Exhibit 2.1
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
AMONG
XX.XXX, INC.
(“Parent”),
PHOTO MERGER CORP.
a wholly owned direct subsidiary of Parent
(“Subcorp”)
and
PHOTOWORKS, INC.
(“PhotoWorks”)
November 28, 2007
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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A-1
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ARTICLE II THE OFFER
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A-5
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2.1
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The Offer
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A-5
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2.2
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PhotoWorks Action
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A-6
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2.3
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Board of Directors
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A-8
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ARTICLE III THE MERGER
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A-8
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3.1
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The Merger
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A-8
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3.2
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Effective Time
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A-9
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3.3
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Effects of the Merger
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A-9
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3.4
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Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
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A-9
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3.5
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Directors and Officers
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A-9
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3.6
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Additional Actions
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A-9
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ARTICLE IV CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
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A-9
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4.1
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Conversion of Capital Shares
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A-9
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4.2
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Surrender of Certificates
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A-10
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4.3
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Treatment of Options
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A-11
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4.4
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Treatment of Warrants
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A-11
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4.5
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Adjustments
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A-12
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4.6
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Dissenting Shares
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A-12
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ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND
SUBCORP
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A-12
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5.1
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Organization and Standing
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A-12
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5.2
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Corporate Power and Authority
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A-13
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5.3
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Capitalization of Subcorp
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A-13
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5.4
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Conflicts; Consents and Approval
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A-13
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5.5
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Brokerage and Finder’s Fees
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A-13
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5.6
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Proxy Statement;
Schedule 14D-9
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A-13
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ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PHOTOWORKS
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A-14
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6.1
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Organization and Standing
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A-14
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6.2
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Subsidiaries
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A-14
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6.3
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Corporate Power and Authority
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A-14
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6.4
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Capitalization of PhotoWorks
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A-15
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6.5
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Board Recommendation
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A-15
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6.6
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Voting
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A-15
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6.7
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Conflicts; Consents and Approvals
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A-15
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6.8
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Absence of Certain Changes
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A-16
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6.9
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Financial Reports and SEC Documents
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A-16
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6.10
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Taxes
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A-17
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6.11
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Compliance with Law; Permits
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A-19
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6.12
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Intellectual Property
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A-19
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6.13
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Title to and Condition of Properties
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A-22
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6.14
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Litigation
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A-22
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6.15
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Employee Benefit Plans
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A-23
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6.16
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Contracts
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A-24
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A-i
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Page
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6.17
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Accounts Receivable
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A-25
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6.18
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Labor Matters
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A-25
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6.19
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Undisclosed Liabilities
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A-26
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6.20
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Operation of PhotoWorks’s Business; Relationships
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A-26
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6.21
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Product Warranties and Liabilities
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A-26
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6.22
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Environmental Matters
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A-26
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6.23
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Takeover Laws; PhotoWorks Rights Agreement
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A-27
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6.24
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Insurance
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A-27
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6.25
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Books of Account; Records
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A-27
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6.26
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Information Supplied
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A-27
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6.27
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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A-28
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6.28
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Purchase and Sale Agreements
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A-28
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6.29
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Opinion of Financial Advisor
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A-28
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6.30
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Brokerage and Finder’s Fees; Expenses
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A-28
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ARTICLE VII COVENANTS OF THE PARTIES
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A-28
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7.1
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Mutual Covenants
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A-28
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7.2
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Covenants of Parent
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A-29
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7.3
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Covenants of PhotoWorks
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A-29
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ARTICLE VIII CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE MERGER
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A-35
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8.1
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Conditions to Each Party’s Obligation to Effect the Merger
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ARTICLE IX TERMINATION; AMENDMENT; WAIVER
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A-35
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9.1
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Termination by Mutual Consent
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A-35
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9.2
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Termination by Either Parent or PhotoWorks
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A-36
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9.3
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Termination by Parent
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A-36
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9.4
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Termination by PhotoWorks
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A-36
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9.5
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Effect of Termination
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A-37
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9.6
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Fees and Expenses
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A-37
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9.7
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Amendment
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A-38
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9.8
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Extension; Waiver
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A-38
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ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS
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A-38
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10.1
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No Survival of Representations and Warranties
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A-38
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10.2
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Notices
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A-38
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10.3
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Interpretation
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A-39
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10.4
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Counterparts
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A-39
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10.5
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Entire Agreement
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A-39
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10.6
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Third Party Beneficiaries
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A-39
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10.7
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Governing Law
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A-39
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10.8
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Consent to Jurisdiction; Venue
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A-40
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10.9
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Specific Performance
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A-40
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10.10
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Assignment
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A-40
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10.11
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Expenses
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A-40
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A-ii
INDEX OF
DEFINED TERMS
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Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement
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44
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Acceptance Time
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10
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Action
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30
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Affiliate
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2
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Agreement
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1
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Applicable Laws
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25
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Articles of Merger
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11
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Business Day
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2
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Certificate
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13
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Closing
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11
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Closing Date
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11
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Code
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2
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Contract
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32
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Convertible Security
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20
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Copyrights
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3
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Dissenting Shares
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Effective Time
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11
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Environmental Laws
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2
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ERISA
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2
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ERISA Affiliate
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2
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Exchange Act
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7
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Excluded Share
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12
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Expiration Date
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8
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GAAP
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22
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Governmental Authority
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18
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Hazardous Materials
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2
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Indebtedness
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2
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Intellectual Property
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3
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IRS
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30
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Knowledge of PhotoWorks
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3
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Liens
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3
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Maximum Premium
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39
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Merger
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1
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Merger Consideration
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13
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Merger Option
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10
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Merger Option Shares
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10
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Multiemployer Plan
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4
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Notice of Superior Proposal
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46
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Offer
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1
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Offer Documents
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Offer Price
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1
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Off-the-shelf Software
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27
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Option
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14
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Option Consideration
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15
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A-iii
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Other Filings
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36
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Parent
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1
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Parent Articles
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17
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Parent Bylaws
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17
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Parent Expenses
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50
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Parent Material Adverse Effect
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4
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Patents
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3
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Paying Agent
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13
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Payment Fund
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13
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Permitted Liens
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4
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Person
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4
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Personally Identifiable Information
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28
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PhotoWorks
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1
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PhotoWorks Articles
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19
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PhotoWorks Board Recommendation
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8
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PhotoWorks Business Personnel
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34
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PhotoWorks Bylaws
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19
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PhotoWorks Common Shares
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1
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PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule
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18
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PhotoWorks Financial Advisor
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37
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PhotoWorks Intellectual Property
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4
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PhotoWorks Material Adverse Effect
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4
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PhotoWorks Permits
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26
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PhotoWorks SEC Documents
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22
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PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval
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5
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PhotoWorks Shareholders
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1
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PhotoWorks Shareholders Meeting
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39
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PhotoWorks Subsidiaries
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19
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Plans
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5
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Privacy Statement
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28
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Product Liability
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35
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Reference Balance Sheet
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5
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Registered Intellectual Property
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5
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Restraints
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48
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Schedule 14D-9
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9
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Securities Act
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22
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Software
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3
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SOX
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22
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Subcorp
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1
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Subcorp Common Shares
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17
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Subsidiary
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5
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Superior Proposal
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5
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Surviving Corporation
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11
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Takeover Proposal
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6
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Tax
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6
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A-iv
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Tax Returns
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6
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Tender Agreements
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1
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Tender Offer Conditions
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6
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Termination Fee
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50
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Third Party Platform
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27
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Trade Secrets
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3
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Trademarks
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3
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Treasury Regulations
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6
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Warrant
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15
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Warrant Cash Out Agreement
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15
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Warrant Consideration
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15
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Washington Secretary of State
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11
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WBCA
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1
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Websites
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A-v
AGREEMENT
AND PLAN OF MERGER
This Agreement and Plan of Merger (this “Agreement”)
is made and entered into as of the 28th day of November,
2007, by and among XX.xxx, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(“Parent”), Photo Merger Corp., a Washington
corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent
(“Subcorp”), and PhotoWorks, Inc., a Washington
corporation (“PhotoWorks”).
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS
A. It is proposed that, on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement, Subcorp shall commence a
cash tender offer (such tender offer, as it may be amended and
supplemented from time to time as permitted by this Agreement,
the “Offer”) to purchase all of the issued and
outstanding common shares, par value $0.01, of PhotoWorks (the
“PhotoWorks Common Shares”) at a price per share equal
to $0.595 to the sellers in cash without interest (such amount
or any greater amount per share paid pursuant to the Offer, the
“Offer Price”).
B. It is proposed that, on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement, following the
consummation of the Offer, Subcorp shall merge with and into
PhotoWorks (the “Merger”), pursuant to which each
outstanding PhotoWorks Common Share shall be converted into the
right to receive the Offer Price, without interest, except for
(i) PhotoWorks Common Shares held by holders who comply
with the relevant provisions of the Washington Business
Corporation Act (the “WBCA”) regarding the right of
shareholders to dissent from the Merger and require appraisal of
their shares and (ii) PhotoWorks Common Shares held in the
treasury of PhotoWorks or owned by Parent, Subcorp or any other
wholly owned Subsidiary of Parent.
C. The Board of Directors of PhotoWorks has
(i) approved this Agreement, (ii) determined that the
Offer, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by
this Agreement are fair to, advisable and in the best interests
of PhotoWorks and its shareholders, and (iii) resolved to
recommend that the holders of PhotoWorks Common Shares (the
“PhotoWorks Shareholders”) accept the Offer, tender
their PhotoWorks Shares into the Offer, approve the Merger and
adopt this Agreement, in each case, upon the terms and subject
to the conditions set forth in this Agreement.
D. Each of the Board of Directors of Parent and Subcorp has
(i) approved this Agreement and (ii) has determined
that the Offer, the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are fair to, advisable and in the
best interests of their respective corporations.
E. Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, as a
condition and inducement to Parent’s and Subcorp’s
willingness to enter into this Agreement, PhotoWorks, Parent,
Subcorp and certain PhotoWorks Shareholders are entering into
certain share tender agreements, of even date herewith
(collectively, the “Tender Agreements”), pursuant to
which such shareholders have agreed, subject to the terms
thereof, to tender his, her or its PhotoWorks Common Shares in
the Offer.
AGREEMENT
Now, therefore, in consideration of the foregoing and of the
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained
in this Agreement, and subject to the conditions set forth
herein, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, agree
as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this Agreement, the terms set forth in this
Article I will have the meanings ascribed to such terms in
this Article I when used herein with initial capital
letters. Other terms, when used herein with initial capital
letters, shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms on the
applicable page noted in the index of defined terms contained in
this Agreement.
A-1
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any
Person, any other Person that directly or indirectly controls,
is controlled by or is under common control with, such first
Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control”
(including, with correlative meanings, the terms
“controlling,” “controlled by” and
“under common control with”), as applied to any
Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by Contract or otherwise.
“Business Day” means any day, other than
Saturday, Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the
City of Cleveland,
Ohio are generally closed.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.
“Environmental Laws” means all federal,
state, local or foreign laws relating to pollution or protection
of human health or the environment (including ambient air,
surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata),
including laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or
threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or
industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes
(collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) into the
environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal,
transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all
authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters,
injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters,
orders, permits, plans or regulations issued, entered,
promulgated or approved thereunder.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations
thereunder.
“ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to
any entity, trade or business, any other entity, trade or
business that is a member of a group described in
Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
“Indebtedness” means any of the following:
(a) any indebtedness for borrowed money, whether current,
short-term or long-term, secured or unsecured, including all
overdrafts and negative cash balances and including any debt
Convertible Securities that have not elected to convert into
PhotoWorks Common Shares on or before the Effective Time,
(b) any obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes
or other similar instruments, (c) any obligations to pay
the deferred purchase price of property or service not evidenced
by trade accounts payable, (d) any obligations as lessee
under capitalized leases in accordance with GAAP, (e) any
indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement with respect to acquired
property, (f) any obligations, contingent or otherwise,
under acceptance credit, letters of credit or similar
facilities, (g) all off-balance sheet financings, including
synthetic leases and project financings, (h) all unearned
income and all income recorded on the books and records for
services not yet rendered, (i) all liability with respect
to interest rate swaps, collars, caps and similar hedging
obligations, (j) any guaranty of any of the foregoing, and
(k) 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.
“Intellectual Property” means the
following owned, used or licensed by PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary as licensee or licensor: (i) all
copyrights, in both published and unpublished works (including
computer software, data and documentation and any transferred or
waived third party moral rights or their equivalents) whether
registered or unregistered and all other rights corresponding
thereto, and mask works and registrations and applications
therefor, including those copyrights listed on
Section 6.12(a) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule
(“Copyrights”); (ii) all U.S. and foreign
patents and patent applications including continuations,
continuations-in-part,
divisionals, provisionals, reexaminations, reissue applications
and renewals and those patents listed on Section 6.12(a) of
the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule (“Patents”);
(iii) all computer software programs (in source code and
object code form) and collections of data, whether embodied in
firmware, software or otherwise, as well as pertinent
documentation, designs, files, records and data, including the
software listed on Section 5.12(d) of the PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule (“Software”); (iv) all trade
secrets, ideas, confidential business and technical information,
inventions (whether or not patentable and whether or not reduced
to practice), invention disclosures, designs, know-how,
processes, customer and supplier lists, concepts, discoveries,
reports, engineering orders, databases, processes, engineering
process, procedures, research records, formulae, records of
invention, invention disclosures and improvements thereto,
A-2
computer data, Software developed by and for PhotoWorks and any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary and owned by PhotoWorks and any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, plans, drawings, blue prints and any other
confidential proprietary information of PhotoWorks and any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary, however recorded, stored or embodied
(collectively “Trade Secrets”); (v) all trade
names, fictitious business names, trade dress, registered and
unregistered trademarks, service marks, and domain names, design
rights (including any word, symbol, product configuration, icon,
and logo) the trademarks listed on Section 6.12(a) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule and all goodwill associated
therewith (“Trademarks”); and (vi) all rights to
xxx or otherwise claim for past, present or future infringement
or unauthorized use or disclosure or breach of any of the
assets, properties or rights described above.
“Knowledge of PhotoWorks” means, with
respect to any matter in question, the actual knowledge, after
due inquiry, of the individuals listed on Schedule 1.
“Liens” means any mortgages, deeds of
trust, liens (statutory or other), pledges, security interests,
collateral security arrangements, conditional and installment
agreements, claims, covenants, conditions, restrictions,
reservations, options, rights of first offer or refusal,
charges, easements, rights-of-way, encroachments, third party
rights or other encumbrances or title imperfections or defects
of any kind or nature.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a
“multiemployer plan” as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Parent Material Adverse Effect” means any
event, state of facts, circumstance, development, change or
effect that, individually or in the aggregate with all other
events, states of fact, circumstances, developments, changes and
effects, would prevent or materially impair or materially delay
the ability of Parent or Subcorp to perform their obligations
under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby.
“Permitted Liens” means (i) liens for
Taxes not yet due and payable or that are being contested in
good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(ii) mechanics’, materialmen’s or other liens or
security interests that secure a liquidated amount that are
being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings; or
(iii) any other liens, security interests, easements,
rights-of-way, encroachments, restrictions, conditions and other
encumbrances that do not secure a liquidated amount, that have
been incurred or suffered in the ordinary course of business and
that do not, individually or in the aggregate, materially impair
the use or value of the property or asset to which they relate.
“Person” means any individual,
corporation, limited or general partnership, limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, trust, association,
joint venture, Governmental Authority and other entity and group
(which term will include a “group” as such term is
defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act).
“PhotoWorks Intellectual Property” means
all Intellectual Property owned and used by PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries.
“PhotoWorks Material Adverse Effect” means
any event, state of facts, circumstance, development, change or
effect that, individually or in the aggregate with all other
events, states of fact, circumstances, developments, changes and
effects, (i) is materially adverse to the business, assets,
liabilities, condition (financial or otherwise) or results of
operations of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, other than any event, state of facts, circumstance,
development, change or effect resulting from (A) changes in
general economic conditions except to the extent such changes or
developments have a disproportionate impact on PhotoWorks and
the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, relative to other
participants in the industries in which PhotoWorks conducts its
businesses, (B) any act of war or terrorism (other than any
such act that causes any damage or renders unusable any facility
or property of PhotoWorks or any of the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries)
or (C) changes, after the date hereof, in GAAP or
Applicable Laws, in each case applicable to PhotoWorks, except
to the extent such changes have a disproportionate impact on
PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
relative to other participants in the industries in which
PhotoWorks conducts its businesses; or (ii) would prevent
or materially impair or materially delay the ability of
PhotoWorks to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
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“PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval” means
the approval of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby, including the Merger, by holders of two-thirds or more
of all the issued and outstanding PhotoWorks Common Shares.
“Plans” means all employee benefit plans,
programs, policies, practices, and other arrangements providing
benefits to any current or former employee, officer, director or
consultant or beneficiary or dependent thereof, whether or not
written, and whether covering one person or more than one
person, sponsored or maintained by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate thereof or to which PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary contributes or is obligated to
contribute or under which any current or former employee,
director or consultant of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate thereof is entitled to any
compensation or benefits as a result of service to PhotoWorks,
any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate thereof.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term
“Plans” includes all employee welfare benefit plans
within the meaning of Section 3(1) of ERISA and all
employee pension benefit plans within the meaning of
Section 3(2) of ERISA.
“Reference Balance Sheet” means the
unaudited consolidated balance sheet of PhotoWorks as of
June 30, 2007 included in PhotoWorks’s Quarterly
Report on
Form 10-QSB
as filed with the SEC on August 13, 2007.
“Registered Intellectual Property” means
PhotoWorks Intellectual Property registered in, or the subject
of any pending application to register in a, federal,
provincial, local and foreign jurisdiction.
“Subsidiary” means, when used with respect
to Parent, Subcorp or PhotoWorks, any other Person (whether or
not incorporated) that Parent, Subcorp or PhotoWorks, as
applicable, directly or indirectly owns or has the power to vote
or control 50% or more of any class or series of capital shares
or other equity interests of such Person.
“Superior Proposal” means any bona fide
written Takeover Proposal that the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks determines in good faith (after consultation with a
financial advisor having reasonably sufficient experience in
such matters) (x) is reasonably likely to be consummated
(if accepted) and (y) to be more favorable (taking into
account (i) all financial and strategic considerations,
including relevant legal, financial, regulatory and other
aspects of such Takeover Proposal and the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement deemed relevant by
the Board of Directors, (ii) the identity of the third
party making such Takeover Proposal, (iii) the anticipated
timing, conditions and prospects for completion of such Takeover
Proposal, including the prospects for obtaining regulatory
approvals and financing, and any third party shareholder
approvals and (iv) the other terms and conditions of such
Takeover Proposal) to the PhotoWorks Shareholders from a
financial point of view than the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement (taking into account
all of the terms of any proposal by Parent or Subcorp to amend
or modify the terms of the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement), except that the reference to
“15%” in the definition of “Takeover
Proposal” shall be deemed to be a reference to
“50%”.
“Takeover Proposal” means any inquiry,
proposal or offer from any Person or group of Persons other than
Parent or Subcorp relating to any direct or indirect acquisition
or purchase of a business or division (or more than one of them)
that in the aggregate constitutes 15% or more of the net
revenues, net income or assets of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or 15% or more of the equity
interest in PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as
a whole (by vote or value), any tender offer or exchange offer
that if consummated would result in any Person or group of
Persons beneficially owning 15% or more of the equity interest
(by vote or value) in PhotoWorks and it Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, or any merger, reorganization, consolidation, share
exchange, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation,
dissolution or similar transaction involving PhotoWorks (or any
Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of PhotoWorks whose business
constitutes 15% or more of the net revenues, net income or
assets of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole).
“Tax” means (i) any and all federal,
state, provincial, local, foreign and other taxes, levies, fees,
imposts, duties, and similar governmental charges (including any
interest, fines, assessments, penalties or additions to tax
imposed in connection therewith or with respect thereto)
including (x) taxes imposed on, or measured by, income,
franchise, profits or gross receipts, and (y) ad valorem,
value added, capital gains, sales, goods and
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services, use, real or personal property, capital stock,
license, branch, payroll, estimated, withholding, employment,
social security (or similar), unemployment, compensation,
utility, severance, production, excise, stamp, occupation,
premium, windfall profits, transfer and gains taxes, and customs
duties, (ii) any liability for payment of amounts described
in clause (i) whether as a result of transferee liability,
joint or several liability for being a member of an affiliated,
consolidated, combined, unitary or other group for any period,
or otherwise by operation of law, and (iii) any liability
for the payment of amounts described in clause (i) or
(ii) as a result of any tax sharing, tax indemnity or tax
allocation agreement or any other express or implied agreement
to pay or indemnify any other Person.
“Tax Returns” means any and all reports,
returns, declarations, claims for refund, elections,
disclosures, estimates, information reports or returns or
statements required to be supplied to a taxing authority in
connection with Taxes, including any schedule or attachment
thereto or amendment thereof.
“Treasury Regulations” means the Treasury
regulations promulgated under the Code.
ARTICLE II
THE OFFER
2.1 The Offer.
(a) Provided that this Agreement shall not have been
terminated in accordance with Article IX and none of the
events or conditions set forth in Annex A (other than
clause (f) and (g) of Annex A) shall have
occurred and be existing and shall not have been waived in
writing by Parent or Subcorp (the conditions set forth in
Annex A, the “Tender Offer Conditions”), Subcorp
shall, and Parent shall cause Subcorp to, commence (within the
meaning of
Rule 14d-2
under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(together with its rules and regulations, the “Exchange
Act”)) the Offer, as promptly as reasonably practicable
after the date of this Agreement and in any event within ten
Business Days after the date of this Agreement. Without the
prior written consent of PhotoWorks, Subcorp shall not
(i) decrease the Offer Price or change the form of
consideration payable in the Offer, (ii) decrease the
number of PhotoWorks Common Shares sought to be purchased in the
Offer, (iii) impose conditions to the Offer in addition to
the Tender Offer Conditions or amend any condition in a manner
that is adverse to the PhotoWorks Shareholders, (iv) waive
or amend the Minimum Condition, or (v) make any other
change to the terms of the Offer in a manner that is materially
adverse to the PhotoWorks Shareholders; provided that
Subcorp expressly reserves the right to increase the Offer Price
and to waive any of the Tender Offer Conditions other than the
Minimum Condition. PhotoWorks agrees that no PhotoWorks Common
Shares held by PhotoWorks or any of its Subsidiaries will be
tendered in the Offer.
(b) Subcorp shall file with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Tender Offer
Statement on Schedule TO with respect to the Offer on the
date that the Offer is commenced, which Tender Offer Statement
shall include an offer to purchase, form of transmittal letter
and form of notice of guaranteed delivery (together with any
supplements or amendments thereto, collectively, the “Offer
Documents”) and, subject to PhotoWorks’s compliance
with Section 2.2(c), cause the Offer Documents to be
disseminated to the PhotoWorks Shareholders in accordance with
the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act. The Offer
Documents shall comply in all material respects with the
Exchange Act and, on the date first filed with the SEC and on
the date first published, sent or given to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders and at the Acceptance Time, shall not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except
that no covenant, agreement, representation or warranty is made
by Parent or Subcorp with respect to information supplied by
PhotoWorks for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the
Offer Documents. PhotoWorks, Parent and Subcorp each agree
promptly to correct any information provided by it for use in
the Offer Documents if and to the extent that it shall have
become false or misleading in any material respect, and Parent
further agrees to take all steps necessary to cause the Offer
Documents as so corrected to be filed with the SEC and
disseminated to the PhotoWorks Shareholders to the extent
required by Applicable Law. PhotoWorks shall promptly furnish to
Parent and Subcorp all information
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concerning PhotoWorks that is required or reasonably requested
by Parent or Subcorp in connection with the obligations relating
to the Offer Documents contained in this Section 2.1(b).
PhotoWorks and its counsel shall be given a reasonable
opportunity to review and comment on the Schedule TO and
the Offer Documents, each time sufficiently in advance of any
such document being filed with the SEC, and Parent and Subcorp
shall give reasonable and good faith consideration to any
comments made by PhotoWorks and its counsel. Parent and Subcorp
shall provide PhotoWorks and its counsel with (i) any
comments or other communications, whether written or oral, that
Parent, Subcorp or their counsel may receive from time to time
from the SEC or its staff with respect to the Schedule TO
or Offer Documents promptly after receipt of those comments or
other communications and (ii) a reasonable opportunity to
participate in the response of Parent and Subcorp to those
comments and to provide comments on that response (to which
reasonable and good-faith consideration shall be given),
including by participating with Parent and Subcorp or their
counsel in any discussions or meetings with the SEC.
(c) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the
Offer Documents, the Offer shall remain open until midnight, New
York City time, at the end of the twentieth Business Day after
the date that the Offer is commenced (the “Expiration
Date”), unless the period of time for which the Offer is
open shall have been extended pursuant to, and in accordance
with, this Section 2.1(c) or as may be required by
Applicable Law, in which event the term “Expiration
Date” shall mean the latest time and date that the Offer,
as so extended, may expire. If any of the Tender Offer
Conditions are not satisfied or waived on any Expiration Date,
Subcorp may extend the Offer from time to time for one or more
periods of time up to ten Business Days (or such longer period
as PhotoWorks may agree in writing) per extension until such
Tender Offer Conditions have been satisfied or waived. Subcorp
shall extend the Offer for any period required by any rule,
regulation, interpretation or position of the SEC or its staff
applicable to the Offer. If all of the Tender Offer Conditions
are satisfied but the number of PhotoWorks Common Shares that
have been validly tendered and not withdrawn in the Offer and
accepted for payment, together with any PhotoWorks Common Shares
then owned by Parent, is less than 90% of the outstanding
PhotoWorks Common Shares, Subcorp may, without the consent of
PhotoWorks, commence a subsequent offering period (as provided
in
Rule 14d-11
under the Exchange Act) for three to twenty Business Days to
acquire outstanding PhotoWorks Common Shares.
(d) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement and to satisfaction or waiver of the Tender Offer
Conditions, Subcorp shall, and Parent shall cause it to, as soon
as practicable after the Expiration Date, accept for payment and
pay for all PhotoWorks Common Shares that have been validly
tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Offer. If Subcorp
shall commence a subsequent offering period in connection with
the Offer, Subcorp shall accept for payment and pay for all
additional PhotoWorks Common Shares validly tendered during such
subsequent offering period.
(e) Subcorp shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from
the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to the Offer (or in
connection with any subsequent offering period) any such amounts
as are required to be deducted and withheld with respect to the
making of such payment under the Code, or under any provision of
state, local or foreign Applicable Law relating to Taxes.
2.2 PhotoWorks Action.
(a) PhotoWorks hereby approves of and consents to the
Offer, and represents and warrants that the Board of Directors
of PhotoWorks, at a meeting duly called and held, has, subject
to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement,
unanimously (i) approved this Agreement, and deemed this
Agreement, the Offer, the Merger and the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement advisable, fair to and in the
best interests of the PhotoWorks Shareholders;
(ii) approved this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, including the Offer and the
Merger, in all respects, and such approval constitutes approval
of the Offer, the Merger, this Agreement and the Tender
Agreements for purposes of Section 23B.19.040 of the WBCA;
and (iii) resolved to recommend that the PhotoWorks
Shareholders accept the Offer, tender their PhotoWorks Common
Shares in the Offer, and, to the extent required by Applicable
Law, approve the Merger and approve this Agreement (the
“PhotoWorks Board Recommendation”). PhotoWorks
consents to the inclusion of such approval and the PhotoWorks
Board Recommendation in the Offer Documents, subject to
Section 7.3(d)(iii)(C).
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(b) PhotoWorks agrees to file with the SEC, as soon as
reasonably practicable on the day that the Offer is commenced, a
Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on
Schedule 14D-9
pertaining to the Offer (together with any amendments or
supplements thereto, the
“Schedule 14D-9”)
that, subject to Section 7.3(d)(iii)(C), contains the
PhotoWorks Board Recommendation and to promptly mail the
Schedule 14D-9
to the PhotoWorks Shareholders together with the Offer Documents
and cause the Offer Documents and the
Schedule 14D-9
to be disseminated to the PhotoWorks Shareholders in accordance
with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act. The
Schedule 14D-9
shall comply in all material respects with the Exchange Act and,
on the date filed with the SEC and on the date first published,
sent or given to the PhotoWorks Shareholders and at the
Acceptance Time, shall not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading, except that no covenant, agreement,
representation or warranty is made by PhotoWorks with respect to
the information supplied by Parent or Subcorp for inclusion or
incorporation by reference in the
Schedule 14D-9.
PhotoWorks, Parent and Subcorp each agree promptly to correct
any information provided by it for use in the
Schedule 14D-9
if and to the extent that it shall have become false or
misleading in any material respect, and PhotoWorks further
agrees to take all steps necessary to cause the
Schedule 14D-9
as so corrected to be filed with the SEC and disseminated to the
PhotoWorks Shareholders to the extent required by Applicable
Law. Parent and Subcorp shall promptly furnish to PhotoWorks all
information concerning Parent and Subcorp that is required or
reasonably requested by PhotoWorks in connection with the
obligations relating to the
Schedule 14D-9
contained in this Section 2.2(b). Parent, Subcorp and their
counsel shall be given a reasonable opportunity to review and
comment on the
Schedule 14D-9
each time sufficiently in advance of its filing with the SEC,
and PhotoWorks shall give reasonable and good faith
consideration to any comments made by Parent, Subcorp or their
counsel. PhotoWorks shall provide Parent and its counsel with
(i) any comments or other communications, whether written
or oral, that PhotoWorks or its counsel may receive from time to
time from the SEC or its staff with respect to the
Schedule 14D-9
promptly after receipt of those comments or other communications
and (ii) a reasonable opportunity to participate in the
response of PhotoWorks to those comments and to provide comments
on that response (to which reasonable and good-faith
consideration shall be given), including by participating with
PhotoWorks or its counsel in any discussions or meetings with
the SEC.
(c) In connection with the Offer, PhotoWorks promptly will
furnish (or cause its transfer agent to furnish) Parent and
Subcorp with mailing labels, security position listings and any
available listing or computer files containing the names and
addresses of the PhotoWorks Shareholders, each as of a recent
date, and shall furnish Subcorp with such additional information
and assistance (including updated lists of the PhotoWorks
Shareholders, mailing labels and lists of securities positions)
as Subcorp or its agents may reasonably request in communicating
the Offer (and the Offer Documents, including all amendments and
supplements to the Offer Documents) to the record and beneficial
holders of PhotoWorks Common Shares. Except as required by
Applicable Law, and except as necessary to communicate the
Offer, the Merger or the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement to the PhotoWorks Shareholders, Parent and Subcorp
(and their respective representatives) shall hold in confidence
the information contained in any such labels, listings and
files, shall use such information solely in connection with the
Offer and the Merger, and, if this Agreement is terminated or
the Offer is otherwise terminated, shall promptly deliver or
cause to be delivered to PhotoWorks or destroy all copies of
such information, labels, listings and files then in their
possession or in the possession of their agents or
representatives.
(d) PhotoWorks grants to Parent and Subcorp an irrevocable
and assignable option (the “Merger Option”) to
purchase up to that number of newly issued PhotoWorks Common
Shares (the “Merger Option Shares”) equal to the
number of PhotoWorks Common Shares that, when added to the
number of PhotoWorks Common Shares owned by Parent and Subcorp
immediately following consummation of the Offer, shall
constitute one share more than 90% of the PhotoWorks Common
Shares then outstanding on a fully diluted basis (after giving
effect to the issuance of the Merger Option Shares) for
consideration per Merger Option Share equal to the Offer Price.
(e) The Merger Option shall be exercisable only after the
purchase of and payment for PhotoWorks Common Shares pursuant to
the Offer by Parent or Subcorp as a result of which Parent and
Subcorp own
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beneficially at least 80% of the outstanding PhotoWorks Common
Shares. The Merger Option shall not be exercisable if the number
of PhotoWorks Common Shares subject thereto exceeds the number
of authorized PhotoWorks Common Shares available for issuance.
(f) In the event that Parent or Subcorp wish to exercise
the Merger Option, Subcorp shall give PhotoWorks one Business
Day’s prior written notice specifying the number of
PhotoWorks Common Shares that are owned by Parent and Subcorp
immediately following consummation of the Offer and specifying a
place and a time for the closing of the purchase. PhotoWorks
shall, as soon as practicable following receipt of such notice,
deliver written notice to Subcorp specifying the number of
Merger Option Shares. At the closing of the purchase of the
Merger Option Shares, Parent or Subcorp shall pay to PhotoWorks
an amount equal to the product of (i) the number of
PhotoWorks Common Shares purchased pursuant to the Merger
Option, multiplied by (ii) the Offer Price, which amount
shall be paid in cash (by wire transfer or cashier’s check)
or, at the election of Parent or Subcorp, by delivery of a
promissory note having full recourse to Parent.
2.3 Board of Directors.
(a) Subject to compliance with Applicable Law, promptly
upon the acceptance for payment of PhotoWorks Common Shares by
Parent or Subcorp or any of their Affiliates pursuant to and in
accordance with the terms of the Offer (the “Acceptance
Time”) and from time to time thereafter, Parent shall be
entitled to designate up to such number of directors, rounded to
the nearest whole number constituting at least a majority of the
directors, on the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks as will give
Subcorp representation on the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks
equal to the product of the number of directors on the Board of
Directors of PhotoWorks (giving effect to any increase in the
number of directors pursuant to this Section 2.3) and the
percentage that the number of PhotoWorks Common Shares
beneficially owned by Parent, Subcorp or its Affiliates bears to
the total number of PhotoWorks Common Shares then outstanding,
and PhotoWorks shall use reasonable best efforts to, upon
Parent’s request, promptly, at Parent’s election,
either increase the size of the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks
or seeking and accepting the resignation of such number of
directors as is necessary to enable Parent’s designees to
be elected to the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks and to cause
Parent’s designees to be so elected. At such times,
PhotoWorks will cause individuals designated by Parent to
constitute such number of members of each committee of the Board
of Directors of PhotoWorks, rounded up to the next whole number,
that represents the same percentage as such individuals
represent on the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, at
least one member of the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks on the
date of this Agreement shall be entitled to remain on the Board
of Directors of PhotoWorks until the occurrence of the Effective
Time.
(b) PhotoWorks’s obligation to appoint designees to
the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks shall be subject to
Section 14(f) of the Exchange Act and
Rule 14f-1
under the Exchange Act. PhotoWorks shall promptly take all
action required pursuant to Section 14(f) of the Exchange
Act and
Rule 14f-1
under the Exchange Act in order to fulfill its obligations under
this Section 2.3, and shall include in the
Schedule 14D-9
such information with respect to PhotoWorks and its officers and
directors as is required pursuant to such Section 14(f) of
the Exchange Act and
Rule 14f-1
under the Exchange Act in order to fulfill its obligations under
this Section 2.3 and the U.S. federal securities laws.
Parent shall provide to PhotoWorks, and shall be solely
responsible for, the information and consents with respect to
Parent and its designees, officers, directors and affiliates
required by Section 14(f) of the Exchange Act and
Rule 14f-1
under the Exchange Act.
ARTICLE III
THE MERGER
3.1 The Merger. Upon the terms and
subject to the conditions hereof, and in accordance with the
provisions of the WBCA, Subcorp shall be merged with and into
PhotoWorks following the satisfaction or waiver of the
conditions set forth in Article VIII. Following the Merger,
the separate corporate existence of Subcorp shall cease, and
PhotoWorks shall continue its existence under the laws of the
State of Washington. PhotoWorks, in its capacity as the
corporation surviving the Merger, is hereinafter sometimes
referred to as the “Surviving Corporation.”
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3.2 Effective Time. The Merger
shall be consummated by filing with the Secretary of State of
the State of Washington (the “Washington Secretary of
State”) articles of merger (the “Articles of
Merger”) in such form as is required by and executed in
accordance with Section 23B.11.050 of the WBCA. The Merger
shall become effective (the “Effective Time”) when the
Articles of Merger has been filed with the Washington Secretary
of State or at such later time as shall be specified in the
Articles of Merger. Prior to the filing referred to in this
Section 3.2, a closing (the “Closing”) shall be
held at the offices of Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx LLP, 3200
National City Center, 0000 Xxxx 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxx, or such other place as the parties may agree on a date
(the “Closing Date”) specified by Parent, which date
shall be within ten Business Days following the date upon which
all conditions set forth in Article VIII hereof have been
satisfied or waived; provided, however, this Agreement may be
terminated pursuant to and in accordance with Article IX
such that Parent, Subcorp and PhotoWorks shall not be required
to effect the Closing.
3.3 Effects of the Merger. The
Merger shall have the effects set forth in
Section 23B.11.060 of the WBCA.
3.4 Articles of Incorporation and
Bylaws. The Articles of Merger shall provide
that at the Effective Time (i) the Articles of
Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation as in effect
immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be amended as of
the Effective Time so as to contain the provisions, and only the
provisions, contained immediately prior thereto in the Articles
of Incorporation of Subcorp, except for Article FIRST
thereof, which shall continue to read “The name of the
corporation is PhotoWorks, Inc.”, and (ii) the Bylaws
of Subcorp in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time
shall be the Bylaws of the Surviving Corporation, in each case
until amended in accordance with Applicable Law.
3.5 Directors and Officers. From
and after the Effective Time, the officers of PhotoWorks shall
be the officers of the Surviving Corporation and the directors
of Subcorp shall be the directors of the Surviving Corporation,
in each case until their respective successors are duly elected
and qualified. On the Closing Date, PhotoWorks shall deliver to
Parent evidence satisfactory to Parent of the resignations of
the directors of PhotoWorks, such resignations to be effective
as of the Effective Time.
3.6 Additional Actions. If, at any
time after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall
consider or be advised that any further deeds, assignments or
assurances in law or any other acts are reasonably necessary or
desirable to (a) vest, perfect or confirm, of record or
otherwise, in the Surviving Corporation its right, title or
interest in, to or under any of the rights, properties or assets
of PhotoWorks, or (b) otherwise carry out the provisions of
this Agreement, PhotoWorks shall execute and deliver all such
deeds, assignments or assurances in law and to take all acts
necessary, proper or desirable to vest, perfect or confirm title
to and possession of such rights, properties or assets in the
Surviving Corporation and otherwise to carry out the provisions
of this Agreement, and the officers and directors of the
Surviving Corporation are authorized in the name of PhotoWorks
or otherwise to take any and all such action.
ARTICLE IV
CONVERSION
OF SECURITIES
4.1 Conversion of Capital
Shares. At the Effective Time, by virtue of
the Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Subcorp
or PhotoWorks:
(a) Each common share, $0.01 par value, of Subcorp
issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time
shall be converted into one common share, $0.01 par value,
of the Surviving Corporation. Such common shares shall
thereafter constitute all of the issued and outstanding capital
shares of the Surviving Corporation.
(b) Each PhotoWorks Common Share issued and outstanding
immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than PhotoWorks
Common Shares to be cancelled in accordance with
Section 4.1(c) and Dissenting Shares (each, an
“Excluded Share”)) shall be converted into and
represent the right to receive an amount of cash, without
interest, equal to the Offer Price (the “Merger
Consideration”). At the Effective Time, all PhotoWorks
Common Shares will no longer be outstanding and will be
cancelled and
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will cease to exist, and each holder of a certificate which
immediately prior to the Effective Time represented any such
PhotoWorks Common Shares (each, a “Certificate”) will
cease to have any rights with respect thereto, except the right
to receive the Merger Consideration.
(c) Each capital share of PhotoWorks held in the treasury
of PhotoWorks or held by any of its direct or indirect
Subsidiaries, and each capital share of PhotoWorks owned by
Parent or Merger Sub, shall be cancelled and retired and no
payment shall be made in respect thereof.
4.2 Surrender of Certificates.
(a) Paying Agent. Prior to the Effective
Time, for the benefit of the holders of PhotoWorks Common Shares
(other than Excluded Shares), Subcorp will designate, or cause
to be designated, a bank or trust company that is reasonably
acceptable to PhotoWorks (the “Paying Agent”) to act
as agent for the payment of the Merger Consideration in respect
of Certificates upon surrender of such Certificates (or
effective affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) in accordance with
this Article IV from time to time after the Effective Time.
Promptly after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation
will deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Paying Agent
cash in an amount sufficient for the payment of the aggregate
Merger Consideration upon surrender of such Certificates (such
cash being herein referred to as the “Payment Fund”).
The Paying Agent will invest the Payment Fund as directed by the
Surviving Corporation.
(b) Payment Procedures. As promptly as
practicable after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation
will instruct the Paying Agent to mail to each holder of record
of PhotoWorks Common Shares (other than Excluded Shares) a
letter of transmittal in customary form as reasonably agreed by
the parties specifying that delivery will be effected, and risk
of loss and title to Certificates will pass, only upon proper
delivery of Certificates (or effective affidavits of loss in
lieu thereof) to the Paying Agent and instructions for use in
effecting the surrender of the Certificates (or effective
affidavits of loss in lieu thereof) in exchange for the Merger
Consideration. Upon the proper surrender of a Certificate (or
effective affidavit of loss in lieu thereof) to the Paying
Agent, together with a properly completed letter of transmittal,
duly executed, and such other documents as may reasonably be
requested by the Paying Agent (or, if such PhotoWorks Common
Shares are held in book-entry or other uncertificated form, upon
the entry through a book-entry transfer agent of the surrender
of such shares to the Paying Agent on a book-entry account
statement (it being understood that any references herein to
Certificates shall be deemed to include references to book-entry
account statements relating to the ownership of PhotoWorks
Common Shares)), the holder of such Certificate will be entitled
to receive in exchange therefor cash in the amount (after giving
effect to any required tax withholdings) that such holder has
the right to receive pursuant to this Article IV, and the
Certificate so surrendered will forthwith be cancelled. No
interest will be paid or accrued on any amount payable upon due
surrender of the Certificates. In the event of a transfer of
ownership of PhotoWorks Common Shares that is not registered in
the transfer records of PhotoWorks, cash to be paid upon due
surrender of the Certificate may be paid to such a transferee if
the Certificate formerly representing such shares is presented
to the Paying Agent, accompanied by all documents required to
evidence and effect such transfer and to evidence that any
applicable stock transfer Taxes have been paid or are not
applicable.
(c) Withholding Taxes. The Surviving
Corporation and the Paying Agent will be entitled to deduct and
withhold from amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this
Agreement to any holder of PhotoWorks Common Shares or
holder of Options or Warrants any amounts required to be
deducted and withheld with respect to such payments under the
Code and the rules and Treasury Regulations promulgated
thereunder, or any provision of state, local or foreign Tax law.
Any amounts so deducted and withheld will be treated for all
purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of
PhotoWorks Common Shares or holder of Options or Warrants, as
the case may be, in respect of which such deduction and
withholding was made.
(d) No Further Transfers. After the
Effective Time, there will be no transfers on the stock transfer
books of PhotoWorks of PhotoWorks Common Shares, Options or
Warrants that were outstanding immediately prior to the
Effective Time other than to settle transfers of shares, Options
or Warrants that occurred prior to the Effective Time. If, after
the Effective Time, Certificates are presented to the Paying
Agent, they will be cancelled and exchanged for the Merger
Consideration as provided in this Article IV.
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(e) Termination of Payment Fund. Any
portion of the Payment Fund that remains undistributed to the
holders of the Certificates on the date that is six months after
the Effective Time will be delivered to the Surviving
Corporation, on demand, and any holder of a Certificate who has
not theretofore complied with this Article IV will
thereafter look only to the Surviving Corporation for payment of
his or her claims for the Merger Consideration. If any
Certificates shall not have been surrendered prior to four years
after the Effective Time (or immediately prior to such earlier
date on which the Merger Consideration payable with respect to
such Certificate would otherwise escheat to or become the
property of any Governmental Authority pursuant to abandoned
property, escheat or similar laws), any Merger Consideration
payable with respect to such Certificate shall, to the extent
permitted by Applicable Laws, become the property of the
Surviving Corporation, free and clear of all claims or interest
of any Person previously entitled thereto. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, none of Parent, Subcorp, PhotoWorks, the Surviving
Corporation, the Paying Agent or any other Person will be liable
to any former holder of PhotoWorks Common Shares, Options or
Warrants for any amount delivered to a public official pursuant
to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar laws.
(f) Lost, Stolen or Destroyed
Certificates. In the event any Certificate has
been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit
of that fact by the Person claiming such Certificate to be lost,
stolen or destroyed and, if required by the Surviving
Corporation, the posting by such Person of a bond in customary
amount and upon such terms as the Surviving Corporation may
determine are necessary as indemnity against any claim that may
be made against it with respect to such Certificate, the Paying
Agent will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed
Certificate the Merger Consideration pursuant to this Agreement.
4.3 Treatment of Options.
(a) Each option to purchase PhotoWorks Common Shares (each,
an “Option”) that is outstanding immediately prior to
the Effective Time (whether or not then vested or exercisable
and without regard to the exercise price of such Options) will
be cancelled as of the Effective Time, and shall solely
represent the right to receive from the Surviving Corporation,
in accordance with this Section 4.3(a), the Option
Consideration, if any, described below, with respect to such
Option. At the Effective Time, each Option that is cancelled in
accordance with the foregoing sentence will be converted into
the right to receive: (A) an amount equal to (x) the
excess, if any, of the Merger Consideration over the exercise
price per PhotoWorks Common Share of such Option, multiplied by
(y) the number of PhotoWorks Common Shares subject to such
Option (with the aggregate amount of such payment to each holder
in respect of all Options held rounded down to the nearest whole
cent) (the “Option Consideration”). The Option
Consideration, if any, payable with respect to any Option shall
be payable by the Surviving Corporation at the time the related
payment of the Merger Consideration is payable to holders of
Certificates, subject to the conditions of this
Section 4.3. The holders of Options will have no further
rights in respect of any Options from and after the Effective
Time. In order to receive the amount to which a holder of an
Option is entitled under this Section, the holder must deliver
to PhotoWorks (1) any award agreement, certificate or other
document evidencing such Option and (2) a document pursuant
to which the holder acknowledges that the payment the holder is
receiving or is to receive is in full satisfaction of any rights
the holder may have under or with regard to the Option.
(b) Prior to the Effective Time, the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks, or an appropriate committee thereof, will adopt such
resolutions and will take such other actions as shall be
required to effectuate the actions contemplated by this
Section 4.3, without paying any consideration or incurring
any debts or obligations on behalf of PhotoWorks or the
Surviving Corporation other than the payment of the Option
Consideration as provided in this Section 4.3.
4.4 Treatment of Warrants. From
and after the date hereof until the Effective Time, PhotoWorks
shall use its reasonable best efforts in accordance with
Applicable Law to (a) cause each warrant to purchase
PhotoWorks Common Shares (each, a “Warrant”) to be
exercised and cancelled in accordance with its terms
and/or
(b) cause the holder of any unexercised Warrant that by its
terms does not expire as of or before the Effective Time to
enter into an agreement with PhotoWorks, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Parent (each, a “Warrant Cash
Out Agreement”), pursuant to which the holder of such
Warrant agrees to receive from the Surviving Corporation,
subject to the consummation of the Merger and in exchange for
the cancellation of such Warrant, the Warrant Consideration, if
any, described below with respect to such Warrant.
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Subject to consummation of the Merger, each Warrant with respect
to which PhotoWorks or the Surviving Corporation has received a
valid and effective Warrant Cash Out Agreement will be cancelled
in exchange for: (A) an amount equal to (x) the
excess, if any, of the Merger Consideration over the exercise
price per PhotoWorks Common Share of such Warrant, multiplied by
(y) the number of PhotoWorks Common Shares subject to such
Warrant (the “Warrant Consideration”). The Warrant
Consideration payable with respect to any Warrant shall be
payable by the Surviving Corporation at the time the related
payment of the Merger Consideration is payable to holders of
Certificates, subject to the conditions of this
Section 4.4. The holders of such Warrants will have no
further rights in respect thereof from and after the Effective
Time. In order to receive the applicable Warrant Consideration,
the holder must first deliver to PhotoWorks or the Surviving
Corporation (1) the warrant agreement, certificate or other
document evidencing such Warrant and (2) a valid and
executed Warrant Cash Out Agreement with respect to such Warrant.
4.5 Adjustments. Notwithstanding
any provision of this Article IV to the contrary, if
between the date of this Agreement and the Effective Time the
outstanding PhotoWorks Common Shares shall have been changed
into a different number of shares or a different class by reason
of the occurrence or record date of any dividend on the capital
shares, subdivision, reclassification, recapitalization, share
split (including a reverse share split), combination, exchange
of shares or similar transaction, the Merger Consideration shall
be equitably adjusted to reflect such dividend, subdivision,
reclassification, recapitalization, share split (including a
reverse share split), combination, exchange of shares or similar
transaction.
4.6 Dissenting Shares.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the
contrary and to the extent available under the WBCA, PhotoWorks
Common Shares that are outstanding immediately prior to the
Effective Time and that are held by any PhotoWorks Shareholder
who is entitled to demand and properly demands the appraisal for
such shares (the “Dissenting Shares”) pursuant to, and
who complies in all respects with, the provisions of
Section 23B.13 of the WBCA shall not be converted into, or
represent the right to receive, the Merger Consideration. Any
such PhotoWorks Shareholder shall instead be entitled to receive
payment for such shareholder’s Dissenting Shares in
accordance with the provisions of Section 23B.13 of the
WBCA; provided, however, that all Dissenting Shares held by any
PhotoWorks Shareholder who shall have failed to perfect or who
otherwise shall have withdrawn, in accordance with the WBCA, or
lost such PhotoWorks Shareholder’s rights to appraisal of
such shares under the WBCA, shall thereupon be deemed to have
been converted into, and to have become exchangeable for, as of
the Effective Time, the right to receive the Merger
Consideration, without any interest thereon, upon surrender of
the Certificate or Certificates that formerly evidenced such
shares in the manner provided in this Article IV or, if a
portion of the Payment Fund deposited with the Paying Agent to
pay for shares that become Dissenting Shares has been delivered
to the Surviving Corporation in accordance with this
Article IV, upon demand to the Surviving Corporation.
(b) PhotoWorks shall give Parent (i) prompt notice of
any dissenters’ rights demands received by PhotoWorks for
any PhotoWorks Common Shares, withdrawals of such demands and
any other instruments served pursuant to the WBCA and received
by PhotoWorks and (ii) the opportunity to participate in
and direct all negotiations and proceedings with respect to such
demands. PhotoWorks shall not, except with the prior written
consent of Parent, make any payment or agree to make any payment
with respect to, or offer to settle or settle, any such demands.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND SUBCORP
Parent and Subcorp hereby represent and warrant to PhotoWorks as
follows:
5.1 Organization and
Standing. Each of Parent and Subcorp is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its state of incorporation with full
power and authority (corporate and other) to own, lease, use and
operate its properties and to conduct its business as and where
now owned, leased, used, operated and conducted. Each of Parent
and Subcorp is duly qualified to do business and in good
standing in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the
business conducted by it or the property it
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owns, leases or operates, makes such qualification necessary,
except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing
in such jurisdiction would not have a Parent Material Adverse
Effect. Parent is not in default in the performance, observance
or fulfillment of any provision of its Articles of
Incorporation, as amended and restated (the “Parent
Articles”), or Bylaws, as amended and restated (the
“Parent Bylaws”), and Subcorp is not in default in the
performance, observance or fulfillment of any provisions of its
Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws.
5.2 Corporate Power and Authority.
(a) Each of Parent and Subcorp has all requisite corporate
power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to
consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized
by all necessary corporate action on the part of each of Parent
and Subcorp (and are not required to be authorized or adopted by
Parent’s shareholders). This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by each of Parent and Subcorp, and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of each of
Parent and Subcorp enforceable against each of them in
accordance with its terms.
5.3 Capitalization of
Subcorp. Subcorp’s authorized capital
shares consist solely of 1,000 common shares, par value $.01 per
share (“Subcorp Common Shares”), of which, as of the
date hereof, 100 were issued and outstanding and none were
reserved for issuance. As of the date hereof, all of the
outstanding Subcorp Common Shares are owned by Parent free and
clear of any Liens (except Permitted Liens), claims or
encumbrances.
5.4 Conflicts; Consents and
Approval. Neither the execution and delivery
of this Agreement by Parent or Subcorp nor the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby will:
(a) conflict with, or result in a breach of any provision
of, the Parent Articles or Parent Bylaws or the Articles of
Incorporation or Bylaws of Subcorp;
(b) violate, or conflict with, or result in a breach of any
provision of, or constitute a default (or an event which, with
the giving of notice, the passage of time or otherwise, would
constitute a default) under, or entitle any party (with the
giving of notice, the passage of time or otherwise) to
terminate, accelerate, modify or call a default under, or result
in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets
of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries under, any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of any note, bond, mortgage, indenture,
deed of trust, license, contract, undertaking, agreement, lease
or other instrument or obligation to which Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party;
(c) violate any order, writ, injunction, decree, statute,
rule or regulation applicable to Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries or their respective properties or assets; or
(d) require any action or consent or approval of, or review
by, or registration or filing by Parent or any of its Affiliates
with, any third party or any local, domestic, foreign or
multi-national court, arbitral tribunal, administrative agency
or commission or other governmental or regulatory body, agency,
instrumentality or authority (a “Governmental
Authority”), other than registrations or other actions
required under federal and state securities laws as are
contemplated by this Agreement;
except in the case of (b), (c) and (d) for any of the
foregoing that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have
a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
5.5 Brokerage and Finder’s
Fees. Neither Parent nor any of its
directors, officers or employees has incurred, or will incur, on
behalf of Parent, any brokerage, finder’s or similar fee in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
5.6 Proxy Statement;
Schedule 14D-9. None
of the information provided by Parent or Subcorp for inclusion
in the Offer Documents, the
Schedule 14D-9
or the Proxy Statement will, on the date that such document is
first mailed to the PhotoWorks Shareholders and during the
pendency of the Offer and the subsequent offering period, if any
(in the case of the Offer Documents and the
Schedule 14D-9)
and at the time of the PhotoWorks Shareholder Meeting, if any
(in the case of the Proxy Statement), contain any untrue
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statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they are made, not misleading. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
representation or warranty is made by Parent or Subcorp with
respect to statements made or incorporated by reference therein
based on information supplied by or on behalf of PhotoWorks
specifically for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the
Offer Documents, the
Schedule 14D-9
or the Proxy Statement.
ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF PHOTOWORKS
In order to induce Subcorp and Parent to enter into this
Agreement, PhotoWorks hereby represents and warrants to Parent
and Subcorp that, except as set forth in the disclosure schedule
(the “PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule”) delivered by
PhotoWorks to Parent and Subcorp concurrently with the execution
of this Agreement, the statements contained in this
Article VI are true, correct and complete. The PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule shall be arranged in paragraphs
corresponding to each representation and warranty set forth in
this Article VI. Each exception to a representation and
warranty set forth in the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule shall
qualify only the specific representation and warranty of this
Article VI that is referenced in the applicable paragraph
of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule.
6.1 Organization and
Standing. PhotoWorks is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws
of the State of Washington with full power and authority
(corporate and other) to own, lease, use and operate its
properties and to conduct its business as and where now owned,
leased, used, operated and conducted. PhotoWorks is duly
qualified to do business and in good standing in each
jurisdiction listed in Section 6.1 of the PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule, is not qualified to do business in any
other jurisdiction and neither the nature of the business
conducted by it nor the property it owns, leases or operates
requires it to qualify to do business as a foreign corporation
in any other jurisdiction, except where the failure to be so
qualified or in good standing in such jurisdiction would not
have a PhotoWorks Material Adverse Effect. PhotoWorks is not in
default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any
provision of its Articles of Incorporation, as amended and
restated (the “PhotoWorks Articles”), or its Bylaws,
as in effect on the date hereof (the “PhotoWorks
Bylaws”). Attached to Section 6.1 of the PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule PhotoWorks is a complete and correct
copy of the PhotoWorks Articles and the PhotoWorks Bylaws.
6.2 Subsidiaries. Section 6.2
of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule sets forth a complete and
correct list of all of PhotoWorks’s Subsidiaries (the
“PhotoWorks Subsidiaries”). All equity interests of
the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries held by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and
were not issued in violation of any preemptive or similar
rights, purchase option, call or right of first refusal or
similar rights. All such equity interests are free and clear of
any Liens or any other limitations or restrictions on such
equity interests (including any limitation or restriction on the
right to vote, pledge or sell or otherwise dispose of such
equity interests). PhotoWorks has provided or made available to
Parent complete and correct copies of the organizational
documents of the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries. PhotoWorks does not
own any equity interest in any Person other than in the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries. None of the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries has
any operations, employees or material assets.
6.3 Corporate Power and Authority.
(a) PhotoWorks has all requisite corporate power and
authority to enter into this Agreement and, subject to the
PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval if required by Applicable Law to
consummate the Merger, to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. The execution and delivery of
this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of PhotoWorks (including by its
Board of Directors), subject to the PhotoWorks Shareholder
Approval if required by Applicable Law to consummate the Merger.
This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
PhotoWorks and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
obligation of PhotoWorks, enforceable against PhotoWorks in
accordance with its terms.
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6.4 Capitalization of PhotoWorks.
(a) PhotoWorks’s authorized capital shares consists
solely of (a) 101,250,000 PhotoWorks Common Shares, of
which as of the date hereof, (i) 39,447,073 shares
were issued and outstanding, (ii) 3,565,825 shares
were reserved for issuance upon the exercise or conversion of
outstanding Options, and (iv) 7,321,897 shares were
reserved for issuance upon the exercise of Warrants, and
(b) 2,000,000 preferred shares, $.01 par value per
share, of which 105,000 shares have been designated
Series RP Preferred Stock, 15,000 shares have been
designated Series A Preferred Stock and 36,830 shares
have been designated Series B Preferred Stock, and none of
which is issued or outstanding. As of the date hereof, no Common
Shares are issued and held in the treasury of PhotoWorks and no
Common Shares are held by any PhotoWorks Subsidiary.
(b) Each outstanding capital share of PhotoWorks is duly
authorized and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and
has not been issued in violation of any preemptive or similar
rights. Except as set forth in Section 6.4 of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, there are no outstanding
subscriptions, options, warrants, puts, calls, agreements,
understandings, claims or other commitments or rights of any
type relating to the issuance, sale or transfer of any
securities of PhotoWorks by PhotoWorks or, to the Knowledge of
PhotoWorks, any other Person, nor are there outstanding any
securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for any
capital shares of PhotoWorks (each, a “Convertible
Security”), and PhotoWorks has no obligation of any kind to
issue any additional securities or to pay for securities of
PhotoWorks or any predecessor. The issuance and sale of all of
the capital shares described in this Section 6.4 have been
in compliance with federal and state securities laws.
(c) Section 6.4 of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule
accurately sets forth the names of, and the number of shares of
each class (including the number of shares issuable upon
exercise or conversion of the applicable Option, Warrant or
Convertible Security and the exercise or conversion price and
vesting schedule, if any, with respect thereto) and the number
of Options, Warrants
and/or
Convertible Securities held by, all holders of Options, Warrants
and Convertible Securities. No holder of any Option, Warrant,
Convertible Security or other right to purchase or otherwise
acquire PhotoWorks Common Shares will have any right to acquire
any PhotoWorks Common Shares or other equity interest of the
Surviving Corporation following the Effective Time.
6.5 Board Recommendation. The
Board of Directors of PhotoWorks, at a meeting duly called and
held by its directors on November 27, 2007 (who constituted
100% of the directors then in office), has unanimously resolved
to adopt the PhotoWorks Board Recommendation.
6.6 Voting.
(a) If required by Applicable Law to approve the Merger,
the PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval is the only vote of the
holders of any class or series of the capital shares of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary necessary (under the
PhotoWorks Articles or the PhotoWorks Bylaws, the WBCA, other
Applicable Laws or otherwise) to approve and adopt this
Agreement and approve the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated thereby.
(b) There are no voting trusts, proxies or similar
agreements, arrangements or commitments to which PhotoWorks or
any PhotoWorks Subsidiary is a party or, to the Knowledge of
PhotoWorks, with respect to the voting of any capital shares of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary. There are no bonds,
debentures, notes or other instruments of Indebtedness of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary that have the right to
vote, or that are convertible or exchangeable into or
exercisable for securities or other rights having the right to
vote, on any matters on which the PhotoWorks Shareholders may
vote.
6.7 Conflicts; Consents and
Approvals. Neither the execution and delivery
of this Agreement by PhotoWorks nor the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will:
(a) conflict with, or result in a breach of any provision
of, the PhotoWorks Articles or the PhotoWorks Bylaws or the
equivalent organizational documents of any PhotoWorks Subsidiary;
(b) violate, or conflict with, or result in a breach of any
provision of, or constitute a default (or an event which, with
the giving of notice, the passage of time or otherwise, would
constitute a default)
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under, or entitle any party (with the giving of notice, the
passage of time or otherwise) to terminate, accelerate, modify
or call a default under, or result in the creation of any Lien
upon any of the properties or assets of PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary under, any of the terms, conditions or
provisions of any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, deed of
trust, license, contract, undertaking, agreement, lease or other
instrument or obligation to which PhotoWorks is a party;
(c) violate any order, writ, injunction, decree, statute,
rule or regulation applicable to PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary; or
(d) require any action or consent or approval of, or review
by, or registration or filing by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary with, any third party or any Governmental Authority,
other than (i) the filing of the Articles of Merger with
the Washington Secretary of State, (ii) the filings with
the SEC required under the Exchange Act, (iii) the
PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval, if required by Applicable Law
to approve the Merger, (iv) registrations or other actions
required under federal and state securities laws and
(vi) consents or approvals of any Governmental Authority
set forth in Section 6.7 of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule;
except in the case of clause (b) or (d) for any of the
foregoing that are set forth in Section 6.7 of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, and in the case of
clauses (b) through (d) for any of the foregoing that
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a PhotoWorks
Material Adverse Effect.
6.8 Absence of Certain
Changes. Except as set forth in
Section 6.8 of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule:
(a) Since December 31, 2006, there has not been any
PhotoWorks Material Adverse Effect or any change, event or
development that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or
would reasonably be expected to have a PhotoWorks Material
Adverse Effect.
(b) Since December 31, 2006 and through the date of
this Agreement, PhotoWorks and each PhotoWorks Subsidiary have
conducted their business only in the ordinary course consistent
with past practice, and there has not been any (i) action
or event that, if taken on or after the date of this Agreement
without Parent’s consent, would violate any of the
provisions of Section 7.3(b) or (ii) agreement or
commitment to do any of the foregoing.
6.9 Financial Reports and SEC
Documents.
(a) PhotoWorks has filed or furnished all forms,
statements, reports and documents required to be filed or
furnished by it with the SEC pursuant to applicable securities
statutes, regulations, policies and rules since
September 25, 2004 (the forms, statements, reports and
documents filed or furnished with the SEC since
September 25, 2004 and those filed or furnished with the
SEC subsequent to the date of this Agreement, if any, including
any amendments thereto, the “PhotoWorks SEC
Documents”). Each of the PhotoWorks SEC Documents filed or
furnished on or prior to the date of this Agreement, at the time
of its filing (except as and to the extent such PhotoWorks SEC
Document has been modified or superseded in any subsequent
PhotoWorks SEC Document filed and publicly available prior to
the date of this Agreement), complied, and each of PhotoWorks
SEC Documents filed or furnished after the date of this
Agreement will comply, in all material respects with the
applicable requirements of each of the Exchange Act and the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Securities
Act”) and complied or will comply, as applicable, in all
material respects with the then-applicable accounting standards.
As of their respective dates, except as and to the extent
modified or superseded in any subsequent PhotoWorks SEC Document
filed and publicly available prior to the date of this
Agreement, PhotoWorks SEC Documents did not, and any PhotoWorks
SEC Documents filed or furnished with the SEC subsequent to the
date of this Agreement will not, contain any untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements made therein,
in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not
misleading. The PhotoWorks SEC Documents filed or furnished on
or prior to the date of this Agreement included, and if filed or
furnished after the date of this Agreement, will include all
certificates required to be included therein pursuant to
Sections 302 and 906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder
(“SOX”). Neither PhotoWorks nor any of the
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PhotoWorks Subsidiaries has outstanding (nor has arranged or
modified since the enactment of SOX) any “extension of
credit” (within the meaning of Section 402 of SOX) to
directors or executive officers (as defined in
Rule 3b-7
under the Exchange Act) of PhotoWorks or any of the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries.
(b) Each of the audited and unaudited consolidated balance
sheets included in or incorporated by reference into PhotoWorks
SEC Documents (including the related notes and schedules) fairly
presents or, in the case of PhotoWorks SEC Documents filed or
furnished after the date of this Agreement, will fairly present
the consolidated financial position of PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries as of its date, and each of the audited
and unaudited consolidated statements of operations, changes in
stockholders’ equity (deficit) and cash flows included in
or incorporated by reference into PhotoWorks SEC Documents
(including any related notes and schedules) fairly presents or,
in the case of PhotoWorks SEC Documents filed or furnished after
the date of this Agreement, will fairly present the results of
operations, changes in stockholders’ equity (deficit) and
cash flows, as the case may be, of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries for the periods set forth therein (subject, in the
case of unaudited statements, to the absence of notes and normal
year-end audit adjustments that will not be material in amount
or effect or as otherwise permitted by applicable rules and
regulations of the SEC), in each case in accordance with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
(“GAAP”) consistently applied during the periods
involved, except as may be noted therein.
(c) The management of PhotoWorks has (i) implemented
disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in
Rule 13a-15(e)
of the Exchange Act) that are reasonably designed to ensure that
material information relating to PhotoWorks, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the chief executive
officer and chief financial officer of PhotoWorks by others
within those entities, and (ii) disclosed, based on its
most recent evaluation, to PhotoWorks’s outside auditors
and the audit committee of the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks
(A) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses
(as such terms are defined in
Rule 12b-2
of the Exchange Act) in the design or operation of internal
controls over financial reporting (as defined in
Rule 13a-15(f)
of the Exchange Act) and (B) any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other employees who have a
significant role in PhotoWorks’s internal controls over
financial reporting.
(d) PhotoWorks maintains a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that
(i) transactions are executed in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorization;
(ii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with
management’s general or specific authorizations; and
(iii) the recorded accountability for assets is compared
with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate
action is taken with respect to any differences.
(e) Since January 1, 2005, to the Knowledge of
PhotoWorks, (i) neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, or any director, officer, employee or independent
auditor of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, has received
or otherwise had or obtained knowledge of any material
complaint, allegation, assertion or claim, whether written or
oral, regarding the accounting or auditing practices,
procedures, methodologies or methods of PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary or their respective internal accounting
controls relating to periods after January 1, 2005,
including any material complaint, allegation, assertion or claim
that PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has engaged in
questionable accounting or auditing practices (except for any of
the foregoing that have been resolved without any material
impact on PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, and except for any of the foregoing which have no
reasonable basis), and (ii) no attorney representing
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, whether or not employed
by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, has reported
evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of
fiduciary duty or similar violation, relating to periods after
January 1, 2005, by PhotoWorks or any of its officers,
directors, employees or agents to the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks or any committee thereof or, to the Knowledge of
PhotoWorks, to any director or officer of PhotoWorks.
6.10 Taxes.
(a) All material Tax Returns required to be filed by or
with respect to PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary have
been properly prepared in all material respects and timely
filed, and all such Tax Returns (including information provided
therewith or with respect thereto) are true, correct and
complete in all material respects.
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(b) PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have fully
and timely paid all material Taxes (whether or not shown to be
due on the Tax Returns) required to be paid by any of them.
PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have made adequate
provision in all material respects for any Taxes that are not
yet due and payable for all taxable periods, or portions
thereof, ending on or before December 31, 2006 on the most
recent financial statements contained in the PhotoWorks SEC
Documents to the extent required by GAAP, and PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have not incurred any material Tax since
December 31, 2006 except in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice.
(c) As of the date of this Agreement, there are no
outstanding agreements extending or waiving the statutory period
of limitations applicable to any claim for, or the period for
the collection, assessment or reassessment of, Taxes due from
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary for any taxable period
and, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, no request for any such
waiver or extension is currently pending.
(d) No audit or other proceeding by any Governmental
Authority is pending or, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks,
threatened with respect to any Taxes due from or with respect to
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary.
(e) There are no Liens except for Permitted Liens on any of
the assets of PhotoWorks or any of the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries
that arose in connection with any failure (or alleged failure)
to pay Taxes.
(f) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has
ever been a member of an “affiliated group” of
corporations, within the meaning of Section 1504(a) of the
Code, other than the affiliated group of which PhotoWorks is the
common “parent”.
(g) PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have
withheld and paid in all material respects all Taxes required to
have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or
owing to any employee, independent contractor, creditor,
shareholder or other third party.
(h) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has
been a United States real property holding corporation within
the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code during the
five-year period ending on the date of this Agreement.
(i) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary is a
party to any Tax sharing or similar Tax agreement (other than an
agreement exclusively between or among PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries) pursuant to which it will have any
obligation to make any payments after the Closing Date.
(j) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has
distributed shares of another Person or had its shares
distributed by another Person in a transaction that was intended
to be governed in whole or in part by Section 355 or 361 of
the Code.
(k) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has
engaged in any transaction that has given rise to or would
reasonably be expected to give rise to (i) a disclosure
obligation with respect to any Person under Section 6111 of
the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder, (ii) a
list maintenance obligation with respect to any Person under
Section 6112 of the Code and the regulations promulgated
thereunder, or (iii) a disclosure obligation as a
“reportable transaction” under Section 6011,
6111, 6662 or 6707A of the Code and the regulations promulgated
thereunder (or similar provisions of state, local or foreign Tax
law).
(l) PhotoWorks has provided or made available to Parent
correct and complete copies of (i) all federal and
applicable state income Tax Returns and any other material Tax
Returns filed by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary with
respect to which the statute of limitations has not expired and
(ii) all material ruling requests, private letter rulings,
notices of proposed deficiencies, closing agreements, settlement
agreements, tax opinions, and similar documents or
communications sent to or received by PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary relating to Taxes. There are no requests
for information currently outstanding from any taxing authority
that would reasonably be expected to affect the Taxes of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary in any material respect.
(m) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary will
be required to include any item of income in, or exclude any
item of deduction from, taxable income for any taxable period
(or portion thereof) ending
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after the Closing Date that would give rise to a liability for
Taxes for such period as a result of any (i) change in
method of accounting for a taxable period ending on or prior to
the Closing Date, (ii) “closing agreement” as
described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any corresponding
or similar provision of state, local or foreign income Tax law)
executed on or prior to the Closing Date,
(iii) intercompany transactions or any excess loss account
described in Treasury Regulations under Section 1502 of the
Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local
or foreign income Tax law), (iv) installment sale or open
transaction disposition made on or prior to the Closing Date or
(v) prepaid amount received on or prior to the Closing Date.
(n) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has
made or is obligated to make any payment that would not be
deductible pursuant to Section 162(m) of the Code.
(o) Section 6.10(o) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule sets forth a complete and accurate list of any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary for which a “check-the-box”
election under Section 7701 of the Code has been made.
(p) Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary is
party to any gain recognition agreement under Section 367
of the Code.
(q) No claim has ever been made by an authority in a
jurisdiction where PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary does
not file Tax Returns that PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction.
6.11 Compliance with Law; Permits.
(a) PhotoWorks is in compliance in all respects with, and
at all times since January 1, 2004 has been in compliance
in all respects with, all applicable laws, statutes, orders,
rules, regulations, policies or guidelines promulgated, or
judgments, decisions or orders entered by any Governmental
Authority (collectively, “Applicable Laws”) relating
to PhotoWorks or its business or properties, including the
Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any state or federal laws
respecting rights of privacy and all rules of professional
conduct applicable to PhotoWorks or by which any of its
properties are bound or subject, except for failures to comply
that, individually or in the aggregate, would not result in a
PhotoWorks Material Adverse Effect. PhotoWorks has heretofore
made available to Parent copies of all material correspondence
from and to any Governmental Authority and inspectors.
(b) PhotoWorks and each PhotoWorks Subsidiary is in
possession of all material franchises, grants, authorizations,
licenses, permits, easements, variances, exemptions, consents,
certificates, approvals and orders necessary to own, lease and
operate its properties and to carry on its respective business
as it is now being conducted (collectively, the “PhotoWorks
Permits”), and there is no Action pending or, to the
Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened regarding any of the
PhotoWorks Permits. Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary is in conflict with, or in default or violation of
any of the PhotoWorks Permits, except for any such conflicts,
defaults or violations which, individually or in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect on PhotoWorks. During the period commencing on
January 1, 2004 and ending on the date hereof, neither
PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has received any
notification with respect to possible conflicts, defaults or
violations of Applicable Laws, except for notices relating to
possible conflicts, defaults or violations, which conflicts,
defaults or violations could not have a Material Adverse Effect
on PhotoWorks.
6.12 Intellectual Property.
(a) Set forth on Sections 6.12(a) and 6.12(d) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule is a complete, true and accurate
list and summary description of all PhotoWorks Intellectual
Property and all other material Intellectual Property (other
than Off-the-shelf Software) and identifies whether PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary is the owner or licensee of such
Intellectual Property. There are no claims, demands or
proceedings instituted or pending against PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary with respect to which PhotoWorks or the
PhotoWorks Subsidiary has been served or otherwise received
notice, or, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened by any
Person that contest the validity, use, ownership or
enforceability of any Intellectual Property. None of the
PhotoWorks Intellectual Property (i) is available for use
by any third party without a license or permission from
PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries and (ii) to the
Knowledge of PhotoWorks, is
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being infringed. Except as set forth in Section 6.12(a) of
the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, none of the PhotoWorks
Intellectual Property, the conduct or operation of the business
and/or
Websites by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or any
product manufactured
and/or sold
by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary infringes or is
alleged to infringe any intellectual or proprietary rights of
any third party. Except as set forth in Section 6.12(a) of
the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule there are no agreements
between PhotoWorks and any Person providing for the payment of
royalties, license fees, charges or other amounts in respect of
any Intellectual Property. The Intellectual Property listed on
Sections 6.12(a) and 6.12(d) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule constitutes all of the intangible and intellectual
property necessary to conduct the operations of its business as
it is currently conducted by PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries. Except as set forth in Section 6.12(a) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, PhotoWorks or a PhotoWorks
Subsidiary is the owner of all worldwide right, title, and
interest in and to each of the PhotoWorks Intellectual Property,
free and clear of all Liens, encumbrances and adverse claims.
Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has received
any written non-infringement or invalidity opinion of counsel
regarding any infringement or invalidity opinions regarding any
Intellectual Property.
(b) Section 6.12(b) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule lists all Registered Intellectual Property and the
jurisdiction(s) in which each item of Registered Intellectual
Property is filed or registered, including the respective
application or registration numbers, filing or registration
dates, and any filing requirements and fees due within ninety
days from the date of the Closing. Each item of Registered
Intellectual Property has been properly filed and maintained
(including payment of filing, examination and maintenance fees
and proofs of use) and all Registered Intellectual Property is
currently in compliance with all formal legal requirements,
including the payment of filing, examination and maintenance
fees and timely filing of affidavits and renewal applications
(to the extent that the time period for payment or filing would
have otherwise lapsed or expired), and no Patents
and/or
Trademarks included in the Registered Intellectual Property have
been or are involved in any opposition, interference,
invalidation, reexamination or cancellation, other than
proceedings for which PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries
have not received notice.
(c) Except as set forth on Section 6.12(c) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, all former and current employees
of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, consultants,
contractors and other persons who contributed to the creation or
development of any PhotoWorks Intellectual Property, have
executed a valid written assignment agreement with PhotoWorks or
a PhotoWorks Subsidiary that irrevocably and exclusively assigns
to PhotoWorks all of such persons ownership rights in and to
such developed PhotoWorks Intellectual Property and any
inventions, improvements, or discoveries relating to the
business of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries and
neither PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has any
obligation to compensate any employee or other person for the
development, use, sale or exploitation of any PhotoWorks
Intellectual Property. No governmental resources or funding,
facilities or services of a university, college, other
educational institution or research center or funding from third
parties was used in the development of any PhotoWorks
Intellectual Property.
(d) Section 6.12(d) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule sets forth (i) a complete list of all Software
owned, used and licensed by the PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries, other than non-custom and off-the-shelf software
with a total replacement value of less than $1,000 that are not
material to its business (“Off-the-shelf Software”),
and indicates whether such Software is owned or licensed by
PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, and (ii) for
each service provided
and/or
product sold, licensed, or otherwise provided, supported or
maintained by PhotoWorks
and/or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary, whether the use or operation of such
service
and/or
product by any customer or end user on any third party hardware
or software platform (a “Third Party Platform”)
requires such customer or end user to enter into an agreement or
license with the owner of such Third Party Platform. Except as
set forth on Section 6.12(d) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule, neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has
incorporated in any Intellectual Property, or with any products
distributed, marketed, or sold by PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries, any (i) open source code or (ii) other
public software that requires, as a condition of use,
modification
and/or
distribution of such public software, that other software
incorporated, combined, derived from
and/or
distributed with such public software, be: (A) disclosed or
distributed in source code form; (B) licensed for the
purpose of making derivative works; (C) licensed under
terms that allow reverse engineering, reverse assembly
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or disassembly of any kind; or (D) redistributable at no
charge. None of the Software included in the PhotoWorks
Intellectual Property is subject to any escrow agreement or any
other arrangements which provides license or access to the
source code of the Software to a third party.
(e) Section 6.12(e) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule contains a list of all currently existing agreements,
contracts, licenses, sublicenses, assignments and indemnities to
which PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries are a party and
which relate to any Intellectual Property to which PhotoWorks or
any PhotoWorks Subsidiary are a party or by which PhotoWorks or
any PhotoWorks Subsidiary is bound, except for any licenses
relating to any Off-the-shelf-Software. PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have performed (or will perform) in all
material respects all obligations imposed upon them thereunder
which are required to be performed by them on or prior to the
Closing, and neither PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary
nor, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, any other party thereto, is
in breach of or default thereunder in any respect, nor is there
any event which with notice or lapse of time or both would
constitute a default thereunder. All of the Intellectual
Property licenses, assignments and other agreements listed on
Section 6.12(e) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule are
valid and enforceable against the parties thereto in accordance
with their respective terms, and, except as set forth on
Section 6.12(e) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, will
continue to be so on identical terms immediately following the
Closing.
(f) PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have taken
reasonable precautions to protect the secrecy, confidentiality,
and value of its Trade Secrets, including the signing by all
persons hired by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary of
agreements that contain obligations to protect confidentiality
of Trade Secrets, and the signing by all third parties with
disclosure to or access to Trade-Secrets of valid and binding
non-disclosure agreements, and the Trade Secrets are not part of
the public knowledge or literature and have not been used,
divulged, or appropriated either for the benefit of any Person
or to the detriment of PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries.
(g) Based on the current traffic forecasts for each website
owned and operated by PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries
(“Websites”), to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks,
PhotoWorks and each PhotoWorks Subsidiary presently have
adequate computer, hardware, and personnel resources to help
ensure that no service outages will occur due to insufficient
data storage, memory, server or related reasons and to
accommodate anticipated increases in data storage and traffic
levels. PhotoWorks and each PhotoWorks Subsidiary takes
commercially reasonable steps to protect the integrity and
security of its Websites, software, databases, systems, networks
and all proprietary information and Personally Identifiable
Information stored or contained therein or transmitted thereby
from unauthorized or improper access, modification, transmittal
or use. In the last twelve months, the Websites and networks
owned or used by PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries in
the conduct or operation of their business have not experienced
any material disruption, interruption or major outage.
PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries do not distribute spyware
and adware in connection with their business.
(h) The privacy policies published on the Websites or
otherwise made available by PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries to third parties regarding the collection,
retention, use or distribution of Personally Identifiable
Information (“Privacy Statement”), include, at a
minimum, accurate notice to users of any Websites about
PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries collection, retention,
use and disclosure policies and practices with respect to any
data that identifies or locates a particular person
(“Personally Identifiable Information”). PhotoWorks
and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries do not knowingly collect information
from or target children or minors in its Website content.
PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries do not sell, rent or
otherwise make available to third parties (except those parties
identified in the Privacy Statement and in accordance with
applicable laws and regulations) any Personally Identifiable
Information submitted by visitors of any Website. PhotoWorks and
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries are and have been at all times in
compliance with the applicable privacy obligations under any
applicable laws, rules and regulations relating to use of the
Personally Identifiable Information and neither the execution,
delivery or performance of this Agreement by PhotoWorks will
violate or conflict with such laws, rules
and/or
regulations. PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries are not a
party to any contract or subject to any other obligation that,
following the date of this Agreement, would prevent the
Surviving Corporation
and/or its
Affiliates from using the Personally Identifiable Information in
a manner consistent with the Privacy Statement. PhotoWorks and
PhotoWorks
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Subsidiaries have not received any notice of claims or
controversies regarding the Privacy Statement or any terms of
use of the Websites or their implementation.
6.13 Title to and Condition of
Properties.
(a) Each of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries has
good, valid and indefeasible title to all of its material assets
and properties of every kind, nature and description, tangible
or intangible, wherever located, which constitute all of the
property now used in and necessary for the conduct of its
business as presently conducted (including all material property
and assets shown or reflected on the Reference Balance Sheet).
All such assets and properties are owned free and clear of all
Liens except for Permitted Liens. To the Knowledge of
PhotoWorks, all such properties are usable for their current
uses without violating any Applicable Laws, or any applicable
private restriction, and such uses are legal conforming uses. No
financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar
law naming PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, or any of
their predecessors, is on file in any jurisdiction in which
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary owns property or does
business, and neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary
is a party to or bound under any material agreement or legal
obligation authorizing any party to file any such financing
statement. Section 6.13(a) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule contains a complete and accurate list of the location
of all real property which is owned, leased or operated by
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary and describes the nature
of PhotoWorks’s or the PhotoWorks Subsidiary’s
interest in that real property.
(b) All real property, plants and structures and all
machinery and equipment and tangible personal property owned,
leased or used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary and
material to the operation of its respective business are
reasonably suitable for the purpose or purposes for which they
are being used (including material compliance with all
Applicable Laws) and are in good condition and repair, ordinary
wear and tear excepted. Section 6.13(b) of the PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule lists, and PhotoWorks has furnished or made
available to Parent, copies of all engineering, geologic and
environmental reports prepared by or for PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary with respect to the real property owned,
leased or used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary.
(c) Except as set forth in Section 6.13(c) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, no real or personal property
owned, leased, or used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary has been used to produce, process, store, handle, or
transport any hazardous or toxic substance or waste (as those
terms are defined or described in any of the Applicable Laws
relating to the protection, preservation, conservation,
restoration or quality of the environment), except to the extent
immaterial quantities of hazardous substances are used as an
incidental aspect of the operation of its respective business.
To the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, no hazardous or toxic substance
or waste has been disposed of, released or discharged on, leaked
from, or has otherwise contaminated any real property now or
heretofore owned, leased or used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary. No asbestos or substances containing material
quantities of asbestos have been installed in any such property.
6.14 Litigation. Except as set
forth in Section 6.14 of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule, there is no suit, claim, action, proceeding or
investigation (an “Action”) pending or, to the
Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened against PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary, or any officer or director of PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary that, individually or in the
aggregate, if adversely determined, would have a PhotoWorks
Material Adverse Effect. Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary is subject to any outstanding order, writ, injunction
or decree which, individually or in the aggregate, insofar as
can be reasonably foreseen, could have a PhotoWorks Material
Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in Section 6.14 of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, since January 1, 2004,
(i) there has not been any Action asserted, or to the
Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened against PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary relating to PhotoWorks’s or a
PhotoWorks Subsidiary’s method of doing business or its
relationship with past, existing or future users or purchasers
of any goods or services of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary and (ii) neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary has been subject to any outstanding order, writ,
injunction or decree relating to PhotoWorks’s or a
PhotoWorks Subsidiary’s method of doing business or its
relationship with past, existing or future customers, lessees,
users, purchasers or licensees of any Intellectual Property,
goods or services of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary.
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6.15 Employee Benefit Plans.
(a) Section 6.15(a) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule contains a correct and complete list of each Plan. No
entity is a member of PhotoWorks “controlled group”
(within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the
Code) other than PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries.
With respect to each Plan, if applicable, PhotoWorks has
provided to Parent correct and complete copies of (i) all
plan texts and agreements and related trust agreements and
insurance contracts (or other funding vehicles); (ii) the
most recent summary plan descriptions and material employee
communications concerning the extent of the benefits provided
under a Plan; (iii) the three most recent annual reports
(including all schedules); (iv) the three most recent
annual audited financial statements and opinions; (v) if
the plan is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the
Code, the most recent determination letter received from the
Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”); (vi) all
material communications with any domestic Governmental Authority
given or received since January 1, 2005, and (vii) all
compliance reports provided by third party administrators
relative to any Plan during the past three years. There is no
present intention that any Plan be materially amended, suspended
or terminated, or otherwise modified to adversely change
benefits (or the level thereof) under any Plan or to create any
additional employee benefit plan at any time within the twelve
months immediately following the date of this Agreement, except
for any amendment that is required under Applicable Laws.
(b) Since January 1, 2005, there has not been any
amendment or change in interpretation relating to any Plan which
would, in the case of any Plan, materially increase the cost of
such Plan.
(c) No Plan is subject to Title IV or Section 302
of ERISA or Section 412 or 4971 of the Code and neither
PhotoWorks nor the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries or any current or
prior ERISA Affiliate has ever sponsored, maintained,
contributed to or had any obligation to contribute to any plan
that is subject to Title IV or Section 302 of ERISA or
Section 412 or 4971 of the Code. No liability under
Title IV of ERISA has been or is expected to be incurred by
the PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary. Neither PhotoWorks
nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has, at any time during the last
six years, contributed to or been obligated to contribute to any
Multiemployer Plan. Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary would be reasonably expected to be liable for any
liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or
partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan (as those terms
are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of
ERISA) that has not been satisfied in full.
(d) Each Plan which is intended to qualify under
Section 401(a) of the Code has been issued a favorable
determination or opinion letter by the IRS with respect to such
qualification, its related trust has been determined to be
exempt from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code and
no event has occurred since the date of such qualification or
exemption that would reasonably be expected to materially
adversely affect such qualification or exemption. Each Plan has
been established and administered in material compliance with
its terms and with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code
and other Applicable Laws. No event has occurred and no
condition exists that would subject PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries by reason of its affiliation with any current or
former member of its “controlled group” (within the
meaning of Section 414 of the Code) to any material
(i) Tax, penalty, fine, (ii) Lien (other than a
Permitted Lien) or (iii) other liability imposed by ERISA,
the Code or other Applicable Laws.
(e) There are no Plans under which welfare benefits are
provided to past or present employees of PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries beyond their retirement or other
termination of service, other than coverage mandated by the
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Recommendation Act of 1985,
Section 4980B of the Code, Title I of ERISA or any
similar state group health plan continuation laws, the cost of
which is fully paid by such employees or their dependents.
(f) Except with respect to any 401(k) plan that is required
to be terminated under this Agreement, and as set forth in
Section 6.15(f) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule,
neither the Offer nor the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby will (either alone or in combination with another event)
(i) result in any payment becoming due, or increase the
amount of any compensation or benefits due, to any current or
former employee of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries or
with respect to any Plan; (ii) increase any benefits
otherwise payable under any Plan; (iii) result in the
acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such
compensation or benefits; (iv) result in a
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non-exempt “prohibited transaction” within the meaning
of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code;
(v) limit or restrict the right of PhotoWorks to merge,
amend or terminate any of the Plans; or (vi) result in the
payment of any amount that would, individually or in combination
with any other such payment, reasonably be expected to
constitute an “excess parachute payment,” as defined
in Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code.
(g) With respect to any Plan or any current or former
employee or any of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary,
(i) no Actions (including any administrative investigation,
audit or other proceeding by the Department of Labor or the IRS
but other than routine claims for benefits in the ordinary
course) are pending or, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks,
threatened, and (ii) to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, no
events or conditions have occurred or exist that would
reasonably be expected to give rise to any such Actions.
(h) All contributions required to be made to any Plan by
Applicable Laws or by any plan document or other contractual
undertaking, and all premiums due or payable with respect to
insurance policies funding any Plan, for any period through the
date hereof, have been timely made or paid in full or, to the
extent not required to be made or paid on or before the date
hereof, have been or will be fully reflected in the Reference
Balance Sheet.
(i) All Plans subject to the laws of any jurisdiction
outside of the United States (i) have been maintained in
all material respects accordance with all applicable
requirements, (ii) if they are intended to qualify for
special tax treatment, meet in all material respects all
requirements for such treatment, and (iii) if they are
intended to be funded
and/or
book-reserved, are fully funded
and/or book
reserved, as appropriate, based upon reasonable actuarial
assumptions. Each Plan that requires registration with a
Governmental Authority has been properly registered.
(j) Each Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred
compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A(d)(1)
of the Code) (i) has been operated since January 1,
2005 either pursuant to a grandfathering exemption from
Section 409A of the Code or in good faith compliance with
Section 409A of the Code, the proposed regulations and
other guidance issued thereunder. Each Option has been granted
with an exercise price no lower than “fair market
value” (within the meaning of Section 409A of the
Code) as of the grant date of such option, and no term of
exercise of an Option has been extended after the grant date of
such Option.
6.16 Contracts.
(a) Section 6.16(a) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule lists all written or oral contracts, agreements,
guarantees, leases and executory commitments (each a
“Contract”) to which PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary is a party and which fall within any of the following
categories: (a) Contracts not entered into in the ordinary
course of business of PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries,
(b) joint venture, partnership and similar agreements,
(c) Contracts which are service contracts or equipment
leases involving payments by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary of more than $10,000 per year, (d) Contracts
containing covenants purporting to limit the freedom of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary to compete in any line
of business in any geographic area or to hire any individual or
group of individuals, (e) Contracts which after the
Effective Time would have the effect of limiting the freedom of
Parent or its Subsidiaries (other than PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries) to compete in any line of business in
any geographic area or to hire any individual or group of
individuals, including any Contracts with distributors granting
any exclusive rights, (f) Contracts which contain minimum
purchase conditions or requirements or other terms that restrict
or limit the purchasing relationships of PhotoWorks or the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, or any customer, licensee or lessee
thereof, (g) Contracts relating to any outstanding
commitment for capital expenditures in excess of $10,000,
(h) Contracts relating to the lease or sublease of or sale
or purchase of real or personal property involving any annual
expense or price in excess of $10,000 and not cancelable by
PhotoWorks or the applicable PhotoWorks Subsidiary (without
premium or penalty) within one month, (i) Contracts with
any labor organization, (j) indentures, mortgages,
promissory notes, loan agreements, guarantees of amounts in
excess of $10,000, letters of credit or other agreements or
instruments of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or
commitments for Indebtedness or the lending of amounts in excess
of $10,000 by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or
providing for the creation of any Lien upon any of the assets of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, (k) Contracts
which are fixed price, capitation or other risk sharing
agreements
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with customers not cancelable by PhotoWorks or the applicable
PhotoWorks Subsidiary (without premium or penalty) within one
month; (l) Contracts involving annual revenues or
expenditures to the business of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in excess of 3% of
PhotoWorks’s consolidated annual revenues,
(m) Contracts providing for “earn-outs” or other
contingent payments involving more than $10,000 over the term of
the Contract and (n) Contracts with or for the benefit of
any Affiliate of PhotoWorks or immediate family member thereof
(other than the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries). All such Contracts are
valid and binding obligations of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries and, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, the valid and
binding obligation of each other party thereto. Neither
PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries nor, to the Knowledge
of PhotoWorks, any other party thereto is in violation of or in
default in respect of, nor, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, has
there occurred an event or condition which with the passage of
time or giving of notice (or both) would constitute a default
under or permit the termination of, any Contract, except in each
case, for those violations or defaults that, individually or in
the aggregate, would not result in a PhotoWorks Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) Except as contemplated by the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement or as set forth in Section 6.16(b) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, there are no Contracts or other
transactions between PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, on
the one hand, and any (i) officer or director of
PhotoWorks, (ii) record or beneficial owner of five percent
or more of the voting securities of PhotoWorks or (iii) an
Affiliate of any such officer, director or beneficial owner, on
the other hand.
6.17 Accounts Receivable. All
accounts receivable of PhotoWorks and any PhotoWorks Subsidiary
have arisen in the ordinary course of business, and any
allowances for doubtful accounts reflected in any balance sheets
included in or incorporated by reference into the PhotoWorks SEC
Documents were, or will be as of the date thereof, established
in accordance with GAAP.
6.18 Labor Matters.
(a) Section 6.18(a) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule sets forth the names of all employees, directors and
officers of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries and the
total salary, bonus, fringe benefits and perquisites each
received from PhotoWorks in the year ended September 30,
2006, and any changes to the foregoing that have occurred
subsequent to September 30, 2006. Except as set forth in
Section 6.18(a) of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule,
there are no other forms of compensation paid to any such
director, officer or employee of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries. Except as set forth in Section 6.18(a) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, the amounts accrued on the books
and records of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries for
all commissions and other fees payable to agents, sales
representatives and any other Person, vacation pay and sick pay
will be adequate to cover the liabilities of PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries for all such items.
(b) Except as set forth in Section 6.18(b) of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule, neither PhotoWorks nor any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary has any labor contracts, collective
bargaining agreements or employment or consulting agreements
with any persons employed by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, or any persons otherwise performing services
primarily for PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary (the
“PhotoWorks Business Personnel”), other than employee
offer letters entered into in the ordinary course of business.
Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has engaged in
any unfair labor practice with respect to PhotoWorks Business
Personnel, and there is no unfair labor practice complaint
pending or, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened, against
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary with respect to the
PhotoWorks Business Personnel. There is no labor strike,
dispute, slowdown or stoppage pending or, to the Knowledge of
PhotoWorks, threatened against PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, and neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary
has experienced any labor strike, dispute, slowdown or stoppage
or other labor difficulty involving its employees since
January 1, 2004.
(c) Except in the ordinary course of business, neither
PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiaries has any liability to
any PhotoWorks Business Personnel (or to any Governmental
Authority with respect to any PhotoWorks Business Personnel)
under any Applicable Law relating to claims arising out of or
related to any event occurring or condition existing on or
before the Closing Date.
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(d) PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries have
correctly classified those individuals performing services for
PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries as common law
employees, leased employees or independent contractors.
6.19 Undisclosed
Liabilities. Except (a) as and to the
extent disclosed or reserved against on the Reference Balance
Sheet, (b) as incurred after the date thereof in the
ordinary course of business consistent with prior practice and
not prohibited by this Agreement and which in any event are not
material or (c) as incurred in connection with the
transactions contemplated hereby, neither PhotoWorks nor any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary has any material liabilities or
obligations of any nature, whether known or unknown, absolute,
accrued, contingent or otherwise and whether due or to become
due.
6.20 Operation of PhotoWorks’s Business;
Relationships.
(a) The relationships of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries with their respective suppliers (including data
suppliers and licensors) are satisfactory and the execution of
this Agreement, the consummation of the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated hereby will not materially adversely
affect the relationships of PhotoWorks or the PhotoWorks
Subsidiaries with such suppliers.
(b) No product produced by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, or produced for PhotoWorks by a third party and
being an PhotoWorks Trademark or other PhotoWorks Intellectual
Property Right, has been recalled voluntarily or involuntarily
since January 1, 2004, no such recall is being considered
by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, and, to the
Knowledge of PhotoWorks, no such recall is being considered by
or has been requested or ordered by any customer of PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, Governmental Authority or consumer
group.
6.21 Product Warranties and
Liabilities. Section 6.21 of the
PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule lists all forms of warranties,
guarantees or assurances of its products and services that are
in effect or proposed to be used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary. Section 6.21 of the PhotoWorks Disclosure
Schedule sets forth a description of each pending or, to the
Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened Action under any warranty or
guaranty against PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary.
Neither PhotoWorks nor any PhotoWorks Subsidiary has incurred,
nor does PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary know or have
any reason to believe there is any reasonable basis for
alleging, any material liability, damage, loss, cost or expense
as a result of any defect or other deficiency (whether of
design, materials, workmanship, labeling instructions or
otherwise) (“Product Liability”) with respect to any
product sold or services rendered by or on behalf of PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary (including any licensee thereof)
after January 1, 2004 and prior to the Effective Time,
whether such Product Liability is incurred by reason of any
express or implied warranty (including any warranty of
merchantability or fitness), any doctrine of common law (tort,
contract or other), any statutory provision or otherwise and
irrespective of whether such Product Liability is covered by
insurance.
6.22 Environmental Matters.
(a) There are, with respect to PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, or any predecessor of the foregoing, no
past or present violations of Environmental Laws, releases of
any material into the environment, actions, activities,
circumstances, conditions, events, incidents, or contractual
obligations which may give rise to any material common law
environmental liability or any liability under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980
or similar federal, state, local or foreign laws and none of
PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries has received any
notice with respect to any of the foregoing, nor is any Action
pending or, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, threatened in
connection with any of the foregoing.
(b) No Hazardous Materials are contained on or about any
real property currently or previously owned or leased by
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or predecessors and no
Hazardous Materials were released on or about any real property
previously owned or leased by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary or predecessors during the period the property was
owned or leased by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or
predecessors, except in the normal course of PhotoWorks’s
and each PhotoWorks Subsidiary’s respective business. To
the extent PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or
predecessors
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currently uses or previously used real property which PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or predecessors never owned or
leased, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, no Hazardous Materials
were or are contained on or about the portion of such property
currently or previously used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary or predecessors and no Hazardous Materials were
released on or about any such portion of property previously
used by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary or predecessors
during the period the property was used by PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary or predecessors, except in the normal
course of PhotoWorks’s and each PhotoWorks
Subsidiary’s respective business.
(c) There are no underground storage tanks on or under any
real property currently or previously owned or leased by
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary.
6.23 Takeover Laws; PhotoWorks Rights
Agreement.
(a) Prior to the date hereof, the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks has taken all action, if any, necessary to exempt
under or make not subject to any state takeover law or other
state law that purports to limit or restrict business
combinations or the ability to acquire or vote shares:
(i) the execution of this Agreement and the Tender
Agreements, (ii) the Offer, (iii) the Merger and
(iv) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
the Tender Agreements.
(b) The Rights Agreement, dated December 16, 1999,
between PhotoWorks and Xxxxx Xxxxxx Shareholder Services L.L.C.,
as Rights Agent, and all rights to purchase shares of PhotoWorks
pursuant thereto, have been terminated and are of no further
force or effect.
6.24 Insurance. PhotoWorks and
each PhotoWorks Subsidiary is presently insured, and during each
of the past five calendar years has been insured, against such
risks as companies engaged in a similar business would, in
accordance with good business practice, customarily be insured.
The policies of fire, theft, liability, professional practice
and other insurance maintained with respect to the assets or
businesses of PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries may be
continued by the Surviving Corporation without modification or
premium increase after the Effective Time and for the duration
of their current terms which terms expire as set forth in
Section 6.24 of the PhotoWorks Disclosure Schedule.
6.25 Books of Account;
Records. The general ledgers, share record
books, minute books and other material records of PhotoWorks and
the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries relating to the assets, properties,
contracts and outstanding legal obligations of PhotoWorks and
the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries are, in all material respects,
complete and correct, and have been maintained in accordance
with good business practices and the matters contained therein
are appropriate and accurately reflected in the financial
statements of PhotoWorks included in the PhotoWorks SEC
Documents.
6.26 Information Supplied. None of
the information included or incorporated by reference in the
Offer Documents, the
Schedule 14D-9
or the Proxy Statement, or any other document filed with the SEC
in connection with the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement (the “Other Filings”)
will, on the date that such document is first mailed to the
PhotoWorks Shareholders and during the pendency of the Offer and
the subsequent offering period, if any (in the case of the Offer
Documents and the
Schedule 14D-9),
on the date that such document is first mailed to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders or at the time of the PhotoWorks Shareholders
Meeting, if any, or at the time of any amendment or supplement
thereof, if any (in the case of the Proxy Statement), or, on the
date such document is first mailed to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders or on the date it is first filed with the SEC (in
the case of any Other Filing), contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are
made, not misleading, except that no representation is made by
PhotoWorks with respect to statements made or incorporated by
reference therein based on information supplied by Parent or
Subcorp in connection with the preparation of the Offer
Documents, the
Schedule 14D-9,
the Proxy Statement or the Other Filings for inclusion or
incorporation by reference therein. The
Schedule 14D-9,
the Proxy Statement and the Other Filings that are filed by
PhotoWorks will comply as to form in all material respects with
the requirements of the Exchange Act.
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6.27 Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act. None of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, or, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, any of their
Affiliates or any other Person acting on their behalf has, in
connection with the operation of their respective businesses,
(i) used any corporate or other funds for unlawful
contributions, payments, gifts or entertainment, or made any
unlawful expenditures relating to political activity to
government officials, candidates or members of political parties
or organizations, or established or maintained any unlawful or
unrecorded funds in violation of Section 104 of the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any other similar
applicable foreign, federal or state law, (ii) paid,
accepted or received any unlawful contributions, payments,
expenditures or gifts, or (iii) violated or operated in
noncompliance with any export restrictions, anti-boycott
regulations, embargo regulations or other similar and applicable
domestic or foreign laws and regulations.
6.28 Purchase and Sale
Agreements. No claims for indemnification
under any prior purchase and sale agreements to which PhotoWorks
or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary is a party (a) have been made
against PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary by any
counterparty thereto in the last five years, (b) are
pending or threatened by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary
or (c) to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, are pending or
threatened against PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary by
any counterparty thereto.
6.29 Opinion of Financial
Advisor. Newforth Partners LLC (the
“PhotoWorks Financial Advisor”) has delivered to the
Board of Directors of PhotoWorks its written opinion to the
effect that, as of the date of this Agreement, each of the Offer
Price and the Merger Consideration to be received, respectively,
in the Offer and Merger by the PhotoWorks Shareholders is fair
to the PhotoWorks Shareholders from a financial point of view.
PhotoWorks has provided to Parent a correct and complete copy of
such opinion and has obtained the authorization of the
PhotoWorks Financial Advisor to include a copy of its opinion in
the
Schedule 14D-9
and, if any, the Proxy Statement.
6.30 Brokerage and Finder’s Fees;
Expenses. Neither PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary nor, to the Knowledge of PhotoWorks, any
shareholder, director, officer or employee thereof, has incurred
or will incur on behalf of PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks
Subsidiary, any brokerage, finder’s or similar fee in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
ARTICLE VII
COVENANTS OF
THE PARTIES
The parties hereto agree as follows with respect to the period
from and after the execution of this Agreement.
7.1 Mutual Covenants.
(a) General. Each of the parties shall
use its reasonable efforts to take all action and to do all
things necessary, proper or advisable to consummate the Offer,
the Merger and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
(including using its reasonable efforts to cause the conditions
set forth in Article VIII for which they are responsible to
be satisfied as soon as reasonably practicable and to prepare,
execute and deliver such further instruments and take or cause
to be taken such other and further action as any other party
hereto shall reasonably request).
(b) Governmental Matters. Each of the
parties shall use its reasonable efforts to take any additional
action that may be necessary, proper or advisable in connection
with any other notices to, filings with, and authorizations,
consents and approvals of any Governmental Authority that it may
be required to give, make or obtain.
(c) Public Announcements. Unless
otherwise required by Applicable Laws or requirements of the
NYSE (and in that event only if time does not permit), at all
times prior to the earlier of the Effective Time or termination
of this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1, Parent and
PhotoWorks shall consult with each other before issuing any
press release with respect to the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement or the Tender Agreements, including the Offer and
the Merger, and shall not issue any such press release without
the prior written consent of the other party (which consent will
not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned).
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(d) Takeover Statutes. If any takeover
statute is or becomes applicable to this Agreement, the Offer,
the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, each of Parent and PhotoWorks and their respective
boards of directors will (a) take all necessary action to
ensure that such transactions may be consummated as promptly as
practicable on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
in this Agreement and (b) otherwise act to eliminate or
minimize the effects of such takeover statute.
7.2 Covenants of Parent.
(a) Notification of Certain
Matters. Parent shall give prompt notice to
PhotoWorks of (i) the occurrence or non-occurrence of any
event the occurrence or non-occurrence of which would cause any
Parent or Subcorp representation or warranty contained in this
Agreement to be untrue or inaccurate at or prior to the
Effective Time and (ii) any material failure of Parent to
comply with or satisfy any covenant, condition or agreement to
be complied with or satisfied by it hereunder; provided,
however, that the delivery of any notice pursuant to this
Section 7.2(a) shall not limit or otherwise affect the
rights or remedies available hereunder to PhotoWorks.
(b) Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification
and Insurance. From and after the Effective Time,
Parent shall: (i) during the six-year period beginning as
of the Effective Date, cause (including providing adequate
funding) the Surviving Corporation to indemnify and hold
harmless the present and former officers and directors of
PhotoWorks in respect of acts or omissions occurring prior to
the Effective Time to the extent provided under the PhotoWorks
Articles and the PhotoWorks Bylaws in effect on the date hereof,
and (ii) use its reasonable efforts to cause the Surviving
Corporation to maintain in effect for not less than six years
after the Effective Time PhotoWorks’s current policy of
director’s and officer’s insurance with respect to
matters occurring prior to the Effective Time; provided,
however, that the Surviving Corporation may substitute therefor
policies containing terms and conditions which are no less
advantageous to covered officers and directors; and, provided,
further, that in no event will Parent or the Surviving
Corporation be required to expend an annual premium for such
coverage in excess of 200% of the last annual premium paid by
PhotoWorks for such insurance prior to the date of this
Agreement (the “Maximum Premium”). If such insurance
coverage cannot be obtained at all, or can only be obtained at
an annual premium in excess of the Maximum Premium, the
Surviving Corporation will obtain that amount of directors’
and officers’ insurance (or “tail” coverage)
obtainable for an annual premium equal to the Maximum Premium.
7.3 Covenants of PhotoWorks.
(a) PhotoWorks Shareholders Meeting; Merger Without
Meeting of the PhotoWorks Shareholders.
(i) If required by Applicable Law in order to consummate
the Merger, PhotoWorks shall, in accordance with Applicable Law:
(A) call and hold a PhotoWorks Shareholders meeting as
promptly as practicable following the Acceptance Time (or, if
later, following the termination of the subsequent offering
period, if any) for the purpose of obtaining the PhotoWorks
Shareholders Approval (the “PhotoWorks Shareholders
Meeting”), (B) include in the Proxy Statement the
recommendation of the Board of Directors that the PhotoWorks
Shareholders vote in favor of the approval of this Agreement and
(C) obtain the PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval.
(ii) In connection with the PhotoWorks Shareholders
Meeting, PhotoWorks will (A) as promptly as reasonably
practicable after the Acceptance Time, with the assistance and
approval (not to be unreasonably withheld) of Parent, prepare
and file with the SEC the Proxy Statement relating to the Merger
and the other transactions contemplated hereby, (B) respond
as promptly as reasonably practicable to any comments received
from the SEC with respect to such filings and provide copies of
such comments to Parent promptly upon receipt, (C) as
promptly as reasonably practicable prepare and file (after
Parent has had a reasonable opportunity to review and comment
on) any amendments or supplements necessary to be filed in
response to any SEC comments or as required by law, (D) use
all reasonable efforts to have cleared by the SEC and thereafter
mail to the PhotoWorks Shareholders as promptly as reasonably
practicable, the Proxy Statement and all other customary proxy
or other materials for meetings such as the PhotoWorks
Shareholders Meeting, (E) to the extent required by
Applicable Law, as promptly as reasonably practicable prepare,
file and distribute to PhotoWorks Shareholders (in the case of
the Proxy Statement) any supplement or amendment to the Proxy
Statement if any event shall occur which requires
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such action at any time prior to the PhotoWorks Shareholders
Meeting, and (F) otherwise use all reasonable efforts to
comply with all requirements of law applicable to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders Meeting and the Merger. Parent shall cooperate with
PhotoWorks in connection with the preparation and filing of the
Proxy Statement, including furnishing PhotoWorks upon request
with any and all information as may be required to be set forth
in the Proxy Statement under the Exchange Act. PhotoWorks will
provide Parent a reasonable opportunity to review and comment
upon the Proxy Statement, or any amendments or supplements
thereto, prior to filing the same with the SEC. In connection
with the filing of the Proxy Statement, PhotoWorks and Parent
will cooperate to (A) respond as promptly as reasonably
practicable to any comments received from the SEC with respect
to such filings and will consult with each other prior to
providing such response and (B) as promptly as reasonably
practicable after consulting with each other, prepare and file
any amendments or supplements necessary to be filed in response
to any SEC comments or as required by law.
(iii) Notwithstanding Sections 7.3(a)(i) or
7.3(a)(ii), in the event that Parent or Subcorp shall acquire
(including pursuant to the Merger Option), together with the
PhotoWorks Common Shares owned by Parent, Subcorp and any other
Subsidiary of Parent, at least 90% of the outstanding PhotoWorks
Common Shares, the parties agree to take all necessary and
appropriate action to cause the Merger to become effective as
soon as practicable after the Acceptance Time in accordance with
Section 23B.11.040 of the WBCA without a meeting of the
PhotoWorks Shareholders.
(b) Conduct of PhotoWorks’s
Operations. During the period from the date of
this Agreement to the Effective Time, PhotoWorks shall, and
shall cause each PhotoWorks Subsidiary to, conduct its
operations only in the ordinary course, except as expressly
contemplated by this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby, and shall use all reasonable efforts to maintain and
preserve its business organization and its material rights and
franchises and to retain the services of its officers and key
employees and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers,
lessees, licensees and other third parties, and to maintain all
of its operating assets in their current condition (normal wear
and tear excepted), to the end that their goodwill and ongoing
business shall not be impaired in any material respect. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, during the period from
the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, PhotoWorks
shall not, and shall cause each PhotoWorks Subsidiary to not,
except as otherwise expressly contemplated by this Agreement and
the transactions contemplated hereby, without the prior written
consent of Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld, conditioned or delayed if the Expiration Date shall
not have occurred within 60 days of the commencement of the
Offer):
(i) do or effect any of the following actions with respect
to its securities: (A) adjust, split, combine or reclassify
its capital shares, (B) make, declare or pay any dividend
or distribution on, or directly or indirectly redeem, purchase
or otherwise acquire, any of its capital shares or any
securities or obligations convertible into or exchangeable for
any of its capital shares, (C) grant any Person any right
or option to acquire any of its capital shares, (D) issue,
deliver or sell or agree to issue, deliver or sell any
additional capital shares or any securities or obligations
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any capital
shares or such securities (except pursuant to the exercise of
Options which are outstanding as of the date hereof), or
(E) enter into any agreement, understanding or arrangement
with respect to the sale or voting of its capital shares;
(ii) directly or indirectly sell, transfer, lease, pledge,
mortgage, encumber or otherwise dispose of any of its material
property or assets other than the sales of products and services
made in the ordinary course of business;
(iii) make or propose any changes in its organizational
documents;
(iv) merge or consolidate with any other Person or acquire
a material amount of assets or capital shares of any other
Person or enter into any confidentiality agreement with any
Person;
(v) incur, create, assume or otherwise become liable for
any Indebtedness or assume, guarantee, endorse or otherwise as
an accommodation become responsible or liable for the
obligations of any other
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Person, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice not in excess of $50,000 in the aggregate;
(vi) create any Subsidiaries;
(vii) enter into or modify any employment, severance,
termination or similar agreements or arrangements with, or grant
any bonuses, salary increases, severance or termination pay to,
any officer, director, consultant or employee or otherwise
increase the compensation or benefits provided to any officer,
director, consultant or employee other than salary increases
granted in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice to employees who are not officers or directors of
PhotoWorks, and except as may be required by Applicable Law or a
binding written contract in effect on the date of this Agreement;
(viii) enter into, adopt or amend any employee benefit or
similar plan;
(ix) make or change any election, change an annual
accounting period, adopt or change any accounting method, file
any amended Tax Return, enter into any closing agreement, settle
any Tax claim or assessment relating to PhotoWorks or any
PhotoWorks Subsidiary, surrender any right to claim a refund of
Taxes, consent to any extension or waiver of the limitation
period applicable to any Tax claim or assessment relating to
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary, or take any other
similar action relating to the filing of any Tax Return or the
payment of any Tax, if such election, adoption, change,
amendment, agreement, settlement, surrender, consent or other
action would have the effect of increasing the Tax liability of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary for any period ending
after the Effective Time or decreasing any Tax attribute of
PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary existing at the
Effective Time;
(x) change its method of doing business or change any
method or principle of accounting in a manner that is
inconsistent with past practice;
(xi) settle any Actions, whether now pending or hereafter
made or brought involving an amount in excess of $10,000;
(xii) write up, write down or write off the book value of
any assets, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of
$10,000 except for depreciation and amortization in accordance
with GAAP consistently applied;
(xiii) modify, amend or terminate, or waive, release or
assign any material rights or claims with respect to, any
Contract set forth in Section 6.16(a) of the PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule, any other material Contract to which
PhotoWorks is a party or any confidentiality agreement to which
PhotoWorks is a party;
(xiv) incur or commit to any capital expenditures,
obligations or liabilities in respect thereof which in the
aggregate exceed or would exceed $50,000;
(xv) make any material changes or modifications to any
pricing policy or investment policy or enter into any new
management agreements or leases on terms different from those in
effect in the ordinary and usual course of business, consistent
with past practice;
(xvi) take any action to exempt or make not subject to any
other state takeover law or state law that purports to limit or
restrict business combinations or the ability to acquire or vote
shares, any Person (other than Parent or its subsidiaries) or
any action taken thereby, which Person or action would have
otherwise been subject to the restrictive provisions thereof and
not exempt therefrom;
(xvii) take any action that could result in the
representations and warranties set forth in Article VI
becoming false or inaccurate;
(xviii) enter into or carry out any other transaction other
than in the ordinary and usual course of business; or
(xix) agree in writing or otherwise to take any of the
foregoing actions.
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(c) Intellectual Property
Matters. PhotoWorks shall use all reasonable
efforts to preserve its ownership or other rights to the
PhotoWorks Intellectual Property free and clear of any Liens
(other than Permitted Liens and those that exist on the date
hereof and are referenced in Section 6.13 of the PhotoWorks
Disclosure Schedule) and shall use all reasonable efforts to
assert, protect and defend the PhotoWorks Intellectual Property
against all claims or demands of third parties and prosecute any
infringement of any PhotoWorks Intellectual Property or any
misappropriation or disclosure of any material trade secret,
confidential information or know- how that forms a part of the
PhotoWorks Intellectual Property. PhotoWorks shall promptly
notify Parent in writing (i) if it becomes aware of or
receives any notice, demand or correspondence from any third
party relating to any claims, whether existing before the date
hereof arising thereafter, that any Intellectual Property
infringes such third party’s trademark, copyright, patent
or other proprietary or Intellectual Property rights or
(ii) of any claim or act of any other Person which
constitutes or might constitute or result in an infringement of
any PhotoWorks Intellectual Property or any product or services
provided by PhotoWorks or any PhotoWorks Subsidiary. PhotoWorks
and PhotoWorks Subsidiaries will not (x) sell or otherwise
dispose of any Intellectual Property, or any interest therein or
(y) abandon nor fail to pay any fees or annuity due and
payable on any PhotoWorks Intellectual Property, nor fail to
file any required affidavit in support thereof.
(d) No Solicitation.
(i) From the date hereof until the Effective Time,
PhotoWorks shall not, and shall not authorize or permit any of
its Subsidiaries or any of its or its Subsidiaries’
directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives to,
directly or indirectly, solicit, initiate, encourage or
facilitate, or furnish or disclose non-public information in
furtherance of any Takeover Proposal, or negotiate, explore or
otherwise engage in discussions with any Person (other than
Parent, Subcorp or their respective directors, officers,
employees, agents and representatives) with respect to any
Takeover Proposal or enter into any agreement, arrangement or
understanding requiring it to abandon, terminate or fail to
consummate the Merger or any other transactions contemplated by
this Agreement. Neither the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks nor
any committee thereof shall (A) withdraw or modify, or
propose publicly to withdraw or modify, in a manner adverse to
Parent, the PhotoWorks Board Recommendation, (B) approve or
recommend, or propose publicly to approve or recommend, any
Takeover Proposal or (C) cause PhotoWorks to enter into any
letter of intent, agreement in principle, acquisition agreement
or other similar agreement related to any Takeover Proposal.
Promptly upon the execution of this Agreement, PhotoWorks shall,
and shall cause each PhotoWorks Subsidiary and each of their
respective directors, officers, employees, agents and
representatives to, immediately cease any existing
solicitations, discussions or negotiations with any Person
(other than the parties hereto) with respect to a Takeover
Proposal, and PhotoWorks shall promptly request that each Person
who has executed a confidentiality agreement with PhotoWorks in
connection with such Person’s consideration of a Takeover
Proposal (other than the parties hereto and their respective
advisors) return or destroy all non-public information provided
to that Person by or on behalf of PhotoWorks. PhotoWorks shall
promptly inform its agents and representatives of its
obligations under this Section 7.3(d).
(ii) PhotoWorks shall notify Parent promptly (and in any
event within 24 hours) upon receipt by it, its Subsidiaries
or any of their respective directors, officers, employees,
agents and representatives of (A) any Takeover Proposal or
indication by any Person that it is considering a Takeover
Proposal, (B) any request for non-public information
relating to PhotoWorks or any of its Subsidiaries other than
requests for information in the ordinary course of business and
unrelated to a Takeover Proposal or (iii) any inquiry or
request for discussions or negotiations regarding any Takeover
Proposal. PhotoWorks shall notify Parent promptly (and in any
event within 24 hours) with the identity of such Person and
a copy of such Takeover Proposal, indication, inquiry or request
(or, where no such copy is available, a description of such
Takeover Proposal, indication, inquiry or request), including
any modifications thereto. PhotoWorks shall keep Parent
reasonably informed on a current basis (and in any event within
24 hours of the occurrence of any changes, developments,
discussions or negotiations) of the status of any such Takeover
Proposal, indication, inquiry or request (including the material
terms and conditions thereof and of any modification thereto),
and any material developments, discussions and negotiations,
including furnishing copies of any written inquiries,
correspondence and draft documentation, and written summaries of
any material oral inquiries or discussions. Without limiting the
foregoing, PhotoWorks shall promptly (and in any event within
24 hours) notify Parent orally and in writing if
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it determines to begin providing information or to engage in
discussions or negotiations concerning a Takeover Proposal
pursuant to Section 7.3(d)(iii). PhotoWorks shall not, and
shall cause its Subsidiaries not to, enter into any
confidentiality agreement with any Person subsequent to the date
of this Agreement, and neither PhotoWorks nor any of its
Subsidiaries is party to any agreement, which prohibits
PhotoWorks from providing such information to Parent. PhotoWorks
shall not, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries not to,
terminate, waive, amend or modify any provision of any existing
standstill or confidentiality agreement to which it or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party, and PhotoWorks shall, and shall
cause its Subsidiaries to, enforce the provisions of any such
agreement.
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if PhotoWorks has
otherwise complied with its obligations under this
Section 7.3(d), at any time prior to the Acceptance Time:
(A) PhotoWorks may engage in discussions or negotiations
with a Person who has made a written Takeover Proposal not
solicited in violation of this Section 7.3(d) if, prior to
taking such action, (1) PhotoWorks enters into a
confidentiality and standstill agreement (an “Acceptable
Confidentiality Agreement”) that contains confidentiality
and standstill provisions that are no less favorable in the
aggregate to PhotoWorks than those contained in the
confidentiality agreement between Parent and PhotoWorks, dated
August 14, 2007 with such Person and (2) the Board of
Directors of PhotoWorks determines in good faith (x) after
receiving advice from its financial advisors and outside legal
counsel, that such Takeover Proposal constitutes, or is
reasonably likely to result in, a Superior Proposal and
(y) after receiving advice of its outside legal counsel,
that such action is necessary to comply with its fiduciary
obligations to the PhotoWorks Shareholders under Applicable Laws;
(B) PhotoWorks may furnish or disclose any non-public
information relating to PhotoWorks or any of its Subsidiaries to
a Person who has made a written Takeover Proposal not solicited
in violation of this Section 7.3(d) if, prior to taking
such action, the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks determines in
good faith (1) after receiving advice from its financial
advisors and outside legal counsel, that such Takeover Proposal
constitutes, or is reasonably likely to result in, a Superior
Proposal and (2) after receiving advice from its outside
legal counsel, that such action is necessary to comply with its
fiduciary obligations to the PhotoWorks Shareholders under
Applicable Laws, but only so long as PhotoWorks (x) has
caused such Person to enter into an Acceptable Confidentiality
Agreement and (y) concurrently discloses such non-public
information to Parent if such non-public information has not
previously been disclosed to Parent;
(C) The Board of Directors of PhotoWorks may withdraw,
modify or amend the PhotoWorks Board Recommendation in a manner
adverse to Parent if the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks has
determined in good faith, after receiving a written opinion from
its outside legal counsel, that such action is necessary to
comply with its fiduciary obligations to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders under Applicable Laws; provided, that prior to any
such withdrawal, modification or amendment to the PhotoWorks
Board Recommendation, (1) PhotoWorks shall have given
Parent prompt written notice advising Parent of (x) the
decision of the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks to take such
action and (y) in the event the decision relates to a
Takeover Proposal, the material terms and conditions of the
Takeover Proposal, including the identity of the party making
such Takeover Proposal and, if available, a copy of the relevant
proposed transaction agreements with such party and other
material documents, (2) PhotoWorks shall have given Parent
five Business Days after delivery of each such notice to propose
revisions to the terms of this Agreement (or make another
proposal) and shall have negotiated in good faith with Parent
with respect to such proposed revisions or other proposal, if
any, and (3) the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks shall
have determined in good faith, after considering the results of
such negotiations and giving effect to the proposals made by
Parent, if any, and after receiving a written opinion from its
outside legal counsel, that such withdrawal, modification or
amendment of the PhotoWorks Board Recommendation is required to
comply with its fiduciary obligations to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders under Applicable Laws; provided, that, in the event
the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks does not make the
determination referred to in clause (3) of this paragraph
but thereafter determines to withdraw, modify or amend the
PhotoWorks Board Recommendation pursuant to this Section
7.3(d)(iii)(C), the procedures referred to in clauses (1),
(2) and (3) above shall apply anew and shall also
apply to any subsequent withdrawal, amendment or
modification; and
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(D) if the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks determines in
good faith after receiving a written opinion from its financial
advisors and outside legal counsel, in response to a bona fide
written Takeover Proposal that was unsolicited (or that was
solicited in accordance with Section 7.3(d)(iii)(A)) and
that did not otherwise result from a breach of this
Section 7.3(d) in any material respect, that such Takeover
Proposal constitutes a Superior Proposal, (1) PhotoWorks
may terminate this Agreement, (2) the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks may approve or recommend such Superior Proposal to
the PhotoWorks Shareholders,
and/or
(3) immediately prior to or concurrently with the
termination of this Agreement, enter into any letter of intent,
understanding, agreement in principle,
merger agreement,
acquisition agreement, option agreement or other similar
agreement with respect to such Superior Proposal; provided,
however, that PhotoWorks shall not terminate this Agreement or
approve or recommend such Superior Proposal pursuant to this
Section 7.3(d)(iii)(D), and any purported termination or
approval pursuant to this Section 7.3(d)(iii)(D) shall be
void and of no force or effect, unless PhotoWorks prior to or
concurrently with such action pursuant to this
Section 7.3(d)(iii)(D) pays to Parent the Termination Fee;
and provided, further, however, that PhotoWorks shall not
exercise its right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this
Section 7.3(d)(iii)(D) and the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks may not approve or recommend any Superior Proposal
unless (I) PhotoWorks has provided a written notice to
Parent (a “Notice of Superior Proposal”) advising
Parent that PhotoWorks has received a Superior Proposal and
including all information required by
Section 7.3(d)(iii)(C)(1)(y) and (II) Parent does not,
within five Business Days following its receipt of the Notice of
Superior Proposal, make an offer that, as determined by the
Board of Directors of PhotoWorks in good faith after receiving a
written opinion from its financial advisors and outside legal
counsel, results in the applicable Takeover Proposal no longer
being a Superior Proposal (provided that, during such five
Business Day period, PhotoWorks shall negotiate in good faith
with Parent, to the extent Parent wishes to negotiate, to enable
Parent to make such offer).
(iv) Section 7.3(d)(iii) shall not prohibit the Board
of Directors of PhotoWorks from disclosing to the PhotoWorks
Shareholders a position contemplated by
Rule 14e-2(a)
and
Rule 14d-9
promulgated under the Exchange Act (other than any disclosure
prohibited by Section 7.3(d)(ii)); provided, however, that any
disclosure other than a “stop, look and listen” or
similar communication of the type contemplated by
Rule 14d-9(f)
under the Exchange Act shall be deemed to be a withdrawal,
modification or amendment of the PhotoWorks Board Recommendation
in a manner adverse to Parent unless the Board of Directors of
PhotoWorks (A) expressly reaffirms its recommendation to
the PhotoWorks Shareholders in favor of adoption of this
Agreement, or (B) rejects such other Takeover Proposal.
(e) PhotoWorks 401(k) Plan. If requested
by Parent in writing prior to the Acceptance Date, the Board of
Directors of PhotoWorks shall terminate the PhotoWorks 401(k)
Plan effective as of one Business Day before the Acceptance Date.
(f) Access; Confidentiality. Subject to
Applicable Law, PhotoWorks will provide and will cause the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries and its and their respective directors,
officers, employees, consultants, accountants, legal counsel,
investment bankers, agents and other representatives to provide
Parent and its directors, officers, employees, consultants,
accountants, legal counsel, investment bankers, agents and other
representatives, during normal business hours and upon
reasonable advance notice (i) such access to the officers,
management employees, offices, properties, books and records of
PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries (so long as such
access does not unreasonably interfere with their operations) as
Parent reasonably may request and (ii) all documents that
Parent reasonably may request. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Parent shall not have access to any books, records and other
information the disclosure of which would, in PhotoWorks’s
good faith opinion after receiving a writing legal opinion from
legal counsel, result in the loss of attorney-client privilege
or would violate the terms of a confidentiality agreement,
provision or like obligation (provided, that PhotoWorks shall
use all reasonable efforts to obtain a waiver therefrom for the
benefit of Parent) with respect to such books, records and other
information. The parties will make appropriate substitute
arrangements under circumstances in which the restrictions of
the preceding sentence apply.
(g) Notification of Certain
Matters. PhotoWorks shall give prompt notice to
Parent of (i) the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event
the occurrence or non-occurrence of which would cause any
PhotoWorks representation or warranty contained in this
Agreement to be materially untrue or inaccurate at or prior to
the
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Effective Time and (ii) any material failure of PhotoWorks
to comply with or satisfy any covenant, condition or agreement
to be complied with or satisfied by it hereunder; provided,
however, that the delivery of any notice pursuant to this
Section 7.3(g) shall not limit or otherwise affect the
rights or remedies available hereunder to Parent; and provided,
further, that any such notice shall not be deemed to have
qualified or modified the representations or warranties
contained in Article VI for the purposes of determining
whether the conditions specified in Article VIII or
Annex A have been satisfied.
(h) Resignations. To the extent requested
by Parent in writing prior to Closing Date, on the Closing Date,
PhotoWorks shall cause to be delivered to Parent duly signed
resignations, effective as of the Effective Time, of the
officers and directors of the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries designated
by Parent and shall take such other action as is necessary to
accomplish the foregoing.
(i) Shareholder Litigation. PhotoWorks
shall give Parent the opportunity to participate in the defense
or settlement of any shareholder litigation against PhotoWorks
and/or its
directors relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and
no such litigation shall be settled without Parent’s prior
written consent (which consent will not be unreasonably
withheld, delayed or conditioned).
(j) Injunctive Relief. PhotoWorks
acknowledges and agrees that Parent’s and Subcorp’s
remedies at law for any violation or attempted violation of any
of PhotoWorks’s obligations under this Article VII
would be inadequate, and agree that in the event of any such
violation or attempted violation, Parent and Subcorp (or either
of them) shall be entitled to a temporary restraining order,
temporary and permanent injunctions, and other equitable relief,
without the necessity of posting any bond or proving any actual
damage, in addition to all other rights and remedies which may
be available to Parent and Subcorp from time to time.
ARTICLE VIII
CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT TO THE MERGER
8.1 Conditions to Each Party’s Obligation to
Effect the Merger. The respective obligations
of each party hereto to consummate the Merger shall be subject
to the satisfaction (or waiver by Parent, Subcorp and
PhotoWorks, if permissible under Applicable Law) on or prior to
the Closing Date of the following conditions:
(a) No Injunctions or Restraints. No
Applicable Law, temporary restraining order, preliminary or
permanent injunction, judgment or ruling enacted, promulgated,
issued or entered by any Governmental Authority (collectively,
“Restraints”) shall be in effect enjoining,
restraining, preventing or prohibiting consummation of the
Merger or making the consummation of the Merger illegal;
(b) PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval. The
PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval shall have been obtained, if and
to the extent required under Applicable Law;
(c) Purchase of PhotoWorks Common
Shares. Parent or Subcorp shall have accepted for
payment and paid for the PhotoWorks Common Shares pursuant to
the Offer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(d) No Governmental Action. No Action
shall be instituted by any Governmental Authority which seeks to
prevent consummation of the Merger or seeking material damages
in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby which
continues to be outstanding.
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION;
AMENDMENT; WAIVER
9.1 Termination by Mutual
Consent. This Agreement may be terminated,
whether before or after receipt of the PhotoWorks Shareholder
Approval, at any time prior to the Effective Time by mutual
written consent of Parent and the majority of those members of
the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks who were not appointed by
Parent pursuant to Section 2.3.
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9.2 Termination by Either Parent or
PhotoWorks. This Agreement may be terminated
by either Parent or PhotoWorks at any time prior to the
Effective Time:
(a) whether before or after receipt of the PhotoWorks
Shareholder Approval, if the Merger has not been consummated on
or prior to the six month anniversary of the date of this
Agreement, except that the right to terminate this Agreement
under this clause will not be available to any party to this
Agreement whose failure to fulfill any of its obligations under
this Agreement has been a principal cause of, or resulted in,
the failure to consummate the Merger by such date;
(b) if any Restraint prohibiting consummation of the Merger
becomes final and nonappealable; or
(c) if the Offer shall have expired or been terminated in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement without Parent or
Subcorp having accepted for purchase any PhotoWorks Common
Shares pursuant to the Offer, other than due to a breach of this
Agreement by the terminating party.
9.3 Termination by Parent. This
Agreement may be terminated by Parent at any time prior to the
Acceptance Time:
(a) if (i) the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks
withdraws, modifies or amends the PhotoWorks Board
Recommendation in any manner adverse to Parent, (ii) the
Board of Directors of PhotoWorks approves, endorses or
recommends any Takeover Proposal other than the Merger,
(iii) the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks fails publicly
to reaffirm its adoption and recommendation of this Agreement,
the Offer, the Merger or the other transactions contemplated by
this Agreement within ten Business Days of receipt of a written
request by Parent to provide such reaffirmation following a
Takeover Proposal, or (iv) PhotoWorks or the Board of
Directors of PhotoWorks resolves or announces its intention to
do any of the foregoing, in any case whether or not permitted by
Section 7.3(d);
(b) if PhotoWorks (i) materially breaches its
obligations under Sections 7.3(a)(i), (iii) or
(iv) or 7.3(d), or the Board of Directors of PhotoWorks or
any committee thereof shall resolve to do any of the foregoing
or (ii) (A) materially breaches its obligations under
Section 7.3(a)(ii) and (B) such breach is not cured
within 10 Business Days after PhotoWorks’s receipt of
written notice asserting such breach or failure from
Parent; or
(c) if a breach or failure of any representation, warranty
or covenant of PhotoWorks contained in this Agreement shall have
occurred, which breach (i) would give rise to the failure
of a condition set forth in clause (c) or (d) of
Annex A and (ii) has not been cured, or is incapable
of being cured, by PhotoWorks within 20 Business Days after
PhotoWorks’s receipt of written notice of such breach or
failure from Parent.
9.4 Termination by
PhotoWorks. This Agreement may be terminated
by PhotoWorks at any time prior to the Acceptance Time:
(a) if a breach or failure of any representation, warranty
or covenant of Parent or Subcorp contained in this Agreement
shall have occurred, which breach or failure to perform
(i) would result in (A) any representation or warranty
of Parent and Subcorp contained in this Agreement not being true
and correct (without giving effect to any qualifications or
limitations as to materiality or Parent Material Adverse Effect
set forth therein) except, in the case of this clause (A), to
the extent that the facts or matters as to which such
representation or warranty is not so true and correct,
individually or in the aggregate, have not had and could not
reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect
or (B) a failure by Parent or Subcorp to perform in all
material respects its agreements, covenants and obligations
required to be performed by it under this Agreement at or prior
to such time and (ii) has not been cured, or is incapable
of being cured, by Parent or Subcorp within 20 Business Days
after Parent’s receipt of written notice of such breach or
failure from PhotoWorks; or
(b) if PhotoWorks enters into an agreement with respect to
a Superior Proposal in compliance with the provisions of
Section 7.3(d)(iii)(D) and prior to or concurrently with
such termination PhotoWorks pays the Termination Fee to Parent
in accordance with Section 9.6.
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9.5 Effect of Termination. If this
Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Article IX, it
will become void and of no further force and effect, with no
liability on the part of any party to this Agreement (or any
shareholder, director, officer, employee, agent or
Representative of such party); provided, that nothing in
this Section 9.5 (including termination) shall relieve any
party to this Agreement of liability for willful breach. The
provisions of Section 7.1(c), this Section 9.5,
Section 9.6 and Article X, and any applicable
definitions in Article I, will survive any termination of
this Agreement.
9.6 Fees and
Expenses. (a) PhotoWorks will pay to
Parent, or cause to be paid, an amount equal to $1,000,000 (the
“Termination Fee”), net of any Parent Expenses
previously paid by PhotoWorks pursuant to Section 9.6(b):
(i) if this Agreement is terminated by Parent pursuant to
Section 9.3(a) or Section 9.3(b), in which event payment
will be made within two Business Days after such termination;
(ii) if this Agreement is terminated by PhotoWorks pursuant
to Section 9.4(b), in which event payment will be made
prior to or concurrently with the time of termination; or
(iii) if (A) a Takeover Proposal (or the intention of
any Person to make one), whether or not conditional, shall have
been made known to or proposed to PhotoWorks or otherwise
publicly announced or disclosed prior to the receipt of the
PhotoWorks Shareholder Approval, (B) this Agreement is
terminated by either Parent or PhotoWorks pursuant to
Section 9.2(a) or Section 9.2(b) or by Parent pursuant
to Section 9.3(c), and (C) within 12 months
following the date of such termination, PhotoWorks enters into a
contract, agreement, letter of intent or other understanding or
arrangement providing for the implementation of any Takeover
Proposal or consummates any Takeover Proposal (whether or not
such Takeover Proposal was the same Takeover Proposal referred
to in the foregoing clause (A)), in which event payment will be
made on or prior to the date on which PhotoWorks enters into
such contract, agreement, letter of intent or other
understanding or arrangement or consummates such Takeover
Proposal, as applicable. For purposes of the foregoing
clause (C) only, references in the definition of the term
“Takeover Proposal” to the figure “15%” will
be deemed to be replaced by the figure “50%.”
(b) In the event that this Agreement is terminated by
Parent under the provisions referred to in clause (B) of
Section 9.6(a)(iii) (or could have been terminated under
such section) and the circumstances referred to in
clause (A) of Section 9.6(a)(iii) shall have occurred
prior to such termination but the Termination Fee (or any
portion thereof) has not been paid and is not payable because
the circumstances referred to in clause (C) of
Section 9.6(a)(iii) shall not have occurred, then
PhotoWorks shall pay, to an account or accounts designated by
Parent, as promptly as possible (but in any event within two
Business Days) following receipt of an invoice therefor all of
Parent’s and Subcorp’s actual and reasonably
documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including legal fees
and expenses) actually incurred by Parent or Subcorp and their
Affiliates on or prior to the termination of this Agreement in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
(“Parent Expenses”), which amount shall not be greater
than $400,000; provided that the existence of circumstances
which could require the Termination Fee to become subsequently
payable by PhotoWorks pursuant to Section 9.6(a)(iii) shall
not relieve PhotoWorks of its obligations to pay the Parent
Expenses pursuant to this Section 9.6(b); and provided,
further, that the payment by PhotoWorks of Parent Expenses
pursuant to this Section 9.6(b) shall not relieve
PhotoWorks of any subsequent obligation to pay the Termination
Fee pursuant to Section 9.6(a)(iii).
(c) In the event that this Agreement is terminated by
PhotoWorks pursuant to Section 9.4(a), Parent shall pay, to
an account or accounts designated by PhotoWorks, as promptly as
possible (but in any event within two Business Days) following
receipt of an invoice therefor all of PhotoWorks actual and
reasonably documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including
legal fees and expenses) actually incurred by PhotoWorks on or
prior to the termination of this Agreement in connection with
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, which amount
shall not be greater than $250,000.
(d) The parties hereto acknowledge that the agreements
contained in this Section 9.6 are an integral part of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, that without these
agreements the parties hereto would not have entered into this
Agreement, and that any amounts payable pursuant to this
Section 9.6 do not constitute a penalty. If a party hereto
fails to pay another party any amounts due to the other party
pursuant to this Section 9.6
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within the time periods specified in this Section 9.6, the
failing party shall pay the costs and expenses (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred by the other party
in connection with any action, including the filing of any
lawsuit, taken to collect payment of such amounts, together with
interest on such unpaid amounts at the prime lending rate
prevailing during such period as published in The Wall Street
Journal, calculated on a daily basis from the date such
amounts were required to be paid until the date of actual
payment.
(e) Any amount that becomes payable pursuant to
Section 9.6(a) or 9.6(b) shall be paid by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to an account or accounts designated
by the party entitled to receive such payment. The parties
hereto agree and understand that in no event shall PhotoWorks be
required to pay the Termination Fee on more than one occasion.
(f) Except as set forth in this Section 9.6, all fees
and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby will be paid in accordance with
the provisions of Section 10.11.
9.7 Amendment. This Agreement may
be amended by the parties to this Agreement at any time prior to
the Effective Time, whether before or after shareholder approval
hereof, so long as (a) no amendment that requires further
shareholder approval under Applicable Laws after shareholder
approval hereof will be made without such required further
approval and (b) such amendment has been duly authorized or
approved by each of Parent and PhotoWorks. This Agreement may
not be amended except by an instrument in writing signed by each
of the parties to this Agreement.
9.8 Extension; Waiver. At any time
prior to the Effective Time, Parent, on the one hand, and
PhotoWorks, on the other hand, may (a) extend the time for
the performance of any of the obligations of the other party,
(b) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and
warranties of the other party contained in this Agreement or in
any document delivered under this Agreement, or (c) unless
prohibited by Applicable Laws, waive compliance with any of the
covenants or conditions contained in this Agreement. Any
agreement on the part of a party to any extension or waiver will
be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by
such party. The failure of any party to assert any of its rights
under this Agreement or otherwise will not constitute a waiver
of such rights.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 No Survival of Representations and
Warranties. The representations, warranties
and agreements in this Agreement shall terminate at the
Effective Time or, except as otherwise provided in
Section 9.5, upon the termination of this Agreement
pursuant to Article IX, as the case may be; provided that
the agreements set forth in Article III and
Section 7.2(b) and any other agreement in this Agreement
which contemplates performance after the Effective Time shall
survive the Effective Time in accordance with their terms and
those set forth in Sections 9.5, 9.6 and this
Article X shall survive termination indefinitely.
10.2 Notices. All notices and
other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given if delivered personally, faxed (which is confirmed)
or dispatched by a nationally recognized overnight courier
service to the parties at the following addresses (or at such
other address for a party as shall be specified by like notice):
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Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx
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Fax No:
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Attn: Chief Executive Officer
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and
American Greetings Corporation
Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx
00000-0000
Fax No:
(000) 000-0000
Attn: General Counsel
with a copy to:
Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx LLP
3200 National City Center
0000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxx
00000-0000
Attn: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Fax No:
(000) 000-0000
PhotoWorks, Inc.
00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxx
Fax No.:
(000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx LLP
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Fax No.:
(000) 000-0000
10.3 Interpretation. When a
reference is made in this Agreement to an Article or Section,
such reference shall be to an Article or Section of this
Agreement unless otherwise indicated. The headings and the table
of contents contained in this Agreement are for reference
purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or
interpretation of this Agreement. Whenever the words
“include,” “includes,” or
“including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be
deemed to be followed by the words “without
limitation.” Whenever the context requires, words used in
the singular shall be construed to mean or include the plural
and vice versa, and pronouns of any gender shall be deemed to
include and designate the masculine, feminine or neuter gender.
10.4 Counterparts. This Agreement
may be executed in counterparts, which together shall constitute
one and the same Agreement. The parties may execute more than
one copy of the Agreement, each of which shall constitute an
original.
10.5 Entire Agreement. This
Agreement (including the documents and the instruments referred
to herein and the annexes hereto) constitutes the entire
agreement among the parties and supersede all prior agreements
and understandings, agreements or representations by or among
the parties, written and oral, with respect to the subject
matter hereof and thereof.
10.6 Third Party
Beneficiaries. Except for the agreements set
forth in Section 7.2(b), nothing in this Agreement, express
or implied, is intended or shall be construed to create any
third party beneficiaries.
10.7
Governing Law. Except to the
extent that the laws of the jurisdiction of organization of any
party hereto, or any other jurisdiction, are mandatorily
applicable to the Merger or to matters arising under or in
connection with this Agreement, this Agreement shall be governed
by the laws of the State of
Ohio. All actions and proceedings
arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be heard and
determined in any
Ohio state or federal court sitting in the
City of Cleveland.
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10.8 Consent to Jurisdiction;
Venue.
(a) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably submits to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the state courts of
Ohio and to the
jurisdiction of the United States District Court for District of
Ohio, for the purpose of any action or proceeding arising out of
or relating to this Agreement and each of the parties hereto
irrevocably agrees that all claims in respect to such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined exclusively in any
Ohio
state or federal court sitting in the City of Cleveland,
Ohio.
Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any
action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in
other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other
manner provided by law.
(b) Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to the
service of any summons and complaint and any other process in
any other action or proceeding relating to the Merger, on behalf
of itself or its property, by the personal delivery of copies of
such process to such party. Nothing in this Section 10.8
shall affect the right of any party hereto to serve legal
process in any other manner permitted by law.
10.9 Specific Performance. The
transactions contemplated by this Agreement are unique.
Accordingly, each of the parties acknowledges and agrees that,
in addition to all other remedies to which it may be entitled,
each of the parties hereto is entitled to a decree of specific
performance, provided such party is not in material default
hereunder.
10.10 Assignment. Neither this
Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations
hereunder shall be assigned by any of the parties hereto
(whether by operation of law or otherwise) without the prior
written consent of the other parties. Subject to the preceding
sentence, this Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the
benefit of and be enforceable by the parties and their
respective successors and assigns.
10.11 Expenses. Subject to the
provisions of Section 9.6, all costs and expenses incurred
in connection with this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby shall be paid by the party incurring such
expenses; provided that the fees and expenses of printing and
mailing the Tender Offer Documents and all filing and other fees
paid to the SEC in connection with the Offer and the Merger
shall be borne equally by Parent and PhotoWorks.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Parent, Subcorp and PhotoWorks have signed
this Agreement as of the date first written above.
XX.XXX, INC.
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
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PHOTO MERGER CORP.
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
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ANNEX A
Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Offer, neither
Parent nor Subcorp shall be required to accept for payment or,
subject to any applicable rules and regulations of the SEC,
including
Rule 14e-1(c)
under the Exchange Act, pay for any tendered PhotoWorks Common
Shares, if (i) there shall not be validly tendered and not
properly withdrawn prior to the Expiration Date that number of
PhotoWorks Common Shares that represents at least two-thirds of
the total number of outstanding PhotoWorks Common Shares on a
fully diluted basis (which assumes conversion or exercise of all
derivative securities of PhotoWorks, regardless of the
conversion or exercise price, the vesting schedule or other
terms and conditions thereof, but excluding Warrants with
respect to which a valid Warrant Cash Out Agreement has been
executed and delivered to PhotoWorks) on the Expiration Date
(such number of shares, the “Minimum
Condition”) and (ii) at any time on or after the
date of the Agreement and prior to the Acceptance Time, any of
the following events shall occur and continue to exist:
(a) Any temporary, preliminary or permanent Restraint which
prevents the consummation of the Merger or imposes a Materially
Burdensome Condition shall have been issued and remain in effect.
(b) Any Action shall have been instituted by any
Governmental Authority which seeks to prevent or restrain the
purchase of PhotoWorks Common Shares pursuant to the Offer or
the consummation of the Offer or imposes a Material Burdensome
Condition.
(c) Any representation and warranty of PhotoWorks set forth
in Article VI of the Agreement shall not be true and
correct in all respects, both at and as of the date of the
Agreement and as of the date of determination, as if made at and
as of such time (except to the extent expressly made as of an
earlier date, in which case as of such date).
(d) PhotoWorks shall have failed to perform in all material
respects any obligation or agreement, or shall have failed to
comply in all material respects with any covenant, to be
performed and complied with by it hereunder at or prior to the
date of determination.
(e) Any PhotoWorks Material Adverse Effect shall have
occurred and be continuing.
(f) PhotoWorks shall have failed to furnish Parent with a
certificate dated as of the date of determination signed on its
behalf by its Chairman, President or any Vice President to the
effect that the conditions set forth in items (c), (d) and
(e) of this Annex A shall have not occurred and
continue to exist.
(g) PhotoWorks shall have failed to furnish Parent with the
legal opinion of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx LLP, dated as of the date of
determination, substantially in the form of Exhibit A to
this Annex A.
(h) There shall have been an attempted withdrawal,
rescission or any other material breach of any obligation by any
PhotoWorks Shareholder who has entered into a Tender Agreement.
(i) PhotoWorks shall have failed to receive all material
customer, vendor, lessee, licensee, licensor and other third
party consents and approvals required because of the Agreement
or the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.
(j) Warrants to purchase at least 95% of the PhotoWorks
Common Shares that are issuable upon the exercise of all
Warrants outstanding on the date of the Agreement which do not
expire by their terms on or before the Effective Time shall have
failed to have been (i) exercised in full or (ii) duly
surrendered pursuant to a valid and effective Warrant Cash Out
Agreement, in each case effective as of or prior to the date of
determination.
(k) There shall have occurred and be continuing
(i) any general suspension of trading in securities on
national securities exchanges (other than as a result of market
circuit-breakers or other similar procedures); (ii) the
declaration of a banking moratorium or any suspension of
payments in respect of banks in the United States of America; or
(iii) any suspension by a Governmental Authority on the
extension of credit by banks or other financial institutions in
the United States of America.
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The foregoing conditions are for the sole benefit of Parent and
Subcorp, may be asserted by Parent or Subcorp regardless of the
circumstances giving rise to any such conditions and, except for
the Minimum Condition, may be waived by Parent or Subcorp in
whole or in part at any time and from time to time, subject to
the terms of the Agreement. The failure by Parent or Subcorp at
any time to exercise any of the foregoing rights shall not be
deemed a waiver of any such right and each such right shall be
deemed an ongoing right which may be asserted at any time and
from time to time.
The capitalized terms used in this Annex A shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement to which it
is annexed. For purposes of this Annex A,
“Materially Burdensome Condition” shall mean the
obligation, acceptance or undertaking of Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates to enter into any consent decree, to
make any divestiture or accept any operational restriction, or
take or commit to take any action (i) the effectiveness or
consummation of which is not conditional on the consummation of
the Offer and the Merger or (ii) that individually or in
the aggregate is or would reasonably be expected to be
materially adverse (with materiality, for purposes of this
provision, being measured in relation to the size of PhotoWorks
and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries taken as a whole) to
(A) PhotoWorks and the PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, or Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, either
before or after giving effect to the Offer or the Merger, or
(B) Parent’s ownership or operation of any material
portion of the business or assets of PhotoWorks and the
PhotoWorks Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
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