STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT dated as of June 3, 2010 among TECHTEAM GLOBAL, INC., and JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC. and JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INC. relating to the purchase and sale of 100% of the Capital Stock of TECHTEAM GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
Exhibit
2.1
EXECUTION
VERSION
dated as
of
June 3,
2010
among
TECHTEAM
GLOBAL, INC.,
and
XXXXXX
ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
and
XXXXXX
TECHNOLOGY INC.
relating
to the purchase and sale
of
100%
of the Capital Stock
of
TECHTEAM
GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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Section
1.01.
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Definitions
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1
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ARTICLE
II PURCHASE AND
SALE
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19
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Section
2.01.
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Purchase
and Sale
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19
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Section
2.02.
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Purchase
Price
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20
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Section
2.03.
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Closing
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20
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Section
2.04.
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Deliveries
by Buyer
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20
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Section
2.05.
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Deliveries
by Seller to Buyer
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21
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Section
2.06.
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Intentionally
Left Blank
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22
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Section
2.07.
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Purchase
Price Adjustment
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22
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Section
2.08.
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Escrow
Arrangements
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24
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ARTICLE
III REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES OF SELLER
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25
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Section
3.01.
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Organization
and Good Standing
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25
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Section
3.02.
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Authorization;
Validity of Agreement
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26
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Section
3.03.
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Consents
and Approvals; No Violations
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26
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Section
3.04.
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Capitalization
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27
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Section
3.05.
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Financial
Statements
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28
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Section
3.06.
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No
Undisclosed Liabilities
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29
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Section
3.07.
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Absence
of Certain Changes
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29
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Section
3.08.
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Real
Property
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32
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Section
3.09.
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Actions
and Proceedings
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33
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Section
3.10.
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Compliance
with Laws and Court Orders; Permits; and Filings
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33
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Section
3.11.
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Absence
of Certain Business Practices; Foreign Activities
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34
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Section
3.12.
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Intellectual
Property
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35
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Section
3.13.
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Title
and Sufficiency of Assets
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36
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Section
3.14.
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Material
Contracts
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36
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Section
3.15.
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Government
Contracts
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40
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Section
3.16.
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Insurance
Coverage
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46
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Section
3.17.
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Environmental
Matters
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47
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Section
3.18.
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Employee
Plans
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47
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Section
3.19.
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Labor
Matters
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50
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Section
3.20.
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Taxes
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52
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Section
3.21.
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Brokers’
or Finders’ Fees
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55
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Section
3.22.
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Related
Party Transactions
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55
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Section
3.23.
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Shared
Services
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56
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Section
3.24.
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No
Indebtedness
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56
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Section
3.25.
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Accounts
Receivable
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56
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Section
3.26.
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Seller
Guarantees
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56
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Section
3.27.
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Corporate
Records
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56
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Section
3.28.
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Warranties
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57
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Section
3.29.
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Relationships
with Suppliers and Clients
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57
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Section
3.30.
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Restrictions
on Business Activities
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57
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Section
3.31.
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Client
List
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58
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Section
3.32.
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Backlog
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58
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Section
3.33.
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Bank
Accounts
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58
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Section
3.34.
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Off-Balance
Sheet Liabilities
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58
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Section
3.35.
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Accuracy
of Representations
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58
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Section
3.36.
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No
Additional Representations
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58
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ARTICLE
IV REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES OF BUYER AND BUYER PARENT
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58
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Section
4.01.
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Organization
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59
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Section
4.02.
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Authorization;
Validity of Agreement
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59
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Section
4.03.
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Consents
and Approvals; No Violations
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59
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Section
4.04.
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Actions
and Proceedings
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60
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Section
4.05.
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Purchase
for Investment
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60
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Section
4.06.
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Financing
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60
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Section
4.07.
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Brokers
or Finders
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60
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Section
4.08.
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Insurance
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61
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Section
4.09.
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Information
Supplied for Proxy Statement
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61
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Section
4.10.
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Independent
Investigation By Buyer and Buyer Parent; No Reliance
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61
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Section
4.11.
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No
Additional Representations
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62
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ARTICLE
V COVENANTS OF
SELLER
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62
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Section
5.01.
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Conduct
of the Business Pending the Closing
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62
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Section
5.02.
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Access
to Information
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64
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Section
5.03.
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Notices
of Certain Events
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64
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Section
5.04.
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Resignations
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65
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Section
5.05.
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Credit
Agreement and Liens
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66
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Section
5.06.
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Employee
Plans
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66
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Section
5.07.
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Acquisition
Proposals
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66
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Section
5.08.
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Disclosure
Schedule Supplements
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69
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ARTICLE
VI COVENANTS OF THE BUYER
PARTIES
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70
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Section
6.01.
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Confidentiality
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70
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Section
6.02.
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Access
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70
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Section
6.03.
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Use
of Seller’s Name
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71
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Section
6.04.
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Contact
with Customers and Suppliers
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73
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Section
6.05.
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Release
of Obligations
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73
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Section
6.06.
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Acknowledgment
of Discontinuation of Services
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74
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Section
6.07.
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Guarantee
by Buyer Parent
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74
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ARTICLE
VII OTHER COVENANTS OF THE BUYER
PARTIES AND SELLER
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74
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Section
7.01.
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Best
Efforts; Further Assurances
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74
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Section
7.02.
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Certain
Filings
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75
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Section
7.03.
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Intercompany
Balances
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75
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Section
7.04.
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Public
Announcements
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76
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Section
7.05.
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Post-Closing
Employment and Benefits
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77
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Section
7.06.
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Preservation
of Records
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80
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Section
7.07.
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Mail
and Communications
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81
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Section
7.08.
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Tax
Matters
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81
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Section
7.09.
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Intentionally
Left Blank
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85
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Section
7.10.
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Nonsolicitation
of Employees
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85
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Section
7.11.
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Preparation
of Proxy Statement; Stockholders’ Meeting
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85
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Section
7.13.
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Accounts
Receivable Guarantee
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88
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Section
7.14.
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Procurement
of Insurance
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89
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ARTICLE
VIII CONDITIONS TO CLOSING
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89
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Section
8.01.
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Conditions
to Obligations of Buyer and Seller
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89
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Section
8.02.
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Conditions
to Obligation of Buyer
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89
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Section
8.03.
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Conditions
to Obligation of Seller
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90
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ARTICLE
IX SURVIVAL; INDEMNIFICATION
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91
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Section
9.01.
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Survival
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91
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Section
9.02.
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Indemnification
by Seller
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91
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Section
9.03.
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Indemnification
by Buyer
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94
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Section
9.04.
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Single
Recovery
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94
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Section
9.05.
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Exclusive
Remedy
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94
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Section
9.06.
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Indemnification
Procedures
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95
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Section
9.07.
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Adjustments
for Insurance and Payments by Others
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95
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Section
9.08.
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Indemnification
Escrow Amount
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96
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Section
9.09.
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Treatment
of Indemnity Claims
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96
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ARTICLE
X TERMINATION
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96
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Section
10.01.
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Grounds
for Termination
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96
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Section
10.02.
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Procedure
and Effect of Termination
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98
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Section
10.03.
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Effect
of Termination
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99
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Section
10.04.
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Expenses;
Termination Fee
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99
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ARTICLE
XI GENERAL
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101
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Section
11.01.
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Notices
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101
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Section
11.02.
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Amendments
and Modifications
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102
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Section
11.03.
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Waiver
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102
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Section
11.04.
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Remedies
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103
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Section
11.05.
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Disclosure
Schedule References
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103
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Section
11.06.
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Expenses
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103
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Section
11.07.
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Assignment
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103
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Section
11.08.
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Parties
in Interest
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103
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Section
11.09.
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Governing
Law
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103
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Section
11.10.
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Jurisdiction
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104
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Section
11.11.
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Service
of Process
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104
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Section
11.12.
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Waiver
of Jury Trial
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104
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Section
11.13.
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Relationship
of the Parties
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105
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Section
11.14.
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness
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105
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Section
11.15.
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Third
Party Beneficiaries
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105
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Section
11.16.
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Entire
Agreement
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106
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Section
11.17.
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Severability
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106
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iv
Section
11.18.
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Specific
Performance
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106
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Section
11.19.
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Representation
by Counsel
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106
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Section
11.20.
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Rules
of Construction
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107
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Section
11.21.
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Headings
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107
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Section
11.22.
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Inconsistencies
with Other Agreements
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107
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Section
11.23.
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Obligations
of the Parties
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107
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Section
11.24.
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Interpretation
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107
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v
This STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
(this “Agreement”) is made effective as of June
3, 2010, by and among TechTeam Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Seller”), Xxxxxx Engineering
Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Buyer Parent”), and Xxxxxx
Technology Inc., a Tennessee corporation (“Buyer”). Each of
Seller, Buyer Parent and Buyer is sometimes referred to herein as a “Party” and collectively as the
“Parties.”
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, TechTeam Government
Solutions, Inc, a Virginia corporation (the “Company”), and the other
Acquired Companies are engaged in the Business;
WHEREAS, Seller is the record
and beneficial owner of 92,472.95 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, no
par value per share, of the Company, which constitute all of the issued and
outstanding shares of Capital Stock of the Company;
WHEREAS, Seller desires to
sell to Buyer, and Buyer desires to purchase from Seller, all of the Shares,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Seller Board (as
defined below) has, in light of, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof:
(i) determined that this Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions are fair to
and in the best interests of the stockholders of Seller; and (ii) resolved
to recommend that the stockholders of Seller vote their shares of Seller Common
Stock in favor of the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the
Contemplated Transactions at the Seller Stockholder Meeting; and
WHEREAS, concurrently with the
execution of this Agreement, in order to induce Buyer and Buyer Parent to enter
into this Agreement, the Supporting Stockholders are entering into stockholder
voting agreements (the “Stockholder Voting
Agreements”), whereby the Supporting Stockholders have agreed, subject to
the terms and conditions set forth therein, to vote their shares of Seller
Common Stock in favor of the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the
Contemplated Transactions at the Seller Stockholder Meeting.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements set forth herein, and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and
intending to be legally bound hereby, the Parties hereto, agree as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.01. Definitions. For
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified or
referred to in this Section 1.01:
“2009 Top Customer” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.29 of this Agreement.
“2009 Top Supplier” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.29 of this Agreement.
“401(k) Plan” means the
TechTeam Government Solutions 401(k) Plan maintained by the Company for the
benefit of the Employees of the Acquired Companies.
“Acceptable Confidentiality
Agreement” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.07(g)(i) of
this Agreement.
“Accounts Receivable” means all
accounts, both billed and unbilled, owned or acquired by each of the Acquired
Companies, including accounts receivable, notes, notes receivable, other
receivables, book debts and other forms of obligations to each of the Acquired
Companies that relate to, or otherwise arise out of, the conduct of the
Business.
“Acquired Companies” means the
Company and its Subsidiaries, collectively.
“Acquired Company Registered
IP” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.12(d) of this
Agreement.
“Acquisition Transaction” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 5.07(g)(ii) of this Agreement.
“Active Government Contract”
means a Government Contract for which, as of the date hereof, (i) performance
obligations under the Contract have not been completed, or (ii) for cost
reimbursement type contracts, performance obligations under the Contract have
been completed within the last 10 years, and with respect to both (i) and (ii)
the Contract has not been closed-out under the procedures of the Governmental
Authority responsible for administering the Government Contract.
“Adjusted Cap” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 9.02(d) of this Agreement.
“Adjustment Escrow Amount”
means Two Million Seven Hundred Seventy Thousand Two Hundred Ninety-Four Dollars
($2,770,294).
“Affiliate” shall have the
meaning set forth in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
“Agreement” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Ancillary Agreements” means
the Escrow Agreement, the Non-Compete Agreement, the Transition Services
Agreement, the Intercompany Balances Termination Letter and all other
agreements, documents, certificates and instruments required to be delivered by
any Party pursuant to this Agreement.
2
“Applicable Law” means, with respect to
any Person, any domestic or foreign federal, state, territorial or local law
(statutory, common or otherwise), statute, constitution, treaty, convention,
ordinance, code, rule, regulation, administrative interpretation, Order, or
other similar requirement enacted, adopted, promulgated or applied by a
Governmental Authority (including, without limitation, 49 C.F.R. Part 17,
Intergovernmental Review of Department of Transportation (DOT) Programs and
Activities; 49 C.F.R. Part 18, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants
and Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments; 49 C.F.R. Part 19,
Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions
of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations; 49 C.F.R.
Part 20, New Restrictions on Lobbying; 49 C.F.R. Part 21, Nondiscrimination in
Federally-Assisted Programs of the Department of Transportation—Effectuation of
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 49 C.F.R. Part 26, New Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise (DBE) Program; 49 C.F.R. Part 29, Governmentwide Debarment
and Suspension (non-procurement); 49 C.F.R. Part 32, Governmentwide Requirements
for Drug-Free Workplace (Financial Assistance); DOT Order 4600.17A—Financial
Assistance Management Requirements; Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Circular A-102, Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State & Local
Governments; 2 C.F.R. Part 225, Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian
Tribal Governments (OMB Circular A-87); the Truth in Negotiations Act of 1962,
as amended; the Service Contract Act of 1965, as amended; the Contract Disputes
Act of 1978, as amended; the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, as
amended; the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation Price
Reductions clause; the Cost Accounting Standards, 48 C.F.R. Volume 7; the False
Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. 3729–3733; Arms Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. 2778; the
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. 120-130; the Export
Administration Act of 1979, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 2401-2420; the Export
Administration Regulations (EAR), 15 C.F.R. 730-774; the economic sanctions
rules and regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control, Title 31 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part
500 et seq.; the FAR and any applicable agency supplement thereto; the FCPA;
Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act, P.L. 110-252; Organizational Conflicts
of Interest, P.L. 100-463; Trade Agreements Act, 19 U.S.C. 2501 et. seq.; Buy
American Act, 41 U.S.C. 10a – 10d and E.O. 10582; American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, P.L. 111-5; Espionage Act of 1917, 18 U.S.C. 2388; NISPOM DoD
5220.22-M; Procurement Integrity Act, 41 U.S.C. 423; Lobbying Disclosure Act,
P.L. 104-65; Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, P.L. 110-81; and
Employment Wage and Hour Acts (FLSA), 29 C.F.R. Chapter V), as applicable to
such Person or any of its Affiliates or any of their respective properties,
assets, stockholders, officers, directors, members, managers, partners,
employees, consultants or agents (in connection with such stockholder’s,
officer’s, director’s, member’s, manager’s, partner’s, employee’s, consultant’s
or agent’s activities on behalf of such Person).
“Assets” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.13(a) of this Agreement.
“Balance Sheet Date” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.05(a) of this Agreement.
“Best Efforts” means the
commercially reasonable efforts that a reasonably prudent Person desirous of
achieving a result would use in similar circumstances to ensure that such result
is achieved as expeditiously as possible; provided, however, that an obligation
to use Best Efforts under this Agreement does not require the Person subject to
that obligation to take actions that would result in a materially adverse change
in the benefits to such Person of this Agreement and the Contemplated
Transactions.
“Business” means the business
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the business
of providing, whether as a prime contractor, subcontractor or otherwise
information technology-based and other professional services to (i) Governmental
Authorities, and (ii) the commercial customers of the Acquired
Companies.
3
“Business Day” means a day,
other than Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks in
New York, New York are authorized or required by Applicable Law to
close.
“Business Know-How” means
business secrets, trade secrets, formulas, know-how, data, designs, inventions,
recipes, processes, production methods, development documentation,
specifications, enhancements, technology, discoveries and improvements,
information, drawings, manuals, reports, software, recorded knowledge,
performance and other standards, catalogues, confidential and proprietary
information and other proprietary and intellectual property rights, but not
including patents, patent applications, trademark registrations, trademark
applications and registered copyrights.
“Buyer” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Buyer Indemnitees” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.02(a) of this Agreement.
“Buyer Parent” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Buyer Parties” means,
collectively, Buyer and Buyer Parent.
“Buyer Plan” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(e) of this Agreement.
“Buyer Reimbursable Expenses”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 10.04(a) of this
Agreement.
“Capital Stock” means any and
all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (other than phantom
stock), however designated, of capital stock of a corporation and any and all
ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) including membership
interests, partnership interests and joint venture interests.
“Certification” means a written
document delivered under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement by any
officer of any Party, attesting to the existence or non-existence of any fact or
circumstance or otherwise providing a certification to any Party, it being
understood that such certification shall be deemed to have been delivered only
in such officer’s capacity as an officer of such Party (and not in his or her
individual capacity) and shall not entitle any Party to assert a claim against
such officer in his or her individual capacity.
“Claim Notice” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 9.06 of this Agreement.
“Closing” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.03 of this Agreement.
“Closing Balance Sheet” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(b) of this
Agreement.
4
“Closing Date” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.03 of this Agreement.
“Closing NTBV” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(a)(i) of this Agreement.
“Closing NTBV Statement” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(b) of this
Agreement.
“Closing Reimbursement
Requests” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(b) of
this Agreement.
“Closing Withholding” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(b) of this Agreement.
“COBRA Continuation Coverage”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(f) of this
Agreement.
“Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor law, and the regulations
issued by the IRS pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code or any successor
law.
“Company” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the Recitals of this Agreement.
“Company Bank Accounts” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.33 of this Agreement.
“Company Intellectual Property
Rights” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.12(a) of this
Agreement.
“Company Software” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.12(i) of this Agreement.
“Competing Transaction
Proposal” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.07(g)(iii)
of this Agreement.
“Confidentiality Agreement”
means the Confidentiality Agreement, dated May 15, 2009, by and between
Seller and Buyer Parent, as such agreement may be amended from time to time with
the written consent of all parties thereto.
“Consents” means any agreement,
approval, consent, waiver, ratification or other authorization from the
third-parties to those Real Property Leases and Material Contracts (other than
Government Contracts) which by their terms terminate, are modified, have
payments or other obligations which may be accelerated or require consent of
such third-parties upon a changing of control of the Company pursuant to the
Contemplated Transactions, which Consents are set forth on Schedule 3.03(ii)(a)
and Schedule
3.03(ii)(b), respectively.
“Contemplated Transactions”
means the consummation of transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
Ancillary Agreements.
5
“Contest” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(d) of this Agreement.
“Contract” means any Lease,
license, agreement, contract, instrument, understanding, arrangement,
commitment, obligation, promise, or undertaking (whether written or oral and
whether express or implied) that is legally binding.
“Current Balance Sheet” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.05(a) of this Agreement.
“Current Balance Sheet
Receivables” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.13(a) of
this Agreement.
“DDTC” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 3.15(m) of this Agreement.
“DFSA Plan” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(b) of this Agreement.
“DGCL” means the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as amended, or any successor
law.
“Disclosure Schedules” means
(i) the disclosure schedules delivered by Seller to Buyer concurrently with the
execution and delivery of this Agreement that are referenced in Article III, and
(ii) unless otherwise stated, “Schedule” means (x) when referenced in Article
III, a schedule forming a part of the Disclosure Schedules and (y) when
referenced elsewhere in this Agreement, means a schedule to this
Agreement.
“Dispute Notice” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.06 of this Agreement.
“Disputed Matters” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(d) of this Agreement.
“Effect” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in this Section 1.01 in the definition of “Material
Adverse Effect.”
“Employee” means any current,
former, or retired employee, officer, consultant, independent contractor, or
director of the Acquired Companies or any ERISA Affiliate.
“Employee Agreement” means any (whether or
not in writing) plan, program, policy or other arrangement, contract or
agreement involving direct, indirect, incentive or deferred incentive, or
deferred compensation (other than workers’ compensation, unemployment
compensation and other governmental programs), employment, consulting,
disability, life, accident, or insurance benefits, supplemental unemployment
benefits, vacation (or any other form of paid time off such as sick leave)
benefits, severance, termination or retention, bonus, change of control,
retirement, profit-sharing, savings, retirement (including early and
supplemental retirement), post-retirement welfare benefits, stock options, stock
appreciation rights, stock purchase, or other equity-related compensation, or
other benefits (including fringe, welfare, or other employee benefits)
administered, entered into, maintained or contributed to, or that is required to
be entered into, maintained, or administered by the Acquired Companies or any
Person that, together with the Acquired Companies, would be deemed a “single
employer” (within the meaning of Sections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o) of the
Code (“ERISA
Affiliates”)), for the benefit of Employees of the Acquired Companies or
any of their dependants, spouses, family members, or beneficiaries in respect of
the Business, or with respect to which the Acquired Companies could have any
Liability.
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“Employee Benefit Pension Plan”
means any employee pension benefit plan, as defined in Section 3(2) of
ERISA, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA, or any other plan that is subject
to Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 or 430 of the Code, other than
a Multiemployer Plan.
“Employee Benefit Plans” means
an employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (whether or
not subject to ERISA) administered, entered into, maintained or contributed to,
or that is required to be entered into, maintained, or administered by the
Acquired Companies or any ERISA Affiliate, for the benefit of Employees of the
Acquired Companies or any of their dependants, spouses, family members, or
beneficiaries in respect of the Business, or with respect to which the Acquired
Companies could have any Liability.
“Employee Plans” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.18(a) of this Agreement.
“Employment Agreements” means
the Employment Agreements between Buyer, on the one hand, and each of the
current employees of the Acquired Companies listed on Schedule 8.02(f), on
the other hand.
“Enterprise Value” means
Sixty-One Million Dollars $(61,000,000).
“Environmental Laws” means any
Applicable Laws or Permits relating to (i) the protection, investigation,
remediation or restoration of the environment, wildlife or natural resources,
(ii) the manufacture, handling, use, storage, treatment, disposal, release
or threatened release of any Hazardous Substance, (iii) the creation of a cause
of action for damages to Persons or property due to noise, odor, pollution or
contamination, or (iv) the protection of human health and
safety.
“ERISA” means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any successor law, and
the regulations and rules issued pursuant to that Act or any successor
law.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any
corporation or trade or business, whether not incorporated, which is treated as
a single employer with any of the Acquired Companies pursuant to Subsections
(b), (c), (m), or (o) of Section 414 of the Code and the regulations
thereunder.
“Escrow Account” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.04(b).
“Escrow Agent” means the escrow
services division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. or its successor or permitted
assigns, as escrow agent under the Escrow Agreement.
“Escrow Agreement” means the
Escrow Agreement to be entered into concurrently with the Closing by and among
Seller, Buyer and the Escrow Agent, substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A, as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time after the Closing
Date with the written consent of all parties thereto.
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“Escrow Amount” means the
Adjustment Escrow Amount plus the Indemnification Escrow Amount.
“Evaluation Material” means (i)
any information, documents or materials regarding the Acquired Companies or the
Business furnished or made available by or on behalf of Seller or the Company to
the Buyer Parties and their Representatives in any “data rooms” or “virtual data
rooms,” and (ii) any written management presentations, in either case, in
expectation of, or in connection with, the Contemplated Transactions, including,
but not limited to, any descriptive memorandum, forecasts or projections
relating to the Acquired Companies or the Business provided by any
Representatives of Seller or the Company.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor law, and the
regulations and rules issued pursuant to that Act or any successor
law.
“Existing Inventory” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 6.03 of this Agreement.
“FAR” means the Federal
Acquisition Regulations and related agency supplements including but not limited
to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.
“FCPA” means the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any successor law, and the
regulations and rules issued pursuant to that Act or any successor
law.
“Finally Determined” means (i)
with respect to any claim for indemnification, payment or reimbursement by the
Buyer Indemnitees, or any of them, pursuant to this Agreement, the amount of
such claim the entitlement to which by such Person (w) has been consented to in
writing by Seller (whether pursuant to a settlement agreement or otherwise), (x)
has been determined pursuant to a final, non-appealable judgment or other
similar determination of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (y) has been
finally determined in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.07;
(ii) with respect to any claim for indemnification, payment or reimbursement by
the Seller Indemnitees, or any of them, pursuant to this Agreement, the amount
of such claim the entitlement to which by such Person (w) has been consented to
in writing by Buyer (whether pursuant to a settlement agreement or otherwise),
(x) has been determined pursuant to a final, non-appealable judgment or other
similar determination of a court of competent jurisdiction, or (y) has been
finally determined in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section
2.07(d); and (iii) with respect to Seller Fraud means a final, non-appealable
judgment or other similar determination of a court of competent jurisdiction or
any other Governmental Authority.
“Financial Statements” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.05(a) of this Agreement.
“FINSA” means the Foreign
Investment and National Security Act of 2007 as amended, or any successor law,
and the regulations and rules issued pursuant to that Act or any successor
law.
“First Escrow Release Amount”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(c) of this
Agreement.
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“First Scheduled Escrow Release
Date” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(c) of this
Agreement.
“FSA Plan” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(b) of this Agreement.
“GAAP” means accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States.
“GIP” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 3.18(o).
“Government Bid” means any
quotation, bid, proposal or offer, solicited or unsolicited made by an Acquired
Company prior to the Closing Date which, if accepted or awarded, would result in
a Government Contract. The term “Government Bid” shall exclude
task execution plans, delivery order proposals and EBUY submissions and any
response requested under previously awarded indefinite quantity contracts or
blanket purchase agreements.
“Government Contract” means any
Contract for the delivery of goods or services between an Acquired Company, on
the one hand, and any Governmental Authority, on the other hand. The
term “Government Contract” also includes any subcontract (at any tier) of any
Acquired Company (i) with another entity under a prime contract held by such
Acquired Company valued at $250,000 or more and/or (ii) with another entity that
holds either a prime contract with a Governmental Authority or a subcontract (at
any tier) under such a prime contract, in each case, including any task orders
or delivery orders issued under, or any modifications to, any such prime
contract or subcontract, whether currently active or subject to an open audit
period.
“Government Contract Consents”
means those Consents that are necessary under the Government Contracts (whether
from a Governmental Authority, prime contractor, subcontractor, vendor or other
third party) to assure that the execution of this Agreement by the Parties and
the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions (including the change of
control of the Company) will not, directly or indirectly, result in a violation
or breach of, or constitute a default under, or give rise to any right of
termination, amendment, cancellation or acceleration of any right or obligation
of any Acquired Company or to a loss of any benefit to which any Acquired
Company is entitled, under any of the terms, conditions or provisions of any
Government Contract. The Government Contract Consents are set forth
on Schedule
3.03(ii)(b).
“Government Contracting
Officer” shall have the meaning set forth in FAR §2.101 and shall, by
extension, also mean the person or organization of a prime contractor performing
similar activities where an Acquired Company is performing services as a
subcontractor.
“Governmental Approvals” means,
collectively, the Consents (other than the Government Contract Consents) which
are required from any Governmental Authority and the filings contemplated under
Section 7.11(a) with respect to the Proxy Statement.
“Governmental Authority” means
any foreign, domestic, federal, territorial, state or local government,
governmental authority or any entity exercising executive, legislative,
judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government,
including, without limitation, any agency, department, board, branch, commission
or instrumentality of any of the foregoing or any court, arbitrator or similar
tribunal or forum.
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“Hazardous Substance” means any
substance, material or waste that is: (i) listed, classified or regulated in any
concentration pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law; (ii) any
petroleum hydrocarbon, asbestos-containing material, lead-containing paint or
plumbing, polychlorinated biphenyls, radioactive materials or radon, mold or
microbial matter; or (iii) any other substance, material or waste which may be
the subject of regulatory action by any Governmental Authority pursuant to any
applicable Environmental Law.
“HMO” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 3.18(j) of this Agreement.
“Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx” means the
investment banking firm of Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Capital,
Inc.
“Indebtedness” means, with
respect to any Person, whether or not contingent but without duplication
(i) all obligations of such Person in respect of borrowed money; (ii) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, or other
similar instruments; (iii) all obligations in respect of letters of credit, to
the extent drawn, and bankers’ acceptances issued for the account of such
Person; (iv) all obligations of such Person in respect of any deferred purchase
price for property or services, except for trade accounts payable arising in the
Ordinary Course of Business; (v) all obligations of such Person under any
hedging or swap obligation or other similar arrangement; (vi) all obligations of
such Person as lessee which are required to be capitalized in accordance with
GAAP; (vii) all guaranties by such Person of any of the foregoing obligations of
any other Person; (viii) all obligations secured by a Lien on the assets or
properties of such Person, whether or not such obligations are assumed by, or
are otherwise an obligation of, such Person; (ix) all other debt like
Liabilities and (x) all obligations of such Person for principal and interest,
fees, expenses, prepayment premiums and charges related to any of the items set
forth in clauses (i) through (viii). For the avoidance of doubt,
office equipment Leases, and current Liabilities incurred, and product
warranties made, in the Ordinary Course of Business shall not be included as
“Indebtedness”.
“Indemnification Escrow Amount”
means Fourteen Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($14,750,000).
“Indemnified Party” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.06(a) of this Agreement.
“Indemnifying Party” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.06(a) of this Agreement.
“Independent Accounting Firm”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(d) of this
Agreement.
“Initial Cap” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 9.02(d) of this Agreement.
“Initial Cash Amount” means the
Pre-Adjustment Purchase Price minus the Escrow Amount.
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“Intellectual Property Rights”
means all of the following and all worldwide rights therein, arising therefrom,
or associated therewith: (i) trademarks, trade names, trade dress, service
marks, logos, business names, and all registrations and renewals thereof and
applications for registration therefor (including all goodwill associated
therewith); (ii) all published and unpublished works of authorship, copyrights
(registered or unregistered), copyright registrations, mask works and mask work
registrations, computer programs and software, including all source code, object
code, executable code (including all machine readable code, printed listings of
code, documentation and related property and information, whether embodied in
software, firmware or otherwise) and all media on which any of the foregoing is
recorded, and any applications registrations therefor or renewals thereof and
all other rights corresponding thereto throughout the world; (iii) Business
Know-How and customer and supplier lists; (iv) patents, design patents, utility
patents, patent applications, and all reissues, divisions, renewals,
reexaminations, extensions, provisionals, continuations, continuing prosecution
applications and continuations-in-part thereof, and inventions and improvements
(whether or not patented or patentable and whether or not reduced to practice);
(v) development tools, files, records and data, all media on which any of the
foregoing is recorded, all Web addresses, sites and domain names registrations
and all applications and renewals thereof; and (vi) databases and data
collections.
“Intercompany Balances” means
all intercompany account balances between the Acquired Companies, on the one
hand, and Seller and/or any of its Affiliates (other than the Acquired
Companies), on the other hand, all of which shall, to the extent not previously
repaid or cancelled, be cancelled as of the Closing Date pursuant to Section
7.03, in a manner which shall not result in any Tax Liabilities for the Acquired
Companies. Intercompany Balances shall include, without limitation,
notes payable, accounts payable and accrued payables owed by or to any of the
Acquired Companies, on the one hand, or by or to, Seller and/or any of its
Affiliates (other than the Acquired Companies), on the other hand.
“Intercompany Balances Termination
Letter” means the Intercompany Balances Termination Letter to be
delivered at the Closing by Seller to the Acquired Companies and the Buyer
Parties, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
B.
“IP Contract” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.14(o).
“IRS” means the United States
Internal Revenue Service or any successor agency, and, to the extent relevant,
the United States Department of the Treasury.
“IT Assets” means computers,
computer software, firmware, middleware, servers, workstations, routers, hubs,
switches, data communications lines, and all other information technology
equipment (together with all associated documentation) owned by any Acquired
Company, licensed or leased by any Acquired Company, or which any Acquired
Company otherwise has the right to use, in each case pursuant to a Contract
(excluding any public networks).
“Knowledge of Seller” or any
similar phrase shall mean the knowledge of each of the following individuals:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, J.
Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx XxXxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxx Xxx and Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, after reasonable investigation and reasonable inquiry by such
Person.
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“Lease” means any real property
lease or any lease or rental agreement, license, right to use or installment and
conditional sale agreement.
“Leased Premises” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.08(a) of this Agreement.
“Liability” or “Liabilities” means, with
respect to any Person, any liability or obligation of any kind, character or
description, whether known or unknown, absolute or contingent, accrued or
unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, joint or several,
due or to become due, vested or unvested, executory, determined, determinable or
otherwise and whether or not the same is required to be accrued on the financial
statements of that Person or is set forth in the Disclosure
Schedules.
“Lien” means any mortgage,
lien, pledge, charge, security interest, equity, assessment, deed of trust,
claim, lease, sub-lease, option, right of first refusal, easement, right of way,
servitude, covenant, condition, hypothecation, restriction (whether voting,
transfer or otherwise), title defect or objection, encumbrance or other
third-party right of any kind in respect of property or assets.
“Losses” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 9.02(a) of this Agreement.
“Material Adverse Effect”
means: (A) with respect to the Business, any change, effect, development,
circumstance, condition, event, occurrence, state of facts or worsening thereof
(each, an “Effect” and,
collectively, “Effects”)
that individually or when taken together with all other Effects has, or could
reasonably be expected to have or give rise to, a material adverse effect on the
Business or the financial condition, earnings, results of operations, backlog,
assets or liabilities of the Business or the Acquired Companies, taken as a
whole; provided,
however, that no Effects resulting from, relating to or arising out of
the following shall be deemed to be, constitute or give rise to a Material
Adverse Effect, and no Effects resulting from, relating to or arising out of the
following shall be taken into account when determining whether a Material
Adverse Effect has occurred or is reasonably likely to exist: (i) conditions (or
changes therein) in any industry or industries in which the Acquired Companies
operate to the extent that such Effects do not have a disproportionate effect on
the Acquired Companies, taken as a whole, relative to their competitors in such
industry or industries, (ii) changes in general economic, financial or political
conditions in the United States, to the extent such Effects do not have a
disproportionate effect on the Acquired Companies, taken as a whole, relative to
their competitors in such industry or industries, (iii) any change in GAAP or
the FAR or any change in the interpretation of GAAP or the FAR to the extent
that such Effects do no have a disproportionate Effect on the Acquired Companies
taken as a whole relative to other companies of comparable size to the Company
operating in the same industry or industries as the Company; (iv) Effects
arising out of acts of terrorism or war or the escalation or worsening thereof,
weather conditions or other force majeure events, (v) the announcement or the
execution of this Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions, (vi) compliance
with the terms of this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, and (vii) Effects
arising out of or related to any actions taken, or failure to take action, to
which Buyer has consented to or requested in writing; and (B) with respect to
Buyer or Seller, any change, event, circumstance, effect or occurrence,
individually or in the aggregate, which is or would reasonably be expected to be
materially adverse to the ability of such Party to consummate the Contemplated
Transactions.
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“Material Contract” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.14 of this Agreement.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer
plan, as defined in Section 3(37) or 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Multiple Employer Plan” means
any Employee Benefit Plan sponsored by more than one employer, within the
meaning of Sections 4063 or 4064 of ERISA or Section 413(c) of the
Code.
“Net Tangible Book Value” or
“NTBV” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(a)(ii) of this Agreement.
“Non-Compete Agreement” means
the Non-Compete Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C to be
entered into by Seller concurrently with the Closing for the benefit of the
Acquired Companies and Buyer.
“Notice of Disagreement” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(c) of this
Agreement.
“NTBV Excess” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(a)(iii) of this Agreement.
“NTBV Shortfall” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(a)(iv) of this Agreement.
“Order” means any award,
decision, injunction, judgment, order, writ, decree, ruling, subpoena, or
verdict entered, issued, made, or rendered by any court, administrative agency,
or other Governmental Authority or by any arbitrator, except for decisions
related to matters of routine contract administration by a contracting
agency.
“Ordinary Course of Business”
means with respect to any Person, the ordinary course of business of such
Person, consistent in all material respects with such Person’s past practice and
custom.
“Organizational Documents”
means (a) the articles or certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of a
corporation; (b) the partnership agreement and any statement of partnership of a
general partnership; (c) the limited partnership agreement and the certificate
of limited partnership of a limited partnership; (d) any charter or similar
document adopted or filed in connection with the creation, formation, or
organization of a Person; and (e) any amendment to any of the
foregoing.
“Outside Date” means one
hundred twenty (120) calendar days following the date of execution of this
Agreement.
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“Outside Legal Counsel of National
Repute” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.07(g)(iv) of this
Agreement.
“Party” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Parties” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Permits” means all licenses,
franchises, permits, exemptions, consents, authorizations, approvals, waivers,
certificates and other authorizations issued, granted, given or otherwise made
available by or under the authority of any Governmental Authority (or any other
Person) which are necessary for the conduct of the Business as presently
conducted and as currently proposed to be conducted by Seller and the Acquired
Companies or affecting or relating in any way to the Business.
“Permitted Liens” means (i)
Liens for Taxes and other governmental charges not yet due and payable or which
are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings (and for which
there are adequate accruals or reserves in accordance with GAAP on the Financial
Statements), (ii) mechanic’s, workmen’s, repairmen’s, materialman’s,
warehousemen’s, carrier’s and other similar statutory Liens arising or incurred
in the Ordinary Course of Business not yet due and payable or which are being
contested in good faith (and for which there are adequate accruals or reserves
in accordance with GAAP on the Financial Statements), and (iii) statutory and
contractual landlord liens under any Real Property Lease which is not in default
(but in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), excluding any Liens arising under
Section 412 or 430 of the Code or ERISA or otherwise with respect to any
Employee Benefit Plan).
“Person” means any individual,
corporation (including any non-profit corporation), professional corporation,
general or limited partnership, professional limited liability partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, estate, trust, association,
organization, labor union, or other entity or Governmental
Authority.
“Post-Closing Tax Period” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(iii) of this
Agreement.
“Post-Closing Taxes” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(v) of this Agreement.
“Pre-Adjustment Purchase Price”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.02 of this Agreement.
“Pre-Closing Tax Period” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(i) of this
Agreement.
“Pre-Closing Tax Return” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(ii) of this
Agreement.
“Pre-Closing Taxes” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(iv) of this
Agreement.
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“Proceeding” means any action,
arbitration, audit, hearing, investigation, litigation, or suit (whether civil,
criminal, administrative, investigative, or informal) commenced, brought,
conducted, or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any Governmental
Authority or arbitrator.
“Proxy Statement” means the
proxy statement filed by Seller with the SEC relating to the Seller Stockholder
Meeting and which will be disseminated to the stockholders of Seller in
connection with the Seller Board’s solicitation of the Seller Stockholder
Approval.
“Purchase Price” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.02 of this Agreement.
“Purchase Price Adjustment” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(g) of this Agreement.
“Real Property Leases” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.08(a) of this Agreement.
“Recoverable Claims” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.02(c) of this Agreement.
“Reduced Taxes” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(m) of this Agreement.
“Referral Program” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(b) of this Agreement.
“Remaining Accounts Receivable”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.13(c) of this
Agreement.
“Representatives” means with
respect to a particular Person, any director, officer, employee, agent,
consultant, advisor, or other representative of such Person, including legal
counsel, accountants, and financial advisors.
“Retained Business” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.12(b)(iii) of this Agreement.
“Retained Business Know-How”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.12(a)(ii) of this
Agreement.
“Retention Payment Amount”
means $2,000,000.
“SEC” means the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency.
“Second Scheduled Escrow Release
Date” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(d) of this
Agreement.
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“Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor law, and the regulations
and rules issued pursuant to that Act or any successor law.
“Selected NTBV” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(d) of this Agreement.
“Seller” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Seller Board” means the Board
of Directors of Seller.
“Seller Board Recommendation”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.11(a) of this
Agreement.
“Seller Change of Control”
means any transaction or series of related transactions (collectively, an “Ownership Change Event”) (i)
that results in any Person (or group of Persons acting in concert) becoming the
“beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), together
with all Affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act)
of such Person or Persons, of more than fifty percent (50%) of the then issued
and outstanding equity or ownership interest of Seller, (ii) that results in the
sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of Seller’s assets
to a Person (or group of Persons acting in concert), (iii) that results in the
consolidation or merger of Seller with or into another Person or any other
reorganization wherein the stockholders of Seller immediately before the
Ownership Change Event do not retain, immediately after the Ownership Change
Event, in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of shares of
Seller’s voting stock immediately before the Ownership Change Event, direct or
indirect beneficial ownership of at least fifty percent (50%) of the total
combined voting power of the issued and outstanding voting stock or other voting
equity or ownership interest of Seller or any successor by consolidation, merger
or reorganization, or (iv) that would constitute a “change of control” or words
of similar meaning under any equity incentive or similar plan of
Seller.
“Seller Common Stock” means the
common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of Seller.
“Seller Credit Agreement” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.05 of this
Agreement.
“Seller Financial Advisor” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.07(b) of this
Agreement.
“Seller Fraud” means fraud or
intentional misrepresentation that Seller is Finally Determined to have
committed.
“Seller Guaranty” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 3.26 of this Agreement.
“Seller Indemnitees” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.03 of this Agreement.
“Seller Parties” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 10.04(e) of this Agreement.
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“Seller Stockholder Approval”
means the approval and adoption of this Agreement and the Contemplated
Transactions by a majority of the outstanding shares of Seller’s Common Stock
entitled to vote thereon at the Seller Stockholder Meeting.
“Seller Stockholder Meeting”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.11(b) of this
Agreement.
“Seller Termination Fee” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 10.04(b) of this Agreement.
“Seller Triggering Event” shall
mean: (i) the failure of the Seller Board to recommend that Seller’s
stockholders vote to approve and adopt this Agreement and the Contemplated
Transactions, or the withdrawal or modification of the Seller Board
Recommendation in a manner adverse to Buyer, or any other action taken by the
Seller Board or any member thereof that is or becomes disclosed publicly or to a
third party and which can reasonably be interpreted to indicate that the Seller
Board or such member does not support the Contemplated Transactions or that the
Contemplated Transactions are not in the best interests of Seller’s
stockholders; (ii) Seller shall have failed to include in the Proxy Statement
the Seller Board Recommendation or Seller shall have failed to provide notice
with respect to and hold the Seller Stockholder Meeting in accordance with the
penultimate sentence of Section 7.11(b); (iii) the Seller Board fails to
reaffirm, unanimously and without qualification, the Seller Board
Recommendation, or fails to publicly state, unanimously and without
qualification, that the Contemplated Transactions are in the best interests of
Seller’s stockholders, within five (5) Business Days after Buyer requests in
writing that such action be taken; (iv) the Seller Board shall have approved,
endorsed or recommended any Competing Transaction Proposal; (v) Seller, any of
the Acquired Companies or any of Seller’s or Acquired Companies’ respective
Representatives shall have failed to comply with Section 5.07; (vi) a tender or
exchange offer relating to securities of Seller shall have been commenced, which
tender or exchange offer shall contemplate that the Acquired Companies or the
Business shall remain with Seller or be sold to another Person other than Buyer
pursuant to this Agreement pursuant to, or as part of, such tender or exchange
offer, and Seller shall not have sent to its securityholders, within ten (10)
Business Days after the commencement of such tender or exchange offer, a
statement disclosing that the Seller Board recommends rejection of such tender
or exchange offer; (vii) Seller shall have entered into a letter of intent,
memorandum of understanding, term sheet, agreement in principle, merger
agreement, asset or stock purchase agreement, option agreement, share exchange
agreement, or other similar agreement related to any Competing Transaction
Proposal or the Seller Board shall have resolved or Seller shall have agreed to
take any such action, or (viii) a Competing Transaction Proposal is publicly
announced, and Seller fails to issue a press release announcing its opposition
to such Competing Transaction Proposal within five (5) Business Days after such
Competing Transaction Proposal is announced.
“Seller’s Consolidated Tax
Returns” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(b) of this
Agreement.
“Seller’s Trademarks” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 6.03 of this Agreement.
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“Shared Agreements” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.05(c) of this Agreement.
“Shared Services” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.23 of this Agreement.
“Shares” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in the Recitals of this Agreement.
“Software” means any and all
computer software (including assemblers, applets, compilers, source code, object
code, binary libraries, development tools, design tools, user interfaces and
data, in any form or format, however fixed and all associated
documentation).
“Stockholder Voting Agreements”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Recitals of this Agreement.
“Straddle Period” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(vi) of this
Agreement.
“Straddle Period Tax Return”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(g)(vii) of this
Agreement.
“Subsidiary” means, with
respect to any Person, any entity of which (i) securities or other ownership
interests having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of
directors or other persons performing similar functions or (ii) 50% or more of
the equity interests are at the time directly or indirectly owned by such
Person.
“Superior Proposal” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.07(g)(v) of this
Agreement.
“Supporting Stockholders” means
Costa Brava Partnership III L.P., Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Hamot, LLC, Xxxx X.
Xxxxx, Emancipation Capital, LLC and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx.
“Tail Insurance” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.14 of this Agreement.
“Target NTBV” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(a)(v) of this Agreement.
“Tax Return” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.20(b) of this Agreement.
“Tax Sharing Agreement” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.20(b) of this Agreement.
“Taxes” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.20(b) of this Agreement.
“Third Party” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 5.07(a) of this Agreement.
“Third-Party Proceeding” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.06 of this Agreement.
“Threshold” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 9.02(c) of this Agreement.
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“Top Customer” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.29 of this Agreement.
“Top Supplier” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 3.29 of this Agreement.
“Trademarks” means trademarks,
service marks, trade dress, logos, domain names, trade names and corporate names
(whether or not registered) in the United States and all other nations
throughout the world, including all variations, derivations, combinations,
registrations and applications for registration of the foregoing and all
goodwill associated therewith.
“Transferred Business Know-How”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.12(b)(ii) of this
Agreement.
“Transferred Employees” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(d) of this Agreement.
“Transfer Taxes” has the
meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.08(a) of this Agreement.
“Transition Services Agreement”
means the Transition Services Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D to be
entered into by and between Seller and Buyer concurrently with the
Closing.
“Transitional Period” has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section 6.03(a) of this Agreement.
“Tuition Plan” has the meaning
ascribed thereto in Section 7.05(b) of this Agreement.
“Unsatisfied Escrow Claims”
means as of the date of determination, all claims for indemnification, payment
or reimbursement by the Buyer Indemnitees, or any of them, pursuant to Section
9.02 of this Agreement which either (i) were asserted in writing, in good faith,
prior to, and are pending on, such date or (ii) have been Finally Determined in
favor of the Buyer Indemnitees, or any of them, to the extent such claims (as so
Finally Determined) have not been paid from the Escrow Account as of such
date.
“Updated Disclosure Schedules”
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.08 of this Agreement.
“WARN Act” means the Worker
Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101 et seq., as amended, or any
successor law, and the regulations and rules issued pursuant to that Act or any
successor law.
ARTICLE
II
PURCHASE
AND SALE
Section
2.01. Purchase and
Sale. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this
Agreement, at the Closing (as defined in Section 2.03 hereof), Seller hereby
agrees to sell, assign, transfer and deliver to Buyer, and Buyer hereby agrees
to purchase from Seller, the Shares, free and clear of all
Liens.
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Section
2.02. Purchase Price. In
connection with the purchase of the Shares, Buyer shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to Seller aggregate consideration consisting of: (i) the Enterprise
Value, minus
(ii) the Retention Payment Amount (the aggregate amount calculated in accordance
with clauses (i) and (ii) of this sentence is referred to herein as the “Pre-Adjustment Purchase
Price”), plus (iii) the NTBV
Excess, if any, minus (iv) the NTBV
Shortfall, if any, (the “Purchase
Price”). The Purchase Price shall be paid as provided in
Section 2.04 and Section 2.07 (as applicable).
Section
2.03. Closing. The
closing (the “Closing”)
of the purchase and sale of the Shares hereunder shall take place on the third
(3rd) Business Day following the date on which the last to be satisfied or
waived of the conditions set forth in Article VIII of this Agreement (excluding
those conditions which by their nature are to be satisfied as part of the
Closing) at 10:00 a.m., Washington, D.C. time, at the offices of Blank Rome LLP,
Watergate 000 Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, or at such
other place, time or date as the Parties hereto may agree (the date on which the
Closing actually occurs, the “Closing Date”). The
Closing shall be deemed to be effective as of the close of business Eastern Time
on the Closing Date.
Section
2.04. Deliveries by
Buyer.
(a) At
the Closing, Buyer shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Seller the
following:
(i)
payment of the Initial Cash Amount in
immediately available funds by wire transfer to an account or accounts
designated by Seller, by written notice to Buyer, which notice shall be
delivered at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date (or if not so
designated, then by certified or official bank check payable in immediately
available funds to the order of Seller in such amount);
(ii) copies,
accompanied by a Certification, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Seller, by a proper officer of Buyer, of the resolutions of its Board of
Directors authorizing Buyer’s execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which Buyer is a party and the
performance of the Contemplated Transactions by Buyer;
(iii) copies,
accompanied by a Certification, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Seller, by a proper officer of Buyer Parent, of the resolutions of its Board of
Directors authorizing Buyer Parent’s execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which Buyer Parent is a party and the
performance of the Contemplated Transactions by Buyer Parent;
(iv) duly
executed counterparts for each of the Ancillary Agreements to which Buyer is a
party; and
(v) a
Certification executed by a duly authorized officer of Buyer certifying to the
matters set forth in Sections 8.03(a) and 8.03(b).
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(b) At
the Closing, Buyer shall deliver the Escrow Amount to the Escrow Agent by wire
transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to written instructions
delivered to Buyer prior to the Closing for deposit into an escrow account (the
“Escrow Account”)
established in accordance with, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the
Escrow Agreement.
Section
2.05. Deliveries by Seller to
Buyer. At the Closing, Seller shall deliver, or cause to be
delivered, to Buyer the following:
(a) a
receipt for the Initial Cash Amount;
(b) a
Certification by a proper officer of Seller, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Buyer, (i) certifying that Seller has taken all action necessary
in accordance with the DGCL, Seller’s Organizational Documents and Applicable
Law to duly call, give notice of, convene and hold the Seller Stockholder
Meeting and that the Seller Stockholder Approval was obtained at the Seller
Stockholder Meeting, and (ii) certifying and attaching copies of the resolutions
of the Seller Board authorizing Seller’s execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which Seller is a party and the
performance of the Contemplated Transactions by Seller;
(c) certificates
representing the Shares duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by stock powers or
such other sufficient instruments of transfer as the Buyer reasonably deems
necessary or appropriate to vest in Buyer all right, title and interest in and
to the Shares, free and clear of all Liens, other than restrictions on transfer
imposed under Applicable Laws relating to the transfer of
securities;
(d) counterparts
of the Ancillary Agreements duly executed by Seller and any of the Acquired
Companies that are a party thereto;
(e) a
Certification executed by a duly authorized officer of Seller certifying to the
matters set forth in Sections 8.01(d), 8.02(a) and 8.02(b);
(f) certificates
of good standing with respect to each Acquired Company, and a copy of the
Certificate of Incorporation and all amendments thereto (or equivalent document)
of each Acquired Company, in each case certified by the Secretary of State of
the jurisdiction of incorporation of each such entity, each dated as of a date
within five (5) days prior to the Closing Date;
(g) resignations
and releases of each director and officer of each Acquired Company that is an
employee or officer of Seller, effective as of the Closing Date, other than
those Persons whom Buyer specifies to Seller at least seven (7) days prior the
Closing Date;
(h) Constructive
possession of the records of the Acquired Companies, including, without
limitation, minute books, stock ledgers, all keys or articles required for
access thereto and the combination for all safes, vaults and all other places of
safe keeping or storage of the Acquired Companies;
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(i) a
Certification executed by a duly authorized officer of Seller, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Buyer, to the effect that Seller is not a
“foreign person” as defined in Section 1445 of the Code, or the purchase is
otherwise exempt from withholding under Section 1445 of the Code;
and
(j) an
assignment assigning the Office Building Lease dated May 18, 2006 between
Elizabethan Court Associates Limited Partnership and Seller to the Company prior
to the Closing duly executed by the landlord of such lease.
Section
2.06. Intentionally Left
Blank.
Section
2.07. Purchase Price
Adjustment.
(a) As
used herein, the following terms shall have the definitions set forth
below:
(i) The
term “Closing NTBV”
shall mean the Net Tangible Book Value as of the close of business Eastern Time
on the Closing Date.
(ii) The
term “Net Tangible Book
Value” or “NTBV”
shall mean the net book value of all assets of the Business (excluding goodwill,
intangibles and Intercompany Balances) minus the liabilities of the Business
(excluding Intercompany Balances). The calculation of Net Tangible
Book Value shall not include (A) any deferred Tax assets or deferred Tax
liabilities established to reflect timing differences between book and tax
income or (B) any amounts required to be shown as a liability pursuant to
Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48. For
purposes of calculating the accrued liabilities or any claim for refund or
credit of Taxes, the Closing Date shall be treated as the last day of the
Acquired Companies’ taxable year. In determining assets and
liabilities hereunder, (x) all normal or recurring monthly accounting entries
shall be taken into account and all known errors and omissions shall be
corrected, (y) all known proper adjustments shall be made, and (z) appropriate
reserves for all liabilities for which reserves are appropriate in accordance
with GAAP shall be included in the calculation.
(iii)
The term “NTBV Excess” shall mean the
amount, if any, by which the Closing NTBV, as Finally Determined pursuant to
Section 2.07(c) below, is more than the Target NTBV.
(iv)
The term “NTBV Shortfall” shall mean the
amount, if any, by which the Closing NTBV, as Finally Determined pursuant to
Section 2.07(c) below, is less than the Target NTBV.
(v)
The term “Target NTBV” shall mean Twelve
Million One Hundred Eighty-Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty-Nine Dollars
($12,189,759).
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(b) Within
ninety (90) calendar days after the Closing Date or such other time as is
mutually agreed by the Parties, Buyer shall prepare and deliver, or cause to be
prepared and delivered, to Seller an unaudited balance sheet of the Business as
of the close of business Eastern Time on the Closing Date without giving effect
to the Contemplated Transactions (the “Closing Balance Sheet”),
including a preliminary unaudited statement of the Closing NTBV (the “Closing NTBV Statement”). The
Closing Balance Sheet shall be prepared as if the close of business Eastern Time
on the Closing Date was the Company’s formal year end and shall be prepared in
accordance with GAAP and in a manner consistent with the preparation of the
Financial Statements (as hereinafter defined). The Closing NTBV shall
be derived from the Closing Balance Sheet. Buyer will, within ten
(10) Business Days of a reasonable request by Seller, make available to Seller
all books and records reasonably requested of Buyer related to the Closing
Balance Sheet in order for Seller to be able to evaluate Buyer’s calculations
and methodology in creating the Closing Balance Sheet, subject to customary
confidentiality and indemnity agreements.
(c) The
Closing Balance Sheet and calculation of the Closing NTBV shall become final and
binding upon the Parties on the earlier of (i) the date Seller notifies Buyer of
its acceptance of the Closing Balance Sheet and calculation of the Closing NTBV
or (ii) the thirtieth (30th) calendar day following Seller’s receipt of the
Closing Balance Sheet, unless Seller notifies Buyer in writing prior to such
date of its disagreement with any aspect of the Closing Balance Sheet or the
calculation of the Closing NTBV (a “Notice of Disagreement”). The
Notice of Disagreement shall specify in reasonable detail the nature of any such
disagreement, including Seller’s own calculation of Closing NTBV. If a Notice of
Disagreement is received by Buyer within thirty (30) calendar days after
Seller’s receipt of the Closing NTBV Statement, then (x) the Closing NTBV amount
shall become final and binding only upon the earlier of (A) the date that Buyer
and Seller resolve in writing any differences they have with respect to the
matters specified in the Notice of Disagreement, or (B) the date any disputed
matters are Finally Determined, and (y) the final and binding Closing NTBV
amount shall be deemed to be the amount agreed to by Buyer and Seller, or the
resolution as determined by accounting arbitration, as the case may
be.
(d) If
a Notice of Disagreement shall be duly and timely delivered pursuant to Section
2.07(c), Buyer and Seller shall, during the thirty (30) days following such
delivery, negotiate in good faith in respect of the disputed
items. If Seller and Buyer are unable to resolve any such dispute
during such period, then all such matters specified in the Notice of
Disagreement with respect to which an agreement has not been reached (the “Disputed Matters”) shall be
referred for definitive resolution to Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP or any other accounting
firm of national standing agreed upon by Seller and Buyer that is not the
principal independent auditor for either Seller or Buyer and is otherwise
neutral and impartial; provided, that if Seller and
Buyer are unable to select such other accounting firm within thirty (30) days
after delivery of a Notice of Disagreement to Buyer, either party may request
the American Arbitration Association to appoint, within twenty (20) Business
Days from the date of such request, an independent accounting firm meeting the
requirements set forth above or a neutral and impartial certified public
accountant with significant relevant experience (in either case, the “Independent Accounting Firm”).
Following such selection, the Independent Accounting Firm will be provided each
of Buyer’s and Seller’s computation of the Closing NTBV and shall promptly
notify the parties of its selection of one of the two original determinations of
the Closing NTBV (the “Selected
NTBV”), which Selected NTBV shall be chosen by the Independent Accounting
Firm based on its determination that the Selected NTBV more closely reflects the
Closing NTBV (determined in accordance with this Agreement and the definition of
“Closing NTBV” as
contained herein) than the other original determination. The
Independent Accounting Firm shall act promptly, and the Selected NTBV shall be
deemed to be the Closing NTBV and shall be final and binding upon the parties
hereto. The fees and expenses of the Independent Accounting Firm
shall be borne equally by Seller, on the one hand, and Buyer, on the other
hand.
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(e) Each
Party shall make available to the other Party its (and shall use its Best
Efforts to cause its accountants’) work papers, schedules and other supporting
data as may reasonably be requested by such Party to enable such Party to verify
the calculations of Closing NTBV as set forth in the Closing Balance Sheet,
subject to customary confidentiality and indemnity agreements.
(f) Within
ten (10) Business Days after the Closing NTBV amount becomes final and
binding:
(i) If
a NTBV Shortfall exists, then Seller and Buyer shall cause the Escrow Agent to
pay Buyer by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account or
accounts designated by Buyer the amount of the NTBV Shortfall up to the
Adjustment Escrow Amount in accordance with the Escrow
Agreement. Seller shall be liable for any amount by which the NTBV
Shortfall exceeds the Adjustment Escrow Amount, and Seller shall pay such
amount, if any, to Buyer by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an
account or accounts designated by Buyer. If any portion of Adjustment
Escrow Amount remains after deducting any amount to be paid to Buyer from the
Adjustment Escrow Amount pursuant to this Section 2.07(f)(i), Seller and Buyer
shall cause the Escrow Agent to pay such amount to Seller by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account or accounts designated by Seller in
accordance with the Escrow Agreement; or
(ii) if
a NTBV Excess exists, Buyer shall pay the NTBV Excess to Seller by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to one or more accounts designated by Seller and
Seller and Buyer shall cause the Escrow Agent to pay Seller by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account designated by Seller the Adjustment
Escrow Amount.
(g) Any
payments pursuant to Section 2.07(f) shall be treated for all purposes as an
adjustment to the Purchase Price (the “Purchase Price
Adjustment”). Buyer’s and Seller’s rights to indemnification
pursuant to Article IX hereof (and any limitations on such rights) shall not be
deemed to limit, supersede or otherwise affect Buyer’s or Seller’s rights to a
full Purchase Price adjustment pursuant to this Section 2.07; provided, however, that to
the extent either Party receives a Purchase Price adjustment pursuant to this
Section 2.07, such Party shall not be entitled to indemnification with respect
to the matter that resulted in such adjustment to the extent specified in the
last sentence of Section 9.04.
Section
2.08. Escrow
Arrangements.
(a) The
Escrow Amount shall be held, invested and distributed in accordance with the
terms of the Escrow Agreement and in accordance with this Article II and Article
IX hereof.
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(b) As
more fully set forth in the Escrow Agreement, distributions from the Escrow
Account of dividends, interest, distributions and other income on balances in
the Escrow Account and that have been deposited therein shall be made net of any
losses on investments on balances in the Escrow Account, pursuant to the
applicable provisions of the Escrow Agreement.
(c) On
the first Business Day following the twenty-four (24) month anniversary of the
Closing Date (such Business Day, the “First Scheduled Escrow Release
Date”), Seller and Buyer shall cause the Escrow Agent (including by
delivering joint written instructions to the Escrow Agent) to release, or
disburse, from the Escrow Account to Seller an amount (if such amount is greater
than zero) equal to the difference of (x) Four Million Nine Hundred Sixteen
Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars $4,916,667 (the “First Escrow Release Amount”),
minus (y) the
sum of (A) the aggregate amount of all amounts previously paid to Buyer
Indemnitees from the Indemnification Escrow Amount, plus (B) the
aggregate amount of all Unsatisfied Escrow Claims.
(d) On
the first Business Day following the thirty-six (36) month anniversary of the
Closing Date (such Business Day, the “Second Scheduled Escrow Release
Date”), Seller and Buyer shall cause the Escrow Agent (including by
delivering joint written instructions to the Escrow Agent) to release, or
disburse, from the Escrow Account to Seller an amount (if such amount is greater
than zero) equal to the difference of (x) the amount remaining in the Escrow
Account on such date, minus (y) the aggregate amount of all
Unsatisfied Escrow Claims.
ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF SELLER
Except as
set forth in the Disclosure Schedules (subject to the immediately following
sentence) prepared by Seller and delivered to Buyer simultaneously with the
execution of this Agreement, Seller represents and warrants to Buyer that all of
the statements contained in this Article III are true and correct as of the date
hereof, or if made as of a specified date, as of such date. The
Parties acknowledge and agree that each disclosure in the Disclosure Schedules
are exceptions and qualifications only to the representations and warranties
contained in the Section or Subsection of this Article III to which such
Schedule is numbered or lettered to correspond.
Section
3.01. Organization and Good
Standing.
(a) Schedule 3.01(a) sets
forth a true and complete list of the Company’s Subsidiaries. Such
list sets forth, for each such Subsidiary, (i) the jurisdiction of incorporation
of such Subsidiary, (ii) the amount of its authorized Capital Stock, (iii) the
amount of its outstanding Capital Stock, and (iv) the record and beneficial
owners of its outstanding Capital Stock, including the number of shares owned by
each record and beneficial owner. All outstanding shares of Capital
Stock of each such Subsidiary, (i) are duly authorized, validly issued, fully
paid and non assessable and (ii) are owned as set forth on Schedule 3.01(a) free
and clear of all Liens, except for those Liens identified on Schedule
3.01(a). There are no outstanding subscriptions, options,
warrants, puts, calls, rights, exchangeable or exercisable or convertible
securities or other commitments, transactions, arrangements, understandings or
agreements of any character relating to the issued or unissued Capital Stock of
any such Subsidiary, or otherwise obligating Seller, the Company or any such
Subsidiary to issue, transfer, sell, purchase, repurchase, redeem or otherwise
acquire any such Capital Stock. Each Acquired Company is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
Applicable Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation and has all requisite
corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to
carry on the Business. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.01(a),
each of the Acquired Companies is duly qualified or licensed and in good
standing to do business in each jurisdiction in which the property owned, leased
or operated by it or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such
qualification or licensing necessary, except in such jurisdictions where the
failure to be so duly qualified or licensed and in good standing could not in
the aggregate be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Business.
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(b) Seller
has heretofore made available to Buyer true and complete copies of the
Organizational Documents of each Acquired Company as currently in full force and
effect.
Section
3.02. Authorization; Validity of
Agreement. Seller has the full corporate power and authority to execute
and deliver this Agreement and each of the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a
party and to consummate the Contemplated Transactions. The execution, delivery
and performance by Seller of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to
which Seller is a party, and the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions,
have been duly and validly authorized by the Seller Board. Except for the Seller
Stockholder Approval, no other corporate proceedings on the part of Seller are
necessary to authorize the execution, delivery or performance by Seller of this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement or to consummate the Contemplated
Transactions. This Agreement has been (and the Ancillary Agreements will be)
duly executed and delivered by Seller and, assuming due and valid authorization,
execution and delivery thereof by Buyer, this Agreement constitutes (and the
Ancillary Agreements, when executed and delivered will constitute) the legal,
valid and binding obligations of Seller enforceable against Seller in accordance
with their respective terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar Applicable Laws
relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles
of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought at law or in equity). The
Seller Board, at a meeting duly called and held, has (i) determined that this
Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions are fair to and in the best
interests of Seller’s stockholders and (ii) approved and adopted this Agreement
and the Contemplated Transactions and unanimously resolved to recommend that
Seller’s stockholders approve and adopt this Agreement and the Contemplated
Transactions at the Seller Stockholder Meeting.
Section
3.03. Consents and Approvals; No
Violations. The execution, delivery and performance by Seller of this
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions do not and will not, directly or
indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time or both), (i) violate,
contravene or conflict with any provision of any Organizational Documents of
Seller or any Acquired Company; (ii) assuming all Consents set forth on Schedule
3.03(ii)(a) and
Government Contract Consents set forth on Schedule
3.03(ii)(b) are
obtained, result in a violation or breach of, or constitute a default under, or
give rise to any right of termination, amendment, cancellation or acceleration
of any right or obligation of any Acquired Company or to a loss of any benefit
to which any Acquired Company is entitled, under any of the terms, conditions or
provisions of any Material Contract, Government Contract or Permit; (iii)
contravene or conflict with or constitute a violation of any Applicable Law;
(iv) except for the Governmental Approvals set forth on Schedule 3.03(iv)(a)
and except as set forth on Schedule 3.03(iv)(b),
require any action by, filing or registration with, notification to, or
authorization, consent or approval of, any Governmental Authority; or (v) result
in the creation or imposition of any Lien or Tax on any of the property or
assets of any of the Acquired Companies or the Shares, except for Permitted
Liens. To the Knowledge of Seller, there are no facts relating to the identity
or circumstances of Seller or any of the Acquired Companies that would prevent
or materially delay obtaining any Governmental Approvals, Consents or Government
Contract Consents.
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Section
3.04. Capitalization. The
authorized Capital Stock of the Company consists of 200,000 shares of common
stock, no par value per share, of which 92,472.95 shares are issued and
outstanding and constitute all of the Shares. The Company (A) has not
agreed to issue any share of Capital Stock and (B) has not issued or agreed to
issue (i) any option, warrant or interest convertible into or exchangeable or
exercisable for the purchase of shares of Capital Stock, (ii) stock appreciation
right, phantom stock, interest in the ownership or earnings of the Company or
any of the other Acquired Companies or other equity equivalent or equity-based
award or right, or (iii) bond, debenture or other indebtedness having the right
to vote or convertible or exchangeable for securities having the right to
vote. Seller is, and will be on the Closing Date, the record and
beneficial owner and holder of the Shares, free and clear of all Liens, other
than restrictions on transfer imposed under Applicable Laws relating to the
transfer of securities and except as set forth on Schedule 3.04. With
the exception of the Shares (all of which are owned by Seller), all of the
outstanding Capital Stock of each Acquired Company is owned of record and
beneficially by one or more of the Acquired Companies and at Closing such
Capital Stock and the Shares will be free and clear of all Liens (other than
restrictions on transfer imposed under Applicable Laws relating to the transfer
of securities) and no legend or other reference to any purported Lien (other
than restrictions on transfer imposed under Applicable Laws relating to the
transfer of securities) will appear upon any certificate representing the
Capital Stock of any Acquired Company. All of the outstanding shares
of Capital Stock of each Acquired Company have been duly authorized and validly
issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. None of the aforesaid shares have
been offered, sold, delivered or issued in violation of any rights, agreements,
arrangements or commitments or Applicable Law (including, without limitation,
applicable federal and state securities laws), the Organizational Documents of
the Acquired Companies or any Contract to which any of the Acquired Companies is
a party or by which any of the Acquired Companies is bound. Except
for this Agreement, there are no Contracts to which any of the Acquired
Companies is a party or by which any of the Acquired Companies is bound to
issue, sell, transfer, repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, or that relate
to the holding, voting or disposition of, or that restrict the transfer of, the
issued or unissued Capital Stock of the Acquired Companies. Except as
set forth on Schedule
3.04, no Acquired Company directly or indirectly owns any equity,
partnership, membership or similar interest in, or any interest convertible
into, exercisable for the purchase of, or exchangeable for, any such equity,
partnership, membership or similar interest, or has any Contract to form or
participate in, provide funds to, make any loan, capital contribution or other
investment in, or assume any Liability of, any Person.
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Section
3.05. Financial
Statements.
(a) Attached
hereto as Schedule
3.05(a) are true and complete copies of the following financial
statements of the Acquired Companies: (1) unaudited consolidated balance sheets
of the Acquired Companies as of December 31 in each of the years 2007, 2008 and
2009, and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income, changes in
stockholders’ equity and cash flow for each of the fiscal years then ended, and
(2) an unaudited interim consolidated balance sheet (the “Current Balance Sheet”) of the
Acquired Companies as of March 31, 2010 (the “Balance Sheet Date”) and the
related unaudited interim consolidated statements of income, changes in
stockholders’ equity and cash flow for the three months then ended, including,
in each case the notes thereto. The financial statements described in the
preceding sentence are referred to herein collectively as the “Financial
Statements.”
(b) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.05(b),
each of the Financial Statements and notes thereto: (i) has been prepared based
on the books and records of the Acquired Companies in accordance with GAAP, and
fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated financial condition,
results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flow of the
Business and the Acquired Companies as at the respective dates of and for the
periods referred to in such financial statements, subject, in the case of
interim financial statements, to normal recurring year-end adjustments (the
effect of which will not, individually or in the aggregate, be material) and the
absence of notes (that if presented, would not differ materially from those
included in the Current Balance Sheet), (ii) contains and reflects all
adjustments, accruals (including, without limitation, accruals for incentive
based compensation), provisions and allowances necessary for a fair presentation
of the consolidated financial condition and the results of operations of the
Business and the Acquired Companies for the periods covered by such Financial
Statement in accordance with GAAP, (iii) to the extent applicable, contains and
reflects adequate provisions for all reasonably anticipated Liabilities for all
Taxes with respect to the periods covered by such Financial Statement and all
prior periods in accordance with GAAP, (iv) with respect to contracts and
commitments for the sale of goods or the provision of services by the Acquired
Companies: (A) contains and reflects adequate reserves for all reasonably
anticipated Losses and costs and expenses in excess of expected receipts in
accordance with GAAP and (B) for contracts in progress, includes estimates of
profits actually earned as of the date of each of the Financial Statements in
accordance with GAAP, and (v) reflects the consistent application of GAAP in all
material respects throughout the periods covered, except as disclosed in the
notes to such financial statements, if any.
(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.05(c), the
Acquired Companies have, in all material respects, discharged their respective
accounts payable and other current liabilities and obligations relating to the
Business in the Ordinary Course of Business, but in any event in all cases
before materially past due.
(d) The
Acquired Companies have made adequate provisions for Losses on Contracts in
accordance with past practice, and the provisions in respect thereof have been
determined in accordance with GAAP.
(e) No
financial statements of any Person other than the Acquired Companies are
required by GAAP to be included in the consolidated financial statements of the
Company.
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(f) Neither
Seller nor any Acquired Company, nor, to the Knowledge of Seller, any of their
respective directors, officers, employees, auditors or accountants has received
or otherwise had or obtained knowledge of any complaint, allegation or claim
regarding the accounting or auditing practices, procedures, methodologies or
methods of any Acquired Company or any of its internal accounting controls,
including any complaint, allegation, assertion or claim that any Acquired
Company has engaged in questionable accounting or auditing
practices.
(g) The
records, systems, controls, data and information of the Acquired Companies are
recorded, stored, maintained and operated under means (including any electronic,
mechanical or photographic process, whether computerized or not) that are under
the exclusive ownership and direct control of the Acquired Companies (including
all means of access thereto and therefrom), except for any non-exclusive
ownership and non-direct control that would not have a materially adverse effect
on the system of internal accounting controls described in the following
sentence. The Acquired Companies have established and maintain a
system of internal controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the timely preparation and
reliability of financial statements in accordance with GAAP. Seller
has designed disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material
information relating to Seller (including the Acquired Companies) is made known
to the management of Seller by others within the Acquired
Companies.
(h) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.05(h),
there are no significant deficiencies, including material weaknesses, in the
design or operation of Seller’s internal controls that adversely affect Seller’s
abilities to record, process, summarize, and report financial
data. The officers of Seller have identified for Seller's auditors
any material weaknesses in internal controls and any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other Employees who have a significant
role in Seller’s internal controls. Seller has made available to
Buyer a summary of any such disclosures that have been made by management to
Seller's auditors since January 1, 2006.
Section
3.06. No Undisclosed
Liabilities. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.06 and
except (i) as set forth in the Current Balance Sheet, (ii) for liabilities and
obligations incurred by an Acquired Company in the Ordinary Course of Business
since the date of the Current Balance Sheet, (iii) for liabilities incurred in
connection with this Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions, and (iv) for
liabilities and obligations incurred at the written request or with the written
consent of Buyer, no Acquired Company has any Liabilities, of the kind required
to be disclosed in financial statements prepared in accordance with
GAAP. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.06 or as
set forth in the Current Balance Sheet, none of the Acquired Companies has any
Liabilities (i) under any Contract pursuant to which Seller or any of the
Acquired Companies acquired any capital stock of any of the Acquired Companies
or the Assets, or (ii) to any of the counterparties to any such
Contracts.
Section
3.07. Absence of Certain
Changes. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.07, since
the Balance Sheet Date, the Business has been conducted in the Ordinary Course
of Business, and there has not been:
(a) any
Effect that has had, or that could reasonably be expected to have, individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on the Business;
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(b)
except for distributions of cash to Seller in the Ordinary
Course of Business, any declaration, setting aside or payments of any dividend
or other distribution, payable in cash, stock, property or otherwise, or any
other payment on or with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any of the
Acquired Companies, except for dividends by any direct or indirect wholly-owned
Subsidiary of the Company to the Company;
(c)
any purchase or other acquisition of any assets or
securities from any other Person, or any acquisition, sale, lease, license or
transfer of any material asset, property, equity, security or right
of any of the Acquired Companies other than in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(d)
any new joint venture, partnership, variable
interest entity, teaming agreement (exclusive of subcontractor or subconsultant
Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business), strategic alliance,
exclusive dealing, non-competition or similar Contract;
(e)
any plan of complete or partial liquidation,
dissolution, merger, consolidation, restructuring, recapitalization or other
reorganization of any of the Acquired Companies, or other altering of any of the
Acquired Companies’ corporate structure;
(f)
any creation, assumption or sufferance of
the existence of (whether by action or omission) any Lien on any assets
reflected on the Current Balance Sheet or on the Capital Stock of any of the
Acquired Companies, other than Permitted Liens;
(g)
any issuances or sale by any of the Acquired
Companies of any of their respective shares of Capital Stock, or securities
exchangeable, convertible or exercisable therefor, or any arrangement or
contract with respect to the issue and sale of Capital Stock of any of the
Acquired Companies, or any other changes in the capital structure of any of the
Acquired Companies;
(h)
any damage to or loss of any asset or property used in
the Business with a value (based on the cost of repair or replacement) in excess
of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) individually or Two Hundred Fifty
Thousand Xxxxxxx ($250,000) in the aggregate, whether or not covered by
insurance, or any action or failure to take any action if such action or
inaction would have materially adversely affected the applicability of any
insurance in effect that covers all or any of the assets of any of the Acquired
Companies;
(i)
any transaction or Contract entered into by any of
the Acquired Companies relating to their respective assets or the
Business (including the acquisition or disposition of any assets) which involves
a total commitment by or to any Acquired Company in excess of One Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($100,000) individually or Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000) in the aggregate;
(j)
except for bad debt in the Ordinary
Course of Business, any loss or relinquishment by any of the Acquired Companies
of any Contract or other right, which involves a total commitment by or to any
Acquired Company in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000)
individually or Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) in the
aggregate;
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(k) any
commencement or written notice of or, to the Knowledge of Seller, any threat of
the commencement of, any Proceeding involving any of the Acquired
Companies;
(l)
any amendment or change to the Organizational
Documents of any of the Acquired Companies that affects the Business or the
Contemplated Transactions;
(m) any
change by any of the Acquired Companies in their accounting principles, methods
or practices or in the manner they keep their books and records (including,
without limitation, any change in their practices with regards to sales,
receivables, payables or accrued expenses), except as required by GAAP,
consistently applied for all relevant periods;
(n) except
as set forth on Schedule 3.07(n) and
other than as contemplated by this Agreement, any change in the terms of any
Employee Benefit Plan or any increase in (or commitment, oral or written, to
increase) compensation or benefits payable under any Employee Benefit Plan
(including, without limitation the acceleration of the right to receive benefits
or payment thereunder), or any increase in the rate of compensation of Employees
or directors;
(o) other
than as contemplated by this Agreement, any adoption of (or commitment, oral or
written, to adopt) a new Employee Benefit Plan or any termination of (or
commitment, oral or written, to terminate) any existing Employee
Plan;
(p) any
entering into or agreement to enter into a collective bargaining agreement by
any of the Acquired Companies or ERISA Affiliates.
(q) any
loan to, or guarantee or assumption of any loan or obligation on behalf of, any
stockholder or Employee.
(r) any
change in employee relations which has or is reasonably likely to have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Business or a material negative effect on the
relationships between the Employees and the management of any Acquired
Company;
(s) any
notification by any 2009 Top Customer (as defined below) indicating any
intention to stop, or materially decrease the rate of, buying goods or services
from any of the Acquired Companies or to change its current business
relationship with any of the Acquired Companies;
(t) any
election or change in any election in respect of Taxes, any closing agreement,
any settlement of any claim or assessment in respect of Taxes, or any consent to
any extension or any waiver of the limitation period applicable to any claim or
assessment in respect of material Taxes;
(u) any
creation or provision of any guarantee, indemnity, counter-indemnity, letter of
comfort or other similar agreement to secure an obligation of a third
party;
(v) any
written or, to the Knowledge of Seller, verbal notification by any Governmental
Authority of any alleged non-compliance with the terms and conditions of any
Contract (including, without limitation, any Government Contract) or any
Applicable Law; or
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(w) any
notification by any Governmental Authority of any alleged Tax deficiency, claim
or intention to initiate an audit or administrative review of any Tax Return;
or
(x) any
agreement or, to the Knowledge of Seller, negotiation by or on behalf of any of
the Acquired Companies to do any of the things described in this Section
3.07.
Section
3.08. Real Property.
(a) No
Acquired Company owns any real property. Schedule 3.08(a)(i)
sets forth a true and complete list of all real property leased by any Acquired
Company, and Schedule
3.08(a)(ii) sets forth a true and complete list of all real property
leased by Seller which is used in connection with the Business (the real
properties listed in Schedules 3.08(a)(i)
and (ii) are referred to herein collectively, as the “Leased
Premises”). Seller has made available to Buyer true and
complete copies of all Leases relating to the Leased Premises (the “Real Property Leases”), which
Real Property Leases are in full force and effect and have not been amended or
modified (except as disclosed in Schedules 3.08(a)(i)and
(ii)). Other than as set forth on Schedule
3.08(a)(iii), there are no contractual or legal restrictions that
preclude or restrict the ability to use any of the Leased Premises by the
Acquired Companies for the current or contemplated use of such Leased Premises
and neither Seller nor any Acquired Company has entered into any sublease,
license, option, right, concession or other agreement or arrangement granting to
any Person (other than any Acquired Company) the right to use or occupy such
Leased Premises or any portion thereof or interest therein. To the
Knowledge of Seller, there are no material latent defects or material adverse
physical conditions affecting the Leased Premises and all Leased Premises are
adequately maintained and are in good operating repair for the requirements of
the Business as currently conducted. The Acquired Companies have all
material Permits required under Applicable Law for the current use and operation
of each Leased Premises, each Acquired Company, as applicable, has fully
complied with all conditions of such Permits and no default or violation, or
event that with or without the lapse of time or giving of notice or both would
become a default or violation, has occurred in the due observance of any such
Permit.
(b) An
Acquired Company has a valid leasehold interest in all Leased Premises (except
the Leased Premises set forth on Schedule 3.08(a)(ii)), in each case, free and
clear of all Liens, except Permitted Liens or Liens set forth on Schedule
3.08(b) that will be removed at or prior to the Closing. Seller has a
valid leasehold interest in the Leased Premises set forth on Schedule
3.08(a)(ii), in each case, free and clear of all Liens except Permitted Liens or
Liens set forth on Schedule 3.08(b) that will be removed at or prior to the
Closing. With respect to each Real Property Lease, (i) such Real
Property Lease is a valid and binding obligation of the applicable Acquired
Company or, in the case of any Real Property Lease set forth on Schedule
3.08(a)(ii), the Seller, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, each other party to
such Real Property Lease, and is in full force and effect, (ii) neither Seller
nor any Acquired Company and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no other party to any
Real Property Lease, is in breach or default in any respect under the terms of
such Real Property Lease and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no event has occurred
which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a breach or
default or permit termination, modification or acceleration thereunder, (iii)
except as set forth on Schedule 3.08(b),
neither Seller nor the applicable Acquired Company has assigned, transferred,
conveyed, mortgaged, deeded in trust or encumbered any interest in the leasehold
or sub-leasehold of any Real Property Lease, and (iv) neither Seller nor any
Acquired Company has received any written notice that any Leased Premises is
subject to any Proceeding or Order to be sold or is being condemned,
expropriated or otherwise taken by any Governmental Authority with or without
payment of compensation therefor, nor to the Knowledge of Seller has any such
condemnation, expropriation or taking been proposed or
threatened. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.08(b),
there are no parties (other than Seller or the applicable Acquired Company) in
possession of each Leased Premises. Neither Seller nor any Acquired
Company has received written notice that any lessor under the Real Property
Leases has or intends to terminate any Real Property Lease before the expiration
date specified in such Real Property Lease, nor to the Knowledge of Seller, has
any lessor under any Real Property Lease taken any action to or threatened to
terminate any Real Property Lease before the expiration date specified in such
Real Property Lease.
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(c) Schedule 3.08(c) sets
forth each Real Property Lease requiring a Consent as a result of the
Contemplated Transactions. Assuming receipt of the Consents for each
Real Property Lease set forth on Schedule 3.08(c), all
Real Property Leases shall remain valid and binding in accordance with their
terms following the Closing.
Section
3.09. Actions and
Proceedings. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.09, there
are no (a) outstanding Orders relating to or involving any Acquired Company, any
of their respective assets or the Business, or (b) Proceedings pending by or
against, or to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened against, affecting, relating
to, or involving, any Acquired Company, any of their respective assets or the
Business, which could reasonably be expected to result in Losses in excess of
Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000) or which in any manner challenges or
seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter or delay the Contemplated Transactions. To the
Knowledge of Seller, no event has occurred and no circumstance, matter or set of
facts exists which could constitute a valid basis for the assertion by any
Person of any Proceeding, other than those set forth in Schedule 3.09, which
could reasonably be expected to result in Losses in excess of Seventy-Five
Thousand Dollars ($75,000) or which could constitute a valid basis for the
assertion by any Person of any Proceeding involving bodily injury or property
damage. Schedule 3.09 sets
forth a general description of the damages or other relief sought in all
Proceedings described therein.
Section
3.10. Compliance with Laws and Court
Orders; Permits; and Filings.
(a) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.10(a),
none of the Acquired Companies is in violation of any Applicable Law, and no
Acquired Company has received any written notice of or been charged with any
violation of any Applicable Law.
(b) The
Acquired Companies hold all Permits. Schedule 3.10(b) sets
forth a list of all Permits, other than Environmental Permits that are
separately addressed in Section 3.17. Each Permit is valid and in
full force and effect. The Business is being conducted in compliance
with the terms and conditions of all such Permits, in each case as presently
conducted. Neither Seller nor any Acquired Company has received any
written notice of a violation or breach of, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no
event has occurred which would constitute (with or without due notice or lapse
of time or both) a default (or give rise to any right of termination,
cancellation, modification or acceleration) of, and no Proceedings are pending
or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened, relating to any terms and conditions
of any Permit. None of the Permits will be terminated or become
terminable or impaired, in whole or in part, as a direct result of the
Contemplated Transactions. To the Knowledge of Seller, no
Governmental Authority has threatened, or indicated that it intends, not to
renew any Permit.
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(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.10(c), all
certificates, filings and other documents and materials required by any
Governmental Authority to be filed or submitted by any of the Acquired Companies
therewith have been so filed or submitted, and such certificates, filings or
other documents (i) were true, complete and correct as of the time of filing or
submission, and (ii) did not set forth any exception or other exclusion
therefrom, other than as permitted by Applicable Law.
Section
3.11. Absence of Certain Business
Practices; Foreign Activities. No Acquired Company nor, to the
Knowledge of Seller, any of their respective Affiliates or present or former
directors, officers, employees or agents or any other Person acting on behalf of
them, has, directly or indirectly: (i) used any funds or assets for unlawful or
improper contributions, gifts, entertainment, the establishment of any concealed
fund or concealed bank account or other unlawful expenses in connection with the
Business, (ii) made any unlawful or improper payment or contribution, or given
any unlawful or improper gift, or similar benefit or item of value, to any
client, supplier, governmental official or employee, person elected to a public
office or running as a candidate for any public office or any representative of
a political party, any Person who is or may be in a position to help or hinder
the Acquired Companies or the Business (or assist the Acquired Companies in
connection with any actual or proposed transaction), any employees of any school
or Governmental Authority, any charitable or non-profit Person, or to
any other Person or to any voter initiatives, bond campaigns or similar efforts
by any Governmental Authority to raise funds or change laws or regulations or to
influence an official act, or for or because of any official act, (iii) made,
offered or promised any unlawful or improper payment, contribution or gift, or
given any other similar benefit or item of value to any prime contractor, prime
contractor employee, subcontractor, or subcontractor employee or other person
for the purpose of improperly obtaining or rewarding favorable treatment in
connection with a prime contract or in connection with a subcontract relating to
a prime contract, (iv) solicited, accepted, or attempted to accept any unlawful
or improper payment, contribution, gift, or any other similar benefit or item of
value from any subcontractor or subcontractor employee for the purpose of
improperly providing favorable treatment in connection with a prime contract or
in connection with a subcontract relating to a prime contract, (v) been, at any
time, the subject of any bribery, improper contribution or anti-kickback
investigation by any Governmental Authority or (vi) violated in any respect any
applicable export control, trade embargo, import control, money laundering or
anti-terrorism law or regulation, the FCPA or any Applicable Law relating to
public procurement. None of the Acquired Companies or any of their
present or former directors, officers, employees or agents or any other Person
acting on behalf of any of the Acquired Companies, have performed any service or
sold any product, or has agreed or contracted or is otherwise obligated to
perform any service or sell any product in the future (in each case on behalf of
an Acquired Company) outside of the United States of America and its
territories.
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Section
3.12. Intellectual
Property.
(a) The
Acquired Companies own, or are validly licensed or otherwise have the right to
use, all Intellectual Property Rights which are used in the conduct of the
Business (the “Company
Intellectual Property Rights”). Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(a), no
claims are pending against Seller or any Acquired Company, nor to the Knowledge
of Seller, are there any claims threatened, (i) to the effect that the conduct
of the Business by the Acquired Companies infringes on, misappropriates or
otherwise violates the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party, (ii)
challenging the ownership, possession or use by an Acquired Company of its
rights to any Company Intellectual Property Rights, or (iii) challenging the
validity or enforceability of any Intellectual Property Rights of the Acquired
Companies.
(b) The
operation of the Business as currently conducted by the Acquired Companies and
as currently proposed to be conducted by Seller and the Acquired Companies does
not infringe or misappropriate any Intellectual Property Rights of any third
party or violate any other right of any third party (including any right to
privacy or publicity).
(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.12(c),
there are no Liens (except Permitted Liens) on the Company Intellectual Property
Rights owned by any of the Acquired Companies and none of the Intellectual
Property owned by any of the Acquired Companies used in the Business is subject
to any outstanding Order restricting any use thereof by any Acquired
Company.
(d) Schedule 3.12(d) sets
forth a complete list of the Acquired Company Registered IP. For the
purposes of this Agreement, “Acquired Company Registered
IP” means all Intellectual Property Rights registered to the Acquired
Companies (or the subject of a pending application for registration) in the
United States or any foreign country. The Acquired Companies own the
Acquired Company Registered IP and, except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d),
there are no Liens (except Permitted Liens) on the Acquired Company Registered
IP and none of the Acquired Company Registered IP is subject to any outstanding
Order restricting in any manner the use thereof by any Acquired
Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.12(d), all
such Acquired Company Registered IP has been duly filed in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office or U.S. Copyright Office, or their foreign
equivalents and has been properly maintained or renewed in accordance with all
applicable provisions of Applicable Law.
(e) The
Acquired Companies have used their Best Efforts in accordance with normal
industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of their Intellectual Property
Rights to the extent the value thereof is contingent upon maintaining
confidentiality.
(f)
The IT Assets
operate and perform in a manner that permits the Acquired Companies to conduct
the Business as currently conducted and as currently proposed to be conducted by
Seller and the Acquired Companies, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, are free
from all material defects. To the Knowledge of Seller, no Person has
gained unauthorized access to the IT Assets.
(g) To
the Knowledge of Seller, no present or former Employee (i) has violated any
proprietary rights or assignment of invention agreements between Employee and
Seller or the Acquired Companies, or (ii) has violated any provisions of any
confidentiality agreement that such Person may have with any third party in
connection with the development, manufacture or sale of any product or proposed
product of the Business or the development or sale of any service or proposed
service of the Business.
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(h) Neither
the execution, delivery, or performance of this Agreement (or any of the
Ancillary Agreements) nor the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions
will, with or without notice or lapse of time, result in, or give any other
Person the right or option to cause or declare, (i) a loss of, or Lien on, any
Company Intellectual Property Right owned by any of the Acquired Companies; (ii)
the termination or breach of any IP Contract (as defined below); (iii) the
release, disclosure, or delivery of any Company Intellectual Property Right
owned by any of the Acquired Companies by or to any escrow agent or other
Person; or (iv) the grant, assignment, or transfer to any other Person of any
license or other right or interest under, to, or in any of the Company
Intellectual Property Right owned by any of the Acquired Companies.
(i) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.12(i), no
proprietary Software developed by or for Acquired Companies (“Company Software”) is subject
to any “copyleft” or other obligation or condition (including any obligation or
condition under any “open source” license such as the GNU Public License, Lesser
GNU Public License, or Mozilla Public License) that (i) could require, or could
condition the use or distribution of such Company Software on, the disclosure,
licensing, or distribution of any source code for any portion of such Company
Software, or (ii) could otherwise impose any limitation, restriction, or
condition on the right or ability of the Company to use or distribute the
Company Software.
Section
3.13. Title and Sufficiency of
Assets.
(a) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.13(a), the
Acquired Companies have good and valid title, or in the case of leased
properties or assets, valid leasehold interests in such properties and assets,
to all of their respective properties, interests in properties and assets, real
and personal, reflected on the Current Balance Sheet (all such properties and
assets, the “Assets”),
in each case free and clear of all Liens except Permitted
Liens. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.13(a), the
Assets constitute all of the assets and properties, tangible and intangible, of
any nature whatsoever, owned or used by the Acquired Companies and which are
necessary to operate the Business as currently conducted and as currently
proposed to be conducted by Seller and the Acquired Companies.
(b) All
tangible Assets have been maintained in all material respects in accordance with
generally accepted industry practices and are in all material respects in good
operating condition and repair (subject to ordinary wear and tear) and are fit
for their particular purpose and are usable in the Ordinary Course of
Business.
(c) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the representations and warranties set forth in this Section 3.13
shall not apply to Company Intellectual Property Rights. All representations and
warranties relating to title to any Company Intellectual Property Rights are set
forth in Section 3.12 hereof.
Section
3.14. Material
Contracts. Schedule 3.14
contains a true and complete list of all of the following executory Contracts
and Government Contracts to which any Acquired Company is a party or is
bound:
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(a) each
Contract providing for the sale by the Acquired Companies of materials,
supplies, goods, services, equipment or other assets that provides for aggregate
payments to the Acquired Companies of $250,000 or more;
(b) each
Contract for the purchase, lease or sublease of materials, supplies, goods,
services, facilities, equipment or other assets providing for aggregate payments
by the Acquired Companies of $250,000 or more;
(c) each
Contract with a customer or client with respect to which there is a reasonable
probability that the direct costs (including fringe benefits) related to the
Contract will exceed the revenue for the Contract by at least
$250,000;
(d) performance
bonds, completion bonds, bid bonds, suretyship agreements, guarantees, bank
guarantees and similar instruments and agreements and any letters of credit and
the related reimbursement agreements issued with respect to the
foregoing;
(e) each
Contract relating to, or evidencing, or guaranteeing, or providing security
(other than Permitted Liens) for, Indebtedness (whether incurred, assumed,
guaranteed or secured by any asset);
(f)
each Contract providing a guaranty of or indemnity
for any other Person’s obligations;
(g) each
Employee Agreement, or other similar agreements (in all cases currently in
effect) with any current or former officer, director, employee, consultant agent
or other representative and any Employee Benefit Plan;
(h) each
Contract to lease or sublease (whether of real or personal property) that
requires aggregate payments by or to the Acquired Companies of $250,000 or
more;
(i)
each Contract for the acquisition or
other disposition of a business or a material amount of assets;
(j)
each Contract relating to, or consisting of,
(i) a joint venture, a teaming, a strategic alliance, a partnership or similar
arrangement with any other Person currently in effect or under which there are
any residual obligations of any of the Acquired Companies or any guarantee
issued by any of the Acquired Companies guaranting the obligations or
performance of any other Person, and (ii) a sharing with any Person of profits,
losses, costs or Liabilities of the business activities of any other Person by
an Acquired Company with such Person;
(k) each
Contract which contains a right of first refusal with respect to the sale of any
assets of the Business or any equity interest in any Acquired
Company;
(l)
each distribution, commission, agency,
dealer, sales representative, marketing, franchise, technical assistance
Contract or other similar Contract relating to or providing for the marketing
and/or sale of products or services by which any of the Acquired Companies is
bound;
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(m) each
consulting arrangement and each similar agreement related to lobbying or
fundraising activities;
(n) each
Contract that limits or restricts, or purports to limit or restrict or otherwise
affects, the freedom or ability of an Acquired Company or any of its Affiliates,
or Buyer or any of its Affiliates, to compete in any line of business
(including, without limitation, the Business) or with any Person or in any area
or jurisdiction;
(o) each
Contract pursuant to which any Intellectual Property Rights are or have been
assigned or licensed by or to any Acquired Company, any Intellectual Property
Rights are or have been developed by or for any Acquired Company, or any
covenant not to xxx is or has been granted by or to any Acquired Company (each
an “IP Contract” and,
collectively, the “IP
Contracts”), except for any of the foregoing relating to the use of
generally available computer software;
(p) each
Contract, other than a policy of insurance, for the transfer or sharing of any
risk by any Acquired Company;
(q) each
Contract that is a warranty, product or service guarantee or indemnity agreement
or other similar undertaking with respect to contractual performance extended by
any Acquired Company currently in effect with respect to any of the services
heretofore rendered or products heretofore sold by any of the Acquired
Companies;
(r) each
Contract for the purchase or sale of inventory, equipment or third party
services that contains an escalation, renegotiation or redetermination clause or
which cannot be canceled without Liability, premium or penalty if written notice
is given thirty (30) days prior to the effective date of the
notice;
(s) each
Contract between any Acquired Company and (A) Seller or any Affiliate of Seller,
(B) any Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power
to vote, five percent (5%) or more of the outstanding voting securities of any
Affiliate of Seller, (C) any Person five percent (5%) or more of whose
outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled or
held with power to vote by Seller or any Affiliate of Seller, (D) any director
or officer of Seller or any Affiliate of Seller or any “associates” or members
of the “immediate family” (as such terms are respectively defined in Rule 12b-2
and Rule 16a-1 of the Exchange Act) of any such director or officer, or (E) any
director or officer of an Acquired Company or with any “associate” or any member
of the “immediate family” (as such terms are respectively defined in Rules 12b-2
and 16a-1 of the Exchange Act) of any such director or officer;
(t)
each Contract relating to or evidencing the
settlement of any litigation related to the Business which imposes ongoing
obligations on the Business or the Acquired Companies;
(u) each
Contract providing for an express undertaking by any Acquired Company to be
responsible for consequential, incidental, exemplary, punitive and other special
damages;
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(v) each
other Contract not made in the Ordinary Course of Business that is material to
the Acquired Companies, taken as a whole, or the loss of which could reasonably
be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse
Effect on the Business;
(w) each
Contract to enter into any of the foregoing; and
(x) each
amendment, supplement, and modification in respect of any of the
foregoing.
All of
the foregoing Contracts set forth on Schedule 3.14, or
required to be disclosed pursuant to Section 3.14, including all amendments and
modifications thereto, are referred to herein as “Material
Contracts.” Seller has heretofore made available to Buyer true
and complete copies of the documents constituting all of the Material
Contracts. Except as otherwise set forth on Schedule 3.14, each
Material Contract is in full force and effect, and is a legal, valid and binding
obligation of the applicable Acquired Company and, to the Knowledge of Seller,
of each other party(ies) thereto, enforceable against such party(ies) in
accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and similar Applicable Laws
relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles
of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought at law or in equity).
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.14, each
Acquired Company has performed all obligations required to be performed by it
under the Material Contracts to which it is a party, and neither such Acquired
Company nor Seller (as applicable) nor, to the Knowledge of Seller, any other
party(ies) to such Material Contracts, is (with or without the lapse of time or
the giving of notice, or both) in breach or default thereunder, nor has such
Acquired Company or Seller received written notice that it is in breach or
default thereunder. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.14,
neither Seller nor any Acquired Company has received written notice that any
other party to a Material Contract intends, nor to the Knowledge of Seller does
any other party to a Material Contract intend, (i) to terminate or amend the
terms thereof or (ii) with respect to any Material Contract that contains an
option to extend its term or that renews automatically if no notice of
termination is given, to refuse to exercise such option or to renew such
Material Contract upon expiration of its term. None of the Acquired
Companies is currently paying liquidated damages in lieu of performance under
any Material Contract.
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Section
3.15. Government
Contracts.
(a) Schedule 3.15(a)(i)
contains a correct and complete list of all Active Government Contracts,
including contract name; contract number; contracting agency or prime contractor
(as applicable); contract award date; basis of payment and the dollar amount of
backlog of the Acquired Companies as of March 31, 2010 (calculated by the
Acquired Companies consistent with past practice). Schedule 3.15(a)(ii)
contains a correct and complete list of all Government Bids for which an award
has not been made prior to the date hereof. A true, correct and complete copy of
each Government Bid for which an award has not been made prior to the date
hereof and each Active Government Contract, and all amendments thereto, has been
made available to the Buyer. Except as set forth on Schedule
3.15(a)(iii), (i) all of the Active Government Contracts are legal,
valid, binding, enforceable and in full force and effect against the applicable
Acquired Company and, to the Knowledge of Seller, the other parties thereto;
(ii) the Active Government Contracts and Government Bids for which an award has
not been made prior to the date hereof are not currently the subject of bid or
award protest proceedings, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no Government
Contracts or Government Bids are reasonably likely to become the subject of bid
or award protest proceedings as a result of the Contemplated Transactions or
otherwise; (iii) no Person has notified the Acquired Companies, Seller or any
Affiliate of Seller, either in writing or, to the Knowledge of Seller, orally,
that any Governmental Authority intends to seek agreement from an Acquired
Company to lower rates under any of the Active Government Contracts or any
Government Bid for which an award has not been made prior to the date hereof;
(iv) each Active Government Contract was entered into in the Ordinary Course of
Business and based upon assumptions by management of the Acquired Companies
believed to be reasonable and, subject to such assumptions being fulfilled,
would be capable of performance in accordance with the terms and conditions of
such Active Government Contract by the Acquired Companies without a total
program loss; and (v) no Active Government Contract or Government Bid for which
an award has not been made prior to the date hereof is based on any Acquired
Company having a Section 8(a) status, small business status, small disadvantaged
business status, protégé status or other preferential status afforded by
Applicable Law. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(a)(iv),
during the last six (6) years, no Government Contracting Officer has disallowed
any costs or charges under any Government Contract, and no costs or charges
incurred on any Government Contract are subject to a withhold, decrement or
set-off of any Governmental Authority in excess of $125,000 in any one year or
$250,000 in the aggregate. None of the Acquired Companies and, to the
Knowledge of Seller, no other Person who is a party to any Active Government
Contract is in breach or default under any Active Government Contract (with or
without the lapse of time, or the giving of notice, or both). The
Acquired Companies have not sent or received any written notice of breach,
termination or cure with respect to any Active Governmental Contract that is not
currently resolved. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(a)(v),
the Acquired Companies are not aware of any intent by any party to any Active
Government Contract (i) to terminate or amend the terms thereof or (ii) with
respect to any Active Government Contract that contains an option to extend its
term or that renews automatically if no notice of termination is given, to
refuse to exercise such option or to renew such Active Government Contract upon
expiration of its term. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(a)(vi),
the Company is not currently paying liquidated damages in lieu of performance
under any Government Contract, and no event has occurred and no circumstance,
matter or set of facts exists which could reasonably be expected to result in
the payment of liquidated damages under any Government Contract as a result of
the Contemplated Transactions or otherwise.
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(b) Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.15(b),
with respect to every Government Contract and Government Bid: (i) each Acquired
Company has complied with all terms and conditions of each Government Contract
and Government Bid to which it is or was a party, and has performed all
obligations required to be performed by it thereunder; (ii) all statements,
representations, warranties and certifications executed, acknowledged or set
forth in or pertaining to such Government Contract or Government Bid or in any
exhibit or amendment thereto or in any certificate, statement list, schedule or
other document submitted or furnished to any Governmental Authority in
connection with any Government Contract or Government Bid were current, accurate
and complete as of their effective date, and the Company has complied with all
such statements, representations, warranties and certifications and no
subsequent event has occurred which would make any such statement,
representation, warranty or certification untrue as of the date hereof (to the
extent they are required to remain true) and copies of all such written
statements, representations, warranties and certifications made in the last six
(6) years have been made available to the Buyer, (iii) no termination for
default, termination for convenience, cure notice, show cause notice or other
similar notice has been issued and remains unresolved with respect to any
Government Contract, and to the Knowledge of Seller, no event, condition or
omission has occurred or exists that would constitute grounds for such action;
(iv) no past performance evaluation received by any Acquired Company with
respect to any Government Contract has set forth a default or other failure to
perform thereunder; (v) except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(b)(ii),
during the last six (6) years, no money due to an Acquired Company pertaining to
any Government Contract or Government Bid has been withheld or set-off nor has
there been any attempt to withhold or set-off any money due under any Government
Contract in excess of $125,000 in any one year or $250,000 in the aggregate; and
(vi) all invoices and claims (including requests for progress payments and
provisional costs payments) submitted under each Government Contract were
accurate as of their submission date.
(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(c), the
Acquired Companies are not a party to any litigation, and have not taken any
action, and no event has occurred and no circumstance, matter or set of facts
exists, which could reasonably be expected to result in or give rise to
(i) Liability under the False Claims Act, (ii) a claim for price
adjustment under the Truth in Negotiations Act, or (iii) any other request
for a reduction in the price of any Government Contract, including claims based
on actual or alleged defective pricing.
(d) Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.15(d), (i)
no Government Contract has been terminated for default in the past ten (10)
years; and (ii) none of the Acquired Companies, Seller or any of their
respective Affiliates has received any written or, to the Knowledge of Seller,
oral notice terminating any Government Contract for convenience or indicating an
intent to terminate any Government Contract for convenience.
(e) To
the extent applicable, with respect to every Government Contract and every
Government Bid:
(i) except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(e)(i),
all invoices and claims for payment, reimbursement or adjustment, including
requests for progress payments, submitted by any of the Acquired Companies
during the last six (6) years (or, if longer, the period during which claims may
be asserted against any Acquired Company by any Governmental Authority under the
FAR) in connection with all Government Contracts that are not Active Government
Contracts were and continue to be accurate in the amounts charged as of their
respective submission dates, other than inaccuracies that do not exceed, in the
aggregate, $250,000, and all such invoices and claims submitted by any of the
Acquired Companies during the last six (6) years (or, if longer, the period
during which claims may be asserted against any Acquired Company by any
Governmental Authority under the FAR) in connection with each Active Government
Contract were and continue to be accurate as of their respective submission
dates, taking into account any corrections made thereto prior to the date
hereof;
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(ii) the
Acquired Companies maintain systems of internal controls (including, but not
limited to, cost accounting systems, estimating systems, purchasing systems,
proposal systems, billing systems and management systems) that are in compliance
with all requirements of the Government Contracts and Applicable Law and no such
systems of internal controls have been determined by any Government Contracting
Officer or other Governmental Authority to be in noncompliance with any such
requirement and, without limiting the foregoing, the practices and procedures
used in estimating costs and pricing proposals and accumulating, recording,
segregating, reporting and invoicing costs are in compliance with all applicable
provisions of Part 31 (Cost Principles) of the FAR and FAR Part 99 (Cost
Accounting Standards);
(iii) no
fraud or fraudulent certifications were used in obtaining any Government
Contract and no reasonable basis exists to give rise to a claim for fraud (as
such concept is defined under the state or federal laws of the United States) in
connection with any Government Contract or Government Bid under the United
States civil or criminal False Claims Acts, the United States Procurement
Integrity Act or other Applicable Laws;
(iv) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(e)(iv),
none of the Acquired Companies have had access to confidential or non public
information, nor provided systems engineering, technical direction,
consultation, technical evaluation, source selection services or services of any
type, nor prepared specifications or statements of work, nor engaged in any
other conduct that would create an Organizational Conflict of Interest, as
defined in Section 9.501 of the FAR, with respect to the work performed under
any such Government Contract or any proposed Government Contract in connection
with a Government Bid except to the extent any Organizational Conflict of
Interest has been mitigated pursuant to a mitigation plan approved by a
Government Contracting Officer;
(v) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(e)(v),
to the Knowledge of Seller, (i) no Organizational Conflict of Interest, as
defined in Section 9.501 of the FAR, will result from the execution of this
Agreement by the Parties or the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions,
and (ii) no provision of any Government Contract or Government Bid to which any
Acquired Company is a party (including, without limitation, any omnibus
prohibition or similar clause prohibiting, restricting or limiting awards or
renewals of Government Contracts (e.g., restricting multiple contracts at the
same facility or location or with the same Governmental Authority or with
respect to the same program)) would, as a result of the execution of this
Agreement or the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, have a similar
impact on any Acquired Company or the Buyer as an Organizational Conflict of
Interest, as defined in Section 9.501 of the FAR, or would otherwise prohibit
any Acquired Company or the Buyer from being awarded any Government Contract,
cause any Governmental Authority to terminate, amend or modify the terms of any
Government Contract or modify the procedures for bidding for future awards of
any Active Government Contract or with respect to any Active Government Contract
that contains an option to extend its term or that renews automatically if no
notice of termination is given, to refuse to exercise such option or to renew
such Active Government Contract upon expiration of its term or prohibit any
Acquired Company or the Buyer from submitting any Government
Bid.
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(vi) the
Acquired Companies have complied with all, and have not violated or breached
any, Applicable Laws, Government Contracts or any agreements with any
Governmental Authority pertaining to any Government Contract or Government Bid
(including, without limitation, 49 C.F.R. Part 17, Intergovernmental Review of
Department of Transportation (DOT) Programs and Activities; 49 C.F.R. Part 18,
Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to
State and Local Governments; 49 C.F.R. Part 19, Uniform Administrative
Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education,
Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations; 49 C.F.R. Part 20, New
Restrictions on Lobbying; 49 C.F.R. Part 21, Nondiscrimination in
Federally-Assisted Programs of the Department of Transportation—Effectuation of
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; 49 C.F.R. Part 26, New Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise (DBE) Program; 49 C.F.R. Part 29, Governmentwide Debarment
and Suspension (non-procurement); 49 C.F.R. Part 32, Governmentwide Requirements
for Drug-Free Workplace (Financial Assistance); DOT Order 4600.17A—Financial
Assistance Management Requirements; Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Circular A-102, Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State & Local
Governments; 2 C.F.R. Part 225, Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian
Tribal Governments (OMB Circular A-87); the Truth in Negotiations Act of 1962,
as amended; the Service Contract Act of 1965, as amended; the Contract Disputes
Act of 1978, as amended; the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, as
amended; the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation Price
Reductions clause; the Cost Accounting Standards, 48 C.F.R. Volume 7; the False
Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. 3729–3733; Arms Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C. 2778; the
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 22 C.F.R. 120-130; the Export
Administration Act of 1979, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 2401-2420; the Export
Administration Regulations (EAR), 15 C.F.R. 730-774; the economic sanctions
rules and regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of
Foreign Assets Control, Title 31 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part
500 et seq.; the FAR and any applicable agency supplement thereto; the FCPA;
Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act, P.L. 110-252; Organizational Conflicts
of Interest, P.L. 100-463; Trade Agreements Act, 19 U.S.C. 2501 et. seq.; Buy
American Act, 41 U.S.C. 10a – 10d and E.O. 10582; American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, P.L. 111-5; Espionage Act of 1917, 18 U.S.C. 2388; NISPOM DoD
5220.22-M; Procurement Integrity Act, 41 U.S.C. 423; Lobbying Disclosure Act,
P.L. 104-65; Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, P.L. 110-81; and
Employment Wage and Hour Acts (FLSA), 29 C.F.R. Chapter V).
(f)
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(f), no
Governmental Authority and no prime contractor, subcontractor or vendor or other
third party has notified the Seller or any Acquired Company in writing that
Seller or any Acquired Company has breached or violated, or is alleged to have
breached or violated, any Applicable Law pertaining to any Government Contract
or Government Bid;
(g) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(g), (i)
none of the Acquired Companies nor any of their respective Affiliates,
directors, officers, employees, agents, consultants or representatives, and no
director, officer, employee, agent, consultant or representative, of any
Affiliate of any Acquired Company, is (or for the last six (6) years has been)
under administrative, civil or criminal investigation (including as a result of
a qui tam or similar action brought under the Civil False Claims Act or any
other Applicable Law), indictment or information, audit or internal
investigation with respect to any alleged irregularity, misstatement or omission
arising under or relating to any Government Contract or Government Bid or is (or
for the last six (6) years has been) the subject of a finding of non-compliance,
non-responsibility or ineligibility for contracting with any Governmental
Authority or is (or for the last six (6) years has been) in violation of any
Applicable Law relative to any Government Contract or Government Bid or
responsibility or eligibility for contracting with any Governmental Authority,
and (ii) no Acquired Company nor any of their respective Affiliates has made a
mandatory disclosure under Section 52.203-13(b)(3)(i) of the FAR or any
voluntary disclosure to any Governmental Authority with respect to any alleged
unlawful conduct, alleged irregularity, misstatement or omission arising under
or relating to any Government Contract or Government Bid, and no event has
occurred and no circumstance, matter or set of facts exists, that has led or
which could reasonably be expected to lead, either before or after the date
hereof, to any of the consequences set forth in clause (i) above or any other
damage, penalty assessment, recoupment of payment or disallowance of
cost. No facts or circumstances presently exist that would require
mandatory disclosure under Section 52.203-13(b)(3)(i) of the
FAR.
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(h) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(h), all
cost or pricing data, including cost or pricing data supporting any advance
agreements and forward pricing rate agreements, submitted, either actually or by
specific identification in writing, to any Governmental Authority in the last
six (6) years (or, if longer, the period during which claims may be asserted
against any Acquired Company by any Governmental Authority under the FAR) in
support of any Government Contract or Government Bid were accurate, complete and
current as of the date submitted. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(h), the
Acquired Companies have not, on all Active Government Contracts, individually or
collectively, incurred or currently project annual cost overruns in excess of
price in an amount greater than $250,000. The as sold GSA rates of
the Acquired Companies were and are in every case less than comparable rates
charged by the Acquired Companies to commercial customers.
(i)
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(i), No
Governmental Authority, prime contractor, subcontractor, vendor or other third
party has asserted any claim or initiated any dispute proceeding (including,
without limitation, under the Contract Disputes Act or any other Applicable Law)
against the Company with respect to any claim, and the Company has not asserted
any claim or initiated any dispute proceedings, directly or indirectly against
any such party, concerning (in each case) any Government Contract or Government
Bid. None of the Acquired Companies have any interest in any pending
or potential claim under the Contract Disputes Act against any Governmental
Authority, prime contractor, subcontractor, vendor or other third party arising
under or relating to any Government Contract or Government Bid.
(j)
None of the Acquired Companies
and none of their respective directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents
or representatives, has ever been, or is currently, suspended, debarred or
proposed for suspension or debarment from bidding on any Government Contract,
declared ineligible, or otherwise excluded from participation in the award of
any Government Contract or for any reason been listed on the List of Parties
Excluded from Federal Procurement and Non-procurement programs. No
suspension, debarment or exclusion Proceeding with respect to Government
Contracts has been commenced or threatened (whether orally or in writing)
against any of the Acquired Companies or any of their respective directors,
officers, employees, consultants, agents or representatives. No
circumstances exist that would warrant the institution of suspension or
debarment Proceedings against any of the Acquired Companies or any of their
respective directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents or
representatives. The Acquired Companies will not, as a result of the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, be suspended or debarred from
bidding on Government Contracts and to the Knowledge of Seller, such suspension
or debarment has not been threatened. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(j), the
Acquired Companies have not been nor are any of them currently being audited,
except in the Ordinary Course of Business or as is customary in the industry or
as provided by the FAR or, to the Knowledge of Seller, investigated by any
Governmental Authority nor to the Knowledge of Seller, has such audit or
investigation been threatened. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(j), no
audit of any Acquired Company has resulted in costs being challenged by any
Governmental Authority or auditor in an amount greater than
$250,000. There is no valid basis for any Acquired Company’s
suspension or debarment from bidding on contracts or subcontracts for any
Governmental Authority and there is no valid basis for a claim for any Acquired
Company’s suspension or debarment pursuant to an audit or investigation by any
Governmental Authority, or any prime contractor with any such Governmental
Authority. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.15(j),
none of the Acquired Companies has had a contract or subcontract terminated for
default and none of the Acquired Companies has been determined to be
nonresponsible by any Governmental Authority.
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(k) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(k), no
negative determination of responsibility has been issued against any Acquired
Company, and no event has occurred and no circumstance, matter or set of facts
exists which could reasonably be expected to result in the issuance of a
negative determination of responsibility against any Acquired Company, with
respect to any Government Bid.
(l)
Schedule
3.15(l) sets forth a complete and correct list of all facility security
clearances held by the Acquired Companies and all personnel security clearances
held by the Acquired Companies or any of their respective officers, directors or
employees (listed by category only). The security clearances set
forth on Schedule
3.15(l) are all of the facility and personnel security clearances
reasonably necessary to conduct the Business as presently conducted and as
currently proposed to be conducted by Seller and the Acquired
Companies. The Acquired Companies and their respective officers,
directors and employees who hold security clearances are in compliance with all
applicable national security obligations, including those specified in the
National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual, DOD 5220.22-M (January
1995), and any supplements, amendments or revised editions
thereof. Other than routine audits by the Defense Security Service,
there has been no audit relating to the Acquired Companies’ compliance with the
requirements of the National Industrial Security Program that resulted in
adverse findings against any Acquired Company.
(m) Schedule 3.15(m) sets
forth a correct and complete list of the Government Contracts under which,
during the six (6) year period ending on the date hereof, any Acquired Company
has manufactured “defense articles,” exported “defense articles” or furnished
“defense services” or “technical data” to foreign nationals in the United States
or abroad, as those terms are defined in 22 C.F.R. 120.6, 120.9 and 120.10,
respectively. Seller has caused each Acquired Company which is currently, or at
any time in the past has been, engaged in the business of furnishing defense
services as defined in 22 CFR 120 – 130 to (1) register with the Defense Trade
Controls (the “DDTC”) as
required by 22 CFR § 122.1 and (2) file a voluntary disclosure as required by 22
CFR § 127.12 relating to such Acquired Company’s failure to previously register
with the DDTC.
(n) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(n), no
Acquired Company is using any Intellectual Property Right developed under any
Government Contract for purposes outside of the scope of that Government
Contract without having obtained the necessary and appropriate prior permission
of the Governmental Authority involved.
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(o) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.15(o), no
Acquired Company has assigned, granted a security interest in, or otherwise
conveyed or transferred to any Person any Account Receivable or other right of
such Acquired Company arising under any Government Contract. No
Acquired Company is subject to any financing arrangement or assignment of
proceeds with respect to the performance of any Government
Contract.
Section
3.16. Insurance
Coverage. Schedule 3.16 sets
forth a true and complete list of all insurance policies, bonds, letters of
credit and other surety arrangements maintained now or at any time since January
1, 2005 by or for the benefit of Seller or Acquired Companies (which list shall
designate which policies, bonds, letters of credit and other surety arrangements
are currently maintained) relating to the Business or the Assets, employees,
officers or directors of the Acquired Companies and all claims made or incurred
under such insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit and other surety
arrangements since January 1, 2005. All insurance policies, bonds,
letters of credit and other surety arrangements listed as currently maintained
by or for the benefit of Seller or the Acquired Companies on Schedule 3.16 are in
full force and effect and neither Seller nor any Acquired Company has received
any written notice of any cancellation or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threat of
cancellation of such insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit and other
surety arrangements. Seller or each Acquired Company, as applicable,
has given notice to the applicable insurer of all claims that may be insured
under any insurance policy, bond, letter of credit or other surety arrangement
maintained by or for the benefit of Seller or the Acquired Companies, including,
without limitation, those certain employment related claims listed on Schedule
3.19(f). There is no claim by an Acquired Company pending
under any such insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit and other surety
arrangements as to which coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed by the
underwriters of such insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit and other
surety arrangements or in respect of which such underwriters have reserved their
rights. In addition, there exist no claims nor any facts or
circumstances that could reasonably be expected to result in a claim under such
insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit and other surety arrangements that
have not been properly notified to all underwriters of applicable insurance
policies, bonds, letters of credit, and other surety
arrangements. All premiums payable under all such insurance policies,
bonds, letters of credit and other surety arrangements have been timely paid,
and Seller or the Acquired Companies, as the case may be, have otherwise
complied with the terms and conditions of all such policies and
bonds. The insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit and surety
arrangements maintained by or for the benefit of Seller or the Acquired
Companies relating to the Business, or the Assets, employees, officers or
directors of the Acquired Companies are of the type and in amounts and with such
deductibles as are customarily carried by Persons conducting businesses similar
to those conducted by the Acquired Companies. Since January 1, 2005, none of the
Acquired Companies has been refused insurance coverage by any insurer from which
Seller or any Acquired Company has sought coverage. Each of the
Acquired Companies has, at all times, been in compliance with all Applicable
Laws and contractual obligations requiring such Acquired Company to purchase and
maintain any insurance policies, bonds, letters of credit or surety
arrangements.
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Section
3.17. Environmental
Matters. Schedule 3.17 sets
forth a true and complete list of all Permits issued under any Environmental Law
applicable to the Business or the Acquired Companies. Except as set
forth on Schedule
3.17, (a) the Business is, and has been, conducted
in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, (b) the
Acquired Companies have obtained or caused to be obtained all environmental
Permits necessary for the operation of the Business to comply with all
applicable Environmental Laws, and the Acquired Companies are in compliance with
the terms of such Permits, (c) the Acquired Companies are in compliance with all
other limitations, restrictions, conditions, standards, requirements, schedules
and timetables required or imposed under all Environmental Laws
applicable to the Business or the Acquired Companies, and (d) neither the
Acquired Companies nor Seller have received any written notice, demand, letter,
claim or request for information relating to any of the Leased Premises or any
other facilities currently or formerly owned, leased or operated by the Acquired
Companies of any Proceedings asserting any Liability against or violation by any
Acquired Company or the Business under any Environmental Law and there are no
pending, or to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened, Proceedings relating to any
Liability against or violation by any Acquired Company or the Business under any
Environmental Law. There are no present, nor have there been any
past, events, conditions, circumstances, incidents, actions or omissions,
relating to or in any way affecting the Business or any of the Acquired
Companies or any facilities or real property currently or formerly owned,
operated or leased by any of the Acquired Companies that violate any
Environmental Law applicable to the Business or the Acquired Companies and that
would give rise to any environmental Liability or otherwise form the basis of
any Proceeding under (i) any Environmental Law, (ii) based on or related to the
manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage (including,
without limitation, underground storage tanks), disposal, transport or handling,
or the emission, discharge, release or threatened release of any Hazardous
Substance or (iii) resulting from exposure to workplace hazards, including mold
or other microbial matter. Seller or the Acquired Companies have made
available to Buyer all environmental documents, studies, audits and written
reports that are in the possession of Seller or any of the Acquired Companies
(i) with respect to the Leased Premises or any other facilities currently or
formerly owned, leased or operated by the Acquired Companies, or (ii) with
respect to a Liability under Environmental Law of any of the Acquired Companies
or the Business. There are no, nor, to the Knowledge of Seller, have
there ever been any, underground storage tanks, asbestos-containing materials or
polychlorinated biphenyls located on property currently, or formerly, owned,
operated or leased by any of the Acquired Companies.
Section
3.18. Employee Plans.
(a) Schedule 3.18(a) sets
forth a true and complete list of all (i) Employee Agreements and
(ii) Employee Benefit Plans (other than the Employee Agreements identified
in response to Clause (i)) (collectively, together with the Employee Agreements,
the “Employee Plans”),
and sets forth a true and complete description or summary of each material
provision of each such Employee Plan that is not in writing, and separately
identifies any current ERISA Affiliate and any Person that has been an ERISA
Affiliate at any time since January 1, 2003. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Parties acknowledge and agree that no employment agreement or
retention payment agreement to be entered into between Buyer and any Transferred
Employee shall be deemed to be an Employee Plan for purposes of this
Agreement. With respect to each Employee Plan (as applicable), the
Company has made available to Buyer true and complete copies of (i) the
most recent three (3) years’ annual reports on Form 5500, including all
schedules thereto, and plan financial statements and actuarial reports, if
applicable; (ii) the most recent determination, notification, advisory or
opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service for any Employee Plan that is
intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code (as applicable);
(iii) the current plan documents and summary plan descriptions, if any, or
a written description of the terms of any Employee Plan that is not in writing;
(iv) any related trust agreements, insurance contracts, insurance policies
or other documents related to funding arrangements, if
any; (v) any notices or other material correspondence to or from
the Internal Revenue Service or any office or representative of the Department
of Labor or any other Governmental Authority relating to any such Employee Plan
within the past three (3) years; (vi) any valuations performed within the past 3
years; (vii) any minutes, notes, or resolutions relating to any meeting of the
plan fiduciaries or administrators; (viii) any internal or external
investigations or audits relating to any such plan within the past three (3)
years; (ix) all nondiscrimination and coverage tests for the three (3) most
recent plan years; and (x) all policies pertaining to fiduciary liability
insurance covering the fiduciaries for each Employee Plan.
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(b) None
of the Acquired Companies nor any ERISA Affiliate sponsors, maintains,
contributes to, administers, has an obligation to contribute to, or has any
Liability or has, at any time, sponsored, maintained, contributed to, or
incurred an obligation to contribute to, incurred any Liability with respect to,
or administered, any Employee Pension Benefit Plan. None of the
Acquired Companies nor any ERISA Affiliate sponsors or has ever sponsored,
maintained, contributed to, or incurred an obligation to contribute to, incurred
any Liability with respect to, or administered, any Multiemployer Plan, any
Multiple Employer Plan or any “multiple employer welfare arrangement”
(as defined in ERISA) or any voluntary employees’ beneficiary
association. No Employee Plan is subject to the Applicable Laws of
any jurisdiction other than those of the United States.
(c) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.18(c),
Seller and the Acquired Companies have not made any written or verbal
commitments to any Employee with respect to compensation, promotion, retention,
termination, severance or similar matter in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.18(c),
neither the execution nor delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement will, either alone or in conjunction
with any other event, (i) result in any payment or benefit becoming due or
payable, or required to be provided, to any, Employee; (ii) increase the
amount or value of any benefit or compensation otherwise payable or required to
be provided to any Employee; (iii) result in the acceleration of the time
of payment, vesting or funding of any such benefit or compensation; or (iv)
result in the forgiveness of any obligation of any Employee. Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.18(c),
Seller and the Acquired Companies are not party to any agreement, contract,
arrangement or plan that has resulted or would result, separately or in the
aggregate, in connection with this Agreement or any change of control of any of
the Acquired Companies, in the payment of any “parachute payment” within the
meaning of Section 280G of the Code (whether or not such payment is considered
to be reasonable compensation for services rendered).
(d) Each
Employee Plan has been maintained, by its terms and in operation, in accordance
with Applicable Law, and the form of each Employee Plan materially complies with
all Applicable Laws, and there has been no violation of any reporting or
disclosure requirement imposed by Applicable Law. All contributions, premiums
and other payments required to be made with respect to any Employee Plan have
been timely made or accrued on the Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP,
Applicable Law and the terms of such Employee Plan. Seller and the Acquired
Companies do not have any unfunded Liability under (i) any “employee pension
benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA (whether or not
subject to ERISA and whether or not qualified under Section 401 of the Code)
including, but not limited to, any Employee Benefit Pension Plan or (ii) any
“employee welfare benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(1) of ERISA
(whether or not subject to ERISA).
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(e) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.18(e) and
except as specifically prohibited by Applicable Law, each Employee Plan can be
amended or terminated at any time, without consent from any other party, by its
sponsor subject to any and all reasonable notification periods as set forth in
the Employee Plan (where applicable) with each such notification period
identified on Schedule
3.18(e), without Liability other than for benefits accrued as of the date
of such amendment or termination.
(f) Each
plan, program, arrangement or agreement that constitutes in any part a
nonqualified deferred compensation plan within the meaning of Section 409A of
the Code, and in which any Employee of the Acquired Companies participates or is
eligible to participate, is identified as such on Schedule
3.18(f). Since October 3, 2004, each plan, program,
arrangement or agreement there identified has complied with, and has been
operated and maintained in accordance with, Section 409A of the
Code.
(g) Other
than routine claims, there is no Proceeding pending or, to the Knowledge of
Seller, threatened on behalf of or against any Employee Plan, the assets of any
trust under any Employee Plan, or, with respect to any Employee Plan, the plan
sponsor, plan administrator or any fiduciary of any Employee Plan. No
event has occurred and there currently exists no condition or set of
circumstances in connection with which the Employee Plans or any of the Acquired
Companies could be subject to any Liability (other than routine claims for
benefits) under ERISA, the Code, or any other Applicable Law.
(h) No
fiduciary or party in interest of any Employee Plan has participated in, engaged
in or been a party to any transaction that is prohibited under Section 4975
of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA and not exempt under Section 4975
of the Code or Section 408 of ERISA, respectively, which would result in a
Liability to the Acquired Companies. With respect to any Employee
Plan, (i) none of the Acquired Companies, nor any of the ERISA Affiliates
has had asserted against it any claim for Taxes under Chapter 43 of Subtitle D
of the Code and Section 5000 of the Code, or for penalties under ERISA nor
is there a basis for any such claim, and (ii) no fiduciary has committed a
breach of any fiduciary responsibility or obligation imposed by ERISA or the
terms of any such Employee Plan. The transactions contemplated by
this Agreement will not trigger any taxes under Section 4978 of the
Code.
(i)
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.18(i), no
Employee Plan that is a “welfare benefit plan” within the meaning of
Section 3(1) of ERISA (whether or not subject to ERISA) provides benefits
to former employees (or their dependents) of any of the Acquired Companies or
any ERISA Affiliate, other than pursuant to Section 4980B of the Code or any
similar state Applicable Law. The Acquired Companies and the ERISA
Affiliates have complied in all respects with the provisions of Part 6 of
Title I of ERISA and Sections 4980B, 9801, 9802, 9811 and 9812 of the
Code. Schedule 3.18(i)
accurately identifies each former Employee who is receiving or is scheduled to
receive (or whose spouse or other dependent is receiving or is scheduled to
receive) any benefits (whether from an Acquired Company or otherwise) relating
to such former Employee’s employment with any Acquired Company, and Schedule 3.18(i)
accurately sets forth such benefits.
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(j)
With respect to each Employee Plan that is an employee welfare
benefit plan (within the meaning of Section 3(1) of ERISA), all claims for which
any Acquired Company has any Liability are (i) insured pursuant to a contract of
insurance whereby the insurance company bears any risk of loss with respect to
such claims, (ii) covered under a contract with a health maintenance
organization (“HMO”),
pursuant to which the HMO bears the liability for claims or (iii) reflected as a
liability or accrued for on the Financial Statements.
(k) Each
Employee Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the
Code, and each trust intended to be exempt under Section 501(a) of the
Code, has been determined to be so qualified or exempt by the IRS and is the
subject of a favorable determination, notification, advisory, or opinion letter
(as applicable) covering all Applicable Laws with respect to which such a letter
can be issued. Since the date of each most recent determination,
there has been no event, condition or circumstance that has adversely affected
or could adversely affect such qualified status.
(l) There
has been no amendment to, written interpretation of, or announcement by any
Acquired Company relating to, or change in employee participation or coverage
under, any Employee Plan that would increase materially the expense of
maintaining such Employee Plan above the level of the expense incurred in
respect thereof for the most recent fiscal year ended prior to the date
hereof.
(m) Except
as would not result in a Liability to any Acquired Company, none of the Acquired
Companies has announced or entered into any plan or binding commitment (whether
express or implied) to (i) create or cause to exist any additional Employee
Plan; (ii) enter into any Contract to provide compensation or benefits to any
individual (including any Employee Agreement); or (iii) adopt, amend, or
terminate any Employee Plan, other than any amendment required by Applicable Law
or as contemplated by this Agreement.
(n) Except
as set forth in Section 7.05(b), on and after the Closing, no facts or
circumstances shall exist that could result in any Liability to any of the
Acquired Companies or the Buyer or any of its Affiliates with respect to any
Employee Plan.
(o) No
facts or circumstances exist that would give rise to any Liability with respect
to the TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. Government Incentive Plan (“GIP”) and no Person has been
designated as eligible for participation or is eligible for participation in the
GIP.
Section
3.19. Labor Matters.
(a) The
records of the Acquired Companies, and as set forth on Schedule 3.19(a),
accurately reflect in all material respects the employment or service histories
of its employees. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.19(a), the
Acquired Companies do not utilize the services of any “PEO”, staffing agency, or
loan-out agency or any entity that provides temporary or long-term staffing
services. Each person who predominantly provides employment-related
services to the Business is employed by one of the Acquired
Companies.
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(b) Set
forth on Schedule
3.19(b) is a true and complete list of all officers, directors and
employees of the Acquired Companies as of April 30, 2010 (which Schedule shall
be updated to list all officers, directors and employees of the Acquired
Companies as of the date which is two Business Days prior to Closing) including
those individuals on leave of absence or layoff status or temporary military
recall (and, with respect to such individual, the type of absence and the
expected return to work date and, with respect to any protected leave, the last
day of statutory or contractual protection), together with (i) their date of
employment and current employer, (ii) to the extent known, those who have
received notice of military recall, (iii) citizenship status (whether such
officer or employee is a United States citizen or otherwise) and, with respect
to non-United States citizens, identifies the visa or other similar permit under
which such Employee is working for the Acquired Companies and the dates of
issuance and expiration of such visa or other similar permit, (iv) titles, (v)
principal location, and (vi) annual base salary, commission, and any other
cash compensation or bonus opportunity (including targets), and the wage rates
for current, non-salaried Employees (by classification).
(c) A
true and complete copy of each of the Acquired Companies’ current employee
handbook has been made available to Buyer. Except as set forth on
Schedule
3.19(c), none of the Acquired Companies has entered into any Contract
with any Person entitling such Person to a bonus or other payment upon the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. Except as set
forth on Schedule
3.19(c), none of the Acquired Companies is a party to any employment
Contract with any employee that cannot be terminated by such Acquired Company at
will, and without Liability to any Acquired Company for such termination other
than payment for services rendered through the termination date.
(d) The
Company has made available to Buyer copies of all affirmative action plans and
material correspondence with any Governmental Authorities relating to
affirmative action plans or other employment-related matters (e.g., OFCCP
compliance evaluations, closure letters and conciliation
agreements).
(e) No
collective bargaining agreement or similar labor agreement exists that is
binding on any of the Acquired Companies or any other entity with respect to the
Business and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no petition has been filed or
threatened to be filed or proceedings instituted or threatened to be instituted
by an Employee or group of Employees with any labor relations board or similar
authority under Applicable Law seeking recognition of a bargaining
representatives. Schedule 3.19(e) sets
forth any organizational effort that, to the Knowledge of Seller, is currently
being made or threatened or has been made since January 1, 2009 by or on behalf
of any labor union to organize any employees of the Acquired
Companies.
(f)
(i) There is no labor strike, slow down or stoppage pending
or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened, against or directly affecting the
Acquired Companies, (ii) no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out
of or under any collective bargaining agreement or similar labor agreement is
pending, and, to the Knowledge of Seller, no claims therefor exist and (iii)
except as set forth on Schedule 3.19(f),
none of the Acquired Companies has received any written notice, nor to the
Knowledge of Seller is there of any threatened labor or employment dispute,
controversy or grievance or any other unfair labor practice proceeding or breach
of contract claim or discrimination complaint or charge or action with respect
to claims of, or obligations to, any Employee or group of
Employees.
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(g) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.19(g), the
Acquired Companies have complied in all respects with all Applicable Laws
relating to the employment of labor and those relating to hours, wages, workers’
compensation, safety, insurance, collective bargaining and the payment and
withholding of Taxes and other sums as required by appropriate Governmental
Authorities. All persons classified as non employees and all
individuals classified as exempt from overtime requirements were at all times
properly classified as such. All accruals for unpaid vacation pay,
premiums for employment insurance, health tax premiums, Employee Plan premiums,
accrued vacation (and other forms of paid time off, such as sick leave), wages,
salaries, bonuses, commissions and other compensation have been reflected in the
Financial Statements. The Company has made available to the Buyer a
copy of all employee handbooks and policies covering or applicable to the
Employees including the policy of each Acquired Company for providing leaves of
absence under the Family Medical Leave Act (or similar state Applicable Law) and
its Family Medical Leave Act (and similar state Applicable Law)
notices. Each Acquired Company has paid or accrued all current
assessments under workers’ compensation legislation, and none of the Acquired
Companies has been subject to any special or penalty assessment under such
legislation that has not been paid.
(h) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.19(h), in
the three (3) years prior to the date hereof, the Acquired Companies have not
engaged in layoffs, terminations or relocations sufficient in number to trigger
application of the WARN Act, or any similar state, local or foreign Applicable
Law or regulation requiring advance notice of a mass layoff or plant closing or
other similar event requiring advance notice to any Employee, Employee
representative or Governmental Authority. None of the Acquired
Companies have caused any of the Employees at any site of employment of facility
to suffer an “employment loss” (as defined in the WARN Act) or similar event
during the 180 days preceding the date of this Agreement that, when aggregated
with enough similar other events, would result in any obligation on behalf of
any of the Acquired Companies, or Buyer under the WARN Act.
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3.20. Taxes.
(a) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.20(a), all
Tax Returns required to be filed by or with respect to any Acquired Company have
been timely filed in accordance with Applicable Laws, and each such Tax Return
is true and complete in all material respects. Except as set forth on
Schedule
3.20(a), all Taxes due by or with respect to any Acquired Company have
been timely paid (whether or not shown on any Tax Return). Except as set forth
on Schedule
3.20(a), no claim has been made in writing by any taxing authority in any
jurisdiction where any Acquired Company does not file Tax Returns that any
Acquired Company is or may be subject to Tax by that jurisdiction. No
Acquired Company has requested nor is the beneficiary of an extension of time
within which to file any Tax Return, which Tax Return has not since been filed
within the period of such extension. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.20(a), no
Acquired Company and no member of any affiliated, consolidated, combined or
unitary group of which an Acquired Company is or has been a member has granted
any extension or waiver of the statute of limitations period, or of the time for
assessment or collection, applicable to any Tax or Tax Return, which period
(after giving effect to such extension or waiver) has not yet
expired. All Tax Returns filed with respect to Tax years of the
Acquired Companies through the Tax year ended December 31, 2005 have been
examined and closed or are Tax Returns with respect to which the applicable
period for assessment under Applicable Law, after giving effect to extensions or
waivers, has expired.
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(b) As
used herein, “Tax” or
“Taxes” means (i) any
federal, state, local or foreign income, alternative or add-on minimum, windfall
profit, gross income, gross receipts, property, sales, use, transfer, severance,
production, franchise, registration, corporate, capital, net worth, ad valorem,
value-added, stamp, environmental, gains, license, excise, employment, payroll,
withholding or minimum tax, or any other tax of any kind whatsoever, goods and
services, custom, duty, governmental fee or other like assessment or charge of
any kind whatsoever, together with any interest or any penalty, addition to tax
or additional amount imposed or required to be withheld by any Governmental
Authority and any Liability for any of the foregoing as transferee, (ii) in the
case of any Acquired Company, Liability for the payment of any amount of the
type described in clause (i) as a result of being or having been before the
Closing a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group, or a
party to any agreement or arrangement, as a result of which Liability of the
Acquired Company to a taxing authority is determined or taken into account with
reference to any activities, assets or other attributes of any other Person, and
(iii) Liability of any Acquired Company for the payment of any amount as a
result of being a party to any Tax Sharing Agreement or of any amount imposed on
any Person of the type described in (i) or (ii) as a result of any existing
express or implied agreement or arrangement (including, but not limited to, an
indemnification agreement or arrangement), any Applicable Law, rule or
regulation or of being a transferee or successor; “Tax Return” means any return,
report, election, statement, form or similar document required to be filed or
filed with respect to any Taxes (including any attached schedules), including
any information return, claim for refund, amended return and declaration of
estimated Tax, and “Tax Sharing
Agreements” means all existing agreements or arrangements (whether or not
written) binding any Acquired Company that provides for the allocation,
apportionment, sharing or assignment of any Tax Liability or benefit, or the
transfer or assignment of income, revenues, receipts, or gains for the purpose
of determining any Person’s Tax Liability (excluding any indemnification
agreement or arrangement pertaining to the sale or lease of assets or
subsidiaries).
(c) The
Financial Statements have been established in a manner consistent with the past
practices of the Acquired Companies in all material respects and reflects
adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP (excluding reserves for deferred Taxes
established to reflect timing differences between book and Tax income) for all
Liabilities for Taxes accrued by any Acquired Company but not yet paid for all
Tax periods and portions thereof through the date of the Closing Date and for
Taxes which the Acquired Companies are disputing in good faith.
(d) No
Acquired Company has been a United States real property holding corporation (as
defined in Section 897(c)(2) of the Code) at any time during the applicable
period specified in Section 897(c)(l)(A)(ii) of the Code.
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(e) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.20(e),
there has not been any action, suit, proceeding, investigation,
audit, claim, collection or assessment pending, being conducted or proposed or,
to the Knowledge of Seller threatened, with respect to any Tax Return or Taxes
with respect to any Acquired Company. There are no Liens for Taxes
upon any of the Assets except Liens relating to current Taxes not yet
due. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.20(e), all
Taxes which any Acquired Company is required by Applicable Law to withhold or to
collect have been duly withheld and collected and have been paid to the
appropriate Governmental Authority, and the Acquired Companies have complied
with all information reporting and withholding requirements, in connection with
amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor, or other third
party. There have not been any requests for rulings or determinations
in respect of any Tax between any Acquired Company and any Governmental
Authority. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.20(e),
none of Seller, its Affiliates, or the Acquired Companies has received a written
tax opinion with respect to any transaction relating to any Acquired Company,
other than a transaction in the Ordinary Course of Business. There
are no agreements or arrangements (including any claim agreements or offers in
compromise) with any Governmental Authority with regard to the Tax Liability of
any Acquired Company.
(f) No
Acquired Company is a party to, or is bound by, any tax indemnity agreement or
Tax Sharing Agreement and no Acquired Company has assumed the Tax Liability of
any other Person under contract.
(g) No
Acquired Company has engaged, or been deemed to have engaged, in a “reportable
transaction,” as set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b), or any
transaction that is the same as or substantially similar to one of the types of
transactions that the IRS has determined to be a tax avoidance transaction and
identified by notice, regulation, or other form of published guidance as a
“listed transaction,” as set forth in Treasury Regulation Section
1.6011-4(b)(2).
(h) Seller
has made available to Buyer correct and complete copies of all Tax Returns filed
with respect to, and examination reports, and statements of deficiencies
assessed against or agreed to by, any Acquired Company which were filed or
received after 2005.
(i)
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.20(i), no
Acquired Company (i) has been a member of an affiliated group filing a
consolidated, combined, affiliated, unitary or similar Tax Return (ii) has any
Liability for the Taxes of any Person under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6
(or any similar provision of state, local, or foreign Applicable Law), as a
transferee or successor, by contract, or otherwise, or (iii) has made a claim
for indemnity related to Taxes of any Person under Treasury Regulation Section
1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local, or foreign Applicable
Law).
(j)
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.20(j), no
Acquired Company is a party to any Contract or plan that (i) has resulted or
would result, separately or in the aggregate, in connection with this Agreement
or any change of control of any Acquired Company, in the payment of any “excess
parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code (or any
similar provision of state, local, or foreign Applicable Law) or (ii) could
obligate it to make any payments that will not be fully deductible under Section
162(m) of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local, or foreign
Applicable Law).
(k) Neither
the Company nor any of the Acquired Companies has been a “distributing
corporation” or a “controlled corporation” in connection with a distribution
described in Section 355 of the Code.
(l)
No Acquired Company has a permanent establishment, office, or other fixed
place of business in any jurisdiction outside the United States or its
territories.
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(m) Except
as set forth on Schedule 3.20(m), no
Acquired Company will be required to include any item of income in, or exclude
any item of deduction from, taxable income for any taxable period (or portion
thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of any:
(i) change
in method of accounting for a taxable period ending on or prior to the Closing
Date;
(ii) “closing
agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar provision of
state, local, or foreign Applicable Law) executed on or prior to the Closing
Date;
(iii) intercompany
transactions or any excess loss account described in Treasury Regulations under
Section 1502 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local, or foreign
Applicable Law);
(iv) installment
sale or open transaction disposition made on or prior to the Closing Date;
or
(v) prepaid
amount received on or prior to the Closing Date.
Section
3.21. Brokers’ or Finders’
Fees. Except for Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, whose fees and expenses will
be paid by Seller, there is no investment banker, broker, finder or other
intermediary which has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of
Seller or the Acquired Companies who would or might be entitled to any fee or
commission in connection with the consummation of the Contemplated
Transactions.
Section
3.22. Related Party
Transactions. Except (i) for the Intercompany Balances, all of
which will be handled in accordance with Section 7.03 below, and (ii) as
otherwise set forth on Schedule 3.22 or
Schedule 3.23,
neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates, has borrowed any monies from or has
outstanding any Indebtedness or other similar obligations to the Acquired
Companies. None of the Acquired Companies, nor, to the Knowledge of
Seller, any of the officers, directors or employees of the Acquired Companies
(or any family member of any such officer, director or employee), now has, or at
any time subsequent to January 1, 2007, either directly or indirectly, had a
material interest in:
(a) any
Person which furnishes or sells or during such period furnished or sold services
or products to any of the Acquired Companies or purchases or during such period
purchased from any of the Acquired Companies any goods or services, or otherwise
does or during such period did business with any of the Acquired Companies;
or
(b) any
Contract to which any of the Acquired Companies is or during such period was a
party or under which it is or was obligated or bound or to which any of its
properties may be or may have been subject, other than as an employee of any
such Acquired Company.
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3.23. Shared
Services. Schedule 3.23
contains a summary of the support services (e.g., administration, data
processing, accounting, tax, treasury, insurance, banking, personnel, legal, and
communications) (collectively, the “Shared Services”)
(i) provided by Seller or any of its Affiliates (other than an Acquired
Company) to the Acquired Companies as of the date hereof, and (ii) provided by
Acquired Companies to Seller or any of its Affiliates (other than the Acquired
Companies).
Section
3.24. No
Indebtedness. As of the Closing, no Acquired Companies shall
have any outstanding Indebtedness.
Section
3.25. Accounts
Receivable. Schedule 3.25 sets
forth a list of all Accounts Receivable of the Acquired Companies as of the date
not more than two (2) days prior to the date of this Agreement along with a
range of days elapsed since the original invoice date. All Accounts
Receivable of the Acquired Companies are reflected on the books and records of
the Acquired Companies (under and in accordance with GAAP) and are valid and
enforceable obligations arising from bona fide transactions in the Ordinary
Course of Business. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.25, the
Accounts Receivable of the Acquired Companies are subject to no defenses, claims
or rights of setoff. The Accounts Receivable are appropriately
reserved in accordance with GAAP. As of the date of this Agreement
and except as set forth on Schedule 3.25, (i) no
account debtor has, to the Knowledge of Seller, refused or threatened to refuse
to pay its obligations for any reason, (ii) no account debtor is, to the
Knowledge of Seller, insolvent or bankrupt and (iii) no Account Receivable has
been pledged to any third party. With respect to unbilled Accounts
Receivables, such unbilled Accounts Receivable are reflected on the books and
records of the Acquired Companies (in accordance with GAAP) and, to the
Knowledge of Seller, there are no facts that would prohibit or restrict the
billing of any such unbilled Accounts Receivable in the Ordinary Course of
Business.
Section
3.26. Seller
Guarantees. Schedule 3.26 lists
all Contracts, arrangements, guarantees, bonds, letters of credit, letters of
comfort or other understandings (each, a “Seller Guaranty”) entered into
by Seller or an Affiliate (other than the Acquired Companies) for the benefit of
the Acquired Companies which imposes any Liability, upon Seller or its
Affiliates (other than the Acquired Companies).
Section
3.27. Corporate
Records. The minute books, transfer books and stock ledgers of
the Acquired Companies are true and complete in all material respects and
contain true and complete records of all material actions previously taken by
the board of directors and any committees of the board of directors and the
stockholders of each of the Acquired Companies. Each of the Acquired
Companies has maintained (and made available to Buyer and its Representatives
access to) its books, records and accounts, which are true and complete in all
material respects and accurately reflect in all material respects the activities
of the Acquired Companies, and which have been kept in accordance with sound
business practices.
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3.28. Warranties. All
products and services sold, provided or delivered by the Acquired Companies to
their customers conform to applicable contractual commitments, express and
implied warranties, product and service specifications and quality
standards. There are no (i) pending and threatened Liabilities of the
Acquired Companies based on any personal injury, damage to property or products
liability resulting from any product manufactured or sold or services provided
by the Acquired Companies on or before the Closing Date, (ii) pending and
threatened Liabilities of the Acquired Companies based on any breach of any
express or implied product warranty, product recalls, or any similar claim
resulting from any product manufactured or sold or services provided by the
Acquired Companies on or before the Closing Date or (iii) basis for any present
or future action, suit, proceeding, hearing, investigation, charge, complaint,
claim or demand against the Acquired Companies with respect to any Liability
described in clauses (i) or (ii). No product or service sold,
provided or delivered by the Acquired Companies to customers on or prior to the
Closing Date is subject to any guaranty, warranty or other indemnity beyond the
applicable standard terms and conditions of sale, copies of which are set forth
on Schedule
3.28.
Section
3.29. Relationships with Suppliers and
Clients. Schedule 3.29(a)
lists the ten (10) largest customers (or in the case of U.S. government
customers, the ten (10) largest Government Contracts) of the Acquired Companies,
on the basis of revenues during the 12-month periods ended December 31, 2009
(each a “2009 Top
Customer”) and December 31, 2008 and 2007 (together with the 2009 Top
Customers, each a “Top
Customer”), and the ten (10) largest suppliers or vendors of the Acquired
Companies, on the basis of expenses incurred during the 12-month periods ended
December 31, 2009 (each a “2009
Top Supplier”) and December 31, 2008 and 2007 (together with the 2009 Top
Suppliers, each, a “Top
Supplier”). Except as set forth on Schedule 3.29(b), (i)
no 2009 Top Customer has ceased or threatened to cease, to acquire the goods or
services of the Acquired Companies, has substantially reduced, or has threatened
to substantially reduce, the acquisition of such goods or services, has
otherwise terminated, canceled, elected not to renew any Contract with any
Acquired Company (or otherwise threatened or indicated an intent to do so), or
elected not to exercise any option to extend any Contract with any Acquired
Company that contains an option to extend (or otherwise threatened or indicated
an intent to do so), in each case whether as a result of the Contemplated
Transactions or otherwise, and (ii) no 2009 Top Supplier has ceased, or has
threatened to cease, selling raw materials, supplies, merchandise, other goods
or services (including utilities) to the Acquired Companies, or has
substantially reduced, or has threatened to substantially reduce, the sale of
such raw materials, supplies, merchandise, other goods or services, or has
otherwise terminated, canceled, elected not to renew any Contract with any
Acquired Company (or otherwise threatened to do so), or elected not to exercise
any option to extend any Contract with any Acquired Company that contains an
option to extend, in each case whether as a result of the Contemplated
Transactions or otherwise; and (iii) the Acquired Companies have not been, and
are not currently, engaged in any dispute with any Top Customer or Top
Supplier. The Acquired Companies' relationships with the 2009 Top
Customers and 2009 Top Suppliers and, to the Knowledge of Seller, the
relationships of each such supplier with its suppliers, are good, and neither
Seller nor any of the Acquired Companies is aware of anything that would lead it
to conclude that any such relationship may be in jeopardy. To the
Knowledge of Seller, no supplier has made any assignment of its Accounts
Receivable due from any of the Acquired Companies to a third party or made any
other similar factoring arrangement.
Section
3.30. Restrictions on Business
Activities. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.30, the
Acquired Companies are not subject to any Order or a party to or otherwise bound
by any Contract, including but not limited to exclusivity and non-competition
agreements, that has or could reasonably be expected to have the effect of
prohibiting or impairing any business practice or activities of any of the
Acquired Companies or any lease, license or acquisition of any assets or
property (tangible or intangible) by any of the Acquired Companies or the
conduct of the Business as presently conducted and as currently proposed to be
conducted by Seller and the Acquired Companies.
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3.31. Client
List. Seller has made available to Buyer a true and complete
list of all clients of the Acquired Companies since January 1, 2007 to the
extent Seller or the Acquired Companies currently possesses or has access to
such information.
Section
3.32. Backlog. The
Company has made available to Buyer a true and complete list of all unfilled
orders for products or services as of March 31, 2010, setting forth the date of
such order and the current status.
Section
3.33. Bank
Accounts. Schedule 3.33
contains a true and complete list of all deposit and disbursement accounts
titled in the name of any of the Acquired Companies with any bank, brokerage
house or other financial institution (collectively, the “Company Bank Accounts”),
including for each such account the name and address of the financial
institution, the nature of the account, the names of each person with authority
to draw on such account or to have access to such account or to change the
persons authorized to draw on the account. The Buyer Parties
acknowledge and agree that the Acquired Companies are not transferring any
Company Bank Account to Buyer or Buyer Parent pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
Section
3.34. Off-Balance Sheet
Liabilities. Schedule 3.34 sets
forth a true and complete list of all transactions, arrangements and other
relationships between and/or among any of the Acquired Companies and any special
purpose or limited purpose entity beneficially owned by or formed at the
direction of the Acquired Companies, other than those transactions, arrangements
or other relationships that are separately addressed in Section
3.14.
Section
3.35. Accuracy of
Representations. No representation, warranty or schedule
furnished by Seller to Buyer in connection with the Contemplated Transactions
contains any untrue statement of material fact or omits to state any material
fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein not
misleading.
Section
3.36. No Additional
Representations. Except for the representations and warranties
contained in this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, neither Seller nor any
of its directors, officers, employees, stockholders, agents, Affiliates or
Representatives, nor any other Person, has made or shall be deemed to have made
any representation or warranty to Buyer, express or implied, at law or in
equity, with respect to the Acquired Companies or the Business. All
such other representations and warranties are expressly disclaimed by
Seller.
ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF BUYER AND BUYER PARENT
Buyer and
Buyer Parent represent and warrant to Seller that all of the statements
contained in this Article IV are true and correct as of the date hereof, or if
made as of a specified date, as of such date:
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4.01. Organization. Buyer
is a Tennessee corporation validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of Tennessee. Buyer Parent is a Delaware corporation validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of Delaware. Each of Buyer and
Buyer Parent has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and
operate its properties and to carry on its business as is now being
conducted. Each of Buyer and Buyer Parent is duly qualified to do
business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing in each jurisdiction
where such qualification is necessary, except for those jurisdictions where
failure to be so qualified could not individually or in the aggregate reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on Buyer’s ability to consummate
the Contemplated Transactions or to perform its obligations
hereunder.
Section
4.02. Authorization; Validity of
Agreement. Each of Buyer and Buyer Parent has full corporate
power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the Contemplated
Transactions. The execution, delivery and performance by each of Buyer and Buyer
Parent of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, and the consummation of
the Contemplated Transactions, have been duly and validly authorized by its
Board of Directors, respectively, and no other corporate action on the part of
either Buyer or Buyer Parent is necessary to authorize the execution, delivery
or performance by Buyer or Buyer Parent (as applicable) of this Agreement or any
Ancillary Agreements and the consummation by it of the Contemplated
Transactions. This Agreement has been (and the Ancillary Agreements
will be) duly executed and delivered by each of Buyer and Buyer Parent, and,
assuming due and valid authorization, execution and delivery thereof by Seller,
this Agreement constitutes (and the Ancillary Agreements when executed and
delivered will constitute) the legal, valid and binding obligation of each of
Buyer and Buyer Parent, enforceable against Buyer and Buyer Parent (as
applicable) in accordance with their respective terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and
similar Applicable Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought at law or in
equity).
Section
4.03. Consents and Approvals; No
Violations. The execution, delivery and performance by each of
Buyer and Buyer Parent of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which
it is a party and the consummation by each of Buyer and Buyer Parent of the
Contemplated Transactions will not, directly or indirectly (with or without
notice or lapse of time or both), (i) violate, contravene or conflict with any
provision of the certificate of incorporation of Buyer or Buyer Parent (as
applicable); (ii) result in a violation or breach of, or constitute (with or
without due notice or lapse of time or both) a default (or give rise to any
right of termination, cancellation or acceleration) under, any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of any material note, bond, mortgage, indenture, lease,
license, contract, agreement or other instrument or obligation to which Buyer or
Buyer Parent is a party or by which Buyer or Buyer Parent or any of their
properties or assets may be bound; (iii) violate any material Order or
Applicable Law with respect to Buyer or Buyer Parent or any of their properties
or assets; or (iv) require on the part of Buyer or Buyer Parent any filing or
registration with, notification to, or authorization, consent or approval of,
any Governmental Authority, including any foreign Governmental Authority, other
than, in each case, such violations, breaches, defaults, or failures to file or
register that would not have, or could not reasonably be expected to have, a
Material Adverse Effect on Buyer or Buyer Parent.
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4.04. Actions and
Proceedings. There are no (i) outstanding Orders against Buyer
or (ii) Proceedings pending or, to Buyer’s knowledge, threatened in writing
against Buyer or Buyer Parent, except in each case as could not prevent, enjoin,
alter or materially delay the Contemplated Transactions.
Section
4.05. Purchase for
Investment.
(a) Buyer
is an “accredited investor” within the meaning of that term as defined in Rule
501(a) promulgated under the Securities Act.
(b) The
Shares will be acquired for investment for Buyer’s own account and not with a
view to the distribution of any part thereof in violation of the Securities
Act. Buyer does not have any contract, undertaking or agreement with
any Person to sell, transfer, or grant participations with respect to any of the
Shares.
(c) Buyer’s
financial condition is such that it is able to bear the risk of holding the
Shares for an indefinite period of time and can bear the loss of its entire
investment in its Shares.
(d) Buyer
(either alone or together with its advisors) has sufficient knowledge and
experience in financial and business matters so as to be capable of evaluating
the merits and risks of its investment in the Shares and is capable of bearing
the economic risks of such investment.
(e) Buyer
and Buyer Parent acknowledge that the Shares have not been registered under the
Securities Act or under any state or foreign securities laws.
Section
4.06. Financing.
(a) The
Buyer has, and will have on the Closing Date, immediately available cash on hand
from the Buyer’s available internal organization funds or available under a
currently established committed credit facility or unutilized lines of credit
with financial institutions to consummate the Contemplated Transactions and to
perform its obligations hereunder.
(b) Buyer
expressly acknowledges and agrees that its obligations hereunder are not subject
to any conditions, express or implied, regarding Buyer’s ability to obtain
financing (or to obtain financing on terms acceptable to Buyer) for the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions.
Section
4.07. Brokers or
Finders. There is no investment banker, broker, finder or
other intermediary which has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf
of Buyer or Buyer Parent who might be entitled to any fee or commission in
connection with the Contemplated Transactions.
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4.08. Insurance. Except
as otherwise provided in Section 7.14 of this Agreement, each of Buyer and Buyer
Parent acknowledge that, as of the Closing Date, the Acquired Companies will
cease to be entitled to the benefit of insurance arrangements that, prior to the
Closing Date, were extended to it as a Subsidiary of Seller.
Section
4.09. Information Supplied for Proxy
Statement. None of the information supplied or to be supplied
by Buyer or Buyer Parent for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the
Proxy Statement, and any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, will, at the
date the Proxy Statement is first disseminated to the stockholders of Seller and
at the time of Seller Stockholder Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
(a) No Foreign
Status. None of Buyer, Buyer Parent or any Affiliate of Buyer
or Buyer Parent or any intended transferee or assignee from Buyer or Buyer
Parent of the Business, the Acquired Companies or rights hereunder is a “foreign
person” and no aspect of Buyer’s organization, structure, ownership, financing,
operation or otherwise is capable of causing the Contemplated Transactions to be
deemed a “covered transaction” as that term is defined in FINSA, and this
Agreement does not trigger a voluntary notification to the Committee on Foreign
Investments in the United States. For purposes of the foregoing, a “foreign
person” is any foreign national (i.e., an individual who is not a U.S.
national), foreign government, or foreign Person, or any Person over which
control is exercised or exercisable by a foreign national, foreign government,
or any other foreign Person.
Section
4.10. Independent Investigation By Buyer
and Buyer Parent; No Reliance.
(a) The
Buyer Parties have conducted their own independent review and analysis of the
Evaluation Materials, the Acquired Companies, the Business and the assets,
liabilities, results of operations and financial condition of the Acquired
Companies, and acknowledges that the Buyer Parties have been provided access to
the personnel, properties, premises and records of the Acquired Companies for
such purpose and that the Buyer Parties and their Representatives have been
provided with the opportunity to ask questions of the officers and management
employees of the Acquired Companies and Seller and to acquire such additional
information about the Business and the financial condition of the Acquired
Companies as the Buyer Parties and their Representatives have requested; provided, that nothing in
this Section 4.10(a) shall be deemed to modify any of the representations and
warranties of Seller set forth in this Agreement or in any Ancillary
Agreement.
(b) The
Buyer Parties acknowledge and agree that neither Seller nor any Acquired
Company, nor any of their respective Representatives, is making any
representations or warranties whatsoever, express or implied, beyond those
expressly given by Seller in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement. Any
claims which any of the Buyer Parties may have for breach of a representation or
warranty shall be based solely on the representations and warranties of Seller
expressly set forth in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement
will operate to limit the common law liability of Seller for Seller
Fraud.
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Section
4.11. No Additional
Representations. Except for the representations and warranties
contained in this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, neither Buyer, Buyer
Parent nor any of their directors, officers, employees, stockholders, agents,
Affiliates or Representatives, nor any other Person, has made or shall be deemed
to have made any representation or warranty to Seller, express or implied, at
law or in equity. All such other representations and warranties are
expressly disclaimed by Buyer and Buyer Parent.
ARTICLE
V
COVENANTS
OF SELLER
Section
5.01. Conduct of the Business Pending the
Closing. From the date hereof until the earlier of the Closing
Date and the termination of this Agreement, except (A) as set forth on Schedule 5.01, (B) as
required by Applicable Law, (C) as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or
the Ancillary Agreements (including Section 5.06 hereof) or (D) with the prior
consent of Buyer (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or
conditioned), Seller (1) shall conduct the Business, and shall cause each
Acquired Company to conduct the Business in the Ordinary Course of Business,
shall use its Best Efforts to preserve intact, in all material respects, the
present business organization and assets of the Business, and (2) shall
not:
(a) transfer,
issue, sell, encumber or dispose of any equity interests of any Acquired Company
or grant options, warrants, calls or other rights to purchase or otherwise
acquire equity interests or other securities of or any stock appreciation,
phantom stock or other similar right with respect to any Acquired
Company;
(b) effect
any recapitalization, reclassification or any other change in the capitalization
of any Acquired Company;
(c) adopt
a plan of complete or partial liquidation, dissolution or other reorganization
with respect to any Acquired Company;
(d) amend
the Organizational Documents of any Acquired Company (whether by merger,
consolidation or otherwise);
(e) except
after obtaining Buyer’s written consent, hire any new senior-level employees
into any Acquired Company or, except in the Ordinary Course of Business, (A)
increase the annual level of compensation, bonus or any other benefits payable
or to become payable by any Acquired Company to any of its directors or
employees; (B) grant or increase any bonus, severance, termination pay, benefit
or other direct or indirect compensation to any director or employee; or (C)
other than to comply with Applicable Law, enter into, establish, amend or
terminate any employment, consulting, retention, change of control, labor or
collective bargaining, bonus or other incentive compensation, profit sharing,
health or welfare, stock option or other equity, pension, retirement, vacation,
severance or deferred compensation, non-competition or similar agreement, or any
other plan, agreement, program, policy or arrangement for the benefit of
Employees that would constitute an Employee Benefit Plan, to which any Acquired
Company would be a party or otherwise would have any Liability or potential
Liability;
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(f)
make any change in any method of accounting or accounting practice,
except as required by concurrent changes in GAAP, as agreed to by its
independent public accountants, or as required by the FAR or other Applicable
Law or Order of any Governmental Authority including but not limited to the
Defense Contract Audit Agency;
(g) permit
any Acquired Company to enter into or agree to enter into any merger or
consolidation with any corporation or other Person, or acquire any business or
the securities of any other Person (whether by merger, stock purchase, asset
purchase or otherwise);
(h) create
or permit to be created any Liens with respect to the Business or the Assets,
other than Permitted Liens;
(i)
sell or otherwise dispose of any portion of the Business or the
Assets or enter into any Contract to do so, not in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(j)
enter into any Contract which (A) imposes any restriction on the ability
of any Acquired Company to compete in any business or activity within a certain
geographic area, or pursuant to which any benefit or right is required to be
given or lost as a result of so competing, except for teaming or similar
Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business, (B) which grants any
exclusive license, supply or distribution agreement or other exclusive rights,
except for teaming or similar Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of
Business and except for Government Contracts or Government Bids entered into in
the Ordinary Course of Business, (C) which grants any “most favored nation,”
rights of first refusal, rights of first negotiation or similar rights with
respect to any product, service or Intellectual Property Right, except for
teaming or similar Contracts entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business and
except for Government Contracts or Government Bids entered into in the Ordinary
Course of Business, (D) requires the purchase of all or substantially all or a
given portion of the Business’ requirements from a given third party, or
(E) would have any of the foregoing effects on Buyer or any of its
Affiliates after the Closing;
(k) incur,
assume, guarantee or extend any Indebtedness, except in the Ordinary Course of
Business or which will be reflected as an Intercompany Balance or any debt owed
to Seller or its Affiliates which will be eliminated at Closing;
(l)
implement any plant closing or layoff of employee that could
be reasonably expected to implicate the WARN Act;
(m) make,
amend or change any Tax election, change an annual accounting period, adopt or
change any accounting method, make a request for a tax ruling or surrender any
right to claim a refund of Taxes to any of the Acquired Companies, file any
amended Tax Return or any amendment to any previously filed Tax returns (which
may adversely affect any of Buyer, the Acquired Companies or any of their
respective Affiliates for any period ending after the Closing Date), or enter
into any closing agreement or settle or compromise any Tax liability, claim or
assessment (which may adversely affect any of Buyer, the Acquired Companies or
any of their Affiliates for any period ending after the Closing
Date);
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(n) except,
in the case of Section 3.07(d), for teaming agreements entered into in the
Ordinary Course of Business, take any action that would cause the
representations of Section 3.07 to be untrue as of the Closing;
(o) take
any action or omit to take any action that would cause any insurance policy or
coverage applicable to the Acquired Companies, the Assets or the Business to
lapse or not be renewed; or
(p) enter
into any Contract or letter of intent to do anything prohibited by this Section
5.01.
provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, Seller and/or the Acquired Companies may, prior to the Closing, use
all or any portion of the cash of the Acquired Companies to (i) repay any
Indebtedness of the Acquired Companies, or (ii) make distributions to Seller in
the Ordinary Course of Business.
Section
5.02. Access to
Information. From the date hereof until the Closing Date,
Seller will (i) give, and will cause the Acquired Companies to give, Buyer, its
counsel, financial advisors, auditors and other authorized representatives
reasonable access, at reasonable times and during normal business hours, to the
offices, personnel, properties, books and records of the Acquired Companies and
to the books and records of Seller relating to the Acquired Companies and the
Business, (ii) furnish, and cause the Acquired Companies to furnish, to Buyer,
its counsel, financial advisors, auditors and other authorized representatives
such financial and operating data and other information relating to the Acquired
Companies and the Business as such Persons may reasonably request, and (iii)
instruct the employees, counsel and financial advisors of Seller and the
Acquired Companies to cooperate with Buyer’s reasonable requests in its
investigation of the Acquired Companies and the Business; provided, that any
investigation pursuant to this Section 5.02 shall be conducted only upon
reasonable notice by Buyer to Seller and the Acquired Companies in such manner
as not to interfere unreasonably with the conduct of the Business; and provided, further, that
without the prior written consent of Seller, Buyer and its Representatives shall
not be entitled to any such access, information or documents (a) as to
which, pursuant to the advice of Seller’s counsel, the attorney-client privilege
or attorney work-product doctrine applies, (b) the disclosure of which is
restricted by any Applicable Law or Order applicable to Seller or any Acquired
Company, (c) the disclosure to Buyer would cause significant competitive harm to
Seller, the Acquired Companies or an Affiliate of Seller if the Contemplated
Transactions are not consummated, or (d) the disclosure of which contravenes any
Contract entered into prior to the date of this Agreement (including any
confidentiality agreement) to which Seller, the Acquired Companies or any
Affiliate of Seller is a party. In the event that Seller determines
not to provide any access, information or documents to Buyer or any of its
Representatives by reason of clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the immediately
preceding sentence, Seller shall provide Buyer with prompt written notice of
such determination, which notice shall include a description of the access,
information or documents that Seller has determined not to provide.
Section
5.03. Notices of Certain
Events. From the date hereof through the Closing Date, Seller
shall, and shall cause the Acquired Companies to, promptly notify Buyer
of:
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(a) any
written notice or, to the Knowledge of Seller, other communication from any
Person alleging that the consent of such Person is or may be required in
connection with the Contemplated Transactions, except for those consents set
forth on Schedule
3.03(ii)(a) and Schedule
3.03(ii)(b);
(b) any
notice or, to the Knowledge of Seller, other communication from any Governmental
Authority in connection with the Contemplated Transactions;
(c) any
Proceedings commenced or, to the Knowledge of Seller, threatened against,
relating to or involving or otherwise affecting a Seller or the Acquired
Companies that, if pending on the date of this Agreement, would have been
required to have been disclosed pursuant to Section 3.09 or that relate to the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, or any material developments to
any such Proceedings;
(d) any
written notice (or, to the Knowledge of Seller, other communication) received by
Seller or its Affiliates that any of the 2009 Top Customers has ceased, or will
or intends to cease, to use the goods or services of the Acquired Companies, or
has substantially reduced, or will or intends to substantially reduce, the use
of such goods or services at any time, in each case whether as a result of the
transactions contemplated hereby or otherwise;
(e) any
written notice (or, to the Knowledge of Seller, other communication) received by
Seller or its Affiliates that any of the 2009 Top Suppliers has ceased, or will
or intends to cease, selling raw materials, supplies, merchandise, other goods
or services to the Acquired Companies, or has substantially reduced, or will or
intends to substantially reduce, the sale of such raw materials, supplies,
merchandise, other goods or services at any time, in each case on terms and
conditions substantially similar to those used in its current sales to the
Acquired Companies, and in each case whether as a result of the transactions
contemplated hereby or otherwise;
(f)
the occurrence of any breach by Seller of any representation or
warranty or any covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement, promptly
after Seller becomes aware of any such breach; and
(g) the
entering into by Seller or any of the Acquired Companies of any teaming or
similar Contract, Government Contract or Government Bid which (A) imposes any
restriction on the ability of any Acquired Company to compete in any business or
activity within a certain geographic area, or pursuant to which any benefit or
right is required to be given or lost as a result of so competing, (B) grants
any exclusive license, supply or distribution agreement or other exclusive
rights, or (C) grants any “most favored nation,” rights of first refusal, rights
of first negotiation or similar rights with respect to any product, service or
Intellectual Property Right.
Section
5.04. Resignations. Seller
shall cause each officer or member of the respective board of directors of any
Acquired Company that is an employee or officer of Seller to submit his or her
resignation as an officer or a member of such board of directors, effective as
of the Closing Date, other than those Persons whom Buyer specifies to Seller at
least seven (7) days prior the Closing Date.
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Section
5.05. Credit Agreement and
Liens. On or prior to the Closing, Seller shall cause the
release of any and all Liens on the Shares and any of the assets of the Acquired
Companies (except Permitted Liens), including any Liens that are securing any
Indebtedness issued pursuant to any Credit Agreement to which any Acquired
Company, Seller or any Affiliate of Seller is a party (“Seller Credit
Agreement”).
Section
5.06. Employee
Plans. Prior to the Closing, the Company shall have taken all
required action to fully vest all participants in the 401(k) Plan.
Section
5.07. Acquisition
Proposals.
(a) From
the date of this Agreement until the Closing Date or, if earlier, the
termination of this Agreement pursuant to Article X hereof, Seller will not, and
will not authorize or permit any Acquired Company or any Representative of
Seller or any Acquired Company to, directly or indirectly: (i) solicit,
initiate, knowingly encourage, induce or facilitate the making, submission or
announcement of any Competing Transaction Proposal from any Person (other than
Buyer or Buyer Parent, for purposes of this Section 5.07, a “Third Party”) or take any
action that could reasonably be expected to lead to a Competing Transaction
Proposal, (ii) furnish any information regarding any Acquired Company or the
Business to any Third Party in connection with or in response to a Competing
Transaction Proposal or an inquiry or indication of interest that could
reasonably be expected to lead to a Competing Transaction Proposal, (iii) engage
in or continue any discussions or negotiations with any Third Party with respect
to any Competing Transaction Proposal, (iv) approve, endorse or recommend any
Competing Transaction Proposal or (v) enter into any letter of intent or similar
document or any Contract contemplating or otherwise relating to any Competing
Transaction Proposal.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in Section 5.07(a) or any other provision of this
Agreement, if, at any time prior to the Seller Stockholder Approval,
(i) none of Seller, the Acquired Companies or any of Seller’s or Acquired
Companies’ respective Representatives shall have violated any of the
restrictions set forth in this Section 5.07, and (ii) Seller receives
an unsolicited bona fide written Competing Transaction Proposal from a Third
Party and the Seller Board determines in good faith (A) after consulting with
Outside Legal Counsel of National Repute and a financial advisor of nationally
recognized reputation selected by the Seller Board (the “Seller Financial Advisor”)
that such Competing Transaction Proposal is, or is reasonably likely to lead to,
a Superior Proposal, or (B) after consulting with and receiving the advice of
Outside Legal Counsel of National Repute that the failure to take the actions
referred to in clause (x) and (y) below is reasonably likely to result in a
violation of the Seller Board’s fiduciary duties to Seller’s stockholders or
other violation of Applicable Law, Seller may (x) furnish information
with respect to Seller and its Subsidiaries (including, but not limited to, the
Acquired Companies and the Business) to such Third Party, and (y) enter into,
maintain and participate in discussions or negotiations with such Third Party
(on a non-exclusive basis) regarding such Competing Transaction Proposal
(including by requesting that such Third Party amend the terms of such Competing
Transaction Proposal so that it may be a Superior Proposal); provided, that prior to
taking any of the actions specified in the preceding clauses (x) or (y), (i) at
least two (2) Business Days prior to furnishing any such nonpublic
information to, or entering into discussions or negotiations with, such Third
Party, Seller provided Buyer with written notice of the identity of such Third
Party and of Seller’s intention to furnish nonpublic information to, or enter
into discussions or negotiations with, such Third Party, (ii) Seller receives
from such Third Party an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement, and (iii) at
least two (2) Business Days prior to furnishing any such nonpublic information
to such Third Party, Seller furnishes such nonpublic information to Buyer (to
the extent such nonpublic information has not been previously furnished by
Seller to Buyer). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
Seller acknowledges and agrees that any violation of or the taking of any action
inconsistent with any of the restrictions set forth in the preceding sentence by
any Representative of Seller or any Acquired Company, whether or not such
Representative is purporting to act on behalf of Seller or any Acquired Company,
shall be deemed to constitute a breach of this Section 5.07 by
Seller.
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(c) Seller
shall promptly (and in no event later than twenty-four (24) hours after receipt
of any Competing Transaction Proposal, any inquiry or indication of interest
that could lead to a Competing Transaction Proposal or any request for nonpublic
information) advise Buyer orally and in writing of any Competing Transaction
Proposal, any inquiry or indication of interest that could lead to a Competing
Transaction Proposal or any request for nonpublic information relating to any of
the Acquired Companies (including the identity of the Person making or
submitting such Competing Transaction Proposal, inquiry, indication of interest
or request, and the terms thereof) that is made or submitted by any Person
during the Pre-Closing Period. Seller shall keep Buyer fully informed
with respect to the status of any such Competing Transaction Proposal, inquiry,
indication of interest or request and any modification or proposed modification
thereto.
(d) Concurrently
with the execution of this Agreement, Seller shall (i) immediately cease and
cause to be terminated any existing discussions with any Person that relate to
any Competing Transaction Proposal; (ii) as soon as practicable request each
Person that has executed, within twelve (12) months prior to the date of this
Agreement, a confidentiality agreement in connection with its consideration of a
possible Competing Transaction Proposal to return or destroy all confidential
information relating to the Business or any of the Acquired Companies heretofore
furnished to such Person by or on behalf of Seller or any of the Acquired
Companies, subject to whatever rights, if any, that such Person has to retain
any such information or avoid any demand for its return or destruction pursuant
to the terms of the confidentiality agreement between such Person and Seller or
any of the Acquired Companies; and (iii) cause any physical or
virtual data room containing any such information to no longer be accessible to
or by any Person other than Buyer and its Representatives.
(e) Seller
agrees not to release or permit the release of any Person from, or to waive or
permit the waiver of any provision of, any confidentiality, “standstill” or
similar agreement to which Seller or any of the Acquired Companies is a party,
and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to enforce or cause to be
enforced each such agreement relating to the Business or any of the Acquired
Companies (or relating to Seller in any manner which includes the Business or
Acquired Companies) at the request of Buyer; provided, however, that Seller may
release any third party from, or waive any provision of, a confidentiality or
“standstill” provision to which it is a party if the Seller Board determines in
good faith, after having taken into account the advice of its Outside Legal
Counsel of National Repute, that such action is required in order for the Seller
Board to comply with its fiduciary obligations to Seller’s stockholders or other
Applicable Law.
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(f)
Nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or restrict Seller or the
Seller Board from (i) taking and disclosing to its stockholders a position
contemplated by Rules 14d-9 and 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act, or
(ii) making any disclosure to the stockholders of Seller if, in the good faith
judgment of the Seller Board, after having taken into account the advice of its
Outside Legal Counsel of National Repute, the failure to take such action or
make such disclosure would be reasonably likely to result in a violation of the
Seller Board’s fiduciary duties to Seller’s stockholders, or would otherwise
violate Applicable Law.
(g) For
purposes of this Agreement:
(i) “Acceptable Confidentiality
Agreement” means an executed confidentiality agreement containing
customary limitations on the use and disclosure of all nonpublic written and
oral information furnished to such Person by or on behalf of Seller or any
Acquired Company and containing terms no less favorable in any material respect
to Seller in the aggregate than those set forth in the Confidentiality Agreement
(it being understood that such confidentiality agreement and any related
agreements shall not include any provision providing for any exclusive right to
negotiate with Seller or any of the Acquired Companies or having the effect of
prohibiting Seller from satisfying its obligations under this
Agreement).
(ii) “Acquisition Transaction” means
any transaction or series of transactions involving: (a) any merger,
consolidation, share exchange, business combination, issuance of securities,
acquisition of securities, tender offer, exchange offer or other similar
transaction; or (b) any sale (other than sales of inventory in the Ordinary
Course of Business), lease (other than in the Ordinary Course of Business),
exchange, transfer (other than sales of inventory in the Ordinary Course of
Business), license (other than nonexclusive licenses in the Ordinary Course of
Business), acquisition or disposition of assets.
(iii) “Competing Transaction
Proposal” means any inquiry, proposal, indication of interest or offer
from any Third Party contemplating or otherwise relating to any Acquisition
Transaction directly or indirectly involving the Business or any Acquired
Company or assets of the Business or any Acquired Company (including, without
limitation, any Acquisition Transaction involving Seller that would include the
Business, any of the Acquired Companies or any assets of the Business or any
Acquired Company ). Notwithstanding the foregoing and anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement shall be
deemed to restrict in any way the ability of Seller or its Representatives to
encourage, solicit, initiate or engage in discussions or negotiations with any
person, or encourage or solicit proposals from any person, with respect to
either (a) any purchase, sale or other disposition of Seller’s commercial
business (which, for the avoidance of doubt, does not include any of the current
operations of the Acquired Companies or any of its Subsidiaries), whether before
or subsequent to the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, or (b) any
merger, acquisition, consolidation or similar business combination involving the
sale of Seller, whether before or subsequent to the consummation of the
Contemplated Transactions, that either (i) does not include any of the Acquired
Companies or the Assets or (ii) contemplates that the Acquired Companies be sold
to Buyer pursuant hereto, provided that, in the case of any transaction referred
to in clause (a) or (b) above, neither the execution, delivery and/or
performance of any definitive agreement with respect to such transaction, nor
the consummation of such transaction, would be reasonably expected to prevent or
render impractical, or otherwise frustrate or impede in any material respect,
the Contemplated Transactions. No inquiry, proposal, indication of interest or
offer from any Person with respect to any of the transactions referred to in
clauses (a) and (b) of the preceding sentence (as limited by the proviso set
forth in the preceding sentence) shall be deemed to be a Competing Transaction
Proposal.
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(iv) “Outside Legal Counsel of National
Repute” means any of the law firms that prior to the date hereof have
been involved in representing Seller or any Committee of the Board of Directors
of Seller in connection with the Contemplated Transactions and shall also
include any law firm included in the “AmLaw 100” ranking as published by
Incisive Media.
(v) “Superior Proposal” shall mean
an unsolicited, bona fide written Competing Transaction Proposal (in the absence
of any violation of this Section 5.07) that the Seller Board determines, in good
faith, (i) after consulting with Outside Legal Counsel of National Repute and
the Seller Financial Advisor, to be more favorable from a financial point of
view to Seller’s stockholders than the terms of this Agreement or, if
applicable, any written proposal by Buyer to amend the terms of this Agreement,
taking into account all the terms and conditions of such proposal and this
Agreement (including the expected timing and likelihood of consummation and any
governmental, regulatory and other approval requirements) and (ii) to be
reasonably capable of being consummated; provided, however, that any such offer
shall not be deemed to be a “Superior Proposal” if any financing required to
consummate the transaction contemplated by such offer is not committed and is
not reasonably capable of being obtained by such Third Party.
Section
5.08. Disclosure Schedule
Supplements. From time to time prior to the Closing, Seller
will supplement, modify or update the Disclosure Schedules by delivery of the
Disclosure Schedules to Buyer (as so supplemented, modified or updated, each, an
“Updated Disclosure
Schedule”) with respect to any matter hereafter arising which, if
existing or occurring at or prior to the date of this Agreement, would have been
required to be set forth or described in the Disclosure Schedules or which is
necessary to complete or correct any information in such schedule or in any
representation and warranty of Seller which has been rendered inaccurate
thereby. Any such supplements, modifications and updates set forth in
the Updated Disclosure Schedules shall not be deemed to have cured any breach of
any representation or warranty made in this Agreement for purposes of the
indemnifications provided for in Article IX hereof and will not be deemed to
have cured any such breach of representation or warranty made in this Agreement
for purposes of determining whether or not the conditions set forth in Sections
8.01 or 8.02 have been satisfied.
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ARTICLE
VI
COVENANTS
OF THE BUYER PARTIES
The Buyer
Parties agree that:
Section
6.01. Confidentiality. Prior
to the Closing Date and after any termination of this Agreement, Buyer and its
Affiliates will hold, and will use their respective Best Efforts to cause their
respective officers, directors, employees, accountants, counsel, consultants,
advisors and agents to hold, in confidence, unless compelled to disclose by
judicial or administrative process or by other requirements of Applicable Law,
all documents and information concerning the Acquired Companies, Seller or any
of their respective Affiliates furnished to Buyer or its Affiliates in
connection with the Contemplated Transactions, except to the extent that such
information can be shown to have been (i) previously known on a nonconfidential
basis by Buyer, (ii) in the public domain through no fault of Buyer or any of
its Affiliates or (iii) later lawfully acquired by Buyer from sources other than
Seller or the Acquired Companies, which sources are not, to Buyer’s knowledge,
subject to any legally binding obligation to the Acquired Companies to keep such
information confidential; provided, that Buyer may
disclose such information to its officers, directors, employees, accountants,
counsel, consultants, advisors and agents in connection with the Contemplated
Transactions and to its lenders or other Persons in connection with obtaining
the financing for the Contemplated Transactions so long as such Persons are
informed by Buyer of the confidential nature of such information and are
directed by Buyer to treat such information confidentially. The
obligation of Buyer and its Affiliates to hold any such information in
confidence shall be satisfied if they exercise the same care with respect to
such information as they would take to preserve the confidentiality of their own
similar information. If this Agreement is terminated, (x) Buyer and its
Affiliates will, and will use their respective Best Efforts to cause their
respective officers, directors, employees, accountants, counsel, consultants,
advisors and agents and their lenders and such other Persons to, destroy or
deliver to Seller, upon request, all documents and other materials, and all
copies thereof, obtained by Buyer or its Affiliates or on their behalf from
Seller or the Acquired Companies in connection with this Agreement that are
subject to such confidence and (y) Buyer shall certify in writing to Seller that
all documents and other materials subject to the confidentiality restrictions of
this Section 6.01 shall have been destroyed or returned to Seller or Acquired
Companies, as the case may be.
Section
6.02. Access. On and
after the Closing Date, during normal business hours, Buyer shall, and shall
cause each of the Acquired Companies and its other Affiliates to, afford
promptly to Seller and its Representatives reasonable access to their
properties, books of account, financial and other records (including, without
limitation, accountants’ work papers), employees and auditors to the extent
necessary in connection with any audit, investigation, dispute or litigation or
other reasonable business purpose relating to Seller’s rights or obligations
under this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements or otherwise in
connection with the Contemplated Transactions or to determine any matter
relating to any period ending on or before the Closing Date; provided, that any such
access by Seller shall not unreasonably interfere with the conduct of the
business of Buyer and its Subsidiaries.
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Section
6.03. Use of Seller’s
Name.
(a) The
Buyer Parties acknowledge that they are not purchasing or licensing any right,
title or interest in and to the name “TechTeam,” or any variation
thereof, or any other Trademarks of Seller (collectively, “Seller’s Trademarks”) except
as expressly set forth herein; provided, that the term Seller’s Trademarks shall
exclude domain names. Effective as of the Closing Date, any license
agreement pursuant to which Seller or any Affiliate has granted to the Acquired
Companies the right to use any of Seller’s Trademarks shall be deemed cancelled
and of no further force or effect. Buyer shall have the right to use
any and all previously printed stationery, signage, invoices, packaging,
advertising and promotional materials, packing and shipping materials and other
similar materials used or held for use by the Acquired Companies and bearing
Seller’s Trademarks as of the Closing Date (“Existing Inventory”) until the
second anniversary of the Closing Date (the “Transitional Period”). During
the Transitional Period, Seller hereby grants to Buyer a limited, non-exclusive
(subject to the immediately following sentence), non-sublicensable,
non-transferable, royalty-free license to use Seller’s Trademarks in the conduct
of the Business; provided, that as soon as
reasonably practicable but not later than one (1) year after the Closing Date,
to distinguish the Existing Inventory from the materials used by Seller prior to
the Closing Date, Buyer shall institute a procedure whereby a stamp or other
indelible identifying xxxx is affixed to the Existing Inventory in order to
substitute Buyer’s corporate identification for Seller’s Trademarks, which stamp
or xxxx shall (i) use the name “TechTeam” in the form “Formerly part of TechTeam,”
but which shall not use Seller’s Trademarks in any other form or manner; and
(ii) appear more prominently than Seller’s Trademarks on all such
materials. Notwithstanding the non-exclusive nature of the license
granted to Buyer pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence, Seller agrees,
during the Transitional Period, not to use or license for use Seller’s
Trademarks for use in the conduct of any business, which provides, whether as a
prime contractor, subcontractor or otherwise information technology-based and
other professional services to Governmental Authorities. In addition
and notwithstanding the expiration of the Transitional Period, following the
Closing, (i) in the case of each Government Contract to which an Acquired
Company is a party and in which such Acquired Company uses any of Seller’s
Trademarks as part of such Acquired Company’s current or former name, such
Acquired Company may continue to use such Seller’s Trademarks in such Government
Contract (and in any related task orders, purchase orders or delivery orders or
other documents or correspondence) until the change of name agreement that is
required with respect to such Government Contract is submitted by such Acquired
Company to the applicable Governmental Authority and such agreement is accepted
and countersigned by the applicable Governmental Authority and delivered to such
Acquired Company and becomes effective (and Buyer shall cause such Acquired
Company to make such submission within thirty (30) days following the Closing
Date); (ii) in the case of each other Contract to which an Acquired Company is a
party and in which such Acquired Company uses any of Seller’s Trademarks as part
of such Acquired Company’s current or former name, such Acquired Company may
continue to use such Seller’s Trademarks in such Contract (and in any related
documents or correspondence) until such Contract is amended or otherwise
modified to reflect such name change (and Buyer shall cause such Acquired
Company to provide written notice of its name change to the other parties to
such Contract within thirty (30) days following the Closing Date); (iii) each
Acquired Company may continue to use any of Seller’s Trademarks (to the extent
part of such Acquired Company’s current or former name) in any documents or
correspondence related to its filings to qualify to do business or other
regulatory filings until such qualifications or filings are amended or otherwise
modified to reflect such name change (and Buyer shall cause such Acquired
Company to file such amendments or modifications within thirty (30) days
following the Closing Date); and (iv) each Acquired Company (to the extent that
its former name includes any of Seller’s Trademarks) may indicate that it was
formerly known by such name. Notwithstanding anything in this Section
6.03 to the contrary, to the extent that there is no specific change of name
process with respect to a Government Contract, Buyer shall use its Best Efforts
to discontinue use of Seller’s Trademarks, as used in connection with such
Government Contract, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Closing
Date.
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(b) During
the Transitional Period, Buyer shall maintain the Business in connection with
which Seller’s Trademarks are used at a level of quality equal to or greater
than the level of quality maintained by Seller as of the Closing Date. Buyer
agrees that immediately upon termination of the Transitional Period, Buyer shall
cease all further use of Seller’s Trademarks. Buyer shall use its Best Efforts
to fully correct and remedy, or cause to be corrected and remedied, any
deficiencies in its use of Seller’s Trademarks, the quality of the products and
services associated with the Business using Seller’s Trademarks, and the
advertising and promotion thereof, upon notice from Seller.
(c) Buyer
agrees that neither Buyer, nor any of its Affiliates (including the Acquired
Companies) shall use, directly or indirectly, Seller’s Trademarks or any marks
similar thereto, as part of Buyer’s or any of its Affiliates own trade names or
in any other way that suggests that there is any relation or affiliation between
Seller or any of Seller’s Affiliates and Buyer, or any of Buyer’s Affiliates, or
as a trademark, service xxxx or trade name for any other business, product, or
service. Buyer and its Affiliates shall have no rights to use Seller’s
Trademarks except as expressly provided in Section 6.03(a) hereof and shall not
claim any other rights therein. All rights not expressly granted in this
Agreement or herein are reserved to Seller and Seller’s Affiliates.
(d) Neither
Buyer nor any of its Affiliates shall directly or indirectly, contest the
validity of, by act or omission jeopardize, or take any action inconsistent
with, Seller’s rights or goodwill in Seller’s Trademarks (including attempting
to register any of Seller’s Trademarks or any xxxx confusingly similar
thereto).
(e) All
rights and goodwill arising from the use of Seller’s Trademarks shall inure
solely to Seller’s benefit and Buyer agrees to assign to Seller and does hereby
assign to Seller all rights that Buyer, the Acquired Companies or any other
Affiliates of Buyer may acquire, if any, by operation of law or otherwise, in
any of Seller’s Trademarks, along with the goodwill associated
therewith.
(f) Buyer
will, effective at the Closing Date or as soon thereafter as reasonably
practicable, cause an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of each
Acquired Company to become effective changing the name of such entity to delete
the name “TechTeam” to
the extent such Acquired Company’s name contains the word “TechTeam.”
(g) Buyer
acknowledges and agrees that it would be difficult to measure the damages that
might result from any actual or threatened breach by it of this Section 6.03 and
that such actual or threatened breach by it may result in immediate, irreparable
and continuing injury to Seller and that a remedy at law for any such actual or
threatened breach may be inadequate. Accordingly, Buyer agrees that Seller, in
its sole discretion and in addition to any other remedies it may have at law or
in equity, shall be entitled to seek temporary, preliminary and permanent
injunctive relief or other equitable relief, issued by a court of competent
jurisdiction, in case of any such actual or threatened breach (without the
necessity of actual injury being proved).
(h) Buyer’s
rights under the transitional license provided for in this Section 6.03 are
personal and may not be sublicensed, assigned, encumbered, pledged or otherwise
transferred.
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Section
6.04. Contact with Customers and
Suppliers. Prior to the Closing, Buyer shall not, and shall
cause its advisors, agents and Affiliates and any employees, directors or
officers thereof, not to, contact and communicate with the employees,
consultants, customers, suppliers, licensors or other Persons having a business
or commercial relationship with any of the Acquired Companies in connection with
the transactions contemplated hereby without the prior written consent of
Seller, which consent may be conditioned upon a representative of Seller being
present at any such meeting or conference.
Section
6.05. Release of
Obligations.
(a) Buyer
or Buyer Parent shall use their Best Efforts to cause Buyer or Buyer Parent to
be substituted for Seller in all respects, effective as of the Closing, in
respect of all obligations of Seller and its Affiliates (other than the Acquired
Companies) under any Seller Guaranty. Following the Closing, with
respect to any Seller Guaranty for which no such substitution is effected, Buyer
shall, and shall cause the Acquired Companies to, indemnify Seller and its
Affiliates against any Loss (as defined below) incurred under any such Seller
Guaranty.
(b) To
the extent Seller and its Affiliates are not released from all obligations and
liabilities under a Seller Guaranty, Buyer shall not renew or extend any
obligation or agreement to which any such Seller Guaranties relate or amend the
same in any way that would increase Seller’s or its Affiliate’s potential
liability or obligations thereunder without first obtaining and delivering to
Seller or its Affiliate a written release by the beneficiary thereof of all
liability of Seller or its Affiliate with respect thereto, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Seller and its counsel.
(c) To
the extent that Seller or Affiliate of Seller is party to any agreement that is
used both by an Acquired Company or primarily in the Business and in the
businesses of Seller or any Affiliate of Seller, which agreements are set forth
on Schedule
6.05(c) (the “Shared
Agreements”), Seller and any applicable Affiliate of Seller shall use
their respective Best Efforts to amend any Shared Agreement so that it no longer
covers any Acquired Company or the Business, and Buyer and any applicable
Affiliate of Buyer shall use their respective Best Efforts to negotiate and
execute separate agreements (and Seller shall cooperate in such efforts that do
not require the payment of money or the undertaking of any obligation) to be
entered into by an Acquired Company, Buyer or an Affiliate of Buyer on the one
hand and the third party to the Shared Agreement on the other, on or prior to
the Closing Date. If any Shared Agreement continues to cover an Acquired Company
or the Business after the Closing Date, then Buyer shall indemnify and hold
harmless Seller, in accordance with Section 9.03, from and against all Losses
related to or arising out of the Business or the Acquired Companies under any
such Shared Agreement other than any Losses that arise out of Seller’s or an
Affiliate of Seller’s failure to comply with the terms of such Shared Agreement
(provided, that the
applicable Acquired Company is in compliance with the terms of such Shared
Agreement as it relates to such Acquired Company or the
Business).
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(d) If
Seller or any applicable Affiliate of Seller are unable to amend any Shared
Agreement so that it does not cover any Acquired Company or the Business, or
Buyer or its applicable Affiliate is unable to negotiate and execute a separate
agreement to be entered into by an Acquired Company, Buyer or an applicable
Affiliate of Buyer on the one hand and the third party to the Shared Agreement
on the other, notwithstanding Buyer’s or its applicable Affiliate’s and Seller’s
or it’s applicable Affiliate’s commercially reasonable efforts, Seller or its
applicable Affiliate shall use its Best Efforts to sublicense, sublease or
assign in part to an Acquired Company effective as of the Closing Date any such
Shared Agreement in a manner sufficient for such Acquired Company to continue to
use such Shared Agreement to the extent used prior to the Closing Date. Buyer
shall indemnify and hold harmless Seller, in accordance with Section 9.03, from
and against all Losses related to or arising out of any such sublicense,
sublease or assignment of a Shared Agreement other than any Losses that arise
out of Seller’s or its Affiliate’s failure to comply with the terms of such
sublicense, sublease or assignment of a Shared Agreement (provided, that the applicable
Acquired Company is in compliance with the terms of such sublicense, sublease or
assignment of a Shared Agreement as it relates to such Acquired Company or the
Business).
Section
6.06. Acknowledgment of Discontinuation of
Services. Buyer acknowledges and agrees that, except as
provided for in the Transition Services Agreement, from and after the Closing,
Seller and its Affiliates will not be providing any Shared Services (including,
but not limited to, administration, data processing, accounting, tax, treasury,
insurance, banking, personnel, legal, and communications) to the Acquired
Companies or the Business, any agreements or understandings (written or oral)
with respect thereto shall terminate on the Closing Date, and Buyer shall be
obligated, at its own cost and expense, to arrange for or otherwise procure
replacement services for the Shared Services.
Section
6.07. Guarantee by Buyer
Parent. Buyer Parent hereby guarantees the performance by
Buyer of all of Buyer’s obligations under this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements to which Buyer is a party; provided, that Seller shall have first
followed the procedures set forth in Section 9.06.
ARTICLE
VII
OTHER
COVENANTS OF THE BUYER PARTIES AND SELLER
The Buyer
Parties and Seller agree that:
Section
7.01. Best Efforts; Further
Assurances. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, the Buyer Parties and Seller will use their respective Best Efforts
to take, or cause to be taken (including by causing any Affiliates to take
actions), all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or
desirable under Applicable Laws to consummate the Contemplated Transactions,
including (i) preparing and filing as promptly as practicable with any
Governmental Authority or other third party all documentation to effect all
necessary filings, notices, petitions, statements, registrations, submissions of
information, applications and other documents, and (ii) obtaining and
maintaining all approvals, consents, registrations, permits, authorizations and
other confirmations required to be obtained from any Governmental Authority or
other third party that are necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the
Contemplated Transactions; provided, that none of the
Buyer Parties or any of their respective Affiliates or Representatives shall
have any communication with any Governmental Authority regarding any Material
Contract without the prior express written consent of Seller.
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(a) Except
as otherwise prohibited by Applicable Law, each Party hereto shall promptly
inform the other of any communication from any Governmental Authority regarding
any of the Contemplated Transactions. If any Party or affiliate thereof receives
a request for additional information or documentary material from any such
Governmental Authority with respect to the Contemplated Transactions, then such
Party will endeavor in good faith to make, or cause to be made, as soon as
reasonably practicable and after consultation with the other Party, an
appropriate response in compliance with such request.
(b) Seller
and the Buyer Parties shall, with respect to a threatened or pending preliminary
or permanent injunction or other order, decree or ruling or statute, rule,
regulation or executive order that would adversely affect the ability of the
Parties hereto to consummate the Contemplated Transactions, use their respective
Best Efforts to prevent the entry, enactment or promulgation thereof, as the
case may be.
(c) Seller
and the Buyer Parties agree, and Seller, prior to the Closing, and the Buyer
Parties, after the Closing, agree to cause the Acquired Companies, to execute
and deliver such other documents, certificates, agreements and other writings
and to take such other actions as may be necessary or desirable in order to
consummate or implement expeditiously the Contemplated
Transactions.
Section
7.02. Certain Filings.
(a) Seller
and the Buyer Parties shall cooperate with one another (i) in determining
whether any action by or in respect of, or filing with, any Governmental
Authority is required, or any actions, consents, approvals or waivers are
required to be obtained from parties to any Material Contracts or Government
Contracts, in connection with the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions,
and (ii) in taking such actions or making any such filings, furnishing
information required in connection therewith and seeking timely to obtain any
such actions, consents, approvals or waivers.
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing or any other provision in this Agreement to the contrary, nothing
in this Section 7.02 shall require, or be deemed to require, any Party to enter
into any settlement, undertaking, consent decree, stipulation, or agreement with
any Governmental Authority in connection with the Contemplated
Transactions or divest or otherwise hold separate (including by
establishing a trust or otherwise), or take any other action (or otherwise agree
to do any of the foregoing) with respect to any of their respective Affiliates,
Business, assets or properties.
Section
7.03. Intercompany
Balances. Buyer and Seller acknowledge and agree that, as of
the Closing Date, all Intercompany Balances shall be eliminated, either through
the capitalization, dividend and/or cancellation of such Intercompany Balances
but in any case in a manner which shall not result in any Tax Liabilities for
any of the Acquired Companies, such that, as of the Closing Date and thereafter,
no amounts shall be payable (a) by any of the Acquired Companies to any Person
in respect of any Intercompany Balances or (b) to any of the Acquired Companies
by Seller or any of its Affiliates in respect of any Intercompany Balances, as
the case may be. For the avoidance of doubt, any Taxes of any of the
Acquired Companies arising from such elimination shall be for the account of and
paid by Seller. At least five (5) Business Days prior to the
elimination of the Intercompany Balances as described in this Section 7.03,
Seller shall notify Buyer in writing, in reasonable detail, as to the manner in
which such elimination of the Intercompany Balances is to occur, which shall be
reasonably satisfactory to Buyer.
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Section
7.04. Public
Announcements.
(a) Set
forth as Exhibit
E hereto is a form of press release with respect to the execution of this
Agreement which has been approved for issuance by Buyer Parties and set forth as
Exhibit F
hereto is a form of press release with respect to the execution of this
Agreement which has been approved for issuance by Seller. Seller and
the Buyer Parties shall not issue any other 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, delayed or conditioned) unless, in the
reasonable judgment of Seller or Buyer, as applicable, disclosure (including
disclosures provided in securities filings made by Buyer, Buyer’s Affiliates,
Seller or Seller’s Affiliates) is otherwise required by Applicable Law
(including the United States securities laws) or the rules and regulations of
any stock exchange on which the securities of such Party (or an Affiliate of
such Party) may be listed or traded; provided, that, to the extent
any such disclosure is required by Applicable Law or the rules and regulations
of any such stock exchange, the Party intending to make such disclosure shall
use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with Applicable Law to
consult with the other Party with respect to the content and timing of any such
disclosure before such disclosure is made.
(b) Seller
and the Buyer Parties will consult with each other concerning the means by which
employees, customers, suppliers and others having dealings with the Acquired
Companies will be informed of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby, and Seller and the Acquired Companies will have the right to be present
for any such communication.
(c) The
restrictions contained in this Section 7.04 shall not apply to any Seller
communications regarding (i) a Competing Transaction Proposal that the Seller
Board determines in good faith (after consultation with outside counsel and the
Seller Financial Advisor) constitutes or is reasonably likely to lead to a
Superior Proposal, (ii) the determination by the Seller Board to withdraw or
modify, in a manner adverse to Buyer, its approval or recommendation of this
Agreement or the Contemplated Transactions, or (iii) as otherwise contemplated
by this Agreement, including, but not limited to, Sections 5.07 and 7.11
hereof.
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Section
7.05. Post-Closing Employment and
Benefits.
(a) 401(k) Plan. Prior
to the Closing, the Acquired Companies and the Seller shall make, or cause to be
made, all contributions and pay all premiums under each Employee Plan with
respect to periods ending on or prior to the Closing (such that no additional
contributions shall be due or required on or after the Closing). At
least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing, the Acquired Companies shall
transfer to Seller (i) “sponsorship” of the 401(k) Plan and (ii) all of their
obligations with respect to the 401(k) Plan and all trusts relating to the
401(k) Plan. At least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing but
after the occurrence of the transfers referenced above, the Seller or the
Acquired Companies shall take or cause to be taken any actions (and obtain from
Buyer advance written approval of such actions (which approval shall not be
unreasonably conditioned, withheld or delayed)) that are necessary in order to
(including, but not limited to, adopting Board of Director resolutions of the
401(k) Plan sponsor necessary to accomplish the following) (A) terminate the
401(k) Plan or to merge the 401(k) Plan into Seller’s 401(k) plan; (B) fully
vest all participants in the 401(k) Plan; and (C) freeze contributions with
respect to employees of the Acquired Companies, all effective as of the day
before the Closing Date. If Seller elects to terminate the 401(k) Plan, it shall
promptly file for a final determination letter with respect to the 401(k) Plan
on IRS form 5310 and, once such determination letter is received, promptly
process terminal 401(k) Plan distributions. If Seller elects to merge
the 401(k) Plan into its 401(k) plan, if it eventually elects to terminate such
401(k) plan, it shall promptly file for a final determination letter with
respect to such 401(k) plan on IRS form 5310 and, once such determination letter
is received, promptly process terminal 401(k) plan distributions.
(b) Other Employee Plans. Prior
to the Closing, and except for (i) accrued leave entitlements for the
Transferred Employees to the extent reflected on the Closing Balance Sheet; (ii)
the TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. Health Flexible Spending Account Plan;
(iii) the TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. Dependent Care Flexible Spending
Account Plan; (iv) the TechTeam Government Solutions Tuition Reimbursement Plan;
and (v) the TechTeam Government Solutions Employee Referral Bonus Program, the
Acquired Companies and the Seller shall take or cause to be taken any actions
that are necessary in order to (A) pay all benefits due participants in the
Employee Plans and (B) transfer to the Seller (1) each of the Employee Plans and
(2) all Liabilities associated with the Employee Plans. With respect
to the TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. Health Flexible Spending Account Plan
(“FSA Plan”) and the
TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
Plan (“DFSA Plan”),
Seller shall cause the Closing Balance Sheet to include as a liability the
aggregate amount of all “negative account balances” in excess of Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars ($25,000). For the purposes of this Agreement, the
term “negative account balances” shall mean, with respect to each participant in
the FSA Plan or the DFSA Plan who has, as of the Closing and with respect to the
current relevant plan year, submitted reimbursement requests (“Closing Reimbursement
Requests”) in excess of the amount withheld from such individual’s pay as
of the Closing with respect to the FSA or the DFSA (determined under each of the
FSA and DFSA individually) (“Closing Withholdings”), the
excess of the Closing Reimbursement Requests over the Closing
Withholdings. If Buyer recoups more than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
($25,000) of the FSA and DCAP negative account balances that exist at the
Closing (through deductions from the pay of such individuals having negative
account balances) between the Closing and the end of the calendar year in which
the Closing occurs, Buyer shall pay Seller an amount equal to the amount so
recouped in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000). With
respect to the TechTeam Government Solutions Employee Referral Bonus Program
(“Referral Program”),
prior to the Closing, Seller shall pay or cause to be paid the full amount of
all referral bonuses that become due or payable under the Referral Program on or
prior to the Closing (for purposes of this Agreement, the 90-day employment
anniversary of the referred employee is deemed to be the date on which such
payments are due and payable under the Referral Program). Buyer shall
cause to be paid the full amount of all referral bonuses that become due or
payable to any Transferred Employee under the Referral Program after the
Closing, limited to the amounts set forth with respect to each such Transferred
Employee on Schedule
7.05(b)(i). With respect to the TechTeam Government Solutions
Tuition Reimbursement Plan (“Tuition Plan”), prior to the
Closing, Seller shall pay or cause to be paid the full amount of all
reimbursements that become due or payable under the Tuition Plan on or prior to
the Closing (for purposes of this Agreement, the date on which each such
employee successfully completes any relevant course is deemed to be the date on
which such reimbursements are due and payable under the Tuition
Plan). Buyer shall cause to be paid the full amount of all
reimbursements that become due or payable to any Transferred Employee under the
Tuition Plan after the Closing, limited to the amounts set forth with respect to
each such Transferred Employee on Schedule 7.05(b)(ii).
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(c) TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc.
Government Incentive Plan. The Company shall continue to
sponsor the GIP immediately after the Closing. Buyer shall not and
shall ensure that the Company does not designate any Person as eligible for
participation in the GIP.
(d) Post-Closing
Employment. Except as set forth on Schedule 7.05(d)(i),
on the Closing Date, Buyer intends to offer employment to, cause one of its
Affiliates to offer employment to, or cause the Acquired Companies to initially
continue to employ all Employees employed by any Acquired Company as of the
Closing Date with initial salaries, annual target bonus amounts and benefits
that are substantially comparable in the aggregate to the salaries, annual
target bonus amounts and benefits available to such Employees as of the date
hereof. The Employees listed on Schedule 7.05(d)(ii)
as updated through the Closing Date to reflect the termination of employment of
any Employees or the hiring of any new employees pursuant to Section
5.01(e), who accept offers of employment from, and commence employment
with, Buyer, one of its Affiliates, or otherwise remain employed with any of the
Acquired Companies are referred to herein as the “Transferred
Employees.” Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement,
nothing herein shall require Buyer or any other entity to employ any of the
Transferred Employees for any specified period of time following the Closing
Date. Seller shall cause the employer of each individual listed on Schedule 7.05(d)(i)
to be terminated on the day prior to the Closing and shall be solely responsible
for any and all Liabilities (including, but not limited to, Liabilities for
compensation, benefits and severance) with respect to such
individuals.
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(e) Employee Plans. Except
as otherwise expressly set forth herein or except as set forth on Schedule 7.05(e),
effective as of the Closing Date, the participation of each Employee and the
spouse, former spouse, domestic partner, dependent and beneficiary of any
Employee, and all service credits and benefit accruals under the Employee Plans
with respect to any of such persons, shall cease. Transferred Employees
shall be given credit for all service with an Acquired Company, Seller or
Seller’s Affiliates, as applicable, (or to any predecessors thereof) under the
applicable benefit plans of Buyer, for purposes of eligibility to participate,
vesting and, as to welfare and benefit plans and vacation benefits, future
benefit accruals under those employee benefit plans to the same extent as such
service was credited for such purpose under any of the applicable similar
Employee Plans, except that no such service shall be required to be credited for
purposes of determining benefit accruals under any defined benefit plan.
In addition, Buyer shall assume all accrued leave entitlements for the
Transferred Employees to the extent reflected on the Closing Balance Sheet as
well as the liabilities set forth on Schedule
7.05(e). In addition, with respect to the then-current
plan year of the Buyer, Buyer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (A)
waive, or cause its insurance carriers to waive, all limitations as to
pre-existing and at-work conditions, if any, with respect to participation and
coverage requirements applicable to employees under any group health, dental or
vision plan that is made available to Transferred Employees following the
Closing Date (each, a “Buyer
Plan”), and (B) subject to agreement from any applicable insurance
carrier or third party administrator to allow such credits, provide credit to
Transferred Employees under each Buyer Plan for any (i) deductibles and
out-of-pocket expenses paid by such Transferred Employees under the group
health, dental and vision plans in which they participated immediately prior to
the Closing Date and (ii) health care and dependent care flexible spending
account balances of Transferred Employees such that Transferred Employees will
be treated as if their participation had been continuous from the beginning of
the then-current plan year, provided that Buyer’s obligation under this
subsection (B) shall be conditioned on Seller providing (within 5 business of
the Closing) each such Buyer Plan with accurate written information relating to
the amount each Transferred Employee paid for deductibles and out-of-pocket
expenses during the then-current plan year, separately with respect to each
group health, dental, and vision plan in which such Transferred Employee
participated immediately prior to the Closing credits as well as current health
and dependent care flexible spending account balances for each such Transferred
Employee. For purposes of Buyer providing the credits described in subsection
(B) of the immediately preceding sentence, Seller shall deliver to Buyer within
thirty (30) business days after the Closing Date a supplement to the written
information required by such subsection that will account for the period
beginning on the first day of the then-current plan year and ending on the
Closing Date.
(f) COBRA
Obligations. For the sake of clarity, in accordance with
Treasury Regulation §54.4980B-9, Q&A 7, the Seller shall be and is solely
responsible for providing continuation coverage under Part 6, Title I of ERISA
and Section 4980B of the Code (“COBRA Continuation Coverage”)
to all M&A qualified beneficiaries (determined in accordance with Treasury
Regulation §54.4980B-9, Q&A 4) with respect all Employee Benefit Plans
(including, but not limited to, any “cafeteria plan”). Seller shall
take all steps that may be necessary, including arranging for continued group
health plan coverage for the COBRA Continuation Coverage period for each M&A
qualified beneficiary, to ensure that such COBRA Continuation Coverage is
available to such individuals and to ensure that the provisions of Treasury
Regulation §54.4980B-9, Q&A 8 do not become applicable at any time to
require Buyer or the Buyer Plans (or Buyer’s Affiliates or their benefit plans)
to provide COBRA Continuation Coverage to such M&A Qualified Beneficiaries,
and shall take such other steps as may be necessary to prevent Buyer from
becoming by operation of such regulation section or otherwise, a “successor
employer” for purposes of COBRA Continuation Coverage. For
purposes hereof, "qualified beneficiary", "M&A qualified beneficiaries",
"group health plan" and "qualifying event" shall have the meanings ascribed
thereto in Section 4980B of the Code and the related regulations. Seller shall
also comply with the group health care continuation requirements described in
the Transition Services Agreement.
(g) Non-Availability of Employee Plans
Following Closing; Employee Plan Liabilities. Buyer
acknowledges that, except as set forth in Sections 7.05(b) and 7.05(c), none of
the Employee Plans will be transferred to Buyer or the Acquired Companies by
Seller or its Affiliates. Except for accrued leave entitlements for
the Transferred Employees to the extent reflected on the Closing Balance Sheet
and except as set forth in Section 7.05(b), Seller shall assume, retain and be
solely responsible for all Liabilities with respect to the Employee Plans
whether arising before, on or after the Closing Date.
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(h) Employment Termination Liabilities;
Severance. Following the Closing Date, Buyer shall cause the
Acquired Companies to assume and discharge all Liabilities with respect to the
Transferred Employees under the WARN Act or any similar state or local
Applicable Law arising as a result of actions taken by Buyer with respect to the
Transferred Employees after the Closing.
(i) No Amendment; No Limitation on
Amendment; No Right to Employment; No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. No provision of this Agreement, express or
implied: (i) shall be construed to establish, amend, or modify any benefit plan,
program, agreement, or arrangement; (ii) shall limit the ability of the Buyer or
any of its Affiliates to amend, modify or terminate any benefit plan, program,
agreement or arrangement at any time assumed, established, sponsored or
maintained by any of them; (iii) is intended to confer upon any current or
former employee (including any Transferred Employee) or any other Person any
right to employment or continued employment for any period of time by reason of
this Agreement, or any right to a particular term or condition of employment; or
(iv) is intended to confer upon any Person (including any Transferred Employee)
any rights as a third party beneficiary.
Section
7.06. Preservation of
Records. Seller and Buyer agree that each of them shall
preserve and keep the records held by them relating to the Business or the
Acquired Companies for a period of seven (7) years from the Closing Date and
shall make such records and personnel available to the other as may be
reasonably requested by such Party in connection with, among other things, any
federal securities disclosure, Tax audits, any insurance claims by or legal
proceedings against or governmental investigations of Seller or Buyer or any of
their Affiliates or in order to enable Seller or Buyer to comply with their
respective obligations under this Agreement and each other agreement, document
or instrument contemplated hereby. The requesting Party or its Representatives
shall be permitted to make copies of such records, in each case at no cost to
the requesting Party or its Representatives (other than for reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses); provided, however, that nothing herein shall require
either Party to make such records available to the other (or to require a Party
to make any employees or auditors available to the other) to the extent that the
resulting disclosure would (a) jeopardize any attorney-client or other legal
privilege, (b) contravene any Applicable Law or Order, or (c) contravene any
Contract entered into prior to the Closing Date (including any confidentiality
agreement) (provided, that, in the case of each of clauses (a) through (c)
above, the applicability of such prohibitions shall be determined after taking
into account any reasonable proposals made by the requesting Party or its
Representative, and reasonably acceptable to the Party responsible for
preserving and keeping such records or making such employees or auditors
available (or causing such records to be preserved and kept or such employees or
auditors to be made available), to limit or restrict access to such records (or
the contents thereof) or such disclosures by such employees or auditors, or the
use thereof, or to treat any such records (or the contents thereof), or such
disclosures by such employees or auditors, as confidential, or to enter into a
joint defense agreement, in order to avoid jeopardizing such privilege or
status, violating such restrictions under such Applicable Law or Order, or
contravening such Contract).
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Section
7.07. Mail and
Communications. Except as otherwise required by Applicable
Law, Seller shall promptly remit to Buyer any mail or other communications of
the Acquired Companies received by Seller from and after the Closing
Date. Buyer shall cause the Acquired Companies to promptly remit to
Seller any mail or other communications of Seller received by the Acquired
Companies from and after the Closing Date.
Section
7.08. Tax Matters.
(a) Seller
and Buyer shall each pay, in a due and timely manner, one-half of all sales,
use, value added, documentary, stamp duty, registration, transfer, transfer
gain, conveyance, excise, recording, license and other similar taxes and fees,
including any interest, penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts in
respect of the foregoing (“Transfer Taxes”) arising out
of or in connection with or attributable to the Contemplated
Transactions. Buyer and Seller may agree in writing that one Party
bears a specific Transfer Tax. Seller shall prepare all Tax Returns
in respect of Transfer Taxes; provided, however, that any such Tax
Returns shall be delivered to Buyer no later than twenty (20) Business Days
before filing for approval by Buyer, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed. Seller shall file all such Tax
Returns. Buyer shall reasonably cooperate with Seller in connection
with their obligations under this Section 7.08(a).
(b) Within
five (5) months of the Closing, Buyer will provide to Seller any items as Seller
may reasonably request in writing for the preparation of an income Tax Return
for the Pre-Closing Tax Period. Seller will prepare, in a manner
consistent with past practice and at its own cost, and file in a due and timely
basis all Tax Returns with respect to the Acquired Companies that (i) relate to
an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group which includes both
Seller and an Acquired Company (“Seller’s Consolidated Tax
Returns”) or (ii) do not include any period after the Closing
Date. Seller shall deliver copies of each such Pre-Closing Tax Return
(and the portion of any such Seller’s Consolidated Tax Return relating to any of
the Acquired Companies) to Buyer no later than twenty (20) calendar days before
filing for Buyer’s review, comment and approval, which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed, along with payment for any Tax due on such Tax
Return that have not been reserved or accrued for by the Acquired Companies for
purposes of calculating the Closing NTBV. Seller shall within twenty
(20) Business Days provide to Buyer copies of any Pre-Closing Tax Return (and
the portion of Seller’s Consolidated Tax Return relating to any of the Acquired
Companies) filed, in each case together with proof of full payment of all
liabilities shown thereon and evidence of timely filing thereof.
(c) Buyer
shall prepare and file in a due and timely basis all other Straddle Period Tax
Returns (which Tax Returns shall be prepared in a manner consistent with the
historic tax accounting practices of the Acquired Companies, except as otherwise
required under Applicable Law). Seller shall provide to Buyer any
items as Buyer may reasonably request in writing for the preparation of the
Straddle Period Tax Returns. Buyer shall deliver to Seller copies of
such Tax Returns (other than any such Tax Returns that are filed on a monthly
basis) no later than twenty (20) calendar days (taking into consideration
applicable extension periods) before filing for approval by Seller, which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Seller shall
pay Buyer the amount representing the liability for Pre-Closing Taxes on such
Straddle Period Tax Returns that have not been reserved or accrued for by the
Acquired Companies for purposes of calculating the Closing NTBV or any
Pre-Closing Tax Return promptly after such approval is given, but in no event
later than the due date (taking into consideration applicable extension periods)
for filing such Tax Returns. Buyer shall within ten (10) Business
Days provide to Seller copies of any Straddle Period Tax Return filed, in each
case together with proof of full payment of all liabilities shown thereon and
evidence of timely filing thereof.
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(d) Seller
shall notify Buyer of any audit, claim for refund or other Tax proceedings (any
such audit, claim for refund or other Tax proceedings being referred to herein
as a “Contest”) of any
Seller’s Consolidated Tax Return within ten (10) Business Days of receipt and
reasonably allow the applicable Acquired Company and its counsel to participate
in that portion of the Contest that relates to such Acquired
Company. Seller shall not settle any Contest of any of its
consolidated, combined or unitary income Tax Returns to the extent that such
Contest relates to any Acquired Company in a manner that would adversely affect
any Acquired Company after the Closing without the prior written consent of
Buyer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. To the extent reasonably practical, Seller shall regularly
consult with Buyer regarding the status and defense of any such
Contest.
(e) In
the case of a Contest that relates to a Pre-Closing Tax Period that ends on or
before the Closing Date, Seller shall be entitled to control such
Contest. Seller shall notify Buyer of such Contest within ten (10)
Business Days of receipt and reasonably allow the applicable Acquired Company
and its counsel to participate in that portion of the Contest that relates to
such Acquired Company. Seller shall not settle any Contest under this
Section 7.08(e) to the extent that such settlement would adversely affect any
Acquired Company for any Post-Closing Tax Period without the prior written
consent of Buyer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. To the extent reasonably practical, Seller shall regularly
consult with Buyer regarding the status and defense of any such
Contest.
(f) In
the case of a Contest that relates to a Straddle Period, Buyer shall be entitled
to control such Contest. Seller shall have the right to participate
in any portion of such Contest that relates to a period ending on the Closing
Date at its own expense. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Buyer shall
not settle any Contest that relates to a Straddle Period of any Acquired Company
to the extent that such settlement would adversely affect any Acquired Company
for any Pre-Closing Tax Period without the prior written consent of Seller,
which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(g)
As used in this Agreement, the following definitions shall
apply:
(i) “Pre-Closing Tax Period” shall
mean any Tax period ending on or prior to the Closing Date and the portion of a
Straddle Period ending as of the close of business Eastern Time on the Closing
Date.
(ii) “Pre-Closing Tax Return” shall
mean a Tax Return with respect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period.
(iii) “Post-Closing Tax Period” shall
mean any Tax period beginning after the Closing Date and the portion of a
Straddle Period beginning after the Closing Date.
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(iv) “Pre-Closing Taxes” shall mean
(i) all Liability for Taxes of any of the Acquired Companies for Pre-Closing Tax
Periods (including for a Straddle Period, as allocated to a Pre-Closing Tax
Period in accordance with Section 7.08(g)(vi) below), (ii) all Liability
resulting by reason of the liability of the Acquired Companies pursuant to
Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 or any analogous state, local or foreign
Applicable Law or regulation, or by reason of an Acquired Company having been on
or prior to the Closing Date a member of any affiliated, consolidated, combined
or unitary group, or a party to any agreement or arrangement, as a result of
which liability of the Acquired Company is determined or taken into account with
reference to the activities, assets or other attributes of any other person or
that relates to any Pre-Closing Tax Period, and (iii) all Liability for Taxes
described in clause (iii) of the definition of Tax.
(v) “Post-Closing Taxes” shall mean
Taxes of the Acquired Companies for any Post-Closing Tax Period.
(vi) “Straddle Period” shall mean
any Tax period that includes but does not end on the Closing
Date. With respect to any Straddle Period, Taxes attributable to the
Post-Closing Tax Period shall (x) in the case of any Taxes other than gross
receipts, sales or use Taxes and Taxes based upon or related to income be equal
to the amount of such Taxes for the entire Straddle Period multiplied by a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days during the Straddle
Period that are in the Post-Closing Tax Period and the denominator of which is
the total number of days in the Straddle Period and (y) in the case of any Tax
based upon or related to income and any gross receipts, sales or use Tax, be
equal to the amount of Tax which would be payable for the portion of the
Straddle Period beginning after the Closing Date if such portion were a complete
Tax period and the Pre-Closing Tax Period ended on and included the Closing Date
(determined based on an interim closing of the books as of the close of business
Eastern Time on the Closing Date (and for such purpose, the taxable period of
any partnership or other pass-through entity in which any of the Acquired
Companies holds a beneficial interest shall be deemed to terminate at such
time)). All determinations necessary to give effect to the allocation set forth
in the foregoing clause (y) shall be made in a manner consistent with prior
practice of the Acquired Companies (unless otherwise required by Applicable
Law). All other Taxes with respect to a Straddle Period shall be
attributable to the Pre-Closing Tax Period.
(vii) “Straddle Period Tax Return”
shall mean a Tax Return filed with respect to a Straddle Period.
(h) Buyer
shall not file any amended Tax Return for any period relating to any Pre-Closing
Tax Period without the prior written consent of Seller, such consent not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(i) Without
the prior written consent of Buyer, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed, none of Seller, Affiliates of Seller and the Acquired Companies shall,
to the extent it relates to the Acquired Companies, make or change any Tax
election, amend or change any Tax Return, change any annual Tax accounting
period, request a Tax ruling, adopt or change any method of Tax accounting if
any such action or omission would have the effect of increasing the Tax
Liability of any Acquired Company, Buyer or any Affiliate of
Buyer.
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(j) Seller
shall cause any and all existing Tax Sharing Agreements with respect to or
involving any of the Acquired Companies to be terminated as of the Closing, such
that after the Closing, none of the Acquired Companies shall have any further
rights or Liabilities thereunder.
(k) Buyer
and Seller shall cooperate fully, as and to the extent reasonably requested by
the other Party, in connection with the preparation and filing of any Tax Return
(including any report required pursuant to Section 6043A of the Code and all
Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder), any audit, litigation or other
proceeding with respect to Taxes. Such cooperation shall include the
retention and (upon the other Party’s request) the provision of records and
information which are reasonably relevant to any such audit, litigation or other
proceeding and making employees available on a mutually convenient basis to
provide additional information and explanation of any material provided
hereunder.
(l) Buyer
and Seller further agree, upon request, to use their respective Best Efforts to
obtain any certificate or other document from any Governmental Authority or
customer of the Acquired Companies or any other Person as may be necessary to
mitigate, reduce or eliminate any Tax that could be imposed (including, but not
limited to, with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby).
(m)
Seller shall be entitled
to retain, or receive immediate payment from the Buyer or any of the Acquired
Companies of, (i) any Tax refund (including, without limitation, refunds arising
by reason of amended Tax Returns filed after the Closing Date) or (ii) credit of
any Taxes (plus any interest thereon received with respect thereto from the
applicable taxing authority) relating to the Acquired Companies, for any
Pre-Closing Tax Period for which Seller is responsible pursuant to this
Agreement or has otherwise paid or caused to be paid, but only to the extent
that such Tax refund or Tax credit has not been included as an asset in the Net
Closing Book Value Calculation. In addition, any reduction of Taxes
(“Reduced Taxes”) due
with respect to the assets or business of the Acquired Companies for any period
or partial period ending after the Closing Date that is attributable to an
adjustment as a result of a Contest by a taxing authority requiring the Acquired
Companies to capitalize expenses or otherwise defer deductions that were
currently deducted on a Tax Return as originally filed during Pre-Closing Tax
Periods or portions of the Straddle Tax Period ending on the Closing Date, as
the case may be, shall be credited to Seller, and the Buyer shall pay over such
Reduced Taxes to Seller promptly after the receipt of any refund of Taxes
attributable thereto or the payment of any Reduced Tax or the reporting of any
Tax liability in an amount reflecting such Reduced Taxes, less the reasonable
expenses incurred by the Buyer, if any, to amend any Tax Returns in order to
pursue such refund; provided, however,
that Buyer shall not pay over to Seller any Reduced Taxes that Buyer recognizes
(by Tax refund or as a deduction which reduces Taxes otherwise payable) in any
taxable year ending after December 31, 2012. The Buyer shall be
entitled to the benefit of any other refund or credit of Taxes (plus any
interest thereon received with respect thereto from the applicable taxing
authority) relating to the Acquired Companies. The Buyer and Seller
shall cooperate, and the Buyer shall cause the Acquired Companies, to cooperate
with Seller, with respect to Seller’s reasonable requests to claim any refund or
credit referred to in this Section 7.08(m), including discussing
potentially available refunds or credits and preparing and filing any amended
Tax Return or other claim for a refund.
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Section
7.09. Intentionally Left
Blank.
Section
7.10. Nonsolicitation of
Employees. For a period commencing upon the Closing and ending
on the first (1st) anniversary of the Closing, neither Seller nor any Affiliate
thereof, on the one hand, nor Buyer, the Acquired Companies nor any Affiliate
thereof, on the other hand, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, hire or
employ, or cause any other Person to solicit, hire or employ any employee or
contractor then retained or employed by the other or retained or employed by the
other within the one-year period immediately prior to such solicitation, hiring
or employment; provided, that the foregoing
prohibition shall not (i) apply to any employment or consulting arrangement
entered into with an individual who has responded to a general solicitation
(such as an advertisement) not specifically targeted at such individual or with
an individual who has approached the applicable employer without having been
initially solicited by the other or (ii) prohibit Buyer or any Acquired Company
from hiring any Employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other
provision of this Agreement to the contrary, nothing herein shall be deemed to
limit Seller’s obligations under the Non-Compete Agreement.
Section
7.11. Preparation of Proxy Statement;
Stockholders’ Meeting.
(a) Seller
shall prepare and file the preliminary form of the Proxy Statement with the SEC
as soon as reasonably practicable after the date hereof, but in any event within
forty-five (45) days of the date hereof. All documents required to be
filed with the SEC by Seller in connection with the Contemplated Transactions
will comply as to form and substance with the applicable requirements of the
Exchange Act. Subject to Applicable Laws, to the extent required to complete the
Proxy Statement, Buyer shall, upon request by Seller, furnish Seller with
information concerning itself, its Subsidiaries, directors, officers and
stockholders and such other matters as may be reasonably necessary in connection
with the Proxy Statement. Seller and Buyer each agrees to promptly correct any
information provided by it for use in the Proxy Statement which shall have
become false or misleading in any material respect. Seller shall
promptly notify Buyer of the receipt of any comments (written or oral) of the
SEC with respect to the Proxy Statement and of any requests by the SEC for any
amendment or supplement thereto or for additional information that may be
received by Seller or its counsel from the SEC or its staff, and shall provide
to Buyer promptly copies of all correspondence between Seller or its counsel and
the SEC with respect to the Proxy Statement. Seller shall give Buyer
and its counsel a reasonable opportunity to review, and comment on, the Proxy
Statement and all responses to requests for additional information by and
replies to comments (written or oral) of the SEC before their being filed with,
or sent to, the SEC. Seller shall give reasonable and good faith consideration
to any comments made by Buyer and its counsel. Seller agrees to use
its Best Efforts, after consultation with the Buyer, to respond promptly to all
such comments of and requests by the SEC and Seller agrees to cause the Proxy
Statement to be mailed to the holders of Seller Common Stock entitled to vote at
the Seller Stockholder Meeting at the earliest practicable
time. Subject to Section 7.11(d): (i) the Proxy Statement shall
include a statement to the effect that the Seller Board unanimously recommends
that Seller’s stockholders vote to approve and adopt this Agreement and the
Contemplated Transactions at the Seller Stockholder Meeting (the unanimous
recommendation of the Seller Board that Seller’s stockholders vote to approve
and adopt this Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions shall be referred to
in this Agreement as the “Seller Board Recommendation”),
and (ii) the Seller Board Recommendation shall not be withdrawn or modified in a
manner adverse to Buyer, and no resolution by the Seller Board or any committee
thereof to withdraw or modify the Seller Board Recommendation in a manner
adverse to Buyer shall be adopted or proposed.
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(b) Seller
shall take all action necessary in accordance with the DGCL and its Certificate
of Incorporation and Bylaws and under all Applicable Laws to duly call, give
notice of, convene and hold a meeting of its stockholders to vote on a proposal
to approve and adopt this Agreement and the Contemplated Transactions (such
meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, the “Seller Stockholder Meeting”),
and shall submit such proposal to Seller’s stockholders at the Seller
Stockholder Meeting. Seller shall ensure that all proxies solicited
in connection with the Seller Stockholder Meeting are solicited in compliance
with all Applicable Laws. The Seller Stockholder Meeting shall be
held (on a date selected by Seller in consultation with Buyer) as promptly as
practicable subject to Applicable Law after the date on which the Proxy
Statement is first mailed to the holders of Seller Common Stock entitled to vote
at the Seller Stockholder Meeting, but not later than forty-five (45) days after
the later of (i) if comments are received from the SEC pertaining to the Proxy
Statement, the date Seller shall have cleared all such comments, or (ii) the
tenth (10th) day after the date the preliminary proxy statement was first filed
with the SEC if no SEC comments are received (and the SEC does not otherwise
notify Seller (whether orally or in writing) that SEC comments are forthcoming)
within such ten (10) days. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
expect as otherwise provided in this Agreement, Seller’s obligation pursuant to
this Section 7.11(b) shall not be affected by: (i) the commencement, public
proposal, public disclosure or communication to Seller of any Competing
Transaction Proposal, or (ii) any withdrawal or modification of the Seller Board
Recommendation in accordance with Section 7.11(d).
(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Seller shall not be
required to hold the Seller Stockholder Meeting if this Agreement is terminated
prior to such meeting pursuant to Section 10.01.
(d) Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, at any time prior to the Seller
Stockholder Approval, the Seller Board Recommendation may be withdrawn or
modified in a manner adverse to Buyer if: (i) a Competing Acquisition Proposal
is made to Seller and is not withdrawn, (ii) Seller provides Buyer with at least
five (5) Business Days prior written notice of any meeting of the Seller Board
at which the Seller Board will consider and determine whether such Competing
Acquisition Proposal is a Superior Proposal, (iii) the Seller Board determines
in good faith (after consultation with the Seller Financial Advisor and Seller’s
Outside Legal Counsel of National Repute) that such Competing Transaction
Proposal constitutes or is reasonably likely to constitute a Superior Proposal,
(iv) the Seller Board determines in good faith, after having consulted with
Seller’s Outside Legal Counsel of National Repute, that, in light of such
Competing Acquisition Proposal, the withdrawal or modification of the
Seller Board Recommendation is required in order for the Seller Board to comply
with its fiduciary obligations to Seller’s stockholders under Applicable Law,
and (v) none of Seller, the Acquired Companies or Seller’s or the Acquired
Companies respective Representatives shall have violated any of the restrictions
set forth in Section 5.07.
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Section
7.12. Cross License of Business
Know-How.
(a) License to Buyer
(i) Seller
hereby grants to Buyer, and Buyer hereby accepts, a non-exclusive, perpetual,
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up right and license, with the
right to sublicense in accordance with Section 7.12(a)(iii) below, to use,
reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, display, and perform the
Retained Business Know-How solely for purposes of operating the
Business.
(ii) As
used herein, “Retained Business
Know-How” means Business Know-How owned by Seller or its Affiliates on
the Closing Date that is used both in the operation of the Business and the
operation of the Retained Business prior to the Closing Date.
(iii)
Buyer’s right to sublicense the Retained Business Know-How pursuant to Section
7.12(a)(i) is subject to the requirements that (A) Buyer shall be permitted to
sublicense the rights hereunder solely in connection with the operation of the
Business to (1) Affiliates, (2) third party service providers acting under the
direction of Buyer, and for the exclusive interests of Buyer, or (3) third
parties purchasing any portion of the Business, and (B) Buyer shall enter into a
written agreement with each permitted third party sublicensee containing
provisions at least as protective of Seller as the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, including without limitation, the confidentiality provisions set
forth in Section 6.01.
(iv) The
license granted to Buyer shall not be transferable or assignable without the
prior written consent of Seller except to the extent such assignment or transfer
occurs in connection with the sale or transfer by Buyer of substantially all of
the Business or substantially all of the assets of the Business, and any
attempted assignment or transfer in violation of the Section 7.12(a)(iv) shall
be null and void.
(b) License to
Seller
(i)
Buyer hereby grants to Seller, and Seller hereby accepts, a
non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up
right and license, with the right to sublicense in accordance with Section
7.12(b)(iv) below, to use, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute,
display, and perform the Transferred Business Know-How solely for purposes of
operating the Retained Business.
(ii) As
used herein, “Transferred
Business Know-How” means Business Know-How owned by any Acquired Company
on the Closing Date that is used both in the operation of the Business and the
operation of the Retained Business on or prior to the Closing Date.
(iii) As
used herein, “Retained
Business” means the business and operations of Seller, excluding the
Business.
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(iv) Seller’s
right to sublicense the Transferred Business Know-How pursuant to Section
7.12(b)(i) is subject to the requirements that: (A) Seller shall be permitted to
sublicense the rights hereunder solely in connection with the operation of the
Retained Business to (1) Affiliates, (2) third party service providers acting
under the direction of Seller, and for the exclusive interests of Seller, or (3)
third parties purchasing any portion of the Retained Business, and (B) Seller
shall enter into a written agreement with each permitted third party sublicensee
containing provisions at least as protective of Buyer as the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
(v) The
license granted to Seller shall not be transferable or assignable without the
prior written consent of Buyer except to the extent such assignment or transfer
occurs in connection with the sale or transfer by Seller of substantially all of
the Retained Business or substantially all of the assets of the Retained
Business, and any attempted assignment or transfer in violation of the Section
7.12(b)(v) shall be null and void.
Section
7.13. Accounts Receivable
Guarantee.
(a)
Subject to this Section 7.13, Seller hereby guarantees the collectability of all
of the Accounts Receivable of the Acquired Companies, both billed and unbilled,
included in the Closing NTBV as Finally Determined (net of allowances for
doubtful accounts included in the Closing NTBV as Finally Determined) (the
“Current Balance Sheet
Receivables”) within eighteen (18) months of the Closing
Date. The Accounts Receivable guaranteed hereunder shall be net of
any amounts collected within eighteen (18) months of the Closing Date with
respect to Accounts Receivable that had previously been included in the
allowances for doubtful accounts.
(b) Buyer
shall attempt (in a manner consistent with its existing practices for its own
accounts receivables) to collect the Current Balance Sheet
Receivables. Buyer shall provide Seller with such status updates with
respect to the collection of such Current Balance Sheet Receivables as Seller
may reasonably request from time to time. To the extent that Buyer is
having difficulty collecting any such Current Balance Sheet Receivables, the
Buyer may notify Seller and Seller shall cooperate in collecting such Current
Balance Sheet Receivable jointly with Buyer. Payments received from
customers who are account debtors with respect to Current Balance Sheet
Receivables shall be credited to such invoices as such customers may specify in
writing (including notations on checks or wire transfers) or, if not so
specified, to the oldest outstanding invoice of such customer.
(c)
In the event any Current Balance Sheet Receivables remain outstanding
following the expiration of the of the eighteen (18) month anniversary of the
Closing Date (the “Remaining
Accounts Receivable”), Seller shall indemnify Buyer for the amount of the
Remaining Accounts Receivable pursuant to Article IX and subject to the
limitations thereof (including, without limitation, the limitations set forth in
Section 9.02(b) and the Initial Cap and Adjusted Cap specified in Section
9.02(d)).
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Section
7.14. Procurement of
Insurance. At or prior to the Closing, Buyer shall procure, at
Seller’s cost (subject to the proviso hereto), (collectively, the “Tail Insurance”) (a)
professional liability tail insurance with minimum coverage of $30,000,000, with
a deductible of $100,000 and for a minimum coverage period of three (3) years
following the Closing, and (b) extended reporting period/run-off coverage for
employment practices liability insurance, directors and officers liability
insurance and fiduciary liability insurance with minimum coverages of
$3,000,000, $10,000,000 and $5,000,000 respectively, and for a minimum coverage
period of six (6) year; provided, that Seller shall
not be required pursuant to this Section 7.14 to pay any premiums in excess of
$235,000 in the aggregate for such insurance coverage. Following the
Closing, Seller shall use its Best Efforts to cooperate with Buyer in accessing
Seller’s historic occurrence-based insurance coverage applicable to the Acquired
Companies; provided,
that Buyer shall be responsible for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and
expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) that Seller may incur in
attempting to access such occurrence-based insurance coverage, unless and to the
extent that any Buyer Indemnitee is entitled to be indemnified pursuant to
Article IX of this Agreement for such costs and expenses (without taking into
account any limitations or thresholds).
ARTICLE
VIII
CONDITIONS
TO CLOSING
Section
8.01. Conditions to Obligations of Buyer
and Seller. The respective obligation of each Party to
consummate the Closing shall be subject to the satisfaction or (to the extent
permitted by Applicable Law) waiver by each Party on or prior to the Closing
Date of each of the following conditions:
(a)
No Applicable Law shall be in effect which would restrain, enjoin,
prohibit or make illegal the consummation of any of the Contemplated
Transactions;
(b) No
Proceeding shall be pending or threatened (other than any Proceeding brought or
threatened by Buyer or any of its Affiliates) which challenges or seeks to
restrain, enjoin or prohibit any of the Contemplated Transactions;
(c) The
Seller Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained;
(d) Each
of the representations and warranties of Seller in this Agreement shall be true
and correct in all material respects (other than representations which are
qualified by materiality or by Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and
correct in all respects) when made and on and as of the Closing Date as if made
on the Closing Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties
relate to a particular date or time period (in which case such representations
and warranties shall be true and correct on and as of such date or for such time
period); and
(e) Neither
Buyer nor Seller shall have become aware of any Organizational Conflict of
Interest, as defined in Section 9.501 of the FAR, or similar impact on any
Acquired Company or the Buyer, that would result from the consummation of the
Contemplated Transactions.
Section
8.02. Conditions to Obligation of
Buyer. In addition to the conditions set forth in Section 8.01
above, the obligations of Buyer to consummate the Closing shall be subject to
the satisfaction, or (to the extent permitted by Applicable Law) waiver by Buyer
on or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following further
conditions:
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(a) Seller
shall have performed and complied in all respects with all covenants and
obligations under Section 2.05 of this Agreement required to be performed and
complied with by it as of the Closing Date and Seller shall have performed and
complied in all material respects with all of its other covenants and
obligations under this Agreement required to be performed and complied with by
it as of the Closing Date;
(b) All
Consents and Government Contract Consents set forth on Schedule 8.02(b)(i),
all notices set forth on Schedule 8.02(b)(ii)
and all Governmental Approvals shall have been obtained, made or given (as
applicable);
(c) There
shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Business, Seller
or Buyer;
(d) No
Proceeding shall be pending or threatened which (i) could reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Business or Seller,
or (ii) could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the
Business, the Acquired Companies, Buyer or Buyer Parent (including, without
limitation, any such Proceeding relating to any alleged violation of, or
non-compliance with, any Applicable Law, or any allegation of fraud or
intentional misrepresentation);
(e) Buyer
shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that all Liens, other
than Permitted Liens, on the assets and properties of the Acquired Companies
have been paid, satisfied or otherwise discharged;
(f) None
of the Employees listed on Schedule 8.02(f)
shall have ceased to be employed by the Acquired Companies or indicated any
intent not to remain employed by the Acquired Companies or Buyer following the
Closing pursuant to the terms of such employee’s Employment Agreement;
and
(g) None
of the Acquired Companies shall have entered into any teaming or similar
Contract, Government Contract or Government Bid which (i) (A) imposes any
restriction on the ability of any Acquired Company to compete in any business or
activity within a certain geographic area, or pursuant to which any benefit or
right is required to be given or lost as a result of so competing, (B) grants
any exclusive license, supply or distribution agreement or other exclusive
rights, or (C) grants any “most favored nation,” rights of first refusal, rights
of first negotiation or similar rights with respect to any product, service or
Intellectual Property Right, and (ii) Buyer reasonably believes would,
individually or in the aggregate, materially and adversely affect Buyer, its
Affiliates or any of the Acquired Companies following the Closing.
Section
8.03. Conditions to Obligation of
Seller. In addition to the conditions set forth in Section
8.01 above, the obligations of Seller to consummate the Closing shall be subject
to the satisfaction, or (to the extent permitted by Applicable Law) waiver by
Seller, on or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following further
conditions:
(a) Each
of the representations and warranties of Buyer set forth in this Agreement shall
be true and correct as of the Closing Date as if made on such date, except to
the extent such representations and warranties relate to an earlier date (in
which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all
material respects on and as of such earlier date), except for such breaches or
inaccuracies of the representations and warranties of Buyer that would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect with respect to
Buyer;
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(b) Buyer
shall have performed and complied in all respects with all covenants and
obligations under Section 2.04 of this Agreement required to be performed and
complied with by it as of the Closing Date and Buyer shall have performed and
complied in all material respects with all of its other covenants and
obligations under this Agreement required to be performed and complied with by
it as of the Closing Date; and
(c) There
shall have been no Material Adverse Effect with respect to Buyer, Seller or the
Business.
ARTICLE
IX
SURVIVAL;
INDEMNIFICATION
Section
9.01. Survival. The
representations and warranties of the Parties under this Agreement or in any
agreement, certificate or instrument delivered by the Parties pursuant to this
Agreement shall be deemed to be continuing and shall survive the Closing and any
investigations heretofore or hereafter made by any Party or its Representatives
for a period of thirty-six (36) months after the Closing Date; provided, however, that notwithstanding
the foregoing, (a) the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.20
(Taxes) shall survive until the expiration of the applicable statute of
limitations, and (b) any claims or Losses based on Seller Fraud shall survive in
perpetuity or for the maximum period of time permitted by Applicable
Law. No action for a breach of any representation or warranty
contained herein shall be brought after the expiration of the survival of such
representation or warranty, except to the extent a Party has received written
notification prior thereto setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for such
claim, in which event the applicable representations and warranties shall
survive until such claims are resolved but only to the extent the
representations and warranties relate to the matters subject to the
claim. The covenants or agreements contained in this Agreement that
by their terms are to be performed after the Closing Date shall continue until
fully discharged. This Section 9.01 shall not limit any covenant or agreement of
the Parties contained in this Agreement which by its terms contemplates
performance after the Closing, and shall not extend the applicability of any
covenant or agreement of the Parties contained in this Agreement which by its
terms relates only to a period between the date hereof and the Closing, provided, that nothing herein
shall restrict a Party’s right to commence any claim with respect to such
covenant or agreement following the Closing. The representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements made by any Party in this Agreement shall
not be affected, limited or compromised in any respect by any due diligence
investigation or any other inquiries or investigations by any other Party,
regardless of the results thereof.
Section
9.02. Indemnification by
Seller.
(a) From
and after the Closing Date, subject to the restrictions and limitations in this
Article IX, Seller shall indemnify Buyer, its Affiliates and each of their
respective officers, directors, stockholders, employees and agents
(collectively, “Buyer
Indemnitees”) against and hold them harmless from any claim, loss, lost
profit, damage, judgment, penalty, interest, Liability, Tax, cost or expense
(including reasonable legal, accounting and consulting fees and expenses and any
expenses incurred in connection with investigating, defending against or
settling any claims or related causes of action) (collectively, “Losses”) sustained, suffered
or incurred by any of the Buyer Indemnitees, or to which any of the Buyer
Indemnitees may be subjected, arising from:
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(i) any
breach of any representation or warranty of Seller contained in this
Agreement;
(ii) any
breach or non-fulfillment of any covenant or undertaking of Seller contained in
this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement;
(iii) all
third party claims arising out of, connected with, incident to or relating to
the Acquired Companies from any acts, errors, omissions or conduct of the
Business (including work performed) prior to the Closing (except to the extent
already included in the Closing Balance Sheet);
(iv) all
claims arising out of, connected with, incident to or relating to the Acquired
Companies from any violation of, or non compliance with, any Applicable Law
prior to the Closing;
(v) all
Pre-Closing Taxes, except to the extent that a breach by Buyer of its
obligations contained in Section 7.08(b) results in Losses but only to the
extent that such breach increases such Losses;
(vi)
the Accounts Receivable guarantee contained in Section 7.13;
and
(vii) all
claims and Losses arising out of, connected with, incident to or relating to the
GIP (except to the extent that a breach by Buyer of its obligations contained in
Section 7.05(c) results in Losses but only to the extent that such breach
increases such Losses) or the TechTeam Global, Inc. Annual Incentive
Plan.
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Buyer Indemnitees shall not be entitled to indemnification
for (A) those portions of any Losses that represent lost profits for any period
after the Closing, diminution in value, restitution, mental or emotional
distress, exemplary, special or punitive damages, except to the extent that any
of the same are Finally Determined to be required to be paid by a Buyer
Indemnitee to a third party that is not an Affiliate of any Buyer Indemnitee in
connection with a claim asserted by such third party; or (B) those portions of
any Losses (i) reserved, accrued or provided for by any Acquired Company in the
Financial Statements prior to the Closing Date or are included in the
computation of Net Tangible Book Value or otherwise paid or provided for by
Seller or any of its Affiliates, or (ii) that have arisen as a result of any
breach of this Agreement by Buyer or any of its Affiliates on or after the
Closing Date or arising from any change in accounting principles, practices or
methodologies adopted or required to be adopted after the
Closing.
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(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, no Buyer Indemnitee shall be entitled to
reimbursement or indemnification from Seller with respect to any inaccuracies in
or breaches of the representations and warranties made by Seller hereunder
(other than Section 3.01 (Organization; Good Standing), Section 3.02
(Authorization; Validity of Agreement), Section 3.04 (Capitalization), Section
3.21 (Brokers’ or Finders’ Fees) and Section 3.24 (No Indebtedness)) unless
and until (1) the sum of all Losses suffered or incurred by Buyer Indemnitees
related to each individual claim, or series of related claims, exceeds
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000) (such Losses are referred to herein as
“Recoverable Claims”),
and (2) the aggregate amount of all Losses suffered or incurred by all Buyer
Indemnitees exceeds an amount equal to Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000) (the “Threshold”), inclusive of
Recoverable Claims, in which case Buyer Indemnitees shall be entitled to be
indemnified for the full amount of any and all Losses including any Recoverable
Claims and the Threshold amount.
(d) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein (other than Section 9.02(e) below),
Seller’s aggregate liability under Section 9.02(a) shall not exceed: (i) during
the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the last day of the
twenty-fourth (24th) month
following the Closing, an amount equal to Fourteen Million Seven Hundred and
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($14,750,000) (the “Initial Cap”), and (ii) during
the period beginning on the first day of the twenty-fifth (25th) month
following the Closing and ending on the last day of the thirty-sixth (36th) month
following the Closing, an amount equal to Nine Million Eight Hundred
Thirty-Three Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-Three Dollars ($9,833,333)(minus the
amount of claims in excess of Four Million Nine Hundred Sixteen Thousand Six
Hundred Sixty-Seven Dollars $4,916,667 applied against the Initial Cap within
the first twenty-four (24) months after the Closing) (the “Adjusted
Cap”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, except
for claims or Losses based on Seller Fraud, Seller’s obligations under Section
9.02(a) shall terminate on the date that is thirty-six (36) months after the
Closing Date or, in the case of Seller’s obligations under Section 9.02(a)(v) or
any breach of the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.20
(Taxes), following the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations,
unless a Claim Notice shall have been delivered to Seller on or prior to such
date, in which event the applicable indemnification obligation under Section
9.02(a) shall survive until the claims set forth in the Claim Notice are
resolved in accordance with this Article IX, but only to the extent the
indemnification obligation relates to such claims.
(e) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the limitations on Recoverable Claims, the
Threshold and the Initial Cap or Adjusted Cap, as applicable, shall not apply to
Seller’s obligations under Section 9.02(a)(v) or any Losses sustained,
suffered or incurred by any of the Buyer Indemnitees, or to which Buyer
Indemnitees may be subjected, arising from (i) any breach of the representations
and warranties set forth in Section 3.20 (Taxes) or (ii) any Seller Fraud;
provided, that Seller’s aggregate liability under Section 9.02(a) shall not
exceed the Purchase Price.
(f) “Material Adverse Effect” and
other materiality qualifications or any similar qualifications contained in any
representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking contained in this Agreement
shall be disregarded for purposes of determining the amount of any Losses
arising from or relating to any indemnifiable breach of such representation,
warranty, covenant or undertaking but shall not be disregarded for purposes of
determining whether any such representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking
has been breached.
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Section
9.03. Indemnification by
Buyer. From and after the Closing Date, to the extent provided
in this Article IX, Buyer shall indemnify, and shall cause the Acquired
Companies to indemnify, jointly and severally, Seller and its Affiliates,
officers, directors, shareholders. employees and agents (“Seller Indemnitees”) against
and hold them harmless from any Losses sustained, suffered or incurred by any of
the Seller Indemnitees, or to which any of the Seller Indemnitees may be
subjected, arising from:
(a) any
breach of any representation or warranty of Buyer contained in this
Agreement;
(b) any
breach or non-fulfillment of any covenant or undertaking of Buyer contained in
this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement;
(c) except
with respect to any matter for which Buyer would be entitled to be indemnified
under Section 9.02 herein (without taking into account any limitations or
thresholds), the operation of the Acquired Companies and its Business from and
after the Closing Date, including any and all amounts accruing from and after
the Closing Date under the Real Property Leases set forth on Schedule 3.08(a)(i);
and
(d) any
obligations of Buyer under Section 6.05(a).
Section
9.04. Single
Recovery. Any liability for indemnification under this Article
IX shall be determined without duplication of recovery by reason of the set of
facts giving rise to such liability constituting a breach of more than one
representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking, or one or more rights to
indemnification. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement
to the contrary, Seller shall have no obligation to indemnify any Buyer
Indemnitee for the amount of any Loss if and to the extent the Buyer has already
recovered such amount as a result of the Purchase Price adjustment pursuant to
Section 2.07 or such amount was reflected as a liability in the final
determination of the Closing NTBV.
Section
9.05. Exclusive
Remedy. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.07 (Purchase
Price Adjustment), Section 11.18 (Specific Performance) and except for
Seller Fraud, Buyer and Seller each acknowledge and agree, for themselves and on
behalf of their respective Affiliates, that, following the Closing, the sole and
exclusive remedy for any and all claims relating to breaches of representations,
warranties, covenants and undertakings contained in this Agreement shall be
pursuant to the indemnification provisions set forth in this Article
IX.
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Section
9.06. Indemnification
Procedures. If there occurs an event or occurrence (including
any claim asserted or action or proceeding commenced by a third party) which a
Party (an “Indemnified
Party”) asserts constitutes an indemnifiable event pursuant to Sections
9.02 or 9.03, the Indemnified Party shall provide written notice (a “Claim Notice”) to the Party
obligated to provide indemnification hereunder (an “Indemnifying Party”), setting
forth the nature of the claim and the basis for indemnification
hereunder. The Indemnified Party shall give such written notice to
the Indemnifying Party, with respect to third party claims, promptly after it
becomes aware of the existence of any such event or occurrence and, with respect
to all claims that are not third party claims, promptly after determining in
good faith that Indemnified Party intends to assert a claim for indemnification
hereunder; provided, however, that the failure to
provide prompt notice as provided herein will not relieve the Indemnifying Party
of its obligations hereunder except to the extent such failure actually,
materially, irreparably and adversely prejudices the Indemnifying Party
hereunder. If a Party receives written notice under this Article IX
and does not agree that it is required to indemnify the Party giving such
notice, it shall give notice of the same (a “Dispute Notice”) within thirty
(30) calendar days of receipt of a Claim Notice. In the event that the Parties
cannot agree whether such claim is indemnified hereunder within ten (10)
calendar days after receipt of the Dispute Notice, then the Parties shall be
free to pursue other available legal remedies to resolve such dispute. If no
Dispute Notice is received within such thirty (30) calendar day period, the
Party receiving a Claim Notice shall be deemed to have acknowledged liability
for the relevant claim. In case any third-party action shall be
brought against any Indemnified Party (a “Third-Party Proceeding”) and
it shall notify the Indemnifying Party of the commencement thereof and its claim
for indemnification with respect thereto pursuant to Section 9.02 or Section
9.03, the Indemnified Party shall be entitled to retain control of the defense
of such claim with counsel selected by it (and the Indemnifying Party shall be
entitled only to participate in the defense of such claim at its sole cost and
expense through counsel of its own choice). The Indemnified Party
shall act in good faith and shall conduct the defense of the Third-Party
Proceeding in substantially the same manner in which it conducts claims made by
other third-parties whether or not it has indemnification rights with respect
thereto. The Indemnifying Party agrees to cooperate fully with (and
to provide all relevant documents and records and make all relevant personnel
available to) the Indemnified Party and its counsel in the defense of any such
asserted claim. No Indemnified Party shall consent to the entry of
any judgment or enter into any settlement without the consent of the
Indemnifying Party, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed,
unless such judgment or settlement includes as an unconditional term thereof the
giving by each claimant or plaintiff to each Indemnifying Party of an express,
complete and unconditional release from all liability in respect to such claim.
No Indemnifying Party shall be liable under this Article IX for any settlement,
compromise or discharge of any claim effected without its written consent, which
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. No Indemnifying Party
shall consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement without
the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party unless (i) the Indemnifying
Party agrees in writing to pay any amounts payable pursuant to such judgment or
settlement and such third-party claim and (ii) such judgment or settlement
includes as an unconditional term thereof the giving by each claimant or
plaintiff to each Indemnified Party of an express, complete and unconditional
release from all liability in respect to such claim.
Section
9.07. Adjustments for Insurance and
Payments by Others. Each Loss which an Indemnifying Party is
required to pay pursuant to this Article IX shall be reduced by any amounts
actually recovered by, or paid to, such Indemnified Party under applicable
insurance policies held by Seller or the Acquired Companies prior to the Closing
or under the Tail Insurance Policies, or from any other Person alleged to be
responsible for such Loss, with respect to such Loss (it being understood that
each Indemnified Party shall be required to use its Best Efforts to pursue all
available insurance recoveries from insurance policies held by Seller or the
Acquired Companies prior to the Closing or the Tail Insurance Policies in
connection with any indemnification claim hereunder), in each case net of any
out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Indemnified Party in connection with the
recovery of such amount. If the Indemnified Party receives any
amounts under applicable insurance policies held by Seller or the Acquired
Companies prior to the Closing or under the Tail Insurance Policies, or from any
other Person alleged to be responsible for any Loss, pursuant to the preceding
sentence, subsequent to an indemnification payment by the Indemnifying Party,
then such Indemnified Party shall promptly reimburse the Indemnifying Party for
any payment made or expense incurred by such Indemnifying Party in connection
with providing such indemnification payment up to the amount received by the
Indemnified Party, net of any expenses incurred by such Indemnified Party in
collecting such amount.
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Section
9.08. Indemnification Escrow
Amount. Except for items excepted from the Initial Cap and
Adjusted Cap pursuant to Section 9.02(e), the aggregate Liability of Seller
under this Article IX for all Losses for which it would otherwise be liable
under this Agreement shall not exceed the Indemnification Escrow
Amount. Any amounts owing from Seller to any Buyer Indemnitees for
all Losses shall be paid, to the extent possible, first from the Indemnification
Escrow Account.
Section
9.09. Treatment of Indemnity
Claims. Any indemnification payment made by a Party pursuant
to this Article IX shall be treated as an adjustment to the Purchase Price
hereunder.
ARTICLE
X
TERMINATION
Section
10.01. Grounds for
Termination. Anything herein or elsewhere to the contrary
notwithstanding, this Agreement may be terminated and the Contemplated
Transactions may be abandoned at any time prior to the Closing
Date:
(a) by
the mutual written agreement of Seller and Buyer;
(b) by
Buyer (by written notice of termination from Buyer to Seller, in which reference
is made to this subsection) if the Closing has not occurred on or prior to the
Outside Date, unless the failure of the Closing to have occurred is attributable
to a failure on the part of Buyer to perform any material obligation to be
performed by Buyer pursuant to this Agreement at or prior to the
Closing;
(c) by
Seller (by written notice of termination from Seller to Buyer, in which
reference is made to this subsection) if the Closing has not occurred on or
prior to the Outside Date, unless the failure of the Closing to have occurred is
attributable to a failure on the part of Seller to perform any material
obligation required to be performed by Seller pursuant to this Agreement at or
prior to the Closing;
(d) by
Seller or Buyer (by written notice of termination from such Party to the other
Party referred to in this subsection, in which reference is made to this
subsection) if a Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction shall have
issued a final non-appealable Order, or shall have taken any other action having
the effect of, permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions; provided, however, that the
right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 10.01(d) 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;
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(e) by
Seller or Buyer (by written notice of termination from such Party to the other
Party referred to in this subsection, in which reference is made to this
subsection) if any event shall occur after the date hereof that shall have made
it impossible to satisfy a condition precedent to the terminating Party’s
obligations to perform its obligations hereunder, unless the occurrence of such
event shall be due to the failure of the terminating Party to perform or comply
with any of the agreements, covenants or conditions hereof to be performed or
complied with by such Party at or prior to the Closing;
(f) by
Seller or Buyer (by written notice of termination from such Party to the other
Party referred to in this subsection, in which reference is made to this
subsection) if (i) the Seller Stockholders Meeting (including any adjournments
and postponements thereof) shall have been held and completed and Seller’s
stockholders shall have voted on a proposal to approve and adopt this Agreement
and the Contemplated Transactions, and (ii) Seller shall not have obtained
the Seller Stockholder Approval;
(g) by
Buyer (by written notice of termination from Buyer to Seller, in which reference
is made to this subsection) if a Seller Triggering Event shall have
occurred;
(h) by
Seller (by written notice of termination from Seller to Buyer, in which
reference is made to this subsection), immediately prior to entering into a
definitive agreement with respect to a Superior Proposal; provided that (i)
Seller received such Superior Proposal, (ii) Seller has not breached or violated
the terms of Section 5.07 hereof, (iii) the Seller Board has authorized Seller
to enter into such definitive agreement for such Superior Proposal, (iv) prior
to such termination, Seller pays Buyer the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses and the
Seller Termination Fee in accordance with Section 10.04, and (v) immediately
following the termination of this Agreement, Seller enters into such definitive
agreement to effect such Superior Proposal;
(i) by
Buyer (by written notice of termination from Buyer to Seller, in which reference
is made to this subsection) if, since the date of this Agreement, there shall
have occurred any Material Adverse Effect on the Business, or there shall have
occurred any event or circumstance that, in combination with any other events or
circumstances, could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect
with respect to the Business or Seller;
(j) by
Buyer (by written notice of termination from Buyer to Seller, in which reference
is made to the specific provision(s) of this subsection giving rise to the right
of termination) if (i) any of Seller’s representations and warranties shall
have been inaccurate as of the date of this Agreement, such that the condition
set forth in Section 8.01(d) would not be satisfied, (ii) (A) any of
Seller’s representations and warranties become inaccurate as of a date
subsequent to the date of this Agreement (as if made on such subsequent date),
such that the condition set forth in Section 8.01(d) would not be satisfied
and (B) such inaccuracy has not been cured by Seller within five (5)
Business Days after its receipt of written notice thereof and remains uncured at
the time notice of termination is given, (iii) any of Seller’s covenants
contained in this Agreement shall have been breached, such that the condition
set forth in Section 8.02(a) would not be satisfied, (iv) any of the
Acquired Companies shall have entered into any teaming or similar Contract,
Government Contract or Government Bid, such that the condition set forth in
Section 8.02(g) would not be satisfied, or (v) any Proceeding shall be
initiated, threatened or pending which could reasonably be expected to
materially and adversely affect the Business, the Acquired Companies, Buyer or
Buyer Parent (including, without limitation, any such Proceeding relating to any
alleged violation of, or non compliance with, any Applicable Law or any
allegation of fraud or intentional misrepresentation);
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(k) by
Seller (by written notice of termination from Seller to Buyer, in which
reference is made to the specific provision(s) of this subsection giving rise to
the right of termination) if (i) any of Buyer’s representations and
warranties shall have been inaccurate as of the date of this Agreement, such
that the condition set forth in Section 8.03(a) would not be satisfied,
(ii) any of Seller’s representations and warranties become inaccurate as of a
date subsequent to the date of this Agreement (as if made on such subsequent
date), such that the condition set forth in Section 8.01(d) would not be
satisfied, (iii) (A) any of Buyer’s representations and warranties
become inaccurate as of a date subsequent to the date of this Agreement (as if
made on such subsequent date), such that the condition set forth in
Section 8.03(a) would not be satisfied and (B) such inaccuracy has not
been cured by Buyer within five (5) Business Days after its receipt of
written notice thereof and remains uncured at the time notice of termination is
given, or (iv) any of the Buyer’s covenants contained in this Agreement
shall have been breached, such that the condition set forth in
Section 8.03(b) would not be satisfied; and
(l) by
Seller (by written notice of termination from Seller to Buyer, in which
reference is made to this subsection, specifying the nature of the Material
Adverse Effect) if, since the date of this Agreement, there shall have occurred
any Material Adverse Effect with respect to Buyer, Seller or the Business, or
there shall have occurred any event or circumstance that, in combination with
any other events or circumstances, could reasonably be expected to have, a
Material Adverse Effect with respect to Buyer, Seller or the
Business.
Section
10.02. Procedure and Effect of
Termination. In the event of the termination and abandonment
of this Agreement by Seller or Buyer pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof, written
notice thereof shall forthwith be given to the other Party. If this
Agreement is terminated and the Contemplated Transactions are abandoned as
provided herein:
(a) Each
Party will redeliver all documents, work papers and other material of any other
Party relating to the Contemplated Transactions, whether so obtained before or
after the execution hereof, to the Party furnishing the same; provided, that each Party may
retain one copy of all such documents for archival purposes in the custody of
its outside counsel;
(b) All
confidential information received by any Party hereto with respect to the
business of any other Party or its Affiliates shall be treated in accordance
with the provisions of the Confidentiality Agreement, which shall survive the
termination of this Agreement; and
(c) All
filings, applications and other submission made by any Party to any Person,
including any Governmental Authority, in connection with the Contemplated
Transactions shall, to the extent practicable, be withdrawn by such Party from
such Person.
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Section
10.03. Effect
of Termination.
(a) If
this Agreement is terminated and the Contemplated Transactions are abandoned
pursuant to Section 10.01, this Agreement shall become void and of no further
force and effect, except for the provisions of (i) Article XI, (ii) Section
7.04 relating to publicity, (iii) Sections 3.21 and 4.07 relating to
finders’ fees and brokers’ fees or commissions, (iv) Section 6.01 relating
to confidentiality, (v) Section 10.02, this Section 10.03 and Section
10.04, and (vi) the Confidentiality Agreement.
(b) Subject
to Section 10.03(a) but notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to
the contrary, if this Agreement is terminated and the Contemplated Transactions
are abandoned pursuant to Section 10.01, no Party shall have any Liability
hereunder (including, without limitation, with respect to any and all fees and
expenses that have been paid or that may become payable by or on behalf of any
other Party in connection with the preparation and negotiation of this Agreement
and otherwise in connection with the Contemplated Transactions or with respect
to any other Losses sustained, suffered or incurred by any Person arising from
or relating to the termination of this Agreement); provided, however, that
nothing in this Section 10.03(b) shall relieve (i) any Party from any Liability
for any intentional breach of this Agreement by such Party prior to such
termination, or (ii) Seller of the obligation to pay Buyer the Buyer
Reimbursable Expenses and the Seller Termination Fee pursuant to Section 10.04,
if applicable.
Section
10.04. Expenses; Termination
Fee.
(a) If
Seller terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.01(f) or 10.01(h), or
Buyer terminates this Agreement pursuant to Sections 10.01(f) or 10.01(g), then
(without limiting any obligation of Seller to pay any Seller Termination Fee
payable pursuant to Section 10.04(b)), Seller shall make a nonrefundable cash
payment to Buyer, at the time specified in Section 10.04(d), in an amount equal
to the aggregate amount of all reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses
(including all attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, financial advisory fees and
filing fees), which fees and expenses are documented and itemized in reasonable
detail, that have been paid or that may become payable by or on
behalf of Buyer in connection with the preparation and negotiation of this
Agreement and otherwise in connection with the Contemplated Transactions
provided that such expense reimbursement amount shall not exceed Seven Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars $750,000 in the aggregate (the “Buyer Reimbursable
Expenses”). Additionally, Seller shall pay Buyer the Buyer
Reimbursable Expenses if (i) Seller terminates this Agreement pursuant to
Section 10.01(k) because the condition in Section 8.01(d) would not be satisfied
or pursuant to Section 10.01(l) in connection with a Material Adverse Effect
relating to Seller or the Business, and (ii) enters into a definitive agreement
with respect to a Superior Proposal on or before the Outside Date, in which
case, the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses shall be paid to Buyer concurrently with
the execution of such definitive agreement. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained in this Section 10.04, Seller shall not be required to
pay the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses until two (2) Business Days after it is
provided with the supporting documentation and itemized detail referred to in
the preceding sentence.
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(b) If
Seller terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.01(h), or Buyer
terminates this Agreement pursuant to Sections 10.01(g), then Seller shall pay
to Buyer a nonrefundable termination fee equal to four percent (4%) of the
Pre-Adjustment Purchase Price (the “Seller Termination Fee”) at
the time specified in Section 10.04(d) below. Additionally, Seller
shall pay Buyer the Seller Termination Fee if (i) Seller terminates this
Agreement pursuant to Section 10.01(k) because the condition in Section 8.01(d)
would not be satisfied or pursuant to Section 10.01(l) in connection with a
Material Adverse Effect relating to Seller or the Business, and (ii) enters into
a definitive agreement with respect to a Superior Proposal on or before the
Outside Date, in which case, the Seller Termination Fee shall be paid to Buyer
concurrently with the execution of such definitive agreement. Any
Seller Termination Fee payable under this Section 10.04(b) shall be payable as
liquidated damages to compensate Buyer for the damages Buyer will suffer if this
Agreement is terminated in the circumstances set forth in Sections 10.01(g) or
10.01(h) (or 10.01(k) or 10.01(l) but only under the circumstances set forth in
the immediately preceding sentence), which damages cannot be determined with
reasonable certainty. It is specifically agreed that any Seller Termination Fee
to be paid pursuant to this Section 10.04(b) represents liquidated damages and
not a penalty.
(c) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in the event that, either
concurrently with or following a Seller Change of Control, (i) this Agreement is
terminated for any reason, or (ii) the Closing has not occurred on or before the
Outside Date (in the case of both clauses (i) and (ii), other than as a result
of a failure on the part of Buyer to perform a material obligation to be
performed by Buyer pursuant to this Agreement at or prior to the Closing), then
Seller shall pay Buyer the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses and the Seller
Termination Fee within two (2) Business Days of such termination or the Outside
Date, as applicable, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an
account designated in writing by Buyer. Any Seller Termination Fee
payable under this Section 10.04(c) shall be payable as liquidated damages to
compensate Buyer for the damages Buyer will suffer if this Agreement is
terminated or the Closing shall not have occurred on or prior to the Outside
Date, which damages cannot be determined with reasonable certainty. It is
specifically agreed that any Seller Termination Fee to be paid pursuant to this
Section 10.04(c) represents liquidated damages and not a
penalty. Under no circumstances shall Buyer be entitled to the Seller
Termination Fee pursuant to this Section 10.04(c) if Buyer is otherwise entitled
to the Seller Termination Fee pursuant to Section 10.04(b) and under no
circumstances shall Buyer be entitled to the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses
pursuant to this Section 10.04(c) if Buyer is otherwise entitled to the Buyer
Reimbursable Expenses pursuant to Section 10.04(a).
(d) The
Buyer Reimbursable Expenses and the Seller Termination Fee shall be paid at the
time specified in the next sentence (unless otherwise provided in Section
10.01(b) or 10.04(c)) by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an
account designated in writing by Buyer. In the case of a termination of this
Agreement by Seller pursuant to Section 10.01(f), the Buyer Reimbursable
Expenses shall be paid by Seller prior such termination; in the case of a
termination of this Agreement by Seller pursuant to Section 10.01(h), the Buyer
Reimbursable Expenses and the Seller Termination Fee shall be paid by Seller
prior to such termination; in the case of a termination of this Agreement by
Buyer pursuant to Section 10.01(f), the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses shall be
paid by Seller within two (2) Business Days after such termination; and, in the
case of a termination of this Agreement by Buyer pursuant to Section 10.01(g),
the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses and the Seller Termination Fee shall be paid by
Seller within two (2) Business Days after such termination. If Seller
fails to pay when due any amount payable under this Section 10.04, then (i)
Seller shall reimburse Buyer for all costs and expenses (including fees and
disbursements of counsel) incurred in connection with the collection of such
overdue amount and the enforcement by Buyer of its rights under this Section
10.04, and (ii) Seller shall pay to Buyer interest on such overdue amount (for
the period commencing as of the date such overdue amount was originally required
to be paid and ending on the date such overdue amount is actually paid to Buyer
in full) at a rate per annum equal to three percent (3%) over the “prime rate”
(as announced by Bank of America, N.A. or any successor thereto) in effect on
the date such overdue amount was originally required to be paid or, if less, the
maximum rate permitted by Applicable Law.
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(e) If
Seller terminates this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.01(h) (or 10.01(k) or
10.01(l) but only under the circumstances set forth in Section 10.04(b)), or
Buyer terminates this Agreement pursuant to Sections 10.01(g) or Buyer is paid
the Buyer Reimbursable Expenses and the Seller Termination Fee pursuant to
Section 10.04(c), upon payment of the Seller Termination Fee in accordance with
Section 10.04(b) or 10.04(c) and the reimbursement of the Buyer Reimbursable
Expenses in accordance with Section 10.04(a) or 10.04(c), except to the extent
otherwise specified in Section 10.03(b) and notwithstanding any other provision
contained in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) no Person, including, but not
limited to, Buyer and Buyer Parent, shall have any rights or claims against
Seller and its former, current and future direct or indirect equity holders,
controlling Persons, stockholders, directors, officers, employees, agents,
Affiliates, members, managers, general or limited partners or assignees
(collectively, the “Seller
Parties”) pursuant to this Agreement (including this Section
10.04).
ARTICLE
XI
GENERAL
Section
11.01. Notices. All
notices, consents and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and
shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) when delivered by hand or by Federal
Express or a similar overnight courier to, (b) five (5) days after being
deposited in any United States Post Office enclosed in a postage prepaid,
registered or certified envelope addressed to or (c) when successfully
transmitted by fax (with a confirming copy of such communication to be sent as
provided in clauses (a) or (b) above) to, the Party for whom intended, at the
address or fax number for such Party set forth below (or at such other address
or telecopier number for a Party as shall be specified by like notice, provided, however, that the day any
notice of change of address or telecopier number shall be effective only upon
receipt):
(a) if
to Seller, to:
TechTeam
Global, Inc.
00000
Xxxx 00 Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
XXxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Blank
Rome LLP
Watergate
000 Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Esq.
Email:
Xxxxxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxx.xxx
(b) if
to Buyer or Buyer Parent, to:
Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
(for
personal delivery and overnight courier)
X.X. Xxx
0000
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000
(for U.S.
Mail)
Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Esq.
Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
Email: Xxxx.Xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Paul,
Hastings, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP
000 X.
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
Email: XxxxxxXxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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11.02. Amendments and
Modifications. Any provision of this Agreement may be amended
or modified only by a written instrument signed by all of the Parties hereto;
provided, however, that, after any
approval of this Agreement by the stockholders of Seller, no amendment may be
made without further stockholder approval which, by Applicable Law or in
accordance with the rules of any relevant stock exchange, requires further
approval by such stockholders.
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11.03. Waiver. No waiver
hereunder shall be valid or binding unless set forth in writing and duly
executed by the Party against whom enforcement of the waiver is
sought. Any such waiver shall constitute a waiver only with respect
to the specific matter described in such writing and shall in no way impair the
rights of the Party granting such waiver in any other respect or at any other
time. Neither the waiver by any of the Parties of a breach of or a
default under any of the provisions of this Agreement, nor the failure by any of
the Parties, on one or more occasions, to enforce any of the provisions of this
Agreement or to exercise any right or privilege hereunder, shall be construed as
a waiver of any other breach or default of a similar nature, or as a waiver of
any of such provisions, rights or privileges hereunder.
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11.04. Remedies. All
remedies hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any other remedies
provided by law or equity. In the event of litigation relating to
this Agreement, if a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final,
non-appealable order that this Agreement has been breached by either Party, then
the breaching Party will reimburse the other Party for its costs and expenses
(including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred in
connection with all such litigation.
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11.05. Disclosure Schedule
References. No disclosure on any Schedule relating to a
possible breach or violation of any Contract or Applicable Law shall be
construed as an admission or indication that a breach or violation exists or has
actually occurred.
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11.06. Expenses. Except
as otherwise provided herein, all costs and expenses incurred in connection with
the preparation, negotiation and execution of this Agreement, the transactions
contemplated hereby, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby, including any advisor fees and expenses, whether or not the transactions
contemplated hereby are consummated (a) of Seller or any of its Affiliates
(including, for costs incurred prior to the Closing, the Acquired Companies)
shall be paid by Seller, and (b) of Buyer or any of its Affiliates (including,
for costs incurred following the Closing, the Acquired Companies) shall be paid
by Buyer.
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11.07. Assignment. Neither
this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder shall
be assigned by any Party hereto (whether by operation of law or otherwise)
without the prior written consent of the other Party. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, Buyer shall have the right to assign all or certain provisions of
this Agreement, or any interest herein, and may delegate any duty or obligation
hereunder, without the consent of Seller, (i) to any Affiliate of Buyer
(unless to do so would restrict or delay the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby), (ii) at any time after the Closing, to any purchaser of
any or all of the assets or equity interests (whether by merger,
recapitalization, reorganization or otherwise) of Buyer or the Business or (iii)
to any of Buyer’s financing sources as collateral; provided, that, in the case
of each of clauses (i)-(iii), no such assignment or delegation shall relieve
Buyer of any of its obligations hereunder.
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11.08. Parties in
Interest. This Agreement will be binding upon, inure solely to
the benefit of and be enforceable by the Parties and their respective successors
and permitted assigns and, except as otherwise provided herein with respect to
the Seller Indemnitees and the Buyer Indemnitees, shall not inure to the benefit
of any other Persons.
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11.09. Governing
Law. This Agreement shall be construed, performed and enforced
in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware (without giving effect to
its principles or rules of conflict of laws to the extent such principles or
rules would require or permit the application of the laws of another
jurisdiction) as to all matters, including, but not limited to, matters of
validity, construction, effect, performance and remedies.
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11.10. Jurisdiction.
(a) Each
of the Parties irrevocably agrees that any legal action or proceeding with
respect to this Agreement and the rights and obligations arising hereunder
(other than with respect to any dispute arising under Section 2.07, which shall
be governed by the procedure specified therein), or for recognition and
enforcement of any judgment in respect of this Agreement and the rights and
obligations arising hereunder brought by the other Party hereto or its
successors or assigns, shall be brought and determined exclusively in the
Delaware Court of Chancery and any state appellate court therefrom within the
State of Delaware (or, if the Delaware Court of Chancery declines to accept
jurisdiction over a particular matter, any state or federal court within the
State of Delaware). Each of the Parties hereby irrevocably submits
with regard to any such action or proceeding for itself and in respect of its
property, generally and unconditionally, to the personal jurisdiction of the
aforesaid courts and agrees that, except for the enforcement of any judgment
entered by any of the aforesaid courts arising from any such action or
proceeding, it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement or any of
the Contemplated Transactions in any court other than the aforesaid
courts.
(b) Subject
to the provisions of Section 2.07 (which shall govern any dispute arising
thereunder), each of the Parties hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to
assert as a defense, counterclaim or otherwise, in any action or proceeding with
respect to this Agreement, (a) any claim that it is not personally subject to
the jurisdiction of the above named courts for any reason other than the failure
to serve notice in accordance with Section 11.01, (b) any claim that it or its
property is exempt or immune from jurisdiction of any such court or from any
legal process commenced in such courts (whether through service of notice,
attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution of judgment,
execution of judgment or otherwise) and (c) to the fullest extent permitted by
the Applicable Law, any claim that (i) the suit, action or proceeding in such
court is brought in an inconvenient forum, (ii) the venue of such suit, action
or proceeding is improper or (iii) this Agreement, or the subject matter hereof,
may not be enforced in or by such courts.
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11.11. Service of
Process. The Parties agree that the delivery of process or
other papers in connection with any such action or proceeding in the manner
provided in Section 11.01 hereof, or in such other manner as may be permitted by
Applicable Law, shall be valid and sufficient service thereof.
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11.12. Waiver
of Jury Trial.
(a) EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES
THAT ANY CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO
INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE IT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT
OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. THIS WAIVER MAY
NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN
WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SECTION 11.12(a) AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF
THE PARTIES HERETO). THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT
AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
OTHER AGREEMENTS OR DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CONTEMPLATED
TRANSACTIONS. The scope of this waiver is intended to be
all-encompassing of any and all disputes that may be filed in any court and that
relate to the subject matter of the Contemplated Transactions or the other
agreements or documents referred to herein, including contract claims, tort
claims, breach of duty claims and all other common law and statutory
claims. In the event of litigation, this Agreement may be filed as a
written consent to a trial by the court.
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(b) EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES
THAT (i) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS
REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE
EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE EITHER OF SUCH WAIVERS, (ii) IT UNDERSTANDS
AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH WAIVERS, (iii) IT MAKES SUCH WAIVERS
VOLUNTARILY, AND (iv) IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY,
AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION
11.12.
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11.13. Relationship
of the Parties. The Parties agree that the Contemplated
Transactions are arm’s length transactions in which the Parties’ undertakings
and obligations are limited to the performance of their obligations under this
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements. Buyer acknowledges that it is
a sophisticated investor and that it has only a contractual relationship with
Seller, based solely on the terms of this Agreement and the Confidentiality
Agreement, and that there is no special relationship of trust or reliance
between Seller and Buyer.
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11.14. Counterparts;
Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the
signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. In the event that
any signature to this Agreement is delivered by facsimile transmission or by
e-mail delivery of a portable document format (.pdf or similar format) data
file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the Party
executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force
and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original
thereof. This Agreement shall become effective when each Party hereto shall have
received a counterpart hereof signed by all of the other Parties hereto. Until
and unless each Party has received a counterpart hereof signed by the other
Party hereto, this Agreement shall have no effect and no Party shall have any
right or obligation hereunder (whether by virtue of any other oral or written
agreement or other communication).
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11.15. Third
Party Beneficiaries.
(a) Except
as otherwise provided herein with respect to the Seller Indemnitees and the
Buyer Indemnities, the representations, warranties and agreements of the Parties
contained herein are intended solely for the benefit of the Party to whom such
representations, warranties or agreements are made, shall confer no rights
hereunder, whether legal or equitable, in any other Person, and no other Person
shall be entitled to rely thereon.
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(b) No
provision in this Agreement shall modify or amend any other agreement, plan,
program, or document unless this Agreement explicitly states that the provision
“amends” that other agreement, plan, program, or document. This shall not
prevent the parties entitled to enforce this Agreement from enforcing any
provision in this Agreement, but no other party shall be entitled to enforce any
provision in this Agreement on the grounds that it is an amendment to another
agreement, plan, program, or document, unless the provision is explicitly
designated as such in this Agreement, and the Person is otherwise entitled to
enforce the other agreement, plan, program, or document. If a party not entitled
to enforce this Agreement brings a lawsuit or other action to enforce any
provision in this Agreement as an amendment to another agreement, plan, program,
or document, and that provision is construed to be such an amendment despite not
being explicitly designated as one in this Agreement, that provision shall lapse
retroactively as of its inception, thereby precluding it from having any
amendatory effect.
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11.16. Entire
Agreement. This Agreement (including the Ancillary Agreements
and other documents and instruments contemplated hereby and being executed in
connection with the Contemplated Transactions), the Confidentiality Agreement
and the schedules attached hereto sets forth the entire agreement and
understanding of the Parties in respect of the Contemplated Transactions and
supersedes all prior discussions, negotiations, agreements, arrangements and
understandings, whether oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof
and thereof. There are no warranties, representations or other
agreements between the Parties in connection with the subject matter of this
Agreement, except as specifically set forth in this Agreement.
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11.17. Severability. If
any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a
court of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Authority to be invalid,
void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and
restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall
in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated 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 a determination, the
Parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect
the original intent of the Parties as closely as possible in an acceptable
manner in order that the transactions contemplated hereby be consummated as
originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.
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11.18. Specific
Performance. Each of Seller and the Buyer acknowledges and
agrees that irreparable injury to the other Party hereto may occur in the event
that any provision of this Agreement was not performed in accordance with its
specific terms or was otherwise breached and that such injury would not be
adequately compensable in damages because of the difficulty of ascertaining the
amount of damages that will be suffered in the event that this Agreement was
breached. It is accordingly agreed that Seller and the Buyer shall
each be entitled, in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at
law or in equity, to specific enforcement of, and injunctive relief, without
proof of actual damages, to prevent any violation of, the terms hereof, and the
other Party hereto will not take action, directly or indirectly, in opposition
to the Party seeking such relief on the grounds that any other remedy or relief
is available at law or in equity. Any requirements for the securing
or posting of any bond with such remedy are hereby waived.
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11.19. Representation by
Counsel. Each Party hereto acknowledges to the other that it
has been represented by independent legal counsel of its own choice throughout
all of the negotiations that preceded the execution of this Agreement. Each
Party further acknowledges that it and its counsel have had adequate opportunity
to make whatever investigation or inquiry they may deem necessary or desirable
in connection with the subject matter of this Agreement prior to the execution
hereof.
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11.20. Rules
of Construction. The Parties have participated jointly in the
negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity
or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be
construed as if drafted jointly by the Parties and no presumption or burden of
proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any Party by virtue of the authorship
of any provisions of this Agreement.
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11.21. Headings. Headings
of the Articles and Sections of this Agreement, and the Table of Contents are
for convenience of the Parties only, and shall be given no substantive or
interpretative effect whatsoever.
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11.22. Inconsistencies with Other
Agreements. In the event of any inconsistency between the
provisions in the body of this Agreement and those in the Ancillary Agreements
referred to herein, the provisions in the body of this Agreement will prevail
and govern.
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11.23. Obligations of the
Parties. Whenever this Agreement requires
a Subsidiary of Seller to take any action, that requirement shall be
deemed to include an undertaking on the part of Seller to cause that Subsidiary
to take that action. Whenever this Agreement requires a Subsidiary of Buyer or
Buyer Parent to take any action, that requirement shall be deemed to include an
undertaking on the part of Buyer or Buyer Parent, as applicable, to cause that
Subsidiary to take that action.
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11.24. Interpretation.
(a) An
item arising with respect to a specific representation or warranty shall be
deemed to be “reflected on” or “set forth in” a balance sheet or financial
statements, to the extent any such phrase appears in such representation or
warranty, if (a) there is a reserve, accrual or other similar item underlying a
number on such balance sheet or financial statements that related to the subject
matter of such representation, (b) such item is otherwise specifically set forth
on the balance sheet or financial statements or (c) such item is reflected on
the balance sheet or financial statements and is specifically set forth in the
notes thereto.
(b) The
phrases “the date of this Agreement,” “the date hereof” and terms of similar
import, unless the context otherwise requires, shall be deemed to refer to the
date set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement (in which “this
Agreement” is defined).
(c) Any
reference in this Agreement to a date (or the concluding date with respect to
any period of time), which date does not fall on a Business Day, shall be
construed to mean the immediately subsequent Business Day to such
date. For purposes of computing any time period referenced in this
Agreement, the day upon which the time period commences shall be the day
immediately following the date of the event that causes the period to
commence.
(d) The
words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of like import used in this
Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
provision of this Agreement.
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(e) References
to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules are to Articles, Sections,
Exhibits and Schedules of this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
(f) All
Exhibits and Schedules annexed hereto are hereby incorporated in and made a part
of this Agreement as if set forth fully herein.
(g) Any
capitalized terms used in any Exhibit or Schedule but not otherwise defined
therein shall have the meaning set forth in this Agreement.
(h) Any
singular term in this Agreement shall be deemed to include the plural, and any
plural term the singular.
(i) Whenever
the words “include”, “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they
shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”, whether or not
they are in fact followed by those words or words of like import.
(j) “Writing”,
“written” and comparable terms refer to printing, typing and other means of
reproducing words (including electronic media) in a visible form.
(k) References
to any Contract are to that Contract as amended, modified or supplemented from
time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; provided, that with respect
to any Contract listed on any schedules hereto, all such amendments,
modifications or supplements must also be listed in the appropriate
schedule.
(l) References
to any Person include the successors and permitted assigns of that
Person.
(m) References
from or through any date mean, unless otherwise specified, from and including or
through and including, respectively.
(n) References
to “law”, “laws” or to a particular statute or law shall be deemed to refer to
such statute or law as amended from time to time, and to the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed as of the day and year first above written.
TECHTEAM
GLOBAL, INC.
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx
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President
and Chief Executive Officer
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Officer
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XXXXXX
ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
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Xxxx
X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
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Executive
Vice President, Finance
and
Administration and
Treasurer
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XXXXXX
TECHNOLOGY INC.
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
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Xxxx
X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
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Treasurer
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[SIGNATURE PAGE TO STOCK PURCHASE
AGREEMENT]
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EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF ESCROW AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT A
THIS
ESCROW AGREEMENT (as the same may be amended or modified from time to time
pursuant hereto, this “Agreement”) is made and
entered into as of [_______ __], 2010, by and among TechTeam Global, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“Seller”), Xxxxxx Engineering
Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Buyer Parent”), Xxxxxx
Technology Inc., a Tennessee corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Buyer
Parent (“Buyer ” and
together with Seller and Buyer Parent, sometimes referred to herein individually
as a “Party” or
collectively as the “Parties”), and JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association (the “Escrow Agent”). Any
capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the
respective meanings ascribed to such terms in that certain Stock Purchase
Agreement, dated as of June 3, 2010, among Seller, Buyer, and Buyer Parent (the
“Stock Purchase
Agreement”).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms
of the Stock Purchase Agreement, Buyer will purchase from Seller,
and Seller will sell to Buyer, one hundred percent (100%) of the Capital Stock
of TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc., a Virginia corporation, and wholly-owned
subsidiary of Seller.
WHEREAS, Section 2.04(b) of
the Stock Purchase Agreement provides that, at the Closing, Buyer shall
deliver to the Escrow Agent an aggregate amount equal to Seventeen Million Five
Hundred Twenty Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty Four Dollars ($17,520,924) (the
“Escrow Amount”) to be
held in accordance with this Agreement as security for (i) the indemnification
obligations of Seller pursuant to Article IX of the Stock Purchase Agreement
(the “Indemnification
Obligations”); and (ii) the payment obligations of Seller with respect to
any NTBV Shortfall pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement (the “NTBVA
Obligations”).
WHEREAS,
Fourteen Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($14,750,000) of the
Escrow Amount is solely with respect to the Indemnification Obligations and
shall constitute the “Indemnification Escrow Fund,”
and (ii) Two Million Seven Hundred Seventy Thousand Nine Hundred Twenty Four
Dollars ($2,770,924) of the Escrow Amount is solely with respect to the NTBVA
Obligations and shall constitute the “NTBVA Escrow
Fund.”
NOW THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing and the covenants and agreements contained in
this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, Seller, Buyer Parent, Buyer and the
Escrow Agent, intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as
follows:
1.
Appointment. The Parties
hereby appoint the Escrow Agent as their escrow agent for the purposes set forth
herein, and the Escrow Agent hereby accepts such appointment under the terms and
conditions set forth herein.
3.
Investment of Fund.
During the term of this Agreement, the Fund shall be invested in a
JPMorgan Money Market Deposit Account (“MMDA”), or a successor or
similar investment offered by the Escrow Agent, unless otherwise jointly
instructed in writing by Buyer and Seller and as shall be acceptable to the
Escrow Agent. MMDA have rates of compensation that may vary from time to time
based upon market conditions. Instructions to make any other investment (“Alternative Investment”) must
be made jointly by Buyer and Seller in writing and shall specify the type and
identity of the investments to be purchased and/or sold. The Escrow Agent is
hereby authorized to execute purchases and sales of investments through the
facilities of its own trading or capital markets operations or those of any
affiliated entity. The Escrow Agent or any of its affiliates may receive
compensation with respect to any Alternative Investment directed hereunder
including without limitation charging any applicable agency fee in connection
with each transaction. The Parties recognize and agree that the Escrow Agent
will not provide supervision, recommendations or advice relating to either the
investment of moneys held in the Fund or the purchase, sale, retention or other
disposition of any investment described herein. The Escrow Agent shall not have
any liability for any loss sustained as a result of any investment in an
investment made pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or as a result of any
liquidation of any investment prior to its maturity or for the failure of the
Parties to give the Escrow Agent instructions to invest or reinvest the Fund,
except to the extent that such loss arises from the Escrow Agent’s gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The Escrow Agent shall have the
right to liquidate any investments held in order to provide funds necessary to
make required payments under this Agreement. The Escrow Agent shall provide
Buyer and Seller monthly and annual statements of assets and transactions for
the Fund. In addition, the Escrow Agent shall respond to reasonable telephone
requests for account balances during normal business hours.
4.
Disposition and
Termination.
(a) Term of Fund. Unless
released earlier pursuant to this Agreement, the Fund shall be held by the
Escrow Agent and disbursed in accordance with the
following:
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(ii) On
the first Business Day following the twenty-four (24) month anniversary of the
Closing Date (such Business Day, the “First Release Date”), Seller
and Buyer shall jointly instruct the Escrow Agent in writing to disburse to
Seller from the Indemnification Escrow Fund an amount (if such amount is greater
than zero) equal to the difference of (x) $4,916,667, minus (y) the sum of
(A) the aggregate amount of all amounts previously paid to Buyer Indemnitees
(and to third parties at the direction of Buyer) from the Indemnification Escrow
Fund, plus (B)
the aggregate amount of all Unsatisfied Escrow Claims (as defined
below).
(iii) On
the first Business Day following the thirty-six (36) month anniversary of the
Closing Date (such Business Day, the “Second Release Date”), Seller
and Buyer shall jointly instruct the Escrow Agent in writing to disburse to
Seller from the Indemnification Escrow Fund an amount (if such amount is greater
than zero) equal to the difference of (x) the amount remaining in the
Indemnification Escrow Fund on such date, minus (y) the
aggregate amount of all Unsatisfied Escrow Claims.
(iv) Following
the Second Release Date, the amount of any Unsatisfied Escrow Claim which is
Finally Determined, in whole or in part, in favor of Buyer (or any other Buyer
Indemnitee) or Seller, as applicable, shall be paid to Buyer (or to the
applicable third party, if so directed by Buyer) or Seller, as applicable,
within (3) Business Days following the earlier to occur of (A) the Escrow
Agent’s receipt of a joint written instruction from Buyer and Seller, which
instruction resolves any portion of a Disputed Claim in favor of Buyer or
Seller, as applicable, or (B) the Escrow Agent’s receipt of a final,
non-appealable order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, which
final order or judgment resolves any portion of a Disputed Claim in favor of
Buyer or Seller, applicable; provided, that the amount of
any Unsatisfied Escrow Claim to be distributed to Seller pursuant to the
foregoing shall be reduced, if at all, to the extent (and only to the extent)
that the amounts remaining in the Indemnification Escrow Fund would be less than
the amount of any then outstanding Unsatisfied Escrow Claim(s). When no
Unsatisfied Escrow Claims remain following the Second Release Date, the Escrow
Agent shall promptly disburse to Seller the amounts remaining in the
Indemnification Escrow Fund. Upon disbursement by the Escrow Agent of all
amounts remaining in the Fund, this Agreement shall terminate.
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(b) Claims for
Payment from the Indemnification Escrow Fund.
(i) Subject
to the provisions of the Stock Purchase Agreement, if at any time on or before
the Second Release Date, Buyer (A) believes that it (or any other Buyer
Indemnitee) is entitled to payment, or that payment should be made to a third
party, pursuant to the terms of Article IX of the Stock Purchase Agreement, and
(B) desires to make a claim for payment from the Indemnification Escrow Fund (a
“Claim”) in connection
therewith, then Buyer shall give written notice of such Claim (a “Claim Notice ”) to Seller and the
Escrow Agent, specifying in reasonable detail the nature of the Claim, the basis for
indemnification under the Stock Purchase Agreement, and the amount (to the
extent reasonably determinable) of such Claim.
(ii) Within
thirty (30) days after the date of delivery of a Claim Notice (the “Response Period”), Seller may
deliver to Buyer and to the Escrow Agent a written response (the “Response Notice”) in which
Seller (A) agrees that the full amount of the subject Claim may be released from
the Indemnification Escrow Fund to Buyer, (B)
agrees that part, but not all, of the amount of the subject Claim may be
released from the Indemnification Escrow Fund to Buyer, or (C) indicates that no
part of the amount of the subject Claim may be released from the Indemnification
Escrow Fund to Buyer. The amount of the subject Claim that Seller indicates may
not be released to Buyer under the Response Notice shall be deemed a “Disputed Claim.” If no
Response Notice is delivered to Buyer and the Escrow Agent within the Response
Period, the Claim set forth in the Claim Notice shall be paid to Buyer, or the
applicable third party (if directed by Buyer), by the Escrow Agent from the
Indemnification Escrow Fund within three (3) Business Days following the end of
the Response Period.
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(iii) In the event that a
Response Notice with respect to the subject Claim is delivered to Buyer and the
Escrow Agent within the Response Period, the Escrow Agent shall pay Buyer, or
the applicable third party (if so directed by Buyer), from the Indemnification
Escrow Fund within three (3) Business Days following the Escrow Agent’s receipt
of the Response Notice, the amount of the Claim not in dispute, if any, and
shall retain the amount of the Disputed Claim. Buyer and Seller shall attempt in
good faith to resolve such Disputed Claim and, if they are able to do so in
whole or in part, shall jointly instruct the Escrow Agent in writing as to the
full or partial resolution of such Disputed Claim and the amount of the Disputed
Claim allowed, if any. To the extent a Disputed Claim is resolved in whole or in
part, the allowed amount of the Disputed Claim, if any, shall be paid to Buyer,
or the applicable third party (if so directed by Buyer), by the Escrow Agent
from the Indemnification Escrow Fund within three (3) Business Days following
the Escrow Agent’s receipt of a joint written instruction from Buyer and Seller
to the Escrow Agent regarding such resolution. Except to the extent that the
amount remaining in the Indemnification Escrow Fund at any time is insufficient
to satisfy other Claims that are either undisputed or have been resolved in
whole or in part in favor of Buyer, the Escrow Agent shall not pay out any
portion of the Indemnification Escrow Fund with respect to the amount of a
Disputed Claim which continues to be in dispute until (A) jointly instructed in
writing by Buyer and Seller, or (B) the
Escrow Agent receives a final, non -appealable order or judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction, which final order or judgment resolves any portion of a
Disputed Claim in favor of Buyer or Seller. In the event that a previously
Disputed Claim is resolved in whole or in part, in favor of Buyer (or any other
Buyer Indemnitee), the amount which is Finally Determined in favor of Buyer (or
any other Buyer Indemnitee) shall be paid to Buyer or to the applicable third
party (if so directed by Buyer), within (3) Business Days following the earlier
to occur of (A) the Escrow Agent’s receipt of a joint written instruction from
Buyer and Seller, which instruction resolves any portion of a Disputed Claim in
favor of Buyer, or (B) the Escrow Agent’s receipt of a final, non-appealable
order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, which final order or
judgment resolves any portion of a Disputed Claim in favor of
Buyer.
(c)
Interest.
Except as otherwise provided in this Section 4(c), all earnings, interest and
other income, if any, resulting from the investment of the Fund (or any income
on or additions to the Fund) by the Escrow Agent (“Investment Income”) shall be
retained by the Escrow Agent and shall be considered, for all purposes of this
Agreement, to be part of the Fund. The Escrow Agent shall disburse to Buyer
forty percent (40%) of the taxable Investment Income on an annual basis, in
order to satisfy tax liabilities attributable to any such Investment Income.
Upon distribution of any amount from the Escrow Fund, the respective Party to
whom the amount is being distributed shall also receive all Investment Income
attributable to such distributed amount, less the amount of Investment Income
previously distributed to Buyer to cover taxes due on such Investment Income in
accordance with this Section 4(c).
(d)
No Other
Disbursements. The Escrow Agent shall not distribute or release any of
the Fund except in accordance with the express terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
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5.
Escrow
Agent.
(a)
The Escrow Agent shall have only those duties as are specifically and expressly
provided herein, which shall be deemed purely ministerial in nature, and no
other duties shall be implied. The Escrow Agent shall neither be responsible
for, nor chargeable with, knowledge of, nor have any requirements to comply
with, the terms and conditions of any other agreement, instrument or document
between the Parties, in connection herewith, if any, including without
limitation the Stock Purchase Agreement (except with respect to capitalized
terms that are used herein as defined in the Stock Purchase
Agreement), nor shall the Escrow Agent be required to determine if any person or
entity has complied with any such agreements, nor shall any additional
obligations of the Escrow Agent be inferred from the terms of such agreements,
even though reference thereto may be made in this Agreement. Unless and until
the Escrow Agent shall be notified in writing that an inconsistency or a
conflict exists between this Agreement and the Stock Purchase Agreement, it
shall be entitled to conclusively assume that no such inconsistency or conflict
exists. Notwithstanding the foregoing, as between the Parties, to the extent any
terms and provisions of this Agreement are in any way inconsistent with or
conflict with any term, condition or provision of the Stock Purchase Agreement,
the Stock Purchase Agreement shall govern and control. The Escrow Agent may rely
upon and shall not be liable for acting or refraining from acting upon any
written notice, document, instruction or request furnished to it hereunder and
reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper Party or Parties without inquiry and without requiring substantiating
evidence of any kind. Concurrent with the execution of this Agreement, the
Parties shall deliver to the Escrow Agent authorized signers’ forms in the form
of Exhibit A-1 and Exhibit A-2 to this Agreement. The Escrow Agent shall not be
liable to any Party, any beneficiary or other person for refraining from acting
upon any instruction setting forth, claiming, containing, objecting to, or
related to the transfer or distribution of the Fund, or any portion thereof,
unless such instruction shall have been delivered to the Escrow Agent in
accordance with Section 11 below and the Escrow Agent has been able to satisfy
any applicable security procedures as may be required hereunder and as set forth
in Section 11. The Escrow Agent shall be under no duty to inquire into or
investigate the validity, accuracy or content of any such document, notice,
instruction or request. The Escrow Agent shall have no duty to solicit any
payments which may be due it or the Fund, including, without limitation, the
Escrow Amount nor shall the Escrow Agent have any duty or obligation to confirm
or verify the accuracy or correctness of any amounts deposited with it
hereunder.
(b)
The Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted
to be taken by it in good faith except to the extent that a final adjudication
of a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the Escrow Agent's gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct was the cause of any loss to any
Party. The Escrow Agent may execute any of its powers and perform any of its
duties hereunder directly or through affiliates or agents. The Escrow Agent may
consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled persons to be selected and
retained by it. The Escrow Agent shall not be liable for any action taken,
suffered or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with, or in reasonable
reliance upon, the advice or opinion of any such counsel, accountants or other
skilled persons. In the event that the Escrow Agent shall be uncertain or
believe there is some ambiguity as to its duties or rights hereunder or shall
receive instructions, claims or demands from any Party hereto which, in its
opinion, conflict with any of the provisions of this Agreement, it shall be
entitled to refrain from taking any action and its sole obligation shall be to
keep safely all property held in escrow until it shall be given a direction in
writing by the Parties which eliminates such ambiguity or uncertainty to the
satisfaction of Escrow Agent or by a final and non-appealable order or judgment
of a court of competent jurisdiction. To the extent reasonably practicable, the
Parties agree to pursue any redress or recourse in connection with any dispute
without making the Escrow Agent a party to the same. Anything in
this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the Escrow Agent shall not be
liable for special, incidental, punitive, indirect or consequential loss or
damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even
if the Escrow Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage
and regardless of the form of action, unless such special, incidental, punitive,
indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, shall have been
finally adjudicated to have been caused by the gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct of the Escrow Agent.
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6.
Succession.
(a)
The Escrow Agent may resign from its duties or obligations hereunder by giving
thirty (30) days advance notice in writing of such resignation to the Parties
specifying a date (which date shall be at least thirty (30) days after the
Parties’ receipt of such notice) when such resignation shall take effect, and
the Parties may remove the Escrow Agent by giving the Escrow Agent thirty (30)
days advance notice in writing of such removal to the Escrow Agent specifying a
date (which date shall be at least thirty (30) days after the Escrow Agent’s
receipt of such notice) . If the Parties have failed to appoint a successor
escrow agent prior to the expiration of thirty (30) days following receipt of
the notice of resignation or removal, the Escrow Agent may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor escrow agent or for
other appropriate relief, and any such resulting appointment shall be binding
upon all of the Parties hereto. Escrow Agent’s sole responsibility after such
thirty (30) day notice period expires shall be to hold the Fund (without any
obligation to reinvest the same) and to deliver the same to a designated
substitute escrow agent, if any, or in accordance with the directions of a final
order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, at which time of
delivery Escrow Agent’s obligations hereunder shall cease and
terminate.
(b)
Any entity into which the Escrow Agent may be merged or converted or with which
it may be consolidated, or any entity to which all or substantially all the
escrow business may be transferred, shall be the Escrow Agent under this
Agreement without further act.
7. Compensation and
Reimbursement. Each of Buyer and
Seller agree severally, and not jointly, to (a) pay the Escrow Agent upon
execution of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter one-half of all
reasonable compensation for the services to be rendered hereunder, which unless
otherwise agreed to in writing by Buyer and Seller shall be as described in
Schedule 2 attached hereto and shall be intended as full compensation for the
Escrow Agent’s services as contemplated by this Agreement, and (b) pay
or reimburse the Escrow Agent upon request for one-half of all reasonable,
necessary and documented out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances,
including, without limitation reasonable attorney's fees and expenses, incurred
or made by it in connection with the performance, modification and termination
of this Agreement. The obligations set forth in this Section 7 shall survive the
resignation, replacement or removal of the Escrow Agent or the termination of
this Agreement.
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8.
Indemnity.
(a)
Each of Buyer and Seller severally, and not jointly, indemnify, defend and save
harmless the Escrow Agent and its affiliates and their respective successors,
assigns, agents and employees (the “Indemnitees”) from and against
such Party’s one- half of any and all losses, damages, claims, liabilities,
penalties, judgments, settlements, litigation, investigations, costs or expenses
(including, without limitation, the fees and expenses of outside counsel and
experts and their staffs and all documented out-of-pocket expense of document
location, duplication and shipment)(collectively “Losses”), arising out of or in
connection with (i) the Escrow Agent's execution and performance of this
Agreement, tax reporting or withholding, the enforcement of any rights or
remedies under or in connection with this Agreement, or as may arise by reason
of any act, omission or error of the Indemnitee, except in the case of any
Indemnitee to the extent that such Losses are finally adjudicated by a court of
competent jurisdiction to have been primarily caused by the gross negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct of such indemnitee, or (ii) its following any
instructions or other directions, whether joint or singular, from the Parties,
except to the extent that its following any such instruction or direction is
expressly forbidden by the terms hereof. The indemnity obligations set forth in
this Section 8(a) shall survive the resignation, replacement or removal of the
Escrow Agent or the termination of this Agreement.
(b)
The Escrow Agent hereby waives any and all rights to offset that it may have
against the Fund, including, without limitation, claims arising as a result of
any claims, amounts, liabilities, costs, expenses, damages or other losses that
the Escrow Agent may be entitled to collect from any party to this Escrow
Agreement.
9.
Patriot Act Disclosure/Taxpayer
Identification Numbers/Tax Reporting.
(a)
Patriot Act
Disclosure.
Section 326 of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001
(“USA PATRIOT Act”)
requires the Escrow Agent to implement reasonable procedures to verify the
identity of any person that opens a new account with it. Accordingly, the
Parties acknowledge that Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Escrow
Agent’s identity verification procedures require the Escrow Agent to obtain
information which may be used to confirm the Parties identity including without
limitation name, address and organizational documents (“identifying information”) . The Parties
agree to provide the Escrow Agent with and consent to the Escrow Agent obtaining
from third parties any such identifying information required as a condition of
opening an account with or using any service provided by the Escrow
Agent.
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(b)
Certification and Tax
Reporting.
The Parties have provided the Escrow Agent with their respective fully
executed Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Form W-8, or W-9 and/or
other required documentation. The Parties acknowledge and agree that the Escrow
Amount shall be treated as an installment obligation for purposes of Section 453 of the Code, and Seller shall not be treated as having
received any portion of the Escrow Amount or any Investment Income until such
amounts are actually released to Seller, and no Party shall take any action or
filing position inconsistent with such characterization. The Parties acknowledge
and agree that Buyer will be deemed to be the owner of the Fund for income tax
purposes, and will report all Investment Income as the income of Buyer in the
taxable year or years, in which such Investment Income is properly includible
and pay any taxes attributable thereto. To the extent required by law, the
Escrow Agent shall report such Investment Income to the IRS, or any other taxing
authority, on IRS Form 1099 or 1042S (or other appropriate form) as income
earned from the Fund by the Buyer whether or not said Investment Income has been
distributed during such year. Escrow Agent shall withhold any taxes it deems
appropriate in the absence of proper tax documentation or as required by law,
and shall remit such taxes to the appropriate authorities. The Parties hereby
represent and warrant to the Escrow Agent that there is no sale or transfer of
an United States Real Property Interest as defined under IRC Section 897(c) in
the underlying transaction giving rise to this Agreement.
10.
Notices. All
notices, consents and other communications hereunder, except for notices,
consents and other communications from the Parties setting forth, claiming,
containing, objecting to, or in any way related to the transfer or distribution
of funds, including but not limited to funds transfer instructions (all of which
shall be specifically governed by Section 11 below), shall be in writing and
shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) when delivered by hand or by Federal
Express or a similar overnight courier, (b) five (5) days after being deposited
in any United States Post Office enclosed in a postage prepaid, registered or
certified envelope addressed, or (c) when successfully transmitted by fax (with
a confirming copy of such communication to be sent as provided in clauses (a) or
(b) above) to the party for whom intended, at the address or fax number for such
party set forth below (or at such other address or fax number for a party as
shall be specified by like notice, provided, however, that the day any notice of
change of address or fax number shall be effective only upon
receipt).
If
to Buyer
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Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc.
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0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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(for
personal delivery and overnight courier)
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X.X.
Xxx 0000
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Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000-0000
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(for
U.S. Mail)
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Attention: Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Esq.
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Facsimile: (000)
000-0000
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Email: Xxxx.Xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
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with
a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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Paul,
Hastings, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx LLP
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000
X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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Attention: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq. | |
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
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Email: XxxxxxXxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If
to Seller
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TechTeam
Global, Inc.
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00000
Xxxx 00 Xxxx Xxxx
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Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
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Attention:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
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XXxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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with
a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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Blank
Rome LLP
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Watergate
000 Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
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Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
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Attention:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Esq.
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Email:
Xxxxxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If
to the Escrow Agent
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JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A.
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Escrow Services
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(street
address)
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(City,
state [country],
zip [postal
code])
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Attention:
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Fax
No.:
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11.
Security
Procedures.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 10, any
instructions setting forth, claiming, containing, objecting to, or in any way
related to the transfer or distribution of funds, including but not limited to
any such funds transfer instructions that may otherwise be set forth in a
written instruction permitted pursuant to Section 4 of this Agreement, may be
given to the Escrow Agent only by confirmed facsimile and no instruction for or
related to the transfer or distribution of the Fund, or any portion thereof,
shall be deemed delivered and effective unless the Escrow Agent actually shall
have received such instruction by facsimile at the number provided to the
Parties by the Escrow Agent in accordance with Section 10 and as further
evidenced by a confirmed transmittal to that number.
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(a) In
the event funds transfer instructions are so received by the Escrow Agent by
facsimile, the Escrow Agent is authorized to seek confirmation of such
instructions by telephone call-back to the person or persons designated on
Schedule 1 hereto, and the Escrow Agent may rely upon the confirmation of anyone
purporting to be the person or persons so designated. The persons and telephone
numbers for call-backs may be changed only in a writing actually received and
acknowledged by the Escrow Agent. If the Escrow Agent is unable to contact any
of the authorized representatives identified in Schedule 1, the Escrow Agent is
hereby authorized both to receive written instructions from and
seek confirmation of such instructions by telephone call-back to any one or more
of Buyer or Seller’s executive officers, (“Executive Officers”), as the
case may be, which shall include the titles of [______________________], as the
Escrow Agent may select. Such “Executive Officer” shall deliver to the Escrow
Agent a fully executed incumbency certificate, and the Escrow Agent may rely
upon the confirmation of anyone purporting to be any such officer. The Escrow
Agent and the beneficiary's bank in any funds transfer may rely solely upon any
account numbers or similar identifying numbers provided by Buyer or Seller to
identify (i) the beneficiary, (ii) the beneficiary's bank, or (iii) an
intermediary bank. The Escrow Agent may apply any of the escrowed funds for any
payment order it executes using any such identifying number, even when its use
may result in a person other than the beneficiary being paid, or the transfer of
funds to a bank other than the beneficiary's bank or an intermediary bank
designated.
(b) Buyer
acknowledges that the Escrow Agent is authorized to use the following funds
transfer instructions to disburse any funds due to Buyer under this Agreement
without a verifying call-back as set forth in Section 11(a) above:
Buyer’s
Bank account information: Bank name:
Bank
Address:
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ABA
number:
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Account
name:
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Account
number:
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(c) Seller
acknowledges that the Escrow Agent is authorized to use the following funds
transfer instructions to disburse any funds due to Seller under this Agreement
without a verifying call-back as set forth in Section 11(a) above:
Seller’s
Bank account information: Bank name:
Bank
Address:
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ABA
number:
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Account
name:
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Account
number:
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(d) In
addition to their respective funds transfer instructions as set forth in Section
11(b) above, Buyer and Seller acknowledge that repetitive funds transfer
instructions may be given to the Escrow Agent for one or more beneficiaries of
Buyer or Seller where only the date of the requested transfer, the amount of
funds to be transferred, and/or the description of the payment shall change
within the repetitive instructions (“Standing Settlement
Instructions”). Accordingly, Buyer and Seller shall deliver to Escrow
Agent such specific Standing Settlement Instructions only for each of their
respective beneficiaries as set forth in Schedule 1, by facsimile in accordance
with this Section 11. Escrow Agent may rely solely upon such Standing Settlement
Instructions and all identifying information set forth therein for each
beneficiary. Escrow Agent, Seller and Buyer agree that such
Standing Settlement Instructions shall be effective as the funds transfer
instructions of Buyer or Seller, as applicable, without requiring a verifying
call-back as set forth in Section 11(a), whether or not authorized, if such
Standing Settlement Instructions are consistent with previously authenticated
Standing Settlement Instructions for that beneficiary.
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(e) The
Parties acknowledge that the security procedures set forth in this Section 11
are commercially reasonable.
12. Compliance with Court
Orders. In the event that any escrow property shall be attached,
garnished or levied upon by any court order, or the delivery thereof shall be
stayed or enjoined by an order of a court, or any order, judgment or decree
shall be made or entered by any court order affecting the property deposited
under this Agreement, the Escrow Agent is hereby expressly authorized, in its
sole discretion, to obey and comply with all writs, orders or decrees so entered
or issued, which it is advised by legal counsel of its own choosing is binding
upon it, whether with or without jurisdiction, and in the event that the Escrow
Agent obeys or complies with any such writ, order or decree it shall not be
liable to any of the Parties hereto or to any other person, entity, firm or
corporation, by reason of such compliance notwithstanding such writ, order or
decree be subsequently reversed, modified, annulled, set aside or
vacated.
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13. Miscellaneous.
Except for change to funds transfer instructions as provided in Section 11,
the provisions of this Agreement may be waived, altered, amended or
supplemented, in whole or in part, only by a writing signed by the Escrow Agent
and the Parties. Neither this Agreement nor any right or interest hereunder may
be assigned in whole or in part by the Escrow Agent or any Party, except as
provided in Section 6, without the prior consent of the Escrow Agent and the
other Parties. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed under the laws
of the State of Delaware. Each Party and the Escrow Agent irrevocably waives any
objection on the grounds of venue, forum non-conveniens or any similar grounds
and irrevocably consents to service of process by mail or in any other manner
permitted by applicable law and consents to the jurisdiction of the courts
located in the State of Delaware. To the extent that in any jurisdiction any
Party may now or hereafter be entitled to claim for itself or its assets,
immunity from suit, execution attachment (before or after judgment), or other
legal process, such Party shall not claim, and it hereby irrevocably waives,
such immunity. Each Party and the Escrow Agent further hereby waive any right to
a trial by jury with respect to any lawsuit or judicial proceeding arising or
relating to this Agreement. No party to this Agreement is liable to any other
party for losses due to, or if it is unable to perform its obligations under the
terms of this Agreement because of, acts of God, fire, war, terrorism, floods,
strikes, electrical outages, equipment or transmission failure, or other causes
reasonably beyond its control. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument. All signatures of the
parties to this Agreement may be transmitted by facsimile, and such facsimile
will, for all purposes, be deemed to be the original signature of such party
whose signature it reproduces, and will be binding upon such party. The failure
of any Party to this Escrow Agreement at any time or times to
require performance of any provision under this Escrow Agreement shall in no
manner affect the right at a later time to enforce the same performance. A
waiver by any Party to this Escrow Agreement of any such condition or breach of
any term, covenant, representation, or warranty contained in this Escrow
Agreement, in any one or more instances, shall neither be construed as a further
or continuing waiver of any such condition or breach nor a waiver of any other
condition or breach of any other term, covenant, representation, or warranty
contained in this Escrow Agreement. If any provision of this Agreement is
determined to be prohibited or unenforceable by reason of any applicable law of
a jurisdiction, then such provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be
ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions thereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in such jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provisions in any other jurisdiction. A person who is not a
party to this Agreement shall have no right to enforce any term of this
Agreement. The Parties represent, warrant and covenant that each document,
notice, instruction or request provided by such Party to Escrow Agent shall
comply with applicable laws and regulations. Where, however, the conflicting
provisions of any such applicable law may be waived, they are hereby irrevocably
waived by the parties hereto to the fullest extent permitted by law, to the end
that this Agreement shall be enforced as written. Except as expressly provided
in Section 8 above, nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall
be construed to give to any person or entity other than the Escrow Agent and the
Parties any legal or equitable right, remedy, interest or claim under or in
respect of this Agreement or any funds escrowed hereunder.
[SIGNATURE
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date set forth
above.
BUYER
XXXXXX
TECHNOLOGY INC.
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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BUYER
PARENT
XXXXXX
ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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SELLER
TECHTEAM
GLOBAL, INC.
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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ESCROW
AGENT
JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Certificate
as to Authorized Signatures
The
specimen signatures shown below are the specimen signatures of the individuals
who have been designated as authorized representatives of Buyer and are
authorized to initiate and approve transactions of all types for the escrow
account or accounts established under the Escrow Agreement to which this Exhibit
A-1 is attached, on behalf of Buyer.
Name
/ Title
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Specimen
Signature
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
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Name
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Signature
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Executive Vice President,
Finance
and Administration and
Treasurer
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Title
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name
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Signature
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Vice President and Corporate
Secretary
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Title
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Name
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Signature
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Title
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Certificate
as to Authorized Signatures
The specimen signature shown below is the specimen signature of
__________ (the “Representative”), who is
authorized to initiate and approve transactions of all types for the escrow
account or accounts established under the Escrow Agreement to which this Exhibit
A-2 is attached, on behalf of the Seller.
Name
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Specimen Signature
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Name
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Signature
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SCHEDULE
1
Telephone
Number(s) and authorized signature(s) for
Person(s) Designated to give
Funds Transfer Instructions
If from
Buyer:
Name
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Telephone Number
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1.
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2.
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3.
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If from
Seller:
Name
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Telephone Number
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1.
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2.
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3.
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Telephone
Number(s) for Call-Backs and
Person(s)
Designated to Confirm Funds Transfer Instructions
If from
Buyer:
Name
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Telephone Number
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1.
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2.
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3.
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If from Seller:
Name
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Telephone Number
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1.
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2.
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3.
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Line
Sheet for Standing Settlement Instructions
[Beneficiary’s]
Bank account information:
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Bank
name:
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Bank
Address:
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ABA
number:
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Account
name:
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Account
number:
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All funds
transfer instructions must include the signature of the person(s) authorizing
said funds transfer.
[Seller
or Buyer] agrees that repetitive or standing settlement instructions will be
effective as the funds transfer instructions of the stated beneficiary,
whether or not authorized, if such settlement instructions are verified pursuant
to the security procedure provided in the Agreement or such other security
procedure to which Escrow Agent and [Seller or Buyer] may
agree.
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X.X.Xxxxxx
Schedule
of Fees for Escrow Agent Services
Based
upon our current understanding of your proposed transaction, our fee proposal is
as follows:
Account
Acceptance Fee
|
$ | 1,500 |
Annual
Administration Fee
|
$ | 0 |
Extraordinary
Services and Out-of Pocket Expenses
Any
additional services beyond our standard services as specified above, and all
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EXHIBIT
B
FORM
OF INTERCOMPANY BALANCES TERMINATION LETTER
EXHIBIT
B
[_______
__], 2010
TechTeam
Government Solutions, Inc.
c/o
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Xxxxxx
Technology Inc.
c/o
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Re:
Termination of Intercompany Balances
Reference
is made to that certain Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Stock Purchase Agreement”) by and among
TechTeam Global, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Seller”), Xxxxxx Engineering Group Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (“ Buyer
Parent”), and Xxxxxx Technology Inc., a Tennessee corporation (“Buyer” and together with Buyer
Parent, the “Buyer
Parties”), pursuant to which Seller has concurrently herewith sold to
Buyer, and Buyer has concurrently herewith purchased from Seller, all of the
outstanding shares of Capital Stock of TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc., a
Virginia corporation (the “Company”). Each of Seller,
Buyer Parent and Buyer is sometimes referred to herein as a “Party” and collectively as the
“Parties.” Capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Stock Purchase Agreement.
1.
This Intercompany Balances Termination Letter (this “Termination Letter”), is being delivered
by Seller, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates (other than the Acquired Companies), to
the Company and the Buyer Parties pursuant to the terms of the Stock Purchase
Agreement to further evidence the elimination of the Intercompany Balances and
all Liabilities of the Acquired Companies to Seller and its Affiliates (other
than the Acquired Companies) relating thereto.
2.
Seller, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates (other than the Acquired
Companies), confirms that (a) effective upon the Closing, all Intercompany
Balances, including, without limitation, the Intercompany Balances set forth on
Schedule I
hereto, were eliminated, either through the capitalization, dividend and/or
cancellation of such Intercompany Balances as set forth more fully on Schedule II hereto,
but in any case in a manner which has not resulted in and will not result in any
Tax Liabilities to any Acquired Company or the Buyer Parties, (b) from and after
the Closing, neither the Buyer Parties nor any Acquired Company shall have any
Liability to Seller and/or any of its Affiliates in respect of the Intercompany
Balances, and no amounts shall be payable by the Buyer Parties or
any Acquired Company to Seller or any of its Affiliates in respect of the
Intercompany Balances, (c) any Liens on any assets or properties of any of the
Acquired Companies in favor of Seller and/or any of its Affiliates, if any, have
been terminated and released, and (d) all agreements, certificates, instruments
or other documents heretofore delivered by any Acquired Company to Seller and/or
any of its Affiliates in respect of the Intercompany Balances have been
terminated and are of no further force or effect.
3.
Concurrently herewith, Seller has delivered to the Buyer Parties, the originals
of any and all promissory notes heretofore delivered or issued by any Acquired
Company to Seller and/or any of its Affiliates in connection with the
Intercompany Balances, duly marked “paid in full” or “cancelled.”
4.
Seller, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates (other than the Acquired
Companies) agrees to execute and deliver to the Buyer Parties any Lien releases,
discharges of security interests, Uniform Commercial Code termination statements
and other similar discharge, termination or release agreements or documents (in
recordable form if applicable) as are necessary, or as the Buyer Parties may
reasonably request, to evidence the elimination of the Intercompany Balances and
all Liabilities of the Acquired Companies to Seller and its Affiliates (other
than the Acquired Companies) relating thereto and to effectuate the termination
and release of any Liens securing the Intercompany Balances, if any, or the
termination of any agreement, certificate or instrument or other document
heretofore delivered by any of the Acquired Companies to Seller and/or any of
its Affiliates in respect of the Intercompany Balances, in each case, without
cost or Liability to the Acquired Companies or the Buyer Parties.
5.
This Termination Letter may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of
which shall constitute one and the same instrument. This Termination Letter, to
the extent signed and delivered by means of facsimile transmission or by e-mail
delivery of a portable document format (.pdf or similar format) data file, shall
be treated in all manner and respects as an original agreement or instrument and
shall be considered to have the same binding effect as if it were the original
signed version thereof delivered in person. No Party shall claim that this
Termination Letter is invalid, not binding or unenforceable based upon the use
of facsimile transmission or e-mail delivery of a portable document format (.pdf
or similar format) data file to deliver a signature, or the fact that any
signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the
use of facsimile transmission or e-mail delivery of a portable document format
(.pdf or similar format) data file, and each Party forever waives any such claim
or defense.
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6.
This Termination Letter shall be construed, performed and enforced in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to the principles
or rules of conflict of laws thereof or of any other jurisdiction to the extent
such principles or rules are not mandatorily applicable by statute and would
require or permit the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than the
State of Delaware. Each of the Parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
submits, for itself and for its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any
Delaware State court or Federal court of the United States of America sitting in
Delaware and any appellate court from any court thereof, in any suit, action or
proceeding arising out of or relating to this Termination Letter or the
transactions contemplated hereby or for recognition or enforcement of any
judgment relating thereto, and each Party hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such Delaware State court or, to the
extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each Party agrees that a final
judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be
enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner
provided by Applicable Law. Each Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any
objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit,
action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Termination Letter or
the transactions contemplated hereby in any Delaware State or Federal court.
Each Party hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by
Applicable Law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such
action or proceeding in any such court. Each Party irrevocably consents to
service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 11.01 of the
Stock Purchase Agreement. Nothing in this Termination Letter will affect the
right of any Party to serve process in any other manner permitted by Applicable
Law.
7.
This Termination Letter, including Schedule I and Schedule II hereto
(which constitutes an integral part of this Termination Letter), together with
the Stock Purchase Agreement, constitute the entire agreement of the Parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all other prior
agreements and understandings, oral or written, express or implied, between the
Parties and their respective Affiliates, Representatives and agents in respect
of the subject matter hereof.
8.
If any provision, including any phrase, sentence, clause, section or subsection,
of this Termination Letter is invalid, inoperative or unenforceable for any
reason, such circumstances shall not have the effect of rendering such provision
invalid, inoperative or unenforceable in any other case or circumstance, or of
rendering any other provision herein contained invalid, inoperative or
unenforceable to any extent whatsoever and a suitable and equitable provision
shall be substituted for any such invalid, inoperative or unenforceable
provision in order to carry out, so far as may be valid or enforceable, such
provision.
[Signature
Page Follows]
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Very
truly yours,
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TECHTEAM
GLOBAL, INC.
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By
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Name:
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Agreed to
and Accepted by the undersigned as of the date first written above:
TECHTEAM
GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.
By
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Name:
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Title
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XXXXXX
ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
By
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Name:
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Title
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XXXXXX
TECHNOLOGY INC.
By
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Title
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE TO INTERCOMPANY BALANCES TERMINATION LETTER]
270100
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Note
Payable-ST Portion
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248100
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Accrued
State Income Tax
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249100
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Accrued
SBT
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250100
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Accrued
Federal Income Tax
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250120
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I/C
Acc Fed Tax - Government
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250150
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Accrued
Corp. Allocation Tax
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250200
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Accrued
Foreign Income Tax
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250300
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Accrued
Corporate Tax CY
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250400
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Accrd
Solidarity Surchg Tax CY
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250500
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Accrued
Trade Tax CY
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250600
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Accrued
Corporate Tax PY
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250700
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Accrued
Solidarity Tax PY
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250800
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Accrued
Trade Tax PY
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226500
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Inter-Company
Due To/From
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228000
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Corp
Allocation - Inter-Co
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270110
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Note
Payable-TTG
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[To be
provided by Seller]
EXHIBIT
C
FORM
OF NON-COMPETE AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT
C
NON-COMPETE
AGREEMENT
THIS NON-COMPETE AGREEMENT
(this “
Agreement”) is entered into as of [__________
___], 2010, by and among TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc., a Virginia
corporation (the “Company”), Xxxxxx Technology
Inc., a Tennessee corporation (the “Buyer”), and TechTeam Global,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Seller”). The Company, Buyer
and Seller are collectively referred to herein as the “Parties” and each individually
as a “Party.”
Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in
the Stock Purchase Agreement (as defined below).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Seller owns all of
the issued and outstanding common stock of the Company (the
“Capital
Stock”);
WHEREAS, Buyer, Seller and
Xxxxxx Engineering Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(“Buyer Parent”) have
entered into that certain Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 3, 2010
(the “Stock Purchase
Agreement”) whereby Buyer will purchase all of the Capital Stock from
Seller;
WHEREAS, as a result of the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, Buyer will
own all of the Capital Stock and will own and control, directly or indirectly,
the Company and each of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Acquired Companies”); and
WHEREAS, as a condition and
inducement for Buyer and Buyer Parent to enter into the Stock
Purchase Agreement and consummate the Contemplated Transactions, Seller has
agreed to enter into this Agreement in connection with the Closing of the
Contemplated Transactions.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the foregoing and the covenants and agreements contained in
this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties to this Agreement,
intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows:
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1.
During the Term (as defined below), Seller shall not, and shall cause its
Affiliates not to, directly or indirectly, participate or engage in the
Business, or acquire, own, invest in, provide credit or other financial
accommodations (other than credit or other financial accommodations provided by
Seller to its customers in the ordinary course of business) to, or otherwise
assist, any Person (other than any of the Acquired Companies, Buyer or Buyer
Parent) anywhere in the United States that engages in the Business (as defined
below). During the Term, with respect to the employees of the Business (the
“Employees”) and any of
the customers of the Business (such customers, together with the Employees, the
“Company Contacts”),
Seller shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, directly or indirectly,
without Buyer’s prior written consent, solicit or otherwise interfere with the
relationship between any of the Acquired Companies and any Company Contact, for
as long as such Company Contact maintains its relationship with
the Business; provided, that the
foregoing prohibition with respect to the solicitation of Employees shall not
prohibit Seller or its Affiliates from placing any general advertisements in
newspapers and/or other media of general circulation (including, without
limitation, advertisements posted on the Internet) that are not targeted
specifically at any Employee or Employees (a “General Solicitation”). In
addition, Seller shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, during the
Term, without Buyer’s prior written consent, hire any Employee formerly employed
in the Business within six (6) months of the termination of such Employee’s
relationship with the Business. Additionally, during the Term, Seller shall not,
and shall cause its Affiliates not to, interfere with the relationship between
any of the Acquired Companies and any supplier of the Business. Ownership by
Seller, as a passive investment, of less than 5% of the outstanding shares of
capital stock of any entity listed on NASDAQ or traded on a national securities
exchange or publicly traded in the over-the-counter market shall not constitute
a breach of this Section 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement
to the contrary, none of the restrictions contained in this Agreement shall be
applicable to any of the non-employee members of the Board of Directors of
Seller or any of their respective Affiliates (other than Seller), including, but
not limited to, Costa Brava Partnership III, L.P., Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Hamot,
LLC, and Emancipation Capital LLC.
For
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the indicated
meanings:
“Business” shall mean the
business of the Acquired Companies as conducted by the Acquired Companies on the
date hereof, including, without limitation, the business of providing, whether
as a prime contractor, subcontractor or otherwise, information technology-based
and other professional services to (i) Governmental Authorities and (ii) the
commercial customers set forth on Schedule 3.14 to the
Stock Purchase Agreement, which such schedule is incorporated herein by
reference as if fully set forth herein.
“Seller Change of Control”
shall mean any transaction or series of related transactions (collectively, an
“Ownership Change
Event”) (i) that results in any Person becoming the “beneficial owner”
(as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), together with all Affiliates
(as such term is defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act) of such Person, of
more than fifty percent (50%) of the then issued and outstanding voting stock or
other voting equity or ownership interest of Seller, (ii) that results in the
sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of Seller’s operating
assets (excluding cash and cash equivalents) to another Person or Persons (other
than any Affiliate of Seller or any Person or Persons fifty percent (50%) or
more of the total combined voting power of which is directly or indirectly
beneficially owned by the stockholders of Seller immediately before the
Ownership Change Event in substantially the same proportion as their ownership
of Seller’s voting stock immediately before the Ownership Change Event) or (iii)
that results in the consolidation or merger of Seller with or into another
Person or Persons wherein the stockholders of Seller immediately before the
Ownership Change Event do not retain, immediately after the Ownership Change
Event, in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of shares of
Seller’s voting stock immediately before the Ownership Change Event, direct or
indirect, beneficial ownership of at least fifty percent (50%) of
the total combined voting power of the issued and outstanding voting stock or
other voting equity or ownership interest of Seller or any successor by
consolidation or merger.
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“Term” shall mean the period
beginning on the Closing Date and ending upon the earlier of (i) the fifth (5th)
anniversary of the Closing Date, or (ii) a Seller Change of Control (other than
the Contemplated Transactions).
2. Seller
shall not, at any time after the Closing Date, disclose any Confidential
Information to anyone other than to Representatives of Buyer or in the interest
and benefit of the Acquired Companies in connection with services provided by
Seller to any of the Acquired Companies post-Closing (except for any such
Confidential Information which is required to be disclosed by Seller in
connection with any Proceeding or pursuant to any Applicable Law, and then only
after Seller has given written notice to Buyer of the intention so to disclose
such Confidential Information (unless prohibited by Applicable Law) and has
given Buyer a reasonable opportunity to contest the need for such disclosure
(unless prohibited by Applicable Law), and Seller shall reasonably cooperate
with Buyer, at Buyer’s expense, in connection with any such contest). For
purposes hereof, “Confidential
Information” shall mean all non-public and all proprietary information
relating to the Business of the Acquired Companies, their customers and products
and services, including, without limitation, the following: (i) all information
and records concerning products or services provided to customers of any of the
Acquired Companies; (ii) all information concerning pricing and cost policies of
any of the Acquired Companies, the prices charged by any Acquired Company to its
customers, the volume or orders of such customers and other information
concerning the transactions of any of the Acquired Companies with its customers
or proposed customers; (iii) the customer lists of the Acquired Companies; (iv)
financial information concerning the Acquired Companies; (v) information
concerning salaries or wages paid to, the work records of and other personnel
information relative to employees of any of the Acquired Companies; (vi)
information concerning the marketing programs or strategies of any of the
Acquired Companies; and (vii) confidential information of other Persons which
any of the Acquired Companies is required to maintain in confidence.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Confidential Information” shall not
include information which (x) is or becomes in the public domain without any
violation by Seller of this Agreement or any other contractual obligation
between Seller and Buyer or (y) is furnished to Seller by another Person or
Persons without restriction on disclosure; provided that such Person is not or
Persons are not, to Seller’s knowledge (without any duty of investigation),
bound by a confidentiality agreement or similar contractual obligation of
confidentiality with respect to such information.
3. This
Agreement shall be governed, construed, performed and enforced in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware (without giving effect to the principles
or rules of conflict of laws thereof or of any other jurisdiction to the extent
that any such principles or rules would require or permit the application of the
laws of another jurisdiction) as to all matters, including, but not limited to,
matters of validity, construction, effect, performance and
remedies.
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5. Any
breach of this Agreement may result in irreparable damage to the Acquired
Companies and Buyer for which the Acquired Companies and Buyer will not have an
adequate remedy at law. Accordingly, in addition to any other remedies and
damages available, Seller further acknowledges and agrees that any of the
Acquired Companies and Buyer shall be entitled to injunctive relief hereunder to
enjoin any breach of this Agreement without any requirement to post a bond or
other security.
6. Seller
represents and warrants that: (i) it has full power and authority to enter into,
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement; and (ii) the
execution, delivery and performance by Seller of its obligations under this
Agreement does not conflict with or violate or constitute a default under (a)
any Applicable Laws, (b) any Organizational Documents of Seller or (c) any
Material Contract, Government Contract or Permit.
7. If
an action is instituted to enforce any of the provisions of this Agreement, the
prevailing Party in such action shall be entitled to recover the prevailing
Party’s reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs from the losing Party.
8. This
Agreement may only be modified or terminated by a writing signed by all of the
Parties hereto, and no waiver hereunder shall be effective unless in a writing
signed by the Party to be charged.
9. 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. In the event that any signature to this Agreement is delivered by
facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a portable document format (.pdf
or similar format) data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding
obligation of the Party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is
executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf”
signature page were an original thereof. This Agreement shall become effective
when each Party hereto shall have received a counterpart hereof signed by all of
the other Parties hereto. Until and unless each Party has received a counterpart
hereof signed by the other Party hereto, this Agreement shall have
no effect and no Party shall have any right or obligation hereunder (whether by
virtue of any other oral or written agreement or other
communication).
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10. This
Agreement and the Stock Purchase Agreement constitute the entire agreement among
the Parties relating to the subject matter hereof, and all prior agreements,
correspondence, discussions and understandings of the Parties (whether oral or
written) with respect to the subject matter hereof are merged herein and made a
part hereof.
[SIGNATURE
PAGE TO FOLLOW]
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BUYER:
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TECHNOLOGY INC.
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By:
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Title:
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COMPANY:
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TECHTEAM
GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS,
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INC.
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Title:
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SELLER:
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TECHTEAM
GLOBAL, INC.
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[Signature
Page to Non-Compete Agreement]
EXHIBIT
D
FORM
OF TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT D
TRANSITION
SERVICES AGREEMENT
TRANSITION SERVICES
AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of [
], 2010, is
made and entered into by and between TechTeam Global, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “ Seller”), and Xxxxxx
Technology Inc., a Tennessee corporation (the “Buyer”). Buyer and
Seller are referred to herein collectively as the “Parties” and each, a
“Party.”
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings
set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement (as defined below).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Stock
Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 3, 2010, by and among Seller, Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc. and Buyer (the “Stock Purchase
Agreement”), Seller will sell to Buyer the Shares of the Acquired
Companies, through which Seller conducts the Business (the Business subsequent
to such sale, the “Transferred
Business”);
WHEREAS, in connection with
the Stock Purchase Agreement, and as a condition to Closing, the Parties are
required to enter into this Agreement;
WHEREAS, Buyer desires that
Seller, or one or more of its Affiliates, continue to provide certain services
to the Transferred Business following the Closing; and
WHEREAS, Seller has agreed to
perform and to cause one or more of its Affiliates to perform the Transition
Services (defined below) for the Transferred Business on the terms and
conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual promises contained herein and for other valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
Parties hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
SERVICES
Section
1.1 Services.
Under the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Seller shall, or shall cause
one or more of its Affiliates to, provide to Buyer for the Transferred Business
each of the services set forth on Exhibit A hereto
(each a “Transition
Service” and collectively, the “Transition Services”)
for the period set forth opposite each such Transition Service on Exhibit A (which period shall
run from the Closing Date) or, if earlier, until the termination of such Transition
Service pursuant to Section 1.3, or the
expiration or termination of this Agreement, whichever occurs
first.
Section
1.2 Standard of
Performance. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Seller shall use
reasonable diligence and care in performing the Transition Services and shall
perform the Transition Services in a manner that is substantially consistent in
all material respects, in terms of quality, service levels and time schedules,
and using no less than that degree of effort, diligence, and care, that it or
any of its Affiliates have used in performing the Transition
Services on
behalf of the Transferred Business prior to Closing. Seller shall not perform a
Transition Service if the provision of such Transition Service conflicts with or
violates Applicable Law, any Contract to which Seller is a party or the rights
of any third party with respect thereto. Seller represents and warrants to Buyer
that, to the Knowledge of Seller, Seller’s performance of the Transition
Services as contemplated herein will not conflict with, or result in the
violation of, any Applicable Law or Contract to which Seller is a party or the
rights of any third party with respect thereto. Seller shall not, without
Buyer’s prior written consent, knowingly perform any Transition Service in a
manner that would reasonably be expected to result in Buyer and/or any of its
Subsidiaries and Affiliates incurring any Liability in tort or for the breach of
any Contract. Nothing in this Agreement shall require Seller to favor the
Transferred Business over its own businesses or those of any of its Affiliates.
Seller may subcontract the performance of the Transition Services to any
Affiliate of Seller, or, with Buyer’s prior written consent (which shall not be
unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), any Person that is not its
Affiliate, provided
that (i)
Seller subcontracts the performance of the same services provided for itself
or its
Affiliates, and (ii) Seller shall
remain responsible for compliance of such subcontractor in accordance with the
terms and conditions of this Agreement. Seller shall not be required to provide
Buyer with extraordinary levels of Transition Services, special studies,
training, or the like or the advantage of systems, equipment, facilities,
training or improvements procured, obtained or made after the Closing Date by
Seller, unless such systems, equipment, facilities, training or improvements are
being procured, obtained or made after the Closing Date in order to replace any
items reasonably necessary for the Transition Services.
Section
1.3 Discontinuation of
Services.
(a)
Buyer may
discontinue any or all Transition Services by giving Seller at least thirty
(30) days’
prior written notice (except where a shorter notice is set forth on Exhibit A or agreed
to in writing by the Parties), which notice shall identify the particular
Transition Service to be discontinued and the effective date as of which any
such Transition Services indicated in such notice shall be discontinued. The
discontinuance by Buyer pursuant to this Section 1.3 of a
Transition Service or group of Transition Services will not relieve Seller of
its obligations to continue to provide the other Transition
Services.
(b) Upon
discontinuation of a Transition Service with respect to which Seller holds
books, records, files, databases, confidential information, computer software or
hardware (including, but not limited to, current and archived copies of computer
files) or other property owned or leased by Buyer and used in connection with
the provision of the Transition Service (the “Materials”), Seller
shall promptly deliver the Materials to Buyer at Buyer’s sole cost and expense
or, upon Buyer’s written request, Seller shall destroy and certify the
destruction of all such Materials.
Section
1.4 Independent
Contractor. For all purposes hereof, Seller shall at all times act as an
independent contractor and shall have no authority to represent Buyer or any of
its Subsidiaries or Affiliates in any way or otherwise be deemed an agent,
employee, representative, joint venturer or fiduciary of Buyer or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates. Neither the Parties, nor or any of their
Subsidiaries or Affiliates or their respective Representatives shall declare or
represent to any Person that Seller or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or
their respective Representatives shall have any power or authority to negotiate
or conclude any agreement, or to make any representation or to give any undertaking, on behalf of
Buyer or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates in any way whatsoever. At all
times during the Term, all Persons (including, without limitation, the personnel
of Seller and the personnel of its Subsidiaries and Affiliates) performing the
Transition Services hereunder shall be construed as independent contractors with
respect to Buyer and shall not be construed as agents or employees of Buyer or
any Subsidiary or Affiliate of Buyer thereof by virtue of performing such
Transition Services and no such Persons shall be entitled to any of the benefits
provided by Buyer, its Subsidiaries or Affiliates to any of their respective
employees or agents.
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1.5 Sufficient
Access. To the extent necessary in connection with the provision of the
Transition Services upon reasonable advance notice, Buyer shall give, or cause
to be given, Seller and its Representatives reasonable access during normal
business hours (or, in the event that Seller reasonably determines that
emergency maintenance is necessary, at such other times as are reasonably
appropriate under the circumstances) to the properties, systems, computer
programs, products and equipment of the Transferred Business as necessary from
time to time for reasons of modification or preventative or emergency
maintenance.
Section
1.6 Change in
Services. The Parties acknowledge the transitional and dynamic nature of
the Transition Services and agree that Seller may make reasonably necessary
changes from time to time in the manner of performing the Transition Services,
subject in all cases to Section 1.2 above and
the other terms of this Agreement, including, without limitation, that Seller may
modify or change the specifications of any Transition Services involving systems
and associated computer programs, products, equipment and services to the extent
reasonably necessary to prevent damage to the systems or other assets of Seller
or Buyer. Seller shall use its Best Efforts to provide Buyer with reasonable
advance notice of any such modifications and changes. Seller may suspend the
provision of Transition Services (or any part thereof) to the extent reasonably
necessary for reasons of preventative or emergency maintenance, provided that
Seller shall not discriminate against Buyer in such suspension. Seller shall use
its Best Efforts to provide Buyer with reasonable advance notice of any such
suspension and to limit the time period of any such suspension.
Section
1.7 Service
Coordinators . Seller and Buyer shall each nominate a representative to
act as the primary contact person with respect to the performance of the
services contemplated by this Agreement (the “Service
Coordinators”). The initial Service Coordinator will be Xxxxxxx Del Papa
for Seller and Xxxx Xxxxxxx for Buyer. Unless Seller and Buyer otherwise agree,
all communications relating to this Agreement and the schedule of Transition
Services on Exhibit
A hereto will be directed to the Service Coordinators. The Parties will
cause their respective Service Coordinator to keep the other Service Coordinator
informed and updated as to the status and performance of the Transition Services
hereunder and the requirements of each Party so as to facilitate a mutual
cooperation so as to provide the Transition Services in an orderly fashion and
work towards the establishment of such services by Buyer independent of
Seller.
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1.8 Further
Assurances. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Buyer
may request in writing that Seller provide to Buyer for the Transferred Business
additional services of a type and nature not specifically contemplated by Exhibit A (each an
“Additional
Transition
Service” and collectively, the “Additional Transition
Services”) . To the extent that Seller
determines to provide such Additional Transition Services, the Parties shall
mutually agree on the scope of such Additional Transition Services and the fees,
costs and expenses to be paid by Buyer in exchange for such Additional
Transition Services.
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II
SERVICE
CHARGES
Section
2.1 Fees and Expenses
During the Term. Buyer shall reimburse Seller for all reasonable
documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by Seller or any of its
Affiliates in providing the Transition Services. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, the obligation in the immediately preceding sentence
shall not apply to the Transition Services described in Section 1.F. (Welfare
Benefits) and Buyer’s sole obligation with respect to the Transition Services
described in Section 1.F. (Welfare Benefits) shall be to pay the amounts
specified in Section II.G. Any travel-related expenses incurred by Seller in
performing the applicable Transition Services hereunder shall be incurred,
documented and charged to Buyer in accordance with Seller’s then applicable
business travel policies; provided, however , that Buyer
shall not be obligated to reimburse Seller for any travel-related expenses
unless such travel was approved in writing in advance by Buyer. Buyer shall pay
all of its costs related to Migration Services (as defined below). Buyer shall
pay all of Seller’s reasonable documented out-of-pocket costs related to
Migration Services.
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2.2 Taxes. In
accordance with Section 3.1, Buyer
shall reimburse Seller for any sales tax, use tax, transfer tax, value-added
tax, goods and services tax, consumption tax or similar tax (“Taxes”) (but
excluding any Tax based upon the income of Seller, which shall be paid by
Seller) payable with respect to the provision of Transition Services, which
shall be separately stated on the relevant invoice. Seller shall be responsible
for filing all necessary returns and information with, and paying any such Taxes
to, the appropriate taxing authority.
ARTICLE
III
PAYMENT
Section
3.1 Payment.
For Transition Services provided, Seller shall invoice Buyer for all reasonable
documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred by Seller or any of its
Affiliates in providing the Transition Services. Buyer shall remit payment for
such reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses by wire transfer of immediately
available funds in U.S. Dollars, to the account specified in such invoice within
ten (10) Business Days after receipt of the invoice. Each invoice shall set
forth the period covered by such invoice and the reasonable documented out-of-
pocket expenses required to be reimbursed pursuant to Section 2.1 relating
to Transition Services performed during such period. Buyer shall not withhold,
set-off or deduct any payments due to Seller under this Agreement from any
amounts otherwise due to Buyer from Seller under any other agreement,
notwithstanding any dispute that may be pending between them. Promptly following
the expiration of the Term or the earlier termination of this Agreement pursuant
to Section 6.2, Seller shall refund to Buyer the amount of the excess, if any,
of the payments made by Buyer hereunder over the amounts to which Seller is
entitled hereunder.
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IV
TRANSITION
Section
4.1 System
Migration . Seller agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to
assist Buyer in connection with the transition from the performance of the
Transition Services by Seller to the performance of such services by Buyer
(including the migration of Buyer’s systems and other services related to the
transfer of a function rather than the ongoing performance of such function)
(collectively, the “Migration Services”),
taking into account the need to minimize both the cost of such transition and
the disruption to the ongoing business activities of the Parties hereto. It is
the intention of the Parties that Seller transfer to Buyer and provide
reasonable information to Buyer relating to the design, configuration, system
start-up and hardware and software set-up currently used by the Transferred
Business; provided, that Seller
will not provide recommendations or advice with respect to any design,
configuration, system start-up or hardware or software set-up in relation to the
Transferred Business or otherwise. The Parties shall keep each other reasonably
informed on a regular basis of the status of the performance of Transition
Services, the Transition Services that will be required and the timing thereof
and the estimated dates for termination of such Transition Services. The Parties
shall communicate by telephone, e-mail and other forms of communication to have
an open working relationship to support the Transition Services and smooth the
transition of the Transition Services to Buyer independently. The Parties shall
work together to shorten, to the extent reasonably practicable, the period of
migration and thereby the Term of this Agreement.
ARTICLE
V
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
Section
5.1 Title to
Intellectual Property. The Parties agree that any Intellectual Property
Rights of Buyer or its Subsidiaries and its Affiliates (including, without
limitation, the Acquired Companies) made available to Seller, its Subsidiaries
or Affiliates in connection with the Transition Services and any derivative
works, additions, modifications or enhancements thereof shall remain the sole
property of Buyer and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates. To the extent that
Seller, its Subsidiaries or Affiliates use their own or third-party Intellectual
Property Rights in connection with providing the Transition Services, such
Intellectual Property Rights, and any derivative works, additions, modifications
or enhancements thereof created during the Term shall remain the sole property of Seller, its Subsidiaries or its
Affiliates or the third party, as the case may be.
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VI
TERM AND
TERMINATION
Section
6.1 Term.
Unless earlier terminated in accordance with Section 6.2, the term
of this Agreement shall commence on the Closing Date and end on the last day of
the seventh (7th) month
following the Closing Date (the “Term”).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if all Transition Services to be provided
hereunder are discontinued pursuant to Section 1.3 prior to
the end of the Term, the Term shall end on the date on which the last such
Transition Service is discontinued.
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6.2 Termination for
Cause. Either Party (the “Terminating Party”)
may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by written notice to the
other Party (the “Other Party”) on or at any
time after the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) the
Other Party is in default of any of its material obligations under this
Agreement and (if the breach is capable of remedy) has failed to remedy the
breach within thirty (30) days after receipt of a written notice from the
Terminating Party with respect thereto;
(b) the
Other Party shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking
liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to itself or its debts
under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect
or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or
other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, or shall
consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any
such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it,
or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due, or shall take any corporate
action to authorize any of the foregoing; and
(c) an
involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Other Party
seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to it or its
debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian
or other similar official of it or any substantial part of its property, and
such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed
for a period of sixty (60) days; or an order for relief shall be entered against
the Other Party.
Section
6.3 Survival.
The following sections shall survive any termination of this Agreement: Article
II (Service Charges) (to the extent of amounts incurred prior to termination or
expiration of the Term); Section 3.1 (Payment)
(to the extent of amounts accrued prior to termination or owing to Buyer after
the expiration of the Term); Section 5.1 (Title to
Intellectual Property); this Section 6.3
(Survival); Article
VII (Confidentiality; Systems Security); Section 8.1 (Indemnity); and
Article IX (Miscellaneous).
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VII
CONFIDENTIALITY;
SYSTEMS SECURITY
Section
7.1 Confidentiality.
(a)
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, (i) Seller shall, and shall
cause its Subsidiaries and Affiliates (and each of their respective
Representatives to whom they disclose such information), to keep confidential
all information of Buyer and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, including all
information relating to the Transferred Business, whether known before the date
of this Agreement or disclosed in the course of performing the Transition
Services, and (ii) Buyer shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries and Affiliates
(and each of their respective Representatives to whom they disclose such
information), to keep confidential all information of Seller or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates that Buyer or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof
receives in connection with the performance of the Transition Services, other
than any information solely related to the Transferred Business, Buyer, its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates or their respective assets.
(b) The
provisions of this Section 7.1 shall not
apply to the disclosure by any Party or their respective Affiliates of any
information, documents or materials (i) that are or become publicly available,
other than by reason of a breach of this Section 7.1 by such
Party or any of its Affiliates, (ii) received from a third party not bound by
any confidentiality agreement with the non-disclosing Party, except in the case
of information relating to the Transferred Business, the non-disclosing Party
shall include both Buyer and Seller, (iii) required by Applicable Law to be
disclosed by such Party, or (iv) necessary to establish such Party’s rights
under this Agreement or the Stock Purchase Agreement; provided , that in
the case of clauses (iii) and (iv), the Person intending to make disclosure of
confidential information shall promptly notify the Party to whom it is obligated
to keep such information confidential and, to the extent practicable, provide
such Party a reasonable opportunity to prevent public disclosure of such
information.
(c) With
regard to confidential information concerning the software of third parties with
which Seller conducts business that is included in or related to the Transition
Services, to the extent required by such third parties, Buyer agrees to execute
and deliver any other reasonable documents or take any reasonable actions that
are reasonably required by any vendor or licensor of such software in order for
Buyer to access and use such vendor’s software, including abiding by the terms
and conditions of any such software license agreements.
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7.2 Systems
Security. If Buyer shall receive access to any of Seller’s computer
facilities, system(s), networks (voice or data) or software (“Systems”) in
connection with performance of the Transition Services, Buyer shall comply with
all system security policies, procedures and requirements that may be provided
by Seller to Buyer in writing from time to time (the “ Security
Regulations”) and shall not tamper with, compromise or circumvent any
security or audit measures employed by Seller. Any employee of Buyer or any of
its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that is expected to have access to Seller’s
Systems or that accesses Seller’s Systems shall be required to execute a
separate system access agreement. Buyer shall ensure that only those employees
of Buyer who are specifically authorized to gain access to Seller’s Systems and
no other employees of Buyer will gain such access and shall prevent unauthorized destruction, alteration or loss of information contained
therein by employees of Buyer. If at any xxxx Xxxxxx determines that any
personnel of Buyer of any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates has sought to
circumvent or has circumvented Seller’s Security Regulations or that an
unauthorized Person has accessed or may access Seller’s Systems or a Person has
engaged in activities that led or may lead to the unauthorized access,
destruction or alteration or loss of data, information or software, Seller may
immediately terminate any such Person’s access to the Systems and shall promptly
notify Buyer. In addition, a material failure by any employee of Buyer or any of
its Subsidiaries or Affiliates to comply with Seller’s Security Regulations
shall be a breach of this Agreement, in which case, Seller shall notify Buyer
and such Parties, through their Service Coordinators, who shall work together to
remediate the cause of said breach. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if such
breach is reasonably likely to have a material adverse affect on Seller's
computer facilities, systems, networks or software, Seller shall be entitled to
immediately terminate the Transition Services to which the breach relates by
written notice to Buyer.
ARTICLE
VIII
INDEMNITY;
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Section
8.1 Indemnity.
(a) Buyer
shall indemnify, hold harmless and, at Seller’s option, defend Seller and its
Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and
Representatives against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses
(including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of litigation) (“Losses”) to the
extent arising from (i) any material breach of this Agreement by Buyer or any
Affiliate thereof, (ii) the performance by Seller or any Affiliate thereof of
any Transition Service (except to the extent that such Losses arise from the
gross negligence or willful misconduct of Seller or any Affiliate thereof or a
material breach of this Agreement by Seller or any Affiliate thereof), or (iii)
the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Buyer or any of its Subsidiaries
or Affiliates in its performance of this Agreement. No action or claim of any
type relating to or arising out of this Agreement may be brought or made by
Seller more than one (1) year after Seller first has knowledge of the basis for
the action or claim.
(b) Seller
shall indemnify and hold harmless and, at Buyer’s option, defend Buyer and its
officers, directors, employees and Representatives, against all Losses arising
from (i) any material breach by Seller or any Affiliate thereof of the terms of
this Agreement or (ii) the gross negligence or willful misconduct of Seller or
any Affiliate thereof in its performance of the Transition Services. No action
or claim of any type relating to or arising out of this Agreement may be brought
or made by Buyer more than one (1) year after Buyer first has knowledge of the
basis for the action or claim.
(c) The
rights of any Party to indemnification under this Section 8.1 for any
Losses incurred by such Party shall be reduced by the net amount such Party
recovers (after deducting all reasonable attorneys’ fees, expenses and other
costs of recovery) from any insurer or other party liable for such Losses, and
such Party shall use its Best Efforts to effect any such recovery.
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8.2 Limitation of Liability;
Certain Waivers.
TO THE
EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW AND EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SPECIFICALLY
PROVIDED IN SECTION
8.1(b) HEREOF, SELLER AND ITS AFFILIATES SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO BUYER
OR BUYER’S AFFILIATES RESULTING FROM OR ARISING OUT OF THE PERFORMANCE, DELIVERY
OR PROVISION OF ANY SERVICES HEREUNDER. THE AGGREGATE CUMULATIVE LIABILITY OF
SELLER AND ITS AFFILIATES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER IN WARRANTY, CONTRACT,
TORT (INCLUDING CONTRIBUTION OR STRICT LIABILITY), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR
OTHERWISE, SHALL NOT EXCEED A MAXIMUM OF $250,000, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY
SUCH LIABILITY ARISES FROM THE GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF SELLER
OR ANY AFFILIATE THEREOF.
THE
PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT EXPRESSLY WAIVE AND FOREGO ANY RIGHT TO RECOVER
INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR SIMILAR
LOSSES OR DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSSES OR DAMAGES IN CONNECTION
WITH OR RELATING TO, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF CUSTOMERS OR
CLIENTS, LOSS OF GOODWILL OR LOSS OF PROFITS, DAMAGE TO OR LOSS OF USE OF ANY
PROPERTY, ANY INTERRUPTION OR LOSS OF SERVICE, OR ANY LOSS OF BUSINESS, HOWEVER
CAUSED, IN ANY ARBITRATION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE PERFORMANCE OR NON PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS HEREUNDER,
WHETHER SUCH CLAIM IS BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE,
GROSS NEGLIGENCE, CONTRIBUTION OR STRICT LIABILITY), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR
OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THE PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OR LIKELIHOOD
OF THE SAME.
EACH
PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM WHICH MAY ARISE OUT
OF OR RELATE TO THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT
ISSUES, AND THEREFORE IT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT
IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES
CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
EACH
PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (i) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY
OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER
PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE EITHER OF THE
FOREGOING WAIVERS, (ii) IT UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF
SUCH WAIVERS, (iii) IT MAKES SUCH WAIVERS VOLUNTARILY, AND (iv) IT HAS BEEN
INDUCED TO ENTER INTO ANY OF THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL
WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION
8.2.
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8.3 Disclaimer of
Warranties. NO WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, ARE
MADE OR CREATED BETWEEN THE PARTIES AS A RESULT OF
THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE EXCEPT TO
THE EXTENT SPECIFICALLY SET FORTH HEREIN.
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
9.1 Modification;
Waiver . This Agreement may be amended or modified only by a written
instrument executed by each of the Parties. Any of the terms and conditions of
this Agreement may be waived only in writing by the Party entitled to the
benefits thereof.
Section
9.2 Entire
Agreement. This Agreement, including Exhibit A (which
constitutes an integral part of this Agreement), together with the Stock
Purchase Agreement, constitute the entire agreement of the Parties with respect
to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all other prior agreements and
understandings, oral or written, express or implied, between the Parties and
their respective Affiliates, Representatives and agents in respect of the
subject matter hereof, except that this Agreement does not supersede the
Confidentiality Agreement, the terms and conditions of which the Parties hereby
expressly reaffirm. In the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions
of this Agreement and the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Stock Purchase Agreement
shall govern.
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9.3 Further
Actions. Each Party shall execute and deliver such certificates and other
documents and take such other actions as may reasonably be requested by the
other Party in order to consummate or implement the transactions contemplated
hereby. Seller shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, and Buyer
agrees to provide reasonable assistance at the request of Seller in obtaining,
any waivers, permits, consents or sublicenses (including, without limitation,
any license fees to third-party vendors) (each, a “Consent”) that Seller
determines, in its sole discretion, after consultation with Buyer, may be
required with respect to any existing agreement with any third party in order to
provide any of the Transition Services hereunder; provided, that (i)
Buyer shall, at the exclusive option of Seller, pay, or reimburse Seller for,
any and all costs related to obtaining any such Consent, and (ii) Seller shall
not be under any obligation to provide any Transition Service hereunder if it is
unable, after using commercially reasonable efforts, to obtain such Consent
necessary to provide such Transition Service; provided, that if such Consent
cannot be obtained, the Parties shall use their respective commercially
reasonable efforts to arrange for alternative methods of obtaining such
Transition Service.
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9.4 Notices.
All notices, requests, demands and other communications made in connection with
this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given
if delivered in accordance with Section 11.01 of the
Stock Purchase Agreement with a copy to the other Party's Service
Coordinator.
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9.5 Assignment.
This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and
their respective successors and permitted assigns, but shall not be assignable,
by
operation of law or otherwise, by any Party without the prior written consent of
each other Party (except in connection with a business combination of Seller)
and any purported assignment or other transfer in violation of the foregoing
without such consent shall be void and unenforceable, except that Seller may
assign this Agreement to any of its Affiliates without the consent of Buyer;
provided, that
no such assignment shall in any way affect the obligations or liabilities of
Seller under this Agreement, which obligations and liabilities shall remain in
effect notwithstanding such assignment. Except as otherwise provided herein,
nothing in this Agreement shall confer any rights upon any Person that is not a
Party or a successor or permitted assignee of a Party.
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9.6 Use and
Resale . The Transition Services provided hereunder shall be used only by
Buyer and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates solely in connection with the
operation of the Transferred Business and no recipient shall resell, license the
use of or otherwise permit the use by others of any such Transition Services
except as permitted hereunder.
Section
9.7 Headings;
Counterparts. The section headings in this Agreement are for convenience
of reference only and shall not be deemed to alter or affect the meaning or
interpretation of any provision hereof. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts, all of which shall constitute one and the same
instrument. This Agreement shall become effective when each Party shall have
received a counterpart hereof signed by each other Party.
Section
9.8 Facsimile.
This Agreement, to the extent signed and delivered by means of facsimile
transmission or by e-mail delivery of a portable document format (.pdf or
similar format) data file, shall be treated in all manner and respects as an
original agreement or instrument and shall be considered to have the same
binding effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in
person. No Party shall claim that this Agreement is invalid, not binding or
unenforceable based upon the use of facsimile transmission or e-mail delivery of
a portable document format (.pdf or similar format) data file to deliver a
signature, or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was
transmitted or communicated through the use of facsimile transmission or e-mail
delivery of a portable document format (.pdf or similar format) data file, and
each Party forever waives any such claim or defense.
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9.9 Governing Law;
Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be construed, performed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without giving
effect to its principles or rules of conflict of laws to the extent such
principles or rules are not mandatorily applicable by statute and would require
or permit the application of the laws of another jurisdiction. Each of the
Parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and for its
property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any Delaware State court or Federal
court of the United States of America sitting in Delaware and any appellate
court from any court thereof, in any suit, action or proceeding arising out of
or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or for
recognition or enforcement of any judgment relating thereto, and each Party
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any
such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such Delaware State
court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each Party
agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or
in any other manner provided by Applicable Law. Each Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may
legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have
to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby in any
Delaware State or Federal court. Each Party hereby irrevocably waives, to the
fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the defense of an inconvenient forum
to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court. Each Party
irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in
Section 11.01
of the Stock Purchase Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right
of any Party to serve process in any other manner permitted by Applicable
Law.
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9.10 No Breach; Force
Majeure. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this
Agreement, (i) Seller shall not provide any Services hereunder if the provision
thereof would result in the violation of any Applicable Law or Order to which
any Seller or any of its Affiliates or its or their properties is a party or
otherwise bound or subject and (ii) no Party shall be liable for a failure or
delay in the performance of any of its obligations under this Agreement where
such failure or delay is (A) the result of fire, flood, or other natural
disaster, act of God, war, act of war, terrorist act, rebellion, embargo, riot,
strike, lockout or other labor dispute, unavailability of communication
facilities including any delay or failure in communications or electronic data
transmission as a result of excessive or extraordinary traffic caused by
extraordinary market occurrences or circumstances; the acts or failure of
performance of third party landlords or other third party vendors, other than
the Affiliates of Seller, or the intervention of any Governmental Authority or
other causes beyond the control of such Party and (B) not
due to such Party’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct; provided, that the
Party failing in or delaying its performance promptly notifies the other Party
of its inability to perform and states the reason for such inability and
remedies such failure or delay as soon as practicable.
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9.11 Severability. If any
provision, including any phrase, sentence, clause, section or subsection, of
this Agreement is invalid, inoperative or unenforceable for any reason, such
circumstances shall not have the effect of rendering such provision invalid,
inoperative or unenforceable in any other case or circumstance, or of rendering
any other provision herein contained invalid, inoperative or unenforceable to
any extent whatsoever and a suitable and equitable provision shall be
substituted for any such invalid, inoperative or unenforceable provision in
order to carry out, so far as may be valid or enforceable, such
provision.
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9.12 No Third Party
Beneficiaries. Except as provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall
confer any rights upon any Person (other than the Acquired Companies) that is
not a Party or a successor or permitted assignee of a Party.
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9.13 Interpretation . The
Parties have participated jointly in the negotiating and drafting of this
Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation
shall arise, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly and no
presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any Party by
virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date
first written above.
TECHTEAM
GLOBAL, INC.
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[SIGNATURE PAGE TO TRANSITION SERVICE
AGREEMENT]
EXHIBIT
A
TRANSITION
SERVICES AND FEES
I.
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Services
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A.
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IT
Services.
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1
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Seller
shall maintain for the benefit of Buyer the following IT and
telecommunications infrastructure, hardware and software services
necessary to operate the Business as existing on the Closing Date:
telephone conferencing lines and related services, website hosting,
website access for customer support, website applications (including
eTuition), Microsoft SharePoint access, eDoc access, helpdesk support,
hardware and associated software related to card reader access for the
Chantilly and Bethesda offices, administrative access to the Acquired
Companies’ enterprise devices, implementation support for issues regarding
the Acquired Companies’ IT infrastructure, VPN connectivity, VPN keys for
network access, Microsoft software, PeopleSoft software, Gateway
Anti-Virus software, Active Directory, the domain names
<xxxxxxxx-xx.xxx>, <xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>,
<xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, <xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>, and all financial
reporting systems, in each case, which shall be maintained by Seller with
procedures and controls reasonably comparable to those provided to
Seller’s retained business.
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2
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Seller
shall provide Buyer with the use of one server to be designated for the
use of the domain names identified in Paragraph I.A.1
above.
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3
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Seller
shall allow the Transferred Employees to send and receive emails related
to Buyer’s business on Seller’s email accounts until such employees
receive email accounts with Buyer, provided that
Buyer shall use its Best Efforts to coordinate and facilitate such
transfer as soon as possible following the Closing
Date.
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4
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Seller
shall provide email and voice mail forwarding as reasonably requested by
Buyer, provided that
Buyer shall use its Best Efforts to notify third parties doing business
with Seller of the new email addresses and phone
numbers.
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5
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Seller
shall reasonably assist Buyer and the Transferred Employees in porting
cellular phone and voice mail numbers to Buyer’s service as time
reasonably permits.
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6
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Duration:
Up to 180 days for the IT Services described in Sections I.A.1 and
2, up to 90 days for the IT Services described in Sections I.A.3 and 5,
and up to 365 days for the IT Services described in Section I.A.4;
provided, however,
that the IT Services described in Section I.A. (other than I.A.4) with
respect to any applications integrated with Active Directory
Authentication shall be provided for a period of up to 210
days.
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B.
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Financial/Accounting
Services.
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1
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Seller’s
financial and accounting staff will be reasonably accessible to assist
Buyer with questions relating to the following financial/accounting
matters: collections, mail services, receipts, contract administration,
billing and accounts receivable collection, supplier and landlord related
ordering, and accounts payable administration. Except as otherwise set
forth herein or as otherwise provided for in the Stock Purchase Agreement,
Seller shall not be required to prepare financial statements, make ledger
entries, or prepare or file tax
returns.
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2
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Duration: Up
to 180 days.
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C.
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Treasury
Services.
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1
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Seller’s
treasury staff will be reasonably accessible to assist Buyer with the
following treasury matters: bank account management, processing of
electronic fund transfers, cash management, cash controls, customer
deposits, online treasury platform access management, administration of
credit card accounts, administration of state and local taxes and other
tax management; provided that
Buyer shall remain fully responsible for managing its own treasury
services.
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2
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Duration: Up
to 180 days.
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D.
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Payroll
Services.
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1
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Seller
shall provide to Buyer payroll processing and services, either directly or
through a payroll processing company, for the Transferred
Employees.
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2
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Seller
shall assist Buyer in transitioning the payroll processing to Buyer’s
payroll processing provider.
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3
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Duration: Up
to 180 days.
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E.
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Human Resources
Services.
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1
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Seller’s
human resources staff will be reasonably accessible to respond to
questions of Buyer related to the payment and benefits of the Transferred
Employees, and will assist the Transferred Employees in enrollment of such
employees into Buyer’s plans.
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2
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Duration: Up
to 180 days.
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Welfare
Benefits.
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1.
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If
requested by Buyer, Seller shall provide each of the Transferred Employees
(and their dependents and other individuals covered through them) with the
group, medical, dental, and vision coverage they enjoyed immediately prior
to the Closing and shall charge each such Transferred Employee the same
monthly premium as currently charged to each such Transferred
Employee.
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2.
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Duration: Up
to 60 days.
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G.
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Miscellaneous
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1.
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Seller
shall provide to Buyer reasonable assistance in transitioning the Acquired
Companies’ ISO 9001 certification.
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2.
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Seller
shall permit Buyer to utilize the services currently used in the
Transferred Business pursuant to Seller’s Boscobel, Monster, and Dell
agreements (each as more fully described in Schedule 6.05(c) of the
Schedules to the Stock Purchase
Agreement).
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3.
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Duration: Up
to 30 days.
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II.
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Fees
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A.
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Buyer
shall be responsible for the payment of all out of pocket costs directly
related to the provision of IT services for the Business for the benefit
of Buyer, including without limitation costs of the following third party
providers: Orange Conferencing, Microsoft, Orion, Dell, Gateway,
PeopleSoft. Buyer shall furthermore be responsible for procuring at its
expense any additional equipment, networking equipment or software to be
used on the designated server described in Section
1.A.
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B.
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Buyer
shall be responsible for the payment of all out of pocket costs directly
related to the provision of Financial/Accounting Services for the
Business, including without limitation costs of the following third party
providers: JPMorgan Chase.
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C.
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Buyer
shall be responsible for the payment of all out of pocket costs directly
related to the provision of the Treasury Services for the Business for the
benefit of Buyer, including without limitation costs of the following
third party providers: Bank of
Newport.
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D.
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All
payroll amounts shall be paid by Buyer and using Buyer’s federal employer
identification number. Buyer shall furthermore be responsible for the
payment of all out of pocket costs directly related to the provision of
the Payroll Services for the Business for the benefit of
Buyer, including without limitation costs of the following third party
providers: ADP.
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E.
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Buyer
shall be responsible for the payment of all out of pocket costs directly
related to the provision of Human Resources Services for the Business for
the benefit of Buyer.
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F.
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Buyer
shall be responsible for the payment of all out of pocket costs directly
related to the provision or utilization of the Miscellaneous Services for
the Business for the benefit of Buyer, including without limitation costs
of the following third party providers: BSI Management Systems, Boscobel,
Monster, and Dell.
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G.
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Buyer
shall furthermore be responsible for the payment of the difference between
the monthly COBRA rate (based on the COBRA rates in effect on May 1, 2010)
and the amount charged to the Transferred Employees for each full month of
such coverage, commencing with the first day of the first month following
the Closing.
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EXHIBIT
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Press
Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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June
4, 2010
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For
additional information contact:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xx.
Executive Vice President, Finance and
Administration
626.578.6803
Jacobs
Announces Definitive Agreement to
Acquire
TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc.
Strategic
Acquisition Expands Position in Government IT Services
PASADENA,
CALIF.—Xxxxxx Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that it has
signed a definitive agreement to acquire TechTeam Government Solutions,
Inc.(TTGSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of TechTeam Global, Inc.
TTGSI is
a 500-person information technology (IT) solutions company that provides support
to federal, state and local government agencies, including the United States
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Army and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The
firm’s core competencies include systems integration, enterprise application
integration, ERP implementation support, IT infrastructure support, network
operations management, and call center operations.
The
acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by
the stockholders of TechTeam Global, Inc., and is expected to close by late
summer. Under the terms of the definitive acquisition agreement,
Jacobs will acquire 100 percent of the stock in TTGSI for $59.0 million in cash,
subject to certain adjustments set forth in the definitive
agreement.
In making
the announcement, TTGSI President Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx stated, “Jacobs is an industry
leader with a strong business model. Their world-class processes and tools will
enable our team to compete more broadly and effectively and enhance our
offerings for our clients.”
Jacobs
President and Chief Executive Officer Xxxxx Xxxxxx said, “TTGSI brings new
customers and capabilities to our growing government IT services business, and
enhances our IT capabilities and services for our clients around the globe. This
acquisition allows us to drive greater growth in our
business.”
Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc.
Jacobs is
one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional
and construction services.
Any
statements made in this release that are not based on historical fact are
forward-looking statements. Although such statements are based on
management’s current estimates and expectations, and currently available
competitive, financial and economic data, forward-looking statements are
inherently uncertain. We, therefore, caution the reader that there are a
variety of factors that could cause business conditions and results to differ
materially from what is contained in our forward-looking statements. For a
description of some of the factors which may occur that could cause actual
results to differ from our forward-looking statements, please refer to our 2009
Form 10-K, and in particular, the discussions contained under Items 1 -
Business, 1A - Risk Factors, 3 - Legal Proceedings, and 7 - Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
We also caution the readers of this release that we do not undertake to update
any forward-looking statements made herein.
TechTeam
Global, Inc. plans to file a proxy statement and other relevant documents
concerning the proposed sale of TTGSI with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”).
STOCKHOLDERS
OF TECHTEAM GLOBAL, INC. ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER
RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY
WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Investors
and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement,
including all exhibits thereto, and other documents filed with the SEC by
TechTeam Global, Inc. through the web site maintained by the SEC at xxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx.
In
addition, investors and security holders can obtain, without charge, a copy of
the proxy statement, and all exhibits thereto, from TechTeam Global, Inc. by
submitting a written request to TechTeam Global, Inc., Attention: Investor
Relations, 00000 Xxxx 00 Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, 00000; or by calling
0-000-000-0000; or by visiting TechTeam Global Inc.’s Web site at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxxx.
Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc., TechTeam Global, Inc., and their respective directors
and executive officers, and employees, may be deemed to be participants in the
solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of TechTeam Global, Inc. in favor
of the proposed sale of TTGSI. Information regarding the directors
and executive officers of TechTeam Global, Inc. and their ownership of TechTeam
Global shares is contained in the annual report on Form 10-K of TechTeam Global,
Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2009, which was filed with the SEC on March
30, 2010, and its proxy statement for its 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
which was filed with the SEC on April 30, 2010. Information regarding the
directors and executive officers of Xxxxxx Engineering Group Inc. is contained
in the annual report of Xxxxxx Engineering Group, Inc. on Form 10-K for the year
ended October 2, 2009, which was filed with the SEC on November 20, 2009, and
its proxy statement for its 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed
with the SEC on December 17, 2009. TechTeam Global, Inc. investors and security
holders may obtain additional information regarding the direct and indirect
interests of TechTeam Global, Inc., Xxxxxx Engineering Group Inc. and their
respective directors and executive officers with respect to the proposed sale of
TTGSI by reading the proxy statement and other filings referred to
above.
Xxxxxx
Engineering Group Inc.
EXHIBIT
F
FORM
OF PRESS RELEASE OF SELLER
[See Exhibit 99.2]
LIST
OF OMITTED SCHEDULES
Disclosure
Schedules:
Schedule 3.01(a) - Organization and Good
Standing
Schedules 3.03(ii)(a), (ii)(b),
(iv)(a), (iv)(b)- Consents and
Approvals; No Violations
Schedule
3.04 – Capitalization
Schedules
3.05(a), (b), (c), (h) - Financial
Statements
Schedule 3.06 - No Undisclosed
Liabilities
Schedules 3.07, 3.07(n) - Absence of Certain
Changes
Schedules 3.08(a)(i), (ii), (iii), (b),
(c) - Real
Property
Schedule 3.09 - Actions and
Proceedings
Schedule 3.10 (a), (b), (c) - Compliance with Laws and Court
Orders; Permits; and Filings
Schedule 3.12 (a), (c), (d), (i) -
Intellectual
Property
Schedule 3.13 (a) - Title and Sufficiency of
Assets
Schedule 3.14 (a) - Material
Contracts
Schedule 3.15 (a)(i), (ii), (iii),
(iv), (v), (vi), (b), (b)(ii), (c), (d), (e)(i), (iv), (v) (f), (g), (h), (i),
(j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o) - Government
Contracts
Schedule 3.16 - Insurance
Coverage
Schedule 3.17 – Environmental
Matters
Schedule 3.18 (a), (c), (e), (f), (i) -
Employee
Plans
Schedule 3.19 (a), (b), (c), (e), (f),
(g), (h) - Labor
Matters
Schedule 3.20 (a), (e), (i), (j), (m) –
Taxes
Schedule 3.22 - Related Party
Transactions
Schedule 3.23 - Shared Services
Schedule 3.25 - Accounts
Receivable
Schedule 3.26 - Seller
Guarantees
Schedule 3.28 – Warranties
Schedule 3.29 (a), (b) - Relationships with Suppliers and
Clients
Schedule 3.30 - Restrictions on Business
Activities
Schedule 3.33 – Bank Accounts
Schedule 3.34 - Off-Balance Sheet
Liabilities
Schedule
5.01 - Conduct of the Business
Pending the Closing
Schedule
6.05 (c) - Release of
Obligations
Schedule
7.05 (b)(i), (ii), (d) (i), (ii), (e) - Post-Closing Employment and
Benefits
Schedule
8.02 (b)(i), (ii), (f) - Conditions to Obligation of
Buyer