Share Exchange Agreement by and among AFH Holding II, Inc. (to be renamed First Blush Brands, Inc.) and its Sole Shareholder and First Blush, Inc. and its Securityholders Dated: May 12, 2010
by
and among
AFH
Holding II, Inc. (to be renamed First Blush Brands, Inc.)
and
its Sole Shareholder
and
First
Blush, Inc. and its Securityholders
Dated: May
12, 2010
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
I
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Definitions
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1
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ARTICLE
II
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Exchange
of Shares and Share Consideration
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Section
2.1.
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Securities
Exchange
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6
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Section
2.2.
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Closing
Date
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7
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Section
2.3.
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Withholding
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Section
2.4.
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Section
368 Reorganization
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7
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ARTICLE
III
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Representations
and Warranties of the Company Securityholders
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7
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Section
3.1.
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Authority
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7
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Section
3.2.
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No
Conflict
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8
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Section
3.3.
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Ownership
of Securities
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8
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Section
3.4.
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Litigation
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8
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Section
3.5.
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No
Brokers or Finders
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Section
3.6.
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Acknowledgment
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8
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Section
3.7.
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Legends
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9
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Section
3.8.
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Additional
Legend
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9
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Section
3.9.
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Investor
Status
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Section
3.10.
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Access
to Information
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9
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Section
3.11.
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Purpose
of Investment
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10
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Section
3.12.
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Absence
of Regulatory Review
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10
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ARTICLE
IV
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Representations
and Warranties of the Company
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10
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Section
4.1.
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Organization
and Qualification
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10
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Section
4.2.
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Subsidiaries
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10
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Section
4.3.
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Organizational
Documents
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10
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Section
4.4.
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Authorization
and Validity of this Agreement
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11
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Section
4.5.
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No
Violation
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11
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Section
4.6.
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Binding
Obligations
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11
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Section
4.7.
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Capitalization
of the Company
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11
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Section
4.8.
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No
Redemption Requirements
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12
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Section
4.9.
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Compliance
with Laws and Other Instruments
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12
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Section
4.10.
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Certain
Proceedings
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12
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Section
4.11.
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No
Brokers or Finders
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12
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Section
4.12.
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Title
to and Condition of Properties
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12
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Section
4.13.
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No
Undisclosed Events
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12
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ARTICLE
V
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Representations
and Warranties of the Acquiror Company and the Acquiror Company
Shareholder
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13
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Section
5.1.
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Organization
and Qualification
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13
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Section
5.2.
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Subsidiaries
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13
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Section
5.3.
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Organizational
Documents
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13
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Section
5.4.
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Authorization
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13
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Section
5.5.
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No
Violation
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14
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Section
5.6.
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Binding
Obligations
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14
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Section
5.7.
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Securities
Laws
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14
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Section
5.8.
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Capitalization
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14
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Section
5.9.
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No
Redemption Requirements
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15
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Section
5.10.
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Duly
Authorized
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15
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Section
5.11.
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Compliance
with Laws
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15
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Section
5.12.
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Certain
Proceedings
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15
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Section
5.13.
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No
Brokers or Finders
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16
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Section
5.14.
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Absence
of Undisclosed Liabilities
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16
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Section
5.15.
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No
Operations
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16
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Section
5.16.
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Insurance
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16
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Section
5.17.
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Changes
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16
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Section
5.18.
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Acquiror
Company Contracts
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17
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Section
5.19.
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No
Defaults
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17
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Section
5.20.
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Employees
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17
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Section
5.21.
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Officers
and Directors
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17
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Section
5.22.
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Tax
Returns
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17
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Section
5.23.
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No
Adjustments, Changes
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18
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Section
5.24.
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No
Disputes
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18
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Section
5.25.
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Not
a U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation
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18
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Section
5.26.
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No
Tax Allocation, Sharing
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18
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Section
5.27.
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No
Other Arrangements
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18
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Section
5.28.
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Material
Assets
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18
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Section
5.29.
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Litigation;
Orders
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18
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Section
5.30.
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Licenses
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19
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Section
5.31.
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Interested
Party Transactions
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19
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Section
5.32.
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Governmental
Inquiries
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19
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Section
5.33.
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Bank
Accounts and Safe Deposit Boxes
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19
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Section
5.34.
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Intellectual
Property
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19
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Section
5.35.
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Title
to and Condition of Properties
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19
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Section
5.36.
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SEC
Documents; Financial Statements
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20
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Section
5.37.
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Internal
Accounting Controls
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20
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Section
5.38.
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Accountants
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20
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Section
5.39.
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No
Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers
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20
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Section
5.40.
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Regulation
M Compliance
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21
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Section
5.41.
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Business
Records and Due Diligence
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21
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Section
5.42.
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Investment
Company
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21
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Section
5.43.
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Stock
Option Plans; Employee Benefits
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21
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Section
5.44.
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Environmental
and Safety Matters
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21
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Section
5.45.
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Money
Laundering Laws
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22
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Section
5.46.
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Questionable
Payments
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22
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Section
5.47.
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Solvency
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22
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Section
5.48.
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Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act
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22
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Section
5.49.
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No
Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or
Circumstances
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22
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Section
5.50.
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Adverse
Interest
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22
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Section
5.51.
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Investor
Status
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23
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Section
5.52.
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Access
to Information
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23
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Section
5.53.
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Purpose
of Investment
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23
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Section
5.54.
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Absence
of Regulatory Review
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23
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Section
5.55.
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Untrue
Statements
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23
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Section
5.56.
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Board
Recommendation
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23
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Section
5.57.
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Certain
Registration Matters
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23
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Section
5.58.
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Application
of Takeover Protections
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24
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-ii-
Section
5.59.
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Listing
and Maintenance Requirements
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24
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Section
5.60.
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No
Integrated Offering
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24
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Section
5.61.
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Disclosure
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24
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ARTICLE
VI
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Representations
and Warranties of Acquiror Company Shareholder
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25
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Section
6.1.
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Authority
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25
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Section
6.2.
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No
Conflict
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25
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Section
6.3.
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Ownership
of Acquiror Company Shareholder
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25
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Section
6.4.
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Litigation
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25
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Section
6.5.
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No
Brokers or Finders
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25
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Section
6.6.
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Access
to Information
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25
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Section
6.7.
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Accredited
Investor
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26
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ARTICLE
VII
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Conditions
Precedent of the Acquiror Company
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26
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Section
7.1.
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Accuracy
of Representations and Warranties
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26
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Section
7.2.
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Performance
of Covenants
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26
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Section
7.3.
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Preparation
of Form 8-K
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26
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Section
7.4.
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Consents
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26
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Section
7.5.
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Closing
Documents
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26
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Section
7.6.
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No
Proceedings
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27
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Section
7.7.
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No
Claim Regarding Share Ownership or Consideration
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27
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Section
7.8.
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Delivery
of Audit Report and Financial Statements
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27
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Section
7.9.
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Schedule
14(f)
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27
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ARTICLE
VIII
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Conditions
Precedent of the Company and the Company Securityholders
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27
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Section
8.1.
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Accuracy
of Representations
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27
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Section
8.2.
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Performance
by the Acquiror Company
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28
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Section
8.3.
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Certificate
of Officer
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28
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Section
8.4.
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Certificate
of Acquiror Company Shareholder
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28
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Section
8.5.
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Consents
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28
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Section
8.6.
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Schedule
14(f)
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28
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Section
8.7.
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Amendments
to Organizational Documents
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28
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Section
8.8.
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Appointment
of Officers and Directors
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28
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Section
8.9.
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Closing
Documents
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28
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Section
8.10.
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No
Proceedings
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29
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Section
8.11.
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No
Claim Regarding Stock Ownership or Consideration
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29
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Section
8.12.
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Cancellation
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29
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Section
8.13.
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Applicable
Exemption from Registration under Securities Act
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29
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Section
8.14.
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No
Bankruptcy Proceedings
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29
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Section
8.15.
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Form
8-K
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29
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Section
8.16.
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No
Material Adverse Change
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30
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Section
8.17.
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Post-Closing
Capitalization
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30
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Section
8.18.
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Satisfactory
Completion of Due Diligence
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30
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Section
8.19.
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SEC
Reports
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30
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Section
8.20.
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No
Suspensions of Trading in the Acquiror Company Stock;
Listing
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30
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Section
8.21.
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Releases
of Liabilities
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30
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Section
8.22.
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Releases
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30
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Section
8.23.
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Consent
to Use of Financial Statements
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30
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Section
8.24.
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Indemnification
Agreement
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30
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Section
8.25.
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Lien
Searches
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31
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-iii-
Section
8.26.
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Lock-up
Agreements
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31
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Section
8.27.
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Bridge
Financing
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31
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Section
8.28.
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D&O
Insurance
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31
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Section
8.29.
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Termination
of Warrant
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31
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ARTICLE
IX
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Indemnification;
Remedies
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31
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Section
9.1.
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Survival
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31
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Section
9.2.
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Indemnification
Obligations of the sole Director and Officer of the Acquiror Company and
of Acquiror Company Shareholder
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31
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Section
9.3.
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Indemnification
Obligation in favor of Acquiror Company, the Company and the Company
Securityholders
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32
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Section
9.4.
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Indemnification
Procedures.
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32
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ARTICLE
X
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Covenants
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33
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Section
10.1.
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Cooperation;
Consents
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33
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Section
10.2.
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Blue
Sky Laws
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33
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Section
10.3.
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No
Liabilities
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34
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Section
10.4.
|
Schedule
14(f) Filing for Change in Majority of Directors
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34
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Section
10.5.
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Assistance
with Post-Closing SEC Reports and Inquiries
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34
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Section
10.6.
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No
Solicitation
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34
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Section
10.7.
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AFH
Fee
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34
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Section
10.8.
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Convertible
Debt Facility
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34
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Section
10.9.
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Xxxx
Conversion
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35
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Section
10.10.
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Additional
Financing
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35
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Section
10.11.
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Quotation
of Acquiror Company Common Stock
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35
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Section
10.12.
|
Company
Financial Representations
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35
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Section
10.13.
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Employment
Agreements
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35
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Section
10.14.
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Cancellation
of Shares
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35
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Section
10.15.
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Cancellation
of Agreements
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35
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Section
10.16.
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AFH
Right to Appoint Director
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35
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ARTICLE
XI
|
General
Provisions
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36
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Section
11.1.
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Expenses
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36
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Section
11.2.
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Confidentiality.
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36
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Section
11.3.
|
Notices
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37
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Section
11.4.
|
Arbitration
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37
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Section
11.5.
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Further
Assurances
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38
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Section
11.6.
|
Waiver
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38
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Section
11.7.
|
Entire
Agreement and Modification
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38
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Section
11.8.
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Assignments,
Successors, and No Third-Party Rights
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38
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Section
11.9.
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Severability
|
38
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Section
11.10.
|
Section
Headings, Construction
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38
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Section
11.11.
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Governing
Law
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39
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Section
11.12.
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Counterparts
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39
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Exhibits
A Acquiror
Company Certificate of Incorporation
B Acquiror
Company By-Laws
C. New
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Acquiror Company
D. New
Amended By-Laws of Acquiror Corporation
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This Share
Exchange Agreement, dated as of May 12, 2010, is made by and among AFH
Holding II, Inc., being renamed First Blush Brands, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Acquiror
Company”), AFH Holding and Advisory LLC, a Nevada limited liability
company (the “Acquiror
Company Shareholder”), Rose Hill Gardens, LLC, a California limited
liability company, and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx (collectively, the “Common
Shareholders”), and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx and Prescott Interests Ltd.
(collectively, the “Preferred
Shareholders”; and together with the Common Shareholders, the “Company
Securityholders”), and First Blush, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”).
Background
Whereas,
the Acquiror Company wishes to acquire all of the Securities (as defined below)
and the Company Securityholders are willing to transfer all of the Securities,
which securities constitute 100% of the issued and outstanding securities of the
Company, in exchange for securities of the Acquiror Company to be issued on the
Closing Date (as defined below), on the terms and conditions as set forth
herein;
Whereas,
after giving effect to the Share Exchange and related transactions contemplated
by this Agreement, but excluding any securities to be issued in the Bridge
Financing, the Convertible Debt Facility and the Additional Financing, the
Acquiror Company Securities to be issued to the Company Securityholders shall
constitute approximately 89% of the issued and outstanding shares of the
Acquiror Company Common Stock, calculated on a fully-diluted basis;
and
Whereas,
the board of directors of each of the Acquiror Company and the Company has
determined that it is desirable to effect the exchange transaction contemplated
hereby.
Now,
Therefore, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants,
agreements, representations and warranties contained herein, and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
Definitions
Unless
the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in this ARTICLE
I will have the meanings herein specified for all purposes of this
Agreement, applicable to both the singular and plural forms of any of the terms
herein defined.
“Accredited
Investor” has the meaning set forth in Regulation D under the Securities
Act.
“Acquiror
Company” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Acquiror
Company Board” means the board of directors of the Acquiror
Company.
“Acquiror
Company Common Stock” means the Acquiror Company’s common stock, $0.001
par value per share.
“Acquiror
Company Contract” means any and all agreements, contracts, arrangements,
leases, commitments or otherwise, of the Acquiror Company.
“Acquiror
Company Indemnified Party” has the meaning set forth in Section
9.2.
“Acquiror
Company Permits” has the meaning set forth in Section
5.30.
“Acquiror
Company Securities” means the Acquiror Company Common Stock being issued
to the Company Securityholders pursuant hereto.
“Acquiror
Company Shareholder” has the meaning set forth in the
Preamble.
“Additional
Financing” has the meaning set forth in Section
10.10.
“Affiliate”
means any Person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is
under common control with the indicated Person.
“AFH”
means AFH Holding and Advisory, LLC.
“AFH
Fee” has the meaning set forth in Section
10.7.
“Agreement”
means this Share Exchange Agreement, including all Schedules and Exhibits
hereto, as this Share Exchange Agreement may be from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented.
“Bridge
Financing” means a minimum of $300,000 and a maximum of $1,000,000 of
third party short term financing for the Company which may include the issuance
of convertible notes and warrants to purchase Equity Securities of the Acquiror
Company.
“Cancellation”
means the cancellation of shares of Acquiror Company Common Stock held by the
Acquiror Company Shareholder pursuant to Section
10.14.
“Closing”
has the meaning set forth in Section
2.2
“Closing
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.2.
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commission”
or “SEC”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal agency then
administering the Securities Act.
“Common
Shareholders” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Common
Stock” means the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 per share.
“Company”
has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Company
Board” means the board of directors of the Company.
“Company
Indemnified Party” has the meaning set forth in Section
9.3.
“Company
Securityholders” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Company
Securityholder Board” means the board of directors, or similar governing
body, of the applicable Company Securityholder.
“Convertible
Debt Facility” has the meaning set forth in Section
10.8.
-2-
“Deposit”
has the meaning sect forth in Section
10.7.
“Environmental
Laws” means any Law or other requirement relating to the environment,
natural resources, or public or employee health and safety.
“Environmental
Permit” means all licenses, permits, authorizations, approvals,
franchises and rights required under any applicable Environmental Law or
Order.
“ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same will then
be in effect.
“Equity
Security” means any stock or similar security, including, without
limitation, securities containing equity features and securities containing
profit participation features, or any security convertible into or exchangeable
for, with or without consideration, any stock or similar security, or any
security carrying any warrant, right or option to subscribe to or purchase any
shares of capital stock, or any such warrant or right.
“Evaluation
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section
5.37.
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any similar federal
statute, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as the
same will be in effect at the time.
“Exhibits”
means the exhibits referred to and identified in this Agreement.
“Financial
Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section
5.36.
“FINRA”
means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
“Form
8-K” means a current report on Form 8-K under the Exchange
Act.
“GAAP”
means, with respect to any Person, United States generally accepted accounting
principles applied on a consistent basis with such Person’s past
practices.
“Governmental
Authority” means any federal or national, state or provincial, municipal
or local government, governmental authority, regulatory or administrative
agency, governmental commission, department, board, bureau, agency or
instrumentality, political subdivision, commission, court, tribunal, official,
arbitrator or arbitral body, in each case whether U.S. or non-U.S.
“Indebtedness”
means any obligation, contingent or otherwise. Any obligation secured
by a Lien on, or payable out of the proceeds of, or production from, property of
the relevant party will be deemed to be Indebtedness.
“Indemnified
Party” has the
meaning set forth in Section
9.4(a).
“Indemnifying
Party” has the meaning set
forth in Section
9.4(a).
“Intellectual
Property” means all industrial and intellectual property, including,
without limitation, all U.S. and non-U.S. patents, patent applications, patent
rights, trademarks, trademark applications, common law trademarks, Internet
domain names, trade names, service marks, service xxxx applications, common law
service marks, and the goodwill associated therewith, copyrights, in both
published and unpublished works, whether registered or unregistered, copyright
applications, franchises, licenses, know-how, trade secrets, technical data,
designs, customer lists, confidential and proprietary information, processes and
formulae, all computer software programs or applications, layouts, inventions,
development tools and all documentation and media constituting, describing or
relating to the above, including manuals, memoranda, and records, whether such
intellectual property has been created, applied for or obtained anywhere
throughout the world.
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“Knowledge”
means, with respect to each of the Company and the Acquiror Company, the
knowledge of the executive officers of such company, as the case may
be.
“Laws”
means, with respect to any Person, any U.S. or non-U.S. federal, national,
state, provincial, local, municipal, international, multinational or other law
(including common law), constitution, statute, code, ordinance, rule, regulation
or treaty applicable to such Person.
“Legal
Requirement” means any federal, national, state, provincial, municipal
local, foreign, international, multinational or other Order or Law and all
requirements set forth in applicable agreements, contracts, arrangements, leases
or commitments.
“Lien”
means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of
any kind, including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and the filing of or
agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code of
any jurisdiction and including any lien or charge arising by Law.
“Losses”
means any and all demands, claims, complaints, actions or causes of action,
suits, proceedings, investigations, arbitrations, assessments, losses, damages,
diminution in value, deficiencies, payments, liabilities or obligations
(including those arising out of any action, such as any settlement or compromise
thereof or judgment or award therein) and any fees, costs and expenses related
thereto, including without limitation legal expenses, including the fees, costs
and expenses of any kind incurred by any party indemnified herein and its
counsel in investigating, preparing for, defending against or providing
evidence, producing documents or taking other action with respect to any
threatened or asserted claim.
“Material
Adverse Effect” means, when used with respect to the Company, the
Acquiror Company or the Acquired Companies, as the case may be, any change,
effect or circumstance which, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably
be expected to (a) have a material adverse effect on the business, assets,
financial condition or results of operations of the Company, the Acquiror
Company or the Acquired Companies, as the case may be, in each case taken as a
whole or (b) materially impair the ability of the Company, the Acquiror Company
or the Acquired Companies, as the case may be, to perform their obligations
under this Agreement, excluding any change, effect or circumstance resulting
from (i) the announcement, pendency or consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, (ii) changes in the United States securities
markets generally, or (iii) changes in general economic, currency exchange rate,
political or regulatory conditions in industries in which the Company or the
Acquiror Company operate.
“Money
Laundering Laws”” has the meaning set forth in Section
5.45.
“Order”
means any award, decision, injunction, judgment, order, ruling, subpoena, or
verdict entered, issued, made, or rendered by any Governmental
Authority.
“Organizational
Documents” means (a) the articles or certificate of incorporation and the
by-laws or code of regulations of a corporation; (b) the partnership agreement
and any statement of partnership of a general partnership; (c) the limited
partnership agreement and the certificate of limited partnership of a limited
partnership; (d) the articles or certificate of formation and operating
agreement or the memorandum and articles of association of a limited liability
company; (e) any other document performing a similar function to the documents
specified in clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d) adopted or filed in connection with
the creation, formation or organization of a Person; and (f) any and all
amendments to any of the foregoing.
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“Permitted
Liens” means (a) Liens for Taxes not yet due and payable or in respect of
which the validity thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and for the payment of which the relevant party has made adequate
reserves; (b) Liens in respect of pledges or deposits under workmen’s
compensation laws or similar legislation, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics,
laborers and materialmen and similar Liens, if the obligations secured by such
Liens are not then delinquent or are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings conducted and for the payment of which the relevant
party has made adequate reserves; and (c) statutory Liens incidental to the
conduct of the business of the relevant party which were not incurred in
connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credits
and that do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value of its
property or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its
business.
“Person”
means all natural persons, corporations, business trusts, associations,
companies, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures and other
entities, governments, agencies and political subdivisions.
“Preferred
Shareholders” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Preferred
Stock” means the Company’s preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per
share.
“Providing
Party” has the meaning set forth in Section
11.2(b).
“Proceeding”
means any action, arbitration, audit, hearing, investigation, litigation, or
suit (whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative) commenced,
brought, conducted, or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any
Governmental Authority.
“Regulation
D” means Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act, as amended,
and as it may be further amended.
“Regulation
S” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act, as amended,
and as it may be further amended.
“Restated
Organization Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section
8.2.
“Xxxx”
means Xxxxxxx Xxxx.
“Xxxx
Conversion” has the meaning set forth in Section
10.9.
“Rule
144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as the same may be amended
from time to time, or any successor statute.
“Schedule
14(f) Filing” means an information statement filed by the Acquiror
Company on Schedule 14f-1 under the Exchange Act, as amended.
“Schedules”
means the several schedules referred to and identified herein, setting forth
certain disclosures, exceptions and other information, data and documents
referred to at various places throughout this Agreement.
“SEC
Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section
5.36
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“Section
4(2)” means Section 4(2) under the Securities Act, as the same may be
amended from time to time, or any successor statute.
“Securities”
means the 7,063,750 shares of Common Stock and 151,250 shares of Series A
Preferred Stock currently outstanding.
“Securities
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any similar federal
statute, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as the
same will be in effect at the time.
“Series
A Preferred Stock” means the Company’s Series A Preferred
Stock.
“Share
Exchange” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.1.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company,
joint venture or partnership of which such Person (a) beneficially owns, either
directly or indirectly, more than 50% of (i) the total combined voting power of
all classes of voting securities of such entity, (ii) the total combined equity
interests, or (iii) the capital or profit interests, in the case of a
partnership or limited liability company; or (b) otherwise has the power to vote
or to direct the voting of sufficient securities to elect a majority of the
board of directors or similar governing body.
“Survival
Period” has the meaning set forth in Section
9.1.
“Tax
Return” means any return, declaration, report, claim for refund or
credit, information return, statement or other similar document filed with any
Governmental Authority with respect to Taxes, including any schedule or
attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof.
“Taxes”
means all foreign, federal, state or local taxes, charges, fees, levies,
imposts, duties and other assessments, as applicable, including, but not limited
to, any income, alternative minimum or add-on, estimated, gross income, gross
receipts, sales, use, transfer, transactions, intangibles, ad valorem,
value-added, franchise, registration, title, license, capital, paid-up capital,
profits, withholding, payroll, employment, unemployment, excise, severance,
stamp, occupation, premium, real property, recording, personal property, federal
highway use, commercial rent, environmental (including, but not limited to,
taxes under Section 59A of the Code) or windfall profit tax, custom, duty or
other tax, governmental fee or other like assessment or charge of any kind
whatsoever, together with any interest, penalties or additions to tax with
respect to any of the foregoing; and “Tax” means any of the foregoing
Taxes.
“Third
Party Claim” has the meaning set forth in Section
9.4(b).
“Transaction
Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the lock-up agreements,
registration rights agreements, and all agreements, instruments and other
documents to be executed and delivered in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
“U.S.”
means the United States of America.
ARTICLE
II
Exchange of Shares and Share
Consideration
Section
2.1. Securities
Exchange. At the Closing, the Company Securityholders shall
transfer the Securities, representing all of the issued and outstanding
securities of the Company as of the Closing Date, to the Acquiror Company and,
in consideration therefor, subject to Section
2.3, the Acquiror Company shall issue to the Company Securityholders an
aggregate of 7,125,000 fully paid and non-assessable shares of Acquiror Company
Common Stock (the “Share
Exchange”), all in accordance with Schedule
2.1.
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Section
2.2. Closing
Date. The closing of the Share Exchange (the “Closing”)
will occur at 2:00 pm local time at the offices of Blank Rome LLP in New York,
New York on the second business day following satisfaction or waiver of the
closing conditions set forth in ARTICLE
VII and ARTICLE
VIII or such other date and time as the parties may mutually agree (the
“Closing
Date”).
Section
2.3. Withholding. The
Acquiror Company shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from the Acquiror
Company Securities otherwise issuable to each of the Company Securityholders
pursuant to this Agreement such amounts as it is required to deduct and withhold
with respect to the making of any applicable payment under the Code or any
provision of state, local, provincial or foreign tax Law. To the
extent that amounts are so withheld, such withheld amounts shall be treated for
all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to such Company
Securityholder in respect of which such deduction and withholding was
made.
Section
2.4. Section
368 Reorganization. For U.S. federal income tax purposes, the
Share Exchange is intended to constitute a “reorganization” within the meaning
of Section 351 and/or 368 of the Code. The parties to this Agreement
hereby adopt this Agreement as a “plan of reorganization” within the meaning of
Sections 1.368-2(g) and 1.368-3(a) of the United States Treasury
Regulations. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else to the
contrary contained in this Agreement, the parties acknowledge and agree that no
party is making any representation or warranty as to the qualification of the
Share Exchange as a reorganization under Section 368 of the Code or as to the
effect, if any, that any transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date has
or may have on any such reorganization status. The parties
acknowledge and agree that each (i) has had the opportunity to obtain
independent legal and tax advice with respect to the transaction contemplated by
this Agreement, and (ii) is responsible for paying its own Taxes, including
without limitation, any adverse Tax consequences that may result if the
transaction contemplated by this Agreement is not determined to qualify as a
reorganization under Section 351 and/or 368 of the Code.
ARTICLE
III
Representations and
Warranties of the Company Securityholders
Each
Company Securityholder, severally and not jointly, hereby represents and
warrants to the Acquiror Company and the Company as follows:
Section
3.1. Authority. The
Company Securityholder has all requisite authority and power (corporate and
other) and full legal capacity, governmental licenses, authorizations, consents
and approvals to enter into this Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents
to which the Company Securityholder is a party and to consummate the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the Transaction
Documents to which the Company Securityholder is a party, and to perform its
obligations under this Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to which
the Company Securityholder is a party. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Company Securityholder of this Agreement and each of the
Transaction Documents to which the Company Securityholder is a party have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate or similar action and do not require
from the Company Securityholder Board, if applicable, or the Company
Securityholder any consent or approval that has not been validly and lawfully
obtained. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company
Securityholder of this Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to which
the Company Securityholder is a party requires no authorization, consent,
approval, license, exemption of or filing or registration with any Governmental
Authority or other Person. Assuming this Agreement and the
Transaction Documents have been duly and validly authorized, executed and
delivered by the parties thereto other than the Company Securityholder, this
Agreement and the Transaction Documents to which the Company Securityholder is a
party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company
Securityholder, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective
terms, except as such enforcement is limited by general equitable principles, or
by bankruptcy, insolvency and other similar Laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors rights generally.
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Section
3.2. No
Conflict. Neither the execution or delivery by the Company
Securityholder of this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which the
Company Securityholder is a party, nor the consummation or performance by the
Company Securityholder of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will,
directly or indirectly, (a) contravene, conflict with, or result in a violation
of any provision of the Organizational Documents of the Company Securityholder,
if applicable; (b) contravene, conflict with, constitute a default (or an event
or condition which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a
default) under, or result in the termination or acceleration of, any agreement
or instrument to which the Company Securityholder is a party or by which the
properties or assets of the Company Securityholders are bound; (c) contravene,
conflict with, or result in a violation of, any Law or Order to which the
Company Securityholder, or any of the properties or assets of the Company
Securityholder, may be subject; or (d) require the consent of any Person or
Governmental Authority.
Section
3.3. Ownership
of Securities. The Company Securityholder owns, of record and
beneficially, and has good, valid and indefeasible title to and the right to
transfer to the Acquiror Company pursuant to this Agreement, all of its
Securities as set forth on Schedule
3.3 hereto, free and clear of any and all Liens. There are no
options, rights, voting trusts, shareholder agreements or any other contracts or
understandings to which the Company Securityholder is a party or by which the
Company Securityholder or Shares held by the Company Securityholder are bound
with respect to the issuance, sale, transfer, voting or registration of the
Securities. At the Closing Date, the Acquiror Company will acquire
good, valid and marketable title to the Shares held by the Company
Securityholder, free and clear of any and all Liens.
Section
3.4. Litigation. Except
as set forth in Schedule 3.4,
to the knowledge of the Company Securityholder, there is no pending Proceeding
against the Company Securityholder, including but not limited to, any Proceeding
that involves the Securities or that challenges, or may have the effect of
preventing, delaying or making illegal, or otherwise interfering with, any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document and no such Proceeding has been threatened, and no event or
circumstance exists that is reasonably likely to give rise to or serve as a
basis for of any such Proceeding.
Section
3.5. No
Brokers or Finders. Except as disclosed in Schedule
3.5, no Person has, or as a result of the transactions contemplated
herein will have, any right or valid claim against the Company Securityholder
for any commission, fee or other compensation as a finder or broker, or in any
similar capacity.
Section
3.6. Acknowledgment. The
Company Securityholder understands and agrees that the Acquiror Company
Securities to be issued pursuant to this Agreement and the Share Exchange have
not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state
of the U.S. and that the issuance of the Acquiror Company Securities is being
effected in reliance upon an exemption from registration afforded either under
Section 4(2) of the Securities Act for transactions by an issuer not involving a
public offering, Regulation D or Regulation S, and will constitute “restricted
securities” under the Securities Act. The Company Securityholder
understands that the Acquiror Company Securities are being offered and sold to
it in reliance upon the truth and accuracy of the representations, warranties,
agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of the Company Securityholder set
forth in this Agreement, in order that the Acquiror Company may determine the
applicability and availability of the exemptions from registration of the
Acquiror Company Securities on which the Acquiror Company is
relying. The Company Securityholder understands and agrees that the
Acquiror Company Securities may not be resold without registration under the
Securities Act or the existence of an exemption therefrom. The
Company Securityholder understands and agrees that the Company Securityholder is
familiar with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, as presently in effect, and
understands the resale limitations imposed thereby and by the Securities
Act.
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Section
3.7. Legends. It
is understood that any certificates for Acquiror Company Securities issued to
Company Securityholders will bear the following legend or one that is
substantially similar to the following legend and if the Acquiror Company
Security is not evidenced by a certificate, a notation of the substance of the
legend will be recorded in the applicable stock ledger:
THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE
SECURITIES LAWS AND NEITHER SUCH SECURITIES NOR ANY INTEREST THEREIN MAY BE
OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, ASSIGNED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT (1) PURSUANT TO
AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE
STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR (2) PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS, IN WHICH CASE THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE
COMPANY AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, WHICH COUNSEL AND OPINION ARE REASONABLY
SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY, THAT SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED,
ASSIGNED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE MANNER CONTEMPLATED PURSUANT TO AN
AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
Section
3.8. Additional
Legend. The certificates for the Acquiror Company Securities
issued to the Company Securityholders will bear any legend required by the “blue
sky” laws of any state to the extent such laws are applicable to the securities
represented by the certificate so legended.
Section
3.9. Investor
Status. The Company Securityholder is an Accredited Investor
and was not organized for the specific purpose of acquiring the Acquiror Company
Securities. It has sufficient Knowledge and experience in finance,
securities, investments and other business matters to be able to protect its
interests in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. The Company Securityholder has consulted, to the extent
that it has deemed necessary, with its tax, legal, accounting and financial
advisors concerning its investment in the Acquiror Company
Securities. The Company Securityholder understands the various risks
of an investment in the Acquiror Company Securities and can afford to bear such
risks for an indefinite period of time, including, without limitation, the risk
of losing its entire investment in the Acquiror Company
Securities. The Company Securityholder represents that its principal
business address is set forth in Schedule
3.9 hereto.
Section
3.10. Access to
Information. The Company Securityholder has had access to the
Acquiror Company’s publicly filed reports with the SEC. The Company
Securityholder has been furnished during the course of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction Documents with all other
public information regarding the Acquiror Company that it has requested and all
such public information is sufficient for such person or entity to evaluate the
risks of investing in the Acquiror Company Securities. The Company
Securityholder has been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of and receive
answers from the Acquiror Company concerning the Acquiror Company and the terms
and conditions of the issuance of the Acquiror Company
Securities. The Company Securityholder is not relying on any
representations and warranties concerning the Acquiror Company made by the
Acquiror Company or any officer, employee or agent of the Acquiror Company,
other than those contained in this Agreement.
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Section
3.11. Purpose
of Investment. The Company Securityholder is acquiring the
Acquiror Company Securities for its own account, for investment and not with a
view to the distribution or resale of any part thereof to others. The
Company Securityholder acknowledges the Acquiror Company Securities cannot be
sold or otherwise transferred unless either (a) the transfer of such securities
is registered under the Securities Act or (b) an exemption from registration of
such securities is available and the Acquiror Company Securities will contain a
legend to that effect. The Company Securityholder understands and
acknowledges that the Acquiror Company is under no obligation to register the
Acquiror Company Securities for sale under the Securities Act.
Section
3.12. Absence
of Regulatory Review. The Company Securityholder acknowledges
that the Acquiror Company Securities have not been recommended by any federal or
state securities commission or regulatory authority, that the foregoing
authorities have not confirmed the accuracy or determined the adequacy of any
information concerning the Acquiror Company that has been supplied to such
person or entity and that any representation to the contrary is a criminal
offense.
ARTICLE
IV
Representations and
Warranties of the Company
The
Company represents and warrants to the Acquiror Company as follows:
Section
4.1. Organization
and Qualification. The Company is duly incorporated and
validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, has all requisite
authority and power (corporate and other), governmental licenses,
authorizations, consents and approvals to carry on its business as presently
conducted and as contemplated to be conducted, to own, hold and operate its
properties and assets as now owned, held and operated by it, to enter into this
Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, to
carry out the provisions hereof except where the failure to be so organized,
existing and in good standing or to have such authority or power will not have a
Material Adverse Effect. The Company is duly qualified, licensed or
domesticated as a foreign corporation in good standing in each jurisdiction
wherein the nature of its activities or its properties owned or leased makes
such qualification, licensing or domestication necessary, except where the
failure to be so qualified, licensed or domesticated will not cause a Material
Adverse Effect.
Section
4.2. Subsidiaries. The
Company does not own directly or indirectly, any Equity Security or other
ownership interest in any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other
entity or enterprise.
Section
4.3. Organizational
Documents. The Company is not in violation or breach of any of
the provisions of its Organizational Documents, except for such violations or
breaches as, in the aggregate, will not cause a Material Adverse
Effect.
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Section
4.4. Authorization
and Validity of this Agreement. The Company has all requisite
authority and power (corporate and other), governmental licenses,
authorizations, consents and approvals to enter into this Agreement and each of
the other Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party, to consummate
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other
Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party, to perform its
obligations under this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to
which the Company is a party, and to record the transfer of the Securities and
the delivery of the new certificates representing the Securities registered in
the name of the Acquiror Company. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction
Documents to which the Company is a party have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action and do not require from the Company Board or the
Company Securityholders any consent or approval that has not been validly and
lawfully obtained. The execution, delivery and performance by the
Company of this Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to which the
Company is a party requires no authorization, consent, approval, license,
exemption of or filing or registration with any Governmental Authority or other
Person.
Section
4.5. No
Violation. Neither the execution nor the delivery by the
Company of this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which the Company is a
party, nor the consummation or performance by the Company of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby will, directly or indirectly, (a) contravene,
conflict with, or result in a violation of any provision of the Organizational
Documents of the Company; (b) contravene, conflict with, constitute a default
(or an event or condition which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would
constitute a default) under, or result in the termination or acceleration of, or
result in the imposition or creation of any Lien under, any agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which any of the properties or
assets of the Company are bound; (c) contravene, conflict with, or result in a
violation of, any Law or Order to which the Company, or any of the properties or
assets owned or used by the Company, may be subject; or (d) contravene, conflict
with, or result in a violation of, the terms or requirements of, or give any
Governmental Authority the right to revoke, withdraw, suspend, cancel, terminate
or modify, any licenses, permits, authorizations, approvals, franchises or other
rights held by the Company or that otherwise relate to the business of, or any
of the properties or assets owned or used by, the Company, except, in the case
of clause (b), (c), or (d), for any such contraventions, conflicts, violations,
or other occurrences as would not cause a Material Adverse Effect.
Section
4.6. Binding
Obligations. Assuming this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents have been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the
parties thereto other than the Company, this Agreement and each of the other
Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party are duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company and constitute the legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforcement is limited by
general equitable principles, or by bankruptcy, insolvency and other similar
laws affecting the enforcement of creditors rights generally.
Section
4.7. Capitalization
of the Company. The Company is authorized to issue up to
18,700,000 shares, 14,850,000 shares of which are Common Stock and 3,850,000
shares of which are Preferred Stock of which 3,850,000 shares have been
designated as Series A Preferred Stock. All of the issued and
outstanding Equity Securities and other securities (including without limitation
debt securities) of the Company are set forth on Schedule
4.7. There are no outstanding or authorized options, warrants,
calls, purchase agreements, participation agreements, subscription rights,
conversion rights, exchange rights or other securities or contracts that could
require the Company to issue, sell or otherwise cause to become outstanding any
of its authorized but unissued shares or any securities convertible into,
exchangeable for or carrying a right or option to purchase shares or to create,
authorize, issue, sell or otherwise cause to become outstanding any new class of
securities. Except as set forth in Schedule
3.4, there are no conditions or circumstances that may give rise to or
provide a basis for the assertion of a claim by any Person that such Person is
entitled to acquire or receive from the Company any Company securities. Except
agreements being terminated concurrently herewith, there are no outstanding
shareholders’ agreements, voting trusts or arrangements, registration rights
agreements, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other
contracts pertaining to the capital stock of the Company to which the Company is
a party. The issuances of all of the securities of the Company
described in this Section
4.7 have been in compliance with U.S. federal and state securities laws
and all other Laws. All issued and outstanding shares of the Company
are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and have not
been issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights.
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Section
4.8. No
Redemption Requirements. There are no outstanding contractual
obligations (contingent or otherwise) of the Company to retire, repurchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire any outstanding shares of, or other ownership
interests in, the Company or to provide funds to or make any investment (in the
form of a loan, capital contribution or otherwise) in any other
Person.
Section
4.9. Compliance
with Laws and Other Instruments. Except as would not cause a
Material Adverse Effect, the business and operations of the Company have been
and are being conducted in accordance with all applicable Laws and
Orders. Except as would not cause a Material Adverse Effect, the
Company has not received notice of any violation (or any Proceeding involving an
allegation of any violation) of any applicable Law or Order by or affecting the
Company and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no Proceeding involving an
allegation of violation of any applicable Law or Order is threatened or
contemplated. Except as would not cause a Material Adverse Effect,
the Company is not in violation of, or (with or without notice or lapse of time
or both) in default under, or in breach of, any term or provision of its
Organizational Documents or of any indenture, loan or credit agreement, note,
deed of trust, mortgage, security agreement or other material agreement, lease,
license or other instrument, commitment, obligation or arrangement to which the
Company is a party or by which any of the Company’s properties, assets or rights
are bound or affected. To the Knowledge of the Company, no other
party to any material contract, agreement, lease, license, commitment,
instrument or other obligation to which the Company is a party is (with or
without notice or lapse of time or both) in default thereunder or in breach of
any term thereof. The Company is not subject to any obligation or
restriction of any kind or character, nor is there, to the Knowledge of the
Company, any event or circumstance relating to the Company that materially and
adversely affects in any way its business, properties, assets or prospects or
that prohibits the Company from entering into this Agreement or would prevent or
make burdensome its performance of or compliance with all or any part of this
Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby.
Section
4.10. Certain
Proceedings. To the Company’s Knowledge, there is no pending
Proceeding that has been commenced against the Company that challenges, or may
have the effect of preventing, delaying, making illegal, or otherwise
interfering with, any of the transactions contemplated in this
Agreement. Except as set forth in Schedule
3.4, no such Proceeding has been threatened.
Section
4.11. No
Brokers or Finders. Except as disclosed in Section
10.7, no person has, or as a result of the transactions contemplated
herein will have, any right or valid claim against the Company for any
commission, fee or other compensation as a finder or broker, or in any similar
capacity.
Section
4.12. Title to
and Condition of Properties. Except as would not cause a
Material Adverse Effect, the Company owns (with good and marketable title in the
case of real property) or holds under valid leases or other rights to use all
real property, plants, machinery and equipment necessary for the conduct of the
business of the Company or a Company Subsidiary, as the case may be, as
presently conducted, free and clear of all Liens, except Permitted
Liens.
Section
4.13. No
Undisclosed Events. Since December 31, 2009, no material
event exists with respect to the Company or its respective businesses,
properties, operations or financial condition that would have a Material Adverse
Effect on the Company which has not been disclosed to the Acquiror Company as of
the date of this Agreement.
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ARTICLE
V
Representations
and Warranties of the Acquiror Company
and the Acquiror Company
Shareholder
The
Acquiror Company and the Acquiror Company Shareholder, jointly and severally,
represent and warrant to the Company Securityholders and the Company as
follows:
Section
5.1. Organization
and Qualification. The Acquiror Company is duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware, has all
requisite corporate authority and power, governmental licenses, authorizations,
consents and approvals to carry on its business as presently conducted and to
own, hold and operate its properties and assets as now owned, held and operated
by it. The Acquiror Company is not qualified or licensed or
domesticated in any other jurisdiction and the nature of its activities or its
properties owned, held or operated makes does not make such qualification,
licensing or domestication necessary. The Acquiror Company has not
conducted business under or otherwise used for any purpose any fictitious name,
assumed name, trade name or other name.
Section
5.2. Subsidiaries. The
Acquiror Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any equity or other
ownership interest in any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other
entity or enterprise.
Section
5.3. Organizational
Documents. The articles of incorporation and by-laws of the
Acquiror Company immediately prior to the Closing of the Restated Organization
Documents of the Acquiror Company are attached as Exhibit
A and Exhibit
B, respectively, and except for the approval of the Restated Organization
Documents, no action has been taken to amend or repeal such Organizational
Documents. The Acquiror Company is not in violation or breach of any
of the provisions of its Organizational Documents. The Restated
Organization Documents have been duly approved and adopted by the Acquiror
Company Board and such approval has not been amended or modified.
Section
5.4. Authorization. The
Acquiror Company has all requisite authority and power (corporate and other),
governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to enter into this
Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company is
a party, to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each
of the Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company is a party and to
perform its obligations under this Agreement and each of the Transaction
Documents to which the Acquiror Company is a party. The execution,
delivery and performance by the Acquiror Company of this Agreement and each of
the Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company is a party have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not require from the
Acquiror Company Board any consent or approval that has not been validly and
lawfully obtained. The execution, delivery and performance by the
Acquiror Company of this Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to
which the Acquiror Company is a party requires no authorization, consent,
approval, license, exemption of or filing or registration with any Governmental
Authority or other Person.
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Section
5.5. No
Violation. Neither the execution nor the delivery by the
Acquiror Company of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which
the Acquiror Company is a party, nor the consummation or performance by the
Acquiror Company of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will,
directly or indirectly, (a) contravene, conflict with, or result in a violation
of any provision of the Organizational Documents of the Acquiror Company (b)
contravene, conflict with, constitute a default (or an event or condition which,
with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default) under, or
result in the termination or acceleration of, or result in the imposition or
creation of any Lien under, any agreement or instrument to which the Acquiror
Company is a party or by which the properties or assets of the Acquiror Company
is bound; (c) contravene, conflict with, or result in a violation of, any Law or
Order to which the Acquiror Company, or any of the properties or assets owned or
used by the Acquiror Company, may be subject; or (d) contravene, conflict with,
or result in a violation of, the terms or requirements of, or give any
Governmental Authority the right to revoke, withdraw, suspend, cancel, terminate
or modify, any licenses, permits, authorizations, approvals, franchises or other
rights held by the Acquiror Company or that otherwise relate to the business of,
or any of the properties or assets owned or used by, the Acquiror
Company. The Acquiror Company has delivered to the Company accurate
and complete (through the date hereof) copies of: (i) the stock records of the
Acquiror Company; and (ii) the minutes and other records of the meetings and
other proceedings (including any actions taken by written consent or otherwise
without a meeting) of the holders of the Acquiror Company Common Stock, the
board of directors of the Acquiror Company and all committees of the board of
directors of the Acquiror Company. There have been no formal meetings
held of, or corporate actions taken by, the shareholders of the Acquiror
Company, the board of directors of the Acquiror Company or any committee of the
board of directors of the Acquiror Company that are not fully reflected in the
documents described in clauses (i) and (ii) above. The books of account, stock
records, minute books and other records of the Acquiror Company are accurate,
up-to-date and complete in all material respects, and have been maintained in
accordance with all applicable Law and prudent business practices.
Section
5.6. Binding
Obligations. Assuming this Agreement and the Transaction
Documents have been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the
parties thereto other than the Acquiror Company, this Agreement and each of the
other Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company is a party are duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Acquiror Company and constitute the
legal, valid and binding obligations of the Acquiror Company, enforceable
against the Acquiror Company in accordance with their respective terms, except
as such enforcement is limited by general equitable principles, or by
bankruptcy, insolvency and other similar Laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors rights generally
Section
5.7. Securities
Laws. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and
warranties of the Company Securityholders contained in Section
3.9, Section
3.10, and Section
3.11, when issued pursuant to this Agreement, the Acquiror Company
Securities will be issued and sold in accordance with exemptions from the
registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act and the
registration or qualification requirements of all applicable state securities
laws.
Section
5.8. Capitalization. The
authorized capital stock of the Acquiror Company consists of 120,000,000 shares
of which (i) 100,000,000 shares are designated as Acquiror Company Common Stock,
of which 800,000 shares are issued and outstanding after giving effect to the
Cancellation and (ii) 20,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock,
of which no shares are outstanding. No shares of Acquiror Company
Common Stock or Acquiror Company Preferred Stock are held by the Acquiror
Company in its treasury. All issued and outstanding shares of the
Acquiror Company Common Stock are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid
and non-assessable, and have not been issued in violation of any preemptive or
similar rights. At the Closing Date, the Acquiror Company will have
sufficient authorized and unissued Acquiror Company Common Stock to consummate
the transactions contemplated hereby. Except for the 800,000 shares
of Acquiror Company Common Stock issued to the Acquiror Company Shareholder
(after giving effect to the Cancellation), there are no issued and outstanding
Equity Securities or other securities (including without limitation debt
securities) of the Acquiror Company. There are no outstanding
options, warrants, calls, stock appreciation rights, phantom stock or similar
rights with respect to any securities of the Acquiror Company, purchase
agreements, participation agreements, subscription rights, conversion rights,
exchange rights or other securities or contracts that could require the Acquiror
Company to issue, sell or otherwise cause to become outstanding any of its
authorized but unissued shares of capital stock or any securities convertible
into, exchangeable for or carrying a right or option to purchase shares of
capital stock or to create, authorize, issue, sell or otherwise cause to become
outstanding any new class of securities or that give any Person the right to
receive any economic benefit or right similar to or derived from the economic
benefits and right occurring in respect of holders of the capital stock of the
Acquiror Company. There are no conditions or circumstances that may
give rise to or provide a basis for the assertion of a claim by any Person that
such Person is entitled to acquire or receive from the Acquiror Company any
Acquiror Company Equity Securities. There are no outstanding
stockholders’ agreements, voting trusts or arrangements, registration rights
agreements, rights of first refusal or other contracts pertaining to the capital
stock or other securities of the Acquiror Company. The issuances of
all of the outstanding shares of Acquiror Company Common Stock have been in
compliance with U.S. federal and state securities laws, all other Laws and the
Acquiror Company’s Organizational Documents. There are no bonds,
debentures, notes or other indebtedness of the Acquiror Company having the right
to vote (or convertible into, or exchangeable for or carrying a right or option
to purchase, securities having the right to vote or consent) in respect of any
matters as to which holders of Acquiror Company Common Stock may
vote.
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Section
5.9. No
Redemption Requirements. There are no outstanding contractual
obligations (contingent or otherwise) of the Acquiror Company to retire,
repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any outstanding shares of capital stock
of, or other ownership interests in, the Acquiror Company or to provide funds to
or make any investment (in the form of a loan, capital contribution or
otherwise) in any other Person.
Section
5.10. Duly
Authorized. The issuance of the Acquiror Company Securities
pursuant to this Agreement has been duly authorized and, upon delivery to the
Company Securityholders of certificates therefor in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, such Acquiror Company Securities will have been validly issued
and fully paid, and will be non-assessable, have the rights, preferences and
privileges specified in the Acquiror Company’s Organization Documents, will be
free of preemptive rights and will be free and clear of all Liens and
restrictions, other than Liens created by the Company Securityholders and
restrictions on transfer imposed by this Agreement and the Securities
Act.
Section
5.11. Compliance
with Laws. Since the formation of the Acquiror Company, (i)
the Acquiror Company and its business and operations have been and are being
conducted in accordance with all applicable Laws and Orders; and (ii) the
Acquiror Company has not received notice of any violation (or any Proceeding
involving an allegation of any violation) of any applicable Law or Order by or
affecting the Acquiror Company and no Proceeding involving an allegation of
violation of any applicable Law or Order is threatened or
contemplated. The Acquiror Company is not subject to any obligation
or restriction of any kind or character, nor is there, to the Knowledge of the
Acquiror Company, any event or circumstance relating to the Acquiror Company
that materially and adversely affects in any way its business, properties,
assets or prospects or that prohibits the Acquiror Company from entering into
this Agreement or would prevent or make burdensome its performance of or
compliance with all or any part of this Agreement or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby. The Acquiror Company has not
received any written communication from a Governmental Authority that alleges
that the Acquiror Company is or was not in compliance with any applicable
Law. The Acquiror Company is in compliance with all effective
requirements of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and
regulations thereunder, that are applicable to it.
Section
5.12. Certain
Proceedings. There is no pending Proceeding that has been
commenced against the Acquiror Company and that challenges, or may have the
effect of preventing, delaying, making illegal, or otherwise interfering with,
any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. To the
Knowledge of the Acquiror Company, no such Proceeding has been
threatened.
Section
5.13. No
Brokers or Finders. Except as disclosed in Section
10.7, no Person has, or as a result of the transactions contemplated
herein will have, any right or valid claim against the Acquiror Company for any
commission, fee or other compensation as a finder or broker, or in any similar
capacity.
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Section
5.14. Absence
of Undisclosed Liabilities. Except as set forth on Schedule
5.14, the Acquiror Company has no indebtedness, obligation or liability
(whether accrued, absolute, contingent, liquidated or otherwise, whether due or
to become due). Any and all debts, obligations or liabilities with
respect to directors and officers of the Acquiror Company will be cancelled
prior to the Closing of the Share Exchange.
Section
5.15. No
Operations. Since its formation, the Acquiror Company has not
conducted any business. The Acquiror Company is not a party to any
agreement or contract, whether written or oral, except for this Agreement and
each of the other Transaction Documents.
Section
5.16. Insurance. The
Acquiror Company maintains no insurance with respect to its business and its
assets.
Section
5.17. Changes. Since
December 31, 2009, the Acquiror Company has not:
(a) suffered
or experienced any change in, or affecting, its condition (financial or
otherwise), properties, assets, liabilities, business, operations, results of
operations or prospects other than changes, events or conditions in the usual
and ordinary course of its business;
(b) made
any loans or advances to any Person other than travel advances and reimbursement
of expenses made to employees, officers and directors in the ordinary course of
business;
(c) created
or permitted to exist any Lien on any material property or asset of the Acquiror
Company, other than Permitted Liens;
(d) issued,
sold, disposed of or encumbered, or authorized the issuance, sale, disposition
or encumbrance of, or granted or issued any option to acquire any shares of its
capital stock or any other of its securities or any Equity Security, or altered
the term of any of its outstanding securities or made any change in its
outstanding shares of capital stock or its capitalization, whether by reason of
reclassification, recapitalization, stock split, combination, exchange or
readjustment of shares, stock dividend or otherwise;
(e) declared,
set aside, made or paid any dividend or other distribution to any of its
stockholders;
(f)
terminated or modified any Material Acquiror Company Contract, except for
termination upon expiration in accordance with the terms thereof;
(g) released,
waived or cancelled any claims or rights relating to or affecting the Acquiror
Company or instituted or settled any Proceeding involving the Acquiror
Company;
(h) paid,
discharged or satisfied any claim, obligation or liability;
(i)
created, incurred, assumed or otherwise become liable for any
Indebtedness;
(j)
guaranteed or endorsed any obligation or net worth of any
Person;
(k) acquired
the capital stock or other securities or any ownership interest in, or
substantially all of the assets of, any other Person;
(l)
changed its method of accounting or the accounting principles or practices
utilized in the preparation of its financial statements, other than as required
by GAAP; or
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(m) entered
into any agreement, or otherwise obligated itself, to do any of the
foregoing.
Section
5.18. Acquiror
Company Contracts. The Acquiror Company has provided to the
Company, prior to the date of this Agreement, true, correct and complete copies
of each written Acquiror Company Contract, including each amendment, supplement
and modification thereto, and an accurate description of each Acquiror Company
Contract that is not in writing, including any amendment, supplement or
modification thereto.
Section
5.19. No
Defaults. Each Acquiror Company Contract is a valid and
binding agreement of the Acquiror Company, and is in full force and
effect. The Acquiror Company is not in breach or default of any
Acquiror Company Contract to which it is a party and, to the Knowledge of the
Acquiror Company, no other party to any Acquiror Company Contract is in breach
or default thereof. No event has occurred or circumstance exists that
(with or without notice or lapse of time) would (a) contravene, conflict with or
result in a violation or breach of, or become a default or event of default
under, any provision of any Acquiror Company Contract or (b) permit the Acquiror
Company or any other Person the right to declare a default or exercise any
remedy under, or to accelerate the maturity or performance of, or to cancel,
terminate or modify any Acquiror Company Contract. The Acquiror
Company has not received notice of the pending or threatened cancellation,
revocation or termination of any Acquiror Company Contract to which it is a
party. There are no renegotiations of, or attempts to renegotiate, or
outstanding rights to renegotiate any material terms of any Acquiror Company
Contract.
Section
5.20. Employees. The
Acquiror Company has no employees, independent contractors or other Persons
providing services to it. Except as would not have a Material Adverse
Effect, the Acquiror Company and its operations are and have always been in full
compliance with all Laws regarding employment, wages, hours, benefits, equal
opportunity, collective bargaining, the payment of Social Security and other
Taxes, and occupational safety and health. The Acquiror Company is
not liable for the payment of any compensation, damages, Taxes, fines, penalties
or other amounts, however designated, for failure to comply with any of the
foregoing Laws.
Section
5.21. Officers
and Directors. Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx is the sole director of the
Acquiror Company and is its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer. There are no other officers or directors of the
Acquiror Company. To the Knowledge of the Acquiror Company, none of
the past or present officers or directors of the Acquiror Company have been
convicted in a criminal proceeding or are subject to a pending criminal
proceeding, excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors, nor have they
been a party to any judicial or administrative proceeding during the past five
(5) years that resulted in a judgment, decree or final Order prohibiting
activities subject to federal or state securities laws, or a finding of any
violation of federal or state securities laws.
Section
5.22. Tax
Returns. The Acquiror Company has filed all Tax Returns
required to be filed (if any) by or on behalf of the Acquiror Company (on or
prior to the Closing Date) and has paid when due all Taxes of the Acquiror
Company required to have been paid (whether or not reflected on any Tax
Return). All such Tax Returns were accurately and completely prepared
and comply with all Applicable Laws. No Governmental Authority in any
jurisdiction has made a claim, assertion or threat to Acquiror Company that the
Acquiror Company is or may be subject to taxation by such
jurisdiction. The most recent Financial Statements contained in the
SEC Documents reflect an adequate reserve and fully accrue all actual and
contingent liabilities for unpaid Taxes with respect to all periods through the
date thereof and the Acquiror Company has made adequate provision for unpaid
Taxes after that date in its books and records. No Acquiror Company Tax Return
has ever been examined or audited by any Governmental
Authority. There are no Liens with respect to Taxes on the Acquiror
Company’s property or assets, other than Permitted Liens and there are no Tax
rulings, requests for rulings, or closing agreements relating to the Acquiror
Company for any period (or portion of a period) that would affect any period
after the date hereof. There are no unsatisfied liabilities for
Taxes, including Acquiror Company Tax liabilities for interest, additions to tax
and penalties thereon and related expenses, with respect to which any notice of
deficiency or similar document has been received by the Acquiror
Company.
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Section
5.23. No
Adjustments, Changes. Neither the Acquiror Company nor any
other Person on behalf of the Acquiror Company (a) has executed or entered into
a closing agreement pursuant to Section 7121 of the Code or any predecessor
provision thereof or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law; or
(b) has agreed to or is required to make any adjustments pursuant to Section
481(a) of the Code or any similar provision of state, local or foreign
law.
Section
5.24. No
Disputes. The Acquiror Company has delivered to the Company
true, correct and complete copies of all Tax Returns and examination reports and
statements of deficiencies assessed or asserted against or agreed to by the
Acquiror Company, if any, for each of the last two (2) years and any and all
correspondence with respect to the foregoing. There is no pending
audit, examination, investigation, dispute, proceeding or claim with respect to
any Taxes of the Acquiror Company, nor is any such claim or dispute pending or
contemplated. The Acquiror Company has not received notice of any
such audit, examination, investigation, dispute, proceeding or claim with
respect to any Taxes with respect to any periods.
Section
5.25. Not a
U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation. The Acquiror Company
is not and has not been a United States real property holding corporation within
the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code at any time during the applicable
period specified in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code.
Section
5.26. No Tax
Allocation, Sharing. The Acquiror Company is not and has not
been a party to any Tax allocation or sharing agreement.
Section
5.27. No Other
Arrangements. The Acquiror Company is not a party to any
agreement, contract or arrangement for services that would result, individually
or in the aggregate, in the payment of any amount that would not be deductible
by reason of Section 162(m), 280G or 404 of the Code. The Acquiror
Company is not a “consenting corporation” within the meaning of Section 341(f)
of the Code. The Acquiror Company does not have any “tax-exempt bond
financed property” or “tax-exempt use property” within the meaning of Section
168(g) or (h), respectively of the Code. The Acquiror Company does
not have any outstanding closing agreement, ruling request, request for consent
to change a method of accounting, subpoena or request for information to or from
a Governmental Authority in connection with any Tax matter. During
the last two (2) years, the Acquiror Company has not engaged in any exchange
with a related party (within the meaning of Section 1031(f) of the Code) under
which gain realized was not recognized by reason of Section 1031 of the
Code. The Company is not a party to any reportable transaction within
the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4.
Section
5.28. Material
Assets. The financial statements of the Acquiror Company set
forth in the SEC Documents reflect the material properties and assets (real and
personal) owned or leased by the Acquiror Company.
Section
5.29. Litigation;
Orders. To the Knowledge of the Acquiror Company, there is no
Proceeding (whether federal, state, local or foreign) pending or threatened
against or affecting the Acquiror Company or any of Acquiror Company’s
properties, assets, business or employees and no event or circumstance exists
that is reasonably likely to give rise or serve as a basis for any such
Proceeding. The Acquiror Company is not subject to any
Orders.
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Section
5.30. Licenses. The
Acquiror Company possesses from the appropriate Governmental Authority all
licenses, permits, authorizations, approvals, franchises and rights that are
necessary for the Acquiror Company to engage in its business as currently
conducted and to permit the Acquiror Company to own and use its properties and
assets in the manner in which it currently owns and uses such properties and
assets (collectively, “Acquiror
Company Permits”). The Acquiror Company has not received
notice from any Governmental Authority or other Person that there is lacking any
license, permit, authorization, approval, franchise or right necessary for the
Acquiror Company to engage in its business as currently conducted and to permit
the Acquiror Company to own and use its properties and assets in the manner in
which it currently owns and uses such properties and assets. The
Acquiror Company Permits are valid and in full force and effect. No
event has occurred or circumstance exists that may (with or without notice or
lapse of time): (a) constitute or result, directly or indirectly, in a violation
of or a failure to comply with any Acquiror Company Permit; or (b) result,
directly or indirectly, in the revocation, withdrawal, suspension, cancellation
or termination of, or any modification to, any Acquiror Company
Permit. The Acquiror Company has not received notice from any
Governmental Authority or any other Person regarding: (a) any actual, alleged,
possible or potential contravention of any Acquiror Company Permit; or (b) any
actual, proposed, possible or potential revocation, withdrawal, suspension,
cancellation, termination of, or modification to, any Acquiror Company
Permit. All applications required to have been filed for the renewal
of such Acquiror Company Permits have been duly filed on a timely basis with the
appropriate Persons, and all other filings required to have been made with
respect to such Acquiror Company Permits have been duly made on a timely basis
with the appropriate Persons. All Acquiror Company Permits are
renewable by their terms or in the ordinary course of business without the need
to comply with any special qualification procedures or to pay any amounts other
than routine fees or similar charges, all of which have, to the extent due, been
duly paid.
Section
5.31. Interested
Party Transactions. Except as set forth in Schedule
5.31, no officer, director or principal stockholder of the Acquiror
Company or any Affiliate or “associate” (as such term is defined in Rule 405 of
the Commission under the Securities Act) of any such Person, has or has had,
either directly or indirectly, immediately prior to or after the consummation of
the Share Exchange (a) an interest in any Person which (i) furnishes or sells
services or products which are furnished or sold or are proposed to be furnished
or sold by the Acquiror Company and its subsidiary, or (ii) purchases from or
sells or furnishes to, or proposes to purchase from, sell to or furnish the
Acquiror Company and its subsidiary any goods or services; (b) a beneficial
interest in any contract or agreement to which the Acquiror Company or its
subsidiary is a party or by which either may be bound or affected; or (c) any
material interest in any property, real or personal, tangible or intangible,
used in or pertaining to the business of the Acquiror Company or its
subsidiary.
Section
5.32. Governmental
Inquiries. The Acquiror Company has not received any material
written inspection report, questionnaire, inquiry, demand or request for
information from any Governmental Authority. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, neither the Acquiror Company nor any of its
officers or directors is, or has been, the subject of any formal or informal
inquiry or investigation by the SEC or FINRA or to its actual Knowledge, was
there any formal or informal inquiry or investigation of
the Acquiror Company or its officers or directors prior to the date
hereof.
Section
5.33. Bank
Accounts and Safe Deposit Boxes. The Acquiror Company has no
bank or other deposit or financial accounts.
Section
5.34. Intellectual
Property. The Acquiror Company does not own, use or license
any Intellectual Property in its business as presently conducted.
Section
5.35. Title to
and Condition of Properties. The Acquiror Company owns (with
good and marketable title in the case of real property) or holds under valid
leases the rights to use all real property, plants, machinery, equipment and
other personal property necessary for the conduct of its business as presently
conducted, free and clear of all Liens, except Permitted Liens.
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Section
5.36. SEC
Documents; Financial Statements. The Acquiror Company has
filed on a timely basis, including within any applicable extensions, all reports
required to be filed by it under the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section
13(a) or 15(d) thereof, (the foregoing materials being collectively referred to
herein as the “SEC
Documents”). As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents
complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated
thereunder, and none of the SEC Documents, when filed, contained any untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. All
Material Acquiror Company Contracts to which the Acquiror Company is a party or
to which the property or assets of the Acquiror Company are subject have been
appropriately filed as exhibits to the SEC Documents as and to the extent
required under the Exchange Act. The financial statements of the
Acquiror Company included in the SEC Documents (“Financial
Statements”) comply in all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect
thereto as in effect at the time of filing, were prepared in accordance with
GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be
indicated in the notes thereto, or, in the case of unaudited statements as
permitted by Form 10-Q or Form 10-QSB, as the case may be, of the Commission),
and fairly present in all material respects (subject in the case of unaudited
statements, to normal, recurring audit adjustments) the financial position of
the Acquiror Company as at the dates thereof and the results of its operations
and cash flows for the periods then ended. The books and records of
the Acquiror Company are true, accurate and complete in all material
respects.
Section
5.37. Internal
Accounting Controls. The Acquiror Company maintains a system
of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that
(a) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorizations, (b) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit
preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability, (c) access to assets
is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific
authorization, and (d) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with
the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with
respect to any differences. The Acquiror Company has established
disclosure controls and procedures for the Acquiror Company and designed such
disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be
disclosed by the Acquiror Company in the reports it submits under the Exchange
Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Acquiror Company’s
certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Acquiror Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the periods covered by the
Acquiror Company’s most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act
(such date, the “Evaluation
Date”). The Acquiror Company presented in its most recently filed
periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying
officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based
on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation
Date, there have been no changes in the Acquiror Company's internal
control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act)
that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the Acquiror Company's internal control over financial
reporting.
Section
5.38. Accountants. The
Acquiror Company’s accounting firm EFP Xxxxxxxxx, LLP. Such
accounting firm: (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by the
Exchange Act and (ii) expressed its opinion with respect to the financial
statements included in the Acquiror Company’s annual report for the year ended
December 31, 2009.
Section
5.39. No
Disagreements with Accountants and Lawyers. There are no
disagreements of any kind, including but not limited to any disagreements
regarding fees owed for services rendered, presently existing, or reasonably
anticipated by the Acquiror Company to arise, between the Acquiror Company and
the accountants and lawyers formerly or presently employed by the Acquiror
Company which could affect the Acquiror Company’s ability to perform any of its
obligations under this Agreement, and the Acquiror Company is current with
respect to any fees owed to its accountants and lawyers.
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Section
5.40. Regulation
M Compliance. The Acquiror Company has not, and to the Knowledge of
the Acquiror Company no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or
indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or
manipulation of the price of any security of the Acquiror Company to facilitate
the sale or resale of any of the Acquiror Company Common Stock, (ii) sold, bid
for, purchased, or paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the
securities of the Acquiror Company, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person
any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the
Acquiror Company.
Section
5.41. Business
Records and Due Diligence. Prior to the date hereof, the
Acquiror Company delivered to the Company all records and documents relating to
the Acquiror Company which the Acquiror Company possesses, including, without
limitation, books, records, government filings, Tax Returns, Organizational
Documents, corporate records, stock records, consent decrees, orders, and
correspondence, director and shareholder minutes, resolutions and written
consents, stock ownership records, financial information and records, and other
documents used in or associated with the Acquiror Company and its
Subsidiaries.
Section
5.42. Investment
Company. The Acquiror Company is not, and is not an Affiliate
of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended.
Section
5.43. Stock
Option Plans; Employee Benefits. The Acquiror Company has no
stock option plans providing for the grant by the Acquiror Company of stock
options or other securities or stock appreciation rights, phantom stock or
similar rights, to directors, officers, or employees or any other
Persons. The Acquiror Company has no employee benefit plans or
arrangements covering their present or former employees, officers or directors
or providing benefits to such persons in respect of services provided the
Acquiror Company. Neither the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby alone, nor in combination with another event, with respect
to each past or present director, officer, employee or consultant of the
Acquiror Company, will result in (a) any payment (including, without limitation,
severance, unemployment compensation or bonus payments) becoming due from the
Acquiror Company, (b) any increase in the amount of compensation or benefits
payable to any such individual or (c) any acceleration of the vesting or timing
of payment of compensation payable to any such individual. No
agreement, arrangement or other contract of the Acquiror Company provides
benefits or payments contingent upon, triggered by, or increased as a result of
a change in the ownership or effective control of the Acquiror
Company. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Acquiror Company does not, and since its inception never has, maintained or
contributed to any “employee pension benefit plans” (as defined in Section
3(2) of ERISA),
“employee welfare benefit plans” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) or any
other benefit plan for the benefit of any current or former employees,
consultants, officers or directors of the Acquiror Company.
Section
5.44. Environmental
and Safety Matters. The Acquiror Company has at all time been
and is in compliance with all Environmental Laws applicable to the Acquiror
Company. There are no Proceedings pending or threatened against the
Acquiror Company alleging the violation of any Environmental Law or
Environmental Permit applicable to the Acquiror Company or alleging that the
Acquiror Company is a potentially responsible party for any environmental site
contamination. Neither this Agreement nor the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall impose any obligations to
notify or obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority or third Persons
under any Environmental Laws applicable to the Acquiror
Company.
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Section
5.45. Money
Laundering Laws. The operations of the Acquiror Company are
and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial
recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign
Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of
all U.S. and non-U.S. jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and
any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or
enforced by any Governmental Authority (collectively, the “Money
Laundering Laws”) and no
Proceeding involving the Acquiror Company with respect to the Money Laundering
Laws is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Acquiror Company,
threatened.
Section
5.46. Questionable
Payments. Neither the Acquiror
Company nor, to the Acquiror Company’s Knowledge, any of its current or former
stockholders, directors, officers, employees, agents or other Persons acting on
behalf of the Acquiror Company, has on behalf of the Acquiror Company or in
connection with the Acquiror Company’s businesses: (a) used any corporate funds
for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses
relating to political activity; (b) made any direct or indirect unlawful
payments to any governmental officials or employees from corporate funds; (c)
established or maintained any unlawful or unrecorded fund of corporate monies or
other assets; (d) made any false or fictitious entries on the books and records
of the Acquiror Company; or (e) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff,
influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment of any
nature.
Section
5.47. Solvency. The
Acquiror Company has not (a) made a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors; (b) filed any voluntary petition in bankruptcy or suffered the filing
of any involuntary petition by its creditors; (c) suffered the appointment of a
receiver to take possession of all, or substantially all, of its assets; (d)
suffered the attachment or other judicial seizure of all, or substantially all,
of its assets; or (e) made an offer of settlement, extension or composition to
its creditors generally.
Section
5.48. Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act. Neither the Acquiror Company, nor to
the Knowledge of the Acquiror Company, any agent or other person acting on
behalf of the Acquiror Company, has, directly or indirectly: (a) used any funds
for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses
related to foreign or domestic political activity, (b) made any unlawful payment
to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or
domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (c) failed to
disclose fully any contribution made by the Acquiror Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (or made by any Person acting on their behalf of which the Acquiror
Company is aware) or any members of their respective management which is in
violation of any Legal Requirement, or (d) has violated in any material respect
any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the
rules and regulations thereunder which was applicable to the Acquiror
Company.
Section
5.49. No
Undisclosed Events, Liabilities, Developments or
Circumstances. Since December 31, 2009, no event, liability,
development or circumstance has occurred or exists with respect to the Acquiror
Company or (other than with respect to the Share Exchange and the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction Documents) or
its businesses, properties, prospects, operations or financial condition, which,
under applicable Law, rule or regulation, requires public disclosure or
announcement by the Acquiror Company but which has not been so publicly
announced or disclosed.
Section
5.50. Adverse
Interest. No current officer, director, Affiliate or person
known to the Acquiror Company to be the record or beneficial owner in excess of
5% of Acquiror Company Common Stock or any person known to be an associate of
any of the foregoing is a party adverse to Acquiror Company or has a material
interest adverse to Acquiror Company in any material pending legal
proceeding.
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Section
5.51. Investor
Status. The Acquiror Company is an Accredited
Investor. It has sufficient Knowledge and experience in finance,
securities, investments and other business matters to be able to protect such
its interests in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. The Acquiror Company has consulted, to the extent that it
has deemed necessary, with its tax, legal, accounting and financial advisors
concerning its investment in the Securities. The Acquiror Company
understands the various risks of an investment in the Securities and can afford
to bear such risks for an indefinite period of time, including, without
limitation, the risk of losing its entire investment in the
Securities. The Acquiror Company represents that its principal
business address is 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxx., Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000.
Section
5.52. Access to
Information. The Acquiror Company has been furnished during
the course of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement with all
information regarding the Company that it has requested and all such information
is sufficient for such person or entity to evaluate the risks of investing in
the Company. The Acquiror Company has been afforded the opportunity
to ask questions of and receive answers concerning the Company and the terms and
conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents. The Acquiror Company is not relying on any
representations and warranties concerning the Company made by the Company or any
officer, employee or agent of the Acquiror Company, other than those contained
in this Agreement.
Section
5.53. Purpose
of Investment. The Acquiror Company is acquiring the
Securities to be acquired hereunder for its own account, for investment and not
for distribution or resale to others. The Acquiror Company
acknowledges the Securities cannot be sold or otherwise transferred unless
either (a) the transfer of such securities is registered under the Securities
Act or (b) an exemption from registration of such securities is available and
the Securities will contain a legend to that effect. The Acquiror
Company understands and acknowledges that the Company is under no obligation to
register the Securities for sale under the Securities Act.
Section
5.54. Absence
of Regulatory Review. The Acquiror Company acknowledges that
the Shares to be acquired hereunder have not been recommended by any federal or
state securities commission or regulatory authority, that the foregoing
authorities have not confirmed the accuracy or determined the adequacy of any
information concerning the Company that has been supplied to such person or
entity and that any representation to the contrary is a criminal
offense.
Section
5.55. Untrue
Statements. Neither this Agreement nor the Transaction
Documents nor the Schedules hereto or thereto nor any other documents,
certificates or instruments furnished to the Company or the Company
Securityholders by or on behalf of Acquiror Company or the Acquiror Company
Shareholders in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements made herein or therein, in the light
of the circumstances under which they were made herein or therein, not
misleading.
Section
5.56. Board
Recommendation. The Acquiror Company Board, by unanimous
consent, has determined that this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement are advisable and in the best interests of the Acquiror Company’s
stockholders and has duly authorized this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
Section
5.57. Certain
Registration Matters. Except as contemplated by this
Agreement, the Acquiror Company has not granted or agreed to grant to any Person
any rights (including “piggy-back” registration rights) to have any securities
of the Acquiror Company registered with the SEC or any other Governmental
Authority that have not been satisfied.
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Section
5.58. Application
of Takeover Protections. The Acquiror Company has taken all
necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share
acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under
a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Acquiror
Company’s Organizational Documents or the laws of its state of incorporation
that is or could become applicable to the Company Securityholders as a result of
the Company Securityholders and the Acquiror Company fulfilling their
obligations or exercising their rights under this Agreement, including without
limitation as a result of the Acquiror Company’s issuance of the Acquiror
Company Securities and the Company Securityholders’ ownership of the Acquiror
Company Securities.
Section
5.59. Listing
and Maintenance Requirements. The Acquiror Company is, and has
no reason to believe that it will not in the foreseeable future continue to be,
in compliance with the requirements for quotation of the Acquiror Company Common
Stock on the over-the-counter automated quotation service administered by the
FINRA (“OTCBB”), provided the rules and regulations of the FINRA have been
complied with in connection with the Share Exchange. No approval of
the shareholders of the Acquiror Company is required for the Acquiror Company to
issue and deliver to the Company Securityholders the Acquiror Company Common
Stock contemplated by this Agreement.
Section
5.60. No
Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Company
Securityholders’ representations and warranties set forth in Article
III, neither the Acquiror Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any
Person acting on its or their behalf, has, directly or indirectly, made any
offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security,
under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Acquiror Company
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Acquiror Company for
purposes of (a) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any
such securities under the Securities Act, or (b) any applicable shareholder
approval provisions of any trading market or quotation medium on which any of
the securities of the Acquiror Company are listed or designated.
Section
5.61. Disclosure. The
Acquiror Company confirms that neither it nor any Person acting on its behalf
has provided the Company Securityholders or their agents or counsel with any
information that the Acquiror Company believes constitutes material, non-public
information, except insofar as the existence and terms of the proposed
transactions hereunder may constitute such information and except for
information that will be disclosed by the Acquiror Company under a Form 8-K
filed with the SEC within four (4) business days after the Closing. The Acquiror
Company understands and confirms that the Company Securityholders will rely on
the foregoing representations and covenants in effecting transactions in
securities of the Acquiror Company. All of the representations and
warranties of the Acquiror Company and the Acquiror Company Shareholders set
forth in this Agreement are true and correct and do not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading.
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ARTICLE
VI
Representations
and Warranties of
Acquiror Company
Shareholder
The
Acquiror Company Shareholder represents and warrants to the Company and each
Company Shareholder as follows:
Section
6.1. Authority. The
Acquiror Company Shareholder has all requisite authority and power (corporate
and other), governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to
enter into this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which
the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a party and to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to
which the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a party, and to perform its
obligations under this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to
which the Acquiror Company Principal is a party. The execution,
delivery and performance by the Acquiror Company Shareholders of this Agreement
and each of the other Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company
Shareholder is a party requires no authorization, consent, approval, license,
exemption of or filing or registration with any Governmental Authority or other
Person. Assuming this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents
have been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties
thereto other than the Acquiror Company Shareholder, this Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a party
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Acquiror Company
Shareholder, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms,
except as such enforcement is limited by general equitable principles, or by
bankruptcy, insolvency and other similar Laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors rights generally.
Section
6.2. No
Conflict. Neither the execution or delivery by the Acquiror
Company Shareholder of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which
the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a party, nor the consummation or performance
by the Acquiror Company Shareholder of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby will, directly or indirectly, (a) contravene, conflict with, constitute
a default (or an event or condition which, with notice or lapse of time or both,
would constitute a default) under, or result in the termination or acceleration
of, any agreement or instrument to which the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a
party or by which the properties or assets of the Acquiror Company Shareholder
is bound; (b) contravene, conflict with, or result in a violation of, any Law or
Order to which the Acquiror Company Shareholder, or any of the properties or
assets of the Acquiror Company Shareholder, may be subject; or (c) require the
consent of any third party or Governmental Authority.
Section
6.3. Ownership
of Acquiror Company Shareholder. All of the membership
interests of the Acquiror Company Shareholder are owned as set forth on Schedule
6.3, free and clear of any and all Liens. There are no
options, rights, voting trusts, shareholder agreements or any other contracts or
understandings to which the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a party or by which
the Acquiror Company Shareholder or the shares of Acquiror Company Common Stock
held by the Acquiror Company Shareholder is bound with respect to the issuance,
sale, transfer, voting or registration of the Acquiror Company Common Stock
owned by the Acquiror Company Shareholder.
Section
6.4. Litigation. There
is no pending Proceeding against the Acquiror Company Shareholder or its
members, including but not limited to, any Proceeding that involves the Acquiror
Company Common Stock held by the Acquiror Company Shareholder, or that
challenges, or may have the effect of preventing, delaying or making illegal, or
otherwise interfering with, any of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and, to the Knowledge of the Acquiror Company Shareholders, no such
Proceeding has been threatened, and no event or circumstance exists that is
reasonably likely to give rise to or serve as a basis for the commencement of
any such Proceeding.
Section
6.5. No
Brokers or Finders. Except as disclosed in Section
10.7, no Person has, or as a result of the transactions contemplated
herein will have, any right or valid claim against the Acquiror Company
Shareholder for any commission, fee or other compensation as a finder or broker,
or in any similar capacity.
Section
6.6. Access to
Information. The Acquiror Company Shareholder has been
furnished during the course of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
with all information regarding the Company that it has requested and all such
information is sufficient for the Acquiror Company Shareholder to evaluate the
risks of investing in the Company and to evaluate the
Cancellation. The Acquiror Company Shareholder has been afforded the
opportunity to ask questions of and receive answers concerning the
Company. The Acquiror Company Shareholder is not relying on any
representations and warranties concerning the Company or any Company
Securityholder made by any Person, other than those contained in this
Agreement.
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Section
6.7. Accredited
Investor. The Acquiror Company Shareholder is an “Accredited
Investor”. The Acquiror Company Shareholder’s principal place of
business is set forth on the signature page to this Agreement.
ARTICLE
VII
Conditions Precedent of the
Acquiror Company
The
Acquiror Company’s obligation to acquire the Securities and to take the other
actions required to be taken by the Acquiror Company at the Closing Date is
subject to the satisfaction, at or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the
following conditions (any of which may be waived by the Acquiror Company, in
whole or in part):
Section
7.1. Accuracy
of Representations and Warranties. The representations and
warranties of the Company and the Company Securityholders set forth in this
Agreement or in any Schedule or certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall be
true and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement, and
as of the Closing Date, except to the extent a representation or warranty is
expressly limited by its terms to another date and without giving effect to any
supplemental Schedule.
Section
7.2. Performance
of Covenants. All of the covenants, agreements and obligations
that the Company and the Company Securityholders are required to perform or to
comply with on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to this Agreement
(considered collectively), and each of these covenants, agreements and
obligations (considered individually), must have been duly performed and
complied with in all material respects to the extent required to be performed as
of the Closing Date.
Section
7.3. Preparation
of Form 8-K. A final draft of a Current Report on Form 8-K,
which discloses the Acquiror Company’s entering into this Agreement and the
Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the consummation of the Share
Exchange, and which also includes all information required to be reported with
respect to a transaction in which a public “shell company” ceases to be a “shell
company” including, without limitation, the information required pursuant to
Items 2.01 (Completion of
Acquisition or Disposition of Assets) and 5.06 (Change in Shell Company
Status), shall have been approved by the Acquiror Company and its legal
advisors, to be filed by the Acquiror Company with the SEC within four (4)
business days after the Closing.
Section
7.4. Consents. All
material consents, waivers, approvals, authorizations or orders required to be
obtained, and all filings required to be made, by the Company and/or the Company
Securityholders for the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement
and the consummation by them of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement,
shall have been obtained and made by the Company or the Company Securityholders,
as the case may be, except where the failure to receive such consents, waivers,
approvals, authorizations or orders or to make such filings would not have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Company or the Acquiror Company.
Section
7.5. Closing
Documents. The Company and the Company Securityholders must
deliver to the Acquiror Company at the Closing of the Share
Exchange:
(a) share
certificates evidencing the Securities, along with executed security transfer
instruments transferring such Securities to the Acquiror Company or if the
Securities are not evidenced by certificates, a duly executed assignment of such
Securities in favor of the Acquiror Company;
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(b) each
of the Transaction Documents to which the Company and/or the Company
Securityholders are a party, duly executed by the Company and/or the Company
Securityholders, as the case may be;
(c) a
certificate executed by an officer or director of the Company, certifying the
satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section
7.1 and Section
7.2 relating to the Company;
(d)
a certificate executed by an authorized officer or
director of each Company Securityholder that is an entity, certifying the
satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section
7.1 and Section
7.2 relating to each Company Securityholder;
(e) certificates
of existence or good standing, as applicable, (i) of the Company from the
Secretary of State of Delaware and California and (ii) the applicable
jurisdiction of organization of each Company Securityholder that is not an
individual; and
(f) such
other documents as the Acquiror Company may reasonably request.
Section
7.6. No
Proceedings. There shall not have been commenced or threatened
against the Acquiror Company, the Company or the Acquiror Company Shareholders,
or against any Affiliate if any of them, any Proceeding (which Proceeding
remains unresolved as of the Closing Date) (a) involving any challenge to, or
seeking damages or other relief in connection with, any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, or (b) that may have the effect of preventing,
delaying, making illegal, or otherwise interfering with any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
Section
7.7. No Claim
Regarding Share Ownership or Consideration. There shall not
have been made or threatened by any Person any claim asserting that such Person
(a) is the holder of, or has the right to acquire or to obtain beneficial
ownership of the Securities or any other shares, voting, equity, or ownership
interest in, the Company, or (b) is entitled to all or any portion of the
Acquiror Company Securities.
Section
7.8. Delivery
of Audit Report and Financial Statements. The Company shall
have completed the Company’s audited financial statements for all periods
required to be filed in a Form 8-K to be filed within four (4) business days
following the Closing.
Section
7.9. Schedule
14(f). A final draft of the Schedule 14(f) filing shall have
been prepared in form satisfactory to the Acquiror Company.
ARTICLE
VIII
Conditions Precedent of the
Company and the Company Securityholders
The
Company Securityholders’ obligation to transfer the Securities and the
obligations of the Company to take the other actions required to be taken by the
Company in advance of or at the Closing Date are subject to the satisfaction, at
or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions (any of which
may be waived by the Company and the Company Securityholders jointly, in whole
or in part):
Section
8.1. Accuracy
of Representations. The representations and warranties of the
Acquiror Company and Acquiror Company Shareholders set forth in this Agreement
or in any Schedule or certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement, and as of the
Closing Date, except to the extent a representation or warranty is expressly
limited by its terms to another date.
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Section
8.2. Performance
by the Acquiror Company. All of the covenants, agreements and
obligations that the Acquiror Company and Acquiror Company Shareholders are
required to perform or to comply with pursuant to this Agreement (considered
collectively), and each of these covenants, agreements and obligations
(considered individually), must have been performed and complied with in all
respects.
Section
8.3. Certificate
of Officer. The Acquiror Company shall have delivered to the
Company a certificate, dated the Closing Date, executed by an officer of the
Acquiror Company, certifying the satisfaction of the conditions specified in
Section
8.1 and Section
8.2 relating to the Acquiror Company.
Section
8.4. Certificate
of Acquiror Company Shareholder. The Acquiror Company
Shareholder will have delivered to the Company a certificate, dated the Closing
Date, executed by an officer of the Acquiror Company Shareholder, certifying the
satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section
8.1 and Section
8.2 relating to the Acquiror Company Shareholder.
Section
8.5. Consents. All
material consents, waivers, approvals, authorizations or orders required to be
obtained, and all filings required to be made, by the Acquiror Company for the
authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation by
it of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, shall have been obtained
and made by the Acquiror Company.
Section
8.6. Schedule
14(f). A final draft of the Schedule 14(f) filing shall
have been prepared in form satisfactory to the Acquiror Company
Securityholders.
Section
8.7. Amendments
to Organizational Documents. The by-laws of the Acquiror
Company shall have been amended and restated and be in the form set forth as
Exhibit
D.
Section
8.8. Appointment
of Officers and Directors. (a) Xxxxxxx Xxxx shall have been
appointed or elected to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Acquiror Company and Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx shall have been appointed or elected to
serve as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Acquiror
Company.
(b) The
size of Acquiror Company’s Board of Directors shall have been increased to four
effective upon the expiration of the applicable waiting period under Rule 14f-1
of the Exchange Act and each of Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx shall have been appointed as directors of the Acquiror Company to fill
the vacancies created by the increase in the since of the board, effective upon
the expiration of the applicable waiting period under Rule 14f-1 of the Exchange
Act.
Section
8.9. Closing
Documents. The Acquiror Company will have delivered the
following documents to the Company and/or the Company
Securityholders:
(a) certificates
or other written confirmation evidencing Acquiror Company Securities to be
issued pursuant to Section
2.1;
(b) a
Secretary’s Certificate, dated the Closing Date, certifying attached copies of
(i) the Restated Organizational Documents of the Acquiror Company, (ii) the
resolutions of the Acquiror Company Board approving this Agreement, the other
Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and the transactions contemplated
hereby; and the irrevocable resolutions accomplishing the elections or
appointments contemplated by Section
8.8.
(c) a
Certificate of Good Standing of the Acquiror Company from its jurisdiction of
incorporation dated a date within ten (10) days of the Closing
Date;
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(d) each
of the Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company is a party, duly
executed by the Acquiror Company;
(e) each
of the Transaction Documents to which the Acquiror Company Shareholder is a
party, duly executed by the Acquiror Company Shareholder;
(f) the
resignation of Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx as an officer of the Acquiror Company
effective as of the Closing and as a director of the Acquiror Company to be
effective upon expiration of the applicable waiting period under Rule 14f-1 of
the Exchange Act;
(g) a
statement from the Acquiror Company’s transfer agent regarding the number of
issued and outstanding shares of Acquiror Company Common Stock immediately
before and after the Closing of the Share Exchange;
(h) an
opinion of counsel to the Acquiror Company, addressed to the Company
Securityholders and the Company as to the corporate organization and good
standing of the Acquiror Company, the due authorization of the transactions
contemplated hereby, non-contravention and the enforceability of this Agreement;
and
(i)
such other documents as the Company or the Company Securityholders
may reasonably request.
Section
8.10. No
Proceedings. Since the date of this Agreement, there shall not
have been commenced or threatened against the Acquiror Company, the Company or
the Company Securityholders, or against any Affiliate thereof, any Proceeding
(which Proceeding remains unresolved as of the date of this Agreement) (a)
involving any challenge to, or seeking damages or other relief in connection
with, any of the transactions contemplated hereby or by the Transaction
Documents, or (b) that may have the effect of preventing, delaying, making
illegal, or otherwise interfering with any of the transactions contemplated
hereby.
Section
8.11. No Claim
Regarding Stock Ownership or Consideration. Except as set
forth in the Schedules hereto, there shall not have been made or threatened by
any Person any claim asserting that such Person (a) is the holder of, or has the
right to acquire or to obtain beneficial ownership of any Acquiror Company
Common Stock or any other stock, voting, equity, or ownership interest in, the
Acquiror Company or (b) is entitled to all or any portion of the Acquiror
Company Securities.
Section
8.12. Cancellation. The
Cancellation shall have been consummated.
Section
8.13. Applicable
Exemption from Registration under Securities Act. The Company
and the Company Securityholders shall be satisfied that the issuance of the
shares of the Acquiror Company Securities by the Acquiror Company to the Company
Securityholders, in connection with the Share Exchange, shall be exempt from
registration pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act or any other
applicable exemption therefrom.
Section
8.14. No
Bankruptcy Proceedings. No proceeding in which the Acquiror
Company shall be a debtor, defendant or party seeking an order for its own
relief or reorganization shall have been brought or be pending by or against the
Acquiror Company or under any United States, state or foreign bankruptcy or
insolvency law.
Section
8.15. Form
8-K. A final draft of a Current Report on Form 8-K, which
discloses the Acquiror Company’s entering into this Agreement and the
Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the consummation of the Share
Exchange, and which also includes all information required to be reported with
respect to a transaction in which a public “shell company” ceases to be a “shell
company” including, without limitation, the information required pursuant to
Items 2.01 (Completion of
Acquisition or Disposition of Assets) and 5.06 (Change in Shell Company
Status), shall have been approved by the Company and its legal advisors,
to be filed with the SEC within four (4) business days after the
Closing.
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Section
8.16. No
Material Adverse Change. There shall not have been any
occurrence, event, incident, action, failure to act, or transaction since
December 31, 2009, which has had a Material Adverse Effect.
Section
8.17. Post-Closing
Capitalization. At, and immediately after, the Closing, the
authorized capitalization, and the number of issued and outstanding shares of
the capital stock of the Acquiror Company, on a fully-diluted basis, as
indicated on a schedule to be delivered by the Company and the Acquiror Company
at or prior to the Closing, shall be acceptable to the Company.
Section
8.18. Satisfactory
Completion of Due Diligence. The Company shall have completed
their legal, accounting and business due diligence of the Acquiror Company and
the results thereof shall be satisfactory to the Company in its sole and
absolute discretion.
Section
8.19. SEC
Reports. The Acquiror Company shall have filed all reports and
other documents required to be filed by it under the U.S. federal securities
laws through the Closing Date.
Section
8.20. No
Suspensions of Trading in the Acquiror Company Stock;
Listing. Trading in the Acquiror Company Common Stock shall
not have been suspended by the SEC or any trading market or quotation medium
(except for any suspensions of trading of not more than one (1) trading day
solely to permit dissemination of material information regarding the Acquiror
Company) at any time since the date of execution of this Agreement, and the
Acquiror Company Common Stock shall have been at all times since such date
listed for trading on a trading market or quotation medium.
Section
8.21. Releases
of Liabilities. The Acquiror Company shall have delivered to
the Company such releases relating to liabilities of the Acquiror Company as the
Company shall request, in form and substance satisfactory to the Company,
including, but not limited to: (i) any agreement with any third parties under
which the Acquiror Company has a payment obligation (whether in cash or in
kind), including in respect of any guarantees; (ii) any notes or other
indebtedness payable of the Acquiror Company as at the Closing Date; and (iii)
any auditor, transfer agent and Xxxxx xxxxx invoices.
Section
8.22. Releases. The
Acquiror Company shall have delivered to the Company a duly executed release by
the current directors and officers of the Acquiror Company and the Acquiror
Company Shareholders in favor of the Acquiror Company, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Company.
Section
8.23. Consent
to Use of Financial Statements. The Acquiror Company’s
independent auditors shall have consented to the use by the Acquiror Company
following the consummation of the Share Exchange of all financial statements on
which their audit opinion was issued in all filings to be made by the Acquiror
Company with the SEC in which such financial statements are
required.
Section
8.24. Indemnification
Agreement. The Acquiror Company on the one hand and the
Acquiror Company Shareholder and Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx, jointly and severally on
the other, shall have delivered an indemnification agreement, executed by
each for the
benefit of the Acquiror Company, the Company and the Company Securityholders, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Company.
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Section
8.25. Lien
Searches. The Acquiror Company shall have delivered to the
Company the results of UCC, judgment lien and tax lien searches with respect to
the Acquiror Company, the results of which indicate no Liens on the assets of
the Acquiror Company and any Subsidiaries.
Section
8.26. Lock-up
Agreements. Each of Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx
Gardens, and the Acquiror Company Shareholder shall have executed and delivered
a lock-up agreement with the Acquiror Company with respect to their shares of
Acquiror Company Common Stock, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Company.
Section
8.27. Bridge
Financing. The Acquiror Company shall have entered into a
letter of intent for the Bridge Financing in form and substance satisfactory to
the Company.
Section
8.28. D&O
Insurance. The Acquiror Company shall have procured directors
and officer’s liability insurance to be effective as of the Closing Date with
limits acceptable to the Company but not less than $3 million in the aggregate
and $1 million per claim.
Section
8.29. Termination
of Warrant. The original warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares
of the Company’s Common Stock shall have been terminated and surrendered to the
Company.
ARTICLE
IX
Indemnification;
Remedies
Section
9.1. Survival. The
representations and warranties made by the Acquiror Company, the Acquiror
Company Shareholder, the Company Securityholders and the Company contained in
this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which any is a party shall survive
for a period of [one
year] following the Closing Date (the “Survival
Period”). The right to indemnification, payment of damages or
other remedy based on such representations, warranties, covenants, and
obligations will not be affected by any investigation conducted with respect to,
or any Knowledge acquired (or capable of being acquired) at any time, whether
before or after the execution and delivery of this Agreement, with respect to
the accuracy or inaccuracy of or compliance with, any such representation,
warranty, covenant, or obligation. The waiver of any condition based
on the accuracy of any representation or warranty, or on the performance of or
compliance with any covenant or obligation, will not affect the right to
indemnification, payment of damages, or other remedy based on such
representations, warranties, covenants, and obligations. No party
shall have any obligation to provide indemnification for any Losses resulting
from a breach of a representation or warranty if a notice of such breach is not
submitted to the Indemnifying Party within the applicable Survival
Period.
Section
9.2. Indemnification
Obligations of the sole Director and Officer of the Acquiror Company and of
Acquiror Company Shareholder. From and after the Closing Date
and until the expiration of the Survival Period, the Company shall reimburse,
indemnify, and hold harmless Acquiror Company’s sole director and officer who
held office immediately prior to the Closing of the Share Exchange and Acquiror
Company Shareholder (each such Person and his heirs, executors, administrators,
agents, successors and assigns is referred to herein as an “Acquiror
Company Indemnified
Party”) against and in respect of any and all Losses suffered, sustained,
incurred or required to be paid by any Acquiror Company Indemnified Party, which
arises or results from a third-party claim brought against an Acquiror Company
Indemnified Party to the extent based on (i) a breach of any of the
representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document to which it is a party, or in any certificate
delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) any breach by the
Company of any covenant, obligation or other agreement made by the Company in
this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party, or
(iii) a third party claim based upon any acts or omissions by the Acquiror
Company or the Company after the Closing of the Share Exchange provided such
claim is not based upon acts or omissions of the Acquiror Company Indemnified
Party. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company
shall have no obligation to indemnify or hold harmless any Acquiror Company
Indemnified Party for any Losses based on the diminution in value of the
Acquiror Company Common Stock. In no event shall the aggregate amount
payable by the Company pursuant to the Company’s indemnification obligations
hereunder exceed the amount of $50,000.
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Section
9.3. Indemnification
Obligation in favor of Acquiror Company, the Company and the Company
Securityholders. From and after the Closing Date and until the
expiration of the Survival Period, Acquiror Company’s Shareholder and
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx shall reimburse, indemnify and hold harmless the Acquiror
Company, the Company, the Company Securityholders, and the executive officers,
directors, and employees of Company Securityholders, Acquiror Company and the
Company in office at any time after the closing of the Share Exchange, but
excluding Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx (each such person and his heirs, executors,
administrators, agents, successors and assigns is referred to herein as a “Company
Indemnified Party”) against and in respect of any and all Losses
suffered, sustained, incurred or required to be paid by any Company Indemnified
Party in respect of (i) any breach of representation or warranty made by the
Acquiror Company or the Acquiror Company Shareholder in this Agreement or any
other Transaction Document, or in any certificate delivered by the Acquiror
Company or the Acquiror Company Shareholder pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) any
breach by the Acquiror Company or the Acquiror Company Shareholder of any
covenant, obligation or other agreement made by the Acquiror Company or the
Acquiror Company Shareholder in this Agreement or any Transaction Document, and
(iii) a third-party claim based on any acts or omissions by the Acquiror Company
or the Acquiror Company Shareholder through and including the Closing
Date.
Section
9.4. Indemnification
Procedures.
(a) In
order for any Acquiror Company Indemnified Party or Company Indemnified
Party (collectively, an “Indemnified
Party”) to be
entitled to any indemnification provided for under this ARTICLE
IX of this Agreement, the Indemnified Party shall deliver notice of its
claim for indemnification to the party from whom indemnity pursuant to this
Agreement is claimed (an “Indemnifying
Party”) with
reasonable promptness after determining to make such claim. The
failure by any Indemnified Party to notify the Indemnifying Party shall not
relieve any relevant Indemnifying Party from any liability which he or it may
have to such Indemnified Party under this Agreement, except to the extent that
such claim for indemnification involves the claim of a third party against the
Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party shall have been actually prejudiced
by such failure. If an indemnifying party does not notify the
Indemnified Party within thirty (30) calendar days following receipt by it of
such notice that such Indemnifying Party disputes its liability to the
Indemnified Party under this Agreement, such claim specified by the Indemnified
Party in such notice shall be conclusively deemed a liability of such
Indemnifying Party under this Agreement and such Indemnifying Party shall pay
the amount of such liability to the Indemnified Party on demand or, in the case
of any notice in which the amount of the claim (or any portion thereof) is
estimated, on such later date when the amount of such claim (or such portion
thereof) becomes finally determined. If an Indemnifying Party has
timely disputed its liability with respect to such claim, as provided above,
such Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party shall proceed in good faith to
negotiate a resolution of such dispute and, if not resolved through
negotiations, such dispute shall be resolved by litigation or such other means
as determined by the parties.
(b) If
the claim for indemnification involves a third party claim (a “Third
Party Claim”), then the Indemnifying Party shall have the right, at its
sole cost, expense and ultimate liability regardless of the outcome, and through
counsel of its choice (which counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Indemnified Party), to litigate, defend, settle or otherwise attempt to resolve
such Third Party Claim; provided,
however, that if in the Indemnified Party’s reasonable judgment a
conflict of interest may exist between the Indemnified Party and the
Indemnifying Party with respect to such Third Party Claim, then the Indemnified
Party shall be entitled to select counsel of its own choosing, reasonably
satisfactory to the Indemnifying Party, in which event the Indemnifying Party
shall be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of such
counsel.
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(c) Notwithstanding
the provision of Section
9.4(b), if in the Indemnified Party’s reasonable judgment no such
conflict exists, the Indemnified Party may, but will not be obligated to,
participate at its own expense in a defense of such Third Party Claim by counsel
of its own choosing, but the Indemnifying Party shall be entitled to control the
defense unless (i) in the case where only money damages are sought, the
Indemnified Party has relieved the Indemnifying Party from liability with
respect to the particular matter or (ii) in the case where equitable relief
is sought, the Indemnified Party elects to participate in and jointly control
the defense thereof.
(d) Whenever
the Indemnifying Party controls the defense of a Third Party Claim, the
Indemnifying Party may only settle or compromise the matter subject to
indemnification without the consent of the Indemnified Party only if such
settlement includes a complete release of all Indemnified Parties as to the
matters in dispute and relates solely to money damages. The Indemnified Party
will not unreasonably withhold or delay consent to any settlement or compromise
that requires its consent.
(e) In
the event the Indemnifying Party fails to timely defend, contest, or otherwise
protect the Indemnified Party against any such claim or suit, the Indemnified
Party may, but will not be obligated to, defend, contest, or otherwise protect
against the same, and make any compromise or settlement thereof, and in such
event, or in the case where the Indemnified Party jointly controls such claim or
suit, the Indemnified Party shall be entitled to recover its costs thereof from
the Indemnifying Party, including attorneys’ fees, disbursements and all amounts
paid as a result of such claim or suit or the compromise or settlement
thereof.
(f) The
Indemnified Party shall cooperate and provide such assistance as the
Indemnifying Party may reasonably request in connection with the defense of the
matter subject to indemnification and in connection with recovering from any
third parties amounts that the Indemnifying Party may pay or be required to pay
by way of indemnification hereunder.
(g) The
amount of Losses for which indemnification is provided hereunder shall be
computed without regard to any insurance recovery related to such
Losses.
(h) With
respect to any Loss for which an Indemnified Party has made a claim for
indemnification against an Indemnifying Party prior to the termination of the
Survival Period in accordance with this Agreement, the Survival Period shall be
deemed continued until final resolution of such claim for
indemnification.
ARTICLE
X
Covenants
Section
10.1. Cooperation;
Consents. Prior to the Closing, each party shall cooperate
with the other parties to the end that the parties shall (i) in a timely manner
make all necessary filings with, and conduct negotiations with, all authorities
and other persons the consent or approval of which, or the license or permit
from which is required for the consummation of the Share Exchange and (ii)
provide to each other party such information as the other party may reasonably
request in order to enable it to prepare such filings and to conduct such
negotiations. If, at any time after the date of this Agreement, any
further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this
Agreement, the parties will take all such lawful and necessary
action.
Section
10.2. Blue Sky
Laws. The Acquiror Company and the Company shall take any
action (other than qualifying to do business in any jurisdiction in which it is
not now so qualified) required to be taken under any applicable state securities
laws in connection with the issuance of the Acquiror Company Stock in connection
with this Agreement.
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Section
10.3. No
Liabilities. The Acquiror Company shall extinguish, satisfy or
assign all liabilities such that at the date of Closing, the Acquiror Company
shall have no liabilities or obligations whatsoever, either direct or indirect,
matured or unmatured, accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise except for any
nominal tax or other liabilities which shall not exceed in the aggregate
$1,000.
Section
10.4. Schedule
14(f) Filing for Change in Majority of Directors. As directed
by the Company, the Acquiror Company and the Acquiror Company Shareholder will
use their best efforts to ensure that Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx, the Acquiror
Company’s current director, will remain a director of the Acquiror Company until
the expiration of the 10-day period beginning on the date of the filing of the
Schedule 14(f), that the designation of the Company’s directors set forth in
Section
8.8 not be changed and that he otherwise takes no material actions as a
director of the Acquiror Company without the consent of the
Company.
Section
10.5. Assistance
with Post-Closing SEC Reports and Inquiries. Upon the
reasonable request of the Company, after the Closing Date, the Acquiror Company
Shareholder shall
use its reasonable best efforts to provide such information available to it,
including information, filings, reports, financial statements or other
circumstances of the Acquiror Company occurring, reported or filed prior to the
Closing, as may be necessary or required by the Acquiror Company for the
preparation of the post-Closing Date reports that the Acquiror Company is
required to file with the SEC to remain in compliance and current with its
reporting requirements under the Securities Act and/or Exchange Act, or filings
required to address and resolve matters as may relate to the period prior to the
Closing and any SEC comments relating thereto or any SEC or other inquiry in
respect thereof.
Section
10.6. No
Solicitation. In recognition of the substantial expenditures
of time, effort and expense to be incurred by both parties in connection with
the activities proceeding toward the execution of the Agreement and the closing
of the transactions contemplated herein, the Acquiror Company, the Acquiror
Company Shareholders, the Company, and Company Securityholders agree that they
will not directly or indirectly submit, solicit, initiate, encourage or discuss
any proposal or offer from any third party relating to competing “going public”
transaction or “reverse merger” (either as an acquirer or target) or knowingly
furnish any information with respect to, assist or participate in or facilitate
in any other manner any effort or attempt by any person to do or seek a
competing “going public” or “reverse merger” transaction.
Section
10.7. AFH
Fee. In consideration of entering into this Agreement and
consummating the transactions contemplated hereby, the Company shall pay the
Acquiror Company Shareholder a fee of $250,000 (the “AFH Fee”). The
Acquiror Company Shareholder hereby acknowledges that it has heretofore received
a non-refundable deposit (the “Deposit”) towards the AFH Fee. The
Deposit was paid on behalf of the Company by Xxxx. The Company shall
pay or cause to be paid to the Acquiror Company Shareholder out of the Bridge
Financing the $175,000 balance of such fee.
Section
10.8. Convertible
Debt Facility. The Company, the Acquiror Company and the
Acquiror Company Shareholder shall use their best efforts to secure financing of
not less than $3 million (the “Convertible Debt Facility”) for the Company
through the sale of debt instruments convertible into equity of the Acquiror
Company. The Company, the Acquiror Company and the Acquiror Company
Shareholder shall use their best efforts to close the Convertible Debt Facility
on or before June 30, 2010. The Company shall use the proceeds of
such Convertible Debt Facility to build infrastructure, execute on existing
business commitments and new opportunities with some of its customers as well as
to repay the Company’s senior indebtedness of approximately $1.2 million. The
Convertible Debt Facility, when fully converted, shall not represent more than
33% of the fully diluted shares of the Acquiror Company prior to the Closing of
the Convertible Debt Facility (exclusive of an employee option pool of 10% of
the outstanding shares on a fully diluted basis). The maturity of the
Convertible Debt Facility shall extend past the maturity of the Additional
Financing.
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Section
10.9. Xxxx
Conversion. The Company is indebted to Xxxx for the
Deposit. Concurrently herewith, Xxxx is assigning such indebtedness
to the Acquiror Company and the Acquiror Company is issuing to Xxxx in exchange
therefor (the “Xxxx Conversion”) 75,000 shares of Acquiror Company Common
Stock.
Section
10.10. Additional
Financing. In addition to the Convertible Debt Facility, the
Acquiror Company Shareholder shall use its best efforts to assist the Acquiror
Company following the Share Exchange in completing one or more equity private
financings or public offerings in the aggregate amount of not less than $3
million (the “Additional Financing”) to be completed no later than September 30,
2010. All aspects of the Additional Financing shall be subject to
mutual agreement of the Acquiror Company Shareholder and the Acquiror
Company. It is not intended that any portion of the proceeds of the
Additional Financing be used to repay any portion of the Convertible Debt
Facility.
Section
10.11. Quotation
of Acquiror Company Common Stock. As soon as possible
following the Share Exchange, the Acquiror Company Shareholder shall use its
best commercial efforts to initiate quotation of the Acquiror Company’s
securities exchanges (i.e. NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX) or the OTCBB, subject to mutual
approval by the parties.
Section
10.12. Company
Financial Representations. The Company represents and warrants
that provided the closing of the Convertible Debt Facility occurs no later than
May 31, 2010 and the Additional Financing is completed no later than September
30, 2010, the financial projections contained in that certain letter of intent
dated April 1, 2010 between AFH and the Company shall be represented by
management for use in valuation of the Acquiror Company and pricing of the
Additional Financing, including customary provisions such as reasonable cure and
make-good provisions, to be negotiated in good faith mutually approved by AFH
and the Acquiror Company, which may be triggered upon the failure of the
Acquiror Company to attain of any one of the projections.
Section
10.13. Employment
Agreements. Concurrently herewith, the Acquiror Company
is entering into employment agreements with each of Xxxxxxx Xxxx and
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, and the
Acquiror Company hereby ratifies the terms of those agreements.
Section
10.14. Cancellation
of Shares. Concurrently herewith, the Acquiror Company
Shareholder is assigning and surrendering to the Acquiror Company 700,000 shares
of Acquiror Company Common and the Acquiror Company is cancelling such
shares.
Section
10.15. Cancellation
of Agreements. The Company and each Company Securityholder
hereby terminate all prior agreements entered into by them with respect to the
Company Securities including, without limitation, any securities
purchase agreement, registration rights agreement, investor rights agreement and
co-sale agreement.
Section
10.16. AFH Right
to Appoint Director. AFH shall have the right to appoint one
director of the Acquiror Company and the parties hereto shall use their
commercially reasonable efforts to cause such designee to be elected or
appointed to the board. This right is exercisable only once and shall
terminate upon the expiration of one year following the Closing
Date.
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Section
10.17. Amendment
of Certificate of Incorporation. The Acquiror Company
Shareholder and the Acquiror Company each use their respective best efforts to
adopt, approve and file the restated certificate of incorporation of the
Acquiror Corporation in the form of Exhibit C and otherwise take such action as
may be necessary to cause such amended and restated certificate of incorporation
to take effect, including, without limitation, the preparation and filing of a
Schedule 13D with the SEC, as promptly as practical after the date
hereof. For this purpose, the Acquiror Company Board has designated
May 11, 2010 as the record date for shareholders who will be entitled to vote
and approve the adoption of such amended and restated certificate of
incorporation.
ARTICLE
XI
General
Provisions
Section
11.1. Expenses. Except
as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each party to this Agreement
will bear its respective expenses incurred in connection with the preparation,
execution, and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement, including all fees and expenses of agents, representatives,
counsel, and accountants.
Section
11.2. Confidentiality.
(a) The
Acquiror Company, the Acquiror Company Shareholder, the Company Securityholders
and the Company will maintain in confidence, and will cause their respective
directors, officers, employees, agents, and advisors to maintain in confidence,
any written, oral, or other information obtained in confidence from another
party in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and any other information about the Acquiror Company or the Company
and their business hereafter provided, unless (i) such information is already
known to such party or to others not bound by a duty of confidentiality or such
information becomes publicly available through no fault of such party, (ii) the
use of such information is necessary or appropriate in making any required
filing with the Commission, or obtaining any consent or approval required for
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or (iii)
the furnishing or use of such information is required by or necessary or
appropriate in connection with legal Proceedings.
(b) In
the event that any party is required to disclose any information of another
party pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) of Section
11.2(a), the party requested or required to make the disclosure (the
“disclosing party”) shall provide the party that provided such information (the
“Providing
Party”) with prompt notice of any such requirement so that the Providing
Party may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy and/or waive
compliance with the provisions of this Section
11.2(b). If, in the absence of a protective order or other
remedy or the receipt of a waiver by the Providing Party, the disclosing party
is nonetheless, in the opinion of counsel, legally compelled to disclose the
information of the Providing Party, the disclosing party may, without liability
hereunder, disclose only that portion of the Providing Party’s information which
such counsel advises is legally required to be disclosed, provided that the
disclosing party exercises its reasonable efforts to preserve the
confidentiality of the Providing Party’s information, including, without
limitation, by cooperating with the Providing Party to obtain an appropriate
protective order or other relief assurance that confidential treatment will be
accorded the Providing Party’s information.
(c) If
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are not consummated, each party
will return or destroy as much of such confidential written information as the
other party may reasonably request.
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Section
11.3. Notices. All
notices, demands, consents, requests, instructions and other communications to
be given or delivered or permitted under or by reason of the provisions of this
Agreement or in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall be in
writing and shall be deemed to be delivered and received by the intended
recipient as follows: (i) if personally delivered, on the business day of such
delivery (as evidenced by the receipt of the personal delivery service), (ii) if
mailed certified or registered mail return receipt requested, two (2) business
days after being mailed, (iii) if delivered by overnight courier (with all
charges having been prepaid), on the business day of such delivery (as evidenced
by the receipt of the overnight courier service of recognized standing), or (iv)
if delivered by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission, on the
business day of such delivery if sent by 3:00 p.m. in the time zone of the
recipient, or if sent after that time, on the next succeeding business day (as
evidenced by the printed confirmation of delivery generated by the sending
party’s telecopier machine or internet system). If any notice,
demand, consent, request, instruction or other communication cannot be delivered
because of a changed address of which no notice was given (in accordance with
this Section
11.3), or the refusal to accept same, the notice, demand, consent,
request, instruction or other communication shall be deemed received on the
second business day the notice is sent (as evidenced by a sworn affidavit of the
sender). All such notices, demands, consents, requests, instructions
and other communications will be sent to the following addresses, facsimile
numbers or e-mail addresses as applicable
If
to Acquiror Company or Acquiror Company Shareholder:
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with
a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to
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AFH
Holding and Advisory LLC
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0000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx., Xxxxx 000
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, XX 00000
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Attn. Xxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Attn.
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Fax
No.:
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Fax
No.:
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If
to the Company, Acquiror Company (after Closing) or the Company
Securityholders:
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with
a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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First
Blush Brands, Inc.
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Blank
Rome LLP
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0000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx., Xxxxx 000
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000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, XX 00000
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Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Attn. Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
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Attn: Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Esq.
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Fax
No.:
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Fax
No.: 000-000-0000
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With
copies to xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
and xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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Email: xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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Section
11.4. Arbitration. The
parties acknowledge and agree that any controversy, claim or dispute arising out
of or in any way relating to this Agreement, the interpretation, or breach
thereof and/or the relationship between the parties shall be settled by final
and binding arbitration and that a judgment upon any award rendered by the
arbitrator may be rendered in any court having jurisdiction. In
reaching a decision, the arbitrator shall have no authority to change, extend,
modify, or suspend any of the terms of this Agreement, but shall have the
authority to order injunctive relief and/or damages pursuant to the
Agreement. The parties agree that the arbitration shall be filed with
the American Arbitration Association and shall be heard in Los Angeles County,
California. The arbitrator shall apply the substantive law (and the
law of remedies, if applicable) of California or federal law, or both, as
applicable to the claims(s) asserted. The California Evidence Code
shall apply. California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1283.05,
which provides for certain discovery rights, shall apply to any such
arbitration, and said code sections, is hereby incorporated by
reference. If the arbitrator is a member of the California Bar with
at least ten (10) years litigation experience in California, the arbitrator
shall have the authority to entertain a motion to dismiss and/or a motion for
summary judgment by any party and shall apply the standards governing such
motions under the California Code of Civil Procedure. The arbitrator
shall render a written opinion setting forth the basis of the arbitrator’s
decision and executed in the manner required by law. The prevailing
party shall be entitled to a reasonable sum for direct, indirect, and incidental
costs and expenses incurred by the prevailing party in connection with such
arbitration, including but not limited to, all attorney’s fees, costs, and
expenses, whether or not such action is prosecuted to judgment.
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Section
11.5. Further
Assurances. The parties agree (a) to furnish upon request to
each other such further information, (b) to execute and deliver to each other
such other documents, and (c) to do such other acts and things, all as the other
party may reasonably request for the purpose of carrying out the intent of this
Agreement and the documents referred to in this Agreement.
Section
11.6. Waiver. The
rights and remedies of the parties to this Agreement are cumulative and not
alternative. Neither the failure nor any delay by any party in
exercising any right, power, or privilege under this Agreement or the documents
referred to in this Agreement will operate as a waiver of such right, power, or
privilege, and no single or partial exercise of any such right, power, or
privilege will preclude any other or further exercise of such right, power, or
privilege or the exercise of any other right, power, or privilege. To
the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) no claim or right arising
out of this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or any other documents referred
to in this Agreement can be discharged by one party, in whole or in part, by a
waiver or renunciation of the claim or right unless it is in writing signed by
the other party; (b) no waiver that may be given by a party will be applicable
except in the specific instance for which it is given; and (c) no notice to or
demand on one party will be deemed to be a waiver of any obligation of such
party or of the right of the party giving such notice or demand to take further
action without notice or demand as provided in this Agreement, the Transaction
Documents or any other documents referred to in this Agreement.
Section
11.7. Entire
Agreement and Modification. This Agreement supersedes all
prior agreements between the parties with respect to its subject matter and
constitutes (along with the documents referred to in this Agreement) a complete
and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement between the parties with
respect to its subject matter. This Agreement may not be amended
except by a written agreement executed by the party against whom the enforcement
of such amendment is sought.
Section
11.8. Assignments,
Successors, and No Third-Party Rights. No party may assign any
of its rights under this Agreement without the prior consent of the other
parties. Subject to the preceding sentence, this Agreement will apply
to, be binding in all respects upon, and inure to the benefit of and be
enforceable by the respective successors and permitted assigns of the
parties. Except as set forth in Section
9.2 and Section
9.3, nothing expressed or referred to in this Agreement will be construed
to give any Person other than the parties to this Agreement any legal or
equitable right, remedy, or claim under or with respect to this Agreement or any
provision of this Agreement. This Agreement and all of its provisions
and conditions are for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties to this
Agreement and their successors and assigns.
Section
11.9. Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable by any court of
competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Agreement will remain in
full force and effect. Any provision of this Agreement held invalid
or unenforceable only in part or degree will remain in full force and effect to
the extent not held invalid or unenforceable.
Section
11.10. Section
Headings, Construction. The headings of Sections in this
Agreement are provided for convenience only and will not affect its construction
or interpretation. All references to “Section” or “Sections” refer to
the corresponding Section or Sections of this Agreement. All words
used in this Agreement will be construed to be of such gender or number as the
circumstances require. Unless otherwise expressly provided, the word
“including” does not limit the preceding words or terms.
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Section
11.11. Governing
Law. This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State
of California without regard to conflicts of laws principles.
Section
11.12. Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which will be
deemed to be an original copy of this Agreement and all of which, when taken
together, will be deemed to constitute one and the same
agreement. The exchange of signature pages via facsimile or by e-mail
transmission in portable digital format, or similar format, shall constitute
effective execution and delivery of this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]
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In Witness
Whereof, the parties have executed and delivered this Share Exchange
Agreement as of the date first written above.
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AFH
HOLDING II, INC.,
to be renamed
FIRST BLUSH BRANDS, INC.
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By:
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/s/ XXXX
X. XXXXXXXXXXX
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Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Title: President
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AFH
HOLDING AND ADVISORY, LLC
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By:
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/s/ XXXX
X. XXXXXXXXXXX
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Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
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Title:
Managing Member
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ROSE
GARDENS LLC
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By:
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/s/ XXXXXXXX
XXXXXX
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Name:
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Title:
Managing Member
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/s/ XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
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XXXXXX
XXXXXXXXX
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/s/ XXXXXXX
X. XXXXXXXXX
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XXXXXXX
X. XXXXXXXXX
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PRESCOTT
INTERESTS LTD.
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By:
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/s/ XXXX
X. XXXXXX
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Name:
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Title: President
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FIRST
BLUSH, INC.
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By:
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/s/ XXXXXXX
XXXX
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Name: Xxxxxxx
Xxxx
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Title:
President
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Schedule
2.1
Name of Security Holder
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Shares of Acquiror
Company Common Stock
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Rose
Hill Gardens, LLC
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6,677,251 | |||
Prescott
Interests Ltd.
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250,805 | |||
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx
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25,068 | |||
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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171,876 | |||
Total
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7,125,000 |
Schedule
2.1
Schedule
3.3
FIRST BLUSH SECURITY
HOLDERS
Rose
Hill Gardens, LLC
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6,876,250
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shares
of Common Stock
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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187,500
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shares
of Common Stock
|
||
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx
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13,750
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shares
of Series A Preferred Stock
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Prescott
Interests Ltd.
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137,500
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shares
of Series A Preferred
Stock
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Schedule
3.3
Schedule
3.4
LITIGATIONS
On or
about August 14, 2009 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx commenced an action in the Superior Court of
Los Angeles against Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, among others, claiming that he is entitled
to remuneration for bringing the idea of a varietal grape juice to them as well
as for his work and consultation with them and Rose Hill Gardens LLC in
developing First Blush. Continued attempts to negotiate a reasonable
settlement to address Xx. Xxxxxxxx’x contributions have reached no resolution
RHG has agreed to indemnify First Blush for any costs and expenses associated
with such claims including but not limited to any settlement costs and legal
expenses associated therewith provided such legal expenses do not exceed
$100,000.
Schedule 3.4
Schedule
3.9
Principal Business Address
of each Company Securityholder
Rose Hill
Gardens LLC
X.X. Xxx
0000
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
000
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx
0000 X.
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Prescott
Interests, Ltd.
0000
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxx 00000-0000
Schedule 3.9
Schedule
4.7
Capitalization of FIRST
BLUSH, INC.
Common Stock
|
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Rose
Hill Gardens, LLC
|
6,876,250
shares
|
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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187,500
shares
|
Series A Preferred Stock
|
|
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxxxx
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13,750
shares
|
Prescott
Interests Ltd.
|
137,500
shares
|
Schedule 4.7
Schedule
5.31
Interested Party
Transactions
Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx is a Principal of the Acquiror Company Shareholder and is also a
partner of Blank Rome LLP, counsel to the Company and after the Closing it s
expected that Blank Rome LLP will continue to render services to the
Company.
Schedule 5.31
Schedule
6.3
Ownership of Membership
Interests of Acquiror Company Shareholder
Schedule 6.3