STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT between ALCON HOLDINGS, INC. and LENSX LASERS, INC. and THE SHAREHOLDERS LISTED HEREIN and WILLIAM LINK and JAMES GARVEY as the SELLERS’ REPRESENTATIVES Dated: July 6, 2010
between
ALCON
HOLDINGS, INC.
and
LENSX
LASERS, INC.
and
THE
SHAREHOLDERS LISTED HEREIN
and
XXXXXXX
XXXX
and
XXXXX
XXXXXX
as
the SELLERS’ REPRESENTATIVES
Dated: July
6, 2010
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE
I
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DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Certain
Definitions
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1
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1.2
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Other
Definitional and Interpretive Matters.
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1
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ARTICLE
II
|
SALE
AND PURCHASE OF SHARES, PURCHASE PRICE; CLOSING
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2
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2.1
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Purchase
and Sale of Company Securities.
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2
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2.2
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Purchase
Price
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3
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2.3
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Payments
at Closing
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3
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2.4
|
Closing
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4
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2.5
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Deliveries
Prior to the Closing Date
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5
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2.6
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Deliveries
on the Closing Date
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5
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2.7
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No
Further Ownership Rights in the Company
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7
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2.8
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Dissenting
Shares; Release of Appraisal Holdback.
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7
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2.9
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Net
Working Capital Adjustment.
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8
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2.10
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Earnout
Payments.
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10
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2.11
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Withholding
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14
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2.12
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Release
of Escrow Balance.
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14
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ARTICLE
III
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL SELLERS
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15
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3.1
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Organization
and Good Standing
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15
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3.2
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Authorization
of Agreement
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16
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3.3
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Conflicts;
Consents of Third Parties.
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16
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3.4
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Ownership
and Transfer of Company Securities
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16
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3.5
|
Litigation
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17
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3.6
|
Absence
of Claims
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17
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3.7
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Insolvency
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17
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3.8
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Financial
Advisors
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17
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ARTICLE
IV
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE COMPANY
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17
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4.1
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Organization
and Compliance.
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17
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4.2
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Authorization
of Agreement
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18
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4.3
|
Conflicts;
Consents of Third Parties.
|
18
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4.4
|
Capitalization.
|
18
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4.5
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Subsidiaries
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19
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4.6
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Corporate
Records.
|
20
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4.7
|
Financial
Statements.
|
20
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4.8
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No
Undisclosed Liabilities
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21
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4.9
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Absence
of Certain Developments
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21
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4.10
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Taxes.
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23
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4.11
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Real
Property.
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26
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4.12
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Tangible
Personal Property.
|
27
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4.13
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Intellectual
Property.
|
27
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4.14
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Medical
Products; Research Studies.
|
30
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
(continued)
Page
4.15
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Material
Contracts.
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32
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4.16
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Employee
Benefits Plans.
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34
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4.17
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Employees.
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37
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4.18
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Labor.
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38
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4.19
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Litigation
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39
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4.20
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Compliance
with Laws; Permits.
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39
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4.21
|
Environmental
Matters
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40
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4.22
|
Insurance
|
41
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4.23
|
Inventories
|
41
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4.24
|
Related
Party Transactions
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41
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4.25
|
Suppliers.
|
42
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4.26
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Product
Warranty; Product Liability
|
42
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4.27
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Banks;
Power of Attorney
|
42
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4.28
|
Certain
Payments
|
42
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4.29
|
Financial
Advisors
|
42
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4.30
|
Certain
Governmental Matters
|
43
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4.31
|
Insolvency
|
43
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ARTICLE
V
|
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE PURCHASER
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43
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5.1
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Organization
and Good Standing
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43
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5.2
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Authorization
of Agreement
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43
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5.3
|
No
Vote Required
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43
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5.4
|
Conflicts;
Consents of Third Parties.
|
44
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5.5
|
Litigation
|
44
|
5.6
|
Investment
Intention
|
44
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5.7
|
Financial
Advisors
|
44
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5.8
|
Financing
|
44
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ARTICLE
VI
|
COVENANTS
|
44
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6.1
|
Conduct
of the Business Pending the Closing.
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44
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6.2
|
Additional
Seller Covenants
|
48
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6.3
|
Access
to Information; Confidentiality
|
48
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6.4
|
Third
Party Consents
|
49
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6.5
|
Governmental
Consents and Approvals.
|
49
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6.6
|
Further
Assurances
|
51
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6.7
|
Non-Competition.
|
51
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6.8
|
Non-Solicitation;
Confidentiality.
|
53
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6.9
|
Preservation
of Records
|
54
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6.10
|
Publicity.
|
55
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6.11
|
Use
of Name
|
55
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6.12
|
Options
and Company Option Plan.
|
56
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6.13
|
Related-Party
Transactions with Non-Management Affiliates
|
57
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6.14
|
Monthly
Financial Statements
|
57
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6.15
|
Fees
and Expenses
|
57
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6.16
|
Notification
of Certain Matters
|
57
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6.17
|
Indebtedness
|
58
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6.18
|
Interim
Debt Financing
|
58
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
(continued)
Page
6.19
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Second
Step Merger
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58
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6.20
|
Directors
and Officers Insurance.
|
59
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6.21
|
Employee
Matters
|
59
|
6.22
|
Resignation
of Directors
|
60
|
6.23
|
401(k)
Plan
|
60
|
6.24
|
Certain
Waivers
|
60
|
6.25
|
Valuation
Opinion
|
60
|
6.26
|
Parachute
Payment Waiver.
|
61
|
ARTICLE
VII
|
CONDITIONS
TO CLOSING
|
62
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7.1
|
Purchaser’s
Conditions to Closing
|
62
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7.2
|
Sellers’
Conditions to Closing
|
64
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ARTICLE
VIII
|
INDEMNIFICATION,
REMEDIES AND FREEDOM TO OPERATE
|
64
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8.1
|
Survival
of Representations and Warranties
|
64
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8.2
|
Indemnification.
|
65
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8.3
|
Limitations
on Indemnification for Breaches of Representations and
Warranties.
|
66
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8.4
|
Indemnification
Procedures.
|
67
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8.5
|
Tax
Matters.
|
69
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8.6
|
Recourse
for Indemnity Claims.
|
71
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8.7
|
Freedom
to Operate Payments and Recourse
|
72
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ARTICLE
IX
|
TERMINATION
|
73
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9.1
|
Termination
of Agreement
|
73
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9.2
|
Procedure
Upon Termination
|
74
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9.3
|
Effect
of Termination
|
74
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ARTICLE
X
|
MISCELLANEOUS
|
75
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10.1
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Release
of Claims.
|
75
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10.2
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Sellers’
Representative.
|
77
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10.3
|
Notices
|
79
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10.4
|
Specific
Performance
|
80
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10.5
|
Successors
and Assignees.
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81
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10.6
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Expenses
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81
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10.7
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Delays
or Omissions; Waiver
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81
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10.8
|
Amendment
|
82
|
10.9
|
Entire
Agreement
|
82
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10.10
|
Severability.
|
82
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10.11
|
Counterparts,
Facsimile Signatures
|
82
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10.12
|
Submission
to Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process; Waiver of Jury
Trial.
|
82
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10.13
|
Governing
Law
|
83
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10.14
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Further
Actions
|
83
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10.15
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No
Third-Party Beneficiaries
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83
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
(continued)
Page
Disclosure
Schedules
Annexes
Annex
1
|
Initial
Deemed Product Price, Initial Target Product Revenue, Initial Deemed
Procedure Price; Initial Target Procedure Revenue and Initial Target Net
Revenue.
|
Annex
2
|
Defined
Terms
|
Exhibits
Exhibit
A
|
Initial
Sellers, Joining Sellers; Company Securities Owned; Seller Pro-Rata
Percentages
|
Exhibit
B
|
Seller
Distribution Schedule
|
Exhibit
C
|
Form
of Escrow Agreement
|
Exhibit
D
|
Form
of Post-Closing Counterpart Signature
Page
|
Exhibit
E
|
Form
of Opinion of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx &
Xxxxx
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Exhibit
F
|
Form
of Interim Debt Financing Promissory
Note
|
Exhibit
G
|
Representative
Expense Amount
|
Exhibit
H
|
Form
of Parachute Payment Waiver
|
Exhibit
I
|
Form
of Option Termination Agreement
|
Exhibit
J Form
of Employment Agreement
This
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as
of July 6, 2010, by and among ALCON HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware company (“Purchaser”), LENSX
LASERS, INC., a Delaware company (the “Company”), the
holders of Company securities listed on Exhibit A hereto
as “Initial
Sellers” (the “Initial Sellers”),
and each Person who executes a counterpart signature page (as hereinafter
defined, in accordance with Section
2.6(g)).
W I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS,
the Initial Sellers are the owners of (i) such portion of the Shares (as
defined below) as is set out in Exhibit A
hereto, together constituting ninety-eight and fifty-nine one-hundredths percent
(98.59%) of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company and
(ii) fifty-one and fifty-seven one-hundredths percent (51.57%) of the
outstanding Company Warrants (as defined below);
WHEREAS,
the Initial Sellers wish to sell (i) their owned capital stock of the
Company and (ii) all Company Warrants then held by them, to the Purchaser,
free and clear of all Liens, in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement;
WHEREAS,
the Company also agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the
owners of the Remaining Shares (as defined below) as are set out in Exhibit A
hereto, to sell their shares in the Company to the Purchaser, free and clear of
all Liens, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and
WHEREAS,
the Purchaser wishes to acquire one hundred percent (100%) of the Company
Securities in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
NOW
THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, and in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants and
agreements hereinafter contained, the parties hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Certain
Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, capitalized terms
shall have the meanings specified in Annex 2 to this Agreement.
1.2 Other Definitional and Interpretive
Matters.
(a) Unless
otherwise expressly provided, for purposes of this Agreement, the following
rules of interpretation shall apply:
(i) Calculation of Time
Period. When calculating the period of time before which,
within which or following which any act is to be done or step taken pursuant to
this Agreement, the date that is the reference date in calculating such period
shall be excluded. If
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the last
day of such period is a non-Business Day, the period in question shall end on
the next succeeding Business Day.
(ii) Dollars. Any
reference in this Agreement to $ shall mean U.S. dollars.
(iii) Exhibits/Schedules. The
Exhibits and Schedules to this Agreement are hereby incorporated and made a part
hereof and are an integral part of this Agreement. All Exhibits and
Schedules annexed hereto or referred to herein are hereby incorporated in and
made a part of this Agreement as if set forth in full herein. Any
capitalized terms used in any Schedule or Exhibit but not otherwise defined
therein shall be defined as set forth in this Agreement.
(iv) Gender and
Number. Any reference in this Agreement to gender shall
include all genders, and words imparting the singular number only shall include
the plural and vice versa.
(v) Headings. The
provision of a Table of Contents, the division of this Agreement into Articles,
Sections and other subdivisions and the insertion of headings are for
convenience of reference only and shall not affect or be utilized in construing
or interpreting this Agreement. All references in this Agreement to
any “Section” are to the corresponding Section of this Agreement unless
otherwise specified.
(vi) Herein. The
words such as “herein,” “hereinafter,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” refer to
this Agreement as a whole and not merely to a subdivision in which such words
appear unless the context otherwise requires.
(vii) Including. The
word “including” or any
variation thereof means “including, without
limitation” and shall not be construed to limit any general statement
that it follows to the specific or similar items or matters immediately
following it.
(b) The
parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this
Agreement and, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation
arises, this Agreement shall be construed as jointly drafted by the parties
hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring
any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this
Agreement.
ARTICLE
II
SALE
AND PURCHASE OF SHARES, PURCHASE PRICE; CLOSING
Subject
to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of this
Agreement:
2.1 Purchase and Sale of Company
Securities.
(a) On the
Closing Date the Initial Sellers shall sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser
shall purchase from the Initial Sellers all Company Securities owned by them as
shown on Exhibit A hereto
(collectively, the “Initial Seller
Shares”), constituting eighty-six
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and
twenty-two one-hundredths percent (86.22%) of the Company Securities (on a
fully-diluted basis) as of the Closing Date.
(b) On the
Closing Date, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the
Joining Sellers to sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser shall purchase from
the Joining Sellers a number of Remaining Shares, which, together with the
Initial Sellers’ Shares, will constitute as of the Closing Date not less than
(i) ninety-seven percent (97%) of the then-outstanding Shares (which
ninety-seven percent (97%) shall include one-hundred percent (100%) of any
then-outstanding Shares which are issued following the date of this Agreement
(including upon the exercise of any Company Options)) and (ii) one-hundred
percent (100%) of any Company Securities (other than Shares) which would not, by
their terms, terminate automatically as of the Closing.
2.2 Purchase Price. In
consideration for the purchase of the Company Securities and the undertakings of
the Sellers hereunder and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
the Purchaser shall pay to the Paying Agent (for distribution to the
Sellers):
(a) $361,500,000,
less
(i) any Company Indebtedness (including any Interim Debt Financing)
outstanding as of the close of business on the Business Day immediately
preceding the Closing Date, (ii) any Transaction Expenses unpaid as of the
close of business on the day immediately preceding the Closing Date and
(iii) the Aggregate Exercise Price (which amount shall be applied to reduce
solely the amounts otherwise payable to (A) Sellers who exercised Company
Options on a “cashless exercise” basis prior to the Closing and (B) Sellers
whose Company Warrants are sold without exercise in accordance with Section
2.6(f)), in each
case, as set forth in Exhibit B),
(iv) any Change of Control Payments, and (v) the Non-Competition
Payments (the “Base
Purchase Price”), subject to adjustment as provided in Section
2.9;
plus
(b) conditional
on the satisfaction of certain terms as provided in Section
2.10(b), the Base
Earnout Payments; plus
(c) conditional
on the satisfaction of certain terms as provided in Section
2.10(c), the
Excess Earnout Payments;
(the
payments described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c) together, the
“Consideration”), to
be allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto.
2.3 Payments at
Closing. At the Closing, the following actions and occurrences
will take place, all of which shall be deemed to have occurred simultaneously
and no action shall be deemed to have been completed and no document or
certificate shall be deemed to have been delivered, until all actions are
completed and all documents and certificates delivered:
(a) The
Purchaser shall pay in immediately available U.S. Dollar funds to an account
designated by XX Xxxxxx Xxxxx Bank, N.A. (the “Paying Agent”), by
wire transfer of immediately available funds, the Base Purchase Price plus the Estimated
Working Capital Excess or minus the Estimated
Working Capital Shortfall, and less (i) the
amount to be paid into the Escrow Account pursuant to Section
2.3
(e),
(ii) the Adjustment Holdback, (iii) if, as of the Closing, the Sellers
are not the holders of one-hundred percent (100%) of the Company
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Securities,
the Appraisal Holdback (iv) the Aggregate Option Consideration, and (v) the
amount to be paid into the Representative Account pursuant to Section
2.3(f). Such
amount shall to be allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto.
(b) The
Purchaser shall pay in immediately available U.S. Dollar funds to an account
designated by the Paying Agent, by wire transfer of immediately available funds,
the Aggregate Option Consideration to be allocated among the Non-Exercising
Optionholders in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto.
(c) The
Purchaser may (but shall not be obligated to) pay in full all Company
Indebtedness due and owing at such time, as shown on the certificate delivered
by the Company pursuant to Section
6.17, by wire
transfer of immediately available funds into accounts designated in writing by
the Company not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing
Date.
(d) The
Purchaser shall pay in full all Transaction Expenses due and owing at such time,
as shown on the certificate delivered by the Company pursuant to Section
6.15, by wire
transfer of immediately available funds into accounts designated in writing by
the Company not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing
Date.
(e) The
Purchaser shall, on behalf of the Sellers, pay to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as
agent to Purchaser and the Sellers (the “Escrow Agent”), in
immediately available funds, to the account designated by the Escrow Agent, the
Initial Escrow Amount, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the
Escrow Agreement in the form attached as Exhibit C hereto
(the “Escrow
Agreement”), which will be executed at the Closing, by and among
Purchaser, the Sellers’ Representatives and the Escrow Agent.
(f) The
Purchaser shall, on behalf of the Sellers, pay to the account designated by the
Seller Representative (the “Representative
Account”) an amount equal to One-Million Dollars ($1,000,000) (the “Initial Representative
Expense Amount”), in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
(g) The
Purchaser shall pay to each of the Persons entitled thereto, by wire transfer of
immediately available U.S. Dollar funds, his or her Change of Control
Payment.
(h) The
Purchaser shall pay to each of the Restricted Sellers, by wire transfer of
immediately available U.S. Dollar funds, his or her Non-Competition
Payment.
2.4 Closing. The
closing of the purchase and sale of the Company Securities (the “Closing”) shall take
place at the offices of Xxxxx Lord Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, 0000 Xxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx within three (3) Business Days after the satisfaction
or waiver of all the conditions precedent to Closing as set forth in
ARTICLE VII
(other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the
Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of those conditions at
Closing), or thereafter at such other time, date and place as may be agreed by
the parties in writing (the time and date of the Closing being herein referred
to as the “Closing
Date”).
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2.5 Deliveries Prior to the Closing
Date. No later than three (3) Business Days prior to the
Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to Purchaser:
(a) the
Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and a statement of the Estimated Closing Working
Capital derived therefrom pursuant to Section
2.9(a)(i).
(b) the
pay-off letters or final invoices in respect of Transaction Expenses and the
certificate setting forth an estimate of Transaction Expenses, pursuant to Section
6.15.
(c) the
pay-off letters in respect of Indebtedness to be repaid as of the Closing and
the certificate setting forth an estimate of Indebtedness, pursuant to Section
6.17.
(d) details
of the accounts to which payments for Company Indebtedness shall be sent as of
the Closing pursuant to Section
2.3(c).
(e) details
of the accounts to which payment of the Transaction Expenses shall be sent as of
the Closing pursuant to Section
2.3(d).
(f) details
of the account to which payments to the Paying Agent shall be made.
(g) details
of the accounts to which the Change of Control Payments shall be made pursuant
to Section
2.3(g).
(h) details
of the accounts to which the Non-Competition Payments shall be made pursuant to
Section
2.3(h)
2.6 Deliveries on the Closing
Date. At the Closing, the Company shall deliver to Purchaser,
all of which shall be deemed to have occurred simultaneously and no action shall
be deemed to have been completed and no document or certificate shall be deemed
to have been delivered until all actions are completed and all documents and
certificates delivered:
(a) copies of
resolutions, certified by the Secretary of the Company as to the authorization
of this Agreement and all of the transactions contemplated hereby;
(b) copies of
resolutions, certified by the Secretary of the Company, as to the termination of
the Company Option Plan, in accordance with Section
6.12
hereof;
(c) copies of
the releases from Affiliates of the Company, pursuant to Section
6.13(b);
(d) evidence
that each Company Option (i) has been exercised and that the Shares issued
upon such exercise will be sold pursuant hereto, (ii) is held by a
Non-Exercising Optionholder, or (iii) will expire on or prior to the
Closing without any further obligation on the part of the Company or the
Purchaser in respect of such Company Options in accordance with Section
6.12(a)(iii);
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(e) stock
certificates from each of the Sellers who is selling Shares (including all
Initial Sellers and all Joining Sellers (including, in each case, to the extent
that such Sellers constitute Exercising Optionholders)) representing such
Shares, duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by stock transfer powers and with
all requisite stock transfer tax stamps attached and otherwise sufficient to
transfer the Shares to Purchaser free and clean of all Liens;
(f) documents
of transfer from each of the Sellers who is selling Company Securities not
constituting Shares (including any Seller who is selling unexercised Company
Warrants) with all requisite stock transfer tax stamps attached and otherwise
sufficient to transfer such Company Securities to Purchaser free and clean of
all Liens;
(g) counterpart
signature pages to this Agreement executed by a number of Joining Sellers which,
together with the Initial Sellers, hold, as of the Closing Date, no less than
(A) ninety-seven percent (97%) of the then-outstanding Shares (which
ninety-seven percent (97%) shall include one-hundred percent (100%) of any
then-outstanding Shares which are issued following the date of this Agreement
(including upon the exercise of any Company Options)) and (B) one-hundred
percent (100%) of any Company Securities (other than Shares) which would not, by
their terms, terminate automatically as of the Closing, pursuant to which such
Joining Sellers shall become parties to this Agreement as if Initial Sellers
hereunder;
(h) certificates
of good standing dated not more than five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing
Date with respect to the Company issued by the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware and for each state in which the Company is qualified to do business
as a foreign corporation;
(i) all
instruments and documents necessary to release each of the Liens set forth in
Schedule
2.6(i) other than
Permitted Exceptions, including appropriate UCC financing statement amendments
(termination statements);
(j) the
certificate indicating the Company Transaction Expenses as of the close of
business on the day immediately preceding the Closing Date, pursuant to Section
6.15;
(k) the
certificate indicating the amount of Indebtedness to be repaid as of the
Closing, pursuant to Section
6.17;
(l) the
resignation of the existing directors of the Company with a written
acknowledgment from each such resigning director that he has no claim whatever
against the Company whether in respect of compensation for loss of office,
damages, loans or otherwise, provided that, subject to the Company’s compliance
with Section
6.20(a) hereof,
such acknowledgement shall not have any effect on such director’s right to
indemnification or insurance pursuant to this Agreement or
otherwise;
(m) the
certificates described in Sections
7.1(f);
(n) an
affidavit that complies with U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.897-2(h)
to the effect that the Company Securities are not “United States real property
interests” as defined in Section 897(c) of the Code (a “FIRPTA
Affidavit”);
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(o) an
opinion of Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx, counsel to the Company, in
substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto
and permitting reliance thereon by Purchaser;
(p) a copy of
each Parachute Payment Waiver, in substantially the form of Exhibit H (the “Parachute Payment
Waiver”) hereto, executed by a Person designated to execute such a waiver
pursuant to Section
6.26;
(q) all
instruments and documents necessary to release any and all Liens other than
Permitted Exceptions, including appropriate UCC financing statement amendments
(termination statements); and
(r) an Option
Termination Agreement in the form attached as Exhibit I from
each Non-Exercising Optionholder duly executed by such Non-Exercising
Optionholder.
2.7 No Further Ownership Rights in the
Company. Upon payment of the amounts specified in Sections
2.3(a) through
2.3(f) to the
Paying Agent, the Escrow Agent and the Representative Account, the Sellers shall
cease to have any rights pertaining to such Company Securities or the Company
other than the right to receive the Earnout Payments, if any, the remaining
portions, if any of the Adjustment Holdback and (if applicable) the Appraisal
Holdback, in each case, upon the release thereof and any remaining Escrow
Balance upon the release thereof, in each case, in accordance with the terms
hereof.
2.8 Dissenting
Shares; Release of Appraisal Holdback.
(a) If,
following the Closing, there are any Remaining Shares not acquired by Purchaser
as of the Closing then, subsequent to the Closing and the consummation of the
Merger contemplated by Section
6.19, all
Dissenting Shares will be converted into the right to receive such consideration
as may be determined to be due to the Dissenting Stockholder holding such
Dissenting Shares under Delaware General Corporation Law and the California
General Corporation Law, as applicable. If a Dissenting Stockholder
forfeits his, her or its right to appraisal under the Delaware General
Corporation Law and the California General Corporation Law, as applicable, or
properly withdraws his, her or its demand for appraisal of Dissenting Shares,
then, as of the occurrence of such event, such holder’s Dissenting Shares shall
cease to be Dissenting Shares and shall be converted into and represent the
right to receive the consideration payable in respect of such Shares pursuant to
Section
6.19.
(b) The
Company shall give the Purchaser (i) prompt notice of any written demands for
appraisal of any Shares of Common Stock, withdrawals of such demands, and any
other instruments that relate to such demands received by the Company and (ii)
the opportunity to direct all negotiations and proceedings with respect to
demands for appraisal under the Delaware General Corporation Law or the
California General Corporation Law, as applicable. The Company shall
not, except with the prior written consent of the Purchaser or as required by
applicable Law, make any payment with respect to any demands for appraisal of
Shares or offer to settle or settle any such demands.
(c) (i) The
costs of conducting any appraisal proceedings (including any reasonable fees of
attorney and advisors) as well as (ii) any amounts paid to any Dissenting
Stockholder on account of such Dissenting Stockholder’s assertion of appraisal
rights, shall be
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paid by
Purchaser from (or, if paid by the Company, shall be deemed to reduce) the
Appraisal Holdback (and, to the extent that the Appraisal Holdback is
insufficient first by the Sellers’ Representatives on behalf of the Sellers from
the Representative Account and, if still insufficient, from the Escrow
Account).
(d) Within
five (5) Business Days following such time as (i) all Dissenting
Stockholders have either been paid, pursuant to applicable Law for their
Dissenting Shares or have ceased to be Dissenting Shareholders and been paid for
their Shares in accordance with Section
6.19, and
(ii) Purchaser owns one-hundred percent (100%) of the Company Securities,
Purchaser shall release the remaining balance, if any, of the Appraisal Holdback
to the Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers and the Non-Exercising
Optionholders in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto).
2.9 Net Working Capital
Adjustment.
(a) Closing Date Purchase Price
Adjustment.
(i) Not later
than three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall
provide Purchaser with an estimated consolidated balance sheet of the Company as
of immediately after the Closing (the “Estimated Closing Balance
Sheet”) and a statement of the estimated Closing Working Capital (as
defined in Section
2.9(b)(i) below),
derived from the Estimated Closing Balance Sheet (“Estimated Closing Working
Capital”). The Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and Estimated
Closing Working Capital shall be prepared by the Company in accordance with GAAP
applied using the same accounting methods, practices, principles, policies and
procedures, with consistent classifications, judgments and valuation and
estimation and accrual methodologies that were used in the preparation of the
Company’s audited Financial Statements for the most recent fiscal year end, as
if such Estimated Closing Balance Sheet and Estimated Closing Working Capital
were being prepared and audited as of a fiscal year end.
(ii) If
Estimated Closing Working Capital is less than Target Working Capital, then the
Base Purchase Price payable at Closing will be decreased by the positive
difference between Estimated Closing Working Capital and Target Working Capital
(the “Estimated
Closing Working Capital Shortfall”). If Estimated Closing
Working Capital is greater than Target Working Capital, then the Base Purchase
Price payable at Closing will be increased by the positive difference between
Estimated Closing Working Capital and Target Working Capital (the “Estimated Closing Working
Capital Excess”). “Target Working
Capital” shall be $1,000,000.
(b) Post-Closing Date Purchase
Price Adjustment.
(i) Following
the Closing, the Base Purchase Price shall be adjusted as provided herein to
reflect the difference between Closing Working Capital and Estimated Closing
Working Capital. “Closing Working
Capital” means the Net Working Capital of the Company as of immediately
after the Closing, provided, however, that if, as
of the Closing Date, one or more of the individuals listed on Schedule
6.26 has not
executed a Parachute Payment Waiver as provided in Section
6.26(a), the Company shall
include in its calculation of Closing
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Net
Working Capital, a deemed liability equal to the portion of the value of the tax
deductions lost pursuant to Section 280G of the Code which result from the
acceleration of vesting for Company Options and Accelerated Shares and shall
reduce the Company’s Net Working Capital on a dollar by dollar basis to reflect
the loss of such Tax deductions (the “280G
Deduction”). For purposes of the preceding sentence, the value
of the acceleration of the Company Options and Accelerated Shares shall be
determined pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 1.280G-1, Q&A-12 and
Q&A-13. The value of the lost Tax deduction shall deemed to be
equal to (A) the dollar amount of the Tax deduction the Company could have
as a result the acceleration of vesting for Company Options and Accelerated
Shares had Parachute Payment Waivers been exercised, multiplied by
(B) 39.5%.
(ii) Within 45
days following the Closing Date, Purchaser shall deliver to the Sellers’
Representatives a consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of immediately
after the Closing (the “Closing Balance
Sheet”) audited by the Company’s accountants and a statement of Closing
Working Capital derived from the Closing Balance Sheet (the “Closing Working Capital
Statement”). The Closing Balance Sheet and the Closing Working
Capital Statement shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP applied using the
same accounting methods, practices, principles, policies and procedures, with
consistent classifications, judgments and valuation, estimation and accrual
methodologies that were used in the preparation of the Company’s audited
Financial Statements for the most recent fiscal year end, as if such Closing
Balance Sheet was as of a fiscal year end.
(iii) The
Closing Balance Sheet and the Closing Working Capital Statement (and the
computation of Closing Working Capital indicated thereon) delivered by Purchaser
to the Sellers’ Representatives shall be conclusive and binding upon the parties
unless the Sellers’ Representatives, within 15 days after delivery to the
Sellers’ Representatives of the Closing Balance Sheet and the Closing Working
Capital Statement, notifies Purchaser in writing that the Sellers’
Representatives disputes any of the amounts set forth therein, specifying the
nature of the dispute and the basis therefor.
The parties shall in good faith attempt to resolve any dispute and, if the
parties so resolve all disputes, the Closing Balance Sheet and the Closing
Working Capital Statement (and the computation of Closing Working Capital
indicated thereon), as amended to the extent necessary to reflect the resolution
of the dispute, shall be conclusive and binding on the parties. If
the parties do not reach agreement in resolving the dispute within 15 days after
notice is given by the Sellers’ Representatives to Purchaser pursuant to the
second preceding sentence, the parties shall submit the dispute to the
accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche, LLP, or, if such firm will not act, to
such other “big four” accounting firm which is mutually agreeable to the parties
(the “Arbiter”)
for resolution. Promptly, but no later than 20 days after acceptance
of its appointment as Arbiter, the Arbiter shall determine (it being understood
that in making such determination, the Arbiter shall be functioning as an expert
and not as an arbitrator), based solely on written submissions by Purchaser and
the Sellers’ Representatives, and not by independent review, only those issues
in dispute and shall render a written report as to the resolution of the dispute
and the resulting computation of the Closing Working Capital which shall be
conclusive and binding on the parties.
All proceedings conducted by the Arbiter shall take place in Orange County,
California. In resolving any disputed item, the Arbiter
(x) shall be bound by the provisions of this Section
2.9 and
(y) may not assign a value to any item greater than the greatest value for
such items claimed by either party or less than the smallest value for such
items claimed by either party. The fees, costs and
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expenses
of the Arbiter shall be allocated to and borne by Purchaser and the Sellers
based on the inverse of the percentage that the Arbiter’s determination (before
such allocation) bears to the total items in dispute as originally submitted to
the Arbiter with the Sellers’ portion paid first from the Adjustment Holdback
and, if needed, by the Sellers’ Representatives from the Representative Account
and, if needed, from the Escrow Account. By way of example and not of
limitation, if Purchaser and Sellers’ Representatives have a dispute over $100
and the Arbiter awards $60 to Sellers (60% of the amount in dispute) and $40 to
Purchaser (40% of the amount in dispute), Purchaser would bear 60% of the fees,
costs and expenses of the Arbiter and Sellers would bear 40% of the fees, costs
and expenses of the Arbiter.
(iv) Upon
final determination of Closing Working Capital as provided in Section
2.9(b)(iii)
above, (A) if Closing Working Capital is greater than Estimated Closing
Working Capital, the Base Purchase Price shall be increased by the excess of
Closing Working Capital over Estimated Closing Working Capital and Purchaser
shall promptly, but no later than five (5) Business Days after such final
determination, pay the amount of such difference, together with interest thereon
from the Closing Date to the date of payment thereof, to the Paying Agent to be
allocated among the Sellers and the Non-Exercising Optionholders in accordance
with Exhibit B
hereto, and (B) if Closing Working Capital is less than Estimated Closing
Working Capital, the Base Purchase Price shall be decreased by the excess of
Estimated Closing Working Capital over Closing Working Capital and the Sellers
shall promptly, but no later than five (5) Business Days after such final
determination, pay to Purchaser (including by way of offset against the
Adjustment Holdback) the amount of such difference, together with interest
thereon from the Closing Date to the date of payment thereof as determined
below.
(v) Any
remaining amounts of the Adjustment Holdback, after deduction pursuant to Section
2.9(b)(iv) above,
if any, shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Paying Agent, to be allocated
among the Sellers and the Non-Exercising Optionholders in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto, not later than five (5) Business Days after the Closing Balance Sheet is
determined final. If the Adjustment Holdback is insufficient to
satisfy any amount due to the Purchaser pursuant to Section
2.9(b)(iv) above,
such excess amount will be paid by the Sellers’ Representatives on behalf of the
Sellers and the Purchaser shall not be required to demand such payment from the
Escrow Account.
(vi) For the
purposes of this Section
2.9(b), interest
will be payable at the “prime” rate, as announced by The Wall Street
Journal, Eastern Edition, from time to time to be in effect, calculated
based on a 365 day year and the actual number of days elapsed.
2.10 Earnout Payments.
(a) No later
than 90 days after the last day of each Earnout Year, the Purchaser will provide
notice to the Sellers’ Representatives (the “Earnout Notice”) of
the actual Deemed Net Revenue for the relevant Earnout Year.
(b) Subject
to subsections (f), (g) and (j) through (m) of this Section
2.10, for each of
the Earnout Years ending December 31, 2011, December 31, 2012 and
December 31, 2013 (each such Earnout Year, a “Base Earnout Year”)
in which Deemed Net Revenue meets or exceeds Target Net Revenue for such Earnout
Year, Purchaser shall pay to Paying Agent (for
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distribution
to Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto) $25,000,000 (each such $25,000,000 payment, a “Base Earnout
Payment”). The parties acknowledge and agree that to the
extent that Deemed Net Revenue is less than Target Net Revenue for any Base
Earnout Year (i) no Earnout shall be payable by Purchaser for such Base
Earnout Year and (ii) Deemed Net Revenue for such Base Earnout Year shall
not be carried forward to any subsequent Earnout Year for purposes of
determining whether Target Net Revenue for such subsequent Earnout Year is met
or exceeded (nor for any other purpose).
(c) Subject
to subsections (g) and (j) through (m) of this Section
2.10, for each
Earnout Year in which Deemed Net Revenue exceeds Target Net Revenue for such
Earnout Year, Purchaser shall pay to Paying Agent (for distribution to Sellers
in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto) an amount equal to the amount by which the Deemed Net Revenue for such
Earnout Year exceeds the Target Net Revenue for such Earnout Year, multiplied by
0.5 (each such payment, an “Excess Earnout
Payment”).
(d) In the
event that due to external conditions (whether or not market related)
Purchaser’s actual selling price for the Product during any Earnout Year (based
on unbundled, arms’-length sales to un-Affiliated third parties) is lower, by
ten percent (10%) or more, than the applicable Deemed Product Price for such
Earnout Year (the percentage by which the actual Product price is lower than the
Deemed Product Price, the “Product Reduction
Percentage”):
(i) the
parties shall adjust the Deemed Product Price for (A) such Earnout Year and
(B) for each subsequent Earnout Year (as set forth on Annex 1 hereto),
by a percentage amount equal to the Product Reduction Percentage;
(ii) the
parties shall adjust the Target Product Revenue for (A) such Earnout Year
and (B) for each subsequent Earnout Year (as set forth on Annex 1 hereto)
by a percentage amount equal to the Product Reduction Percentage;
and
(iii) the
parties shall recalculate Target Net Revenue for (A) such Earnout Year and
(B) for each subsequent Earnout Year (as set forth on Annex 1 hereto)
by adding (X) Target Procedure Revenue for each such Earnout Year (as
adjusted, if applicable, pursuant to Section
2.10
(e)(ii) below) to
(Y) Target Product Revenue for each such Earnout Year, as adjusted pursuant
to Section
2.10(d)(ii)
above.
Purchaser
may not adjust the Deemed Product Price and Target Product Revenue pursuant to
this Section
2.10(d) more than
once per Earnout Year.
(e) In the
event that due to external conditions (whether or not market related) the actual
amount charged by Purchaser for each Procedure performed during any Earnout Year
(utilizing Products sold in unbundled, arms’-length sales to un-Affiliated third
parties) is lower, by ten percent (10%) or more, than the applicable Deemed
Procedure Price for such Earnout Year (the percentage by which the actual
Procedure charge is lower than the Deemed Procedure Price, the “Procedure Reduction
Percentage”):
(i) the
parties shall adjust the Deemed Procedure Price for (A) such Earnout Year
and (B) for each subsequent Earnout Year (as set forth on Annex 1 hereto),
by a percentage amount equal to Procedure Reduction Percentage;
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(ii) the
parties shall adjust the Target Procedure Revenue for (A) such Earnout Year
and (B) for each subsequent Earnout Year (as set forth on Annex 1 hereto)
by a percentage amount equal to the Procedure Reduction Percentage;
and
(iii) the
parties shall recalculate Target Net Revenue for (A) such Earnout Year and
(B) for each subsequent Earnout Year (as set forth on Annex 1 hereto)
by adding (X) Target Product Revenue for each such Earnout Year (as
adjusted, if applicable, pursuant to Section
2.10(d)(ii)
above) to (Y) Target Procedure Revenue for each such Earnout Year, as
adjusted pursuant to Section
2.10(e)(ii)
above.
Purchaser
may not adjust the Deemed Procedure Price and Target Procedure Revenue pursuant
to this Section
2.10(e) more than
once per Earnout Year.
(f) Notwithstanding
Section
2.10(b), no Base
Earnout Payment shall be owed by Purchaser for the Base Earnout Years ending
December 31, 2012 and December 31, 2013 unless on or before
January 1, 2012 (with respect to the Base Earnout Year ending
December 31, 2012) or January 1, 2013 (with respect to the Base
Earnout Year ending December 31, 2013), the FDA has granted approval of, or
clearance for, the use of the Company Femtosecond Laser in the creation of
full-thickness corneal incisions for cataract surgery.
(g) Notwithstanding
Sections
2.10(b) and
2.10(c), no
Earnout Payments (Base Earnout Payment or Excess Earnout Payments) shall be owed
by Purchaser:
(i) for the
Earnout Year ending December 31, 2013 unless (A) on or before
January 1, 2013, the FDA has granted a 510(k) Clearance or (B) on or
before July 1, 2013, the FDA has granted an Investigational Device exemption, in
each case, for the use of the Company Femtosecond Laser in astigmatic
keratotomy;
(ii) for the
Earnout Year ending December 31, 2014 unless on or before January 1,
2014, the FDA has granted either a 510(k)
Clearance or an Investigational Device exemption, in each case, for the use of
the Company Femtosecond Laser in astigmatic keratotomy, and
(iii) for the
Earnout Year ending December 31, 2015 unless on or before January 1,
2015, the FDA has granted either a 510(k)
Clearance or an Investigational Device exemption, in each case, for the use of
the Company Femtosecond Laser in astigmatic keratotomy.
(h) The
Earnout Notice delivered by Purchaser to the Sellers’ Representatives shall be
conclusive and binding upon the parties unless the Sellers’ Representatives,
within twenty (20) days after delivery to the Sellers’ Representatives of the
Earnout Notice, notifies Purchaser in writing that the Sellers’ Representatives
disputes any of the amounts set forth therein or whether the Diligent Efforts
required pursuant to Section
2.10
(n) have been
made, specifying the nature of the dispute and the basis therefor.
The parties shall in good faith attempt to resolve any dispute and, if the
parties so resolve all disputes, the Earnout Notice, as amended to the extent
necessary to reflect the resolution of the dispute, shall be conclusive and
binding on the parties. If the parties do not reach agreement in
resolving the dispute within twenty (20) days after notice is given by the
Sellers’ Representatives to Purchaser pursuant to the second
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preceding
sentence, the parties shall submit the dispute to the Arbiter for
resolution. Promptly, but no later than twenty (20) days after
acceptance of its appointment as Arbiter, the Arbiter shall determine (it being
understood that in making such determination, the Arbiter shall be functioning
as an expert and not as an arbitrator), based solely on written submissions by
Purchaser and the Sellers’ Representatives, and not by independent review, only
those issues in dispute and shall render a written report as to the resolution
of the dispute and the resulting computation of the Earnout Payment which shall
be conclusive and binding on the parties.
All proceedings conducted by the Arbiter shall take place in metropolitan
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. In resolving any disputed item, the Arbiter
(x) shall be bound by the provisions of this Section
2.10 and
(y) may not assign a value to any item greater than the greatest value for
such items claimed by either party or less than the smallest value for such
items claimed by either party. The fees, costs and expenses of the
Arbiter shall be allocated to and borne by Purchaser and the Sellers based on
the inverse of the percentage that the Arbiter’s determination (before such
allocation) bears to the total items in dispute as originally submitted to the
Arbiter (as such methodology is more fully described in the final sentence of
Section
2.9(b)(iii)) with
the Sellers’ portion paid first by offset from one or more Earnout Payments
(without being required to offset or deduct such amount from any Escrowed
Earnout Amount) and, if needed, by the Sellers’ Representatives from the
Representative Account and, if needed, from the Escrow Account.
(i) Subject
to subsections (j) and (k) of this Section
2.10, upon final
determination of any Earnout Payment as provided in Section
2.10(h) above,
Purchaser shall promptly, but no later than five (5) Business Days after such
final determination, pay the amount of such Earnout Payment to the Paying Agent,
to be allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto.
(j) Notwithstanding
Section
2.10(i) (and
subject to Section
2.10(k) below)
with respect to any Earnout Payment paid on account of the Earnout Years ending
December 31 of 2011, 2012 and 2013, Purchaser shall pay only seventy-five
percent (75%) of the amount of such Earnout Payment to the Paying Agent (to be
allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto) and shall pay twenty-five percent (25%) of amount of such Earnout
Payment to the Escrow Agent (any such amount, an “Escrowed Earnout
Amount”), to be deposited into the Escrow Account.
(k) Any
amount to be paid to the Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in
accordance with Exhibit B
hereto), whether one-hundred percent (100%) or seventy-five percent (75%) of any
Earnout Payment, as applicable, shall be subject to offset as provided in Sections
8.6(a)(ii) and
8.7(a)(ii)
hereof.
(l) The
amount of all Earnout Payments shall be proportionately reduced to account for
the percentage of the Shares (other than Dissenting Shares) that were acquired
by the Purchaser in the Merger.
(m) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Earnout Payments shall not exceed $382,500,000 in the
aggregate (the “Earnout
Cap”).
(n) Diligent
Efforts. Purchaser shall use Diligent Efforts to maximize
Deemed Net Revenue during the Earnout Years.
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2.11 Withholding. Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this
ARTICLE II or any
other provision of this Agreement, the Purchaser shall be entitled to deduct and
withhold from any payments due hereunder any amounts it is required by Law to
deduct and withhold in respect of making such payments under any provision of
the Code, or any state, local or foreign Tax law withholding tax at the maximum
rate for such withholding, unless the Purchaser is provided, at least five (5)
Business Days before such payment is made, with an exemption from such
withholding tax or reduced rate of withholding certificate in respect of such
payment for each Seller for the Purchaser’s full satisfaction. If the
Purchaser so withholds any such amounts, such amounts shall be treated for all
purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Sellers.
2.12 Release of Escrow
Balance.
(a) To the
extent that on each Interim Release Date there is then available a portion of
the Escrow Balance which is not then reserved subject to (i) resolution of
any pending Legal Proceeding initiated by any third party challenging
Purchaser’s Freedom to Operate, (ii) any executory Contract pursuant to
which Purchaser will be obligated to make FTO Payments following the Escrow
Release Date, or (iii) resolution of any Unresolved Claim, the parties
shall instruct the Escrow Agent to release Two-Million Dollars ($2,000,000) to
the Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto).
(b) If, on
December 31, 2015 (the “Escrow Release
Date”), there do not exist (i) any pending Legal Proceeding
initiated by any third party challenging Purchaser’s Freedom to Operate,
(ii) any executory Contract pursuant to which Purchaser will be obligated
to make FTO Payments following the Escrow Release Date, or (iii) any
Unresolved Claim, the parties shall instruct the Escrow Agent to release the
Escrow Balance (to the extent not utilized to pay Purchaser for any
indemnification claim) to the Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in
accordance with Exhibit B
hereto).
(c) If on the
Escrow Release Date, there exists a pending Legal Proceeding initiated by any
third party challenging Purchaser’s Freedom to Operate, the entire Escrow
Balance shall be retained in the Escrow Account until resolution of such Legal
Proceeding, whereupon:
(i) if such
Legal Proceeding is resolved in a manner which does not require Purchaser to
make any FTO Payments, the parties shall instruct the Escrow Agent to release
the Escrow Balance to the Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in
accordance with Exhibit B
hereto), except to the extent otherwise required to be retained pursuant to
subsections
(d),
(e) or
(f) of this Section
2.12;
or
(ii) if
resolution of such third party claim requires Purchaser to make FTO Payments to
such third party, (X) an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of such
One-Time FTO Payment shall be released to Purchaser pursuant to Section
8.7(a)(i), and/or
(Y) an amount sufficient to fund fifty percent (50%) of any future Royalty
FTO Payments shall remain in the Escrow Account for periodic disbursement to
Purchaser in accordance with Section
8.7(b)(ii) (or if
such amount is not reasonably ascertainable, the entirety of the Escrow Balance
shall remain in the Escrow Account until released in accordance with Section
2.12
(f)) and the
parties shall
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instruct
the Escrow Agent to release the remainder of the Escrow Balance, if any, to the
Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto) but only to the extent not otherwise required to be retained pursuant to
subsections (d), (e) or (f) of this Section
2.12.
(d) If on the
Escrow Release Date there exists any executory Contract pursuant to which
Purchaser will be obligated to make FTO Payments following the Escrow Release
Date, an amount sufficient to fund fifty percent (50%) of any future FTO
Payments shall remain in the Escrow Account for (periodic) disbursement to
Purchaser in accordance with Section
8.7(b)(ii) (or if
such amount is not reasonably ascertainable, the entirety of the Escrow Balance
shall remain in the Escrow Account until released in accordance with Section
2.12
(f)) and the parties
shall instruct the Escrow Agent to release the remainder of the Escrow Balance,
if any, to the Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in accordance
with Exhibit B
hereto) but only to the extent not otherwise required to be retained pursuant to
subsections
(c),
(e) or (f) of this Section
2.12.
(e) If on the
Escrow Release Date there exists any Unresolved Claim the Escrow Agent shall
retain an amount (up to the total amount then held by the Escrow Agent) equal to
the amount of any Unresolved Claims and the remainder of the Escrow Balance, if
any, shall be released by the Escrow Agent to the Paying Agent (to be allocated
among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto). The parties shall instruct the Escrow Agent to release such
portion of the Escrow Balance as was retained for Unresolved Claims (to the
extent not utilized to pay Purchaser for any such claims resolved in favor of
Purchaser) upon the resolution of such Unresolved Claims in accordance with
ARTICLE VIII and
the terms of the Escrow Agreement but only to the extent not otherwise required
to be retained pursuant to subsections
(c), (d) or
(f) of this Section
2.12.
(f) In the
event that all or a portion of the Escrow Balance is retained in the Escrow
Account following the Escrow Release Date pursuant to clause (Y) of Section
2.12
(c)(i) or
pursuant to Section
2.12
(d), such amount
shall remain in the Escrow Account and shall be subject to periodic
distributions to Purchaser pursuant to Section
8.7(a)(i) and
8.7(b)(ii). Upon
the termination of Purchaser’s obligation to make FTO Payments, the parties
shall instruct the Escrow Agent to release the Escrow Balance, if any, to the
Paying Agent (to be allocated among the Sellers in accordance with Exhibit B
hereto) but only to the extent not otherwise required to be retained pursuant to
subsections
(c),
(d) or
(e) of this Section
2.12.
ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL SELLERS
Each
Seller, severally with respect to itself, represents and warrants to the
Purchaser as of the date hereof (or in the case of any Joining Seller, on the
date such Joining Seller executes a counterpart signature page) and as of the
Closing Date, as follows:
3.1 Organization and Good
Standing. Such Seller (if not a natural person) is a
corporation, limited liability company, partnership or trust (in each case, as
shown on Exhibit A
hereto), duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction
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of its
incorporation or formation (in each case, as shown on Exhibit A
hereto) and has all requisite corporate, limited liability, partnership or trust
power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on its
business as now conducted. Such Seller is duly qualified or
authorized to do business as a foreign corporation or entity and is in good
standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which it owns or leases real
property and each other jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or the
ownership of its properties requires such qualification or
authorization.
3.2 Authorization of
Agreement. Such Seller has all requisite power, authority and
legal capacity to execute and deliver this Agreement and each other agreement,
document, or instrument or certificate contemplated by this Agreement or to be
executed by such Seller in connection with the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement (the “Seller Documents”),
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
and each of the Seller Documents, and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, has been duly authorized and approved by all
required action on the part of such Seller. This Agreement has been,
and each of the Seller Documents will be at or prior to the Closing, duly and
validly executed and delivered by such Seller and (assuming due authorization,
execution and delivery by Purchaser) this Agreement constitutes, and each of the
Seller Documents when so executed and delivered will constitute, legal, valid
and binding obligations of such Seller, enforceable against such Seller in
accordance with its terms.
3.3 Conflicts; Consents of Third
Parties.
(a) None of
the execution and delivery by such Seller of this Agreement or the Seller
Documents, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby,
or compliance by such Seller with any of the provisions hereof or thereof will
conflict with, or result in any violation of or default (with or without notice
or lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination or
cancellation under any provision of (i) the certificate of incorporation
and by-laws or comparable organizational documents of such Seller; (ii) any
material Contract or Permit to which any Seller is a party or by which any of
the properties or assets of such Seller are bound; (iii) any Order of any
Governmental Authority applicable to such Seller or by which any of the
properties or assets of such Seller are bound; (iv) any community property
Laws, or (v) to the Knowledge of Seller, any applicable Law.
(b) No
consent, waiver, approval, Order, Permit or authorization of, or declaration or
filing with, or notification to, any Person or Governmental Authority is
required on the part of such Seller in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, the Seller Documents, the compliance by such Seller
with any of the provisions hereof or thereof, or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, except for compliance with the
applicable requirements of the HSR Act.
3.4 Ownership and Transfer of Company
Securities. Such Seller is the record and beneficial owner of
the Company Securities indicated as being owned by such Seller on Exhibit A, free
and clear of any and all Liens. Such Seller has the power and
authority to sell, transfer, assign and deliver such Company Securities as
provided in this Agreement, and such
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delivery
will convey to Purchaser good and marketable title to such Company Securities,
free and clear of any and all Liens.
3.5 Litigation. Except
as set forth in Schedule
3.5, there is no
Legal Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of such Seller, threatened against
such Seller or to which such Seller is otherwise a party relating to this
Agreement, the Seller Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby.
3.6 Absence of
Claims. Neither such Seller nor such Seller’s heir or its
representatives, agents, heirs, executors, administrators, successors and
assigns has any Claims of type purported to be released by the release
contemplated by Section
10.1
hereof.
3.7 Insolvency. No
insolvency proceedings of any kind are pending against such Seller and such
Seller has not stopped payment and is not insolvent or unable to pay its debts
as and when they fall due.
3.8 Financial
Advisors. Except as set forth on Schedule
3.8, no Person
has acted, directly or indirectly, as a broker, finder or financial advisor for
such Seller in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and no Person is or will be entitled to any fee or commission or like payment in
respect thereof.
ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE COMPANY
The
Company hereby represents and warrants to the Purchaser as of the
date hereof and as of the Closing Date, as follows:
4.1 Organization and
Compliance.
(a) The
Company is duly incorporated and validly existing under the Laws of the State of
Delaware, with power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and
carry on its business as now being conducted and as contemplated to be
conducted.
(b) The
Company is duly qualified or authorized to do business as a foreign corporation
and is in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction in which it owns or
leases real property and each other jurisdiction in which the conduct of its
business or the ownership of its properties requires such qualification or
authorization, except where the failure to be so qualified, authorized or in
good standing would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) The
Purchaser has received true and accurate copies of the Organizational Documents
of the Company as of the date of this Agreement.
(d) The
Company maintains all corporate, shareholder or other records and registries
required by Law. True and complete copies of all such documents have
been delivered to the Purchaser.
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4.2 Authorization of
Agreement. The Company has all requisite power, authority and
legal capacity to execute and deliver this Agreement and each other agreement,
document, or instrument or certificate contemplated by this Agreement or to be
executed by the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement (the “Company Documents”),
to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement and each of the Company Documents, and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, have been duly
authorized and approved by all required action on the part of the
Company. This Agreement has been, and each of the Company Documents
will be at or prior to the Closing, duly and validly executed and delivered by
the Company and (assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by
Purchaser) this Agreement constitutes, and each of the Company Documents when so
executed and delivered will constitute, legal, valid and binding obligations of
the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective
terms, except as limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other laws of general application affecting enforcement of
creditors’ rights, and as limited by general principles of equity that restrict
the availability of equitable remedies (the “Remedies
Exceptions”).
4.3 Conflicts; Consents of Third
Parties.
(a) Except as
set forth on Schedule
4.3(a), the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other
Transaction Documents will not conflict with, or result in any violation or
breach of, or default (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under,
or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any
obligation or to loss of a material benefit under, or give rise to any
obligation of the Company to make any payment under, or to the increased,
additional, accelerated or guaranteed rights or entitlements of any Person
under, or result in the creation of any Liens upon any of the properties or
assets of Company under, any provision of (i) the Organizational Documents
of the Company; (ii) any material Contract or Permit to which the Company
is a party or by which any of the properties or assets of the Company are bound;
(iii) any Order applicable to the Company or any of the properties or
assets of the Company; or (iv) to the Knowledge of the Company or Sellers,
any applicable Law.
(b) No
consent, waiver, approval, Order, Permit or authorization of, or declaration or
filing with, or notification to, any Person or Governmental Authority is
required on the part of the Company in connection with (i) the execution
and delivery of this Agreement, the Transaction Documents, respectively, the
compliance by the Company with any of the provisions hereof and thereof, or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or
(ii) the continuing validity and effectiveness immediately following the
Closing of any material Permit or Contract of the Company, except for compliance
with the applicable requirements of the HSR Act.
4.4 Capitalization.
(a) Schedule
4.4
(a) sets out the
authorized and issued capital stock of the Company (together with the names and
holdings of each of the stockholders of the Company) as of the date of this
Agreement and immediately prior to and after the Closing and all of
the
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outstanding
shares, capital stock or other equity securities (as applicable) of the Company
are owned of record by the holders and in the respective amounts as are set
forth on such Schedule. All of the issued and outstanding shares,
capital stock or other equity securities (as applicable) of the Company
(i) were duly authorized for issuance and are validly issued, fully paid
and non-assessable, (ii) were not issued in violation of any purchase or
call option, right of first refusal, subscription right, preemptive right or any
similar rights, and (iii) have the rights, preferences, privileges, and
restrictions set forth in the Organizational Documents of the
Company. All securities of the Company have been issued in compliance
with all Laws, rules and regulations, including applicable securities Laws and
their Organizational Documents. Except as set forth in Schedule
4.4
(a), the Company
is not subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase or
otherwise acquire or retire any of its shares or any warrants, options or other
rights to acquire its shares.
(b) Schedule
4.4
(b) sets forth
the holders of options to purchase shares, capital stock or other equity
securities (as applicable) of the Company (“Company Options”),
the holders of warrants or other rights to purchase shares, capital stock or
other equity securities (as applicable) of the Company (“Company Warrants”),
the respective number of Shares subject to each outstanding Company Option and
Company Warrant, and the applicable exercise price, expiration date and vesting
date. Except for Company Options and Company Warrants described in
Schedule
4.4
(b), there is no
existing option, warrant, call, right or Contract to which any Seller or the
Company is a party requiring, and there are no securities of the Company
outstanding which upon conversion or exchange would require, the issuance, sale
or transfer of any additional shares, capital stock or other equity securities
of the Company or other securities convertible into, exchangeable for or
evidencing the right to subscribe for or purchase shares, capital stock or other
equity securities of the Company. Except as set forth in Schedule
4.4
(b), there are no
obligations, contingent or otherwise, of the Company to (i) repurchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of Shares, or (ii) provide material
funds to, or make any material investment in (in the form of a loan, capital
contribution or otherwise), or provide any guarantee with respect to the
obligations of, any Person. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.4
(b), there are no
outstanding stock appreciation, phantom stock, profit participation or similar
rights with respect to the Company. There are no bonds, debentures,
notes or other Indebtedness of the Company having the right to vote or consent
(or, convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having the right to vote
or consent) on any matters on which shareholders (or other equityholders) of the
Company may vote. There are no voting trusts, irrevocable proxies or
other Contracts or understandings to which the Company or any of its
shareholders is a party or is bound with respect to the voting or consent of any
shares of Shares.
(c) All
dividends or other distributions of profits declared, made or paid since the
date of incorporation of the Company have been declared, made or paid in
accordance with Law and its Organizational Documents.
4.5 Subsidiaries. The
Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any capital stock or equity
securities of any Person. The Company is not, nor since its
incorporation has it been, the holder or the beneficial owner of any share,
debenture, mortgage, or security (or interest therein) in any other Person, or a
member of any partnership or unincorporated association or limited liability
company.
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4.6 Corporate
Records.
(a) The
Company has delivered to Purchaser true, correct and complete copies of the
certificate of incorporation (certified by the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware) and by-laws (certified by the secretary of the Company), in each
case as amended and in effect on the date hereof, including all amendments
thereto.
(b) The
minute books of the Company previously made available to Purchaser contain true,
correct and complete records of all meetings and accurately reflect all other
corporate action of the stockholders and board of directors (including
committees thereof) of the Company. The stock certificate books and
stock transfer ledgers of the Company previously made available to Purchaser are
true, correct and complete. All stock transfer taxes levied, if any,
or payable with respect to all transfers of shares of the Company prior to the
date hereof have been paid and appropriate transfer tax stamps
affixed.
4.7 Financial
Statements.
(a) The
Company has delivered to Purchaser copies of (i) the audited balance sheets
of the Company as at December 31, 2008 and 2009 and the related audited
statements of operations and of cash flows of the Company for the years then
ended and (ii) the unaudited balance sheet of the Company as at
March 31, 2010 and the related statements of operations and cash flows of
the Company for the three (3) month period then ended (such audited and
unaudited statements, including the related notes and schedules thereto, are
referred to herein as the “Financial
Statements”). Each of the Financial Statements is complete and
correct in all material respects, has been prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied by the Company without modification of the accounting
principles used in the preparation thereof throughout the periods presented and
presents fairly the consolidated financial position, results of operations and
cash flows of the Company as at the dates and for the periods indicated
therein. The
audited balance sheet of the Company as at December 31, 2009 is referred to
herein as the “Balance
Sheet” and December 31, 2009 is referred to herein as the “Balance Sheet
Date.”
(b) All
accounts and notes receivable of the Company reflected on the Balance Sheet have
arisen from bona fide transactions in the Ordinary Course of Business consistent
with past practice and are payable on ordinary trade terms. None of
the accounts or the notes receivable of the Company (i) are subject to any
setoffs or counterclaims (other than the allowance for doubtful accounts also
appearing in the Financial Statements and net of returns and payment discounts
allowable by the Company’s policies) or (ii) represent obligations for
goods sold on consignment, on approval or on a sale-or-return basis or subject
to any other repurchase or return arrangement.
(c) All of
the accounts receivable shown in the Financial Statements have been collected or
are good and collectible in the aggregate recorded amounts thereof (less the
allowance for doubtful accounts also appearing in the Financial Statements and
net of returns and payment discounts allowable by the Company’s policies), are
aged not more than sixty (60) days, can reasonably be anticipated to be paid in
full without outside collection efforts within sixty (60) days of the due date,
and are not subject to counterclaims or setoffs in excess of recorded
reserves.
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(d) All
books, records and accounts of the Company are accurate and complete and are
maintained in all material respects in accordance with good business practice
and all applicable Laws. The Company maintains systems of internal
accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances
that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements in
conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets;
(iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for
assets is compared with the actual levels at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(e) The
Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer have
disclosed, based on their most recent evaluation, to the Company’s auditors and
the audit committee of the Board of Directors (i) all significant
deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which could
adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial data and have identified for the Company’s auditors any material
weaknesses in internal controls and (ii) any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant
role in the Company’s internal controls.
(f) The
Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures which
are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company is made
known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial
officer by others within those entities; and, to the Knowledge of the Company,
such disclosure controls and procedures are effective in timely alerting the
Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer to
material information.
4.8 No Undisclosed
Liabilities. The Company does not have any Indebtedness or
Liabilities (required under GAAP to be reflected on a balance sheet or the notes
thereto) other than those (i) specifically reflected on and fully reserved
against in the Balance Sheet, (ii) incurred in the Ordinary
Course of Business since the Balance Sheet Date or (iii) that are
immaterial to the Company. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, there are no off-balance sheet liabilities, claims, or obligations of
any nature, whether accrued, absolute, contingent, anticipated, or otherwise,
whether due or to become due, that are not shown or provided for in the
Financial Statements. The liabilities of the Company were incurred in
the ordinary course of the Company’s business.
4.9 Absence of Certain
Developments. Except as expressly contemplated by this
Agreement or as set forth on Schedule
4.9, since the
Balance Sheet Date (i) the Company has conducted its business only in the
Ordinary Course of Business and (ii) there has not been any event, change,
occurrence or circumstance that, individually or in the aggregate with any such
events, changes, occurrences or circumstances, has had or could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, since the Balance Sheet Date:
(a) there has
not been any damage, destruction or loss, whether or not covered by insurance,
with respect to the property and assets of the Company having a replacement cost
of more than $25,000 for any single loss or $100,000 for all such
losses;
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(b) there has
not been any declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend or other
distribution in respect of any shares of capital stock of the Company or any
repurchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company of any outstanding
shares of capital stock or other securities of, or other ownership interest in,
the Company;
(c) the
Company has not awarded or paid any bonuses to employees of the Company with
respect to the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009, except to the extent
accrued on the Balance Sheet, or entered into any employment, deferred
compensation, severance or similar agreement (nor amended any such agreement) or
agreed to increase the compensation payable or to become payable by it to any of
the directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives of the Company or
agreed to increase the coverage or benefits available under any severance pay,
termination pay, vacation pay, company awards, salary continuation for
disability, sick leave, deferred compensation, bonus or other incentive
compensation, insurance, pension or other employee benefit plan, payment or
arrangement made to, for or with such directors, officers, employees, agents or
representatives;
(d) there has
not been any change by the Company in accounting or Tax reporting principles,
methods or policies;
(e) the
Company has not made or rescinded any election relating to Taxes or settled or
compromised any claim relating to Taxes;
(f) the
Company has not entered into any transaction other than in the Ordinary Course
of Business;
(g) the
Company has not failed to promptly pay and discharge current liabilities except
where disputed in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(h) the
Company has not made any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or
investments in, any Person or paid any fees or expenses to any Seller or any
director, officer, partner or stockholder of any Seller;
(i) the
Company has not (A) mortgaged, pledged or subjected to any Lien any of its
assets, or (B) acquired any assets or sold, assigned, transferred,
conveyed, leased or otherwise disposed of any assets of the Company, except, in
the case of clause (B), for assets acquired, sold, assigned, transferred,
conveyed, leased or otherwise disposed of in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(j) the
Company has not discharged or satisfied any Lien, or paid any Liability, except
in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(k) the
Company has not canceled or compromised any debt or claim or amended, canceled,
terminated, relinquished, waived or released any Contract or right except in the
Ordinary Course of Business and which, in the aggregate, would not be material
to the Company taken as a whole;
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(l) the
Company has not made or committed to make any capital expenditures or capital
additions or betterments in excess of $100,000 individually or $250,000 in the
aggregate;
(m) the
Company has not issued, created, incurred, assumed, guaranteed, endorsed or
otherwise become liable or responsible with respect to (whether directly,
contingently, or otherwise) any Indebtedness in an amount in excess of
$100,000 in the aggregate, other than in the Ordinary Course of Business
consistent with past practices and, in any event, not above $300,000 in the
aggregate;
(n) the
Company has not granted any license or sublicense of any rights under or with
respect to any Intellectual Property;
(o) the
Company has not instituted or settled any Legal Proceeding resulting in a loss
of revenue in excess of $50,000 in the aggregate; and
(p) none of
the Sellers nor the Company has agreed, committed, arranged or entered into any
understanding to do anything set forth in this Section
4.9.
4.10 Taxes.
(a) (i) All
Tax Returns required to be filed by or on behalf of the Company have been duly
and timely filed with the appropriate Taxing Authority in all jurisdictions in
which such Tax Returns are required to be filed (after giving effect to any
valid extensions of time in which to make such filings), and all such Tax
Returns are true, complete and correct in all material respects; (ii) all
Taxes payable by or on behalf of the Company have been fully and timely paid,
and (iii) the Company has no liability for Taxes with respect to periods
for which Tax Returns have been filed in excess of the amounts so
paid. With respect to any period for which Tax Returns have not yet
been filed or for which Taxes are not yet due or owing, the Company has made due
and sufficient accruals for such Taxes in the Financial Statements and their
books and records. All required estimated Tax payments sufficient to
avoid any underpayment penalties or interest have been made by or on behalf of
the Company.
(b) The
Company has complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws relating
to the payment and withholding of Taxes (including Taxes and other amounts
required to be withheld by it in respect of any amount paid or credited or
deemed to be paid or credited by it to or for the account or benefit of any
person, including any employees, independent contractors, creditors, equity
owners, officers and directors, non-resident persons and any other third
parties) has duly and timely withheld and paid over to the appropriate Taxing
Authority all amounts required to be so withheld and paid under all applicable
Laws and has properly completed and timely filed all Forms W-2 and 1099 and all
other Tax Returns required with respect thereto.
(c) The
Company is in compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions
of any Tax exemptions, Tax holiday or other Tax reduction agreement, approval or
order of any Governmental Authority and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby will not have any adverse effect on the validity and
effectiveness of any such Tax exemptions, Tax holiday or other Tax reduction
agreement or order.
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(d) Purchaser
has received complete copies of (i) all federal, state, local and foreign income
or franchise Tax Returns of the Company relating to the taxable periods since
January 1, 2007 and (ii) any audit report issued within the last three (3)
years relating to any Taxes due from or with respect to the
Company.
(e) Schedule
4.10
(e) lists
(i) all types of Taxes paid, and all types of Tax Returns filed by or on
behalf of the Company , and (ii) all of the jurisdictions that impose such
Taxes or with respect to which the Company has a duty to file such Tax
Returns. No claim has been made by a Taxing Authority in a
jurisdiction where the Company does not file Tax Returns such that it is or may
be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction.
(f) All
deficiencies asserted or assessments made as a result of any examinations by any
Taxing Authority of the Tax Returns of, or including, the Company have been
fully paid, and there are no other audits or investigations by any Taxing
Authority in progress, nor have any of the Sellers or the Company received any
notice from any Taxing Authority that it intends to conduct such an audit or
investigation. No issue has been raised by a Taxing Authority in any
prior examination of the Company which, by application of the same or similar
principles, could reasonably be expected to result in a proposed deficiency for
any subsequent taxable period.
(g) Neither
the Company nor any other Person on its behalf has (i) agreed to or is
required to make any adjustments pursuant to Section 481(a) of the Code or any
similar provision of Law or has any Knowledge that any Taxing Authority has
proposed any such adjustment, or has any application pending with any Taxing
Authority requesting permission for any changes in accounting methods that
relate to the Company, (ii) executed or entered into a closing agreement
pursuant to Section 7121 of the Code or any similar provision of Law with
respect to the Company or (iii) granted to any Person any power of attorney
that is currently in force with respect to any Tax matter.
(h) No
property owned by the Company is (i) “tax-exempt use property” within the
meaning of Section 168(h)(1) of the Code or (ii) “tax-exempt bond
financed property” within the meaning of Section 168(g) of the Code,
(iii) “limited use property” within the meaning of Rev. Proc. 2001-28,
(iv) subject to Section 168(g)(1)(A) of the Code, or (v) subject
to any provision of state, local or foreign Law comparable to any of the
provisions listed above.
(i) The
Company is not a party to any tax sharing, allocation, indemnity or similar
agreement or arrangement (whether or not written) pursuant to which it will have
any obligation to make any payments after the Closing.
(j) Schedule
4.10
(j)(i) sets forth all
Change of Control Payments. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.10
(j)(ii), there is no
contract, agreement, plan or arrangement covering any person that, individually
or collectively, could give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be
deductible by Purchaser or the Company by reason of Section 280G of the
Code.
(k) The
Company is not subject to any private letter ruling of the IRS or comparable
rulings of any Taxing Authority.
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(l) There are
no liens as a result of any unpaid Taxes upon any of the assets of the
Company.
(m) The
Company has not ever been a member of any consolidated, combined, affiliated or
unitary group of corporations for any Tax purposes.
(n) The
Company has not constituted either a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled
corporation” (within the meaning of Section 355(a)(1)(A) of the Code) in a
distribution of stock qualifying for tax-free treatment under Section 355
of the Code (A) in the two (2) years prior to the date of this Agreement or
(B) in a distribution which could otherwise constitute part of a “plan” or
“series of related transactions” (within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the
Code) in conjunction with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
(o) There is
no taxable income of the Company that will be required under applicable Tax Law
to be reported by the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates, including the Company,
for a taxable period beginning after the Closing Date which taxable income was
realized (and reflects economic income) arising prior to the Closing
Date.
(p) The
Company has disclosed on its federal income Tax Returns all positions taken
therein that could give rise to substantial understatement of federal income tax
within the meaning of Section 6662 of the Code.
(q) The
Company does not have, and has never had, a permanent establishment in any
country other than the United States, or has engaged in a trade or business in
any country other than the United States that subjected it to Tax in such
country.
(r) The
Company has not waived any statute of limitations with respect to Taxes or
agreed to any extension of time with respect to the assessment or collection of
Taxes which have not been paid.
(s) The
Company has not requested, offered to enter into or entered into any agreement
or other arrangement, or executed any waiver, providing for any extension of
time within which: (i) to file any Tax Return for which the
Company is or may be liable; (ii) to file any elections, designations or
similar filings relating to Taxes for which the Company is or may be
liable; (iii) the Company is required to pay or remit any Taxes or amounts
on account of Taxes; or (iv) any Taxing Authority may assess or collect
Taxes for which the Company is or may be liable.
(t) The
Company has not made, prepared or filed any elections, designations or similar
filings relating to Taxes or entered into any agreement or other arrangement in
respect of Taxes or Tax Returns that has effect for any period ending after the
Closing Date.
(u) There are
no proceedings, investigations, audits or claims now pending or, to the
Company’s Knowledge, threatened against the Company in respect of any Taxes and
there are no matters under discussion, audit or appeal with any Governmental
Authority relating to Taxes.
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(v) The
Company has not engaged in a “reportable transaction under Treasury Regulations
Section 1.6011-4(b).
(w) The
Company is not and has never been a member of an Affiliated Group.
4.11 Real Property.
(a) The
Company does not own any real property or any interest in real
property.
(b) Schedule
4.11
(b) sets forth a
complete list of all real property and interests in real property leased by the
Company (individually, a “Real Property Lease”
and collectively, the “Real Property
Leases”) as lessee or lessor, including a description of each such Real
Property Lease (including the name of the third party lessor or lessee, the term
and any renewal options, rent and the date of the lease or sublease and all
amendments thereto). The Real Property Leases constitute all
interests in real property currently used, occupied or currently held for use in
connection with the business of the Company and which are necessary for the
continued operation of the business of the Company as the business is currently
conducted. None of the improvements located on the Real Property
Leases constitute a legal non-conforming use or otherwise require any special
dispensation, variance or special permit under any Laws. The Company
has delivered to Purchaser true, correct and complete copies of the Real
Property Leases, together with all amendments, modifications or supplements, if
any, thereto. The Real Property Leases are not subject to any leases,
rights of first refusal, options to purchase or rights of occupancy, except the
Real Property Leases set forth on Schedule
4.11
(b).
(c) The
Company has a valid, binding and enforceable leasehold interest under each of
the Real Property Leases under which it is a lessee, free and clear of all Liens
other than Permitted Exceptions. Each of the Real Property Leases is
in full force and effect. The Company is not in default under any
Real Property Lease, and no event has occurred and no circumstance exists which,
if not remedied, and whether with or without notice or the passage of time or
both, would result in such a default. The Company has not received or
given any notice of any default or event that with notice or lapse of time, or
both, would constitute a default by a the Company under any of the Real Property
Leases and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no other party is in default
thereof, and no party to any Real Property Lease has exercised any termination
rights with respect thereto.
(d) The
Company has all material certificates of occupancy and Permits of any
Governmental Authority necessary for the current use and operation of each Real
Property Lease, and the Company has fully complied with all material conditions
of the Permits applicable to them. No default or violation, or event
that with the lapse of time or giving of notice or both would become a default
or violation, has occurred in the due observance of any Permit.
(e) There
does not exist any actual or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or
contemplated condemnation or eminent domain proceedings that affect any Real
Property Lease or any part thereof, and the Company has not received any notice,
oral or written,
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of the
intention of any Governmental Authority or other Person to take or use all or
any part thereof.
(f) The
Company has not received any notice from any insurance company that has issued a
policy with respect to any Real Property Lease requiring performance of any
structural or other repairs or alterations to such Real Property
Lease.
(g) The
Company does not own or hold, and is not obligated under or a party to, any
option, right of first refusal or other contractual right to purchase, acquire,
sell, assign or dispose of any real estate or any portion thereof or interest
therein.
4.12 Tangible Personal
Property.
(a) The
Company has good and marketable title to all of the items of tangible personal
property used in the business of the Company and proposed to be retained by the
Company subsequent to the Closing Date, free and clear of any and all Liens,
other than the Permitted Exceptions. All such items of tangible
personal property which, individually or in the aggregate, are material to the
operation of the business of the Company are in good condition and in a state of
good maintenance and repair (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and are
suitable for the purposes used.
(b) Schedule
4.12
(b) sets forth
all leases of personal property involving periodic payments by the Company
relating to personal property proposed to be retained by the Company subsequent
to the Closing Date (“Personal Property
Leases”). All such items of personal property under the
Personal Property Leases are in good condition and repair (ordinary wear and
tear excepted) and are suitable for the purposes used, and such property is
in all material respects in the condition required of such property by the terms
of the lease applicable thereto during the term of the lease. The
Company has delivered to Purchaser true, correct and complete copies of the
Personal Property Leases, together with all amendments, modifications or
supplements thereto.
(c) The
Company has a valid and enforceable leasehold interest under each of the
Personal Property Leases under which it is a lessee. Each of the
Personal Property Leases is in full force and effect and the Company has not
received or given any notice of any default or event that with notice or lapse
of time, or both, would constitute a default by the Company under any of the
Personal Property Leases and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no other party is
in default thereof, and no party to the Personal Property Leases has exercised
any termination rights with respect thereto.
4.13 Intellectual
Property.
(a) Schedule
4.13
(a) sets forth an
accurate and complete list of all Patents, Marks and Copyrights owned or used by
the Company. Schedule
4.13
(a) lists the
jurisdictions in which each such item of Intellectual Property has been issued
or registered or in which any such application for such issuance and
registration has been filed.
(b) Except as
disclosed in Schedule
4.13
(b), the Company
is the sole and exclusive owner of, or if expressly so indicated on Schedule
4.13
(b),valid
licensee or assignee of,
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all
right, title and interest in and to (i) all of the Patents, Marks and
Copyrights used by the Company, and (ii) each of the other Copyrights in
any works of authorship prepared by or for the Company that resulted from or
arose out of any work performed by or on behalf of the Company or by any
employee, officer, consultant or contractor of any of them, in each case free
and clear of all Liens or obligations to others, other than royalty payments set
forth on Schedule
4.13
(b). The
Company is the sole and exclusive owner of, or has valid and continuing rights
to use, sell and license, as the case may be, all other Intellectual Property
used, sold or licensed by the Company in its businesses as presently conducted
and as currently proposed to be conducted, free and clear of all Liens or
obligations to others (except for those specified licenses included in Schedule
4.13
(e)).
(c) To the
Knowledge of the Company, the Intellectual Property owned, used, practiced or
otherwise commercially exploited by the Company, the development, manufacturing,
licensing, marketing, importation, offer for sale, sale or use of the Products
or Technology in connection with the business as presently conducted and as
currently proposed to be conducted, and the Company’s present and currently
proposed business practices and methods, do not infringe, violate or constitute
an unauthorized use or misappropriation of any Patent, Copyright, Xxxx, Trade
Secret or other similar right, of any Person (including pursuant to any
non-disclosure agreements or obligations to which the Company or any of their
present or former employees is a party, and including any intellectual property
that might exist with respect to open source software or other intellectual
property publicly available for certain types of use). The
Intellectual Property owned by or licensed to the Company includes all of the
intellectual property rights used by the Company to conduct its business in the
manner in which such business is currently being conducted and, to the Knowledge
of the Company and the Sellers, as currently proposed to be
conducted.
(d) Except
with respect to licenses of commercial off-the-shelf Software, and except
pursuant to the Intellectual Property Licenses listed in Schedule
4.13
(d), the Company
is not required, obligated, or under any liability whatsoever, to make any
payments by way of royalties, fees or otherwise or provide any other
consideration of any kind, to any owner or licensor of, or other claimant to,
any Intellectual Property, or any other Person, with respect to the use thereof
or in connection with the conduct of the business of the Company as currently
conducted or proposed to be conducted.
(e) Schedule
4.13
(e) sets forth a
complete and accurate list of all Contracts to which the Company is a party
(i) granting any Intellectual Property Licenses, (ii) containing a
covenant not to compete or otherwise limiting its ability to use or exploit
fully any of the Intellectual Property, or (iii) containing an agreement to
indemnify any other Person against any claim of infringement, violation,
misappropriation or unauthorized use of any Intellectual
Property. The Company has delivered to Purchaser true, correct and
complete copies of each Contract set forth on Schedule
4.13
(e), together
with all amendments, modifications or supplements thereto.
(f) Each of
the Intellectual Property Licenses is in full force and effect and is the legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms. The Company is not in material default
under any Intellectual Property License, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company,
is any other party to any Intellectual Property License in
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material
default thereunder, and no event has occurred that with the lapse of time or the
giving of notice or both would constitute a material default
thereunder. No party to any of the Intellectual Property Licenses has
exercised any termination rights with respect thereto.
(g) No Trade
Secret of the Company as presently conducted or as presently proposed to be
conducted has been authorized to be disclosed or, to the Knowledge of the
Company, has been actually disclosed by the Company to any employee or any third
party other than pursuant to a written non-disclosure agreement including
restrictions on the disclosure and use of the Intellectual Property consistent
with best practices in the industry in which the Company
operates. The Company has taken reasonable security measures to
protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of all the Trade Secrets of the
Company, including invention disclosures, not the subject of any patents owned
or patent applications filed by the Company, which measures are consistent with
best practices in the industry in which the Company operates. Each
current and former employee, consultant and independent contractor of the
Company has entered into a written non-disclosure and invention assignment
agreement with the Company in a form provided to Purchaser.
(h) As of the
date hereof, the Company is not the subject of any pending or, to the Knowledge
of the Company, threatened Legal Proceedings which involves a claim of
infringement, misappropriation, unauthorized use, or violation of any
Intellectual Property by any Person against the Company or challenging the
ownership, use, validity or enforceability of any material Intellectual
Property. The Company has not received notice of any such threatened
claim and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or circumstances
that would form the basis for any claim of infringement, unauthorized use,
misappropriation or violation of any Intellectual Property by any Person against
the Company, or challenging the ownership, use, validity or enforceability of
any material Intellectual Property. All of the rights in and to
material Intellectual Property of the Company are valid and
enforceable
(i) To the
Knowledge of the Company, no Person is infringing, violating, misusing or
misappropriating any material Intellectual Property of the Company, and no such
claims have been made against any Person by the Company.
(j) There are
no Orders to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound which
restrict, in any material respect, the right to use any of the Intellectual
Property.
(k) The
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not result in the loss
or impairment of Purchaser’s right to own or use any of the Intellectual
Property.
(l) No
present or former employee has any right, title, or interest, directly or
indirectly, in whole or in part, in any material Intellectual Property owned or
used by the Company, except as reflected in the Assignment Agreement as affected
by the Side Letter.
(m) To the
Knowledge of the Company, no employee, consultant or independent contractor of
the Company is, as a result of or in the course of such employee’s, consultant’s
or independent contractor’s engagement by the Company, in default or breach
of
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any
material term of any employment agreement, non-disclosure agreement, assignment
of invention agreement or similar agreement.
(n) Schedule
4.13
(n) sets forth a
complete and accurate list of (i) all Software that is owned exclusively by
the Company that is material to the operation of the business of the Company and
(ii) all Software that is used by the Company in the business of the
Company that is not exclusively owned by the Company, excluding Software
available on reasonable terms through commercial distributors or in consumer
retail stores for a license fee of no more than $500 per “seat”
annually.
(o) No open
source software or freeware has been incorporated into the products of the
Company that would in any way limit the ability to make, use or sell any such
product or that would diminish or transfer the rights of ownership in any
Intellectual Property or Software of the Company to a third party.
4.14 Medical Products; Research
Studies.
(a) As to
each product subject to the FDCA or similar Law in any non-United States
jurisdiction that are developed, manufactured, tested, distributed and/or
marketed by the Company (a “Medical Product”),
each such Medical Product has been and is being developed, manufactured, tested,
distributed, marketed, sale and/or stored in compliance with all applicable
requirements under the FDCA and similar applicable Laws, including those
relating to investigational use, pre-market clearance or marketing approval to
market a Medical Product, good manufacturing practices, labeling, advertising,
record keeping, filing of reports and security, and in compliance with the
Advanced Medical Technology Association Code of Ethics on Interactions with
Healthcare Professionals and the American Medical Association’s guidelines on
gifts to physicians and any applicable Laws, regulations, procedures, ethics
codes or the like, in any non-United States jurisdiction in this regard, except
that individually or in the aggregate have not had and could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not
received any written notice or other communication from the FDA or any other
applicable Governmental Authority (A) contesting the pre-market clearance
or approval of, the uses of or the labeling and promotion of any products of the
Company or (B) otherwise stating any violation applicable to any Medical
Product of any applicable Law.
(b) (i) No
Medical Product is under consideration by senior management of the Company for
recall, withdrawal, suspension, seizure or discontinuance, or has been recalled,
withdrawn, suspended, seized or discontinued (other than for commercial or other
business reasons) by the Company in the United States or outside the United
States (whether voluntarily or otherwise), in each case since 1 January 2006 and
(ii) no proceedings in the United States or outside of the United States
(whether completed or pending) seeking the recall, withdrawal, suspension,
seizure or discontinuance of any Medical Product are pending against the Company
or any licensee of any Medical Product which individually or in the aggregate
have had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(c) The
Company has submitted all reports and records to FDA and other Governmental
Authorities required by applicable Law, including any medical device reports
as
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required
by 21 C.F.R. part 803 and reports of corrections and removals as required by 21
C.F.R. part 806.
(d) As to
each Medical Product of the Company for which a pre-market approval application,
pre-market notification, investigational device exemption or similar state or
foreign regulatory application has been approved, cleared or is otherwise in
effect, the Company is in compliance with 21 U.S.C. §§ 360 and 360e and 21
C.F.R. Parts 812 or 814, as applicable, and all similar Laws and all terms and
conditions of such licenses or applications, notifications and clearances,
except for any such failure or failures to be in compliance which individually
or in the aggregate have not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. In addition, the Company is in substantial
compliance with all applicable registration and listing requirements set forth
in 21 U.S.C. § 360 and 21 C.F.R. Part 807 and all similar Laws, except for any
such failures to be in compliance which individually or in the aggregate have
not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(e) No
article of any Medical Product manufactured and/or distributed by the Company is
or within the prior five (5) years has been (i) adulterated within the
meaning of 21 U.S.C. § 351 (or similar Laws), including applicable
requirements of 21 C.F.R. part 820, (ii) misbranded within the meaning of
21 U.S.C. § 352 (or similar Laws) or (iii) a product that is in violation
of 21 U.S.C. § 360 or § 360e (or similar Laws), except for failures to be in
compliance with the foregoing that individually or in the aggregate have not had
and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(f) Neither
the Company nor any of its officers, employees or agents has made an untrue
statement of a material fact or fraudulent statement to the FDA or any other
Governmental Authority, failed to disclose a material fact required to be
disclosed to the FDA or any other Governmental Authority, or committed an act,
made a statement, or failed to make a statement that, at the time such
disclosure was made, could reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the FDA
or any other Governmental Authority to invoke its policy respecting “Fraud,
Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities,” set forth
in 56 Fed. Reg. 46191 (10 September 1991) or any similar policy, Law, regulation
or procedure of any other Governmental Authority.
(g) Neither
the Company nor any of its officers, employees or agents has been convicted of
any crime or engaged in any conduct for which debarment is mandated by 21 U.S.C.
§ 335a(a) or any similar Law or authorized by 21 U.S.C.§ 335a(b) or any
similar Law. Neither the Company nor any of its officers, employees
or agents has been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct for which
such person or entity could be excluded from participating in the federal health
care programs under Section 1128 of the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935,
as amended, or any similar Laws.
(h) Since
inception, the Company has not received any written notice that the FDA or any
other Governmental Authority has (i) commenced, or threatened to initiate,
any action to withdraw its approval or clearance or request the recall of any
Medical Product, (ii) commenced, or threatened to initiate, any action to
enjoin production of any Medical Product, or (iii) commenced, or threatened
to initiate, any action to enjoin the production of any Medical Product produced
at any facility where any Medical Product is manufactured, tested
or
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packaged,
except for any such action that individually or in the aggregate has not had and
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(i) For each
study controlled by and, to the Knowledge of the Company, for each study not
controlled by but sponsored or commissioned by, or conducted at the request of,
the Company in which human subjects participated, the Company or the party
conducting the study obtained the informed consent of such human subjects in
accordance with United States Food and Drug Administration regulations on
Protection of Human Subjects, 21 C.F.R. Part 50, the ICH Guidance E6 Good
Clinical Practice: Consolidated Guidance (1996), and in accordance
with all applicable Laws, statutes, rules, regulations, ordinances, guidances
and standards, and all amendments to any of the foregoing. Such
informed consent, among other things, notified each participating human subject
how such human subject’s personal data may be used. All clinical
studies conducted by or on behalf of the Company were conducted in accordance
with applicable requirements of 21 C.F.R. parts 54, 56 and 812.
(j) Any
pre-clinical studies supporting any application to FDA, conducted by or on
behalf of the Company, were conducted in accordance with 21 C.F.R. part
58.
4.15 Material
Contracts.
(a) Schedule
4.15
(a) sets forth,
by reference to the applicable subsection of this Section
4.15
(a), all of the
following Contracts to which the Company is a party as of the date hereof or by
which it or its assets or properties are bound (collectively, the “Material
Contracts”):
(i) Contracts
with any Seller or Affiliate thereof or any current or former officer, director,
shareholder or Affiliate of the Company;
(ii) Contracts
with any labor union or association representing any employee of the
Company;
(iii) Contracts
for the sale of any of the assets of the Company other than in the Ordinary
Course of Business or for the grant to any Person of any preferential rights to
purchase any of its assets;
(iv) Contracts
for joint ventures, strategic alliances, partnerships, licensing arrangements,
or sharing of profits or proprietary information;
(v) Contracts
containing covenants of the Company not to compete in any line of business or
with any Person in any geographical area or not to solicit or hire any person
with respect to employment or covenants of any other Person not to compete with
the Company in any line of business or in any geographical area or not to
solicit or hire any person with respect to employment;
(vi) Contracts
relating to the acquisition (by merger, purchase of stock or assets or
otherwise) by the Company of any operating business or material assets or the
capital stock of any other Person;
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(vii) Contracts
relating to the incurrence, assumption or guarantee of any Indebtedness or
imposing a Lien on any of the assets of the Company, including indentures,
guarantees, loan or credit agreements, sale and leaseback agreements, purchase
money obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property,
mortgages, pledge agreements, security agreements, or conditional sale or title
retention agreements;
(viii) purchase
Contracts giving rise to Liabilities of the Company in excess of $50,000
individually or $200,000 in the aggregate;
(ix) all
Contracts providing for payments by or to the Company in excess of $100,000 in
any fiscal year or $300,000 in the aggregate during the term
thereof;
(x) all
Contracts obligating the Company to provide or obtain products of services for a
period of one year or more or requiring the Company to purchase or sell a stated
portion of its requirements or outputs;
(xi) Contracts
under which the Company has made advances or loans to any other
Person;
(xii) Contracts
providing for severance, retention, change in control or other similar
payments;
(xiii) Contracts
for the employment of any individual on a full-time, part-time or consulting or
other basis providing annual compensation in excess of $90,000;
(xiv) management
Contracts and Contracts with independent contractors or consultants (or similar
arrangements) that are not cancelable without penalty or further payment
and without more than 30 days’ notice;
(xv) outstanding
Contracts of guaranty, surety or indemnification, direct or indirect, by the
Company;
(xvi) Contracts
(or group of related Contracts) which involve the expenditure of more than
$100,000 annually or $250,000 in the aggregate or require performance by any
party more than one year from the date hereof; and
(xvii) Contracts
that are otherwise material to the Company.
(b) Subject
to the Remedies Exceptions, each of the Material Contracts is in full force and
effect and is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, and of the
other parties thereto enforceable against each of them in accordance with its
terms, and, upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, shall, except as otherwise stated in Schedule
4.15
(b), continue in
full force and effect without penalty or other adverse
consequence. The Company is not in default under any Material
Contract, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, is any other party to any
Material Contract in breach of or default thereunder, and no event has occurred
that with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would constitute a
breach or default on the part of the Company or any other party
thereunder. No party to any of the Material Contracts has exercised
any termination rights with respect
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thereto,
and no party has given notice of any significant dispute with respect to any
Material Contract. The Company has delivered to Purchaser true,
correct and complete copies of all of the Material Contracts, together with all
amendments, modifications or supplements thereto.
4.16 Employee Benefits
Plans.
(a) Schedule
4.16
(a) sets forth a
correct and complete list, as of the date hereof, of: (i) all
“employee benefit plans” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), and all
other employee benefit plans, programs, agreements, policies, arrangements or
payroll practices, including bonus plans, employment, consulting or other
compensation agreements, collective bargaining agreements, incentive, equity or
equity-based compensation, or deferred compensation arrangements, change in
control, termination or severance plans or arrangements, stock purchase,
severance pay, sick leave, vacation pay, salary continuation for disability,
hospitalization, medical insurance, life insurance and scholarship plans and
programs maintained by the Company or to which the Company contributed or is
obligated to contribute thereunder for current or former Employee (collectively,
the “Company
Plans”), and (ii) all “employee pension plans” (as defined in
Section 3(2) of ERISA) subject to Title IV of ERISA or
Section 412 of the Code, maintained by the Company or any of its Affiliates
and any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is or has ever
been under common control, or that is or has ever been treated as a single
employer, with any of them under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the
Code (each, an “ERISA
Affiliate”) or to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate contributed or
has ever been obligated to contribute thereunder (the “Title IV
Plans”). Schedule
4.16
(a) sets forth
each Company Plan and Title IV Plan that is a “multiemployer plan” (as
defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA (a “Multiemployer
Plan”)), or is or has been subject to Sections 4063 or 4064 of
ERISA.
(b) Correct
and complete copies of the following documents, with respect to each of the
Company Plans (other than a Multiemployer Plan), have been made available or
delivered to Purchaser by the Company, to the extent
applicable: (i) any plans, all amendments thereto and related
trust documents, insurance contracts or other funding arrangements, and
amendments thereto; (ii) Forms 5500, all schedules thereto and related
actuarial reports, if any; for the most recent three (3) years,
(iii) the most recent IRS determination letter; (iv) summary plan
descriptions; (v) written communications to employees relating to the
Company Plans; and (vi) written descriptions of all non-written agreements
relating to the Company Plans.
(c) The
Company Plans have been maintained, operated, and administered in all material
respects in accordance with their terms and with all provisions of ERISA, the
Code (including rules and regulations thereunder) and other applicable Federal
and state Laws and regulations, and neither the Company nor any “party in
interest” or “disqualified person” with respect to the Company Plans has engaged
in a non-exempt “prohibited transaction” within the meaning of Section 4975
of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA. No fiduciary has any
liability for breach of fiduciary duty or any other failure to act or comply in
connection with the administration or investment of the assets of any Company
Plan.
(d) For each
Company Plan that is intended to satisfy the provisions of
Section 401(a) of the Code, (i) the Company has obtained a
favorable determination letter from the IRS to such effect, (ii) to the
Company’s Knowledge, none of the determination letters has
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been
revoked by the IRS, nor has the IRS given any indication to the Company that it
intends to revoke any such determination letter, (iii) no such employee
pension benefit plan is subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the
Code, and (iv) no prohibited transaction within the meaning of
Section 406 of ERISA has occurred with respect to any employee pension
benefit plan and no tax has been imposed pursuant to Section 4975 or 4976
of the Code in respect thereof.
(e) Each
Company Plan that is intended to meet the requirements for tax-favored treatment
under Subchapter B of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Code meets such
requirements.
(f) Neither
the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has withdrawn in a complete or partial
withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan prior to the Closing Date, nor has any of
them incurred any liability due to the termination or reorganization of a
Multiemployer Plan. Purchaser will not have (i) any obligation
to make any contribution to any Multiemployer Plan or (ii) any withdrawal
liability from any Multiemployer Plan under Section 4201 of ERISA, which it
would not have had but for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement.
(g) Schedule
4.16
(g) sets forth on
a plan by plan basis, the present value of benefits payable as of the date
hereof, presently or in the future, to Employees under each unfunded Company
Plan.
(h) All
contributions (including all employer contributions and employee salary
reduction contributions) required to have been made under any of the Company
Plans (including workers compensation) or Title IV Plans or by Law (without
regard to any waivers granted under Section 412 of the Code), to any funds
or trusts established thereunder or in connection therewith have been made by
the due date thereof (including any valid extension), and all contributions for
any period ending on or before the Closing Date that are not yet due will have
been paid or sufficient accruals for such contributions and other payments in
accordance with GAAP are duly and fully provided for on the Balance
Sheet. No accumulated funding deficiencies exist in any of the
Company Plans or Title IV Plans subject to Section 412 of the
Code.
(i) For each
Company Plan which is a “group health plan” within the meaning of
Section 5000(b)(1) of the Code, the Company has complied in all material
respects with the notice and continuation coverage requirements of
Section 4980B of the Code, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”), and
Part 6 of the Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA and the regulations
thereunder.
(j) Each of
the Company Plans has been, and is being, operated and administered in
accordance with its terms and in compliance in all material respects with
applicable Laws, including, but not limited to, ERISA and the Code.
(k) The
Company does not have and has not entered into any formal plan or commitment,
whether legally binding or not, to create any additional Company Plans or
modify
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or change
any existing Company Plans that would affect any employee or terminated employee
of the Company.
(l) Except as
set forth on Schedule
4.16
(l), the
consummation of the transactions contemplated herein will not
(i) accelerate the time of payment or vesting, or increase the amount, of
compensation due any such director, officer or employee under any of the Company
Plans or (ii) result in any prohibited transaction described in
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code for which an
exemption is not available.
(m) Each
Company Plan (and any other program or arrangement) that is a nonqualified
deferred compensation plan within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code
is identified as such on Schedule
4.16
(g) of this
Agreement. Since December 31, 2005, each plan, program, or
arrangement there identified has been operated and maintained in good faith
compliance with the requirements under Section 409A of the Code and the
corresponding treasury regulations.
(n) All
“health plans” and “group health plans” (as those terms are defined by the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191
(“HIPAA”) that
the Company sponsors is in compliance with all applicable requirements under
HIPAA. Specifically, but without limitation, all such health plans
timely adopted the legally necessary policies and procedures, business associate
agreements, and other required documentation to comply with the privacy
component of HIPAA and the regulations issued thereunder including but not
limited to 45 CFR 160 and CFR Part 164 (“HIPAA Regulations”)
as amended from time to time. The Company has not violated any
applicable requirements of HIPAA or the HIPAA Regulations. None of
the Company, any ERISA Affiliate nor any organization to which the Company or
any ERISA Affiliate is a successor or parent corporation within the meaning of
Section 4069(b) of ERISA has engaged in any transaction within the meaning
of Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.
(o) There are
no pending actions, claims or lawsuits that have been asserted or instituted
against the Company Plans, the assets of any of the trusts under the Company
Plans or the sponsor or administrator of any of the Company Plans, or against
any fiduciary of the Company Plans with respect to the operation of any of the
Company Plans (other than routine benefit claims), nor does the Company or the
Sellers have any Knowledge of facts that could form the basis for any such claim
or lawsuit.
(p) There is
no material violation of ERISA or the Code with respect to the filing of
applicable reports, documents and notices regarding the Company Plans with the
United States Secretary of Labor or the United States Secretary of the Treasury
or the furnishing of such documents to the participants in or beneficiaries of
the Company Plans. All amendments and actions required to bring the
Company Plans into conformity in all material respects with all of the
applicable provisions of the Code, ERISA and other applicable Laws have been
made or taken. Any bonding required with respect to the Company Plans
in accordance with applicable provisions of ERISA has been obtained and is in
full force and effect.
(q) None of
the Company Plans provides for post-employment life or health insurance,
benefits or coverage for any participant or any beneficiary of a participant,
except as
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may be
required under COBRA, and at the expense of the participant or the participant’s
beneficiary. Each of the Company and any ERISA Affiliate which
maintains a “group health plan” within the meaning
Section 5000(b)(1) of the Code has complied with the notice and
continuation requirements of Section 4980B of the Code, COBRA, Part 6 of
Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA and the regulations thereunder.
(r) Except as
set forth on Schedule
4.16
(r), neither the
execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will (i) result in any payment becoming
due to any Employee, (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any
Company Plan or Title IV Plan or (iii) result in the acceleration of the
time of payment or vesting of any such benefits under any Company Plan or Title
IV Plan.
(s) The
Company does not have a contract, plan or commitment, whether legally binding or
not, to create any additional Company Plan or to modify any existing Company
Plan.
(t) No stock
or other security issued by the Company forms or has formed a material part of
the assets of any Company Plan other than the Company Option Plan.
(u) Each
Company Option which is not exercised on or before the Closing Date shall
automatically terminate contemporaneously with the Closing.
(v) Any
individual who performs services for the Company (other than through a contract
with an organization other than such individual) and who is not treated as
an employee of the Company for Federal income tax purposes by the Company is not
an employee for such purposes.
4.17 Employees.
(a) A list of
all the directors, officers, employees, sales representatives and consultants of
the Company (“Employees”) is
attached hereto as Schedule
4.17
(a). Schedule
4.17
(a) also shows
all benefits (including Company Options) payable or which the
Company is bound to provide (whether now or in the future) to each
Employee.
(b) No
Employee of the Company has been dismissed in the last six (6) months or has
given notice of termination of his employment.
(c) The
Purchaser has received true and complete copies of all employment and
consultancy agreements (including any agreements between the Company and any
such Employee concerning Intellectual Property, confidentiality and
non-competition) under which the Employees are engaged. All Employees
and consultants have signed agreements concerning Intellectual Property,
confidentiality and non-competition
(d) Except as
set forth in Schedule
4.17
(d), there are no
customs or customary practices regarding employees that could be deemed to be
binding on the Company.
(e) There are
no agreements or arrangements for the payment of any pensions, allowances, lump
sums or other like benefits on retirement or on death or termination or
during
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periods
of disability for the benefit of any Employee or former employee or consultant
of the Company or for the benefit of the dependents of any such person in
operation at the date hereof except as provided in the agreements delivered to
the Purchaser pursuant to Section
4.17
(c) hereto. The
Company has fulfilled its obligations to the Employees in all material respects
under applicable Law and any agreements with such Employees.
(f) The
Company has complied in all respects with all legislative or other official
provisions relating to employees, and their terms and conditions of employment
and has made all deductions and payments related to its Employees to the Tax
Authorities required to be made by Law.
(g) Except as
set forth in Schedule
4.17
(g), there are no
agreements between the Company and any of its Employees which cannot be
terminated by the Company on 30 days notice or less without giving rise to a
claim for damages or compensation.
(h) The
Company has correctly classified all consultants of the Company as consultants;
to ensure that there is no employer-employee relationship between the Company
and such consultants; to ensure such consultants are not entitled to any rights
under the labor Laws of any applicable jurisdictions, including severance pay;
and such consultants (including the salesmen) and to ensure that former
consultants have received all of the rights and compensation to which they are
entitled according to applicable Law.
(i) The
Company is, and at all times has been, in compliance with all applicable laws
and/or regulations relating to immigration or the verification of
immigration/employment status, including the Immigration Reform and Control Act
of 1986, as amended, and the Immigration and Nationality Act, as
amended. All employees of the Company are legally authorized to work
in the United States, and the Company and its employees have properly completed
and retained I-9 forms in accordance with the requirements of applicable
immigration laws.
4.18 Labor.
(a) The
Company is not a party to any labor or collective bargaining agreement and there
are no labor or collective bargaining agreements which pertain to
Employees.
(b) No
Employees are represented by any labor organization. No labor
organization or group of Employees has made a pending demand for recognition,
and there are no representation proceedings or petitions seeking a
representation proceeding presently pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company,
threatened to be brought or filed, with the National Labor Relations Board or
other labor relations tribunal. There is no organizing activity
involving the Company pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened by
any labor organization or group of Employees. The Company is not a
member of any employers’ association or organization. No employers’
association or organization has made any demand for payment of any kind from the
Company.
(c) There
have been no (i) strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts or
arbitrations or (ii) material grievances or other labor disputes pending
or, to the Knowledge of
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the
Company, threatened against or involving the Company. There have been
no unfair labor practice charges, grievances or complaints pending or, to the
Knowledge of the Company, threatened by or on behalf of any Employee or group of
Employees. Since the Company’s formation, the Company has not
received notice of the intent of any Governmental Authority responsible for the
enforcement of labor or employment Laws to conduct an investigation of the
Company and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no such investigation is in
progress.
(d) There
have been no complaints, charges or claims against the Company pending or, to
the Knowledge of the Company, threatened that could be brought or filed, with
any Governmental Authority based on, arising out of, in connection with or
otherwise relating to the employment or termination of employment of or failure
to employ, any individual. The Company has been in
compliance with all applicable Laws relating to employment, including
(i) those relating to employment, termination of employment, terms and
conditions of employment, minimum wages, overtime and overtime payment, pay
slips, and working during rest days; (ii) all such Laws relating to wages,
hours, the WARN Act and any similar state or local “mass layoff” or “plant
closing” Law, collective bargaining, discrimination, civil rights, safety and
health, workers’ compensation and the collection and payment of withholding
and/or social security taxes and any similar tax except for non-material
non-compliance. There has been no “mass layoff” or “plant closing”
(as defined by the WARN Act) with respect to the Company within the six (6)
months prior to Closing.
4.19 Litigation. Except
as set forth in Schedule
4.19, there is no
Legal Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against
the Company (or to the Knowledge of the Company, pending or threatened, against
any of the officers, directors or employees of the Company with respect to their
business activities on behalf of the Company), or to which the Company is
otherwise a party before any Governmental Authority; nor, to the Knowledge of
the Company, is there any bona fide basis for any such Legal
Proceeding. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.19, the Company
is not subject to any Order, and the Company is not in breach or violation of
any Order. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.19, the Company
is not engaged in any legal action to recover monies due it or for damages
sustained by it. There are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the
Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or to which the Company
is otherwise a party relating to this Agreement or, any Company Document or the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
4.20 Compliance with Laws;
Permits.
(a) The
Company is in compliance in all material respects with all Laws applicable to
its business, operations or assets. The Company has not received any
notice of or been charged with any violation of any Laws. To the
Knowledge of the Company, the Company is not under investigation with respect to
the violation of any Laws and there are no facts or circumstances which could
form the basis for any such violation.
(b) Schedule
4.20 contains a
list of all Permits which are required for the operation of the business of the
Company as presently conducted (including all Permits under the FDCA) (“Company Permits”),
other than those the failure of which to possess are not
material. The Company currently has all Permits which are required
for the operation of its businesses as presently conducted, other than those the
failure of which to possess are not material. The
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Company
is not in default or violation, and no event has occurred which, with notice or
the lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or violation, in any
material respect of any term, condition or provision of any Company Permit, and
to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or circumstances which could
form the basis for any such default or violation. There are no Legal
Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, relating to
the suspension, revocation or modification of any Company
Permit. None of the Company Permits will be materially impaired or in
any way affected by the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
4.21 Environmental
Matters. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.21
hereto:
(a) the
operations of the Company are and have been in compliance in all material
respects with all applicable Environmental Laws, which compliance includes
obtaining, maintaining in good standing and complying with all Environmental
Permits and no action or proceeding is pending or, to the Knowledge of the
Company, threatened to revoke, modify or terminate any such Environmental
Permit, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no facts, circumstances or
conditions currently exist that could adversely affect such continued compliance
with Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits or require currently
unbudgeted capital expenditures to achieve or maintain such continued compliance
with Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits;
(b) the
Company is not the subject of any outstanding written Order or Contract with any
Governmental Authority or Person with respect to (i) Environmental Laws,
(ii) Remedial Action or (iii) any Discharge or threatened Discharge of
a Hazardous Substance;
(c) no claim
has been made or is pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened
against the Company alleging either or both that the Company may be in violation
of any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit, or may have any liability
under any Environmental Law;
(d) to the
Knowledge of the Company, no facts, circumstances or conditions exist with
respect to the Company or any property currently or formerly owned, operated or
leased by the Company or any property to which the Company arranged for the
disposal or treatment of Hazardous Substances that could reasonably be expected
to result in the Company incurring unbudgeted material Environmental Costs and
Liabilities;
(e) to the
Knowledge of the Company, there are no investigations of the business,
operations, or currently or, to the Knowledge of the Company, previously owned,
operated or leased property of the Company pending or threatened which could
lead to the imposition of any Environmental Costs and Liabilities or Liens under
Environmental Law;
(f) the
transactions contemplated hereunder do not require the consent of or filings
with any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the Company with respect
to environmental matters;
(g) to the
Knowledge of the Company, there is not located at any of the properties
currently or (while owned, operated or leased by the Company) previously owned,
operated or leased by the Company any (i) underground storage tanks,
(ii) landfill, (iii) surface
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impoundment,
(iii) asbestos-containing material or (iv) equipment containing
polychlorinated biphenyls; and
(h) the
Company has provided to Purchaser all environmentally related audits, studies,
reports, analyses, and results of investigations that have been performed with
respect to the currently or previously owned, leased or operated properties of
the Company.
4.22 Insurance. The
Company has insurance policies in full force and effect (a) for such
amounts as are sufficient for all requirements of Law and all agreements to
which the Company is a party or by which it is bound, and (b) which are in
such amounts, with such deductibles and against such risks and losses, as are
reasonable for the business, assets and properties of the
Company. Set forth in Schedule
4.22 is a list of
all insurance policies and all fidelity bonds held by or applicable to the
Company setting forth, in respect of each such policy, the policy name, policy
number, carrier, term, type and amount of coverage and annual premium, whether
the policies may be terminated upon consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and if and to what extent events being notified to the
insurer after the Closing Date are generally excluded from the scope of the
respective policy. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.22, no event
relating to the Company has occurred which could reasonably be expected to
result in a retroactive upward adjustment in premiums under any such insurance
policies or which could reasonably be expected to result in a prospective upward
adjustment in such premiums. Excluding insurance policies that have
expired and been replaced in the Ordinary Course of Business, no insurance
policy has been cancelled within the last two (2) years and, to the Knowledge of
the Company, no threat has been made to cancel any insurance policy of the
Company during such period. Except as noted on Schedule
4.22, all such
insurance will remain in full force and effect immediately following the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. No event has
occurred, including the failure by the Company to give any notice or information
or the Company giving any inaccurate or erroneous notice or information, which
limits or impairs the rights of the Company under any such insurance
policies.
4.23 Inventories. The
inventories of the Company, if any, are in good and marketable condition, and
are usable and of a quantity, quality and kind saleable in the Ordinary Course
of Business. The inventories of the Company set forth in the Balance
Sheet were valued at the lower of cost or market and were properly stated
therein in accordance with GAAP consistently applied. Adequate
reserves have been reflected in the Balance Sheet for obsolete, excess, damaged,
slow-moving, or otherwise unusable inventory, which reserves were calculated in
a manner consistent with past practice and in accordance with GAAP consistently
applied. The inventories of the Company constitute sufficient
quantities for the normal operation of business in accordance with past
practice.
4.24 Related Party
Transactions. No employee, officer, director or shareholder of
the Company, any member of his or her immediate family or any of their
respective Affiliates (“Related
Persons”) (i) owes any amount to the Company nor does the
Company, other than with respect to the employment of such individual, owe any
amount to, or has the Company committed to make any loan or extend or guarantee
credit to or for the benefit of, any Related Person, (ii) is involved in
any business arrangement or other relationship with the Company (whether written
or oral), (iii) owns any property or right, tangible or intangible, that is
used by the Company, (iv) has any claim or cause of action against the
Company or (v) owns any direct
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or
indirect interest of any kind in, or controls or is a director, officer,
employee or partner of, or consultant to, or lender to or borrower from or has
the right to participate in the profits of, any Person which is a competitor,
supplier, customer, landlord, tenant, creditor or debtor of the
Company.
4.25 Suppliers.
(a) Schedule
4.25 sets forth a
list of the ten (10) largest suppliers of the Company, as measured by the dollar
amount of purchases therefrom, during each of the fiscal years ended
December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, showing the approximate total purchases
by the Company from each such supplier during such period.
(b) Since the
Balance Sheet Date, no supplier listed on Schedule
4.25 has
terminated its relationship with the Company or materially reduced or changed
the pricing or other terms of its business with the Company and, to the
Knowledge of the Company, no supplier listed on Schedule
4.25 has notified
the Company that it intends to terminate or materially reduce or change the
pricing or other terms of its business with the Company.
4.26 Product Warranty; Product
Liability. To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company has no
liability arising out of any injury to individuals or property as a result of
the ownership, possession, or use of any product designed, manufactured,
assembled, repaired, maintained, delivered, sold or installed, or services
rendered, by or on behalf of the Company. To the Knowledge of the
Company, the Company has not committed any act or failed to commit any act,
which would result in, and there has been no occurrence which would give rise to
or form the basis of, any product liability or liability for breach of warranty
(whether covered by insurance or not) on the part of the Company with respect to
products designed, manufactured, assembled, repaired, maintained, delivered,
sold or installed or services rendered by or an behalf of the
Company.
4.27 Banks; Power of
Attorney. Schedule
4.27 contains a
complete and correct list of the names and locations of all banks in which the
Company has accounts or safe deposit boxes and the names of all persons
authorized to draw thereon or to have access thereto. Except as set
forth on Schedule
4.27, no person
holds a power of attorney to act on behalf of the Company.
4.28 Certain
Payments. Neither the Company nor any Seller nor, to the
Knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, or other Person
associated with or acting on behalf of any of them, has directly or indirectly
(a) made any contribution, gift, bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment,
kickback, or other payment to any Person, private or public, regardless of form,
whether in money, property, or services (i) to obtain favorable treatment
in securing business for the Company, (ii) to pay for favorable treatment
for business secured by the Company, (iii) to obtain special concessions or
for special concessions already obtained, for or in respect of the Company, or
(iv) in violation of any Law, or (b) established or maintained any
fund or asset with respect to the Company that has not be recorded in the books
and records of the Company.
4.29 Financial
Advisors. Except as set forth on Schedule
4.29, no Person
has acted, directly or indirectly, as a broker, finder or financial advisor for
the Sellers or the Company in
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connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and no Person is or will be
entitled to any fee or commission or like payment in respect
thereof.
4.30 Certain Governmental
Matters. The Company has not received from any U.S.
Governmental Authority or any prime contractor or subcontractor from a U.S.
Governmental Authority any special, preferential or advantageous treatment in
the award of a Government Contract, or in any other manner, including as a
“small business concern,” “small disadvantaged business” (or “minority-owned
business”), “women-owned” concern, or any other socially and economically
disadvantaged classification, as defined in the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C.
Sec. 631, et
seq.), the
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act (41 U.S.C. Sec. 252), section
7102 of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-355),
10 U.S.C. Sec 2323, Executive Order 12138, May 18, 1979, or regulations
implementing these requirements, including the Federal Acquisition
Regulations.
4.31 Insolvency. No
insolvency proceedings of any kind have been filed or are pending against the
Company and the Company has not stopped payment and is not insolvent or unable
to pay its debts as and when they fall due.
ARTICLE
V
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE PURCHASER
The
Purchaser hereby represents and warrants to the Sellers as, of the date hereof
and as of the Closing Date, as follows:
5.1 Organization and Good
Standing. Purchaser is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and carry on its business.
5.2 Authorization of
Agreement. Purchaser has full corporate power and authority to
execute and deliver this Agreement and each other agreement, document,
instrument or certificate contemplated by this Agreement or to be executed by
Purchaser in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby (the “Purchaser
Documents”), and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby. The execution, delivery and performance by Purchaser of this
Agreement and each Purchaser Document have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on behalf of Purchaser. This Agreement has been, and
each Purchaser Document will be at or prior to the Closing, duly executed and
delivered by Purchaser and (assuming the due authorization, execution and
delivery by the other parties hereto and thereto) this Agreement constitutes,
and each Purchaser Document when so executed and delivered will constitute, the
legal, valid and binding obligation of Purchaser, enforceable against Purchaser
in accordance with its respective terms, except for the Remedies
Exceptions.
5.3 No Vote
Required. No vote of the stockholders of Purchaser is required
by applicable Law, the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of Purchaser or
otherwise in order for Purchaser to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby.
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5.4 Conflicts; Consents of Third
Parties.
(a) None of
the execution and delivery by Purchaser of this Agreement and of the Purchaser
Documents, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby,
or the compliance by Purchaser with any of the provisions hereof or thereof will
conflict with, or result in violation of or default (with or without notice or
lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination or
cancellation under any provision of (i) the certificate of incorporation
and by-laws or comparable organizational documents of such Purchaser;
(ii) any Contract, or Permit to which Purchaser is a party or by which any
of the properties or assets of Purchaser are bound; (iii) any Order of any
Governmental Authority applicable to Purchaser or by which any of the properties
or assets of Purchaser are bound; or (iv) any applicable Law.
(b) No
consent, waiver, approval, Order, Permit or authorization of, or declaration or
filing with, or notification to, any Person or Governmental Authority is
required on the part of Purchaser in connection with the execution and delivery
of this Agreement or the Purchaser Documents or the compliance by Purchaser with
any of the provisions hereof or thereof, except for compliance with the
applicable requirements of the HSR Act.
5.5 Litigation. There
are no Legal Proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of Purchaser, threatened
against Purchaser or to which Purchaser is otherwise a party relating to this
Agreement, the Purchaser Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby.
5.6 Investment
Intention. Purchaser is acquiring the Company Securities for
its own account, for investment purposes only and not with a view to the
distribution (as such term is used in Section 2(11) of the Securities Act
thereof. Purchaser understands that the Company Securities have not
been registered under the Securities Act and cannot be sold unless subsequently
registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is
available.
5.7 Financial
Advisors. No Person has acted, directly or indirectly, as a
broker, finder or financial advisor for Purchaser in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and no Person is entitled to any fee
or commission or like payment in respect thereof.
5.8 Financing. Purchaser
has, or shall have, sufficient funds to pay the Consideration in connection with
the Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated herein when such
amounts are due.
ARTICLE
VI
COVENANTS
6.1 Conduct of the Business Pending the
Closing.
(a) Except as
otherwise expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Transaction Documents,
from and after the signing of this Agreement and until the Closing or
the earlier termination of this Agreement, the Company shall (except with the
prior written consent of the Purchaser not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed
or conditioned):
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(i) conduct
the businesses of the Company only in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(ii) use
commercially reasonable efforts to (A) preserve the present business
operations, organization (including officers and employees) and goodwill of
the Company and (B) preserve the present relationships with Persons having
business dealings with the Company (including customers and
suppliers);
(iii) use
commercially reasonable efforts to maintain (A) all of the assets and
properties of, or used by, the Company in their current condition, ordinary wear
and tear excepted, and (B) insurance upon all of the properties and assets
of the Company in such amounts and of such kinds comparable to that in effect on
the date of this Agreement;
(iv) (A) maintain
the books, accounts and records of the Company in the Ordinary Course of
Business, (B) continue to collect accounts receivable and pay accounts
payable utilizing normal procedures and without discounting (other than in the
Ordinary Course of Business) or accelerating payment of such accounts, and
(C) comply in all material respects with all contractual and other
obligations of the Company;
(v) comply in
all material respects with the capital expenditure plan of the Company for 2010,
including making such capital expenditures in the amounts and at the times set
forth in such plan; and
(vi) comply in
all material respects with all applicable laws.
(b) From and
after the signing of this Agreement and until the Closing or the
earlier termination of this Agreement, the Company shall not, without the prior
written consent of the Purchaser (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld, delayed or conditioned) or as otherwise expressly contemplated by this
Agreement, carry out any of the following:
(i) transfer,
issue, sell, pledge, encumber or dispose of any shares, capital stock or other
securities of, or other ownership interests in, the Company or grant options,
warrants, calls or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire shares, capital
stock or other securities of, or other ownership interests in, the
Company;
(ii) effect
any recapitalization, reclassification, stock split, combination or like change
in the capitalization of the Company, or, other than as specifically
contemplated by this Agreement, amend the terms of any outstanding securities of
the Company;
(iii) incur any
material capital expenditure or enter into any commitments to make material
capital expenditures other than (A) as provided for in the Company’s capital
expenditure plan for 2010 or (B) expenditures which do not exceed $100,000 in
the aggregate;
(iv) dispose
of, sell, assign, license, transfer, convey, lease or otherwise dispose of (or
agree to or grant any option for any of the foregoing with respect to) any of
the material properties or assets of, or used by, the Company except in the
Ordinary Course of Business;
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(v) other
than the Interim Debt Financing, enter into any financing agreement or incur any
Indebtedness except in the Ordinary Course of Business and existing overdraft
facilities at the bank of the Company;
(vi) other
than the Interim Debt Financing and expenses consistent with the June Business
Plan, enter into any transaction in excess of $100,000 and in the aggregate in
excess of $500,000;
(vii) grant or
agree to grant any lease or third party right in respect of any properties, make
any loan or enter into any leasing or other agreement or arrangements or payment
on deferred terms;
(viii) declare,
set aside, make or pay any dividend or other distribution in respect of the
share capital of, or other ownership interests in, the Company or repurchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire any outstanding shares, capital stock or other
securities of, or other ownership interests in, the Company, other than as
expressly contemplated by this Agreement;
(ix) commence
any lawsuit;
(x) transfer
or license to any third person ownership or other rights of any Intellectual
Property, or cause any Intellectual Property to lapse;
(xi) except
for amendments to outstanding stock option agreements contemplated by this
Agreement, terminate, breach, amend, restate, supplement or waive any rights
under any (A) Material Contract, Real Property Lease, Personal Property
Lease or Intellectual Property License, other than in the Ordinary Course of
Business or (B) Permit;
(xii) extend an
offer of employment to candidates except to the extent consistent with the June
Business Plan, and then only to the extent not involving annual compensation
greater than $150,000 individually or $1,500,000 in the aggregate;
(xiii) except as
provided in existing agreements, grant any severance or termination pay to any
director or Employee (including officer), other than those made in the Ordinary
Course of Business and to the extent required by Law;
(xiv) amend the
Organizational Documents of the Company;
(xv) (A) increase
the salary or other compensation of any director, officer or employee of the
Company, except for normal increases in the Ordinary Course of Business,
(B) other than accelerating the vesting of stock options, the “cashing out”
of Company Options held by Non-Exercising Optionholders in accordance with Section
6.12(a)(ii) or
waiver of the right of repurchase of the Company pursuant to restricted stock
agreements, grant any unusual or extraordinary bonus, benefit or other direct or
indirect compensation to any director, officer, employee or consultant,
(C) increase the coverage or benefits available under any (or create any
new) severance pay, termination pay, vacation pay, company awards, salary
continuation for disability, sick leave, deferred compensation, bonus or other
incentive compensation, insurance, pension or other employee benefit plan or
arrangement made to, for, or with any of the directors, officers, employees,
agents or representatives of the Company or
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otherwise
modify or amend or terminate any such plan or arrangement, or (D) enter
into any employment, deferred compensation, severance, special pay, consulting,
non-competition or similar agreement or arrangement with any directors or
officers of the Company (or amend any such agreement to which the Company is a
party);
(xvi) (i) other
than the Interim Debt Financing, issue, create, incur, assume, guarantee,
endorse or otherwise become liable or responsible with respect to (whether
directly, contingently or otherwise) any Indebtedness; or (ii) modify
the terms of any Indebtedness or other Liability;
(xvii) subject
to any Lien or otherwise encumber or, except for Permitted Exceptions, permit,
allow or suffer to be encumbered, any of the properties or assets (whether
tangible or intangible) of, or used by, the Company;
(xviii) acquire
any material properties or assets other than in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(xix) enter
into or agree to enter into any merger or consolidation with any corporation or
other entity, and not engage in any new business or invest in, make a loan,
advance or capital contribution to, or otherwise acquire the securities, of any
other Person;
(xx) cancel or
compromise any material debt or claim or waive or release any material right of
the Company except in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(xxi) enter
into, modify or terminate any labor or collective bargaining agreement of the
Company or, through negotiation or otherwise, make any commitment or incur any
liability to any labor organization with respect to the Company;
(xxii) introduce
any material change with respect to the operation of the Company, including any
material change in the types, nature, composition or quality of its products or
services, other than in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(xxiii) except
for transfers of cash pursuant to normal cash management or expense
reimbursement practices in the Ordinary Course of Business, make any investments
in or loans to, or pay any fees or expenses to, or enter into or modify any
Contract with any Related Persons;
(xxiv) (i) make,
change or revoke any Tax election, settle or compromise any Tax claim or
liability or enter into a settlement or compromise, or change (or make a request
to any Taxing Authority to change) any material aspect of its method of
accounting for Tax purposes, or (ii) prepare or file any Tax Return (or any
amendment thereof) unless such Tax Return is prepared in accordance with
Section
8.5(b)(i);
(xxv) Take any
action reasonably likely to adversely affect the ability of the parties to
consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
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(xxvi) settle or
compromise any pending or threatened Legal Proceeding or any claim or claims
for, or that would result in a loss of revenue of, an amount that could,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to be greater than
$100,000;
(xxvii) change or
modify in any material respect its credit, collection or payment policies,
procedures or practices, or fail to pay or delay payment of, in each case, in
any material respect, payables or other liabilities;
(xxviii) enter
into any Contract, understanding or commitment that restrains, restricts, limits
or impedes the ability of the Company to compete with or conduct any business or
line of business in any geographic area or solicit the employment of any
persons; or
(xxix) agree or
undertake to do any of the above.
6.2 Additional Seller
Covenants. From and after the signing of this Agreement (or,
with respect to any Joining Seller, such later time as such Joining Seller
executes a counterpart signature page) and until the Closing or the earlier
termination of this Agreement, the Sellers covenant and agree with the Purchaser
that:
(a) None of
the Sellers shall dispose of any interest in the Company Securities or any of
them or grant any option over or create or allow to exist any Lien over the
Company Securities or any of them.
(b) The
Sellers shall not vote in favor of any shareholders’ resolution without the
prior written consent of the Purchaser.
6.3 Access to Information;
Confidentiality. The Company shall, and the Sellers shall
cause the Company to, afford to Purchaser and its accountants, counsel,
financial advisors and other representatives, and to prospective lenders,
placement agents and other financing sources and each of their respective
representatives, reasonable access, during normal business hours upon reasonable
notice throughout the period prior to the Closing, to the Company’s properties
and facilities (including all owned or leased real property and the buildings,
structures, fixtures, appurtenances and improvements erected, attached or
located thereon), books, financial information (including working papers and
data in the possession of the Company or their respective independent public
accountants, internal audit reports, and “management letters” from such
accountants with respect to the Company’s systems of internal controls),
Contracts and records of the Company and, during such period, shall furnish
promptly such information concerning the businesses, properties and personnel of
the Company as Purchaser shall reasonably request; provided, however, such
investigation shall not unreasonably disrupt the Company’s
operations. Prior to the Closing, the Sellers shall generally keep
Purchaser informed as to all material matters involving the operations and
businesses of the Company. All nonpublic information provided to, or
obtained by, Purchaser in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby
shall be “Confidential
Information” for purposes of the Confidential Mutual Disclosure Agreement
dated May 30, 2009, as amended on April 28, 2010 among Purchaser and the
Company (the “Confidentiality
Agreement”), the terms of which shall continue in force until the
Closing; provided that Purchaser and the Company may disclose such information
as may be necessary in connection with seeking necessary consents and approvals
as
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contemplated
hereby. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be
required to disclose any information if such disclosure would contravene any
applicable Law, violate, in any material respect, a contractual obligation to
any third party or potentially constitute a waiver of the attorney-client
privilege. No information provided to or obtained by Purchaser
pursuant to this Section
6.3 shall limit
or otherwise affect the remedies available hereunder to Purchaser (including
Purchaser’s right to seek indemnification pursuant to
ARTICLE VIII), or
the representations or warranties of, or the conditions to the obligations of,
the parties hereto.
6.4 Third Party
Consents. The Company shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain at the earliest practicable date all consents, waivers and
approvals from, and provide all notices to, all Persons that are not a
Governmental Authority, which consents, waivers, approvals and notices are
required to consummate, or in connection with, the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, including the consents, waivers, approvals and notices referred
to in Section
4.3
hereof. All such consents, waivers, approvals and notices shall be in
writing and in form and substance reasonable satisfactory to Purchaser, and
executed counterparts of any such consents, waivers and approvals shall be
delivered to Purchaser promptly after receipt thereof, and copies of any such
notices shall be delivered to Purchaser promptly after the making
thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement,
neither Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates shall be required to pay any amounts
in connection with obtaining any consent, waiver or approval.
6.5 Governmental Consents and
Approvals.
(a) Each of
Purchaser and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to
obtain at the earliest practical date all consents, waivers, approvals, Orders,
Permits, authorizations and declarations from, make all filings with,
and provide all notices to, all Governmental Authorities which are required to
consummate, or in connection with, the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, including the consents, waivers, approvals, Orders, Permits,
authorizations, declarations, filings and notices referred to in Sections
3.3(b) and
4.3(b). Without
limiting the foregoing, Purchaser and the Company shall (i) make all
filings required of either of them or either of their respective Subsidiaries or
Affiliates under the HSR Act or other Antitrust Laws with respect to the
transactions contemplated hereby as promptly as practicable and, in any event,
within ten (10) Business Days after the date of this Agreement in the case of
all filings required under the HSR Act and within four (4) weeks in the case of
all other filings required by other Antitrust Laws, (ii) comply at the
earliest practicable date with any request under the HSR Act or other Antitrust
Laws for additional information, documents, or other materials received by each
of them or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates from the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”), the Antitrust
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (the “Antitrust Division”)
or any other Governmental Authority in respect of such filings or such
transactions, and (iii) cooperate with each other in connection with any
such filing (including, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, providing
copies of all such documents to the non-filing parties prior to filing and
considering all reasonable additions, deletions or changes suggested in
connection therewith) and in connection with resolving any investigation or
other inquiry of any of the FTC, the Antitrust Division or other Governmental
Authority under any Antitrust Laws with respect to any such filing or any such
transaction and shall enter into a joint defense agreement to govern such
cooperation. Each such party shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to furnish to each other party hereto all information required for
any
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application
or other filing to be made pursuant to any applicable Law in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and by the other Transaction
Documents. Each such party shall promptly inform the other parties
hereto of any oral communication with, and provide copies of written
communications with, any Governmental Authority regarding any such filings or
any such transaction and permit the other parties to review in advance any
proposed communication by such party to any Governmental
Authority. No party hereto shall independently participate in any
formal or informal meeting with any Governmental Authority in respect of any
such filings, investigation, or other inquiry without giving the other parties
hereto prior notice of the meeting and, to the extent permitted by such
Governmental Authority, the opportunity to attend and/or
participate. Subject to applicable Law, the parties hereto shall
consult and cooperate with one another in connection with the matters described
in this Section
6.5, including in
connection with any analyses, appearances, presentations, memoranda, briefs,
arguments, opinions and proposals made or submitted by or on behalf of any party
hereto relating to proceedings under the HSR Act or other Antitrust
Laws.
(b) Each of
Purchaser and the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to resolve
such objections, if any, as may be asserted by any Governmental Authority with
respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under any Law,
including the HSR Act, the Xxxxxxx Act, as amended, the Xxxxxxx Act, as amended,
the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended, and any other Laws that are
designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect
of monopolization or restraint of trade (collectively, the “Antitrust
Laws”). Each of Purchaser and the Company shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to take such action as may be required to cause
the expiration of the notice periods under the HSR Act or other Antitrust Laws
with respect to such transactions as promptly as possible after the execution of
this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, neither Purchaser nor any of its Affiliates (which for purposes of
this sentence shall include the Company) shall be required, in connection with
the matters covered by this Section
6.5, (i) to
pay any amounts (other than as set forth in Section
6.5
(f)),
(ii) to commence or defend any litigation, (iii) to hold separate
(including by trust or otherwise) or divest any of their respective businesses,
product lines or assets, (iv) to agree to any limitation on the operation
or conduct of their or the Company’s respective businesses, assets or operation
or (v) to waive any of the conditions set forth in
ARTICLE VII of
this Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, Purchaser will have the sole and exclusive
right to determine whether to take any actions in connection with any demands
for sale, divestiture or disposition of assets or business of Purchaser or,
effective as of the Closing, the Company, asserted by the Antitrust Division or
the FTC in connection with antitrust matters or to defend through litigation any
proceeding commenced by the Antitrust Division or the FTC in connection with the
transaction contemplated hereby and by the other Transaction Documents; any such
determination by Purchaser shall not effect any party’s right to terminate this
Agreement pursuant to
ARTICLE VII so
long as such party has up to then complied in all material respects with its
obligations under this Section
6.5. Purchaser
shall have the sole and exclusive right to direct and control any such
litigation, negotiation or other action, with counsel of its own
choosing.
(d) If any
Legal Proceeding is instituted (or threatened to be instituted) challenging any
transaction contemplated by this Agreement and by the other
Transaction
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Documents
as in violation of any Law, the Company shall, at Purchaser’s request, use
commercially reasonable efforts, and Purchaser shall cooperate with the Company,
to contest and resist any such Legal Proceeding, and to have vacated, lifted,
reversed, or overturned any decree, judgment, injunction or other order whether
temporary, preliminary or permanent, that is in effect and that prohibits,
prevents, or restricts consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and by the other Transaction Documents, including by pursuing all
available avenues of administrative and judicial appeal.
(e) The
Company will cooperate in taking any action required to be taken by any
Governmental Authority in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby
that is within its control and that Purchaser reasonably requests the Company to
take so long as the effectiveness of such action is conditioned on the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby; provided that the Company
shall not be required to take any actions that, individually or in the
aggregate, would in the reasonable judgment of the Company result in a negative
impact on the business of the Company if the transactions contemplated hereby
are not consummated.
(f) All fees
required to be paid in connection with filings required under the HSR
Act in order to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby shall
be paid fifty-percent (50%) by the Company and fifty percent (50%) by
Purchaser. All out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Purchaser or
the Company in connection with their respective obligations pursuant to this
Section
6.5 shall be
borne by the party incurring such expenses.
(g) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Purchaser acknowledges on behalf of
itself and its Affiliates, successors and assigns that the operation of the
Company’s business shall remain in the dominion and control of the Company until
the Closing and that none of the foregoing Persons will provide, directly or
indirectly, any directions, orders, advice, aid, assistance or information to
any director, officer or employee of the Company except as specifically
contemplated or permitted by this Section
6.5 and not
otherwise in violation of Law.
6.6 Further
Assurances. Each of the Company and Purchaser shall use its
commercially reasonable efforts to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all
actions necessary or appropriate to consummate the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement and (ii) cause the fulfillment at the earliest practicable
date of all of the conditions to their respective obligations to consummate the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
6.7 Non-Competition.
(a) Each
Restricted Seller acknowledges and agrees that such Restricted Seller has
technical and other expertise associated with the business of the Company
including the Restricted Business. In addition, each Restricted
Seller has valuable business contacts with clients and potential clients of the
Company. Furthermore, each Restricted Seller’s reputation and
goodwill are an integral part of the Company’s success throughout the areas
where it conducts business. If a Restricted Seller deprives Purchaser
of the Restricted Seller’s goodwill or in any manner uses his or her reputation
and goodwill in competition with Purchaser in contravention of this Agreement,
Purchaser will be deprived of the benefits it has bargained for
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pursuant
to this Agreement and the Transaction Documents. But for the
Restricted Sellers’ entry into the covenants contemplated by this Section
6.7, Purchaser
would not have entered into this Agreement with the Restricted
Sellers. Each Restricted Seller, in exchange for the consideration to
be paid pursuant hereto, is willing to enter into the covenants contemplated by
this Section
6.7.
(b) Unless
otherwise agreed in writing by Purchaser, for a period of two (2) years from and
after the Closing Date, except to work with and for the Company or the
Purchaser, each Restricted Seller shall not, and shall cause their Affiliates
not to, directly or indirectly, own, manage, engage in, operate, control, work
for, consult with, render services for, do business with, maintain any interest
in (proprietary, financial or otherwise) or participate in the ownership,
management, operation or control of, any business, whether in corporate,
proprietorship or partnership form or otherwise, engaged in the Restricted
Business; provided, however, that the restrictions contained in this Section
6.7 shall not
restrict (i) the acquisition by the Restricted Sellers, directly or
indirectly, of less than 2% of the outstanding capital stock of any publicly
traded company engaged in a Restricted Business or (ii) a Restricted
Sellers’ employment by a Person engaged in the Restricted Business to the extent
that such Restricted Seller is employed by a division of such Person which is
not engaged in the Restricted Business. Each Restricted Seller
acknowledges and agrees that the business of the Company is worldwide and that,
accordingly the foregoing restriction shall apply on a worldwide
basis.
(c) Each
Restricted Seller acknowledges that the restrictions, prohibitions and other
provisions hereof are reasonable, fair and equitable in scope, terms and
duration, are necessary to protect the legitimate business interests of
Purchaser, and are a material inducement to Purchaser to consummate the
transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement and Purchaser is relying on
the terms of this Section
6.7 in doing
so.
(d) All of
the parties agree that the duration and area for which the covenant not to
compete set forth in this Section
6.7 is to be
effective have been specifically negotiated by sophisticated parties and
specifically hereby agree that such duration and area are reasonable under the
circumstances. The parties hereto agree that, if any court of
competent jurisdiction determines that a specified time period, a specified
geographical area, a specified business limitation or any other relevant feature
of this Section
6.7 is
unreasonable, arbitrary or against public policy, then this Section
6.7 shall be
deemed a covenant for such lesser period of time, geographical area, business
limitation or other relevant feature which is determined by such court to be
reasonable, not arbitrary and not against public policy and such covenant as
modified shall remain in full force and effect and may be enforced against the
applicable party. The parties intend that this covenant shall be
deemed to be a series of separate covenants, one for each and every county of
each and every state of the United States of America and for any other country
in the world where this covenant is intended to be
effective. Additionally, the parties intend that this covenant shall
be deemed to be a series of separate covenants for each Restricted Seller and
that the invalidity of any portion of this Section
6.7 as to any
Restricted Seller shall not effect the validity of such covenants as to any
other Restricted Seller.
(e) The
covenants and undertakings contained in this Section
6.7 relate to
matters which are of a special, unique and extraordinary character and a
violation of any of the terms of this Section
6.7 will cause
irreparable injury to Purchaser, the amount of which will be
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impossible
to estimate or determine and which cannot be adequately
compensated. Accordingly, the remedy at Law for any breach of this
Section
6.7 will be
inadequate. Therefore, Purchaser will be entitled to a temporary and
permanent injunction, restraining order or other equitable relief from any court
of competent jurisdiction in the event of any breach of this Section
6.7 without the
necessity of proving actual damage or posting any bond
whatsoever. The rights and remedies provided by this Section
6.7 are cumulative
and in addition to any other rights and remedies which Purchaser may have
hereunder.
(f) The
covenants set forth in this Section
6.7 are intended
to function as an agreement separate from the remainder of this Agreement and
the invalidity of any portion of this Section
6.7 shall not
affect the continued validity of any other portion of this
Agreement.
(g) In the
event that Purchaser were to seek damages for any breach of this Section
6.7, the
Non-Competition Payments delivered to the Sellers hereunder which are allocated
by the parties to the foregoing covenant shall not be considered a measure of or
limit on such damages.
6.8 Non-Solicitation;
Confidentiality.
(a) Unless
otherwise agreed in writing by Purchaser, for a period of two (2) years from and
after the Closing Date, each Restricted-Seller shall not, and shall cause its
Affiliates (including Affiliates who are Sellers) not to, directly or indirectly
cause, solicit, induce or encourage any employees of the Company to leave such
employment or hire, employ or otherwise engage any such individual unless such
employee of the Company was terminated without Cause from his employment with
the Company or resigned from such employment for Good Reason.
(b) Unless
otherwise agreed in writing by Purchaser, for a period of three (3) years from
and after the Closing Date, each Restricted Seller shall not, and shall cause
its Affiliates (including Affiliates who are Sellers) not to, directly or
indirectly: (i) cause, solicit, induce or encourage any Material
Employees of the Company to leave such employment or hire, employ or otherwise
engage any such individual unless such Material Employee was terminated without
Cause from his employment with the Company or resigned from such employment for
Good Reason; or (ii) cause, induce or encourage any material actual or
prospective client, customer, supplier, or licensor of the Company (including
any existing customer of the Company and any Person that becomes a client or
customer of the Company after the Closing) or any other Person who has a
material business relationship with the Company, to terminate or modify any such
actual or prospective relationship.
(c) From and
after the date hereof and continuing in perpetuity or until the termination of
this Agreement in accordance with
ARTICLE IX, each
Seller shall not and shall use its best efforts to cause his or her directors,
officers, employees and Affiliates not to, directly or indirectly, disclose,
reveal, divulge or communicate to any Person other than authorized officers,
directors and employees of Purchaser or use or otherwise exploit for its own
benefit or for the benefit of anyone other than Purchaser, any Confidential
Information (as defined below). No Seller shall have any obligation
to keep confidential (or cause its officers, directors or Affiliates to keep
confidential) any Confidential Information if and to the extent
disclosure
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thereof
is specifically required by applicable Law; provided, however, that in the event
disclosure is required by applicable Law, the Sellers shall, to the extent
reasonably possible, provide Purchaser with prompt notice of such requirement
prior to making any disclosure so that Purchaser may seek an appropriate
protective order. For purposes of this Section
6.8
(c), “Confidential
Information” means any information with respect to the Company, including
methods of operation, customer lists, products, prices, fees, costs, Technology,
inventions, Trade Secrets, know-how, Software, marketing methods, plans,
personnel, suppliers, competitors, markets or other specialized information or
proprietary matters. “Confidential
Information” does not include, and there shall be no obligation hereunder
with respect to, information that (i) is generally available to the public
on the date of the disclosure or (ii) becomes generally available to the
public other than as a result of a disclosure not otherwise permissible
hereunder, (iii) was known to the receiving party prior to such disclosure by
the Seller hereunder (other than any Confidential Information disclosed to the
receiving party on a basis under which the receiving party is bound by
confidentiality obligations) as evidenced by documentary or other physical
evidence predating the date of the disclosure or (iv) was lawfully disclosed or
made available to the receiving party by a third party having no obligation to
the Seller to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
(d) The
covenants and undertakings contained in this Section
6.8 relate to
matters which are of a special, unique and extraordinary character and a
violation of any of the terms of this Section
6.8 will cause
irreparable injury to Purchaser, the amount of which will be impossible to
estimate or determine and which cannot be adequately
compensated. Accordingly, the remedy at Law for any breach of this
Section
6.8 will be
inadequate. Therefore, Purchaser will be entitled to a temporary and
permanent injunction, restraining order or other equitable relief from any court
of competent jurisdiction in the event of any breach of this Section
6.8 without the
necessity of proving actual damage or posting any bond
whatsoever. The rights and remedies provided by this Section
6.8 are
cumulative and in addition to any other rights and remedies which Purchaser may
have hereunder at law or in equity.
(e) The
parties hereto agree that, if any court of competent jurisdiction determines
that a specified time period, a specified geographical area, a specified
business limitation or any other relevant feature of this Section
6.8 is
unreasonable, arbitrary or against public policy, then this Section
6.8 shall be
deemed a covenant for such lesser period of time, geographical area, business
limitation or other relevant feature which is determined by such court to be
reasonable, not arbitrary and not against public policy and such covenant as
modified shall remain in full force and effect and may be enforced against the
applicable party. Additionally, the parties intend that this covenant
shall be deemed to be a series of separate covenants for each Seller and that
the invalidity of any portion of this Section
6.8 as to any
Seller shall not effect the validity of such covenants as to any other
Seller.
(f) The
covenants set forth in this Section
6.8 are intended
to function as an agreement separate from the remainder of this Agreement and
the invalidity of any portion of this Section
6.8 shall not
affect the continued validity of any other portion of this
Agreement.
6.9 Preservation of
Records. Subject to any retention requirements relating to the
preservation of Tax records, the Sellers and Purchaser agree that each of them
shall (and shall cause the Company to) preserve and keep the records held by
them relating to the respective
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businesses
of the Company for a period of seven years from the Closing Date and shall make
such records and personnel available to the other as may be reasonably required
by such party in connection with, among other things, any insurance claims by,
legal proceedings against or governmental investigations of the Sellers, the
Company or Purchaser or any of their Affiliates or in order to enable the
Sellers or Purchaser to comply with their respective obligations under this
Agreement and each other agreement, document or instrument contemplated hereby
or thereby. In the event the Sellers or Purchaser wishes to destroy
(or permit to be destroyed) such records after that time, such party shall first
give 90 days prior written notice to the other and
such other party shall have the right at its option and expense, upon prior
written notice given to such party within that 90-day period, to take possession
of the records within that 90-day period.
6.10 Publicity.
(a) None of
the Purchaser, the Company or the Sellers shall issue any press release or
public announcement concerning this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby without obtaining the prior written approval of the other party hereto,
which approval will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, unless disclosure
is otherwise required, in the reasonable judgment of Purchaser, by applicable
Law or by the applicable rules of any stock exchange on which Purchaser or its
Affiliates lists securities, provided that, to the extent required by applicable
Law, the party intending to make such release shall use its commercially
reasonable efforts consistent with such applicable Law to consult with the other
party with respect to the text thereof.
(b) Each of
Purchaser and the Sellers agrees that the terms of this Agreement shall not be
disclosed or otherwise made available to the public and that copies of this
Agreement shall not be publicly filed or otherwise made available to the public,
except where such disclosure, availability or filing is required by applicable
Law and only to the extent required by such Law. In the event that
such disclosure, availability or filing is required by applicable Law, each of
Purchaser, the Company and the Sellers (as applicable) agrees to use its
commercially reasonable efforts to obtain “confidential treatment” of this
Agreement with the SEC (or the equivalent treatment by any other Governmental
Authority) and to redact such terms of this Agreement the other party shall
request.
6.11 Use of Name. The
Sellers hereby agree that upon the Closing, Purchaser and the Company shall have
the sole right to the use of the name “LenSx” or similar names and any service
marks, trademarks, trade names, d/b/a names, fictitious names, identifying
symbols, logos, emblems, signs or insignia related thereto or containing or
comprising the foregoing, or otherwise used in the business of the Company,
including any name or xxxx confusingly similar thereto and the Marks listed on
Schedule
4.13(a)
(collectively, the “Company
Marks”). The Sellers shall not, and shall not permit their
respective Affiliates to, use such name or any variation or simulation thereof
or any of the Company Marks. Each of the Sellers shall, and shall
cause each of its Affiliates to, immediately after the Closing, cease to hold
itself out as having any affiliation with the Company or any of its
Affiliates.
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6.12 Options and Company Option
Plan.
(a) Prior to
the Closing, the Sellers shall cause the Company’s Board of Directors (or, if
applicable, any appropriate committee thereof) to adopt such resolutions or take
such other actions as may be required to provide that, effective immediately
prior to the Closing:
(i) each
Company Option is fully vested as of the Closing Date and no Option remains
unvested upon such date;
(ii) each
Company Option held by a holder who has executed an Option Termination Agreement
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I (a
“Non-Exercising
Optionholder”), whether or not then exercisable or vested, shall be
cancelled in consideration for the right to payment by the Company (which
payment may be made by Purchaser or the Paying Agent on the Company’s behalf)
of: (A) the product of (x) excess, if any of the per-Company Security
cash consideration to be paid at Closing over the exercise price of each such
Company Option, and (y) the number of Shares subject thereto as shown on
Exhibit B
hereto, and
(B) such Company Option’s pro-rata portion (as shown on Exhibit B hereto) of (x) the
remaining balance, if any, of the Appraisal Holdback, at such time (if any) as
it is released to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section
2.8(d) hereto
(y) any excess of Closing Working Capital over Estimated Closing Working
Capital paid by the Purchaser to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section
2.9(b)(iv)
hereof, and (z) such portion of the Adjustment Holdback, if any, paid by
the Purchaser to the Paying Agent pursuant to Section
2.9(b)(v)
hereto;
(iii) each
Company Option not either (A) exercised prior to the Closing Date or
(B) to be “cashed out” pursuant to a validly-executed Option Termination
Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I (in
accordance with Section
6.12
(a)
(ii)), shall
terminate as of the Closing and shall not thereafter be exercisable for any
Company Securities or otherwise be of any further force and effect;
(iv) the LenSx
Lasers, Inc. 2007 Stock Option/Stock Issuance Plan, as amended March 24,
2010 (the “Company
Option Plan”) shall terminate and all rights under the Company Option
Plan and any provision of any other plan, program or arrangement providing for
the issuance or grant of any other interest in respect of the capital stock of
the Company shall be cancelled; and
(v) no Person
shall have any right to equity securities of the Company.
All
amounts payable pursuant to this Section
6.12
(a) shall be
subject to any required withholding of taxes.
(b) At or
prior to the Closing the Sellers shall provide the documentation of the closing
and winding up of the Company Option Plan in accordance with applicable
Law.
(c) The
Company shall notify each Person who holds Company Options, both verbally and in
writing (in a form reasonably satisfactory to Purchaser): (A) that a
failure to exercise such Person’s Company Options prior to the Closing or
execute an Option Termination Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I will
result in the termination of such Company Options contemporaneously with the
Closing without receipt of, or the right to any
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future
receipt of, any consideration therefor, (B) that upon execution of an
Option Termination Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I such
holder of Company Options will have the right to receive the consideration
specified in Section
6.12
(a)(ii) but will
not have any rights to receive any portion of any Earnout Payment or amounts
released from the Escrow Account (C) that if such Person exercises its
Company Options prior to the Closing and sells the Shares resulting from such
exercise, such Person will participate in all Consideration (including any
Earnouts and amounts released from the Escrow Account but less a deduction for
any unpaid exercise price on account of any “cashless” exercise), and
(D) of the tax implications of any pre-Closing exercise of Company Options
followed by a sale of the Shares resulting therefrom.
6.13 Related-Party Transactions with
Non-Management Affiliates. On or prior to the Closing Date,
the Company shall (a) terminate all Contracts with any of the Sellers or
their respective Affiliates (other than (i) those Contracts set forth on
Schedule
6.13 and
(ii) Contracts (other than employment contracts entered in to in the
Ordinary Course of Business) between the Company and its employees and
(b) deliver releases executed by such Sellers and their respective
Affiliates with whom the Company has terminated such Contracts pursuant to this
Schedule
6.13 providing
that no further payments are due, or may become due, under or in respect of any
such terminated Contracts; provided that in no event shall the Company be
required to pay any fee or otherwise incur any expense or financial exposure
with respect to any such termination or release.
6.14 Monthly Financial
Statements. As soon as reasonably practicable, but in no event
later than thirty (30) days after the end of each calendar month during the
period from the date hereof to the Closing, the Company shall provide Purchaser
with (i) unaudited monthly financial statements and (ii) operating or
management reports (such reports to be in the form prepared by the Company in
the Ordinary Course of Business) of the Company for such preceding
month.
6.15 Fees and
Expenses. No later than three (3) Business Days prior to
the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to Purchaser (i) pay-off
letters or final invoices in respect of the Transaction Expenses from
third-party service providers to whom payments are required to be made by the
Company, and (ii) a certificate of the Company setting forth an estimate of
the unpaid balance of all Transaction Expenses as of the close of business on
the day immediately preceding the Closing. On the Closing Date prior
to the Closing, the Company shall deliver to Purchaser a certificate of the
Company setting forth the unpaid balance of all Transaction Expenses as of the
close of business on the day immediately preceding the Closing. The
Company shall, and the Sellers shall cause the Company to, pay and discharge all
such Transaction Expenses at or prior to the Closing (including by means of the
payments by Purchaser contemplated by Section
2.3(d)). All
pay-off letters or final invoices shall provide that the amounts set forth
therein represent payment in full for all fees and expenses payable by the
Company in connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
6.16 Notification of Certain
Matters. The Company shall give notice to Purchaser and
Purchaser shall give notice to the Sellers, as promptly as reasonably
practicable upon becoming aware of (a) any fact, change, condition,
circumstance, event, occurrence or non-occurrence that has caused or is
reasonably likely to cause any representation or warranty in this Agreement made
by it to be untrue or inaccurate in any respect at any time after the date
hereof
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and prior
to the Closing, (b) any material failure on its part to comply with or
satisfy any covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by
it hereunder or (c) the institution of or the written threat or bona fide
oral threat of institution of any Legal Proceeding against any of the Sellers or
the Company related to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby;
provided that the delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section
6.16 shall not
limit or otherwise affect the remedies available hereunder to the party
receiving such notice, or the representations or warranties of, or the
conditions to the obligations of, the parties hereto. Prior to the
Closing, the Company shall update Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto
(including the pro-rata percentages shown thereon) as necessary to reflect the
exercise of any Company Options or Company Warrants prior to the
Closing.
6.17 Indebtedness. No
later than the third Business Day prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall
provide Purchaser with (i) a certificate of the Company setting forth an
estimate of the balance of all Indebtedness of the Company as of the close of
business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Closing Date and
(ii) customary pay-off letters from all holders of Indebtedness to be
repaid as of or prior to the Closing. The Company shall make
arrangements reasonably satisfactory to Purchaser for such holders to provide to
Purchaser recordable form mortgage and lien releases, canceled notes and other
documents reasonably requested by Purchaser prior to the Closing such that all
Liens on the assets or properties of the Company that are not Permitted
Exceptions shall be satisfied, terminated and discharged on or prior to the
Closing Date. On the Closing Date prior to the Closing, the Company
shall deliver to Purchaser a certificate of the Company setting forth all
Indebtedness of the Company as of the close of business on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Closing Date.
6.18 Interim Debt
Financing. In the event that the Closing has not occurred by
the one month anniversary of the date hereof due to the Closing condition in
Section
7.1(g) not yet
being satisfied, Purchaser will provide (or will cause its Affiliates to
provide) the Company with interim debt financing in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $12,000,000 (the “Interim Debt
Financing”) for the Company to use in a manner consistent with the June
Business Plan (and Purchaser shall not be obligated to provide any Interim
Financing for uses inconsistent with such plan). The Interim Debt
Financing will be provided pursuant to one or more promissory notes in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit F (with
no more than $6,000,000 of the Interim Debt Financing being advanced in any
calendar quarter and no more than one such advance to be made in each calendar
quarter) and will provide for the payment of all principal and accrued interest
thereunder upon the earlier of the date that is (i) twelve (12) months from
the first date on which any Interim Debt Financing is advanced to the Company
pursuant hereto, or (ii) fifteen (15) days following the date on which the
Company closes any equity financing which brings the aggregate amount of equity
financing it has secured following the date hereof to at least
$30,000,000.
6.19 Second Step
Merger. If, following the Closing, there are any Remaining
Shares not acquired by Purchaser as of the Closing and, within thirty (30) days
following the Closing the holders of such Remaining Shares have not agreed to
execute a Post-Closing Counterpart Signature Page then as soon as reasonably
practicable following the Closing, Purchaser shall effect a “short form” merger
pursuant to Section 253 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “Merger”), pursuant to
which it will acquire all of the Remaining Shares not acquired at the Closing
(other than any Dissenting Shares) at the Per-Share Fair Market Value, provided,
that
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6.20 such
Merger consideration need not provide for any deductions or holdbacks therefrom
of the types deducted or held back pursuant to this Agreement (including any
Adjustment Holdback, Appraisal Holdback, contributions to the Initial Escrow
Balance, any Escrowed Earnout Amount or the Representative Expense Amount) and,
if such deductions or holdbacks are not provided for, an appropriate adjustment
may be made to the per-Share Merger consideration to take into account the fact
that such deductions will not be made therefrom. The Merger
consideration shall be paid by Purchaser from (or, if paid by the Company, shall
be deemed to reduce) the Appraisal Holdback. The Merger shall be
completed by merging a newly formed subsidiary of the Purchaser into the
Company.
6.21 Directors and Officers
Insurance.
(a) Prior to
the Closing, the Company shall obtain and fully pay for, a “claims-made” “tail”
policy under the Company’s existing directors’ and officers’ insurance policy,
which (i) has an effective term of six years from the Closing Date, (ii) covers
only those persons who are currently covered by the Company’s directors’ and
officers’ insurance policy in effect as of the date hereof and only for actions
and omissions occurring on or prior to the Closing Date, and (iii) contains
terms and conditions (including, without limitation, coverage amounts) that are
no less advantageous, when taken as a whole, to those applicable to the current
directors and officers of the Company. This Section
6.20 shall
survive the consummation of the Merger, is intended to benefit each Company
Indemnified Person, shall be binding on all successors and assigns of the
Company and Purchaser, and shall be enforceable by the Company Indemnified
Persons. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, nothing in this Section
6.20 shall affect
any rights of Purchaser to indemnification under this Agreement with respect to
events occurring prior to, or circumstances existing at, the Closing
Date.
(b) Contingent
on the Company’s having met its obligation under Section
6.20
(a), from and
after the Closing until the sixth (6th)
anniversary of the Closing Date, Purchaser shall, and shall cause the Company
to, fulfill and honor in all respects the obligations of the Company to its
directors and officers as of immediately prior to the Closing Date (the “Company Indemnified
Persons”) pursuant to any indemnification provisions under the Company’s
certificate of incorporation or bylaws as in effect on the date of this
Agreement and pursuant to any indemnification agreements between the Company and
such Company Indemnified Parties existing as of the Agreement Date (the “Company Indemnification
Provisions”), with respect to claims arising out of acts or omissions
occurring at or prior to the Closing Date. In connection therewith,
Purchaser shall advance expenses to the Company Indemnified Persons as incurred
to the fullest extent provided for under the Company Indemnification
Provisions. Any claims for indemnification made under this Section
6.20
(b) on or prior
to the sixth (6th)
anniversary of the Closing Date shall survive such anniversary until the final
resolution thereof.
6.22 Employee
Matters. As of and following the Closing Date, Purchaser will
either (a) continue the employee benefit plans in effect on the Closing
Date, (b) permit employees of the Company who continue employment with Purchaser
or the Company following the Closing Date (“Continuing
Employees”), and, as applicable, their eligible dependents, to
participate in the employee benefit plans, programs or policies (including
without limitation any plan intended to qualify within the meaning of Section
401(a) of the Code and any vacation, sick, per personal
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plans or programs) of Purchaser on terms no less favorable than those provided
to similarly situated employees of Purchaser, or (c) a combination of clauses
(a) and (b). To the extent Purchaser elects to have Continuing
Employees and their eligible dependents participate in its employee benefit
plans, program or policies following the Closing Date, (i) each such Continuing
Employee will receive credit for purposes of eligibility to participate and
vesting under such plan for years of service with the Company (or any of its
Subsidiaries), and (ii) Purchaser will cause any and all pre-existing condition
limitations, eligibility waiting periods and evidence of insurability
requirements under any group health plans of Purchaser in which such employees
and their eligible dependents will participate to be waived and will provide
credit for any co-payments and deductibles prior to the Closing Date for
purposes of satisfying any applicable deductible, out-of-pocket or similar
requirements under any such plans that may apply after the Closing
Date.
6.23 Resignation of
Directors. Upon Closing the directors of the Company shall
deliver to the Company signed resignations from their seats on the Board of
Directors.
6.24 401(k) Plan. At
Purchaser’s written request, delivered no later than thirty (30) days after the
date hereof, the Company shall terminate the 401(k) Plan (the "401(k) Plan")
effective immediately prior to the Closing, shall cease all further
contributions to the 401(k) Plan for pay periods beginning on and after the
Closing Date and, to the extent the 401(k) Plan provides for loans to
participants, shall cease making any such additional loans effective immediately
prior to the Closing Date. If Purchaser so directs the Company to
terminate the 401(k) plan, the Company agrees to cooperate with Purchaser after
the Closing Date to amend the 401(k) Plan in order to bring the 401(k) Plan into
compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, to vest all participants in
their accounts, to distribute all such accounts to the extent permitted under
applicable laws and regulations and to bear all expenses that may apply in
connection with obtaining a favorable determination letter from the Internal
Revenue Service with respect to the tax-qualified status of the 401(k) Plan at
its termination. If Purchaser opts not to instruct the Company to
terminate the 401(k) Plan, nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent the Company
or Purchaser from terminating the 401(k) Plan following the Closing in
accordance with applicable Law.
6.25 Certain
Waivers. Each Seller (including any “Significant Investor” as
defined in any executory Right of First Offer and Co-Sale Agreement relating to
shares of the Company to which the stockholders of the Company are a party),
severally, and the Company, hereby waives any and all first refusal, first offer
or veto or other rights under the certificate of incorporation of the Company or
any agreement to which it is a party with respect to the execution of this
Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby. Additionally, each holder of the Company’s Preferred Stock
hereby waives any right to treat the transactions contemplated hereby as a
“waiver, dissolution or winding up” of the Company under the certificate of
incorporation of the Company or any agreement to which it is a
party.
6.26 Valuation
Opinion. The parties acknowledge that Purchaser has retained
Houlihan, Lokey, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx, Inc. to deliver a valuation opinion as to
the Per-Share Fair Market Value on the Closing Date (the “Valuation
Opinion”). The parties hereto agree to use, if available when
required, the amount of the Per-Share Fair Market Value derived therefrom for
all Tax purposes relating to the transactions under this Agreement which are
dependent upon the
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fair
market value of the Company’s common stock including, but not limited to, the
calculation of the amount of the fair market value of Shares received upon the
exercise of Company Options prior to Closing. Nothing herein shall
obligate Purchaser to share the entirety of the Valuation Opinion (other than
the result thereof) with Sellers or the Company. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, in the event that prior to the Valuation Opinion becoming available,
the Company obtains the Parachute Payment Approval, the Company shall clearly
advise all stockholders approving such Parachute Payment Approval that
(i) the Valuation Opinion is forthcoming, (ii) the Per-Share Fair
Market Value derived therefrom may be materially different from the fair market
value being used in connection with the Parachute Payment Approval and
(iii) the Per-Share Fair Market Value will ultimately be dispositive in
respect of the payments approved by such Parachute Payment
Approval.
6.27 Parachute Payment
Waiver.
(a) The
Company shall deliver to Purchaser, prior to the initiation of the requisite
stockholder approval procedure under Section
6.26
(b), a Parachute
Payment Waiver, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit H, from each
Person identified on Schedule
6.26, which lists
each individual who is, with respect to the Company and/or any ERISA Affiliate,
a “disqualified individual” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code
and the regulations promulgated thereunder), as determined immediately prior to
the initiation of the requisite stockholder approval procedure under Section
6.26, and who
might otherwise have, receive or have the right or entitlement to receive a
parachute payment under Section 280G of the Code as a result of (i) the
accelerated vesting or “cashing out” of such Person’s Company Options and/or the
termination of employment or service with the Company or Purchaser before, upon
or following the Closing, (ii) any Change of Control Payment, and/or (iii) the
receipt of any Company Options within the 12-month period ending on the Closing
Date, pursuant to which each such Person shall agree to waive any and all right
or entitlement to the accelerated vesting, payments, benefits, options and stock
referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) to the extent the value thereof
exceeds 2.99 times such Person’s base amount determined in accordance with
Section 280G of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder, unless
the requisite stockholder approval of such accelerated vesting, payments,
benefits, options and stock is obtained pursuant to this Section
6.26.
(b) The
Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the approval
(the “Parachute
Payment Approval”) by such number of shareholders of the Company as is
required by the terms of Section 280G(b)(5)(B) so as to render the
parachute payment provisions of Section 280G of the Code inapplicable to
any and all accelerated vesting payments, benefits, options and/or stock
provided pursuant to agreements, contracts or arrangements that might otherwise
result, separately or in the aggregate, in the payment of any amount and/or the
provision of any benefit that would not be deductible by reason of
Section 280G of the Code, with such shareholder vote to be obtained in a
manner which satisfies all applicable requirements of Section 280G(b)(5)(B)
of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
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ARTICLE
VII
CONDITIONS
TO CLOSING
7.1 Purchaser’s Conditions to
Closing. The Purchaser’s obligations to consummate the
purchase of the Company Securities hereunder is subject to the fulfillment,
prior to or at the Closing, of each of the following conditions (any or all of
which may be waived by the Purchaser in its sole discretion):
(a) (i) the
Company Fundamental Representations and the representations in Sections
4.13(b) and
4.13(l) shall be
true and correct in all respects, and (ii) all other representations and
warranties in
ARTICLE IV shall
be true and correct in all material respects (ignoring for such purpose, any
“materiality,” or “Material Adverse Effect” qualifiers in such representations
and warranties) in each case, as of the date of this Agreement and as of the
Closing as though made at and as of the Closing (except to the extent such
representations and warranties expressly speak as of an earlier date in which
case such representations and warranties qualified as to materiality shall be
true and correct, and those not so qualified shall be true and correct in all
material respects, on and as of such earlier date);
(b) the
Seller Fundamental Representations shall be true and correct in all respects
with respect to each Seller, as of the date of this Agreement (or, with respect
to any Joining Seller, as of the date as such Joining Seller executes a
counterpart signature page) and as of the Closing as though made at and as of
the Closing (except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly
speak as of an earlier date in which case such representations and warranties
qualified as to materiality shall be true and correct, and those not so
qualified shall be true and correct in all material respects, on and as of such
earlier date);
(c) the
Company and the Sellers shall have performed and complied in all material
respects with all obligations and agreements required in this Agreement to be
performed or complied with by them on or prior to the Closing Date;
(d) there
shall not have been or occurred any event, change, occurrence or circumstance
that, individually or in the aggregate with any such events, changes,
occurrences or circumstances, has had a Material Adverse Effect since the
Balance Sheet Date (regardless of whether or not such events or changes are
inconsistent with the representations or warranties of the Sellers contained
herein);
(e) no Legal
Proceedings shall have been instituted or threatened or claim or demand made
against the Sellers, the Company or Purchaser, seeking to enjoin, restrain or
prohibit, or to obtain substantial damages with respect to, the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby, and there shall not be in effect any Order
by a Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction restraining, enjoining or
otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby;
(f) Purchaser
shall have received a certificate signed by each of the Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, each in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Purchaser, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that
each of the
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conditions
specified above in Sections
7.1
(a) and (c) through (e) have been
satisfied in all respects; provided
that with respect to Sections
7.1
(c) and (e), the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer of the Company shall only be required to certify as to the
Company;
(g) (i) the
waiting period under the HSR Act shall have expired or early termination shall
have been granted and the Company shall have obtained or made any other consent,
waiver, approval, Order, Permit or authorization of, or registration,
declaration or filing with, any U.S. Governmental Authority or pursuant to U.S.
Law required to be obtained or made by them in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the Seller Documents or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby and (ii) the Company shall
have obtained all consents, waivers and approvals referred to in Schedule
7.1
(g) hereof in a
form satisfactory to Purchaser in its reasonable discretion;
(h) (A) The
following Restricted Sellers shall have entered into employment agreements in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit J:
(x) each
of Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Zimanyi and
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx; and (y) at least seven (7) of Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxx; (B) such agreements shall be
in full force and effect and (C) all of such persons shall be willing and
able to perform in accordance with such agreements;
(i) any
Restricted Seller who has not executed an employment agreement in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit J shall
have executed a stand-alone non-competition agreement containing the same
restrictions contained in Section
6.7
hereof;
(j) the Side
Letter dated as of the date hereof shall still be in full force and
effect;
(k) the
Sellers’ Representatives and the Escrow Agent shall have executed the Escrow
Agreement;
(m) all
corporate and other proceedings in connection with the approval and fulfillment
of this Agreement (and any of its ancillary documents, schedules or exhibits),
including all transactions contemplated at the Closing and all documents
incident thereto, including the implementations of the provision thereof, shall
have been taken in a manner satisfactory in form and substance to the Purchaser
and the Purchaser shall have received counterpart original / certified or other
copies of such documents; and
(n) Purchaser
shall have acquired not less than (A) ninety-seven percent (97%) of the
then-outstanding Shares (which ninety-seven percent (97%) shall include
one-hundred percent (100%) of any then-outstanding Shares which are issued
following the date of this Agreement (including upon the exercise of any Company
Options)) and (B) one-hundred percent (100%) of any Company Securities
(other than Shares) which would not, by their terms, terminate automatically as
of the Closing.
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(o) Each of
the Restricted Sellers shall have exercised all Company Options held by such
Restricted Seller and will be selling any Shares issued upon the exercise
thereof to Purchaser at the Closing.
(p) There
shall not, following the Closing be any obligation on the part of the Company to
pay any compensation to any holders of stock options, warrants or other
convertible securities in relation to such options, warrants or convertible
securities.
7.2 Sellers’ Conditions to
Closing. The Sellers’ obligations to consummate the sale of
the Company Securities to the Purchaser at the Closing is subject to the
fulfillment, prior to or at the Closing, of each of the following conditions
(any or all of which may be waived by the Sellers’ Representatives in their sole
discretion):
(a) the
representations and warranties of Purchaser set forth in this Agreement
qualified as to materially shall be true and correct, and those not so qualified
shall be true and correct in all material respects, in each case, as of the date
of this Agreement and as of the Closing as though made at and as of the Closing
(except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an
earlier date in which case such representations and warranties qualified as to
materially shall be true and correct, and those not so qualified shall be true
and correct in all material respects, on and as of such earlier
date);
(b) Purchaser
shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all obligations
and agreements required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by
Purchaser on or prior to the Closing Date;
(c) there
shall not be in effect any Order by a Governmental Authority of competent
jurisdiction restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby;
(d) the
waiting period under the HSR Act shall have expired or early termination shall
have been granted and Purchaser shall have obtained or made any other consent,
approval, waiver, Order, Permit or authorization of, or registration,
declaration or filing with, any Governmental Authority required to be obtained
or made by it in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement
and the Purchaser Documents or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby;
(e) The
Purchaser and the Escrow Agent shall have executed the Escrow Agreement;
and
(f) Purchaser
shall have made the payments required by Section
2.3.
ARTICLE
VIII
INDEMNIFICATION,
REMEDIES AND FREEDOM TO OPERATE
8.1 Survival of Representations and
Warranties. The representations and warranties of the parties
contained in this Agreement, any certificate delivered pursuant hereto or any
Transaction Document shall survive the Closing through and including the two (2)
year
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anniversary
of the Closing Date; provided, however, that (a) the Fundamental
Representations shall survive the Closing indefinitely, (b) the
representations and warranties set forth in Sections
4.10 (Taxes),
4.16 (Employee
Benefits Plans) and
4.21
(Environmental Matters) shall survive the Closing until ninety (90) days
following the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations with respect
to the particular matter that is the subject matter thereof (c) the
representations and warranties set forth in Sections
4.13(b)
(Ownership or License to Intellectual Property) 4.13(l) (Absence of Employee Interest in Intellectual
Property), as such representations and warranties apply to Patents listed on
Schedule
4.13(a), shall
survive until six (6) years following the expiration of such Patents, and
(d) the representations and warranties of Purchaser set forth in
ARTICLE V shall
survive the Closing indefinitely (in each case, the “Survival Period”);
provided, however, that any obligations under Sections
8.2(a)(i) and
8.2(b)(i) shall
not terminate with respect to any Losses as to which the Person to be
indemnified shall have given notice (stating in reasonable detail the basis of
the claim for indemnification) to the indemnifying party in accordance with
Section
8.4(a) before the
termination of the applicable Survival Period.
8.2 Indemnification.
(a) Following
the Closing, subject to Sections
8.1 and
8.3 hereof and
with respect to Taxes, only to the extent not addressed by Section
8.5 hereof, the
Sellers hereby agree, jointly and severally (except with respect to Section
8.2
(a)
(ii), severally,
but not jointly), to indemnify and hold Purchaser, the Company, and their
respective directors, officers, employees, Affiliates, agents, attorneys,
representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Purchaser Indemnified
Parties”) harmless from and against, and pay to the applicable Purchaser
Indemnified Parties the amount of, any and all losses, liabilities, claims,
obligations, deficiencies, demands, judgments, damages, interest, fines,
penalties, claims, suits, actions, causes of action, assessments, awards, costs
and expenses (including reasonable costs of investigation and defense and
reasonable attorneys’ and other professionals’ fees), whether or not involving a
third party claim (individually, a “Loss” and,
collectively, “Losses”):
(i) based
upon, attributable to or resulting from the failure of any of the
representations or warranties made by the Sellers or the Company in this
Agreement (other than in
ARTICLE III) or
in any Company Document to be true and correct in all respects at and as of the
date hereof and at and as of the Closing Date;
(ii) based
upon, attributable to or resulting from the failure of any of the
representations and warranties made by each Seller in
ARTICLE III or in
any Seller Document to be true and correct in all respects as of the date hereof
and at and as of the Closing Date;
(iii) based
upon, attributable to or resulting from the breach of any covenant or other
agreement on the part of the Sellers under this Agreement or any Seller Document
or Company Document;
(iv) arising
from or related to any fees, commissions, or like payments by any Person having
acted or claiming to have acted, directly or indirectly, as a broker, finder or
financial advisor for the Sellers or the Company in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and
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(b) Subject
to Sections
8.1 and
8.3, Purchaser
hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Sellers and their respective Affiliates,
stockholders, agents, attorneys, representatives, successors and permitted
assigns (collectively, the “Seller Indemnified
Parties”) harmless from and against, and pay to the applicable Seller
Indemnified Parties the amount of any and all Losses:
(i) based
upon, attributable to or resulting from the failure of any of the
representations or warranties made by Purchaser in this Agreement or in any
Purchaser Document to be true and correct in all respects at the date hereof and
as of the Closing Date;
(ii) based
upon, attributable to or resulting from the breach of any covenant or other
agreement on the part of Purchaser under this Agreement or any Purchaser
Document; and
(iii) arising
from or related to any fees, commissions, or like payments by any Person having
acted or claiming to have acted, directly or indirectly, as a broker, finder or
financial advisor for the Purchaser in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) The right
to indemnification or any other remedy based on representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements in this Agreement, or any Transaction Document shall
not be affected by any investigation conducted at any time, or any knowledge
acquired (or capable of being acquired) at any time, whether before or after the
execution and delivery of this Agreement or the Closing Date, with respect to
the accuracy or inaccuracy of, or compliance with, any such representation,
warranty, covenant or agreement. The waiver of any condition based on
the accuracy of any such representation or warranty, or on the performance of or
compliance with any such covenant or agreements, will not affect the right to
indemnification or any other remedy based on such representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements.
8.3 Limitations on Indemnification for
Breaches of Representations and Warranties.
(a) An
indemnifying party shall not have any liability under Sections
8.2(a)(i) or
8.2(b)(i) hereof
unless the aggregate amount of Losses incurred by the indemnified parties and
indemnifiable thereunder based upon, attributable to or resulting from the
failure of any of the representations or warranties to be true and correct
exceeds $1,000,000 (the “Deductible”) and, in
such event, the indemnifying party shall be required to pay the amount of such
Losses in excess of the Deductible; provided that the Deductible limitation
shall not apply to (i) Losses related to the failure to be true and correct
of any of the (A) Fundamental Representations or (B) representations
and warranties set forth in Sections
4.10 (Taxes),
4.13(b)
(Ownership or License to Intellectual Property)
4.13(l) (Absence
of Employee Interest in Intellectual Property),
4.16 (Employee
Benefits Plans),
4.21
(Environmental Matters), (ii) the indemnity in Section
8.5 (Tax Matters)
(including to the extent that such indemnity overlaps with any indemnity under
Sections
8.2(a)(i)), or
(iii) Losses arising from any fraud or intentional misrepresentation (the
matters in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) the “Cap Carve
Outs”).
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(b) An
indemnifying party shall not have any liability under Sections
8.2(a)(i) or
8.2(b)(i) for an
aggregate amount of Losses exceeding $91,875,000 (the “Cap”) provided, that
(i) the Cap shall not apply to any Losses related to the Cap Carve Outs,
(ii) any amounts paid on account of the Cap Carve Outs shall not be
aggregated with other amounts paid under Sections
8.2(a)(i) or
8.2(b)(i) for
purposes of determining whether the Cap has been met or exceeded.
(c) The
Sellers shall not have any liability under Sections
8.2(a)(i) once
Purchaser is barred from recovery of Sellers’ fifty percent (50%) of the
economic burden of any FTO Payments due to application of the FTO Cap pursuant
to Section
8.7(c), provided,
that the foregoing limitation shall not apply to any Losses related to the Cap
Carve Outs.
(d) For
purposes of determining the failure of any representations or warranties to be
true and correct, the breach of any covenants and agreements, and calculating
Losses hereunder, any “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect,” “knowledge” or
“Knowledge” qualifications in the representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements shall be disregarded.
(e) The
Sellers shall have no right of contribution or other recourse against the
Company or its directors, officers, employees, Affiliates, agents, attorneys,
representatives, assigns or successors for any Third Party Claims asserted by
Purchaser Indemnified Parties, it being acknowledged and agreed that the
covenants and agreements of the Company are solely for the benefit of the
Purchaser Indemnified Parties.
8.4 Indemnification
Procedures.
(a) A claim
for indemnification for any matter not involving a third party claim may be
asserted by notice to the party from whom indemnification is sought; provided,
however, that failure to so notify the indemnifying party shall not preclude the
indemnified party from any indemnification which it may claim in accordance with
this
ARTICLE
VIII.
(b) In the
event that any Legal Proceedings shall be instituted or that any claim or demand
shall be asserted by any third party in respect of which indemnification may be
sought under Section
8.2 hereof
(regardless of the limitations set forth in Section
8.3) (a “Third Party Claim”),
the indemnified party shall promptly cause written notice of the assertion of
any Third Party Claim of which it has knowledge which is covered by this
indemnity to be forwarded to the indemnifying party. 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. Subject to the provisions of this Section
8.4, the
indemnifying party shall have the right, at its sole expense, to be represented
by counsel of its choice, which must be reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party, and to defend against, negotiate, settle or otherwise deal
with any Third Party Claim which relates to any Losses indemnified against
hereunder; provided that the indemnifying party shall have acknowledged in
writing to the indemnified party its unqualified obligation to indemnify the
indemnified party as provided hereunder. If the indemnifying party
elects to defend against, negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with any Third
Party Claim which relates to any Losses indemnified by it hereunder, it shall
within five (5) days of the indemnified party’s written notice of the
assertion
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of such
Third Party Claim (or sooner, if the nature of the Third Party Claim so
requires) notify the indemnified party of its intent to do so; provided, that
(i) the indemnifying party must conduct the defense of the Third Party
Claim actively and diligently thereafter in order to preserve its rights in this
regard, (ii) the indemnifying party shall have acknowledged in writing to
the indemnified party its unqualified obligation to indemnify the indemnified
party as provided hereunder, (iii) after giving effect to any applicable
Deductible, caps and the limitations on recourse specified in Section
8.6, it is
reasonably anticipated that, as between the indemnifying party and the
indemnified parties, the indemnifying party will actually bear financial
responsibility for fifty percent (50%) or more of any Losses resulting from such
Third Party Claim, and (iv) the indemnifying party can be reasonably
anticipated to have the financial wherewithal (including as a result of any
monies in the Escrow Account or any anticipated Earnout Payments) to indemnify
the indemnified party if the Third-Party Claim is successful. If the
indemnifying party elects not to defend against, negotiate, settle or otherwise
deal with any Third Party Claim which relates to any Losses indemnified against
hereunder, fails to notify the indemnified party of its election as herein
provided or contests its obligation to indemnify the indemnified party for such
Losses under this Agreement, the indemnified party may defend against,
negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with such Third Party Claim. If
the indemnified party defends any Third Party Claim, then the indemnifying party
shall reimburse the indemnified party for the expenses of defending such Third
Party Claim upon submission of periodic bills. If the indemnifying
party shall assume the defense of any Third Party Claim, the indemnified party
may participate, at his or its own expense, in the defense of such Third Party
Claim; provided, however, 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 or (ii) in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the indemnified
party, a conflict or potential conflict exists between the indemnified party and
the indemnifying party that would make such separate representation advisable;
and provided, further, that the indemnifying party shall not be required to pay
for more than one such counsel for all indemnified parties in connection with
any Third Party Claim. The parties hereto agree to provide reasonable
access to the other to such documents and information as may be reasonably
requested in connection with the defense, negotiation or settlement of any such
Third Party Claim. Notwithstanding anything in this Section
8.4 to the
contrary, neither the indemnifying party nor the indemnified party shall,
without the written consent of the other party, settle or compromise any Third
Party Claim or permit a default or consent to entry of any judgment unless the
claimant or claimants and such party provide to such other party an unqualified
release from all liability in respect of the Third Party Claim.
(c) After any
final decision, judgment or award shall have been rendered by a Governmental
Authority 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, in each case with respect to a Third Party Claim hereunder,
the indemnified party shall forward to the indemnifying party notice of any sums
due and owing by the indemnifying party pursuant to this Agreement with respect
to such matter and the indemnifying party shall pay all of such remaining sums
so due and owing to the indemnified party in accordance with Section
8.4.
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8.5 Tax Matters.
(a) Tax
Indemnification. The Sellers hereby agree, jointly and
severally, to be liable for and to indemnify and hold the Purchaser Indemnified
Parties harmless from and against, and pay to the Purchaser Indemnified Parties
the amount of any and all Losses in respect of (i) all Taxes of the Company
(or any predecessor thereof) (A) for any taxable period ending on or
before the Closing Date, and (B) for the portion of any Straddle Period
ending at the close of business on the Closing Date (determined as provided in
Section
8.5
(c));
(ii) any and all Taxes imposed on any member of a consolidated, combined or
unitary group of which the Company (or any predecessor thereof) is or was a
member on or prior to the Closing Date, by reason of the liability of the
Company (or any predecessor thereof), pursuant to United States Treasury
Regulation Section 1.1502-6(a) (or any predecessor or successor thereof or
any analogous or similar provision under state, local or foreign Law);
(iii) the failure of any of the representations and warranties contained in
Section
4.10 to be true
and correct in all respects (determined without regard to any qualification
related to materiality contained therein) or the failure to perform any covenant
contained in this Agreement with respect to Taxes; and (iv) any failure by
the Sellers to timely pay any and all Taxes required to be borne by the Sellers
pursuant to Section
8.5
(e); except to
the extent any such Taxes are reflected as a reduction to Closing Working
Capital on the Closing Working Capital Statement.
(b) Filing of Tax Returns;
Payment of Taxes.
(i) The
Company shall timely file all Tax Returns required to be filed by it on or prior
to the Closing Date and shall pay or cause to be paid all Taxes shown due
thereon. All such Tax Returns shall be prepared in a manner
consistent with prior practice; provided, however, that the Company shall not
make any election pursuant to Code Section 59(e) to capitalize any “qualified
expenditures” as defined in such Section on the Company’s federal income tax
return and any applicable state and local income tax returns for the period
ending December 31, 2009 and any other periods ending after December 31, 2009
and on or before the Closing Date. The Company shall provide
Purchaser with copies of such completed Tax Returns at least twenty days prior
to the due date for filing thereof, along with supporting workpapers, for
Purchaser’s review and approval (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld
or delayed). The Sellers’ Representatives and Purchaser shall attempt
in good faith to resolve any disagreements regarding such Tax Returns prior to
the due date for filing. In the event that the Sellers’
Representatives and the Purchaser are unable to resolve any dispute with respect
to such Tax Return at least ten days prior to the due date for filing, such
dispute shall be resolved pursuant to Section
8.5
(f) which
resolution shall be binding on the parties.
(ii) Following
the Closing, Purchaser shall cause to be timely filed all Tax Returns required
to be filed by the Company after the Closing Date and, subject to the rights to
payment from the Sellers under Section
8.5
(b)
(iii), pay or
cause to be paid all Taxes shown due thereon.
(iii) Not later
than ten days prior to the due date for the payment of Taxes on any Tax Returns
which Purchaser has the responsibility to cause to be filed pursuant to Section
8.5
(b)
(ii), the Sellers
shall pay to Purchaser the amount of Taxes, as reasonably determined by
Purchaser, owed by the Sellers pursuant to the provisions of Section
8.5. No
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payment
pursuant to this Section
8.5
(b)
(iii) shall
excuse the Sellers from their indemnification obligations pursuant to Section
8.5 if the amount
of Taxes as ultimately determined (on audit or otherwise) for the periods
covered by such Tax Returns exceeds the amount of the Sellers’ payment under
this Section
8.5
(b)
(iii).
(c) Straddle Period Tax
Allocation. The Company shall, unless prohibited by applicable
Law, close the taxable period of the Company as of the close of business on the
Closing Date. If applicable law does not permit the Company to close
its taxable year on the Closing Date or in any case in which a Tax is assessed
with respect to a taxable period which includes the Closing Date (but does not
begin or end on that day) (a “Straddle Period”),
the Taxes, if any, attributable to a Straddle Period shall be allocated
(i) to the Sellers for the period up to and including the close of business
on the Closing Date, except to the extent such Taxes were already accounted for
in the Net Working Capital Adjustment as a reduction to Closing Working Capital
on the Closing Working Capital Statement, and (ii) to Purchaser for the
period subsequent to the Closing Date. Any allocation of income or
deductions required to determine any Taxes attributable to a Straddle Period
shall be made by means of a closing of the books and records of the Company as
of the close of the Closing Date, provided that exemptions, allowances or
deductions that are calculated on an annual basis (including, but not limited
to, depreciation and amortization deductions) shall be allocated between
the period ending on the Closing Date and the period after the Closing Date in
proportion to the number of days in each such period. In the case of
any Taxes of the Company imposed on a periodic basis (including real property
and ad valorem Taxes) the allocation between Purchaser and the Sellers described
in this Section
8.5
(c) shall be made
based on the number of days during the Straddle Period on or before the Closing
Date, on the one hand, and the number of days in the Straddle Period after the
Closing Date, on the other hand.
(d) Tax
Audits.
(i) If notice
of any Legal Proceeding with respect to Taxes of the Company (a “Tax Claim”) shall be
received by either party for which the other party may reasonably be expected to
be liable pursuant to Section
8.5
(a), the notified
party shall notify such other party in writing of such Tax Claim; provided,
however, that the failure of the notified party to give the other party notice
as provided herein shall not relieve such failing party of its obligations under
this Section
8.5 except to the
extent that the other party is actually and materially prejudiced
thereby.
(ii) Purchaser
shall have the right, at the expense of the Sellers to the extent such Tax Claim
is subject to indemnification by the Sellers pursuant to Section
8.5 hereof, to
represent the interests of the Company in any Tax Claim; provided, that with
respect to a Tax Claim relating exclusively to taxable periods ending on or
before the Closing Date for which Sellers may reasonably be expected to be
liable pursuant to Section
8.5
(a), Purchaser
shall not settle such claim without the consent of the Sellers, which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(e) Transfer Taxes and Payment
of Other Taxes. The Sellers shall severally be liable for and
shall pay (and shall indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser Indemnified
Parties against) all sales, use, stamp, documentary, filing, recording,
transfer or similar fees or
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taxes or
governmental charges as levied by any Governmental Authority including any
interest and penalties) in connection with the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement. Each Party shall bear all other Taxes arising as a
result or payable in respect of this Agreement or its implementation, all to the
extent such Taxes apply on each Party under applicable law.
(f) Disputes. Any
dispute as to any matter covered hereby shall be resolved by an independent
accounting firm mutually acceptable to the Sellers and the
Purchaser. The fees and expenses of such accounting firm shall be
borne equally by the Sellers, on the one hand, and the Purchaser on the
other. If any dispute with respect to a Tax Return is not resolved
prior to the due date of such Tax Return, such Tax Return shall be filed in the
manner which the party responsible for preparing such Tax Return deems
correct.
(g) Time
Limits. Any claim for indemnity under this Section
8.5 may be made
at any time prior to sixty (60) days after the expiration of the applicable Tax
statute of limitations with respect to the relevant taxable period (including
all periods of extension, whether automatic or permissive).
(h) Exclusivity. The
indemnification provided for in this Section
8.5 shall be the
sole remedy for any claim in respect of Taxes, including any claim arising out
of or relating to a breach of Section
4.10. In
the event of a conflict between the provisions of this Section
8.5, on the one
hand, and the provisions of Sections
8.1 through
8.3, on the
other, the provisions of this Section
8.5 shall
control.
(i) Tax Treatment of Indemnity
Payments. The Sellers and the Purchaser agree to treat any
indemnity payment made pursuant to this
ARTICLE III as an
adjustment to the Base Purchase Price for all income tax
purposes. If, notwithstanding the treatment required by the preceding
sentence, any indemnification payment under
ARTICLE III
(including this Section
8.5) is
determined to be taxable to the party receiving such payment by any Taxing
Authority, the paying party shall also indemnify the party receiving such
payment for any Taxes incurred by reason of the receipt of such payment and any
Losses incurred by the party receiving such payment in connection with such
Taxes (or any asserted deficiency, claim, demand, action, suit, proceeding,
judgment or assessment, including the defense or settlement thereof, relating to
such Taxes).
8.6 Recourse for Indemnity
Claims.
(a) Any
payment the Sellers are obligated to make to any Purchaser Indemnified Parties
pursuant to this
ARTICLE IV (other
than Section
8.7 hereof) shall
be paid:
(i) first, to
the extent there are sufficient funds in the Escrow Account, by release of funds
to the Purchaser Indemnified Parties from the Escrow Account by the Escrow Agent
within five (5) Business Days after the date notice of any sums due and owing is
given to the Sellers (by delivery to the Sellers’ Representatives) (with a copy
to the Escrow Agent pursuant to the Escrow Agreement) by the applicable
Purchaser Indemnified Party and shall accordingly reduce the Escrow Balance;
and
(ii) second,
by withholding of funds from any future Earnout Payments (including from the
portion of any Earnout Payment not constituting an Escrowed Earnout
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Amount,
such that any Escrowed Earnout Amount will be deposited in the Escrow Account
without prior deduction).
(b) Notwithstanding
Section
8.6
(a), to the
extent that any Seller is obligated to indemnify any Purchaser Indemnified Party
pursuant to Section
8.2(a)(ii), the
Purchaser Indemnified Parties (i) shall be permitted (but shall not be
required) to recover such sums due and owing in accordance with the priorities
specified in Section
8.6
(a), and may in,
lieu thereof (ii) require such Seller to pay all sums due and owing to the
Purchaser Indemnified Parties by wire transfer of immediately available funds
within five (5) Business Days after the date of such notice; provided, however,
that, except in the event of fraud or intentional misrepresentation, the maximum
amount the Purchaser Indemnified Parties may recover from any Seller pursuant to
this clause (b) shall not exceed the cash distributions to such Seller pursuant
to this Agreement (including the actual or later release of any Escrow Amount or
any Earnout Payment) (treating any withholding Taxes withheld on amounts paid to
such Seller, or other amounts withheld pre-Tax on amounts otherwise payable to
any Sellers, as if they had been paid to such Seller for this
purpose).
(c) To the
extent that, on the date any Earnout Payment is to be made there exist indemnity
claims which were asserted by the Purchaser Indemnified Parties prior to the
expiration of the applicable Survival Period and which are not yet resolved
(“Unresolved
Claims”) the Purchaser may (but shall not be obligated to) retain an
amount (up to the total amount of the Earnout Payment) equal to the amount of
the Unresolved Claims (subject to the limitations in Section
8.3) but only to
the extent that the amount of such Unresolved Claims exceeds the then-current
Escrow Balance (including any Escrowed Earnout Amount to be deposited into the
Escrow Account in connection with such Earnout Payment(s), if any) which is not
then subject to a notice on account to any prior Unresolved
Claim. Any portion of an Earnout Payment retained by Purchaser for
Unresolved Claims shall be released by Purchaser (to the extent not utilized to
pay Purchaser for any such claims resolved in favor of a Purchaser Indemnified
Party) upon their resolution in accordance with this
ARTICLE
III.
8.7 Freedom to Operate Payments and
Recourse. Except for any Royalty FTO Payments paid by
Purchaser or its Affiliates for any Base Earnout Year in which Deemed Net
Revenue does not exceed Target Net Revenue (which economic burden shall be borne
solely by Purchaser), each of Purchaser and Sellers shall bear fifty percent
(50%) of the economic burden of any FTO Payments in the manner set forth in this
Section
8.7.
(a) One-Time FTO
Payments. Sellers shall bear the economic burden of fifty
percent of any One-Time FTO Payments as follows:
(i) first, to
the extent there are sufficient funds in the Escrow Account, by release of funds
equal to fifty percent (50%) of such One-Time FTO Payment to Purchaser from the
Escrow Account by the Escrow Agent within five (5) Business Days after the date
notice of any sums due and owing is given to the Sellers (by delivery to the
Sellers’ Representatives) (with a copy to the Escrow Agent pursuant to the
Escrow Agreement) by Purchaser Indemnified Party and shall accordingly reduce
the Escrow Balance; and
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(ii) second,
by withholding of funds from any future Earnout Payments (including from the
portion of any Earnout Payment not constituting an Escrowed Earnout Amount, such
that any Escrowed Earnout Amount will be deposited in the Escrow Account without
prior deduction).
(b) Royalty FTO
Payments.
(i) Prior to
the Escrow Release Date Sellers shall bear the economic burden of fifty percent
of any Royalty FTO Payments solely through the deduction from Deemed Gross
Revenue contemplated by clause (ii) of the definition of “Deemed Net
Revenue.”
(ii) Following
the Escrow Release Date Sellers shall bear the economic burden of fifty percent
(50%) of any Royalty FTO Payments solely by release of funds to Purchaser from
the Escrow Account by the Escrow Agent (no more frequently than on a quarterly
basis) equal to fifty percent (50%) of such Royalty FTO Payments made by
Purchaser (and not previously recovered by Purchaser through an offset against
Deemed Gross Revenue or through a previous release from the Escrow Account), to
the extent there are sufficient funds in the Escrow Account, within five (5)
Business Days after the date notice of any sums due and owing is given to the
Sellers (with a copy to the Escrow Agent pursuant to the Escrow Agreement) by
Purchaser and shall accordingly reduce the Escrow Balance.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, Sellers shall not be obligated to bear fifty
percent (50%) of the economic burden of any FTO Payments to the extent that such
fifty percent (50%) burden (including by way of offset from Deemed Gross Revenue
in the computation of Deemed Net Revenue pursuant to clause (ii) of the
definition thereof and by way of recourse to the Escrow Account) exceeds in the
aggregate, when aggregated with any indemnifiable Losses which are subject to
the Cap, $200,000,000 (the “FTO
Cap”).
ARTICLE
IX
TERMINATION
9.1 Termination of
Agreement. This Agreement may be terminated prior to the
Closing as follows:
(a) At the
election of the Sellers’ Representatives or Purchaser on or after the forty-five
(45) day anniversary of the date hereof (the “Termination Date”),
if the Closing shall not have occurred by the close of business on such
anniversary date (other than as a result of the failure to obtain the requisite
approvals pursuant to Section
6.5(a) for
clearance of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the HSR Act
in which instance the Termination Date shall be extended to be fifteen (15)
Business Days after clearance is obtained or finally denied without opportunity
for further appeal under the HSR Act), provided that the terminating party is
not in material default of any of its obligations hereunder;
(b) At the
election of the Sellers’ Representatives or Purchaser on or after the six (6)
month anniversary of the date hereof, if the Closing shall not have occurred by
the close of business on such anniversary date as a result of the failure to
obtain the requisite approvals pursuant to Section
6.5(a) for
clearance of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
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under the
HSR Act, provided that the terminating party is not in material default of any
of its obligations hereunder;
(c) by mutual
written consent of the Sellers’ Representatives and Purchaser;
(d) by
written notice from Purchaser to the Sellers’ Representatives that there has
been an event, change, occurrence or circumstance, individually or in the
aggregate with any such events, changes, occurrences or circumstances that has
had a Material Adverse Effect;
(e) by the
Sellers’ Representatives or Purchaser if there shall be in effect a final
nonappealable Order of a Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction
restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby; provided, however, that the right to terminate
this Agreement under this Section
9.1
(e) shall not be
available to a party if such Order was primarily due to the failure of such
party to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement;
(f) by
Purchaser if any Seller or the Company shall have breached or failed to perform
any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements set forth in
this Agreement, or if any representation or warranty of any Seller or the
Company shall have become untrue, in either case such that the conditions set
forth in Sections
7.1(a) or
7.1(c) would not
be satisfied and such breach is incapable of being cured or, if capable of being
cured, shall not have been cured within ten (10) days following receipt by the
Sellers’ Representatives of notice of such breach from the Purchaser;
or
(g) by the
Sellers’ Representatives if Purchaser shall have breached or failed to perform
any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements set forth in
this Agreement, or if any representation or warranty of Purchaser shall have
become untrue, in either case such that the conditions set forth in Sections
7.2(a) or
7.2(b) would not
be satisfied and such breach is incapable of being cured or, if capable of being
cured, shall not have been cured within ten (10) days following receipt by
Purchaser of notice of such breach from the Sellers’
Representatives.
9.2 Procedure Upon
Termination. In the event of termination and abandonment by
Purchaser or the Sellers’ Representatives, or both, pursuant to Section
9.1, written
notice thereof shall forthwith be given to the other party or parties, and this
Agreement shall terminate, and the purchase of the Company Securities hereunder
shall be abandoned, without further action by Purchaser, the Company or the
Sellers.
9.3 Effect of
Termination. In the event that this Agreement is validly
terminated as provided herein, then each of the parties shall be relieved of
their duties and obligations arising under this Agreement after the date of such
termination and such termination shall be without liability to Purchaser, any
Seller or the Company; provided, however, if this Agreement is terminated by
Purchaser pursuant to Section
9.1(f) the
Company, in addition to any other liabilities accruing hereunder shall be liable
for and shall pay within five (5) Business Days after such termination the cost
of all filing or other fees paid by Purchaser to any Governmental Authority in
respect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however,
that the obligations of the parties set forth in this Section
9.3,
ARTICLE X and
Sections
6.10
and
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pursuant
to the Confidentiality Agreement hereof shall survive any such termination and
shall be enforceable hereunder and the parties shall return or destroy
Confidential Information of the other parties in accordance with Section 3 of
the Confidentiality Agreement; provided further, however, that nothing in this
Section
9.3 shall relieve
Purchaser, any Seller or the Company of any liability for a breach of this
Agreement prior to the effective date of termination.
ARTICLE
X
MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Release of
Claims.
(a) For good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which is hereby
acknowledged, each Seller (collectively, the “Releasors”) by his,
her or its signature hereto or to a counterpart signature page (as applicable),
intending to be legally bound, on his, her or its own behalf and on behalf of
his, her or its representatives, agents, heirs, executors, administrators,
successors and assigns (the “Releasor Persons”)
hereby knowingly and voluntarily compromises, settles, waives, releases and
discharges with prejudice, absolutely and forever, the Company and their
respective officers, directors, agents, consultants, advisors, auditors,
attorneys, successors and assigns, as applicable (collectively, the “Released Parties”)
from any and all claims, rights, causes of action, protests, suits, disputes,
orders, obligations, debts, demands, proceedings, contracts, agreements,
promises, liabilities, controversies, costs, expenses, fees (including
attorneys’ fees), or damages of any kind, arising by any means including
subrogation, assignment, reimbursement, operation of law or otherwise, including
claims for breach of contract (including claims arising out of any employment
agreement, offer letter, employee benefit plan, stock incentive plan, bonus
plan, severance agreement or other agreement), tort, fraud or misrepresentation,
violation of any federal, state, or local civil rights laws of any jurisdiction,
based on any protected class status, defamation, intentional or negligent
infliction of emotional distress, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair
dealing, promissory estoppel or negligence, in each case, in law or equity, and
in each case arising from or relating to any event, occurrence, act or failure
to act preceding each applicable Release Date or otherwise arising from such
Releasor’s relationship with the Released Parties prior to the Closing Date
whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, accrued or not accrued,
foreseen or unforeseen, or mature or unmature (each a “Claim” and
collectively, the “Claims”); other than
any Claim of any of the Sellers against the Company or any other Seller(s)
arising from or related to this Agreement or any of the other Transaction
Documents and any agreements entered into by any of the Sellers amongst
themselves simultaneously with this Agreement.
(b) Each
Releasor hereby expressly waives and relinquishes, to the full extent that such
rights and benefits may be waived, all rights and benefits under any statute or
law of the United States or any state, territory or jurisdiction thereof, which
provides that a general release does not extend to claims which such Releasor
does not know or suspect to exist in his, her or its favor at the time of
executing the release, which if known by him, her or it must have materially
affected his, her or its settlement with the released party. Each Releasor acknowledges that
it is familiar with and understands the provisions of Section 1542 of the
California Civil Code, which provides as follows:
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A GENERAL
RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO
EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN
BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY EFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE
DEBTOR.
In this
regard, each Releasor acknowledges that he, she or it is aware that any of the
Releasors or their respective attorneys may hereafter discover claims or facts
in addition to or different from those which the Releasors or their respective
attorneys now know or believe to exist with respect to the subject matter of the
foregoing releases, and it is his, her or its intention hereby to fully,
finally, and forever settle and release all possible claims purported to be
released hereunder that he, she or it may have against the Released
Parties. Further, it is expressly understood that notwithstanding the
discovery or existence of any such additional or different claims or facts, the
release given herein shall be and remain in effect as a full and complete
release with respect to all Claims released hereunder. The release in
this Section
10.1 is for any
relief, no matter how denominated, including, but not limited to, injunctive
relief, wages, front pay, compensatory damages, or punitive
damages. The release in this Section
10.1 may not be
changed orally or in writing, except as provided in Section
10.8
hereof.
(c) The
invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Section
10.1 shall not
affect or limit the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof and
if any particular provision of this Section
10.1 shall be
adjudicated to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed
amended to delete therefrom the portion thus adjudicated to be invalid or
unenforceable, such deletion to apply only with respect to the operation of such
provision in the particular jurisdiction in which such adjudication is
made. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this
Section
10.1 as to any
Releasor shall not affect or limit the validity or enforceability of this Section
10.1 to any other
Releasor.
(d) Each
Releasor represents and agrees that (i) he, she or it has been encouraged
to consult with an attorney of his, her or its choice concerning his, her or its
rights and the release granted in this Section
10.1,
(ii) he, she or it has thoroughly discussed all aspects of the release
granted in this Section
10.1 and his, her
or its rights with his, her or its own attorney or other advisor of his, her or
its choice to the full extent he, she or it wanted to do so before signing this
Agreement, (iii) he, she or it understands he, she or it is waiving legal
rights or claims by signing this Agreement, (iv) he, she or it has
carefully read and fully understands this Agreement and the release granted in
this Section
10.1, and
(v) he, she or it is voluntarily signing this Agreement.
(e) Each
Releasor acknowledges that in entering this Agreement and the release
contemplated hereby he, she or it has done so freely and voluntarily and with
knowledge of all the material facts, and not as a result of any duress,
concealment, fraud, or undue influence.
(f) To the
extent permitted by applicable Law, each Releasor covenants, agrees and promises
that he, she or it will not file any claim, charge or action asserting any such
Claims and, that if such a Claim is brought on such Releasor’s behalf or for
such Releasor’s benefit in or by any court or administrative agency, such
Releasor hereby waives and agrees not to take any award or money or other
damages as a result of such Claim. No Releasor shall aid
or
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assist
any other Person in connection with the pursuit of any Claim that could not be
brought by such Releasor hereunder, except in the case of a court order or
validly issued subpoena.
10.2 Sellers’
Representatives.
(a) Appointment. Each
Initial Seller and, upon execution of a counterpart signature page, each Joining
Seller party to this Agreement, irrevocably approves the constitution and
appointment of, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints Xxxxxxx Xxxx and
Xxxxx Xxxxxx (each
a “Seller
Representative” and together the “Sellers’
Representatives”) jointly and severally with all the rights, powers and
obligations contemplated by this Section
10.2, and any
successor Sellers’ Representative(s) designated under this Section
10.2 as the sole,
exclusive, true and lawful agent, representative and attorney-in-fact, with full
power of substitution, for and on behalf of all Sellers, and each of them, with
respect to any and all matters arising out of this Agreement following the
Closing (including in connection with the Escrow Account) and the Escrow
Agreement, including for purposes of taking any action or omitting to take
action on behalf of all Sellers or each of them hereunder. All
actions, notices, communications and determinations by or on behalf of the
Sellers in accordance herewith shall be given or made by the Sellers’
Representatives and all such actions, notices, and determinations by the
Sellers’ Representative shall conclusively be deemed to have been authorized by,
and shall be binding upon, any and all Sellers. This power of
attorney is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable.
(b) Each
Seller acknowledges and agrees that Purchaser shall be entitled to rely on
instructions received from any one (1) of the Sellers’ Representatives
individually and shall not require joint instructions from both Sellers’
Representatives.
(c) Authority After the Closing
Date. From and after the Closing Date, the Sellers’
Representatives shall be authorized jointly and severally under this Agreement
and the Escrow Agreement to:
(i) take all
actions required or permitted by, and exercise all rights granted to, the
Sellers’ Representatives in this Agreement or the Escrow Agreement;
(ii) receive
all notices or other documents given or to be given to the Sellers’
Representatives or Sellers by Purchaser, the Company or the Escrow Agent
pursuant to this Agreement or the Escrow Agreement;
(iii) negotiate,
undertake, compromise, defend, resolve and settle any suit, proceeding or
dispute under this Agreement or the Escrow Agreement on behalf of the
Sellers;
(iv) execute
and deliver all agreements, certificates and documents required or deemed
appropriate by the Sellers’ Representatives in connection with any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Escrow
Agreement;
(v) engage
special counsel, accountants and other advisors and incur such other expenses in
connection with any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the
Escrow Agreement on behalf of the Sellers;
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(vi) apply the
Representative Expense Amount to the payment of (or reimbursement of the
Sellers’ Representatives for) expenses and liabilities which the Sellers’
Representatives may incur pursuant to this Section
10.2;
(vii) approve
of and execute amendments to the Escrow Agreement pursuant thereto and/or to
this Agreement in accordance with Section
10.8;
and
(viii) take such
other action as the Sellers’ Representatives may deem appropriate on behalf of
the Sellers.
(d) Should
the Sellers’ Representatives die, become legally incapacitated or bankrupt,
dissolve, liquidate or otherwise similarly be unable or unwilling to serve or to
appoint his or her successor to serve in his or her stead, the Sellers’ Majority
shall designate in writing to Purchaser within five (5) Business Days a Person
or Persons to replace the deceased or legally incapacitated or otherwise
similarly unable Sellers’ Representatives as the successor Sellers’
Representative hereunder. If at any time there shall not be a
Sellers’ Representative and a Sellers’ Majority fails to designate in writing a
successor Sellers’ Representative within five (5) Business Days after receipt of
a written request delivered by Purchaser to the Sellers’ Majority requesting
that a successor Sellers’ Representative be designated, then the Purchaser may
petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a new Sellers’
Representative hereunder.
(e) All of
the costs and expenses incurred by the Sellers’ Representatives in connection
with this Agreement shall be payable by the Sellers, initially out of funds
(totaling $1,000,000) which each Seller instructs the Purchaser to transfer
to the Sellers’ Representatives’ expense fund (the “Representative Expense
Amount”) described in Exhibit G. Any
remaining funds not used by the Sellers’ Representatives will be paid to the
Sellers on a pro rata basis upon conclusion of the Sellers’ Representatives’
duties as Sellers’ Representative.
(f) The
Sellers’ Representatives shall not be liable to the Sellers for any act done or
omitted hereunder in their capacity as the Sellers’ Representatives, unless
caused by his or her willful misconduct, bad faith or gross
negligence. In all questions arising in respect of any matter arising
under this Agreement, the Sellers’ Representatives may rely on the advice of
counsel and any action based upon such reliance shall relieve the Sellers’
Representatives of any liability hereunder. The Purchaser shall not
be liable to the Sellers for any act done or omitted hereunder by the Sellers’
Representatives.
(g) Each
Seller shall severally and not jointly indemnify and defend the Sellers’
Representatives and hold the Sellers’ Representatives harmless against such
Seller’s pro rata share of any loss, liability, deficiency, damage, cost, or
expense, or actions incurred by the Sellers’ Representatives and arising out of
or in connection with the acceptance, performance or administration of the
Sellers’ Representatives’ duties under this Agreement (including, to the extent
applicable, the Escrow Agreement), including the reasonable fees and expenses of
any legal counsel, accountants, auditors and other advisors retained by the
Sellers’ Representatives. Without limiting any remedy of the Sellers’
Representatives with respect to such losses, liabilities, deficiencies, damages,
costs, or expenses, or actions, as aforesaid, the Sellers’ Representatives shall
have recourse against the Escrow Balance prior to any distribution thereof to
the Sellers.
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(h) Reduction of Earnout
Payments to Replenish Representative Expense Amount. The
Sellers’ Representatives, upon written notice delivered to Purchaser, shall be
entitled to cause the Purchaser to deposit with the Paying Agent all or a
portion of the proceeds of any Earnout Payment prior to making any distribution
of such Earnout Payment or distribution from the Escrow Agent to any Sellers for
purposes of (i) replenishing the Representative Expense Amount hereunder (which
amount may be increased from time to time in the discretion of the Sellers’
Representatives), or (ii) reimbursing the Sellers’ Representatives for the
amount of any expenses of the Sellers’ Representatives previously paid by the
Sellers’ Representatives and not discharged out of the Representative Expense
Amount. For purposes of clarity, the parties hereto acknowledge that
any amounts that the Purchaser Indemnified Parties are entitled to deduct from
any Earnout Payment pursuant to Sections
8.6 and
8.7 shall have
priority over any deductions pursuant to this Section
10.2
(h).
(i) Distribution of
Representative Expense Amount. Any of the Representative
Expense Amount deposited with the Sellers’ Representatives at the Closing or
pursuant to Section
10.2 that has not
been consumed by the Sellers’ Representatives may, in the discretion of the
Sellers’ Representatives, at any time, be paid to the Paying Agent to be
distributed to the Sellers, either as an increase to an Earnout Payment
otherwise due to be paid to the Sellers, or as a separate Earnout Payment
payable in accordance with all of the applicable terms of Section
10.2.
(j) Distribution of Amounts
released from Escrow Agent. Any amounts deposited with the
Escrow Agent under this Agreement that are ultimately disbursed to the Paying
Agent for the benefit of the Sellers shall be distributed by the Paying Agent
pursuant to directions delivered by the Sellers’ Representatives. The
Sellers’ Representatives shall be entitled, in the exercise of his sole
discretion, to determine the timing of any such distributions (giving due regard
to the likelihood of contemporaneous distributions of other amounts by the
Paying Agent, or other factors of convenience or efficiency), and the allocation
of such distribution among the Sellers.
10.3 Notices. All
notices and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and
shall be deemed given (i) when delivered personally by hand (with written
confirmation of receipt), (ii) when sent by facsimile (with written
confirmation of transmission) or (iii) one Business Day following the
day sent by overnight courier (with written confirmation of receipt), in each
case at the following addresses and facsimile numbers (or to such other address
or facsimile number as a party may have specified by notice given to the other
party pursuant to this provision):
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If
to any Seller, to the Sellers’ Representatives at:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
c/o
Versant Ventures
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Electronic
Mail: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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and
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
c/o
SV Life Sciences
00
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Telephone:
(000) 000-0000
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Electronic
Mail: xxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx
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With
a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxx
0000
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Facsimile:
949-725-4000
Electronic
Mail: xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
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If
to Purchaser, to:
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c/o
Alcon Laboratories, Inc.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 00000
Telephone: 000-000-0000
Facsimile: 617-526-5000
Attention: General
Counsel
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With
a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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Xxxxx
Lord Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP
0000
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
0000
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxx 000000
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Facsimile:
000-000-0000
Electronic
Mail: xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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10.4 Specific
Performance. The Sellers and Purchaser acknowledge and agree
that a breach of this Agreement would cause irreparable damage to the other
party will not have an adequate remedy at law. Therefore, the
obligations of the Sellers and Purchaser under this Agreement, including the
Sellers’ obligation to sell the Company Securities to Purchaser,
shall
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be
enforceable by a decree of specific performance issued by any court of competent
jurisdiction, and appropriate injunctive relief may be applied for and granted
in connection therewith. Such remedies shall, however, be cumulative
and not exclusive and shall be in addition to any other remedies which any party
may have under this Agreement or otherwise.
10.5 Successors and
Assignees.
(a) If the
Company Securities shall at any time be sold or transferred by Purchaser
following the Closing, the burdens and benefits of each of the obligations,
undertakings, indemnities, representations or warranties undertaken or given by
the Sellers or the Purchaser under or pursuant to this Agreement shall be
assignable to the purchaser or transferee of the Company Securities and such
purchaser or transferee shall be entitled to enforce the same against the
Sellers as if it were named in this Agreement as the Purchaser and Sellers shall
be entitled to enforce the same against any such purchaser or transferee as if
such purchaser or transferee were named in this Agreement as the
Purchaser.
(b) Save as
set out herein, no assignment of this Agreement or of any rights or obligations
hereunder may be made by either the Sellers or Purchaser (by operation of law or
otherwise) without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto
and any attempted assignment without the required consents shall be void;
provided, however, that Purchaser may assign this Agreement and any or all
rights or obligations hereunder (including Purchaser’s rights to purchase the
Company Securities and Purchaser’s rights to seek indemnification hereunder) to
any Affiliate of Purchaser or any Person to which Purchaser or any of its
Affiliates proposes to sell all or substantially all of the assets relating to
the business. Upon any such permitted assignment, the references in
this Agreement to Purchaser shall also apply to any such assignee unless the
context otherwise requires.
(c) This
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable
by the parties and their respective successors and assigns.
10.6 Expenses. Except as
otherwise expressly set forth herein, Purchaser, the Company and the Sellers
shall each be responsible for their respective costs in connection with
transactions contemplated hereby. The Sellers shall be responsible
for costs in connection with (a) any other documents or actions relating to
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and (b) all expenses and
charges incurred by the Company in connection with the preparation, negotiation,
or execution of this Agreement and all ancillary documents.
10.7 Delays or Omissions;
Waiver. The rights of a party may be waived by such party only
in writing and specifically; the conduct of any one of the parties shall not be
deemed a waiver of any of its rights pursuant to this Agreement and/or as a
waiver or consent on its part as to any breach or failure to meet any of the
terms of this Agreement or as an amendment hereto. No action taken
pursuant to this Agreement, including any investigation by or on behalf of any
party, shall be deemed to constitute a waiver by the party taking such action of
compliance with any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained
herein. The waiver by any party hereto of a breach of any provision
of this Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a further or continuing
waiver of such breach or as a waiver of any other or subsequent
breach. No failure on the part of any party to exercise, and no delay
in exercising, any right, power or
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remedy
hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial
exercise of such right, power or remedy by such party preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or
remedy. All remedies hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive
of any other remedies provided by Law.
10.8 Amendment. This
Agreement (together with the recitals, schedules, appendices, annexes and
exhibits attached hereto) may be amended, supplemented or changed, and any
provision hereof can be waived, only by written instrument making specific
reference to this Agreement signed by the party against whom enforcement of any
such amendment, supplement, modification or waiver is sought.
10.9 Entire
Agreement. This Agreement (together with the recitals,
schedules, appendices, annexes and exhibits attached hereto) contains the
entire understanding of the parties with respect to its subject matter and all
prior negotiations, discussions, agreements, commitments and understandings
between them with respect thereto not expressly contained herein shall be null
and void in their entirety, effective immediately with no further action
required.
10.10 Severability.
(a) If any
term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal, or incapable of
being enforced by any law or public policy, all other terms or provisions of
this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the
economic or legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not
affected in any manner materially adverse to any party. Upon such
determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal, or incapable
of being enforced, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify
this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as
possible in an acceptable manner in order that the transactions contemplated
hereby are consummated as originally contemplated to the greatest extent
possible.
(b) Where
provisions of any applicable Law resulting in such illegality, invalidity or
unenforceability may be waived, they are hereby waived by each party to the full
extent permitted so that this Agreement shall be deemed valid and binding
agreements, in each case enforceable in accordance with its terms.
10.11 Counterparts, Facsimile
Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument. A signed
Agreement received by a party hereto via facsimile will be deemed an original,
and binding upon the party who signed it.
10.12 Submission to Jurisdiction; Consent
to Service of Process; Waiver of Jury Trial.
(a) The
parties hereto hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of any
federal or state court located within the State of Texas over any dispute
arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions
contemplated hereby and each party hereby irrevocably agrees that all claims in
respect of such dispute or any suit, action proceeding related thereto may be
heard and determined in such courts. The parties hereby irrevocably
waive,
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to the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection which they may now or
hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such dispute brought in such court
or any defense of inconvenient forum for the maintenance of such
dispute. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a judgment in any
such dispute may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or
in any other manner provided by law.
(b) Each of
the parties hereto hereby consents to process being served by any party to this
Agreement in any suit, action or proceeding by delivery of a copy thereof in
accordance with the provisions of Section
10.12.
(c) EACH OF
THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW, ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION, OR CAUSE OF ACTION
(i) ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR (ii) IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR
RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO IN RESPECT OF THIS
AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED HERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW
EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, EQUITY, OR
OTHERWISE. THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT EACH HEREBY AGREES AND
CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION, OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE
DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY AND THAT THE PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY
FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OF A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT WITH ANY COURT AS
WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR
RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.
10.13 Governing Law. The
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of Delaware, without giving effect to the principles thereof relating to
conflict of laws.
10.14 Further Actions. At
any time and from time to time, each party agrees, without further
consideration, to take such actions and to execute and deliver such documents as
may be reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this
Agreement.
10.15 No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. Nothing in this Agreement shall create or
confer upon any person or entity, other than the parties hereto or their
respective successors and permitted assigns, any rights, remedies, obligations
or liabilities, except as expressly provided herein.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by
their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first
written above.
PURCHASER:
ALCON
HOLDINGS, INC.
/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xx. Vice President, CFO & Corporate Strategy
Officer
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COMPANY:
LENSX
LASERS, INC.
/s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Link
Xxxxxxx
X. Link, Chairman
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SELLERS’ REPRESENTATIVES:
/s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Link
Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
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/s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Company and Sellers’ Representative Signature Page to Stock Purchase
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WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the
date first written above.
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INITIAL SELLERS:
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INTERWEST
PARTNERS IX, L.P.
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VENTURE
INVESTORS EARLY STAGE FUND IV LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
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(Preferred
Stock)
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(Preferred
Stock)
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By: InterWest
Management Partners IX, LLC
/s/ W. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
W.
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Managing Director
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By: VIESF
IV GP, LLC, its General Partner
/s/ Xxx
Adox
Xxx
Adox, Managing Director
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VERSANT
SIDE FUND III, L.P.
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VERSANT
VENTURE CAPITAL III, L.P
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(Preferred
Stock)
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(Preferred
Stock)
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By: Versant
Ventures III, LLC, its General Partner
/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxx, Managing Director
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By: Versant
Ventures III, LLC, its General Partner
/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxx, Managing Director
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SV
LIFE SCIENCES FUND IV, L.P.
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SV
LIFE SCIENCES FUND IV STRATEGIC PARTNERS L.P.
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(Preferred
Stock)
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(Preferred
Stock)
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By: SV
Sciences Fund IV (GP), L.P., its sole General Partner
By: SVLSF
IV, LLC, its sole General Partner
/s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxx, SVLSF IV, LLC, Member
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By: SV
Sciences Fund IV (GP), L.P., its sole General Partner
By: SVLSF
IV, LLC, its sole General Partner
/s/ Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxx, SVLSF IV, LLC, Member
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Agreement
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WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the
date first written above.
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INITIAL
SELLERS:
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XXX
XXXXX AND XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXX
2001 TRUST
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JACKDOG,
LTD.
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(Preferred
Stock & Warrants)
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(Preferred
Stock)
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/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx,
Trustee
Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxx, Trustee
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/s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, President
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TARTAN
TRUST DTD APRIL 18, 2001
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XXXXXX
FAMILY TRUST DECEMBER 3, 2004
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(Common
Stock)
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(Common
Stock)
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/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx,
Trustee
Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, Trustee
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/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Trustee
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Trustee
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XXXXXX
XXXXX
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XXXXXXX
X. XXXXXX LIVING TRUST DATED SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
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(Common
Stock)
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(Common
Stock, Preferred Stock & Warrants)
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/s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Trustee
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Trustee
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XXXXXX
XXXXX
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XXXXXXX
ZIMANYI
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(Common
Stock)
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(Common
Stock)
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/s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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/s/ Gergely
Zimanyi
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Company and Sellers’ Representative Signature Page to Stock Purchase
Agreement
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WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the
date first written above.
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INITIAL
SELLERS:
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XXXXX
XXXXX
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XXXXX
XXXXXXX
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(Preferred
Stock & Warrants)
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(Common
Stock, Preferred Stock & Warrants)
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/s/Xxxxx
Xxxxx
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XXXX
XXXXXXXX
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XXXXX
XXXXXX
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(Common
stock, Preferred Stock & Warrants)
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(Preferred
Stock & Warrants)
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/s/ Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx
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/s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
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XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
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XXXX
XXXXXX
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(Preferred
Stock)
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(Common
Stock)
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/s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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/s/ Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Agreement
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