EXHIBIT 10.1
ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is made as of
the 1st day of November 2005.
BETWEEN:
MANATRON, INC., a corporation incorporated under the laws
of the State of Michigan, (the " Purchaser ");
PLEXIS GROUP, L.L.C. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Beam,
Longest & Neff, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company
(hereinafter referred to as the " Vendor ")
- and -
BEAM, LONGEST & NEFF, LLC , an Indiana limited
liability company (the " Shareholder ").
WHEREAS the Vendor carries on
the business of software development, sales and marketing and
support of property tax and assessment systems for counties in the
State of Indiana;
WHEREAS the Vendor desires to
sell and the Purchaser desires to purchase certain of the assets
and assume certain of the liabilities of the Vendor pertaining to
the Business (as hereafter defined), upon and subject to the terms
and conditions hereinafter set forth;
AND WHEREAS, Shareholder owns
all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Vendor and
joins in this Agreement to make certain covenants and to guaranty
the prompt performance of Vendor's obligations under this
Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and the covenants and agreements
herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
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1.1
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Definitions . In this Agreement, unless something
in the subject matter or context is inconsistent therewith:
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(a)
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" Accounts Receivable " has the meaning set out in
Section 3.1(s).
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(b)
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" Agreement " means this agreement and all Schedules
hereto and all amendments made hereto and thereto by written
agreement between the Vendor and the Purchaser.
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(c)
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" Assets " means the assets referred to or described in
Section 2.1 other than any Excluded Assets described in Section
2.2.
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(d)
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" Assumed Liabilities " has the meaning set out in
Section 2.6.
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(e)
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" Business " means the business of developing, selling
and supporting all of the Software products of the Vendor,
including without limitation any products that are in the
development stage or currently being supported by the Vendor. The
Business includes all versions and modules of the Software.
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(f)
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" Business Day " means a day other than a Saturday,
Sunday or statutory holiday in Michigan or Indiana.
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(g)
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" Claims " means all losses, damages, expenses,
liabilities, claims and demands of whatever nature or kind
including, without limitation, all reasonable legal fees and
costs.
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(h)
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" Closing Date " means the date of this Agreement.
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(i)
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" Contracts " means any contract, lease (whether for
personal property, real property or both), agreement, entitlement,
commitment or license by which the Business is bound or pursuant to
which the Vendor has any rights with respect to the Assets
including, without limitation, all licenses, support and
maintenance contracts applicable to the Software as outlined on
Schedule C.
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" Excluded Liabilities " has the meaning set out in
Section 2.7.
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" Intellectual Property " has the meaning set out in
Section 2.1(a).
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" Interim Date " means May 1, 2005 (six months prior to
closing date).
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(m)
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" knowledge " means, with respect to Vendor, the actual
knowledge of James Longest, Thomas Longest or Scott Stephens.
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(n)
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" Lien " means any security interest, mortgage,
encumbrance, option, lien or charge of any kind created or suffered
by Vendor.
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(o)
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" Net Tangible Assets(Liabilities) " are defined as the
value of Tangible Assets less the value of Tangible Liabilities as
of the close of business on the Closing Date and are set out in
Schedule A.
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" Note " has the meaning set out in Section 2.4.
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(q)
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" Purchase Price " has the meaning set out in Section
2.3.
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(r)
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" Retained Contracts " has the meaning set out in Section
2.8(a)
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(s)
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" Schedules " means those schedules listed in Section
1.5.
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(t)
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" Software " means all software and computer programs
owned by or licensed to Vendor and used in connection with
providing property tax, CAMA and GIS systems to governmental units,
including all versions thereof, and all related documentation,
manuals, source code and object code, program files, data files,
computer related data, field and data definitions and
relationships, data definition specifications, data models, program
and system logic, interfaces, program modules, routines,
sub-routines, algorithms, program architecture, design concepts,
system designs, program structure, sequence and organization,
screen displays and report layouts related to the Business, and all
other material related to the said computer programs, all as they
exist at the Time of Closing, whether or not under development or
as currently being marketed by the Vendor specifically with respect
to the Business.
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" Tangible Assets " means tangible assets of Vendor,
including without limitation all equipment and other fixed assets,
amounts prepaid or deposited with any third parties and accounts
receivable other than the Bracken Foster receivable (which relates
to the Bio Sentinel investment of Vendor).
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(v)
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" Tangible Liabilities " means tangible liabilities of
Vendor, including without limitation all deferred maintenance and
costs to complete accruals.
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(w)
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" Time of Closing " means 1:00 p.m. E.S.T. on the Closing
Date.
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Extended Meanings . In this Agreement words
importing any gender include all genders, words importing the
singular number include the plural and vice versa, and words
importing persons include individuals, partnerships, associations,
trusts, unincorporated organizations and corporations.
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Accounting Principles . Wherever in this Agreement
reference is made to a calculation to be made or an action to be
taken in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
such reference will relate to the generally accepted accounting
principles from time to time approved by the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and the Financial Accounting Standards
Board, or any successor institute, applicable as at the date on
which such calculation or action is made or taken or required to be
made or taken in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles.
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1.4
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Currency . All references to currency herein are
to lawful money of the United States.
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1.5
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Schedules . The following are the Schedules
attached hereto and incorporated by reference and deemed to be part
hereof:
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Schedule A - Net Tangible Assets(Liabilities);
Schedule B - Software and Intellectual Property;
Schedule C - Customer Listing and Contracts;
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Schedule D - Hired Employees and Employment Agreement;
and
Schedule E - Promissory Note
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2.1
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Purchase and Sale of Software and Intellectual Property
and Other Assets
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(a)
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Upon and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Vendor
will sell, convey, assign and transfer in perpetuity to the
Purchaser free and clear of all Liens, and Purchaser will purchase
from the Vendor, as of and with effect from the Time of Closing,
all of Vendor's right, title and interest in and to the following
assets (the " Intellectual Property "), other than the
Excluded Assets (as defined below):
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All Software and all intellectual property rights in and to the
Software, including without limitation the Software listed on
Schedule B; provided that, Purchaser will not purchase the
intellectual property rights in and to the Software related to Bio
Sentinel;
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(ii)
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All intellectual property listed on Schedule B;
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All other intellectual property of the Vendor relating primarily
to the Business existing as of the Time of Closing and used or
currently being developed for use by the Vendor primarily in
connection with the Business, whether registered or unregistered,
including without limitation:
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Copyrights . All copyrights in the Software owned by the
Vendor and used primarily in connection with the Business,
including without limitation, all copyrights in and to the Software
and all applications and registrations of such copyrights;
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Trademarks . All trade-marks, trade-names, service marks,
brand names, logos or the like owned by the Vendor and used
primarily in connection with the Business, including, without
limitation, those listed on Schedule B, whether used in association
with wares or services, and all associated goodwill and all
applications, registrations, renewals, modifications and extensions
of such trade-marks; provided, however, that Vendor shall
have up to sixty (60) days after the Closing Date to change its
name to a name not involving the word "Plexis";
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Patents . All patents, patent applications and other
patent rights, if any, of the Vendor that are used primarily in
connection with the Business, including, without limitation,
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those listed on Schedule B, including without limitation
divisional and continuation patents;
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Name . All of the Vendor's rights in the names associated
with the products listed on Schedule B;
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Technology . All technology created, developed or
acquired by the Vendor in connection with the Software that is used
primarily in connection with the Business whether or not patented
or patentable and whether or not fixed in any medium whatsoever,
including without limitation, all inventions, know how, techniques,
processes, procedures, methods, trade secrets, research and
technical data, records, formulae, designs, sketches, patterns,
specifications, schematics, blue prints, flow charts or sheets,
equipment and parts lists and descriptions, samples, reports,
studies, findings, algorithms, instructions, guides, manuals, and
plans for new or revised products and/or services; and
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Licenses . All licenses, sub-licenses and franchises
related to the Vendor and the Business in which the Vendor and the
Business is a licensee or a licensor of intellectual property of a
nature described in paragraphs (a)-(e) above; and
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For greater certainty, all of the Vendor's rights to develop,
modify, market, sell, distribute, license and install the current
and any future releases of the Software and Intellectual Property
as outlined in Schedule B.
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(b)
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In addition to the assets set forth in Section 2.1(a), upon and
subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Vendor will sell,
convey, assign and transfer to the Purchaser, free and clear of all
Liens, and the Purchaser will purchase from the Vendor, as of and
with effect from the Time of Closing, all of Vendor's right, title
and interest in and to the other assets of the Business (other than
the Excluded Assets), including but not limited to the
following:
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Net Tangible Assets(Liabilities) . The Tangible Assets
included in Net Tangible Assets(Liabilities), the details and
specifics of which are included in Schedule A;
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(ii)
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Contracts . The right, title and interest of the Vendor
to and under all Contracts and all other agreements, engagements,
commitments and other rights of or pertaining to the Business or to
customers of the Vendor, whether written or oral, including without
limitation
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those Contracts, agreements, engagements, commitments and rights
detailed in Schedule C;
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Warranty Rights . The full benefit of all
representations, warranties, guarantees, indemnities, undertakings,
certificates, covenants, agreements and the like and all security
therefor received by the Vendor on the purchase or other
acquisition of any part of the Assets purchased under this
Agreement;
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Records . Photocopies of all books, records or files
relating to the Business including, without limitation all
financial, production, personnel (where allowed under Michigan
State law), sales and customer records, exclusive of vendor's tax
returns; and
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(c)
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Vendor hereby acknowledges that the Purchase Price payable by
Purchaser to Vendor in accordance with the provisions of this
Article 2 represents the full and final payment due to Vendor from
Purchaser in respect of the purchase of the Assets. From and after
the Time of Closing the Vendor hereby:
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surrenders all its right, title and interest in and to the
Assets;
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(ii)
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waives all moral rights in the Software and Intellectual
Property; and
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(iii)
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releases the Purchaser from any and all claims which the Vendor
now or in the future may have with respect to the Assets.
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Excluded Assets . Vendor shall not sell, transfer
or assign, and Purchaser shall not purchase, the following assets
(the " Excluded Assets "):
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Vendor's property rights with respect to any software related to
Bio Sentinel;
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Vendor's accounts receivable from Bracken Foster;
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(c)
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Cash; and
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The charter, minute book, any qualifications to conduct business
as a foreign entity, arrangements with registered agents relating
to foreign qualifications, taxpayer and other identification
numbers, seals, entity ownership records and tax returns of Vendor
and other similar books and records originals of which Vendor is
required to maintain under applicable law and copies of records
that are reasonably required by Vendor or any of its affiliates to
permit the preparation of financial statements, tax returns or
other filings or reports to be made after the closing or to
otherwise comply with any applicable law.
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2.3
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Purchase Price and Allocation Thereof . The
purchase price payable by the Purchaser to the Vendor for the
Assets (such amount being hereinafter referred to as the "
Purchase Price ") will be $1.0 million. Vendor and Purchase
shall cooperate to determine an appropriate allocation of the
Purchase Price for tax purposes consistent with the principle that
all of the Purchase Price other than amounts clearly allocable to
accounts receivable will be allocated to the value of assets
eligible for capital gains treatment.
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Payment of Purchase Price . A certified check,
bank draft or wire transfer in the amount of $600,000 shall be
payable to the order of the Vendor at the Time of Closing and shall
be applied against the Purchase Price. Purchaser shall deliver a
promissory note (the " Note ") for the remaining purchase
price of $400,000 in the form of Schedule E. The Note will provide
for payment of principal in $200,000 instalments on November 1,
2006 and 2007. Simple interest provided in the Note will accrue at
a floating rate equal to 2% over the rate quoted and announced from
time to time by National City Bank as its "prime rate" and shall be
paid quarterly in arrears on each February 1, May 1, August 1 and
November 1 until the entire principal balance is paid, beginning
February 1, 2006. The Purchaser shall have the option in the Note
to prepay unpaid principal and accrued interest with no related
penalty. Amounts due to Vendor under the Note will not be subject
to any setoff by Purchaser with respect to any obligation or
alleged obligation of Vendor under this Agreement or otherwise.
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Determination of Amounts; Elections . The Vendor
and the Purchaser covenant and agree with each other that the
Purchase Price shall be allocated among the Assets in accordance
with the provisions of Section 2.3. The Vendor and the Purchaser
agree to cooperate in the filing of such elections under the
Internal Revenue Code and similar tax statutes in the United
States or any other jurisdiction as may be necessary or mutually
desirable to give effect to such allocation for tax purposes. The
Vendor and the Purchaser agree to prepare and file their respective
tax returns in a manner consistent with the aforesaid allocations
and elections.
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Assumption of Obligations and Liabilities . Except
as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Purchaser will assume,
fulfill and perform only those executory obligations and
liabilities of the Vendor that arise under the Contracts and other
commitments specifically described in Schedule C (or pursuant to
which Vendor has possession of any leased assets conveyed to
Purchaser by Vendor and shown on Schedule A) and that arise or are
to be performed after the Time of Closing (the " Assumed
Liabilities ").
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Obligations and Liabilities Not Assumed .
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(a)
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Except for the Assumed Liabilities, Purchaser will not assume or
become liable for any obligations, commitments, or liabilities of
Vendor whether known or unknown, absolute, fixed, or contingent,
whether or not disclosed to Purchaser in this Agreement, the
Schedules, or otherwise,
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whether or not imposed upon Purchaser as a successor under
applicable law, and whether or not related to the Assets (the
obligations and liabilities not expressly assumed by Purchaser
hereunder will be retained by Vendor or an affiliate of Vendor, as
applicable, and are referred to in this Agreement as the "
Excluded Liabilities "). For greater certainty and without
limiting the foregoing, the Purchaser will not assume any
obligation or liabilities of the Vendor (i) to the IRS or any
taxing authority, withholding taxes, claims for overtime,
insurance, income taxes, earned but unpaid vacation, pre-closing
accounts payable or other accrued expenses, (ii) associated with
the Asset Purchase Agreement dated May 7, 2003 by and between
Vendor and Resource Information Associates, Inc. or (iii) with
respect to the Lease dated January 3, 2000 between Shareholder and
Vendor (except for the obligation to reimburse and indemnify Vendor
undertaken in Section 7.1).
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Purchaser will not be hiring all employees of Vendor. Those
employees who will be hired by Purchaser are outlined in Schedule
D. Vendor will continue to be responsible for and will discharge
all obligations and liabilities for wages, severance or termination
of employment including without limitation vacation pay, accrued to
the Closing Date in respect of all employees of the Business. With
respect to those employees listed in Schedule D hereof, the
Purchaser assumes and will discharge all such obligations and
liabilities accruing after the Closing Date. Upon request by
Purchaser, Vendor shall release those employees listed in Schedule
D hereof from any noncompete obligation they have to Vendor which
would prevent them from being employed by Purchaser.
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Restrictions on Assignment and Retained Contracts
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Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as an
assignment or an attempt to assign:
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any permit to be assigned to Purchaser hereunder which, as a
matter of law, is not assignable without the approval of the
granting body unless such approval shall have been given;
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(ii)
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any Contract to be assigned to Purchaser hereunder which, as a
matter of law, is not assignable without the consent of the other
party or parties thereto unless such consent shall have been given
(a " Retained Contract "); or
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(iii)
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any claim or demand thereunder or under any right of action or
chose in action as to which all the remedies for the enforcement
thereof enjoyed by the Vendor, would not, as a matter of law, pass
to Purchaser as an incident of the transfers to be made under this
Agreement.
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(b)
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With respect to any Retained Contract, Vendor shall cooperate
with Purchaser to cause such Retained Contracts to be cancelled by
Vendor or performed indirectly or directly by Purchaser on behalf
of Vendor or take such other action with respect to such Retained
Contracts as Purchaser shall reasonably request.
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Substitution and Subrogation . To the extent not
otherwise prohibited the conveyance of the Assets to Purchaser, its
successors and permitted assigns, hereunder is with full rights of
substitution and subrogation of Purchaser, its successors and
permitted assigns, in and to all covenants and warranties by others
heretofore given or made in respect of the Assets or any part
thereof.
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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3.1
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Vendor's Representations and Warranties . Vendor
represents and warrants to the Purchaser that:
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Existence . Vendor is duly organized and existing under
the laws of its jurisdiction of organization.
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(b)
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Authority . The Vendor has good and sufficient power,
authority and right to enter into and deliver this Agreement and to
transfer the legal and beneficial title and ownership of the Assets
to the Purchaser, and the execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated under this Agreement have been duly and validly
authorized and approved by all necessary legal action on the part
of the Vendor.
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Binding Agreement . This Agreement and all other
agreements, documents and instruments to be executed by the Vendor
constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of the
Vendor.
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No Options . There is no contract, option or any other
right of another binding upon the Vendor to sell, transfer, assign,
pledge, charge, mortgage or in any other way dispose of or encumber
any of the Assets other than pursuant to the provisions of this
Agreement.
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No Conflict . Neither the entering into nor the delivery
of this Agreement nor the completion of the transactions
contemplated hereby by the Vendor will result in the violation
of:
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any of the provisions of the Vendor's articles of organization
or operating agreement;
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(ii)
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subject to obtaining any required consent or approval, any
agreement or other instrument to which the Vendor is a party or by
which the Vendor is bound, or
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(iii)
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any applicable law, rule or regulation.
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Interim Period . Since May 1, 2005, the Business has been
carried on in its usual and ordinary course and the Vendor has not
entered into any transaction (including without limitation any
transfer or sale of assets) out of the usual and ordinary course of
the Business - such transactions being defined as transactions
involving amounts in excess of $100,000 individually or in the
aggregate.
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Intellectual Property . Schedule B sets forth a full,
complete and true list of the Intellectual Property. The Vendor is
the sole and exclusive owner of, with all right, title and interest
in and to (free and clear of any Liens), the Intellectual Property,
and has sole and exclusive rights (and is not contractually
obligated to pay any compensation to any third party in respect
thereof) to the use thereof. To the Vendor's knowledge, there is no
and has not been any unauthorized use, infringement or
misappropriation of any of the Intellectual Property by any person,
current or former employee or other third party.
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Software .
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(i)
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To the knowledge of the Vendor, the Software was written and
otherwise created only by persons who at the time they wrote and
created the Software, were either employees of the Vendor or of a
company that the Vendor later acquired, or they were contractors
who assigned their intellectual property rights in the Software to
the Vendor or any company acquired by the Vendor pursuant to
written agreements;
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(ii)
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Except as detailed in Schedule B, the Software neither contains
nor embodies nor uses nor requires any third party software,
including without limitation development tools and utilities, and
the Software, together with any third party programs, contains all
materials necessary for the continued maintenance and development
of the Software in the manner the Vendor conducted the Business
through the Time of Closing;
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Copies of any and all license, distribution and maintenance
agreements for the third party programs identified on Schedule C
have been provided by the Vendor to the Purchaser, except in
respect of third party programs that are shrinkwrapped software and
that were purchased off-the-shelf by the Vendor in order to be
passed through to the Vendor's customers or to be used by the
Vendor;
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To the knowledge of the Vendor, the source code for the Software
has not been delivered or made available to any person and the
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Vendor has not agreed to or undertaken to or in any other way
promised to provide such source code to any person. The source code
is currently stored only in the Vendor's premises. The sale of the
Assets of the Vendor resulting from the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement will not entitle any customer to obtain a copy of
the source code for the Software;
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(v)
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To the knowledge of Vendor, there are no material problems or
defects in the Software including without limitation bugs, logic
errors or failures of the Software that prevent the Software from
operating as described in their related documentation or
specifications, and, except for such disclosed problems or defects,
the Software operates in accordance with its documentation and
specifications and has no other known problems or defects; and
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Vendor has made no commitments to enhance or improve the
Software, although Vendor has communicated to customers that
additional versions of the Software are in development.
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Third Party and Customer Contracts . The Contracts
represent in each case the entire agreement of the Vendor and the
respective parties to such contracts. To the knowledge of Vendor,
all Contracts (including without limitation the related RFP's and
proposals) a
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