Exhibit 2.4
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
BY AND AMONG
VIALOG CORPORATION
CALL POINTS ACQUISITION CORPORATION
CALL POINTS, INC.
AND
ROPIR INDUSTRIES, INC.
Dated as of February 28, 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE 1 PURCHASE AND SALE OF ASSETS...................................................2
SECTION 1.1 Purchase and Sale of Assets..........................................2
SECTION 1.2 Closing..............................................................2
SECTION 1.3 Liabilities Assumed..................................................3
SECTION 1.4 Transactions at the Asset Purchase Closing...........................3
SECTION 1.5 Action by the Principal Stockholders.................................4
SECTION 1.6 Effective Time.......................................................4
SECTION 1.7 Certificate of Incorporation.........................................4
SECTION 1.8 By-laws..............................................................4
SECTION 1.9 Directors and Officers...............................................4
SECTION 1.10 Further Assurances...................................................4
ARTICLE 2 CONSIDERATION.................................................................4
SECTION 2.1 Consideration........................................................4
SECTION 2.2 Allocation of Purchase Price.........................................5
SECTION 2.3 Payment of Purchase Price............................................5
ARTICLE 3 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.................................5
SECTION 3.1 Organization and Business; Power and Authority;
Effect of Transaction................................................5
SECTION 3.2 Financial and Other Information......................................7
SECTION 3.3 Changes in Condition.................................................8
SECTION 3.4 Liabilities..........................................................9
SECTION 3.5 Title to Properties and Assets; Leases...............................9
SECTION 3.6 Compliance with Private Authorizations...............................10
SECTION 3.7 Compliance with Governmental Authorizations and
Applicable Law.......................................................11
SECTION 3.8 Intangible Assets....................................................12
SECTION 3.9 Related Transactions.................................................13
SECTION 3.10 Insurance............................................................13
SECTION 3.11 Tax Matters..........................................................13
SECTION 3.12 Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974......................14
SECTION 3.13 Absence of Sensitive Payments........................................17
SECTION 3.14 Inapplicability of Specified Statutes................................17
SECTION 3.15 Authorized and Outstanding Capital Stock.............................18
SECTION 3.16 Employment Arrangements..............................................18
SECTION 3.17 Material Agreements..................................................20
SECTION 3.18 Ordinary Course of Business..........................................20
SECTION 3.19 Bank Accounts, Etc...................................................22
SECTION 3.20 Adverse Restrictions.................................................22
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SECTION 3.21 Broker or Finder.....................................................22
SECTION 3.22 Personal Injury or Property Damage; Warranty Claims; Etc.............22
SECTION 3.23 Environmental Matters................................................23
SECTION 3.24 Materiality..........................................................25
SECTION 3.25 Solvency.............................................................25
SECTION 3.26 Acquisition of the Entire Business...................................25
SECTION 3.27 Compliance with Regulations Relating to Securities Credit............25
SECTION 3.28 Certain State Statutes Inapplicable..................................25
SECTION 3.29 Continuing Representations and Warranties............................26
SECTION 3.30 Registration Statement...............................................26
SECTION 3.31 Predecessor Status, etc..............................................26
ARTICLE 4 ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDER.........................................................26
SECTION 4.1 Organization.........................................................26
SECTION 4.2 Power and Authority..................................................26
SECTION 4.3 Enforceability.......................................................27
SECTION 4.4 Equity Ownership.....................................................27
SECTION 4.5 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents...........................27
ARTICLE 5 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF VIALOG
AND BUYER............................................................................28
SECTION 5.1 Organization and Qualification.......................................28
SECTION 5.2 Power and Authority..................................................28
SECTION 5.3 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents...........................28
SECTION 5.4 Financing............................................................29
SECTION 5.5 Broker and Finder....................................................29
SECTION 5.6 Prior Activities of VIALOG or Buyer..................................29
SECTION 5.7 Capitalization of VIALOG and Buyer...................................29
SECTION 5.8 Registration Statement...............................................29
SECTION 5.9 Solvency.............................................................30
SECTION 5.10 Firm Commitment......................................................30
SECTION 5.11 Participating Agreements of Other Participating Companies............30
SECTION 5.12 Continuing Representations and Warranties............................30
ARTICLE 6 ADDITIONAL COVENANTS..........................................................31
SECTION 6.1 Access to Information; Confidentiality...............................31
SECTION 6.2 Agreement to Cooperate...............................................32
SECTION 6.3 Assignment of Contracts and Rights...................................33
SECTION 6.4 Maintenance of Corporate Existence...................................33
SECTION 6.5 Conduct of Business..................................................34
SECTION 6.6 No Solicitation......................................................34
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SECTION 6.7 Directors' and Officers' Indemnification and Insurance...............35
SECTION 6.8 Notification of Certain Matters......................................35
SECTION 6.9 Public Announcements.................................................35
SECTION 6.10 Conveyance Taxes.....................................................36
SECTION 6.11 Obligations of VIALOG................................................36
SECTION 6.12 Employee Benefits; Severance Policy..................................36
SECTION 6.13 Certain Actions Concerning Business Combinations.....................37
SECTION 6.14 Intentionally Left Blank.............................................37
SECTION 6.15 Tax Returns..........................................................37
SECTION 6.16 Noncompetition.......................................................37
SECTION 6.17 Distributions, Liabilities, Etc......................................38
SECTION 6.18 Release from Guarantees..............................................38
SECTION 6.19 No Significant Changes...............................................38
SECTION 6.20 Registration Statement...............................................39
SECTION 6.21 Self Dealing.........................................................39
ARTICLE 7 CLOSING CONDITIONS............................................................39
SECTION 7.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Asset
Purchase.............................................................39
SECTION 7.2 Conditions to Obligations of VIALOG and Buyer........................41
SECTION 7.3 Conditions to Obligations of the Company.............................47
ARTICLE 8 TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER.............................................49
SECTION 8.1 Termination..........................................................49
SECTION 8.2 Effect of Termination................................................51
SECTION 8.3 Amendment............................................................51
SECTION 8.4 Waiver...............................................................52
SECTION 8.5 Fees, Expenses and Other Payments....................................52
SECTION 8.6 Effect of Investigation..............................................52
ARTICLE 9 INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.....................................................52
ARTICLE 10 INDEMNIFICATION..............................................................53
SECTION 10.1 Indemnification......................................................53
SECTION 10.2 Procedures Concerning Claims by Third Parties;
Payment of Damages; etc..............................................54
ARTICLE 11 GENERAL PROVISIONS...........................................................55
SECTION 11.1 Effectiveness of Representations; etc................................55
SECTION 11.2 Notices..............................................................56
SECTION 11.3 Headings.............................................................57
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SECTION 11.4 Severability...................................................... 58
SECTION 11.5 Entire Agreement.................................................. 58
SECTION 11.6 Assignment........................................................ 58
SECTION 11.7 Parties in Interest............................................... 58
SECTION 11.8 Governing Law..................................................... 58
SECTION 11.9 Enforcement of the Agreement...................................... 58
SECTION 11.10 Counterparts...................................................... 59
SECTION 11.11 Disclosure Supplements............................................ 59
ARTICLE 12 DEFINITIONS............................................................... 59
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ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT dated as of February 28, 1997 among VIALOG
CORPORATION, a Massachusetts corporation ("VIALOG"), Call Points Acquisition
Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of VIALOG
("Buyer"), Call Points, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and Ropir
Industries, Inc. (the "Principal Stockholder").
PREAMBLE
1. The Company and Buyer agree that it is in their best interest to
combine their business upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this
Agreement and in accordance with the Alabama Business Corporation Act (the
"BCA") and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "DBCL"),
pursuant to which the Buyer will acquire substantially all of the assets and
assume certain liabilities of the Company (the "Asset Purchase").
2. Each of the Other Participating Companies will enter into an agreement
and plan of reorganization or stock or asset purchase agreement with VIALOG and
a wholly-owned Subsidiary of VIALOG (each a "Participating Agreement") whereby,
contemporaneously with the Asset Purchase contemplated hereby, each Other
Participating Company and a Subsidiary of VIALOG will carry out a business
combination transaction pursuant to which each such Subsidiary will merge with
and into one of the Other Participating Companies or VIALOG or such Subsidiary
shall purchase stock or assets of such Other Participating Companies and
stockholders of and other Persons holding equity interests in the Other
Participating Companies will convert their holdings into cash and shares of
common stock, $.01 par value per share of VIALOG ("VIALOG Stock") determined in
accordance with the respective Participating Agreements.
3. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, VIALOG will issue and sell
VIALOG Stock in a firm commitment public offering registered on Form S-1 in
accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act (the "Public Offering").
4. The Board of Directors of the Company has unanimously determined that
the Asset Purchase is fair to, and in the best interest of the Company and has
approved and adopted this Agreement and the Principal Stockholder has approved
and adopted this Agreement.
5. The Board of Directors of Buyer has approved and adopted this
Agreement and VIALOG has approved this Agreement as the sole stockholder of
Buyer.
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AGREEMENT
In consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement, the parties
agree as follows:
ARTICLE
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PURCHASE AND SALE OF ASSETS
1.1 Purchase and Sale of Assets.
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(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in
this Agreement, and in accordance with the BCA and the DBCL at the Effective
Time, the Buyer shall purchase and the Company shall sell, convey, transfer,
assign and deliver to Buyer the Business, including without limitation the
Assets. The Company's sale, conveyance, transfer, assignment and delivery of the
Assets shall be free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, liabilities and
obligations, except for those expressly assumed by Buyer pursuant to Section
1.3. Upon completion of the Asset Purchase, the Buyer will succeed to the
Business and thereafter do business under the name "Call Points, Inc.".
(b) The Company represents that, at a meeting duly called and
held at which a quorum was present and acting throughout, its Board of Directors
has unanimously (i) determined that this Agreement, the Asset Purchase and the
Transactions are fair to and in the best interest of the Company, (ii) approved
this Agreement, the Asset Purchase and the Transactions, which approval
satisfies in full the requirements of Applicable Law, and (iii) resolved to
recommend approval and adoption by the Stockholders of this Agreement, the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions to the extent required and in a manner permitted
by Applicable Law.
1.2 Closing. Unless this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.1
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and the Asset Purchase and the Transactions have been abandoned, and subject to
the satisfaction or, if possible, waiver of the conditions set forth in Article
7 other than Section 7.1(d), the closing of the Asset Purchase (the "Asset
Purchase Closing") will take place in escrow, one day prior to the Effective
Date, at the offices of Xxxxxx, X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx & Xxxxxx, LLP, unless
another date, time or place is agreed to in writing by the Parties to this
Agreement. Counsel for the Parties to this Agreement will hold a pre-closing two
days prior to the Effective Date at the offices of Xxxxxx, X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx &
Xxxxxx, LLP, for the purpose of finalizing all documents to be signed at the
Asset Purchase Closing. All certificates, legal opinions and other instruments
required to be delivered in order to satisfy the conditions to the obligations
of the Parties to effect the Asset Purchase set forth in Article 7 below shall
be delivered at the Asset Purchase Closing, and each such certificate, legal
opinion or other instrument shall, except to the extent otherwise provided in
Article 7, be dated as of the anticipated Public Offering Closing Date, which is
expected to occur five business days following the date of the Asset Purchase
Closing. All such certificates, legal opinions and other instruments shall be
held in escrow by
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Xxxxxx, X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx & Xxxxxx, LLP between the Asset Purchase Closing and
the Effective Time and shall be released from escrow concurrently with the
Effective Time on the Public Offering Closing Date. In the event that the
Effective Time and Public Offering Closing Date occur on a date other than the
fifth business day following the Asset Purchase Closing, all such certificates,
legal opinions and instruments shall be re-dated as of the Public Offering
Closing Date. The Company, the Principal Stockholder, VIALOG and Buyer shall use
their respective best efforts to cause each of the conditions set forth in
Article 7 reasonably capable of being satisfied prior to the Asset Purchase
Closing, including, without limitation, the conditions set forth in Sections
7.1(a), (c), (e), (f), (g) and (h) to be satisfied prior to the Asset Purchase
Closing.
1.3 Liabilities Assumed. At the Asset Purchase Closing, Buyer shall
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deliver to the Company an Assumption Agreement in the form of Exhibit 1.3
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whereby Buyer assumes and agrees to pay and perform when due (subject
to the provisions of this Agreement) the Assumed Liabilities and agrees to
indemnify the Company for all amounts incurred by the Company as a result of the
Buyer's failure to pay the Assumed Liabilities when due. The Company shall
retain and the Buyer shall not assume or be obligated for the Retained
Liabilities, and the Company and the Principal Stockholder hereby jointly and
severally indemnify the Buyer against and holds it harmless from any loss, cost,
liability or expense incurred by the Buyer with respect to the Retained
Liabilities.
1.4 Transactions at the Asset Purchase Closing. At the Asset Purchase
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Closing and subject to compliance or waiver of each of the conditions set
forth in Article 7:
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Buyer possession of the
Assets and the Business, free of all liens and in connection therewith duly
execute and deliver to Buyer such deeds, conveyances, bills of sale,
certificates of title, assignments, assurances and other instruments and
documents as Buyer may reasonably request in order to effect the sale,
conveyance and transfer of the Assets. Such instruments and documents shall be
sufficient to convey to Buyer, the Business and good and merchantable title to
all of the Assets.
(b) The Buyer shall execute and deliver the Assumption
Agreement.
(c) The Buyer shall pay the Purchase Price in accordance with
Section 2.3.
(d) The Buyer, the Company and the Principal Stockholder shall
have executed and delivered the Escrow Agreement.
(e) The Company shall deliver to Buyer an amendment to its
Certificate of Incorporation changing the name of the Company to a name
acceptable to Buyer and dissimilar to "Call Points, Inc." which amendment
shall be in form for filing with the Delaware Secretary of State.
(f) The Buyer shall pay the Principal Stockholder the
Noncompetition Payment.
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Each of the documents, instruments and agreements delivered at the Asset
Purchase Closing shall be held in escrow by. Xxxxxx, X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx &
Xxxxxx, LLP until the Effective Time. At the Effective Time, the Buyer shall pay
the Purchase Price and the Noncompetition Payment and all of said documents,
instruments and agreements shall be delivered to the appropriate parties.
1.5 Action by the Stockholders. The Company represents and warrants
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that the Stockholders have approved this Agreement, the Asset Purchase and
the Transactions by written consent adopted in accordance with Applicable
Law and its Organizational Documents.
1.6 Effective Time. On the Public Offering Closing Date, the Parties
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hereto will cause the Asset Purchase to be released from escrow at which time
the Asset Purchase shall become effective (the "Effective Time)".
1.7 Certificate of Incorporation. From and after the Effective Time,
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the Certificate of Incorporation of the Buyer will be in the form attached as
Exhibit 1.7 until amended in accordance with Applicable Law, and the name of the
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Buyer will be Call Points, Inc. or such other name as VIALOG may elect.
1.8 By-laws. From and after the Effective Time, the by-laws of the
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Buyer will be in the form attached as Exhibit 1.8, until amended in accordance
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with Applicable Law.
1.9 Directors and Officers. From and after the Effective Time, until
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successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified (or their earlier
resignation or removal) in accordance with Applicable Law the directors and
officers of the Buyer will be as determined by VIALOG acting in its capacity as
the sole stockholder of the Buyer.
1.10 Further Assurances. The Company and the Principal Stockholder,
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from time to time after the Asset Purchase Closing and at Buyer's request, will
execute and deliver any such other instruments of conveyance and transfer and
take such other action as the Buyer reasonably may require more effectively to
vest title in the Buyer and to put Buyer in possession of the Business and the
Assets.
ARTICLE
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CONSIDERATION
2.1 Consideration. Upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
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and in reliance upon the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements
of the Company and Principal Stockholder contained herein, and in consideration
of the sale, assignment, transfer and delivery of the Assets, Buyer will:
(a) pay to the Company the purchase price of Six Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($6,500,000) (the "Purchase Price"),
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(b) assume the Assumed Liabilities, and
(c) pay to the Principal Stockholder an aggregate of One
Million Dollars ($1,000,000) (the "Noncompetition Payment") to be paid in
accordance with the terms of the noncompetition agreement to be executed by
Principal Stockholder as contemplated by Section 7.2(d).
2.2 Allocation of the Purchase Price.
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The Purchase Price shall be allocated among the Assets as set
forth on Exhibit 2.2. The Company and Buyer shall be bound by such allocation
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for all purposes and shall account for and report the purchase and sale
contemplated hereby for all financial accounting and tax purposes in accordance
with such allocation.
2.3 Payment of Purchase Price. The Purchase Price shall be paid by
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Buyer to the Company as follows:
(a) Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000) by wire transfer,
certified or bank check payable to the Company and delivered at the Asset
Purchase Closing, and
(b) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) (the "Escrowed
Funds") by wire transfer, certified or bank check payable to Messrs. Xxxxxx,
X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx & Xxxxxx, LLP ("Escrow Agent") for disposition in accordance
with the Escrow Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit 2.3(b).
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ARTICLE
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
The Company and the Principal Stockholder jointly and severally
represent, warrant and covenant to, and agree with, VIALOG and Buyer as follows:
3.1 Organization and Business; Power and Authority; Effect of
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Transaction.
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(a) The Company:
(i) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of
incorporation as set forth in Section 3.1(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule,
(ii) has all requisite power and authority (corporate and
other) to own or hold under lease its properties
(including the Assets) and to conduct its business as
now conducted and as presently proposed to be
conducted, and has in full force and effect all
Governmental
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Authorizations and Private Authorizations and has made
all Governmental Filings, to the extent required for
such ownership and lease of its property and conduct of
its business, and
(iii) has duly qualified and is authorized to do business and
is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each
jurisdiction (a true and correct list of which is set
forth in Section 3.1(a) of the Disclosure Schedule) in
which the character of its property or the nature of
its business or operations requires such qualification
or authorization, except to the extent the failure so
to qualify or to maintain such authorizations would not
have an Adverse Effect.
(b) The Company has all requisite power and authority (corporate and
other) and has in full force and effect all Governmental Authorizations and
Private Authorizations in order to enable it to execute and deliver, and to
perform its obligations under, this Agreement and each Collateral Document
executed or required to be executed by it pursuant hereto or thereto and to
consummate the Asset Purchase and the Transactions. The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and each Collateral Document executed or required
to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto have been duly authorized by all
requisite corporate or other action. This Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by the Company and constitutes, and each Collateral Document executed
or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto or to consummate the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions, when executed and delivered by the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company will constitute, legal, valid and binding obligations
of the Company or such Affiliate, enforceable in accordance with their
respective terms, except as such enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy,
moratorium, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, voidable preference,
fraudulent conveyance and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights
of creditors and except as the same may be subject to the effect of general
principles of equity. The affirmative vote or action by written consent of fifty
(50%) of the votes the holders of the outstanding shares of the Company are
entitled to cast is the only vote of the holders of any class or series of the
capital stock of the Company necessary to approve this Agreement, the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions under Applicable Law and the Company's
Organizational Documents.
(c) Except as set forth in Section 3.1(c) of the Disclosure Schedule,
neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any Collateral Document
executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto, nor the
consummation of the Transactions, nor compliance with the terms, conditions and
provisions hereof or thereof by the Company or any of the other parties hereto
or thereto which is Affiliated with the Company:
(i) will conflict with, or result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, any Applicable Law
on the part of the Company or any Subsidiary or will
conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, or permit the
acceleration of any obligation or liability in, or but
for any requirement of giving of notice or passage of
time or both would constitute such a conflict
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with, breach or violation of, or default under, or
permit any such acceleration in, any Contractual
Obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary,
(ii) will result in or permit the creation or imposition of
any Lien (except to the extent set forth in Section
3.1(c) of the Disclosure Schedule) upon any property
now owned or leased by the Company or any such other
party, or
(iii) will require any Governmental Authorization or
Governmental Filing or Private Authorization, except
for filing requirements under Applicable Law in
connection with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions
and as the Securities Act and applicable state
securities laws may apply to compliance by the Company
with the provisions of this Agreement relating to the
Public Offering and except pursuant to the HSR Act (if
applicable).
(d) The Company does not have any Subsidiaries other than those
listed on Section 3.1(d) of the Disclosure Schedule. Each Subsidiary so listed
is wholly-owned, is a corporation which is duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the respective state of incorporation set
forth opposite its name on Section 3.1(d) of the Disclosure Schedule, and is
duly qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation in each other
jurisdiction (as shown in Section 3.1(d) of the Disclosure Schedule) in which
the character of its property or the nature of its business or operations
requires such qualification or authorization, with full power and authority
(corporate and other) to carry on the business in which it is engaged. Each
Subsidiary has in full force and effect all Governmental Authorizations and
Private Authorizations and has made all Governmental Filings, to the extent
required for such ownership and lease of its property and conduct of its
business. The Company owns all of the outstanding capital stock (as shown on
Section 3.1(d) of the Disclosure Schedule) of each Subsidiary, free and clear of
all Liens (except to the extent set forth in Section 3.1(d) of the Disclosure
Schedule), and all such stock has been duly authorized and validly issued and is
fully paid and non-assessable. There are no outstanding Option Securities or
Convertible Securities, or agreements or understandings with respect to any of
the foregoing, of any nature whatsoever relating to the authorized and unissued
or the outstanding capital stock of any Subsidiary.
3.2 Financial and Other Information.
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(a) The Company has furnished to VIALOG copies of the financial
statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries listed in Section 3.2(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule (the "Financial Statements"). The Financial Statements,
including in each case the notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with
GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby,
except as otherwise noted therein, are true, correct and complete, do not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
required by GAAP to be stated therein or necessary in order to make any
statements contained therein not misleading, and fairly present the financial
condition and results of operations of the Company
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and its Subsidiaries, on the bases therein stated, as of the respective dates
thereof, and for the respective periods covered thereby subject, in the case of
unaudited financial statements to normal nonmaterial year-end audit adjustments
and accruals.
(b) Neither the Disclosure Schedule, the Financial Statements, this
Agreement nor any Collateral Document furnished or to be furnished by or on
behalf of the Company or the Principal Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement or
any Collateral Document executed or required to be executed by or on behalf of
the Company or the Principal Stockholder pursuant hereto or thereto or to
consummate the Asset Purchase and the Transactions, contains or will contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit to state a material
fact required to be stated in such document by its terms or necessary in order
to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading and all such
Collateral Documents are and will be true, correct and complete in all material
respects; provided that:
(i) with respect to projections contained or referred to in
the Disclosure Schedule, the Company represents and
warrants only that such projections were prepared in
good faith on the basis of the past business of the
Company and other information and assumptions which the
Company and the Principal Stockholder believe to be
reasonable,
(ii) each such Collateral Document will not be deemed
misleading by virtue of the absence of factual
recitations or references not germane thereto and
necessary to the purpose thereof, and
(iii) responses to due diligence requests will not be subject
to this Section 3.2(b) except to the extent that, to
the Company's knowledge, such response is materially
misleading.
(c) The Company does not own any capital stock or equity or
proprietary interest in any other Entity or enterprise, however organized and
however such interest may be denominated or evidenced, except as set forth in
Sections 3.1(d) or 3.2(c) of the Disclosure Schedule. None of the Entities, if
any, so set forth in Section 3.2(c) of the Disclosure Schedule is a Subsidiary
of the Company except as so set forth. The Company owns all of the outstanding
capital stock or equity or proprietary interests (as shown on Section 3.2(c) of
the Disclosure Schedule) of each such Entity or other enterprise, free and clear
of all Liens (except to the extent set forth in Section 3.2(c) of the Disclosure
Schedule), and all of such stock or equity or proprietary interests have been
duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable. There
are no outstanding Option Securities or Convertible Securities, or agreements or
understandings with respect to any of the foregoing, of any nature whatsoever,
except as described in Section 3.2(c) of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.3 Changes in Condition. Since the date of the most recent financial
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statements forming part of the Financial Statements, except to the extent
specifically described in Section 3.3 of the Disclosure Schedule, there has been
no Adverse Change in the Company or the
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Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. There is no Event known to the
Company which Adversely Affects, or in the future might (so far as the Company
or the Principal Stockholder can now reasonably foresee) Adversely Affect, the
Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or the ability of
the Company to perform any of the obligations set forth in this Agreement or any
Collateral Document executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or
thereto except for changes in general economic conditions and to the extent set
forth in Section 3.3 of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.4 Liabilities. At the date of the most recent balance sheet forming
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part of the Financial Statements, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary had any
obligations or liabilities, past, present or deferred, accrued or unaccrued,
fixed, absolute, contingent or other, except as disclosed in such balance sheet,
or the notes thereto, and since such date neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
has incurred any such obligations or liabilities, other than obligations and
liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice of the Company and its Subsidiaries, which do not and, to the Company's
knowledge, will not, in the aggregate, Adversely Affect the Company or the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole except to the extent set forth in
Section 3.4 of the Disclosure Schedule.
Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has Guaranteed or is otherwise
primarily or secondarily liable in respect of any obligation or liability of any
other Person material to the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries, except
for endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit in the ordinary course of
business or as disclosed in the most recent balance sheet, or the notes thereto,
forming part of the Financial Statements or in Section 3.4 of the Disclosure
Schedule.
3.5 Title to Properties and Assets; Leases.
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(a) Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has good legal and
insurable title, with respect to all real property owned or leased (in fee
simple if owned and leasehold if leased) and marketable title if owned (in fee
simple), if any, reflected as an asset on the most recent balance sheet forming
part of the Financial Statements, or held by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries for use in its business if not so reflected, and good indefeasible
and merchantable title to all other Assets, tangible and intangible (excluding
leased property), reflected on such balance sheet, or held by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries for use in its business if not so reflected, or purported to
have been acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries since such date,
except inventory sold or depleted, or property, plant and other equipment used
up or retired, since such date, in each case in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice of the Company and its Subsidiaries, free and
clear of all Liens, except such as are reflected in the most recent balance
sheet, or the notes thereto, forming part of the Financial Statements or set
forth in Section 3.5(a) of the Disclosure Schedule. Except for financing
statements evidencing Liens referred to in the preceding sentence (a true,
correct and complete list and description of which is set forth in Section
3.5(a) of the Disclosure Schedule), to the Company's knowledge, no financing
statements under the Uniform Commercial Code and no other filing which names the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries as debtor or which covers or purports to
cover any of the Assets or property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
on
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file in any state or other jurisdiction, and neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary has signed or agreed to sign any such financing statement or filing
or any agreement authorizing any secured party thereunder to file any such
financing statement or filing. Each Lease or other occupancy or other agreement
under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries holds real or personal
property has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company or
Subsidiary, as the case may be, and, to the Company's knowledge, by each of the
parties thereto. Each such Lease is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Company or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, and, to the Company's knowledge, of
each other party thereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Each of the
Company and its Subsidiaries has a valid leasehold interest in and enjoys
peaceful and undisturbed possession under all Leases pursuant to which it holds
any real property or tangible personal property, none of which contains any
provision which would impair the Company's ability to use such property as it is
currently used by the Company, except as described in Section 3.5(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule. All of such Leases are valid and subsisting and in full
force and effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to the
Company's or Principal Stockholder's knowledge, any other party thereto, is in
default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any obligation,
covenant or condition contained in any such Lease.
(b) Section 3.5(b) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a true,
correct and complete description of all real estate owned or leased by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries and all Leases and an identification of all
material items of fixed assets and machinery and equipment. None of the fixed
assets and machinery and equipment is subject to contracts of sale, and none is
held by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as lessee or as conditional sales
venue under any Lease or conditional sales contract and none is subject to any
title retention agreement, except as set forth in Section 3.5(b) of the
Disclosure Schedule. The real property (other than land), fixtures, fixed assets
and machinery and equipment are in a state of good repair and maintenance and
are in good operating condition, reasonable wear and tear excepted.
(c) Except as set forth in Section 3.5(c) of the Disclosure
Schedule:
(i) all real property owned or leased by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries conforms to and complies with all
applicable title covenants, conditions, restrictions
and reservations and all Environmental Laws and all
applicable zoning, wetlands, land use and other
Applicable Law, and
(ii) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary, nor, to the
knowledge of the Company, any landlord, tenant or other
occupant or user of any such real property, has used
such real property for the storage or disposal of
Hazardous Materials or engaged in the business of
storing or disposing of Hazardous Materials, except for
use in the ordinary course of business of the type
conducted by the Company.
3.6 Compliance with Private Authorizations. Section 3.6 of the
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Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true, correct and complete list and description
of each Private Authorization which
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individually is material to the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries
taken as a whole, all of which are in full force and effect. Each of the Company
and each Subsidiary has obtained all Private Authorizations which are necessary
for the ownership by the Company or each Subsidiary of its properties and the
conduct of its business as now conducted or as presently proposed to be
conducted or which, if not obtained and maintained, could, singly or in the
aggregate, Adversely Affect the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries
taken as a whole. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in breach or
violation of, or is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of,
any Private Authorization, and no Event exists or has occurred, which
constitutes, or but for any requirement of giving of notice or passage of time
or both would constitute, such a breach, violation default, under any
Contractual Obligation or Private Authorization, except for such defaults,
breaches or violations, as do not and, to the Company's knowledge, will not have
in the aggregate any Adverse Effect on the Company or the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole or the ability of the Company to perform any of
the obligations set forth in this Agreement or any Collateral Document executed
or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto or to consummate the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions. No Private Authorization is the subject of any
pending or, to the Company's or Principal Stockholder's knowledge, threatened
attack, revocation or termination.
3.7 Compliance with Governmental Authorizations and Applicable Law.
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(a) Section 3.7(a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a description
of:
(i) all Legal Actions which are pending or, other than
those finally adjudicated or settled on or before
December 31, 1995, in which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or any of its officers or directors, is,
or at any time since its organization has been,
engaged, or which involves, or at any time during such
period involved, the business, operations or properties
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the
Company's knowledge, which is threatened or
contemplated against, or in any other manner relating
Adversely to, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or
the business, operations or properties, or the officers
or directors, or any of them in connection therewith
(the "Identified Legal Actions"); and
(ii) each Governmental Authorization to which the Company or
any Subsidiary is subject and which relates to the
business, operations, properties, prospects, condition
(financial or other), or results of operations of the
Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole, all of which are in full force and effect.
(b) Each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has obtained
all Governmental Authorizations which are necessary for the ownership or uses of
its properties and the conduct of its business as now conducted or as presently
proposed to be conducted by the Company or which, if not obtained and
maintained, could singly or in the aggregate, have any Adverse Effect on the
Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. No
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Governmental Authorization is the subject of any pending or, to the Company's
knowledge, threatened attack, revocation or termination. Neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary nor any officer or director (in connection with the business,
operations and properties of the Company or any Subsidiary) is or at any time
since January 1, 1991 has been, or is or has during such time been charged with,
or to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened or under investigation with
respect to any material breach or violation of, or in default in the
performance, observance or fulfillment of, any Governmental Authorization or any
Applicable Law, and no Event exists or has occurred, which constitutes, or but
for any requirement of giving of notice or passage of time or both would
constitute, such a breach, violation or default, under
(i) any Governmental Authorization or any Applicable Law,
except for such breaches, violations or defaults as do
not and, to the Company's knowledge, will not have in
the aggregate any Adverse Effect on the Company or the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or the
ability of the Company to perform any of the
obligations set forth in this Agreement or any
Collateral Document executed or required to be executed
pursuant hereto or thereto, or to consummate the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions, or
(ii) any requirement of any insurance carrier, applicable to
its business, operations or properties,
except as otherwise specifically described in Section 3.7(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule.
(c) With respect to matters, if any, of a nature referred to in
Sections 3.7(a) or 3.7(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, all such information and
matters set forth in the Disclosure Schedule, individually and in the aggregate,
if adversely determined against the Company or any Subsidiary, will not
Adversely Affect the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole, or the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this
Agreement or any Collateral Documents or required to be executed pursuant hereto
or thereto or to consummate the Asset Purchase and the Transactions.
3.8 Intangible Assets.
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(a) Each of the Company and each Subsidiary owns or possesses or
otherwise has the right to use all Governmental Authorizations and other
Intangible Assets necessary for the present and planned future conduct of its
business, without any known conflict with the rights of others. The present and
planned future conduct of business by the Company and each Subsidiary is not
dependent upon any one or more, or all, of such Governmental Authorizations and
other Intangible Assets or rights with respect to any of the foregoing, except
as set forth in Section 3.8(a) of the Disclosure Schedule.
(b) Section 3.8(b) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true,
correct and complete description of all of such Governmental Authorizations and
other Intangible Assets or rights with respect thereto, including without
limitation the nature of the Company's and each
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Subsidiary's interest in each and the extent to which the same have been duly
registered in the offices as indicated therein.
3.9 Related Transactions. Section 3.9 of the Disclosure Schedule sets
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forth a true, correct and complete description of any Contractual Obligation or
transaction, not fully discharged or consummated, as the case may be, on or
before the beginning of the Company's current fiscal year, between the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries and any of its officers, directors, employees,
stockholders, or any Affiliate of any thereof (other than reasonable
compensation for services as officers, directors and employees and reimbursement
for out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred in support of the Company's
business), now existing or which, at any time since its organization, existed or
occurred, including without limitation any providing for the furnishing of
services to or by, providing for rental of property, real, personal or mixed, to
or from, or providing for the lending or borrowing of money to or from or
otherwise requiring payments to or from, any officer, director, stockholder or
employee, or any Affiliate of any thereof. All such Contractual Obligations and
transactions were and are on terms and conditions no less favorable to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries than would be customary for such between
Persons who are not Affiliates or upon terms and conditions on which similar
Contractual Obligations and transactions with Persons who are not Affiliates
could fairly and reasonably be expected to be entered into, except as otherwise
set forth in Section 3.9 of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.10 Insurance.
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(a) Section 3.10(a) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all insurance
policies maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary and includes insurers'
names, policy numbers, expiration dates, risks insured against, amounts of
coverage, the annual premiums, exclusions, deductibles and self-insured
retention.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is in breach or violation
of or in default under any such policy, and all premiums due thereon have been
paid, and each such policy or a comparable replacement policy will continue to
be in force and effect up to and including the Public Offering Closing Date. The
insurance policies so listed and identified are of a nature and scope and in
amounts sufficient to prevent the Company or any Subsidiary from becoming a
coinsurer within the terms of such policies. Except as set forth in Section
3.10(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has,
within the past five (5) years, been refused insurance by any insurance carrier
to which it has applied for insurance.
3.11 Tax Matters.
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(a) Each of the Company and each Subsidiary has in accordance with
all Applicable Laws filed all Tax Returns which are required to be filed, and
has paid, or made adequate provision for the payment of, all Taxes which have or
may become due and payable pursuant to said Returns and all other governmental
charges and assessments received to date. The Tax Returns of the Company and
each Subsidiary have been prepared in accordance with all Applicable Laws and
generally accepted principles applicable to taxation consistently applied.
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All Taxes which the Company and each Subsidiary are required by law to withhold
and collect have been duly withheld and collected and have been paid over, in a
timely manner, to the proper Authorities to the extent due and payable. Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has executed any waiver to extend, or otherwise
taken or failed to take any action that would have the effect of extending, the
applicable statute of limitations in respect of any Tax liabilities of the
Company or any Subsidiary for the fiscal year prior to and including the most
recent fiscal year. Adequate provision has been made on the most recent balance
sheet forming part of the Financial Statements for all Taxes of any kind,
including interest and penalties in respect thereof, whether disputed or not,
and whether past, current or deferred, accrued or unaccrued, fixed, contingent,
absolute or other, and to the knowledge of the Company there are no transactions
or matters or any basis which might or could result in additional Taxes of any
nature to the Company or any Subsidiary for which an adequate reserve has not
been provided on such balance sheet. Each of the Company and each Subsidiary has
at all times been taxable as a Subchapter C corporation under the Code, except
as otherwise set forth in Section 3.11(a) of the Disclosure Schedule. Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has ever been a member of any consolidated group
(other than exclusively with the Company and its Subsidiaries) for Tax purposes,
except as set forth in Section 3.11(a) of the Disclosure Schedule.
(b) Each of the Company and each Subsidiary has paid all Taxes which
have become due pursuant to its Returns and has paid all installments (to the
extent required to avoid material underpayment penalties) of estimated Taxes due
and payable.
(c) From the end of its most recent fiscal year to the date hereof
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has made any payment on account of any
Taxes except regular payments required in the ordinary course of business with
respect to current operations or property presently owned.
(d) The information shown on the federal income Tax Returns of the
Company and its Subsidiaries (true, correct and complete copies of which have
been furnished by the Company to VIALOG) is true, correct and complete and
fairly and accurately reflects the information purported to be shown. Federal
and state income Tax Returns of the Company and its Subsidiaries have been
audited by the IRS or applicable state Authority for the taxable periods set
forth in Section 3.11(d) of the Disclosure Schedules, and neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary has been notified regarding any pending audit, except as
shown in Section 3.11(d) of the Disclosure Schedule.
(e) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a party to any tax
sharing agreement or arrangement, except as set forth in Section 3.11(e) of the
Disclosure Schedule.
3.12 Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
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(a) Section 3.12(a) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of
all Plans and Benefit Arrangements maintained by the Company and any of its
Subsidiaries (which for purposes of this Section 3.12 will include any ERISA
Affiliate with respect to any Plan subject to
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Title IV of ERISA). As to all such Plans and Benefit Arrangements, and except as
disclosed in such Section 3.12(a) of the Disclosure Schedule:
(i) all Plans and Benefit Arrangements comply currently,
and have complied in the past, in all material respects
both as to form and operation, with their terms and
with all Applicable Laws, and neither the Company nor
any of its Subsidiaries has received any outstanding
notice from any Authority questioning or challenging
such compliance,
(ii) all necessary governmental approvals for each Plan and
Benefit Arrangement have been obtained; the Internal
Revenue Service has issued a favorable determination as
to the tax qualified status of each Plan intended to
comply with section 401(a) of the Code and each
amendment thereto, and a recognition of exemption from
federal income taxation under Section 501(a) of the
Code of each Plan which constitutes a funded welfare
plan as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA; and nothing
has occurred since the date of each such determination
or recognition that would adversely affect such
qualification.
(iii) no Plan which is subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of
Title 1 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code had an
accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section
302(a)(2) of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code),
whether or not waived, as of the last day of the most
recently completed fiscal year of such Plan,
(iv) there are no "prohibited transactions" (as described in
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) with
respect to any Plan for which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has any liability, nor are any of the
assets of any Plan invested in employer securities or
employer real property,
(v) no Plan is subject to Title IV of ERISA, or if subject,
there have been no "reportable events" (as described in
Section 4043 of ERISA) as to which there is any
material risk of termination of such Plan,
(vi) no material liability to the PBGC has been or is
expected by the Company to be incurred by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any Plan,
and there has been no event or condition which presents
a material risk of termination of any Plan by the PBGC,
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(vii) with respect to each Plan subject to Title IV of
ERISA, the amount for which Company or any of its
Subsidiaries would be liable pursuant to the
provisions of Sections 4062, 4063 or 4064 of ERISA
would be zero if such Plans terminated on the date of
this Agreement,
(viii) no notice of intent to terminate a Plan has been filed
with, nor has any Plan been terminated pursuant to the
provisions of Section 4041 of ERISA,
(ix) the PBGC has not instituted proceedings to terminate
(or appointed a trustee to administer) a Plan and no
event has occurred or condition exists which might
constitute grounds under the provisions of Section
4042 of ERISA for the termination of (or the
appointment of a trustee to administer) any such Plan.
(x) no Plan or Benefit Arrangement covers any employee or
former employee of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries that could give rise to the payment of
any amount that would not be deductible pursuant to
the terms of section 280G of the Code,
(xi) there are no Claims (other than routine claims for
benefits) pending or threatened involving any Plan or
Benefit Arrangement or any of the assets thereof,
(xii) except as set forth in Section 3.12(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule (which entry, if applicable, will
indicate the present value of accumulated plan
liabilities calculated in a manner consistent with FAS
106 and the actual annual expense for such benefits
for each of the last two (2) years) and pursuant to
the provisions of COBRA, neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries maintains any Plan that provides
benefits described in Section 3(1) of ERISA to any
former employees or retirees of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries,
(xiii) all reports, returns and similar items required to be
filed with any Authority or distributed to employees
and/or Plan participants in connection with the
maintenance or operation of any Plan or Benefit
Arrangement have been duly and timely filed and
distributed, and there have been no acts or omissions
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, which have
given rise to or may reasonably be expected to give
rise to fines, penalties, taxes or related charges
under Sections 502(c), 502(i) or 4071 or ERISA or
Chapter 43 or section 6039D of the Code for which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be liable,
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(xiv) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor
any of its respective directors, officers or employees
has committed, nor to the best of the Company's
knowledge has any other fiduciary committed, any
breach of the fiduciary responsibility standards
imposed by ERISA that would subject the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries or any of its respective
directors, officers or employees to liability under
ERISA,
(xv) to the extent that the most recent balance sheet
forming part of the Financial Statements does not
include a pro rata amount of the contributions which
would otherwise have been made in accordance with past
practices for the Plan years which include the Public
Offering Closing Date, such amounts are set forth in
Section 3.12(a) of the Disclosure Schedule,
(xvi) the Company has furnished to VIALOG a copy of the
three most recently filed annual reports (IRS Form
5500) series and accountant's opinion, if applicable,
for each Plan (and the three most recent actuarial
valuation reports for each Plan, if any, that is
subject to Title IV of ERISA), and all information
provided by the Company to any actuary in connection
with the preparation of any such actuarial valuation
report was true, correct and complete in all material
respects,
(b) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is or ever has
been a party to any Multiemployer Plan or made contributions to any such plan.
(c) Section 3.12(c) of the Disclosure Schedule sets forth the basis
of funding, and the current status of, any past service liability with respect
to each Employment Arrangement to which the same is applicable.
3.13 Absence of Sensitive Payments. The Company has not, nor has any
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Subsidiary, or, to the Company's or Principal Stockholder's knowledge, any of
its or any Subsidiary's officers, directors, employees or Representatives, (i)
made any contributions, payments or gifts to or for the private use of any
governmental office, employee or agent where either the payment or the purpose
of such contribution, payment or gift is illegal under the laws of the United
States or the jurisdiction in which made, (ii) established or maintained any
unrecorded fund or asset for any purpose or made any false or artificial entries
on its books, or (iii) made any payments to any person with the intention or
understanding that any part of such payment was to be used for any purpose other
than that described in the documents supporting the payment.
3.14 Inapplicability of Specified Statutes. Neither the Company nor
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any Subsidiary is a "holding company", or a "subsidiary company" or an
"affiliate" or a "holding company", as such terms are defined in the Public
Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended, or an
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"investment company" or a company "controlled" by or acting on behalf of an
"investment company", as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
3.15 Authorized and Outstanding Capital Stock.
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(a) The authorized and outstanding capital stock of the Company is
as set forth in Section 3.15(a) of the Disclosure Schedule. All of such
outstanding capital stock has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully
paid and non-assessable and is not subject to any preemptive or similar rights.
Except as set forth in Section 3.15(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, (i) there is
neither outstanding nor has the Company or any Subsidiary agreed to grant or
issue any shares of its capital stock or any Option Security or Convertible
Security, and (ii) neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a party to or is
bound by any agreement, put or commitment pursuant to which it is obligated to
purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock or any Option
Security or Convertible Security. Between the date of this Agreement and the
Asset Purchase Closing, the Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary
to, issue, sell or purchase or agree to issue, sell or purchase any capital
stock or any Option Security or Convertible Security of the Company or any
Subsidiary. As of the Effective Time, the rights of the holders of all Option
Securities and Convertible Securities issued by the Company to exercise or
convert such Securities will have been terminated pursuant to the terms thereof.
(b) All of the outstanding capital stock of the Company is owned by
the Stockholders as set forth in Section 3.15(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, and
is, to the Company's knowledge, free and clear of all Liens, except as set forth
in Section 3.15(b) of the Disclosure Schedule. To the Company's and the
Principal Stockholder's knowledge, no Person, and no group of Persons acting in
concert, owns as much as five percent (5%) of the Company's outstanding Common
Stock, and the Company is not controlled by any other Person, except as set
forth in Section 3.15(b) of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.16 Employment Arrangements.
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(a) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any obligation or
liability, contingent or other, under any Employment Arrangement (whether or not
listed in Section 3.12(a) of the Disclosure Schedule), other than those listed
or described in Section 3.16(a) of the Disclosure Schedule. Neither the Company
nor any Subsidiary is now or during the past five (5) years has been subject to
or involved in or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened with any election for
the certification of a bargaining representative for any employees, petitions
therefor or other organizational activities, including but not limited to
voluntary requests for recognition as a bargaining representative, or
organizational campaigns of any nature, except as described in Section 3.16(a)
of the Disclosure Schedule. None of the employees of the Company or any
Subsidiary are now, or during the past five (5) years have been, represented by
any labor union or other employee collective bargaining organization. Neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary are parties to any labor or other collective
bargaining agreement, and there are no pending grievances, disputes or
controversies with any union or any other employee collective bargaining
organization of such employees, or, to the Company's knowledge, threats of
strikes, work stoppages or slowdowns or any pending demands for collective
bargaining by any union or other
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such organization. The Company and each Subsidiary have performed all
obligations required to be performed under all Employment Arrangements and are
not in breach or violation of or in default or arrears under any of the terms,
provisions or conditions thereof.
(b) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule, no employee will accrue or receive additional benefits, service or
accelerated rights to payments of benefits under any Employment Arrangement,
including the right to receive any parachute payment, as defined in Section 280G
of the Code, or become entitled to severance, termination allowance or similar
payments as a direct result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) The Company considers its and each Subsidiary's relationships
with employees to be good, and except as set forth in Section 3.16(c) of the
Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has experienced a
work slowdown or stoppage due to labor problems. Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary has received notice of any claim that it has failed to comply with
any federal or state law, or is the subject of any investigation by any federal
or state agency to determine compliance with any federal or state law, relating
to the employment of labor, including any provisions relating to wages, hours,
collective bargaining, the payment of taxes, discrimination, equal employment
opportunity, employment discrimination, worker injury and/or occupational
safety, nor to the knowledge of the Company is there any basis for such a claim.
(d) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has conducted, and on or
prior to the Public Offering Closing Date will not conduct, a "plant closing" or
"mass layoff" of employees of the Company or any Subsidiary as defined by the
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 ("the WARN Act"), 29
U.S.C. 2101-2109 as amended, or discharge, layoff, or reduce the hours of work,
of employees in a sufficient number or manner to trigger any state or local law
or regulation conditioning or regulating in any manner the discharge, layoff, or
reduction in hours of employees or the closing of a facility, plant, workplace,
division or department, from the date hereof or through the Public Offering
Closing Date or during the twelve-month period immediately prior thereto. The
Company's obligation to terminate all Employment Arrangements on the day of the
Asset Purchase Closing (to be effective at the Effective Time) will not
constitute a "plant closing" or "mass layoff" pursuant to the WARN Act or
otherwise trigger compliance with any state or local law or regulation.
(e) Except as set forth in Section 3.16(e) of the Disclosure
Schedule, there is no accrued vacation, sick days, personal days or other
accruals owing any employee of the Company, all of which has been accrued in the
ordinary course of the Business and consistent with the past practices of the
Company (the "Employee Accruals"). Listed on Section 3.16(e) of the Disclosure
Schedule are the Employee Accruals with regard to each Employment Arrangement
along with the aggregate of all Employee Accruals payable by the Company.
Section 3.16(e) of the Disclosure Schedule also sets forth the Company's policy
as to earning and the subsequent use or forfeiture of Employee Accruals.
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3.17 Material Agreements.
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(a) Listed on Section 3.17(a) of the Disclosure Schedule are
all Material Agreements relating to the ownership or operation of the business
and property of the Company or any Subsidiary presently held or used by the
Company or any Subsidiary or to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party
or to which it or any or its property is subject or bound. True, complete and
correct copies of each of the Material Agreements have been furnished by the
Company to VIALOG (or true, complete and correct descriptions thereof have been
set forth in Section 3.17(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, if any such Material
Agreements are oral). All of the Material Agreements are valid, binding and
legally enforceable obligations of the parties thereto (except as such
enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy, moratorium, insolvency,
reorganization, arrangement, voidable preference, fraudulent conveyance and
other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of creditors and except
as the same may be subject to the effect of the general principles of equity),
and the Company or one of its Subsidiaries is validly and lawfully operating its
business and owning its property under each of the Material Agreements. The
Company and each Subsidiary have duly complied with all of the terms and
conditions of each Material Agreement and have not done or performed, or failed
to do or perform (and there is no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company,
threatened Claim that the Company or any Subsidiary has not complied, done and
performed or fail to do and perform) any act the effect of which would be to
invalidate or provide grounds for the other party thereto to terminate (with or
without notice, passage of time or both) such Material Agreement or impair the
rights or benefits, or increase the costs, of the Company or any Subsidiary,
under any of the Material Agreements.
(b) Each Material Agreement, if any, set forth in Section
3.17(a) of the Disclosure Schedule calling for the delivery of goods or
merchandise or the performance of services can be satisfied or performed by the
Company or one of its Subsidiaries at margins providing an operating profit,
except as set forth in Section 3.17(b) of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.18 Ordinary Course of Business.
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(a) The Company and each Subsidiary, from the earlier of the
date of the most recent balance sheet forming part of the Financial Statements
or December 31, 1995 to the date of this Agreement, and until the Public
Offering Closing Date, except as may be described on Section 3.18(a) of the
Disclosure Schedule or as may be required or permitted expressly by the terms of
this Agreement or as may be approved in writing by VIALOG:
(i) has operated, and will continue to operate, its
business in the normal, usual and customary manner
in the ordinary and regular course of business,
consistent with prior practice,
(ii) has not sold or otherwise disposed of, or
contracted to sell or otherwise dispose of, and
will not sell or otherwise dispose of or contract
to sell or otherwise dispose of, any of its
properties or assets, other than in the ordinary
course of business,
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(iii) except in each case in the ordinary course of
business or as detailed as transactions not in the
ordinary course in the Company's business plan set
forth as Section 3.18(a) of the Disclosure
Schedule, and except as expressly otherwise
contemplated hereby,
(A) has not incurred and will not incur any
obligations or liabilities (fixed, contingent
or other),
(B) has not entered and will not enter into any
commitments, and
(C) has not canceled and will not cancel any
debts or claims,
(iv) has not made or committed to make, and will not
make or commit to make, any additions to its
property or any purchases of machinery or
equipment, except for normal maintenance and
replacements,
(v) has not discharged or satisfied, and will not
discharge or satisfy, any Lien and has not paid
and will not pay any obligation or liability
(absolute or contingent) other than current
liabilities or obligations under contracts then
existing or thereafter entered into in the
ordinary course of business, and commitments under
Leases existing on that date or incurred since
that date in the ordinary course of business,
(vi) except in the ordinary course, has not increased
and will not increase the compensation payable or
to become payable to any of its directors,
officers, employees, advisers, consultants,
salesmen or agents or otherwise alter, modify or
change the terms of their employment or
engagement,
(vii) has not suffered any material damage, destruction
or loss (whether or not covered by insurance) or
any acquisition or taking of property by any
Authority,
(viii) has not waived, and will not waive, any rights of
material value without fair and adequate
consideration,
(ix) has not experienced any work stoppage,
(x) has not entered into, amended or terminated and
will not enter into, amend or terminate any Lease,
Governmental Authorization, Private Authorization,
Material Agreement, Employment Arrangement,
Contractual Obligation or transaction with any
Affiliate, except for terminations in the ordinary
course of business in accordance with the terms
thereof,
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(xi) has not amended or terminated and will not amend
or terminate, and has kept and will keep in full
force and effect including without limitation
renewing to the extent the same would otherwise
expire or terminate, all insurance policies and
coverage,
(xii) has not entered into, and will not enter into, any
other transaction or series of related
transactions which individually or in the
aggregate is material to the Company or the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
except in the ordinary course of business, and
(xiii) has not, nor has any affiliate (as defined in
Section 517.021(1) of the Florida Statutes),
transacted business with the government of Cuba or
with any person or affiliate located in Cuba.
(b) From the end of its most recent fiscal year to the date of
this Agreement, except as described in Section 3.18(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has, or on or prior to the
Public Offering Closing Date will have, declared, made or paid, or agreed to
declare, make or pay, any Distribution.
3.19 Bank Accounts, Etc. A true and correct and complete list as of
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the date of this Agreement of all banks, trust companies, savings and loan
associations and brokerage firms in which the Company or any Subsidiary has an
account or a safe deposit box and the names of all Persons authorized to draw
thereon, to have access thereto, or to authorize transactions therein, the names
of all Persons, if any, holding powers of attorney from the Company or any
Subsidiary and a summary statement as to the terms thereof has been previously
delivered to VIALOG.
3.20 Adverse Restrictions. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is a
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party to or subject to, nor is any of its property subject to, any Applicable
Law, Governmental Authorization, Contractual Obligation, Employment Arrangement,
Material Agreement or Private Authorization, or any other obligation or
restriction of any kind or character, or any aggregation thereof, which impairs
the Company's or any Subsidiary's ability to conduct its business as it is
currently being conducted or which could have any Adverse Effect on the Company
or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in
Section 3.20 of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.21 Broker or Finder. No Person assisted in or brought about the
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negotiation of this Agreement, the Asset Purchase or the subject matter of the
Transactions in the capacity of broker, agent or finder or in any similar
capacity on behalf of the Company or the Principal Stockholder.
3.22 Personal Injury or Property Damage; Warranty Claims; Etc. Except
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as set forth in Section 3.22 of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor
any Subsidiary or any Person acting for or on behalf of the Company or any
Subsidiary including without limitation any insurance carrier, has at any time
since December 31, 1995, paid, and there is not now pending
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or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened any Claim (or any basis for any
such Claim) relating to, any damages to any third party for injuries to Persons
or damage to property, or for breach of warranty, which, in the case of pending
or threatened Claims, if determined Adversely to the Company or any Subsidiary,
individually or in the aggregate (taking into account unasserted Claims of
similar nature), could have any Adverse Effect on the Company or the Company and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
3.23 Environmental Matters.
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(a) Except as set forth in Section 3.23(a) of the Disclosure
Schedule, the Company and each Subsidiary:
(i) is in compliance in all material respects with all
Environmental Laws and has not been notified that
it is liable or potentially liable, has not
received any request for information or other
correspondence concerning any site or facility,
and is not a "responsible party" or "potentially
responsible party" under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act of 1980, as amended, the Resource Conservation
Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, or any similar
state law,
(ii) has not entered into or received any consent
decree, compliance order, or administrative order
relating to Environmental Requirements,
(iii) is not a party in interest or in default under any
judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree or any
final order relating to Environmental
Requirements, and
(iv) has obtained all material Governmental
Authorizations and Private Authorizations
(including without limitation all Environmental
Permits) and made all Governmental Filings which
are required to be filed by the Company and each
Subsidiary for the ownership of its property,
facilities and assets and the operation of its
businesses under all Environmental Laws, is and at
all times since its organization has been in
material compliance with the terms and conditions
of all such required Governmental and Private
Authorizations and all Environmental Requirements,
and is not the subject of or, to the Company's
knowledge, threatened with any Legal Action
involving a demand for damages or any other
potential liability with respect to violations or
breaches of any Environmental Requirement.
(b) Except as set forth in Section 3.23(b) of the Disclosure
Schedule:
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(i) no spill, disposal, release, burial or placement
of Hazardous Materials in the soil, air or water
has occurred on any property or facility owned,
leased, operated or occupied by the Company or any
Subsidiary during the period that such facilities
and properties were owned, leased, operated or
occupied by it or, to the knowledge of the
Company, at any other time or at any other
facility or site to which Hazardous Materials from
or generated by the Company or any Subsidiary may
have been taken at any time in the past,
(ii) there has been no spill, disposal, release, burial
or placement of Hazardous Materials, in the soil,
air or water on any property which could
reasonably be expected to result or has resulted
in contamination of or beneath any properties or
facilities owned, leased, operated or occupied by
the Company or any Subsidiary during the period
that such facilities and properties were owned,
leased, operated or occupied by it (or, to the
knowledge of the Company, at any other time), and
(iii) no notice has been received by the Company or any
Subsidiary and no Lien has arisen on its or any
Subsidiary's properties or facilities under
Environmental Law.
(c) Except as set forth in Section 3.23(c) of the Disclosure
Schedule, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any above-ground or
underground tanks on property owned, leased, operated or occupied by it for the
storage of Hazardous Materials.
(d) There has not been, and on or prior to the Public Offering
Closing Date, there will not be, any past or present Events or plans of the
Company or any Subsidiary or any of its predecessors, which, individually or in
the aggregate, constitute a breach of any Environmental Requirements or which,
individually or in the aggregate, may interfere with or prevent continued
compliance with all Environmental Requirements, or which, individually or in the
aggregate, may give rise to any common law, statutory or other legal liability,
or otherwise form the basis of any Claim, assessment or remediation cost, fine,
penalty or assessment based on or related to the transportation, transmission,
gathering, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal or
handling, or the emission, discharge, release or threatened release into the
environment, of any Hazardous Material with respect to the Company or any
Subsidiary or any of its predecessors or its or any of their business,
operations or property which could have any Adverse Effect on the Company or the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(e) Except as set forth in Section 3.23(e) of the Disclosure
Schedule, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has used any Hazardous
Materials in the conduct of its business. To the extent that any Hazardous
Materials are so set forth, Section 3.23(e) of the Disclosure Schedule also sets
forth (i) a description of Hazardous Materials used, (ii) the annual volume of
each of the Hazardous Materials used, (iii) the years during which each of the
Hazardous
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Materials used occurred, and (iv) the Persons to whom such Hazardous Materials
were transferred and/or transported after such use.
(f) Section 3.23(f) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a
complete and correct description of all Hazardous Materials generated by the
Company or any Subsidiary which are not set forth in Section 3.23(e), the
approximate annual volumes of each of the Hazardous Materials, and all Persons
to whom such Hazardous Materials have been transferred and/or transported.
(g) No site assessment, audit, study, test or other
investigation has been conducted by or on behalf of the Company or any
Subsidiary, nor has the Company received any notice from any governmental
agency, or financial institution as to environmental matters at any property
owned, leased, operated or occupied by the Company or any Subsidiary, except as
set forth in Section 3.23(g) of the Disclosure Schedule.
3.24 Materiality. The matters and items excluded from the
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representations and warranties set forth in this Article by operation of the
materiality exceptions and materiality qualifications contained in such
representations and warranties, in the aggregate for all such excluded matters
and items, are not and could not reasonably be expected to be Adverse to the
Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
3.25 Solvency. As of the execution and delivery of this Agreement,
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the Company and the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole are and, as of
the Public Offering Closing Date, will be solvent.
3.26 Acquisition of the Entire Business. The Assets to be transferred
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to Buyer under this Agreement comprise all the assets necessary for Buyer to
conduct the Business as presently conducted by the Company.
3.27 Compliance with Regulations Relating to Securities Credit. None
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of the borrowings, if any, of the Company were incurred or used for the purpose
of purchasing or carrying any security which at the date of its acquisitions
was, or any security which now is, margin stock or other margin security within
the meaning of Regulations T of the Margin Rules or a "security that is publicly
held," within the meaning of the Margin Rules, and the cash portion of the
proceeds from the consummation of the Transactions will not be used for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock or other margin security, or
a "security that is publicly held", or any security issued by VIALOG, or in any
way which would involve the Company in any violation of the Margin Rules, and
neither the Company nor any Subsidiary owns any margin stock or other margin
security, or a "security that is publicly held", and neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary has any present intention of acquiring any margin stock or other
margin security, or any "security that is publicly held".
3.28 Certain State Statutes Inapplicable. The provisions of
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applicable Alabama takeover laws, if any, will not apply to this Agreement, the
Asset Purchase or the Transactions.
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3.29 Continuing Representations and Warranties. Except for those
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representations and warranties which speak as of a specific date, all of the
representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Article will be
true and correct in all material respects on the Public Offering Closing Date
with the same force and effect as though made on and as of that date and those,
if any, which speak as a specific date will be true and correct in all material
respects as of such date.
3.30 Registration Statement. All information furnished by or on
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behalf of the Company or the Principal Stockholder in writing for use in the
Registration Statement and all information relating to the Company in the
Prospectus (a copy of which shall be provided by VIALOG to the Company and
Principal Stockholder for their review) is true, correct and complete and does
not contain any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary to make such statements, in the light of the circumstances in
which they were made, not misleading. In the event any such information, through
the occurrence or nonoccurrence of any event or events between the date of this
Agreement and the Public Offering Closing Date, ceases to be true, correct and
complete or contains any untrue statement of material fact or omits to state any
material fact necessary to make such statements, in the light of the
circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, the Company, and the
Principal Stockholder upon discovery thereof will provide VIALOG, in writing,
sufficient information to correct such untrue statement or omission.
3.31 Predecessor Status; etc. Set forth in Section 3.31 of the
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Disclosure Schedule is a listing of all names of all predecessor companies of
the Company and the names of any Entities from which, since December 31, 1991,
the Company previously acquired material properties or assets. Except as
disclosed in Section 3.31 of the Disclosure Schedule, the Company has never been
a Subsidiary or division of another Entity, nor a part of an acquisition which
was later rescinded. None of the Company, the Principal Stockholder or any
Subsidiary has ever owned any capital stock of VIALOG nor, except as set forth
in Section 3.31 of the Disclosure Schedule, has there been, since December 31,
1991, any sale or spin-off of material assets by the Company or any Subsidiary
other than in the ordinary course of business.
ARTICLE
4
ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
THE PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDER
The Principal Stockholder represents, warrants and covenants to, and
agrees with, VIALOG as follows:
4.1 Organization. The Principal Stockholder is an Entity duly
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organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws or its
jurisdiction of organization.
4.2 Power and Authority. The Principal Stockholder has adequate
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power and authority (corporate, partnership, trust or other) and all necessary
Governmental Authorizations and
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Private Authorizations in order to enable it to execute and deliver, and to
perform its obligations under, this Agreement and each other Collateral Document
executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto. The execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement and each other Collateral Document
executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto have, to the
extent applicable, been duly authorized by all requisite corporate, partnership,
trust or other action, including that, if required, of the Principal
Stockholder's stockholders.
4.3 Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly executed and
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delivered by the Principal Stockholder and constitutes, and each Collateral
Document executed or required to be executed by the Principal Stockholder
pursuant hereto or thereto when executed and delivered by the Principal
Stockholder will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Principal Stockholder, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms,
except as such enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy, moratorium,
insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, voidable preference, fraudulent
conveyance and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of
creditors and except as the same may be subject to the effect of general
principles of equity.
4.4 Equity Ownership. The Principal Stockholder owns and has good
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and merchantable title to more than 90% of the issued and outstanding common
stock of the Company and has the unencumbered right to vote said stock without
restriction. The Principal Stockholder owns 100% of the issued and outstanding
capital stock of the other Stockholder.
4.5 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents. Neither the
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execution and delivery of this Agreement or any Collateral Document executed or
required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto, nor the consummation of the
Asset Purchase and the Transactions, nor compliance with the terms, conditions
and provisions hereof or thereof by the Principal Stockholder:
(a) will materially conflict with, or result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, any Applicable Law on the part of
the Principal Stockholder or will conflict with, or result in a material breach
or violation of, or constitute a material default in the performance, observance
or fulfillment of, or a material default under, or permit the acceleration of
any obligation or liability in, or but for any requirements of notice or passage
of time or both would constitute such a conflict with, breach or violation of,
or default under, or permit any such acceleration in, any Contractual Obligation
of the Principal Stockholder,
(b) will result in or permit the creation or imposition of any
Lien upon any property or asset of such Principal Stockholder used or now
contemplated to be used by the Company, or
(c) will require any Governmental Authorization or Governmental
Filing or Private Authorization, except for filing requirements in connection
with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions and as the Securities Act or
applicable state securities laws may apply to compliance by the Principal
Stockholder with the provisions of this Agreement relating to the Public
Offering and pursuant to the HSR Act (if applicable) or as set forth in Section
4.5 of the Disclosure Schedule.
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ARTICLE
5
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF VIALOG AND BUYER
VIALOG and Buyer, jointly and severally, represent, warrant and covenant
to, and agree with, the Company as follows:
5.1 Organization and Qualification. VIALOG is a corporation duly
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incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
Massachusetts. Buyer is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of Delaware.
5.2 Power and Authority. Except for such consents of Authorities as
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may be necessary in connection with change-of-control transactions with respect
to Governmental Authorities listed in Section 3.1(c) of the Disclosure Schedule,
each of VIALOG and Buyer has all requisite power and authority (corporate and
other) and has in full force and effect all Governmental Authorizations and
Private Authorizations in order to enable it to execute and deliver, and to
perform its obligations under, this Agreement and each Collateral Document
executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto and to consummate
the Asset Purchase and the Transactions. The execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement and each Collateral Document executed or required to be
executed pursuant hereto or thereto have been duly authorized by all requisite
corporate or other action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered
by each of VIALOG and Buyer and constitutes, and each Collateral Document
executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto when executed and
delivered by it will constitute, legal, valid and binding obligations of VIALOG
and Buyer, respectively, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms,
except as such enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy, moratorium,
insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, voidable preference, fraudulent
conveyance and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of
creditors and except as the same may be subject to the effect of general
principles of equity.
5.3 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents. Except for such
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consents of Authorities as may be necessary in connection with change-of-control
transactions with respect to Governmental Authorities listed in Section 3.1(c)
of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement
or any Collateral Document executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto
or thereto, nor the consummation of the Transactions, nor compliance with the
terms, conditions and provisions hereof or thereof by each of VIALOG and Buyer:
(a) will conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, any Applicable Law on the part of VIALOG or Buyer
or will conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a
default under, or permit the acceleration of any obligation or liability in, or
but for any requirement of giving of notice or passage of time or both would
constitute such a conflict with, breach or violation of, or default under, or
permit any such acceleration in, any Contractual Obligation of VIALOG or Buyer,
or
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(b) will require any Governmental Authorization or Governmental
Filing or Private Authorization, except for filing requirements under Applicable
Law in connection with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions and as the
Securities Act and applicable state securities laws may apply to compliance by
VIALOG with the provisions of this Agreement relating to the Public Offering and
except pursuant to the HSR Act (if applicable).
5.4 Financing. VIALOG has or, upon consummation of the Public
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Offering, will have sufficient funds or available financing to enable the Buyer
to pay the Purchase Price and Noncompetition Payment for the Assets as provided
in Sections 2.1 and all fees and expenses related to the Asset Purchase and its
obligations in connection with the Public Offering.
5.5 Broker and Finder. Except for the Underwriter, the fees and
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expenses of which (other than pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement) are solely
the responsibility of VIALOG, no Person assisted in or brought about the
negotiation of this Agreement or the subject matter of the Transactions in the
capacity of broker, agent or finder or in any similar capacity on behalf of
VIALOG or Buyer.
5.6 Prior Activities of VIALOG or Buyer. Neither VIALOG nor Buyer
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has incurred any liabilities or Contractual Obligations, except those incurred
in connection with its organization and ordinary course business operations
(including Employment Arrangements), the negotiation of this Agreement and the
performance of this Agreement and of the Participating Agreements with the Other
Participating Companies, the registration of VIALOG Stock under the Securities
Act, compliance with the requirements of the HSR Act (if applicable) and the
performance of all other Governmental Filings, and the financing of the
foregoing. Except as contemplated by the foregoing, neither VIALOG nor Buyer has
engaged in any business activities of any type or kind whatsoever, nor entered
into any agreements or arrangements with any Person, nor is it subject to or
bound by any obligation or undertaking.
5.7 Capitalization of VIALOG and Buyer. The authorized and
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outstanding capital stock of each of VIALOG and Buyer is as set forth in Section
5.7 of the Disclosure Schedule. All of such outstanding capital stock has been
duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is not
subject to any preemptive or similar rights. All shares of common stock of Buyer
held by VIALOG have been duly authorized and validly issued to VIALOG and are
fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any preemptive or similar
rights. As of the date of this Agreement, except for this Agreement, the
Participating Agreements, the Underwriting Agreement, and as set forth on
Section 5.7 of the Disclosure Schedule, there are not any outstanding or
authorized subscriptions, options, warrants, calls, rights, commitments or any
other agreements of any character obligating VIALOG or Buyer to issue any shares
of VIALOG Stock or other shares of capital stock of VIALOG or of Buyer, or any
other securities convertible into or evidencing the right to subscribe for any
such shares.
5.8 Registration Statement. The Registration Statement and any
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amendments thereto will comply when the Registration Statement becomes effective
in all material respects with the provisions of the Securities Act and will not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
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therein not misleading. The Prospectus will not as of the issue date thereof
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material
fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that the
representations and warranties contained in this Section 5.8 will not apply to
statements or omissions in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus based on
information relating to the Underwriter furnished to VIALOG in writing by the
Underwriter, or based on information relating to any of the Other Participating
Companies or its stockholders furnished to VIALOG in writing by such
Participating Company or any or its stockholders, or the Company or the
Stockholders furnished to VIALOG in writing by the Company or the Stockholders.
VIALOG will furnish the Company with a copy of the Registration Statement and of
each amendment thereto until the Asset Purchase Closing and thereafter will
furnish the Principal Stockholder with each amendment thereto and the final
Prospectus.
5.9 Solvency. After the Effective Time, and upon the consummation of
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the Asset Purchase, the Participating Mergers and the Transactions, VIALOG and
its subsidiaries, individually and taken as a whole, will be solvent.
5.10 Firm Commitment. The contemplated Public Offering shall be a
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firm commitment underwriting and not a best efforts underwriting and all VIALOG
Stock sold in the offering will be purchased by the Underwriter on the Effective
Date and paid for by the Underwriter on the Public Offering Closing Date.
5.11 Participating Agreements of Other Participating Companies.
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Except as set forth in Section 5.11 of the Disclosure Schedule or as dictated by
the structuring of any transaction with a Participating Company as a merger or
sale of stock rather than a sale of assets or as set forth in any employment or
noncompetition agreement required to be executed as a condition to closing
pursuant to Article 7 of a Participating Agreement, each Participating Agreement
entered into among VIALOG, any Subsidiary of VIALOG, and any Other Participating
Company contains provisions substantially identical in form and substance to the
provisions contained in Articles 3 through 12 of this Agreement, including,
without limitation, the representations and warranties, covenants, termination
provisions and indemnification provisions contained in those Articles. Except as
set forth in Section 5.11 of the Disclosure Schedule or as dictated by the
structuring of any transaction with a Participating Company as a merger of sale
of stock rather than a sale of assets or as set forth in any employment or
noncompetition agreement required to be executed as a condition to closing
pursuant to Article 7 of a Participating Agreement, no Participating Agreement
contains any material provision which is not contained in substantially
identical form in this Agreement.
5.12 Continuing Representations and Warranties. Except for those
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representations and warranties which speak as a specific date, all of the
representations and warranties of VIALOG and the Buyer set forth in this Article
will be true and correct in all material respects on the Public Offering Closing
Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of that date, and
those, if any, which speak as of a specific date will be true and correct in all
material respects as of such date.
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ARTICLE
6
ADDITIONAL COVENANTS
6.1 Access to Information; Confidentiality.
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(a) The Company will afford to VIALOG and the
Representatives of VIALOG full access during normal business hours throughout
the period prior to the Effective Time to all of its (and its Subsidiaries')
properties, books, contracts, commitments and records (including without
limitation Tax Returns) and, during such period, will furnish promptly upon
request (i) a copy of each report, schedule and other document filed or received
by any of them pursuant to the requirements of any Applicable Law (including
without limitation federal or state securities laws) or filed by any of them
with any Authority in connection with the Transactions or which may have a
material effect on their respective businesses, operations, properties,
prospects, personnel, condition (financial or other), or results of operations,
(ii) to the extent not provided for pursuant to the preceding clause, (A) all
financial records, ledgers, workpapers and other sources of financial
information processed or controlled by the Company or its accountants deemed by
the Accountants necessary or useful for the purpose of performing an audit of
the Company and the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and certifying
financial statements and financial information and (B) all other information
relating to the Company, its Subsidiaries and Stockholders that VIALOG or its
Representatives requires, in either case for inclusion in or in support of the
Registration Statement, and (iii) such other information concerning any of the
foregoing as VIALOG will reasonably request. Subject to the terms and conditions
of the Confidentiality Letter (as defined below), which are expressly
incorporated in this Agreement by reference for the benefit of the parties
hereto, VIALOG will hold and will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause
the Representatives of VIALOG to hold, and the Company will hold and will use
commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Representatives of the Company to
hold, in strict confidence all non-public documents and information furnished
(whether prior or subsequent hereto) to VIALOG or to the Company, as the case
may be, in connection with the Transactions.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions of the
Confidentiality Letter, VIALOG and the Company may disclose such information as
may be necessary in connection with seeking all Governmental and Private
Authorizations or that is required by Applicable Law to be disclosed. In the
event that this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, VIALOG and
the Company will each promptly redeliver all non-public written material
provided pursuant to this Section or any other provision of this Agreement or
otherwise in connection with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions and will
not retain any copies, extracts or other reproductions in whole or in part of
such written material other than one copy thereof which will be delivered to
independent counsel for such party.
(c) The Company and VIALOG acknowledge that the Company and
VIALOG executed a Second Confidential Disclosure Agreement dated as of June 30,
1996 (the
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"Confidentiality Letter"), which separately and as incorporated in this
Agreement will remain in full force and effect after and notwithstanding the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, and that information obtained from the
Company by VIALOG, or its Representatives or by the Company or its
Representatives from VIALOG pursuant to Section 6.1(a), the Confidentiality
Letter or otherwise will be subject to the provisions of the Confidentiality
Letter.
(d) No investigation pursuant to this Section 6.1 will
affect any representation or warranty in this Agreement of any party or any
condition to the obligations of the parties.
6.2 Agreement to Cooperate.
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(a) Each of the Parties will use commercially reasonable
efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be
done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under Applicable Law to
consummate the Asset Purchase and make effective the Transactions, including
using commercially reasonable efforts (i) to prepare and file with the
applicable Authorities as promptly as practicable after the execution of this
Agreement all requisite applications and amendments thereto, together with
related information, data and exhibits, necessary to request issuance of orders
approving the Asset Purchase and the Transactions by all such applicable
Authorities, each of which must be obtained or become final in order to satisfy
the conditions applicable to it set forth in Section 7; (ii) to obtain all
necessary or appropriate waivers, consents and approvals, (iii) to effect all
necessary registration, filings and submissions (including without limitation
the Registration Statement, other filings under the Securities Act or the HSR
Act and any other submissions requested by the SEC or the Federal Trade
Commission or Department of Justice) and (iv) to lift any injunction or other
legal bar to the Asset Purchase and the Transactions (and, in such case, to
proceed with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions as expeditiously as
possible), subject, however, to the requisite votes of the Stockholders. Each of
the Parties recognizes that the consummation of the Asset Purchase and the
Transactions may be subject to the pre-merger notification requirements of the
HSR Act. Each agrees that, to the extent required by Applicable Law to
consummate the Asset Purchase, it will file with the Antitrust Division of the
Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission a Notification and Report
Form in a manner so as to constitute substantial compliance with the
notification requirements of the HSR Act. Each covenants and agrees to use
commercially reasonable efforts to achieve the prompt termination or expiration
of any waiting period or any extensions thereof under the HSR Act.
(b) Each of the Parties agrees to take such actions as may
be necessary to obtain any Governmental Authorizations legally required for the
consummation of the Asset Purchase and the Transactions, including the making of
any Governmental Filings, publications and requests for extensions and waivers.
(c) The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts on
or prior to the Public Offering Closing Date (i) to obtain the satisfaction of
the conditions specified in Sections 7.1 and 7.2; (ii) if requested by VIALOG,
to seek the consents (to the extent required) to the assumption by Buyer of all
long-term debt of each of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries; and (iii) to
attempt to cause those key employees of the Company and its
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Subsidiaries designated by VIALOG that are not stockholders to execute and
deliver non-competition agreements substantially conforming in form and
substance to the non-competition agreements currently maintained by VIALOG with
its key employees in the form attached as Exhibit 6.2(c). Each of VIALOG and
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Buyer will use its best efforts on or prior to the Public Offering Closing Date
to obtain the satisfaction of the conditions applicable to it specified in
Sections 7.1 and 7.3. The Principal Stockholder will use commercially reasonable
efforts to obtain the satisfaction of the conditions applicable to the Principal
Stockholder in Section 7.2.
(d) The Company agrees that, except as set forth in Section
3.19 of the Disclosure Schedule, prior to the Public Offering Closing Date it
will not make or permit to be made any material change affecting any bank, trust
company, savings and loan association, brokerage firm or safe deposit box or in
the names of the Persons authorized to draw thereon, to have access thereto or
to authorize transactions therein or in such powers of attorney, or open any
additional accounts or boxes or grant any additional powers of attorney, without
in each case obtaining the prior written consent of VIALOG, which consent VIALOG
will not unreasonably withhold.
(e) The Company will take such steps as are necessary and
appropriate to obtain, and will promptly obtain, satisfaction and discharge of
all Liens set forth in Section 3.15(b) of the Disclosure Schedule.
6.3 Assignment of Contracts and Rights. Anything in this Agreement
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to the contrary notwithstanding, this Agreement will not constitute an agreement
to assign any Claim, Contractual Obligation, Governmental Authorization, Lease,
Private Authorization, commitment, sales, service or purchase order, or any
claim, right or benefit arising thereunder or resulting therefrom, if the Asset
Purchase or the Transactions would be deemed an attempted assignment thereof
without the required consent of a third party thereto and would constitute a
breach thereof or in any way affect the rights of VIALOG, Buyer or the Company
thereunder. If such consent is not obtained, or if consummation of the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions would affect the rights of the Company thereunder
so that the Buyer would not in fact receive all such rights, the Company will
cooperate with VIALOG in any arrangement designed to provide for the benefits
thereof to the Buyer, including subcontracting, sub-licensing or subleasing to
the Buyer or enforcement for the benefit of the Buyer of any and all rights of
the Company or its Subsidiaries against a third party thereto arising out of the
breach or cancellation by such third party or otherwise. Any assumption by the
Buyer of the Company's rights thereunder by operation of law in connection with
the Asset Purchase which will require the consent or approval of any third party
will be made subject to such consent or approval being obtained.
6.4 Maintenance of Corporate Existence. Subsequent to the Effective
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Time the Company will and the Principal Stockholder will cause the Company to
maintain its corporate existence and good standing until (a) all of the Escrowed
Funds have been paid to the Company; and (b) all of the Identified Legal Actions
have been settled or finally adjudicated.
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6.5 Conduct of Business.
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(a) Prior to the Effective Time or the date, if any, on which this
Agreement is earlier terminated, the Company and its Subsidiaries will (i) use
their best efforts to preserve intact their respective business organizations
and good will, keep available the services of their respective officers and
employees as a group and maintain satisfactory relationships with suppliers,
distributors, customers and others having business relationships with them, (ii)
confer on a regular and frequent basis with one or more representatives of
VIALOG to report operational matters of Materiality and the general status of
ongoing operations, and (iii) notify VIALOG of any emergency or other change in
the normal course of their business and of any governmental complaints,
investigations or hearings (or communications indicating that the same may be
contemplated) if such emergency, change, complaint, investigation or hearing
would be Material to the business, operations or financial condition of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(b) Except as set forth in Schedule 6.5(b) (or Section 6.5(b) of
the Disclosure Schedule, as the case may be) or with the written permission of
VIALOG, the Company agrees further that the Company (i) will not make, declare
or pay any dividends or other distributions on its shares or the stock of the
Company's Subsidiaries or redeem or repurchase or otherwise acquire any such
shares (except cancellation of options and warrants as required in this
Agreement), (ii) will not enter into or terminate any Employment Arrangement
with any director or officer, (iii) will not incur any obligation or liability
(absolute or contingent), except current liabilities incurred, and obligations
under contracts entered into, in the ordinary course of business (iv) will not
discharge or satisfy any Lien or Encumbrance or pay any obligation or liability
(absolute or contingent) other than current liabilities shown on its Financial
Statements, and current liabilities incurred since those dates in the ordinary
course of business, (v) will not mortgage, pledge, create a security interest
in, or subject to Lien or other Encumbrance any of its assets, tangible or
intangible, (vi) will not sell or transfer any of its tangible assets or cancel
any debts or claims except in each case in the ordinary course of business,
(vii) will not sell, assign, or transfer any trademark, trade name, patent, or
other Intangible Asset, (viii) will not waive any right of any substantial
value, (ix) will not make any material change in the tax procedures or practices
followed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (x) will not make any change
in credit terms offered by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (xi) will not
make any capital expenditure or Material Commitment for any additions or
improvements to its or any of its Subsidiary's property, plant or equipment,
(xii) will not amend its capitalization, or issue any stocks, bonds or other
securities, except that the Company may issue shares pursuant to outstanding
Option Securities and Convertible Securities, (xiii) will not enter into, modify
or extend, or promise any bonus or incentive compensation program that was not
in place prior to June 1, 1996 and (xiv) will otherwise conduct its operation
and the operations of its Subsidiaries according to their ordinary and usual
course of business.
6.6 No Solicitation. The Company will not, nor will it permit any
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Subsidiary, or any of the Company's or any Subsidiary's Representatives
(including, without limitation, any investment banker, attorney or accountant
retained by it) to, initiate, solicit or facilitate, directly or indirectly, any
inquires or the making of any proposal with respect to an Other Transaction,
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engage in any discussions or negotiations concerning, or provide to any other
person any information or data relating to it or any Subsidiary for the purposes
of, or otherwise cooperate in any way with or assist or participate in, or
facilitate any inquires or the making of any proposal which constitutes, or may
reasonably be expected to lead to, a proposal to seek or effect an Other
Transaction, or agree to or endorse any Other Transaction. Nothing contained in
this Section will prohibit the Company or its Board of Directors from making any
disclosure to Stockholders that, in the reasonable judgment of its Board of
Directors in accordance with, and based upon the written advice of outside
counsel, is required under Applicable Law. The Company will promptly advise
VIALOG of, and communicate the material terms of, any proposal it may receive,
or any inquires it receives which may reasonably be expected to lead to such a
proposal relating to an Other Transaction, and the identity of the Person making
it. The Company will further advise VIALOG of the status and changes in the
material terms of any such proposal or inquiry (or any amendment to any of
them). During the term of this Agreement, the Company will not enter into any
agreement oral or written, and whether or not legally binding, with any Person
that provides for, or in any way facilitates, an Other Transaction, or affects
any other obligation of the Company under this Agreement.
6.7 Directors' and Officers' Indemnification and Insurance.
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(a) From and after the Effective Time, the Buyer will indemnify,
defend and hold harmless the present and former officers and directors of the
Company for all amounts incurred by the Company as a result of the Buyer's
failure to pay the Assumed Liabilities when due.
(b) This Section 6.7 is intended to be for the benefit of, and will
be enforceable by, the former officers and directors of the Company, their heirs
and personal representatives and will be binding on the Buyer and its respective
successors and assigns.
(c) VIALOG will apply for directors and officers insurance in the
amount of $2,000,000 for the benefit of the directors and officers of VIALOG and
the Buyer.
6.8 Notification of Certain Matters. The Company and the Principal
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Stockholder will give prompt notice to VIALOG, and VIALOG will give prompt
notice to the Company and the Principal Stockholder, of (a) the occurrence or
non-occurrence of any Event the occurrence or non-occurrence of which would be
likely to cause in any material respect (i) any representation or warranty of
the Company, the Principal Stockholder or VIALOG, as the case may be, contained
in this Agreement to be untrue or inaccurate, or (ii) in the case of the Company
or the Principal Stockholder, any change to be made in the Disclosure Schedule
and (b) any failure of the Company, the Principal Stockholder or VIALOG, as the
case may be, to comply with or satisfy, or be able to comply with or satisfy,
any material covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with or satisfied
by it under this Agreement. The delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section
6.8 will not limit or otherwise affect the remedies available hereunder to the
Party receiving such notice.
6.9 Public Announcements. Until the Asset Purchase Closing, or in the
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event of termination of this Agreement, the closing of the Public Offering (or
its abandonment), the
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Company and the Principal Stockholder will consult with VIALOG before issuing
any press release or otherwise making any public statements with respect to this
Agreement, the Asset Purchase or any Transaction (including the Participating
Mergers or the termination of this Agreement in such event) and will not issue
any such press release or make any such public statement without the prior
consent of VIALOG and the written advice of legal counsel to VIALOG that such
press release or such public statement will not affect the registration of
VIALOG Stock under the Securities Act or the timing of the effectiveness
thereof. The Company and the Principal Stockholder acknowledge and agree that
VIALOG may, without the prior consent of the Company and the Principal
Stockholder, issue such press release or make such public statement as may be
required by Applicable Law or any listing agreement or arrangement to which
VIALOG is a party with a national securities exchange or the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotation System, or as
recommended by outside counsel. VIALOG will exercise commercially reasonable
efforts to furnish the Company and the Principal Stockholder a copy of any press
release relating to Other Participating Companies prior to its publication and
will furnish a copy of any such press release so issued as soon as practicable
after its publication, but any failure on VIALOG's part to do so will not be
deemed a breach of or default under this Agreement. VIALOG will furnish the
Company with a copy of any press release or public information of VIALOG, at a
reasonable time prior to its release for publication.
6.10 Conveyance Taxes. The Parties will cooperate with one another in the
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preparation, execution and filing of all Returns, questionnaires, applications,
or other documents regarding any real property transfer or gains, sales, use,
transfer, value added, stock transfer and stamp Taxes, any transfer, recording,
registration and other fees, and any similar Taxes which become payable in
connection with the Transactions that are required or permitted to be filed on
or before the Effective Time.
6.11 Obligations of VIALOG. VIALOG agrees to take all action necessary to
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cause the Buyer to perform after the Effective Time its obligations under this
Agreement and will use commercially reasonable efforts to consummate the Asset
Purchase on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
6.12 Employee Benefits; Severance Policy. VIALOG will cause the Buyer to
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implement as of the Asset Purchase Closing and to continue through its fiscal
year ending December 31, 1997:
(a) employee incentive compensation and fringe benefits that are
substantially equivalent to those provided to employees of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as in effect on the date of this Agreement, subject to the right of
VIALOG and the Buyer to amend or terminate such programs in accordance with
their terms, provided that after any such amendment or termination the resulting
programs are substantially equivalent to the existing programs, and
(b) employee severance pay and benefits that are substantially
equivalent to the applicable severance programs of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as in effect on the date hereof, subject to the right of VIALOG and
the Buyer to amend or terminate such programs in
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accordance with their terms, provided that after any such amendment or
termination, the resulting programs continue are substantially equivalent to the
existing programs.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, as soon as convenient after such period, the
Buyer may, in its sole discretion, substitute employee compensation, benefit and
severance programs for those of the Company as are consistent with the programs
provided to VIALOG's employees and the employees of VIALOG's Subsidiaries.
6.13 Certain Actions Concerning Business Combinations.
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(a) Neither the Principal Stockholder nor any Representative
thereof will, during the period commencing on the date of the filing of the
Registration Statement and ending with the earlier to occur of the Asset
Purchase Closing or the termination of this Agreement in accordance with its
terms, directly or indirectly (i) solicit or initiate the submission of
proposals or offers from any Person or, (ii) participate in any discussions
pertaining to, or (iii) furnish any information to any Person other than VIALOG
relating to, any acquisition or purchase of all or a material amount of the
assets of, or any equity interest in, the Company or a merger, consolidation or
business combination of the Company or any Subsidiary (other than the Asset
Purchase).
(b) The Company and the Principal Stockholder will not apply, and
will not take any action resulting in the application of, or otherwise elect to
apply, the provisions of applicable Alabama takeover laws, if any, with respect
to or as a result of the Asset Purchase or the Transactions.
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6.15 Tax Returns. The Principal Stockholder will cause all Tax Returns of
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the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to taxable periods ending on or
before the Effective Time to be prepared and filed in a manner consistent with
past practices of the Company. At least thirty days before the due date
(including any extensions) for any such Tax Returns, the Principal Stockholder
or the Company will provide drafts of such Tax Returns to VIALOG for its review
and comment (which reasonable comments will be incorporated into the final Tax
Returns), and VIALOG will cooperate with the Principal Stockholder and provide
the Principal Stockholder with access to any books and records reasonably
necessary for their preparation of such draft Tax Returns.
6.16 Noncompetition. On or before the Asset Purchase Closing, the Company
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and the Principal Stockholder will execute and deliver to VIALOG the
noncompetition agreement contemplated by Section 7.2(d) to be effective as of
the Public Offering Closing Date. From and after the Public Offering Closing
Date, neither the Company nor the Principal Stockholder will compete with VIALOG
or any of its Subsidiaries except to the extent not prohibited by Exhibit
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7.2(d).
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6.17 Distributions, Liabilities, Etc.
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(a) The Company and VIALOG acknowledge and agree that the Company
contemplates that (i) prior to the Asset Purchase Closing it will make certain
Distributions to the Stockholders, employees of and consultants to the Company,
(ii) no later than Asset Purchase Closing, it will cause certain Liens to be
discharged in their entirety (with financing statement terminations properly
recorded), and (iii) as of Asset Purchase Closing, it will indemnify VIALOG for
all Retained Liabilities. Schedule 6.17 (or Section 6.17 of the Disclosure
Schedule, as the case may be) lists each such Distribution and Lien;
(b) The Company agrees that Distributions not permitted pursuant to
Section 3.18 will be made by the Company only to the extent provided in Schedule
6.17 (or Section 6.17 of the Disclosure Schedule, as the case may be);
(c) Although the Company may distribute some or all of the Purchase
Price solely to the Principal Stockholder and the Principal Stockholder may
further distribute the same to its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Principal
Stockholder agrees not to otherwise distribute to its stockholders any portion
of the Purchase Price until (i) all of the Escrowed Funds have been paid to the
Company; and (ii) all of the Identified Legal Actions have been settled or
finally adjudicated; and
(d) The Company further agrees that, notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in Section 10.1, it will indemnify VIALOG and Buyer against all Claims
and Expenses incurred by VIALOG and Buyer (or either of them) by virtue of any
failure on the Company's part to secure the discharges from Liens contemplated
by Schedule 6.17 or any damage or harm attributable to a Retained Liability to
be indemnified against hereunder.
6.18 Release from Guarantees. On or prior to the Public Offering Closing
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Date, VIALOG will either obtain releases of the guarantees of the Stockholders
of the Assumed Liabilities or discharge or arrange for the discharge of such
Assumed Liabilities. VIALOG will either obtain releases of the guarantees of the
Stockholders of Contractual Obligations assumed by Buyer and which extend beyond
the Public Offering Closing Date or indemnify and hold the Stockholders harmless
from such guarantees.
6.19 No Significant Changes VIALOG agrees that there will be no
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"significant change" (as defined below) in the conduct of the Business for a
period of one year after the Public Offering Closing Date without the approval
of the Principal Stockholder. "Significant change" means, a physical merging of
the Company's operations with another operation, any change in the position of
those employees who receive employment agreements pursuant to Section 7.2(s), or
a reduction in force or the termination of any employee except as related to
employee performance or the contemplated reorganization of the combined
sales/marketing staff or the accounting function.
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6.20 Registration Statement.
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(a) The Company and the Principal Stockholder will furnish to VIALOG
all necessary information concerning the Company and the Principal Stockholder
for VIALOG to file the Registration Statement.
(b) The Company and the Principal Stockholder have reviewed or have
had reviewed on their behalf, and will be familiar with the information
concerning the Company and the Stockholders (or any of them) in the Prospectus
and will have no knowledge of any material fact, condition or information
concerning the Company and the Stockholders misstated or not disclosed in such
Prospectus.
(c) VIALOG agrees to use its best efforts to prepare and file the
Registration Statement prior to March 15, 1997 and furnish to the Company and
the Principal Stockholder a copy of information concerning the Company and the
Stockholders included therein and each amendment thereto two business days prior
to such filing date.
6.21 Self Dealing. VIALOG agrees that it will not and will not allow any
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Subsidiary to enter into contracts and business arrangements with Persons and
Entities owned in whole or in part by officers and directors of VIALOG or any
Subsidiary except on an arms length basis and with the approval of the VIALOG
Board of Directors.
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CLOSING CONDITIONS
7.1 Conditions to Obligations of Each Party to Effect the Asset Purchase.
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The respective obligations of each Party to effect the Asset Purchase will be
subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following
conditions, any or all of which may be waived, in whole or in part, to the
extent permitted by Applicable Law:
(a) This Agreement, the Asset Purchase and the Transactions shall
have been approved and adopted in accordance with the BCA by the affirmative
vote, or to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, by written consent, of the
Stockholders holding at least the minimum number of shares of the Company stock
then issued and outstanding as are required by Applicable Law and the Company's
Organizational Documents for such approval and adoption,
(b) No proceeding before any Authority or Claim by any Person shall
be pending, challenging or seeking to make illegal, to delay materially or
otherwise directly or indirectly to restrain or prohibit the consummation of the
Asset Purchase or the Public Offering, or seeking material damages or imposing
any Adverse conditions in connection therewith,
(c) All authorizations, consents, waivers, orders or approvals
required to be obtained, and all filings, submissions, registrations, notices or
declarations required to be made,
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by VIALOG or Buyer and the Company prior to the consummation of the Asset
Purchase and the Transactions shall have been obtained from, and made with, all
required Authorities, except for such authorizations, consents, waivers, orders,
approvals, filings, registrations, notices or declarations the failure to obtain
or make would not, assuming consummation of the Asset Purchase, have an Adverse
Effect on the Company and the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
(d) (i) The Registration Statement shall have become effective and
shall contain no untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, (ii) the shares of VIALOG Stock offered in the Public
Offering shall have been sold and purchased subject only to consummation of the
Asset Purchase, the Participating Mergers and the Transactions, (iii) every
condition to closing the Public Offering (except as provided in clause (iv)
immediately succeeding) shall have been satisfied or properly waived and (iv)
release of the closing documents relating to the Public Offering and
distribution of the proceeds of the sale of all shares of VIALOG Stock sold and
purchased in the Public Offering shall have been unconditionally authorized by
the Underwriter upon consummation of the Asset Purchase and the Participating
Mergers,
(e) The minimum number of Participating Mergers required to prevent
termination pursuant to Section 8.1(b)(ii) of this Agreement shall have been
authorized and approved in accordance with Applicable Law and the Organizational
Documents of the Other Participating Companies, in the case of the Participating
Mergers,
(f) Subject to such material amendments, if any, as shall be
proposed prior to Asset Purchase Closing by VIALOG to be effective immediately
after Asset Purchase Closing, and to the extent reasonably satisfactory to the
Company and the Other Participating Companies, the VIALOG stock option plan
described in the Registration Statement shall have been approved and adopted by
all action (corporate and other) required for implementation thereof, and
(g) Each of the Persons named on Exhibit 7.1(g), including one
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Person proposed by a majority of the chief executive officers of the Company and
the Other Participating Companies acting as a group, shall have been elected a
director of VIALOG, effective immediately after the Public Offering Closing
Date, and all together shall constitute the entire Board of Directors of VIALOG,
each to serve until the election of the successor to, or the earlier resignation
or termination of, such director.
(h) The Buyer shall have entered into an amendment with the
Principal Stockholder of that certain lease for the property located at 0000
Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx which amendment shall, among other things,
(i) allow Buyer to terminate the lease upon sixty (60) days notice, and (ii)
allow the Principal Stockholder and its Subsidiaries to locate telephone
switching equipment and related fiberoptic cable termination in an area not to
exceed one hundred square feet for so long as Buyer occupies the facility but at
the sole risk of Principal Stockholder and its Subsidiaries.
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7.2 Conditions to Obligations of VIALOG and Buyer. The obligations of
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VIALOG and Buyer to effect the Asset Purchase will be subject to the
satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions, any
or all of which may be waived, in whole or in part, to the extent permitted by
Applicable Law:
(a) The Company shall have complied in all material respects with
its agreements contained in this Agreement, the certificates to be furnished to
VIALOG pursuant to this Section shall be true, correct and complete, all
Collateral Documents shall be reasonably satisfactory in form, scope and
substance to VIALOG and its counsel, and VIALOG and its counsel shall have
received all information and copies of all documents, including records of
corporate proceedings, which they may reasonably request in connection
therewith, such documents where appropriate to be certified by proper corporate
officers,
(b) The Company shall have furnished VIALOG and the Underwriters
with the favorable opinion, dated the Public Offering Closing Date of Sirote &
Permutt, P.C., which may contain limitations and qualifications as to scope and
law and rely on certifications as to facts of officers of the Company and public
officials as are reasonable and customary to opinions delivered in the type of
business transactions covered by this Agreement, that shall address the
following:
(i) Due organization, valid existence and good standing of
the Stockholders, the Company and each Subsidiary of
the Company, together with an opinion as to foreign
qualifications,
(ii) Requisite corporate power and authority and all, to
such counsel's knowledge, necessary Governmental
Authorizations for the Company and each Subsidiary to
own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on
its business as it is now being conducted,
(iii) In respect of the Company and each Subsidiary, the
number of shares of capital stock or other voting
securities authorized, issued, reserved for issuance or
outstanding as of the date of this Agreement and the
Effective Time and number of Option Securities and
amount of Convertible Securities outstanding as of such
dates,
(iv) Due authorization, valid issuance, full payment and
non-assessability of outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company and each Subsidiary and (upon
issuance on the terms and conditions specified in the
Option Securities and Convertible Securities pursuant
to which they are issuable) all shares of such capital
stock subject to issuance and absence of preemptive
rights with respect thereto,
(v) To the knowledge of counsel, (A) there are not
Contractual Obligations to repurchase, redeem or
otherwise acquire any shares of Company stock or any
stock of any Subsidiary, or any Option
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Securities and Convertible Securities, (B) the Asset
Purchase will not cause an acceleration of the exercise
or vesting schedule of any Option Securities and
Convertible Securities and (C) all outstanding shares
of stock of each Subsidiary are owned by the Company or
by another Subsidiary, free and clear of any Lien
(except as set forth in Section 3.1(d) of the
Disclosure Schedule),
(vi) Corporate power and authority of the Company and the
Principal Stockholder to execute and deliver the
Agreement and all Collateral Documents executed or
required to be executed pursuant thereto or to
consummate the Asset Purchase, to perform their
obligations thereunder and to consummate the Asset
Purchase,
(vii) Due and valid authorization by the Company and the
Stockholders by all necessary corporate (and other)
action of the execution, delivery and performance of
the Agreement and all Collateral Documents executed or
required to be executed pursuant thereto or to
consummate the Asset Purchase and the consummation by
the Company of the Asset Purchase,
(viii) Due authorization and valid execution and delivery by,
and enforceability against, the Company and the
Principal Stockholder of the Agreement and all
Collateral Documents executed or required to be
executed pursuant hereto or thereto or to consummate
the Asset Purchase and the Transactions except (A) as
such enforceability may be subject to bankruptcy,
moratorium, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement,
voidable preference, fraudulent conveyance and other
similar laws relating to or affecting the rights of
creditors and as the same may be subject to the effect
of general principles of equity and (B) that no opinion
need be expressed as to the enforceability of
indemnification and noncompetition provisions included
herein;
(ix) The execution and delivery of the Agreement and all
Collateral Documents executed or required to be
executed pursuant thereto or to consummate the Asset
Purchase by the Company and the Principal Stockholder
do not, and the performance of the Agreement and all
Collateral Documents executed or required to be
executed pursuant thereto or to consummate the Asset
Purchase and the consummation of the Transactions by
the Company and the Principal Stockholder will not, (i)
conflict with or violate the Organizational Documents
of the Company, the Principal Stockholder or any
Subsidiary, (ii) conflict with or violate any
Applicable Law, or (iii) to counsel's knowledge,
constitute a breach or default under, or give to others
any right of termination, amendment, acceleration,
increased payments or cancellation of, or result in the
creation of a Lien on any property or
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asset of the Company, the Principal Stockholder or any
Subsidiary pursuant to, any Material Agreement to which
the Company, the Principal Stockholder or any
Subsidiary is a party or by which the Company, the
Principal Stockholder or any Subsidiary or any property
or asset of the Company, the Principal Stockholder or
any Subsidiary is bound or affected,
(x) No consents from or filings with any Governmental
Authority (other than filings under the HSR Act, if
applicable are required for the execution and delivery
of the Agreement by the Company and the performance of
the Agreement and all Collateral Documents executed or
required to be executed pursuant thereto or to
consummate the Asset Purchase and the consummation of
the Asset Purchase by the Company,
(xi) Required filings with the Secretary of State of Alabama
have been made,
(xii) To the knowledge of counsel, absence of pending or
threatened material Legal Action,
(xiii) Nonapplicability of Alabama takeover laws, and
(xiv) such other customary matters concerning the
Stockholders in connection with the Public Offering as
may reasonably be requested by the Underwriter or its
counsel,
(c) No Legal Action or other Claim shall be pending or threatened
at any time prior to or on the Public Offering Closing Date before or by any
Authority or by any other Person seeking to restrain or prohibit, or damages
or other relief in connection with, the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the consummation of the Asset Purchase and the Transactions or
which might in the reasonable judgment of VIALOG have any Adverse Effect on
the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or, assuming
consummation of the Asset Purchase and the Participating Mergers, VIALOG and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
(d) The Company, the Principal Stockholder and other Persons listed
on Schedule 7.2(d) (or Section 7.2(d) of the Disclosure Schedule, as the case
may be) shall have executed and delivered to VIALOG a noncompetition agreement,
substantially in the form of Exhibit 7.2(d),
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(e) The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of
the Company and the Principal Stockholder contained in this Agreement or
otherwise made in writing by it or on its behalf pursuant to this Agreement or
otherwise made in connection with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions shall
be true and correct in all material respects at and as of the Public Offering
Closing Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of such
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date except those which speak as of a certain date which shall continue to be
true and correct in all material respects as of such date and on the Public
Offering Closing Date, each and all of the agreements and conditions to be
performed or satisfied by the Company or the Principal Stockholder under this
Agreement at or prior to the Public Offering Closing Date shall have been duly
performed or satisfied in all material respects, and the Company shall have
furnished VIALOG with such certificates and other documents evidencing the truth
of such representations, warranties, covenants and agreements and the
performance of such agreements or conditions as VIALOG shall have reasonably
requested,
(f) VIALOG shall have received from its Accountants, a certificate
or letter, dated the Public Offering Closing Date, to the effect that, on the
basis of a limited review in accordance with the standards for such reviews
promulgated by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as
outlined in Statement of Standards of Accounting and Review Services No. 1, they
have no reason to believe that the unaudited financial statements set forth in
the Registration Statement were not prepared in accordance with GAAP and
practices consistent with those followed in the preparation of the audited
financial statements audited by the Accountants as contemplated by Section
6.1(a), or that any material modifications of such unaudited financial
statements are required for a fair presentation of the financial position or
results of operations or changes in financial position of the Company or that
during the period from the last day covered by the most recent financial
statements set forth in the Registration Statement prepared by the Accountants
as contemplated by Section 6.1(a) to a date not more than five (5) days prior to
the Public Offering Closing Date, there has been any Adverse Change in the
financial position or results of the operations of the Company or the Company
and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole which is not described in the Registration
Statement,
(g) All actions taken by the Stockholders to approve and adopt this
Agreement, the Asset Purchase and the Transactions shall comply in all respects
with and shall be legal, valid, binding, enforceable and effective under the Law
of the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company, its Organizational
Documents and all Material Agreements to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is
a party or by which it or any of them or any of its or any of their property or
assets is bound,
(h) The Company shall have obtained consents to the assignment and
continuation of all Material Agreements being assumed by Buyer and described in
Section 7.2(h) of the Disclosure Schedule (the "Assumed Material Agreements")
which, in the reasonable judgment of VIALOG or its counsel, require such
consents, including appropriate binders or consents as to policies of insurance
to be assigned to VIALOG or the Buyer under this Agreement. The Company shall
have obtained satisfaction and discharge of all Liens set forth in Section
3.15(b) of the Disclosure Schedule, and shall have obtained, on terms and
conditions reasonably satisfactory to VIALOG, all Governmental Authorizations
and Private Authorizations, and all modifications of Contractual Obligations
relating to Indebtedness, which VIALOG deems, reasonably necessary or desirable
in order to own and operate the Assets and conduct the Business, substantially
on the basis heretofore owned, operated and conducted by the Company and
proposed to be owned, operated and conducted by VIALOG,
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(i) Between the date of this Agreement and the Public Offering
Closing Date, there shall not have occurred and be continuing any Adverse Change
affecting the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole from
the condition thereof (financial and other) reflected in the Financial
Statements or in the audited financial statements prepared by the Accountants as
contemplated by Section 6.1(a) or in the most recent financial statements set
forth in the Registration Statement,
(j) The filing and waiting period requirements (if applicable)
under the HSR Act relating to the consummation of the Asset Purchase and the
Participating Mergers shall have been complied with,
(k) No Law shall have been enacted or made by or on behalf of any
Authority nor shall any legislation have been introduced and favorably reported
for passage to either House of Congress by any committee, nor shall any Legal
Action by any Authority have been commenced or threatened, nor shall any
decision, order or other action of any Authority have been rendered or taken,
which in VIALOG's reasonable judgment, could have any Adverse Effect on the
Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or could restrain,
prevent or change the Asset Purchase or the Transactions or Adversely Affect the
ability of the Principal Stockholder to perform its obligations under this
Agreement, or Adversely Affect the ability of VIALOG to continue to own, operate
and conduct the business of the Buyer, substantially on the basis heretofore
owned, operated and conducted by the Company and as proposed to be owned,
operated and conducted by the Buyer,
(l) VIALOG shall have received copies of any environmental audits
the Company has received in respect of all real property owned or leased by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries. VIALOG in its sole discretion and at its
sole expense may engage an independent environmental engineer to perform such
audits and the results thereof shall not be materially inconsistent with the
representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.23,
(m) The Company shall have terminated all Employment Arrangements
as of the close of business on the day of the Asset Purchase Closing (to be
effective at the Effective Time) and the Buyer shall have hired substantially
all of said employees effective as of the Effective Time.
(n) The Principal Stockholder and the officers and directors of the
Principal Stockholder shall have delivered to VIALOG an agreement, substantially
in the form of Exhibit 7.2(n), dated the Public Offering Closing Date, releasing
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the Company and its Subsidiaries from any and all Claims against them (other
than Claims arising from the Principal Stockholder or its officers and directors
having acted as a director or officer of the Company or such Subsidiary as
contemplated by Section 6.7),
(o) The Company shall have delivered to Buyer an amendment to its
Certificate of Incorporation changing the name of the Company to a name
acceptable to Buyer and dissimilar to "Call Points, Inc." which amendment shall
be in form for filing with the Delaware Secretary of State.
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(p) The Company shall not have suffered any material damage,
destruction or loss (whether or not covered by insurance) or any material
acquisition or taking of property by any Authority, nor shall it have
experienced any material work stoppage,
(q) The Principal Stockholder shall have executed and delivered
to VIALOG an irrevocable power of attorney in the form of Exhibit 6.20(b).
(r) The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements
of the Principal Stockholder contained in this Agreement or otherwise made in
writing by or on behalf of the Principal Stockholder pursuant to this Agreement
or otherwise made in connection with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions
shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as of the Public
Offering Closing Date with the same force and effect as though made on and as of
such date except those which speak as of a certain date which shall continue to
be true and correct in all material respects as of such date and on the Public
Offering Closing Date. Each and all of the agreements and conditions to be
performed or satisfied by the Principal Stockholder under this Agreement at or
prior to the Public Offering Closing Date, including without limitation the
provisions set forth in Section 6.20, shall have been duly performed or
satisfied in all material respects, and the Principal Stockholder shall have
furnished VIALOG with such certificates and other documents evidencing the truth
of such representations, warranties, covenants and agreements and the
performance of such agreements or conditions as VIALOG or its counsel shall have
reasonably requested,
(s) The individuals listed on Schedule 7.2(s) (or Section
7.2(s) of the Disclosure Schedule, as the case may be) shall have executed and
delivered to VIALOG an Employment Arrangement substantially in the form of
Exhibit 7.2(s) which shall provide for an annual salary equal to 110% of the
annual salary paid to said individuals by the Company as of April 30, 1996 and
otherwise reasonably satisfactory to VIALOG and its counsel,
(t) Buyer shall have received satisfactory evidence of the
termination of that certain Royalty/Noncompete Agreement dated November 14, 1991
among the Company, Lincoln Telecommunications Company, Consolidated
Communications, Inc. and Rock Hill Telephone Company,
(u) Buyer shall have entered into a perpetual, non-exclusive
royalty free license with the Principal Stockholder whereby Buyer is licensed to
use the software owned by the Principal Stockholder and currently used by the
Company in the operation of the Business, and
(v) Buyer shall have entered into an agreement with Union
Springs Telephone Company, Inc. which memorializes the current oral arrangement
whereby Union Springs Telephone Company provides business telephone lines to the
Company. Said agreement shall, among other things (A) maintain the existing rate
structure, (B) require sixty (60) days written notice prior to termination by
either party, and (C) require Buyer to keep at Union Springs the two bridges
owned by the Company and currently located at Union Springs.
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7.3 Conditions to Obligations of the Company. The obligations of the
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Company and the Principal Stockholder to effect the Asset Purchase will be
subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of the following
conditions, any or all of which may be waived, in whole or in part to the extent
permitted by Applicable Law:
(a) VIALOG shall have furnished the Company and the Principal
Stockholder with the favorable opinion dated the Public Offering Closing Date of
Xxxxxx, X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx & Xxxxxx, llp, counsel to VIALOG and Buyer, which
may contain limitations and qualifications as to scope and law and rely on
certifications as to facts of officers of VIALOG and Buyer and public officials
as are reasonable and customary to opinions delivered in the type of business
transactions covering this Agreement, addressing the following:
(i) Due organization, valid existence and good
standing of VIALOG and Buyer,
(ii) Due authorization and valid execution and delivery
by, and enforceability against VIALOG and Buyer of
the Agreement except (A) as such enforceability
may be subject to bankruptcy, moratorium,
insolvency, reorganization, arrangement, voidable
preference, fraudulent conveyance and other
similar laws relating to or affecting the rights
of creditors and as the same may be subject to the
effect of general principles of equity and (B)
that no opinion need be expressed as to the
enforceability of indemnification provisions,
(iii) The Registration Statement has become effective
under the Securities Act, and to such counsel's
knowledge, no stop order suspending its
effectiveness has been issued and no proceedings
for that purpose have been instituted or
threatened by the SEC,
(iv) The execution and delivery of the Agreement by
VIALOG and all Collateral Documents executed or
required to be executed pursuant thereto or to
consummate the Asset Purchase by it does not, and
the performance of the Agreement and all
Collateral Documents executed or required to be
executed pursuant thereto or to consummate the
Asset Purchase and the consummation of the Asset
Purchase by it will not, (A) conflict with or
violate the Organizational Documents of VIALOG,
(B) conflict with or violate any Applicable Law,
or (C) to counsel's knowledge, constitute a
default under, or give to others any right of
termination, amendment, acceleration, increased
payments or cancellation of, or result in the
creation of a Lien on any property or assets of
VIALOG pursuant to, any Material Agreement to
which it is a party or by which it or any property
or asset of it is bound or affected,
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(v) No consents from or filings with any Governmental
Authority (other than filings under the HSR Act,
if applicable are required for the execution and
delivery of the Agreement by VIALOG and the
performance of the Agreement and all Collateral
Documents executed or required to be executed
pursuant thereto or to consummate the Asset
Purchase and the consummation of the Asset
Purchase by them, and
(vi) The required filings with the Delaware Secretary
of State to change the Certificate of
Incorporation as provided in Section 1.7 shall
have been made.
(b) Each of VIALOG and Buyer shall have complied in all
material respects with its agreements contained in this Agreement, and the
certificates to be furnished to the Company pursuant to this Section shall be
true, correct and complete. All Collateral Documents shall be reasonably
satisfactory in form, scope and substance to the Company and its counsel, and
the Company and its counsel shall have received all information and copies of
all documents, including records of corporate proceedings, which they may
reasonably request in connection therewith, such documents where appropriate to
be certified by proper corporate officers,
(c) The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements
of each of VIALOG and Buyer contained in this Agreement or otherwise made in
writing by it or on its behalf pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise made in
connection with the Asset Purchase and the Transactions shall be true and
correct in all material respects at and as of the Public Offering Closing Date
with the same force and effect as though made on and as of such date except
those which speak as of a certain date which shall continue to be true and
correct in all material respects as of such date and on the Public Offering
Closing Date; each and all of the agreements and conditions to be performed or
satisfied by each of VIALOG and Buyer under this Agreement at or prior to the
Public Offering Closing Date shall have been duly performed or satisfied in all
material respects; and each of VIALOG and Buyer shall have furnished the Company
with such certificates and other documents evidencing the truth of such
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements and the performance of
such agreements or conditions as the Company shall have reasonably requested,
(d) If executed and delivered to VIALOG by the Asset Purchase
Closing, the employment agreements contemplated by Section 7.2(s) and for those
persons listed on Schedule 7.2(s) (or Section 7.2(s) of the Disclosure Schedule,
as the case may be) shall have been executed and delivered by the Buyer at
VIALOG's direction to the indicated person,
(e) The filing and waiting period requirements (if applicable)
under the HSR Act relating to the consummation of the Asset Purchase and the
Participating Mergers shall have been complied with,
(f) VIALOG shall have obtained the insurance set forth in
Sections 6.7(c),
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(g) The Company shall have obtained all third party consents
needed for the Buyer to assume and continue those Material Agreements being
assumed by Buyer,
(h) The Buyer and the Principal Stockholder shall have entered
into an agreement whereby the Principal Stockholder and its Subsidiaries may,
for a period of five (5) years commencing on the Effective Time, purchase from
Buyer minutes of long distance usage at Buyer's lowest cost plus $.01 per
minute, and
(i) No Legal Action or other Claim shall be pending or
threatened at any time prior to or on the Public Offering Closing Date before or
by any Authority or by any other Person seeking to restrain or prohibit, or
damages or other relief in connection with, the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the consummation of the Asset Purchase and the Transactions or
which might in the reasonable judgment of the Company have any Adverse Effect on
VIALOG and its Subsidiaries or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole
or, assuming consummation of the Asset Purchase and the Participating
Agreements, VIALOG and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
ARTICLE
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TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
8.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior
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to the Effective Time, whether before or after approval of this Agreement, the
Asset Purchase and the Transactions as follows:
(a) by mutual consent of the Company and VIALOG.
(b) by either VIALOG or the Company,
(i) if any permanent injunction, decree or judgment by
any Authority preventing the consummation of the
Asset Purchase or the Public Offering shall have
become final and nonappealable, or if the
terminating party determines in its reasonable
discretion that the Asset Purchase has become
inadvisable or impracticable by reason of the
institution by any Authority or other Person of
material Legal Action, or
(ii) if the Asset Purchase Closing shall not occur on
or before the Termination Date.
(c) by the Company:
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(i) in the event of a breach of this Agreement by
VIALOG or Buyer that has not been cured, or if any
representation or warranty of VIALOG or Buyer
shall have become untrue in any material respect,
in either case such that such breach or untruth is
incapable of being cured by the Effective Date or
will prevent or delay consummation of the Asset
Purchase by or beyond the Termination Date, or
(ii) in the event the Public Offering is not a firm
commitment in the manner and upon the terms
described in Section 5.10.
(d) by VIALOG:
(i) if the Asset Purchase and the Transactions fail to
receive the approval required by Applicable Law,
by vote (or to the extent permitted by Applicable
Law, by consent) of the Stockholders,
(ii) if it shall determine in its reasonable discretion
that the Asset Purchase or the Transactions has or
have become inadvisable or impracticable by reason
of the threat by any Authority, or any other
Person of material Legal Action or proceedings
against either or both of the Company and VIALOG
(or Buyer, or a Subsidiary of any of them), it
being understood and agreed that a written request
by governmental authorities for information with
respect to the Transactions, which information
could be used in connection with such Legal Action
or proceedings, may be deemed by VIALOG to be a
threat of material Legal Action or proceedings,
(iii) if arrangements reasonably satisfactory to VIALOG
cannot be made for (A) the assumption by the Buyer
substantially on the terms and conditions in
effect as of the date of this Agreement, or (B)
the Public Offering,
(iv) if the business, assets, prospects, management,
condition (financial or other) or results of
operation of the Company or the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole shall have been
Adversely Affected, whether by reason of changes
or developments in the economy or industry
generally or operations in the ordinary course of
business or otherwise,
(v) if the Company shall not have received, without
the imposition of any burdensome condition or
material cost, all Governmental Authorizations and
Private Authorizations, or if any Authority or
other Person shall withdraw any such Governmental
Authorizations or Private Authorizations,
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(vi) if the terms of this Agreement shall not have been
approved by the Underwriter,
(vii) if the Company shall have suffered any material
damage, destruction or loss (whether or not
covered by insurance) or any material acquisition
or taking of property by any Authority, or if it
or any of its Subsidiaries shall have suffered a
material work stoppage, or
(viii) in the event of a material breach of this
Agreement by the Company or the Principal
Stockholder that has not been cured, or if any
representation or warranty of the Company or the
Principal Stockholder shall have become untrue in
any material respect so that such breach or
untruth is incapable of being substantially cured
by the Effective Date or will prevent or delay
consummation of the Asset Purchase by or beyond
the Termination Date, or if any condition to
VIALOG's obligation to close under this Agreement
shall not have been satisfied.
(e) by VIALOG if (i) the Board of Directors of the Company
shall withdraw, modify or change its recommendation so that it is not in favor
of this Agreement, the Asset Purchase or the Transactions, or shall have
resolved to do any of the foregoing (it being agreed and understood that nothing
in this clause (i) obliges the Company to effect the Asset Purchase if the
conditions set forth in Section 7.1 and Section 7.3 are not satisfied or limits
the rights of the Company to consent to terminate this Agreement pursuant to
Section 8.1(a) or to terminate the Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1(b) or
Section 8.1(c)), (ii) the Board of Directors of the Company shall have
recommended or resolved to recommend to the Stockholders an Other Transaction,
(iii) the Company, the Board of Directors of the Company or the Principal
Stockholder shall have taken any action in contravention of Sections 6.6 or 6.13
or (iv) the Principal Stockholder shall fail to vote to approve and adopt this
Agreement, the Asset Purchase and the Transactions.
8.2 Effect of Termination. Except as provided in Sections 2.2(a),
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2.2(c), 6.1(b), 6.1(c), 6.9 and 8.5, in the event of the termination of this
Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1, this Agreement shall forthwith become void,
there shall be no liability on the part of any Party, or any of their respective
officers or directors, to the other and all rights and obligations of any Party
shall cease; provided, however, that such termination will not relieve any Party
from liability for the willful breach of any of its representations, warranties,
covenants or agreements set forth in this Agreement.
8.3 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended by the Parties by action
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taken by or on behalf of their respective Boards of Directors and by the
Principal Stockholder at any time prior to the Effective Time; provided,
however, that, after approval of this Agreement and the Asset Purchase by the
Stockholders, no amendment, which under Applicable Law may not be made without
the approval of the Stockholders, may be made without such approval. This
Agreement may not be amended to impose any additional material obligation on a
Party or to
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burden or limit a material right of such Party except by an agreement in writing
signed by the Party so affected.
8.4 Waiver. At any time prior to the Effective Time, except to the
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extent Applicable Law does not permit, either VIALOG or Buyer and the Company
may (a) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other
acts of the other, subject, however, to the terms and conditions of Section 8.1,
(b) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties of the other
contained in this Agreement or in any document delivered pursuant to this
Agreement and (c) waive compliance by the other with any of the agreements,
covenants or conditions contained in this Agreement. Any such extension or
waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an agreement in writing signed by the
Party or Parties to be bound thereby.
8.5 Fees, Expenses and Other Payments. If this Agreement is
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terminated, then all costs and expenses incurred by the Parties in connection
with this Agreement, the Asset Purchase and the Transactions and in connection
with compliance with Applicable Law and Contractual Obligations as a consequence
hereof and thereof, including fees and disbursements of counsel, financial
advisors and accountants, will be borne solely and entirely by the Party which
has incurred such costs and expenses (with respect to such Party, its
"Expenses"). VIALOG acknowledges and agrees that the Company has disclosed that
it is obligated and will become further obligated for Expenses (including fees
and expenses of its counsel, its independent accountants, and its financial
advisor) incurred by it in connection with this Agreement, the Asset Purchase
and the Transactions. It is understood and agreed that certain of such Expenses
may be paid by the Company prior to the execution of this Agreement, and VIALOG
agrees to refrain from taking any action which would prevent or delay the
payment of reasonable Expenses by the Company. Any Expenses incurred and not
paid will constitute liabilities of the Company. VIALOG agrees to take all
action necessary to cause the Company to pay promptly any of the foregoing
reasonable Expenses incurred, but not paid, by the Company prior to the
Effective Time.
8.6 Effect of Investigation. The right of any Party to terminate this
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Agreement pursuant to Section 8.1 will remain operative and in full force and
effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Party, any
Person controlling any such Party or any of their respective Representatives
whether prior to or after the execution of this Agreement.
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ARTICLE
10
INDEMNIFICATION
10.1 Indemnification.
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(a) Except as provided in Section 11.1, the Company and the
Principal Stockholder jointly and severally agree to make whole, indemnify and
hold VIALOG, the Buyer, the Underwriters and their respective Affiliates,
agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the "VIALOG Indemnified Parties")
harmless as a result of, from or against:
(i) any and all Claims of the VIALOG Indemnified
Parties or other Persons based upon, attributable
to or resulting from any material inaccuracy in or
material breach of any representation or warranty
on the part of any one or more of the Company or
the Stockholders under this Agreement or any
Collateral Document;
(ii) any and all Claims of the VIALOG Indemnified
Parties or other Persons based upon, attributable
to or resulting from the material breach of any
covenant or other agreement on the part of any one
or more of the Company or the Stockholders under
this Agreement or any Collateral Document;
(iii) any and all Claims of the VIALOG Indemnified
Parties attributable to or resulting from the
Identified Legal Actions; and
(iv) any and all other material Claims of the VIALOG
Indemnified Parties or other Persons incident to
the foregoing or to the enforcement of this
Section.
(b) Except as provided in Section 11.1, VIALOG agrees to make
whole, indemnify and hold the Company, the Principal Stockholder and their
respective Affiliates, agents, heirs, successors and assigns (collectively, the
"Company Indemnified Parties") harmless as a result of, from or against:
(i) any and all Claims of the Company Indemnified
Parties or other Persons based upon, attributable
to or resulting from any material inaccuracy in or
material breach of any representation or warranty
on the part of VIALOG or Buyer under this
Agreement or any Collateral Document;
(ii) any and all Claims of the Company Indemnified
Parties or other Persons based upon, attributable
to or resulting from the material
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breach of any covenant or other agreement on the
part of VIALOG or Buyer; and
(iii) any and all other material Claims of the Company
Indemnified Parties or other Persons incident to
the foregoing or to the enforcement of this
Section.
(c) Except in connection with an Identified Legal Action,
neither the Company nor the Principal Stockholder will be required to pay to the
VIALOG Indemnified Parties an aggregate amount in excess of an amount equal to
the cash received pursuant to Sections 2.1(a) and 2.1(c). VIALOG will not be
required to pay any Company Indemnified Party an aggregate amount in excess of
an amount equal to the cash delivered to such Company Indemnified Party pursuant
to Sections 2.1(a) and 2.1( c). No Claim for indemnification may be commenced
beyond the period applicable to such Claim set forth in Section 11.1.
(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Company nor the
Principal Stockholder will be required to pay any amount for indemnification to
the VIALOG Indemnified Parties, except to the extent that (i) the Claim pertains
to an Identified Legal Action, without regard to the dollar amount thereof or
the aggregate dollar amount of all Claims; or (ii) the aggregate amount of
Claims under this Section 10.1 asserted against the Principal Stockholder
exceeds $100,000.
10.2 Procedures Concerning Claims by Third Parties; Payment of
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Damages; etc.
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(a) If any Legal Action is instituted or asserted by any person
other than such indemnified party in respect of which payment may be sought
hereunder, the indemnified party will reasonably and promptly cause written
notice of the assertion of any Legal Action of which it has knowledge which is
covered by the indemnities under Section 10.1 to be forwarded to the
indemnifying party. In such event, the indemnifying party will have the right,
at its sole option and expense, to be represented by counsel of its choice,
which must be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party, and to defend
against, negotiate, settle or otherwise deal with any Legal Action which related
to any Claims instituted or asserted by any Person other than such indemnified
party and indemnified against hereunder; provided, however, that no settlement
thereof will be made without the prior written consent of the indemnified party,
which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. If the
indemnifying party elects to defend against, negotiate, settle or otherwise deal
with any Legal Action which related to any such Claims, it will within thirty
(30) days of receipt of said notice (or sooner, if the nature of the Legal
Action so requires) notify in writing the indemnified party of its intent to do
so. If the indemnifying party elects not to defend against, negotiate, settle or
otherwise deal with any Legal Action which relates to any such Claims, fails to
notify the indemnified party of its election as herein provided or contests its
obligation to indemnify the indemnified party for such Claims under this
Agreement, the indemnified party may defend against, negotiate, settle or
otherwise deal with such Legal Action. If the indemnified party defends any
Legal Action, then the indemnifying party will reimburse the indemnified party
for reasonable Claims incurred in defending such Legal Action upon a final
determination that the indemnified party was entitled
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to indemnity hereunder. Neither the indemnifying party nor the indemnified party
may settle any Legal Action without the prior written consent of the other
party, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed.
If the indemnifying party will assume the defense of any Legal Action instituted
or asserted by any Person other than an indemnified party, the indemnified party
may participate, at such party's own expense, in the defense of such Legal
Action.
(b) After any final judgment or award will have been rendered
by a court, arbitration board (which may be engaged upon the consent of each of
the indemnifying party and the indemnified parties) or administrative agency of
competent jurisdiction and the expiration of the time in which to appeal
therefrom, or a settlement will have been consummated, or the indemnified party
and the indemnifying party will have arrived at a mutually binding agreement
with respect to a Legal Action hereunder, the indemnifying party will pay all of
the sums due and owing to the indemnified party by wire transfer of immediately
available funds within five business days after the date of notice of such
judgment or award conditioned, however on the indemnifying party having been
finally determined by the parties' agreement or by final court or arbitration
that the indemnifying party is obligated hereunder to make said payment and
subject to the provisions of this Article 10.
(c) The failure of the indemnified party to give reasonably
prompt notice of any Legal Action instituted or asserted by any Person other
than such indemnified party and indemnified against hereunder will not release,
waive or otherwise affect the indemnifying party's obligations with respect
thereto except to the extent that the indemnifying party can demonstrate actual
loss or material prejudice as a result of such failure.
(d) No legal action to enforce a Claim for indemnity will be
stayed or dismissed for failure to join one or more indemnifying parties or to
permit an indemnifying party to cross-claim against another indemnifying party,
nor will the failure to join as indemnifying party be deemed grounds for
preventing a separate or subsequent Legal Action to enforce a Claim for
indemnification against such party, each such Legal Action being deemed a
separate and independent Claim for indemnification. A Legal Action to enforce a
Claim for indemnity may be instituted in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or
the jurisdiction to which each Party consents, or any other state having
jurisdiction with respect thereto.
ARTICLE
11
GENERAL PROVISIONS
11.1 Effectiveness of Representations; etc.
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(a) Regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any
other party hereto, any Person controlling such party or any of their respective
Representatives whether prior to or after the execution and consummation of this
Agreement, the representations, warranties,
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covenants and agreements contained in Article 3, Article 4 and Article 5 will
survive the Asset Purchase Closing and remain operative and in full force and
effect as follows:
(i) Section 3.11, Section 3.12 and Section 3.21 until
sixty (60) days after the applicable statute of
limitations, as the same may be extended from time
to time, has terminated;
(ii) Section 3.23, until the sixth anniversary date of
this Agreement; and
(iii) all other Sections, until VIALOG (or its
successor) files an annual report pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, as prescribed thereunder on Form
10-K covering at least two full fiscal years of
operations by VIALOG, but in no event more than
thirty months after the Public Offering Closing
Date (the "Second Annual Filing Date").
(b) Except as set forth in Section 8.2, and except for the
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in Article 3,
Article 4 and Article 5, the representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements of each Party will survive and remain operative and in full force and
effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any other Party,
any Person controlling any such Party or any of their respective Representatives
whether prior to or after the execution and consummation of this Agreement.
11.2 Notices. All notices and other communications given or made
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pursuant to this Agreement will be in writing and will be deemed to have been
duly given or made as of the date delivered or transmitted, and will be
effective upon receipt, if delivered personally, mailed by certified mail
(postage prepaid, return receipt requested) to the Parties at the following
addresses or sent by electronic transmission to the fax number specified below:
(a) If to VIALOG or Buyer:
VIALOG Corporation
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxx, President
00 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
with a copy to:
Xxxxxx, X'Xxxxxxx, XxXxxxxx & Xxxxxx, LLP
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq.
0000 Xxxx xx Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Fax: (000) 000-0000
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(b) If to the Company:
Call Points, Inc.
Attention: Xxx. Xxxxxx Xx Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
with a copy to:
Call Points, Inc.
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
and
Xxxx Xxxx, Esq.
Sirote & Permutt P.C.
Colonial Financial Center
0 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
(c) If to the Principal Stockholder:
Ropir Industries, Inc.
Attention: Xxx. Xxxxxx Xx Xxxxxx
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000
with a copy to:
Xxxx Xxxx, Esq.
Sirote & Permutt P.C.
Colonial Financial Center
0 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Any address for notice as hereinabove provided may be changed by the
party or person for whom the change is made by giving notice of said change in
the manner provided in this Section.
11.3 Headings. The headings contained in this Agreement are for
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reference purposes only and will not affect in any way the meaning and
interpretation of this Agreement.
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11.4 Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is
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invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law or public
policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement will nevertheless
remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of
the Transactions is not affected in any manner Adverse to any Party. Upon such
determination that any term or other provisions is invalid, illegal or incapable
of being enforced, the Parties will negotiate in good faith to modify this
Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the Parties as closely as
possible to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law in an acceptable
manner to the end that the Transactions are fulfilled to the extent possible.
11.5 Entire Agreement. This Agreement (together with the Disclosure
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Schedule, the Confidentiality Agreement and the other Collateral Documents
delivered in connection herewith), constitutes the entire agreement of the
Parties and supersedes all prior agreements (other than the Confidentiality
Agreement) and undertakings, both written and oral, between the Parties, or any
of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof, including without limitation
that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated July 30, 1996, between the
Company and VIALOG.
11.6 Assignment. This Agreement may not be assigned by operation of law or
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otherwise and any purported assignment will be null and void, provided that
VIALOG may cause a wholly owned Subsidiary of VIALOG to be substituted for
VIALOG as the party to this Agreement and may, in addition, assign the other
rights, but not its obligations, including, without limitation, its obligation
for payment of the Purchase Price and the Noncompetition Payment, under this
Agreement to such Subsidiary.
11.7 Parties in Interest. This Agreement will be binding upon and inure
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solely to the benefit of each Party, and nothing in this Agreement, express or
implied (other than the provisions of Section 6.7, which provisions are intended
to benefit and may be enforced by the beneficiaries thereof), is intended to or
will confer upon any Person any right, benefit or remedy of any nature
whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.
11.8 Governing Law. This Agreement will be governed by, and construed in
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accordance with, the substantive laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
governing contracts made and to be performed in such jurisdiction, regardless of
the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflicts of
law.
11.9 Enforcement of the Agreement. Each Party recognizes and agrees that
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each other Party's remedy at law for any breach of the provisions of this
Agreement would be inadequate and agrees that for breach of such provisions,
such Party will, in addition to such other remedies as may be available to it at
law or in equity or as provided in this Agreement, be entitled to injunctive
relief and to enforce its rights by an action for specific performance to the
extent permitted by Applicable Law. Each party hereby waives any requirement for
security or the posting of any bond or other surety in connection with any
temporary or permanent award of injunctive, mandatory or other equitable relief.
Nothing herein contained will be construed as prohibiting a Party from pursuing
any other remedies available to such Party for any breach or
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threatened breach hereof or failure to take or refrain from any action as
required hereunder to consummate the Asset Purchase and carry out the
Transactions.
11.10 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more
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counterparts, and by the different Parties hereto in separate counterparts, each
of which when executed will be deemed to be an original but all of which taken
together will constitute one and the same agreement.
11.11 Disclosure Supplements. From time to time prior to the Public
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Offering Closing Date, the Company will promptly supplement or amend the
Disclosure Schedule delivered in connection with this Agreement, with respect to
any matter which, if existing, occurring or known at the date of this Agreement,
would have been required to be set forth or described in such Disclosure
Schedule or which is necessary to correct any information in such Disclosure
Schedule which has been rendered inaccurate thereby; provided, however, that no
supplement or amendment to the Disclosure Schedule that constitutes or reflects
a Material Adverse Change to the Company may be made without the prior written
consent of VIALOG.
ARTICLE
12
DEFINITIONS
As used in this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following terms (or any variant in the form thereof) have the following
respective meanings. Terms defined in the singular will have a comparable
meaning when used in the plural, and vice versa, and the reference to any gender
will be deemed to include all genders. Any reference to any statutory or
regulatory provision will be deemed to be a reference to any successor statutory
or regulatory provision. Unless otherwise defined or the context otherwise
clearly requires, terms for which meanings are provided in this Agreement will
have such meanings when used in the Disclosure Schedule and each Collateral
Document, notice, certificate, communication, opinion, or other document
executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto or otherwise
delivered, from time to time, pursuant hereto or thereto.
Accountants means KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP.
Adverse, Adversely, when used alone or in conjunction with other terms
(including without limitation "Affect," "Change" and "Effect") means, with
respect to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, VIALOG or Buyer, as the case
may be any Event which could reasonably be expected to (a) adversely affect the
validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any Collateral Document executed
or required to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto, or (b) adversely affect
the business, operations, management, properties or the condition, (financial or
other), or results of operation of the Company or the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole, VIALOG or Buyer, as the case may be or (c) impair
the Company's or VIALOG's ability to fulfill its obligations under the terms of
this Agreement or any Collateral Document executed or required
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to be executed pursuant hereto or thereto, or (d) adversely affect the aggregate
rights and remedies of VIALOG or the Company under this Agreement or any
Collateral Document executed or required to be executed pursuant hereto or
thereto, in all cases, unless otherwise specifically set forth, in a material
respect or manner or to a material degree.
Affiliate or Affiliated means, with respect to any Person, (a) any other
Person at the time directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with such Person, (b) any other Person of
which such Person at the time owns, or has the right to acquire, directly or
indirectly, twenty percent (20%) or more of any class of the capital stock or
beneficial interest, (c) any other Person which at the time owns, or has the
right to acquire, directly or indirectly, twenty percent (20%) or more of any
class of the capital stock or beneficial interest of such Person, (d) any
executive officer or director of such Person, (e) with respect to any
partnership, joint venture or similar Entity, any general partner thereof, and
(f) when used with respect to an individual, will include any member of such
individual's immediate family or a family trust.
Agreement means this Agreement as originally in effect, including unless
the context otherwise specifically requires, all schedules, including the
Disclosure Schedule and exhibits to this Agreement, and as the same may from
time to time be supplemented, amended, modified or restated in the manner herein
or therein provided.
Applicable Law means any Law of any Authority, whether domestic or foreign,
including without limitation all federal and state securities laws and
Environmental Laws, to or by which a Person or to any of its business or
operations is subject or any of its property or assets is bound.
Assets means with regard to the Business all inventory, machinery,
equipment, Leases, leasehold improvements, real property, furniture, fixtures,
Intangible Assets, intellectual property, computer hardware and software,
proprietary information, customer lists, prepaid items, all receivables, cash
and cash equivalents on hand or otherwise on deposit, rights of the Company
under all Contracts, Governmental Authorizations and Private Authorizations, the
name "Call Points, Inc." together with all books, records and accounts and any
confidential information which has been reduced to writing relating to or
arising out of the Business and any and all other properties or assets of the
Company of every name and nature including the goodwill of the Company in the
Business.
Asset Purchase will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Asset Purchase Closing will have the meaning given to it in Section 1.2.
Assumed Contracts means (a) all Contractual Obligations other than those
set forth in Section 3.9 and Section 3.17(a) of the Disclosure Schedule, and (b)
the Assumed Material Agreements.
Assumed Liabilities means all liabilities and obligations of the Company
directly associated with the operation of the Business, other than the Retained
Liabilities, and which can
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be generally described as (a) accounts payable and all similar trade obligations
of the Company existing as of the Asset Purchase Closing, (b) obligations
arising under the Assumed Contracts, (c) the Employee Accruals but in no event
in excess of $100,000, and (d) the arrearage of royalty payments due from the
Company for the one month period prior to the Effective Time under that certain
Royalty/Noncompete Agreement dated November 14, 1991 among the Company, Lincoln
Telecommunications Company, Consolidated Communications Inc. and Rock Hill
Telephone Company, which amount shall in no event exceed the lowest monthly
payment paid by the Company under said agreement in 1996, and (e) current
accounts payable due Union Springs Telephone Company, Inc. for telephone lines
used by the Company and for which Union Springs Telephone Company, Inc. is
compensated under tariffs of the Alabama Public Service Commission which amount
shall in no event exceed an amount equal to the average monthly billing from
Union Springs Telephone Company, Inc. for said telephone lines in 1996.
Assumed Material Agreements will have the meaning given to it in Section
7.2(h).
Authority means any governmental or quasi-governmental authority, whether
administrative, executive, judicial, legislative or other, or any combination
thereof, including without limitation any federal, state, territorial, county,
municipal or other government or governmental or quasi-governmental agency,
arbitrator, authority, board, body, branch, bureau, central bank or comparable
agency or Entity, commission, corporation, court, department, instrumentality,
master, mediator, panel, referee, system or other political unit or subdivision
or other Entity of any of the foregoing, whether domestic or foreign.
BCA will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Benefit Arrangement means any material benefit arrangement that is not a
Plan, including (a) any employment or consulting agreement (b) any arrangement
providing for insurance coverage or workers' compensation benefits, (c) any
incentive bonus or deferred bonus arrangement, (d) any arrangement providing
termination allowance, severance or similar benefits, (e) any equity
compensation plan, (f) any deferred compensation plan and (g) any compensation
policy and practice.
Business means all business of the Company associated with the Assets and
the Assumed Liabilities.
Buyer will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Claims means any and all debts, liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
deficiencies, assessments and penalties, together with all Legal Actions,
pending or threatened, claims and judgments of whatever kind and nature relating
thereto, and all reasonable fees, costs, expenses and disbursements (including
without limitation attorneys' fees, costs and expenses) relating to any of the
foregoing.
COBRA means the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as
amended, as set forth in Section 4980B of the Code and Part 6 of Title I of
ERISA.
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Code will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Collateral Document means any agreement, instrument, certificate, opinion,
memorandum, schedule or other document delivered by a Party or the Stockholder
pursuant to this Agreement or in connection with the Asset Purchase and the
Transactions. For purposes of the representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements of the Company and the Principal Stockholder, on the one hand, or
VIALOG and Buyer on the other, under this Agreement and with respect to opinions
to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement, except to the extent of a Party's
actual knowledge, the Company and the Principal Stockholder or VIALOG and Buyer,
as the case may be, assume no responsibility for the authority of or genuineness
of signatures relating to the others as counterparts or their representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements.
Company will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Company Indemnified Parties will have the meaning given to it in Section
10.1(b).
The Company's knowledge (including the term "to the knowledge of the
Company") means the knowledge, information or belief of any Company director,
executive officer or the Principal Stockholder; and that such director,
executive officer or Principal Stockholder, after reasonable investigation, will
have reason to believe and will believe that the subject representation or
warranty is true and accurate as stated.
Confidentiality Letter will have the meaning given to it in Section 6.1(c).
Contract or Contractual Obligation means any term, condition, provision,
representation, warranty, agreement, covenant, undertaking, commitment,
indemnity or other obligation set forth in the Organizational Documents of the
obligee or which is outstanding or existing under any instrument, contract,
lease or other contractual undertaking (including without limitation any
instrument relating to or evidencing any Indebtedness) to which the obligee is a
party or by which it or any of its business is subject or property or assets is
bound.
Control (including the terms "controlled," "controlled by" and "under
common control with") means the possession, directly or indirectly or as trustee
or executor, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of a Person, or the disposition of such Person's assets or properties,
whether through the ownership of stock, equity or other ownership, by contract,
arrangement or understanding, or as trustee or executor, by contract or credit
arrangement or otherwise.
Convertible Securities means any evidences of indebtedness, shares of
capital stock (other than common stock) or other securities directly or
indirectly convertible into or exchangeable for common stock, whether or not the
right to convert or exchange thereunder is immediately exercisable or is
conditioned upon the passage of time, the occurrence or non-occurrence or
existence or non-existence of some other Event, or both.
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DBCL will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Disclosure Schedule means the disclosure schedules dated as of the date of
this Agreement delivered by the Company to VIALOG and VIALOG to the Company.
Distribution means, with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries:
(a) the declaration or payment of any dividend (except dividends payable in
common stock of the Company) on or in respect of any shares of any class of
capital stock of the Company or any shares of capital stock of any Subsidiary
owned by a Person other than the Company or a Subsidiary, (b) the purchase,
redemption or other retirement of any shares of any class of capital stock of
the Company or any shares of capital stock of any Subsidiary owned by a Person
other than the Company or a Subsidiary, and (c) any other distribution on or in
respect of any shares of any class of capital stock of the Company or any shares
of capital stock of any Subsidiary owned by a Person other than the Company or a
Subsidiary.
Effective Date means the effective date of the Registration Statement and
commencement of the Public Offering as authorized by the SEC.
Effective Time will have the meaning given to it in Section 1.6.
Employment Arrangement means, with respect to any Person, any employment,
consulting, retainer, severance or similar contract, agreement, plan,
arrangement or policy (exclusive of any which is terminable within thirty (30)
days without liability, penalty or payment of any kind by such Person or any
Affiliate), or providing for severance, termination payments, insurance coverage
(including any self-insured arrangements), workers compensation, disability
benefits, life, health, medical dental or hospitalization benefits, supplemental
unemployment benefits, vacation or sick leave benefits, pension or retirement
benefits or for deferred compensation, profit-sharing, bonuses, stock options,
stock purchase or appreciation rights or other forms of incentive compensation
or post-retirement insurance, compensation or benefits, or any collective
bargaining or other labor agreement, whether or not any of the foregoing is
subject to the provisions of ERISA.
Encumber means to suffer, accept, agree to or permit the imposition of a
Lien.
Entity means any corporation, firm, unincorporated organization,
association, partnership, limited liability company, trust (inter vivos or
testamentary), estate of a deceased, insane or incompetent individual, business
trust, joint stock company, joint venture or other organization, entity or
business, whether acting in an individual, fiduciary or other capacity, or any
Authority.
Environmental Laws means any Law relating to or otherwise imposing
liability or standards of conduct concerning pollution or protection of the
environment or occupational health and safety, including without limitation Laws
relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of Hazardous
Materials or other pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, noises, odors or
industrial, toxic or hazardous substances, materials or wastes, whether as
matter or
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energy, into the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air,
surface water, ground water, mining or reclamation or mined land, land surface
or subsurface strata) or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing,
generation, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, cleanup, transport
or handling of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals or industrial, toxic or
hazardous substances, materials or wastes. Environmental Laws include the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42
U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq.), the Hazardous Material Transportation Act (49
-- ---
U.S.C. Section 1801 et seq.), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
-- ---
(42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
-- ---
U.S.C. Section 1251 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et
-- --- --
seq.), the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.), the
--- -- ---
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. Section 651 et seq.), the
-- ---
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. Section 136 et
--
seq.), and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C.
---
Section 1201 et seq.), and any analogous future federal, or present or future
-- ---
state, local or foreign, Laws, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder all as from time to time in effect, and any reference to any
statutory or regulatory provision will be deemed to be a reference to any
successor statutory or regulatory provision.
Environmental Permit means any Governmental Authorization required by or
pursuant to any Environmental Law.
Environmental Requirements means all applicable present and future
Governmental Authorizations, Private Authorizations or other requirements
(including without limitation those pertaining to reporting, licensing and
permitting) relating to or required by or pursuant to any Environmental Law,
including without limitation all requirements pertaining or relating to:
(a) the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage,
disposal, transport or handling of, or the remediation, emission,
discharge or release into the air, surface water, groundwater or land
of, Hazardous Materials;
(b) the protection of the health and safety of employees or the public;
(c) the reclamation or restoration of land; and
(d) the ownership or operation of underground storage tanks.
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974, and the rules and
regulations thereunder, all as from time to time in effect, or any successor
law, rules or regulations, and any reference to any statutory or regulatory
provision will be deemed to be a reference to any successor statutory or
regulatory provision.
ERISA Affiliate means any Person that is treated as a single employer with
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of
the Code or Section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA.
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Event means the occurrence or existence of any act, action, activity,
circumstance, condition, event, fact, failure to act, omission, incident or
practice, or any set or combination of any of the foregoing.
Escrow Agent will have the meaning given to it in Section 2.3(b).
Escrowed Funds will have the meaning given to it in Section 2.3(b).
Expenses will have the meaning set forth in Section 8.5.
Final Determination (a) means with respect to federal Taxes, a
"determination" as defined in Section 1313(a) of the Code or execution of an IRS
Form 870AD and, with respect to Taxes other than federal Taxes, any final
determination of liability in respect of a Tax which, under Applicable Law, is
not subject to further appeal, review or modification through proceedings or
otherwise, including without limitation the expiration of a statute of
limitations or a period for the filing of claims for refunds, amended returns or
appeals from adverse determinations; and (b) will include the payment of Tax by
the Company or whichever Party is responsible for payment of such Tax under
Applicable Law, with respect to any item disallowed or adjusted by a Taxing
Authority, provided that the other party is notified of such payment and the
party that is responsible for such Tax under this Agreement determines that no
action should be taken to recoup such payment from such Taxing Authority.
Financial Statements will have the meaning given to it in Section 3.2(a).
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time
to time in the United States of America.
Governmental Authorizations means all approvals, concessions, consents,
franchises, licenses, permits, plans, registrations and other authorizations of
each applicable Authority.
Governmental Filings means all filings, including franchise and similar Tax
filings, and the payment of all fees, assessments, interest and penalties
associated with such filings, with each applicable Authority.
Guaranty or Guaranteed means any agreement, undertaking or arrangement by
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, VIALOG or Buyer, as the case may
be, guarantees, endorses or otherwise becomes or is liable, directly or
indirectly, upon any Indebtedness of any other Person including without
limitation the payment of amounts drawn down by beneficiaries of letters of
credit (other than by endorsements of negotiable instruments for deposit or
collection in the ordinary course of business). The amount of the obligor's
obligation under any Guaranty will be deemed to be the outstanding amount (or
maximum permitted amount, if larger) of the Indebtedness directly or indirectly
guaranteed thereby (subject to any limitation set forth therein).
Hazardous Materials means any substance (in whatever state or matter): (a)
the presence of which requires investigation or remediation under any
Environmental Law; (b) that is defined
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as a "hazardous waste", "hazardous material" or "hazardous substance" under any
Environmental Law; (c) that is toxic, explosive, corrosive, pollutive,
contaminating, flammable, infectious, radioactive, carcinogenic, mutagenic or
otherwise hazardous and is regulated by any Authority; (d) that contains or
consists of petroleum or petroleum products, or (e) that contains or consists of
PCBs, asbestos, or urea formaldehyde foam insulation.
HSR Act means the Xxxx-Xxxxx-Xxxxxx Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, and
the rules and regulations thereunder, all as from time to time in effect, or any
successor law, rules or regulations, and any reference to any statutory or
regulatory provision will be deemed to be a reference to any successor statutory
or regulatory provision.
Identified Legal Actions will have the meaning given to it in Section
3.7(a)(i).
Indebtedness means, with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
(a) all items, except items of capital stock or of surplus or of general
contingency or deferred tax reserves or any minority interest in any Subsidiary
to the extent such interest is treated as a liability with indeterminate term on
the consolidated balance sheet of the Company, which in accordance with GAAP
would be included in determining total liabilities as shown on the liability
side of a balance sheet of the Company or VIALOG Subsidiary, (b) all obligations
secured by any Lien to which any property or asset owned or held by the Company
or any Subsidiary is subject, whether or not the obligation secured thereby will
have been assumed, and (c) to the extent not otherwise included, all Contractual
Obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary constituting capitalized leases and
all obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to Leases
constituting part of a sale and leaseback arrangement.
Intangible Assets means all assets and property lacking physical properties
the evidence of ownership of which must customarily be maintained by independent
registration, documentation, certification, recordation or other means.
Law means any (a) administrative, judicial, legislative or other action,
code, consent decree, constitution, decree, directive, enactment, finding,
guideline, law, injunction, interpretation, judgment, order, ordinance, policy
statement, proclamation, promulgation, regulation, requirement, rule, rule of
law, rule of public policy, settlement agreement, statute, or writ of any
Authority, domestic of foreign; (b) the common law, or other legal or quasi-
legal precedent; or (c) arbitrator's, mediator's or referee's award, decision,
finding or recommendation; including, in each such case or instance, any
interpretation, directive, guideline or request, whether or not having the force
of law including, in all cases, without limitation any particular section, part
or provision thereof.
Lease means any lease of property, whether real, personal or mixed, and all
amendments thereto.
Legal Action means any litigation or legal or other actions, arbitrations,
counterclaims, investigations, proceedings, requests for material information by
or pursuant to the order of any Authority, or suits, at law or in arbitration,
equity or admiralty commenced by any Person,
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whether or not purported to be brought on behalf of a party hereto affecting
such party or any of such party's business, property or assets and specifically
including, but not limited to, the Identified Legal Actions.
Lien means any of the following: mortgage, lien (statutory or other);
preference, priority or other security agreement, arrangement or interest;
hypothecation, pledge or other deposit arrangement; assignment; charge; levy;
executory seizure; attachment; garnishment; encumbrance (including any easement,
exception, variance, reservation or limitation, right of way, zoning
restriction, building to use restriction, and the like); conditional sale, title
retention or other similar agreement, arrangement, device or restriction;
preemptive or similar right; any financing lease involving substantially the
same economic effect as any of the foregoing; the filing of any financing
statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or comparable law of any
jurisdiction; restriction on sale, transfer, assignment, disposition or other
alienation; or any option, equity, claim or right of or obligation to, any other
Person, of whatever kind and character.
Margin Rules means Regulations G, T, U or X of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R., parts 207, 220, 221 and 224, as now in
effect.
Material or Materiality for the purposes of this Agreement, will, unless
specifically stated to the contrary, be determined without regard to the fact
that various provisions of this Agreement set forth specific dollar amounts.
Material Agreement or Material Commitment means, with respect to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or VIALOG or Buyer, any Contractual
Obligation which (a) was not entered into in the ordinary course of business,
(b) was entered into in the ordinary course of business which (i) involves the
purchase, sale or lease of goods or materials or performance of services
aggregating more than Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000), (ii) extends for
more than three (3) months, or (iii) is not terminable on thirty (30) days or
less notice without penalty or other payment, (c) involves Indebtedness for
money borrowed in excess of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), (d) is or
otherwise constitutes a written agency, dealer, license, distributorship, sales
representative or similar written agreement, or (e) would account for more than
five percent (5%) of purchases or sales made by the Company and its Subsidiaries
during the year ended December 31, 1996.
Multiemployer Plan means a "multiemployer plan" within the meaning of
Section 4001(a)3 of ERISA.
Noncompetition Payment will have the meaning given to it in Section 2.1(c).
Option Securities means all rights, options and warrants, all calls or
commitments evidencing the right, to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise
acquire common stock or Convertible Securities, whether or not the right to
subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire is immediately exercisable or is
conditioned upon the passage of time, the occurrence or non-occurrence or the
existence or non-existence of some other Event.
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Organizational Documents means, with respect to a Person which is a
corporation, its charter, its by-laws, and all stockholder agreements, voting
trusts and similar arrangements applicable to any of its capital stock, and,
with respect to a Person which is a partnership, its agreement and certificate
of partnership, any agreement among partners, and any management and similar
agreements between the partnership and any general partners (or any Affiliate
thereof).
Other Participating Companies mean those companies or entities engaged in
the teleconferencing business who execute agreements and plans of
reorganization, stock purchase agreements or asset purchase agreements with
VIALOG which agreements close contemporaneously with this Agreement.
Other Transaction means a transaction or series of related transactions
(other than the Asset Purchase) resulting in (a) any change in control of the
Company, (b) any merger or consolidation of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, regardless of whether the Company or such Subsidiary is the
surviving Entity, (c) any tender offer or exchange offer for, or any acquisition
of, any securities of the Company, or (d) any sale or other disposition of
assets of the Company of any Subsidiary not otherwise permitted under Section
3.18.
Participating Agreement will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Participating Companies will mean the Company and the Other Participating
Companies.
Participating Mergers means the mergers of Other Participating Companies
with a Subsidiary of VIALOG pursuant to a Participating Agreement.
Participating Stockholders means the Persons receiving VIALOG Stock
pursuant to the Participating Agreements.
Party means any natural individual or any Entity that has executed this
Agreement.
PBGC means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any Entity
succeeding to any or all of its functions under ERISA.
Person means any natural individual or any Entity.
Plan means any "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA
(whether or not terminated) which is (or was in the case of a frozen or
terminated plan) maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary or VIALOG or Buyer,
and with respect to which the Company, such Subsidiary or VIALOG or Buyer or, in
the case of any such plan subject to Title IV of ERISA, an ERISA Affiliate is
(or, if such plan were terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of
ERISA be deemed to be) an "employer" as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA, other
than a Multiemployer Plan.
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Principal Stockholder will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Private Authorizations means all approvals, concessions, consents,
franchises, licenses, permits, and other authorizations of all Persons (other
than each Authority) including without limitation those with respect to patents,
trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, computer software programs,
technology and know-how.
Prospectus means the form of prospectus first filed by VIALOG in the
Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the prospectus filed
pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act and any supplements or
amendments thereto filed with the SEC prior to the termination of the Public
Offering.
Public Offering will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
Public Offering Closing Date means the date on which the Public Offering is
closed.
Purchase Price will have the meaning given to it in Section 2.1(a).
Registration Statement means the registration statement (including the
Prospectus, exhibits, financial statements and schedules included therein), and
all amendments thereof (including post-effective amendments and any registration
statement filed under Rule 462(b) with respect to the Public Offering), filed
under the Securities Act registering the shares of VIALOG Stock to be sold in
the Public Offering in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Underwriting Agreement.
Representatives of a Party means the officers, directors, employees,
accountants, counsel, financial advisors, consultants and other representatives
of such Party.
Retained Liabilities means with regard to the Company (a) all obligations
of the Company under this Agreement, (b) all liabilities for Taxes incurred in
respect of or measured by the income of the Company earned on or realized on or
prior to the Asset Purchase Closing, including any gain and income resulting
from, arising under or in connection with the sale of the Assets and the other
transactions contemplated herein, (c) all Claims, regardless of when made or
asserted or imposed or asserted to be imposed by operation of law, pertaining to
the Business, the Assets, any Employment Arrangement or Benefit Arrangement and
which relate to the time period or events occurring on or prior to the Asset
Purchase Closing, (d) all Legal Action to which the Company is a party or
threatened to be a party as of the Asset Purchase Closing including, but not
limited to the Identified Legal Actions, (e) all Indebtedness for borrowed
money, (f) except as specifically identified in the Assumed Liabilities, all
debts, obligations and liabilities of the Company owing to any Affiliate of the
Company, the Principal Stockholder or Affiliate of the Principal Stockholder,
(g) except as specifically identified in the Assumed Liabilities, all
obligations of the Company under that certain Royalty/Noncompete Agreement dated
November 14, 1991 and among the Company, Lincoln Telecommunications Company,
Consolidated Communications Inc. and Rock Hill Telephone Company, (h) all
Contractual Obligations which are not included within the definition of Assumed
Contracts, and (i) any
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liability, contract, commitment or other obligation of the Company, known or
unknown, fixed or contingent, the existence of which constitutes or will
constitute a breach of any representation or warranty of the Company or
Principal Stockholder contained in or made pursuant to this Agreement or which
Buyer is not assuming hereunder.
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States or
any successor Authority.
Second Annual Filing Date will have the meaning given to it in Section
11.1(a)(iii).
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as from time to time in effect, or
any successor law, rules or regulations.
Stockholders means the Principal Stockholder and all other Persons who own
or are entitled to receive (pursuant to any Option Securities and Convertible
Securities) any capital stock of the Company.
Subsidiary means, with respect to a Person, any Entity a majority of the
capital stock ordinarily entitled to vote for the election of directors of
which, or if no such voting stock is outstanding, a majority of the equity
interests of which, is owned directly or indirectly, legally or beneficially, by
such Person or any other Person controlled by such Person.
Tax (and "Taxable", which means subject to Tax), means with respect to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (a) all taxes (domestic or foreign),
including without limitation any income (net, gross or other including recapture
of any tax items such as investment tax credits), alternative or add-on minimum
tax, gross income, gross receipts, gains, sales, use, leasing, lease, user, ad
valorem, transfer, recording, franchise, profits, property (real or personal,
tangible or intangible), fuel, license, withholding on amounts paid to or by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, payroll, employment, unemployment, social
security, excise severance, stamp, occupation, premium, environmental or
windfall profit tax, custom, duty or other tax, governmental fee or other like
assessment or charge of any kind whatsoever, together with any interest, levies,
assessments, charges, penalties, addition to tax or additional amount imposed by
any Taxing Authority, (b) any joint or several liability of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries with any other Person for the payment of any amounts of the
type described in (a), and (c) any liability of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries for the payment of any amounts of the type described in (a) as a
result of any express or implied obligation to indemnify any other Person.
Tax Claim means any Claim which relates to Taxes, including without
limitation the representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.11.
Tax Return or Returns means all returns, consolidated or otherwise
(including without limitation information returns), required to be filed with
any Authority with respect to Taxes.
Taxing Authority means any Authority responsible for the imposition of any
Tax.
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Termination Date means (a) March 15, 1997 unless on or prior to that date
the Registration Statement is filed, in which case such date will automatically
be extended to June 30, 1997, or (b) such date after March 15, 1997 as to which
the parties agree.
Transactions means the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement or
by any Collateral Document executed or required to be executed in connection
herewith or therewith, but will not include the Participating Agreements, the
registration of sale of VIALOG Stock pursuant to the Registration Statement or
any credit facilities between VIALOG and any bank described in the Registration
Statement.
Transmittal Documents will have the meaning given to it in Section 2.2(b).
Underwriter means any two of Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc., Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Inc,
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation or comparable firm as lead
underwriters and any other Person who executes the Underwriting Agreement as an
underwriter of VIALOG Stock in the Public Offering.
Underwriting Agreement means the firm commitment underwriting agreement
between VIALOG and the Underwriter to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement and to be executed on or about the Effective Date.
VIALOG will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
VIALOG Indemnified Parties will have the meaning given to it in Section
10.1(a).
VIALOG Stock will have the meaning given to it in the Preamble.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, VIALOG, Buyer, the Company and the Principal
Stockholder have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first
written above by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized.
VIALOG CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President
CALL POINTS ACQUISITION
CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President
CALL POINTS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
ROPIR INDUSTRIES, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
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THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF INFORMATION PROVIDED
IN THE DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE OF THE ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF REORGANIZATION. THE REGISTRANT AGREES
TO FURNISH SUPPLEMENTALLY A COPY OF ANY OMITTED SCHEDULE
TO THE COMMISSION UPON REQUEST.
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Section 3.1(a)
. Jurisdiction of Incorporation of the Company.
. Jurisdictions where qualified to do business.
Section 3.1(c)
. Exceptions to No Breach or Default, Etc., upon execution and delivery of the
Agreement or any Collateral Document.
. Exceptions to No Lien created or imposed upon execution and delivery of the
Agreement or any Collateral Document.
. Exceptions to No Governmental Authorization or Governmental Filing Required
upon execution and delivery of the Agreement or any Collateral Document.
Section 3.1(d)
. Subsidiaries of the Company, and Jurisdictions of incorporation and where
qualified to do business.
. Capital Stock of any Subsidiary.
. Exceptions to Company's ownership of all Stock of any Subsidiary.
Section 3.2(a)
. Financial Statements of the Company and any Subsidiary, prepared in
accordance with GAAP.
Section 3.2(c)
. The Company's ownership of other Entities.
Section 3.3
. Changes and condition of the Company and any Subsidiary, since the date of
the most recent financial statements.
Section 3.4
. Exceptions to liabilities of the Company or any Subsidiary.
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. Any obligations or liabilities, past, present or deferred, or accrued or
unaccrued, fixed, absolute, contingent or other, except as disclosed in the
balance sheet of the Financial Statements, or notes thereto, and any
obligations or liabilities, other than obligations and liabilities incurred
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice of the
Company and any Subsidiary, which will adversely affect the Company or any of
the Company's Subsidiaries.
. Guarantees or Primary or Secondary Liabilities of the Company or any
Subsidiary (except as disclosed in Financial Statements).
Section 3.5(a)
. Exceptions to No Liens with respect to all real property owned or leased, and
to all other assets, tangible and intangible.
. Financing Statements evidencing any Liens.
. Impairments to valid leasehold interests.
Section 3.5(b)
. Real estate owned or leased, and property leased by the Company and any
Subsidiary.
. Material Fixed Assets.
. Title Retention Agreements.
Section 3.5(c)
. Exceptions to compliance with title covenants and conditions and
environmental laws.
. Hazardous Materials used or stored by the Company or any Subsidiary.
Section 3.6
. Private Authorizations material to the Company or any Subsidiary.
Section 3.7(a)
. Legal actions pending, finally adjudicated or settled on or before December
31, 1995.
Section 3.7(b)
. Breaches, violations or defaults under Governmental Authorizations or any
Applicable Law or under any requirement of any insurance carrier.
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Section 3.8(a)
. Governmental Authorizations and Intangible Assets upon which the conduct of
business by the Company or any Subsidiary is dependent.
Section 3.8(b)
. Description of Intangible Assets and Governmental Authorizations.
Section 3.9
. Contractual obligations or transactions between the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries and any of its officers, directors, employees, stockholders, or
any Affiliate of any thereof (other than reasonable compensation for services
or out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred in support of the Company's
business).
Section 3.10(a)
. Insurance Policies maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary.
. Insurance Carriers which have refused the Company or any Subsidiary insurance
within the past five years.
Section 3.11(a)
. Exceptions to taxation as a Subchapter C corporation.
. Membership in a consolidated group for tax purposes.
Section 3.11(d)
. Tax audits of the Company or any Subsidiary by the IRS or any notifications
thereof.
Section 3.11(e)
. Tax Sharing Agreement or Arrangement of the Company or any Subsidiary.
Section 3.11(f)
. Consents concerning collapsible corporations under Section 341(f) of the
Code.
. Ownership changes within the meaning of Section 382(g) of the Code.
Section 3.12(a)
. ERISA plans, including, inter alia, exceptions to compliance to applicable
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laws, notices from any authority questioning compliance, deficiencies,
"prohibited transactions", any amounts of
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liability, termination proceedings, annual reports, or any membership in or
contributions to multi-employer plans.
Section 3.12(c)
. Basis of funding and current status of any past service liability with
respect to each Employment Arrangement.
Section 3.15(a)
. Authorized and outstanding Capital Stock of the Company.
. Agreements by the Company or any Subsidiary to grant or issue any shares of
its Capital Stock or any Option Security or Convertible Security.
. Any agreement, put or commitment pursuant to which the Company or any
Subsidiary is obligated to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares
of Capital Stock or any Option Security or Convertible Security.
Section 3.15(b)
. Stockholders.
. Stock not held free and clear of all Liens.
. Persons or groups of persons owning as much as 5% of the Company's
outstanding Common Stock.
Section 3.16(a)
. Employment Arrangements of the Company or any Subsidiary.
. Collective bargaining agreements or pending grievances or labor disputes.
Section 3.16(b)
. Accelerated payments or benefits, including parachute payments, that will be
received as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
Section 3.16(c)
. Any unfavorable relationships with employees of the Company or any
Subsidiary.
Section 3.17(a)
. Material Agreements relating to the ownership or operation of the business
and property of the Company or any Subsidiary presently held or used by the
Company or any Subsidiary, or to
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which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party, or to which it or any of its
property is subject or bound.
Section 3.17(b)
. Exceptions to satisfaction or performance of Material Agreements by the
Company or any Subsidiary.
Section 3.18(a)
. Exceptions to operation of business in the ordinary course.
Section 3.18(b)
. Distributions from end of most recent fiscal year to the date of this
Agreement.
Section 3.19
. Banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations and brokerage firms in
which the Company or any Subsidiary has an account or safe deposit box, and
the names of all persons with access thereto.
Section 3.20
. Adverse restrictions which impairs the Company or any Subsidiary's ability to
conduct its business or which could have any adverse effect on the Company or
any Subsidiary.
Section 3.22
. Personal injury, warranty claims, etc., pending or threatened.
Section 3.23(a)
. Environmental matters - compliance and Governmental Authorizations and
Private Authorizations.
Section 3.23(b)
. Any actual or expected spill, disposal, release, burial or placement of
Hazardous Materials in the soil, air or water on any property or facility
owned, leased, operated or occupied by the Company or any Subsidiary.
. Notices or Liens arising under Environmental Law.
Section 3.23(c)
. Above or underground tanks for the storage of Hazardous Materials.
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Section 3.23(e)
. Hazardous Materials used in the conduct of business of the Company or any
Subsidiary.
. Description and annual volume of Hazardous Materials used.
. Years during which use occurred.
. Persons to whom such Hazardous Materials were transferred and/or transported.
Section 3.23(f)
. Hazardous Materials generated.
. Annual volume.
. Persons to whom such Hazardous Materials were transferred and/or transported.
Section 3.23(g)
. Environmental site assessments.
Section 3.31
. Predecessor entities and entities from which, since December 31, 1991, the
Company previously acquired material properties or assets.
Section 4.4
. Exceptions to good and merchantable title to Shares to be exchanged pursuant
to this Agreement.
Section 4.5(a)
. Conflicts with, breaches of, or defaults under any Contractual Obligation of
Principal Stockholder resulting from the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or any Collateral Document.
Section 4.5(b)
. Liens created or imposed upon any property or asset of Principal Stockholder
as a result of the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any Collateral
Document.
Section 4.5(c)
. Governmental Authorizations, Governmental Filing or Private Authorizations
required as a result of the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any
Collateral Document.
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Section 5.7
. Authorized and outstanding capital stock of each of VIALOG and VIALOG Merger
Subsidiary.
. Options, warrant, calls, rights, commitments or any other agreements of any
character obligating VIALOG or VIALOG Merger Subsidiary to issue any shares
of VIALOG Stock or other shares of Capital Stock of VIALOG or VIALOG Merger
Subsidiary, or any other securities convertible into or evidencing the right
to subscribe for any such shares.
Section 5.11
. Provisions in other Participating Agreements of other Participating Companies
not substantially identical in form and substance to the provisions contained
in Articles 3 through 12 of this Agreement.
Section 6.5(b)
. Business (other than business in the ordinary course) the Company will
conduct without the written permission of VIALOG Corporation.
Section 6.17
. Distributions to Stockholders, employees and consultants contemplated to be
made prior to the Merger Closing.
. Liens to be discharged prior to the Merger Closing.
. Certain liabilities for which the Company will indemnify VIALOG as of the
Merger Closing.
Section 7.1(f)
. Awards under Stock Option Plan.
Section 7.2(d)
. Persons executing Non-Competition Agreements.
Section 7.2(h)
. Material Agreements to be Assumed by Buyer.
Section 7.2(n)
. Form of Agreement releasing the Company and any Subsidiary from claims
against them.
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Section 7.2(q)
. Leases and Contractual Obligations not satisfied and discharged as of the
Public Offering Closing Date.
Section 7.2(s)
. Employment Agreement between Principal Stockholder and VIALOG Corporation.
Section 7.2(t)
. Individuals executing and delivering Employment Arrangements for VIALOG
Corporation.
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