 State Takeover Statutes;
Certain Charter Provisions. The Board of Directors of the
Company has, to the extent such statutes are applicable, taken all action
(including appropriate approvals of the Board of Directors of the Company)
necessary to exempt Parent, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, the Merger, this
Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby from Section 203 of the
DGCL. The Board of Directors of the Company has taken all action
(including appropriate approvals of the Board of Directors of the Company)
necessary to exempt or render inapplicable the provisions of Article NINTH of
the Company Charter with respect to Parent, its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, the
Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, and to the Knowledge of the Company, no other state takeover statutes
or charter or bylaw provisions are applicable to the Merger and/or the
Subsequent Merger, this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby.
Section
3.25 Required Vote of Company
Stockholders. The affirmative vote of the holders of a
majority of the outstanding Company Shares is required to approve and adopt this
Agreement. No other vote of the securityholders of the Company is
required by Law, the Company Charter, the Company Bylaws or otherwise in order
for the Company to consummate the Merger and the transactions contemplated
hereby.
Section
3.26 Reorganization. Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has taken any action or failed to take
any action which action or failure would, to the Knowledge of the Company,
jeopardize the qualification of the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken
together, as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the
Code. To the Knowledge of the Company, the representations set forth
in the form of Company Tax Certificate attached as Exhibit A to the Company
Letter are correct in all material respects as of the date hereof, assuming the
Merger and Subsequent Merger occurred on the date hereof.
Section
3.27 Brokers. No
broker, investment banker or other Person, other than Moelis & Company LLC,
the fees and expenses of which will be paid by the Company (as reflected in an
agreement between Moelis & Company LLC and the Company, dated November 24,
2008, a copy of which has been furnished to Parent), is entitled to any
broker’s, finder’s or other similar fee or commission in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement based upon arrangements made by or
on behalf of the Company.
ARTICLE
IV
COVENANTS
RELATING TO CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
Section
4.1 Conduct of Business Pending
the Merger. Except as expressly permitted by clauses (a) through
(s) of this
Section 4.1,
during the period from the date of this Agreement until the Effective Time, the
Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, conduct, in all
material respects, its business in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice and, to the extent consistent therewith, use commercially
reasonable efforts to preserve intact its current business organization, keep
available the services of its current officers and employees and preserve its
relationships with customers, suppliers and others having business dealings with
it to the end that its goodwill and ongoing business shall be materially
unimpaired at the Effective Time. Without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, and except (i) as otherwise expressly contemplated by this
Agreement, (ii) as reasonably contemplated to comply with the Company’s or the
Board of Directors’ of the Company fiduciary obligations in a manner consistent
with Section
4.3, (iii) as required by the terms of any Contract set forth on Section
4.1 of the Company Letter, in each case existing on the date hereof between the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any other Person or (iv) as otherwise set
forth in Section 4.1 of the Company Letter, the Company shall not, and shall not
permit any of its Subsidiaries to, without the prior written consent of Parent
(which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed):
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(a) (i) declare,
set aside or pay any dividends on, or make any other actual, constructive or
deemed distributions in respect of, any of its capital stock, or otherwise make
any payments to its stockholders in their capacity as such other than dividends
or distributions from wholly owned Subsidiaries of the Company to the Company or
other wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company, (ii) split, combine or reclassify
any of its capital stock or issue or authorize the issuance of any other
securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for shares of its
capital stock, (iii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, or modify or amend,
any shares of capital stock of the Company or any Subsidiary or any other
securities thereof or any rights, warrants or options to acquire, any such
shares or other securities or (iv) redeem the rights issued under the Company
Rights Agreement or amend or terminate the Company Rights Agreement prior to the
Effective Time other than in the case of Section
4.1(a)(i)-(iv), (A) to render the Company Rights Agreement inapplicable
to the Merger, this Agreement, the Voting Agreements executed by stockholders of
the Company and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, (B) as
required to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction (in which case, to the
extent permitted by such court of competent jurisdiction, the Company shall
provide Parent with written notice at least three (3) Business Days prior to
taking any such action), (C) to preserve the net operating losses of the Company
following the Closing or (D) to effectuate the Merger and the transactions
contemplated hereby;
(b) except
for transactions among the Company and its wholly owned Subsidiaries or among
the Company’s wholly owned Subsidiaries (i) authorize for issuance, issue,
deliver, sell, pledge, dispose of, grant, transfer or otherwise encumber or
agree or commit to issue, deliver, sell, pledge, dispose of, grant, transfer or
encumber any shares of its capital stock, any other voting securities or equity
equivalent or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or any
rights, warrants or options of any kind to acquire, any such shares, voting
securities, equity equivalent or convertible or exchangeable securities, other
than the issuance of Company Shares (and the associated Company Rights in
accordance with the Rights Agreement) upon the exercise of Company Stock Options
outstanding on the date of this Agreement, in each case, in accordance with
their terms, (ii) enter into any amendment of any term of any of its outstanding
securities or (iii) accelerate the vesting of any options, warrants or other
rights of any kind to acquire any shares of capital stock to the extent that
such acceleration of vesting does not occur automatically under the terms of any
such interests or plans governing such interests;
(c) amend
or publicly propose to amend its certificate of incorporation or bylaws or other
comparable organizational documents;
(d) acquire
or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, by purchasing a
substantial portion of the assets of or equity in or by any other manner, any
business or any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint
venture, association or other business organization or division thereof or
otherwise acquire or agree to acquire any assets, other than assets acquired in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and not material
to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
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(e) sell,
transfer, lease, license (as licensor of Intellectual Property Rights of the
Company), mortgage, pledge, encumber or otherwise dispose of any of its
properties or assets, other than sales, leases, licenses or disposals of
products or services in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice and not material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole;
(f) (i)
incur, assume or modify any indebtedness for borrowed money, guarantee, endorse
or otherwise become liable or responsible for (whether directly, contingently or
otherwise), any such indebtedness for borrowed money of another Person or make
any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or other investments in, any
other Person, other than (A) indebtedness, obligations, loans, advances, capital
contributions and investments between the Company and any of its wholly owned
Subsidiaries or between any of such wholly owned Subsidiaries, (B) (x) letters
of credit required under applicable Law to be issued in connection with the
operation of the Company’s advance deposit wagering business or otherwise not
exceeding $100,000 in the aggregate, (y) indebtedness
incurred under the revolving portion of the Company’s existing credit facility
and any other facility permitted pursuant to clause (C) and (z)
other indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business not to exceed
$100,000 in the aggregate (excluding any drawn letters of credit permitted
pursuant to this clause (B)); (C)
refinancings, refundings or replacements of indebtedness (including letters of
credit permitted pursuant to clause (B)(x)),
guarantees and investments in existence on the date hereof, provided that the
outstanding principal amount is not materially increased thereby; and (D)
indemnification advances to directors and officers pursuant to applicable Law,
the Company Bylaws, and/or indemnification agreements existing as of the date
hereof; (ii) issue or sell any debt securities or warrants or other rights to
acquire any debt securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iii)
enter into any “keep well” or other agreement to maintain any financial
statement condition of another Person other than any of the wholly owned
Subsidiaries of the Company or (iv) enter into any arrangement having the
economic effect of any of the foregoing;
(g) alter
(including through merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization,
restructuring or recapitalization) the corporate structure or ownership of the
Company or any Subsidiary;
(h) enter
into, adopt or amend any (x) Company Plan for the purpose of increasing benefits
to the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ employees, where as a result of such
amendment or adoption, as applicable, the cost to the Company of providing such
increased benefits will exceed $250,000 in the aggregate during the twelve
months immediately following such amendment or adoption or (y) employment or
consulting Contract other than in the ordinary course of business, except, in
each case, as required by applicable Law or the terms of this Agreement; provided, however, that in the
case of clauses
(x) and (y), the Company
agrees that it shall first consult with Parent prior to taking any such action
that would otherwise be permitted without Parent's prior written consent
pursuant to this Section 4.1(h) (it
being understood and agreed that any breach by the Company of the proviso in
this Section
4.1(h) shall not be taken into account for purposes of Section
6.3(a));
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(i)
increase the compensation or benefits payable or to become payable to its
directors, officers or employees (except for increases in the ordinary course of
business consistent with past practice in salaries or wages of employees of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries who are not officers of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries) or grant any severance or termination pay to, or enter into or
amend any employment or severance Contract with, any current or former director
or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than as required by
Law, a Contract or any Company Plan in existence on the date hereof, or
establish, adopt, enter into or, except as may be required to comply with
applicable Law, amend or take action to enhance or accelerate any rights or
benefits under, any labor, bonus, profit sharing, thrift, compensation, stock
option, restricted stock, pension, retirement, deferred compensation,
employment, termination, severance or other plan, Contract, trust, fund, policy
or arrangement for the benefit of any current or former director, officer or
employee (without limiting the foregoing, for the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4.1(i) shall
not prohibit the Company or its Subsidiaries from paying and/or accruing bonuses
to, or with respect to, their respective employees in the ordinary course of
business);
(j)
knowingly violate or knowingly fail to perform in any material
respect any obligation or duty imposed upon it or any Subsidiary by any
applicable material federal, state or local Law, rule, regulation, guideline or
ordinance;
(k) make
or adopt any change to its accounting methods, practices or policies (other than
actions required to be taken by GAAP or under applicable Law as communicated to
the Company by its independent auditors);
(l)
except as required by applicable Law, prepare or file any Tax Return in a manner
that is materially inconsistent with past practice or, on any such Tax Return,
take any position, make or change any election or adopt any method that is
materially inconsistent with positions taken, elections made or methods used in
preparing or filing similar Tax Returns in prior periods;
(m) enter
into, materially amend, cancel, terminate, extend or request any material change
in, or agree to any material change in, any Company Contract, other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(n) from
January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010, authorize, or enter into any
commitment for, capital expenditures exceeding $2,650,000 in the
aggregate;
(o) waive,
release or assign any material right or claim or pay, discharge or satisfy any
material claims, liabilities or obligations (absolute, accrued, asserted or
unasserted, contingent or otherwise), other than the payment, discharge or
satisfaction, in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice
or in accordance with their terms, of liabilities reflected or reserved against
in the most recent Company SEC Documents filed prior to the date of this
Agreement, or incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
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(p) initiate
any material litigation or arbitration proceeding or settle or compromise any
material litigation or arbitration proceeding;
(q) enter
into any agreement or arrangement that would be required to be reported by the
Company pursuant to Item 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC (subject
to clauses (h)
and (i) above,
other than compensation arrangements with the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’
employees, officers and directors) or other agreements or arrangements in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(r) (i)
enter into (A) any material line of business in the United States other than the
line of business in the United States in which the Company and its Subsidiaries
is currently engaged or (B) any line of business outside of the United States
other than the line of business outside of the United States in which the
Company and its Subsidiaries is currently engaged, in each case as of the date
of this Agreement or (ii) distribute products or services (A) in the United
States other than the products and services that the Company and its
Subsidiaries are currently distributing in the United States or (B) to any
country outside the United States other than the products and services that the
Company and its Subsidiaries are currently distributing outside the United
States, in each case as of the date of this Agreement; or
(s) authorize,
recommend, publicly propose or announce an intention to do any of the foregoing
or enter into any Contract to do any of the foregoing.
Section
4.2 Conduct of Business Pending
the Merger. Except as (x) otherwise expressly contemplated by
this Agreement, (y) required by the terms of any Contract existing on the date
hereof between Parent or any of its Subsidiaries and any other Person or (z) as
otherwise set forth in Section 4.2 of the Parent Letter, Parent shall not, and
shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, without the prior written consent
of the Company (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or
delayed):
(a) (i)
declare, set aside or pay any dividends on, or make any other actual,
constructive or deemed distributions in respect of, any of its capital stock, or
otherwise make any payments to its stockholders in their capacity as such, other
than (A) annual aggregate cash dividends by Parent
to its stockholders with respect to Parent Common Stock not in excess of $0.50
per share with usual declaration, record and payment dates or (B) dividends or
distributions paid or made by any wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent, (ii) split,
combine or reclassify any of its capital stock or issue or authorize the
issuance of any other securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution
for shares of its capital stock, except with respect to any transaction by a
wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent which remains a wholly owned Subsidiary of
Parent after consummation of such transaction, (iii) purchase, redeem or
otherwise acquire, or modify or amend, any shares of capital stock of Parent or
any Subsidiary or any other securities thereof or any rights, warrants or
options to acquire, any such shares or other securities, other than (A) in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in connection with any
net share settlement or Tax withholding pursuant to any Parent Plans or (B)
repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of the capital stock of Parent or
any Subsidiary pursuant to any plans, arrangements or contracts between Parent
or any of its Subsidiaries existing on the date hereof in an amount not to
exceed 5% of the fully diluted number of shares of Parent capital stock
outstanding after giving effect to the Merger, (iv) redeem the rights issued
under the Parent Rights Agreement or amend or terminate the Parent Rights
Agreement prior to the Effective Time other than (A) as required to do so by a
court of competent jurisdiction (in which case, to the extent permitted by such
court of competent jurisdiction, Parent shall provide the Company with written
notice at least three Business Days prior to taking any such action), (B) as
required to comply with the Parent Board of Director’s fiduciary obligations or
(C) in response to a shareholder proposal or in response to a request or
recommendation from an institutional shareholder or institutional shareholder
service if, in each case, such action would not adversely affect the
consummation of the Merger, in any material respect, or affect the holders of
Company Common Stock whose shares are converted into Parent Common Stock at the
Effective Time in a manner different, in any material respect, than holders of
Parent Common Stock prior to the Effective Time or (v) amend, modify or waive
any material provision of the Stockholder’s Agreement, dated as of September 8,
2000, among Parent and the stockholders from time to time party thereto in a
manner that would adversely affect the consummation of the Merger or affect the
holders of Company Common Stock whose shares are converted into Parent Common
Stock at the Effective Time in a manner different than holders of Parent Common
Stock prior to the Effective Time;
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(b) except
for transactions among Parent and its wholly owned Subsidiaries or among
Parent’s wholly owned Subsidiaries (i) authorize for issuance, issue, deliver,
sell, pledge, dispose of, grant, transfer or otherwise encumber or agree or
commit to issue, deliver, sell, pledge, dispose of, grant, transfer or encumber
any shares of its capital stock, any other voting securities or equity
equivalent or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or any
rights, warrants or options of any kind to acquire, any such shares, voting
securities, equity equivalent or convertible or exchangeable securities, other
than (A) the issuance of Parent Shares upon the exercise of options to purchase
Parent Common Stock or the issuance of Parent Shares in settlement of, or upon
exercise or conversion of, any other equity-based compensation award of Parent
under a Parent Plan, (B) the issuance of any securities of Parent pursuant to a
Parent Plan, (C) the issuance of Parent Shares or other securities of Parent in
connection with bona fide acquisitions, mergers, strategic partnership
transactions or similar transactions not prohibited by Section 4.2(d) or (D)
the issuance of Parent Shares or other securities of Parent in connection with
Parent’s general capital raising efforts or (ii) enter into any amendment of any
material term of any of its outstanding securities;
(c) amend
the Parent Charter or the Parent Bylaws in a manner that would adversely affect
the consummation of the Merger or affect the holders of Company Common Stock
whose shares are converted into Parent Common Stock at the Effective Time in a
manner different than holders of Parent Common Stock prior to the Effective
Time;
(d) acquire
or agree to acquire by merging or consolidating with, by purchasing a
substantial portion of the assets of or equity in or by any other manner, any
totalisator business or any advance deposit wagering business; or
(e) authorize,
recommend, publicly propose or announce an intention to do any of the foregoing
or enter into any Contract to do any of the foregoing.
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Section
4.3 No
Solicitation.
(a) From
the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time or the date
on which this Agreement is terminated in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, the Company shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, nor shall it authorize or knowingly permit any officer, director or employee
of or any financial advisor, attorney or other advisor or representative (“Representatives”) of,
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit,
initiate or knowingly facilitate, induce or encourage the submission of, any
Alternative Proposal (as hereinafter defined); (ii) enter into any letter of
intent or agreement in principle or any agreement providing for, relating to or
in connection with, any Alternative Proposal; (iii) approve, endorse or
recommend any Alternative Proposal or (iv) enter into, continue or otherwise
participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any
Third Party any information with respect to, or take any other action to
knowingly facilitate any inquiries or the making of any proposal that
constitutes any Alternative Proposal. Without limiting the foregoing,
it is agreed that any violation of the restrictions set forth in this Section 4.3(a) by any
of the Company or its Subsidiaries or their respective directors, officers,
employees or Representatives shall be deemed to be a breach of this Section 4.3(a) by the
Company. The Company will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries
and each of the directors, officers, employees and Representatives of the
Company and its Subsidiaries to, immediately cease and cause to be terminated
any and all existing activities, discussions or negotiations with any Person
conducted heretofore with respect to any Alternative Proposal. The
Company agrees that it will take the necessary steps to promptly inform its
directors, officers, employees and Representatives of the obligations undertaken
in this Section
4.3.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in Section 4.3(a) or
elsewhere in this Agreement, in the event that the Company receives after the
date of this Agreement and prior to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval,
an unsolicited, bona fide Alternative Proposal that the Board of Directors of
the Company determines in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal
counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation) would be,
or would be reasonably likely to lead to, a Superior Proposal, the Company may,
in response to such Alternative Proposal, subject to compliance with this Section 4.3 and
receiving from such Person an executed confidentiality agreement containing
terms not materially less favorable to the Company than the terms of the
Confidentiality Agreement, then take the following actions:
(i) furnish
any information with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries to the Person
or group (and their respective Representatives) making such Alternative
Proposal; provided, that within one (1) Business Day of furnishing any such
information to such Person or group, it furnishes such information to Parent;
and
(ii) engage
in discussions or negotiations with such Person or group (and their respective
Representatives) with respect to such Alternative Proposal.
The Company agrees that it and its
Subsidiaries shall not enter into any confidentiality agreement with any person
subsequent to the date of this Agreement that prohibits the Company from
providing information to Parent that is required to be provided under this Section
4.3.
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(c) In
addition to the obligations of the Company set forth in Sections 4.3(a),
4.3(b) and
4.3(d), as
promptly as practicable (and in any event within one (1) Business Day) after
receipt of any Alternative Proposal or any request for nonpublic information or
any inquiry relating in any way to, or that would reasonably be expected to lead
to, any Alternative Proposal, the Company shall provide Parent with written
notice of the material terms and conditions of such Alternative Proposal,
request or inquiry (to the extent not previously provided to Parent), and the
identity of the Person or group making any such Alternative Proposal, request or
inquiry and a copy of all written materials provided to it in connection with
such Alternative Proposal, request or inquiry. In addition, the
Company shall provide Parent as promptly as practicable (and in any event within
one (1) Business Day) with all information as is reasonably necessary to keep
Parent reasonably informed of all material oral or written communications
regarding, and the status and changes to the economic or other material terms
of, any such Alternative Proposal, request or inquiry, and shall provide, as
promptly as reasonably practicable, to Parent a copy of all material written
materials (including material written materials provided by email or otherwise
in electronic format) provided by or to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or
any of their Representatives in connection with such Alternative Proposal,
request or inquiry.
(d) Neither
the Board of Directors of the Company nor any committee thereof shall, directly
or indirectly, (i) (A) withhold, withdraw, qualify, amend or modify
(in each case, in a manner adverse to Parent) or publicly propose to withhold,
withdraw, qualify, amend or modify (in each case, in a manner adverse to
Parent), the approval, recommendation or declaration of advisability by such
Board of Directors or any committee thereof of this Agreement, the Merger or the
other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (B) recommend, adopt
or approve, or publicly propose to recommend, adopt or approve, any Alternative
Proposal (any action described in this clause (i) being
referred to as a “Company Adverse
Recommendation Change”) or (ii) approve, adopt or recommend, or
publicly propose to approve, adopt or recommend, or allow the Company or any of
its Affiliates to execute or enter into, any letter of intent, memorandum of
understanding, agreement in principle, merger agreement, acquisition agreement,
option agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement or other
similar agreement, arrangement or understanding or any tender offer
(A) constituting, or relating to, any Alternative Proposal or
(B) requiring it (or that would require it) to abandon, terminate or fail
to consummate the Merger or any other transaction contemplated by this
Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this
Section 4.3(d)
or in any other provision of this Agreement, the Board of Directors of the
Company may, solely in response to a Superior Proposal made after the date of
this Agreement and that did not otherwise result from a breach of this Section 4.3,
terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(f)
and concurrently enter into a definitive agreement with respect to such Superior
Proposal if all of the following conditions in clauses
(i) through (v) are met, as
applicable:
(i) such
Superior Proposal has been made and has not been withdrawn and continues to be a
Superior Proposal;
(ii) the
Company Stockholder Approval has not been obtained;
(iii) the
Company has (A) provided to Parent three (3) Business Days’ prior
written notice which shall state expressly (1) that it has received a
Superior Proposal, (2) the material terms and conditions of the Superior
Proposal (including the per share value of the consideration offered therein and
the identity of the Person or group of Persons making the Superior Proposal),
and shall have provided a copy of the relevant proposed transaction agreements
with the Person or group of Persons making such Superior Proposal and other
material documents, including the definitive agreement with respect to such
Superior Proposal (the “Alternative Transaction
Agreement”) (it being understood and agreed that any amendment to the
financial terms or any other material term of such Superior Proposal shall
require a new notice and a new three (3) Business Day period) and
(3) that it intends to terminate this Agreement, and the manner in which it
intends to do so, and (B) prior to terminating this Agreement, to the
extent requested by Parent, engaged in good faith negotiations with Parent to
amend this Agreement in such a manner that the transaction contemplated by the
Alternative Transaction Agreement ceases to constitute a Superior
Proposal;
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(iv) the
Company shall have complied in all material respects with this Section 4.3;
and
(v) the
Company pays all fees and expenses as required pursuant to Section 7.3.
(e) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary set forth in any provision of this Agreement, prior to
receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, the Board of Directors of the
Company (or a committee thereof) may, other than in circumstances involving or
relating to a Superior Proposal but only in response to an Intervening Event and
provided that the Company and its Subsidiaries have complied in all material
respects with this Section 4.3, effect a
Company Adverse Recommendation Change if the Board of Directors of the Company
determines in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel)
that, in light of such Intervening Event, failure to take such action would
reasonably be expected to constitute a breach of the directors’ fiduciary
obligations to the Company’s stockholders under applicable Law; provided, however, that neither
the Board of Directors of the Company nor any committee thereof shall take any
of the actions set forth in this Section 4.3(e) unless
the Company has first complied with the provisions of Section 4.3(d)(iii),
treating the occurrence of such Intervening Event as if a Superior Proposal had
been received and after so complying, the Board of Directors of the Company
determines in good faith (after consultation with outside legal counsel) that,
in light of such Intervening Event, failure to make a Company Adverse
Recommendation Change would constitute a breach of the directors’ fiduciary
obligations to the Company’s stockholders under applicable Law.
(f) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in Section 4.3(a), prior
to the Company Stockholder Meeting, nothing contained in this Agreement shall
prevent the Company or its Board of Directors from complying with Rules 14d-9
and 14e-2 under the Exchange Act or publicly disclosing the existence of a
Alternative Proposal to the extent the Board of Directors of the Company
determines in good faith (after consultation with its outside counsel) that the
failure to make such disclosure would reasonably be expected to constitute a
breach of its fiduciary duties under applicable Law.
Section
4.4 Third Party Standstill
Agreements. During the period from the date of this Agreement
through the Effective Time, the Company shall not terminate, materially amend or
modify or waive any provision of any confidentiality agreement relating to a
Alternative Proposal or standstill agreement to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party (other than any involving Parent). During
such period, the Company agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to
enforce, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law, the provisions of
any such agreements, including obtaining injunctions to prevent any material
breaches of such agreements and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions
thereof in any court of the United States or any state thereof having
jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be
required to take, or be prohibited from taking, any action otherwise prohibited
by this Section
4.4, if, in the good faith judgment of the Company’s Board of Directors,
after consultation with outside counsel of the Company, such action or inaction,
as the case may be, would violate the fiduciary duties of the Company’s Board of
Directors to the Company’s stockholders.
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Section
4.5 Reorganization. During
the period from the date of this Agreement through the Effective Time, unless
the other party shall otherwise agree in writing, none of Parent, the Company or
any of their respective Subsidiaries shall take or fail to take any action which
action or failure would to the Knowledge of Parent or the Knowledge of Company,
as the case may be, jeopardize the qualification of the Merger and the
Subsequent Merger, taken together, as a “reorganization” within the meaning of
Section 368(a) of the Code.
ARTICLE
V
ADDITIONAL
AGREEMENTS
Section
5.1 Preparation of the
Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement. As promptly as
practicable following the date of this Agreement, Parent and the Company shall
prepare, and Parent shall file with the SEC, the Registration Statement, in
which the Proxy Statement will be included as a prospectus; provided, however, that Parent
shall not be required to file the Registration Statement until such time as the
Company has taken such action as is necessary to resolve in all material
respects the matters set forth in the comment letter dated October 13, 2009
addressed to the Company from the SEC with respect to the Company’s Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2008 and Form 8-K furnished August 13, 2009 and
any subsequent letters from the SEC addressed to the Company relating to the
subject matter thereof (collectively, the “Company Comment
Letter”), including the filing of any amendments to the Company’s current
and periodic reports with the SEC as reasonably requested by Parent; provided, further, that
notwithstanding the preceding proviso, Parent shall file the Registration
Statement not later than 60 days after the date hereof so long as the Company
has used its reasonable best efforts to resolve such matters set forth in the
Company Comment Letter, subject to applicable rules and regulations of the
SEC. Each of Parent and the Company shall cooperate in the
preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and Proxy Statement,
including the use by each of Parent and the Company of reasonable best efforts
to cause to be delivered to the other a “comfort letter” of its independent
auditors, dated the date two (2) Business Days prior to the date on which the
Registration Statement becomes effective. Each of Parent and the
Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Registration
Statement and the Proxy Statement to comply with the rules and regulations
promulgated by the SEC and state securities Laws, to have the Registration
Statement declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as practicable
after such filing and to keep the Registration Statement effective as long as is
necessary to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated
hereby. The Company and Parent shall provide the other with the
opportunity to review and comment on such documents prior to their filing with
the SEC. No filing of, or amendment or supplement to, the
Registration Statement or the Proxy Statement will be made by Parent or the
Company, as applicable, without the other’s prior consent (which shall not be
unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) and without providing the other
the opportunity to review and comment thereon; provided that the prior written
consent of Parent shall not be required in connection with any filings made by
the Company in connection with a Company Adverse Recommendation
Change. Parent or the Company, as applicable, will advise the other
promptly after it receives oral or written notice of the time when the
Registration Statement has become effective or any supplement or amendment
thereto has been filed, the issuance of any stop order, the suspension of the
qualification of the Parent Common Stock issuable in connection with the Merger
for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or any oral or written request by the
SEC for amendment of the Registration Statement or the Proxy Statement or
comments thereon and responses thereto or requests by the SEC for additional
information, and will promptly provide the other with copies of any written
communication from the SEC or any state securities commission. If at
any time prior to the Effective Time any information relating to Parent or the
Company, or any of their respective affiliates, officers or directors, should be
discovered by Parent or the Company which should be set forth in an amendment or
supplement to any of the Registration Statement or the Proxy Statement, so that
any of such documents would not include any misstatement of a material fact or
omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, the party
which discovers such information shall promptly notify the other parties and an
appropriate amendment or supplement describing such information shall be
promptly filed with the SEC, after the other party has had a reasonable
opportunity to review and comment thereon, and, to the extent required by
applicable Law, disseminated to the respective stockholders of the
Company. As promptly as practicable after the Registration Statement
shall have become effective, the Company shall distribute the Proxy Statement to
its stockholders.
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Section
5.2 Company Stockholder
Meeting.
(a) The
Company will, as soon as practicable following the date on which the
Registration Statement is declared effective under the Securities Act, duly
call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of stockholders (the “Company Stockholder
Meeting”) for the purpose of the Company’s stockholders duly approving
and adopting this Agreement (the “Company Stockholder
Approval”).
(b) The
Company shall, through its Board of Directors, recommend to its stockholders
approval and adoption of this Agreement, shall use reasonable best efforts to
solicit such approvals and adoption by its stockholders and such Board of
Directors or committee thereof shall not withhold, withdraw, qualify, amend or
modify in a manner adverse to Parent such recommendation or its declaration that
this Agreement and the Merger are advisable and fair to and in the best interest
of the Company and its stockholders or resolve or propose to do any of the
foregoing, except if the Company has complied with Section
4.3. Notwithstanding any Company Adverse Recommendation Change
pursuant to Section
4.3(e), Parent shall have the option, exercisable within five (5)
Business Days after such Company Adverse Recommendation Change, to cause the
Board of Directors of the Company to submit this Agreement to the stockholders
of the Company for the purpose of approving and adopting this
Agreement. If Parent exercises such option, Parent shall not be
entitled to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(g)(i) and
shall not be entitled to the Termination Fee or reimbursement of the Termination
Expenses under Section
7.3(a)(i) in respect thereof.
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Section
5.3 Access to
Information. Subject to contractual and legal restrictions
applicable to Parent or to the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries,
as the case may be, each of Parent and the Company shall, and shall cause each
of its Subsidiaries to, upon reasonable notice, afford to the Representatives of
the other reasonable access to, and permit them to make such inspections as they
may reasonably require of, during normal business hours during the period from
the date of this Agreement through the Effective Time, all of its employees,
customers, properties, books, contracts, commitments and records (including the
work papers of independent accountants, if available and subject to the consent
of such independent accountants), and, during such period, each of Parent and
the Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, furnish promptly
to the other (i) a copy of each report, schedule, registration statement and
other document filed by it during such period pursuant to the requirements of
federal or state securities laws and (ii) all other information concerning its
business, properties and personnel as the other may reasonably
request. No investigation pursuant to this Section 5.3 shall
affect any representation or warranty in this Agreement of any party hereto or
any condition to the obligations of the parties
hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Company nor Parent
shall be required to afford such access if it would (i) unreasonably disrupt the
operations of such party or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) cause a violation of
any agreement to which such party or any of its Subsidiaries is a party
(provided that Parent or the Company, as the case may be, shall use reasonable
best efforts to implement procedures to provide the access or information
contemplated by this Section 5.3 without
violating such agreement), or (iii) cause a risk of a loss of privilege to such
party or any of its Subsidiaries or would constitute a violation of any
applicable Law. All information obtained pursuant to this Section 5.3 shall be
kept confidential in accordance with the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement,
dated September 16, 2009, between Parent and the Company (the “Confidentiality
Agreement”).
Section
5.4 Current Nasdaq
Listing. Each of Parent and the Company shall use its
reasonable best efforts to continue the listing of the Parent Common Stock and
the Company Common Stock, respectively, on Nasdaq during the term of this
Agreement.
Section
5.5 Company Stock
Options. Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each Company
Stock Option that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall,
if unvested, vest and become exercisable in full. Prior to and
effective as of the Effective Time, the Company shall take all action necessary
to terminate the Company Stock Option Plan. Holders of all
unexercised Company Stock Options outstanding as of immediately prior to the
Effective Time will receive, in cancellation of their Company Stock Options, the
following: (a) a single lump sum cash payment from the Company at the
Effective Time (or, to the extent the Company does not have sufficient cash
available to make such payment at the Effective Time, Parent shall cause the
Surviving Corporation or the Surviving Company to make such payment immediately
following the Effective Time), in an amount equal to the product of (i) the
number of Company Shares provided for in such Company Stock Option and (ii) the
Pro-Rata Cash Portion, which cash payment shall be treated as compensation and
shall be net of any applicable United States federal or state withholding Tax;
and (b) a number of Parent Shares in an amount equal to the product of (i) the
number of Company Shares provided for in such Company Stock Option and (ii) the
Pro-Rata Stock Portion, which share issuance shall be treated as compensation
and shall be net of any applicable United States federal or state withholding
Tax; provided,
however, that
if the exercise price per share of any such Company Stock Option is equal to or
greater than the Closing Merger Consideration, such Company Stock Option shall
be canceled without any cash payment or issuance of Parent Shares being made in
respect thereof.
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Section
5.6 Reasonable Best
Efforts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, except with respect to filings under the HSR Act and matters
involving Antitrust Laws (which shall be governed by Section 5.7), each
party will use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all
actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or
advisable under applicable Law to consummate the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, including preparing and filing as promptly as practicable all
documentation to effect all necessary filings, notices, petitions, statements,
submissions of information, applications and other documents, and to obtain all
Permits which are material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, with respect to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
Section
5.7 HSR
Approval.
(a) As
promptly as reasonably practicable (but in no event later than ten (10) Business
Days after the date of this Agreement or any shorter period as required by
applicable Law), each of Parent and the Company shall file any Notification and
Report Forms and related material required to be filed by it with the Federal
Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of
Justice under the HSR Act with respect to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and shall promptly make any further filings pursuant thereto that may
be necessary, proper or advisable (the “HSR
Filings”).
(b) Upon
and subject to the terms of this Section 5.7, Parent
and the Company shall, and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries to (i) use
their best efforts to obtain prompt termination of any waiting period under the
HSR Act; (ii) cooperate and consult with each other in connection with the
making of all HSR Filings and any other material actions pursuant to this Section 5.7,
including subject to applicable Law, by permitting counsel for the other party
to review in advance, and consider in good faith the views of the other party in
connection with, any proposed written communication to any Antitrust Authority
and by providing counsel for the other party with copies of all filings and
submissions made by such party and all correspondence between such party (and
its advisors) with any Antitrust Authority and any other information supplied by
such party and such party’s Subsidiaries to an Antitrust Authority or received
from an Antitrust Authority in connection with such HSR Filings or any
applicable Antitrust Laws in connection with the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement; provided, however, that
materials may be redacted before being provided to the other party (A) to remove
references concerning the valuation of Parent, the Company, or any of their
Subsidiaries, (B) as necessary to comply with contractual arrangements and (C)
as necessary to address reasonable privilege or confidentiality concerns; (iii)
furnish to the other parties such information and assistance as such parties
reasonably may request in connection with the preparation of any submissions to,
or agency proceedings by, any Antitrust Authority; and (iv) promptly inform the
other party of any communications with, and inquiries or requests for
information from, such Antitrust Authority in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Agreement. In furtherance and not in limitation
of the covenants of the parties contained in Section 5.7(a) and
this Section
5.7(b), each party agrees to cooperate and use its best efforts to assist
in any defense by any other party hereto of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement before any Antitrust Authority reviewing the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, including by providing (as promptly as
practicable) such information as may be requested by such Antitrust Authority or
such assistance as may be reasonably requested by the other party hereto in such
defense.
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(c) If
any objections are asserted by any Antitrust Authority with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby, or if any Action is instituted by any
Governmental Entity challenging any of the transactions contemplated hereby as
violative of any applicable Antitrust Law or an Order is issued enjoining the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, in each case under any applicable
Antitrust Law, Parent shall, subject to the provisions of this Section 5.7, use its
best efforts to resolve any such objections or challenge as such Antitrust
Authority may have to such transactions under such Law or to have such Order
vacated, reversed or otherwise removed in accordance with applicable legal
procedures with the goal of enabling the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement to be consummated by the Outside Date (as hereinafter defined), and
the Company shall use its best efforts to assist Parent in effectuating the
foregoing; provided, however, that (i) the
Company shall not take any of the foregoing actions without the prior written
consent of Parent, and (ii) Parent shall not take any of the foregoing actions
without the prior written consent of the Company if such actions would bind the
Company to take any action (including paying money or entering into any other
obligation) irrespective of whether the Closing occurs. Parent and
the Company and their respective Subsidiaries shall, subject to the provisions
of this Section
5.7, use their respective best efforts to seek to lift, reverse or remove
any temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction or other
order or decree that would otherwise give rise to a failure of any Antitrust
Conditions.
(d) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Parent shall not be
obligated to agree (and failure to so agree shall not constitute a failure by
Parent to satisfy its “best efforts” obligations as provided in this Section 5.7), and
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall agree without Parent’s prior
written consent, to take any action or accept any condition, restriction,
obligation or requirement with respect to Parent, the Company, their respective
Subsidiaries or their and their respective Subsidiaries’ assets if such action,
condition, restriction, obligation or requirement (i) would reasonably be
expected to require Parent, the Company or their respective Subsidiaries to
sell, license, transfer, assign, lease, dispose of or hold separate any material
business or assets, (ii) would reasonably be expected to result in any material
limitations on Parent, the Company or their respective Subsidiaries to own,
retain, conduct or operate all or a material portion of their respective
businesses or assets or (iii) would reasonably be expected to require Parent,
the Company or their respective Subsidiaries to grant any material right or
commercial or other accommodation to, or enter into any material commercial
contractual or other commercial relationship with, any third party.
(e) Parent
will, after reasonable consultation with the Company as to strategy, lead all
proceedings and coordinate all activities with respect to seeking any actions,
consents, approvals or waivers of any Antitrust Authority as contemplated
hereby, and the Company and its Subsidiaries will take such actions as
reasonably requested by Parent in connection with obtaining such consents,
approvals or waivers. Notwithstanding Parent’s rights to lead all
proceedings as provided in the prior sentence, Parent shall not require the
Company to, and the Company shall not be required to, take any action with
respect to satisfying the Antitrust Conditions which would bind the Company or
its Subsidiaries irrespective of whether the Closing occurs. Without
in any way limiting its rights or obligations hereunder (including under Section 5.7(d) and
this Section
5.7(e)), Parent and the Company each acknowledges and agrees that it is
the intent of the parties to cause the closing of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement to occur as soon as reasonably practicable.
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Section
5.8 Public
Announcements. Parent and the Company will not issue any press
release with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or
otherwise issue any written public statements with respect to such transactions
without prior consultation with the other party, except as may be required by
applicable Law, by obligations pursuant to any listing agreement with Nasdaq or
with respect to any Company Adverse Recommendation Change.
Section
5.9 State Takeover
Laws. If any “fair price,” “business combination” or “control
share acquisition” statute or other similar statute or regulation shall become,
or purport to become, applicable to the transactions contemplated hereby, Parent
and the Company and their respective Boards of Directors shall use their
reasonable best efforts to grant such approvals and take such actions as are
necessary so that the transactions contemplated hereby may be consummated as
promptly as practicable on the terms contemplated hereby and otherwise act to
eliminate the effects of any such statute or regulation on the transactions
contemplated hereby.
Section
5.10 Indemnification; Directors
and Officers Insurance.
(a) For
a period of six (6) years after the Effective Time (and until such later date as
of which any Action commenced during such six (6) year period shall have been
finally disposed of), Parent shall, and shall cause the Surviving Corporation
and its Subsidiaries, and from and after the Subsequent Merger, the Surviving
Company and its Subsidiaries to, honor and fulfill in all respects the
obligations (including both indemnification and advancement of expenses) of the
Company and its Subsidiaries under the certificate of incorporation or any
bylaws of the Company or its Subsidiaries or indemnification agreements, in each
case, in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time for the benefit of any
of its current or former directors and officers and any person who becomes a
director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries prior to the
Effective Time (the “Indemnified
Parties”). In addition, for a period of six (6) years
following the Effective Time (and until such later date as of which any Action
commenced during such six (6) year period shall have been finally disposed of),
Parent shall (and shall cause the Surviving Corporation, the Surviving Company
and their respective Subsidiaries to) cause the certificate of incorporation,
certificate of formation and bylaws and operating agreement, as applicable (and
other similar organizational documents) of the Surviving Corporation, the
Surviving Company and their respective Subsidiaries to contain provisions with
respect to indemnification, advancement of expenses and exculpation that are at
least as favorable, in the aggregate, as the indemnification, advancement of
expenses and exculpation provisions contained in the certificate of
incorporation and bylaws (or other similar organizational documents) of the
Company and its Subsidiaries immediately prior to the Effective Time, and during
such six (6) year period (and until such later date as of which any Action
commenced during such six (6) year period shall have been finally disposed of),
such provisions shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified in any
respect, except as required by Law.
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(b) Parent
shall provide, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation (and from and after the
Subsequent Merger, the Surviving Company) to provide, for an aggregate period of
not less than six (6) years from the Effective Time, the Company’s current
directors and officers an insurance and indemnification policy that provides
coverage for events occurring prior to the Effective Time (the “D&O Insurance”)
that is no less favorable to the Company’s existing policy or, if no such
insurance coverage is available, the best available coverage; provided, however, that Parent
and the Surviving Corporation (and from and after the Subsequent Merger, the
Surviving Company) shall not be required to pay an annual premium for the
D&O Insurance in excess of 300% of the last annual premium paid prior to the
date of this Agreement (the “Company’s Current
Premium”). If such premiums for such insurance would at any
time exceed 300% of the Company’s Current Premium, then Parent shall use its
reasonable efforts to cause to be maintained policies of insurance which, in
Parent’s good faith determination, provide the maximum coverage available at an
annual premium equal to 300% of the Company’s Current Premium. The
Company’s Current Premium is set forth on the Company Letter.
(c) Successors. If
Parent, the Surviving Corporation, the Surviving Company or any of their
respective successors or assigns shall (i) consolidate with, or merge with or
into, any other Person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation
or entity of such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfer all or substantially
all of its properties or assets to any Person, then, in each case, Parent shall
take such action as may be necessary so that such Person shall assume all of the
applicable obligations set forth in this Section
5.10.
Section
5.11 Notification of Certain
Matters. Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to give
prompt notice to the Company, and the Company shall use its reasonable best
efforts to give prompt notice to Parent, of (i) the occurrence, or
non-occurrence, of any event the occurrence, or non-occurrence, of which it is
aware and which would be reasonably likely to cause (x) any representation or
warranty of the notifying party contained in this Agreement to be untrue or
inaccurate at the Effective Time such that the applicable condition to closing
set forth in Article
VI would, or would reasonably be expected to, fail to be satisfied or (y)
any covenant, condition or agreement of the notifying party contained in this
Agreement not to be complied with or satisfied such that the applicable
condition to closing set forth in Article VI would, or
would reasonably be expected to, fail to be satisfied, (ii) any failure of the
notifying party to comply in a timely manner with or satisfy any covenant,
condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it hereunder or (iii)
any change, event or effect which would be reasonably likely to, individually or
in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect or Parent Material
Adverse Effect, as the case may be, on the notifying party; provided, however, that the
delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section 5.11 shall
not limit or otherwise affect the remedies available hereunder to the party
receiving such notice.
Section
5.12 Employee Benefit Plans and
Agreements.
(a) Parent
agrees that it will cause the Surviving Company from and after the Effective
Time to honor all Company Plans, including all Employee Agreements; provided, however, that nothing
in this Agreement shall be interpreted as limiting the power of Parent or the
Surviving Company to amend or terminate any Company Plan or any other individual
employee benefit plan, program, Contract or policy in accordance with its terms
or as requiring Parent or the Surviving Company to offer to continue (other than
as required by its terms) any written employment contract.
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(b) Parent
shall cause each Parent Plan covering employees of the Company or its
Subsidiaries to recognize prior service of such employees with the Company and
its Subsidiaries as service with Parent and its Subsidiaries (i) for purposes of
any waiting period, eligibility requirements, vesting, and determination of
benefits under any Parent Plan that is not a “pension plan” (as defined in
Section 3(2) of ERISA) and (ii) for purposes of eligibility (including
eligibility for early retirement benefits) and vesting (but not benefit accrual)
under any Parent Plan that is a “pension plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of
ERISA).
(c) Prior
to the Closing Date, the Company shall adopt resolutions providing that no
additional contributions will be made to the Xxxxxx.xxx, Inc. 401(k) Retirement
Savings Plan or the United Tote Company, Inc. 401(k) Plan on and after the
Closing and that such plans will be terminated effective as of the Business Day
immediately prior to the Closing (but contingent on the Closing).
Section
5.13 Tax-Free Reorganization
Treatment.
(a) Parent,
the Company, Merger LLC and Merger Sub intend that, if the Continuity
Requirement is satisfied, the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken together,
be treated for federal income tax purposes as a “reorganization” under Section
368(a) of the Code (to which each of Parent and the Company are to be parties
under Section 368(b) of the Code) in which the Company is to be treated as
merging directly with and into Parent, with the Company Common Stock, together
with the associated Company Rights, converted in such merger into the right to
receive the consideration provided for hereunder, and each shall file all Tax
Returns consistent with, and take no position inconsistent with, such treatment
unless the Continuity Requirement is not satisfied or unless required to do so
by applicable Law. The parties to this Agreement agree to make such
reasonable representations as requested by counsel for the purpose of rendering
the opinions described in Section 6.2(c)
and Section 6.3(c),
including representations in the Company Tax Certificate (in the case of the
Company) and in the Parent Tax Certificate (in the case of Parent).
(b) Parent,
the Company, Merger LLC and Merger Sub hereby adopt this Agreement as a plan of
reorganization within the meaning of Sections 1.368-2(g) and 1.368-3(a) of the
Regulations.
(c) None
of Parent, the Company, Merger LLC or Merger Sub shall, nor shall they permit
their Subsidiaries (including the Surviving Corporation and the Surviving
Company after the Effective Time) to, take any action before or, if the
Continuity Requirement is satisfied, after the Effective Time, which would
prevent the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken together, from qualifying as
a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the
Code.
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(d) Prior
to Closing, the Company shall not take, and shall cause its Subsidiaries not to
take, any action that would adversely impact the ability of counsel to provide
the opinions pursuant to Section 6.2(c)
and Section 6.3(c)
or the ability of the Company to deliver the Company Tax
Certificate.
Section
5.14 Nasdaq. Parent
shall cause the Parent Shares to be issued in connection with the Merger to be
approved for listing on Nasdaq, subject to official notice of issuance, prior to
the Effective Time. The Surviving Corporation shall use its
reasonable best efforts to cause its shares of Common Stock and associated
Company Rights to no longer be listed on Nasdaq and to be de-registered under
the Exchange Act as soon as practicable following the Effective
Time.
Section
5.15 Company Board of Directors
Representative. Parent shall take all actions as may be
necessary to cause, as of the Effective Time, the Board of Directors of Parent
to be comprised of fourteen (14) members, consisting of (i) the thirteen (13)
current directors of the Board of Directors of Parent and (ii) one current
director of the Company Board of Directors designated by the Company
(a “Company
Designee”), which Company Designee shall also be appointed to Parent’s
Executive Committee and Strategic Planning Committee as of the Effective Time;
provided, however, that prior
to the appointment of such Company Designee to the Board of Directors of Parent
such Company Designee shall have applicable suitability requirements to serve on
the Board of Directors of Parent as required by applicable Law. At
the first annual meeting of shareholders of Parent following the Effective Time,
Parent shall nominate the Company Designee, and use reasonable best efforts to
cause the Company Designee, to be reelected to the Board of Directors of Parent
for a term expiring at the third annual meeting following the Effective
Time.
Section
5.16 Section 16
Matters. Prior to the Effective Time, Parent and the Company
shall take all such steps as may be required to cause any dispositions of
Company Common Stock (including derivative securities with respect to Company
Common Stock) or acquisitions of Parent Common Stock (including derivative
securities with respect to Parent Common Stock) resulting from the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement by each individual who is subject to the
reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act with respect to the
Company or will become subject to such reporting requirements with respect to
Parent, to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange
Act.
Section
5.17 Certain
Litigation. The Company shall promptly advise Parent orally
and in writing of any Action commenced after the date of this Agreement against
the Company or any of its directors by any stockholder of the Company relating
to this Agreement, the Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby and shall
keep Parent reasonably informed regarding any such litigation. The
Company shall give Parent the opportunity to consult with the Company regarding
the defense or settlement of any such Action and shall consider Parent’s views
with respect to such Action and shall not settle any such Action without the
prior written consent of Parent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or
delayed).
Section
5.18 Reservation of Parent Common
Stock. Effective at or prior to the Effective Time, Parent
shall reserve (free from preemptive rights) out of its reserved but unissued
Parent Shares, for the purposes of effecting the conversion of the issued and
outstanding Company Shares pursuant to this Agreement, sufficient Parent Shares
to provide for such conversion and assumption.
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ARTICLE
VI
CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT TO THE MERGER
Section
6.1 Conditions to Each Party’s
Obligation to Effect the Merger. The respective obligations of
each party to effect the Merger shall be subject to the fulfillment or waiver by
Parent and the Company at or prior to the Effective Time of the following
conditions:
(a) Stockholder
Approval. The Company Stockholder Approval shall have been
obtained in accordance with applicable Law and the Company Charter and the
Company Bylaws.
(b) No Injunctions or
Restraints. No temporary restraining order, preliminary or permanent
injunction or other judgment, order or decree issued by a court or agency of
competent jurisdiction located in the United States that prohibits the
consummation of the Merger or the Subsequent Merger shall have been issued and
remain in effect, and no Law shall have been enacted, issued, enforced, entered,
or promulgated that prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the Merger or
the Subsequent Merger.
(c) Antitrust Laws. The
waiting period applicable to the consummation of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement under the HSR Act shall have expired or been
terminated.
(d) No
Litigation. There shall not be pending any material Action by
any Governmental Entity seeking to prohibit the consummation of the Merger or
any other material transactions contemplated by this Agreement that is
reasonably likely to succeed.
(e) Registration
Statement. The Registration Statement shall have been declared
effective by the SEC under the Securities Act and no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued by the SEC
and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been initiated by the
SEC.
Section
6.2 Conditions to Obligation of
the Company to Effect the Merger. The obligation of the
Company to effect the Merger shall be subject to the fulfillment or waiver by
the Company at or prior to the Effective Time of the following additional
conditions:
(a) Performance of
Obligations. Parent shall have performed in all material
respects each of its agreements contained in this Agreement required to be
performed on or prior to the Effective Time.
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(b) Representations and
Warranties. (i) The representations and warranties of Parent,
Merger Sub and Merger LLC contained in Section 2.2 and Section 2.8(iii)
shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date of this Agreement and
as of the Effective Time as though made on and as of such date (except to the
extent that any such representation or warranty speaks as of an earlier date, in
which case, such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all
respects as of such earlier date); provided, however, that with
respect to Section
2.2 any deviation therein of not more than 100,000 shares in the
aggregate shall not be deemed to make such representations and warranties untrue
or incorrect for purposes of this Section 6.2(b)(i),
(ii) the representations and warranties of Parent, Merger Sub and Merger LLC
contained in Sections
2.3 and 2.17 shall be true
and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of
the Effective Time as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent
that any such representation or warranty speaks as of an earlier date, in which
case, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of such earlier date) and (iii) the other representations and
warranties of Parent, Merger Sub and Merger LLC shall be true and correct in all
respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Effective Time as though
made on and as of such date (except to the extent that any such representation
or warranty speaks as of an earlier date, in which case, such representation or
warranty shall be true and correct in all respects as of such earlier date),
except where all failures of such representations and warranties to be so true
and correct (without giving effect to any Parent Material Adverse Effect or
materiality qualifications), has not had, or would not be reasonably expected to
have, individually or in the aggregate, a Parent Material Adverse
Effect.
(c) Tax
Opinion. The Company shall have received an opinion of
Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Company, dated the Effective Time, substantially to the effect that on the basis
of facts, representations and assumptions set forth in such opinion which are
consistent with the state of facts existing as of the Effective Time, for
federal income tax purposes: (i) the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken
together, will constitute a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section
368(a) of the Code and (ii) the Company and Parent will each be a party to that
reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(b) of the Code. In
rendering such opinion, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP may rely upon the
representations contained herein and may receive and rely upon representations
from Parent, the Company, and others, including representations from Parent in
the Parent Tax Certificate and representations from the Company in the Company
Tax Certificate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the condition set
forth in this Section
6.2(c) shall not apply if the Continuity Requirement is not
satisfied.
(d) Parent Material Adverse
Effect. Since the date of this Agreement, there shall not have
been any event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development that,
individually or in the aggregate, has had or would be reasonably expected to
have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Officer’s
Certificate. The Company shall have received a certificate of an
executive officer of Parent as to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth
in Sections
6.2(a), 6.2(b) and 6.2(d).
(f) Listing of
Stock. The Parent Common Stock issuable in the Merger shall
have been authorized for listing on Nasdaq, subject to official notice of
issuance.
Section
6.3 Conditions to Obligations of
Parent and Merger Sub to Effect the Merger. The obligations of
Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger shall be subject to the fulfillment
or waiver by Parent at or prior to the Effective Time of the following
additional conditions:
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(a) Performance of
Obligations. The Company shall have performed in all material
respects each of its agreements contained in this Agreement required to be
performed on or prior to the Effective Time (other than breaches of Section 4.1 which
were unintentional and which resulted in less than $250,000 in damages in the
aggregate to Parent as a result thereof).
(b) Representations and
Warranties. (i) The representations and warranties of the
Company contained in Section 3.2 and Section 3.8(iv) shall
be true and correct in all respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of
the Effective Time as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent
that any such representation or warranty speaks as of an earlier date, in which
case, such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all respects
as of such earlier date); provided, however, that with
respect to Section
3.2 any deviation therein which does not result in an increase of more
than $320,000 in the aggregate to the amount payable to the holders of Company
Shares pursuant to Section 1.5(c) and
the holders of Company Stock Options pursuant to Section 5.5 shall not
be deemed to make such representations and warranties untrue or incorrect for
purposes of this Section 6.3(b)(i),
(ii) the representations and warranties of the Company contained in Sections 3.3, 3.24, 3.25 and 3.27 shall be true
and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of
the Effective Time as though made on and as of such date (except to the extent
that any such representation or warranty speaks as of an earlier date, in which
case, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of such earlier date) and (iii) the other representations and
warranties of the Company shall be true and correct in all respects as of the
date of this Agreement and as of the Effective Time as though made on and as of
such date (except to the extent that any such representation or warranty speaks
as of an earlier date, in which case, such representation or warranty shall be
true and correct in all respects as of such earlier date), except where all
failures of such representations and warranties to be so true and correct
(without giving effect to any Company Material Adverse Effect or materiality
qualifications), has not had, or would not be reasonably expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse
Effect.
(c) Tax
Opinion. Parent shall have received an opinion of Sidley
Austin LLP, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Parent, dated the
Effective Time, substantially to the effect that on the basis of facts,
representations and assumptions set forth in such opinion which are consistent
with the state of facts existing as of the Effective Time, for federal income
tax purposes: (i) the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken together, will
constitute a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Code
and (ii) the Company and Parent will each be a party to that reorganization
within the meaning of Section 368(b) of the Code. In rendering such
opinion, Sidley Austin LLP may rely upon representations contained herein and
may receive and rely upon representations from Parent, the Company and others,
including representations from Parent in the Parent Tax Certificate and
representations from the Company in the Company Tax
Certificate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the condition set forth
in this Section
6.3(c) shall not apply if the Continuity Requirement is not
satisfied.
(d) Company Material Adverse
Effect. Since the date of this Agreement, there shall not have
been any event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development that,
individually or in the aggregate, has had or would be reasonably expected to
have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
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(e) Officer’s
Certificate. The Company shall have received a certificate of an
executive officer of the Company as to the satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in Sections
6.3(a), 6.3(b) and 6.3(d).
ARTICLE
VII
TERMINATION,
AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
Section
7.1 Termination. This
Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether
before or after any approval of the matters presented in connection with the
Merger by the stockholders of the Company or Parent:
(a) by
mutual written consent of Parent and the Company;
(b) by
either Parent or the Company:
(i) if
the Merger shall not have been consummated on or before the date that is six (6)
months after the date of the Agreement (as extended as set forth below, the
“Outside
Date”); provided, however, that the
right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 7.1(b)(i)
shall not be available to any party whose material breach of a representation,
warranty or covenant in this Agreement has been a principal cause of the failure
of the Merger to be consummated on or before the Outside Date; provided, further, that if any
of the Antitrust Conditions shall not have been satisfied on or prior to the
Outside Date, then provided that the other conditions to Closing (other than
conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied on the date of the Closing)
shall have been satisfied, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by Parent and
the Company, the Outside Date shall be automatically extended until the date
that is fifteen (15) months after the date of this Agreement; or
(ii) if
any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have issued an order,
decree or ruling or taken any other action permanently restraining, enjoining or
otherwise prohibiting the Merger, in either case, (A) on the basis that the
Merger and the transactions contemplated thereby are violative of any Antitrust
Law or (B) for any reason other than as contemplated by Section
7.1(b)(ii)(A), and, in each case, such order decree, ruling or action
shall have become final and nonappealable; provided, however, that the
right to terminate under this Section 7.1(b)(ii)
shall not be available to any party whose material breach of a representation,
warranty or covenant in this Agreement has been the principal cause of such
action;
(c) by
Parent (provided it is not then in material breach of any of its obligations
under this Agreement) if (i) there is any continuing inaccuracy in the
representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement, or
(ii) the Company is then failing to perform any of its covenants or other
agreements set forth in this Agreement, in either cases (i) and (ii), such that
the conditions to closing set forth in Section 6.3(a) or
6.3(b), as
applicable, would not be satisfied as of the time of such
termination and such breach or condition is not curable or, if
curable, is not cured within thirty (30) days after written notice thereof is
given by Parent to the Company stating its intention to terminate pursuant to
this Section
7.1(c) and the basis for such termination (it being understood that
Parent shall be obligated to provide such written notice as soon as reasonably
practicable after Parent becomes aware of such breach);
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(d) by
the Company (provided it is not then in material breach of any of its
obligations under this Agreement) if (i) there is any continuing inaccuracy in
the representations and warranties of Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC set forth
in this Agreement, or (ii) Parent or Merger Sub are then failing to perform any
of their covenants or other agreements set forth in this Agreement, in either
cases (i) and (ii), such that the conditions to closing set forth in Section 6.2(a) or
6.2(b), as
applicable, would not be satisfied as of the time of such termination and such
breach or condition is not curable or, if curable, is not cured within thirty
(30) days after written notice thereof is given by the Company to Parent stating
its intention to terminate pursuant to this Section 7.1(d) and
the basis for such termination (it being understood that the Company shall be
obligated to provide such written notice as soon as reasonably practicable after
the Company becomes aware of such breach);
(e) by
Parent or the Company, if the Company Stockholder Vote shall not have been
obtained at the Company Stockholder Meeting, or at any adjournment or
postponement thereof, at which the final vote thereon was taken;
(f) by
the Company, at any time prior to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval, if
the Board of Directors of the Company (or any committee thereof) authorizes the
Company, subject to complying with the terms of this Agreement, to enter into a
definitive agreement concerning a transaction that constitutes a Superior
Proposal and the Company enters into such definitive agreement concurrently with
such termination and pays the Termination Fee and Termination Expenses in
accordance with the procedures and within the time periods set forth in Section 7.3; provided, however, that the
Company shall not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.1(f) unless
the Company has first provided notice of such Superior Proposal to Parent in
accordance with Section 4.3(d) and
has complied with the provisions of Section 4.3(d) and,
after so complying, such proposal continues to constitute a Superior Proposal;
provided that,
as a condition to the effectiveness of such termination, the Company shall have
delivered to Parent all fees and expenses as required pursuant to Section
7.3;
(g) by
Parent if (i) the Board of Directors of the Company or any committee thereof (A)
shall not have recommended, or such Board of Directors or a committee thereof
shall have resolved not to recommend approval and adoption of this Agreement,
shall have effected a Company Adverse Recommendation Change or shall have failed
to include its recommendation of the approval and adoption of this Agreement by
the Company’s stockholders in the Proxy Statement, (B) in response to a publicly
announced or publicly disclosed Alternative Proposal from a Third Party, shall
not have publicly reconfirmed its recommendation in favor of the adoption and
approval of this Agreement within five (5) Business Days after Parent requests
in writing that such recommendation be publicly reconfirmed; provided, however, that Parent
shall only be entitled to request that its recommendation be reconfirmed in
response to a publicly announced or publicly disclosed Alternative Proposal from
any Third Party once, unless such Alternative Proposal is materially amended, in
which event, Parent shall be entitled to request such recommendation be
reconfirmed once following the public announcement or public disclosure of such
material amendment or (C) shall have resolved or publicly proposed to do any of
the foregoing; (ii) the Company has breached in any material respect its
obligations under Section 4.3 (except
for any inadvertent or unintentional breaches that have no impact on Parent’s
ability to consummate the Merger on the terms set forth herein); (iii) within
ten (10) Business Days after a tender or exchange offer relating to securities
of the Company involving a Person or group unaffiliated with Parent has first
been published or announced, the Company shall not have published, sent or given
to the stockholders of the Company pursuant to Rule 14e-2 promulgated under the
Securities Act a statement disclosing that the Board of Directors of the Company
recommends rejection of such tender or exchange offer (including by taking no
position with respect to such tender offer or exchange offer) or (iv) the Board
of Directors of the Company or any committee thereof shall have recommended to
the stockholders of the Company or approved any Alternative Proposal or any
definitive agreement with respect to an Alternative Proposal or shall have
resolved to do so; provided, however, that Parent
shall no longer be entitled to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.1(g)(i)(A)
or (C) after
the earlier of (x) five (5) Business Days after the first day upon which Parent
is first entitled to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(g)(i)(A)
or (C) or (y)
Company Stockholder Approval having been obtained;
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(h) by
the Company if there shall have been a Parent Material Adverse Effect and such
Parent Material Adverse Effect is not curable or, if curable, is not cured
within thirty (30) days after written notice thereof is given by the Company to
Parent stating its intention to terminate pursuant to this Section 7.1(h) and
the basis for such termination (it being understood that the Company shall be
obligated to provide such written notice as soon as reasonably practicable after
the Company becomes aware of such Parent Material Adverse Effect);
or
(i) by
Parent if there shall have been a Company Material Adverse Effect and such
Company Material Adverse Effect is not curable or, if curable, is not cured
within thirty (30) days after written notice thereof is given by Parent to the
Company stating its intention to terminate pursuant to this Section 7.1(i) and
the basis for such termination (it being understood that Parent shall be
obligated to provide such written notice as soon as reasonably practicable after
Parent becomes aware of such Company Material Adverse Effect).
The right
of any party hereto to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.1 shall
remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any investigation
made by or on behalf of any party hereto, any Person controlling any such party
or any of their respective officers or directors, whether prior to or after the
execution of this Agreement.
Section
7.2 Effect of
Termination. In the event of termination of this Agreement by
either Parent or the Company, as provided in Section 7.1, this
Agreement shall forthwith become void, and there shall be no liability hereunder
on the part of the Company, Parent, Merger Sub, Merger LLC or their respective
officers or directors (except for the last sentence of Section 5.3, the
entirety of Section
7.3 and the entirety of Article VIII (other
than Section
8.1) which shall survive the termination); provided, however, that nothing
contained in this Section 7.2 shall
relieve any party hereto from any liability for any willful breach of a
representation or warranty contained in this Agreement or the breach of any
covenant contained in this Agreement. No termination of this
Agreement shall affect the obligations of the parties contained in the
Confidentiality Agreement, all of which obligations shall survive termination of
this Agreement in accordance with their terms.
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Section
7.3 Payments;
Obligations.
(a) Company Termination
Fee.
(i) In
the event that Parent terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(g),
then the Company shall pay to Parent (A) $4,326,000 (the “Termination Fee”) as
promptly as possible (but in any event within three (3) Business Days) following
such termination and (B) the Termination Expenses no later than three (3)
Business Days after receipt of documentation supporting such Termination
Expenses.
(ii) In
the event that the Company terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(f),
then the Company shall pay to Parent (A) the Termination Fee concurrently with
any such termination and (B) the Termination Expenses no later than three (3)
Business Days after receipt of documentation supporting such Termination
Expenses.
(iii) In
the event that after the date hereof and prior to the Company Stockholder
Approval, (A) an Alternative Proposal shall have been made to the Company or
shall have been made directly to the stockholders of the Company generally or
shall have otherwise become publicly known or any Person shall have publicly
announced an intention (whether or not conditional) to make an Alternative
Proposal and (B) thereafter this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7.1(c) or
7.1(e), then
the Company shall pay to Parent the Termination Expenses no later than three (3)
Business Days after receipt following termination of documentation supporting
such Termination Expenses. If, concurrently with or within twelve
(12) months after any such termination described in clause (B) in the
immediately preceding sentence, the Company enters into a definitive agreement
with respect to, or consummates, any Alternative Proposal, then the Company
shall pay to Parent the Termination Fee as promptly as possible (but in any
event within three (3) Business Days) following the earlier of the entry into
such definitive agreement or consummation of such Alternative
Proposal.
Any fee due and Termination Expenses to
be reimbursed under this Section 7.3(a)
shall be paid by wire transfer of same-day funds to an account provided in
writing by Parent to the Company For purposes of this Section 7.3(a),
the term “Alternative
Proposal” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.12,
except that all references to “15%” in the definition of “Alternative
Transaction,” as used in the definition of “Alternative Proposal” shall be
deemed to be references to “50%.”
(b) Parent Termination
Fee. In the event that this Agreement is terminated by Parent
or the Company pursuant to Section 7.1(b)(i) or
Section
7.1(b)(ii)(A) and, in each case, at the time of such termination, (i) the
conditions set forth in Sections 6.1 and
6.3 (other than
(A) the Antitrust Conditions, (B) the delivery of certificates and opinions
which (in light of the underlying facts as of the time of such termination and
any waiver of the condition set forth in Section 6.3(a) deemed
made pursuant to Section 7.1(b)(i))
would be capable of being delivered but are to be delivered on the date of the
Closing and (C) other such conditions the failure of which to be satisfied by
such date has been principally caused by a material breach by Parent of any
representation, warranty or covenant hereunder or the facts or circumstances
underlying such breach) have been satisfied or (to the extent permitted by Law)
waived (or in the case of termination pursuant to Section
7.1(b)(ii)(A), are reasonably likely to have been satisfied by the
Outside Date), and (ii) neither Parent nor the Company has the right to
terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.1(b)(ii)(B)
(or would have the right to so terminate assuming that the relevant order,
decree, ruling or action referenced in Section 7.1(b)(ii)(B)
has become final and non-appealable at the time of such termination), then
Parent shall (x) pay the Company a fee equal to $5,000,000 (the “Non-Clearance Termination
Fee”) by wire transfer of same-day funds on the first Business Day
following the date of such termination of this Agreement and (y) use
commercially reasonable efforts to cause certain matters to occur on the terms
set forth on Section 7.3(b) of the Parent Letter.
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(c) Each
of the Company and Parent acknowledges that the agreements contained in Section 7.3 are an
integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and that,
without these agreements neither Parent nor the Company would have entered into
this Agreement; accordingly, if the Company fails to promptly pay the amounts
due pursuant to Section 7.3(a) or Parent
fails to promptly pay the amounts due pursuant to Section 7.3(b), and, in order
to obtain such payment Parent or the Company, as the case may be, commences a
suit which results in a judgment against the Company or Parent, as applicable,
for any of the amounts set forth in Section 7.3(a) or 7.3(b), then Company
shall pay to Parent or Parent shall pay to the Company, as the case may be, its
costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) in connection with such suit,
together with interest on the amounts due pursuant to Section 7.3(a) or
7.3(b) at the
prime rate of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in effect on the date plus 2% per annum
from the date such amounts were required to be paid until the date actually
received by such party.
(d) Upon
payment of the Termination Fee and the Termination Expenses, as applicable, to
Parent, the Company shall have no further liability with respect to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby to Parent; provided that nothing
herein shall release any party from liability for willful or intentional breach
or fraud. Upon payment of the Non-Clearance Termination Fee to the
Company, Parent shall have no further liability with respect to this Agreement
or the transactions contemplated hereby to the Company other than Parent’s
obligations pursuant to Section 7.3(b)(y);
provided that
nothing herein shall release any party from liability for willful or intentional
breach or fraud.
Section
7.4 Amendment. This
Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto, by or pursuant to action taken
by their respective Boards of Directors, at any time before or after approval of
the matters presented in connection with the Merger by the stockholders of the
Company, but, after any such approval, no amendment shall be made which by Law
requires further approval by such stockholders without such further
approval. This Agreement may not be amended except by an instrument
in writing signed on behalf of each of the parties hereto.
Section
7.5 Waiver. At
any time prior to the Effective Time, the parties hereto may (i) extend the time
for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other parties
hereto, (ii) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties
contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto and/or (iii) waive
compliance with any of the covenants, agreements or conditions contained herein
which may legally be waived. Any agreement on the part of a party
hereto to any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an
instrument in writing signed on behalf of such party.
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ARTICLE
VIII
GENERAL
PROVISIONS
Section
8.1 Non-Survival of
Representations and Warranties. The representations and
warranties in this Agreement or in any instrument delivered pursuant to this
Agreement shall terminate at the Effective Time.
Section
8.2 Notices. All
notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given when delivered personally, one day after being delivered to a
nationally recognized overnight courier or on the Business Day received (or the
next Business Day if received after 5 p.m. local time or on a weekend or day on
which banks are closed) when sent via facsimile (with a confirmatory copy sent
by overnight courier) to the parties at the following addresses (or at such
other address for a party as shall be specified by like notice):
(a) if
to Parent, Merger Sub or Merger LLC, to
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx Incorporated
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Xxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
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Attention:
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No.: (000) 000-0000
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with
a copy to:
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Austin LLP
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Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Attention:
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Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
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(b) if
to the Company, to
Xxxxxx.xxx,
Inc.
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Xxxxxxx,
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Attention:
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No.: (000) 000-0000
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with
a copy to:
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& Xxxxx LLP
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Xxxxxxxx 00000
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Attention:
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Section
8.3 Interpretation. When
a reference is made in this Agreement to a Section, such reference shall be to a
Section of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. The table of
contents, table of defined terms and headings contained in this Agreement are
for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or
interpretation of this Agreement. Whenever the words “include,”
“includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be
followed by the words “without limitation.” The words “hereof,”
“herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement
shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of
this Agreement. All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the
defined meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or
delivered pursuant thereto unless otherwise defined therein. The
definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the singular as well
as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine as well as to the
feminine and neuter genders of such term. Any agreement, instrument
or statute defined or referred to herein or in any agreement or instrument that
is referred to herein means such agreement, instrument or statute as from time
to time amended, modified or supplemented, including (in the case of agreements
or instruments) by waiver or consent and (in the case of statutes) by succession
of comparable successor statutes and references to all attachments thereto and
instruments incorporated therein. Each of the parties has
participated in the drafting and negotiation of this Agreement. If an
ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement must be
construed as if it is drafted by all the parties, and no presumption or burden
of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of authorship
of any of the provisions of this Agreement.
Section
8.4 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.
Section
8.5 Entire Agreement; No
Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement, except as provided
in the last sentence of Section 5.3,
constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the
subject matter of this Agreement. This Agreement, except for the
provisions of Section
5.10 (which upon the Effective Time are intended to benefit the
Indemnified Parties), is not intended to confer upon any Person other than the
parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder; provided, however, that
following the Effective Time, each holder of Company Common Stock shall be
entitled to enforce the provisions of Article I to the
extent necessary to receive the Per Share Merger Consideration to which such
holder is entitled pursuant to Article
I.
Section
8.6 Governing
Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any
choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of Delaware or
any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any
jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.
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Section
8.7 Specific Performance;
Submission To Jurisdiction. The parties agree that irreparable
damage would occur if any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed
in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise
breached. It is accordingly agreed that each of the parties shall be
entitled (in addition to any other remedy that may be available to it, including
monetary damages) to seek an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of
this Agreement and to seek to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of
this Agreement exclusively in the Delaware Court of Chancery and any state
appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the Delaware
Court of Chancery declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular matter, any
state and federal courts located within the State of Delaware). The
parties further agree that no party to this Agreement shall be required to
obtain, furnish or post any bond or similar instrument in connection with or as
a condition to obtaining any remedy referred to in this Section 8.7 and each
party waives any objection to the imposition of such relief or any right it may
have to require the obtaining, furnishing or posting of any such bond or similar
instrument. In addition, each of the parties irrevocably agrees that
any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement and the rights and
obligations arising hereunder, or for recognition and enforcement of any
judgment in respect of this Agreement and the rights and obligations arising
hereunder brought by the other party hereto or its successors or assigns, shall
be brought and determined exclusively in the Delaware Court of Chancery and any
state appellate court therefrom within the State of Delaware (or, if the
Delaware Court of Chancery declines to accept jurisdiction over a particular
matter, any state and federal courts located within the State of
Delaware). Each of the parties hereby irrevocably submits with regard
to any such action or proceeding for itself and in respect of its property,
generally and unconditionally, to the personal jurisdiction of the aforesaid
courts and agrees that it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement
or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in any court other
than the aforesaid courts. Each of the parties hereby irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense, counterclaim
or otherwise, in any action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement, (a)
any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of the above
named courts for any reason other than the failure to serve in accordance with
this Section
8.7, (b) any claim that it or its property is exempt or immune from
jurisdiction of any such court or from any legal process commenced in such
courts (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment,
attachment in aid of execution of judgment, execution of judgment or otherwise)
and (c) to the fullest extent permitted by the applicable Law, any claim that
(i) the suit, action or proceeding in such court is brought in an inconvenient
forum, (ii) the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper or (iii)
this Agreement, or the subject matter of this Agreement, may not be enforced in
or by such courts. Parent and the Company hereby consent to service
being made through the notice procedures set forth in Section 8.2 and agree
that service of any process, summons, notice or document by registered mail
(return receipt requested and first-class postage prepaid) to the respective
addresses set forth in Section 8.2 shall be
effective service of process for any suit or proceeding in connection with this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Section
8.8 Waiver of Jury
Trial. 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
8.8.
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Section
8.9 Assignment. Subject
to Section 1.1,
neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder
shall be assigned by any of the parties hereto (whether by operation of law or
otherwise) without the prior written consent of the other parties.
Section
8.10 Expenses. Except
as provided in Section
7.3, whether or not the Merger is consummated, all costs and expenses
incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby, including the fees and disbursements of counsel, financial advisors and
accountants, shall be paid by the party incurring such costs and
expenses.
Section
8.11 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.
Section
8.12 Definitions.
(a) In
this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified or referred to
in this Section
8.12(a) and shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms.
(i) “Action” means any
claim, action, suit, proceeding, arbitration, mediation or
investigation.
(ii) “Affiliate” means,
with respect to any Person, any other Person which directly or indirectly
controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such
Person.
(iii) “Alternative Proposal”
means any offer or proposal by a Third Party relating to any Alternative
Transaction.
(iv) “Alternative
Transaction” means any transaction or series of related transactions
other than the Merger involving (a) any acquisition or purchase from the Company
by any Third Party of more than a 15% interest in the total outstanding voting
securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any tender offer or
exchange offer that if consummated would result in any Third Party beneficially
owning 15% or more of the total outstanding voting securities of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or any merger, consolidation, business combination or
similar transaction involving the Company pursuant to which the stockholders of
the Company immediately preceding such transaction hold less than 85% of the
equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction, (b)
any sale, lease, exchange, transfer, license, acquisition or disposition of more
than 15% of the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (c) any
liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or other significant corporate
reorganization of the Company.
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(v) “Antitrust Authority”
means, in their capacity as an enforcement agency with respect to Antitrust
Laws, the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the United States
Department of Justice, any attorney general of any state of the United States or
any Governmental Entity having competition law authority in any other applicable
jurisdiction.
(vi) “Antitrust Conditions”
means any of the conditions set forth in Section 6.1(b), Section 6.1(c) and
Section 6.1(d)
(but solely, in the case of Sections 6.1(b) and
6.1(d), to the
extent the order, injunction, judgment, decree or litigation referred to in such
Sections is issued or brought under applicable Antitrust Laws).
(vii) “Antitrust Laws” means
the Xxxxxxx Act, the Xxxxxxx Act, the HSR Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act
and all other federal, state and foreign Laws that are designed or intended to
prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of
monopolization or restriction of trade or business or competition through merger
or acquisition.
(viii) “Business Day” means
any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which the banks in New York
are authorized by law or executive order to be closed.
(ix) “Closing Merger
Consideration” means the Per Share Cash Consideration plus an amount
equal to the product of (a) the Exchange Ratio and (b) Parent Trading
Price.
(x) “Company Material Adverse
Effect” means (a) any event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change
or development that is materially adverse to the business, financial condition
or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole
or (b) a decrease in the Company’s EBITDA of 15% or more for fiscal 2008 or a
decrease in the Company’s EBITDA of 15% or more for the first nine (9) months of
fiscal 2009, in each case, due to any restatement of the Company’s financial
statements in response to the Company Comment Letter; provided, however, that for
purposes of clause
(a), none of the following shall be deemed in themselves to constitute,
and that none of the following shall be taken into account in determining
whether there has been or will be, a Company Material Adverse
Effect: (i) any change generally affecting the economy, financial,
credit or capital markets (including changes in interest rates or exchange
rates) or political, economic conditions in the United States, (ii) conditions
(or changes therein) generally affecting the industries in which the Company or
its Subsidiaries operate, (iii) changes in applicable Law or GAAP, except in the
case of each of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) to the extent that the Company and
its Subsidiaries are adversely affected in a disproportionate manner relative to
other participants in the industries in which the Company and its Subsidiaries
operate, (iv) compliance by the Company or its Subsidiaries with the terms of
this Agreement, (v) any change attributable to the negotiation, execution,
announcement, pendency or pursuit of the transactions contemplated hereby,
including the Merger, (vi) acts of war (whether or not declared), the
commencement, continuation or escalation of a war, acts of armed hostility,
sabotage or terrorism or other international or national calamity or any
material worsening of such conditions threatened or existing as of the date of
this Agreement, (vii) any hurricane, earthquake, flood, natural disaster,
or other force majeure event or (viii) any failure by the Company to meet
analysts revenue or earnings projections, in and of itself, or the trading price
of the Company Common Stock or Parent Common Stock, as the case may be, in and
of itself (it being understood that any event, occurrence, fact, condition,
effect, change or development which affects or otherwise relates to the failure
to meet analysts revenue or earnings projections or the trading price, other
than an event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development
provided for in clauses (i) through (vii) above, may be deemed to constitute, or
be taken into account in determining whether there has been, a Company Material
Adverse Effect). Notwithstanding clauses (i) through
(viii) above,
any changes in applicable federal Law (including any regulations thereunder) in
the United States that are first enacted after the date hereof and that
materially restrict or prohibit on a national basis operation of the Company’s
and its Subsidiaries’ (taken as a whole) advance deposit wagering business shall
be deemed to constitute a Company Material Adverse Effect (for purposes of
clarity, any Law under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
shall not be considered as being first enacted after the date hereof for
purposes of this definition).
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(xi) “Company Plan” means
any “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), whether or
not subject to ERISA, any other employee benefit plan, program, policy,
arrangement or agreement, including any pension, retirement, profit-sharing,
thrift, savings, bonus plan, incentive, stock option or other equity or
equity-based compensation, or deferred compensation arrangement, stock purchase,
severance pay, retention, change of control, unemployment benefits, sick leave,
vacation pay, salary continuation for disability, hospitalization, health or
medical insurance, life insurance, fringe benefit, compensation, flexible
spending account or scholarship program, and any employment, severance or change
in control agreement or similar practice, policy or arrangement maintained by
the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, or to which the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate is obligated to contribute, on behalf of any current or former
officer, director, employee or consultant of the Company or any
Subsidiary.
(xii) “Company Tax
Certificate” shall mean a certificate substantially to the effect of the
form of Company Tax Certificate attached to the Company Letter.
(xiii) “Continuity
Requirement” shall be satisfied if the value of the Per Share Stock
Consideration equals 40% or more of the value of the Per Share Merger
Consideration (in each case as determined for purposes of Section 1.5(c) after
taking into account all applicable adjustments), with value determined in each
case based on the closing sale price of one Parent Share as of the close of the
last full trading day immediately prior to the Effective Time that the Parent
Common Stock has traded on Nasdaq.
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(xiv) “Contract” means any
contract, agreement, instrument, guarantee, indenture, note, bond, mortgage,
permit, franchise, concession, commitment, lease, license, arrangement,
obligation or understanding, whether written or oral.
(xv) “Effective Time” means
the date and time at which the Certificate of Merger is accepted for recording
or such later time established by the Certificate of Merger.
(xvi) “Employee Agreement”
means each management, employment, severance, retention, consulting or other
Contract between the Company, or any ERISA Affiliate, and any current or former
employee, director or officer of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate other than
standard offer letters used in the Company’s ordinary course of business that do
not provide for severance or other payments after termination of employment or
acceleration of any equity award.
(xvii) “Encumbrance” means,
with respect to any asset, any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, charge,
security interest, title retention device, collateral assignment, adverse claim,
restriction or other encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset (including
any restriction on the voting of any security, any restriction on the transfer
of any security or other asset, any restriction on the receipt of any income
derived from any asset, any restriction on the use of any asset and any
restriction on the possession, exercise or transfer of any other attribute of
ownership of any asset).
(xviii) “ERISA Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) which is under common control or would be considered a single
employer with such Person pursuant to Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the
Code and the rules and regulations promulgated under those sections or pursuant
to Section 4001(b) of ERISA and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
(xix) “Intervening Event”
means, with respect to Parent or the Company, as applicable, a material event,
occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development that was not known or
reasonably foreseeable to the Board of Directors of the Company on the date of
this Agreement, which event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or
development becomes known to the Board of Directors of the Company before
receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval; provided, that (i) in
no event shall any action taken by either party pursuant to and in compliance
with the terms of this Agreement, including the covenants set forth in Section 5.7, and the
consequences of any such action, constitute an Intervening Event, (ii) in no
event shall the receipt, existence of or terms of an Alternative Proposal or a
Superior Proposal or any inquiry relating thereto or the consequences thereof
constitute an Intervening Event and (iii) in no event shall any event,
occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development that has an adverse
effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations of Parent
or any of its Subsidiaries constitute an Intervening Event unless such event,
occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or development has had or would
reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
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(xx) “IRS” means the
Internal Revenue Service.
(xxi) “Joint Venture” means,
with respect to a party, any corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other entity which is not a Subsidiary of
such party and in which (i) such party, directly or indirectly, owns or controls
any shares of any class of the outstanding voting securities or other equity
interests (other than the ownership of securities primarily for investment
purposes as part of routine cash management or investments of 1% or less in
publicly traded companies) or (ii) such party or a Subsidiary of such party is a
general partner.
(xxii) “Knowledge of Parent”
means the actual knowledge of the individuals identified in Section 8.12 of the
Parent Letter.
(xxiii) “Knowledge of the
Company” means the actual knowledge of the individuals identified in
Section 8.12 of the Company Letter.
(xxiv) “Net Option Amount”
means the excess, if any, of (a) the Closing Merger Consideration, over (b) the
exercise price per share provided for in such Company Stock Option.
(xxv) “Option Exchange
Ratio” means the Net Option Amount divided by the Closing Merger
Consideration.
(xxvi) “Parent Material Adverse
Effect” means any event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or
development that is materially adverse to the business, financial condition or
results of operations of Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; provided, however, that none of
the following shall be deemed in themselves to constitute, and that none of the
following shall be taken into account in determining whether there has been or
will be, a Parent Material Adverse Effect: (i) any change generally
affecting the economy, financial, credit or capital markets (including changes
in interest rates or exchange rates) or political, economic conditions in the
United States, (ii) conditions (or changes therein) generally affecting the
industries in which Parent or its Subsidiaries operate, (iii) changes in
applicable Law or GAAP, except in the case of each of clauses (i), (ii) and
(iii) to the extent that Parent and its Subsidiaries are adversely affected in a
disproportionate manner relative to other participants in the industries in
which Parent and its Subsidiaries operate, (iv) compliance by Parent or its
Subsidiaries with the terms of this Agreement, (v) any change attributable to
the negotiation, execution, announcement, pendency or pursuit of the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger, (vi) acts of war
(whether or not declared), the commencement, continuation or escalation of a
war, acts of armed hostility, sabotage or terrorism or other international or
national calamity or any material worsening of such conditions threatened or
existing as of the date of this Agreement, (vii) any hurricane, earthquake,
flood, natural disaster, or other force majeure event or (viii) any failure
by Parent to meet analysts revenue or earnings projections, in and of itself, or
the trading price of Company Common Stock or Parent Common Stock, as the case
may be, in and of itself (it being understood that any event, occurrence, fact,
condition, effect, change or development which affects or otherwise relates to
the failure to meet analysts revenue or earnings projections or the trading
price, other than an event, occurrence, fact, condition, effect, change or
development provided for in clauses (i) through (vii) above, may be deemed to
constitute, or be taken into account in determining whether there has been, a
Parent Material Adverse Effect).
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(xxvii) “Parent Plan” means
any “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), whether or
not subject to ERISA, any other employee benefit plan, program, policy,
arrangement or agreement, including any pension, retirement, profit-sharing,
thrift, savings, bonus plan, incentive, stock option or other equity or
equity-based compensation, or deferred compensation arrangement, stock purchase,
severance pay, retention, change of control, unemployment benefits, sick leave,
vacation pay, salary continuation for disability, hospitalization, health or
medical insurance, life insurance, fringe benefit, compensation, flexible
spending account or scholarship program, and any employment, severance or change
in control agreement or similar practice, policy or arrangement maintained by
Parent, or to which Parent or any ERISA Affiliate is obligated to contribute, on
behalf of any current or former officer, director, employee or consultant of
Parent or any Subsidiary.
(xxviii) “Parent Tax
Certificate” shall mean a certificate substantially to the effect of the
form of Parent Tax Certificate attached to the Parent Letter.
(xxix) “Parent Trading Price”
means the reported closing sale price per share of the Parent Common Stock on
the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. as reported in the Wall Street Journal on the
trading day immediately prior to the Effective Time.
(xxx) “Permitted
Encumbrances” means (a) statutory Encumbrances for current Taxes or
other payments that are not yet due and payable or that are being contested in
good faith through appropriate proceedings, (b) deposits or pledges made in
connection with, or to secure payment of, workers’ compensation, unemployment
insurance or similar programs mandated by applicable Laws, and
(c) statutory Encumbrances in favor of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics
and materialmen, to secure claims for labor, materials or supplies and other
like Encumbrances.
(xxxi) “Person” means any
individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, estate, Governmental Entity, trust or
unincorporated organization.
(xxxii) “Pro-Rata Cash
Portion” means an amount equal to the product of (i) the Option Exchange
Ratio and (ii) the Per Share Cash Consideration (as adjusted pursuant to Section
1.5(d)).
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(xxxiii) “Pro-Rata Stock
Portion” means an amount equal to the product of (i) the Option Exchange
Ratio and (ii) the Per Share Stock Consideration (as adjusted pursuant to Section
1.5(d)).
(xxxiv) “Subsidiary” means any
corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust,
association or other entity of which Parent or the Company, as the case may be
(either alone or through or together with any other Subsidiary), owns, directly
or indirectly, (i) 50% or more of the stock or other equity interests the
holders of which are generally entitled to elect at least a majority of the
Board of Directors or other governing body of such corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, trust, association or other entity or
(ii) if there are no such voting interests, 50% or more of the equity
interests in such corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint
venture, trust, association or other entity.
(xxxv) “Superior Proposal”
means a bona fide written proposal made by a Third Party to acquire, directly or
indirectly, pursuant to a tender offer, exchange offer, merger, consolidation or
other business combination, in excess of 50% of all of the assets of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or in excess of 50% of the outstanding
voting securities of the Company and as a result of which the stockholders of
the Company immediately preceding such transaction would cease to hold at least
50% of the equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of such
transaction, on terms that in the reasonable good faith judgment of the Board of
Directors of Company, after consultation with its outside financial advisors,
are more favorable to Company’s stockholders from a financial point of view than
the terms of the Merger and the Subsequent Merger, taken together, and is
reasonably likely to be completed on a timely basis after taking into account
all the terms and conditions of such proposal and this Agreement (including any
proposal by either party to amend the terms of this Agreement).
(xxxvi) “Tax Return” means any
return, report or similar statement (including the attached schedules) required
to be filed with respect to any Tax, including any information return, claim for
refund, amended return or declaration of estimated Tax.
(xxxvii) “Taxes” means any
federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, property, sales, use,
license, excise, franchise, employment, payroll, withholding, alternative or
added minimum, ad valorem, value-added, transfer or excise tax, or other tax,
custom, duty, governmental fee or other like assessment or charge of any kind
whatsoever, together with any additions to tax, interest or penalty imposed by
any Governmental Entity.
(xxxviii) “Termination Expenses” shall mean
documented fees and expenses incurred or paid by or on behalf of Parent and its
Affiliates in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated
by this Agreement, or related to the authorization, preparation, negotiation,
execution and performance of this Agreement, in each case including all
documented fees and expenses of law firms, commercial banks, investment banking
firms, financing sources, accountants, experts and consultants to Parent and its
Affiliates provided, however, that the
amount required to be reimbursed in respect of Expenses by the Company shall not
exceed $500,000.
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(xxxix) “Third Party” means
any Person or group (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder) other than Parent and its
Affiliates.
(b) Each
of the following terms is defined on the pages set forth opposite such
term:
Defined
Term
|
Section
|
Agreement
|
Introduction
|
Alternative
Transaction Agreement
|
4.3(d)(iii)
|
Blue
Sky Laws
|
2.4
|
Certificate
of Merger
|
1.2
|
Closing
|
1.15
|
Code
|
Recitals
|
Company
|
Introduction
|
Company
Adverse Recommendation Change
|
4.3(d)
|
Company
Business Personnel
|
3.17
|
Company
Bylaws
|
3.3
|
Company
Charter
|
3.3
|
Company
Comment Letter
|
5.1
|
Company
Common Stock
|
Recitals
|
Company
Contract
|
3.14(a)
|
Company
Data
|
3.19(b)
|
Company
Designee
|
5.15
|
Company
Foreign Benefit Plan
|
3.15(e)
|
Company
IT Systems
|
3.19(a)
|
Company
Letter
|
Article
III
|
Company
Permits
|
3.10
|
Company
Preferred Stock
|
3.2(a)
|
Company
Rights
|
3.2(a)
|
Company
Rights Agreement
|
3.2(a)
|
Company
SEC Documents
|
3.5
|
Company
Series B Preferred Stock
|
3.2(a)
|
Company
Shares
|
1.5(b)
|
Company
Stock Option Plan
|
3.2(a)
|
Company
Stock Options
|
3.2(a)
|
Company
Stockholder Approval
|
5.2(a)
|
Company
Stockholder Meeting
|
5.2(a)
|
Company’s
Current Premium
|
5.10(b)
|
Confidentiality
Agreement
|
5.3
|
D&O
Insurance
|
5.10(b)
|
DGCL
|
1.1
|
Dissenting
Shares
|
1.5(e)
|
Environmental
Laws
|
3.16
|
ERISA
|
2.13(a)
|
Exchange
Act
|
2.4
|
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Exchange
Agent
|
1.6(a)
|
Exchange
Fund
|
1.6(a)
|
Exchange
Ratio
|
1.5(c)
|
GAAP
|
2.5(a)
|
Governmental
Entity
|
2.4
|
HSR
Act
|
2.4
|
HSR
Filings
|
5.7(a)
|
Indemnified
Parties
|
5.10
|
Information
Security Plan
|
3.19(d)
|
Intellectual
Property Rights
|
3.18(a)
|
Laws
|
1.4(a)
|
Leased
Property
|
3.11(b)
|
Liabilities
|
2.7
|
LLC
Act
|
Recitals
|
Merger
|
Recitals
|
Merger
LLC
|
Introduction
|
Merger
Sub
|
Introduction
|
Nasdaq
|
1.8
|
Non-Clearance
Termination Fee
|
7.3(b)
|
Order
|
2.7
|
Outside
Date
|
7.1(b)(i)
|
Owned
Intellectual Property Rights
|
3.18(d)
|
Parent
|
Introduction
|
Parent
Bylaws
|
2.3
|
Parent
Charter
|
2.3
|
Parent
Common Stock
|
Recitals
|
Parent
Letter
|
Article
II
|
Parent
Permits
|
2.10
|
Parent
Preferred Stock
|
2.2(a)
|
Parent
Rights
|
2.2(a)
|
Parent
Rights Agreement
|
2.2(a)
|
Parent
SEC Documents
|
2.5(a)
|
Parent
Shares
|
1.5(c)
|
Parent
Stock Plans
|
2.2(a)
|
Per
Share Cash Consideration
|
1.5(c)
|
Per
Share Merger Consideration
|
1.5(c)
|
Per
Share Stock Consideration
|
1.5(c)
|
Personal
Data
|
3.19(d)
|
Privacy
Commitments
|
3.19(d)
|
Proxy
Statement
|
2.6
|
Real
Property Leases
|
3.11(b)
|
Registration
Statement
|
2.3
|
Representatives
|
4.3(a)
|
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act
|
2.5(b)
|
SEC
|
2.2(b)
|
Securities
Act
|
2.3
|
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Significant
Subsidiary
|
2.1
|
State
Takeover Approvals
|
2.4
|
Stock
Threshold
|
1.5(d)
|
Subsequent
Merger
|
1.16(a)
|
Surviving
Company
|
1.16(a)
|
Surviving
Corporation
|
1.1
|
Termination
Fee
|
7.3(a)(i)
|
Total
Stock Amount
|
1.5(d)
|
Transmittal
Letter
|
1.6
|
Voting
Agreement
|
Recitals
|
Worker
Safety Laws
|
3.16
|
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, Parent, Merger Sub, Merger LLC and the Company have caused this
Agreement to be signed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized
all as of the date first written above.
XXXXXXXXX
DOWNS INCORPORATED
|
|
By:
|
/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
|
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
|
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Title: Chief
Operating Officer
|
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TOMAHAWK
MERGER CORP.
|
|
By:
|
/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
|
Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
|
|
Title: President
|
|
TOMAHAWK
MERGER LLC
|
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By:
|
/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
|
|
Title: President
|
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XXXXXX.XXX,
INC.
|
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
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Title: Chief
Executive Officer
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[Signature
Page to Agreement and Plan of Merger]