MERGER AGREEMENT dated November 20, 2007 by and among Intelli-Check, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as Parent, Intelli-Check Merger Sub, Inc., a Washington corporation, as the Acquisition Corp., Mobilisa, Inc., a Washington corporation, as the Company,...
dated
November
20, 2007
by
and
among
Intelli-Check,
Inc., a Delaware corporation,
as
Parent,
Intelli-Check
Merger Sub, Inc., a Washington corporation,
as
the
Acquisition Corp.,
Mobilisa,
Inc., a Washington corporation,
as
the
Company, and
the
Principal Shareholders of the Company, named herein,
as
the
Principal Shareholders
ARTICLE
I DEFINITIONS
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1.1
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Definitions
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ARTICLE
II PURCHASE AND SALE
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2.1
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The
Merger.
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2.2
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Merger
Documents
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11
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2.3
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Effective
Time of the Merger
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11
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2.4
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Effect
on Capital Stock; Exchange Procedures.
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11
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2.5
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Optionholders
and Warrantholders
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12
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2.6
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Payment
of the Merger Consideration
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2.7
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Closing
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2.8
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No
Further Transfers; Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates
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2.9
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Effect
of the Merger
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ARTICLE
III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS
AND THE
COMPANY
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3.1
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Corporate
Existence and Power
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3.2
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Corporate
Authorization
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3.3
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Charter
Documents; Legality
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3.4
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Subsidiaries
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3.5
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Capitalization
and Ownership
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3.6
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Affiliates
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3.7
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Assumed
Names
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3.8
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Governmental
Authorization
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3.9
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Consents
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16
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3.10
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Financial
Statements.
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3.11
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Accounts
Receivable
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3.12
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Books
and Records.
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3.13
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Absence
of Certain Changes.
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3.14
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Real
Property.
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3.15
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Tangible
Personal Property.
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3.16
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Intellectual
Property.
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3.17
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Export
Restrictions.
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3.18
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Relationships
With Customers, Suppliers, Etc.
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3.19
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Litigation
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3.20
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Contracts.
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3.21
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Licenses
and Permits
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3.22
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Compliance
with Laws
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3.23
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Pre-payments
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3.24
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Employees
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3.25
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Compliance
with Federal, State and Municipal Labor and Employment Laws and Ordinances
and Collective Bargaining Agreements
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25
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3.26
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Employee
Benefits
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3.27
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Employment
Matters
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3.28
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Tax
Matters
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3.29
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Fees
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3.30
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Business
Operations; Servers.
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3.31
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Powers
of Attorney and Suretyships.
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3.32
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Other
Information.
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3.33
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Certain
Business Practices
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3.34
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Money
Laundering Laws
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3.35
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Environmental
Matters
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3.36
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Related
Party Transactions
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3.37
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Insurance
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ARTICLE
IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PRINCIPAL
SHAREHOLDERS
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4.1
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Ownership
of Stock; Authority.
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4.2
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Approvals
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4.3
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Non-Contravention
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4.4
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Litigation
and Claims
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4.5
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Investment
Representations
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4.6
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Tax
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ARTICLE
V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT
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5.1
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Due
Incorporation
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5.2
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Corporate
Authorization
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5.3
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Governmental
Authorization
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5.4
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No
Violation
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5.5
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Consents
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5.6
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Litigation
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5.7
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Issuance
of Parent Common Stock
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5.8
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Fees
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5.9
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Charter
Documents; Legality
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5.10
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Capitalization
and Ownership of the Parent
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5.11
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Financial
Statements.
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5.12
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Other
Information
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5.13
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Compliance
with Laws
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5.14
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Money
Laundering Laws
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5.15
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Ownership
of Parent Securities
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5.16
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Acquisition
Corp
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5.17
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Reorganization
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5.18
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Absence
of Certain Changes
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ARTICLE
VI COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY AND EACH PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDER PENDING
CLOSING
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6.1
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Conduct
of the Business
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6.2
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Access
to Information.
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6.3
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Notices
of Certain Events
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6.4
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SEC
Filings.
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6.5.
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Investment
Representations.
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ARTICLE
VII COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY AND THE PRINCIPAL
SHAREHOLDERS
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7.1
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Confidentiality
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7.2
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Non-Solicitation.
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7.3
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Non-Competition
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7.4
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Reporting
and Compliance With Law
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7.5
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Injunctive
Relief
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7.6
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Audited
Financial Statements
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ARTICLE
VIII COVENANTS OF PARENT PENDING CLOSING
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8.1
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Conduct
of the Business
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8.2
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Access
to Information.
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ARTICLE
IX COVENANTS OF ALL PARTIES HERETO
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9.1
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Best
Efforts; Further Assurances
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9.2
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Confidentiality
of Transaction
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9.3
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Best
Efforts to Obtain Consents
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9.4
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No
Additional Derivative Securities
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9.5
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Tax
Matters.
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9.6
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Registration
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9.7
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Procedures
on Registration
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9.8
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Severance
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ARTICLE
X CONDITIONS TO CLOSING
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10.1
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Conditions
to the Obligations of Parent, Acquisition Corp., the Principal
Shareholders and the Company
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10.2
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Conditions
to Obligations of Parent and Acquisition Corp
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10.3
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Conditions
to Obligations of the Company and the Principal
Shareholders
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ARTICLE
XI RELIANCE ON REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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11.1
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Reliance
on Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Principal
Shareholders
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11.2
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Reliance
on Representations and Warranties of Parent and Acquisition
Corp
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ARTICLE
XII INDEMNIFICATION
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12.1
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Indemnification
of Parent and Acquisition Corp
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12.2
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Indemnification
of Principal Shareholders
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12.3
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Procedure
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12.4
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Periodic
Payments
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12.5
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Insurance
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11.6
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Survival
of Indemnification Rights
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ARTICLE
XIII DISPUTE RESOLUTION
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13.1
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Arbitration.
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13.2
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Waiver
of Jury Trial; Exemplary Damages.
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13.3
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Attorneys’
Fees.
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ARTICLE
XIV TERMINATION
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14.1
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Termination.
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14.2
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Effect
of Termination.
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14.3
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Termination
Fee.
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14.4
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Survival
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ARTICLE
XV MISCELLANEOUS
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15.1
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Notices
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15.2
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Amendments;
No Waivers.
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15.3
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Ambiguities
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15.4
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Publicity
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15.5
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Expenses
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15.6
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Successors
and Assigns
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15.7
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Governing
Law; Jurisdiction
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15.8
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Counterparts;
Effectiveness
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15.9
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Entire
Agreement
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15.10
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Severability
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15.11
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Captions
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15.12
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Construction
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iv
MERGER
AGREEMENT, dated November 20, 2007 (this “Agreement”), by and among
Intelli-Check, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Intelli-Check Merger
Sub, Inc., a Washington corporation (“Acquisition Corp.”), Mobilisa, Inc., a
Washington corporation (the “Company”) and the common shareholders of the
Company listed on Schedule
I
hereto
(each, a “Principal Shareholder” and collectively, the “Principal
Shareholders”).
W
I T N E
S S E T H :
WHEREAS,
the Company is in the business of providing mobile and wireless technology
solutions for document authentication (the “Business”);
WHEREAS,
the Principal Shareholders constitute owners of approximately 99% of the issued
and outstanding equity securities of the Company;
WHEREAS,
Parent owns all of the issued and outstanding shares of equity securities of
Acquisition Corp.;
WHEREAS,
Parent and Acquisition Corp. desire that Acquisition Corp. merge with and into
the Company and, to realize the benefits thereof, the Company and the Principal
Shareholders also desire that Acquisition Corp. merge with and into the Company,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in accordance
with the Washington Business Corporation Act, and that the outstanding
securities of the Company, excluding any such shares held in the treasury of
the
Company, be converted upon such merger (the “Merger”) into the right to receive
the amount of consideration as is provided herein; and
WHEREAS,
the parties intend the Merger to qualify as a tax-free plan of reorganization
within the meaning of Section 368 of the Code.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements herein contained and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions.
The
following terms, as used herein, have the following meanings:
“2006
Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.10(a).
“Accounts
Receivable” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.11.
“Acquisition
Corp.” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
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“Act”
has
the meaning set forth in Section 4.5(a).
“Action”
means any action, suit, investigation, hearing or proceeding, including any
audit for Taxes or otherwise.
“Additional
Agreements” means each of the Employment Agreement, the Lock-up Agreements and
the Voting Agreements.
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such other Person.
With
respect to any natural person, the term Affiliate shall also include any member
of said person’s immediate family, any family limited partnership, limited
liability company or other entity for said person and any trust, voting or
otherwise, of which said person is a trustee or of which said person or any
of
said person’s immediate family is a beneficiary.
“Agreement”
has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Arbitrator”
has the meaning set forth in Section 13.1(b).
“Authority”
shall mean any governmental, regulatory or administrative body, agency or
authority, any court or judicial authority, any arbitrator, or any public,
private or industry regulatory authority, whether international, national,
federal, state, or local.
“Benefit
Plan” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.26(a).
“Books
and Records” means all books and records, ledgers, employee records, customer
lists, files, correspondence, and other records of every kind (whether written,
electronic, or otherwise embodied) owned or used by the Company or in which
the
Company’s assets, business, or transactions are otherwise
reflected.
“Business”
has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“Chairman”
means the Chairman of Parent’s board of directors.
“Charter
Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.3.
“Chief
Executive Officer” means Parent’s Chief Executive Officer or as otherwise
designated pursuant to Section 2.1(d).
“Chief
Financial Officer” means Parent’s Chief Financial Officer or as otherwise
designated pursuant to Section 2.1(d).
“Chief
Operating Officer” means Parent’s Chief Operating Officer or as otherwise
designated pursuant to Section 2.1(d).
“Chief
Technical Officer” means Parent’s Chief Technical Officer or as otherwise
designated pursuant to Section 2.1(d).
“Closing”
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.
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“Closing
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Company”
has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Company
Common Stock” means the shares of common stock, no par value, of the
Company.
“Company
Consent” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.9.
“Company
Directors” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c).
“Company
Disclosure Schedule” means the disclosure schedules delivered by the Company and
the Principal Shareholders to Parent and Acquisition Corp. simultaneously with
the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
“Company
Indemnitees” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.2.
“Company
Optionholders” means the holders of Options.
“Company
Shareholders” means the common shareholders of the Company, including the
Principal Shareholders.
“Company’s
knowledge” refers to the actual knowledge of Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
and Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx.
“Constituent
Corporations” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).
“Contracts”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.20(b).
“Customer”
has the meaning set forth in Section 7.2(b).
“December
Balance Sheet” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.10(a).
“Effective
Time” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.
“Effectiveness
Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.6.
“Employment
Agreement” means the employment agreement specified in Section 10.3(c).
The
Employment Agreement provides for a term of not less than two (2)
years.
“Environmental
Laws” means any foreign, federal, state or local law, statute, ordinance, rule
or regulation, any common law cause of action providing any right or remedy
relating to Environmental Matters, and any legally binding judicial or
administrative decisions, orders and decrees, in each case relating to
Environmental Matters, as the foregoing are enacted and in effect on or prior
to
the Closing Date.
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“Environmental
Matter” means any matter arising out of, relating to, or resulting from
pollution, contamination, protection of the environment, workplace health or
safety and any matters relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened
releases of hazardous substances into the air, surface water, groundwater,
soil,
land surface or subsurface or otherwise arising out of, relating to, or
resulting from the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment,
storage, disposal, transport, handling, release or threatened release of
hazardous materials, substances or wastes.
“Environmental
Permits” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.35(b).
“ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“Exchange
Act Filings” means filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 made by the
Parent prior to the Closing Date.
“Exchange
Ratio” is a number determined by dividing (i) the number of shares of
Parent Common Stock immediately prior to Closing by (ii) the number of
shares of Company Common Stock immediately prior to Closing.
“First
Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.6.
“GAAP”
means U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied and
interpreted.
“Indebtedness”
includes with respect to any Person and without limitation, (a) all obligations
of such Person for borrowed money, or with respect to deposits or advances
of
any kind (including amounts by reason of overdrafts and amounts owed by reason
of letter of credit reimbursement agreements) including with respect thereto,
all interests, fees and costs, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced
by
bonds, debentures, notes, liens, mortgages or similar instruments, (c) all
obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention
agreements relating to property purchased by such Person, (d) all obligations
of
such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or
services (other than accounts payable to creditors for goods and services
incurred in the ordinary course of business), (e) all Indebtedness of others
secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any lien or security interest on
property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the obligations
secured thereby have been assumed, (f) all obligations of such Person under
leases required to be accounted for as capital leases under GAAP, and (g) all
guarantees by such Person.
“Indemnification
Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.3(a).
“Indemnified
Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.3.
“Indemnifying
Parties” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.3(a).
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“Intellectual
Property” means any and all of the following: (A) U.S., international and
foreign patents, patent applications and statutory invention registrations;
(B)
trademarks, licenses, inventions, service marks, trade names, trade dress,
slogans, logos and Internet domain names, including registrations and
applications for registration thereof; (C) copyrights, including registrations
and applications for registration thereof, and copyrightable materials; (D)
trade secrets, know-how and similar confidential and proprietary information;
(E) the additional names listed on Schedule
3.7
and all
derivations thereof; (F) u.r.l.s, Internet domain names and Websites; and (G)
any other type of Intellectual Property right, and all embodiments and fixations
thereof and related documentation, registrations and franchises and all
additions, improvements and accessions thereto, in each case which is owned
or
licensed or filed by the Company or used or held for use in the Business,
whether registered or unregistered or domestic or foreign.
“IRS”
means the Internal Revenue Service.
“Law”
means any domestic or foreign federal, state, municipality or local law,
statute, ordinance, code, rule or regulation or common law.
“Leased
Real Property” means the real property leased by the Company, as tenant,
together with, to the extent leased by the Company, all buildings, fixtures,
trade fixtures, plant and other improvements located thereon or attached
thereto; all rights arising out of use thereof (including air, water, oil and
mineral rights); and all subleases, franchises, licenses, permits, easements
and
rights-of-way which are appurtenant thereto.
“Leases”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.14(b).
“Licensed
Intellectual Property” has the meaning set forth in section 3.16(b).
“Lien”
means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security
interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, including any
agreement to give any of the foregoing and any conditional sale and including
any voting agreement or proxy.
“Lock-Up
Agreements” means each of the Lock-Up Agreements, in the
form mutually agreed by the parties hereto, between Parent and each of
the Principal Shareholders, the officers and directors (as of the Closing Date)
of the Company, set forth on Schedule II, such schedule mutually agreed by
the
parties hereto prior to the Effective Time.
“Losses”
has the meaning set forth in Section 12.1.
“Material
Adverse Change” means a material adverse change in the business, assets,
condition (financial or otherwise), liabilities, results of operations or
prospects of the business of the applicable company individually or as a whole;
provided,
however,
without
prejudicing whether any other matter qualifies as a Material Adverse Change,
any
matter individually or in the aggregate involving a loss or payment in excess
of
$500,000 shall constitute a Material Adverse Change, per
se
and
provided further
that,
with respect to Parent, any business of Parent that may be lost or otherwise
affected due to the Company’s request to Parent to change such arrangements in
order to complete the transactions contemplated hereby shall not constitute
a
Material Adverse Change.
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“Material
Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on the business, assets,
condition (financial or otherwise), liabilities, results of operations or
prospects of the business of the applicable company individually or as a whole;
provided,
however,
without
prejudicing whether any other matter qualifies as a Material Adverse Effect,
any
matter individually or in the aggregate involving a loss or payment in excess
of
$500,000 shall constitute a Material Adverse Effect, per
se
and
provided further
that,
with respect to Parent, any business of Parent that may be lost or otherwise
affected due to the Company’s request to Parent to change such arrangements in
order to complete the transactions contemplated hereby shall not constitute
a
Material Adverse Effect.
“Merger”
has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“Merger
Consideration” means the aggregate consideration that the Company Shareholders,
the Optionholders and the Warrantholders will be entitled to receive by virtue
of the Merger.
“Merger
Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(g).
“Money
Laundering Laws” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.34.
“Offices”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1.
“Optionholders”
means the holders of Options.
“Options”
means all stock options (or any portion thereof) to purchase Company Common
Stock.
“Order”
means any decree, order, judgment, writ, award, injunction, rule or consent
of
or by an Authority.
“Outside
Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.1(b)(i).
“Owned
Intellectual Property” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.16(a).
“Owned
Real Property” means, collectively, all real properties and interests therein
(including the right to use) owned by the Company, together with all buildings,
fixtures, trade fixtures, plant and other improvements located thereon or
attached thereto; all rights arising out of use thereof (including air, water,
oil and mineral rights); and all subleases, franchises, licenses, permits,
easements and rights-of-way which are appurtenant thereto.
“Parent”
has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Parent
Charter Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.9.
“Parent
Common Stock” means the Common Stock, $.001 par value per share, of
Parent.
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“Parent
Contract” means:
(i) any
contract pursuant to which the Parent is required to pay, has paid or is
entitled to receive or has received an amount in excess of $25,000 during the
current fiscal year or any one of the two preceding fiscal years (other than
purchase orders for inventory entered into in the ordinary course of business
(excluding however any such purchase orders which are open for purchases in
excess of $50,000));
(ii) all
employment contracts and sales representatives contracts;
(iii) all
sales, agency, factoring, commission and distribution contracts;
(iv) all
joint
venture, strategic alliance, limited liability company and partnership
agreements;
(v) all
significant documents relating to any acquisitions or dispositions of assets
(other than of dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of
business);
(vi) all
licensing agreements, including agreements licensing Intellectual Property
rights, other than “shrink wrap” licenses;
(vii) all
secrecy, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements restricting the conduct
of
the Parent;
(viii) all
contracts relating to patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, brands,
copyrights, trade secrets and other Intellectual Property rights;
(ix) all
guarantees, terms and conditions, privacy policies, indemnification arrangements
and other hold harmless arrangements made or provided by the
Parent;
(x) all
Website hosting contracts or agreements;
(xi) all
agreements relating to real property, including any real property lease,
sublease, or space sharing, license or occupancy agreement, whether the Parent
is granted or granting rights thereunder to occupy or use any
premises;
(xii) all
agreements relating to Tangible Assets; and
(xiii) all
agreements relating to outstanding Indebtedness.
“Parent
Directors” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(c).
“Parent
Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.11.
“Parent
Indemnitees” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.1.
“Parent
Options” means all stock options (or any portion thereof) to purchase Parent
Common Stock.
“Parent
Warrants” means all warrants to purchase Parent Common Stock.
“PBGC”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.26(b).
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“Permits”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.21.
“Person”
means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company,
an association, a trust or other entity or organization, including a government,
domestic or foreign, or political subdivision thereof, the Company or an agency
or instrumentality thereof.
“Pre-Closing
Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.5(b).
“Principal
Shareholders” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Principal
Shareholder’s Securities” means, with respect to a Principal Shareholder, the
Company Common Stock and Options owned by such Principal Shareholder as set
forth on Schedule
I
hereto.
“Proceeding”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.28(b).
“Proxy
Materials” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.1(b)(ii).
“Rebate
Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.30(c).
“Reg
D”
has the meaning set forth in Section 4.5(a).
“Registrable
Securities” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.6.
“Restrictive
Covenants” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.5.
“Restriction
Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.2(a).
“September
Balance Sheet” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.10(a).
“SEC”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Software”
has the meaning set forth in Section 3.16(b).
“Surviving
Corporation” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).
“Surviving
Corporation Common Stock” means the common stock of the Surviving
Corporation.
“Tangible
Assets” means all tangible personal property and interests therein, including
inventory machinery, computers and accessories, furniture, office equipment,
communications equipment, vehicles, vessels and other tangible
property.
“Tax”
has
the meaning set forth in Section 3.28(d).
“Taxing
Authority” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.28(b).
“Tax
Liability” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.28(b).
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“Tax
Return” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.28(d).
“Terminating
Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.1(b).
“Termination
Fee” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.3(a).
“Third
Party Claim” has the meaning set forth in Section 12.3(a).
“To
the
knowledge of Parent and Acquisition Corp.” refers to the actual knowledge of
Xxxxxxx Xxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxx.
“UCC”
shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Washington, or any
corresponding or succeeding provisions of Laws of the State of Washington,
or
any corresponding or succeeding provisions of Laws, in each case as the same
may
have been and hereafter may be adopted, supplemented, modified, amended,
restated or replaced from time to time.
“Vice
Chairman” means Vice Chairman of Parent’s board of directors.
“Voting
Agreements” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1(g).
“Warrantholder”
means holders of Warrants.
“Warrants”
means all warrants to purchase Company Common Stock.
“Websites”
means all of the internet domain names for the Company set forth on Schedule
3.16(a).
ARTICLE
II
PURCHASE
AND SALE
2.1 The
Merger.
(a) At
the
Effective Time, (i) the separate existence of Acquisition Corp. will cease
and
Acquisition Corp. will be merged with and into the Company (Acquisition Corp.
and the Company are sometimes referred to herein as the “Constituent
Corporations”; with respect to periods after the Effective Time, the Company in
its capacity as the surviving corporation is sometimes referred to herein as
the
“Surviving Corporation”); (ii) the articles of incorporation of Acquisition
Corp. in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the articles
of
incorporation of the Surviving Corporation (provided that Article FIRST of
the
articles of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation shall be amended to
read
in its entirety as follows: “The name of the Corporation is
Intelli-Check/Mobilisa, Inc.”).; and (iii) the by-laws of Acquisition Corp. as
in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the by-laws of the
Surviving Corporation.
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(b) At
and
after the Effective Time:
(i)
title to
all property owned by each of the Constituent Corporations, and rights,
privileges, powers and franchises of each of the Constituent Corporations shall
vest in the Surviving Corporation without reversion or impairment, and the
Surviving Corporation shall automatically assume all of the debts, liabilities,
obligations and duties of each Constituent Corporation; and
(ii) the
address listed as the headquarters of the Parent will be moved to the Company’s
offices in Port Xxxxxxxx, Washington.
(c) Immediately
after the Effective Time, Parent’s board of directors shall be composed of eight
(8) directors, four (4) of whom shall be appointed by Parent’s board of
directors prior to the Effective Time (the “Parent Directors”) and four (4) of
whom shall be appointed by the Company’s board of directors prior to the
Effective Time (the “Company Directors”).
(d) Immediately
after the Effective Time:
(A) the
Parent Directors shall have the right to designate the Chairman and appoint
a
Chief Financial Officer and a Chief Technology Officer; and
(B) the
Company Directors shall have the right to designate the Vice Chairman and
appoint a Chief Executive Officer.
(e) For
a
period of not less than two (2) years after the Closing Date, the Chief
Executive Officer immediately after the Effective Time shall continue to be
appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, unless such person resigns from such
position or is terminated for cause.
(f) For
a
period of not less than one (1) year after the Closing Date:
(i) In
connection with each annual or special meeting of stockholders where Parent’s
board of directors are to be elected, the Parent Directors shall be entitled
to
name four (4) persons to the slate of directors presented to the Parent’s
stockholders for election and the Company Directors shall be entitled to name
four (4) persons to the slate of directors presented to the Parent’s
stockholders for election;
(ii) In
the
event of any vacancy on Parent’s board of directors, the directors (either the
Parent Directors or the Company Directors, as applicable) originally selecting
such persons shall have the right to fill such vacancy; and
(iii) In
no
event shall the number of directors on Parent’s board of directors be greater
than eight (8) unless the Board of Directors unanimously (with all members
voting) votes to increase the number of members of the Board of Directors.
(g) Voting
agreements (the “Voting Agreements”) in a form agreed to by the parties relating
to the matters indicated in Sections 2.1(c), (d) and (f) shall have been
executed on the Closing Date.
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(h) The
parties acknowledge that, immediately prior to the Closing, Parent will amend
the option agreements of any of Parent’s current directors who do not continue
on the Board of Directors of Parent after the Closing to provide that options
granted pursuant to such option agreements may be exercised for up to one year
after the Closing Date. The
parties acknowledge that, immediately prior to the Closing, the Company will
amend the option agreements of any of the Company’s current directors who do not
continue on the Board of Directors of the Company after the Closing to provide
that options granted pursuant to such option agreements may be exercised for
up
to one year after the Closing Date.
2.2 Merger
Documents.
As soon
as practicable following fulfillment or waiver of the conditions specified
in
Article IX hereof, and provided that this Agreement has not been terminated
and
abandoned pursuant to Article XIII hereof, the Company and Acquisition Corp.
will cause the Articles of Merger and a Plan of Merger in a form mutually agreed
to by the parties hereto (the “Merger Documents”) to be executed and filed with
the Washington Secretary of State as provided in the Washington Business
Corporation Act.
2.3 Effective
Time of the Merger.
The
Merger shall become effective at 11:59 p.m. on the day of the filing of the
Certificate of Merger with the Washington Secretary of State or at such other
date or time thereafter as the parties may agree. The date and time of such
effectiveness is herein sometimes referred to as the “Effective
Time.”
2.4 Effect
on Capital Stock; Exchange Procedures.
(a) At
or
after the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on
the
part of the holder of any shares of the Company Common Stock, Options or capital
stock of Acquisition Corp:
(i) Each
issued and outstanding share of Company Common Stock shall be converted into
the
right to receive a number of shares of Parent Common Stock determined by
multiplying the shares of Company Common Stock by the Exchange Ratio. All of
the
Company Common Stock shall be cancelled, and each holder of a certificate
representing any of the Company Common Stock shall thereafter cease to have
any
rights with respect to the Company Common Stock except the right to receive
the
Merger Consideration pursuant to the terms hereof. Company Common Stock held
as
treasury shares by the Company, if any, shall be canceled and not be converted
into the right to receive any consideration.
(ii) Each
issued and outstanding share of the capital stock of Acquisition Corp. shall
remain outstanding and be automatically converted into shares of common stock
of
the Surviving Corporation.
(b) As
soon
as practicable after the Effective Time, each holder of Company Common Stock
will surrender the certificates representing the Company Common Stock to
Parent.
(c) If
any
portion of the Merger Consideration consisting of Parent Common Stock to be
paid
to any shareholder of the Company is to be delivered to any person other than
the person in whose name the Company Common Stock are registered, it shall
be a
condition to such exchange that the Company Common Stock so surrendered shall
be
properly endorsed or otherwise in proper form for transfer and the person
requesting such exchange (a) establish to the satisfaction of Parent the
propriety of such transfer and (b) (i) pay any transfer or other taxes required
by reason of the delivery of such Merger Consideration to a person other than
the registered holder of the Company Common Stock surrendered, or (ii) establish
to the satisfaction of Parent that such tax has been paid or is not
applicable.
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(d) If
any
certificate representing Company Common Stock has been lost, stolen or
destroyed, Parent shall issue the applicable Merger Consideration deliverable
in
respect thereof upon (i) the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person
claiming such certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and (ii) if required
by Parent, the posting by such person of a bond in such reasonable amount as
Parent may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it
with respect to such certificate.
(e) From
and
after the Effective Time, no transfer of any Company Common Stock outstanding
prior to the Effective Time shall be made on the stock transfer books of the
Company.
(f) The
Parent Common Stock issuable pursuant to this transaction shall bear the
following legend:
The
shares represented by this certificate may not be offered, sold, pledged,
transferred or otherwise disposed of except in accordance with the requirements
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the other conditions specified
in
that certain Merger Agreement dated as of ________ __, 2007, a copy of which
Merger Agreement may be inspected by the holder of this certificate at the
offices of Intelli-Check, Inc.
2.5 Optionholders
and Warrantholders.
(a) All
Options outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall become fully
vested and exercisable at the Effective Time and shall be canceled and replaced
as follows:
(i) Each
Optionholder will be entitled to receive, automatically and without any further
action by the Optionholder (subject to compliance with Section 2.5(a)(ii)
below),
the number of fully vested Parent Options determined by multiplying the number
of Options held by such Optionholder by the Exchange Ratio. The exercise price
for each such replacement Parent Option shall be the exercise price of the
Option being canceled and replaced divided by the Exchange Ratio.
(ii) At
or
after the Effective Time, each Optionholder shall provide to the Surviving
Corporation an option surrender agreement in a form to be agreed upon between
the Parent and the Company. Upon submitting to the Surviving Corporation an
option surrender agreement, duly completed and validly executed in accordance
with the instructions thereto (and surrender for cancellation of any
certificates evidencing Options), and such other documents as may reasonably
be
required by the Surviving Corporation, the Optionholder shall receive in
exchange therefor a Parent Option. Until so surrendered, any outstanding Option
will be deemed from and after the Effective Time to evidence ownership of the
right to receive a portion of the Merger Consideration.
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(b) All
Warrants outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be canceled
and replaced as follows:
(i) Each
Warrantholder will be entitled to receive, automatically and without any further
action by the Warrantholder (subject to compliance with Section 2.5(b)(ii)
below),
the number of Parent Warrants determined by multiplying the number of Warrants
held by such Warrantholder by the Exchange Ratio. The exercise price for each
such replacement Parent Warrant shall be the exercise price of the Warrant
being
canceled and replaced divided by the Exchange Ratio.
(ii) At
or
after the Effective Time, each Warrantholder shall provide to the Surviving
Corporation a warrant surrender agreement in a form to be agreed upon between
the Parent and the Company. Upon submitting to the Surviving Corporation a
warrant surrender agreement, duly completed and validly executed in accordance
with the instructions thereto (and surrender for cancellation of any
certificates evidencing Warrants), and such other documents as may reasonably
be
required by the Surviving Corporation, the Warrantholder shall receive in
exchange therefor a Parent Warrant. Until so surrendered, any outstanding
Warrant will be deemed from and after the Effective Time to evidence ownership
of the right to receive a portion of the Merger Consideration.
2.6 Payment
of the Merger Consideration.
The
Merger Consideration shall be payable by Acquisition Corp. and Parent on the
Closing Date, as specified in Section 2.4
and
Section 2.5.
2.7 Closing.
Subject
to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Article VIII,
the
closing (the “Closing”) of the Merger hereunder shall take place at the offices
of Loeb & Loeb LLP, counsel to Parent and Acquisition Corp., located at 000
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx XX 00000, or at such other date, time or place as the
parties may agree (the date and time at which the Closing is actually held
being
the “Closing Date”). In addition to those obligations set forth in Article IX,
at the Closing:
(a) Acquisition
Corp. and Parent shall deliver the Merger Consideration in accordance with
this
Article II;
(b) Each
of
the Company Shareholders will deliver to the Surviving Corporation certificates
representing the Company Shareholder’s Company Common Stock, duly endorsed,
together with any other documents that are necessary to transfer to the
Surviving Corporation good title to all of the Company Shareholder’s Company
Common Stock, free and clear of any and all Liens; and
(c) Each
of
the Optionholders will deliver to the Surviving Corporation the documents set
forth in Section 2.5(a)(ii),
together with any other documents as may be reasonably
required.
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2.8 No
Further Transfers; Lost, Stolen or Destroyed
Certificates.
The
Merger Consideration paid pursuant to the Merger upon the surrender for exchange
of shares of Company Common Stock in accordance with the terms hereof shall
be
deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to such
shares of Company Common Stock, and upon and after the Effective Time, no
transfer of the shares of Company Common Stock outstanding prior to the
Effective Time shall be made on the stock transfer books of the Surviving
Corporation. If, after the Effective Time, certificates are presented to the
Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall be cancelled and exchanged
as
provided in this Article II.
2.9 Effect
of the Merger.
Upon
and after the Effective Time: (a) the shares of Company Common Stock and the
Options shall be converted as provided in this Agreement; (b) the former holders
of such securities will be entitled only to the rights provided in this
Agreement or to the rights provided under Washington Business Corporation Act;
and (c) the Merger shall otherwise have the effect provided under the applicable
laws of the State of Washington.
ARTICLE
III
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF
THE
PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS AND THE COMPANY
The
Principal Shareholders, joint and severally, and the Company hereby represent
and warrant to Parent and Acquisition Corp., as of the date hereof and as of
the
Closing Date (except as otherwise expressly stated), that:
3.1 Corporate
Existence and Power.
The
Company is a corporation duly formed, validly existing under and by virtue
of
the Laws of the State of Washington, and has all power and authority, corporate
and otherwise, and all governmental licenses, franchises, permits,
authorizations, consents and approvals required to own and operate its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as now conducted and as
proposed to be conducted. Except as set forth on Schedule
3.1,
the
Company is not qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in any
jurisdiction, and there is no jurisdiction in which the character of the
property owned or leased by the Company or the nature of its activities make
qualification of the Company in any such jurisdiction necessary, except where
the failure to so qualify would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The only
offices, warehouses or business locations of the Company are listed on
Schedule
3.1
(the
“Offices”). The Company has not taken any action, adopted any plan, or made any
agreement in respect of any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially
all of its respective assets, reorganization, recapitalization, dissolution
or
liquidation, except as explicitly set forth in this Agreement.
3.2 Corporate
Authorization.
Except
for a vote of the stockholders of the Company to approve the transaction
contemplated by this Agreement, the execution, delivery and performance by
the
Company of this Agreement and each of the other Additional Agreements to which
the Company is named as a party and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby are within the corporate powers
of
the Company and have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part
of
the Company. This Agreement constitutes, and, upon their execution and delivery,
each of the Additional Agreements will constitute, a valid and legally binding
agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with
their respective terms, subject
to (i) laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency and the
relief of debtors, or (ii) rules of law governing specific performance,
injunctive relief or other equitable remedies.
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3.3 Charter
Documents; Legality.
The
Company has previously delivered to Parent true and complete copies of its
articles of incorporation and by-laws, minute books and stock books (the
“Charter Documents”), as in effect or constituted on the date hereof. The
execution, delivery, and performance by the Company and each Principal
Shareholder of this Agreement and any Additional Agreement to which the Company
or such Principal Shareholder is to be a party has not violated and will not
violate, and the consummation by the Company or the Principal Shareholders
of
the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby will not violate, any of the
Charter Documents or any Law.
3.4 Subsidiaries.
The
Company does not have any subsidiaries. The Company is not a party to any
agreement relating to the formation of any joint venture, association or other
Person.
3.5 Capitalization
and Ownership.
Schedule
3.5
sets
forth, with respect to the Company, (i) its authorized capital, (ii) the number
of its securities that are outstanding, (iii) each shareholder owning its
securities and the number of shares of such securities owned by such security
holder, and (iv) each security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable
for its securities, the number and type of securities such security is
convertible into, the exercise or conversion price of such security and the
holder of such security. Except as set forth on Schedule
3.5,
no
Person other than the Principal Shareholders or the Company owns any securities
of the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule
3.5,
and
except for any issuance or grant of any right to acquire any securities of
the
Company totaling up to 20,000 Options in the aggregate between the date hereof
and the Closing Date, there is no Contract that requires or under any
circumstance would require the Company to issue, or grant any right to acquire,
any securities of the Company, or any security or instrument exercisable or
exchangeable for or convertible into, the capital stock or membership interest
of the Company or to merge, consolidate, dissolve, liquidate, restructure,
or
recapitalize the Company. The Company Common Stock and Options (i) have been
duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable and
(ii)
were issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities
laws.
3.6 Affiliates.
Other
than the Principal Shareholders, the Company is not controlled by any Person
and
the Company is not in control of any other Person. Schedule
3.6
lists
each Contract, arrangement, or understanding to which the Company and any
Principal Shareholder or any Affiliate of any Principal Shareholder is a party.
Except as disclosed in Schedule
3.6,
none of
the Principal Shareholders or any Affiliate of any Principal Shareholder (i)
own, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, any tangible or intangible
property (including Intellectual Property rights) that the Company uses or
the
use of which is necessary for the conduct of the Business, or (ii) have engaged
in any transaction with the Company.
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3.7 Assumed
Names.
Schedule
3.7
is a
complete and correct list of all assumed or “doing business as” names currently
or formerly used by the Company, including names on any Websites. The Company
has not used any name other than the names listed on Schedule
3.7
to
conduct its business. The Company has filed appropriate “doing business as”
certificates in all applicable jurisdictions. Except as indicated on
Schedule
3.7,
all
Websites are in good working order.
3.8 Governmental
Authorization.
None of
the execution, delivery or performance by the Company of this Agreement or
any
Additional Agreement requires any consent, approval, license or other action
by
or in respect of, or registration, declaration or filing with, any Authority
except (a) for the filing of the Certificate of Merger with the Washington
Secretary of State in accordance with the Washington Business Corporation Act
as
provided for in Section 2.1(g).
3.9 Consents.
The
Contracts listed on Schedule
3.9
are the
only material agreements, commitments, arrangements, contracts or other
instruments binding upon the Company or any of its respective properties
requiring a consent, approval, authorization, order or other action of or filing
with any Person as a result of the execution, delivery or performance of this
Agreement or any of the Additional Agreements or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (each of the foregoing, a “Company
Consent”).
3.10 Financial
Statements.
(a) Attached
hereto as Schedule
3.10(a)
are
balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2005 and December 31, 2006,
and
the related statements of operations, shareholders’ deficit and cash flows for
each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006, and the
balance sheet of the Company as of September 30, 2007 and the related statements
of operations, shareholders’ deficit and cash flows (collectively, the “2006
Financial Statements”). The balance sheet contained in the 2006 Financial
Statements as of December 31, 2006 is referred to herein as the “December
Balance Sheet”. The balance sheet contained in the financial statements as of
September 30, 2007 is referred to herein as the “September Balance Sheet”. The
2006 Financial Statements (i) were prepared from the Books and Records and
can
be legitimately reconciled with the Books and Records; (ii) were prepared
in accordance with GAAP; (iii) fairly and accurately present the Company’s
financial condition and the results of its operations as of their respective
dates and for the periods then ended; (iv) contain and reflect all
necessary adjustments and accruals for a fair presentation of the Company’s
financial condition as of their dates; (v) are complete and correct in all
material respects and (vi) contain and reflect adequate provisions for all
reasonably anticipated liabilities for all material income, property, sales,
payroll or other Taxes applicable to the Company with respect to the periods
then ended. The Company has heretofore delivered to Parent complete and accurate
copies of all “management letters” received by it from the Company’s accountants
and all responses during the last three (3) years by lawyers engaged by the
Company to inquiries from the Company’s accountant or any predecessor
accountants.
The 2006
Financial Statements are currently unaudited. The audited 2006 Financial
Statements will not be materially different than the 2006 Financial Statements
provided on Schedule 3.10(a).
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(b) Except
as
specifically disclosed, reflected or fully reserved against on the September
Balance Sheet and for liabilities and obligations of a similar nature and in
similar amounts incurred in the ordinary course of business since the date
of
the September Balance Sheet and except as set forth on Schedule
3.10(b),
there
are no liabilities, debts or obligations of any nature (whether accrued,
absolute, contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, unasserted or otherwise)
relating to the Company. All debts and liabilities, fixed or contingent, which
should be included under GAAP on an accrual basis on the September Balance
Sheet
are included therein.
(c) The
2006
Financial Statements accurately reflect the outstanding Indebtedness of the
Company as of the date thereof. Except as set forth on Schedules
3.10(c),
the
Company does not have any Indebtedness.
(d) All
forecasts, presentations or projections relating to the future results of
operations of the Company were based upon reasonable assumptions and were
prepared in good faith by the Company.
(e) To
the
commercially reasonable best knowledge of the Company, nothing done by the
Company will prevent the Parent from complying with applicable securities laws
or the Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx Act of 2002 after the Merger is consummated.
3.11 Accounts
Receivable.
Schedule
3.11
sets
forth as of a date within three (3) days of the date hereof all accounts, notes
and other receivables, whether or not accrued, and whether or not billed, of
the
Company, in accordance with GAAP (“Accounts Receivable”). Except as set forth in
Schedule
3.11,
all
Accounts Receivable represent bona
fide
revenues
of the Company pursuant to the Business and are fully collectible, net of any
reserves shown on the September Balance Sheet. Except as set forth on
Schedule
3.11,
all
accounts and notes receivable reflected on the September Balance Sheet, or
arising since December 31, 2006, have been collected, or will be good and
collectible, in each case at the aggregate recorded amounts thereof without
right of recourse, defense, deduction, return of goods, counterclaim, offset,
or
set off on the part of the obligor.
3.12 Books
and Records.
(a) All
Books
and Records of the Company have been properly and accurately kept and completed
in all material respects, and there are no material inaccuracies or
discrepancies of any kind contained or reflected therein.
(b) The
Books
and Records accurately and fairly, in reasonable detail, reflect the Company’s
transactions and dispositions of assets. The Company maintains a system of
internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance
that:
(i) transactions
are executed in accordance with management’s authorization;
(ii) access
to
assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s authorization;
and
(iii) recorded
assets are compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals, and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
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(c) The
Company has heretofore made all of its Books and Records available to Parent
for
its inspection and has heretofore delivered to Parent complete and accurate
copies of documents referred to in the Schedules or as Parent otherwise has
requested. All Contracts, documents, and other papers or copies thereof
delivered to Parent by or on behalf of the Company in connection with this
Agreement and the transactions contemplated herein are accurate, complete,
and
authentic.
(d) Schedule
3.12(d)
is a
complete and correct list of all savings, checking, brokerage or other accounts
pursuant to which the Company has cash or securities on deposit and such list
indicates the signatories on each account.
3.13 Absence
of Certain Changes.
(a) Except
as
set forth in Schedule
3.13(a),
since
December 31, 2006, the Company has conducted its business in the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practices, and with respect to the Company
there has not been:
(i) any
Material Adverse Change or any event, occurrence, development or state of
circumstances or facts which could reasonably be expected to result individually
or in the aggregate in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company’s ability to
consummate the transactions contemplated herein or upon the value to Parent
or
Acquisition Corp. of the transactions contemplated hereby;
(ii) any
transaction, contract, agreement or other instrument entered into, or commitment
made, by the Company relating to the Business or any relinquishment by the
Company of any Contract or other right, in either case other than transactions
and commitments in the ordinary course of business consistent in all respects,
including kind and amount, with past practices and those contemplated by this
Agreement;
(iii) any
increase of bonus, salary or other compensation outside of the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice;
(iv) any
capital expenditure except in the ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice;
(v) any
sale,
lease, license or other disposition of any of its assets except (A) pursuant
to
existing Contracts or commitments disclosed herein and (B) sales of products
or
inventory in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
(vi) acceptance
of any returns except in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past
practice;
(vii) any
default under any term or provision of any Contract;
(viii) an
increase in the amount of Indebtedness;
(ix) the
incurrence of Liens on any of its assets;
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(x) any
loss
of a license required to conduct the Business;
(xi) any
failure to obtain any required bonds in connection with a Contract or proposed
Contract;
(xii) any
loss
in the ability to enter into Contracts with any Authorities with which it
currently engages in business or with which it engaged in business in the last
three (3) years;
(xiii) any
damage, destruction or loss of property related to any of its assets not covered
by insurance;
(xiv) any
delay, acceleration or cancellation of any receivables or indebtedness owed
to
it or write-off or additional reserves made with respect to the
same;
(xv) any
merger or consolidation with or acquisition of any other Person;
(xvi) the
lapse
of any insurance policy protecting its assets;
(xvii) any
change in its accounting principles or methods or write down of the value of
any
inventory or assets;
(xviii) any
change in location where it conducts business;
(xix) any
extension of any loans other than travel or other expense advances to employees
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;
(xx) any
increase or reduction in the prices of products sold except in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice;
(xxi) any
agreement to change any practices or terms, including payment terms, with
respect to customers or suppliers;
(xxii) any
change in hiring practices for employees, consultants or advisors;
(xxiii) any
dividend or distribution to the Company Shareholders; or
(xxiv) any
agreement to do any of the foregoing.
(b) Except
as
set forth on Schedule
3.13(b),
since
December 31, 2006, through and including the Closing Date, the Company has
neither taken any action nor has had any event occur which would have violated
any covenants of the Company set forth in Section 6.1
hereof.
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3.14 Real
Property.
(a) Schedule
3.14(a)
sets
forth a complete and correct list of all Owned Real Property. With respect
to
each Owned Real Property, (i) the Company owns title in fee simple to such
Owned
Real Property, free and clear of all Liens, (ii) there are no outstanding
options or rights of first refusal in favor of any other party to purchase
such
Owned Real Property or any portion thereof or interest therein and (iii) there
are no leases, subleases, licenses, options, rights, concessions or other
agreements affecting any portion of such Owned Real Property.
(b) The
Company has delivered to Parent true, correct, and complete copies of the leases
and all amendments thereto for the properties listed on Schedule
3.14(b)
(the
“Leases”). The Leases, together with all amendments, are listed in Schedule
3.14(b)
and are
valid and enforceable by the Company which is a party to such lease against
the
other parties thereto. The Company has not breached or violated, and is not
in
default under, any of the Leases or any local zoning ordinance, the breach
or
violation of which could individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect, and no notice from any Person has been received by the Company
or served upon the Company or any Principal Shareholder claiming any violation
of any lease or any local zoning ordinance. The Company has no other leases
except as set forth on Schedule
3.14(b).
(c) The
Company has not experienced any material interruption in the delivery of
adequate quantities of any utilities (including electricity, natural gas,
potable water, water for cooling or similar purposes and fuel oil) or other
public services (including sanitary and industrial sewer service) required
by
the Company in the operation of the Business.
3.15 Tangible
Personal Property.
(a) Each
piece of Tangible Assets is in operating condition and repair and functions
in
accordance with its intended use (ordinary wear and tear excepted), has been
properly maintained, and is suitable for its present uses. Schedule
3.15(a)
sets
forth a complete and correct list of the Tangible Assets owned or leased by
the
Company having a book value of more than $5,000, setting forth a description
of
such property and its location.
(b) The
Company has, and upon consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
will
continue to have, good, valid and marketable title in and to each piece of
Tangible Assets listed on Schedule
3.15(a)
hereto,
free and clear of all Liens, except as set forth on Schedule
3.15(b).
(c) The
Company has good title to, or a valid leasehold or license interest in, all
its
respective properties and assets (whether tangible or intangible), free and
clear of all Liens. The personal and other properties and assets owned by the
Company or leased or licensed by the Company from a third party constitute
all
such properties and assets which are necessary to the Business as presently
conducted and as presently proposed to be conducted.
(d) The
materials and supplies included in the inventory of the Company as of the
Closing Date will be: (i) substantially equivalent in quality and quantity,
subject to seasonality, to the materials and supplies, and additions thereto,
generally included in such inventory in the past; and (ii) valued in accordance
with GAAP and applied on a basis consistent with that used in the Company’s
financial statements.
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(e) Except
as
indicated on Schedule
3.15(a),
all
Tangible Assets are located at the Offices.
3.16 Intellectual
Property.
(a) Schedule
3.16(a)
sets
forth a true and complete list of all Intellectual Property owned by the Company
which is material to the Business (the “Owned Intellectual
Property”).
(b) Schedule
3.16(b)
sets
forth a true and complete list of all material computer software developed
in
whole or in part by or on behalf of the Company, including such developed
computer software and databases that are operated or used by the Company on
its
Websites or are otherwise material to the Business (collectively, “Software”).
The Software is the only computer software that is material to the
Business.
(c) Schedule
3.16(c)
sets
forth a true and complete list of all licenses, sublicenses and other agreements
pertaining to Intellectual Property or Software to which the Company is a party,
in each case, which are material to the Business (collectively, “Licensed
Intellectual Property”).
(d) To
the
Company's knowledge, neither the Company’s ownership and use, in the ordinary
course, of the Owned Intellectual Property nor the use of the Software and
Licensed Intellectual Property infringes upon or misappropriates the valid
Intellectual Property rights, privacy rights or other right of any third
party.
(e) Except
as
set forth in Schedule
3.16(e),
the
Company owns each item of Owned Intellectual Property, free and clear of any
lien or encumbrance, and the Company is entitled to use, and is using in the
Business, the Owned Intellectual Property, Software and Licensed Intellectual
Property in the ordinary course, subject, in the case of the Licensed
Intellectual Property, to the terms and conditions of the licenses
therefor.
(f) The
Owned
Intellectual Property, Software and the Licensed Intellectual Property include
all of the Intellectual Property used in the ordinary day-to-day conduct of
the
Business, and there are no other items of Intellectual Property that are
material to such ordinary day-to-day conduct of the Business. The Company has
not received any written or, to the Company's knowledge, oral notice challenging
the Company's ownership of the Owned Intellectual Property, claiming that any
other person or entity has any ownership interest with respect thereto, or
claiming that the Owned Intellectual Property infringes any Intellectual
Property owned by a third party.
(g) To
the
Company's knowledge, no Person is engaged in any activity that infringes upon
the Owned Intellectual Property. The Company has not granted any license or
other right currently outstanding to any third party with respect to the Owned
Intellectual Property, Licensed Intellectual Property or Software, except for
those licenses set forth in Schedule
3.16(g).
The
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result
in the termination of any agreements relating to the Licensed Intellectual
Property.
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(h) The
Company has not exported the Software outside the U.S. or Canada. No rights
in
the Software have been transferred by the Company to any third party except
to
the customers of the Company to whom the Company has licensed such Software
in
the ordinary course.
(i) The
Company has the right to use all software development tools, library functions,
compilers and other third party software that are material to the Business
or
that is required to operate or modify the Software, consistent with the terms
and conditions of any agreements pursuant to which the Company has been granted
such right to use.
(j) The
Company has taken reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of its trade
secrets and other confidential Intellectual Property and, to the Company's
knowledge, (i) there has been no misappropriation of any material trade secrets
or other material confidential Intellectual Property of the Company by any
Person; (ii) no employee, independent contractor or agent of the Company has
misappropriated any trade secrets of any other Person in the course of his
performance as an employee, independent contractor or agent; and (iii) no
employee, independent contractor or agent of the Company is in default or breach
of any term of any employment agreement, non-disclosure agreement, non-compete
obligation, assignment of invention agreement or similar agreement or contract
relating in any way to the protection, ownership, development, use or transfer
of Intellectual Property.
3.17 Export
Restrictions.
Except
as listed on Schedule
3.17,
there
are no export restrictions on the Company’s products or services.
3.18 Relationships
With Customers, Suppliers, Etc.
(a) Schedule
3.18(a)
identifies during the six (6) months ended June 30, 2007 and the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2006, respectively (i) the 10 largest customers of
the
Company and the amount of revenues accounted for by such customer during each
such period and (ii) the 10 largest suppliers (other than attorneys, accountants
and office leases) of the Company and the amount of expense accounted for by
such supplier during each such period.
(b) Schedule
3.18(b)
sets
forth (i) all prepayments, pre-billed invoices and deposits that have been
received by the Company as of the date hereof from customers for products to
be
shipped, or services to be performed, after the Closing Date, and (ii) with
respect to each such prepayment, pre-billed invoice or deposit, (A) the party
and contract credited, (B) the date received or invoiced, (C) the products
and/or services to be delivered, and (D) the conditions for the return of such
prepayment, pre-billed invoice or deposit. All such prepayments, pre-billed
invoices and deposits are properly accrued for on the Company’s financial
statements, in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis with the
past
practice of the Company.
(c) Schedule
3.18(c)
sets
forth since December 31, 2006, all purchases (other than attorneys, accountants
and office leases) with a cost of in excess of $10,000 for any single item
or
series or related items.
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(d) Except
as
set forth on Schedule
3.18(d),
since
December 31, 2006: (a) there has not been any termination of the business
relationship of the Company with any material licensee, customer or supplier,
other than in the ordinary course of business where a contract has been
concluded with (A) a customer with no subsequent follow-on business or (B)
a
supplier due to the supplier’s products no longer being available or applicable
to the Business; (b) there has not been any threatened termination or
withholding of payments by, or any material dispute with, any material licensee,
customer or supplier; and (c) the Company has not received any notice or been
informed that any such event will occur in the future, either as a result of
the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise.
Except as set forth on Schedule
3.18(d),
the
Company is not currently in any dispute over any terms of any contract or
agreement to which the Company and any material licensee, customer or supplier
is a party.
3.19 Litigation.
Except
as set forth in Schedule
3.19,
there
is no Action (or, to the Company’s knowledge, any basis therefor) pending
against, or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against or affecting the
Company, any of its respective officers or directors, any Principal Shareholder,
the Business or any Contract, before any court or arbitrator or any governmental
body, agency or official or which in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent,
enjoin, alter or delay the transactions contemplated hereby. There are no
outstanding judgments against the Company. The Company is neither now, nor
has
it been in the past five (5) years, subject to any proceeding with any
Authority
3.20 Contracts.
(a) Each
Contract to which the Company is a party is a valid and binding agreement,
and
is in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor, to the Company’s
knowledge, any other party thereto, is in breach or default (whether with or
without the passage of time or the giving of notice or both) under the terms
of
any such Contract. The Company has not assigned, delegated, or otherwise
transferred any of its rights or obligations with respect to any Contracts,
or
granted any power of attorney with respect thereto. The Company has given a
true
and correct fully executed copy of each Contract to Parent.
(b) Schedule
3.20(b)
lists
each material contract (other than the Charter Documents) of the Company (the
“Contracts”), including:
(i) any
contract pursuant to which the Company is required to pay, has paid or is
entitled to receive or has received an amount in excess of $25,000 during the
current fiscal year or any one of the two preceding fiscal years (other than
purchase orders for inventory entered into in the ordinary course of business
(excluding however any such purchase orders which are open for purchases in
excess of $50,000));
(ii) all
employment contracts and sales representatives contracts;
(iii) all
sales, agency, factoring, commission and distribution contracts;
(iv) all
joint
venture, strategic alliance, limited liability company and partnership
agreements;
(v) all
significant documents relating to any acquisitions or dispositions of assets
(other than of dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of
business);
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(vi) all
licensing agreements, including agreements licensing Intellectual Property
rights, other than “shrink wrap” licenses;
(vii) all
secrecy, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements restricting the conduct
of
the Company;
(viii) all
contracts relating to patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, brands,
copyrights, trade secrets and other Intellectual Property rights;
(ix) all
guarantees, terms and conditions, privacy policies, indemnification arrangements
and other hold harmless arrangements made or provided by the
Company;
(x) all
Website hosting contracts or agreements;
(xi) all
contracts or agreements with or pertaining to the Company to which any Principal
Shareholder or any Affiliate of any Principal Shareholder is a
party;
(xii) all
agreements relating to real property, including any real property lease,
sublease, or space sharing, license or occupancy agreement, whether the Company
is granted or granting rights thereunder to occupy or use any
premises;
(xiii) all
agreements relating to Tangible Assets; and
(xiv) all
agreements relating to outstanding Indebtedness.
(c) The
Company is in compliance with all material covenants, including all financial
covenants, in all notes, indentures, bonds and other instruments or agreements
evidencing any Indebtedness.
3.21 Licenses
and Permits.
Schedule
3.21
is a
complete and correct list of each material license, franchise, permit, order
or
approval or other similar authorization affecting, or relating in any way to,
the Business, together with the name of the government agency or entity issuing
the same (the “Permits”). Such Permits are valid and in full force and effect
and, assuming the related Company Consents, if any, have been obtained prior
to
the Closing Date, none of the Permits will, assuming the related Company
Consents have been obtained or waived prior to the Closing Date, be terminated
or impaired or become terminable as a result of the transactions contemplated
hereby. The Company has all Permits necessary to operate the Business except
for
such Permits that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect on the Company.
3.22 Compliance
with Laws.
The
Company is not in violation of, has not violated, and is not under investigation
with respect to, and has not been threatened to be charged with or given notice
of any violation or alleged violation of, any Law or Order, nor is there any
basis for any such charge.
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3.23 Pre-payments.
Except
as set forth on Schedule
3.23,
the
Company has not received any payments with respect to any services to be
rendered or goods to be provided after the Closing.
3.24 Employees.
Schedule
3.24
sets
forth a true and complete list of the names, titles, annual salaries or wage
rates and other compensation, vacation and fringe benefits, claims under benefit
plans that the Company has been made aware of, work permits, visas, resident
alien status (if applicable), and office location of all employees of the
Company, indicating part-time and full-time employment and all changes in
salaries and wage rates per employee since January 1, 2005. Schedule
3.24
sets
forth a true and complete list of the names and titles of the directors and
officers of the Company as of the date hereof.
3.25 Compliance
with Federal, State and Municipal Labor and Employment Laws and Ordinances
and
Collective Bargaining Agreements.
The
Company has complied in all material respects with all applicable federal,
state
and municipal Laws and ordinances relating to employment, labor and collective
bargaining. To the Company’s knowledge, neither the Parent nor the Surviving
Corporation are required to give notice, make any filing, receive any approval,
or take any action whatsoever with respect to any Authority in connection with
the transactions contemplated hereby, including but not limited to any labor
organization. There is no violation of any federal or state statute or municipal
ordinance with respect to the residence of any employee of the Company in the
United States or his or her employment by the Company or the Surviving
Corporation. No present or former employee, officer or director of the Company
has, or will have at the Closing Date, any claim against the Surviving
Corporation for any matter including, without limitation, wages, salary,
vacation, severance, or sick pay or any other fringe benefit except for the
same
having accrued in the ordinary course of business from the last payroll period
immediately preceding the Closing Date. There is no:
(a) unfair
labor practice charge against the Company pending before the National Labor
Relations Board or any state or local agency;
(b) pending
work stoppage or other material labor relations issues affecting the
Company;
(c) material
grievance pending having arisen under any collective bargaining agreement to
which the Company is a party signatory;
(d) pending
question of representation raised by any labor organization with respect to
employees of the Company; or
(e) pending
arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining
agreement to which the Company is a party signatory.
In
addition: (i) none of the matters specified in clauses (a) through (e) above
is
threatened against the Company; and (ii) no current union organizing activities
have occurred over the last 24 months.
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3.26 Employee
Benefits.
(a) Each
Benefit Plan, in each case as of the date of this Agreement, is listed in
Schedule
3.26(a),
is and
has been maintained in substantial compliance with all applicable laws and
has
been administered and operated in all material respects in accordance with
its
terms. For purposes of this Agreement, “Benefit Plan” means any “employee
pension benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), any “employee
welfare benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), any defined benefit
pension plan and any other written plan, agreement or arrangement involving
direct or indirect compensation, including without limitation insurance
coverage, severance benefits, disability benefits, deferred compensation,
bonuses, stock options, stock purchase, phantom stock, stock appreciation or
other forms of incentive compensation or post-retirement compensation, in each
case, sponsored, maintained, contributed to or administered by the Company
or
with respect to which the Company could incur any liability.
(b) Each
Benefit Plan which is intended to be “qualified” within the meaning of Section
401(a) of the Code, has received a favorable determination letter from the
IRS
and no event has occurred and no condition exists which could reasonably be
expected to result in the revocation of any such determination. No event which
constitutes a “reportable event” (as defined in Section 4043(c) of ERISA) for
which the 30-day notice requirement has not been waived by the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation (the “PBGC”) has occurred with respect to any Benefit Plan
that is subject to such notice requirement. No Benefit Plan subject to Title
IV
of ERISA has been terminated or is or has been the subject of termination
proceedings pursuant to Title IV of ERISA. All liabilities under each Benefit
Plan are funded to at least the minimum level required by law, or if higher,
to
the level required by the terms governing any such Benefit Plan. No Benefit
Plan
which is subject to Part 3 of Subtitle B of Title I of ERISA has incurred an
“accumulated funding deficiency” (within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or
Section 412 of the Code), whether or not waived. All contributions and payments
required under the terms of the Benefit Plans have been timely made or accrued
and are fully deductible under Code Section 162, 280G or 404.
(c) Neither
the Company nor any other “disqualified person” or “party in interest” (as
defined in Section 4975(e)(2) of the Code and Section 3(14) of ERISA,
respectively), has engaged in any transaction in connection with any Benefit
Plan that could reasonably be expected to result in the imposition of any of
the
following: (i) a penalty pursuant to Section 502(i) of ERISA, (ii) damages
pursuant to Section 409 of ERISA, or (3) a tax pursuant to Section 4975(a)
of
the Code. There are no obligations under any Benefit Plan or other arrangement
or agreement providing welfare benefits after termination of employment to
any
employee of the Company (or to any beneficiary of any such employee), excluding
continuation of health coverage required to be continued under Section 4980B
of
the Code or Section 601 of ERISA. Each Benefit Plan subject to the requirements
of Section 4980B of the Code or Section 601 of ERISA has been operated in
substantial compliance therewith.
(d) Other
than as disclosed on Schedule 3.26(d), neither the consummation of the
transaction contemplated by this Agreement nor any termination of the employment
of any Employee will result in or give rise to (i) any obligation of the Company
to make any severance, retention, or termination, change of control,
or
other
payments to present or former Employees other than as may be required by law,
or
(ii) the acceleration of any other rights or benefits provided by the Company
to
any present or former Employee pursuant to any agreement other than as may
be
required by law.
There
are no proceedings or other claims (except claims for benefits payable in the
normal operation of the Benefit Plans and proceedings with respect to qualified
domestic relations orders) or suits against or involving any Benefit Plan or
asserting any rights or claims to benefits under any Benefit Plan. No Benefit
Plan or related trust owns any securities in violation of Section 407 of ERISA.
With respect to each Benefit Plan which is subject to Title IV of ERISA,
pursuant to its most recent actuarial
report, on a termination basis, the aggregate present value of the accrued
liabilities thereunder did not exceed the aggregate fair market value of the
assets allocable thereto.
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(e) No
Benefit Plan is a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA) and the Company has not been obligated to contribute to any multiemployer
plan. No liability has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, incurred
under Title IV of ERISA (other than for PBGC insurance premiums payable in
the
ordinary course) or Section 412(f) or (n) of the Code, by the Company or any
entity required to be aggregated with the Company pursuant to Section 4001(b)
of
ERISA and/or Section 414 (b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code (and the regulations
promulgated thereunder) with respect to any “employee pension benefit plan” (as
defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA).
(f) Other
than as disclosed on Schedule 3.26(f), all Benefit Plans that are nonqualified
deferred compensation plans for purposes of Code Section 409A have been
operated, to the extent applicable, and amended in compliance with the
requirements of Code Section 409A, its Treasury Regulations, and any
administrative guidance relating thereto.
(g) With
respect to each Benefit Plan, the Seller has delivered or caused to be delivered
to Purchaser and its counsel true and complete copies of the following
documents, as applicable, for each respective Benefit Plan — (i) all Benefit
Plan documents, with all amendments thereto; (ii) the current summary plan
description with any applicable summaries of material modifications thereto
as
well as any other material employee or government communications; (iii) all
current trust agreements and/or other documents establishing Benefit Plan
funding arrangements; (iv) the most recent IRS determination letter and, if
a
request for such a letter has been filed and is currently pending with the
IRS,
a copy of such filing; (v) the three most recently prepared IRS Forms 5500;
(vi)
the three most recently prepared financial statements; and (viii) all material
related contracts, including without limitation, insurance contracts, service
provider agreements and investment management and investment advisory
agreements.
3.27 Employment
Matters.
Schedule
3.27
sets
forth a true and complete list of every employment agreement, commission
agreement, of the Company now in effect or under which the Company has or might
have any obligation, or any understanding between the Company and any employee
concerning the terms of such employee’s employment that do not apply to the
Company’s employees generally.
3.28 Tax
Matters
(a) Compliance
Generally.
Except
as set forth on Schedule
3.28(a),
the
Company has (A) duly and timely filed all Tax Returns required to be filed
by
the Company on or prior to the Effective Time, which Tax Returns are true,
correct and complete, and (B) duly and timely paid all Taxes due and payable
in
respect of all periods up to and including the date which includes the Effective
Time or has made adequate provision on its Books and Records and financial
statements in accordance with GAAP for any such Tax which is not due on or
before such time. Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall provide Parent
and Acquisition Corp. with a schedule which sets forth each Taxing jurisdiction
in which the Company has filed or is required to file Tax Returns and whether
the Company has filed consolidated, combined, unitary or separate income or
franchise Tax Returns with respect to each such jurisdiction and a copy of
such
Tax Returns as have been requested by Parent and Acquisition Corp. Any Tax
Returns filed subsequent thereto were consistent with the Tax Returns furnished
to Parent and Acquisition Corp. and did not make, amend or terminate any
election with respect to any Tax or change any accounting method, practice
or
procedure. The Company has complied with all applicable Law relating to the
reporting, payment, collection and withholding of Taxes and has duly and timely
withheld or collected, paid over and reported all Taxes required to be withheld
or collected by the Company.
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(b) No
Audit.
Except
as set forth on Schedule
3.28(b),
(A) no taxing authority (“Taxing Authority”) has asserted any adjustment
that could result in an additional Tax for which the Company is or may be liable
or that could result in a Lien on any of its assets which has not been fully
paid or adequately provided for on the Company’s balance sheet at Closing
(collectively, “Tax Liability”) (B) there is not pending any audit,
examination, investigation, dispute, proceeding or claim (collectively,
“Proceeding”) relating to any Tax Liability, and to the knowledge of the
Principal Shareholders and the Company, no Taxing Authority is contemplating
such a Proceeding, (C) no statute of limitations with respect to any Tax has
been waived or extended (unless the period to which it has been waived or
extended has expired), (D) there is no outstanding power of attorney authorizing
anyone to act on behalf of the Company in connection with any Tax Liability,
Tax
Return or Proceeding relating to any Tax, (E) there is no outstanding closing
agreement, ruling request, request to consent to change a method of accounting,
subpoena or request for information with or by any Taxing Authority with respect
to the Company, its income, assets or business, or any Tax Liability, (F) the
Company is not required to include any adjustment under Section 481 of the
Code
(or any corresponding provision of applicable Law) in income for any period
ending after the Closing Date, (G) the Company is not a party to any Tax
sharing or Tax allocation agreement, arrangement or understanding, (H) the
Company is not and has never been included in any consolidated, combined or
unitary Tax Return, (I) all Taxable periods for the assessment or collection
of
any Tax Liability are closed by agreement or by operation of the normal statute
of limitations (without extension) or will close by operation of the normal
statute of limitations for such Taxes (in each case determined without regard
to
any omission, fraud or other special circumstance other than the timely filing
of the Tax Return), and (J) no Taxing Authority has ever asserted that the
Company should file a Tax Return in a jurisdiction where it does not presently
file.
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(c) Taxes.
The
Company is not a party to any agreement, contract or arrangement for services
that would result, individually or in the aggregate, in the payment of any
amount that would not be deductible by the Company by reason of Section 162,
280G or 404 of the Code. The Company is not a “consenting corporation” within
the meaning of Section 341(f) of the Code (as in effect prior to the repeal
of
such provision). All plans or arrangements to which Company is a party that
are
“nonqualified deferred compensation plans” within the meaning of Code Section
409A(d)(1) satisfy the requirements of Code Sections 409A(a)(2), 409A(a)(3)
and
409A(a)(4) and the guidance thereunder and have been operated and administered
since January 1, 2005 in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code
and
the applicable guidance thereunder. The Company does not have any “tax-exempt
bond financed property” or “tax-exempt use property” within the meaning of
Section 168(g) or (h), respectively, of the Code. The Company has not entered
into any sale-leaseback or leveraged lease transaction. None of the assets
of
the Company is required to be treated as being owned by any other person
pursuant to the “safe harbor” leasing provisions of Section 168(f)(8) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as in effect prior to the repeal of said leasing
provisions. The Company has never made or been required to make an election
under Section 338 of the Code. During the last two years, the Company has not
engaged in any exchange under which gain realized on the exchange was not
recognized under Section 1031 of the Code. The Company has not constituted
a
“distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” under Section 355 of
the Code in any distribution in the last two years or pursuant to a plan or
series of related transactions (within the meaning of Code Section 355(e))
with
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Company is not and has
never been a “personal holding company” (within the meaning of Code Section
542), a shareholder in a “controlled foreign corporation” (within the meaning of
Code Section 957), in a “foreign personal holding company” (within the meaning
of Code Section 552), or in a “passive foreign investment company” (within the
meaning of Code Section 1297), or an owner in any entity treated as a
partnership or disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The
Company does not have and has never had a fixed place of business or permanent
establishment in any foreign country. The Company has not been a “United States
real property holding corporation” (within the meaning of Code Section
897(c)(2)) at any time during the applicable period specified in Section
897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code. The Company has not entered into any “reportable
transaction” (within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4 or any
predecessor thereof). In the case of any transaction that could result in a
“substantial understatement to income tax” (within the meaning of Code Section
6662(d)) if the claimed Tax treatment were disallowed, the Company has
“substantial authority” (within the meaning of Code Section 6662(d)) for the
claimed treatment, or in the case of a transaction other than a “tax shelter”
(within the meaning of Code Section 6662(d)(2)(C)(ii)), has “adequately
disclosed” (within the meaning of Code Section 6662(d)) the relevant facts
affecting the tax treatment on its income Tax Return.
(d) Taxes
and Tax Return Defined.
For
purposes of this Agreement, “Tax” shall mean all federal, state, local and
foreign tax, charge, fee, levy, deficiency or other assessment of whatever
kind
or nature (including without limitation, any net income, gross income, gross
receipts, sales, use, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, profits, license,
withholding, payroll, employment, unemployment, excise, estimated, severance,
stamp, occupation, real property, personal property, intangible property,
occupancy, recording, minimum, environmental and windfall profits tax),
including any liability therefor as a transferee (including without limitation
under Section 6901 of the Code or any similar provision of applicable Law),
as a
result of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 or, any similar provision of
applicable Law, or as a result of any Tax sharing or similar agreement, together
with any interest, penalty, addition to tax or additional amount imposed by
any
federal, state, local or foreign Taxing Authority. For purposes of this
Agreement, “Tax Return” includes any return, declaration, report, claim for
refund or credit, information return or statement, and any amendment thereto,
including without limitation, any consolidated, combined or unitary return
or
other document (including any related or supporting information or schedule),
filed or required to be filed with any federal, state, local or foreign
governmental entity or agency in connection with the determination, assessment,
collection or payment of Taxes or the administration of any laws, regulations
or
administrative requirements relating to Taxes or ERISA.
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3.29 Fees.
Except
as set forth on Schedule
3.29,
there
is no investment banker, broker, finder, restructuring or other intermediary
that has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of the Company,
any
Principal Shareholder or any of their respective Affiliates who might be
entitled to any fee or commission from either Acquisition Corp., the Surviving
Corporation, Parent or any of their Affiliates upon consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The amount of any fee owed to
any
Person listed on Schedule
3.29
is
listed opposite such Person’s name.
3.30 Business
Operations; Servers.
(a) The
Company owns all of its servers and other computer equipment necessary to
operate its Business as conducted and as such Business will be conducted as
of
the Closing.
(b) Parent
has been furnished with complete and correct copies of the standard terms and
conditions of sale, if any, of each of the products of the Company. Except
as
set forth on Schedule
3.30(b)
or as
required by Law, no product manufactured, sold or delivered by the Company
is
subject to any guaranty, warranty or other indemnity, express or implied, beyond
such standard terms and conditions. Any warranty reserve reflected in the
Company’s financial statements is in accordance with GAAP.
(c) Except
in
the ordinary course of business or as set forth on Schedule 3.30(c),
the
Company neither has entered into, nor has offered to enter into, any written
agreement, Contract or other arrangement with respect to the Business pursuant
to which the Company is or will be obligated to make any rebates, discounts,
promotional allowances or similar payments or arrangements to any customer
(“Rebate Obligations”). All Rebate Obligations listed on Schedule
3.30(c)
and all
ordinary course Rebate Obligations are reflected in the 2006 Financial
Statements in accordance with GAAP.
(d) Except
as
set forth in Schedule
3.30(d),
the
Company has not experienced any returns of its products since December 31,
2006
other than returns in the ordinary course of business. All product returns
listed on Schedule
3.30(d)
are
reflected on the 2006 Financial Statements in accordance with GAAP.
3.31 Powers
of Attorney and Suretyships.
The
Company does not have any general or special powers of attorney outstanding
(whether as grantor or grantee thereof) or any obligation or liability (whether
actual, accrued, accruing, contingent, or otherwise) as guarantor, surety,
co-signer, endorser, co-maker, indemnitor or otherwise in respect of the
obligation of any Person.
3.32 Other
Information .
Neither
this Agreement, nor any of the documents or other information made available
to
Parent or its Affiliates, attorneys, accountants, agents or representatives
pursuant hereto, or in connection with Parent’s due diligence review of the
Business or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, to the Company’s
knowledge, contains or will contain any untrue statement of a material fact
or
omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements contained therein not misleading. The Company has provided Parent
with all material information regarding the Business.
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3.33 Certain
Business Practices.
Neither
the Company, nor any director, officer, agent or employee of the Company (in
their capacities as such) has (i) used any funds for unlawful contributions,
gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity,
(ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials
or
employees, to foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns or violated
any
provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or (iii) made any other
unlawful payment. Neither the Company, nor any director, officer, agent or
employee of the Company (nor any Person acting on behalf of any of the
foregoing) has, since January 1, 2002, directly or indirectly, given or agreed
to give any gift or similar benefit in any material amount to any customer,
supplier, governmental employee or other Person who is or may be in a position
to help or hinder the Company or assist the Company in connection with any
actual or proposed transaction, which, if not given could reasonably be expected
to have had an adverse effect on the Company, or which, if not continued in
the
future, could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the business or
prospects of the Company that could reasonably be expected to subject the
Company to suit or penalty in any private or governmental litigation or
proceeding.
3.34 Money
Laundering Laws.
The
operations of the Company have been conducted at all times in compliance with
laundering statutes in all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations
thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued,
administered or enforced by any governmental authority (collectively, the “Money
Laundering Laws”) and no Action involving the Company with respect to the Money
Laundering Laws is pending or threatened.
3.35 Environmental
Matters.
Except
as disclosed on Schedule
3.35
and for
those matters that, individually or in the aggregate, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect:
(a) the
Company has for the past three (3) years been, and is in, compliance with all
applicable Environmental Laws;
(b) the
Company has obtained, and is in compliance with, all permits, licenses,
authorizations, registrations and other governmental consents required by
applicable Environmental Laws (the “Environmental Permits”) and none of such
Environmental Permits will be subject to suspension, modification, revocation
or
non-renewal as a result of the execution and delivery of this Agreement or
the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby;
(c) there
has
been no release at any time of any hazardous substances at, on, or about, under
or within any Owned Real Property or Leased Real Property or any real property
formerly owned, leased, operated or controlled by the Company or any of its
predecessors, in each of the foregoing cases that would reasonably be expected
to give rise to any liabilities pursuant to Environmental Laws;
(d) the
Company has, within the past three (3) years, received no written claims,
notices (including, without limitation, notices that the Company is a
potentially responsible person or otherwise liable in connection with any waste
disposal or other site containing hazardous substances), civil, criminal or
administrative actions, suits, hearings, investigations, inquiries or
proceedings pending or threatened that are based on or related to liabilities
pursuant to Environmental Laws;
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(e) the
Company and any of its predecessors have not used any waste disposal site,
or
otherwise disposed of, transported, or arranged for the transportation of,
any
hazardous substances to any place or location in violation of any Environmental
Laws, where the association with any such location would reasonably be expected
to give rise to any liabilities pursuant to Environmental Laws; and
(f) the
Company has made available to Parent and Acquisition Corp. true and complete
copies and results of any material written reports, studies, site assessments,
test or monitoring possessed or initiated by the Company pertaining to hazardous
substances (i) at, on, about, under or within any (A) Owned Real Property or
Leased Real Property or (B) real property formerly owned, leased, operated
or
controlled by the Company where the Company is or may reasonably be held
responsible under Environmental Laws.
3.36 Related
Party Transactions.
Except
as disclosed on Schedule
3.36,
no
current or former shareholder, director, officer or employee (or any consultant
or independent contractor performing functions normally associated with
employees) of the Company, or any current or former Affiliate of any of the
foregoing Persons or of the Company is presently, or since January 1, 2004
has
been, directly or indirectly through such Person’s affiliation with any other
Person, a party to any Contract or transaction with the Company, other than
in
the case of such Person, employment contracts as set forth in Schedule
3.27
or stock
option grant or similar agreements disclosed on Schedule
3.26.
3.37 Insurance. Schedule
3.37
sets
forth a complete and correct list of each insurance policy that is currently
in
effect which is presently owned or held by the Company, insuring the products,
physical properties, assets, business, operations, employees, or directors
and
officers of the Company, which insurance policies are in such amounts, with
such
deductibles and against such risks and losses as are, in the Company’s judgment,
reasonable for the business conducted. As of the date hereof, all premiums
due
on such policies have been paid and no notice of cancellation or termination
or
intent to cancel, in each case which has not been rescinded, has been received
in writing by the Company with respect to any such insurance policy. The Company
is not in material default under such insurance policies.
ARTICLE
IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS
Each
Principal Shareholder, severally and not jointly, represents to Parent and
Acquisition Corp., as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (except
as
otherwise expressly stated) that:
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4.1 Ownership
of Stock; Authority.
(a) Each
Principal Shareholder has good and marketable title to the Principal
Shareholder’s Securities, free and clear of any and all Liens.
(b) Each
Principal Shareholder has full legal capacity, power and authority to execute
and deliver this Agreement and the Additional Agreements to which such Principal
Shareholder is named as a party, to perform such Principal Shareholder’s
obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby. This Agreement and the Additional Agreements
to
which each Principal Shareholder is named as a party have been, or at Closing
will be, duly executed and delivered by each Principal Shareholder and are,
or
upon their execution and delivery will be, valid and legally binding obligations
of each Principal Shareholder, enforceable against each Principal Shareholder
in
accordance with their respective terms, subject
to (i) laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency and the
relief of debtors, or (ii) rules of law governing specific performance,
injunctive relief or other equitable remedies.
(c) Neither
the execution and delivery by such Principal Shareholder of any or all of the
Agreements and the Additional Agreements to which such Principal Shareholder
is
a party, nor the consummation by such Principal Shareholder of the transaction
contemplated hereby and thereby, will (i) conflict with, result in a breach
of,
constitute (with or without due notice or lapse of time or both) a default
under, or require any notice, consent or waiver under, any instrument, contract,
agreement or arrangement to which such Principal Shareholder is a party or
by
which such Principal Shareholder is bound, or (ii) result in the imposition
of
any Lien upon the Principal Shareholder’s Securities owned by such Principal
Shareholder.
4.2 Approvals.
Except
as contemplated by this Agreement, no consent, approval, waiver, authorization
or novation is required to be obtained by such Principal Shareholder from,
and
no notice or filing is required to be given by such Principal Shareholder to
or
made by any Principal Shareholder with, any Authority or other Person in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance by such Principal
Shareholder of this Agreement and each of the Additional
Agreements.
4.3 Non-Contravention.
The
execution, delivery and performance by such Principal Shareholder of this
Agreement and each of the Additional Agreements, and the consummation of the
transaction, do not and will not (a) violate any provision of the certificate
of
incorporation, bylaws or other organizational documents of such Principal
Shareholder if it is not a natural person, or (b) violate or result in a breach
of or constitute a default under any Law, judgment, injunction, Order, decree
or
other restriction of any Authority to which such Principal Shareholder, or
the
Principal Shareholder’s Securities owned by such Principal Shareholder, is
subject.
4.4 Litigation
and Claims.
There
is no civil, criminal or administrative action, suit, demand, claim, hearing,
proceeding or disclosed investigation pending or threatened against such
Principal Shareholder and such Principal Shareholder is not subject to any
Order, writ, judgment, award, injunction or decree of any Authority of competent
jurisdiction or any arbitrator that would prevent consummation of the
transaction or materially impair the ability of such Principal Shareholder
to
perform its obligations hereunder.
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4.5 Investment
Representations.
(a) Each
Principal Shareholder is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in
Rule 501 of Regulation D (“Reg D”) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933
as amended (the “Act”). Each Principal Shareholder acknowledges that Parent has
the right to require evidence of such Principal Shareholder’s status as an
accredited investor, if necessary.
(b) Each
Principal Shareholder acknowledges that it has prior investment experience,
including investments in non-listed and non-registered securities, or has
employed the services of an investment advisory, attorney or accountant to
evaluate the merits and risks of such an investment on its behalf, and each
Principal Shareholder represents that she, he or it, as the case may be,
understands the highly speculative nature of an investment in the Parent
securities which may result in the loss of the total amount of such
investment.
(c) Each
Principal Shareholder has adequate means of providing for such Principal
Shareholder’s current needs and possible personal contingencies, and each
Principal Shareholder has no need, and anticipates no need in the foreseeable
future, for liquidity in such Principal Shareholder’s investment in the Parent
Common Stock. Each Principal Shareholder is able to bear the economic risks
of
this investment and, consequently, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, each Principal Shareholder is able to hold the Parent Common Stock
for an indefinite period of time and has a sufficient net worth to sustain
a
loss of the entire investment in the event such loss should occur.
(d) No
Principal Shareholder has made an overall commitment to investments which are
not readily marketable that are disproportionate to such Principal Shareholder’s
net worth, and such Principal Shareholder’s investment in the Parent Common
Stock will not cause such overall commitment to become excessive.
(e) Except
as
otherwise set forth in Article V, Parent has not and is not making any
representations or warranties to the Principal Shareholders or providing any
advice or information to the Principal Shareholders. Each Principal Shareholder
acknowledges that it has retained its own professional advisors to evaluate
the
tax and other consequences of an investment in the Parent Common
Stock.
(f) The
Parent Common Stock will be received by each Principal Shareholder for the
Principal Shareholder’s own account for investment and not for distribution or
resale to others.
4.6 Tax.
Neither
the Principal Shareholders nor the Company will be required to pay any transfer
Taxes to any Authority with respect to any transaction contemplated by this
Agreement.
ARTICLE
V
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT
Parent
represents and warrants to the Company and each Principal Shareholder, as of
the
date hereof and as of the Closing Date (except as otherwise expressly stated)
that:
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5.1 Due
Incorporation.
Parent
is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the
Laws of the State of Delaware. Except as set forth on Schedule
5.1,
the
Parent is not qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in any
jurisdiction, and there is no jurisdiction in which the character of the
property owned or leased by the Parent or the nature of its activities make
qualification of the Parent in any such jurisdiction necessary, except where the
failure to so qualify would have a Material Adverse Effect. Acquisition Corp.
is
a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
Laws of the State of Washington. Parent has all requisite power and authority,
corporate and otherwise, and all governmental licenses, franchises, permits,
authorizations, consents and approvals required to own, lease, and operate
its
assets, properties and businesses and to carry on its business as now conducted
on the date hereof. Acquisition Corp. has not conducted any business to date
and
has only engaged in certain activities relating to its organization. Parent
has
not adopted any plan, or made any agreement in respect of any merger,
consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of its assets, reorganization,
recapitalization, dissolution or liquidation, except as explicitly set forth
in
this Agreement.
5.2 Corporate
Authorization.
Except
for a vote of the stockholders of Parent to approve the transaction contemplated
by this Agreement, and provided that any amendments to Parent’s certificate of
incorporation as required by the transactions contemplated hereby are made,
the
execution, delivery and performance by Parent and Acquisition Corp. of this
Agreement and each of the other Additional Agreements to which it is a party
and
the consummation by Parent and Acquisition Corp. of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby are within the corporate powers of Parent and
Acquisition Corp. and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate
action on the part of Parent and Acquisition Corp. This Agreement constitutes,
and upon their execution and delivery, each of the Additional Agreements will
constitute, the valid and legally binding agreement of Parent or Acquisition
Corp., as applicable, enforceable against each in accordance with their
respective terms.
5.3 Governmental
Authorization.
None of
the execution, delivery or performance by Parent or Acquisition Corp. of this
Agreement or any Additional Agreement requires any consent, approval, license
or
other action by or in respect of, or registration, declaration or filing with,
any Authority by Parent or Acquisition Corp., except for the filing of a proxy
statement and a proxy card with the SEC and a registration statement upon
exercise of the Company Shareholders of their registration rights pursuant
to
the terms of this Agreement, and (c) for the filing of the Certificate of
Merger with the Washington Secretary of State in accordance with the Washington
Business Corporation Act as provided for in Section 2.1(g).
5.4 No
Violation.
Provided that Parent presents to its stockholders any amendments to Parent’s
certificate of incorporation as required by the transactions contemplated hereby
and such stockholders approve such amendments and such amendments are made,
neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or any Additional Agreement
to be executed by Parent or Acquisition Corp. hereunder nor the consummation
of
the transactions contemplated herein and therein will (a) violate any provision
of Parent’s or Acquisition Corp.’s certificate of incorporation, by-laws or
other charter documents; (b) violate any Laws or Orders to which either Parent
or Acquisition Corp. or their property is subject, or (c) violate the provisions
of any material agreement or other material instrument binding upon or
benefiting Parent or Acquisition Corp.
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5.5 Consents.
Except
for a vote of the stockholders of the Parent to approve any amendments to
Parent’s certificate of incorporation as required by the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, and provided that any amendments to Parent’s
certificate of incorporation as required by the transactions contemplated hereby
are made, there are no agreements, commitments, arrangements, contracts or
other
instruments binding upon Parent or Acquisition Corp. or any of their properties
requiring a consent, approval, authorization, order or other action of or filing
with any Person as a result of the execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement or any of the Additional Agreements or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
5.6 Litigation.
There
is no action, suit, investigation, hearing or proceeding pending against, or
to
the best knowledge of Parent, threatened against or affecting, Parent, any
of
its officers or directors, or the business of Parent, before any court or
arbitrator or any governmental body, agency or official which if adversely
determined against Parent, has or could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect on the business, assets, condition (financial or
otherwise), liabilities, results or operations or prospects of Parent, or which
in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter or delay the
transactions contemplated hereby. There are no outstanding judgments against
Parent.
5.7 Issuance
of Parent Common Stock.
The
Parent Common Stock, when issued in accordance with this Agreement, will be
duly
authorized and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
5.8 Fees.
Except
as set forth on Schedule
5.8,
there
is no investment banker, broker, finder, restructuring or other intermediary
that has been retained by or is authorized to act on behalf of the Parent or
Acquisition Corp. or any of their respective Affiliates who might be entitled
to
any fee or commission from either Acquisition Corp., the Surviving Corporation,
Parent or any of its Affiliates upon consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. The amount of any fee owed to any Person listed
on Schedule
5.8
is
listed opposite such Person’s name.
5.9 Charter
Documents; Legality.
Parent
has previously delivered to the Company true and complete copies of its
certificate of incorporation and by-laws (the “Parent Charter Documents”), as in
effect or constituted on the date hereof. Provided that Parent presents the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement to its stockholders for approval
and
such stockholders approve the transaction and any amendments to Parent’s
certificate of incorporation as required by the transactions contemplated hereby
are made, the execution, delivery, and performance by Parent and Acquisition
Corp. of this Agreement and any Additional Agreement to which Parent or
Acquisition Corp. is to be a party has not violated and will not violate, and
the consummation by Parent or Acquisition Corp. of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby will not violate, any of the Parent Charter Documents or
any
Law.
5.10 Capitalization
and Ownership of the Parent.
Schedule
5.10
sets
forth, with respect to the Parent, (i) Parent’s authorized capital, (ii) the
number of Parent’s securities that are outstanding, and (iii) the number of
securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Parent’s
securities. Except as set forth in the Exchange Act Filings, and except for
any
issuance or grant of any right to acquire any securities of Parent totaling
up
to 20,000 stock options in the aggregate to purchase Parent Common Stock between
the date hereof and the Closing Date, there is no Contract that requires or
under any circumstance would require Parent to issue, or grant any right to
acquire, any securities of Parent, or any security or instrument exercisable
or
exchangeable for or convertible into, the capital stock or membership interest
of Parent or to merge, consolidate, dissolve, liquidate, restructure, or
recapitalize Parent.
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5.11 Financial
Statements.
(a) Parent
has filed with the SEC true and correct copies of the audited balance sheets
of
Parent and its subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006, and the related statements
of operations, comprehensive loss and stockholders’ equity and cash flows for
the year then ended, including footnotes thereto, audited by Amper, Politziner
& Xxxxxx, P.C., independent registered public accountants and an interim
balance sheet of Parent as of September 30, 2007, and the related consolidated
statements of operations, comprehensive loss and stockholders’ equity and cash
flows for the year then ended, including footnotes thereto, (the “Parent
Financial Statements”). The Parent Financial Statements (i) were prepared in
accordance with GAAP; (ii) fairly and accurately present the Parent’s financial
condition and the results of its operations as of their respective dates and
for
the periods then ended, in all material respects; (iii) contain and reflect
all
necessary adjustments and accruals for a fair presentation of Parent’s financial
condition as of their dates, in all material respects; and (iv) contain and
reflect adequate provisions for all reasonably anticipated liabilities for
all
material income, property, sales, payroll or other Taxes applicable to Parent
with respect to the periods then ended. Parent has heretofore delivered to
the
Company complete and accurate copies of all “management letters” received by it
from Parent’s accountants and all responses during the last three (3) years by
lawyers engaged by Parent to inquiries from Parent’s accountant or any
predecessor accountants.
(b) Except
as
specifically disclosed or as reflected in the Exchange Act Filings, reflected
or
fully reserved against in the Parent Financial Statements and for liabilities
and obligations of a similar nature and in similar amounts incurred in the
ordinary course of business since the date of the Parent Financial Statements,
there are no liabilities, debts or obligations of any nature (whether accrued,
absolute, contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, unasserted or otherwise)
relating to Parent. All debts and liabilities, fixed or contingent, which should
be included under GAAP on an accrual basis on the Parent Financial Statements
are included therein.
5.12 Other
Information.
Neither
this Agreement nor any of the documents filed by Parent with the SEC, nor any
other documents or other information made available to the Company, the
Principal Shareholders or their Affiliates, attorneys, accountants, agents
or
representatives pursuant hereto or in connection with the Company’s and the
Principal Shareholders’ due diligence review of the business of Parent or the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, to Parent’s knowledge, contains or
will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omits or will omit
to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained
therein not misleading. To the best knowledge of Parent, Parent has provided
the
Company with all material information regarding its business.
5.13 Compliance
with Laws.
Parent
is not in violation of, has not violated, and to the knowledge of Parent, is
not
under investigation with respect to nor has been threatened to be charged with
or given notice of, any violation or alleged violation of, any Law or Order,
nor
is there any basis for any such charge.
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5.14 Money
Laundering Laws.
The
operations of Parent are and have been conducted at all times in compliance
with
Money Laundering Laws and no Action involving Parent with respect to the Money
Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of Parent,
threatened.
5.15 Ownership
of Parent Securities.
Upon
issuance and delivery of the Parent Common Stock to each Company Shareholder
pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration therefor, the
Parent Common Stock will be duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid
and
nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens, other than (i) restrictions arising
from applicable securities laws, and (ii) any Lien created by or through such
Company Shareholder. The issuance and sale of the Parent Common Stock pursuant
hereto will neither be subject to nor give rise to any preemptive rights or
rights of first refusal.
5.16 Acquisition
Corp.
Acquisition Corp. was incorporated in the State of Washington on November 20,
2007. Acquisition Corp. has no liabilities, debts or obligations of any nature
(whether accrued, absolute, contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, unasserted
or otherwise) except those incurred in connection with this Agreement and all
of
the transactions contemplated hereby.
5.17 Reorganization.
Acquisition Corp. was formed for the purposes of engaging in the Merger and
to
date has not engaged in any business other than activities related to the
Merger. To the knowledge of Parent and Acquisition Corp., neither Parent nor
Acquisition Corp. has taken any action that would adversely affect the
qualification of the Merger as a reorganization under Section 368(a) of the
Code.
5.18 Absence
of Certain Changes
(a) Except
as
set forth in Schedule
5.18(a),
since
December 31, 2006, Parent has conducted its business in the ordinary course
of
business consistent with past practices, and with respect to Parent there has
not been:
(i) any
Material Adverse Change or any event, occurrence, development or state of
circumstances or facts which could reasonably be expected to result individually
or in the aggregate in a Material Adverse Effect on Parent’s ability to
consummate the transactions contemplated herein or upon the value to the Company
of the transactions contemplated hereby;
(ii) any
transaction, contract, agreement or other instrument entered into, or commitment
made, by Parent relating to its business or any relinquishment by Parent of
any
Parent Contract or other right, in either case other than transactions and
commitments in the ordinary course of business consistent in all respects,
including kind and amount, with past practices and those contemplated
hereby;
(iii) any
increase of bonus, salary or other compensation outside of the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice, except that the Company and each
Principal Shareholder acknowledges that Parent will provide each full-time
employee in its Woodbury, New York office at the time of the Merger with two
months of severance in the event that such employee is terminated by Parent
other than for cause within one year of the Merger;
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(iv) any
capital expenditure except in the ordinary course of business consistent with
past practice;
(v) any
sale,
lease, license or other disposition of any of its assets except (A) pursuant
to
existing Parent Contracts or commitments disclosed herein and (B) sales of
products or inventory in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
(vi) acceptance
of any returns except in the ordinary course of business, consistent with past
practice;
(vii) any
default under any term or provision of any Parent Contract;
(viii) an
increase in the amount of Indebtedness;
(ix) the
incurrence of Liens on any of its assets;
(x) any
loss
of a license required to conduct its business;
(xi) any
failure to obtain any required bonds in connection with a contract or proposed
contract;
(xii) any
loss
in the ability to enter into contracts with any Authorities with which it
currently engages in business or with which it engaged in business in the last
three (3) years;
(xiii) any
damage, destruction or loss of property related to any of its assets not covered
by insurance;
(xiv) any
delay, acceleration or cancellation of any receivables or indebtedness owed
to
it or write-off or additional reserves made with respect to the
same;
(xv) any
merger or consolidation with or acquisition of any other Person;
(xvi) the
lapse
of any insurance policy protecting its assets;
(xvii) any
change in its accounting principles or methods or write down of the value of
any
inventory or assets;
(xviii) any
change in location where it conducts business;
(xix) any
extension of any loans other than travel or other expense advances to employees
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
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(xx) any
increase or reduction in the prices of products sold except in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice;
(xxi) any
agreement to change any practices or terms, including payment terms, with
respect to customers or suppliers;
(xxii) any
change in hiring practices for employees, consultants or advisors;
(xxiii) any
dividend or distribution to its shareholders; or
(xxiv) any
agreement to do any of the foregoing.
(b) Except
as
set forth on Schedule
5.18(b),
since
December 31, 2006, through and including the Closing Date, the Parent has
neither taken any action nor has had any event occur which would have violated
any covenants of the Parent set forth in Section 8.1
hereof.
ARTICLE
VI
COVENANTS
OF THE COMPANY AND EACH PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDER PENDING CLOSING
The
Company and each Principal Shareholder covenants and agrees that:
6.1 Conduct
of the Business.
From the
date hereof through the Closing Date, the Company shall conduct the Business
only in the ordinary course (including the payment of accounts payable and
the
collection of accounts receivable), consistent with past practices, and shall
not enter into any material transactions without the prior written consent
of
Parent, and use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve intact the
Company’s business relationships with employees, suppliers, customers and other
third parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, from the date
hereof until the Closing Date, without Parent’s prior written consent which
shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Company shall not:
(a) except
in
the ordinary course of business, amend, waive any provision of, terminate prior
to its scheduled expiration date, or otherwise compromise in any way, any
Contract (including contracts described in clause (b) below), or any other
right
or asset;
(b) except
as
contemplated by this Agreement, enter into any contract, agreement, lease,
license or commitment, which (i) is with respect to real property, (ii) except
in the ordinary course of business, extends for a term of one year or more
or
(iii) obligates the payment of more than $25,000 (individually or in the
aggregate);
(c) make
any
capital expenditures in excess of $200,000 (individually or in the
aggregate);
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(d) sell,
lease, license or otherwise dispose of any assets or assets covered by any
Contract except (i) pursuant to existing contracts or commitments disclosed
herein and (ii) sales of inventory in the ordinary course consistent with past
practice;
(e) pay,
declare or promise to pay any dividends or other distributions with respect
to
its capital stock, or pay, declare or promise to pay any other payments to
any
Company Shareholder or any Affiliate of the Company in excess of
$1,000,000;
(f) authorize
any salary increase of more than 10% for any employee making an annual salary
of
greater than $50,000 or in excess of $5,000 in the aggregate on an annual basis
or change the bonus or profit sharing policies of the Company;
(g) except
for Indebtedness listed on Schedule
6.1(g)
obtain
or suffer to exist any Indebtedness in excess of $50,000 in the
aggregate;
(h) suffer
or
incur any Lien on any asset except for Liens as set forth on Schedule
3.15(b);
(i) suffer
any material damage, destruction or loss of property related to any assets
that
is not covered by insurance;
(j) delay,
accelerate or cancel any receivables or Indebtedness or write-off or make
further reserves against the same, except in the ordinary course of
business;
(k) merge
or
consolidate with or acquire any other Person or be acquired by any other Person,
except as explicitly set forth in this Agreement;
(l) suffer
any insurance policy protecting assets to lapse;
(m) make
any
change in its accounting principles or methods or write down the value of any
inventory or assets;
(n) change
the place of business of the Company;
(o) extend
any loans to any Person, other than travel or other expense advances to
employees in the ordinary course of business;
(p) issue,
redeem or repurchase any shares of its capital stock;
(q) effect
or
agree to any changes in shipping practices, terms or rates;
(r) reduce
the prices of products sold from inventory for customers except in the ordinary
course of business;
(s) effect
or
agree to any change in any practices or terms, including payment terms, with
respect to customers or suppliers;
(t) permit
any Permit or bond to lapse;
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(u) engage
in
any activity that would prevent the Company from being able to obtain bonds
in
connection with the Business;
(v) make
or
rescind any election related to Taxes, file any amended income Tax Return or
make any changes in its methods of Tax accounting; or
(w) agree
to
do any of the foregoing.
The
Company will not (i) take or agree to take any action that might make any
representation or warranty of the Company hereunder inaccurate in any respect
at, or as of any time prior to, the Closing Date or (ii) omit to take, or agree
to omit to take, any action necessary to prevent any such representation or
warranty from being inaccurate in any respect at any such time.
6.2 Access
to Information.
(a) From
the
date hereof until and including the Closing Date, the Company shall (a) provide
Parent, its counsel and other representatives full access to the offices,
properties, Books and Records of the Company, (b) furnish to Parent, its counsel
and other representatives such information relating to the Business as such
Persons may request and (c) cause the employees, counsel, accountants and
representatives of the Company to cooperate with Parent in its investigation
of
the Business; provided
that no
investigation pursuant to this Section 6.2
(or any
investigation prior to the date hereof) shall affect any representation or
warranty given by the Company or the Principal Shareholders.
6.3 Notices
of Certain Events.
The
Company shall promptly notify Parent of:
(a) Any
notice or other communication from any Person alleging or raising the
possibility that the consent of such Person is or may be required in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or that the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement might give rise to any claims or causes of action
or other rights by or on behalf of such Person or result in the loss of any
rights or privileges of the Company to any such Person;
(b) any
notice or other communication from any Authority in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(c) any
actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings commenced or threatened
against, relating to or involving or otherwise affecting the Company, or the
Business or that relate to the consummation of the transactions contemplated
by
this Agreement; and
(d) the
occurrence of any fact or circumstance which might make any representation
made
hereunder by the Company and/or any Principal Shareholder false in any respect
or result in the omission or the failure to state a material fact.
6.4 SEC
Filings.
(a) The
Company and the Principal Shareholders acknowledge that:
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(i) Parent’s
stockholders must approve an amendment to its certificate of incorporation
in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement prior to the
transactions contemplated hereby being consummated and that, in connection
with
such approval, Parent must call a special meeting of its stockholders requiring
Parent to prepare and file with the SEC a proxy statement and proxy
card;
(ii) Parent
will be required to file with the SEC quarterly and annual reports that may
be
required to contain information about the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement; and
(iii) Parent
will be required to file current reports on Form 8-K with the SEC to announce
the transactions contemplated hereby and other significant events that may
occur
in connection with such transactions.
(b) In
connection with any filing Parent makes with the SEC that requires information
about the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be included, the
Company and the Principal Shareholders will, in connection with the disclosure
included in any such filing or the responses provided to the SEC in connection
with the SEC’s comments to a filing, use their best efforts to (i) cooperate
with Parent, (ii) respond to questions about the Company or the Principal
Shareholders required in any filing or requested by the SEC, and (iii) provide
any information requested by Parent or Parent’s representatives required by Law
to be included in any filing with the SEC.
6.5 Investment
Representations.
Each
holder of Company Common Stock, as applicable, will make the representations
in
either Section 6.5(a) or 4.5(b):
(a) Accredited
Investor
(i) Such
Person is an “accredited investor” as such term is defined in Rule 501 of
Regulation D (“Reg. D”) promulgated under the Act. Such Person acknowledges that
Parent has the right to require evidence of such Person’s status as an
accredited investor, if necessary.
(ii) Such
Person acknowledges that such Person has prior investment experience, including
investments in non-listed and non-registered securities, or has employed the
services of an investment advisory, attorney or accountant to evaluate the
merits and risks of such an investment on its behalf, and such Person represents
that such Person understands the highly speculative nature of an investment
in
Parent securities which may result in the loss of the total amount of such
investment.
(iii) Such
Person has adequate means of providing for such Person’s current needs and
possible personal contingencies, and each Person has no need, and anticipates
no
need in the foreseeable future, for liquidity in such Person’s investment in the
Parent Common Stock. Such Person is able to bear the economic risks of this
investment and, consequently, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
each Person is able to hold the Parent securities for an indefinite period
of
time and has a sufficient net worth to sustain a loss of the entire investment
in the event such loss should occur.
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(iv) Such
Person has not made an overall commitment to investments which are not readily
marketable that are disproportionate to such Person’s net worth, and such
Person’s investment in the Parent securities will not cause such overall
commitment to become excessive.
(v) Such
Person acknowledges that this offering of Parent securities has not been
reviewed by the SEC because this is intended to be a non-public offering
pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act and Rule 506 under Regulation D of the
Act.
Each Person acknowledges that it is not acquiring the Parent securities as
a
result of any general solicitation or advertising. The Parent securities will
be
received by each Person for such Person’s own account, for investment and not
for distribution or resale to others.
(vi) Except
as
otherwise set forth in Article V, Parent has not and is not making any
representations or warranties to such Persons or providing any advice or
information to such Persons.
(vii) Such
Person understands and consents to the placement of a legend on any certificate
or other document evidencing Parent securities stating that such Parent
securities has not been registered under the Act and setting forth or referring
to the restrictions on transferability and sale thereof. Each certificate
evidencing the shares shall bear the legends set forth below, or legends
substantially equivalent thereto, together with any other legends that may
be
required by federal or state securities laws at the time of the issuance of
the
Parent securities:
THE
______________ REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED
STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED,
SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED UNLESS AND UNTIL (I)
REGISTERED UNDER THE ACT OR (II) THE ISSUER OF THE __________ (THE “ISSUER”) HAS
RECEIVED AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER
THAT SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR HYPOTHECATION IS IN COMPLIANCE
WITH
THE ACT.
(b) Non-accredited
Investor
(i) Such
Person acknowledges that such Person has prior investment experience, including
investments in non-listed and non-registered securities, or has employed the
services of an investment advisor, attorney or accountant to evaluate the merits
and risks of such an investment on its behalf, and such Person represents that
such Person understands the highly speculative nature of an investment in Parent
securities which may result in the loss of the total amount of such
investment.
(ii) Such
Person has adequate means of providing for such Person’s current needs and
possible personal contingencies, and each Person has no need, and anticipates
no
need in the foreseeable future, for liquidity in such Person’s investment in the
Parent securities. Such Person is able to bear the economic risks of this
investment and, consequently, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
each Person is able to hold the Parent securities for an indefinite period
of
time and has a sufficient net worth to sustain a loss of the entire investment
in the event such loss should occur.
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(iii) Such
Person has not made an overall commitment to investments which are not readily
marketable that are disproportionate to such Person’s net worth, and such
Person’s investment in the Parent securities will not cause such overall
commitment to become excessive.
(iv) Parent
has made available to such Person a copy of its (i) Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2006, (ii) Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for
the quarters ended March 31, 2007, June 30, 2007 and September 30, 2007, and
(iii) the proxy statement distributed to the Parent’s stockholders in connection
with the Special Meeting of Company Stockholders to be held in connection with
the approval of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(v) Such
Person had the opportunity to (a) ask questions and receive answers from the
management of the Parent concerning the Parent and an investment in the Parent’s
securities, and (b) obtain additional information as necessary to verify the
accuracy of the information furnished to such Person by the Parent.
(vi) Except
as
otherwise set forth in Article V, Parent has not and is not making any
representations or warranties to such Persons or providing any advice or
information to such Persons.
(vii) Such
Person acknowledges that this offering of Parent securities has not been
reviewed by the SEC because this is intended to be a non-public offering
pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act and Rule 506 under Regulation D of the
Act.
Each Person acknowledges that it is not acquiring the Parent securities as
a
result of any general solicitation or advertising. The Parent securities will
be
received by each Person for such Person’s own account, for investment and not
for distribution or resale to others.
(viii) Such
Person understands and consents to the placement of a legend on any certificate
or other document evidencing Parent securities stating that such Parent
securities have not been registered under the Act and setting forth or referring
to the restrictions on transferability and sale thereof. Each certificate
evidencing the shares shall bear the legends set forth below, or legends
substantially equivalent thereto, together with any other legends that may
be
required by federal or state securities laws at the time of the issuance of
the
Parent securities:
THE
__________ REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED OR HYPOTHECATED UNLESS AND UNTIL (I) REGISTERED
UNDER THE ACT OR (II) THE ISSUER OF THE __________ (THE “ISSUER”) HAS RECEIVED
AN OPINION OF COUNSEL IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE ISSUER THAT
SUCH
OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR HYPOTHECATION IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE
ACT.
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ARTICLE
VII
COVENANTS
OF THE COMPANY AND THE PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS
The
Company and each of the Principal Shareholders, severally but not jointly,
covenant and agree that:
7.1 Confidentiality.
Except
as otherwise required by Law, no Principal Shareholder shall, without the prior
written consent of Parent, or a person authorized thereby, disclose to any
other
Person or use (whether for the account of any Principal Shareholder or any
other
party) any confidential information or proprietary work product of Parent,
Acquisition Corp., the Company or any client of Parent, Acquisition Corp. or
the
Company. In the event the Company or any Principal Shareholder believes that
it
is required to disclose any such confidential information pursuant to applicable
Laws, the Company or such Principal Shareholder shall give timely written notice
to Parent so that Parent may have an opportunity to obtain a protective order
or
other appropriate relief. The Company and all Principal Shareholders shall
cooperate fully in any such action by Parent.
7.2 Non-Solicitation.
(a) The
Principal Shareholders and their Affiliates may not, during the period beginning
on the date of this Agreement and ending on the Closing Date (the “Restriction
Period”), directly or indirectly through any other individual, person or entity,
employ, solicit or induce any individual who is, or was at any time during
the
period beginning on or after December 31, 2006 and through and after, the
Closing Date, an employee or consultant of the Parent to terminate or refrain
from renewing or extending his or her employment by or consulting relationship
with the Parent or to become employed by or enter into a consulting relationship
with any of the Principal Shareholders or any of their Affiliates or any other
individual, person or entity.
(b) The
Principal Shareholders and their Affiliates may not, during the Restriction
Period, directly or indirectly through any other individual, person or entity,
solicit, persuade or induce any Customer or supplier to terminate, reduce or
refrain from renewing or extending his, her or its contractual or other
relationship with Parent or to become a customer or supplier of or enter into
any contractual or other relationship with any of the Principal Shareholders
or
any of their Affiliates or any other individual, person or entity, directly
or
indirectly, in regard to the sale of products or services similar or identical
to those manufactured, marketed, purchased or sold by Parent as of the date
of
the Agreement. For purposes hereof, “Customer” means any individual, person or
entity which is or was at any point in time during the two (2) year period
prior
to the Closing Date a customer of Parent.
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7.3 Non-Competition.
During
the Restriction Period, neither the Principal Shareholders nor any of their
Affiliates shall (except on behalf of the Company or any of its Affiliates,
if
any, with respect to any Principal Shareholder who continues to be employed
by
the Company) directly or indirectly, in his, her and its own capacity or through
one or more Affiliates, whether as owner, consultant, executive, partner,
member, manager, officer, director, venturer, or agent, or through stock
ownership, investment of capital, lending of money or property, or rendering
of
services, or otherwise, engage in the Business; provided, that each Principal
Shareholder may own not more than 3% of the outstanding shares of a company
engaged in such Business if such shares are listed on a national securities
exchange.
7.4 Reporting
and Compliance With Law.
From
the date hereof through the Closing Date, the Company shall duly and timely
file
all Tax Returns required to be filed with Authorities, pay or accrue on its
Books and Records and financial statements any and all Taxes required by any
Authority (except those Taxes contested in good faith), and duly observe and
conform, in all material respects, to all applicable Laws and
Orders.
7.5 Injunctive
Relief.
If one
or more of the Principal Shareholders breaches, or threatens to commit a breach
of, any of the covenants set forth in this ARTICLE
VII
or
Section 15.4
(the
“Restrictive Covenants”), Parent shall have the following rights and remedies,
which shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other rights and remedies
available to Parent by agreement (including those set forth in Section
12.1
hereof),
under law or in equity:
(a) The
right
and remedy to have the Restrictive Covenants specifically enforced by any court
having equity jurisdiction, all without the need to post a bond or any other
security or to prove any amount of actual damage or that money damages would
not
provide an adequate remedy, it being acknowledged and agreed that any such
breach or threatened breach will cause irreparable injury to Parent and that
monetary damages will not provide adequate remedy to Parent; and
(b) The
right
and remedy to require such breaching Principal Shareholder(s): (i) to account
for and pay over to Parent all compensation, profits, monies, accruals,
increments or other benefits derived or received by the Company or any
associated party as the result of any such breach; and (ii) to indemnify Parent
against any other losses, damages (including special and consequential damages),
costs and expenses, including actual attorneys fees and court costs, which
may
be incurred by it and which result from or arise out of any such breach or
threatened breach.
7.6 Audited
Financial Statements.
The
Company shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to provide audited
2006 Financial Statements of the Company to Parent within two weeks of the
date
of this agreement. For each day that the Company is unable to deliver such
financial statements after such two-week period, the parties shall adjust the
Outside Closing Date (as such term is later defined) and any other dates set
forth in Section 14.1(b) by the same number of days.
ARTICLE
VIII
COVENANTS
OF PARENT PENDING CLOSING
Parent
covenants and agrees that:
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8.1 Conduct
of the Business.
From the
date hereof through the Closing Date, Parent shall conduct its business only
in
the ordinary course (including the payment of accounts payable and the
collection of accounts receivable), consistent with past practices, and shall
not enter into any material transactions without the prior written consent
of
Principal Shareholders, and use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve
intact the Parent’s business relationships with employees, suppliers, customers
and other third parties. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
from
the date hereof until the Closing Date, without the Principal Shareholders
prior
written consent which shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Company shall
not:
(a) except
in
the ordinary course of business, amend, waive any provision of, terminate prior
to its scheduled expiration date, or otherwise compromise in any way, any Parent
Contract (including contracts described in clause (b) below), or any other
right
or asset;
(b) except
as
contemplated by this Agreement, enter into any contract, agreement, lease,
license or commitment, which (i) is with respect to real property, (ii) except
in the ordinary course of business, extends for a term of one year or more
or
(iii) obligates the payment of more than $200,000 (individually or in the
aggregate);
(c) make
any
capital expenditures in excess of $200,000 (individually or in the
aggregate);
(d) sell,
lease, license or otherwise dispose of any assets or assets covered by any
Parent Contract except (i) pursuant to existing contracts or commitments
disclosed herein and (ii) sales of inventory in the ordinary course consistent
with past practice;
(e) pay,
declare or promise to pay any dividends or other distributions with respect
to
its capital stock, or pay, declare or promise to pay any other payments to
any
shareholder or any Affiliate of the Parent in excess of $1,000,000;
(f) authorize
any salary increase of more than 10% for any employee making an annual salary
of
greater than $50,000 or in excess of $5,000 in the aggregate on an annual basis
or change the bonus or profit sharing policies of the Parent;
(g) obtain
or
suffer to exist any Indebtedness in excess of $50,000 in the
aggregate;
(h) suffer
or
incur any Lien on any asset;
(i) suffer
any material damage, destruction or loss of property related to any assets
that
is not covered by insurance;
(j) delay,
accelerate or cancel any receivables or Indebtedness or write-off or make
further reserves against the same, except in the ordinary course of
business;
(k) merge
or
consolidate with or acquire any other Person or be acquired by any other Person,
except as explicitly set forth in this Agreement;
(l) suffer
any insurance policy protecting assets to lapse;
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(m) make
any
change in its accounting principles or methods or write down the value of any
inventory or assets;
(n) change
the place of business of the Parent;
(o) extend
any loans to any Person, other than travel or other expense advances to
employees in the ordinary course of business;
(p) issue,
redeem or repurchase any shares of its capital stock;
(q) effect
or
agree to any changes in shipping practices, terms or rates;
(r) reduce
the prices of products sold from inventory for customers except in the ordinary
course of business;
(s) effect
or
agree to any change in any practices or terms, including payment terms, with
respect to customers or suppliers;
(t) permit
any Permit or bond to lapse;
(u) engage
in
any activity that would prevent the Parent from being able to obtain bonds
in
connection with the business;
(v) make
or
rescind any election related to Taxes, file any amended income Tax Return or
make any changes in its methods of Tax accounting; or
(w) agree
to
do any of the foregoing.
The
Parent will not (i) take or agree to take any action that might make any
representation or warranty of the Parent hereunder inaccurate in any respect
at,
or as of any time prior to, the Closing Date or (ii) omit to take, or agree
to
omit to take, any action necessary to prevent any such representation or
warranty from being inaccurate in any respect at any such time.
8.2 Access
to Information.
(a) From
the
date hereof until and including the Closing Date, the Parent shall (a) provide
the Company and the Principal Shareholders and their respective counsel and
other representatives full access to the offices, properties, Books and Records
of the Parent, (b) furnish to Company and the Principal Shareholders and their
respective counsel and other representatives such information relating to the
business of the Parent as such Persons may request and (c) cause the employees,
counsel, accountants and representatives of the Parent to cooperate with the
Company and the Principal Shareholders in their investigation of the Parent’s
business; provided
that no
investigation pursuant to this Section 8.2 (or any investigation prior to
the date hereof) shall affect any representation or warranty given by the
Parent.
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ARTICLE
IX
COVENANTS
OF ALL PARTIES HERETO
Each
party hereto, as applicable, covenants and agrees that:
9.1 Best
Efforts; Further Assurances.
Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each party shall use its
commercially reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions
and to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary or desirable under
applicable Laws, and in the case of the Company and each Principal Shareholder
as reasonably requested by Parent, to consummate and implement expeditiously
the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The parties hereto shall execute
and deliver such other documents, certificates, agreements and other writings
and take such other actions as may be necessary or desirable in order to
consummate or implement expeditiously the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
9.2 Confidentiality
of Transaction.
Any
information (except as contemplated by Section 6.4,
and
except for publicly available or freely usable material obtained from another
source) in respect of any party or its Affiliates will be kept in strict
confidence by all other parties to this Agreement and their agents. Except
as
required by Law, neither the Company, any Company Shareholder, nor any of their
respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees or agents will disclose
the terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder at any time, from the
date
hereof until the Closing Date, except as necessary to their attorneys,
accountants and professional advisors, in which instance such persons and any
employees or agents of the Company shall be advised of the confidential nature
of the terms of the transaction and shall themselves be required by the Company
to keep such information confidential. Except as required by Law, each party
shall retain all information obtained from all other parties and their
attorneys, accountants and professional advisors on a confidential basis except
as necessary to their attorneys, accountants and professional advisors, in
which
instance such persons and any employees or agents of such party shall be advised
of the confidential nature of the terms of the transaction and shall themselves
be required by such party to keep such information confidential. In the event
that the transactions contemplated hereby are not completed, the parties shall
return to the relevant party any information received or shall certify, in
writing, that all such materials or copies of such materials have been
destroyed.
9.3 Best
Efforts to Obtain Consents.
The
Company hereby agrees to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to obtain
each respective Company Consent as promptly as practicable
hereafter.
9.4 No
Additional Derivative Securities. Each
of
the Company and Parent agrees not to issue additional derivative securities
to
purchase any of their respective securities after the date of this Agreement
until the Closing Date, except that each company
may issue derivative securities to purchase up to 20,000 shares of its common
stock.
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9.5 Tax
Matters.
(a) The
Parent shall prepare or cause to be prepared and file or cause to be filed
on a
timely basis all Tax Returns with respect to the Company for taxable periods
ending on or prior to the date that includes the Effective Time. Such Tax
Returns shall be true, correct and complete, shall be prepared on a basis
consistent with similar Tax Returns for the immediately preceding periods and
shall not make, amend, revoke or terminate any election or change any accounting
practice or procedure.
Parent
shall give a copy of each such Tax Return to the Principal Shareholders with
sufficient time for their review and comment prior to filing. The Parent shall
pay the Taxes shown due and owing on such Tax Returns.
(b) To
the
extent permitted by applicable law, the parties shall elect to treat the period
that includes the Effective Time with respect to any Tax as ending on the date
that includes the Effective Time and shall take such steps as may be necessary
therefor. For purposes of this Agreement, any Taxes for a period which includes
but does not end on the date that includes the Effective Time shall be allocated
between the period through and including the date that includes the Effective
Time (the “Pre-Closing Period”) and the balance of the period based on an
interim closing of the books as of the close of the date that includes the
Effective Time, provided,
however,
that
any real property or personal property taxes and any annual exemption amounts
shall be allocated based on the relative number of days in the Pre-Closing
Period and the balance of the period.
(c) On
and
after the Effective Time, the Company, Parent and the Principal Shareholders
shall, for all applicable tax purposes, report the Merger in a manner consistent
with the Merger constituting a reorganization under Section 368(a) of the Code
and the Company and Parent shall refrain from taking any action that would
adversely affect the qualification of the Merger as a reorganization under
Section 368(a) of the Code.
(d) During
the three (3) year period following the Effective Time, the Company shall
continue its business or use a substantial portion of its business assets in
a
business.
9.6 Registration.
(a) Within
one hundred twenty (120) days of the Closing Date, Parent shall prepare and
file
with the SEC, at the sole expense of Parent, a registration statement so as
to
permit a the re-sale of the Parent Common Stock issued to the Company
Shareholders pursuant to this Agreement and any securities issued in exchange
for or in replacement of such shares of Parent Common Stock, and any securities
issued by way of any stock split, reverse stock split, recapitalization, or
other similar transaction affecting such Parent Common Stock (collectively,
the
“Registrable Securities”) and use its commercially
reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective
and
to keep such registration effective until,
subject to the terms and provisions of this Agreement, the earlier of the date
when (i) all the Registrable Securities covered by the registration
statement have been sold pursuant thereto or otherwise or (ii) the
Registrable Securities may be publicly sold without volume restrictions under
Rule 144(k) (or any similar provisions then in force) of the Act, as determined
by the counsel to the Parent (collectively, the “Effectiveness Period”).
The
registration statement shall be on any form the Parent is eligible to use to
register for resale of the Registrable Securities. The Parent shall thereafter
use its reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement filed
pursuant to this Section 9.6
to
become effective as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.
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(b) Pursuant
to the Lock-Up Agreements between Parent and each Principal Shareholder, officer
and director (as of the Closing Date) of the Company, set forth on Schedule
II,
such
schedule as mutually agreed by the parties prior to the Effective
Time, each such individual may not offer, sell, pledge or grant any option
to purchase any shares of Parent Common Stock that he, she or it receives
pursuant to this Agreement for a period commencing on the Closing Date and
ending 180 days after such date (the “First Period”). For a period of six (6)
months after the expiration of the First Period, the maximum number of shares
of
Parent Common Stock any Principal Shareholder, officer or director may
offer,
sell, pledge or
grant
any option to purchase will be equal to three percent (3%) of his, her or its
respective shareholdings for any given consecutive three (3)-month
period.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section 9.6, Principal Shareholders
may settle any options, calls or similar obligations with respect to the
Principal Shareholder’s Company Common Stock or Parent Common Stock that exist
as of the date hereof.
(c) Parent
shall cause the Parent Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Parent Options
to be issued pursuant to Section 2.5(a)(i) and (b) to be registered, or to
be
issued pursuant to a then effective registration statement on Form S-8, no
later
than thirty (30) calendar days after the Effective Time and shall use its best
efforts to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement or
registration statements for so long as such replacement Parent Options remain
outstanding.
9.7 Procedures
on Registration.
If and
whenever Parent is required by the provisions hereof to effect the registration
of any Registrable Securities under the Act, Parent will:
(a) respond
as promptly as commercially reasonable to any comments received from the SEC,
and use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such registration statement
to become effective, and promptly provide to the Company Shareholders copies
of
all filings and SEC letters of comment relating thereto provided
that
such letters do not contain material non-public information, in which case
such
letters may be redacted by Parent;
(b) furnish
to each holder such number of copies of the registration statement and the
prospectus included therein as such holder reasonably may request to
facilitate
the public sale or disposition of the Registrable Securities covered by such
registration statement;
(c) use
its
commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify each Company
Shareholder’s Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement
under the securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions within the U.S. as
such Company Shareholder may reasonably request, provided, however, that Parent
shall not for any such purpose be required to qualify generally to transact
business as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so
qualified or to consent to general service of process in any such
jurisdiction;
(d) list
the
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement with any
securities exchange on which the Parent Common Stock is then
listed;
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(e) immediately
notify the Company Shareholders at any time when a prospectus relating thereto
is required to be delivered under the Act of the happening of any event of
which
Parent has knowledge, as a result of which the prospectus contained in such
registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of
a
material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein
or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the
circumstances then existing;
and
(f) notify
the Company Shareholders of the effectiveness of each registration statement
filed.
9.8 Severance.
After
the
Merger, Parent will provide each full-time employee in its Woodbury, New York
office at the time of the Merger with two months of severance in the event
that
such employee is terminated by Parent other than for cause within one year
of
the Merger.
ARTICLE
X
CONDITIONS
TO CLOSING
10.1 Conditions
to the Obligations of Parent, Acquisition Corp., the Principal Shareholders
and
the Company.
The
obligations of Parent, Acquisition Corp., the Principal Shareholders and the
Company to consummate the Closing are subject to the satisfaction of all of
the
following conditions:
(a) No
provision of any applicable Law or Order shall prohibit or impose any condition
on the consummation of the Closing or limit in any material way Parent’s right
to control or operate Acquisition Corp., the Surviving Corporation or any
material portion of the Business.
(b) There
shall not be pending or threatened any proceeding by a third-party to enjoin
or
otherwise restrict the consummation of the Closing.
(c) Parent’s
stockholders shall have approved the transaction and any amendments to Parent’s
Certificate of incorporation as required by the transactions contemplated hereby
shall have been duly made.
(d) The
Company Shareholders shall have approved the transaction.
(e) The
Voting Agreements shall be executed and delivered as of the
Closing.
10.2 Conditions
to Obligations of Parent and Acquisition Corp.
In
addition to the terms and provisions of Section 2.7,
the
obligation of Parent and Acquisition Corp. to consummate the Closing is subject
to the satisfaction, or the waiver at Parent’s and Acquisition Corp.’s sole and
absolute discretion, of all of the following further conditions:
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(a)
(i) Each
of the Company and the Principal Shareholders shall have duly performed in
all
material respects all of their respective obligations hereunder required to
be
performed by them at or prior to the Closing Date, (ii) the representations
and
warranties of the Company and the Principal Shareholders contained in this
Agreement, the Additional Agreements and in any certificate or other writing
delivered by the Company or any Principal Shareholder pursuant hereto,
disregarding all qualifications and exceptions contained therein relating to
materiality or Material Adverse Effect, shall be true and correct at and as
of
the Closing Date, as if made at and as of such date with only such exceptions
as
could not in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, (iii) there shall have been no event, change or occurrence which
individually or together with any other event, change or occurrence, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Change or a Material Adverse
Effect, regardless of whether it involved a known risk, and (iv) Parent and
Acquisition Corp. shall have received a certificate signed by the President
and
Secretary of the Company to the effect set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii)
of this Section 10.2(a).
(b) Parent
shall have received (i) a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of
the
Company, (ii) copies of the By-Laws of the Company as effective on the date
hereof, (iii) copies of resolutions duly adopted by (a) the board of directors
of the Company and (b) the vote or consent of the Company Shareholders
authorizing this Agreement and the Additional Agreements (if necessary) and
the
transaction contemplated hereby and thereby, (iv) a certificate of the Secretary
of the Company certifying each of the foregoing and as to signatures of the
officer(s) authorized to execute this Agreement and any certificate or document
to be delivered pursuant hereto, and (v) a recent certificate of existence
of
the Company from the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Washington
and each other jurisdiction in which the Company is qualified to do
business.
(c) Parent
shall have received a copy of all material Company Consents (including any
required consents of the landlords under the Leases), in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to Parent, and no such material Company Consent shall
have been revoked.
(d) The
Company shall have delivered to Parent documents satisfactory to Parent to
evidence the release of all Liens on any portion of the assets of the Company
and the filing of appropriate UCC-3 Termination Statements.
(e) The
Parent shall have received updated Schedules to this Agreement as of a date
within three (3) days of the Closing Date.
(f) Parent
shall have received an opinion of counsel to the Company in a form mutually
agreed to by counsel to the Company and counsel to Parent.
(g) Certificates
representing all of the issued and outstanding shares of Company Common Stock
shall be presented at the Closing for cancellation, together with the original
stock ledgers and minute books of the Company.
(h) The
Additional Agreements shall be in full force and effect or become effective
on
the Closing Date.
(i) From
and
including the date hereof until the Closing Date, there has been no issuance
or
grant of any right to acquire any securities of the Company, except for any
issuance or grant of any right to acquire any securities of the Company totaling
up to 20,000 Options in the aggregate.
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10.3 Conditions
to Obligations of the Company and the Principal
Shareholders.
In
addition to the terms and provisions of Section 2.7,
the
obligation of the Company and the Principal Shareholders to consummate the
Closing is subject to the satisfaction, or the waiver at the Company’s and the
Principal Shareholder’s discretion, of all of the following further
conditions:
(a) Parent
and Acquisition Corp. shall have duly performed in all material respects all
of
their respective obligations hereunder required to be performed by them at
or
prior to the Closing Date, (ii) the representations and warranties of Parent
contained in this Agreement, the Additional Agreements and in any certificate
or
other writing delivered by Parent or Acquisition Corp. pursuant hereto,
disregarding all qualifications and expectations contained therein relating
to
materiality, shall be true and correct in all material respects at and as of
the
Closing Date, as if made at and as of such date, (iii) there shall have been
no
event, change or occurrence which individually or together with any other event,
change or occurrence, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, regardless of whether it involved a known risk, on the business, assets,
condition (financial or otherwise), liabilities, result of operations of
prospects of Parent, and (iv) each Principal Shareholder and the Company shall
have received a certificate signed by an authorized officer of Parent and
Acquisition Corp. to the foregoing effect.
(b) The
Company and the Principal Shareholders shall have received (i) a copy of the
certificate of incorporation of each of Parent and Acquisition Corp., (ii)
copies of the bylaws of each of Parent and Acquisition Corp. as effective on
the
date hereof, (iii) copies of resolutions duly adopted by (a) the board of
directors of each of Parent and Acquisition Corp. and (b) the vote or consent
of
Parent’s and Acquisition Corp.’s stockholders authorizing this Agreement and the
Additional Agreements (if necessary) and the transaction contemplated hereby
and
thereby, (iv) a certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of Parent
and Acquisition Corp. certifying each of the foregoing and as to signatures
of
the officer(s) authorized to execute this Agreement and any certificate or
document to be delivered pursuant hereto, and (v) a recent good standing
certificate regarding Parent and Acquisition Corp. from the office of the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and the Secretary of State of the
State of Washington (as applicable) and each other jurisdiction in which each
of
Parent and Acquisition Corp. is qualified to do business.
(c) Parent
shall have delivered to the person to be named Chief Executive Officer, a duly
executed copy of his employment agreement (the “Employment
Agreement”).
(d) From
and
including the date hereof until the Closing Date, there has been no issuance
or
grant of any right to acquire any securities of Parent, except for any issuance
or grant of any right to acquire any securities of Parent totaling up to 20,000
stock options in the aggregate to purchase Parent Common Stock.
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ARTICLE
XI
RELIANCE
ON REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
11.1 Reliance
on Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Principal
Shareholders.
Notwithstanding any right of Parent and Acquisition Corp. to fully investigate
the affairs of the Company and notwithstanding any knowledge of facts determined
or determinable by Parent and Acquisition Corp. pursuant to such investigation
or right of investigation, Parent and Acquisition Corp. shall have the right
to
rely fully upon the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of
the
Company and the Principal Shareholders contained in this Agreement.
11.2 Reliance
on Representations and Warranties of Parent and Acquisition
Corp.
Notwithstanding any right of the Company or Principal Shareholders to
investigate the affairs of Parent and Acquisition Corp. and notwithstanding
any
knowledge of facts determined or determinable by the Company or Principal
Shareholders pursuant to such investigation or right of investigation, the
Company and Principal Shareholders shall have the right to rely fully upon
the
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Parent contained in
this Agreement.
ARTICLE
XII
INDEMNIFICATION
12.1 Indemnification
of Parent and Acquisition Corp.
Prior to
the Effective Time, the Company and each Principal Shareholder, and subsequent
to the Effective Time each Principal Shareholder, hereby severally agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless Parent, Acquisition Corp., Surviving Corporation
and
their Affiliates and each of their respective directors, officers, employees,
shareholders, attorneys and agents and permitted assignees (collectively, the
“Parent Indemnitees,” provided,
however,
the
term “Parent Indemnitees” shall not include any of the Principal Shareholders
regardless of their capacity), against and in respect of any and all loss,
payments, demand, penalty, liability, judgment, damage, diminution in value,
claim or out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including actual costs of
investigation and attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses) (all of the
foregoing collectively, “Losses”) incurred or sustained by any Parent Indemnitee
as a result of (i) any breach, inaccuracy or nonfulfillment or the alleged
breach, inaccuracy or nonfulfillment of any of the representations, warranties
and covenants of the Company or any of the Principal Shareholders contained
herein or in the Additional Agreements or any certificate or other writing
delivered pursuant hereto or of the Principal Shareholders, (ii) the exercise
or
attempted exercise of one or more Principal Shareholders of appraisal or other
similar rights in accordance with the Washington Business Corporation Act,
(iii)
any
Taxes attributable to any Pre-Closing Period (as determined pursuant to Section
9.5(b)),
including without limitation, any Taxes with respect to periods covered by
the
Tax Returns described in Section 9.5(a),
or (iv)
the failure to pay any claims by any third parties (including breach of contract
claims, violations of warranties, trademark infringement, privacy violations,
torts or consumer complaints) with respect to the business of the Company for
any period prior to the Closing Date; provided
that
Losses in connection with this Section 12.1(iii)
and
Section 12.1(iv)
shall be deemed to include any amounts payable after the Closing pursuant to
or
otherwise in connection with any of the matters specified.
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12.2 Indemnification
of Principal Shareholders.
Parent
and Acquisition Corp. hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Principal
Shareholders and their respective Affiliates, and each of their respective
directors, officers, employees, shareholders, attorneys, agents and permitted
assignees (the “Company Indemnitees”) against and in respect of any Losses
incurred or sustained by the Company Indemnitees as a result of (i) any breach,
inaccuracy or nonfulfillment or the alleged breach, inaccuracy or nonfulfillment
of any of the representations, warranties and covenants of Parent or Acquisition
Corp. contained herein or any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant
hereto, and (ii) actions or inactions of the Surviving Corporation with regard
to the Business occurring after the Closing.
12.3 Procedure.
The
following shall apply with respect to all claims by either a Parent Indemnitee
or a Company Indemnitee (each, an “Indemnified Party”) for
indemnification:
(a) An
Indemnified Party shall give Parent and Acquisition Corp., or the Company and/or
the Principal Shareholders, as applicable (either, the “Indemnifying Parties”),
prompt notice (an “Indemnification Notice”) of any third-party claim,
investigation, action, suit, hearing or proceeding with respect to which such
Indemnified Party seeks indemnification pursuant to Section 12.1
or
12.2
(a
“Third Party Claim”), which shall describe in reasonable detail the loss,
liability or damage that has been or may be suffered by the Indemnified Party.
The failure to give the Indemnification Notice shall not impair any of the
rights or benefits of such Indemnified Party under Section 12.1
or
12.2,
except
to the extent such failure materially and adversely affects the ability of
the
Indemnifying Parties to defend such claim or to the limited extent the failure
to give such notice increases the amount of such liability.
(b) In
the
case of any Third Party Claims as to which indemnification is sought by any
Indemnified Party, such Indemnified Party shall be entitled, at the sole expense
and liability of the Indemnifying Parties, to exercise full control of the
defense, compromise or settlement of any Third Party Claim unless the
Indemnifying Parties, within a reasonable time after the giving of an
Indemnification Notice by the Indemnified Party (but in any event within 10
days
thereafter), shall (i) deliver a written confirmation to such Indemnified Party
that the indemnification provisions of Section 12.1
or
12.2
are
applicable to such claim, investigation, action, suit, hearing or proceeding
and
the Indemnifying Parties will indemnify such Indemnified Party in respect of
such claim, investigation, action or proceeding pursuant to the terms of
Section 12.1
or
12.2
and,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary, shall do so without asserting any
challenge, defense, limitation on the Indemnifying Parties, liability for
Losses, counterclaim or offset, (ii) notify such Indemnified Party in writing
that the Indemnifying Parties are assuming the defense thereof, and (iii) retain
legal counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party to conduct
the
defense of such Third Party Claim.
(c) If
the
Indemnifying Parties assume the defense of any such Third Party Claim, then
the
Indemnified Party shall cooperate with the Indemnifying Parties in any manner
reasonably requested in connection with the defense, compromise or settlement
thereof. If the Indemnifying Parties so assume the defense of any such Third
Party Claim, the Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate
counsel and to participate in (but not control) the defense, compromise, or
settlement thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel employed by the
Indemnified Party shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Party unless
(i)
the Indemnifying Parties have agreed to pay such fees and expenses, or (ii)
the
named parties to any such Third Party Claim (including any impleaded parties)
include an Indemnified Party and an Indemnifying Party and such Indemnified
Party shall have been advised by counsel that there may be a conflict of
interest between such Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Parties in the
conduct of the defense thereof, and in any such case, the reasonable fees and
expenses of such separate counsel shall be borne by the Indemnifying
Parties.
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(d) If
the
Indemnifying Parties elect to direct the defense of any Third Party Claim,
the
Indemnified Party shall not pay, or permit to be paid, any part of any claim
or
demand arising from such asserted liability unless the Indemnifying Parties
withdraw from or fail to vigorously prosecute the defense of such asserted
liability, or unless a judgment is entered against the Indemnified Party for
such liability. If the Indemnifying Parties do not elect to defend, or if,
after
commencing or undertaking any such defense, the Indemnifying Parties fail to
prosecute or withdraw such defense, the Indemnified Party shall have the right
to undertake the defense or settlement thereof, at the Indemnifying Parties’
expense. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the Indemnifying Parties
shall not be entitled to control, but may participate in, and the Indemnified
Party (at the expense of the Indemnifying Parties) shall be entitled to have
sole control over, the defense or settlement of (x) that part of any Third
Party
Claim (i) which seeks a temporary restraining order, a preliminary or permanent
injunction or specific performance against the Indemnified Party, or (ii) to
the
extent such Third Party Claim involves criminal allegations against the
Indemnified Party or (y) the entire Third Party Claim if such Third Party Claim
could impose liability on the part of the Indemnified Party in an amount which
is greater than the amount as to which the Indemnified Party is entitled to
indemnification under this Agreement. In the event the Indemnified Party retains
control of the Third Party Claim, the Indemnified Party will not settle the
subject claim without the prior written consent of the Indemnifying Party,
which
consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
(e) If
the
Indemnified Party assumes the defense of any such Third Party Claim pursuant
to
Section 12.1
or
12.2
and
proposes to settle the same prior to a final judgment thereon or to forgo appeal
with respect thereto, then the Indemnified Party shall give the Indemnifying
Parties prompt written notice thereof and the Indemnifying Parties shall have
the right to participate in the settlement, assume or reassume the defense
thereof or prosecute such appeal, in each case at the Indemnifying Parties’
expense. The Indemnifying Parties shall not, without the prior written consent
of such Indemnified Party, settle or compromise or consent to entry of any
judgment with respect to any such Third Party Claim (i) in which any relief
other than the payment of money damages is or may be sought against such
Indemnified Party or (ii) which does not include as an unconditional term
thereof the giving by the claimant, person conducting such investigation or
initiating such hearing, plaintiff or petitioner to such Indemnified Party
a
release from all liability with respect to such Third Party Claim and all other
claims or causes of action (known or unknown) arising or which might arise
out
of the same facts.
12.4 Periodic
Payments.
Any
indemnification required by Section 12.1
or
12.2
for
costs, disbursements or expenses of any Indemnified Party in connection with
investigating, preparing to defend or defending any claim, action, suit,
hearing, proceeding or investigation shall be made by periodic payments by
the
Indemnifying Parties to each Indemnified Party during the course of the
investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or costs, disbursements
or expenses are incurred.
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12.5 Insurance.
Any
indemnification payments hereunder shall only be reduced by any insurance
proceeds or other third party reimbursement actually received by Parent and
Acquisition Corp. or the Principal Shareholders, as appropriate.
12.6 Survival
of Indemnification Rights.
Section
3.26
and
Section 3.27
shall
survive until 30 days after the expiration of the applicable statute of
limitations in connection with the matters set forth therein. All other
representations and warranties of the Principal Shareholders, the Company and
Parent shall survive until the first anniversary of the Closing Date. The
indemnification to which any Indemnified Party is entitled from the Indemnifying
Parties pursuant to Section 12.1
or
12.2
for
Losses shall be effective so long as it is asserted (a) prior to 30 days after
the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations in connection with
any
matters in connection with Section 3.26
and
Section 3.27
and (b)
the first anniversary of the Closing Date in the case of all other
representations and warranties of the Principal Shareholders and Parent
hereunder.
12.7 Threshold.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, neither Parent nor the
Principal Shareholders shall be entitled to indemnification if the aggregate
Losses are less than Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000).
ARTICLE
XIII
DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
13.1 Arbitration.
(a) In
the
event a dispute arises relating to this Agreement, the parties agree to meet
to
resolve their disputes in good faith. Any party may seek injunctive relief,
without the need to post a bond, pending the completion of arbitration under
this Agreement for any breach or threatened breach of any covenant contained
herein.
(b) If
after
good faith negotiations the dispute is not resolved, the parties shall promptly
submit any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this
Agreement, or any Additional Agreement (including with respect to the meaning,
effect, validity, termination, interpretation, performance, or enforcement
of
this Agreement or any Additional Agreement) or any alleged breach thereof
(including any action in tort, contract, equity, or otherwise), to binding
arbitration before one arbitrator that is familiar with the Business and not
an
Affiliate of any party to this Agreement (the “Arbitrator”). The parties agree
that binding arbitration shall be the sole means of resolving any dispute,
claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any
Additional Agreement (including with respect to the meaning, effect, validity,
termination, interpretation, performance or enforcement of this Agreement or
any
Additional Agreement) or any alleged breach thereof (including any claim in
tort, contract, equity, or otherwise).
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(c) If
the
parties cannot agree upon the Arbitrator, the Arbitrator shall be selected
by
the New
York
chapter
head of the American Arbitration Association upon the request of either side.
The Arbitrator shall be selected within 30 days of request.
(d) The
laws
of the State of New
York
shall
apply to any arbitration hereunder. In any arbitration hereunder, this Agreement
and any agreement contemplated hereby shall be governed by the laws of the
State
of New
York
applicable to a contract negotiated, signed, and wholly to be performed in
the
State of New
York,
which
laws the Arbitrator shall apply in rendering his decision. The Arbitrator shall
issue a written decision, setting forth findings of fact and conclusions of
law,
within sixty (60) days after he shall have been selected. The Arbitrator shall
have no authority to award punitive or other exemplary damages.
(e) The
arbitration shall be held in the City of New York in accordance with and under
the then-current provisions of the rules of the American Arbitration
Association, except as otherwise provided herein.
(f) On
application to the Arbitrator, any party shall have rights to discovery to
the
same extent as would be provided under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
and
the Federal Rules of Evidence shall apply to any arbitration under this
Agreement; provided,
however,
that
the Arbitrator shall limit any discovery or evidence such that his decision
shall be rendered within the period set forth in the rules referred to Section
13.1(e).
(g) The
Arbitrator may, at his discretion and at the expense of the party who will
bear
the cost of the arbitration, employ experts to assist him in his
determinations.
(h) The
costs
of the arbitration proceeding and any proceeding in court to confirm any
arbitration award or to obtain relief as provided in Section 13.1,
as
applicable (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs), shall be borne by
the unsuccessful party and shall be awarded as part of the Arbitrator’s
decision, unless the Arbitrator shall otherwise allocate such costs for the
reasons set forth in such decision. The determination of the Arbitrator shall
be
final and binding upon the parties and not subject to appeal.
(i) Any
judgment upon any award rendered by the Arbitrator may be entered in and
enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction. The parties expressly consent
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts (federal and state) in the City
of
New York to enforce any award of the Arbitrator or to render any provisional,
temporary, or injunctive relief in connection with or in aid of the Arbitration.
The parties expressly consent to the personal and subject matter jurisdiction
of
the Arbitrator to arbitrate any and all matters to be submitted to arbitration
hereunder. None of the parties hereto shall challenge any arbitration hereunder
on the grounds that any party necessary to such arbitration (including the
parties hereto) shall have been absent from such arbitration for any
reason, including that such party shall have been the subject of any bankruptcy,
reorganization, or insolvency proceeding.
(j) The
parties shall indemnify the Arbitrator and any experts employed by the
Arbitrator and hold them harmless from and against any claim or demand arising
out of any arbitration under this Agreement or any agreement contemplated
hereby, unless resulting from the willful misconduct of the person
indemnified.
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(k) This
arbitration clause shall survive the termination of this Agreement and any
agreement contemplated hereby.
13.2 Waiver
of Jury Trial; Exemplary Damages.
ALL
PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE THEIR RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY WITH RESPECT TO ANY DISPUTE
ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY ADDITIONAL AGREEMENT. No party shall be
awarded punitive or other exemplary damages respecting any dispute arising
under
this Agreement or any Additional Agreement.
13.3 Attorneys’
Fees.
The
unsuccessful party to any court or other proceeding arising out of this
Agreement that is not resolved by arbitration under Section 13.1
shall
pay to the prevailing party all reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs incurred by
the prevailing party, in addition to any other relief to which it may be
entitled.
ARTICLE
XIV
TERMINATION
14.1 Termination. This
Agreement may be terminated and the transactions contemplated hereby abandoned
at any time prior to the Effective Time:
(a) by
the
mutual written consent of Parent and Acquisition Corp., on the one hand, and
the
Company and the Principal Shareholders, on the other;
(b) by
either
of the Parent and Acquisition Corp. or the Company and the Principal
Shareholders, as applicable (either, a “Terminating Party):
(i) if
the
Merger shall not have been consummated on or before March 31, 2008 (the
“Outside Closing Date”); provided,
however,
that
the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1(b)(i)
shall
not be available to the Terminating Party if the failure of the Merger to have
been consummated on or before the Outside Closing Date was primarily due to
the
failure of such Terminating Party to perform any of its obligations under this
Agreement;
(ii) if
the
requisite stockholder approval of Parent shall not have been obtained at the
applicable stockholders meeting duly convened therefor or at any
adjournment or postponement thereof prior to (x) January 31, 2007, if the SEC
does not choose to review the preliminary proxy materials related to the Merger
(the “Proxy Materials”) to be filed by Parent or (y) March 31, 2008, if the SEC
chooses to review the Proxy Materials, provided
that
Parent will have used its best efforts to have its stockholders approve the
Merger;
(iii) upon
discovery by the Terminating Party of the occurrence of a Material Adverse
Change in the business, assets, condition (financial or otherwise), liabilities,
results of operations or prospects of the business, individually or as a whole,
of the non-terminating party that was not requested in writing by the
Terminating Party;
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(c) by
Parent
and Acquisition Corp. if the Company and the Principal Shareholders shall have
materially breached or failed to perform any of its representations, warranties,
obligations, covenants or agreements set forth in this Agreement, which breach
or failure to perform (i) would give rise to the failure of a condition set
forth in Sections 10.1
and
10.2
and (ii)
cannot be cured by the Company and the Principal Shareholders by the Outside
Closing Date or if capable of being cured, shall not have been cured within
30
calendar days following receipt of written notice from the Parent and
Acquisition Corp. stating such Terminating Party’s intention to terminate this
Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1(c)
and the
basis for such termination; provided
that,
Parent and Acquisition Corp. shall not have the right to terminate this
Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1(c)
if it is
then in material breach of any representation, warranties, covenants or other
agreements hereunder that would result in the closing conditions set forth
in
Sections 10.1
and
10.3
not
being satisfied; or
(d) by
the
Company and the Principal Shareholders if Parent and Acquisition Corp. shall
have materially breached or failed to perform any of its representations,
warranties, obligations, covenants or agreements set forth in this Agreement,
which breach or failure to perform (i) would give rise to the failure of a
condition set forth in Sections 10.1
and
10.3
and (ii)
cannot be cured by Parent and Acquisition Corp. by the Outside Closing Date
or
if capable of being cured, shall not have been cured within 30 calendar days
following receipt of written notice from the Company and the Principal
Shareholders stating such Terminating Party’s intention to terminate this
Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1(d)
and the
basis for such termination; provided
that,
the Company and the Principal Shareholders shall not have the right to terminate
this Agreement pursuant to this Section 14.1(d)
if it is
then in material breach of any representation, warranties, covenants or other
agreements hereunder that would result in the closing conditions set forth
in
Sections 10.1
and
10.2
not
being satisfied.
14.2 Effect
of Termination. In
the
event of termination of this Agreement as provided in Section 14.1,
written
notice thereof shall be given to the other parties, specifying the provision
hereof pursuant to which such termination is made, and this Agreement shall
forthwith become null and void (other than the Sections set forth in Section
14.4,
all of
which shall survive termination of this Agreement), and there shall be no
liability on the part of the parties or their respective directors, officers
and
Affiliates, except
for the Termination Fee as set forth in Section 14.2
(if
applicable). Nothing in this Section 14.3 shall
relieve any party from liability for fraud or for any liability for any prior
breach of any terms or provisions of this Agreement and nothing in this Section
14.2
shall be
deemed to impair the right of any party to compel specific performance by any
other party of its surviving obligations under this Agreement.
14.3 Termination
Fee.
(a) In
the
event that:
(i) this
Agreement is terminated by Parent and Acquisition Corp. pursuant to Section
14.1(c);
or
(ii) this
Agreement is terminated by the Company and the Principal Shareholders pursuant
to Section 14.1(d),
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then
the
non-Terminating Party shall pay the Termination Fee (as defined below), it
being
understood that in no event shall such non-Terminating Party be required to
pay
the Termination Fee on more than one occasion and that such Termination Fee
shall be the Terminating Party’s sole and exclusive remedy. “Termination Fee”
shall mean an amount equal to $1 million. The Termination Fee shall be paid
in
equal amounts over a 36 month period by wire transfer to an account designated
by the party entitled to receive such payment.
(b) Each
of
the parties hereto acknowledge that the agreements contained in this Section
14.3
is an
integral part of the transactions contemplated hereby.
14.4 Survival.
The
provisions of Article XII, Article XIII and 7.1,
9.2,
15.4
and
15.5
shall
survive any termination hereof pursuant to this Article XIII.
ARTICLE
XV
MISCELLANEOUS
15.1 Notices.
All
notices, requests, demands and other communications to any party hereunder
shall
be in writing and shall be given to such party at its address or telecopier
number set forth below, or such other address or telecopier number as such
party
may hereinafter specify by notice to each other party hereto:
if
to
Parent and Acquisition Corp., to:
c/o
Intelli-Check, Inc.
000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxx Xxxx, Interim Chairman & CEO
Telecopy:
(000) 000-0000
with
a
copy to:
Loeb
& Loeb LLP
000
Xxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Telecopy:
(000) 000-0000
if
to the
Company and the Principal Shareholders:
c/o
Mobilisa, Inc.
000
Xxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention:
Xx Xxxxxx Ludlow, CEO
Telecopy:
(000) 000-0000
with
a
copy to:
Kirkland
& Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx LLP
000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Telecopy:
(000) 000-0000
if
to the
Principal Shareholders, to the address for such Principal Shareholder listed
on
the signature pages hereto.
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Each
such
notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by
telecopy, when such telecopy is transmitted to the telecopy number specified
herein and the appropriate answer back is received or, (ii) if given by
certified mail, 72 hours after such communication is deposited in the mails
with
first class postage prepaid, properly addressed or, (iii) if given by any other
means, when delivered at the address specified herein.
15.2 Amendments;
No Waivers.
(a) Any
provision of this Agreement may be amended or waived if, and only if, such
amendment or waiver is in writing and signed, in the case of an amendment,
by
each party hereto, or in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom the
waiver is to be effective.
(b) No
failure or delay by any party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege
hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial
exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise
of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided
shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by
law.
15.3 Ambiguities.
The
parties acknowledge that each party and its counsel has materially participated
in the drafting of this Agreement and consequently the rule of contract
interpretation that, and ambiguities if any in, the writing be construed against
the drafter, shall not apply.
15.4 Publicity.
Except
as required by law, the parties agree that neither they nor their agents shall
issue any press release or make any other public disclosure concerning the
transactions contemplated hereunder without the prior written approval of the
other party hereto.
15.5 Expenses.
Except
as specifically provided in this Agreement, all costs and expenses incurred
in
connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby shall
be
paid by the party incurring such cost or expense.
15.6 Successors
and Assigns.
The
provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit
of
the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns; provided,
that
(i) neither the Company nor any Principal Shareholder may assign, delegate
or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement
without the prior written consent of Parent; (ii) in the event Parent
assigns its rights and obligations under this Agreement to an Affiliate, Parent
shall continue to remain liable for its obligations hereunder; and (iii) Parent,
the Surviving Corporation or Acquisition Corp. may assign any of its rights
and
benefits under this Agreement to secured lenders of Parent, the Surviving
Corporation or Acquisition Corp. Except as specifically set forth in clauses
(ii) and (iii) above, neither Parent nor Acquisition Corp. may assign, delegate
or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement
without the prior written consent of the Company.
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15.7 Governing
Law; Jurisdiction.
This
Agreement has been entered into in the State of Delaware.
This
Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of
the
State of Delaware,
without
giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof. The
parties hereto hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the
state or federal courts sitting in the City of Wilmington, State of Delaware
in
connection with any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this
Agreement, or the negotiation or breach thereof, and hereby waive any claim
or
defense that such forum is inconvenient or otherwise improper. Each party hereby
agrees that any
such
court shall have in personam jurisdiction over it and consents to service of
process in any manner authorized by Delaware law.
15.8 Counterparts;
Effectiveness.
This
Agreement may be signed by facsimile signatures and in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall be
deemed to be one and the same instrument, with the same effect as if the
signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
15.9 Entire
Agreement.
This
Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties with respect to
the
subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings and
negotiations, both written and oral, among the parties with respect to the
subject matter of this Agreement. No representation, inducement, promise,
understanding, condition or warranty not set forth herein has been made or
relied upon by any party hereto. Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof
is intended to confer upon any Person other than the parties hereto any rights
or remedies hereunder other than Indemnified Parties as set forth in Section
12.1
and
12.2
hereof,
which shall be third party beneficiaries hereof.
15.10 Severability.
If
any
one or more provisions of this Agreement shall, for any reasons, be held to
be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality
or
unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement, but
this Agreement shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable
provision had never been contained herein.
15.11 Captions.
The
captions herein are included for convenience of reference only and shall be
ignored in the construction or interpretation hereof.
15.12 Construction.
References in this Agreement to “Articles,” “Sections,” “Schedules” and
“Exhibits” shall
be
to the Articles, Sections, Schedules and Exhibits of
this
Agreement, unless otherwise specifically provided; all Schedules to this
Agreement are incorporated herein by reference; any use in this Agreement of
the
singular or plural, or the masculine, feminine or neuter gender, shall be deemed
to include the others, unless the context otherwise requires; the words
“herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in
this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement; the word “including” when used in this
Agreement shall mean “including without limitation”; and except as otherwise
specified in this Agreement, all references in this Agreement (a) to any
agreement, document, certificate or other written instrument shall be a
reference to such agreement, document, certificate or instrument, in each case
together with all exhibits, schedules, attachments and appendices thereto,
and
as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time
in
accordance with the terms thereof; and (b) to any law, statute or regulation
shall be deemed references to such law, statute or regulation as the same may
be
supplemented, amended, consolidated, superseded or modified from time to
time.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, Parent, Acquisition Corp. and the Company have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers and the
Principal Shareholders have executed this Agreement as of the day and year
first
above written.
Intelli-Check,
Inc.
|
/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxx
|
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxx
|
Title:
Interim Chairman & CEO
|
Intelli-Check
Merger Sub, Inc.
|
/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxx
|
Name:
Xxxxxxx Xxxx
|
Title:
President
|
Mobilisa,
Inc.
|
/s/
Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
|
Name:
Xx Xxxxxx Ludlow
|
Title:
CEO
|
Principal
Shareholder:
|
/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
|
Name:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Address:
c/o Mobilisa, Inc.,
000
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000.
|
Principal
Shareholder:
|
/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
|
Name:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Address:
c/o Mobilisa, Inc.,
000
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxx, XX
00000.
|
[Signature
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