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Exhibit
10.1
Seagate Contract Number
64223
ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
This Asset Purchase Agreement
(the “Agreement”) is effective as of August 13,
2007, (“Effective Date”) by and between ST. BERNARD
SOFTWARE, INC. , a Delaware corporation (“SBS”),
located at 15015 Avenue of Science, San Diego, California 92128 and
EVAULT, INC. (“Buyer”), a Delaware corporation
located at 6121 Hollis Street, Emeryville, California 94608 (each a
“Party” and collectively the
“Parties”).
RECITALS
A. SBS is engaged in the
business of the development of backup software applications and
utilities (the “Business”). SBS has developed and is
the owner of the Product (as defined herein).
B. Buyer desires to purchase
and acquire certain assets, properties and contractual rights of
SBS used in connection with the Business, and SBS desires to sell,
transfer, assign and convey such assets, properties and contractual
rights to Buyer.
In consideration of the
mutual promises contained herein and intending to be legally bound,
the Parties agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Product or
Products . “Product” or “Products”
means SBS’ Open File Manager software application and
SBS’ Continuous Data Protection software application and any
and all derivative product technologies related thereto, including,
without limitation, all other software, programs, applications,
modules and components thereof, in all forms, including the Source
Code, Object Code, all related documentation, all prior and current
versions, improvements, enhancements, upgrades, corrections,
additions, modifications, replacements, and new applications to any
of the foregoing (including, for avoidance of doubt, DeploySafe and
MARS); and all Intellectual Property Rights in any of the
foregoing. In no event shall “Product” include
SBS’ on-demand service, iPrism and/or ePrism products, nor
any open source materials or software included in or used with the
Product. To the extent that the Product contains code that is also
included in other SBS products relating to non-core functionality,
such as for license key generation and other administrative
functions associated with use of the Product, notwithstanding any
provision in this Agreement to the contrary, SBS retains all
Intellectual Property Rights to such code and grants to Buyer a
perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to continue to use,
distribute, and make derivative copies of such code as part of the
Product.
1.2 Intellectual
Property Rights . “Intellectual Property
Rights” means all of the following in any jurisdiction
throughout the world, whether or not filed, perfected, registered
or recorded and whether now or hereafter existing, filed, issued or
acquired: (i) any and all United States, international and
foreign patents and/or patent applications which may be granted on
or claim priority of (or serve as the basis for a priority claim
by) and all reissues, divisions, renewals, extensions,
provisionals, continuations and continuations-in-part thereof,
together with all priority rights and counterpart applications
under any existing or future international patent conventions,
agreements or treaties; (ii) all inventions (whether
patentable or not), invention disclosures, improvements, trade
secrets, proprietary information, know-how, technology, technical
information, data and customer lists, engineering procedures and
all documentation relating to any of the foregoing; (iii) all
trademarks, service marks and trade names, domain names and
registrations and applications therefor, and all other rights
corresponding thereto throughout the world; (iv) all
copyrights, copyrights registrations and applications therefor, and
all other rights corresponding thereto throughout the world;
(v) all industrial designs and any registrations and
applications therefor throughout the world; (vi) all software,
including but not limited to Source Code; (vii) all works of
authorship, databases and data collections and all rights therein
throughout the world; and (viii) any similar or equivalent
rights to any of the foregoing anywhere in the world, together with
the goodwill and the business appurtenant thereto and the right to
sue third parties for infringement (including but not limited to
damages and injunctive relief) of any of the foregoing, and any
current or future right to receive royalties based on any of the
foregoing, whether choate or inchoate, known or unknown, contingent
or non-contingent.
1.3 SBS Intellectual
Property Rights . “SBS Intellectual Property
Rights” means all Intellectual Property Rights owned or used
by SBS that are related to, or used in connection with, the
Products.
1.4 SBS Materials
. “SBS Materials” means (i) any application
program interface, assemblers, compilers and other authoring tools
created by SBS or owned by SBS and necessary to modify the Product
as well as any development tools created by SBS or owned by SBS and
used in the development of the Product, including all comments, in
text and machine readable form, (ii) documentation for the
Product, including user manuals, installation guides, marketing
materials, product awards, Customer references, competitive
analyses, sales training materials, white-papers, tech-notes, help
files and marketing collateral, architectural and design
documentation, in SBS’ possession and reasonably necessary or
helpful in connection with development, support, marketing or sales
of the Product, (iii) know-how related to the use and
modification of the Source Code as reflected in such materials,
(iv) software tools, data test scripts, test plans, automated
test tools, designs and results that SBS currently uses in
connection with development or support of the Product,
(v) SBS’ interest in any software licenses related to
the Product, (vi) Source Code; (vii) Customer Relations
Materials; and (viii) Electronic Materials.
1.5 Customer Relations
Materials . “Customer Relations Materials”
means any data (whether in physical or electronic format) regarding
past, existing, or potential customers for the Product, including
but not limited to information maintained in any lead generation or
customer relationship management systems of SBS.
1.6 Electronic
Materials . “Electronic Materials” means
any electronic data, databases, or content used in the promotion of
the Product or in distribution and optimization of the
Product.
1.7 Code
. “Code” means computer programming code,
including both Object Code and Source Code.
1.8 Object Code
. “Object Code” means Code in binary form, and
includes header files of the type necessary for use or
interoperation with other computer programs. It is directly
executable by a computer or other electronic device after
processing or linking, but without compilation or assembly. Object
Code is all computer programming code other than Source
Code.
1.9 Source Code
. “Source Code” means Code in a form which when
printed out or displayed is readable and understandable by a
programmer of ordinary skills. It also includes related source code
level system documentation, comments and procedural code. Source
Code does not include Object Code.
1.10 Open Source
Materials . “Open Source Materials”
means all software or other material that is distributed as
“free software,” “open source software” or
under similar licensing or distribution terms (including but not
limited to the GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General
Public License (LGPL), Mozilla Public License (MPL), BSD licenses,
the Netscape Public License, the Sun Community Source License
(SCSL), the Sun Industry Standards License (SISL) and the Apache
License).
1.11 Encumbrance
. “Encumbrance” means, with respect to any asset,
any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, charge, security
interest, title retention device, collateral assignment, adverse
claim, restriction or other encumbrance of any kind (other than
licenses made in the ordinary course of business consistent with
its past practices) in respect of such asset (including any
restriction on the voting of any security, any restriction on the
transfer of any security or other asset, any restriction on the
receipt of any income derived from any asset, any restriction on
the use of any asset and any restriction on the possession,
exercise or transfer of any other attribute of ownership of any
asset).
1.12 Knowledge
. “Knowledge” means, with respect to any Party, the
actual knowledge of persons responsible for the relevant subject
matter for such Party and the knowledge that any person who is in a
management or executive position with such Party would have
assuming due inquiry, given their respective role, into the facts
related to such matters.
ARTICLE 2.
ASSET SALE, ASSIGNMENT OF
CUSTOMER BASE & LICENSE
2.1 Assets .
Effective as of the Closing, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement, SBS sells, transfers, irrevocably assigns and
delivers to Buyer, and Buyer purchases from SBS, free and clear of
any Encumbrances, all of SBS’ right, title, and interest
worldwide in and to (i) the Product, (ii) the Assumed
Contracts (defined below), (iii) the SBS Materials,
(iv) all SBS Intellectual Property Rights, (v) all claims
of SBS against third parties relating to the Purchased Assets,
whether choate or inchoate, known or unknown, contingent or
noncontingent, (vi) all data and information that is collected
from, or on behalf of, customers of SBS who are party to the
Assumed Contracts (the “Customer Base”), the OEM
Partners and any Lead, including to the extent that receipt of such
information would not violate any applicable Law, (vii) all
routing and billing information and components used in connection
with the Assumed Contracts, and (viii) all other tangible or
intangible asset of SBS used in the Business and necessary for the
operation or use of the Product (collectively the “Purchased
Assets”). The Purchased Assets are set forth on Schedule 2.1
hereto. If any moral rights in the Product cannot (as a matter of
law) be assigned by SBS to Buyer as provided above, then SBS waives
the enforcement of such moral rights and all claims and causes of
action of any kind against Buyer with respect to such moral rights.
SBS shall deliver or make available to Buyer the SBS Materials
promptly following the Effective Date, and no event later than five
(5) days following the Closing Date. No ownership rights are
granted with respect to any SBS trademarks not related to the
Product that may be embedded in the Product or the SBS Materials,
including trademarks relating to SBS’ on-demand services,
iPrism and ePrism products (“Non-product Marks”). SBS
hereby grants to Buyer a perpetual, royalty free license to the
Non-product Marks solely to allow Buyer to continue to use,
distribute, copy, sublicense, and produce the Product with the
Non-product Marks embedded.
2.2 Liabilities
. Buyer will assume and agrees to pay, perform and discharge
all obligations and liabilities of SBS arising under the Assumed
Contracts after the Closing Date (the “Assumed
Liabilities”), other than (i) any liability or
obligation to the extent relating to or arising from any breach, or
event, circumstance or condition that with notice, lapse of time or
both would constitute or result in a breach, by SBS prior to the
Closing Date of any of its obligations thereunder, (ii) any
warranty claims of customers relating to sales of the Product prior
to the Closing Date, and (iii) any obligation or liability of
SBS under any Assumed Contract other than the obligation to deliver
software support and maintenance services that have already been
invoiced prior to the Closing Date. For the purposes of this
Agreement, “Assumed Contracts” shall mean (a) any
customer or end user license agreements that SBS has entered into
for the Product or standard end user license agreements which are
created via shrink wrap or click wrap customer acknowledgment
mechanisms relating to acceptance or installation and use of the
Product created in the ordinary course of business in connection
with SBS’ acceptance and fulfillment of orders for the
Product; (b) any customer or end user license agreements that
are not listed on Schedule 2.1 that Buyer, in its sole
discretion, assumes after the Closing Date; (c) contracts and
agreements related to the Product with Channel and OEM Partners,
excluding Aggregated Contracts but including Amended Contracts; and
(d) contracts and agreements related to the Product with OEM
Partners that are not listed on Schedule 2.1 that Buyer, in
its sole discretion, assumes after the Closing Date. All present
customers comprising the Customer Base, all present OEM partners
who distribute or sell the Products (the “OEM
Partners”), all reseller partners who have distributed or
sold the Products and all known potential customers
(“Leads”) as of the Effective Date are listed on
Schedule 2.2, and an updated list of all known Leads as of the
Closing Date will be delivered to Buyer as soon as reasonably
practicable following the Closing Date and in any event within
ninety (90) days following the Closing Date (the
“Transition Period”). Copies of any documents or
records relating to such Customer and OEM Partners (along with
originals of contracts, if available) will be delivered to Buyer as
soon as reasonably practicable following the Closing Date and in
any event prior to the expiration of the Transition Period. SBS
shall further deliver to Buyer all data about the Customer Base
that SBS maintains in its customer relationship database as soon as
reasonably practicable following the Closing Date and in any event
prior to the expiration of the Transition Period. SBS shall further
deliver all Source Code comprising any portion of the SBS
Intellectual Property
to Buyer, in a format as may be
reasonably requested by Buyer, within two (2) business days
following the Closing Date. Immediately following the transfer to
Buyer of all of the Purchase Assets described in Section 2.1
and this Section 2.2, SBS shall deliver to Buyer or destroy
copies of Purchase Assets in SBS’s possession that are in
addition to copies delivered to Buyer as part of the Closing or
during the Transition Period, whether such copies are in paper
form, on computer media or stored in another form; provided,
however, that SBS may retain and use copies of financial books and
records relating to the activities associates with the Purchased
Assets prior to the Closing. Except for the Assumed Liabilities,
Buyer will not assume, agree to pay, perform or discharge or in any
way be responsible for any debts (including interest and/or
penalties thereon), liabilities or obligations of SBS of any kind
or nature whatsoever, whether fixed or unfixed, known or unknown,
absolute or contingent, asserted or unasserted, choate or inchoate,
liquidated or unliquidated, or secured or unsecured (the
“Excluded Liabilities”). The Excluded Liabilities shall
include, without limitation, (i) any liabilities or
obligations (whether assessed or unassessed) of SBS for Taxes
arising by reason of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, (ii) any liabilities or obligations of SBS related
to use and sales taxes due with regard to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement, and (iii) any and all
obligations of SBS related to the employment, termination or
compensation of any employee, consultant or service provider of
SBS, including but not limited to, any taxes or employment
withholding obligations, compensation or benefits claims or
workers’ compensation benefits.
ARTICLE 3.
LICENSE
Buyer grants to SBS a
perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to continue the
use of SBS’ Open File Manager software as used on SBS servers
and personal computers as of the date hereof; provided that this
license shall not extend to more than 20 licenses. Buyer shall have
no obligation to SBS to provide maintenance services with respect
to the SBS’ File Manager software.
ARTICLE 4.
SUPPORT AND
TRAINING
4.1 Support .
SBS is responsible for supporting the Product and the Customer Base
from the Effective Date through the Closing Date at no cost to
Buyer. SBS shall continue to operate the business related to the
Product and Customer Base, and to support the Product and Customer
Base, in the same manner that it provided such support in the year
prior to the Effective Date.
4.1.1 After the Closing Date,
SBS shall provide links to Buyer’s website for the Product on
SBS’ website for a period of twelve (12) months
following the Closing Date. As of the Effective Date, SBS shall
refer (via a communication mechanism to be mutually agreed upon)
all Product inquiries to Buyer. SBS shall further terminate any
Product marketing efforts as of the Effective Date, to the extent
terminable, or shall implement procedures for referring Product
specific leads received by SBS after such date to Buyer.
4.1.2 Prior to the Closing
Date, SBS shall not invoice for new renewals on SBS form invoices
other than those renewals set forth on Schedule 4.1.2 hereto prior
to the Closing Date.
ARTICLE 5.
CONSIDERATION; POST
CLOSING PAYMENTS
5.1 Purchase Price
. In consideration of for the sale to Buyer of the Purchased
Assets, Buyer shall assume the Assumed Liabilities and pay to SBS
six million eight hundred seventy five thousand dollars
($6,875,000) (the “Purchase Price”), which shall
consist of (i) six million, three hundred seventy five
thousand dollars ($6,375,000) (the “Closing
Consideration”) to be paid to SBS at the Closing in cash by
wire transfer of immediately available funds and (ii) five
hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) (the “Holdback
Amount”) to be paid to SBS subject to the provisions of
Article 8 hereof.
5.2 Taxes . SBS
shall be responsible for paying, shall promptly discharge when due,
and shall reimburse, indemnify and hold harmless Buyer and any
Buyer subsidiary from, any sales or use, transfer, real property
gains, excise, stamp or other Taxes which are in the nature of
sales, use or property Tax resulting from the sale of Purchased
Assets and the assumption of the Assumed Liabilities contemplated
by this Agreement. Upon the request of SBS, Buyer shall provide
reasonable cooperation to SBS in enabling SBS to claim any
available exemptions from federal, foreign, state and local sales,
use, and value-added Taxes that could result from the sale of
Purchased Assets contemplated hereunder; provided, however, that
nothing in the foregoing shall require Buyer or any Buyer
subsidiary to discharge such Taxes unless Buyer or such Buyer
subsidiary is reimbursed contemporaneously with the discharge of
any such Taxes. Buyer and SBS agree to cooperate to the extent
commercially reasonable and legally permitted to minimize any
transfer Taxes. For purposes of complying with the requirements of
Section 1060 of the Code, the total consideration for the
Purchased Assets, as determined for Tax purposes, shall be
allocated among the Purchased Assets in accordance with fair market
value of the Purchased Assets as provided in the purchase price
allocation schedule to be prepared jointly by the parties within 30
to 60 days post Closing (the “Purchase Price Allocation
Schedule”). Each of Buyer and SBS agrees to prepare its
federal, state and foreign income Tax Returns for all current and
future tax reporting periods and file Form 8594 (and corresponding
state forms) with respect to transfer of the Assets to Buyer in a
manner consistent with such allocation. If any state, federal or
foreign taxing authority challenges such allocation, the party
receiving notice of such challenge shall give the other prompt
written notice of such challenge, and the parties shall cooperate
in good faith in responding to it in order to preserve the
effectiveness of the allocation. Buyer shall be entitled to deduct
and withhold from any payment made under this Agreement such
amounts as may be required to be deducted and withheld under the
Tax Laws of the United States, any state, or any political
subdivision of either. To the extent amounts are so withheld and
paid to any appropriate taxing authority, Buyer shall be treated as
though it had paid that amount directly to the party entitled to
receive such payment.
5.3 Post Closing
Payments .
5.3.1 OEM Revenue Paid
to SBS Following the Closing . Following the Closing Date,
SBS will pay to Buyer, within five (5) Business Days following
the end of the calendar quarter in which the Closing occurs, the
Pro Rata Portion (as defined below) of the revenue received by SBS
during such calendar period pursuant to those OEM contracts set
forth on Schedule 2.1 hereto that is attributable to the period of
such calendar quarter (the “OEM Revenue Payment”). For
purposes of this Section 5.3.1, “Pro Rata Portion”
shall be calculated as a fraction, the numerator of which is the
number of days that elapse between the Closing Date and the last
day (including the last day) of the calendar period in which the
Closing takes place and the denominator of which is the total
number of days in such calendar period.
5.3.2 Reimbursement of
Selling Costs Related to OEM Revenue . SBS shall be
entitled to deduct and retain from the OEM Revenue Payment made to
Buyer pursuant to Section 5.3.1 above, an amount to compensate
SBS for Buyer’s portion of the selling costs related to the
OEM Revenue Payment received by Buyer pursuant to
Section 5.3.1 above during the calendar quarter in which the
Closing occurs pursuant to those OEM contracts set forth on
Schedule 2.1 hereto equal to the Reimbursement Payment (as defined
below). For purposes of this Section 5.3.2, the
“Reimbursement Payment” shall be an amount equal to 25%
multiplied by the each OEM Revenue Payment; provided,
however, that the aggregate of all Reimbursement Payments hereunder
shall not exceed $62,500.
5.3.3 Software
Maintenance Fees Collected by SBS . Following the Closing
Date, SBS will pay to Buyer, within five (5) Business Days
following the end of each calendar month following the Closing
Date, seventy percent (70%) of all software maintenance fees
collected by SBS pursuant to any Assigned Contract for any
maintenance renewals that start after the Closing Date but that
were pre-billed by SBS on or prior to the Closing Date, including
but not limited to, those pre-bill amounts set forth on Schedule
5.3.3 hereto.
5.3.4 Inspection of
Records . The recipient of any payment to be made
pursuant to Section 5.3.1, 5.3.2 and 5.3.3 above shall be
given all such access as they may reasonably require during the
payor’s normal business hours (or such other times as the
parties may agree) to those books and records of the payor in the
possession of, and/or under the control of, the payor, and access
to such personnel or representatives of the payor as they may
reasonably require for the purposes of resolving any disputes or
responding to any matters or inquiries raised concerning the amount
of such payments.
ARTICLE 6.
CLOSING; CONDITIONS TO
CLOSING; TERMINATION
6.1 Closing Date
. The closing of the transactions contemplated hereby (the
“Closing”) shall take place at the offices of Heller
Ehrman LLP, 275 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 on
the earliest practicable business day (the “Closing
Date”) after the satisfaction or waiver of the Closing
conditions set forth in Section 6.2 hereof or at such other
place and time as the Parties may mutually determine.
6.2 Conditions to
Closing .
6.2.1 Conditions to
Obligation of Buyer . Buyer’s obligation to purchase the
Purchased Assets and to take the other actions required to be taken
by Buyer at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or
before the Closing, of each of the following conditions (any of
which may be waived by Buyer, in its sole discretion, in whole or
in part):
(a) Buyer shall have received
a certificate of the Chief Executive Officer of SBS dated as of the
Closing Date certifying that (i) the representations and
warranties set forth in Section 7.2 of this Agreement,
individually and collectively, must have been accurate in all
material respects as of the Effective Time and must be accurate in
all material respects as of the Closing Date as if made on the
Closing Date, (ii) SBS has performed and complied in all
material respect with all of its agreements, covenants and
conditions required by this Agreement to be performed or complied
with by it prior to or at the Closing, and (iii) no legal
proceeding has been commenced or threatened involving any challenge
to, or seeking damages or other relied in connection with any of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or that questions
the validity of the Intellectual Property or with respect to the
Product.
(b) SBS shall have executed
and delivered to Buyer the bill of sale in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit A (“Bill of Sale”) with such changes
as Buyer and SBS shall mutually agree;
(c) Buyer shall have received
a certificate of the Secretary of SBS dated as of the Closing Date
certifying that (i) SBS’s certificate of incorporation,
(ii) SBS’s Bylaws, and (iii) the board resolutions
of SBS approving the Agreement and the transactions contemplated
hereby are true, correct and complete and have been duly authorized
by SBS’s board of directors.
(d) A certificate of good
standing of SBS from the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware dated as of three business days prior to the Closing
Date.
(e) Buyer shall have received
evidence satisfactory to Buyer that all Encumbrances of record or
that are otherwise known to SBS to which any of the Purchased
Assets are subject or by which any of the Purchased Assets are
bound shall have been removed. „!
(f) (i) Buyer shall have
received an executed employment offer letter (including, without
limitation, the related Confidentiality and Assignment of
Inventions Agreement) from each person identified on Schedule
6.2.1(f) hereto , and (ii) SBS shall have delivered to
Buyer copies of employment resignation letters from each person
identified on Schedule 6.2.1(f) hereto pursuant to which
each such person resigns his or her employment with SBS effective
immediately prior to the Closing.
(g) SBS must have delivered
to Buyer in form reasonably acceptable to Buyer, all other such
certificates, instruments or documents as required by this
Agreement.
(h) SBS shall have executed
and delivered to Buyer the transitional services agreement in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Transitional
Services Agreement”), with such changes as Buyer and SBS
shall mutually agree.
(i) SBS shall have executed
and delivered to Buyer the intellectual property assignment
agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C
.
(j) There shall not be
pending any claim, suit, arbitration or other adversarial
proceeding before any court, agency, arbitral tribunal, or
registration authority in any jurisdiction either alleging that the
use of the Products or the SBS Intellectual Property Rights
infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any third party, or
challenging the ownership, use, validity, enforceability or
registrability of any SBS Intellectual Property Rights.
6.2.2 Conditions to
Obligation of SBS . SBS’s obligation to sell the
Purchased Assets and to take the other actions required to be taken
by SBS at the Closing is subject to (i) the payment at the
Closing of the Closing Consideration by Buyer to SBS in accordance
with the wiring instructions provided to Buyer by SBS not less than
two (2) business days prior to the Closing, and
(ii) SBS’s receipt of the Transitional Services
Agreement duly executed by Buyer.
6.3 Termination
. This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to the
Closing: (i) by mutual written consent of Buyer and SBS,
(ii) by Buyer and SBS if, without fault of the terminating
party, the Closing shall not have occurred on or before
August 31, 2007, (iii) by Buyer, if SBS shall be in
material breach of its representations, warranties, covenants or
agreements set forth in this Agreement, which breach is not cured
by the party in breach within 10 calendar days following receipt of
written notice of such breach or failure to perform from Buyer,
(iv) by Buyer or SBS if any governmental entity shall have a
final nonappealable order or injunction restraining, enjoining or
otherwise prohibiting the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, provided that such right of termination shall not be
available to any party if such party shall have failed to take
reasonable efforts to prevent or contest the imposition of such
order or injunction, (v) by Buyer, if Buyer concludes in good
faith that it is reasonably likely that the satisfaction of any of
the conditions set forth in Section 6.2.1 is or has become
impossible and Buyer has not waived such condition or (vi) by
Buyer if there is pending any claim, suit, arbitration or other
adversarial proceeding before any court, agency, arbitral tribunal,
or registration authority in any jurisdiction either alleging that
the use of the Products or the SBS Intellectual Property Rights
infringe any Intellectual Property Rights of any third party, or
challenging the ownership, use, validity, enforceability or
registrability of any SBS Intellectual Property Rights. In the
event of termination of this Agreement by any Party pursuant to
this Section 6.3, written notice thereof shall be given to
each other party specifying the provision hereof pursuant to which
such termination is made and, except for those terms of this
Agreement which expressly survive such a termination, this
Agreement shall forthwith become void.
ARTICLE 7.
WARRANTIES AND OTHER
COVENANTS
7.1 Representations and
Warranties of Buyer . Buyer represents and warrants to SBS
:
7.1.1 Buyer is a corporation
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State
of Delaware;
7.1.2 The execution, delivery
and performance by Buyer of this Agreement and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by
all necessary action on the part of Buyer and do not violate any
provisions of its organizational documents, any applicable
regulation or any contract or order binding upon it; and
7.1.3 This Agreement
constitutes a valid and binding agreement of Buyer enforceable
against Buyer in accordance with its terms, except as may be
limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws and equitable principles relating to or limiting
creditors’ rights generally.
7.2 Representations And
Warranties Of SBS . Except as otherwise indicated in a
numbers and letters disclosure schedule (the “Disclosure
Schedule”) corresponding to the numbered and lettered
sections contained herein, SBS represents and warrants to Buyer
that:
7.2.1 SBS is a corporation
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the
laws of the state of Delaware. SBS has all requisite corporate
power and authority to own, operate, lease, transfer and dispose of
the Purchased Assets and to conduct the Business, to execute and
deliver this Agreements and the agreements attached as exhibits
hereto and to perform its obligations hereunder. SBS is not in
violation of its certificate of incorporation or by-laws. SBS has
provided true correct and complete copies of SBS’s
certificate of incorporation and by-laws.
7.2.2 The execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement and the agreements attached
hereto to which SBS is a party and the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby, have been duly authorized by SBS. This
Agreement and the agreements attached hereto to which SBS is a
party, constitutes or when executed will constitute, legal, valid
and binding obligations of SBS, enforceable in accordance with
their respective terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws and
equitable principles relating to or limiting creditors’
rights generally. No consent of the stockholders of SBS is required
for SBS to enter into this Agreement and/or to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery by SBS
of this Agreement and the agreements attached hereto to which SBS
is a party, and the fulfillment of and compliance with the
respective terms hereof, and thereof do not and shall not
(i) conflict with or result in a breach of the terms,
conditions or provisions of, (ii) constitute a default under,
(iii) result in the creation of any Encumbrance upon any of
the Purchased Assets pursuant to, (iv) give any third party
the right to modify, terminate or accelerate any obligation under,
(v) result in a violation of, or (vi) require any
exemption or other action by or notice or declaration to, or filing
with, or other consent from, any governmental entity or any other
Person pursuant to, the charter or by-laws, or similar
organizational documents, of SBS, or any legal requirement to which
SBS or any of its assets or properties is subject, or any contract,
order, judgment or decree to which any of the foregoing Persons or
the Product is subject.
7.2.3 SBS owns and possesses
all right, free and marketable title and interest in and to all of
the Purchased Assets, free and clear from any Encumbrances, liens
and claims. There are no (i) liens for taxes not yet due, or
(ii) imperfections of title that might interfere with
Buyer’s use of the Purchased Assets. Following the Closing,
Buyer will have good and marketable title to, free of any liens or
Encumbrances, all of the Purchased Assets. All of the Purchased
Assets are in good operating condition and repair as required for
their use in the Business, normal wear and tear excepted. The
Product consists entirely of material (i) which was created as
a work for hire (as defined under U.S. copyright law) by a person
or persons who were at the time of creation the regular, full-time,
salaried employees of SBS, the copyright in which is now owned by
SBS; or (ii) the copyright ownership of which was fully and
irrevocably transferred to SBS pursuant to a written agreement
executed by the author or authors. Except as set forth in the
Assumed Contracts and the agreements listed on Schedule 7.2.3, SBS
has not sold, licensed, or leased the Product or SBS Intellectual
Property Rights therein to any third party. The Product is not
subject to any restrictions or limitations (including any orders,
judgments, decrees, stipulations, or settlement agreements)
regarding ownership, use, or enforcement.
7.2.4 Schedule
7.2.
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