BRANCH PURCHASE AGREEMENT by and among GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, as Buyer, FARMERS STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS, ILL., as Seller, and FARMERS STATE HOLDING CORP., as the Seller Affiliate Dated February 17, 2010
by and
among
GERMAN
AMERICAN BANCORP, as Buyer,
FARMERS
STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS, ILL., as Seller, and
FARMERS
STATE HOLDING CORP., as the Seller Affiliate
Dated
February 17, 2010
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page No.
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1.
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Purchase
and Sale of Assets
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1
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2.
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Assumption
of Liabilities; Excluded Liabilities
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3
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3.
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Calculation
and Allocation of Purchase Price
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4
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4.
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Payment
of the Purchase Price
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8
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5.
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Closing
and Closing Date
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9
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6.
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Obligations
at Closing
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9
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7.
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Conditions
Precedent to Seller’s Obligations
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12
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8.
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Conditions
Precedent to Buyer’s Obligations
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13
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9.
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Representations
and Warranties of Seller
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10.
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Representations
and Warranties of Buyer
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29
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11.
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Seller’s
Covenants
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31
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12.
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Buyer
Covenants
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33
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13.
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Additional
Covenants.
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33
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14.
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Regulatory
Compliance, Conversion and Transition Matters
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38
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15.
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Name
Change, etc
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46
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16.
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Contracts
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46
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17.
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Indemnification
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46
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18.
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Taxes
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19.
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No
Partnership or Joint Venture
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50
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20.
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Further
Assurances
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50
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21.
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Amendment;
Waiver
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50
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22.
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Termination
of Agreement
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50
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23.
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Responsibilities
Upon Termination
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51
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24.
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Entire
Agreement
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51
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25.
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Notices
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26.
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Governing
Law; Forum and Consent to Jurisdiction
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27.
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Descriptive
Headings
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28.
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Parties
in Interest; Third Party Beneficiaries
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29.
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Expenses
and Brokers
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30.
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Specific
Performance
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31.
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Assignability
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32.
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Counterparts
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33.
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Press
Releases
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34.
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Confidentiality
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35.
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Exclusive
Dealing
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54
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36.
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Severability
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37.
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Jury
Waiver
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ii
List
of Schedules and Exhibits
EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT A
– Form of Xxxx of Sale
EXHIBIT B
– Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement
EXHIBIT C
– Form of Draft Closing Statement
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE
1(b)
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ATMs
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SCHEDULE
1(g)
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Assigned
Contracts
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SCHEDULE
2(a)(1)
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Deposit
Accounts
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SCHEDULE
2(a)(5)
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Accrued
Liabilities
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SCHEDULE
9(c)
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Liens
and Encumbrances
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SCHEDULE
9(d)
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Premises
Matters
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SCHEDULE
9(e)
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Environmental
Matters
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SCHEDULE
9(f)
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Loan
Matters
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SCHEDULE
9(i)
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Litigation
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SCHEDULE
9(j)
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Regulatory
Matters
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SCHEDULE
9(l)(2)
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Seller
Regulatory Approvals
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SCHEDULE
9(l)(3)
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Required
Consents
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SCHEDULE
9(o)
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Personal
Property Matters
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SCHEDULE
9(r)
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Tax
Matters
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SCHEDULE
9(s)
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Employee
Benefit Plan Matters
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SCHEDULE
10(d)
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Buyer
Regulatory Approvals
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SCHEDULE
1-KO
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Kick-out
Loan
Schedule
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Schedules
and Exhibits
THIS
BRANCH PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is made this 17th day of
February, 2010, by and among GERMAN AMERICAN BANCORP, an Indiana banking
corporation having its executive offices in Jasper, Indiana ("Buyer"); FARMERS
STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS, ILL., an Illinois state bank, having its executives
offices in Harrisburg, Illinois ("Seller"), and FARMERS
STATE HOLDING CORP., an Illinois corporation that controls the Seller ("Seller
Affiliate")
RECITALS
A. Seller
is willing to sell, and Buyer is willing to purchase, certain of the assets of
Seller located at or associated with certain of Seller’s branch offices located
in Southern Indiana; and
B.
Buyer is willing to assume and discharge certain
of the deposit liabilities of Seller associated with the purchased branches and
certain other obligations and liabilities of Seller on the terms and subject to
the conditions of this Agreement; and
C. Seller
Affiliate is willing to enter into this Agreement in order to join with Seller
in providing noncompetition and nonsolicitation assurances to Buyer
hereunder.
AGREEMENTS
In
consideration of the mutual covenants set forth herein, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
1.
Purchase
and Sale of Assets. Subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, including the assumption by Buyer of the Liabilities, at the Closing,
Seller will grant, sell, convey, assign, transfer and deliver to Buyer, and
Buyer will buy, accept and receive from Seller, all of Seller’s right, title and
interest, free and clear of all Liens (excluding Permitted Liens), as of the
Closing Date, in and to the following assets:
(a) The
real estate owned in fee simple by the Seller and buildings or other
improvements thereon located at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 (the
"Newburgh
Branch") and Seller’s leasehold interest in and to the real estate,
buildings and other improvements and all related option rights, easement rights,
and other ancillary rights and privileges (such leasehold interest and related
rights and privileges, collectively, the "Assigned Xxxxx Road Lease") located at
0000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 (the "Xxxxx Road Branch")
(the Newburgh Branch and the Xxxxx Road Branch are sometimes referred to herein
as the "Branches");
(b) All
of the personal property of Seller located in the Branches consisting of the
furniture, fixtures, equipment, on-premises ATMs, security systems, telephone
numbers, safe deposit boxes (including keys, but exclusive of contents), vaults,
sign structures (exclusive of signage containing any trade name, trademark or
service xxxx, if any, of Seller), supplies (excluding any items consumed or
disposed of, but including new items acquired or obtained, in the ordinary
course of the operation of the Branches through the Closing Date, and excluding
any supplies containing any trade name, trademark or service xxxx, if any, of
Seller) (collectively, the "Personal
Property");
(c) All
vault and teller cash, xxxxx cash, on-premises ATM cash, coin on hand, any other
cash and all cash equivalents at the Branches (collectively, the "Cash on
Hand");
(d) Security
deposits applicable to the Branches;
(e) Prepaid
expenses paid by Seller to the extent that such have continuing value to Buyer,
including (without limitation) items such as rents, utility payments, service
contract payments, fees for customary annual or periodic licenses or permits,
and other prepaid items of income and expense (but not including (without
limitation) any prepaid federal deposit insurance premium or any general
liability and property insurance premiums), in each case as of the close of
business on the Closing Date (the "Prepaid
Expenses");
(f) The
Loans, including Accrued Interest, all of Seller's interests in the Collateral
for the Loans, the Loan Files and Loan Documents and all servicing rights
related to such Loans pursuant to Section 13(b);
(g) To
the extent assignable, the leases, licenses, contracts and other agreements
identified on Schedule
1(g) that relate to the Personal Property located at or associated
with the Branches ("Assigned
Contracts");
(h) The
Safe Deposit Agreements;
(i) The
Records;
(j) The
rights of action and claims related to the Assets, except to the extent
exclusively relating to Excluded Liabilities;
(k) The
intangible values associated with the deposit and loan relationships of Seller
with the customers of the Branches whose Deposit Liabilities and Loans are being
and purchased by Buyer hereunder; and
(l) The
Additional Assets (as defined below), if any.
The
foregoing assets in (a) through (l) will be referred to collectively as the
"Assets."
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, as used herein, Assets shall not include any of the
following:
(a) Seller’s
e-mail addresses (although Seller will cause a "bounce-back" email message to be
generated for each Hired Employee's incoming email at Seller's domain name for
six months following the Closing Date, informing the sender of the email (with
copy of the bounce-back message being sent to the email address of the Hired
Employee at Buyer) that the message to the Hired Employee is not deliverable at
the Seller's email address for that former employee and disclosing the updated
contact information including new email address and name and address of the
branch of Buyer at which the employee then works) or website addresses or
information;
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(b) Real
estate owned by Seller other than the Branches, including all improvements,
fixtures and other assets located thereon; and
(c) all
allowance for loan loss and lease accounts as applicable to all Loans, Kick-out
Loans, Sold Loan and all other loans.
No later
than two Business Days prior to the Closing Date, Seller may agree to grant,
sell, convey, assign, transfer and deliver to Buyer, and Buyer may agree to
purchase and accept from Seller, such additional assets of Seller (including,
without limitation, Additional Loans) (collectively, the "Additional Assets")
as the parties may mutually agree, on such terms and conditions (including,
without limitation, the valuation thereof and appropriate representations and
warranties with respect thereto) as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties
and set forth on a schedule of the Additional Assets to be signed by both
parties and delivered to each other at the Closing. Such additional
consideration for any Additional Assets will be added to the Purchase
Price.
Seller
will not grant, sell, assign, transfer to Buyer and Buyer will not purchase any
assets of Seller, other than the Assets, including, without limitation, any loan
that would be an Asset were it not included on the Kick-out Loan Schedule
delivered by Buyer to Seller at the Closing, a tentative version of which
Kick-out Loan Schedule (subject to change by Buyer in its discretion at any time
on or before the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date) is attached as
Schedule
1-KO.
2.
Assumption
of Liabilities; Excluded Liabilities.
(a) Subject
to satisfaction of the terms and conditions hereof, including the transfer of
the Assets to Buyer, as of and after the Closing, Buyer will pay, perform, and
assume the following liabilities of Seller and will perform the following
duties, responsibilities and obligations of Seller that are to be paid or
performed from and after the Closing Date:
(1) The
Deposit Liabilities, including, without limitation, IRAs to the extent
contemplated by Section 2(c);
(2) The Assigned
Xxxxx Road Lease and the Assigned Contracts, to the extent such are actually
assigned to Buyer, in accordance with their terms;
(3) Funding
commitments under the Loans, including, without limitation, Unfunded
Advances, and the servicing of the Loans; provided, however that Buyer shall in
no event be deemed to have assumed any obligation to service any Sold
Loans;
(4) The
Safe Deposit Agreements;
(5) The
accrued liabilities, if any, described in Schedule 2(a)(5) (the
"Accrued
Liabilities"); and
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(6) Taxes
for which Buyer is responsible under Section 18 and any Taxes with
respect to the Assets or the Branches for any taxable period (or portion
thereof) that begins after the Closing Date.
The
foregoing liabilities set forth in (1) through (6) only will be referred to
collectively as the "Liabilities."
(b) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, other than the Liabilities, which
Buyer is expressly assuming pursuant to this Agreement, Buyer shall not assume
or be bound by any duties, responsibilities, obligations or liabilities of
Seller, or of any of its Affiliates, of any kind or nature, known, unknown,
contingent or otherwise, including, without limitation, (i) those attributable
to any acts or omissions to act taken or omitted to be taken by Seller (or any
of its Affiliates) prior to the Closing Date and any Legal Proceedings that
arise as a result thereof; (ii) for any Seller and any of its Affiliates Tax
liability except as provided herein; (iii) any obligation of Seller to indemnify
any Person; (iv) for any liability of Seller or any of its Affiliates under this
Agreement; (v) relating or arising out of any deposit excluded under the
definition of Deposit Liabilities; (vi) those having to do with or related to
the employment or other similar relationship between Seller and/or its ERISA
Affiliates on the one hand and their current, former or prospective employees,
officers, directors, consultants, service providers and other agents, on the
other hand, including, but not limited to, those relating to termination of
employment or refusal to hire, termination or severance payments, fees and
compensation, and those occurring under or related to any Employee Benefit Plan
of Seller or any of its ERISA Affiliates; (vii) any liability or claim with
respect to any claim seeking to "put back" any guaranteed loan portion of any
loan originated or acquired by Seller under any SBA guarantee program and sold
by Seller on or before the Closing Date, which claim arises from an allegation
that any such loans or portions of such loans were not properly structured,
underwritten, sold or serviced on or before the Closing Date in accordance with
SBA requirements or guidelines; and (viii) those arising from
circumstances, events or conditions prior to the Closing Date and not expressly
assumed hereunder (collectively the "Excluded
Liabilities").
(c) With
respect to Deposit Liabilities in IRAs, Seller will use its reasonable efforts
to cooperate with Buyer in taking any action reasonably necessary to accomplish
either the appointment of Buyer as successor custodian or the delegation to
Buyer (or to an Affiliate of Buyer) of Seller’s authority and responsibility as
custodian of all such IRAs, including, but not limited to, sending to the
depositors thereof appropriate notices, cooperating with Buyer in soliciting
consents from such depositors, and filing any appropriate applications with
applicable regulatory authorities. If, notwithstanding the foregoing, as of the
Closing Date, Buyer shall be unable to retain Deposit Liabilities in respect of
an XXX, such Deposit Liabilities shall be deemed to be an "Excluded Liability"
for purposes of this Agreement.
3.
Calculation
and Allocation of Purchase Price.
(a) Purchase
Price. Subject to Section 1 (with respect to
Additional Assets), Section 2(a)(2), Section 3(b) and Section 3(d), the purchase
price of the Assets (the "Purchase Price") will
be an amount equal to the sum of the following:
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(1) The
aggregate amount of the Cash on Hand and Prepaid Expenses valued at their face
amounts on the Closing Date; plus
(2) The
aggregate unpaid principal balance of the Loans, plus the aggregate amount of
Accrued Interest, on the Closing Date; plus
(3) Four
million nine hundred ninety thousand dollars ($4,990,000) for all Assets other
than the Loans, the Cash on Hand and the Prepaid Expenses.
(b) Adjustments of Purchase
Price.
(1) Solely
for purposes of facilitating the identification of the Loans for purposes of
Closing and the calculation of the cash due Buyer or Seller, as applicable, on
the Closing Date, Seller shall provide to Buyer, on or before the fourth
Business Day before the Closing Date, the Draft Closing Statement (including the
Draft Loan Schedule); provided, that Buyer has provided to Seller the final
Kick0out Loan Schedule no later than the fifth Business Day before the Closing
Date.
(2) On
or before 12:00 noon Eastern Time on the tenth (10th)
calendar day following the Closing Date (the "Adjustment Date"),
Seller shall deliver to Buyer the Final Closing Statement (including the Final
Loan Schedule) and Seller shall make available to Buyer such work papers,
schedules and other supporting data used to calculate and prepare the Final
Closing Statement and as may be requested by Buyer to enable Buyer to verify
such determinations set forth in the Final Closing Statement.
(3) If,
within 7 calendar days following the date of receipt by Buyer of the Final
Closing Statement, Buyer does not dispute any items contained in the Final
Closing Statement or omitted therefrom, then the Final Closing Statement shall
be final and binding upon the parties. In the event (and to the extent) that
Buyer disputes any items contained in the Final Closing Statement or omitted
therefrom, such disputes shall be resolved in the following manner:
(A) Buyer
shall notify Seller, in writing (the "Notice of
Disagreement") of such dispute within 7 calendar days after Buyer’s
receipt of the Final Closing Statement, which notice shall specify in reasonable
detail the nature of the dispute, indicating those specific items that are in
dispute and the extent to which they are in dispute (to such extent, the "Disputed Items"); to
the extent that an item is not a Disputed Item, it shall be final, binding and
conclusive for all purposes hereunder.
(B) During
the 7-day period following Seller’s receipt of a Notice of Disagreement from
Buyer, Seller and Buyer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to resolve any
Disputed Items. To the extent that, at the end of such 7-day period,
the parties have reached written agreement with respect to any matter covered by
a Notice of Disagreement, the Final Closing Statement shall be adjusted to
reflect such written agreement and shall to that extent become final and binding
upon the parties hereto.
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(C) If,
at or before the end of the 7-day period specified in subsection 3(b)(3)(B) above,
Buyer and Seller shall have failed to reach a written agreement with respect to
all or a portion of such Disputed Items (those Disputed Items that remain in
dispute at the end of such period are the "Unresolved Changes"),
then Buyer and Seller shall promptly refer only those Unresolved Changes to RSM
McGladrey, Inc. or its affiliates, or in the event such firm refuses or is
unable to make a determination, a mutually agreeable nationally recognized
independent certified public accounting firm (the "Firm"), to make a
determination as to the subject matter of the Unresolved Changes. If
Buyer and Seller fail to agree on a Firm within 3 days after the end of the
7-day period specified in subsection 3(b)(3)(B) above, the
Firm shall be selected by the American Arbitration Association. The
Firm shall be directed to issue its written decision as promptly as practicable
and in any event within 30 days following the submission of the Unresolved
Changes to the Firm for resolution, and such decision shall be final, binding
and conclusive on the parties. Seller and Buyer agree to fully
cooperate with and provide any information requested by such Firm. In
the event Unresolved Changes are submitted to the Firm for resolution as
provided herein, the fees, charges and expenses of the Firm (the "Firm Expenses") shall
be borne and paid equally by Buyer and Seller.
(4) On
or before 12:00 noon Eastern Time on the fifth Business Day after the Adjusted
Payment Amount shall have become final and binding or, in the case of a dispute,
the date of the resolution of the dispute pursuant to subsection 3(b)(3) above, if the
Adjusted Payment Amount is greater than the Estimated Payment Amount then Seller
shall pay to Buyer an amount in dollars equal to such excess, plus interest on
such excess amount from the Closing Date to but excluding the payment date, at
the Federal Funds Rate, or if the Adjusted Payment Amount is less than the
Estimated Payment Amount Buyer shall pay to Seller an amount in dollars equal to
such shortfall, plus interest on such shortfall from the Closing Date
to, but excluding the payment date, at the Federal Funds Rate. If a payment is
owed to Buyer pursuant to this Section 3(b)(4), such payment
shall be effected by wire transfer of immediately available funds from Seller to
an account designated in writing by the Buyer within five Business Days after
the determination thereof. If a payment is owed to Seller pursuant to
this Section
3(b)(4),
such payment shall be effected by wire transfer of immediately available funds
from Buyer to an account designated in writing by the Seller within five
Business Days after the determination thereof.
(c) Allocation of the Purchase
Price.
(1) Buyer
shall prepare a proposed allocation of the Purchase Price among the Assets in
accordance with Section 1060 of the Code, which proposed allocation shall be
delivered to Seller for review and comment within 30 days following the final
determination of the Final Closing Statement (the "Proposed Allocation
Statement"). Seller shall provide to Buyer in writing within
ten days of the receipt of such Proposed Allocation Statement any objections
thereto.
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(2) If,
within ten days following the receipt of the Proposed Allocation Statement,
Seller does not dispute any items contained in the Proposed Allocation
Statement, then the Proposed Allocation Statement shall be final and binding
upon the parties (the "Final Allocation
Determination"). In the event that Seller disputes any items
contained in the Proposed Allocation Statement, such disputes shall be resolved
in the following manner:
(A) Seller
shall notify Buyer in writing (the "Notice of Allocation
Disagreement") of such dispute within seven days following Seller’s
receipt of the Proposed Allocation Statement, which notice shall specify in
reasonable detail the nature of the dispute, indicating those specific items
that are in dispute (the "Seller Disputed
Items"). To the extent that Seller provides a Notice of
Allocation Disagreement within such 7-day period, all items that are not Seller
Disputed Items shall be final, binding and conclusive for all purposes
hereunder.
(B) During
the 7-day period following Buyer’s receipt of a Notice of Allocation
Disagreement, Seller and Buyer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
resolve any Seller Disputed Items. If, at or before the end of such 7-day
period, the parties have reached written agreement with respect to all matters
covered by a Notice of Allocation Disagreement, the Proposed Allocation
Statement shall be adjusted to reflect such written agreement and shall become
the Final Allocation Determination.
(C) If,
at the end of the 7-day period specified in subsection 3(c)(2)(B) above,
Buyer and Seller shall have failed to reach a written agreement with respect to
all or a portion of such Seller Disputed Items (those Seller Disputed Items that
remain in dispute at the end of such period are the "Unresolved Allocation
Changes"), then Buyer and Seller shall promptly refer only those
Unresolved Allocation Changes to RSM McGladrey or its affiliates, or in the
event such firm refuses or is unable to make a determination, a mutually
agreeable firm to make a determination as to the subject matter of the
Unresolved Allocation Changes. If Buyer and Seller fail to agree on a
firm within 3 days after the end of the 7-day period specified in subsection 3(c)(2)(B) above,
the firm shall be selected by the American Arbitration
Association. The firm shall issue its written decision as promptly as
practicable and in any event within 15 days following the submission of the
Unresolved Allocation Changes to the firm for resolution, and such decision
shall be final, binding and conclusive on the parties and become the Final
Allocation Determination. In the event Unresolved Allocation Changes are
submitted to the firm for resolution as provided herein, the costs of engaging
the firm shall be paid by Buyer and Seller equally.
(3) Buyer
and Seller and their Affiliates shall file all Tax Returns (including, but not
limited to, Internal Revenue Service Form 8594) in all respects and for all
purposes consistent with such Final Allocation Determination. Seller shall use
commercially reasonably efforts to deliver to Buyer all such documents and other
information as Buyer may reasonably request in order to prepare the Proposed
Allocation Statement contemplated by subsection 3(c)(1) above and any
Tax Returns for taxable periods beginning on or after the Closing
Date. No party shall take any position (whether in audits, Tax
Returns or otherwise) which is inconsistent with such Final Allocation
Determination unless required to do so by applicable Legal
Requirement.
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(d)
Proration; Other Closing
Date Adjustments.
(1) Except
as otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement, it is the intention of the
parties that the Branches will be operated for Seller’s account until 11:59
p.m., Central Time, on the Closing Date, and that the Branches will be operated
for Buyer’s account and Buyer will hold the Assets and assume the Liabilities
for its own account after the Closing Date. Thus, except as otherwise
specifically provided in this Agreement, items of income and expense, as defined
in subparagraph (2) below, shall be prorated as of 11:59 p.m., Central Time, on
the Closing Date, and settled between Seller and Buyer on the Closing Date,
whether or not such adjustment would normally be made as of such
time. Items of proration will be handled at Closing as an adjustment
to the Purchase Price unless otherwise agreed by the parties
hereto.
(2) For
purposes of this Agreement, items of income and expense subject to proration and
other adjustments (and, in the case of Prepaid Expenses, eligible to be
purchased by Buyer) shall include, but are not limited to: (i)
personal and real property Taxes and assessments (to be settled at Closing by
credit given at Closing pursuant to the following sentence); (ii) other prepaid
expenses and items and accrued but unpaid liabilities, as of the close of
business on the Closing Date, including rents, utilities and service contract
obligations; and (iii) safe deposit rental payments previously received by
Seller; provided, however, that (since such prepayment cannot benefit Buyer)
Prepaid Expenses shall not include any prepaid federal deposit insurance premium
or general liability or property insurance premiums paid by
Seller. Real property taxes shall be settled by a credit given
to Buyer as part of the Final Closing Statement calculations for (i) all 2009
real estate taxes payable in 2010 (or, if 2009 real estate taxes are not known
at the Closing Date, for an estimate conclusively based on 110% of the prior
year's tax), plus (ii) a prorated amount for 2010 taxes payable in 2011
calculated at 110% of the last available real estate taxes.
4.
Payment
of the Purchase Price.
(a) At
Closing, (1) if the Estimated Payment Amount as set forth on the Draft Closing
Statement is a positive amount, Seller shall pay to Buyer an amount in dollars
equal to such positive amount, or (2) if the Estimated Payment Amount as set
forth on the Draft Closing Statement is a negative amount, Buyer shall pay to
Seller an amount in dollars equal to the absolute value of such negative
amount.
(b) All
payments to be made hereunder by one party to the other shall be made by wire
transfer of immediately available funds (to such account as the appropriate
party shall advise not later than two Business Days prior to the Closing Date)
on or before 12:00 noon Eastern Time on the Closing Date.
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(c) If
any instrument of transfer contemplated herein shall be recorded in any public
record before the Closing and thereafter the Closing does not occur, then at the
request of such transferring party the other party will deliver (or execute and
deliver) such instruments and take such other action as such transferring party
shall reasonably request to revoke such purported transfer.
5.
Closing
and Closing Date.
(a) The
consummation of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (the "Closing") will take
place as soon as reasonably practicable, following the satisfaction, or where
legally permitted, the waiver of conditions set forth in Section 6, the receipt by
Seller of the Required Consents, the receipt by Buyer of all Regulatory
Approvals, and expiration of applicable statutory waiting periods, on such date
as may be mutually agreed to by the Parties; provided, however, that if the
Parties do not so agree, then the Closing shall be held on the first Friday that
is at least two Business Days following that date of satisfaction or waiver of
such conditions (the date so fixed, the "Closing
Date"). The parties agree to use their best efforts to
consummate the closing on Friday, April 16, 2010, or (if that target date is not
achieved) on the next Friday that is a Business Day that is
practicable.
(b) The
Closing will be held remotely via the electronic exchange of documents and
signatures on the Closing Date. The parties hereto acknowledge and
agree that (i) all proceedings at the Closing shall be deemed to be taken and
all documents and funds to be delivered by all parties at the Closing shall be
deemed to have been taken and delivered simultaneously, and no proceedings shall
be deemed taken or any documents or funds delivered until all have been taken
and delivered (or waived where legally permitted), and (ii) the Closing shall be
deemed to have taken place at the executive offices of Buyer located in Jasper,
Indiana.
(c) Unless
the parties agree pursuant to Section 14(b) that
the conversion of the data processing with respect to the Branches and the
Assets and Liabilities will be performed other than on the weekend immediately
following the Closing Date, the Closing Date shall be on a Friday and such
conversion will be completed prior to the opening of business on the following
Monday.
6.
Obligations
at Closing.
(a) At
Closing, Seller shall deliver to Buyer the following:
(1) Duly
executed special warranty deed for the Newburgh Branch and all other instruments
of conveyance as may be necessary to sell, transfer and convey all right, title
and interest in and to the Premises of the Newburgh Branch to Buyer, including
without limitation the Indiana Sales Disclosure Form to be filed with the deed,
a certification by Seller that the Newburgh Branch Premises does not constitute
"property" as defined by the Indiana Responsible Property Transfer Law, and a
Vendor's Affidavit sufficient for the Title Company to delete the so-called
"standard exceptions" (other than the standard survey exception) from the Title
Policy for the Newburgh Branch and date such policy no earlier than the time of
recordation of the deed;
(2) Duly
executed:
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(A) Documents
providing for the assignment and assumption of the Assigned Xxxxx Road Lease as
executed by Seller and the public recordation of a memorandum of such assignment
and assumption;
(B) Consent
of the landlord to the assignment of the Assigned Xxxxx Road Lease, including
estoppel certifications reasonably satisfactory to Buyer, as executed and
delivered by such landlord;
(C) Documentation
reasonably acceptable to Buyer that all of the obligations of the Landlord under
the Assigned Xxxxx Road Lease, including without limitation the obligations
provided by Section 9 thereof, have been fully performed and satisfied on or
prior to the date of the estoppel certifications delivered at
Closing;
(D) Document
providing for the subordination, non-disturbance and attornment by any mortgagee
of the Xxxxx Road Branch in favor of Buyer, as executed and delivered by the
mortgagee; and
(E) Any
documents necessary for the Title Company to delete the so-called "standard
exceptions" (other than the standard survey exception) from the leasehold Title
Policy for the Xxxxx Road Branch leasehold and date such policy no earlier than
the time of recordation of the memorandum of lease assignment;
(3) A
duly executed xxxx of sale in substantially the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto pursuant to which the Personal Property shall be transferred to
Buyer;
(4) The
Assigned Contracts, Required Consents and other written agreements, contracts,
leases and other documentation that relate to the Assets and Liabilities and the
Safe Deposit Agreements;
(5) The
right to possession of the Loan Files and Loan Documents and the Collateral held
by Seller as security for any Loan as provided for in Section 6(c);
(6) Certified
copies of resolutions of Seller’s board of directors authorizing the execution
and delivery of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(7) Copies
of the Records;
(8) Such
instruments of assumption of Liabilities as are required to effectively assign
and transfer the obligations for the Liabilities to the Buyer and for Buyer to
assume those Liabilities as provided herein, including, without limitation, an
assignment and assumption agreement in substantially the form set forth on Exhibit B attached
hereto with respect to the Liabilities, duly executed by Seller (the "Assignment and Assumption
Agreement");
(9) Such
schedules of Assets and Liabilities as Buyer may reasonably request and in form
and substance satisfactory to Buyer, and the Seller Disclosure
Schedule;
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(10) Seller’s
resignation as trustee or custodian, as applicable, with respect to each XXX
which represents part of the Deposit Liabilities and designation of Buyer as
successor trustee or custodian with respect thereto, as contemplated by Section 2(c);
(11) The
certificate of Seller’s President required by Section 8(f);
(12) The
Draft Closing Statement, including the Draft Loan Schedule (which shall have
been furnished to Buyer no later than the fifth Business Day prior to the
Closing Date);
(13) A
certification of non-foreign status meeting the requirements of Treasury
Regulation 1.1445-2(b)(2), duly executed and acknowledged substantially in the
form of the sample certificates set forth in Treasury Regulation Section
1.1445-2(b)(2)(iv);
(14) Cash
On Hand;
(15) Estimated
Payment Amount, if any;
(16) A
complete set of keys for each Branch, including but not limited to keys for safe
deposit boxes, vaults and automated teller machines and combinations for all
combination locks, appropriately tagged for identification and any manuals or
specifications with respect to vaults and automated teller machines, together
with a schedule listing same;
(17) A
complete set of instructions and manuals including security codes for other
security systems and devices at each Branch to the extent in the possession of
Seller;
(18) Construction
and design plans and specifications for the buildings and all
improvements on the Premises of the Branches to the extent in the possession of
Seller; and
(19) Such
other documents as the parties may determine are reasonably necessary to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) At the Closing, Buyer will
deliver to Seller the following:
(1) Certified
copies of resolutions of Buyer’s board of directors authorizing the execution
and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions set
forth in this Agreement;
(2) Such
instruments of assumption of Liabilities as are required to effectively assign
and transfer the obligations for the Liabilities to the Buyer and for Buyer to
assume those Liabilities as provided herein, including, without limitation, the
Assignment and Assumption Agreement, duly executed by Buyer;
(3) The
certificate of Buyer’s Chief Executive Officer as required by Section
7(f);
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(4) Evidence
of the Regulatory Approvals and the satisfaction of all required conditions of
such Regulatory Approvals;
(5) Buyer’s
acceptance of its appointment as successor trustee or custodian, as applicable,
of the IRAs which are part of the Deposit Liabilities and the assumption of the
fiduciary obligations of the trustee or custodian with respect thereto, as
contemplated by Section 2(c);
(6) the
Estimated Payment Amount, if any;
(7) the
updated and final Kick-out Loan Schedule; and
(8) such
other documents as the parties may determine are reasonably necessary to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
(c) Loan Documents and Loan
Files.
(1) Not
later than 24 hours following the Closing Date, Seller shall deliver to Buyer or
its designee at the Branches the Loan Files and Loan
Documents (reasonably organized and cataloged), in the medium (including imaged
documents) then maintained by Seller.
(2) Seller
shall complete all endorsements of notes to the order of Buyer, and shall
deliver the Loan Documents, along with assignments of real property security
instruments in recordable form and assignments of financing statements, all in
form satisfactory to Buyer, at the Closing.
(d) Collateral Assignments and
Filing. Seller shall take all such reasonable actions as requested by
Buyer to assist Buyer in obtaining the valid perfection of a lien or security
interest in the Collateral, if any, securing each Loan sold on the Closing Date
in favor of Buyer or its designated assignee as secured party. Any such action
shall be at the sole expense of Buyer, and Buyer shall reimburse Seller for all
reasonable third party costs incurred in connection therewith.
(e) Power of
Attorney. Seller shall execute and deliver to Buyer powers of
attorney or other instrument satisfactory to Buyer’s counsel authorizing Buyer
and its representatives to file or record assignments of Collateral and endorse
in Seller’s name any checks, drafts, notes or other documents received in
payment of the Loans after the Closing.
(f) Premises Filings. On
the Closing Date, Seller and Buyer shall cause the Title Company to file or
record any and all documents necessary in order that the legal and equitable fee
title to Premises at the Newburgh Branch, and to the leasehold interest of
Seller in respect of the Xxxxx Road Branch, each as provided herein, be duly
vested in Buyer.
7.
Conditions
Precedent to Seller’s Obligations. The obligations of Seller
under this Agreement are, at the option of Seller, subject to the following
conditions precedent that must be satisfied (unless waived by Seller in writing)
at or before Closing or at or before such time as expressly set forth
below:
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(a) The
Regulatory Approvals shall have been made or obtained and shall remain in full
force and effect, and all statutory waiting periods applicable to the
transactions contemplated hereby shall have expired or terminated and no such
Regulatory Approval shall have resulted in the imposition of a Burdensome
Regulatory Condition;
(b) Buyer
shall have duly and timely performed its covenants and agreements herein on or
prior to the Closing Date in all material respects;
(c) Each
of the representations and warranties of Buyer contained or referred to in this
Agreement shall be true and correct at the Closing as though made at Closing
(except to the extent such representations and warranties speak of an earlier
date);
(d) No
Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued,
promulgated, enforced or entered any Legal Requirement or Order (whether
temporary, preliminary or permanent) which prohibits or makes illegal, or
materially restricts, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement or materially alters the terms of this Agreement;
(e) No
Legal Proceedings shall have been instituted against Buyer where the determination
of liability against such party would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect or a material and adverse effect on the ability of such party to
consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(f) There
shall have been delivered to Seller a certificate confirming items (a)-(c)
above, dated as of the Closing Date, and signed on behalf of the Buyer by its
Chief Executive Officer; and
(g) Buyer
shall have delivered the closing deliverables set forth in Section
6(b).
8.
Conditions
Precedent to Buyer’s Obligations. The obligations of Buyer
under this Agreement are, at the option of Buyer, subject to the following
conditions precedent that must be satisfied (unless waived by Buyer in writing)
at or before Closing or at or before such time as expressly set forth
below:
(a) The
Regulatory Approvals shall have been made or obtained and shall remain in full
force and effect, and all statutory waiting periods applicable to the
transactions contemplated hereby shall have expired or terminated, and no such
Regulatory Approval shall have resulted in the imposition of a Burdensome
Regulatory Condition;
(b) Seller
shall have duly and timely performed its covenants and agreements herein on or
prior to the Closing Date in all material respects;
(c) Each
of the representations and warranties of Seller contained or referred to in this
Agreement shall be true and correct at the Closing as though made at the Closing
(except to the extent such representations and warranties speak of an earlier
date) without giving effect to any supplement to Seller’s Disclosure Schedule
(except for supplements to the Seller’s Disclosure Schedule with respect to
Schedule 2(a)(1), Schedule 2(a)(5), and Schedule 9(f) (as related to matters
listed on the Final Loan Schedule that were not listed on the Draft Loan
Schedule or as related to Additional Loans);
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(d) No
Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued,
promulgated, enforced or entered any Legal Requirement or Order (whether
temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is in effect and which prohibits or
makes illegal, or materially impacts, the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or materially alters the terms of this
Agreement;
(e) No
Legal Proceedings shall have been instituted against Buyer or Seller where the
determination of liability against such party would reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect or a material and adverse effect on the ability
of such party to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(f) There
shall have been delivered to Buyer a certificate confirming items (a)-(c) above,
dated as of the Closing Date, and signed on behalf of the Seller by its
President;
(g)
(1) Buyer
shall, at its discretion, have obtained a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
report ("Buyer’s Phase
I Report"), which shall be at Buyer’s expense, prepared after the date
hereof. Buyer shall report to Seller the results of the Buyer’s Phase
I Report, together with any objections (an "Objection") to any
matter that Buyer believes in its reasonable discretion indicates the existence
of a release or threatened release of Hazardous Substances at, on or under the
Premises in violation of any Environmental Law. Buyer shall provide
the report together with any Objections to Seller no later than 30 calendar days
after the date of this Agreement. If Buyer raises any Objections,
Seller and Buyer shall address such Objection as set forth in subsection 8(g)(2)
below. If Buyer decides to forego obtaining Buyer’s Phase I Report as
the result of an existing Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for the
Premises, the Seller shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain from
the preparer of such Phase I a letter reasonably acceptable to Buyer allowing
Buyer to rely on the findings and conclusions in such Phase I.
(2) If
Buyer discovers any Objections that would require further investigation or
removal or remediation activities or corrective action, as determined by Buyer
in its reasonable discretion, Buyer shall promptly give written notice thereof
to Seller describing the Objection or Objections in detail, and Seller shall
have the obligation to conduct such investigations, removal or remediation
activities or corrective action to cure such Objection(s) prior to the Closing,
if reasonably possible. If Seller is unable or unwilling to cure any
such Objection to Buyer’s reasonable satisfaction, then in Buyer’s sole and
absolute discretion, and upon written notice to Seller, such notice to be
received by Seller no later than ten calendar days after Buyer is notified in
writing of Seller’s inability or unwillingness to cure any such Objection: (a)
Buyer shall receive title or a leasehold interest in the Premises or Branch
Lease, respectively, in their then existing condition with a corresponding
adjustment to Purchase Price that is mutually agreeable to both parties, if any,
or (b) Buyer may terminate this Agreement, or (c) Seller shall keep title to the
Premises related to such Objection(s) and Buyer may lease such Premises from
Seller on terms mutually agreeable to both parties with a corresponding mutually
agreeable adjustment to the Purchase Price.
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(h) All
Title Objections shall have been cured, waived by Buyer or become an Insured
Exception, in each case, as contemplated by Section 14(o) and the Title
Policy with respect to the Newburgh Branch Premises and the leasehold Title
Policy with respect to the Xxxxx Road Branch Premises shall have each been
issued together with any endorsements ordered by Buyer;
(i) Seller
shall have delivered the closing deliverables set forth in Section 6(a);
and
(j) There
shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Effect after the date of this
Agreement.
9.
Representations
and Warranties of Seller. Seller represents and warrants to
Buyer as follows, subject to the exceptions disclosed in writing in the Seller
Disclosure Schedule and delivered to Buyer as of the date hereof:
(a)
Corporate
Organization. Seller is a an Illinois banking corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the United
States of America, and is entitled to own its properties where such properties
are now owned and operated and has the requisite power and authority to conduct
its business as now being conducted at the Branches. Seller is an insured
depository institution pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Act, as amended.
(b) Books and
Records.
(1) The
books of account and general ledger of the Seller fairly and accurately in all
material respects reflect the assets and liabilities of Seller in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied or regulatory accounting principles, whichever is
applicable.
(2) The
books of account and general ledger of the Seller (i) are maintained by Seller
in all material respects in accordance with applicable legal and accounting
requirements and (ii) reflect only actual transactions.
(3) The
Draft Closing Statement provided in accordance with this Agreement will
accurately reflect, as of the close of business on the fifth Business Day prior
to the Closing Date, the unpaid principal balance plus accrued unpaid interest
of the Assets that are Loans that are described thereon, and the face value of
the Cash on Hand, and the Prepaid Expenses, recorded at their historical cost
and depreciated or otherwise adjusted in accordance with Seller’s historical
accounting policies, all in accordance with GAAP consistently
applied.
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(c) Title to
Assets. Except for the Collateral for the Loans, Seller is the
lawful owner of, or in the case of leased Assets, has a valid leasehold interest
in, each of the Assets, and except as set forth on Schedule 9(c), the
Assets are not subject to any Lien other than Permitted
Liens. Subject to and upon the execution of the documents of
transfer, conveyance and assignment by Seller as provided herein at Closing and
the receipt of the consents and approvals as set forth herein, Seller has the
right to sell, convey, transfer, assign and deliver to Buyer all of Seller’s
right, title and interest in and to the Assets free and clear of any Lien other
than Permitted Liens and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, on the
Closing Date, Buyer will acquire good and marketable title to all of the Assets
(other than the Collateral for the Loans), or to the extent such Assets are
leased, Buyer will acquire good and marketable title to the leasehold interests
in such leased Assets, free and clear of any Lien other than Permitted
Liens.
(d) Premises.
(1) Seller
has not received and has no Knowledge of any written notice of violation,
citations, summonses, subpoenas, compliance orders, directives, suits, other
legal process, or other written notice of potential liability under applicable
zoning, building, fire and other applicable laws and regulations relating to the
Premises which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on
the operation of the Premises as a retail banking branch or otherwise on a basis
consistent with its current use.
(2) Seller
has not received any written notice of a condemnation or similar proceeding
relating to the Premises.
(3) Except
as set forth on Schedule 9(d) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule, Seller has received no notice of any existing or
pending special assessments affecting the Premises which may be assessed by any
Governmental Entity, water or sewer authority, drainage district or any other
special taxing district.
(4) There
are no outstanding agreements, contracts, options, commitments or understandings
of any nature obligating Seller to transfer any of the Premises or rights or
interest therein to any other Person or entity other than matters of
record.
(5) Except
as set forth on Schedule 9(d) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule and except as set forth in any Safe Deposit
Agreements, there are no leases, subleases, licenses or other rental agreements
or occupancy agreements which grant any possessory interest in and to any space
situated on or in the Premises or that otherwise give rights with regard to the
use of the Premises or any portion thereof. The copy of the Assigned
Xxxxx Road Lease (including any amendments thereto) attached to Schedule 9(d) is a
true and accurate copy of the entire document, as amended and supplemented
through the date hereof, and there is no default on the part of Seller and to
the Knowledge of Seller, on the part of Seller’s landlord under the Assigned
Xxxxx Road Lease and it is in full force and effect.
(6) The
Premises (or the use and operation of any component, portion or area of such
Premises) are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Legal
Requirements and there are presently and validly in effect all Government
Authorizations necessary for the operation of the Premises as a retail banking
branch or otherwise on a basis consistent with its current use.
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(7) Except
as set forth on Schedule 9(d) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule, the Seller has not allowed any work to be done on
the Premises that would give rise to any Liens and no contracts are outstanding
or are in effect with respect to the performance of such work. If any
such work is performed prior to the Closing Date, Seller shall discharge all
obligations arising therefrom, and shall remain liable after the Closing Date
for the discharge of all such obligations; provided, however, Seller shall not
be responsible for discharging or required to discharge the lien more
particularly described on Schedule 9(d) and
defined as the Newburgh Lien, but Seller shall indemnify and hold harmless Buyer
for any and all Losses (on a first-dollar basis, not subject to the deductible
limitations of Section 17 or to be considered in calculating the
indemnification limits of Section 17) incurred by Buyer as a result
of such Newburgh Lien; provided that Buyer shall permit Seller to
defend any and all claims associated with the Newburgh Lien and negotiate any
settlement leading to release of the Newburgh Lien.
(e) Environmental
Matters.
(1) The
Premises have been operated by Seller in compliance with all Applicable
Environmental Laws, including, but not limited to, Legal Requirements relating
to the use, handling, release, storage and disposal of Hazardous
Substances. Seller has not (i) used, handled, stored or disposed of
Hazardous Substances on the Premises or elsewhere, or (ii) discharged or
released any Hazardous Substances upon the Premises or elsewhere, in violation
of any Applicable Environmental Laws or in a manner resulting in impacts to the
environment above the standards set forth in Applicable Environmental Laws or
that would otherwise impose liability. To the Knowledge of Seller, no
other party has, in violation of any Legal Requirement, engaged in any such use,
handling, storage, disposal, discharge or release of any Hazardous Substance on
the Premises in violation of Applicable Environmental Laws. To the
Knowledge of Seller, the Premises have been and are free of (i) any Hazardous
Substances, in violation of any Legal Requirement, (ii) soil, soil vapor, and
groundwater contamination in excess or violation of any applicable cleanup
standard, or (iii) any underground or above-ground storage tanks, disposal pits,
landfills, surface impoundments, clarifiers, leachfields, septic tanks, and
xxxxx.
(2) To
Seller’s Knowledge, Seller has maintained secured creditor liability exemptions
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 9601(20) and similar laws under applicable states and
has not participated in management nor otherwise exercised control over any
borrower such that Seller would be subject to any liability with respect to any
environmental matters in connection with any security, borrower’s operations or
any borrower’s property; and to Seller’s Knowledge, Seller has not foreclosed on
a loan or taken over security in a manner that would result in liability under
Environmental Laws and, where applicable to avoid liability, has sought to
divest itself of any such properties at the earliest practicable, commercially
reasonable time, on commercially reasonable terms.
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(3) Except
as set forth in Schedule 9(e) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule, there are no legal, administrative, arbitration or
other proceedings, lawsuits, notices of violations, claims, actions, causes of
action, environmental investigations or remediation activities, private or
governmental, of any nature seeking to impose, or that reasonably could be
expected to result in the imposition, on the Seller of any liability or
obligation under any Applicable Environmental Laws, pending or, to the Knowledge
of the Seller, threatened against the Seller. To the Knowledge of the
Seller, there is no reasonable basis for any such proceeding, claim, action or
governmental investigation that would impose any liability or obligation on the
Seller. Neither the Seller nor the Premises is subject to any agreement, order,
award, judgment, decree, letter or memorandum by or with any court, governmental
authority, regulatory agency, arbitrator, or third party imposing any
unsatisfied liability or unmet obligation pursuant to or under any Applicable
Environmental Laws.
(4) Seller
has not commissioned and does not have in its possession any environmental
audits, reports and other material environmental documents relating to the
Premises.
(f) Loans.
(1) The
Draft Loan Schedule that will be delivered by Seller as part of the Draft
Closing Statement prior to the Closing Date, and the Final Loan Schedule that
will be delivered by Seller as part of the Final Closing Statement after the
Closing Date (each a "Loan Schedule") shall
each reflect (A) the Loans that have been discussed with Buyer in connection
with its review of the Loans prior to the date of the execution of the
Agreement, plus (B) any Loans originated after the date of this Agreement and
prior to the Closing Date, in accordance with the Seller's covenants in this
Agreement as to new loan originations and in the ordinary course of its business
at the Branches, that Buyer may elect to purchase as Additional
Loans. Each Loan Schedule shall provide, as of its respective date, a
true and accurate description of the Loans, setting forth, with respect to each
Loan, (i) the name, address and telephone number of the customer, (ii) the
aggregate outstanding unpaid principal balance, Accrued Interest and any
corporate advances of such Loan, (iii) the amount of credit committed under any
Loan which is a line of credit, (iv) the interest rate, (v) the Collateral for
the Loan, (vi) the lien priority of the Seller's security interest in each item
of the Collateral, and (vii) any participations sold including the name, address
and telephone number of each participant, the amount of such participation and
terms of any obligations or rights of such participation as to future advances
or other extensions of credit under such Loan.
(2) Seller’s
loan files for the Loans (the "Loan Files") contain originally executed notes,
leases and other evidences of any indebtedness, including, without limitation,
all originally executed loan agreements, loan participation agreements and
certificates, control agreements, security agreements, mortgages, guarantees,
forbearance agreements, UCC financing statements (to the extent executed) and
similar documents evidencing Collateral or other financial accommodations
relating to the Loans (the "Loan Documents"). The Loan Files and the
Records together accurately reflect the payment history through the applicable
date thereof (giving effect to the ordinary processing and posting timelines of
Seller's data processing systems), the outstanding balance of the Loan as
of the date indicated therein, and all receipts pertaining to the Loan from the
Obligor(s) thereof and all credits to which such Obligor(s) are entitled as of
the date indicated therein.
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(3) Except
as set forth on Schedule 9(f), the
Seller is the sole record owner and holder of each Loan, has not assigned or
pledged any such Loan, and has good and marketable title to all of the Loans,
free and clear of all liens and participations other than participations listed
on the Draft Loan Schedule or the Final Loan Schedule and except for the sold
portion of any SBA-guaranteed loans.
(4) Each
Loan was made and documented and has been serviced in the ordinary course of the
Seller's business and in accordance with Seller's credit underwriting policies,
procedures and lending criteria.
(5) Except
to the extent, and in the amounts, as may be specifically indicated on the Loan
Schedule, the proceeds of each Loan that is not a line of credit have been fully
disbursed and there is no obligation or requirement to make future advances
thereunder or to make any corporate advancements with respect
thereto.
(6) Each
participation sold in a Loan was sold by the Seller without
recourse. To Seller’s Knowledge, each participation agreement is the
legal, valid and binding obligations of each participant, subject to bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium, receivership,
conservatorship and laws relating to or affecting creditors' rights generally
and to public policy and to general principles of equity. Seller has
complied with all of its obligations under each such participation agreement,
and there is no existing default by Seller, or to Seller’s Knowledge, any
participant or any other party under any such participation agreement, nor shall
the sale of any Loan subject to a participation violate any applicable
participation agreement.
(7) Each
Loan is evidenced by notes or other evidences of indebtedness that are true and
genuine, and is accruing interest in accordance with the terms of such
Loan. Each of the Loan Documents (i) is the legal, valid and binding
obligation of the obligor, maker, co-maker, guarantor, mortgagor, endorser or
debtor (such Person referred to as an "Obligor") thereunder, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium,
receivership, conservatorship and laws relating to or affecting creditors'
rights generally and to public policy and to general principles of equity and
(ii) is enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium,
receivership and conservatorship laws and all other laws relating to or
affecting creditor’s rights generally and to public policy and general
principles of equity. To Seller’s Knowledge, the Loan Documents
contain genuine signatures of the parties thereto, including, but not limited to
makers and endorsers and of Seller. The Loan Documents are supported
by adequate consideration. To Seller’s Knowledge, each Obligor at the
time of execution of each Loan Document to which such Obligor is a party had
capacity to contract, and none of the obligations represented by the Loan
Documents have been modified, subordinated, altered, forgiven, discharged or
otherwise disposed of except as indicated by the Loan Documents contained among
the Loan Files or as a result of bankruptcy or other debtor’s relief laws of
general application. No Obligor has any right of rescission pursuant
to the Truth in Lending Act or other Legal Requirement which has not expired or
otherwise terminated. To the Knowledge of Seller, no maker, signatory
or guarantor on any Loan is in bankruptcy and none of the Loans are subject to
any offsets or claims of offset, or claims of other liability on the part of
Seller.
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(8) Except
as set forth on Schedule 9(f), each
of the Loans may be assigned to the Buyer without the approval or consent of any
Obligor or any participant or other third party. The Seller is not
contractually obligated to sell all or any portion of the Loans or related
servicing to any other person. Except as set forth on Schedule 9(f), upon
consummation of the Closing, Buyer will own all rights, titles, and interests in
the Loans and related servicing free and clear of any pledge, lien, or
encumbrance.
(9) No
term of any Loan (or of any participation agreement with respect to any Loan)
has been amended or waived except as set forth in the Loan
Documents.
(10) Each
Loan and Loan Document is genuine and represents a bona fide transaction with
the Obligor. No fraud occurred on the part of Seller or to Seller’s
Knowledge, on the part of any Obligor, in connection with the origination of the
Loans or the sale of any participation.
(11) To
Seller’s Knowledge, the Seller has a valid and enforceable lien on all the
Collateral, the priority of which will be as stated in the Loan
Schedule. To Seller’s Knowledge, the Collateral for all Loans is
appropriately titled, recorded, or registered in one of the fifty (50) states of
the United States as and to the extent required by applicable law to perfect a
security interest in the Collateral.
(12) The
information set forth in the Loan File for each Loan is true and correct in all
material respects as of the stated date or dates as indicted on its face. The
payment history and record of charges, fees, and finance charges included in the
Loan File are accurate in all material respects.
(13) Except
as disclosed on Schedule 9(f) or on
the Draft Loan Schedule or Final Loan Schedule, none of the Loans,
as of the respective dates of the Seller’s Disclosure Schedule, Draft Loan
Schedule and Final Loan Schedule, will be classified on the Seller's internal
watch list or classified by regulatory authorities, or will be Loans as to which
the Obligor is (i) then more than thirty (30) days past due in payment of
principal or interest, or (ii) to Seller’s Knowledge at such respective date,
then in breach, violation, noncompliance, default or event of acceleration under
the Loan Documents. To Seller’s Knowledge, no event which, with
notice and expiration of any grace or cure period, has occurred with respect to
a Loan that would constitute a default, breach, violation, or event of
acceleration under the terms of any Loan Document, and no such default, breach,
violation, or event of acceleration has been waived by the
Seller. Except as set forth on Schedule 9(f), there
is no litigation pending or threatened by the Seller to repossess or foreclose
upon the Collateral or to collect any past due amounts on any of the
Loans.
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(14) To
the Seller’s Knowledge, except as set forth on Schedule 9(f), no
Obligor has (i) filed, or consented by answer or otherwise to the filing against
it of, a petition for relief or reorganization or arrangement or any other
petition in bankruptcy, for liquidation or to take advantage of any bankruptcy
or insolvency law of any jurisdiction, (ii) made an assignment for the benefit
of its creditors, (iii) consented to the appointment of a custodian, receiver,
trustee, liquidator or other officer with similar power over itself or any
substantial part of its property, (iv) been adjudicated insolvent, or (v) taken
action for the purpose of authorizing any of the foregoing.
(15) No
Loan is subject to any right (exercisable by any Obligor) of rescission,
set-off, counterclaim, or defense, including the defense of usury, nor will the
operation of any terms of any Loan Document, or the exercise of any right under
any Loan Document, render any Loan Document unenforceable, in whole or in part,
or subject to any right of rescission, set-off, counterclaim or
defense.
(16) The
Seller is not transferring any Loan to the Buyer with any intent to hinder,
delay, or defraud any of Seller's creditors.
(17) Except
as set forth on Schedule 9(f), each
Loan has been made and documented, and all Loan Documents have been performed,
in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Legal Requirements,
including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the Uniform
Commercial Code, usury, truth in lending, consumer protection, equal credit
opportunity, and consumer disclosure. The Seller has performed in all
material respects all obligations under the Loan Documents and is not in breach,
noncompliance or default thereof.
(18) For
each Loan secured by real property:
(A) To
Seller’s Knowledge, any mortgaged real property in an area listed in the Federal
Register by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as an area with special
flood hazards is covered by a flood insurance policy that is in full force and
effect and written by a generally acceptable insurance company, which policy
meets current guidelines of the Federal Insurance Administration and is for an
amount at least equal to the amount required by Seller’s loan
policies;
(B) to
the Knowledge of Seller, the mortgaged property has never been used for the
storage, treatment or disposal of any material amount of Hazardous Substances
(other than by tenants in the ordinary course of tenancy or the owner in the
ordinary course of business, and such storage, treatment or disposal of
Hazardous Substances is or was in all material respects in accordance with all
applicable Legal Requirements), nor has such mortgaged property ever been listed
by any governmental agency as containing any Hazardous Substance in violation of
Legal Requirement unless such Hazardous Substance has been
remediated;
(C) the
terms of the mortgages or other security documents have not been impaired,
waived, altered or modified in any respect, except by a written instrument that
is included in the Loan Files;
(D) there
is no proceeding pending or, to Seller’s Knowledge, threatened, for the total or
partial condemnation of any mortgaged property;
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(E) to
Seller’s Knowledge, the mortgaged property is undamaged by waste, fire,
earthquake or earth movement, windstorm, flood, tornado or other casualty so as
to affect adversely the value of the mortgaged property as security for the
related Loan, or the use for which the premises were intended; and
(F) Seller
has no Knowledge that any improvement on the mortgaged property is in violation
of any applicable zoning law or regulation, or that any improvements that are
included in the appraised value of the mortgaged property are not totally within
the property’s boundaries and building restriction lines or that any
improvements on adjoining property encroach on the mortgaged
property.
(19) No
Taxes or other liability of Seller shall accrue against or be collected from
Buyer out of any Loan by reason of the purchase thereof by Buyer. Seller has
paid or caused to be paid any and all license, franchise, intangible, stamp or
other Tax or fee due and owing to any state where a Loan originated, or any
political subdivision thereof, arising from or relating to the acquisition,
collection or holding of any Loan by the Seller.
(20) Neither
Seller nor to Seller’s Knowledge, any of its agents, officers, employees or
representatives, has been guilty of any civil or criminal fraud with respect to
the creation of any Loan or with respect to the transfer, assignment and sale of
the same to Buyer hereunder.
(21) No
Loans have been sold subject to an agreement to repurchase.
(22) No
Obligor or other party in connection with the Loans has notified Seller, or has
asserted against Seller, in each case in writing, any "lender liability" or
similar claim.
(23) Seller
has made no commitment to make or modify the terms and conditions of any Loan
other than as set forth in the Loan Files.
(24) No
Loan is cross-collateralized with any other loan of the Seller that is not being
sold to Buyer as a Loan hereunder.
(g) Deposit Liabilities.
Except as set forth on Schedule 9(g), the
Deposit Liabilities are genuine obligations of Seller and have been originated
or extended and administered in material compliance with the documents governing
the relevant type of Deposit Liabilities and all Legal Requirements, including
without limitation, the Truth in Savings Act and regulations promulgated
thereunder. The Deposit Liabilities are insured by the FDIC through
the Deposit Insurance Fund to the fullest extent provided for by applicable
Legal Requirement and all premiums and assessments required to be paid in
connection with such insurance have been paid when due. All interest
has been properly accrued on the Deposit Liabilities and Seller’s records
accurately reflect such accrual of interest. Seller has not received
written notice of any loss or potential loss of any material business or
customers related to the Loans or the Deposit Liabilities.
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(h) Safe Deposit
Boxes. Seller is in compliance with the terms and conditions
of the Safe Deposit Agreements.
(i) Branch
Business.
(1) The
business at the Branches has been conducted in compliance with Seller’s policies
and procedures and in material compliance with all Legal
Requirements.
(2) Except
as set forth in Schedule 9(i), there
are no Legal Proceedings or Order entered, promulgated or pending or, to the
Knowledge of Seller, threatened against or affecting the Assets, Liabilities, or
any of the Branches or the business of Seller as it relates to or is conducted
by the Branches at law or in equity or otherwise, and there are no unsatisfied
judgments of record against Seller. There are no obligations or liabilities
(whether or not accrued, contingent or otherwise) that would reasonably be
expected to result in any claims against or obligations or liabilities of Seller
with respect to the Branches, the Assets or Liabilities.
(j) Regulatory Approval;
Regulatory Agreement.
(1) There
are no pending or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened disputes or
controversies between Seller and any Governmental Entity.
(2) Seller
has not received any written indication, or, to the Knowledge of Seller, oral
notification, from any Governmental Entity that such Governmental Entity would
oppose or refuse to grant a regulatory approval regarding execution of this
Agreement by Seller and consummation of the transactions contemplated herein by
Seller.
(3) Except
as set forth in Schedule 9(j), Seller is not
subject to any cease-and-desist or other order issued by, or a party to any
written agreement, consent agreement or memorandum of understanding with, or a
party to any commitment letter or similar undertaking to, or subject to any
order or directive by, or been a recipient of any supervisory letter from, or
has adopted any board resolutions (each of the foregoing, a "Regulatory
Agreement"), at the request of any Governmental Entity, nor has the
Seller been advised by any Governmental Entity that it is considering issuing or
requesting any Regulatory Agreement.
(4) To
Seller’s Knowledge, Seller has timely filed all material reports, registrations
and statements, together with any amendments required to be made with respect
thereto, that Seller was required to file since December 31, 2008 with each
Governmental Entity. Each such report, registration and statement,
together with any amendments thereto, is true and accurate in all material
respects.
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(k) Power, Authority and
Enforceability. Seller has the requisite power and authority
to enter into, deliver and perform this Agreement and any instruments or other
documents executed pursuant hereto. This Agreement and any
instruments or other documents executed pursuant hereto, and the execution,
delivery and performance hereof and thereof have been duly authorized and
approved by all necessary corporate action on the part of
Seller. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and
delivered by Seller and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by
Buyer, constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Seller, enforceable against
Seller in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by
receivership, conservatorship and supervisory powers of bank regulatory agencies
generally, as well as bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or
other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights,
or the limiting effect of rules of law governing specific performance, equitable
relief and other equitable remedies or the waiver of rights or
remedies.
(l) No
Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and any instruments and documents executed pursuant hereto by Seller
do not, and will not:
(1) violate
any provision of the organizational documents of Seller,
(2) subject
to the receipt of all regulatory approvals required by this Agreement as set
forth in Schedule
9(l)(2) of the Seller Disclosure Schedule (the "Regulatory
Approvals"), constitute a breach or violation of, or default under, any
Legal Requirement, Order or Governmental Authorization to which Seller is
subject, which breach, violation or default, individually or in the aggregate,
would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or
(3) subject
to the receipt of all consents required by this Agreement as set forth on Schedule 9(l)(3) of
the Seller Disclosure Schedule (the "Consents" and
together with the Regulatory Approvals collectively referred to as, the "Required Consents"),
constitute a breach or violation of, or default under, any agreement or
instrument of Seller or to which Seller is subject or by which Seller is
otherwise bound, which breach, violation or default, individually or in the
aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
or
(4) result
in the creation of any Lien upon any of the Assets.
(m) Licenses and
Permits. Seller has all Governmental Authorizations necessary
for the lawful conduct of its business at each of the Branches, as now conducted
and, except as would not individually or in the aggregate be reasonably expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect, all such Governmental Authorizations, are
valid and in good standing and, to the Knowledge of Seller, are not subject to
any suspension, modification or revocation or proceedings related
thereto.
(n) Required
Consents. Except as set forth in Schedule 9(l)(3), other than the
Regulatory Approvals, no notices, reports or other filings are required to be
made by Seller with, nor are any consents, registrations, approvals, permits or
authorizations required to be obtained by Seller from, any Governmental Entity
in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by Seller and
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement by Seller.
Other than the Required Consents, there are no consents or approvals of any
Governmental Entity or other third party required to be obtained in connection
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by Seller and the consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement by Seller.
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(o) Personal
Property. Except as set forth on Schedule 9(o), Seller
has valid title to the Personal Property, free and clear of any Liens other than
Permitted Liens, and has the right to sell, convey, transfer, assign and deliver
to Buyer all of the Personal Property. The Personal Property is in
good working order, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and is fit for the
purpose for which it is used by Seller in the conduct of the business of the
Branches. The Personal Property is sufficient to operate the Branches
in the manner presently operated by Seller.
(p) Insurance. Seller
has provided to Buyer a complete and accurate list and description (including
coverage, deductible and expiration date) of all insurance policies
(collectively, the "Insurance Policies"),
which are owned by and issued directly to Seller and which pertain to the Assets
(other than the Collateral), Branches or Seller’s employees. To
Seller’s Knowledge, all such Insurance Policies are in full force and effect,
and Seller has not received written notice of termination or non-renewal of any
such Insurance Policies. Since December 31, 2008, Seller has not
received: (i) any written notice of cancellation of any Insurance Policy or
refusal of coverage thereunder; (ii) any written notice that any issuer of such
Insurance Policy has filed for protection under applicable bankruptcy laws or is
otherwise in the process of liquidating or has been liquidated; or (iii) any
other indication in writing that such Insurance Policies are no longer in full
force or effect or that the issuer of any such policy is no longer willing or
able to perform its obligations thereunder. Since December 31, 2008,
Seller has not been advised of any adverse change in Seller’s relationship with
its insurers or in the premiums payable pursuant to such
policies. Seller shall keep all Insurance Policies in full force and
effect through the Closing Date.
(q) Employment;
Labor.
(1) Seller
has provided or will make available to Buyer within ten days after the date
hereof a complete list of all employees employed at the Branches as of the date
hereof and a true and correct copy of each such employee’s complete employment
file. To Seller’s Knowledge, all employment files have been maintained in
compliance in all material respects with all applicable Legal Requirements
regarding employment. There are no employment agreements, non-compete agreements
or other contracts or arrangements with employees employed or independent
contractors or consultants retained, at the Branches.
(2) There
are no labor controversies pending, or to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened
against Seller with respect to Seller’s employees at the Branches and, to the
Knowledge of Seller, no group, organization or union has attempted to organize
Seller’s employees at the Branches.
(3) To
Seller’s Knowledge, no employee of Seller at the Branches is party to, or is
otherwise bound by, any agreement, including any confidentiality,
non-competition, non-solicitation, or proprietary rights agreement between such
employee and any other Person which materially adversely affects or will
materially adversely affect the employee’s ability to perform duties as an
employee of Buyer following the Closing.
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(4) To
Seller’s Knowledge, the employment of each employee of Seller at the Branches is
terminable at will without cost to Seller except for payment of accrued salaries
or wages and vacation pay and other benefit payments, including, without
limitation, paid time off or COBRA payments. No current or former
employee of Seller has any right to be rehired by Seller prior to Seller’s
hiring an individual not previously employed by Seller.
(5) All
employees of Seller at the Branches have been or will have been, on or before
the Closing, paid in full by Seller for all earned wages, salaries, commissions,
bonuses, vacation pay, sick pay, and other compensation of any kind for services
performed on behalf of Seller up to and including the Closing Date.
(6) Seller
has not taken any action which was calculated to dissuade any present employees,
representatives or agents of Seller from working for the Buyer following the
Closing.
(r) Tax
Matters. Except as set forth in Schedule 9(r) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule:
(1) Seller
has filed all material Tax Returns that it is required to file (taking into
account any extensions of a required filing date). All such Tax
Returns were correct and complete in all material respects. All Taxes
owed by Seller (whether or not shown on any Tax Return) have been
paid. Seller is not currently the beneficiary of any extension of
time within which to file any Tax Return. There are no encumbrances
on any of the assets of Seller that arose in connection with any failure (or
alleged failure) to pay any Tax.
(2) Seller
has withheld and paid all Taxes required to have been withheld and paid in
connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor,
creditor, stockholder, or other third party.
(3) There
is no dispute or claim concerning any Tax liability of Seller either (A) claimed
or raised by any authority in writing or (B) as to which any of the directors
and officers (and employees responsible for Tax matters) of Seller have
Knowledge based upon personal contact with any agent of such
authority. No written claim has been made by an authority in a
jurisdiction where Seller does not file Tax Returns that Seller is or may be
subject to taxation by that jurisdiction, nor to Seller’s Knowledge, is there
any factual or legal basis for any such claim. Schedule 9(r) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule lists all material federal, state, local and foreign
income Tax Returns filed for each of the last three years with respect to
Seller, indicates any Tax Returns that have been audited, and indicates any Tax
Returns that currently are the subject of audit.
(4) Seller
has not waived any statute of limitations in respect of Taxes or agreed to any
extension of time with respect to a Tax assessment or deficiency.
(5) Seller
has no permanent establishment in any foreign country, as defined in the
relevant Tax treaty between the United States of America and such foreign
country.
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(6) No
deficiency or proposed adjustment which has not been settled or otherwise
resolved for: (A) any amount of Tax has been proposed, asserted or assessed by
any taxing authority against Seller, or (B) any material amount of Tax has been
proposed, asserted or assessed by any taxing authority against any affiliated
group with respect to a taxable period during which Seller was a member of the
affiliated group.
(7) Schedule 9(r) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule contains a list of states, territories and
jurisdictions (whether foreign or domestic) in which Seller has filed Tax
Returns.
(s)
ERISA.
(1) To
Seller’s Knowledge, neither Seller nor any ERISA Affiliate have any liability or
liabilities under any Employee Benefit Plan that will become a liability or
liabilities of Buyer or any Affiliate of Buyer or result in any Lien on the
Assets or on any other assets of Buyer and Buyer’s Affiliates.
(2) To
Seller’s Knowledge, Seller, and its ERISA Affiliates, have complied and will,
both before and after the Closing, comply with the requirements of
COBRA.
(3) To
Seller’s Knowledge, Schedule 9(s) of the
Seller Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of each Employee
Benefit Plan applicable to Seller’s employees at the
Branches. Neither Seller nor any of its ERISA Affiliates sponsors,
maintains or contributes to (and no such Person has ever sponsored, maintained
or contributed to) any "employee pension benefit plan" (as defined in Section
3(2) of ERISA) that is subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code,
any "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA, or any "multiple
employer plan" subject to Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA. None of the
Assets (i) are "plan assets" of any Employee Benefit Plan, (ii) are subject to
any Lien or other encumbrance relating to any Employee Benefit Plan under ERISA,
the Code, or otherwise, or (iii) otherwise have been identified or earmarked as
available for or relating to benefits under any Employee Benefit
Plan.
(t) Intellectual
Property.
(1) To
the Knowledge of Seller, the maintenance of the Liabilities or ownership or use
of Assets do not infringe on or otherwise violate the Intellectual Property
rights of any Person. To the Knowledge of Seller, in the five years immediately
preceding the date of this Agreement, Seller has not received any written notice
of any pending, existing or threatened claim, action or proceeding with respect
to any claims of infringement or misappropriation of any third party’s
Intellectual Property rights and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no such claim,
action or proceeding is pending, existing or threatened, and to the Knowledge of
Seller, there are no obligations or liabilities (whether or not accrued,
contingent or otherwise) or, facts or circumstances arising from Seller’s
maintenance of the Liabilities and ownership or use of the Assets that would
reasonably be expected to result in any claims against Seller for the
misappropriation of infringement of Intellectual Property rights with respect to
the Branches, the Assets or Liabilities.
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(2) To
the Knowledge of Seller, no current or former employee, consultant or
independent contractor of Seller: (i) is in material violation of any
term or covenant of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement,
invention assignment agreement, nondisclosure agreement, noncompetition
agreement or any other contract, agreement, arrangement, commitment or
undertaking with any other party by virtue of such employee’s, consultant’s or
independent contractor’s being employed by, or performing services for, Seller
or using trade secrets or proprietary information of others without permission;
(ii) has misappropriated any trade secrets of any other Person in the
course of its performance as an employee, independent contractor or agent or
(iii) has developed any technology, software or other copyrightable, patentable
or otherwise proprietary work for Seller that is subject to any agreement under
which such employee, consultant or independent contractor has assigned or
otherwise granted to any third party any rights (including Intellectual
Property) in or to such technology, software or other copyrightable, patentable
or otherwise proprietary work. To the Knowledge of Seller, the
employment of any employee of Seller or the use by Seller of the services of any
consultant or independent contractor does not subject Seller to any liability to
any third party for improperly soliciting such employee, consultant or
independent contractor to work for Seller, whether such Liability is based on
contractual or other legal obligations to such third party.
(u) Assigned
Contracts.
(1) Seller
has made available to Buyer true, complete and accurate copies of the Assigned
Contracts, together with all amendments, modifications or supplements thereto,
including any assignments thereof.
(2) The
Assigned Contracts are the valid and binding obligation of Seller, and to the
Knowledge of Seller, of each other party thereto; and, except as would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, there does not exist
with respect to Seller’s obligations thereunder, or, to the Knowledge of Seller,
with respect to the obligations of each other party thereto, the counterparty
thereof, any default, or event or condition which constitutes or, after notice
or passage of time or both, would constitute a default on the part of Seller or
such other party, as applicable, under the Assigned Contracts.
(v) Solvency.
(1) Seller
is not insolvent and will not be rendered insolvent by the transactions
contemplated hereunder. As used in this Section 9(v), "insolvent"
means that sum of the debts and other probable liabilities of Seller exceeds the
present fair saleable value of Seller’s assets.
(2) Immediately
after giving effect to the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereunder: (i) Seller will be able to pay it liabilities as they become due in
the ordinary course of business; (ii) Seller will not have unreasonably small
capital with which to conduct its business; (iii) Seller will have assets
(calculated at fair market value) that exceed its liabilities; and
(iv) taking into account all pending and threatened litigation, final judgments
against Seller in actions for money damages are not reasonably anticipated to be
rendered at a time when, or in amounts such that, Seller will be unable to
satisfy any such judgments promptly in accordance with their terms (taking into
account the maximum probable amount of such judgments in any such actions and in
the earliest reasonable time at which such judgments might be rendered) as well
as all other obligations of Seller. The cash available to Seller,
after taking into account all other anticipated uses of the cash, will be
sufficient to pay all such debts and judgments promptly in accordance with their
terms.
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(w) No Intent to
Defraud. Seller has not entered into the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement with any intent to hinder, delay or defraud any
creditor or any other Person.
(x) Brokers. Other
than Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Associates, Inc. (the compensation of which shall be
paid solely by Seller), Seller has not employed or contracted with any broker,
finder, or investment banker or incurred any liability for brokerage fees,
commissions, finders’ fees or other like payment in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereunder.
(y) Soldiers and Sailors Civil
Relief Act. No borrower or obligor under the Loans has
requested in writing, and Seller has not allowed, any relief to any borrower on
any Loan pursuant to the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, as
amended.
(z) Disclosure.
(1) To
Seller’s Knowledge, no representation or warranty or other statement made by
Seller in this Agreement, in any Exhibit hereto, Seller’s Disclosure Schedule,
any supplement to Seller’s Disclosure Schedule or the certificates or other
instruments delivered in connection herewith nor any document or information
furnished to Buyer or its respective employees, officers, directors agents and
Affiliates by or on behalf of Seller, or its respective employees, officers,
directors, agents and Affiliates contains any untrue statement or omits to state
a material fact necessary to make any of them, in light of the circumstances in
which it was made, not misleading.
(2) Seller
does not have Knowledge of any fact that may materially adversely affect the
Assets, Loans or Deposit Liabilities that has not been set forth in this
Agreement or Seller’s Disclosure Schedule. Seller’s Disclosure
Schedule shall be updated by Seller effective as of the date of
Closing.
(3) Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, the representations and warranties
contained in this Agreement shall not apply to and shall not be deemed to be
applicable to or inclusive of the Loans that are listed on the Kick-Out Loan
Schedule.
10.
Representations
and Warranties of Buyer. Buyer represents and warrants to
Seller as follows, subject to the exceptions disclosed in writing in the Buyer
Disclosure Schedule and delivered as of the date hereof:
(a) Corporate
Organization. Buyer is an Indiana banking corporation duly
organized and existing in good standing under the laws of the United
States.
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(b) Power, Authority and
Enforceability. Buyer has the requisite power and authority to
enter into, deliver and perform this Agreement and any instruments or other
documents executed pursuant hereto. This Agreement and any
instruments or other documents executed pursuant hereto, and the execution,
delivery and performance hereof and thereof have been duly authorized and
approved by all necessary corporate action on the part of Buyer. This
Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by Buyer and,
assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by Seller, constitutes a
valid and binding obligation of Buyer, enforceable against Buyer in accordance
with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by receivership,
conservatorship and supervisory powers of bank regulatory agencies generally, as
well as bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights, or the
limiting effect of rules of law governing specific performance, equitable relief
and other equitable remedies or the waiver of rights or remedies.
(c) No
Conflict. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and any
instruments and documents executed pursuant hereto by Buyer do not and, subject
to the receipt of all Regulatory Approvals, the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement will not:
(1) constitute
a breach or violation of or default under any Legal Requirement, judgment,
order, governmental permit or the organizational documents or any license of
Buyer, or to which Buyer is subject, which breach, violation or default would
materially and adversely affect Buyer, Buyer’s business, or the transactions
contemplated hereby, or
(2) violate,
conflict with, result in a breach of any provision of or the loss of any benefit
under, constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time, or
both, would constitute a default) under, result in the termination of or a right
of termination or cancellation under, accelerate the performance required by, or
result in the creation of any lien upon any of its assets under, any of the
terms, conditions or provisions of any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, deed of
trust, license, lease, agreement or other instrument or obligation to which
Buyer is a party, or by which it or any of its properties or assets may be bound
or affected, which breach, violation or default would prevent or materially
delay Buyer from performing its obligations under this Agreement in all material
respects.
(d) Regulatory
Approvals.
(1) Except
for the Regulatory Approvals set forth on Schedule 10(d) of the
Buyer Disclosure Schedule, no consents or approvals of or filings or
registrations with any Governmental Entity, or any third party are necessary in
connection with the execution and delivery by Buyer of this Agreement or the
consummation by Buyer of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(2) Buyer
has not received any written indication, or, to the Knowledge of Buyer, oral
notification, from any Governmental Entity that such Governmental Entity would
oppose or refuse to grant a regulatory approval regarding execution of this
Agreement by Buyer and consummation of the transactions contemplated herein by
Buyer.
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(e) Financing. Buyer
has the necessary funding to complete the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement as of the date hereof, and Buyer shall have the necessary funding to
complete the transactions contemplated by this Agreement at the
Closing.
(f) Brokers. Other
than Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx, Inc. (the compensation of which shall be paid
solely by Buyer), Buyer has not employed or contracted with any broker, finder,
or investment banker or incurred any liability for brokerage fees, commissions,
finders’ fees or other like payment in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereunder.
11.
Seller’s
Covenants. During the period from the date hereof to the
Closing Date, Seller (i) shall, with respect to the Branches, Assets and
Liabilities, use its reasonable efforts to preserve its business relationship
with depositors, customers and others having business relationships with it and
whose accounts will be retained at the Branches and Seller shall provide written
notice to Buyer in the event it receives written notice of any loss (other than
payment of a loan, or withdrawal of a time deposit, in accordance with its
scheduled terms) or potential loss of any material business or customers (for
this purpose, a loan relationship is material if that relationship, or group of
related relationships, is in excess of $250,000 as of the date of this
Agreement, and a deposit relationship is material if that relationship, or group
of related deposit relationships, is in excess of $250,000 as of the date of
this Agreement) related to the Loans or the Deposit Liabilities, (ii) will
underwrite and administer the Loans, and originate any new loans that might
become Loans to be purchased under this Agreement, in accordance with prudent,
safe and sound underwriting and administration practices and applicable Legal
Requirements, (iii) will maintain the Branches and Personal Property in their
current condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted; and (iv) will conduct the
business of the Branches and preserve the Assets and Liabilities in accordance
with prudent, safe and sound commercial banking practices and applicable Legal
Requirements. Seller covenants with Buyer that, from the date hereof
to Closing, Seller, except with the prior written consent of Buyer (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), will
not:
(a) Sell,
transfer, assign, lease, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or encumber or
enter into any contract, agreement, or understanding to sell, transfer, assign,
lease, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of or encumber any of the Loans or
other Assets (other than use of Cash on Hand and supplies in the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice) or Liabilities existing on the date
hereof.
(b) Fail
to maintain policies of insurance as of the date hereof with respect to the
Branches in the form and with the coverage maintained on the date
hereof.
(c) Enter
into any employment, agency or other contract or arrangement for the performance
of personal services at the Branches, which is not terminable at will (at any
time, with or without cause, and with or without notice) without liability to
Buyer.
(d) Fail
to comply in all material respects with all Legal Requirements that relate to
the conduct of the banking business at the Branches or the
Assets.
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(e) Set
interest rates at the Branches in a manner inconsistent with prudent, safe and
sound banking practices, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
(i) accept any deposits at higher than prevailing market rates in the geographic
markets where the Branches are located at the time of such acceptance; (ii)
change interest rates on existing deposits in a manner that is not consistent
with the interest rate policies used with respect to Seller’s branches that are
not Branches, or (iii) employ any special promotions to increase deposits,
provided, that Buyer shall approve or disapprove any special promotion within
two Business Days’ notice thereof.
(f) Fail
to maintain the Personal Property in a commercially reasonable manner and
consistent with past practices.
(g) Acquire
or dispose of any Personal Property other than replacement of any Personal
Property and normal maintenance and refurbishing in the ordinary course of
business.
(h) Pay
or commit to pay (a) any bonus prior to Closing, or (b) pay or commit to pay
prior to Closing, any salary, fee, or other compensation to any of its employees
at the Branches at a rate in excess of that prevailing on the date
hereof.
(i) Make
any new loans at the Branches to any Affiliated Person of the Seller or modify
the terms of any existing loan at the Branches with any Affiliated Person of the
Seller.
(j) Except
in the ordinary course of Seller’s business, modify the interest rate or
structure, or amend, extend or renew any term, of any Loans, grant any interest
deferral or fee waivers, or deviate from industry standard and commercially
reasonable collection procedures, including, without limitation, modification of
payment terms or due date(s).
(k) Establish
new Deposit Liabilities at the Branches other than in the ordinary course of
business consistent with Section 11(h)
above.
(l) File
any application or give any notice to relocate or close any of the Branches or
relocate or close any Branches, except for any notice that may be required to be
filed in order to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereunder.
(m) Transfer
any of Seller’s employees at the Branches to another branch or office of Seller,
or any of its respective Affiliates.
(n) Transfer
to or from any Branch to or from any of Seller’s other operations or branches or
those of its Affiliates any Assets or any Deposit Liabilities, except upon the
unsolicited request of a depositor or customer.
(o) Make
or agree to make any material improvements to the Premises, except with respect
to normal maintenance or refurbishing in the ordinary course of
business.
(p) Take
any action that is intended or is reasonably likely to result in any of the
covenants or conditions to the transactions contemplated hereby not being
materially satisfied or a material violation of any provision of this
Agreement.
(q) Agree
with, or commit to, any Person to do any of the things described in clauses (a)
through (p) of this Section 11 except as
expressly contemplated hereby.
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12.
Buyer
Covenants. Buyer covenants with Seller that
Buyer:
(a) Will
satisfy all of its obligations described in this Agreement.
(b) Will
not fail to comply with any Legal Requirement or order applicable to it if such
failure would have a material adverse effect on Buyer’s ability to complete the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or to receive the requisite
approvals from Governmental Entities.
(c) Will
not take any action that is intended or is reasonably likely to result in (x)
any of its representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement being or
becoming untrue in any material respect at any time at or prior to the Closing,
(y) any of the covenants or conditions to the transactions contemplated hereby
not being materially satisfied or (z) a material violation of any provision of
this Agreement except as may be required by applicable Legal
Requirement.
13.
Additional
Covenants.
(a) Servicing Prior to Closing
Date. With respect to the Loans from the date hereof until the
Closing Date, Seller shall provide servicing of such Loans that is consistent
with the servicing provided with respect to its loans that are not Loans.
Further, without the prior written consent of Buyer (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), Seller shall not (a) except as required by
Legal Requirement or the terms of the Loan Documents, release any Collateral or
any party from any liability on or with respect to any of the Loans; (b)
compromise or settle any material claims of any kind or character with respect
to the Loans; or (c) amend or waive any of the material terms of any Loan as set
forth in the Loan Documents.
(b) Servicing Post Closing
Date. The Loans shall be sold on a servicing-released basis
(and without limitation, any related escrow deposits shall be transferred to
Buyer). As of the Closing Date, all rights, obligations, liabilities
and responsibilities with respect to the servicing of the Loans after the
Closing Date (other than any obligations, liabilities or responsibilities with
respect to the sold portion of any SBA-guaranteed loans sold by Seller on or
before the Closing Date that are “put-back” to Seller after the Closing Date)
will be assumed by Buyer; provided, however, that in no event shall Buyer be
deemed to have assumed any obligation that Seller might have to service any Sold
Loans. Seller shall be discharged and indemnified by Buyer from all
liability with respect to servicing of the Loans after the Closing and Buyer
shall not assume and shall be discharged and indemnified by Seller from all
liability with respect to servicing of the Loans on or prior to the
Closing.
(c) Non Competition Regarding
Seller.
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(1) For
a period of sixty (60) months following the Closing Date (the "Restricted Period")
(such Restricted Period to be automatically extended by the period of time in
which Seller or Seller Affiliate are in breach of their obligations hereunder),
neither Seller nor Seller Affiliate shall directly or
indirectly, own, manage, operate, join, finance, control, or purchase a
Competitor or otherwise engage in any Restricted Activity. The
restrictions set forth in this Section 13(c) shall only
apply in the Restricted Area. In addition, notwithstanding anything
contained herein to the contrary, the restrictions set forth in this Section 13(c) shall
not apply to any Sold Loans, Kick-Out Loans, loans made by Seller to Affiliated
Persons, Excluded Deposits, Excluded IRAs, or Excluded Liabilities
(collectively, the “Excluded Items”) or to Seller’s ability, responsibility and
obligation to service, collect, refinance, renegotiate, extend, sell, transfer,
or otherwise deal with or manage such Excluded Items. A "Competitor" shall
mean any bank or thrift or similar insured depository institution that owns or
operates any branch, or any deposit production office or loan production office,
or operates any courier service, or any other entity that engages in the same or
substantially similar business as the business in which Seller was/is engaged as
of the Closing. The "Restricted Activity"
shall mean the business of banking generally, including the business of
accepting deposits, cashing checks, and making loans, and including but not
limited to the ownership, management and/or operation of any bank or thrift or
similar insured depository institution, or any branch or a deposit or loan
production office, or courier service or remote capture device or facility or
electronic link; provided,
however, that Seller and Seller Affiliate shall not be considered to be
violating the prohibition of Restricted Activity by (i) placing (but only at any
time after the first anniversary of the Closing Date) print or broadcast media
advertising in media sources published in, or broadcasting from, locations in
the Restricted Area that is not specifically targeted to customers in the
Restricted Area, or (ii) accepting deposits, cashing checks, making loans or
otherwise conducting the business of banking for or on behalf of any customer
(no matter whether such customer has offices, branches or operations in the
Restricted Area or is otherwise domiciled in the Restricted Area) if such
banking business is originated by and transacted at Seller’s branches outside
the Restricted Area, without solicitation by Seller, and (unless the customer's
principal place of business is located outside the Restricted Area) without the
aid of remote capture devices, courier service or electronic
links. The "Restricted Area"
shall mean all of Xxxxxxxxx, Center, German, Knight, Perry, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx,
and Union Townships in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, and all of Anderson, Boon,
Campbell, Greer, Hart, Lane, Ohio, Xxxx, Pigeon, Skelton, and Union Townships in
Xxxxxxx County, Indiana. Seller acknowledges and represents that the
scope of the Restricted Area is coextensive with the geographic scope of
Seller’s business which is being purchased by Buyer pursuant to this
Agreement.
(2) Seller
and Seller Affiliate hereby acknowledge and agree that the restrictive period of
time, geographic scope and scope of restricted activity specified herein are
reasonable and necessary in view of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the nature of the business in which Seller was engaged or is
engaged as of the Closing Date and in which Buyer is, or shall be,
engaged. Seller and Seller Affiliate further acknowledge and agree
that the restrictions set forth in this Section 13(c) are reasonable
and necessary to protect Buyer’s investment under this Agreement and to
safeguard the value and goodwill associated with the Assets being purchased by
Buyer hereunder. Seller and each of Seller’s Affiliates acknowledge
and agree that Buyer would not have entered into this Agreement but for the
obligations made pursuant to this Section 13(c). If
the scope of any stated restriction is too broad to permit enforcement of such
restriction(s) to its full extent, then the parties agree that such restriction
shall be enforced and/or modified to the maximum extent permitted by
law. The parties agree that in the event of a breach of this Section 13(c), the Restricted
Period shall be extended with respect to the breaching party by the period of
the breach.
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(3) Non-Disparagement. After
the execution of this Agreement, Seller and Seller Affiliate shall not, directly
or indirectly (including by or through any subsidiary or shareholder or other
Affiliate), make any negative or disparaging statement, or release any
information, or encourage others to make any statement or release any
information that has the effect of embarrassing or criticizing Buyer, including
any statements made to the press or other media in the United States of America
or in any other country. The obligations of Seller and each
Shareholder pursuant to this Section 13(c) shall survive
any termination of this Agreement.
(4) Survival. This
Section 13(c) shall survive
the Closing for duration of the Restricted Period, and the obligations under
this Section will survive and apply to any successor of Seller or Seller
Affiliate whether by merger, acquisition, stock purchase, asset purchase or
similar business combination transaction.
(d) Non-Solicitation,
Anti-Raiding and Non-Disparagement by Buyer.
(1) Customer
Non-Solicitation. During the period between (A) the date of
the execution of this Agreement and the Closing Date if Closing shall occur, or
(B) the date of the execution of this Agreement and March 31, 2011 if Closing
shall not occur, Buyer shall not, directly or indirectly (including by or
through any subsidiary or shareholder or other Affiliate), call upon, solicit,
contact or have any communication (other than non-targeted advertising) with any
person who is a loan, deposit, insurance, brokerage or other customer of Seller
as of the date hereof or prior to the Closing Date, for the purpose of diverting
or attempting to divert or influence any business of such customer to any Buyer
or any Competitor. The customers subject to the restrictions set forth in this
Section 13(c)
are those individuals who, as of the date hereof and at any time prior to the
Closing Date, have an account with Seller within the Restricted Area or who
qualify as a borrower of Seller within the Restricted Area.
(2) Anti-Raiding. During
the period between (A) the date of the execution of this Agreement and the
Closing Date if Closing shall occur, or (B) the date of the execution of this
Agreement and March 31, 2011 if Closing shall not occur, Buyer shall not,
directly or indirectly (including by or through any subsidiary or shareholder or
other Affiliate), solicit for employment (except as specifically contemplated by
Section 14(m)(1) and except through non-targeted solicitations) or attempt to
solicit or otherwise endeavor to entice away from Seller any person who is an
employee, independent contractor or other personnel of Seller as of the date
hereof, or interfere in any way with the relationship between Seller and any of
its employees, independent contractors or other personnel.
(3) Non-Disparagement. After
the execution of this Agreement, Buyer shall not, directly or indirectly
(including by or through any subsidiary or shareholder or other Affiliate), make
any negative or disparaging statement, or release any information, or encourage
others to make any statement or release any information that has the effect of
embarrassing or criticizing Seller, including any statements made to the press
or other media in the United States of America or in any other
country. The obligations of Buyer pursuant to this Section 13(d) shall survive
any termination of this Agreement.
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(4) Remedies. Upon
any breach or alleged breach of Section 13(d) by
Buyer and/or any Affiliate of Buyer, Seller shall be entitled to each of the
following remedies, which shall be deemed cumulative:
(A) Injunctive
Relief. Buyer hereby acknowledges that any breach or alleged
breach of Section 13(d) shall cause
irreparable injury to the goodwill and proprietary rights of Seller, for which
Seller shall not have an adequate remedy at law. Accordingly, Buyer
agrees that Seller shall be able to seek and obtain immediate injunctive relief
in the form of a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and/or
permanent injunction against Buyer to restrain or enjoin any actual or
threatened violation of any provision of Section 13(d) without any
requirement of posting a bond or other surety or proving damages.
(B) Damages. To
the extent calculable, Seller shall also be entitled to recover from Buyer
monetary damages for any violation of Section 13(d).
(C) Costs, Expenses and
Attorneys’ Fees. Seller shall be entitled to recover from
Buyer all costs, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by Seller in
seeking either enforcement of Section 13(d) of this
Agreement or damages for a breach of such Section or in defending any action
brought by Buyer to challenge or construe the terms of any of such
Section.
(D) Prejudgment
Interest. Seller shall be entitled to recover prejudgment
interest on all amounts recovered in the amount of eight percent (8%) per
annum.
(E) Other Legal or Equitable
Remedies. Seller shall be entitled to pursue any other legal
or equitable remedies that may be available to Seller.
(5) Survival. This
Section 13(d) shall survive
the Closing for duration of the Restricted Period, and the obligations under
this Section will survive and apply to any successor of Buyer whether by merger,
acquisition, stock purchase, asset purchase or similar business combination
transaction.
(e) Remedies. Upon
any breach or alleged breach of Section 13(c) by
Seller and/or Seller Affiliate, Buyer shall be entitled to each of the following
remedies, which shall be deemed cumulative:
(1) Injunctive
Relief. Seller and Seller Affiliate hereby acknowledge that
any breach or alleged breach of Section 13(c) shall cause
irreparable injury to the goodwill and proprietary rights of Buyer, for which
Buyer shall not have an adequate remedy at law. Accordingly, Seller
and Seller Affiliate agree that Buyer shall be able to seek and obtain immediate
injunctive relief in the form of a temporary restraining order, preliminary
injunction, and/or permanent injunction against Seller or Seller Affiliate to
restrain or enjoin any actual or threatened violation of any provision of Section 13(c) without any
requirement of posting a bond or other surety or proving
damages.
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(2) Damages. To
the extent calculable, Buyer shall also be entitled to recover from Seller and
Seller Affiliate monetary damages for any violation of Section 13(c).
(3) Costs, Expenses and
Attorneys’ Fees. Buyer shall be entitled to recover from
Seller and Seller Affiliate all costs, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees
incurred by Buyer in seeking either enforcement of Section 13(c) of this
Agreement or damages for a breach of such Section or in defending any action
brought by Seller and/or Seller Affiliate to challenge or construe the terms of
any of such Section.
(4) Prejudgment
Interest. Buyer shall be entitled to recover prejudgment
interest on all amounts recovered in the amount of eight percent (8%) per
annum.
(5) Other Legal or Equitable
Remedies. Buyer shall be entitled to pursue any other legal or
equitable remedies that may be available to Buyer.
(f) Access to Books and
Records. For a period of six years from the Closing Date,
subject to applicable Legal Requirement, each party shall have commercially
reasonable access to any books and records of the other party relating to the
Assets and the Liabilities, and the requesting party, at its own expense, may
during normal business hours make copies and extracts when such copies and
extracts are required by regulatory authorities, for litigation purposes, or for
Tax or accounting purposes; provided that in the event that as of the end of
such period, any Tax year of Seller is under examination by any taxing
authority, Seller shall inform Buyer in writing of the audit and such books and
records shall be maintained by Buyer until a final determination of the Tax
liability of Seller for that year has been made. If such copies or
extracts require use of a party’s equipment or the Branches, the user shall
reimburse the other party for all costs incurred, including, without limitation,
employee expenses.
(g) Insurance. Seller
will maintain in effect until the Closing Date all casualty and public liability
policies relating to the Branches, the Premises and the activities conducted
thereon and maintained by Seller on the date hereof or to procure comparable
replacement policies and maintain such replacement policies in effect until the
Closing Date at equal or greater coverage levels. Buyer shall provide all
casualty and public liability insurance for the Branches after the Closing
Date. In the event of any material damage, destruction or
condemnation affecting the Premises between the date hereof and the time of the
Closing, Buyer shall have the right to exclude any Premise so affected from the
Assets to be acquired, require Seller to take reasonable steps to repair or
replace the damaged or destroyed property, or require Seller to deliver to Buyer
any insurance proceeds and other payments received by Seller as a result thereof
unless, in the case of damage or destruction, Seller has repaired or replaced
the damaged or destroyed property.
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(h) Additional
Loans. Promptly following the date hereof, the parties will
agree on a schedule and process for providing the relevant information relating
to loans ("Additional
Loan Information") originated at the Branches after January 11, 2010,
through the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date (with Additional Loan
Information provided to Buyer not less frequently than monthly and the final
delivery of Additional Loan Information, if any, not later than the second
Business Day prior to the Closing Date) that Buyer deems reasonably necessary to
enable it to determine whether to designate such loans as "Additional Loans."
The parties will further agree on a schedule for Buyer to designate Loans as
"Additional Loans," which shall occur not later than the fifth Business Day
following the date that the applicable Additional Loan Information was provided
to Buyer and, with respect to any Additional Loan Information provided within
five Business Days of the Closing Date, not later than the close of business on
the day preceding the Closing Date. Unless the parties otherwise agree in
writing, loans originated after the fifth (5th) Business Day prior to the
Closing Date shall not be Additional Loans. Any loans originated at the Branches
after January 11, 2010, through the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date
(1) that Buyer specifically and in writing designates as Additional Loans on or
before the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date shall be "Additional
Loans," and included in the Draft Loan Schedule as such, and (2) that Buyer does
not designate as Additional Loans pursuant to the foregoing procedure shall not
be Loans, Additional Loans or Assets and may, without regard to any other
provisions of this Agreement, be transferred by Seller to another Seller banking
branch, together with any related servicing or other rights or
Collateral.
(i) Dealings with
Creditors. Seller shall not use the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement to delay, hinder or defraud their respective creditors or any
other Person.
(j) Prosecution and Defense of
Newburgh Lien Litigation. If, on the third anniversary of the
date of this Agreement, the litigation that relates to the attempted enforcement
by the purported lien holder of the Newburgh Lien has remained dormant or
otherwise has not then been dismissed and the Newburgh Lien entirely
released as a matter of record, then Seller shall (a) promptly at Seller's
expense take all actions necessary to seek dismissal of such litigation and/or
judgment in its favor in the litigation such that the Newburgh Lien may be
cleared of record from the title for the Newburgh Branch Premises, or (b)
deposit into an escrow account with Buyer the entire amount claimed by the lien
holder to secure Seller's indemnification obligations with respect to such
Newburgh Lien.
14.
Regulatory
Compliance, Conversion and Transition Matters.
(a) Regulatory Filings by Buyer
and Approvals. As promptly as practicable after the date of
this Agreement, and assuming the full and timely cooperation and assistance of
Seller, Buyer shall prepare, submit and/or file all applications, filings,
notices, consents, permits or registrations required to obtain the Regulatory
Approvals. Buyer shall use reasonable efforts to obtain each such
Regulatory Approval as promptly as practicable. Seller and Buyer will
use reasonable efforts to cooperate in connection therewith (including the
furnishing of any information which may be required to obtain the Regulatory
Approvals). Each party will provide the other with copies of any applications
and all correspondence relating thereto prior to filing, other than material
filed in connection therewith under a claim of confidentiality. If
any Governmental Entity shall require the modification of any of the terms and
provisions of this Agreement as a condition to granting any Regulatory Approval,
the parties hereto will negotiate in good faith to seek a mutually agreeable
adjustment to the terms of the transaction contemplated hereby as promptly as
practicable.
(b) Transitional
Arrangements. Seller and Buyer agree to cooperate and to
proceed as follows to effect the transfer of account record responsibility for
the Branches:
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(1) As
soon as practicable after the execution of this Agreement by the parties hereto,
but in no event later than 10 Business Days after the date of this Agreement,
Seller will meet with Buyer to investigate, confirm and agree upon mutually
acceptable transaction settlement procedures and specifications, files,
deliverables, procedures and schedules, for the transfer of account record
responsibility for the Branches. Not later than 15 Business Days
after the date of this Agreement, Seller shall deliver to Buyer the
specifications and conversion sample files to consist of live data of all
accounts.
(2) After
Buyer has tested and confirmed the conversion sample files, Seller shall provide
Buyer with account information, as of the most recent practicable date,
including complete name and address, account master file, ATM account number
information, applicable transaction and stop/hold/caution information,
account-to-account relationship information and any other related information
with respect to the Deposit Liabilities. Seller shall, upon
reasonable request, but not later than 30 days after such request subject to the
availability of Seller’s data processing vendor, provide to Buyer an updated
version of such records.
(3) Seller
shall provide Buyer after close of business on the Closing Date, a final
conversion file containing all information as of close of business on the
Closing Date.
(c) Customers.
(1) Buyer
shall, jointly with Seller, as soon as practicable after public announcement of
this Agreement and meetings with Seller Branch employees, prepare and mail to
each holder of Deposit Liabilities, a letter, in the form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to each of the parties, informing such depositor of the
nature of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement and the continuing
availability of services to be provided by Buyer on and after the Closing
Date.
(2) Each
of Seller and Buyer shall provide, or join in providing where appropriate, all
notices to customers of the Branches and other Persons that Seller or Buyer, as
the case may be, is required to give under Legal Requirement or the terms of any
other agreement between Seller and any customer in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby. A party required to send or publish
any notice or communication pursuant to this Section 14(c)(2) shall
furnish to the other party a copy of the proposed form of such notice or
communication at least five Business Days in advance of the date of the first
mailing, posting, or other dissemination thereof to customers, and shall not
unreasonably refuse to amend such notice to incorporate any changes that the
other such party proposes as necessary to comply with Legal
Requirement. All costs and expenses of any notice or communication
sent or published by Buyer or Seller shall be the responsibility of the party
sending such notice or communication and all costs and expenses of any joint
notice or communication shall be shared equally by Seller and
Buyer. As soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 30
calendar days after the date hereof, Seller shall provide to Buyer a report of
the names and addresses of the owners of the Deposit Liabilities, and the
lessees of the safe deposit boxes as of the date hereof in connection with the
mailing of such materials. No communications by Buyer, and no
communications by Seller outside the ordinary course of business, to any such
owners, borrowers or lessees shall be made prior to the Closing Date except as
provided in this Agreement or otherwise agreed to by the
parties.
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(3) Following
the giving of any notice described in paragraph (1) above, Buyer and Seller
shall deliver to each new customer at any of the Branches such notice or notices
as may be reasonably necessary to notify such new customers of Buyer’s pending
assumption of liability for the Deposit Liabilities and to comply with
applicable Legal Requirements.
(d) Contracts with
Depositors. Buyer will timely perform, honor, and assume all
contractual deposit agreements and relationships between Seller and Seller’s
depositors with regard to the Deposit Liabilities after the Closing and will do
so in compliance with applicable Legal Requirements. Buyer and Seller
shall make appropriate arrangements with each other to provide for settlement by
Buyer of checks, deposits, debits, returns, and other items that are presented
to Seller after the Closing for the Deposit Liabilities. On the third Business
Day prior to the Closing Date, Seller shall provide Buyer with a list of Deposit
Liabilities, corresponding interest rates paid on the Deposit Liabilities and
other information necessary for Buyer to verify the rates paid by Seller on
Deposit Liabilities.
(e) Direct
Deposits. Seller will use its reasonable efforts to transfer
to Buyer on the Closing Date all of those automated clearing house ("ACH") and FedWire
direct deposit arrangements related (by agreement or other standing arrangement)
to the Deposit Liabilities. For a period of six months following the
Closing Date, in the case of ACH direct deposits to accounts containing Deposit
Liabilities (the final Business Day of such period being the "ACH Direct Deposit Cut-Off
Date"), Seller shall transfer to Buyer all received ACH Direct Deposits
each Business Day in accordance with Seller’s customary
procedures. Buyer will send NACHA compliant Notice of Change on each
transfer received. On each Business Day, for a period of 90 calendar
days following the Closing Date (the final Business Day of such period being the
"FedWire Direct
Deposit Cut-Off Date"), FedWire direct deposits received by Seller shall
be returned (as soon as is practicable after receipt) to the originator with an
indication of Buyer’s correct Wire Room contact information and an instruction
that such wire should be sent to Buyer. Compensation for ACH direct
deposits or FedWire direct deposits not forwarded to Buyer on the same Business
Day as that on which Seller has received such deposits will be handled in
accordance with the applicable rules established by the United States Council on
International Banking. After the respective ACH Direct Deposit
Cut-Off Date or FedWire Direct Deposit Cut-Off Date, Seller may discontinue
accepting and forwarding ACH and FedWire entries and funds and return such
direct deposits to the originators marked "Account
Sold." Seller and its Affiliates shall not be liable for any
overdrafts that may thereby be created. Buyer and Seller shall agree
on a reasonable period of time prior to the Closing during which Seller will no
longer be obligated to accept new direct deposit arrangements related to the
Branches. At the time of the ACH Direct Deposit Cut-Off Date, Buyer
will provide ACH originators with account numbers relating to the Deposit
Liabilities.
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(f) Direct
Debits. After the notice provided in Section 14(c)(1), Buyer shall
send appropriate notice to all customers having accounts constituting Deposit
Liabilities, the terms of which provide for direct debit of such accounts by
third parties, instructing such customers concerning the transfer of customer
direct debit authorizations from Seller to Buyer. Such notice shall
be in a form reasonably agreed to by the parties hereto. For a period
of six months following the Closing, Seller shall transfer to Buyer all received
direct debits on accounts constituting Deposit Liabilities each Business Day in
accordance with Seller’s customary procedures. Buyer will send NACHA
compliant Notice of Change on each direct debit received. Thereafter,
Seller may discontinue forwarding such entries and return them to the
originators marked "Account
Sold." Buyer and Seller shall agree on a reasonable period of
time prior to the Closing during which Seller will no longer be obligated to
accept new direct debit arrangements related to the Branches. On the
Closing Date, Buyer shall provide ACH originators of such Direct Debits with
account numbers relating to the Deposit Liabilities.
(g) Interest Reporting and
Withholding.
(1) Unless
otherwise agreed to by the parties, Seller will report to applicable taxing
authorities and holders of Deposit Liabilities, with respect to the period from
January 1 of the year in which the Closing occurs through the Closing Date, all
interest (including dividends and other distributions with respect to money
market accounts) credited to, withheld from and any early withdrawal penalties
imposed upon the Deposit Liabilities. Buyer will report to the applicable taxing
authorities and holders of Deposit Liabilities, with respect to all periods from
the day after the Closing Date, all such interest credited to, withheld from and
any early withdrawal penalties imposed upon the Deposit
Liabilities. Any amounts required by any Governmental Entity to be
withheld from any of the Deposit Liabilities through the Closing Date will be
withheld by Seller in accordance with Legal Requirements or appropriate notice
from any Governmental Entity and will be remitted by Seller to the appropriate
agency on or prior to the applicable due date. Any such withholding
required to be made subsequent to the Closing Date will be withheld by Buyer in
accordance with Legal Requirements or appropriate notice from any Governmental
Entity and will be remitted by Buyer to the appropriate agency on or prior to
the applicable due date.
(2) Unless
otherwise agreed by the parties, Seller shall be responsible for delivering to
payees all IRS notices with respect to information reporting and Tax
identification numbers required to be delivered through the Closing Date with
respect to the Deposit Liabilities, and Buyer shall be responsible for
delivering to payees all such notices required to be delivered following the
Closing Date with respect to the Deposit Liabilities.
(3) Unless
otherwise agreed by the parties, Seller will timely make all required reports to
applicable taxing authorities and to obligors on Loans, with respect to the
period from January 1 of the year in which the Closing occurs through the
Closing Date concerning all interest and points received by Seller, and Buyer
will timely make all required reports to applicable taxing
authorities and to obligors on Loans, with respect to all periods
from the day after the Closing Date concerning all such interest and points
received.
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(h) Negotiable
Instruments. Seller will remove any supply of Seller’s money
orders, official checks, gift checks, travelers’ checks or any other negotiable
instruments located at each of the Branches on the Closing Date.
(i) ATM/Debit Cards; POS
Cards. Subject to the availability of Seller’s data processing
vendor, Seller will provide Buyer with a list of ATM access/debit cards and
Point-of-Sale ("POS") cards issued by
Seller to depositors of any Deposit Liabilities, and a record thereof in a
format reasonably agreed to by the parties containing all addresses therefor, as
soon as practicable and in no event later than 30 calendar days after the date
of this Agreement. At or promptly after the Closing, Seller will
provide Buyer with a revised record through the Closing. In instances
where a depositor of a Deposit Liability made an assertion of error regarding an
account pursuant to the Electronic Funds Transfer Act and Federal Reserve Board
Regulation E, and Seller, prior to the Closing, recredited the disputed amount
to the relevant account during the conduct of the error investigation, Buyer
agrees to comply with a written request from Seller to debit such account in a
stated amount and remit such amount to Seller, to the extent of the balance of
funds available in the accounts. Seller agrees to indemnify Buyer for
any Losses that Buyer may incur as a result of complying with such request from
Seller. Buyer shall reissue ATM access/debit cards to depositors of
any Deposit Liabilities not earlier than 45 calendar days nor later than 15
calendar days prior to the Closing Date, which cards shall be effective as of
the day following the Closing Date. Buyer and Seller agree to settle
any and all ATM transactions and POS transactions effected on or before the
Closing Date, but processed after the Closing Date, as soon as practicable
following the processing thereof.
(j) Data Processing Agreement
and Hardware. Subject to the availability of Seller’s data
processing vendor, Seller will provide Buyer in advance of the Closing upon
reasonable prior notice, during normal hours of operations, reasonable access to
equipment and records in order to effectuate a conversion of the Deposit
Liabilities and the Loans from Seller to Buyer as of the Closing
Date. Each party shall be responsible for its respective costs and
expenses of such inspection or conversion. The parties agree to use
reasonable efforts to comply with the purpose and intent of this Section 14(j) prior to and
after the Closing.
(k) Loan Collections.
Buyer and Seller shall make appropriate arrangements with each other to provide
for settlement by the party receiving payments of all payments of any kind made
in relation to the Loans which are presented to a party after the Closing and
with regard to loans which are owned by the other party. These
arrangements shall be performed by both parties in good faith prior to and after
the Closing.
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(l) Access to Properties, Books
and Records; Continuing Credit Review and Analysis. Until the
Closing, Seller shall upon reasonable prior written notice and during regular
business hours cooperate with Buyer to provide Buyer and its officers and
authorized agents and representatives access to the properties (including
visiting the Branches for integration planning purposes), books, records, files
(including all of the Loan Files), documents and other information relating to
the Assets and Liabilities as Buyer may reasonably request. In
particular, Seller shall cooperate with Buyer in assisting Buyer in analyzing
and learning more concerning the structure and ongoing status of specified
credits that Buyer has identified to Seller as credits of concern as a result of
its due diligence reviews of Seller's loans and otherwise monitoring
developments in the credit quality of the loans of the Branches. In
addition, Buyer and Seller each will identify to the other, within ten calendar
days after the date hereof, a selected group of their respective salaried
personnel that shall constitute a "transition group" and will be available to
Seller and Buyer, respectively, at reasonable times (limited to normal operating
hours) to provide information and assistance in connection with Buyer’s
investigation of matters relating to the Assets and Liabilities. Such
transition group will also work cooperatively to identify and resolve issues
arising from any commingling of Seller’s records with respect to the Branches
with Seller’s records for its other branches and operations not subject to this
Agreement. Seller shall furnish Buyer with such additional financial
and operating data and other information about Seller’s business operations at
the Branches as the Seller determines may be reasonably necessary for the
orderly transfer of the business operations of the Branches, the Assets and the
Assumed Liabilities.
(m) Employees and Employee
Benefits.
(1) Buyer
may hire (on an at-will basis) certain staff at the Branches that are currently
employed by Seller on a post-Closing basis. Buyer shall make a written offer of
employment to each employee of Seller selected by Buyer to be an employee of
Buyer following the Closing Date. Each offer of employment shall be
effective on the Closing Date. No later than 45 days following the
date of this Agreement, (i) Buyer shall communicate the offers of employment
consistent with the terms of this Section 14(m) to those
employees to whom it determines to extend an offer and (ii) Buyer shall provide
Seller with a written list of those employees to whom Buyer will make an offer
of employment, and Seller shall take such action as is necessary to terminate
such employees not included on such list or transfer their employment within
Seller and its Affiliates, in both cases effective as of the Closing
Date. Each employee who accepts Buyer’s offer of employment
(regardless of whether they are active employees or on leave of absence status
as of the Closing Date) shall be a "Hired Employee" for
purposes of this Agreement, effective upon the Closing Date and this date shall
be referred to as the Hired Employee’s "Transfer
Date." Subject to applicable Legal Requirements, on and after
the Closing Date, the Hired Employees shall become employees of Buyer, and Buyer
shall have the right to dismiss any or all Hired Employees at any time, with or
without cause, and to change the terms and conditions of their employment
(including compensation and employee benefits provided to them). Each
employee who is not offered employment by Buyer, or who fails to accept Buyer’s
offer of employment shall be an "Excluded Employee"
for purposes of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall give
any employee any rights to claim status as a third party beneficiary of this
Agreement.
(2) Except
as expressly provided in this Agreement, Seller shall pay, discharge, and be
responsible for, and shall indemnify Buyer and its Affiliates for (i) all
salary, wages (including, without limitation, payment for any and all accrued
paid time off, vacation, sick time or personal days accrued by the Hired
Employees as of the Transfer Date, which Seller agrees to pay to the Hired
Employees pursuant to Seller’s Employee Benefit Plans and as required by any
applicable Legal Requirement), bonuses, commissions and any other form of
compensation (including, without limitation, any deferred compensation) arising
out of the employment of the Hired Employees prior to the Transfer Date, and
(ii) any employee benefits under the Seller’s Employee Benefit Plans arising out
of Seller’s employment of the Hired Employees, including, without limitation,
welfare benefits with respect to claims incurred prior to the Transfer Date but
reported after the Transfer Date.
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(3) Seller
and the Employee Benefit Plans shall retain responsibility for all claims
incurred by employees prior to the date they become Hired
Employees.
(4) Seller
shall be solely and fully responsible for the Excluded Employees in the transfer
of Excluded Employees to other positions with Seller or in the termination of
their employment with Seller. To the extent Seller is terminating any
Excluded Employees, Seller shall be fully and completely responsible for said
termination(s), paying those certain Excluded Employees all accrued wages,
commissions, vacation pay and any other compensation due and owing, and
providing notice of such Excluded Employees rights and obligations pursuant to
COBRA. Seller shall be fully liable for any claims, demands, damages
orders, awards and/or judgments arising out of or relating in any way to
Seller’s treatment of and/or termination of Excluded Employees, including, but
not limited to, any obligations which may arise under the Federal or any
applicable state or local Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification ("WARN")
law. As of the Transfer Date, Hired Employees shall become employees
of Buyer, and Buyer shall have the right (subject to applicable Legal
Requirements) to terminate any or all Hired Employees at any time, with or
without cause, and with or without notice, and to change the terms and
conditions of their employment (including compensation and employment benefits
provided to them) in Buyer’s sole discretion. To the extent Buyer
terminates any Hired Employees on or after the Transfer Date, Buyer shall be
fully and completely responsible for said termination(s), paying those certain
Hired Employees all accrued wages, commissions, vacation pay and any other
compensation due and owing since the Transfer Date, and providing notice of such
Hired Employees rights and obligations pursuant to COBRA. Buyer shall
be fully liable for any claims, demands, damages orders, awards and/or judgments
arising out of or relating in any way to Buyer’s treatment of and/or termination
of Hired Employees after the Transfer Date, including, but not limited to, any
obligations which may arise under the WARN law.
(5) Pursuant
to Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(h)(4), Seller and Buyer agree that, on
the Closing Date, each Hired Employee shall be treated as having a "separation
from service" with Seller and Seller’s Affiliates for purposes of Section 409A
of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(h).
(6) It
is understood and agreed that (i) Buyer’s employment of any Hired Employee as
set forth in this Section 14(m) shall not
constitute an employee benefit plan or a commitment, contract or understanding
(express or implied) of an obligation on the part of Buyer to a post-Closing
employment relationship of any fixed term or duration or upon any terms or
conditions other than those that Buyer may establish pursuant to individual
offers of employment, and (ii) employment offered by Buyer is "at will" and may
be terminated by Buyer or by a Hired Employee at any time for any reason
(subject to any written commitments to the contrary made by Buyer or a Hired
Employee and subject to any Legal Requirement). Nothing in this Agreement shall
be deemed to prevent or restrict in any way the right of Buyer to terminate,
reassign, promote or demote any of the Hired Employees after the Closing Date or
to change adversely or favorably the title, powers, duties, responsibilities,
functions, locations, salaries, other compensation, or terms or conditions of
employment of such Hired Employees. Nothing in this Agreement shall create any
employee benefit plan or be construed as requiring any compensation or employee
benefit plan, program or arrangement to be maintained by Buyer for any Hired
Employee at, or for any specified period after, the Closing
Date.
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(7) Effective
on the Closing Date, Seller shall release all Hired Employees from any covenants
not to compete and any other restrictive employment covenants with Seller,
Seller Affiliate and any other Affiliate of Seller, as applicable, insofar as
such covenants would otherwise prevent such Hired Employees from becoming
employed by Buyer, but shall not release such Hired Employees from any such
covenants as to other competitors.
(n) Assumption of IRAs.
Subject to Section
2(c) and Section 6(b)(5), Buyer agrees
that after the Closing, it will perform all of the duties so delegated as
successor custodian and comply with the terms of Seller’s agreement with the
depositor of the XXX affected thereby.
(o) Title
Insurance. Prior to Closing, Seller shall obtain, at Buyer’s
expense, including, without limitation, the expense of any and all title
insurance premiums and the expense of incurred for the mere issuance of
discretionary endorsements (except that Seller shall bear the expense of any
search fees incurred in connection with obtaining the title commitments), (i)
for the Newburgh Branch Premises, a title commitment issued by a title company
or qualified law firm as determined by Buyer (a "Title Company"),
naming Buyer as the proposed insured, wherein Title Company shall agree to issue
or obtain an ALTA form of owner’s insurance policy of title insurance, and (ii)
for the Xxxxx Road Branch leasehold interest, a title commitment issued by the
Title Company naming Buyer as the proposed insured, wherein Title Company shall
agree to issue or obtain an ALTA form of leasehold policy of title insurance
(each such commitment, a "Title Commitment").
Each Title Commitment shall include Title Company’s requirements to issue a
title policy with respect to the Premises of each Branch, which requirements
shall be satisfied by Seller on or before the Closing Date. Buyer shall also be
entitled to order an ALTA survey at Buyer's expense for the Premises at each
Branch location. If any of the following shall occur (collectively, a
"Title
Objection"): (i) any Title Commitment or other evidence of title or
search of the appropriate real estate records discloses that any party other
than Seller or one of its Affiliates has title to the insured estate covered by
the Title Commitment; or (ii) any title exception (other than a Permitted Lien)
disclosed in Schedule B to any Title Commitment or any survey that discloses any
matter that materially and adversely affects Buyer’s use of the Premises for the
purpose of operating the relevant Branch (including without limitation rights of
adequate access and parking), then, in each such case, Seller shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to cure each such Title Objection and take all
commercially reasonable steps required by Title Company to eliminate each such
Title Objection as an exception to the applicable Title Commitment. Any Title
Objection that Title Company is willing to insure over on terms reasonably
acceptable to Buyer is herein referred to as an "Insured
Exception." The incremental increase in the cost of the
premiums as a result of any Insured Exceptions (other than any Insured
Exceptions resulting from Buyer’s failure to obtain a survey of the Premises)
relative to what Title Company would otherwise charge for the title insurance
shall be borne by Seller.
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(p) Overdrafts. Prior
to the Closing, Seller agrees to cooperate with Buyer and to identify for Buyer
those deposit accounts for which provisional credit has been given and that
contain uncollected funds.
15.
Name
Change, etc. Immediately after the Closing (but under no
circumstances later than the next Business Day immediately following the
Closing), Buyer will (a) change the name and logo on all documents and
facilities relating to the Assets and the Liabilities to Buyer’s or one of its
division’s name and logo, (b) notify all Persons whose Loans, Deposit
Liabilities or safe deposit agreements are transferred under this Agreement of
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and (c)
provide all appropriate notices to the FDIC and any other regulatory authorities
required as a result of the consummation of such transactions. Seller
shall cooperate with any commercially reasonable request of Buyer directed to
accomplish the removal of Seller’s signage by Buyer and the installation of
Buyer’s signage by Buyer at the Branches; provided, however, that (i) all such
costs and expenses of removals and all such costs and expenses of installations
shall be at the expense of Buyer, (ii) such removals and installations shall be
performed in such a manner that does not unreasonably interfere with the normal
business activities and operations of the Branches, (iii) such installed signage
shall comply with the any branch lease and all applicable zoning and permitting
laws and regulations, and (iv) such installed signage shall have, if necessary,
received the prior approval of the owner or landlord of the facility, and such
installed signage shall be covered in such a way as to make Buyer signage
unreadable at all times prior to the Closing, but such cover shall display the
name and/or logo of Seller (or of Seller or its other Affiliates) in a manner
reasonably acceptable to Seller.
16.
Contracts. To
the extent that the assignment of any of the Assigned Contracts, commitments or
other assets included in the Assets requires the consent of any other party
thereto, neither this Agreement nor any action taken pursuant to its provisions
shall constitute an assignment or an agreement to assign any Assigned Contract,
commitment or other asset if such assignment or agreement to assign would
constitute a breach thereof. Seller shall, prior to the Closing, use
reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of any party to each such Assigned
Contract, commitment or other asset to its assignment to Buyer in all cases
where such consent is necessary. Buyer agrees to provide reasonable
cooperation in connection therewith (including, by providing relevant
information requested by the applicable lessors or other third parties regarding
Buyer’s financial capability to fulfill the obligations of the Assigned
Contracts, but such cooperation by Buyer shall not include Buyer agreeing to any
amendment to any Assigned Contract, other than to reflect the change from Seller
to Buyer). If any such consent is not obtained, Seller shall cooperate with
Buyer in any lawful and reasonable arrangement designed to provide to Buyer the
benefits under any such Assigned Contract, commitment or other
asset. Any costs incurred in obtaining any consents or assignments of
such Assigned Contracts, commitments or other assets shall be borne by
Seller.
17.
Indemnification.
(a) Survival of Representations,
Warranties and Covenants.
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(1) The
representations and warranties of the parties shall survive until the second
anniversary of the Closing Date except that (i) the representations and
warranties set forth in Sections 9(a) (Corporate
Organization), 9(c) (Title to
Assets), 9(k)
(Power, Authority and Enforceability), 10(a) (Corporate
Organization), and 10(b) (Power,
Authority and Enforceability) shall survive indefinitely (the "Fundamental
Representations"), and (ii) the representations and warranties set forth
in 9(e)
(Environmental Matters), 9(f) (Loans), 9(q) (Employment;
Labor), 9(r)
(Tax Matters), 9(s) (ERISA), 9(t) (Intellectual
Property) and 13(i) (Dealings with
Creditors) shall survive until 30 days following the expiration of the
applicable statute of limitations (such time period is referred to as the "Survival
Period"). The parties hereto specifically intend that the
statutory statutes of limitations of Legal Requirements applicable to each of
the representations and warranties be superseded and replaced by the relevant
Survival Period.
(2) All
of the covenants or other agreements of the parties contained in this Agreement
shall survive until fully performed or fulfilled, unless and to the extent that
non-compliance with such covenants or agreements is (i) waived in writing by the
party entitled to such performance, or (ii) otherwise specifically permitted by
this Agreement.
(b) Indemnification by
Seller. Seller shall indemnify and hold harmless Buyer and its
directors, officers, directors, agents and Affiliates from and against any and
all Losses that they may suffer, incur or sustain arising out of or in
connection with:
(1) any
breach of representation or warranty of Seller in this Agreement or in
connection with any certificate or instrument delivered in connection herewith;
or
(2) any
breach of covenant or agreement on the part of Seller under this Agreement or in
any certificate or instrument delivered in connection herewith;
(3) any
Legal Proceeding based upon any action taken or committed by Seller
prior to Closing in violation of a Legal Requirement in connection with the
operation of the Branches, the Premises, the Assets or the
Liabilities;
(4) the
commencement of any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to Seller or any claim
relating to fraudulent transfers or conveyance regarding the
Assets;
(5) the
Excluded Liabilities, the Excluded Deposits, and the Seller’s assets that are
not Assets; or
(6) the
Newburgh Lien.
For
purposes of determining the amount of any Losses resulting from, relating to or
arising out of such breach, any such representation, warranty or covenant that
is qualified by Material Adverse Effect, materiality or similar qualifier
(including dollar thresholds) shall be read and given effect as if no such
qualifier is contained therein.
(c) Indemnification by
Buyer. Buyer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Seller and
its employees, officers, directors, agents and Affiliates from and against and
Losses that they may suffer, incur or sustain arising out of or in connection
with:
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(1) any
breach of representation or warranty of Buyer in this Agreement or in any
certificate or instrument delivered in connection herewith;
(2) any
breach of covenant or agreement on the part of Buyer under this Agreement or in
any certificate or instrument delivered in connection herewith; or
(3) any
Legal Proceeding based upon any action taken or committed by Buyer
after the Closing in violation of a Legal Requirement in connection with the
operation of the Branches, the Premises, the Assets or the Liabilities;
or
(4) the
Liabilities.
(d) Indemnification
Procedures.
(1) A
claim for indemnification for any matter not involving a Third Party Claim may
be asserted by written notice to the Indemnifying Party, which notice shall
include a reasonable description of the basis for the claim, and shall be paid
within ten Business Days of the receipt of such notice (unless disputed within
such time period).
(2) In
the event that any Legal Proceedings shall be instituted or that any Third Party
Claim is asserted, the Indemnified Party shall as soon as reasonably practicable
cause written notice of the assertion of any Third Party Claim of which it has
Knowledge, which is covered by this Section 17 to be forwarded to
the Indemnifying Party. If the Indemnifying Party acknowledges in
writing its obligation to indemnify the Indemnified Party hereunder against any
Losses that may result from such Third Party Claim, the Indemnifying Party shall
have the right, at its sole expense, to be represented by counsel and to defend
against, negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with any Third Party Claim, which
relates to any Losses for which indemnification is sought
hereunder. If the Indemnifying Party elects to defend against,
negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with any Third Party Claim, which relates to
any Losses for which indemnification is sought hereunder, it shall within ten
calendar days (or sooner, if the nature of the Third Party Claim so requires) of
receipt of notice of the Third Party Claim notify the Indemnified Party of its
intent to do so. If the Indemnifying Party elects not to defend
against, negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with any Third Party Claim, which
relates to any Losses for which indemnification is sought hereunder, or fails to
notify the Indemnified Party of its election within the timeframe provided for
herein, the Indemnified Party may then, but only then, defend against,
negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with such Third Party Claim and the
Indemnifying Party shall reimburse the Indemnified Party for the reasonable
actual expenses of defending such Third Party Claim upon submission of periodic
bills. If the Indemnifying Party assumes the defense of the Third
Party Claim, the Indemnified Party may participate, at its own expense, in the
defense of such Third Party Claim; provided, that such Indemnified Party shall
be entitled to participate in any such defense with separate counsel at the
expense of the Indemnifying Party if (i) so requested by the Indemnifying Party
to participate, (ii) upon the reasonable advice of counsel to the Indemnified
Party a conflict or potential conflict exists between the interests of the
Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party that would make such separate
representation advisable, (iii) such claim is based upon an investigation,
inquiry, or other proceeding by a governmental body, or (iv) Buyer reasonably
anticipates the Third Party Claim to have a Material Adverse Effect upon either
the Buyer’s use of the Assets, Liabilities and/or the conduct or reputation of
the Buyer and its business after the Closing Date. The parties hereto
agree to cooperate fully with each other in connection with the defense,
negotiation or settlement of any such Third Party Claim.
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(3) After
any final judgment or award shall have been rendered by a governmental body of
competent jurisdiction and the expiration of the time in which to appeal
therefrom, or a settlement shall have been consummated, or the Indemnified Party
and the Indemnifying Party shall have arrived at a mutually binding agreement
with respect to a Third Party Claim hereunder, the Indemnified Party shall
forward to the Indemnifying Party notice of any sums due and owing (including
any bills, records or other documentation supporting such sums) by the
Indemnifying Party pursuant to this Agreement with respect to such matter and
the Indemnifying Party shall be required to pay all of the sums so due and owing
to the Indemnified Party by wire transfer of immediately available funds within
five Business Days after the date of such notice.
(4) The
failure of the Indemnified Party to give reasonably prompt notice of any Third
Party Claim shall not release, waive or otherwise affect the Indemnifying
Party’s obligations with respect thereto except to the extent that the
Indemnifying Party can demonstrate actual Loss and prejudice as a result of such
failure or delay.
(e) Limitations on
Indemnification. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be
no liability for Seller or Buyer under this Section 17, unless the amount
of Losses incurred by an Indemnified Party exceeds $50,000 in the aggregate (the
"Deductible
Amount"). Once exceeded, the Deductible Amount is recoverable
along with all other amounts for damages by an Indemnified Party. An
Indemnifying Parties’ liability to an Indemnified Party under this Section 17 shall be limited
to the aggregate amount of $2,500,000 (the "Indemnification
Cap"). Notwithstanding the foregoing under this Section 17(e), no Deductible
Amount will be required to be met and there will be no Indemnification Cap for
any Losses related to Fundamental Representations or the representations and
warranties in Sections
9(e),
9(r) or 9(s), intentional
misrepresentation, fraud or willful misconduct.
18.
Taxes. Seller
shall be solely responsible for all of Seller’s federal, foreign, state and
local income, sales, use, excise and other Taxes applicable to its business and
to the Assets and all Taxes resulting or arising from its payroll arising prior
to the Closing with such Taxes computed as if such taxable period ended as of
the close of business on the Closing Date. Except as set forth in
Section 14(o)
and Section 29,
any filing, bulk sale, recordation, or similar Taxes, which are payable or arise
as a result of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, shall be borne by the Buyer, on the one hand, and by Seller
on the other, equally. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) general
real estate Taxes and installments of special assessments due and payable with
respect to the Branches in the calendar year 2010 (for 2009) and all prior years
will be paid by Seller, and (b) general real estate Taxes and installments of
special assessments due and payable in the calendar year 2011 (for 2010) shall
be allocated between Seller and Buyer as of the Closing Date where Seller’s
share shall be calculated based on a fraction, the numerator of which is the
number of calendar days in 2010 prior to Closing and the denominator is 365; and
Seller's obligations to pay such Taxes and assessments shall be conclusively
settled and satisfied on the Closing Date through the crediting of such amounts
or estimates as provided by Section
3(d)(2). Solely for purposes of this Section 18, real estate Taxes
and installments of special assessments shall be deemed to be "due and payable"
in the first calendar year in which such payment can be made without incurring
interest or penalties for late payment.
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19.
No
Partnership or Joint Venture. No activity of Buyer or Seller
before, on or after the Closing shall state or imply that Seller and Buyer are
in any way involved as partners, joint venturers or otherwise.
20.
Further
Assurances. Except as specifically provided in this Agreement,
Seller shall assist Buyer in the ordinary transition of the operations of the
Branches and, from time to time, Buyer or Seller, as the case may be, shall
cause to be executed and delivered to the other party all such other instruments
and shall take or cause to be taken such further or other action as may
reasonably and in good faith be deemed by the other party to be necessary or
desirable in order to further assure the performance by Buyer or Seller, as the
case may be, of any of their respective obligations under this
Agreement.
21.
Amendment;
Waiver. The terms, provisions, and conditions of this
Agreement may not be changed, modified or amended in any manner except in a
writing executed by both parties. The waiver of any breach of any
provision of this Agreement by any party hereto shall not be deemed to be a
waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach of this Agreement and no such
waiver shall be effective unless in writing signed by the party granting such
waiver.
22.
Termination
of Agreement. This Agreement may be terminated, and the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement may be abandoned, at any time before
the Closing as follows:
(a) By
mutual written consent of Seller and Buyer;
(b) By
either Seller or Buyer in the event of a Legal Proceeding, which would permit
the terminating party not to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby
under the standard set forth in Section 7(e) or 8(e), as
applicable;
(c) By
either Seller or Buyer (provided that the terminating party is not then in
breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or other agreement contained
herein) in the event of a breach by the other of any of its representations,
warranties, covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement, which is not
cured or cannot be cured within 30 days after written notice of such breach has
been delivered to the breaching party and which, in the case of a breach of
representation or warranty, would if occurring or continuing on the Closing
Date, permit the terminating party not to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby under the standard set forth in Section 7(c) or 8(c), as applicable;
provided, that termination pursuant to this Section 22(c) shall not
relieve the breaching party of liability for Losses arising out of or related to
such breach; or
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(d) By
either Seller or Buyer, if the Closing does not occur on or before the date that
is the six-month anniversary of the date of this Agreement, unless the parties
mutually agree in writing that it would be reasonable to extend such date for an
additional period; provided however, that a party shall not be entitled to
terminate this Agreement pursuant to this subsection if the failure of the
Closing to occur by such date shall be due to the failure of the party seeking
to terminate this Agreement to perform or observe the covenants or agreements of
such party set forth herein;
(e) By
Buyer or Seller (1) immediately upon receipt of notice that any Regulatory
Approval has been denied; or (2) if Buyer has been requested by any Regulatory
Authority to withdraw any regulatory application that is required for the
transactions contemplated hereby to be consummated; provided, however, that
Buyer or Seller shall have no right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this
Section 22(e) if such request
for withdrawal is due to such party’s failure to perform the covenants and
agreements of such party set forth herein;
(f) By
Buyer, if Seller shall have breached its obligations under Section 35;
(g) By
Buyer, if the mortgagee and/or landlord with respect to the Xxxxx Road Branch
have refused to deliver without cost to Buyer any document required to be
delivered to Buyer at the Closing in respect of the Xxxxx Road
Branch;
(h) By
Buyer, if the Premises of either of the Branches shall have been materially
damaged by fire or casualty prior to the Closing Date;
(i) By
Buyer, if an Insolvency Proceeding shall have been commenced with respect to
Seller. Seller shall provide Buyer with advance written notice in the
event Seller intends to commence an Insolvency Proceeding and shall provide
Buyer with written notice as soon as Seller learns of any third party’s
intention to do so;
(j) By
Buyer, if there shall have occurred a Material Adverse Effect after the date of
this Agreement.
23.
Responsibilities
Upon Termination. Each party’s right of termination under
Section 22 is in addition to
any other rights it may have under this Agreement or otherwise. Upon
termination of this Agreement, each party shall bear its own costs and expenses,
and none of the parties hereto shall have any liability or further obligation
hereunder to any other party, except for the obligations in Sections 34 and 35, which shall
continue to survive and except that nothing herein will relieve or release any
party from liability at law or in equity (including but not limited to the right
of Buyer to seek specific performance under Section 30) and damages that
flow therefrom for any breach of this Agreement or from any fraud, or
willful misconduct.
24.
Entire
Agreement. This Agreement, including all exhibits, schedules,
and annexes hereof, including the definitions included in Annex I hereto which
is incorporated herein by reference, constitutes the entire agreement between
the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all other
prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, between the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof; provided, however, that the terms of
any confidentiality agreement between the parties hereto previously entered
into, to the extent not inconsistent with any provisions of this Agreement,
shall continue to apply, except that, upon consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby, Buyer’s confidentiality obligation under such
confidentiality agreement shall terminate with respect to that portion of the
confidential information relating to the Branches, Assets and
Liabilities.
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25.
Notices. All
notices, requests, demands or other communications hereunder shall be in writing
and shall be given by facsimile, electronic transmission or by registered or
certified mail return receipt requested to the other party as
follows:
if
to the Buyer:
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& Confidential
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German
American Bancorp
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Xxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx, Chairman and CEO
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Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxx
000
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Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000
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Fax:
(000) 000-0000
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E-mail:
xxxx.xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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with
copies to:
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Xxxxxx LLP
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Attn:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
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Xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000-0000
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Fax:
(000) 000-0000
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E-mail:
xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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if
to the Seller or Seller Affiliate:
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& Confidential
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Farmers
State Bank of Alto Pass, ILL.
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Attn:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
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Xxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
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Fax:
(000) 000-0000
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E-mail:
xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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with
a copy to:
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Stayman, Xxxxxxx & Shoulders, LLP
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Attn:
Xxxxx XxXxxxx
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X.X
Xxx 000
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Xxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000
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Fax:
(000) 000-0000
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E-mail:
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or to
such other address or to such other Person any party may designate in a writing
given to the other party as provided herein.
26.
Governing
Law; Forum and Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
Indiana. Any claim or action brought under or based on this Agreement
shall be brought in any state court in Xxxxxxx County, Indiana, or Vanderburgh
County, Indiana, or in the United States District Court for the Southern
District of Indiana, and the parties hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction
of such courts and waive any defense of forum non
conveniens.
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27.
Descriptive
Headings. The descriptive headings in this Agreement are
inserted for convenience and reference only and are not intended to be part of
or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
28.
Parties
in Interest; Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall
be binding upon and will inure solely to the benefit of the parties hereto, and
to their respective successors and permitted assigns. Except as
provided in Section
17, nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, is intended, or
shall be construed, to confer upon or give to any Person (other than the parties
hereto and their successors and permitted assigns) any rights or remedies under
or by reason of this Agreement or any term, provision, condition, undertaking,
warranty, representation, indemnity, covenant or agreement contained
herein.
29.
Expenses
and Brokers. Except as otherwise expressly provided for
herein, the parties hereto agree that each shall pay its respective costs and
expenses of performance of and compliance with the covenants, conditions, and
agreements to be performed or complied with by it hereunder, including
investment banking, appraisal, accounting, consulting, professional, and legal
fees, if any, whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are
consummated. Buyer and Seller will each be responsible for their
respective data processing conversion and de-conversion charges, if any, that
may be assessed by their respective data processing vendors. Buyer shall
pay all (a) recording, filing or other fees, costs and expenses; and (b) costs
and expenses relating to the preparation, execution and recording of assignments
of mortgages, financing statements, notes, security agreements or other
instruments applicable to or arising in connection with the transfer, assignment
or assumption of the Assets and Liabilities.
30.
Specific
Performance. Seller acknowledges that the Branches, and the
customer relationships and goodwill established by Seller by doing business at
the Branches, are unique assets and that the damages that would accrue to Buyer
were Seller to fail without cause its obligations to sell the Branches and other
Assets to Buyer would be substantial and not capable of
calculation. Seller further acknowledges that Buyer would be
irreparably damaged in the event that Seller did not perform its obligations
under this Agreement in accordance with their specific terms and
conditions. Seller therefore agrees that Buyer shall be entitled to
an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement by Seller,
and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement
(including the Seller's agreement to sell the Assets to Buyer subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement) in any court of the United States or any
state having jurisdiction, this being in addition to any other remedy to which
the parties are entitled at law or in equity or under this
Agreement.
31.
Assignability. Neither
Buyer nor Seller may assign any of their rights, liabilities or obligations
under the Agreement without the prior written consent of the other party to this
Agreement, provided that Buyer may assign its rights, liabilities and
obligations under the Agreement to any one of its Affiliates. Any
purported assignment in contravention of this Section 31 shall be
void.
32.
Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be
deemed to be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the
same instrument. If Buyer and Seller so elect, this Agreement shall
be deemed to be executed at such time as all parties exchange duly executed
signature pages via facsimile or other electronic transmission, provided that
each party shall thereafter mail to the other party an original of this
Agreement bearing such party’s signature.
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33.
Press
Releases. Prior to the Closing Date, neither Buyer, Seller nor
any of their respective Affiliates shall directly or indirectly make or cause to
be made any press release for general circulation, public announcement or
disclosure or issue any notice or communication to employees (except as
necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby) with respect to
any of the transactions contemplated hereby without the prior written consent of
the other party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned
or delayed). Buyer and Seller each agree that, without the other party’s prior
written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned
or delayed), neither Buyer, Seller nor any of their respective Affiliates shall
release or disclose any of the terms or conditions of the transactions
contemplated herein to any other Person, except for employees and advisors as
necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and except for any
Persons as necessary to obtain consents or approvals, including, without
limitation, Regulatory Approvals, contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, each party may make such public disclosure as, upon advice of its
counsel and with as much prior notice to the other party as reasonably
practicable, may be required by Legal Requirement or as necessary to obtain the
Regulatory Approvals or to comply with the federal securities laws.
34.
Confidentiality. All
information disclosed or furnished by one party to another, whether orally or in
writing, in connection with this Agreement and Buyer’s due diligence examination
of Seller shall be deemed to be proprietary and confidential information of the
disclosing party. The receiving party agrees not to disclose such
information to any third party other than its representatives or employees or,
upon the advice of its counsel, as may be required by Legal Requirements or as
necessary to obtain consents and the Regulatory Approvals or to comply with the
federal securities laws as necessary, or as agreed in writing by the parties or
as otherwise contemplated in this Agreement or the exhibits, annexes and
schedules hereto or as necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby. In connection with any such disclosure, the disclosing party
shall give the other party as much prior notice to the other party as is
reasonably practicable. Regardless of whether Closing occurs
hereunder, each party agrees that it shall not use or disclose, and shall cause
its Affiliates not to use or disclose, the proprietary or confidential
information of the other party for any purpose, including the solicitation of
customers or employees or business of the other party, for a period of two years
after the date hereof.
35.
Exclusive
Dealing.
(a) During
the period from the date of this Agreement to the earlier of the Closing Date or
the termination of this Agreement, neither Seller, nor any of its Affiliates or
representatives shall take any action to, directly or indirectly, encourage,
initiate, or otherwise engage in discussions or negotiations with, or provide
any non-public information to, any Person other than Buyer and its Affiliates
and representatives concerning an Alternative Transaction. Seller
will promptly (but in no event later than 12 hours after receipt) communicate to
Buyer the terms of any proposal or inquiry that it or any of its Affiliates or
representatives may receive in writing in respect of any Alternative
Transaction, or of any such negotiations or discussions being sought to be
initiated with Seller, or any of its Affiliates or representatives and the
identity of such third party initiating any such proposal, inquiry, discussion
or negotiation. The obligations of Seller in this Section 35(a) shall
not apply to any merger, acquisition, stock purchase or asset purchase or
similar transaction that does not include the Assets or Liabilities, and Seller
shall not have any restriction in pursuing such transaction(s) at any
time.
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(b) Seller
shall ensure its respective representatives are aware of the restrictions
described in this Section 35 as
reasonably necessary to avoid violations thereof. It is understood
that any violation of the restrictions set forth in this Section 35 by any
representative of Seller shall be deemed to be a breach of this Section 35 by
Seller.
36.
Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement, as applied to any party or circumstance, shall
be judged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void, invalid or
unenforceable, the same shall in no way effect any other provision of this
Agreement, the application of any such provision and any other circumstances, or
the validity or enforceability of the other provisions of this
Agreement.
37.
Jury
Waiver. SELLER AND BUYER DO HEREBY KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY AND
INTENTIONALLY WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY WITH RESPECT TO ANY
LITIGATION BASED HEREON, OR ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT, ANY DOCUMENTS EXECUTED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, OR ANY
COURSE OF CONDUCT, COURSE OF DEALING, STATEMENT (WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN) OR ANY
ACTION OF EITHER PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED IN ANY MANNER TO THIS
AGREEMENT, THE LOANS, THE LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE PROPERTY. THIS WAIVER IS A
MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE PARTIES TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND SHALL
SURVIVE THE CLOSING OR ANY TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.
[Signature
page follows.]
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The
parties have caused this Agreement to be executed on their behalf by duly
authorized officers as of the date first set forth above.
GERMAN
AMERICAN BANCORP
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By:
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer
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FARMERS
STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS,
ILL.
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By:
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Chairman
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FARMERS
STATE HOLDING CORP.
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ANNEX
I
DEFINITIONS
"Account Sold" has the
meaning set forth in Section
14(e).
"Accrued Interest"
shall mean, as of any date, with respect to (a) the Deposit Liabilities, the
interest, dividends, fees, costs and other charges that have been accrued but
not paid, credited, or charged to the Deposit Liabilities, all as set forth in
Seller’s general ledger and (b) in the case of the Loans, the interest, fees,
costs, premiums, consignment fees and other charges that have been accrued or
charged, but not collected on the Loans.
"Accrued Liabilities"
has the meaning set forth in Section
2(a)(5).
"ACH" has the meaning
set forth in Section
14(e).
"ACH Direct Deposit Cut-Off
Date" has the meaning set forth in Section
14(e).
"Additional Assets"
has the meaning set forth in Section
1.
"Additional Loan
Information" has the meaning set forth in Section
13(h).
"Additional Loans"
means any loan (other than a renewal, without any advancement of (or commitment
to advance) additional funds, of a Loan in existence as of January 11, 2010)
originated out of the Branches after January 11, 2010, through the fifth
Business Day prior to the Closing Date that Buyer, in its sole discretion, shall
have the exclusive right and option to purchase from Seller pursuant to Section
13(h).
"Adjusted Payment
Amount" means as of the Closing Date (x) the aggregate balance (including
Accrued Interest) of the Deposits and Accrued Liabilities, minus (y) the
Purchase Price, each as set forth on the Final Closing Statement. For avoidance
of doubt, the Adjusted Payment Amount may be a negative amount.
"Affiliate" means any
Person or entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with
Seller or Buyer, as the case may be, and includes the Seller
Affiliate.
"Affiliated Person"
shall mean director, officer or 5% or greater stockholder, spouse or other
person living in the same household of such director, officer or stockholder, or
any company, partnership or trust in which any of the foregoing persons is an
officer, 10% or greater stockholder, general partner or 10% or greater trust
beneficiary.
"Agreement" has the
meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
A-1
"Applicable Environmental
Laws" shall mean any applicable federal, state or local law, common law
or statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, pertaining to Hazardous Substances,
pollution, contamination, human and worker health and safety, greenhouse
gases/climate change, and otherwise regarding the environment, including,
without limitation, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§9601, et seq.; the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act, as amended 42 U.S.C. §§6901, et seq.; the Clean Xxxxx Xxx, 00
X.X.X. §§0000, et seq.; the Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. 300f-300j; the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq., the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, 40 U.S.C. § 1801,
et seq., as amended; and the federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., as
amended.
"Assets" has the
meaning set forth in Section
1.
"Assigned Contracts"
has the meaning set forth in Section
1(g).
“Assigned Xxxxx Road
Lease” has the meaning set forth in Section
1(a).
"Assignment and Assumption
Agreement" has the meaning set forth in Section
6(a)(8).
"ATMs" shall mean
those full service and cash dispensing automated teller machines identified in
Schedule 1(b)
hereof.
"Branches" shall mean
Seller’s branch offices listed in Section 1(a), and
“Branch” means
either of such Branches.
"Brokered Deposits"
shall mean deposit account obligations originated by third party financial
institutions (not Seller) that are sold by such institutions to brokers who in
turn sell such deposit account obligations to third parties (such as
Seller).
"Burdensome Regulatory
Condition" shall mean any condition or restriction set forth in a
Regulatory Approval which would reasonably be expected to adversely affect
Buyer.
"Business Day" shall
mean any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or any other day on which banks in
Indiana are not permitted to be open.
"Buyer" has the
meaning set forth in the preamble.
"Buyer’s Phase I
Report" has the meaning set forth in Section
8(g).
"Cash on Hand" has the
meaning set forth in Section
1(c).
"Closing" has the
meaning set forth in Section
5.
"Closing Date" has the
meaning set forth in Section
5.
"COBRA" means the
requirements of Part 6 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA and Code Section 4980B
and of any similar state law.
"Code" shall mean the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Collateral" shall
mean all property and proceeds together with any related guarantees, assignments
and other tangible and intangible rights and interests securing the
Loans.
A-2
"Competitor" shall
have the meaning set forth in Section
13(c)(1).
"Conditions Precedent"
means the conditions that must be satisfied by Buyer before Seller is obligated
to close under this Agreement pursuant to Section 7, and the conditions that
must be satisfied by Seller before Buyer is obligated to close under this
Agreement pursuant to Section 8.
"Consents" has the
meaning set forth in Section
9(l)(3).
"Deductible Amount"
has the meaning set forth in Section
17(e).
"Deposit Liabilities"
or "Deposit
Liability" shall mean Seller’s obligations and liabilities relating to
(a) Seller’s deposit accounts at the Branches which are listed on Schedule 2(a)(1), and
(b) Seller’s deposit accounts at the Branches which are opened on behalf of a
customer between the date of this Agreement and the close of business on the
Closing Date which are added to Schedule 2(a)(1), in
the case of each of clauses (a) and (b), together with Accrued Interest thereon,
all as exists at the close of business on the Closing Date, but, in the case of
each of clause (a) and (b), excluding the (1) the Excluded Deposits, (2) any
claim or other liability relating to the origination or administration of any
deposit account prior to the close of business on the Closing Date and (3)
obligations and liabilities relating to deposit accounts owned or maintained by
Affiliates of Seller. Notwithstanding the above, Deposit Liabilities shall not
include any deposits used as Collateral for a Kick-out Loan.
"Disputed Items" has
the meaning set forth in Section
3(b)(3)(A).
"Draft Closing
Statement" means a draft closing statement in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C, prepared by Seller, as of the close of business on the fifth Business
Day preceding the Closing Date setting forth an estimated calculation of both
the Estimated Purchase Price and the Estimated Payment Amount as reasonably
mutually agreed by Seller and Buyer.
"Draft Loan Schedule"
means the Loan Schedule to be provided as part of the Draft Closing
Statement.
"Employee Benefit
Plan" means "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA
and any other bonus, incentive compensation, deferred compensation, profit
sharing, stock option, stock appreciation right, stock bonus, stock purchase,
employee stock ownership, savings, severance, change in control, supplemental
unemployment, layoff, salary continuation, retirement, severance, pension,
health, life insurance, disability, accident, group insurance, vacation,
holiday, sick leave, fringe benefit or welfare plan, and any other employment,
consulting, employee compensation or benefit plan, agreement, policy, practice,
commitment, contract or understanding (whether qualified or nonqualified,
currently effective or terminated, written or unwritten) related thereto (i)
that is or was maintained or contributed to by Seller or any entity or trade or
business (whether or not incorporated) that together with Seller is treated as a
single employer under any of Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or
Section 4001(a)(14) of ERISA (each an "ERISA Affiliate"), or (ii) with respect
to which Seller or any of its ERISA Affiliates has or may have any liability or
liabilities, and/or (iii) provides benefits, or describes policies or procedures
applicable to any current or former employee, officer, director, consultant,
service provider or contractor of Seller or an ERISA Affiliate, regardless of
how (or whether) liabilities for the provision of benefits are accrued or assets
are acquired or dedicated with respect to the funding thereof.
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"ERISA" shall mean the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
"Estimated Payment
Amount" means (x) the aggregate balance (including Accrued Interest) of
the Deposit Liabilities and Accrued Liabilities, if any, minus (y) the Estimated
Purchase Price, each as set forth on the Draft Closing Statement as reasonably
mutually agreed by Seller and Buyer prior to Closing. For avoidance of doubt,
the Estimated Payment Amount may be a negative amount.
"Estimated Purchase
Price" shall mean the estimate of the Purchase Price for purposes of, and
as set forth on the Draft Closing Statement as reasonably and mutually agreed
upon by Buyer and Seller prior to Closing.
"Excluded Deposits"
shall mean all of Seller’s obligations and liabilities relating to Seller’s
deposit accounts at the Branches which are (a) Excluded IRAs, (b) Brokered
Deposits, (c) subject to any order, agreement or encumbrance that materially
restricts the payment of funds from such accounts at the Branches, or (d)
deposit accounts of Affiliated Persons who are Affiliated Persons of Seller both
on and after the Closing Date.
"Excluded Employees"
has the meaning set forth in Section
14(m).
"Excluded XXX" shall
mean an XXX which if, pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing any
such XXX account or applicable Legal Requirement, (a) Seller is not permitted to
appoint Buyer as successor trustee or custodian, or the XXX grantor objects in
writing to such designation, or is entitled to, and does, in fact, name a
successor trustee or custodian other than Buyer, or (b) such XXX account
includes assets which are not deposit accounts subject to transfer to Buyer and
which would result in a loss of qualification of such XXX account under the Code
or applicable IRS regulations under transfer to Buyer.
“Excluded Items” has
the meaning set forth in Section 13(c)(1).
"Excluded Liabilities"
has the meaning set forth in Section
2(b).
"FDIC" shall mean the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
"Federal Funds Rate"
shall mean the average of the high and low rates quoted for Federal Funds in the
Money Rates column of The Wall Street Journal from the Closing Date adjusted as
such average may increase or decrease during the period between the Closing Date
and the date of the applicable payment.
"FedWire Direct Deposit
Cut-Off Date" has the meaning set forth in Section
14(e).
"Final Allocation
Determination" has the meaning set forth in Section
3(c)(2).
A-4
“Final Closing
Schedule” means the Loan Schedule to be provided as part of the Final
Closing Statement.
"Final Closing
Statement" means a final closing statement, prepared by Seller, on or
before the 10th calendar day following the Closing Date setting forth both the
Purchase Price and each component thereof and the Adjusted Payment
Amount.
"Firm" has the meaning
set forth in Section
3(b)(3)(C).
"Firm Expenses" has
the meaning set forth in Section
3(b)(3)(C).
"Fundamental
Representations" has the meaning set forth in Section
17(a)(1).
"GAAP" means generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States of America from time to
time, consistently applied.
"Government
Authorization" means any consent, license, franchise registration,
certification, certificate of public convenience, authorization or permit
issued, granted, given or otherwise made available by or under the authority of
any Government Entity or to any Legal Requirement.
"Governmental Entity"
means any government or governmental regulatory body thereof, or political
subdivision thereof, whether foreign, federal, state or local, or any agency,
instrumentality or authority thereof, or any court or arbitrator (public or
private).
"Hazardous Substance or
Substances" means any hazardous or toxic substances, materials or wastes,
including, but not limited to those substances, materials, and wastes listed in
the United States Department of Transportation’s Hazardous Materials Table (49
CFR Part 172.101) or by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as
hazardous substances (40 CFR Part 302) and amendments thereto, or such
substances, materials and wastes which are or become regulated under any
applicable Legal Requirement. Hazardous Substances shall include, but
not be limited to: (i) petroleum, including but not limited to, gasoline and
diesel, additives and components thereof, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil
mixed with wastes; (ii) asbestos; (iii) mold, (iv) radionuclides or radioactive
materials and substances, (v) medical waste, (iii) polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs); (iv) substances designated as a "hazardous substance" pursuant to
Section 311 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1321 or pursuant to Section 307
of the Clean Xxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. § 0000; (v) defined as a "hazardous waste",
"universal waste," and other forms of waste pursuant to the Resource
Conservation and Xxxxxxxx Xxx, 00 X.X.X. §0000, as amended; (vi) defined as a
"hazardous substance" pursuant to Section 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., as amended;
(vii) included as a hazardous material, substance or related material in the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, 40 U.S.C. § 1801, et seq.,
as amended; or (viii) listed as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to the
federal Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., as amended.
"Hired Employee" has
the meaning set forth in Section
14(m).
"Indemnification Cap"
has the meaning set forth in Section
17(e).
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"Indemnified Party"
means, with respect to a particular matter, a Person who is requesting
indemnification from another party hereto pursuant to Section
17.
"Indemnifying Party"
means, with respect to a particular matter, a Person who is being asked to
provide indemnification under Section 17 to another
party.
"Insolvency
Proceeding" means a voluntary insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
custodianship, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, assignment for the
benefit of creditors or similar proceeding.
"Insurance Policies"
has the meaning set forth in Section
9(p).
"Insured Exception"
has the meaning set forth in Section
14(o).
"Intellectual
Property" means intellectual property and proprietary information, in any
and all media, including digital, and in any jurisdiction, including all (a)
patents and patent applications (including all reissuances, continuations,
continuations-in-part, divisions, revisions, extensions and reexaminations
thereof) and patent disclosures, inventions, discoveries, ideas and improvements
(whether or not patentable and whether or not reduced to practice); (b)
trademarks, service marks, trade dress, trade names, Internet domain names,
uniform resource locators (URLs), logos, slogans, certification marks relating
to the Assets and Liabilities; (c) copyrightable works of authorship, including
all statutory and common law copyrights associated therewith; (d) all
registrations, applications, extensions, modifications and renewals for any of
the items listed in clauses (b) and (c); (e) trade secrets, product plans,
technology and know-how; (f) websites; (g) computer and software programs,
including operating systems, applications, routines, interfaces, and algorithms,
whether in source code or object code; and (h) manuals, user and technical
documentation, data, databases, flow charts and developers’ notes.
"XXX" means an "individual retirement
account" or similar account created by a trust for the exclusive benefit
of any individual or his beneficiaries in accordance with the provisions of
Section 408 of the Code. An XXX shall be a Deposit Liability to the extent it is
not an Excluded XXX.
"Kick-out Loans" means
those Loans in the unpaid aggregate unpaid principal amount as of the Closing
Date of not more than $10,000,000 that are identified by Buyer, in the exercise
of its discretion, to Seller by a duly delivered and signed update to the
Kick-out Loan Schedule delivered at or before Closing by Buyer to
Seller.
"Kick-out Loan
Schedule" means the schedule to be delivered by Buyer to Seller at or
before the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing in final form to identify the
Kick-out Loans, a preliminary version of which is attached as Schedule 1-KO to
this Agreement, and which may be amended by Buyer in its discretion by written
notice delivered by Buyer to Seller at any time, or from time to time, on or
before the fifth Business Day prior to the Closing Date to substitute other
Loans that were not previously Kick-out Loans as being Kick-out Loans and vice
versa, subject in any case to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the
Kick-out Loans specified by the Kick-out Loan Schedule never exceeding
$10,000,000 as of the Closing Date .
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"Knowledge" means,
with respect to Seller, the knowledge of any of Seller's officers that hold the
title of vice president or above and have responsibility with respect to the
Branches or the Assets or Liabilities and, with respect to Buyer, the knowledge
of any of Buyer’s officers that hold the title of vice president or above and
have responsibility with respect to the geographic region that includes the
Branches or the Assets or Liabilities, each of whom will be deemed to have
knowledge of a particular fact or other matter if: (a) such person is actually
aware of such fact or other matter; or (b) it is reasonable to expect that such
person would discover or otherwise become aware of such fact or other matter in
the performance of his or her job responsibilities in the ordinary course of
business.
"Legal Proceeding"
means any judicial, administrative or arbitral actions, suits, mediations,
investigations, inquiries, proceedings (public or private) or claims
(including counterclaims) by or before a Governmental Entity, including any
civil, criminal, investigative or informal actions, audits, demands, claims,
hearings, litigations, disputes, inquiries, investigations or other proceedings
of any kind or nature.
"Legal Requirement"
means any federal, state, or local law, constitution, ordinance, code, rule of
common law, regulation, statute or treaty.
"Liabilities" has the
meaning set forth in Section
2.
"Lien" shall mean any
lien, easement, restriction, pledge, charge, encumbrance, security interest,
mortgage, deed of trust, lease, option or other adverse claim of any nature
whatsoever and of any kind or description.
"Loan Documents" has
the meaning set forth in Section
9(f).
"Loan Files" has the
meaning set forth in Section
9(f).
"Loans" means,
collectively, the loans of Seller originated by the Branches on or before
January 11, 2010 (as disclosed by Seller to Buyer prior to the date of this
Agreement as part of Buyer's due diligence review, and to be identified as of
the Closing Date by the Closing Loan Schedule), including any overdrafts or
renewals, plus any Additional Loans as may be agreed to be purchased by Buyer
pursuant to Section
13(h), less any Loans that are Kick-out Loans, Sold Loans or loans to
Affiliated Persons who are Affiliated Persons (both on and continuing after the
Closing Date) of Seller. For the avoidance of doubt, Loans include
those Branch loans (other than loans that are identified by Buyer as Kick-out
Loans or which are Sold Loans) that are disclosed on the Draft Loan Schedule and
Final Loan Schedule, as of the Closing Date, as being classified on the Seller's
internal watch list or classified by regulatory authorities, or as Loans as to
which the Obligor is (i) more than thirty (30) days past due in payment of
principal or interest, or (ii) to the Knowledge of Seller, in breach, violation,
noncompliance, default or event of acceleration under the Loan
Documents.
"Loan Schedule" has
the meaning set forth in Section
9(f)(1).
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"Loss" or "Losses" means the
amount of losses, liabilities, damages (including forgiveness or cancellation of
obligations) and reasonable expenses (including reasonable expenses of
investigation and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses in connection with any
action, suit or proceeding) actually incurred or suffered by the indemnified
party or its Affiliates in connection with the matters described in Section 17, less the
amount of any amount actually recovered under insurance policies (net of all
third party costs and expenses incurred in pursuing any such insurance recovery,
including, but not limited to, those relating to deductibles and actual premium
adjustments directly resulting from such damage, loss, liability or expense) or
third party indemnification obligations or other actual recovery directly
related to such losses.
“Xxxxx Road Branch”
has the meaning set forth in Section
1(a).
"Material Adverse
Effect" shall mean any circumstance, event, development, change in or
effect that (a) is materially adverse to the business, financial condition or
results of operations of the Seller's business represented by the Branches, or
the Assets and Liabilities, taken as a whole, or (b) has resulted in a material
adverse change in the credit quality, including the internal loan grading or
regulatory classification, of the Loans proposed to be purchased by Buyer
hereunder.
“Newburgh Branch” has
the meaning set forth in Section
1(a).
“Newburgh Lien” has
the meaning set forth on Schedule
9(d).
"Notice of Allocation
Disagreement" has the meaning set forth in Section
3(c)(2)(A).
"Notice of
Disagreement" has the meaning set forth in Section
3(b)(3)(A).
"Objection" has the
meaning set forth in Section
8(g).
"Obligor" has the
meaning set forth in Section
9(f)(7).
"Order" means any
order, injunction, judgment, doctrine, decree, ruling, writ, assessment or
arbitration award of a Governmental Entity.
"Permitted Liens"
shall mean Liens for Taxes, assessments, charges or levies of a Governmental
Entity not yet due and payable, incurred in the ordinary course of business and
which are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the overall value
of any Asset to which such Lien(s) attach, and the Newburgh Lien.
"Person" shall mean
any individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, trust, limited
liability company, association, unincorporated organization, Government Entity
or other entity.
"Personal Property"
has the meaning set forth in Section
1(b).
"POS" has the meaning
set forth in Section
14(i).
"Premises" means the
real estate located at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx and 0000 Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx.
"Prepaid Expenses" has
the meaning set forth in Section
1(e).
"Proposed Allocation
Statement" has the meaning set forth in Section
3(c)(1).
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"Purchase Price" has
the meaning set forth in Section
3(a).
"Records" means all
original notes, instruments, guaranties and pledges associated with the Loans
and all other original (or duplicates to the extent not available) records,
documents, account cards, books, reports, tapes, files, title policies, or where
reasonable and appropriate copies thereof (for each case whether or not in
electronic form), in Seller’s possession or otherwise reasonably available that
pertain to and are used by Seller to administer, reflect, monitor, evidence or
record information respecting the business or conduct of the Branches, the
Assets, the Liabilities, or the Deposits, including all such records maintained
to comply with any Legal Requirement to which the Deposits are subject,
including but not limited to applicable unclaimed property and escheat laws;
provided, however, it is understood and agreed that Seller shall be permitted to
retain such books and records that contain information exclusively relating to
other assets and liabilities not constituting Assets and Assumed Liabilities;
provided further that in any such case Seller shall provide to Buyer such
portions or copies of such records as are (i) reasonably necessary to vest in
Buyer title to any of the Assets or for the enforcement of Buyer’s rights, title
or interest in the Assets or the Liabilities or (ii) reasonably necessary and
material to Buyer’s conduct of the business of the Branches after the
Closing.
"Regulatory Agreement"
has the meaning set forth in Section
9(j).
"Regulatory Approvals"
means all approvals, authorizations, waivers or consents of, or notices to, any
Governmental Entity required to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, including the following: (i) any required approvals of and/or notices
to the Indiana Department of Financial Institutions and the FDIC, and (ii) the
expiration of any waiting period associated with any required Regulatory
Approval.
"Required Consents"
has the meaning set forth in Section
9(l)(3).
"Restricted Activity"
shall have the meaning set forth in Section
13(c)(1).
"Restricted Area"
shall have the meaning set forth in Section
13(c)(1).
"Safe Deposit
Agreements" means any and all agreements relating to safe deposit boxes
at the Branches transferred to Buyer under this Agreement.
"Seller" has the
meaning set forth in the preamble.
"Seller Affiliate" has
the meaning set forth in the preamble.
"Seller Disclosure
Schedule" means the disclosure schedule delivered by Seller to Buyer
concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and updated as of
the date of Closing.
"Seller Disputed
Items" has the meaning set forth in Section
3(c)(2)(A).
“Sold Loans” means any
residential real estate loans originated by Seller and sold in whole to Xxxxxxx
Mac or other Governmental Entities (including the mortgage servicing rights and
related mortgage servicing assets related to such sold loans).
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"Tax" or "Taxes" means all
taxes, assessments, charges, duties, fees, levies, imposts or other similar
charges imposed by a Governmental Entity (whether disputed or not), including
all income, franchise, profits, capital gains, capital stock, transfer, gross
receipts, sales, use, service, occupation, ad valorem, property, excise,
severance, windfall profits, premium, stamp, license, payroll, employment,
social security, unemployment, disability, environmental (including taxes under
Code Section 59A), alternative minimum, add-on, value-added, withholding and
other taxes, assessments, charges, duties, fees, levies, imposts or other
similar charges of any kind whatsoever (whether payable directly or by
withholding and whether or not requiring the filing of a Tax Return), and all
estimated taxes, deficiency assessments, additions to tax, additional amounts
imposed by any Governmental Entity, penalties and interest.
"Tax Return" means any
return (including any information return), report, statement, schedule, notice,
form, or other document or information filed with or submitted to, or required
to be filed with or submitted to, any Governmental Entity in connection with the
determination, assessment, collection, or payment of any Tax or in connection
with the administration, implementation, or enforcement of or compliance with
any Legal Requirement relating to any Tax.
"Third Party Claim"
means any Legal Proceeding by a Person not a party to this Agreement and not an
Affiliate of one of the parties hereto.
"Title Commitment" has
the meaning set forth in Section
14(o).
"Title Company" has
the meaning set forth in Section
14(o).
"Title Objections" has
the meaning set forth in Section
14(o).
"Transfer Date" has
the meaning set forth in Section
14(m).
"Unfunded Advances"
shall mean an advance requested under a Loan on or prior to the Closing Date
pursuant to the terms and provisions of such Loan that Seller is not obligated
to fund until after the Closing Date.
"Unresolved Allocation
Changes" has the meaning set forth in Section
3(c)(2)(C).
"Unresolved Changes"
has the meaning set forth in Section
3(b)(3)(C).
"WARN" has the meaning
set forth in Section
14(m)(4).
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EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF
XXXX OF
SALE
XXXX OF SALE AND ASSIGNMENT
dated as of ________, 2010 (this “Xxxx of Sale”), by
and between FARMERS STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS, an Illinois banking corporation
having its executive offices in Harrisburg, Illinois (the “Seller”) and GERMAN
AMERICAN BANCORP, an Indiana banking corporation having its executive offices in
Jasper, Indiana (the “Buyer”).
Reference
is made to that certain Branch Purchase Agreement, dated as of February __, 2010
(the “Purchase
Agreement”), by and between the Seller and Buyer. The Purchase
Agreement is hereby incorporated herein by reference and shall control in the
event of any conflict with this Xxxx of Sale. Capitalized terms used
and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed
thereto in the Purchase Agreement.
WHEREAS, Seller desires to
sell to Buyer and Buyer desires to purchase the Assets and assume the
Liabilities of the Seller; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement, Buyer has agreed to accept the right, title and interest in,
to all of the Seller's right, title and interest in and to the Personal
Property.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual covenants and obligations set forth herein and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as set forth below.
Section
1. Sale of Personal
Property.
Upon the
terms and conditions and subject to the conditions of the Purchase Agreement,
and intending to be legally bound hereby, the Seller does hereby, effective as
of the Effective Time unconditionally and irrevocably sell, transfer, convey,
assign and deliver to Buyer, its successors and assigns good and valid title to,
all of the Seller's right, title and interest in and to the Personal Property of
Seller (as defined in Section 1(b) of the
Purchase Agreement) to have and to hold such assets unto Buyer and its
successors and assigns and for their use forever. Buyer hereby
accepts good and valid title to, and all rights and interests, in the Personal
Property.
Section
2. Further
Assurances.
From time
to time, without additional consideration, each party hereto will (or, if
appropriate, cause its Affiliates to) execute and deliver such further
instruments and take such other action as may be necessary or reasonably
requested by the other party to make effective the transactions contemplated by
this Xxxx of Sale and to provide the other party with the intended benefits of
this Xxxx of Sale. Without limiting the foregoing, upon reasonable
request of Buyer, Seller shall, and Seller shall cause its Affiliates to, as
applicable, execute, acknowledge and deliver all such further assurances, deeds,
assignments, consequences, powers of attorney and other instruments and paper as
may be required to sell, transfer, assign, convey and deliver to Buyer all
right, title and interest in, to and under the Personal Property described in
Section 1
hereto. If any party to this Xxxx of Sale shall, following the
Closing, have in its possession any asset or right which under this Xxxx of Sale
should have been delivered to the others, such party shall promptly deliver such
asset or right to the others.
Section
3. Power of
Attorney.
Without
limiting Section
2 of this Xxxx of Sale, Seller hereby constitutes and appoints Buyer the
true and lawful agent and attorney in fact of Seller, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, in whole or in part, in the name and stead of
Seller but on behalf and for the benefit of Buyer and its successors and
assigns, from time to time:
(a) to
demand and receive any and all of the Personal Property and to give receipts and
releases for and with respect to the same, or any part thereof;
(b) to
institute and prosecute, in the name of Seller or otherwise, any and all
proceedings at law, in equity or otherwise, that Buyer or its successors and
assigns may deem proper in order to receive or reduce to possession any of the
Personal Property and in order to collect or enforce any claim or right of any
kind hereby assigned or transferred, or intended so to be; and
(c) to
do all things legally permissible, required or reasonably deemed by Buyer to be
required to receive and reduce to possession the Personal Property and to use
Seller’s name in such manner as Buyer may reasonably deem necessary for the
receipt and recovery of the same,
Seller
hereby declaring that the foregoing powers are coupled with an interest and are
and shall be irrevocable by Seller.
Section
4. Successors and
Assigns.
Subject
to the Purchase Agreement, this Xxxx of Sale shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns.
Section
5. Third Party
Beneficiaries.
Nothing
contained in this Xxxx of Sale, express or implied, shall confer unto any person
other than the parties hereto or their respective successors and assigns any
right, obligation, remedy or benefit hereunder.
Section
6. Applicable
Law.
This Xxxx
of Sale shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of Indiana, without regard to any applicable conflicts of law
principles.
Section
7. Execution in
Counterparts.
This Xxxx
of Sale may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which will be
deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same
agreement. Any counterpart may be executed by facsimile signature and
such facsimile signature shall be deemed an original.
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Section
8. Titles and
Headings.
Titles
and headings to Sections herein are inserted for convenience of reference only,
and are not intended to be a part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation
of this Xxxx of Sale.
Section
9. Rights and
Liabilities.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, nothing contained herein shall be
deemed to grant Buyer any rights, or to cause Seller to incur any liabilities,
greater than or otherwise in excess of the rights and liabilities, respectively,
set forth in the Purchase Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of
the undersigned has caused this Xxxx of Sale and Assignment to be executed on
its behalf as of the date first written above.
FARMERS
STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS
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EXHIBIT
B
FORM
OF
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
AGREEMENT
This Assignment and Assumption
Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made
and entered into as of ___________, 2010, by and between FARMERS STATE BANK OF
ALTO PASS, a an Illinois state bank having its executive offices in Harrisburg,
Illinois (“Assignor”) and GERMAN
AMERICAN BANCORP, an Indiana banking corporation having its executive offices in
Jasper, Indiana (“Assignee”).
WHEREAS, Assignor and Assignee are
parties to that certain Branch Purchase Agreement, dated as of February __, 2010
(the “Purchase
Agreement”), pursuant to which Assignee has agreed to purchase the Assets
and assume the Liabilities associated with two of Assignor’s branch offices;
and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement, Assignor has agreed to assign certain rights and agreements to
Assignee, and Assignee has agreed to assume certain obligations of Assignor, as
set forth herein, and this Agreement is contemplated by Section 6(a)(7) of
the Purchase Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in
consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein, and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and legal
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties do hereby agree as
follows:
1. Capitalized
Terms. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall
have the meanings for such terms that are set forth in the Purchase
Agreement.
2. Assignment and
Assumption. Effective as of the Effective Time, Assignor
hereby assigns, sells, transfers and sets over (collectively, the “Assignment”) to
Assignee all of Assignor’s right, title, benefit, privileges and interest in and
to, and all of Assignor’s burdens, obligations and liabilities in connection
with each of the Liabilities. Assignee hereby accepts the Assignment
and assumes and agrees to observe and perform all of the duties, obligations,
terms, provisions and covenants, and to pay and discharge all of the Liabilities
to be observed, performed, paid or discharged from and after the Effective Time,
in connection with the Liabilities. Assignee assumes no liabilities,
other than the Liabilities, and the parties hereto agree that all such
liabilities, other than the Liabilities, shall remain the sole responsibility of
Assignor.
For any financing statement, or Uniform
Commercial Code (“UCC”) related
document, filed in any jurisdiction, identifying Assignor as secured party with
respect to any security interest in collateral being assigned hereunder, the
Assignor hereby irrevocably authorizes, consents and appoints Assignee to take
all such action, or to file, or provide any such document, that may be acquired,
or that Assignee may desire, to amend, alter or modify any such financing
statement, or UCC-related document, to designate Assignee as the new secured
party and assignee of all right, title and interest that Assignor may have
possessed as secured party under any such financing statements or UCC-related
documents, without any further notice required to be provided to, or consent
required of Assignor.
3. Terms of the Purchase
Agreement. The terms of the Purchase Agreement, including but
not limited to Assignor’s and Assignee’s respective, representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities relating to the Liabilities,
are incorporated herein by this reference. Each of Assignor and
Assignee acknowledges and agrees that its respective representations,
warranties, covenants, agreements and indemnities contained in the Purchase
Agreement shall not be superseded hereby but shall remain in full force and
effect to the full extent provided therein. In the event of any
conflict or inconsistency between the terms of the Purchase Agreement and the
terms hereof, the terms of the Purchase Agreement shall govern.
4. Further
Actions. Each of the parties hereto covenants and agrees, at
its own expense, to execute and deliver, at the request of the other party
hereto, such further instruments of transfer and assignment and to take such
other action as such other party may reasonably request to more effectively
consummate the assignments and assumptions contemplated by this Agreement to the
extent not inconsistent with the terms of the Purchase Agreement.
5. Governing
Law. This Agreement will be governed by and construed under
the laws of the State of Indiana, without regard to conflicts-of-laws principles
that would require the application of any other law.
6. Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of
competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement will remain in
full force and effect. Any provision of this Agreement held invalid
or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to
the extent not held invalid or unenforceable.
7. Assignments, Successors and
No Third-Party Rights. No party may assign any of its rights
or delegate any of its obligations under this Agreement without the prior
written consent of the other party. Subject to the preceding
sentence, this Agreement will apply to, be binding in all respects upon and
inure to the benefit of the successors and permitted assigns of the
parties. Nothing expressed or referred to in this Agreement will be
construed to give any person other than the parties to this Agreement any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under or with respect to this Agreement or
any provision of this Agreement, except such rights as shall inure to a
successor or permitted assignee.
8. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which will be
deemed to be an original copy of this Agreement and all of which, when taken
together, will be deemed to constitute one and the same
agreement. The exchange of copies of this Agreement and of signature
pages by facsimile transmission shall constitute effective execution and
delivery of this Agreement as to the parties and may be used in lieu of the
original Agreement for all purposes. Signatures of the parties
transmitted by facsimile shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all
purposes.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties have executed this Assignment and Assumption Agreement as of the date
first above written.
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STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS
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EXHIBIT
C
DRAFT CLOSING
STATEMENT
(As
of
, 2010)
Estimated
Liabilities:
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Liabilities (including accrued interest)
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Purchase Price:
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Cash on Hand
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Prepaid Expenses
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Unpaid principal balance of
the Loans,
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Interest
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All other Assets and
Additional Assets
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Estimated
Payment Amount Payable by ____ to ____
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AMERICAN BANCORP
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STATE BANK OF ALTO PASS, ILL.
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