Exhibit 10.23
FINAL
REDACTED COPY
ASSET EXCHANGE
AGREEMENT
between
BETA SYSTEMS SOFTWARE OF NORTH
AMERICA, INC.,
BETA SYSTEMS SOFTWARE OF CANADA
LTD.
and
PROGINET
CORPORATION
dated effective as
of
October 1, 2008
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ARTICLE 1
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INTERPRETATION
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ARTICLE 2
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ASSET EXCHANGE
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Trade Accounts
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ARTICLE 3
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CLOSING
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of Closing
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ARTICLE 4
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CONVEYANCES
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ARTICLE 5
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
PARTIES
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Each Party's
Representations and Warranties
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Beta Canada's
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Beta America's
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Proginet's
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Survival of
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No Additional
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ARTICLE 6
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LIABILITIES AND
INDEMNITIES
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Responsibility
of Beta Canada
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Responsibility
of Beta America
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Responsibility
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ARTICLE 7
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POST-CLOSING OBLIGATIONS
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GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
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Consent to
Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial
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ARTICLE 9
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NOTICES
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Change of
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ARTICLE 10
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Supersedes
Previous Agreements; Amendment
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Public
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REDACTED COPY
ASSET EXCHANGE
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is dated effective as of October
1, 2008.
BETA SYSTEMS
SOFTWARE OF NORTH AMERICA, INC. , a Delaware corporation, having an office in
the City of Herndon, in the State of Virginia (" Beta
America "),
BETA SYSTEMS
SOFTWARE OF CANADA LTD. ,
a body corporate having an office in the City of Calgary in the
Province of Alberta (" Beta Canada ") and
PROGINET
CORPORATION , a Delaware
corporation, having an office in Garden City, in the State of New
York (" Proginet ").
The Parties are desirous of exchanging certain
assets and taking other actions all in accordance with the terms
and conditions contained herein.
NOW THEREFORE in consideration of the premises
hereto and of the covenants, warranties, representations and
agreements herein set forth and provided for, the Parties covenant
and agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
INTERPRETATION
In this
Agreement, the words and phrases set forth below shall have the
meaning ascribed thereto, namely:
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" AAA "
has the meaning attributed to it in Section 8.2(b)
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" Additional
Indemnitees " means, with respect to any Person to which
indemnification is granted pursuant to Article 6 , its
Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, servants,
agents, advisors and employees of that Person and its
Affiliates;
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Affiliate " means, in respect of a Person, any other Person
or group of Persons acting in concert, directly or indirectly, that
controls, is controlled by or under common control with the first
mentioned Person, and for the purposes of this definition "
control " means the possession, directly or indirectly, by
such Person or group of Persons acting in concert of the power to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of the
first mentioned Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities or otherwise;
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"
Agreement " means this document, together with the Schedules
attached hereto and made a part hereof, all as amended,
supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with the
provisions hereof;
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" Agreement
Default " means any material breach of a representation or
warranty made by a Party, or the failure of a Party to perform or
observe in any material respect any of the covenants or agreements
to be performed by such Party under this Agreement;
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" Applicable
Law " means, in relation to any Person, transaction or event,
all applicable provisions of laws, statutes, rules, regulations,
official directives and orders of all federal, provincial,
municipal and local governmental bodies (whether administrative,
legislative, executive or otherwise) and final, non-appealable
judgements, orders and decrees of all courts, arbitrators,
commissions or bodies exercising similar functions in actions or
proceedings in which the Person in question is a party, by which it
is bound or having application to the transaction or event in
question;
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" Assets
" means the Beta Canada Assets or Proginet Assets, as the case may
be;
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" Beta "
means Beta America and Beta Canada;
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" Beta
America " means Beta Systems Software of North America,
Inc.;
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" Beta
America Contract Assignment " means the assignment and
assumption agreement whereby Beta America conveys the Beta America
Contracts to Proginet and Proginet assumes certain obligations
related to the Beta America Contracts;
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" Beta
America Contracts " means all contracts, agreements and
arrangements related to the Beta Products by which Beta or its
Affiliates, on the one hand, and the customers listed in
Schedule 5.3(d) , on the other hand, are
bound;
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" Beta
Canada " means Beta Systems Software of Canada Ltd.;
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" Beta
Canada Asset Assignment " means the assignment agreement
whereby Beta Canada conveys the Beta Canada Assets to
Proginet;
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" Beta
Canada Assets " means all the properties, assets, interests and
rights of Beta Canada which are related to the Beta Products
including the following:
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the Beta Canada
Intellectual Property and Beta Canada Technology;
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the Beta Canada
Books and Records; and
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all proceeds of
any or all of the foregoing received or receivable after the
Effective Time;
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" Beta
Canada Books and Records " means all books, records, files
and papers related to the Beta Products including drawings,
engineering information, manuals and data, sales and advertising
materials, sales and purchases correspondence, trade association
files, research and development records, lists of present and
former customers, distributors and suppliers and all copies and
recordings of the foregoing;
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" Beta
Canada Intellectual Property " means all rights to and
interests in:
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all trade dress
and brand names, logos, slogans, domain names, trade-marks (whether
used with wares or services and including the goodwill attaching to
such trade marks) and all registrations and applications for trade
marks (all future income from such trade marks) related to the Beta
Products, all of which are listed in Schedule 5.2(a)
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all inventions,
patents, patent rights, patent applications (including all
reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part and
extensions of any patent or patent application), industrial designs
and applications for registration of industrial designs related to
the Beta Products, all of the registrations or applications for
registration of which are listed in Schedule 5.2(a)
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all copyrights,
registrations and applications for copyrights (and all future
income from such copyrights) related to the Beta Products, all of
the registrations or applications for registration of which are
listed in Schedule 5.2(a) ;
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all rights and
interests in and processes, lab journals, notebooks, data, trade
secrets, designs, know-how, product formula and information,
manufacturing, engineering and other drawings and manuals,
technology, blue prints, research and development reports, agency
agreements, technical information, technical assistance,
engineering data, design and engineering specifications, and
similar materials recording or evidencing expertise, information or
technology related to the Beta Business;
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all of the
intellectual property affected by the registrations and
applications for registration listed in Schedule
5.2(a) and the permissions and licenses listed in
Schedule 5.2(a) ;
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all other
intellectual and industrial property rights throughout the world
related to the Beta Products;
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all licenses of
the intellectual property granted by Beta Canada to third persons
and listed in items (i) to (vi) above;
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all future
income and proceeds from any of the intellectual property listed in
items (i) to (vi) above and the licenses listed in item (vii)
above;
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all
documentation, packaging and media relating to the intellectual
property described in items (i) to (viii) above, including all
computer disks, CD ROMs and other storage media containing any such
intellectual property and all inventory, boxes, wrapping and other
packaging material; and
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all rights to
damages, royalties and profits by reason of the past, present or
future infringement or other misuse of any of the intellectual
property listed in items (i) to (vii) above.
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" Beta
Canada Technology " means all computer software (including
source code and object code), operating systems, browsers, user
interfaces, algorithms, architecture, structure, display screens,
layouts, development tools, instructions, templates, servers,
hardware, technical information, engineering data or reports or
other technology or related information all of which are developed,
licensed or owned by Beta Canada and whether completed or in the
course of development all as related to the Beta
Products;
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" Beta
Products " means the products of Beta related to the Harbor NSM
and Harbor HFT product lines;
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" Business
Day " means a week day (other than a Saturday or Sunday),
excluding all statutory holidays under Applicable Law;
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"
Closing " means the transfer of (i) the Proginet Assets
(other than the Proginet Contracts) by Proginet to Beta Canada,
(ii) the Proginet Contracts by Proginet to Beta America, (iii) the
Beta Canada Assets by Beta Canada and the Beta America Contracts by
Beta America to Proginet, and the completion of all matters
incidental thereto, all as contemplated by this
Agreement;
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" Closing
Date " means the date of this Agreement;
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" Effective
Time " means 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on October 1,
2008;
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include " and " including " mean "include, without
limitation" and "including, without limitation",
respectively;
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"
Indemnifiable Losses " means all losses, costs, damages,
expenses, charges, fines, penalties, assessments or other
liabilities whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys fees and
expenses), but does not (except to the extent claimed by a third
Person) include consequential, incidental, economic or punitive
losses, damages or claims;
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"
Indemnified Party " has the meaning attributed to it in
Section 6.7 ;
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Indemnifying Party " has the meaning attributed to it in
Section 6.7 ;
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" License
Agreement " means the agreement whereby Proginet will grant an
exclusive license to Beta America to sell, maintain and modify
Proginet’s Secure-Line Products (as such term is defined in
the License Agreement), in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
A ;
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Maintenance and Support Agreement " means the agreement
whereby Beta Canada will provide maintenance and support services
for the Harbor products to Proginet, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit B ;
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" Master
Distributor Agreement " means the agreement whereby Beta
Systems Software AG or any of its distributors, subsidiaries or
associated companies, will become the master distributor for
Proginet's CFI Suite in Europe, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C ;
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" Notice of
Claim " means a notice by a Party on behalf of itself or one or
more Additional Indemnities (if applicable) of a claim for
Indemnifiable Losses pursuant to Sections 6.1, 6.2 or 6.3 ,
as applicable, together with detailed particulars as to the nature
and amount of the claim, the basis which it is sought and the
provisions of this Agreement applicable to such claim;
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Parties " means Beta Canada, Beta America and Proginet and "
Party " means one of them, as the context may
indicate;
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" Permitted
Security Interests " means (a) mechanic’s,
materialman’s, warehouseman’s, carrier’s and
similar liens for labor, materials or supplies incurred in the
ordinary course of business, (b) purchase money security interests
arising in the ordinary course of business, and (c) liens for
taxes, assessments and other governmental charges not yet due and
payable;
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" Person
" includes an individual, a partnership (limited or general), a
corporation, a limited liability company, a trust, a joint venture,
an unincorporated organization, a union, a government or any
department or agency thereof and the heirs, executors,
administrators or other legal representatives of an
individual;
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" Place of
Closing " means the offices of Beta Systems Software AG, or
such other place as may be agreed by the Parties;
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Proginet " means Proginet Corporation;
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" Proginet
Asset Assignment " means the assignment agreement whereby
Proginet conveys the Proginet Assets to Beta Canada;
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" Proginet
Assets " means all the properties, assets, interests and rights
of Proginet which are related to the Proginet Products including
the following:
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the Proginet
Intellectual Property and the Proginet Technology;
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the Proginet
Books and Records;
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the Proginet
Contracts; and
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all proceeds of
any or all of the foregoing received or receivable after the
Effective Time.
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" Proginet
Books and Records " means all books, records, files and papers
related to the Proginet Products including drawings, engineering
information, manuals and data, sales and advertising materials,
sales and purchases correspondence, trade association files,
research and development records, lists of present and former
customers, distributors and suppliers and all copies and recordings
of the foregoing;
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" Proginet
Contract Assignment " means the assignment and assumption
agreement whereby Proginet conveys the Proginet Contracts to Beta
America and Beta America assumes certain obligations related to the
Proginet Contracts;
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" Proginet
Contracts " means all contracts, agreements and arrangements
related to the Proginet Products, by which Proginet, on the one
hand, and the customers listed in Schedule 5.4(f) , on the
other hand, are bound;
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" Proginet
Intellectual Property " means all rights to and interests
in:
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all trade dress
and brand names, logos, slogans, domain names, trade-marks (whether
used with wares or services and including the goodwill attaching to
such trade marks) and all registrations and applications for trade
marks (all future income from such trade marks) related to the
Proginet Products, all of which are listed in Schedule
5.4(a) ;
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all inventions,
patents, patent rights, patent applications (including all
reissues, divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part and
extensions of any patent or patent application), industrial designs
and applications for registration of industrial designs related to
the Proginet Products, all of the registrations or applications for
registration of which are listed in Schedule 5.4(a)
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all copyrights,
registrations and applications for copyrights (and all future
income from such copyrights) related to the Proginet Products, all
of the registrations or applications for registration of which are
listed in Schedule 5.4(a) ;
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all rights and
interests in and processes, lab journals, notebooks, data, trade
secrets, designs, know-how, product formula and information,
manufacturing, engineering and other drawings and manuals,
technology, blue prints, research and development reports, agency
agreements, technical information, technical assistance,
engineering data, design and engineering specifications, and
similar materials recording or evidencing expertise, information or
technology related to the Proginet Products;
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all of the
intellectual property affected by the registrations and
applications for registration listed in Schedule 5.4(a) and
the permissions and licenses listed in Schedule 5.4(a)
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all other
intellectual and industrial property rights throughout the world
related to the Proginet Products;
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all licenses of
the intellectual property granted by Proginet to third persons and
listed in items (i) to (vi) above;
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all future
income and proceeds from any of the intellectual property listed in
items (i) to (vi) above and the licenses listed in item (vii)
above;
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all
documentation, packaging and media relating to the intellectual
property described in items (i) to (viii) above, including all
computer disks, CD ROMs and other storage media containing any such
intellectual property and all inventory, boxes, wrapping and other
packaging material;
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all rights to
damages, royalties and profits by reason of the past, present or
future infringement or other misuse of any of the intellectual
property listed in items (i) to (vii) above;
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Proginet Products " means the products of Proginet
related to the SecurPass product line;
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" Proginet
Technology " means all computer software (including source code
and object code), operating systems, browsers, user interfaces,
algorithms, architecture, structure, display screens, layouts,
development tools, instructions, templates, servers, hardware,
technical information, engineering data or reports or other
technology or related information all of which are developed,
licensed or owned by Proginet and are related to the Proginet
Products and whether completed or in the course of development, all
as related to the Proginet Products;
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" Sales
Taxes " has the meaning attributed to it in Section 2.3
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" SEC "
has the meaning attributed to it in Section 10.7
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" Security
Interest " means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, lien
(statutory or otherwise), preference, priority, security agreement
or other encumbrance affecting title to such asset;
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" Secur-Line
Contract Assignment " means the assignment and assumption
agreement whereby Proginet conveys the Secur-Line Contracts to Beta
America and Beta America assumes certain obligations related to the
Secur-Line Contracts;
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" Secur-Line
Contracts " means all contracts, agreements and arrangements
related to the SecurForce product line and the SecurAccess product
line, by which Proginet, on the one hand, and the customers listed
in Schedule 5.4(f) , on the other hand, are
bound;
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" Survival
Period " means, other than for claims related to Taxes
(including Sales Taxes), a period beginning on the Closing Date and
ending 12 months after the Closing Date;
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" Tax
Survival Period " means, for claims related to Taxes (including
Sales Taxes) a period beginning on the Closing Date and ending 24
months after the Closing Date;
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" Taxes
" means all taxes, charges, fees, levies, imposts and other
assessments, including all income, sales, use, goods and services,
value added, capital, capital gains, alternative, net worth,
transfer, profits, withholding, payroll, employment, government
pension, employer health, excise, franchise, real property and
personal property taxes, and any other taxes, customs duties, fees,
assessments or similar charges in the nature of a tax, together
with any instalments with respect thereto, and any interest, fines
and penalties, imposed by any governmental authority (including
federal, state, provincial, municipal and foreign governmental
authorities), and whether disputed or not.
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Appended hereto
are the following Schedules:
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Beta Canada
Intellectual Property
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Beta America
Consents and Approvals
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Beta America
Customers and Distributors
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Proginet
Intellectual Property
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Proginet
Consents and Approvals
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Proginet
Customers and Distributors
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all of which
are incorporated into and form part of this Agreement by this
reference as fully as though contained in the body of this
Agreement.
Appended hereto
are the following Exhibits:
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Form of License
Agreement
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Form of
Maintenance and Support Agreement
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Form of Master
Distributor Agreement
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Wherever any
provision of any Exhibit or Schedule to this Agreement conflicts
with any provision in the body of this Agreement, the provisions of
the body of this Agreement shall prevail.
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The terms
"hereof", "herein", "hereunder", and similar expressions refer to
this Agreement, including any Schedules hereto, taken as a whole
and not to any particular Article, Section, subsection or other
subdivision thereof and include any agreement or instrument which
amends, modifies, or is supplementary to this
Agreement. References herein to an Exhibit or Schedule
shall mean a reference to the applicable Exhibit or Schedule to
this Agreement. References in any Exhibit or Schedule to
the "Agreement" shall mean a reference to this
Agreement. References in any Exhibit or Schedule to
another Exhibit or Schedule shall mean a reference to an Exhibit or
Schedule to this Agreement.
The headings of
Articles, Sections and subsections herein and in the Exhibits and
Schedules are inserted for convenience of reference only and shall
not affect or be considered to affect the construction of the
provisions hereof.
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Singular/Plural; Derivatives
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In this
Agreement words importing the masculine gender include the feminine
and neuter genders and vice versa, and words importing the singular
include the plural and vice versa. Where a term is
defined herein, a capitalized derivative of such term shall have a
corresponding meaning unless the context requires.
Whenever any
payment to be made or action to be taken under this Agreement is
required to be made or taken on a day other than a Business Day,
such payment shall be made or action taken on the next Business Day
following.
Where in this
Agreement, or in any certificate or document delivered in
connection herewith or to effect any of the transactions
contemplated hereby, any statement, representation or warranty is
made as to, or as being based on, the awareness, knowledge,
information or belief of Beta, such awareness, knowledge,
information or belief, as applicable, is limited to the actual
knowledge of the following persons based on information obtained by
them in the course of performing their duties for Beta and inquires
made by them in connection with their roles in implementing the
transactions contemplated hereby:
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President and
Chief Executive Officer
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Director of
Systems Engineering
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For these
purposes, knowledge does not include the knowledge of any other
Person.
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Where in this
Agreement, or in any certificate or document delivered in
connection herewith or to effect any of the transactions
contemplated hereby, any statement, representation or warranty is
made as to, or as being based on, the awareness, knowledge,
information or belief of Proginet, such awareness, knowledge,
information or belief, as applicable, is limited to the actual
knowledge of the following persons based on information obtained by
them in the course of performing their duties for Proginet and
inquires made by them in connection with their roles in
implementing the transactions contemplated hereby:
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Sandy
Weil
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President and
Chief Executive Officer
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Arne
Johnson
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Consultant to
Proginet
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Kevin
Bohan
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Chief
Information Officer
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For these
purposes, knowledge does not include the knowledge of any other
Person.
ARTICLE 2
ASSET EXCHANGE
Effective as of
the Effective Time, each of Beta Canada and Beta America hereby
respectively sells, conveys, and assigns the Beta Canada Assets and
the Beta America Contracts to Proginet and Proginet hereby
purchases and receives such Beta Canada Assets from Beta Canada and
such Beta America Contracts from Beta America, all in accordance
with and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement. Effective as of the Effective Time, Proginet
hereby sells and conveys the Proginet Assets to Beta Canada, except
the Proginet Contracts and the Secur-Line Contracts, which are
hereby assigned by Proginet to Beta America, and Beta Canada hereby
purchases and receives such Proginet Assets from Proginet and Beta
America hereby receives the Proginet Contracts and the Secur-Line
Contracts, all in accordance with and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.
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Acquisition Consideration
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The Parties
hereby agree that the deemed value of the Beta Canada Assets and
the Beta America Contracts shall collectively be
US$800,000. The Parties further agree that the deemed
value of the Proginet Assets and the Proginet Contracts shall
collectively be US$800,000. In addition, the Parties
acknowledge and agree that the consideration for transfer of the
Secur-Line Contracts from Proginet to Beta America shall be the
Royalty Fees payable by Beta America pursuant to the License
Agreement.
Proginet shall
be liable for and shall pay any and all federal, provincial, state,
municipal and other sales taxes, value added taxes, transfer taxes,
duties, registration fees or other like charges (collectively,
together with any interest, penalties, fees, additions to tax or
other additional amounts imposed thereon, the " Sales Taxes
") properly payable upon or in connection with the conveyance or
transfer of the Beta Canada Assets and the Beta America
Contracts. Proginet shall indemnify Beta Canada and Beta
America, as applicable, for any amounts (including penalties and
interest) for which Beta Canada and Beta America may become liable
as a result of any failure by Proginet to pay any such Sales
Taxes. Beta Canada shall be liable for and shall pay any
and all Sales Taxes properly payable upon or in connection with the
conveyance or transfer of the Proginet Assets. Beta
Canada shall indemnify Proginet for any amounts (including
penalties and interest) for which Proginet may become liable as a
result of any failure by Beta Canada to pay any such Sales
Taxes. Beta America shall be liable for and shall pay
any and all Sales Taxes properly payable upon or in connection with
the conveyance or transfer of the Proginet Contracts and the
Secur-Line Contracts. Beta America shall indemnify
Proginet for any amounts (including penalties and interest) for
which Proginet may become liable as a result of any failure by Beta
America to pay any such Sales Taxes. The Parties agree
to take all commercially reasonable steps to minimize the Sales
Taxes that may payable on the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
[***] Confidential Treatment
Requested
Confidential portion omitted and
filed separately with the Commission
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Trade
Accounts Receivable
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Each Party will
retain all collected payments from end-customers, even if such
payments were collected in advance for services, which will be
performed after September 30, 2008 by the other
Party. Each Party also retains the right to collect any
accounts receivable from customers outstanding immediately prior to
the Effective Time. All other accounts receivable shall
transfer with the applicable contracts.
ARTICLE 3
CLOSING
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Place and
Time of Closing
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Closing shall
take place at the Place of Closing on the Closing Date.
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Beta Canada
Deliveries . At the Closing, Beta Canada shall
deliver, or shall cause to be delivered, the following to
Proginet:
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the Beta Canada
Asset Assignment executed by Beta Canada;
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the Proginet
Asset Assignment executed by Beta Canada;
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any other
conveyances required by Section 4.1(a) ;
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an
officer-certified copy of resolutions of the board of directors of
Beta Canada which resolutions authorize the execution and delivery
of this Agreement and the completion of the transfer of the Beta
Canada Assets and the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
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[***] Confidential Treatment
Requested
Confidential portion omitted and
filed separately with the Commission
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certificates of
status from appropriate authorities, dated as of or within three
Business Days of the Closing Date, as to the legal existence of
Beta Canada and its qualification to do business in the
jurisdiction in which it is organized;
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the Master
Distributor Agreement executed by Beta Systems Software
AG;
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the Maintenance
and Support Agreement executed by Beta Canada; and
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such other
documents reasonably requested by Proginet to be delivered by Beta
Canada at the Closing.
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Beta America
Deliveries . At Closing, Beta America shall
deliver, or cause to be delivered, the following to
Proginet:
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the Beta
America Contracts and all consents set forth on Schedule
5.3(b) (other than those Beta America Contracts for which
third-party consents have not been received, to which Section
7.1 shall apply);
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the Beta
America Contract Assignment executed by Beta America;
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the Proginet
Contract Assignment executed by Beta America;
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the Secur-Line
Contract Assignment executed by Beta America;
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any other
conveyances required by Section 4.1(a) ;
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an
officer-certified copy of resolutions of the board of directors of
Beta America which resolutions authorize the execution and delivery
of this Agreement and the completion of the transfer of the Beta
America Contracts and the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
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certificates of
status from appropriate authorities, dated as of or within three
Business Days of the Closing Date, as to the legal existence of
Beta America and its qualification to do business in the
jurisdiction in which it is organized;
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the License
Agreement executed by Beta America; and
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such other
documents reasonably requested by Proginet to be delivered by Beta
America at the Closing.
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Proginet
Deliveries . At the Closing, Proginet shall
deliver, or cause to be delivered, the following to Beta
Canada:
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the Proginet
Assets, except the Proginet Contracts;
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the Proginet
Asset Assignment executed by Proginet;
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the Beta Canada
Asset Assignment executed by Proginet;
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[***] Confidential Treatment
Requested
Confidential portion omitted and
filed separately with the Commission
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any other
conveyances required by Section 4.1(b) ;
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an
officer-certified copy of resolutions of the board of directors of
Proginet which resolutions authorize the execution and delivery of
this Agreement and the completion of the transfer of the Proginet
Assets and the other transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
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a certificate
of status from the appropriate authority, dated as of or within
three Business Days of the Closing Date, as to the legal existence
of Proginet and its qualification to do business in the
jurisdiction in which it is organized;
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the Master
Distributor Agreement executed by Proginet;
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the Maintenance
and Support Agreement executed by Proginet;
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such other
documents reasonably requested by Beta to be delivered by Proginet
at the Closing.
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Proginet
Deliveries to Beta America . At the Closing, Proginet shall
deliver, or cause to be delivered, the following to Beta
America:
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the Proginet
Contracts and the Secur-Line Contracts and all consents set forth
on Schedule 5.4(d) (other than those Proginet Contracts and
Secur-Line Contracts for which third-party consents have not been
received, to which Section 7.1 shall apply);
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the Proginet
Contract Assignment executed by Proginet;
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the Secur-Line
Contract Assignment executed by Proginet;
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the Beta
America Contract Assignment executed by Proginet;
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any other
conveyances required by Section 4.1(b) ;
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the License
Agreement executed by Proginet; and
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such other
documents reasonably requested by Beta to be delivered by Proginet
at the Closing.
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The Parties
agree that, within 30 days of the Closing Date, Proginet shall
deliver to Beta North America a list of all the Proginet Contracts
and Secur-Line Contracts and Beta America shall deliver to Proginet
a list of all the Beta America Contracts.
The Parties
agree that the physical delivery of the tangible portions of the
Beta Canada Assets, the Beta America Contracts, the Proginet
Assets, the Proginet Contracts and the Secur-Line Contracts to the
applicable Party shall occur within 30 days of the Closing
Date.
[***] Confidential Treatment
Requested
Confidential portion omitted and
filed separately with the Commission
ARTICLE 4
CONVEYANCES
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Prior to or at
Closing, each of Beta Canada and Beta America shall prepare and
deliver (or cause to be prepared and delivered) to Proginet (i) the
Beta Canada Asset Assignment, (ii) the Beta America Contract
Assignment and (iii) all such other deeds, assignments, transfers,
conveyances, novations, notices and other documents and assurances
(including conveyances of registered Beta Canada Intellectual
Property) as may be reasonably necessary to convey the Beta Canada
Assets and the Beta America Contracts to Proginet. Any
such Closing documents and assuran
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