ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT by and between LSI CORPORATION as Seller and INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG as Buyer dated as of August 20, 2007
Exhibit 2.1
EXECUTION VERSION
by and between
LSI CORPORATION
as Seller
and
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
as Buyer
dated as of August 20, 2007
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. | Definitions | 2 | ||||||
1.1 | Defined Terms | 2 | ||||||
1.2 | Additional Defined Terms | 11 | ||||||
1.3 | Other Definitional and Interpretive Matters | 12 | ||||||
2. | Purchase and Sale of the Mobility Business | 13 | ||||||
2.1 | Purchase and Sale of Assets | 13 | ||||||
2.2 | Excluded Assets | 15 | ||||||
2.3 | Purchase Price | 16 | ||||||
2.4 | Assumed Liabilities | 18 | ||||||
2.5 | Excluded Liabilities | 19 | ||||||
2.6 | Further Assurances; Further Conveyances and Assumptions; | |||||||
Consent of Third Parties | 21 | |||||||
2.7 | Proprietary Information | 22 | ||||||
2.8 | Bulk Sales Law | 22 | ||||||
2.9 | Taxes | 23 | ||||||
2.10 | Buyer Designee | 24 | ||||||
3. | Representations and Warranties of Seller | 24 | ||||||
3.1 | Organization and Qualification | 24 | ||||||
3.2 | Subsidiaries | 24 | ||||||
3.3 | Authorization; Binding Effect | 25 | ||||||
3.4 | Non-Contravention; Consents | 25 | ||||||
3.5 | Title to Property; Principal Equipment; Sufficiency of Assets | 26 | ||||||
3.6 | Permits; Licenses | 27 | ||||||
3.7 | Real Estate; Environmental Matters | 27 | ||||||
3.8 | Compliance With Laws | 28 | ||||||
3.9 | Litigation | 29 | ||||||
3.10 | Business Employees | 29 | ||||||
3.11 | Contracts | 30 | ||||||
3.12 | Revenues; Financial Information; Absence of Certain Changes | 31 | ||||||
3.13 | Intellectual Property | 33 | ||||||
3.14 | Product Liability and Recalls | 36 | ||||||
3.15 | Product Warranty | 36 | ||||||
3.16 | Inventory | 37 | ||||||
3.17 | Customer and Suppliers | 37 | ||||||
3.18 | Restrictions on the Mobility Business | 37 | ||||||
3.19 | Brokers | 37 | ||||||
3.20 | Taxes | 37 | ||||||
3.21 | No Other Representations or Warranties | 38 | ||||||
4. | Representations and Warranties of Buyer | 38 | ||||||
4.1 | Organization and Qualification | 38 |
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4.2 | Authorization; Binding Effect | 39 | ||||||
4.3 | Non-Contravention; Consents | 39 | ||||||
4.4 | Brokers | 40 | ||||||
4.5 | Sufficiency of Funds | 40 | ||||||
4.6 | No Other Representations or Warranties | 40 | ||||||
5. | Certain Covenants | 41 | ||||||
5.1 | Access and Information | 41 | ||||||
5.2 | Conduct of the Mobility Business | 42 | ||||||
5.3 | Tax Reporting and Allocation of Consideration | 43 | ||||||
5.4 | Business Employees | 44 | ||||||
5.5 | Collateral Agreements; Leased Equipment | 46 | ||||||
5.6 | Regulatory Compliance; Post-Closing Cooperation | 47 | ||||||
5.7 | Contacts with Suppliers and Customers; Transfer of Information | 48 | ||||||
5.8 | Use of the Seller Name | 49 | ||||||
5.9 | Non-Solicitation or Hiring of Transferred Employees | 50 | ||||||
5.10 | No Negotiation or Solicitation | 50 | ||||||
5.11 | Non-Competition | 51 | ||||||
5.12 | Post Closing Remittances | 52 | ||||||
5.13 | Prorations and Adjustments | 52 | ||||||
5.14 | Post-Closing Warranty Arrangements. | 52 | ||||||
5.15 | Updates | 54 | ||||||
6. | Confidential Nature of Information | 54 | ||||||
6.1 | Confidentiality Agreement | 54 | ||||||
6.2 | Seller’s Proprietary Information | 54 | ||||||
6.3 | Buyer’s Proprietary Information | 55 | ||||||
6.4 | Confidential Nature of Agreements | 56 | ||||||
7. | Closing | 57 | ||||||
7.1 | Deliveries by Seller or the Subsidiaries | 57 | ||||||
7.2 | Deliveries by Buyer or a Buyer Designee | 57 | ||||||
7.3 | Closing Date | 58 | ||||||
8. | Conditions Precedent to Closing | 58 | ||||||
8.1 | General Conditions | 58 | ||||||
8.2 | Conditions Precedent to Buyer’s Obligations | 59 | ||||||
8.3 | Conditions Precedent to Seller’s Obligations | 59 | ||||||
9. | Status of Agreements | 60 | ||||||
9.1 | Survival of Representations and Warranties | 60 | ||||||
9.2 | General Agreement to Indemnify | 60 | ||||||
9.3 | General Procedures for Indemnification | 62 |
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10. | Miscellaneous Provisions | 64 | ||||||
10.1 | Notices | 64 | ||||||
10.2 | Expenses | 65 | ||||||
10.3 | Entire Agreement; Modification | 65 | ||||||
10.4 | Assignment; Binding Effect; Severability | 65 | ||||||
10.5 | Governing Law | 65 | ||||||
10.6 | Consent to Jurisdiction | 65 | ||||||
10.7 | Waiver of Jury Trial | 66 | ||||||
10.8 | Execution in Counterparts | 66 | ||||||
10.9 | Public Announcement | 66 | ||||||
10.10 | No Third-Party Beneficiaries | 67 | ||||||
11. | Termination and Waiver | 67 | ||||||
11.1 | Termination | 67 | ||||||
11.2 | Effect of Termination | 68 | ||||||
11.3 | Waiver of Agreement | 68 | ||||||
11.4 | Amendment of Agreement | 68 |
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Schedules
Schedule 1.1(a)
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Individuals with Knowledge | |
Schedule 1.1(b)
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Products | |
Schedule 1.1(c)
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Contingent Payment | |
Schedule 2.1(h)
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Licenses | |
Schedule 2.1(j)
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Governmental Permits | |
Schedule 2.2(f)
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Excluded Contracts | |
Schedule 2.4(b)
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Retention Bonus Payments | |
Schedule 3.2
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Subsidiaries | |
Schedule 3.4(b)
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Required Consents | |
Schedule 3.7(a)
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Assumed Leases; Leased Premises | |
Schedule 3.7(c)
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Environmental Matters | |
Schedule 3.8
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Compliance with Laws | |
Schedule 3.9
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Litigation | |
Schedule 3.10(a)
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Business Employees | |
Schedule 3.10(b)
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Benefit Plans | |
Schedule 3.11
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Material Contracts | |
Schedule 3.12(a)
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Statement of Revenues | |
Schedule 3.12(b)
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Other Financial Information | |
Schedule 3.12(d)
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Manufacturing Data | |
Schedule 3.12(e)
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Certain Events | |
Schedule 3.13(b)
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Intellectual Property | |
Schedule 3.14(b)
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Product Liability and Recalls | |
Schedule 3.15
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Product Warranty Terms | |
Schedule 3.17
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Customers and Suppliers | |
Schedule 5.4(b)
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Relocation and Tuition Benefits; International Assignees | |
Schedule 5.4(c)
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Severance Benefits | |
Schedule 7.1(b)
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Required Closing Consents |
Exhibits
Exhibit A
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Form of Assignment and Xxxx of Sale and Assumption Agreement | |
Exhibit B
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Form of Intellectual Property Agreement | |
Exhibit C
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Form of Lease Assignment | |
Exhibit D
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Form of Sublease | |
Exhibit E
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Form of Supply Agreement | |
Exhibit F
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Form of Transition Services Agreement |
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THIS ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) is made as of August 20, 2007 by and
between LSI CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“Seller” or “LSI”), and INFINEON
TECHNOLOGIES AG, a German stock company (“Buyer”).
RECITALS
A. WHEREAS, Seller and its Subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined) are, among other things,
engaged through one of its business units (referred to herein as “Mobility Products Group”)
in the Mobility Business (as hereinafter defined);
B. WHEREAS, the Mobility Business is comprised of certain assets and liabilities that are
currently part of Seller and its Subsidiaries, including part of Agere Systems Inc.
(“Agere”);
C. WHEREAS, Seller and certain of its Subsidiaries desire to sell, transfer and assign to
Buyer or a Buyer Designee (as hereinafter defined), and Buyer or a Buyer Designee desires to
purchase and assume from Seller and its Subsidiaries, the Purchased Assets (as hereinafter
defined), and Buyer or a Buyer Designee is willing to assume, the Assumed Liabilities (as
hereinafter defined), in each case as more fully described and upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth herein; and
D. WHEREAS, Seller and/or certain of its Subsidiaries and Buyer or a Buyer Designee desire to
enter into each Assignment and Xxxx of Sale and Assumption Agreement, the Intellectual Property
Agreement, each Lease Assignment, each Sublease, the Supply Agreement, and the Transition Services
Agreement (each as hereinafter defined, and collectively, the “Collateral Agreements”).
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements and covenants herein contained and
intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions
1.1 Defined Terms
For the purposes of this Agreement the following words and phrases shall have the following
meanings:
“Affiliate” of any Person means any Person that controls, is controlled by, or is
under common control with such Person. As used herein, “control” (including the terms
“controlling”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management
and policies of a Person, whether through ownership of voting securities or other interests, by
contract or otherwise.
“Assigned Intellectual Property” means all of the Intellectual Property owned by
Seller or one of its Affiliates that is used or held for use primarily in the operation or conduct
of the Mobility Business, including the Code and associated Documentation (as each such term is
defined in the Intellectual Property Agreement) identified in Appendix B to the Intellectual
Property Agreement, the Information (as such term is defined in the Intellectual Property
Agreement) identified in Appendix D to the Intellectual Property Agreement and the Patents
identified in Schedule A to Appendix G to the Intellectual Property Agreement.
“Assignment and Xxxx of Sale and Assumption Agreement” means each agreement in
substantially the form set forth as Exhibit A.
“Assumed Leases” means the Leases to be assumed by Buyer or a Buyer Designee pursuant
to a Lease Assignment or Sublease and identified on Schedule 3.7(a), as the same may be updated
prior to Closing by the parties to reflect Lease Assignments and Subleases to be entered into by
the parties.
“Benefit Plan” means, in respect of any Business Employee, each Pension Plan, Welfare
Plan and employment, bonus, pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation, incentive compensation,
stock ownership, stock option, stock purchase, phantom stock, performance, retirement, thrift,
savings, stock bonus, excess benefit, supplemental unemployment, paid time off, perquisite, fringe
benefit, vacation, sick leave, severance or retention, redundancy policy, disability, death
benefit, hospitalization, medical, dental, life insurance, welfare benefit or other plan, program,
agreement or arrangement, in each case maintained or contributed to, or required to be maintained
or contributed to, by Seller or its Subsidiaries.
“Business Day” means a day that is not (i) a Saturday, a Sunday or a statutory or
civic holiday in the State of New York, (ii) a day on which banking institutions are required by
Law to be closed in the State of New York, or (iii) a day on which the principal offices of Seller
or Buyer are closed or become closed prior to 2:00 p.m. local time.
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“Business Employees” means the employees of Seller or its Subsidiaries employed in the
Mobility Business and identified on Schedule 3.10(a).
“Business Records” means all books, records, ledgers, tangible data, disks, tapes,
other media-storing data and files or other similar information whether in hardcopy or computer
format and whether stored in network facilities or otherwise, in each case to the extent used or
held for use primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility Business, including engineering
information, manuals and data, including databases for reference designs, product datasheets, sales
and purchase correspondence, including price lists, lists of present and former customers,
information concerning customer contacts, purchasing history and invoices, technical
characteristics and other information reasonably required for ongoing customer relationships, lists
of present and former suppliers or vendors, mailing lists, warranty information, catalogs, sales
promotion literature, advertising materials, brochures, bids, records of operation, accounting and
financial records, personnel and employment records, standard forms of documents, manuals of
operations or business procedures, designs, research materials and product testing reports, and any
information relating to any Tax imposed on any Purchased Assets, but excluding any such items to
the extent (i) they are included in, or primarily related to, any Excluded Assets or Excluded
Liabilities, or (ii) any applicable Law prohibits the transfer of such information.
“Buyer Designee” means one or more Affiliates of Buyer identified to Seller in
accordance with Section 2.10 prior to the Closing Date.
“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq. as amended.
“Closing” means the closing of the transactions described in Article 7.
“Closing Date” means the date of the Closing as determined pursuant to Section 7.3.
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Confidentiality Agreement” means the agreement between Seller and Buyer dated May 16,
2007.
“Contracts” means all Third-Party contracts, agreements, leases and subleases, supply
contracts, commitments, purchase orders, sales orders, binding offers and instruments, or other
written or oral arrangements, used or held for use in each case primarily in the operation or
conduct of the Mobility Business, that will be in effect on the Closing Date to which Seller or a
Subsidiary is a party, including the contracts identified as to be assigned on Schedule
2.1(h) and any such contracts, agreements, leases and subleases, supply contracts, commitments,
purchase orders, sales orders and instruments (i) for the lease of machinery, equipment, motor
vehicles, furniture or office equipment, (ii) for the provision of goods or services to the
Mobility Business, (iii) for the sale of goods or performance of services by the Mobility Business,
(iv) for the sale and distribution of the
Products of the Mobility Business, and (v) any such contracts, agreements, leases and
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subleases, supply contracts, commitments, purchase orders, sales orders and instruments, or other
written or oral arrangements referred to in clauses (i) — (iv), inclusive, entered into between the
date hereof and the Closing Date by Seller or a Subsidiary to the extent such Contracts entered
into after the date hereof were entered into in the ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice and outstanding as of the Closing Date, but not the Excluded Contracts.
“Copyrights” means copyrights, whether registered or unregistered and whether arising
under the laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction anywhere in the world, including all
registrations and applications for registration with respect thereto.
“Encumbrance” means any lien, claim, charge, security interest, mortgage, pledge,
easement, capital lease, conditional sale or other title retention agreement, covenant or other
similar restriction, adverse claims of ownership or use, or other similar restriction or Third
Party right affecting the Purchased Assets, but shall not include Permitted Encumbrances.
“Environmental Law” means any Law that governs the existence of or provides a remedy
for release of Hazardous Substances, the protection of persons, natural resources or the
environment, the management of Hazardous Substances, or other activities involving Hazardous
Substances including under CERCLA, the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 1801 et
seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., the Clean Water Act, 33
U.S.C. Section § 1251 et seq., the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substance
Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., and
the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq., or any other similar Law, as any
such Law has been amended or supplemented, and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
“Environmental Liabilities” means any and all liabilities arising in connection with
or in any way relating to Seller or a Subsidiary (or any predecessor of Seller or a Subsidiary or
any prior owner of all or part of its business and assets), any property now or previously owned,
leased or operated by such Seller or a Subsidiary, the Mobility Business (as currently or
previously conducted), or the Purchased Assets which (i) arise under or relate to any Environmental
Laws and (ii) relate to actions occurring or conditions existing on or before the Closing Date.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
“ERISA Affiliate” means each Subsidiary and any other Person that, together with
Seller or any of the Subsidiaries is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b),(c), (m) or
(o) of the Code and the regulations thereunder.
“Excluded Contracts” means those Contracts (i) identified in Schedule 2.2(f),
(ii) under which performance by Seller or an Affiliate of Seller has been completed and for which
there is no remaining warranty, maintenance, or support obligation, (iii) that
constitute a General Purchase Agreement, (iv) under which performance by the counterparty
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has been completed and for which there is no remaining payment obligation of such party, or (v)
primarily related to Excluded Assets or Excluded Liabilities.
“Excluded Taxes” means any liability, obligation or commitment, whether or not
accrued, assessed or currently due and payable, for any Taxes of Seller or its Affiliates, and any
Taxes relating to, pertaining to, or arising out of, the Mobility Products Group or the Purchased
Assets for any Pre-Closing Tax Period, including all interest, penalties or other amounts with
respect thereto accruing in Post-Closing Tax Periods.
“Fixtures and Supplies” means all furniture, furnishings and other tangible personal
property owned by Seller or a Subsidiary and used or held for use primarily in the operation or
conduct of the Mobility Business, including desks, tables, chairs, benches, file cabinets, racks,
cubicles and other storage devices and office supplies and any additions, improvements,
replacements and alterations thereto between the date hereof and the Closing Date and all
warranties and guarantees, if any, express or implied with respect to the foregoing, but excluding
any such items primarily related to Excluded Assets or Excluded Liabilities.
“GAAP” means U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
“General Purchase Agreements” means Third-Party supply contracts or other agreements
between Seller or an Affiliate of Seller and a Third Party pursuant to which Seller or an Affiliate
purchases products or services from such Third-Party for any of Seller’s or an Affiliate’s
businesses and not used or held for use primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility
Business.
“Governmental Body” means any legislative, executive or judicial unit of any
governmental entity (supranational, national, federal, provincial, state or local) or any
department, commission, board, agency, bureau, official or other regulatory, administrative or
judicial authority thereof.
“Governmental Permits” means all governmental permits and licenses, certificates of
inspection, approvals or other authorizations issued to Seller or a Subsidiary with respect to the
Mobility Business or the Premises and necessary for the operation of the Mobility Business or the
Premises as currently conducted under applicable Laws.
“Hazardous Substance” means (i) any hazardous, toxic or dangerous waste, substance or
material defined as such pursuant to any Environmental Law, (ii) asbestos or PCBs and (iii) any
other chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any
Governmental Body pursuant to any Environmental Law.
“HSR Act” means the Xxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.
“Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property rights arising from or
associated with any of the following, whether protected, created or arising under the laws of
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the United States or any other jurisdiction anywhere in the world: (a) Copyrights, (b) Trademarks, (c)
Patents, (d) Trade Secrets, (e) mask work rights and other rights protecting integrated circuit or
chip topographies or designs and (f) moral rights, data base rights and any other proprietary,
intellectual or industrial property rights of any kind or nature.
“Intellectual Property Agreement” means the agreement in substantially the form set
forth as Exhibit B.
“Inventory” means all inventory, wherever located, including raw materials, work in
process, recycled materials, finished products, inventoriable supplies, and non-capital spare parts
owned by Seller or a Subsidiary and used or held for use primarily in the operation or conduct of
the Mobility Business, and any rights of Seller or a Subsidiary to the warranties received from
suppliers and any related claims, credits, rights of recovery and setoff with respect to such
Inventory, but only to the extent such rights are assignable, but excluding any such items
primarily related to Excluded Assets or Excluded Liabilities.
“IRS” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
“knowledge of Seller” or “to Seller’s knowledge” means the actual knowledge of
the individuals specified on Schedule 1.1(a) after reasonable investigation.
“Law or Laws” means any supranational, national, federal, state, provincial or local
law, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, code, order, judgment, injunction or decree of any
country.
“Lease” means the lease for any of the Leased Premises.
“Lease Assignment” means each assignment agreement with respect to a Lease in
substantially the form set forth as Exhibit C.
“Leased Equipment” means the vehicles, computers, servers, machinery and equipment and
other similar items leased and used or held for use by Seller or a Subsidiary primarily in the
operation or conduct of the Mobility Business but excluding any such items primarily related to
Excluded Assets or Excluded Liabilities.
“Leased Premises” means the real property that is leased by Seller or a Subsidiary
from Third Parties and used by Seller or a Subsidiary primarily in the conduct of the Mobility
Business as identified on Schedule 3.7(a).
“Licensed Intellectual Property” means all of the Intellectual Property owned by
Seller or one of its Affiliates that is being licensed to Buyer pursuant to the Intellectual
Property Agreement.
“Licenses” means all licenses, agreements and other arrangements identified on
Schedule 2.1(h) under which Seller or a Subsidiary has the right to use any Intellectual
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Property of a Third Party used or held for use primarily in the operation and conduct of the
Mobility Business but not (i) the Nonassignable Licenses, (ii) generally available shrink-wrap
software licenses, or (iii) any such items primarily related to Excluded Assets or Excluded
Liabilities
“Mobility Business” means the worldwide design, engineering, manufacturing, use,
marketing, sale and distribution of integrated circuits and related Software for use in mobile
phone and other wireless data and voice communications products consisting of the following
mobility businesses of Seller and its Subsidiaries: (i) cellular modem solutions for GSM technology
based handsets including GPRS and EDGE and (ii) 3G based handsets and custom integrated circuits
for use in satellite digital radio receivers, as currently carried on by the Mobility Products
Group of Seller, but excluding (a) any Seller manufacturing and assembly and test facilities, (b)
any billing, order entry, fulfillment, accounting, collections, sales and other centralized
functional organizations within, or controlled by, Seller, and (c) the operations of the Mobility
Products Group located in Australia and Israel.
“Nonassignable Licenses” means those Licenses of Proprietary Information under which
Seller or an Affiliate of Seller is the licensee that are (i) not by their terms assignable as set
forth on Schedule 2.1(h) or (ii) related to other businesses of Seller or an Affiliate of
Seller and not used or held for use primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility Business,
such as corporate IT licenses.
“Patents” means patents or patent applications of any kind or nature (including
industrial designs and utility models that are subject to statutory protection), wheresoever issued
or pending anywhere in the world.
“Pension Plan” means each “employee pension benefit plan” (within the meaning
of Section 3(2) of ERISA) or similar equivalent under applicable Laws other than the United States.
“Permitted Encumbrances” means any (i) statutory lien for Taxes, assessments and other
governmental charges or liens of carriers, landlords, warehouseman, mechanics and material men
incurred in the ordinary course of business, in each case for sums not yet due and payable or due
but not delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, (ii) liens incurred
or deposits made in the ordinary course of the Mobility Business in connection with workers’
compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security or to secure the
performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government
contracts, performance and return of money bonds and similar obligations, (iii) non-exclusive
licenses granted by Seller or an Affiliate of Seller in connection with sales of products to
customers in the ordinary course of business of the Mobility Business or, in the case of Patents,
in connection with a corporate licensing program, and (iv) any Encumbrance or minor imperfection in
title and minor encroachments,
if any, that, individually or in the aggregate, are not material in amount, do not materially
interfere with the conduct of the Mobility Business or with the use of the Purchased Assets and do
not materially affect the value of the Purchased Assets or the Mobility Business.
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“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, joint
venture, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or other entity, or any government
or regulatory, administrative or political subdivision or agency, department or instrumentality
thereof.
“Post-Closing Tax Period” means any Tax period beginning after the Closing Date, and,
in the case of any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period beginning the day after the
Closing Date.
“Pre-Closing Tax Period” means any Tax period ending on or before the Closing Date
and, in the case of any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period ending on the Closing
Date.
“Premises” means the (i) Leased Premises, and (ii) the premises owned by Seller or a
Subsidiary that are not being transferred hereunder, in each case that are used by the Mobility
Business.
“Principal Equipment” means the computers, servers, machinery, IT and other equipment
(including any related spare parts, dies, molds, tools, and tooling) and other similar items used
or held for use by Seller or a Subsidiary primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility
Business but not the Leased Equipment or any such items primarily related to Excluded Assets or
Excluded Liabilities. Principal Equipment includes rights to the warranties received from the
manufacturers and distributors of such items and to any related claims, credits, rights of recovery
and setoff with respect to such items, but only to the extent that such rights are assignable.
“Product(s)” means the products of the Mobility Business under development, produced,
marketed or sold by Seller or a Subsidiary, including the products listed on Schedule
1.1(b).
“Proprietary Information” means all intellectual property and other information
(whether or not protectable by patent, copyright, mask works or trade secret rights) (i) including,
but not limited to, works of authorship in any and all media, inventions, discoveries,
improvements, patentable subject matter, patents, patent applications, industrial models,
industrial designs, trade secrets, trade secret rights, software, works, copyrightable subject
matters, copyright rights and registrations, mask works, know-how and show-how, trademarks, trade
names, service marks, emblems, logos, insignia and related marks, the goodwill of any business
symbolized thereby and all common Law rights related thereto, specifications, technical manuals and
data, databases, libraries, blueprints, drawings, designs, techniques, proprietary processes,
product information, business plans and development work-in-process; (ii) all registrations and
applications for the foregoing; and (iii) all rights to obtain renewals, extensions continuations, continuations-in-part,
re-issues, divisions or similar legal protections related thereto.
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“Return” means any return, declaration, report, statement, and any other document
filed or required to be filed in respect of any Tax, including any amendment thereto.
“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Seller Material Adverse Effect” means any fact, circumstance, change or effect that,
individually or when taken together with all other such facts, circumstances, changes or effects
that exist at the date of determination of the occurrence of the Seller Material Adverse Effect,
has or is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the business, operations,
financial condition or results of operations of the Mobility Business, taken as a whole or Seller’s
ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement or consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby; provided, however, that no facts, circumstances, changes or effects (by themselves or when
aggregated with any other facts, circumstances, changes or effects) resulting from, relating to or
arising out of (directly, where indicated below) the following shall be deemed to be or constitute
a Seller Material Adverse Effect, and no facts, circumstances, changes or effects resulting from,
relating to or arising out of the following (directly, where indicated below, and by themselves or
when aggregated with any other facts, circumstances, changes or effects) shall be taken into
account when determining whether a Seller Material Adverse Effect has occurred or may, would or
could occur: (i) economic, financial or political conditions in the United States or any other
jurisdiction in which the Mobility Business has substantial business or operations, and any changes
therein (including any changes arising out of acts of terrorism, war, weather conditions or other
force majeure events), to the extent that such conditions do not have a materially disproportionate
impact on the Mobility Business, taken as a whole, relative to other mobility businesses of
comparable size, including those described in the column titled “Mobility” under the heading
“Competition” in Seller Sub’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K (the “Other Mobility
Businesses”); (ii) conditions in the semiconductor industry, and any industry-wide changes
therein (including any changes arising out of acts of terrorism, war, weather conditions or other
force majeure events), to the extent that such conditions do not have a materially disproportionate
impact on the Mobility Business, taken as a whole, relative to Other Mobility Businesses; (iii)
conditions in the financial markets, and any changes therein (including any changes arising out of
acts of terrorism, war, weather conditions or other force majeure events), to the extent that such
conditions do not have a materially disproportionate impact on the Mobility Business, taken as a
whole, relative to Other Mobility Businesses; (iv) acts of terrorism or war; (v) directly from the
announcement or pendency of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby; or (vi)
directly from compliance by Seller or its Subsidiaries with the express terms of this Agreement or
the failure by Seller or its Subsidiaries to take any action that is prohibited by this Agreement.
“Software” means any and all (a) computer programs, including any and all software
implementations of algorithms, heuristics models and methodologies, whether in source code or
object code, (b) testing, validation, verification and quality assurance materials, (c) databases,
conversion, interpreters and compilations, including any and all data and
collections of data, whether machine readable or otherwise, (d) descriptions, schematics,
flow-charts and other work product used to design, plan, organize and develop any of the
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foregoing, (e) software development processes, practices, methods and policies recorded in permanent form,
relating to any of the foregoing, (f) performance metrics, sightings, bug and feature lists, build,
release and change control manifests recorded in permanent form, relating to any of the foregoing
and (g) all documentation, including user manuals, web materials, and architectural and design
specifications and training materials, relating to any of the foregoing.
“Straddle Period” means any Tax period that begins on or before and ends after the
Closing Date.
“Sublease” means each sublease with respect to a Lease in substantially the form set
forth as Exhibit D.
“Subsidiary” means each entity listed on Schedule 3.2.
“Supply Agreement” means the agreement in substantially the form set forth as
Exhibit E.
“Target Inventory Amount” means the amount of Twenty-Five Million Dollars
($25,000,000).
“Tax” or “Taxes” means all taxes of any kind, and all charges, fees, customs, levies,
duties, imposts, required deposits or other assessments, including all net income, capital gains,
gross income, gross receipt, property, franchise, sales, use, excise, withholding, payroll,
employment, social security, worker’s compensation, unemployment, occupation, capital stock, ad
valorem, value added, transfer, gains, profits, net worth, asset, transaction, and other taxes, and
any interest, penalties or additions to tax with respect thereto, imposed upon any Person by any
taxing authority or other Governmental Body under applicable Law.
“Technology” means all information related to, constituting or disclosing, and all
tangible copies and embodiments in any media of, any Software or other technology or technical
information, including know how, show how, techniques, processes, methods, inventions (whether or
not patented or patentable), source code, algorithms, schematics, blue prints, routines, test
vectors, mask sets, design databases, drawings, tape outs, simulation models, gerber files, works
of authorship, board layouts, ASIC designs, net lists, RTL and high level definition language
descriptions of products. For the avoidance of doubt, the term “Technology” does not include any
Trademarks.
“Third Party” means any Person not an Affiliate of the other referenced Person or
Persons.
“Trademarks” means trademarks, trade names, corporate names, business names, trade
styles, service marks, logos, other source or business identifiers and general intangibles of like
nature, together with goodwill associated therewith, whether registered or
unregistered and whether arising under the laws of the United States or any state or territory
thereof or any other jurisdiction anywhere in the world, and registrations and applications for
registration with respect to any of the foregoing.
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“Trade Secrets” means all information of any kind or nature, in whatever form and
whether or not embodied in a tangible medium, including customer lists, concepts, ideas, methods,
processes, know-how, methodologies, designs, plans, schematics, xxxx of materials, drawings,
formulae, technical data, specifications, research and development information, Technology and
product roadmaps, models, data bases, marketing materials and other proprietary or confidential
information, in each case to the extent any of the foregoing derives economic value from not being
generally known to other Persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use,
excluding any Copyrights or Patents that cover or protect any of the foregoing.
“Transition Services Agreement” means the agreement in substantially the form set
forth as Exhibit F.
“Welfare Plan” means each “employee welfare benefit plan” (within the meaning
of Section 3(1) of ERISA) or similar applicable Laws of jurisdictions other than the United States.
1.2 Additional Defined Terms
For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings specified in the
Sections indicated below:
Term | Section | |
“Agere”
|
Recital B | |
“Agreement”
|
Preamble | |
“Antitrust Division”
|
Section 5.6(b) | |
“Asset Acquisition Statement”
|
Section 5.3(b) | |
“Assigned Marks”
|
Section 3.13(a) | |
“Assigned Intellectual Property”
|
Section 3.13(a) | |
“Assigned Patents”
|
Section 3.13(a) | |
“Assigned Registered IP”
|
Section 3.13(a) | |
“Assumed Liabilities”
|
Section 2.4 | |
“Auditor Contingent Payment Report”
|
Section 2.3(c)(ii) | |
“Business Intellectual Property”
|
Section 3.13(b)(ii) | |
“Business Trade Secrets”
|
Section 3.13(f). | |
“Buyer”
|
Preamble | |
“Buyer Savings Plan”
|
Section 5.4(e) | |
“Closing Date”
|
Section 7.3 | |
“Closing Inventory Statement”
|
Section 2.3(b) | |
“Collateral Agreements”
|
Recital D | |
“Contingent Payment”
|
Section 2.3(c)(i) | |
“Contingent Payment Statement”
|
Section 2.3(c)(i) |
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Xxxx | Xxxxxxx | |
“Excluded Assets”
|
Section 2.2 | |
“Excluded Leased Equipment”
|
Section 5.5(b) | |
“Excluded Liabilities”
|
Section 2.5 | |
“FTC”
|
Section 5.6(b) | |
“Inbound License Agreements”
|
Section 3.13(b)(iii) | |
“Indemnified Party”
|
Section 9.3(a) | |
“Indemnifying Party”
|
Section 9.4(a) | |
“Inventory Adjustment Amount”
|
Section 2.3(b) | |
“Inventory Amount”
|
Section 2.3(b) | |
“Licensed Intellectual Property”
|
Section 3.13(a) | |
“Losses”
|
Section 9.3(a) | |
“LSI”
|
Preamble | |
“Material Contracts”
|
Section 3.11(a) | |
“Measurement Amount”
|
Schedule 1.1(c) | |
“Measurement Period”
|
Schedule 1.1(c) | |
“Mobility Intellectual Property”
|
Section 3.13(b) | |
“Mobility Products Group”
|
Recital A | |
“Nonassignable Assets”
|
Section 2.6(c) | |
“Payment Amount”
|
Section 2.3(c) | |
“Purchase Price”
|
Section 2.3 | |
“Purchased Assets”
|
Section 2.1 | |
“Purchased Leased Equipment”
|
Section 5.5(b) | |
“Reasonable Efforts”
|
Section 5.8(a) | |
“Required Closing Consents”
|
Section 3.4(b) | |
“Required Consents”
|
Section 3.4(b) | |
“Retained Legal Proceeding”
|
Section 5.6(c) | |
“Seller”
|
Preamble | |
“Seller Name”
|
Section 5.8(a) | |
“Termination Date”
|
Section 11.1(e) | |
“Third-Party Claim”
|
Section 9.4(a) | |
“Threshold”
|
Schedule 1.1(c) | |
“Transferred Employees”
|
Section 5.4(a) | |
“Transfer Taxes”
|
Section 2.9(a) | |
“WARN Act”
|
Section 5.4(g) |
1.3 Other Definitional and Interpretive Matters
Unless otherwise expressly provided, for purposes of this Agreement, the following rules of
interpretation shall apply:
(a) Calculation of Time Period. When calculating the period of time before which,
within which or following which any act is to be done or step taken pursuant to this Agreement, the
date that is the starting reference date in calculating such period shall be
excluded. If the last day of such period is a non-Business Day, the period in question shall
end on the next succeeding Business Day.
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(b) Gender and Number. Any reference in this Agreement to gender shall include all
genders, and words imparting the singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa.
(c) Headings. The provision of a Table of Contents, the division of this Agreement
into Articles, Sections and other subdivisions and the insertion of headings are for convenience of
reference only and shall not affect or be utilized in construing or interpreting this Agreement.
All references in this Agreement to any “Section” are to the corresponding Section of this
Agreement unless otherwise specified.
(d) Herein. The words such as “herein,” “hereinafter,”
“hereof,” and “hereunder” refer to this Agreement as a whole and not merely to a
subdivision in which such words appear unless the context otherwise requires.
(e) Including. The word “including” or any variation thereof means
“including, without limitation” and shall not be construed to limit any general statement that it
follows to the specific or similar items or matters immediately following it.
(f) Currency. All currency references included herein shall refer to United States
dollars.
(g) Reasonable Commercial Efforts. Reasonable commercial efforts means that the
obligated party is required to make a diligent, reasonable and good faith effort to accomplish the
applicable objective. Such obligation, however, does not require an expenditure of material funds
or the incurrence of a liability on the part of the obligated party, nor does it require that the
obligated party act in a manner that would be contrary to normal commercial practices in order to
accomplish the objective. The fact that the objective is or is not actually accomplished is no
indication that the obligated party did or did not in fact utilize its reasonable commercial
efforts in attempting to accomplish the objective.
(h) Schedules and Exhibits. The Schedules and Exhibits attached to this Agreement
shall be construed with and as an integral part of this Agreement to the same extent as if the
same had been set forth verbatim herein. Any matter specifically disclosed by either party on any
one Schedule with respect to any representation, warranty or covenant of such party shall be
deemed disclosed for purposes of all other representations, warranties or covenants of such party
to the extent that it is reasonably apparent from such disclosure that it also relates to such
other representations, warranties or covenants, and to the extent any matter disclosed on any
Schedule conflicts with any representation, warranty or covenant of such party contained in this
Agreement, and to the extent such conflict is reasonably apparent thereto, such party shall not
have any liability with respect such representation, warranty or covenant.
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2. Purchase and Sale of the Mobility Business
2.1 Purchase and Sale of Assets
Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and in reliance on the
representations and warranties contained herein, on the Closing Date, Seller shall, or shall cause
one or more of the Subsidiaries, as appropriate, to, grant, bargain, sell, transfer, assign, convey
and deliver to Buyer or one or more Buyer Designees, and Buyer or one or more Buyer Designees shall
purchase, acquire and accept from Seller or the applicable Subsidiary, all of the right, title and
interest in, to and under the Purchased Assets that Seller or the applicable Subsidiary owns,
leases, licenses, possesses or uses as the same shall exist on the Closing Date, wherever located,
free and clear of Encumbrances. For purposes of this Agreement, “Purchased Assets” means
all the assets, properties and rights used or held for use by Seller or the applicable Subsidiary
primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility Business, whether tangible or intangible,
real, personal or mixed, set forth or described in paragraphs (a) through (n) below (except in each
case for the Excluded Assets), whether or not any of such assets, properties or rights have any
value for accounting purposes or are carried or reflected on or specifically referred to in
Seller’s or the applicable Subsidiary’s books or financial statements:
(a) the Assumed Leases;
(b) the Principal Equipment;
(c) the Purchased Leased Equipment;
(d) the Fixtures and Supplies;
(e) the Inventory;
(f) the Assigned Intellectual Property;
(g) the Contracts, including all rights to the warranties and to any related claims, causes of
action, credits, rights of recovery and setoff with respect thereto;
(h) the Licenses;
(i) the Business Records;
(j) the Governmental Permits that are identified on Schedule 2.1(j) but only to the
extent that such Governmental Permits are assignable or transferable to Buyer;
(k) all prepaid expenses for leased and rented equipment;
(l) all prepaid deposits for customer orders to be completed after the Closing Date;
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(m) all guarantees, warranties, indemnities and similar rights in favor of Seller or an
applicable Subsidiary to the extent related to the items identified in clauses (b), (c), (d), (e)
and (f) and (h) above;
(n) the goodwill of the Mobility Business.
2.2 Excluded Assets
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.1, it is hereby expressly acknowledged and agreed
that the Purchased Assets shall not include, and neither Seller nor any Subsidiary is granting,
bargaining, selling, transferring, assigning, conveying or delivering to Buyer or a Buyer Designee,
and neither Buyer nor any Buyer Designee is purchasing, acquiring or accepting from Seller or any
Subsidiary, any of the rights, properties or assets set forth or described in paragraphs (a)
through (j) below (the rights, properties and assets expressly excluded by this Section 2.2 or
otherwise excluded by the terms of Section 2.1 from the Purchased Assets being referred to herein
as the “Excluded Assets”):
(a) any of Seller’s or its Affiliate’s receivables, cash, cash equivalents, bank deposits or
similar cash items or employee receivables;
(b) any Proprietary Information of Seller or any Affiliate other than the Assigned
Intellectual Property or the Licensed Intellectual Property;
(c) any (i) confidential personnel records pertaining to any Business Employee, or (ii) other
books and records that Seller or any Affiliate of Seller is required by Law to retain; provided,
however, that Buyer shall have the right, to the extent permitted by Law, to make copies of any
portions of such retained confidential personnel records and other books and records that relate to
the Mobility Business, the Purchased Assets, the Assumed Liabilities or the Transferred Employees;
and (iii) any information management system of Seller or any Affiliate of Seller other than those
used or held for use primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility Business (or also used
in other businesses of Seller for which Buyer has its own license to use; provided,
however, that any such information management system is still an Excluded Asset for the
purposes hereof) and contained within computer hardware included as a Purchased Asset pursuant to
Sections 2.1(b) and (c);
(d) any claim, right or interest of Seller or any Affiliate of Seller in or to any refund,
rebate, abatement or other recovery for Taxes, together with any interest due thereon or penalty
rebate arising therefrom, for any Excluded Taxes;
(e) subject to Section 5.8, any rights to, or the use of, the “Agere,” “Agere
Systems,” “LSI” or “LSI Corporation” trademarks;
(f) the Excluded Contracts, the Nonassignable Licenses and the Excluded Leased Equipment;
(g) any insurance policies or rights of proceeds thereof;
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(h) except as specified in Section 2.1, any of Seller’s or any Affiliate’s rights, claims or
causes of action against Third Parties relating to the assets, properties or operations of the
Mobility Business arising out of transactions occurring prior to, and including, the Closing Date;
(i) except as specifically provided in Section 5.4 or the applicable Assignment and Xxxx of
Sale and Assumption Agreement for any particular jurisdiction, any of the assets of the Benefits
Plans; and
(j) all other assets, properties, interests and rights of Seller or any Affiliate not related
primarily to the Mobility Business (including the remainder of the Mobility Products Group).
2.3 Purchase Price
(a) Purchase Price Payment. In consideration of the grant, bargain, sale, transfer,
assignment, conveyance and delivery by Seller and the Subsidiaries of the Purchased Assets to Buyer
or a Buyer Designee, and in addition to assuming the Assumed Liabilities, Buyer or a Buyer
Designee(s) shall pay to Seller at the Closing, an aggregate amount equal to Four Hundred Fifty
Million Dollars ($450,000,000)(the “Purchase Price”) in cash by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account designated by Seller’s written instructions to Buyer at
least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Inventory Adjustment.
(i) As promptly as possible, but in any event within twenty (20) Business Days after the
Closing Date, Buyer will deliver to Seller a statement (the “Closing Inventory Statement”)
calculating the net book value of the Inventory as of the Closing Date (the “Inventory
Amount”), which shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP and the policies and procedures as
set forth in Section 3.16. After delivery of the Closing Inventory Statement, Seller shall be
permitted reasonable access to review Buyer’s records used to prepare the Closing Inventory
Statement. If Seller objects to the Closing Inventory Statement, then Seller shall deliver to
Buyer a statement setting forth its objections to the calculation of the Inventory Amount in
reasonable detail and stating Seller’s calculation of the amount believed by Seller in good faith
to be correct. If Seller does not deliver such a statement within fifteen (15) Business Days after
delivery of the Closing Inventory Statement, the Closing Inventory Statement shall be final,
binding and non-appealable by the parties hereto. Seller and Buyer shall negotiate in good faith
to resolve any objections with respect to the Closing Inventory Statement and any objections
thereto (and all such discussions related thereto shall, unless otherwise agreed by Buyer and
Seller, be governed by Rule 408 of the Federal Rules of Evidence (and any applicable similar state
rule)). If the parties do not reach a final resolution
within fifteen (15) Business Days after the delivery of any objection statement, Seller and
Buyer shall submit such dispute to an independent auditor. If any dispute is submitted to the
independent auditor, each party will furnish to the independent auditor such work papers and other
documents and information relating to the
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disputed issues as the independent auditor may request
and are available to that party. The independent auditor shall act as an auditor and not as an
arbitrator and shall resolve matters in dispute and adjust and establish any disputed adjustment of
the Purchase Price amount to reflect such resolution. It is the intent of Buyer and Seller that
the process set forth in this Section 2.3(b) and the activities of the independent auditor in
connection herewith are not intended to be and, in fact, are not arbitration and that no formal
arbitration rules shall be followed (including rules with respect to procedures and discovery).
The determination of the independent auditor shall be final, binding and non-appealable on the
parties hereto. The Closing Inventory Statement shall be modified if necessary to reflect such
determination. The fees and expenses of the independent auditor shall be allocated to Buyer and
Seller equally.
(ii) If the Inventory Amount as finally determined is greater than Twenty-Seven Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000), Buyer shall make a cash payment to Seller in an amount
equal to the amount of the excess over the Target Inventory Amount. If the Inventory Amount as
finally determined is less than Twenty-Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($22,500,000),
then Seller shall cause to be paid to Buyer a cash payment in an aggregate amount equal to the
amount of such shortfall from the Target Inventory Amount. The difference payable by either Buyer
on the one hand or Seller on the other hand, shall be referred to herein as the “Inventory
Adjustment Amount.” The Inventory Adjustment Amount shall be paid by the applicable party
within ten (10) days after such amount is finally determined hereunder and calculated as an
adjustment to the Purchase Price.
(c) Contingent Payment.
(i) Buyer shall pay to Seller an amount equal to the Payment Amount; provided, that in
no event shall Buyer pay to Seller more than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) pursuant to this
Section 2.3(c) (the “Contingent Payment”).
(ii) As promptly as possible, but in any event within twenty (20) Business Days after the end
of the Measurement Period, Buyer will deliver to Seller a statement (the “Contingent Payment
Statement”) setting forth Buyer’s calculation of the Contingent Payment and reasonably
supporting data for the calculation thereof.
(iii) After delivery of the Contingent Payment Statement, Seller shall be permitted reasonable
access to review Buyer’s records used to prepare the Contingent Payment Statement. If Seller
objects to the Contingent Payment Statement, then Seller shall deliver to Buyer a statement setting
forth in writing its objections within fifteen (15) Business Days following its receipt of the
Contingent Payment Statement. If Seller does not deliver such a statement within fifteen (15)
Business Days after delivery of the Contingent Payment Statement, the Contingent Payment Statement
shall be final, binding and non-appealable by the parties hereto. Seller and Buyer shall negotiate in good faith to resolve
Seller’s objections with respect to the Contingent Payment Statement (and all such discussions
related thereto shall, unless otherwise agreed by Buyer and Seller, be governed by Rule 408 of the
Federal Rules of Evidence (and any applicable similar state rule)). If the
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parties do not reach a
final resolution within fifteen (15) Business Days after the delivery of any objection statement,
Seller and Buyer shall submit such dispute to an independent auditor to review the Contingent
Payment Statement. Seller and Buyer shall cooperate with the independent auditor, and Buyer shall
provide the independent auditor access to such books and records of Buyer relating to the
Measurement Amount used to calculate the Contingent Payment as may be reasonably necessary to
permit a determination by the independent auditor of the accuracy of the Contingent Payment. The
independent auditor shall act as an auditor and not as an arbitrator and shall resolve matters in
dispute and adjust and establish the disputed Contingent Payment to reflect such resolution in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.3(c) and deliver a report of its
determination to Seller and Buyer (the “Auditor Contingent Payment Report”). The Auditor
Contingent Payment Report shall be final and binding on Seller and Buyer. The fees and expenses of
the independent auditor shall be allocated to Buyer and Seller equally.
(iv) Buyer shall, within ten (10) days after such amount is finally determined pursuant to
this Section 2.3 (c), make a cash payment to Seller in the amount of any Contingent Payment due
hereunder and calculated as an adjustment to the Purchase Price.
(v) During the Measurement Period, Buyer shall operate the Mobility Business relating to the
Measurement Amount in the ordinary course of its business and in compliance with the policies set
forth on Schedule 1.1(c).
2.4 Assumed Liabilities
On the Closing Date, Buyer or one or more Buyer Designee shall execute and deliver to Seller
each Assignment and Xxxx of Sale and Assumption Agreement and one or more Lease Assignments or
Subleases pursuant to which Buyer or any such Buyer Designee shall accept, assume and agree to pay,
perform or otherwise discharge, in accordance with the respective terms and subject to the
respective conditions thereof, the Assumed Liabilities. For purposes of this Agreement,
“Assumed Liabilities” means the liabilities and obligations set forth or described in
paragraphs (a) through (f) below, whether or not any such liability or obligation has a value for
accounting purposes or is carried or reflected on or specifically referred to in either Seller’s or
the applicable Subsidiary’s books or financial statements:
(a) the unpaid vacation, personal days and floating holidays accrued by Transferred Employees;
(b) the retention bonuses to be paid to the individuals listed on Schedule 2.4(b);
(c) the liabilities and obligations arising after the Closing Date under the Assumed Leases
and the transferred Contracts, Licenses and Government Permits, but excluding liabilities or
obligations arising out of or related to any breach, default or violation of the foregoing
occurring prior to the Closing;
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(d) with respect to the Mobility Business, any product warranty liabilities arising from sales
of Products in the ordinary course of business after the Closing Date;
(e) the Permitted Encumbrances and all other Encumbrances related to the Purchased Assets that
are specifically identified as Assumed Liabilities in this Agreement or the Schedules hereto;
(f) all costs and expenses incurred by Buyer or a Buyer Designee incident to the negotiation
and preparation of this Agreement and its performance and compliance with the agreements and
conditions contained herein; and
(g) the obligations and liabilities with respect to the Transferred Employees, the Mobility
Business or the Purchased Assets, arising from, or in connection with, the conduct of the Mobility
Business or the ownership of the Purchased Assets by Buyer or a Buyer Designee after the Closing
Date.
2.5 Excluded Liabilities
Neither Buyer nor any Buyer Designee shall assume or be obligated to pay, perform or otherwise
assume or discharge any liabilities or obligations of Seller or any of its Affiliates, whether
direct or indirect, known or unknown, absolute or contingent, except for the Assumed Liabilities
(all of such liabilities and obligations not so assumed being referred to herein as the
“Excluded Liabilities”). For the avoidance of doubt, the parties agree that, except for the
Assumed Liabilities, Seller and its Subsidiaries shall retain the liabilities and obligations
arising from the conduct and operation of the Mobility Business and ownership of the Purchased
Assets on and prior to the Closing Date, and that the Excluded Liabilities include, but are not
limited to, any and all liabilities or obligations set forth or described in paragraphs (a) through
(m) below, and all liabilities and obligations arising from the conduct of Seller’s and its
Subsidiaries’ businesses other than the Mobility Business (including the remainder of the Mobility
Products Group) and ownership of the Excluded Assets, in each case, whether or not any such
liability or obligation has a value for accounting purpose or is carried or reflected on or
specifically referred to in Seller’s or the applicable Subsidiary’s books or financial statements:
(a) any Excluded Taxes;
(b) any Environmental Liabilities;
(c) any and all liabilities or obligations arising out of or related to any Excluded Asset,
including where such liabilities or obligations may be otherwise borne by Buyer by
operation of law (except as explicitly identified as an Assumed Liability);
(d) any liabilities or obligations under any Contract, Licenses or Government Permits arising
out of or relating to any failure by Seller or any Affiliate to perform, breach, default, violation
thereof occurring on or prior to the Closing Date;
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(e) any product warranty or other product liabilities arising from sales of products of the
Mobility Business by Seller or any Affiliate on or before the Closing Date;
(f) any customer rebate or similar incentive obligation with respect to sales of products of
the Mobility Business on or before the Closing Date;
(g) any trade payables (except to the extent they relate to Purchased Assets to be delivered
to Buyer after the Closing Date), indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantees thereof of Seller
and its Subsidiaries or intercompany obligations of Seller or any Subsidiary;
(h) except as identified in Section 2.4(a), any and all liabilities or obligations relating to
or in connection with (i) the employment and any termination of such employment by Seller or any
Subsidiary of any employee or former employee of Seller or a Subsidiary on or before the Closing
Date; and/or (ii) any employee’s or former employee’s or his/her dependents’ rights or obligations
under any fringe benefit of employment with Seller or a Subsidiary, including any Benefit Plan of
Seller or an Affiliate of Seller or any ERISA Affiliate and/or (iii) the employment and any
termination of employment of any employee of Seller or any other Person who is not a Business
Employee, who transfers to Buyer or such Affiliate by operation of law in connection with the sale
of the Mobility Business, and/or (iv) any liability arising out of Seller’s or any Affiliate’s
obligations to inform or consult any employee of Seller or any Affiliate or their appropriate
representatives concerning the sale of the Mobility Business and all liabilities, obligations,
costs claims and demands arising from or in respect of such liability or obligation;
(i) any and all liabilities or obligations in connection with, or relating to, any actions,
suits, claims or proceedings against Seller or any Subsidiary which arise or accrue on or before
the Closing Date;
(j) any benefit liabilities relating to or arising in connection with Section 4980B of the
Code (COBRA) or otherwise by operation of applicable Law to provide continuation of health care
coverage to employees or former employees of Seller or a Subsidiary or their dependents arising
from a qualifying event occurring on or before the Closing Date;
(k) any liabilities of the Benefit Plans;
(l) any liabilities relating to or arising from violations of applicable Law by Seller or any
Affiliate prior to or on the Closing Date; and
(m) all costs and expenses incurred by Seller or an applicable Subsidiary incident
to the negotiation and preparation of this Agreement and its performance and compliance with
the agreements and conditions contained herein.
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2.6 Further Assurances; Further Conveyances and Assumptions; Consent of Third Parties
(a) From time to time following the Closing to the extent permitted by applicable Law, Seller
shall, or shall cause its Affiliates to, make available to Buyer or a Buyer Designee such data and
information in personnel records of Transferred Employees as is reasonably necessary for Buyer to
integrate such employees into Buyer’s or a Buyer Designee’s workforce and comply with its
obligations under Section 5.4.
(b) From time to time following the Closing, Seller and Buyer shall, and shall cause their
respective Affiliates to, execute, acknowledge and deliver all such further conveyances, notices,
assumptions, releases and acquittances and such other instruments, and shall take such further
actions, as may be necessary or appropriate to assure fully to Buyer and its Affiliates and each of
their respective successors or assigns, all of the properties, rights, titles, interests, estates,
remedies, powers and privileges intended to be conveyed to Buyer or a Buyer Designee under this
Agreement and the Collateral Agreements and to assure fully to Seller and its Affiliates and each
of their respective successors and assigns, the assumption of the liabilities and obligations
intended to be assumed by Buyer or a Buyer Designee under this Agreement and the Collateral
Agreements, and to otherwise make effective the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby
(including (i) transferring back to Seller or a Subsidiary any asset or liability not contemplated
by this Agreement to be a Purchased Asset or an Assumed Liability, respectively, which asset or
liability was transferred to Buyer or a Buyer Designee at the Closing, and (ii) transferring to
Buyer or a Buyer Designee any asset or liability contemplated by this Agreement to be a Purchased
Asset or an Assumed Liability, respectively, which was not transferred to Buyer or a Buyer Designee
at the Closing).
(c) Nothing in this Agreement nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
shall be construed as an attempt or agreement to assign any Purchased Asset, including any
Contract, Lease, License, Governmental Permit, certificate, approval, authorization or other right,
which by its terms or by Law is nonassignable (disregarding the obligation of consent of any Person
or a Governmental Body) (“Nonassignable Assets”) unless and until such consents shall have
been obtained. Seller shall use all reasonable commercial efforts to obtain such consents and
deliver any required notices promptly and prior to Closing, and Buyer shall, and shall cause its
Affiliates to, cooperate with Seller to obtain such consents promptly. To the extent permitted by
applicable Law, in the event consents to the assignment thereof cannot be obtained, Seller and
Buyer shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to, cooperate in a mutually agreeable
arrangement under which (i) Buyer or a Buyer Designee would obtain the benefits and assume the
obligations under such Nonassignable Assets in accordance with this Agreement including by
sub-contracting, sub-licensing, or sub-leasing to Buyer or a Buyer Designee, or (ii) such
Nonassignable Assets would be held, as of and from the Closing Date, by Seller or the
applicable Subsidiary in trust for Buyer or a Buyer Designee and the covenants and obligations
thereunder would be performed by Buyer or a Buyer Designee in Seller’s or such Subsidiary’s name
and all benefits and obligations existing thereunder would be for Buyer’s or the applicable Buyer
Designee’s account. Seller shall, and shall cause its
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Affiliates to, also take or cause to be taken
at Buyer’s or a Buyer Designee’s expense such actions in its name or otherwise as Buyer may
reasonably request so as to provide Buyer or the applicable Buyer Designee with the benefits of the
Nonassignable Assets and to effect collection of money or other consideration that becomes due and
payable under the Nonassignable Assets, and Seller or the applicable Subsidiary shall promptly pay
over to Buyer or the applicable Buyer Designee all money or other consideration received by it in
respect to all Nonassignable Assets.
(d) Buyer and Seller shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to, use their
respective reasonable commercial efforts to obtain, or to cause to be obtained, any consent,
substitution, approval, or amendment required to transfer all obligations under any and all
Contracts, Leases, Licenses, Governmental Permits, certificates, approvals, authorizations or other
rights or obligations or liabilities that constitute Assumed Liabilities.
(e) As of and from the Closing Date, Seller on behalf of itself and its Affiliates authorizes
Buyer, to the extent permitted by applicable Law and the terms of the Nonassignable Assets, at
Buyer’s expense, to perform all the obligations and receive all the benefits of Seller or its
Affiliates under the Nonassignable Assets and appoints Buyer its attorney-in-fact to act in its
name on its behalf or in the name of the applicable Affiliate of Seller and on such Affiliate’s
behalf with respect thereto.
(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, unless and until any consent
or approval with respect to any Nonassignable Asset is obtained, such Nonassignable Asset shall not
constitute a Purchased Asset and any associated liability shall not constitute an Assumed Liability
for any purpose under this Agreement.
(g) As reasonably requested by Buyer, Seller will identify the licenses included in the
Nonassignable Assets and shall cooperate and assist Buyer, at Buyer’s cost and expense, to obtain
licenses or arrangements to replace the licenses, services and assets provided with respect to any
Nonassignable Asset.
2.7 Proprietary Information
Unless expressly set forth in this Agreement, the Intellectual Property Agreement or in any
Collateral Agreement, no title, right or license of any kind is granted to Buyer pursuant to this
Agreement with respect to the Proprietary Information of Seller or any Affiliate of Seller, either
directly or indirectly, by implication, by estoppel or otherwise.
2.8 Bulk Sales Law
Buyer hereby waives compliance by Seller and any Subsidiary with the requirements and
provisions of any “bulk-transfer” Laws of any jurisdiction, including Article 6 of the
Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code, that may otherwise be applicable with respect to the sale of
any or all of the Purchased Assets to Buyer or a Buyer Designee.
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2.9 Taxes
(a) The Party prescribed by applicable Law as primarily liable for the payment shall be
responsible for any sales, use, stamp, documentary, filing, recording, transfer, value added or
similar fees or Taxes in connection with the transfer of the Purchased Assets and the assumption of
the Assumed Liabilities to and by, respectively, Buyer and Buyer Designees pursuant to this
Agreement (other than Taxes measured by or with respect to income imposed on Seller or its
Subsidiaries) (“Transfer Taxes”). In the case and to the extent of value added and similar
Taxes incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby that are recoverable by
Buyer or a Buyer Designee, such Taxes shall be invoiced by Seller or its Subsidiaries to Buyer or
Buyer Designee, as applicable, paid by Buyer or Buyer Designee to Seller or its Subsidiaries, as
applicable, and remitted by Seller or its Subsidiaries, as applicable, to the relevant Taxing
Authority in accordance with applicable Law, and buyer or Buyer Designee shall be entitled to such
recovery. The parties shall file all necessary documents (including all Tax Returns) with respect
to all such amounts in a timely manner. Buyer and Seller shall cooperate to minimize the amount of
Transfer Taxes.
(b) All real property Taxes, personal property Taxes and similar ad valorem obligations levied
with respect to the Purchased Assets for a Straddle Period shall be apportioned between Seller and
Buyer based on the number of days of such Straddle Period, and Seller shall be liable for the
proportionate amount of such Taxes that is attributable to the Pre-Closing Tax Period within such
Straddle Period, and Buyer shall be liable for the proportionate amount of such Taxes that is
attributable to the Post-Closing Tax Period within such Straddle Period. Any refund, rebate,
abatement or other recovery of such Taxes attributable to the Pre-Closing Tax Period shall be for
the account of Seller, and any refund, rebate, abatement or other recovery of such Taxes
attributable to the Post-Closing Tax Period shall be for the account of Buyer.
(c) Following the Closing, Buyer and Seller shall cooperate as reasonably requested for the
purpose of enabling the requesting party to prepare Tax Returns with respect to the Mobility
Business or the Purchased Assets or to prepare for and defend audits or other Tax-related
examinations by a Governmental Body with respect to the Mobility Business and the Purchased Assets.
Such cooperation shall be at the expense of the requesting party.
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2.10 Buyer Designee
The Parties agree that Buyer may assign the right to purchase certain of the Purchased Assets
to one or more Buyer Designees or that one or more Buyer Designees may enter into a Collateral
Agreement. Notwithstanding any such assignment or execution of a Collateral Agreement by a Buyer
Designee, Buyer shall remain liable for, and any such assignment or execution shall not relieve
Buyer of, its obligations hereunder or thereunder. Any reference to Buyer in this Agreement shall
to the extent applicable also be deemed a reference to the applicable Buyer Designee, except where
in context of this Agreement such use would not be appropriate.
3. Representations and Warranties of Seller
Except as set forth in the Schedules attached hereto and delivered by Seller to Buyer prior to
the execution of this Agreement, Seller represents and warrants to Buyer that:
3.1 Organization and Qualification
Seller is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws
of the State of Delaware and has all requisite corporate power and authority to carry on the
Mobility Business as currently conducted by it and to own or lease and operate the assets used in
the conduct or operation of the Mobility Business. Seller is duly qualified to do business and is
in good standing as a foreign corporation (in any jurisdiction that recognizes such concept) in
each jurisdiction where the ownership or operation of the Purchased Assets or the conduct of the
Mobility Business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or in
good standing, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and could not reasonably be expected
to have a Seller Material Adverse Effect.
3.2 Subsidiaries
Schedule 3.2 sets forth a list of each Subsidiary of Seller that has title to any
asset that is a Purchased Asset or will be acquired after the date hereof and will be a Purchased
Asset or any obligation that is or will be an Assumed Liability, together with its jurisdiction of
organization. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.2, each entity is duly organized and
validly existing and in good standing (in any jurisdiction that recognizes such concept) under the
Laws of its jurisdiction of organization and has all requisite corporate or similar power and
authority to own, lease and operate the Purchased Assets owned by it and to carry on its portion of
the Mobility Business as presently conducted and is duly qualified to do business and is in good
standing as a foreign corporation or other entity (in any jurisdiction that recognizes such
concept) in each jurisdiction where the ownership or operation of its properties and assets or the
conduct of the Mobility Business requires such qualification, except for failures to be so duly
organized, validly existing, qualified or in good standing that, individually or in the aggregate,
have not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a Seller Material Adverse Effect. The
Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 3.2 are the only
Affiliates of Seller that have title to any Purchased Asset or any obligation that is an
Assumed Liability.
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3.3 Authorization; Binding Effect
(a) (i) Seller has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and
perform this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements to which it will be a party and to effect the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and the execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the Collateral Agreements to which it will be a party has been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action.
(ii) Each Subsidiary that has title to any Purchased Asset or asset acquired after the date
hereof that will be a Purchased Asset or an obligation that is or will be an Assumed Liability has
all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform the Collateral
Agreements to which it will be a party and to effect the transactions contemplated thereby, and the
execution, delivery and performance of the Collateral Agreements to which it will be a party has
been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action.
(b) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by Seller and this Agreement is, and
the Collateral Agreements to which Seller and each Subsidiary that has title to any asset that is
or will be a Purchased Asset or any obligation that is or will be an Assumed Liability, will be a
party when duly executed and delivered by Seller or such Subsidiary will be, valid and legally
binding obligations of Seller or such Subsidiary, enforceable against Seller or such Subsidiary, as
applicable, in accordance with their respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement of the
rights and remedies created hereby and thereby may be affected by bankruptcy, reorganization,
moratorium, insolvency and similar Laws of general application affecting the rights and remedies of
creditors and by general equity principles.
3.4 Non-Contravention; Consents
(a) Assuming that all Required Consents have been obtained, the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement by Seller and the Collateral Agreements by Seller or any Subsidiary
that is a party thereto and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do
not and will not: (i) result in a breach or violation of, or conflict with, any provision of
Seller’s or the applicable Subsidiary’s charter, by-laws or similar organizational document, (ii)
violate or result in a breach of or constitute an occurrence of default under any provision of,
result in the acceleration or cancellation of any obligation under, or give rise to a right by any
party to terminate or amend its obligations under, any mortgage, deed of trust, conveyance to
secure debt, note, loan, indenture, lien, lease, agreement, license, permit, instrument, order,
judgment, decree or other arrangement or commitment to which Seller or the applicable Subsidiary is
a party or by which it is bound and which relates to the Mobility Business or the Purchased Assets
(including Seller’s external manufacturing and supply arrangements), or (iii) violate any
applicable Law, order, judgment, decree, rule or regulation of any court or any Governmental Body having jurisdiction
over Seller, a Subsidiary, the Mobility Business or the Purchased Assets, other than in the case of
clauses (ii) and (iii), any such violations, breaches, defaults, accelerations or cancellations of
obligations or rights that, individually or in the aggregate, are not material to the Mobility
Business, taken as a whole.
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(b) No consent, approval, order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing
with, any Person is required to be obtained by Seller or a Subsidiary in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements to which Seller
or such Subsidiary will be a party or for the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
or thereby by Seller or such Subsidiary, except for (i) any filings required to be made under the
HSR Act, the German Act Against Restraints of Competition, and any applicable filings required
under other antitrust Laws, (ii) consents or approvals of Governmental Bodies or other Third
Parties that are required to transfer or assign to Buyer or a Buyer Designee any Purchased Assets
or assign the benefits of or delegate performance with regard thereto in any material respect or
enable the parties to perform the transactions contemplated by the Supply Agreement, which are set
forth in Schedule 3.4(b) (items (i) and (ii) being referred to herein as the “Required
Consents”) and (iii) such consents, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations,
declarations or filings the failure of which to be obtained or made, individually or in the
aggregate, are not material to the Mobility Business, taken as a whole.
3.5 Title to Property; Principal Equipment; Sufficiency of Assets
(a) Seller or a Subsidiary has and at the Closing will have good and valid title to, or a
valid and binding leasehold interest or license in, all real and personal tangible Purchased Assets
free and clear of any Encumbrance except for Permitted Encumbrances.
(b) Each material item of Principal Equipment is in good operating condition, subject to
normal wear and tear, suitable for the purposes for which it is currently being used, but is
otherwise being transferred on a “where is” and, as to condition, “as is” basis.
Each material item of leased personal property is in all material respects in the condition
required of such property by the terms of the lease applicable thereto.
(c) Except for (i) the assets that will be used in connection with providing services under
the Transition Services Agreement, (ii) the assets and Business Employees not transferred to Buyer
or a Buyer Designee at Buyer’s request, and (iii) the Excluded Assets, the Purchased Assets and the
Business Employees and the other rights to be acquired under this Agreement and the Collateral
Agreements (including the services to be provided pursuant to the Transition Services Agreement)
constitute (x) all property, assets, personnel and rights that that are used or held for use by
Seller or a Subsidiary in the operation or conduct the Mobility Business and (y) all property,
assets and rights that are necessary for the operation or conduct of the Mobility Business as
currently conducted. In the event this Section 3.5(c) is breached because Seller or a Subsidiary
has in good faith failed to identify and transfer any assets or properties or provide any services
used or held for use primarily in
the Mobility Business, such breach shall be deemed cured if Seller or the applicable
Subsidiary promptly transfers such properties or assets or provides such services to Buyer or a
Buyer Designee at no additional cost to Buyer or a Buyer Designee.
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(d) Upon the Closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, Seller will have
sold, assigned, transferred and conveyed, or caused to be sold, assigned transferred and conveyed,
to Buyer or a Buyer Designee all of the Purchased Assets, free and clear of all Encumbrances other
than Permitted Encumbrances.
3.6 Permits; Licenses
Except as set forth on Schedule 2.1(j), there are no Governmental Permits material to
the Mobility Business necessary for or used by Seller or a Subsidiary to operate the Mobility
Business as now being operated or to use or occupy the Premises, which Governmental Permits are
required by currently effective Laws. Seller or one of its Subsidiaries owns, holds or possesses in
their own name, all Governmental Permits necessary to own or lease, operate and use the Purchased
Assets or own, use or occupy the Premises and to carry on and conduct the Mobility Business and its
operations as presently conducted, except for such Governmental Permits, the absence of which,
individually or in the aggregate, are not material to the Mobility Business. The Governmental
Permits held, owned or possessed by Seller or a Subsidiary are valid and in full force and effect
and no proceeding is recorded, pending or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened seeking the
suspension, modification, limitation or revocation of any such Governmental Permit. Neither Seller
nor any Subsidiary is in material violation of or default under any such Governmental Permits.
3.7 Real Estate; Environmental Matters
(a) Schedule 3.7(a) contains a complete and accurate list of the Leased Premises and
the Assumed Leases. Buyer has been provided with a complete and correct copy of each Assumed
Lease, as such Schedule may be updated by the parties to reflect changes in the nature of the
Assumed Leases as determined by Buyer after the date hereof. Except as set forth in Schedule
3.7(a), each Assumed Lease is in full force and effect and, to Seller’s knowledge, neither
Seller nor any Subsidiary has violated, and the landlord has not waived, any of the material terms
or conditions of any Assumed Lease and, to Seller’s knowledge, all the material covenants to be
performed by Seller or a Subsidiary and the landlord under each Assumed Lease prior to the date
hereof have been performed in all material respects. There are no contractual or legal
restrictions precluding or restricting the ability to use any of the Premises for the current and
contemplated use of such real property with respect to the Mobility Business.
(b) The use of any Premises, as presently used by the Mobility Business, does not violate any
local zoning or similar land use Laws or governmental regulations which violation, individually or
in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility Business. Neither
Seller nor any Subsidiary is in violation of or in noncompliance with any covenant, condition,
restriction, order or easement affecting any Premise where such violation or noncompliance,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be
expected to be material to the Mobility Business. There is no condemnation or, to Seller’s
knowledge, threatened condemnation affecting any Premise.
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(c) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.7(c) and in respect of the Mobility Business and
the Premises:
(i) the operations of the Mobility Business and the Premises comply in all material respects
with all applicable Environmental Laws;
(ii) Seller and each Subsidiary has obtained all environmental, health and safety Governmental
Permits required by or related to any Environmental Law and necessary for its operations, and all
such Governmental Permits are in good standing, and Seller and each Subsidiary is in compliance
with all terms and conditions of such permits except where the failure to obtain, maintain in good
standing or be in compliance with, such permits, individually or in the aggregate, could not
reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility Business;
(iii) none of Seller, any Subsidiary or any of the Premises or the operations of the Mobility
Business, is subject to any on-going investigation by, order from or agreement with any Person
respecting (A) any Environmental Law, or (B) any remedial action arising from the release or
threatened release of a Hazardous Substance into the environment;
(iv) neither Seller nor any Subsidiary is subject to any judicial or administrative
proceeding, order, judgment, decree or settlement alleging or addressing a violation of or
liability under any Environmental Law;
(v) Seller or each applicable Subsidiary has filed all notices required to be filed under any
Environmental Law indicating past or present treatment, storage or disposal of a Hazardous
Substance or reporting a spill or release of a Hazardous Substance into the environment except
where the failure to file any such notices, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and could
not reasonably be expected to have a Seller Material Adverse Effect;
(vi) there is not now, nor to Seller’s knowledge, has there ever been, on or in any Premise
any aboveground or underground storage tanks;
(vii) neither Seller nor any Subsidiary has received any written notice, or to Seller’s
knowledge, other claim to the effect that it is or may be liable to any Person as a result of the
release or threatened release of a Hazardous Substance; and
(viii) to Seller’s knowledge, there have been no releases, or threatened releases of any
Hazardous Substances into, on or under any of the Premises, in any case in such a way as to create
any liability (including the costs of investigation and remediation) under any applicable
Environmental Law.
3.8 Compliance With Laws
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.8, Seller and each Subsidiary is in compliance with
all applicable Laws and all decrees, orders, judgments, writs, injunctions, permits and
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licenses of
or from Governmental Bodies by which the Mobility Business, the Business Employees or the Purchased
Assets are bound or affected except for instances of noncompliance or possible noncompliance that,
individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility
Business. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Seller and each Subsidiary is in
compliance with all applicable export control Laws by which the Mobility Business or the Purchased
Assets are bound or affected except for instances of noncompliance or possible noncompliance that,
individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility
Business.
3.9 Litigation
Except as set forth on Schedule 3.9, there is no action, suit, consent decree,
proceeding, arbitration or governmental investigation pending or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened
by, against or involving Seller or any Subsidiary, the Mobility Business or the Purchased Assets,
(i) which seeks to restrain or enjoin the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or
(ii) with respect to the Mobility Products Group, the Purchased Assets, the Assumed Liabilities or
the Transferred Employees that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to
be material to the Mobility Business. To Seller’s knowledge, there is no basis for any such action,
suit, decree, proceeding, arbitration or investigation not disclosed on Schedule 3.9 that,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility
Business.
3.10 Business Employees
(a) Schedule 3.10(a) contains a complete and accurate list of all the Mobility
Business Employees as of July 31, 2007, showing for each Business Employee, the name, title,
location, service date, annual salary or wages as of such date, aggregate annual compensation for
2006. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.10(a), none of the Business Employees is covered
by any union, collective bargaining agreement or other similar labor agreement, nor, to Seller’s
knowledge, are there any pending union organizing activities or arrangements. Seller will update
Schedule 3.10(a) to be accurate as of the Closing Date at least five (5) Business Days
prior to the Closing. No unfair labor practice or labor charge or complaint is pending or, to the
knowledge of Seller, threatened with respect to any employee of the Mobility Business.
(b) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.10(b), with respect to the Business Employees,
neither Seller nor any Subsidiary currently maintains, contributes to or has any liability under
any Benefit Plan. With respect to each of the Benefit Plans identified on Schedule 3.10(b),
Seller has made available to Buyer true and complete copies of the most recent summary plan or
other written description thereof. Each Benefit Plan that is intended
to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination
letter, or has pending or has time remaining in which to file an application for such
determination, from the IRS, and Seller is not aware of reason why any such determination letter
should be revoked or not issued or reissued. Neither Seller nor any Subsidiary is a party to any
agreement, contract, arrangement or plan that has resulted or could result,
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separately or in the
aggregate, in the payment of any “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section
280G of the Code or any similar provisions of foreign, state or local Law.
(c) With respect to the Mobility Business, there is not presently pending or existing, and to
Seller’s knowledge there is not threatened, (i) any strike, slowdown, picketing, or work stoppage,
(ii) any application for certification of a collective bargaining agent, or (iii) any controversies
pending, or to Seller’s knowledge, threatened between Seller or any Subsidiary and any of its
employees that, individually or in the aggregate, have had or could reasonably be expected to have
a Seller Material Adverse Effect.
3.11 Contracts
Schedule 3.11 contains a complete and accurate list of all existing Contracts of
Seller or a Subsidiary that:
(i) involve or could reasonably be expected to involve payments by or to Seller or a
Subsidiary either of more than $250,000 per year or more than $500,000 in the aggregate over the
full term thereof;
(ii) are with (A) Business Employees or (B) involve or could reasonably be expected to involve
the transfer of employees employed by any Person (not being Buyer or any Affiliate) to Buyer or any
Affiliate whether by operation of law or otherwise that involve an amount equal to more than
$50,000 and that cannot be terminable upon 30 days prior notice;
(iii) are with an Affiliate of Seller;
(iv) are with any labor union, works council or similar body;
(v) contain any provision or covenant prohibiting or limiting the ability of Seller or a
Subsidiary to engage in any activity relating to or involving the Mobility Business (including
geographical restrictions) or to compete, directly or indirectly, with any Person as to the
Mobility Business;
(iv) create or obligate Seller or a Subsidiary to participate in any joint venture or similar
arrangement with respect to or affecting the Mobility Business or the Purchased Assets;
(v) relate to any material license relating to the Mobility Business or the Purchased Assets;
(vi) constitute a Contract with a Government Body;
(vii) constitute a broker, distributor, sales representative or marketing agreement; and
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(viii) constitute any other agreement, commitment, arrangement or plan that is material to the
Mobility Business (clauses (i) through (viii) collectively, the “Material Contracts”).
(b) Each Material Contract was (if applicable) validly assigned by any predecessor of Seller,
is in full force and effect and is valid, binding and enforceable against Seller or the applicable
Subsidiary and, to Seller’s knowledge, the other parties thereto in accordance with its terms and
is in full force and effect. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.11, neither Seller nor any
Subsidiary is in default under or in breach of or is otherwise delinquent in performance under any
Material Contract. To Seller’s knowledge, each of the other parties thereto has performed all
obligations required to be performed by it under, and is not in default under, any Material
Contract and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute
such a default, except for breaches, failures of performance or defaults that, individually or in
the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility Business. Seller or
a Subsidiary has made available to Buyer true and complete copies of all Material Contracts.
3.12 Revenues; Financial Information; Absence of Certain Changes
(a) Schedule 3.12(a) sets forth a statement of revenues for the Mobility Business for
each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005. The statement of revenues is derived
from and has been prepared in accordance with the books and records of Seller and the Subsidiaries
(which are accurate and complete in all material respects) on a consistent basis throughout the
periods covered thereby consistent with Seller’s standard accounting policies and procedures and
(ii) presents fairly the revenues of the Mobility Business for such periods.
(b) Schedule 3.12(b) sets forth a true and correct statement of operations for the
year ended December 31, 2006 and 2005 for the Mobility Business and includes the costs of Seller
and its Subsidiaries directly involved in and specifically identifiable to the revenue producing
activity of the Mobility Business, based on the allocation methodologies of Seller and are prepared
from the financial books and records of Seller consistent with Seller’s standard accounting
policies and procedures.
(c) The revenue of the Mobility Business reflected on Schedule 3.12(a) and
Schedule 3.12(b) has been recognized in accordance with GAAP and SAB 104 (as noted on
Schedule 3.12(a) and Schedule 3.12(b)). The historical financial information
relating to the Mobility Business set forth on Schedule 3.12(b) was prepared in good faith
by Seller’s management and is based upon reasonable assumptions. Seller is not aware of any fact or set
of circumstances that would lead it to believe that such historical financial information is
incorrect or misleading in any material respect.
(d) Schedule 3.12(d) sets forth certain data relating to the external manufacturing
services provided by Third Parties or Affiliates of Seller with respect to the Products. The data
was prepared in good faith by Seller’s management consistent with Seller’s policies and
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procedures and based upon terms of existing supply agreements (where applicable) of Seller and its
Subsidiaries and reasonable assumptions of management of Seller as set forth therein. Seller is
not aware of any fact or set of circumstances that would lead it to believe that such data is
incorrect or misleading in any material respect.
(e) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.12(e), since December 31, 2006, the Mobility
Business has been conducted by Seller and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course consistent with
past practices and there has not been:
(i) any event, occurrence, development or state of circumstances or facts which, individually
or in the aggregate, has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Seller Material Adverse
Effect;
(ii) any creation or other incurrence of any Encumbrance on any Purchased Asset other than in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;
(iii) any damage, destruction or other casualty loss (whether or not covered by insurance)
affecting the Mobility Business or any Purchased Asset which, individually or in the aggregate,
could reasonably be expected to be material to the Mobility Business;
(iv) any transaction or commitment made, or any contract or agreement entered into, by Seller
or a Subsidiary relating to the Mobility Business (or the manufacturing and supply arrangements
thereof) or any Purchased Asset (including the acquisition or disposition of any assets) or any
relinquishment by Seller or a Subsidiary of any contract or other right, in either case, material
to the Mobility Business, other than transactions and commitments in the ordinary course of
business consistent with past practices and those contemplated by this Agreement and the Collateral
Agreements;
(v) any change in any method of accounting or accounting practice by Seller or a Subsidiary
with respect to the Mobility Business;
(vi) any (i) employment, deferred compensation, severance, retirement or other similar
agreement entered into with any Business Employee (or any amendment to any such existing
agreement), (ii) change in compensation or other benefits payable to any Business Employee pursuant
to any severance or retirement plans or policies thereof;
(vii) any labor dispute, other than routine individual grievances, or any activity or
proceeding by a labor union or representative thereof to organize the Business
Employees, which employees were not subject to a collective bargaining agreement as of
December 31, 2006, or any lockouts, strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages or threats thereof by or
with respect to Business Employees;
(viii) any loss of any material supplier or distributor relationship of the Mobility Business
or any change in terms of the relationship of such supplier or distributor with the Mobility
Business, waiver of any rights or obligations with respect to any material
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supplier or distributor
Contract or arrangement, or notice by any such supplier or distributor of its intention to
terminate, to materially change the terms or decrease the amount of products supplied, purchases or
sales made with respect to the Mobility Business, and to Seller’s knowledge, there is no basis for
any such material supplier to terminate or materially change the terms of or decrease the amount of
products or services made with respect to the Mobility Business;
(ix) any adverse change with respect to any customer of the Mobility which represented one of
the three (3) largest customers of the Mobility Business with respect to revenue generated by the
Mobility Business during the year ended December 31, 2006, or any notice by any such customer of
its intention to terminate or materially change the terms of or to decrease the amount of purchases
of Products, and to Seller’s knowledge, there is no basis for any such customer to terminate or
materially change the terms of or to decrease the amount of purchases of Products;
(x) adoption of any applicable Law or issuance of decree, order or judgment that materially
affects the Mobility Business or the sales of its Products; or
(xi) any shipments or sales of quantities of Products to customers, including distributors,
other than in the ordinary course consistent with their past requirements.
(e) Seller has not received or booked any prepaid revenues applicable to the Mobility Business
applicable to performance due after the Closing Date.
3.13 Intellectual Property.
(a) Seller or one of its Affiliates owns exclusively all right, title and interest in and to
all Assigned Intellectual Property, free and clear of all Encumbrances other than Permitted
Encumbrances. Seller or one of its Affiliates owns or has a valid right to grant the licenses to
all Licensed Intellectual Property that it is licensing to Buyer pursuant to the Intellectual
Property Agreement. Seller and its Affiliates have not received any notice or claim challenging
Seller’s or any its Affiliates’ ownership of any Assigned Intellectual Property or suggesting that
any other Person has any claim of legal or beneficial ownership or exclusive rights with respect
thereto, nor to the knowledge of Seller is there a reasonable basis for any claim that Seller or
its Affiliates, as applicable, does not so own any of such Assigned Intellectual Property.
Schedule A of Appendix F to the Intellectual Property Agreement contains a complete and
accurate list of all registered Trademarks and pending applications for registration of Trademarks
that are used or held for use primarily in the
operation or conduct of the Mobility Business (the “Assigned Marks”). Schedule
A to Appendix G to the Intellectual Property Agreement contains a complete and accurate list of
all patents and pending patent applications that are to be assigned to Buyer or a Buyer Designee
(the “Assigned Patents” and, together with the Assigned Marks, the “Assigned Registered
IP”), and there are no registered Copyrights and pending applications for registration of
Copyrights. Seller has not received any notice or claim challenging the validity or enforceability
of any of the Assigned Registered IP or indicating an intention on
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the part of any Person to bring
a claim that any of the Assigned Registered IP is invalid or unenforceable, nor to the knowledge of
Seller is there a reasonable basis for any claim that any of the Assigned Registered IP is either
invalid or unenforceable. All Assigned Registered IP has been registered or obtained in accordance
with all applicable legal requirements, and Seller has timely paid all filing, examination,
issuance, post registration and maintenance fees, annuities and the like associated with or
required with respect thereto. None of the Assigned Registered IP has been or is now involved in
any interference, reissue, reexamination, opposition, cancellation or similar proceeding and, to
the knowledge of Seller, no such action is or has been threatened. Seller has not taken any action
or failed to take any action that would result in the abandonment, cancellation, forfeiture,
relinquishment, invalidation or unenforceability of any Assigned Registered IP.
(b) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.13(b), in connection with the operation of the
Mobility Business,
(i) to Seller’s knowledge, none of Seller or any of its Affiliates has infringed,
misappropriated or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property rights or other proprietary rights
of any Third Party;
(ii) there is no suit, or proceeding pending against or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened
against or a written or, to Seller’s knowledge, oral claim affecting, the Mobility Business (x)
based upon, or challenging or seeking to deny or restrict, the rights of Seller or any of its
Affiliates in any of the Assigned Intellectual Property or the Licensed Intellectual Property
(collectively, the “Business Intellectual Property”), (y) alleging that the use of the
Business Intellectual Property or any services provided, processes used, or products manufactured,
used, imported, offered for sale or sold with respect to the Mobility Business do or may conflict
with, misappropriate, infringe or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property rights or other
proprietary rights of any Third Party, or (z) alleging that Seller or any of its Affiliates
infringed, misappropriated, or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property rights or other
proprietary rights of any Third Party in connection with the operation of the Mobility Business;
and
(iii) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.13(b), (A) the Business Intellectual Property
constitutes all the material Intellectual Property rights or other material proprietary rights
owned by or licensed to Seller or one of its Affiliates that is used in connection with the
Mobility Business; (B) there exist no restrictions on the disclosure, use, license or transfer of
the Business Intellectual Property (other than the restrictions imposed on Licensed Intellectual
Property in the Intellectual Property Agreement); (C) the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not alter, impair or
extinguish any Business Intellectual Property; (D) the Licenses set forth on Schedule 2.1(h) (the
“Inbound License Agreements”) constitute all material Licenses of Seller or one of its
Affiliates to the Intellectual Property rights or other proprietary rights of Third Parties that
are used in the Mobility Business, other than licenses to standard office personal computer and
networking software that is licensed on a “shrinkwrap” or “click-through” basis, (E) the Assigned
Intellectual Property constitutes all of the Intellectual Property owned by Seller or any of its
Affiliates that is used or held for use primarily in connection with the Mobility
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Business, and (F)
the Licenses identified on Schedule 2.1(h) constitute all of the licenses of Intellectual Property
of a Third Person that are used or held for use primarily in connection with the Mobility Business.
No loss or expiration of Seller’s or one of its Affiliates’ right to use any Intellectual Property
licensed to Seller or any of its Affiliates under any Inbound License Agreement is pending,
reasonably foreseeable or, to the knowledge of Seller, threatened. Schedule 2.1(h) sets forth a
complete and accurate list of all license agreements currently in effect under which Seller or any
of its Affiliates licenses or grants any other rights under any Assigned Intellectual Property to
another Person, excluding (i) non-exclusive internal use licenses granted by Seller or any of its
Affiliates in the ordinary course of business pursuant to the Seller’s or such Affiliates standard
form license agreements, and (ii) non-exclusive patent licenses granted by Seller or such
Affiliates in the normal course of their corporate patent licensing program other than any patent
licenses that specifically name any of the Assigned Patents.
(c) At the Closing, Seller and its Affiliates will assign to Buyer the Assigned Intellectual
Property and will license to Buyer the Licensed Intellectual Property, in each case in accordance
with the Intellectual Property Agreement. Seller and its Affiliates will transfer clear title to
the Assigned Intellectual Property at the Closing and will license the Licensed Intellectual
Property free and clear of any Encumbrance.
(d) None of the Assigned Intellectual Property has been adjudged invalid or unenforceable in
whole or part and, to Seller’s knowledge, all Assigned Intellectual Property is valid and
enforceable.
(e) Seller and its Affiliates have taken reasonable actions to maintain and protect the
Assigned Intellectual Property, including payment of applicable maintenance fees and filing of
applicable statements of use other than certain foreign applications which Seller or an Affiliate
thereof, in its reasonable business judgment, has abandoned in the ordinary course of business.
(f) Seller and its Affiliates have taken reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of
all Trade Secrets relating to the Mobility Business (“Business Trade Secrets”) and other
information that at any time constituted a Trade Secret relating to the Mobility Business,
including taking steps to ensure that any Business Trade Secrets disclosed by Seller or any of its
Affiliates to a third party are subject to the confidentiality undertakings set forth in any
applicable non-disclosure agreement. To Seller’s knowledge, there has been no misappropriation of
any material Business Trade Secrets. Seller and its
Affiliates have not disclosed, nor is Seller or any of its Affiliates under any contractual or
other obligation to disclose, to another Person any Business Trade Secrets, except pursuant to an
enforceable confidentiality agreement or undertaking, and, to the knowledge of Seller, no Person
has materially breached any such agreement or undertaking. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, Seller has and enforces in a commercially reasonable manner a policy requiring each
Business Employee and independent contractor who has participated in the creation of any Business
Intellectual Property or have had access to any Business Trade Secrets to enter into non-disclosure
and invention assignment agreements substantially in Seller’s standard forms (which have previously
been provided to Buyer) and
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all Business Employees and such independent contractor (whether or not
currently employed or engaged by Seller) have executed and delivered such an agreement. To
Seller’s knowledge, there is no material infringement of the Assigned Intellectual Property by any
Third Party.
(g) To the knowledge of Seller, no Business Employee or independent contractor of Seller or
any of its Affiliates who is employed in connection with the Mobility Business is obligated under
any agreement or subject to any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative agency, or
any other restriction that would or may materially interfere with such Business Employee or
independent contractor carrying out his or her duties for Seller or such Affiliate, as applicable,
or that would materially conflict with the Assigned Intellectual Property or the Mobility Business
as presently conducted.
(h) Seller and its Affiliates have not transferred and are not bound by any agreement to
transfer ownership of, and has not granted any exclusive license with respect to, any Assigned
Intellectual Property that is or at the time of transfer was related to the Mobility Business. The
execution, delivery and performance by Seller of this Agreement, and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby, will not result in the loss or impairment of, or give rise to any
right of any third party to terminate or otherwise result in any modifications of any of Seller’s
or any of its Affiliates’ rights or obligations under any Inbound License Agreement.
3.14 Product Liability and Recalls
(a) Each of the products produced or sold by Seller or a Subsidiary or any predecessor in
connection with the Mobility Business is, and at all times up to and including the sale thereof has
been, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws. To Seller’s knowledge,
there is no material design or manufacturing defect that has been established or is being
investigated with respect to any of such products.
(b) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.14(b), since January 1, 2005, there has been no
action, suit, claim, inquiry, proceeding or investigation in any case by or before any court or
Governmental Body pending or, to Seller’s knowledge, threatened against or involving the Mobility
Business relating to any product alleged to have been designed, manufactured or sold by the
Mobility Business and alleged to have been defective or improperly designed or manufactured, nor,
to Seller’s knowledge, has there been any pattern of product failure relating to any products
designed, manufactured or sold by the Mobility Business.
(c) Since January 1, 2005, there has been no pending, or to Seller’s knowledge, threatened
recall or investigation of any product sold by Seller or a Subsidiary or any predecessor thereof in
connection with the Mobility Business.
3.15 Product Warranty
Schedule 3.15 includes copies of the standard terms and conditions of sale for the
products of the Mobility Business (containing applicable guaranty, warranty and indemnity
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provisions). Except as set forth in Schedule 3.15, the products manufactured by the
Mobility Business have been sold by the Mobility Business in accordance with the standard terms and
conditions of sale. All designs and Products comply in all material respects with the
specifications provided to customers of the Mobility Business.
3.16 Inventory
The Inventory is, and as of the Closing Date, will be of quality and quantity usable or
saleable in the ordinary course of the Mobility Business consistent with past practice, except in
each case for obsolete items and items of below-standard quality that have been written down to
estimated net realizable value in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with past
practices.
3.17 Customer and Suppliers
Schedule 3.17 contains a list setting forth the ten (10) largest customers of the
Mobility Business, by dollar amount, over the twelve (12) months ended December 31, 2006, and the
ten (10) largest suppliers of the Mobility Business, by dollar amount, over the twelve (12) months
ended December 31, 2006. All purchase and sale orders and other commitments for purchases and
sales made by Seller or any Subsidiary in connection with the Mobility Business have been made in
the ordinary course of business in accordance with past practices, and no payments have been made
to any supplier or customers or any of their respective representatives other than payments to such
suppliers or their representatives for the payment of the invoiced price of supplies purchased or
goods sold in the ordinary course of business. There are no customer rebate arrangements of the
Mobility Business included in the Contracts.
3.18 Restrictions on the Mobility Business
Except for this Agreement, there is no agreement, judgment, injunction, order or decree
affecting (i) Seller’s or a Subsidiary’s conduct of the Mobility Business as currently conducted in
any material respect, or (ii) to Seller’s knowledge, Buyer’s ability to conduct the Mobility
Business after the Closing as currently conducted by Seller.
3.19 Brokers
Other than Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co., as to which Seller shall have full responsibility and for
which Buyer shall not have any liability, no broker, investment banker, financial advisor or other
Person is entitled to any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s or other similar fee or
commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement based upon
arrangements made by or on behalf of Seller or any Affiliate of Seller.
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3.20 Taxes
There are no liens for Taxes upon any of the Purchased Assets other than Permitted
Encumbrances and no action, proceeding or, to Seller’s knowledge, investigation has been instituted
against Seller or any Subsidiary that would give rise to any such lien other than Permitted
Encumbrances. Seller and each Subsidiary has duly and timely filed all material Tax Returns that
it was required to file; all such Returns were correct and complete in all material respects; and
all Taxes of Seller or its Subsidiaries owed or shown as due on any Return, have been paid.
Neither Seller nor any Subsidiary has any knowledge of any actual or contingent liability for Taxes
that could reasonably be expected to become a liability of Buyer or any Buyer Designee by reason of
the transactions set forth in this Agreement. None of the Purchased Assets is an asset or property
that is or will be required to be treated as (a) described in Section 168(f)(8) of the U.S.
Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and in effect immediately before the enactment of the Tax Reform Act
of 1986, or (b) tax-exempt use property within the meaning of Section 168(h)(1) of the Code. No
Governmental Body has claimed that the Purchased Assets or the Mobility Business are subject to Tax
in a jurisdiction in which the required Tax Returns have not been filed by Seller or its
Subsidiary. No material issues have been raised in any audits, examinations or disputes pertaining
to Taxes arising from the Purchased Assets or the Mobility Business.
3.21 No Other Representations or Warranties
Except for the representations and warranties contained in this Article 3, none of Seller, any
Affiliate of Seller or any other Person makes any representations or warranties, and Seller hereby
disclaims any other representations or warranties, whether made by Seller, or any Affiliate of
Seller, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives, with
respect to the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any Collateral Agreement, the
transactions contemplated hereby or the Mobility Business, notwithstanding the delivery or
disclosure to Buyer or its representatives of any documentation or other information with respect
to any one or more of the foregoing.
4. Representations and Warranties of Buyer
Except as set forth in Schedules attached hereto and delivered by Buyer to Seller prior to the
execution of this Agreement, Buyer represents and warrants to Seller that:
4.1 Organization and Qualification
Each of Buyer and any Buyer Designee is a corporation, limited partnership, or other legal
entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (in any jurisdiction in which such
concept exists) under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization and each of
Buyer and any Buyer Designee has all requisite legal power and authority to carry on its business
as currently conducted by it and to own or lease and operate its properties. Each of Buyer and any
Buyer Designee is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation
(in any jurisdiction that recognizes such concept) in each jurisdiction where the ownership or
operation of its assets or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where
the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, has not had
and could not
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reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on Buyer’s or any Buyer
Designee’s ability to consummate the transactions under this Agreement and the Collateral
Agreements.
4.2 Authorization; Binding Effect
(a) Each of Buyer and any Buyer Designee has all requisite corporate power and authority to
execute, deliver and perform this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements to which it will be a
party, as the case may be, and to effect the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements by Buyer has
been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action and, to the extent not completed on the date
hereof by a Buyer Designee, will be duly authorized by all requisite corporate action.
(b) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by Buyer and this Agreement is, and
the Collateral Agreements to which Buyer or a Buyer Designee will be a party when duly executed and
delivered by Buyer or such Buyer Designee will be, valid and legally binding obligations of Buyer
or such Buyer Designee enforceable against Buyer or such Buyer Designee in accordance with their
respective terms, except to the extent that enforcement of the rights and remedies created hereby
and thereby may be affected by bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium, insolvency and similar Laws
of general application affecting the rights and remedies of creditors and by general equity
principles.
4.3 Non-Contravention; Consents
(a) Assuming that the consents specified in Section 4.3(b) below have been obtained, the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements by Buyer and
any Buyer Designee and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not
and will not: (i) result in a breach or violation of any provision of Buyer’s or any Buyer
Designee’s charter or by-laws or similar organizational document, (ii) violate or result in a
breach of or constitute an occurrence of default under any provision of, result in the acceleration
or cancellation of any obligation under, or give rise to a right by any party to terminate or amend
its obligations under, any mortgage, deed of trust, conveyance to secure debt, note, loan,
indenture, lien, lease, agreement, instrument, order, judgment, decree or other arrangement or commitment to which
Buyer or any Buyer Designee is a party or by which it or its assets or properties are bound, or
(iii) violate any applicable Law, order, judgment, injunction, decree, rule or regulation of any
court or any Governmental Body having jurisdiction over Buyer or any Buyer Designee or any of their
respective properties, other than in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), any such violations,
breaches, defaults, accelerations or cancellations of obligations or rights that, individually or
in the aggregate, have not had and could not be reasonably expected to have a material adverse
effect on Buyer’s or any Buyer Designee’s ability to consummate the transactions under this
Agreement and the Collateral Agreements.
(b) No consent, approval, order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing
with, any Person is required to be obtained by Buyer or any Buyer Designee in
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connection with the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement or the Collateral Agreements or for the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except for (i) any filings
required to be made under the HSR Act, the German Act Against Restraints of Competition, and any
applicable filings required under other antitrust Laws, and (ii) such consents, approvals, orders,
authorizations, registrations, declarations or filings the failure of which to be obtained or made,
individually or in the aggregate, have not had and could not reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on Buyer’s business taken as a whole or Buyer’s or any Buyer Designee’s
ability to consummate the transactions under this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements.
4.4 Brokers
Other than Lazard & Co. GmbH, as to which Buyer shall have full responsibility and for which
Seller shall not have any liability, no broker, investment banker, financial advisor or other
Person is entitled to any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s or other similar fee or
commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement based upon
arrangements made by or on behalf of Buyer or any Affiliate of Buyer; provided that Ernst & Young
LLP is also providing transaction support to Buyer in connection with the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement for which Buyer shall full responsibility and for which Seller shall not have
liability.
4.5 Sufficiency of Funds
Buyer (i) has sufficient funds available to pay the Purchase Price and any expenses incurred
by Buyer in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Collateral
Agreements; (ii) has the resources and capabilities (financial or otherwise) to perform its
obligations hereunder and under the Collateral Agreements; and (iii) has not incurred any
obligation, commitment, restriction or liability of any kind, absolute or contingent, present or
future, which would impair or adversely affect such resources and capabilities.
4.6 No Other Representations or Warranties
Except for the representations and warranties contained in this Article 4, none of Buyer, any
Affiliate of Buyer or any other Person makes any representations or warranties, and Buyer hereby
disclaims any other representations or warranties, whether made by Buyer, any Affiliate of Buyer,
or any of their officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives, with respect to the
execution and delivery of this Agreement or any Collateral Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, notwithstanding the delivery or disclosure to Seller or its
representatives of any documentation or other information with respect to any one or more of the
foregoing.
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5. Certain Covenants
5.1 Access and Information
(a) Seller shall give, or cause its Affiliates to give, to Buyer and its Affiliates, and their
respective officers, employees, accountants, counsel and other representatives (including financing
sources) reasonable access during Seller’s or the applicable Affiliate’s normal business hours
throughout the period prior to the Closing to all of Seller’s or the applicable Affiliate’s
properties, books, contracts, commitments, reports of examination and records relating to the
Mobility Business, the Purchased Assets and the Assumed Liabilities (but excluding those related
primarily to the Excluded Assets and Excluded Liabilities and subject to any limitations that are
reasonably required to preserve any applicable attorney-client privilege or legal or contractual
Third-Party confidentiality obligation). Seller shall assist, and cause its Affiliates to assist,
Buyer and its Affiliates and financing sources in making such investigation and shall cause its
counsel, accountants, engineers, consultants and other non-employee representatives to be
reasonably available to any of them for such purposes.
(b) After the Closing Date, Seller and Buyer shall provide, and shall cause their respective
Affiliates to provide, to each other and to their respective officers, employees, accountants,
counsel and other representatives, upon request (subject to any limitations that are reasonably
required to preserve any applicable attorney-client privilege or legal or contractual Third-Party
confidentiality obligation), reasonable access for inspection and copying of all Business Records,
Governmental Permits, Licenses, Contracts and any other information existing as of the Closing Date
and relating to the Mobility Business, the Purchased Assets, the Assumed Liabilities or the
Transferred Employees and shall make their respective personnel reasonably available for
interviews, depositions and testimony in any legal matter concerning transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, the operations or activities relating to the Mobility Business, the Purchased
Assets, the Assumed Liabilities or the Transferred Employees as may be necessary or desirable to
enable the party requesting such assistance to: (i) comply with any reporting, filing or other
requirements imposed by any Governmental Body; (ii) assert or defend any claims or allegations in
any litigation or arbitration or in any administrative or legal proceeding other than claims or
allegations that one party to this Agreement has asserted against the other; or (iii) subject to
clause (ii) above, perform its obligations under this Agreement. The party requesting such
information or assistance shall reimburse the other party for all reasonable and necessary
out-of-pocket costs and expenses, if any, incurred by such party in providing such information and
in rendering such assistance. The access to files, books and records contemplated by this Section
5.1(b) shall be during normal business hours and upon reasonable prior notice and shall be subject
to such reasonable limitations as the party having custody or control thereof may impose to
preserve the confidentiality of information contained therein.
(c) Buyer agrees to preserve all Business Records, Licenses and Governmental Permits in
accordance with its corporate policies related to preservation of records. Buyer further agrees
that, to the extent Business Records, Licenses or Governmental Permits are placed in storage, they
will be kept in such a manner as to make individual document retrieval possible in an expeditious
manner.
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5.2 Conduct of the Mobility Business
From and after the date of this Agreement and until the Closing Date or termination of this
Agreement pursuant to its terms, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or the
Schedules hereto or as Buyer shall otherwise consent to in writing, Seller and each of the
Subsidiaries, with respect to the Mobility Business:
(a) will carry on the Mobility Business in the ordinary course consistent with past practice
and consistent therewith use its reasonable commercial efforts to keep intact the Mobility
Business, keep available the services of the Business Employees and preserve the relationships of
the Mobility Business with customers, suppliers, licensors, licensees, distributors and others that
have a business relationship with the Mobility Business;
(b) will in the ordinary course consistent with past practice maintain the Purchased Assets in
good operating condition and repair or restore such assets as necessary for the operation of the
Mobility Business in the ordinary course of business;
(c) will not permit, other than as may be required by Law or a Governmental Body, all or any
of the Purchased Assets (real or personal, tangible or intangible) presently and actively used or
held for use primarily in the operation or conduct of the Mobility Business to be transferred,
sold, licensed, disposed of, or subjected to any Encumbrance, other than sales of Inventory in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and Section 5.2(d);
(d) will not permit the lapse of any right relating to the Assigned Intellectual Property,
including not taking any action to abandon, disclose, misuse, misappropriate, the Assigned
Intellectual Property in any manner (other than licenses in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practices) or assert or threaten any claims with respect to the Assigned
Intellectual Property;
(e) will not sell, lease, license, transfer or dispose of any asset that would otherwise be a
Purchased Asset, other than sales of Inventory in the ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice and Section 5.2(d);
(f) will not sell Inventory outside of the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice and will maintain Inventory sufficient to meet expected customer requirements, consistent
with past practice, including sufficient raw materials, capacity and work in process in light of
anticipated demand and customary cycle times and sufficient finished goods Inventory for
satisfaction of customer orders on hand at Closing;
(g) will not acquire any asset that will be a Purchased Asset except in the ordinary course of
business consistent with past practice;
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(h) will not enter into, terminate or materially extend, amend, modify or waive any right with
respect to any Material Contract except in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
(i) will not incur or assume any liabilities, obligations or indebtedness for borrowed money,
other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or that will constitute
Excluded Liabilities;
(j) will not pay, discharge or satisfy any claim, liability or obligation relating to the
Mobility Business or the Purchased Assets, other than in the ordinary course consistent with past
practice;
(k) will neither dismiss (other than for cause) nor increase the salaries, wage rates, other
compensation or fringe benefits of, or grant any severance or termination payment (other than as
required by Law) to, any Business Employees;
(l) will not do any other act which would cause any representation or warranty of Seller in
this Agreement to be or become untrue in any material respect or intentionally omit to take any
action necessary to prevent any such representation or warranty from being untrue in any material
respect; and
(m) will not enter into any agreement or commitment with respect to any of the foregoing.
5.3 Tax Reporting and Allocation of Consideration
(a) Seller and Buyer acknowledge and agree that (i) Seller will be responsible for and will
perform all Tax withholding, payment and reporting duties with respect to any wages and other
compensation paid by Seller or a Subsidiary to any Business Employee, and (ii) Buyer will be
responsible for and will perform all Tax withholding, payment and reporting duties with respect to
any wages and other compensation paid by Buyer or a Buyer Designee to any Transferred Employee. For
the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this paragraph is intended to modify or adjust the substantive
liability of Buyer and Seller under this Agreement with respect to the Taxes described in this
paragraph.
(b) Seller and Buyer recognize their mutual obligations pursuant to Section 1060 of the Code
to timely file IRS Form 8594 (the “Asset Acquisition Statement”) with their respective
federal income tax returns. Accordingly, Seller and Buyer shall, no later than ninety (90) days
after the Closing Date, attempt in good faith to (i) enter into a Purchase Price allocation
agreement providing for the allocation of the Purchase Price among the Purchased Assets consistent
with the provisions of Section 1060 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder and (ii)
cooperate in the preparation of the Asset Acquisition Statement in accordance with clause (i) for
timely filing with their respective federal income tax returns; provided, however, that nothing in
this Section 5.3(b) shall be deemed to obligate either Seller or Buyer to agree on such
allocation or Asset Acquisition Statement. If Seller and Buyer shall have agreed on a Purchase
Price allocation and an Asset Acquisition Statement, then Seller and Buyer shall file the Asset
Acquisition
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Statement in the form so agreed and neither Seller nor Buyer shall take a Tax position
which is inconsistent with such Purchase Price allocation, unless otherwise required by applicable
Law.
5.4 Business Employees
(a) As of the Closing Date, notwithstanding the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement, Buyer
shall make offers of employment to, or otherwise employ by operation of law, the Business Employees
listed on Schedule 3.10(a) (including those absent due to vacation, holiday, illness, leave
of absence or short-term disability, but excluding any Business Employee on long-term disability).
Seller and any applicable Subsidiary shall cooperate and assist in facilitating Buyer’s or a Buyer
Designee’s offers and will not take any action, or cause any of the Subsidiaries to take any
action, which would impede, hinder, interfere or otherwise compete with Buyer’s or a Buyer
Designee’s effort to hire any Business Employees. Promptly after the date hereof, Seller will
provide to Buyer all information not provided in Schedule 3.10(a) required to be disclosed
by applicable Law of the jurisdiction in which the Business Employee is located in connection with
the sale of the Mobility Business. Without limiting the foregoing, each Party shall comply with
all applicable Laws in connection with the transfer of the Business Employees to Buyer or a Buyer
Designee, including with respect to notice, consultation and other procedural requirements. The
parties will enter into an Assignment and Xxxx of Sale and Assumption Agreement for relevant
jurisdictions outside the United States where necessary or appropriate for the transfer of such
Business Employees and shall cooperate to complete all requisite consultation and related objection
periods prior to the Closing Date. Business Employees who accept Buyer’s offer of employment or
otherwise transfer to Buyer or a Buyer Designee by operation of Law, as of the effective date of
their employment with Buyer, shall be referred to as “Transferred Employees.” Employment
with Buyer or a Buyer Designee of Transferred Employees shall be effective as of the day following
the close of business on the Closing Date, except that the employment of individuals receiving
short-term disability benefits or on approved leave of absence on the Closing Date will become
effective as of the date they present themselves for work with Buyer or a Buyer Designee or such
other date as is prescribed by applicable Law.
(b) Buyer or the applicable Buyer Designee will comply with applicable Law regarding terms of
employment of Transferred Employees. Where terms are not dictated by applicable Law, Buyer or a
Buyer Designee shall provide, or shall cause to be provided, to Transferred Employees, until at
least December 31, 2008 during their employment with Buyer or a Buyer Designee, the same base
salary offered by Seller or the applicable Subsidiary immediately prior to the Closing Date as set
forth on Schedule 3.10(a). Buyer or a Buyer Designee shall provide, or shall cause to be
provided, to Transferred Employees employee benefits that, in the aggregate, are no less favorable
than those provided to similarly situated employees of Buyer or the applicable Buyer Designee;
provided, that Buyer shall have no obligation to provide compensation in the form of equity
incentives to the Transferred Employees. Except as expressly set forth in this Section 5.4, no
assets of any Benefit Plan shall be transferred to Buyer or any Affiliate of Buyer. Each employee
Benefit Plan, program, policy and arrangement of Buyer or an Affiliate of Buyer, Welfare Plans,
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vacation plans and severance plans, shall recognize to the extent permitted by Buyer’s or a Buyer
Designee’s plans and to the extent that it is administratively feasible to do so (i) for purposes
of satisfying any deductibles, co-pays and out-of-pocket maximums during the coverage period that
includes the Closing Date, any payment made by any Transferred Employee towards deductibles,
co-pays and out-of-pocket maximums in any health or other insurance plan of Seller or a Subsidiary
and (ii) for purposes of determining eligibility to participate, vesting and for any schedule of
benefits based on service, all service with Seller or a Subsidiary, including service with
predecessor employers that was recognized by Seller or a Subsidiary, provided that such service
shall not be recognized to the extent such recognition would result in a duplication of benefits.
Buyer or the applicable Buyer Designee will continue to provide (x) relocation assistance to those
Transferred Employees receiving it as of the Closing Date and (y) tuition assistance to those
Transferred Employees who are receiving such benefits as of the Closing Date for the current
academic session, in each case as set forth on Schedule 5.4(b). Buyer or the applicable
Buyer Designee will honor the terms and conditions of Seller’s international assignee program,
including repatriation upon completion of assignment, completion bonuses, Tax equalization and Tax
return preparation, with respect to Transferred Employees who are on international assignment as of
the Closing Date, in each case as set forth on Schedule 5.4(b), except that these costs
shall be allocated between the parties based on the portion of the international assignment
occurring before or on the Closing Date (which shall be Seller’s or the applicable Subsidiary’s
obligation) and after the Closing Date (which shall be Buyer’s or the applicable Buyer Designee’s
obligation). For sake of clarification, except where required by applicable Law and subject to
appropriate arrangements between Buyer and Seller with respect to the liabilities associated with
respect to such plans, including the transfer of any funds associated therewith, Buyer is not
assuming any Pension Plan liabilities or offering any Pension Plan benefits.
(c) Seller and Buyer intend that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall not
constitute a severance of employment of any Transferred Employee prior to or upon the consummation
of the transactions contemplated hereby and that such employees will have continuous and
uninterrupted employment immediately before and immediately after
the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Buyer shall
provide severance benefits substantially equivalent to the benefits listed on Schedule
5.4(c) to Transferred Employees whose employment is terminated involuntarily by Buyer on or
before December 31, 2008 other than terminations in circumstances that would not require payments
of severance benefits under Seller’s severance plan.
(d) Buyer agrees that its and its Affiliate’s health and Welfare Plans shall waive any
pre-existing condition exclusion (to the extent such exclusion was waived under applicable health
and Welfare Plans offered to the Transferred Employees by Seller or a Subsidiary) and any proof of
insurability. Seller or the applicable Subsidiary shall remain responsible for any benefits
payable under a Benefit Plan with respect to claims incurred by Business Employees prior to or on
the Closing Date.
(e) As soon as practicable following the Closing Date, Buyer shall cause one or more defined
contribution savings plans intended to qualify under sections 401(a) and
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401(k) of the Code (the “Buyer Savings Plan”) to provide for the receipt of Transferred Employees’ lump sum cash
distributions, in the form of an eligible rollover distribution from the Agere Systems Inc.
Management 401(k) Plan, provided such rollovers are made at the election of the Transferred
Employees and in accordance with the terms of the Buyer Savings Plan. Seller shall cause the Agere
Systems Inc. Management 401(k) Plan to permit the Transferred Employees to elect a lump sum cash
distribution of benefits accrued through the Closing Date in accordance with the Code.
(f) Seller shall make and be responsible for incentive compensation payments, if any, to
Transferred Employees for the period from October 1, 2006 to and including the Closing Date in
accordance with its short-term incentive plan in effect for any such period.
(g) The parties agree to cooperate in good faith to determine whether any notification may be
required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the “WARN Act”) as a
result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Seller will be responsible for
providing any notification that may be required under the WARN Act with respect to any of its
employees. Buyer will be responsible for providing any notification that may be required under the
WARN Act with respect to any Transferred Employees terminated after the Closing Date.
(h) Nothing in this Agreement shall require Buyer or a Buyer Designee to employ any Business
Employees, to employ any Transferred Employee on anything other than an at-will basis, terminable
at any time with or without cause, or to assume any collective bargaining agreements under this
Agreement.
(i) This Section 5.4 specifies the full extent of Buyer’s obligation with respect to the
Transferred Employees after the Closing Date, except as may be required by applicable Law.
5.5 Collateral Agreements; Leased Equipment
(a) (i) On or prior to the Closing Date, Buyer or a Buyer Designee shall execute and deliver
to Seller, and Seller or the applicable Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to Buyer or a Buyer
Designee the Collateral Agreements.
(ii) Prior to the Closing Date, Seller and Buyer shall negotiate in good faith the schedules
for the services to be attached to the Transition Services Agreement and the Supply Agreement.
(b) Promptly after the date hereof, Seller shall provide Buyer with the costs and other terms
applicable to the Leased Equipment and Buyer shall decide whether such Leased Equipment will (a)
transfer to Buyer or a Buyer Designee as of the Closing Date by Buyer or a Buyer Designee assuming
the leases for such equipment, (b) become the property of Buyer or a Buyer Designee as of the
Closing Date by Buyer or a Buyer Designee paying for the costs of purchasing such equipment
pursuant to the leases (the “Purchased Leased
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Equipment”), or (c) remain the property of
Seller or a Subsidiary as of the Closing Date (the “Excluded Leased Equipment”).
(c) Promptly after the date hereof, Buyer shall identify the Leases that Buyer elects to be
assumed pursuant to a Lease Assignment rather than subleased pursuant to a Sublease and the parties
will revise Schedule 3.7 to reflect the same.
5.6 Regulatory Compliance; Post-Closing Cooperation
(a) Subject to Section 5.6(b), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement, each of the parties agrees to use its reasonable commercial efforts to take, or cause to
be taken, all actions, and to do, or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other
parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective, in
the most expeditious manner practicable, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including
using reasonable commercial efforts to accomplish the following: (i) the taking of all acts
necessary to cause the conditions to Closing to be satisfied as promptly as practicable, (ii) the
obtaining of all necessary actions or nonactions, waivers, consents and approvals from Governmental
Bodies and the making of all necessary registrations and filings (including filings with
Governmental Bodies, if any) and the taking of all steps as may be necessary to obtain an approval
or waiver from, or to avoid an action or proceeding by any Governmental Body, (iii) the obtaining
of all necessary consents, approvals or waivers from third parties including all Required Consents,
(iv) the defending of any lawsuits or other legal proceedings, whether judicial or administrative,
challenging this Agreement or the Collateral Agreements or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby, including seeking to have any stay or temporary restraining order
entered by any court or other Governmental Body vacated or reversed, and (v) the execution and
delivery of any additional instruments necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by,
and to fully carry out the purposes of, this Agreement and the Collateral Agreements.
(b) Seller and Buyer shall timely and promptly make all filings which may be required by each
of them in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby under the HSR
Act and any state, foreign or multinational antitrust legislation or by any other foreign or
multinational governmental authority, and the parties shall respectively use all reasonable
commercial efforts to cause the receipt of approval of, or prompt termination or expiration of the
applicable waiting period under such Laws. Seller and Buyer agree that their respective initial
filings under the HSR Act and in respect of any foreign antitrust approval shall be made no later
than the tenth (10th) Business Day following the date of this Agreement. Each party
shall furnish to the other such necessary information and assistance as the other party may
reasonably request in connection with the preparation of any necessary filings or submissions by it
to any U.S. federal or state or foreign or multinational governmental agency, including any filings
necessary under the provisions of the HSR Act. Each party shall provide the other party the
opportunity to make copies of all correspondence, filings or communications (or memoranda setting
forth the substance thereof) between such party or its representatives, on the one hand, and the
Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”), the Antitrust Division of the United States
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Department of Justice (the “Antitrust Division”) or any state, foreign or multinational
Governmental Body or members of their respective staffs, on the other hand, with respect to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. Each party agrees to inform promptly the other
party of any communication made by or on behalf of such party to, or received by or on behalf of
such party from, the FTC, the Antitrust Division or any other state, foreign or multinational
Governmental Body regarding any of the transactions contemplated hereby.
(c) Buyer acknowledges that Seller is defending a legal proceeding as described in
Schedule 3.9 relating to the Mobility Business (the “Retained Legal Proceeding”),
and that Seller is retaining all liability and responsibility for, and control of, the Retained
Legal Proceeding following the Closing Date. In connection with such proceeding, Buyer agrees (i)
to use its reasonable commercial efforts to cooperate fully in the discovery and defense by Seller
of the Retained Legal Proceeding by affording Seller and its representatives full and complete
access to documents (as defined in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) and the Transferred
Employees and (ii) to take such other actions reasonably requested by Seller (for which Seller does
not have reasonably equivalent alternative) relating to the Purchased Assets and the Transferred
Employees not determined by Buyer in its good faith judgment to materially and adversely impact
Buyer.
5.7 Contacts with Suppliers and Customers; Transfer of Information
(a) Prior to the Closing, without the prior consent of Seller, Buyer shall not contact any
suppliers to, or customers of, the Mobility Business in connection with or pertaining to any
subject matter of this Agreement or the Collateral Agreements other than in the course of the
conduct of Buyer’s businesses responding to customer inquiries by providing information about the
subject matter of the Agreement or the Collateral Agreements previously approved by Seller. In
contemplation of the Closing, Seller and Buyer agree to cooperate to prepare a communications plan
for business partners of the Mobility Products Group, and in contacting any suppliers to, or
customers of, the Mobility
Business in connection with or pertaining to any subject matter of this Agreement or the
Collateral Agreements and to facilitate the transition of the Mobility Business, including the
preparation of letters to all customers, suppliers, distributors and other business partners of the
Mobility Business to notify them of the Closing and provide information regarding the transition of
the Mobility Business to Buyer.
(b) Buyer and Seller will cooperate to determine a protocol for the transfer of
customer-related Information of the Mobility Business prior to the Closing Date as permitted by
applicable Law to permit Buyer to receive, confirm and fill customer purchase orders, send and
process invoices immediately after the Closing Date.
(c) Buyer and Seller shall jointly prepare an integration plan to be attached as Exhibit
C to the Supply Agreement by which the parties will agree to, as permitted by applicable Law,
integrate ordering processes and electronic data exchanges and to implement other operational and
information sharing arrangements to facilitate the transactions set forth in the Supply Agreement.
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5.8 Use of the Seller Name
(a) Buyer and Seller agree as follows:
(i) Except as provided below, immediately after the Closing Date, Buyer and any Buyer Designee
shall cease using “Agere,” “Agere Systems,” “LSI,” or “LSI Corporation”) or other
similar xxxx (the “LSI Name”) and any other trademark, design or logo previously or
currently used by Seller or any of its Affiliates (other than those that are transferred pursuant
to the Intellectual Property Agreement) in all invoices, letterhead, advertising and promotional
materials, office forms or business cards;
(ii) Except as provided below, within three (3) months after the Closing Date, Buyer shall (A)
remove any other trademark, design or logo previously or currently used by Seller or any of its
Affiliates from all buildings, signs and vehicles of the Mobility Business; and (B) cease using the
Seller Name and any other trademark, design or logo previously or currently used by Seller or any
of its Affiliates (other than those that are transferred pursuant to the Intellectual Property
Agreement) in electronic databases, web sites, product instructions, packaging (except as provided
below) and other materials, printed or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Buyer and Buyer
Designees shall not be restricted in using any packaging materials that are in inventory as of the
Closing Date;
(iii) Buyer and Buyer Designees shall not be required at any time to remove the Seller Name
and any other trademark, design or logo previously or currently used by Seller or any of its
Affiliates from inventory of the Mobility Business that is in existence as of the Closing Date, nor
shall Buyer nor Buyer Designees be required at any time to remove such Seller Name and any such
other trademark, design or logo from schematics, plans, manuals, drawings, machinery, tooling
including hand tools, and the like of the Mobility Business in existence as of the Closing Date to
the extent that such instrumentalities are used in the ordinary internal conduct of the Mobility Business and are
neither generally observed by the public nor intended for use as means to effectuate or enhance
sales;
(iv) Notwithstanding the above, Buyer and Buyer Designees shall have the right to sell
existing inventory and to use existing packaging, labeling, containers, supplies, advertising
materials, technical data sheets and any similar materials bearing the Seller Name or any other
trademark, design or logo previously or currently used by Seller or any of its Affiliates until the
earlier of (A) one year after the Closing Date or (B) the depletion of existing inventory;
(v) Buyer and Buyer Designees shall use Reasonable Efforts (as defined below) to remove the
Seller Name and any other trademark, design or logo previously or currently used by Seller or any
of its Affiliates (other than those that are transferred pursuant to the Intellectual Property
Agreement) from those assets of the Mobility Business (such as, but not limited to, tools, molds,
and machines) used in association with the products of the Mobility Business or otherwise
reasonably used in the conduct of the Mobility Business
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after the Closing. For the purposes of
this Section 5.8(a)(v), “Reasonable Efforts” means Buyer and Buyer Designees shall remove
the Seller Name from such assets but only at such time when such asset is not operated or otherwise
is taken out of service in the normal course of business due to regular maintenance or repair (but
only for such repairs or maintenance where such removal could normally be undertaken, for example,
repair or maintenance of a mold cavity) whichever occurs first; provided that, in no event shall
Buyer or any Buyer Designee use the Seller Name after the date which is one (1) year from the
Closing Date. Buyer and Buyer Designees shall not be required to perform such removal on such
assets that are not or are no longer used to manufacture the products of the Mobility Business or
other parts, or if discontinuance of use of such assets is reasonably anticipated during such time
period, or from assets stored during that period provided that such marks are removed upon such
asset’s return to service or prior to their sale or other disposition.
(vi) Seller hereby grants to Buyer and Buyer Designees a limited right to use the Seller Name
and associated trademarks, designs and logos as specified in, and during the periods, if any,
specified in clauses (i) – (v) above.
(vii) Buyer and its Affiliates shall also have the right to use (in a factual manner that
constitute fair use pursuant to applicable Law) the Seller Name solely to the extent necessary to
communicate that the Products were formerly owned by Seller.
(b) In no event shall Buyer or any Affiliate of Buyer advertise or hold itself out as LSI or
Agere or an Affiliate of Agere or LSI after the Closing Date.
5.9 Non-Solicitation or Hiring of Transferred Employees
None of Seller, any of its representatives or any of its Affiliates will at any time prior to
the date which is one year after the date hereof, directly or indirectly, solicit the employment of
or hire any Transferred Employee without Buyer’s prior written consent.
The term “solicit the employment” shall not be deemed to include generalized searches
for employees through media advertisements, employment firms or otherwise that are not focused on
or directed to Transferred Employees. This restriction shall not apply to any employee whose
employment is involuntarily terminated other than for cause by Buyer, or its successors, after the
Closing.
5.10 No Negotiation or Solicitation
Prior to the Closing, Seller and its Affiliates will not (and Seller will take all action
necessary to cause each of its employees, officers, representatives and agents or advisors not to
and shall cause its Affiliates to cause employees, officers, representatives and agents or advisors
not to) directly or indirectly (a) solicit, initiate, entertain, encourage or accept the submission
of any proposal, offer or any discussions relating to or that might reasonably be expected to lead
to or result in any proposal or offer from any Person relating to the direct or indirect
acquisition of the Mobility Business or any portion of the Purchased Assets (other than purchases
of Products or services from the Mobility Business in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice), or (b) participate in any discussions or negotiations
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regarding the Mobility
Business, furnish any information with respect thereto, or assist or participate in, or facilitate
or encourage in any other manner any effort or attempt by any Person to do or seek any of the
foregoing. Seller will notify Buyer if any Person makes any proposal, offer, inquiry or contact
with respect to any of the foregoing within one (1) Business Day after receipt of any such offer or
proposal, including the identity of the Person making such proposal, offer, inquiry or contact and
all material terms thereof.
5.11 Non-Competition
(a) Seller agrees that, as part of the consideration for the payment of the Purchase Price,
for a period of two (2) years immediately following the Closing Date, neither Seller nor any of its
Affiliates will, directly or indirectly, as a principal, stockholder, joint venturer, or
otherwise, operate, perform or have any ownership interest in any business that engages in research
and design, develops, manufactures, sells, installs or distributes products in competition with the
Mobility Business, except that Seller may (i) purchase or otherwise acquire by merger, purchase of
assets, stock, controlling interest or otherwise any Person or business or engage in any similar
merger and acquisition activity with any Person the primary business of which is not in competition
with the Mobility Business, or (ii) invest as a minority shareholder in any Person. For the
purposes of this Section 5.11(a), ownership of securities of a company whose securities are
publicly traded under a recognized securities exchange not in excess of 10% of any class of such
securities shall not be considered to be competition with the Mobility Business, and a Person shall
not be considered to be in the “primary business” of competing with the Mobility Business
if such Person derives less than 20% of its revenues, up to a maximum aggregate amount of Two
Hundred Million Dollars ($200,000,000), from products that compete with the Mobility Business. For
the avoidance of doubt, the parties agree that the agreements and limitations set forth in this
Section 5.11 shall not apply to any entity that acquires all or part of Seller in any transaction.
(b) Seller acknowledges that the restrictions set forth in Section 5.11(a) constitute a
material inducement to Buyer’s entering into and performing this Agreement. Seller further
acknowledges, stipulates and agrees that a breach of such obligation could result in irreparable
harm and continuing damage to Buyer for which there may be no adequate remedy at Law and further
agrees that in the event of any breach of said obligation, Buyer may be entitled to injunctive
relief and to such other relief as is proper under the circumstances.
(c) If any provision contained in this Section shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal
or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect
any other provisions of this Section 5.11, but this Section 5.11 shall be construed as if such
invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. It is the intention
of the parties that if any of the restrictions or covenants contained herein is held to cover a
geographic area or to be for a length of time which is not permitted by applicable Law, or in any
way construed to be too broad or to any extent invalid, such provision shall not be construed to be
null, void and of no effect, but to the extent such provision would be valid or enforceable under
applicable Law, a court of competent
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jurisdiction shall construe and interpret or reform this
Section 5.11 to provide for a covenant having the maximum enforceable geographic area, time period
and other provisions (not greater than those contained herein) as shall be valid and enforceable
under such applicable Law.
5.12 Post Closing Remittances
If on or after the Closing Date, either Party receives a payment from a Third Party (including
a customer of the Business) that, pursuant to the terms hereof, should have been paid to the other
Party, the Party who receives the payment agrees to hold in trust and remit such payment to the
Party entitled thereto within five (5) Business Days of such receipt.
5.13 Prorations and Adjustments
(a) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all ordinary course expenses for (i) rents
and other charges or amounts payable included in the Purchased Assets and transferred to Buyer
hereunder and (ii) gas, electricity, water, sewer, rent and telephone charges at the Leased
Premises, in each case, for the period prior to the Closing Date, will be for the account of Seller
and for the period on and after the Closing Date shall be for the account of Buyer. If any Party
actually makes any payments that are, in whole or in part, designated as payments for the period
allocated to the other Party under this Section 5.13, such other Party shall promptly reimburse
such amounts to the Party so making such payments.
(b) For purposes of calculating prorations, Buyer shall be deemed to own the Purchased Assets,
and, therefore be responsible for the expense thereof, as of 12:01 a.m. local time on the day after
the Closing Date. All prorations shall be made on the basis of the actual number of days of the
month that shall have elapsed as of the Closing Date and based upon a 365-day year. The amount of
the prorations shall be subject to adjustment after the
Closing, as and when complete and accurate information becomes available, and the Parties
agree to cooperate and use their good faith efforts to make such adjustments.
5.14 Post-Closing Warranty Arrangements.
Seller shall satisfy all warranty obligations of the Mobility Business for products sold by
the Mobility Products Group on or prior to the Closing Date as if the Mobility Business were
continued to be owned by Seller. Buyer agrees that it shall perform warranty services with respect
to such Products as requested by Seller at Seller’s cost and expense on terms to be mutually
agreed.
5.15 Financial Statements of the Business.
(a) As soon as practicable, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of
this Agreement, Seller will provide to Buyer and its accounting advisors such financial information
related to the Business as Buyer reasonably requests in writing to enable it to determine whether
Buyer is or would be required to include separate financial
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statements of the Business for any
periods prior to Closing in the reports filed by Buyer with the SEC under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or in a registration statement filed by Buyer
with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant
to Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X; provided that Seller has such financial information in its
possession or is able to derive such financial information from the books and records of Seller.
The information so provided will include an internally prepared unaudited statement of revenues and
direct operating expenses and a statement of acquired assets and liabilities as of and for the year
ended September 30, 2006 (the “Financial Information”). The Financial Information will be
certified by an officer of Seller that (i) the financial data reflected therein was derived from
the books and records of Seller, (ii) the revenues of the Mobility Business reflected therein are
presented on a basis consistent with GAAP and Seller’s standard accounting policies and procedures,
and (iii) the costs reflected therein constitute the costs of Seller directly involved in and
specifically identifiable to the revenue producing activity of the Mobility Business, as determined
in the reasonable judgment of Seller and, as applicable, based on the allocation methodologies
referenced in the notes to the Financial Information. Seller will also provide to Buyer and its
accounting advisors a written explanation of Seller’s good faith determination that the preparation
of a statement of operations and balance sheet of the Mobility Business for the year ended
September 30, 2006 is impracticable.
(b) Following delivery of the Financial Information to Buyer, Seller will provide to Buyer
reasonable access to the records used by Seller, and Seller’s independent registered public
accounting firm, will be available to address any questions of Buyer and Buyer’s accounting
advisors pertaining to the Financial Information and the basis of preparation thereof.
(c) If Buyer determines in good faith that Buyer is required to file the financial statements
identified in this clause (c) with the SEC and Seller has delivered the explanation identified in
Section 5.15(a), Buyer shall promptly file with the SEC a request for the SEC’s
concurrence with filing certain abbreviated financial statements (such financial statements to
include audited statement of revenues and direct operating and an audited statement of acquired
assets and liabilities) in lieu of the full financial statements otherwise required by Rule 3-05 of
Regulation S-X. Such abbreviated financial statements and such other information required by the
SEC in response to the waiver letter are referred to herein as the “Audited Financial
Statements”. Seller shall as promptly as practicable (i) retain its independent auditors to
provide to Buyer the Audited Financial Statements, and (ii) use all commercially reasonable efforts
to cause such auditors to consent to the inclusion of such financial statements in the Buyer’s
filings with the SEC, including on Form 8-K, Form 20-F (or any amendments thereto) or such other
form reasonably determined by Buyer, including by providing such auditors with a reasonable and
customary representation letter in connection therewith. In the event that Buyer is required to
comply with Article 11 of Regulation S-X, Seller will use its reasonable commercial efforts to
assist Buyer and provide such financial information related to the Mobility Business as Buyer
reasonably deems to be necessary to enable Buyer to comply with such regulation.
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(d) In the event that the SEC makes any review or inquiry to Buyer with respect to financial
information of the Mobility Business, including any such inquiry regarding audited financial
statements of the Mobility Business as set forth in Section 5.15(a), or requires any such audited
financial statements to be filed, as promptly as practicable after being notified by Buyer of such
review or inquiry, Seller will provide such reasonable cooperation and assistance as may be
required by Buyer in responding to such review, inquiry or requirement in a manner consistent with
this Section 5.15.
5.16 Updates
From time to time prior to the Closing Date, Seller will promptly notify Buyer of any
fact, circumstance, change or effect arising that could reasonable be expected to
constitute a material breach of a representation or warranty of Seller hereunder or would
constitute a Seller Material Adverse Effect, or any action, claim, suit or investigation
threatened against a party or the parties relating to the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement.
6. Confidential Nature of Information
6.1 Confidentiality Agreement
Buyer agrees that the Confidentiality Agreement shall apply to (a) all documents, materials
and other information that it shall have obtained regarding Seller or its Affiliates during the
course of the negotiations leading to the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
(whether obtained before or after the date of this Agreement), any investigations made in
connection therewith and the preparation of this Agreement and related documents and (b) all
analyses, reports, compilations, evaluations and other materials prepared by Buyer or its counsel,
accountants or financial advisors that contain or otherwise reflect or are based upon, in whole or
in part, any of the provided information; provided,
however, that subject to Section 6.2(a), the Confidentiality Agreement shall terminate as of
the Closing and shall be of no further force and effect thereafter with respect to information of
Seller or its Affiliates the ownership of which is transferred to Buyer or a Buyer Designee.
6.2 Seller’s Proprietary Information
(a) Except as provided in Section 6.2(b), after the Closing and for a period of five (5) years
following the Closing Date, Buyer agrees that it will keep confidential all of Seller’s and its
Affiliates’ Proprietary Information that is received from, or made available by, Seller in the
course of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, for purposes of this Section 6.2,
information about the Mobility Business’s business plans and strategies, marketing ideas and
concepts, especially with respect to unannounced products and services, present and future product
plans, pricing, volume estimates, financial data, product enhancement information, business plans,
marketing plans, sales strategies, customer information (including customers’ applications and
environments), market testing information, development plans, specifications, customer
requirements, configurations,
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designs, plans, drawings, apparatus, sketches, software, hardware,
data, prototypes, connecting requirements or other technical and business information, except for
such Proprietary Information the ownership of which is transferred to Buyer or a Buyer Designee as
part of the Purchased Assets.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, such Proprietary Information shall not be deemed
confidential and Buyer shall have no obligation with respect to any such Proprietary Information
that:
(i) at the time of disclosure was already known to Buyer other than as a result of this
transaction, free of restriction as evidenced by documentation in Buyer’s possession;
(ii) is or becomes publicly known through publication, inspection of a product, or otherwise,
and through no negligence or other wrongful act of Buyer;
(iii) is received by Buyer from a Third Party without similar restriction and without breach
of any agreement;
(iv) to the extent it is independently developed by Buyer; or
(v) is, subject to Section 6.2(c), required to be disclosed under applicable Law or judicial
process.
(c) If Buyer (or any of its Affiliates) is requested or required (by oral question,
interrogatory, request for information or documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or
similar process) to disclose any Proprietary Information, Buyer will promptly notify Seller of such
request or requirement and will cooperate with Seller such that Seller may seek an appropriate
protective order or other appropriate remedy. If, in the absence of a protective
order or the receipt of a waiver hereunder, Buyer (or any of its Affiliates) is in the opinion
of Buyer’s counsel compelled to disclose the Proprietary Information or else stand liable for
contempt or suffer other censure or penalty, Buyer (or its Affiliate) may disclose only so much of
the Proprietary Information to the party compelling disclosure as is required by Law. Buyer will
exercise its (and will cause its Affiliates to exercise their) reasonable commercial efforts to
obtain a protective order or other reliable assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded
to such Proprietary Information.
6.3 Buyer’s Proprietary Information
(a) Except as provided in Section 6.3(b), after the Closing Date and for a period of five (5)
years thereafter, Seller agrees that it will keep confidential all of Seller’s and its Affiliates’
Proprietary Information the ownership of which or exclusive use of which is transferred to Buyer as
part of the Purchased Assets, including, for purposes of this Section 6.3, information about the
Mobility Business’s business plans and strategies, marketing ideas and concepts, especially with
respect to unannounced products and services, present and future product plans, pricing, volume
estimates, financial data, product
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enhancement information, business plans, marketing plans, sales
strategies, customer information (including customers’ applications and environments), market
testing information, development plans, specifications, customer requirements, configurations,
designs, plans, drawings, apparatus, sketches, software, hardware, data, prototypes, connecting
requirements, other technical and business information, and information regarding Business
Employees.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, such Proprietary Information regarding the Mobility
Business shall not be deemed confidential and Seller shall have no obligation with respect to any
such Proprietary Information that:
(i) is or becomes publicly known through publication, inspection of a product, or otherwise,
and through no negligence or other wrongful act of Seller;
(ii) is received by Seller from a Third Party without similar restriction and without breach
of any agreement; or
(iii) is, subject to Section 6.3(c), required to be disclosed under applicable Law or judicial
process.
(c) If Seller (or any of its Affiliates) is requested or required (by oral question,
interrogatory, request for information or documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or
similar process) to disclose any Proprietary Information regarding the Mobility Business, Seller
will promptly notify Buyer of such request or requirement and will cooperate with Buyer such that
Buyer may seek an appropriate protective order or other appropriate remedy. If, in the absence of
a protective order or the receipt of a waiver hereunder, Seller (or any of its Affiliates) is in
the opinion of Seller’s counsel compelled to disclose the Proprietary Information or else stand
liable for contempt or suffer other censure or penalty, Seller (or its
Affiliate) may disclose only so much of the Proprietary Information to the party compelling
disclosure as is required by Law. Seller will exercise its (and will cause its Affiliates to
exercise their) reasonable commercial efforts to obtain a protective order or other reliable
assurance that confidential treatment will be accorded to such Proprietary Information.
(d) As requested by Buyer and at Buyer’s cost and expense after Closing, Seller agrees to
assign any such confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement to Buyer or a Buyer Designee and if
such agreement cannot be assigned, to enforce such agreements with Third Parties not assigned to
Buyer or a Buyer Designee relating to Proprietary Information included in the Purchased Assets or
the Mobility Business.
6.4 Confidential Nature of Agreements
Except to the extent that disclosure thereof is required under accounting, stock exchange or
federal securities or labor relations Laws disclosure obligations, both parties agree that the
terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Collateral Agreements and all Schedules, attachments
and amendments hereto and thereto shall be considered Proprietary
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Information protected under this
Article 6. Notwithstanding anything in this Article 6 to the contrary, in the event that any such
Proprietary Information is also subject to a limitation on disclosure or use contained in another
written agreement between Buyer and Seller or either of their respective Affiliates that is more
restrictive than the limitation contained in this Article 6, then the limitation in such agreement
shall supersede this Article 6.
7. Closing
At the Closing, the following transactions shall take place:
7.1 Deliveries by Seller or the Subsidiaries
On the Closing Date, Seller shall, or shall cause a Subsidiary to, execute and deliver to
Buyer or a Buyer Designee the following:
(a) the Collateral Agreements;
(b) all consents, waivers or approvals, including the Required Consents identified by Buyer on
Schedule 7.1(b) (the “Required Closing Consents”), theretofore required to be
obtained by Seller with respect to the sale of the Purchased Assets, or assignment of the
Contracts, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Collateral
Agreements;
(c) a certificate of an appropriate officer of Seller, dated the Closing Date, certifying to
the best of his or her knowledge the fulfillment of the conditions set forth in Sections 8.2(a) and
(b) and a certificate of an Assistant Secretary of Seller, dated the Closing Date, in customary
form; and
(d) all such other bills of sale, assignments and other instruments of assignment, transfer or
conveyance as Buyer or a Buyer Designee may reasonably request or as may be otherwise necessary to
evidence and effect the sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance and delivery of the Purchased Assets
to Buyer or a Buyer Designee or to put Buyer or a Buyer Designee in actual possession or control of
the Purchased Assets; provided that all information (including documents) capable of electronic
transmission will be transmitted to Buyer or the applicable Buyer Designee in such manner, in which
case such information shall not be transferred in any tangible form, and any inadvertent transfer
of a tangible manifestation of such information shall promptly be returned to Seller or the
applicable Selling Subsidiary upon discovery of Buyer’s or such Buyer Designee’s receipt thereof.
7.2 Deliveries by Buyer or a Buyer Designee
On the Closing Date, Buyer shall, or shall cause a Buyer Designee to, execute and deliver to
Seller or a Subsidiary the following:
(a) the Purchase Price;
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(b) the Collateral Agreements;
(c) a certificate of an appropriate officer or representative of Buyer, dated the Closing
Date, certifying to the best of his or her knowledge the fulfillment of the conditions set forth in
Sections 8.3(a) and (b), and a certificate of an authorized signatory of Buyer, dated the Closing
Date, in customary form; and
(d) all such other documents and instruments as Seller or a Subsidiary may reasonably request
or as may be otherwise necessary or desirable to evidence and effect the assumption by Buyer or a
Buyer Designee of the Assumed Liabilities.
7.3 Closing Date
The Closing shall take place at the offices of Seller, 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX, Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, at 10:00 a.m. local time within five (5) Business Days following the date on which
the last of the conditions specified in Article 8 to be satisfied or waived has been satisfied or
waived, or at such other place or time or on such other date as Seller and Buyer may agree upon in
writing (such date and time being referred to herein as the “Closing Date”).
7.4 Contemporaneous Effectiveness
All acts and deliveries prescribed by this Article 7, regardless of chronological sequence,
will be deemed to occur contemporaneously and simultaneously on the occurrence of the last act or
delivery, and none of such acts or deliveries will be effective until the last of the same has
occurred.
8. Conditions Precedent to Closing
8.1 General Conditions
The respective obligations of Buyer and Seller to effect the Closing of the transactions
contemplated hereby are subject to the fulfillment, prior to or at the Closing, of each of the
following conditions:
(a) Legal Proceedings. No Governmental Body shall have enacted, issued, promulgated,
enforced or entered any statute, rule, regulation, non-appealable judgment, decree, injunction or
other order which is in effect on the Closing Date and which prohibits, restricts or delays
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Collateral Agreements and
there shall be no pending lawsuit, claim or legal action relating to the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or any of the Collateral Agreements which, individually or in the aggregate, has
had or could reasonably be expected to have a Seller Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Antitrust Laws. Any applicable waiting period or approvals of a Governmental Body
under the HSR Act or applicable other antitrust Laws, respectively, relating to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or the Collateral Agreements shall have expired or been terminated.
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8.2 Conditions Precedent to Buyer’s Obligations
The obligations of Buyer to effect the Closing of the transactions contemplated hereby are
subject to the fulfillment, prior to or at the Closing, of each of the following conditions, any of
which may be waived in writing by Buyer:
(a) Representations and Warranties of Seller True and Correct at Closing. The
representations and warranties of Seller contained in this Agreement or in any Schedule,
certificate or document delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof or in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as of
the Closing Date, except (i) as directly relates to the announcement by the parties of the sale of
the Mobility Business to Buyer, and (ii) to the extent that such representations and warranties are
made as of a specified date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and
correct as of the specified date.
(b) Performance by Seller. Seller and/or the applicable Subsidiary shall have
delivered all of the documents required under Section 7.1 and shall have otherwise performed in all
material respects all obligations and agreements and complied in all material respects with all
covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it prior to or at the
Closing, including executing the Collateral Agreements.
(c) Seller Material Adverse Effect. There shall not have occurred a Seller Material
Adverse Effect from the date hereof to the Closing Date.
(d) Audited Financial Statements. Buyer shall have received the Audited Financial
Statements.
8.3 Conditions Precedent to Seller’s Obligations
The obligations of Seller to effect the Closing of the transactions contemplated hereby are
subject to the fulfillment, prior to or at the Closing, of each of the following conditions, any of
which may be waived in writing by Seller:
(a) Representations and Warranties of Buyer True and Correct at Closing. The
representations and warranties of Buyer contained in this Agreement or in any Schedule, certificate
or document delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof or in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as of the Closing
Date as though such representations and warranties were made at and as of the Closing Date, except
to the extent that such representations and warranties are made as of a specified date, in which
case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of the specified date.
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(b) Performance by Buyer. Buyer and/or the applicable Buyer Designee shall have
delivered all of the documents required under Section 7.2 and shall have otherwise performed in all
material respects all obligations and agreements and complied in all material respects with all
covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it prior to or at the
Closing, including executing the Collateral Agreements.
(c) SEC Waiver. If audited financial statements of the Mobility Business are
determined by Buyer to be required as set forth in Section 5.15, Buyer shall have filed with the
SEC a request for the SEC’s concurrence with filing certain abbreviated financial statements (such
financial statements to include audited statement of revenues and direct operating and an audited
statement of acquired assets and liabilities) in lieu of the full financial statements otherwise
required by Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X.
9. Status of Agreements
The rights and obligations of Buyer and Seller under this Agreement shall be subject to the
following terms and conditions:
9.1 Survival of Representations and Warranties
The representations and warranties of Buyer and Seller contained in this Agreement shall
survive the Closing solely for purposes of this Article 9 and such representations and warranties
shall terminate at the close of business of Seller on the date that is eighteen (18) months after
the Closing Date; provided, however, that (i) the representations and warranties in Section 3.13
with respect to Intellectual Property shall terminate at the close of business
of Seller on the date that is twenty-four (24) months after the Closing Date, (ii) the
representations and warranties relating to Tax matters shall survive the Closing and shall
terminate at the close of business of Seller on the 120th day following the expiration
of the applicable statute of limitations with respect to the Tax liabilities in question (giving
effect to any waiver, mitigation or extension thereof), (ii) the representation and warranty in
Section 3.2 with respect to authorization and Section 3.5(a) and (d) with respect to title and
conveyance matters shall survive indefinitely.
9.2 General Agreement to Indemnify
(a) Seller and Buyer shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other party hereto, and
Affiliates thereof, and any director, officer, employee or agent of such other party or Affiliates
thereof (each an “Indemnified Party”) from and against any and all claims, investigations
of Governmental Bodies, actions, suits, proceedings, liabilities, obligations, Taxes, losses, and
damages, amounts paid in settlement, interest, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s
fees, court costs and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred in investigating, preparing or
defending the foregoing) (collectively, “Losses”) incurred or suffered by any Indemnified
Party that arise by reason of, or result from (i) subject to Section 9.1, any breach or any failure
of any representation or warranty of such
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party contained in this Agreement to have been true when
made and at and as of the Closing Date, or (ii) the breach by such party of any covenant or
agreement of such party contained in this Agreement to the extent not waived by the other party.
(b) Seller further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Buyer and any Buyer Indemnified Party
from and against any Losses incurred by Buyer or any Buyer Indemnified Party arising out of,
resulting from, or relating to: (i) the Excluded Liabilities and any failure of Seller to discharge
any of the Excluded Liabilities; and (ii) Buyer’s waiver of any applicable Bulk Sales Laws.
(c) Buyer further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Seller and any Seller Indemnified
Party from and against any Losses incurred by Seller or any Seller Indemnified Party arising out
of, resulting from, or relating to: (i) any failure of Buyer to discharge any of the Assumed
Liabilities; (ii) any medical, health or disability claims of any Transferred Employee or such
Transferred Employee’s employment with Buyer accruing after the Closing Date; and (iii) any claim,
demand or liability for Taxes relating to, pertaining to, or arising out of the Mobility Business
or the Purchased Assets for any Post-Closing Tax Period (other than Excluded Taxes).
(d) Amounts payable in respect of the parties’ indemnification obligations shall be treated as
an adjustment to the Purchase Price. Whether or not the Indemnifying Party (as defined below)
chooses to defend or prosecute any Third-Party Claim (as defined below), both parties hereto shall
cooperate in the defense or prosecution thereof and shall furnish such records, information and
testimony, and attend such conferences, discovery proceedings, hearings, trials and appeals, as may
be reasonably requested in connection therewith or as provided in Section 5.1, the costs thereof constituting Losses of an
Indemnified Party in connection with an indemnifiable claim.
(e) The amount of the Indemnifying Party’s liability under this Agreement shall be net of any
applicable insurance proceeds actually received by the Indemnified Party. The indemnification
obligations of each party hereto under this Article 9 shall inure to the benefit of the directors,
officers and Affiliates of the other party hereto on the same terms as are applicable to such other
party.
(f) The Indemnifying Party’s liability for all claims made under Section 9.2(a)(i) shall be
subject to the following limitations: (i) the Indemnifying Party shall have no liability for such
claims pursuant to Section 9.2(a)(i) until the aggregate amount of the Losses incurred shall exceed
Four Million Five Hundred Thousand ($4,500,000) in which case the Indemnifying Party shall be
liable for the full amount of such Losses, and (ii) the Indemnifying Party’s aggregate liability
for all such claims shall not exceed Ninety Million Dollars ($90,000,000). The Indemnified Party
may not make a claim for indemnification under Section 9.2(a) after the expiration of the survival
period specified in Section 9.1 in the absence of notification in writing (with reasonably
sufficient detail so as to enable a Party to determine the basis of any such claim) by the
Indemnified Party of such a claim, or basis therefore as a result of a Third Party Claim, prior to
the expiration of such survival period.
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(g) The indemnification provided in this Article 9 shall be the sole and exclusive remedy
after the Closing Date for damages available to the parties to this Agreement for breach of any of
the terms, conditions, covenants, representations or warranties contained herein or any right,
claim or action arising from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however,
this exclusive remedy for damages does not preclude a party from bringing an action for (i)
specific performance or other equitable remedy to require a party to perform its obligations under
this Agreement or any Collateral Agreement or (ii) fraud or intentional misrepresentation.
(h) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the contrary, no party shall be
liable to the other party for indirect, special, punitive, exemplary or consequential loss or
damage (including any loss of revenue or profit) arising out of this Agreement, provided,
however, the foregoing shall not be construed to preclude recovery by the Indemnified Party
in respect of Losses directly incurred from Third Party Claims (including, if applicable, punitive
damages). Both parties shall use reasonable efforts to mitigate their damages.
(i) The rights to indemnification under this Section 9.2 shall not be subject to set-off for
any claim by the Indemnifying Party against any Indemnified Party, whether or not arising from the
same event giving rise to such Indemnified Party’s claim for indemnification.
(j) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions of this Article 9 shall not limit the
indemnification obligations of an Indemnifying Party with respect to fraud or intentional
misrepresentation.
9.3 General Procedures for Indemnification
(a) The Indemnified Party seeking indemnification under this Agreement shall promptly notify
the party against whom indemnification is sought (the “Indemnifying Party”) of the
assertion of any claim, or the commencement of any audit or investigation of a Governmental Body,
action, suit or proceeding by any Third Party, in respect of which indemnity may be sought
hereunder and shall give the Indemnifying Party such information with respect thereto as the
Indemnifying Party may reasonably request, but failure to give such notice shall not relieve the
Indemnifying Party of any liability hereunder (unless and to the extent that the Indemnifying Party
has suffered material prejudice by such failure). If the Indemnifying Party acknowledges in
writing its obligation to indemnify the Indemnified Party, then the Indemnifying Party shall have
the right, but not the obligation, exercisable by written notice to the Indemnified Party within
twenty (20) days of receipt of notice from the Indemnified Party of the commencement of or
assertion of any claim, action, suit or proceeding (including an audit or investigation of a
Governmental Body) by a Third Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder (a
“Third-Party Claim”), to assume the defense and control the settlement of such Third-Party
Claim that (i) involves (and continues to involve) solely money damages, or (ii) involves (and
continues to involve) claims for both money damages and equitable relief against the Indemnified
Party that cannot be severed, where the claims for money damages are the primary claims asserted by
the Third
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Party and the claims for equitable relief are incidental to the claims for money damages.
If the Indemnifying Party has not acknowledged in writing its obligation to indemnify in full the
Indemnified Party, then the Indemnified Party shall have the right to assume and control the
defense or the settlement against such Third Party Claim. In the event that any party exercises its
right to undertake any such defense against any Third Party Claim as provided above, then the other
parties shall cooperate in such defense and make available at such cooperating party expense all
witnesses, pertinent records, materials and information in such party’s possession and control
relating thereto as is reasonably required to by the party conducting the defense.
(b) The Indemnifying Party or the Indemnified Party, as the case may be, shall have the right
to participate in (but not control), at its own expense, the defense of any Third-Party Claim that
the other is defending, as provided in this Agreement.
(c) The Indemnifying Party, if it has assumed the defense of any Third-Party Claim as provided
in this Agreement, shall not consent to a settlement of, or the entry of any judgment arising from,
any such Third-Party Claim without the Indemnified Party’s prior written consent (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) unless such settlement or judgment
relates solely to monetary damages which are indemnified Losses the Indemnifying Party will fully
satisfy. The Indemnifying Party shall not, without the Indemnified Party’s prior written consent,
enter into any compromise or settlement that (i) commits the Indemnified Party to take, or to
forbear to take, any action, or (ii) does not provide for a complete release by such Third Party of
the Indemnified Party. The Indemnified Party shall have the sole and exclusive right to settle any Third-Party Claim,
on such terms and conditions as it deems reasonably appropriate, to the extent such Third-Party
Claim involves equitable or other non-monetary relief against the Indemnified Party, and shall have
the right to settle any Third-Party Claim involving money damages for which the Indemnifying Party
has not assumed the defense pursuant to this Section 9.4 for which the Indemnifying Party is
obligated to indemnify the Indemnified Party for all Losses relating thereto (including the costs
of defense thereof) with the written consent of the Indemnifying Party, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
(d) In the event an Indemnified Party shall claim a right to payment pursuant to this
Agreement, such Indemnified Party shall send written notice of such claim to the Indemnifying
Party; but failure to give such notice shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of any liability
hereunder (unless and to the extent that the Indemnifying Party has suffered material prejudice by
such failure). Such notice shall specify the basis for such claim, the amount thereof, if known,
and the method of computation thereof, all with reasonable particularity and shall contain a
reference to the provisions of this Agreement in respect of which such a claim shall be incurred.
Such notice shall be given promptly after the Indemnified Party becomes aware of the basis for each
such a claim as provided in Section 9.4(a). The Indemnifying Party shall, within thirty (30) days
after receipt of such notice of an indemnified Loss, and subject to the limitations set forth in
Section 9.3, (i) pay or cause to be paid to the Indemnified Party the amount of such Loss
specified in such notice which the Indemnifying Party does not contest, or (ii) notify the
Indemnified Party if it wishes to
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contest the existence or amount of part or all of such a Loss or
the basis of a claim for a Loss in an amount that is not yet known by stating with particularity
the basis upon which it contests the existence or amount thereof.
10. Miscellaneous Provisions
10.1 Notices
All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have
been duly given upon receipt if (i) mailed by certified or registered mail, return receipt
requested, (ii) sent by Federal Express or other express carrier, fee prepaid, (iii) sent via
facsimile with receipt confirmed, or (iv) delivered personally, addressed as follows or to such
other address or addresses of which the respective party shall have notified the other.
If to Seller, to: | LSI Corporation | |||
Attn: Chief Financial Officer | ||||
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx | ||||
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000 | ||||
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of America | ||||
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000 | ||||
With a copy to: | LSI Corporation | |||
Attn: Vice President — Law | ||||
0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX | ||||
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 | ||||
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of America | ||||
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000 | ||||
(b) If to Buyer, to: | Infineon Technologies AG | |||
Mergers & Acquisitions | ||||
Attn: Xxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||
Xx Xxxxxxx 0-00 | ||||
00000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||
Facsimile No.: x00 (00) 000 000 0000 | ||||
With a copy to: | Infineon Technologies AG | |||
Attn: General Counsel | ||||
Xx Xxxxxxx 0-00 | ||||
00000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||||
Facsimile No.: x00 (00) 000 000 0000 | ||||
With a copy to: | Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP | |||
Attn: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esq. | ||||
0000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx | ||||
Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000 | ||||
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000 |
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10.2 Expenses
Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each party to this Agreement will bear all the
fees, costs and expenses that are incurred by it in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby, whether or not such transactions are consummated.
10.3 Entire Agreement; Modification
The agreement of the parties, which consists of this Agreement, the Schedules and Exhibits
hereto and the documents referred to herein, sets forth the entire agreement and understanding
between the parties and supersedes any prior agreement or understanding, written or oral, relating
to the subject matter of this Agreement, including the Confidentiality Agreement. No amendment,
supplement, modification or waiver of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by
the party to be bound thereby, and in accordance with Sections 11.3 and 11.4.
10.4 Assignment; Binding Effect; Severability
This Agreement may not be assigned by any party hereto without the other party’s written
consent; provided, that Buyer may transfer or assign in whole or in part to one or more Buyer
Designee its right to purchase all or a portion of the Purchased Assets, but no such transfer or
assignment will relieve Buyer of its obligations hereunder. This Agreement shall be binding upon
and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the successors, legal representatives and
permitted assigns of each party hereto. The provisions of this Agreement are severable, and in the
event that any one or more provisions are deemed illegal or unenforceable the remaining provisions
shall remain in full force and effect unless the deletion of such provision shall cause this
Agreement to become materially adverse to either party, in which event the parties shall use
reasonable commercial efforts to arrive at an accommodation that best preserves for the parties the
benefits and obligations of the offending provision.
10.5 Governing Law
THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN THAT STATE, IRRESPECTIVE
OF THE CHOICE OF LAWS PRINCIPLES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS TO ALL MATTERS, INCLUDING MATTERS OF
VALIDITY, CONSTRUCTION, EFFECT, ENFORCEABILITY, PERFORMANCE AND REMEDIES.
10.6 Consent to Jurisdiction
Each of Buyer and Seller irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of (i) the Supreme
Court of the State of New York, New York County, and (ii) the United States
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Southern District of New York, for the purposes of any suit, action or other proceeding arising out
of this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby (and each agrees that no such action, suit
or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby shall be brought by
it or any of its Affiliates except in such courts). Buyer further agrees, and Seller further
agrees, that service of any process, summons, notice or document by U.S. registered mail to such
Person’s respective address set forth in Section 10.1 above shall be effective service of process
for any action, suit or proceeding in New York with respect to any matters to which it has
submitted to jurisdiction as set forth above in the immediately preceding sentence. Each of Buyer
and Seller irrevocably and unconditionally waives (and agrees not to plead or claim), any objection
to the laying of venue of any action, suit or proceeding arising out of this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby in (i) the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York
County, or (ii) the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York or that any
such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient
forum.
10.7 Waiver of Jury Trial
Each party hereby waives, and agrees to cause each of its Affiliates to waive, to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable Law, any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any
litigation directly or indirectly arising out of, under or in connection with this Agreement. Each
party (i) certifies that no representative of any other party has represented, expressly or
otherwise, that such other party would not, in the event of litigation, seek to enforce the
foregoing waiver and (ii) acknowledges that it and the other parties hereto have been induced to
enter into this Agreement by, among other things, the mutual waivers and certifications in this
Section 10.7.
10.8 Execution in Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
10.9 Public Announcement
Prior to the signing of this Agreement, Seller and Buyer shall prepare a mutually agreeable
release announcing the transaction contemplated hereby. Except for such press release, neither
Seller nor Buyer shall, without the approval of the other, make any press release or other
announcement concerning the existence of this Agreement or the terms of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, except as and to the extent that any such party shall be so
obligated by Law, in which case the other party shall be advised and the parties shall use their
reasonable commercial efforts to cause a mutually agreeable release or announcement to be issued;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not preclude communications or disclosures necessary to
comply with accounting, stock exchange or federal securities or labor relations Law disclosure
obligations.
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10.10 No Third-Party Beneficiaries
Nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to or shall (a) confer on any
Person other than the parties hereto and their respective successors or assigns any rights
(including Third-Party beneficiary rights), remedies, obligations or liabilities under or by reason
of this Agreement or (b) constitute the parties hereto as partners or as participants in a joint
venture. This Agreement shall not provide Third Parties with any remedy, claim, liability,
reimbursement, cause of action or other right in excess of those existing without reference to the
terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as giving to any Business
Employee, or any other individual, any right or entitlement to employment or continued employment
or any right or entitlement under any Benefit Plan, policy or procedure maintained by Seller,
except as expressly provided in such Benefit Plan, policy or procedure. No Third Party shall have
any rights under Section 502, 503 or 504 of ERISA, any comparable applicable Law of any other
jurisdiction, or any regulations thereunder because of this Agreement that would not otherwise
exist without reference to this Agreement. No Third Party shall have any right, independent of any right that exists
irrespective of this Agreement, under or granted by this Agreement, to bring any suit at Law or
equity for any matter governed by or subject to the provisions of this Agreement.
11. Termination and Waiver
11.1 Termination
This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the Closing Date by:
(a) Mutual Consent. The mutual written consent of Buyer and Seller;
(b) Failure of Buyer Condition. Buyer upon written notice to Seller if any of the
conditions to the Closing set forth in Section 8.2 shall have become incapable of fulfillment by
the Termination Date and shall not have been waived in writing by Buyer;
(c) Failure of Seller Condition. Seller upon written notice to Buyer if any of the
conditions to the Closing set forth in Section 8.3 shall have become incapable of fulfillment by
the Termination Date and shall not have been waived in writing by Seller;
(d) Court or Administrative Order. Buyer or Seller if (i) there shall be in effect a
final, non-appealable order of a court or government administrative agency of competent
jurisdiction prohibiting the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) if there
shall be any Law that makes consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby illegal or
otherwise prohibited;
(e) Delay. Buyer or Seller if the Closing shall not have occurred by January 15, 2008
(the “Termination Date”);
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provided, however, that the party seeking termination pursuant to clause (b), (c) or (e) is not
then in breach in any material respect of any of its representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements contained in this Agreement.
11.2 Effect of Termination
In the event of the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 11.1, this
Agreement shall become void and have no effect, without any liability on the part of any party or
its directors, officers or stockholders, except for the obligations of the parties hereto as
provided in Article 6 relating to the obligations of Buyer and Seller to keep confidential certain
information, Section 10.2 relating to certain expenses, Section 10.9 relating to publicity and this
Section 11.2. Nothing in this Section 11.2 shall be deemed to release either party from any
liability for any willful and material breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or
agreement hereunder.
11.3 Waiver of Agreement
Any term or condition hereof may be waived and at any time prior to the Closing Date by the
party hereto which is entitled to the benefits thereof by action taken by its Board of Directors or
its duly authorized officer or employee, whether before or after the action of such party;
provided, however, that such action shall be evidenced by a written instrument duly executed on
behalf of such party by its duly authorized officer or employee. The failure of either party to
enforce at any time any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed to be a waiver of such
provision nor shall it in any way affect the validity of this Agreement or the right of such party
thereafter to enforce each and every such provision. No waiver of any breach of this Agreement
shall be held to constitute a waiver of any other or subsequent breach.
11.4 Amendment of Agreement
This Agreement may be amended with respect to any provision contained herein at any time prior
to the Closing Date by action of the parties hereto taken by their Boards of Directors or by their
duly authorized officers or employees, whether before or after such party’s action; provided,
however, that such amendment shall be evidenced by a written instrument duly executed on behalf of
each party by its duly authorized officer or employee.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party has caused this Agreement to be duly executed on its behalf by
its duly authorized officer as of the date first written above.
LSI CORPORATION | ||
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx | ||
Title: EVP & GM, Mobility | ||
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG | ||
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Title: Member of Management Board President and CEO |
||
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||
Title: Member of Management Board EVP and CFO |
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LSI Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedule to the
Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.