SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT among OMNITURE, INC., THE SHAREHOLDERS of TOUCH CLARITY LIMITED, THE WARRANTORS (as defined herein) and ALTA BERKELEY LLP and YEHOSHUA ENNIS COLLECTIVELY ACTING AS SHAREHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE Dated as of February 14, 2007
Exhibit 2.1
among
THE SHAREHOLDERS
of
TOUCH CLARITY LIMITED,
THE WARRANTORS (as defined herein)
and
ALTA BERKELEY LLP and XXXXXXXX XXXXX
COLLECTIVELY ACTING AS SHAREHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE
Dated as of February 14, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I PURCHASE AND SALE OF COMPANY SHARE CAPITAL | 2 | |||||||
1.1 | Purchase and Sale |
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1.2 | Purchase Price |
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1.3 | Closing; Closing Deliveries and Actions |
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1.4 | Required Withholding |
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1.5 | Share Options |
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1.6 | Power of Attorney |
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ARTICLE II REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SHAREHOLDERS | 9 | |||||||
2.1 | Title |
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2.2 | Absence of Claims by Shareholder |
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2.3 | Authority |
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2.4 | Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees |
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2.5 | Rights to Intellectual Property |
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2.6 | Regulatory Approvals |
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2.7 | Investment Decision of Shareholders |
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2.8 | Tax Matters |
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ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE WARRANTORS | 11 | |||||||
3.1 | Organization of the Company |
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3.2 | Books and Register |
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3.3 | Capitalization |
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3.4 | Subsidiaries |
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3.5 | Authority; No Conflict |
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3.6 | Consents |
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3.7 | Company Financial Statements |
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3.8 | Internal Controls |
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3.9 | No Undisclosed Liabilities |
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3.10 | Bank Accounts |
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3.11 | No Change |
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3.12 | Accounts Receivable |
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3.13 | Tax Matters |
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3.14 | Restrictions on Business Activities |
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3.15 | Title to Properties; Absence of Liens and Encumbrances; Condition of
Equipment; Customer Information |
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3.16 | Intellectual Property |
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3.17 | Agreements, Contracts and Commitments |
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3.18 | Interested Party Transactions |
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3.19 | Governmental Authorization |
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3.20 | Litigation |
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3.21 | Minute Books |
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3.22 | Environmental; Health and Safety |
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3.23 | Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees; Third Party Expenses |
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3.24 | Employee Benefit Plan and Compensation |
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3.25 | Insurance |
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3.26 | Compliance with Laws |
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3.27 | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
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3.28 | Warranties; Indemnities |
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3.29 | Customers and Suppliers |
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3.30 | Complete Copies of Materials |
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3.31 | Disclosures |
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PURCHASER | 50 | |||||||
4.1 | Organization of the Purchaser |
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4.2 | Corporate Power; Authority |
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4.3 | No Conflict |
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4.4 | Issuance of Purchaser Common Stock |
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4.5 | SEC Documents; Purchaser Financial Statements |
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ARTICLE V CONDUCT PRIOR TO THE CLOSING | 51 | |||||||
5.1 | Shareholder Obligations |
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5.2 | Conduct of Business by Company |
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5.3 | No Solicitation |
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5.4 | Access to Information |
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5.5 | Commercially Reasonable Efforts; Governmental Approvals |
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5.6 | Consents and Notices |
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5.7 | Financial Statements; Company Debt |
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5.8 | Expenses |
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5.9 | Closing Consideration Spreadsheet |
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5.10 | Employment Arrangements |
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5.11 | Commission Statements |
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ARTICLE VI ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS | 58 | |||||||
6.1 | Covenants Not to Compete or Solicit |
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6.2 | Tax Matters; Employee Matters |
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6.3 | Non-Assignment; Further Assurances |
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6.4 | Shareholder Release |
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6.5 | Earnout |
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6.6 | Notification of Certain Matters |
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6.7 | Termination of Shareholder Agreements |
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6.8 | Registration of Replacement Options and U.S. Options |
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ARTICLE VII CONDITIONS TO THE CLOSING OF THE ACQUISITION | 63 | |||||||
7.1 | Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Acquisition |
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7.2 | Additional Conditions to Obligations of the Shareholders |
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7.3 | Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Purchaser |
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ARTICLE VIII SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION | 66 | |||||||
8.1 | Survival of Representations and Warranties |
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8.2 | Indemnification |
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8.3 | Limitations; Maximum Payments; Remedies |
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8.4 | Escrow Arrangements |
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8.5 | Third-Party Claims |
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8.6 | Non-Third-Party Claims |
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8.7 | Limitations |
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8.8 | Indemnification Exclusive Remedy |
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ARTICLE IX TERMINATION | 70 | |||||||
9.1 | Termination |
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9.2 | Notice of Termination; Effect of Termination |
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ARTICLE X GENERAL | 71 | |||||||
10.1 | Shareholder Representative; Power of Attorney |
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10.2 | Confidentiality; Public Disclosure |
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10.3 | Notices |
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10.4 | Definitions |
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10.5 | Interpretation |
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10.6 | Counterparts |
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10.7 | Entire Agreement; Assignment; Amendment |
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10.8 | Waiver |
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10.9 | No Third Party Beneficiaries |
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10.10 | Severability |
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10.11 | Effect of the Closing |
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10.12 | Remedies Cumulative |
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10.13 | Governing Law |
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10.14 | Waiver of Jury Trial |
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10.15 | Currency |
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10.16 | Resolution of Conflicts |
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EXHIBITS, SCHEDULES & APPENDICES
Exhibit A:
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Shareholder Consent regarding Amendment to Articles of Association | |
Exhibit B:
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Form of Registration Rights Agreement | |
Exhibit C:
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Form of Securities Compliance Certificate | |
Exhibit D:
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Schedule of Shareholders | |
Exhibit E:
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Form of Escrow Agreement | |
Exhibit F:
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Form of Resignation Letter | |
Exhibit G:
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Form of Legal Opinion of Share Holder Counsel | |
Exhibit H:
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Form of Joinder Agreement | |
Exhibit I:
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Form of Option Holder Form of Instruction | |
Exhibit J:
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Form of Option Holder Letter | |
Schedule 1.2(e)
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Escrow Schedule | |
Schedule 3
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Disclosure Schedule | |
Schedule 5.10(a)
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Designated Employees | |
Schedule 5.10(b)
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Employee Bonuses | |
Schedule 7.3(d)
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Third Party Consents | |
Appendix A: Definitions |
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This SHARE PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into on February
14, 2007 by and among Omniture, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Purchaser”), each of
those holders of issued share capital of Touch Clarity Limited, a company registered in England and
Wales with company number 04395864 (the “Company”) set forth on the signature pages hereto
(each such holder, as well as any other holder that becomes a party hereto by executing a Joinder
Agreement in connection herewith, individually a “Shareholder” and collectively the
“Shareholders”), the Warrantors (defined below), Alta Berkeley LLP and Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx,
collectively as the Shareholder Representative. The terms used but not defined in this Agreement
shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to this Agreement.
RECITALS
A. The Board of Directors of the Purchaser believes it to be in the best interests of the
Purchaser and its stockholders that the Purchaser acquire all of the issued share capital of the
Company such that the Company will become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (such
transactions, together with the other transactions contemplated pursuant to this Agreement, the
“Acquisition”).
B. The Board of Directors of the Company believes that the Acquisition, pursuant to which all
of the Shareholders will receive shares of the Purchaser’s authorized common stock and/or, at the
election of the Purchaser, cash, in exchange for all of the issued shares in the Company’s share
capital, is in the best interests of the Company and the Shareholders.
C. Each Shareholder wishes to sell and transfer to the Purchaser and the Purchaser has agreed
to buy all of the issued shares of the share capital of the Company held by such Shareholder on the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.
D. A portion of the consideration otherwise payable by the Purchaser in connection with the
Acquisition shall be placed in escrow by the Purchaser as partial security for the indemnification
obligations set forth in this Agreement.
E. In connection with the execution of this Agreement, the Shareholders and the Board of
Directors of the Company have each duly adopted and approved and the Company has filed or will file
immediately following the signing of this Agreement with the Registrar of Companies an amendment to
the Company’s Articles of Association, in the form provided for in the shareholder consent attached
hereto as Exhibit A (the “Articles Amendment”) which provides, among other things,
that subject to the Closing, if any Option Holders exercise any of their rights to acquire Shares
pursuant to Company Options without first or simultaneously executing a Joinder Agreement, that
such Option Holder will be obliged to sell the Shares arising from such exercise to the Purchaser
as provided in the Articles Amendment.
F. Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Shareholders are entering into a
Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), the form of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit B and a Securities Compliance Certificate (the “Securities
Compliance Certificate”) the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit C.
G. The Shareholders, the Warrantors and the Purchaser agree to make certain representations,
warranties, covenants and other agreements in connection with the Acquisition as set forth herein.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements, covenants, promises, representations and
warranties set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
PURCHASE AND SALE OF COMPANY SHARE CAPITAL
1.1 Purchase and Sale.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each of the Shareholders will sell, convey,
assign, transfer and deliver to the Purchaser, with full title guarantee and free and clear of all
Liens, that number of Shares identified across from such Shareholder’s name on Exhibit D,
which sets forth in the aggregate all of the issued share capital of the Company.
(b) Each Shareholder agrees as follows:
(i) that the Shares to be sold by such Shareholder shall be sold with all
rights to dividends and other distributions whether accrued or declared prior to, at or
after the date of this Agreement in respect of such Shares and all other rights and
advantages belonging to or accruing on the Shares on or after the date of this
Agreement; and
(ii) such Shareholder irrevocably waives (and shall procure the waiver
of) all restrictions on transfer (including pre-emption rights) that may exist in
relation to the Shares under the Company’s Articles of Association (the “Articles of
Association”) or under any other agreement relating to the Shares or otherwise so as
to enable the sale of the Shares to the Purchaser to proceed free of pre-emption rights.
(c) Each holder of Series A Preferred Shares hereby irrevocably gives notice to the Company in
accordance with Article 4.8 of the Company’s Articles of Association that subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, each share of Series A Preferred Stock held by such Shareholder shall
convert to an Ordinary Share at Closing and each Series A Preferred Shareholder hereby warrants and
confirms in relation to the conversion that it has complied with all relevant provisions of the
Articles of Association.
1.2 Purchase Price.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the aggregate purchase price for all
issued Shares shall consist of (i) the Closing Payment Amount, (ii) the Additional Payment Amount
(which shall consist, at the discretion of the Purchaser, as further described herein, of cash,
Purchaser Common Stock or a combination thereof as provided herein and shall be subject to
withholding for the applicable portion of the Escrow Amount as provided in this Agreement), and
(iii) the Final Earnout Amount, if any (collectively, the “Purchase Price”). Such
consideration shall be allocated and paid at the times and in the manner set forth in this
Article I, in Section 6.5 (Earnout) and in the Registration Rights Agreement.
(a) Payment and Allocation of Purchase Price. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, each of the parties hereto agree that:
(i) The Purchase Price shall be allocated among the Shareholders pro rata
based on each Shareholder’s relative Share ownership in the Company and according to the preferences set forth in the Articles of Association of the
Company, as
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amended and in effect immediately prior to the Closing (such allocation, the
“Required Consideration Allocation”). The parties agree that with respect to
any Option Holder who exercises Company Options following the date of this Agreement
without executing a Joinder Agreement, any amounts due to such Option Holder pursuant to
the Articles Amendment shall reduce the Closing Payment Amount, the Additional Payment
Amount and the Final Earnout Amount, as applicable, as if such Option Holder was a party
to this Agreement and such reduction shall be reflected in the Required Consideration
Allocation.
(ii) The Closing Payment Amount payable hereunder shall be delivered to
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxx LLP (the “Shareholder Counsel”) by the
Purchaser, or its designee, for the benefit of the Shareholders. The Shareholders and
the Shareholder Representative agree to instruct and cause the Shareholder Counsel to
allocate and distribute the Closing Payment Amount received by the Shareholder Counsel
from the Purchaser in accordance with the Spreadsheet. The Additional Payment Amount as
provided herein and the Earnout Amount, if any, shall be payable to the Shareholders
directly by the Purchaser.
(iii) Each of the Shareholders and the Shareholder Representative agree
that (w) payment of the Closing Payment Amount to the Shareholder Counsel shall be
deemed payment to the Shareholders and shall constitute complete and full satisfaction
and good discharge of the Purchaser’s obligations to pay the Closing Payment Amount, (x)
the Purchaser shall have no obligation to distribute, or liability with respect to the
distribution of, the Closing Payment Amount or any portion thereof to the Shareholders,
other than to deliver the Closing Payment Amount to the Shareholder Counsel, (y) the
Shareholder Counsel shall be able to rely solely on the Spreadsheet in the allocation
and distribution of the Closing Payment Amount, (z) that the Purchaser shall be able to
rely solely on the Spreadsheet (as the same may be updated pursuant to Section
5.9) in the allocation and distribution of the Additional Payment Amount and the
Earnout Amount, if any, and shall have no liability with respect to the distribution or
allocation of the Purchase Price so long as such allocation is consistent with the
Spreadsheet as updated and delivered to the Purchaser pursuant to Section 5.9
prior to the applicable payment date.
(b) Closing Payment Amount. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
the Purchaser shall pay the Closing Payment Amount to the Shareholder Counsel by wire transfer, in
cash, in accordance with the wire transfer instructions for the Shareholder Counsel set forth on
Exhibit D.
(c) Additional Payment Amount.
(i) Following the Closing, the Purchaser shall determine, in its sole
discretion, subject to Section 1.2(c)(iv), whether the Additional Payment Amount
shall consist of cash, shares of Purchaser Common Stock or some combination thereof and
shall thereafter deliver a written notice (a “Determination Notice”) to the
Shareholder Representative setting forth (i) the relative allocation (in dollars) of the
Additional Payment Amount between cash and Purchaser Common Stock and (ii) if
applicable, the anticipated effective date of the Registration Statement (such date, as
designated by the Purchaser in the Determination Notice or thereafter designated in a
subsequent notice by the Purchaser, the “Target Effective Date”, which shall not
be later than November 30, 2007). If Purchaser determines that any portion of the
Additional Payment Amount shall consist of Purchaser Common Stock, Purchaser shall deliver the initial Determination Notice no later
than ten (10) Business Days prior to the Target Effective Date. Any amount of the
Additional Payment
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Amount that the Purchaser determines to pay in Purchaser Common Stock
(as expressed in dollars on the Determination Notice) is referred to herein as the
“Additional Payment Stock Value”. The aggregate number of shares of Purchaser
Common Stock to be issued as a portion of the Additional Payment Amount shall equal the
quotient obtained by dividing (A) the Additional Payment Stock Value by (B) the Trading
Price and shall thereafter be adjusted pursuant to Section 1.2(c)(vii) (such
aggregate number of shares, as adjusted, the “Stock Consideration Number”). The
aggregate amount of cash to be paid as a portion of the Additional Payment Amount shall
equal (i) the Additional Payment Amount minus (ii) the product of the Stock
Consideration Number, if any, multiplied by the Trading Price.
(ii) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Purchaser
shall pay and/or deliver the Additional Payment Amount to the Shareholders (allocated as
provided in Section 1.2(a)) either (i) if the Additional Payment Amount is being
paid solely in cash, within ten (10) Business Days following the date of the
Determination Notice, but in no event later than November 30, 2007 or (ii) if any
portion of the Additional Payment Amount is being paid in shares of Purchaser Common
Stock, the portion paid in Purchaser Common Stock shall be issued as promptly as
reasonably practicable following the Trading Price Measurement Date, but in any event
prior to the Target Effective Date and the portion paid in cash shall be paid no later
than November 30, 2007.
(iii) The Purchaser shall (i) deliver the portion of the Additional
Payment Amount consisting of Purchaser Common Stock, if any, by the delivery of share
certificates, registered in the applicable Shareholder’s name, representing the number
of shares of Purchaser Common Stock allocable to such Shareholder pursuant to this
Section 1.2 and (ii) pay by wire transfer, in cash, the cash portion of the
Additional Payment Amount, if any, to each Shareholder in accordance with the wire
transfer instructions set forth on Exhibit D or such other wire instructions
delivered in writing to the Purchaser by the applicable Shareholder at least three (3)
Business Days prior to the anticipated date of payment.
(iv) If the Purchaser consummates a public offering of Purchaser Common
Stock following the date of this Agreement but prior to the date that the Additional
Payment Amount is paid pursuant to this Agreement, at least $8,200,000 of the Additional
Payment Amount shall be paid in the form of cash within ten (10) Business Days following
the completion of such offering.
(v) The determination of whether to pay the Additional Payment Amount in
cash or shares shall be made in the sole discretion of the Purchaser. Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, but without limiting the Purchaser’s
obligation to pay the Additional Payment Amount within the time periods proscribed
above, under no circumstances shall the Purchaser be required to issue shares of
Purchaser Common Stock and, unless and until otherwise determined by Purchaser, the
Purchaser shall not issue shares of Purchaser Common Stock to the extent doing so would
require the Purchaser to obtain stockholder consent pursuant to any rules promulgated by
the Nasdaq Stock Market and/or the NASD Marketplace Rules (including Rule 4350) and to
the extent the Purchaser determines not to issue shares of Purchaser Common Stock for
any or all of the Additional Payment Amount, it shall pay any remaining portion of the
Additional Payment Amount in cash.
(vi) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if the
Purchaser determines, in its sole discretion, after consultation with outside legal
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counsel, that the issuance of shares of Purchaser Common Stock to any individual
Shareholder would result in a violation of, or would not qualify for an exemption under,
any U.S. federal or state or foreign securities laws, the Purchaser shall have the right
to pay such Shareholder, in lieu of such shares of Purchaser Common Stock, an amount of
cash equal to the value of such shares of Purchaser Common Stock, based on the Trading
Price without giving effect to clause (A) thereof.
(vii) For purposes of calculating the number of shares of Purchaser
Common Stock to be issued to each Shareholder pursuant to this Section 1.2(c),
all fractional shares of Purchaser Common Stock that a Shareholder would otherwise be
entitled to receive shall be aggregated and rounded up to the nearest whole share.
(viii) The Purchaser’s ability to elect to pay (and the payment by the
Purchaser of) all or a portion of the Additional Payment Amount in cash may be subject
to the Purchaser obtaining the prior consent of its senior lenders under its agreements
with such senior lenders, as the same may be amended from time to time, which consent
the senior lenders could withhold, thereby requiring the Purchaser to pay such amount,
in whole or in part, in stock.
(d) Earnout Consideration. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
including Section 6.5, the Purchaser shall pay the Final Earnout Amount, if any (allocated
as provided in Section 1.2(a)), no later than ten (10) Business Days following the Earnout
Determination Date by wire transfer, in cash, in accordance with the wire transfer instructions set
forth on Exhibit D or such other wire instructions delivered to the Purchaser in writing by
the applicable Shareholder at least three (3) Business Days prior to the anticipated date of
payment.
(e) Escrow. Each Shareholder hereby agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, (i) the portion of the Additional Payment Amount to be paid to each
Shareholder shall be reduced by the amount set forth opposite such Shareholder’s name on
Exhibit D under the heading “Proportionate Escrow Amount” (such amount, the Shareholder’s
“Proportionate Escrow Amount”), (ii) if the Additional Payment Amount is partially paid in
shares of Purchaser Common Stock, any cash portion of the Additional Payment shall first be used to
constitute the Escrowed Cash (as defined below), (iii) if the Additional Payment Amount is
partially paid in shares of Purchaser Common Stock, the amount of cash and shares of Purchaser
Common Stock to be withheld to satisfy each Shareholder’s Proportionate Escrow Amount shall be
withheld in the same relative proportion that the aggregate amount of cash and the aggregate number
of shares of Purchaser Common Stock being paid as a portion of the Additional Payment Amount bears
to the aggregate Additional Payment Amount, (iv) the aggregate of all such Proportionate Escrow
Amounts shall be equal in value (using the Trading Price to value shares of Purchaser Common Stock)
to the Escrow Amount, (v) the cash portion of the Escrow Amount (collectively, the “Escrowed
Cash”) shall be delivered by the Purchaser to the Escrow Agent at the time that the Additional
Payment Amount is paid to the Shareholders and will be held and disbursed in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and an Escrow Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E
(the “Escrow Agreement”) and (vi) the share certificate or certificates constituting a
portion of the Escrow Amount, if any, (the “Escrowed Shares”) shall be delivered by the
Purchaser to the Escrow Agent at the time that the Additional Payment Amount is paid to the
Shareholders to hold in escrow pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement. The Escrow Amount
shall serve as collateral for the indemnification obligations of the Shareholders under this
Agreement subject to Article VIII hereof.
(f) Installment Sale. The parties hereby acknowledge and agree that, to the extent
permitted under applicable law, (i) the Escrow Fund shall be treated as an installment obligation
for
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purposes of Section 453 of the Code, and (ii) no party shall take any action or filing position
inconsistent with such characterization. Any portion of any payments or distributions to the
Shareholders under this Agreement that are treated as interest under Section 483 of Code or
otherwise shall be treated as portfolio interest under Section 871(h) of the Code and this
Agreement shall be treated as in requested form within the meaning of the Treasury Regulations
under Section 871, unless prohibited by applicable law.
1.3 Closing; Closing Deliveries and Actions.
(a) Closing. The closing (the “Closing”) of the purchase and sale of the
Shares hereunder shall be held at the offices of Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, 50 Victoria Embankment,
Blackfriars, London, and will take place as promptly as practicable, but no later than two (2)
Business Days following satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VII
or at such other time and place upon which the Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative shall
mutually agree in writing. The date of the Closing is referred to herein as the “Closing
Date”.
(b) Shareholder Deliverables. At the Closing, each Shareholder shall deliver (or
procure to be delivered) to the Purchaser:
(i) duly completed and executed transfers of the Shares to be sold
hereunder by such Shareholder in favor of the Purchaser together with valid share
certificates representing such Shares; and
(ii) a duly completed FORM W-9 or FORM W-8BEN (which form shall be
delivered to the Escrow Agent).
(c) Company Deliverables: Subject to Section 1.3(e), at the Closing, the
Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser:
(i) if applicable, the Employment Agreements duly executed by each of the
Designated Employees;
(ii) a deed of release in the agreed form releasing the charge in favor
of Jerusalem Venture Partners;
(iii) letter of non crystallization and no waiver in agreed form executed
by Barclays Bank plc;
(iv) an election from each of the Shareholders who are directors or
employees of the Company or any Subsidiary under section 431(i) of the Income Tax
(Earnings and Xxxxxxxx) Xxx 0000 in respect of any shares of Purchaser Common Stock
issued as part of the Additional Payment Amount;
(v) the statutory books (duly written up to date and showing any relevant
conversion of Shares), all unused share certificates, a copy of the Articles of
Association, and the common seal of the Company;
(vi) properly passed resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company
resolving to:
(A) approve (subject only to stamping) the transfer of the Shares;
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(B) approve the documents referred to in Section 1.3(c)(i) and authorizing one or more
of the directors of the Company to execute them on behalf of the Company;
(C) appoint as directors and the secretary of the Company of such Person or Persons as the
Purchaser shall have nominated and the resignation of the pre-closing directors and the secretary
of the Company by delivery of a letter under seal resigning from his or her offices substantially
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F;
(D) change the registered office to Carmelite, 00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
XX0X ODX; and
(E) amend all existing authorities to the bankers of the Company relating to bank accounts in
form and substance reasonably requested by the Purchaser; and
(vii) such other documents as the Purchaser shall reasonably require.
(d) Purchaser’s Deliverables and Actions. At the Closing, the Purchaser shall:
(i) pay the Closing Payment Amount as provided in Section 1.2;
and
(ii) pay a sum equal to the Company Debt to the Company and procure that
this sum is paid to Shareholder Counsel in satisfaction in full of all Company Debt; and
(iii) deliver the Employment Agreements duly executed by the Purchaser.
(e) Obligation to Deliver. Failure to satisfy the deliveries set forth in Section
1.3(c)(iv) shall not be deemed to be a failure to satisfy the closing condition set forth in
Section 7.3(b).
1.4 Required Withholding. The Purchaser and the Escrow Agent shall be entitled to
deduct and withhold from any consideration payable or otherwise deliverable pursuant to this
Agreement amounts as may be required to be deducted or withheld therefrom under the applicable tax
law, including under any provision of state, local or foreign tax law or under any other applicable
legal requirement as determined in good faith. To the extent such amounts are so deducted or
withheld, such amounts shall be treated for all purposes under this Agreement as having been paid
to the Person to whom such amounts would otherwise have been paid.
1.5 Share Options.
(a) UK Options.
(i) Following execution and delivery of this Agreement the Principal
Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall use reasonable best efforts to procure
the approval by the HM Revenue & Customs of the granting of Replacement Options to the
Option Holders using the Option Exchange Ratio.
(ii) The Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company will use
reasonable best efforts (1) to procure that Option Holder Letters and
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Option Holder
Forms of Instruction are distributed to the holders of Company Options no later than
four (4) Business Days following the execution and delivery of this Agreement and (2) to
obtain duly executed Option Holder Forms of Instruction from each Option Holder; subject
in each case to the limitations set forth in the Option Holder Letters and Option Holder
Forms of Instruction.
(b) U.S. Options.
(i) At the Closing, all Company Options outstanding under the U.S. Plan
(each, a “U.S. Option”) shall be assumed by Purchaser. Each U.S. Option so
assumed by Purchaser under this Agreement shall continue to have, and be subject to, the
same terms and conditions set forth in the U.S. Plan and as provided in any applicable
option agreements governing such U.S. Option immediately prior to the Closing,
provided that (A) each U.S. Option shall be exercisable (when vested) for that
number of whole shares of Purchaser Common Stock equal to the product of the number of
Ordinary Shares of the Company that were issuable upon exercise of such U.S. Option
multiplied by the Option Exchange Ratio (as defined below), rounded down to the nearest
whole number of shares of Purchaser Common Stock and (B) the per share exercise price
for the shares of Purchaser Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such assumed U.S.
Option shall be equal to the quotient determined by dividing the exercise price per
Ordinary Share of the Company at which such U.S. Option was exercisable immediately
prior to the Closing by the Option Exchange Ratio, rounded up to the nearest whole cent.
(ii) It is the intention of the parties that to the extent possible the
U.S. Options assumed by Purchaser qualify following the Closing as incentive stock
options as defined in Section 422 of the Code, to the extent the U.S. Options qualified
as incentive stock options immediately prior to the Closing.
(iii) Promptly following the Closing, the Purchaser will issue to each
holder of an outstanding U.S. Option a document evidencing the foregoing assumption of
such U.S. Option by Purchaser.
(iv) The Option Exchange Ratio shall be adjusted to reflect fully the
effect of any stock split, reverse split, stock dividend (including any dividend or
distribution of securities convertible into Ordinary Shares of the Company),
reorganization, recapitalization or other like change with respect to Ordinary Shares of
the Company that occurs or has a record date after the date hereof and prior to the
Closing.
1.6 Power of Attorney.
(a) By virtue of entering this Agreement each Shareholder irrevocably appoints the Purchaser
(the “Attorney”) acting by any of its directors or officers or any other Person acting
pursuant to authority conferred by the Purchaser’s board of directors, as that Shareholder’s
attorney to (i) at Closing, execute on behalf of that Stockholder a stock transfer form to transfer
the Shares being sold by that Shareholder under this Agreement and (ii) exercise in the Purchaser’s
absolute discretion all voting and other rights (including the approval and signing of written
resolutions on the Shareholder’s behalf and the right to nominate proxies on the Shareholder’s
behalf) attaching to the Shares or exercisable by the Shareholder in that Shareholder’s capacity as
a member of the Company and, by way of further assurance, including the power to sign stock
transfer forms or other transfer document transferring any Shares not transferred at Closing such
transfer to be at nil consideration. Each Shareholder declares that such power shall be
irrevocable until the name of the Purchaser is entered into the Register of Members of the
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Company but without prejudice to any power exercised prior to such date and shall not save as may be
required by law terminate (where relevant) on the death, bankruptcy or mental disorder of the
Shareholder and shall accordingly be binding upon the Shareholder’s personal representative,
trustee in bankruptcy or trustee in respect of any mental disorder.
(b) Each Shareholder undertakes to hold the Shares upon trust for the Purchaser as beneficial
owner and account to the Purchaser for all dividends, interest, bonuses or distributions or other
sums whatsoever paid to such Shareholder in respect of the Shares, to undertake to ratify
everything done by the Purchaser in pursuance of this power and undertakes not to exercise any
power exercisable by the Purchaser under this Section 1.6.
(c) The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that as soon as reasonably practicable after Closing
it will procure the stamping of the stock transfer forms provided by the relevant Shareholder and
the subsequent entering of the name of the Purchaser into the Register of Members of the Company
and the consequent release of the Shareholders from the aforementioned power of attorney.
ARTICLE II
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE SHAREHOLDERS
Each of the Shareholders hereby represents and warrants, severally and not jointly, to the
Purchaser (in the knowledge that the Purchaser is entering into this Agreement in reliance on the
accuracy of the representations and warranties) for the benefit of the Purchaser, that each of the
representations and warranties in this Article II is true and accurate as of the date
hereof and at the Closing Date, except to the extent such representations and warranties are
specifically made as of a particular date (in which case such representations and warranties will
be true and accurate as of such date) and subject only to such exceptions as are specifically set
forth in the Disclosure Schedule provided to the Purchaser prior to the execution of this Agreement
which schedule makes explicit reference to the applicable sections and subsections to which each
exception relates and sets forth sufficient details to identify the nature and scope of the matters
disclosed (the “Disclosure Schedule”); provided, however, that the
disclosures in any section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedule shall qualify other sections or
subsections of this Article II to the extent it is apparent from a reading of the
Disclosure Schedule itself (and without having to refer to the underlying documents being
disclosed) that such disclosure is applicable to such other sections or subsections.
2.1 Title. Such Shareholder is, or by acting through its managing general partner is, the sole legal
and beneficial owner of the Shares registered in such Shareholder’s name and identified on
Section 3.3(a)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule attached hereto all of which are fully paid.
Such Shares are not subject to any Liens or rights of first refusal of any kind, and such
Shareholder has not granted any rights to purchase such Shares to any other Person. Such
Shareholder is not now insolvent and has never sought relief, and has no present intention of
seeking relief, under applicable bankruptcy or insolvency laws.
2.2 Absence of Claims by Shareholder. Such Shareholder does not have any claim
against the Company, contingent or unconditional, fixed or variable under any contract or on any
other basis whatsoever, whether in equity or at law.
2.3 Authority. Such Shareholder has all requisite power and authority to enter into
this Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements to which such Shareholder is a party, to
transfer, convey and sell to the Purchaser at the Closing the Shares to be sold by such Shareholder
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Purchaser will acquire
from such Shareholder good, marketable and full legal and beneficial title to such Shares, free and
clear of all Liens.
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This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by such Shareholder and
constitutes a valid and binding obligation of such Shareholder, enforceable against such
Shareholder in accordance with its terms. The other Transaction Agreements to which such
Shareholder is a party will, when executed and delivered by such Shareholder, constitute valid and
binding obligations of such Shareholder, enforceable against such Shareholder in accordance with
their terms. The execution and delivery by each Shareholder of this Agreement and the Transaction
Agreements to which such Shareholder is a party do not, and, the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby will not, conflict with, or result in a Conflict under any
mortgage, indenture, lease, contract or other agreement or instrument, permit, concession,
franchise, license, judgment, order, decree, statute, law, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable
to such Shareholder or his properties or assets. No consent, waiver, approval, order, or
authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with, any Governmental Entity or any third
party (so as not to trigger any Conflict described above), is required by or with respect to such
Shareholder, in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Transaction
Agreements to which such Shareholder is a party or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby. No Shareholder has communicated with any other Shareholder in
relation to the sale of the Shares in breach of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets
Xxx 0000 (“FSMA”) or engaged in any regulated activity in breach of section 19 of FSMA.
2.4 Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees. Such Shareholder has not incurred, nor will such
Shareholder incur, directly or indirectly, any liability for brokerage or finders’ fees or agents’
commissions or any similar charges in connection with the Agreement or any transactions
contemplated hereby.
2.5 Rights to Intellectual Property. Such Shareholder owns no Intellectual Property
used in the Company’s business as presently conducted or as currently proposed by the Company to be
conducted.
2.6 Regulatory Approvals. Such Shareholder is not a party to, subject to or bound by any agreement or any judgment,
order, writ, prohibition, injunction or decree of any Governmental Entity which would prevent the
execution or delivery of this Agreement by such Shareholder or the transfer, conveyance and sale of
the Shares to be sold by such Shareholder to the Purchaser pursuant to the terms hereof.
2.7 Investment Decision of Shareholders. Such Shareholder has received, has had
sufficient opportunity to review and has reviewed, a copy of this Agreement, the other Transaction
Agreements to which such Shareholder is a party, and such other documents and information as such
Shareholder has deemed appropriate to make its own analysis and decision to enter into this
Agreement and the Transaction Agreements to which such Shareholder is a party and to sell the
Shares owned by such Shareholder to the Purchaser on the basis of such analysis. Such Shareholder
has such knowledge and experience in business and financial matters to enable such Shareholder to
understand and evaluate this Agreement and the Transaction Agreements to which such Shareholder is
a party and form an investment decision with respect thereto, including an investment in Purchaser
Common Stock as contemplated by this Agreement. Such Shareholder understands that the Purchaser
Common Stock that such Shareholder is receiving are “restricted securities” under the federal
securities laws of the United States insofar as they are being acquired from the Purchaser in a
transaction not involving a public offering and that under such laws and applicable regulations
such Purchaser Common Stock may be resold only in accordance with the provisions of Regulation S
under the Securities Act, pursuant to registration under the Securities Act, or pursuant to another
available exemption from registration under the Securities Act. The Shareholders acknowledge and
agree that the Purchaser shall not register the transfer of any Shares not made in accordance with
the foregoing. This Section 2.7 shall not limit the right of such Shareholder to rely on
the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV hereof.
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2.8 Tax Matters. Such Shareholder has had an opportunity to review with his/her or
its own tax advisors the tax consequences of the Acquisition and the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement. In regards to such tax matters, such Shareholder understands that he/she or it
must rely solely on its advisors and not on any statements or representations made by Purchaser,
the Company or any of their agents. Such Shareholder understands that he or she (and not Purchaser
or the Company) shall be responsible for his/her or its own tax liability that may arise as a
result of the Acquisition or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE WARRANTORS
Each of the Warrantors hereby represents and warrants, to the Purchaser (in the knowledge that
the Purchaser is entering into this Agreement in reliance on the accuracy of the representations
and warranties) for the benefit of the Purchaser, that each of the representations and warranties
in this Article III is true and accurate as of the date hereof and at the Closing Date,
except to the extent such representations and warranties are specifically made as of a particular
date (in which case such representations and warranties will be true and accurate as of such date)
and subject only to such exceptions as are specifically set forth in the Disclosure Schedule which
schedule makes explicit reference to the applicable sections and subsections to which each
exception relates and sets forth sufficient details to identify the nature and scope of the matters
disclosed; provided, however, that the disclosures in any section or subsection of
the Disclosure Schedule shall qualify other sections or subsections of this Article III to the extent it is apparent from a reading of the
Disclosure Schedule itself (and without having to refer to the underlying documents being
disclosed) that such disclosure is applicable to such other sections or subsections.
3.1 Organization of the Company. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is a
company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of
its incorporation. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to own its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as now being conducted and as currently
contemplated to be conducted. The Company and its Subsidiaries possess all licenses, franchises,
rights, permits and privileges reasonably necessary to the conduct of their respective businesses.
The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is duly qualified or licensed to do business and in good
standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which failure to be so qualified would
reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company has delivered to the
Purchaser (i) a true and correct copy of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and each
certificate of incorporation on a change of name (having embodied in it or annexed to it a copy of
each resolution or agreement referred to in section 380 of the Companies Act) (the “Certificate
of Incorporation”) and its Memorandum and Articles of Association, as amended to date, each in
full force and effect on the date hereof (collectively, the “Charter Documents”), and (ii)
the equivalent organizational documents for each Subsidiary of the Company, each as amended to
date. The Company is not in violation of any of the provisions of the Charter Documents and no
Subsidiary of the Company is in violation of its equivalent organizational documents. The rights,
preferences, privileges and restrictions of the issued share capital of the Company are as stated
in the Company’s Articles of Association and no other documents or agreements contain any rights,
preferences, privileges or restrictions applicable to the share capital of the Company. Prior to
the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Board of Directors of the Company and each of the
Shareholders duly adopted and approved the Articles Amendment. Section 3.1(i) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists the directors and officers of the Company and of each of its Subsidiaries
as of the date hereof. The operations now being conducted by the Company are not now and have
never been conducted by the Company under any other name. Section 3.1(ii) of the
Disclosure Schedule also lists
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every state or foreign jurisdiction in which the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries has employees or facilities.
3.2 Books and Register.
(a) The register of members and statutory books of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries
contain accurate records of the members of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries and all the
other information which they are required to contain under the Companies Act. All returns,
particulars, resolutions and other documents required to be delivered by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to the Register of Companies have been duly delivered and no fines or penalties are
outstanding.
(b) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of any application
for the rectification of its register of members.
(c) No Person has any present, future or contingent right to call for the allotment,
conversion or transfer of or to be entered into the register of members as the holder of any share
or loan capital of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and there is no Lien on the Shares or any
shares in the Company or its Subsidiaries or any arrangements or obligations to create a Lien. No
claim has been made by any Person that they are entitled to any such right or have the benefit of
such Lien.
3.3 Capitalization.
(a) The authorized capital stock of the Company is £1,086.66 divided into 56,945,305 Series A
Preferred Shares, 21,179,265 Series A1 Preferred Shares, 27,353,991 A Ordinary Shares and 3,187,000
Ordinary Shares, and the issued share capital consists of 3,187,000 Ordinary Shares, 4,974,563 A
Ordinary Shares and 49,885,548 Series A Preferred. The issued shares are fully paid or credited as
fully paid and none are held in treasury by the Company. All of the Shares are held by the
Shareholders. The locality where the Shareholder resides is set forth on Exhibit D and the
number of Shares held is set forth on Section 3.3(a)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule. The
Shares held by the Shareholders constitute in the aggregate the entire issued share capital of the
Company, no other capital stock of the Company is authorized and other than the Shares held by the
Shareholders (as set forth on Section 3.3(a)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule), there are no
outstanding shares of capital stock or equity interests in the Company. All issued Shares and all
outstanding Subsidiary Equity Interests are duly authorized, validly issued and allotted (for cash
consideration), fully paid and non-assessable and not subject to preemptive rights or any other
rights created by statute, the Charter Documents or the applicable governing documents of any
Subsidiary of the Company, or any agreement to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
or to which any Shareholder is a party or by which it is bound which would prevent the transfer of
the Shares to the Purchaser. Other than as contemplated herein, the Company and its Subsidiaries
have not, and will not have, suffered or incurred any liability (contingent or otherwise) or claim,
loss, liability, damage, deficiency, cost or expense which has not been paid or satisfied prior to
the date hereof relating to or arising out of the issuance or repurchase of any Shares or
Subsidiary Equity Interests or options or loan stock or warrants to purchase Shares or Subsidiary
Equity Interests, or out of any agreements or arrangements relating thereto (including any
amendment of the terms of any such agreement or arrangement). No Shareholder has exercised any
right of redemption and the Company has not received notice that any Shareholder intends to
exercise any rights of redemption with respect to any Shares. Except as set forth in Section
3.3(a)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule, there are no declared or accrued but unpaid dividends
with respect to any Shares. Except as set forth in Section 3.3(a)(iii) of the Disclosure
Schedule, there are no Company Unvested Shares.
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(b) Except for the Plans, the Company and its Subsidiaries have never adopted, sponsored or
maintained any stock option plan or any other plan or agreement providing for the issuance of
equity or cash compensation based on equity (including as compensation) to any Person. The Company
has reserved 22,461,632 Ordinary Shares for issuance to employees and directors of, and
consultants to, the Company upon the issuance of stock or the exercise of options granted under the
Plans or any other plan, agreement or arrangement (whether written or oral, formal or informal),
immediately prior to the date hereof, upon the exercise of outstanding, unexercised options granted
under the Plans. Section 3.3(b)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth for each
outstanding Company Option, the name of the holder of such option, the type of entity of such
holder, if not an individual, the locality where such holder resides, the number of Shares issuable
upon the exercise of such option, the date on which such Company Option was granted, the exercise
price of such option, the applicable vesting schedule, whether the exercisability of such Company
Option will be accelerated in any way by the transactions contemplated by the Agreement (indicating
the extent of any such acceleration), whether such option is an enterprise management option within
Schedule 5 ITEPA 2003 or an unapproved option. Except as set forth in Section 3.3(b)(ii)
of the Disclosure Schedule, there are no commitments or agreements of any character to which the
Company is bound obligating the Company to accelerate the vesting of any Company Option or Company
Unvested Shares as a result of the related transactions or upon termination of employment or
service with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries following the Acquisition or otherwise.
(c) Except for the Company Options set forth in Section 3.3(c)(i) of the Disclosure
Schedule, there are no options, warrants, calls, rights, convertible securities, commitments or
agreements of any character, written or oral, to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a
party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound obligating the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries to issue, allot, deliver, sell, repurchase or redeem, or cause to be issued,
delivered, sold, repurchased or redeemed, any shares of the capital stock of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or obligating the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to grant, extend, accelerate
the vesting of, change the price of, otherwise amend or enter into any such option, warrant, call,
right, commitment or agreement. There are no outstanding debt or other securities of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries. Except as set forth in Section 3.3(c)(ii) of the Disclosure
Schedule, there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions by
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound. Except as set forth in
Section 3.3(c)(iii) of the Disclosure Schedule, there are no outstanding or authorized
stock appreciation, phantom stock, profit participation, or other similar rights with respect to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Except as contemplated hereby or as set forth in
Section 3.3(c)(iv) of the Disclosure Schedule, there are no voting trusts, proxies, or
other agreements or understandings with respect to the voting stock of the Company or voting by a
director of the Company. Except as set forth in Section 3.3(c)(v) of the Disclosure
Schedule, there are no agreements to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party
relating to the registration, sale or transfer (including agreements relating to rights of first
refusal, co-sale rights or “drag-along” rights) of any Shares or the Subsidiary Equity Interests.
As a result of the Acquisition, the Purchaser will be the sole legal and beneficial holder of all
issued Shares and all rights to acquire or receive any Shares, whether or not such Shares are
outstanding.
(d) True, correct and complete copies of the Plans, the standard form of all agreements and
instruments relating to or issued under the Plans or Company Options or any agreement that differs
in any material respect from such standard form agreements, have been provided to the Purchaser,
and such agreements and instruments have not been amended, modified or supplemented since being
provided to the Purchaser, and, except as contemplated by this Agreement, there are no agreements,
understandings or commitments to amend, modify or supplement such agreements or instruments in any
case from those provided to the Purchaser and copies of all HMRC EMI notification forms, Section
431 elections and agreements of market value with HMRC have been provided to the Purchaser.
Besides the
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Plans, there are no other stock option plans or other equity-related plans of the
Company pursuant to which the Company has issued, or may issue, Shares or Company Options.
(e) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has provided any financial assistance as
defined in section 152(1) of the Companies Act directly or indirectly for purpose of acquiring its
own shares or those of any of its holding companies or reducing or discharging any liability so
incurred.
(f) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has redeemed or purchased or agreed to
redeem or purchase any of its share capital or passed any resolutions authorizing any such
redemption or purchase or entered into or agreed to enter into any contingent purchase contract (as
defined in section 165(1) of the Companies Act) or passed any resolutions approving any such
contract or made any capitalization of reserves.
(g) Set forth in Section 3.3(g) of the Disclosure Schedule is a reasonable, true and
correct estimate of the information required to be set forth on the Spreadsheet at the time of
Closing.
3.4 Subsidiaries. Except for the Subsidiaries listed in Section 3.4 of the Disclosure Schedule, the
Company does not have and has never had any Subsidiaries or affiliated companies or branches,
agencies, places of business or any other permanent establishment outside the UK and does not
otherwise own or control and has never otherwise owned or controlled any shares of capital stock or
any interest in, directly or indirectly, any other corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, association, joint venture or other business entity. Each Subsidiary of the Company
is wholly owned by the Company and the shares held by the Company in the Subsidiaries are not
subject to any Liens or rights of first refusal of any kind. There are no outstanding liabilities
in relation to either the transfer of the business, assets and liabilities of Openrs Limited
(company number 03977467) to the Company or the dissolution/liquidation of Openrs Limited.
3.5 Authority; No Conflict.
(a) Each of the Warrantors has all requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement
and the other Transaction Agreements to which such Warrantors are a party. This Agreement has been
duly executed and delivered by such Warrantor and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of
such Warrantor, enforceable against such Warrantor in accordance with its terms.
(b) The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements by the
Warrantors and the Shareholders do not, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby will not, result in any Conflict with (i) any provision of the articles of
association, certificate of incorporation, bylaws or equivalent organizational documents of the
Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) any Contract of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
or (iii) any judgment, injunction, order, decree, statute, law, ordinance, rule or regulation
applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of the properties or assets (whether
tangible or intangible) of the Company or its Subsidiaries.
3.6 Consents. Except as set forth in Section 3.6 of the Disclosure Schedule,
no consent, notice, waiver, approval, order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or
filing with any court, administrative agency or commission or other federal, state, county, local
or other foreign governmental authority, instrumentality, agency or commission (each, a
“Governmental Entity”) or any third party is required by, or with respect to, the Company
or any Shareholder in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and any
Transaction Agreement to which the Company or any Shareholder is a party or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, or for any such
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Contract to remain in full force and
effect without limitation, modification or alteration after the Closing Date so as to preserve all
rights of, and benefits to, the Company and its Subsidiaries, under such Contracts from and after
the Closing Date, except for (i) such consents, notices, waivers, approvals, orders,
authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings as may be required under applicable
securities laws and (ii) such consents, waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations,
declarations and filings, which, if not obtained or made would, individually or in the aggregate,
result in Losses of less than an aggregate of $25,000. Following the Closing Date, the Company
will be permitted to exercise all of its rights under the Contracts without the payment of any
additional amounts or consideration other than ongoing obligations, fees, royalties or payments
which the Company would otherwise be required to satisfy, perform or pay pursuant to the terms of
such Contracts had the transactions contemplated by this Agreement not occurred. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries are in violation or default of any Contract, except for such
violations or defaults that would not result in Losses exceeding (x) $50,000 with respect to any
individual contract or (y) $200,000 in the aggregate.
3.7 Company Financial Statements.
(a) Section 3.7 of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth the Company’s (i) audited
consolidated balance sheets and statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash
flows of the Company as of and for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2004 and December
31, 2005, including the notes thereto, together with the reports of KPMG, LLP (the “Audited
Financial Statements”); and (ii) unaudited consolidated balance sheet and statements of income,
changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows as of and for the twelve months ended December 31,
2006 (the “Balance Sheet Date”) (the “Unaudited Financial Statements”). Such
financial statements (collectively, the “Financial Statements”) fairly present the
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of the respective dates
thereof and for the periods referred to therein and are consistent with the books and records of
the Company in all material respects. The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance
with UK GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, and are
consistent with each other (except that the Unaudited Financial Statements do not contain footnotes
and other presentation items that may be required by UK GAAP). The Financial Statements present
fairly the consolidated financial condition, operating results and cash flows as of the dates and
during the periods indicated therein of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, subject in
the case of the Unaudited Financial Statements to normal year-end adjustments, which are not
material in amount or significance in any individual case or in the aggregate. The Company’s
unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of the Balance Sheet Date is referred to hereinafter as the
“Current Balance Sheet.” All reserves that are set forth in or reflected in the Current
Balance Sheet have been established in accordance with UK GAAP consistently applied. At the
Balance Sheet Date, there were no material loss contingencies (as such term is used in Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 5 (“Statement No. 5”) issued by the Financial Accounting
Standards Board in March 1975) that are not adequately provided for in the Current Balance Sheet,
as required by Statement No. 5. The Company has not had any dispute with any of its auditors
regarding accounting matters or policies during any of its past three full fiscal years or during
the current fiscal year-to-date. The books and records of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries
have been and are being maintained in all material respects in accordance with applicable legal and
accounting requirements and the Financial Statements have been prepared from and in accordance with
such books and records.
(b) Section 3.7(b) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a good faith estimate of the
Closing Date Balance.
3.8 Internal Controls. The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions of the Company and its
Subsidiaries are
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executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii)
transactions of the Company and its Subsidiaries are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of
financial statements in conformity with UK GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access
to assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries is permitted only in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets of the Company
and its Subsidiaries is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate
action is taken with respect to any differences. The accounts, books and ledgers and financial and
other records of the Company (including all invoices) have been kept in accordance with sections
221 and 222 of the Companies Act where relevant. The Company has not in relation to its records,
systems, controls, data or information, recorded, stored, maintained, operated or that it is
otherwise wholly or partly dependent on or held by any means (including any
electronic, mechanical or photographic process whether computerized or not) which (including
all means of access) are not under the exclusive ownership or direct control of the Company.
Except as set forth in Section 3.8 of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company is in material
compliance with its system of internal accounting controls.
3.9 No Undisclosed Liabilities. The Company and its Subsidiaries do not have any
Indebtedness or Guarantee other than as set forth in Section 3.9 of the Disclosure
Schedule. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, except for obligations of future
performance arising in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice under the
Contracts that have been disclosed to the Purchaser, any liability, obligation, expense, claim,
deficiency or endorsement of any type or kind whatsoever, whether accrued, absolute, contingent,
determined, determinable, matured, unmatured or otherwise (whether or not required to be reflected
in financial statements in accordance with UK GAAP) and there is no existing condition, situation
or set of circumstances which would reasonably be expected to result in such liability, which,
individually or in the aggregate, (i) has not been reflected in the Current Balance Sheet (if
required by UK GAAP to be so reflected), or (ii) has arisen outside the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practices since the Balance Sheet Date and prior to the date hereof and which,
individually or in the aggregate, would result in Losses of greater than $50,000. No insolvency
event (within the meaning of the Insolvency Act of 1986) has occurred in relation to the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries and neither the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been a party to any
transaction with any third party which, in the event of such third party going into liquidation or
an administration order or a bankruptcy order being made in relation to it or to him, would
constitute a transaction at an undervalue, a preference, an invalid floating charge or an
extortionate credit transaction or part of a general assignment of debts, under sections 238 to 245
and sections 339 to 344 of the Insolvency Xxx 0000 and no Person who is or has at any time within
the last three years been a Director or officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has at
any material time been subject to any disqualification order under the Companies Act or under any
other legislation relating to the disqualification of directors and officers, or was the subject of
any investigation or proceedings capable of leading to a disqualification order being made.
3.10 Bank Accounts. In respect of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries:
(a) a list of all bank, investment and deposit accounts and the balances on such accounts as
of the close of business on the Business Days prior the date of this Agreement is set forth in
Section 3.10 of the Disclosure Schedule;
(b) it has not or engaged in any off balance sheet financing or any financing of a type which
would not be required to be shown or reflected in the Financial Statements, had such arrangement or
financing been entered into on or before the Balance Sheet Date;
(c) it has not entered into nor is it negotiating to enter into any currency and/or interest
rate swap agreement, asset swap, future rate or forward rate agreement, interest cap, collar and/or
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floor agreement or other currency exchange or interest rate protection transaction or combination
of them or any option or any similar arrangement; and
(d) all Liens created by or in favor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which are
required to be registered in accordance with the provisions of the Companies Act or in any other
relevant jurisdiction have been so registered and comply with all necessary formalities as to
registration or otherwise in that jurisdiction; and the registered particulars of such Liens created by or
in favor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are complete and accurate. No notice has been
given to any Person under any security document.
3.11 No Change. Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement and other than as
set forth in Section 3.11 of the Disclosure Schedule, since the Balance Sheet Date, there
has not been, occurred or arisen any:
(a) amendment or change to the Charter Documents and the equivalent organizational documents
of the Company’s Subsidiaries;
(b) capital expenditure, transaction or commitment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
exceeding $50,000 individually or $200,000 in the aggregate;
(c) payment, discharge, waiver or satisfaction, in any amount in excess of $50,000 in any one
case, or $200,000 in the aggregate, of any claim, liability or obligation (absolute, accrued,
asserted or unasserted, contingent or otherwise of the Company), other than payments, discharges,
waivers or satisfactions in the ordinary course of business or liabilities reflected or reserved
against in the Current Balance Sheet;
(d) destruction of, damage to, or loss of any material assets (whether tangible or
intangible), material business or material customer of the Company (whether or not covered by
insurance);
(e) employment dispute, including but not limited to, claims or matters raised in writing by
any individual or any workers’ representative organization, bargaining unit or union regarding
labor trouble or claim for breach of contract, wrongful discharge or dismissal, unfair dismissal,
redundancy, protective awards or other unlawful employment or labor practice or action with respect
to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any order for reinstatement or reengagement in respect
of any former employee, officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) change in accounting methods or practices (including any change in depreciation or
amortization policies or rates) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than as required by
UK GAAP;
(g) adoption of or change in any material election in respect of Taxes, adoption of or change
in any accounting method in respect of Taxes, agreement or settlement of any claim or assessment in
respect of Taxes (other than any routine agreement or settlement in the ordinary course), or
extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any claim or assessment in respect of
Taxes, except as required by law or UK GAAP;
(h) declaration, setting aside or payment of a dividend or other distribution (within the
meaning of that expression as contained in section 209 or 210 or 418 of the Income and Taxes Act
1988) (whether in cash, stock or property) in respect of any Shares, or any split, combination or
reclassification in respect of any Shares, or any issuance or authorization of any issuance of any
other
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securities in respect of, in lieu of or in substitution for Shares, or any direct or indirect
repurchase, redemption, or other acquisition by the Company of any Shares (or options, warrants or
other rights convertible into, exercisable or exchangeable therefor);
(i) increase in or other change to the salary, fees, benefits or other compensation payable or
to become payable by each of the Company and its Subsidiaries to any of its officers, directors,
employees or consultants, or change to any other terms of employment or engagement of its officers,
directors, employees or consultants or the declaration, payment or commitment or obligation of any
kind for the payment (whether in cash or equity) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of a
severance payment, termination payment, bonus or other additional salary or compensation to any
such Person;
(j) sale, lease, license or other disposition of any of the assets (whether tangible or
intangible) or properties of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries other than in the ordinary
course of business;
(k) loan by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person, purchase by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries of any debt securities of any Person, or capital contributions to
investment in any Person;
(l) creation, assumption or other incurrence by each of the Company and its Subsidiaries of
any Lien on any of its assets, except for Permitted Liens;
(m) incurring by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness, amendment of the
terms of any outstanding loan agreement, Guaranteeing by the Company of any Indebtedness, issuance
or sale of any debt securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Guaranteeing of any
debt securities of others, except for advances to employees for travel and business expenses in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practices and not in excess of $50,000 in the
aggregate;
(n) waiver or release of any right or claim of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
including any write-off or other compromise of any account receivable of the Company, other than in
the ordinary course of business;
(o) commencement or settlement of any lawsuit by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the
commencement, settlement, notice or written threat of any lawsuit or proceeding or other
investigation against the Company or its affairs;
(p) notice of any claim or potential claim of ownership, interest or right by any Person other
than the Company in or to the Company Intellectual Property or of infringement by the Company of
any other Person’s Intellectual Property;
(q) issuance, allotment, grant, delivery or sale, or contract or agreement to issue, allot,
grant, deliver or sell, by the Company of any Shares or securities convertible into, or exercisable
or exchangeable for, Shares, or any securities, warrants, options or rights to purchase any of the
foregoing;
(r) (i) sale or license of any Company Intellectual Property or execution of any agreement
with respect to Company Intellectual Property with any Person, or (ii) purchase or license of any
Intellectual Property or execution of any agreement with respect to the Intellectual Property of
any Person other than the Company, (iii) agreement with respect to the development of any
Intellectual Property with a third party, or (iv) material change in pricing or royalties set or
charged by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to its customers or licensees or in pricing or
royalties set or charged by persons
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who have licensed Intellectual Property to the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, except in the case of clause (i) pursuant to the Company’s End User Agreement,
substantially on standard terms and conditions;
(s) agreement or modification to any Contract pursuant to which any other party was granted
marketing, distribution, development, manufacturing or similar rights of any type or scope with
respect to any products or technology of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(t) change, event or effect that has had or would reasonably be expected to have, individually
or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect;
(u) any agreement to purchase or sell any interest in real property, grant any security
interest in any real property, enter into any lease, sublease, license or other occupancy agreement
with respect to any real property or alter, amend, modify or terminate any of the terms of any
lease agreement;
(v) acquisition or agreement to acquire by merging or consolidating with, or by purchasing any
assets or equity securities of, or by any other manner, any business or corporation, partnership,
association or other business organization or division thereof, or other acquisition or agreement
to acquire any assets or any equity securities;
(w) cancellation, amendment or renewal of any insurance policy except in each case such action
taken in the ordinary course of business as conducted on that date and consistent with past
practices;
(x) loss of any customer which in either of the two financial years immediately preceding the
Balance Sheet Date accounted for 5% or more of its turnover;
(y) there has not been any material change in the level of borrowing or working capital
requirements of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and
(z) agreement by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to do any of the things described in
the preceding clauses (a) through (y) of this Section 3.11 (other than negotiations with
the Purchaser and its representatives regarding the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
any Transaction Agreement).
3.12 Accounts Receivable.
(a) The Company has delivered to the Purchaser an accurate, true and correct list of all
accounts receivable of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Balance Sheet Date, together with
an aging schedule indicating a range of days elapsed since invoice.
(b) All of the accounts receivable of the Company and its Subsidiaries arose in the ordinary
course of business and are carried at values determined in accordance with UK GAAP consistently
applied. No Person has any Lien on any accounts receivable of the Company or its Subsidiaries and
no agreement for a deduction or discount has been made with respect to any accounts receivable of
the Company or its Subsidiaries.
3.13 Tax Matters.
(a) Tax Matters/Definition of Taxes. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term
“Tax” (or collectively, “Taxes”) shall mean: (i) any and all U.S. federal, state,
local and any form of
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United Kingdom (“UK”) and non-U.S. tax, levy, impost, charge,
deduction or withholding and other governmental charges, duties, impositions and liabilities in the
nature of taxes whenever imposed, including taxes based upon or measured by gross receipts, income,
profits, sales, use and occupation, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and wealth taxes value added tax, ad
valorem, transfer, franchise, withholding, customs duties, payroll recapture, employment including
payments under the Pay As You Earn (“PAYE”) regime, national insurance and other similar
contributions, excise and property taxes, stamp duty and stamp duty land tax as well as social
security charges (including but not limited to health, unemployment, workers’ compensation and
pension insurance), together with all interest, penalties and additions imposed with respect to
such amounts; (ii) any liability for the payment of any amounts of the type described in clause (i)
of this Section 3.13(a) as a result of being a member of an affiliated, consolidated,
combined or unitary group for any period (including any arrangement for group or consortium relief
or similar arrangement); and (iii) any liability for the payment of any amounts of the type
described in clauses (i) or (ii) of this Section 3.13(a) as a result of any express or
implied obligation to indemnify any other Person or as a result of any obligation under any
agreement or arrangement with any other Person with respect to such amounts and including any
liability for taxes of a predecessor and regardless of whether such payments of any amounts of the
type described in clause (i) of Section 3.13(a) being directly or primarily chargeable
against, recoverable from or attributable to the Company or its Subsidiaries or any other Person
and regardless of whether the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has, or may have any right of
reimbursement against any other Person.
(b) Definition of Tax Authority. For the purposes of this Agreement the term “Tax
Authority” shall mean any government, state or municipality or any local, state, federal or
other fiscal, revenue, customs or excise authority, body or official in the U.S., the UK or
elsewhere with the responsibility for or competence to impose, collect or administer, any form of
Taxes.
(c) Tax Returns and Audits.
(i) The Current Balance Sheet reserves or provides in full for all Taxes
for which the Company and its Subsidiaries were liable in respect of all periods up to
the Balance Sheet Date and the Current Balance Sheet reserves for or contains a note
regarding any contingent liability to Tax. The Current Balance Sheet shows both the
provision made for deferred Tax and the full potential liability of the Company and its
Subsidiaries in respect of deferred Tax.
(ii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has incurred any
liability for Taxes since the Balance Sheet Date other than in the ordinary course of
business and has not entered into a transaction which may give rise to a liability to
corporation tax on chargeable gains.
(iii) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has (a) prepared and
timely filed with the relevant Tax Authority all required U.S. federal, state, local and
all required UK and non-U.S. returns, estimates, information statements, notices,
computations and reports (“Returns”) relating to any and all Taxes of the
Company (including the Company’s Subsidiaries) and such Returns are accurate, true and
correct and have been or, where prepared prior to Completion, will be completed in
accordance with applicable law and they are not the subject of any dispute nor, so far
as the Shareholders are aware, are likely to become the subject of any dispute and (b)
timely paid in full all Taxes it is required to pay.
(iv) Computations of the profits and losses of the Company and of its
liability to Tax for each accounting period within the six calendar years ending on
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31 December 2005 have been agreed with the relevant Tax Authority, and there is neither an
unsettled appeal in respect of any year of assessment nor any back duty claim or other
dispute with any Tax Authority as at the date of this Agreement, and the Sellers are not
aware of any facts or circumstances that may result in any such appeal, claim or
dispute.
(v) No Tax Authority has agreed to operate any special arrangement (being
an arrangement which is not based on a strict and detailed application of the relevant
legislation, generally published statements of practice or generally published
extra-statutory concessions) with respect to the Company.
(vi) The Company has not been a party to a transaction in respect of
which a consent or clearance from any Tax Authority was or is required other than
transactions in respect of which (i) the relevant Tax Authority consent or clearance was
obtained after accurate disclosure of all material facts; (ii) the transaction was
carried out as described in the application for consent or clearance.
(vii) The Company and its Subsidiaries have properly operated the PAYE
and National Insurance Contributions system in the UK and have maintained complete,
correct and up-to-date records for the purposes of the relevant legislation and neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has, within the 3 years prior to Closing, been
the subject of a PAYE audit or any investigation by any UK Tax Authority and so far as
the Warrantors are aware there are no facts which are likely to cause a PAYE audit or
such an investigation to be made, other than routine audits or examinations.
(viii) The Company and its Subsidiaries have duly and punctually
deducted, withheld, or collected for payment (as appropriate) all Taxes which they have
become liable or entitled to deduct, withhold or collect for payment and have paid all
such Taxes to the relevant Tax Authority and there is no Tax deficiency nor any
liability to interest or penalties outstanding, assessed or, so far as the Warrantors
are aware, proposed against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has executed any waiver of any statute of
limitations on or extending the period for the assessment or collection of any Tax that
has not expired and, so far as the Warrantors are aware, there are no circumstances by
reason of which the Company or its Subsidiaries is likely to become liable to pay, a
fine or penalty.
(ix) All capital expenditure incurred by the Company or any Subsidiary on
or before the Balance Sheet Date and in respect of which claims for capital allowance
have been made has qualified and, so far as the Warrantors are aware, will continue to
qualify as qualifying expenditure for capital allowances purposes.
(x) All rents, interest (including any amounts treated as interest for
Tax purposes), annual payments, emoluments, management or service fees or charges or
other sums of an income nature (including benefits in kind), paid or provided by the
Company or any Subsidiary since the Balance Sheet Date or which the Company or any
Subsidiary is under an obligation entered into on or before Closing to pay or provide in
the future are or will under the law currently in force be wholly allowable as
deductions or charges on income in computing profits or against profits for the purposes
of corporation tax in the accounting period in which they have or will be incurred.
(xi) The Company has provided to the Purchaser or its legal counsel or
other advisers copies of all Returns for the Company and its Subsidiaries that have
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been requested by Purchaser or its legal counsel or other advisers and all
examination reports and statements of deficiencies assessed against or agreed to by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(xii) The Company and its Subsidiaries have sufficient records to
determine the Tax consequences which would arise on a disposal or on the realization of
each asset owned by it at the Balance Sheet Date, or acquired since the Balance Sheet
Date but before Closing.
(xiii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries owns nor has
agreed to acquire any asset, the consideration for the acquisition of which was or will
be in excess of its market value and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has disposed
or agreed to dispose of any asset, the consideration for the disposal of which was or
will be less than its market value.
(xiv) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has given or agreed to give
any consideration on the acquisition of an asset to which the provisions of section
128(2) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Xxx 0000 (“TCGA”) could apply.
(xv) Neither the signing of this agreement nor Closing will result in any
profit or gain being deemed to accrue to the Company or any Subsidiary for the purposes
of Tax under section 179 TCGA and no liability has fallen on the Company or any
Subsidiary under section 179 and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary (i) owns any
asset in respect of which any such liability may arise or (ii) has entered into or will,
on or before Closing, enter into an election under section 179A TCGA.
(xvi) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has engaged in any
transaction in respect of which for any Tax purpose the consideration is different from
the actual consideration given or received by it.
(xvii) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has made any claim under
sections 152 to 156, 175 or 247 of TCGA which could affect the amount of any gain
accruing or treated as accruing on a disposal of any asset by the Company or any
Subsidiary and no claim has been made nor, so far as the Warrantors are aware, is
capable of being made by any other company which affects or could affect the amount or
value of the consideration for the acquisition of any asset by the Company or any
Subsidiary which is to be taken into account in calculating any gain on a subsequent
disposal.
(xviii) There has not accrued any gain in respect of which the Company or
any Subsidiary may be liable to corporation tax on chargeable gains by virtue of the
provisions of section 13 or sections 86 and 87 TCGA .
(xix) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has entered into or been
party to any transaction in respect of which Schedule 7AC TCGA will or might apply and
there has been no reorganization, amalgamation, or other transaction within the meaning
of sections 126 to 140D TCGA (inclusive) involving any Company or Subsidiary.
(xx) There are (and so far as the Warrantors are aware immediately before
the Closing Date there will be) no Liens on the assets of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries relating to or attributable to Taxes other than Liens for
Taxes not yet due and payable.
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(xxi) None of the assets of the Company’s United States Subsidiary is
treated as “tax exempt use property,” within the meaning of Section 168(h) of the Code.
(xxii) For the period of ownership of the Company and its subsidiary by
the Warrantors, neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has repaid, or agreed to repay,
or redeemed, or agreed to redeem, or purchased or agreed to purchase or granted an
option under which it may become liable to purchase, any shares of any class of its
issued share capital, or capitalized or agreed to capitalize, in the form of debentures
or redeemable shares, any profits or reserves of any class or description; and neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has issued or agreed to issue any share capital or
security as paid up otherwise than by the receipt of new consideration (within the
meaning of Part VI of ICTA) or passed or agreed to pass any resolution to do so.
(xxiii) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has received a
chargeable payment within sections 213 to 218 ICTA (inclusive) or made a transfer of the
kind referred to in section 125 TCGA.
(xxiv) No interest or other amount payable, or which may become payable,
in respect of any security issued by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and
remaining in issue at today’s date falls or would fall under legislation currently in
force to be treated as a distribution under section 209 or section 418 of the Income and
Corporation Taxes Xxx 0000 (“ICTA”).
(xxv) Except as provided for in the Current Balance Sheet, no
distribution within the meaning of section 209 ICTA has been made by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries during the six years ended on the Balance Sheet Date.
(xxvi) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is or has ever been a
close investment-holding company within the meaning of section 13A ICTA.
(xxvii) No distribution within section 418 ICTA (“distribution” to
include certain expenses of close companies) has been made by the Company or any
Subsidiary, and no such distribution will be made prior to Closing and no loan, advance,
release, write-off, consideration or transaction within sections 419 to 422 ICTA
(inclusive) has been made, given or effected by the Company or any Subsidiary.
(xxviii) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has (i) made any
transfers of value for the purposes of the Inheritance Tax Xxx 0000 (“IHTA”) or
(ii) been involved in or been a party to any associated operation within the meaning of
section 268 IHTA in relation to any transfer of value within IHTA
(xxix) No circumstances exist whereby the power mentioned in section 212
IHTA could be exercised in connection with any assets of or shares or securities in the
Company or any Subsidiary and no asset of, or share or security in, the Company or any
Subsidiary is or is liable to be made subject to a charge under IHTA by HM Revenue and
Customs and there has been no alteration of the share capital of the Company or any
Subsidiary within section 98 IHTA.
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(xxx) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has (a) ever been a
member of an affiliated group (within the meaning of Section 1504(a) of the Code) filing
a consolidated federal income Tax Return, (b) ever been a party to any Tax sharing,
indemnification or allocation agreement, (c) any liability for the Taxes of any Person
(other than Company or its Subsidiaries), under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or
any similar provision of state, local or foreign law (including any arrangement for
group or consortium relief or similar arrangement)), as a transferee or successor, by
contract or agreement, and (d) an interest in any joint venture, partnership or other
arrangement that could be treated as a partnership for U.S. federal Tax purposes.
(xxxi) Ignoring any other company being a shareholder of the Company, the
Company and its Subsidiaries incorporated in the UK, would form a group of companies for
the purposes of sections 402 to 413 ICTA (inclusive) and for the purposes of section 170
TCGA.
(xxxii) With respect to the UK taxes, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries (i) surrendered any amounts of or by way of group relief, consortium relief
advance corporation tax or tax refund; (ii) claimed any amounts of or by way of group
relief, consortium relief advance corporation tax or tax refund; (iii) made any payments
for or repayments of group relief, consortium relief, surrendered advance corporation
tax or tax refund; or (iv) entered into any agreements or arrangements relating to group
relief or consortium relief or the surrender of either advance corporation tax or tax
refunds other than to, from or with the Company or another Subsidiary.
(xxxiii) The Company’s tax basis in its assets for purposes of
determining its future amortization, depreciation and other income Tax deductions is
accurately reflected on the Company’s tax books and records.
(xxxiv) The Company has never been, at any time, a “United States Real
Property Holding Corporation” within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code.
(xxxv) During the 5 years ending on the date hereof, neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries has constituted either a “distributing corporation” or a
“controlled corporation” in a distribution of stock intended to qualify for tax free
treatment under Section 355 of the Code.
(xxxvi) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has entered into or been
involved in any transaction, series of transactions, scheme or arrangement which, may
result in a liability to Tax on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any of the
following sections or provisions: (i) provisions contained in Part XVII of ICTA; (ii)
section 786 ICTA; (iii) sections 29 to 34 TCGA (inclusive); or (iv) sections 241 to 246
ICTA.
(xxxvii) No event, transaction, act or omission has occurred or will
occur before Closing which could result in the Company or any Subsidiary becoming liable
for Tax (other than PAYE or employee national insurance) which is primarily or
directly chargeable against or attributable to a Person other than that Company or
Subsidiary (including a Tax Authority) or which is charged by reference to the income or
gains of any other Person and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no Tax
is or may become payable by the Company or any Subsidiary under sections 767A, 767AA
ICTA and sections 13, 189 or 190 TCGA in respect of any transaction or event occurring
on or before Closing.
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(xxxviii) Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has participated in
any reportable transaction as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(b).
(xxxix) None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject to Tax
in any jurisdiction other than its country of incorporation or formation by virtue of
having a permanent establishment or other place of business in that country.
(xl) For the purposes of UK Tax the Company has been resident in the UK
at all times since its incorporation and will be so resident at Closing, and it has
never been resident in any other jurisdiction for any Tax purpose.
(xli) The Company for itself and for its Subsidiaries has made available
to the Purchaser all documentation relating to any Tax exemptions, reductions, holidays
or incentives (“Tax Incentives”) with respect to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries claims any entitlement.
(xlii) There have been disclosed in the Disclosure Letter all claims
involving the Company and its Subsidiaries in respect of interest, dividends or
royalties paid or received by such Company and its Subsidiaries made pursuant to any
applicable double taxation conventions.
(xliii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is taxable on any
interest, dividend or other amount on which double taxation relief will, or may, be
restricted under Chapter II Part XVIII ICTA.
(xliv) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has (nor has ever
had) an interest directly or indirectly in any controlled foreign company within the
meaning of Chapter IV of Part XVII ICTA and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has a material interest in an offshore fund within the meaning of Chapter V
of Part XVII ICTA.
(xlv) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to any
obligations requiring it to be a qualifying company for the purposes of Chapter III of
Part VII ICTA for the purposes of the Business Expansion Scheme or the Enterprise
Investment Scheme and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a qualifying issuing
company for the purposes of the Corporate Venturing Scheme.
(xlvi) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has entered
into any loan relationship which is for an unallowable purpose as described in paragraph
13 of Schedule 9 to the Finance Act (“FA”) 1996; (ii) is nor has ever been party
to any loan relationship or related transaction to which paragraph 11 of Schedule 9 to
FA 1996
does or could apply; (iii) has made a claim in respect of bad debts for the
purposes of paragraph 5 of Schedule 9 FA 1996; and (iv) is nor has ever been party to
any loan relationship with a connected Person such that section 87 FA 1996 does or could
apply to that relationship and the Company and its Subsidiaries have complied with all
relevant provisions contained in Chapter II of Part IV FA 1996 in respect of any loan
relationship to which it is or has been party.
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(xlvii) All loan relationships to which the Company has been a party on
or after 1 April 1996, and any interest within section 100 FA 1996 have been accounted
for only on an authorized accruals basis or amortized cost basis as defined in section
85 FA 1996. and all debits arising or which have arisen prior to Closing under any the
Company’s loan relationships fall, or will fall, within section 84 FA 1996 and are or
will be fully deductible in calculating the profits and gains of that Company’s trade on
an accruals basis and paragraphs 2 and 18 of Schedule 9 FA 1996 do not apply to any
interest or discount which accrues prior to Closing under the Company’s loan
relationships.
(xlviii) No Tax Authority has investigated any transaction, series of
transactions, scheme or arrangement involving any Company or Subsidiary with a view to
applying Schedule 28AA ICTA or Treasury Regulations under Section 482 of the Code, and
no circumstances exist which could result in any liability or increased liability of
such Company or Subsidiary to Tax if such investigation were undertaken and the Company
and each Subsidiary has complied with its obligations under the corporation tax self
assessment regime including all documentation requirements or any equivalent legislation
or regime in the US.
(xlix) The Company and each Subsidiary incorporated in the UK (i) is duly
registered and is not exempt from registration for the purposes of value added tax
(“VAT”) and has been so registered at all times when it has been required to be
registered by the relevant Tax Authority is not subject to any conditions imposed or
agreed with the relevant Tax Authority; (ii) has complied fully with all statutory
requirements, orders, provisions, directions or conditions relating to VAT, including
the terms of any agreement reached with the relevant Tax Authority; (iii) maintains and
has at all times maintained complete, correct and up to-date records for the purposes of
the legislation relating to VAT and has preserved such records in such form and for such
periods as are required by such legislation; (iv) is not in arrears with any payment or
returns required under any legislation relating to VAT and is not liable to any abnormal
or non-routine payment, or any forfeiture or penalty or default surcharge, or to the
operation of any penal provision or to pay any interest relating to VAT; (v) has not
been required by the relevant Tax Authority to give security under any legislation
relating to VAT; and (vi) does not operate any special scheme or method authorized under
the VAT Regulations 1995/2518 or agreed with HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”).
(l) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has been nor is currently a
member of a group for the purposes of VAT under section 43 Value Added Tax Xxx 0000
(“VATA”), other than a group comprising the Company and the Subsidiary.
(li) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is under a duty to
make monthly payments on account under the Value Added Tax (Payments on Account) Order
1993.
(lii) The Company or its Subsidiary holds the records or documents
required to be held by regulations 167 and 168 of the VAT Regulations 1995/2518 so that
a claim may or could be made at the date of this agreement or subsequently for a refund
of VAT under section 36 VATA.
(liii) In the three year period ended on the date of this Agreement: (i)
there has been no transfer of a business as a going concern in respect of which the
Company or any Subsidiary has been or could become liable under section 44 VATA and
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there has been no supply of goods or services by the Company or any Subsidiary in
respect of which section 43(1) VATA is disapplied by sub-section (1AA) of that section;
and (ii) no direction has been given under Schedule 9A VATA either to the Company or
any Subsidiary or in relation to any supply made by or to the Company or any Subsidiary
and there are no circumstances where such a direction could be made.
(liv) No act or transaction has been effected as a result of which the
Company or any Subsidiary is or may be held liable for any VAT chargeable against any
other company; and neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is nor has agreed to become an
agent, manager or factor for the purposes of VATA of any Person.
(lv) All supplies made by the Company or any Subsidiary are taxable
supplies and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has or will be denied
credit for any input tax by reason of the operation of any provisions of VATA and the
regulations made under VATA; and all input tax for which the Company or its Subsidiary
has claimed credit has been paid by such Company or Subsidiary in respect of supplies
made to it relating to goods or services used or to be used for the purpose of that
Company’s or Subsidiary’s business and the consideration for any such supply was or will
be paid within six months of the date of the supply.
(lvi) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any item to
which Part XV of the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 (Capital goods scheme) applies and
in respect of which the period of adjustment will not have expired on or before Closing.
(lvii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has an
interest in any land or buildings in relation to which an election has been made, either
by the Company or relevant Subsidiary or by any other Person, to waive exemption from
VAT under the provisions of Schedule 10 VATA (Buildings and land); (ii) is a party to
any agreement or other arrangement in relation to any land or building under which it
has agreed not to elect to waive exemption from VAT under Schedule 10 VATA; and (iii) is
party to any such agreement or arrangement with any other Person under which that other
Person has agreed not to make such an election.
(lviii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has made or
agreed to make an exempt supply of land or buildings for VAT purposes.
(lix) The Company and each Subsidiary has duly paid all stamp duty, stamp
duty land tax and all stamp duty reserve tax for which it is or has at any time been
liable and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is liable to pay any penalty,
interest or fine in respect of stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax or to forfeiture of
any relief from any such duty, penalty, interest or fine and there are no
circumstances including execution, substantial performance of any contract for a land
transaction and performance of this agreement which may result in the Company or any
Subsidiary becoming liable to any such penalty, interest or fine or to any such
forfeiture.
(lx) All documents in the possession of the Company or any Subsidiary and
which attract stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax (“SDRT”) in the UK have been
duly stamped (or SDRT has been duly paid).
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(lxi) No contract for a land transaction has been entered into by the
Company or any Subsidiary and substantially performed, but not yet completed, without
the required payment of stamp duty land tax for which the Company or any Subsidiary
could be liable.
(lxii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into a
contract for a land transaction on which there will be an outstanding balance of stamp
duty land tax to pay on Closing of the land transaction or which is or could be within
section 45, FA 2003.
(lxiii) A land transaction return (as defined by section 76, Finance Act
2003), has been promptly and correctly filed with HM Revenue & Customs in respect of all
notifiable land transactions entered into by the Company or any Subsidiary and
registered in the Register and, for the purposes of this warranty, “Register” means each
and any of the Chief Land Registrar of England and Wales, the Keeper of the Registers of
Scotland, or the Land Registry of Northern Ireland or in the Registry of Deeds for
Northern Ireland.
(lxiv) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered into
any land transaction where the whole or part of the chargeable consideration for the
transaction is uncertain, contingent or unascertained.
(lxv) Neither the signing of this agreement nor Closing will result in
any profit or gain being deemed to accrue to the Company or any Subsidiary for the
purposes of paragraph 58, Schedule 29 FA 2002 and neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries has entered into nor will, on or before Closing, enter into an election
under paragraph 66, Schedule 29 FA 2002 nor is the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
liable or may be liable to Tax under paragraph 68, Schedule 29 FA 2002.
(lxvi) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has sold or agreed
to sell any patent rights for a capital sum (which would be chargeable to income) under
section 524 ICTA.
(lxvii) The Company has drawn up its accounts in accordance with
generally accepted accounting practice and has brought into account for Tax purposes
debits under paragraphs 8 or 9 of Schedule 29 FA 2002.
(lxviii) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any
arrangement or authorization in place under the Council Regulation EEC Number 2913/92 or
Community Customs Code and Commissions Regulation EEC Number 2454/93 in relation to
any relief from customs duty.
(lxix) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries holds any
authorization from HMRC to import goods upon which the customs duty has not been paid at
importation or upon which there may be a clawback of duty paid,
(lxx) None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries will be required to
include any income or gain or exclude any deduction or loss from Taxable income after
the Closing Date as result of (a) any change in method of accounting under Section
481(c) of the Code in any taxable period ending on or before the Closing Date,
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(b) closing agreement under Section 7121 of the Code (or in the case of each of (a) and (b),
under any similar provision of applicable law), (d) installment sale or open transaction
disposition occurring before the Closing Date or (e) prepaid amount paid prior to the
Closing Date.
3.14 Restrictions on Business Activities.
Except as set forth in Section 3.14 of the Disclosure Schedule, there is no agreement
(non-competition or otherwise), commitment, judgment, injunction, order or decree to which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or which is otherwise binding upon the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries which has or may reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or
restricting any business activities of the Company or its Subsidiaries, or to the Knowledge of the
Warrantors, the Purchaser, or otherwise limiting the freedom of the Company or its Subsidiaries or
to the Knowledge of the Warrantor, the Purchaser, to engage in any line of business or to compete
with any Person. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries is a party to any agreement under which the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company
is restricted from selling, licensing, or otherwise distributing any of its technology or products
or from providing services to customers or potential customers or any class of customers, in any
geographic area, during any period of time, or in any segment of the market. Neither this
Agreement nor the transaction contemplated by this Agreement will result in any restriction on the
ability of the Company to share information relating to its ongoing business or operations with
Purchaser or any of Purchaser’s Subsidiaries pursuant to any agreement to which the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries are a party or by which they are bound.
3.15 Title to Properties; Absence of Liens and Encumbrances; Condition of Equipment;
Customer Information.
(a) Title
(i) All of the properties of the Company (the “Real Property”)
are set forth in Section 3.15 of the Disclosure Schedule. The Real Property
comprises all the real property owned, occupied or otherwise used in connection with its
business by the Company and each of its Subsidiaries.
(ii) Any part of the Real Property which is occupied or otherwise used by
any Company and each of its Subsidiaries in connection with its business is so occupied
or used by right of ownership or under lease or licence, and the terms of any such lease
or licence permit such occupation or use.
(iii) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is the legal and
beneficial owner of and have a good and marketable title to the Real Property.
(b) Encumbrances
(i) The Real Property is free from any charge, rent-charge, liability to
maintain roadways, lien, annuity or other encumbrance securing the repayment of monies
or other obligation or liability of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries or of any
other Person.
(ii) The Real Property is free of any tenancy, sub-tenancy, licence or
other arrangement entitling a Person other than the Company and each of its Subsidiaries
which owns it to occupy the whole or any part.
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(iii) The Real Property is not subject to any outgoings, other than
general rates, water rates and insurance premiums and, in the case of leasehold real
property, rent and service charges.
(iv) The Real Property is free from any local land charge, land charge,
caution, inhibition or notice, and no matter exists which is capable of registration
against the Real Property.
(v) No notice relating to the use and enjoyment of the Real Property has
been received or given or is likely to be received or given in any circumstances.
(vi) All the Real Property enjoys access and egress over roads which have
been adopted by the appropriate highway authority and are maintainable at the public
expense. The Real Property drains into public sewers and is served by water,
electricity and gas utilities, pipes, sewers, wires, cables, conduits and other
conducting media and connect directly to the mains without passing through land in the
occupation or ownership of a third party.
(c) Planning Matters
(i) The Real Property is not being or is intended or required by the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries to be used other than for the permitted use for the
purposes of the Town and Country Planning Xxx 0000, the Planning (Listed Buildings and
Conservation Areas) Xxx 0000, the Planning (Consequential Provisions) Xxx 0000, the
Planning and Compensation Xxx 0000 and the Planning and Compulsory Xxxxxxxx Xxx 0000 and
the orders and regulations made under them and all legislation of a like nature (the
“Planning Acts”).
(ii) Planning permission has been obtained, or is deemed to have been
granted, for the purposes of the Planning Acts with respect to all existing development
on the Real Property and no such permission has been suspended or called in or is
subject to judicial review, and no application for planning permission is awaiting
decision.
(iii) Building regulation consents have been obtained with respect to all
development, alterations and improvements to the Real Property.
(iv) All planning consents and permissions affecting the Real Property
are either unconditional or are subject only to conditions which are neither unusual,
personal nor temporary and which have been satisfied or fully observed and performed up
to the date of this agreement.
(v) There is no outstanding statutory or informal notice under the
Planning Acts relating to any part of the Real Property or to any business carried on
there or to the use of it, and there is no outstanding monetary claim or liability,
contingent or otherwise, in respect of any part of the Real Property in relation to the
Planning Acts.
(d) Adverse Orders
There is no resolution, proposal, scheme or order, whether or not formally adopted, for the
compulsory acquisition of the Real Property or of any access or egress from any of it or for the
alteration, construction or improvement of any road, subway, underpass, footbridge, elevated road,
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carriage or flyover upon or adjoining or passing within 200 metres of the Real Property or any
such access or egress and there are no closing, demolition or clearance orders, enforcement notices
or stop notices affecting the Real Property, nor are there any circumstances likely to lead to any
such matters being made.
(e) Condition of the Real Property
The buildings and other structures on the Real Property or of which any of the Real Property
form part are in good and substantial repair and fit for the purposes for which they are presently
used.
(f) Leasehold Real Property
(i) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have paid the rent and
observed and performed the covenants on the part of the tenant and the conditions
contained in each of the leases (which expression includes underleases) under which the
Real Property is held and the last demand (or receipt for rent if issued) was
unqualified and each such lease is valid and in full force.
(ii) All licences, consents and approvals required from the landlords and
any superior landlords under any leases of the Real Property have been obtained, and the
covenants on the part of the tenant contained in such licences, consents and approvals
have been duly performed and observed.
(iii) There have been and are no disputes and there are not likely to be
any disputes with any landlord.
(g) Guarantees
Except in relation to the Real Property, there is no actual or contingent liability of the
Company and each of its Subsidiaries arising directly or indirectly out of any agreement, lease,
underlease, tenancy, conveyance, transfer, licence or any other deed or document relating to real
property or to any estate or interest in real property entered into by the Company or its
Subsidiary including any actual or contingent liability arising directly or indirectly out of:
(i) any estate or interest held by the Company or its Subsidiary as
original lessee or underlessee;
(ii) any guarantee given by the Company or its Subsidiary in relation to
a lease or underlease; or
(iii) any other covenant made by the Company or its Subsidiary in favor
of any lessor or head lessor.
3.16 Intellectual Property.
(a) Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have
the following respective meanings:
“Company Intellectual Property” shall mean any Intellectual Property that is owned by,
or exclusively licensed to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including Company
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Registered Intellectual Property Rights. Company Intellectual Property specifically includes all Intellectual
Property Rights in and to the Technology listed in Section 3.16(a)(i) of the Disclosure
Schedule. All Intellectual Property that is exclusively licensed to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is set forth in Section 3.16(a)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule.
“Company Source Code” shall mean, collectively, all or any portion of any software
source code, or any confidential information or algorithm contained in or relating to any software
source code (excluding Open Source Materials), of any Company Intellectual Property or any Company
Product.
“Data Protection Legislation” means any applicable legislation or regulations relating
to data protection and/or privacy, including the Data Protection Xxx 0000 and the Privacy and
Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 of the UK and any other legislation
intended to implement in any country Directive 95 /46/EC of 24 October 1995 on the protection of
individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
“End User Agreements” shall mean customer agreements (including the Company’s standard
end user license agreement that is presented to an end user during installation of the Company’s
Products) entered into in the ordinary course of business that provide end users the non-exclusive
right to use a Company Product (in the case of Company Products that include software, such
agreement providing only an object code license to such software) or non-exclusive right to receive
services of the Company, but provides no rights to distribute Company Products to third parties or
make any modifications thereto.
“European Personally Identifiable Information” means any data or information which is
collected or obtained by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of
providing any Company Product and/or related service in relation to the users of websites provided
by the Company’s European customers which data or information either on its own or when combined
with information within the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ control identifies a living
individual anywhere in the world.
“Intellectual Property” shall mean Technology and Intellectual Property Rights.
“Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean any or all of the following and all rights
in, arising out of, or associated therewith: (i) all United States and foreign patents, provisional
patents and utility models and applications therefor and all reissues, divisions, re-examinations,
renewals, extensions, provisionals, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof, and equivalent
or similar rights anywhere in the world in inventions and discoveries (“Patents”); (ii) all
trade secrets, invention disclosures, and similar rights in know-how and confidential or
proprietary information; (iii) published and unpublished works of authorship, all copyrights,
copyright registrations and applications therefor, and all rights in databases
(“Copyrights”); (iv) all industrial designs and any registrations and applications therefor
throughout the world; (v) mask works, mask work registrations and applications therefor, (“Mask
Works”); (vi) all rights in World Wide Web addresses, uniform resource locators and domain
names and applications and registrations therefor; (vii) all rights in all trade names, logos,
common law trademarks and service marks, trademark and service xxxx registrations and applications
therefor (“Trademarks”); (viii) Moral Rights, and (ix) any similar, corresponding or
equivalent rights to any of the foregoing anywhere in the world.
“Moral Rights” means any right to claim authorship to or to object to any distortion,
mutilation, or other modification or other derogatory action in relation to a work, whether or not
such would be prejudicial to the author’s reputation, and any similar right, existing under common
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statutory law of any country in the world or under any treaty, regardless of whether or not such
right is denominated or generally referred to as a “moral right.”
“Registered Intellectual Property Rights” shall mean all United States, international
and foreign: (i) applied for or issued Patents, including applications therefor; (ii) registered
Trademarks and applications for registration thereof; (iii) Copyright registrations and
applications to register Copyrights; (iv) registered Mask Works and applications to register Mask
Works; (v) registered World Wide Web addresses, uniform resource locators and domain names, and
applications for registration thereof; and (vi) any other Intellectual Property Right that is the
subject of an application, certificate, filing, registration or other document issued by, filed
with, or recorded by, any private, state, government or other public legal authority.
“Shrinkwrap Agreements” shall mean inbound generally available commercial binary code
non-exclusive end-user licenses that provide the rights to use Intellectual Property for total
consideration, with respect to each such agreement, of less than $1,000 (including support and
maintenance fees). “Shrinkwrap Agreements” exclude those agreements relating to Open
Source Materials.
“Technology” shall mean any or all of the following tangibles (including any and all
instantiations thereof in any form and embodied in any media): (i) works of authorship and
copyright works including, without limitation, computer programs, mathematical models, algorithms,
routines, source code and executable code, whether embodied in software or otherwise,
documentation, designs, files, records and similar data; (ii) inventions (whether or not
patentable) and improvements; (iii) proprietary and confidential information, including technical
data models, methodologies and customer and supplier lists, trade secrets, show-how, know how and
techniques; (iv) databases, data compilations and collections and technical data; (v) processes,
tools, devices, methods, prototypes, schematics, bread boards, net lists, mask works, test
methodologies and development tools. “Technology” excludes any Intellectual Property
Rights in any of the foregoing.
“US Personally Identifiable Information” means any data or information which is
collected or obtained by or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of
providing any Company Product and/or related service in relation to the users of websites provided
by the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ North American customers which data or information is
individually identifiable information from or about any individual including, but not limited
to: (a) a first and last name; (b) a home or other physical address, including street name and
name of city or town; (c) an email address or other online contact information, such as an instant
messaging user identifier or a screen name that reveals an individual’s email address; (d) a
telephone number; (e) a Social Security Number; (f) a persistent identifier, such as a customer
number held in a “cookie” or processor serial number, that is combined with other available data
that identifies an individual; or (g) any information combined with any of (a) through (f) above.
(b) Section 3.16(b) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and accurate list
(by name and version number) of all products, software or service offerings of the Company and its
Subsidiaries that have been sold, distributed or otherwise disposed of by the Company and its
Subsidiaries in the past five (5) years together with a list of any products or service offerings
developed or under development, but not yet launched (the “Company Products”).
(c) Section 3.16(c) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all Registered Intellectual
Property Rights owned by, or applied for, by the Company and its Subsidiaries (the “Company
Registered Intellectual Property Rights”) and lists any proceedings or actions currently before
any court, tribunal (including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “PTO”) or
equivalent authority anywhere
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in the world) related to any of Company Registered Intellectual
Property Rights together with any actions, including the payment of any fees or the filing of any
responses, that must be taken by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries within 90 days of the date
of this Agreement for the purposes of obtaining, maintaining or renewing any Company Registered
Intellectual Property Rights.
(d) Each Company Registered Intellectual Property Right is currently in compliance with all
formal legal requirements and to the Knowledge of the Warrantor is valid and subsisting. As of the
date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, all necessary documents and certificates in
connection with such Company Registered Intellectual Property Rights have been filed with the
relevant patent, copyright, trademark or other authorities in the United States and foreign
jurisdictions, for the purposes of perfecting, prosecuting and maintaining Registered Intellectual
Property Rights.
(e) In each case in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has acquired, other than
through a license, any Intellectual Property Right from any Person, the Company or its Subsidiary
has obtained a written assignment that to the Knowledge of the Warrantor is valid, enforceable, and
sufficient to irrevocably transfer all rights in and to all such Intellectual Property Rights
(including the right to seek past and future damages with respect thereto) to the Company. The
Company has recorded each such assignment of Registered Intellectual Property Right assigned to the
Company, with the relevant patent, copyright, trademark or other authorities in the United States
and foreign jurisdictions, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction
in which such assignment is required to be recorded.
(f) To the Knowledge of the Warrantor, there are no facts or circumstances that would render
any Intellectual Property Right that is Company Intellectual Property invalid or unenforceable.
(g) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(g)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule, all Company
Intellectual Property other than that validly licensed in writing to the Company is fully
transferable and licensable by the Company without restriction and without payment of any kind to
any third party. Except as set forth in Section 3.16(g)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule,
all Company Intellectual Property that is exclusively licensed to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is fully licensable by the Company without restriction and without payment of any kind
to any third party.
(h) Each item of Company Intellectual Property is free and clear of any Liens, except for the
Company’s End User Agreements or except as set forth in Section 3.16(h) of the Disclosure
Schedule. The Company has provided to Purchaser a true and complete copy of all forms of End User
Agreements entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the past five (5) years.
(i) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(i) of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company or
a Subsidiary is either: (i) the exclusive owner or exclusive licensee of all Intellectual Property
Rights that are Company Intellectual Property; or (ii) the exclusive owner of all Technology that
is Company Intellectual Property. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and except as
set forth in Section 3.16(i) of the Disclosure Schedule, (i) the Company is the exclusive
owner of all Trademarks used in connection with the operation or conduct of the business of the
Company, including the sale, distribution or provision of any the Company Products by the Company,
(ii) the Company owns exclusively all copyrighted works that are included or incorporated into
Company Products or which the Company otherwise purports to own, and (iii) to the Knowledge of the
Warrantor, to the extent that any Patents would be infringed by any Company Products, the Company
is the exclusive owner or licensee of such Patents.
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(j) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(j) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have (i) permitted the rights of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in such Company Intellectual Property to lapse or enter the public domain, (ii)
entered into any agreement under which it has granted any covenant not to xxx, assert or exploit
any Intellectual Property Right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iii) entered into
any agreement under which it has granted any Person the right to bring a lawsuit for infringement
or misappropriation of any Company Intellectual Property.
(k) Except for Intellectual Property Rights licensed to the Company or its Subsidiaries as set
forth in Section 3.16(a)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule, all Intellectual Property Rights
that are Company Intellectual Property were created solely by either (i) employees of the Company
or (ii) by third parties, and in each case such employee or third party has irrevocably assigned
all of their Intellectual Property Rights therein by written document entered into between such
employee or third party (including the right to seek past and future damages with respect thereto),
to the Company. The Company has provided to the Purchaser true and correct copies of the forms for
such assignments.
(l) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(l) of the Disclosure Schedule, to the extent
that any Intellectual Property has been developed or created by a third party for the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries and is incorporated into any Company Products (excluding Open Source
Materials), the Company or a Subsidiary, as applicable, has a written agreement with such third
party with respect thereto and the Company, or Company Subsidiary, thereby either (i) has obtained
ownership of, and is the exclusive owner of, all Intellectual Property Rights in such Intellectual
Property, including any improvements, enhancements or other modifications or derivatives made by
the Company or on its behalf by such third party to such Intellectual Property; or (ii) has
obtained a perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-terminable license (such license being
sufficient for the conduct of its business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted)
to all such third party’s Intellectual Property Rights in such Intellectual Property.
(m) The Company Intellectual Property (and Intellectual Property that the Company has obtained
pursuant to a Shrinkwrap Agreement), and the rights described in Section 3.16(l)(ii) above,
constitute all the Intellectual Property which is used in or necessary to the conduct of such
business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as it currently is conducted and as it is currently
planned by the Company
and its Subsidiaries to be conducted, including the design, development, manufacture, use,
import, licensing and sale of Company Products.
(n) Section 3.16(n)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all Contracts to which Company
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has
transferred, or under which it may have the obligation to transfer any ownership of (contingent or
otherwise), granted any exclusive license to use or distribute, or authorized the retention of any
exclusive rights to use, or joint or sole ownership of, any Intellectual Property Right that is or
was Company Intellectual Property to any third party. Section 3.16(n)(ii) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists all Contracts to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party
pursuant to which a third party (save for any former or current employee or consultant of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries) has licensed or transferred any Intellectual Property to the
Company or its Subsidiaries (other than Shrinkwrap Agreements). The Company is not in breach of,
nor has the Company failed to perform under, any Contracts between the Company and any Person in so
far as they relate to the license or transfer of Intellectual Property Rights and all such
Contracts (including those entered into after the date of this Agreement but before the Closing
Date) are in full force and effect. To the Knowledge of the Warrantor, no dispute exists regarding
the scope or performance of any Contracts between the Company and any Person in so far as they
relate to the license or transfer of Intellectual Property Rights or payments to be made or
received thereunder and to the Knowledge of the Warrantor, the other parties to such Contracts
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are not in material breach of their terms. Except as set forth in Section 3.16(n)(iii) of the
Disclosure Schedule, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will
neither violate nor result in the breach, modification, cancellation, termination, right of
termination or suspension of any Contracts (including those entered into after the date of this
Agreement but before the Closing Date), in so far as they relate to the license or transfer of
Intellectual Property Rights that are or were Company Intellectual Property and except as set forth
in Section 3.16(n)(iv) of the Disclosure Schedule, following the Closing Date, both the
Purchaser and the Company will be permitted to exercise all of the Company’s rights under such
Contracts to the same extent the Company would have been able to had the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement not occurred and without being required to pay any additional amounts or
consideration other than fees, royalties or payments which the Company would not otherwise be
required to pay had such transactions contemplated hereby not occurred.
(o) No Person who has assigned, transferred or licensed any Intellectual Property to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries has ownership rights or license rights to improvements,
enhancements or other modifications or derivatives made by or for the Company in such Intellectual
Property.
(p) The Company has the right to use, pursuant to valid licenses, all software development
tools, library functions, compilers and all other third-party software that are used or necessary
to create, modify, compile, operate or support any software that is Company Intellectual Property
or is incorporated into any Company Product.
(q) No government, military or quasi-governmental funding, facilities of a university,
college, other educational institution or research center or funding from similar third parties was
used in the development of any Intellectual Property Right that is Company Intellectual Property.
No current or former employee, and to the Knowledge of the Warrantor, no consultant or independent
contractor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, who was involved in, or who contributed to,
the creation or development of any Company Intellectual Property, has (i) performed services for
the government, university, college, or other educational institution or research center, or any
other entity or Person during a period of time during which such employee, consultant or
independent contractor was also performing services for the Company and (ii) entered into a
Contract with such an entity providing
for an exclusive license of Intellectual Property Rights which might reasonably relate to the
business of the Company or its Subsidiaries, to such entity.
(r) The operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted
and as currently planned by the Company and its Subsidiaries to be conducted, including the design,
development, use, import, branding, advertising, promotion, marketing, manufacture, distribution,
licensing and sale of Company Products, does not and will not, and will not when conducted by
Purchaser or Company following the Closing in substantially the same manner as currently conducted
by the Company, directly, indirectly or contributorily infringe or misappropriate any Intellectual
Property Right (excluding Patents) of any Person or violate any right of publicity. To the
Knowledge of the Warrantor, the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries as
currently conducted and as currently planned by the Company and its Subsidiaries to be conducted,
including the design, development, use, import, branding, advertising, promotion, marketing,
manufacture, distribution, licensing and sale of Company Products, does not and will not, and will
not when conducted by Purchaser or Company following the Closing in substantially the same manner
as currently conducted by the Company, directly, indirectly or contributorily infringe any Patent
right of any Person. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received written notice
or notice via electronic mail from any Person claiming that such operation of the Company’s or its
Subsidiaries’ business or any design, development, use, import, branding, advertising, promotion,
marketing, manufacture, distribution, licensing or sale of any Company Product, or act, product,
technology or service (including products, technology or services currently under
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development) of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries directly, indirectly or contributorily infringes or
misappropriates any Intellectual Property Right of any Person. The Company does not, without
proper authorization, possess, or have within its custody or control any customer lists, marketing
materials, or technical information or data. The Company has not received any opinion of counsel
that any third party patent directly or indirectly applies to any Company Product.
(s) Excluding applicable laws, no Company Intellectual Property or Company Product is subject
to any proceeding or outstanding decree, order, judgment or settlement agreement or stipulation or
regulation that restricts in any manner the use, distribution, transfer or licensing thereof by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or may be reasonably expected to adversely affect the validity,
use or enforceability of such Company Intellectual Property. The operation of the business as it
has been, and is currently conducted and as currently planned by the Company to be conducted, in
each case, with respect to the use, distribution, transfer or licensing of Company Products, has
not, does not, and would not violate any applicable laws or regulations.
(t) Section 3.16(t) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all Contracts between the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries and any other Person, other than End User Agreements, whereby the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries have agreed to warrant, indemnify, reimburse, hold harmless,
guaranty or otherwise assume or incur any obligation or liability or provide a right of rescission
in each case with respect to the infringement or misappropriation by the Company or such other
Person of the Intellectual Property Rights of any Person other than the Company and its
Subsidiaries.
(u) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have brought any action, suit or
proceeding for infringement of any Company Intellectual Property or breach of any license or
agreement involving Intellectual Property against any third party. Except as set forth in
Section 3.16(t) of the Disclosure Schedule, to the Knowledge of the Warrantor, no Person is
infringing or misappropriating any Company Intellectual Property.
(v) The Company and its Subsidiaries have protected their rights in confidential information
and trade secrets owned by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries and have protected those
provided by any other Person to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the extent
reasonable and customary in the industry in which the Company and its Subsidiaries operate. The
Company has and enforces a policy requiring each employee and consultant of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries to execute a proprietary rights and confidentiality agreement substantially in the
form set forth in Section 3.16(v) of the Disclosure Schedule and all current and former
employees and consultants of the Company who have created, modified or contributed any of the
Company Intellectual Property have executed such an agreement assigning all of such employees’ and
consultants’ rights in and to Company Intellectual Property to the Company.
(w) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(w) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither this
Agreement nor the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will result in (i) any third party
being granted rights or access to, or the placement in or release from escrow, of any Company
Intellectual Property (including Company Source Code for any software belonging to the Company),
(ii) the Company granting, or to the Knowledge of the Warrantor, the Purchaser granting, to any
third party any right, title or interest to or with respect to any Intellectual Property owned by,
or licensed to, the Company pursuant to any agreement to which the Company is a party or by which
it is bound or (iii) the Company, or to the Knowledge of the Company, the Purchaser, being
obligated to pay any royalties or other amounts to any third party in respect of Intellectual
Property Rights, in excess of those payable by Purchaser or the Company, respectively, prior to the
Closing Date pursuant to any agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
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(x) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(x) of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company and
its Subsidiaries own, or have valid licenses to and possess all, Company Source Code. The Company
has taken all actions reasonable and customary in the software industry to document the software
which is Company Intellectual Property and its operation, such that such software, including the
source code and documentation, have been written in a clear and professional manner so that they
may be understood, modified and maintained in an efficient manner by reasonably competent
programmers.
(y) Section 3.16(y) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all software or other material
that is distributed as “free software,” “open source software” or under a similar licensing or
distribution model (including but not limited to the GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser
General Public License (LGPL), Mozilla Public License (MPL), BSD licenses, the Artistic License,
the Netscape Public License, the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), the Sun Industry Standards
License (SISL) and the Apache License) (“Open Source Materials”) used by the Company in its
business, and describes the manner in which such Open Source Materials were used (such description
shall include, without limitation, whether (and, if so, how) the Open Source Materials were
modified or distributed by the Company). Except as set forth in Section 3.16(y) of the
Disclosure Schedule, the Company and its Subsidiaries have not (a) incorporated Open Source
Materials into, or combined Open Source Materials with, the Company Intellectual Property or
Company Products, (b) distributed Open Source Materials in conjunction with any Company
Intellectual Property or Company Products, or (c) used Open Source Materials that create
obligations for the Company with respect to Company Intellectual Property or Company Products or
grant to any third party, any rights or immunities under Company Intellectual Property (including,
but not limited to, using any Open Source Materials that require, as a condition of use,
modification or distribution of such Open Source Materials that other software incorporated into,
derived from or distributed with such Open Source Materials be (i) disclosed or distributed in
source code form, (ii) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works, or (iii) be
redistributable at no charge). No Company Product or Intellectual Property Right that is Company
Intellectual Property is subject to the terms of license of any such Open Source Materials.
(z) All Company Products conform in all material respects to applicable contractual
commitments through the date of the Closing, express and implied warranties, product specifications
and product documentation and to any representations in each case as provided or contained in End
User Agreements.
(aa) Except as set forth on Section 3.16(aa) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have collected or possess any European Personally Identifiable
Information or any US Personally Identifiable Information. The Company and its Subsidiaries have
complied in all material respects with all applicable laws including Data Protection Legislation
and their respective internal privacy policies including in relation to the privacy of users of
websites to which Company Products are applied and all Internet websites owned, maintained or
operated by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries. To the Knowledge of the Warrantor, the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement does not violate any applicable laws
including Data Protection Legislation relating to privacy or conflict with or violate the Company’s
privacy policies. Copies of all current and prior privacy policies of the Company, including the
privacy policies included in the Company’s Internet website, have been delivered to the purchaser.
Except as set forth in Section 3.16(aa) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries has at any time received any actual or threatened claim, allegation or
complaint that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has been in contravention of any applicable
laws including Data Protection Legislation.
(bb) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(bb) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the
Company, its Subsidiaries, nor any other Person acting on their behalf has disclosed, delivered or
licensed to any Person, agreed to disclose, deliver or license to any Person or permitted the
disclosure or delivery
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to any escrow agent or other Person of, any Company Source Code. No event
has occurred and no circumstances or conditions exist, that will, or would reasonably be expected
to, result in such disclosure, delivery or license of any Company Source Code. Section
3.16(bb) of the Disclosure Schedule identifies each Contract pursuant to which the Company has
deposited, or is or may be required to deposit, with an escrow-holder or any other Person, any
Company Source Code.
(cc) At the date of this Agreement, Company Products (but not including demonstration or
evaluation products) are free of any disabling codes or instructions (a “Disabling Code”),
and any virus or malicious undocumented contaminant (a “Contaminant”), that may be used to,
provide unauthorized access, or unauthorized modifications or deletions, or otherwise damage or
disable Company Products (or systems which interact or interoperate with such Company Products).
At the date of this Agreement, the components used in or with Company Products obtained from third
Person suppliers (excluding Open Source Materials) are free of any Disabling Codes or Contaminants
that may, be used to, access, modify, delete, damage or disable any of Company Products (or systems
which interact or interoperate with such Company Products). The Company and its Subsidiaries have
taken reasonable steps and implemented reasonable procedures (based on standard industry practices)
to ensure that its information technology systems utilized by the Company and its Subsidiaries in
the operation of their business are free from Disabling Codes and Contaminants. The Company and
its Subsidiaries have in place appropriate disaster recovery plans, procedures and facilities and
have taken all reasonable steps to safeguard its information technology systems utilized by the
Company and its Subsidiaries in the operation of their business and restrict unauthorized access
thereto.
(dd) The Company has duly executed and delivered to Purchaser a “Certificate of Originality”
for each of the Company Products, each of which is set forth on Schedule 3.16(dd). Each
such Certificate of Originality is true, complete and correct with respect to each Company Product.
3.17 Agreements, Contracts and Commitments.
(a) Except as set forth in this Agreement or at Section 3.17 of the Disclosure
Schedule (specifying the appropriate paragraph), neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
a party to, or is bound by:
(i) any employment or consulting agreement, contract or commitment with
an employee or individual consultant or salesperson or other benefits not disclosed in
Section 3.17(b) of the Disclosure Schedule), any agreement, contract or
commitment to grant any severance or termination pay (in cash or otherwise) to any
employee, or any consulting or sales agreement, contract, or commitment with a firm or
other organization;
(ii) any agreement or plan, including, without limitation, any stock
option plan, stock appreciation rights plan or stock purchase plan (A) relating to the
sale, issuance, grant, exercise, award, purchase or redemption of any shares of capital
stock or any other securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any options,
warrants, convertible notes or other rights to purchase or otherwise acquire any such
shares of stock, other securities or options, warrants, or other rights therefore,
except for the Plans, or (B) any of the benefits of which will be increased, or the
vesting of benefits of which will be accelerated, by the occurrence of any of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the value of any of the benefits of which
will be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(iii) any fidelity or surety bond or completion bond;
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(iv) any lease of personal property having a value in excess of $50,000
individually or $200,000 in the aggregate;
(v) any lease of real property;
(vi) any agreement of indemnification or guaranty;
(vii) any agreement, contract or commitment relating to capital
expenditures and involving future payments in excess of $25,000 individually or $100,000
in the aggregate;
(viii) any agreement, contract or commitment relating to the disposition
or acquisition of assets or any interest in any business enterprise outside the ordinary
course of the Company’s business;
(ix) any mortgages, indentures, guarantees, loans or credit agreements,
security agreements or other agreements or instruments relating to the borrowing of
money or extension of credit;
(x) any purchase order or contract for the purchase of materials
involving payments in excess of $20,000 individually or $100,000 in the aggregate;
(xi) any partnership, dealer, distribution, agency, joint marketing,
joint venture, strategic alliance, affiliate, development agreement or similar agreement
or any agreement which is or contains a power of attorney given by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries;
(xii) any agreement, contract or commitment to alter the Company’s
interest in any corporation, association, joint venture, partnership or business entity
in which the Company directly or indirectly holds any interest;
(xiii) any sales representative, original equipment manufacturer,
manufacturing, value added, remarketer, reseller, or independent software vendor, or
other agreement for use or distribution of the products, technology or services of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(xiv) any Contract limiting in any respect the right of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries to engage or participate, or compete with any Person, in any
line of business, market or geographic area, or to make use of any Intellectual
Property, or any Contract granting most favored nation pricing, exclusive sales,
distribution, marketing or other exclusive rights, rights of first refusal, rights of
first negotiation or similar rights or terms to any Person, or any Contract otherwise
limiting the right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to sell, distribute,
license or manufacture any Company Product or to purchase or otherwise obtain any
software, components, parts or services;
(xv) any Contract with any Governmental Entity (a “Government
Contract”) or any material federal, state, county, local or foreign governmental
consent, license, permit, grant, or other authorization of a Governmental Entity that is
required for the operation in all material respects of the Company’s or any of its
Subsidiaries’ business;
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(xvi) any agreement or arrangement to which the following provisions of
the Companies Act apply; section 317, section 320 and/or section 330;
(xvii) any settlement or litigation “standstill” agreement; or
(xviii) other than customer purchase orders arising in the ordinary
course of business to the extent that the purchase or sale provided for therein has been
performed in full on or prior to the date of this Agreement, any other agreement,
contract or commitment that involves payments in excess of $25,000 individually or
$100,000 in the aggregate or more and is not cancelable without penalty within 30 days.
(b) True and complete copies of each Contract set forth (or required to be set forth) in
Section 3.17 of the Disclosure Schedule, each a “Material Contract” and
collectively, the “Material Contracts”) have been delivered to the Purchaser. Each
Material Contract is a valid and binding agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries, enforceable
against the Company or its Subsidiaries and each other party thereto in accordance with its terms,
and is in full force and effect with respect to the Company or its Subsidiary. The Company and its
Subsidiaries are in compliance with and have not breached, violated or defaulted under, or received
written notice or notice via electronic mail that it has breached, violated or defaulted under, any
of the terms or conditions of any such Material Contract or any other Contract. To the Knowledge
of the Warrantors, no party obligated to the Company pursuant to any
such Material Contract has materially breached, violated or defaulted under such Material
Contract, or taken any action or failed to act, such that, with the lapse of time, giving of notice
or both, such action or failure to act would constitute such a breach, violation or default under
such Material Contract by any such other party, subject
to laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency and the relief of debtors .
(c) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have fulfilled all obligations required pursuant
to each Material Contract to have been performed by the Company or such Subsidiary prior to the
date hereof, and without giving effect to the Acquisition, the Company will fulfill, when due, all
of its obligations under the Material Contracts that remain to be performed after the date hereof.
(d) With respect to any Government Contract, there is, as of the date of this Agreement, no:
(i) claim or request by a Governmental Entity for a contract price adjustment; (ii) dispute
involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (iii) claim or equitable adjustment by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(e) There is no agreement or arrangement whether or not in writing to which the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries is a party which, on the execution or as a result of the execution of this
Agreement will or may result in (i) any third party being relieved of any material obligation or
becoming entitled to exercise any right, or (ii) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries being in
material default under any material agreement or arrangement or losing any benefit, right or
license it currently enjoys or (iii) any material liability or obligation of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries being created or increased.
3.18 Interested Party Transactions. Except as set forth in Section 3.18 of
the Disclosure Schedule, no Employee, officer, Shareholder or director of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is Indebted to or has lent money to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries except in
each case for advances made to or sums extended by employees for travel and business expenses in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices and not in excess of $1,000
individually or $25,000 in the aggregate. Except as set forth in Section 3.18 of the
Disclosure Schedule, no officer, director, Shareholder or, to the Knowledge of the Warrantors,
other employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has or has had directly or indirectly, (i)
an interest in any entity which furnished or sold, or furnishes or sells, services, products,
technology or Intellectual Property that the Company or any of its
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Subsidiaries furnishes or sells,
or proposes to furnish or sell, or (ii) any interest in any entity that purchases from or sells or
furnishes to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries any goods or services, or (iii) a beneficial
interest in any Contract to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party except for any
employment or consultancy agreement with the Company; provided, however, that
ownership of no more than one percent (1%) of the outstanding voting stock of a publicly traded
corporation shall not be deemed to be an “interest in any entity” for purposes of this Section
3.18.
3.19 Governmental Authorization. Each consent, license, permit, grant or other
authorization of a Governmental Entity (i) pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
currently operates or holds any interest in any of its properties or (ii) which is required for the
operation of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as currently conducted or
currently contemplated to be conducted or the holding of any such interest (collectively,
“Authorizations”) has been issued or granted to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries,
other than those consents, licenses, permits, grants or authorizations the failure of which to
possess would not result in a Loss greater than $25,000. The Authorizations are in full force
and effect and constitute all Authorizations required to permit the Company to operate or conduct
its business as currently conducted or hold any interest in its properties or assets. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default, and no condition exists that with notice or
lapse of time or both would constitute a default by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any
other Person, under the Authorizations. None of the Authorizations will be terminated or impaired
or become terminable, in whole or in part, as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby.
3.20 Litigation. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any
claim, litigation, arbitration, prosecution or other legal or quasi-legal proceedings or enquiry.
There is no action, suit, claim or proceeding of any nature pending or to the Knowledge of the
Warrantors threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, their properties (tangible or
intangible) or any of their officers or directors nor to the Knowledge of the Warrantors is there
any basis therefor. To the Knowledge of the Warrantors, there is no investigation or other
proceeding pending or threatened against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
assets (tangible or intangible) or any of their officers or directors by or before any Governmental
Entity, supra-national authority or other regulatory authority nor to the Knowledge of the
Warrantors is there any basis therefor. Neither the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of
their officers or directors has received any process, notification or communication (formal or
informal) from any competent authority with respect to any matter or received any indication (from
any source) that any such process, notice or communication might be issued or that any Person might
make or has made a complaint to a competent authority against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries
or any of their officers or directors. No Governmental Entity has at any time in writing
challenged or questioned the legal right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to conduct their
operations as presently or previously conducted or as presently contemplated to be conducted.
3.21 Minute Books. With respect to the minutes of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries, the minutes delivered to counsel for the Purchaser contain, in all material respects,
complete and accurate records of all actions taken, and summaries of all meetings held, by the
Shareholders, and the Company’s Board of Directors (and any committees thereof) since the time of
incorporation of the Company. At the Closing, the minute books of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries will be in the possession of the Company.
3.22 Environmental; Health and Safety. The Company and its Subsidiaries are not in
violation of any applicable statute, law, or regulation relating to the environment or occupational
health and safety, and no material expenditures are or will be required in order to comply with any
such statute, law, or regulation.
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3.23 Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees; Third Party Expenses. Except as set forth in
Section 3.23 of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company has not incurred, nor will incur,
directly or indirectly, any liability for brokerage or finders’ fees or agents’ commissions, fees
related to investment banking or similar advisory services or any similar charges in connection
with the Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby.
3.24 Employee Benefit Plan and Compensation.
(a) Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have
the following respective meanings:
“COBRA” shall mean the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as
amended.
“Company Employee Plan” shall mean any plan, program, policy, contract, agreement or
other binding arrangement providing for compensation, severance, termination pay, deferred
compensation, performance awards, commission, bonus, stock or stock-related awards, fringe benefits
or other employee benefits or remuneration of any kind, whether written, unwritten or otherwise,
funded or unfunded, including, without limitation, each “employee benefit plan,” within the meaning
of Section 3(3) of ERISA and each employment benefit plan applicable to employees in the UK which
is or has been maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by the Company or to
any ERISA Affiliate for the benefit of any Employee, or with respect to which the Company, or any
ERISA Affiliate has or may have any liability or obligation.
“DOL” shall mean the United States Department of Labor.
“Employee” shall mean any current employee, officer, consultant or director of the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate.
“Employee Agreement” shall mean each management, employment, severance, change of
control, consulting, relocation, repatriation, expatriation, loan, visa, work permit or other
agreement, contract, or understanding (including, without limitation, any offer letter or any
agreement providing for compensation or benefits) between the Company or any ERISA Affiliate and
any Employee or with respect to which the Company, or any ERISA Affiliate has or may have any
liability or obligation.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean each Subsidiary of the Company and any other Person or
entity currently or in the past under common control with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code for which the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries has or could have liabilities or obligations, and the regulations issued
thereunder and as set out within sections 258 and 259 of the Companies Xxx 0000.
“International Employee Plan” shall mean each Company Employee Plan or Employee
Agreement that has been adopted or maintained by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, whether
formally or informally, or with respect to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate will or may
have any liability with respect to Employees who perform their services outside the United States.
“IRS” shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.
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“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean any Pension Plan, which is a “multiemployer plan,” as
defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA.
“Pension Plan” shall mean each Company Employee Plan that is an “employee pension
benefit plan,” within the meaning of Section 3(2) of ERISA.
“Stakeholder Scheme” shall mean the Company’s designated stakeholder pension scheme
within the meaning of Part 1 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Xxx 0000.
(b) Schedule. Section 3.24(b) of the Disclosure Schedule contains an accurate
and complete list of each Company Employee Plan and each Employee Agreement. Neither the Company
nor any ERISA Affiliate has made or established or has made any plan or commitment or to the
Knowledge of the Warrantors created any expectation that it will make or establish any new Company
Employee Plan or Employee Agreement or modify any Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement
(except to the extent required by law, or as required by this Agreement), or to adopt or enter into
any Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement. Section 3.24(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule sets forth a table setting forth the name, job title, date of commencement, salary or fee
and other benefits (excluding as to sick pay and holiday) of each Employee as of the date hereof.
To the Knowledge of the Warrantors, no Employee listed on Section 3.24(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule intends to terminate his or her employment or engagement for any reason within the period
of 12 months immediately following Closing (including retirement), other than in accordance with
the employment or consultancy arrangements provided for in this Agreement. There are no
outstanding offers of employment or engagement made to any Person by the Company and each ERISA
Affiliate and there is no one who has accepted an offer of employment or engagement but who has not
yet taken up that offer. Except as set forth on Section 3.24(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule, no Employee is on sick leave, maternity, paternity or parental leave as at the date of
this Agreement which leave has by the date of this Agreement lasted one month or is to the
Knowledge of the Warrantors due to last more than one month from the date of this Agreement.
(c) Documents. The Company and each ERISA Affiliate has provided to the Purchaser (i)
correct and complete copies, which are correct and complete in all material respects of all
documents embodying each Company Employee Plan and each Employee Agreement including, without
limitation, all amendments thereto and all related trust documents, (ii) the most recent annual
actuarial valuations, if any, prepared for each Company Employee Plan, (iii) the three (3) most
recent annual reports (Form Series 5500 and all schedules and financial statements attached
thereto), if any, required under ERISA or the Code in connection with each Company Employee Plan,
(iv) if the Company Employee Plan is funded, the most recent annual and periodic accounting of
Company Employee Plan assets, (v) the most recent summary plan description together with the
summary(ies) of modifications thereto, if any, required under ERISA with respect to each Company
Employee Plan, (vi) all material written agreements and contracts relating to each Company Employee
Plan, including, without limitation, administrative service agreements and group insurance
contracts, (vii) all material communications to any Employee or Employees relating to any Company
Employee Plan and any proposed Company Employee Plan, in each case, relating to any amendments,
terminations, establishments, increases or decreases in benefits, acceleration of payments or
vesting schedules or other events which would result in any liability to the Company, (viii) all
correspondence to or from any governmental agency relating to any Company Employee Plan within the
three most recent plan years, (ix) all written policies pertaining to fiduciary liability insurance
covering the fiduciaries for each Company Employee Plan, (x) all discrimination tests (if any) for
each Company Employee Plan for the three (3) most recent plan years, (xi) all registration
statements, annual reports (Form 11-K and all attachments thereto) and prospectuses prepared in
connection with each Company Employee Plan and (xii) all IRS determination opinion, notifications
and advisory letters issued with respect to each Company Employee Plan and all applications and
correspondence to or from the IRS or the DOL with respect to any such application or letter, (xiii)
all
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confidentiality agreements between the Company and any Employee, (xiv) any staff handbook or
written employment policies relating to the employment of any Employee with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(d) Employee Plan Compliance. The Company and each of its ERISA Affiliates have
performed in all material respects all obligations required to be performed by them under, are not
in material default or violation of, and the Warrantors have no Knowledge of any default or
violation by any other party to any Company Employee Plan, and each Company Employee Plan has been
established and maintained in accordance with its terms in all material respects and in material
compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not
limited to ERISA or the Code. Any Company Employee Plan intended to be qualified under Section
401(a) of the Code and each trust intended to qualify under Section 501(a) of the Code has obtained
a favorable determination letter (or notification, advisory, or opinion letter, as applicable) as
to its qualified status under the Code with respect to all tax law changes prior to the Economic
Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. No “prohibited transaction,” within the meaning
of Section 4975 of the Code or Sections 406 and 407 of ERISA, and not otherwise exempt under
Section 408 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to any Company Employee Plan. There are no
actions, suits or claims pending or to the Knowledge of the Warrantors threatened or reasonably
anticipated (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Company Employee Plan or against
the assets of any Company Employee Plan or relating to any service of an Employee or former
employee as a fiduciary of a Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement. Each Company Employee
Plan in relation to U.S. employees can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the
Closing Date in accordance with its terms, without liability to Purchaser, the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate (other than ordinary administration expenses). There are no audits, inquiries or
proceedings pending or to the Knowledge of the Warrantors or any ERISA Affiliates, threatened by
the IRS, DOL, or any other Governmental Entity with respect to any Company Employee Plan. Neither
the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate is subject to any penalty or tax with respect to any Company
Employee Plan under Section 502(i) of ERISA or Sections 4975 through 4980 of the Code. The Company
and each ERISA Affiliate have in all respects made in a timely manner all contributions and other
payments required by and due under the terms of each Company Employee Plan.
(e) Pension or Welfare Plans. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has ever
maintained, established, sponsored, participated in, or contributed to, any Pension Plan subject to
Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or a “funded welfare plan” subject to Section 419 of
the Code.
(f) Save for the Stakeholder Scheme, there is no scheme, agreement, arrangement or practice
(in each case whether formal or informal) in relation to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate
have incurred, will incur or could incur any liability or responsibility (including, without
limitation, any liability for contributions or expenses or for any shortfall in funding, or any
liability as trustee or responsibility in respect of any discretionary power) for or in relation to
the provision of:
(i) any pension, lump sum, gratuity or other like benefit payable on
retirement, death or withdrawal from service for, in respect of or by reference to any
present or former director, officer, employee of or Person who has at any time agreed to
provide services to the Company or any ERISA Affiliate; or
(ii) any benefits to be given by reason of disability or sickness for, in
respect of or by reference to any Person within paragraph 1.1(a) save for those provided
by an Employee Agreement or Company Employee Plan.
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(g) There are no circumstances which could result in any penalty for failure to comply with
Part 1 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Xxx 0000 or the Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations
2000 becoming payable by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate.
(h) There are no circumstances under which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate have since
December 19, 1996, contributed towards, participated in or had employees who participated in, an
occupational pension scheme to which section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995 has applied or can apply.
(i) Since April 27, 2004 no act or omission has taken place which would or might expose the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate to any liabilities arising under sections 38 to 42 (inclusive) of
the Pensions Xxx 0000 and no circumstances exist which would or might result in the issue of a
financial support direction under sections 43 to 51 (inclusive) of the Pensions Xxx 0000 in respect
of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate.
(j) Since August 30, 1993 no Employee or former employee of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate
has been employed by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate as a result of a transfer of an undertaking
or part of an undertaking to which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
Regulations 1981 or the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 have
applied.
(k) There are no members of the Stakeholder Scheme nor have there ever been any members of it.
(l) Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate are obliged to pay any contributions to the
Stakeholder Scheme.
(m) No Self-Insured Plan. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has ever
maintained, established, sponsored, participated in or contributed to any self-insured plan that
provides benefits to Employees (including, without limitation, any such plan pursuant to which a
stop-loss policy or contract applies).
(n) Collectively Bargained, Multiemployer and Multiple-Employer Plan. At no time has
the Company or any ERISA Affiliate contributed to or been obligated to contribute to any
Multiemployer Plan. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has at any time ever maintained,
established, sponsored, participated in or contributed to any multiple employer plan or to any plan
described in Section 413 of the Code.
(o) No Post-Employment Obligations. No Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement
provides, or reflects or represents any liability to provide, retiree life insurance, retiree
health or other retiree employee welfare benefits to any Person for any reason, except as may be
required by COBRA or other applicable statute, and neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has
ever represented, promised or contracted (whether in oral or written form) to any Employee (either
individually or to Employees as a group) or any other Person that such Employee(s) or other Person
would be provided with retiree life insurance, retiree health or other retiree employee welfare
benefits, except to the extent required by statute.
(p) Effect of Transaction. Except as contemplated by this Agreement, neither the
execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby will (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events) (i) result
in any payment (including severance, golden parachute, bonus or otherwise) becoming due to any
Employee, (ii) result in any forgiveness of Indebtedness, (iii) materially increase any benefits otherwise payable by
the Company
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or any ERISA Affiliate, (iv) result in the acceleration of the
time of payment or vesting of any such benefits except as required under Section 411(d)(3) of the
Code or (v) entitle any director, employee or consultant to give notice of termination or treat
himself as being released from any obligation.
(q) Parachute Payments. There is no agreement, plan, arrangement or other contract to
which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is a party covering any Employee that, considered
individually or considered collectively with any other such agreements, plans, arrangements or
other contracts to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is a party, will, or could reasonably
be expected to, give rise directly or indirectly to the payment of any amount that would be
characterized as a “parachute payment” within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code. There
is no agreement, plan, arrangement or other contract by which the Company or any of its ERISA
Affiliates is bound to compensate any Employee for excise taxes paid pursuant to Section 4999 of
the Code. Section 3.24(q) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all persons who the Company
reasonably believes are “disqualified individuals” (within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code
and the regulations promulgated
thereunder) as determined as of the date hereof. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate
is party to any contract, agreement or arrangement that is a “nonqualified deferred compensation
plan” subject to Section 409A of the Code.
(r) Employment Matters. The Company and each ERISA Affiliate is in compliance in all
material respects with all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations
respecting employment, terms and conditions of employment, employee safety, and wages and hours,
and in each case, with respect to Employees: (i) has withheld and reported all amounts required by
law or by agreement to be withheld and reported with respect to wages, salaries, fees and other
payments to Employees, (ii) is not liable for any arrears of wages, severance pay or any taxes
(including PAYE) or National Insurance contributions save for such wages, pay, taxes or
contributions which relate to the current payroll period and are not due for payment before the
date of this Agreement or any penalty for failure to comply with any of the foregoing, and (iii) is
not liable for any payment to any trust or other fund governed by or maintained by or on behalf of
any governmental authority, with respect to unemployment compensation benefits, social security or
other benefits or obligations for Employees (other than routine payments to be made in the normal
course of business and consistent with past practice), (iv) is not to the Knowledge of the
Warrantors liable for breach of any contract of service or for services, for redundancy payments,
protective awards or for compensation for wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, for any claim in
respect of an accident or injury or failure to comply with any order for the reinstatement or
re-engagement of any Employee or former employee. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate is
bound to pay after the date of this Agreement any compensation or any other payment to any former
employee, director or consultant. No gratuitous payments have been made within the period of 12
months ending on the date of this Agreement or promised in respect of the actual or proposed
termination, suspension or variation of any Employee Agreement. There are no pending or to the
Knowledge of the Warrantors threatened or reasonably anticipated claims or actions against Company,
any ERISA Affiliate, any Company trustee or any trustee of any Company Employee Plan under any
worker’s compensation policy or long-term disability policy. The services provided by the
Company’s ERISA Affiliates’ Employees who are employed in the United States of America are
terminable at the will of the ERISA Affiliates, as applicable, and any such termination would
result in no liability to the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, except as required by applicable law.
To the Knowledge of the Warrantors, neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has direct or
indirect liability with respect to any misclassification of any Person as an independent contractor
rather than as an employee, or with respect to any employee leased from another employer. To the
Knowledge of the Warrantors, there are no matters which might reasonably be considered grounds for
dismissal of any employee, director or consultant. No grievance or complaint of discrimination has
been raised within the period of 12 months ending on the date of this Agreement by any current or
former employee, director or consultant of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. All Employees
who require a work permit have such a permit in
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force, and such permit will remain in force for at
least three months following Closing. No Person has been employed by the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate in the UK who does not have leave to enter or remain in the UK or otherwise in breach of
section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Xxx 0000.
(s) Labor. No work stoppage or labor strike against the Company or any ERISA
Affiliate is pending or to the Knowledge of the Warrantors threatened or reasonably anticipated.
The Warrantors have no Knowledge of any activities or proceedings of any labor union to organize
any Employees. There are no and have not been in the past two years any actions, suits, claims or
labor disputes pending or to the Knowledge of the Warrantors threatened or reasonably anticipated
relating to any labor matters involving any Employee, including, without limitation, charges of
unfair labor practices or discrimination complaints. Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate
has engaged in any unfair labor practices within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act.
Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate is presently, nor has it been in the past, a party to,
or bound by, any union membership, security of employment, recognition or other collective
bargaining agreement (whether legally binding or
not) or union contract with respect to Employees with a trade union, associate of trade
unions, works council, staff association or other organization and no collective bargaining
agreement is being negotiated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor
its Subsidiaries have received an application for recognition nor have they done any act which to
the Knowledge of the Warrantors may be construed as recognition nor do they have a works council.
Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability or obligation under the
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act or any similar state or local law (“WARN
Act”) that remains unsatisfied.
(t) No Interference or Conflict. No Shareholder or Employee is obligated under any
contract or agreement, subject to any judgment, decree, or order of any court or administrative
agency that would interfere to any material extent with such Person’s duties or obligations to the
Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates or to the Knowledge of the Warrantors would interfere with
the Company’s business. To the Knowledge of the Warrantors neither the execution nor delivery of
this Agreement, nor the carrying on of the Company’s business as presently conducted or proposed to
be conducted nor any activity of the Employees in connection with the carrying on of the Company’s
business as presently conducted or currently proposed to be conducted will conflict with or result
in a breach of the terms, conditions, or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any contract
or agreement under which any of such Employee is now bound.
(u) International Employee Plan. Section 3.24(u) of the Disclosure Schedule
lists each International Employee Plan. Each International Employee Plan has been established,
maintained and administered in all material respects in compliance with its terms and conditions
and with the requirements prescribed by any and all statutory or regulatory laws that are
applicable to such International Employee Plan. No International Employee Plan has unfunded
liabilities, that as of the Closing Date, will not be offset by insurance or fully accrued. Except
as required by law, no condition exists that would prevent the Company or Purchaser from
terminating or amending any International Employee Plan at any time for any reason without
liability to the Company or its ERISA Affiliates (other than ordinary administration expenses or
routine claims for benefits).
(v) Loans. Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has made any loans or
quasi loans to or entered into any credit transaction (as so defined) with any Employees.
(w) Transfer of Undertakings. Within the period of one year preceding the date of
this Agreement neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates have been a party to any
“relevant transfer” (which bears the meaning set out in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of
Employment) Regulations 2006) nor has the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates failed to comply
with any duty to inform and consult any appropriate representatives under these regulations.
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(x) Redundancy. Within the period of one year preceding the date of this Agreement,
neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates have given notice of any redundancies to the
Secretary of State or started consultations with any appropriate representative under the
provisions of Part IV of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Xxx 0000, nor has the
Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates failed to comply with any such consultation obligation
under that statute.
3.25 Insurance. Section 3.25 of the Disclosure Schedule lists all insurance
policies and fidelity bonds covering the assets, business, equipment, properties, operations,
employees, officers and directors of the Company and its Subsidiaries including the type of
coverage, the carrier, the amount of coverage, the term and the annual premiums of such policies.
There is no claim by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pending under any of such policies or
bonds as to which coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed. In
addition, there is no pending claim of which its total value (inclusive of defense expenses)
will exceed the policy limits. All premiums due and payable under all such policies and bonds have
been paid, (or if installment payments are due, will be paid if incurred prior to the Closing Date)
and the Company is otherwise in material compliance with the terms of such policies and bonds (or
other policies and bonds providing substantially similar insurance coverage). Such policies and
bonds (or other policies and bonds providing substantially similar coverage) remain in full force
and effect. Except as set forth in Section 3.25 of the Disclosure Schedule, the Warrantors
have no Knowledge of the threatened termination of, or material increase of any premium with
respect to, any of such policies. Except as set forth in Section 3.25 of the Disclosure
Schedule, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has ever maintained, established,
sponsored, participated in or contributed to any self-insurance plan.
3.26 Compliance with Laws. The Company and its Subsidiaries have complied in all
material respects with, are not in violation of, and have not received any written notices of
violation with respect to, any foreign, federal, state or local statute, law or regulation,
including any applicable licenses and permits for the export of the Company Products, except for
such violations that would not result in penalties or other liabilities exceeding $25,000
individually or $100,000 in the aggregate.
3.27 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Company (including any of its officers,
directors, employees and others acting on behalf of the Company) has not taken any action which
would cause it to be in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any
rules or regulations thereunder.
3.28 Warranties; Indemnities. Except for the warranties and indemnities contained in
those contracts and agreements set forth in Section 3.28 of the Disclosure Schedule and
warranties implied by law, the Company has not given any warranties or indemnities relating to
Company Products or Intellectual Property licensed or sold or services rendered by the Company.
3.29 Customers and Suppliers. Since the Balance Sheet Date, no customer or client of
the Company whose business represents, individually, greater than 5% of the Company’s annual
revenue, or any material supplier or material vendor to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has
cancelled or otherwise terminated, or made any threat to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to
cancel or otherwise terminate, any agreement with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, as the
case may be, or its relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
3.30 Complete Copies of Materials. All documents (including all Material Contracts)
that the Company, the Principal Shareholders or Warrantors have delivered or made
available to the Purchaser or to Purchaser’s counsel are true, correct and complete copies of such
documents.
3.31 Disclosures. None of the representations or warranties made by the Warrantors or
Shareholders in this Agreement, and none of the statements made in any exhibit, schedule or
certificate
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furnished by the Warrantors or Principal Shareholders pursuant to this Agreement contains any untrue statement
of a material fact, or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements
contained herein or therein, in the light of the circumstances under which made, not misleading.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PURCHASER
The Purchaser hereby represents and warrants to each of the Shareholders (in the knowledge
that the Shareholders are entering into this Agreement in reliance on the accuracy of such
representations and warranties) that each of the representations and warranties in this Article
IV is true and accurate as at the date hereof and at the Closing Date, except to the extent
such representations and warranties are specifically made as of a particular date (in which case
such representations and warranties will be true and accurate as of such date).
4.1 Organization of the Purchaser. The Purchaser is a company duly organized, validly
existing, and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation. The
Purchaser has all requisite corporate power and authority to own and operate its properties and
assets and to carry on its business as now being conducted. The Purchaser possesses all licenses,
franchises, rights, and privileges necessary to the conduct of its business. The Purchaser is
presently qualified to do business in each jurisdiction in which the failure to be so qualified
would reasonably be expected to have a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect. The Purchaser is not in
violation of any provision of its respective organizational documents.
4.2 Corporate Power; Authority. The Purchaser has all requisite power and authority
to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements and to perform its
obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery by the Purchaser of this
Agreement and the Transaction Agreement and the consummation by the Purchaser of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate
action on the part of the Purchaser. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and
delivered by the Purchaser and constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser,
enforceable against the Purchaser in accordance with its terms.
4.3 No Conflict. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other
Transaction Agreements by the Purchaser do not, and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby will not, result in any Conflict with (i) any provision of the
organizational documents of the Purchaser or (ii) any judgment, injunction, order, decree, statute,
law, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the Purchaser or any of its properties or assets
(whether tangible or intangible). No consent, waiver, approval, order, or authorization of, or
registration, declaration, or filing with, any Governmental Entity or any third party (so as not to
trigger any Conflict), is required by or with respect to the Purchaser in connection with the
execution and delivery of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby. The foregoing is subject to the potential third party consents described in Section
1.2(c)(viii).
4.4 Issuance of Purchaser Common Stock. The Purchaser Common Stock to be issued pursuant to this Agreement, when issued in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable and will be issued in compliance will all applicable federal and state securities
laws.
4.5 SEC Documents; Purchaser Financial Statements. A true and complete copy of each
quarterly and other report and registration statement filed by the Purchaser with the SEC since
June 27,
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2006 (the “Purchaser SEC Documents”) is available on the website maintained by the
SEC at xxx.xxx.xxx. As of their respective filing dates, (and if amended or superceded by
a filing prior to the date of this Agreement, the date of such filing) the Purchaser SEC Documents
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act,
as the case may be, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to
such Purchaser SEC Documents, and none of the Purchaser SEC Documents contained on their filing
dates any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading, except to the extent corrected by a subsequently filed
Purchaser SEC Document. The financial statements of the Purchaser included in the Purchaser SEC
Documents complied as to form in all material respects with the published rules and regulations of
the SEC with respect thereto, were prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent
basis throughout the periods indicated (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto, except in
the case of pro forma statements, or, in the case of unaudited financial statements, except as
permitted under Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act) and fairly presented the consolidated financial
position of the Purchaser and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the respective dates thereof and
the consolidated results of the Purchaser’s operations and cash flows for the periods indicated
(subject to, in the case of unaudited statements, normal and recurring year-end audit adjustments).
Except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement, since the date of the Purchaser’s most
recently filed Form 10-Q, there has not occurred a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect.
ARTICLE V
CONDUCT PRIOR TO THE CLOSING
5.1 Shareholder Obligations. With respect to any provision in this Agreement that
provides for or requires the Company and its Subsidiaries to take, or to not take, any action, the
Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall take, or shall not
take, such action.
5.2 Conduct of Business by Company. During the period from the date of this Agreement
and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement or the Closing, the Principal
Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall (except to the extent that the Purchaser shall
otherwise consent in writing), carry on the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ business in the usual,
regular and ordinary course in substantially the same manner as heretofore conducted, to pay debts
and Taxes when due (except for Taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings), to
pay or perform other obligations when due (including paying accounts payable when due), and, to the
extent consistent with such business, use all reasonable efforts consistent with past practice and
policies to preserve intact the Company’s present business organization, keep available the
services of present officers and other key Employees (other than as contemplated in this Agreement)
and preserve relationships with customers, suppliers, distributors, licensors, licensees, and
others having business dealings with it, all with the goal of preserving unimpaired the Company’s
and its
Subsidiaries’ goodwill and ongoing businesses at the Closing. The Principal Shareholders
shall procure that the Company shall promptly notify the Purchaser of (i) any event, occurrence or
emergency not in the ordinary course of business of the Company, (ii) any material event involving
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (iii) any event involving the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to result in a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as expressly contemplated by this
Agreement, the Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall
not, without the prior written consent of the Purchaser:
(a) issue, dispose of, deliver, sell, allot, purchase, authorize or designate or pledge or
otherwise encumber, any shares of capital stock, equity, debt securities or other interests of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any securities convertible into shares of capital stock,
equity, debt securities
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or other interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or
subscriptions, rights, warrants or options to acquire any shares of capital stock, equity, debt
securities or other interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than the issuance,
delivery or sale of shares of capital stock, equity or other interests of the Company pursuant to
the exercise of Company Options outstanding as of the date of this Agreement;
(b) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital
stock, equity or other interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or otherwise reduce its
authorized or issued share capital or capitalize, repay or make any other form of distribution of
any amount standing to the credit of any reserve or making any other re-organization of share
capital;
(c) waive any stock repurchase rights, accelerate, amend or change the period of
exercisability or vesting of any Company Options or other rights granted under any Plan or the
vesting of the securities purchased or purchasable under such Company Options or other rights or
the vesting schedule or repurchase rights applicable to any Company Unvested Shares;
(d) except for the elections to be made pursuant to the Option Holder Form of Instruction,
amend or change any other terms of Company Options or Company Unvested Shares or other rights
granted under the Plans;
(e) declare, set aside or pay any dividends on or make any other distributions (whether in
cash, stock, equity securities or property) in respect of any Shares or split, combine or
reclassify any Shares or issue or authorize the issuance of any other securities in respect of, in
lieu of or in substitution for any Shares;
(f) transfer or license to any Person or entity or otherwise extend, amend or modify any
rights to the Company Intellectual Property, or enter into grants to transfer or license to any
Person future rights to the Company Intellectual Property, in each case other than non-exclusive
licenses granted under End User Agreements and non-exclusive distribution, reseller and similar
commercial agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past
practice, or transfer or license from any Person or entity any Intellectual Property other than
under Shrinkwrap Agreements in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
provided, however, that in no event shall the Company (i) license, on an exclusive
basis, or enter into a distribution, reseller or similar arrangement, on an exclusive basis, or
sell or transfer the ownership of, any Company Intellectual Property; or (ii) enter into any
Contract (A) providing for any site licenses, (B) containing pricing or discounting terms or
provisions other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (C)
relating to Company Source Code, (D) limiting the right of the Company to engage in any line of
business or to compete with any Person, or (E) providing for unlimited indemnification.
(g) (i) sell, lease, license, encumber or otherwise dispose of any tangible properties or
tangible assets except sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice, and except for the sale, lease, licensing, encumbering or disposition of property or
assets not in excess of $10,000 individually or $50,000 in the aggregate, provided such property or
assets are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business or prospects of the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (ii) enter into any agreement for the purchase or
sale of any interest in real property, grant any security interest in any real property, enter into
any lease, sublease, license or other occupancy agreement with respect to any real property or
alter, amend, modify, knowingly violate or terminate any of the material terms of any lease
agreements;
(h) (i) enter into or amend any Contract pursuant to which any other party is granted
exclusive rights or “most favored party” rights of any type or scope with respect to any of the
Company Products, Intellectual Property or business, or containing any non-competition covenants or
other material
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restrictions relating to its or the Purchaser’s business activities or the effect of
which would be to grant to a third party following the Closing the actual or potential right to
license any Intellectual Property owned by the Purchaser or its Subsidiaries (other than, with
respect to Subsidiaries, the Company) or (ii) enter into, amend or terminate any other Contract set
forth in Section 3.17 of the Disclosure Schedule or which would have been required to have
been set forth in Section 3.17 of the Disclosure Schedule had such contract been entered
into prior to the date hereof;
(i) make any loan, advance (other than business expense advances to Employees in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice) or capital contribution to, or investment in, any
Person, incur any Indebtedness or Guarantee, enter into any “keep well” or other agreement to
maintain any financial statement condition, forgive or discharge or and the terms of any
outstanding Indebtedness, enter into any hedging agreement or other financial agreement or
arrangement designed to protect the Company or its Subsidiaries against fluctuations in commodities
prices or exchange rates, or enter into any arrangement having the economic effect of any of the
foregoing, in each case, other than in connection with the financing of ordinary course trade
payables consistent with past practice;
(j) grant or pay, or enter into any agreement, arrangement or amendment to an existing
agreement or arrangement providing for the granting of, any severance or termination pay (whether
in cash, stock, equity securities, or property) or the acceleration of vesting or other benefits to
any Employee except pursuant to written agreements, policies or plans outstanding on the date
hereof and set forth in Section 3.24 of the Disclosure Schedule, or adopt any new severance
or termination plan, program or arrangement, or amend or modify or alter in any manner any
severance or termination plan, agreement or arrangement existing on the date hereof (including any
retention, change of control or similar agreement), or grant any equity-based compensation, whether
payable in cash or stock;
(k) adopt, terminate or amend any Company Employee Plan or enter into any Company Employee
Plan, or adopt or amend any compensation, bonus, commission, insurance coverage (except as
contemplated by this Agreement), benefit, entitlement, grant or award provided or made under any
Company Employee Plan; or enter into any collective bargaining agreement; pay any special bonus,
commission or special remuneration to any Employee (cash, equity or otherwise); increase the
salaries, bonuses, commissions or wage rates or fringe benefits (including rights to severance or
indemnification) of its Employees; pay any benefit not provided for as of the date of this
Agreement under any Company Employee Plan; or add any new members to the Company’s Board of
Directors;
(l) (i) hire any officers, consultants, independent contractors or employees or enter into, or
amend or extend the term of, any employment or consulting agreement with any Employee, or (ii)
terminate the employment of any Employee (except for termination for cause), or take any action
that might be reasonably foreseeable to allow any Employee to claim a constructive termination or
termination for “good reason”;
(m) commence or settle any threatened or pending litigation;
(n) enter into, renew or materially modify any Contract relating to the distribution, sale,
license or marketing by third parties of the Company Products, other than (i) renewals of existing
Contracts on a nonexclusive basis or modifications in connection with renewals of existing
Contracts on a nonexclusive basis, or (ii) new nonexclusive Contracts which can be terminated
without penalty upon notice of 60 days or less;
(o) engage in any action with the intent to, directly or indirectly, adversely impact or
materially delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
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(p) materially change the amount of any insurance coverage;
(q) create, extend, grant or issue any mortgage, charge, debenture or other security or permit
any lien to arise on any of its assets other than in the ordinary course of business;
(r) amalgamating or merging with any other company or concern or acquiring shares in any other
company or participating in any joint venture;
(s) cause or permit any amendments to the Articles of Association or other charter or similar
documents of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or passing any resolution in a general meeting;
or
(t) make or change any material election in respect of Taxes, adopt or change any accounting
method in respect of Taxes, settle or compromise any claim or assessment in respect of Taxes, file
any material Return (including any amended Return) or consent to the extension or waiver of the
limitation period applicable to any claim or assessment in respect of Taxes (except for VAT, PAYE
or national insurance (“NIC”) Returns or payment of such VAT, PAYE or NIC Taxes in the ordinary
course of business); or
(u) altering any mandate given to its bankers relating to any matter concerning the operation
of the bank account, delegating any of the powers or duties of the board of directors, appointing
new auditors or removing the existing auditors or granting any pension rights; or
(v) propose, agree to or otherwise take any of the actions described in Section 5.2(a)
through Section 5.2(u), or any action which would reasonably be expected to make any of the
Shareholder’s representations or warranties contained in this Agreement untrue or incorrect such
that the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) would not be satisfied as of the time of
the Closing or as of the time such representation or warranty shall have become untrue or prevent
the Company from performing or cause the Company not to perform one or more covenants required
hereunder to be performed by the Company.
5.3
No Solicitation (a) . Until the earlier of the Closing and the date of termination
of this Agreement pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.1 hereof, no Shareholder shall
and each Shareholder shall procure that the Company shall not (nor will the Company permit any of
its officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives or affiliates), directly or
indirectly, take any of the following actions with any party other than the Purchaser and its
designees: (a) solicit, encourage, seek, entertain, support, assist, initiate or participate in
any inquiry, negotiations or discussions, or enter into any agreement, with respect to any offer or
proposal to acquire all or any part of the Company’s (or any Subsidiary’s) business,
properties or technologies, or any amount of the capital stock of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (whether or not outstanding), whether by merger, purchase of assets, tender offer,
license or otherwise (including any equity or debt transaction), or effect any such transaction,
(b) disclose any information not customarily disclosed to any Person concerning the Company’s (or
any of its Subsidiary’s) business, technologies or properties, or afford to any Person or entity
access to their respective properties, technologies, books or records, not customarily afforded
such access, (c) assist or cooperate with any Person to make any proposal to purchase all or any
part of the capital stock or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (d) enter into
any agreement with any Person providing for the acquisition of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, whether by merger, purchase of assets, license, tender offer or otherwise (including
any equity or debt financing transaction). The Shareholders agree that in the event that any
Shareholder or the Company or any of their affiliates shall receive, prior to the Closing or the
termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 9.1 hereof, any offer, proposal,
or request, directly or indirectly, of the type referenced in clause (a), (c), or (d) above, or any
request for
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disclosure or access as referenced in clause (b) above, each Shareholder shall and
shall procure that the Shareholders, the Company and their affiliates shall immediately (x) suspend
any discussions with such offeror or party with regard to such offers, proposals, or requests and
(y) notify the Purchaser thereof, including information as to the identity of the offeror or the
party making any such offer or proposal and the specific terms of such offer or proposal, as the
case may be, and such other information related thereto as the Purchaser may request. The parties
hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that the provisions of this
Section 5.3 were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise
breached. It is accordingly agreed by the parties hereto that the Purchaser shall be entitled to
an immediate injunction or injunctions, without the necessity of proving the inadequacy of money
damages as a remedy and without the necessity of posting any bond or other security, to prevent
breaches of the provisions of this Section 5.3 and to enforce specifically the terms and
provisions hereof in any court of the United States or any state or country having jurisdiction,
this being in addition to any other remedy to which the Purchaser may be entitled at law or in
equity.
5.4 Access to Information.
(a) The Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall, and shall cause all of
its Subsidiaries to, afford the Purchaser and its accountants, counsel and other representatives,
with reasonable access during normal business hours during the period from the date of this
Agreement and continuing until the earlier to occur of the termination of this Agreement pursuant
to the provisions of Section 9.1 hereof and the Closing to (a) all of the properties,
books, contracts, commitments and records of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including, but not
limited to, all Company Intellectual Property (including source code), (b) all other information
concerning the business, properties and personnel (subject to restrictions imposed by applicable
law) of the Company and its Subsidiaries as the Purchaser may reasonably request, and (c) all key
Employees and such other Employees as reasonably requested by the Purchaser. The Company agrees to
provide to the Purchaser and its accountants, counsel and other representatives copies of internal
financial statements (including Tax Returns and supporting documentation) promptly upon request.
(b) No information or knowledge known to the Purchaser or its representatives (whether prior
to or after the date of this Agreement) and no information or knowledge obtained in any
investigation pursuant to this Section 5.4 (or otherwise) shall affect or be deemed to
modify any representation or warranty contained herein or the conditions to the obligations of the
parties to consummate the Acquisition in accordance with the provisions hereof.
5.5 Commercially Reasonable Efforts; Governmental Approvals.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Purchaser and the
Principal Shareholders shall, and the Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall,
use commercially reasonable efforts to take promptly, or cause to be taken promptly, all actions,
and to do promptly, or cause to be done promptly, all things reasonably necessary, proper or
advisable under applicable laws and regulations to satisfy the conditions to the other parties
obligations to consummate the Acquisition set forth in Article VII hereof and to remove any
injunctions or other impediments or delays, legal or otherwise, in order to consummate and make
effective the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each Shareholder will use its
commercially reasonable efforts to cause the other Shareholders to fulfill such other Shareholder’s
obligations under this Agreement.
(b) The Purchaser and the Principal Shareholders shall, and the Principal Shareholders shall
procure that the Company shall, promptly execute and file, or join in the execution and filing of,
any application, notification or other document that may be necessary in order to obtain the
authorization, approval or consent of any Governmental Entity, whether federal, state, local or
foreign,
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which may be reasonably required, or which either party may reasonably request, in
connection with the consummation of the Acquisition and the other transactions contemplated hereby.
The Purchaser and the Principal Shareholders shall, and the Principal Shareholders shall procure
that the Company shall, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations,
approvals and consents. Each of the Principal Shareholders and the Purchaser shall promptly inform
the other of any material communication between the Company or any Principal Shareholder or the
Purchaser, as applicable, and any Governmental Entity regarding the Acquisition or any other
transactions contemplated hereby. If the Company or any Principal Shareholder or the Purchaser or
any affiliate thereof shall receive any formal or informal request for supplemental information or
documentary material from any Governmental Entity with respect to the Acquisition or any other
transactions contemplated hereby, then the Company or such Principal Shareholder or the Purchaser
(as applicable) shall make, or cause to be made, as soon as reasonably practicable, a response in
compliance with such request. Each of the Principal Shareholders and the Purchaser shall direct,
in its sole discretion, the making of such response, but shall consider in good faith the views of
the other. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement,
the Purchaser shall not be required to agree to any divestiture by the Purchaser or the Company or
any of the Purchaser’s or the Company’s Subsidiaries or affiliates, of shares of capital stock or
of any business, assets or property of the Purchaser or the Company or any of the Purchaser’s or
the Company’s Subsidiaries or affiliates or the imposition of any material limitation on the
ability of any of them to conduct their businesses or to own or exercise control of such assets,
properties and stock and the Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company and its
Subsidiaries shall not agree to take such actions without the consent of the Purchaser.
5.6 Consents and Notices.
(a) The Principal Shareholders shall use reasonable commercial efforts to procure that the
Company shall, prior to the Closing, obtain all necessary consents, waivers and approvals of any
parties to any Contract as are required thereunder in connection with the Acquisition or for any
such Contracts to remain in full force and effect, so as to preserve all rights of, and benefits
to, the Company under such Contract from and after the Closing. Such consents, waivers and
approvals shall be in a form reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser.
(b) As soon as practicable following the date hereof, the Principal Shareholders shall use
reasonable commercial efforts to procure that the Company shall deliver any notices required under
any of its or its Subsidiaries’ respective Contracts that are required to be provided in connection
with the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Such notices shall be in a
form reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser.
5.7 Financial Statements; Company Debt.
(a) The Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall prepare and deliver to the
Purchaser the Company’s unaudited consolidated balance sheet (the “Closing Balance Sheet”)
dated as of not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date (the “Closing
Balance Sheet Date”), and the related unaudited consolidated statement of income, cash flow and
shareholders’ equity for the period beginning on January 1, 2007 and ending on the Closing Balance
Sheet Date (the “Closing Date Financials” and together with the Year-End Financials, the
“Closing Unaudited Financials”). The Principal Shareholders agree that when delivered, the
Closing Unaudited Financials: (i) will have been prepared in accordance with UK GAAP (except that
unaudited financial statements may not have notes thereto and other presentation items that may be
required by UK GAAP and are subject to normal and recurring year-end adjustments that are not
reasonably expected to be material in amount) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods
indicated and (ii) will fairly present in all
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material respects the financial condition and
operating results of the Company as of the dates and for the periods indicated therein.
(b) At least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Principal Shareholders
shall procure that the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser a statement, based on the Closing
Balance Sheet and certified as to its accuracy by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief
Financial Officer of the Company, setting forth the amount of Company Debt estimated to be
outstanding at the time of the Closing (the “Statement of Company Debt”). The Statement of
Company Debt shall be in a form and reflect such amounts as Purchaser shall reasonably approve.
5.8 Expenses. All fees, costs, and expenses incurred in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, all legal, accounting,
financial advisory, consulting, and other fees and expenses of third parties incurred in connection
with the negotiation and effectuation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other
Transaction Agreements (collectively, “Expenses”) shall be the obligation of the party
incurring such fees and expenses. The Principal Shareholders will not cause or permit the Company
to incur or pay any Expenses in connection with the Acquisition or this Agreement. At least three
(3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver to the Purchaser a
statement, certified as to its accuracy by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial
Officer of the Company, setting forth all Shareholder Expenses (the “Statement of
Expenses”).
5.9 Closing Consideration Spreadsheet. At least three (3) Business Days prior to the
Closing Date, the Principal Shareholders shall procure that the Company shall have delivered to the
Purchaser a spreadsheet (the “Spreadsheet”) substantially in the form set forth in
Section 3.3(g) of the Disclosure Schedule which spreadsheet shall be true, complete and
correct as of the Closing and in each case prepared in accordance with the Required Consideration
Allocation and shall include, among other things, as of the Closing (i) all of the Shareholders and
their respective addresses, (ii) the number and class of Shares held by each Shareholder (including
the respective certificate numbers, and in the case of each series of Company preferred stock, the
conversion rate for the conversion of such Shares into ordinary shares and the liquidation
preference for such Shares), (iii) whether such shares constitute Company Unvested Shares
(including, for each certificate, the number of shares that are vested as of the Closing and the
vesting schedule with respect to Company Unvested Shares), (iv) the calculation of the amount of
the Closing Payment Amount, the
Additional Payment Amount and the Final Earnout Amount that is payable in respect of a single
share of each class and series of Shares, (v) for each Shareholder, the portion (in U.S. dollars)
of the Closing Payment Amount, the Additional Payment Amount and the Final Earnout Amount payable
to such Shareholder and (vi) the number of options exercised between the execution of this
Agreement and the Closing. Following the delivery of the Determination Notice, if any portion of
the Purchase Price shall consist of Purchaser Common Stock, the Shareholder Representative shall
promptly deliver to the Purchaser an updated Spreadsheet (in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to Purchaser) indicating the exact allocation of the aggregate amount of cash and shares
of Purchaser Common Stock constituting the Additional Payment Amount among the Shareholders in
accordance with the Required Consideration Allocation.. Following the Earnout Determination Date,
if less than the full potential earnout will be payable to the Shareholders, the Shareholder
Representative shall promptly deliver to the Purchaser an updated Spreadsheet (in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to Purchaser) indicating the exact allocation of the Final Earnout
Amount among the Shareholders in accordance with the Required Consideration Allocation..
5.10 Employment Arrangements
(a) Prior to the Closing, the Principal Shareholders shall use their commercially reasonable
efforts to procure that the employees of the Company set forth on Schedule 5.10(a) (the
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“Designated Employees”), shall (i) enter into an employment agreement (each, an
“Employment Agreement” and collectively, the “Employment Agreements”) with the
Purchaser substantially in the form delivered by the Purchaser to such Designated Employees prior
to the date of this Agreement (which will provide, among other things, that such Designated
Employee shall (i) be subject to and in compliance with the Purchaser’s applicable human resources
policies and procedures, (ii) execute the Purchaser’s standard form proprietary information and
inventions assignment agreement and (iii) supersede any prior employment agreements and other
arrangements with such Designated Employee). The Principal Shareholders shall procure that the
Company shall work with the Purchaser in good faith to identify and provide the Purchaser
reasonable access after the date of this Agreement to employees of the Company for the purpose of
the Purchaser and such employees (in addition to the Designated Employees) at the sole discretion
of the Purchaser, entering into employment agreements with the Purchaser. The parties hereto agree
that the Purchaser shall have no liability for any Employees in the event the Acquisition is not
consummated. Designated Employees employed in the United States shall be eligible to receive
benefits consistent with the Purchaser’s applicable human resources policies.
(b) Prior to the Closing, the Company shall be permitted to grant bonuses to the individuals
and in the amounts set forth on Schedule 5.10(b) (to the extent not already granted prior
to the date of this Agreement); provided, however, that prior to granting such
bonuses, the Company shall enter into a release agreement with such employees in a form reasonably
acceptable to the Purchaser. The U.S. dollar equivalent (using the Currency Conversion Ratio at
the time of the Closing) of the bonuses listed on Schedule 5.10(b), as well as any other or
additional bonuses or amounts in respect of such bonuses to be paid by the Company in connection
with the Acquisition, are referred to herein as the “Employee Bonus Amount”.
5.11
Commission Statements (a) . Following the date of this Agreement, the Principal
Shareholders shall procure that the Company will not issue any commission statements to any of its
Employees for the year 2007 without the prior written consent of the Purchaser; provided,
however, the Shareholders shall cause the Company to issue any commission statements with
the Company’s Employees for the year 2007 as requested by the Purchaser.
ARTICLE VI
ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
6.1 Covenants Not to Compete or Solicit.
(a) Each of the Shareholders (other than the Principal Shareholders, but specifically
including Xxxx Xxxxxxxx) agree that beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the second
(2nd) anniversary of the date of this Agreement (the “Non-Compete Period”), such
Shareholder shall not, other than on behalf of the Purchaser or the Company, directly or
indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Purchaser and the Company, engage anywhere in
the Geographic Area in (whether as an employee, agent, consultant, advisor, independent contractor,
proprietor, partner, officer, director or otherwise on their own account or by or in association
with or for the benefit of any other Person), have any ownership interest in (except for passive
ownership of one percent (1%) or less of any entity whose securities have been registered under the
Securities Act of 1933 or Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), or participate in the
financing, operation, management or control of, any firm, partnership, corporation, entity or
business that is engaged or participates in any activity or business which is directly competitive
with the business of the Company (the “Restricted Business”).
(b) Each Shareholder (other than Xxxxxx Ltd.) agrees that during the Non-Compete Period, such
Shareholder shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the
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Purchaser
and the Company, induce or attempt to induce any of the Company’s respective customers, suppliers,
distributors or contractors with whom the Company has transacted the Restricted Business in the
Geographic Area in the twelve (12) months prior to Closing, to terminate, reduce or otherwise
change its relationship with the Company in order to enter into any relationship with such
Shareholder in relation to the Restricted Business in the Geographic Area or with any other Person
that engages or participates (or plans to engage or participate) in the Restricted Business in the
Geographic Area. This Section 6.1 shall in no event be deemed to restrict the activities
of a current or future portfolio company of a Shareholder that is a venture capital fund.
(c) During the Non-Compete Period, each Shareholder agrees that such Shareholder shall not,
directly or indirectly, solicit or entice away from the Company, or assist any other Person in
employing or otherwise retaining the services of anyone who is an Employee (other than Employees
engaged in a junior administrative or secretarial capacity of the Company on the date of this
Agreement).
(d) The term “Geographic Area” shall mean any location in the world where Purchaser or
the Company has material offices, employees or customers.
(e) The covenants contained in the preceding paragraphs shall be construed as a series of
separate covenants, one for each county, city, state, or any similar subdivision in any Geographic
Area. Except for geographic coverage, each such separate covenant shall be deemed identical in
terms to the covenant contained in the preceding paragraphs. If, in any judicial proceeding, a
court refuses to enforce any of such separate covenants (or any part thereof), then such
unenforceable covenant (or such part) shall be eliminated from this Agreement to the extent
necessary to permit the remaining separate covenants (or portions thereof) to be enforced. In the
event that the provisions of this Section 6.1 are deemed to exceed the time, geographic or
scope limitations permitted by applicable law, then such provisions shall be reformed to the
maximum time, geographic or scope limitations, as the case may be, permitted by applicable laws.
(f) Each Shareholder acknowledges and agrees that the nature of the businesses of the
Purchaser and the Company are such that if such Shareholder were to become employed by, or
substantially involved in, the business of a competitor of the Purchaser or the Company soon
after the termination of such Shareholder’s employment with the Purchaser or the Company, as the
case may be, it would be very difficult for such Shareholder not to rely on or use the Purchaser’s
or the Company’s trade secrets and confidential information. Each Shareholder subject to
Section 6.1(a) has agreed to enter into this Agreement to, among other things, avoid the
likely disclosure of the Purchaser’s and the Company’s trade secrets and confidential information.
(g) Each Shareholder acknowledges that (i) the goodwill associated with the management or
other important position such Shareholder may presently have with the Company, as the case may be,
as well as Shareholder’s equity ownership interest in the Company prior to the Acquisition is an
integral component of the value of the Acquisition to Purchaser and is reflected in the
consideration to be received by such Shareholder in the Acquisition and as an employee of the
Company, and (ii) such Shareholder’s covenants as set forth herein are necessary to preserve the
value of the Acquisition for the Purchaser following the Acquisition.
(h) Each Shareholder also acknowledges and agrees that the limitations of time, geography, and
scope of activity agreed to in this Agreement by such Shareholder are reasonable because, among
other things, (i) Purchaser and the Company are engaged in highly competitive industries, and (ii)
Shareholder will have access to the trade secrets, proprietary and confidential information of
Purchaser and the Company following the Acquisition.
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(i) Each Shareholder acknowledges and agrees that it would be impossible or inadequate to
measure and calculate the Purchaser’s and the Company’s damages from any breach of the covenants
set forth in this Section 6.1. Accordingly, such Shareholder agrees that in the event that
such Shareholder breaches any provision of this Section 6.1, Purchaser and the Company
shall be entitled, in addition to any other right or remedy otherwise available, to the right to
obtain an injunction from a court of competent jurisdiction restraining such breach or threatened
breach and to specific performance of any such provision of this Agreement. Such Shareholder
further agrees that no bond or other security shall be required in obtaining such equitable relief,
nor will proof of actual damages be required for such equitable relief. Such Shareholder hereby
expressly consents to the issuance of such injunction and to the ordering of such specific
performance.
6.2 Tax Matters; Employee Matters.
(a) Transfer Taxes. The Purchaser shall pay and be responsible for the payment of any
transfer, sales, use, stamp (including stamp duty, stamp duty reserve or stamp duty land tax),
conveyance, recording, registration, documentary or filing taxes and related administrative fees
(including, without limitation, notary fees) arising on or as a result of this Agreement.
(b) Section 338(g) Election. On or prior to the ninetieth (90th) day following the
Closing Date, the Purchaser and Jerusalem Venture Partners IV LP (“JVP”) shall cooperate in good
faith to determine whether the Company is or has been during the five (5) years prior to the
Closing a “controlled foreign corporation” for purposes of the Code. In the event that the
Purchaser and JVP are unable to agree as to whether the Company is or has been a controlled foreign
corporation, the determination shall be made by a nationally recognized independent public
accounting firm, the cost of which shall be mutually shared by the parties, and such determination
shall be final and binding on the Purchaser and JVP. If the Company is determined not to be a
controlled foreign corporation, the Purchaser shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to make
an election under Section 338(g) of the Code with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary. If the
Company is determined to be a controlled foreign
corporation, the Purchaser shall have the right to make an election under Section 338(g) of
the Code with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary but only with the consent of JVP, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
6.3 Non-Assignment; Further Assurances.
(a) Each Shareholder agrees that (i) the right to receive any portion of the Additional
Payment Amount and/or the Earnout Amount, may be assigned or otherwise transferred by the
Shareholders; provided that (i) such transfer or assignment is effected in accordance with the
applicable terms of this Agreement, the Transaction Agreements and applicable securities laws, (ii)
the Company is given written notice prior to said transfer or assignment, stating the name and
address of the transferee or assignee and identifying the rights that are intended to be
transferred or assigned, (iii) the transferee or assignee of such rights assumes in writing the
obligations of such Shareholder under this Agreement and the applicable Transaction Agreements and
(iv) if a Shareholder transfers or assigns a portion of the Additional Payment Amount to a third
party, it must also transfer or assign its portion of the Earnout Amount to such third party and
(ii) the potential right to receive any Purchaser Common Stock does not (and will not) give any
Shareholder any dividend rights, voting rights or other rights of the holders of Purchaser Common
Stock until any shares of Purchaser Common Stock have been issued to such Shareholder. Any
attempted sale or transfer of the right to receive any portion of the Additional Payment Amount or
the Earnout Amount in contravention of this Agreement shall be null and void.
(b) Each of the Shareholders hereby agrees, at their own cost, to execute and deliver or
procure to be done and executed and delivered such other instruments, deed and documents and to do
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all such further acts and things as may be necessary or desirable for effecting completely the
transfer of the legal and beneficial ownership of the Shares to the Purchaser free from all Liens
and at nil consideration.
6.4 Shareholder Release. Effective as of the Closing, each Shareholder does for
himself and his/her or its respective affiliates, partners, heirs, beneficiaries, successors and
assigns, if any, release and absolutely forever discharge the Company and each of its officers,
directors, Shareholders, affiliates, employees and agents (each, a “Released Party”) from
and against all Released Matters. It is the intention of the Shareholders in executing the release
contained in this Section 6.4, and in giving and receiving the consideration called for
herein, that this release shall be effective as a full and final accord and satisfaction and
general release of and from all Released Matters. Notwithstanding anything herein or otherwise to
the contrary, the release contained in this Section 6.4 will not be effective so as to
benefit a particular Released Party in connection with any matter or event that would otherwise
constitute a Released Matter, but involved fraud, willful misconduct or willful misrepresentation,
or the breach of any applicable law on the part of such Released Party. Each Shareholder hereby
severally represents to the Purchaser that such Shareholder has not voluntarily or involuntarily
assigned or transferred or purported to assign or transfer to any Person any Released Matters and
that no Person other than such Shareholder has any interest in any released matter by law or
contract by virtue of any action or inaction by such Shareholder. The invalidity or
unenforceability of any part of this Section 6.4 shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of the remainder of this Section 6.4, which shall remain in full force and
effect.
6.5 Earnout.
(a) Determination of Earnout. No later than ten (10) Business Days following the
issuance of the opinion relating to the Purchaser’s audited financials for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2007 by the Purchaser’s independent auditors (the “Audit Firm”), the Purchaser
shall deliver to the
Shareholder Representative a written statement (the “Earnout Statement”) setting forth
(x) the computation of the 2007 Recognized Revenue and the Purchaser’s calculation of the Earnout
Amount, and (y) a summary of all material financial information used in making such computation.
In the event that the Shareholder Representative disputes the Purchaser’s determination of the 2007
Recognized Revenue or the Purchaser’s calculation of the Earnout Amount, the Shareholder
Representative shall notify the Purchaser in writing by 5:00 PM United States Mountain Time on the
fifteenth (15) day following the receipt of the Earnout Statement of such dispute (such date,
calculated without including the date of receipt of the Earnout Notice, the “Earnout Dispute
Deadline” and such notice, the “Earnout Dispute Notice”), which Earnout Dispute Notice
shall provide a reasonably detailed description of such dispute and the Shareholder
Representative’s calculation of 2007 Recognized Revenue and the Earnout Amount. The Parties agree
that any dispute regarding the Earnout Statement shall be resolved exclusively in the manner and
pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 6.5(e). If the Shareholder Representative
does not deliver an Earnout Dispute Notice on or before the Earnout Dispute Deadline, then the
Earnout Amount set forth in the Earnout Statement shall be deemed conclusive, final and binding on
the parties hereto and none of the Shareholders or the Shareholder Representative will be permitted
to dispute such amount.
(b) Conditions to Payment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
(i) the Shareholders shall have no right to receive any portion of the Earnout Amount unless the
2007 Recognized Revenue exceeds $6,370,000 (the “Earnout Floor”); and (ii) if the Earnout
Floor has not been achieved by December 31, 2007, then the Final Earnout Amount shall be zero, and
the Purchaser shall permanently retain, and the Shareholders shall permanently forfeit any and all
rights to, the Earnout Amount, other than in regards to any breach of this Section 6.5.
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(c) Operation of the Company; Purchaser’s Obligations With Respect to Earnouts. The
Shareholders agree and acknowledge that the Purchaser shall have the power and right to control all
aspects of the Purchaser’s, the Company’s and their subsidiaries’ business and operations
(including decisions regarding the features, functions and characteristics of its products and
services, the technology on which its products and services, and associated software, are based,
whether and when to launch its products and services, and how to price, market and distribute its
products and services), and nothing in this Agreement shall require the Purchaser or the Company to
take any action that would be, or shall otherwise be interpreted in a manner that is, inconsistent
with such right and power, including actions or omissions that may have an impact on 2007
Recognized Revenue, and the Shareholders will have no right to claim any lost Final Earnout Amount
as a result of such decisions so long as the actions or omissions were not taken by the Purchaser
for the principal purpose of decreasing the 2007 Recognized Revenue. The Purchaser agrees that
following the Closing until December 30, 2007, the Purchaser’s sales personnel will use
commercially reasonable efforts to sell the Company’s Products and Services; provided,
however, that neither this commitment nor any other provision of this Agreement is intended
to restrict the exercise by the Purchaser’s or the Company’s Board of Directors of its good faith
business judgment and fiduciary duties under applicable law; provided, however,
that the Purchaser or the Company shall not intentionally take any action or omit to take any
action for the principal purpose of decreasing 2007 Recognized Revenue.
(d) Tax Treatment. The Earnout Amount payable pursuant to this Section 6.5,
if any, are intended to be treated for all Tax purposes as additional consideration for the
purchase of the Shares by the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement (subject to any requirement to
treat a portion as imputed interest), except to the extent reasonably determined by the Purchaser
in the event of a dispute with, or contrary guidance or instruction is issued by, a taxing
authority.
(e) Resolution of Disputes. If the Shareholder Representative timely delivers an
Earnout Dispute Notice to the Purchaser and the Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative are
unable
to mutually agree on the Earnout Amount within ten (10) Business Days following receipt by the
Purchaser of the Earnout Dispute Notice (calculated without including the date of receipt), the
Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative shall mutually agree on a nationally-recognized
independent public accounting firm in the United States (the “Independent Accountant”) to
review the Earnout Statement and the Earnout Dispute Notice (and all related information and
documentation provided by the parties to the Independent Accountant), which review shall include a
determination of the 2007 Recognized Revenue and the Earnout Amount in accordance with the
definition of Earnout Amount set forth herein (the Earnout Amount, as determined by the Independent
Accountant, the “Accountant’s Earnout Amount”). Any meetings of the parties required in
connection with the resolution of any such dispute shall take place in New York City, New York,
unless the Shareholder Representative and the Purchaser agree otherwise. The Independent
Accountant’s determination shall be final and binding on all parties absent manifest error in the
application of this Section 6.5. For purposes hereof, the “Final Earnout Amount”
shall equal (i) the Earnout Amount set forth in the Earnout Statement, if the Shareholder
Representative does not timely deliver a Earnout Dispute Notice prior to the Earnout Dispute
Deadline, (ii) the Earnout Amount as mutually agreed upon by the Purchaser and the Shareholder
Representative following the timely delivery of a Earnout Dispute Notice in accordance with the
provisions hereof or (iii) the Accountant’s Earnout Amount, if the Independent Accountant is
engaged and delivers a calculation of Accountant’s Earnout Amount in accordance with the provisions
hereof. The costs of the Independent Accountant shall be borne as follows: 50% shall be borne by
the Purchaser and 50% shall be proportionately borne by the Shareholders and may be paid with the
Purchaser’s consent from the Escrow Fund.
(f) No Other Representations, Warranties or Commitments. The Company and each
Shareholder expressly acknowledge and agree that this Section 6.5 contains the entire
agreement with respect to the Purchaser’s obligations in connection with the achievement of the
earnouts described
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herein, and that notwithstanding anything else (including any prior or
contemporaneous discussions) to the contrary, for purposes of this Agreement, the Purchaser makes
no, and none of the Company or any Shareholder is relying on any, representations, warranties or
covenants with respect to support provided to achieve, or the feasibility of achieving, the payment
of any portion of the Earnout Amount.
6.6 Notification of Certain Matters. Each of the Purchaser, on the one hand, and each
of the Principal Shareholders, on the other hand, shall give prompt notice to the other party
hereto of: (a) the occurrence or non occurrence of any event, the known occurrence or non
occurrence of which is likely to cause any representation or warranty of any party contained in
this Agreement to be untrue or inaccurate in any material respect at or prior to the Closing, and
(b) any failure of such party to comply with or satisfy, in any material respect, any covenant,
condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it hereunder; provided,
however, that the delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section 6.6 shall not (i)
limit or otherwise affect any remedies available to the party receiving such notice or (ii)
constitute an acknowledgment or admission of a breach of this Agreement. No disclosure pursuant to
this Section 6.6, however, shall be deemed to amend or supplement the Disclosure Schedule
or prevent or cure any misrepresentations, breach of warranty or breach of covenant.
6.7 Termination of Shareholder Agreements. The Shareholders agree that, effective at
the time of the Closing, the Shareholder Agreement by and among the Company and certain
Shareholders dated April 13, 2006 as well as any similar agreement entered into by and among the
Company and any the Shareholders pertaining to the rights of the Shareholders with respect to their
Shares, shall terminate in their entirety and thereafter shall be of no further force and effect.
6.8 Registration of Replacement Options and U.S. Options. The Purchaser shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file (no later than thirty (30) days following
Closing), with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-8, or such other successor form
promulgated by the SEC, covering the shares of Purchaser Common Stock issuable upon exercise of
options to purchase Purchaser Common Stock resulting from the grant of the Replacement Options and
the assumption of U.S. Options in accordance with Section 1.5 hereof but only to the extent
that such shares of Purchaser Common Stock are eligible to be registered on such Registration
Statement on Form S-8.
ARTICLE VII
CONDITIONS TO THE CLOSING OF THE ACQUISITION
7.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Acquisition. The respective
obligations of each party to this Agreement to effect the Acquisition shall be subject to the
satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of the following conditions:
(a) No Order. No Governmental Entity shall have enacted, issued, promulgated,
enforced or entered any statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, injunction or other
order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) which is in effect and which has the effect of
making the Acquisition illegal or otherwise prohibiting consummation of the Acquisition.
(b) No Injunctions or Restraints; Illegality. No temporary restraining order,
preliminary or permanent injunction or other order issued by any court of competent jurisdiction or
other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the Acquisition shall be in
effect, nor shall any proceeding brought by an administrative agency or commission or other
governmental authority or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, seeking any of the foregoing be
threatened or pending.
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7.2 Additional Conditions to Obligations of the Shareholders. The obligations of the
Shareholders to consummate the Acquisition and the other transactions contemplated hereby shall be
subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of each of the following conditions, any of
which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by the Shareholder Representative:
(a) Representations and Warranties; Covenants. The representations and warranties of
the Purchaser in this Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements shall have been true and
correct on and as of the date of this Agreement and shall be true and correct on and as of the
Closing with the same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date except (a) in each case, or
in the aggregate, where the failure to be true and correct would not reasonably be expected to have
a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect, or (b) for those representations and warranties that are made
as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all material respects only as of such
date, it being understood that, for purposes of determining the accuracy of such representations
and warranties, all “Purchaser Material Adverse Effect” qualifications and other qualifications
based on the word “material” contained in such representations and warranties shall be disregarded.
(b) Covenants. The Purchaser shall have performed and complied in all material
respects with all covenants and obligations of this Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements
required to be performed and complied with by it as of the Closing Date.
7.3 Additional Conditions to the Obligations of Purchaser. The obligations of the
Purchaser to consummate the Acquisition and the other transactions contemplated hereby shall be
subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Closing of each of the following conditions, any of
which may be waived, in writing, exclusively by the Purchaser:
(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the
Shareholders and the Warrantors in this Agreement (other than those set forth in Section
2.1 (Title), Section 2.3 (Authority), Section 3.3(a), 3.3(b) and
3.3(c) (Capitalization), Section 3.5(a) (Authority) and Section 3.13 (Tax
Matters) of this Agreement and in Sections 4(a) and 4(c) in each Joinder Agreement)
shall have been true and correct on and as of the date of this Agreement and shall be true and
correct on and as of the Closing with the same force and effect as if made on the Closing Date
except (a) in each case, or in the aggregate, where the failure to be true and correct would not
reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, or (b) for those representations
and warranties that are made as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all
material respects only as of such date, it being understood that, for purposes of determining the
accuracy of such representations and warranties, (i) all “Company Material Adverse Effect”
qualifications and other qualifications based on the word “material” contained in such
representations and warranties shall be disregarded and (ii) any update of or modification to the
Disclosure Schedule made or purported to have been made after the date of this Agreement shall be
disregarded. The representations and warranties of the Shareholders and the Warrantors contained
in Section 2.1 (Title), Section 2.3 (Authority), Section 3.3(a),
3.3(b) and 3.3(c) (Capitalization), Section 3.5(a) (Authority) and
Section 3.13 (Tax Matters) of this Agreement and in Sections 4(a) and 4(c)
in each Joinder Agreement shall be true and correct in all respects on and as of the date of this
Agreement and on and as of the Closing Date with the same force and effect as if made on the
Closing Date.
(b) Covenants. The Shareholders shall have performed and complied in all material
respects with all covenants and obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction
Agreements required to be performed and complied with by it as of the Closing Date.
(c) Governmental Approvals. Consents and approvals set forth on Section
7.3(c) of the Disclosure Schedule from any court, administrative agency, commission, or other
federal, state,
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county, local or other foreign governmental authority, instrumentality, agency,
commission or similar entity or authorization (if any).
(d) Third Party Consents. The Purchaser shall have received a consent or waiver with
respect to each Contract set forth in Section 7.3(d) of the Disclosure Schedule, which
consents shall be in a form reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser.
(e) Repayment of Company Debt; Release of Liens. The Purchaser shall have received a
pay-off letter in respect of all Company Debt and lien release documents relating thereto, in each
case reasonably satisfactory to the Purchaser, which will become effective upon payment of the
amounts specified in the pay-off letter.
(f) Legal Opinion. The Purchaser shall have receive a legal opinion from Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxx LLP substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit G.
(g) Resignation of Officers and Directors. The Purchaser shall have received a
written resignation from each of the directors and the secretary of the Company from their position
as director or secretary, effective as of the Closing.
(h) Employment Agreements. Each Designated Employee (i) shall have entered into (and
not rescinded) the Employment Agreement applicable to such Designated Employee as well as
Purchaser’s standard form of proprietary information and inventions assignment agreement, each of
which shall be in full force and effect at the Closing, (ii) shall be employees of the Company
immediately prior to the Closing and (iii) shall not have notified (whether formally or informally)
the Purchaser or the Company of such Employee’s intention of leaving the employ of the Purchaser or
the Company following the Closing.
(i) Financial Statements. The Purchaser shall have received the Closing Balance
Sheet, the Closing Unaudited Financials, the Statement of Company Debt and the Statement of
Expenses.
(j) HM Revenue & Customs. At or prior to the Closing, the Purchaser shall have
received a letter from HM Revenue & Customs approving the Option Exchange Ratio (the “HM
Revenue & Customs Approval Condition”).
(k) Option Holder Elections. Each of the Option Holders holding Unvested Options
shall have signed and delivered to the Purchaser an Option Holder Form of Instruction agreeing to
release their Unvested Options in consideration of the grant of a Replacement Option. Each of the
Option Holders holding Vested Options shall each have signed and delivered an Option Holder Form of
Instruction agreeing to either (i) release their Vested Options in consideration of the grant of a
Replacement Option or (ii) exercise their Vested Options and sell the Shares acquired as a result
of such exercise to the Purchaser on Closing (by signing the Joinder Agreement to be signed on the
Option Holder’s behalf).
(l) Shareholders. Each of the Shareholders (including any Shareholders becoming a
party to this Agreement pursuant to a Joinder Agreement) shall have complied with his/her or its
obligations to transfer its Shares on the Closing and to the extent that at the time of the Closing
any such Shareholder fails to comply with his/her or its obligations to transfer its Shares, the
Purchaser shall not be obliged to complete the purchase of the other Shares but may nevertheless
elect to complete the purchase of the other Shares without prejudice to its rights against the
defaulting Shareholder.
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ARTICLE VIII
SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION
8.1 Survival of Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of
the Shareholders and the Warrantors contained in this Agreement, the other Transaction Agreements,
or in any schedule, exhibit, document, certificate or other instrument delivered pursuant to this
Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements, shall survive the Closing until June 30, 2008;
provided, however, that (i) the representations and warranties set forth in
Section 3.13 (Tax Matters) shall survive until the expiration of the applicable statute of
limitations (including extensions thereof); and (ii) the representations and warranties set forth
in Section 2.1 (Title), Section 2.3 (Authority), Sections 3.3(a),
3.3(b) and 3.3(c) (Capitalization), Section 3.5 (Authority) of this
Agreement and Sections 4(a) and 4(c) (Title and Authority) of each Joinder
Agreement shall survive indefinitely. The representations and warranties of the Purchaser
contained in this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements, or in any schedule, exhibit,
document, certificate or other instrument delivered pursuant to this Agreement or the other
Transaction Agreements, shall survive the Closing but thereafter shall terminate on the date that
the Purchaser pays the Additional Payment Amount. At the time of the Closing, the covenants of the
parties set forth in Article V herein which by their terms do not survive the Closing shall
terminate.
8.2 Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification. The Shareholders hereby agree severally and not jointly,
following the Closing, to indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser, the Company and any of their
officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives and affiliates (each, an
“Indemnified Person” and collectively, the “Indemnified Persons”), from and against
any and all demands, claims, threatened claims, suits, actions, causes of action, proceedings,
assessments, losses, damages, deficiency, awards, amounts paid in settlement, judgments and
penalties, liabilities, interest, taxes, diminution in value, costs and expenses (including
interest, penalties, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, reasonable consultant fees and
expenses and expenses incurred in connection with investigating, defending against or settling any
of the foregoing), fines, judgments, awards (hereinafter individually a “Loss” and
collectively “Losses”) incurred or sustained by the Indemnified Persons, or any of them
arising out of or in connection with:
(i) any breach or inaccuracy of any representation or warranty made by
any Shareholder (including any Principal Shareholder), the Warrantors, the Chief
Executive Officer and/or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company in this Agreement,
the other Transaction Agreements or in any schedule, exhibit, document, certificate or
other instrument delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or the other
Transaction Agreements in each case, as if such representations and warranties were made
on the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date (except in the case of any
representation or warranty that speaks as of an earlier specified date, in which case,
for any breach or inaccuracy of such representation or warranty on such earlier
specified date);
(ii) any breach of or failure to perform any covenant, agreement or
obligation of any Shareholder (including any Principal Shareholder), the Warrantors, the
Shareholder Representative, the Chief Executive Officer and/or the Chief Financial
Officer of the Company in this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements or in any
schedule, exhibit, document, certificate or other instrument delivered in connection
with or pursuant to this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements;
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(iii) any portion of the Shareholder Expenses and/or Company Debt, in any
case, that was not deducted from the Closing Payment Amount or the Additional Closing
Payment Amount;
(iv) without limiting the foregoing, any Taxes of the Company or its
Subsidiary attributable to:
(a) | the payment of employee bonuses in consequence of this Agreement (whether paid before or after Closing) and the exercise of employee stock options on or prior to the Closing, provided that this Section 8.2(a)(iv)(a) shall not apply to any such Taxes which have been withheld or recovered by the Company or the Subsidiary and this Section 8.2(a)(iv)(a) shall not apply to any such Taxes which are included in the Employee Bonus Amounts; | ||
(b) | amounts required to be accounted for under the pay as you earn system by the Company or the Subsidiary and any employee national insurance contributions and any income tax and social security taxes arising in any territory outside the UK: |
(1) | as a result of the sale of the Shares by the Shareholders or any of them pursuant to this Agreement; or | ||
(2) | in respect of any consultancy arrangements entered into by the Company or its Subsidiary with any individuals where such payment was paid or accrued on or prior to Closing; |
provided that this Section 8.2(a)(iv)(b) shall not apply to any such Taxes which have been withheld or recovered by the Company or the Subsidiary; or | |||
(c) | payments made to any employee or consultant of the Company or any Subsidiary arising as a result of or in consequence of this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements provided that this Section 8.2(a)(iv)(c) shall not apply to any such Taxes which have been withheld or recovered by the Company or the Subsidiary; and | ||
together, in each case, with any fine, penalty and interest relating to the same; and |
(v) any fraud, willful misconduct or willful misrepresentation by or on
behalf of the Shareholders or the Company committed in connection with this Agreement or
the other Transaction Agreements.
(b) The Shareholders shall not have any right of contribution, indemnification or right of
advancement from the other Shareholders, the Company or the Purchaser with respect to any Loss
claimed by any Indemnified Person.
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8.3 Limitations; Maximum Payments; Remedies.
(a) Claims Threshold. There shall be no right to indemnification under Section
8.2(a)(i) unless and until the total of all indemnifiable Losses exceeds $150,000.00 in the
aggregate (the “Claims Threshold”), and thereafter the Indemnified Persons shall be
entitled to recover the amount of any indemnifiable Losses including those Losses comprising the
Claims Threshold; provided, however, that the Claims Threshold shall not apply to
any claim made in connection with the breach or inaccuracy of any representations or warranties set
forth in Section 2.1 (Title), Section 2.3 (Authority), Sections 3.3(a),
3.3(b) and 3.3(c) (Capitalization), Section 3.5 (Authority) or Section
3.13 (Tax Matters) of this Agreement, or in Sections 4(a) and 4(c) (Title and
Authority) of each Joinder Agreement or in respect of any fraud, willful misconduct, or willful
misrepresentation by or on behalf of a Shareholder or the Company.
(b) Claims Cap. The monetary obligations of the Shareholders with respect to
indemnification claims by the Indemnified Persons under Section 8.2(a)(i) and Section
8.2(a)(ii) shall be limited to recovery by the Indemnified Persons from the Escrow Fund (the
“Claims Cap”); provided, however, that, subject to Section 8.3(c),
the Claims Cap shall not apply to any claim made in connection with the breach or inaccuracy of any
representations, warranties or covenants (as applicable) set forth in set forth in Section
2.1 (Title), Section 2.3 (Authority), Sections 3.3(a), 3.3(b) and
3.3(c) (Capitalization), Section 3.5 (Authority) or Section 3.13 (Tax Matters)
of this Agreement or in Sections 4(a) and (c) (Title and Authority) of each Joinder
Agreement or in respect of any fraud, willful misconduct, or willful misrepresentation by or on
behalf of a Shareholder or the Company.
(c) Individual Shareholder Cap for Certain Claims. The entire Escrow Fund shall be
available for any or all indemnification claims pursuant to Section 8.2 except that, with
respect to the breach by any Shareholder of such Shareholder’s representations and warranties set
forth in Section 2.1 (Title) or Section 2.3 (Authority) of this Agreement or
Sections 4(a) and 4.1(c) (Title and Authority) of the Joinder Agreement, as
applicable, the Indemnified Persons’ recovery from the Escrow Fund shall be limited to an amount
equal to the Proportionate Escrow Amount contributed by the breaching Shareholder to the Escrow
Fund; provided, however, nothing shall limit the Indemnified Person’s ability to
seek direct recovery from such breaching Shareholder in connection with such breach if the
indemnifiable Losses arising out of or in connection therewith exceed such Shareholder’s
Proportionate Escrow Amount.
(d) Mitigation. Nothing in this Article VIII shall affect the common law duty
of the Purchaser and the Shareholders to mitigate any losses or damages which it suffers in
consequence of any matter giving rise to an indemnification claim.
8.4
Escrow Arrangements (a) . At or prior to the Closing, each of the Shareholder
Representative and the Purchaser shall enter into the Escrow Agreement. As security for the
indemnification obligations of the Shareholders provided for in this Agreement, at the Closing
Date, the Shareholders will be deemed to have received all of the consideration due under the terms
of this Agreement in exchange for their Shares (including the Escrow Amount). The Escrow Amount,
however, shall be withheld in the manner set forth in Section 1.2(e). The Escrow Amount
shall constitute an escrow fund (the “Escrow Fund”) to be maintained, distributed, and
otherwise handled in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement. The
Escrow Fund shall be available to compensate the Purchaser and the Indemnified Persons for any
Losses for which they are entitled to seek indemnification pursuant to this Agreement.
8.5 Third-Party Claims. The obligations and liabilities of any party against which
indemnification is sought hereunder with respect to claims resulting from the assertion of
liability by third parties shall be subject to this Section 8.5.
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(a) Promptly after receipt by any Indemnified Person of notice of any demand or claim or the
commencement of any action, proceeding or investigation by a third party that could reasonably be
expected to result in Losses for which indemnification may be sought (an “Asserted
Liability”), the Indemnified Person shall give notice thereof (a “Claim Notice”) to the
Shareholder Representative. Each Claim Notice shall describe the Asserted Liability in reasonable
detail, and shall indicate the amount (estimated, if necessary) of the Losses that have been or may
be suffered by the Indemnified Person. The rights of any Indemnified Person to be indemnified
hereunder shall not be adversely affected by its failure to give, or its failure to timely give, a
Claim Notice with respect thereto unless, and if so, only to the extent that, the Indemnifying
Person is prejudiced thereby.
(b) The Shareholder Representative (on behalf of the Shareholders) shall have the right,
exercisable by written notice to the Purchaser within forty-five (45) days of receipt of a Claim
Notice from the Indemnified Person, to participate in the defense of an Asserted Liability, through
its counsel, at the expense of the Shareholders; provided, however, that the
Purchaser shall control the defense and all proceedings in connection with the Asserted Liability.
So long as the Shareholder Representative is participating in the defense of an Asserted Liability
in good faith, the Purchaser shall reasonably cooperate with the Shareholder Representative by
providing records and information that are reasonably relevant to such Asserted Liability. The
Purchaser shall not settle or compromise any
Asserted Liability without the prior written consent of the Shareholder Representative, which
consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, however, that no
such consent will be required if the Purchaser reasonably believes itself to be potentially or
actually exposed to Losses materially in excess of amounts reasonably expected to be recovered from
the Shareholders with respect to such Asserted Liability or to nonmonetary remedies;
provided, further, however, that the Purchaser shall use its reasonable
efforts to obtain in such settlement a release of the Indemnifying Persons (on behalf of the
Shareholders) and the Company with respect to all such Asserted Liabilities.
(c) If the Purchaser informs the Shareholder Representative that the Purchaser shall not
conduct the defense of any Asserted Liability, the Shareholder Representative shall assume such
defense. Regardless of whether the Purchaser elects to assume the defense of the Asserted
Liability in accordance with the terms hereof, the Purchaser shall not admit any liability with
respect to, consent to the entry of judgment with respect to, or otherwise settle such Asserted
Liability without the prior written consent of the Purchaser, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned. If the Purchaser does not give such consent, the
Shareholder Representative shall resume the diligent defense of the Asserted Liability.
8.6 Non-Third-Party Claims. In the event that the Indemnified Person asserts the
existence of a claim giving rise to Losses (but excluding claims resulting from the assertion of
liability by third parties), it shall give written notice to the Shareholder Representative. Such
written notice shall specify the nature and amount of the Losses asserted in reasonable detail. If
the Shareholder Representative, within thirty (30) days after the mailing of notice by the
Indemnified Person, shall not give written notice to the Indemnified Person announcing its intent
to contest the assertion of such claim or the Losses in respect of such claim of the Indemnified
Person, such assertion shall be deemed accepted and the amount of Losses in respect thereof shall
be deemed to have been agreed upon. In the event, however, that the Shareholder Representative
contests the assertion of a claim or the amount of Losses in respect of such claim by giving such
written notice to the Indemnified Person within said period, then the parties shall act in good
faith to reach agreement regarding such claim. In the event that litigation shall arise with
respect to any such claim, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reimbursement of costs and
expenses incurred in connection with such litigation including attorney fees.
8.7 Limitations. Any amounts payable pursuant to this Article VIII shall be
(i) reduced by the net proceeds actually received from insurance policies, risk sharing pools, or
similar arrangements
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covering the Losses that are the subject to the claim for indemnity, (ii)
reduced by the net proceeds actually received from third parties, through indemnification,
counterclaim or otherwise in compensation for the subject matter of an indemnification claim by
such Indemnified Person.
8.8 Indemnification Exclusive Remedy. Except for matters related to fraud, willful
misconduct or willful misrepresentation, the exclusive remedy of the Indemnified Persons for
monetary damages regarding the matters described in Section 8.2(a)(i) through (iv)
or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be to assert a claim
for indemnification under the indemnification provisions of this Article VIII.
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION
9.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing,
and the Acquisition may be abandoned, notwithstanding any requisite approval and adoption of the
Acquisition, this Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby by the Shareholders:
(a) by mutual written consent of the Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative;
(b) by either the Shareholder Representative or the Purchaser if the Closing shall not have
occurred on or before March 31, 2007 for any reason; provided, however, (i) that
the right of the Shareholder Representative to terminate this Agreement under this Section
9.1(b) shall not be available if any Shareholder’s action or failure to act has been a
principal cause of or resulted in the failure of the Closing to occur on or before such date and
such action or failure to act constitutes a breach of this Agreement and (ii) that the right of the
Purchaser to terminate this Agreement under this Section 9.1(b) shall not be available if
the Purchaser’s action or failure to act has been a principal cause of or resulted in the failure
of the Closing to occur on or before such date and such action or failure to act constitutes a
breach of this Agreement;
(c) by either the Shareholder Representative or the Purchaser if a Governmental Entity of
competent jurisdiction shall have issued an order, decree or ruling or taken any other action, in
any case having the effect of permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the
Acquisition, which order, decree, ruling or other action is final and nonappealable;
(d) by the Purchaser upon a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement on
the part of any Shareholder set forth in this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements, or if
any representation or warranty of any Shareholder shall have become untrue, in either case such
that the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) or Section 7.3(b) would not be
satisfied as of the time of such breach or as of the time such representation or warranty shall
have become untrue; provided, however, that if such inaccuracy in a Shareholder’s
representations and warranties or breach by a Shareholder is curable by the Shareholder through the
exercise of its commercially reasonable efforts, then the Purchaser may not terminate this
Agreement under this Section 9.1(d) for ten (10) days after delivery of written notice from
the Purchaser to the Shareholder of such breach, provided the Shareholder continues to exercise
commercially reasonable efforts to cure such breach (it being understood that the Purchaser may not
terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9.1(d) if such breach by the Shareholder
is cured during such 10-day period); provided, however, that no cure period shall
be required for a breach or inaccuracy which by its nature cannot be cured;
9.2 Notice of Termination; Effect of Termination. Any termination of this Agreement
under and in accordance with Section 9.1 will be (but will only be) effective immediately
upon (or, if the
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termination is pursuant to Section 9.1(d) and the proviso therein is
applicable, ten (10) days after) the delivery of written notice of the Shareholder Representative
or the Purchaser, as applicable, to the other. In the event of the termination of this Agreement
as provided in Section 9.1, this Agreement shall be of no further force or effect and there
shall be no liability to any party hereunder in connection with the Agreement or the Acquisition,
except (i) as set forth in this Section 9.2, and Article X, each of which shall
survive the termination of this Agreement, and (ii) nothing herein shall relieve any party from
liability for any intentional or willful breach of, or any intentional
misrepresentation made in, this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements. No termination
of this Agreement shall affect the obligations of the parties contained in the Confidentiality
Agreement, all of which obligations shall survive termination of this Agreement in accordance with
their terms.
ARTICLE X
GENERAL
10.1 Shareholder Representative; Power of Attorney.
(a) By virtue of entering into this Agreement, the Shareholders hereby irrevocably appoints
Alta Berkeley LLP and Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, collectively as their agents and attorneys-in-fact as the
shareholder representative for and on behalf of the Shareholders (such Persons, or their duly
appointed successor(s), collectively, the “Shareholder Representative”) to act as the
Shareholders’ representative and agent for all purposes under this Agreement and the other
Transaction Agreements, including without limitation to execute any and all documents and
agreements referred to herein, to give and receive notices and communications, to authorize payment
to any Indemnified Person from the Escrow Fund in satisfaction of claims by any Indemnified Person,
to object to such payments, to agree to, to negotiate or to enter into settlements and compromises
of, and demand arbitration and comply with orders of courts and awards of arbitrators with respect
to, any claim by any Indemnified Person against the Escrow Fund, to take all actions and make all
determinations in connection with the earnout contemplated in this Agreement, to agree to amend or
waive a provision of, or terminate, this Agreement, as provided herein, or any Transaction
Agreement and to take all other actions that are either (i) necessary or appropriate in the
judgment of the Shareholder Representative for the accomplishment of the foregoing or (ii)
specifically mandated by the terms of this Agreement in connection with the foregoing (any such
authorized action, a “Shareholder Representative Authorized Action”). Any Shareholder
Representative may be replaced by the Shareholders from time to time upon not less than thirty (30)
days prior written notice to the Purchaser; provided, however, that the Shareholder
Representative may not be removed unless holders of a Majority-in-interest of the Escrow Fund agree
to such removal and to the identity of the substituted agent. A vacancy in the position of
Shareholder Representative may be filled by the holders of a Majority-in-interest of the Escrow
Fund. No bond shall be required of the Shareholder Representative, and the Shareholder
Representative shall not receive any compensation for his/her or its services. Notices or
communications to or from the Shareholder Representative shall constitute notice to or from the
Shareholders. With respect to any action to be taken by the Shareholder Representative pursuant to
this Agreement, such action shall only be taken upon the mutual consent of both Alta Berkeley LLP
and Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx (or their respective permitted successors); provided, however,
that if Alta Berkeley LLP and Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx (or their respective permitted successors) are unable
to mutually agree upon a course of action with respect to a matter within the authority of the
Shareholder Representative within thirty (30) days of such matter first becoming applicable, than
the Purchaser shall decide such matter in its discretion and such decision shall be final and
binding upon the parties to this Agreement, including the Escrow Agent.
(b) The Shareholder Representative shall not be liable for any act done or omitted hereunder
as Shareholder Representative while acting in good faith and in the exercise of reasonable
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judgment. The Shareholders shall, severally, and not jointly, indemnify the Shareholder
Representative and hold the Shareholder Representative harmless against any loss, liability or
expense incurred without gross negligence or bad faith on the part of the Shareholder
Representative and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the
Shareholder Representative’s duties hereunder, including the reasonable fees and expenses of any
legal counsel retained by the Shareholder Representative with the apportionment thereof calculated
in accordance with the portion of the consideration payable hereunder as received by such
Shareholder.
(c) A decision, act, consent or instruction of the Shareholder Representative, including an
amendment, extension or waiver of this Agreement as provided herein contemplated by Section
10.1 taken in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Section 10.1, shall
constitute a decision of the Shareholders and shall be final, binding and conclusive upon the
Shareholders; and the Escrow Agent and the Purchaser may rely upon any such decision, act, consent
or instruction of the Shareholder Representative as being the decision, act, consent or instruction
of the Shareholders. The Escrow Agent and the Purchaser are hereby relieved from any liability to
any Person for any acts done by them in accordance with such decision, act, consent or instruction
of the Shareholder Representative. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, the
Shareholder Representative shall have no authority to enter into any instrument or settlement
agreement that includes any written admission of criminal activity or guilt by any Shareholder
without the prior written consent of such Shareholder.
10.2 Confidentiality; Public Disclosure.
(a) Confidentiality. The parties hereto acknowledge that the Purchaser and the
Company have previously executed a mutual confidentiality agreement dated September 1, 2006 (the
“Confidentiality Agreement”) which shall continue in full force and effect in accordance
with its terms. In addition, the parties hereto acknowledge that the Purchaser and certain of the
Principal Shareholders previously entered into a Letter of Intent, dated December 22, 2006, which
contains binding provisions regarding confidentiality and public disclosure, which shall continue
in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.
(b) Public Disclosure. The Purchaser and the Shareholders shall not, and the
Shareholders shall cause the Company, its officers and affiliates to not, issue any statement or
communication to any third party regarding the subject matter of this Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby, including, if applicable, the termination of this Agreement and the reasons
therefor, without the prior consent of, in the case of any statement or communication to be made by
any Shareholder, the Purchaser and, in the case of any statement or communication by the Purchaser
the Shareholder Representative; provided, however, that the Purchaser and the
Subsidiaries may, after consultation with counsel (which may be in-house counsel), make or cause to
be made any press release or similar public announcement or communication as may be required to
comply with the requirements of any applicable laws or the rules or regulations the SEC, the Nasdaq
Global Market or the National Association of Securities Dealers and may, after consultation with
counsel (which may be in-house counsel), disclose such other information that the Purchaser deems
appropriate in its reasonable judgment in light of its status as a publicly owned company, provided
prior reasonable notice is given to the Shareholder Representative; provided,
further, that a Shareholder may, after consultation with counsel, make or cause to be made
any communication that is required by law or court order so long as such Shareholder provides the
Purchaser with prompt notice of such legal requirement in order to enable the Purchaser to seek an
appropriate protective order or other remedy and assists the Purchaser to obtain such protective
order or other remedy.
10.3 Notices. Any request, communication, or other notice required or permitted
hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if sent by facsimile or
delivered by
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international courier service or personal delivery (as the situation may require) at
the respective address or facsimile number of the party receiving notice as set forth below. Any
party hereto may, by notice so given, change its address or facsimile number for future notice
hereunder. All such notices and other communications hereunder shall be deemed given (i) upon
confirmation of delivery, if sent by facsimile or (ii) upon delivery, if sent by recognized
overnight or international courier service or personal delivery:
(a) if to the Purchaser to:
Omniture, Inc.
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxx 00000
Telephone No.: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxx 00000
Telephone No.: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
with copies (which shall not constitute notice) to:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx
Professional Corporation
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxx, 00000-0000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. X’Xxxxxx, Esq.
Professional Corporation
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxx, 00000-0000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx X. X’Xxxxxx, Esq.
and
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Carmelite
50 Victoria Embankment
Blackfriars
Xxxxxx XX0X ODX
England
Attn: Xxxxx Xxxx
Telephone No.: x00 00 0000 0000
Facsimile No.: x00 00 0000 0000
Carmelite
50 Victoria Embankment
Blackfriars
Xxxxxx XX0X ODX
England
Attn: Xxxxx Xxxx
Telephone No.: x00 00 0000 0000
Facsimile No.: x00 00 0000 0000
(b) if to the Shareholders, or to the Shareholder Representative:
Alta Berkeley LLP
00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx X0X 0XX
T: 020 7409 5012
F: 020 7226 6401
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx
00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx X0X 0XX
T: 020 7409 5012
F: 020 7226 6401
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxx
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With a copy to:
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Director of Finance
Jerusalem Venture Partners
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx 0
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, IsraelTelephone No.: x000 0 000 0000
Facsimile No.: x000 0 000 0000
Director of Finance
Jerusalem Venture Partners
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx 0
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, IsraelTelephone No.: x000 0 000 0000
Facsimile No.: x000 0 000 0000
With a copy to:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxx LLP
Xxxxx Castle
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX
Xxxxxxx
Attention: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Grew
Telephone No.: x00(0) 00 0000 0000
Facsimile No.: x00 (0) 00 0000 0000
Xxxxx Castle
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX
Xxxxxxx
Attention: Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Grew
Telephone No.: x00(0) 00 0000 0000
Facsimile No.: x00 (0) 00 0000 0000
10.4 Definitions. The terms used but not defined in this Agreement shall have the
meanings ascribed thereto in Appendix A to this Agreement.
10.5 Interpretation. In this Agreement, in Appendix A and in the schedules
hereto, unless the context requires otherwise:
(a) The terms of this Agreement are contractual and not mere recitals;
(b) Any pronouns in this Agreement that refer to a particular gender mean and refer to the
appropriate gender or neuter when applied to a particular party, Person or entity;
(c) Unless otherwise stated, all references in this Agreement to a paragraph, subparagraph,
section, subsection, clause, subclause, Article, Recital, Exhibit or Schedule are intended to refer
to paragraphs, subparagraphs, sections, subsections, clauses, subclauses, Article, Recital, Exhibit
or Schedule, respectively, of this Agreement;
(d) Except as to words or phrases specifically defined in this Agreement, the parties agree
that all words and phrases selected to state the terms of this Agreement are to be interpreted in
accordance with their plain and generally prevailing meaning and not with regard to any different
meaning that any of the parties might otherwise attach to a particular word or phrase;
(e) The parties hereto agree that they have been represented by counsel during the
negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement and, therefore, waive the application of
any law, regulation, holding or rule of construction providing that ambiguities in an agreement or
other document will be construed against the party drafting such agreement or document;
(f) The words “include,” “includes” and “including” when used herein shall be deemed in each
case to be followed by the words “without limitation;”
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(g) The word “agreement” when used herein shall be deemed in each case to mean any contract,
commitment or other agreement, whether oral or written, that is legally binding;
(h) The table of contents and headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes
only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement;
(i) The Exhibits and Schedules to this Agreement form part of and are incorporated into this
Agreement;
(j) The singular shall include the plural and vice versa;
(k) Any reference to a party shall mean any party to this Agreement;
(l) Any reference to the parties shall include their respective successors in title; and
(m) Any reference to any statute or statutory provision shall include that statute or
statutory provision as it is from time to time amended, consolidated, modified, replaced or
re-enacted (before the date of this Agreement) and any order, regulation, instrument, by-law or
other subordinate legislation made under it before the date of this Agreement.
10.6 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of
which shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when one or more
counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered to the other party, it being
understood that no two parties need sign the same counterpart.
10.7 Entire Agreement; Assignment; Amendment. This Agreement, the Transaction
Agreements, and the documents and instruments and other agreements among the parties hereto
referenced herein and therein (a) constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to
the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and
oral, among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, (b) shall not be assigned by the
Shareholders by operation of law or otherwise unless otherwise specifically provided herein or
therein and (c) shall not be assigned by the Purchaser to any Person except that the Purchaser may
assign the benefit of this Agreement to any subsidiary of the Purchaser. No modification,
variation or amendment of this Agreement shall be effective unless such modification, variation or
amendment is in writing and has been signed by the Shareholder Representative and the Purchaser;
provided, however, that this Agreement may be amended by the Purchaser (without the
consent of the Shareholders or the Shareholder Representative) solely for the purpose of adding
additional “Shareholders” as parties to this Agreement.
10.8 Waiver.
(a) No waiver of any breach or default under this Agreement or any of its terms shall be
effective unless such waiver is in writing and has been signed by the party against which it is
asserted (it being understood and agreed that the Shareholder Representative may sign a waiver on
behalf of all of the Shareholders, provided that such waiver does not adversely and
disproportionately affect the
obligations or rights of a Shareholder hereunder or affect the amount or type of consideration
payable to such Shareholder hereunder).
(b) Unless otherwise specifically set forth herein, no delay by any party in exercising, or
failure to exercise, any right, power or remedy under this Agreement or otherwise shall constitute
a waiver of the right, power or remedy, and no single or partial exercise of any right, power or
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remedy under this Agreement or otherwise shall prevent any further exercise of the right, power or
remedy or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy.
(c) The Purchaser may release or compromise the liability of, or institute proceedings or
obtain judgment against, a Shareholder under this Agreement, or grant to a Shareholder time or
other indulgence without affecting the liability of any other Shareholder under this Agreement or
the Purchaser’s rights against any other party.
10.9 No Third Party Beneficiaries. The terms of this Agreement are intended solely
for the benefit of the parties hereto and are not intended to inure, and will not inure, to the
benefit of any other Person and for the avoidance of doubt no term of this Agreement is enforceable
under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000; provided, however, that the
indemnification rights in Article VIII shall be for the benefit of the Indemnified Persons
who may rely on and enforce such rights and the release of each Shareholder in Section 6.4
(Shareholder Release), Section 6.1 (Covenants Not to Compete or Solicit) and the
obligations of confidentiality in Section 10.2 are for the benefit of the Company and the
Purchaser and the Company and the Purchaser may rely on and enforce each Shareholder’s release in
Section 6.4, restrictive covenants and obligations of confidentiality.
10.10 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Transaction
Agreements or portion of this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements is found to be wholly
or partially invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any judicial proceeding, then such provision
shall be deemed to be modified or restricted to the extent and in the manner necessary to render
the same valid and enforceable, or shall be deemed excised from this Agreement, as the case may
require, and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law,
as if such provision had been originally incorporated in this Agreement as so modified or
restricted, or as if such provision had not been originally incorporated in this Agreement, as the
case may be.
10.11 Effect of the Closing. This Agreement, so far as it is capable of having effect
after the Closing, shall notwithstanding the Closing remain in full force and effect.
10.12 Remedies Cumulative. Except as set forth herein, the rights and remedies
conferred on the Purchaser in this Agreement are cumulative and in addition to all other rights and
remedies available to the Purchaser (whether hereunder or pursuant to law or equity) and the
exercise by the Purchaser of one remedy will not preclude the exercise of any other remedy.
10.13 Governing Law. This Agreement and the respective rights and obligations of the parties under this Agreement
shall be governed by, and shall be determined under, the internal laws of the State of Delaware
applicable to contracts between residents of the State of Delaware to be performed solely in the
State of Delaware, i.e., without regard to choice of law principles. Subject to Section
10.16, (i) any action involving this Agreement shall be brought and maintained solely in the
Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, (ii) each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to
the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware, in
connection with any matter based upon or arising out of this Agreement or the matters contemplated
herein, agrees that process may be served upon them in any manner authorized by the laws of the
State of Delaware for such persons and waives and covenants not to assert or plead any objection
which they might otherwise have to such jurisdiction, venue and such process and (iii) each party
agrees not to commence any legal proceedings related hereto except in such courts. The parties
agree that for the purpose of enforcing the covenants in this Agreement, the parties may apply
directly to any court of competent jurisdiction wherever located for a temporary restraining order,
injunction or injunctive relief or other interim or conservatory relief, as necessary, to enforce
the covenants in this Agreement without breach of this provision and without abridgement of the
powers of the Delaware courts.
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10.14 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL
RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY AND ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT,
OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE ACTIONS OF ANY PARTY HERETO IN
NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE OR ENFORCEMENT HEREOF.
10.15 Currency. All references to “$,” or “dollars” refer to the lawful currency of
the United States. All references to “£,” “pounds,” “sterling,” or “pounds sterling” refer to the
lawful currency of the UK.
10.16 Resolution of Conflicts.
(a) Application. This Section 10.16 shall not apply to any claims or against
the Escrow Fund or disputes arising therefrom or in connection with disputes regarding the Earnout
Amount, which shall be resolved in the manner set forth in the Escrow Agreement and Section
6.5(e), respectively. If any claim or dispute arises out of or is related to this Agreement or
the other Transaction Agreements, or the interpretation, making, performance, breach or termination
hereof or thereof, the parties agree that the Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative shall
attempt in good faith to resolve such dispute within twenty (20) days of written notification of
such dispute by one party to the other. If such dispute is not so resolved within such twenty (20)
day period, such claim or dispute, shall be finally settled by binding arbitration in New York
City, New York in accordance with, subject to Section 10.13, the then current Commercial
Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association and judgment upon the award rendered may
be entered in any court having personal jurisdiction over the judgment debtor. The Shareholders
agree that disputes on behalf of the Shareholders may only be brought by the Shareholder
Representative.
(b) Selection of Arbitrators. Such arbitration shall be conducted by a single
arbitrator chosen by mutual agreement of the Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative.
Alternatively, at the request of either the Purchaser or the Shareholder Representative before the
commencement of arbitration, the arbitration shall be conducted by three independent
arbitrators, none of whom shall have any competitive interests with the Purchaser or the
Shareholders. The Purchaser and the Shareholder Representative shall each select one arbitrator.
The two arbitrators so selected shall select a third arbitrator none of whom shall have any prior
relationship with the Purchaser or the Shareholders.
(c) Discovery. The arbitrator or majority of the three arbitrators, as the case may
be, shall set a limited time period and establish procedures designed to reduce the cost and time
for discovery while allowing the parties an opportunity, adequate in the sole judgment of the
arbitrator or majority of the three arbitrators, as the case may be, to discover relevant
information from the opposing parties about the subject matter of the dispute. The arbitrator, or
a majority of the three arbitrators, as the case may be, shall rule upon motions to compel or limit
discovery and shall have the authority to impose sanctions for discovery abuses, including
attorneys’ fees and costs, to the same extent as a competent court of law or equity, should the
arbitrators or a majority of the three arbitrators, as the case may be, determine that discovery
was sought without substantial justification or that discovery was refused or objected to without
substantial justification.
(d) Decision. The decision of the arbitrator or a majority of the three arbitrators,
as the case may be, shall be final, binding, and conclusive upon the parties and signatories to
this Agreement (including all of the Shareholders). Such decision shall be written and shall be
supported by written findings of fact and conclusions which shall set forth the award, judgment,
decree or order awarded by the arbitrator(s), including attorneys’ and experts’ fees and costs
awarded to the prevailing party. Within thirty (30) days of a decision of the arbitrator(s)
requiring payment by one party
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to another, such party shall make the payment to such other party,
including any distributions out of any amounts remaining in the Escrow Fund, as applicable.
(e) Other Relief. The parties to the arbitration may apply to a court of competent
jurisdiction for a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction or other interim or
conservatory relief, as necessary, without breach of this arbitration provision and without
abridgement of the powers of the arbitrators(s).
(f) Costs and Expenses. Until the termination of the arbitration proceedings, the
fees and costs of the arbitrator(s) shall be borne as follows: 50% shall be borne by the Purchaser
and 50% shall be borne proportionately by the Shareholders from the Escrow Fund (with the
Purchaser’s consent, which may not be unreasonably withheld) and following the termination of the
arbitration proceedings the fees and costs of the arbitrator(s) shall be allocated and paid as
directed by the arbitrator(s).
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Share Purchase Agreement to be
executed and delivered on the date first written above.
“PURCHASER” | OMNITURE, INC. | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |||||
President and Chief Executive Officer |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXX XXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXX XXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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JERUSALEM VENTURE PARTNERS IV L.P. | |||||
By: | /s/ Erel X. Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Title: |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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JERUSALEM VENTURE PARTNERS IV – A L.P. | |||||
By: | /s/ Erel X. Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Title: |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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JERUSALEM VENTURE PARTNERS ENTREPRENEUR FUND IV L.P. | |||||
By: | /s/ Erel X. Xxxxxxxx
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Title: |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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JERUSALEM VENTURE PARTNERS IV (ISRAEL) L.P. | |||||
By: | /s/ Erel X. Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Title: |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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ALTA BERKELEY VI CV | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||||
Title: | ||||||
A Managing Director of | ||||||
Alta Berkeley Associates B.V. | ||||||
Managing General Partner | ||||||
Alta Berkeley Venture Partners C.V. | ||||||
General Partner | ||||||
Alta-Berkeley VI CV |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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ALTA-BERKELEY VI SBYS CV | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | |||||
Title: | ||||||
A Managing Director of | ||||||
Alta Berkeley Associates B.V. | ||||||
Managing General Partner | ||||||
Alta Berkeley Venture Partners C.V. | ||||||
General Partner | ||||||
Alta-Berkeley VI SBYS CV |
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“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXX XXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||||
As Attorney for Xx. X. X. Xxxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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NEW MEDIA SPARK PLC | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Title: Chairman |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXX LTD. | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx | |||||
Title: Managing Director |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXXX XXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxxx as Attorney-in-Fact | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXXX XXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||||
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXXX XXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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FIANN X’XXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Fiann X’Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Fiann X’Xxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXX XXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXX XXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXX XXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXX XXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxxx as Attorney-in-Fact | |||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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THE CAPITAL FUND NO. 1 L.P. | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||||||
Title: Investment Director |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXXXX XXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxxx as Attorney-in-Fact | |||||
Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER”
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XXX XXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxx Xxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“WARRANTOR”
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XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“WARRANTOR”
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XXX XXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxx Xxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxx Xxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“WARRANTOR”
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XXXX XXXXXXXX | |||||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxx | |||||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxx |
Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE”
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Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
“SHAREHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE”
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Signature Page to Share Purchase Agreement
APPENDIX A
DEFINITIONS
(1) “2007 Recognized Revenue” shall mean the amount of gross revenue recognized in the
fiscal year ending December 31, 2007 by the Company, in accordance with UK GAAP and the Company’s
revenue recognition policies as disclosed to the Purchaser in writing prior to the date of this
Agreement from the sale, license, use, service, maintenance, distribution or provision of Company
Products and Services to customers and prospective customers. In the event that Company Products
and Services are incorporated into or “bundled” by the Company with other products or components
and not separately invoiced to the customer or institutional partner, 2007 Recognized Revenue with
respect to such sales shall be calculated in good faith pro rata on the basis of the respective
prices for which such Company Products and Services and such other products or components have most
recently been sold to a customer or institutional partner on a stand-alone basis in commercial
quantities pursuant to an arm’s-length transaction.
(2) “Accountant’s Earnout Amount” is defined in Section 6.5(e)
(3) “Acquisition” is defined in the Recitals of this Agreement.
(4) “Additional Payment Amount” shall mean an amount of cash or shares of Purchaser
Common Stock (or combination thereof), as determined pursuant to Section 1.2(c) in an
aggregate amount (using the Trading Price to value the Purchaser Common Stock) equal to (a)
$41,000,000 minus (b) any portion of the Shareholder Expenses, the Company Debt or the
Employee Bonus Amount that was not deducted from the Closing Payment Amount and minus (c)
the Aggregate Option Amount.
(5) “Additional Payment Stock Value” is defined in Section 1.2(c)(i).
(6) “Aggregate Option Amount” shall be an amount, in U.S. dollars, equal to the
product of (i) the total number of shares of Company capital stock underlying Vested Options
multiplied by (ii) the Equivalent Per Share Consideration.
(7) Agreement” is defined in the Preamble of this Agreement.
(8) “Approved Obligations” shall mean (i) up to Two Hundred Seventy Thousand Pounds in
capital lease obligations for computer equipment used for the Company’s operations, (ii) up to
Sixty Six Thousand Pounds in loans from the Department of Trade and Industry of the UK and (iii)
such other leases or loans expressly approved in writing by the Purchaser which approval may be
withheld in the sole discretion of the Purchaser.
(9) “Articles of Association” is defined in Section 1.1(b)(ii).
(10) “Asserted Liability” is defined in Section 8.5(a).
(11) “Attorney” is defined in Section 1.6(a).
(12) “Audit Firm” is defined in Section 6.5(a).
(13) “Audited Financial Statements” is defined in Section 3.7(a).
(14) “Authorizations” is defined in Section 3.19.
(15) “Balance Sheet Date” is defined in Section 3.7(a).
(16) “Business Day(s)” shall mean each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or holiday
on which banking institutions located in Salt Lake City, Utah or London, UK are authorized or
obligated by law or executive order to close.
(17) “Certificate of Incorporation” is defined in Section 3.1.
(18) “Charter Documents” is defined in Section 3.1.
(19) “Claim Notice” is defined in Section 8.5(a).
(20) “Claims Cap” is defined in Section 8.3(b).
(21) “Claims Threshold” is defined in Section 8.3(a).
(22) “Closing” is defined Section 1.3(a).
(23) “Closing Balance Sheet” is defined in Section 5.7(a).
(24) “Closing Balance Sheet Date” is defined in Section 5.7(a).
(25) “Closing Date” is defined in Section 1.3(a).
(26) “Closing Date Financials” is defined in Section 5.7(a).
(27) “Closing Payment Amount” shall mean (i) $16,000,000 minus (ii) the sum of
(A) the Shareholder Expenses and (B) the Company Debt and (c) the Employee Bonus Amount.
(28) “Closing Unaudited Financials” is defined in Section 5.7(a).
(29) “COBRA” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(30) “Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(31) “Companies Act” shall mean the Companies Act of 1985, as amended from time to
time.
(32) “Company” is defined in the Recitals of this Agreement.
(33) “Company Debt” shall mean the U.S. dollar equivalent (calculated using the
Currency Conversion Ratio at the time of Closing) of all Indebtedness of the Company outstanding as
of the Closing (including all unpaid interest accrued thereon as of the Closing) and all amounts
that would be payable pursuant to such Indebtedness if it were repaid at or promptly following the
Closing, including, all outstanding amounts set forth (or required to be set forth) in Section
3.3(c)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule; provided, however, that “Company Debt”
shall not include the Approved Obligations.
(34) “Company Employee Plan” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
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(35) “Company Intellectual Property” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(36) “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any change, event or effect, that
is, or is reasonably likely to be, materially adverse to the business, assets (whether tangible or
intangible), profits, prospects, financial condition, operations, customers, employees or
capitalization of the Company, taken as a whole, provided, however, that in no
event shall any of the following, alone or in combination, be deemed to constitute, nor shall any
of the following be taken into account in determining whether there has been a “Company Material
Adverse Effect”: (i) any adverse event, circumstance, change or effect to the extent primarily
attributable to changes or conditions generally affecting the industry in which the Company
operates which do not have a disproportionately adverse effect upon the Company; (ii) any acts of
terrorism not directed at the Company, outbreak of war or natural disaster and (iii) any adverse
event, circumstance, change or effect resulting from compliance with the terms and conditions of,
or the taking of any action required by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the public
announcement of the execution, or the pendency, of this Agreement including the loss of any
customers resulting from the pendency or announcement of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
(37) “Company Options” shall mean all issued and outstanding options, warrants and
other rights (including commitments to grant options, warrants or other rights) to purchase or
otherwise acquire Shares (whether or not vested) held by any Person or entity along with the number
of Shares subject to each such option, warrant or other right held by such Person or entity.
(38) “Company Products” is defined in Section 3.16(b)
(39) “Company Products and Services” shall mean the behavioral targeting and web
analytics products (and consulting services related thereto) offered by the Company as operated as
of and prior to the date of this Agreement.
(40) “Company Registered Intellectual Property Rights” is defined in Section
3.16(c).
(41) “Company Source Code” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(42) “Company Unvested Shares” shall mean any Shares issued and outstanding
immediately prior to the Closing that are unvested or are subject to a repurchase option, risk of
forfeiture or other similar condition under any applicable stock restriction agreement or other
agreement with the Company.
(43) “Confidentiality Agreement” is defined in Section 10.2(a).
(44) “Conflict” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any action that will
contravene, conflict with or result in any violation of or default under (with or without notice or
lapse of time, or both) or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation, modification or
acceleration of any obligation or loss of any benefit, result in the creation or imposition of any
Lien under or impair such Person’s or its Subsidiaries’ rights or alter the rights or obligations
of a third party with respect to the matter in question.
(45) “Contaminant” is defined in Section 3.16(cc).
(46) “Contract” or “Contracts” with respect to any Person, shall mean any
mortgage, indenture, lease, contract, covenant or other agreement, instrument, commitment, permit,
concession,
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franchise or license, whether written or oral, including term sheets, letters of intent and
similar documents to which such Person is a party or by which such Person is bound.
(47) “Copyrights” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(48) “Currency Conversion Ratio” shall mean the closing currency cross rate of U.S.
dollars and UK pounds as reported in the Wall Street Journal on the day immediately preceding the
applicable date.
(49) “Current Balance Sheet” is defined in Section 3.7(a).
(50) “Designated Employees” is defined in Section 5.10(a).
(51) “Data Protection Legislation” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(52) “Determination Notice” is defined in Section 1.2(c)(i).
(53) “Disabling Code” is defined in Section 3.16(cc).
(54) “Disclosure Schedule” is defined in the preamble to Article II of this
Agreement.
(55) “DOL” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(56) “Earnout Amount” shall mean (i) if the 2007 Recognized Revenue is equal to or
less than $6,370,000, then the “Earnout Amount” shall equal $0.00, and (ii) if the 2007 Recognized
Revenue is greater than $6,370,000, then the “Earnout Amount” shall equal the product of (x) the
Earnout Percentage multiplied by (y) $3,000,000.
(57) “Earnout Determination Date” shall mean either (i) if the Shareholder
Representative has delivered an Earnout Dispute Notice at or prior to the Earnout Dispute Deadline,
the date upon which all disputes regarding the Earnout Amount duly brought pursuant to Section
6.5 have been resolved or (ii) if the Shareholder Representative has not delivered an Earnout
Dispute Notice at or prior to the Earnout Dispute Deadline, the date of the Earnout Dispute
Deadline.
(58) “Earnout Dispute Deadline” is defined in Section 6.5(a).
(59) “Earnout Dispute Notice” is defined in Section 6.5(a).
(60) “Earnout Floor” is defined in Section 6.5(b).
(61) “Earnout Percentage” shall mean the lesser of (A) 100% and (B) the quotient
obtained (expressed as a percentage) by dividing (x) the 2007 Recognized Revenue by (y) $9,800,000.
(62) “Earnout Statement” is defined in Section 6.5(a).
(63) “Employee” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(64) “Employee Agreement” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(65) “Employee Bonus Amount” is defined in Section 5.10(b).
(66) “End User Agreements” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
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(67) “Equivalent Per Share Consideration” means an amount in U.S. dollars (rounded to
the fourth decimal point) equal to (i) the sum of (A) the Closing Payment Amount, (B) the
Additional Payment Amount (prior to giving effect to the reduction of the Additional Payment Amount
for the Aggregate Option Amount) and (c) the maximum potential Earnout Amount divided by
(ii) the sum of (A) all issued Shares as of the Closing (including the total number of shares
issued and all shares that, except for the Articles Amendment, would have been issued at or prior
to the Closing pursuant to the exercise of Vested Options), plus (B) the total number of shares of
Company capital stock underlying Vested Options.
(68) “ERISA” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(69) “ERISA Affiliate” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(70) “Escrow Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in the Escrow Agreement.
(71) “Escrow Agreement” is defined in Section 1.2(e).
(72) “Escrow Amount” shall mean $9,000,000; provided, however, if the
conditions set forth on Schedule 1.2(e) are duly satisfied by the date specified therein,
the “Escrow Amount” shall equal $7,000,000.
(73) “Escrow Fund” is defined in Section 8.4.
(74) “Escrowed Cash” is defined in Section 1.2(e).
(75) “Escrowed Shares” is defined in Section 1.2(e).
(76) “European Personally Identifiable Information” is defined in Section
3.16(a).
(77) “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(78) “Expenses” is defined in Section 5.8.
(79) “FA” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xlvi).
(80) “Final Earnout Amount” is defined in Section 6.5(e).
(81) “Financial Statements” is defined in Section 3.7(a).
(82) “FSMA” is defined in Section 2.3.
(83) “Geographic Area” is defined in Section 6.1(d).
(84) “Government Contract” is defined in Section 3.17(a)(xv).
(85) “Governmental Entity” is defined in Section 3.6.
(86) “Guarantee” of or by any Person shall mean any obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “Primary
Obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such
Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or
payment of) such Indebtedness or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of)
any security for the payment of such
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Indebtedness, (ii) to purchase property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring
the owner of such Indebtedness of the payment of such Indebtedness or (iii) to maintain working
capital, equity capital or other financial statement condition or liquidity of the Primary Obligor
so as to enable the Primary Obligor to pay such Indebtedness; provided, however,
that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in each case in
the ordinary course of business.
(87) “HMRC” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xlix).
(88) “HM Revenue & Customs Approval Condition” is defined in Section 7.3(j).
(89) “ICTA” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xxiv).
(90) “IHTA” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xxviii).
(91) “Indebtedness” of any Person shall mean (i) all obligations of such Person for
borrowed money or with respect to cash deposits or advances of any kind other than customer
pre-payments made pursuant to the Company’s Contracts in the ordinary course of business, (ii) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (iii) all
obligations of such Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid, other than trade
credit incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (iv) all
obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to
property or assets purchased by such Person, (v) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed
as the deferred purchase price of property or services; other than trade payables in the ordinary
course of business paid consistent with past practice, (vi) all indebtedness of others secured by
(or for which the holder of such indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations
secured thereby have been assumed, (vii) all Guarantees by such Person, (viii) all capital lease
obligations of such Person, (ix) all net obligations of such Person in respect of interest rate
protection agreements, foreign currency exchange agreements or other interest or exchange rate
hedging arrangements and (x) all obligations of such Person as an account party in respect of
letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the
Indebtedness of any partnership in which such Person is a general partner.
(92) “Indemnified Person” and “Indemnified Persons” are defined in Section
8.2(a).
(93) “Independent Accountant” is defined in Section 6.5(e).
(94) “Intellectual Property” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(95) “Intellectual Property Rights” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(96) “International Employee Plan” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(97) “IRS” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(98) “Joinder Agreement” shall mean the Joinder Agreement, substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit H.
(99) “Knowledge” or “Known” (or words of similar import) shall mean, with
respect to the Warrantors, the actual knowledge of the Warrantors, the directors and officers of
the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to any matter in question after reasonable
investigation and due and diligent inquiry, including inquiry of the Shareholders, the Company’s
and its Subsidiaries’ employees and
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consultants who would reasonably be expected to have knowledge of the matter(s) in question,
and specifically including facts of which such Warrantors, directors, officers and employees, in
the reasonably prudent exercise of their duties, should be aware; provided,
however, that if any of such individuals do not make such reasonable investigation and due
and diligent inquiry, then such individual shall be deemed to have actual knowledge of those facts
or matters that such individual would have had, had he or she made such inquiry.
(100) “Liens” shall mean any and all liens, mortgages, charges, pledges, rights of
pre-emption, covenants, restrictions, leases, trusts, orders, decrees, claims, options,
encumbrances, equities, proxies, or other defects of title or security interest or conflicting
claim of ownership or right to use or any other third party right (whether arising by contract or
by operation of law).
(101) “Loss” and “Losses” are defined in Section 8.2(a).
(102) “Majority-in-interest of the Escrow Fund” shall mean the Persons who are
entitled to at least a majority of funds held in the Escrow Fund if the Escrow Fund were to be
distributed as at the moment in question pursuant to the terms of the Escrow Agreement.
(103) “Mask Works” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(104) “Material Contract” and “Material Contracts” are defined in Section
3.17(b).
(105) “Minority Shareholders” shall mean those Shareholders other than the Principal
Shareholders.
(106) “Moral Rights” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(107) “Multiemployer Plan” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(108) “NIC” is defined in Section 5.2(t).
(109) “Non-Compete Period” is defined in Section 6.1(a).
(110) “Open Source Materials” is defined in Section 3.16(y).
(111) “Option Exchange Ratio” shall mean the quotient (rounded to the fourth decimal
point) obtained by dividing (A) the Equivalent Per Share Consideration by (B) the average closing
sale price of one share of Purchaser Common Stock quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market for the five
(5) consecutive trading days ending on the trading day on the Nasdaq Global Market immediately
preceding the Closing Date.
(112) “Option Holder” shall mean any Person holding a Company Option.
(113) “Option Holder Form of Instruction” shall mean the instruction form to be
delivered to Option Holders in connection with the proposed treatment of their Company Options,
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I.
(114) “Option Holder Letter” shall mean the letter, substantially in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit J, to be delivered to Option Holders in connection with the proposed
treatment of their Company Options.
(115) “Patents” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
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(116) “PAYE” is defined in Section 3.13(a).
(117) “Pension Plan” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(118) “Permitted Lien” shall mean: (a) liens for taxes not yet delinquent or which are
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued; (b) mechanics’,
materialmen’s, carriers’, warehousemen’s and similar liens arising in the ordinary course of
business and securing obligations of such Person that are not overdue for a period of more than 30
days or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued; (c) liens
arising in connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions and
social security benefits and similar statutory obligations which are not overdue or are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently pursued; and (d) liens securing
indebtedness that are reflected on the Current Balance Sheet.
(119) “Person” shall mean an individual or entity, including a partnership, limited
liability company, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture,
an unincorporated organization, or a governmental entity (or any department, agency, or political
subdivision thereof).
(120) “Plan” or “Plans” shall mean the Touch Clarity Limited Enterprise
Management Incentives Share Option Plan 2002 and the Touch Clarity Limited 2006 U.S. Stock Plan.
(121) “Planning Acts” is defined in Section 3.15(c)(i).
(122) “Principal Shareholder” shall mean Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Jerusalem Venture Partners IV
LP, Jerusalem Venture Partners IV – A LP, Jerusalem Venture Partners Entrepreneur Fund IV LP,
Jerusalem Venture Partners IV (Israel) LP; Alta-Berkeley VI BV; Alta-Berkeley VI SbyS CV, New Media
Spark PLC, Xxxxxx Ltd. and The Capital Fund No. 1 L.P.
(123) “Proportionate Escrow Amount” is defined in Section 1.2(e).
(124) “PTO” is defined in Section 3.16(c).
(125) “Purchase Price” is defined in Section 1.2.
(126) “Purchaser” is defined in the Preamble of this Agreement.
(127) “Purchaser Common Stock” shall mean shares of common stock, par value $0.001, of
the Purchaser.
(128) “Purchaser Material Adverse Effect” shall mean any change, event or effect, that
is, or is reasonably likely to be, materially adverse to the business, assets (whether tangible or
intangible), profits, prospects, financial condition, operations, customers, employees or
capitalization of the Purchaser, taken as a whole, provided, however, that in no event shall any of
the following, alone or in combination, be deemed to constitute, nor shall any of the following be
taken into account in determining whether there has been a “Purchaser Material Adverse Effect”: (i)
any adverse event, circumstance, change or effect to the extent primarily attributable to changes
or conditions generally affecting the industry in which the Purchaser operates which do not have a
disproportionately adverse effect upon the Purchaser; (ii) any acts of terrorism not directed at
the Purchaser, outbreak of war or natural disaster and (iii) any adverse event, circumstance,
change or effect resulting from compliance with the terms and conditions of, or the taking of any
action required by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the
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public announcement of the execution, or the pendency, of this Agreement including the loss of
any customers resulting from the pendency or announcement of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement; (iv) any failure by the Purchaser to meet any published securities analyst estimates of
revenues or earnings for any period ending on or after the date of this Agreement and prior to the
Closing (provided that the underlying causes of any such failures may (subject to the other
provisions of this Agreement) be taken into account in making a determination as to whether there
has been a Purchaser Material Adverse Effect) and (v) any decline in the price of the Purchaser
Common Stock.
(129) “Purchaser SEC Documents” is defined in Section 4.5.
(130) “Real Property” is defined in Section 3.15(a).
(131) “Registered Intellectual Property Rights” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(132) “Registration Statement” shall have the meaning set forth in the Registration
Rights Agreement.
(133) “Released Matters” means any and all claims, demands, damages, debts,
liabilities, obligations, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ and accountants’ fees and
expenses), actions and causes of action of any nature whatsoever, whether now known or unknown,
suspected or unsuspected, that such Shareholder now has, or at any time previously had, or shall or
may have in the future, as a Shareholder, officer, director, contractor, consultant or employee of
the Company, arising by virtue of or in any matter related to any actions or inactions with respect
to the Company or its affairs with respect to the Company on or before the Closing;
provided that Released Matters shall not include any rights pursuant to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or by the other Transaction Agreements.
(134) “Released Party” is defined in Section 6.4.
(135) “Replacement Option” shall mean an option granted by the Purchaser over a number
of Purchaser Common Stock determined and at an exercise price in consideration of the release of
such Company Option determined as follows: (i) such Company Option shall be exercisable for that
number of whole shares of Purchaser Common Stock equal to the product (rounded down to the nearest
whole number of shares of Purchaser Common Stock) obtained by multiplying the number of Ordinary
Shares of the Company issuable upon the exercise of such Company Option at the time of the Closing
by the Option Exchange Ratio (as defined herein), and (ii) that the per share exercise price for
the shares of Purchaser Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such Company Options shall be equal
to the quotient (rounded up to the nearest whole cent) obtained by dividing the exercise price per
Ordinary Shares of the Company for which the Company Option was exercisable at the time of the
Closing by the Option Exchange Ratio. The form and substance of any communications to Option
Holders from the Company shall be subject to advance review and approval of Purchaser, which
approval will not be unreasonably withheld.
(136) “Required Consideration Allocation” is defined in Section 1.2(a)(i).
(137) “Restricted Business” is defined in Section 6.1(a).
(138) “Returns” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(iii).
(139) “SEC” shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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(140) “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(141) “Securities Compliance Certificate” is defined in the Recitals.
(142) “Shareholder” and “Shareholders” are defined in the Preamble of this
Agreement.
(143) “Shareholder Expenses” shall mean the U.S. dollar equivalent (calculated using
the Currency Conversion Ratio at the time of the Closing) of all Expenses, including all
obligations that were incurred (directly or indirectly) to pay for any such Expenses, that the
Company is or may be liable for, it being understood that any fees, costs, and expenses incurred or
for which the Company may be liable that would not otherwise be incurred by the Company but for the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be deemed to be “Shareholder Expenses”.
(144) “Shareholder Counsel” is defined in Section 1.2(a)(ii).
(145) “Shareholder Representative” is defined in Section 10.1(a).
(146) “Shareholder Representative Authorized Action” is defined in Section 10.1(a).
(147) “Shares” shall mean all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of
the Company, including the Company’s Ordinary Shares, A Ordinary Shares, Series A Preferred Shares
and Series A1 Preferred Shares.
(148) “Shrinkwrap Agreements” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(149) “Spreadsheet” is defined in Section 5.9.
(150) “Stakeholder Scheme” is defined in Section 3.24(a).
(151) “Statement of Company Debt” is defined in Section 5.7(b).
(152) “Statement of Expenses” is defined in Section 5.8.
(153) “Statement No. 5” is defined in Section 3.7(a).
(154) “Stock Consideration Number” is defined in Section 1.2(c)(i).
(155) “Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” shall mean, individually or collectively,
with respect to any Person, any entity of which securities or other ownership interests having
ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other Persons performing
similar functions are at any time directly or indirectly owned by such Person or subsidiary
undertakings as defined in section 258 of the Companies Act.
(156) “Subsidiary Equity Interests” shall mean all shares of capital stock of, or
other equity interests in, the Subsidiaries of the Company.
(157) “Target Effective Date” is defined in Section 1.2(c)(i).
(158) “Tax” and “Taxes” shall mean 3.13(a).
(159) “Tax Authority” is defined in Section 3.13(b).
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(160) “Tax Incentives” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xli).
(161) “TCGA” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xiv).
(162) “Technology” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(163) “Trademarks” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(164) “Trading Price” shall mean the product of (A) 95% multiplied by (B) the
average closing sale price of one share of Purchaser Common Stock quoted on the Nasdaq Global
Market for the five (5) consecutive trading days ending with (and including) the Trading Price
Measurement Date, as reported in The Wall Street Journal.
(165) “Trading Price Measurement Date” shall mean the fifth trading day on the Nasdaq
Global Market immediately preceding the effective date of the Registration Statement (calculated
without including the effective date).
(166) “Transaction Agreements” shall mean this Agreement and all other agreements,
schedules, exhibits, documents or other instruments delivered in connection with this Agreement,
including, the Escrow Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Joinder Agreement and the
Securities Compliance Certificate.
(167) “UK GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the UK
consistently applied.
(168) “U.S. Plan” shall mean the Touch Clarity Limited 2006 U.S. Stock Plan.
(169) “Unaudited Financial Statements” is defined in Section 3.7(a).
(170) “Unvested Options” shall mean the Company Options or proportions of Company
Options that have not vested in accordance with their terms as at the time of the Closing.
(171) “UK” is defined in Section 3.13(a).
(172) “U.S. Option” is defined in Section 1.5(b)(i).
(173) “US GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States.
(174) “US Personally Identifiable Information” is defined in Section 3.16(a).
(175) “VAT” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(xlix).
(176) “VATA” is defined in Section 3.13(c)(l).
(177) “Vested Options” shall mean the Company Options or proportions of Company
Options that have vested in accordance with their terms as at the time of the Closing.
(178) “WARN Act” is defined in Section 3.24(s).
(179) “Warrantor” shall mean Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx and Xxx Xxxxx.
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