AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER AMONG WALGREEN CO., PUTTER ACQUISITION SUB, INC. AND I-TRAX, INC. Dated as of March 14, 2008
Exhibit
2.1
AGREEMENT
AND PLAN OF MERGER
AMONG
WALGREEN
CO.,
PUTTER
ACQUISITION SUB, INC.
AND
I-TRAX,
INC.
Dated as
of March 14, 2008
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ii
iii
TABLE
OF DEFINED TERMS
Terms
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Section
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2007
Annual Report
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3.7
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Acceptance
Time
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1.1(i)(i)
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Acquisition
Proposal
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6.1(h)
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Acquisition
Sub
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Preamble
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Action
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3.13
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Adverse
Recommendation Change
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6.1(d)
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Affiliated
PCs
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3.20(a)
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Affiliate
Transaction
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3.12(d)
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Agreement
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Preamble
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Alternative
Acquisition Agreement
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6.1(d)
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Arrangements
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3.15(j)
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Balance
Sheet
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3.7
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BISHCA
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3.18(b)(iv)
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Bonus
Agreements
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6.7(b)
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Business
Day
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1.3
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Buyer
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Preamble
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Buyer
Designees
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1.1(i)(i)
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Buyer
Employee Plan
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6.7(a)
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Buyer
Expenses
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8.3(d)
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Buyer
Material Adverse Effect
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4.1
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Cancelled
Shares
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2.1(b)
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Certificate
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2.2(b)
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Certificate
of Merger
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1.4
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CLIA
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3.16
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Closing
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1.3
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Closing
Date
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1.3
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Code
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3.9(c)
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Common
Merger Consideration
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2.1(c)
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Common
Offer
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RECITALS
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Common
Offer Price
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RECITALS
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Company
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Preamble
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Company
Board
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RECITALS
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Company
Capital Stock
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2.1(c)
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Company
Common Stock
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RECITALS
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Company
Disclosure Letter
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Article
III
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Company
Employee Plans
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3.15(a)
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Company
Expenses
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8.3(e)
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Company
Intellectual Property
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3.11(d)
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Company
Leases
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3.10(b)
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Company
Material Adverse Effect
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3.1(c)
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Company
Material Contract
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3.12(b)
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Company
Payment Programs
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3.21(c)
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Company
Permits
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3.16
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iv
Terms
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Section
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Company
SEC Reports
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3.6(a)
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Company
Stock Option
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2.3(b)
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Company
Stock Plan
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2.3(c)
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Company
Voting Proposal
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1.8(a)
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Company
Warrants
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2.3(a)
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Confidentiality
Agreement
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5.2
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Continuing
Director
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1.1(i)(ii)
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Continuing
Employees
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6.7
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Covered
Securityholders
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3.15(j)
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DGCL
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RECITALS
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Dividend
Amount
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2.1(c)
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Dissenting
Shares
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2.4(a)
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Effective
Time
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1.4
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Employee
Benefit Plan
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3.15(a)
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Employment
Agreement
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3.15(a)
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Environmental
and Safety Requirement
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3.14(i)
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ERISA
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3.15(a)
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ERISA
Affiliate
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3.15(a)
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Exchange
Act
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1.1(a)
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Exchange
Fund
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2.2(a)
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Expiration
Date
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1.1(b)
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GAAP
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3.1(c)
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Governmental
Authority
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3.4
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Governmental
Programs
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3.21(a)
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Green
Hills Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group
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3.18(b)(ii)
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HSR
Act
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3.4
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Indemnified
Parties
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6.5(a)
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Intellectual
Property
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3.11(a)
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Interim
Period
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5.1
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Joint
Venture
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3.1(c)
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Knowledge
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9.12
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Law
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1.1(c)
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Leased
Real Property
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3.10(b)
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Letter
of Transmittal
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1.1(f)
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Liens
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3.5
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Material
Employment Agreement
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3.15(a)
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LRRA
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3.18(b)(iii)
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Maximum
Premium
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6.5(b)
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Merger
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RECITALS
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Merger
Consideration
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2.1(c)
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Minimum
Condition
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ANNEX
A
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Non
U.S. Company Employee Plan
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3.15(k)
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Notice
Period
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6.1(e)
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Offers
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RECITALS
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Offer
Documents
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1.1(f)
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v
Terms
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Section
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Offer
Prices
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RECITALS
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Offer
to Purchase
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1.1(f)
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Outside
Date
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8.1(b)(i)
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Paying
Agent
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2.2(a)
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Permitted
Liens
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3.11(c)
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Person
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2.2(b)
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Preferred
Merger Consideration
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2.1(c)
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Preferred
Offer
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RECITALS
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Preferred
Offer Price
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RECITALS
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Preferred
Stock
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3.2(a)
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Private
Programs
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3.21(c)
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Proxy
Statement
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1.9
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Qualified
Shareholder
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3.20(b)
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Recommendation
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1.1(h)(i)
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Reporting
Tail Endorsement
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6.5(b)
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Representatives
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6.1(a)
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Requisite
Stockholder Vote
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3.3(a)
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Restraints
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7.1(b)
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Retention
Plan
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6.7(b)
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Reverse
Termination Fee
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8.3(c)
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Rule
14f-1
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1.1(i)(ii)
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Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act
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3.6(a)
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Schedule
14D-9
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1.1(h)(ii)
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Schedule
TO
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1.1(f)
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SEC
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1.1(b)
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Section
14(f)
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1.1(i)(ii)
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Shares
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RECITALS
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Stockholders’
Meeting
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1.8(a)
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Subsidiary
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3.20(a)
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Superior
Proposal
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6.1(i)
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Surviving
Corporation
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1.2
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Surviving
Corporation Stock
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2.1(a)
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Takeover
Laws
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1.1(h)(i)(E)
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Tax
Return
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3.9(g)
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Taxes
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3.9(f)
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Taxing
Authority
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3.9(h)
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Termination
Fee
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8.3(b)
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Third-Party
Intellectual Property
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3.11(d)
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Top-Up
Option
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1.1(g)(i)
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Trigger
Event
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8.3(b)
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Voting
Debt
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3.2(a)
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Additional
Transaction
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6.10
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vi
AGREEMENT
AND PLAN OF MERGER
This
Agreement and Plan of Merger (this “Agreement”) is dated
as of March 14, 2008, among Walgreen Co., an Illinois corporation (the “Buyer”), Putter
Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of
the Buyer (“Acquisition Sub”),
and I-trax, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS,
the respective Boards of Directors of the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub and the
Company have approved the acquisition of the Company on the terms and subject to
the conditions set forth in this Agreement.
WHEREAS,
in furtherance of such acquisition, the Acquisition Sub will (i) make a cash
tender offer (as it may be amended from time to time as permitted under this
Agreement, the “Common
Offer”) to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of common
stock, par value $0.001 per share of the Company (the “Company Common
Stock”), at a price of $5.40 per share, net to the sellers in cash,
without interest thereon (such amount, or any different amount per share that
may be paid pursuant to the Offer in accordance with the terms hereof, being
hereinafter referred to as the “Common Offer Price”)
and (ii) make a cash tender offer (as it may be amended from time to time as
permitted under this Agreement, the “Preferred Offer” and,
together with the Common Offer, the “Offers”) to purchase
all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share of the Company (the “Preferred Stock” and,
together with the Company Common Stock, the “Shares”), at a price
per share equal to $54.00 plus the Dividend Amount, net to the sellers in cash,
without interest thereon (such amount, or any different amount per share of
Preferred Stock that may be paid pursuant to the Preferred Offer in accordance
with the terms hereof, being hereinafter referred to as the “Preferred Offer
Price” and, together with the Common Offer Price, the “Offer Prices”), on
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this
Agreement.
WHEREAS,
to effectuate the acquisition of the Company, following consummation of the
Offers, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement,
the Acquisition Sub will be merged with and into the Company, with the Company
continuing as the surviving corporation in such merger (the “Merger”).
WHEREAS,
the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Company Board”) has
(i) determined that the Offers, the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement are fair to, and in the best interest of, the
Company and its stockholders; (ii) approved this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby, including the Offers and the Merger, in accordance with the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”); (iii)
declared the advisability of this Agreement; and (iv) resolved to recommend that
the holders of the Shares tender their Shares in the Offers and adopt this
Agreement.
WHEREAS,
Buyer, Acquisition Sub and the Company desire to make certain representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements in connection with the Offers and the
Merger and to prescribe certain conditions to the Offers and the
Merger.
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NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, and the representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and for other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound, the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub
and the Company agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
THE
OFFERS AND THE MERGER
Section 1.1 The Offers.
(a) Commencement of the
Offers. On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
in this Agreement, as promptly as practicable, but in any event within ten (10)
Business Days after the date of this Agreement, the Buyer shall cause the
Acquisition Sub to commence (within the meaning of Rule 14d-2 under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (and including the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Exchange Act”)) the
Offers to purchase any and all outstanding Shares at a price per Share equal to
the applicable Offer Price (as adjusted as provided in Section 1.1(e)
hereof, if applicable).
(b) Expiration and Extension of
the Offers; Subsequent Offering Period. The initial expiration
date of the Offers shall be the twentieth (20th)
Business Day after commencement of the Offers (determined in accordance with
Rule 14d-1(g)(3) under the Exchange Act) (such date, or such subsequent date to
which the expiration of the Offers is extended pursuant to and in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement, the “Expiration
Date”). Without the prior written consent of the Company, the
Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall not extend or otherwise change the
Expiration Date except (i) as required by applicable Law (including for any
period required by any rule, regulation, interpretation or position of the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) or the staff
thereof), (ii) that if, prior to the scheduled Expiration Date (as it may be
extended), any condition to the Offers has not been satisfied or waived, the
Buyer and the Acquisition Sub may, in their sole discretion, extend the
Expiration Date for one or more periods not in excess of twenty (20) Business
Days each (for this purpose calculated in accordance with Rule 14d-1(g)(3)
promulgated under the Exchange Act)) but in no event beyond the Outside Date,
(iii) in connection with an increase in the consideration to be paid pursuant to
the Offers so as to comply with applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, or
(iv) that the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub may, in their sole discretion,
extend the Expiration Date for one or more periods of ten (10) Business Days
each if there shall not have been tendered a number of shares that constitutes
at least 90% of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock or Preferred
Stock, but in no event beyond the Outside Date. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub may elect to, without the consent
of the Company, and shall, if requested by the Company, provide a subsequent
offering period for the Offers in accordance with Rule 14d-11 of the Exchange
Act following their acceptance for payment of Shares in the Offers.
(c) Payment for
Shares. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement and the Offers, the Acquisition Sub shall accept for payment and pay
for all Shares validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Offers as
promptly as practicable after the applicable Expiration Date and in any event in
compliance with applicable statutes, common
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laws,
rules, ordinances, regulations, codes, licensing requirements, orders,
judgments, injunctions, writs, decrees, licenses, governmental guidelines or
interpretations having the force of law, permits, rules and bylaws, in each
case, of a Governmental Authority (“Law”). The
Offer Price payable in respect of each Share validly tendered and not withdrawn
pursuant to the Offers or during any subsequent offering period contemplated by
Section 1.1(b)
hereof shall be paid net to the holder thereof in cash, subject to reduction
only for any applicable federal back-up withholding or other Taxes payable by
such holder. To the extent any such amounts are so deducted or
withheld, such amounts shall be treated for all purposes under this Agreement as
having been paid to the Person to whom such amounts would otherwise have been
paid.
(d) Terms and Conditions of the
Offers. The obligation of Acquisition Sub to accept for
payment and to pay for any Shares tendered (and the obligation of the Buyer to
cause Acquisition Sub to accept for payment and to pay for any Shares tendered)
in the Offers and not withdrawn shall be subject only to the conditions set
forth in Annex A
hereto. The conditions to the Offers set forth in Annex A hereto
are for the sole benefit of the Buyer and Acquisition Sub and may be waived by
the Buyer and Acquisition Sub, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to
time, in their sole discretion, other than the Minimum Condition, which may be
waived by the Buyer and Acquisition Sub only with the prior written consent of
the Company. The Buyer and Acquisition Sub expressly reserve the
right to increase an Offer Price or to waive or make any other changes in the
terms and conditions of the Offers; provided, however, that unless
otherwise provided in this Agreement or previously approved by the Company in
writing, neither Buyer nor Acquisition Sub may make any change to the terms or
conditions of the Offers that (A) decreases an Offer Price, (B) changes the form
of consideration to be paid in the Offers, (C) reduces the number of Shares
sought to be purchased in the Offers, or (D) imposes conditions to the Offers in
addition to those set forth in Annex A
hereto.
(e) Adjustments to Offer
Prices. Each Offer Price shall be adjusted appropriately to
reflect the effect of any stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend
(including any dividend or distribution of securities convertible into Company
Common Stock), cash dividend, reorganization, recapitalization,
reclassification, combination, exchange of shares or other like change with
respect to Company Common Stock or Preferred Stock occurring on or after the
date hereof and prior to Acquisition Sub’s acceptance for payment of, and
payment for, Shares pursuant to the Offers.
(f) Schedule TO and Offer
Documents. On the date of commencement of the Offer, the Buyer
and the Acquisition Sub shall file with the SEC a tender offer statement on
Schedule TO (together with all amendments and supplements thereto, the “Schedule TO”) with
respect to the Offers. The Schedule TO shall contain an offer to
purchase (the “Offer
to Purchase”), a form of the related letters of transmittal (the “Letter of
Transmittal”), and ancillary documents and instruments pursuant to which
the Offers will be made (collectively, together with any supplements or
amendments thereto, the “Offer
Documents”). The Buyer and the Acquisition Sub agree that the
Offer Documents shall comply in all material respects with the requirements of
applicable U.S. Federal securities laws and, on the date first filed with the
SEC and on the date first published, sent or given to the Company’s
stockholders, 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
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warranty
is made by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub with respect to information supplied
by the Company or any of its stockholders for inclusion or incorporation by
reference in the Offer Documents. The Company hereby agrees that the
information provided by or on behalf of the Company in writing specifically for
inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Schedule TO or the Offer
Documents 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. The Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall cause
the Offer Documents to be disseminated to holders of Shares, as and to the
extent required by applicable U.S. federal securities laws. Each of
the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub and the Company shall promptly correct any
information provided by it for use in the Schedule TO or the Offer Documents if
and to the extent that such information shall have become false or misleading in
any material respect, and the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall take all steps
necessary to amend or supplement the Schedule TO and, as applicable, the Offer
Documents and to cause the Schedule TO as so amended and supplemented to be
filed with the SEC and the Offer Documents as so amended and supplemented to be
disseminated to holders of Shares, in each case as and to the extent required by
applicable U.S. federal securities laws. The Company and its counsel
shall be given reasonable opportunity to review and comment upon the Offer
Documents and any amendments thereto prior to the filing thereof with the SEC or
dissemination to the stockholders of the Company, and the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub shall give reasonable and good faith consideration to any
comments made by the Company and its counsel. The Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub shall (i) provide the Company and its counsel with a copy of any
written comments or telephonic notification of any oral comments the Buyer, the
Acquisition Sub or their counsel may receive from the SEC or its staff with
respect to the Offer promptly after the receipt thereof, (ii) consult in good
faith with the Company and its counsel prior to responding to any such comments,
and (iii) provide the Company and its counsel with a copy of any written
responses thereto and telephonic notification of any oral responses thereto of
the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub or their counsel.
(g) Top-Up
Option.
(i) Subject
to Section
1.1(g)(ii) and Section 1.1(g)(iii)
hereof, the Company grants to the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub an assignable
and irrevocable option (the “Top-Up Option”) to
purchase from the Company the number of newly-issued shares of Company Common
Stock equal to the lesser of (i) the number of shares of Company Common Stock
that, when added to the number of shares of Company Common Stock owned by the
Buyer or the Acquisition Sub at the time of exercise of the Top-Up Option,
constitutes more than 90% of the number of shares of Company Common Stock that
would be outstanding immediately after the issuance of all shares of Company
Common Stock subject to the Top-Up Option (determined on a “fully diluted basis”
(which assumes conversion or exercise of all derivative securities regardless of
the conversion or exercise price, the vesting schedule or other terms or
conditions thereof)) and (ii) the aggregate number of shares of Company Common
Stock that the Company is authorized to issue under its certificate of
incorporation but that are not issued and outstanding (and are not subscribed
for or otherwise committed to be issued) at the time of exercise of the Top-Up
Option.
(ii) The
Top-Up Option may be exercised by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub, in whole or
in part, at any time following the Acceptance Time, so long as the
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total
number of shares of Company Common Stock beneficially owned by the Acquisition
Sub and the Buyer constitutes at least 80% of the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding. The aggregate purchase price payable for the
shares of Common Stock being purchased by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub
pursuant to the Top-Up Option shall be determined by multiplying the number of
such shares by the Common Offer Price. Such purchase price may be
paid by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub, at its election, either entirely in
cash or by paying in cash an amount equal to not less than the aggregate par
value of such shares and by executing and delivering to the Company a promissory
note on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Company.
(iii) In the
event the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub wishes to exercise the Top-Up Option, the
Buyer or the Acquisition Sub shall deliver to the Company a notice setting forth
(i) the number of shares of Company Common Stock that the Buyer or the
Acquisition Sub intends to purchase pursuant to the Top-Up Option, (ii) the
manner in which the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub intends to pay the applicable
exercise price and (iii) the place and time at which the closing of the purchase
of such shares of Company Common Stock by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub is to
take place. At the closing of the purchase of such shares of Common
Stock, the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub shall cause to be delivered to the
Company the consideration required to be delivered in exchange for such shares,
which consideration shall be paid (i) in cash, by wire transfer or cashier’s
check or (ii) by issuance by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub, as applicable, to
the Company of a promissory note on terms reasonably satisfactory to the
Company, and the Company shall cause to be issued to the Buyer or the
Acquisition Sub (as the case may be) a certificate representing such
shares. The obligation of the Company to issue such shares will be
subject to compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
(h) Company
Actions.
(i) Approval and
Consent. The Company Board, at a meeting duly called and held,
has adopted resolutions: (A) determining that the terms of the
Offers, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement are
fair and in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders, and
declaring it advisable to enter into this Agreement; (B) approving the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Offers and the Merger; (C)
recommending that the stockholders of the Company accept the Offers, tender
their Shares pursuant to the Offers and, if required by the DGCL, vote their
Shares in favor of the adoption of this Agreement in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the DGCL (the “Recommendation”); (D)
rendering the limitations on business combinations contained in Section 203
of the DGCL inapplicable to the Offers, this Agreement and the transactions
contemplated hereby; and (E) electing that the Offers and the Merger, to the
extent of the Company Board’s power and authority and to the extent permitted by
Law, not be subject to any “moratorium,” “control share acquisition,” “business
combination,” “fair price,” or other form of anti-takeover laws and regulations
(collectively, “Takeover Laws”) of
any jurisdiction that may purport to be applicable to this Agreement or any of
the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company hereby consents to
the inclusion of the foregoing determinations and approvals, including the
Recommendation, in the Offer Documents.
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(ii) Schedule
14D-9. As soon as practicable on the date that the Schedule TO
is filed with the SEC, and subject to the remainder of this clause (ii), the
Company shall file with the SEC a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on
Schedule 14D-9 with respect to the Offer (together with all amendments and
supplements thereto and including all exhibits thereto, the “Schedule 14D-9”) and
disseminate the Schedule 14D-9, to the extent required by Rule 14d-9 promulgated
under the Exchange Act and any other applicable Laws, to the stockholders of the
Company. Except as permitted by Section 6.1, the
Offer Documents and the Schedule 14D-9 shall contain the Recommendation, and the
Company hereby consents to the inclusion of the Recommendation in the Offer
Documents. The Company agrees that the Schedule 14D-9 shall comply in
all material respects with the requirements of applicable U.S. federal
securities laws and on the date first filed with the SEC and on the date first
published, sent or given to the Company’s stockholders, 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 the Company
with respect to information supplied by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub for
inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Schedule 14D-9. Each
of the Buyer and Acquisition Sub hereby agrees that the information provided by
or on behalf of the Buyer and Acquisition Sub in writing specifically for
inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Schedule 14D-9 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. Each of the Company, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub
each shall promptly correct any information provided by it for use in the
Schedule 14D-9 if and to the extent that such information shall have become
false or misleading in any material respect, and the Company shall take all
steps necessary to amend or supplement the Schedule 14D-9 and to cause the
Schedule 14D-9 as so amended or supplemented to be filed with the SEC and
disseminated to the Company’s stockholders, in each case as and to the extent
required by applicable U.S. federal securities laws. The Buyer and
its counsel shall be given reasonable opportunity to review and comment upon the
Schedule 14D-9 and any amendments thereto prior to the filing thereof with the
SEC or dissemination to stockholders of the Company and the Company shall give
reasonable and good faith consideration to any comments made by the Buyer and
the Acquisition Sub and their counsel. The Company shall provide the
Buyer and its counsel with a copy of any written comments or telephonic
notification of any oral comments the Company or its counsel may receive from
the SEC or its staff with respect to the Offers promptly after the receipt
thereof, and shall consult in good faith with the Buyer and its counsel prior to
responding to any such comments, and shall provide the Buyer and its counsel
with a copy of any written responses thereto and telephonic notification of any
oral responses thereto of the Company or its counsel.
(iii) Provision of
Information. The Company shall supply to the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub, in writing, for inclusion in the Offer Documents, all
information concerning the Company, and the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall
supply to the Company, in writing, for inclusion in the Schedule 14D-9, all
information concerning the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub, in each case, required
under applicable U.S. federal securities laws to be included in the Offer
Documents or the Schedule 14D-9 or that may reasonably be requested by the Buyer
and the Acquisition Sub or the Company, as applicable, in connection with the
preparation of the Offer Documents or the Schedule 14D-9, as
applicable.
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(iv) Stockholder
Lists. In connection with the Offer and the Merger, the
Company shall as soon as reasonably practicable furnish the Acquisition Sub or
its designated agent with mailing labels, security position listings, any
available non-objecting beneficial owner lists and any available listing or
computer list containing the names and addresses of the record holders of the
Shares as of the most recent practicable date, and shall furnish to the
Acquisition Sub such information and assistance (including updated lists and
information) as the Acquisition Sub may reasonably request for the purpose of
communicating the Offers to the Company’s stockholders. Subject to
the requirements of applicable Laws and except for such steps as are necessary
to disseminate the Offer Documents and any other documents necessary to
consummate the Offers, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by
this Agreement, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall, until consummation of
the Offers, hold in confidence the information contained in any of such labels
and lists, and shall use such information only in connection with the
communication of the Offers to the Company’s stockholders and the dissemination
to the Company’s stockholders of any proxy or information statement relating to
the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. If this Agreement shall be terminated in accordance with
Article VIII,
the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall, upon request, deliver to the Company
all copies of such information then in their possession or under their
control.
(i) Directors.
(i) Election of Buyer
Designees. From and after the time the Acquisition Sub accepts
Shares tendered pursuant to the Offers (the “Acceptance Time”),
the Buyer shall be entitled to designate such number of members of the Company
Board (the “Buyer
Designees”), rounded up to the nearest whole number, as will give the
Buyer representation on the Company Board equal to the product of the total
number of members of the Company Board (after giving effect to the directors
elected pursuant to this sentence) multiplied by the percentage that the voting
power of the Shares beneficially owned by the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub at
such time (including Shares so accepted for payment) bears to the total voting
power of the Shares then outstanding; provided, that in no event shall Buyer
have the right to designate any member of the Company Board unless and until
Acquisition Sub has accepted for payment Shares tendered pursuant to the Offers
representing a majority of the total outstanding voting power of the Company on
a fully diluted basis (and therefore, at such time as the Buyer has the right to
designate any Buyer Designees, the Buyer shall have the right to designate no
less than a majority of the members of the Company Board). Subject to
applicable Law, the Company shall take all actions necessary, including by
increasing the size of the Company Board or securing the resignations of such
number of the Company’s incumbent directors, or both, to enable the Buyer
Designees to be so elected or appointed to the Company Board and to cause the
Buyer Designees to be so elected or appointed. From time to time
after the Acceptance Time, the Company also shall take all actions necessary to
cause the Buyer Designees to constitute substantially the same percentage
(rounding up where appropriate) as is on the Company Board (i) on each committee
of the Company Board and (ii) each board of directors of each of the Company’s
subsidiaries, each to the fullest extent permitted by all applicable
Laws.
(ii) Continuing
Directors. The Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall use their
commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Company Board shall, at all
times prior to the Effective Time, have at least two Continuing Directors (as
defined below). Subject
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to
applicable Law, the Company shall promptly take all action pursuant to Section
14(f) of the Exchange Act (“Section 14(f)”) and
Rule 14f-1 promulgated thereunder (“Rule 14f-1”) in order
to fulfill its obligations under Section 1.1(i)(i) and
(ii), and shall
include as an appendix to the Schedule 14D-9 such information with respect to
the Company and its directors and officers as is required under Section 14(f)
and Rule 14f-1 in order to fulfill its obligations under Section 1.1(i)(i) and
(ii). Buyer
shall provide to the Company in writing any information with respect to itself
and its nominees, directors, officers and Affiliates, required by Section 14(f)
and Rule 14f-1. The provisions of this Section 1.1(i)(ii)
are in addition to, and shall not limit, any right that Acquisition Sub, Buyer
or any of their respective Affiliates may have with respect to the election of
directors or otherwise under applicable Laws as a holder or beneficial owner of
shares of the Common Stock. If at any time prior to the Effective Time there
shall be in office only one Continuing Director for any reason, the Company
Board shall be entitled to appoint a person who is not an officer or employee of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries designated by the remaining Continuing
Director to fill such vacancy (and such person shall be deemed to be a
Continuing Director for all purposes of this Agreement), and if at any time
prior to the Effective Time no Continuing Directors then remain, the other
directors of the Company then in office shall use their commercially reasonable
efforts to designate two persons to fill such vacancies who are not officers or
employees or affiliates of the Company, its Subsidiaries, Buyer or Acquisition
Sub or any of their respective affiliates (and such persons shall be deemed to
be Continuing Directors for all purposes of this Agreement). “Continuing Director”
shall mean (1) any member of the Company Board, while such person is a member of
the Company Board, who is not an Affiliate, representative or designee of the
Buyer or the Acquisition Sub and who was a member of the Company Board prior to
the date of the Agreement, and (2) any successor of a Continuing Director while
such successor is a member of the Company Board, who is not an Affiliate,
representative or designee of the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub and was
recommended or elected to succeed such Continuing Director by a majority of
Continuing Directors.
(iii) Required Approvals of
Continuing Directors. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
set forth in this Agreement, in the event that (x) Buyer Designees are elected
or appointed to the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 1.1(i)(i) and
(y) for the period commencing when Buyer Designees are so elected or appointed
and ending upon the Effective Time, there shall be any Continuing Directors,
then the approval of a majority of such Continuing Directors (or the sole
Continuing Director if there shall be only one (1) Continuing Director) shall be
required in order to (i) amend or terminate this Agreement, or agree or consent
to any amendment or termination of this Agreement, in any case on behalf of the
Company, (ii) extend the time for performance of, or waive, any of the
obligations or other acts of Buyer or Acquisition Sub under this Agreement,
(iii) waive any of the Company’s rights under this Agreement, (iv) amend,
rescind, repeal or waive the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the
Company, or (v) make any other determination with respect to any action to be
taken or not to be taken by or on behalf of the Company relating to this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Offers and the
Merger.
Section 1.2 The
Merger. On
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and in
accordance with the DGCL, at the Effective Time, the Acquisition Sub shall be
merged with and into the Company, the separate corporate existence of the
Acquisition Sub shall cease and the Company will continue its corporate
existence under Delaware law as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Buyer (the
“Surviving
Corporation”).
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Section 1.3 Closing. Unless
otherwise mutually agreed in writing by the Company and Merger Sub, the closing
of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall take
place at the offices of Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx, LLP, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, at 10:00 a.m. on the third Business Day after
satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VII (other than
delivery of items to be delivered at the Closing and other than satisfaction of
those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing, it
being understood that the occurrence of the Closing shall remain subject to the
delivery of such items and the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions at the
Closing). The date on which the Closing occurs is hereinafter
referred to as the “Closing
Date.” “Business Day” shall
be any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday or (ii) a day on which banking
institutions located in New York, New York are permitted or required by Law to
remain closed. At the Closing, each party shall deliver the
agreements, certificates, opinions and instruments required by the terms of this
Agreement to be delivered by it, and the Company shall cause the Certificate of
Merger to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and
shall make all other filings or recordings required under the DGCL to effect the
Merger.
Section 1.4 Effective
Time. On
the terms and subject to the provisions of this Agreement, at the Closing, the
Company will cause a certificate of merger in a form jointly prepared by the
Buyer and the Company prior to the Closing (the “Certificate of
Merger”) to be executed, acknowledged and filed with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware in accordance with Section 251 of the DGCL
(or to the extent provided in Section 1.10, Section 253 of the
DGCL). The Merger will become effective at such time as the
Certificate of Merger has been duly filed with the Secretary of State of
Delaware or at such later date or time as may be agreed by the Buyer and the
Company and specified in the Certificate of Merger in accordance with the DGCL
(the effective time of the Merger being hereinafter referred to as the “Effective
Time”).
Section 1.5 Certificate of Incorporation
and By-Laws. At
the Effective Time, the certificate of incorporation of the Surviving
Corporation shall be amended in its entirety to read as set forth on Exhibit A, until
further amended in accordance with the DGCL. In addition, subject to
Section 6.4(c),
the Buyer shall cause the bylaws of the Surviving Corporation to be amended and
restated in their entirety so that, immediately following the Effective Time,
they are identical to the bylaws of the Acquisition Sub as in effect immediately
prior to the Effective Time, except that all references to the name of the
Acquisition Sub therein shall be changed to refer to the name of the Company,
and, as so amended and restated, such bylaws shall be the bylaws of the
Surviving Corporation, until further amended in accordance with the
DGCL.
Section 1.6 Effects of the
Merger. The
Merger shall have the effects set forth in this Agreement and the applicable
provisions of the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, and subject thereto, from and after the Effective Time, all property,
rights, privileges, immunities, powers, franchises, licenses and authority of
the Company and Acquisition Sub shall vest in the Surviving Corporation, and all
debts, liabilities, obligations, restrictions and duties of each of the Company
and Acquisition Sub shall become the debts, liabilities, obligations,
restrictions and duties of the Surviving Corporation.
Section 1.7 Directors of the Surviving
Corporation. The
directors of the Acquisition Sub and the officers of the Acquisition Sub in each
case as of immediately prior to the Effective
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Time
shall be the initial directors and officers, respectively, of the Surviving
Corporation, each to hold office until their successors have been duly elected
or appointed and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal
in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving
Corporation.
Section 1.8 Stockholders’
Meeting.
(a) If
required by applicable Law in order to consummate the Merger, the Company shall,
as promptly as practicable and consistent with applicable Law, establish a
record date (which shall be as promptly as reasonably practicable following the
Acceptance Time) for, duly call, give notice of (which notice shall state that
the adoption of this Agreement and the approval of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement (the “Company Voting
Proposal”) shall be considered at such meeting), convene and hold a
special meeting of its stockholders (the “Stockholders’
Meeting”) for the purpose of considering and voting upon the Company
Voting Proposal. Subject to Section 6.1, the
Company Board shall make the Recommendation and include the Recommendation in
the Proxy Statement. Subject to Section 6.1, the
Company shall take all reasonable and lawful action to solicit from its
stockholders proxies in favor of the Company Voting Proposal and shall take all
other action reasonably necessary or advisable to secure the vote or consent of
such holders required by the DGCL.
(b) The Buyer
shall vote, or cause to be voted, all Shares purchased by the Buyer or the
Acquisition Sub pursuant to the Offers and all other Shares owned by the Buyer
or the Acquisition Sub in favor of the Company Voting Proposal.
Section
1.9 Preparation of Proxy
Statement. If
required by applicable Law in order to consummate the Merger, the Company shall,
as soon as practicable following the Acceptance Time, prepare and file with the
SEC (after providing the Buyer with a reasonable opportunity to review and
comment thereon) a proxy statement relating to the Stockholders’ Meeting (the
“Proxy
Statement”). The Company shall respond to any comments of the
SEC or its staff (after providing the Buyer with a reasonable opportunity to
review and comment thereon) and shall cause the Proxy Statement to be mailed to
its stockholders as promptly as practicable after the resolution of any such
comments. The Company shall promptly notify the Buyer of the receipt
of any comments from the SEC and of any request by the SEC for amendments or
supplements to the Proxy Statement or for additional information and shall
supply the Buyer with copies of all correspondence between the Company or any of
its representatives, on the one hand, and the SEC, on the other hand, with
respect to the Proxy Statement, the Agreement or the transactions contemplated
by the Agreement. The Company will cause the Proxy Statement to
comply in all material respects with applicable Law, including the applicable
provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder. If at any time prior to the Effective Time there shall
occur any event, or there shall be discovered any information, that should be
set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy Statement so that the Proxy
Statement would not include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state
any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading, the party that discovers such information shall promptly
notify the other parties hereto and, to the extent required by applicable Law,
an appropriate amendment or supplement describing such information shall be
filed promptly by the Company with the SEC (after providing the Buyer with a
reasonable opportunity to review and comment thereon) and
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disseminated
by the Company to the stockholders of the Company. The Company and
its counsel shall permit the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub and their counsel to
participate in all communications with the SEC and its staff, including all
meetings and telephone conferences, relating to the Proxy Statement, this
Agreement or the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.
Section
1.10 Merger Without Stockholder
Meeting. Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if, following the Offers and any
subsequent offering period and the exercise, if any, of the Top-Up Option, Buyer
or any direct or indirect subsidiary of Buyer shall own at least 90% of each
class of capital stock of the Company, pursuant to the Offers, exercise of the
Top-Up Option or otherwise, the parties hereto shall take all necessary and
appropriate action to cause the Merger to become effective as soon as
practicable after the satisfaction of such threshold, without a meeting of the
stockholders of the Company, in accordance with Section 253 of the
DGCL.
ARTICLE
II
CONVERSION
OF SECURITIES
Section 2.1 Conversion of Capital
Stock. As
of the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the
part of the holder of any shares of the capital stock of the Company or capital
stock of the Acquisition Sub:
(a) Capital Stock of the
Acquisition Sub. Each share of the common stock of the
Acquisition Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time
shall be converted into and become one fully paid and nonassessable share of
common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Surviving Corporation (“Surviving Corporation
Stock”).
(b) Cancellation of Treasury
Stock and Buyer-Owned Stock. All shares of Company Common
Stock that are owned by the Company as treasury stock and any shares of Company
Common Stock owned by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub immediately prior to the
Effective Time (other than Shares held on behalf of third parties) (“Cancelled Shares”)
shall be cancelled and shall cease to exist and no consideration shall be
delivered in exchange therefor. Each share of Company Common Stock
held by any wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company or any wholly owned
Subsidiary of the Buyer (other than the Acquisition Sub) immediately prior to
the Effective Time shall be converted into such number of fully paid and
nonassessable shares (or fractions thereof) of Surviving Corporation Stock that
preserves the relative ownership interest represented by such share of Company
Common Stock immediately prior to the Merger.
(c) Merger Consideration for
Company Capital Stock. Subject to Section 2.2,
each share of Company Common Stock (other than shares to be cancelled or to be
converted into Surviving Corporation Stock in accordance with Section 2.1(b)
and Dissenting Shares (as defined in Section 2.4(a)
below)) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be
automatically converted into the right to receive $5.40 in cash or such greater
amount as may have been paid to any holder of shares of Company Common Stock
pursuant to the Common Offer (the “Common Merger
Consideration”). Each share of Preferred Stock issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than Dissenting
Shares) shall be
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converted
into the right to receive $54.00 plus the Dividend Amount (the “Preferred Merger
Consideration” and, together with the Common Merger Consideration, the
“Merger
Consideration”). The “Dividend Amount” with
respect to each share of Preferred Stock shall mean the product of (1) (A) the
amount of accrued and unpaid dividends on such share of Preferred Stock at the
Acceptance Time, in the case of shares of Preferred Stock sold pursuant to the
Preferred Offer, or at the Effective Time, in the case of shares of Preferred
Stock converted in connection with the Merger, divided by (B) $3.84, which
amount reflects the average Market Price (as defined in the Certificate of
Designations, Preferences and Rights of the Preferred Stock) of the Company
Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days (as defined in the
Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of the Preferred Stock)
prior to, and including, the date hereof and (2) an amount equal to the Common
Merger Consideration. As of the Effective Time, all such shares of
Company Common Stock and Preferred Stock (together, the “Company Capital
Stock”) shall no longer be outstanding and shall automatically be
cancelled and shall cease to exist, and each holder of a certificate
representing any such shares of Company Capital Stock shall cease to have any
rights with respect thereto, except the right to receive the Merger
Consideration pursuant to this Section 2.1(c)
upon the surrender of such certificate in accordance with Section 2.2,
without interest.
(d) Adjustments to Merger
Consideration. The Merger Consideration shall be equitably
adjusted to reflect fully the effect of any reclassification, stock split,
reverse split, stock dividend (including any dividend or distribution of
securities convertible into Company Common Stock), reorganization,
recapitalization or other like change with respect to Company Common Stock or
Preferred Stock occurring (or for which a record date is established) after the
date hereof and prior to the Effective Time.
Section 2.2 Exchange of
Certificates. The
procedures for exchanging outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock for the
Merger Consideration pursuant to the Merger are as follows:
(a) Exchange
Agent. At or prior to the Effective Time, the Buyer shall
deposit with a bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to the Company (the
“Paying
Agent”), for the benefit of the holders of shares of Company Capital
Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, for payment through
the Paying Agent in accordance with this Section 2.2,
cash in an amount sufficient to make payment of the Merger Consideration in
exchange for all of the outstanding shares of Company Capital Stock that are
converted pursuant to Section 2.1(c)
(the “Exchange
Fund”). The Exchange Fund shall not be used for any other
purpose. The Exchange Fund shall be invested by the Paying Agent as
directed by the Buyer; provided, however, that such investments shall be in
obligations of or guaranteed by the United States of America, in commercial
paper obligations rated A-1 or P-1 or better by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
or Standard & Poor’s Corporation, respectively, or in certificates of
deposit, bank repurchase agreements or banker’s acceptances of commercial banks
with capital exceeding $1 billion (based on the most recent financial
statements of such bank which are then publicly available).
(b) Exchange
Procedures. Promptly (and in any event within five (5)
Business Days) after the Effective Time, the Buyer shall cause the Paying Agent
to mail to each holder of record of a certificate which immediately prior to the
Effective Time represented
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outstanding
shares of Company Capital Stock (each, a “Certificate”) (i) a
letter of transmittal in customary form and (ii) instructions for effecting the
surrender of the Certificates in exchange for the Merger Consideration payable
with respect thereto. Upon surrender of a Certificate for
cancellation to the Paying Agent, together with such letter of transmittal, duly
completed and validly executed and such other documents as may reasonably be
requested by the Paying Agent, the holder of such Certificate shall be paid
promptly in exchange therefor cash in an amount equal to the Merger
Consideration that such holder has the right to receive pursuant to the
provisions of this Article II, and the
Certificate so surrendered shall immediately be cancelled. No
interest will be paid or accrued on the cash payable upon the surrender of such
Certificate or Certificates. In the event of a transfer of ownership
of Company Capital Stock which is not registered in the transfer records of the
Company, the Merger Consideration may be paid to a Person (as defined in this
Section 2.2(b))
other than the Person in whose name the Certificate so surrendered is
registered, if such Certificate is presented to the Paying Agent, accompanied by
all documents required to evidence and effect such transfer and by evidence that
any applicable stock transfer Taxes have been paid. Until surrendered
as contemplated by this Section 2.2,
each Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to
represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the Merger Consideration
as contemplated by this Section 2.2. As
used in this Agreement, “Person” means any
individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture,
association, trust, Governmental Authority, unincorporated organization or other
entity.
(c) No Further Ownership Rights
in Company Common Stock. All Merger Consideration paid upon
the surrender of Certificates in accordance with the terms hereof shall be
deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to the
shares of Company Capital Stock formerly represented by such Certificates, and
from and after the Effective Time there shall be no further registration of
transfers on the stock transfer books of the Surviving Corporation of the shares
of Company Capital Stock which were outstanding immediately prior to the
Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates are
presented to the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent for any reason, they
shall be cancelled and exchanged as provided in this Article
II.
(d) Termination of Exchange
Fund. Any portion of the Exchange Fund which remains
undistributed to the holders of Company Common Stock for one (1) year after the
Effective Time shall be delivered to the Buyer or the Surviving Corporation, as
directed by the Buyer, upon demand, and any holder of Company Capital Stock who
has not previously complied with this Section 2.2
shall be entitled to receive only from the Buyer payment of its claim for Merger
Consideration, without interest.
(e) No
Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law,
none of the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub, the Company, the Surviving Corporation
or the Paying Agent shall be liable to any holder of shares of Company Capital
Stock delivered to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned
property, escheat or similar Law.
(f) Withholding
Rights. Each of the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub, the Surviving
Corporation and the Paying Agent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from
the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of
shares of Company Capital Stock, Company Stock Options or any rights under a
Company Stock Plan such amounts
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as it is
required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under
the Code, or any other applicable state, local or foreign Tax Law. To
the extent that amounts are so withheld by the Surviving Corporation, the Buyer
or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, such withheld amounts (i) shall be
remitted by the Buyer, the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent, as the
case may be, to the applicable Governmental Authority and (ii) shall be treated
for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of the
shares of Company Capital Stock, Company Stock Options or rights under a Company
Stock Plan in respect of which such deduction and withholding was
made.
(g) Lost
Certificates. If any Certificate shall have 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, the Paying Agent
shall pay, in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate, the
Merger Consideration to be paid in respect of the shares of Company Capital
Stock formerly represented thereby pursuant to this Agreement.
(h) Expenses. The
Buyer or the Acquisition Sub shall bear and pay all charges and expenses,
including those of the Paying Agent, incurred in connection with the payment for
the shares of Company Capital Stock.
Section 2.3 Warrants, Options and
Company Stock Plans.
(a) Cash-Out of
Warrants. At the Effective Time, each outstanding warrant to
purchase shares of Company Common Stock (“Company Warrants”),
in each case whether or not then exercisable, shall without any action on the
part of the Company or the holder of such warrant, automatically be cancelled
and exchanged for a cash payment provided by the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub or
the Surviving Corporation (which shall be made promptly after the Effective
Time) in an amount equal to (i) the excess, if any, of (x) the Merger
Consideration per share of Company Common Stock over (y) the exercise price per
share of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Warrant, multiplied by
(ii) the number of shares of Company Common Stock for which such Company Warrant
is exercisable immediately prior to the Effective Time without interest and less
any amounts required to be deducted and withheld under applicable
Law.
(b) Treatment of
Options. At the Effective Time, each outstanding option to
purchase shares of Company Common Stock (“Company Stock
Option”), in each case whether or not then exercisable, shall without any
action on the part of the Company or the holder of such Company Stock Option,
automatically be cancelled and exchanged for a cash payment provided by the
Buyer, the Acquisition Sub or the Surviving Corporation (which shall be made
promptly after the Effective Time) in an amount equal to (i) the excess, if any,
of (x) the Merger Consideration per share of Company Common Stock over (y) the
exercise price per share of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Stock
Option, multiplied by (ii) the number of shares of Company Common Stock for
which such Company Stock Option is exercisable immediately prior to the
Effective Time without interest and less any amounts required to be deducted and
withheld under applicable Law.
(c) No Continuing
Interest. The parties agree that, following the Effective
Time, no holder of a Company Stock Option or Company Warrant or any participant
in any
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stock
plan or other equity-related or equity-based plan of the Company or a
Subsidiary, including, without limitation, any plan or arrangement which
provides for Company Stock Options, restricted stock, restricted stock units,
phantom stock, stock appreciation rights or stock purchase rights (each, a
“Company Stock
Plan”) or other Company Employee Plan or employee benefit arrangement of
the Company or under any Employment Agreement shall have any right thereunder to
acquire any equity interest (including any “phantom” stock or stock appreciation
rights) in the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company or the Surviving
Corporation.
(d) Action by the
Company. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company will
(i) make any amendments to the terms of any Company Stock Plan that
are reasonably necessary to give effect to the transactions contemplated by
Section 2.3(b)
and (ii) adopt such resolutions and take such other actions as may be reasonably
required to effectuate the actions contemplated by this Section 2.3, without
paying any consideration or incurring any debts or obligations on behalf of the
Company or the Surviving Corporation.
Section 2.4 Dissenting
Shares.
(a) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, shares of Company Capital
Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than
Cancelled Shares or shares to be converted into Surviving Corporation Stock in
accordance with Section 2.1(b))
that are held by a holder who has not voted in favor of the adoption of this
Agreement or consented thereto in writing and who is entitled to demand and has
properly exercised appraisal rights of such shares of Company Capital Stock in
accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL (any such shares being referred to
as “Dissenting
Shares” until such time as such holder fails to perfect or otherwise
loses such holder’s appraisal rights under the DGCL with respect to such shares)
shall not be converted into or represent the right to receive Merger
Consideration in accordance with Section 2.1, but
shall be entitled only to receive payment of the appraised value of such
Dissenting Shares in accordance with Section 262 of the DGCL unless and
until such holder fails to perfect or effectively withdraws or loses its rights
to appraisal and payment under the DGCL.
(b) If any
Dissenting Shares shall lose their status as such (through failure to perfect or
otherwise), then, as of the later of the Effective Time or the date of loss of
such status, such shares shall automatically be converted into and shall
represent only the right to receive Merger Consideration in accordance with
Section 2.1,
without interest thereon, upon surrender of the Certificate formerly
representing such shares.
(c) The
Company shall give the Buyer: (i) prompt notice of any written demand
for appraisal received by the Company prior to the Effective Time pursuant to
the DGCL, any withdrawal of any such demand and any other demand, notice or
instrument delivered to the Company prior to the Effective Time pursuant to the
DGCL that relate to such demand; and (ii) the opportunity to participate in all
negotiations and proceedings with respect to any such demand, notice or
instrument. The Company shall not make any payment or settlement
offer prior to the Effective Time with respect to any such demand, notice or
instrument unless the Buyer shall have given its written consent to such payment
or settlement offer.
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ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
Except as
set forth in the disclosure letter delivered by the Company to the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub in connection with execution of this Agreement and dated as of
the date hereof (the “Company Disclosure
Letter”), which Company Disclosure Letter shall identify any exceptions
to the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement (with specific
reference to the particular Section or subsection to which such information
relates; provided that an item
disclosed in any Section or subsection shall be deemed to have been disclosed
for each other Section or subsection of this Agreement to the extent that it is
reasonably apparent on the face of such disclosure, notwithstanding the omission
of a reference or cross-reference thereto), the Company hereby represents and
warrants to Buyer and Acquisition Sub as follows:
Section 3.1 Organization;
Subsidiaries.
(a) The
Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the State of Delaware, has all requisite corporate power and
authority to own, lease and operate its properties and assets and to carry on
its business as now being conducted, and is duly qualified or licensed to do
business and, where applicable as a legal concept, is in good standing as a
foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which the property owned, leased or
operated by it or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such
qualification or licensing necessary.
(b) Section 3.1(b) of the
Company Disclosure Letter sets forth the name, jurisdiction of incorporation and
capitalization of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries, Affiliated PCs, Qualified
Shareholders, and Joint Ventures, including a brief description of the business
conducted by each such entity and the interest of the Company and its
Subsidiaries therein. Other than as set forth in Section 3.1(b) of the
Company Disclosure Letter, the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any
capital stock or other equity securities of any corporation or have any direct
or indirect equity or ownership interest in any business other than publicly
traded securities constituting less than five percent of the outstanding equity
of the issuing entity. Except as set forth in Section 3.1(b) of the
Company Disclosure Letter, all the outstanding shares of capital stock of each
of the Company’s Subsidiaries are owned directly or indirectly by the Company
free and clear of all Liens, options or encumbrances of any kind and all
material claims or charges of any kind, and are validly issued, fully paid and
nonassessable, and there are no outstanding options, rights or agreements of any
kind relating to the issuance, sale or transfer of any capital stock or other
equity securities of any such Subsidiary to any person except the
Company. Except as set forth in Section 3.1(b) of the
Company Disclosure Letter, the Company has heretofore delivered to the Buyer
complete and correct copies of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws (or
similar organizational documents) of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries, as
currently in effect.
(c) Each of
the Company’s Subsidiaries and, to the Company’s Knowledge, each of its Joint
Ventures is a corporation, partnership or other entity duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation or organization, has all requisite corporate or other power and
authority to own, lease and operate
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its
properties and to carry on its business as now being conducted and is duly
qualified or licensed to do business and in good standing in each jurisdiction
in which the property owned, leased or operated by it or the nature of the
business conducted by it makes such qualification or licensing necessary, except
where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing would not, individually
or in the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. For
purposes of this Agreement, the term “Company Material Adverse
Effect” means any fact, change, event, circumstance, effect or
development that has or would be reasonably likely to have a material adverse
effect on the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or
otherwise) or results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, or on the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement in a timely manner, other than any fact, change,
event, circumstance, effect or development resulting from (A) any change in the
Company’s stock price or trading volume, in and of itself (provided, however,
that the exception in this clause shall not in any way prevent or otherwise
affect a determination that any change, event, circumstance, development or
effect underlying such decrease has resulted in, or contributed to, a Company
Material Adverse Effect), or change in Law or U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles (“GAAP”) after the date
hereof, (B) changes affecting general worldwide, national or regional
economic or capital market conditions, (C) factors generally affecting the
industries or markets in which either the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
operates, (D) any action by the Company or its Subsidiaries taken pursuant to or
in accordance with this Agreement (including Section 6.3) or at the request of
the Buyer, (E) any fees or expenses incurred in connection with the negotiations
leading to, or the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement, to the extent
identified to the Buyer prior to the date hereof, (F) any stockholder litigation
arising from or relating to the Offers or the Merger; (G) any loss of customers,
suppliers, vendors or employees or any cancellation of or delay in customer
orders resulting from the announcement or pendency of this Agreement, the Offers
or the Merger (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, any direct legal or
contractual consequence attributable to the Company’s execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby); or (H) any declaration of war, military crisis
or conflict, civil unrest, act of terrorism, or act of God, in the case of (B),
(C) and (H) except to the extent that the Company is disproportionately affected
thereby. The term “Joint Venture” of a
person shall mean any corporation or other entity (including partnerships and
other business associations and joint ventures) in which such person directly or
indirectly owns an equity interest that is less than a majority of any class of
the outstanding voting securities or equity of any such entity, other than
equity interests held for passive investment purposes that are less than 5% of
any class of the outstanding voting securities or equity of any such
entity.
Section 3.2 Capitalization.
(a) The
authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 100,000,000 shares of
Company Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share, and 2,000,000 shares of
preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, of which 1,500,000 shares of
preferred stock have been designated Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock. The rights and the privileges of the Company Common Stock and
the Preferred Stock are as set forth in the Company’s certificate of
incorporation, a true and complete copy of which has been provided to the
Buyer. As of the date hereof, there are (i) 41,750,863 shares of
Company Common Stock issued and outstanding (of which 170,125 shares are
restricted shares and 222,684 shares are held in escrow pursuant to an
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escrow
agreement dated December 14, 2007, none of which is deemed outstanding for
accounting purposes); (ii) 217,126.3 shares of Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock issued and outstanding; and (iii) 6,060,788 shares of Company
Common Stock reserved for issuance upon exercise of outstanding Options or
Company Warrants. As of the date hereof, 2,171,263 shares of Company
Common Stock are reserved for issuance upon conversion of outstanding
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. In addition, as of the
date hereof, $1,732,372 is accrued as dividends on outstanding shares of
Preferred Stock, which are convertible into Company Common Stock at a 10-day
average price of the Company Common Stock on or about the date of
conversion. All the outstanding shares of the Company’s capital stock
are, and all shares of Company Common Stock which may be issued pursuant to the
exercise of outstanding Company Stock Options or Company Warrants will be, when
issued in accordance with the terms thereof, duly authorized, validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable. There are no bonds, debentures, notes
or other indebtedness having general voting rights (or convertible into
securities having such rights) (“Voting Debt”) of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs issued and
outstanding. Except as set forth above and except for the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, as of the date hereof, (i) there
are no shares of capital stock of the Company authorized, issued or outstanding
and (ii) except as set forth on Schedule 3.2(a) of the Company Disclosure
Letter, there are no existing options, warrants, calls, pre-emptive rights,
subscriptions or other rights, agreements, arrangements or commitments of any
character, relating to the issued or unissued capital stock of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, obligating the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs to issue, transfer or sell or cause to be issued,
transferred or sold any shares of capital stock or Voting Debt of, or other
equity interest in, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs or
securities convertible into or exchangeable for such shares or equity interests
or obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs to
grant, extend or enter into any such option, warrant, call, subscription or
other right, agreement, arrangement or commitment. Except as
contemplated by this Agreement, there are no outstanding contractual obligations
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs to repurchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire any Shares, or the capital stock of the Company or
any Subsidiary or any Affiliated PC or affiliate of the Company or to provide
funds to make any investment (in the form of a loan, capital contribution or
otherwise) in any Subsidiary, Affiliated PC, or any other entity.
(b) Section 3.2(b) of the
Company Disclosure Letter sets forth: (i) as of March 10, 2008, a
true, complete and accurate list of all Company Stock Plans, indicating for each
Company Stock Plan, as of such date, the number of shares of Company Common
Stock issued under such Company Stock Plan, the number of shares of Company
Common Stock subject to outstanding options under such Company Stock Plan and
the number of shares of Company Common Stock reserved for future issuance under
such Company Stock Plan; and (ii) as of March 10, 2008, a true, complete and
accurate list of all outstanding Company Stock Options and all outstanding
Company Warrants, indicating with respect to each the name of the holder
thereof, the Company Stock Plan under which it was granted, if applicable, the
number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Stock Option or
Company Warrant, the exercise price, the reported date of grant or purchase, and
the vesting schedule, including whether (and to what extent) the vesting will be
accelerated in any way by the Merger or, if applicable, by termination of
employment or change in position following consummation of the
Merger. No Company Stock Options or Company Warrants have been
granted since November 6, 2007. The Company has made available to the
Buyer complete and accurate copies
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of all
forms of stock option agreements evidencing Company Stock
Options. Except as set forth in Section 3.2(b) of the
Disclosure Letter, each outstanding Company Stock Option was granted at fair
market value determined in accordance with the terms of the applicable Company
Stock Plan and applicable Law.
(c) Except as
set forth in Section
3.2(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no voting trusts or
other agreements or understandings to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is a party with respect to the voting of the
capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated
PCs.
(d) Except as
set forth on Schedule 3.2(d) of the Company Disclosure Letter, following the
Effective Time, no holder of Options or Warrants will have any right to receive
shares of common stock of the Surviving Corporation upon exercise of the Options
or Warrants.
Section 3.3 Corporate
Authorization.
(a) The
Company has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement and, subject to the adoption of this Agreement by the affirmative vote
of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock
(the “Requisite
Stockholder Vote”) if the holdings of the Company Common Stock do not
meet the threshold required by Section 253 of the DGCL, to consummate the Offers
and the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and to perform
each of its obligations hereunder. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Company of this Agreement and the consummation by the Company
of the Offers and the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby have
been duly and validly authorized by the Company Board. Except for the
adoption of this Agreement by the Requisite Stockholder Vote in the event the
holdings of the Shares do not meet the threshold required by Section 253 of the
DGCL, no other corporate proceedings on the part of the Company are necessary to
approve this Agreement or to consummate the Offers and the Merger or the other
transactions contemplated hereby. The Company Board at a duly held
meeting has (i) determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and
its stockholders (other than holders of Shares that are Affiliates of the
Buyer), and declared it advisable, to enter into this Agreement, (ii) approved
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation
of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Offers and the Merger,
and (iii) resolved to recommend that the stockholders of the Company tender
their Shares in the Offers or otherwise approve the adoption of this Agreement
and directed that to the extent required by the DGCL, this Agreement and the
Merger be submitted for consideration by the stockholders of the Company at the
Stockholders’ Meeting, and in each case such action of the Company Board has not
been amended, rescinded or modified. The action taken by the Company
Board constitutes approval of the Offers, the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated by this Agreement under the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL,
and no other state takeover statute is applicable to such
transactions.
(b) This
Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and,
assuming the due and valid execution and delivery of this Agreement by Buyer and
Acquisition Sub, constitutes a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Company
enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such
enforceability may
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be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization or similar Laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and general equitable
principles.
Section
3.4 Governmental
Authorization. The
execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the
consummation by the Company of the Offers and the Merger do not and will not
require any consent, approval, authorization or permit of, action by, filing
with or notification to any nation or government or any agency, public or
regulatory authority, instrumentality, department, commission, court,
arbitrator, ministry, tribunal or board of any nation or any government or
political subdivision thereof, in each case, whether national, federal, tribal,
provincial, state, regional, local or municipal (a “Governmental
Authority”), other than (i) the filing of the Certificate of Merger; (ii)
compliance with the applicable requirements of the Xxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Antitrust
Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”); (iii) the
applicable requirements of the Exchange Act including the filing of the Schedule
14D-9 in connection with the Offers and the Proxy Statement, if applicable, in
connection with the Stockholders’ Meeting; (iv) compliance with the rules and
regulations of the American Stock Exchange; (v) compliance with any applicable
state securities or blue sky laws; (vi) the consents and/or notices listed in
Section 3.4 of
the Company Disclosure Letter; and (vii) any such consent, approval,
authorization, permit, action, filing or notification the failure of which to
make or obtain would not (A) individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect or (B) reasonably be expected
to prevent or materially delay the consummation of the Offers and the
Merger.
Section 3.5 Non-Contravention. The
execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the
consummation by the Company of the Offers and the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not (i) contravene or conflict
with, or result in any violation or breach of any provision of, the
organizational or governing documents of (A) the Company, (B) any of its
Subsidiaries, or (C) any of its Affiliated PCs; (ii) assuming compliance with
the matters referenced in Section 3.4 and the
receipt of the Requisite Stockholder Vote, if applicable, contravene or conflict
with or constitute a violation of any provision of any Law binding upon or
applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs or any of
their respective properties or assets; or (iii) except as set forth in Section 3.5 of the
Company Disclosure Letter, require the consent, approval or authorization of, or
notice to or filing with any third party with respect to, or result in any
breach or violation of, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice
or lapse of time or both would become a default) or result in the loss of
benefit under, or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, amendment
or acceleration of, any right or obligation of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, or result in the creation of any Lien on any of
the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated
PCs under any loan or credit agreement, note, bond, mortgage, indenture,
contract, agreement, Company Lease, license, permit or other instrument or
obligation (each, a “Contract”) to which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is a party or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs or its or any of their
respective properties or assets are bound, except in the case of clauses (i)(B),
(i)(C), (ii) and (iii) above, which would not (A) individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect or
(B) reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay the consummation of
the Offers and the Merger. For the purposes of this Agreement, “Liens” means, with
respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or
encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset.
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Section 3.6 SEC Filings; Financial
Statements; Information Provided.
(a) Except as
set forth in Section 3.6(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company has
timely filed all forms, reports, statements, certifications and other documents
(including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) required to be
filed by it with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act or other applicable United
States federal securities Laws since January 1, 2005 (all such forms,
reports, statements, certificates and other documents filed since
January 1, 2005, with any amendments thereto, collectively, together with
the 2007 Annual Report, the “Company SEC
Reports”), each of which, including any financial statements or schedules
included therein, as finally amended prior to the date of this Agreement, has
complied as to form in all material respects with the applicable requirements of
the Securities Act and Exchange Act as of the date filed with the
SEC. None of the Company SEC Reports when filed with the SEC and, if
amended, as of the date of such amendment contained any untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated or
incorporated by reference therein or necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The Company is in compliance in all material respects
with the provisions of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder (the “Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx
Act”).
(b) No
executive officer of the Company has failed in any respect to make the
certifications required of him or her under Section 302 or 906 of the
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act with respect to any Company SEC Report. The
Company has made available to the Buyer true, correct and complete copies of all
material written correspondence between the SEC, on the one hand, and the
Company and any of its Subsidiaries, on the other hand, since September 5,
2003. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no outstanding or
unresolved comments in comment letters received from the SEC staff with respect
to the Company SEC Reports. To the Knowledge of the Company, none of
the Company SEC Reports is the subject of ongoing SEC review or outstanding SEC
comment. None of the Company’s Subsidiaries is required to file
periodic reports with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act.
(c) Each of
the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries
included (or incorporated by reference) in the Company SEC Reports (including
the related notes and schedules, where applicable) fairly presents (subject, in
the case of the unaudited statements, to the absence of notes and normal
year-end audit adjustments as permitted by the rules related to Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q promulgated under the Exchange Act), in all material
respects the results of the consolidated operations and changes in stockholders’
equity and cash flows and consolidated financial position of the Company and its
Subsidiaries for the respective fiscal periods or as of the respective dates
therein set forth. Each of such consolidated financial statements
(including the related notes and schedules, where applicable) complies in all
material respects with applicable accounting requirements and with the published
rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto and each of such financial
statements (including the related notes and schedules, where applicable) were
prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied during the periods
involved, except in each case as indicated in such statements or in the notes
thereto or, in the case of unaudited statements, as permitted by the rules
related to Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q promulgated under the Exchange
Act.
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(d) The
Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures and
internal controls over financial reporting (as such terms are defined in
paragraphs (e) and (f), respectively, of Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act) as
required by Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act. The Company’s
disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that all material
information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files
or furnishes under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and
reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC,
and that all such material information is accumulated and communicated to the
Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure and to make the certifications required pursuant to Sections 302 and
906 of the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act. The Company’s management has completed
an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over
financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of
the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act for the year ended December 31, 2007, and such
assessment concluded that such controls were effective. The Company
has disclosed, based on its most recent evaluations, to the Company’s outside
auditors and the audit committee of the Company (A) all significant deficiencies
and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over
financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) which are
reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s
ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data and (B) any
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who
have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial
reporting.
(e) The
information supplied by or on behalf of the Company for inclusion in the
Schedule 14D-9, on the respective dates that the Schedule TO and the other Offer
Documents and the Schedule 14D-9 are filed with the Commission, and on the dates
they are first published, sent or given to stockholders of the Company, 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.
Section 3.7 No Undisclosed
Liabilities. Except
(i) as reflected or reserved against in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet
as of December 31, 2007 (the “Balance Sheet”)
included in the draft of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2007 previously made available to the Buyer (the “2007 Annual Report”)
and (ii) as set forth in Section 3.7 of the
Company Disclosure Letter, the Company, its Subsidiaries, and its Affiliated PCs
do not have any liabilities or obligations of any nature, whether accrued,
contingent or otherwise, that, individually or in the aggregate, would
reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. The
reserves reflected in the Balance Sheet are adequate, appropriate and reasonable
and have been calculated in a manner consistent with GAAP.
Section 3.8 Absence of Certain Changes
or Events. Except
as disclosed in the Company SEC Reports or as set forth in Section 3.8 of the
Company Disclosure Letter, since December 31, 2007, (i) the Company, its
Subsidiaries, and its Affiliated PCs and, to the Company’s Knowledge, its Joint
Ventures have conducted their respective businesses only in the ordinary and
usual course, and (ii) there has not occurred any events or changes (including
the incurrence of any liabilities of any nature, whether or not accrued,
contingent or otherwise) that
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have had
or would be reasonably likely to have, individually or in the aggregate, a
Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section 3.9 Taxes. Except
as set forth in Section 3.9 of the
Company Disclosure Letter:
(a) All Tax
Returns required to have been filed by the Company and each of its Subsidiaries
and Affiliated PCs have been filed on or prior to the due date for such Tax
Returns, and each such Tax Return is true, correct, accurate and prepared in
accordance with applicable Law. All Taxes have been paid whether or
not shown on any Tax Return. The Company, its Subsidiaries and
Affiliated PCs have timely withheld and paid to the appropriate Taxing Authority
all amounts required to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts
paid or owing to any shareholder, employee, creditor, independent contractor or
other third party. There are no Liens on any assets of the Company or
of any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs that arose in connection with the
failure (or alleged failure) to pay any Tax other than Liens for Taxes not yet
due and payable. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs (i) has any liability for the Taxes of any person under section
1.1502-6 of the Treasury Regulations or any similar provision of state, local or
foreign law, as a transferee or successor, by contract or otherwise or (ii) is a
party to any Tax allocation or sharing agreement.
(b) To the
Company’s Knowledge, there is no audit, claim, action, suit, proceeding or
investigation pending against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs in respect of any Taxes in any jurisdiction, nor has there been
any such activity since January 1, 2005. Neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has been informed by any Taxing
Authority in writing of the commencement or anticipated commencement of any such
activity, nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, is any such activity is contemplated
by any Taxing Authority. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs (nor any member of any affiliated, consolidated,
combined or unitary group of which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs is a member) has waived any statute of limitations in respect of
Taxes or agreed to any extension of time with respect to a Tax assessment or
deficiency, which period (after giving effect to such extension or waiver) has
not expired. Section 3.9(b) of the
Company Disclosure Letter lists the Company and each Subsidiary and Affiliated
PC thereof and whether each such entity is treated for Tax purposes as a
corporation, association, partnership or other entity, or whether such entity is
disregarded for Tax purposes.
(c) The
unpaid Taxes of the Company and of its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs
(exclusive of any Taxes that may be deemed to arise on or prior to the Closing
Date by reason of any election made by Buyer or Acquisition Sub after the
Closing under Section 338(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the “Code”) or any
analogous provision of state or local Tax law) do not exceed the reserve for Tax
liability (rather than any reserve for deferred Taxes established to reflect
timing differences between book and Tax income) set forth on the Company’s most
recent balance sheet and the balance sheets of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries
or Affiliated PCs that are not consolidated with the Company for balance sheet
purposes, nor do the unpaid Taxes of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs exceed that reserve as adjusted for the passage of time through
the Closing Date in accordance with the past custom and practice of the Company
and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs in
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filing
their Tax Returns. Since the date of the most recent balance sheet
(or balance sheets) of the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs,
neither the Company nor any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has
incurred any liability for Taxes arising from extraordinary gains or losses, as
that term is used in GAAP, except in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past custom and practice.
(d) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs 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 after the Closing Date
as a result of (i) any change in method of accounting for a taxable period
ending on or prior to the Closing Date, (ii) any “closing agreement” as
described in section 7121 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision
of state, local or foreign Tax law) executed on or prior to the Closing Date,
(iii) any intercompany transactions or any excess loss account described in the
Treasury Regulations under section 1502 of the Code (or any corresponding or
similar provision of state, local or foreign Tax law), (iv) any installment sale
or open transaction disposition made on or prior to the Closing Date or (v) any
prepaid amounts received on or prior to the Closing Date.
(e) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs (i) is currently
subject to a limitation under section 382, 383 or 384 of the Code (or any
corresponding provision of state, local or foreign Tax law), (ii) is a party to
any “reportable transaction” within the meaning of section 1.6011-4 of the
Treasury Regulations, (iii) during the five-year period ending on the date
hereof, was a distributing corporation or a controlled corporation in a
transaction intended to be governed by section 355 or section 361 of the Code,
(iv) is or has been within the last five years a “United States Real Property
Holding Company” within the meaning of section 897 of the Code, (v) except as
set forth in Section
3.9(e)(v) of the Company Disclosure Letter, is a party to any contract,
agreement, plan or arrangement including, without limitation, this Agreement,
which could give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible
or on which a penalty or excise Tax could be imposed pursuant to sections
162(m), 280G, 404, 409A or 4999 of the Code, (vi) has taken any position on a
federal income Tax Return that could give rise to a substantial understatement
of federal income Tax within the meaning of section 6662 of the Code without
disclosing such position as provided in the applicable Treasury Regulations,
(vii) is subject to the dual consolidated loss provisions of section 1503(d) of
the Code, (viii) is subject to the overall foreign loss provisions of section
904(f) of the Code, (ix) is subject to the recharacterization provisions of
section 952(c)(2) of the Code, (x) is or has ever been subject to the
international boycott provisions of section 999 of the Code or (xi) has ever
been a party to any transaction or arrangement which may have caused an
extension of any statute of limitations related to Taxes, including an extension
because the transaction or arrangement was required to be, but was not, reported
to any Taxing Authority.
(f) “Tax” and “Taxes” means any (i)
federal, state, local and foreign taxes, charges, fees, levies or other similar
assessments or liabilities (including, without limitation, income, receipts, ad
valorem, value added, excise, real or personal property, sales, occupation,
service, stamp, transfer, registration, natural resources, severance, premium,
windfall or excess profits, environmental, customs, duties, use, licensing,
withholding, employment, social security, unemployment, disability, payroll,
share, capital, surplus, alternative, minimum, add-on minimum, estimated,
franchise or any other taxes, charges, fees, levies or other similar assessments
or liabilities of any kind whatsoever), whether computed on a separate,
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consolidated,
unitary or combined basis or in any other manner, and includes any interest,
fines, penalties, assessments, deficiencies or additions thereto, (ii) any and
all liability for amounts described in (i) of any member of an affiliated,
consolidated, combined or unitary group of which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs (or any predecessor of any of the foregoing) is
or was a member on or prior to the Closing Date, including pursuant to Treasury
Regulations Section 1.1502-6 or any analogous or similar state, local, or
foreign law or regulation, and (iii) any and all liability for amounts
described in (i) of any Person (other than the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs) imposed on the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs as a transferee or successor, by contract or
pursuant to any law, rule or regulation, which Taxes relate to an event or
transaction occurring before the Closing.
(g) “Tax Return” means any
federal, state, local, foreign and other applicable return, declaration, report,
claim for refund, information return or statement or other document (including
any related or supporting schedules, statements or information) with respect to
any Tax filed or required to be filed with the IRS or any other Governmental
Authority or Taxing Authority or agency or in connection with the determination,
assessment or collection of any Tax of any party or the administration of any
laws, regulations or administrative requirements relating to any
Tax.
(h) “Taxing Authority”
means any government or subdivision, agency, commission or authority thereof, or
any quasi-governmental or private body having jurisdiction over the assessment,
determination, collection or other imposition of Taxes.
Section
3.10 Real
Property.
(a) None of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs owns any real property
or has any options or rights or obligations to purchase, rights of first
refusal, rights of first negotiation or rights of first offer to purchase, any
real property.
(b) Section 3.10(b) of
the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete and accurate list of all
leases, subleases, licenses and other agreements, including all amendments,
modifications and extensions relating thereto (collectively, “Company Leases”),
pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs
occupies, leases, licenses, uses, or otherwise has an interest in any real
property (collectively, “Leased Real
Property”) as of the date of this Agreement, along with a complete and
accurate list of all security deposits and other amounts and instruments
deposited, as of the date of this Agreement, by or on behalf of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, as applicable. Except as
set forth in Section
3.10(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, as of the date of this
Agreement: (i) each Company Lease is a legal, valid and binding obligation of
the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs and, to the Knowledge
of the Company, is enforceable, and in full force and effect, and the Company or
one of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has, pursuant to the terms thereof, a
currently existing interest therein free and clear of any Lien or Lien
instrument (other than any Lien or Lien Instrument which has been incurred by
the owner of the fee title or holder of a superior leasehold interest of or in
the real property and which does not interfere with the use or operation of the
property in the Business); and (ii) with respect to each Company Lease, neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has (1) defaulted on
or breached any term, condition or obligation thereof or (2) received any
written
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communication
from, or given any written communication to, any other party to any Company
Lease or any lender, alleging that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs or such other party, as the case may be, is in default (or that
an event has occurred or circumstances exist that may (with notice, a lapse of
time or both) constitute or result in such a default), and no such default
exists on the part of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs
(nor, to their Knowledge, does any default exist on the part of any other
party), or indicating that such party intends to cancel, terminate or exercise
any option to accelerate or recapture under or with respect to any Company
Lease. With respect to each of the Company Leases, as of the date of
this Agreement, the particular premises, located within, on or under the Leased
Real Property and used in the business of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries
or Affiliated PCs, as applicable, is in good condition and repair (ordinary wear
and tear excepted). With respect to each Leased Real Property that is
the subject of a Company Lease, as of the date of this Agreement, each such
premises is fit for the continued use of such premises in the manner appropriate
for the purposes for which it is presently devoted. With respect to
each of the Company Leases: (1) except as otherwise set forth Section
3.10(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Merger does not require the
consent of any other party to such Company Lease, or otherwise cause such
Company Lease to cease to be legal, valid, binding, enforceable and in full
force and effect on its existing terms following the Closing; (2) the possession
and quiet enjoyment of the Leased Real Property by the Company or one of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, as applicable, under such Company Lease, as of
the date of this Agreement, has not been disturbed; (3) as of the date of this
Agreement, no security deposit or portion thereof deposited with respect to such
Company Lease has been applied in respect of a breach or default under such
Company Lease which has not been replenished in full; (4) neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, as applicable, owes, or will owe
in the future, any brokerage commissions or finder’s fees with respect to such
Company Lease; (5) the other party to such Company Lease is not an affiliate of,
and otherwise does not have any economic interest in, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs; (6) except as set forth in Section 3.10(b) of
the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
or Affiliated PCs, as applicable, has subleased, licensed or otherwise granted
any Person the right to use or occupy any Leased Real Property or any portion
thereof; and (7) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated
PCs, as applicable, has collaterally assigned or granted any other security
interest in any Company Lease or any interest therein. The Company
has made available to the Buyer true, complete and accurate copies of all
Company Leases, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no material oral
agreements, promises or understandings with respect to any Leased Real
Property.
Section
3.11 Intellectual
Property.
(a) The
Company and its Subsidiaries own, license, sublicense or otherwise possess
legally enforceable rights to use all material Intellectual Property necessary
to conduct the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs,
as currently conducted. For purposes of this Agreement, the term
“Intellectual
Property” means all of the following in any jurisdiction throughout the
world: (i) all inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable and
whether or not reduced into practice), all improvements thereto, and all related
patents, patent applications and patent disclosures, together with all
reissuances, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, revisions,
extensions and reexaminations; (ii) all trademarks, service marks, trade dress,
logos, trade names and corporate names, together with all translations,
transliterations,
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adaptations,
derivations, and combinations thereof and including all goodwill associated
therewith, and all related applications, registrations and renewals, (iii) all
copyrightable works including original works of authorship, all copyrights, and
all related applications, registrations, and renewals in connection therewith,
domain names, designs and trade secrets; (iv) processes (including but not
limited to business methods and processes, and equipment and/or inventory
management methods), formulae, methods, schematics, technology, know-how,
computer software programs (including but not limited to source code, executable
code, data, database and documentation), applications, ideas, conceptions,
improvements, research and development, algorithms, compositions, processes,
outsourcing methods and processes, technical data, designs, drawings,
specifications, customer and supplier lists, pricing and cost information, and
business and marketing plans and proposals; and (v) all other tangible or
intangible proprietary or confidential information and materials.
(b) Section 3.11(b) of
the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete and accurate list by owner
as of the date of this Agreement of all of the following that are owned by or
filed in the name of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries: (i) registered
Intellectual Property; (ii) pending patent, trademark and copyright
applications, material unregistered trademarks, service marks, trade names,
corporate names, and Internet domain names; (iii) material computer software;
and (iv) any other material unregistered copyright.
(c) Except as
would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect and as set forth in Section 3.11(c) of
the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company or one of its Subsidiaries owns and
possesses all right, title and interest in and to the Intellectual Property set
forth in Section
3.11(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, free and clean of all Liens
(other than Permitted Liens). For the purposes of this Agreement,
“Permitted
Liens” means (i) Liens for Taxes, assessments and governmental charges or
levies not yet due and payable or that are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings and as to which adequate reserves have been established
in accordance with GAAP on the Company’s financial statements; (ii) mechanics’,
carriers’, workmen’s, repairmen’s, 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 with respect to which there remains an
opportunity to contest and as to which adequate reserves have been established
in accordance with GAAP on the Company’s financial statements; (iii) pledges or
deposits to secure obligations under workers’ compensation Laws or similar
legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations; (iv) pledges and
deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, surety and
appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a similar nature, in
each case in the ordinary course of business; (v) easements, covenants and
rights of way (in each case of record) and other similar restrictions of record,
and zoning, building and other similar restrictions, in each case that are not
violated by the applicable property’s current use and that do not adversely
affect in any material respect the current use of the applicable property owned,
leased, used or held for use by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs; (vi) Liens the existence of which are specifically disclosed in
the notes to the consolidated financial statements of the Company included in
any Company SEC Report filed prior to the date of this Agreement; (vii)
non-exclusive Intellectual Property granted in the ordinary course of business
by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs; and (viii) any
other Liens that do not secure indebtedness or other liquidated amounts and that
would not be reasonably likely to, individually or in the aggregate, adversely
affect in any material r
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espect
the current use of the applicable asset owned, leased, used or held for use by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs.
(d) Except as
would not be reasonably expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, the
execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by
the Company of the Merger will not result in the breach of, or create on behalf
of any third party the right to terminate or modify, (i) any license, sublicense
or other agreement relating to any Intellectual Property owned by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs (the “Company Intellectual
Property”), or (ii) any license, sublicense or other agreement as to
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is a party and
pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is
authorized to use any third-party Intellectual Property (the “Third-Party Intellectual
Property”).
(e) All
patents and registrations for trademarks, service marks and copyrights that are
held by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are subsisting and in full force
and effect and have not expired or been cancelled.
(f) Except as
set forth in Section
3.11(f) of the Company Disclosure Letter, (i) there are no pending or, to
the Knowledge of the Company, threatened claims by any person alleging
infringement, violation or misappropriation by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs for the operation of their businesses, (ii)
except as would not be reasonably expected to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect, the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and
Affiliated PCs as currently conducted does not infringe, violate or
misappropriate any Intellectual Property rights of any Person, (iii) neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has made any claim of a
violation, infringement or misappropriation by others of its rights to or in
connection with the Company Intellectual Property, (iv) to the Knowledge of the
Company, no person is infringing or violating any Company Intellectual Property,
(v) except as would not be reasonably expected to have a Company Material
Adverse Effect, all Persons who have participated in the creation or development
of any Company Intellectual Property have executed and delivered to the Company
a valid and enforceable agreement (a) providing for the non-disclosure by such
Person of any confidential information of the Company, and (b) providing for the
assignment by such Person to the Company of any Intellectual Property arising
out of such Person’s employment by, engagement by, or contract with, the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs. Since January 1, 2004,
neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has received
any written claim or notice alleging infringement, violation or misappropriation
of any Intellectual Property rights of any Person.
(g) Except as
set forth in Section
3.11(g) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company and its
Subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps to safeguard the internal and external
integrity of the IT Assets and the data contained
therein, and (i) there have been no material unauthorized intrusions or material
breaches of security, (ii) there has not been any material malfunction that has
not been remedied or replaced in all material respects, (iii) there is no
existing pattern or repetition of customer complaints regarding the
functionality, performance, or achievement of service levels, and (iv) the
Company has an adequate disaster recovery plan in place. The Company
has adequate documentation (including programmer, installation and user
documentation, engineering specifications, flow charts, and know-how) reasonably
necessary for
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the use,
maintenance, enhancement, development and other exploitation of its proprietary
software. Except as set
forth in Section
3.11(g) of the Company Disclosure Letter, all IT Assets owned or controlled by
the Company are free of any disabling codes or instructions, including without
limitation, “viruses” or “worms,” except as would not reasonably be expected to
have a Company Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company’s
proprietary software is used in the Company’s business in such manner as to
trigger provisions of the GNU general public license (GPL), GNU lesser general
public license (LGPL) or other license that would require such software to be
(a) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (b) licensed for the purpose
of making derivative works, or (c) redistributed at no charge. For
purposes of this Agreement, the term “IT Assets” means all
of the following used in the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ or Affiliated PCs’
businesses, as currently conducted: electronic data processing and
storage, information, record keeping, communications, telecommunications,
hardware, software networks, peripherals and computer systems, including any
outsourced systems and processes (e.g., hosting, call centers) and all
documentation associated with any of the foregoing.
Section
3.12 Contracts.
(a) Except as
set forth in Section
3.12(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company, nor any
Subsidiary, nor any Affiliated PC is a party to, nor is any of their respective
properties or assets bound or affected by, any agreements, contracts,
commitments, licenses (or sublicenses) or other instruments or obligations,
whether written or oral, that:
(i) are or
would be required to be filed by the Company as a “material contract” pursuant
to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act or disclosed by
the Company on a Current Report on Form 8-K;
(ii) with
respect to a joint venture, partnership, limited liability or other similar
agreement or arrangement, relate to the formation, creation, operation,
management or control of any partnership or joint venture that is material to
the business of the Company and the Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs, taken as a
whole;
(iii) relate to
indebtedness for borrowed money or any capitalized lease and having an
outstanding principal amount, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of
$200,000;
(iv) were
entered into after December 31, 2007 or not yet consummated, and involve
the acquisition from another person or disposition to another Person, directly
or indirectly (by merger or otherwise), of assets or capital stock or other
equity interests of another Person for aggregate consideration under such
Contract (or series of related Contracts), individually or in the aggregate, in
excess of $250,000 (other than acquisitions or dispositions of inventory in the
ordinary course of business);
(v) relate to
an acquisition, divestiture, merger or similar transaction that contains
representations, covenants, indemnities or other obligations (including
indemnification, “earn-out” or other contingent obligations), that are still in
effect and, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to
result in payments in excess of $250,000;
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(vi) other
than an acquisition subject to clause (v) above, obligate the Company to make
any capital commitment or capital expenditure, other than acquisitions of
inventory (including pursuant to any joint venture), individually or in the
aggregate, in excess of $250,000;
(vii) are
guaranties, indemnities, surety bonds, commitments, and other similar primary,
direct or contingent financial obligations whereby the Company or its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs may be liable or obligated for a debt or
obligation of another (including without limitation all guaranties with respect
to Company Leases);
(viii) relates
to the acquisition, transfer, development, licensing or sharing of any
Intellectual Property or any other agreement affecting the ability of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs to use or disclose any
Intellectual Property, other than license agreements for off the shelf software
that is generally commercially available and less than $50,000;
(ix) provide
for aggregate commitments by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries or Affiliated
PCs of more than $500,000 over the remaining term of such contract;
(x) would
prohibit or materially delay the consummation of the Merger;
(xi) are
otherwise material to the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs, taken
as a whole;
(xii) are
agreements with any employee of any of the Company, a Subsidiary or an
Affiliated PC creating severance, stock, stock option deferred compensation,
severance or any similar obligations for the Company, a Subsidiary or an
Affiliated PC, or requiring payment of total annual compensation in excess of
$100,000;
(xiii) are
collective bargaining agreements;
(xiv) are
settlements, conciliation or similar agreements with any Governmental Authority
or pursuant to which, after the execution date of this Agreement, the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs will be required to pay consideration
in excess of $100,000;
(xv) relate to
an Affiliate Transaction;
(xvi) are: (A)
by and between or among the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on the one hand
and any of the Affiliated PCs on the other; or (B) by and between or among the
Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of the Affiliated PCs on the one hand,
and any third party provider of all or any portion of the technical or
professional component of healthcare services;
(xvii) are by
and between or among the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any of the Affiliated
PCs, and any Qualified Shareholder; or
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(xviii) are by
and between or among the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, any of the Affiliated
PCs, and any third party employer, pursuant to which Company, any of its
Subsidiaries, and/or any Affiliated PC: (A) arranges for or provides for the
adequate staffing of physicians and other professional personnel at such third
party employer’s-sponsored healthcare clinics; (B) agrees to assist such third
party employer in the administration, management and/or operation of employee
health programs; and/or (C) agrees to assist such third party employer in the
administration, management and/or operation of any third party
employer-sponsored pharmacy.
(b) Each
Contract disclosed or required to be disclosed in Section 3.12(a) of the Company
Disclosure Letter is referred to herein as a “Company Material
Contract.” The Company has made available to the Buyer a true,
complete and correct copy of each Company Material Contract, including any
amendments, supplements or modifications thereto.
(c) Except as
set forth in Section
3.12(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, each Company Material Contract
is valid and binding on the Company and any of its Subsidiaries and any
Affiliated PCs to the extent such Subsidiary or Affiliated PC is a party
thereto, as applicable, and to the Knowledge of the Company, each other party
thereto, and is in full force and effect and enforceable in accordance with its
terms, except where the failure to be valid, binding, enforceable and in full
force and effect, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be
expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect. Neither the
Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any Affiliated PC, nor, to the
Company’s Knowledge, any other party to any Company Material Contract is in
violation of or in default under (nor does there exist any condition which, upon
the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, would cause such a
violation of or default under) or has failed to perform under any Company
Material Contract, except for violations, defaults and failures to perform that,
individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect. Each Company Material Contract
fairly and accurately describes in all material respects all of the duties,
obligations and responsibilities of the Company, each of its Subsidiaries and
the Affiliated PCs with respect thereto.
(d) Except
for employment-related Contracts filed or incorporated by reference as an
exhibit to a Company SEC Document filed prior to the date hereof or Company
Employee Plans, Section 3.12(c) of
the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a correct and complete list of the
Contracts that are in existence as of the date of this Agreement under which the
Company has any existing or future material liabilities between the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, any (i)
present officer or director of either the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
any person that has served as such an officer or director or any of such
officer’s or director’s immediate family members (excluding any person that
served as a director or officer of any Subsidiary prior to its acquisition by
the Company, and such person’s immediate family members, provided that such
Person did not continue to serve as a director or officer after the date of such
acquisition), (ii) record or beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Shares as
of the date hereof, or (iii) to the Knowledge of the Company, any Affiliate of
any such officer, director or owner (other than the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries) (each, an “Affiliate
Transaction”). The Company has provided to Buyer true, correct
and complete copies of each Contract or other relevant documentation (including
any amendments or modifications thereto) providing for each Affiliate
Transaction.
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Section
3.13 Litigation;
Investigations. Except
as set forth in Section 3.13 and
Section 3.11(f)
of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no material investigations or
proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened by any
Governmental Authority with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs or any of their properties or assets. Except as set
forth in Section
3.13 of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no material
(i) actions, suits, charges, complaints, material grievances, hearings, orders,
proceedings, claims, or arbitrations (each, an “Action”) pending or,
to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs or any of their respective properties or assets,
at Law or in equity, or (ii) judgments, orders or decrees outstanding against
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs.
Section
3.14 Environmental
Matters.
(a) The
Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs have complied at all times and
are in compliance with all Environmental and Safety Requirements, except where
any failure to comply would not be reasonably expected to have a Company
Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company and its Subsidiaries and
Affiliated PCs have obtained and complied with at all times, and are in
compliance with, all permits, licenses and other authorizations that may be
required pursuant to Environmental and Safety Requirements for the occupation of
the Leased Real Property and the operation of their business and all such
permits, licenses and authorizations may be relied upon by Buyer for the lawful
operation of the business and occupation of the Leased Real Property on and
after the Closing Date without transfer, reissuance or other governmental
action, except where any failure to obtain or comply with, or any inability of
the Buyer to rely upon, such permits, licenses or other authorizations would not
be reasonably expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Since
January 1, 2005, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary or Affiliated PC has
received any written or oral notice, report or other information regarding any
material violation of Environmental and Safety Requirements (whether actual or
alleged), or any material liabilities or potential material liabilities (whether
accrued, absolute, contingent, unliquidated or otherwise), including any
investigatory, remedial or corrective obligations, relating to the business or
any property and arising under Environmental and Safety
Requirements.
(d) Except as
would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, none
of the following exists at any Leased Real Property: (1) underground
storage tanks; (2) asbestos-containing material in any form or condition; (3)
materials or equipment containing polychlorinated biphenyls; or (4) landfills,
surface impoundments, or disposal areas.
(e) Except as
would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect, none
of the Company, its Subsidiaries, or Affiliated PCs, or their respective
predecessors has treated, stored, disposed of, arranged for or permitted the
disposal of, transported, handled, or released, or exposed any person to, any
substance, including without limitation any hazardous substance, or owned or
operated any property or facility (and no such
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property
or facility is contaminated by any such substance) so as to give rise to any
current or future liabilities, including any liability for response costs,
corrective action costs, Personal injury, property damage, natural resources
damages or attorney fees, or any investigative, corrective or remedial
obligations, pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (“CERCLA”) or the Solid
Waste Disposal Act, as amended (“SWDA”) or any other
Environmental and Safety Requirements.
(f) To the
Company’s Knowledge, neither this Agreement nor the consummation of the
transaction that is the subject of this Agreement will result in any obligations
for site investigation or cleanup, or notification to or consent of government
agencies or third parties, pursuant to any of the so-called
“transaction-triggered” or “responsible property transfer” Environmental and
Safety Requirements.
(g) Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary or Affiliated PC has assumed, undertaken, or
otherwise become subject to any material liability, including without limitation
any obligation for corrective or remedial action, of any other person relating
to Environmental and Safety Requirements.
(h) The
Company has furnished to Buyer all environmental audits, reports and other
material environmental documents relating to its or its affiliates or
predecessors past or current properties, facilities or operations which are in
its possession or under its reasonable control.
(i) “Environmental and Safety
Requirements” means all Laws, all contractual obligations and all common
law concerning public health and safety, worker health and safety, and pollution
or protection of the environment, whenever enacted or in effect, including
without limitation all those relating to the presence, use, production,
generation, handling, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal,
distribution, labeling, testing, processing, discharge, release, threatened
release, control, or cleanup of any hazardous materials, substances or wastes,
chemical substances or mixtures, pesticides, pollutants, contaminants, toxic
chemicals, petroleum products or byproducts, asbestos, polychlorinated
biphenyls, noise or radiation.
Section
3.15 Employee Benefit
Plans.
(a) Section 3.15(a) of
the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, complete and accurate list, as
of the date of this Agreement, of all Employee Benefit Plans maintained, or
contributed to, by the Company, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries and Affiliated
PCs or any of their ERISA Affiliates (together, the “Company Employee
Plans”) and each Material Employment Agreement. For purposes
of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (i)
“Employee Benefit
Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as defined in Section
3(2) of ERISA), whether or not subject to ERISA, any “employee welfare benefit
plan” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), whether or not subject to ERISA,
and any other written or oral plan, agreement or arrangement involving direct or
indirect compensation, including the Company Stock Plans, and any vacation,
change in control, fringe benefit, insurance coverage, severance benefits,
disability benefits, deferred compensation, bonuses, stock options, stock
purchase, phantom stock, stock appreciation or other forms of cash, equity or
other incentive compensation or post-retirement compensation and all unexpired
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severance
agreements, for the benefit of, or relating to, any current or former employee,
independent contractor or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs or an ERISA Affiliate, other than any such plan agreement or
arrangement that is an Employment Agreement; (ii) “ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended; (iii) “ERISA Affiliate”
means any entity which is a member of (A) a controlled group of corporations (as
defined in Section 414(b) of the Code), (B) a group of trades or businesses
under common control (as defined in Section 414(c) of the Code), or (C) an
affiliated service group (as defined under Section 414(m) of the Code or the
regulations under Section 414(o) of the Code), any of which includes or included
the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliated PC of the Company; (iv) “Employment Agreement”
means any contract, offer letter or agreement of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs with or addressed to any individual who is
rendering or has rendered services thereto as an employee or consultant pursuant
to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has any actual
or contingent liability or obligation to provide compensation and/or benefits in
consideration for past, present or future services pursuant to which the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has or could have any obligation to
provide compensation and/or benefits (including without limitation severance pay
or benefits) other than any such agreement that provides exclusively for equity
awards granted under the Company Stock Plans or otherwise; and (v) “Material Employment
Agreement” means any Employment Agreement pursuant to which the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has or could have any obligation to
provide compensation and/or benefits (including without limitation severance pay
or benefits) in an amount or having a value in excess of $100,000 in any
year.
(b) Except as
set forth in Section
3.15(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Company
Employee Plan, the Company has made available to the Buyer a true, complete and
accurate copy of (i) such Company Employee Plan, and all amendments thereto (or
a written description of any unwritten Company Employee Plan), (ii) the three
most recent annual reports (Form 5500, including related audited financial and
actuarial reports) filed with the IRS, (iii) each trust agreement, group annuity
contract and summary plan description and summary of material modifications, if
any, relating to such Company Employee Plan, (iv) all other material agreements
pursuant to which each Company Employee Plan is maintained, funded and
administered, (v) the most recent determination or opinion letter received from
the IRS and (vi) all correspondence from or to any governmental agency
concerning each Company Employee Plan, other than routine
correspondence. The Company has made available to the Buyer a true,
complete and accurate copy of each Material Employment Agreement.
(c) Except as
set forth in Section
3.15(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter,, each Company Employee Plan is
being administered in all material respects in accordance with ERISA, the Code
and all other applicable Laws and the regulations thereunder and in accordance
with its terms. There is not now, nor to the Company’s Knowledge do
any circumstances exist that could give rise to, any requirement for the posting
of security with respect to a Company Employee Plan or the imposition of any
Lien on the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under ERISA or the
Code. Except as set forth in Section 3.15(c) of
the Company Disclosure Letter, neither the Company, the ERISA Affiliates nor any
other “disqualified person” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code) or
“party in interest” (within the meaning of Section 3(14) of ERISA) has taken any
action with respect to any Company Employee Plan that could subject any such
Company Employee Plan (or its related trust) or the
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Company,
its ERISA Affiliates or any officer, director or employee of any of the
foregoing to any penalty or tax under Section 502(i) of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code. Each Company Employee Plan that is a “nonqualified deferred
compensation plan” within the meaning of Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code and any
award thereunder, in each case that is subject to Section 409A of the Code, has
been operated in “good faith” compliance in all material respects with Section
409A of the Code and U.S. Treasury guidance related thereto since January 1,
2005.
(d) Except as
set forth in Section
3.15(d) of the Company Disclosure Letter, with respect to each Company
Employee Plan, all required payments, premiums, contributions, reimbursements or
accruals for all periods (or partial periods) ending prior to or as of the
Effective Time shall have been made or properly accrued to the extent required
by GAAP on the Company’s financial statements. The assets of each
Company Employee Plan which is funded are reported at their fair market value on
the books and records of such Company Employee Plan and, if applicable, the
Company’s financial statements. None of the Company Employee Plans
has any unfunded liabilities that are not reflected on Company’s financial
statements.
(e) Each
Company Employee Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of
the Code has received a determination letter or opinion letter from the IRS to
the effect that such Company Employee Plan is qualified and the plan and trust
related thereto are exempt from federal income taxes under Sections 401(a) and
501(a), respectively, of the Code. No such determination letter or
opinion letter has been revoked and revocation has not been
threatened. No such Company Employee Plan has been amended or
operated since the date of its most recent determination letter or opinion
letter or application therefor in any respect, and, to the Company’s Knowledge,
no act or omission has occurred, in either case that would reasonably be
expected to adversely affect its qualification.
(f) Neither
the Company, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs nor any of
their ERISA Affiliates has (i) ever maintained a Company Employee Plan which was
ever subject to Section 412 of the Code, Section 302 of Title I of ERISA or
Title IV of ERISA; or (ii) ever been obligated to contribute to a “multiemployer
plan” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA).
(g) Except as
set forth in Section
3.15(g) of the Company Disclosure Schedule,
(i) the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement (either alone or in conjunction with
any other event) shall not (A) trigger the distribution, funding, accelerated
vesting or an increase in the amount or value of, any payment or benefits to any
employee, officer or director of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs, pursuant to any Company Employee Plan, Employment Agreement or
other agreement between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs
and any stockholder, director or executive officer of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs (B) trigger a material alteration in the terms of
any Company Employee Plan, Employment Agreement or other agreement between the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs and any stockholders,
director or executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs or (C) limit the right of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
or Affiliated PCs to amend, merge, terminate or receive a reversion of assets
from any Company Employee Plan, Employment Agreement or other
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agreement
between the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs and any
stockholders, director or executive officer of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs;
(ii) No
Company Employee Plan, Employment Agreement or other agreement between the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs and any stockholder,
director or executive officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs provides (A) any term of employment or compensation guarantee, or
(B) severance benefits or other benefits after the termination of employment of
any director or executive officer; and
(iii) No
Company Employee Plan, Employment Agreement or other agreement or plan binding
on the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, including any stock
option plan, stock appreciation right plan, restricted stock plan, stock
purchase plan or severance benefit plan, provides for benefits the value of
which shall be calculated on the basis of any of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement.
(h) None of
the Company, any Subsidiary, any Affiliated PC, or any Company Employee Plans
promises or provides retiree medical or other retiree welfare benefits to any
person, except as required by applicable Law.
(i) Except as
set forth in Section 3.15(i) of the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no
pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened claims (other than claims for
benefits in the ordinary course), lawsuits, audits, investigations, actions or
arbitrations which have been asserted or instituted, and, to Company’s
Knowledge, no set of circumstances exists which may reasonably give rise to a
claim or lawsuit, against the Company Employee Plans, any fiduciaries thereof
with respect to their duties to the Company Employee Plans or the assets of any
of the trusts under any of the Company Employee Plans which could reasonably be
expected to result in any material liability of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the
Department of Treasury, the Department of Labor, any Company Employee Plan, any
participant in a Company Employee Plan, or any other party.
(j) The
parties acknowledge that certain payments have been made or are to be made and
certain benefits have been granted or are to be granted according to employment
compensation, severance and other employee benefit plans of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs, including the Company Employee Plans and the
Employment Agreements (collectively, the “Arrangements”) to
certain holders of Company Common Stock and other securities of the Company (the
“Covered
Securityholders”). The Company represents and warrants that
all such amounts payable under the Arrangements (i) are being paid or granted as
compensation for past services performed, future services to be performed, or
future services to be refrained from performing, by the Covered Securityholders
(and matters incidental thereto) and (ii) are not calculated based on the number
of Shares tendered or to be tendered into the Offers by the applicable Covered
Securityholder. The Company also represents and warrants that (A) the
adoption, approval, amendment or modification of each Arrangement since the
discussions relating to the transactions contemplated hereby between the Company
and the Buyer began has been approved as an employment compensation, severance
or other employee benefit arrangement solely by independent directors of the
Company in accordance with the
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requirements
of Rule 14d-10(d)(2) under the Exchange Act and the instructions thereto and (B)
the “safe harbor” provided pursuant to Rule 14d-10(d)(2) is otherwise applicable
thereto as a result of the taking prior to the execution of this Agreement of
all necessary actions by the Company Board, the Executive Compensation Committee
of the Company Board or its independent directors. A true and complete copy of
any resolutions of any committee of the Company Board reflecting any approvals
and actions referred to in the preceding sentence and taken prior to the date of
this Agreement has been provided to the Buyer prior to the execution of this
Agreement.
(k) With
respect to each benefit plan, bonus, deferred compensation, severance pay,
pension, profit-sharing, retirement, insurance, stock purchase, stock option,
vacation pay, sick pay or other fringe benefit plan, arrangement or practice
that is currently sponsored or maintained outside the jurisdiction of the United
States by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, that is not
subject to the laws of the United States, and that covers an employee of the
Company or any Affiliate that resides or works outside the United States (each a
“Non U.S. Company
Employee Plan”), the following representations are made with respect to
those Non U.S. Company Employee Plans.
(i) all
employer and employee contributions to each Non U.S. Company Employee Plan
required by law or by the terms of such Non U.S. Company Employee Plan have been
made, or, if applicable, accrued in accordance with normal accounting
practices;
(ii) each Non
U.S. Company Employee Plan required to be registered or approved has been
registered or approved and has been maintained in good standing with applicable
regulatory authorities and each Non U.S. Company Employee Plan is now and always
has been operated in material compliance with all applicable non-United States
laws; and
(iii) each Non
U.S. Company Employee Plan is set forth in Section 3.15(k) of the Company
Disclosure Letter.
Section
3.16 Permits. The
Company, each of its Subsidiaries, and each of the Affiliated PCs have all
material franchises, tariffs, grants, authorizations, licenses, permits,
easements, variances, exceptions, consents, certificates, approvals and orders
of any Governmental Authority necessary for the Company, its Subsidiaries, and
the Affiliated PCs to own, lease and operate their properties and assets or to
carry on their businesses as they are now being conducted (the “Company
Permits”). Company Permits shall include any and all state
medical board licenses and registrations, DEA registrations, Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”) or state
laboratory waivers, licenses, or permits and all Medicare, Medicaid or other
billing numbers and reassignments. The Company Permits are in full
force and effect. The Company, each of its Subsidiaries, and each of
the Affiliated PCs are in compliance with the terms of the Company
Permits
Section
3.17 Labor
Matters.
(a) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is a party to, or
bound by, any collective bargaining agreement or relationship with any labor
organization. No labor organization or group of employees of the
Company or any of its
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Subsidiaries
or Affiliated PCs has filed any representation petition or made any written or
oral demand for recognition. To the Company’s Knowledge, no union
organizing or decertification efforts are underway or threatened and none have
occurred in the past three (3) years, and no other question concerning
representation exists. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is the subject of any proceeding asserting that
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has committed an unfair
labor practice. There are no pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge,
threatened labor strikes, walkouts, work stoppages, slow-downs lockouts,
material arbitrations, material grievances, or other material labor disputes
pending or threatened against or involving the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, and no such labor disputes have occurred within
the past three (3) years.
(b) There is
no xxxxxxx’x compensation liability, experience or matter outside the ordinary
course of business.
(c) There is
no employment-related Action pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, threatened in any forum relating to an
alleged violation or breach by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs (or any of their officers or directors) of any law, regulation or
contract and to the Knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, no
employee or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs
has committed any act or omission giving rise to material liability for any such
violation or breach.
(d) Within
the past three (3) years, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs has implemented any plant closing or layoff of employees that
could implicate the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988,
as amended, or any similar foreign, state or local law, regulation or ordinance
(collectively, the “WARN Act”), and no
such action will be implemented without advance notification to
Buyer.
(e) Each of
the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs is in material compliance
with all applicable Laws respecting employment practices and the employment of
labor, except for instances of noncompliance that would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section
3.18 Insurance.
(a) Section 3.18 of the
Company Disclosure Letter contains a list of all insurance policies applicable
to the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs that is currently in
effect, including policy type (e.g., whether such
policy is occurrence-based), policy numbers, applicable deductible levels,
policy periods and available limits of coverage. The Company, its
Subsidiaries, Affiliated PCs and each of the professional employees and
professional contractors of each Affiliated PC maintain, or are entitled to the
benefits of, insurance with reputable insurance carriers against risks of a
character and in such amounts that are customary for businesses of their
type. None of the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs has
received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that substantial
capital improvements or other expenditures, or material changes in businesses or
business practices, will have to be made in order to continue such insurance,
and all such insurance is outstanding and duly in force.
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(b) Except as
set forth on Section 3.18(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule,
(i) The
Company, each of its Subsidiaries, each Affiliated PC, and each of the
professional employees and professional contractors of each Affiliated PC
maintain all insurance necessary or required to satisfy the terms and conditions
of each Company Material Contract, including policy types (e.g., whether such
policy is occurrence-based), applicable deductible levels, policy periods and
available limits of coverage and liability, and any such additional endorsements
as may be required pursuant to the terms and conditions of such Company Material
Contract and all such insurance is outstanding and duly in force, except where
the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Company
Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) all
necessary regulatory approvals relating to the change of control of Green Hills
Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group arising from the Merger will be
obtained prior to the Acceptance Time;
(iii) Green
Hills Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group is in compliance with all
applicable state laws governing the operation of risk retention groups under the
Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986, 15 U.S.C. s. 3901 et seq. (the “LRRA”);
(iv) Green
Hills Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group is in good standing with the
Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care
Administration (“BISHCA”), as a
captive insurance company organized as a risk retention group, is in compliance
with the LRRA, and is properly registered as a risk retention group under the
LRRA in all states in which it solicits or provides insurance;
(v) Green
Hills Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group has paid all premium taxes for
the year ended December 31, 2007 in all states in which it owes such premium
taxes; and
(vi) Green
Hills Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group is adequately reserved, at the
recommended levels by its independent actuary, for all losses, including
reserves for incurred but not reported reserve requirements, loss adjustment
expenses, and unallocated loss adjustment expenses.
Section
3.19 Brokers. No
agent, broker, investment banker, financial advisor or other firm or Person is
or shall be entitled, as a result of any action, agreement or commitment of the
Company or any of its Affiliates, to any broker’s, finder’s, financial advisor’s
or other similar fee or commission in connection with any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, except Bryant Park Capital, Inc., the fees and
expenses of which shall be paid in full by the Company no later than the Closing
Date of the Merger.
Section
3.20 Subsidiaries; Affiliated
PCs.
(a) Section 3.20(a) of
the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth, as of the date of this Agreement, a
true, complete and accurate list of all of the Company’s Subsidiaries and
Affiliated PCs and for each Subsidiary and Affiliated PC of the
Company: (i) its name and form
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of
organization; (ii) the number and type of outstanding equity securities and a
list of the holders thereof; and (iii) the jurisdiction of
organization. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Subsidiary” means,
with respect to any party, any corporation, partnership, trust, limited
liability company or other non-corporate business enterprise in which such party
(or another Subsidiary of such party) holds stock or other ownership interests
representing (A) fifty percent (50%) or more of the voting power of all
outstanding stock or ownership interests of such entity or (B) the right to
receive fifty percent (50%) or more of the net assets of such entity available
for distribution to the holders of outstanding stock or ownership interests upon
a liquidation or dissolution of such entity. For purposes of this
Agreement, “Affiliated
PC” means professional entities that have executed a Services Agreement
with the Company or any of Company’s Subsidiaries, any professional entity whose
shareholder or equity owner has executed an Option Agreement with Company or any
of Company’s Subsidiaries or professional entities that employ providers that
perform medical services exclusively to the clients of the
Subsidiaries.
(b) Each
Subsidiary and Affiliated PC of the Company is a business entity duly organized,
validly existing, in good standing, and duly licensed or registered (to the
extent such concepts are applicable) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
organization, has all requisite company power and authority to own, lease and
operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as now being
conducted, and is duly qualified to do business, is duly licensed or registered,
and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other business entity (to
the extent such concepts are applicable) in each jurisdiction where the
character of its properties owned, operated or leased or the nature of its
activities makes such qualification necessary, except for such failures to be so
organized, qualified or in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, as
would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect. Each shareholder of each Affiliated PC is duly licensed to
practice medicine under the laws of the Affiliated PC’s jurisdiction of
organization or is otherwise qualified to own shares in a professional
organization in accordance with state law and each such shareholder is actively
practicing in such jurisdiction to the extent required under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization and such other jurisdiction where required
(each, a “Qualified
Shareholder”). All of the outstanding shares of capital stock
and other equity securities or interests of each Subsidiary and Affiliated PC of
the Company are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable and
free of preemptive rights and, except as described in Section 3.20(b) of
the Company Disclosure Letter, all such shares are owned, of record and
beneficially, by the Company or another of its Subsidiaries or a Qualified
Shareholder free and clear of all Liens or limitations in the Company’s voting
rights (other than
Permitted Liens). Except as described in Section 3.20(b) of
the Company Disclosure Letter, there are no outstanding or authorized options,
warrants, rights, agreements or commitments to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs is a party or which are binding on any of them
providing for the issuance, disposition or acquisition of any capital stock or
equity of any Subsidiary or Affiliated PC of the Company. There are
no outstanding stock appreciation, phantom stock or similar rights with respect
to any Subsidiary or Affiliated PC of the Company. To the Company’s
Knowledge there are no voting trusts, proxies or other agreements or
understandings with respect to the Company’s voting of any capital stock of any
Subsidiary or Affiliated PC of the Company except as described in Section 3.20(b) of
the Company Disclosure Letter. Neither the Company nor its
Subsidiaries nor its Affiliated PCs are parties to any Contracts that would
cause any Affiliated PC or the any of the shareholders of any Affiliated PC to
violate any Law, including but not limited to any Law relating to the corporate
practice of medicine or fee splitting except
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where any
such violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(c) The
Company has made available to the Buyer complete and accurate copies of the
charter, bylaws or other organizational documents of each Subsidiary and each
Affiliated PC, to the extent such are available.
(d) Except as
described in Section
3.20(d) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company does not control
directly or indirectly or have any direct or indirect equity participation or
similar interest in any corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
joint venture, trust or other business association or entity which is not a
Subsidiary or Affiliated PC of the Company, other than securities in a publicly
traded company held for investment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
Affiliated PCs and consisting of less than five percent (5%) of the outstanding
capital stock of such company.
Section
3.21 Compliance with Laws;
Healthcare Regulatory Matters.
(a) To the
Company’s Knowledge, except as described in Section 3.21(a) of
the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company and, each of its Subsidiaries, and
each of the Affiliated PCs is, and has been, in compliance in all material
respects with the terms and provisions of all Laws to which it and its
properties and assets are subject, including, without limitation, all rules and
regulations of the Medicare program (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act),
the Medicaid program (Title XIX of the Social Security Act), the TRICARE program
(10 U.S.C. §§ 1071, et seq.) and any other federal, state or
local governmental health care program in which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs participates (hereinafter referred to
collectively as the “Governmental
Programs”), including any program manuals, handbooks, policies,
procedures and administrative guidance interpreting such rules and
regulations.
(b) To the
Company’s Knowledge, neither the Company, nor any Subsidiary, nor any Affiliated
PC, nor to the Company’s Knowledge any shareholder owning ten percent (10%) or
more of any class of securities, or any officer or director thereof, nor to the
Knowledge of the Company, any current or former employee of the Company, any
Subsidiary, or any Affiliated PC, or any persons and entities providing
professional services in connection with the Company’s, any Subsidiary’s, or any
Affiliated PC’s business: (i) has at any time been suspended or
excluded or threatened to be suspended or excluded from participation in any
Governmental Program, or has at any time been listed on any excluded persons
list with respect to any Governmental Program; and (ii) has engaged in any
activities which are prohibited under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1320a-7, 1320a-7a,
1320a-7b and 1395nn, and 42 C.F.R. § 411.351 et seq.,
42 C.F.R. § 1101 et seq., 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 to 3733 (or
other federal or state statutes, rules or regulations related to any filing
claims for healthcare services, health care fraud and abuse or anti-self
referral) or the regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes, or related
state statutes or regulations, including but not limited to the following as
applicable to any particular Government Program: knowingly and
willfully making or causing to be made a false statement or representation of
fact in any application for any benefit or payment; knowingly and willfully
making or causing to be made any false statement or representation of fact for
use in determining rights to any benefit or payment; failing to disclose
knowledge by a claimant of the occurrence of
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any event
affecting the initial or continued right to any benefit or payment on its own
behalf or on behalf of another, with intent to fraudulently secure such benefit
or payment; and knowingly and willfully soliciting or receiving any remuneration
(including any kickback, bribe or rebate), directly or indirectly, overtly or
covertly, in cash or in kind or offering to pay or receive such remuneration (A)
in return for referring an individual to a person for the furnishing or
arranging for the furnishing of any item of service for which payment may be
made in whole or in part by any Governmental Program, or (B) in return for
purchasing, leasing, or ordering or arranging for or recommending purchasing,
leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service or item for which payment may
be made in whole or in part by any Governmental Program.
(c) To the
Company’s Knowledge, the Company, each Subsidiary, and each Affiliated PC has
duly and timely filed with the proper authorities all material claims, reports
and other information required by any Governmental Authority. The
Company, each Subsidiary, and each Affiliated PC has paid or caused to be paid
all known and undisputed refunds, overpayments, recoupments, set-offs, discounts
or adjustments. Except as set forth in Section 3.21(c) of
the Company Disclosure Letter: (i) there are no material pending
investigations, appeals, adjustments, challenges, audits, inquiries, litigations
or notices of intent to audit with respect to prior claims, reports or xxxxxxxx;
(ii) during the last two (2) years neither the Company, nor any Subsidiary, nor
any Affiliated PC has been audited, or otherwise examined by any Company Payment
Program resulting in an undisputed liability or payment due and payable in
excess of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000); and (iii) there are
no material claims, reports or other information required to be filed by the
Company, any Subsidiary, or any Affiliated PC in order to be paid under any
Company Payment Program for services rendered, except for claims, reports, or
other information not yet due. “Private Programs”
shall mean any non-Governmental Program third party payor with which the
Company, any Subsidiary, or any Affiliated PC has a Contract to provide services
and to receive payment therefor and which in calendar year 2007 generated or
which is expected in calendar year 2008 to generate revenue for the Company, its
Subsidiaries, and the Affiliated PCs in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500,000). Collectively, Governmental Programs and Private Programs
shall be referred to as “Company Payment
Programs.”
(d) Section 3.21(d) of
the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a true, complete and accurate list of
all provider numbers, supplier numbers or other authorizations to xxxx pursuant
to Governmental Programs that have been issued to the Company, any Subsidiary,
or any Affiliated PC, all reassignments from individual licensed health care
practitioners, and all provider, supplier and other participating provider
agreements under all Private Programs to which the Company or any Subsidiary or
Affiliated PC is a party. To the Company’s Knowledge, the Company and
each Subsidiary and Affiliated PC meet all material conditions for participation
in, and are in good standing with respect to, each Company Payment
Program. There is no pending, concluded or, to the Knowledge of
Company, threatened: (i) investigation, audit, claim review, or other
action pending or threatened which is likely to result in a revocation,
suspension, termination, probation, restriction, limitation, or non-renewal of
any Company Payment Program provider/supplier number, participation agreement or
authorization, or result in the Company’s, any Subsidiary’s, or any Affiliated
PC’s exclusion or debarment from any Company Payment Program; (ii) validation
review, program integrity review or reimbursement audit other than those
conducted in the ordinary course of business; (iii) voluntary disclosure by the
Company, any Subsidiary, or any Affiliated PC to the Office of the
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Inspector
General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, a Medicare
carrier, fiscal intermediary or other contractor, a State Medicaid program or
any other Governmental Authority of a potential overpayment or claims related
matter other than refunds processed in the ordinary course of business; or (iv)
health care survey report related to federal or state licensure, certification
or accreditation which includes any statement of material deficiencies
pertaining to the Company, any Subsidiary, or any Affiliated PC which will not
be fully corrected prior to Closing.
(e) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any of the Affiliated PCs nor, to
the Knowledge of the Company, any of their respective, directors, officers or
employees, during the past three (3) years: (i) has been assessed a
civil money penalty under Section 1128A of the Social Security Act or any
regulations promulgated thereunder; (ii) has been convicted of any criminal
offense relating to the delivery of any item or service under a Governmental
Program, including but not limited to convictions relating to the unlawful
manufacture, distribution, prescription, or dispensing of a prescription drug or
a controlled substance; (iii) has been convicted under any Law of a criminal
offense relating to neglect or abuse of patients in connection with the delivery
of a health care item or service; or (iv) is a party to or subject to any action
or proceeding concerning any of the matters described above in clauses (i)
through (iii) above.
(f) Except as
set forth on Section
3.21(f) of the Company Disclosure Letter, each laboratory owned or
operated by the Company, each of its Subsidiaries, or each of the Affiliated PCs
holds a laboratory registration or waiver issued pursuant to the CLIA and
possesses any and all state certifications or licenses required to operate the
laboratories. Except as set forth on Section 3.21(f) of the Company
Disclosure Letter, neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any of the
Affiliated PCs has Knowledge of any investigation, audit or other action with
respect to such certifications or licenses. The Company, each of its
Subsidiaries, and each of the Affiliated PCs (as applicable) is in compliance
with all applicable Laws relating to the ownership and operation of clinical
laboratories, including, without limitation, the federal Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments (“CLIA”), as amended, any state law equivalents, and any
rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, except for failures to comply that
individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
Company Material Adverse Effect.
(g) The
Company, each of its Subsidiaries, and each of the Affiliated PCs (as
applicable) is in compliance with all applicable Laws relating to patient or
individual health care information, including, without limitation, the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104 191, as
amended, any state law equivalents, and any rules or regulations promulgated
thereunder, except for failures to comply that, individually or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse
Effect.
(h) The
Company, each of its Subsidiaries, and each of the Affiliated PCs (as
applicable): (i) has and holds current and valid federal, state and
local licenses and certificates required to provide mammography and other
diagnostic radiological services, including required state, federal, or local
licenses or registrations related to the use of radioactive materials; (ii)
maintains accreditation by the American College of Radiology or other
FDA-approved accreditation body related to such diagnostic radiological
facilities or services; and (iii) to the
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extent
required, is in compliance with applicable provisions of the federal Mammography
Quality Standards Act, 42 U.S.C. § 263b and related administrative rules,
regulations, and guidance and such other provisions of law relating to the
provision of diagnostic radiological services.
(i) Neither
Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any of the Affiliated PCs and its and
their employed affiliated licensed healthcare practitioners, and to the
Company’s Knowledge, their contracted or otherwise affiliated licensed
healthcare practitioners is currently under, or to the Company’s Knowledge, has
been threatened with investigation by any Company Payment
Program. Each individual licensed person who provides professional
services in connection with the business of Company, its Subsidiaries and the
Affiliated PCs has all permits, licenses, accreditations and, as applicable,
collaborative practice or supervisory arrangements (all in good standing and
without restriction) necessary to practice (as applicable) in the state and
locality in which such person provides services and is in full compliance with
all terms or requirements of all such permits, licenses, accreditations, and
collaborative practice or supervisory arrangements, except where the absence of,
or restrictions on, such permits, licenses, accreditations and, as applicable,
collaborative practice or supervisory arrangements would not, individually or in
the aggregate, have a Company Material Adverse Effect. To the
Company’s Knowledge, each such person is covered by professional malpractice
insurance with limits of liability of no less than One Million Dollars
($1,000,000) per claim and Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) annual
aggregate. Each such person has complied with all collaborative and
supervision requirements in the applicable state with respect to the
collaboration with and supervision over allied health professionals including,
but not limited to, advanced nurse practitioners and physician assistants,
except where failure to comply would not, individually or in the aggregate, have
a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section
3.22 Controlled Substances;
Pharmacy.
(a) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor any of the Affiliated PCs nor, to
the Knowledge of the Company, any of their respective officers, directors,
employees, or agents or persons who provide professional services to the Company
or any Subsidiary or any Affiliated PC, has, in connection with activities
directly or indirectly related to the Company or such Subsidiary or Affiliated
PC, engaged in any activities which are prohibited under the Federal Controlled
Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 801, et seq. or the
regulations promulgated pursuant to such statute or any related state or local
statutes or regulations concerning the dispensing and sale of controlled
substances.
(b) The
Company, each of its Subsidiaries, each of the Affiliated PCs, and any and all
licensed pharmacies owned, managed, or controlled by any of them: (i)
is in material compliance with all applicable Laws and any other applicable
guidance relating to the operation of pharmacies, the repackaging of drug
products, the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs or controlled
substances, the dispensing of prescription drugs or controlled substances, and
the sale of prescription drugs or controlled substances; (ii) is in compliance
with all applicable Laws and any other applicable guidance relating to the
labeling, packaging, advertising, or adulteration of prescription drugs or
controlled substances; (iii) possesses all current and valid licenses and
permits necessary to carry out the business of the Company, each of its
Subsidiaries, and each of the Affiliated PCs related to pharmacy services; and
(iv) is not subject to any sanction or other
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adverse
action by any Governmental Authority for the matters described above in clauses
(i) and (ii).
(c) At all
times, the Company, each of its Subsidiaries, and each of the Affiliated PCs and
any and all licensed pharmacies owned, managed, or controlled by any of them has
maintained full physical possession, custody and control over all prescription
drugs, including controlled substances, in its possession. At no time
has any party had physical possession, custody or control over prescription
drugs, including controlled substances, except in full compliance with
applicable laws governing pharmacies and prescription drugs, including
controlled substances.
Section
3.23 Inventories;
Suppliers. The
inventory that the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs maintain for
the benefit of their customers consists, and will consist at the Closing of
items of a quality and quantity usable in the ordinary course of
business. The amount and quality of the inventory of the Company and
its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs is consistent with normal operating levels
maintained by the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs in the
ordinary course of business. Section 3.23 of
the Company Disclosure Letter identifies the material supplier of the Company
and its Subsidiaries and Affiliated PCs, taken as a whole, as well as a list of
all Contracts related to such material supplier, a true, complete and correct
copy of each has been previously provided to the Buyer
Section
3.24 Absence of Certain Business
Practices.
(a) Neither
the Company nor its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, nor, to the Knowledge of the
Company, any officer, director, employee or agent of the Company or its
Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, nor any other person or entity acting on behalf
of the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PCs, acting alone or together,
has (i) received, directly or indirectly, any rebates, payments, commissions,
promotional allowances or any other economic benefits, regardless of their
nature or type, from any customer, employee or official of any Governmental
Authority or other person or entity with whom the Company or such Subsidiary or
Affiliated PC has done business, directly or indirectly, or (ii) directly or
indirectly, given or agreed to give any gift or similar benefit to any customer,
employee or official of any Governmental Authority or other person or entity who
is or may be in a position to help or hinder the Company or any Subsidiary or
Affiliated PC (or assist the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliated PC in
connection with any actual or proposed transaction) which, in the case of either
clause (i) or clause (ii) above, would reasonably be expected to subject the
Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliated PC to any material damage or penalty
in any civil, criminal, administrative or regulatory
proceeding. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries nor its
Affiliated PCs, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any officer, director,
employee or agent thereof has used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts,
entertainment or other expenses relating to political activity or otherwise, or
has made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to officials or employees of a
Governmental Authority from the entities’ funds or been reimbursed from the
entities’ funds for any such payment, or is aware that any other person
associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary or any
Affiliated PC has engaged in any such activities.
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ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF
THE BUYER
AND THE ACQUISITION SUB
The Buyer
and the Acquisition Sub jointly and severally represent and warrant to the
Company as follows:
Section 4.1 Organization. Each
of the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
incorporation, has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and
operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as now being
conducted, and is duly qualified to do business and, where applicable as a legal
concept, is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in
which the property owned, leased or operated or the nature of the business
conducted by it makes such qualification or licensing necessary, except for such
failures to be so organized, qualified or in good standing, individually or in
the aggregate, that would not reasonably be expected to have a Buyer Material
Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Buyer Material Adverse
Effect” means any material adverse effect on the ability of the Buyer or
Acquisition Sub to consummate the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
Section
4.2 Corporate
Authority.
(a) Each of
the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub has the corporate power and authority to
execute and deliver this Agreement, to consummate the Offers and the Merger and
the other transactions contemplated hereby and to perform each of its
obligations hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance by the
Buyer and the Acquisition Sub of this Agreement and the consummation by the
Buyer and the Acquisition Sub of the Offers and the Merger and the other
transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and validly authorized,
including approval by the board of directors of the Acquisition Sub and by the
Buyer as the sole stockholder of the Acquisition Sub, and no other corporate
proceedings on the part of the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub is necessary to
approve this Agreement or to consummate the Offers and the Merger or the other
transactions contemplated hereby.
(b) This
Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by each of the Buyer
and the Acquisition Sub and, assuming the due and valid execution and delivery
of this Agreement by the Company, constitutes a legal, valid and binding
agreement of each of the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub, enforceable against each
of the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub in accordance with its terms, except as
such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium,
reorganization or similar Laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally and general equitable principles.
Section 4.3 Governmental
Authorization. The
execution, delivery and performance by each of the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub
of this Agreement and the consummation by each of the Buyer and the Acquisition
Sub of the Offers and the Merger do not and will not require any consent,
approval, authorization or permit of, action by, filing with or notification to
any Governmental Authority, other than (i) the filing of the Certificate of
Merger; (ii) compliance
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with the
applicable requirements of the HSR Act; and (iii) any such consent, approval,
authorization, permit, action, filing or notification the failure of which to
make or obtain would not individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Buyer Material Adverse Effect.
Section 4.4 Non-Contravention. The
execution and delivery of this Agreement by each of the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub do not, and the consummation by each of the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub of the Offers and the Merger and the other transactions
contemplated hereby shall not (i) contravene or conflict with, or result in any
violation or breach of any provision of, the organizational or governing
documents of the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub; (ii) contravene or conflict with
or constitute a violation of any provision of any Law binding upon or applicable
to the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub or any of their respective properties or
assets; or (iii) require the consent, approval or authorization of, or notice to
or filing with any third party with respect to, or result in any breach or
violation of, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become a default) or result in the loss of benefit under, or
give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, amendment or acceleration
of, any right or obligation of the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub, or result in
the creation of any Lien on any of the properties or assets of the Buyer or the
Acquisition Sub under any Contract to which the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub is
a party or by which the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub or its or any of their
respective properties or assets are bound, except in the case of clauses (ii)
and (iii) above, which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably
be expected to have a Buyer Material Adverse Effect.
Section 4.5 Schedule TO; Information
Provided. The
Schedule TO to be filed by the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub in connection with
the Offers and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the
other Offer Documents will comply in all material respects with the requirements
of the Exchange Act. The Schedule TO and the other Offer Documents,
and the information supplied by or on behalf of the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub
for inclusion in the Schedule 14D-9, on the respective dates that the Schedule
TO and the other Offer Documents and the Schedule 14D-9 are filed with the SEC,
and on the dates they are first published, sent or given to stockholders of the
Company, 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. The information to be supplied by or on behalf
of the Buyer for inclusion in the Proxy Statement to be sent to the stockholders
of the Company in connection with the Company Meeting shall not, on the date the
Proxy Statement is first mailed to stockholders of the Company, at the time of
the Company Meeting, or at the Effective Time, contain any statement which, at
such time and in light of the circumstances under which it shall be made, is
false or misleading with respect to any material fact, or omit to state any
material fact necessary in order to make the statements made in the Proxy
Statement not false or misleading, or omit to state any material fact necessary
to correct any statement in any earlier communication with respect to the
solicitation of proxies for the Company Meeting which has become false or
misleading. If at any time prior to the Company Meeting any fact or
event relating to the Buyer or any of its Affiliates which should be set forth
in a supplement to the Proxy Statement should be discovered by the Buyer or
should occur, the Buyer shall, promptly after becoming aware thereof, inform the
Company of such fact or event.
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Section 4.6 Litigation. As
of the date of this Agreement, there is no action, suit, proceeding, claim,
arbitration or investigation pending and of which the Buyer or the Acquisition
Sub has been notified or, to the Buyer’s knowledge, threatened against the Buyer
or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case that, individually or in the aggregate,
would reasonably be expected to have a Buyer Material Adverse
Effect.
Section 4.7 Operations of Acquisition
Sub. Acquisition
Sub was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and has engaged in no business activities other
than incident to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby.
Section
4.8 Available
Funds. At
the expiration of the Offers and at the Effective Time, the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub will have available all the funds necessary to purchase all the
Shares pursuant to the Offers and the Merger and to pay all fees and expenses
payable by the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub related to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
Section 4.9 No Intermediary Transaction
Tax Shelter. Neither
the Buyer nor Acquisition Sub shall take any action with respect to the Company
subsequent to the Closing that would cause the Offers and the Merger
and the other transactions contemplated hereby to constitute part of a
transaction that is the same as, or substantially similar to, the ”Intermediary
Transaction Tax Shelter” described in Internal Revenue Service Notice 2001-16,
2001-1 C.B. 730, and Internal Revenue Service Notice 2008-20 I.R.B. 2008-6
(January 17, 2008).
Section
4.10 Ownership of Company Common
Stock. Neither
the Buyer nor any of the Buyer’s “Affiliates” or “associates” is, and at no time
during the last three years has been, an “interested stockholder” of the
Company, as defined in Section 203 of the DGCL.
ARTICLE
V
CONDUCT
OF BUSINESS
Section 5.1 Covenants of the
Company. Except
as expressly provided or permitted herein, set forth in Section 5.1 of the
Company Disclosure Letter or as consented to in writing by the Buyer (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, provided that the
Buyer shall be given at least three (3) Business Days’ advance notice), during
the period commencing on the date of this Agreement and ending at the Effective
Time (the “Interim
Period”), the Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to
(i) operate only in the ordinary course of business and (ii) use commercially
reasonable efforts to (A) maintain and preserve intact its business
organization, (B) retain the services of its current officers and key employees,
(C) use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Affiliated PCs to retain
the services of their key employees, (D) maintain in effect all insurance and
Permits that are required for the Company and its Subsidiaries to carry on their
respective businesses, (E) maintain the current relationships of the Company and
its Subsidiaries with customers, providers, suppliers, licensors, licensees,
contractors and other Persons with which the Company or a Subsidiary has
significant business relationships, and (F) maintain its books of account and
records in the usual, regular and ordinary manner. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, except as expressly provided or permitted
herein or as set forth in Section 5.1 of
the Company Disclosure
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Letter,
during the Interim Period the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, do any of the following without the
prior written consent of the Buyer (which consent, in the case of clauses (e)
through (p) only, shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed,
provided that
in all cases the Buyer shall be given at least three (3) Business Days’ advance
notice):
(a) except as
set forth in Section
5.1(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter, (i) declare, set aside or pay
any dividends on, or make any other distributions (whether in cash, securities
or other property) in respect of, any of its capital stock (other than dividends
and distributions by a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company
to its parent), (ii) adjust, split, combine or reclassify any of its capital
stock or issue or authorize the issuance of any other securities in respect of,
in lieu of or in substitution for shares of its capital stock or any of its
other securities; or (iii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of
its capital stock or any other of its securities or any rights, warrants or
options to acquire any such shares or other securities, except, in the case of
this clause (iii), for the acquisition of shares of Company Common Stock from
holders of Company Stock Options in full or partial payment of the exercise
price payable by such holder upon exercise of Company Stock Options to the
extent required or permitted under the terms of such Company Stock
Options;
(b) except as
permitted by Section 5.1(h),
issue, deliver, sell, grant, pledge or otherwise dispose of or encumber any
shares of its capital stock, any other voting securities or any securities
convertible into or exchangeable for, or any rights, warrants or options to
acquire, any such shares, voting securities or convertible or exchangeable
securities, in each case other than the issuance of shares of Company Common
Stock (i) upon the exercise of Company Stock Options or Company Warrants
outstanding on the date of this Agreement or (ii) upon the conversion of shares
of Preferred Stock;
(c) except as
set forth in Section
5.1(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, purchase, sell, sublease, lease,
license, transfer, mortgage, abandon or vacate, encumber or otherwise subject to
a Lien or otherwise acquire or dispose of, in whole or in part, any (i) Company
Leases, or (ii) properties, rights or assets (including any leases of real
property with respect to which the Company or any Subsidiary has or may have or
incur liabilities or obligations), other than purchases and sales of inventory
in the ordinary course of business;
(d) amend its
certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other comparable charter or
organizational documents;
(e) (i)
create, incur, or assume any indebtedness for borrowed money or guarantee any
such indebtedness of another Person (other than letters of credit or similar
arrangements issued to or for the benefit of suppliers and manufacturers in the
ordinary course of business), (ii) issue, sell or amend any debt securities or
warrants or other rights to acquire any debt securities of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, guarantee any debt securities of another Person, enter into
any “keep well” or other agreement to maintain any financial statement condition
of another Person or enter into any arrangement having the economic effect of
any of the foregoing, or (iii) make any loans, advances (other than routine
advances to employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course
of business and in
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accordance
with applicable Law) or capital contributions to, or investment in, any other
Person, other than the Company or any of its direct or indirect wholly owned
Subsidiaries;
(f) make any
capital expenditures or other expenditures with respect to property, plant or
equipment, in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate for the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole other than as set forth in the Company’s budget
for capital expenditures previously made available to the Buyer;
(g) implement
or adopt any material changes in financial accounting methods, principles or
practices or any of its methods of reporting income, deductions or other
material items for financial accounting purposes, except insofar as may have
been required by a change in GAAP;
(h) except as
required to comply with applicable Law or agreements, plans or arrangements
existing on the date hereof or as set forth in Section 5.1(h) of the
Company Disclosure Letter, (i) adopt, enter into, terminate or materially amend
any employment, severance or similar agreement or material benefit plan for the
benefit or welfare of any current or former director, officer or employee or any
collective bargaining agreement (except in the ordinary course of business and
only if such arrangement is non-material), (ii) increase in any material respect
the compensation or fringe benefits of, or pay any bonus to, any director,
officer or employee (except for annual increases of salaries in the ordinary
course of business), (iii) accelerate the payment, right to payment or vesting
of any material compensation or benefits, including any outstanding options or
restricted stock awards, other than as contemplated by this Agreement, (iv)
grant any stock options, stock appreciation rights, stock based or stock related
awards, performance units, restricted stock or other equity based compensation,
or (v) take any action other than in the ordinary course of business to fund or
in any other way secure the payment of compensation or benefits under any
Company Employee Plan or Employment Agreement; or
(i) except in
the ordinary course of business, (i) enter into, renew, fail to renew, extend,
materially amend, cancel or terminate any Company Lease, or any Company Material
Contract or Contract which if entered into prior to the date hereof would be a
Company Material Contract, or (ii) enter into, agree to enter into, or exercise
any renewal or extension option or rights of first refusal or right to expand
under, any new lease, sublease or license for the use or occupancy of real
property having an annual rental and additional rental obligation in excess of
$200,000 per annum or an initial term in excess of three (3) years;
(j) except as
set forth in Section
5.1(j) of the Company Disclosure Letter (i) compromise, settle or agree
to settle any suit, action, claim, proceeding or investigation (including any
suit, action, claim, proceeding or investigation relating to this Agreement or
the transactions contemplated hereby), or consent to the same, or (ii) waive any
claims or rights of substantial value;
(k) enter
into any “non-compete” or similar agreement that would by its terms restrict the
businesses of the Surviving Corporation or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates
following the Effective Time;
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(l) fail to
maintain or enforce any Company Intellectual Property that is material to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(m) except as
set forth in Section
5.1(m) of the Company Disclosure Letter, enter into any new line of
business outside of its existing business;
(n) adopt or
enter into a plan of complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, merger,
consolidation, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization of such
entity;
(o) implement
any employee layoffs that could implicate the WARN Act;
(p) make,
change or revoke any material Tax election, change any material method of Tax
accounting, enter into any closing agreement, settle or compromise any material
liability for Taxes, file any material amended Tax Return, surrender any claim
for a material refund of Taxes, or execute or consent to any waivers extending
the statutory period of limitations with respect to the collection or assessment
of material Taxes;
(q) take any
material action with respect to an Affiliate of the Company (other than wholly
owned Subsidiaries of the Company) that is outside of the ordinary course of
business); or
(r) authorize
any of, or commit or agree, in writing or otherwise, to take any of, the
foregoing actions.
Section 5.2 Confidentiality. The
parties acknowledge that the Buyer and the Company have previously executed a
Confidentiality Agreement, dated as of July 26, 2007 and amended as of
January 18, 2008 (the “Confidentiality
Agreement”), which Confidentiality Agreement continues in full force and
effect in accordance with its terms, except as expressly modified
herein.
ARTICLE
VI
ADDITIONAL
AGREEMENTS
Section 6.1 No
Solicitation.
(a) Prior to
the Effective Time, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, nor
shall the Company authorize or permit any of its or its Subsidiaries’ directors,
officers, employees, affiliates, agents, investment bankers, financial advisors,
attorneys, accountants, brokers, finders, consultants or representatives
(collectively, “Representatives”) to,
directly or indirectly, (i) solicit, initiate, knowingly encourage or knowingly
facilitate (including by way of furnishing or disclosing nonpublic information
or permitting access to personnel or facilities) any inquiries, proposals or
offers with respect to, or that would reasonably be expected to lead to, any
Acquisition Proposal, (ii) enter into, continue or otherwise engage or
participate in any discussions or negotiations with, or provide any information
to, any Person (other than the Buyer) with respect to, or that would reasonably
be expected to lead to, any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) enter into any agreement
providing for an
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Acquisition
Proposal, or (iv) approve, endorse, recommend, or propose publicly to approve,
endorse or recommend, any Acquisition Proposal.
(b) Notwithstanding
Section 6.1(a),
prior to the Acceptance Time, the Company or its Representatives may furnish
information with respect to the Company, and negotiate or otherwise engage in
discussions with, any Person that has made, after the date hereof, an
unsolicited and bona
fide written Acquisition Proposal, if and only to the extent that (i)
such Acquisition Proposal did not result from or arise from the breach of Sections 6.1(a), (c), or
(d), (ii) the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation
with outside counsel and the Company’s financial advisor, that (x) such
Acquisition Proposal is, or is reasonably likely to lead to, a Superior Proposal
and (y) the failure to do so would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties
under applicable Law, and (iii) prior to furnishing any nonpublic information to
such Person, the Company shall enter into a confidentiality agreement with such
Person that contains confidentiality and other provisions that are, including
after taking into account any amendments or waivers with respect thereto,
substantially similar to and no less favorable to the Company than the
Confidentiality Agreement; provided, however, that the Company shall provide or
make available to the Buyer any non-public information concerning the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries that is provided to the Person making such Acquisition
Proposal or its Representatives which was not previously provided or made
available to the Buyer prior to or concurrently with providing such information
to such other Person.
(c) The
Company shall cease immediately and cause to be terminated any and all existing
activities, discussions or negotiations with any parties conducted heretofore
with respect to, or that may reasonably be expected to lead to, an Acquisition
Proposal and promptly, following the date hereof, request that all confidential
information with respect thereto furnished on behalf of the Company be returned
or destroyed.
(d) Neither
the Company Board nor any committee thereof may take, or resolve, agree or
publicly propose to take, any of the following actions: (i) withhold,
withdraw, qualify or modify in any manner adverse to the Buyer, the
Recommendation, or fail to reaffirm the Recommendation within five (5) Business
Days following a request by the Buyer (any of the foregoing, including if
effected by amendment to the Schedule 14D-9, an “Adverse Recommendation
Change”), (ii) recommend or approve an Acquisition Proposal, or (iii)
authorize or permit the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to enter into any
letter of intent, agreement in principle, merger agreement, acquisition
agreement, option agreement or other similar agreement relating to any
Acquisition Proposal (each, an “Alternative Acquisition
Agreement”).
(e) Notwithstanding
Section 6.1(d),
if the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation with outside
counsel, that failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the
directors’ fiduciary duties under applicable Law, then the Company Board may,
prior to the Acceptance Time, (i) make an Adverse Recommendation Change or (ii)
accept a Superior Proposal, enter into an agreement for such Superior Proposal
and terminate this Agreement immediately prior to, or immediately after, such
acceptance of a Superior Proposal; provided, however, that (A) the
Company shall take no action under this Section 6.1(e) until
the date that is five (5) Business Days after delivery of written notice to the
Buyer setting forth the Company’s intention to take such action (which notice
shall specify the material terms of any
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applicable
Acquisition Proposal, including the identity of the party making such
Acquisition Proposal) (the “Notice Period”), (B)
the Company shall not terminate this Agreement pursuant to the foregoing clause
(ii), and any purported termination pursuant to the foregoing clause (ii) shall
be void and of no force or effect, unless, concurrently with such termination
the Company pays the Termination Fee pursuant to Section 8.3, (C) the
Company shall not have breached this Section 6.1, and (D)
prior to effecting such Adverse Recommendation Change or terminating this
Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1(d)(ii),
the Company shall, and shall cause its Representatives to, negotiate in good
faith with the Buyer, if the Buyer is still willing to do so, during the Notice
Period (which Notice Period shall recommence in the event of any modification to
a material term of a Superior Proposal) to make such adjustments in the terms
and conditions of this Agreement so that (1) the Company Board reaffirms the
Recommendation or (2) such Acquisition Proposal ceases to be a Superior
Proposal, as applicable. If, as of the date on which the written
notice contemplated by clause (A) of the proviso to the immediately preceding
sentence is given by the Company to Buyer, there are less than three (3)
Business Days remaining prior to the initial Expiration Date, then (without
limiting any of the extension rights or other rights that Buyer or Acquisition
Sub may have pursuant to this Agreement), Buyer shall extend the Offer to a date
no earlier than the date that is five (5) Business Days following the date of
such notice.
(f) The
Company shall notify the Buyer as promptly as practicable, and in any event
within 24 hours, of its receipt, directly or indirectly, of (i) any
inquiries, negotiations, proposals, requests for information, offers or
expressions of interest with respect to, or that would reasonably be expected to
lead to, an Acquisition Proposal (including a copy of such Acquisition Proposal
and a summary of the material terms and conditions thereof, including price, and
the identity of the Person or Persons involved), and (ii) any amendment to a
previously disclosed Acquisition Proposal (including the terms of such
amendment).
(g) Nothing
in this Section
6.1 shall prohibit the Company from complying with Rule 14e-2 promulgated
under the Exchange Act with regard to an Acquisition Proposal if, in the good
faith judgment of the Company Board, after consultation with outside counsel, it
is required to do so under applicable Law or the failure to do so would be
inconsistent with its fiduciary duties under applicable Law; provided, however, that in no
event shall this Section 6.1(g) affect
the obligations of the Company specified in Sections 6.1(a),
(c), (d) or (e); and provided, further, that any
disclosure required to comply with Rule 14e-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act
shall be deemed to be an Adverse Recommendation Change unless the Company Board
expressly publicly reaffirms the Recommendation, either in such communication or
within two (2) Business Days after a request to do so from the
Buyer. The Company shall, at soon as practicable but in any event
prior to any such disclosure pursuant to this Section 6.1(g),
provide the Buyer with a copy of the text of any disclosure made or proposed to
be made pursuant to this Section
6.1(g).
(h) For
purposes of this Agreement, “Acquisition Proposal”
means (i) any proposal or offer from any Person or group of Persons
other than the Buyer or one of its Subsidiaries for a merger, reorganization,
share exchange, joint venture, consolidation, business combination,
recapitalization, dissolution, liquidation, or similar transaction involving the
Company (or any Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company the business of which
constitutes twenty percent (20%) or more of the net revenues, net income or
assets of the Company and its
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Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole), (ii) any proposal for the issuance by the Company of over
twenty percent (20%) of its equity securities or (iii) any proposal or offer to
acquire in any manner, directly or indirectly, beneficial ownership (as such
term is defined pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of equity
securities representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the Company’s voting
power or assets representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the consolidated
total assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case other than the
Offers or the Merger.
(i) For
purposes of this Agreement, “Superior Proposal”
means any bona fide written Acquisition Proposal that did not result from a
breach of this Section 6.1 and
(A) on terms that the Company Board determines in good faith, after consultation
with the Company’s outside legal counsel and financial advisors, to be more
favorable to the holders of Shares from a financial point of view than the
Offers and the Merger, taking into account all the terms and conditions of such
proposal and this Agreement (including any changes to the terms of this
Agreement proposed by the Buyer in good faith to the Company in response to such
proposal or otherwise) and (B) that the Company Board believes is reasonably
capable of being completed, taking into account all financial, regulatory, legal
and other aspects of such proposal; provided, however, that for
purposes of the definition of “Superior Proposal,” the references to “twenty
percent (20%)” in the definitions of Acquisition Proposal shall be deemed to be
references to “fifty percent (50%).”
Section 6.2 Access to
Information. During
the Interim Period, the Company shall (and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries
to) (i) provide to the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub and their respective
Representatives full and complete access, at reasonable times upon prior notice,
to the officers, employees, consultants, affiliates, customers, suppliers,
agents, properties, offices and other facilities of the Company and its
Subsidiaries and to the books and records thereof and (ii) furnish promptly
such information concerning the business, properties, contracts, assets,
liabilities, personnel, customers, suppliers and other aspects of the Company
and its Subsidiaries as the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub or any of their
respective Representatives may reasonably request. Neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to provide access to or
disclose information where such access or disclosure would result in a loss or
impairment of any attorney-client or attorney work product privilege or violate
applicable Law or existing confidentiality obligations of the Company, in which
case the parties hereto will use reasonable efforts to make appropriate
substitute disclosure arrangements. For avoidance of doubt, no
investigation by the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub or any of their respective
Representatives, whether prior to the execution of this Agreement or pursuant to
this Section
6.2, shall affect any representation or warranty in this Agreement of any
party hereto or any condition to the obligations of the parties
hereto. All information obtained by the Buyer and its representatives
pursuant to this Section 6.2 shall be
treated as “Disclosure Material” for purposes of the Confidentiality
Agreement.
Section
6.3 Reasonable Best
Efforts.
(a) Subject
to Sections
6.3(b) and 6.3(c) hereof, each
of the Company, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall use its reasonable best
efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions, and do, or cause to be done,
and to assist and cooperate with the other parties in doing, all things
reasonably necessary, proper or advisable to consummate and make effective
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the
transactions contemplated hereby as promptly as practicable, including (i)
obtaining from any Governmental Authority or any other third party any consents,
licenses, permits, waivers, approvals, authorizations, clearances, or orders
required to be obtained or made by the Company, the Buyer or any of their
respective Subsidiaries (including the Acquisition Sub) in connection with the
authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby; and (ii) making all necessary filings, and
thereafter making any other required submissions, with respect to this Agreement
and the Merger required under (A) the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and
any other applicable federal or state securities laws, (B) the HSR Act and any
related governmental request thereunder and (C) any other applicable Law;
provided, however, that nothing in this Agreement shall require the Buyer and
the Acquisition Sub to (and the Company shall not) become subject to, or consent
or agree to or otherwise take any action with respect to, any requirement,
condition, understanding, agreement or order of a Governmental Authority to
sell, to divest, to hold separate or otherwise dispose of, or to conduct,
restrict, operate, invest or otherwise change assets or businesses of the
Company, the Buyer, or any of their subsidiaries.
(b) Until the
Effective Time, each party shall promptly notify the other parties in writing of
any pending or, to the knowledge of the first party, threatened action,
proceeding or investigation by any Governmental Authority or any other Person
(i) challenging or seeking material damages in connection with the Merger or any
of the other transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) seeking to restrain or
prohibit the consummation of the Merger or any of the other transactions
contemplated hereby or otherwise limit the right of the Surviving Corporation to
own or operate any material portion of the businesses, assets or properties of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(c) Each
party shall consult and cooperate with each other in connection with their
duties set forth in this Section
6.3. The Company, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall use
their respective commercially reasonable efforts to furnish each other all
information required for any application or other filing to be made pursuant to
applicable Law in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement. In addition, the Company shall cooperate with Buyer in
making any filings or submissions in connection with, or obtaining any clearance
required pursuant to, the HSR Act in connection with the Additional
Transaction.
(d) Each of
the Company, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall give (or shall cause their
respective Subsidiaries to give) any notices to third parties, and use, and
cause their respective Subsidiaries to use, their commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain any third-party consents.
Section 6.4 Public
Disclosure. The
Company, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall consult with each other before
issuing any press release or otherwise making any public statements with respect
to this Agreement, the Offers, the Merger or any of the transactions
contemplated herein. Prior to the Closing, none of the Company, the
Buyer or the Acquisition Sub shall issue any press release or otherwise make any
public statement without the prior consent of the other parties hereto (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), except as may be required by
applicable Law or any listing agreement with any national securities exchange to
which the Company, the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub is a party and, in such
case, shall use reasonable efforts to consult with all the parties hereto prior
to such release or statement
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being
issued. The parties shall agree on the text of a joint press release
by which the Company, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub will announce the
execution of this Agreement.
Section 6.5 Indemnification and
Insurance.
(a) The Buyer
and the Surviving Corporation shall jointly and severally indemnify, defend and
hold harmless each person who is now, or has been at any time prior to the date
hereof, or who becomes prior to the Effective Time, a director or an officer of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the “Indemnified Parties”)
to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL from and against all liabilities,
costs, expenses and claims (including without limitation reasonable legal fees
and disbursements, which shall be paid, reimbursed or advanced by the Surviving
Corporation in a manner consistent with applicable provisions of the Company’s
certificate of incorporation as in effect on the date hereof) arising out of the
actions taken in performance of their duties as directors or officers of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or
after the Effective Time; provided, however, the Buyer’s
and Surviving Corporation’s obligations to the Indemnified Parties under this
Section 6.5(a)
shall not be effective until consummation of the Merger; provided, further, neither the
Buyer nor the Surviving Corporation shall have any obligation hereunder to any
Indemnified Party if the indemnification of such Indemnified Party in the manner
contemplated hereby is determined pursuant to a final non-appealable judgment
rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction to be prohibited by applicable
Law.
(b) The
Surviving Corporation shall either: (i) maintain in effect, and the
Buyer shall cause the Surviving Corporation to maintain, for six (6) years from
and after the Effective Time, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance
policies covering the persons who are currently covered in their capacities as
such directors and officers by the Company’s current directors’ and officers’
policies and on terms not materially less favorable than the existing insurance
coverage with respect to matters occurring prior to the Effective Time so long
as the premium for such coverage does not exceed an amount equal to 300% of the
last annual premium paid immediately prior to the date hereof by the Company for
such coverage (the “Maximum Premium”) or
(ii) purchase a six (6)-year extended reporting period endorsement with respect
to the Company’s current directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policies
(a “Reporting Tail
Endorsement”) and maintain such endorsement in full force and effect for
its full term. If the Company’s existing insurance expires, is
terminated or cancelled during such six-year period or exceeds the Maximum
Premium, the Surviving Corporation shall obtain, and Buyer shall cause the
Surviving Corporation to obtain, as much directors’ and officers’ liability
insurance as can be obtained for the remainder of such period for an annualized
premium not in excess of the Maximum Premium, on terms and conditions no less
advantageous to the Indemnified Parties than the Company’s existing directors’
and officers’ liability insurance. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, the Company may, with the Buyer’s prior written
consent, prior to the Effective Time, purchase a Reporting Tail Endorsement,
provided that the Company does not pay more than six (6) times the Maximum
Premium for such Reporting Tail Endorsement, in which case, the Surviving
Corporation shall, and the Buyer shall cause the Surviving Corporation to
maintain such Reporting Tail Endorsement in full force and effect for its full
term, the Buyer shall be relieved from its obligations under the preceding two
sentences of this Section 6.5(b) prior
to the date hereof by the Company.
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(c) Except as
may be limited by applicable Laws: (i) for six (6) years from and
after the Effective Time, the indemnification obligations set forth in the
Company’s certificate of incorporation and the Company’s By-Laws, in each case
as of the date of this Agreement, shall survive the Merger and shall not be
amended, repealed or otherwise modified after the Effective Time in any manner
that would adversely affect the rights thereunder of the individuals who on or
at any time prior to the Effective Time were entitled to indemnification
thereunder with respect to matters occurring prior to the Effective Time; and
(ii) the indemnification obligations of the Company, as set forth in other
indemnification agreements to which it is a party and as disclosed in Section 6.5 of the
Company Disclosure Letter, shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified
after the Effective Time except as permitted by the terms and provisions of
those agreements.
(d) The Buyer
shall pay all expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that may be
incurred by the persons referred to in this Section 6.5 in
connection with the enforcement of their rights provided in this Section
6.5.
(e) The
provisions of this Section 6.5 are
intended to be in addition to the rights otherwise available to the current
officers and directors of the Company by Law, charter, statute, bylaw or
agreement, and shall operate for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by,
each of the Indemnified Parties, their heirs and their
representatives.
Section 6.6 Notification of Certain
Matters. During
the Interim Period, the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub shall give prompt notice
to the Company, and the Company shall give prompt notice to the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub, of (a) the occurrence, or failure to occur, of any event, which
occurrence or failure to occur is reasonably likely to cause any representation
or warranty of such party contained in this Agreement to be untrue or inaccurate
in any material respect, in each case at any time from and after the date of
this Agreement until the Effective Time, or (b) any material failure of the
Buyer and Acquisition Sub or the Company, as the case may be, or of any officer,
director, employee or agent thereof, to comply with or satisfy any covenant,
condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied by it under this
Agreement. Notwithstanding the above, the delivery of any notice
pursuant to this Section 6.6 will not
limit or otherwise affect the remedies available hereunder to the party
receiving such notice or the conditions to such party’s obligation to consummate
the Merger.
Section
6.7 Employee
Benefits.
(a) Following
the Effective Time, and except for purposes of determining eligibility for
retiree health and welfare benefits, the Buyer will give each employee of the
Company or the Surviving Corporation or their respective Subsidiaries who shall
have been employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries immediately prior
to the Effective Time (“Continuing Employees”) full credit for prior service
with the Company or its Subsidiaries to the extent such service would be
recognized if it had been performed as an employee of Buyer for purposes of (i)
eligibility and vesting under any Buyer Employee Plans (as defined below), and
(ii) unless covered under another arrangement with or of the Buyer or the
Surviving Corporation, determination of benefit levels under any Buyer Employee
Plan or policy of general application relating to vacation or severance, in
either case for which the Continuing Employees are otherwise prospectively
eligible and in which the Continuing Employees are offered
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participation,
but except where such credit would result in a duplication of benefits. For the
avoidance of doubt, no Continuing Employee shall be retroactively eligible for
any Buyer Employee Plan, including any such Buyer Employee Plan that was frozen
prior to the Effective Time. In addition, the Buyer shall waive, or
cause to be waived, any limitations on benefits relating to pre-existing
conditions to the same extent such limitations are waived under any comparable
medical and dental plan of the Buyer. For purposes of this Agreement,
the term “Buyer
Employee Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as defined in
Section 3(2) of ERISA), “employee welfare benefit plan” (as defined in Section
3(1) of ERISA), and any other formal written plan or policy under which service
with the Buyer is relevant to eligibility, vesting and/or level of benefits, for
the benefit of, or relating to, the current employees of the Buyer or its
Subsidiaries and with respect to which eligibility has not been
frozen.
(b) The Buyer
shall cause the Surviving Corporation to administer the I-trax, Inc. Transition
Compensation Plan (the “Retention Plan”) in
accordance with its terms and satisfy its obligations under any retention and
bonus agreements entered into pursuant to the Retention Plan (“Bonus Agreements”),
including, but not limited to, paying transaction bonuses and retention bonuses
and accelerating certain severance obligations at the times provided for in such
agreements, with the understanding that the aggregate amount of transaction
bonuses and retention bonuses payable thereunder shall not exceed $1,480,000 and
$810,000, respectively. The Retention Plan shall not be amended,
repealed or otherwise modified after the Effective Time in any manner that would
adversely affect the rights of individuals who entered into Bonus Agreements at
any time prior to the Effective Time.
(c) Nothing
contained herein shall be construed as requiring, and the Company shall take no
action that would have the effect of requiring, Buyer or the Surviving
Corporation to continue any specific employee benefit plans or to continue the
employment of any specific person. The provisions of this Section 6.7
are for the sole benefit of the parties to this Agreement and nothing herein,
expressed or implied, is intended or shall be construed to (i) constitute an
amendment to any of the compensation and benefits plans maintained for or
provided to Continuing Employees prior to or following the Effective Time or
(ii) confer upon or give to any person (including for the avoidance of doubt any
current or former employees, directors, or independent contractors of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or on or after the Effective Time, the
Surviving Corporation or any of its subsidiaries), other than the parties hereto
and their respective permitted successors and assigns, any legal or equitable or
other rights or remedies (with respect to the matters provided for in this
Section 6.7) under or by reason of any provision of this Agreement.
(d) Buyer
will in good faith develop a severance program to provide reasonable severance
benefits to any Continuing Employee who has not entered into an agreement with
the Company providing for severance benefits and whose employment is terminated
by the Buyer or any of its Subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation or any of
its Subsidiaries during the first twelve (12) months following the Effective
Time. Buyer will take into account length of service and any other
factors deemed relevant in setting benefits payable under such severance
program. The eligibility requirements and benefits payable under such
severance program will be no less favorable than those prescribed under the
terms and conditions of Buyer’s Salary Continuation Plan.
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Section 6.8 Takeover
Statute. If
any Takeover Law shall become applicable to the Offers, the Merger or the other
transactions contemplated hereby, each of the Company, the Buyer and the
Acquisition Sub and their respective Boards of Directors shall grant such
approvals and take such actions as are reasonably necessary so that the
transactions contemplated hereby may be consummated as promptly as practicable
on the terms contemplated hereby and otherwise act to eliminate or minimize the
effects of such Takeover Law.
Section
6.9 Stockholder
Litigation. The
Company shall give the Buyer the opportunity to participate, subject to a
customary joint defense agreement, in, but not control, the defense or
settlement of any stockholder litigation against the Company or its directors or
officers relating to the Offer, the Merger or any other transactions
contemplated hereby; provided, however, that no such settlement shall be agreed
to without the Buyer’s consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld, conditioned or delayed.
Section
6.10 Additional
Transaction. The
Buyer will not complete the proposed acquisition of Whole Health Management (the
“Additional
Transaction”) prior to the expiration or early termination of the waiting
period or obtaining any clearance required under the HSR Act applicable to the
purchase of Shares pursuant to the Offers.
ARTICLE
VII
CONDITIONS
TO MERGER
Section 7.1 Conditions to Each Party’s
Obligations to Effect the Merger. The
respective obligations of each party to effect the Merger are subject to the
satisfaction (or, if permitted by applicable Law, written waiver by the party
for whose benefit such condition exists) at or prior to the Effective Time of
the following conditions:
(a) Stockholder
Approval. Unless the Merger is consummated pursuant to
Section 253 of the DGCL, the Company Voting Proposal shall have been
adopted at the Stockholders’ Meeting by the Required Company Stockholder
Vote.
(b) No Injunction or Restraints;
Illegality. No order, injunction, ruling or decree issued by
any court or agency of competent jurisdiction or any Governmental Authority or
other legal restraint or prohibition (collectively, “Restraints”)
preventing the consummation of the Merger shall be in effect. No
statute, rule, regulation, order, injunction or decree shall have been enacted,
entered, promulgated, deemed applicable to the Merger or enforced by any
Governmental Authority that prohibits, or makes illegal, the consummation of the
Merger.
(c) Completion of the
Offer. The Acquisition Sub shall have accepted for payment and
paid for the Shares tendered pursuant to the Offer in accordance with the terms
hereof and thereof.
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ARTICLE
VIII
TERMINATION
AND AMENDMENT
Section 8.1 Termination. Anything
contained in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, this Agreement may
be terminated and the Offers or the Merger may be abandoned at any time prior to
the Effective Time, whether before or after stockholder approval
thereof:
(a) by mutual
written consent of the Buyer and the Company;
(b) by either
the Buyer or the Company, if:
(i) the
Offers (A) shall have terminated, expired or been withdrawn pursuant to its
terms and the terms of this Agreement without any shares of Company Capital
Stock being purchased thereunder or (B) shall not have been consummated on or
before September 30, 2008 (the “Outside Date”); provided that the
right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1(b)(i)
shall not be available to any party whose failure to fulfill any covenant,
agreement or obligation under this Agreement has been the cause of or resulted
in the failure of the Offer to have been consummated on or before such
date;
(ii) prior to
the Acceptance Time, any Governmental Authority shall have issued a final and
non-appealable order, decree or ruling or taken any other non-appealable final
action (provided that the party seeking to terminate this Agreement pursuant to
this Section
8.1(b)(ii) shall have used such efforts as may be required by Section 6.3 to
prevent, oppose or remove such injunction), in each case having the effect of
permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the Offer or the
Merger;
(iii) the Buyer
or the Acquisition Sub shall not have commenced the Offer on or prior to ten
(10) Business Days following the date of the initial public announcement of the
Offer due to an occurrence that if occurring after the commencement of the Offer
would result in a failure to satisfy any of the conditions set forth in Annex A
hereto; provided that the
Buyer may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.1(b)(iii)
if the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub is in material breach of this Agreement;
or
(iv) the
Stockholders’ Meeting shall have been held and the holders of Company Common
Stock shall have failed to approve the Merger and adopt this Agreement at such
meeting (including any adjournment or postponement thereof); provided, however, subject to
Section 6.6
hereof, the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 8.1(b)(iv)
shall not be available to the Company if its failure to fulfill any obligation
under this Agreement has been the cause of, or resulted in, the failure of the
holders of Company Common Stock to approve the Merger or adopt this
Agreement.
(c) by the
Buyer, if:
(i) due to an
occurrence or circumstance that would result in a failure to satisfy any
condition set forth in Annex A hereto (it
being understood that the Buyer may not terminate this Agreement pursuant to
this Section
8.1(c)(i) if (A) such occurrence or
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circumstance
is curable by the Company through the exercise of its commercially reasonable
efforts on or prior to the Outside Date and (B) the Company within ten (10) days
of receiving notice of such failure shall have initiated, and shall continue to
use, commercially reasonable efforts to cure such failure);
(ii) the
Company shall have delivered a notice to the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub
pursuant to Section
6.1(e) hereof, or shall have otherwise (A) effected an Adverse
Recommendation Change, (B) recommended or approved an Acquisition Proposal or
(C) entered into an Alternative Acquisition Agreement, or the Company Board
shall have resolved to do any of the foregoing;
(iii) in the
case of an Acquisition Proposal made by means of a tender offer or exchange
offer for outstanding shares of Company Common Stock, the tender offer or
exchange offer constituting the Acquisition Proposal shall have been commenced
and the Company Board shall have recommended that the stockholders of the
Company tender their shares in such tender or exchange offer or, within ten (10)
Business Days after the commencement of such tender or exchange offer, the
Company Board shall have failed to recommend against acceptance of such offer;
or
(iv) prior to
the purchase of Shares pursuant to the Offers, (A) the Company breaches any
covenant or other agreement contained herein or (B) any representation or
warranty of the Company set forth in this Agreement shall have been inaccurate
when made or shall have become inaccurate as of any scheduled expiration date of
the Offer (as if made on such scheduled expiration date), but in either case
only to the extent that such breach or inaccuracy would reasonably be expected
to result in any of the conditions set forth in Sections 3, 4, or 9 of Annex A
not being satisfied as of any scheduled expiration date of the Offer; provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that such breach of covenant by the
Company is, or such inaccuracies in the representations and warranties of the
Company are, curable by the Company through the exercise of commercially
reasonable efforts, then Buyer shall not be permitted to terminate this
Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.3(c)(iv) until thirty (30) days after
delivery of written notice from Buyer to the Company of such breach or
inaccuracy, as applicable; provided that such cure period shall not extend
beyond the Outside Date.
(d) by the
Company, if:
(i) prior to
the purchase of Shares pursuant to the Offers, (A) the Buyer or the Acquisition
Sub breaches any covenant or other agreement contained herein in any material
respect, (B) any of the representations or warranties of the Buyer or the
Acquisition Sub set forth in Section 4.1, Section 4.2 and Section 4.4 shall
have been inaccurate when made or shall have become inaccurate as of any
scheduled expiration date of the Offer (as if made on such scheduled expiration
date) or (C) any other representation or warranty of the Buyer or the
Acquisition Sub set forth in this Agreement shall have been inaccurate when made
or shall have become inaccurate as of any scheduled expiration date of the Offer
(as if made on such scheduled expiration date), but in the case of (C) only to
the extent that such breach or inaccuracy would reasonably be expected to result
in a Buyer Material Adverse Effect; provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that such breach of covenant by
Buyer
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or
Acquisition Sub is, or such inaccuracies in the representations and warranties
of Buyer and/or Acquisition Sub are, curable by Buyer and/or Acquisition Sub
through the exercise of commercially reasonable efforts, then the Company shall
not be permitted to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.3(d)(i)
until thirty (30) days after delivery of written notice from the Company to
Buyer of such breach or inaccuracy, as applicable, provided that such cure
period shall not extend beyond the Outside Date; or
(ii) prior to
the Acceptance Time, the Company shall have accepted, and entered into a binding
agreement with respect to, a Superior Proposal; provided, however, that any
purported termination pursuant to this Section 8.1(d)(ii)
shall be void and of no force or effect, unless the Company pays the Termination
Fee pursuant to Section 8.3.
Section 8.2 Effect of
Termination. In
the event of termination of this Agreement as provided in Section 8.1, this
Agreement shall immediately become void and there shall be no liability or
obligation on the part of the Company, the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub or their
respective officers, directors, stockholders or Affiliates; provided, that (a)
any such termination shall not relieve any party from liability for any willful
breach of this Agreement or any fraud and (b) the provisions of Sections 5.2
(Confidentiality) and 8.3 (Fees and
Expenses), this Section 8.2
(Effect of Termination) and Article IX
(Miscellaneous) of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and
survive any termination of this Agreement.
Section 8.3 Fees and
Expenses.
(a) Except as
set forth in this Section 8.3, all
fees and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby shall be paid by the party incurring such fees
and expenses, whether or not the Merger is consummated.
(b) In the
event that (i) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.1(c)(ii),
Section
8.1(c)(iii) or Section 8.1(d)(ii) or
(ii) (A) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(iii),
Section
8.1(c)(i) or Section 8.1(c)(iv)
(in the case of a termination pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(iii)
or Section
8.1(c)(i), only if such termination was due to a failure to satisfy any
of the conditions set forth in Xxxxxxxx 0, 0 xx 0 xx Xxxxx X), (X) before the
date of such termination, an Acquisition Proposal shall have been made known to
the public or to the Company Board or shall have been made directly to the
stockholders of the Company or any Person shall have publicly announced an
intention (whether or not conditional or withdrawn) to make an Acquisition
Proposal, and (C) within twelve (12) months following such termination, the
Company enters into an Alternative Acquisition Agreement (any such event, a
“Trigger
Event”), then the Company shall pay the Buyer a termination fee of $8.2
million (the “Termination
Fee”). If required under this Section 8.3(b), the
Termination Fee shall be paid by the Company in immediately available funds
within two (2) Business Days after the date of the Trigger Event, unless the
Termination Fee is payable as a result of a termination pursuant to Section 8.1(d)(ii),
in which case payment of the Termination Fee shall be made prior to, and as a
condition of, such termination.
(c) The Buyer
shall pay the Company a termination fee of $10.0 million (the “Reverse Termination
Fee”) if (i) this Agreement is terminated (A) pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(i)(B),
(B) by the Buyer pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(ii),
provided that such termination was
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due to a
non-appealable final action attributable to the HSR Act, (C) pursuant to Section 8.1(c)(i),
provided that such termination was attributable to a failure of the condition
set forth in Section 1 of Annex A, or (D) by the Buyer pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(i)(A) (provided that, in
the case of this clause (i)(D) only, (1) in the case of a termination
attributable to the expiration of the Offers, the Minimum Condition is satisfied
as of such termination or (2) the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub shall have
breached its obligations pursuant to Section 6.10 hereof), (ii) at the time of
such termination, the waiting period under the HSR Act applicable to the
purchase of Shares pursuant to the Offers shall not have expired or otherwise
been terminated, and (iii) the Buyer completes the Additional Transaction at any
time prior to the one-year anniversary of such termination. If
required under this Section 8.3(c), the
Reverse Termination Fee shall be paid by the Buyer in immediately available
funds within two (2) days after the event triggering such
obligation.
(d) In the
event that this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.1(c)(iv),
Section
8.1(b)(iii) or Section 8.1(c)(i) (in
the case of a termination pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(iii)
or Section
8.1(c)(i), only if such termination was due to a failure to satisfy any
of the conditions set forth in Sections 3, 4 or 9 of Annex A), the Company shall
reimburse the Buyer and the Acquisition Sub for all out-of-pocket fees and
expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel, accountants,
consultants, financial advisors and investment bankers of the Buyer and its
Affiliates) incurred by or on behalf of the Buyer or the Acquisition Sub in
connection with this Agreement and all other matters related to the Offers and
the Merger (together, the “Buyer Expenses”);
provided, however, that (i) such reimbursable fees and expenses shall not exceed
$2,000,000 in the aggregate and (ii) any amounts paid pursuant to this Section
8.3(d) shall be offset against any Termination Fee required to be paid pursuant
to Section 8.3(b).
(e) In the
event that this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.1(d)(i),
the Buyer shall reimburse the Company for all out-of-pocket fees and expenses
(including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel, accountants, consultants,
financial advisors and investment bankers of the Company and its Affiliates)
incurred by or on behalf of the Company in connection with this Agreement and
all other matters related to the Offers and the Merger (together, the “Company Expenses”);
provided, however, that (i) such reimbursable fees and expenses shall not exceed
$2,000,000 in the aggregate and (ii) any amounts paid pursuant to this Section 8.3(e) shall
be offset against any Reverse Termination Fee required to be paid pursuant to
Section
8.3(c).
(f) In the
event that the Company or the Buyer shall fail to pay the Termination Fee,
Reverse Termination Fee, Buyer Expenses and/or Company Expenses when due, such
Termination Fee, Reverse Termination Fee, Buyer Expenses and/or Company
Expenses, as the case may be, shall accrue interest for the period commencing on
the date such fee became past due, at a rate equal to the rate of interest
publicly announced by Citibank, in the City of New York from time to time during
such period, as such bank’s Prime Lending Rate. In addition, if the
Company shall fail to pay the Termination Fee and/or Buyer Expenses or the Buyer
shall fail to pay the Reverse Termination Fee or Company Expenses, as the case
may be, when due, the Company or the Buyer, as applicable, shall also pay to the
Buyer or the Company, as applicable, all of the Buyer’s or the Company’s, as
applicable, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) in
connection with efforts to collect such Termination Fee, Reverse
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Termination
Fee, Buyer Expenses and/or Company Expenses, as the case may be. The
parties acknowledge that the agreements contained in this Section 8.3 and
Section 9.11
are an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and
that, without these agreements, the parties would not enter into this Agreement
and that neither the Termination Fee nor the Reverse Termination Fee is a
penalty, but rather is liquidated damages in a reasonable amount that will
compensate the Buyer and the Company, as applicable, for the efforts and
resources expended and opportunities foregone while negotiating this Agreement
and in reliance on this Agreement and on the expectation of the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby, which amount would otherwise be impossible
to calculate with precision.
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 9.1 Nonsurvival of
Representations, Warranties. None
of the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement
or in any schedule, instrument or other document delivered pursuant to this
Agreement shall survive the Acceptance Time. This Section 9.1 shall not
limit any covenant or agreement of the parties hereto which by its terms
contemplates performance after the Effective Time.
Section 9.2 Amendment and
Modification. Subject
to applicable Law, this Agreement may be amended, modified and supplemented in
any and all respects, whether before or after any vote of the stockholders of
the Company contemplated hereby, by written agreement of the parties hereto, at
any time prior to the Effective Time; provided, however, that after
the approval of this Agreement by the stockholders of the Company, no such
amendment, modification or supplement shall be made which by law requires
further approval by the stockholders of the Company without obtaining such
approval.
Section 9.3 Notices. All
notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be
deemed given if delivered personally, telecopied (which is confirmed) or sent by
an overnight courier service, such as Federal Express, to the parties at the
following addresses (or at such other address for a party as shall be specified
by like notice):
(a) if to the
Buyer or Acquisition Sub, to:
Walgreen
Co.
0000
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attn.:
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
and
Walgreen
Co. – Law Department
104
Xxxxxx Road, MS 1425
Xxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attn.:
Xxxx Xxxx
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
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with a
copy to:
Xxxxxxxx
& Xxxxx LLP
000 Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxxx
X. Xxxx, P.C.
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
(b) if to the
Company, to:
I-trax,
Inc.
0 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attn.: Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
and
I-trax,
Inc.
0 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx
Xxxx, XX 00000
Attn.: Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Esq.
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
with
copies to:
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Ingersoll, LLP
0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attn.: Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
and
Fox
Rothschild LLP
0000
Xxxxxx Xx., 00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attn: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx, Esq.
Telecopy: (000)
000-0000
Section 9.4 Entire Agreement; No
Third-Party Beneficiaries. This
Agreement (including the documents and the instruments referred to herein) and
the Confidentiality Agreement: (a) constitute the entire agreement
and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral,
among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and (b) except as
provided in Section
6.5 hereof, is not intended to confer upon any person other than the
parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder.
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Section 9.5 Assignment. Neither
this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations under this
Agreement may be assigned or delegated, in whole or in part, by operation of law
or otherwise by any of the parties hereto without the prior written consent of
the other parties, and any such assignment without such prior written consent
shall be null and void. Subject to the preceding sentence, this
Agreement shall be binding upon, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by,
the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted
assigns. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Buyer may designate, by
written notice to the Company, another Subsidiary of the Buyer to be a
constituent corporation in lieu of Acquisition Sub, whereupon all references to
Acquisition Sub shall be deemed references to such other Subsidiary, except that
all representations and warranties made herein with respect to Acquisition Sub
as of the date of this Agreement shall be deemed representations and warranties
made with respect to such other Subsidiary as of the date of such
designation.
Section 9.6 Severability. If
any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a
court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void,
unenforceable or against its regulatory policy, the remainder of the terms,
provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full
force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or
invalidated.
Section 9.7 Counterparts and
Signatures. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be
deemed an original but all of which together shall be considered one and the
same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by
each of the parties hereto and delivered to the other parties, it being
understood that all parties need not sign the same counterpart. This
Agreement may be executed and delivered by facsimile transmission.
Section 9.8 Interpretation. When
reference is made in this Agreement to an Article or a Section, such reference
shall be to an Article or Section of this Agreement, unless otherwise
indicated. The table of contents, table of defined terms and headings
contained in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not
affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this
Agreement. The language used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be
the language chosen by the parties hereto to express their mutual intent, and no
rule of strict construction shall be applied against any party. The
words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used
in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement. All terms defined in this
Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant thereto unless otherwise defined
therein. Whenever the context may require, any pronouns used in this
Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms,
and the singular form of nouns and pronouns shall include the plural, and vice
versa. Any reference to any federal, state, local or foreign statute
or law shall be deemed also to refer to all rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, unless the context requires otherwise. Whenever the words
“include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be
deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation.” No summary
of this Agreement prepared by any party shall affect the meaning or
interpretation of this Agreement.
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Section 9.9 Headings. Headings
of the Articles and Sections of this Agreement are for convenience of the
parties only and shall be given no substantive or interpretive effect
whatsoever.
Section
9.10 Governing
Law. This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of Delaware without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law
thereof.
Section
9.11 Remedies. Except
as otherwise provided herein, any and all remedies herein expressly conferred
upon a party will be deemed cumulative with and not exclusive of any other
remedy conferred hereby, or by law or equity upon such party, and the exercise
by a party of any one remedy will not preclude the exercise of any other
remedy. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur
in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in
accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached. It
is accordingly agreed that the parties shall be entitled to an injunction or
injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically
the terms and provisions of this Agreement, this being in addition to any other
remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity.
Section
9.12 WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL. EACH
OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN
ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section
9.13 Company’s
Knowledge. For
purposes of this Agreement, the term “Knowledge” and
similar terms when used with respect to the Company mean the actual knowledge
after reasonable inquiry as of the date hereof of the executive officers of the
Company and the individuals identified in Section 9.13 of the
Company Disclosure Letter.
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The
Buyer, the Acquisition Sub and the Company have executed this Agreement as of
the date set forth in the initial caption of this Agreement.
WALGREEN
CO.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
PUTTER
ACQUISITION SUB, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxx
Name:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
I-TRAX,
INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxx X.
Xxxxxx
Name:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Chairman
CONDITIONS
OF THE OFFERS
Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Offers, the Acquisition Sub shall not be obligated
to, and the Buyer shall not be obligated to cause the Acquisition Sub to, accept
for payment or, subject to any applicable rules and regulations of the SEC, pay
for, and (subject to any such rules or regulations) may, to the extent expressly
permitted by this Agreement, delay the acceptance for payment of, any tendered
Shares if (i) there shall not have been validly tendered and not withdrawn prior
to the Expiration Date a number of Shares that represents more than
50% of the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding on a fully
diluted basis (which shall mean, for purposes of this Agreement, as of any time,
the number of shares of Company Common Stock then outstanding, together with all
Shares then issuable pursuant to outstanding Company Stock Options or Company
Warrants and issuable upon conversion of shares of Preferred Stock (the “Minimum Condition”)
or (ii) at any time after the date of this Agreement and before the Acceptance
Time, any of the following events shall occur and be continuing:
(1) the
waiting period under the HSR Act applicable to the purchase of Shares pursuant
to the Offers, or any other waiting period applicable to the Offer or the
Merger, shall not have expired or otherwise been terminated prior to the
Expiration Date;
(2) any
approval or clearance required to be obtained by the Buyer, the Acquisition Sub
or the Company from any Governmental Authority in order to permit the acceptance
for payment of Shares tendered pursuant to the Offers or the ownership and
operation of the Company by the Buyer shall not have been obtained as of the
Expiration Date;
(3) (i) any
of the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 3.1,
Section 3.2,
Section 3.3 and
Section 3.5
shall not be true and correct in all respects (except, with respect to
the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 3.2, for
failures to be true and correct that are de minimis in severity, both
individually and in the aggregate), in each case at and as of the date of this
Agreement and at and as of immediately prior to the Acceptance Time as though
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); or (ii) any of the other
representations and warranties of the Company set forth herein (without giving
effect to any “materiality” or “Company Material Adverse Effect” qualifiers set
forth therein) shall not be true and correct in each case at and as of the date
of this Agreement and at and as of immediately prior to the Acceptance Time as
though 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), except where the failure of such
representations and warranties to be so true and correct would not have,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Company
Material Adverse Effect;
(4) the
Company shall not have in all material respects performed all obligations and
complied with all covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or
complied with prior to the Acceptance Time, and such failure to perform shall
not have been cured as of immediately prior to such time;
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(5) a
Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted issued or
entered any restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction or similar
order or legal restraint or prohibition which remains in effect that enjoins or
otherwise prohibits consummation of the Offer or the Merger;
(6) there
shall have been enacted since the date of the Agreement, and there shall remain
in effect, any Law that prohibits the acceptance for payment of Shares tendered
pursuant to the Offers or that prohibits the consummation of the
Merger;
(7) there
shall be pending before any court of competent jurisdiction any action or
proceeding commenced by a Governmental Authority against the Company or the
Buyer or the Acquisition Sub that seeks to prohibit the acceptance for payment
of Shares tendered pursuant to the Offers or to prohibit the consummation of the
Merger;
(8) the
Agreement shall have been validly terminated in accordance with Article VIII of
the Agreement; or
(9) the Buyer
and the Acquisition Sub shall not have received a certificate signed by a senior
officer of the Company certifying as of the Acceptance Time as to the matters
set forth in clauses (3) and (4) of this Annex A.
The
foregoing conditions are for the sole benefit of the Buyer and the Acquisition
Sub and, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, may (other than
in the case of the Minimum Condition) be waived by the Buyer and the Acquisition
Sub, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at the sole
discretion of the Buyer and Acquisition Sub.
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EXHIBIT
A
Form of
Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation
ARTICLE
I
The name
of the corporation (which is hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation”)
is:
Putter
ARTICLE
II
The
address of the Corporation's registered office in the State of Delaware is c/o
The National Registered Agents, Inc., 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 000, in the
City of Dover, County of Xxxx, Xxxxx xx Xxxxxxxx 00000. The name of the
Corporation's registered agent at such address is The National Registered
Agents, Inc.
The
purpose of the Corporation shall be to engage in any lawful act or activity for
which corporations may be organized and incorporated under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE
III
Section
1. The
Corporation shall be authorized to issue 100 shares of capital stock, of which
100 shares shall be shares of common stock, $0.01 par value (“Common
Stock”).
Section
2. Except
as otherwise provided by law, the Common Stock shall have the exclusive right to
vote for the election of directors and for all other purposes. Each share of
Common Stock shall have one vote, and the Common Stock shall vote together as a
single class.
ARTICLE
IV
Unless
and except to the extent that the By Laws of the Corporation shall so require,
the election of directors of the Corporation need not be by written
ballot.
ARTICLE
V
In
furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by law, the Board of
Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) is expressly
authorized and empowered to make, alter and repeal the By Laws of the
Corporation by a majority vote at any regular or special meeting of the Board or
by written consent, subject to the power of the stockholders of the Corporation
to alter or repeal any By Laws made by the Board.
ARTICLE
VI
The
Corporation reserves the right at any time from time to time to amend, alter,
change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation,
and any other
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provisions
authorized by the laws of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be
added or inserted, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by law; and all
rights, preferences and privileges of whatsoever nature conferred upon
stockholders, directors or any other persons whomsoever by and pursuant to this
Certificate of Incorporation in its present form or as hereafter amended are
granted subject to the right reserved in this Article.
ARTICLE
VII
Section
1. A
director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or
its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director, except for liability (i) for any breach of such director's duty of
loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not
in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of
law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware or (iv) for any transaction from which such director derived an
improper personal benefit. If the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or
limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director
of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent
permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as so
amended. Any repeal or modification of this Section 1 by the stockholders of the
Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of
the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or
modification.
Section 2.
(a)
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The
Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to my threatened, pending or completed
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the
Corporation), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director,
officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the
request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or
her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he ox she acted
in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or
not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to
any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his
or her conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or
proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of
nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a
presumption that such person did not act in good faith and in a manner
which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was
unlawful.
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(b)
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The
Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed
action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment
in its favor by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director,
officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the
request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and
reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with the defense or
settlement of such action or suit if he or she acted in good faith and in
a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the Corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made
in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall
have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the
extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in
which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application
that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the
circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled
to indemnity for such expenses which such Court of Chancery or such other
court shall deem proper.
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To
the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation
has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action,
suit or proceeding referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section
2, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she shall be
indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and
reasonably incurred by him or her in connection
therewith.
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Any
indemnification under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 2 (unless
ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in
the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the
director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the
circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct
set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 2. Such determination
shall be made (i) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum
consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or
proceeding, (ii) if such a quorum is not obtainable or, even if
obtainable, a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent
legal counsel in a written opinion or (iii) by the
stockholders.
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(e)
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Expenses
(including attorneys' fees) incurred by a director or officer in defending
any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or
proceeding may be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final
disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of any
undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such
amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled
to be indemnified by the Corporation pursuant to this Section 2. Such
expense (including attorneys' fees) incurred by other employees and
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agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Board of Directors deems appropriate. | |
(f)
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The
indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted
pursuant to, this Section 2 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses
may be entitled under any by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or
disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in an official
capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such
office.
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(g)
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For
purposes of this Section 2, any reference to the "Corporation" shall
include, in addition to the resulting or surviving corporation, any
constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent)
absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had
continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors,
officers, employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or
is a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the
same position under the provisions of this Section 2 with respect to the
resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to
such constituent corporation if its separate existence had
continued.
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(h)
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For
purposes of this Section 2, any reference to "other enterprise" shall
include employee benefit plans; any reference to "fines" shall include any
excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit
plan; and any reference to "serving at the request of the Corporation"
shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the
Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such
director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes
duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or
agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or
beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or
she reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and
beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in
a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation" as
referred to in this Section 2.
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(i)
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The
indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted
pursuant to, this Section 2 shall continue as to a person who ceased to be
a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of
the heirs, executors and administrators of such
person.
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Section
3. The
Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is
or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was
serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, against any liability asserted
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against
him or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of
his or her status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power
to indemnify him or her against such liability under the provisions of Section
145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
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