AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT
2.1
AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT
dated June 8, 2005, between Limelight Media Group, Inc., a Nevada corporation,
with offices at 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000 (“Buyer”), and
Xxxxxx Capital Partners II, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, with
offices at 0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 (“Seller”).
Background
Pursuant
to a certain December 2, 2002 Request for Proposal, including a Letter of
Acceptance dated April 15, 2003, by and between the Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey (the “Port Authority”) and Black Experience, Inc., as amended by
a First Addendum dated March 2, 2004, and subsequently assigned to Seller (the
“PATH Contract”), Seller owns the exclusive right to provide advertising
services on the Port Authority’s PATHVISION Broadcasting System (the
“Business”). Seller conducts the Business under the name “InTransit Media” and
owns and uses in the Business the other assets listed on Schedule A-1 annexed
hereto (collectively, with the PATH Contract, the “Assets”). Seller desires to
sell the Assets to Buyer and Buyer desires to purchase the Assets from Seller on
the terms and conditions set forth below.
Therefore,
for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
1. Purchase
and Sale.
(a) In
consideration of Buyer’s payment of $2,000,000 (the “Purchase Price”), subject
to adjustment in accordance with paragraph 1(b) below, on the Closing Date (as
hereinafter defined), Seller shall sell, assign, transfer and deliver the Assets
to Buyer. Anything in the foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, the Assets
do not include those assets of Seller listed on Schedule A-2 hereto (the
“Excluded Assets”). The Purchase Price shall be paid as follows: (A) at the
Closing, (i) Buyer shall pay one million dollars ($1,000,000) by wire transfer
of immediately available funds to an account designated by Seller prior to the
Closing and (ii) Buyer shall issue to Seller a number of duly authorized,
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, unregistered shares (the “Buyer
Shares”) of Buyer’s common stock, $.001 par value per share (“Common Stock”),
determined by dividing the Non-Cash Amount (as hereinafter defined) by the
average closing price of the Common Stock during the twenty (20) consecutive
trading day period ending two trading days prior to the Closing Date and (B) not
later than twenty-one (21) calendar days following the Closing Date, Buyer shall
pay five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to the account designated by Seller. For the purposes hereof,
the “Non-Cash Amount” shall mean five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), as
adjusted in accordance with paragraph 1(b) below. Buyer has the option to
increase the cash component of the Purchase Price, which will reduce the stock
component in like value.
(b) Working
Capital Adjustment. On the Closing Date, Seller shall deliver to Buyer an
unaudited, unreviewed balance sheet of Seller dated as at a date within five
days prior to the Closing Date, which balance sheet shall be prepared in
accordance with good accounting practices and certified as true and correct in
all material respects by the chief executive officer of the Seller (the “Closing
Balance Sheet”). If the Modified Working Capital as determined using the Closing
Balance Sheet is less than zero, the Non-Cash Amount shall be reduced by the
amount of any such deficit. Upon Parent’s request, Seller shall provide Parent
with copies of all workpapers and other books and records utilized by Seller in
preparing the Closing Balance Sheet. For the purposes hereof, “Modified Working
Capital” means the sum of (i) cash and cash equivalents and (ii) the amount of
accounts receivable included in the Assets less appropriate reserves for
doubtful accounts minus the Assumed Payables.
(c) In
connection with the sale of the Assets to Buyer, Seller shall execute and
deliver to Buyer at Closing the xxxx of sale and the assignments of contracts
and domain name(s) attached hereto as Exhibits 1, 2 and 3,
respectively.
2. Liabilities. Buyer
shall assume only those obligations and liabilities set forth on Schedule B
hereto (the “Assumed Liabilities”). Except for the Assumed Liabilities, Buyer is
not assuming any existing, contingent or future liability of Seller (the
“Excluded Liabilities”). Without limitations, the Excluded Liabilities
include:
(i) |
any
liability for taxes of Seller; |
(ii) |
any
obligations of Seller in respect of the assets of Seller not included in
the Assets acquired hereunder; |
(iii) |
any
liability of Seller pursuant to any employee benefit
plan; |
(iv) |
any
liabilities or obligations of Seller for borrowed money or interest on
borrowed money; |
(v) |
any
liabilities or obligations of Seller to affiliates of
Seller; |
(vi) |
all
claims, liabilities, or obligations of Seller as an employer, including,
without limitation, liabilities for wages, supplemental unemployment
benefits, vacation benefits, severance benefits, retirement benefits,
Federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 benefits,
Federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 benefits, Federal Workers
Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act obligations and liabilities, or
any other employee benefits, withholding tax liabilities, workers’
compensation, or unemployment compensation benefits or premiums,
hospitalization or medical claims, occupational disease or disability
claims, or other claims attributable in whole or in part to employment or
termination by Seller or arising out of any labor matter involving Seller
as an employer, and any claims, liabilities and obligations arising from
or relating to any employee benefit plans; |
(vii) |
all
claims, liabilities, losses, damages, or expenses relating to any
litigation, proceeding, or investigation of any nature arising out of the
Business or ownership of the Assets on or prior to the Closing Date
including, without limitation, any claims against or any liabilities for
injury to, or death of, persons or damage to or destruction of property,
any workers’ compensation claims, and any warranty
claims; |
(viii) |
except
for the Assumed Liabilities, any accounts payable, other indebtedness,
obligations or accrued liabilities of Seller;
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(ix) |
all
claims, liabilities, or obligations of Seller arising or to be performed
prior to the Closing under the PATH Contract; and
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(x) |
any
contracts, agreements, leases, licenses or other commitments of Seller not
expressly assumed hereunder by Buyer. |
3. Representations
and Warranties of Seller. Seller
hereby represents and warrants to Buyer as follows:
(a) As of the
Closing, Seller is a limited liability company duly organized and validly
existing under the laws of the State of Florida; Seller has full power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and all other agreements to be
executed and delivered by Seller hereunder or in connection herewith (the
“Ancillary Agreements”) and to consummate the transactions hereby or thereby
contemplated; all necessary limited liability company action has been taken to
authorize Seller to enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements;
(b) This
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements have been duly executed and delivered by
Seller and each such agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding
obligation of Seller, enforceable against it in accordance with its respective
terms, except as enforceability may be limited by (i) bankruptcy,
insolvency or other laws for the protection of debtors and (ii) laws
relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief and
other equitable remedies;
(c) Neither
the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, the Ancillary
Agreements, nor the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will violate
Seller’s Articles of Organization or Operating Agreement or any other agreements
or instruments, law, regulation, judgment or order by which Seller is
bound;
(d) Seller
has, and at the Closing will transfer to the Buyer, good and valid title to all
the Assets, free and clear of all liens, claims or other
encumbrances.
(e) No
consent, authorization, approval, order, license, certificate or permit of or
from, or declaration or filing with, any federal, state, local or other
governmental authority or any court or other tribunal, and no consent or waiver
of any party to any Material Contract (as hereinafter defined) to which Seller
is a party is required or declaration to or filing with any governmental or
regulatory authority, or any other third party is required to: (i) execute this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, (ii) consummate this Agreement or any
Ancillary Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or
(iii) permit Seller to assign or transfer the Assets (including without
limitation, the Material Contracts) to Buyer.
(f) There are
no actions, suits, proceedings, orders or claims pending or, to its knowledge,
threatened against Seller, or pending or threatened by Seller against any third
party, at law or in equity, or before or by any governmental department,
commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality which relate to, or in any
way affect, the Business or the Assets (including, without limitation, any
actions, suits, proceedings or investigations with respect to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement). Seller is not
subject to any judgment, order or decree of any court or other governmental
agency relating to the Business or the Assets, and Seller has received no
written opinion or memorandum from legal counsel to the effect that it is
exposed, from a legal standpoint, to any liability which relates to the Business
or the Assets.
(g) The
Seller does not use any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets or other
intellectual or industrial property rights, other than non-exclusively licensed
use of commercially available software, in the Business.
(h) Each
Material Contract (as defined on Schedule A hereto) is valid and binding on and
enforceable against Seller and, to the knowledge of Seller, each other party
thereto and is in full force and effect. Seller is not in breach or default
under any Material Contract. Seller does not know of, and has not received
notice of, any violation or default under (nor, to the knowledge of Seller, does
there exist any condition which with the passage of time or the giving of notice
or both would result in such a violation or default under) any Material Contract
by any other party thereto. Prior to the date hereof, Seller has made available
to Buyer true and complete copies of all Material Contracts.
(i) Seller
understands and acknowledges that the Buyer Shares are “restricted securities”
and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“1933
Act”) or any
applicable state securities law and that such shares are being sold pursuant to
applicable exemptions from such registration requirements. Seller further
acknowledges that it is acquiring the Buyer Shares as principal for its own
account and not for the benefit of any other person and not with a view to or
for distributing or reselling such Buyer Shares or any part thereof, has no
present intention of distributing any of such Buyer Shares and has no
arrangement or understanding with any other persons regarding the distribution
of such Buyer Shares (this representation and warranty not limiting Seller’s
right to sell the Buyer Shares in compliance with applicable, registration,
qualification or pursuant to applicable exemptions available under federal and
state securities laws). Seller is an accredited investor as such term defined
under Rule 501(a) of Regulation D of the 1933 Act and acknowledges that it has
been furnished with or afforded access to, and has had the opportunity to ask
questions and receive answers concerning, all information pertaining to the
Buyer Shares. Seller acknowledges that all certificates evidencing ownership of
the Buyer Shares will contain appropriate legends incorporating any applicable
securities laws restrictions.
(j) Seller
understands and acknowledges that Buyer, in reliance upon Seller’s
representation contained herein and the provisions of Section 7 of that certain
Addendum, dated March 2, 2004, to the PATH Contract, has agreed to execute this
Agreement (and consummate the transactions contemplated herein) without an
express condition precedent to Closing that Seller shall have obtained the
consent of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to the assignment of
the PATH Contract from Seller to Buyer. Accordingly, Seller represents to Buyer
that the Assets presently constitute, and at Closing will constitute, all or
substantially all of the assets of Seller.
4. Representations
and Warranties of Buyer. Buyer
represents and warrants to Seller as follows:
(a) Buyer is
a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of
Nevada; Buyer has full power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement
and the Ancillary Agreements and to consummate the transactions hereby or
thereby contemplated; all necessary corporate action has been taken to authorize
Buyer to enter into this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements;
(b) This
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements have been duly executed and delivered by
Buyer and each such agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding
obligations of Buyer enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except
as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other laws for the
protection of debtors;
(c) Neither
the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, the Ancillary
Agreements, nor the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will violate
Buyer’s Articles of Incorporation or by-laws or any other agreements or
instruments, law, regulation, judgment or order by which Buyer is
bound;
(d) No
consent, authorization, approval, order, license, certificate or permit of or
from, or declaration or filing with, any federal, state, local or other
governmental authority or any court or other tribunal, and no consent or waiver
of any party to any contract to which Buyer is a party is required or
declaration to or filing with any governmental or regulatory authority, or any
other third party is required to: (i) execute this Agreement or any Ancillary
Agreement, or (ii) consummate this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
(e) The Buyer
has filed all reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), including pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter
period as Buyer was required by law to file such material) (the foregoing
materials, including the exhibits thereto, being collectively referred to herein
as the “SEC Reports”). As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in
all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and
regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder, and none of the SEC
Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which
they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included
in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting
requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect
thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on
a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be
otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except
that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by
GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the
Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and
the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in
the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit
adjustments.
(f) Since the
date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports,
except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, (i) there has been no event, occurrence
or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a
material adverse effect on Buyer, its business or operations, (ii) Buyer has not
incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables
and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice and (B) liabilities that would not be required to be reflected in
the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or that would not be
required to be disclosed in filings made with the Commission, (iii) the Company
has not altered its method of accounting, and (iv) the Company has not declared
or made any dividend or distribution of cash, securities or other property to
its stockholders.
5. Closing. The
closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Closing”) shall occur at
10:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on a date selected by Seller and Buyer no later than
July 8 , 2005 (the “Closing Date”).
6. Accounts
Payable and Accounts Receivable.
(a) Accounts
Receivable. It is
the intention of the parties that all rights to and the benefit of the accounts
receivable from the Business shall be included in the Assets transferred by
Seller to Buyer. Accordingly, all accounts receivable outstanding on the Closing
Date shall be collected by Buyer. At Closing, Seller shall deliver to Buyer a
complete statement of each account receivable as of the Closing Date. Seller
agrees to cooperate with Buyer to effect the purpose and intent of this Section
6, including, but not limited to, immediately turning over to Buyer any and all
such accounts receivable which are received or collected by Seller.
(b) Accounts
Payable. It is
the intention of the parties that liability for the payment of the ordinary
accounts payable arising from the Material Contracts shall be assumed by Buyer
from Seller (the “Assumed Payables”). At Closing, Seller shall deliver to Buyer
a complete statement of each Assumed Payable. Buyer agrees to pay and discharge
in the ordinary course all such Assumed Payables and, upon request, provide
evidence of such payment to Seller.
7. Indemnification
by Seller. Seller
agrees to indemnify, defend and hold Buyer and its affiliates harmless from and
against any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, suits, proceedings,
demands, judgments, damages, claims, expenses and costs, including, without
limitation, reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel
(collectively, “Damages”), which any of them may suffer, incur or pay in
connection with (i) any breach of a representation or warranty made by Seller,
(ii) any liability accruing prior to the Closing Date incurred in connection
with the Business or Assets other than those constituting Assumed Liabilities,
(iii) the non-fulfillment by Seller of any covenant contained herein or in the
Ancillary Agreements or (iv) any Excluded Liabilities.
8. Indemnification
by Buyer. Buyer
agrees to indemnify defend and hold Seller and its affiliates harmless from and
against any and all Damages which any of them may suffer, incur or pay in
connection with (i) any breach of a representation or warranty made by Buyer
herein, (ii) any liability arising under or in connection with the use and/or
ownership of the Assets arising on or after the Closing Date, (iii) the
non-fulfillment by Buyer of any covenant contained herein or in the Ancillary
Agreements or (iv) any Assumed Liabilities.
9. Taxes
and Other Fees. Seller
shall pay any and all sales taxes or other taxes or recording fees payable as a
result of the sale of the Assets hereunder.
10.
Limitations on Indemnification. The
representations, warranties, indemnification, covenants and agreements of Seller
and Buyer contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery
hereof for a period of one year. For the purposes hereof, Damages shall be
computed net of any insurance coverage with respect thereto that reduces the
Damages that would otherwise be suffered. An indemnified party shall be entitled
to indemnification hereunder with respect to a breach by the indemnifying party
of any representation or warranty only to the extent that the amount of all
Damages suffered by the indemnified party as a result of the breach by the
indemnifying party of one or more representations and warranties exceeds in the
aggregate $25,000 (the “Basket”), whereupon Seller
shall be liable for all such Damages, dollar for dollar, including such $25,000
amount. In no
event shall Buyer be entitled to indemnification hereunder with respect to one
or more breaches by Seller of its representations or warranties in an aggregate
amount that exceeds the Purchase Price.
11. Registration
Rights Agreement. On the
Closing Date, Buyer and Seller shall execute and deliver the Registration Rights
Agreement in the form of Exhibit 4 hereto relating to the Buyer
Shares.
12. Trade
Names. On the
Closing Date, Seller shall file any and all certificates as necessary to cancel
or terminate all assumed or trade name certificates in connection with Seller’s
use of the names “Intransit” or “Intransit Media”. Not later than five days
after the Closing Date, Seller shall provide Buyer with evidence of such
cancellations and terminations.
13.
Severability. If any
provision of this Agreement is determined to be invalid, illegal or incapable of
being enforced by reason of any rule of law or public policy, all other
provisions of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect.
14.
No Waiver. No
waiver by any party of any breach or nonperformance of any provision or
obligation of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or
succeeding breach of the same or any provision of this agreement.
15. Entire
Agreement. This
Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements are the entire agreement of the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersede all prior agreements and
understandings, oral and/or written, relating to the subject matter hereof, and
may not be amended, supplemented, or modified, except by written instrument
executed by all parties hereto and thereto. This Agreement shall be binding upon
and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto, their successors and permitted
assigns. Where the context so requires, the singular shall include the plural
and vice versa.
16. Execution
in Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall
constitute an original and all of which shall constitute one and the same
document.
17. Governing
Law; Counsel. This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of New York, without giving effect to conflict of laws principles. The
parties acknowledge that they have each had an opportunity to be represented by
legal counsel of their choice and that they enter into this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby freely and voluntarily with full knowledge and
understanding of its contents.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the
parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first written
above.
LIMELIGHT
MEDIA GROUP, INC. |
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By: |
/s/ Xxxxx X.
Xxxx
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Name:
Xxxxx X. Xxxx |
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Title:
Chief Executive Officer |
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XXXXXX
CAPITAL PARTNERS II, LLC. D/B/A INTRANSIT MEDIA | ||
By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
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Title:
Manager |
SCHEDULES
AND EXHIBITS
Schedules: |
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Schedule
A-1 |
- |
Assets
to be Transferred |
Schedule
A-2 |
- |
Excluded
Assets |
Schedule
B |
- |
Assumed
Liabilities |
Exhibits: |
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Exhibit
1 |
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Xxxx
of Sale |
Exhibit
2 |
- |
Assignment
and Assumption Agreement |
Exhibit
3 |
- |
Transfer
of Domain Name |
Exhibit
4 |
- |
Registration
Rights Agreement |