Contract
Exhibit 10.2
TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
BY AND BETWEEN
XXXXXXX CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC
AND
ADIENT LIMITED
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 1. Definition of Terms ................................................................................................2
Section 2. Allocation of Tax Liabilities ................................................................................13
Section 2.01 General Rule ..............................................................................................13
Section 2.02 Allocation of Taxes ....................................................................................13
Section 2.03 Certain Transaction and Other Taxes ........................................................15
Section 3. Preparation and Filing of Tax Returns ..............................................................17
Section 3.01 Xxxxxxx Controls Returns ..........................................................................17
Section 3.02 Adient Returns ...........................................................................................17
Section 3.03 Tax Reporting Practices .............................................................................17
Section 3.04 Consolidated or Combined Tax Returns ....................................................18
Section 3.05 Right to Review Tax Returns .....................................................................19
Section 3.06 Adient Carryback Items and Claims for Refund ........................................20
Section 3.07 Apportionment of Earnings and Profits and Tax Attributes ......................20
Section 4. Payments ...............................................................................................................21
Section 4.01 Payment of Taxes .......................................................................................21
Section 4.02 Adjustments Resulting in Underpayments .................................................22
Section 4.03 Indemnification Payments .........................................................................22
Section 4.04 Payors; Payees; Treatment .........................................................................22
Section 5. Tax Benefits ..........................................................................................................22
Section 5.01 Tax Benefits ...............................................................................................22
Section 5.02 Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient Income Tax Deductions in Respect
of Certain Equity Awards and Incentive Compensation ............................25
Section 6. Transaction Status ...............................................................................................25
Section 6.01 Restrictions on Adient ................................................................................25
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Section 6.02 Restrictions on Xxxxxxx Controls...............................................................28
Section 6.03 Procedures Regarding Opinions and Rulings ............................................28
Section 6.04 Liability for Separation Tax Losses ...........................................................29
Section 6.05 Certain Elections ........................................................................................31
Section 7. Assistance and Cooperation ................................................................................31
Section 7.01 Assistance and Cooperation .......................................................................31
Section 7.02 Tax Return Information .............................................................................32
Section 7.03 Reliance by Xxxxxxx Controls ....................................................................32
Section 7.04 Reliance by Adient .....................................................................................33
Section 8. Tax Records ..........................................................................................................33
Section 8.01 Retention of Tax Records ..........................................................................33
Section 8.02 Access to Tax Records ...............................................................................34
Section 8.03 Preservation of Privilege ............................................................................34
Section 9. Tax Contests .........................................................................................................34
Section 9.01 Notice .........................................................................................................34
Section 9.02 Control of Tax Contests .............................................................................34
Section 10. Effective Date; Termination of Prior Intercompany Tax Allocation
Agreements ...........................................................................................................38
Section 11. Survival of Obligations ........................................................................................38
Section 12. Treatment of Payments; Tax Gross-Up .............................................................38
Section 12.01 Treatment of Tax Indemnity and Tax Benefit Payments ...........................38
Section 12.02 Tax Gross-Up .............................................................................................39
Section 12.03 Interest........................................................................................................39
Section 13. Disagreements ......................................................................................................39
Section 13.01 Dispute Resolution .....................................................................................39
Section 13.02 Injunctive Relief .........................................................................................40
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Section 14. Late Payments ......................................................................................................40
Section 15. Expenses ................................................................................................................40
Section 16. General Provisions ...............................................................................................40
Section 16.01 Addresses and Notices ...............................................................................40
Section 16.02 Assignability ..............................................................................................41
Section 16.03 Waiver ........................................................................................................41
Section 16.04 Severability ................................................................................................41
Section 16.05 Authority ....................................................................................................41
Section 16.06 Further Action ............................................................................................41
Section 16.07 Integration ..................................................................................................42
Section 16.08 Construction ...............................................................................................42
Section 16.09 No Double Recovery ..................................................................................42
Section 16.10 Currency .....................................................................................................42
Section 16.11 Counterparts ...............................................................................................42
Section 16.12 Governing Law ..........................................................................................42
Section 16.13 Jurisdiction .................................................................................................43
Section 16.14 Amendment ................................................................................................43
Section 16.15 Adient Subsidiaries ....................................................................................43
Section 16.16 Successors ..................................................................................................43
Section 16.17 Injunctions..................................................................................................43
TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT
This TAX MATTERS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into as of
September 8, 2016, by and between Xxxxxxx Controls International plc, an Irish public limited
company (“Xxxxxxx Controls”), and Adient Limited, a company organized under the laws of Ire-
land (“Adient”) (collectively, the “Companies” and each, a “Company”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient have entered into a Separation and Dis-
tribution Agreement, dated as of September 8, 2016 (the “Separation and Distribution Agree-
ment”), providing for the separation of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group from the Adient Group;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Separation and Distribution Agreement
and the Separation Step Plan, Old Xxxxxxx Controls has and will, among other things, (i) con-
tribute, sell or otherwise transfer (or cause to be contributed, sold or otherwise transferred) the
Adient Assets to Jersey SpinCo and its Subsidiaries, (ii) cause Jersey SpinCo and its Subsidiaries
to assume the Adient Liabilities, and (iii) sell or otherwise transfer all of the outstanding Jersey
SpinCo Shares to a wholly owned (directly or indirectly) Affiliate of Xxxxxxx Controls (“TSub”)
in exchange for a note or otherwise (the “Old Xxxxxxx Controls Jersey SpinCo Sale”);
WHEREAS, following the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Jersey SpinCo Sale, TSub will
sell or otherwise transfer all of the outstanding Jersey SpinCo Shares to Xxxxxxx Controls in ex-
change for a note, in partial repayment of a loan or otherwise (the “TSub Jersey SpinCo Sale”);
WHEREAS, following the TSub Jersey SpinCo Sale, pursuant to the terms of the
Separation and Distribution Agreement, Xxxxxxx Controls will (and will cause Adient to) effect
the Distribution;
WHEREAS, Xxxxxxx Controls and its Subsidiaries have engaged in certain re-
structuring transactions to facilitate the Distribution, including the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal
Contributions, the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions, the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Jersey
SpinCo Sale, the TSub Jersey SpinCo Sale and the other transactions set forth in the Separation
Step Plan;
WHEREAS, for U.S. Federal Income Tax purposes, it is intended that each of the
Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions shall qualify as a transaction that is generally tax-
free pursuant to Sections 355(a) and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code or Section 355(a) of the Code, as
applicable; and
WHEREAS, the parties desire to provide for and agree upon the allocation be-
tween the parties of liabilities for Taxes arising prior to, as a result of, and subsequent to the Dis-
tribution, and to provide for and agree upon other matters relating to Taxes.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained here-
in, the parties hereby agree as follows:
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Section 1. Definition of Terms. For purposes of this Agreement (including
the recitals hereof), the following terms have the following meanings, and capitalized terms used
but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Separation and
Distribution Agreement:
“Active Trade or Business” means, with respect to any Old Xxxxxxx Controls In-
ternal Distributing and any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled, the active conduct (as de-
fined in Section 355(b)(2) of the Code and the regulations thereunder) by such entity and its
“separate affiliated group” (as defined in Section 355(b)(3)(B) of the Code) of the trade or busi-
ness relied upon to satisfy Section 355(b) of the Code with respect to the relevant Old Xxxxxxx
Controls Internal Distribution immediately prior to such Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribu-
tion.
“Actually Realized” or “Actually Realizes” means, for purposes of determining
the timing of the incurrence of any Tax Liability or the realization of a Refund (or any related
Tax cost or Tax Benefit), whether by receipt or as a credit or other offset to Taxes otherwise
payable, by a Person in respect of any payment, transaction, occurrence or event, the time at
which the amount of Taxes paid (or Refund realized) by such Person is increased above (or re-
duced below) the amount of Taxes that such Person would have been required to pay (or Refund
that such Person would have realized) but for such payment, transaction, occurrence or event.
“Adient” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble, and references herein to
Adient shall include any entity treated as a successor to Adient.
“Adient Business” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement.
“Adient Capital Stock” means all classes or series of capital stock of Adient, in-
cluding (i) the Adient Shares, (ii) all options, warrants and other rights to acquire such capital
stock, and (iii) all instruments properly treated as stock in Adient for Federal Income Tax pur-
poses.
“Adient Carryback Item” means any net operating loss, net capital loss, excess tax
credit or other similar Tax item of any member of the Adient Group which may or must be car-
ried from any Post-Distribution Period to any Pre-Distribution Period under the Code or other
applicable Tax Law.
“Adient Group” means Adient and its Affiliates, as determined immediately after
the Distribution.
“Adient Group Employees” has the meaning set forth in the Employee Matters
Agreement.
“Adient Group Relief” means, without duplication, (i) any Relief of any member
of the Adient Group as of immediately after the Distribution and (ii) any Relief generated by, or
attributable or arising to, any member of the Adient Group in a Post-Distribution Period.
“Adient Return” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02.
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“Adient Separate Return” means any Separate Return of Adient or any member of
the Adient Group.
“Adient Shares” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement.
“Adjusted Company” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.02(c).
“Adjustment Request” means any formal or informal claim or request filed with
any Tax Authority, or with any administrative agency or court, for the adjustment, Refund, or
credit of Taxes, including (a) any amended Tax Return claiming adjustment to the Taxes as re-
ported on the Tax Return or, if applicable, as previously adjusted, (b) any claim for equitable re-
coupment or other offset, and (c) any claim for Refund of Taxes previously paid.
“Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agree-
ment.
“Agreement” means this Tax Matters Agreement.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which
banking institutions are generally authorized or required by Law to close in Ireland, the United
States or the United Kingdom.
“Check-the-Box Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.05(b).
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Combined Return” means a consolidated, affiliated, combined, unitary, group or
other similar Tax Return (including a Tax Return with respect to a profit and/or loss sharing
group (e.g., UK group relief), group payment or similar group or fiscal unity) that actually in-
cludes, by election or otherwise, one or more members of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group together
with one or more members of the Adient Group (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such
Tax Return that is an Old Xxxxxxx Controls Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return).
“Companies” or “Company” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Compensatory Equity Interests” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.02.
“Competent Authority Proceeding” means any proceeding pursuant to the mutual
assistance or mutual agreement provisions of any tax treaty or any similar proceeding before any
Competent Authority (or other body similar to a Competent Authority established pursuant to
any tax treaty).
“Distribution” means the distribution by Xxxxxxx Controls of all of the Jersey
SpinCo Shares to holders of Xxxxxxx Controls common stock, which will be effected by way of a
distribution in specie by Xxxxxxx Controls of the Adient Business to the holders of Xxxxxxx Con-
trols common stock, through (a) the transfer to Adient, which will have been re-registered as a
public limited company, of Xxxxxxx Controls’ entire legal and beneficial interest in the issued
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share capital of Jersey SpinCo, and (b) the issuance of Adient Shares to holders of Xxxxxxx Con-
trols common stock on a pro rata basis.
“Distribution Date” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement.
“Effective Time” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement.
“Electronics Business” means the “Business,” as defined in that certain Purchase
Agreement, dated as of January 12, 2014, by and between Xxxxxxx Controls, Inc. and Visteon
Corporation, and the “Business,” as defined in that certain Asset Purchase Agreement, dated as
of July 18, 2013, by and between Xxxxxxx Controls, Inc. and Gentex Corporation.
“Electronics Business Tax” means any Tax Liability imposed on any Electronics
Entity and attributable to the Electronics Business (determined on a “with and without” basis).
“Electronics Business Tax Attribute” means any Tax Attribute of any Electronics
Entity attributable to the Electronics Business, as determined by Xxxxxxx Controls in good faith.
“Electronics Entity” means each of Xxxxxxx Controls Automotive Electronics do
Brasil Ltda. (formerly SAGEM Do Brasil), JC International ZAO, and any of their respective
successors.
“Employee Matters Agreement” means the Employee Matters Agreement, dated
as of September 8, 2016, by and between Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient.
“Federal Income Tax” means any Tax imposed by Subtitle A of the Code.
“Federal Other Tax” means any Tax imposed by the federal government of the
United States of America other than any Federal Income Taxes.
“Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest” has the meaning ascribed to such term for pur-
poses of Sections 355(d) and (e) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations Thereunder.
“Filing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.04(d).
“Final Determination” means the final resolution of liability for any Tax, which
resolution may be for a specific issue or adjustment or for a Tax Period, (a) by IRS Form 870 or
870-AD (or any successor forms thereto), on the date of acceptance by or on behalf of the tax-
payer, or by a comparable form under the Laws of a State, local or foreign taxing jurisdiction,
except that a Form 870 or 870-AD or comparable form shall not constitute a Final Determination
to the extent that it reserves (whether by its terms or by operation of Law) the right of the tax-
payer to file a claim for Refund or the right of the Tax Authority to assert a further deficiency in
respect of such issue or adjustment or for such Tax Period (as the case may be); (b) by a deci-
sion, judgment, decree or other order by a court of competent jurisdiction, which has become fi-
nal and unappealable; (c) by a closing agreement or accepted offer in compromise under Section
7121 or 7122 of the Code, or a comparable agreement under the Laws of a State, local or foreign
taxing jurisdiction; (d) by any allowance of a Refund in respect of an overpayment of Tax, but
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only after the expiration of all periods during which such Refund may be recovered (including by
way of offset) by the jurisdiction imposing such Tax; (e) by a final settlement resulting from a
Competent Authority Proceeding or determination; or (f) by any other final disposition, includ-
ing by reason of the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations or by mutual agreement of
the parties hereto.
“Foreign Corporation Status” means the status of Adient as a foreign corporation
(within the meaning of Sections 7701(a)(3) and 7701(a)(5) of the Code) for U.S. federal tax pur-
poses as of immediately after the Distribution.
“Foreign Income Tax” means any Tax imposed by any foreign country or any
possession of the United States, or by any political subdivision of any foreign country or United
States possession, which is an income tax as defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.901-2.
“Foreign Other Tax” means any Tax imposed by any foreign country or any pos-
session of the United States, or by any political subdivision of any foreign country or United
States possession, other than any Foreign Income Taxes.
“Former Adient Group Employees” has the meaning provided in the Employee
Matters Agreement.
“Former Xxxxxxx Controls Group Employee” has the meaning provided in the
Employee Matters Agreement.
“Group” means the Xxxxxxx Controls Group or the Adient Group, or both, as the
context requires.
“High-Level Dispute” means any dispute or disagreement (a) relating to liability
under Section 6.04 or (b) in which the amount of liability in dispute exceeds $10 million.
“Income Tax” means any Federal Income Tax, State Income Tax or Foreign In-
come Tax.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.03.
“Indemnitor” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.03.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Jersey SpinCo” means Adient Global Holdings Ltd, a Jersey public limited com-
pany and a direct wholly owned Subsidiary of Adient immediately following the Distribution.
“Jersey SpinCo Shares” means the ordinary shares, par value £1 per share, of Jer-
sey SpinCo.
“Xxxxxxx Controls” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Xxxxxxx Controls Business” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Dis-
tribution Agreement.
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“Xxxxxxx Controls Group” means Xxxxxxx Controls and its Affiliates, excluding
any entity that is a member of the Adient Group.
“Xxxxxxx Controls Group Employees” has the meaning set forth in the Employee
Matters Agreement.
“Xxxxxxx Controls Group Relief” means, without duplication, (i) any Relief of
any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group as of immediately after the Distribution and (ii) any
Relief generated by, or attributable or arising to, any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group in a
Post-Distribution Period.
“Xxxxxxx Controls Return” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a).
“Xxxxxxx Controls Separate Return” means any Separate Return of Xxxxxxx Con-
trols or any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group.
“Law” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Loss” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01(b).
“Non-Recoverable Transaction Tax Return” has the meaning set forth in Section
3.01(a).
“Non-Recoverable Transaction Taxes” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.03(a).
“Notified Action” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.03(a).
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls” means Xxxxxxx Controls, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Affiliated Group” has the meaning set forth in the defini-
tion of “Old Xxxxxxx Controls Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return.”
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Federal Consolidated Income Tax Return” means any U.S.
federal income Tax Return for the affiliated group (as that term is defined in Section 1504 of the
Code and the regulations thereunder) of which Old Xxxxxxx Controls is the common parent (the
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Affiliated Group”).
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contribution” means the contribution of specified
assets to an Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled pursuant to the Separation and Distribution
Agreement and the Separation Step Plan.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled” means each of Recaro Automotive
Mexico S. de X.X. de C.V., Ensamble de Interiors Automotrices S. de X.X. de C.V. and Xxxxxxx
Controls Asia Holdings Co. Limited, and their respective successors.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled Capital Stock” means, with respect to
any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled, all classes or series of capital stock of such Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled, including (i) any class of common stock, preferred stock
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or other capital stock, (ii) all options, warrants and other rights to acquire such capital stock, and
(iii) all instruments properly treated as stock in such Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled
for Federal Income Tax purposes.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing” means each of JC Enterprises Mexi-
co SRL, Xxxxxxx Controls Holding Company, Inc. and Xxxxxxx Controls Holding China Busi-
ness Trust, and their respective successors.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing Capital Stock” means, with respect to
any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing, all classes or series of capital stock of any Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing, including (i) any class of common stock, preferred stock
or other capital stock, (ii) all options, warrants and other rights to acquire such capital stock, and
(iii) all instruments properly treated as stock in such Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing
for Federal Income Tax purposes.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribution” means the distribution or exchange
pursuant to a full or partial redemption by an Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing of the
common stock of the applicable Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled to or with Xxxxxxx
Controls or another member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group in a transaction intended to qualify
as generally tax-free pursuant to Sections 355(a) and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code or Section 355(a)
of the Code, as applicable.
“Old Xxxxxxx Controls Jersey SpinCo Sale” has the meaning set forth in the Re-
citals.
“Other Tax” means any Federal Other Tax, State Other Tax or Foreign Other Tax.
“Past Practices” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(a).
“Payment Date” means (i) with respect to any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Federal Con-
solidated Income Tax Return, the due date for any required installment of estimated taxes deter-
mined under Section 6655 of the Code, the due date (determined without regard to extensions)
for filing the return determined under Section 6072 of the Code, and the date the return is filed,
and (ii) with respect to any other Tax Return, the corresponding or similar dates determined un-
der the applicable Tax Law.
“Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability compa-
ny, association, joint stock company, trust, joint venture, unincorporated organization or a gov-
ernmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof, without regard to
whether any entity is treated as disregarded for Federal Income Tax purposes.
“Permitted Adient Carryback” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01(d).
“Post-Distribution Period” means any Tax Period beginning after the Distribution
Date, and, in the case of any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period beginning the
day after the Distribution Date.
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“Pre-Distribution Period” means any Tax Period ending on or before the Distribu-
tion Date, and, in the case of any Straddle Period, the portion of such Straddle Period ending on
the Distribution Date.
“Prime Rate” has the meaning set forth in the Separation and Distribution Agree-
ment.
“Privilege” means any privilege that may be asserted under applicable Law, in-
cluding any privilege arising under or relating to the attorney-client relationship (including the
attorney-client and work product privileges), the accountant-client privilege and any privilege
relating to internal evaluation processes.
“Privileged Tax Documentation” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.03.
“Proposed Acquisition Transaction” means a transaction or series of transactions
(or any agreement, understanding or arrangement, within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the
Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7, or any other regulations promulgated thereun-
der, to enter into a transaction or series of transactions), whether such transaction is supported by
Adient management or shareholders, is a hostile acquisition, or otherwise, as a result of which
Adient would merge or consolidate with any other Person or as a result of which any Person or
Persons would (directly or indirectly) acquire, or have the right to acquire, from Adient and/or
one or more holders of Adient Capital Stock, a number of shares of Adient Capital Stock that
would, when combined with any other changes in ownership of Adient Capital Stock pertinent
for purposes of Section 355(e) of the Code, comprise 40% or more of (A) the value of all out-
standing shares of stock of Adient as of the date of such transaction, or in the case of a series of
transactions, the date of the last transaction of such series, or (B) the total combined voting pow-
er of all outstanding shares of voting stock of Adient as of the date of such transaction, or in the
case of a series of transactions, the date of the last transaction of such series. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a Proposed Acquisition Transaction shall not include (A) the adoption by Adient
of a shareholder rights plan or (B) issuances by Adient that satisfy Safe Harbor VIII (relating to
acquisitions in connection with a person’s performance of services) or Safe Harbor IX (relating
to acquisitions by a retirement plan of an employer) of Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(d).
For purposes of determining whether a transaction constitutes an indirect acquisition, any recapi-
talization resulting in a shift of voting power or any redemption of shares of stock shall be treat-
ed as an indirect acquisition of shares of stock by the non-exchanging shareholders. This defini-
tion and the application thereof are intended to monitor compliance with Section 355(e) of the
Code and shall be interpreted accordingly. Any clarification of, or change in, the statute or regu-
lations promulgated under Section 355(e) of the Code shall be incorporated into this definition
and its interpretation.
“Recipient” means, with respect to the transfers occurring pursuant to any of the
Separation Transactions, the Person receiving assets and/or liabilities.
“Refund” means any refund of Taxes, including any refund or reduction in Tax
Liabilities by means of a credit or offset.
“Relief” means any relief, loss allowance, exemption, set-off, Refund, deduction,
credit or Tax Attribute utilized in computing, or against, taxable income or Tax Liability.
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“Responsible Company” means, with respect to any Tax Return, the Company
having responsibility for preparing such Tax Return under this Agreement.
“Restriction Period” means the period beginning on the date hereof and ending on
(and including) the two-year anniversary of the Distribution Date.
“Retention Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01.
“Section 336(e) Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.05(a).
“Separate Return” means (a) in the case of any Tax Return of any member of the
Adient Group (including any consolidated, affiliated, combined, unitary, group or other similar
Tax Return (including a Tax Return with respect to a profit and/or loss sharing group (e.g., UK
group relief), group payment or similar group or fiscal unity)), any such Tax Return that does not
include any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group and (b) in the case of any Tax Return of any
member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group (including any consolidated, affiliated, combined, uni-
tary, group or other similar Tax Return (including a Tax Return with respect to a profit and/or
loss sharing group (e.g., UK group relief), group payment or similar group or fiscal unity)), any
such Tax Return that does not include any member of the Adient Group.
“Separation” means the separation of the Adient Business from the Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Business.
“Separation and Distribution Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Recit-
als.
“Separation Related Tax Contest” means any Tax Contest in which the IRS, an-
other Tax Authority or any other party asserts a position that could reasonably be expected to
adversely affect, jeopardize or prevent (a) the Tax-Free Status of any of the Old Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Internal Distributions (and, where applicable, the related Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal
Contribution), (b) a relevant entity, instrument or Separation Transaction (other than a Separation
Transaction described in clause (a)) to have the tax-free or other tax treatment described in the
Tax Treatment Schedule or Separation Step Plan, or (c) the Unrestricted Inversion Status of the
Tyco Merger.
“Separation Step Plan” means the global plan of reorganization setting forth the
specific transactions undertaken in anticipation and furtherance of the Separation, attached as
Schedule 2.1(a) to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“Separation Tax Losses” means (i) all Taxes imposed pursuant to (or any reduc-
tion in a Refund resulting from) any settlement, Final Determination, judgment or otherwise; (ii)
all third-party accounting, legal and other professional fees and court costs incurred in connec-
tion with such Taxes (or reduction in a Refund), as well as any other out-of-pocket costs incurred
in connection with such Taxes; and (iii) all third-party costs, expenses and damages associated
with any stockholder litigation or other controversy and any amount required to be paid by Xxxx-
son Controls (or any Xxxxxxx Controls Affiliate) or Adient (or any Adient Affiliate) in respect of
any liability of or to shareholders, whether paid to shareholders or to the IRS or any other Tax
Authority, in each case, resulting from (x) the failure of any of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal
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Contributions or Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions to have Tax-Free Status (including,
for the avoidance of doubt, any Taxes imposed on income or gain recognized pursuant to any
“gain recognition agreement” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.367(a)-8
previously entered into in connection with any other transaction that results from or is attributa-
ble to the failure of any of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contributions or Old Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Internal Distributions to have Tax-Free Status), (y) the failure of a relevant entity, instru-
ment or Separation Transaction (other than a Separation Transaction described in clause (x)) to
have the tax-free or other tax treatment described in the Tax Treatment Schedule or the Separa-
tion Step Plan, or (z) the failure of the Tyco Merger to have Unrestricted Inversion Status; pro-
vided that amounts shall be treated as having been required to be paid for purposes of clause (iii)
of this definition to the extent they are paid in a good-faith compromise or settlement of an as-
serted claim. For the avoidance of doubt, except as expressly provided to the contrary in this
Agreement, the amount of Taxes that are Separation Tax Losses for which Xxxxxxx Controls and
Adient, as applicable, are liable pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated without taking
into account the utilization of any Adient Group Relief or Xxxxxxx Controls Group Relief, re-
spectively.
“Separation Transactions” means the Distribution and the other transactions con-
templated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement and the Separation Step Plan in further-
ance of the Separation (including the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contributions, the Old Xxxx-
son Controls Internal Distributions, the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Jersey SpinCo Sale and the TSub
Jersey SpinCo Sale).
“Specified PRC Taxes” means any income Taxes (a) imposed on Adient Asia
Holdings Co., Limited (“Adient Asia Holdings”) by the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”)
on the direct transfer of interests in Baoding Fengfan Rising Battery Separator Co., Ltd. or the
direct transfer of interests in JC (China) Investment Co., Ltd. pursuant to the Separation Transac-
tions, or (b) imposed by the PRC, pursuant to Guoshuihan [2009] Circular No. 698 or Public No-
xxxx [2015] Circular No. 7, on the indirect transfer of interests in PRC-resident entities as a result
of the direct or indirect transfer of interests in Adient Asia Holdings or Xxxxxxx Controls Interior
Hong Kong Limited pursuant to the Separation Transactions.
“State Income Tax” means any Tax imposed by any State of the United States or
by any political subdivision of any such State or the District of Columbia that is imposed on or
measured by net income, including state and local franchise or similar Taxes measured by net
income.
“State Other Tax” means any Tax imposed by any State of the United States or by
any political subdivision of any such State or the District of Columbia, other than any State In-
come Taxes.
“Straddle Combined Return” means any Combined Return for a Straddle Period
that is, under applicable Law, required to include a member of the Adient Group in the portion of
such Straddle Period that is a Post-Distribution Period.
“Straddle Period” means any Tax Period that begins on or before and ends after
the Distribution Date.
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“Tax” or “Taxes” means any taxes, fees, assessments, duties or other similar
charges imposed by any Tax Authority, including, without limitation, income, gross income,
gross receipts, profits, capital stock, franchise, withholding, payroll, social security, workers’
compensation, unemployment, disability, property, ad valorem, stamp, excise, severance, occu-
pation, service, sales, use, license, lease, transfer, import, export, value-added, alternative mini-
mum, estimated or other tax (including any fee, assessment, duty, or other charge in the nature of
or in lieu of any tax), and any interest, penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts in respect
of the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, Tax includes any increase in Tax as a result of a
Final Determination.
“Tax Advisor” means tax counsel or accountant of recognized national standing.
“Tax Advisor Dispute” has the meaning set forth in Section 13.01.
“Tax Attribute” or “Attribute” means a net operating loss, net capital loss, unused
investment credit, unused foreign tax credit, excess charitable contribution, general business
credit or any other Tax Item that could reduce a Tax or create a Tax Benefit.
“Tax Authority” means, with respect to any Tax, the governmental entity or polit-
ical subdivision thereof that imposes such Tax, and the agency (if any) charged with the collec-
tion of such Tax for such entity or subdivision or otherwise having jurisdiction with respect to
such Tax.
“Tax Benefit” means any loss, deduction, refund, credit, offset or other Tax item
reducing Taxes paid or payable. For purposes of this Agreement, the amount of any Tax Benefit
Actually Realized by a Person as a result of any such Tax item shall be determined on a “with
and without basis” as the excess of (a) the hypothetical liability of such Person for the relevant
Tax for the relevant Tax Period, calculated as if such Tax item had not been utilized but with all
other facts unchanged, over (b) the actual liability of such Person for such Tax for such Tax Pe-
riod, calculated taking into account such Tax item (and, for this purpose, treating a Refund as a
reduction in liability for Tax).
“Tax Contest” means an audit, review, examination or any other administrative or
judicial proceeding with the purpose or effect of redetermining Taxes (including any administra-
tive or judicial review of any claim for any Refund).
“Tax-Free Status” means, with respect to each Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Dis-
tribution (where relevant, taken together with the related Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contri-
bution), the qualification thereof (a) as a transaction described in Sections 355(a) and
368(a)(1)(D) of the Code or Section 355(a) of the Code, as applicable, (b) as a transaction in
which the stock distributed thereby is “qualified property” for purposes of Sections 355(c)(2) and
361(c)(2) of the Code, and (c) as a transaction in which Xxxxxxx Controls, Adient and the mem-
bers of their respective Groups recognize no income or gain for U.S. federal income tax purposes
pursuant to Sections 355, 361 and 1032 of the Code, other than intercompany items or excess
loss accounts taken into account pursuant to the Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to
Section 1502 of the Code.
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“Tax Item” means, with respect to any Income Tax, any item of income, gain,
loss, deduction, or credit.
“Tax Law” means the Law of any governmental entity or political subdivision
thereof relating to any Tax.
“Tax Liability” means any liability or obligation for Taxes.
“Tax Period” means, with respect to any Tax, the period for which the Tax is re-
ported as provided under the Code or other applicable Tax Law.
“Tax Records” means any Tax Returns, Tax Return workpapers, documentation
relating to any Tax Contest, and any other books of account or records (whether or not in written,
electronic or other tangible or intangible forms and whether or not stored on electronic or any
other medium) maintained or required to be maintained under the Code or other applicable Tax
Laws or under any record retention agreement with any Tax Authority.
“Tax Return” or “Return” means any report of Taxes due, any claim for Refund
of Taxes paid, any information return with respect to Taxes, or any other similar report, state-
ment, declaration, or document filed or required to be filed under the Code or other Tax Law,
including any attachments, exhibits or other materials submitted with any of the foregoing, and
including any amendments or supplements to any of the foregoing.
“Tax Treatment Schedule” means the schedule setting forth the intended tax
treatment of certain entities, instruments and Separation Transactions, attached as Schedule 1.7
to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
“TSub” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“TSub Jersey SpinCo Sale” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“Transaction Taxes” means any value-added, goods and services, sales, use, con-
sumption, excise, service, transfer, stamp, documentary, filing, recordation Taxes or similar Tax-
es, in each case imposed or payable upon any of the Separation Transactions.
“Transferor” means, with respect to the transfers occurring pursuant to any of the
Separations Transactions, the Person transferring assets and/or liabilities.
“Treasury Regulations” means the regulations promulgated from time to time un-
der the Code as in effect for the relevant Tax Period.
“Tyco Merger” means the merger of an indirect subsidiary of Tyco International,
plc with and into Old Xxxxxxx Controls effected on September 2, 2016.
“Unrestricted Inversion Status” means, with respect to the Tyco Merger, the fail-
ure of the ownership threshold of Section 7874(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Code to be met.
“Unqualified Tax Opinion” means an unqualified opinion of a Tax Advisor on
which Xxxxxxx Controls may rely to the effect that a transaction will not adversely affect (i) the
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Tax-Free Status of any of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions and any of the Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contributions and (ii) the Unrestricted Inversion Status of the Tyco
Merger; provided that any tax opinion obtained in connection with a proposed acquisition of
Adient Capital Stock or any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled Capital Stock entered into
during the Restriction Period shall not qualify as an Unqualified Tax Opinion unless such tax
opinion concludes that such proposed acquisition will not be treated as “part of a plan (or series
of related transactions),” within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the Code and the Treasury
Regulations promulgated thereunder, that includes the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribu-
tion involving such Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled. Any such opinion must assume
that (i) each of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions and Old Xxxxxxx Controls Inter-
nal Contributions would have qualified for Tax-Free Status if the transaction in question did not
occur and (ii) the Tyco Merger would have had Unrestricted Inversion Status if the transaction in
question did not occur.
“VAT” shall mean any value added Taxes, goods and services Taxes or the
equivalent of such Taxes in any relevant jurisdiction.
“VAT Charges” shall mean any Transaction Taxes that are recoverable VAT, to
the extent such Taxes were paid, but not yet recovered (whether by way of input VAT, offset,
Refund or otherwise), by Xxxxxxx Controls, Adient or any of their respective Affiliates on or pri-
or to the Distribution Date.
Section 2. Allocation of Tax Liabilities.
Section 2.01 General Rule.
(a) Xxxxxxx Controls Liability. Xxxxxxx Controls shall be liable for, and shall indem-
nify and hold harmless the Adient Group from and against any liability for, any Taxes for which
Xxxxxxx Controls is responsible, or which are allocated to Xxxxxxx Controls, pursuant to this Sec-
tion 2 or Section 3.
(b) Adient Liability. Adient shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless
the Xxxxxxx Controls Group from and against any liability for, any Taxes for which Adient is
responsible, or which are allocated to Adient, pursuant to this Section 2 or Section 3.
(c) Costs and Expenses. The amounts for which Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient, as ap-
plicable, is liable pursuant to Sections 2.01(a) and (b), respectively, shall include all accounting,
legal and other professional fees, and court costs incurred in connection with the relevant Taxes.
(d) Relief. For the avoidance of doubt, except as expressly provided to the contrary
herein, the amount of Taxes for which Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient, as applicable, is liable pursu-
ant to this Section 2, Section 3 or otherwise under this Agreement shall be calculated without
taking into account the utilization of any Adient Group Relief or Xxxxxxx Controls Group Relief,
respectively.
Section 2.02 Allocation of Taxes. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.03(a), (b)
or (c), Taxes shall be allocated as follows:
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(a) Taxes Relating to Combined Returns for Pre-Distribution Periods.
(i) Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for any and all Taxes due with re-
spect to, attributable to or required to be reported on any Combined Return that are allo-
cable to Pre-Distribution Periods (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such Taxes
imposed or payable as a result of a Final Determination).
(ii) For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this Agreement, any and all
Taxes due with respect to, attributable to or required to be reported on any Combined Re-
turn that does not include any member of the Adient Group in any Post-Distribution Peri-
od shall be allocable to a Pre-Distribution Period.
(b) Taxes Relating to Combined Returns for Post-Distribution Periods.
(i) Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for any and all Taxes due with re-
spect to, attributable to or required to be reported on any Combined Return that are allo-
cable to Post-Distribution Periods (including any increase in such Taxes as a result of a
Final Determination) to the extent such Taxes are attributable to the Xxxxxxx Controls
Business. Adient shall be responsible for any and all Taxes due with respect to, attribut-
able to or required to be reported on any Combined Return that are allocable to Post-
Distribution Periods (including any increase in such Taxes as a result of a Final Determi-
nation) to the extent such Taxes are attributable to the Adient Business.
(ii) For purposes of this Agreement, in the case of any Taxes for any Straddle
Period, the amount of Taxes allocable to the portion of the Straddle Period ending on the
Distribution Date shall be deemed to be (i) in the case of Taxes imposed on a periodic ba-
sis (such as real or personal property Taxes), the amount of such Taxes for the entire pe-
riod (or, in the case of such Taxes determined on an arrears basis, the amount of such
Taxes for the immediately preceding period) multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of
which is the number of calendar days in the Straddle Period ending on and including the
Distribution Date and the denominator of which is the number of calendar days in the en-
tire relevant Straddle Period; and (ii) in the case of Taxes not described in clause (i)
above (such as Income Taxes or Taxes based upon occupancy or imposed in connection
with any sale or other transfer or assignment of property (real or personal, tangible or in-
tangible)), the amount of any such Taxes shall be determined as if such taxable period
ended as of the close of business on the Distribution Date, with exemptions, allowances
or deductions that are calculated on an annual basis (including depreciation and amortiza-
tion deductions) to be allocated between the period ending on and including the Distribu-
tion Date and the period beginning after the Distribution Date in proportion to the number
of days in each period.
(c) Taxes Relating to Separate Returns.
(i) Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for any and all Taxes due with re-
spect to, attributable to or required to be reported on any Xxxxxxx Controls Separate Re-
turn for any Tax Period (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such Taxes imposed
or payable as a result of a Final Determination).
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(ii) Adient shall be responsible for any and all Taxes due with respect to, at-
tributable to or required to be reported on any Adient Separate Return for any Tax Period
(including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such Taxes imposed or payable as a result of a
Final Determination); provided that Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for any such
Taxes that are Electronics Business Taxes (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any
such Taxes imposed or payable as a result of a Final Determination).
(d) Penalties and Interest. Any penalties or interest imposed in connection with any
Taxes described in Section 2.02(a), (b) or (c) shall be the responsibility of the Company that is
responsible for the underlying Tax, unless such penalties or interest are the result of an action or
failure to act by the other Company or any of its Affiliates.
Section 2.03 Certain Transaction and Other Taxes.
(a) Transaction Taxes.
(i) All charges in respect of the transfers occurring pursuant to the Separation
Transactions, and related transaction costs, shall be exclusive of any Transaction Taxes.
Without limiting any provision of this Agreement, (a) in the case of any Transaction Tax-
es that are non-recoverable under applicable Law (whether by way of credit, offset, Re-
fund, input VAT or otherwise, and such Taxes, “Non-Recoverable Transaction Taxes”),
Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for any such Non-Recoverable Transaction Taxes,
unless any such Non-Recoverable Transaction Taxes become non-recoverable as a result
of an action or failure to act by Adient or any of its Affiliates, in which case Adient shall
be responsible for such Transaction Taxes and (b) in the case of any Transaction Taxes
that are recoverable under applicable Law (whether by way of credit, offset, Refund, in-
put VAT or otherwise), the Recipient (or, if not the Recipient, such other Person that is
entitled to a recovery of such Transaction Taxes under applicable Law) shall be responsi-
ble for any such recoverable Transaction Taxes, unless any such recoverable Transaction
Taxes become non-recoverable as a result of an action or failure to act by the Transferor
or any of its Affiliates, in which case the Transferor shall be responsible for such Trans-
action Taxes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, to the extent a
Company (or any of its Affiliates) recovers (whether by way of credit, offset, Refund, in-
put VAT or otherwise) any Transaction Taxes that were paid or otherwise borne by the
other Company (or any of its Affiliates), the Company that received (or the Affiliate of
which received) such recovery shall, without duplication of any other amounts payable
pursuant to this Agreement, promptly pay over to such other Company the amount of
such recovery; provided, that recovery in respect of VAT Charges (and entitlement there-
to) shall be governed exclusively by Schedule 2.12(c)(ii) to the Separation and Distribu-
tion Agreement. The Transferor shall promptly issue proper and timely invoices usable
by the Recipient to recover (by way of credit or Refund) any Transaction Taxes in juris-
dictions where they are recoverable. The Transferor and the Recipient shall cooperate to
minimize any Transaction Taxes and in obtaining any Refund, return or rebate of Trans-
action Taxes, or applying an exemption or zero-rating for goods or services giving rise to
any Transaction Taxes, including by filing any exemption or other similar forms or
providing valid tax identification numbers or other relevant registration numbers, certifi-
xxxxx or other documents. The Recipient and the Transferor shall cooperate regarding
any requests for information, audits or similar requests by any Tax Authority concerning
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Transaction Taxes payable with respect to the transfers occurring pursuant to the Separa-
tion Transactions.
(ii) The Recipient shall be entitled to deduct and withhold Tax required by ap-
plicable Law to be withheld on payments made to the Transferor pursuant to the Separa-
tion Transactions. To the extent any amounts are so withheld, the Recipient shall timely
remit such deducted and withheld amounts to the relevant Tax Authority and promptly
provide the Transferor with evidence of such payment. The Transferor agrees to com-
plete and provide to the Recipient or, if required, to the relevant Tax Authority, at least
ten (10) days prior to the payment due date, such forms, certifications or other documents
as may be reasonably requested by the Recipient, in order to reduce or exempt the with-
holding of any Tax with respect to payments made to the Transferor when and where ap-
plicable by Law. The Recipient and the Transferor shall reasonably cooperate (A) to
minimize and obtain any reduction of or relief from deduction or withholding and (B) co-
operate regarding any requests for information, audits or similar requests by any Tax Au-
thority concerning the withholding of any Tax payable with respect to the Separation
Transactions.
(iii) Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for any Specified PRC Taxes.
Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient shall cooperate to minimize the Specified PRC Taxes and in
obtaining any Refund, return or rebate of any Specified PRC Taxes. Xxxxxxx Controls
and Adient shall cooperate regarding any requests for information, audits or similar re-
quests by any Tax Authority concerning any Specified PRC Taxes.
(iv) Any penalties or interest imposed in connection with any Transaction
Taxes described in Section 2.03(a)(i) or Tax described in Section 2.03(a)(ii) or
2.03(a)(iii) shall be the responsibility of the Company that is responsible for the underly-
ing Tax, unless such penalties or interest are the result of an action or failure to act by the
other Company or any of its Affiliates.
(b) Adient Liability. Adient shall be liable for, and shall indemnify and hold harmless
the Xxxxxxx Controls Group from and against any liability for:
(i) any Tax resulting from a breach by Adient of any representation or cove-
nant in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any Ancillary
Agreement; and
(ii) any Separation Tax Losses for which Adient is responsible pursuant
to Section 6.04.
(c) Xxxxxxx Controls Liability. Xxxxxxx Controls shall be liable for, and shall indem-
nify and hold harmless the Adient Group from and against any liability for:
(i) any Tax resulting from a breach by Xxxxxxx Controls of any representation
or covenant in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any Xxxxx-
xxxx Agreement; and
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(ii) any Separation Tax Losses for which Xxxxxxx Controls is responsible pur-
suant to Section 6.04.
Section 3. Preparation and Filing of Tax Returns.
Section 3.01 Xxxxxxx Controls Returns.
(a) Xxxxxxx Controls shall prepare or cause to be prepared (i) all Old Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Federal Consolidated Income Tax Returns, (ii) all other Combined Returns, (iii) all Xxxxxxx
Controls Separate Returns, (iv) all Tax Returns required to be filed with respect to any Non-
Recoverable Transaction Taxes (“a Non-Recoverable Transaction Tax Return”) and (v) all Tax
Returns required to be filed with respect to any Specified PRC Taxes, if any (a “Specified PRC
Tax Return,” and any return described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v), a “Xxxxxxx Controls Re-
turn”). Except as provided in Section 3.01(b), Xxxxxxx Controls shall file or cause to be filed all
Xxxxxxx Controls Returns and shall pay or cause to be paid all Taxes shown to be due on any
such Xxxxxxx Controls Return to the relevant Tax Authority and Adient shall make any payments
to Xxxxxxx Controls required pursuant to Section 4.01 in respect of any such Xxxxxxx Controls
Return.
(b) In the event that Adient or a member of the Adient Group (or an authorized repre-
sentative of Adient or a member of the Adient Group) is obligated to sign and file a Xxxxxxx
Controls Return under applicable Tax Law, Xxxxxxx Controls shall deliver such Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Return to Adient and pay to Adient the amount of Taxes due on such Xxxxxxx Controls Re-
turn prior to the due date for filing such Xxxxxxx Controls Return (taking into account exten-
sions), and Adient shall timely file or cause to be timely filed such Xxxxxxx Controls Return (tak-
ing into account extensions). Adient shall pay or cause to be paid all Taxes shown to be due on
any Xxxxxxx Controls Return required to be filed by Adient pursuant to this Section 3.01(b).
Section 3.02 Adient Returns. Adient shall prepare and timely file, or cause to be pre-
pared and timely filed (in each case, taking into account extensions), all Adient Separate Returns
and any other Tax Return required to be filed by or with respect to a member of the Adient
Group other than any Tax Return which Xxxxxxx Controls is required to prepare pursuant to Sec-
tion 3.01(a) (each, a “Adient Return”). Adient shall file or cause to be filed all Adient Returns
and shall pay or cause to be paid all Taxes shown to be due on any such Adient Return to the rel-
evant Tax Authority and Xxxxxxx Controls shall make any payments to Adient required pursuant
to Section 4.01 in respect of any such Adient Return.
Section 3.03 Tax Reporting Practices.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.03(c), with respect to any Tax Return
that Adient has the obligation and right to prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, un-
der Section 3.02 for any Pre-Distribution Period or any Straddle Period (or, to the extent relating
to any Taxes or Tax Items of any Electronics Entity attributable to the Electronics Business),
such Tax Return shall be prepared in accordance with past practices, accounting methods, elec-
tions and conventions (“Past Practices”) used with respect to the Tax Returns in question, and, to
the extent there is no Past Practice with respect to such item, in accordance with reasonable Tax
accounting or other practices selected by Adient and reasonably acceptable to Xxxxxxx Controls;
provided that, except to the extent relating to any Taxes or Tax Items of any Electronics Entity
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attributable to the Electronics Business, Adient may determine in good faith to prepare and file,
or cause to be prepared and filed, any such Tax Return in a manner that deviates from Past Prac-
tices; provided, however, that if any such Tax Return is prepared or filed in a manner that devi-
ates from Past Practices, Adient shall be responsible for any additional Taxes imposed on or pay-
able by Xxxxxxx Controls or any of its Affiliates (including pursuant to the terms of this Agree-
ment) as a result of any such deviation (other than any such deviation that was previously con-
sented to by Xxxxxxx Controls (including in connection with the review, if any, by Xxxxxxx Con-
trols of the relevant Tax Return pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 3.05(a))).
(b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.03(c), with respect to any Straddle
Combined Return to the extent relating to the Post-Distribution Period or any Combined Return
for any taxable period beginning on or after the Distribution Date, in each case, that Xxxxxxx
Controls has the obligation and right to prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, under
Section 3.01, such Tax Return (or such portion thereof) shall be prepared in accordance with Past
Practices used with respect to the Tax Returns in question, and, to the extent there is no Past
Practice with respect to such item, in accordance with reasonable Tax accounting or other prac-
tices selected by Xxxxxxx Controls and reasonably acceptable to Adient; provided that Xxxxxxx
Controls may determine in good faith to prepare and file, or cause to be prepared and filed, any
such Tax Return in a manner that deviates from Past Practices; provided, however, that if any
such Tax Return is prepared or filed in a manner that deviates from Past Practices, Xxxxxxx Con-
trols shall be responsible for any additional Taxes imposed on or payable by Adient or any of its
Affiliates (including pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) as a result of any such deviation
(other than any such deviation that was previously consented to by Adient (including in connec-
tion with the review, if any, by Adient of the relevant Tax Return pursuant to the procedures set
forth in Section 3.05(a))).
(c) Except to the extent otherwise required by applicable Law or as a result of a Final
Determination, (A) neither Xxxxxxx Controls nor Adient shall, and neither shall permit or cause
any member of its respective Group to, take any position that is inconsistent with the treatment
of (i) each of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions (where applicable, taken together
with the relevant Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contribution) as having Tax-Free Status (or
analogous status under state or local Law), (ii) any of the relevant entities, instruments or Separa-
tion Transactions as having the tax-free or other tax treatment indicated on the Tax Treatment
Schedule or the Separation Step Plan, (iii) the Tyco Merger as having Unrestricted Inversion Sta-
tus or (iv) Adient as having Foreign Corporation Status as of immediately after the Distribution
and (B) Adient shall not, and shall not permit or cause any member of the Adient Group to, take
any position with respect to an item of income, deduction, gain, loss or credit on a Tax Return, or
otherwise treat such item in a manner that is inconsistent with the manner such item is reported
on a Tax Return required to be prepared or filed by Xxxxxxx Controls pursuant to Section 3.01
hereof (including, without limitation, the claiming of a deduction previously claimed on any such
Tax Return), except with the prior consent of Xxxxxxx Controls.
Section 3.04 Consolidated or Combined Tax Returns.
(a) Except to the extent otherwise required pursuant to clause (A) of Section 3.03(c),
Xxxxxxx Controls shall determine in its good faith sole discretion whether to file a Tax Return for
any Tax Period as a Combined Return and the entities to be included in any Combined Return,
and Xxxxxxx Controls shall (and shall be entitled to) make or revoke any Tax elections, adopt or
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change any Tax accounting methods, and determine any other position taken on or in respect of
any Combined Return; provided that any Combined Return prepared and filed by Xxxxxxx Con-
trols pursuant to this Agreement shall, to the extent relating to Adient or the Adient Group, be
prepared in good faith; and provided further that a Combined Return shall not include any mem-
ber of the Adient Group in a Post-Distribution Period except to the extent required by applicable
Law. Adient will elect and join (and take any other action necessary to give effect to such elec-
tion), and will cause its respective Affiliates to elect and join (and take any other action neces-
sary to give effect to such election), in filing any Combined Returns (including any Old Xxxxxxx
Controls Federal Consolidated Income Tax Returns) that Xxxxxxx Controls determines in good
faith are required by applicable Law to be filed (or that Xxxxxxx Controls chooses in good faith
to file) by the Companies or any of their Affiliates for Tax Periods ending on, before or after the
Distribution Date. With respect to any Adient Separate Returns relating to any Pre-Distribution
Period, Adient will elect and join, and will cause its Affiliates to elect and join, in filing any con-
solidated, affiliated, combined, unitary, group or other similar Tax Return (including a Tax Re-
turn with respect to a profit and/or loss sharing group (e.g., UK group relief), group payment or
similar group or fiscal unity), to the extent each entity is eligible to join in such Tax Returns, if
Xxxxxxx Controls reasonably determines that the filing of such Tax Returns is consistent with
past reporting practices, or, in the absence of applicable past practices, is reasonably determined
to result in the minimization of the net present value of the aggregate Tax to the entities eligible
to join in such Tax Returns or is otherwise reasonably acceptable to Xxxxxxx Controls.
(b) At Xxxxxxx Controls’ request, Adient shall, and shall cause each member of the
Adient Group to, as promptly as practicable (and in no event later than ninety (90) days after
such request) prepare and submit to Xxxxxxx Controls, at Adient’s cost and expense, all infor-
mation that Xxxxxxx Controls shall reasonably request, in such form as Xxxxxxx Controls shall
reasonably request, to enable Xxxxxxx Controls to prepare or cause to be prepared any Xxxxxxx
Controls Return.
Section 3.05 Right to Review Tax Returns.
(a) General. The Responsible Company with respect to any material Tax Return
shall make such Tax Return (or the relevant portions thereof), related workpapers and other sup-
porting documents available for review by the other Company, to the extent (i) such Tax Return
relates to Taxes for which such other Company is or would reasonably be expected to be liable,
(ii) such other Company is or would reasonably be expected to be liable, in whole or in part, for
any additional Taxes owing as a result of adjustments to the amount of Taxes reported on such
Tax Return, (iii) such Tax Return relates to Taxes for which the other party would reasonably be
expected to have a claim for Tax Benefits under this Agreement, (iv) such Tax Return is a Com-
bined Return that would reasonably be expected to be binding and to have a material adverse ef-
fect on Adient in a Post-Distribution Period, (v) such other Company or an Affiliate thereof (or
an authorized representative of either) is obligated to sign and file such Tax Return under appli-
cable Law, or (vi) reasonably necessary for the other party to confirm compliance with the terms
of this Agreement. With respect to any Tax Return described in clauses (i) through (iv) of the
immediately preceding sentence, the Responsible Company shall (i) consult with the other Com-
pany with respect to the preparation of, and positions taken on, such Tax Return (to the extent
relating to any matters described in clauses (i) through (iv) of the immediately preceding sen-
tence), (ii) use reasonable efforts to make such Tax Return (or the relevant portions thereof),
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workpapers and other supporting documents available for review as required under this para-
graph promptly once such Tax Return is materially complete, such that the other party has an
opportunity to review and comment on such Tax Return prior to the timely filing thereof (taking
into account extensions), and (iii) shall consider in good faith any comments (to the extent relat-
ing to any matters described in clauses (i) through (iv) of the immediately preceding sentence)
provided by the other Company on such Tax Return reasonably in advance of the due date for
filing such Tax Return (taking into account extensions). Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient shall at-
tempt in good faith to resolve any disagreement arising out of the review of any Tax Return pur-
suant to this Section 3.05(a). For the avoidance of doubt, any dispute among the Companies
with respect to a Company’s compliance with the requirements of this Section 3.05(a) shall be
resolved in accordance with the disagreement resolution provisions of Section 13 as promptly as
practicable.
(b) Executing Returns. In the case of any Tax Return which is required to be pre-
pared and filed by one Company under this Agreement and which is required by Law to be
signed by the other Company (or by its authorized representative), the Company which is legally
required to sign such Tax Return shall not be required to sign such Tax Return under this
Agreement unless there is at least a greater than 50% likelihood of prevailing on the merits for
the Tax treatment of each material item reported on the Tax Return. For the avoidance of doubt,
any dispute among the Companies with respect to the likelihood of any Tax treatment prevailing
on the merits shall be resolved in accordance with the disagreement resolution provisions of Sec-
tion 13 as promptly as practicable.
(c) Certain Amended Returns. Adient shall not amend, or permit any of its Affiliates
to amend, any Tax Return required to be filed by or with respect to the Electronic Entity to the
extent relating to any Taxes or Tax Items of the Electronics Business without the prior written
consent of Xxxxxxx Controls (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).
Section 3.06 Adient Carryback Items and Claims for Refund. Unless Xxxxxxx Controls
otherwise consents in writing (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or de-
layed, taking into account (x) all tax planning undertaken by Xxxxxxx Controls (including, with-
out limitation, any tax planning in connection with the Tyco Merger or the Separation) and (y)
the Tax Attributes of Xxxxxxx Controls and its Affiliates and the expected utilization thereof),
Adient shall (and shall cause each member of the Adient Group to) (i) not file any Adjustment
Request with respect to any Combined Return (or any other Tax Return reflecting Taxes for
which Xxxxxxx Controls is responsible under Section 2), (ii) make any available election to xxxxx-
xxxxx, waive or otherwise forgo a carry back of any Adient Carryback Item arising in a Post-
Distribution Period to any Combined Return, and (iii) not make any affirmative election to claim
any such Adient Carryback Item if such election would result in a carryback of such Adient Car-
xxxxxx Item to any Combined Return.
Section 3.07 Apportionment of Earnings and Profits and Tax Attributes.
(a) If the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Affiliated Group has a Tax Attribute, the portion, if
any, of such Tax Attribute required to be apportioned to Adient or the members of the Adient
Group and treated as a carryover to the first Post-Distribution Period of Adient (or such member)
shall be determined in good faith by Xxxxxxx Controls in accordance with Treasury Regulations
Sections 1.1502-21, 1.1502-21T, 1.1502-22, 1.1502-79 and, if applicable, 1.1502-79A.
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(b) No Tax Attribute with respect to consolidated Federal Income Tax of the Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Affiliated Group, other than those described in Section 3.07(a), and no Tax
Attribute with respect to consolidated, combined or unitary state, local or foreign Income Tax, in
each case, arising in respect of a Combined Return shall be apportioned to Adient or any member
of the Adient Group, except as Xxxxxxx Controls (or such member of the Xxxxxxx Controls
Group as Xxxxxxx Controls shall designate) determines in good faith is otherwise required under
applicable Law.
(c) Xxxxxxx Controls (or its designee) shall determine in good faith and at its own
cost and expense the portion, if any, of any Tax Attribute which must (absent a Final
Determination to the contrary) be apportioned to Adient or any member of the Adient Group in
accordance with this Section 3.07 and applicable Law and the amount of tax basis and earnings
and profits to be apportioned to Adient or any member of the Adient Group in accordance with
applicable Law, and shall provide written notice of the calculation thereof (including any related
workpapers and other supporting documentation) to Adient as soon as reasonably practicable
after the information necessary to make such calculation becomes available to Xxxxxxx Controls
(and in any event no later than six (6) months after the close of the Tax Period in which the
Distribution occurs). In the event of any subsequent adjustment to the apportionment of Tax
Attributes, tax basis and/or earnings and profits reflected on such written notice, Xxxxxxx
Controls shall promptly notify Adient in writing of any such adjustment and provide any related
workpapers and other supporting documentation). In the case of any particular Tax Attribute not
addressed in such written notice or any subsequent adjustment, Adient may request that Xxxxxxx
Controls undertake a determination, of the portion, if any, of such particular Tax Attribute to be
allocated or apportioned to the Adient Group under applicable Law. To the extent that Xxxxxxx
Controls determines, in its sole discretion, not to undertake such determination, or does not
otherwise advise Adient of its intention to undertake such determination within twenty (20)
Business Days of the receipt of such request, Adient shall be permitted to undertake such
determination at its own cost and expense and shall notify Xxxxxxx Controls of its determination,
which determination shall not be binding on Xxxxxxx Controls. For the absence of doubt,
Xxxxxxx Controls shall not be liable to Adient or any member of the Adient Group for any failure
of any determination under this Section 3.07 to be accurate under applicable Law.
(d) The written notice delivered by Xxxxxxx Controls pursuant to Section 3.07(c) shall
be binding on Adient and each member of the Adient Group and shall not be subject to dispute
resolution. Except to the extent otherwise required by applicable Law or pursuant to a Final
Determination, Adient shall not (and shall cause its Affiliates not to) take any position (whether
on a Tax Return or otherwise) that is inconsistent with the information contained in such written
notice provided that there is at least “substantial authority” within the meaning of Treasury
Regulations Section 1.6662-4(d)(2) (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law) for
the relevant position contained in such written notice.
Section 4. Payments.
Section 4.01 Payment of Taxes. In the case of any Tax Return reflecting Taxes for
which the Company that is not the Responsible Company is responsible under Section 2, the Re-
sponsible Company shall pay any Taxes required to be paid to the applicable Tax Authority on or
before the relevant Payment Date (and provide notice and proof of payment to the other Compa-
ny). The Responsible Company shall compute the amount of such Taxes allocable to the other
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Company under the provisions of Section 2 or Section 3 as promptly as practicable (but in no
event less than fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the relevant Payment Date) and shall provide
written notice and demand for payment of such amount, accompanied by a statement detailing
the Taxes paid and describing in reasonable detail the particulars relating thereto, to the other
Company. The other Company shall pay to the Responsible Company the amount of such Taxes
allocable to the other Company under the provisions of Section 2 or Section 3 within ten (10)
Business Days of the date of receipt of such written notice and demand; provided that no such
payment shall be required to be made earlier than ten (10) Business Days prior to the relevant
Payment Date.
Section 4.02 Adjustments Resulting in Underpayments. In the case of any adjustment
pursuant to a Final Determination with respect to any Tax Return, the Responsible Company
shall pay to the applicable Tax Authority when due any additional Taxes due with respect to such
Tax Return required to be paid as a result of such adjustment. The Responsible Company shall
compute the amount of such Taxes allocable to the other Company under the provisions of Sec-
tion 2 or Section 3 as promptly as practicable (but in no event less than fifteen (15) Business
Days prior to the relevant Payment Date) and shall provide written notice and demand for pay-
ment of such amount, accompanied by a statement detailing the Taxes paid and describing in
reasonable detail the particular relating thereto, to the other Company. The other Company shall
pay to the Responsible Company the amount of such Taxes allocable to the other Company un-
der the provisions of Section 2 within ten (10) Business Days of the date of receipt of such writ-
ten notice and demand; provided that no such payment shall be required to be made earlier than
ten (10) Business Days prior to the date the additional Tax is required to be paid to the applicable
Tax Authority.
Section 4.03 Indemnification Payments. Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement,
all indemnification payments required to be made under this Agreement shall be made within ten
(10) Business Days of the date of receipt by the indemnifying party of written notice from the
indemnified party of the amount owed, together with reasonable documentation showing the ba-
sis for the calculation of such amount and evidence of payment of such amounts by the indemni-
fied party to the relevant Tax Authority or other recipient.
Section 4.04 Payors; Payees; Treatment. All payments made under this Agreement
shall be made by Xxxxxxx Controls directly to Adient and by Adient directly to Xxxxxxx Con-
trols; provided, however, that if the Companies mutually agree with respect to any such payment,
any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group, on the one hand, may make such indemnification
payment to any member of the Adient Group, on the other hand, and vice versa (for the avoid-
ance of doubt, if a Company makes a request to the other Company to the effect that any pay-
ment required to be made by it to the other Company or received by it from the other Company,
in each case, pursuant to this Agreement, be made or received by a member of the relevant Com-
pany’s Group other than a Company, the other Company’s consent to such request shall not be
unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed). All payments made pursuant to this Agreement
shall be treated in the manner described in Section 12.
Section 5. Tax Benefits.
Section 5.01 Tax Benefits.
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(a) Except as set forth below, (i) Xxxxxxx Controls shall be entitled to any Refund
(and any interest thereon received from the applicable Tax Authority) of (x) any Taxes actually
paid prior to the Distribution Date (except to the extent (A) such Refund was reflected as an asset
on Adient’s opening standalone balance sheet dated as of the date of Distribution, (B) such
Refund is received in respect of excess estimated Tax payments taken into account for purposes
of determining the amount of the adjustment payment, if any, required to be made pursuant to
Section 2.12(c) of the Separation and Distribution Agreement), or (C) such Taxes were actually
paid by a member of the Adient Group (and not paid by a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls
Group on behalf of a member or members of the Adient Group) prior to the Distribution Date
and the payment of such Taxes was not taken into account, directly or indirectly (including as a
result of the Distribution Cash Amounts (as defined in Schedule 2.12(c)(i) to the Separation and
Distribution Agreement) being lower as a result of such payment), for purposes of determining
the amount of the adjustment payment, if any, required to be made pursuant to Section 2.12(c) of
the Separation and Distribution Agreement) and (y) any Taxes for which Xxxxxxx Controls is
liable hereunder and (ii) Adient shall be entitled to any Refund (and any interest thereon received
from the applicable Tax Authority) of any Taxes for which Adient is liable hereunder (other than
any Refund to which Xxxxxxx Controls is entitled pursuant to clause (i) above). The Company
receiving a Refund to which another Company is entitled hereunder, in whole or in part, shall
pay over the amount of such Refund (or portion thereof) (and any interest on such amount
received from the applicable Tax Authority) to such other Company within ten (10) Business
Days after the receipt of such Refund or application of such Refund against Taxes otherwise
payable. To the extent that any Refund (or portion thereof) in respect of which any amounts
were paid over pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence is subsequently disallowed by the
applicable Tax Authority, the Company that received such amounts shall promptly repay such
amounts (together with any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Tax
Authority) to the other Company.
(b) If (i) a member of the Adient Group Actually Realizes any Tax Benefit as a result
of (A) an adjustment pursuant to a Final Determination that increases Taxes for which a member
of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group is liable hereunder or otherwise (or reduces any Tax Attribute of
a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group or any other Xxxxxxx Controls Group Relief), (B) any
liability, obligation, loss or payment (each, a “Loss”) for which a member of the Xxxxxxx
Controls Group is required to indemnify any member of the Adient Group pursuant to this
Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (in each
case, without duplication of any amounts payable or taken into account under this Agreement,
the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement), (C) any Section 336(e)
Election (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Tax Benefit Actually Realized by the Adient
Group as a result of any step-up in asset basis for U.S. federal income tax purposes resulting
from such Section 336(e) Election), except to the extent any such Tax Benefit is directly
attributable to Taxes imposed on Xxxxxxx Controls as a result of such Section 336(e) Election
and for which Adient has actually indemnified Xxxxxxx Controls pursuant to this Agreement, (D)
the utilization of any Electronics Business Tax Attribute (or otherwise in respect of the
Electronics Business), and, in each case, such Tax Benefit would not have arisen but for such
adjustment, Loss, election or Electronics Business Tax Attribute (or Electronics Business)
(determined on a “with and without” basis), or (E) the payment of any Specified PRC Taxes, or
(ii) if a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group Actually Realizes any Tax Benefit as a result of
(A) an adjustment pursuant to a Final Determination that increases Taxes for which a member of
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the Adient Group is liable hereunder or otherwise (or reduces any Tax Attribute of a member of
the Adient Group or any other Adient Group Relief), or (B) any Loss for which a member of the
Adient Group is required to indemnify any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group pursuant to
this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement (in each
case, without duplication of any amounts payable or taken into account under this Agreement,
the Separation and Distribution Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement), and, in each case, such
Tax Benefit would not have arisen but for such adjustment or Loss (determined on a “with and
without” basis), Adient or Xxxxxxx Controls, as the case may be, shall make a payment to the
other Company in an amount equal to the amount of such Actually Realized Tax Benefit in cash
within ten (10) Business Days of Actually Realizing such Tax Benefit. To the extent that any
Tax Benefit (or portion thereof) in respect of which any amounts were paid over pursuant to the
foregoing provisions of this Section 5.01(b) is subsequently disallowed by the applicable Tax
Authority, the Company that received such amounts shall promptly repay such amounts (together
with any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Tax Authority) to the other
Company.
(c) No later than ten (10) Business Days after a Tax Benefit described in Section
5.01(b) is Actually Realized by a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group or a member of the
Adient Group, Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient, as the case may be, shall provide the other Company
with a written calculation of the amount payable to such other Company pursuant to Section
5.01(b). In the event that Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient, as the case may be, disagrees with any
such calculation described in this Section 5.01(c), Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient shall so notify the
other Company in writing within twenty (20) Business Days of receiving such written
calculation. Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient shall endeavor in good faith to resolve such
disagreement, and, failing that, the amount payable under this Section 5 shall be determined in
accordance with the disagreement resolution provisions of Section 13 as promptly as practicable.
(d) Adient shall be entitled to any Refund that is attributable to, and would not have
arisen but for, an Adient Carryback Item that is required to be carried back to a Pre-Distribution
Period under applicable Law and is carried back pursuant to and in accordance with Section 3.06
(a “Permitted Adient Carryback”); provided, however, that Adient shall indemnify and hold the
members of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group harmless from and against any and all collateral Tax
consequences resulting from or caused by any such Permitted Adient Carryback, including (but
not limited to) the loss or postponement of any benefit from the use of any Tax Attribute of any
member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group, any Tax Attribute generated by a member of the
Xxxxxxx Controls Group or an Affiliate thereof or any other Xxxxxxx Controls Group Relief
(each, a “Xxxxxxx Controls Group Tax Attribute”) if (x) such Tax Attribute expires unutilized,
but would have been utilized but for such Permitted Adient Carryback, or (y) the use of such Tax
Attribute is postponed to a later Tax Period than the Tax Period in which such Tax Attribute
would have been utilized but for such Permitted Adient Carryback. Any such payment of the
amount of such Refund made by Xxxxxxx Controls to Adient pursuant to this Section 5.01(d)
shall be recalculated in light of any Final Determination (or any other facts that may arise or
come to light after such payment is made, such as a carryback of a Xxxxxxx Controls Group Tax
Attribute to a Tax Period in respect of which such Refund is received) that would affect the
amount to which Adient is entitled, and an appropriate adjusting payment shall be made by
Adient to Xxxxxxx Controls such that the aggregate amount paid pursuant to this Section 5.01(d)
equals such recalculated amount. To the extent that any Refund (or portion thereof) in respect of
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which any amounts were paid over by Xxxxxxx Controls to Adient pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this Section 5.01(d) is subsequently disallowed by the applicable Tax Authority,
Adient shall promptly repay such amounts (together with any penalties, interest or other charges
imposed by the relevant Tax Authority) to Xxxxxxx Controls.
(e) For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding any of the foregoing (or any other
provision in this Agreement) to the contrary, any recovery, Refund or other Tax Benefit in re-
spect of VAT Charges (and entitlement thereto) shall be governed exclusively by Schedule
2.12(c)(ii) to the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
Section 5.02 Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient Income Tax Deductions in Respect of Cer-
tain Equity Awards and Incentive Compensation.
(a) To the extent permitted by applicable Law, any and all Income Tax deductions
arising by reason of exercises of options to acquire Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient stock, vesting of
“restricted” Xxxxxxx Controls stock or Adient stock, or settlement of stock appreciation rights,
restricted stock awards, restricted stock units or performance share units, in each case, following
the Distribution, with respect to Xxxxxxx Controls stock or Adient stock (such options, stock
appreciation rights restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance share units and deferred
stock units, collectively, “Compensatory Equity Interests”) held by any Person shall be claimed
(i) in the case of a Xxxxxxx Controls Group Employee, Former Xxxxxxx Controls Group
Employee, or any Xxxxxxx Controls non-employee director who served on the Xxxxxxx Controls
Board immediately prior to the Effective Time, solely by the Xxxxxxx Controls Group, and (ii) in
the case of an Adient Group Employee, Former Adient Group Employee or Transferred Director,
solely by the Adient Group.
(b) Tax reporting and withholding with respect to Compensatory Equity Interests
shall be governed by the Employee Matters Agreement.
Section 6. Transaction Status.
Section 6.01 Restrictions on Adient.
(a) Adient hereby represents and warrants that (i) it has no plan or intention of taking
any action, or failing to take any action, or causing or permitting any of its Affiliates to take or
fail to take any action, or knows of any circumstance, in each case, that could reasonably be ex-
pected to (A) adversely affect, jeopardize or prevent Tax-Free Status, (B) adversely affect, jeop-
ardize or prevent any of the relevant entities, instruments or Separation Transactions (other than
the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contributions or Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions)
to have the tax-free or other tax treatment described in the Tax Treatment Schedule or the Sepa-
ration Step Plan, (C) adversely affect, jeopardize or prevent Unrestricted Inversion Status, or (D)
cause any representation or factual statement made in this Agreement, the Separation and Distri-
bution Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement to be untrue; and (ii) during the period beginning
two years before the date of the first Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribution and ending on
the Distribution Date, there was no “agreement, understanding, arrangement, substantial negotia-
tions or discussions” (as such terms are defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(h)) by
any one or more officers or directors of any member of the Adient Group or by any other person
or persons with the implicit or explicit permission of one or more of such officers or directors
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regarding an acquisition of all or a significant portion of the Adient Capital Stock or of the Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled Capital Stock of any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Con-
trolled (and any predecessor of any of them); provided that no representation or warranty is made
by Adient regarding any “agreement, understanding, arrangement, substantial negotiations or
discussions” (as such terms are defined in Treasury Regulations Section 1.355-7(h)) by any one
or more officers or directors of Xxxxxxx Controls (or another person with the implicit or explicit
permission of one or more of such persons).
(b) Adient shall not take or fail to take, or cause or permit any Adient Affiliate to take
or fail to take, any action if such action or failure to act (i) would be inconsistent with or cause to
be untrue any statement, information, covenant or representation in this Agreement, the
Separation and Distribution Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, (ii) would
reasonably be expected to adversely affect, jeopardize or prevent Tax-Free Status, (iii) would
reasonably be expected to adversely affect, jeopardize or prevent any of the relevant entities,
instruments or Separation Transactions (other than the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal
Contributions or Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions) to have the tax-free or other tax
treatment described in the Tax Treatment Schedule or the Separation Step Plan, or (iv) would or
would reasonably be expected to (taking into account any change or proposed change in Law or
IRS guidance, or any change or proposed change in official judicial or administrative
interpretation of applicable Law or IRS guidance) adversely affect, jeopardize or prevent
Unrestricted Inversion Status (for the avoidance of doubt, other than any action or failure to act
requested by Xxxxxxx Controls). It is agreed and understood that in determining whether any
action or failure to act is prohibited by reason of any proposed change in Law or IRS guidance
(or official judicial or administrative interpretation of Law or IRS guidance) described in clause
(iv) above, the likelihood that such proposed change shall be adopted, enacted or otherwise occur
shall be taken into account. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that a proposed change in
Law or IRS guidance (or official judicial or administrative interpretation of Law or IRS
guidance) does not prohibit an action or failure to act pursuant to the immediately preceding
sentence, but such proposed change in Law or IRS guidance (or official judicial or administrative
interpretation of Law or IRS guidance) is subsequently adopted, enacted or otherwise occurs, any
action or failure to act that would be prohibited pursuant to clause (iv) above following such
adoption, enactment or other occurrence shall, for all purposes of this Agreement (including
Section 6.04) be deemed to have been prohibited at all times under this Section 6.01 even if such
action or failure to act occurred prior to such adoption, enactment or other occurrence.
(c) From the date hereof until the first day after the Restriction Period, Adient will
cause each Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled to (i) maintain its status as a company
engaged in its Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code and (ii)
not engage in any transaction that would result in it ceasing to be a company engaged in its
Active Trade or Business for purposes of Section 355(b)(2) of the Code.
(d) From the date hereof until the first day after the Restriction Period,
(i) Adient will not (x) enter into any Proposed Acquisition Transaction or, to
the extent Adient has the right to prohibit any Proposed Acquisition Transaction, permit
any Proposed Acquisition Transaction to occur or (y) dispose of, or permit any of its Af-
filiates to dispose of, directly or indirectly, any interest in any Old Xxxxxxx Controls In-
ternal Controlled;
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(ii) Adient will not cause or permit any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Con-
trolled to (or to enter into any agreement, understanding, arrangement or substantial ne-
gotiations to):
(A) in a single transaction or series of transactions sell or transfer (oth-
er than sales or transfers of inventory in the ordinary course of business) all or
substantially all of its assets (as of immediately prior to the relevant Old Xxxxxxx
Controls Internal Controlled Distribution) or sell or transfer 50% or more of the
gross assets of any Active Trade or Business or 30% or more of the consolidated
gross assets of any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled and its Subsidiaries
(such percentages to be measured based on fair market value as of the Distribu-
tion Date);
(B) redeem or otherwise repurchase (directly or through an Affiliate)
any of its stock, or rights to acquire stock; or
(C) merge or consolidate with any other Person or liquidate or partially
liquidate; and
(iii) Adient will not and will not cause or permit any Old Xxxxxxx Controls In-
ternal Controlled to:
(A) amend its certificate of incorporation (or other organizational doc-
uments), or take any other action, whether through a stockholder vote or other-
wise, affecting the voting rights of its Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled
Capital Stock (including, without limitation, through the conversion of one class
of its Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled Capital Stock into another class of
its Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled Capital Stock); or
(B) take any other action or actions which in the aggregate (and taking
into account any other transactions described in this subparagraph (d)) would be
reasonably likely to have the effect of causing or permitting one or more Persons
to acquire, directly or indirectly, stock representing a Fifty-Percent or Greater In-
terest in Adient, any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled or otherwise jeop-
ardize, adversely affect or prevent Tax-Free Status;
unless, in each case, prior to taking any such action set forth in the foregoing clauses (i) through
(iii), (x) Adient shall have requested that Xxxxxxx Controls obtain a private letter ruling (or, if
applicable, a supplemental private letter ruling) from the IRS and/or any other applicable Tax
Authority (a “Ruling”) in accordance with Sections 6.03(b) and (d) to the effect that such trans-
action will not affect the Tax-Free Status or the Unrestricted Inversion Status and Xxxxxxx Con-
trols shall have received such a Ruling in form and substance satisfactory to Xxxxxxx Controls in
its sole good faith discretion (and in determining whether a private letter ruling is satisfactory,
Xxxxxxx Controls may consider, among other factors, the appropriateness of any underlying as-
sumptions and management’s representations made in connection with such Ruling), (y) Adient
shall provide Xxxxxxx Controls with an Unqualified Tax Opinion in form and substance satisfac-
tory to Xxxxxxx Controls in its sole good faith discretion (and in determining whether an opinion
is satisfactory, Xxxxxxx Controls may consider, among other factors, the appropriateness of any
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underlying assumptions and management’s representations if used as a basis for the opinion and
Xxxxxxx Controls may determine that no opinion would be acceptable to Xxxxxxx Controls), or
(z) Xxxxxxx Controls shall have waived the requirement to obtain such Ruling or Unqualified
Tax Opinion.
(e) With respect to any member of the Adient Group that is characterized as a foreign
corporation for Federal Income Tax purposes, from the Distribution Date through the end of the
Tax Period of such entity that includes the Distribution Date, Adient shall not, and shall cause its
respective Affiliates (including any such member of the Adient Group) not to, enter into any ex-
traordinary transaction or otherwise take any action or enter into any transaction that would be
considered under the Code to constitute the payment of an actual or deemed dividend by such
member of the Adient Group, including pursuant to Section 304 of the Code, or that would oth-
erwise result in a diminution of foreign tax credits that, absent such transaction, may be claimed
by Xxxxxxx Controls or any of its Affiliates.
(f) Adient shall procure that, as described in the Separation Step Plan and as soon as
reasonably practicable, Adient Olympus SAS redeem the shares of Adient Olympus SAS from
Adient Global Holdings Ltd for total cash of EUR 59,001, including by causing Adient Olympus
SAS to (1) enter into a share purchase agreement with respect to such redemption, (2) decrease
its capital as a result of such redemption, (3) complete any post-closing filings or updates re-
quired to reflect such redemption and (4) take any and all other actions required to complete such
share redemption.
(g) Adient shall apply, pursuant to Section 80 of the Stamp Duty Consolidation Act,
1999 (as amended) of Ireland, for relief from stamp duty imposed by the Republic of Ireland in
connection with the transfer of shares of Adient Global Holdings Ltd by Xxxxxxx Controls Inter-
national plc to Adient plc pursuant to the Separation Transactions, and shall take any and all oth-
er actions required to obtain such relief.
Section 6.02 Restrictions on Xxxxxxx Controls. Xxxxxxx Controls agrees that it will not
take or fail to take, or cause or permit any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group to take or fail
to take, any action where such action or failure to act would be inconsistent with or cause to be
untrue any statement, information, covenant or representation in this Agreement, the Separation
and Distribution Agreement, any of the Ancillary Agreements.
Section 6.03 Procedures Regarding Opinions and Rulings.
(a) If Adient notifies Xxxxxxx Controls that it desires to take one of the actions
described in Section 6.01(d) (a “Notified Action”) during the Restricted Period, Xxxxxxx
Controls and Adient shall reasonably cooperate to attempt to obtain the Ruling or Unqualified
Tax Opinion referred to in Section 6.01(d), unless Xxxxxxx Controls shall have waived the
requirement to obtain such Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion.
(b) Unless Xxxxxxx Controls shall have waived the requirement to obtain such Ruling
or Unqualified Tax Opinion, at the reasonable request of Adient pursuant to Section 6.01(d),
Xxxxxxx Controls shall cooperate with Adient and use commercially reasonable efforts to seek to
obtain, as expeditiously as possible, a Ruling or an Unqualified Tax Opinion for the purpose of
permitting Adient or Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled, as applicable, to take the
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Notified Action. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall Xxxxxxx Controls be required
to file or cooperate in connection with the filing of any request for a Ruling under this Section
6.03(b) unless Adient represents that (A) it has reviewed such request for a Ruling, and (B) all
statements, information and representations relating to any member of the Adient Group
contained in such request for a Ruling are (subject to any qualifications therein) true, correct and
complete. Adient shall reimburse Xxxxxxx Controls for all reasonable costs and expenses,
including out-of-pocket expenses and expenses relating to the utilization of Xxxxxxx Controls
personnel, incurred by the Xxxxxxx Controls Group in obtaining a Ruling or Unqualified Tax
Opinion requested by Adient within ten (10) Business Days after receiving an invoice from
Xxxxxxx Controls therefor.
(c) Xxxxxxx Controls shall have the right to obtain a Ruling or an Unqualified Tax
Opinion at any time in its sole and absolute discretion. If Xxxxxxx Controls determines to obtain
a Ruling or an Unqualified Tax Opinion, Adient shall (and shall cause each Affiliate of Adient
to) cooperate with Xxxxxxx Controls and take any and all actions reasonably requested by
Xxxxxxx Controls in connection with obtaining the Ruling or Unqualified Tax Opinion
(including, without limitation, by making any representation or covenant or providing any
materials or information requested by the IRS or other applicable Tax Authority, or Tax Advisor;
provided that Adient shall not be required to make (or cause any Affiliate of Adient to make) any
representation or covenant that is inconsistent with historical facts or as to future matters or
events over which it has no control). Xxxxxxx Controls shall reimburse Adient for all reasonable
costs and expenses, including out-of-pocket expenses and expenses relating to the utilization of
Adient personnel, incurred by the Adient Group in connection with such cooperation requested
by Xxxxxxx Controls within ten (10) Business Days after receiving an invoice from Adient
therefor.
(d) Xxxxxxx Controls shall have sole and exclusive control over the process of
obtaining any Ruling, and only Xxxxxxx Controls shall apply for a Ruling. In connection with
obtaining a Ruling, (A) Xxxxxxx Controls shall keep Adient informed in a timely manner of all
material actions taken or proposed to be taken by Xxxxxxx Controls in connection therewith; (B)
Xxxxxxx Controls shall (1) reasonably in advance of the submission of any request for a Ruling
provide Adient with a draft copy thereof, (2) reasonably consider Adient’s comments on such
draft copy, and (3) provide Adient with a final copy; and (C) Xxxxxxx Controls shall provide
Adient with notice reasonably in advance of, and Adient shall have the right to attend, any
formally scheduled meetings with the IRS or other applicable Tax Authority (subject to the
approval of the IRS or other applicable Tax Authority) that relate to such Ruling. Neither Adient
nor any Adient Affiliate directly or indirectly controlled by Adient shall seek any guidance from
the IRS or any other Tax Authority (whether written, verbal or otherwise) at any time concerning
any of the Separation Transactions (including the impact of any transaction on any of the
Separation Transactions).
Section 6.04 Liability for Separation Tax Losses.
(a) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution
Agreement to the contrary (and, in each case, regardless of whether a Ruling, Unqualified Tax
Opinion or waiver described in clause (z) of Section 6.01(d) may have been obtained or
provided), subject to Section 6.04(c), Adient shall be responsible for, and shall indemnify and
hold harmless Xxxxxxx Controls and its Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors
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and employees from and against any Separation Tax Losses that are attributable to or result from
any one or more of the following: (A) the acquisition (other than pursuant to the Separation
Transactions) of all or a portion of the stock or assets of Adient, any Old Xxxxxxx Controls
Internal Controlled or any of their respective Affiliates (including any Adient Capital Stock or
any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled Capital Stock) by any means whatsoever by any
Person, (B) the acquisition (other than pursuant to the Separation Transactions) by Adient or any
of its Affiliates of all or a portion of the stock or assets of any “domestic corporation” (within the
meaning of Sections 7701(a)(3) and 7701(a)(4) of the Code) or any issuance of stock by Adient
or any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled, (C) any negotiations, understandings,
agreements or arrangements by Adient or any of its Affiliates with respect to transactions or
events (including, without limitation, stock issuances pursuant to the exercise of stock options or
otherwise, option grants, capital contributions or acquisitions, amendments or a series of such
transactions or events) that cause any of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions to be
treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more Persons acquire, directly or indirectly, a
Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest in any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled, (D) any action
or failure to act by Adient after the Distribution (including, without limitation, any amendment to
Adient’s or any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled’s certificate of incorporation (or other
organizational documents), whether through a stockholder vote or otherwise) affecting the voting
rights of the stock of Adient or any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled (including, without
limitation, through the conversion of one class of stock into another class of stock), or (E) any
act or failure to act by Adient or any Adient Affiliate described in Section 6.01 (regardless
whether such act or failure to act is covered by a private letter ruling, Unqualified Tax Opinion
or waiver described in clause (z) of Section 6.01(d) and regardless of whether such act or failure
to act may have been permitted at the time it was taken (or not taken) pursuant to the penultimate
sentence of Section 6.01(b)).
(b) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or the Separation and Distribution
Agreement to the contrary, subject to Section 6.04(c), Xxxxxxx Controls shall be responsible for,
and shall indemnify and hold harmless Adient and its Affiliates and each of their respective of-
ficers, directors and employees from and against any Separation Tax Losses that are attributable
to, or result from, any one or more of the following: (A) the acquisition (other than pursuant to
the Separation Transactions or the Tyco Merger) of all or a portion of the stock or assets of Xxxx-
son Controls or any of its Affiliates (including any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing
Capital Stock) by any means whatsoever by any Person, (B) any negotiations, understandings,
agreements or arrangements by Xxxxxxx Controls or any of its Affiliates with respect to transac-
tions or events (including, without limitation, stock issuances pursuant to the exercise of stock
options or otherwise, option grants, capital contributions or acquisitions, amendments or a series
of such transactions or events) that cause any of the Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributions
to be treated as part of a plan pursuant to which one or more Persons acquire, directly or indirect-
ly, a Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest in any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distributing, or (C)
any act or failure to act by Xxxxxxx Controls or a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group de-
scribed in Section 6.02.
(c) To the extent that any Separation Tax Loss is subject to indemnity under both
Sections 6.04(a) and (b), responsibility for such Separation Tax Loss shall be shared by Xxxxxxx
Controls and Adient according to relative fault as determined by Xxxxxxx Controls in good faith.
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(d) Adient shall pay Xxxxxxx Controls the amount of any Separation Tax Losses for
which Adient is responsible under this Section 6.04: (A) in the case of Separation Tax Losses
described in clause (i) of the definition of Separation Tax Losses, no later than two Business
Days prior to the date Xxxxxxx Controls files, or causes to be filed, the applicable Tax Return
(the “Filing Date”) (or, if such Separation Tax Losses arise pursuant to a Final Determination
described in clause (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “Final Determination,” then Adient shall
pay Xxxxxxx Controls no later than two Business Days prior to the due date for making payment
with respect to such Final Determination) and (B) in the case of Separation Tax Losses described
in clause (ii) or (iii) of the definition of “Separation Tax Losses,” no later than two Business
Days after the date Xxxxxxx Controls pays such Separation Tax Losses. Xxxxxxx Controls shall
pay Adient the amount of any Separation Tax Losses (described in clause (ii) or (iii) of the defi-
nition of “Separation Tax Losses”) for which Xxxxxxx Controls is responsible under this Section
6.04 no later than two Business Days after the date Adient pays such Separation Tax Losses.
Each Company shall have the right to review the calculation of any Separation Tax Losses pre-
pared by the other Company, including any related workpapers and other supporting documenta-
tion.
Section 6.05 Certain Elections.
(a) If Xxxxxxx Controls determines, in its sole discretion, that a protective election
under Section 336(e) of the Code (a “Section 336(e) Election”) shall be made with respect to any
Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribution, Adient shall (and shall cause the relevant member of
the Adient Group to) join with Xxxxxxx Controls or the relevant member of the Xxxxxxx Controls
Group in the making of such election and shall take any action reasonably requested by Xxxxxxx
Controls or that is otherwise necessary to give effect to such election (including making any oth-
er related election permitted by applicable Law); provided, however, that Xxxxxxx Controls shall
reimburse Adient (and any relevant member of the Adient Group) for all reasonable costs and
expenses incurred by Adient (or any relevant member of the Adient Group) to amend any Tax
Returns or amend or file any other governmental filings related to such Section 336(e) Election.
If a Section 336(e) Election is made with respect to any Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribu-
tion, then this Agreement shall be amended in such a manner, if any, as is determined by Xxxxxxx
Controls in good faith to take into account such Section 336(e) Election.
(b) If Xxxxxxx Controls determines, in its sole discretion, that an entity classification
election pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3(c) (a “Check-the-Box Election”)
shall be made with respect to any member of the Adient Group effective as of, or before, the Dis-
tribution Date, Adient shall (and shall cause all relevant members of the Adient Group to) make
such election effective as of such date and shall take any action reasonably requested by Xxxxxxx
Controls or that is otherwise necessary to give effect to such election (including making any oth-
er related election). If Xxxxxxx Controls requires any member of the Adient Group to file for re-
lief with the IRS to make a late Check-the-Box Election, Xxxxxxx Controls shall reimburse
Adient (and any relevant member of the Adient Group) for all reasonable costs and expenses in-
curred by Adient (or any relevant member of the Adient Group) in connection with filing for
such relief.
Section 7. Assistance and Cooperation.
Section 7.01 Assistance and Cooperation.
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(a) The Companies shall cooperate (and cause their respective Affiliates to cooperate)
with each other and with each other’s agents, including accounting firms and legal counsel, in
connection with Tax matters relating to the Companies, including (i) preparing and filing Tax
Returns, (ii) determining the liability for and amount of any Taxes due (including estimated
Taxes) or the right to and amount of any Refund or any Tax Benefit, in each case, pursuant to
this Agreement or otherwise, (iii) examinations of Tax Returns and (iv) any administrative or
judicial proceeding in respect of Taxes assessed or proposed to be assessed. Such cooperation
shall include making available, upon reasonable notice, all information and documents in their
possession relating to the other Company and its Affiliates as provided in Section 8. Each of the
Companies shall also make available to the other, as reasonably requested and available,
personnel (including employees and agents of the Companies or their respective Affiliates)
responsible for preparing, maintaining and interpreting information and documents relevant to
Taxes, and personnel reasonably required as witnesses or for purposes of providing information
or documents in connection with any administrative or judicial proceeding relating to Taxes.
(b) Any information or documents provided under this Section 7 or Section 8 shall be
kept confidential by the Company receiving the information or documents, except as may
otherwise be necessary in connection with the filing of Tax Returns or in connection with any
administrative or judicial proceedings relating to Taxes. Notwithstanding any other provision in
this Agreement to the contrary, (i) neither Xxxxxxx Controls nor any of its Affiliates shall be
required to provide Adient or any of its Affiliates or any other Person access to or copies of any
information, documents or procedures (including the proceedings of any Tax Contest) other than
information, documents or procedures that relate to Adient or any other member of the Adient
Group, the business or assets of Adient or any other member of the Adient Group and (ii) in no
event shall either of the Companies or any of its respective Affiliates be required to provide the
other Company or any of its respective Affiliates or any other Person access to or copies of any
information if such action could reasonably be expected to result in the waiver of any Privilege.
In addition, in the event that either Company determines that the provision of any information to
the other Company or its Affiliates could be commercially detrimental, violate any Law or
agreement or waive any Privilege, the parties shall use reasonable best efforts to permit
compliance with its obligations under this Section 7 or Section 8 in a manner that avoids any
such harm or consequence.
Section 7.02 Tax Return Information. Adient and Xxxxxxx Controls acknowledge that
time is of the essence in relation to any request for information, assistance or cooperation made
by Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient pursuant to this Agreement. Adient and Xxxxxxx Controls
acknowledge that failure to conform to the deadlines set forth herein or reasonable deadlines oth-
erwise set by Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient could cause irreparable harm. Each Company shall
provide to the other Company information and documents relating to its Group required by the
other Company to prepare Tax Returns. Any information or documents the Responsible Compa-
ny requires to prepare such Tax Returns shall be provided in such form as the Responsible Com-
pany reasonably requests and in sufficient time for the Responsible Company to file such Tax
Returns on a timely basis (but in no event later than ninety (90) days after such request).
Section 7.03 Reliance by Xxxxxxx Controls. If any member of the Adient Group sup-
plies information to a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group in connection with Taxes and an
officer of a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group signs a statement or other document under
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penalties of perjury in reliance upon the accuracy of such information, then upon the written re-
quest of such member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group identifying the information being so relied
upon, the chief financial officer of Adient (or any officer of Adient as designated by the chief
financial officer of Adient) shall certify in writing that to his or her knowledge (based upon con-
sultation with appropriate employees) the information so supplied is accurate and complete.
Adient agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group and
its directors, officers and employees from and against any fine, penalty or other cost or expense
of any kind attributable to a member of the Adient Group having supplied, pursuant to this Sec-
tion 7, a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group with inaccurate or incomplete information in
connection with a Tax Liability.
Section 7.04 Reliance by Adient. If any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group sup-
plies information to a member of the Adient Group in connection with a Tax Liability and an of-
ficer of a member of the Adient Group signs a statement or other document under penalties of
perjury in reliance upon the accuracy of such information, then upon the written request of such
member of the Adient Group identifying the information being so relied upon, the chief financial
officer of Xxxxxxx Controls (or any officer of Xxxxxxx Controls as designated by the chief xxxxx-
cial officer of Xxxxxxx Controls) shall certify in writing that to his or her knowledge (based upon
consultation with appropriate employees) the information so supplied is accurate and complete.
Xxxxxxx Controls agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Adient Group and
its directors, officers and employees from and against any fine, penalty, or other cost or expense
of any kind attributable to a member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group having supplied, pursuant to
this Section 7, a member of the Adient Group with inaccurate or incomplete information in con-
nection with a Tax Liability.
Section 8. Tax Records.
Section 8.01 Retention of Tax Records. Each Company shall preserve and keep all Tax
Records (including emails and other digitally stored materials and related workpapers and other
documentation) in its possession as of the date hereof or relating to Taxes of the Groups for Pre-
Distribution Periods or Taxes or Tax matters that are the subject of this Agreement, in each case,
for so long as the contents thereof may become material in the administration of any matter un-
der the Code or other applicable Tax Law, but in any event until the later of (i) 90 days after the
expiration of any applicable statutes of limitations (taking into account any extensions), or
(ii) seven years after the Distribution Date (such later date, the “Retention Date”). After the Re-
tention Date, each Company may dispose of such Tax Records upon 90 days’ prior written notice
to the other Company. If, prior to the Retention Date, a Company reasonably determines that
any Tax Records which it would otherwise be required to preserve and keep under this Section 8
are no longer material in the administration of any matter under the Code or other applicable Tax
Law and the other Company agrees, then such first Company may dispose of such Tax Records
upon 90 days’ prior notice to the other Company. Any notice of an intent to dispose given pur-
suant to this Section 8.01 shall include a list of the Tax Records to be disposed of describing in
reasonable detail each file, book or other record accumulation being disposed. The notified
Company shall have the opportunity, at its cost and expense, to copy or remove, within such 90-
day period, all or any part of such Tax Records, and the other Company will then dispose of the
same Tax Records.
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Section 8.02 Access to Tax Records. The Companies and their respective Affiliates
shall make available to each other for inspection and copying during normal business hours upon
reasonable notice all Tax Records (and, for the avoidance of doubt, any pertinent underlying data
accessed or stored on any computer program or information technology system) to the extent
reasonably required by the other Company in connection with the preparation of financial ac-
counting statements, audits, litigation, the preparation of Tax Returns or the resolution of items
under this Agreement.
Section 8.03 Preservation of Privilege. The parties hereto agree to cooperate and use
commercially reasonable efforts to maintain Privilege with respect to any documentation relating
to Taxes existing prior to the Distribution Date or Separation Tax Losses to which Privilege may
reasonably be asserted (any such documentation, “Privileged Tax Documentation”). No member
of the Adient Group shall provide access to or copies of, or otherwise disclose to any Person, any
Privileged Tax Documentation without the prior written consent of Xxxxxxx Controls, such con-
sent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. No member of the Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Group shall provide access to or copies of, or otherwise disclose to any Person, any Privi-
leged Tax Documentation without the prior written consent of Adient, such consent not to be un-
reasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, (x) in the
event that any governmental authority requests, outside of normal working hours, that either
Company (or any of its Affiliates) provide to such governmental authority access to or copies of,
or otherwise disclose, any Privileged Tax Documentation, (y) immediate compliance with such
request is required under applicable Law, and (z) such Company attempts in good faith to obtain
the prior written consent of the other Company but it is not able to do so, then, such Company
shall be permitted to comply with such request by such governmental authority without obtaining
the prior written consent of the other Company and shall as promptly as practicable inform the
other Company of such request and the access and/or disclosure provided pursuant thereto.
Section 9. Tax Contests.
Section 9.01 Notice. Each of the Companies shall provide prompt notice to the other
Company of any written communication from a Tax Authority regarding any pending or threat-
ened Tax audit, assessment or proceeding or other Tax Contest relating to Taxes, Refunds or Tax
Benefits for which it may be entitled to indemnification by the other Company hereunder or for
which it may be required to indemnify the other Company hereunder. Such notice shall include
copies of the pertinent portion of any written communication from a Tax Authority and contain
factual information (to the extent known) describing any asserted Tax Liability and/or other rele-
vant Tax matters in reasonable detail. The failure of one Company to notify the other of such
communication in accordance with the immediately preceding sentences shall not relieve such
other Company of any liability or obligation to pay such Tax or make indemnification payments
under this Agreement, except to the extent that the failure timely to provide such notification ac-
tually prejudices the ability of such other Company to contest such Tax Liability (or contest any
determination in respect of any Refund or Tax Benefit) or increases the amount of such Tax Lia-
bility (or reduces the amount of such Refund or Tax Benefit).
Section 9.02 Control of Tax Contests.
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(a) Separate Returns. Except in the case of any Competent Authority Proceeding
(which shall be governed by Section 9.02(c)):
(i) In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Xxxxxxx Controls Sepa-
rate Return, Xxxxxxx Controls shall have exclusive control over such Tax Contest, includ-
ing exclusive authority with respect to any settlement of such Tax Contest, subject to
Section 9.02(d).
(ii) In the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Adient Separate Return,
Adient shall have exclusive control over such Tax Contest, including exclusive authority
with respect to any settlement of such Tax Contest, subject to Section 9.02(b) and Sec-
tions 9.02(e) and (f).
(b) Combined Returns, Non-Recoverable Transaction Tax Returns and Specified PRC
Tax Returns. Except in the case of any Competent Authority Proceeding (which shall be gov-
erned by Section 9.02(c)), in the case of any Tax Contest with respect to any Combined Return,
Non-Recoverable Transaction Tax Return or Specified PRC Tax Return, Xxxxxxx Controls shall
have exclusive control over such Tax Contest, including exclusive authority with respect to any
settlement of such Tax Contest, subject to Section 9.02(d).
(c) Competent Authority Proceedings. In the event that a Tax Authority proposes an
adjustment with respect to a Tax Return of a Company (the “Adjusted Company”) or a member
of its Group, and, in connection with such adjustment, a corresponding adjustment or other relief
may be available to the other Company or a member of its Group pursuant to a Competent Au-
thority Proceeding, the Adjusted Company shall promptly notify the other Company of such ad-
justment and the Companies shall cooperate in good faith to determine whether to initiate a
Competent Authority Proceeding to request such corresponding adjustment or other relief. If the
Companies initiate any such Competent Authority Proceeding, the Adjusted Company shall have
the right to control such Competent Authority Proceeding; provided that (i) the Adjusted Com-
pany shall keep the other Company reasonably informed in a timely manner of all significant de-
velopments in respect of such Competent Authority Proceeding, and all significant actions taken
or proposed to be taken by the Adjusted Company with respect to such Tax Contest, (ii) the Ad-
justed Company shall timely provide the other Company with copies of any written materials
prepared, furnished or received in connection with such Competent Authority Proceeding, (iii)
the Adjusted Company shall consult with the other Company reasonably in advance of taking
any significant action in connection with such Competent Authority Proceeding, (iv) the Adjust-
ed Company shall consult with the other Company and offer the other Company a reasonable
opportunity to comment before submitting any written materials prepared or furnished in connec-
tion with such Competent Authority Proceeding and shall consider the other Company’s com-
ments in good faith, (v) the Adjusted Company shall conduct such Competent Authority Pro-
ceeding diligently and in good faith as if it were the only party in interest in connection with such
Competent Authority Proceeding, and (vi) the Adjusted Company shall not settle, compromise or
abandon any such Competent Authority Proceeding without the prior written consent of the other
Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. The other
Company shall cooperate with the Adjusted Company (including by providing any necessary in-
formation reasonably requested by the Adjusted Company) with respect to the conduct of any
such Competent Authority Proceeding. In making any decisions in connection with any Compe-
tent Authority Proceeding described in this Section 9.02(c) (including the determination whether
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to initiate such Competent Authority Proceeding, relief to be sought pursuant to such Competent
Authority Proceeding and actions to be taken in connection with such Competent Authority Pro-
ceeding), the Companies shall seek to minimize the aggregate Tax Liability of the Xxxxxxx Con-
trols Group and the Adient Group.
(d) Adient Rights. In the case of any Tax Contest described in Section 9.02(a)(i) or
(b) (other than, in each case, any Tax Contest described in Section 9.02(f)), if (x) as a result of
such Tax Contest, Adient could reasonably be expected to (A) become liable to make any in-
demnification payment to Xxxxxxx Controls hereunder in excess of $1 million or (B) not have
Foreign Corporation Status as of immediately after the Distribution and (y) Xxxxxxx Controls has
control of such Tax Contest pursuant to Section 9.02(a)(i) or (b), as applicable, then (i) Xxxxxxx
Controls shall keep Adient reasonably informed in a timely manner of all significant develop-
ments in respect of such Tax Contest and all significant actions taken or proposed to be taken by
Xxxxxxx Controls with respect to such Tax Contest, (ii) Xxxxxxx Controls shall timely provide
Adient with copies of any written materials prepared, furnished or received in connection with
such Tax Contest, (iii) Xxxxxxx Controls shall consult with Adient reasonably in advance of tak-
ing any significant action in connection with such Tax Contest, (iv) Xxxxxxx Controls shall con-
xxxx with Adient, offer Adient a reasonable opportunity to comment before submitting any writ-
ten materials prepared or furnished in connection with such Tax Contest and shall consider
Adient’s comments in good faith, (v) Xxxxxxx Controls shall defend such Tax Contest diligently
and in good faith as if it were the only party in interest in connection with such Tax Contest, and
(vi) Xxxxxxx Controls shall not settle, compromise or abandon any such Tax Contest in a manner
that would disproportionately disadvantage Adient and, in determining whether to settle, com-
promise or abandon any such Tax Contest, Xxxxxxx Controls shall otherwise make such determi-
nation in good faith as if it were the only party in interest in connection with such Tax Contest.
(e) Xxxxxxx Controls Rights. In the case of any Tax Contest described in Section
9.02(a)(ii), if (x) as a result of such Tax Contest, Xxxxxxx Controls could reasonably be expected
to become liable to make any indemnification payment to Adient hereunder in excess of $1 mil-
lion and (y) Adient has the right to control such Tax Contest pursuant to Section 9.02(a)(ii), then
(i) Adient shall keep Xxxxxxx Controls reasonably informed in a timely manner of all significant
developments in respect of such Tax Contest and all significant actions taken or proposed to be
taken by Adient with respect to such Tax Contest, (ii) Adient shall timely provide Xxxxxxx Con-
trols with copies of any written materials prepared, furnished or received in connection with such
Tax Contest, (iii) Adient shall consult with Xxxxxxx Controls reasonably in advance of taking
any significant action in connection with such Tax Contest, (iv) Adient shall consult with Xxxx-
son Controls and offer Xxxxxxx Controls a reasonable opportunity to comment before submitting
any written materials prepared or furnished in connection with such Tax Contest and shall con-
sider Xxxxxxx Controls’ comments in good faith, (v) Adient shall defend such Tax Contest dili-
gently and in good faith as if it were the only party in interest in connection with such Tax Con-
test, and (vi) Adient shall not settle, compromise or abandon any such Tax Contest without ob-
taining the prior written consent of Xxxxxxx Controls, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld, conditioned or delayed; provided that, in the case of any Tax Contest with respect to
any Electronics Entity, to the extent such Tax Contest involves a claim that could reasonably be
expected to result in Electronics Business Taxes and Taxes that are not Electronics Business
Taxes (an “Electronics Tax Contest”), (A) the Companies shall cooperate to separate such Elec-
tronics Tax Contest into two Tax Contests, one Tax Contest relating exclusively to Electronics
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Business Taxes (over which Tax Contest Xxxxxxx Controls shall have exclusive control, includ-
ing exclusive authority with respect to any settlement, subject to Section 9.02(b) and Section
9.02(d)) and the other Tax Contest relating to all other Taxes of any Electronics Entity (over
which Tax Contest Adient shall have exclusive control, including exclusive authority with re-
spect to any settlement, subject to this Section 9.02(e) (other than this proviso)) and (B) if it is
not possible to separate such Tax Contest in the manner set forth in clause (A), the Controlling
Party shall have the right to control such Tax Contest, provided that the foregoing provisions of
this Section 9.02(e) (other than this proviso) shall apply to such Tax Contest (for this purpose,
substituting the term “Controlling Party,” for the term “Adient” and substituting the term “Non-
Controlling Party” for the term “Xxxxxxx Controls”). For purposes of this Section 9.02(e), in the
case of any Electronics Tax Contest, the Controlling Party shall be whichever of Adient or Xxxx-
son Controls would be reasonably expected to bear the greater Tax Liability in connection with
such Electronics Tax Contest, and the Non-Controlling Party shall be whichever Company is not
the Controlling Party with respect to such Electronics Tax Contest.
(f) Separation Related Tax Contests. Xxxxxxx Controls shall have exclusive control
over any Separation Related Tax Contest, including exclusive authority with respect to any set-
tlement of such Tax Contest, subject to the following provisions of this Section 9.02(f). In the
event of any Separation Related Tax Contest as a result of which Adient could reasonably be ex-
pected to (x) become liable for any Separation Tax Losses or (y) not have Foreign Corporation
Status as of immediately after the Distribution, (A) Xxxxxxx Controls shall keep Adient reasona-
xxx informed in a timely manner of all significant developments in respect of such Tax Contest
and all significant actions taken or proposed to be taken by Xxxxxxx Controls with respect to such
Tax Contest, (B) Xxxxxxx Controls shall timely provide Adient with copies of any written mate-
rials prepared, furnished or received in connection with such Tax Contest, (C) Xxxxxxx Controls
shall consult with Adient reasonably in advance of taking any significant action in connection
with such Tax Contest, and (D) Xxxxxxx Controls shall offer Adient a reasonable opportunity to
comment before submitting any written materials prepared or furnished in connection with such
Tax Contest. Notwithstanding anything in the preceding sentence to the contrary, the final de-
termination of the positions taken, including with respect to settlement or other disposition, in
any Separation Related Tax Contest shall be made in the sole discretion of Xxxxxxx Controls and
shall be final and not subject to the dispute resolution provisions of Section 13 of this Agreement
or Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
(g) Power of Attorney.
(i) Each member of the Adient Group shall execute and deliver to Xxxxxxx
Controls (or such member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group as Xxxxxxx Controls shall des-
ignate) any power of attorney or other similar document reasonably requested by Xxxxxxx
Controls (or such designee) in connection with any Tax Contest controlled by Xxxxxxx
Controls that is described in this Section 9.
(ii) Each member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group shall execute and deliver to
Adient (or such member of the Adient Group as Adient shall designate) any power of
attorney or other similar document reasonably requested by Adient (or such designee) in
connection with any Tax Contest controlled by Adient that is described in this Section 9.
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Section 10. Effective Date; Termination of Prior Intercompany Tax Allo-
cation Agreements. This Agreement shall be effective as of the Effective Time. To the
knowledge of the parties hereto, there are no prior intercompany Tax allocation agreements or
arrangements solely between or among Xxxxxxx Controls and/or any of its Subsidiaries, on the
one hand, and Adient and/or any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand and no termination of any
such arrangement or agreement, or any settlement of amounts owing in respect of any such ar-
rangement or agreement should be required. To the extent that, contrary to the expectation of the
parties, there is any such intercompany arrangement or agreement in place as of immediately
prior to the Effective Time, (i) such arrangement or agreement shall be deemed terminated with
effect as of the Effective Time, and (ii) amounts due under such agreements as of the date on
which the Effective Time occurs shall be settled as promptly as practicable. Upon such settle-
ment, no further payments by or to Xxxxxxx Controls or any of its Subsidiaries or by or to Adient
or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to such agreements shall be made, and all other rights and
obligations resulting from such agreements between the Companies and their Affiliates shall
cease at such time. Any payments pursuant to such agreements shall be disregarded for purposes
of computing amounts due under this Agreement.
Section 11. Survival of Obligations. The representations, warranties, cove-
nants and agreements set forth in this Agreement shall be unconditional and absolute and shall
remain in effect without limitation as to time.
Section 12. Treatment of Payments; Tax Gross-Up.
Section 12.01 Treatment of Tax Indemnity and Tax Benefit Payments. In the absence of
any change in Tax treatment under the Code or other applicable Tax Law and except as other-
wise agreed between the Companies, for all Income Tax purposes, the Companies agree to treat,
and to cause their respective Affiliates to treat, (i) any indemnity payment required by this
Agreement or by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, as applicable (in the case of each of
clauses (A), (B) and (C), subject to clause (D)), (A) in the case of an indemnity payment attribut-
able to the Distribution, a contribution by Xxxxxxx Controls to Adient or a distribution by Adient
to Xxxxxxx Controls, as the case may be, occurring immediately prior to the Distribution (but on-
ly to the extent the payment does not relate to a Tax allocated to the payor in accordance with
Section 1552 of the Code or the Treasury Regulations thereunder or Treasury Regulation Section
1.1502-33(d) (or under corresponding principles of other applicable Tax Laws)), (B) in the case
of an indemnity payment attributable to an Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Distribution or Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Contribution, a contribution by the relevant Old Xxxxxxx Controls In-
ternal Distributing to the relevant Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled or a distribution by
the relevant Old Xxxxxxx Controls Internal Controlled to the relevant Old Xxxxxxx Controls In-
ternal Distributing, as the case may be, occurring immediately prior to the relevant Old Xxxxxxx
Controls Internal Distribution, (C) in the case of an indemnity payment attributable to the Old
Xxxxxxx Controls Jersey SpinCo Sale or the TSub Jersey SpinCo Sale or any sale of the Adient
Assets or assumption of the Adient Liabilities pursuant to the Separation Transactions, an ad-
justment to the purchase price, or (D) in the case of an indemnity payment attributable to a trans-
fer of Adient Assets or assumption of Adient Liabilities (other than pursuant to a sale), or in any
other case described in clauses (A), (B) or (C) above to the extent appropriate, as payments of an
assumed or retained liability; and (ii) any payment of interest or State Income Taxes by or to a
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Tax Authority, as taxable or deductible, as the case may be, to the Company entitled under this
Agreement to retain such payment or required under this Agreement to make such payment.
Section 12.02 Tax Gross-Up. If notwithstanding the manner in which payments de-
scribed in clause (i) of Section 12.01 were reported, there is an adjustment to the Tax Liability of
a Company as a result of its receipt of a payment pursuant to this Agreement or the Separation
and Distribution Agreement, such payment shall be appropriately adjusted so that the amount of
such payment, reduced by the amount of all Income Taxes payable with respect to the receipt
thereof (but taking into account all correlative Tax Benefits resulting from the payment of such
Income Taxes), shall equal the amount of the payment which the Company receiving such pay-
ment would otherwise be entitled to receive.
Section 12.03 Interest. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, to the extent
one Company (“Indemnitor”) makes a payment of interest to another Company (“Indemnitee”)
under this Agreement with respect to the period from the date that the Indemnitee made a pay-
ment of Tax to a Tax Authority to the date that the Indemnitor reimbursed the Indemnitee for
such Tax payment, the interest payment shall be treated as interest expense to the Indemnitor
(deductible to the extent provided by Law) and as interest income by the Indemnitee (includible
in income to the extent provided by Law). The amount of the payment shall not be adjusted to
take into account any associated Tax Benefit to the Indemnitor or increase in Tax to the Indem-
xxxxx.
Section 13. Disagreements.
Section 13.01 Dispute Resolution. The Companies desire that collaboration will contin-
ue between them. Accordingly, they will try, and they will cause their respective Group mem-
bers to try, to resolve in good faith all disagreements regarding their respective rights and obliga-
tions under this Agreement, including any amendments hereto. In furtherance thereof, in the
event of any dispute or disagreement (other than a High-Level Dispute) (a “Tax Advisor Dis-
pute”) between any member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group and any member of the Adient
Group as to the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement or the performance of obliga-
tions hereunder, the Tax departments of the Companies shall negotiate in good faith to resolve
the Tax Advisor Dispute. If such good faith negotiations do not resolve the Tax Advisor Dis-
pute, then the matter will be referred to a Tax Advisor acceptable to each of the Companies. The
Tax Advisor may, in its discretion, obtain the services of any third-party appraiser, accounting
firm or consultant that the Tax Advisor deems necessary to assist it in resolving such disagree-
ment. The Tax Advisor shall furnish written notice to the Companies of its resolution of any
such Tax Advisor Dispute as soon as practicable, but in any event no later than forty-five (45)
days after its acceptance of the matter for resolution. Any such resolution by the Tax Advisor
shall be consistent with the terms of this Agreement, and if so consistent, shall be conclusive and
binding on the Companies. Following receipt of the Tax Advisor’s written notice to the Compa-
xxxx of its resolution of the Tax Advisor Dispute, the Companies shall each take or cause to be
taken any action necessary to implement such resolution of the Tax Advisor. In accordance with
Section 15, each Company shall pay its own fees and expenses (including the fees and expenses
of its representatives) incurred in connection with the referral of the matter to the Tax Advisor.
All fees and expenses of the Tax Advisor in connection with such referral shall be shared equally
by the Companies. Any High-Level Dispute shall be resolved pursuant to the procedures set
forth in Article VII of the Separation and Distribution Agreement.
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Section 13.02 Injunctive Relief. Nothing in this Section 13 will prevent either Company
from seeking injunctive relief if reasonably necessary to avoid irreparable harm. Notwithstand-
ing anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement or
any Ancillary Agreement, Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient are the only members of their respective
Groups entitled to commence a dispute resolution procedure under this Agreement, and each of
Xxxxxxx Controls and Adient will cause its respective Group members not to commence any dis-
pute resolution procedure other than through such party as provided in this Section 13.
Section 14. Late Payments. Any amount owed by one party to another party
under this Agreement which is not paid when due shall bear interest at the Prime Rate plus two
percent (2%), compounded semiannually, from the due date of the payment to the date paid. To
the extent interest required to be paid under this Section 14 duplicates interest required to be paid
under any other provision of this Agreement, interest shall be computed at the higher of the in-
terest rate provided under this Section 14 or the interest rate provided under such other provision.
Section 15. Expenses. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each
party and its Affiliates shall bear their own expenses incurred in connection with preparation of
Tax Returns, Tax Contests, and other matters related to Taxes under the provisions of this
Agreement.
Section 16. General Provisions.
Section 16.01 Addresses and Notices. All notices, requests, claims, demands or other
communications under this Agreement shall be in writing, together with a copy by electronic
mail (which shall not constitute notice), and shall be given or made (and shall be deemed to have
been duly given or made upon acknowledgment of receipt) by delivery in person, by overnight
courier service or by registered or certified mail (postage prepaid, return receipt requested) to the
respective Companies at the following addresses (or at such other address for a Company as shall
be specified in a notice given in accordance with this Section 16.01):
If to Xxxxxxx Controls:
Xxxxxxx Controls International plc
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: General Counsel
Email: XX-Xxxxxxx.Xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx
If to Adient:
Adient Limited
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: General Counsel
Email: XX-Xxxxxxx.Xxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx
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A Company may, by notice to the other Company, change the address to which such notices are
to be given.
Section 16.02 Assignability. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the ben-
efit of the parties hereto and their successors and permitted assigns; provided that neither Com-
pany nor any such party thereto may assign its rights or delegate its obligations under this
Agreement without the express prior written consent of the other Company hereto. Notwith-
standing the foregoing, no such consent shall be required for the assignment of a party’s rights
and obligations under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements (except as may be otherwise
provided in any such Ancillary Agreement) in whole (i.e., the assignment of a party’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement and all Ancillary Agreements all at the same time) in connec-
tion with a change of control of a Company so long as the resulting, surviving or transferee Per-
son assumes all the obligations of the relevant party thereto by operation of Law or pursuant to
an agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the other Company. Nothing in
this Section 16.02 is intended to, or shall be construed to, prohibit either Company or any mem-
ber of its Group from being party to or undertaking a change of control.
Section 16.03 Waiver. Waiver by a Company of any default by the other Company of
any provision of this Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by the waiving Company of any
subsequent or other default, nor shall it prejudice the rights of the other Company. No failure or
delay by a Company in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement shall oper-
ate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof prejudice any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
Section 16.04 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof
to any Person or circumstance is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions hereof, or the application of such provision to
Persons or circumstances or in jurisdictions other than those as to which it has been held invalid
or unenforceable, shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired
or invalidated thereby. Upon such determination, the Companies shall negotiate in good faith in
an effort to agree upon such a suitable and equitable provision to effect the original intent of the
Companies.
Section 16.05 Authority. Xxxxxxx Controls represents on behalf of itself and each other
member of the Xxxxxxx Controls Group, and Adient represents on behalf of itself and each other
member of the Adient Group, as follows: (i) each such Person has the requisite corporate or oth-
er power and authority and has taken all corporate or other action necessary in order to execute,
deliver and perform this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby;
and (ii) this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by it and constitutes a valid and
binding agreement of it enforceable in accordance with the terms thereof.
Section 16.06 Further Action. The parties shall execute and deliver all documents, pro-
vide all information, and take or refrain from taking action as may be necessary or appropriate to
achieve the purposes of this Agreement, including the execution and delivery to the other parties
and their Affiliates and representatives of such powers of attorney or other authorizing documen-
tation as is reasonably necessary or appropriate in connection with Tax Contests (or portions
thereof) under the control of such other parties in accordance with Section 9.
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Section 16.07 Integration. This Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the Exhibits,
Schedules and appendices hereto and thereto contain the entire agreement between the Compa-
xxxx with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersede all previous agreements, negotiations,
discussions, writings, understandings, commitments and conversations with respect to such sub-
ject matter, and there are no agreements or understandings between the Companies other than
those set forth or referred to herein or therein. In the event of any inconsistency between this
Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, any other agreements relating to the
transactions contemplated by the Separation and Distribution Agreement, or the Tax Allocation
Agreement, with respect to matters addressed herein, the provisions of this Agreement shall con-
trol.
Section 16.08 Construction. The language in all parts of this Agreement shall in all cas-
es be construed according to its fair meaning and shall not be strictly construed for or against any
party. The captions, titles and headings included in this Agreement are for convenience only,
and do not affect this Agreement’s construction or interpretation. Unless otherwise indicated, all
“Section” references in this Agreement are to sections of this Agreement.
Section 16.09 No Double Recovery. No provision of this Agreement shall be construed
to provide an indemnity or other recovery for any costs, damages, or other amounts for which the
damaged party has been fully compensated under any other provision of this Agreement or under
any other agreement or action at Law or equity. Unless expressly required in this Agreement, a
party shall not be required to exhaust all remedies available under other agreements or at Law or
equity before recovering under the remedies provided in this Agreement.
Section 16.10 Currency. All amounts payable pursuant to this Agreement shall be paya-
ble in U.S. dollars, based on the conversion rate used at the time that the obligation to pay arises
in the financial reporting systems of the party receiving such payment.
Section 16.11 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counter-
parts, all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement, and shall become effective
when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the Companies and delivered to the
other Company. Each Company acknowledges that it and each other Company is executing cer-
tain of the Ancillary Agreements by facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature, and that delivery
of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement (whether executed by manual,
stamp or mechanical signature) by facsimile or by email in portable document format (.pdf) shall
be effective as delivery of such executed counterpart of this Agreement. Each Company ex-
pressly adopts and confirms each such facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature (regardless of
whether delivered in person, by mail, by courier, by facsimile or by email in portable document
format (.pdf)) made in its respective name as if it were a manual signature delivered in person,
agrees that it will not assert that any such signature or delivery is not adequate to bind such
Company to the same extent as if it were signed manually and delivered in person and agrees
that, at the reasonable request of the other Company at any time, it will as promptly as reasona-
xxx practicable cause this Agreement to be manually executed (such execution to be as of the
date of the initial date thereof) and delivered in person, by mail or by courier.
Section 16.12 Governing Law. This Agreement (and any claims or disputes arising out
of or related hereto or to the transactions contemplated hereby or to the inducement of any party
to enter herein, whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predi-
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cated on common Law, statute or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed and interpreted
in accordance with the Laws of the State of New York irrespective of the choice of laws princi-
ples of the State of New York including all matters of validity, construction, effect, enforceabil-
ity, performance and remedies.
Section 16.13 Jurisdiction. If any dispute arises out of or in connection with this
Agreement, except as expressly contemplated by another provision of this Agreement, the parties
irrevocably (and the parties will cause each other member of their respective Group to irrevoca-
xxx) (a) consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of any federal court sitting in the Bor-
ough of Manhattan in The City of New York (or, only if such court lacks subject matter jurisdic-
tion, in any New York State court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New
York), (b) waive any claims of forum non conveniens, and agree to submit to the jurisdiction of
such courts, as provided in New York General Obligations Law § 5-1402, (c) agree that service
of any process, summons, notice or document by United States registered mail to each Compa-
ny’s respective address set forth in Section 16.01 shall be effective service of process for any lit-
igation brought against it in any such court or for the taking of any other acts as may be neces-
sary or appropriate in order to effectuate any judgment of said courts and (d) WAIVE TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL OR ADJUDICATION
BY JURY.
Section 16.14 Amendment. No provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed waived,
amended, supplemented or modified by a Company, unless such waiver, amendment, supple-
ment or modification is in writing and signed by the authorized representative of the Company
against whom it is sought to enforce such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification.
Section 16.15 Adient Subsidiaries. If, at any time, Adient acquires or creates one or
more subsidiaries that are includable in the Adient Group, they shall be subject to this Agreement
and all references to the Adient Group herein shall thereafter include a reference to such subsidi-
aries.
Section 16.16 Successors. This Agreement shall be binding on and inure to the benefit
of any successor by merger, acquisition of assets, or otherwise, to any of the parties hereto (in-
cluding, but not limited to, any successor of Xxxxxxx Controls or Adient succeeding to the Tax
attributes of either under Section 381 of the Code), to the same extent as if such successor had
been an original party to this Agreement.
Section 16.17 Injunctions. Subject to the provisions of Section 13, the parties
acknowledge that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this
Agreement were not performed in accordance with its specific terms or were otherwise breached.
The parties hereto shall be entitled to an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of the pro-
visions of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof in any
court having jurisdiction, such remedy being in addition to any other remedy to which they may
be entitled at Law or in equity.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party has caused this Agreement to be executed on its behalf by
a duly authorized officer on the date first set forth above.
XXXXXXX CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
ADIENT LIMITED
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
[Signature Page to Tax Matters Agreement]