SUPERIOR WELL SERVICES,
INC.
SUPERIOR WELL SERVICES,
LTD.
DIAMONDBACK HOLDINGS, LLC
DIAMONDBACK-TOTAL SERVICES LLC
DIAMONDBACK PUMPING GP LLC
DIAMONDBACK PUMPING SERVICE LLC
DIAMONDBACK-PIONEER LLC
PACKERS & SERVICE TOOLS, INC.
DIAMONDBACK-TOTAL PUMPING GP LLC
DIAMONDBACK-TOTAL TEXAS LLC
DIAMONDBACK-DISPOSAL TEXAS LLC
DIAMONDBACK-TD WEST LLC
DIAMONDBACK-DISPOSAL LLC
DIAMONDBACK-TOTAL OKLAHOMA LLC
SOONER TRUCKING & OILFIELD SERVICES, INC.
DIAMONDBACK-PST LLC
DIAMONDBACK-COMPLETIONS LLC
TD WEST LLC
DIAMONDBACK DOWNHOLE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
DIAMONDBACK-DIRECTIONAL DRILLING LLC
DIAMONDBACK-QUANTUM LLC
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ARTICLE II PURCHASE AND SALE;
CLOSING
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2.1 Transfer of Purchased Assets
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2.3 Deliveries at Closing
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2.5 Allocation of Consideration
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2.7 Sellers Representative
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ARTICLE III INVENTORIES/PURCHASE PRICE
ADJUSTMENT
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3.2 Adjustment to Purchase Price
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ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
THE SELLERS
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4.12 Intellectual Property
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4.18 Employees; Employee Relations
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4.19 Employee Benefit Matters
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4.25 No Undisclosed Liabilities
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4.26 Product and Service Warranty
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4.27 Assets Necessary to the Business; Related
Party Transactions
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ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE
BUYER PARTIES
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6.4 Employee and Benefit Matters
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6.6 Apportionment of Ad Valorem and Property
Taxes
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6.7 Apportionment of Certain Post-Closing
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6.14 Third-Party Approvals;
Cooperation
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6.15 No Additional Representations
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6.16 Supplemental Disclosure
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6.18 Third Party Financing
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6.21 Change of Corporate Name
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ARTICLE VII CLOSING; CLOSING
DELIVERIES
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ARTICLE VIII CONDITIONS TO
OBLIGATIONS
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8.1 Conditions to Obligations of the Buyer
Parties
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Sellers
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9.2 Effect of Termination; Break Up
Fee
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ARTICLE X INDEMNIFICATION
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10.1 Indemnities of the Seller
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10.2 Indemnities of the Buyer
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10.3 Limitations on Indemnification
Liability
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10.5 Calculation, Timing, Manner and
Characterization of Indemnification Payments
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10.8 Exclusivity of Indemnification
Provision
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11.4 Dispute Resolution; Venue; Waiver of Jury
Trial
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11.5 Entire Agreement; Amendments and
Waivers
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11.6 Multiple Counterparts
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11.9 References; Headings;
Interpretation
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11.10 No Third Party Beneficiaries
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11.11 No Presumption Against Any
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11.12 Confidentiality Agreement
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Excluded
Assets
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Cash Amount;
Seller Wire Transfer Instructions
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Inventory
Methodologies/Practices
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Sellers’
Jurisdictions
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Consents;
Conflicts
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Financial
Statements
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Absence of
Changes
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Scheduled Owned
Real Property
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Liens on
Scheduled Owned Real Property
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Scheduled
Leases
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Liens on
Scheduled Leases
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Defaults (in
connection with Scheduled Leases)
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Leased
Equipment
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Scheduled
Personal Property
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Liens on
Scheduled Personal Property
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Condition of
Leased Equipment and Scheduled Personal Property
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Scheduled
Permits
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Material
Contracts
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Scheduled
Contracts
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Purchased
Contracts — Enforceability, Termination, Breach,
Offset
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Seller
Intellectual Property
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Liens on Seller
Intellectual Property
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Liens on
Inventory
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Locations/Consignment, Bailment,
Warehousing
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Taxes
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Litigation
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Collective
Bargaining Agreements; Unfair Labor Practices
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Employee/Governmental Authority Proceedings,
Settlements, Judgments, etc.; Workers’
Compensation
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matters
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Employees
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Independent
Contractors
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Employee
Benefit Plans
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Environmental
Matters
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Disposal
Wells
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Disposal Well
Permits
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Customers and
Suppliers
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Insurance
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Undisclosed
Liabilities
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Warranty
Claims
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Assets
Necessary to the Business
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Related Party
Services
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Ownership of
Assets
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Consents and
Approvals
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Buyer
Litigation
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Conduct of
Business
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Employee and
Benefit Matters
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Excluded
Employees
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Buyer
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Leases/Amendments
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Employment
Agreement — Key Employees
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Liabilities
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Sellers’
Knowledge
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Prohibited
Area
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Proposed Third
Party Financing
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Defined
Terms
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Escrow
Agreement
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Form of Bill of
Sale
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Form of
Warranty Deed
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Form of
Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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Transition
Services Agreement
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This Asset
Purchase Agreement (this “ Agreement ”)
is entered into as of September 12, 2008, by and among
Superior Well Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “
Parent ”), Superior Well Services, Ltd.
, a Pennsylvania limited partnership and an indirect wholly
owned subsidiary of Parent (the “ Buyer
”), Diamondback Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ Diamondback ”),
Diamondback-Total Services LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability
company (“ Diamondback Total Services ”),
Diamondback Pumping GP LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company
(“ Diamondback Pumping GP ”), Diamondback
Pumping Service LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company (“
Diamondback Pumping Services ”),
Diamondback-Pioneer LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company
(“ Diamondback Pioneer ”), Packers &
Service Tools, Inc., a Louisiana corporation (“ P&S
Tools ”), Diamondback-Total Pumping GP LLC, an
Oklahoma limited liability company (“ Diamondback Total
Pumping ”), Diamondback-Total Texas LLC, an Oklahoma
limited liability company (“ Diamondback-Total
Texas ”), Diamondback-Disposal Texas LLC, an Oklahoma
limited liability company (“ Diamondback Disposal
Texas ”), Diamondback-TD West LLC, a Texas limited
liability company (“ Diamondback-TD West
”), Diamondback-Disposal LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability
company (“ Diamondback Disposal ”),
Diamondback-Total Oklahoma LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ Diamondback-Total Oklahoma ”),
Sooner Trucking & Oilfield Services, Inc., an Oklahoma
corporation (“ Sooner ”), Diamondback-PST
LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company (“
Diamondback PST ”), Diamondback-Completions
LLC, an Oklahoma limited liability company (“
Diamondback Completions ”), and TD West LLC, a
Texas limited liability company (“ TD West
” and each of Diamondback Total Services, Diamondback Pumping
GP, Diamondback Pumping Service, Diamondback Pioneer, P&S
Tools, Diamondback Total Pumping, Diamondback-Total Texas,
Diamondback-Disposal Texas, Diamondback-TD West, Diamondback
Disposal, Diamondback-Total Oklahoma, Sooner, Diamondback PST and
Diamondback Completions being a “ Diamondback
Subsidiary ” and, collectively, the “
Diamondback Subsidiaries ”)) and Diamondback
Downhole Technologies LLC ( “Downhole
Technologies” ), Diamondback-Directional Drilling LLC
( “Directional Drilling Contractors” )
and Diamondback-Quantum LLC ( “Quantum”
and along with Downhole Technologies and Directional Drilling
Contractors the “Drilling Companies” ).
The Buyer and Parent are sometimes referred to individually as a
“ Buyer Party ” and collectively as the
“ Buyer Parties .” Diamondback, the
Drilling Companies and the Diamondback Subsidiaries are sometimes
referred to individually as a “ Seller ”
or a “ Seller Party ” and collectively as
the “ Sellers ” or the “
Seller Parties .”
WHEREAS, the
Diamondback Subsidiaries and Diamondback conduct certain oilfield
services businesses including stimulation and pumping services,
fluid logistics and well-site services and completion and
production services;
WHEREAS,
(i) Diamondback Pumping GP and Diamondback Pumping Services
own all of the assets and business comprising Diamondback’s
stimulation and pumping services segment, (ii) Diamondback
Pioneer, P&S Tools, Diamondback PST and Diamondback Completions
own all of the assets and business comprising Diamondback’s
completion and production services segment and
(iii) Diamondback-Total Services, Diamondback Total
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Pumping,
Diamondback-Total Texas, Diamondback Disposal Texas, Diamondback-TD
West, Diamondback Disposal, Diamondback-Total Oklahoma, Sooner and
TD West own all of the assets and business comprising
Diamondback’s fluid logistics and well site services segment;
and
WHEREAS, the Buyer
desires to purchase from the Sellers the Purchased Assets (as
defined below) which include all of the assets used by the Sellers
in the foregoing oilfield services businesses and the Sellers
desire to sell, and cause to be sold, the Purchased Assets to the
Buyer upon the terms and conditions herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises, agreements and covenants contained
herein, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged and in reliance upon
the mutual representations and warranties contained herein, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
1.1 Certain
Definitions . Capitalized terms used in this Agreement but
not defined in the body hereof shall have the meanings ascribed to
them in Exhibit 1.1 . Capitalized terms defined in the
body of this Agreement are listed in Exhibit 1.1 by
location herein.
ARTICLE II
PURCHASE AND SALE; CLOSING
2.1
Transfer of Purchased Assets . Upon the terms and
subject to the conditions of this Agreement, at the Closing,
(a) the Sellers shall sell, transfer, assign, convey and
deliver to the Buyer the Purchased Assets free and clear of Liens
other than Permitted Liens, and (b) the Buyer shall accept the
Purchased Assets and assume the Assumed Obligations.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Purchased Assets shall not
include those assets listed on Schedule 2.1
(collectively, the “ Excluded Assets
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2.2
Purchase Price . The total consideration (the “
Purchase Price ”) to be paid by the Buyer to
the Sellers for the sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance and
delivery of the Purchased Assets shall be (a) the assumption
of the Assumed Obligations and (b) Two Hundred Seventy Million
Dollars ($270,000,000.000), payable at the Closing by wire transfer
of immediately available funds in accordance with the wire transfer
instructions set forth on Schedule 2.2 , subject to
adjustment pursuant to Section 3.2 and
Section 6.4(b).
2.3
Deliveries at Closing . At the Closing (a) the
Sellers will deliver to the Buyer, the various certificates,
instruments and documents required to be delivered by the Sellers
pursuant to Section 7.2, and (b) the Buyer will deliver
to the Sellers the various certificates, instruments and documents
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7.3 and the
Purchase Price described in Section 2.2.
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2.4 Assumed
Obligations . At the Closing, the Buyer Parties will assume
the Assumed Obligations. The Buyer Parties are not assuming any
liabilities or obligations of the Business or the Sellers or any of
their Affiliates in connection with the transactions contemplated
herein other than the Assumed Obligations. It is understood and
agreed that the Sellers and their Affiliates shall retain all
liability for, and the Buyer Parties and their Affiliates shall not
assume or have any obligation with respect to, any Excluded
Liabilities.
2.5
Allocation of Consideration . Seller and Buyer agree to
cooperate in good faith to determine reasonable allocation of the
Purchase Price among the Purchased Assets in accordance with
Section 1060 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations
thereunder. On or prior to the date ninety (90) days after the
Closing Date, Buyer shall provide to the Sellers Representative
Buyer’s proposed allocation of the Purchase Price. Within
thirty (30) days after the receipt of such allocation, the
Sellers Representative shall propose to Buyer any changes to such
allocation or otherwise shall be deemed to have agreed with such
allocation. The Sellers Representative and Buyer shall cooperate in
good faith to mutually agree to such allocation and shall reduce
such agreement to writing, including jointly and properly
completing an Internal Revenue Service Form 8594, and any other
forms or statements required by the Code, Treasury Regulations or
the Internal Revenue Service, together with any and all attachments
required to be filled therewith. The Sellers Representative and
Buyer shall file timely any such forms and statements with the
Internal Revenue Service. In the event that the Seller
Representative proposes changes to the allocation within the
thirty-day period described above and the parties have not agreed
to the allocation of the Purchase Price within sixty (60) days
after the Sellers Representative’s receipt of Buyer’s
proposed allocation, any disputed items shall be resolved by
Marshall & Stevens Incorporated or such other nationally or
regionally recognized appraisal firm as agreed by Buyer and the
Sellers Representative (“ Appraiser ”).
The determination of the Appraiser shall be final and binding upon
both parties and Buyer and Sellers shall each bear one-half of the
costs, fees and expenses of the Appraiser relating to the
allocation. The allocation of the Purchase Price shall be revised
to take into account subsequent adjustments to the Purchase Price
in a manner provided by Section 1060 of the Code and the
Treasury Regulations thereunder. The final Purchase Price
allocation shall be binding on the Buyer and Sellers for U.S. Tax
Reporting purposes, provided that no Party shall be unreasonably
impeded in its ability and discretion to negotiate, compromise
and/or settle any Tax audit, claim or similar
proceedings.
2.6
Escrow . At the Closing, Eighteen Million Dollars
($18,000,000.00) of the
Purchase Price (the “ Escrow Amount ”)
shall be paid by the Sellers to the Escrow Agent to be held in
escrow under the terms of the Escrow Agreement attached as
Exhibit 2.6 (the “ Escrow Agreement
”). The Escrow Agreement and any interest earned therein
shall be held by the Escrow Agent pursuant to and distributed to
the Buyer or the Sellers Representative, as the case may be, in
accordance with the terms of the Escrow Agreement.
2.7 Sellers
Representative .
(a) Each
Seller hereby appoints, authorizes and empowers Diamondback (the
“ Sellers Representative ”) to act on
behalf of such Seller in connection with, and to facilitate the
consummation of, the transactions under this Agreement, which shall
include the power and authority (i) to take all actions
necessary in connection with (A) the waiver of any condition
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of the Sellers to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby,
and (B) the defense or settlement of any claim for which the
Sellers or such Seller may be required to indemnify any Buyer
Indemnified Party, (ii) to give and receive all notices under
this Agreement on behalf of the Sellers or such Seller,
(iii) to execute and deliver on behalf of the Sellers and such
Seller the certificates to be delivered pursuant to
Section 7.2(d), (iv) to execute and deliver on behalf of
such Seller such amendments to this Agreement as the Sellers
Representative, in its reasonable discretion, may deem necessary or
desirable to give effect to the intentions of this Agreement,
(v) to terminate this Agreement on behalf of the Sellers,
(vi) to determine the allocation of the Purchase Price as
contemplated in Section 2.5, and (vii) to take any and
all additional actions contemplated to be taken by the Sellers or
such Seller under this Agreement.
(b) Each
Seller agrees that:
(i) The
Buyer Parties shall be entitled to rely conclusively on the
decisions and instructions of the Sellers Representative as to the
settlement of any claims for indemnification of any Buyer
Indemnified Party, the delivery of the certificates to be delivered
pursuant to Section 8.1(d), the amendment of this Agreement,
or any other actions required to be taken by the Sellers
Representative on such Seller’s behalf hereunder, and no
party hereto shall have any cause of action against the Buyer
Parties or the Sellers Representative for any action taken by the
Buyer Parties in reliance upon the decisions or instructions of the
Sellers Representative;
(ii) all
actions, decisions and instructions of the Sellers Representative
undertaken in accordance with the authority and power granted in
Section 2.7(a) shall be conclusive and binding upon such
Seller, and such Seller shall have no cause of action against the
Sellers Representative for any action taken, decision made or
instruction given by the Sellers Representative on such
Seller’s behalf under this Agreement, except for fraud or
intentional breach of this Agreement by the Sellers Representative;
and
(iii) the
provisions of this Section 2.7 are independent and severable,
are irrevocable and coupled with an interest and shall be
enforceable notwithstanding any rights or remedies that such Seller
may have in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and shall be binding upon the successors of such
Seller.
ARTICLE III
INVENTORIES/PURCHASE PRICE ADJUSTMENT
3.1
Inventory Adjustment .
(a)
Inventory Procedures . The parties hereto acknowledge that
the Purchase Price has been based in part on the Purchased Assets
including Inventory as of the Effective Time which is adequate for
the operation of the Business in the Ordinary Course of Business
and with a value of at least Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00)
(the “ Inventory Threshold ”). For
purposes of determining the value of the Inventory as of the
Effective Time (the “ Inventory Value ”),
the Inventory included in the Purchased Assets shall be measured
and valued at the Effective Time in accordance with the following
inventory determination and valuation procedures:
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(i) Beginning
ten (10) days prior to the scheduled Closing Date, an
independent inventory inspector (the “
Inspector ”) (mutually satisfactory to both the
Buyer and the Sellers Representative), shall conduct a physical
count of the Inventory, such physical count to be brought forward
and adjusted through the close of business immediately prior to the
Effective Time, using the inventory counting and recognition
methodologies and practices set forth in Schedule 3.1(a)(i)
(“ Inventory Count ”). The costs and
expenses of the Inspector shall be borne 50% by the Sellers and 50%
by the Buyer. In connection with the calculation of the Inventory
Value, the Buyer and its representatives, if requested by the
Buyer, will have reasonable access to all requisite accounting and
other records of Sellers, if necessary. The parties will use their
respective Reasonable Efforts to cause the Inspector to complete
the Inventory Count by no later than one day prior to Closing. The
Inventory Count shall be completed no later than three days after
the Closing. If the parties cannot agree on the Inventory Value
based upon the Inventory Count within three (3) Business Days
after the Closing, the parties shall submit such matter to a
mutually agreed upon third party for review and resolution, with
the fees and expenses thereof to be borne 50% by the Sellers and
50% by the Buyer; and any determination by such party shall be
final and binding upon the parties.
(ii) Promptly
following the determination of the Inventory Value, but in no event
later than five Business Days after the Closing Date, the Buyer
Parties or the Sellers, as the case may be, shall pay by wire
transfer to the other Party immediately available U.S. funds in an
amount equal to the excess (in the case of the Buyer Parties) or
shortfall (in the case of the Sellers) of the Inventory Value as
compared to the Inventory Threshold, if any. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, to the extent that all or a portion of the Inventory
Value is being disputed in good faith, the disputed portion shall
not be payable at the time specified in the preceding sentence but
instead shall become due and shall be paid within three
(3) Business Days following the resolution of such dispute. If
not paid when due, interest shall accrue on the amount due at a
rate equal to the lesser of (a) 10% per annum or (b) the
maximum rate permitted by applicable law.
(iii) Inventory
included in the Inventory Threshold shall be determined in a manner
consistent with the presentation of Inventory on the 2007 Annual
Financial Statements.
3.2
Adjustment to Purchase Price . All amounts to be paid
under this Article III shall be deemed to be adjustments to
the Purchase Price.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE SELLERS
As an inducement
for the Buyer Parties to enter into this Agreement, the Sellers,
jointly and severally, hereby make the following representations
and warranties to the Buyer Parties; provided ,
however , that such representations and warranties shall be
subject to and qualified by the disclosure schedules delivered by
the Sellers to the Buyer Parties as of the date hereof (each
section of which qualifies the correspondingly numbered
representation and warranty or covenant to the extent specified
therein) (the “ Seller Disclosure Schedule
”) (it being understood that (a) the disclosure of any
fact or item in any section of the Seller Disclosure Schedule
shall,
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should the
existence of such fact or item be relevant to any other section, be
deemed to be disclosed with respect to that other section to the
extent that such disclosure is made in a manner that makes its
relevance to the other section reasonably apparent and (b) the
disclosure of any matter or item in the Seller Disclosure Schedule
shall not be deemed to constitute an acknowledgment that such
matter or item is required to be disclosed therein or is material
to a representation or warranty set forth in this Agreement and
shall not be used as a basis for interpreting the terms
“material,” “materially,”
“materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or
any word or phrase of similar import and does not mean that such
matter or item, alone or together with any other matter or item,
would constitute a Material Adverse Effect).
4.1
Organization . Each Seller is a corporation or limited
liability company duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its state of formation. The Sellers are
duly licensed or qualified in such jurisdictions in which the
ownership or operation of their assets, conduct of their business
or the character of their activities is such as to require the
Sellers to be so licensed or qualified, except where the failure to
be so qualified would not, individually or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the
Knowledge of Sellers, the only jurisdictions in which the Sellers
are qualified to do business are those jurisdictions listed on
Schedule 4.1 . Each Seller has delivered to the Buyer
Parties true and complete copies of the Organizational Documents of
such Seller, each as amended to date and presently in effect
(collectively, the “ Seller Organizational
Documents ”).
4.2
Power . Each Seller has all requisite corporate or
limited liability company power and authority, as the case may be,
to own its properties and assets and to carry on its business as
currently conducted.
4.3
Authority; Enforceability . Each Seller has all
requisite corporate and limited liability company power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents to which it is a party, to assign and convey
the Purchased Assets to the Buyer (or its designee) and to perform
its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to
which such Seller is a party and the performance of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and
validly authorized by such action, corporate or otherwise,
necessary on behalf of such Seller. This Agreement and each of the
Transaction Documents to which each Seller is a party constitute
the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Seller,
enforceable against such Seller in accordance with their terms,
except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar laws relating to or affecting the
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and to general
principles of equity (such laws and principles being referred to
herein as “ Creditors’ Rights
”).
4.4
Consents; Absence of Conflicts . Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.4 , neither the execution and delivery of
this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents by a Seller, nor
the sale of the Purchased Assets or consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will: (a) violate
or breach, in any material respect, the terms of, cause a default
under, conflict with, create in any Person the right to accelerate,
terminate, modify or cancel, require any notice or consent or give
rise to any preferential purchase or similar right under
(i) any applicable Legal Requirement, (ii) the Seller
Organizational Documents or (iii) any Purchased Contract,
Scheduled Intellectual Property or Scheduled Permit;
(b) result in the
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creation or
imposition of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on any of the
Purchased Assets; (c) result in the cancellation, forfeiture,
revocation, suspension or modification of any Purchased Asset or
any existing consent, approval, authorization, license, permit,
certificate or order of any Governmental Authority; or
(d) with the passage of time or the giving of notice or the
taking of any action of any Person have any of the effects set
forth in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 4.4
other than any such event described in clauses (a)(i), or (a)(iii)
or (d) (as and to the extent it relates to (a)(i) or (a)(iii))
which, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and would not
reasonably be expected to materially and adversely impact the
Business or the Purchased Assets. Schedule 4.4 lists
all Scheduled Contracts, Scheduled Intellectual Property, Scheduled
Leases and Scheduled Permits that require consent or notice in
connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement.
4.5 No
Equity Interests . The Purchased Assets do not include any
Interest, or any security convertible, exercisable or exchangeable
into any Interest, in any Person.
4.6
Financial Statements . Attached hereto as
Schedule 4.6 are copies of (a) the audited balance
sheet at December 31, 2007 and the related audited statement
of operations for the year then ended (together, the “
2007 Annual Financial Statement ”),
(b) the unaudited balance sheet as of June 30, 2008 (the
“ Interim Balance Sheet ”) and the
related unaudited statement of operations for the six-month period
then ended (together with the Interim Balance Sheet, the “
Interim Financial Statements ”), in each case
of Diamondback and its direct and indirect subsidiaries and certain
variable interest entities described in Note A to the 2007 Annual
Financial Statement and (c) the audited balance sheets at
December 31, 2005 and 2006 and the related audited statements
of operations for the period ended December 31, 2005 and the
year ended December 31, 2006 prepared on a carve-out basis to
include the assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses of the
entities transferred to Diamondback on December 31, 2006, as
well as certain allocated activities of Diamondback Energy
Services, LLC, as described in Note A thereto (the “
Carve-out Financial Statements ” and, together
with the 2007 Annual Financial Statement and the Interim Financial
Statements the “ Financial Statements ”).
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6 , the Financial
Statements (including any related notes thereto) (i) have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied throughout
the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise noted therein,
(ii) fairly present, the financial condition and results of
operations of the entities reflected therein as of the respective
dates thereof and for the respective periods covered thereby,
subject, however, to normal non-material year-end audit adjustments
and to the absence of notes required by GAAP, and (iii) have
been prepared from, and are in accordance with, the Books and
Records of Diamondback and the referenced entities.
4.7 Absence
of Changes . Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.7 , since December 31, 2007:
(a) There
has not been any Material Adverse Effect;
(b) the
Purchased Assets have been operated and maintained in all material
respects in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(c) there
has not been any damage, destruction or loss to any material
portion of the Purchased Assets, whether covered by insurance or
not;
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(d) there
has been no merger or consolidation of any Seller with any other
Person or any agreement with respect thereto;
(e) none
of the Sellers have mortgaged, pledged or subjected any of the
Purchased Assets to any Lien except Permitted Liens;
(f) other
than increases in salary made in the Ordinary Course of Business,
none of the Sellers have entered into or modified or amended any
employment, consulting, severance or indemnification agreement or
an agreement with respect to any bonus (including retention
bonuses), with or increased the compensation or benefits to be
received by any of the Business Employees, nor have the Sellers
incurred or entered into any collective bargaining agreement or
other obligation to any labor organization with respect to or
covering Business Employees;
(g) none
of the Sellers have instituted or settled any legal actions, suits
or other legal proceedings relating to the ownership or use of the
Purchased Assets (including their ownership and use in the
Business) or which otherwise would reasonably be expected to have a
material and adverse impact on the Buyer’s ownership or use
of the Purchased Assets; and
(h) there
is no Contract to do any of the foregoing, except as expressly
permitted by this Agreement.
(a)
Schedule 4.8(a) lists all real property owned by the
Sellers (beneficially or of record) that is used in connection with
the ownership and operations of the Business (the “
Scheduled Owned Real Property ”).
Schedule 4.8(a) further reflects where such Scheduled
Owned Real Property is used solely by the Sellers in connection
with the Business and where other Persons have shared use rights
with respect to such Scheduled Owned Real Property. The Sellers
have good and marketable title to the Scheduled Owned Real Property
free and clear of all Liens, except (i) for Permitted Liens
and (ii) Liens disclosed on Schedule 4.8(a)(ii) .
Except as set forth on Schedule 4.8(a)(ii) , each
Seller has the full right to sell, convey, transfer/assign and
deliver the Scheduled Owned Real Property included in the Purchased
Assets to the Buyer, without any required approval, or any
restrictions of any kind whatsoever.
(b)
Schedule 4.8(b) lists all leases pursuant to which the
Sellers lease or sublease real property for use in connection with
the Business (all such listed leases collectively, the “
Scheduled Leases, together with the real property
covered by the Scheduled Leases and together with the Scheduled
Owned Real Property, the “ Scheduled Real
Property ”). Each Scheduled Lease is in full force
and effect, and the Person identified as the lessee or sublessee
under any particular Scheduled Lease is the lessee or has succeeded
to the rights of the lessee under such Scheduled Lease and owns the
leasehold interest created pursuant to such lease free and clear of
all Liens, except (i) for Permitted Liens and (ii) Liens
disclosed on Schedule 4.8(b)(i) . Except as set forth
on Schedule 4.8(b)(ii) , there exists no material
breach or material default under any Scheduled Leases by any Seller
or, to the Knowledge of the Sellers, by any other Person that is a
party to such Scheduled Leases. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.8(b)(ii) , no event has occurred that
constitutes, or that with the giving of notice or the passage of
time or
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both would
constitute, a material default under any Scheduled Lease by a
Seller or by the Buyer after the Closing or, to the Knowledge of
the Sellers, by any other party to any Scheduled Lease. To the
Knowledge of the Sellers, no lessor has asserted or has (except by
operation of law) any right to offset, discount or otherwise abate
any material amount owing under any Schedule Lease except as
expressly set forth in said Scheduled Lease.
(c) The
Sellers have furnished the Buyer Parties with true and complete
copies of all deeds, Scheduled Leases, title opinions, title
insurance policies and surveys in their possession that relate to
the Scheduled Real Property, together with copies of all material
reports of any engineers, reports of environmental consultants or
material reports of other consultants in their possession or
control relating to any of the Scheduled Real Property.
(d) The
buildings, structures, fixtures and other improvements located on
the Scheduled Real Property included in the Purchased Assets are
adequate for the purposes for which they are presently used or held
for use without immediate need for repair. The Seller Parties have
such rights of ingress and egress to and from the Scheduled Real
Property as are adequate for the conduct of the Business as it is
presently conducted.
(e) To
the Knowledge of the Sellers, no Seller has received any notice,
written or otherwise from any governmental or municipal agency or
third party requiring the correction of any material condition with
respect to the Scheduled Real Property, or any part thereof, by
reason of a violation of any regulation or otherwise which, if not
corrected would reasonably be expected to have a material and
adverse impact on the Business or Purchased Assets and which
remains uncured.
(f) There
are no condemnation or appropriation proceedings pending or, to the
Knowledge of Sellers, threatened against any of the Scheduled Real
Property.
(g) The
Scheduled Real Property, taken together, constitutes all of the
real property, real property interests (including rights-of-way and
easements) and associated rights that are used in connection with
the operation of the Business as currently operated and as operated
since December 31, 2007.
(h) Except
as contemplated by this Agreement, there are no options, rights of
first refusal, preferential purchase rights or similar rights to
purchase any of the Scheduled Owned Real Property.
(a)
Schedule 4.9(a) lists each item of equipment, tools,
machinery, parts, materials, supplies, furniture, tanks, vessels,
barges, motor vehicles, trailers and other rolling stock, computers
and computer hardware (including processing units, servers,
terminals, disk drives, tape drives, printers, keyboards and
peripherals) and each other item of tangible personal property used
or held for use by the Sellers in connection with the Business
having a fair market value of $5,000 or more that is subject to a
lease (the “ Leased Equipment ”). All
agreements pursuant to which the Sellers are leasing personal
property used in the Business are listed on
Schedule 4.9(a) .
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(b) Unless
listed on Schedule 4.9(a) , Schedule 4.9(b)
lists each item of equipment, tools, machinery, parts, materials,
supplies, furniture, tanks, vessels, barges, motor vehicles,
trailers, and other rolling stock, computers and computer hardware
(including processing units, servers, terminals, disk drives, tape
drives, printers, keyboards and peripherals) and each other item of
tangible personal property used or held for use by the Sellers or
any of their Affiliates in connection with the Business having a
fair market value or book value of $5,000 or more (the “
Scheduled Personal Property ”). The Sellers
have good title to such Scheduled Personal Property free and clear
of all Liens except (i) for Permitted Liens and
(ii) Liens disclosed on Schedule 4.9(b)(ii)
.
(c) The
Leased Equipment and the Scheduled Personal Property together with
all Inventories, prepaid deposits, bonds, deposits and financial
sureties (other than prepaid deposits, bonds, deposits and
financial sureties listed on Schedule 2.1 as Excluded
Assets) and other items of tangible personal property which have a
fair market value and book value of less than $5,000 (such
unscheduled personal property, to the extent not listed on
Schedule 2.1 as an Excluded Asset, also being included
in the Purchased Assets) (collectively, the “ Personal
Property ”) constitute all of the tangible personal
property necessary for the ownership, use and operation of the
Business consistent in all material respects with the past
practices of the Sellers since December 31, 2007 and with the
practices of the Sellers as of the date of this Agreement other
than tangible personal property disposed of in the Ordinary Course
of Business since December 31, 2007. Upon the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Sellers will
transfer and convey to the Buyer good and marketable title to the
Personal Property (other than the Leased Equipment) free and clear
of all Liens except Permitted Liens. Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.9(c) , the Leased Equipment and Personal
Property (taken as a whole) are in good working order and repair
(taking their age and ordinary wear and tear into account), have
been operated and maintained in the Ordinary Course of Business and
remain in adequate condition for use consistent with their primary
use since December 31, 2007 (or later acquisition date). The
Sellers and their Affiliates have not deferred maintenance of any
such item in contemplation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
4.10
Permits . Schedule 4.10 lists all material
Permits used or held by any Seller in connection with the conduct
of the Business and ownership and operation of the Purchased Assets
(the “ Scheduled Permits ”). If any
Scheduled Permit is also used in the conduct of business or
operations of Diamondback or its Affiliates (other than the
Diamondback Subsidiaries), then Schedule 4.10 shall so
reflect such shared usage. The Scheduled Permits constitute all of
the material Permits necessary for the ownership, use and operation
of the Business and the Purchased Assets as currently conducted and
as conducted since December 31, 2007. Except as set forth in
Schedule 4.10 , the Sellers are not in material
violation or material default, and, to the Knowledge of the
Sellers, no condition exists that with notice or lapse of time or
both would constitute a material violation or material default,
under any of the Scheduled Permits.
(a)
Schedule 4.11(a) identifies each of the following
Contracts used in connection with the Business to which any Seller
or any of its Affiliates is a party or by which it or its
properties is bound (each such identified Contract, a “
Material Contract ”):
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Contract that provides for the payment by any Seller of more than
$100,000 in any consecutive 12-month period or more than $200,000
over the remaining life of such Contract other than a Contract that
(A) is terminable by any party thereto giving 30 days or
less notice of termination to the other party thereto and
(B) even if so terminable, contains no post-termination
obligations, termination penalties, buy-back obligations or similar
obligations;
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any
Contract that constitutes a purchase order or other Contract
relating to the sale, purchase, lease or provision by any Seller of
goods or services in excess of $100,000 in any 12-month
period;
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Contract that grants any Person the exclusive right to sell
products or provide services within any geographical region or
other field other than a Contract that (A) is terminable by
any party thereto giving 30 days or less notice of termination
to the other party thereto and (B) even if so terminable,
contains no post-termination obligations, termination penalties,
buy-back obligations or similar obligations;
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any
Contract that purports to limit the freedom of any Seller to
compete in any line of business or to conduct business in any
geographic location;
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any
Contract that is for the sale of goods or services in excess of
$100,000 and has not been substantially completed by any Seller as
of the Closing Date and which (A) was entered into by such
Seller on terms known at the time the Contract was entered into not
to be commercially reasonable or (B) was entered into with the
expectation that such Seller would incur a loss;
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any
Contract that was entered into outside of the Ordinary Course of
Business of the Sellers;
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any
Contract constituting an agreement to share profits or liabilities
with a third party or other similar Contract;
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any
Contract that creates a capital lease obligation, that constitutes
a guarantee of debt of any third Person or that requires any Seller
to maintain the financial position of any other Person;
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any
Contract providing for the deferred payment of any purchase price
including any “earn out” or other contingent fee
arrangement;
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Contract creating a Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) on any of
the Purchased Assets that will not be discharged at or prior to the
Closing;
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Contract that is to be part of the Purchased Assets or the Assumed
Obligations to which, immediately after the Closing, the Buyer is a
party, on the one hand, and Diamondback or any Drilling Company or
any of their Affiliates is a counter-party, on the other
hand;
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any
Contract involving interest rate swaps, cap or collar agreements,
commodity or financial future or option contracts or similar
derivative or hedging Contracts;
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any
Contract pursuant to which any party is required to purchase or
sell a stated portion of its requirements or output from or to
another party for more than $100,000;
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any
Contract relating to the acquisition by any Seller of any operating
business or the capital stock of another Person;
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Contract with independent contractors to provide material services
to or for the Business;
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any
Contract having a term of more than one year involving fuel
purchases for an aggregate purchase price in excess of
$100,000;
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any
Contract under which any Seller has made advances or loans to any
other Person;
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outstanding agreements of guaranty, surety or indemnification,
direct or indirect; and
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any
Contract that requires the prior consent of any party to such
Contract (other than the applicable Seller) to assign or transfer
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(b)
Schedule 4.11(b) contains a list of the Contracts
(other than Scheduled Leases, Scheduled Permits and Scheduled
Intellectual Property) that are used in connection with the
Business that are included in the Purchased Assets (such Contracts,
the “ Scheduled Contracts ”).
(c) True
and complete copies (including all amendments) of each Scheduled
Contract have been made available to the Buyer Parties. Except as
disclosed in Schedule 4.11(c) : (i) each Purchased
Contract is the legal, valid obligation of the applicable Seller,
and to the Knowledge of the Sellers, any other Person party
thereto, binding and enforceable against such Seller and, to the
Knowledge of the Sellers, any other Person party thereto, in
accordance with its terms except as such enforceability may be
limited by Creditors’ Rights; (ii) each Purchased
Contract has not been terminated, and neither such Seller nor, to
the Knowledge of the Sellers, any other Person is in material
breach or default thereunder, and to the Knowledge of the Sellers,
no event has occurred that with notice or lapse of time, or both,
would reasonably be expected to constitute a material breach or
default, or permit termination,
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modification in
any manner adverse to such Seller or acceleration thereunder; and
(iii) to the Knowledge of the Sellers, no party has asserted
or has (except by operation of law) any right to offset, discount
or otherwise abate any material amount owing under any Purchased
Contract except as expressly set forth in such Purchased
Contract.
4.12
Intellectual Property
(a)
Schedule 4.12 identifies all patents, patent
applications, inventions, disclosures, tradenames, registered
trademarks or registered service marks, applications for
registrations therefor and registered copyrights and applications
therefor, in each case which are used in the conduct of the
Business and identifies which of the foregoing are owned by the
Sellers (the “ Scheduled Intellectual Property
”). The Scheduled Intellectual Property, together with the
other Intellectual Property Rights primarily used in the conduct of
the Business other than the Excluded Assets (the “
Seller Intellectual Property ”) constitutes all
Intellectual Property Rights necessary for the operation of the
Business consistent in all material respects with the past
practices of the Business since December 31, 2007. Except as
disclosed on Schedule 4.12 , none of the Seller
Intellectual Property is owned or used by Diamondback or its
subsidiaries or Affiliates other than the Sellers.
(b) The
Sellers have ownership of, or valid right to use consistent with
the past practices of the Business since December 31, 2007,
all of the Seller Intellectual Property, free and clear of all
Liens other than (i) Permitted Liens and (ii) Liens
disclosed on Schedule 4.12(b)(ii) . Except as set forth
on Schedule 4.12(b)(ii) , all consents required under
the Seller Intellectual Property in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been obtained and
furnished in writing to the Buyer Parties. Upon the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Buyer will own
and have good and valid title to or the right to use the Seller
Intellectual Property free and clear of all Liens except for
(i) Permitted Liens, and (ii) Liens disclosed on
Schedule 4.12(b)(ii) .
(c) During
the three-year period preceding the date of this Agreement, no
Seller has been a party to any judicial or administrative
proceeding alleging, nor has any Seller been notified during such
three-year period of any allegation of, any infringement or
misappropriation of any Intellectual Property Rights owned or used
by such Seller and related to the Business. There has been no
infringement or misappropriation by any Seller of any Intellectual
Property Rights of third persons nor has any Seller been notified
of any allegation of any such infringement or misappropriation or
of any continuing material infringement or misappropriation by any
other Person of any of the Seller Intellectual Property. No Seller
Intellectual Property is subject to any outstanding order,
judgment, decree, stipulation or agreement restricting the use
thereof by any Seller or its successors or assignees.
(d) The
Sellers have taken reasonable measures to protect the
confidentiality of the trade secrets and confidential information
of the Sellers with respect to the Business.
(e) All
statutory obligations and all fees, annuities and other payments
which are due on or before the Closing Date for any of the Seller
Intellectual Property including, without limitation, all United
States or foreign patents, patent applications,
trademark
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registrations,
service mark registrations, copyright registrations and any
applications for any of the preceding, have been met or paid in
full.
4.13
Brokers’ Fees . None of the Sellers or any of
their Affiliates has any liability or obligation to pay any fees or
commissions to any broker, finder or agent with respect to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement for which the Buyer
Parties or any of their Affiliates could become liable or
obligated.
4.14
Inventory . The Sellers own their inventory including
cement, chemicals, frac sand, purchased goods available for sale
and the Packers & Service Tools, Inc. repair parts (“
Inventory ”) free and clear of all Liens except
for (i) Permitted Liens and (ii) Liens disclosed on
Schedule 4.14(a)(ii) . Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.14(b) , such Inventory was acquired for sale
in the Ordinary Course of Business and is in good and saleable
condition and is not obsolete, slow moving or damaged. Such
Inventory is located at the locations as noted on Schedule
4.14(b) and except as set forth on Schedule 4.14(b)
none of such Inventory is subject to any consignment, bailment,
warehousing or similar arrangement. Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.14(b) , all Inventory is carried on the
books of the Sellers at the lower of cost or market determined on a
first-in, first-out average cost basis.
4.15 Legal
Compliance . With respect to the ownership and use of
Purchased Assets (including their ownership and use in the
Business), the Sellers and their Affiliates have been and are in
compliance in all material respects with all applicable Legal
Requirements. The Sellers have not been charged with, or to the
Knowledge of the Sellers, been under investigation with respect to,
any material violation of any provision of any Legal Requirements
in respect of the Business or any of the Purchased Assets.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no representation or warranty is
made in this Section 4.15 with respect to Environmental Laws
which are covered exclusively in Sections 4.20 and
4.21.
4.16
Taxes . Except as disclosed on Schedule 4.16
, (i) all Tax Returns required to be filed by the Sellers have
been duly and timely filed with the appropriate Governmental
Authority, (ii) all Tax Items required to be included in each
such Tax Return have been so included and all such Tax Items and
any other information provided in each such Tax Return is true,
correct and complete in all material respects, (iii) all Taxes
owed by the Sellers that are or have become due have been timely
paid in full, (iv) no penalty, interest or other charge is or
will become due with respect to the late filing of any such Tax
Return or late payment of any such Tax, (v) all Tax
withholding and deposit requirements imposed on the Sellers have
been satisfied, (vi) there are no Liens on any of the
Purchased Assets or the Business that arose in connection with any
failure (or alleged failure) to pay any Tax, (vii) there is no
claim pending or threatened in writing by any Governmental
Authority in connection with any such Tax, (viii) none of such
Tax Returns are now under audit or examination by any Governmental
Authority and (ix) there are no agreements, waivers or other
arrangements providing for an extension of time with respect to the
filing of any such Tax Return or the assessment or collection of
any such Tax.
4.17
Litigation . Except as set forth in
Schedule 4.17 , there are no actions, suits or
proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Sellers, threatened
at law or in equity, or before or by any Governmental Authority or
before any arbitrator of any kind, against the Sellers or
the
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Business or the
Purchased Assets except for any matter that, if resolved in a
manner adverse to any Seller, would not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material and adverse
impact on the Purchased Assets or the Business or the consummation
of the transactions contemplated hereby.
4.18
Employees; Employee Relations .
(a)
(i) Except as set forth in Schedule 4.18(a) , none
of the Sellers nor any of their Affiliates is a party to or bound
by or is negotiating any collective bargaining agreement or any
other arrangements with labor or trade unions or work councils
applicable to any Business Employee, nor have the Sellers or any of
their Affiliates experienced any strikes, grievances, claims of
unfair labor practices, or other collective bargaining disputes
with respect to any Business Employee during the five-year period
prior to the date of this Agreement. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.18(a) , none of the Sellers or any of their
Affiliates has committed any unfair labor practice with respect to
any Business Employee during such five-year period. Neither Seller
nor any of Seller’s Affiliates is obligated under any
agreement to recognize or bargain with any labor organization or
union on behalf of any of the Business Employees. To the Knowledge
of the Sellers, no organizational efforts are presently being made
or threatened by or on behalf of any labor union with respect to
any Business Employees.
(ii) Seller
and its Affiliates are in compliance with and have not triggered
any requirements under the WARN Act or similar laws with respect to
the Business Employees.
(b) Except
as set forth on Schedule 4.18(b) , no legal
proceedings, charges, complaints, grievances or similar actions
have been commenced with any Governmental Authority with respect to
the Sellers or their Affiliates with respect to any Business
Employee under any federal, state or local laws affecting the
employment relationship, and, to the Knowledge of the Sellers, no
proceedings, charges, or complaints are threatened under any such
laws or regulations and no facts or circumstances exist which would
reasonably be expected to give rise to any such proceedings,
charges, complaints, or claims. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.18(b) , the Sellers and their Affiliates are
not subject to any settlement or consent decree with any present or
former employee of the Business, employee representative or any
Governmental Authority relating to claims of discrimination or
other claims in respect to employment practices and policies
relating to the Business. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.18(b) , no Governmental Authority has issued
a judgment, order, decree or finding with respect to the labor and
employment practices (including practices relating to
discrimination) of the Sellers or any of their Affiliates that
affect the Business or Business Employees. Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.18(b) , all levies, assessments and
penalties made against the Sellers or any of their Affiliates with
respect to any Business Employee pursuant to any applicable
workers’ compensation legislation in the jurisdictions in
which the Business is conducted have been paid by the Sellers or
their Affiliates.
(c)
Schedule 4.18(c) sets forth a true, correct and
complete list, as of the date of execution of this Agreement, of
all Business Employees. The list described in the preceding
sentence shows each Business Employee’s name, job title,
principal place of employment, original hire date, service date,
bonus paid or payable for calendar year 2007, current base
salary
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or base wages,
accrued and unused time off and vacations as of August 3, 2008
and employer’s name. No changes in such base salary or base
wages for such employees have been made, promised or authorized
since December 31, 2007, except in the Ordinary Course of
Business or as described in Schedule 4.18(c) . The
compensation and benefits (including vacation benefits) paid or
provided with respect to all Business Employees have been reflected
in the Financial Statements to the extent required by GAAP. There
are no loans or other obligations payable or owing by the Sellers
or any of their Affiliates to any Business Employee, except
salaries, wages, accrued vacation and salary advances and
reimbursement of expenses incurred and accrued in the Ordinary
Course of Business, nor are any loans or debts payable or owing by
any such Business Employee to the Sellers or any of their
Affiliates, nor have the Sellers or any of their Affiliates
guaranteed any of such Business Employee’s respective loans
or obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, except as provided in
Section 6.4, the Sellers acknowledge and agree that all
compensation and benefits relating to the period prior to the
Effective Time are obligations of the Sellers and are not assumed
by the Buyer. There are no contracts of employment with any of the
Business Employees except as listed on Schedule 4.18(c)
. True and complete copies (including all amendments) of each such
contract of employment with any of the Business Employees have been
provided to the Buyer Parties.
(d)
Schedule 4.18(d) sets forth a list of all Persons who
are independent contractors providing material services for the
Business. To the Knowledge of the Sellers, each of the Sellers has,
for all purposes (including compensation and tax related purposes
and benefit plan purposes), properly and correctly classified
Persons performing services for the Sellers or the Business as
employees, leased employees, independent contractors or agents, as
the case may be.
4.19
Employee Benefit Matters .
(a)
Schedule 4.19 includes a true and complete description
of each of the following (collectively referred to as the “
Plans ,” and individually referred to as a
“ Plan ”) which is sponsored, maintained
or contributed to or by the Sellers or any of their Affiliates for
the benefit of any of the Business Employees (or their
beneficiaries), or has been so sponsored, maintained or contributed
to within six years prior to the Closing Date or with respect to
which the Sellers or any of their Affiliates may have any
liability:
(i) each
“employee benefit plan,” as such term is defined in
Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended (“ ERISA ”), (including,
but not limited to, each plan that would be an “employee
benefit plan”, as such term is defined in Section 3(3)
of ERISA if it was subject to ERISA, such as foreign plans);
and
(ii) each
personnel policy, stock option plan, collective bargaining
agreement, bonus plan or arrangement, incentive award plan or
arrangement, vacation policy, severance pay plan, policy or
agreement, deferred compensation agreement or arrangement,
executive compensation or supplemental income arrangement,
consulting agreement, employment agreement and each other employee
benefit plan, agreement, arrangement, program, practice or
understanding which is not described in Section
4.19(a)(i).
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(b) As
of the date of this Agreement, Seller has provided to the Buyer
true, correct, and complete copies of each of the Plans, and
related trusts, if applicable, including all amendments thereto.
There has also been furnished to the Buyer, with respect to each
plan required to file such report and description the most recent
on Form 5500 and the summary plan description.
(c) Except
as disclosed on Schedule 4.19 , the Sellers do not
contribute to and have no obligation to contribute to (and have not
at any time within six years prior to the Closing Date, contributed
to or had any obligation to contribute to), and no Plan is
(i) a multiemployer plan within the meaning of
Section 3(37) of ERISA or (ii) a plan subject to Title IV
of ERISA, Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code. No
Plan is funded through a trust that is intended to be exempt from
federal income taxation pursuant to Section 501(c)(9) of the
Code. No Plan provides or promises to provide retiree medical,
dental or life insurance benefits to any current or former Business
Employee.
(d) There
does not now exist, nor do any circumstances exist that could
result in, any “controlled group liability” of the
Sellers or any of their ERISA Affiliates that would be, or could
become, a liability of the Buyer Parties or any of their Affiliates
as of or following the Effective Time. As used in the preceding
sentence, the term “controlled group liability” means
any and all liabilities (i) under Title IV of ERISA,
(ii) under section 302 of ERISA, (iii) under sections 412
and 4971 of the Code, (iv) as a result of the failure to
comply with the continuation of coverage requirements of section
601 et seq. of ERISA and section 4980B of the Code, and (v) under
corresponding or similar provisions of any foreign Legal
Requirement.
(e) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, Seller shall
retain or assume each Plan and associated contract, and the Buyer
shall not assume or be liable for any of the obligations or
liabilities under any Plan or associated contract.
4.20
Environmental Matters . Except as disclosed on
Schedule 4.20 :
(a)
Environmental Authorizations . All material Environmental
Authorizations required for the ownership and use of the Purchased
Assets as presently used (including their ownership and use in the
Business) have been obtained and are in full force and effect. All
such material Environmental Authorizations are listed on
Schedule 4.10 . To the Knowledge of Sellers, there are
no facts or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to
prevent the Buyer from obtaining timely renewals of Environmental
Authorizations required for operation of the Business and use of
the Purchased Assets.
(b)
Environmental Compliance . The Purchased Assets (including
their ownership and use in the Business) are and have at all times
been in compliance in all material respects with the requirements
of applicable Environmental Laws and the terms and conditions of
applicable Environmental Authorizations. None of the Sellers nor
any of their Affiliates have received any written communication
from any Environmental Authority or any other Person alleging that
any Seller is not in compliance with any Environmental Law or
Environmental Authorization applicable to the Purchased Assets or
the Sellers’ ownership and use of the Purchased Assets
(including their ownership and use in the Business) in
circumstances where
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such alleged
non-compliance has not been resolved to the satisfaction of the
Environmental Authority or Person making the allegation.
(c)
Environmental Liabilities . There are no present and
unresolved actions, activities, circumstances, conditions, events
or incidents, including any Release of any Hazardous Materials,
with respect to the Business or the Purchased Assets that would
reasonably be expected to form the basis for assertion of any
Environmental Liability against any owner or operator of the
Business or the Purchased Assets as of the Effective Time. There
has been no Release of Hazardous Materials in connection with the
Business for which all clean-up, remediation and restoration
actions required under Environmental Laws have not been fully
performed and completed to the satisfaction of the relevant
Environmental Authority.
(d)
Environmental Proceedings . There are no Claims pending or,
to the Knowledge of the Sellers, threatened against the Sellers or
any of their respective Affiliates or any Predecessor with respect
to operation of the Business or the ownership or operation of the
Purchased Assets, against the Business itself or any property used
therein, in which any violation of any Environmental Law is alleged
or any Environmental Liability is asserted.
(e)
Environmental Exposure . There has been no exposure of any
Person or property to Hazardous Materials in connection with the
Sellers’ or its Affiliates’ businesses or operations
that would reasonably be expected to form the basis for a claim for
damages or compensation.
(f)
Environmental Reports . The Sellers have provided or made
available to the Buyer all environmental audits, assessments,
studies and correspondence with any Environmental Authority
regarding environmental conditions or liability under or compliance
with Environmental Laws relating to operation of the Business or
the ownership or use of the Purchased Assets that are in the
possession or control of any of the Sellers or their
Affiliates.
(a)
Schedule 4.21(a) lists each disposal well and injection
well (“ Disposal Well ”) owned, leased or
operated by the Sellers and included in the Purchased Assets
including (i) a physical description of such Disposal Well and
of the physical site on which it is located, (ii) identification of
the entity which owns such Disposal Well, (iii) the
geographical location of such Disposal Well, (iv) a
description of all surety or performance bonds or other collateral
in favor of a Governmental Authority, Environmental Authority or
third party which have been provided or posted with respect to the
ownership, operation or permitting of such Disposal Well and
(v) whether the land on which such Disposal Well is located is
leased or owned.
(b) Each
Disposal Well and Sellers’ ownership, use and maintenance of
and reporting with respect to such Disposal Well is in compliance,
in all material respects, with all applicable Legal Requirements or
Environmental Laws (including the Texas Water Code and the Natural
Resources Code and Oklahoma Legal Requirements) and rules and
regulations imposed by applicable Governmental Authorities
(including the Railroad Commission of Texas). The only materials
and substances which have been injected into the Disposal Wells
consist of oil field wastes and other substances which are of the
type and nature and in amounts allowed under
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applicable
Legal Requirements or Environmental Laws and permits to be injected
by the Sellers into such Disposal Wells.
(c)
Schedule 4.21(c) lists each Permit and Environmental
Authorization applicable to the Sellers’ ownership, operation
or use of each Disposal Well. Such scheduled Permits and
Environmental Authorizations are all of the Permits and
Environmental Authorizations necessary for the Sellers to own and
operate the Disposal Wells and following the transfer and
assignment of the Purchased Assets and Permits and Environmental
Authorizations hereunder to the Buyer, to the Knowledge of the
Sellers, such Permits and Environmental Authorizations will
continue to be in full force and effect with respect to the
Buyer’s ownership and use of the Disposal Wells in
substantially the same manner as used prior to the
Closing.
4.22
Customers, Vendors and Suppliers .
Schedule 4.22 contains a list of the top ten customers
and suppliers of the Sellers’ stimulation and pumping
services segment, completion and production services segment and
fluid logistics and well site services segment, respectively, for
the year ended December 31, 2007 and the six-month period
ended June 30, 2008. Such list further identifies each
customer of the Business that represented more than 5% of the
revenue of the Business for such periods and each supplier of the
Business who represented more than 5% of the expenses of the
Business for such periods (each a “ Significant
Customer or Supplier ”). To the Knowledge of the
Sellers, as of the date hereof (i) none of the Significant
Customers or Suppliers has any present intent to discontinue or
substantially alter its business relationship with the Business and
(ii) none of the other customers of or suppliers to the
Business has any present intent to discontinue or substantially
alter its business relationship with the Business which
discontinuance or alteration would reasonably be expected to
materially and adversely impact the Business.
4.23
Certain Payments . In connection with the Business, none
of the Sellers or any director, officer, agent, employee or other
person associated with or acting on behalf of any Seller or any of
its Affiliates has (i) used any funds for any unlawful
contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense
relating to political activity, made any direct or indirect
unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic governmental official
or employee or made any illegal bribe, rebate, payoff, influence
payment, kickback or other unlawful payment, (ii) directly or
indirectly, given or agreed to give any gift or similar benefit to
any customer, supplier, government employee or other Person who is
or may be in a position to help or hinder the Business (or assist a
Seller) in connection with any actual or proposed transaction which
(x) would reasonably be expected to subject the Purchased
Assets or the Buyer to any damage or penalty in any civil, criminal
or governmental litigation or proceeding or (y) if not
continued in the future, would reasonably be expected to materially
and adversely impact the Business.
4.24
Insurance . Schedule 4.24 sets forth a true
and complete list of all policies, binders, and insurance contracts
under which the Purchased Assets are insured (the “
Insurance Policies ”). Each of the Insurance
Policies is in full force and effect, and there has been no written
notice of any cancellation or any threatened cancellation of any
Insurance Policy.
4.25 No
Undisclosed Liabilities . Except as set forth on
Schedule 4.25 or in the Interim Balance Sheet, the
Business does not have any liability or contingency that would be
required in accordance with GAAP to be reflected on
Diamondback’s and its Subsidiaries
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consolidated
balance sheet or the notes thereto, other than liabilities which
have arisen after the date of the Interim Balance Sheet in the
Ordinary Course of Business which liabilities have not individually
or in the aggregate had a material and adverse impact on the
Purchased Assets or the Business.
4.26
Product and Service Warranty . Schedule 4.26
identifies any warranty claim asserted during the one-year period
prior to the date hereof in connection with the Business from which
the Sellers or any of their Affiliates have incurred costs in
excess of $25,000.
4.27 Assets
Necessary to the Business; Related Party Transactions
.
(a) Except as
set forth on Schedule 4.27(a) , the Purchased Assets
transferred to the Buyer at the Closing will constitute all of the
assets necessary or required to permit the Buyer to carry on the
Business in substantially the same manner as presently conducted
and as conducted since December 31, 2007 other than assets
disposed of since December 31, 2007 in the Ordinary Course of
Business.
(b)
Schedule 4.27(b) describes any material services
provided by Diamondback or any of its Affiliates (other than the
Diamondback Subsidiaries) in the operation of the Business since
December 31, 2007.
(c)
Schedule 4.27(c) describes any material assets owned by
Diamondback or any of its Affiliates (other than the Diamondback
Subsidiaries) which are or have been used in the operation of the
Business since December 31, 2007.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BUYER PARTIES
Each Buyer Party
hereby represents and warrants to the Sellers as
follows.
5.1
Organization . Each of Parent and the Buyer is a
corporation or limited partnership duly incorporated or formed,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the state
of its formation.
5.2
Power . Each of the Buyer Parties has all requisite
corporate or partnership power and authority to own its properties
and assets and to carry on the business as currently
conducted.
5.3
Authority; Enforceability . Each of the Buyer Parties
has all requisite corporate or partnership power and authority to
execute and deliver this Agreement and any other Transaction
Documents to which it is a party and to perform its obligations
hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Buyer
Party is a party and the performance of its obligations
contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly and validly approved
by all corporate or partnership action necessary on behalf of such
Buyer Party. This Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents
to which such Buyer Party is a party constitutes the legal, valid
and binding obligations of such Buyer Party, enforceable against it
in accordance with their terms, subject to Creditors’ Rights.
All other documents required hereunder to be executed and delivered
by such Buyer Party at the Closing have been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by such entity and constitute the
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legal, valid
and binding obligations of such Buyer Party, enforceable against it
in accordance with their terms, subject to the Creditors’
Rights.
5.4 Absence
of Conflicts . Neither the execution and delivery by any
Buyer Party of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to
which it is a party, nor the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby will (a) violate or breach the
terms of, cause a default under, conflict with, result in the
acceleration of, create in any party the right to accelerate,
terminate, modify or cancel, require any notice or consent or give
rise to any preferential purchase or similar right under
(i) any applicable Legal Requirement, (ii) the
Organizational Documents of the Buyer Parties, or (iii) any
material Contract to which any Buyer Party is a party or by which
it, or any of its properties, is bound; (b) result in the
cancellation, forfeiture, revocation, suspension or adverse
modification of any existing consent, approval, authorization,
license, permit, certificate or order of any Governmental Authority
or (c) with the passage of time or the giving of notice or the
taking of any action of any third party have any of the effects set
forth in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this
Section 5.4.
5.5
Brokers’ Fees . Except for fees payable by Buyer
to Jefferies & Company, Inc. in connection with the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, which are the sole
responsibility of Parent, none of the Buyer Parties or any of their
Affiliates has any liability or obligation to pay any fees or
commissions to any broker, finder or agent with respect to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement for which the Seller
could become liable or obligated. The Buyer Parties agree and
covenant to pay any fee payable by the Buyer Parties to any of
their advisors in connection with the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement.
5.6
Consents . No consent, approval, license, permit, order
or authorization of, or registration, declaration or filing with,
any Person or Governmental Authority is required to be obtained or
made by any Buyer Party in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents or
the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and
thereby, except for (i) compliance with and filings under the
HSR Act, (ii) applications for required Permits,
(iii) those the failure of which to obtain or make,
individually or in the aggregate, would not materially impair or
delay the ability of any Buyer Party to perform its obligations
under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents and
(iv) those consents and approvals listed on
Schedule 5.6 .
5.7
Litigation . Except as set forth in
Schedule 5.7 , there are no actions, suits or
proceedings pending or, to the Knowledge of the Buyer, threatened
at law or in equity, or before or by any Governmental Authority or
before any arbitrator of any kind, against the Buyer Parties or any
of their Affiliates except for any matter that, if resolved in a
manner adverse to any Buyer Party, would not, individually or in
the aggregate, reasonably be expected to materially impair or delay
the ability of any Buyer Party to perform its obligations under
this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents.
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6.1 Conduct
of Business .
(a) From
the date of this Agreement through the Closing, except as set forth
on Schedule 6.1 , as expressly contemplated by this
Agreement, or as consented to by the Buyer in writing,
(i) each Seller shall (x) operate its business in the
ordinary course, including continuation of maintenance programs,
payment of accounts payable and maintenance of capital expenditure
programs, and (y) use Reasonable Efforts to preserve intact
its business and its relationship with customers, suppliers and
others having business relationships with the Sellers and
(ii) each Seller shall not:
(A) liquidate,
dissolve, recapitalize or otherwise wind up its
business;
(B) (1) grant
or increase any bonus, salary, severance, termination, change of
control or other compensation or benefits to any of the Business
Employees or make any other enhancement to the terms or conditions
of employment applicable to any of the Business Employees, other
than in the Ordinary Course of Business, (2) adopt, enter into
or amend in any material respect any Plan, (3) enter into any
employment agreement with any Business Employee or (4) enter
into any collective bargaining agreement or any other arrangements
with labor or trade unions or work councils applicable to any
Business Employee;
(C) sell,
assign, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any material assets
included in the Purchased Assets except in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(D) make,
amend or revoke any material election with respect to Taxes
relating to the Business or the Purchased Assets other than in the
Ordinary Course of Business;
(E) create
any new Liens on any of the Purchased Assets other than Permitted
Liens which are created without any affirmative action on the part
of the Sellers or Liens which will be removed or released at or
prior to the Effective Date;
(F) change
its material business policies or procedures including those
relating to collection of account receivables and timely payment of
account payables; or
(G) agree,
whether in writing or otherwise, to do any of the
foregoing.
(b) From
the date of this Agreement through the Closing, the Sellers shall
use Reasonable Efforts to maintain normal Inventory levels in the
Ordinary Course of Business.
(c) The
Sellers agree that between signing of this Agreement and the
Closing, the Sellers will not enter into (i) any Contract
which involves payments by or to a Seller in excess of $250,000 in
any twelve month period or in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate
over the term of the Contract (including any amendment to any
existing Scheduled Contract) or (ii) any Contract between any
Seller on the one hand and any Affiliate of Diamondback or Wexford
Capital LLC or any of its Affiliates on the other hand without the
prior written approval of the Buyer (each Contract so approved by
the Buyer, an “ Approved Contract ”);
provided , however ,
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that
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Seller Parties may enter
into/accept the following (each a “ Permitted
Order ”): (x) purchase orders and work orders
pursuant to existing Scheduled Contracts without the consent of the
Buyer, so long as such purchase orders and work orders are entered
into in the Ordinary Course of Business and are at pricing levels
and on terms which are consistent with the Sellers’ past
practices and (y) Contracts that would otherwise be prohibited
hereunder so long as such Contracts may be terminated by a Seller
or Buyer in connection with the Closing without penalty. If any
Seller enters into a Contract (or any amendment to a Scheduled
Contract) after the date of this Agreement in the Ordinary Course
of Business: (i) the Sellers Representative shall promptly
notify the Buyer of such Contract and provide a copy of such
Contract to the Buyer; (ii) such Contract, if an Approved
Contract, a Permitted Order or if entered into in the Ordinary
Course of Business and under the threshold amounts set forth in
this Section 6.1(c), shall be deemed for all purposes to have
been included in the Purchased Contracts on the Closing Date; and
(iii) the Sellers’ representations and warranties
contained in Section 4.11(c) shall be deemed to apply to such
Contracts.
(d) Sellers
agree that between signing of this Agreement and the Closing,
Sellers may not dispose of any Purchased Assets used in the
Business (other than the sale of Inventory and the use of Inventory
and other Purchased Assets, in each case in the Ordinary Course of
Business) except with the prior written consent of Sellers. The
proceeds from any sale of Purchased Assets by Seller (other than
the sale and use of Inventory and other Purchased Assets, in each
case in the Ordinary Course of Business) shall be for the account
and benefit of Buyer.
(a)
(i) Each of the Seller Parties, in order to induce the Buyer
Parties to enter into this Agreement, expressly covenants and
agrees that during the eighteen month period beginning immediately
after the Closing Date (the “ Restricted Period
”) such Seller Party will not, and such Seller Party will
cause its Affiliates not to, directly or indirectly, provide within
the Prohibited Area any hydraulic fracturing and stimulation
services or cementing services (collectively, the “
Business Services ”) using fracturing units
other than fracturing units owned by GWES Holdings LLC or its
subsidiaries (collectively, “ GWES ”) as
of the date of this Agreement which have aggregate horsepower of
less than 58,000 horsepower or more than two cementing units,
respectively (the “ Capacity Limits ”);
provided , however , that the parties acknowledge and
agree the provisions of this Section 6.2(a)(i) shall not be
deemed to prohibit: (A) the replacement or refurbishment by
GWES of such existing equipment so long as the overall aggregate
horsepower and capacity of the total equipment used by GWES within
the Prohibited Area during the Restricted Period does not exceed
the referenced Capacity Limits; or (B) the ownership by any
Seller Party or Affiliate of any Seller Party of any class of
securities registered pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended; provided such investment is a
non-controlling interest and neither Wexford Capital LLC nor any of
its Affiliates are actively involved in the management of such
entity; or (C) the purchase by a Seller Party or any of its
Affiliates of the business or assets of a business or entity where
the revenues from Business Services provided by such business or
entity, as of its most recent fiscal year-end, did not exceed 20%
of its total revenues (such business or assets comprising such
Business Services being hereinafter referred to as the “
Ancillary Business ”), provided that the
Ancillary Business (x) does not involve fracturing units with
aggregate horsepower in excess of 10,000
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horsepower or
more than two cementing units or (y) did not generate annual
revenues in excess of $36 million as of its most recent fiscal
year-end prior to such acquisition, and the Seller Party agrees not
to and does not increase the aggregate horsepower or number of
cementing units or change or expand the size, number or location of
service centers or other facilities of the Ancillary Business in
the Prohibited Area during the Restricted Period other than
relocation of facilities upon expiration of any lease or
relocations within the same general area which do not materially
change the scope or geographical reach of the business. If the
Ancillary Business involves fracturing units with aggregate
horsepower in excess of 10,000 horsepower or more than two
cementing units or generated annual revenues in excess of
$36 million as of its most recent fiscal year-end prior to
such acquisition, then the Seller Party will offer or cause to be
offered to the Buyer the right to purchase the Ancillary Business
at a mutually agreed upon price or, failing such agreement, at the
fair market value of such Ancillary Business as determined by an
independent investment banking firm mutually agreeable to Buyer and
the Sellers Representative. If the Buyer declines such offer to
purchase or fails to commit to acquire such Ancillary Business
within thirty (30) days after written notice to it of such
offer and provision to it of all relevant information pertaining to
the Ancillary Business in the possession o
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