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EXHIBIT 10.3
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
THIS AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER is made as of February 24,
2005 (this "MERGER AGREEMENT") by and among Patron Systems,
Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("PARENT"), LL Acquisition I Corp., a Delaware
corporation and
wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("MERGERCO"), and LucidLine,
Inc., an Illinois
corporation (the "COMPANY") (Mergerco and the Company are
hereinafter
collectively referred to as the "CONSTITUENT CORPORATIONS").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Company was incorporated by the filing of
Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the
State of Illinois
on June 18, 2001;
WHEREAS, Mergerco was incorporated by the filing of Articles
of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware on January
26, 2005;
WHEREAS, the Company is an Illinois corporation having
authorized capital consisting of 10,000,000 shares of Common
Stock, no par value
per share (the "COMPANY COMMON STOCK"), all of which shall be
issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (as
hereinafter defined).
WHEREAS, Mergerco is a Delaware corporation having
authorized
capital of 1,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per
share ("MERGERCO
COMMON STOCK"), all of which shall be issued and outstanding
immediately prior
to the Effective Time;
WHEREAS, the respective Board of Directors of each
Constituent
Corporation has approved this Merger Agreement and the
Merger;
WHEREAS, the Constituent Corporations and Parent are
concurrently entering into a Supplemental Agreement (the
"SUPPLEMENTAL
AGREEMENT") that, among other things, sets forth certain
covenants, agreements,
representations and warranties with respect to the Merger and
the transactions
contemplated by this Merger Agreement; and
WHEREAS, certain capitalized terms are defined in the
Supplemental Agreement and shall have the same meaning when used
in this
Agreement unless otherwise defined herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
THE MERGER
SECTION 1.1 THE MERGER. Upon the terms and subject to the
conditions
hereof and of the Supplemental Agreement, and in accordance with
the Delaware
General Corporation Law ("DGCL") and the Illinois Business
Corporation Act of
1983, as amended ("IBCA"), at the Effective Time (as hereinafter
defined),
Mergerco shall be merged with and into the Company,
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which, as the corporation surviving in the Merger (the
"SURVIVING Corporation"),
shall continue unaffected and unimpaired by the Merger to exist
under and be
governed by the laws of the State of Illinois. Upon the
effectiveness of the
Merger, the separate existence of Mergerco shall cease except to
the extent
provided by applicable law in the case of a corporation after
its merger into
another corporation.
SECTION 1.2 EFFECTIVE TIME. As promptly as practicable after
the
satisfaction or, if permissible, waiver of the conditions set
forth in Article
VI of the Supplemental Agreement, the parties hereto shall cause
the Merger to
be consummated by filing this Merger Agreement with the
Secretary of State of
the State of Delaware pursuant to Section 252 of the DGCL and
the Secretary of
State of the State of Illinois pursuant to Section 11.35 of the
IBCA. When used
in this Merger Agreement, the term "EFFECTIVE TIME" shall mean
the date and time
of receipt of the Merger Agreement for filing by the Secretary
of State of the
State of Illinois unless a delayed effective time is specified
therein.
SECTION 1.3 EFFECTS OF THE MERGER. The Merger shall have the
effects
set forth in Section 252 of the DGCL and Section 11.35 of the
IBCA. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto,
at the Effective
Time, except as otherwise provided herein, all of the property,
rights,
privileges, powers and franchises of Mergerco and the Company
shall vest in the
Surviving Corporation, and all debts, liabilities and duties of
Mergerco and the
Company shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of the
Surviving
Corporation. The Surviving Corporation shall be a wholly owned
subsidiary of
Parent.
SECTION 1.4 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS OF THE
SURVIVING
CORPORATION; OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. The Articles of
Incorporation of the
Surviving Corporation shall be amended and restated as of the
Effective Time as
set forth in EXHIBIT A attached hereto. From and after the
Effective Time, until
their successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified,
the directors and
the officers of the Surviving Corporation shall be as
follows:
DIRECTORS
Rafiq Kaswani
Afi Hasan
Mahmoud Ismail
OFFICERS
NAME OFFICE
Rafiq Kaswani President & Chief Executive Officer
Afi Hasan Secretary & Treasurer
SECTION 1.5 EFFECT ON STOCK. As of the Effective Time, by virtue
of the
Merger and without any action on the part of any shareholder of
either of the
Constituent Corporations:
(a) Each issued and outstanding share of Mergerco Common
Stock shall be
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converted into and become one fully paid and nonassessable share
of common
stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Surviving Corporation.
Each
certificate of Mergerco evidencing ownership of any such shares
of Mergerco
Common Stock shall continue to evidence ownership of the same
number of shares
of common stock of the Surviving Corporation.
(b) All shares of Company Common Stock that are held in
the treasury of the Company or by a wholly owned Subsidiary of
the Company shall
be canceled and no consideration shall be delivered in exchange
therefor.
(c) All shares of Company Common Stock issued and
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, except
shares canceled in
accordance with Section 1.5(b), shall be converted, in the
aggregate, into
4,400,000 shares of validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable
shares of
Parent Common Stock, and the right to receive, in the aggregate,
$200,000
(collectively, the "MERGER CONSIDERATION"). Each shareholder of
the Company (the
"SHAREHOLDERS") shall be entitled hereunder to receive in
respect of such
Shareholder's shares of Company Common Stock held immediately
prior to the
Effective Time such Shareholder's portion of such Merger
Consideration as set
forth on ANNEX A to the Supplemental Agreement.
(d) All shares of Company Common Stock (other than shares
of Company Common Stock to be canceled in accordance with
Section 1.5(b)), when
so converted as provided in Section 1.5(c), shall no longer be
outstanding and
shall automatically be canceled and retired and each holder of a
certificate
theretofore representing any such shares shall cease to have any
rights with
respect thereto, except the right to receive, upon the surrender
of such
certificate in accordance with Section 1.6, the portion of the
Merger
Consideration attributable to such shares.
(e) Any issued and outstanding shares of Company Common
Stock held by a Person (a "DISSENTING SHAREHOLDER") who properly
exercises such
Person's dissenters' rights under the IBCA ("DISSENTING SHARES")
shall not be
converted as described in Section 1.5(c), but rather shall be
converted into the
right to receive such consideration as may be determined to be
due to such
Dissenting Shareholder pursuant to the IBCA. Subject to the
foregoing, if, after
the Effective Time, such Dissenting Shareholder withdraws his
demand for payment
or fails to perfect or otherwise loses his right of payment, in
any case
pursuant to the IBCA, the Dissenting Shares of such Dissenting
Shareholder shall
be deemed to be converted as of the Effective Time into the
right to receive the
amount to which such Dissenting Shareholder would otherwise have
been entitled
to pursuant to Section 1.5(c). The Company shall give Parent
prompt notice of
any demands for payment received by the Company. The Company
shall not, without
the prior written consent of Parent, make any payment with
respect to, or settle
or offer to settle, any such demands, and, prior to the
Effective Time, Parent
shall have the right to participate in all negotiations and
proceedings with
respect to such demands.
SECTION 1.6 PARENT TO MAKE CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE;
DIVIDENDS.
(a) As soon as reasonably practicable after the Effective
Time (and in any event within ten (10) business days after the
Effective Time),
Parent shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to mail to
each record
holder of a certificate or certificates that immediately before
the Effective
Time represented outstanding shares of Company Common Stock (the
"CERTIFICATES")
(i) a letter of transmittal that shall specify that delivery
shall be effective
and risk
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of loss and title to the Certificates shall pass only upon
delivery of the
Certificates to Parent, and which letter shall be in customary
form and have
such other provisions as Parent may reasonably specify; and (ii)
instructions
for effecting the surrender of such Certificates in exchange for
the
consideration contemplated by Section 1.5(c), including cash in
lieu of
fractional shares. Upon surrender of a Certificate to Parent
together with such
letter of transmittal, duly executed and completed in accordance
with the
instructions thereto, and such other documents as may reasonably
be required by
Parent, the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to
receive in exchange
therefor (A) shares of Parent Common Stock representing, in the
aggregate, the
whole number of shares that such holder has the right to receive
pursuant to
Section 1.5(c) (after taking into account all shares of Company
Common Stock
then held by such holder), and (B) cash, payable either by check
or wire
transfer of immediately available funds, in the amount equal to
the cash that
such holder has the right to receive pursuant to this Article I,
including cash
in lieu of any dividends and other distributions pursuant to
Section 1.6(d) and
cash in lieu of fractional shares pursuant to Section 1.7. No
interest will be
paid or will accrue on any cash payable as Merger Consideration
pursuant to
Section 1.6 and 1.7.
(b) If the Merger Consideration (or any portion thereof)
is to be delivered to a person other than the person in whose
name the
Certificates surrendered in exchange therefor are registered, it
shall be a
condition to the payment of the Merger Consideration that the
Certificates so
surrendered shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by
appropriate stock
powers and otherwise in proper form for transfer, that such
transfer otherwise
be proper and that the person requesting such transfer pay to
the Surviving
Corporation any transfer or other taxes payable by reason of the
foregoing or
establish to the satisfaction of the Surviving Corporation that
such taxes have
been paid or are not required to be paid. For purposes of this
Merger Agreement,
the term "person" means an individual, a co
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