AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF
MERGER
SEABISCUIT ACQUISITION
CORPORATION
SECURE COMPUTING
CORPORATION
Dated as of September 21,
2008
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1.1 Certain Defined
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1.2 Additional Defined
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2.2 Effective Time;
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2.4 Certificate of Incorporation and
Bylaws
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2.5 Directors and
Officers
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2.6 Effect on Capital
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2.8 Surrender of
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2.9 No Further Ownership Rights in any
Company Securities
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2.10 Lost, Stolen or Destroyed
Certificates
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ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
THE COMPANY
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3.1 Organization; Standing and Power;
Charter Documents; Subsidiaries
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3.3 Authority; No Conflict; Necessary
Consents
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3.4 SEC Filings; Financial Statements;
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3.5 Absence of Certain Changes or
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3.8 Intellectual
Property
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3.9 Restrictions on Business
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3.10 Governmental
Authorizations
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3.12 Compliance with
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3.13 Environmental
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3.15 Transactions with
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3.16 Employee Benefit Plans and
Compensation
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3.19 Information
Supplied
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3.22 Customers and
Suppliers
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3.24 Takeover Statutes and Rights
Plans
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
PARENT AND MERGER SUB
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4.2 Authority; No Conflict; Necessary
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4.5 No Prior Merger Sub
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ARTICLE V CONDUCT BY THE COMPANY PRIOR TO THE
EFFECTIVE TIME
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5.1 Conduct of Business by the
Company
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5.2 Procedures for Requesting Parent
Consent
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ARTICLE VI ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
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6.1 Proxy Statement and Other
Filings
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6.2 Meeting of Company Stockholders; Board
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6.3 Alternative Transaction
Proposals
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6.4 Confidentiality; Access to
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6.6 Regulatory Filings; Reasonable
Efforts
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6.7 Notification of Certain
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6.12 No Modification of Representations,
Warranties, Covenants or Agreements
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6.13 State Takeover
Statutes
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6.14 Section 409A
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6.15 Notice to Holders of Company
Series A Preferred Stock
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ARTICLE VII CONDITIONS TO THE MERGER
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7.1 Conditions to the Obligations of Each
Party to Effect the Merger
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7.2 Additional Conditions to the
Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub
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7.3 Additional Conditions to the
Obligations of the Company
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ARTICLE VIII TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND
WAIVER
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8.2 Notice of Termination; Effect of
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ARTICLE IX GENERAL PROVISIONS
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9.1 Non-Survival of Representations and
Warranties
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9.3 Interpretation; Rule of
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9.5 Entire Agreement; Third-Party
Beneficiaries
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9.8 Governing Law; Consent to
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9.10 Waiver of Jury
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INDEX OF EXHIBITS AND
SCHEDULES
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Form of Voting
Agreement for Executive Officers and Directors
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Form of Voting
Agreement for Warburg Pincus and its Director
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Form of Key
Employee Non-Competition Agreements
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Form of Key
Employee Offer Letters
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Form of Warrant
Termination Agreement
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Signatories to
Voting Agreements
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Key
Employees
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Required
Foreign Antitrust Approvals
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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF
MERGER
This AGREEMENT AND
PLAN OF MERGER (this “ Agreement ”) is made and
entered into as of September 21, 2008, by and among McAfee, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (“ Parent ”), Seabiscuit
Acquisition Corporation, a Delaware corporation and direct wholly
owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Merger Sub ”), and
Secure Computing Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “
Company ”).
A. The
respective Boards of Directors of Parent, Merger Sub and the
Company have deemed it advisable and in the best interests of their
respective corporations and stockholders that Parent and the
Company consummate the business combination and other transactions
provided for herein.
B. The
respective Boards of Directors of Merger Sub and the Company have
approved, in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law
(“ Delaware Law ”), this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger.
C. Contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties
hereto, and as a condition and material inducement to Parent and
Merger Sub to enter into this Agreement, each of the Persons listed
on Schedule 1 are entering into a Voting Agreement and
an irrevocable proxy in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibits A-1 and A-2 (the “ Voting
Agreements ”) pursuant to which, among other things, such
stockholder agrees to vote all shares of the Company’s
capital stock owned by it, him or her in favor of the adoption of
this Agreement and the other transactions contemplated
hereby.
D. Contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the parties
hereto, and as a condition and material inducement to Parent and
Merger Sub to enter into this Agreement, the Persons listed on
Schedule 2 (the “ Key Employees ”)
are entering into or executing, as applicable (i) a
non-competition and non-solicitation agreement with Parent, each in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit B-1 (collectively,
the “ Key Employee Non-Competition Agreements
”), and (ii) an offer letter, each in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit B-2 (collectively, the “ Key
Employee Offer Letters ”), each to be effective as of the
Effective Time.
E. The Board
of Directors of the Company has resolved to recommend to its
stockholders the adoption of this Agreement.
F. Parent, as
the sole stockholder of Merger Sub, has approved and adopted this
Agreement and approved the Merger.
G. Parent,
Merger Sub and the Company desire to make certain representations,
warranties and agreements in connection with the Merger and also to
prescribe certain conditions to the Merger.
NOW,
THEREFORE , in consideration of the covenants, promises and
representations set forth herein, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
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1.1 Certain
Defined Terms . For all purposes of and under this
Agreement, the following capitalized terms shall have the following
respective meanings:
(a)
“ Acquisition ” shall mean, for the purposes of
Section 8.3(b ) only, with respect to the Company, any
of the following transactions (other than the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement): (i) any purchase or
acquisition by any Person or “group” (as defined under
Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and
regulations thereunder) of a fifty percent (50%) or more interest
in the total outstanding voting securities of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries, or any tender offer or exchange offer that if
consummated would result in any Person or “group”
beneficially owning fifty percent (50%) or more of the total
outstanding voting securities of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries; (ii) any merger, consolidation, business
combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or similar
transaction involving the Company pursuant to which the equity
interests held in the Company and retained following such
transaction or issued to or otherwise received in such transaction
by the stockholders of the Company immediately preceding such
transaction constitute less than fifty percent (50%) of the
aggregate equity interests in the surviving or resulting entity of
such transaction or any direct or indirect parent thereof; or
(iii) any sale, lease, exchange, transfer, license (other than
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices)
or other disposition (including by way of joint venture) by the
Company of assets (including capital stock or other ownership
interests in Subsidiaries of the Company) representing fifty
percent (50%) or more of the aggregate fair market value of the
consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, immediately prior to such sale.
(b)
“ Alternative Transaction Proposal ” shall mean,
with respect to the Company, any offer, expression of interest or
proposal (whether binding or non-binding), or any public
announcement of any intention to make any such offer, expression of
interest or proposal, whether made to the Company or its
stockholders, relating to any transaction or series of related
transactions involving: (i) any purchase or acquisition by any
Person or “group” (as defined under Section 13(d)
of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder) of
more than a fifteen percent (15%) interest in the total outstanding
voting securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any
tender offer or exchange offer that if consummated would result in
any Person or “group” beneficially owning fifteen
percent (15%) or more of the total outstanding voting securities of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) any merger,
consolidation, business combination or similar transaction
involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) any
sale, lease, exchange, transfer, license (other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past practices) or
other disposition (including by way of joint venture) of assets
(including capital stock or other ownership interests in
Subsidiaries of the Company) representing fifteen percent (15%) or
more of the aggregate fair market value of the consolidated assets
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(iv) any liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or
recapitalization of the Company; or (v) the declaration or
payment of any extraordinary dividend, whether of cash or other
property, by the Company; provided , however , for
the sake of clarity, the transactions among Parent, Merger Sub and
the Company contemplated by this Agreement shall not be deemed an
Alternative Transaction Proposal.
(c)
“ Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Laws ” shall
mean the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, any
rules or regulations thereunder, or any other applicable United
States or non-U.S. anti-corruption or anti-bribery laws or
regulations.
(d) “
Base Amount ” shall mean one hundred dollars
($100).
(e) “
Bid ” shall mean any bid, quotation or proposal
submitted to any Governmental Entity in connection with obtaining
any current Contract between the Company, on the one hand, and
any
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Governmental
Entity, on the other hand, and any outstanding bid, quotation or
proposal by the Company that if accepted or awarded would
reasonably be expected to lead to a Contract between the Company,
on the one hand, and any Governmental Entity or any prime
contractor or upper-tier subcontractor for any Governmental Entity,
on the other hand.
(f)
“ Business Day ” shall mean each day that is not
a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which Parent is closed for
business or banking institutions located in San Francisco,
California or Minneapolis, Minnesota are authorized or obligated by
law or executive order to close.
(g)
“ Change of Recommendation ” shall mean the
withholding, withdrawal or amendment, qualification or modification
(in a manner adverse to Parent), by the Company’s Board or
Directors (or any committee thereof) of its recommendation in favor
of adoption of this Agreement, and, in the case of a tender or
exchange offer made by a third party directly to the
Company’s stockholders, a failure to recommend that
Company’s stockholders reject such tender or exchange
offer.
(h)
“ COBRA ” shall mean Title X of the
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as
amended.
(i)
“ Common Stock Merger Consideration ” shall mean
an amount of cash equal to $5.75 per share, without
interest.
(j)
“ Company Common Stock ” shall mean the common
stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company.
(k)
“ Company Employee Plan ” shall mean any plan,
program, policy, practice, contract, agreement or other
arrangement, whether written, unwritten or otherwise, providing for
compensation, severance benefits, termination pay, change of
control pay, bonus pay, deferred compensation, performance awards,
stock or stock-related awards, phantom stock, commission pay,
vacation or paid time off, profit sharing, welfare benefits,
retirement benefits, fringe benefits or other employee benefits or
remuneration of any kind, whether written, unwritten or otherwise,
funded or unfunded, including each “employee benefit
plan,” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which
is or has been maintained, contributed to, or required to be
contributed to, by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate for the
benefit of any Employee, or with respect to which the Company or
any ERISA Affiliate has or may have any liability or obligation and
any International Employee Plan.
(l)
“ Company Government Contract ” shall mean any
Contract between the Company, on the one hand, and any Governmental
Entity, on the other hand.
(m)
“ Company Government Subcontract ” shall mean
any Contract between the Company, on the one hand, and any prime
contractor or upper-tier subcontractor, on the other hand, relating
to a Contract between such Person and any Governmental
Entity.
(n)
“ Company Financial Advisor ” shall mean
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
(o)
“ Company Intellectual Property ” shall mean any
and all Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Rights that
are owned by, or claimed to be owned by, or exclusively licensed
to, the Company or its Subsidiaries.
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“ Company Options ” shall mean all outstanding
options to purchase Company Common Stock.
(q)
“ Company Preferred Stock ” shall mean the
preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the
Company.
(r)
“ Company Products ” shall mean all products,
technologies and services developed (including products,
technologies and services under development), owned, made,
provided, distributed, imported, sold or licensed by or on behalf
of the Company and any of its Subsidiaries.
(s)
“ Company Registered Intellectual Property ”
shall mean all of the Registered Intellectual Property owned by, or
filed in the name of, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(t)
“ Company RSUs ” shall mean restricted stock
units of the Company issued from the Company Stock Plans, whereby
each restricted stock unit represents a bookkeeping entry
representing the equivalent of one (1) share of Company Common
Stock.
(u)
“ Company Series A Preferred Stock ” shall
mean the Series A convertible preferred stock, par value $0.01
per share, of the Company.
(v)
“ Company Stock ” shall mean the Company
Preferred Stock, the Company Series A Preferred Stock and the
Company Common Stock.
(w)
“ Company Stock Plans ” shall mean all stock
option plans or other equity-related plans of the Company,
including: (i) the Company’s 2002 Stock Incentive Plan,
(ii) the Company’s Amended and Restated 1995 Omnibus
Stock Option Plan, (iii) the Company’s 2000 Stock Option
Plan, (iv) the N2H2 1997 Stock Option Plan, the (v) N2H2
1999 Stock Option Plan, (vi) the N2H2 1999 Non-Employee
Director Plan, (vii) the N2H2 1999/2000 Transition Plan,
(viii) the N2H2 2000 Stock Option Plan, (ix) the Howard
Philip Welt Plan, (x) the CyberGuard 1994 Stock Option Plan,
and (xi) the CyberGuard 1998 Stock Option Plan.
(x)
“ Company Unvested Common Stock ” shall mean any
shares of Company Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the
Effective Time that are unvested or are subject to a repurchase
option, risk of forfeiture or other condition under any applicable
restricted stock purchase agreement or other agreement with the
Company.
(y)
“ Company Warrants ” shall mean all warrants to
purchase Company Common Stock issued by the Company.
(z)
“ Contract ” shall mean any written or oral
agreement, contract, subcontract, settlement agreement, lease,
binding understanding, instrument, note, option, warranty, purchase
order, license, sublicense, insurance policy, benefit plan or
legally binding commitment or undertaking of any nature, as in
effect as of the date hereof or as may hereinafter be in
effect.
(aa)
“ DOJ ” shall mean the United States Department
of Justice.
(bb)
“ DOL ” shall mean the United States Department
of Labor.
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“ Employee ” shall mean any current or former
employee, consultant, adviser, independent contractor or director
of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate.
(dd)
“ Employee Agreement ” shall mean each
management, employment, severance, separation, change of control,
settlement, bonus, consulting, contractor, relocation,
repatriation, expatriation, loan, visa, work permit or other
agreement or Contract (including, any offer letter which provides
for any term of employment other than employment at will or any
agreement providing for acceleration of Company Options or Company
Unvested Common Stock, or similar equity awards, or any other
agreement providing for compensation or benefits) between the
Company or any ERISA Affiliate and any Employee, whether written or
unwritten or otherwise pursuant to which the Company or ERISA
Affiliate has or may have any current or future liability or
obligation (contingent or otherwise).
(ee)
“ ERISA ” shall mean the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
(ff)
“ ERISA Affiliate ” shall mean any Subsidiary of
the Company and any other Person under common control with the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or that, together with the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, could be deemed a
“single employer” within the meaning of Section
4001(b)(1) of ERISA or Section 414(b), (c), (m) or
(o) of the Code, and the regulations issued
thereunder.
(gg)
“ Exchange Act ” shall mean the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(hh)
“ Exchange Ratio ” shall mean the quotient
obtained by dividing (i) the Common Stock Merger
Consideration, by (ii) the Parent Stock
Price.
(ii)
“ Export and Import Approvals ” shall mean all
export licenses, license exceptions, consents, notices, waivers,
approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and
filings, from or with any Governmental Entity, that are required
for compliance with Export and Import Control Laws.
(jj)
“ Export and Import Control Laws ” shall mean
any U.S. law, regulation, or order or applicable non-U.S. law,
regulation or order to the extent permitted under U.S. law
governing (i) imports, exports, re-exports, or transfers of
products, services, software, or technologies from or to the United
States or another country; (ii) any release of technology or
software in any foreign country or to any foreign person (anyone
other than a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United
States, or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C.
§ 1324b(a)(3)) located in the United States or abroad;
(iii) economic sanctions or embargoes; or (iv) compliance
with unsanctioned foreign boycotts.
(kk)
“ FTC ” shall mean the United States Federal
Trade Commission.
(ll)
“ Governmental Entity ” shall mean any
supranational, national, state, municipal, local or foreign
government, any instrumentality, subdivision, court, works council
or other foreign labor entity, administrative agency or commission
or other governmental authority or instrumentality, or any quasi-
governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, taxing,
importing or other governmental or quasi-governmental
authority.
(mm)
“ HIPAA ” shall mean the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended.
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(nn)
“ HSR Act ” shall mean the Hart-Scott-Rodino
Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.
(oo)
“ Intellectual Property ” shall mean any or all
of the following: (i) works of authorship including computer
programs, source code, and executable code, whether embodied in
software, firmware or otherwise, architecture, documentation,
designs, files, records, and data, (ii) inventions (whether or
not patentable), discoveries, improvements, and technology,
(iii) proprietary and confidential information, trade secrets
and know how, (iv) databases, data compilations and
collections and technical data, (v) logos, trade names, trade
dress, trademarks and service marks, (vi) domain names, web
addresses and sites, (vii) tools, methods and processes,
(viii) devices, prototypes, schematics, breadboards, netlists,
maskworks, test methodologies, verilog files, emulation and
simulation reports, test vectors and hardware development tools,
and (ix) any and all instantiations of the foregoing in any
form and embodied in any media.
(pp)
“ Intellectual Property Rights ” shall mean
worldwide common law and statutory rights associated with
(i) patents, patent applications and inventors’
certificates, (ii) copyrights, copyright registrations and
copyright applications, “moral” rights and mask work
rights, (iii) Trade Secrets, (iv) other proprietary
rights relating to intangible intellectual property,
(v) trademarks, trade names and service marks,
(vi) divisions, continuations, renewals, reissuances and
extensions of the foregoing (as applicable) and
(vii) analogous rights to those set forth above, including the
right to enforce and recover remedies for any of the
foregoing.
(qq)
“ International Employee Plan ” shall mean each
Company Employee Plan or Employee Agreement that has been adopted,
contributed to, required to be contributed to, or maintained by the
Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate, whether
formally or informally, or with respect to which the Company or any
ERISA Affiliate will or may have any liability, for the benefit of
Employees who perform services outside the United
States.
(rr)
“ Intervening Event ” shall mean a material
event (other than (i) an Alternative Transaction Proposal or a
Superior Proposal, and (ii) events to the extent relating to
developments in the Company’s progress toward goals set forth
in its business plan) arising after the date of this Agreement,
that was neither known to the Board of Directors of the Company as
of the date hereof nor reasonably foreseeable by the Board of
Directors of the Company as of or prior to the date hereof, which
becomes known to the Board of Directors of the Company prior to the
receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval.
(ss)
“ IRS ” shall mean the United States Internal
Revenue Service.
(tt)
“ knowledge ” shall mean, with respect to a
party hereto, with respect to any fact, circumstance, event or
other matter in question, (i) the actual knowledge of any of
the directors of such party, and (ii) the actual knowledge of
any of the executive officers of such party after reasonable
inquiry of the senior employees of such party and its Subsidiaries
who have primary administrative or operational responsibility for
such matter in question.
(uu)
“ Legal Requirement ” shall mean any federal,
state, local, municipal, foreign or other law, statute,
constitution, principle of common law, resolution, ordinance, code,
order, decree, directive, rule, regulation, ruling or requirement
issued, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put
into effect by or under the authority of any Governmental
Entity.
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(vv)
“ Liabilities ” shall mean the debts,
liabilities and other obligations of a Person, whether accrued or
fixed, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, determined or
determinable, known or unknown, including those arising under any
Legal Requirement, action or order by any Governmental Entity, and
those arising under any Contract.
(ww)
“ Lien ” shall mean any mortgage, deed of trust,
lien, pledge, charge, security interest, title retention device,
collateral assignment, restriction or other encumbrance of any kind
in respect of an asset, tangible or intangible (including any
restriction on the voting of any security, any restriction on the
transfer of any security or other asset, any restriction on the
receipt of any income derived from any asset, any restriction on
the use of any asset and any restriction on the possession,
exercise or transfer of any other attribute of ownership of any
asset).
(xx)
“ Liquidation Amount ” shall mean the sum of
(i) the Base Amount, plus (ii) an amount of interest on
such Base Amount accreting daily at the annual rate of five percent
(5.0%), compounded semi-annually, computed on the basis of a three
hundred sixty (360) day year of twelve (12) thirty
(30) day months from January 12, 2006 to the Closing
Date, plus (iii) an amount equal to any accrued but
unpaid dividends on a share of Company Series A Preferred
Stock as of the Closing Date.
(yy)
“ made available ” shall mean that the Company
has posted such materials, on or before 11:59 p.m. Pacific
time on September 21, 2008, to the virtual data room managed
by the Company hosted at the following IP address:
https://vault.netvoyage.com/neWeb2/cabinetHome.aspx?targetCabinet=NG-UPV0V4MI
(zz)
“ Material Adverse Effect ” shall mean, when
used in connection with an entity, any change, event, circumstance,
condition or effect (any such item, an “ Effect
”), individually or when taken together with all other
Effects, (i) that is or is reasonably likely to be materially
adverse to the condition (financial or otherwise), business, assets
(including intangible assets), liabilities, operations or results
of operations of such entity and its Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole, or (ii) that is reasonably likely to materially impede
the authority or ability of such entity to consummate the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement in accordance with the
terms hereof and applicable Legal Requirements, except in each case
to the extent that any such Effect directly results from any of the
following: (a) changes in general economic conditions or
changes affecting the industry generally in which such entity
operates, or acts of war (including escalation in conflicts
involving the United States), acts of God (including natural
disasters) or terrorism (provided that such changes or acts do not
affect such entity disproportionately as compared to other
companies operating in the same industries or geographies as such
entity); (b) changes in the trading volume or trading prices
of such entity’s capital stock, or any failure to meet
published analyst estimates, in each case, in and of themselves
(provided that such exclusion shall not apply to any underlying
Effect that may have caused such change in trading prices or
volumes or failure to meet estimates); (c) any changes in
applicable Legal Requirements or GAAP; (d) the announcement of
this Agreement or the pendency or consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby; or (e) any failure by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries to meet revenue or earnings projections (
provided that such exclusion shall not apply to any
underlying Effect that may have caused such failure to meet revenue
or earnings projections).
(aaa)
“ Merger Consideration ” shall mean the
Preferred Stock Merger Consideration and the Common Stock Merger
Consideration.
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(bbb)
“ Merger Sub Common Stock ” shall mean the
common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Merger Sub.
(ccc)
“ NYSE ” shall mean The New York Stock
Exchange.
(ddd)
“ Open Source ” shall mean any open source,
public source or freeware Intellectual Property, or any
modification or derivative thereof, including any version of any
software licensed pursuant to any GNU general public license or
limited general public license or software that is licensed
pursuant to a license that purports to require the distribution of
or access to Source Code or purports to restrict the
licensee’s ability to charge for distribution of or to use
software for commercial purposes or requires the inclusion of
attribution notices in any redistributed software.
(eee)
“ Parent Common Stock ” shall mean the common
stock of Parent, par value $0.01 per share.
(fff)
“ Parent Stock Price ” shall mean the average of
the closing sale prices for a share of Parent Common Stock as
quoted on NYSE for the ten (10) consecutive trading days
ending with the second trading day that precedes the Closing
Date.
(ggg)
“ Pension Plan ” shall mean each Company
Employee Plan that is an “employee pension benefit
plan,” within the meaning of Section 3(2) of
ERISA.
(hhh)
“ Permitted Liens ” shall mean any of the
following: (i) Liens for Taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies either not yet due and payable or which are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which
appropriate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP;
(ii) mechanics, carriers’, workmen’s,
warehouseman’s, repairmen’s, materialmen’s or
other Liens or security interests that are not yet due;
(iii) Liens to secure obligations to landlords, lessors or
renters under leases or rental agreements or underlying leased
property; (iv) Liens imposed by applicable Legal Requirements
(other than Tax law); (v) pledges or deposits to secure
obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar
legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations;
(vi) pledges and deposits to secure the performance of bids,
trade contracts, leases, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds
and other obligations of a similar nature, in each case in the
ordinary course of business; and (vii) Liens the existence of
which are specifically disclosed in the notes to the consolidated
financial statements of the Company included in the Company SEC
Reports.
(iii)
“ Person ” shall mean any individual,
corporation (including any non-profit corporation), general
partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership,
joint venture, estate, trust, company (including any limited
liability company or joint stock company), firm or other
enterprise, association, organization, entity or Governmental
Entity.
(jjj)
“ Preferred Stock Merger Consideration ” shall
mean the sum of (i) the Liquidation Amount plus
(ii) an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the Liquidation
Amount, without interest.
(kkk)
“ Proxy Statement ” shall mean the proxy
statement to be filed by the Company with the SEC in connection
with the solicitation of proxies from Company stockholders for the
Company Stockholder Approval, as amended or
supplemented.
(lll)
“ PTO ” shall mean the United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
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(mmm)
“ Registered Intellectual Property ” shall mean
applications, registrations and filings for Intellectual Property
Rights that have been registered, filed, certified or otherwise
perfected or recorded with or by any state, government or other
public or quasi-public legal authority.
(nnn)
“ SEC ” shall mean the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission.
(ooo)
“ Securities Act ” shall mean the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended.
(ppp)
“ Shrink - Wrapped Code ” shall mean
generally commercially available binary code (other than
development tools and development environments) where available for
a cost of not more than $10,000 for a perpetual license for a
single user or work station (or $75,000 in the aggregate for all
users and work stations).
(qqq)
“ Source Code ” shall mean computer software and
code, in form other than object code form, including related
programmer comments and annotations, help text, data and data
structures, instructions and procedural, object-oriented and other
code, which may be printed out or displayed in human readable
form.
(rrr)
“ Subsidiary ” shall mean, when used with
respect to any party, any corporation, association, business
entity, partnership, limited liability company or other Person of
which such party, either alone or together with one or more
Subsidiaries or by one or more Subsidiaries (i) directly or
indirectly owns or controls securities or other interests
representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of
such Person, or (ii) is entitled, by Contract or otherwise, to
elect, appoint or designate directors constituting a majority of
the members of such Person’s board of directors or other
governing body.
(sss)
“ Superior Proposal ” shall mean, with respect
to the Company, an unsolicited, bona fide written Alternative
Transaction Proposal that (i) the Board of Directors of the
Company determines in good faith (after consultation with its
outside legal counsel and the Company Financial Advisor) to be more
favorable (taking into account all relevant legal, financial,
regulatory, timing and other aspects of such Alternative
Transaction Proposal (including the conditions thereto) and the
identity of the Person making the proposal), and provides greater
financial value, to the Company’s stockholders than the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement (after taking into
account all of the terms of any proposal by Parent to amend or
modify the terms of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement), (ii) provides for consideration consisting
exclusively of cash and/or publicly traded securities, and for
which financing, to the extent required by the Person making the
offer, is then fully committed and not subject to any contingencies
other than the conditions to such Alternative Transaction Proposal,
and (iii) is reasonably capable of being consummated on the
terms proposed without unreasonable delay relative to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided that, for
purposes of this definition of “Superior Proposal,”
that each reference to “15%” in the definition of
“Alternative Transaction Proposal” contained herein
shall be deemed to be a reference to “85%.”
(ttt)
“ Termination Fee ” shall mean an amount in cash
equal to sixteen million one hundred thirty five thousand dollars
($16,135,000.00).
(uuu)
“ Trade Secrets ” shall mean trade and
industrial secrets and confidential information.
(vvv)
“ Voting Debt ” shall mean any bonds,
debentures, notes or other indebtedness of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries (i) having the right to vote on any matters
on which stockholders may
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vote (or which
is convertible into, or exchangeable for, securities having such
right) or (ii) the value of which is any way based upon or
derived from capital or voting stock of the Company.
(www)
“ WARN ” shall mean the Worker Adjustment
and Retraining Notification Act, as amended.
1.2
Additional Defined Terms . The following
capitalized terms shall have the respective meanings set forth in
the respective Sections of this Agreement set forth opposite each
such respective terms below:
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2.1 The
Merger . At the Effective Time and subject to and
upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the applicable
provisions of Delaware Law, Merger Sub shall be merged with and
into the Company (the “ Merger ”), the separate
corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease and the Company shall
continue as the surviving corporation and as a wholly owned
subsidiary of Parent. The surviving corporation after the Merger is
hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “ Surviving
Corporation .”
2.2
Effective Time; Closing . Subject to the
provisions of this Agreement, the parties hereto shall cause the
Merger to be consummated by filing a Certificate of Merger with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the
relevant provisions of Delaware Law (the “ Certificate of
Merger ”) (the time of such filing with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware, or such later time as may be agreed
in writing by the Company and Parent and specified in the
Certificate of Merger, being the “ Effective
Time”) as soon as practicable on or after the Closing
Date. The closing of the Merger (the “ Closing
”) shall take place at the offices of Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation, located at
650 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California, at a time and date to be
specified by the parties, which shall be no later than the
second
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Business Day
after the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in
Article V (other than those that by their terms are to
be satisfied or waived at the Closing), or at such other time, date
and location as the parties hereto agree in writing. The date on
which the Closing occurs is referred to herein as the “
Closing Date .”
2.3 Effect
of the Merger . At the Effective Time, the effect of
the Merger shall be as provided in this Agreement and the
applicable provisions of Delaware Law. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Effective
Time all the property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of
the Company and Merger Sub shall vest in the Surviving Corporation,
and all debts, liabilities and duties of the Company and Merger Sub
shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of the Surviving
Corporation.
2.4
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws .
Unless otherwise determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time,
at the Effective Time, the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company shall be amended and restated in its entirety to be
identical to the Certificate of Incorporation of Merger Sub, as in
effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, until thereafter
amended in accordance with Delaware Law and as provided in such
Certificate of Incorporation; provided , however ,
that at the Effective Time, Article I of the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation shall be
amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows: “The
name of the corporation is Secure Computing Corporation” and
the Certificate of Incorporation shall be amended so as to comply
with Section 6.10(a ). Unless otherwise determined by
Parent prior to the Effective Time, at the Effective Time, the
Bylaws of the Company shall be amended and restated in their
entirety to be identical to the Bylaws of Merger Sub, as in effect
immediately prior to the Effective Time, until thereafter amended
in accordance with Delaware Law and as provided in such Bylaws;
provided, however, that at the Effective Time, the Bylaws shall be
amended so as to comply with Section 6.10(a
).
2.5
Directors and Officers . Unless otherwise
determined by Parent prior to the Effective Time, (a) the
initial directors of the Surviving Corporation shall be the
directors of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time,
until their respective successors are duly elected or appointed and
qualified, (b) the initial officers of the Surviving
Corporation shall be the officers of Merger Sub immediately prior
to the Effective Time, until their respective successors are duly
appointed, and (c) Parent, the Company and the Surviving
Corporation shall cause the directors and officers of Merger Sub
immediately prior to the Effective Time to be the directors and
officers, respectively of each of the Company’s Subsidiaries
immediately after the Effective Time, each to hold office as a
director or officer of each such Subsidiary in accordance with the
provisions of the laws of the respective jurisdiction of
organization and the respective bylaws or equivalent organizational
documents of each such Subsidiary.
2.6 Effect
on Capital Stock . Upon the terms and subject to the
conditions of this Agreement, at the Effective Time, by virtue of
the Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger
Sub, the Company or the holders of any shares of capital stock of
the Company, the following shall occur:
(a)
Company Common Stock . Each share of Company Common
Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective
Time, other than any shares of Company Common Stock to be cancelled
pursuant to Section 2.6(e ), will be cancelled and
extinguished and automatically converted (subject to
Section 2.7 ) into the right to receive the Common
Stock Merger Consideration upon surrender of the certificate
representing such share of Company Common Stock in the manner
provided in Section 2.8 (or in the case of a lost,
stolen or destroyed certificate, upon delivery of an affidavit (and
bond, if required) in the manner provided in
Section 2.10 ).
(b)
Company Preferred Stock . Each share of Company
Series A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding immediately
prior to the Effective Time, will be redeemed, cancelled and
extinguished and
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automatically
converted (subject to Section 2.7 ) into the right to
receive the Preferred Stock Merger Consideration, upon surrender of
the certificate representing such share of Company Series A
Preferred Stock in the manner provided in Section 2.8
(or in the case of a lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, upon
delivery of an affidavit (and bond, if required) in the manner
provided in Section 2.10 ).
(c)
Company Unvested Common Stock and Company RSUs . As
of the Effective Time, each share of Company Unvested Common Stock
that is outstanding as of the Effective Time and each Company RSU
that is unexpired, unexercised, unvested (after giving effect to
the waivers of acceleration contained in the Key Employee Offer
Letters) and outstanding as of the Effective Time, shall, on the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, be
assumed by Parent. Each such share of Company Unvested Common Stock
and each Company RSU so assumed by Parent under this Agreement
shall continue to have, and be subject to, the same terms and
conditions (including, if applicable, the vesting arrangements and
other terms and conditions set forth in the Company Stock Plans and
the applicable purchase agreement) as are in effect immediately
prior to the Effective Time, except that such share of Company
Unvested Common Stock or Company RSU shall represent that number of
whole shares of Parent Common Stock equal to the product (rounded
down to the next whole number of shares of Parent Common Stock,
with no cash being payable for any fractional share eliminated by
such rounding) obtained by multiplying (i) the number
of shares of Company Unvested Common Stock or Company RSUs held by
such Person immediately prior to the Effective Time by
(ii) the Exchange Ratio.
(d)
Company Warrants . Following the Effective Time, all
Company Warrants outstanding at the Effective Time shall be
terminated and cancelled, and shall not represent any right to
receive consideration pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and
in no event shall such Company Warrants continue to be or become
exercisable for any equity securities of Parent, the Company or any
of their respective Subsidiaries, in each case pursuant to a
Company Warrant termination agreement, in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit C , delivered by the holders of Company
Warrants contemporaneously with, or prior to, the execution of this
Agreement by the parties hereto.
(e)
Cancellation of Treasury and Parent Owned Stock .
Each share of Company Common Stock or Company Series A
Preferred Stock held by the Company or Parent, or any direct or
indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company or of Parent,
immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be cancelled and
extinguished without any conversion thereof.
(f)
Capital Stock of Merger Sub . Each share of Merger
Sub Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the
Effective Time shall be converted into one validly issued, fully
paid and nonassessable share of common stock, no par value, of the
Surviving Corporation. Each certificate evidencing ownership of
shares of Merger Sub Common Stock shall evidence ownership of such
shares of capital stock of the Surviving Corporation.
(g)
Stock Options . As of the Effective Time, each of the
Company Options that is outstanding (whether or not theretofore
vested) will be terminated and cancelled in exchange for the right
to receive a single lump sum cash payment equal to the excess, if
any, of (i) the product obtained by multiplying (A) the
Common Stock Merger Consideration by (B) the number of
shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Option,
less (ii) the product obtained by multiplying
(x) the exercise price per share with respect to each share of
Company Common Stock subject to such Company Option by
(y) the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to
such Company Option. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall
take or cause to be taken any and all actions reasonably necessary
to give effect to the treatment of the Company Options pursuant to
this Section 2.6(g ).
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(h)
Adjustments to Merger Consideration . The Merger
Consideration shall be adjusted to reflect fully the appropriate
effect of any stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend
(including any dividend or distribution of securities convertible
into Company Common Stock or Company Series A Preferred Stock,
as the case may be), reorganization, recapitalization,
reclassification or other like change with respect to Company
Common Stock or Company Series A Preferred Stock, as the case
may be, having a record date on or after the date hereof and prior
to the Effective Time.
(a) Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, any shares
of Company Common Stock or Company Series A Preferred Stock
held by a holder who is entitled to demand, and who properly
demands, appraisal of such shares (a “ Dissenting
Stockholder ”), pursuant to, and also complies in all
material respects with, Section 262 of Delaware Law (such
Section, “ Section 262 ” and such shares,
the “ Dissenting Shares ”), shall not be
converted into or represent a right to receive the applicable
consideration for Company Common Stock or Company Series A
Preferred Stock set forth in Section 2.6 , but rather,
such Dissenting Stockholder shall only be entitled to payment of
the fair value of such Dissenting Shares in accordance with
Section 262 (and, at the Effective Time, such Dissenting
Shares shall no longer be outstanding and shall automatically be
cancelled and shall cease to exist, and such Dissenting Stockholder
shall cease to have any right with respect thereto, except the
right to receive the fair value of such Dissenting Shares in
accordance with Section 262).
(b) Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 2.7(a ), if any Dissenting
Stockholder shall effectively withdraw or lose (through failure to
perfect or otherwise) such holder’s appraisal rights under
Section 262, then, as of the later of the Effective Time and
the occurrence of such event, such Dissenting Shares shall
automatically be converted into and represent only the right to
receive the consideration for Company Common Stock or Company
Series A Preferred Stock, as applicable, set forth in
Section 2.6 , without interest thereon, upon surrender
of the certificate representing such shares.
(c) The
Company shall give Parent (i) prompt notice of any written
demand for appraisal received by the Company pursuant to
Section 262, and (ii) the opportunity to participate in
any negotiations and proceedings with respect to such demands. The
Company shall not, except with the prior written consent of Parent,
make any payment with respect to any such demands or offer to
settle or settle any such demands. Any communication to be made by
the Company to any holder of Company Common Stock with respect to
such demands shall be submitted to Parent in advance and shall not
be presented to any holder of Company Common Stock prior to the
Company receiving Parent’s consent (not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed; and in no event delayed in a manner that
prevents the Company from timely complying with its obligations
under Section 262 or other applicable Legal
Requirements).
2.8
Surrender of Certificates .
(a)
Exchange Agent . Parent shall select an institution
reasonably acceptable to the Company (whose consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed) to act as the exchange agent (the
“ Exchange Agent ”) for the Merger and the
payment of the Merger Consideration.
(b)
Parent to Provide Cash . Prior to the Effective Time,
Parent shall enter into an agreement with the Exchange Agent (to be
effective as of the Effective Time) that shall provide that Parent
shall deposit with the Exchange Agent, in trust for the benefit of
the Company’s stockholders and for exchange in accordance
with this Article II , the aggregate Merger
Consideration payable pursuant to
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Section 2.6 . Any cash deposited with the Exchange Agent
shall hereinafter be referred to as the “ Exchange
Fund .”
(c)
Exchange Procedures . Promptly following the
Effective Time, Parent shall instruct the Exchange Agent to mail to
each holder of record of certificates or instruments evidencing the
Company Common Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock, and,
in Parent’s discretion, Company Options, that were
outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (collectively,
the “ Certificates ”) and which were converted
into the right to receive the applicable portion of the Merger
Consideration pursuant to Section 2.6 , (i) a
letter of transmittal (which shall specify that delivery shall be
effected, and risk of loss and title to the Certificates shall
pass, only upon proper delivery of the Certificates to the Exchange
Agent, and shall be in such form and have such other provisions as
Parent and/or the Exchange Agent may reasonably specify), and
(ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the
Certificates in exchange for the applicable portion of the Merger
Consideration. Upon surrender of Certificates for cancellation to
the Exchange Agent or to such other agent or agents as may be
appointed by Parent, together with such letter of transmittal, duly
completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions
thereto, and such other documents as may reasonably be required by
Parent or the Exchange Agent (including any required IRS
Form W-9 or Form W-8), the holders of such Certificates
shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a check or wire
transfer in the amount of U.S. dollars representing the applicable
portion of the Merger Consideration that such holders have the
right to receive pursuant to Section 2.6 , and the
Certificates so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. Until so
surrendered, outstanding Certificates will be deemed from and after
the Effective Time, for all corporate purposes, to evidence only
the right to receive upon surrender thereof the applicable portion
of the Merger Consideration that the holders thereof have the right
to receive pursuant to Section 2.6 . No interest will
be paid or accrued on any cash payable to holders of Certificates
pursuant to this Agreement. In the event of a transfer of ownership
of shares of Company Common Stock or Company Series A
Preferred Stock or Company Options (if applicable) that is not
registered in the transfer records of the Company, the applicable
portion of the Merger Consideration that the holder thereof has the
right to receive pursuant to Section 2.6 may paid to a
transferee if the Certificate representing such shares of Company
Common Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock or Company
Options (if applicable) is presented to the Exchange Agent,
accompanied by all documents required to evidence and effect such
transfer and by evidence that any applicable stock transfer Taxes
have been paid.
(d)
Required Withholding . Each of Parent, the Exchange
Agent and the Surviving Corporation shall be entitled to deduct and
withhold from any consideration payable or otherwise deliverable
pursuant to this Agreement such amounts as may be required to be
deducted or withheld therefrom under the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), or any other
applicable Legal Requirement. To the extent such amounts are so
deducted or withheld, the amount of such consideration shall be
treated for all purposes under this Agreement as having been paid
to the Person to whom such consideration would otherwise have been
paid.
(e)
No Liability . Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Section 2.8 , neither Parent, the
Exchange Agent, the Surviving Corporation nor any party hereto
shall be liable to a holder of shares of Company Common Stock,
Company Series A Preferred Stock or Company Options for any
amount paid to a public official pursuant to any applicable
abandoned property, escheat or similar law.
(f)
Investment of Exchange Fund . The Exchange Agent
shall invest the cash included in the Exchange Fund as directed by
Parent on a daily basis; provided that no such investment or
loss thereon shall affect the amounts payable to Company
stockholders pursuant to this Article II . Any interest
and other income resulting from such investment shall become a part
of the Exchange Fund, and any amounts in excess
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of the amounts
payable to Company stockholders or holders of Company Options
pursuant to this Article II shall promptly be paid to
Parent. To the extent that there are any losses with respect to any
such investments, or the Exchange Fund diminishes for any reason
below the level required for the Exchange Agent to promptly pay the
cash amounts contemplated by this Article II , Parent
shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, promptly
replace or restore the cash in the Exchange Fund so as to ensure
that the Exchange Fund is at all times maintained at a level
sufficient for the Exchange Agent to make such payments
contemplated by this Article II .
(g)
Termination of Exchange Fund . Any portion of the
Exchange Fund which remains undistributed to the holders of
Certificates twelve (12) months after the Effective Time
shall, at the request of the Surviving Corporation, be delivered to
the Surviving Corporation or otherwise according to the instruction
of the Surviving Corporation, and any holders of the Certificates
who have not surrendered such Certificates in compliance with this
Section 2.8 shall after such delivery to the Surviving
Corporation, subject to Section 2.8(e ), look only to
the Surviving Corporation solely as general creditors for the cash
constituting the Merger Consideration (which shall not accrue
interest) pursuant to Section 2.6(a ).
2.9 No
Further Ownership Rights in any Company Securities .
All Merger Consideration paid upon the surrender for exchange of
Company Common Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock and
Company Options in accordance with the terms hereof shall be deemed
to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to
such Company Common Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock
and Company Options, and there shall be no further registration of
transfers on the records of the Surviving Corporation of shares of
Company Common Stock, Company Series A Preferred Stock and
Company Options which were outstanding immediately prior to the
Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates are
presented to the Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall
be cancelled and exchanged as provided in this
Article II .
2.10 Lost,
Stolen or Destroyed Certificates . In the event any
Certificates shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the
Exchange Agent shall issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or
destroyed Certificates, upon the making of an affidavit of that
fact by the holder thereof, such cash constituting the Merger
Consideration; provided , however , that Parent or
Exchange Agent may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent
to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or
destroyed Certificates to deliver a bond in such sum as it may
reasonably direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made
against Parent, the Company or the Exchange Agent with respect to
the Certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or
destroyed.
2.11 Further
Action . At and after the Effective Time, the
officers and directors of Parent and the Surviving Corporation will
be authorized to execute and deliver, in the name and on behalf of
the Company and Merger Sub, any deeds, bills of sale, assignments
or assurances and to take and do, in the name and on behalf of
Company and Merger Sub, any other actions and things to vest,
perfect or confirm of record or otherwise in the Surviving
Corporation any and all right, title and interest in, to and under
any of the rights, properties or assets acquired or to be acquired
by the Surviving Corporation as a result of, or in connection with,
the Merger.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
Except as set
forth in the disclosure letter of the Company addressed to Parent
and Merger Sub, dated as of the date hereof and delivered to Parent
and Merger Sub concurrently with the parties’ execution of
this Agreement (the “ Company Disclosure Letter
”), referencing a representation or warranty herein (it
being
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understood that
(i) the Company Disclosure Letter shall be arranged in
sections and subsections corresponding to the sections and
subsections contained in this Article III ,
(ii) the disclosures in any section or subsection of the
Company Disclosure Letter shall qualify the applicable
representations and warranties in the corresponding section or
subsection of this Article III and, in addition, the
representations and warranties in other sections or subsections in
this Article III to the extent it is reasonably
apparent on the face of such disclosures that such disclosures are
applicable to such other sections or subsections, and (iii) such
disclosures in the Company Disclosure Letter relating to
representations and warranties in this Article III
shall also be deemed to be representations and warranties made by
the Company under this Article III (to the extent
required by such representations and warranties)), the Company
represents and warrants to Parent and Merger Sub as
follows:
3.1
Organization; Standing and Power; Charter Documents;
Subsidiaries .
(a)
Organization; Standing and Power . The Company and
each of its Subsidiaries (i) is a corporation or other
organization duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or
organization (except, in the case of good standing, for entities
organized under the laws of any jurisdiction that does not
recognize such concept), (ii) has the requisite power and
authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on
its business as currently conducted, and (iii) is duly
qualified or licensed to do business and in good standing as a
foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which the character or
location of its assets or properties (whether owned, leased or
licensed) or the nature of its business makes such qualification or
licensing necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or
licensed to do business and to be in good standing would not,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Company.
(b)
Charter Documents . The Company has made available to
Parent (i) a true and correct copy of the certificate of
incorporation, the certificate of designations, preferences and
rights of Company Series A Preferred Stock (the “
Certificate of Designations ”), and bylaws of the
Company, each as amended to date (collectively, the “
Company Charter Documents ”) and (ii) the
certificate of incorporation and bylaws, or like organizational
documents (collectively, “ Subsidiary Charter
Documents ”), of each of its Subsidiaries, and each such
instrument is in full force and effect. The Company is not in
violation of any of the provisions of the Company Charter Documents
and each Subsidiary is not in violation of its respective
Subsidiary Charter Documents.
(c)
Subsidiaries . Section 3.1(c ) of the
Company Disclosure Letter sets forth each Subsidiary of the
Company. The Company is the owner, directly or indirectly, of all
of the outstanding shares of capital stock of, or other equity or
voting interests in, each such Subsidiary and all such shares or
interests have been duly authorized, validly issued and are fully
paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens, including any
restriction on the right to vote, sell or otherwise dispose of such
capital stock or other ownership interests, except for restrictions
imposed by applicable securities laws. Other than the Subsidiaries
of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries
owns any capital stock of, or other equity or voting interests of
any nature in, or any interest convertible, exchangeable or
exercisable for, capital stock of, or other equity or voting
interests of any nature in, any other Person, except for passive
investments of less than 1% in the equity interests of public
companies as part of the Company’s cash management
program.
(a)
Capital Stock . The authorized capital stock of
Company consists of: (i) one hundred million (100,000,000)
shares of Company Common Stock and (ii) two million
(2,000,000) shares of
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Company
Preferred Stock, of which seven hundred thousand (700,000) shares
are designated Company Series A Preferred Stock. As of the
close of business on September 18, 2008 (the “ Cutoff
Time ”): (i) 68,319,443 shares of Company Common
Stock were issued and outstanding (excluding shares of Company
Common Stock held by the Company in its treasury and Company
Unvested Common Stock), (ii) 2,175,835 shares of Company
Unvested Common Stock were issued and outstanding,
(iii) 350,423 Company RSUs were issued and outstanding,
(iv) 6,656,910 shares of Company Common Stock were issued and
held by the Company in its treasury and (v) seven hundred
thousand (700,000) shares of Company Series A Preferred Stock
were issued and outstanding, and no other shares of Company
Preferred Stock were issued and outstanding. No shares of Company
Common Stock or Company Series A Preferred Stock are owned or
held by any Subsidiary of the Company. All outstanding shares of
Company Common Stock and Company Series A Preferred Stock are
duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and
are not subject to preemptive rights created by statute, the
Company Charter Documents, or any agreement to which the Company is
a party or by which it is bound. In the period from the Cutoff Time
to the date hereof, the Company has not issued any shares of
Company Stock other than pursuant to the exercise of Company
Options, Company RSUs or Company Warrants outstanding as of the
Cutoff Time.
(b)
Company Unvested Common Stock and Company RSUs .
Section 3.2(b ) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets
forth, as of the Cutoff Time, a list of each holder of Company
Unvested Common Stock and Company RSUs, and (i) the name and
address of the holder of such Company Unvested Common Stock or
Company RSUs, (ii) the number of shares of Company Unvested
Common Stock or Company RSUs held by such holder, (iii) the
date of issuance of such shares of Company Unvested Common Stock or
Company RSUs, (iv) the repurchase price of such Company
Unvested Common Stock, (v) the applicable vesting schedule of
such Company RSUs, and the applicable vesting schedule for such
Company Unvested Common Stock pursuant to which the Company’s
right of repurchase or forfeiture lapses, (vi) the extent to
which such Company right of repurchase or forfeiture has lapsed as
of the date hereof and whether such right of repurchase or
forfeiture will be accelerated or otherwise affected by the
transactions contemplated hereby with respect to the Company
Unvested Common Stock, and (vii) whether or not the holder of
such shares of Company Unvested Common Stock or Company RSUs is an
employee of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries. There are no
commitments or agreements of any character to which the Company is
bound obligating the Company to waive its right of repurchase or
forfeiture with respect to any Company Unvested Common Stock as a
result of the Merger (whether alone or upon the occurrence of any
additional or subsequent events). In the period from the Cutoff
Time to the date hereof, the Company has not issued any shares of
Company Unvested Common Stock or Company RSUs.
(c)
Company Options and Company Warrants . As of the
Cutoff Time: (i) 10,616,972 shares of Company Common Stock are
issuable upon the exercise of Company Options under the Company
Stock Plans, the weighted average exercise price of such Company
Options is $8.89472, and 8,647,656 shares of Company Common Stock
underlying such Company Options are vested and exercisable;
(ii) 4,627,408 shares of Company Common Stock are available
for future grant under the Company Stock Plans;
(iii) 1,095,182 shares of Company Common Stock are available
for issuance under the Company’s Amended and Restated
Employee Stock Purchase Plan and any other employee stock purchase
plan of the Company (the “ Company Purchase Plans
”); (iv) no shares of Company Common Stock are issuable
pursuant to outstanding options to purchase Company Common Stock
(A) which are issued other than pursuant to the Company Stock
Plans and (B) other than shares reserved for issuance under
the Company Purchase Plans; and (v) 1,064,259 shares of
Company Common Stock are issuable upon the exercise of Company
Warrants. Section 3.2(c) of the Company Disclosure
Letter sets forth a list of each outstanding Company Option and
Company Warrant: (a) the particular Company Stock Plan (if
any) pursuant to which any such Company Option was granted;
(b) the name and address of the holder of such Company Option
or Company Warrant;
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(c) the
number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Company
Option or Company Warrant; (d) the exercise price of such
Company Option or Company Warrant; (e) the date on which such
Company Option or Company Warrant was granted or issued;
(f) the applicable vesting schedule, if any, and the extent to
which such Company Option or Company Warrant is vested and
exercisable as of the date hereof; and (g) the date on which
such Company Option or Company Warrant expires. All shares of
Company Common Stock subject to issuance under the Company Stock
Plans, the Company Purchase Plans and the Company Warrants, upon
issuance on the terms and conditions specified in the instruments
pursuant to which they are issuable, will be duly authorized,
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. There are no
commitments or agreements of any character to which the Company is
bound obligating the Company to accelerate the vesting of any
Company Option as a result of the Merger (whether alone or upon the
occurrence of any additional or subsequent events). As of the end
of the second most recent payroll period ending prior to the date
hereof (which ended on August 31, 2008), the aggregate amount
credited to the accounts of participants in the Company Purchase
Plans was $172,940.26 and the aggregate amount credited to such
accounts for such payroll period was $65,782.30. There are no
outstanding or authorized stock appreciation, phantom stock, profit
participation or other similar rights with respect to the Company.
In the period from the Cutoff Time to the date hereof, the Company
has not granted any Company Options or issued any Company
Warrants.
(d)
Voting Debt . No Voting Debt is issued or outstanding
as of the date hereof.
(e)
Other Securities . Except as otherwise set forth in
Section 3.2(b) , Section 3.2(c) or
Section 3.2(e) of the Company Disclosure Letter, as of
the date hereof, there are no securities, options, warrants, calls,
rights, contracts, commitments, agreements, instruments,
arrangements, understandings, obligations or undertakings of any
kind to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or
by which any of them is bound obligating the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to (including on a deferred basis) issue, deliver or
sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold, additional shares
of Company Stock, Voting Debt or other voting or non-voting
securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or obligating
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to issue, grant, extend or
enter into any such security, option, warrant, call, right,
commitment, agreement, instrument, arrangement, understanding,
obligation or undertaking. All outstanding shares of Company Stock,
Company Options, Company Warrants and all outstanding shares of
capital stock of each Subsidiary of the Company have been issued,
granted or repurchased in compliance with (i) all applicable
securities laws and all other applicable Legal Requirements, and
(ii) all requirements set forth in applicable Contracts of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Except for shares of Company
Unvested Common Stock, there are no outstanding Contracts of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to (x) repurchase, redeem
or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock of, or other
equity or voting interests in, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or (y) dispose of any shares of the capital stock
of, or other equity or voting interests in, any of its
Subsidiaries. The Company is not a party to any voting agreement
with respect to shares of the capital stock of, or other equity or
voting interests in, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and, to
the knowledge of the Company, other than the Voting Agreements and
the irrevocable proxies granted pursuant to the Voting Agreements,
there are no irrevocable proxies and no voting agreements, voting
trusts, rights plans, anti-takeover plans or registration rights
agreements with respect to any shares of the capital stock of, or
other equity or voting interests in, the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
3.3
Authority; No Conflict; Necessary Consents
.
(a)
Authority . The Company has all requisite power and
authority to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby, subject, in the case of
consummation of the Merger, to obtaining Company Stockholder
Approval (as defined below) as contemplated in
Section 6.2 .
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The execution
and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and no
further action is required on the part of the Company to authorize
the execution and delivery of this Agreement or to consummate the
Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, subject only
to obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval and the filing of the
Certificate of Merger pursuant to Delaware Law. The vote of the
Company’s stockholders that is required by the Charter
Documents, by applicable Legal Requirements and by any applicable
Contracts between the Company and any of its stockholders, to
approve this Agreement, the Merger and the transactions
contemplated hereby by the Company stockholders is set forth in
Section 3.3(a ) of the Company Disclosure Letter (such
required vote set forth on Section 3.3(a ) of the
Company Disclosure Letter, the “ Company Stockholder
Approval ”). By resolution adopted by unanimous vote at a
meeting of all members of the Company’s Board of Directors
duly called and held and not subsequently rescinded or modified in
any way, the Board of Directors of the Company has duly
(i) determined that the Merger is fair to, and in the best
interests of, the Company and its stockholders, and declared the
Merger to be advisable, (ii) approved this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger, and
(iii) recommended that the stockholders of the Company approve
and adopt this Agreement and approve the Merger and directed that
such matter be submitted to the Company’s stockholders at the
Company Stockholders’ Meeting. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery by Parent and Merger Sub,
constitutes the valid and binding obligation of the Company,
enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
except that such enforceability (a) may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws affecting or relating to creditors’ rights
generally, and (b) is subject to general principles of
equity.
(b)
No Conflict . Neither the execution and delivery of
this Agreement by the Company, nor the consummation of the Merger
or any other transaction contemplated hereby: (a) conflicts
with, or (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) results
in a termination, breach, impairment or violation of, or
constitutes a default under, or requires a consent, waiver or
approval of any Person under, (i) any provision of the Company
Charter Documents or any Subsidiary Charter Documents, each as
currently in effect, (ii) subject to compliance with the
requirements of the Necessary Consents (as defined below), any
Legal Requirement applicable to the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries, or any of their respective assets or properties, or
(iii) any Company Material Contract (as defined below) to
which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
assets or properties are bound, (except in the case of
clauses (ii) or (iii), where such conflicts, terminations,
breaches, impairments, violations or defaults, or failures to
obtain such consents, waivers or approvals, individually or in the
aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to constitute a
Material Adverse Effect on the Company; or (b) will result in
the creation of any Lien on any of the material properties or
assets of the Company or its Subsidiaries, except where such Liens,
individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected
to constitute a Material Adverse Effect on the Company.
(c)
Necessary Consents . No consent, waiver, approval,
order or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing
with any Governmental Entity is required to be obtained or made by
the Company in connection with the execution and delivery of this
Agreement or the consummation of the Merger and other transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, except for (i) the filing of
the Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware and appropriate documents, as required by applicable
Legal Requirements, with the relevant authorities of other states
in which the Company and/or Parent are qualified to do business,
(ii) the filing of the Proxy Statement with the SEC in
accordance with the Exchange Act and such other filings with
Governmental Entities as may be required by any federal or state
securities laws, (iii) the filing of the Notification and
Report Forms with FTC and the Antitrust Division of
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required by the HSR Act and the expiration or termination of the
applicable waiting period under the HSR Act and such consents,
waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations,
declarations and filings as may be required under the foreign
merger control regulations, if applicable, and such consents,
waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations,
declarations and filings as may be required under any required
foreign merger control regulations, if applicable, as reasonably
determined Parent, and (iv) such other consents, waivers,
approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations and
filings which if not obtained or made would not have a Material
Adverse Effect on the Company. The consents, approvals, orders,
authorizations, registrations, declarations and filings set forth
in (i) through (iv) are referred to herein as the “
Necessary Consents .”
3.4 SEC
Filings; Financial Statements; Internal Controls
.
(a)
SEC Filings . Since January 1, 2005, the Company
has filed all required registration statements, prospectuses,
reports, schedules, forms, statements, certifications and other
documents (including exhibits and all other information
incorporated by reference) required to be filed by it with, or
furnished to, the SEC (all such required registration statements,
prospectuses, reports, schedules, forms, statements and other
documents (including those that the Company may file subsequent to
the date hereof) are referred to herein as the “ Company
SEC Reports ”). As of their respective dates, the Company
SEC Reports (i) were prepared in accordance and complied in
all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act
or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and the rules and
regulations of the SEC thereunder applicable to such Company SEC
Reports and the disclosure requirements of Rule 4350 of the
NASDAQ Global Select Market, in each case, as in effect on the date
such Company SEC Report was filed, and (ii) did not at the
time they were filed (or if amended or superseded by a filing prior
to the date of this Agreement then on the date of such filing)
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order
to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading, unless corrected in a
later filed Company SEC Report. None of the Company’s
Subsidiaries is required to file any forms, reports or other
documents with the SEC. The Company and each of its executive
officers and directors are in compliance with, and have complied,
in each case in all material respects with (i) the applicable
provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the related rules
and regulations promulgated under or pursuant to such act (“
SOX ”), and (ii) the applicable listing and
corporate governance rules and regulations of the NASDAQ Global
Select Market.
(b)
Financial Statements . Each of the consolidated
financial statements (including, in each case, any related notes
thereto) contained in the Company SEC Reports (the “
Company Financials ”), including each Company SEC
Report filed after the date hereof until the Closing:
(i) complied, as of their respective dates of filing with the
SEC, as to form in all material respects with the published rules
and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, (ii) was
prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted
accounting principles (“ GAAP ”) applied on a
consistent basis throughout the periods involved (except as may be
indicated in the notes thereto or, in the case of unaudited interim
financial statements, as may be permitted by the SEC on
Form 10-Q or 8-K under the Exchange Act), and
(iii) fairly and accurately presented, in all material
respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and
its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the respective dates thereof
and the consolidated results of the Company’s operations and
cash flows for the periods indicated (except that the unaudited
interim financial statements were subject to normal and recurring
year-end and quarter-end adjustments which were not material). The
Company does not intend to correct or restate, nor, to the
knowledge of the Company, is there any basis, facts or
circumstances that would reasonably be expected to result in any
correction or restatement of, any material aspect of the Company
Financials. The audited balance sheet of the Company contained in
the Company SEC Reports as of June 30, 2008, is hereinafter
referred to as the “ Company Balance Sheet .”
The Company has not had any
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significant
dispute with any of its auditors regarding accounting matters or
policies during any of its past five (5) full fiscal years or
during the current fiscal year-to-date. The books and records of
the Company and each Subsidiary have been, and are being,
maintained in all material respects in accordance with applicable
legal and accounting requirements, and the Company Financials are
consistent with such books and records. Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries is a party to, or has any commitment to become
a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or any
similar Contract relating to any transaction or relationship
between or among the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on the one
hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured
finance, special purpose or limited purpose Person, on the other
hand, including, without limitation, any “off-balance sheet
arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of
Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC), where the result,
purpose or intended effect of such contract or arrangement is to
avoid disclosure of any material transaction involving, or material
liabilities of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the
Company’s or such Subsidiary’s published financial
statements or other Company SEC Reports. The Company and its
Subsidiaries have made appropriate disclosures in the Financial
Statements in accordance with the requirements of Financial
Interpretation No. 48 of FASB Statement
No. 109.
(c)
No Undisclosed Liabilities . Except as reflected or
reserved against in the Company Balance Sheet, neither the Company
nor any of its Subsidiaries has any Liabilities of any nature that
would be required by GAAP to be reflected on a consolidated balance
sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries or described in the notes
thereto which are, individually or in the aggregate, material to
the business, results of operations or financial condition of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except
(i) Liabilities incurred since the date of the Company Balance
Sheet in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice which are of the type which ordinarily recur and,
individually or in the aggregate, are not material in nature or
amount and do not result from any breach of Contract, tort or
violation of any applicable Legal Requirement, and
(ii) Liabilities arising under this Agreement or incurred in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
(d)
Amendments . The Company has made available to Parent
a complete and correct copy of any amendments or modifications
which have not yet been filed with, or furnished to, the SEC, but
which are required to be filed or furnished, to agreements,
documents or other instruments which previously had been filed by
Company with the SEC, or furnished by the Company to the SEC,
pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act. Since
January 1, 2005, no “material contract” (as such
term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K
promulgated by the SEC) filed as an exhibit to the Company SEC
Reports has been amended or modified, except for amendments or
modifications which have been filed as an exhibit to a subsequently
dated Company SEC Report. The Company has responded to all comment
letters of the staff of the SEC relating to the Company SEC
Reports, and the SEC has not advised the Company that any final
responses are inadequate, insufficient or otherwise non-responsive.
To the Company’s knowledge, none of the Company SEC Reports
is the subject of ongoing SEC review or outstanding SEC comments.
The Company has made available to Parent true, correct and complete
copies of all correspondence between the SEC, on the one hand, and
the Company and any of its Subsidiaries, on the other, including
all SEC comment letters and responses to such comment letters by or
on behalf of the Company, since January 1, 2005.
(e)
Internal Controls . The Company has established and
maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to
provide reasonable assurances that (i) transactions, receipts
and expenditures of the Company and its Subsidiaries are being
executed and made only in accordance with appropriate
authorizations of management and the Company’s Board of
Directors, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary
(A) to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis and (B) to
maintain accountability for assets, (iii) provide reasonable
assurance regarding prevention or
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timely
detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (iv) the amount
recorded for assets on the books and records of the Company is
compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. There
are no “significant deficiencies” or “material
weaknesses” (as defined by the Public Company Accounting
Oversight Board) in the design or operation of the Company’s
internal controls and procedures which could adversely affect the
Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
financial data. To the Company’s knowledge, there is no
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
current or former employees of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries who have a role in the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting. The Company has established and
maintains “disclosure controls and procedures” (as
defined in Rule 13a-15 promulgated under the Exchange Act)
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the
Company in the reports that it files under the Exchange Act is
recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time
periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and that such
information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s
principal executive officer and principal financial officer, or
persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow
timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to make the
certifications of the “principal executive officer” and
the “principal financial officer” of the Company
required by Section 302 of the SOX with respect to such
reports, and such controls are effective for this purpose. Each of
the principal executive officer of the Company and the principal
financial officer of the Company (or each former principal
executive officer of the Company and each former principal
financial officer of the Company, as applicable) has made all
certifications required by Sections 302 and 906 of SOX and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to the
Company SEC Reports and the statements contained in such
certifications are true and accurate as of the date hereof. The
Company has established and maintains “internal control over
financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15
promulgated under the Exchange Act) and such internal control over
financial reporting is effective in providing reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of the Company’s financial
reporting and the preparation of the Company’s financial
statements in accordance with GAAP.
3.5 Absence
of Certain Changes or Events . Since the date of the
Company Balance Sheet, the Company and its Subsidiaries have
operated their businesses in the ordinary course consistent with
past practices, and since such date there has not been:
(a) any
amendment or change in the Company Charter Documents or Subsidiary
Charter Documents;
(b) any
Material Adverse Effect on the Company;
(c) any
acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or
agreement by the Company or any Subsidiary to acquire by merging or
consolidating with, or by purchasing, any material portion of
assets or equity securities of, or by any other manner, any
business or corporation, partnership, association or other business
organization or division thereof;
(d) any
Contract, agreement in principle, letter of intent, memorandum of
understanding or similar agreement with respect to any material
joint venture, strategic partnership or alliance;
(e) any
declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend on, or other
distribution (whether in cash, stock or property) in respect of,
any of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’
capital stock, or any purchase, redemption or other acquisition by
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any of the
Company’s capital stock or any other securities of the
Company or its Subsidiaries, or any Company Option, Company
Warrant, calls or rights to acquire any such shares or other
securities, except for
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repurchases
from, and forfeitures by, Employees following their termination
pursuant to the terms of their pre-existing stock option or
purchase agreements and restricted stock award and restricted stock
unit award agreements;
(f) any
split, combination or reclassification of any of the
Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ capital
stock;
(g) any
forgiveness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether
orally or in writing, of any loan to any Employee in an amount
exceeding $10,000;
(h) (i) any
material increase or decrease in compensation or fringe benefits
(except for normal increases or decreases of cash compensation to
current non-officer employees in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice) by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, whether orally or in writing, (ii) any promise,
commitment or payment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
whether orally or in writing, of any material bonus (except for
bonuses made to current non-officer employees in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice), (iii) any
adoption, change, or termination by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, whether orally or in writing, of any severance,
change of control, termination or bonus plan, policy or practice,
or (iv) the adoption, termination or amendment of any Company
Employee Plan or collective bargaining agreement;
(i) any
amendment or termination with respect to any Company Material
Contract;
(j) (i) entry
into a customer Contract that provides for (or is reasonably
expected to provide for) revenues in excess of $250,000 annually
and contains any material non-standard terms, including but not
limited to, non-standard discounts, provisions for unpaid future
deliverables, non-standard service requirements or future royalty
payments other than in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice, or any material change in the manner in which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries extends discounts, credits
or warranties to customers or otherwise deals with its customers,
or (ii) entry into any reseller or distributor agreement that
provides for (or is reasonably expected to provide for) revenues in
excess of $250,000 annually), in each case, other than in the
ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice;
(k) any
change by the Company in its accounting methods, except as required
by GAAP or applicable Legal Requirements;
(l) any
debt, capital lease or other debt or equity financing transaction
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or entry into any
agreement by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection
with any such transaction;
(m) any
material restructuring activities by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, including any reductions in force, lease
terminations, restructuring of contracts or similar
actions;
(n) any
sale, lease, license, encumbrance or other disposition of any
business lines or any properties or assets, except the sale, lease,
license or disposition of property or assets which are not
material, individually or in the aggregate, to the business of the
Company or the licenses of current Company Products, in each case,
in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with
past practice;
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(o) (i) any
loan or extension of credit by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to any Person other than in the ordinary course of
business consistent with past practice, or (ii) any loan,
advance or capital contribution to, or any investment in, any of
the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ executive officers,
directors or 1% stockholders or any firm or business enterprise in
which the Company had knowledge that such officer, director or
stockholder had a direct or indirect material interest at the time
of such loan, advance, capital contribution or
investment;
(p) adoption
of or change in any Tax accounting method or Tax election, entering
into any closing agreement in respect of Taxes, settlement or
compromise of any Tax claim or assessment, or extension or waiver
of the limitation period applicable to any Tax claim or assessment
other than with respect to any Tax liability that is in an amount
less than $200,000 individually or $400,000 in the
aggregate;
(q) any
expenditure, transaction or commitment by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries exceeding $200,000 individually or $400,000 in the
aggregate, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice;
(r) any
material damage, destruction or loss of any material property or
material asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether
or not covered by insurance;
(s) any
termination of employment of a senior manager or key employee, or
the termination of a material number of employees;
(t) any
claims or matters raised by any individual, Governmental Entity, or
workers’ representative organization, bargaining unit or
union, regarding, claiming or alleging a labor dispute, labor
trouble, wrongful discharge or any other unlawful employment or
labor practice or action with respect to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(u) any
material Liability incurred by it to any of its officers, directors
or stockholders, except for normal and customary compensation and
expense allowances payable to officers and directors in the
ordinary course of its business consistent with its past
practices;
(v) any
commencement or settlement of any material litigation by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(w) any
material revaluation, or any indication that such a revaluation was
merited under GAAP, by the Company of any of its material assets,
other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice; or
(x) announcement
of, any negotiation by or any entry into any Contract to do any of
the things described in the preceding clauses (a) through
(w) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than
negotiations and agreements with Parent and its representatives
regarding the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement).
(a)
Definition of Taxes . For the purposes of this
Agreement, the term “ Tax ” or, collectively,
“ Taxes ” shall mean any and all U.S. federal,
state, local and non-U.S. taxes, assessments and other governmental
charges, duties, impositions and liabilities relating to taxes,
including taxes based upon or
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measured by
gross receipts, income, profits, sales, use and occupation, value
added, ad valorem, transfer, franchise, withholding, payroll,
recapture, employment, excise and property taxes as well as social
security charges (including health, unemployment, workers’
compensation and pension insurance) and fees, together with all
interest, penalties and additions imposed with respect to such
amounts.
(b)
Tax Returns and Audits .
(i) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have timely filed all U.S.
federal, state, local and non-U.S. returns, estimates, information
statements and reports (“ Returns ”) relating to
all Taxes of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and such
Returns are true and correct in all material respects and have been
completed in accordance with applicable Legal
Requirements.
(ii) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied in all material
respects with all applicable Legal Requirements relating to the
payment and withholding of Taxes (including withholding of Taxes in
connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, former
employee or independent contractor) and has duly and timely
withheld and has paid over to the appropriate Governmental Entity
all amounts required to be so withheld and paid over on or prior to
the due date thereof under all applicable Legal
Requirements.
(iii) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been delinquent in the
payment of any material Tax, nor is there any material Tax
deficiency outstanding, assessed or proposed against the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, nor has the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries executed any waiver of any statute of limitations on
or extending the period for the assessment or collection of any
Tax, which waiver or extension is currently in effect.
(iv) No
audit or other examination of any Return of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is currently in progress, nor has the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries received written notice of any request for
such an audit or other examination. Neither the Company nor any of
its Subsidiaries has received written notice of a proposed material
adjustment by any Tax authority relating to any Return filed by it.
Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has in its possession
copies of all Tax settlement agreements or similar reports issued
by a Tax authority as a result of an auditor examination for all
periods since its inception.
(v) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is or has been at any time,
a “United States Real Property Holding Corporation”
within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the
Code.
(vi) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is required to include any
income or gain in or exclude any deduction or loss from income for
any tax period (or portion thereof) after the Closing (A) as a
result of a closing agreement (within the meaning of
Section 7121 of the Code or any comparable provision of
applicable law) executed prior to the Closing or (B) under
Section 481(a) of the Code by reason of a voluntary change in
accounting method initiated by, or with respect to, the Company or
a Subsidiary. The IRS has not proposed in writing any such
adjustment or change in accounting method.
(vii) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any Liabilities for
unpaid Taxes which have not been accrued or reserved on the Company
Financials in accordance with GAAP, and neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries has incurred any Liability for Taxes since the
date of the Company Balance Sheet other than in the ordinary course
of business.
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(viii) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has (a) ever been a
member of an affiliated group (within the meaning of Code
§1504(a)) filing a consolidated U.S. federal income Tax Return
(other than a group the common parent of which was Company),
(b) ever been a party to any Tax sharing, indemnification or
allocation agreement, or (c) any liability for the Taxes of
any Person (other than Company or any of its Subsidiaries), under
Treasury Regulation § 1.1502 6 (or any similar provision
of state, local or non-U.S. law including any arrangement for group
or consortium Tax relief or similar arrangement), as a transferee
or successor, by contract or agreement, by operation of law, or
otherwise.
(ix) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has constituted either a
“distributing corporation” or a “controlled
corporation” in a distribution of stock intended to qualify
for tax-free treatment under Section 355 of the
Code.
(x) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has participated in any
listed transaction within the meaning of
Section 1.6011-4(b)(2) of the Treasury Regulations, or, to the
knowledge of the Company, in a reportable transaction under
Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(b).
(xi) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice
from a Governmental Entity in a jurisdiction where the Company or a
Subsidiary, as applicable, does not file Returns to the effect that
the Company or the Subsidiary is or may be subject to taxation by
that jurisdiction.
(xii) The
Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been in compliance in all
material respects with all applicable transfer pricing laws and
regulations, including the execution and maintenance of
contemporaneous documentation substantiating transfer pricing
practices of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The prices for any
property or services (or for the use of any property) provided by
or to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are arm’s-length
prices for purposes of the relevant transfer pricing laws,
including Treasury Regulations promulgated under Section 482
of the Code.
(xiii) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied in all material
respects with all applicable escheat or unclaimed property laws,
and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any
liabilities for the payment of any amounts as a result of the
application of such laws that have not been reserved for in
accordance with GAAP on the Company Financials.
(xiv) The
Company has provided to Parent all documentation relating to, and
each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all
material respects with, all terms and conditions of any Tax
exemption, Tax holiday or other Tax reduction agreement or
order.
(c)
Loss of Executive Compensation Deduction . There is
no Contract to which the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates is
a party, including the provisions of this Agreement, covering any
Employee of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate, which, individually
or collectively with other payments the Company makes, that will
give rise to the payment of any amount that would not be deductible
pursuant to Sections 404 or 162(m) of the Code.
(d)
Section 409A . Section 3.6(d) of the
Company Disclosure Letter lists each Contract between the Company
or any ERISA Affiliate and any Employee that is a
“nonqualified deferred compensation plan” subject to
Section 409A of the Code. Each such nonqualified deferred
compensation plan, if any, has been operated since January 1,
2005 in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code.
No deferred compensation plan existing prior to January 1,
2005, which would otherwise be subject to Section 409A, has
been “materially modified” at any time after
October 3, 2004. No stock right (as defined in
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U.S. Treasury
Department regulation 1.409A-1(l)) has been granted to any Employee
that (i) has an exercise price that has been or may be less
than the fair market value of the underlying equity as of the date
such option or right was granted, (ii) has any feature for the
deferral of compensation other than the deferral of recognition of
income until the later of exercise or disposition of such option or
rights, or (iii) has been granted after December 31,
2004, with respect to any class of stock that is not “service
recipient stock” (within the meaning of applicable
regulations under Section 409A of the Code). No compensation
shall be includable in the gross income of any Employee as a result
of the operation of Section 409A of the Code with respect to
any arrangements or agreements in effect as of the Effective Time.
There is no Contract, agreement, plan or arrangement to which the
Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates is a party, including the
provisions of this Agreement, covering any Employee of the Company,
which individually or collectively could require the Company or any
of its Affiliates to pay a tax gross up payment to any Employee for
Tax-related payments under Section 409A of the
Code.
(e)
Section 280G . None of the Company or any of its
ERISA Affiliates has made any payment to any Employee and is not
party to a Contract, agreement or arrangement with any Employee to
make payment, individually or considered collectively with any
other Contracts, that will, or could reasonably be expected to, be
characterized as a “parachute payment” within the
meaning of Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code or that could not be
deductible under Section 280G of the Code. There is no
Contract by which the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates is
bound to compensate any Employee for excise taxes paid pursuant to
Section 4999 of the Code. Section 3.6(e) of the
Company Disclosure Letter lists all Employees reasonably believed
to be “disqualified individuals” (within the meaning of
Section 280G of the Code) as determined as of the date
hereof.
3.7 Title to
Properties .
(a)
Properties . Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries owns or has ever owned any real property.
Section 3.7(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets
forth a list of all real property currently leased, licensed or
subleased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or otherwise
used or occupied by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (the
“ Leased Real Property ”), the name of the
lessor, licensor, sublessor, master lessor and/or lessee, the date
of the lease, license, sublease or other occupancy right and each
amendment thereto. All such current leases are in full force and
effect, are valid and effective in accordance with their respective
terms (except as such enforceability may be subject to laws of
general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, and the
relief of debtors and rules of law governing specific performance,
injunctive relief, or other equitable remedies), and there is not,
under any of such leases, any existing material default or event of
default (or event which with notice or lapse of time, or both,
would constitute a material default) by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of the Company, by any other
party thereto. The Company or its Subsidiaries currently occupy all
of the Leased Real Property for the operation of its business. To
the knowledge of the Company, no parties other than the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries have a right to occupy any Leased Real
Property. To the knowledge of the Company, the Leased Real Property
is in compliance, in all material respects, with Legal
Requirements. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has
performed all of its material obligations under any material
termination agreements pursuant to which it has terminated any
leases of real property that are no longer in effect and has no
material continuing Liability with respect to such terminated real
property leases. The physical assets of the Company and the
Subsidiaries are, in all material respects, in good condition and
repair, subject to normal wear and tear.
(b)
Documents . The Company has made available to Parent
correct and complete copies of all leases, lease guaranties,
agreements for the
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