September 27, 2005
Exhibit 10.3
September 27, 2005
Life Therapeutics, Ltd
X.X. Xxx 0000 Frenchs Forest
00 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
XXX 0000, Xxxxxxxxx
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxx
Xxxx
RE: Retirement of Secured Promissory Note dated December 17, 2004 (the “Note”)
Dear Sirs:
This letter shall constitute our agreement with respect to the retirement (the “Payoff”) of the Note, which we hereby agree shall occur prior to 5:00 p.m., Atlanta, time, on the date hereof (the “Payoff Date”). In exchange for (i) your proposed payment of the outstanding principal amount of the Note, which we hereby agree is US$6,800,000.00, prior to the stated maturity date and (ii) your covenants as set forth below, we hereby agree to accept the amount of US$6,000,000.00 in full satisfaction of the principal amount of the Note (the “Discounted Principal Amount”). Accordingly, on the Payoff Date, you shall pay the amount (the “Payoff Sum”) set forth below by wire transfer of immediately available funds:
Amount with respect to outstanding |
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Principal Balance |
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6,000,000.00 |
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Interest due and payable |
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57,334.00 |
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Total |
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6,057,334.00 |
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In addition, we agree that additional interest shall accrue and be payable at the Short-Term Applicable Federal Rate for September 2005 (assuming quarterly compounding) (3.84%) for each day after the Payoff Date (in the amount of $715.40) until we receive the Payoff Sum. The Payoff Sum must be received, in immediately available funds, by 5:00 P.M. (Eastern time) on the Payoff Date in order for you to avoid an additional day’s interest.
Subject to the terms hereof, on the Payoff Date,
• You shall deliver to us,
• the Payoff Sum, in immediately available funds and;
• an executed counterpart of the Mutual Limited Release substantially in the form attached hereto as Schedule 2 to this letter (the “Release”).
• We shall deliver to you,
• the original copy of the Note marked “paid in full”;
• the UCC-3 Termination Statements with respect to the financing statements described on Schedule 3 to this letter; and
• an executed counterpart of the Release.
In addition to the foregoing, you covenant and agree as follows:
• You shall use your commercially reasonable efforts to secure a termination of our guaranty of the leases of the Charlotte, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina and Pensacola, Florida donor centers as soon as reasonably practicable following the Payoff Date and
• You shall grant to us a license to certain technology, as more particularly described on Schedule 1 to this letter, on terms substantially as set forth on Schedule 1 to this letter and on such other terms and conditions as the parties may mutually agree.
We agree to negotiate the terms of the license agreement that are not set forth in Schedule 1 to this letter with you in good faith with a view toward executing the license agreement no later than October 15, 2005.
We acknowledge and agree that this letter supersedes and replaces in its entirety the letter we executed on September 13, 2005, with respect to the Payoff.
If the foregoing correctly sets forth your understanding of our agreement, please so indicate by signing a counterpart of this letter in the space provided below. Please return you signed counterpart to me at the address above.
Sincerely, |
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SEROLOGICALS CORPORATION |
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Vice President, Finance, Chief Financial Officer |
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS, LTD |
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Xx. Xxxx Xxxx |
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Managing Director/CEO |
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Schedule 1 –License Terms
Description of Licensed Technology: |
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The patented technology relating to tangential flow membrane electrophoresis, including patent rights and patents that may from time to time issue with claims covering the Licensor’s patented Gradiflow Device or improvements thereto and other information relating to use of the Gradiflow Technology for the recovery of proteins and other charged molecules from solutions containing such molecules |
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Fields of Use: |
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“Bioprocessing Market”, meaning the production of cell culture products, such as sera, media and supplements, for use by biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
“Blood Typing Market”, meaning the production of monoclonal antibodies to assure blood-type compatibility, for use by blood banks and hospital transfusion services.
“Research Market”, meaning those individuals in laboratories of academic, government, industrial, clinical or other institutions engaged in the investigation of biological and/or biochemical processes, and/or research and development of biological and/or biochemical products, who determine for themselves that they are entitled to purchase and use Licensed Products or kits labeled “For Research Use Only - Not for any clinical, therapeutic or diagnostic use in Humans or Animals” or a reasonable equivalent. |
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Scope of License: |
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A worldwide non-exclusive, license (i) to use the Licensed Technology for internal business use related to cell culture separation and for experiments, developmental work and/or for tests requiring the recovery of molecules from solutions containing such molecules and (ii) to use the Licensed Technology to manufacture |
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products for sale within the Fields of Use. |
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Term: |
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Subject to early termination for breach, the later of: (a) ten years from the effective date and (b) upon the expiration of the last to expire valid claim within the Licensed Technology (if applicable). |
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Royalty Rate: |
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8% of net sales of products manufactured using the Licensed Technology. No royalty is payable with respect to the internal use of the Licensed Technology. |
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Schedule 3 – Form of Release
MUTUAL LIMITED RELEASE AGREEMENT
THIS MUTUAL LIMITED RELEASE AGREEMENT (this “Release”), dated as of September 27, 2005, by and among (i) Life Therapeutics Limited (f/k/a Gradipore Limited), a corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia (the “Company”); Life Gels, Inc. (f/k/a Gradipore, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“LG”); Life Therapeutics, Inc. (f/k/a Life Therapeutics Plasma Holdings, Inc. and Gradipore Plasma Holdings, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“LTI”); LifeSera, Inc., (f/k/a Serologicals Specialty Biologics, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (“LifeSera”); Life Therapeutics Nevada, Inc. (f/k/a Serologicals Nevada, Inc.), a Nevada corporation (“Nevada”); Life Therapeutics Business Trust (f/k/a Serologicals Business Trust), a Nevada business trust (“LBT”); Life Therapeutics Investments, LLC (f/k/a Serologicals Investments, LLC), a Georgia limited liability company (“LLC”); Life Therapeutics Management Partnership, LP (f/k/a Serologicals Management Partnership, LP), a Delaware limited partnership (“LP”); and Allegheny Biologicals, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (“Allegheny”, and together with the Company, LG, LTI, LifeSera, Nevada, LBT, LLC, and LP, collectively, the “Purchaser Parties”), on the one hand, and (ii) Serologicals Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Holder Parent”), and Serologicals Finance Company, a Delaware corporation (“Holder” and together with the Holder Parent, collectively, the “Holder Parties”), on the other hand.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.2 of the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Holder Parties, jointly and severally, agreed to indemnify, protect, and hold harmless the Purchaser Indemnified Parties (as defined in the Stock Purchase Agreement) from and against any Purchaser Losses (as defined in the Stock Purchase Agreement);
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.4 of the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Company and LG, jointly and severally, agreed to indemnify, protect, and hold harmless the Holder Indemnified Parties (as defined in the Stock Purchase Agreement) from and against any Holder Losses (as defined in the Stock Purchase Agreement);
WHEREAS, as consideration for the Common Stock, the Holder received two promissory notes, the first in the amount of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (U.S. $1,500,000.00) (the “Short Term Old Note”) and the second in the amount of Eleven Million
Eight Hundred Three Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars (U.S. $11,803,867.00) (the “Long Term Old Note”, together with the Short Term Old Note, the “Old Notes”);
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Exchange Agreement or the Payoff Letter (as the case may be).
ARTICLE II
RELEASE BY PURCHASER PARTIES
2.1 Releases. As consideration for the transactions contemplated by this Release and the Payoff Letter:
(a) The Purchaser Parties, on behalf of themselves and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, parents, directors, officers, agents, principals, representatives, employees, attorneys, successors, transferees and assigns (collectively, the “Purchaser Releasing Parties”) hereby fully, unconditionally and completely release, acquit, discharge, and agree to hold harmless the Holder Parties, their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, agents, principals, representatives, employees, attorneys, successors, transferees and assigns (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Holder Releasees”) from any and all claims, liabilities, allegations, actions, offsets
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or demands whatsoever which the Purchaser Parties, or any of them, have or may have against the Holder Releasees, or any of them, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, xxxxxx or inchoate, and whenever they may have arisen from the beginning of time until the Payoff Date with respect to the Exchange Agreement; provided, however, that in no event shall this Release, including, without limitation, any term or condition of this Section 2.1(a) have applicability to the Prior License.
(b) The Purchaser Parties on behalf of themselves and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, parents, directors, officers, agents, principals, representatives, employees, attorneys, successors, transferees and assigns, hereby fully, unconditionally and completely ratify and confirm the Prior Release and fully, unconditionally and completely waive and renounce any right they may have to contest the validity of the Prior Release for any reason.
2.2 Further Assurances. Upon the request of the Holder Releasees, the Purchaser Parties shall take such additional actions as the Holder Releasees shall reasonably request, including the execution of documents or instruments reasonably requested by the Holder Releasees, to more fully evidence the releases given by the Purchaser Parties pursuant to this Release.
ARTICLE III
RELEASE BY HOLDER PARTIES
3.1 Releases. As consideration for the transactions contemplated by this Release and Payoff Letter:
(a) The Holder Parties, on behalf of themselves and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, parents, directors, officers, agents, principals, representatives, employees, attorneys, successors, transferees and assigns (collectively, the “Holder Releasing Parties”) hereby fully, unconditionally and completely release, acquit, discharge, and agree to hold harmless the Purchaser Parties, their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, agents, principals, representatives, employees, attorneys, successors, transferees and assigns (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Purchaser Releasees”) from any and all claims, liabilities, allegations, actions, offsets or demands whatsoever which the Holder Parties, or either of them, have or may have against the Purchaser Releasees, or any of them, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, xxxxxx or inchoate, and whenever they may have arisen from the beginning of time until the Payoff Date with respect to the Exchange Agreement, the Exchange Note and the Security Agreement; provided, however, that in no event shall this Release, including, without limitation, any term or condition of this Section 3.1(a), have applicability to and the Prior License.
(b) The Holder Parties on behalf of themselves and their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, parents, directors, officers, agents, principals, representatives, employees, attorneys, successors, transferees and assigns, hereby fully, unconditionally and completely ratify and confirm the Prior Release and fully, unconditionally and completely waive and renounce any right they may have to contest the validity of the Prior Release for any reason.
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3.2 Further Assurances. Upon the request of the Purchaser Releasees, the Holder Parties shall take such additional actions as the Purchaser Releasees shall reasonably request, including the execution of documents or instruments reasonably requested by the Purchaser Releasees, to more fully evidence the releases given by the Holder Parties pursuant to this Release.
ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS
4.1 Notices. All notices, demands and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder or under this Release shall be made in writing and shall be by registered or certified first-class mail, return receipt requested, by next day delivery through a recognized national courier or personal delivery:
(a) If to the Purchaser Parties, to:
Life Therapeutics Limited
X.X. Xxx 0000 Frenchs Forest
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XXX 0000, Xxxxxxxxx
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxx
Xxxx
Telecopy: (000) 0000-0000
with a copy to: Xxxxx Xxxxx LLP
One Atlantic Center
0000 X. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. XxXxxxxx
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
(b) if to the Holder Parties, to:
Serologicals Corporation
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Vice President, General
Counsel
with a copy to: King & Spalding LLP
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Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000-0000
Attention: X. Xxxx Xxxxx, Esq.
Any such notice, communication or delivery will be deemed given or made (a) on the fifth business day after it is mailed by registered or certified mail, (b) on the first business day
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after delivery to an appropriate customer service representative if sent by next day delivery through a recognized national courier, or (c) on the date of delivery if delivered in person. Any party may change its address for notice purposes by giving written notice to the other parties in the manner specified above.
4.2 Entire Agreement. This Release shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors, heirs, executors and administrators. The parties may execute this Release in any number of counterparts, each of which when executed and delivered, shall be an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
4.3 Survival of Section 5.12. The Purchaser Parties and the Holder Parties hereby acknowledge and agree that, notwithstanding any provision of this Release or the Prior Release to the contrary, their respective obligations pursuant to Section 5.12 of the Stock Purchase Agreement shall survive indefinitely.
4.4 Governing Law. This Release shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to any jurisdiction’s conflict of law provisions.
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS LIMITED |
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Title: Director |
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LIFE GELS, INC. |
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Name: Xx. X. X. Xxxx |
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Title: Director |
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS, INC. |
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Name: Xx. X. X. Xxxx |
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Title: President |
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LIFE SERA, INC. |
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Name: Xx. X. X. Xxxx |
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Title: CFO and Director |
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS NEVADA, INC. |
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Title: Director |
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS BUSINESS TRUST |
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Name: Xx. X. X. Xxxx |
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Title: Director |
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS INVESTMENTS, LLC |
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Name: Xx. X. X. Xxxx |
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Title: Director |
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LIFE THERAPEUTICS MANAGEMENT |
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PARTNERSHIP, LP |
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Name: Xx. X. X. Xxxx |
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Title: Director |
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SEROLOGICALS CORPORATION |
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: Vice President, Finance and Chief
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SEROLOGICALS FINANCE COMPANY |
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Schedule 3 – Termination Statements
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Place of Filing |
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Financing |
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Serologicals Specialty Biologics, Inc. |
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LifeSera, Inc. |
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Delaware Department of State |
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Serologicals Nevada, Inc. |
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Life Therapeutics Nevada, Inc. |
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Nevada Secretary of State |
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Pennsylvania Secretary of State |
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Life Therapeutics Investments, LLC |
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Georgia Secretary of State |
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Serologicals Management Partnership, LP |
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Life Therapeutics Management Partnership LP |
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Serologicals Business Trust |
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Nevada Secretary of State |
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Delaware Department of State |
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Gradipore Plasma Holdings, Inc. |
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Life Therapeutics Plasma Holdings, Inc. |
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