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Exhibit 10.1
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT , dated as of November 30, 2006 (the "
Effective Date "), is made by and among LEAR CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation (" Lear "), INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE
COMPONENTS GROUP NORTH AMERICA, INC., a Delaware corporation (the "
Company "), WL ROSS & CO. LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company (" WL Ross "), FRANKLIN MUTUAL ADVISERS,
LLC (" Franklin "), and INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS
GROUP NORTH AMERICA, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("
IACNA "). WL Ross, Franklin and IACNA have entered into this
Agreement solely for purposes of agreeing to be bound by the
provisions of Section 6.20 below. Each of Lear and the Company
may hereafter be referred to as a "party" or collectively as
"parties."
RECITALS
A. The Asset Sellers (as
hereinafter defined) and the Sale Companies (as hereinafter
defined) are engaged in the research, development, engineering,
design, manufacturing, distributing, marketing and selling of
automotive interiors components to customers in North America.
B. The Asset Sellers desire
to transfer, sell, convey, assign and deliver to the Company, and
the Company desires to purchase and accept from the Asset Sellers,
the Purchased Assets (as hereinafter defined), and the Stock
Sellers (as hereinafter defined) desire to sell to the Company and
the Company desires to purchase, the Holding Company Shares (as
hereinafter defined), in each case, on the terms and subject to the
conditions of this Agreement.
C. The Asset Sellers desire
to assign to the Company, and the Company is willing to assume, the
Specified Liabilities (as hereinafter defined) on the terms and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement.
D. Lear and the Company
desire that the foregoing transactions be completed on such terms
and subject to such conditions and, together with the other, wish
to make certain representations, warranties and covenants in
connection therewith.
AGREEMENT
Now, therefore, the parties hereto
agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Definitions . In
addition to the terms defined elsewhere herein, the following
terms, as used herein, have the following meanings when used herein
with initial capital letters:
" Accounting Firm " means
Deloitte & Touche LLP, or such other firm as may be agreed in
writing by the Company and Lear.
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"
Affiliate " means, with respect to any Person, any other
Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under
common control with the first Person on or after the date of this
Agreement. For the purposes of this Agreement, " control ,"
when used with respect to any Person, means the possession,
directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise, and the terms " controlling " and "
controlled " have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
" Affiliate Loans " means
(i) a loan from WL Ross (or one or more of its Affiliates) to
the Company in the principal amount of $33,333,333 on the terms and
conditions set forth in the applicable Promissory Note and
(ii) a loan from Franklin (or one or more of its Affiliates)
to the Company in the principal amount of $16,666,667 on the terms
and conditions set forth in the applicable Promissory Note.
" Agreement " means this
Asset Purchase Agreement, as the same may be amended from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof.
" Ancillary Agreements "
means (i) the Transition Services Agreement; (ii) the
Promissory Notes; (iii) the Intellectual Property Transfer and
License Agreement; (iv) the LLC Agreement; (v) the
Registration Rights Agreement; (vi) the Supply Agreement;
(vii) the Asian Joint Venture Agreement; (viii) the
Facility Leases; and (ix) all other instruments, deeds,
assignments, assumptions, certificates, bills of sale and other
agreements entered into by a Lear Company, WL Ross, Franklin, the
Company or IACNA (or any of them or any of their Affiliates) in
connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement.
" Antitrust Laws " means
the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the
Competition Act (Canada), the Mexican Federal Economic Competition
Law and regulations promulgated thereunder and any other statutes,
rules, regulations, orders, decrees, administrative or judicial
doctrines or other laws that are designed to prohibit, restrict or
regulate action having the purpose or effect of monopolization or
restraint of trade.
" Asian Joint Venture "
means a limited liability company established to hold assets
directly related to Lear’s existing interiors business with
Asian customers, as more specifically described on
Schedule 1.1.1 .
" Asian Joint Venture
Agreement " means a limited liability company agreement between
a Subsidiary of Lear, WL Ross and Franklin relating to the Asian
Joint Venture, such agreement to be consistent with the terms set
forth on Schedule 1.1.1 .
" Asset Sellers " means
Lear and any of its Affiliates that hold the Purchased Assets
immediately prior to the Closing, including any Subsidiary that
Lear forms prior to the Closing to hold the Purchased Assets in
furtherance of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
" Assumed Employee
Liabilities " means all Liabilities arising in the Ordinary
Course of Business for the payment of employee wages or salaries,
bonuses, commissions, vacation pay for the period from the date
that is 12 months prior to the Closing Date through the
Closing, sick pay, payroll and employer related withholding and tax
and social security obligations, but excluding any other
liabilities or obligations arising under any Benefit Plan.
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"
Balance Sheet " means the unaudited consolidated balance
sheet for the Business, including the Sale Companies, as of the
Balance Sheet Date.
" Balance Sheet Date "
means September 30, 2006.
" Benefit Plans " means any
employee benefit plan, program, scheme, policy, obligation,
arrangement or customary practice, whether written or unwritten,
owed, adopted or followed by a Lear Company or any ERISA Affiliate,
to provide benefits to current or former officers, directors,
Employees of the Business, or a Lear Company or ERISA Affiliate in
connection with the Business, including without limitation, an
"employee benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA
Section 3(3), any deferred compensation plan, material fringe
benefit plan or program, bonus or incentive plan, stock option,
stock purchase, restricted stock, stock bonus, phantom stock or
stock appreciation plan or arrangement or stock related award,
vacation pay, bonus program, service award, moving expense,
deferred bonus plan, severance plan or arrangement, salary
reduction agreement, change-in-control agreement, employment
agreement or consulting agreement, compensation or separation,
whether or not insured or funded, which in all cases, is sponsored
or maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by
a Lear Company or an ERISA Affiliate for the benefit of, or as to
which a Lear Company or an ERISA Affiliate has any actual or
contingent liability with respect, current or former Employees,
officers or directors of the Business or a Lear Company or an ERISA
Affiliate in connection with the Business.
" Business " means the
business and operations comprising Lear’s North American
Interior Systems Division (consisting of instrument panels,
headliners, cockpits, flooring, acoustics, door panels, blow
molding and other miscellaneous automotive plastic parts) as of the
Closing Date, but excluding those operations listed on
Schedule 1.1.2 attached hereto.
" Business Day " means a
day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial
banking institutions located in New York City are authorized or
required to close.
" Business IP " means any
Intellectual Property Right which relates primarily to the
Business.
" Business IP Agreements "
means (i) licenses of Intellectual Property by a Sale Company
to a third party, (ii) licenses of Intellectual Property by
any third party to a Sale Company in connection with the Business,
other than nonexclusive object code licenses of commercially
available software, (iii) agreements between any Sale Company
and any third party relating to the development or use of
Intellectual Property or the development or transmission of data,
and (iv) consents, settlements, decrees, orders, injunctions,
judgments or rulings governing the use, validity or enforceability
of the Owned Intellectual Property.
" Canadian Holding Company
" means the Delaware corporation to be formed by the Lear Companies
pursuant to the Reorganization, which, as of the Closing Date,
shall own, directly or indirectly, all of the issued and
outstanding shares or other equity ownership interests of the
Canadian Subsidiaries.
" Canadian Subsidiaries "
means the Canadian entities formed pursuant to the Reorganization
to hold, as of the Closing Date, the assets owned by the Current
Canadian Subsidiaries and used primarily in the Business.
" Closing Net Working
Capital " means the Net Working Capital as of the Closing Date,
determined pursuant to the procedures set forth in
Section 2.5.
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"
Closing Tooling Net Assets " means the Tooling and
Engineering Net Assets included in the Purchased Assets and the
Sale Companies as of the Closing Date.
" Code " means the U.S.
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
" Contracts " means
purchase orders, sales agreements, service contracts, distribution
agreements, leases, licenses, product warranty or service
agreements, and other commitments, agreements, and undertakings
binding upon a Person.
" Current Assets " means
all accounts receivable, inventory and prepaid expenses to
non-affiliated third parties, (including all inter-company trade
accounts receivable between two or more Lear Companies (with
respect to the Business), but excluding all other inter-company
receivables between two or more Lear Companies (with respect to the
Business)) and excluding the assets described in clause (i) of
the definition of Tooling and Engineering Net Assets.
" Current Canadian
Subsidiaries " means Lear Canada Investments, Ltd., Lear
Corporation Canada, Ltd. and Lear Canada.
" Current Liabilities "
means all accounts payable and accrued expenses (including all
inter-company trade accounts payable between two or more Lear
Companies (with respect to the Business), but excluding all other
inter-company payables between two or more Lear Companies (with
respect to the Business)), excluding all accrued Income Taxes of
any Lear Company and Transfer Taxes as defined in
Section 6.14(g) and excluding the liabilities described in
clause (ii) of the definition of Tooling and Engineering Net
Assets.
" Current Mexican
Subsidiaries " means Lear Corporation Mexico, S. de R.L. de
C.V., Lear Electrical Systems de Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V.,
Consorcio Industrial Mexicano de Autopartes, S.A. de C.V. and Lear
Corporation Silao, S.A. de C.V.
" Current Subsidiaries "
means the Current Canadian Subsidiaries and the Current Mexican
Subsidiaries.
" Customer Contract " means
all Contracts between a Lear Company and a customer of the Business
in connection with the Business.
" Employees " means all
current and former employees of the Asset Sellers and the Current
Subsidiaries (to the extent employed primarily in connection with
the Business) and all current or former employees of the Sale
Companies, other than the Excluded Employees.
" ERISA Affiliate " means
any Person that, together with the Asset Sellers, would be treated
as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
" Excluded Assets " means
the following assets of the Asset Sellers:
(i) all cash, cash equivalents
(including marketable securities), bank accounts and bank deposits
(other than rent deposits in respect of any leasehold Real
Property);
(ii) all prepaid Income Taxes and
claims or rights to refunds for any Income Taxes for which the
relevant Asset Seller either is or may be liable, together with
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any net operating losses or
future tax benefits relating thereto that the relevant Asset Seller
is or may be entitled to;
(iii) all pension or retirement
plan assets of the relevant Asset Seller under any Benefit Plan of
any Lear Company with respect to any Employee;
(iv) all corporate minute books
and stock transfer books, corporate seals, books of account,
financial records, Tax Returns, Tax files and related Tax work
papers and all documents prepared in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, whether in hard copy
or electronic format (collectively, the " Excluded Records
"), provided that the Company shall receive copies of the books of
accounts and financial records included in the Excluded
Records;
(v) all rights of the relevant
Asset Seller pertaining to any causes of action, lawsuits,
judgments, claims, demands, counterclaims, set-offs or defenses
that the relevant Asset Seller may have with respect to the
Retained Liabilities, any of the Excluded Assets, this Agreement
and/or any of the Ancillary Agreements;
(vi) the Retained Names, other
than the rights to use any such Retained Name or other right
pursuant to the Intellectual Property Transfer and License
Agreement and pursuant to Section 6.15;
(vii) any equity interest in any
Lear Company other than the Sale Companies;
(viii) all Intellectual Property
Rights owned or licensed by the relevant Asset Seller other than
the Lear Business IP and the Business IP Agreements, except to the
extent set forth in the Intellectual Property Transfer and License
Agreement;
(ix) all policies of insurance and
all proceeds therefrom to the extent related to any Excluded
Liability;
(x) all assets of the Business
sold or otherwise disposed of in the Ordinary Course of Business
during the period from the Effective Date until the close of
business on the Closing Date not in violation of any Asset
Seller’s obligations under this Agreement;
(xi) all accounts receivable
(including all inter-company non-trade receivables) and prepaid
expenses to the extent not reflected in the calculation of the
Closing Net Working Capital;
(xii) all assets set forth in
Schedule 1.1.3 ; and
(xiii) all other assets of the
relevant Asset Seller that are not primarily used in the Business
and all rights arising from any of those assets.
" Excluded Employees "
means those persons listed in Schedule 1.1.4 .
" Facility Leases " means
the lease(s) for the facilities described in Section 6.18, the
material terms of which are set forth on Exhibit A
hereto.
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"
Financial Statements " means (i) the Balance Sheet and
(ii) the related unaudited consolidated statements of income
for the Business for the nine months ended on the Balance Sheet
Date, attached hereto as Schedule 1.1.5 .
" GAAP " means generally
accepted accounting principles, as in effect in the United States
on the date of this Agreement, consistently applied in accordance
with the past practice of the Business.
" Governmental Authority "
means any governmental or regulatory agency, authority, bureau,
commission, department, official or similar body or
instrumentality, or any governmental court, arbitral tribunal or
other body administering dispute resolution or judicial or
quasi-judicial authority.
" Holding Companies " means
the Canadian Holding Company and the Mexican Holding Company.
" Holding Company Shares "
means all of the issued and outstanding shares or other equity
ownership interests of the Mexican Holding Company and the Canadian
Holding Company.
" Income Taxes " means any
Tax imposed on, or measured by, net income or net worth (including
any penalties or interest or other additional amounts imposed
thereon).
" Income Tax Return " means
any return, declaration, report, claim for refund, information
return or other document (including any related or supporting
schedules, statements or information) filed or required to be filed
in connection with the determination, assessment or collection of
Income Taxes of any party or the administration of any Laws or
administrative requirements relating to any Income Taxes.
" Indebtedness " means
indebtedness for borrowed money or capitalized lease obligations,
whether or not pursuant to a written Contract, and all obligations
to guarantee or collateralize any such indebtedness or obligation
of any Affiliate.
" Intellectual Property
Transfer and License Agreement " means the Intellectual
Property Transfer and License Agreement in the form of
Exhibit B .
" Intellectual Property
Right " means any trademark, service mark, trade name, product
designation, logo, slogan, invention, patent, trade secret,
copyright, know-how, proprietary design or process, computer
software and database, Internet address or domain name (including
any registrations or applications for registration or renewal of
any of the foregoing), research in progress, or any other similar
type of proprietary intellectual property right.
" IRS " means the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service or any successor agency and, to the extent
relevant, the U.S. Department of Treasury.
" Knowledge of Lear ", or
words of similar import, means the actual knowledge of Roger
Jackson, Douglas DelGrosso, Daniel Ninivaggi, Joseph Zimmer, James
Kamsickas, Jeff Vanneste, Earl La Fontaine (with respect to
intellectual property matters) or Bill Brockhaus (as to the Current
Mexican Subsidiaries), collectively.
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"
Knowledge of the Company ", or words of similar import,
means the actual knowledge of Wilbur Ross, Patrick Machir or
Stephen Toy, collectively.
" Law " means any U.S. or
non-U.S. federal, state or local statute, law, rule, regulation,
ordinance, code, permit, license, policy or rule of common law.
" Lear Business IP " means
all Business IP owned or controlled by Lear or any Lear Affiliate
(other than the Sale Companies).
" Lear Company " means Lear
or one of its controlled Affiliates (including, for the avoidance
of doubt, the Sale Companies).
" Lear IP Agreements "
means (a) licenses of Business IP by Lear or any Lear
Affiliate (other than the Sale Companies) to any third party,
(b) licenses of Business IP by any third party to Lear or any
Lear Affiliate (other than the Sale Companies), (c) agreements
between Lear or any Lear Affiliate and any third party relating to
the development or use of Business IP, and (d) consents,
settlements, decrees, orders, injunctions, judgments or rulings
governing the use, validity or enforceability of the Lear Business
IP.
" Liability " means any
obligation or liability (whether known or unknown, whether asserted
or unasserted, whether absolute or contingent, whether accrued or
unaccrued, whether liquidated or unliquidated, and whether due or
to become due).
" Lien " means, with
respect to any property or asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest, encumbrance or other adverse claim of
any kind in respect of such property or asset.
" LLC Agreement " means the
limited liability company agreement of IACNA, the form of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit C .
" Material Adverse Effect "
means one or more events, occurrences, developments or
circumstances that, individually or in the aggregate, has had, or
could reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse effect on
the assets, business, financial condition, prospects or results of
operations of the Business, as applicable (taken as a whole),
excluding, in each case, any such effect resulting from or arising
out of (i) changes or conditions generally affecting the
automotive industry in North America or the industry sectors that
include the Business that do not have a disproportionate effect on
the Business relative to the competitors of the Business, (ii) the
execution or performance of this Agreement or the announcement
thereof, (iii) changes in financial markets or changes in the
economies of Canada, Mexico or the United States, (iv) changes
arising from or relating to compliance with the terms of this
Agreement, or action taken, or failure to act, to which Lear or the
Company, as applicable, has consented, or (v) changes in Laws
after the date hereof.
" Mexican Holding Company "
means the Delaware corporation to be formed by the Lear Companies
pursuant to the Reorganization, which, as of the Closing Date,
shall own, directly or indirectly, all of the issued and
outstanding shares or other equity ownership interests of the
Mexican Subsidiaries.
" Mexican Subsidiaries "
means Consorcio Industrial Mexicano de Autopartes, S.A. de C.V.
and/or Lear Corporation Silao, S.A. de C.V. and/or one or more
Mexican entities formed
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pursuant to the Reorganization
to hold, as of the Closing Date, the assets owned by the Current
Mexican Subsidiaries and used primarily in the Business.
" Net Working Capital "
means the remainder of (i) the consolidated Current Assets of
the Sale Companies and the Current Assets included in the Purchased
Assets, minus (ii) the consolidated Current Liabilities
of the Sale Companies and the Asset Sellers, excluding any Retained
Sale Company Liabilities and Retained Liabilities.
" Order " means any
judgment, injunction, judicial or administrative order or
decree.
" Ordinary Course of
Business " means, with respect to any Person, the ordinary
course of business of such Person, consistent in all material
respects with such Person’s past practice and custom.
" Owned Intellectual
Property " means Business IP owned by a Sale Company.
" Permit " means all
permits, licenses, franchises and other federal, state, local and
foreign governmental approvals and authorizations.
" Permitted Lien " means
(i) Liens of landlords pursuant to Purchased Contracts,
mechanics’, workmen’s, carriers’
repairmen’s, retention of title or other like Liens arising
or incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business in respect of
obligations that are not overdue or which are being contested in
good faith (provided that such contested obligations are not
material in amount), (ii) statutory liens for Taxes,
assessments and other similar governmental charges that are not
overdue or Liens required to maintain or comply with the terms of
any currently active Tax Incentives, (iii) Liens that arise
under zoning, land use and other similar imperfections of title
that arise in the Ordinary Course of Business and that, in the
aggregate, do not materially affect the value, use or marketability
of the property subject thereto, (iv) other Liens on assets
that do not materially affect the value, use or marketability of
the assets subject thereto, and (v) Liens created by the
Company or IACNA. Any statutory lien arising under
Sections 302 or 4068 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code
with respect to any Benefit Plan in favor of such plan or PBGC
shall not be a Permitted Lien.
" Person " means an
individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
joint venture, association, trust or other entity or organization
or Governmental Authority.
" Post-Closing Tax Period "
means any Tax period beginning after the Closing Date.
" Pre-Closing Tax Period "
means any Tax period ending on or before the Closing Date.
" Promissory Notes " means
the Promissory Notes by the Company to each of WL Ross and Franklin
evidencing their respective Affiliate Loans in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit D .
" Purchased Assets " means
all of each Asset Seller’s right, title and interest in the
assets, properties, rights, contracts, interests, claims and
operations, wherever located, whether tangible or intangible, real
or personal, that are owned by, leased by or in the possession or
control of such Asset Seller and used primarily in the Business,
other than the Excluded Assets, including:
(i) all raw materials and
inventories, wherever located, owned or maintained by the relevant
Asset Seller, including inventories of warehoused stock,
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finished product, work-in
progress, raw and pack materials, stores and supplies to the extent
relating primarily to the Business;
(ii) the freehold, leasehold and
other interests in the real property that are listed or required to
be listed in Schedule 4.14, together with all right, title and
interest of the relevant Asset Seller in all buildings,
improvements, fixtures and other appurtenances thereto (the "
Real Property ");
(iii) the machinery, tooling,
equipment, furniture, computers and other tangible personal
property used primarily in the Business;
(iv) the accounts receivable and
prepaid expenses arising out of or relating primarily to the
Business to the extent reflected in the calculation of the Closing
Net Working Capital (including all inter-company trade accounts
receivable between an Asset Seller or a Sale Company and Lear or
any of Lear’s Subsidiaries) and the assets described in
clause (i) of the definition of Tooling and Engineering Net
Assets;
(v) the Customer Contracts and all
other contracts of the relevant Asset Seller relating primarily to
the Business, including the Lear IP Agreements (the " Purchased
Contracts ");
(vi) all Lear Business IP as set
forth in the Intellectual Property Transfer and License
Agreement;
(vii) the goodwill, to the extent
generated by and associated with the Business;
(viii) the books and records of
the relevant Asset Seller relating primarily to the Business,
including the books of account, tax, general, financial, accounting
and personnel records as legally permissible, files, invoices,
client (current and prospective) and supplier lists, business
plans, marketing studies and other written information, other than
the Excluded Records;
(ix) all Permits relating to, or
required for, the Business, to the extent transferable under their
terms and applicable Laws;
(x) the assets reflected as such
in the Financial Statements and any similar assets acquired between
the date thereof and the Closing Date (including all rent deposits
in respect of leasehold Real Property);
(xi) all proceeds received or
receivable by the relevant Asset Seller under any insurance policy
to the extent related to any Assumed Liability;
(xii) all claims, rights and
causes of action that may arise under any Purchased Contract or the
conduct of the Business (other than any claims, rights and causes
of actions to the extent related to a Retained Liability or an
Excluded Asset); and
(xiii) all other assets of the
relevant Asset Seller that are primarily used in the Business, and
all rights arising from any of those assets.
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"
Registered " means issued by, registered with, renewed by or
the subject of a pending application before any Governmental
Authority or Internet domain name register.
" Registration Rights
Agreement " means the registration rights agreement, the form
of which is attached hereto as Exhibit E .
" Relevant Lear Company "
means Lear, each Asset Seller, each Current Subsidiary and each
Stock Seller.
" Retained Names " means
the "Lear" name, all variations, derivations and graphical
representations thereof and all trademarks, service marks, trade
names, or related corporate names and all domain names and Interest
addresses that include the name "Lear."
" Sale Companies " means
the Holding Companies, the Canadian Subsidiaries and the Mexican
Subsidiaries.
" Sale Companies Adjustment
" means (a) the sum of the cash and cash equivalents and the
amount of inter-company receivables due to the Sale Companies from
Lear or any of Lear’s Subsidiaries at Closing (excluding any
such inter-company accounts receivable that are trade accounts
receivable) minus (b) the amount of inter-company payables due
to Lear or any of Lear’s Subsidiaries from the Sale Companies
at Closing (excluding any such inter-company accounts payable that
are trade accounts payable), all as determined without regard to
the Mexican Tax Reimbursement, including the payments and
obligations related thereto.
" Specified Liabilities "
means all Liabilities of the Asset Sellers or the Sale Companies,
as the case may be, arising out of or relating to the ownership of
the Purchased Assets (in the case of the Asset Sellers) or the
operation of the Business prior to or following the Closing in the
following categories of Liabilities: product warranty, product
liability, litigation and environmental, excluding, however, any
Liabilities (i) arising from criminal acts by or attributable
to Lear or any of its Affiliates or (ii) incurred other than
in the Ordinary Course of Business of the applicable Lear
Company.
" Stock Sellers " means the
Lear Companies that hold the Holding Company Shares immediately
prior to the Closing.
" Subsidiary " means, with
respect to any Person, (i) any corporation 50% or more of
whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof
ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such
corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of
any class or classes of such corporation have or might have voting
power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time
owned by such Person, directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries,
and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company,
association, joint venture, trust or other entity in which such
Person, directly or indirectly through Subsidiaries, is either a
general partner, has a 50% or greater equity interest at the time
or otherwise owns a controlling interest.
" Subsidiary Shares " means
all of the issued and outstanding shares or other equity ownership
interests in the Mexican Subsidiaries and the Canadian
Subsidiaries.
" Supply Agreement " means
one or more supply agreements between Lear and the Company, the
material terms of which are summarized in Exhibit F
attached hereto.
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"
Target Net Working Capital " means $48.5 Million.
" Target Tooling Net Assets
" means $110 Million.
" Tax " means (i) any
foreign, United States federal, state or local net income,
alternative or add-on minimum tax, gross income, gross receipts,
sales, use, ad valorem, value added, transfer, franchise, profits,
license, withholding, payroll, employment, excise, severance,
stamp, occupation, premium, property, environmental or windfall
profit tax, custom, duty or other tax, governmental fee or other
like assessment or charge of any kind whatsoever, together with any
interest, penalty, addition to tax or additional amount imposed by
any Law or Taxing Authority, whether disputed or not, (ii) any
liability for the payment of any amounts of any of the foregoing as
a result of being a member of an affiliated, consolidated,
combined, unitary or similar group, or being a party to any
agreement or arrangement whereby liability for payment of such
amounts was determined or taken into account with reference to the
liability of any other Person, (iii) any liability for the
payment of any amounts as a result of being a party to any tax
sharing agreements or arrangements (whether or not written) or with
respect to the payment of any amounts of any of the foregoing as a
result of any express or implied obligation to indemnify any other
Person, and (iv) any liability for the payment of any of the
foregoing types as a successor or transferee.
" Taxing Authority " means
any Governmental Authority responsible for the imposition,
administration or collection of any Tax.
" Third-Party Claim " means
any claim, demand, action, suit or proceeding made or brought by
any Person who or which is not a party to this Agreement or who or
which is not an Affiliate of any party to this Agreement.
" Tooling and Engineering Net
Assets " means (i) engineering and tooling costs that are
lump sum payable by the customer and capitalized engineering and
tooling costs and gains that will be amortized following the date
of determination, less (ii) divisional accounts payable
related to the Business recorded at the Dearborn, Michigan Division
Office.
" Transaction Documents "
means this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements.
" Transition Services
Agreement " means the transition services agreement, the form
of which is attached hereto as Exhibit G .
" Transferred Employees "
means those Employees (including those on short-term disability or
long-term disability) who immediately prior to the Closing Date are
employed by the Sale Companies, other than Excluded Employees.
1.2 Other Defined Terms .
In addition, the following terms used herein with initial capital
letters will have the meanings specified on the following
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Business Day
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Purchase
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ARTICLE
II
TRANSFER OF ASSETS AND SALE COMPANIES
2.1 Purchased Assets .
(a) Upon
the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, at the
Closing, Lear will and will cause each other Asset Seller to sell,
transfer, convey, assign and deliver (" Transfer ") and the
Company will purchase and accept, free and clear of Liens (other
than Permitted Liens) all of such Asset Seller’s right, title
and interest in the Purchased Assets.
(b) In
confirmation of the foregoing sale, assignment and transfer, Lear
will, and will cause the other Asset Sellers to, and the Company
will, execute and deliver at the Closing such bills of sale and
other instruments of assignment and transfer as the Company or Lear
may reasonably deem necessary or desirable.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Excluded Assets are
being retained by the Asset Sellers and will not be included in the
Purchased Assets.
2.2 Liabilities Assumed by the
Company .
(a) At
the Closing, the Company will assume as of the Closing Date, and
will subsequently pay, honor and discharge when due and payable and
otherwise in accordance with their terms, all of the following
Liabilities of the Asset Sellers (other than any such Liabilities
which are specifically set forth in Section 2.2(b))
(collectively, the " Assumed Liabilities "):
(i)
all Current Liabilities of the Asset Sellers, to the extent
included in the calculation of the Closing Net Working Capital;
(ii)
all Specified Liabilities of the Asset Sellers;
(iii)
all Liabilities of the Asset Sellers under the executory portion of
the Purchased Contracts, excluding (A) any of such Purchased
Contracts that contain a non-competition, exclusivity or similar
restrictive covenant limiting the rights of an Asset Seller to
fully conduct any business or activity after the Closing (other
than any such Purchased Contracts that contain such restrictions
related to product development activities) and (B) Liabilities
arising from the breach of any such Purchased Contracts prior to
the Closing;
(iv)
all Assumed Employee Liabilities of the Asset Sellers relating to
Hired Employees;
(v)
all Liabilities for Transfer Taxes of the Asset Sellers to the
extent set forth in Section 6.14; and
(vi)
all divisional accounts payable related to the Business to the
extent included in the calculation of Tooling and Engineering Net
Assets.
(b) Except
for the Assumed Liabilities specifically identified in
Section 2.2, each Asset Seller shall retain and subsequently
pay, honor and discharge when due and
payable all other Liabilities of
such Asset Seller (the " Retained Liabilities "), including
the following Liabilities:
(i)
all Liabilities of such Asset Seller to the extent attributable to
any of the Excluded Assets (irrespective of whether such
obligations or liabilities arise before, on or after the Closing
Date);
(ii)
all Liabilities of such Asset Seller with respect to any employee
of such Asset Seller who is not a Hired Employee;
(iii)
all Liabilities for any legal, accounting, investment banking,
brokerage or similar fees or expenses incurred by such Asset Seller
or any of its Affiliates in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement;
(iv)
all Liabilities of such Asset Seller relating to, resulting from or
arising out of the failure of such Asset Seller to perform or
discharge any of its agreements contained in this Agreement;
(v)
all Liabilities for Income Taxes of such Asset Seller to the extent
arising out of the conduct of the Business prior to and including
the Closing;
(vi)
all Liabilities of such Asset Seller under any Contracts to the
extent not assumed under Section 2.2(a)(iii);
(vii)
all Liabilities of such Asset Seller incurred by or accruing to
such Asset Seller after the Closing Date that is not an Assumed
Liability;
(viii)
all Liabilities of such Asset Seller that were required to be
reflected on the Balance Sheet under GAAP and were not so
reflected;
(ix)
all Indebtedness of such Asset Seller; and
(x)
all Liabilities arising under any Benefit Plan.
(c) In
furtherance of the foregoing, the Company will execute and deliver
at the Closing all instruments of assumption as Lear may reasonably
deem necessary or desirable to evidence the assumption by the
Company of the Assumed Liabilities.
(d) To
the extent, if any, that any Liability might be partly an Assumed
Liability and partly a Retained Liability, the apportionment of
such liability or obligation will be determined pursuant to GAAP.
Nothing set forth in the foregoing sentence will be deemed to
affect, modify, supplement or otherwise change the definitions of
Assumed Liabilities and Retained Liabilities set forth in this
Agreement.
2.3 Transfer of Holding Company
Shares; Retention of Sale Company Liabilities .
(a) Upon
the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, at the
Closing, Lear will cause the Stock Sellers to Transfer, and the
Company will purchase, all of the Holding Company Shares, free and
clear from all Liens.
(b) Immediately
prior to the Closing, Lear will cause each Stock Seller to assume
as of immediately prior to the Closing, and will cause each of them
to subsequently pay, honor and discharge when due and payable and
otherwise in accordance with their terms, all Liabilities of the
Sale Companies owned, directly or indirectly, by it other
than:
(i)
all Current Liabilities of such Sale Company, to the extent
included in the calculation of the Closing Net Working Capital;
(ii)
all Specified Liabilities of such Sale Company;
(iii)
all Liabilities of such Sale Company under the executory portion of
the customer and other Contracts of such Sale Company relating
primarily to the Business, excluding (A) any of such Contracts that
contain a non-competition, exclusivity or similar restrictive
covenant limiting the rights of such Sale Company, the Company or
any of its Affiliates to fully conduct any business or activity
after the Closing (other than any such Contracts that contain such
restrictions related to product development activities) and
(B) Liabilities arising from the breach of any such Contract
prior to the Closing;
(iv)
all Assumed Employee Liabilities of such Sale Company relating to
Transferred Employees; and
(v)
all Tax Liabilities of such Sale Company other than Tax Liabilities
for which a Lear Company is specifically liable pursuant to
Section 6.14.
(c) In
furtherance of the foregoing, the Stock Sellers and the Sale
Companies will execute and deliver at the Closing all instruments
of assignment and assumption as the Company or Lear may reasonably
deem necessary or desirable to evidence the assumption by the Stock
Sellers of the Retained Sale Company Liabilities.
(d) The
Liabilities assumed by the Stock Sellers pursuant to
Section 2.3(b) are referred to herein as the " Retained
Sale Company Liabilities ".
2.4 Consideration .
(a) In
consideration of the Transfer of the Purchased Assets and the
Holding Company Shares to the Company at Closing, the Company shall
(i) pay Lear $300,000 (the " Cash Consideration ") and
(ii) assume the Assumed Liabilities (together with the Cash
Consideration, the " Purchase Price "). The parties hereto
further acknowledge and agree that Lear may be required to fund up
to $25 Million in cash as additional Purchased Assets based on the
financial performance of the Business in 2007 as separately agreed
to by the parties.
(b) In
accordance with Section 1060 of the Code and the regulations
thereunder, the consideration hereunder shall be allocated among
the Purchased Assets and the Holding Company Shares as agreed to by
the parties prior to Closing and attached hereto as
Schedule 2.4 . In furtherance of the foregoing, Lear
will deliver to the Company a proposed allocation and supporting
valuation report (the " Initial Valuation Report ") no later
than 60 days after the date hereof, and the Company will
provide any comments, questions or objections with respect thereto
no later than 20 days after the delivery of the Initial
Valuation Report, provided that the deadline for delivery of the
Initial Valuation Report may be extended in 15-day increments with
the Company’s prior written consent, not to be unreasonably
withheld or
delayed. The parties will
thereafter cooperate diligently and in good faith to promptly
resolve any disputes and agree upon Schedule 2.4 . The
parties, in connection with their respective U.S. federal, state,
and local tax returns and other filings, agree not to take any
position inconsistent with such purchase price allocation for Tax
reporting purposes. Any adjustment to the purchase price shall be
allocated as provided by Treasury Regulation Section
1.1060-1(c).
2.5 Closing Net Working
Capital .
(a) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in Section 6.1 or the definitions of
Purchased Assets and Assumed Liabilities, the parties by mutual
agreement shall prior to the Closing (i) cause the Asset Sellers to
exclude certain accounts receivable from the Purchased Assets or
the Sale Companies to distribute certain accounts receivable to
another Lear Company or (ii) cause the Asset Sellers to
exclude certain accounts payable from the Assumed Liabilities or
the Sale Companies to distribute certain accounts payable to
another Lear Company, in any case, in furtherance of trying to
provide Closing Net Working Capital to the Company at Closing that
is as close as practicable to the Target Net Working Capital.
(b) No
less than five Business Days prior to the Closing, Lear shall
deliver to the Company a written statement setting forth in detail
Lear’s good faith estimate of the Closing Net Working
Capital, taking into account any actions of the Lear Companies
pursuant to Section 2.5(a), and Lear’s good faith
estimate of the Closing Tooling Net Assets (the " Estimated
Closing Tooling Net Assets "). If the Estimated Closing Tooling
Net Assets is greater than $130 Million based on changes in the
actual collection or payment of amounts from the forecast existing
as of the date of this Agreement, the parties shall consult with
one another in good faith to determine whether any withholding of
receivables by Lear from the Purchased Assets is appropriate under
the circumstances.
(c) Lear
shall deliver to the Company, no later than 60 days after the
Closing Date, Lear’s calculation of the Closing Net Working
Capital and the Closing Tooling Net Assets (the " Lear
Calculation ").
(d) Lear’s
calculation of the Closing Net Working Capital and the Closing
Tooling Net Assets shall be (A) prepared in good faith and
based upon reasonable assumptions, and (B) consistent with
GAAP and the accounting practices set forth in
Schedule 2.5 , which were used in the preparation of
the Financial Statements.
(e) If
the Company disagrees with the Lear Calculation, the Company shall
provide written notice (a " Dispute Notice ") to Lear of its
objection(s) to such calculation. If the Company does not provide a
Dispute Notice within 30 days after Lear’s delivery of
the Lear Calculation, the Closing Net Working Capital and the
Closing Tooling Net Assets set forth therein shall be deemed the
finally determined Closing Net Working Capital and the Closing
Tooling Net Assets. If the Company delivers a Dispute Notice, Lear
and the Company will use good faith efforts during the 30 day
period after the delivery of such Dispute Notice (the " WC
Resolution Period ") to seek to resolve the differences set
forth therein. If Lear and the Company cannot reach written
agreement during the WC Resolution Period, their disagreements,
limited to those issues still in dispute, will be submitted by the
parties for determination by the Accounting Firm.
(f) During
the period beginning on the date hereof and ending upon the final
determination of the Closing Net Working Capital and the Closing
Tooling Net Assets (including the WC Resolution Period, if
necessary), the parties will provide to each other such
reasonable
access to financial and other
information of the Business, the Lear Companies and the Sale
Companies as it may request in good faith to assess the Closing Net
Working Capital and the Closing Tooling Net Assets.
(g) Lear
and the Company shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause
the Accounting Firm to submit its written statement of its
adjudication of the disputes between Lear and the Company within
10 days after submission of the matter to the Accounting Firm.
The determination of the Accounting Firm shall constitute an
arbitral award that is final, binding and unappealable and upon
which a judgment may be entered by any court having jurisdiction
thereof. In acting hereunder, the Accounting Firm shall be entitled
to the privileges and immunities of arbitrators.
(h) If
the finally determined Closing Net Working Capital is less than
$47.5 Million, Lear shall make a cash payment to the Company in the
amount by which the finally determined Closing Net Working Capital
is less than $47.5 Million. If the finally determined Closing Net
Working Capital is greater than $49.5 Million, the Company shall
make a cash payment to Lear in the amount by which the finally
determined Closing Net Working Capital is greater than $49.5
Million. If the finally determined Closing Net Working Capital is
equal to or greater than $47.5 Million and less than or equal to
$49.5 Million, no payment shall be required by either party.
(i) If
the finally determined Closing Tooling Net Assets is less than the
Target Tooling Net Assets, Lear shall make a payment to the Company
in the amount by which the finally determined Closing Tooling Net
Assets is less than the Target Tooling Net Assets either by
(i) delivering a cash payment to the Company equal to such
amount, (ii) crediting the amount due against accounts
receivable from the Company to the Lear Companies,
(iii) retaining accounts payable related to the Tooling and
Engineering Net Assets in such amount or (iv) any combination
of the foregoing.
(j) Any
payments required to be made pursuant to Sections 2.5(h) and
2.5(i) shall be netted against each other and any resulting amount
payable, shall be made within five Business Days after the date of
the final determination of the Closing Net Working Capital and
Closing Tooling Net Assets by wire transfer of immediately
available funds to an account specified by the recipient or
delivery of a credit memo, as applicable.
(k) Any
amounts paid or credited pursuant to this Section 2.5 shall
for Income Tax purposes be treated as an adjustment to the purchase
price and shall be allocated among the Purchased Assets and the
Holding Company Shares as provided by Treasury
Regulation Section 1.1060-1(c).
ARTICLE III
THE CLOSING
3.1 Conditions Precedent to
Obligations of the Company . The obligations of the Company
under this Agreement to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby will be subject to the satisfaction, at or prior to the
Closing, of the following conditions, any one or more of which may
be waived at the option of the Company:
(a)
Regulatory Approvals . Subject to Section 6.5(d), the
applicable waiting period, if any, under the Antitrust Laws shall
have expired or been waived or terminated, and all
other required regulatory
approvals shall have been received, including (i) in respect
of the European Union, (A) a decision by the European
commission under the ECMR that the European Commission has decided
not to oppose the proposed concentration and has declared it to be
compatible with the common market, or (B) the time limit
(including any applicable extensions) for the taking by the
European Commission of a decision under Article 6(1) of the
ECMR having passed with no such decision having been taken and
(ii) in respect of Canada, the Commissioner of Competition
(the " Canadian Commissioner ") appointed under the
Competition Act (Canada) (the " Canadian Competition Act ")
shall have (A) issued an advance ruling certificate under
Section 102 of the Canadian Competition Act, or
(B) advised the Company in writing that the Canadian
Commissioner has determined not to file an application for an order
under Part VIII of the Canadian Competition Act, and any terms
and conditions attached to such advice shall be acceptable to the
Company.
(b)
No Misrepresentation or Breach . (i) There shall have
been no material breach by Lear in the performance of any of the
covenants herein to be performed by it in whole or in part prior to
the Closing, (ii) the representations and warranties of Lear
contained in this Agreement shall be true and correct on the
Closing Date as if made anew on the Closing Date (except for
representations or warranties made as of a specified date, which
shall be true and correct as of the specified date), except for
changes therein specifically permitted by this Agreement or
resulting from any transaction expressly consented to in writing by
the Company and other than breaches of representations and
warranties which, individually or in the aggregate, are not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, and
(iii) Lear shall have delivered to the Company a certificate
certifying each of the foregoing, dated the Closing Date and signed
by one of its executive officers to the foregoing effect.
(c)
Ancillary Agreements . Each of the Ancillary Agreements
shall have been executed and delivered by the parties thereto
(other than the Company and its Affiliates).
(d)
Certain Consents . The Lear Companies shall have obtained
the consents, waivers or approvals set forth in
Schedule 3.1(d) which consents shall not impose any
conditions adverse to the Company or a Sale Company or any terms or
conditions that are less favorable than those applicable
immediately prior to the Closing) and the Company shall have
received all Permits material to the operation of the Business;
provided, that in the event of the failure to obtain any such
consents or Permits, the parties shall work in good faith to
negotiate alternative arrangements (including pursuant to
Section 6.10(b)) that provide the Company or the applicable
Sale Company with substantially the same benefits or
authorizations, without imposing any additional material costs or
risks, in order to satisfy this condition to Closing.
(e)
Liens . The Company shall have received evidence reasonably
satisfactory to it that the Purchased Assets and the Holding
Company Shares at the Closing will be Transferred to the Company,
free and clear of all Liens other than, in the case of the
Purchased Assets, Permitted Liens.
(f)
Litigation . No Order shall have been issued by any court of
competent jurisdiction and be in effect which restrains or
prohibits any material transaction contemplated by this
Agreement.
(g)
Business Condition . There shall not have occurred program
terminations as a result of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement that individually or in the aggregate have had or could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(h)
Material Adverse Effect . There shall have been no Material
Adverse Effect since the Balance Sheet Date.
(i)
Reorganization . Lear shall have completed the
Reorganization as set forth in Section 6.21.
(j)
Tooling Net Assets . The Estimated Closing Tooling Net
Assets shall be no less than $110 Million, provided ,
however , that if Estimated Closing Tooling Net Assets is
less than $110 Million, Lear shall have the option (but not the
obligation) to cure such deficiency by making a payment to the
Company in the amount by which the Estimated Closing Tooling Net
Assets is less than $110 Million, either by (i) delivering a
cash payment to the Company equal to such shortfall,
(ii) crediting an amount equal to the shortfall against
accounts receivable from the Company to the Lear Companies,
(iii) retaining accounts payable related to the Tooling and
Engineering Net Assets in an amount equal to the shortfall, or
(iv) any combination of the foregoing.
3.2 Conditions Precedent to
Obligations of Lear . The obligations of Lear under this
Agreement to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby will
be subject to the satisfaction, at or prior to the Closing, of the
following conditions, any one or more of which may be waived at the
option of Lear:
(a)
Regulatory Approvals . The condition set forth in
Section 3.1(a) shall have been satisfied.
(b)
No Misrepresentation or Breach . (i) There shall have
been no material breach by the Company in the performance of any of
the covenants herein to be performed by it in whole or in part
prior to the Closing, (ii) the representations and warranties
of the Company contained in this Agreement shall be true and
correct as of the Closing Date as if made anew on the Closing Date
(except for representations or warranties made as of a specified
date, which shall be true and correct as of the specified date),
except for changes therein specifically permitted by this Agreement
or resulting from any transaction expressly consented to in writing
by Lear and other than breaches of representations and warranties
which, individually or in the aggregate, are not reasonably likely
to have a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, and (iii) the
Company shall have delivered to Lear a certificate certifying each
of the foregoing, dated the Closing Date and signed by one of its
executive officers to the foregoing effect.
(c)
Ancillary Agreements . Each of the Ancillary Agreements
shall have been executed and delivered by the parties thereto
(other than Lear and its Affiliates).
(d)
Litigation . No Order shall have been issued by any court of
competent jurisdiction and be in effect which restrains or
prohibits any material transaction contemplated by this
Agreement.
(e)
Related Transactions . Each of IACNA, WL Ross and Franklin
shall have performed its obligations under Section 6.20
hereof.
(f)
PBGC Consent . Lear shall have received the consent of the
PBGC to the treatment of its pension plans in connection with the
transaction contemplated hereby, which consent shall not impose any
conditions materially adverse to Lear.
3.3 The Closing . Subject
to the fulfillment or waiver of the conditions precedent specified
in Sections 3.1 and 3.2, the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby (the " Closing ") will take place on the
fifth business day after the conditions set forth in
Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(d), 3.1(e), 3.1(i) and 3.2(a) have been
satisfied or such other date as the parties agree in writing to be
the date of the closing (the " Closing Date "). The Closing
will take place at 10:00 A.M., Eastern Time, at the New York
office of Jones Day, or by the exchange of documents and
instruments by mail, courier, fax, wire transfer or other
electronic communication to the extent mutually acceptable to the
parties hereto. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the
Closing will be deemed effective for accounting and tax purposes as
of 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time) on the Closing Date.
3.4 Deliveries by Lear . At
the Closing, Lear shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the
Company such documents and instruments as may be reasonably
required to consummate the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents and to comply with the terms thereof.
3.5 Deliveries by the
Company . At the Closing, the Company will:
(a) deliver
to Lear the Cash Consideration;
(b) deliver
to Lear an assumption agreement assuming and agreeing to assume,
pay and perform all Assumed Liabilities, in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to Lear; and
(c) issue,
deliver or cause to be delivered to Lear, such other documents and
instruments as may be reasonably required to consummate the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and to
comply with the terms thereof.
3.6 Termination .
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to the
contrary, this Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the
Closing:
(a) By
the mutual written consent of the Company and Lear;
(b) By
either the Company or Lear if the Closing shall not have occurred
on or before April 15, 2007 (" Termination Date "),
provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement
pursuant to this Section 3.6(b) will not be available to any
party whose breach of any provision of this Agreement results in
the failure of the Closing to occur by such time; provided ,
further , that, if any of the conditions to Closing set
forth in Sections 3.1(a), 3.1(d), 3.1(e), 3.1(g) or 3.2(a) remains
unsatisfied or not waived and if all other conditions to the
respective obligations of the parties to close hereunder that are
capable of being fulfilled by the Termination Date shall have been
so fulfilled or waived, then no party may terminate this Agreement
prior to May 31, 2007; or
(c) By
either the Company or Lear if there shall have been entered a
final, nonappealable order or injunction of any Governmental
Authority restraining or prohibiting the consummation of the
Closing; or
(d) By
the Company if Lear shall have (i) failed to perform any
obligation or to comply with any agreement or covenant applicable
to it under this Agreement or (ii) breached any of its
representations or warranties, in each case if the failure or
breach is not curable prior
to the Termination Date such
that the condition in Section 3.1(b) could not be satisfied
prior to the Termination Date; or
(e) By
Lear if any of IACNA, the Company, WL Ross or Franklin shall have
(i) failed to perform any obligation or comply with any
agreement or covenant applicable to it under this Agreement or the
Ancillary Agreements or (ii) breached any of its
representations or warranties, in each case if the failure or
breach is not curable prior to the Termination Date such that the
condition in Section 3.2(b) could not be satisfied prior to
the Termination Date.
In the event of the termination of
this Agreement under this Section 3.6, each party hereto will
pay all of its own fees and expenses. There will be no further
liability hereunder on the part of any party hereto if this
Agreement is so terminated, except by reason of a prior breach of
Section 6.5 (Reasonable Best Efforts) or a breach of
Section 6.17 (Confidential Nature of Information), which shall
survive any termination of this Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF LEAR
Lear represents and warrants to
the Company as set forth below.
4.1 Corporate Existence and
Power . (a) Lear is, and each Sale Company and each
Relevant Lear Company will be as of the Closing, duly incorporated
or organized (as applicable), validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization
(as applicable). Each Sale Company and each Relevant Lear Company
in existence on the date hereof has, and each Sale Company and each
Relevant Lear Company will have as of the Closing, all necessary
power and all material governmental licenses, authorizations,
Permits, consents and approvals required to carry on its
business.
(b) On
the date hereof and immediately following the Closing: (i) the
fair value of the assets of Lear (individually and on a
consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries) exceeds its debts and
liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise; (ii) the
present fair saleable value of the property of Lear (individually
and on a consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries) is greater than
the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of
its debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or
otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and
matured; (iii) Lear (individually and on a consolidated basis
with its Subsidiaries) is able to pay its debts and liabilities,
subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and
liabilities become absolute and matured; and (iv) Lear
(individually and on a consolidated basis with its Subsidiaries)
does not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the
business in which it is engaged as such business is now conducted
and is proposed to be conducted following the date hereof.
4.2 Corporate Authorization;
Enforceability . The execution, delivery and performance by
each Relevant Lear Company and each Sale Company of each of the
Transaction Documents to which it will be a party at the Closing
are, or will be at the Closing, within its powers and have been, or
will be at the Closing, duly authorized and no other corporate or
company (as applicable) action on the part of any Relevant Lear
Company or any Sale Company is or will be necessary to authorize
any of the Transaction Documents to which it will be a party at the
Closing. Each of the Transaction Documents to which any Relevant
Lear Company or any Sale Company will be a party at the Closing
will have been, as of the Closing, duly executed and delivered by
each such party. Assuming the due execution and delivery by
the other party or parties
thereto of the Transaction Documents to which any Relevant Lear
Company or any Sale Company will be a party at the Closing, each
Transaction Document to which any Relevant Lear Company or any Sale
Company will be a party at the Closing will constitute valid and
binding agreements of such party, enforceable against it in
accordance with their terms except to the extent that their
enforceability may be subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general
equitable principles.
4.3 Books and Records . All
accounts, books, ledgers and other records material to the Business
of whatsoever kind have been properly and accurately kept in all
material respects and are complete in all material respects, and
there are no material inaccuracies or discrepancies of any kind
contained or reflected therein.
4.4 Ownership of Sale
Companies; Subsidiaries .
(a) As
of the Closing, the Holding Companies will be the direct or
indirect holder of all of the Subsidiary Shares and will have sole
voting and dispositive power over such Subsidiary Shares, all of
which will have been issued in proper legal form and will be fully
paid or credited as fully paid. As of the Closing, the Subsidiary
Shares will constitute all of the issued and outstanding shares or
other equity securities (or local equivalent) in the capital of the
Mexican Subsidiaries and the Canadian Subsidiaries and there will
be no options, warrants, conversion rights, subscriptions, or
agreements or rights of any kind (other than pursuant to this
Agreement) to subscribe for or purchase, or commitments to issue
(either formal or informal, firm or contingent), any shares, stock
or other securities of any of the Mexican Subsidiaries or the
Canadian Subsidiaries. None of the Mexican Subsidiaries or the
Canadian Subsidiaries legally or beneficially owns any equity
interest in any Person other than another Mexican Subsidiary or
Canadian Subsidiary, as applicable.
(b) As
of the Closing, the Stock Sellers will own and will be the direct,
sole holders of all of the Holding Company Shares and will have
sole voting and dispositive power over such Holding Company Shares,
all of which will have been issued in proper legal form and will be
fully paid or credited as fully paid. As of the Closing, the
Holding Company Shares will constitute all of the issued and
outstanding shares or other equity securities (or local equivalent)
in the capital of the Mexican Holding Company and the Canadian
Holding Company and, as of the Closing, there will be no options,
warrants, conversion rights, subscriptions, or agreements or rights
of any kind (other than pursuant to this Agreement) to subscribe
for or purchase, or commitments to issue (either formal or
informal, firm or contingent), any shares, stock or other
securities of any of the Mexican Holding Company or the Canadian
Holding Company. Neither the Mexican Holding Company nor the
Canadian Holding Company will, as of Closing, legally or
beneficially own any equity interest in any Person other than
another Mexican Subsidiary or Canadian Subsidiary, as
applicable.
4.5 Non-Contravention;
Consents . The execution, delivery and performance by Lear of
this Agreement and the execution, delivery and performance by each
other Relevant Lear Company and each Sale Company of each
Transaction Document to which it will be a party at the Closing do
not and will not at the Closing (a) violate the certificate of
incorporation, organization or formation or bylaws or other
equivalent governing document of any such Person, (b) violate
in any material respect any applicable Law or Order,
(c) except as set forth in Section 3.1(a) or on
Schedule 4.5 , require any filing with or Permit, consent or
approval of, or the giving of any notice to, any Person,
(d) result in a violation or breach of, conflict with,
constitute (with or without due notice or lapse of time or both) a
default under, or give rise to any
right of termination,
cancellation or acceleration of any right or obligation of any
Relevant Lear Company or any Sale Company or to a loss of any
benefit to which it is entitled under, any Lear Material Contract
or Permit or (e) result in the creation or imposition of any
material Lien on any of its assets except for Permitted Liens and
such of the foregoing as are listed or described in
Schedule 4.5 and except in the case of clause
(c) above, for any such filings, Permits, consents, approvals
or notices the failure to obtain or make would not be material to
the Business.
4.6 Tax Matters . Except as disclosed in
Schedule 4.6 ,
(a) All
material Tax Returns required to be filed with any Taxing Authority
with respect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period by or on behalf of any
of the Sale Companies, to the extent required to be filed on or
before the Closing Date, have been filed when due in accordance
with all applicable Laws.
(b) All
such Tax Returns with respect to Pre-Closing Tax Periods are
correct and complete in all material respects. None of the Sale
Companies is currently a beneficiary of any extension of time
within which to file any Tax Return.
(c) No
Tax Return of any of the Sale Companies with respect to any
Pre-Closing Tax Period is currently under an audit by any Taxing
Authority.
(d) None
of the Sale Companies has any Tax liabilities (whether due or to
become due) with respect to the income, property and operations of
such Sale Companies, except for Tax liabilities reflected on the
Balance Sheet or that have arisen after the date of the Balance
Sheet in the Ordinary Course of Business.
(e) All
Taxes owed by any of the Sale Companies (whether or not shown as
due and payable on any Tax Return) have been timely paid or
withheld and remitted to the appropriate Taxing Authority.
(f) None
of the Sale Companies has granted or has had granted on its behalf
any extension or waiver of the statute of limitations period
applicable to any Tax Return, which period (after giving effect to
such extension or waiver) has not yet expired.
(g) There
is no proceeding now pending or, to the Knowledge of Lear,
threatened against or with respect to any of the Sale Companies in
respect of any Tax of which Lear or the Sale Companies has received
written notice.
(h) There
are no Liens for Taxes upon the assets or properties of any of the
Sale Companies, except for statutory liens for current Taxes,
assessments or other governmental charges not yet delinquent or the
amount or validity of which is being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings.
(i) None
of the Sale Companies has been a member of an affiliated,
consolidated, combined or unitary group or participated in any
other arrangement whereby any income, revenues, receipts, gain or
loss was determined or taken into account for Tax purposes with
reference to or in conjunction with any income, revenues, receipts,
gain, loss, asset or liability of any other Person other than a
group of which a Lear Company is the parent. None of the Sale
Companies has any liability for the Taxes of any Person (other than
under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any
similar provision of U.S. federal, state, local or foreign Law)),
as a transferee or successor, by contract, or otherwise.
(j) None
of the Sale Companies has received written notice of any claim by a
Governmental Authority in a jurisdiction where any of the Sale
Companies does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to
taxation by that Governmental Authority.
(k) Each
of the Sale Companies has withheld and paid all material Taxes
required to have been withheld and paid by applicable Law in
connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent
contractor, creditor, stockholder or other Person.
(l) None
of the Sale Companies will be required to include any material item
of income, or exclude any material item of deduction from taxable
income for any period ending after the Closing Date under
Section 481 of the Code (or any similar provision of the Laws
of any jurisdiction), as a result of a change in method of
accounting for a Pre-Closing Tax Period or pursuant to the
provisions of any agreement entered into with any Taxing Authority
or pursuant to a "closing agreement" as defined in
Section 7121 of the Code (or any similar provisions of state,
local or foreign Law) executed on or prior to the Closing Date.
(m) None
of the Sale Companies is a party to any Tax allocation or sharing
agreement.
(n) None
of the Sale Companies has participated in any "reportable
transaction" as defined in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.6011-4(b) (or any predecessor
provision).
(o) There
are no outstanding rulings of, or requests for rulings with, any
Taxing Authority expressly addressed to any of the Sale
Companies.
(p) None
of sections 78, 80, 80.01, 80.02, 80.03 or 80.04 of the Income Tax
Act (Canada), or any equivalent provision of the Tax legislation of
any province or any other jurisdiction of Canada, have applied or
will apply to the Canadian Subsidiaries at any time up to and
including the Closing Date.
(q) The
Canadian Subsidiaries have not acquired property from a
non-arm’s length Person, within the meaning of the Income Tax
Act (Canada), for consideration, the value of which is less than
the fair market value of the property acquired in circumstances
which could subject it to a liability under section 160 of the
Income Tax Act (Canada).
(r) For
all transactions between the Canadian Subsidiaries and any
non-resident Person with whom the Canadian Subsidiaries were not
dealing at arm’s length during a taxation year commencing
after 1998 and ending on or before the Closing Date, the Canadian
Subsidiaries have made or obtained, or will make or obtain, records
or documents that meet the requirements of paragraphs 247(4)(a) to
(c) of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
(s) The
Canadian Subsidiaries will be duly registered under subdivision
(d) of Division V of Part IX of the Excise Tax Act
(Canada) with respect to the goods and services tax and harmonized
sales tax on or before the Closing Date, if required.
4.7 Financial Statements .
Each of the Financial Statements, including the notes thereto which
identify the basis of presentation and preparation, has been based
upon the information contained in the books and records of the
Business (which books and records are correct and complete in all
material respects), is accurate and complete in all material
respects and presents fairly in all material respects the
consolidated financial condition and results of
operations of the Business as of
the times and for the periods referred to therein, and such
Financial Statements (including all reserves included therein) have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP as identified in the notes
thereto; provided , that the notes to the Financial
Statements do not include the full set of disclosures and footnotes
required under GAAP, the Financial Statements do not include
statements other than the balance sheet and income statement which
otherwise would be required by GAAP and the Financial Statements
are subject to normal year-end adjustments.
4.8 Conduct of the Business;
Absence of Certain Changes . (a) Except as disclosed in
Schedule 4.8(a) , and except as a result of matters
permitted or required by this Agreement, since December 31,
2005, (i) the Lear Companies have conducted the Business in
the Ordinary Course of Business (excluding actions taken in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement),
and (ii) none of the Lear Companies has taken any action that
would have constituted a violation of Section 6.1 (Conduct of
Business) if Section 6.1 had applied since December 31,
2005.
(a) Since
September 30, 2006, there has not been a Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) Except
as set forth on Schedule 4.8(c) , as of the Closing
Date, it will be the case that none of the Sale Companies shall
have ever conducted any business, entered into any Contract or
incurred any Liabilities other than in connection with the conduct
of the Business.
4.9 Known Liabilities . To
the Knowledge of Lear, (a) there are no Assumed Liabilities or
Liabilities of the Lear Companies existing as of the date hereof
that were required to be disclosed in a Schedule to this Agreement
and were not so disclosed, and (b) there will not be any
Assumed Liabilities or Liabilities of the Lear Companies existing
as of the Closing Date that will be required to be disclosed in a
Schedule to this Agreement and will not be so disclosed.
4.10 Contracts .
(a) Except as disclosed in Schedule 4.10(a) , none
of the Relevant Lear Companies, with respect to the Business, and
none of the Sale Companies is a party to or bound by any Contract
that is of a type described below (each such Contract, a " Lear
Material Contract "):
(i)
Any employment, severance or consulting contract with any current
Employee, officer, director, or consultant of the Business or a
Lear Company in connection with the Business, or any former
Employee, officer, director, or consultant of the Business or a
Lear Company in connection with the Business, to the extent that
any Lear Company or any Sale Company has a current or future
obligation arising thereunder;
(ii)
Any collective bargaining Contract with any labor union in respect
of the Employees;
(iii)
Any Contract or series of related Contracts for capital
expenditures or the acquisition or construction of fixed assets or
software development that could reasonably be expected to require
aggregate future payments in excess of $2,500,000;
(iv)
Any Contract or series of related Contracts relating to cleanup,
abatement or other actions in connection with environmental
Liabilities;
(v)
Any Lear IP Agreements or Business IP Agreements (other than
nonexclusive object code licenses of commercially available
software and licenses for terms of less than one year granted or
received in the Ordinary Course of Business);
(vi)
Any Contract with any sales agent or other independent contractor
having a remaining term in excess of one year and that is not
terminable without penalty on 90 calendar days’ or less
notice;
(vii)
Any Contract that could reasonably be expected to require payments
in any year in excess of $1,000,000 under which the applicable Lear
Company is (i) a lessee of, or holds or uses, any machinery,
equipment, vehicle or other tangible personal property owned by a
third Person or (ii) a lessor of or one who otherwise makes
available for third party use any tangible personal property owned
by any Relevant Lear Company or any of the Sale Companies;
(viii)
Any Contract or series of related Contracts that could reasonably
be expected to require aggregate future payments by or to the Sale
Companies in excess of $2,500,000;
(ix)
Any Contract granting to any Person a first-refusal, first-offer or
other similar right to purchase or acquire any of the Purchased
Assets or Subsidiary Shares; any stockholders agreement or any
Contract with respect to a joint venture or partnership
arrangement; any Contract granting a power of attorney other than
in connection with the asserted rights of landlords in the event of
a default under any real property lease; any Contract with respect
to letters of credit, surety or other bonds or pursuant to which
any material assets or properties of the Business is, or is to be,
subjected to a Lien; any Contract limiting or restricting the
ability of a Relevant Lear Company or any Sale Company to enter
into or engage in any market or line of business in or related to
the Business;
(x)
Any Property Agreements or other Contract relating to a Lear
Company’s occupation or use of the Real Property;
(xi)
Any Contracts relating to or evidencing Indebtedness; or
(xii)
Any other Contract or series of related Contracts that is, or could
reasonably be expected to be, material to the Business or that was
entered into other than in the Ordinary Course of Business.
(b) Except
as set forth in Schedule 4.10(b) , each Lear Material
Contract to which any Relevant Lear Company or any Sale Company is
party or by which it is bound is a valid and binding obligation of
such Person and, to the Knowledge of Lear, the other parties
thereto, except in either case to the extent that their
enforceability may be subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws affecting the
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general
equitable principles. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10 ,
to the Knowledge of Lear, the Relevant Lear Companies and the Sale
Companies have performed in all material respects the obligations
required to be performed by them under each of the Lear Material
Contracts prior to the date hereof and none of them are (with or
without the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or both) in
breach or default in any respect thereunder nor have any of them
received any written notice of default or termination of any Lear
Material Contract from any party thereto, except in any such case
for any breach,
default or termination which could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Lear has made available to the Company complete copies of
the Lear Material Contracts.
4.11 Litigation . Except as
disclosed in Schedule 4.11 , there is no action, suit,
investigation, arbitration or administrative or other proceeding
before any court or arbitrator or any Governmental Authority
pending or, to the Knowledge of Lear, threatened, (i) against or
affecting the Business, any Lear Company in connection with the
Business, any of the Sale Companies or any of the Purchased Assets,
(ii) against a Lear Company by any Employee in respect of his
or her employment or participation in, or benefits under, any
Benefit Plan; or (iii) which in any manner challenges or seeks to
prevent, enjoin, alter or materially delay the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and/or the Ancillary Agreements.
There are no outstanding Orders (whether rendered by a court,
administrative agency, arbitral body or Governmental Authority)
against any Lear Company in respect of the Business, the Purchased
Assets or the Assumed Liabilities.
4.12 Compliance with Laws .
No Lear Company (in connection with the Business) and none of the
Sale Companies is or has ever been in violation of any applicable
Law or Order that could reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. Each
Relevant Lear Company and each of the Sale Companies has all
material Permits required under any applicable Law for the conduct
of the Business as presently conducted by it (collectively, the "
Business Permits "). Except as set forth in
Schedule 4.12 , each Business Permit is valid and in
full force and effect and neither the execution of this Agreement
nor the Closing do or will in any material respect constitute or
result in a default under or violation of any such Business
Permit.
4.13 Title to Assets . Each
Relevant Lear Company and each of the Sale Companies has good title
to, or in the case of leased property has valid leasehold interests
in, all personal property presently held or used by it free and
clear of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens. The tangible assets
owned or used by the Relevant Lear Companies (in connection with
the Business) and the Sale Companies have been maintained in all
material respects in accordance with normal industry practice, are
in all material respects in good operating condition and repair
(subject to normal wear and tear), and are suitable in all material
respects for the purpose for which they are presently used.
4.14 Real Property. Except
as set forth in Schedule 4.14 , none of the Relevant
Lear Companies (in connection with the Business) and none of the
Sale Companies has any ownership in any real property or leasehold
interest in any real property. Except as set forth in
Schedule 4.14 , the Real Property constitutes all of
the real property used in the Business by Lear and/or its
Affiliates. The Relevant Lear Companies hold their interests in the
Real Property free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted
Liens. The leases, licenses and subleases related to the Real
Property (the " Property Agreements ") are valid and
subsisting leases, licenses or subleases which are in full force
and effect with respect to the Relevant Lear Company that is a
party thereto and, to the Knowledge of Lear, the other parties
thereto, and none of the Lear Companies or, to the Knowledge of
Lear, any other party thereto, is in material default thereunder.
There is no dispute between any Lear Company on the one hand and
the other parties to the Property Agreements on the other hand. The
buildings and other structures on the Real Property are in
materially good and substantial repair and fit for the purposes for
which they are used. All documents necessary to prove the title of
the relevant Lear Company to or in the owned Real Property have
been duly registered where necessary and are in the
exclusive possession or under
the exclusive control of such Relevant Lear Company free from any
rights and interests of any third parties.
4.15 Environmental Matters
. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.15 :
(a) Each
Lear Company (in connection with the Business) and the Sale
Companies have complied and are complying in all material respects
with all Laws which protect or relate to the protection of the
environment (including the production, emission, storage,
transportation, treatment, recycling or disposal of any waste or
hazardous substance) and/or the health and well-being of human
beings (" Environmental Laws ") and all recommendations,
requests or demands from any body or Governmental Authority charged
with overseeing or enforcing Environmental Laws.
(b) In
the past three years, none of the Lear Companies (in connection
with the Business) or any of their respective officers, directors,
or employees (in their capacities as such with respect to the
Business) has been a party to any civil or criminal liability in
relation to any matters relating to compliance with Environmental
Laws and, to the Knowledge of Lear, there are no matters or
circumstances which might give rise to any such court or
administrative proceedings. The Lear Companies (in connection with
the Business) have made or obtained all registrations,
authorizations, permissions, consents, Permits or licenses required
for the carrying on of the Business and have complied in all
material respects with all conditions attaching thereto.
(c) To
the Knowledge of Lear, none of the Real Property (i) is
contaminated in any material respect by any hazardous substance or
(ii) comprises reclaimed, made or filled land.
4.16 Intellectual Property
. Schedule 4.16(a) sets forth a true and complete list
of all Owned Intellectual Property and Lear Business IP that is
Registered. Subsequent to the Closing, neither Lear nor any Lear
Affiliate will own or control any Business IP. Immediately
subsequent to the Closing, except with respect to those patents
identified on Schedule 4.16(a) as "unwarranted patents" and
subject to any rights granted under the Business IP Agreements, the
Lear IP Agreements, or the Intellectual Property Transfer and
License Agreement, the Company and/or the Sale Companies will be
the exclusive owners of all Owned Intellectual Property and Lear
Business IP, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted
Liens. Except with respect to the Lear IP Agreements or Business IP
Agreements listed in Schedule 4.5(c) , the consummation
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not result
in the terminations or impairment of any Owned Intellectual
Property, Lear Business IP or Intellectual Property Right licensed
to the Company or the Sale Companies pursuant to the Business IP
Agreements or Lear IP Agreements. Except as set forth in
Schedule 4.16(c) , to the Knowledge of Lear, the
conduct of the Business as presently conducted does not infringe
upon any Intellectual Property Right of any third party. Except as
set forth in Schedule 4.16(c) , there is no claim,
suit, action or proceeding that is either pending or, to the
Knowledge of Lear, threatened, that, in either case, involves a
claim of infringement by any Lear Company (in connection with the
Business) of any Intellectual Property Right of any third party, or
challenging their ownership, right to use, or the validity of any
Intellectual Property Right listed or required to be listed in
Schedule 4.16(c) . To the Knowledge of Lear, there is no
continuing infringement by any other Person of any of the
Intellectual Property Rights listed or required to be listed in
Schedule 4.16(c) . No Lear Company (in connection with the
Business) has disclosed or permitted to be disclosed or undertaken
or arranged to disclose to any person any of its know-how, secrets,
confidential information, technical processes or lists of customers
or suppliers
other than disclosures which
would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.17 Employees .
(a)
Schedule 4.17(a) sets forth a true, complete and
correct list of all Employees earning in excess of $150,000 per
annum, containing the following details with respect of each
Employee: (i) name, (ii) the start date and term of
service, (iii) the total annual gross salary for the most
recently completed and current fiscal year, (iv) the total
bonus and other incentive compensation for
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