ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made as of February 11, 2009, by
and between North American Scientific, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Parent”) North American Scientific, Inc., a California corporation and
wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Company”) and Best Theratronics, Ltd., a
Canadian federal corporation (the “Purchaser”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS,
the Company owns and operates the Business (as defined in Section 1.1), and owns
or holds under lease (as set out herein) the assets used in connection with the
Business;
WHEREAS,
the Company owns and wishes to sell, and the Purchaser wishes to purchase, the
Assets (as defined in Section 1.1) and the Business as a going concern on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement;
WHEREAS,
the Company desires to assign to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser desires to
assume, the Assumed Liabilities (as defined in Section 1.1);
WHEREAS,
the Company and the Purchaser are concurrently entering into a Management
Agreement which provides for the Purchaser to manage the Business after the date
hereof through the Closing (the “Management Agreement”); and
NOW
THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that in consideration of the premises and of
the covenants, agreements, representations and warranties set out below, the
parties covenant and agree as follows:
1. Interpretation
1.1.
Definitions
In this
Agreement, unless there is something in the subject matter or context
inconsistent therewith or unless otherwise specifically provided:
(a) “Accounts
Receivable” means all accounts receivable, trade accounts, notes receivable and
other debts owing to the Company in connection with or arising out of the
Business, and the full benefit of all security for such accounts, notes and
debts;
(b) “Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person controlling, controlled by
or under common control with, such Person, with “control” for such purpose
meaning the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities or voting interests, by contract or
otherwise;
(c) “Agreement”
is defined in the introductory paragraph;
(d) “Assets”
means all properties and assets of the Company of every kind and description
(whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible) relating to the Business
wherever located (but not including the Excluded Assets), including, without
limitation:
(i)
subject to the terms of the Lease, the Company's interest in the Leasehold
Improvements and the Leased Premises;
(ii) the
Company's right, title and interest in the Assumed Contracts;
(iii) the
Inventory;
(iv) the
Prepaid Expenses;
(v)
the Computer Hardware;
(vi) the
Computer Software;
(vii) the
Office Equipment;
(viii)
the Manufacturing Equipment;
(ix)
the Personal Property;
(x)
the Intellectual Property;
(xi)
the Goodwill;
(xii) the
Customer Lists;
(xiii)
the Company's interest in the Permits;
(xiv) the
Books and Records;
(e) “Assumed
Contracts” means those Contracts used in connection with the Business or Assets,
including those set forth on Schedule 1.1(e);
(f) “Assumed
Liabilities” is defined in Section 2.5;
(g) “Audited
Financial Statements” means audited financial statements of the Parent, together
with the auditor's report, the notes thereto and supporting schedules,
consisting of statements of income and retained earnings and statements of cash
flows for the period ending on, and balance sheet as at October 31, 2008
inclusive;
(h) “Benefit
Plan” means any pension, retirement, deferred compensation, COBRA,
profit-sharing, savings, disability, medical, dental, health, life, death
benefit, stock option, stock purchase, bonus, incentive, termination and
severance pay or other employee benefit plan, trust, arrangement, contract,
agreement, policy or commitment, whether or not any of the foregoing is funded
or insured, and whether written or oral, formal or informal, which is intended
to provide or does in fact provide benefits to any or all Employees or former
Employees, and to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound
or with respect to which the Company has any liability or potential
liability;
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(i) “Books
and Records” means all files, ledgers and correspondence, all price and supplier
lists, all manuals, reports, texts, notes, engineering, environmental and
feasibility studies, data, specifications, memoranda, invoices, receipts,
accounts, accounting records and books, financial statements and financial
working papers and all other records and documents of any nature or kind
whatsoever, including, without limitation, those recorded, stored, maintained,
operated, held or otherwise wholly or partly dependent on discs, tapes and other
means of storage, including, without limitation, any electronic, magnetic,
mechanical, photographic or optical process, whether computerized or not, and
all software, passwords and other information and means of or for access
thereto, belonging to the Company and relating to the Business or any of the
Assets;
(j) “Business”
means the brachytherapy and prostrate business currently carried on by the
Company, but not including any ClearPath business;
(k) “Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any federal holiday in the
United States;
(l) “Charter
Documents” means articles, articles or certificate of incorporation, bylaws and
any other constituted document of a corporate entity;
(m) “ClearPath”
means all assets related exclusively to the Company’s ClearPath product
family;
(n) “Closing”
means the completion of the sale and purchase of the Assets and the Business in
accordance with Article 9;
(o) “Closing
Date” means five (5) Business Days following the satisfaction of the conditions
set forth in Article 7, or such other date as may be agreed upon in writing by
the Company and the Purchaser or by their respective counsel;
(p) “Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(q) “Computer
Hardware” means all the computer hardware owned by the Company and used by the
Company in connection with the Business, including, without limitation, the
hardware listed in Schedule 1.1(q);
(r) “Computer
Software” means all the computer software, including, without limitation,
application software, object codes and source codes, used by the Company in
connection with the Business, including, without limitation, the software and
codes described in Schedule 1.1(r), and, with respect to any of the same not
owned by the Company, includes all rights of the Company under license
agreements and other agreements or instruments relating thereto, including,
without limitation, those license agreements, other agreements and instruments
described in Schedule 1.1(r);
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(s) “Consent”
means any approval, consent, ratification, waiver or other
authorization;
(t) “Contemplated
Transactions” means all of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(u) “Contracts”
means all contracts, agreements, instruments, leases, indentures and
commitments, whether written or oral, relating to the Business or to any of the
Assets to which the Company is a party including, without limitation,
non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements;
(v) “Customer
Lists” means all lists of customers and potential customers of the Company
pertaining to the Business, including names, addresses, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail addresses, details of sales and other relevant information
relating thereto;
(w) “Disclosure
Schedule” means that disclosure schedule delivered by Company to the Purchaser
concurrently with execution and delivery of this Agreement in the form of
Schedule 1.1(w);
(x) “Employees”
means employees of the Company employed in connection with the
Business;
(y) “Encumbrance”
means, whether or not registered or registrable or recorded or recordable, and
regardless of how created or arising:
(i)
a mortgage, assignment of rent, lien, encumbrance,
adverse claim, charge, execution, title defect, security interest, hypothec or
pledge, whether fixed or floating, against assets or property (whether real,
personal, mixed, tangible or intangible), hire-purchase agreement, conditional
sales contract, title retention agreement, equipment trust or financing lease,
and a subordination to any right or claim of others in respect
thereof;
(ii)
a claim, interest or estate
against or in assets or property (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or
intangible), including, without limitation, an easement, right-of-way, servitude
or other similar right in property granted to or reserved or taken by any
Person;
(iii) an
option or other right to acquire, or to acquire any interest in, any assets or
property (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible);
and
(iv) any
other encumbrance of whatsoever nature and kind against assets or property
(whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible);
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(z) “Environment”
means the air immediately around, and the water in, and the soil under and
adjacent to, any of the lands on which the Leased Premises are
situate;
(aa) “Environmental
Protection Laws” means all statutes, orders, bylaws, standards, permits, laws,
regulations, treaties, conventions, ordinances, codes, policies, guidelines,
directives, decisions, licenses, consents, authorizations, certificates and
lawful requirements (including, without limitation, of any Governmental
Authority) relating to protection of the Environment, health and safety of the
workplace, health, or transportation of dangerous goods;
(bb) “Excluded
Assets” means:
(i)
all cash on hand or in banks or other depositories, including the
cash in the Company’s subsidiaries;
(ii)
all credits and benefits, including without limitation any Tax
credits or benefits, insurance benefits, and any indemnification rights, escrows
and other assets, relating to any Retained Liabilities;
(iii) rights
accruing to the Company under this Agreement or any agreement relating
thereto;
(iv) the
corporate seals, certificate of incorporation, minute books, stock books, Tax
returns, books of account or other records having to do with the corporate
organization of the Company;
(v)
all personnel records and other records that Company is
required by law to retain in its possession;
(vi) all
insurance policies held by or for the Company and any benefits or proceeds paid
or payable thereunder;
(vii) the
Excluded Prepaids;
(viii) the
assets listed in Schedule 1.1(bb)(viii);
(ix)
Accounts Receivables existing as of the Closing Date, which
are listed on Schedule 1.1(bb)(ix) and as updated as of the Closing Date;
and
(x)
All assets solely related to ClearPath;
(cc)
“Excluded Prepaids” is defined in Section 1.1(zz);
(dd) “FDA”
means the United States Food and Drug Administration;
(ee) “Goodwill”
means the goodwill attributable to the Business and the exclusive right of the
Purchaser to represent itself as carrying on the Business in continuation of and
as successor to the Company, and the right to use any words indicating that the
Business is so carried on or in connection with, the Business to be carried on
by the Purchaser;
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(ff) “Governmental
Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, county or regional government or
governmental or regulatory authority, domestic or foreign, and includes any
department, commission, bureau, board, administrative agency or regulatory body
of any of the foregoing or any non-governmental regulatory body that provides
standards for certification such as ISO certification;
(gg) “Governmental
Authorization” means any Consent, license, registration or permit issued,
granted, given or otherwise made available by or under the authority of any
Governmental Authority or pursuant to any Legal Requirement;
(hh) “Hazardous
Materials” means any contaminants, pollutants, hazardous, corrosive or toxic
substances, flammable materials, explosive materials, radioactive materials,
microwaves, waste, urea formaldehyde, asbestos materials, hydrocarbon
contaminants, noxious substances, compounds known as chlorobiphenyls,
deleterious substances, special wastes, dangerous goods or substances and any
other substances or materials that are identified or described in or defined by
any Environmental Protection Law as being substances or materials the storage,
manufacture, disposal, treatment, generation, use, transportation or remediation
of which, or release of which into or concentration of which in the Environment,
is prohibited, controlled, regulated or licensed by any Governmental Authority
or under any Environmental Protection Law;
(ii) “Intellectual
Property” means all rights, title, interest and benefit of the Company in and to
intellectual property of every nature, whether registered or unregistered,
including, without limitation, all websites and website names, copyrights,
patents, patent rights, trade-marks, certification marks and industrial designs,
applications for any of the foregoing, trade names, brand names, trade secrets,
proprietary manufacturing information and know-how, instruction manuals,
inventions, inventors' notes, research data, unpatented blue prints, drawings
and designs, formulae, calculations, processes, prototypes, technology and
marketing rights, together with all rights under license agreements, sublicense
agreements, strategic alliances, development agreements, technology transfer
agreements and other agreements or instruments relating to any of the foregoing,
that are used in connection with the Business or Assets, including, without
limitation, the trade-marks, copyrights, patents, licenses and agreements set
forth in Schedule 1.1(ii);
(jj) “Inventory”
means the goods, merchandise, stock-in trade and inventories of raw materials,
work in progress and finished goods of or pertaining solely to the
Business;
(kk) “IRS”
means the Internal Revenue Service;
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(ll)
“Knowledge” of the Company, or words of similar import,
including without limitation, the Company being aware of a fact or circumstance,
shall mean and refer to the actual knowledge as of the date of this Agreement,
after reasonable inquiry, of Xxxx X. Xxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxx;
(mm)
“Leased Premises” means the premises located at 00000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx;
(nn)
“Leasehold Improvements” means all the leasehold improvements of the
Company in the Leased Premises;
(oo)
“Lease” means that certain Standard Industrial/Commercial Single-Tenant Lease –
Net, between the Company and The Xxxxxx and Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Family Trust et. al.,
dated August 14, 1998, as amended;
(pp) “Legal
Requirement” means any federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, international,
multinational or other constitution, law ordinance, principle of common law,
code regulation, statute or treaty;
(qq)
“Liability” means with respect to any Person, any liability or obligation of
such Person of any kind, character or description, whether known or unknown,
absolute or contingent, whether or not accrued, disputed or undisputed,
liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, joint or several, due or to
become due, vested or unvested, executory, determined, determinable or
otherwise;
(rr)
“Manufacturing Equipment” means all machinery, plant,
equipment, parts, fixtures, tools and accessories of the Company pertaining to
the Business and used in the manufacture and packaging of goods for sale by the
Company in the Business, including, without limitation, those items listed in
Schedule 1.1(rr);
(ss)
“Material” means (i) an event(s), occurrence(s),
breach(es) or other violations that individually or in the aggregate, amount to
or potentially amount to damages in excess of $100,000; (ii) the failure to
comply with any Legal Requirement or Government Authorization related to the
Business which results in or could result in fees, sanctions or costs to restore
compliance in excess of $100,000 the aggregate; or (iii) any event(s),
occurrence(s), breach(es) or other violations that would or could result in the
termination, suspension or investigation of any Permit or Government
Authorization related to the Business.
(tt)
“Material Adverse Effect” means any effect or
circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that amounts to or will
amount to damages in excess of an aggregate of $100,000; provided, however, the
none of the following, shall be taken into account in determining whether there
has been a “Material Adverse Effect”: (i) the entry into or the announcement of
the execution of this Agreement, actions contemplated by this Agreement or the
Management Agreement or the performance of obligations under this Agreement or
the Management Agreement, (ii) any changes or effects arising out of or
resulting from any legal claims or other proceedings made by any of the
Company’s stockholders arising out of or related to this Agreement or the
Contemplated Transactions (iii) changes affecting the United States economy
generally, (iv) any failure by the Company to meet published revenue or earnings
projections, in and of itself (as opposed to the facts underlying such failure),
(v) any change, in and of itself (as opposed to the facts underlying such
change), in the market price or trading volume of the equity securities of the
Company on or after the date hereof, (vi) the suspension of trading in
securities generally in and of itself (as opposed to the facts causing such
suspension of trading) on the NASDAQ Global Market, (vii) any change in any
applicable law, rule or regulation or GAAP or interpretation thereof after the
date hereof, (viii) events, effects or circumstances to the extent specifically
disclosed in the Disclosure Schedule (provided such disclosures are materially
correct), (ix) any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Company with the
Purchaser’s express written consent, (x) the commencement, occurrence or
continuation of any war, armed hostilities or acts of terrorism involving or
affecting the United States of America or any part thereof, (xi) the loss of any
customer, supplier or employee of the Business after the announcement of the
execution of this Agreement except as a result of a breach of any of Company’s
obligations under Article 5.
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(uu)
“Office Equipment” means all office equipment and furniture used by the
Company in connection with the Business including, without limitation, the
equipment described in Schedule 1.1(uu);
(vv) “Permits”
means all permits, licenses, registrations, consents, authorizations, approvals,
privileges, waivers, exemptions, orders, certificates, rulings, agreements and
other concessions from, of or with Governmental Authorities or other regulatory
bodies required to carry on the Business as now being carried on, and to hold,
operate and use the Assets as now being held, operated and used obtained by the
Company with respect to the Business or any of the Assets, including, without
limitation, the permits, licenses, registrations and other rights described in
Schedule 1.1(vv);
(ww)
“Permitted Encumbrances” means (a) real estate taxes, assessments and other
governmental fees or other charges levied with respect to the real property of a
party not yet due and payable as of the Closing Date; (b) mechanics and similar
statutory liens arising or incurred in the ordinary course of the Business for
amounts which are not delinquent and which would not be reasonably likely to,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Business, taken as a whole; (c) zoning, entitlement, building and other land use
and similar laws or regulations imposed by any governmental authority having
jurisdiction over such parcel which are not violated by the current use and
operation thereof; (d) easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions and other
similar matters of record affecting title to such Leased Premises which would
not materially impair the use or occupancy of such parcel in the operation of a
party’s business; (e) liens or encumbrances placed by a Third Party lessor with
respect to any leased equipment; and (f) liens that do not materially
interfere with the use or operation of the property subject
thereto.
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(xx) “Person”
means an individual, legal personal representative, corporation, body corporate,
firm, partnership, trust, trustee, syndicate, joint venture, unincorporated
organization or Governmental Authority;
(yy) “Personal
Property” means, to the extent not forming part of the Leasehold Improvements,
Manufacturing Equipment, Office Equipment, Inventory and Computer Hardware, all
equipment, furniture, furnishings, accessories, motors, tools, utensils, stores,
supplies, and parts of every nature and kind and other tangible personal
property owned by the Company and used in the Business, including, without
limitation, the items of personal property described in Schedule 1.1(yy), but
excluding any Excluded Assets, and any personal property which is the subject of
a lease agreement;
(zz) “Prepaid
Expenses” means all prepaid expenses including any and all trade deposits (but
not bank deposits) of the Company attributable to the Business or the Assets
including, without limitation, amounts paid for licensing fees, property Taxes,
telephone rentals, utilities and rentals, all of which are set forth in Schedule
1.1(zz); but, in any event, shall not include any prepaid insurance (or refunds
relating thereto), the COBRA receivable as reflected on the books of Company, or
Prepaid Rent (the “Excluded Prepaids”);
(aaa)
“Prepaid Rent” is defined in Section 2.7;
(bbb)
“Proceeding” is defined in Section 3.8(a);
(ccc)
“Product Liability Insurance” is defined in Section 9.11;
(ddd)
“Proxy Statement” is defined in Section 5.9;
(eee) “Purchase
Price” means the purchase price for the Business, and the Assets, as set out in
Section 2.2;
(fff) “Purchaser”
is defined in the introductory paragraph;
(ggg)
“Radioactive Possession Licenses” shall mean all licenses held by the
Company to possess radioactive isotopes that are not transferable to the
Purchaser that need to be reissued to the Purchaser to perform the Business as
currently conducted;
(hhh)
“Retained Liabilities” is defined in Section 2.5(b);
(iii) “SEC”
means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission;
(jjj) “Tangible
Assets” shall mean the Inventory, the Computer Hardware, the Office Equipment,
the Manufacturing Equipment and the Personal Property; and
(kkk)
“Tax” or “Taxes” shall mean all taxes, charges, fees, imposts, levies or other
like assessments, including, without limitation, all net income, gross receipts,
capital, sales, use, ad valorem, value added, transfer, franchise, profits,
inventory, capital stock, license, withholding, payroll, employment, social
security, unemployment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, property and
estimated taxes, customs duties, fees, assessments and charges of any kind
whatsoever.
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1.2. Currency
Except
where otherwise expressly provided, all monetary amounts in this Agreement are
stated and shall be paid in US currency.
1.3. Governing
Law
This
Agreement and the agreements contemplated hereby shall be construed in
accordance with and governed by the laws and the courts of the Commonwealth of
Virginia.
1.4. Schedules
The
following are the Schedules which are attached to and form part of this
Agreement:
1.1(e)
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Assumed
Contracts
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1.1(q)
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Computer
Hardware
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1.1(r)
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Computer
Software
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1.1(w)
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Disclosure
Schedule
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1.1(bb)(vii)
|
Excluded
Assets
|
1.1(bb)(iv)
|
Accounts
Receivable
|
1.1(ii)
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Intellectual
Property
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1.1(rr)
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Manufacturing
Equipment
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1.1(uu)
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Office
Equipment
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1.1(vv)
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Permits
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1.1(yy)
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Personal
Property
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2.5(a)(i)
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Warranties
|
2.5(a)(v)
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Other
Assumed Liabilities
|
2.5(a)(xii)
|
Other
Retained Liabilities
|
3.3
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Jurisdictions
in Which the Business is Carried On
|
3.9
(a)
|
Contracts
|
6.1
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Licensed
Assets
|
2. Purchase of
Assets
2.1. Purchase and
Sale
The
Company agrees to sell, assign and transfer to the Purchaser and the Purchaser
agrees to purchase from the Company, on the Closing Date, the Assets, effective
as of and from the Closing, free and clear of all Encumbrances other than
Permitted Encumbrances, for the Purchase Price and in accordance with and
subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
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2.2. Purchase
Price
The
Purchase Price for the Business and Assets will be Five Million Dollars
($5,000,000), payable as follows:
(a)
Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) shall be paid at Closing (the “Initial
Payment”).
(b) A
Secured Promissory Note in the principal amount of Three Million Dollars
($3,000,000) in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Note”).
2.3. Payment of Purchase
Price
The
Initial Payment for the Business and Assets shall be paid by the Purchaser to
the Company by wire transfer to an account designated by the
Company. The Note shall be payable at the times and in the manner
specified therein.
2.4. Risk of Loss and Damage
Prior to Closing
(a)
Risk of loss of the Tangible Assets shall pass to the Purchaser at the
Closing, and the Company shall bear all risk of loss or damage to, or
destruction of, the Tangible Assets until the Closing and the Purchaser shall
bear all such risk of loss, damage and destruction after the Closing. If, prior
to the Closing, any Tangible Assets are lost, damaged or destroyed and such
loss, damage or destruction has not been completely replaced, repaired or
otherwise rectified by the Closing, and if the Closing takes place, the Purchase
Price will be reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate of:
(i)
the insurance proceeds paid to the Company in respect of such
loss, damage or destruction; and
(ii)
the aggregate of all deductible amounts under the insurance policies
against which a payment has been made under Section 2.4(a) above in respect of
such loss, damage or destruction;
less:
(ii)
the amount actually expended by or on behalf of
the Company in the repair, replacement or other rectification
thereof.
(b) The
Company shall consult with the Purchaser prior to making a claim against any
applicable insurance policy and shall act reasonably and bona fide in respect
thereof and in a manner consistent with the Purchaser's interest in the Tangible
Assets. The Company shall at Closing make, or cause to be made, the
necessary claims under all applicable insurance policies and shall assign to the
Purchaser all remaining insurance proceeds, including business interruption
insurance proceeds, which are or may become receivable by the Company in respect
of any such loss, damage or destruction. Subject to the limitations contained in
Article 12, the Company shall indemnify and save harmless the Purchaser from and
against the amount of any denied insurance claim in respect of such loss, damage
or destruction where the denial is due to the negligence or willful misconduct
of the Company.
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(c)
In the event of losses, damage or destruction to the
Tangible Assets that is either uninsured or underinsured, if amounts not covered
by insurance are Material, the Purchaser may, at its option (i) elect to proceed
to Close and reduce the Purchase Price by an amount equal to the difference
between the uninsured losses and $100,000; or (ii) terminate this
Agreement.
2.5.
Liabilities
(a) Assumed
Liabilities. On and effective as of the Closing Date, Purchaser shall
assume and agree to discharge only the following Liabilities of Company (the
“Assumed Liabilities”):
(i)
any Liability to Company's customers under written warranty
agreements substantially in the forms disclosed in Schedule 2.5(a)(i) given by
Company to its customers in the ordinary course of business prior to the Closing
Date;
(ii)
any Liability arising after the Closing Date under the
Lease;
(iii) any
Liability to Company's customers incurred by Company in the ordinary course of
business for orders outstanding as of the Closing Date reflected on Company's
books;
(iv) any
Liability arising after the Closing Date under the Assumed Contracts;
or
(v) any
Liability of Company described in Schedule 2.5(a)(v).
(b) Retained
Liabilities. The Retained Liabilities shall remain the sole
responsibility of and shall be retained, paid, performed and discharged solely
by Company. “Retained Liabilities” shall mean every Liability of
Company other than the Assumed Liabilities, including but not limited
to:
(i)
any trade account payable reflected on the balance sheet contained
in the Audited Financial Statements (the “Balance Sheet”) that remains unpaid as
of the Closing Date including any credit balances contained in the accounts
receivable of the Audited Financial Statements; any trade account payable
incurred by Company in the ordinary course of the Business between the date of
the Balance Sheet and the Closing Date that remains unpaid as of the Closing
Date;
(ii) any
Liability arising out of or relating to products, software or services of
Company sold prior to the Closing Date (a “Product Liability Matter”), except to
the extent the same constitutes an Assumed Liability under Section 2.5(a)(i) or
(ii);
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(iii) any
Liability under any Contract that arises after the Closing Date but that arises
out of or relates to any event that occurred prior to the Closing
Date;
(iv) any
Liability of Company for (A) any Taxes arising as a result of Company's
operation of its business or ownership of the Assets prior to the Closing Date,
and (B) any deferred Taxes of any nature relating to any period prior to the
Closing Date;
(v) any
Liability of Company under any Contract (excluding any Assumed Contract),
including any Liability arising out of or relating to Company's credit
facilities or any security interest related thereto;
(vi) any
Environmental, Health and Safety Liabilities arising out of or relating to the
operation of Company's business or Company's leasing, ownership or operation of
real property arising out of or relating to any occurrence or event prior to the
Closing Date;
(vii) any
Liability of Company from its Shareholders;
(viii)
any Liability of Company arising out of any Proceeding pending as of
the Closing Date;
(ix) any
Liability of Company arising out of any Proceeding commenced after the Closing
Date and arising out of or relating to any occurrence or event happening prior
to the Closing Date, except to the extent the same constitutes an Assumed
Liability under this Agreement;
(x) any
Liability arising out of or resulting from Company's compliance or noncompliance
with any Legal Requirement or order of any Governmental Authority arising out of
or relating to any occurrence or event happening prior to the Closing Date;
or
(xi) any
Liability of Company under this Agreement or any other document executed in
connection with the Contemplated Transactions; or
(xii) any
Liability of the Company under Section 8.1, Section 8.3 (to the extent not
assumed in Section 8.3 by the Purchaser) or Schedule 2.5(b)(xii).
2.6. Allocation
Within
forty (40) days after the Closing, Purchaser and the Company shall jointly
prepare an allocation schedule which shall allocate the Purchase Price and the
Assumed Liabilities in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Code and
regulations thereunder (“Closing Allocation”). After the Closing, the
parties shall make consistent use of the allocations, fair market values and
useful lives specified in the Closing Allocation for all Tax purposes and in all
filings, declarations and reports with the IRS in respect thereof, including the
reports required to be filed under Section 1060 of the Code. Each of
the Purchaser and the Company shall prepare or cause to be prepared IRS Forms
8594 in accordance with such allocation and consistent with one another and in
accordance with the Code and regulations thereunder. Purchaser and
the Company shall each deliver such Forms to one another for review and comment
no later than 20 Business Days prior to filing with the IRS. For
purposes of clarity, an amount included in the Tax basis of the Assets by
Purchaser shall not be required to be taken into account or reported by the
Company (including for purposes of IRS Form 8594) to the extent such amount is
not required to be treated as an amount realized by the Company for Tax purposes
(e.g., legal fees paid by the Company in connection with acquisition of the
Assets hereunder required to be capitalized under Section 263 of the
Code).
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2.7. Prepaid
Rent
Immediately
prior to the Closing, the parties shall calculate the amount of Base Rent and
Additional Rent as such terms are defined in the Lease paid by or on behalf of
the Company relating to the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on
the next date that such Base Rent and Additional Rent is due under the Lease
(the “Prepaid Rent”), and at the Closing Purchaser shall pay to Company an
amount equal to the amount of the Prepaid Rent.
3. Representations and
Warranties of the Company. Except (i) as set forth in the
corresponding section of the Disclosure Schedule, or (ii) as expressly
contemplated or expressly permitted under this Agreement or any agreement
contemplated hereby, the Company or the Parent, as applicable, hereby represents
and warrants to Purchaser as follows:
3.1. Corporate Status and
Authority
(a)
Status: The Company and Parent are each duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of California and Delaware,
respectively, and each has the corporate power to own its property and conduct
the Business in the manner in which the Business is now being
conducted. Each of the Company and Parent is duly qualified to do
business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership of
properties or conduct of business requires such qualification and where failure
to be so qualified would have a Material Adverse Effect on the Business taken as
a whole.
(b) Due
Authorization: The execution and delivery of this Agreement and all documents,
instruments and agreements required to be executed and delivered by the Company
and Parent pursuant to this Agreement, and the completion and performance of the
Contemplated Transactions by, or contained in, this Agreement, have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and
Parent, subject to approval of this Agreement by the holders of a majority of
the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock and the holders of a
majority of the outstanding shares of the Parent’s common stock, and this
Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and Parent and
constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of each of the Company and
Parent enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, reorganization, reconstruction and other
similar laws of general application affecting the enforceability of remedies and
rights of creditors and except that equitable remedies such as specific
performance and injunction are in the discretion of a court.
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3.2. Assets
(a) Ownership:
Except for the Leased Premises, the Company owns, and has good and marketable
title to, all of the Assets free and clear of all Encumbrances, except Permitted
Encumbrances.
(b) Leases
and Leased Premises: The Leased Premises are held by the Company under the
Lease, which is valid and subsisting, is set forth in the Disclosure Schedule,
and is in full force and effect and without amendment thereto. The
Lease is complete and accurate in all respects and there are no other leases,
agreements to lease or tenancy arrangements relating to real property to which
the Company is a party and which relate to the Business except as disclosed to
the Purchaser. The Company has not previously assigned the Lease nor sublet its
interest in any of the Leased Premises under the Lease. The Company has not
released any of the other parties to the Lease from the performance of any of
their obligations thereunder. The Company is not in Material breach of any of
the terms of any Lease and the Company is not aware of any of the other parties
to the Lease, being in Material breach of any of the terms thereof, and to the
Knowledge of the Company, no event or condition has occurred which, either
immediately or after notice or lapse of time or both, could give rise to the
cancellation or termination of the Lease.
(c) Zoning:
The Leased Premises at which the Company carries on any part of the Business is
zoned to permit the particular activities carried on thereon or therein by the
Company.
(d) Taxes:
All property, municipal, school, general and special Taxes, rates, assessments,
local improvements charges, frontage Taxes, business Taxes, development cost
charges, other subdivision charges and costs and other levies which are
chargeable against the Leased Premises and payable by the Company under the
Lease have been paid in full unless the same are not due and
payable.
(e) Lands
and Buildings: The Leased Premises are the only real property used in the
conduct of the Business.
(f) State
of Tangible Personal Property: All tangible personal property included in the
Assets has been properly maintained in all Material respects, is in good working
order (where applicable) and repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted, contains
no defects known to the Company which will adversely affect the operation of the
Business to any Material degree and is in the possession of the
Company.
(g) Tangible
Personal Property: The Disclosure Schedule contains a complete list of the
tangible Personal Property owned by the Company and used solely in the conduct
of the Business that has a carrying value in excess of $1,000 per
item.
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(h) Intellectual
Property: With respect to the Intellectual Property:
(i)
The Disclosure Schedule contains a complete list
of all patents, pending patent applications, trade-marks, trade-xxxx
applications and copyright registrations used in connection with the Business,
and each jurisdiction in which application or registration has been made by or
on behalf of the Company, together with all licenses and agreements relating to
the Intellectual Property;
(ii)
the Company has the right to use, sell, make, have made,
offer for sale, import, transfer, assign, license, sub-license and prepare
derivative works for, and to dispose of, and to bring actions for the
infringement or misappropriation of, the Intellectual Property and the Company
has not conveyed, assigned or encumbered any of the Intellectual Property
rights;
(iii) all
registrations and filings necessary to preserve the rights of the Company to the
Intellectual Property have been made and are in good standing;
(iv) the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the completion and performance of
the Contemplated Transactions will not breach, violate or conflict with any
instrument or agreement governing any of the Company’s Intellectual Property,
and will not cause the forfeiture or termination of any Intellectual Property
right of Company or in any way exclude the right of the Company to use, sell,
make, have made, offer for sale, import, transfer, assign, license or dispose of
or to bring any action for the infringement of any Intellectual Property right
of Company (or any portion thereof);
(v)
the conduct of the Business by the Company does not, to
the Knowledge of the Company, infringe upon any intellectual property right,
domestic or foreign, of any Person;
(vi) there
are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company threatened, claims, actions,
demands, lawsuits or other proceedings contesting the validity, ownership or
right to use, sell, make, have made, offer for sale, import, transfer, assign,
license or dispose of any of the Intellectual Property necessary or required or
otherwise used for or in connection with the conduct of the operations of the
Business, nor to the Knowledge of the Company is there any reasonable basis for
such claim presently in existence, nor has the Company received any notice
asserting that any Intellectual Property right of the Company or the proposed
use, sale, make, have made, offer for sale, import, transfer, assign, license or
disposition thereof by the Company conflicts or will conflict with the rights of
any party, nor to the Knowledge of the Company, is there any reasonable basis
for any such assertion presently in existence;
(vii) to
the Knowledge of the Company, no Employee is in violation of any term of any
non-disclosure, proprietary rights or similar agreement between the Employee and
the Company or any former employer of such Employee;
(viii)
the Company has used its reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that all
technical information, other than technical information for which the Company
considers patent protection and defensive publication to be suitable, developed
by, and belonging to, the Company with respect to the Business or the Assets,
for which a copyright has not been registered nor patent protection sought, has
been kept confidential;
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(ix) except
for bonuses or sales commissions payable to Employees in the ordinary course of
the Business and except for the existing obligations of the Company under
licensing or similar agreements as set forth in the Disclosure Schedule, there
are no royalties, honoraria, fees or other payments payable by the Company to
any Person by reason of the ownership, use, license, sale or disposition of any
of the Intellectual Property; and
(x)
all Persons having access to or knowledge of the Intellectual Property
that is of a confidential nature and that is necessary or required or otherwise
used for or in connection with the conduct or operation or proposed conduct or
operation of the Business have entered into appropriate non-disclosure
agreements with the Company;
(i) No
Rights to Assets: There is no agreement, contract, option, commitment or other
right in favor of, or held by, any Person other than the Purchaser to purchase,
lease, license or otherwise acquire any of the Assets, other than inventory
purchase orders accepted by the Company in the ordinary course of the Business
and consistent with past practice, or to possess any of the Assets or to occupy
any part of the Leased Premises.
(j) All
Assets Used in Business: The Licensed Assets and the Assets constitute all of
the material rights, assets and properties required to operate the Business in
the ordinary course, and include all material rights, assets and properties, the
use and exercise of which are necessary for the performance of any Contract and
any Permit for the conduct of the Business as now conducted.
(k)
Inventory: To the Knowledge of the Company, none of
the Inventory is obsolete or unsaleable in the ordinary course of the Business
and all of the Inventory is new, unused and in good condition for sale, except
the maintenance Inventory which consists of used parts, in each case subject to
customary reserves maintained by the Company.
(l) Contracts
Assignable: All of the Assumed Contracts may be assigned to the Purchaser
without the consent of the other parties to the Assumed Contracts.
3.3. Business
Operations
(a)
Permits: The Company holds all Permits from required to
carry on the Business as now being carried on, and to hold, operate and use the
Assets as now being held, operated and used, by the Company, and all of the
foregoing are validly issued, are in full force and effect, are in good
standing, are being complied with in all respects and are listed in the
Disclosure Schedule; and no notice of breach or default or defect in respect of
any of their terms has been received by the Company and there are no proceedings
in progress, pending or threatened which could result in the cancellation,
revocation, suspension or adverse alteration of any of them, and the Company is
not aware of any existing matters or state of facts which is reasonably likely
to give rise to any such notice or proceeding. As of the Closing, all
Permits will be transferred or assigned to Purchaser, except where the failure
to transfer or assign would not have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Business.
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(b) Compliance
with Legal Requirements:
(i)
The Company is, and at all times since has been, in Material
compliance with each Legal Requirement that is or was applicable to it or to the
conduct or operation of its Business or the ownership or use of any of the
Assets;
(ii)
No event has occurred or circumstance exists that (with or without notice or
lapse of time) (A) would be reasonably likely to result in a Material violation
by Company of, or a failure on the part of Company to comply with, any Legal
Requirement or (B) will give rise to any Material obligation on the part of
Company to undertake, or to bear all or any portion of the cost of, any Material
remedial action of any nature; and
(iii) The
Company has not received, at any time any notice or other communication (whether
oral or written) from any Governmental Authority or any other Person regarding
(A) any actual, alleged, possible or potential violation of, or failure to
comply with, any Legal Requirement or (B) any actual, alleged, possible or
potential obligation on the part of Company to undertake, or to bear all or any
portion of the cost of, any remedial action of any nature.
(c) Governmental
Authorization: The Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and accurate list of
each Governmental Authorization that is held by Company or that otherwise
relates to the Business or the Assets. Each Governmental
Authorization listed or required to be listed in the Disclosure Schedule is
valid and in full force and effect.
(i)
the Company is, and at all times since has been,
in compliance with all of the terms and requirements of each Governmental
Authorization identified or required to be identified in the Disclosure
Schedule;
(ii)
no event has occurred or circumstance exists that will (with or
without notice or lapse of time) (A) constitute or result directly or indirectly
in a Material violation of or a failure to comply with any term or requirement
of any Governmental Authorization listed or required to be listed in the
Disclosure Schedule, or (B) result directly or indirectly in the revocation,
withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or termination of, or any modification to,
any Governmental Authorization listed or required to be listed in the Disclosure
Schedule;
(iii) the
Company has not received any notice or other communication (whether oral or
written) from any Governmental Authority or any other Person regarding (A) any
actual, alleged, possible or potential violation of or failure to comply with
any term or requirement of any Governmental Authorization or (B) any actual,
proposed, possible or potential revocation, withdrawal, suspension,
cancellation, termination of or modification to any Governmental Authorization;
and
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(iv) all
applications required to have been filed for the renewal of the Governmental
Authorizations listed or required to be listed in the Disclosure Schedule have
been duly filed on a timely basis with the appropriate Governmental
Authorization, and all other filings required to have been made with respect to
such Governmental Authorizations have been duly made on a timely basis with the
appropriate Governmental Authorization, except as would otherwise be reasonably
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Business, taken as a
whole.
The
Governmental Authorizations listed in the Disclosure Schedule collectively
constitute all of the Governmental Authorizations necessary to permit Company to
lawfully conduct and operate the Business in the manner in which it is currently
conducted and to permit Company to own and use the Assets in the manner in which
it currently owns and uses the Assets.
(v)
Compliance with Laws: Except as expressly disclosed in
this Agreement, the Company is operating and using the Assets, and is conducting
the Business, in Material compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, bylaws,
decrees, rulings, orders, judgments and regulations of each jurisdiction in
which the Assets are located or in which it conducts the Business, and of all
Governmental Authorities of each such jurisdiction, including, without
limitation, any land use or zoning bylaw or regulation, development restriction
or plan, building restriction or code.
(vi) Jurisdictions
in which Business Is Carried On: The Company carries on the Business, and Assets
are situated, in the jurisdictions listed in Schedule 3.3.
3.4. Financial
(a) Audited
Financial Statements: The Audited Financial Statements present fairly in all
Material respects the financial position, assets and liabilities (whether
accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise) as at October 31, 2008.
(b) No
Change: Since October 31, 2008:
(i)
there has been no damage, destruction, loss or other event,
from any cause whatsoever, whether or not covered by insurance, of, to or
affecting any of the Assets or any adverse change in the condition of any of the
Assets or in the organization, operations, affairs, business, properties,
prospects or financial condition or position of the Business, including, without
limitation, such changes arising as a result of any legislative or regulatory
change, or revocation of any of the Permits or of any right of the Company to
carry on business, which would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect on the Business taken as a whole;
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(ii)
there have been no events, conditions or developments, or threatened or
probable events, conditions or developments of which the Company has Knowledge,
which would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Assets or the Business;
(iii) the
Business has been carried on in the ordinary course in all Material
respects;
(iv) no
event, other than the Contemplated Transactions, has occurred which will lead to
a Material reduction in the value of the Goodwill;
(v) to
the Knowledge of the Company there has been no termination or cancellation of,
Material adverse change in, or Material adverse alteration of, the Company's
relationships with any of its customers, which customers, in the aggregate,
accounted for more than 5% of the Company's gross revenues for the financial
year of the Company ending on October 31, 2008; and
(vi) the
Company has not, in connection with the Business or the Assets, directly or
indirectly:
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incurred
any Material Liability or obligation (absolute or contingent) except for
Liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of the Business, all of which
as to their nature and amount are consistent with the Business as carried
on;
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had
any Material portion of the Assets become subject to an Encumbrance, other
than a Permitted Encumbrance, whether or not created or permitted by the
Company;
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sold,
transferred, assigned, leased or otherwise disposed of any of the Assets
or cancelled or released any Material debts or claims, except, in each
case, in the ordinary course of the
Business;
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waived
or cancelled any rights of substantial
value;
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entered
into, varied, amended, terminated or cancelled any Material instrument,
commitment, lease, indenture, contract or agreement, or entered into any
transaction, other than in the ordinary course of the
Business;
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made
or authorized any payment to or for the benefit of any officer or employee
on account of salary, pay, collateral employment benefits, commissions or
other compensation, pension, bonus, share of profits or any Benefit Plan,
except in the ordinary course of the
Business;
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made
any capital expenditure or entered into any lease with a capitalized
value, in either case, of more than $25,000;
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directly
or indirectly, engaged in or entered into any Material transaction or made
any Material disbursement or assumed or incurred any Material liability or
obligation or made any commitment to make any Material expenditure outside
the ordinary course of the
Business;
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made
any Material change in its billing practices or in the credit terms it
makes available to its customers;
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(c) Books
and Records: The Books and Records fairly and correctly set out and disclose in
all Material respects the financial position and condition, and all revenues,
expenses and results of operations, of the Business and all Material financial
transactions of the Company relating to any of the Assets or the Business have
been accurately recorded in the Books and Records in all Material respects, all
of which are under the exclusive ownership and direct control of the Company
(including all means of access thereto and therefrom).
(d) Liabilities:
The Company has no Material Liabilities except:
(i)
Liabilities disclosed on, reflected in or provided for in the Financial
Statements;
(ii)
Liabilities disclosed in the Disclosure Schedule;
and
(iii) Liabilities
incurred in the ordinary course of the Business.
(e) Product
Warranties: To the Knowledge of the Company, the Disclosure Schedule contains a
complete list of all warranties given to purchasers of products sold by the
Company in connection with the Business since January 1, 2007.
(f) Guarantees/Indemnities:
The Company has not guaranteed or indemnified, or agreed to guarantee or
indemnify, or agreed to any other like commitment, in respect of any Liability
of any Person.
(g) Customers
and Suppliers: The Company has provided the Purchaser a complete and accurate
list of the major customers of the Business (being those customers accounting
for more than 5% of sales and those suppliers of the Business accounting for
more than 5% of inventory purchases of the Company for the period October 31,
2006 to October 31 2008). Since October 31, 2008, to the Knowledge of the
Company, there has been no termination or cancellation of, and no Material and
adverse modification or change in, the Company's business relationships with any
major customer or group of major customers or any major supplier. The
Company has no Knowledge that the benefits of any relationship with any of the
major customers or suppliers of the Business will not continue after the Closing
to the benefit of the Purchaser in substantially the same manner as prior to the
date of this Agreement.
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3.5. Insurance
(a) Claims: To
the Knowledge of the Company, no claims have been made during the last five
years relating to the Assets or the Business against any of the insurance
policies of the Company, including, without limitation, any such property
damage, general liability, product liability or motor vehicle insurance
policy.
(b) Limits:
To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company has not entered into any contracts
in the last 5 years relating to the Business requiring the Company to provide
insurance coverage in an amount greater than $5,000,000.
3.6. Tax
Matters
(a) Filings:
The Company has duly filed all returns, elections and designations required to
be filed by it relating to the Assets and the Business with all Tax authorities
on a timely basis. No such returns, elections or designations contain any
Material misstatement or omit any Material statement that should have been
included, and each return, election and designation, including accompanying
schedules and statements, is true, correct and complete in all Material
respects.
(b) Payment:
The Company has paid in full all amounts (including, without limitation, excise,
sales, use and consumption Taxes and Taxes measured on income and all
installments of Taxes) owing to all federal, state, and municipal taxation
authorities due and payable by it relating to the Assets and the
Business.
3.7. Employee
Matters
(a) List
of Employees: The Company has made available to the Purchaser a complete and
accurate list of the Employees as at January 1, 2009, including a listing of the
annual salary, target bonus, position, date of hire and working location of each
such Employee. The Company has delivered to Purchaser a schedule
which sets forth the Benefit Plan entitlements and vacation entitlements of such
Employees.
(b) Employment
Contracts: The Disclosure Schedule contains a description of all oral
or written consulting contracts, employment agreements, management contracts,
labor services contracts and similar agreements or arrangements for the services
of any Employee, to which the Company is a party, which is accurate in all
respects, and none of the Employees is employed on other than an “at will” basis
terminable on reasonable notice according to law without further liability to
the Company, and the Company has not made any commitment or agreement with
respect to the period of notice, the payment of money or otherwise with respect
to the termination of employment of any of the Employees.
(c)
Unions: There is no collective agreement or other
agreement with any trade union or employee association currently in force with
the Company.
(d) Employer
Associations: The Company is not a member of any employer, management, industry
or other trade, labor relations or business association under which the Company
is obligated to contribute to any employee or contractor employee benefit or
industry enhancement fund, including any pension plan, health benefit plan or
other similar employee entitlement plan.
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(e)
Benefit Plans: The Disclosure Schedule contains a list
of all Benefit Plans applicable to Employees which is complete and accurate in
all respects. The Company has made available to Purchaser complete
and accurate descriptions of all of the Benefit Plans.
3.8. Litigation and
Claims
(a) Proceedings:
The Disclosure Schedule contains a listing and description of all current,
pending and, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, actions, claims,
demands, lawsuits, assessments, arbitrations, judgments, awards, decrees,
orders, injunctions, prosecutions and investigations, and other proceedings, of,
by, against, or relating to, the Company, any of the Assets or the Business (the
“Proceedings”). The Company is not aware of any basis for any action, claim,
demand, lawsuit, prosecution, assessment, arbitration, investigation or other
proceeding which if successful would have a Material Adverse Effect on the
Company, the Business or any of the Assets.
(b) No
Seizure: There is no appropriation, expropriation or seizure of any of the
Assets that is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, that has been
threatened.
3.9. Contracts and
Commitments
(a) Contracts:
The Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and accurate list of all Contracts
to which the Company is a party, which:
(i)
involves performance of any right or obligation by any party to it
may occur over a period of time greater than one year;
(ii)
involves an expenditure, receipt, or transfer or other
disposition of property with a value of greater than $10,000 may arise under it
other than one with a customer in the ordinary course of the
Business;
(iii) has
not been entered into in the ordinary course of the Business; or
(iv) relates
to or affects any interest in real property whether freehold, leasehold or
otherwise;
Correct
and complete copies of the foregoing Contracts have been made available to the
Purchaser and are set forth in Schedule 3.9(a).
(b) Good
Standing: The Assumed Contracts are in full force and effect as of the date
hereof and Company is not in breach of or in default under any of such Assumed
Contracts, nor has any event occurred with the passage of time, with or without
notice, that would constitute a material default by the Company under or with
respect to any Assumed Contract nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, is any
other party to such Assumed Contracts in breach or of in default
thereunder. To the Knowledge of the Company, there are no facts which
would cause or be likely to cause cancellation or revocation of any Assumed
Contract, or adversely effect the operations of the Company, Business or
Assets.
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(c) Forward
Commitments: All outstanding forward commitments by or on behalf of the Company
for the purchase or sale of inventory have been made in accordance with the
established price lists of the Company or its suppliers or, if otherwise, in
accordance with the Company's normal business custom.
3.10. Effect of
Transaction
(a) No
Adverse Implications: Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor
the completion of the Contemplated Transactions will:
(i)
give any Person the right to accelerate, terminate or cancel
any contractual right of the Company or to remove any of the
Assets;
(ii)
result in the creation of any Encumbrance (other than
Permitted Encumbrances) on any of the Assets or in a breach of or a default
under any agreement giving a third party security against any of the
Assets;
(iii) result
in a breach or contravention of or default under any provision of any Permit,
contract, agreement, instrument, lease, indenture, authority, certificate,
consent, statute, regulation, bylaw, order, ruling, decision, arbitration award,
judgment, decree or law to which the Company is a party or by or to which the
Company, or any of the Assets are bound or are subject, which, in the aggregate,
would have a Material Adverse Effect on the Assets or the Business, or which
will impair the legality or enforceability of this Agreement or the Contemplated
Transactions, or require the consent of any Person;
(iv) be
contrary to any of the provisions of the Charter Documents of the Company:
or
(v)
result in any fees, duties, assessments or other amounts
relating to the Business or the Assets becoming due or payable.
(b) Government
Approvals: Other than the filing of the Proxy Statement and the
Purchaser’s receipt of the Radioactive Possession License, there is no
authorization, license, approval, consent, order or any other action of, or any
registration, declaration, filing or notice with or to any Governmental
Authority, court, board, or administrative tribunal that is required for the
execution or delivery by the Company of this Agreement, or the completion or
performance by the Company of any of the Contemplated Transactions, or the
validity or enforceability of this Agreement against the Company.
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3.11. Environmental
(a) Hazardous
Material: No Hazardous Materials or other material used in or
generated by the Business or any of the Assets have been or are currently
placed, used, stored, treated, manufactured, disposed of, released, discharged,
spilled or emitted by the Company in violation of any applicable Environmental
Protection Laws. All Hazardous Materials disposed of, removed, emitted,
released, discharged or spilled from or treated on the land on which the Leased
Premises are situated were and are documented, handled, transported and disposed
of in compliance with all applicable Environmental Protection Laws.
(b) Waste
Disposal: All of the facilities on the land on which the Leased Premises are
situated that were or are used for the generation or disposal of Hazardous
Materials or other material used in or generated by the Business or in or on any
of the Leased Premises have been and are properly permitted and operated in
Material compliance with all applicable Environmental Protection
Laws.
(c) Environmental
Agreements: There is no agreement or consent order to which the Company is a
party relating to any environmental matter, and no such agreement or order is
necessary for the continued compliance of any of the Assets or their respective
uses or the Business with applicable Environmental Protection Laws concerning
the generation, storage or disposal of Hazardous Materials.
(d) Investigations:
There have been no orders, claims or demands issued or threatened and no
investigations conducted, taken or threatened under or pursuant to any
Environmental Protection Laws with respect to the Assets or the Business, of
which the Company has Knowledge, other than routine inspections. The Company
does not have Knowledge of any circumstances or events that have any reasonable
prospect of resulting in any claim, action or other proceeding with respect to
Hazardous Materials or in an order or investigation under or pursuant to any
Environmental Protection Laws.
(e) Permits:
All permits, licenses, approvals, authorizations, consents, registrations,
privileges, waivers, exemptions, orders, certificates, rulings, agreements or
other concessions required under applicable Environmental Protection Laws to own
or operate the Assets or carry on the Business have been obtained, all terms and
conditions attached thereto have been duly complied with, and all such permits,
licenses, approvals, authorizations, consents, privileges, waivers, exemptions,
orders, certificates, rulings, agreements and registrations are in full force
and effect and in good standing, in each case where the failure to obtain,
comply with or be in effect would be reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect on the Business taken as a whole.
(f) Adverse
Proceedings: There have been and are no actions, claims or other proceedings
commenced or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any of
the Assets or the Business pursuant to Environmental Protection Laws or with
respect to Hazardous Materials.
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(g) Nuisance;
The Company has no Knowledge of any claim for nuisance being made or threatened
against the Business or the Assets.
3.12. Audits
The
Company has made available to the Purchaser the last 3 FDA audits of the
Business, the last 6 quality systems and manufacturing audits of the Business
and the last 3 years of Audited Financial Statements with all commentary and
notes attached that are part of the audit.
3.13. Compliance with the Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act and Export Control and Antiboycott
Laws
(a) The
Company has not, to obtain or retain business, directly or indirectly offered,
paid or promised to pay, or authorized the payment of, any money or other thing
of value (including any fee, gift, sample, travel expense or entertainment with
a value in excess of $10,000 in the aggregate to any one individual in any year)
or any commission payment in excess of five percent (5%) of any amount payable,
to:
(i)
any person who is an official, officer, agent, employee or
representative of any Governmental Authority or of any existing or prospective
customer (whether government owned or nongovernment owned);
(ii)
any political party or official thereof;
(iii) any
candidate for political or political party office; or
(iv) any
other individual or entity; while knowing or having reason to believe that all
or any portion of such money or thing of value would be offered, given, or
promised, directly or indirectly, to any such official, officer, agent,
employee, representative, political party, political party official, candidate,
individual, or any entity affiliated with such customer, political party or
official or political office.
(b) Each
transaction is properly and accurately recorded on the Books and Records of
Company, and each document upon which entries in Company's Books and Records are
based is complete and accurate. The Company maintains a system of
internal accounting controls designed to insure that the Company maintains no
off-the-books accounts and that Company's assets are used only in accordance
with the Company's management directives.
(c) The
Company has at all times been in compliance with all Legal Requirements relating
to export control and trade embargoes. No product sold or service
provided by Company during the last five (5) years has been, directly or
indirectly, sold to or performed on behalf of Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya or North
Korea.
(d) Company
has not violated the antiboycott prohibitions contained in 50 U.S.C. sect. 2401
et seq. or taken any action that can be penalized under Section 999 of the
Code. During the last five (5) years, Company has not been a party
to, is not a beneficiary under and has not performed any service or sold any
product under any Company Contract under which a product has been sold to
customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates or the Republic of
Yemen.
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3.14. Brokers or
Finders
Except
for fees due to Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx & Co., neither Company nor any of its
representatives have incurred any Liability for brokerage or finders' fees or
agents' commissions or other similar payments in connection with the
Contemplated Transactions.
3.15. Representation and Warranty
of Parent.
Parent
represents, warrants and covenants that to its Knowledge all of the
representations and warranties provided by Company in this Section 3 are true
and correct and there is no fact, circumstance, occurrence or omission which
would, with or without the passage of time, with or without notice, make any
such statement untrue.
4. Representations and
Warranties of the Purchaser
The
Purchaser represents and warrants to the Company
(a) Status:
The Purchaser is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and has the corporate
power to own its property and conduct its business in the manner in which such
business is now being conducted and has full power and capacity to enter into,
carry out the Contemplated Transactions, and duly observe and perform all its
obligations contained in this Agreement.
(b) Due
Authorization: The execution and delivery of this Agreement and all documents,
instruments and agreements required to be executed and delivered by the
Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement, and the completion and performance of the
transactions and obligations contemplated by or contained in this Agreement,
have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the
Purchaser, and this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the
Purchaser and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser
enforceable in accordance with its terms.
(c) Non-contravention:
Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the completion and
performance of the Contemplated Transactions will result in a breach of or
default under, or be contrary to, any of the provisions of the Charter Documents
of the Purchaser or any Encumbrance, indenture, contract, agreement or
instrument to which the Purchaser is a party or by which the Purchaser is
bound.
(d) Sufficient
Funds. The Purchaser has sufficient funds to pay the Initial Payment
and the financial ability to satisfy its obligations under the Note in
accordance therewith.
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5. Pre-Closing Matters and
Other Covenants
5.1. Operations until
Closing
Except as
otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Management Agreement or unless
otherwise agreed or consented to in writing by the Purchaser, the Company shall
from the date of this Agreement up to the Closing:
(a) Conduct
of Business: Carry on and conduct the Business in all Material respects in the
ordinary course consistent with past practice including but not limited
to:
(i)
use all reasonable efforts to preserve the Assets and
Business intact and maintain the Assets and Business in accordance with standard
industry practice;
(ii)
not allow any of the Assets to become subject to
any Encumbrance except Permitted Encumbrances;
(iii) not
sell, lease, license, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or agree to sell, lease,
license, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any of the Assets except in the
ordinary course of the Business, consistent with past practice;
(iv) use
all reasonable efforts to keep available the services of the present Employees
for the Purchaser and to maintain relations and goodwill with suppliers,
customers and others having business relations with the Company in respect of
the Business;
(v)
make all necessary Tax, governmental and other filings
in a timely fashion; and
(vi) pay
to all its Employees all wages, salaries and commissions earned but unpaid, and
all earned but unpaid vacation pay for vacation days taken or accrued and sick
leave pay for sick leave taken and other entitlements under Benefit Plans up to
and including the Closing Date;
(vii) Intellectual
Property: Take any action reasonably necessary or required to
maintain, enforce and continue the Company’s interest in any Intellectual
Property.
(viii)
Inventory: Maintain an inventory supply of
substantially the same quantity, quality and distribution of inventory items as
exists on the date hereof.
(b) New
Capital Projects: Not, unless required by law or required to repair or replace
any loss or damage to the Assets arising subsequent to the execution of this
Agreement, commence any new capital projects the cost of which are in excess of
$5,000 in the aggregate, other than capital projects relating to
ClearPath;
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(c) Agreements:
Not amend, vary, cancel or terminate any of the Assumed Contracts or Permits, or
enter into any contract, agreement, instrument, commitment, lease, or indenture
with a total aggregate value of more than $25,000 or with a term of more than 1
year, or obtain any additional permit, license, registration or other right of
the kind described in Section 3.3(a) in connection with the Business, except any
additional permits, licenses, registrations or other rights of the kind
described in Section 3.3(a) obtained or entered into in the ordinary course of
the Business, consistent with past practice, or as required by law;
and
(d) Access:
Provide to the Purchaser, its employees, representatives and agents, reasonable
access during normal business hours to the Company's personnel and its
facilities and properties and to the Books and Records and to all, or true
copies of all, title documents, indentures, contracts, agreements, Encumbrances,
instruments, leases and other documents relating to the Assets or the Business,
and furnish them with all such information relating to the Business and the
Assets as the Purchaser from time to time reasonably requests; it being
acknowledged and agreed by the Company that no investigation made by the
Purchaser or any of its employees, representatives or agents shall have the
effect of waiving or diminishing the scope of, or otherwise affect the
Purchaser's right to rely on, any representation or warranty made by the Company
in this Agreement or in any document, instrument or agreement delivered pursuant
to this Agreement.
5.2. Confidentiality
The
Purchaser acknowledges that any information, materials and documentation
received or observed by it pursuant to or as contemplated by Section 5.1(d),
either before or after execution of this Agreement, is confidential. The
Purchaser shall take, and shall cause its employees, representatives and agents
to take, all reasonable steps and precautions to protect and maintain the
confidentiality of such information, materials and documentation; provided that
the foregoing will not prevent the Purchaser from disclosing or making available
to its accountants, professional advisors and bankers and other lenders, any
such information, materials and documentation on a confidential basis for the
purpose of carrying out the Contemplated Transactions.
5.3. Return of
Information
If the
purchase of the Business and Assets pursuant to this Agreement is not completed,
each party shall return to the other party all materials, documentation, data,
records, drawings and other papers and copies thereof (whether on paper or in
electronic, magnetic, photographic, mechanical or optical storage) relating to
the Assets or the Business which is confidential and which is in the possession
of such party and maintain the confidentiality of all information or knowledge
obtained from the other party, and not use any such information or knowledge for
any purpose whatsoever.
5.4. Consents and
Re-issues
The
Company shall use all reasonable efforts to obtain, prior to the Closing
Date:
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(a) all
consents and approvals, in form and substance satisfactory to the Purchaser,
acting reasonably, necessary for the assignment of the Company's interests in
the Assumed Contracts and the Permits, and of any other of the Assets, to the
Purchaser; and
(b) if
applicable, the re-issue of any of the Assumed Contracts and the Permits in the
name of the Purchaser, and the Company shall not, except as presently
contemplated by the terms thereof, or except with the prior written consent of
the Purchaser, agree to any amendment or variation to the terms of any of the
Assumed Contracts or the Permits in connection with, or as a condition of, such
assignment or re-issue.
The
Purchaser shall give to the Company such information and copies of such
documents relating to the Purchaser which the Company may reasonably request in
order to obtain any consent or approval, or re-issue referred to
above.
5.5. Consent Not Received by
Closing
If a
consent or approval of a third party required to permit the transfer or
assignment to the Purchaser of the Company's interest in any of the Assumed
Contracts or the Permits, or of any other of the Assets, is not received on or
before the Closing, and if, notwithstanding such non-receipt, the Company and
the Purchaser proceed to complete the sale and the purchase of the Business and
the Assets contemplated by this Agreement, the transfer or assignment of those
Assumed Contracts and Permits, and other Assets, in respect of which the
required consent has not been received on or before the Closing will not be
effective in each case until the applicable consent or approval has been
received, and such Assumed Contract or Permit, or other Asset, will be held by
the Company following the Closing in trust for the benefit and exclusive use of
the Purchaser, provided that Company shall not be required to incur
out-of-pocket costs in excess of $25,000 in the aggregate in connection with all
such consents and approvals unless Purchaser shall contemporaneously reimburse
Company for such excess costs.
5.6. Purchaser's
Covenant
The
Purchaser shall, prior to the Closing Date, execute and deliver such assumption
agreements and applications for consents in such forms and content, all as may
be reasonably required by the Company to obtain the consents and approvals, and
the re-issues, referred to in Section 5.4.
5.7. Preservation of
Records
Following
the Closing, Purchaser shall preserve and, during regular business hours and
upon reasonable notice, make available to Company and its representatives for
inspection and copying all Books and Records pertaining to the Company for
periods prior to the Closing Date, wherever located, for six years from the
Closing Date, for (i) the purposes of preparing Tax returns and financial
statements and responding to Tax audits, (ii) the purposes of prosecuting or
defending any claim, litigation, proceeding or investigation which arises out of
or relates to the Company or this Agreement, and (iii) any other reasonable
business purpose of Company.
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5.8. FDA
Matters
Pursuant
to FDA’s existing transfer procedure, Company shall:
(a)
file with FDA an original and a copy of a letter (on its
letterhead and signed by a duly authorized Person) notifying FDA of the change
of ownership of the Business (including any FDA filings) to Purchaser;
and
(b) provide
Purchaser with a complete copy of any pre-market approval (“PMA”) or 510k
approvals for any products sold in connection with the Business.
Purchaser
shall be responsible for all other steps necessary to perfect the transfer of
the PMA under FDA’s rules and procedures, including but not limited to,
providing FDA with a written commitment to comply with conditions of approval
applicable to the PMA Approval.
5.9. Stockholder Approval;
Preparation of Proxy Statement
(a) The
Parent shall, as soon as practicable after the Proxy Statement is cleared by the
SEC for mailing to the Parent’s stockholders, duly call, give notice of, convene
and hold a meeting of its stockholders (the “Stockholders Meeting”) as soon as
practicable following mailing of the final Proxy Statement for the purpose of
obtaining the approval of this Agreement by the holders of a majority of the
Parent’s outstanding common stock (the “Parent Stockholder
Approval”).
(b) The
Parent shall, in consultation with Purchaser, prepare and file a preliminary
Proxy Statement with the SEC as soon as practicable following the date hereof
and shall use its reasonable efforts to respond promptly to any comments of the
SEC or its staff and cause the Proxy Statement to be cleared by the SEC, and, to
the extent permitted by law and subject to this Section 5.11(b), to cause the
Proxy Statement to be mailed to the Parent’s stockholders as promptly as
practicable after responding to all such comments to the satisfaction of the
staff. The Parent shall notify the Purchaser promptly of the receipt
of any comments from the SEC or its staff and of any request by the SEC or its
staff for amendments or supplements to the Proxy Statement or for additional
information with respect to the Proxy Statement or the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement. If at any time prior to the Stockholders Meeting
there shall occur any event that should be set forth in an amendment or
supplement to the Proxy Statement, the Parent shall promptly prepare and mail to
its stockholders such an amendment or supplement, in each case to the extent
required by applicable law. Purchaser shall cooperate with the Parent
in the preparation of the Proxy Statement or any amendment or supplement
thereto. The Purchaser shall cooperate with Parent in the preparation
of the Proxy Statement, including providing any information regarding the
Purchaser or its business required to be disclosed in the Proxy
Statement.
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5.10. World Wide Medical
Technologies and Idea Matrix. Company shall use its
commercially reasonable best efforts to ensure that any rights, releases,
licenses, or covenants not to xxx that Company obtains from World Wide Medical
Technologies or Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx in connection with pending litigation are
transferable to any successor of Company, including Purchaser.
5.11. Non-Competition
Agreement. Prior to the Closing Date, the parties will work
together to enter into a non-competition agreement in favor of Purchaser to be
signed by Company and Parent (the “Non-Competition Agreement”). The
Non-Competition Agreement shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law,
prohibit Company and Parent from competing with Purchaser within the prostate
brachytherapy business but excluding any ClearPath business.
5.12. No
Shop. Company shall discontinue any solicitation or
negotiation of offers regarding the sale of all or part of the Assets or
Business with any other party.
6. Additional Obligations of
the Parties
6.1. Mutual License
Agreement. Prior to the Closing, the parties shall enter into a certain
Mutual License Agreement to permit Purchaser to license the certain of the
Excluded Assets of the Company listed on Schedule 6.1 (the “Licensed Assets”),
hereto and to permit the Company to license the Licensed Assets for a period of
6 months following the Closing (the “Transfer Period”). During the
Transfer Period the parties will work together and provide reasonable assistance
in order to facilitate the orderly transition of each party. The
Mutual License shall provide that the Licensing party’s use of the Licensed
Assets shall be limited to the use in existence as of the Closing Date and shall
not substantially increase or alter the use of the licensed
assets. Either party shall be permitted to extend the Transfer Period
for an additional 60 days upon 15 days written notice prior to the expiration of
the initial Transfer Period. The Licensed Assets shall be agreed to
by the parties prior to the Closing Date.
6.2. Computer Hardware and
Computer Software. The parties will work together to ensure
that as of the Closing Date the Purchaser shall have sufficient computer
hardware and software to be able to operate the Business in the ordinary
course. Similarly, Company desires to retain sufficient computer
hardware and software to operate its remaining business. To that end,
the parties acknowledge and agree that there may be adjustments made to the
Computer Hardware and Computer Software included in the Assets prior to the
Closing Date and that they will work together to come to a fair and equitable
distribution of the Computer Hardware and Computer Software.
7. Conditions of
Closing
7.1. Conditions of the
Purchaser
The
obligation of the Purchaser to complete the purchase of the Business and the
Assets contemplated by this Agreement is subject to the fulfillment of the
following conditions:
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(a) Representations
and Warranties: The representations and warranties of the Company contained in
this Agreement shall be true and correct as of the Closing with the same effect
as though such representations and warranties had been made as of the Closing
(provided that those representations and warranties which address matters only
as of a particular date shall have been true and correct only on such date),
except where the failure of such representations and warranties to be true and
correct would not be reasonably likely to, individually or in the aggregate,
have a Material Adverse Effect on the Business;
(b) Covenants:
All of the covenants and obligations of the Company to be performed or observed
on or before the Closing pursuant to this Agreement having been duly performed
or observed in all Material respects;
(c) Releases:
There having been delivered to the Purchaser duly executed releases in
registrable form where applicable, of or evidence to the satisfaction of the
Purchaser as to the discharge of, all Encumbrances against the
Assets;
(d) Non-Competition
Agreement: The Company having executed and delivered to the Purchaser a
non-competition\non-solicitation agreement in the form reasonably acceptable to
the parties;
(e) The
Company shall have obtained the Product Liability Insurance;
(f)
The Parent Stockholder Approval shall have been
obtained;
(g) The
Company shall have obtained the required consent to transfer the Leased
Premises;
(h) The
Company shall have entered into the Mutual License Agreement;
(i) The
Company shall have entered into an assignment of all Intellectual Property
rights, in a form reasonably acceptable to Purchaser and completed all required
filing documentation;
(j) The
Company shall have delivered to Purchaser a Xxxx of Sale substantially in a form
reasonably acceptable Purchaser;
(k) The
Company shall have delivered to Purchaser a General Assignment and Assumption in
a form reasonably acceptable to Purchaser;
(l) Purchaser
shall have received a permit from (or Company has transferred to Purchaser) a
Device Manufacturing License from the California Department of Health Services;
and
(m) Company
shall have delivered to Purchaser a Secretary’s Certificate certifying (i) the
Company’s authority to enter into this Agreement; (ii) the authenticity of the
signatories; and (iii) the accuracy of the statements made in Article
3.
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The
foregoing conditions are for the benefit of the Purchaser only and accordingly
the Purchaser will be entitled to waive compliance with any such conditions if
it sees fit to do so, without prejudice to its rights and remedies at law and in
equity and also without prejudice to any of its rights of termination in the
event of non-performance of any other conditions in whole or in
part.
7.2. Conditions of the
Company
The
obligation of the Company to complete the sale of the Business and the Assets
contemplated by this Agreement is subject to the fulfillment of each of the
following conditions:
(a) Representations
and Warranties: The representations and warranties of the Purchaser contained in
this Agreement being true and correct in all Material respects on and as of the
Closing with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had
been made as of the Closing (provided that those representations and warranties
which address matters only as of a particular date shall have been true and
correct only on such date);
(b) Covenants:
All of the covenants and obligations of the Purchaser to be performed or
observed on or before the Closing pursuant to this Agreement having been duly
performed or observed in all Material respects;
(c) General
Assignment and Assumption Agreement: The Purchaser having executed and delivered
to Company the Assumption Agreement, in the form reasonably acceptable to
Purchaser;
(d) To
the extent required by the terms of the Lease, the landlord under the Lease
shall have consented to the assignment thereof to the Purchaser;
(e)
The Parent Stockholder Approval shall have been
obtained;
(f) Purchaser
shall have entered into the Mutual License Agreement;
(g) The
Company shall have obtained the Product Liability Insurance;
(h) The
Purchaser shall have delivered an executed Note;
(i) The
Purchaser shall have delivered the Initial Payment;
(j) If
this Agreement is assigned by Purchaser to an Affiliate prior to the Closing
Date, Purchaser shall have delivered a Guaranty in a form reasonably acceptable
to Company; and
(k) Purchaser
shall have delivered to Seller a Secretary’s Certificate certifying (i) the
Purchaser’s authority to enter into this Agreement; (ii) the authenticity of the
signatories; and (iii) the accuracy of the statement made in Article
4.
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The
foregoing conditions are for the benefit of the Company only and accordingly the
Company will be entitled to waive compliance with any such conditions if it sees
fit to do so, without prejudice to its rights and remedies at law and in equity
and also without prejudice to any of its rights of termination in the event of
non-performance of any other conditions in whole or in part.
7.3. Mutual
Conditions
The
obligations of the Company to complete the sale of the Business and Assets
contemplated by this Agreement and of the Purchaser to complete the purchase of
the Business and Assets as contemplated by this Agreement are subject to
fulfillment of the following conditions:
(a) No
Orders or Proceedings: No injunction or restraining order or other decision,
ruling or order of a court, board, Governmental Authority or administrative
tribunal of competent jurisdiction being in effect which prohibits, restrains,
limits or imposes conditions on the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
and no action or proceeding having been instituted or remaining pending or
having been threatened before any such court, board, Governmental Authority or
administrative tribunal to restrain, prohibit, limit or impose conditions on the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement
7.4. Termination. In
the event that any of the conditions set forth in this Article VI is not
performed or fulfilled at or before July 1, 2009, either the Purchaser or the
Company may, subject to Section 11.11, terminate this Agreement, in which event
the parties will be released from all obligations under this Agreement, except
that no party will be released from its obligations, or may terminate this
Agreement, if it was reasonably capable of causing such condition or conditions
to be fulfilled or has breached any of its covenants or obligations in or under
this Agreement.
8. Employees
8.1. Company
Actions
Subject
to the terms of the Management Agreement, the Company shall pay all earned and
outstanding compensation owing to the Employees as of the Closing Date,
including without limitation, salary, wages, overtime, benefits, commissions,
sick leave pay for sick leave taken, and vacation pay for vacation days taken or
accrued. The Company shall provide to the Purchaser evidence, reasonably satisfactory to the Purchaser at the
Closing, that the said Employees’ employment has been terminated and that they
have been paid as aforesaid.
8.2. No New Contractual Rights or
Obligations
Nothing
contained in this Article VII dealing with the Employees shall be construed as
creating new contractual rights and/or obligations on the part of the Company or
the Purchaser to any current or former Employee.
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9.
Closing
Transactions
9.1. Time and
Place
The
Closing shall take place in the offices of the Purchaser at 1:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the Closing Date; or at such other time and date, or both, as the
Company and the Purchaser or their respective counsel may agree
upon.
9.2. Company's Closing
Documents
At the
Closing, the Company shall deliver the following to the Purchaser:
(a) all
deeds, bills of sale, conveyances, transfers, assignments, instruments and other
documents which are necessary to assign, sell and transfer the Assets to the
Purchaser as contemplated by this Agreement in such form and content as the
Purchaser may require, acting reasonably including the Assignment of
Intellectual Property; General Assignment and Assumption and Xxxx of
Sale;
(b) certified
copies of a resolution of the directors and a resolution of the shareholder of
the Company approving the completion of the Contemplated Transactions including,
without limitation, the sale of the Business and Assets, and the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and all documents, instruments and agreements
required to be executed and delivered by the Company pursuant to this Agreement
in such form and content as the Purchaser may require, acting
reasonably;
(c) possession
of the Assets; and
(d) if
not previously delivered to the Purchaser, the original Assumed Contracts and
Permits to the extent in the possession of the Company.
9.3. Purchaser's Closing
Documents
At the
Closing the Purchaser shall deliver the following to the Company:
(a)
the cash portion of the Purchase Price;
(b) the
Note;
(c) certified
copies of resolutions of the directors of the Purchaser approving the
Contemplated Transactions, including, without limitation, the purchase of the
Business and the Assets, and the execution and delivery of this Agreement and
all documents, instruments and agreements required to be executed and delivered
by the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement in such form and content as the
Company may require, acting reasonably.
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9.4.
Concurrent
Delivery
It shall
be a condition of the Closing that all matters of payment and the execution and
delivery of documents by any party to the others pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement shall be concurrent requirements and that nothing will be complete at
the Closing until everything required as a condition precedent to the Closing
has been paid, executed and delivered, as the case may be.
9.5. Transfer of Assets and
Business
Subject
to compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the transfer of
the Assets and the Business to the Purchaser shall be deemed to take effect as
at the Closing.
10. Survival of Representations
and Recourse
10.1. Survival
The
representations, warranties, covenants and obligations of the Company in or
under this Agreement shall survive the completion of the Contemplated
Transactions regardless of any investigations that the Purchaser may make or
cause to be made, or knowledge it may have, prior to the Closing and shall
continue in full force and effect for a period of one year from the Closing
Date.
The
representations, warranties, covenants and obligations of the Purchaser in or
under this Agreement and in or under any documents, instruments and agreements
delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall survive the completion of the
transactions contemplated hereby regardless of any independent investigations
that the Company may make or cause to be made, or knowledge either of them may
have, prior to the Closing and shall continue in full force and effect for a
period of one year from the Closing Date, provided that Purchaser's obligations
with respect to the Assumed Liabilities and under Sections 2.6, 7.2, and Article
10 shall continue thereafter in accordance with their terms.
10.2. Indemnification by
Company. The Company shall indemnify and hold Purchaser
harmless against and with respect to, and shall reimburse Purchaser for any and
all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses, damages awards, payments,
dimumition in value and other losses, however suffered or characterized, and all
interest thereon and all costs and expenses of investigating any claim, lawsuit,
or arbitration and any appeal therefrom or any negotiations, settlement or other
act required to remedy the breach including reasonable attorney's fees
(collectively “Losses”) arising out of or related to:
(a) Any
breach of any representation or warranty, or nonfulfillment of any covenant by
Company contained herein;
(b) Any
and all Retained Liabilities; and
(c) Any
and all actions, suits, proceedings, claims, demands, assessments, judgments,
costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and
expenses, incident to any of the foregoing or incurred in investigating or
attempting to avoid the same or to oppose the imposition thereof, or in
enforcing this indemnity;
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provided
that with respect to any claim for indemnification under this Section
10.2:
(d) Except
for claims arising under Sections 3.1 (Corporate Status and Authority); 3.2(d)
(Taxes); and 3.11 (Environmental) written notice of such claim shall be given by
or on behalf of the Purchaser to the Company, as the case may be, within
eighteen (18) months from the Closing Date;
(i)
the aggregate amount of all such Losses exceeds $100,000;
(ii)
the Company shall have liability only to the extent that
the aggregate amount of the Losses under (ii) exceeds $100,000, and then only
for the amount of any such excess; and
(iii) the
aggregate amount of liability for all such Losses is limited to the lesser
of $4,000,000 or amounts paid under the Initial Payment and Note,
provided that any amounts withheld under Section 10.7 shall be included in
calculating the maximum liability amount.
10.3. Indemnification by
Purchaser. Purchaser shall indemnify and hold Company harmless
against and with respect to, and shall reimburse Company for any and
all Losses arising from or related to:
(a) Any
breach of any representation or warranty or nonfulfillment of any covenant by
Purchaser contained herein;
(b) Any
and all of the Assumed Liabilities;
(c) Any
and all actions, suits, proceedings, claims, demands, assessments, judgments,
costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and
expenses, incident to any of the foregoing or incurred in investigating or
attempting to avoid the same or to oppose the imposition thereof, or in
enforcing this indemnity; and
provided
that with respect to any claim for indemnification under this Section
10.3:
(d) Except
for claims arising under Sections 4.1 (Corporate Status and Authority), written
notice of such claim shall be given by or on behalf of the Company to Purchaser,
as the case may be, within eighteen (18) months from the Closing
Date;
(i)
the aggregate amount of all such Losses exceeds
$100,000;
(ii)
the Purchaser shall have liability only to the extent
that the aggregate amount of the Losses under (ii) exceeds $100,000, and then
only for the amount of any such excess; and
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(iii) the
aggregate amount of liability for all such Losses is limited to
$4,000,000;
provided
that with respect to any claim for indemnification based upon a breach of a
representation or warranty by the Purchaser under this Agreement, written notice
of such claim is given on behalf of the Company to the Purchaser within eighteen
(18) months of the Closing Date.
10.4. Defense of Third Party
Claims
In the
event of a claim (an “Indemnity Claim”) being made by a third party against a
party to this Agreement (the “Indemnified Party”) in respect of which, subject
to Sections 10.2 and 10.3, another party to this Agreement (the “Indemnifier”)
is or may be obligated under or arising out of this Agreement to indemnify, pay
damages to or otherwise compensate the Indemnified Party, the following
provisions shall apply.
The
Indemnified Party shall promptly give written notice to the Indemnifier of any
Indemnity Claim in respect of which the Indemnified Party intends to claim for
indemnification against the Indemnifier. Such notice shall specify with
reasonable particularity (to the extent that the information is available) the
nature of the Indemnity Claim. The Indemnifier may, at its own expense, assume
control of the negotiation, settlement and defense of such Indemnity Claim. The
Indemnified Party shall co-operate with the Indemnifier in respect of such
Indemnity Claim and the Indemnifier shall reimburse the Indemnified Party for
all the Indemnified Party's reasonable expenses as a result of the Indemnifier's
assumption of such Indemnity Claim and arising from the Indemnified Party's
co-operation.
The
Indemnified Party will have the right to participate in the negotiation,
settlement and defense of such Indemnity Claim at its own expense and will have
the right to disagree on reasonable grounds with the selection and retention of
counsel, in which case counsel satisfactory to the Indemnifier and the
Indemnified Party shall be retained by the Indemnifier. If the Indemnifier fails
to defend any Indemnity Claim within a reasonable time, the Indemnified Party
will be entitled to assume control of the Indemnity Claim at the expense of the
Indemnifier and the Indemnifier will be bound by the results obtained by the
Indemnified Party with respect to such Indemnity Claim.
The
following provisions shall also apply with respect to Indemnity
Claims:
(a)
In the event that any Indemnity Claim is of a
nature such that the Indemnified Party is legally bound or required by
applicable law to make a payment to any person (a “Third Party”) with respect to
such Indemnity Claim before the completion of settlement negotiations or related
legal proceedings, including, without limitation, the posting of any security to
stay any process of execution or judgment, the Indemnifier shall be obligated to
make such payment or post security therefor on behalf of the Indemnified Party.
If the Indemnifier fails to do so, the Indemnified Party may make such payment
or post security therefor and the Indemnifier shall, forthwith after demand by
the Indemnified Party, reimburse the Indemnified Party for any such payment or
cause the security to be replaced and released. If the amount of any liability
of the Indemnified Party under the Indemnity Claim in respect of which such a
payment was made, as finally determined, is less than the amount which was paid
by the Indemnifier to the Indemnified Party, the Indemnified Party shall,
forthwith after receipt of the difference from the Third Party, pay the amount
of such difference to the Indemnifier.
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(b)
Except in the circumstance contemplated by Section
10.4(a) above, and unless the Indemnifier fails to assume control of the
negotiation, settlement and defense of any Indemnity Claim, the Indemnified
Party shall not negotiate, settle, compromise or pay any Indemnity Claim except
with the prior written consent of the Indemnifier (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld).
(c) The
Indemnified Party shall not permit any right of appeal in respect of any
Indemnity Claim to terminate without giving the Indemnifier notice thereof and
an opportunity to contest such Indemnity Claim.
(d) The
Indemnified Party and the Indemnifier shall co-operate fully with each other
with respect to Indemnity Claims, shall keep each other fully advised with
respect thereto (including supplying copies of all relevant documentation
promptly as it becomes available) and shall each designate a senior officer who
will keep himself or herself informed about and be prepared to discuss the
Indemnity Claim with his or her counterpart and with counsel at all reasonable
times.
(e) Notwithstanding
the above provisions of this Section 10.4, the Indemnifier shall not settle any
Indemnity Claim or conduct any related legal or administrative proceeding in a
manner which would, in the opinion of the Indemnified Party, acting reasonably,
have a Material adverse impact on the Indemnified Party.
(f) The
provisions of this Section 10.4 are intended to set out the procedures to be
followed with respect to an Indemnity Claim and, provided the Indemnified Party
follows such procedures in all Material respects, nothing contained in this
Section 10.4 will derogate from the Indemnifier's obligations to indemnify the
Indemnified Party.
10.5. Characterization of
Indemnification Payments
All
payments paid by any party under this Article 10 shall be
treated as adjustments to the Purchase Price for all Tax purposes.
10.6. Computation of Losses;
Disputes
The
amount of any Losses for which indemnification is provided under this Article 10 shall be
reduced by (a) any related Tax benefits if and when actually realized or
received (but only after taking into account any Tax benefits (including,
without limitation, any net operating losses or other deductions and any
carryovers or carrybacks) to which the Indemnified Party would be entitled
without regard to such item), except to the extent such recovery has already
been taken into account in determining the amount of any such Losses, and (b)
any insurance recovery if and when actually realized or received, in each case
in respect of such Losses. Any such recovery shall be promptly repaid
by the Indemnified Party to the Indemnifier following the time at which such
recovery is realized or received pursuant to the previous sentence, minus all
reasonably allocable costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in
obtaining such recovery. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if (x) the
amount of Losses for which the Indemnifier is obligated to indemnify the
Indemnified Party is reduced by any Tax benefit or insurance recovery in
accordance with the provisions of the previous sentence, and (y) the Indemnified
Party subsequently is required to repay the amount of any such Tax benefit or
insurance recovery or such Tax benefit or insurance recovery is disallowed, then
the obligation of the Indemnifier to indemnify with respect to such amounts
shall be reinstated immediately and such amounts shall be paid promptly to the
Indemnified Party in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement.
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10.7. Right of
Off-Set. In the event the Company fails to remit any the
indemnified amounts within 30 days after Purchaser provides notice of an
indemnified claim, Purchaser shall be entitled to suspend all payments due under
the Note, up to 110% of the claim, until the conclusion or settlement of the
indemnified claim (“Suspension Period”). During the Suspension
Period, the Purchaser shall hold the Note payments otherwise due in a separate
interest bearing account, and shall provide the Company with a monthly
accounting. After the conclusion or settlement of the indemnified
claim, Purchaser may off-set any amounts owed to Purchaser as an indemnified
party against payments due on the Note and accrued during the Suspension Period
payments due on the Note until all indemnified amounts have been
recouped. Purchaser’s right of off-set shall not limit Purchaser’s
right to recover any amounts in excess of the Note payments off-set from the
Company.
10.8. No Consequential
Damages
The
obligations of the Indemnifier in respect of a claim for indemnification under
this Agreement shall not include any special, exemplary or consequential
damages, including business interruption or lost profits, or any punitive
damages, except to the extent awarded to any third party.
10.9. Mitigation
Each of
the parties agrees to take all reasonable steps to mitigate their respective
Losses upon and after becoming aware of any event which could reasonably be
expected to give rise to any Losses that are indemnifiable
hereunder.
10.10. Subrogation
Upon
making any indemnification payment, the Indemnifier will, to the extent of such
payment, be subrogated to all rights of the Indemnified Party against any Third
Party in respect of the Loss to which the payment relates. Without
limiting the generality of any other provision hereof, each such Indemnifier and
Indemnified Party will duly execute upon request all instruments reasonably
necessary to evidence and perfect the above-described subrogation
rights.
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10.11.
Exclusivity
From and
after the Closing, none of the parties hereto shall be liable or responsible in
any manner whatsoever to any other party, whether for indemnification or
otherwise, except for indemnity as expressly provided in this Article 10, which
provides the exclusive remedies and causes of action of the parties hereto with
respect to any matter arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any
Schedule or Exhibit hereto or any opinion or certificate delivered in connection
herewith or any of the transactions contemplated hereby. The
limitations on liability contained in this Article 10 shall not apply to
liability for fraud on the part of any of the parties to this
Agreement.
10.12.
Product Liability
Insurance
The
Company will use best commercial efforts to obtain prepaid product liability
insurance reasonably acceptable to Purchaser with respect to products
manufactured or sold prior to the Closing Date for a period of 5 years from the
Closing Date in the amount of $5,000,000.00, which shall name the Purchaser as a
named insured (the “Product Liability Insurance”). If Company obtains
the Product Liability Insurance, then notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary in this Agreement, Purchaser’s sole recourse with respect to any
Product Liability Matter shall be to the Product Liability
Insurance. The Company shall not terminate, assign or cancel such
Product Liability Insurance during the 5 year term.
11. Miscellaneous
11.1.
Legal and Other Fees
and Expenses
Unless
otherwise specifically provided herein, the parties will pay their respective
legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses incurred by each of
them in connection with the negotiation and settlement of this Agreement, the
completion of the Contemplated Transactions and other matters pertaining
hereto.
11.2. Notices
Any
notice, request, demand or other communication required or permitted to be given
under this Agreement shall be in writing and delivered by hand, facsimile
transmission or prepaid registered mail (return receipt requested) to the party
to which it is to be given as follows:
To the
Company:
North
American Scientific, Inc.
00000
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxx
X. Xxxx
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
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with a
copy to:
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
To the
Purchaser:
Best
Medical International, Inc.
0000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
with a
copy to:
Best
Medical International, Inc.
0000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Facsimile
No.: (000) 000-0000
or to
such other address or fax number as a party may specify by notice given in
accordance with this Section 11.2. Any such notice, request, demand or
other communication given as aforesaid will be deemed to have been given, in the
case of delivery by hand, when delivered, in the case of delivery by facsimile
transmission, when a legible facsimile is received by the recipient if received
before 5:00 p.m. on a Business Day, or on the next Business Day if such
facsimile is received on a day which is not a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. on
a Business Day.
11.3. Further
Assurances
Each of
the parties shall execute and deliver such further documents, instruments and
agreements and do such further acts and things as may be reasonably required
from time to time, either before, on or after the Closing Date, to carry out the
full intent and meaning of this Agreement, give effect to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and assure to the Purchaser good and valid title
to the Assets, free and clear of all Encumbrances, provided that no party shall
be required to incur any out-of-pocket costs in excess of $25,000.00 in the
aggregate after the Closing in connection with the foregoing, and any
unreimbursed costs incurred under Section 6.5 shall count against said
limit. The Company shall seek to enforce its rights under any third
party non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements on behalf of and at the
request and expense of Purchaser.
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11.4.
Time of the
Essence
Time
shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
11.5. Entire
Agreement
This
Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Company and the Purchaser
pertaining to the Contemplated Transactions and supersedes all prior agreements,
undertakings, negotiations and discussions, whether oral or written, of the
Company and the Purchaser, other than the Confidentiality Agreement between the
Company and the Purchaser, which shall continue in effect in accordance with its
terms, and there are no warranties, representations, covenants, obligations or
agreements between the Company (or any Affiliate thereof) and the Purchaser
except as set forth in this Agreement.
11.6. Assignment
Except
with the written consent of the other parties (which may be arbitrarily
withheld), none of the parties may assign any of their respective benefits,
obligations or liabilities under or in respect of this Agreement; provided
however that, at any time prior to the Closing, the Purchaser may, without any
such consent, assign all of its rights and benefits under this Agreement to any
Affiliate of the Purchaser which delivers to the Company an instrument in
writing executed by the Affiliate confirming that it is bound by and shall
perform all of the covenants and obligations of the Purchaser under this
Agreement as if it were an original signatory thereto, jointly and severally
bound thereby with the Purchaser, and such instrument in writing shall contain
an acknowledgement of the Purchaser that it continues to be bound by this
Agreement and that Purchaser shall deliver a guarantee of all of Purchaser’s
obligations under this Agreement; provided further the Company may assign this
Agreement in connection with a change of control of the Company or Parent or the
sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or Parent without
obtaining the prior written consent of the Purchaser. Unless otherwise agreed in
writing, no such assignment will relieve the Party of its obligations and
liabilities under this Agreement. In the event of an assignment contemplated
above, any reference in this Agreement to “Purchaser” or “Company” will be
deemed to include the aforesaid assignee.
11.7. Invalidity
Each of
the provisions contained in this Agreement is distinct and severable and a
determination of illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of any such
provision or part hereof by a court of competent jurisdiction shall not affect
the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof, unless as a result
of such determination this Agreement would fail in its essential
purposes.
11.8. Transfer
Taxes
The
Purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of any transfer, sales, use,
stamp, conveyance, value added, recording, registration, documentary, filing and
other similar non-Income Taxes and administrative fees (including, without
limitation, notary fees) (“Transfer Taxes”) arising in connection with the
consummation of the Contemplated Transactions, whether levied on the Purchaser
or any of their respective Affiliates. The Company and the Purchaser
shall cooperate to minimize such Transfer Taxes. If a resale
certificate, resale purchase exemption certificate, production machinery and
equipment exemption certificate or other certificate or document of exemption is
required to reduce or eliminate the Transfer Taxes, Purchaser will promptly
furnish such certificate or document to the Company or Purchaser will cooperate
with the Company to allow the Company to obtain such reduction or exemption from
Transfer Taxes.
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11.9. [Intentionally
Omitted]
11.10. Waiver and
Amendment
Except as
expressly provided in this Agreement, no amendment or waiver of it will be
binding unless made in writing by the party to be bound by such amendment or
waiver. No waiver of any provision, or any portion of any provision, of this
Agreement will constitute a waiver of any other part of the provision or any
other provision of this Agreement nor a continuing waiver unless otherwise
expressly provided.
11.11. Surviving Provisions on
Termination
Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Agreement, if this Agreement is terminated, the
provisions of Sections 5.2, 5.3, and 10.1 shall survive such termination and
remain in full force and effect.
11.12. Captions
The
captions in this Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and
shall not be considered a part of or affect the construction or interpretation
of any provision of this Agreement.
11.13. Counterparts
This
Agreement may be signed in counterparts and each such counterpart will
constitute an original document and such counterparts, taken together, will
constitute one and the same instrument. Electronically transmitted or
facsimile copies shall be deemed to be originals.
11.14. Enurement
This
Agreement will enure to the benefit of and will be binding upon the parties and
their respective successors and any Affiliate of the Purchaser which is an
assignee of the Purchaser, and any other assignee consented to, as contemplated
in Section 11.6.
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WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have executed this Agreement as of the day and year
first above written.
PURCHASER
Best
Theratronics, Ltd.
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