STOCK ACQUISITION AGREEMENT by and among GOIP GLOBAL, INC. TRANSWORLD ENTERPRISES, INC., GETCHARGED, INC., THE TRANSFERORS and ANDREW FOX, as the Transferors’ Representative DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Exhibit 2.2
by and among
GOIP GLOBAL, INC.
TRANSWORLD ENTERPRISES, INC.,
GETCHARGED, INC.,
THE TRANSFERORS
and
XXXXXX XXX, as the Transferors’ Representative
DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
Acquisition
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1
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1.1
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Acquisition
of the Shares
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1
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1.2
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Purchase
Price
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1
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ARTICLE 2
Closing
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2
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2.1
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Closing
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2
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2.2
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Transferor
Closing Deliverables
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2
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2.3
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Company
Closing Deliverables
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2
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2.4
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Acquiror
and Parent Closing Deliverables
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4
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2.5
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Manner
of Payment
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4
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2.6
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Withholding
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5
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2.7
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Holdback
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5
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ARTICLE
3 Closing Statement
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5
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3.1
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Definitions
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3.2
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Closing
Statement
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ARTICLE
4 Representations and warranties of the Transferors
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4.1
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Organization
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4.2
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Authority
and Enforceability
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7
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4.3
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Title
to Shares
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7
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4.4
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No
Conflict
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8
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4.5
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Legal
Proceedings
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8
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4.6
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Investment
Representations
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8
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ARTICLE
5 Representations and warranties of the company
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5.1
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Organization
and Qualification of the Company
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9
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5.2
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Authority;
Board Approval
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9
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5.3
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No
Conflicts; Consents
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10
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5.4
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Capitalization
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10
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5.5
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Subsidiaries;
Joint Ventures
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11
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5.6
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Financial
Statements
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12
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5.7
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No
Undisclosed Liabilities; Indebtedness
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13
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5.8
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Absence
of Certain Changes, Events and Conditions
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5.9
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Material
Contracts
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5.1
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Real
Property
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18
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5.11
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Personal
Property; Sufficiency of Assets
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5.12
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[Reserved]
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5.13
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Intellectual
Property
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5.14
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[Reserved]
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5.15
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Accounts
Receivable; Accounts Payable
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22
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5.16
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Customers,
Suppliers and Distributors
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5.17
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Insurance
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24
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5.18
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Legal
Proceedings; Governmental Orders
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5.19
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Compliance
With Laws; Permits
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5.2
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Environmental
Matters
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25
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5.21
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Employee
Benefit Matters
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5.22
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Employment
Matters
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30
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5.23
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Taxes
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5.24
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Export
Control Matters
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34
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5.25
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Import
Compliance
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35
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5.26
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Certain
Payments
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5.27
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Warranty
Obligations
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5.28
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Data
Privacy and Security
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5.29
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Transactions
with Related Persons
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37
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5.3
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Brokers
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5.31
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Projections
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ARTICLE
6 Representations and warranties of Acquiror and
Parent
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6.1
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Representations
and Warranties of Acquiror
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6.2
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Representations
and Warranties of Parent
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ARTICLE
7 Covenants
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7.1
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Conduct
of Business Prior to the Closing
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7.2
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Access
to Information
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7.3
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No
Solicitation of Other Bids
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7.4
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Notice
of Certain Events
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7.5
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Confidentiality
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7.6
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Non-competition;
Non-solicitation
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7.7
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Approvals
and Consents
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7.8
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Release
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46
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7.9
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Closing
Conditions
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7.1
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Publicity;
Transaction Disclosure
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7.11
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Reserved
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7.12
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Litigation
Support
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7.13
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280G
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7.14
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Company
Covenants
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7.15
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Customer
and other Business Relationships
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7.16
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Insurance;
Risk of Loss
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7.17
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Internal
Control over Financial Reporting
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7.18
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Financial
Reporting Cooperation
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7.19
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Further
Assurances
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7.2
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Transferors’
Representative
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ARTICLE
8 Tax matters
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8.1
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Tax
Covenants
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8.2
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Termination
of Existing Tax Sharing Agreements
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52
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8.3
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Tax
Indemnification
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52
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8.4
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Straddle
Period
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8.5
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Contests
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8.6
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Cooperation
and Exchange of Information
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8.7
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Tax
Treatment of Indemnification Payments
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8.8
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Survival
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8.9
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Overlap
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ARTICLE
9 Conditions to closing
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9.1
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Conditions
to Obligations of All Parties
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9.2
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Conditions
to Obligations of Parent and Acquiror
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9.3
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Conditions
to Obligations of the Company and the Transferors
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ARTICLE
10 Indemnification
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10.1
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Survival
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10.2
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Indemnification
By The Transferors
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10.3
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Indemnification
By Acquiror
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10.4
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Certain
Limitations
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10.5
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Indemnification
Procedures
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10.6
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Manner
of Payments
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10.7
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No
Circular Recovery
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10.8
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Materiality
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10.9
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Tax
Treatment of Indemnification Payments
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10.1
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Effect
of Investigation and Waiver
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10.11
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Exclusive
Remedies
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10.12
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No
Contribution
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10.13
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Separate
Bases for Claim
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ARTICLE
11 Termination
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11.1
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Termination
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11.2
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Effect
of Termination
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ARTICLE
12 Miscellaneous
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12.1
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Expenses
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12.2
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Notices
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12.3
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Construction
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12.4
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Severability
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12.5
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Entire
Agreement
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12.6
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Reserved
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12.7
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Successors
and Assigns
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12.8
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No
Third-Party Beneficiaries
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12.9
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Amendment
and Modification; Waiver
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12.1
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Governing
Law
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12.11
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Forum
Selection; Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury
Trial
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12.12
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Specific
Performance
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12.13
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness
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iv
This
STOCK ACQUISITION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of
September 25, 2020, is entered into by and among GoIP Global, Inc.
(“Parent”), Transworld
Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned
subsidiary of Parent (“Acquiror”), GetCharged,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each of the
parties set forth on Exhibit A hereto (each, a
“Transferor” and
collectively, the “Transferors”) and Xxxxxx
Xxx, in his capacity as the Transferors’ Representative.
Annex A hereto
contains definitions of certain initially capitalized terms used in
this Agreement.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, as of the
date hereof the Transferors collectively own, and as of immediately
prior to the Closing will collectively own, all of the issued and
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company (collectively,
the “Shares”); and
WHEREAS, the
Transferors wish to exchange, transfer and deliver to Acquiror, and
Acquiror wishes to acquire from the Transferors, the Shares, on the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements
hereinafter set forth and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
AGREEMENT
ARTICLE
1
1.1 Acquisition of the
Shares. On the terms and subject to the
conditions of this Agreement, at the Closing, the Transferors shall
exchange, transfer and deliver the Shares to Acquiror, and Acquiror
shall acquire the Shares from the Transferors, free and clear of
all Encumbrances.
1.2 Purchase
Price. The purchase
price for the Shares shall be $17,500,000 (the “Purchase Price”). For the
avoidance of doubt, the Purchase Price shall be paid in Parent
Shares (and not in cash) pursuant to Section 2.5. Each Transferor
shall receive its Pro Rata Share of the Parent Shares payable
hereunder in respect of the Purchase Price.
1.3
Plan of
Reorganization. The parties hereto
intend that, for U.S. federal and applicable state and local income
tax purposes, the transaction contemplated by this Agreement shall
qualify as a tax-free reorganization within the meaning of Section
368 of the Code and that this Agreement constitutes a plan of
reorganization within the meaning of Section 368 of the
Code.
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Closing
2.1 Closing. The consummation
of the acquisition of the Shares pursuant to Article 1 (the
“Closing”) shall be held
virtually (via the exchange of executed documents and other
deliverables by PDF or other means of electronic delivery) rather
than in-person, as promptly as practicable following, but in no
event later than, three (3) Business Days after the date on which
the last of the conditions set forth in Article 9 (other than those
conditions that by their terms are to be satisfied at the Closing,
but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions at the
Closing) to be satisfied or waived is so satisfied or waived, or by
such other means and/or at such other place, time and date as
Acquiror and the Transferors’ Representative may agree. All
documents delivered and actions taken at the Closing shall be
deemed to have been delivered or taken simultaneously, and no such
delivery or action shall be considered effective or complete unless
or until all other such deliveries or actions are completed or
waived in writing by the party against whom such waiver is sought
to be enforced. The date on which the Closing is actually held is
referred to herein as the “Closing Date.” Subject to
the provisions of Article 11, the failure to consummate the Closing
on the date and time determined pursuant to this Section 2.1 shall
not result in the termination of this Agreement and shall not
relieve any party to this Agreement of any obligation under this
Agreement. The Closing shall be deemed to be effective at 11:59
p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the Closing Date (the
“Effective
Time”) for all purposes, except as may otherwise be
expressly provided herein.
2.2 Transferor Closing
Deliverables. At or prior to
the Closing, each Transferor shall deliver to Acquiror such
documents or instruments as Acquiror reasonably requests and are
reasonably necessary to consummate the Transactions.
2.3 Company Closing
Deliverables. At or prior to
the Closing (or by such other date, if any, as indicated in the
applicable subsection below), the Company shall deliver to Acquiror
the following:
(a) resignations of the
directors and officers of the Company, except as Acquiror may
otherwise specify;
(b) a certificate,
dated the Closing Date and signed by a duly authorized officer of
Company, that each of the conditions set forth in Section 9.2(a) and
Section 9.2(b)
and Section 9.2(d)
have been satisfied;
(c) a certificate of
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or equivalent officer) of
the Company certifying (i) that attached thereto are true and
complete copies of all resolutions adopted by the board of
directors of the Company authorizing the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents and the
consummation of the Transactions, (ii) that all such
resolutions are in full force and effect and are all the
resolutions adopted in connection with the Transactions, and
(iii) the names and signatures of the officers of the Company
authorized to sign this Agreement and the Transaction
Documents;
(d) the certificate of
incorporation (or other equivalent Governing Document) and all
amendments thereto of each Group Company, duly certified as of a
recent date by the secretary of state or similar Governmental
Authority of the jurisdiction under the Laws in which such Group
Company is organized;
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(e) a good standing
certificate (or its equivalent) of each Group Company as of a
recent date from the secretary of state or similar Governmental
Authority of the jurisdiction under the Laws in which such Group
Company is organized;
(f) a certificate,
dated the Closing Date and signed by the Transferor Representative
and the Company, stating that the Related Party Transactions and
Relationships have been terminated and no Group Company has any
residual Liability with respect thereto;
(g) to the extent there
exist any Encumbrances (1) on the equity securities of any Group
Company (including the Shares) or (2) on the properties and assets
of any Group Company (other than Permitted Encumbrances) as of the
Closing (the “Group
Company Encumbrances”), fully executed documentation
required in connection with the release of any such Group Company
Encumbrances, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Acquiror providing for the discharge in full of all such Group
Company Encumbrances;
(h) at least five (5)
Business Days prior to the Closing, (i) a final invoice from each
Person to whom Company Transaction Expenses are owed along with
instructions from such Person for paying such amounts and (ii) an
agreement by such Person that the Contract pursuant to which the
Company Transaction Expenses are owed as set forth in the final
invoice shall be deemed terminated upon payment of such Company
Transaction Expenses at Closing and that such Person thereupon
releases the Company from any and all claims under such Contract;
all in a form reasonably satisfactory to Acquiror;
(i) an employment
agreement with the Company, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to Acquiror, duly executed by Xxxxxx Xxx (the
“Employment
Agreement”);
(j) such certificates
and documents as may be necessary or appropriate to change the
authorized signatories on all bank accounts and safe deposit boxes
maintained by or in the name of the Company;
(k) the original minute
and stock books of each Group Company;
(l) a Note Conversion
Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Acquiror, to be
executed by the Company and each holder of convertible notes set
forth on Schedule
2.2(c) (“Convertible Notes”)
pursuant to which Note Conversion Agreement each holder of
Convertible Notes shall agree that, as of immediately prior to the
Closing, all Convertible Notes held by such holder shall be
converted into shares of Class B Non-Voting Common Stock of the
Company in full satisfaction of the Company’s obligations
under the Convertible Notes and the Convertible Notes shall
terminate and be of no further force or effect;
(m) evidence reasonably
satisfactory to Acquiror that all outstanding options that have
vested (or will be vested as of the Closing) were exercised or
terminated in full, or will be exercised or terminated in full
prior to the Closing;
(n) an executed
certificate pursuant to Treasury Regulations Section 1.1445-2(c)
certifying that the Company is not and has not been a “United
States real property holding corporation as defined in Section
897(c)(2) of the Code during the period described in Section 897(c)
of the Code and no interest in the Company constitutes a
“United States real property interest” as defined in
Section 897(c)(1) within the meaning of Section 1445 of the
Code;
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(o) an executed
counterpart signature page or joinder to this Agreement, in each
case in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Acquiror, duly
executed by any Person who, following the date hereof and prior to
the Closing, (x) acquires or is issued any shares of the
Company’s capital stock or any other equity interest, or the
right to any shares or equity interest, in the Company (including
pursuant to the exercise of options or convertible notes or other
securities) or (y) is discovered to own shares of the
Company’s capital stock or any other equity interest in the
Company (or have the right to any shares or equity interest in the
Company), including, without limitation, the individuals set forth
on Schedule 2.3(o); provided, in each case, that Exhibit A shall be updated
accordingly and delivered to Acquiror prior to the Closing;
and
(p) such other
documents or instruments as Acquiror reasonably requests and are
reasonably necessary to consummate the Transactions.
2.4 Acquiror and Parent Closing
Deliverables. At the Closing,
Acquiror (or Parent, in the case of clause (c) below) shall deliver
the following:
(a) to the
Transferors’ Representative, the Employment Agreement duly
executed by the Company;
(b) to the
Transferors’ Representative a duly filed and stamped copy of
the Articles of Incorporation of Parent;
(c) to the
Transferors’ Representative, that number of Parent Shares
equal to the Purchase Price minus the Holdback Shares, by issuance
of Parent Shares in the manner provided in Section 2.5; and
(d) such other
documents or instruments as the Transferors’ Representative
reasonably requests and are reasonably necessary to consummate the
Transactions.
2.5 Manner of
Payment. The Purchase
Price shall be paid to the Transferors as follows: Parent shall
issue to each Transferor a stock certificate evidencing such
Transferor’s Pro Rata Share of the number of Parent Shares
equal to the Purchase Price minus the Holdback Shares (each, a
“Closing Parent
Share Certificate”) and deliver a Closing Parent Share
Certificate to each Transferor at the Closing. The Closing Parent
Share Certificates shall be returned by the Transferors to Parent
from time to time to reflect any cancellation and/or re-issue of
Parent Shares pursuant to Section 10.6. The Parties agree
that the aggregate number of Parent Shares equal to the Purchase
Price shall be that number of Parent Shares as is convertible into
60,000,000 shares of common stock of Parent as of the Closing,
after giving effect to the approved 500:1 reverse stock split (but
without taking into account the conversion of any outstanding
warrants or options issued by Parent).
2.6 Withholding. Acquiror or
Parent, as applicable, shall be entitled to deduct and withhold
from the consideration or other amounts otherwise payable pursuant
to this Agreement to any Person such amounts as they are required
to deduct and withhold with respect to such payment under the Code,
or any provision of state, local or foreign law. To the extent that
amounts are so withheld by Acquiror or Parent, such withheld
amounts shall be (a) paid to the appropriate Tax authority and (b)
treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to
the appropriate recipient in respect of which such deduction and
withholding was made by Acquiror or Parent, as
applicable
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2.7 Holdback.
(a)
During the period
commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the first anniversary
thereof (the “Expiration Date”), Parent
shall hold in escrow such number of Parent Shares as shall equal
five percent (5%) of the Purchase Price (the “Holdback Shares”). The
Holdback Shares shall serve as a source of security for the
Transferors’ obligations after the Closing under this
Agreement, including its indemnification obligations under Article
10.
(b)
The Holdback Shares
shall no longer be subject to any claim that is first made after
the Expiration Date; provided, however, with respect to any claims
made in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the
Expiration Date (including those that are revised or adjusted in
accordance with Article 10 after the Expiration Date) that remain
unresolved as of the end of the Expiration Date
(“Pending
Claims”), all or a portion of the Holdback Shares
reasonably necessary to satisfy such Pending Claims (as determined
with respect to any indemnification claims based on the amount of
the indemnification claim included in the notice provided by an
Acquiror Indemnitee under Article 10, as it may be revised or
adjusted in accordance with Article 10) shall continue to be held
in escrow by Parent until such time as such Pending Claim shall
have been finally resolved pursuant to the provisions of this
Agreement. After the Expiration Date, any Holdback Shares still
held in escrow by Parent that are not subject to (i) Pending Claims
or (ii) resolved but unpaid claims in favor of Acquiror or other
Acquiror Indemnitees, shall be disbursed by Parent to the
Transferors’ Representative for distribution to the
Transferors. Promptly after the final resolution of all Pending
Claims and the payment of all obligations in connection therewith,
Parent shall disburse any Holdback Shares remaining in escrow to
the Transferors’ Representative for distribution to the
Transferors.
Closing
Statement
(a) “Accounting Principles”
means GAAP and, to the extent not inconsistent with GAAP, using the
same accounting methods, practices, principles, policies and
procedures, with consistent classifications, judgments and
valuation and estimation methodologies that were used in the
preparation of the Financial Statements for the most recent fiscal
year end as if such accounts were being prepared and audited as of
a fiscal year end.
(b) “Cash on Hand,” as of any
time means the amount equal to the bank balance of all unrestricted
cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities held by the Group
Companies at such time minus, without duplication, the following:
(i) any issued but uncleared checks and wires issued by the Group
Companies as of the Effective Time; (ii) cash overdrafts and other
negative balances of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents in any
bank account of the Group Companies as of such time; and (iii) cash
that is collected from customers in advance, is being held on
behalf of customers and represents a Liability to such customers as
of such time. Cash may be a positive or negative number. Cash, cash
equivalents and marketable securities shall be deemed unrestricted
as of the relevant time only if at such time it is (a) not subject
to restrictions or limitations on use either by obligations or
commitment to third parties (including security deposits made by
any Group Company and cash securing letters of credit or other
payment obligations) or for regulatory or legal purposes and (b)
held in the United States.
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(c) “Closing Company Net Cash”
means the Company Net Cash as of the Effective Time.
(d) “Closing Company Transaction
Expenses” means Company Transaction Expenses that
remain unpaid as of immediately prior to the Closing (but inclusive
of all amounts that will or may become due at or following the
Closing wholly or partially by reason of the
Transactions).
(e) “Company Net Cash” means,
as of any date of determination, (i) the Cash on Hand as of such
date plus (ii) all
accounts receivable of the Group Companies (net of appropriate
reserves in accordance with GAAP), minus (iii) all accounts
payable of the Group Companies, in each case, excluding all
intercompany receivables and intercompany payables, and as set
forth on the consolidated balance sheet of the Group Companies
prepared pursuant to the Accounting Principles.
(f) “Company Transaction
Expenses” means the aggregate amount of (a) all fees
and expenses incurred by any Group Company in connection with the
negotiation, preparation, execution and performance of this
Agreement and the Transaction Documents, and the Transactions,
including all legal, financial advisory, accounting, consulting and
other fees and expenses and any broker’s or finder’s
fees, (b) all amounts (plus any associated withholding Taxes or any
Taxes required to be paid by any Group Company with respect
thereto) payable by any Group Company, whether immediately or in
the future, under any “change of control,” retention,
termination, compensation, severance or other similar arrangements
by reason of (either alone or in conjunction with any other event,
such as termination or continuation of employment) the consummation
of the Transactions or any Transaction Document (including such
amounts payable to any employee of any Group Company at the
election of such employee pursuant to any such arrangements) and
(c) any other fees, costs, expenses or payments resulting from the
change of control of the Group Companies or otherwise payable in
connection with receipt of any consent or approval in connection
with the Transactions.
(a) At least five (5)
Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall prepare
and deliver to Acquiror a written statement (the form and substance
of which shall be subject to Acquiror’s approval, which
approval shall not to be unreasonably withheld) (the
“Closing
Statement”) that includes (i) a good-faith estimated
consolidated balance sheet of the Group Companies as of the
Effective Time prepared in accordance with the Accounting
Principles, (ii) a good-faith estimate of the Closing Company
Transaction Expenses and the Closing Company Net Cash, and (iii) a
schedule setting forth the number of Parent Shares allocable to
each Transferor.
Representations
and warranties of the Transferors
Each
Transferor hereby represents and warrants to Parent and Acquiror
that, with respect to such Transferor, the statements contained in
this Article 4 are
true and correct on the date hereof and shall be true and correct
on the Closing Date as if made thereon:
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4.1 Organization.
If such Transferor is not a natural person, the Transferor
(i) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the state of its formation and (ii) has all
necessary power and corporate authority to carry on its business,
and to own or use the properties and assets that it purports to own
or use.
4.2 Authority and
Enforceability. The Transferor
has all requisite power and authority, and has taken all action
necessary, to execute and deliver this Agreement and each
Transaction Document and to perform its obligations hereunder and
thereunder. This Agreement has been, and each Transaction Document
will be prior to the Closing, duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Transferor, and this Agreement constitutes, and
each Transaction Document when so executed and delivered will
constitute, the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Transferor, enforceable against the Transferor in accordance with
their terms.
(a) The Transferor is
the record and beneficial owner of, and has good and valid title
to, the Shares set forth next to such Transferor’s name on
Exhibit A, free and
clear of all Encumbrances. The Transferor is not a party to any
option, warrant, right, contract, call, put or other agreement or
commitment providing for the disposition or acquisition of any of
the Shares (other than this Agreement). The Transferor does not
have any other debt or ownership interest in any Group
Company.
(b) Other than this
Agreement, the Shares are not subject to any voting trust agreement
or other Contract restricting or otherwise relating to the voting,
dividend rights or other disposition of the Shares.
4.4 No Conflict. The execution and
delivery by the Transferor of this Agreement and each Transaction
Document, and the performance by it of any actions contemplated
hereunder or thereunder, does not and will not, directly or
indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time):
(a) Conflict with or
violate any provision of the Governing Documents of the Transferor
(if Transferor is not a natural person);
(b) Require notice,
consent or approval under, conflict with, violate, result in a
breach of, result in the acceleration of obligations, loss of a
benefit or increase in Liabilities or fees under, create in any
Person the right to terminate, cancel or modify, or cause a default
under or give rise to any rights or penalties under (i) any
provision of Law relating to the Transferor, (ii) any
provision of any Governmental Order to which the Transferor or any
of its properties are subject, (iii) any provision of any
Contract to which the Transferor or its properties are bound, or
(iv) any other restriction of any kind or character to which
the Transferor or its properties are subject; or
(c) Require a
registration, filing, application, notice, consent, approval,
order, qualification or waiver with, to or from any Governmental
Authority.
4.5 Legal
Proceedings. There are no
Actions pending or, to the Transferor’s knowledge, threatened
against or by the Transferor or any of his Affiliates or Related
Persons that challenge or seek to prevent, enjoin or otherwise
delay the Transactions.
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4.6 Investment
Representations.
(a) The Parent
Shares that the Transferor will acquire pursuant hereto will be
acquired for investment only and not with a view of any
distribution thereof that would violate the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the “Securities Act”) or any
applicable state securities laws.
(b) The Transferor
understands that the Parent Shares have not been registered under
the Securities Act or the securities laws of any state and must be
held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the
Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or unless
an exemption from registration becomes or is available. The
Transferor will not distribute any of the Parent Shares in
violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities
laws.
(c) The Transferor
understands that there is no established market for the Parent
Shares, and it is not anticipated that there will be any public
market for the Parent Shares in the foreseeable future and,
accordingly, that it may not be possible for the Transferor to
liquidate its investment readily and it may be necessary to hold
the investment for an indefinite period.
(d) (i) The
Transferor is financially able to hold the Parent Shares for
long-term investment, (ii) the Transferor recognizes that
there are substantial risks involved in the acquisition of the
Parent Shares, including risk of loss of the entire amount of such
investment, and (iii) the Transferor can bear the economic
risk of the acquisition of the Parent Shares and the loss of the
entire amount of the investment.
(e) The Transferor
confirms that it (i) is familiar with Parent, Acquiror and
their respective Affiliates (collectively, the “Parent Companies”),
(ii) has been given the opportunity to ask questions of the
officers and directors of the Parent Companies and to obtain (and
has received to the Transferor’s satisfaction) such
information about the business and financial condition of the
Parent Companies as the Transferor has reasonably requested and
(iii) has such knowledge and experience in financial and
business matters that the Transferor is capable of evaluating the
merits and risks of acquiring the Parent Shares.
(f) In formulating a
decision to acquire the Parent Shares, the Transferor (i) has
relied solely upon an independent investigation of the Parent
Companies and upon consultations with the Transferor’s legal
and financial advisors with respect to this Agreement and the
nature of this investment and (ii) has not relied on any oral
or written representations or warranties of the Parent
Companies.
(g) The Transferor is
an accredited investor within the meaning of Regulation D under the
Securities Act.
(h) The Transferor is
not subject to any “bad actor” disqualifying event
described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i)-(viii) of the Securities Act (each
event so described, a “Disqualification
Event”).
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ARTICLE
5
The
Company hereby represents and warrants to Acquiror and Parent that
the statements contained in this Article 5 are true and correct
on the date hereof and shall be true and correct on the Closing
Date as if made thereon:
5.1 Organization and Qualification of the
Company. The Company is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the Laws of the State of Delaware and has full corporate
power and authority to own, operate or lease the properties and
assets now owned, operated or leased by it and to carry on its
business as it has been and is currently conducted. Section 5.1 of the Disclosure
Schedule sets forth each jurisdiction in which each Group Company
is licensed or qualified to do business, and each Group Company is
duly licensed or qualified to do business and is in good standing
in each jurisdiction in which the properties owned or leased by it
or the operation of its business as currently conducted makes such
licensing or qualification necessary.
5.2 Authority; Board
Approval. The Company has
full corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement and the Transaction Documents to
which it is a party and to consummate the Transactions. The
execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this
Agreement and the Transaction Documents and the consummation by the
Company of the Transactions have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate action on the part of the Company and no other
corporate proceedings on the part of the Company are necessary to
authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
or to consummate the Transactions. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by the Company, and (assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery by each other party) this
Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its
terms. When each Transaction Document to which the Company is or
will be a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Company
(assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by each other
party thereto), such Transaction Document will constitute a legal
and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms.
5.3 No Conflicts;
Consents. The execution and
delivery by the Company of this Agreement and each Transaction
Document, and the performance by it of any actions contemplated
hereunder or thereunder, does not and will not, directly or
indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time):
(a) Conflict with or
violate any provision of the Governing Documents of any Group
Company;
(b) Require notice,
consent or approval under, conflict with, violate, result in a
breach of, result in the acceleration of obligations, loss of a
benefit or increase in Liabilities or fees under, create in any
Person the right to terminate, cancel or modify, or cause a default
under or give rise to any rights or penalties under (i) any
provision of Law relating to any Group Company, (ii) any
provision of any Governmental Order to which any Group Company or
any of its properties are subject, or (iii) any provision of
any Material Contract;
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(c) Cause (i) any
Group Company to become subject to, or to become liable for the
payment of, any Tax, or (ii) any of the assets of any Group
Company to be reassessed or revalued by any Governmental Authority
or subject to an Encumbrance; or
(d) Require a
registration, filing, application, notice, consent, approval,
order, qualification or waiver with, to or from any Governmental
Authority.
The
Company has waived any and all rights of first refusal and similar
rights to which it may be entitled under the Company’s
Governing Documents in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, and no rights of first refusal or
similar rights are granted by the Company’s Governing
Documents to any Person other than the Company.
(a) The authorized
capital stock of the Company consists of 18,000,000 shares of
Common Stock (14,000,000 of which are designated Class A Voting
Common Stock and 4,000,000 of which are designated Class B
Non-Voting Common Stock), of which 9,777,037 shares of Class A
Voting Common Stock and 61,795 shares of Class B Non-Voting Common
Stock are issued and outstanding. The Company has reserved an
aggregate of 1,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock for issuance
to employees, consultants, officers, or directors pursuant to the
Company’s Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), of which 697,500
shares are subject to outstanding options and no options have been
exercised, and 302,500 shares remain available for issuance in
connection with future granted options under the Plan.
(b) Section 5.4(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth the capitalization of the Company.
All of the Shares are owned beneficially and of record by the
Transferors, free, and clear of all Encumbrances. The Shares
represent 100% of the outstanding ownership interests in the
Company. All of the Shares have been duly authorized, are validly
issued, fully paid, and non-assessable and have been offered,
issued and transferred without violation of any preemptive right or
other right to purchase and were issued and/or transferred in
compliance with all applicable Laws, the Governing Documents of the
Company and the Contracts to which the Company is a party or
otherwise bound. Other than the equity securities set forth on
Schedule 5.4(b),
there are no other equity or other ownership interests in the
Company or outstanding securities convertible or exchangeable into
ownership interests of the Company, including any other options,
warrants, purchase rights, preemptive rights, subscription rights,
conversion rights, exchange rights, calls, puts, rights of first
refusal, right of first offer, anti-dilution protections,
obligations, commitments, plans or other Contracts or similar
rights that could require the Company to issue, sell or otherwise
cause to become outstanding or to acquire, repurchase or redeem (or
establish a sinking fund with respect to redemption) ownership
interests in the Company or require the Company to make any
payments based on the price or value of the Shares or dividends
paid thereon. Other than the Convertible Notes, no holder of
Indebtedness of the Company has any right to vote or to convert or
exchange such Indebtedness for ownership interests of the Company.
There are no outstanding or authorized equity appreciation,
contingent value, phantom equity, profit participation, or similar
rights with respect to the Company. There are no voting trusts,
proxies, or other Contracts with respect to the voting of the
ownership interests of the Company. Upon consummation of the
Transactions, Acquiror will be the sole owner, beneficially and of
record, of 100% of the issued and outstanding equity interests of
the Company, free and clear of any Encumbrances.
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(c) The Company has
delivered to Acquiror (via the Dataroom) copies of the Governing
Documents of the Company. The minute books of the Company, which
have been delivered to Acquiror, accurately reflect in all material
respects all actions taken at all meetings and consents in lieu of
meetings of stockholders, and all actions taken at all meetings and
consents in lieu of meetings of its board of directors and all
committees, and no material meetings of any such stockholders,
board of directors, or committees have been held for which minutes
have not been prepared and are not contained in such minute
books.
(a) Section 5.5(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth for each Subsidiary of the Company,
(i) the authorized capital stock or other ownership interests of
such Subsidiary, and (ii) the number of issued, allotted and
outstanding shares of capital stock or other ownership interests of
each class of its capital, the names of the record and beneficial
holders thereof and the number of shares or other ownership
interests held by each such holder. All of the issued, allotted and
outstanding shares of capital stock or other ownership interests of
each Subsidiary of the Company have been duly authorized, are
validly issued and allotted, fully paid, and non-assessable and
have been offered, issued, allotted and transferred without
violation of any preemptive rights or other right to purchase and
were issued and/or transferred in compliance with all applicable
Laws, the Governing Documents of the Subsidiary and the Contracts
to which the Subsidiary is a party or otherwise bound. There are no
other capital stock or other ownership interests in any of the
Company’s Subsidiaries or outstanding securities convertible
or exchangeable into capital stock or other ownership interests of
such Subsidiaries, including any options, warrants, purchase
rights, preemptive rights, subscription rights, conversion rights,
exchange rights, calls, puts, rights of first refusal, rights of
first offer, anti-dilution protections, obligations, commitments,
plans or other Contracts or similar rights that could require the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to issue, sell or otherwise
cause to become outstanding or to acquire, repurchase or redeem (or
establish a sinking fund with respect to redemption) capital stock
or any other ownership interests in any such Subsidiary or require
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to make any payments based
on the price or value of any securities or instruments set forth on
Section 5.5(a) of
the Disclosure Schedule or dividends paid thereon. No holder of
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has any
right to vote or to convert or exchange such Indebtedness for
capital stock or other ownership interests of any of the
Company’s Subsidiaries. There are no outstanding or
authorized equity appreciation, contingent value, phantom equity,
profit participation, or similar rights with respect to any of the
Company’s Subsidiaries. There are no voting trusts, proxies,
or other Contracts with respect to the voting of the capital stock
or other ownership interests of the Company’s Subsidiaries.
Upon consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, Acquiror
will be the sole owner, beneficially and of record, directly or
indirectly, of 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock or
other ownership interests of the Company’s Subsidiaries, free
and clear of any Encumbrances. Except as set forth on Section 5.5(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule, the Company does not have any direct or
indirect Subsidiaries and does not own directly or indirectly any
capital stock or other equity interest in any other
Person.
(b) Except as set forth
on Section 5.5(b)
of the Disclosure Schedule no Transferor nor any Affiliates of any
Transferor (other than a Group Company) has made a loan to, or
borrowed money from, any Group Company, for which such Group
Company has outstanding Liabilities to the other in respect of any
loan or borrowing.
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5.6 Financial
Statements.
(a) Complete copies
of the Group Companies’ audited consolidated financial
statements consisting of the consolidated balance sheet of the
Group Companies dated as of December 31, 2019 and the related
consolidated statements of income and retained earnings,
stockholders’ equity and cash flow for the year then ended
(the “Year-End
Financial Statements”), and unaudited financial
statements consisting of the consolidated balance sheet of the
Group Companies as of May 31, 2020 and the related statements of
income and retained earnings, stockholders’ equity and cash
flow for the six-month period then ended (the
“Interim Financial
Statements” and together with the Year-End Financial
Statements, the “Financial Statements”)
have been delivered to Acquiror. The Financial Statements have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis
throughout the period involved, subject, in the case of the Interim
Financial Statements, to normal and recurring year-end adjustments
(the effect of which will not be materially adverse) and the
absence of notes (that, if presented, would not differ materially
from those presented in the Year-End Financial Statements). The
Financial Statements fairly and accurately present in all material
respects the consolidated financial condition of the Group
Companies as of the respective dates they were prepared and the
results of the operations of the Group Companies for the periods
indicated. The consolidated audited balance sheet of the Group
Companies as of December 31, 2019 is referred to herein as the
“Year-End Balance
Sheet” and the date thereof as the “Year-End Balance Sheet
Date” and the consolidated balance sheet of the Group
Companies as of May 31, 2020 is referred to herein as the
“Interim Balance
Sheet” and the date thereof as the “Interim Balance Sheet
Date”.
(b) The books of
account and financial records of the Group Companies are true and
correct in all material respects and have been prepared and are
maintained in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis
throughout the period involved. No Group Company has made any
changes in its accounting practice since the Year-End Balance Sheet
Date. The Group Companies maintain a standard system of accounting
established and administered in accordance with GAAP.
(c) No Group Company
maintains any “off balance sheet arrangement” within
the meaning of Item 303 of Regulation S-K promulgated under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(d) Each Group Company
maintains accurate books and records reflecting its assets and
liabilities and maintains proper and adequate internal accounting
and record-keeping controls that provide reasonable assurance that
(i) it maintains no off-the-book accounts and its assets and
properties are used only in accordance with management’s
directives, (ii) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s authorizations, (iii) transactions are
recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements
and to maintain asset accountability, (iv) access to assets is
permitted only in accordance with management’s authorization,
(v) the recorded accounting for assets is compared with the
existing assets at regular intervals and appropriate action is
taken with respect to any differences, (vi) accounts, notes and
other receivables are recorded accurately and do not include any
amounts for which there is no written contractual commitment to
pay, and proper and adequate procedures are implemented to effect
the collection of accounts, notes and other receivables on a
current and timely basis, and (vii) it maintains records in
accordance with statutory records retention
requirements.
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(e) No Group Company
has received any grants, subsidies or other financial assistance
from a Governmental Authority.
5.7 No Undisclosed Liabilities;
Indebtedness. No Group Company
has any material Liabilities, except (a) those which are
adequately reflected or reserved against in the Year-End Balance
Sheet, and (b) those which have been incurred in the Ordinary
Course of Business since the Year-End Balance Sheet Date and which
are not, individually or in the aggregate, material in amount.
Section 5.7 of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth all of the Indebtedness of the
Group Companies as of the date hereof, all of which shall be paid
off prior to the Closing such that there shall not be any
Indebtedness of the Group Companies as of the Closing.
5.8 Absence of Certain Changes, Events and
Conditions. Except as set
forth in Section
5.8 of the Disclosure Schedule, since the Year-End Balance
Sheet Date, there has not been with respect to any Group Company
any:
(a) event, occurrence
or development that has had, or could reasonably be expected to
have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse
Effect;
(b) amendment of the
Governing Documents of any Group Company;
(c) split, combination
or reclassification of any shares of its capital
stock;
(d) issuance, sale or
other disposition of any of its capital stock, or grant of any
options, warrants or other rights to purchase or obtain (including
upon conversion, exchange or exercise) any of its capital
stock;
(e) declaration or
payment of any dividends or distributions on or in respect of any
of its capital stock or redemption, purchase or acquisition of its
capital stock;
(f) change in any
method of accounting or accounting practice of any Group Company,
except as required by GAAP or as disclosed in the notes to the
Financial Statements;
(g) change in any Group
Company’s cash management practices or policies, practices
and procedures with respect to collection of accounts receivable,
establishment of reserves for uncollectible accounts, accrual of
accounts receivable, inventory control, prepayment of expenses,
payment of trade accounts payable, accrual of other expenses,
deferral of revenue and acceptance of customer
deposits;
(h) entry into or
modification or amendment of any Material Contract;
(i) termination of a
Contract that, if in existence on the date hereof, would have been
a Material Contract;
(j) incurrence,
assumption or guarantee of any indebtedness for borrowed money
except unsecured current obligations and Liabilities incurred in
the Ordinary Course of Business;
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(k) transfer,
assignment, sale or other disposition of any of the assets shown or
reflected in the Year-End Balance Sheet or cancellation of any
debts or entitlements;
(l) transfer,
assignment or grant of any license or sublicense of any material
rights under or with respect to any Company Intellectual Property
or Company IP Agreements;
(m) material damage,
destruction or loss (whether or not covered by insurance) to its
property;
(n) any capital
investment in, or any loan to, any other Person;
(o) acceleration,
termination, material modification to or cancellation of any
material Contract to which any Group Company is a party or by which
it is bound;
(p) any material
capital expenditures;
(q) imposition of any
Encumbrance upon any Group Company’s properties, capital
stock or assets, tangible or intangible;
(r) (i) grant of
any bonuses, whether monetary or otherwise, or increase in any
wages, salary, severance, pension or other compensation or benefits
in respect of its employees, officers, directors, independent
contractors or consultants, other than as provided for in any
written agreements or required by applicable Law, (ii) change
in the terms of employment for any employee or any termination of
any employees, or (iii) action to accelerate the vesting or
payment of any compensation or benefit for any current or former
employee, officer, director, independent contractor or
consultant;
(s) hiring or promoting
any person except to fill a vacancy in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(t) adoption,
modification or termination of any: (i) employment, severance,
retention or other agreement with any current or former employee,
officer, director, independent contractor or consultant,
(ii) Benefit Plan or (iii) collective bargaining or other
agreement with a Union, in each case whether written or
oral;
(u) any loan to (or
forgiveness of any loan to), or entry into any other transaction
with, any of its stockholders, directors, officers and
employees;
(v) entry into the
settlement or compromise of any Action or any default or consent to
entry of any judgment or admission of any liability with respect
thereto;
(w) entry into a new
line of business or abandonment or discontinuance of existing lines
of business;
(x) adoption of any
plan of merger, consolidation, reorganization, liquidation or
dissolution or filing of a petition in bankruptcy under any
provisions of federal or state bankruptcy Law or consent to the
filing of any bankruptcy petition against it under any similar
Law;
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(y) promotional, sales,
discount or other activity outside of the Ordinary Course of
Business that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, the
effect of accelerating sales prior to the Closing that would
otherwise be expected to occur subsequent to the
Closing;
(z) purchase, lease or
other acquisition of the right to own, use or lease any property or
assets for an amount in excess of $25,000 individually (in the case
of a lease, per annum) or in the aggregate (in the case of a lease,
for the entire term of the lease, not including any option
term);
(aa) acquisition by
merger or consolidation with, or by purchase of a substantial
portion of the assets or stock of, or by any other manner, any
business or any Person or any division thereof;
(bb) action by any Group
Company to make, change or rescind any Tax election, amend any Tax
Return or take any position on any Tax Return, take any action,
omit to take any action or enter into any other transaction that
would have the effect of increasing the Tax liability or reducing
any Tax asset of Acquiror in respect of any Post-Closing Tax
Period; or
(cc) any Contract to do
any of the foregoing, or any action or omission that would result
in any of the foregoing.
(a) Section 5.9(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists each of the following Contracts of
the Group Companies or by which any Group Company is otherwise
bound (each Contract set forth or required to be set forth on
Section 5.9(a) of
the Disclosure Schedule, each Company IP Agreements set forth or
required to be set forth in Section 5.13(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule, a “Material
Contract”), identified in such Section of the
Disclosure Schedule by reference to the applicable subsection
below:
(i) all Contracts
involving aggregate payments to or from the Company in excess of
$25,000 and which, in each case, cannot be cancelled by the
applicable Group Company without penalty or without more than
thirty (30) days’ notice;
(ii) all Contracts with
suppliers pursuant to which any Group Company has paid more than
$25,000 in the last 12 months;
(iii) all Contracts with
customers pursuant to which any Group Company has received more
than $25,000 in the last 12 months;
(iv) all Contracts that
require any Group Company to purchase its total requirements of any
product or service from
a third party;
(v) all Contracts
providing for a Group Company to be the exclusive provider of any
product or service to any Person, or that otherwise involve the
granting by any Person to a Group Company or a Group Company to any
Person of exclusive rights of any kind;
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(vi) all Contracts that
provide for the assumption of any Tax, environmental or other
Liability of any Person;
(vii) all Contracts that
relate to the acquisition or disposition of any business, a
material amount of stock or assets of any other Person or any real
property (whether by merger, sale of stock, sale of assets or
otherwise);
(viii) all Contracts with
distributors and sales representatives;
(ix) all broker, dealer,
manufacturer’s representative, franchise, agency, sales
promotion, market research, marketing consulting and advertising
Contracts;
(x) all Contracts with
employees and independent contractors and consultants;
(xi) except for
Contracts relating to trade receivables, all Contracts relating to
Indebtedness;
(xii) all franchise,
construction, fidelity, performance and other bonds, guaranties in
lieu of bonds and letters of credit posted by or on behalf of the
Company;
(xiii) all Contracts with
any Governmental Authority;
(xiv) all Contracts that
limit or purport to limit the ability of any Group Company to
compete in any line of business or with any Person or in any
geographic area or during any period of time, that restriction the
ability of any Group Company to do business with any Person or hire
or solicit any Person, or that restricts the right of any Group
Company to sell to or purchase from any Person, or that grants the
other party or any third person “most favored nation”
status or any type of special discount rights, or grants any rights
of first refusal, rights of first negotiation or similar rights to
any Person;
(xv) all Contracts
pursuant to which a Group Company is the lessee or lessor of, or
holds, uses, or makes available for use to any Person, (A) any
real property or (B) any tangible personal property and, in
the case of clause (B), that involves an aggregate future or
potential liability or receivable, as the case may be, in excess of
$25,000;
(xvi) all Contracts for
the sale or purchase of any real property, or for the sale or
purchase of any tangible personal property in an amount in excess
of $25,000;
(xvii) all Contracts
providing for indemnification to or from any Person and that was
not entered into the Ordinary Course of Business;
(xviii) all Contracts for
any joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement by any Group
Company;
(xix) all collective
bargaining agreements or Contracts with any Union;
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(xx) all Contracts
concerning the occupancy, management or operation of any Leased
Real Property (including brokerage contracts);
(xxi) all Contracts that
provide any other Person with “most favored nation” or
similar pricing or contain any special warranty, rebate
arrangement, “take or pay” arrangement, xxxx-down or
discount arrangement, agreement to take back or exchange goods,
consignment arrangement or similar understanding with a customer or
supplier of any Group Company;
(xxii) all powers of
attorney granted by a Group Company to any Person for any purpose
whatsoever;
(xxiii) all Contracts
purporting to be binding on any Affiliate of any Group
Company;
(xxiv) all Contracts
granting any rights of first refusal, rights of first negotiation
or similar rights to any Person;
(xxv) all Contracts that
involve payments based, in whole or in part, on profits, revenues,
fee income or other financial performance measures of any Group
Company;
(xxvi) any other Contract
that is material to the Group Companies and not otherwise disclosed
pursuant to this Section
5.9; and
(xxvii) any bids, proposals
or quotations, which if accepted would constitute a Material
Contract.
(b) Each Material
Contract is valid and binding on the applicable Group Company in
accordance with its terms and is in full force and effect. None of
the Group Companies or, to the Company’s Knowledge, any other
party thereto is in breach of or default under (or is alleged to be
in breach of or default under) in any material respect, or has
provided or received any notice of any intention to terminate, any
Material Contract. No party to a Material Contract has exercised
any termination rights with respect thereto or has given notice of
any significant dispute with respect thereto. No event or
circumstance has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or
both, would constitute an event of default under any Material
Contract or result in a termination thereof or would cause or
permit the acceleration or other changes of any right or obligation
or the loss of any benefit thereunder. Complete and correct copies
of each Material Contract (including all modifications, amendments
and supplements thereto and waivers thereunder) have been made
available to Acquiror.
(c) No Group Company is
a party to any Contract that will bind Acquiror or any of its
Affiliates (other than the Company) with respect to
Acquiror’s or Acquiror’s Affiliates’ own
customers, products or services or otherwise.
(a) No Group Company
owns, directly or indirectly, or has ever owned, any real property,
nor does any Group Company hold title to any real
property.
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(b) Section 5.10(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists (i) the street address of each
parcel of real property leased or subleased by any Group Company,
together with all buildings, structures and facilities located
thereon (“Leased
Real Property”); (ii) the landlord under the
lease, the rental amount currently being paid, and the expiration
of the term of such lease or sublease for each leased or subleased
property; and (iii) the current use of such property. The
Company has delivered or made available to Acquiror true, complete
and correct copies of any leases, subleases, or other occupancy
agreements, and any amendments, guaranties or addendums thereto,
including all notices exercising renewal, expansion or termination
rights thereunder affecting the Leased Real Property. No Group
Company is a sublessor or grantor under any sublease or other
instrument granting to any other Person any right to the
possession, lease, occupancy or enjoyment of any Leased Real
Property. The use and operation of the Leased Real Property in the
conduct of the Group Companies’ business do not violate in
any material respect any Law, covenant, condition, restriction,
easement, license, permit or agreement. No material improvements
constituting a part of the Leased Real Property encroach on real
property owned or leased by a Person other than the Group
Companies. There are no Actions pending nor, to the Company’s
Knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Leased Real Property
or any portion thereof or interest therein in the nature or in lieu
of condemnation or eminent domain proceedings.
(c) The Company has
made available to Acquiror all title reports, surveys, title
policies, environmental audits or reports, maintenance reports,
permits and appraisals with respect to the Leased Real Property to
the extent any of the foregoing are in the possession of the
Company or the agents under its control.
(d) No Group Company
has leased or sublet, as lessor, sub lessor, licensor or the like,
any of the Leased Real Property to any Person. The Leased Real
Property has access, in all material respects, sufficient for the
conduct of Ordinary Course of Business, including to public roads
and to all utilities, (including electricity, internet, sanitary
and storm sewer, potable water, natural gas and other utilities,
used in the operation of the business at that
location).
(e) The Leased Real
Property constitutes all of the real property utilized by the Group
Companies.
(f) The Leased Real
Property is sufficient for the conduct of the Group
Companies’ business. All buildings, structures and
appurtenances comprising part of the Leased Real Property that are
currently being used by the Group Companies are structurally sound
and in satisfactory condition and have been reasonably maintained,
normal wear and tear excepted. No Group Company has an obligation
to restore the premises subject to the Leased Real Property to
their condition at the start of the applicable lease or otherwise,
whether on the date hereof or at the termination or expiration of
the lease.
(a) Each Group Company
has good and marketable title to, or a valid and binding leasehold
or license interest in, all of the tangible personal property and
assets used by such Group Company (the “Personal Property”), free
and clear of all Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances.
The Personal Property, together with all other properties and
assets of the Group Companies, are sufficient for the continued
conduct of the Group Companies’ business after the Closing in
substantially the same manner as conducted prior to the Closing and
constitute all of the rights, property and assets necessary to
conduct the Group Companies’ business in such
manner.
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(b) The Personal
Property is structurally sound, in good operating condition and
repair, and adequate for the uses to which they are being put, and
none of the Personal Property is in need of maintenance or repairs
except for ordinary, routine maintenance and repairs that are not
material in nature or cost.
(a) As used
herein:
(i)
“Company Intellectual
Property” means all Intellectual Property that is
owned or held for use by any Group Company.
(ii)
“Company IP Agreements”
means all licenses, sublicenses, consent to use agreements,
settlements, coexistence agreements, covenants not to xxx,
permissions and other Contracts (including any right to receive or
obligation to pay royalties or any other consideration), whether
written or oral, relating to Intellectual Property to which any
Group Company is a party, beneficiary or otherwise
bound.
(iii)
“Company IP Registrations”
means all Company Intellectual Property that is subject to any
issuance registration, application or other filing by, to or with
any Governmental Authority or authorized private registrar in any
jurisdiction, including registered trademarks, domain names and
copyrights, issued and reissued patents and pending applications
for any of the foregoing.
(iv)
“Intellectual Property”
means all intellectual property and industrial property rights and
assets, and all rights, interests and protections that are
associated with, similar to, or required for the exercise of, any
of the foregoing, however arising, pursuant to the Laws of any
jurisdiction throughout the world, whether registered or
unregistered, including any and all: (a) trademarks, service marks,
trade names, brand names, logos, trade dress, design rights and
other similar designations of source, sponsorship, association or
origin, together with the goodwill connected with the use of and
symbolized by, and all registrations, applications and renewals
for, any of the foregoing; (b) internet domain names, whether or
not trademarks, registered in any top-level domain by any
authorized private registrar or Governmental Authority, web
addresses, web pages, websites and related content, accounts with
Twitter, Facebook and other social media companies and the content
found thereon and related thereto, and URLs; (c) works of
authorship, expressions, designs and design registrations, whether
or not copyrightable, including copyrights, author, performer,
moral and neighboring rights, and all registrations, applications
for registration and renewals of such copyrights; (d) inventions,
discoveries, trade secrets, business and technical information and
know-how, databases, data collections and other confidential and
proprietary information and all rights therein; (e) patents
(including all reissues, divisionals, provisionals, continuations
and continuations-in-part, re-examinations, renewals, substitutions
and extensions thereof), patent applications, and other patent
rights and any other Governmental Authority-issued indicia of
invention ownership (including inventor’s certificates, xxxxx
patents and patent utility models); (f) Software; and (g)
semiconductor chips and mask works.
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(v) “Software” means any and
all (a) computer programs, including any and all software
implementations of algorithms, heuristics, models and
methodologies, whether in source code or object code, (b) testing,
validation, verification and quality assurance materials, (c)
databases, conversions, interpreters and compilations, including
any and all data and collections of data, whether machine readable
or otherwise, (d) descriptions, schematics, flow-charts and other
work product used to design, plan, organize and develop any of the
foregoing, (e) all documentation, including user manuals, web
materials and architectural and design specifications and training
materials, relating to any of the foregoing, (f) software
development processes, practices, methods and policies recorded in
permanent form, relating to any of the foregoing, and (g)
performance metrics, sightings, bug and feature lists, build,
release and change control manifests recorded in permanent form,
relating to any of the foregoing.
(b) Section 5.13(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists all (i) Company IP Registrations and
(ii) Company Intellectual Property, including Software, that
are not registered but that are material to the Group
Companies’ business or operations. All required filings and
fees related to the Company IP Registrations have been timely filed
with and paid to the relevant Governmental Authorities and
authorized registrars, and all Company IP Registrations are
otherwise in good standing. The Company has provided Acquiror with
true and complete copies of file histories, documents,
certificates, office actions, correspondence and other materials
related to all Company IP Registrations.
(c) Section 5.13(d) of the
Disclosure Schedule lists all Company IP Agreements. The Company
has provided Acquiror with true and complete copies of all such
Company IP Agreements, including all modifications, amendments and
supplements thereto and waivers thereunder. Each Company IP
Agreement is valid and binding on the applicable Group Company in
accordance with its terms and is in full force and effect. Neither
any Group Company nor any other party thereto is in breach of or
default under (or is alleged to be in breach of or default under),
or has provided or received any notice of breach or default of or
any intention to terminate, any Company IP Agreement.
(d) A Group Company is
the sole and exclusive legal and beneficial, and with respect to
the Company IP Registrations, record, owner of all right, title and
interest in and to the Company Intellectual Property, and has the
valid right to use all other Intellectual Property used in or
necessary for the conduct of the Group Companies’ current
business or operations, in each case, free and clear of
Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, each Group Company has entered
into binding, written agreements with every current and former
employee of such Group Company, and with every current and former
independent contractor, whereby such employees and independent
contractors (i) assign to such Group Company any ownership
interest and right they may have in the Company Intellectual
Property; and (ii) acknowledge the Group Company’s
exclusive ownership of all Company Intellectual Property. The
Company has provided Acquiror with true and complete copies of all
such agreements.
(e) The consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereunder will not result in the loss
or impairment of or payment of any additional amounts with respect
to, nor require the consent of any other Person in respect of, any
Group Company’s right to own, use or hold for use any
Intellectual Property as owned, used or held for use in the conduct
of the Company’s business or operations as currently
conducted.
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(f) The Group
Companies’ rights in the Company Intellectual Property are
valid, subsisting and enforceable. Each Group Company has taken all
reasonable steps to maintain the Company Intellectual Property and
to protect and preserve the confidentiality of all trade secrets
included in the Company Intellectual Property, including requiring
all Persons having access thereto to execute written non-disclosure
agreements.
(g) The conduct of the
Group Companies’ business as currently and formerly
conducted, and the products, processes and services of the Group
Companies, have not infringed, misappropriated, diluted or
otherwise violated, and do not and will not infringe, dilute,
misappropriate or otherwise violate the Intellectual Property or
other rights of any Person. No Person has infringed,
misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated, or is currently
infringing, misappropriating, diluting or otherwise violating, any
Company Intellectual Property.
(h) There are no
Actions (including any oppositions, interferences or
re-examinations) settled, pending or threatened (including in the
form of offers to obtain a license): (i) alleging any
infringement, misappropriation, dilution or violation of the
Intellectual Property of any Person by any Group Company;
(ii) challenging the validity, enforceability, registrability
or ownership of any Company Intellectual Property or any Group
Company’s rights with respect to any Company Intellectual
Property; or (iii) by any Group Company or any other Person
alleging any infringement, misappropriation, dilution or violation
by any Person of the Company Intellectual Property. No Group
Company is subject to any outstanding or prospective Governmental
Order (including any motion or petition therefor) that does or
would restrict or impair the use of any Company Intellectual
Property.
(i) The computer,
information technology and data processing systems, facilities and
services used by any Group Company, including all software,
hardware, networks, communications facilities, platforms and
related systems and services in the custody or control of a Group
Company (collectively, “Systems”), are reasonably
sufficient for the existing needs of the applicable Group Company,
including as to capacity, scalability and ability to process
current peak volumes in a timely manner; the Systems are in good
working condition to effectively perform all computing, information
technology and data processing operations necessary for the
operation of the Group Companies; all Systems (to the extent
dedicated to a Group Company), other than software that is duly and
validly licensed to such Group Company pursuant to a valid and
enforceable Contract, are owned and operated by, and or are under
the control of, the applicable Group Company. To the
Company’s Knowledge, no Person has gained unauthorized access
to any of the Systems that would compromise to any material degree
the value or confidentiality of such Systems or that would
necessitate that the Company notify a third person of such
unauthorized access. The Group Companies have implemented all
critical security patches provided by third party licensors for the
Systems. The Group Companies have disaster recovery plans and
procedures for its business. The Group Companies maintain policies
and procedures regarding data security and privacy that are
commercially reasonable and in material compliance with Law. To the
Company’s Knowledge, there has been no material security
breach relating to, violation of any security policy regarding, or
unauthorized access or unauthorized use of, the
Systems.
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5.15 Accounts
Receivable; Accounts Payable.
(a) The accounts
receivable reflected on the Interim Balance Sheet and the accounts
receivable arising after the date thereof (a) have arisen from
bona fide transactions entered into by the applicable Group Company
involving the sale of goods or the rendering of services in the
Ordinary Course of Business; (b) constitute only valid,
undisputed claims of the applicable Group Company not subject to
claims of set-off or other defenses or counterclaims other than
normal cash discounts accrued in the Ordinary Course of Business;
and (c) subject to a reserve for bad debts shown on the
Interim Balance Sheet or, with respect to accounts receivable
arising after the Interim Balance Sheet Date, on the accounting
records of the applicable Group Company, are collectible in full
within sixty (60) days after billing. The reserve for bad debts
shown on the Interim Balance Sheet or, with respect to accounts
receivable arising after the Interim Balance Sheet Date, on the
accounting records of the applicable Group Company have been
determined in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied, subject
to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of disclosures
normally made in footnotes. To the Knowledge of the Company, no
account debtor has refused or threatened to refuse to pay its
obligations for any reason, no account debtor is insolvent or
bankrupt, and no account receivable is pledged to any third
party.
(b) The accounts
payable reflected on the Interim Balance Sheet and arising after
the date thereof have arisen from bona fide transactions entered
into by the applicable Group Company in the Ordinary Course of
Business. No Group Company has written-off or reversed any accounts
payable or liability reserves in a manner inconsistent with prior
practice. The accrued expenses reflected on the Interim Balance
Sheet or accrued after the date thereof have arisen from bona fide
transactions entered into by the applicable Group Company in the
Ordinary Course of Business
(a) Section 5.16(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of the ten (10) largest
customers (“Material
Customers”) of the Group Companies, as measured by the
dollar amount of revenues recognized by the Company, during the
twelve (12) month period ended December 31, 2019 and the five (5)
month period ended May 31, 2020, showing the amount of revenues
recognized by the Group Companies from such customer during each
such period. To the Knowledge of the Company, there are no
bankruptcies filed by, on behalf of, or against any Material
Customer. None of the Material Customers have been in arrears to
the Company more than ninety (90) days in the twelve (12) month
period prior to the date of this Agreement.
(b) Section 5.16(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all Contracts with
Material Customers which are the subject of an ongoing competitive
bidding process, or for which the Company has been notified or
informed in writing or, to the Knowledge of the Company, orally,
that it will be the subject of a competitive bidding process within
twelve (12) months after the date of this Agreement.
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(c) Section 5.16(c) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of the ten (10) largest
suppliers (“Material
Suppliers”) of the Group Companies, as measured by the
dollar volume of purchases from such suppliers, during the twelve
(12) month period ended December 31, 2019 and the five (5) month
period ended May 31, 2020, showing the amount of payments made by
the Group Companies to each such supplier during each such period.
To the Knowledge of the Company, there are no bankruptcies filed
by, on behalf of, or against any Material Supplier. There are no
suppliers of products or services to the Company that are material
to the Group Companies’ business with respect to which
practical alternative sources of supply are not generally available
on comparable terms and conditions in the marketplace.
(d) No Group Company
has received notice from any Material Customer or Material Supplier
that such Material Customer or Material Supplier, and to the
Company’s Knowledge, no Material Customer or Material
Supplier, will, intends to, or is considering terminating,
cancelling, discontinuing, reducing, changing the terms (whether
related to payment, price, quantity of business or otherwise) of,
or otherwise adversely modifying, in each case in any material
respect, its business with the Group Companies, whether as a result
of any of the transaction described in this Agreement or otherwise
(and the Company does not have any reasonable basis to believe that
any reasons exist or as a result of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or any potential change in management or
ownership of the Company would exist for any Material Customer or
Material Supplier to take any such action). No Group Company is, or
has during the past twelve (12) months been, involved in any
material claim, dispute or controversy with any Material Customer
or any Material Supplier.
5.17 Insurance. Section 5.17 of the Disclosure
Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of all current
policies or binders of fire, liability, product liability, umbrella
liability, real and personal property, workers’ compensation,
vehicular, directors’ and officers’ liability,
fiduciary liability and other casualty and property insurance
maintained by the Company or any Transferor or any of their
respective Affiliates (including the Group Companies) and relating
to the assets, business, operations, employees, officers and
directors of the Group Companies (collectively, the
“Insurance
Policies”) and true and complete copies of the
Insurance Policies have been made available to Acquiror. The
Insurance Policies are in full force and effect and shall remain in
full force and effect following the consummation of the
Transactions, and none of the Insurance Policies are written on a
claims- made basis or will otherwise go into run-off at or
following the Closing. No Group Company has received any notice of
cancellation of, premium increase with respect to, or alteration of
coverage under, any of the Insurance Policies. All premiums due on
the Insurance Policies have either been paid or, if due and payable
prior to Closing, will be paid prior to Closing in accordance with
the payment terms of each Insurance Policy. No Group Company has
any liability due for any retrospective premium adjustment, audit
premium adjustment, experience based liability or loss sharing cost
adjustment under any of the Insurance Policies. All the Insurance
Policies (a) are valid and binding in accordance with their
terms; (b) are provided by carriers who are financially
solvent; and (c) have not been subject to any lapse in
coverage. There are no claims related to the business of the Group
Companies pending under any the Insurance Policies as to which
coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed or in respect of
which there is an outstanding reservation of rights. No Group
Company is in default under, and has not otherwise failed to comply
with, in any material respect, any provision contained in any the
Insurance Policy. The Insurance Policies are of the type and in the
amounts customarily carried by Persons conducting a business
similar to the Group Companies and are sufficient for compliance
with all applicable Laws and Contracts to which any Group Company
is a party or by which it is bound.
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5.18 Legal
Proceedings; Governmental Orders.
(a) Section 5.18(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule identifies and provides a summary of the status
and material claims involved in each Action that is currently or
the past five years was pending, or, to the Company’s
Knowledge, threatened against or by any Group Company (or any of
its Representatives with respect to their business activities on
behalf of any Group Company) affecting any of its properties or
assets. Except as set forth in such Section 5.18(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule, the Group Companies have insurance that will
cover all Losses that may be incurred by any Group Company in
connection with each such pending Action.
(b) There are no
Actions pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened
against or by any Group Company that challenges or seeks to
prevent, enjoin or otherwise delay the Transactions. No event has
occurred or circumstances exist that may give rise to, or serve as
a basis for, any such Action.
(c) There are no, nor
in the past five (5) years have there been any, outstanding
Governmental Orders and no unsatisfied judgments, penalties or
awards against or affecting any Group Company (or any of its
Representatives with respect to their business activities on behalf
of the Group Companies) or any of its properties or assets. No
event has occurred or circumstances exist that may constitute or
result in (with or without notice or lapse of time) a violation of
any such Governmental Order.
(a) Each Group Company
has been in compliance in all material respects with all Laws. No
Group Company has been charged with and is not now under
investigation with respect to, a violation of any Law. No Group
Company has received any communication during the past five
(5) years from a
Governmental Authority that alleges that any Group Company is not
in compliance with any Law.
(b) The Group Companies
(i) hold, and are in compliance in all material respects with
the terms of, all Permits that are necessary to enable the Group
Companies to conduct their business, all of which are listed on
Section 5.19(b) of
the Disclosure Schedule, (ii) have not received any notice of
the institution of any Action to revoke any such Permits or
alleging that any Group Company fails to hold such Permits,
(iii) have not received any notice that any loss or expiration
of any Permit is pending, other than expiration in accordance with
the terms thereof, and (iv) have no Knowledge of any
threatened or reasonably foreseeable loss or expiration of any
Permit, other than expiration in accordance with the terms thereof.
The Permits are valid and in full force and effect and none of the
Permits will be terminated or impaired or become terminable as a
result of the Transactions
(c) With respect to any
securities of the Company to be transferred hereunder in reliance
on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of
its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive
officer, other officer of the Company participating in the
Transactions, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the
Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on
the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is
defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the
Company in any capacity at the time of transfer (each, an
“Issuer Covered
Person” and, together, “Issuer Covered Persons”)
is subject to any Disqualification Event, except for a
Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The
Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any
Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The
Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure
obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Acquiror a
copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.
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5.20 Environmental
Matters.
(a) As used
herein:
(i)
“Environmental Claim”
means any Action, Governmental Order, lien, fine, penalty, or, as
to each, any settlement or judgment arising therefrom, by or from
any Person alleging liability of whatever kind or nature (including
liability or responsibility for the costs of enforcement
proceedings, investigations, cleanup, governmental response,
removal or remediation, natural resources damages, property
damages, personal injuries, medical monitoring, penalties,
contribution, indemnification and injunctive relief) arising out
of, based on or resulting from: (a) the presence, Release of, or
exposure to, any Hazardous Materials; or (b) any actual or alleged
non-compliance with any Environmental Law or term or condition of
any Environmental Permit.
(ii)
“Environmental Law” means
any applicable Law, and any Governmental Order or binding agreement
with any Governmental Authority: (a) relating to pollution (or the
cleanup thereof) or the protection of natural resources, endangered
or threatened species, human health or safety, or the environment
(including ambient air, soil, surface water or groundwater, or
subsurface strata); or (b) concerning the presence of, exposure to,
or the management, manufacture, use, containment, storage,
recycling, reclamation, reuse, treatment, generation, discharge,
transportation, processing, production, disposal or remediation of
any Hazardous Materials. The term “Environmental Law”
includes, without limitation, the following (including their
implementing regulations and any state analogs): the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as
amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of
1986, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601 et seq.; the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act of 1976, as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments
of 1984, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et seq.; the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, as amended by the Clean Water
Act of 1977, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq.; the Toxic
Substances Control Act of 1976, as amended, 15 U.S.C.
§§ 2601 et seq.; the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C.
§§ 11001 et seq.; the Clean Air Act of 1966, as
amended by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, 42 U.S.C.
§§ 7401 et seq.; and the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651 et
seq.
(iii)
“Environmental Notice”
means any written directive, notice of violation or infraction, or
notice respecting any Environmental Claim relating to actual or
alleged non-compliance with any Environmental Law or any term or
condition of any Environmental Permit.
(iv)
“Environmental Permit”
means any Permit, letter, clearance, consent, waiver, closure,
exemption, decision or other action required under or issued,
granted, given, authorized by or made pursuant to Environmental
Law.
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(v) “Hazardous Materials”
means all pollutants, contaminants, wastes, hazardous or toxic
substances or materials, including all substances defined as
Hazardous Substances, Oils, Pollutants or Contaminants in the
National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan,
40 C.F.R. § 300.5, toxic mold, asbestos and
asbestos-containing materials, ignitable, reactive or corrosive
substances, by-products, process intermediate products or wastes,
petroleum or petroleum fractions and products, lead-containing
paint, urea-formaldehyde insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls,
radon, chemical liquids or solids, liquid or gaseous products, or
any constituent of any such substance or waste, the use, handling
or disposal of which by any Group Company could reasonably be
expected to result in liability under any applicable Environmental
Law or that is or is defined as hazardous, toxic or injurious by,
or regulated as such under, any Law or is in any way governed by or
subject to any applicable Environmental Laws.
(vi)
“Release” means any actual
or threatened release, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching,
dumping, abandonment, disposing or allowing to escape or migrate
into or through the environment (including, without limitation,
ambient air (indoor or outdoor), surface water, groundwater, land
surface or subsurface strata or within any building, structure,
facility or fixture).
(b) Each Group Company
is currently and has been in compliance with all Environmental Laws
and has not, and no Group Company has received from any Person any:
(i) Environmental Notice or Environmental Claim; or
(ii) written request for information pursuant to Environmental
Law, which, in each case, either remains pending or unresolved, or
is the source of ongoing obligations or requirements as of the
Closing Date. Each Group Company has all Environmental Permits
required for the conduct of the Group Companies’ business as
presently conducted under applicable Environmental Laws and is in
compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions
of such Environmental Permits and all applicable Environmental
Laws.
(c) There has been no
Release of Hazardous Materials in contravention of Environmental
Law with respect to the business or assets of any Group Company or
any real property currently or formerly owned, operated or leased
by any Group Company, and no Group Company has received an
Environmental Notice that any real property currently or formerly
owned, operated or leased in connection with the business of a
Group Company (including soils, groundwater, surface water,
buildings and other structure located on any such real property)
has been contaminated with any Hazardous Material which could
reasonably be expected to result in an Environmental Claim against,
or a violation of Environmental Law or term of any Environmental
Permit by any Group Company.
(d) No Group Company
has retained or assumed, by contract or operation of Law, any
liabilities or obligations of third parties under Environmental
Law.
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(e) The Company has
provided or otherwise made available to Acquiror: (i) any and
all environmental reports, studies, audits, records, sampling data,
site assessments, risk assessments, economic models and other
similar documents with respect to the business or assets of any
Group Company or any currently or formerly owned, operated or
leased real property which are in the possession or control of any
Group Company related to compliance with Environmental Laws,
Environmental Claims or an Environmental Notice or the Release of
Hazardous Materials; and (ii) any and all material documents
concerning planned or anticipated capital expenditures required to
reduce, offset, limit or otherwise control pollution and/or
emissions, manage waste or otherwise ensure compliance with current
or future Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, costs
of remediation, pollution control equipment and operational
changes).
(a) Section
5.21(a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a true and
complete list of each pension, benefit, retirement, compensation,
profit-sharing, deferred compensation, incentive, performance
award, phantom equity, stock or stock-based, change in control,
retention, severance, vacation, paid time off, fringe-benefit and
other similar agreement, plan, policy, program or arrangement (and
any amendments thereto), in each case whether or not reduced to
writing and whether funded or unfunded, including each
“employee benefit plan” within the meaning of
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder
(“ERISA”), whether or not tax-qualified and whether or
not subject to ERISA, which is or has been maintained, sponsored,
contributed to, or required to be contributed to by any
Group Company or any other Person that, together with any
Group Company, would be treated as a single employer within the
meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code (an
“ERISA Affiliate”) for the benefit of any current
or former employee, officer, director, retiree, independent
contractor or consultant of any Group Company or its ERISA
Affiliates or any spouse or dependent of such individual, or under
which any Group Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates has or
may have any Liability, or with respect to which Acquiror or
any of its Affiliates would reasonably be expected to have any
Liability, contingent or otherwise (each, a “Benefit Plan”).
(b) With respect to
each Benefit Plan, the Company has made available to
Acquiror accurate, current and complete copies of each of the
following: (i) where the Benefit Plan has been reduced to
writing, the plan document together with all amendments;
(ii) where the Benefit Plan has not been reduced to writing, a
written summary of all material plan terms; (iii) where
applicable, copies of any trust agreements or other funding
arrangements, custodial agreements, insurance policies and
contracts, administration agreements and similar agreements, and
investment management or investment advisory agreements, now in
effect or required in the future as a result of the Transactions or
otherwise; (iv) copies of any summary plan descriptions,
summaries of material modifications, employee handbooks and any
other written communications (or a description of any oral
communications) relating to any Benefit Plan; (v) in the case
of any Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under
Section 401(a) of the Code, a copy of the most recent
favorable determination, opinion or advisory letter from the
Internal Revenue Service; (vi) in the case of any Benefit Plan
for which a Form 5500 is required to be filed, copies of the three
most recently filed Forms 5500, with schedules attached;
(vii) the financial statements and/or actuarial valuations and
reports related to any Benefit Plans with respect to the two most
recently completed plan years, and a current estimate of accrued
and anticipated liabilities thereunder; (viii) copies of
material notices, letters or other correspondence with respect to
the registration, maintenance or qualification requirements
applicable to a Benefit Plan from any Governmental Authority,
including, without limitation, the Internal Revenue Service,
Department of Labor or Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
relating to the Benefit Plan; and (ix) the three most recent,
annual nondiscrimination tests for each Benefit Plan for which such
nondiscrimination tests are required by applicable
Law.
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(c) Each Benefit Plan
has been established, administered and maintained in accordance
with its terms and in compliance with all applicable Laws
(including ERISA and the Code). Each Benefit Plan that is
intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code
(a “Qualified Benefit
Plan”) is so qualified and has received a favorable
and current determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service,
or with respect to a prototype plan, can rely on an opinion letter
from the Internal Revenue Service to the prototype plan sponsor, to
the effect that such Qualified Benefit Plan is so qualified and
that the plan and the trust related thereto are exempt from federal
income taxes under Sections 401(a) and 501(a), respectively,
of the Code, and nothing has occurred that could reasonably be
expected to cause the revocation of such determination letter from
the Internal Revenue Service or the unavailability of reliance on
such opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service, as
applicable, nor has such revocation or unavailability been
threatened. Nothing has occurred with respect to any Benefit
Plan that has subjected or could reasonably be expected to subject
any Group Company or, with respect to any period on or after the
Closing Date, Acquiror or any of its Affiliates, to a penalty
under Section 502 of ERISA or to tax or penalty under
Section 4975 of the Code. All benefits, contributions
and premiums relating to each Benefit Plan have been timely paid in
accordance with the terms of such Benefit Plan and all applicable
Laws and accounting principles, and all benefits accrued under any
unfunded Benefit Plan have been paid, accrued or otherwise
adequately reserved to the extent required by, and in accordance
with, GAAP. Each Group Company has timely filed all requisite
governmental reports (which were true, correct and complete as of
the date filed), including any required audit reports, and has
properly and timely filed and distributed or posted all notices and
reports to employees required to be filed, distributed or posted
with respect to the Benefit Plans.
(d) Neither any Group
Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has ever sponsored,
maintained, or contributed to any (i) Benefit Plan that is or
was subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 302 of ERISA or
Section 412 of the Code; (ii) “multiemployer
plan” within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA;
(iii) “multiple employer plan” within the
meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code; or
(iv) “funded welfare plan” within the meaning
of Section 419 of the Code.
(e) No provision of
any Benefit Plan or collective bargaining agreement could
reasonably be expected to result in any limitation on
Acquiror or any of its Affiliates from amending or terminating
any Benefit Plan prior to or after the Closing and without
incurring any expenses (including, but not limited to, loads,
surrender fees, termination or deferred sales charges imposed with
respect to insurance products or other financial products used to
fund such Benefit Plans), other than reasonable administrative
expenses in connection with such termination. No
Group Company has any commitment or obligation and
has not made any representations to any employee, officer,
director, independent contractor or consultant, whether or not
legally binding, to adopt, amend or modify any Benefit Plan or any
collective bargaining agreement, in connection with the
consummation of the Transactions or otherwise.
(f) No Benefit Plan
provides health benefits (whether or not insured) with respect to
employees or former employees (or any of their beneficiaries) of
any Group Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates after retirement
or other termination of service (other than coverage or benefits
(i) required to be provided under Part 6 of Subtitle B of
Title I of ERISA or any similar state continuation coverage Laws or
(ii) the full cost of which is borne by the employee or former
employee (or any of their beneficiaries)).
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(g) There is no
pending or, to Company’s Knowledge, threatened Action
relating to a Benefit Plan (other than routine claims for
benefits), and no Benefit Plan has within the three years prior to
the date hereof been the subject of an examination or audit by a
Governmental Authority or the subject of an application or filing
under or is a participant in, an amnesty, voluntary compliance,
self-correction or similar program sponsored by any Governmental
Authority.
(h) Each Benefit Plan
that is subject to Section 409A of the Code has been
maintained and operated in compliance with such section and all
applicable regulatory guidance (including notices, rulings and
proposed and final regulations), and no amounts deferred under any
such plan is, or upon vesting will be, subject to the interest and
additional Tax set forth under Section 409A(a)(1)(B) of the
Code. Neither any Group Company nor any of its ERISA
Affiliates has any indemnity or gross-up obligation to any service
provider for any Taxes or penalties imposed under
Sections 4999 or 409A of the Code.
(i) Each individual
who is classified by a Group Company as an independent contractor
has been properly classified for purposes of participation and
benefit accrual under each Benefit Plan.
(j) Neither the
execution of this Agreement nor any of the Transactions will
(either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or
subsequent events): (i) entitle any current or former
director, officer, employee, independent contractor or consultant
of any Group Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates to severance
pay or any other payment; (ii) accelerate the time of payment,
funding or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation due to
any such individual; (iii) limit or restrict the right of any
Group Company to merge, amend or terminate any Benefit Plan;
(iv) increase the amount payable under or result in any other
material obligation pursuant to any Benefit Plan; or (v)
result in any amount paid or payable by any Group Company (or
by any of its Affiliates or by any Person who acquires ownership or
effective control of a Group Company or ownership of a substantial
portion of the Group Companies’ assets (within the
meaning of section 280G of the Code)): (A) constituting an
“excess parachute payment” within the meaning of
Code Section 280G or Code Section 4999, or (B) being not deductible
by any Group Company by reason of Code Section
280G.
(a) Section 5.22(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule contains a list of all persons who are
employees, independent contractors or consultants of any Group
Company as of the date hereof, including any employee who is on a
leave of absence of any nature, paid or unpaid, authorized or
unauthorized, and sets forth for each such individual the
following: (i) name; (ii) title or position (including
whether full or part time); (iii) hire date; (iv) current
annual base compensation rate; (v) commission, bonus or other
incentive-based compensation; and (vi) a description of the
fringe benefits provided to each such individual as of the date
hereof. Except as set forth in Section 5.22(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule, as of the date hereof, all compensation,
including wages, commissions and bonuses, payable to employees,
independent contractors or consultants of any Group Company for
services performed on or prior to the date hereof have been paid in
full and there are no outstanding agreements, understandings or
commitments of any Group Company with respect to any compensation,
commissions or bonuses.
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(b) No Group Company
is, or has been, a party to, bound by, or negotiating any
collective bargaining agreement or other Contract with a union,
works council or labor organization (collectively,
“Union”), and there is
not, and has not been, any Union representing or purporting to
represent any employee of any Group Company, and, to the
Company’s Knowledge, no Union or group of employees is
seeking or has sought to organize employees for the purpose of
collective bargaining. There has never been, nor has there been any
threat of, any strike, slowdown, work stoppage, lockout, concerted
refusal to work overtime or other similar labor disruption or
dispute affecting any Group Company or any of its employees. No
Group Company has any duty to bargain with any Union.
(c) Each Group Company
is and has been in compliance in all material respects with all
applicable Laws pertaining to employment and employment practices,
including all Laws relating to labor relations, equal employment
opportunities, fair employment practices, employment
discrimination, harassment, retaliation, reasonable accommodation,
disability rights or benefits, immigration, wages, hours, overtime
compensation, child labor, hiring, promotion and termination of
employees, working conditions, meal and break periods, privacy,
health and safety, workers’ compensation, leaves of absence
and unemployment insurance. All individuals characterized and
treated by a Group Company as independent contractors or
consultants are properly treated as independent contractors under
all applicable Laws. All employees classified as exempt under the
Fair Labor Standards Act and state and local wage and hour laws are
properly classified. There are no Actions against any Group Company
pending, or to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to be
brought or filed, by or with any Governmental Authority or
arbitrator in connection with the employment of any current or
former applicant, employee, consultant, or independent contractor
of any Group Company, including, without limitation, any claim
relating to unfair labor practices, employment discrimination,
harassment, retaliation, equal pay, wage and hours or any other
employment related matter arising under applicable
Laws.
(d) Each Group
Company has complied with the federal Worker Adjustment and
Retraining Notification Act of 1988, and similar state, local and
foreign laws related to plant closings, relocations, mass layoffs
and employment losses (the “WARN Act”) and it has no
plans to undertake any action in the future that would trigger the
WARN Act.
(e) To the Knowledge of
the Company, no key employee intends to terminate his or her
employment.
(a) All Tax Returns
required to be filed on or before the Closing Date by any Group
Company have been, or will be, timely filed. Such Tax Returns are,
or when filed will be, true, complete and correct in all respects.
All Taxes due and owing by any Group Company (whether or not shown
on any Tax Return) have been, or will be, timely paid. All
estimated Taxes required to be paid by or with respect to any Group
Company have been paid.
(b) Each Group Company
has (i) properly deducted or withheld and timely paid to the
appropriate Governmental Authorities all Taxes required by Law to
be deducted, withheld or paid by it, including in connection with
amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor,
creditor, customer, stockholder or other party, and (ii) complied
with all information reporting and backup withholding provisions of
applicable Law.
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(c) No claim has been
made by any taxing authority in any jurisdiction where any Group
Company does not file Tax Returns that it is, or may be, subject to
Tax by that jurisdiction. Section 5.23(c) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth each state, county, local
municipal, domestic or foreign jurisdiction or Governmental
Authority in or with which any Company (i) files a Tax Return,
(ii) is registered for any Tax purpose, (iii) treats
itself as liable for any Tax on a “nexus” basis,
(iv) is qualified to do business, (v) owns or regularly
uses property on anything other than a transient basis,
(vi) has any employee or in which any employee is regularly
present, or (vii) has any agent, representative or
distributor.
(d) No extensions or
waivers of statutes of limitations have been given or requested
with respect to any Taxes of any Group Company.
(e) The amount of the
Group Companies’ Liability for unpaid Taxes for all periods
ending on or before May 31, 2020 does not, in the aggregate, exceed
the amount of accruals for Taxes (excluding reserves for deferred
Taxes) reflected on the Financial Statements. The amount of the
Group Companies’ Liability for unpaid Taxes for all periods
following the end of the recent period covered by the Financial
Statements shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the amount of
accruals for Taxes (excluding reserves for deferred Taxes) as
adjusted for the passage of time in accordance with the past custom
and practice of the Group Companies (and which accruals shall not
exceed comparable amounts incurred in similar periods in prior
years).
(f) Section 5.23(f) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth:
(i) the taxable years
of each Group Company as to which the applicable statutes of
limitations on the assessment and collection of Taxes have not
expired;
(ii) those years for
which examinations by the taxing authorities have been completed;
and
(iii) those taxable years
for which examinations by taxing authorities are presently being
conducted.
(g) All deficiencies
asserted, or assessments made, against any Group Company as a
result of any examinations by any taxing authority have been fully
paid.
(h) No Group Company is
a party to any Action by any taxing authority. There are no pending
or threatened Actions by any taxing authority.
(i) The Company has
delivered to Acquiror copies of all federal, state, local and
foreign income, franchise and similar Tax Returns, examination
reports, and statements of deficiencies assessed against, or agreed
to by, any Group Company for all Tax periods ending after December
31, 2015.
(j) There are no
Encumbrances for Taxes (other than for current Taxes not yet due
and payable) upon the assets of any Group Company.
(k) No Group Company is
a party to, or bound by, any Tax indemnity, Tax-sharing or Tax
allocation agreement that shall survive the Closing.
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(l) No Group Company is
a party to, or bound by, any closing agreement or offer in
compromise with any taxing authority.
(m) No private letter
rulings, technical advice memoranda or similar agreement or rulings
have been requested, entered into or issued by any taxing authority
with respect to any Group Company.
(n) No Group Company
has been a member of an affiliated, combined, consolidated or
unitary Tax group for Tax purposes other than a tax group of which
the Company is the parent. No Group Company has any Liability for
Taxes of any Person (other than the Company) under Treasury
Regulations Section 1.1502-6 (or any corresponding provision
of state, local or foreign Law), as transferee or successor, by
contract or otherwise.
(o) No Group Company
has agreed to make, nor is it required to make, any adjustment
under Sections 481(a) or 263A of the Code or any
comparable provision of state, local or foreign Tax Laws by reason
of a change in accounting method or otherwise. No Group Company has
taken any action that could defer a Liability for Taxes of any
Group Company from any Pre-Closing Tax Period to any Post-Closing
Tax Period.
(p) No Group Company
has been, nor will it be required hereunder to include any
adjustment in taxable income for any Tax period (or portion
thereof) pursuant to Section 481 of the Code or any comparable
provision under state or foreign Tax laws as a result of accounting
methods employed prior to the Closing, nor is any application
pending with a Governmental Authority requesting permission for any
changes in accounting methods that relate to the Companies. No
Group Company will be required hereunder to include in income, or
exclude any item of deduction from, taxable income for any taxable
period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a
result of any (i) “closing agreement” as described
in Code section 7121 (or any corresponding or similar provision of
state, local or foreign income Tax law), (ii) open transaction
or installment disposition made on or prior to the Closing Date,
(iii) intercompany transactions occurring at or prior to the
Closing or any excess loss account in existence at Closing
described in Treasury Regulations under Code section 1502 (or any
corresponding or similar provision of state, local or foreign
income Tax law), (iv) income from the discharge of
indebtedness that was deferred pursuant to the provisions of Code
section 108(i), or (v) prepaid amount received on or prior to
the Closing Date.
(q) No Group Company
is, nor has it been, a United States real property holding
corporation (as defined in Section 897(c)(2) of the Code)
during the applicable period specified in
Section 897(c)(1)(a) of the Code.
(r) No Group Company
has been a “distributing corporation” or a
“controlled corporation” in connection with a
distribution described in Section 355 of the
Code.
(s) No Group Company
has consummated or participated in, nor is it currently
participating in, any transaction which was or is a “Tax
shelter” transaction as defined in Sections 6662 or 6111
of the Code or the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. No
Group Company has participated in, and is not currently
participating in, a “Listed Transaction” or a
“Reportable Transaction” within the meaning of
Section 6707A(c) of the Code or Treasury Regulations
Section 1.6011-4(b), or any transaction requiring disclosure
under a corresponding or similar provision of state, local, or
foreign law.
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(t) There is currently
no limitation on the utilization of net operating losses, capital
losses, built-in losses, tax credits or similar items of any Group
Company under Sections 269, 382, 383, 384 or 1502 of the Code
and the Treasury Regulations thereunder (and comparable provisions
of state, local or foreign Law).
(u) Section 5.23(u) of the
Disclosure Schedule sets forth all foreign jurisdictions in
which any Group Company is subject to Tax, is engaged in business
or has a permanent establishment. No Group Company has entered into
a gain recognition agreement pursuant to Treasury Regulations
Section 1.367(a)-8. No Group Company has transferred an
intangible the transfer of which would be subject to the rules of
Section 367(d) of the Code.
(v) All transactions or
arrangements made by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries
with related parties have been made on arm’s length terms, in
accordance with applicable transfer pricing principles and the
processes by which prices, amounts and terms have been arrived at
have, in each case, been fully documented.
(w) No Group Company
owns, directly or indirectly, any interests in an entity that has
been or would be treated as a “passive foreign investment
company” within the meaning of Code Section
1297.
(x) No Group Company
will be required to include any amount in income pursuant to Code
Section 965 (including Section 965(h) for any Post Closing Tax
Period.
(y) None of the assets
of a Group Company is property that a Group Company is required to
treat as being owned by any other person pursuant to the so-called
“safe harbor lease” provisions of former
Section 168(f)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as
amended.
(a) Each Group
Company has been in compliance in all material respects with all
Export Control Laws applicable to it. “Export Control Laws”
means all Laws relating to U.S. export control and trade embargo
statutes, regulations, Governmental Orders, guidelines and policies
of the United States Government and each applicable Governmental
Authority of any country in which any Group Company conducts
business, including, but not limited to EU Export Control and EU
Sanctions Laws, the International Traffic In Arms Regulations (22
C.F.R. Parts 120-130 (2011)) of the U.S. Department of State; the
Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) (15 C.F.R. Parts
730-774 (2011)) of the U.S. Department of Commerce; the U.S.
antiboycott regulations and guidelines, including those under EAR
and U.S. Department of the Treasury regulations; the various
economic sanctions regulations and guidelines of the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, and
the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law
October 26, 2001), as amended; and restrictions against dealings
with certain prohibited, debarred, denied or specially designated
entities or individuals under statutes, regulations, and
Governmental Orders of various agencies of the federal government
of the United States.
(b) No Group Company
has received from any Governmental Authority a request for
information relating to the sale or delivery of any product or
services or any disclosure of technical data based on a potential
violation of any Export Control Law. There are no Actions or, to
the Knowledge of the Company, investigations pending and there are
no Actions or investigations contemplated by any Governmental
Authority against or involving any Group Company based on an
alleged violation of any Export Control Law.
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(c) Without limiting
the foregoing paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 5.24, each Group
Company:
(i) has not exported
any items or services directly or indirectly to any country subject
to economic sanctions, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or
Syria, or permitted access to technical data of any persons of
these nationalities except such persons who have lawful U.S.
permanent residence status;
(ii) has not exported
any items or services directly or indirectly to, or permitted
access to technical data of, any individuals or entities listed on
any U.S. or EU government list of parties subject to sanctions or
export prohibitions, including without limitation the list of
Specially Designated Nationals, the Denied Parties List, the
Unverified List, the Entity List, the Nonproliferation Sanctions
list, or the UK Treasury Consolidated List of Sanctions Targets;
and
(iii) has not exported
any items directly or indirectly to, or permitted access to
technical data of, any individuals or entities of the
People’s Republic of China, Russia or Venezuela except for
solely civilian end use by civilian end users.
(d) The Company is
aware of U.S. Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security
recordkeeping requirements, and of the recordkeeping requirements
of any other Governmental Authority regulating the items that it
exports, and each Group Company is in full compliance with the
same.
(a) All imports into
the United States made by or on behalf of each Group Company were
made in full compliance with the Laws enforced by U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, and the Laws of any other U.S. Governmental
Authority that is responsible for regulating the goods being
imported by such Group Company.
(b) The Company is
aware of U.S. Customs and Border Protection reasonable care
requirements, and each Group Company is in full compliance with the
same.
(c) The Company is
aware of U.S. Customs and Border Protection recordkeeping
requirements, and of the recordkeeping requirements of any other
Governmental Authority regulating the products that it imports, and
each Group Company is in full compliance with the
same.
(d) No Group Company is
subject to any fines or penalties, and to the Knowledge of the
Company, it is not aware of any fines or penalties that a Group
Company may become subject to, under the provisions of 19 USC
§§ 1592 and 1595a, or under any other U.S. Law regulating
the importation of goods into the United States.
(e) The imported
products for which a Group Company is, or has been, the importer of
record or otherwise legally responsible, are not subject to, nor,
to the Company’s Knowledge may become subject to:
(i) any detention, seizure or forfeiture; (ii) any notice
of redelivery or claim for liquidated damages; (iii) any
country of origin marking notice; or (iv) any other fine or
penalty.
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5.26 Certain
Payments. Each Group
Company in material compliance with all applicable foreign,
federal, state and local anti-bribery, anticorruption and
anti-money laundering Laws, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act, as amended. None of the Group Companies nor any
Representative thereof or any other Person authorized to act for or
on behalf of any Group Company, has directly or indirectly, (a)
made any contribution, gift, bribe, rebate, payoff, influence
payment, kickback or other payment to any Person, public or
private, regardless of form, whether in money, property or services
(i) to obtain favorable treatment in securing business; (ii) to pay
for favorable treatment of business secured; (iii) to obtain
special concessions or for special concessions already obtained; or
(iv) in violation of any Law, or (b) established or maintained any
fund or asset that has not been recorded in the books and records
of the Group Companies.
5.27 Warranty
Obligations. The Company has
delivered to Acquiror true and correct copies of all written
warranties currently in effect covering the products and services
of the Group Companies. No Group Company has, in any of past three
(3) years, had Liabilities under express and implied warranties in
excess of the reserve for warranty liability set forth in the
balance sheet for included in the Financial Statements for such
year, and no Group Company will have Liabilities under express and
implied warranties with respect to any products (including any part
or component and regardless of the date of manufacture) designed,
manufactured, assembled, sold or distributed by any Group Company
or any services performed by any Group Company prior to the Closing
Date in excess of the reserve for warranty liability set forth on
the Interim Balance Sheet.
(a) The Group
Companies’ Data Handling practices, including with respect to
Sensitive Data, comply in all material respects with all Laws and
contractual obligations, are, in any event, to the Knowledge of the
Company reasonable, and are regularly and consistently followed in
the conduct of its business and on which the Group Companies
regularly conduct training. “Data Handling” means the
collection, storage, processing, use, transmission, disclosure and
securing of data. “Sensitive Data” means any
data of a sensitive nature, including: (a) confidential information
regarding the Group Companies’ products, services operations
and clients; (b) nonpublic Personal Information, as defined under
the Xxxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Act; (c) information required by any
applicable law or industry standard or requirement to be encrypted,
masked or otherwise protected from disclosure; (d) government
identifiers, such as Social Security or other tax identification
numbers, driver’s license numbers and other government-issued
identification numbers; (e) account, credit or debit card numbers,
with or without any required security code, access code, personal
identification number or password that would permit access to an
individual’s financial account, and account information,
including balances and transaction data; (f) user names, email
addresses, passwords, or other credentials for accessing accounts;
and (g) any other sensitive information regarding individuals or
their employment, family, health or financial status, such as
medical records, salary, benefits, marital status and geo location
data.
(b) Sensitive Data are
stored and transmitted in an encrypted manner, and Sensitive Data
are not maintained by any Group Company for longer than is needed
to conduct the Business, or as required by Laws or Contractual
obligations. Sensitive Data is not transmitted or otherwise
provided to a third party except by a secure, encrypted means and
subject to a requirement that the recipient treat any such
Sensitive Data securely and as required by Law.
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(c) To the Knowledge of
the Company, no Sensitive Data handled by any Group Company has
been exposed, lost, inappropriately accessed, misappropriated or
misused. To the Knowledge of the Company, (i) there have been
no breaches of or lapses in the security of any IT systems or
facilities of the Group Companies or of any communications means or
interface with the Group Companies’ IT systems, and
(ii) the Group Companies’ IT systems have not
experienced any unpermitted intrusions or been adversely affected
by any denial of service attacks.
(d) The consummation of
the Transactions will not violate any Laws, contractual obligations
or industry requirement relating to Sensitive Data or Data
Handling, and all data, including Sensitive Data, of the Group
Companies will be available for Data Handling by the Group
Companies following the Closing on substantially the same terms and
conditions as existed immediately before the Closing.
5.29 Transactions with Related
Persons. Except as set
forth in Section
5.29 of the Disclosure Schedule (the items so disclosed, the
“Related Party
Transactions and Relationships”), no Transferor nor
any Affiliate of any Transferor, nor any of their respective
Representatives:
(a) owns any direct or
indirect interest of any kind in, or controls or has controlled, or
is a manager, officer, director, stockholder, member or partner of,
or consultant to, or lender to or borrower from or has the right to
participate in the profits of, any Person which is a competitor,
supplier, vendor, customer, landlord, tenant, creditor or debtor of
a Group Company;
(b) owns or has an
interest in, directly or indirectly, any property, asset or right
used by any Group Company;
(c) owes any money to
or is owed any money by any Group Company (other than accrued
compensation in the case of employees of the Group
Companies);
(d) provides goods or
services to any Group Company (other than the employees of the
Group Companies);
(e) is a party to a
Contract, or is involved in any business arrangement or other
relationship, with any Group Company (whether written or
oral);
(f) has pledged any
assets, posted any letters of credit or guaranteed any obligations
on behalf of any Group Company (nor has any Group Company pledged
any assets, posted any letters of credit or guaranteed any
obligations on behalf of any such Person); or
(g) has any claim or
cause of action against any Group Company.
5.30 Brokers. Except as set
forth in Section
5.30 of the Disclosure Schedule, no broker, finder or
investment banker is entitled to any brokerage, finder’s or
other fee or commission in connection with the Transactions or any
other transactions, whether past, present or future, based upon
arrangements made by or on behalf of any Group Company or any
Transferor.
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5.31 Projections.
All cost estimates, forecasts, projections and other forward
looking information regarding the Group Companies that have been
provided to Acquiror or its representatives, were prepared in good
faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time,
it being recognized by Acquiror that such information as it relates
to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual
results during the period or periods covered by such financial
information may differ from the projected results set forth therein
by a material amount.
Representations
and warranties of Acquiror and Parent
6.1 Representations and Warranties of
Acquiror. Acquiror hereby
represents and warrants to the Company and the Transferors that the
statements contained in this Section 6.1 are true and
correct on the date hereof and shall be true and correct on the
Closing Date as if made thereon:
(a) Organization
and Authority of Acquiror
.
Acquiror is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in
good standing under the Laws of the State of Delaware. Acquiror has
full corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents to which Acquiror is a party, to
carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to
consummate the Transactions. The execution and delivery by Acquiror
of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which
Acquiror is a party, the performance by Acquiror of its obligations
hereunder and thereunder and the consummation by Acquiror of the
Transactions have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate
action on the part of Acquiror. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by Acquiror, and (assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery by each other party hereto)
this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of
Acquiror enforceable against Acquiror in accordance with its terms.
When each other Transaction Document to which Acquiror is or will
be a party has been duly executed and delivered by Acquiror
(assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by each other
party thereto), such Transaction Document will constitute a legal
and binding obligation of Acquiror enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms.
(b) No
Conflicts; Consents. The execution and
delivery by Acquiror of this Agreement and each Transaction
Document, and the performance by it of any actions contemplated
hereunder or thereunder, does not and will not, directly or
indirectly (with or without notice or lapse of time)
(i) conflict with or violate any provision of the
Governing Documents of Acquiror or (ii) conflict with,
violate, result in a breach of, result in the acceleration of
material obligations, loss of a benefit or increase in Liabilities
or fees under, create in any Person the right to terminate, cancel
or modify, or cause a default under or give rise to any rights or
penalties under any provision of any Governmental Order to which
Acquiror is subject or any provision of any Contract to which
Acquiror is a party or by which Acquiror is subject, except for
such filings as may be required under the Securities Act (or
applicable blue sky laws).
(c) Investment
Purpose
.
Acquiror will acquire the Shares solely for its own account for
investment purposes and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in
connection with, any distribution thereof.
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(d) Legal
Proceedings. There are no
Actions pending or, to Acquiror’s knowledge, threatened
against or by Acquiror or any Affiliate of Acquiror that challenge
or seek to prevent, enjoin or otherwise delay the
Transactions.
(e) Brokers.
Except for such amounts as Acquiror shall pay, no broker, finder or
investment banker is entitled to any brokerage, finder’s or
other fee or commission in connection with the Transactions or any
other Transaction Document based upon arrangements made by or on
behalf of Acquiror.
6.2 Representations and Warranties of
Parent. Parent hereby
represents and warrants to the Company and the Transferors that the
statements contained in this Section 6.2 are true and
correct on the date hereof and shall be true and correct on the
Closing Date as if made thereon:
(a) Organization
and Authority of Parent. Parent is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the Laws of the State of Colorado. Parent has full corporate
power and authority to enter into this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents to which Parent is a party, to carry out its
obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate the
Transactions. The execution and delivery by Parent of this
Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which Parent is a
party, the performance by Parent of its obligations hereunder and
thereunder and the consummation by Parent of the Transactions have
been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action on the part
of Parent. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
Parent, and (assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by
each other party hereto) this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid
and binding obligation of Parent enforceable against Parent in
accordance with its terms. When each other Transaction Document to
which Parent is or will be a party has been duly executed and
delivered by Parent (assuming due authorization, execution and
delivery by each other party thereto), such Transaction Document
will constitute a legal and binding obligation of Parent
enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.
(b) No
Conflicts; Consents. The execution and
delivery by Parent of this Agreement and each Transaction Document,
and the performance by it of any actions contemplated hereunder or
thereunder, does not and will not, directly or indirectly (with or
without notice or lapse of time) (i) conflict with or
violate any provision of the Governing Documents of Parent or
(ii) conflict with, violate, result in a breach of, result in
the acceleration of material obligations, loss of a benefit or
increase in Liabilities or fees under, create in any Person the
right to terminate, cancel or modify, or cause a default under or
give rise to any rights or penalties under any provision of any
Governmental Order to which Parent is subject or any provision of
any Contract to which Parent is a party or by which Parent is
subject, except for such filings as may be required under the
Securities Act (or applicable blue sky laws).
(c) Legal
Proceedings. There are no
Actions pending or, to Parent’s knowledge, threatened against
or by Parent or any Affiliate of Parent that challenge or seek to
prevent, enjoin or otherwise delay the Transactions.
(d) Valid
Issuance of the Parent Shares. The Parent
Shares, when issued and delivered in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable and free of restrictions on transfer other than
restrictions on transfer under applicable state and federal
securities Laws. Subject to the accuracy and completeness of the
representations in Article
4 and Article
5, the Parent Shares will be issued in compliance with all
applicable federal and state securities Laws.
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(e) Brokers.
Except for such amounts as Parent shall pay, no broker, finder or
investment banker is entitled to any brokerage, finder’s or
other fee or commission in connection with the Transactions or any
other Transaction Document based upon arrangements made by or on
behalf of Parent.
(f)
No Disqualification
Events. With respect to any securities of Parent to be
transferred hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities
Act, none of Parent, Acquiror, any of their respective
predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive
officer, other officer of Parent or Acquiror participating in the
Transactions, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of Parent’s
or Acquiror’s outstanding voting equity securities,
calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that
term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected
with Parent or Acquiror in any capacity at the time of transfer
(each, a “Parent
Covered Person” and, together, “Parent Covered Persons”)
is subject to any Disqualification Event, except for (i) a
Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3) or (ii)
as disclosed in Parent’s filings made with the OTC Markets,
Inc. as set forth in xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxx/XXXX/xxxxxxxxxx.
Each of Parent and Acquiror has exercised reasonable care to
determine whether any Parent Covered Person is subject to a
Disqualification Event. Each of Parent and Acquiror has complied,
to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under
Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Transferors a copy of any
disclosures provided thereunder.
Covenants
7.1 Conduct of Business Prior to the
Closing. From the date
hereof until the Closing, except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement or consented to in writing by Acquiror (which consent
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), each Group Company
shall (a) conduct the business of the Group Companies in the
Ordinary Course of Business; and (b) use its reasonable best
efforts to maintain and preserve intact the current organization,
business and franchise of the Group Companies and to preserve the
rights, franchises, goodwill and relationships of its employees,
customers, lenders, suppliers, regulators and others having
business relationships with the Group Companies. Without limiting
the foregoing, from the date hereof until the Closing Date, each
Group Company shall:
(a) preserve and
maintain all of its Permits;
(b) pay its debts,
Taxes and other obligations when due;
(c) not accelerate any
receivables or delay paying any payables;
(d) not cancel or waive
rights of substantial value;
(e) maintain the
properties and assets owned, operated or used by it in the same
condition as they were on the date of this Agreement, subject to
reasonable wear and tear;
(f) continue in full
force and effect without modification all Insurance Policies,
except as required by applicable Law;
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(g) defend and protect
its properties and assets from infringement or
usurpation;
(h) perform all of its
obligations under all Contracts relating to or affecting its
properties, assets or business;
(i) maintain its books
and records in accordance with past practice;
(j) comply in all
material respects with all applicable Laws;
(k) not (i) make,
change or revoke any Tax election, (ii) consent to any extension or
waiver of the limitations period applicable to any claim or
assessment with respect to Taxes (iii) file any amended income tax
or any other material Return, (iii) settle or compromise any Tax
claim or assessment by any Governmental Authority, (iv) enter
into a closing agreement with a taxing authority or (v) surrender
any right to claim a refund of a material amount of Taxes;
and
(l) not take or permit
any action that would cause any of the changes, events or
conditions described in Section 5.8 to
occur.
Without
in any way limiting any party’s rights or obligations under
this Agreement, the parties understand and agree that (i) nothing
contained in this Agreement shall give Acquiror, directly or
indirectly, the right to control or direct the business operations
of the Group Companies prior to the Closing and (ii) prior to the
Closing, the Company shall exercise, consistent with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, complete control and supervision over
the operations of the business.
7.2 Access to
Information. From the date
hereof until the Closing, each Group Company shall (a) afford
Acquiror and its Representatives full and free access to and the
right to inspect all of the properties, assets, premises, books and
records, Contracts and other documents and data related to any
Group Company; (b) furnish Acquiror and its Representatives with
such financial, operating and other data and information related to
any Group Company as Acquiror or any of its Representatives may
reasonably request (including for Acquiror to make a determination
as to whether the conditions to Closing have been satisfied); and
(c) instruct the Representatives of the Group Companies to
cooperate with Acquiror in its investigation of the Company. Any
investigation pursuant to this Section 7.2 shall be conducted
in such manner as not to interfere unreasonably with the conduct of
the Group Companies’ business. No investigation by Acquiror
or other information received by Acquiror shall operate as a waiver
or otherwise affect any representation, warranty or agreement given
or made by the Company or any Transferor in this
Agreement.
(a) Each Group
Company and each Transferor shall not, and shall not authorize or
permit any of its Affiliates or any of its or their Representatives
to, directly or indirectly, (i) encourage, solicit, initiate,
facilitate or continue inquiries regarding an Acquisition Proposal;
(ii) enter into discussions or negotiations with, or provide
any information to, any Person concerning a possible Acquisition
Proposal; or (iii) enter into any agreements or other
instruments (whether or not binding) regarding an Acquisition
Proposal. Each Group Company and each Transferor shall immediately
cease and cause to be terminated, and shall cause its Affiliates
and all of its and their Representatives to immediately cease and
cause to be terminated, all existing discussions or negotiations
with any Persons conducted heretofore with respect to, or that
could lead to, an Acquisition Proposal. For purposes hereof,
“Acquisition
Proposal” shall mean any inquiry, proposal or offer
from any Person (other than Acquiror or any of its Affiliates)
concerning (A) a merger, consolidation, liquidation,
recapitalization, share exchange or other business combination
transaction involving any Group Company; (B) the issuance or
acquisition of shares of capital stock or other equity securities
of any Group Company; or (C) the sale, lease, exchange or
other disposition of any significant portion of any Group
Company’s properties or assets.
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(b) In addition to the
other obligations under this Section 7.3, each Group Company
and Transferor shall promptly (and in any event within three (3)
Business Days after receipt thereof by a Group Company, its
Affiliates, any Transferor or their Representatives) advise
Acquiror orally and in writing of any Acquisition Proposal, any
request for information with respect to any Acquisition Proposal,
or any inquiry with respect to or which could reasonably be
expected to result in an Acquisition Proposal, the material terms
and conditions of such request, Acquisition Proposal or inquiry,
and the identity of the Person making the same.
(c) Each Group Company
and each Transferor agrees that the rights and remedies for
noncompliance with this Section 7.3 shall include
having such provision specifically enforced by any court having
equity jurisdiction, it being acknowledged and agreed that any such
breach or threatened breach shall cause irreparable injury to
Acquiror and that money damages would not provide an adequate
remedy to Acquiror.
(a) From the date
hereof until the Closing, the Company shall promptly notify
Acquiror in writing of:
(i) any fact,
circumstance, event or action the existence, occurrence or taking
of which (A) has had, or could reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect,
(B) has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result
in, any representation or warranty made by the Company or any
Transferor hereunder not being true and correct or (C) has
resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, the
failure of any of the conditions set forth in Section 9.2 to be
satisfied;
(ii) any notice or other
communication from any Person alleging that the consent of such
Person is or may be required in connection with the
Transactions;
(iii) any notice or other
communication from any Governmental Authority in connection with
the Transactions; and
(iv) any Actions
commenced or, to Company’s Knowledge, threatened against,
relating to or involving or otherwise affecting the Company that,
if pending on the date of this Agreement, would have been required
to have been disclosed pursuant to Section 5.18 or that relates to
the consummation of the Transactions.
(b) Acquiror’s
receipt of information pursuant to this Section 7.4 shall not operate
as a waiver or otherwise affect any representation, warranty or
agreement given or made by the Company or any Transferor in this
Agreement (including Section 10.2 and Section 11.1(b)) and shall not
be deemed to amend or supplement the Disclosure
Schedule.
7.5 Confidentiality.
From and after the Closing, each Transferor shall, and shall cause
its Affiliates to, hold, and shall use its reasonable best efforts
to cause its or their respective Representatives to hold, in
confidence any and all information, whether written or oral,
concerning the Group Companies (“Confidential
Information”), except to the extent that the
Transferor can show that such information (a) is generally
available to and known by the public through no fault of the
Transferor, any of its Affiliates or their respective
Representatives; or (b) is lawfully acquired by the
Transferor, any of its Affiliates or their respective
Representatives from and after the Closing from sources which are
not prohibited from disclosing such information by a legal,
contractual or fiduciary obligation. If any Transferor or any of
its Affiliates or their respective Representatives are compelled to
disclose any information by judicial or administrative process or
by other requirements of Law, such Transferor shall promptly notify
Acquiror in writing and shall disclose only that portion of such
information which the Transferor is advised by its counsel in
writing is legally required to be disclosed, provided that the Transferor shall use
reasonable best efforts to obtain an appropriate protective order
or other reasonable assurance that confidential treatment will be
accorded such information.
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7.6 Non-competition;
Non-solicitation.
(a) For a period of
five (5) years following the Closing (and in the case of
Section 7.6(a)(v)
indefinitely), each Transferor agrees that it shall not, directly
or indirectly through any Person or any Affiliate thereof, entity
or contractual arrangement:
(i) engage in the
Business or any segment thereof anywhere in the world (the
“Restricted
Territory”), it being acknowledged by the Transferors
that the Group Companies engage in the Business throughout the
Restricted Territory;
(ii) acquire, own,
manage, operate, join, control, or participate in the ownership,
management, operation or control of, consult with or perform
services for, lend money or capital to, invest capital in, or be
connected in any manner with, including, without limitation, as a
partner or through stock ownership in, any business or Person that
engages in the Business or any segment thereof anywhere in the
Restricted Territory;
(iii) solicit, offer
employment to or hire any individual that is an employee or
consultant of a Group Company or otherwise induce or attempt to
induce (whether for their own account or for the account of any
other Person) any individual that is an employee or consultant of a
Group Company to leave the employ of such Group Company;
provided,
however, that
nothing in this Section
7.6(a)(ii) shall prohibit any such party from: (i) using
general solicitations (including through search firms) not targeted
at employees of the Group Companies, or employing any person who
responds to such solicitation; (ii) hiring, employing or discussing
employment with any person who contacts such party independently
without any solicitations by such party or (iii) soliciting any
person who has left the employment of the Group Companies at least
six (6) months prior to such party soliciting such
person;
(iv) induce or attempt to induce any
customer, supplier, licensee or other business relation of
a Group Company to cease doing business
with such Group Company or in any way interfere with
the relationship between any such customer, supplier,
licensee or
business
relation and the Group Companies; or
(v) disparage Acquiror
or any of its Affiliates (including, after the Closing, the Group
Companies) in any way that could adversely affect the goodwill,
reputation or business relationships of Acquiror or any of its
Affiliates with the public generally, or with any of their
customers, suppliers or employees.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, (x) the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to
Xxxxxx Xxx for so long as he is employed by the Company, Acquiror
or Parent following the Closing (provided, for the avoidance of
doubt, that he shall be bound by the covenants and other
obligations set forth in the Employment Agreement) and (y) nothing
in this Section 7.6(a) shall prevent a Transferor that is a
natural person from owning up to five percent (5%) of any of the
debt or equity securities of any business organization that is
required to file reports with the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(b) Each Transferor
acknowledges that if it breaches any obligation under this
Section 7.6,
Acquiror will suffer immediate and irreparable harm and damage for
which money alone cannot fully compensate, and the Transferor
therefore agrees that upon such breach or threatened breach,
Acquiror shall be entitled to seek a temporary restraining order,
preliminary injunction, permanent injunction or other injunctive
relief, without posting any bond or other security, barring the
other party from violating any such provision. This Section 7.6(b) shall not be
construed as an election of any remedy, or as a waiver of any right
available to Acquiror under this Agreement or the Law, including
the right to seek damages for a breach.
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(c) If a court of
competent jurisdiction determines that the character, duration or
geographical scope of the provisions of this Section 7.6 are unreasonable,
it is the intention and the agreement of the parties that these
provisions shall be construed by the court in such a manner as to
impose only those restrictions on each Transferor’s conduct
that are reasonable in light of the circumstances and as are
necessary to assure to Acquiror the benefits of this Agreement. If,
in any judicial proceeding, a court shall refuse to enforce all of
the separate covenants of this Section 7.6 because taken
together they are more extensive than necessary to assure to
Acquiror the intended benefits of this Agreement, it is expressly
understood and agreed by the parties that the provisions hereof
that, if eliminated, would permit the remaining separate provisions
to be enforced in such proceeding, shall be deemed eliminated, for
the purposes of such proceeding, from this Agreement.
(a) From the date
hereof until the Closings, the Company and the Transferors shall
(i) use reasonable best efforts to file, make or obtain, as
applicable, all registrations, filings, applications, notices,
consents, approvals, orders, qualifications and waivers, if any,
listed on Section
9.2(c) of the Disclosure Schedule and (ii) shall make any
payments required to accomplish the foregoing (and to the extent
such payments are not made prior to the Closing, they shall be
Company Transaction Expenses).
(b) Each of the parties
shall use all reasonable best efforts to:
(i) respond to any
inquiries by any Governmental Authority regarding antitrust or
other matters with respect to the Transactions or any agreement or
document contemplated hereby;
(ii) avoid the
imposition of any order or the taking of any action that would
restrain, alter or enjoin the Transactions or any agreement or
document contemplated hereby; and
(iii) in the event any
Governmental Order adversely affecting the ability of the parties
to consummate the Transactions or any agreement or document
contemplated hereby has been issued, to have such Governmental
Order vacated or lifted.
(c) If any consent,
approval or authorization necessary to preserve any right or
benefit under any Contract to which the Company is a party is not
obtained prior to the Closing, the Transferors’
Representative shall, at its sole expense, subsequent to the
Closing, cooperate with Acquiror and the Company in attempting to
obtain such consent, approval or authorization as promptly
thereafter as practicable. If such consent, approval or
authorization cannot be obtained, the Transferors’
Representative shall use its reasonable best efforts to provide the
Company with the rights and benefits of the affected Contract for
the term thereof, and, if the Transferors’ Representative
provides such rights and benefits, the Company shall assume all
obligations and burdens thereunder.
(d) All analyses,
appearances, meetings, discussions, presentations, memoranda,
briefs, filings, arguments, and proposals made by or on behalf of a
party before any Governmental Authority or the staff or regulators
of any Governmental Authority, in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereunder (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not
including any interactions between or the Company with Governmental
Authorities in the ordinary course of business, any disclosure
which is not permitted by Law or any disclosure containing
confidential information) shall be disclosed to the other party in
advance of any filing, submission or attendance, it being the
intent that the parties will consult and cooperate with one
another, and consider in good faith the views of one another, in
connection with any such analyses, appearances, meetings,
discussions, presentations, memoranda, briefs, filings, arguments,
and proposals. Each party shall give notice to the other party with
respect to any meeting, discussion, appearance or contact with any
Governmental Authority or the staff or regulators of any
Governmental Authority, with such notice being sufficient to
provide the other party with the opportunity to attend and
participate in such meeting, discussion, appearance or
contact.
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(e) Notwithstanding the
foregoing, nothing in this Section 7.7 shall require, or
be construed to require, Parent, Acquiror or any of their
respective Affiliates to agree to (i) sell, hold, divest,
discontinue or limit, before or after the Closing Date, any assets,
businesses or interests of Parent, Acquiror, the Company or any of
their respective Affiliates, (ii) any conditions relating to,
or changes or restrictions in, the operations of any such assets,
businesses or interests which, in either case, could reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or materially and
adversely impact the economic or business benefits to Acquiror of
the Transactions, (iii) any material modification or waiver of
the terms and conditions of this Agreement, or (iv) threaten
to, commence, prosecute or defend any Action.
(f) The Company and
each Transferor hereby waives all rights of first refusal, co-sale
rights, drag-along rights, consent rights and other similar rights
that the Company or the Transferor (as applicable) may have, as
well as any restrictions on the transfer of the Shares, in each
case under the Company’s organizational documents or
otherwise with respect to the transactions contemplated
hereby.
(a) Each Transferor, on
behalf of itself and its Affiliates, and their respective
successors and assigns and Representatives (collectively, the
“Releasors”), hereby
knowingly and voluntarily releases and forever discharges,
effective as of the Closing Date, Parent, Acquiror, each Group
Company, and each of their respective past, present and/or future
Affiliates and Representatives (collectively, the
“Released
Parties”), from any and all Actions, claims, suits,
controversies, causes of action, cross-claims, counter claims,
demands, debts, compensatory damages, liquidated damages, punitive
or exemplary damages, other damages, claims for costs and
attorneys’ fees, or liabilities of any nature whatsoever in
law and in equity, whether known or unknown, liquidated or
contingent, which the Transferor or any other Releasor ever had,
now have or may have relating to, arising out of or in any way
connected with the dealings of the Group Companies and the other
Released Parties, on the one hand, and the Transferor and the other
Releasors, on the other hand, or any circumstance, agreement,
action, omission, event or matter occurring or existing between
them, in each case, prior to the Closing Date (collectively, the
“Released
Claims”); provided, however, that the Released
Claims shall not include any of the terms, conditions or other
provisions or obligations under this Agreement or the Transaction
Documents.
(b) Each Transferor
acknowledges that the Laws of many states provide substantially the
following:
“A GENERAL
RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW
OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING
THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY
AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”
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Each
Transferor acknowledges that such provisions are designed to
protect a party from waiving claims which he does not know exist or
may exist. Nonetheless, each Transferor agrees that, effective as
of the Closing Date, each Transferor and the other Releasors shall
be deemed to waive any such provision.
(c) Each Transferor
further agrees that no party shall, nor permit any Affiliate
thereof to: (i) institute a lawsuit or other legal proceeding based
upon, arising out of, or relating to any of the Released Claims,
(ii) participate, assist, or cooperate in any such proceeding or
(iii) encourage, assist and/or solicit any third party to institute
any such proceeding.
7.9 Closing
Conditions. From the date
hereof until the Closing, each Transferor shall, and shall cause
the Company to, use reasonable best efforts to take such actions as
are necessary to expeditiously satisfy the closing conditions set
forth in Article
9.
(a) Any public
announcement, press release or similar publicity with respect to
this Agreement or the Transactions will be issued, if at all, at
such time and in such manner as approved in writing by the other
party (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned
or delayed); provided, that if such
announcement is required by Law, a party may make any such
announcement, release or similar publicity without the consent of
the other party, provided that the disclosing party shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to provide, to the extent
practicable and legally permitted, the other party a reasonable
opportunity to review and comment on the content of such
announcements in advance (it being understood that the other party
shall not have any right to prevent the disclosing party from
making such announcements).
(b) None of (i) the
Group Companies, any Transferor or any of their respective
Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives shall (except
with the prior written consent of Acquiror or as permitted by this
Agreement) and (ii) Acquiror or any of its Affiliates or
Representative shall (except with the prior written consent of the
Transferors’ Representative or as permitted by this
Agreement) disclose to any Person: (A) the fact that any
confidential information of the Group Companies has been disclosed
to Acquiror or its Representatives, or that any confidential
information of Parent or Acquiror has been disclosed to the Group
Companies or the Transferors or (B) any information about the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the status of such
discussions or negotiations, the execution of any documents
(including this Agreement) or any of the terms of the transactions
contemplated hereby or the related documents (including this
Agreement); provided that the foregoing
obligation of the Group Companies, the Transferors or Acquiror (or
any of their respective Affiliates or Representatives) shall not
prohibit disclosure of any such information (1) if required by
applicable Law; (2) as required in order to fulfill such
party’s obligations under this Agreement; (3) to a financial,
legal or accounting advisor for the purpose of advising in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents (provided, that such advisor is
made aware of and directed to comply with the provisions of this
Section 7.10), (4)
to the extent that the information has been made public by, or with
the prior consent of, Acquiror (with respect to disclosures by the
Group Companies, a Transferor or their respective Affiliates or
Representatives) or the Transferors’ Representative (with
respect to disclosures by Acquiror or its Affiliates or
Representatives) or (5) in connection with any Action with respect
to this Agreement or any other Transaction Documents; and
provided,
further, that in
the event any of the Group Companies, a Transferor or Acquiror is
required by Law to disclose any such information, such Person shall
promptly notify Acquiror (with respect to disclosures by the Group
Companies or a Transferor) or the Transferors’ Representative
(with respect to disclosures by Acquiror) in writing to the extent
permitted by Law, which notification shall include the nature of
the legal requirement and the extent of the required disclosure,
and such Person shall reasonably cooperate with Acquiror or the
Transferors’ Representative, as applicable (at such
Person’s expense) to preserve the confidentiality of such
information consistent with applicable Law.
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7.11 Reserved.
7.12 Litigation
Support. Following the
Closing, in the event and for so long as Parent, Acquiror or the
Group Companies are actively contesting or defending against any
Action in connection with any fact, situation, circumstance,
action, failure to act, or transaction on or prior to the Closing
Date involving any Group Company, each Transferor will cooperate
with it and its counsel in the contest or defense and provide such
testimony and access to the Transferor’s books and records as
shall be necessary in connection with the contest or defense, all
at the sole cost and expense of Parent, Acquiror and the Group
Companies (unless Acquiror is entitled to indemnification therefor
hereunder).
7.13 280G. Promptly
following the execution of this Agreement, the Company shall submit
to the Transferors for approval (in a manner reasonably
satisfactory to Acquiror), in accordance with Section 280G(b)(5)(B)
of the Code, any payments and/or benefits that may separately or in
the aggregate, constitute “parachute payments” pursuant
to Section 280G of the Code (“Section 280G Payments”)
(which determination shall be made by the Company and shall be
subject to review and approval by Acquiror, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), such that such
payments and benefits shall not be deemed to be Section 280G
Payments, and prior to the Closing, the Company shall deliver to
Acquiror notification and documentation reasonably satisfactory to
Acquiror that (a) a vote of the holders of the capital stock of the
Company was solicited in conformance with Section 280G and the
regulations promulgated thereunder and the requisite stockholder
approval was obtained with respect to any payments and/or benefits
that were subject to the stockholder vote (the “280G
Stockholder Approval”), or (b) that the 280G Stockholder
Approval was not obtained and as a consequence, that such payments
and/or benefits shall not be made or provided to the extent they
would cause any amounts to constitute Section 280G Payments,
pursuant to the waivers of those payments and/or benefits which
were executed by the affected individuals prior to the vote of the
holders of Company’s capital stock pursuant to this
Section
7.13.
7.14 Company
Covenants. Each Transferor
shall cause each Group Company to comply with each of its covenants
and agreements set forth herein.
7.15 Customer and other Business
Relationships. After the
Closing, each Transferor shall cooperate with Acquiror in its
efforts to continue and maintain for the benefit of Acquiror those
business relationships of the Group Companies existing prior to the
Closing, including relationships with customers, suppliers,
employees, regulatory authorities, licensors. After the Closing,
each Transferor will, and will cause its Affiliates to, refer to
Acquiror all inquiries relating to the Group
Companies.
7.16 Insurance; Risk of
Loss. The Company and
each Transferor will, and will cause each of its Affiliates to,
keep insurance policies currently maintained in respect of the
Business and current or former employees of the Group Companies, as
the case may be, or suitable replacements therefor, in full force
and effect through the close of business on the Closing Date. For
any claim that may be asserted against any Group Company after the
Closing Date arising out of events, incidents, conduct or
circumstances that occurred and/or existed prior to the Closing
Date (such claims, “Post-Closing Claims”):
(i) each Transferor shall ensure that the Group Companies have
access to coverage under each of the insurance policies set forth
in Section 5.17 of
the Disclosure Schedule (the “Specified Policies”) in
each case subject to the terms and conditions thereof; and (ii)
with respect to Specified Policies designated as
“Claims-Made” and “Occurrence-Reported,”
each Transferor shall secure tail coverage and/or ensure that the
Group Companies have access, either directly or through the
Transferor or its Affiliates to coverage under renewals of such
Specified Policies or equivalent coverage. After the Closing Date,
the Group Companies may seek coverage for any Post-Closing Claim
from the applicable insurer under any Specified Policy or, where
applicable, any tail or renewal policy or equivalent of such
Specified Policy, and each Transferor shall cooperate with the
Group Companies in connection with the tendering of such claims
(including by providing access to employees and third party claims
adjustors); provided, however, that (i) the Group
Companies shall reimburse each Transferor for all of its
out-of-pocket costs and expenses in connection with such
cooperation; and (ii) the Group Companies shall notify the
applicable Transferor(s) of all such coverage claims made. No
Transferor shall release, commute, buy-back, or otherwise eliminate
the coverage available under any Specified Policy without first
providing written notice to the Group Companies.
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7.17 Internal
Control over Financial Reporting. Without limiting
any other provisions of this Agreement, prior to the Closing, the
Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to coordinate
with Acquiror and to provide the internal resources required to
establish: (a) a system of “internal controls over financial
reporting” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under
the Exchange Act) sufficient to provide reasonable assurances: (i)
that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation
of financial statements in conformity with GAAP; (ii) that
transactions are executed only in accordance with the authorization
of management; and (iii) regarding prevention or timely detection
of the unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the
properties or assets of the Group Company, and (b) a system of
“disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) sufficient to
ensure that all material information concerning the Group Companies
is made known on a timely basis to the individuals responsible for
the preparation of the Company’s financial statements;
provided that the
Company shall not be required to incur any out of pocket expenses
(other than nominal expenses) in connection with such efforts.
Prior to the Closing, the Company shall reasonably cooperate with
Acquiror with respect to integration planning in respect of
accounting and financial reporting functions.
7.18 Financial Reporting
Cooperation. During the period
between the signing of this Agreement and the earlier of the
Closing or termination of this Agreement, the Company shall provide
(and cause its Subsidiaries to provide) such reasonable and
customary cooperation (and to use commercially reasonable efforts
to cause its and their respective managers, officers, directors,
employees, accountants, legal counsel, agents, other advisors and
authorized representatives to provide such reasonable and customary
cooperation) in connection with Acquiror’s and its
Affiliates’ reporting obligations under the Securities Act
and the Exchange Act.
7.19 Further
Assurances. Each of the
parties shall, and shall cause their respective Affiliates to,
execute and deliver such additional documents, instruments,
conveyances and assurances and take such further actions as may be
reasonably required to carry out the provisions hereof and give
effect to the Transactions.
7.20 Transferors’
Representative. Xxxxxx Xxx shall
serve as the exclusive agent of the Transferors (the
“Transferors’
Representative”) for all purposes of this Agreement
and the Transactions contemplated hereby. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Transferors’ Representative
shall be authorized (a) in connection with the Closing, to execute
all certificates, documents and agreements on behalf of and in the
name of any of the Transferors necessary to effectuate the Closing
and the Transactions, and (b) to negotiate, execute and deliver all
amendments, modifications and waivers to this Agreement or any
other agreement, document or instrument contemplated by this
Agreement. The Transferors’ Representative also shall be
exclusively authorized to take all actions on behalf of the
Transferors in connection with any claims or disputes in respect of
this Agreement, any other agreement, document or instrument
contemplated by this Agreement or the Transactions, to bring,
prosecute, defend or settle such claims and disputes, and to make
and receive payments in respect of such claims and disputes on
behalf of the Transferors, and no Transferor shall take any such
action without the Transferors’ Representative’s prior
written approval. The Transferors’ Representative shall not
be liable to any of the Transferors for any action taken by the
Transferors’ Representative pursuant to this Agreement unless
the Transferors’ Representative has acted in bad faith or
with gross negligence or willful misconduct, and the Transferors
shall jointly and severally indemnify him from any Losses arising
out of or relating to the Transferors’ Representative serving
as agent hereunder. The Transferors’ Representative is
serving in the capacity as exclusive agent of the Transferors
hereunder solely for purposes of administrative convenience.
Parent, Acquiror and any Acquiror Indemnitee shall be entitled to
rely conclusively on the instructions, decisions, actions and
inactions of the Transferors’ Representative as to (i) the
settlement of any claims for indemnification by Parent, Acquiror or
any such Acquiror Indemnitee or (ii) any other action required or
permitted to be taken by the Transferors’ Representative
hereunder. No party hereunder shall have any cause of action
against Parent, Acquiror or any Acquiror Indemnitee for any action
taken by Parent, Acquiror or such Acquiror Indemnitee in reliance
upon the instructions or decisions of the Transferors’
Representative. Upon delivery of the any payments, whether in cash
or equity securities, by Parent or Acquiror to Transferors’
Representative as contemplated by this Agreement, each Transferor
should look only to the Transferors’ Representative for such
payments and shall have not claims against Acquiror or Parent.
Transferors’ Representative shall have the right to name and
appoint a successor in advance in the event that the
Transferors’ Representative resigns, dies or becomes
incapacitated. If the Transferors’ Representative resigns,
dies or becomes incapacitated and no such successor has been
appointed, his successor will be appointed within fifteen (15) days
of such event by mutual written consent of Transferors. The
decisions and actions of any successor Transferors’
Representative will be, for all purposes, those of the
Transferors’ Representative as if originally named herein.
The death or incapacity of any Transferor will not terminate the
authority and agency of the Transferors’ Representative. Any
successor Transferors’ Representative will provide Acquiror
with prompt written notice of his or her appointment.
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ARTICLE
8
(a) Without the
prior written consent of Acquiror, no Transferor (and, prior to the
Closing, the Group Companies, their respective Affiliates and their
respective Representatives) shall, to the extent it may affect, or
relate to, any Group Company, make, change or rescind any Tax
election, amend any Tax Return or take any position on any Tax
Return, take any action, omit to take any action or enter into any
other transaction that would have the effect of increasing the Tax
liability or reducing any Tax asset of Acquiror or any Group
Company in respect of any taxable period ending after the Closing
Date and, with respect to any taxable period beginning before and
ending after the Closing Date, the portion of such taxable period
beginning on and including the Closing Date (“Post-Closing Tax
Period”). Each Transferor agrees that Acquiror is to
have no liability for any Tax resulting from any action of such
Transferor, any Group Company (on or prior to the Closing Date),
its Affiliates or any of their respective Representatives, and
agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Acquiror (and, after the
Closing Date, the Group Companies) against any such Tax or
reduction of any Tax asset.
(b) All transfer,
documentary, sales, use, stamp, registration, value added and other
such Taxes and fees (including any penalties and interest) incurred
in connection with this Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents (including any real property transfer Tax and any other
similar Tax) shall be borne and paid by the Transferors when
due. Each Transferor shall, at its own expense, timely file any Tax
Return or other document with respect to such Taxes or fees (and
Acquiror shall cooperate with respect thereto as
necessary).
(c) The
Transferors’ Representative shall prepare, or cause to be
prepared, all income Tax Returns required to be filed by the Group
Companies on a consolidated basis after the Closing Date with
respect to a “taxable period” ending on or before the
Closing Date, and Acquiror shall prepare all other Tax returns
required to be filed by the Group Companies after the Closing
Date.
(d) Any Tax Return
required to be filed by the Group Companies after the Closing Date
with respect to a “taxable period” ending on or before
the Closing Date and with respect to any taxable period beginning
before and ending after the Closing Date the portion of such
taxable period ending on and including the Closing Date
(“Pre-Closing Tax
Period”) shall be prepared in a manner consistent with
past practice (unless otherwise required by Law) and without a
change of any election or any accounting method. All Tax Returns
prepared by Acquiror for Pre-Closing Tax Periods and shall be
submitted by Acquiror to the Transferors’ Representative
(together with schedules, statements and, to the extent requested
by the Acquiror, supporting documentation) at least forty-five (45)
days prior to the due date (including extensions) of such Tax
Return. If the Transferors’ Representative objects to any
item on any such Tax Return, it shall, within ten (10) days after
delivery of such Tax Return, notify Acquiror in writing that it so
objects, specifying with particularity any such item and stating
the specific factual or legal basis for any such objection. If a
notice of objection shall be duly delivered, Acquiror and the
Transferors’ Representative shall negotiate in good faith and
use their reasonable best efforts to resolve such items. If
Acquiror and the Transferors’ Representative are unable to
reach such agreement within ten (10) days after receipt by Acquiror
of such notice, the disputed items shall be resolved by a
nationally recognized accounting firm selected by Acquiror and
reasonably acceptable to the Transferors’ Representative (the
“Accounting
Referee”) and any determination by the Accounting
Referee shall be final. The Accounting Referee shall resolve any
disputed items within twenty (20) days of having the item referred
to it pursuant to such procedures as it may require. If the
Accounting Referee is unable to resolve any disputed items before
the due date for such Tax Return, the Tax Return shall be filed as
prepared by Acquiror and then amended to reflect the Accounting
Referee’s resolution. The costs, fees and expenses of the
Accounting Referee shall be by Acquiror, on the one hand, and
the Transferors’ Representative, on the other hand, in such
amount(s) as shall be determined by the Accounting Referee based on
the proportion that the aggregate amount of disputed items
submitted to the Accounting Referee that is unsuccessfully disputed
by Acquiror, on the one hand, or the Transferors’
Representative, on the other hand, as determined by the Accounting
Referee, bears to the total amount of such disputed items so
referred to the Accounting Referee for resolution. The preparation
and filing of any Tax Return of the Group Companies that does not
relate to a Pre-Closing Tax Period shall be exclusively within the
control of Acquiror.
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8.2 Termination
of Existing Tax Sharing Agreements. Any and all
existing Tax sharing agreements (whether written or not) binding
upon any Group Company shall be terminated as of the Closing Date.
After such date no Group Company, Transferor nor any of the
Transferors’ Affiliates and their respective Representatives
shall have any further rights or liabilities
thereunder.
8.3 Tax
Indemnification. The Transferors
shall, on a joint and several basis, indemnify the Group Companies,
Acquiror, and each Acquiror Indemnitee and hold them harmless from
and against (a) any Loss attributable to any breach of or
inaccuracy in any representation or warranty made in Section 5.23; (b) any Loss
attributable to any breach or violation of, or failure to fully
perform, any covenant, agreement, undertaking or obligation in this
Article 8;
(c) all Taxes of the Group Companies or relating to the
business of the Group Companies for all Pre-Closing Tax Periods;
(d) all Taxes of any member of an affiliated, consolidated,
combined or unitary group of which any Group Company (or any
predecessor of any Group Company) is or was a member on or prior to
the Closing Date by reason of a liability under Treasury Regulation
Section 1.1502-6 or any comparable provisions of foreign,
state or local Law; and (e) any and all Taxes of any person
imposed on any Group Company arising under the principles of
transferee or successor liability or by contract, relating to an
event or transaction occurring before the Closing Date. In each of
the above cases, together with any out-of-pocket fees and expenses
(including attorneys’ and accountants’ fees) incurred
in connection therewith. The Transferors shall, on a joint and
several basis, reimburse Acquiror for any Taxes of any Group
Company that are the responsibility of the Transferors pursuant to
this Section 8.3
within ten (10) Business Days after payment of such Taxes by
Acquiror or any Group Company.
8.4 Straddle
Period. In the case of
Taxes that are payable with respect to a taxable period that begins
before and ends after the Closing Date (each such period, a
“Straddle
Period”), the portion of any such Taxes that are
treated as Taxes of the Group Companies for any Pre-Closing Tax
Period shall be:
(a) in the case of
Taxes based upon, or related to, income or receipts, deemed equal
to the amount which would be payable if the taxable year ended with
the Closing Date; and
(b) in the case of
other Taxes, deemed to be the amount of such Taxes for the entire
period multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the
number of days in the period ending on the Closing Date and the
denominator of which is the number of days in the entire
period.
8.5 Contests. Acquiror agrees
to give written notice to the Transferors’ Representative of
the receipt of any written notice by any Group Company, Acquiror or
any of Acquiror’s Affiliates which involves the assertion of
any claim, or the commencement of any Action, in respect of which
an indemnity may be sought by Acquiror pursuant to this
Article 8 (a
“Tax
Claim”); provided, that failure to
comply with this provision shall not affect Acquiror’s right
to indemnification hereunder. Acquiror shall control the contest or
resolution of any Tax Claim; provided, however, that Acquiror shall
obtain the prior written consent of the Transferors’
Representative (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) before entering into any settlement of a claim or ceasing
to defend such claim; and, provided further, that the
Transferors’ Representative shall be entitled to participate
in the defense of such claim and to employ counsel of its choice
for such purpose, the fees and expenses of which separate counsel
shall be borne solely by the Transferors’
Representative.
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8.6 Cooperation
and Exchange of Information. The Transferors
and Acquiror shall provide each other with such cooperation and
information as either of them reasonably may request of the other
in filing any Tax Return pursuant to this Article 8 or in connection with
any audit or other proceeding in respect of Taxes of the Group
Companies. Such cooperation and information shall include providing
copies of relevant Tax Returns or portions thereof, together with
accompanying schedules, related work papers and documents relating
to rulings or other determinations by tax authorities. Each
Transferor and Acquiror shall retain all Tax Returns, schedules and
work papers, records and other documents in its possession relating
to Tax matters of the Group Companies for any taxable period
beginning before the Closing Date until the expiration of the
statute of limitations of the taxable periods to which such Tax
Returns and other documents relate, without regard to extensions
except to the extent notified by the other party in writing of such
extensions for the respective Tax periods. Prior to transferring,
destroying or discarding any Tax Returns, schedules and work
papers, records and other documents in its possession relating to
Tax matters of the Group Companies for any taxable period beginning
before the Closing Date, the Transferor or Acquiror (as the case
may be) shall provide the other party with reasonable written
notice and offer the other party the opportunity to take custody of
such materials.
8.7 Tax Treatment of Indemnification
Payments. Any
indemnification payments pursuant to this Article 8 shall be treated as
an adjustment to the Purchase Price by the parties for Tax
purposes, unless otherwise required by Law.
8.8 Survival. Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the provisions of
Section 5.22 and
this Article 8
shall survive for the full period of all applicable statutes of
limitations (giving effect to any waiver, mitigation or extension
thereof) plus 60 days.
8.9 Overlap. To the extent
that any obligation or responsibility pursuant to Article 10 may overlap with an
obligation or responsibility pursuant to this Article 8, the provisions of
this Article 8
shall govern.
Conditions
to closing
9.1 Conditions to Obligations of All
Parties. The obligations
of each party to consummate the Transactions shall be subject to
the fulfillment, at or prior to the Closing, of each of the
following conditions
(a) No Governmental
Authority shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or
entered any Governmental Order which is in effect and has the
effect of making the Transactions illegal, otherwise restraining or
prohibiting consummation of such transactions or causing any of the
transactions contemplated hereunder to be rescinded following
completion thereof.
(b) No Action shall
have been commenced against Parent, Acquiror, any Transferor or any
Group Company, which would prevent the Closing. No injunction or
restraining order shall have been issued by any Governmental
Authority, and be in effect, which restrains or prohibits any
transaction contemplated hereby.
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9.2 Conditions
to Obligations of Parent and Acquiror. The obligations
of Parent and Acquiror to consummate the Transactions shall be
subject to the fulfillment or such party’s waiver, at or
prior to the Closing, of each of the following
conditions:
(a) Other than the
representations and warranties contained in Article 4, Section 5.1, Section 5.2, Section 5.3(a), Section 5.4, Section 5.5, Section 5.23 and Section 5.30, the
representations and warranties of the Transferors and the Company
contained in this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and
any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto shall be
true and correct in all respects (in the case of any representation
or warranty qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect) or
in all material respects (in the case of any representation or
warranty not qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect)
on and as of the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date with
the same effect as though made at and as of such date (except those
representations and warranties that address matters only as of a
specified date, the accuracy of which shall be determined as of
that specified date in all respects). The representations and
warranties of contained in Article 4, Section 5.1, Section 5.2, Section 5.3(a), Section 5.4, Section 5.5, Section 5.23 and Section 5.30 shall be true and
correct in all respects on and as of the date hereof and on and as
of the Closing Date with the same effect as though made at and as
of such date (except those representations and warranties that
address matters only as of a specified date, the accuracy of which
shall be determined as of that specified date in all
respects).
(b) The Company and
each Transferor (including the Transferors’ Representative)
shall have duly performed and complied in all material respects
with all agreements, covenants and conditions required by this
Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to be
performed or complied with by it prior to or on the Closing Date;
provided,
that, with respect
to agreements, covenants and conditions that are qualified by
materiality, the Company and each Transferor (including the
Transferors’ Representative) shall have performed such
agreements, covenants and conditions, as so qualified, in all
respects.
(c) All registrations,
filings, applications, notices, consents, approvals, orders,
qualifications and waivers listed on Section 9.2(c) of the
Disclosure Schedule, if any, shall have been filed, made or
obtained, as applicable.
(d) From the date of
this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse
Effect, nor shall any event or events have occurred that,
individually or in the aggregate, with or without the lapse of
time, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(e) Acquiror shall have
received estoppel certificates and non-disturbance agreements from
the lessor of, and lender with respect to, each Leased Real
Property addressed to the Company in customary form.
(f) The Company shall
have delivered a Closing Statement pursuant to Section 3.2(a) in form
reasonably approved by Acquiror, and the amount obtained by
subtracting the Closing Company Transaction Expenses from the
Closing Company Net Cash (each as reflected in the Closing
Statement) shall be no less than $0.
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(g) The Company and the
Transferors (including the Transferors’ Representative) shall
have delivered each of the closing deliverables set forth in
Sections 2.2 and
2.3.
(h) All Convertible
Notes shall have been converted into shares of Class B Non-Voting
Common Stock of the Company prior to the Closing and, upon such
conversion, each Convertible Note shall have been terminated and of
no further force or effect.
(i) Upon conversion of
the Convertible Notes, the Company shall have no other
Indebtedness.
(j) All outstanding
options issued pursuant to the Plan that have vested (or will be
vested as of the Closing) shall have been exercised in full or
terminated prior to the Closing.
(k) Each of
Exhibit A and the
capitalization table attached to Section 5.4(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule shall be true and correct in all respects as of
immediately prior to the Closing; provided, that following the date
of this Agreement, no amendments or other modifications of either
Exhibit A or such
capitalization table shall be made without the prior written
consent of Acquiror in its sole discretion.
(l) The form and
substance of all certificates, instruments, opinions and other
documents delivered to Acquiror or Parent under this Agreement
shall be satisfactory in all reasonable respects to Acquiror and
its counsel.
9.3 Conditions to Obligations of the
Company and the Transferors. The obligations
of the Company and the Transferors to consummate the Transactions
shall be subject to the fulfillment or the Transferors’
Representative’s waiver, at or prior to the Closing, of each
of the following conditions:
(a) Other than the
representations and warranties of the Acquiror contained in
Section 6.1(a),
Section 6.1(b)(i)
and Section 6.1(e),
and the representations and warranties of Parent contained in
Section 6.2(a),
Section 6.2(b)(i),
Section 6.2(d) and
Section 6.2(e), the
representations and warranties of Acquiror and Parent contained in
this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and any certificate
or other writing delivered pursuant hereto shall be true and
correct in all respects (in the case of any representation or
warranty qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect) or in
all material respects (in the case of any representation or
warranty not qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect)
on and as of the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date with
the same effect as though made at and as of such date (except those
representations and warranties that address matters only as of a
specified date, the accuracy of which shall be determined as of
that specified date in all respects). The representations and
warranties of Acquiror contained in Section 6.1(a), Section 6.1(b)(i) and
Section 6.1(e) and
the representations and warranties of Parent contained in
Section 6.2(a),
Section 6.2(b)(i),
Section 6.2(d) and
Section 6.2(e)
shall be true and correct in all respects on and as of the date
hereof and on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as
though made at and as of such date.
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(b) Each of Parent and
Acquiror shall have duly performed and complied in all material
respects with all agreements, covenants and conditions required by
this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to be
performed or complied with by it prior to or on the Closing
Date.
Indemnification
10.1 Survival. Subject to the
limitations and other provisions of this Agreement, the
representations and warranties contained herein (other than any
representations or warranties contained in Section 5.23 which are subject
to Article 8) shall
survive the Closing and shall remain in full force and effect until
the second anniversary of the Closing Date (the “General Survival
Period”); provided, that the
representations and warranties in Article 4, Section 5.1, Section 5.2, Section 5.3(a), Section 5.4, Section 5.5, Section 5.11(a), Section 5.29 and Section 5.30 shall remain in
full force and effect until the seventh anniversary of the Closing
Date, the representations and warranties in Section 5.20, Section 5.21 and Section 5.23 shall survive for
the full period of all applicable statutes of limitations (giving
effect to any waiver, mitigation or extension thereof) plus 60 days, and any
representation in the case of fraud, intentional misrepresentation
or intentional breach, shall survive indefinitely (the
representations and warranties identified in the foregoing proviso,
the “Fundamental
Representations”). All covenants and agreements of the
parties contained herein (other than any covenants or agreements
contained in Article
8 which are subject to Article 8) and any statement
contained in any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall
survive the Closing indefinitely or for the period explicitly
specified therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any claims
asserted in good faith with reasonable specificity (to the extent
known at such time) and in writing by notice from the non-breaching
party to the breaching party prior to the expiration date of the
applicable survival period shall not thereafter be barred by the
expiration of the relevant representation or warranty and such
claims shall survive until finally resolved. For the avoidance of
doubt, the references in this Section 10.1 to the “statutes
of limitations” shall refer to the statute of limitations
applicable to the particular matter that gave rise to a breach of
the representation or warranty in question, and not to the statute
of limitations applicable to a breach of this
Agreement.
10.2 Indemnification By The
Transferors. Subject to the
other terms and conditions of this Article 10, the Transferors
shall indemnify and defend each of Parent, Acquiror and their
respective Affiliates (including after the Closing, the Group
Companies) and their respective Representatives (collectively, the
“Acquiror
Indemnitees”) against, and shall hold each of them
harmless from and against, and shall pay and reimburse each of them
for, any and all Losses that is or may be incurred or sustained by,
or imposed upon, the Acquiror Indemnitees based upon, arising out
of, with respect to, relating to or by reason of:
(a) an inaccuracy in or
breach of any representation or warranty of any Transferor or the
Company contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or
instrument delivered by or on behalf of any Transferor or the
Company pursuant to this Agreement (other than in respect of
Section 5.23, it
being understood that the sole remedy for any such inaccuracy in or
breach thereof shall be pursuant to Article 8), as of the date such
representation or warranty was made or as if such representation or
warranty was made on and as of the Closing Date (except for
representations and warranties that expressly relate to a specified
date, the inaccuracy in or breach of which will be determined with
reference to such specified date);
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(b) a breach or
non-fulfillment of any covenant, agreement or obligation to be
performed by any Transferor (including the Transferors’
Representative) or any Group Company pursuant to this Agreement
(other than any breach or violation of, or failure to fully
perform, any covenant, agreement, undertaking or obligation in
Article 8, it being
understood that the sole remedy for any such breach, violation or
failure shall be pursuant to Article 8);
(c) Company Transaction
Expenses or any Indebtedness outstanding as of Closing (including,
without limitation, any amounts set forth on Section 5.7 of the Disclosure
Schedule);
(d) a claim or right
asserted or held by any person who is or at any time was an
officer, director, employee or agent of any Group Company (against
any Group Company or Acquiror, against any Affiliate of the Company
or Acquiror or against any other Person) involving a right or
entitlement or an alleged right or entitlement to indemnification,
reimbursement of expenses or any other relief or remedy (under the
Governing Documents, under any indemnification agreement or similar
Contract, under any applicable Laws or otherwise) with respect to
any act or omission on the part of such person or any event or
other circumstance that arose, occurred or existed at or prior to
the Closing; and
(e) the matter set
forth on Section
5.18(a) of the Disclosure Schedule.
10.3 Indemnification By
Acquiror. Subject to the
other terms and conditions of this Article 10, Acquiror shall
indemnify and defend the Transferors and their respective
Representatives (collectively, the “Transferor Indemnitees”)
against, and shall hold each of them harmless from and against, and
shall pay and reimburse each of them for, any and all Losses
incurred or sustained by, or imposed upon, the Transferor
Indemnitees based upon, arising out of, with respect to, relating
to or by reason of:
(a) an inaccuracy in or
breach of any of the representations or warranties of Acquiror or
Parent contained in this Agreement or in any certificate or
instrument delivered by or on behalf of Acquiror or Parent pursuant
to this Agreement, as of the date such representation or warranty
was made or as if such representation or warranty was made on and
as of the Closing Date (except for representations and warranties
that expressly relate to a specified date, the inaccuracy in or
breach of which will be determined with reference to such specified
date); or
(b) a breach or
non-fulfillment of any covenant, agreement or obligation to be
performed by Acquiror or Parent pursuant to this Agreement (other
than Article 8, it
being understood that the sole remedy for any such breach thereof
shall be pursuant to Article 8).
10.4 Certain
Limitations. The
indemnification provided for in Section 10.2 and Section 10.3 shall be subject
to the following limitations:
(a) The Transferors
shall not be liable to the Acquiror Indemnitees for indemnification
under Section
10.2(a) until the aggregate amount of all Losses in respect
of indemnification under Section 10.2(a) exceeds $25,000
(the “Basket”), in which event
the Transferors shall be liable for all Losses in respect of
indemnification under Section 10.2(a) in excess of
the Basket. The aggregate amount of all Losses for which the
Transferors shall be liable pursuant to Section 10.2(a) shall not
exceed $875,000 (the “Cap”). Except for claims
based on fraud, intentional misrepresentation or intentional
breach, the Transferors shall not have liability pursuant to
Section 10.2 in an
aggregate amount greater than the Purchase Price as finally
determined pursuant to this Agreement.
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(b) Acquiror shall not
be liable to the Transferor Indemnitees for indemnification under
Section
10.3(a) until
the aggregate amount of all Losses in respect of indemnification
under Section
10.3(a) exceeds
the Basket, in which event Acquiror shall be liable for all Losses
in respect of indemnification under Section 10.3(a) in excess of
the Basket. The aggregate amount of all Losses for which Acquiror
shall be liable pursuant to Section 10.3(a) shall not
exceed the Cap. Except for claims based on fraud, intentional
misrepresentation or intentional breach, Acquiror shall not have
liability pursuant to Section 10.3 in an aggregate
amount greater than the Purchase Price as finally determined
pursuant to this Agreement.
(c) The Transferors
shall not be liable to the Acquiror Indemnitees for indemnification
under Section
10.2(e) until
the aggregate amount of all Losses in respect of indemnification
under Section
10.2(e) exceeds
$150,000, in which event the Transferors shall be liable for all
Losses in respect of indemnification under Section 10.2(e) in excess of
$150,000.
(d) Notwithstanding the
foregoing, neither the Basket nor the Cap shall apply to any
indemnification claims based upon, arising out of, with respect to,
relating to or by reason of any breach of a Fundamental
Representation or claims based on fraud, intentional
misrepresentation or intentional breach or any claim with respect
to Taxes.
10.5 Indemnification
Procedures. The party making
a claim under this Article
10 is referred to as the “Indemnified Person”, and
the party against whom such claims are asserted under this
Article 10 is
referred to as the “Indemnifying
Person”.
(i) Notice. If any Indemnified
Person receives notice of the assertion or commencement of any
Action made or brought by any Person who is not a party or an
Affiliate of a party or a Representative of the foregoing (a
“Third Party
Claim”) against such Indemnified Person with respect
to which the Indemnifying Person is obligated to provide
indemnification under this Agreement, the Indemnified Person shall
give the Indemnifying Person reasonably prompt written notice
thereof, but in any event not later than thirty (30) days after
receipt of such notice of such Third Party Claim. The failure to
give such prompt written notice shall not, however, relieve the
Indemnifying Person of its indemnification obligations, except and
only to the extent that the Indemnifying Person forfeits rights or
defenses by reason of such failure. Such notice by the Indemnified
Person shall describe the Third Party Claim in reasonable detail,
shall include copies of all material written evidence thereof and
shall indicate the estimated amount, if reasonably practicable, of
the Loss that has been or may be sustained by the Indemnified
Person.
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(ii) Right to Defend. Upon receipt
of the notice, the Indemnifying Person will have the right to
defend the Indemnified Person against the Third Party Claim with
counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person,
provided, that
(i) within thirty (30) days after the Indemnified Person has
given notice of the Third Party Claim the Indemnifying Person
acknowledges in writing to the Indemnified Person its unqualified
obligation to indemnify the Indemnified Person as provided
hereunder; provided, further, that, if after the Indemnifying
Person acknowledges its unqualified obligation to indemnify the
Indemnified Person and assumed the defense of such Third Party
Claim, (A) new allegations or claims are asserted as part of such
Third Party Claim, or (B) the original Third Party Claim is
otherwise amended in a manner that materially increases the
indemnification obligations of the Indemnifying Person under such
Third Party Claim (including by reason of new facts having been
discovered or being alleged), then, in each such case, the
Indemnifying Person shall either (I) notify the Indemnified
Person of such changes to the original Third Party Claim, within
fifteen (15) days of such changes, and turn over the defense of the
Third Party Claim to the Indemnified Person, in which case the
Indemnifying Person shall be deemed not to have acknowledged its
obligation to indemnify the Indemnified Person (except to the
extent all or any portion of the original Third Party Claim has
already been determined, compromised or settled), or
(I) continue to defend such Third Party Claim, in which case
the Indemnifying Person shall be deemed to have acknowledged its
obligation to indemnify the Indemnified Person with respect to such
Third Party Claim as so changed, (ii) the Indemnifying Person
provides the Indemnified Person with evidence reasonably acceptable
to the Indemnified Person that the Indemnifying Person will have
the financial resources to defend against the Third Party Claim and
fulfill its indemnification obligations hereunder, (iii) the
Third Party Claim involves only money damages, and does not seek
statutory, enhanced or treble damages or an injunction or other
equitable relief, (iv) the Third Party Claim has a reasonable
likelihood of resulting in indemnifiable Losses that would result
in the Cap being exceeded or does not have a reasonable likelihood
of resulting in indemnifiable Losses that would result in the
Basket being exceeded; or (v) settlement of, or an adverse
judgment with respect to, the Third Party Claim is not, in the good
faith judgment of the Indemnified Person, likely to establish a
precedential custom or practice adverse to the continuing business
interests or the reputation of the Indemnified Person or have a
material adverse effect on the Indemnified Person, (vi) the
Third Party Claim does not involve a supplier, customer,
distributor, licensor, licensee, lessor or insurer of the Company
or any Affiliate thereof or a Governmental Authority, (vii) the
Third Party Claim does not involve a class action lawsuit and
(viii) the Indemnifying Person conducts the defense of the
Third Party Claim actively and diligently. The Indemnifying Person
will keep the Indemnified Person apprised of all material
developments, including settlement offers, with respect to the
Third Party Claim and permit the Indemnified Person to participate
in the defense of the Third Party Claim with counsel selected by it
subject to the Indemnifying Person’s right to control the
defense thereof. The fees and disbursements of such counsel shall
be at the expense of the Indemnified Person, provided, that if in the
reasonable opinion of counsel to the Indemnified Person,
(A) there are legal defenses available to an Indemnified
Person that are different from or additional to those available to
the Indemnifying Person; or (B) there exists a conflict of
interest between the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person
that cannot be waived, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for
the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the Indemnified
Person in each jurisdiction for which the Indemnified Person
determines counsel is required. If the Indemnifying Person elects
not to or is not entitled to defend such Third Party Claim, fails
to promptly notify the Indemnified Person in writing of its
election to defend as provided in this Agreement, or fails to
diligently prosecute the defense of such Third Party Claim, the
Indemnified Person may, subject to Section 10.5(c), pay,
compromise, defend such Third Party Claim and seek indemnification
for any and all Losses based upon, arising from or relating to such
Third Party Claim. The Transferors and Acquiror shall cooperate
with each other in all reasonable respects in connection with the
defense of any Third Party Claim.
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(iii) Cooperation. With respect to
any Third Party Claim, both the Indemnified Person and the
Indemnifying Person, as the case may be, shall keep the other
Person fully informed of the status of such Third Party Claim and
any related Actions at all stages thereof where such Person is not
represented by its own counsel. The parties agree to provide
reasonable access to the other parties to such documents and
information as may be reasonably requested in connection with the
defense, negotiation or settlement of any such Third Party Claim;
provided, however, that the parties shall cooperate in such a
manner as to preserve in full (to the extent possible) the
confidentiality of all Confidential Information and the
attorney-client and work-product privileges of the other party. In
connection therewith, each party agrees that: (i) it will use
commercially reasonable efforts, in respect of any Third Party
Claim in which it has assumed or participated in the defense, to
avoid production of Confidential Information (consistent with
applicable Law and rules of procedure); and (ii) all
communications between any party and counsel responsible for or
participating in the defense of any Third Party Claim shall, to the
extent possible, be made so as to preserve any applicable
attorney-client or work-product privilege.
(iv) Settlement. The Indemnifying
Person shall not enter into settlement or compromise of any Third
Party Claim or permit a default or consent to entry of any judgment
or admit any liability with respect thereto, if it is not defending
such Third Party Claim. If the Indemnifying Person is defending
such Third Party Claim, it shall not enter into settlement or
compromise of any Third Party Claim or permit a default or consent
to entry of any judgment or admit any liability with respect
thereto without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Person
unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (A) does not involve
liability or the creation of a financial or other obligation on the
part of the Indemnified Person, does not involve any finding or
admission of any violation of Law or any violation of the rights of
any Person or the admission of wrongdoing and would not have any
adverse effect on other claims that may have been made against the
Indemnified Person, (B) does not involve any relief other than
monetary damages that are paid in full by the Indemnifying Person,
and (C) provides, for the complete, final and unconditional release
of each Indemnified Person and its Affiliates from all liabilities
and obligations in connection with such Third Party Claim and would
not otherwise adversely affect the Indemnified Person.
(b) Direct Claims. Any Action by an
Indemnified Person on account of a Loss which does not result from
a Third Party Claim (a “Direct Claim”) shall be
asserted by the Indemnified Person giving the Indemnifying Person
reasonably prompt written notice thereof, but in any event not
later than thirty (30) days after the Indemnified Person becomes
aware of such Direct Claim. The failure to give such prompt written
notice shall not, however, relieve the Indemnifying Person of its
indemnification obligations, except and only to the extent that the
Indemnifying Person forfeits rights or defenses by reason of such
failure. Such notice by the Indemnified Person shall describe the
Direct Claim in reasonable detail, shall include copies of all
material written evidence thereof and shall indicate the estimated
amount, if reasonably practicable, of the Loss that has been or may
be sustained by the Indemnified Person. The Indemnifying Person
shall have thirty (30) days after its receipt of such notice to
respond in writing to such Direct Claim. The Indemnified Person
shall allow the Indemnifying Person and its professional advisors
to investigate the matter or circumstance alleged to give rise to
the Direct Claim, and whether and to what extent any amount is
payable in respect of the Direct Claim and the Indemnified Person
shall assist the Indemnifying Person’s investigation by
giving such information and assistance (including access to the
Company’s premises and personnel and the right to examine and
copy any accounts, documents or records) as the Indemnifying Person
or any of its professional advisors may reasonably request. If the
Indemnifying Person does not so respond within such thirty (30) day
period, the Indemnifying Person shall be deemed to have rejected
such claim, in which case the Indemnified Person shall be free to
pursue such remedies as may be available to the Indemnified Person
on the terms and subject to the provisions of this
Agreement.
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(c) Tax Claims. Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Agreement, the control of any claim,
assertion, event or proceeding in respect of Taxes of the Company
(including, but not limited to, any such claim in respect of a
breach of the representations and warranties in Section 5.22 hereof
or any breach or violation of or failure to fully perform any
covenant, agreement, undertaking or obligation in Article 8) shall be
governed exclusively by Article 8 hereof.
(a) All indemnification
owing by Acquiror to any Transferor Indemnitee hereunder, as
finally determined pursuant to this Article 10, shall be effected,
no later than five (5) Business Days after the final determination
thereof, (i) first, by the re-issuance by Parent of the Parent
Shares cancelled pursuant to Section 10.6(b) on or prior to
such payment having an aggregate value up to the amount of the
indemnification obligation and (ii) thereafter, by the transfer of
additional Parent Shares having an aggregate value equal to the
amount of the unsatisfied portion of such indemnification
obligation, in each case within five (5) Business Days after the
final determination thereof.
(b) All indemnification
owing by the Transferors to any Acquiror Indemnitee hereunder, as
finally determined pursuant to this Article 10, shall be effected,
no later than five (5) Business Days after the final determination
thereof, (i) first by Parent’s cancellation of that number of
Holdback Shares having an aggregate value up to the amount of the
indemnification obligation(s) in accordance with this Agreement and
(ii) thereafter, by Parent’s cancellation of up to that
number of Parent Shares having an aggregate value equal to the
amount of the unsatisfied portion of such indemnification
obligation, it being agreed and understood that upon such
determination, such Parent Shares shall be automatically cancelled,
without the need for any further action by Parent, Acquiror, the
Transferors or any other person. For the avoidance of doubt,
Acquiror may exercise its rights pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) on more than
one occasion to the extent applicable Losses are incurred, which
are not paid by the Transferors and which are determined to be
owing as provided above.
(c) For U.S. federal
and applicable state and local income Tax purposes, to the extent
permitted by applicable Law, Parent, Acquiror and the Transferors
agree (A) to treat the cancellation and/or re-issuance of Parent
Shares pursuant to Section
10.6(a) and Section
10.6(b) as an adjustment to the number of shares of Series F
Preferred Stock of Parent comprising the Parent Shares issued
hereunder and that, for the avoidance of doubt, the cancellation of
such Parent Shares relate back to the time of the issuance of such
Parent Shares, and (B) to report the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement consistently with the foregoing, including, without
limitation, the filing of any Tax returns.
(d) The Board of
Directors of Parent shall update the stock register of Parent to
reflect any such cancellation and/or re-issuance. To the extent any
Parent Shares must be cancelled pursuant to Section 10.6(b), each
Transferor shall promptly deliver the Closing Parent Share
Certificate (or any replacement stock certificate) to Parent, and
Parent shall cancel such stock certificate and deliver to such
Transferor a replacement stock certificate evidencing the Parent
Shares which remain after giving effect to such cancellation. To
the extent any previously cancelled Parent Shares must be re-issued
pursuant to Section
10.6(a), each Transferor shall promptly deliver the Closing
Parent Share Certificate (or any replacement stock certificate) to
Parent, and Parent shall cancel such stock certificate and deliver
to such Transferor a replacement stock certificate evidencing the
Parent Shares after giving effect to such re-issuance.
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(e) For purposes of
this Section 10.6,
the value of the Parent Shares at the time of cancellation shall be
calculated as of the Closing.
(f) For purposes of
giving effect to the foregoing agreements regarding
indemnification, each Transferor agrees that, during the period
commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the first anniversary
thereof, such Transferor shall not, directly or indirectly,
transfer, assign, convey, sell, pledge, encumber or otherwise
dispose of any Parent Shares (other than as a result of the
cancellation thereof by Parent pursuant to Section
10.6(b)).
(a) . No Transferor may
seek indemnification under the Governing Documents from any Group
Company for any matter for which it has an indemnification
obligation hereunder.
10.8 Materiality. For purposes of
calculating the amount of Losses incurred by a party seeking
indemnification hereunder arising out of or resulting from any
breach of a representation, warranty covenant or agreement
contained herein, and for purposes of determining whether such a
breach has occurred, the representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements contained herein shall be deemed to have been made
without any qualifications as to “materiality”,
“Material Adverse Effect” or other similar
qualifications.
10.9 Tax Treatment of Indemnification
Payments. All
indemnification payments made under this Agreement shall be treated
for Tax purposes by the parties as an adjustment to the Purchase
Price, unless otherwise required by Law.
10.10 Effect of Investigation and
Waiver. Each party hereby
agrees that its representations, warranties and covenants (and any
related conditions to Closing) shall not be affected or deemed
waived by reason of the fact that any other party knew or should
have known that such representations, warranties and covenants is
or may be inaccurate or may have been breached, unless the other
party expressly agreed in a writing delivered prior to Closing to
waive such inaccuracy or breach.
10.11 Exclusive
Remedies. Subject to
Section 12.11, the
parties acknowledge and agree that their sole and exclusive remedy
with respect to any and all claims (other than claims arising from
fraud, intentional misrepresentation, criminal activity or willful
misconduct on the part of a party in connection with the
Transactions) for any breach of any representation, warranty,
covenant, agreement or obligation set forth herein shall be
pursuant to the indemnification provisions set forth in
Article 8 and this
Article 10. Nothing
in this Section
10.11 shall limit any Person’s right to seek and
obtain any equitable relief to which any Person shall be entitled
or to seek any remedy on account of any party’s fraud,
intentional misrepresentation, criminal activity or willful
misconduct.
10.12 No
Contribution. Anything to the
contrary herein notwithstanding, no Transferor shall have any right
to seek any indemnification or contribution from or remedy against
any Group Company whether arising prior to or after the Closing
Date in respect of any breach of any representation or warranty by
a Group Company or the failure of a Group Company to comply with
any covenant or agreement to be performed by such Group Company on
or prior to the Closing Date and each Transferor hereby waives any
such claim they may have against each Group Company with respect
thereto whether at law, in equity or otherwise.
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10.13 Separate
Bases for Claim. If any party
hereto has breached any representation, warranty or covenant or
agreement contained herein in any respect, the fact that there
exists another representation, warranty or covenant relating to the
same subject matter (regardless of the relative levels of
specificity) which such party has not breached shall not detract
from or mitigate the fact that such party is in breach of the first
representation, warranty, covenant or agreement.
Termination
(a) by the mutual
written consent of the Transferors’ Representative and
Acquiror;
(b) by Acquiror by
written notice to the Transferors’ Representative
if:
(i) neither Acquiror
nor Parent is then in material breach of any provision of this
Agreement and there has been a breach, inaccuracy in or failure to
perform any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by
a Transferor (including the Transferors’ Representative) or
the Company in this Agreement that would give rise to the failure
of any of the conditions specified in Article 9 and such breach,
inaccuracy or failure has not been cured within ten (10) days of
the Transferors’ Representative’s receipt of written
notice of such breach from Acquiror;
(ii) any of the
conditions set forth in Section 9.1 or Section 9.2 shall not have
been, or if it becomes apparent that any of such conditions will
not be, fulfilled by October 9, 2020 (the “Outside Date”) unless
such failure shall be due to the failure of Acquiror or Parent to
perform or comply with any of the covenants or agreements hereof to
be performed or complied with by it prior to the Closing;
or
(iii) as a result of
Acquiror’s due diligence examination of the Group Companies
or other matters which have come to the attention of Acquiror
(including, without limitation, any information disclosed in the
Disclosure Schedule or pursuant to Section 7.4), Acquiror has
concluded that material matters, facts or circumstances involving
the Group Companies or the Business exist which make it inadvisable
for the Acquiror to proceed with the Closing.
(c) by the
Transferors’ Representative by written notice to Acquiror
if:
(i) no Transferor
(including the Transferors’ Representative) nor any Group
Company is then in material breach of any provision of this
Agreement and there has been a breach, inaccuracy in or failure to
perform any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by
Acquiror or Parent in this Agreement that would give rise to the
failure of any of the conditions specified in Article 9 and such breach,
inaccuracy or failure has not been cured within ten (10) days of
Acquiror’s receipt of written notice of such breach from the
Transferors’ Representative; or
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(d) by Acquiror or the
Transferors’ Representative in the event that (i) there
shall be any Law that makes consummation of the Transactions
illegal or otherwise prohibited or (ii) any Governmental
Authority shall have issued a Governmental Order restraining or
enjoining the Transactions, and such Governmental Order shall have
become final and non-appealable.
11.2 Effect of
Termination. In the event of
the termination of this Agreement in accordance with this
Article 11,
this Agreement shall forthwith become void and there shall be no
liability on the part of any party except:
(a) for this
Article 11 and
Section 7.10 and
Article 12, which
provisions shall survive the termination of this Agreement;
and
(b) that nothing herein
shall relieve any party from liability for any breach of any
provision hereof.
Miscellaneous
12.1 Expenses. Except as
otherwise expressly provided herein, all costs and expenses,
including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of counsel,
financial advisors and accountants, incurred in connection with
this Agreement and the Transactions shall be paid by the party
incurring such costs and expenses, whether or not the Closing shall
have occurred.
12.2 Notices. All notices,
requests, consents, claims, demands, waivers and other
communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to
have been given (a) when delivered by hand (with written
confirmation of receipt); (b) when received by the addressee
if sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier (receipt
requested); (c) on the date sent by facsimile or e-mail of a
PDF document (with confirmation of transmission) if sent during
normal business hours of the recipient, and on the next Business
Day if sent after normal business hours of the recipient or
(d) on the third (3rd) day after the date
mailed, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested,
postage prepaid. Such communications must be sent to the respective
parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a
party as shall be specified in a notice given in accordance with
this Section
12.2):
If to
the Transferors, the Transferors’ Representative or the
Company (prior to the Closing):
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000
Xxxx 00xx
Xxxxxx, 00xx XxxxxXxx Xxxx,
XXXxxxxxxxx: Xxxxxx FoxEmail: a@xxxxxx.xx
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with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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The
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Law Firm, PLLC
00
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
Email:
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If to
the Transferors or the Transferors’ Representative (after the
Closing):
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000
Xxxx 00xx
Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX
Attention:
Xxxxxx Xxx
Email:
x@xxxxxx.xx
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with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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The
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Law Firm, PLLC
00
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
Email:
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If to
Acquiror:
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c/o
GoIP Global, Inc.
0000
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Email:
xx@xxxxxx.xxx
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with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, LLP
00
Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Esq. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Email:
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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If to
Parent:
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c/o
GoIP Global, Inc.
0000
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxx
Email:
xx@xxxxxx.xxx
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with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
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Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, LLP
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Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, Esq. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Email:
xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
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12.3 Construction. Unless the
express context otherwise requires: (a) the words
“hereof”, “herein”, and
“hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in
this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement; (b) the terms defined
in the singular have a comparable meaning when used in the plural,
and vice versa; (c) the terms “Dollars” and
“$” mean United States Dollars; (d) references herein
to a specific Article, Section, clause, Schedule or Exhibit shall
refer, respectively, to the Articles, Sections and clauses of, and
Schedules and Exhibits to, this Agreement; (e) wherever the word
“include,” “includes,” or
“including” is used in this Agreement, it shall be
deemed to be followed by the words “without
limitation”; (f) any reference to the masculine, feminine or
neuter gender shall include each other gender; (g) when reference
is made herein to “the business of” a Person, such
reference shall be deemed to include the business of all direct and
indirect Subsidiaries of such Person, (h) all accounting and
financial terms shall be deemed to have the meanings assigned
thereto under GAAP unless expressly stated otherwise, (i) when this
Agreement states that the Company has “made available,”
“delivered” or “provided” (or terms of
similar import) a particular document or other item, it shall mean
that the Company has made a true, correct and complete copy of such
document or item (together with all amendments, supplements or
other modifications thereto or waivers thereof) available for
viewing by Acquiror and its representatives (and properly labeled,
including both as to its location within the index to the
electronic dataroom for “Charge” run by Google Drive
(the “Dataroom”) and the
description of the file containing such document or information) in
the Dataroom, as such materials were posted to the Dataroom at
least three (3) Business Days prior to the date hereof and not
removed on or prior to the date hereof, and, if any such document
or information has not been continuously available to each of
Acquiror’s representatives who have access to the Dataroom
since the initial date such representatives were granted access, a
notification that such document or information was added to the
Dataroom has been sent to each representative of Acquiror who has
access to the Dataroom prior to the fifth (5th) Business Day
preceding the Closing Date, (j) any reference to any applicable Law
in this Agreement refers to such applicable Law as in effect at the
date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, (k) in the computation
of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date,
the word “from” means “from and including”
and the words “to” and “until” each mean
“to but excluding” and if the last day of any such
period is not a Business Day, such period will end on the next
Business Day, (l) when calculating the period of time
“within” which or “following” which any act
or event is required or permitted to be done, notice given or steps
taken, the date which is the reference date in calculating such
period is to be excluded from the calculation and if the last day
of any such period is not a Business Day, such period will end on
the next Business Day, (m) the provision of a table of contents and
the insertion of headings are for convenience of reference only and
shall not affect or be utilized in construing or interpreting this
Agreement, (n) references to “day” means calendar days
unless Business Days are expressly specified, (o) references to any
Person includes such Person’s predecessors, successors and
assigns to the extent, in the case of successors and assigns, such
successors and assigns are permitted by the terms of any applicable
agreement, and reference to a Person in a particular capacity
excludes such Person in any other capacity or individually, (p)
references to a party means a party to this Agreement, (q)
references to a document, instrument, or agreement also refers to
all addenda, exhibits, or schedules thereto, (r) a reference to a
“copy” or “copies” of any document,
instrument, or agreement means a copy or copies that are complete
and correct; and (s) a reference to a list, or any like compilation
(whether in the Schedules to this Agreement or elsewhere), means
that the item referred to is complete and correct. All Exhibits and
Schedules annexed hereto or referred to herein are incorporated in
and made a part of this Agreement as if set forth in full herein.
The parties agree that they have been represented by counsel during
the negotiation and execution of this Agreement and, therefore,
waive the application of any applicable Law or rule of construction
providing that ambiguities in an agreement or other document will
be construed against the party or parties drafting such agreement
or document. Unless expressly provided otherwise, any approval or
consent required to be given by a party in this Agreement shall be
given or withheld by such party in its sole discretion. The fact
that any representation and warranty may be more specific than any
other representation and warranty shall not be construed so as to
limit or restrict the scope, applicability or meaning of any other
representation and warranty contained herein.
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12.4 Severability.
If any term or provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability shall not affect any other term or provision of
this Agreement or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or
provision in any other jurisdiction. Upon such determination that
any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the parties shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement
so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as
possible in a mutually acceptable manner in order that the
Transactions be consummated as originally contemplated to the
greatest extent possible.
12.5 Entire
Agreement. This Agreement
and the Transaction Documents contain the entire understanding of
the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof
and supersede all prior and contemporaneous oral or written
agreements, negotiations, understandings, statements or proposals
with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. In the event
of any inconsistency between the statements in the body of this
Agreement and those in the other Transaction Documents and
Disclosure Schedule (other than an exception expressly set forth as
such in the Disclosure Schedule), the statements in the body of
this Agreement will control.
12.7 Successors and
Assigns. This Agreement
shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties
and their respective successors and permitted assigns. No party may
assign its rights or delegate any of its obligations hereunder
without the prior written consent of the other parties, which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; provided, that Acquiror shall
be entitled to assign or delegate this Agreement or all or any part
of its rights or obligations hereunder (a) to any one or more
Affiliates of Acquiror, provided further that such assignment shall
not relieve Acquiror of any of its obligations hereunder,
(b) in connection with the sale of all or any substantial
portion of the assets of Acquiror or one or more Affiliates of
Acquiror or (c) for collateral security purposes to any lender
providing financing to Acquiror. No assignment or delegation shall
relieve the assigning party of any of its obligations
hereunder.
12.8 No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. Except as
provided in Section
8.3 and Article
10, this Agreement is for the sole benefit of the parties
and their respective successors and permitted assigns and nothing
herein, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any
other Person or entity any legal or equitable right, benefit or
remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this
Agreement.
12.9 Amendment and Modification;
Waiver. This Agreement
may only be amended, modified or supplemented by an agreement in
writing signed by the Acquiror and Transferors’
Representative. No waiver by any party of any of the provisions
hereof shall be effective unless explicitly set forth in writing
and signed by the party so waiving (provided that any right of the
Transferors may be waived by the Transferors’ Representative
on behalf of the Transferors). No waiver by any party shall operate
or be construed as a waiver in respect of any failure, breach or
default not expressly identified by such written waiver, whether of
a similar or different character, and whether occurring before or
after that waiver. No failure to exercise, or delay in exercising,
any right, remedy, power or privilege arising from this Agreement
shall operate or be construed as a waiver thereof; nor shall any
single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege
hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
privilege.
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12.10 Governing
Law. This Agreement
and the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the internal Laws of the State of New York without
reference to such state’s or any other jurisdiction’s
principles of conflicts of law.
(a) Any Action against
Parent, Acquiror, the Group Companies, or any Transferor (including
the Transferors’ Representative) arising out of, or with
respect to, this Agreement or any Governmental Order entered by any
court in respect thereof shall be brought exclusively in the state
or federal courts located in the State of New York (the
“Designated
Courts”), and such parties accept the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Designated Courts for the purpose of any such
Action. Each of Parent, Acquiror, the Company and the Transferors
(including the Transferors’ Representative) agrees that
service of any process, summons, notice or document by U.S.
registered mail addressed to such party in accordance with the
addresses set forth in Section 12.2 shall be
effective service of process for any Action brought against such
party in any such court. Each of Parent and Acquiror hereby
designates the individual listed in Section 12.2 to whom
notice may be given on behalf of Acquiror or Parent, as applicable,
as its true and lawful agent upon whom may be served any lawful
process in any Action instituted by or on behalf of the Company
(before the Closing) or the Transferors. The Transferors and the
Company (before the Closing) hereby designate the
Transferors’ Representative as their true and lawful agent
upon whom may be served any lawful process in any Action instituted
by or on behalf of Acquiror or Parent.
(b) In addition, each
of Parent, Acquiror, the Company and the Transferors (including the
Transferors’ Representative) hereby irrevocably waives, to
the fullest extent permitted by Law, any objection which it may now
or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any Action arising out
of or relating to this Agreement in any Designated Court or any
Governmental Order entered by any of the Designated Courts and
hereby further irrevocably waives any claim that any Action brought
in the Designated Courts has been brought in an inconvenient
forum.
(c) EACH OF PARENT,
ACQUIROR, THE COMPANY AND THE TRANSFERORS (INCLUDING THE
TRANSFERORS’ REPRESENTATIVE) ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY
CONTROVERSY THAT MAY ARISE OUT OF, OR WITH RESPECT TO, THIS
AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES,
AND THEREFORE EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY
RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY
ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT. EACH
PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT
OR ATTORNEY OR ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR
OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF
LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER, (II) EACH PARTY
UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WAIVER,
(III) EACH PARTY MAKES THIS WAIVER VOLUNTARILY AND (IV) EACH PARTY
HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS OF THIS SECTION 12.11. ANY PARTY
MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS AGREEMENT WITH
ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES TO THE
WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.
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12.12 Specific
Performance. The parties agree
that irreparable damage would occur if any provision of this
Agreement were not performed in accordance with the terms hereof
and that the parties shall be entitled to specific performance of
the terms hereof, in addition to any other remedy to which they are
entitled at law or in equity.
12.13 Counterparts;
Effectiveness. This Agreement
may be executed in several counterparts (including counterparts by
email, facsimile, portable document format (pdf) or any electronic
signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000
(including DocuSign)), each of which shall be deemed an original
and all of which shall together constitute one and the same
instrument. This Agreement shall become effective when each party
shall have received a counterpart hereof signed by all of the other
parties. Until and unless each party has received a counterpart
hereof signed by the other Parties, this Agreement shall have no
effect and no party shall have any right or obligation hereunder
(whether by virtue of any other oral or written agreement or other
communication).
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each party has duly executed and delivered this
Agreement as of the date first above written.
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“PARENT”
GOIP
GLOBAL, INC.
By: __________________________
Name:
Title:
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“ACQUIROR”
TRANSWORLD
ENTERPRISES, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each party has duly executed and delivered this
Agreement as of the date first above written.
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“COMPANY”
GETCHARGED,
INC.
By: ________________________
Name:
Title:
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“TRANSFERORS’
REPRESENTATIVE”
_____________________________
XXXXXX XXX
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each party has duly executed and delivered this
Agreement as of the date first above written.
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“TRANSFERORS”
[_______________________]
By:__________________________
Name:
Title:
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ANNEX A
DEFINITIONS
In this
Annex, and in the Agreement and the other Appendices and Schedules
thereto, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms
shall have the meanings assigned below and the terms listed in the
chart below shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Section
set forth opposite to such term (unless otherwise specified,
section references in this Annex are to Sections of this
Agreement):
Term:
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Section:
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Accounting
Referee
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8.1(d)
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Acquiror
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Preamble
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Acquiror
Indemnitees
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10.2
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Acquisition
Proposal
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7.3(a)
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Agreement
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Preamble
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Basket
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10.4(a)
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Benefit
Plan
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5.21(a)
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Cap
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10.4(a)
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Closing
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2.1
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Closing
Date
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2.1
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Closing
Statement
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3.3(a)
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Company
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Preamble
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Company
Intellectual
Property
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5.13(a)(i)
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Company
IP
Agreements
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5.13(a)(ii)
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Company
IP
Registrations
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5.13(a)(iii)
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Data
Handling
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5.28(a)
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Direct
Claim
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10.5(b)
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Environmental
Claim
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5.20(a)(i)
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Environmental
Law
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5.20(a)(ii)
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Environmental
Notice
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5.20(a)(iii)
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Environmental
Permit
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5.20(a)(iv)
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ERISA
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5.21(a)
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ERISA
Affiliate
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5.21(a)
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Export
Control
Laws
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5.24(a)
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Financial
Statements
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5.6(a)
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General
Survival
Period
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10.1
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Hazardous
Materials
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5.20(a)(v)
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Indemnified
Person
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10.5
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Indemnifying
Person
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10.5
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Insurance
Policies
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5.17
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Intellectual
Property
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5.13(a)(iv)
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Interim
Balance
Sheet
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5.6(a)
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Interim
Balance Sheet
Date
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5.6(a)
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Interim
Financial
Statements
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5.6(a)
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Term:
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Section:
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Leased
Real
Property
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5.10(b)
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Material
Contracts
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5.9(a)
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Material
Customers
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5.16(a)
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Material
Suppliers
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5.16(c)
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Non-Disclosure
Agreement
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12.6
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Personal
Property
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5.11
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Post-Closing
Tax
Period
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8.1(a)
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Purchase
Price
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1.2
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Qualified
Benefit
Plan
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5.21(c)
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Real
Property
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7.2
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Release
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5.20(a)(vi)
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Restricted
Territory
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7.6(a)(i)
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Securities
Act
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4.7(a)
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Sensitive
Data
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5.28(a)
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Shares
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Recitals
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Software
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5.13(a)(v)
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Solvent
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5.6(f)
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Straddle
Period
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8.4
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Tax
Claim
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8.5
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Third
Party
Claim
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10.5(a)
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Transferor
Indemnitees
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10.3
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Transferors
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Preamble
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Union
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5.22(b)
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WARN
Act
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5.22(d)
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Year-End
Balance
Sheet
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5.6(a)
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Year-End
Balance Sheet
Date
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5.6(a)
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Year-End
Financial
Statements
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5.6(a)
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“Action” means any
governmental, judicial, administrative or adversarial proceeding
(public or private), any action, complaint, claim, lawsuit, legal
proceeding, whistleblower complaint, litigation, arbitration or
mediation, any hearing, investigation (internal or otherwise),
audit, probe or inquiry by any Governmental Authority or any other
dispute, including any adversarial proceeding arising out of this
Agreement.
“Affiliate” means, with
respect to any Person, any other Person who, directly or
indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. The
term “control” (including, with correlative meanings,
the terms “under common control with” and
“controlled by”), as used in the preceding sentence,
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or otherwise.
“Business” means the
business presently conducted by the Group Companies, including
charging of electric vehicles and devices.
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“Business Day” means
any day except Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which
commercial banks located in the State of New York are authorized or
required by Law to be closed for business.
“Parent Shares” shall mean
shares of Series F Preferred Stock of Parent, par value $0.001 per
share.
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Contracts” means
all contracts, purchase orders, leases, deeds, mortgages, licenses,
instruments, notes, undertakings, indentures, joint ventures and
all other agreements, commitments and arrangements, whether written
or oral.
“Disclosure Schedule”
means that certain document identified as the Disclosure Schedule,
dated as of the date hereof (as the same may be modified from time
to time in accordance with the terms hereof), delivered by the
Company and the Transferors to Acquiror in connection with this
Agreement. Each Section in the Disclosure Schedule shall be deemed
to qualify only (i) the corresponding Section of this Agreement,
(ii) any other Section of this Agreement to which such disclosure
makes express reference or (iii) any other Section of this
Agreement to the extent the relevance of the information disclosed
in such Section in the Disclosure Schedule to such other Section is
readily apparent on its face. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, no disclosure in the Disclosure Schedule
shall be deemed adequate to disclose an exception to a
representation or warranty made by any party unless the disclosure
identifies the exception with reasonable particularity and
describes the relevant facts in reasonable detail. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the mere listing (or inclusion of
a copy) of a document or other item in the Disclosure Schedule
shall not be deemed adequate to disclose an exception to a
representation or warranty made herein (unless the representation
or warranty has to do with the existence of the document or other
item itself).
“Encumbrance” means
any charge, claim, community property interest, pledge, condition,
equitable interest, lien (statutory or other), option, security
interest, mortgage, easement, encroachment, right of way, right of
first refusal, or restriction of any kind, including any
restriction on use, voting, transfer, receipt of income or exercise
of any other attribute of ownership. For purposes of this
Agreement, a Person will be deemed to own a property or asset
subject to an Encumbrance if it holds such property or asset
subject to the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any
conditional sale agreement, capital lease, or other title retention
agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same
economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such property
or asset.
“Family” means, with
respect to a particular individual, (a) the individual, (b) the
individual’s spouse and former spouse(s), (c) any other
natural person who is related to the individual or the
individual’s spouse within the second degree, and (d) any
other natural person who resides with such individual.
“GAAP” means United
States generally accepted accounting principles in effect from time
to time.
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“Governing Documents”
means with respect to any Person: (a) if a corporation, the
articles or certificate of incorporation and the bylaws; (b) if a
general partnership, the partnership agreement and any statement of
partnership; (c) if a limited partnership, the limited partnership
agreement and the certificate of limited partnership; (d) if a
limited liability company, the articles of organization and
operating agreement; (e) if a trust, the instrument governing the
trust, (f) if another type of Person, any other charter or similar
document adopted or filed in connection with the creation,
formation or organization of the Person; (g) all
equityholders’ agreements, voting agreements, voting trust
agreements, joint venture agreements, registration rights
agreements or other agreements or documents relating to the
organization, management or operation of any Person or relating to
the rights, duties and obligations of the equityholders of any
Person; and (h) any amendment or supplement to any of the
foregoing.
“Governmental
Authority” means any federal, state, local or
foreign government or political subdivision thereof, or any agency
or instrumentality of such government or political subdivision, or
any self-regulated organization or other non-governmental
regulatory authority or quasi-governmental authority (to the extent
that the rules, regulations or orders of such organization or
authority have the force of Law), or any arbitrator, court or
tribunal of competent jurisdiction.
“Governmental
Order” means any order, writ, judgment,
injunction, decree, stipulation, determination or award entered by
or with any Governmental Authority.
“Group Companies” means,
collectively, the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries.
“Indebtedness” means the
following obligations: (a) all indebtedness or other obligations of
the Group Companies for borrowed money, whether current, short-term
or long-term, secured or unsecured, including all notes
(convertible or otherwise) or similar instruments, overdrafts and
negative cash balances; (b) all indebtedness of the Group Companies
for the deferred purchase price for purchases of property or
services with respect to which any Group Company is liable,
contingently or otherwise, as obligor or otherwise (whether
earn-outs, indemnity payments, non-compete payments, consulting
payments, retention bonuses, severance payments or other similar
payments, or otherwise; in each case whether contingent or not and
valued at the maximum amount thereof) except any trade payable
incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business that is treated (in its
entirety) as a current account payable under GAAP; (c) all lease
obligations of the Group Companies under leases that have been or
should be capitalized in accordance with GAAP; (d) the aggregate
face amount of all outstanding letters of credit issued on behalf
of the Group Companies; (e) all obligations of the Group Companies
arising under acceptance facilities; (f) all guaranties,
endorsements and other contingent obligations of the Group
Companies to purchase, to provide funds for payment, to supply
funds to invest in any other Person, or otherwise to assure a
creditor against loss; (g) all obligations of the Group Companies
under any interest rate protection, foreign currency exchange, or
other interest or exchange rate swap or hedging agreement or
arrangement, or other derivative product; (h) all obligations
secured by an Encumbrance upon any assets or properties of the
Group Companies; (i) all outstanding or held checks, money orders
or similar instruments of the Group Companies as of the Closing;
(j) all Liabilities of the Group Companies pursuant to any phantom
equity plan or Liabilities with respect stock appreciation or
similar rights or arising from non-qualified deferred compensation
arrangements, plans or policies or other forms of deferred
compensation arrangements; (k) any other Liabilities, contingent or
otherwise, that, in accordance with GAAP, should be classified upon
the balance sheet of the Group Companies as indebtedness; (l) all
“withdrawal liability” of any Group Company to a
“multiemployer plan” as such terms are defined under
ERISA, (m) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (a) through (l)
above of any Person other than a Group Company that is guaranteed
by any Group Company; (n) declared but unpaid distributions; and
(o) accrued and unpaid interest on, and prepayment premiums,
penalties or similar contractual charges arising as a result of the
discharge of, any such foregoing obligation.
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“Knowledge of the
Company” or “Company’s
Knowledge” or any other similar knowledge
qualification, means the knowledge of any of the following persons:
Xxxxxx Xxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx. Any such person shall be deemed to
have “knowledge” of a particular fact or other matter
if such person (a) is actually aware of such fact or other matter
or (b) would reasonably be expected to discover or otherwise become
aware of such fact or other matter in the course of conducting a
comprehensive investigation concerning the existence of such fact
or other matter, including by making due inquiry of the applicable
personnel who report directly to that listed
individual.
“Law” means (a) any
federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, international,
multinational or other administrative law, constitution, common law
principle, ordinance, code, statute, judgment, injunction, decree,
order, rule, statute or governmental regulation, or “fair
price,” “moratorium,” “control share
acquisition” or other similar anti-takeover statute or
regulation, (b) any binding judicial or administrative
interpretation of any of the foregoing, (c) the terms and
conditions of any agreement relating to any Group Company with a
Governmental Authority, (d) the terms and conditions of any
certification relating to any Group Company to any Governmental
Authority, (e) any governmental requirements or restrictions
of any kind, or any rule, regulation or order promulgated
thereunder, (f) any rules, regulations, orders, decrees,
consents, or judgments of any regulatory agency, stock exchange or
similar self-regulatory organization, court or other Person, or
(g) any applicable requirements associated with any
Permits.
“Liability” means, with
respect to any Person, any liability or obligation of such Person
of any kind, character or description, whether known or unknown,
absolute or contingent, secured or unsecured, joint or several, due
or to become due, vested or unvested, executory, determined,
determinable or otherwise and whether or not the same is required
to be accrued on the financial statements of such
Person.
“Losses” mean any
and all claims, damages, decline in value, judgements, Liabilities,
losses (including, without limitation, punitive, exemplary,
consequential or indirect damages and liabilities of any kind),
lost profits, penalties, settlement payments, arbitration awards,
taxes and costs and expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable attorneys’, consultants’ and experts’
fees and expenses and other costs of defending, investigating or
settling claims or enforcing rights to indemnification hereunder)
and the cost of pursuing any insurance providers in each case
whether or not arising out of Third Party Claims; provided, however, that
“Losses” shall not include punitive or exemplary
damages, except in the case of fraud or to the extent actually
awarded to a Governmental Authority or other third
party.
“Material Adverse
Effect” means any development, event, occurrence,
fact, condition or change that is, or could reasonably be expected
to become, individually or in the aggregate, materially adverse to
(a) the business, results of operations, condition (financial
or otherwise), assets or prospects of the Group Companies, taken as
a whole, or (b) the ability of any Transferor or the Company
to consummate the Transactions on a timely basis; provided, however, that “Material Adverse
Effect” shall not include any event, occurrence, fact,
condition or change, directly or indirectly, arising out of or
attributable to: (i) general economic or political conditions;
(ii) conditions generally affecting the industries in which
the Group Companies operate; (iii) any changes in financial or
securities markets in general; or (iv) acts of war (whether or
not declared), armed hostilities or terrorism, or the escalation or
worsening thereof; provided further, however, that any event,
occurrence, fact, condition or change referred to in clauses
(i) through (iv) immediately above shall be taken into
account in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has
occurred or could reasonably be expected to occur to the extent
that such event, occurrence, fact, condition or change has a
disproportionate effect on the Group Companies compared to other
participants in the industries in which the Group Companies
operate.
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“Ordinary Course of
Business” of a Person means an action taken by such
Person if that action (a) is consistent in nature, scope and
magnitude with the past practices of such Person and is taken in
the ordinary course of the normal, day-to-day operations of such
Person; (b) does not require authorization by the board of
directors or stockholders of such Person (or by any Person or group
of Persons exercising similar authority) and does not require any
other separate or special authorization of any nature; and (c) is
similar in nature, scope and magnitude to actions customarily
taken, without any separate or special authorization, in the
ordinary course of the normal, day-to-day operations of other
Persons that are in the same line of business as such Person. No
violation of Law or Contracts shall be deemed in the Ordinary
Course of Business.
“Permits” means all
permits, certificates, licenses, approvals, governmental
notifications, franchises, certificates, approvals, exemptions,
classifications, registrations and other similar authorizations
(and applications therefor) from Governmental
Authorities.
“Permitted Encumbrances”
means (a) liens for Taxes not yet due and payable or being
contested in good faith by appropriate procedures and for which
there are adequate accruals or reserves on the Interim Balance
Sheet; (b) mechanics, carriers’, workmen’s,
repairmen’s or other like liens arising or incurred in the
Ordinary Course of Business and that are not delinquent and which
are not, individually or in the aggregate, material to the business
of the Group Companies; and (c) easements, rights of way,
zoning ordinances and other similar encumbrances affecting Real
Property which are not, individually or in the aggregate, material
to the business of the Group Companies.
“Person” means an
individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
liability company, Governmental Authority, unincorporated
organization, trust, association or other entity.
“Pro Rata Share” means,
with respect to a Transferor, the percentage set forth on
Exhibit A next to
such Transferor’s name under the heading “Pro Rata
Share”.
“Related Person” means (a)
with respect to an entity, (i) any Affiliate of such entity, (ii)
each Person that serves as a director, officer, partner, member,
manager, executor, or trustee (or in a similar capacity) of such
entity, (iii) any Person with respect to which such entity serves
as a general partner or a trustee (or in a similar capacity), and
(iv) any Person that would be a Related Person of any individual
described in clause (i) or (ii) pursuant to clause (b) of this
definition or (b) with respect to an individual, (i) each other
member of such individual’s Family, and (ii) any entity with
respect to which such individual or one or more members of such
individual’s Family serves as a director, officer, partner,
member, manager, executor, or trustee (or in a similar
capacity).
“Representative” means,
with respect to any Person, any and all directors, officers,
employees, consultants, financial advisors, counsel, accountants
and other agents of such Person.
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“Subsidiary” means, with
respect to any Person, any other Person of which (a) the
accounts of which would be consolidated with and into those of the
applicable Person in such Person’s consolidated financial
statements if such statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP
as of such date, (b) if a corporation, a majority of the total
voting power of shares of capital stock entitled (without regard to
the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of
directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more
of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof,
or (c) if a limited liability company, partnership,
association or other business entity (other than a corporation), a
majority of membership, partnership or other similar ownership
interest thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by that Person or one or more other Subsidiaries of
that Person or a combination thereof and, for this purpose, a
Person or Persons owns a majority ownership interest in such a
business entity (other than a corporation) if such Person or
Persons shall be allocated a majority of such business
entity’s gains or losses or shall be or control any managing
director or general partner of such business entity (other than a
corporation).
“Tax Return” means
any return, declaration, report, claim for refund, information
return or statement or other document relating to Taxes, including
any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendment
thereof.
“Taxes” means all
federal, state, local, foreign and other income, gross receipts,
sales, use, production, ad valorem, transfer, franchise,
registration, profits, license, lease, service, service use,
withholding, payroll, employment, unemployment, estimated, excise,
severance, environmental, stamp, occupation, premium, property
(real or personal), real property gains, windfall profits, customs,
duties or other taxes, fees, assessments or charges of any kind
whatsoever, together with any interest, additions or penalties with
respect thereto and any interest in respect of such additions or
penalties.
“Transaction Documents”
means, with respect to a party, all agreements, certificates and
other instruments to be delivered by such party in connection with
this Agreement.
“Transactions” means the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction
Documents.
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