Exhibit 10.1
ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is made as of the 2nd day
of July 2008
BETWEEN :
Constellation
Homebuilder Systems Inc. , a corporation incorporated under the
laws of the State of Delaware (“ CHS USA ”)
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Constellation
Homebuilder Systems, Corp., a corporation incorporated under
the laws of the Province of Ontario (“ CHS Canada
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(CHS USA and CHS Canada
are referred to collectively as the “ Purchaser
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- and -
Carbiz Inc. a
corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario
(“ Vendor ”).
WHEREAS:
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the Vendor carries on the business of software
development and marketing; and
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the Vendor desires to sell and CHS USA desires
to purchase certain of the assets of the Vendor pertaining to the
Purchased Business (as hereafter defined) upon and subject to the
terms and conditions hereinafter set forth; and
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the Vendor desires to sell and CHS Canada
desires to purchase the Software and Intellectual Property (as
hereafter defined) upon and subject to the terms and conditions
hereinafter set forth;
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NOW THEREFORE , in consideration of the
premises and the covenants and agreements herein contained, and
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency
of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
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INTERPRETATION
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Definitions . In this Agreement,
unless something in the subject matter or context is inconsistent
therewith:
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“ Accounts Payable ” means
the accounts payable and accrued expenses of the Purchased Business
on the Closing Date.
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“ Agreement ” means this
agreement and all schedules and exhibits hereto and all amendments
made hereto and thereto by written agreement between the Vendor and
the Purchaser.
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“ Assets ” means the assets
and undertakings referred to or described in Sections 2.1 and
2.2.
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“ Assumed Liabilities ” means
the prepaid software support and unfilled orders of the Purchased
Business.
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“ Benefit Plan ” means any
plan, program, policy, practice, contract, agreement or other
arrangement providing for compensation, severance, termination pay,
deferred compensation, performance awards, stock or stock-related
awards, fringe benefits or other employee benefits or remuneration
of any kind, whether written or unwritten or otherwise, funded or
unfunded, including, without limitation, each “employee
benefit plan”, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) which is
maintained, contributed to, or required to be contributed to, by
the Vendor or any affiliate of the Vendor for the benefit of any
Employee, or with respect to which the Vendor or any affiliate of
the Vendor has or may have any liability or obligation.
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“ Business Day ” means a day
other than a Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday in the State of
Florida, USA.
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“ Claims ” means all losses,
damages, expenses, liabilities (whether accrued, actual,
contingent, latent or otherwise), claims and demands of whatever
nature or kind including, without limitation, all legal fees and
costs on a solicitor and client basis, but excluding consequential,
indirect, exemplary, punitive damages or any damages measured by
lost profits or a multiple of earnings.
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“ Closing Date ” means July
2, 2008 or such other date as may be agreed to in writing between
the Vendor and the Purchaser.
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“ Closing Date Balance Sheet
” has the meaning set out in Section 2.7(b).
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“ Contracts ” means any
contract, agreement, entitlement, commitment or license by which
the Purchased Business is bound including, without limitation, all
licenses, support and maintenance contracts applicable to the
Software.
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“ Deferred Revenue ” means
any deferred or prepaid revenue of the Purchased Business as of the
Closing Date.
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“ Disclosure Schedule ” means
the list, set out in Schedule D, of exceptions to the
Warrantor’s representations and warranties.
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“ Effective Date ” means July
2, 2008.
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“ Employees ” means those
employees listed on Schedule G who are currently employed by the
Vendor in the Purchased Business.
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“ Excluded Assets ” means the
property and assets described in Section 2.3.
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“ Financial Statements ” has
the meaning set out in Section 3.1(g)(i).
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“ GAAP ” means generally
accepted accounting principles as defined by the American Institute
of Certified Accountants applied in a consistent manner.
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“ Holdback Release Date ”
means the date ninety (90) days from the Closing Date.
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“ Intellectual Property ” has
the meaning set out in Section 2.1(b).
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“ Interim Date ” means March
31, 2008.
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“ Leases ” means all leases
or agreements in the nature of a lease and any interest therein,
whether of real or personal property, to which the Vendor or any of
its affiliates is a party, whether as lessor or lessee.
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“ Letter of Intent ” means
the letter of intent to enter into an agreement between the Vendor
and the Purchaser, dated May 30, 2008.
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“ Lien ” includes any
security interest, mortgage, encumbrance, option, lien or charge of
any kind, including any limitation on transfer, use, receipt of
income or other exercise of any attributes of ownership of the
Assets, and includes a license for use or possession of the
Assets.
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“ Permitted Liens ” means (i)
mechanics’, materialmens’, carriers’,
workmens’, repairmens’, contractors’ and
warehousemens’ Liens arising or incurred in the ordinary
course of business and for amounts which are not delinquent and
which would not, individually, result in a material adverse effect
on the Purchased Business, and (ii) Liens for taxes not yet due and
payable or which are being contested in good faith by the Vendor or
the Warrantor and for which reasonable reserves have been
established.
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“ Principals ” (or “
Principal ” as the case may be) means the officers and
the individual members of the Board of Directors of the Vendor.
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“ Purchase Price ” has the
meaning set out in Section 2.4.
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“ Purchased Business ” means
the business of developing, marketing, licensing and supporting the
Software as presently and previously carried on by the Vendor and
to be sold to the Purchaser hereunder.
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“ Software ” means the
computer programs known by the names as set out in Schedule C,
including all versions thereof, and all related documentation,
manuals, source code and object code, program files, data files,
computer related data, field and data definitions and
relationships, data definition specifications, data models, program
and system logic, interfaces, program modules, routines,
sub-routines, algorithms, program architecture, design concepts,
system designs, program structure, sequence and organization,
screen displays and report layouts, and all other material related
to the said computer programs, all as they exist at the Time of
Closing, whether under development or as currently being marketed
by the Vendor.
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“ Tangible Assets ” means the
following Assets of the Purchased Business: accounts receivable,
net fixed assets, licenses for third party software, bankers forms
agreement, and inventory.
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“ Tangible Net Assets ” means
the book value of the Tangible Assets less the book value of the
Assumed Liabilities, determined in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied, as of the Closing Date.
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“ Third Party Programs ” has
the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(j)(iv).
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“ Time of Closing ” means
4:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on the Closing Date.
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“ Warrantor ” means the
Vendor, including its successors and permitted assigns.
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Extended Meanings . In this
Agreement words importing any gender include all genders and words
importing persons include individuals, partnerships, associations,
trusts, unincorporated organizations and corporations.
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Accounting Principles . Wherever
in this Agreement reference is made to a calculation to be made or
an action to be taken in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles or GAAP, such reference will be deemed to be
to the generally accepted accounting principles from time to time
approved by the American Institute of Chartered Accountants, or any
successor institute, applicable as at the date on which such
calculation or action is made or taken or required to be made or
taken in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles.
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Currency . All references to
currency herein are to lawful money of the United States.
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Schedules . The following are the
Schedules attached hereto and incorporated by reference and deemed
to be part hereof:
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Schedule A - Financial
Statements
Schedule B - Computer and Other Equipment
Schedule C - Software and Intellectual Property
Schedule D - Disclosure Schedule
Schedule E - Employee and Contractor Agreements
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Schedule F -
Inventory
Schedule G - List of Transferred Employees
Schedule H - Assumed Contracts
Schedule I - Assumed Liabilities
Schedule J - Accounts Receivable
Schedule K - Form of Employment Agreement
Schedule L - Unfilled Orders
Schedule M - Software Maintenance and Support Revenue
Schedule N - Template Tangible Net Asset (TNA) Calculation
Schedule O – not used
Schedule P - Purchase Price Allocation
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SALE AND PURCHASE
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Purchase and Sale of Software and
Intellectual Property .
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Upon and subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, the Vendor will sell, assign and transfer in perpetuity to
CHS Canada free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens,
and CHS Canada will purchase:
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the Software and all intellectual property
rights worldwide in the Software; and
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all intellectual property owned or purported to
be owned by the Vendor, to the extent used in the Purchased
Business, and used or currently being developed for use by the
Vendor in the Purchased Business and all rights of the Vendor
therein, worldwide, whether registered or unregistered (the “
Intellectual Property ”), including without limitation
in each case to the extent used in the Purchased Business:
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Copyrights - copyrights owned or
purported to be owned by the Vendor, including, without limitation,
all copyrights in and to the computer software programs listed in
Schedule C, including the Software and all applications and
registrations of such copyrights;
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Trade-marks; Domain Names - trade-marks,
trade-names, service marks, brand names, logos, domain names or the
like owned or purported to be owned by the Vendor, whether used in
association with wares or services, including, without limitation,
those trade-marks listed in Schedule C and all applications,
registrations, renewals, modifications and extensions of such
trade-marks and domain names;
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Patents - patents, patent applications
and other patent rights, if any, of the Vendor related to the
Software;
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Technology - technology created,
developed or acquired by the Vendor whether or not patented or
patentable and whether or not fixed in any medium whatsoever,
including, without limitation, all inventions, know how,
techniques, processes, procedures, methods, trade secrets,
research
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and technical data, records, formulae, designs,
industrial designs, sketches, patterns, databases, specifications,
schematics, blue prints, flow charts or sheets, equipment and parts
lists and descriptions, samples, reports, studies, findings,
algorithms, instructions, guides, manuals, and plans for new or
revised products and/or services; and
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Licenses - licenses, sub-licenses and
franchises related to the Vendor in which the Vendor is a licensee
or a licensor of intellectual property of a nature described in
paragraphs (i) - (iv) above.
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Purchase and Sale of Other Assets
. Upon and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Vendor
will sell, assign and transfer to CHS USA free and clear of all
Liens, other than Permitted Liens, and CHS USA will purchase from
the Vendor as a going concern, as of and with effect from the
opening of business on the Effective Date, the following
assets:
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Computer and Other Equipment - all
computer and other equipment and accessories and supplies of all
kinds which are specifically listed on Schedule B;
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Contracts, Agreements - the full benefit
of all unfilled orders received by the Vendor in connection with
the Purchased Business, the specifics of which are listed in
Schedule L hereto, and all right, title and interest of the Vendor
in, to and under all Contracts listed on Schedule H attached
hereto;;
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Work in Process - all work in process
relating to the Purchased Business;
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Prepaid Expenses - all prepaid expenses
and deposits pertaining to the Purchased Business;
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Inventory - any inventory listed on
Schedule F;
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Loans/Advances - all loans and advances
made by the Vendor to suppliers of the Vendor pertaining to the
Purchased Business;
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Warranty Rights - the full benefit of all
representations, warranties, guarantees, indemnities, undertakings,
certificates, covenants, agreements and the like and all security
therefore received by the Vendor on the purchase or other
acquisition of any part of the Assets;
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Records - all books, records or files
relating to the Purchased Business including, without limitation,
all financial, production, personnel, sales and customer records
(except to the extent any of the foregoing are or relate to
Excluded Assets);
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Accounts Receivable - all accounts
receivable (net of any required allowance for doubtful accounts),
trade accounts, notes receivable, book debts and other debts due or
accruing due to the Vendor in connection with the Purchased
Business
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(except to the extent
any of the foregoing are or relate to Excluded Assets), all of
which are listed in Schedule J hereto.
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Excluded Assets . There shall be
specifically excluded from the purchase and sale of the Purchased
Business the following:
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life insurance proceeds receivable in respect of
the life of any Principal;
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income taxes refundable and all refundable sales
taxes, excise taxes, municipal taxes and like taxes and interest
thereon refundable to the Vendor on account of the Purchased
Business in respect of any period ending prior to the Effective
Date;
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all notes receivable, or other debts due or
accruing due to the Vendor from any Principal;
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all cash, term or time deposits owned or held by
or for the account of the Vendor on account of the Purchased
Business;
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all books and records relating to the Excluded
Assets and the corporate charter, taxpayer and other identification
numbers, seals, minute books, unit transfer records and other
documents related to the organization, maintenance and existence of
the Vendor as a legal entity;
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all of the Vendor’s rights under this
Agreement;
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all financial statements, tax returns and other
tax records and related information of the Vendor;
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all rights, duties and obligations of the Vendor
in and to any Leases;
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all insurance policies owned and maintained by
the Vendor and all rights thereunder; and
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all claims of the Vendor against third parties
related to the Excluded Assets, whether choate or inchoate, known
or unknown, contingent or noncontingent.
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Purchase Price and Allocation
Thereof . The purchase price payable by the Purchaser to
the Vendor for the Assets (such amount being hereinafter referred
to as the “ Purchase Price ”) will be
$2,700,000, subject to any adjustment under Sections 2.5(b) and
2.7.
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Payment of Purchase Price . The
Purchase Price will be payable by the Purchaser to the Vendor by
certified cheque, bank draft or wire transfer as follows:
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$2,500,000 will be paid at the Time of
Closing;
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the balance of $200,000 (the “
Holdback ”), subject to adjustment (if any) pursuant
to the terms of Section 2.7 and any Claims by Purchaser under
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representations and
warranties, will be retained by the Purchaser and paid to the
Vendor on the Holdback Release Date.
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Determination of Amounts;
Elections . The Vendor and the Purchaser covenant and agree
with each other that the Purchase Price shall be allocated among
the Assets as set forth on Schedule P attached hereto. The Vendor
and the Purchaser agree to cooperate in the filing of such
elections under the Internal Revenue Code , and similar tax
statutes in the United States as may be necessary or desirable to
give effect to such allocation for tax purposes. The Vendor and the
Purchaser agree to prepare and file their respective tax returns in
a manner consistent with the aforesaid allocations and elections.
If either party fails to file its tax returns as aforesaid, it
shall indemnify and save harmless the other of them in respect of
any additional tax, interest, penalty and legal and/or accounting
costs paid or incurred by the other of them as a result of the
failure to file as aforesaid.
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Purchase Price Adjustment .
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The Purchase Price has been determined on the
basis that the Tangible Net Assets will have a value on July 1,
2008 of $200,000 (such value being the “ Estimated TNA
”)to be calculated consistent with the methodology set out in
Schedule N.
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Within 30 days after the Closing Date, the
Vendor shall deliver to the Purchaser a statement indicating the
value of the Tangible Net Assets of the Purchased Business as at
July 1, 2008 (such value being the “ Closing TNA
” and such statement being the “ Closing Date
Balance Sheet ”).
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The Vendor shall provide along with the Closing
Date Balance Sheet any required schedules and supporting
documentation required for the determination of the value of the
Tangible Net Assets as at July 1, 2008. The Purchaser shall work
cooperatively with the Vendor during the thirty (30) day period
following the delivery of the Closing Date Balance Sheet to verify
the amounts on the Closing Date Balance Sheet. If the Vendor or the
Purchaser have not been able to agree upon a resolution of any
related dispute within sixty (60) days of receipt by Purchaser of
the Closing Date Balance Sheet, then any such dispute shall be
resolved by an independent accounting firm (the “
Reviewing Accountant ”) selected jointly by the Vendor
and the Purchaser. If these parties cannot agree on a Reviewing
Accountant within ten (10) days, either of them may apply to a
court to have one appointed by the court. The Reviewing Accountant
shall be instructed to resolve any matters in dispute as promptly
as practicable, but in no event more than thirty (30) days after
submission. The fees of the Reviewing Accountant will be borne
equally by the Vendor and the Purchaser. The resolution of the
dispute by the Reviewing Accountant shall be final and binding on
the parties hereto.
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If the Closing Date Balance Sheet shows the
Closing TNA to be equal to or greater than the Estimated TNA (any
excess over $1 being the “ Excess ”), then the
Purchaser will pay the Vendor the Holdback together with the amount
of the
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Excess on the Holdback Release Date and the
Purchase Price will be increased by the amount of the Excess.
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If the Closing Date Balance Sheet shows the
Closing TNA is less than the Estimated TNA (the difference,
expressed as a positive number, being the “ Shortfall
”), the Purchaser will, unless the Shortfall is equal to or
greater than the Estimated TNA, pay to the Vendor the Holdback less
the amount of the Shortfall, on the Holdback Release Date, and the
Purchase Price will be reduced by the Shortfall.
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If the Shortfall is equal to or greater than the
Estimated TNA then the Purchaser shall retain the Holdback and the
Vendor shall, on the Holdback Release Date, pay to the Purchaser
the full amount of the Shortfall less the Holdback, and the
Purchase Price will be reduced by the amount of the Holdback and
the Shortfall.
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Notwithstanding Sections 2.7(c), (d) and (e),
Purchaser may withhold from payment of the Holdback an amount in
respect of a Claim under the representations and warranties of the
Vendor or any of the indemnities contained in this Agreement
provided written notice of such Claim has been given to the Vendor
in accordance with Section 4.3 of this Agreement prior to the
Holdback Release Date.
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Assumption of Obligations and
Liabilities .
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Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
CSH USA will assume, fulfill and perform only those obligations and
liabilities of the Vendor under the contracts and other commitments
specifically described in paragraph 2.2(b) hereof and listed on
Schedule H hereto which (i) initially accrue or arise after the
Closing Date; and (ii) are not the result of or caused by any
breach or default of the Vendor thereunder on or before the Closing
Date.
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Effective as of the Closing Date, CHS USA will
assume only those payables and liabilities of the Vendor set out in
the list of payables and liabilities found in Schedule I, which
list shall include the Assumed Liabilities.
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The Purchaser shall only be responsible for
liabilities and obligations arising out of or based upon the
Purchaser’s ownership and operation of the Assets from and
after the Closing Date.
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Obligations and Liabilities Not
Assumed . Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
the Purchaser does not assume and will not be liable for any
obligations or liabilities of the Vendor whatsoever, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) any taxes
under the Internal Revenue Code or any other taxes
whatsoever that may be or become payable by the Vendor, including
any income or other taxes resulting from or arising as a
consequence of the sale by the Vendor to the Purchaser of the
Assets herein contemplated, (ii) any indebtedness of the Vendor
owing to its bankers, its shareholders, or any other lender to the
Vendor, (iii) any obligations owing by the Vendor to end users of
the Software in respect of prepaid but unutilized services
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of the Vendor other than those obligations
listed in Schedule L, (iv) any obligations of the Vendor in respect
of policies of insurance on the life of any Principal, (v) any
Claims directly arising out of the conduct of the Vendor prior to
the Time of Closing, or (vi) the Accounts Payable.
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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Warrantor’s Representations and
Warranties . The Warrantor represents and warrant to the
Purchaser that:
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Corporate - The Vendor is a corporation
duly incorporated, organized and subsisting under the laws of the
Province of Ontario with the corporate power to own its assets and
to carry on its business and has made all necessary filings under
all applicable corporate, securities and taxation laws or any other
laws to which the Vendor is subject.
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Authority - The Vendor has good and
sufficient power, authority and right to enter into and deliver
this Agreement and to transfer the legal and beneficial title and
ownership of the Assets to the Purchaser free and clear of all
Liens, other than Permitted Liens, and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated under this Agreement have been duly and
validly authorized and approved by all necessary corporate action
on the part of the Vendor. No approval, order, consent or filing
with any governmental authority (including any regulatory authority
and agency) is required on the part of the Vendor in connection
with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.
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Binding Agreement - This Agreement and
all other agreements, documents and instruments to be executed by
the Vendor constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of the
Vendor, enforceable against the Vendor in accordance with their
terms subject to applicable bankruptcy and insolvency laws and to
equitable remedies being always in the discretion of a court.
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No Options - Except as expressly
listed in Section 3.1(d) of the Disclosure Schedule, there is no
contract, option or any other right of another binding upon or
which at any time in the future may become binding upon the Vendor
to sell, transfer, assign, pledge, charge, mortgage or in any other
way dispose of or encumber any of the Assets other than pursuant to
the provisions of this Agreement.
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No Conflict - Neither the entering into
nor the delivery of this Agreement nor the completion of the
transactions contemplated hereby by the Vendor or any Warrantor
which is a corporation will result in the violation of:
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any of the provisions of the Article of
Incorporation, Certificate of Formation or the like or by-laws of
the Vendor or any Warrantor which is a corporation, as
applicable,
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except for those Contracts which require consent
to their assignment or transfer and which are expressly listed in
section 3.1(e)(ii) of the Disclosure Schedule, any agreement or
other instrument to which the Vendor or any Warrantor which is a
corporation, as applicable, is a party or by which the Vendor or
such Warrantor is bound, or
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any applicable law, rule or regulation.
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(f) |
Books and Records - The books and records
of the Vendor relating to the Purchased Business are true and
correct in all material respects and present fairly and disclose in
all material respects the financial position of the Purchased
Business, and all material financial transactions and legal and
corporate proceedings of the Vendor relating to the Purchased
Business have been accurately recorded in such books and records
and, to the extent possible, such financial books and records have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied.
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Financial Statements - The financial
statements for the Purchased Business attached as Schedule A hereto
for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 and for the three months
ended April 30, 2008 (hereinafter collectively referred as the
“ Financial Statements ”):
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are in accordance with the books and accounts of
the Vendor as at the dates set forth on the Financial Statements
for such periods,
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are true and correct and present fairly the
financial position of the Purchased Business as at the dates set
forth on the Financial Statements for such periods,
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have been prepared in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, consistently applied, and
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present fairly all of the assets and liabilities
of the Purchased Business as at the dates set forth on the
Financial Statements for such periods including, without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, all contingent liabilities of the
Purchased Business as at the dates set forth on the Financial
Statements for such periods.
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Financial Position - Since April 30,
2008: (i) the Purchased Business has been carried on in its usual
and ordinary course and the Vendor has not entered into any
transaction (including any transfer or sale of assets) out of the
usual and ordinary course of the Purchased Business; (ii) there has
been no change in the affairs, business, operations or condition of
the Purchased Business, financial or otherwise, whether arising as
a result of any legislative or regulatory change, revocation of any
license or right to do business, fire, explosion, accident,
casualty, labour dispute, flood, drought, riot, storm,
condemnation, act of God,
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public force or otherwise, except changes
occurring in the usual and ordinary course of business which have
not adversely affected the affairs, business, operations or
condition of the Purchased Business, financial or otherwise; (iii)
no single capital expenditure in excess of $10,000 or capital
expenditures in the aggregate in excess of $10,000 have been made
or authorized by or in respect of the Purchased Business; (iv) the
Purchased Business has not materially changed its price lists,
manner of pricing or billing, or the credit lines it makes
available to customers; and (v) there are no outstanding
liabilities in respect of the Purchased Business except trade debts
incurred in the usual and ordinary course of business and shown on
the Financial Statements and on the list of payables set out in
Schedule I.
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(i) |
Intellectual Property -
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Owned Intellectual Property . Except as
set forth in Section 3.1(i)(ii), the Vendor owns all of the
Intellectual Property (which for purposes of this clause (i) and
subsections 3.1(1) and (p) includes all rights in the Software and
related training materials) that is currently used in the Purchased
Business. Schedule C sets forth a full, complete and true list of
all United States and any other patents, trade-marks, registered
copyrights, trade names and service marks, and any applications
therefor included in the Intellectual Property, and specifies the
jurisdictions in which such Intellectual Property has been issued
or registered or in which an application for such issuance and
registration has been filed, including the respective registration
or application numbers and the names of all registered owners,
together with a list of all of the Vendor’s currently
marketed software products and an indication as to which, if any,
of such software products have been registered for copyright
protection with the United States or other relevant Copyright
Office and any foreign offices and by whom such items have been
registered. The Vendor is the sole and exclusive owner of, with all
right, title and interest in and to (free and clear of any Liens,
other than Permitted Liens) the Intellectual Property, and has sole
and exclusive rights (and is not contractually obligated to pay any
compensation to any third party in respect thereof) to the use
thereof or the material covered thereby in connection with the
services or products in respect of which the Intellectual Property
is being used. The Intellectual Property is in full force and
effect and has not been used or enforced, or failed to be used or
enforced, in a manner that would result in its abandonment,
cancellation or unenforceability. The Vendor has not transferred
ownership of the Intellectual Property to any other person. There
is no and has not been any unauthorized use, infringement or
misappropriation of any of the Intellectual Property by any person,
former employee or other third party.
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Licensed Technology . Section 3.1(i)(ii)
of the Disclosure Schedule lists all third party software and any
other technology and technical information (other than the Third
Party Programs referred to in Section
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3.1(j)(iv)) licensed to
the Vendor by third parties related to the Purchased Business (such
material, together with the Third Party Programs, the “
Licensed Technology ”). The Vendor is using or holding
the Licensed Technology with the consent of a license from the
owner of such Licensed Technology under a Contract referred to in
Section 3.1(k) . The Vendor has, and as a result of the
transactions contemplated hereby the Purchaser will have, the right
to use, pursuant to valid licenses, all Licensed Technology,
development tools and all Third Party Programs that are used in the
Purchased Business, including in the creation, modification,
compilation, operation or support of the Software.
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Software -
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Developers . The Software was written
only by the individuals (the “ Developers ”)
listed in Section 3.1(j)(i) of the Disclosure Schedule other than
minor components of the Software which, in the aggregate, do not
comprise more than 5% of the source code for the current version of
any individual Software program;
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Status of Developers . All Developers, at
the time they wrote the Software, were either full-time employees
of the Vendor employed as software programmers, or they were
contractors who assigned their intellectual property rights in the
Software to the Vendor pursuant to written agreements. The
Developers have waived their moral rights in the Software;
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Government Funding . No government
funding, facilities of a university, college or other educational
institution or research centre or funding from third parties was
used in the development of the Software;
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Third Party Software . Except for the
third party software (“ Third Party Programs ”)
listed in Section 3.1(j)(iv) of the Disclosure Schedule, the
Software neither contains nor embodies nor uses nor requires any
third party software, including development tools and utilities,
and the Software, together with the Third Party Programs, contains
all materials necessary for the continued maintenance and
development of the Software as presently maintained and developed
by the Vendor. Except as disclosed in Section 3.1(j)(iv) of the
Disclosure Schedule, no open source software was or is used in,
incorporated into, integrated or bundled with any of the
Software;
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Third Party Licenses . Copies of all the
license, distribution and maintenance agreements for the Third
Party Programs have been provided by the Vendor to the Purchaser,
except in respect of Third Party Programs that are shrink wrapped
software and that are purchased off- the-shelf by the Vendor in
order to be passed through to the Vendor’s customers or to be
used by the Vendor, and such license and distribution agreements
give the Vendor the right to grant unlimited run-time licenses
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of the respective Third Party Program to the
customers of the Vendor for the royalties set out in Section 3.1 (j
)(v) of the Disclosure Schedule;
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Object Code . Only object code versions
of the Software have been provided to those licensee customers of
the Software listed in Section 3.1(j)(vi) of the Disclosure
Schedule, and no person except for such licensees have been
provided with a copy of the object code of the Software;
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Source Code . The source code for the
Software has not been delivered or made available to any person and
the Vendor has not agreed to or undertaken to or in any other way
promised to provide such source code to any person. The source code
is currently stored only in the Vendor’s premises in
Sarasota, Florida. The sale of the Assets of the Vendor resulting
from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not
entitle any customer to obtain a copy of the source code for the
Software, nor will it result in any third party being granted any
right with respect to the Software or the Intellectual
Property;
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(viii) |
Customer Licenses and Other Agreements .
Section 3.1(j)(viii) of the Disclosure Schedule lists all the other
licenses, maintenance or support agreements, development contracts
and all other agreements, whether written or oral (other than
proposals or request for proposals which are referred to in such
agreements) between the Vendor and users of the Software, copies of
each of which have been provided to the Purchaser. With respect to
the users of the Software listed in Sections 3.1(j)(viii) and
3.1(j)(vi) of the Disclosure Schedule, all such users have non-
transferable, non-exclusive, single-site licenses to use only
object code versions of the Software. With respect to the
maintenance agreements between the Vendor and users of the
Software, except as noted in Section 3.1(j)(viii) of the Disclosure
Schedule, no maintenance agreement has a term of greater than 12
months, and the Vendor has not agreed with any user to limit future
increases in maintenance fees;
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(ix) |
Software Defects . Except as listed in
Section 3.1(
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