Exhibit 2.1
ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
by and among
Ebix, Inc.,
Infinity Systems Consulting,
Inc
and
the Shareholders
of
Infinity Systems Consulting,
Inc.
dated effective as of May 1,
2006
ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
THIS ASSET PURCHASE
AGREEMENT (this “
Agreement” ), is dated effective as of May 1, 2006
(regardless of the actual date of execution hereof), by and among
Ebix, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Purchaser”
), Infinity Systems Consulting, Inc, a Delaware corporation (the
“ Company ”), Christine M. Denham, an individual
(“ Chris” ), Kathryn Steding Cay, an individual
(“ Kathryn” ), and John Schmitt, an individual
(“ John” ) (Chris, Kathryn and John are each
sometimes referred to herein as a “ Shareholder
” and collectively as the “ Shareholders
”).
RECITALS
A.
The Company is engaged in the business of developing, marketing,
licensing, selling and maintaining insurance software applications
(the “ Business” ).
B.
The Shareholders collectively own all of the outstanding shares of
all classes of capital stock of the Company, in the respective
amounts and percentages set forth on Schedule A attached
hereto (such shares being referred to herein as the “
Shares” ).
C.
The Company desires to sell, and Purchaser desires to purchase,
substantially all of the assets of the Company used in connection
with the Business, on the terms and subject to the conditions set
forth in this Agreement.
AGREEMENTS
In consideration of the mutual
covenants of the Parties as hereinafter set forth and other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
hereby are acknowledged, the Parties hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
In addition to the capitalized terms
defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following capitalized
terms shall have the meanings specified in this
Article 1 .
“ Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person: (i)
which owns, directly or indirectly, more than ten percent (10%) of
the voting or economic interests in such Person; (ii) in which
such Person owns, directly or indirectly, more than ten percent
(10%) of the voting or economic interests; or (iii) in which more
than ten percent (10%) of the voting or economic interests are
owned, directly or indirectly, by a Person who has a relationship
with such Person described in clause (i) or (ii) above. In
addition, any Person who is a stockholder, director or executive
officer of the Company shall be deemed an “Affiliate”
thereof.
“ Assumed Liabilities
” shall mean:
(i)
Lease Obligations
. All obligations of Company
under the Personal Property Leases and Real Estate Leases arising
or to be performed on or after the Closing Date (but specifically
excluding liabilities for breaches of any of the Personal Property
Leases or Real Estate Leases by Company, whether occurring as a
result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or
otherwise, and provided that as to any Personal Property Leases and
Real Estate Leases which require consent of the other party thereto
for assignment to and assumption by Purchaser such assignment and
assumption shall be contingent upon Company obtaining the requisite
consent of the other party); and
(ii)
Obligations under Contracts and
Licenses . All
obligations of Company under the Business Contracts and Business
Licenses set forth on Schedule 2.1(a) arising or to be
performed on or after the Closing Date, including but not limited
to the warranty obligations described on Schedule 6.22, but
excluding (i) any such obligations arising and to be performed
prior to the Closing Date, and (ii) any such obligations arising
out of or resulting from breaches of or defaults under any Business
Contract or Business License prior to or as a result of
Closing.
“ Books and
Records” means all books and records of the Company,
including, but not limited to, those used or held for use in the
conduct of the Business or otherwise relating to the Purchased
Assets and all records, files, papers, sales and purchase
correspondence, books of account and financial and employment
records, whether in tangible or digital form.
“ Business Day”
means a day other than Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday on
which banks are closed under the laws of the States of Illinois or
Virginia or Texas.
“ cause ” shall
mean in relation to a person’s employment with Purchaser, the
occurrence of any of the following: (i) such person having
committed any act that constitutes fraud, dishonesty, gross
malfeasance of duty, or conduct grossly inappropriate to his or her
employment with the Purchaser, all of the foregoing being subject
to a good faith determination of the same being made by the Chief
Executive Officer and the Board of Directors of the Purchaser; (ii)
such person substantially failing to perform the principal duties
reasonably expected of him or her in the ordinary course of
business of the Purchaser for a period greater than 15 days and
such failure to perform is not cured within 15 days after the date
that the Chief Executive Officer of the Purchaser provides written
notice to such person of the good faith determination that such a
failure exists, or (iii) after the date of this Agreement, such
person having been incarcerated for a period of at least 20 days as
a result of his or her being convicted of, or pleading nolo
contendere to, a felony.
“ Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“ Contracts”
means any agreements, contracts, commitments, purchase orders,
licenses and leases, whether written or oral, to which the Company
is a party or by which Company is bound.
“ Employee Benefit
Plan” means any (A) any “employee welfare benefit
plan”, as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, (B) any
“employee pension benefit plan,” as defined in Section
3(2) of ERISA, or (C) any other plan, policy, program, arrangement
or agreement which provides employee benefits or benefits,
including, but not limited to, any severance agreement or plan,
deferred compensation plan, personnel policy, vacation time,
holiday pay, tuition reimbursement program, service award, moving
expense reimbursement programs, tool allowance, safety equipment
allowance, material fringe benefit plan or program, bonus or
incentive plan, equity appreciation, stock option, restricted
stock, stock bonus or deferred bonus plan, salary reduction,
change-of-control or employment agreement or consulting agreement,
whether written or unwritten, maintained or contributed to by the
Company or under which the Company has any obligation or liability
to any current or former employee, dependent, beneficiary,
director, independent contractor or like person.
“ Environmental and Safety
Requirement” means any Law that is related to (i)
pollution, contamination, cleanup, preservation, protection,
reclamation or remediation of the environment, (ii) the Release or
threatened Release of any Hazardous Material, or (iii) the
management of any Hazardous Material, including the manufacture,
generation, formulation, processing, labeling, use, treatment,
handling, storage, disposal, transportation, distribution, re-use,
recycling or reclamation of any Hazardous Material; and includes
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq .), the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. § 1801
et seq .), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(42 U.S.C. § 6091 et seq .), the Clean Air Act
(42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq .), and the Clean Water
Act (33 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq .).
“ ERISA” means
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
“ Excluded Asset
s” shall mean the following assets and properties of
Company:
(i)
Personal Use Assets
. All assets that the
parties hereto mutually agree are considered any
Shareholder’s personal use items and are listed in
Schedule 2.1(c) ;
(ii)
Cash . All cash, commercial paper,
certificates of deposit and other bank deposits, treasury bills and
other cash equivalents held by Company;
(iii)
Tax Refunds
. All refunds or credits, if
any, of Taxes due to or from Company;
(iv)
Deposits . All deposits (including security
deposits) deposited by or on behalf of Company as lessee or
sublessee, or any prepaid expenses made by Company, under any
Personal Property Lease, Business Contract, Business License or
otherwise;
(v)
Accounts Receivable
. All trade accounts
receivable and all notes, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness
relating to, and rights to receive payments arising
out of, sales occurring in the
conduct of the Business prior to the Closing Date (the “
Accounts Receivable ”), but excluding specifically any
receivables relating to the cost-sharing arrangement with Jewelers
Mutual described on Schedule 6.12;
(vi)
Insurance Policies
. All insurance policies of
the Company;
(vii)
Corporate Records
. The minute books, stock
transfer books, corporate seal and corporate name of Company;
and
(viii)
Certain Contracts
. Employee benefits plans of
the Company and those Contracts listed on Schedule
2.1(c).
“ GAAP” means
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles consistently
applied.
“ Governmental
Authority” means any court, tribunal, arbitrator,
authority, agency, commission, official or other instrumentality of
the United States, any foreign country, or any domestic or foreign
state, province, county, city or other political
subdivision.
“ Hazardous
Material” means (i) hazardous substances, as defined by
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq. ; (ii)
hazardous wastes, as defined by the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq. ; (iii)
petroleum, including without limitation, crude oil or any fraction
thereof which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and
pressure (60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch
absolute); (iv) radioactive material, including, without
limitation, any source, special nuclear, or by-product material as
defined in 42 U.S.C. §2011 et seq. ; (v)
asbestos that is friable or reasonably likely to become friable;
(vi) polychlorinated biphenyls; (vii) microbial matter, biological
toxins, mycotoxins, mold or mold spores; and (viii) other material,
substance or waste to which liability or standards of conduct may
be imposed under any applicable Environmental and Safety
Requirements.
“ Indebtedness”
means with respect to any Person (i) all obligations of such Person
for borrowed money, whether current or funded, secured or
unsecured, (ii) all obligations of such Person for the deferred
purchase price of any property or services (other than trade
accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of the business of
such Person), (iii) all obligations of such Person created or
arising under any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even
though the rights and remedies of the lender under such agreement
in the event of a default may be limited to repossession or sale of
such property), (iv) all obligations of such Person secured by a
purchase money mortgage or other lien to secure all or part of the
purchase price of property subject to such mortgage or lien, (v)
any obligation of such Person in respect of bankers’
acceptances or letters of credit, (vi) any obligations secured by
liens on property acquired by such Person, whether or not such
obligations were assumed by such Person at the time of acquisition
of such property, and (vii) all obligations of a type
referred to in clause (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv), (v) or (vi) above which is directly or indirectly
guaranteed by such Person or which it has agreed (contingently or
otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire or in respect of which
it has otherwise assured a credit against loss.
“ Intellectual
Property” means all intellectual property and other
proprietary rights and information of the Company, including but
not limited to all patents, patent applications, patent disclosures
and inventions (whether or not patentable and whether or not
reduced to practice); all trademarks, service marks, trade dress
and trade names, including, without limitation, the name
“Infinity”; all registered and unregistered statutory
and common law copyrights; all registrations, applications and
renewals for any of the foregoing; all trade secrets, confidential
information, ideas, formulae, compositions, know-how, manufacturing
and production processes and techniques, research and development
information, drawings, specifications, designs, plans,
improvements, proposals, technical and computer data, documentation
and software, financial, business and marketing plans; cost and
pricing information, all supplier lists and related information;
all domain names and web sites; sales data and plans; all customer
accounts, lists, files, programs, plans, data and related
information.
“ Infinity Software
” means that portion of the Company’s Intellectual
Property consisting of the software applications developed,
marketed and distributed as of the Closing that is commonly
referred to as the “Infinity Software”, together with
the related source code, reference manuals and related
documentation.
“ Law” means the
common law of any state, or any provision of any foreign, federal,
state or local law, statute, rule, regulation, order, decree or
other decision of any court or other tribunal or governmental
entity or agency legally binding on the relevant party or its
properties.
“ Liabilities”
means Indebtedness, liabilities or obligations of any nature
(whether accrued, absolute, contingent, direct, indirect, known,
unknown, perfected, inchoate, unliquidated or otherwise, whether
due or to become due).
“ Liens” means
any claims, liens, charges, mortgages, deeds of trust,
hypothecations, assessments, pledges, encumbrances, or security
interests of any kind or nature whatsoever, except for any (a)
inchoate mechanics’, carriers’, workers’ and
other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that
are not delinquent and that in the aggregate are not material in
amount and do not interfere with the present use of the assets to
which they apply, (b) inchoate Liens for current Taxes and
assessments, not yet due and payable, and (c) any Liens of
landlords under the Real Estate Leases.
“ Party ” means
individually any of Purchaser, the Company, Chris, Kathryn, or
John; and “ Parties ” means collectively,
Purchaser, the Company, Chris, Kathryn, and John.
“ Permits” means
all permits, licenses, certifications, approvals and authorizations
by or of, or registrations with, any Governmental Authority,
including but not limited to, vehicle and business
licenses.
“ Person” means
any individual, sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited
partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust,
unincorporated association, corporation, entity or government
(whether federal, state, county, city or otherwise, including,
without limitation, any instrumentality, division, agency or
department thereof).
“ Purchased Assets
” shall mean the assets and properties of Company used or
held for use in connection with the Business, as the same shall
exist on the Closing Date, including, without limitation, the
following assets, but specifically excluding the Excluded
Assets:
(i)
Inventory . All inventories of raw materials,
work-in-process, finished goods, products under research and
development, demonstration equipment, office and other supplies,
parts, packaging materials and other accessories related thereto
which are held at, or are in transit from or to, the locations at
which the Business is conducted, or located at customers’
premises on consignment, in each case, which are used or held for
use by Company in the conduct of the Business, including any of the
foregoing purchased subject to any conditional sales or title
retention agreement in favor of any other Person, together with all
rights of Company against suppliers of such inventories (the
“ Inventory ”);
(ii)
Tangible Personal
Property . All
equipment, machinery, furniture, fixtures and other tangible
personal property (other than Inventory) used or held for use in
the conduct of the Business at the locations at which the Business
is conducted or at customers’ premises on consignment, or
otherwise used or held for use by Company in the conduct of the
Business (including but not limited to the items listed in
Schedule 2.1(a) ), including any of the foregoing purchased
subject to any conditional sales or title retention agreement in
favor of any other Person (the “ Tangible Personal
Property ”);
(iii)
Personal Property
Leases . All leases
of Tangible Personal Property used in the conduct of the Business,
including without limitation those described in Schedule
2.1(a) as to which Company is the lessee or sublessee, together
with any options to purchase the underlying property (the leases
and subleases described above, the “ Personal Property
Leases ”);
(iv)
Business Contracts
. All Contracts (other than
the Real Property Leases and Personal Property Leases) to which
Company is a party and which are utilized in the conduct of the
Business, including without limitation Contracts relating to
suppliers, sales representatives, distributors, customers, purchase
orders, licensees, licensors, marketing arrangements and
manufacturing arrangements, and including without limitation the
Contracts listed in Schedule 2.1(a) (the “
Business Contracts ”), but excluding any Contract that
is described as an Excluded Asset;
(v)
Intellectual Property
Assets . All
Intellectual Property used or held for use in the conduct of the
Business (including Company’s goodwill therein), including
but
not limited to the items listed in
Schedule 2.1(a) (the “ Intellectual Property
Assets ”);
(vi)
Licenses . All Licenses (including applications
therefor) utilized in the conduct of the Business, including but
not limited to the Licenses listed in Schedule 2.1(a) (the
“ Business Licenses ”);
(vii)
Books and Records
. All Books and Records
relating to the assets otherwise covered by items (i) through
(vi) above and (viii) through (x) below, and specifically excluding
the minute books, stock transfer books and corporate seal of the
Company;
(viii)
Claims . All claims, warranties, guaranties,
refunds, causes of action, rights of recovery, rights of set-off
and rights of recoupment of every kind and nature, other than those
relating exclusively to the Excluded Assets or the Retained
Liabilities;
(ix)
Real Estate Leases
. The Real Estate Leases
(provided that if consent of the other party thereto is required
for the assignment to and assumption by the Purchaser, such
assignment and assumption shall be contingent until the requisite
consent is obtained by such other party); and
(x)
Other Assets and
Properties . All
other assets and properties of Company used or held for use in
connection with the Business, including goodwill, but excluding the
Excluded Assets, and including specifically any receivables related
to the cost-sharing arrangement with Jewelers Mutual described on
Schedule 6.12 (the “ Other Assets ”).
“ Proportionate Share
” means with respect to any Shareholder, such
Shareholder’s percentage ownership of the Shares of the
Company as set forth opposite such Shareholder’s name on
Schedule A attached hereto.
“ Real Estate
Lease” means each of the leases of real property
described on Schedule 2.1(a).
“ Release”
shall mean any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching,
disposing or dumping into the environment.
“ Securities Act”
means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
“ Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, association or other entity of which
securities or other ownership interests representing more than
fifty percent (50%) of the ordinary voting power are, at the time
as of which any determination is being made, owned or controlled by
such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by such
Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
“ Tax” means any
federal, state, local or foreign income, gross receipts, franchise,
estimated, alternative minimum, add-on minimum, sales, use,
transfer, registration, value added, excise, natural resources,
severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profit,
environmental, customs, duties, real property, personal property,
capital stock, social security, unemployment, disability, payroll,
license, employee or other withholding, or other tax, of any kind
whatsoever, including any interest, penalties or additions to tax
or additional amounts in respect of the foregoing.
“ Tax Returns”
means returns, declarations, reports, claims for refund,
information returns or other documents (including any related or
supporting schedules, statements or information) filed or required
to be filed in connection with the determination, assessment or
collection of any Taxes of any party or the administration of any
Laws or administrative requirements relating to any
Taxes.
“ Transaction
Documents” means each of the agreements, documents,
certificates and instruments being delivered pursuant to this
Agreement.
“ Transfer Tax”
means any stamp or other sales, transfer, use, value added, excise
or similar transaction Tax imposed under the Laws of the United
States or any state, county or municipality or other subdivision
thereof, arising as a result of the consummation of any of the
transactions contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE 2
TRANSACTION
2.1
Purchase and
Sale of Purchased Assets; Liabilities Assumed and
Retained .
(a)
Purchased Assets . At the Closing, on the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, and in
reliance on the respective representations and warranties of the
Parties hereto, the Company shall sell, transfer, assign, convey
and deliver to Purchaser, and Purchaser shall purchase from the
Company, all right, title and interest of the Company in and to the
Purchased Assets, free and clear of all Liens (except for the
Assumed Liabilities).
(b)
Assumed Liabilities . In connection with the sale,
transfer, conveyance, assignment and delivery of the Purchased
Assets pursuant to this Agreement, on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Closing, Purchaser
will assume and agree to pay, perform and discharge when due the
Assumed Liabilities as the same shall exist on the Closing Date,
and no others.
(c)
Retained Liabilities . Except for the Assumed
Liabilities, Purchaser shall not assume by virtue of this Agreement
or the transactions contemplated hereby, and shall have no
liability for, any Liabilities of Company (including, without
limitation, those related to the Business) of any kind, character
or description whatsoever (the “Retained
Liabilities” ), and Company shall discharge in a
timely manner or shall make adequate provision for all of the
Retained Liabilities.
2.2
Purchase
Price . The aggregate
purchase price for the Purchased Assets is payable as
follows:
(a)
Cash Purchase Price . Purchaser shall pay to the
Company, in cash, at Closing (which will occur on May 9, 2006,
unless the Company and Purchaser mutually agree otherwise), an
amount equal to $2,900,000 (the “ Cash Purchase
Price” ), by wire transfer of immediately available
funds.
(b)
Earn-Out . In addition to the Cash Purchase Price, as
additional consideration for the Purchased Assets, Purchaser shall
pay to the Company an earn-out based on the following:
(i)
Purchaser shall pay to the Company $1.17 for every $1 of revenue in
excess of $4,450,000 generated by the Infinity Division
in the period (the “
Earn-Out Period ”) from the Closing Date through
August 1, 2007, based on actual cash collected against invoices
billed during such period (the “ Earn-Out Amount
”). The Infinity Division will have until November 1,
2007 (the “ Earn-Out Collection Period ”) to
collect such cash on invoices billed during the Earn-Out
Period. If, as of August 1, 2007 the Infinity Division has
generated revenues by collecting cash in excess of $4,450,000
during the Earn-Out Period, then the Purchaser shall pay to the
Company the Earn-Out Amount applicable to such revenues on or
before September 15, 2007. To the extent additional revenues
are received during the Earn-Out Collection Period, the Purchaser
shall then have until 45 days after the Earn-Out Collection Period
to pay the remainder of the applicable Earn-Out Amount to the
Company. If the Purchaser fails to timely make the required
Earn-Out Amount payment, in addition to any other rights the
Company may have to pursue the Earn-Out Amount, then the Company
shall have the option, upon 30 days’ written notice to the
Purchaser, to require the return of the that portion of the
Purchased Assets that are then in the possession of, or under the
control of, the Purchaser, and upon receipt of such notice and the
subsequent failure of the Purchaser to remedy such non-payment with
the 30-day notice period, the Purchaser shall promptly facilitate a
re-transfer of the Purchased Assets to the Company. The
Purchaser also agrees with the Company and the Shareholders that
prior to the expiration of the later to expire of the date by which
Purchaser must pay the Earn-Out Amount or the Supplemental Earn-Out
Amount (as defined below) (the later of such dates being referred
to as the “ Outside Payment Date ”) that the
Purchaser shall neither sell the Infinity Software to a third party
outside the ordinary course of business (for example, licenses to
customers in the ordinary course of business would be permitted) or
grant any exclusive licenses concerning the Infinity Software, and
if, prior to the end of the Outside Payment Date, the Purchaser
does either sell the Infinity Software to a third party outside the
ordinary course of business or grant any exclusive licenses
concerning the Infinity Software, then the maximum Earn-Out Amount
(unless in such case the Earn-Out Period has then expired and the
actual Earn-Out Amount owed, if any, and unpaid can be calculated,
in which case such Earn-Out Amount owed and unpaid shall be
due), or any unpaid portion thereof, and the maximum Supplemental
Earn-Out Amount (unless in such case the Supplemental
Earn-Out
Period has then expired and the
actual Supplemental Earn-Out Amount owed, if any, and unpaid can be
calculated, in which case such Supplemental Earn-Out Amount owed
and unpaid shall be due), or any unpaid portion thereof, shall be
deemed payable to the Company as of such sale or exclusive license
date, and any such sales shall be considered void until the
applicable owed Earn-Out Amount and/or Supplemental Earn-Out Amount
are paid.
(ii)
The Earn-Out Amount shall not exceed $4,000,000.
(iii)
If any Shareholder is terminated without cause prior to the end of
the Earn-Out Period, then the terminated Shareholder’s
Proportionate Share of the maximum Earn-Out Amount of $4,000,000
shall be deemed earned and shall be paid immediately to the Company
upon such termination.
2.3
Supplemental Earn-Out . The Company will be entitled
to receive a supplemental earn-out payment of $500,000 (the “
Supplemental Earn-Out Amount ”), if the following
condition is satisfied: the Infinity Division achieves
revenues of either (a) at least $6,000,000 between May 1, 2006
through April 30, 2007, or (b) at least $12,000,000 between May 1,
2006 through April 30, 2008 (the period from May 1, 2006 through
the earliest date by which the applicable revenues are generated
shall be hereinafter referred to as the “ Supplemental
Earn-Out Period ”). The Infinity Division shall
have 3 months from the end of the Supplemental Earn-Out Period to
collect any such receivables on invoices billed during the
applicable period (the “ Supplemental Earn-Out Collection
Period ”). The Purchaser shall pay such
Supplemental Earn-Out Amount, if earned, within 45 days of the end
of the Supplemental Earn-Out Collection Period.
2.4
Closing
.
(a)
Time and Place . The transactions contemplated by this
Agreement shall be consummated (the “ Closing” )
at 10:00 a.m. local time at such time and date as the parties
hereto may mutually agree in writing, but no later than May 10,
2006, provided that the effective date of the purchase and sale of
the Purchased Assets and the assumption of the Assumed Liabilities
contemplated hereunder shall immediately relate back to May 1, 2006
(the “ Closing Date” ), regardless of the actual
date that execution of documents occurs. If an in-person
Closing is required to facilitate the consummation of the purchase
and sale of the Purchased Assets, such Closing shall be held
at the offices of counsel to Purchaser in Atlanta, Georgia, or such
other location as the parties shall mutually agree.
(b)
Deliveries of the Company . At the Closing, the
Company will deliver or cause to be delivered to Purchaser the
following items:
(i)
Purchased Assets and Assignment Instruments . The
Purchased Assets, together with such instruments of transfer or
conveyance as may be necessary to evidence ownership of the
Purchased Assets by Purchaser including, without limitation, the
following: (i) a General Assignment and Bill of Sale in form
and substance reasonably acceptable to Purchaser’s counsel
(the “ General
Assignment
”), duly executed by Seller,
(ii) assignments of the Intellectual Property Assets in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to Purchaser’s counsel, and
(iii) such other good and sufficient instruments of conveyance,
assignment and transfer, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to Purchaser’s counsel, as shall be effective to
vest in Purchaser good title to the Purchased Assets (the General
Assignment and the other instruments referred to in
clauses (ii), and (iii) being collectively referred to herein
as the “ Assignment Instruments ”).
(ii)
Corporate Documents . Articles of Incorporation or
Certificates of Formation, as applicable, of the Company, certified
by the Secretary of State of the state of its formation as of a
recent date, and the by-laws of the Company, certified by the
secretary of the Company, as in effect at the Closing.
(iii)
Certificates of Good Standing . Certificates of Good
Standing, dated as of a recent date, with respect to the Company,
issued by the Secretary of State of the state of its formation and
by the Secretary of State of each jurisdiction in which the Company
is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation.
(iv)
Resolutions . A copy of the resolutions of the Company
certified by the secretary thereof as having been duly and validly
adopted and in full force and effect, authorizing the execution and
delivery of the Transaction Documents to which the Company is a
party and the performance of the transactions to be performed by
the Company as contemplated hereby and thereby.
(vi)
Other Documents . Such other documents and instruments
as Purchaser reasonably shall deem necessary to consummate the
transactions contemplated hereby.
All documents delivered to Purchaser
shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
Purchaser.
(c)
Deliveries of Purchaser . At the Closing, Purchaser
will deliver to the Company the following items.
(i)
Cash Purchase Price . The Cash Purchase Price by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to the Company.
(ii)
Corporate Documents . The Certificate of Incorporation
of Purchaser, certified by the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware as of a recent date, and the by-laws of the Purchaser,
certified by the secretary of the Purchaser, as in effect at the
Closing
(iii)
Certificates of Good Standing . Certificates of Good
Standing, as of a recent date, with respect to Purchaser issued by
the Secretary of State of the state of its formation.
(iv)
Resolutions . A copy of the resolutions of Purchaser
certified by the secretary thereof as having been duly and validly
adopted and in full force and effect, authorizing the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents to which
such entity is a party and the performance of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby.
(vi)
Assumption Instruments . Purchaser will deliver (i) an
Assumption Agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to
the Company’s counsel (the “ Assumption
Agreement ”), duly executed by Purchaser, and (ii) such
other good and sufficient instruments of assumption, in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Company’s counsel, as
shall be effective to cause Purchaser to assume the Assumed
Liabilities as and to the extent provided in this Agreement (the
Assumption Agreement and such other instruments referred to in
clause (ii) being collectively referred to herein as the
“ Assumption Instruments ”).
(vii)
Other Documents . Such other documents and instruments
as the Company or the Shareholders reasonably shall deem necessary
to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby.
All documents delivered to the
Company and/or Shareholders shall be in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Company and/or
Shareholders.
2.5
Restrictive
Covenants .
(a)
Acknowledgement of Shareholders . Each of the Company
and the Shareholders agrees and acknowledges that, after Closing,
it is necessary that they not utilize their special knowledge of
the Company and its relationships with customers and suppliers to
compete with Purchaser or the Company, and that Purchaser would not
have entered into this Agreement or consummated the transactions
contemplated hereby but for the following agreements and
covenants.
(b)
Non-competition by Shareholders . For purposes of this
Agreement, the “ Restricted Period ” shall mean
the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending immediately
and without further action by any party hereto, on the earlier of
the following: (i) the fifth (5 th ) anniversary of the Closing
Date, or (ii) the occurrence of any material default under this
Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents (and the failure of
Purchaser to cure such material default within the cure period, if
any, pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of such
agreement), or (iii) as to any Shareholder who is terminated by
Purchaser without cause, the date of such termination or (iv) if
all of the Shareholders are terminated without cause or resign with
good reason, the date of such termination or resignation of the
last of such Shareholders. During the Restricted Period,
neither the Company nor the Shareholders shall, in any location
within the United States, conduct or engage in the Business, or,
directly or indirectly own, manage, operate, control or finance the
ownership, management, operation, control or financing of, or act
as an agent, representative, consultant, investor, owner, partner,
manager, joint venturer, of distributor of, or permit their names
to be used by, any Person engaged in the Business; provided
, however , that each of the Shareholders may
own,
directly or
indirectly, solely as an investment, not more than five percent
(5%) of any class of securities of any Person registered pursuant
to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(c)
Confidential Information; Personal Relationships . At
all times during the Restricted Period, except as required (i) by
applicable law or by legal or regulatory process, (ii) to discharge
Company’s or Shareholders’ obligations to the Purchaser
or (iii) in communicating with their legal, financial and tax or
accounting professionals, Company and Shareholders shall keep
secret and retain in strictest confidence, and shall not use for
their respective benefit or others, or disclose to others, any
confidential matters relating to the Business, including, without
limitation, trade secrets, product information, customer lists,
details of contracts, pricing policies, price lists, trade
promotion and discount schedules, operational methods, employee
lists and evaluations, marketing plans or strategies, business
acquisition plans and new personnel acquisition plans previously
used by the Company in the Business, other than such information
that is or becomes generally available to the public other than as
a result of a breach of this Agreement by either of them, or which
is compelled as a matter of Law to be disclosed; provided ,
however , that if either of the Company or Shareholders
receives notice that it, he or she may be required to disclose any
such information, it, he or she shall give Purchaser sufficient
prior written notice in order to contest such requirement or order
and cooperate with Purchaser (at Purchaser’s expense) in
seeking a protective order or other remedy to limit the disclosure
of such information.
(d)
Employees . During the Restricted Period, neither the
Company nor any of the Shareholders shall, on their behalf or on
behalf of any other Person, directly or indirectly, whether as an
agent, representative, consultant, investor, owner, partner,
manager, joint venturer, distributor or otherwise, solicit the
employment of, offer employment to, any Person who provided
services (as an employee or consultant) to the Company within the
prior twelve (12) month period, or encourage any such Person to
leave the employment of the Company, after the Closing Date, unless
the Company first terminates the employment of such employee (or
its relationship with such consultant) and a period of thirty (30)
days lapses after such termination.
(e)
Customers, Suppliers and Sales Representative . During
the Restricted Period, except on behalf of the Company, neither the
Company nor any of the Shareholders shall, on their behalf or on
behalf of any other Person, directly or indirectly, whether as an
agent, representative, consultant, investor, owner, partner,
manager, joint venturer, distributor or otherwise, solicit business
from any Person which is or was a customer or active prospective
customer of the Company thereof at any time during the prior two
(2) year period, or from any successor in interest to any such
person, firm, company or other entity, in any case for the purpose
of securing business or contracts of the kind provided by the
Business as of the Closing Date.
(f)
Non-Disruption . During the Restricted Period, neither
the Company nor any of the Shareholders shall, on their behalf or
on behalf of any other Person, directly or indirectly, as an agent,
representative, consultant, investor, owner, partner, manager,
joint venturer, distributor or otherwise, interfere with, disrupt
or attempt to disrupt any past or
present
relationship, contractual or otherwise, between the Company, on the
one hand, and any of its respective customers, prospective
customers, suppliers, sales representatives, distributors,
employees or consultants, on the other hand.
(g)
Negative Publicity . During the Restricted Period,
neither the Company nor any of the Shareholders shall make
statements or any other expressions on television, radio, the
internet or through other media or to any third party, including,
without limitation, in communications with any customers,
suppliers, sales representatives or distributors, which in any way
would be reasonably regarded as being disparaging or materially
harmful to Purchaser, the Company, or any of their respective
Affiliates, the products and services of the Company or any of its
Affiliates, or the Business or any other business of the Company,
except as required by Law.
(h)
Rights and Remedies Upon Breach . If either the
Company or any of its Shareholders breaches, or threatens to commit
a breach of, any of the provisions of this Section 2.6 (the “ Restrictive
Covenants” ), then Purchaser shall have the right and
remedy to have the Restrictive Covenants specifically enforced by
any court of competent jurisdiction, without the necessity of
posting any bond therefor, it being agreed that any breach or
threatened breach of the Restrictive Covenants would cause
irreparable injury to Purchaser and its Affiliates and that money
damages would not provide an adequate remedy to Purchaser and its
Affiliates, which right and remedy is in addition to, and not in
lieu of, any other rights and remedies available to Purchaser and
its Affiliates under law or in equity.
(i)
Severability of Covenants . Each of the Company and
the Shareholders acknowledges and agrees that the Restrictive
Covenants are reasonable, necessary and valid in duration and
geographical scope and in all other respects. If any court
determines that any of the Restrictive Covenants, or any part
thereof, is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of the
Restrictive Covenants shall not be affected thereby and shall be
given full effect without regard to the invalid
portions.
(j)
Blue-Penciling . If any court determines that any of
the Restrictive Covenants or any part thereof, are unenforceable
because of the duration or geographical scope of such provisions,
such court shall reduce the duration or scope of such provision, as
the case may be, to the minimum extent necessary such that, in its
reduced form, such provision shall then be enforceable.
2.6
Purchase Price
Allocations . The Company and the
Purchaser shall work cooperatively following the Closing to
mutually agree in accordance with any then applicable prevailing
asset allocation rules and within a reasonable period of time
following the Closing on the allocation of the Purchase Price to
the Purchased Assets and any of the other aspects (e.g., the
restrictive covenants) of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement.
ARTICLE 3
AGREEMENTS AND COVENANTS OF
COMPANY, SHAREHOLDERS AND PURCHASER
Company, Purchaser and the
Shareholders covenant and agree:
3.1
Access to Information . After the Closing Date and
upon reasonable advance notice, each Party will give, or cause to
be given, to the other Party and its representatives, during normal
business hours, such reasonable access to the personnel,
properties, titles, contracts, books, records, files and documents
in its possession or control, and at the expense of the other
Party, copies of the foregoing, as is necessary to allow the other
Party to obtain information in connection with the preparation and
any audit of the Company’s tax returns, any claims, demands,
other audits, suits, actions or proceedings by or against the
Company, or for any other reasonable purpose.
3.2
Tax
Cooperation and Other Tax Matters .
(a)
Purchaser and Company agree to furnish or cause to be furnished to
each other, upon request, as promptly as practicable, such
information relating to the Company (including access to books and
records) as is reasonably necessary for the filing of all Tax
Returns, the making of any election related to Taxes, the
preparation for any audit by any taxing authority, and the
prosecution or defense of any claim, suit or proceeding relating to
any Tax Return. Purchaser and Company shall retain all of
their respective books and records with respect to Taxes pertaining
to the Company for a period of at least seven years following the
Closing Date or, if longer, the period during which the Company has
agreed to extend the applicable statute of limitation.
Purchaser and Company shall cooperate with each other in the
conduct of any audit or other proceeding related to Taxes involving
the Company for any tax period (or portion thereof) ending on or
before the close of business on the Closing Date.
(b)
Any transfer, documentary, sales, use or other Taxes assessed upon
or with respect to the transfer of the Purchased Assets to
Purchaser and any recording or filing fees with respect thereto
shall be divided equally between Purchaser and the
Company.
(c)
Purchaser and Company agree that any Taxes due and payable by the
Company for the period prior to Closing, which were unpaid as of
the Closing Date, shall be the responsibility of, and paid or
otherwise satisfied by, Company.
(d)
Following the Closing, the Company shall be solely responsible at
its expense for preparing or causing to be prepared and timely
filing with the appropriate governmental entities all of the Tax
Returns of the Company that are due after or before the Closing
Date (taking into account all applicable timely filed and valid
extensions)..
ARTICLE 4
FURTHER AGREEMENTS AND COVENANTS
OF PURCHASER
Purchaser covenants and agrees with
the Company and Shareholders that:
4.1
Operation of the Business after Closing . For a period
of at least three (3) months after the later to occur of the end of
the Earn-Out Period or end of the Supplemental Earn-Out Period, the
Business shall be operated as a separate division of Purchaser (the
“ Infinity Division ”). In accordance
therewith, during the Earn-Out Period and the Supplemental Earn-Out
Period, the Shareholders shall have the right to operate the
Infinity Division in substantially the same manner as the Business
comprising the Infinity Division was managed by them when such
Business was operated by the Company, subject, however, to (a) the
operating budget for the Infinity Division shall not exceed
$3,100,000 on an annual basis; and (b) the operation of the
Infinity Division and the Shareholders as employees of the
Purchaser will be subject to the oversight of the Purchaser and
must generally adhere to the policies and procedures of the
Purchaser unless the Shareholders notify Purchaser in writing that
such policies and procedures will in the good faith judgment of the
Shareholders materially hinder the achievement of the Earn Out
Amount or the Supplemental Earn-Out Amount; and (c) nothing herein
shall limit the Purchaser’s ability to terminate any employee
of the Infinity Division, including the Shareholders, provided the
Shareholders shall have the right to hire a replacement for any
such employee with the same skill set as such terminated employee;
and (d) the Infinity Division shall be entitled to obtain the
assistance (on a full time basis) of up to three (3) additional
software programming professionals and/or project managers to
assist with the operations of the Infinity Division, the cost of
which shall be in addition to, and shall increase, the $3,100,000
budget referenced above; provided that a reasonable attempt must be
made by the Infinity Division to obtain such professionals through
existing staff of the Purchaser or through existing offshore
software professional support channels that are already available
to the Purchaser, and failing either of these two avenues then to
source such professionals through other channels and subject to
market rates of compensation.
4.2
Employment
Matters .
(a)
Christine M. Denham shall act as a Senior Vice President of the
Infinity Division with all powers and attributes with respect to
the Infinity Division traditionally granted to a Senior Vice
President of a company and would be entitled to receive a salary of
$20,833.33 per month.
(b)
Kathryn Steding Cay shall act as a Senior Vice President of the
Infinity Division with all powers and attributes with respect to
the Infinity Division traditionally granted to a Senior Vice
President of a company and would be entitled to receive a salary of
$20,833.33 per month.
(c)
John Schmitt shall act as the General Manager of Development of the
Infinity Division with all powers and attributes with respect to
the Infinity Division traditionally granted to a General Manager of
Development of a company and would be entitled to receive a salary
of $14,583.33 per month.
(d)
In addition to the salaries referenced above, each Shareholder
while employed by Purchaser shall receive employment benefits (such
as health and dental insurance) comparable to other employees of
Purchaser holding similar positions.
(e)
Purchaser shall use its best efforts to extend employment with the
Infinity
Division to the non-Shareholder
employees of the Company who are employed with the Company as of
the Closing Date and the compensation of such employees shall be as
nearly as possible equivalent to the compensation received by such
employees while employed by the Company, except that the benefits
offered to such employees shall be the customary benefits then
offered by Purchaser to its other employees generally (but with
each such employee receiving service credit for years of service
with the Company) and no bonus commitments shall be required of the
Purchaser with respect to such employees. Purchaser will give
each employee of the Company that Purchaser hires credit for any
accrued vacation time earned in 2006 while with the Company toward
Purchaser’s vacation policy; provided that Company
acknowledges that Purchaser does not pay employees for unused
vacation time.
4.3
Insurance Reimbursement . Purchasers shall reimburse
Company for the reasonable cost of liability insurance coverage
carried by Company after the Closing Date through the Supplemental
Earn-Out Period where such insurance coverage is solely for
activities of the Company following the Closing.
4.4
Collection of Accounts Receivable . The Shareholders
acting through the Infinity Division shall have the continued right
to collect the Accounts Receivable for the period prior to the
Closing Date, and the payments on such Accounts Receivable shall be
regarded as being for the account of the Company and promptly
remitted thereto, regardless of whether collected by the
Shareholders through the Infinity Division or otherwise by the
Purchaser.
ARTICLE 5
[RESERVED]
ARTICLE 6
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF
SHAREHOLDERS AND THE COMPANY
Except as set forth in the
Disclosure Schedule delivered by Company and Shareholders to
Purchaser at or prior to the execution of this Agreement and except
as set forth in any amendment, revision or restatement of such
Disclosure Schedule which is delivered to Purchaser at or prior to
the Closing), the Company and each of the Shareholders, jointly and
severally, represents and warrants to Purchaser as
follows:
6.1
No Conflicts . Except as set forth on Schedule
6.1 of the Disclosure Schedule, neither the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents by the
Company or the Shareholders nor the performance by the Company or
the Shareholders of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby
will:
(a)
violate or conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of the organizational documents of the
Company;
(b)
violate or conflict with or result in a breach of any Law or
conflict with or result in the breach of any of the terms,
conditions or provisions thereof;
(c)
constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a
default under or otherwise violate any material Permit, Contract,
mortgage, note, bond, license or other instrument to which the
Company or any of the Shareholders is a party or by which the
properties or assets of the Company or any of the Shareholders are
bound;
(d)
constitute an event which would permit any party to terminate, or
accelerate the maturity of any Indebtedness or other obligation
under, any Contract, mortgage, note, bond, license or other
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which its
properties or assets are bound;
(e)
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon the Purchased
Assets; or
(f)
require any Permit, authorization, consent, approval, exemption or
other action by or notice to any Person, court or administrative or
governmental body pursuant to any Laws.
6.2
Organization . The Company is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the State of Delaware. The Company has full power and
authority to carry on the Business as conducted by it and to own or
hold under lease the properties and assets it now owns or holds
under lease. The Company is duly qualified to do business and
is in good standing as a foreign corporation in all jurisdictions
where the nature of the property owned or leased by it, or the
nature of its business, makes such qualification necessary and
where the absence of such qualification would reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on its business,
financial condition or operations, which jurisdictions are listed
on Schedule 6.2 of the Disclosure Schedule.
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