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ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
by and among
AETRIUM INCORPORATED
AETRIUM CORPORATION
AETRIUM-WEB TECHNOLOGY, LP
and
WEB TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Dated as of December 28,
2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I SALE AND PURCHASE OF ASSETS
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1.1 Transfer of
Assets
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1.2 Excluded
Assets
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3
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1.3 Assumed
Liabilities of Buyer
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3
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1.4 Liabilities Not
Assumed
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4
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1.5 Assignments
Requiring Consents
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4
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1.6 Purchase
Price
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5
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1.7 Allocation of
Purchase Price
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5
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ARTICLE II CLOSING
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2.1 Closing
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2.2 Deliveries of
Seller
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2.3 Deliveries of
Buyer
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ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
SELLER
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3.1 Corporate
Organization
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3.2 Authorization
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7
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3.3 Non-Contravention
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7
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3.4 Consents and
Approvals
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7
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3.5 Title to
Assets
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7
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
BUYER
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4.1 Buyer's
Organization
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4.2 Due
Authorization, Execution and Delivery; Effect of
Agreement
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8
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4.3 Non
Contravention
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4.4 Consents
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4.5 Financial
Statements
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8
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ARTICLE V COVENANTS
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5.1 Cooperation and
Assignments
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5.2 Further
Assurances
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5.3 Accounts
Receivable and Accounts Payable
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5.4 Continuation
Payments
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5.5 Customer
Support
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10
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5.6 "AS IS"
Sale
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10
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5.7 Cooperation
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5.8 License
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5.9 Security
Deposit
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ARTICLE VI CONDITIONS TO BUYER'S
OBLIGATIONS
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6.1 Representations,
Warranties and Covenants of Seller
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6.2 No
Prohibition
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6.3 Further
Action
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6.4 Deliveries
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ARTICLE VII CONDITIONS TO SELLER'S
OBLIGATIONS
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7.1 Representations,
Warranties and Covenants of Buyer
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7.2 No
Prohibition
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7.3 Further
Action
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7.4 Deliveries
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ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS
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8.1 Entire
Agreement
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12
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8.2 Successors and
Assigns
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12
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8.3 Counterparts
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8.4 Headings
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8.5 Modifications
and Waivers
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8.6 Broker's
Fees
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8.7 Expenses
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8.8 Notices
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8.9 Arbitration
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8.10 Governing Law;
Consent to Jurisdiction
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8.11 Public
Announcements
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8.12 Severability
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8.13 No Third Party
Beneficiaries
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8.14 Rule of
Construction
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EXHIBITS
A - Product Lines
B - Business Balance Sheet
C - Form of Promissory Note
D - Form of Opinion of Counsel for Seller
E - Form of Opinion of Counsel for Buyer
F - Buyer Balance Sheet
DEFINITIONS
Defined Term Page
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Accounts Receivable
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2
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Allocation Schedule
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5
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Assets
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1
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Assumed Liabilities
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3
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Authorit(y)(ies)
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7
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Business
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1
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Business Balance Sheet
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2
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Buyer
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1
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Buyer Balance Sheet
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Closing
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6
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Closing Date
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6
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Consent(s)
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Encumbrances
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Excluded Assets
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3
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Facility Lease
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4
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General Partner
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7
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Interests
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4
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Inventory
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2
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Laws
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Liabilities
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9
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Note
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5
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Product Lines
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Purchase Price
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5
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Seller
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Technology Rights
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ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 28th
day of December, 2006, is by and among WEB Technology, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (" Buyer "),
and Aetrium Incorporated, a Minnesota corporation and its
affiliates Aetrium Corporation, a Minnesota corporation, and
Aetrium-WEB Technology, LP, a Texas limited partnership (together,
" Seller ").
RECITALS :
FIRST, Seller is engaged in the business (the
" Business ") of the manufacture and
sale of the product lines scheduled on Exhibit A (the "
Product Lines "); and
SECOND, Buyer desires to purchase and Seller
desires to sell substantially all of the assets of the
Business;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the recitals
and the mutual representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements contained herein, and upon the terms and subject to the
conditions hereinafter set forth, the parties hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
SALE AND PURCHASE OF ASSETS
1.1 Transfer of
Assets Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, and except as otherwise provided in Sections 1.2 and 1.5
hereof, on the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined), Seller will
sell, assign, transfer, and convey to Buyer, and Buyer will
pur-chase, acquire and accept from Seller, all of Seller's right,
title and interest in and to all of the assets, properties, rights,
contracts and claims employed in connection with the Business,
wherever located, whether tangible or intangi-ble, real, personal
or mixed, as the same exist at the Closing (as hereinafter defined)
(collectively, the " Assets "). The
Assets include, without limitation, the assets, properties, rights,
contracts and claims described in the following paragraphs (a)
through (l):
(a) Seller's
leasehold interests in the Business premises located at 10501
Markison Road, Dallas, Texas;
(b) title to, or
Seller's leasehold interests in, all the furnishings, furniture,
office supplies, spare parts, tools, machinery and equipment that
are used in the operation of the Business;
(c) title to, or
Seller's leasehold interests in, all fixed assets, other than the
Equipment, that are used in connection with the
Business;
(d) all quantities
of inventory, including without limitation raw materials,
work-in-process, finished goods and supplies, used in connection
with the Business ( "Inventory" );
(e) all accounts
receivable and all notes receivable (whether short-term or
long-term) from third parties arising out of the operation of the
Business, together with any unpaid interest accrued thereon and any
security or collateral therefor, including without limitation
recoverable deposits (the " Accounts Receivable
");
(f) all rights of
Seller under or pursuant to all warranties, representations and
guarantees made by suppliers, manufacturers and contractors in
connection with products or services of the Business, or affecting
the Assets;
(g) all rights and
interests of Seller in and to patents and patent applications owned
by Seller or licensed to Seller by third parties and used in
connection with the Business, and all rights and interests of
Seller in and to research, development and commercially practiced
processes, trade secrets, know-how, inventions and manufacturing,
engineering and other technical information, whether owned by
Seller or licensed from third parties by Seller, which are used in
connection with the Business (" Technology Rights
");
(h) all rights and
interests of Seller in and to all trademarks, trade names and
service marks, and registrations and applications for such
trademarks, trade names and service marks, used in connection with
the Business, exclusive of Aetrium and all derivatives thereof, and
all rights and interests of Seller in and to copyrights, and
registrations and applications for such copyrights, used in
connection with the Business;
(i) all contracts,
agreements, arrangements and/or commitments of any kind which
relate to the Business or the Assets;
(j) all customer and
vendor lists relating to the Business, and all files and documents
(including credit information) relating to such customers and
vendors, and other business and financial records, files, books and
documents relating to the Assets and/or the Business, including
without limitation manuals and data, sales and advertising
materials, and sales, distribution and purchase correspondence
relating to the Assets and/or the Business;
(k) all prepaid
charges, sums and fees and all rights to refunds per-taining to the
Business; and
(l) all other assets
of Seller employed in connection with the Business of the nature
reflected or reserved against in the balance sheet of the Business
indicated as transferred to/assumed by Buyer on Exhibit B attached
hereto ( "Business Balance Sheet" ),
including as acquired since November 25, 2006 in the ordinary
course of the Business and consistent with past
practice.
1.2 Excluded
Assets . Nothwithstanding any other terms contained herein,
Seller is not hereunder selling, assigning, transferring or
conveying to Buyer the following assets, rights and properties (the
" Excluded Assets "):
(a) any policies of
liability or casualty insurance relating to the Business or the
Assets or any prepaid premiums or other rights
thereunder;
(b) any refunds or
reimbursements for income or other taxes;
(c) any cash,
depository accounts, certificates of deposit or
securitites;
(d) any payments on
Accounts Receivable made by wire transfer or electronic deposit
initiated or by check dated on or before December 31,
2006;
(e) any intercompany
accounts among Seller;
(f) any right, title
or interest in or to the name Aetrium and any derivative
thereof;
(g) except as
provided in Section 5.7, any right, title or interest in or to
Seller’s Manage 2000 enterprise management software
system;
(h) except as
otherwise set forth in the last sentence of Section 1.5 hereof, any
right, title and interest under all leases, contracts, agreements,
licenses, permits, exemptions, franchises, variances, waivers,
consents, approvals and other authorizations which are not
transferable without consent (unless such consent has been
obtained);
(i) all other assets
of Seller employed in connection with the Business of the nature
indicated as reserved to Seller on Exhibit B attached hereto,
including as acquired since November 25, 2006; and
(j) minute books,
stock record books and corporate certificates of
authority.
1.3 Assumed
Liabilities of Buyer . Subject to Sections 1.4 and 1.5
hereof, Buyer will assume and pay, perform and discharge as and
when due the following liabilities and obligations, whether known,
unknown, contingent, absolute, determined, indeterminable or
otherwise on the Closing Date and whether incurred or accru-ing
prior to, on or after the Closing Date, to the extent relating to
or arising from the Business (" Assumed Liabilities
"):
(a) all pending
customer purchase orders and deposits;
(b) all pending
supplier purchase orders;
(c) all obligations
under sales representative and distributor agreements;
(d) all obligations
under non-disclosure agreements;
(e) Lease on the
Business premises dated December 19, 1987 with Crow-Markison 22-27,
as amended (" Facility Lease ");
(f) Copier leases
with Savin Credit Corp. dated by Seller on January 22, 2003 and
with Ricoh Corp. dated by Seller on March 22, 2005;
(g) all other
liabilities and obligations of Seller not performed or satisfied as
of the Closing Date under all of the other contracts, agreements
and other commitments to which Seller is a party or by which Seller
or any of its properties is bound; and
(h) all other
liabilities of Seller of the nature reflected or reserved against
in the Business Balance Sheet, including as incurred since November
25, 2006 in the ordinary course of the Business and consistent with
past practice.
1.4 Liabilities
Not Assumed . Notwithstanding Section 1.3 hereof, Buyer will
not assume and will not be liable for:
(a) sponsorship of
Seller's 401(k) plan or any liabilities in connection
therewith;
(b) any intercompany
accounts among Seller;
(c) accrued
compensation, severance and related payroll taxes for employees
terminated by Seller and not hired by Buyer;
(d) all other
liabilities of Seller indicated as reserved to Seller on Exhibit B
attached hereto, including as incurred since November 25, 2006;
and
(e) expenses and any
tax liabilities incurred by Seller in connection with the
negotiation and consummation of this Agreement.
1.5 Assignments
Requiring Consents . Seller will use reasonable efforts, and
Buyer will cooperate with Seller, to obtain all non-governmental
approvals, consents or waivers necessary to assign to Buyer all
leases, contracts, licenses, agreements, sales or purchase orders,
commitments, property interests, qualifications or other assets
described in Section 1.1 hereof
or any claim, right or benefit arising thereunder or resulting
therefrom (the " Interests ") as
soon as practi-cable; provided, however, that neither Seller nor
Buyer will be obligated to pay any consideration therefor (except
for filing fees and other ordinary administrative charges which
will be paid by Buyer) to the third party from whom such approval,
consent or waiver is requested.
To the extent any of the approvals, consents or
waivers referred to above have not been obtained by Seller as of
the Closing, Buyer may elect by written notice to Seller to exclude
the
applicable Interests and liabilities in
connection therewith from the Assets and the Assumed Liabilities.
In the event Buyer does not make such election, and without
limiting the rights of Buyer under this Agreement, Seller will (a)
take all reasonable steps necessary to obtain the consent of any
such third party, (b) cooperate with Buyer in any reasonable and
lawful arrangements designed to provide the benefits of such
Interests to Buyer so long as Buyer fully cooperates with Seller in
such arrangements and promptly reimburses Seller for all payments,
charges or other liabilities made or suffered by Seller in
connection therewith (provided that nothing herein will require
Buyer to make any payment or reimbursement of any consideration for
third party consent not agreed to by Buyer), and (c) enforce, at
the request of Buyer and at the expense and for the account of
Buyer, any rights of Seller arising from such Interests against
such issuer thereof or the other party or parties thereto
(including the right to elect to terminate any such Interests in
accordance with the terms thereof upon the written advice of
Buyer). To the extent that Seller enters into lawful arrangements
designed to provide the benefits of any Interests as set forth in
clause (b) above, such Interests will be deemed to have been
assigned to Buyer for purposes of Section 1.1 hereof.
1.6 Purchase
Price . The aggregate purchase price to be paid by Buyer to
Seller for the Assets (the " Purchase Price
") will be Five Hundred Twenty-Two Thousand Dollars
($522,000). The Purchase Price will be paid by delivery to Seller
at Closing of a promissory note executed by Buyer and payable to
the order of Seller, such note payable in equal quarterly
installments over two (2) years with interest at the annual rate of
five percent (5%) and otherwise issued on the terms contained in
and in the form of Exhibit C hereto (the " Note
").
1.7 Allocation of
Purchase Price .
(a) Buyer will
prepare (or cause to be prepared) an allocation (the "
Allocation Schedule ") of the Purchase
Price (plus Assumed Liabilities and Buyer's expenses of the
transaction) among the Assets. Such allocation will be made in
accordance with Code Section 1060 and any applicable rules or
regulations thereunder. Seller will have the right to review and
reasonably approve the Allocation Schedule, and Seller and Buyer
will consult and resolve in good faith any issues arising as a
result of Seller's review of such Allocation Schedule.
(b) Seller and Buyer
(1) will be bound by the allocation contained in the Allocation
Schedule for purposes of determining any and all consequences with
respect to Taxes of the transactions contemplated herein, (2) will
prepare and file all tax returns to be filed with any tax authority
in a manner consistent with such Allocation Schedule (including
Form 8594, "Asset Acquisition Statement"), and (3) will take no
position inconsistent with such Allocation Schedule in any tax
return, any discussion with or proceeding before any tax authority,
or otherwise. In the event that such Allocation Schedule is
disputed by any tax authority, the party receiving notice of such
dispute will promptly notify the other party thereof.
ARTICLE II
CLOSING
2.1 Closing . The closing of the transac-tions contemplated
hereby (the " Closing ") will take
place on December 31, 2006 or, if later, two (2) business days
following the satisfaction or waiver of all of the conditions to
the parties' obligations set forth in Articles VI
and VII, unless the parties
otherwise mutual-ly agree (the " Closing Date
"). All matters at the Closing will be considered to
take place simultaneously effective immediately after the close of
business on the Closing Date and no de-livery of any document will
be deemed complete until all transactions and deliveries of
documents are completed.
2.2 Deliveries of Seller . At the Closing,
Seller will deliver the following documents to Buyer:
(a) such bills of
sale, endorsements, assignments (together with any necessary
consents), deeds and other good and sufficient instruments of
conveyance and transfer, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to Buyer and its counsel, to vest in Buyer valid legal
title to the Assets;
(b) the certificate
required of Seller pursuant to Section 6.1 hereof;
(c) an opinion of
counsel for Seller, substantially in the form of Exhibit D attached
hereto; and
(d) any other
documents reasonably requested by Buyer, to confirm the accuracy of
the representations and warranties and the performance of the
agreements of Seller hereunder.
2.3 Deliveries of
Buyer . At the Closing, Buyer will deliver to Seller the
following:
(a) such instruments
of assumption, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Seller and its counsel, to constitute an assumption by Buyer of all
Assumed Liabilities;
(b) the
Note;
(c) the certificate
required of Buyer pursuant to in Section 7.1 hereof;
(d) the opinion of
counsel for Buyer, in the form of Exhibit E attached hereto;
and
(e) any other
documents reasonably requested by Seller, to confirm the accuracy
of the representations and warranties and the performance of the
agreements of Buyer hereunder.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF SELLER
Seller represents and warrants to Buyer
that:
3.1 Corporate
Organization . Aetrium Incorporated, Aetrium Corporation and
Aetrium-WEB Technology Inc., the general partner of Aetrium-WEB
Technology, LP ( "General Partner" ),
are each a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the Laws of the state of Minnesota, and Aetrium-WEB
Technology, LP is a limited partnership duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the Laws of the state of Texas.
Each Seller and the General Partner has full organizational power
and authority to carry on its business as it is now being conducted
and to own, lease and operate its properties and assets.
3.2 Authorization . Each Seller and the General Partner has
all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and
perform this Agreement and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby. The execution, delivery and performance by
Seller of this Agreement and the consummation by Seller of the
transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all
necessary organizational action. This Agreement has been duly and
validly executed by each Seller and constitutes the valid and
binding legal obligation of each Seller, enforce-able against such
Seller in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that such
enforceability (a) may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to
creditors' rights generally, and (b) is subject to general
principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
3.3 Non-Contravention . Neither the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement nor the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby will (a) result in the creation or
imposition of any Encumbrance upon any property or assets of
Seller, or (b) violate any treaty, law, rule, regulation,
order, judgment or decree (individually and collectively, "
Law(s) ") of any foreign, federal, state or
local governmental or quasi-governmental administrative, regulatory
or judicial court, department, commission, agency, board, bureau,
instrumentality or other authority (individually and collectively,
" Authorit(y)(ies) ") to which
Seller is subject.
3.4
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