ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
THIS ASSET PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the
“Agreement”) is made as of March 26, 2009, by and
between North American Scientific, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Parent”), North American Scientific, Inc., a
California corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the
“Company”), and Portola Medical, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the “Purchaser”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company owns and operates the
Business (as defined in Section 1.1), and owns or holds under lease
(as set out herein) the assets used in connection with the
Business;
WHEREAS, the Company owns and wishes to sell,
and the Purchaser wishes to purchase, the Assets (as defined in
Section 1.1) and the Business as a going concern on the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to assign to the
Purchaser, and the Purchaser desires to assume, the Assumed
Liabilities (as defined in Section 1.1);
WHEREAS, the Company has filed a voluntary
bankruptcy petition (the “Bankruptcy Case”) under
Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the
“Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy
Court for the Central District of California (the “Bankruptcy
Court”);
WHEREAS, the sale and purchase of the Assets and
the assignment and assumption of the Assumed Liabilities shall be
effectuated pursuant to an order of the Bankruptcy Court under
Sections 363 and 365 of the Bankruptcy Code approving such
transactions (the “Sale Order”); and
NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES that in
consideration of the premises and of the covenants, agreements,
representations and warranties set out below, the parties covenant
and agree as follows:
In this Agreement, unless there is something in
the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith or unless
otherwise specifically provided:
(a) “Accounts
Receivable” means all accounts receivable, trade accounts,
notes receivable and other debts owing to the Company in connection
with or arising out of the Business, and the full benefit of all
security for such accounts, notes and debts;
(b) “Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person controlling,
controlled by or under common control with, such Person, with
“control” for such purpose meaning the possession,
directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities or voting interests, by
contract or otherwise;
(c) “Alternative
Transaction” means any transaction, sale, or plan of
reorganization or liquidation (other than a liquidation of a
portion of the Business that is immaterial in the aggregate to the
Business) accepted by the Company as being the highest and best
offer pursuant to the Procedures Order, or otherwise, whereby all
or a material portion of the Business is purchased by, or otherwise
conveyed to, a Person other than Buyer and/or one or more of its
Affiliates.
(d) “Agreement”
is defined in the introductory paragraph;
(e) “Assets”
means all properties and assets of the Company of every kind and
description (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible)
relating to the Business wherever located (but not including the
Excluded Assets), including, without limitation:
(i)
subject to the terms of the Lease, the Company's interest in the
Leasehold Improvements and the Leased Premises;
(ii) the
Company's right, title and interest in the Assumed
Contracts;
(iv) the
Prepaid Expenses;
(v) the
Computer Hardware;
(vi) the
Computer Software;
(vii) the
Office Equipment;
(viii) the
Manufacturing Equipment;
(ix) the
Personal Property;
(x)
the
Intellectual Property;
(xii) the
Customer Lists;
(xiii) the
Company's interest in the Permits;
(xiv) the
Books and Records;
(f) “Assumed
Contracts” means those Contracts used in connection with the
Business or Assets, including those set forth on Schedule
1.1(f);
(g) “Assumed
Liabilities” is defined in Section 2.5;
(h) “Audited
Financial Statements” means audited financial statements of
the Parent, together with the auditor's report, the notes thereto
and supporting schedules, consisting of statements of income and
retained earnings and statements of cash flows for the period
ending on, and balance sheet as at October 31, 2008
inclusive;
(i) “Benefit
Plan” means any pension, retirement, deferred compensation,
COBRA, profit-sharing, savings, disability, medical, dental,
health, life, death benefit, stock option, stock purchase, bonus,
incentive, termination and severance pay or other employee benefit
plan, trust, arrangement, contract, agreement, policy or
commitment, whether or not any of the foregoing is funded or
insured, and whether written or oral, formal or informal, which is
intended to provide or does in fact provide benefits to any or all
Employees or former Employees, and to which the Company is a party
or by which the Company is bound or with respect to which the
Company has any liability or potential liability;
(j) “Books
and Records” means all files, ledgers and correspondence, all
price and supplier lists, all manuals, reports, texts, notes,
engineering, environmental and feasibility studies, data,
specifications, memoranda, invoices, receipts, accounts, accounting
records and books, financial statements and financial working
papers and all other records and documents of any nature or kind
whatsoever, including, without limitation, those recorded, stored,
maintained, operated, held or otherwise wholly or partly dependent
on discs, tapes and other means of storage, including, without
limitation, any electronic, magnetic, mechanical, photographic or
optical process, whether computerized or not, and all software,
passwords and other information and means of or for access thereto,
belonging to the Company and relating to the Business or any of the
Assets;
(k) “Business”
means the ClearPath business, but not including the prostate
business;
(l) “Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any
federal holiday in the United States;
(m) “Charter
Documents” means articles, articles or certificate of
incorporation, bylaws and any other constituted document of a
corporate entity;
(n) “ClearPath”
means all assets related to the Company’s ClearPath product
family;
(o) “Closing”
means the completion of the sale and purchase of the Assets and the
Business in accordance with Article 9;
(p) “Closing
Date” means five (5) Business Days following the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in Article 7 and Bankruptcy Court
Approval, or such other date as may be agreed upon in writing by
the Company and the Purchaser or by their respective
counsel;
(q) “Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(r) “Computer
Hardware” means all the computer hardware owned by the
Company and used by the Company in connection with the Business,
including, without limitation, the hardware listed in Schedule
1.1(r);
(s) “Computer
Software” means all the computer software, including, without
limitation, application software, object codes and source codes,
used by the Company in connection with the Business, including,
without limitation, the software and codes described in Schedule
1.1(r), and, with respect to any of the same not owned by the
Company, includes all rights of the Company under license
agreements and other agreements or instruments relating thereto,
including, without limitation, those license agreements, other
agreements and instruments described in Schedule 1.1(s);
(t) “Consent”
means any approval, consent, ratification, waiver or other
authorization;
(u) “Contemplated
Transactions” means all of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement;
(v) “Contracts”
means all contracts, agreements, instruments, leases, indentures
and commitments, whether written or oral, relating to the Business
or to any of the Assets to which the Company is a party including,
without limitation, non-competition, non-solicitation and
confidentiality agreements;
(w) “Customer
Lists” means all lists of customers and potential customers
of the Company pertaining to the Business, including names,
addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses, details of
sales and other relevant information relating thereto;
(x) “DIP
Facility” means the Debtor-In-Possession Loan and Security
Agreement, dated March 11, 2009, by and between Purchaser and
Company, and documentation related thereto.
(y) “Disclosure
Schedule” means that disclosure schedule delivered by Company
to the Purchaser concurrently with execution and delivery of this
Agreement in the form of Schedule 1.1(y);
(z) “Employees”
means employees of the Company employed in connection with the
Business;
(aa) “Encumbrance”
means, whether or not registered or registrable or recorded or
recordable, and regardless of how created or arising:
(i) a
mortgage, assignment of rent, lien, encumbrance, adverse claim,
charge, execution, title defect, security interest, hypothec or
pledge, whether fixed or floating, against assets or property
(whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible),
hire-purchase agreement, conditional sales contract, title
retention agreement, equipment trust or financing lease, and a
subordination to any right or claim of others in respect
thereof;
(ii) a
claim, interest or estate against or in assets or property (whether
real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible), including, without
limitation, an easement, right-of-way, servitude or other similar
right in property granted to or reserved or taken by any
Person;
(iii) an
option or other right to acquire, or to acquire any interest in,
any assets or property (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or
intangible); and
(iv) any
other encumbrance of whatsoever nature and kind against assets or
property (whether real, personal, mixed, tangible or
intangible);
(bb) “Environment”
means the air immediately around, and the water in, and the soil
under and adjacent to, any of the lands on which the Leased
Premises are situate;
(cc) “Environmental
Protection Laws” means all statutes, orders, bylaws,
standards, permits, laws, regulations, treaties, conventions,
ordinances, codes, policies, guidelines, directives, decisions,
licenses, consents, authorizations, certificates and lawful
requirements (including, without limitation, of any Governmental
Authority) relating to protection of the Environment, health and
safety of the workplace, health, or transportation of dangerous
goods;
(dd) “Excluded
Assets” means:
(i) all
cash on hand or in banks or other depositories, including the cash
in the Company’s subsidiaries;
(ii) all
credits and benefits, including without limitation any Tax credits
or benefits, insurance benefits, and any indemnification rights,
escrows and other assets, relating to any Retained
Liabilities;
(iii) rights
accruing to the Company under this Agreement or any agreement
relating thereto;
(iv) the
corporate seals, certificate of incorporation, minute books, stock
books, Tax returns, books of account or other records having to do
with the corporate organization of the Company;
(v) all
personnel records and other records that Company is required by law
to retain in its possession;
(vi) all
insurance policies held by or for the Company and any benefits or
proceeds paid or payable thereunder;
(vii) the
Excluded Prepaids;
(viii) the
assets listed in Schedule 1.1(dd)(viii);
(ix) all
Accounts Receivable;
(x)
all assets solely related to the prostate business;
(xi) all
claims and actions arising under Sections 544
through 553, inclusive, of the Bankruptcy Code, against any
pre-petition creditor of the Company with the exception of any
claim against Purchaser;
(ee) “Excluded
Prepaids” is defined in Section 1.1(ccc);
(ff) “FDA”
means the United States Food and Drug Administration;
(gg) “Goodwill”
means the goodwill attributable to the Business and the exclusive
right of the Purchaser to represent itself as carrying on the
Business in continuation of and as successor to the Company, and
the right to use any words indicating that the Business is so
carried on or in connection with, the Business to be carried on by
the Purchaser;
(hh) “Governmental
Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, county or
regional government or governmental or regulatory authority,
domestic or foreign, and includes any department, commission,
bureau, board, administrative agency or regulatory body of any of
the foregoing or any non-governmental regulatory body that provides
standards for certification such as ISO certification;
(ii) “Governmental
Authorization” means any Consent, license, registration or
permit issued, granted, given or otherwise made available by or
under the authority of any Governmental Authority or pursuant to
any Legal Requirement;
(jj) “Hazardous
Materials” means any contaminants, pollutants, hazardous,
corrosive or toxic substances, flammable materials, explosive
materials, radioactive materials, microwaves, waste, urea
formaldehyde, asbestos materials, hydrocarbon contaminants, noxious
substances, compounds known as chlorobiphenyls, deleterious
substances, special wastes, dangerous goods or substances and any
other substances or materials that are identified or described in
or defined by any Environmental Protection Law as being substances
or materials the storage, manufacture, disposal, treatment,
generation, use, transportation or remediation of which, or release
of which into or concentration of which in the Environment, is
prohibited, controlled, regulated or licensed by any Governmental
Authority or under any Environmental Protection Law;
(kk) “Intellectual
Property” means all rights, title, interest and benefit of
the Company in and to intellectual property of every nature,
whether registered or unregistered, including, without limitation,
all websites and website names, copyrights, patents, patent rights,
trade-marks, certification marks and industrial designs,
applications for any of the foregoing, trade names, brand names,
trade secrets, proprietary manufacturing information and know-how,
instruction manuals, inventions, inventors' notes, research data,
unpatented blue prints, drawings and designs, formulae,
calculations, processes, prototypes, technology and marketing
rights, together with all rights under license agreements,
sublicense agreements, strategic alliances, development agreements,
technology transfer agreements and other agreements or instruments
relating to any of the foregoing, that are used in connection with
the Business or Assets, including, without limitation, the
trade-marks, copyrights, patents, licenses and agreements set forth
in Schedule 1.1(kk);
(ll) “Inventory”
means the goods, merchandise, stock-in trade and inventories of raw
materials, work in progress and finished goods of or pertaining
solely to the Business;
(mm) “IRS”
means the Internal Revenue Service;
(nn) “Knowledge”
of the Company, or words of similar import, including without
limitation, the Company being aware of a fact or circumstance,
shall mean and refer to the actual knowledge as of the date of this
Agreement, after reasonable inquiry, of John B. Rush, Brett Scott
and Shawn Moaddeb;
(oo) “Leased
Premises” means the premises located at 13766 Alton Parkway,
Suite 152, Irvine, California;
(pp) “Leasehold
Improvements” means all the leasehold improvements of the
Company in the Leased Premises;
(qq) “Lease”
means that certain Standard Sublease, between the Company and SND
Electronics LLC, dated June 5, 2008;
(rr) “Legal
Requirement” means any federal, state, local, municipal,
foreign, international, multinational or other constitution, law
ordinance, principle of common law, code regulation, statute or
treaty;
(ss) “Liability”
means with respect to any Person, any liability or obligation of
such Person of any kind, character or description, whether known or
unknown, absolute or contingent, whether or not accrued, disputed
or undisputed, liquidated or unliquidated, secured or unsecured,
joint or several, due or to become due, vested or unvested,
executory, determined, determinable or otherwise;
(tt) “Manufacturing
Equipment” means all machinery, plant, equipment, parts,
fixtures, tools and accessories of the Company pertaining to the
Business and used in the manufacture and packaging of goods for
sale by the Company in the Business, including, without limitation,
those items listed in Schedule 1.1(tt);
(uu) “Material”
means (i) any event(s), occurrence(s), breach(es) or other
violations that individually or in the aggregate under all Sections
of this Agreement, amount to or potentially amount to
damages in excess of $25,000; (ii) the failure to comply with any
Legal Requirement or Government Authorization related to the
Business which results in or could result in fees, sanctions or
costs to restore compliance in excess of $25,000 in the aggregate;
or (iii) any event(s), occurrence(s), breach(es) or other
violations that would or could result in the termination,
suspension or investigation of any Permit or Government
Authorization related to the Business.
(vv) “Material
Adverse Effect” means (a) any effect or circumstance, either
individually or in the aggregate under all Sections of this
Agreement, that amounts to or could amount to damages in excess of
an aggregate of $25,000; (b) the failure to file this Agreement
with the Bankruptcy Court in a timely manner; or (c) any other act
or omission which would make it impossible to operate the Business
in the Ordinary Course; provided, however, the none of the
following, shall be taken into account in determining whether there
has been a “Material Adverse Effect”: (i) the entry
into or the announcement of the execution of this Agreement,
actions contemplated by this Agreement or the performance of
obligations under this Agreement, (ii) any changes or effects
arising out of or resulting from any legal claims or other
proceedings made by any of the Company’s stockholders arising
out of or related to this Agreement or the Contemplated
Transactions (iii) changes affecting the United States economy
generally, (iv) any failure by the Company to meet published
revenue or earnings projections, in and of itself (as opposed to
the facts underlying such failure), (v) any change, in and of
itself (as opposed to the facts underlying such change), in the
market price or trading volume of the equity securities of the
Company on or after the date hereof, (vi) the suspension of trading
in securities generally in and of itself (as opposed to the facts
causing such suspension of trading) on the NASDAQ Global Market,
(vii) any change in any applicable law, rule or regulation or GAAP
or interpretation thereof after the date hereof, (viii) events,
effects or circumstances to the extent specifically disclosed in
the Disclosure Schedule (provided such disclosures are materially
correct), (ix) any action taken or omitted to be taken by the
Company with the Purchaser’s express written consent, (x) the
commencement, occurrence or continuation of any war, armed
hostilities or acts of terrorism involving or affecting the United
States of America or any part thereof, (xi) the loss of any
customer, supplier or employee of the Business after the
announcement of the execution of this Agreement except as a result
of a breach of any of Company’s obligations under
Article 5.
(ww) “Office
Equipment” means all office equipment and furniture used by
the Company in connection with the Business including, without
limitation, the equipment described in
Schedule 1.1(ww);
(xx) “Ordinary
Course of Business” or “in the Ordinary Course”
means the conduct of the Business in substantially the same manner
as the Business was operated on February 1, 2009 and in conformance
with Company’s practices and procedures as of February 1,
2009.
(yy) “Permits”
means all permits, licenses, registrations, consents,
authorizations, approvals, privileges, waivers, exemptions, orders,
certificates, rulings, agreements and other concessions from, of or
with Governmental Authorities or other regulatory bodies required
to carry on the Business as now being carried on, and to hold,
operate and use the Assets as now being held, operated and used
obtained by the Company with respect to the Business or any of the
Assets, including, without limitation, the permits, licenses,
registrations and other rights described in Schedule
1.1(yy);
(zz) “Permitted
Encumbrances” means (a) real estate taxes, assessments and
other governmental fees or other charges levied with respect to the
real property of a party not yet due and payable as of the Closing
Date; (b) mechanics and similar statutory liens arising or incurred
in the Ordinary Course of Business for amounts which are not
delinquent and which would not be reasonably likely to,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect on
the Business, taken as a whole; (c) zoning, entitlement, building
and other land use and similar laws or regulations imposed by any
governmental authority having jurisdiction over such parcel which
are not violated by the current use and operation thereof; (d)
easements, covenants, conditions, restrictions and other similar
matters of record affecting title to such Leased Premises which
would not materially impair the use or occupancy of such parcel in
the operation of a party’s business; (e) liens or
encumbrances placed by a Third Party lessor with respect to
any leased equipment; and (f) liens that do not
materially interfere with the use or operation of the property
subject thereto.
(aaa) “Person”
means an individual, legal personal representative, corporation,
body corporate, firm, partnership, trust, trustee, syndicate, joint
venture, unincorporated organization or Governmental
Authority;
(bbb) “Personal
Property” means, to the extent not forming part of the
Leasehold Improvements, Manufacturing Equipment, Office Equipment,
Inventory and Computer Hardware, all equipment, furniture,
furnishings, accessories, motors, tools, utensils, stores,
supplies, and parts of every nature and kind and other tangible
personal property owned by the Company and used in the Business,
including, without limitation, the items of personal property
described in Schedule 1.1(bbb), but excluding any Excluded Assets,
and any personal property which is the subject of a lease
agreement;
(ccc) “Prepaid
Expenses” means all prepaid expenses including any and all
trade deposits (but not bank deposits) of the Company attributable
to the Business or the Assets including, without limitation,
amounts paid for licensing fees, property Taxes, telephone rentals,
utilities and rentals, all of which are set forth in Schedule
1.1(ccc); but, in any event, shall not include any prepaid
insurance (or refunds relating thereto), the COBRA receivable as
reflected on the books of Company, or Prepaid Rent (the
“Excluded Prepaids”);
(ddd) “Prepaid
Rent” is defined in Section 2.7;
(eee) “Proceeding”
is defined in Section 3.8(a);
(fff) “Product
Liability Insurance” is defined in Section 10.14;
(ggg) “Purchase
Price” means the purchase price for the Business, and the
Assets, as set out in Section 2.2;
(hhh) “Purchaser”
is defined in the introductory paragraph;
(iii) “Radioactive
Possession Licenses” shall mean all licenses held by the
Company to possess radioactive isotopes that are not transferable
to the Purchaser that need to be reissued to the Purchaser to
perform the Business as currently conducted;
(jjj) “Retained
Liabilities” is defined in Section 2.5(b);
(kkk) “SEC”
means the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission;
(lll) “Tangible
Assets” shall mean the Inventory, the Computer Hardware, the
Office Equipment, the Manufacturing Equipment and the Personal
Property; and
(mmm) “Tax”
or “Taxes” shall mean all taxes, charges, fees,
imposts, levies or other like assessments, including, without
limitation, all net income, gross receipts, capital, sales, use, ad
valorem, value added, transfer, franchise, profits, inventory,
capital stock, license, withholding, payroll, employment, social
security, unemployment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation,
property and estimated taxes, customs duties, fees, assessments and
charges of any kind whatsoever.
Except where otherwise expressly provided, all
monetary amounts in this Agreement are stated and shall be paid in
US currency.
This Agreement and the agreements contemplated
hereby shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the
laws and the courts of the State of California.
The following are the Schedules which are
attached to and form part of this Agreement:
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The Company agrees to sell, assign and transfer
to the Purchaser and the Purchaser agrees to purchase from the
Company, on the Closing Date, the Assets, effective as of and from
the Closing, free and clear of all Encumbrances other than
Permitted Encumbrances, for the Purchase Price and in accordance
with and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, and subject to an Order granting Bankruptcy Court
Approval (the “Sale Order”).
The Purchase Price for the Business and Assets
will be Four Hundred Thousand Dollars ($400,000) (“Purchase
Price”) plus the assumption of the Assumed Liabilities
defined in Section 2.5. Purchaser, in its sole
discretion, shall be entitled to credit the Purchase Price against
the Obligations (as defined in the DIP Facility) outstanding under
the DIP Facility.
2.3.
Payment of Purchase Price
Except as set forth in Section 2.2 , the
Cash Purchase Price for the Business and Assets shall be paid by
the Purchaser to the Company by wire transfer to an account
designated by the Company. The Company shall promptly
pay all costs to cure all defaults under the Assumed Contracts so
as to permit the assumption and assignment of the Assumed Contracts
pursuant to Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code as ultimately
determined by the Bankruptcy Code. Schedule 1.1(e) sets forth the
expected cure costs with respect to each of the Assumed
Contracts.
2.4.
Risk of Loss and Damage Prior to Closing
(a) Risk
of loss of the Tangible Assets shall pass to the Purchaser at the
Closing, and the Company shall bear all risk of loss or damage to,
or destruction of, the Tangible Assets until the Closing and the
Purchaser shall bear all such risk of loss, damage and destruction
after the Closing. If, prior to the Closing, any
Tangible Assets are lost, damaged or destroyed and such loss,
damage or destruction has not been completely replaced, repaired or
otherwise rectified by the Closing, and if the Closing takes place,
the Purchase Price will be reduced by an amount equal to the
aggregate of:
(i) the
insurance proceeds paid to the Company in respect of such loss,
damage or destruction; and
(ii) the
aggregate of all deductible amounts under the insurance policies
against which a payment has been made under Section 2.4(a) above in
respect of such loss, damage or destruction;
(ii) the
amount actually expended by or on behalf of the Company in the
repair, replacement or other rectification thereof.
(b) The
Company shall consult with the Purchaser prior to making a claim
against any applicable insurance policy and shall act reasonably
and bona fide in respect thereof and in a manner consistent with
the Purchaser's interest in the Tangible Assets. The
Company shall at Closing make, or cause to be made, the necessary
claims under all applicable insurance policies and shall assign to
the Purchaser all remaining insurance proceeds, including business
interruption insurance proceeds, which are or may become receivable
by the Company in respect of any such loss, damage or destruction.
Subject to the limitations contained in Article 10, the Company
shall indemnify and save harmless the Purchaser from and against
the amount of any denied insurance claim in respect of such loss,
damage or destruction where the denial is due to the negligence or
willful misconduct of the Company.
(c) In
the event of losses, damage or destruction to the Tangible Assets
that is either uninsured, underinsured or for which a claim is not
made, if amounts not covered or paid by insurance are Material, the
Purchaser may, at its option (i) elect to proceed to Close and
reduce the Purchase Price by an amount equal to the uninsured or
unclaimed losses; or (ii) terminate this Agreement.
(a) Assumed
Liabilities. On and effective as of the Closing Date,
Purchaser shall assume and agree to discharge only the following
Liabilities of Company (the “Assumed
Liabilities”):
(i) any
Liability arising after the Closing Date under the
Lease;
(ii) any
Liability arising after the Closing Date under the Assumed
Contracts;
(iii) any
liability for sales, use or other similar tax arising from the
transfer of the Assets; or
(iv) any
Liability of Company described in Schedule 2.6(a)(iv).
(b) Retained
Liabilities. The Retained Liabilities shall remain the
sole responsibility of and shall be retained, paid, performed and
discharged solely by Company. “Retained
Liabilities” shall mean every Liability of Company other than
the Assumed Liabilities, including but not limited to:
(i)
any trade account payable reflected on the balance sheet contained
in the Audited Financial Statements (the “Balance
Sheet”) that remains unpaid as of the Closing Date including
any credit balances contained in the accounts receivable of the
Audited Financial Statements; any trade account payable incurred by
Company in the Ordinary Course of Business between the date of the
Balance Sheet and the Closing Date that remains unpaid as of the
Closing Date;
(ii) any
Liability arising out of or relating to products, software or
services of Company sold prior to the Closing Date (a
“Product Liability Matter”), except to the extent the
same constitutes an Assumed Liability under Section 2.5(a)(i) or
(ii);
(iii) any
Liability under any Contract that arises after the Closing Date but
that arises out of or relates to any event that occurred prior to
the Closing Date;
(iv) any
Liability of Company for (A) any Taxes arising as a result of
Company's operation of its business or ownership of the Assets
prior to the Closing Date, and (B) any deferred Taxes of any nature
relating to any period prior to the Closing Date;
(v) any
Liability of Company under any Contract (excluding any Assumed
Contract), including any Liability arising out of or relating to
Company's credit facilities or any security interest related
thereto;
(vi) any
Environmental, Health and Safety Liabilities arising out of or
relating to the operation of Company's business or Company's
leasing, ownership or operation of real property arising out of or
relating to any occurrence or event prior to the Closing
Date;
(vii) any
Liability of Company from its Shareholders;
(viii) any
Liability of Company arising out of any Proceeding pending as of
the Closing Date;
(ix) any
Liability of Company arising out of any Proceeding commenced after
the Closing Date and arising out of or relating to any occurrence
or event happening prior to the Closing Date, except to the extent
the same constitutes an Assumed Liability under this
Agreement;
(x) any
Liability arising out of or resulting from Company's compliance or
noncompliance with any Legal Requirement or order of any
Governmental Authority arising out of or relating to any occurrence
or event happening prior to the Closing Date; or
(xi) any
Liability of Company under this Agreement or any other document
executed in connection with the Contemplated Transactions;
or
(xii) any
Liability of the Company under Section 8.1 or Schedule
2.6(b)(xii).
Within forty (40) days after the Closing,
Purchaser and the Company shall jointly prepare an allocation
schedule which shall allocate the Purchase Price and the Assumed
Liabilities in accordance with the applicable provisions of the
Code and regulations thereunder (“Closing
Allocation”). After the Closing, the parties shall
make consistent use of the allocations, fair market values and
useful lives specified in the Closing Allocation for all Tax
purposes and in all filings, declarations and reports with the IRS
in respect thereof, including the reports required to be filed
under Section 1060 of the Code. Each of the Purchaser
and the Company shall prepare or cause to be prepared IRS Forms
8594 in accordance with such allocation and consistent with one
another and in accordance with the Code and regulations
thereunder. Purchaser and the Company shall each deliver
such Forms to one another for review and comment no later than 20
Business Days prior to filing with the IRS. For purposes
of clarity, an amount included in the Tax basis of the Assets by
Purchaser shall not be required to be taken into account or
reported by the Company (including for purposes of IRS Form 8594)
to the extent such amount is not required to be treated as an
amount realized by the Company for Tax purposes (e.g., legal fees
paid by the Company in connection with acquisition of the Assets
hereunder required to be capitalized under Section 263 of the
Code).
Immediately prior to the Closing, the parties
shall calculate the amount of Base Rent and Operating Expenses as
such terms are defined in the Lease paid by or on behalf of the
Company relating to the period beginning on the Closing Date and
ending on the next date that such Base Rent and Operating Expenses
is due under the Lease (the “Prepaid Rent”), and at the
Closing Purchaser shall pay to Company an amount equal to the
amount of the Prepaid Rent.
3.
Representations and Warranties of the Company
. Except (i) as set forth in the corresponding section
of the Disclosure Schedule, or (ii) as expressly contemplated or
expressly permitted under this Agreement or any agreement
contemplated hereby, the Company or the Parent, as applicable,
hereby represents and warrants to Purchaser as follows:
3.1.
Corporate Status and Authority
(a) Status:
The Company and Parent are each duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of California and Delaware,
respectively, and each has the corporate power to own its property
and conduct the Business in the manner in which the Business is now
being conducted. Each of the Company and Parent is duly
qualified to do business and is in good standing in each
jurisdiction in which its ownership of properties or conduct of
business requires such qualification and where failure to be so
qualified would have a Material Adverse Effect on the Business
taken as a whole.
(b) Due
Authorization: The execution and delivery of this Agreement and all
documents, instruments and agreements required to be executed and
delivered by the Company and Parent pursuant to this Agreement, and
the completion and performance of the Contemplated Transactions by,
or contained in, this Agreement, have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and Parent,
and this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the
Company and Parent and constitutes a legal, valid and binding
obligation of each of the Company and Parent, and shall be subject
to the approval of the Bankruptcy Court.
(a) Ownership:
Except for the Leased Premises, the Company owns, and has good and
marketable title to, all of the Assets free and clear of all
Encumbrances, except Permitted Encumbrances.
(b) Leases
and Leased Premises: The Leased Premises are held by the Company
under the Lease, which is valid and subsisting, is set forth in the
Disclosure Schedule, and is in full force and effect and without
amendment thereto. The Lease is complete and accurate in
all respects and there are no other leases, agreements to lease or
tenancy arrangements relating to real property to which the Company
is a party and which relate to the Business except as disclosed to
the Purchaser. The Company has not previously assigned the Lease
nor sublet its interest in any of the Leased Premises under the
Lease. The Company has not released any of the other parties to the
Lease from the performance of any of their obligations
thereunder.
(c) Zoning:
The Leased Premises at which the Company carries on any part of the
Business is zoned to permit the particular activities carried on
thereon or therein by the Company.
(d) Taxes:
All property, municipal, school, general and special Taxes, rates,
assessments, local improvements charges, frontage Taxes, business
Taxes, development cost charges, other subdivision charges and
costs and other levies which are chargeable against the Leased
Premises and payable by the Company under the Lease have been paid
in full unless the same are not due and payable.
(e) Lands
and Buildings: The Leased Premises are the only real property used
in the conduct of the Business.
(f) State
of Tangible Personal Property: All tangible personal property
included in the Assets has been properly maintained in all Material
respects, is in good working order (where applicable) and repair,
ordinary wear and tear excepted, contains no defects known to the
Company which will adversely affect the operation of the Business
to any Material degree and is in the possession of the
Company.
(g) Tangible
Personal Property: The Disclosure Schedule contains a complete list
of the tangible Personal Property owned by the Company and used
solely in the conduct of the Business that has a carrying value in
excess of $1,000 per item.
(h) Intellectual
Property: With respect to the Intellectual Property:
(i)
the Disclosure Schedule contains a complete list of all patents,
pending patent applications, trade-marks, trade-mark applications
and copyright registrations used in connection with the Business,
and each jurisdiction in which application or registration has been
made by or on behalf of the Company, together with all licenses and
agreements relating to the Intellectual Property;
(ii)
the Company has the right to use, sell, make, have
made, offer for sale, import, transfer, assign, license,
sub-license and prepare derivative works for, and to dispose of,
and to bring actions for the infringement or misappropriation of,
the Intellectual Property and the Company has not conveyed,
assigned or encumbered any of the Intellectual Property
rights;
(iii) all
registrations and filings necessary to preserve the rights of the
Company to the Intellectual Property have been made and are in good
standing;
(iv) the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the completion and
performance of the Contemplated Transactions will not breach,
violate or conflict with any instrument or agreement governing any
of the Company’s Intellectual Property, and will not cause
the forfeiture or termination of any Intellectual Property right of
Company or in any way exclude the right of the Company to use,
sell, make, have made, offer for sale, import, transfer, assign,
license or dispose of or to bring any action for the infringement
of any Intellectual Property right of Company (or any portion
thereof);
(v) the
conduct of the Business by the Company does not, to the Knowledge
of the Company, infringe upon any intellectual property right,
domestic or foreign, of any Person;
(vi) there
are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company threatened,
claims, actions, demands, lawsuits or other proceedings contesting
the validity, ownership or right to use, sell, make, have made,
offer for sale, import, transfer, assign, license or dispose of any
of the Intellectual Property necessary or required or otherwise
used for or in connection with the conduct of the operations of the
Business, nor to the Knowledge of the Company is there any
reasonable basis for such claim presently in existence, nor has the
Company received any notice asserting that any Intellectual
Property right of the Company or the proposed use, sale, make, have
made, offer for sale, import, transfer, assign, license or
disposition thereof by the Company conflicts or will conflict with
the rights of any party, nor to the Knowledge of the Company, is
there any reasonable basis for any such assertion presently in
existence;
(vii) to
the Knowledge of the Company, no Employee is in violation of any
term of any non-disclosure, proprietary rights or similar agreement
between the Employee and the Company or any former employer of such
Employee;
(viii) the
Company has used its reasonable commercial efforts to ensure that
all technical information, other than technical information for
which the Company considers patent protection and defensive
publication to be suitable, developed by, and belonging to, the
Company with respect to the Business or the Assets, for which a
copyright has not been registered nor patent protection sought, has
been kept confidential;
(ix) except
for the existing obligations of the Company under licensing or
similar agreements as set forth in the Disclosure Schedule, there
are no royalties, honoraria, fees or other payments payable by the
Company to any Person by reason of the ownership, use, license,
sale or disposition of any of the Intellectual Property;
and
(x)
all Persons having access to or knowledge of the Intellectual
Property that is of a confidential nature and that is necessary or
required or otherwise used for or in connection with the conduct or
operation or proposed conduct or operation of the Business have
entered into appropriate non-disclosure agreements with the
Company;
(i)
No Rights to Assets: There is no agreement, contract, option,
commitment or other right in favor of, or held by, any Person other
than the Purchaser to purchase, lease, license or otherwise acquire
any of the Assets, other than inventory purchase orders accepted by
the Company in the Ordinary Course of Business and consistent with
past practice, or to possess any of the Assets or to occupy any
part of the Leased Premises.
(j)
All Assets Used in Business: The Licensed Assets (as defined in
Section 6.1) and the Assets constitute all of the material rights,
assets and properties required to operate the Business in the
Ordinary Course, and include all material rights, assets and
properties, the use and exercise of which are necessary for the
performance of any Contract and any Permit for the conduct of the
Business as now conducted.
(k)
Inventory: To the Knowledge of the Company, none of the
Inventory is obsolete or unsaleable in the Ordinary Course of
Business and all of the Inventory is new, unused and in good
condition for sale, except the maintenance Inventory which consists
of used parts, in each case subject to customary reserves
maintained by the Company.
(l)
Contracts Assignable: All of the Assumed Contracts may be assigned
to the Purchaser without the consent of the other parties to the
Assumed Contracts.
(a) Permits:
The Company holds all Permits that it is required to carry on the
Business as now being carried on, and to hold, operate and use the
Assets as now being held, operated and used, by the Company, and
all of the foregoing are validly issued, are in full force and
effect, are in good standing, are being complied with in all
respects and are listed in the Disclosure Schedule; and no notice
of breach or default or defect in respect of any of their terms has
been received by the Company and there are no proceedings in
progress, pending or threatened which could result in the
cancellation, revocation, suspension or adverse alteration of any
of them, and the Company is not aware of any existing matters or
state of facts which is reasonably likely to give rise to any such
notice or proceeding. As of the Closing, all Permits are
transferable and will be transferred or assigned to Purchaser,
except where the failure to transfer or assign would not have a
Material Adverse Effect on the Business.
(b) Compliance
with Legal Requirements:
(i)
The Company is, and at all times since has been, in Material
compliance with each Legal Requirement that is or was applicable to
it or to the conduct or operation of its Business or the ownership
or use of any of the Assets;
(ii)
No event has occurred or circumstance exists that (with or without
notice or lapse of time) (A) would be reasonably likely to result
in a Material violation by Company of, or a failure on the part of
Company to comply with, any Legal Requirement or (B) will give rise
to any Material obligation on the part of Company to undertake, or
to bear all or any portion of the cost of, any Material remedial
action of any nature; and
(iii) The
Company has not received, at any time any notice or other
communication (whether oral or written) from any Governmental
Authority or any other Person regarding (A) any actual, alleged,
possible or potential violation of, or failure to comply with, any
Legal Requirement or (B) any actual, alleged, possible or potential
obligation on the part of Company to undertake, or to bear all or
any portion of the cost of, any remedial action of any
nature.
(c) Governmental
Authorization: The Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and
accurate list of each Governmental Authorization that is held by
Company or that otherwise relates to the Business or the
Assets. Each Governmental Authorization listed or
required to be listed in the Disclosure Schedule is valid and in
full force and effect.
(i)
The Company is, and at all times since has been,
in
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