NOTES SECURITIES PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
NOTES
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement
”), dated as of March 31, 2006, by and among Global
Employment Solutions, Inc., a Colorado corporation, with
headquarters located at 9090 Ridgeline Boulevard, Suite 205,
Littleton, Colorado 80129 (the “ Company ”), and
the investors listed on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto
(individually, a “ Buyer ” and collectively, the
“ Buyers ”).
A. The
Company and each Buyer is executing and delivering this Agreement
in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration
afforded by Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “ 1933 Act ”), and Rule 506 of
Regulation D (“ Regulation D ”) as
promulgated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “ SEC ”) under the 1933 Act.
B. Prior to
the Closing (as defined below) and immediately following the
consummation of the Share Exchange (as defined below), the Company
will cause PubCo (as defined below) to authorize a new series of
its senior secured convertible notes, which notes shall be
convertible into PubCo’s common stock (the “ Common
Stock ”) in accordance with the terms of such
notes.
C. Each Buyer
wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes PubCo to sell, upon the
terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, (i) that
aggregate principal amount of notes, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A (as amended or modified from time to time,
collectively, the " Notes ”), set forth opposite such
Buyer’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers
(which aggregate amount for all Buyers shall be $30,000,000) and
(ii) warrants, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit B (the “ Warrants ”), to
acquire up to that number of additional shares of Common Stock set
forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (4) of the
Schedule of Buyers (as exercised, collectively, the “
Warrant Shares ”).
D. Contemporaneously
with the Closing, the Buyers and PubCo will execute and deliver a
Registration Rights Agreement, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C (as amended or modified from time to time,
the “ Registration Rights Agreement ”), pursuant
to which the Company agrees to cause PubCo to provide certain
registration rights with respect to the shares of Common Stock into
which the Notes are convertible (the “ Conversion
Shares ”) and the Warrant Shares under the 1933 Act and
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and applicable
state securities laws.
E. The Notes,
the Conversion Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares
collectively are referred to herein as the “
Securities ”.
F. The Notes
will be (i) secured by a second priority perfected security
interest in all of the assets of PubCo and the Company and in all
of the shares of capital stock and all assets of all of
PubCo’s and the Company’s current and future
Subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined), as evidenced by the Pledge
Agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D ,
and the Security Agreement, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit E (as amended or modified from time to
time,
the “
Pledge Agreement ” and the “Security
Agreement ”) in favor of Amatis Limited, a company
organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands, in its capacity as
Collateral Agent (as defined below) for the Buyers hereto and for
the holders of the Securities, which security interest shall be
senior to all other security interests therein, except those
security interests securing the Senior Indebtedness (as defined in
the Notes), and (ii) guaranteed by the Guaranty of all of
PubCo’s and the Company’s current and future
Subsidiaries, other than the Inactive Subsidiaries (as defined
below), in the form attached hereto as Exhibit F (each,
a “ Guaranty ,” and together with the Pledge
Agreement and the Security Agreement, as each may amended or
modified from time to time, collectively, the “ Security
Documents ”).
NOW,
THEREFORE , the Company and each Buyer hereby agree as
follows:
1. PURCHASE AND
SALE OF NOTES AND WARRANTS.
(a)
Purchase of Notes and Warrants . Subject to the satisfaction
(or waiver) of the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7
below, the Company shall cause PubCo to issue and sell to each
Buyer, and each Buyer severally, but not jointly, agrees to
purchase from PubCo on the Closing Date (as defined below),
(x) a principal amount of Notes as is set forth opposite such
Buyer’s name in column (3) on the Schedule of Buyers and
(y) Warrants to acquire up to that number of Warrant Shares as
is set forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (4) on
the Schedule of Buyers (the " Closing ”).
(b)
Closing . The date and time of the Closing (the “
Closing Date ”) shall be 10:00 a.m., New York City
time, on a date mutually agreed to by the Company and Buyers
holding the right to purchase not less than 66-2/3% of the
aggregate principal amount of the Notes, such Closing Date to be as
soon as practicable following satisfaction (or waiver) of the
conditions to the Closing set forth in Sections 6 and 7 below
at the offices of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, 919 Third Avenue,
New York, New York 10022.
(c)
Purchase Price . The aggregate purchase price for the Notes
and the Warrants to be purchased by each Buyer at the Closing (the
“ Purchase Price ”) shall be the amount set
forth opposite such Buyer’s name in column (5) of the
Schedule of Buyers. Each Buyer shall pay $1.00 for each $1.00 of
principal amount of Notes and related Warrants to be purchased by
such Buyer at the Closing.
(d)
Form of Payment . On the Closing Date, (i) each Buyer
shall pay its Purchase Price to PubCo for the Notes and the
Warrants to be issued and sold to such Buyer at the Closing, by
wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the
Company’s or PubCo’s written wire instructions, and
(ii) the Company shall cause PubCo to deliver to each Buyer
(A) the Notes (in the principal amounts as such Buyer shall
request) which such Buyer is then purchasing and (B) the
Warrants (in the amounts as such Buyer shall request) which such
Buyer is purchasing, in each case duly executed on behalf of PubCo
and registered in the name of such Buyer or its
designee.
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2.
BUYER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
Each
Buyer represents and warrants with respect to only itself
that:
(a)
No Public Sale or Distribution . Such Buyer is
(i) acquiring the Notes and the Warrants and (ii) upon
conversion of the Notes and exercise of the Warrants will acquire
the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares (less any Warrant
Shares forfeited in a Cashless Exercise (as defined in the
Warrants)), in each case, for its own account and not with a view
towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or
distribution thereof, except pursuant to sales registered or
exempted under the 1933 Act; provided , however ,
that by making the representations herein, such Buyer does not
agree to hold any of the Securities for any minimum or other
specific term and reserves the right to dispose of the Securities
at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration
statement or an exemption under the 1933 Act. Such Buyer is
acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its
business. Such Buyer does not presently have any agreement or
understanding, directly or indirectly, with any Person to
distribute any of the Securities.
(b)
Accredited Investor Status . Such Buyer is an
“accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule
501(a) of Regulation D.
(c)
Reliance on Exemptions . Such Buyer understands that the
Securities are being offered and sold to it in reliance on specific
exemptions from the registration requirements of United States
federal and state securities laws and that the Company is relying
in part upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Buyer’s
compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements,
acknowledgments and understandings of such Buyer set forth herein
in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the
eligibility of such Buyer to acquire the Securities.
(d)
Information . Such Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been
furnished with all materials relating to the business, finances and
operations of the Company and materials relating to the offer and
sale of the Securities that have been requested by such Buyer. Such
Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been afforded the opportunity
to ask questions of the Company. Neither such inquiries nor any
other due diligence investigations conducted by such Buyer or its
advisors, if any, or its representatives shall modify, amend or
affect such Buyer’s right to rely on the Company’s
representations and warranties contained herein. Such Buyer
understands that its investment in the Securities involves a high
degree of risk. Such Buyer has sought such accounting, legal and
tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed
investment decision with respect to its acquisition of the
Securities.
(e)
No Governmental Review . Such Buyer understands that no
United States federal or state agency or any other government or
governmental agency has passed on or made any recommendation or
endorsement of the Securities or the fairness or suitability of the
investment in the Securities nor have such authorities passed upon
or endorsed the merits of the offering of the
Securities.
(f)
Transfer or Resale . Such Buyer understands that except as
will be provided in the Registration Rights Agreement: (I) the
Securities have not been and are not being
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registered
under the 1933 Act or any state securities laws, and may not be
offered for sale, sold, assigned or transferred unless
(A) subsequently registered thereunder, (B) such Buyer
shall have delivered to PubCo an opinion, in generally acceptable
form, of counsel selected by the Buyer and reasonably satisfactory
to PubCo, to the effect that such Securities to be sold, assigned
or transferred may be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to an
exemption from such registration, or (C) such Buyer provides
PubCo with reasonable assurance that such Securities can be sold,
assigned or transferred pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A
promulgated under the 1933 Act (or a successor rule thereto)
(collectively, “ Rule 144 ”); (II) any
sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144 may be
made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and
further, if Rule 144 is not applicable, any resale of the
Securities under circumstances in which the seller (or the Person
(as defined in Section 3(o)) through whom the sale is made)
may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the
1933 Act) may require compliance with some other exemption under
the 1933 Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder;
and (III) none of the Company, PubCo or any other Person is
under any obligation to register the Securities under the 1933 Act
or any state securities laws or to comply with the terms and
conditions of any exemption thereunder.
(g)
Legends . Such Buyer understands that the certificates or
other instruments representing the Notes and Warrants and, until
such time as the resale of the Conversion Shares and the Warrant
Shares have been registered under the 1933 Act as contemplated by
the Registration Rights Agreement, the stock certificates
representing the Conversion Shares and the Warrant Shares, except
as set forth below, shall bear any legend that is required by the
“blue sky” laws of any state and a restrictive legend
in substantially the following form (and a stop-transfer order may
be placed against transfer of such stock certificates):
[NEITHER THE
ISSUANCE AND SALE OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE
NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THESE SECURITIES ARE [CONVERTIBLE]
[EXERCISABLE] HAVE BEEN][THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS
CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN] REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE
SECURITIES MAY NOT BE OFFERED FOR SALE, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR
ASSIGNED (I) IN THE ABSENCE OF (A) AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR (B) AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SELECTED BY
THE HOLDER AND REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE ISSUER, IN A GENERALLY
ACCEPTABLE FORM, THAT REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED UNDER SAID ACT
OR (II) UNLESS SOLD PURSUANT TO RULE 144 OR RULE 144A UNDER
SAID ACT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE
PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN
OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES. THIS INSTRUMENT
IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF A SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT BY THE HOLDER
OF THIS NOTE
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IN FAVOR OF
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, ACTING THROUGH ITS WELLS
FARGO BUSINESS CREDIT OPERATING DIVISION, DATED AS OF MARCH 31,
2006.
The legend set
forth above shall be removed and PubCo shall issue a certificate
without such legend to the holder of the Securities upon which it
is stamped, if, unless otherwise required by state securities laws,
(i) such Securities are registered for resale under the 1933
Act, (ii) in connection with a sale, assignment or other
transfer, such holder provides PubCo with an opinion of counsel
reasonably acceptable to PubCo, in a generally acceptable form, to
the effect that such sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities
may be made without registration under the applicable requirements
of the 1933 Act, or (iii) such holder provides PubCo with
reasonable assurances of the holder’s belief that the
Securities can be sold, assigned or transferred pursuant to
Rule 144 or Rule 144A.
(h)
Validity; Enforcement . This Agreement has been, and when
the other Transaction Documents (as defined below) to which such
Buyer is a party are executed and delivered in accordance with the
terms and conditions contemplated hereby and thereby, such
documents shall have been, duly and validly authorized, executed
and delivered on behalf of such Buyer and shall constitute the
legal, valid and binding obligations of such Buyer enforceable
against such Buyer in accordance with their respective terms,
except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles
of equity or to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
fraudulent conveyance, moratorium, liquidation and other similar
laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of
applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.
(i)
Residency . Such Buyer is a resident of the jurisdiction
specified below its address on the Schedule of Buyers.
3.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
The
Company represents and warrants to each of the Buyers
that:
(a)
Organization and Qualification . The Company and its “
Subsidiaries ” (which for purposes of this Agreement
means any entity in which the Company and/or after the Closing,
PubCo, directly or indirectly, owns capital stock or holds an
equity or similar interest) are entities duly organized and validly
existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in
which they are formed, and have the requisite power and authority
to own their properties and to carry on their business as now being
conducted. As of the Closing Date, neither PD Quick — Temps,
Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, nor Placer Staffing, Inc., a
California corporation, (each an “ Inactive Subsidiary
”) owns or possesses any property or assets or conducts any
business or operations. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is
duly qualified as a foreign entity to do business and is in good
standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership of property
or the nature of the business conducted by it makes such
qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to
be so qualified or be in good standing would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As used in this
Agreement, “ Material Adverse Effect ” means any
material adverse effect on the business, properties, assets,
operations, results of operations, condition (financial or
otherwise) or prospects of the Company
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and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or on the transactions contemplated
hereby and the other Transaction Documents (as defined below) or by
the agreements and instruments to be entered into in connection
herewith or therewith, or on the authority or ability of the
Company to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents
to which it is a party. The Company has no Subsidiaries except as
set forth on Schedule 3(a) .
(b)
Authorization; Enforcement; Validity . The Company has the
requisite power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement, the Guaranty to which it is a
party and each of the other agreements entered into by the parties
hereto in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement to which the Company is a party (such documents, and
together with the Notes, the Warrants, the Registration Rights
Agreement, the Security Documents, the Irrevocable Transfer Agent
Instructions, the Subordination Agreement (as defined in Section
7(l) below), and each of the other agreements to be entered into in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement,
collectively, the “ Transaction Documents ”).
The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents to which
the Company is a party and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly
authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors and no further
filing, consent, or authorization is required by the Company, its
Board of Directors or its stockholders. This Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party have
been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and constitute the
legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their respective terms,
except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles
of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, liquidation or similar laws
relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable
creditors’ rights and remedies.
(c)
Offer of Securities . The offer by the Company of the
Securities is exempt from registration under the 1933
Act.
(d)
No Conflicts . The execution, delivery and performance of
the Transaction Documents to which the Company is a party and the
consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby
and thereby will not (i) result in a violation of any
certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, any
certificate of designations or other constituent documents of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any capital stock of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the bylaws of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a
default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both
would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of
termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any
agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of
any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including
federal and state securities laws and regulations) applicable to
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by which any property or
asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or
affected.
(e)
Consents . The Company is not required to obtain any
consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or
registration with, any court, governmental agency or any regulatory
or self-regulatory agency or any other Person in order for it to
execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under or
contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which
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it is a party,
in each case in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof, other
than (i) the filing of appropriate UCC financing statements
with the appropriate states and other authorities pursuant to the
Pledge Agreement and the Security Agreement, and (ii) the
current report on Form 8-K required to be filed after Closing by
PubCo pursuant to Section 4(h) of this Agreement, the Form D
filing required to be made following the Closing by PubCo with the
SEC and the registration statement and related state securities law
filings required by the Registration Rights Agreement.
(f)
Acknowledgment Regarding Buyer’s Purchase of
Securities . The Company acknowledges and agrees that each
Buyer is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length
purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and that no Buyer is
(i) an officer or director of the Company, (ii) an
“affiliate” of the Company (as defined in
Rule 144) or (iii) to the knowledge of the Company, a
“beneficial owner” of more than 10% of the shares of
Common Stock (as defined for purposes of Rule 13d-3 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ 1934
Act ”)). The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer
is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in
any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and
the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and any advice
given by a Buyer or any of its representatives or agents in
connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to such
Buyer’s purchase of the Securities. The Company further
represents to each Buyer that the decision of the Company and each
of the Subsidiaries to enter into the Transaction Documents, as
applicable, has been based solely on the independent evaluation by
the Company, its Subsidiaries and their representatives.
(g)
No General Solicitation; Placement Agent’s Fees . None
of the Company, any of its affiliates, or any Person acting on its
or their behalf, has engaged in any form of general solicitation or
general advertising (within the meaning of Regulation D) in
connection with the offer or sale of the Securities. The Company
shall be responsible for the payment of any placement agent’s
fees, financial advisory fees, or brokers’ commissions (other
than for persons engaged by any Buyer or its investment advisor)
relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby.
The Company shall pay, and hold each Buyer harmless against, any
liability, loss or expense (including, without limitation,
attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket expenses) arising in
connection with any such claim. The Company acknowledges that it
has engaged Rodman & Renshaw, LLC as placement agent (the
“ Agent ”) in connection with the sale of the
Securities. The Company will also pay a fee of up to $810,000 to
Ewing Bemiss & Co. (“ Bemiss ”)
contemporaneously with the Closing. Other than the Agent and
Bemiss, the Company has not engaged any placement agent or other
agent in connection with the sale of the Securities.
(h)
No Integrated Offering . None of the Company, its
Subsidiaries, any of their affiliates, or any Person acting on
their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales
of any security or solicited any offers to buy any security, under
circumstances that would require registration of any of the
Securities under the 1933 Act or cause this offering of the
Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for
purposes of the 1933 Act or any applicable stockholder approval
provisions, including, without limitation, under the rules and
regulations of any exchange or automated quotation system on which
any of the securities of the Company are listed or
designated.
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(i)
Financial Statements . The financial statements of the
Company have been prepared in accordance with United States
generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied
(“ GAAP ”), during the periods involved (except
(i) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements
or the notes thereto, or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim
statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be
condensed or summary statements) and fairly present in all material
respects the financial position of the Company as of the dates
thereof and the results of its operations and cash flows for the
periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements,
to normal year-end audit adjustments). Except for liabilities and
obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and
consistent with past practice, liabilities and obligations
reflected on or reserved against in the January 1, 2006
audited balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP delivered
pursuant to Section 7(o) (the “ Balance Sheet ”)
and as otherwise disclosed herein or in the disclosure schedules to
this Agreement (the “ Disclosure Schedules ”),
since January 2, 2006, inclusive of such date, the Company has
not incurred any liabilities or obligations that would be required
to be reflected or reserved against in a balance sheet of the
Company prepared in accordance with the principles used in
preparation of the Balance Sheet.
(j)
Absence of Certain Changes . Since January 1, 2006,
there has been no change or development in the business,
properties, operations, condition (financial or otherwise), results
of operations or prospects of the Company or its Subsidiaries that
has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Since January 1, 2006, the Company has not (i)
declared or paid any dividends, (ii) sold any assets,
individually or in the aggregate, in excess of $100,000 outside of
the ordinary course of business, (iii) had capital
expenditures, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of
$500,000 or (iv) waived any material rights with respect to
any Indebtedness or other rights in excess of $100,000 owed to it.
The Company has not taken any steps to seek protection pursuant to
any bankruptcy law nor does the Company have any knowledge or
reason to believe that its creditors intend to initiate involuntary
bankruptcy proceedings or any actual knowledge of any fact which
would reasonably lead a creditor to do so. The Company is not as of
the date hereof, and after giving effect to the transactions
contemplated hereby to occur at the Closing will not be, Insolvent
(as defined below). For purposes of this Section 3(j), “
Insolvent ” means (i) the present fair saleable
value of the Company’s assets is less than the amount
required to pay the Company’s total Indebtedness (as defined
in Section 3(o)), (ii) the Company is unable to pay its debts
and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such
debts and liabilities become absolute and matured, (iii) the
Company intends to incur or believes that it will incur debts that
would be beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature or
(iv) the Company has unreasonably small capital with which to
conduct the business in which it is engaged as such business is now
conducted and is proposed to be conducted.
(k)
Conduct of Business; Regulatory Permits . Neither the
Company nor its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in
default under its certificate of incorporation, certificate of
formation, any certificate of designations or other constituent
documents or its bylaws. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is in violation of any judgment, decree or order or
any statute, ordinance, rule or regulation applicable to the
Company or its Subsidiaries, except for possible violations which
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries possess all
certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate
regulatory authorities necessary to conduct
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their
respective businesses, except where the failure to possess such
certificates, authorizations or permits would not have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and
neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has received any notice
of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any
such certificate, authorization or permit.
(l)
Foreign Corrupt Practices . Neither the Company, nor any of
its Subsidiaries, nor any director, officer, agent, employee or
other Person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf
of, the Company (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful
contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses
relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or
indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government
official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or
is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv) made any unlawful
bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other
unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or
employee.
(m)
Transactions With Affiliates . Except as set forth in
Schedule 3(m) hereto, other than the issuance of
restricted stock disclosed on Schedule 3(n) , none of
the officers, directors or employees of the Company is presently a
party to any transaction with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries (other than for ordinary course services as employees,
officers or directors), including any contract, agreement or other
arrangement providing for the furnishing of services to or by,
providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or
otherwise requiring payments to or from any such officer, director
or employee or, to the knowledge of the Company, any corporation,
partnership, trust or other entity in which any such officer,
director, or employee has a substantial interest or is an officer,
director, trustee or partner.
(n)
Equity Capitalization . As of the date hereof, the
authorized capital stock of the Company consists of
(i) 10,000,000 shares of common stock, $.01 par value,
2,693,370 of which are issued and outstanding and
(ii) 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $.01 par value, of
which 7,000,000 shares have been designated as Series C
Preferred Stock, 6,825,780 of which are issued and outstanding, and
30,000,000 have been designated as Series D Preferred Stock,
21,841,930.34 of which are issued and outstanding. All of such
outstanding shares have been, or upon issuance will be, validly
issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3(n) or Schedule 3(o) : (i) none
of the Company’s share capital is subject to preemptive
rights or any other similar rights or any liens or encumbrances
suffered or permitted by the Company; (ii) there are no
outstanding options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls
or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or
securities or rights convertible into, or exercisable or
exchangeable for, any share capital of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or
arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or
may become bound to issue additional share capital of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries or options, warrants, scrip, rights to
subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever
relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, or
exercisable or exchangeable for, any share capital of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) there are no outstanding
debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit facilities or
other agreements, documents or instruments evidencing Indebtedness
(as defined in Section 3(o)) of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
or may become bound; (iv) there are no financing statements
securing obligations in any material
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amounts, either
singly or in the aggregate, filed in connection with the Company;
(v) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to register the
sale of any of their securities under the 1933 Act (except the
Registration Rights Agreement); (vi) there are no outstanding
securities or instruments of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
which contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are
no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to
redeem a security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(vii) there are no securities or instruments containing
anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the
issuance of the Securities; (viii) the Company does not have
any stock appreciation rights or “phantom stock” plans
or agreements or any similar plan or agreement; (ix) all the
Company’s outstanding options and warrants shall be cancelled
at Closing; and (x) no securities of the Company or PubCo are
listed or quoted on any stock exchange or automated quotation
system. Immediately after giving effect to the Merger and the Share
Exchange (as such terms are defined in Section 7(p) hereof),
(i) all of the Company’s issued and outstanding stock
shall be owned by PubCo and (ii) all other securities issued
by the Company (including, without limitation, the Series C
Preferred Stock, the Series D Preferred Stock and any
securities disclosed in Schedule 3(n) ) shall have been
exchanged for shares of PubCo’s Class A Common Stock
(the “ Class A Common Stock ”),
PubCo’s Class B Common Stock (the “
Class B Common Stock ”) or PubCo’s Common
Stock, as applicable. The Company has furnished to the Buyer true,
correct and complete copies of the Company’s Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the
" Certificate of Incorporation ”), the Company’s
Bylaws, as amended and as in effect on the date hereof (the “
Bylaws ”), and all agreements relating to securities
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of
Common Stock and the material rights of the holders thereof in
respect thereto.
(o)
Indebtedness and Other Contracts . Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3(o) , neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries (i) has any outstanding Indebtedness (as defined
below), (ii) is a party to any contract, agreement or
instrument, the violation of which, or default under which, by the
other party(ies) to such contract, agreement or instrument would
result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) is in violation of
any term of or in default under any contract, agreement or
instrument relating to any Indebtedness, except where such
violations and defaults would not result, individually or in the
aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, or (iv) is a party to any
contract, agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness, the
performance of which, in the judgment of the Company’s
officers, has or is expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Schedule 3(o) provides a detailed description of the
material terms of any such outstanding Indebtedness. Immediately
after giving effect to the Merger and the Share Exchange (as such
terms are defined in Section 7(p) hereof), neither the Company nor
PubCo shall have any outstanding Indebtedness, other than the
Notes, the Senior Indebtedness (as defined in the Notes) and the
Permitted Indebtedness (as defined in the Notes) set forth on
Schedule 3(o)(i) . For purposes of this Agreement: (x)
“ Indebtedness ” of any Person means, without
duplication (A) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (B) all
obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase
price of property or services including, without limitation,
“capital leases” in accordance with U.S. GAAP (other
than trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of
business), (C) all reimbursement or payment obligations with
respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar
instruments, (D) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds,
debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so
evidenced incurred in connection with the acquisition of property,
assets or businesses, (E) all indebtedness created or arising
under any
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conditional
sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing,
in either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with
the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and
remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of
default are limited to repossession or sale of such property),
(F) all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar
arrangement which, in connection with U.S. GAAP, consistently
applied for the periods covered thereby, is classified as a capital
lease, (G) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (A) through
(F) above secured by (or for which the holder of such
Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
secured by) any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest
or other encumbrance upon or in any property or assets (including
accounts and contract rights) owned by any Person, even though the
Person which owns such assets or property has not assumed or become
liable for the payment of such indebtedness, and (H) all
Contingent Obligations in respect of indebtedness or obligations of
others of the kinds referred to in clauses (A) through
(G) above; (y) “ Contingent Obligation ”
means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect liability,
contingent or otherwise, of that Person with respect to any
indebtedness, lease, dividend or other obligation of another Person
if the primary purpose or intent of the Person incurring such
liability, or the primary effect thereof, is to provide assurance
to the obligee of such liability that such liability will be paid
or discharged, or that any agreements relating thereto will be
complied with, or that the holders of such liability will be
protected (in whole or in part) against loss with respect thereto;
and (z) “ Person ” means an individual, a
limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a
corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a
government or any department or agency thereof.
(p)
Absence of Litigation . There is no action, suit,
proceeding, inquiry or investigation that is material, individually
or in the aggregate, before or by, any court, public board,
government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or,
to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting
the Company, the Common Stock or any of the Company’s
Subsidiaries or any of the Company’s or the Company’s
Subsidiaries’ officers or directors.
(q)
Insurance . The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are
insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against
such losses and risks and in such amounts as management of the
Company believes to be prudent and customary in the businesses in
which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the
Company nor any such Subsidiary has been refused any insurance
coverage sought or applied for and neither the Company nor any such
Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to
renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage
expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may
be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have
a Material Adverse Effect.
(i)
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any
collective bargaining agreement or employs any member of a union.
The Company and its Subsidiaries believe that their relations with
their employees are good. None of Howard Brill, Dan Hollenbach,
Robert Larkin, Steve Pennington or any officer in the capacity of
President-Professional Staffing or any other person holding a
similar office or holding an office at a similar level as the
foregoing (the “ Executive Officers ”) have
notified the Company that such officer
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intends to
leave the Company or otherwise terminate such officer’s
employment with the Company. No Executive Officer of the Company,
to the knowledge of the Company, is, or is expected to be, in
violation of any material term of any employment contract,
confidentiality, disclosure or proprietary information agreement,
non-competition agreement, or any other contract or agreement or
any restrictive covenant, and the continued employment of each
Executive Officer does not subject the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries to any liability with respect to any of the foregoing
matters.
(ii) The
Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with all federal,
state, local and foreign laws and regulations respecting labor,
employment and employment practices and benefits, terms and
conditions of employment and wages and hours, except where failure
to be in compliance would not, either individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(s)
Title . The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and
marketable title in fee simple to all real property and good and
marketable title to all personal property owned by them which is
material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in
each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects
except for the blanket lien securing the Senior Indebtedness (as
defined in the Notes) and such as do not materially affect the
value of such property and do not interfere with the use made and
proposed to be made of such property by the Company and any of its
Subsidiaries. Any real property and facilities held under lease by
the Company and any of its Subsidiaries are held by them under
valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as
are not material and do not interfere with the use made and
proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company
and its Subsidiaries.
(t)
Intellectual Property Rights . The Company and its
Subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights or licenses to use all
trademarks, service marks, and all applications and registrations
therefor, trade names, patents, patent rights, copyrights, original
works of authorship, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental
authorizations, trade secrets and other intellectual property
rights (“ Intellectual Property Rights ”)
necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now conducted.
None of the Company’s Intellectual Property Rights have
expired or terminated, or are expected to expire or terminate,
within three years from the date of this Agreement. The Company
does not have any knowledge of any infringement by the Company or
its Subsidiaries of Intellectual Property Rights of others. There
is no claim, action or proceeding being made or brought, or to the
knowledge of the Company, being threatened, against the Company or
its Subsidiaries regarding its Intellectual Property Rights. The
Company is unaware of any facts or circumstances which might give
rise to any of the foregoing infringements or claims, actions or
proceedings. The Company and its Subsidiaries have taken reasonable
security measures to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value
of all of their Intellectual Property Rights.
(u)
Environmental Laws . The Company and its Subsidiaries
(i) are in compliance with any and all applicable
Environmental Laws (as hereinafter defined), (ii) have
received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them
under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective
businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and
conditions of any such permit, license or approval where, in each
of the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the failure to
so comply could be reasonably expected to have,
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individually or
in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The term “
Environmental Laws ” means all federal, state, local
or foreign laws relating to pollution or protection of human health
or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air,
surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata),
including, without limitation, laws relating to emissions,
discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals,
pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous substances or
wastes (collectively, “ Hazardous Materials ”)
into the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal,
transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all
authorizations, codes, decrees, demands or demand letters,
injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters,
orders, permits, plans or regulations issued, entered, promulgated
or approved thereunder.
(v)
Subsidiary Rights . Except as set forth in
Schedule 3(v) , the Company or one of its Subsidiaries
has the unrestricted right to vote, and (subject to limitations
imposed by applicable law) to receive dividends and distributions
on, all capital securities of its Subsidiaries as owned by the
Company or each Subsidiary.
(w)
Tax Status . The Company and each of its Subsidiaries
(i) has made or filed all foreign, federal and state income
and all other tax returns, reports and declarations required by any
jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes
and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in
amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and
declarations, except those being contested in good faith and
(iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate
for the payment of all taxes for periods subsequent to the periods
to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no
unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing
authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company know
of no basis for any such claim. No liens have been filed and no
claims are being asserted by or against the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries with respect to any taxes (other than liens for taxes
not yet due and payable). Neither the Company nor it Subsidiaries
has received notice of assessment or proposed assessment of any
taxes claimed to be owed by it or any other Person on its behalf.
Except as disclosed on Schedule 3(w) , neither the
Company nor any Subsidiary is a party to any tax sharing or tax
indemnity agreement or any other agreement of a similar nature that
remains in effect. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries has
complied in all material respects with all applicable legal
requirements relating to the payment and withholding of taxes and,
within the time and in the manner prescribed by law, has withheld
from wages, fees and other payments and paid over to the proper
governmental or regulatory authorities all amounts
required.
(x)
Internal Accounting Controls . The Company and each of its
Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls
sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions
are executed in accordance with management’s general or
specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as
necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with U.S. GAAP and to maintain asset and liability
accountability, (iii) access to assets or incurrence of
liabilities is permitted only in accordance with management’s
general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded
accountability for assets and liabilities is compared with the
existing assets and liabilities at reasonable intervals and
appropriate action is taken with respect to any
difference.
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(y)
Ranking of Guaranty . Except for the Senior Indebtedness (as
defined in the Notes), no Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries, at the Closing, will be senior to or pari
passu with the Guaranty by the Company in right of payment,
whether with respect of payment or redemptions, interest, damages
or upon liquidation or dissolution or otherwise, excluding
(i) the obligations of the Company or its Subsidiaries under
any lease of real or personal property by such Person as lessee
which is required under GAAP to be capitalized on such
Person’s balance sheet and (ii) Indebtedness permitted
by clause (v) of the definition of “Permitted
Lien” set forth in the Notes.
(z)
Lien Searches . Within 6 Business Days prior to the date
hereof, the Company shall have delivered or caused to be delivered
to each Buyer certified copies of UCC financing statement search
results listing any and all effective financing statements filed
within five years prior to such date in any applicable jurisdiction
that name the Company or any of their Subsidiaries as a debtor to
perfect an interest in any of the assets thereof, together with
copies of such financing statements, none of which financing
statements, except for any financing statements filed with respect
to the Senior Indebtedness and as otherwise agreed to in writing by
the Buyers, shall cover any of the “Collateral” (as
defined in the Security Documents), and the results of searches for
any effective tax liens and judgment liens filed against any such
Person or its property in any applicable jurisdiction, which
results, except as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Buyers,
shall not show any such effective tax liens and judgment
liens.
(aa)
Required Repayments; Management Payments . Upon the payment
of cash and shares of Common Stock in the amounts set forth on
Schedule 3(aa)(i) (the “ Required
Repayments ”) to the holders of the Indebtedness
identified as “Subordinated Indebtedness” on
Schedule 3(o) , the Company shall have fulfilled any
and all of its obligations to the holders of the Indebtedness
identified as “Subordinated Indebtedness” on
Schedule 3(o) arising from, under or with respect to
the Master Investment Agreement, dated as of November 15,
2001, by and among the Company, Global Investment I, LLC and the
other parties identified therein, as currently in effect (the
“ Master Investment Agreement ”). Upon the
payment of the cash and shares of Common Stock to the parties and
in the amounts set forth on Schedule 3(aa)(ii)
(collectively, the “ Management Payments ”), the
Company shall have fulfilled any and all of its obligations to such
parties arising from, under or with respect to (i) the
Certificate of Incorporation, (ii) the Company’s
Series C Preferred Stock, (iii) the Company’s
Series D Preferred Stock, (iv) the Company’s
Restricted Stock Plan, as currently in effect, and (v) the
Master Investment Agreement, as applicable.
(bb)
Disclosure. All disclosure, oral or written, provided to the
Buyers regarding the Company, its business and the transactions
contemplated hereby, including the Schedules to this Agreement,
furnished by or on behalf of the Company, taken as a whole, is true
and correct and does not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make
the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading.
(a)
Best Efforts . Each party shall use its best efforts timely
to satisfy each of the conditions to be satisfied by it as provided
in Sections 6 and 7 of this Agreement.
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(b)
Form D and Blue Sky . The Company agrees to cause PubCo
to file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required
under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof to each Buyer
promptly after such filing. The Company shall, on or before the
Closing Date, take such action, or cause PubCo to take such action,
as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to
obtain an exemption for or to qualify the Securities for sale to
the Buyers at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement under
applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states
of the United States (or to obtain an exemption from such
qualification), and shall provide evidence of any such action so
taken to the Buyers on or prior to the Closing Date.
(c)
Reporting Status . Until the date on which the Investors (as
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) shall have sold all
the Conversion Shares and Warrant Shares and none of the Notes or
Warrants is outstanding (the “ Reporting Period
”), the Company shall cause PubCo to use every reasonable
effort to timely file all reports required to be filed with the SEC
pursuant to the 1934 Act, and the Company shall not permit PubCo to
terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under
the 1934 Act even if the 1934 Act or the rules and regulations
thereunder would otherwise permit such termination.
(d)
Financial Information . (i) The Company agrees to cause
PubCo to send the following to each Investor during the Reporting
Period unless the following are filed with the SEC through EDGAR
and are available to the public through the EDGAR system, within
one Business Day after the filing thereof with the SEC, a copy of
its Annual Reports on Form 10-K or 10-KSB, any interim reports or
any consolidated balance sheets, income statements,
stockholders’ equity statements and/or cash flow statements
for any period other than annual, any Current Reports on Form 8-K
and any registration statements (other than on Form S-8) or
amendments filed pursuant to the 1933 Act, (ii) on the same
day as the release thereof, facsimile copies of all press releases
issued by PubCo, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and
(iii) copies of any notices and other information made
available or given to the stockholders of PubCo or the Company
generally, contemporaneously with the making available or giving
thereof to the stockholders.
(e) Until
the Closing, the Company agrees to promptly deliver to each Buyer a
copy of all financial statements prepared by the Company for
distribution to any of the Company’s shareholders, lenders or
its board of directors.
(f)
Fees . The Company and PubCo shall reimburse Amatis Limited
(a Buyer) or its designee(s) for all reasonable costs and expenses
(in addition to any amounts previously paid) incurred in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(including all reasonable legal fees and disbursements in
connection therewith, documentation and implementation of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and due
diligence in connection therewith), which amount may be, at the
sole option of Amatis Limited, after application of the $50,000
advance toward such fees and expenses paid by the Company, withheld
by such Buyer from its Purchase Price at the Closing. The Company
and PubCo, as applicable, shall be responsible for the payment of
any placement agent’s fees, financial advisory fees, or
broker’s commissions (other than for Persons engaged by any
Buyer) relating to or arising out of the transactions contemplated
hereby, including, without limitation, any fees or commissions
payable to the Agent. The Company shall pay, or cause PubCo to pay,
and hold, or cause PubCo to hold, each Buyer harmless against, any
liability, loss or expense (including,
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without
limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and out-of-pocket
expenses) arising in connection with any claim relating to any such
payment. Except as otherwise set forth in the Transaction
Documents, each party to this Agreement shall bear its own expenses
in connection with the sale of the Securities to the
Buyers.
(g)
Pledge of Securities . The Company, on behalf of itself and
PubCo, acknowledges and agrees that the Securities may be pledged
by an Investor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) in
connection with a bona fide margin agreement or other loan or
financing arrangement that is secured by the Securities. The pledge
of Securities shall not be deemed to be a transfer, sale or
assignment of the Securities hereunder, and no Investor effecting a
pledge of Securities shall be required to provide the Company or
PubCo with any notice thereof or otherwise make any delivery to the
Company or PubCo pursuant to this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, including, without limitation, Section 2(f)
hereof; provided that an Investor and its pledgee shall be required
to comply with the provisions of Section 2(f) hereof in order to
effect a sale, transfer or assignment of Securities to such
pledgee. The Company hereby agrees to execute and deliver, and to
cause PubCo to execute and deliver, such documentation as a pledgee
of the Securities may reasonably request in connection with a
pledge of the Securities to such pledgee by an Investor.
(h)
Disclosure of Transactions and Other Material Information .
On or before 8:30 a.m., New York Time, on the first Business Day
following the Closing Date, the Company shall cause PubCo to file a
press release (the “ Press Release ”) describing
the material terms of the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents. On or before 8:30 a.m., New York Time, on
the second Business Day following the Closing Date, the Company
shall cause PubCo to file a Current Report on Form 8-K, describing
the terms of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents in the form required by the 1934 Act and attaching the
material Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, this
Agreement (and all schedules to this Agreement), the form of each
of the Notes, the form of Warrant, the Registration Rights
Agreement and the Security Documents) as exhibits to such filing
(including all attachments, the “ 8-K Filing ”).
From and after the issuance of the Press Release, no Buyer shall be
in possession of any material, nonpublic information received from
the Company, PubCo, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents, that is not
disclosed in the Press Release. The Company shall not, and shall
cause PubCo and each of their Subsidiaries and their and each of
their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, not to,
provide any Buyer with any material, nonpublic information
regarding the Company, PubCo or any of their Subsidiaries from and
after the issuance of the Press Release without the express written
consent of such Buyer. In the event of a breach of the foregoing
covenant by the Company, any of their Subsidiaries, or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees and agents, in addition
to any other remedy provided herein or in the Transaction
Documents, a Buyer shall have the right to make a public
disclosure, in the form of a press release, public advertisement or
otherwise, of such material, nonpublic information without the
prior approval by the Company, their Subsidiaries, or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents. No Buyer shall
have any liability to the Company, PubCo, its Subsidiaries, or any
of their respective officers, directors, employees, stockholders or
agents for any such disclosure. Subject to the foregoing, neither
the Company, PubCo, nor any Buyer shall issue any press releases or
any other public statements with respect to the transactions
contemplated hereby; provided , however , that PubCo
shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any Buyer,
to
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make any press
release or other public disclosure with respect to such
transactions (i) in substantial conformity with the 8-K Filing
and contemporaneously therewith and (ii) as is required by
applicable law and regulations (provided that in the case of clause
(i) the holders of 66 2/3% of the outstanding principal amount
of the Notes shall be consulted by PubCo in connection with and
given an opportunity to review and comment on any such press
release or other public disclosure prior to its release).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither PubCo nor the Company shall
publicly disclose the name of any Buyer, or include the name of any
Buyer in any filing with the SEC or any regulatory agency or
Principal Market, the stock exchange or automated quotation system
upon which PubCo’s shares of Common Stock are traded,
including, without limitation, any and all discounted issuance
rules, if applicable, without the prior written consent of such
Buyer, except (i) for disclosure thereof in the 8-K Filing or
Registration Statement or (ii) as required by law or Principal
Market regulations, the regulations of the stock exchange or
automatic quotation system upon which PubCo’s shares of
Common Stock are then traded or any order of any court or other
governmental agency, in which case PubCo shall provide such Buyer
with prior notice of such disclosure and the opportunity to review
and comment on such disclosure.
(i)
Special Dividend; Restriction on Redemption and Other Cash
Dividends . Immediately after giving effect to the Merger and
the Share Exchange (as such terms are defined in Section 7(p)
hereof), PubCo shall declare and pay an aggregate cash dividend of
not more than $25.58528 per share on its outstanding Class A
Common Stock (the “ Class A Dividend ”) and
an aggregate cash dividend of not more than $3.21374 per share on
its outstanding Class B Common Stock (the “
Class B Dividend ,” and collectively with the
Class A Dividend, the “ Special Dividend
”). Immediately following the payment of the Special
Dividend, each share of Class A Common Stock and each share of
Class B Common Stock shall, automatically and without further
action by the Company, PubCo or any other party, convert into one
share of Common Stock (such conversions, the “ Required
Conversions ”). So long as any Notes are outstanding, the
Company shall cause PubCo not to, directly or indirectly, redeem,
or declare or pay any cash dividend or distribution on, the Common
Stock without the prior express written consent of the holders of
Notes representing not less than 66-2/3% of the aggregate principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes; provided that the foregoing
shall not prohibit the payment of the Special Dividend as
contemplated hereby.
(j)
Additional Notes; Variable Securities; Dilutive Issuances .
For so long as any Buyer beneficially owns any Securities, the
Company shall cause PubCo not to issue any Notes other than to the
Buyers as contemplated hereby and the Company shall cause PubCo not
to issue any other securities that would cause a breach or default
under the Notes. For so long as any Notes or Warrants remain
outstanding, the Company shall cause PubCo not to, in any manner,
issue or sell any rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or
purchase Common Stock or directly or indirectly convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for Common Stock at a price which
varies or may vary with the market price of the Common Stock,
including by way of one or more reset(s) to any fixed price unless
the conversion, exchange or exercise price of any such security
cannot be less than the then applicable Conversion Price (as
defined in the Notes) with respect to the Common Stock into which
any Note is convertible or the then applicable Exercise Price (as
defined in the Warrants) with respect to the Common Stock into
which any Warrant is exercisable. For so long as any Notes or
Warrants remain outstanding, the Company shall cause PubCo not to,
in any manner, enter into or affect any Dilutive Issuance (as
defined in
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the Notes) if
the effect of such Dilutive Issuance is to cause PubCo to be
required to issue upon conversion of any Note or exercise of any
Warrant any shares of Common Stock in excess of that number of
shares of Common Stock which PubCo may issue upon conversion of the
Notes and exercise of the Warrants without breaching PubCo’s
obligations under the rules or regulations of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.’s OTC Bulletin Board
(the “ Principal Market ”) or the stock exchange
or automated quotation system upon which PubCo’s shares of
Common Stock are traded, including, without limitation, any and all
discounted issuance rules, if applicable.
(k)
Corporate Existence . So long as any Buyer beneficially owns
any Securities, the Company shall cause PubCo not to be party to
any Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Notes) unless PubCo
is in compliance with the applicable provisions governing
Fundamental Transactions set forth in the Notes and the
Warrants.
(l)
Reservation of Shares . The Company shall cause PubCo to
take all action necessary to at all times have authorized, and
reserved for the purpose of issuance, after the Closing Date, 130%
of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of
all of the Notes and upon exercise of the Warrants.
(m)
Conduct of Business . The business of PubCo, the Company and
their Subsidiaries shall not be conducted in violation of any law,
ordinance or regulation of any governmental entity, except where
such violations would not result, either individually or in the
aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect.
(n)
Additional Issuances of Securities .
(i) For
purposes of this Section 4(n), the following definitions shall
apply.
(A)
“ Convertible Securities ” means any stock or
securities (other than Options) convertible into or exercisable or
exchangeable for shares of Common Stock.
(B)
“ Options ” means any rights, warrants or
options to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or
Convertible Securities.
(C)
“ Common Stock Equivalents ” means,
collectively, Options and Convertible Securities.
(ii) From
the date hereof until the date that is 180 Trading Days (as defined
in the Notes) following the Effective Date (as defined in the
Registration Rights Agreement), as such date may be extended by one
Trading Day for each Trading Day following the Effective Date on
which the Equity Conditions (as defined in the Notes) are not
satisfied (the “ Trigger Date ”), neither PubCo
nor the Company will, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, grant
any option to purchase, or otherwise dispose of (or announce any
offer, sale, grant or any option to purchase or other disposition
of) any of its or its Subsidiaries’ equity or equity
equivalent securities, including without limitation any debt,
preferred stock or other instrument or security that is, at any
time during its life and under any circumstances, convertible into
or exchangeable or exercisable for shares of Common Stock or Common
Stock Equivalents (any such offer, sale,
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grant,
disposition or announcement being referred to as a “
Subsequent Placement ”) without the prior written
approval of the holders of 66-2/3% of the aggregate principal
amount of the Notes.
(iii) From
the Trigger Date until the two year anniversary of the Closing
Date, the Company shall cause PubCo not to, directly or indirectly,
effect any Subsequent Placement unless PubCo shall have first
complied with this Section 4(n)(iii).
(A) PubCo
shall deliver to each Buyer a written notice (the “ Offer
Notice ”) of any proposed or intended issuance or sale or
exchange (the “ Offer ”) of the securities being
offered (the “ Offered Securities ”) in a
Subsequent Placement, which Offer Notice shall (w) identify
and describe the Offered Securities, (x) describe the price
and other terms upon which they are to be issued, sold or
exchanged, and the number or amount of the Offered Securities to be
issued, sold or exchanged, (y) identify the persons or
entities (if known) to which or with which the Offered Securities
are to be offered, issued, sold or exchanged and (z) offer to
issue and sell to or exchange with such Buyers a pro rata portion
of 50% of the Offered Securities (a) based on such
Buyer’s pro rata portion of the aggregate principal amount of
Notes purchased hereunder (the “ Basic Amount
”), and (b) with respect to each Buyer that elects to
purchase its Basic Amount, any additional portion of the Offered
Securities attributable to the Basic Amounts of other Buyers as
such Buyer shall indicate it will purchase or acquire should the
other Buyers subscribe for less than their Basic Amounts (the
“ Undersubscription Amount ”).
(B) To
accept an Offer, in whole or in part, such Buyer must deliver a
written notice to PubCo prior to the end of the 10
th Business Day after such Buyer’s receipt of
the Offer Notice (the “ Offer Period ”), setting
forth the portion of such Buyer’s Basic Amount that such
Buyer elects to purchase and, if such Buyer shall elect to purchase
all of its Basic Amount, the Undersubscription Amount, if any, that
such Buyer elects to purchase (in either case, the “
Notice of Acceptance ”). If the Basic Amounts
subscribed for by all Buyers are less than the total of all of the
Basic Amounts, then each Buyer who has set forth an
Undersubscription Amount in its Notice of Acceptance shall be
entitled to purchase, in addition to the Basic Amounts subscribed
for, the Undersubscription Amount it has subscribed for;
provided , however , that if the Undersubscription
Amounts subscribed for exceed the difference between the total of
all the Basic Amounts and the Basic Amounts subscribed for (the
“ Available Undersubscription Amount ”), each
Buyer who has subscribed for any Undersubscription Amount shall be
entitled to purchase only that portion of the Available
Undersubscription Amount as the Basic Amount of such Buyer bears to
the total Basic Amounts of all Buyers that have subscribed for
Undersubscription Amounts, subject to rounding by PubCo to the
extent its deems reasonably necessary, which process shall be
repeated until the Buyers shall have had the opportunity to
subscribe for any remaining Undersubscription Amount.
(C) PubCo
shall have 10 Business Days from the expiration of the Offer Period
above to offer, issue, sell or exchange all or any part of such
Offered Securities as to which a Notice of Acceptance has not been
given by the Buyers (the “ Refused Securities
”), but only to the offerees described in the Offer Notice
(if so described therein) and only upon terms and conditions
(including, without limitation, unit prices and interest rates)
that are not more favorable to the acquiring person or persons or
less favorable to PubCo than those set forth in the Offer
Notice.
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(D) In
the event PubCo shall propose to sell less than all the Refused
Securities (any such sale to be in the manner and on the terms
specified in Section 4(n)(iii) above), then each Buyer may, at
its sole option and in its sole discretion, reduce the number or
amount of the Offered Securities specified in its Notice of
Acceptance to an amount that shall be not less than the number or
amount of the Offered Securities that such Buyer elected to
purchase pursuant to Section 4(n)(iii) above multiplied by a
fraction, (i) the numerator of which shall be the number or
amount of Offered Securities PubCo actually proposes to issue, sell
or exchange (including Offered Securities to be issued or sold to
Buyers pursuant to Section 4(n)(iii) above prior to such
reduction) and (ii) the denominator of which shall be the
original amount of the Offered Securities. In the event that any
Buyer so elects to reduce the number or amount of Offered
Securities specified in its Notice of Acceptance, PubCo may not
issue, sell or exchange more than the reduced number or amount of
the Offered Securities unless and until such securities have again
been offered to the Buyers in accordance with
Section 4(n)(iii) above.
(E) Upon
the closing of the issuance, sale or exchange of all or less than
all of the Refused Securities, the Buyers shall acquire from PubCo,
and PubCo shall issue to the Buyers, the number or amount of
Offered Securities specified in the Notices of Acceptance, as
reduced pursuant to Section 4(n)(iii) above if the Buyers have so
elected, upon the terms and conditions specified in the Offer. The
purchase by the Buyers of any Offered Securities is subject in all
cases to the preparation, execution and delivery by PubCo and the
Buyers of a purchase agreement relating to such Offered Securities
reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Buyers and
their respective counsel.
(F) Any
Offered Securities not acquired by the Buyers or other persons in
accordance with Section 4(n)(iii) above may not be issued,
sold or exchanged until they are again offered to the Buyers under
the procedures specified in this Agreement.
(iv) The
restrictions contained in subsections (ii) and (iii) of
this Section 4(n) shall not apply in connection with the issuance
of any Excluded Securities (as defined in the Notes) or any bona
fide firm commitment underwritten public offering with a nationally
recognized underwriter pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the 1933 Act that generates net proceeds to the
Company or PubCo, as applicable, of at least $30 million
(other than an “at the-market offering” as defined in
Rule 415(a)(4) under the 1933 Act and “equity
lines”).
(o)
Integration . None of PubCo, the Company, their
Subsidiaries, their affiliates and any Person acting on their
behalf will take any action or steps referred to in Section 3(h)
that would require registration of any of the Securities under the
1933 Act or cause the offering of the Securities to be integrated
with other offerings.
(p)
Appointment of Collateral Agent . Amatis Limited (the
“ Collateral Agent ”) is hereby appointed as the
collateral agent for the Buyers hereunder, and each Buyer hereby
authorizes the Collateral Agent (and its officers, directors,
employees and agents) to take any and all such actions on behalf of
the Buyers with respect to the Collateral (as defined in the
Security Documents) and the Obligations in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. The Collateral Agent shall not have, by
reason hereof or any of the other Transaction Documents, a
fiduciary relationship in respect of any Buyer. Neither the
Collateral Agent nor any of its
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officers,
directors, employees and agents shall have any liability to any
Buyer for any action taken or omitted to be taken in connection
hereof except to the extent caused by its own gross negligence or
willful misconduct, and each Buyer agrees to defend, protect,
indemnify and hold harmless the Collateral Agent and all of its
officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the
“ Indemnitees ”) from and against any losses,
damages, liabilities, obligations, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) incurred by
such Indemnitee, whether direct, indirect or consequential, arising
from or in connection with the performance by such Indemnitee of
the duties and obligations of Collateral Agent pursuant
hereto.
(q)
Holding Period . For the purposes of Rule 144, the
Company acknowledges, on behalf of itself and PubCo, based on
current securities laws, that the holding period of the Conversion
Shares may be tacked onto the holding period of the Notes and the
holding period of the Warrant Shares may be tacked onto the holding
period of the Warrants (in the case of Cashless Exercise (as
defined in the Warrants)) and the Company, on behalf of itself and
PubCo, agrees not to take a position contrary to this
Section 4(q).
(r)
OTC Bulletin Board . The Company shall cause PubCo to use
best efforts and to cooperate in Rodman & Renshaw, LLC’s
application to cause the Common Stock to become designated for
quotation on the Principal Market as soon as practicable following
the Closing Date and thereafter to comply with the rules of the
Principal Market. If the Common Stock is not designated for
quotation on the Principal Market by the 10
th Business Day after the earlier to occur of the
Effective Date (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) or
the applicable Effectiveness Deadline (as defined in the
Registration Rights Agreement) (such date, the “ OTC
Deadline ”), then, as partial relief for the damages to
any holder by reason of any such delay in or reduction of its
ability to sell the underlying shares of Common Stock (which remedy
shall not be exclusive of any other remedies available at law or in
equity), the Company shall pay to each Investor (as such term is
defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) an amount in cash
equal to (i) 1.0% of the aggregate Purchase Price of such
Investor’s Notes on the day of the OTC Deadline and
(ii) 2.0% of the aggregate Purchase Price of such
Buyer’s Notes on every 30th day after the day of the OTC
Deadline (prorated for periods totaling less than 30 days)
until the Common Stock is designated for quotation on the Principal
Market. The payments to which an Investor shall be entitled
pursuant to this Section 4(r) are referred to herein as “
OTC Delay Payments ”. OTC Delay Payments shall be paid
on the earlier of (x) the dates set forth above and
(y) the third Business Day after the first day that the Common
Stock is designated for quotation on the Principal Market. In the
event the Company fails to make OTC Delay Payments in a timely
manner, such OTC Delay Payments shall bear interest at the rate of
2.0% per month (prorated for partial months) until paid in full.
Notwithstanding anything herein or in the Registration Rights
Agreement to the contrary, (i) no OTC Delay Payments shall be
due and payable with respect to the Warrants or the Warrant Shares
and (ii) in no event shall the aggregate amount of OTC Delay
Payments payable to any Investor, together with any Registration
Delay Payments (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement)
payable to such Investor, in each case that are outside of the
control of the Company or PubCo, exceed, in the aggregate, 10% of
the aggregate Purchase Price of such Investor’s
Notes.
(s)
Guaranty . On or prior to the Closing, the Company and each
Subsidiary shall execute a Guaranty in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit F (a “ Guaranty ”) and
shall
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execute and
deliver the Pledge Agreement and the Security Agreement, in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit D and
Exhibit E , respectively. In addition, if PubCo, the
Company or any other Grantor (as defined in the Pledge Agreement
and the Security Agreement) shall hereafter own, create or acquire
any other Subsidiary that is not a Grantor hereunder or a party to
a Guaranty, then the Company, PubCo or such other Grantor shall
promptly notify the Collateral Agent thereof and PubCo, the Company
or such other such Grantor shall cause such Subsidiary to become a
party to a Guaranty and a party to the Pledge Agreement and the
Security Agreement and to duly execute and/or deliver such opinions
of counsel and other documents, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to the Collateral Agent or as the Collateral Agent shall
reasonably request with respect thereto.
(t)
Required Repayments; Management Payments . Contemporaneously
with the Closing, the Company or its agent shall make the Required
Repayments and the Management Payments; provided, however,
(i) that prior to making any Required Repayment, the Company
shall have received from the holders of the Indebtedness identified
as “Subordinated Indebtedness” on
Schedule 3(o) a written statement acknowledging that
upon payment by the Company of the Required Repayments, all of such
Indebtedness shall be satisfied and cancelled; and (ii) that
prior to making any Management Payment, the Company or its agent
shall have received a letter of transmittal from each intended
recipient of such Management Payment acknowledging that such
Management Payment satisfies all of the Company’s obligations
to such recipient under (A) the Certificate of Incorporation,
(B) the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock,
(C) the Company’s Series D Preferred Stock,
(D) the Company’s Restricted Stock Plan, as in effect on
the date hereof, and (E) the Master Investment Agreement, and,
in each case, releasing the Company from any and all further
obligations arising from, under or with respect thereto.
(u) As
soon as practicable after Closing, but in no event later than
10 days after the Closing, the Company shall cause PubCo and
its Subsidiaries, as applicable, to deliver to the Collateral Agent
duly executed assignments for security with respect to all of the
Intellectual Property owned by PubCo and its
Subsidiaries.
(v) As
soon as practicable, but in no event later than May 31, 2006,
the Company shall deliver to the Collateral Agent evidence
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion that
UCC-1 Financing Statement No. 2006011902869, filed in the
Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office on January 19,
2006, naming Main Line Personnel Service, Inc., as debtor, and
General Electric Capital Corporation, as secured party, has been
terminated.
5.
REGISTER; TRANSFER AGENT INSTRUCTIONS.
(a)
Register . The Company shall cause PubCo to maintain at its
principal executive offices (or such other office or agency of
PubCo as it may designate by notice to each holder of Securities),
a register for the Notes and the Warrants, in which PubCo shall
record the name and address of the Person in whose name the Notes
and the Warrants and have been issued (including the name and
address of each transferee), the principal amount of Notes held by
such Person, the number of Conversion Shares issuable upon
conversion of the Notes and Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise
of the Warrants held by such Person. The Company shall cause PubCo
to keep the register open and available at all times during
business hours for inspection of any Buyer or its legal
representatives.
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(b)
Transfer Agent Instructions . The Company shall cause PubCo
to issue irrevocable instructions to its transfer agent, and any
subsequent transfer agent, which legend removal instructions shall
be consistent with Section 2(g) hereof and shall instruct such
transfer agent to issue certificates or credit shares to the
applicable balance accounts at The Depository Trust Company
(“ DTC ”), registered in the name of each Buyer
or its respective nominee(s), for the Conversion Shares and the
Warrant Shares issued at the Closing or upon conversion of the
Notes or exercise of the Warrants in such amounts as specified from
time to time by each Buyer to PubCo upon conversion of the Notes or
exercise of the Warrants in the form of Exhibit G
attached hereto (the “ Irrevocable Transfer Agent
Instructions ”). If a Buyer effects a sale, assignment or
transfer of the Securities in accordance with Section 2(f) hereof,
the Company shall cause PubCo to permit the transfer and shall
promptly instruct its transfer agent to issue one or more
certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at
DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such
Buyer to effect such sale, transfer or assignment. The Company
acknowledges, on behalf of itself and PubCo, that a breach by it of
its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to a Buyer.
Accordingly, the Company acknowledges, on behalf of itself and
PubCo, that the remedy at law for a breach of its obligations under
this Section 5(b) will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a
breach or threatened breach by the Company or PubCo of the
provisions of this Section 5(b), that a Buyer shall be
entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an order
and/or injunction restraining any breach and requiring immediate
issuance and transfer, without the necessity of showing economic
loss and without any bond or other security being
required.
6.
CONDITIONS TO THE COMPANY’S OBLIGATION TO
SELL.
The
obligation of the Company and PubCo hereunder to issue and sell the
Notes and the related Warrants to each Buyer at the Closing is
subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each
of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for
the Company’s and PubCo’s benefit and may be waived by
the Company or PubCo at any time in their discretion by providing
each Buyer with prior written notice thereof:
(a) Such
Buyer shall have executed each of the Transaction Documents to
which it is a party and delivered the same to the
Company.
(b) Such
Buyer and each other Buyer shall have delivered to the Company the
Purchase Price (less, in the case of Amatis Limited, the amounts
withheld pursuant to Section 4(f) of this Agreement) for the Notes
and the related Warrants being purchased by such Buyer at the
Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds pursuant to
the wire instructions provided by the Company.
(c) The
representations and warranties of such Buyer shall be true and
correct in all material respects (except for those representations
and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material
Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct in all respects) as
of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made at
that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as
of a specific date), and such Buyer shall have performed, satisfied
and complied in all material respects with the covenants,
agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be
performed, satisfied or complied with by such Buyer at or prior to
the Closing Date.
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7.
CONDITIONS TO EACH BUYER’S OBLIGATION TO
PURCHASE.
The
obligation of each Buyer hereunder to purchase the Notes and the
related Warrants at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at
or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions,
provided that these conditions are for each Buyer’s sole
benefit and may be waived by such Buyer at any time in its sole
discretion by providing the Company or PubCo with prior written
notice thereof:
(a) Each
of the Company, PubCo and each of their Subsidiaries, to the extent
each is a party thereto, shall have executed and delivered to such
Buyer (i) each of the Transaction Documents, (ii) the
Notes (in such principal amounts as such Buyer shall request) being
purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement
and (iii) the Warrants (in such amounts as such Buyer shall
request) being purchased by such Buyer at the Closing pursuant to
this Agreement.
(b) PubCo
shall have delivered to such Buyer a copy of the Irrevocable
Transfer Agent Instructions, in the form of Exhibit G
attached hereto, which instructions shall have been delivered to
and acknowledged in writing by the Company’s transfer
agent.
(c) Such
Buyer shall have received the opinion of Brownstein Hyatt &
Farber, P.C. (“ BHF ”), PubCo’s and the
Company’s outside counsel, dated as of the Closing Date, in
the form of Exhibit H attached hereto.
(d) The
Company and PubCo shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate
evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company, PubCo
and each of their Subsidiaries in such entity’s jurisdiction
of formation issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable
office) of such jurisdiction, as of a date within 10 days of
the Closing Date.
(e) The
Company and PubCo shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate
evidencing the Company’s and PubCo’s qualification as a
foreign corporation and good standing issued by the Secretary of
State (or comparable office) of each jurisdiction in which the
Company and PubCo, conducts business, as of a date within
10 days of the Closing Date.
(f) PubCo
shall have filed the Certificate of Designations, Preferences and
Rights of PubCo’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
(the “ Certificate of Designation ”) with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and such Certificate of
Designation shall continue to be in full force and effect as of the
Closing Date. The Company and PubCo shall have delivered to such
Buyer a certified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation and the
certificate of incorporation of PubCo, as amended by the
Certificate of Designation, as certified by the Secretary of State
of the State of Colorado and Delaware, respectively, within
10 days of the Closing Date.
(g) The
Company shall have delivered to such Buyer a certificate, executed
by the Secretary of the Company and dated as of the Closing Date,
as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 3(b) hereof
as adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors in a form
reasonably acceptable to such Buyer, (ii) the Certificate of
Incorporation and (iii) the Bylaws, each as in effect at the
Closing, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit I
.
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(h) The
representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and
correct, and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and
complied in all respects with the covenants, agreements and
conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed,
satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the
Closing Date. Such Buyer shall have received a certificate,
executed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, dated as of
the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect and as to the other
matters set forth in the form attached hereto as Exhibit J
.
(i) PubCo
shall have delivered to such Buyer a letter from PubCo’s
transfer agent certifying the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding as of the Closing Date before giving effect to the
transactions contemplated hereby.
(j) The
Company and PubCo shall have obtained all governmental, regulatory
or third party consents and approvals, if any, necessary for the
sale of the Securities.
(k) The
Company shall have (i) received pay-off letters (as provided
in Section 4(t) hereof and in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit S ), from each holder of the Indebtedness
identified as “Subordinated Indebtedness” on
Schedule 3(o) (the “ Subordinated
Indebtedness ”) providing for the satisfaction and
cancellation of such Indebtedness upon the payment by the Company
of the Required Repayments, (ii) satisfied the Company’s
obligations under a management bonus pool plan of the Company (the
“ Restricted Stock Plan ”) by making the
Management Payments, and the Company’s obligations under the
Series C Preferred Stock and the Series D Preferred Stock
upon the payment of the cash and shares of Common Stock to the
persons and in the amounts set forth on
Schedule 3(aa)(ii) and (iii) paid in full and
retired all other Indebtedness of the Company and PubCo (other than
the Permitted Indebtedness and the Senior Indebtedness).
(l) The
Company, Wells Fargo Bank National Association (with its
participants, successors and assigns (“ WFB ”),
acting through its Wells Fargo Business Credit operating division,
the Company and certain of the Company’s Subsidiaries party
to the Credit Facility (as defined in the Notes) shall have entered
into amendments to the documents related to the Senior Indebtedness
(as defined in the Notes) on the terms set forth on
Exhibit K , and WFB, the Company, PubCo and each Buyer
shall have entered into and delivered the Subordination Agreement
in the form of Exhibit L (the “ Subordination
Agreement ”).
(m) Within
6 Business Days prior to the Closing, the Company shall have
delivered or caused to be delivered to each Buyer certified copies
of UCC financing statement search results listing any and all
effective financing statements filed within five years prior to
such date in any applicable jurisdiction that name the Company,
PubCo or any of their Subsidiaries as a debtor to perfect an
interest in any of the assets thereof, together with copies of such
financing statements, none of which financing statements, except
for any financing statements filed with respect to the Senior
Indebtedness and as otherwise agreed to in writing by the Buyers,
shall cover any of the Collateral (as defined in the Security
Documents), and the results of searches for any effective tax liens
and judgment liens filed against any such Person or its property in
any applicable jurisdiction, which results, except as otherwise
agreed to in writing by the Buyers, shall not show any such
effective tax liens and judgment liens.
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(n) The
Company and each Subsidiary shall have delivered or caused to be
delivered to such Buyer a Guaranty in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit F duly and validly executed and delivered by
the Company.
(o) Not
less than 90% of the Company’s equity shall be acquired in a
manner and for consideration described in the Share Purchase
Agreement attached as Exhibit M hereto (the “
Share Purchase ”) by Global Employment Holdings, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (hereinafter referred to as “
PubCo ”), which entity shall be incorporated and in
good standing in the State of Delaware, and the terms of which
shall otherwise be satisfactory to Amatis Limited in its sole
discretion.
(p) The
Company or PubCo shall have filed a Certificate of Merger with the
Colorado Secretary of State pursuant to Section 7-111-104 of
the Colorado Business Corporations Act whereby a wholly-owned
subsidiary of PubCo will be merged with and into the Company (the
“ Merger ”), pursuant to which each share of the
remaining equity securities of the Company not acquired by PubCo in
the Share Purchase will be converted into the same number of shares
of Common Stock as in the Share Purchase (the “ Share
Exchange ”), and after giving effect to the Merger, the
Required Repayments and the Management Payments, the shareholders
of the Company, management and the holders of the Subordinated
Indebtedness immediately prior to the Share Purchase, the Merger,
the Required Repayments and the Management Payments will own, on a
fully-diluted basis following completion of the Share Purchase, the
Merger, the Required Repayments and the Management Payments but
before giving effect to the Junior Financing (as defined in
Section 7(v)), not less than 97% of PubCo’s common
equity.
(q) The
Company shall have delivered to each Buyer audited financial
statements of the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP for the
periods ended December 28, 2003, January 2, 2005 and
January 1, 2006, audited by Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. or
another auditing firm of regionally recognized standing acceptable
to Amatis Limited in its sole discretion, which financial
statements (i) shall contain an opinion of such auditor
prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards
(which opinion shall be without (x) a “going
concern” or like qualification or exception, (y) any
qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit, or
(z) any qualification which relates to the treatment or
classification of any item and which, as a condition to the removal
of such qualification, would require an adjustment to such item,
the effect of which would be to cause any noncompliance with the
provisions of Section 14(e) (financial covenants) of the Notes),
(ii) shall fulfill the financial statement requirements for
inclusion in both the Current Report on Form 8-K and registration
statement on Form S-1 that PubCo will be obligated to file
following the Closing, (iii) shall be materially in conformity
with the financial statements of the Company (audited by Grant
Thornton) for the periods ended December 28, 2003 and
January 2, 2005 previously provided to the Buyers (other than
any non-material change in the balance of the accrued liability
related to the worker’s compensation insurance program in
place prior to August 2002, as more fully explained in Notes A
and N to the 2004 annual report (the “ Worker’s
Compensation Adjustment ”)), and (iv) shall reflect
earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
(EBITDA) (after adjustment for (A) the Worker’s
Compensation Adjustment, (B) the annual management fee to KRG
Capital Partners, LLC, (C) charges related to employee
terminations in the first quarter of 2005, (D) fees and
expenses related to the Share Purchase, the Required Repayments,
the Management Payments and the transactions contemplated hereby
and (E) accounting treatment of the Share
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Purchase, the
Merger, the Required Repayments, the Management Payments and the
transactions contemplated hereby with respect to outstanding
management equity plan shares and preferred shares of the Company
prior to giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby))
for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2006 of at least
$10,500,000.
(r) Assuming
the payment of the Special Dividend, the Required Repayments and
the Management Payments, PubCo’s capitalization and
contingent liabilities shall be substantially identical to that set
forth on Exhibit N hereto, after giving effect to the
Share Purchase, the Required Repayments, the Merger, the Special
Dividends, the Management Payments, the increase in Senior
Indebtedness as contemplated in Exhibit K attached
hereto and the Junior Financing (as defined below), and Mayer
Hoffman McCann P.C. (or the other auditing firm referred to in
clause (q) above) shall have delivered to such Buyer a statement
that such firm has reviewed the pro forma capitalization and
contingent liabilities, such statement to be in substantially
similar form to a customary comfort letter issued to an underwriter
in connection with a registration statement on Form S-1.
(s) Each
Executive Officer and officer of PubCo who assumes the duties of
any such Executive Officer after the date hereof shall have entered
into non-competition and non-solicitation agreements with the
Company and PubCo in the form of Exhibit O and in
substance satisfactory to Amatis Limited in its sole discretion,
together with agreements between each such member of management and
PubCo providing that (i) PubCo shall not grant demand or
piggyback registration rights to any such individual or otherwise
agree to register any securities held by any such individual for
resale, for a period of one year, and (ii) no such individual
shall sell any securities of PubCo owned of record or beneficially
by such individual for one year from Closing and no such individual
shall sell more than one-third of his or her securities owned of
record or beneficially at the Closing for a period of within two
years from the Closing Date.
(t) There
shall not have developed, occurred, or come into effect or
existence after the date hereof any change, or any development
involving a prospective change, in or affecting the position of the
Company or PubCo, financial or otherwise, that has had, or would be
expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect on the Company’s
or PubCo’s general affairs, management, financial condition,
shareholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects, as
determined by Amatis Limited in its sole discretion.
(u) There
shall not have developed, occurred or come into effect or existence
(A) any suspension or material limitation in trading in
securities generally or of PubCo’s shares, (B) a
moratorium on commercial banking activities by either federal or
New York State authorities, or (C) any event, action, state,
condition or major financial occurrence of national or
international consequence, including any outbreak or escalation or
hostilities, acts of terrorism, war, national or international
emergency, calamity or crisis or like event, or any governmental
action, law, regulation, inquiry or other occurrence of any nature
which, in the case of any event specified in this clause (C), in
the sole opinion of Amatis Limited, materially adversely affects or
may materially affect the financial markets or the business,
operations, affairs or prospects of the Company or
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(v) The
Company shall have, concurrently with the Closing, consummated the
transactions contemplated by the purchase agreements attached
hereto as Exhibit P and Exhibit Q securing
financing of at least $12.75 million of preferred stock (the
“ Preferred Equity ”) and at least
$4.25 million of Common Stock (the “ Common
Equity ”), respectively (collectively the “
Junior Financing ”), provided , however
, the Junior Financing may be reduced to not less than
$14.0 million provided that every dollar of reduction of the
Junior Financing shall result in an additional dollar of equity
from the current shareholders of the Company being rolled over into
equity of PubCo, and provided , further , that any
such reduction in the Junior Financing shall be made pro rata
between the Preferred Equity and the Common Equity.
(w) The
Company shall have, concurrently with the Closing, paid in full and
retired all Indebtedness of the Company and PubCo (other than the
Permitted Indebtedness and the Senior Indebtedness set forth on
Schedule 3(o) .
(x) PubCo
shall have executed and delivered a joinder agreement to this
Agreement, in the form of Exhibit R , dated as of the
Closing Date (the “ Joinder Agreement ”), to the
effect that upon the Closing (i) each of the representations
and warranties made by the Company set forth in Section 3
hereof, mutatis mutundis, shall be true and correct as if
each reference to the Company in such representations and
warranties was a reference to PubCo, (ii) PubCo assumes all
covenants and obligations of PubCo set forth herein and
(iii) PubCo assumes all covenants and obligations of the
Company set forth herein (including, without limitation, all
indemnification obligations) as if each obligation of the Company
and each reference thereto contained elsewhere herein was an
obligation of and a reference to PubCo.
(y) Such
Buyer shall have been satisfied, in its sole discretion, as to its
due diligence investigation of PubCo, including, without
limitation, the audited annual financial statements of
PubCo.
(z) All
equity securities and derivative securities convertible or
exercisable into equity securities of PubCo or the Company, shall
have been, concurrently with the Closing, cancelled or
terminated.
(aa) The
Company shall have delivered to such Buyer such other customary
documents relating to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement as such Buyer or its counsel may reasonably
request.
8.
TERMINATION . In the event that the Closing shall not have
occurred with respect to a Buyer on or before March 31, 2006
due to the Company’s or such Buyer’s failure to satisfy
the conditions set forth in Sections 6 and 7 above (and a
nonbreaching party’s failure to waive such unsatisfied
condition(s)), any such nonbreaching party shall have the option to
terminate Sections 1, 5, 6 and 7 of this Agreement with respect to
such breaching party at the close of business on such date without
liability of any party to any other party, except as set forth
below; provided, however, if the foregoing Sections of this
Agreement are terminated pursuant to this Section 8, the
Company shall remain obligated to reimburse the non-breaching
Buyers for the amounts described in Section 4(f) above.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at any time prior to
December 28, 2006, (i) the Company closes any transaction or
series of transactions, other than the transactions contemplated
hereby, which has the effect of recapitalizing the
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either by
paying down existing senior lenders or by refinancing other than a
refinancing of the existing Indebtedness with Wells Fargo Business
Credit or subsequent refinancing of same (provided that in no event
shall such Indebtedness be increased or be on materially different
terms) or involves any Subsequent Placement or (ii) the
Company receives an offer for any of the foregoing and within
twelve months thereof, pursues such transaction or series of
transactions as within such twelve month period then, the Company
shall promptly pay to Amatis Limited $150,000 (the “
Break-up Fee ”) in addition to any costs and expenses
that the Company will be obligated to pay hereunder; provided, that
(A) if the parties fail to reach mutually acceptable terms to
consummate the transactions contemplated hereby or (B) if the
transactions contemplated hereby are not consummated due to the
failure of the Buyers to fulfill their obligations under this
Agreement, the Company shall not be obligated to pay the Break-up
Fee.
(a)
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial . All questions
concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and
interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by the internal
laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to any choice
of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State
of New York or any other jurisdictions) that would cause the
application of the laws of any jurisdictions other than the State
of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in The City of
New York, Borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute
hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction
contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably
waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding,
any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of
any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in
an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or
proceeding is improper. Each party hereby irrevocably waives
personal service of process and consents to process being served in
any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof to
such party at the address for such notices to it under this
Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and
sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained
herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve
process in any manner permitted by law. EACH PARTY HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE, AND AGREES NOT TO
REQUEST, A JURY TRIAL FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF ANY DISPUTE HEREUNDER
OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
(b)
Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in two or more
identical counterparts, all of which shall be considered one and
the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts
have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party;
provided that a facsimile signature shall be considered due
execution and shall be binding upon the signatory thereto with the
same force and effect as if the signature were an original, not a
facsimile signature.
(c)
Headings . The headings of this Agreement are for
convenience of reference and shall not form part of, or affect the
interpretation of, this Agreement.
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(d)
Severability . If any provision of this Agreement shall be
invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of
the remainder of this Agreement in that jurisdiction or the
validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement in
any other jurisdiction.
(e)
Entire Agreement; Amendments . This Agreement supersedes all
other prior oral or written agreements between the Buyers, the
Company, their affiliates and Persons acting on their behalf with
respect to the matters discussed herein, and this Agreement and the
instruments referenced herein contain the entire understanding of
the parties with respect to the matters covered herein and therein
and, except as specifically set forth herein or therein, neither
the Company nor any Buyer makes any representation, warranty,
covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. No provision
of this Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in
writing signed by the Company and the holders of at least 66-2/3%
of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be issued hereunder,
and any amendment to this Agreement made in conformity with the
provisions of this Section 9(e) shall be binding on all Buyers and
holders of Securities, as applicable. No provision hereof may be
waived other than by an instrument in writing signed by the party
against whom enforcement is sought. No such amendment shall be
effective to the extent that it applies to less than all of the
holders of the applicable Securities then outstanding. No
consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or
consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the
Transaction Documents unless the same consideration also is offered
to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents, holders of
Notes, or holders of the Warrants, as the case may be. The Company
has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with any
Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in
the Transaction Documents.
(f)
Notices . Any notices, consents, waivers or other
communications required or permitted to be given under the terms of
this Agreement must be in writing and will be deemed to have been
delivered: (i) upon receipt, when delivered personally;
(ii) upon receipt, when sent by facsimile (provided
confirmation of transmission is mechanically or electronically
generated and kept on file by the sending party); or (iii) one
Business Day after deposit with an overnight courier service, in
each case properly addressed to the party to receive the same. The
addresses and facsimile numbers for such communications shall
be:
Global
Employment Solutions, Inc.
9090 Ridgeline Boulevard, Suite 205
Littleton, Colorado 80129
Telephone: (303) 216-9500
Facsimile: (303) 216-9533
Attention: Chief Executive Officer
Brownstein
Hyatt & Farber, P.C.
410 17 th
Street
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80202
Telephone: (303) 223-1160
Facsimile: (303) 223-1111
Attention: Jeff Knetsch
If
to a Buyer, to its address and facsimile number set forth on the
Schedule of Buyers, with copies to such Buyer’s
representatives as set forth on the Schedule of Buyers,
Copy (for
informational purposes only) to:
Schulte Roth
& Zabel LLP
919 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10022
Telephone: (212) 756-2000
Facsimile: (212) 593-5955
Attention: Eleazer N. Klein,
Esq.
or to such
other address and/or facsimile number and/or to the attention of
such other Person as the recipient party has specified by written
notice given to each other party five days prior to the
effectiveness of such change. Written confirmation of receipt
(A) given by the recipient of such notice, consent, waiver or
other communication, (B) mechanically or electronically
generated by the sender’s facsimile machine containing the
time, date, recipient facsimile number and an image of the first
page of such transmission (C) provided by an overnight courier
service shall be rebuttable evidence of personal service, receipt
by facsimile or receipt from an overnight courier service in
accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above,
respectively.
(g)
Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall be binding
upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective
successors and assigns, including any purchasers of the Notes or
the Warrants. The Company shall not assign this Agreement or any
rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent
of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate principal
amount of Notes issued hereunder, including by way of a Fundamental
Transaction (unless the Company is in compliance with the
applicable provisions governing Fundamental Transactions set forth
in the Notes and the Warrants). A Buyer may assign some or all of
its rights hereunder without the consent of the Company, in which
event such assignee shall be deemed to be a Buyer hereunder with
respect to such assigned rights.
(h)
No Third Party Beneficiaries . This Agreement is intended
for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of,
nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person,
except to the extent set forth in Section 9(k) below.
(i)
Survival . Unless this Agreement is terminated under
Section 8, the representations and warranties of the Company
and the Buyers contained in Sections 2 and 3 and the
agreements and covenants set forth in Sections 4, 5, 8 and 9
shall survive the Closing. Each Buyer shall be responsible only for
its own representations, warranties, agreements and covenants
hereunder.
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(j)
Further Assurances . Each party shall do and perform, or
cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things,
and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements,
certificates, instruments and documents, as any other party may
reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish
the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby.
(k)
Indemnification . In consideration of each Buyer’s
execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and acquiring
the Securities thereunder and in addition to all of the
Company’s other obligations under the Transaction Documents,
the Company, on behalf of itself and PubCo, shall defend, protect,
indemnify and hold harmless each Buyer and each other holder of the
Securities and all of their stockholders, partners, members,
officers, directors, employees and direct or indirect investors and
any of the foregoing Persons’ agents or other representatives
(including, without limitation, those retained in connection with
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) (collectively, the
“ Indemnitees ”) from and against any and all
actions, causes of action, suits, claims, losses, costs, penalties,
fees, liabilities and damages, and expenses in connection therewith
(irrespective of whether any such Indemnitee is a party to the
action for which indemnification hereunder is sought), and
including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements (the
“ Indemnified Liabilities ”), incurred by any
Indemnitee as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to
(a) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or
warranty made by the Company or PubCo in any Transaction Documents,
(b) any breach of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the
Company or PubCo contained in any Transaction Documents or
(c) any cause of action, suit or claim brought or made against
such Indemnitee by a third party (including for these purposes a
derivative action brought on behalf of the Company or PubCo) and
arising out of or resulting from (i) the execution, delivery,
performance or enforcement of any Transaction Documents,
(ii) any transaction financed or to be financed in whole or in
part, directly or indirectly, with the proceeds of the issuance of
the Securities, (iii) any disclosure made by such Buyer
pursuant to Section 4(h) hereof, or (iv) the status of such
Buyer or holder of the Securities as an investor in the Company or
PubCo pursuant to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the
Company may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make
the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of
the Indemnified Liabilities which is permissible under applicable
law. Except as otherwise set forth herein, the mechanics and
procedures with respect to the rights and obligations under this
Section 9(k) shall be the same as those set forth in Section 6
of the Registration Rights Agreement.
(l)
No Strict Construction . The language used in this Agreement
will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express
their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be
applied against any party.
(m)
Remedies . Each Buyer and each holder of the Securities
shall have all rights and remedies set forth in the Transaction
Documents and all rights and remedies which such holders have been
granted at any time under any other agreement or contract and all
of the rights which such holders have under any law. Any Person
having any rights under any provision of this Agreement shall be
entitled to enforce such rights specifically (without posting a
bond or other security), to recover damages by reason of any breach
of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights
granted by law. Furthermore, the Company recognizes, on behalf of
itself and PubCo, that in the event that it fails to perform,
observe, or
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discharge any
or all of its obligations under the Transaction Documents, any
remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Buyers. The
Company therefore agrees that the Buyers shall be entitled to seek
temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case without
the necessity of proving actual damages and without posting a bond
or other security.
(n)
Payment Set Aside . To the extent that the Company or PubCo
makes a payment or payments to the Buyers hereunder or pursuant to
any of the other Transaction Documents or the Buyers enforce or
exercise their rights hereunder or thereunder, and such payment or
payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any
part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by
or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the
Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law
(including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, foreign, state
or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to
the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof
originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued
in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or
such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
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(o)
Independent Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights .
The obligations of each Buyer under any Transaction Document are
several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and
no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the
obligations of any other Buyer under any Transaction Document.
Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and
no action taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be
deemed to constitute the Buyers as a partnership, an association, a
joint venture or any other kind of entity or group, or create a
presumption that the Buyers are in any way acting in concert or as
a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Buyer confirms that
it has independently participated in the negotiation of the
transaction contemplated by this Agreement and the Transaction
Documents with the advice of its own counsel and advisors, that it
has independently determined to enter into the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, that it is not relying on any
advice from or evaluation by any other Buyer, and that it is not
acting in concert with any other Buyer in making its purchase of
Securities hereunder or in monitoring its investment in PubCo. The
Buyers and, to its knowledge, the Company agree that no action
taken by any Buyer pursuant hereto or to the other Transaction
Documents, shall be deemed to constitute the Buyers as a
partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of
entity or group, or create a presumption that the Buyers are in any
way acting in concert or would deem such Buyers to be members of a
“group” for purposes of Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act.
The Buyers have not agreed to act together for the purpose of
acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of equity securities of
PubCo. The Company has elected to provide all Buyers with the same
terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company
and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the
Buyers. The Company acknowledges that such procedure with respect
to the Transaction Documents in no way creates a presumption that
the Buyers are in any way acting in concert or as a
“group” for purposes of Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act
with respect to the Transaction Documents or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby. Each Buyer shall be entitled to
independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without
limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of any
other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any
other Buyer to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding
for such purpose.
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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BUYERS:
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AMATIS
LIMITED
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Advisor
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Wachter SVC
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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OTHER
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RADCLIFFE
SPC, LTD.
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for and on
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Crossover
Segregated Portfolio
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Management, L.P.
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LLC
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STAHLECKER
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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It is
expressly understood and agreed that any closing condition
requiring the execution and delivery of any agreement containing a
“lock-up” (including, without limitation, as set forth
in Section 7(s)) shall not be applicable to the purchase by, or for
the benefit of, Magnetar Capital Master Fund, Ltd. notwithstanding
anything contained in this Agreement or in any such
agreement.
It is expressly
understood and agreed that the purchase by Magnetar Capital Master
Fund, Ltd. ("Magnetar") under this Agreement is subject to the
Security Documents and the interests being granted therein only
being for Magnetar’s benefit to the extent of
Magnetar’s interest in Magnetar’s Note itself and not
in any way with respect to any obligations of the Company with
respect to any other security of the Company (including, without
limitation, the Common Stock, the Warrants or the Warrant Shares or
under the Registration Rights Agreement) or to the extent that any
of the foregoing may give rise obligations under Magnetar’s
Note itself.
[Signature Page to Notes
Securities Purchase Agreement]
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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Intermarket Partners LP
Whitebox Intermarket Advisors LLC
Whitebox
Advisors LLC
Jonathan
Wood, Chief Financial Officer/Director
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Whitebox
Convertible Arbitrage Partners LP
Whitebox Convertible Arbitrage
Advisors LLC
Whitebox
Advisors LLC
Jonathan
Wood, Chief Financial Officer/Director
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Guggenheim
Portfolio Company XXXI, LLC
Guggenheim
Advisors, LLC
Whitebox
Advisors LLC
Jonathan
Wood, Chief Financial Officer
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Select Partners LP
Pandora
Select Advisors LLC
Jonathan
Wood, Chief Financial Officer/Director
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Securities Purchase Agreement]
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, each Buyer and the Company have caused their
respective signature page to this Securities Purchase Agreement to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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BUYERS: Context Convertible Arbitrage Fund, LP
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Fertig
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Co-Chairman
Context Capital Management LLC
General Partner
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BUYERS: Context Convertible Arbitrage Offshore, Ltd
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Fertig
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Title:
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CIO &
Co-Chairman
Context Capital Management LLC
Investment Adviser
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BUYERS: Context Opportunistic Master Fund, LP
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By:
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/s/ William D.
Fertig
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Name:
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William D.
Fertig
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Title:
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CIO &
Co-Chairman
Context Capital Management LLC
Investment Adviser
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[Signature Page to Notes
Securities Purchase Agreement]
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Address and
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Convertible Debt
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Legal Representative’s
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Buyer
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Facsimile Number
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Notes
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Warrant Shares
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Purchase Price
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c/o Amaranth
Advisors L.L.C.
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Schulte Roth
& Zabel LLP
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One American
Lane
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919 Third
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Greenwich, CT
06831
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New York, New
York 10022
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Attention:
General Counsel
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Attention:
Eleazer Klein,
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Facsimile:
(203) 422-3540
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Esq.
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Telephone:
(203) 422-3340
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Facsimile:
(212) 593-5955
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Residence:
Cayman Islands
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$
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18,170,000.00
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290,720.00
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18,170,000.00
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Telephone:
(212) 756-2376
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c/o RG Capital
Management, L.P.
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3 Bala Plaza -
East, Suite 501
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Bala Cynwyd, PA
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Attention:
Gerald Stahlecker
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Drinker Biddle
& Reath LLP
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Facsimile:
(610) 617-5900
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One Logan
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Telephone:
(610) 617-0570
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Philadelphia,
PA 19103-6996
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Residence:
Cayman Islands
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2,500,000.00
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40,000.00
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2,500,000.00
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Facsimile:
(215) 988-2757
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1603 Orrington
Ave., #1300
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Evanston, IL
60201
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Telephone:
(847) 905-4707
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1,000,000.00
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16,000.00
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1,000,000.00
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Warrant Shares
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3033 Excelsior
Blvd., #300
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Minneapolis, MN
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Telephone:
(612) 253-6028
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3,620,000.00
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57,920.00
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3,620,000.00
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3033 Excelsior
Blvd., #300
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Minneapolis, MN
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Telephone:
(612) 253-6028
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260,000.00
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260,000.00
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3033 Excelsior
Blvd., #300
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Minneapolis, MN
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Telephone:
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560,000.00
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560,000.00
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3033 Excelsior
Blvd., #300
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Minneapolis, MN
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Telephone:
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560,000.00
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289 Greenwich
Avenue, 4th Floor
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Greenwich CT
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Telephone:
(203) 422-0197
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Greenwich CT
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Telephone:
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2,114,000.00
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289 Greenwich
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Greenwich CT
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Telephone:
(203) 422-0197
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$
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666,000.00
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10,656.00
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666,000.00
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Global
Employment Solutions, Inc. (the “ Company
”) delivers these schedules (the “
Schedules ”) in connection with the following
agreements:
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Notes Securities Purchase Agreement,
dated as of March 31, 2006, by and among the Company and
various buyers (the “ Notes SPA
”)
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Preferred Stock Securities Purchase
Agreement, dated as of March 31, 2006, by and among the
Company and various buyers (the “ Preferred SPA
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Common Stock Securities Purchase
Agreement, dated as of March 31, 2006, by and among the
Company and various buyers (the “ Common SPA
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The Notes SPA,
the Preferred SPA and the Common SPA are collectively referred to
as the “ Agreements .” These Schedules
are an integral part of the Agreements, are incorporated therein by
reference and are not intended to be an independent document.
Disclosure of any item herein shall not constitute an admission
that such item is required to be disclosed, and the information
contained herein is disclosed solely for the purposes of the
Agreements. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to be an
admission by any party hereto to any third party of any matter
whatsoever, including, without limitation, any violation of law or
breach of agreement. The schedule numbers in these Schedules
correspond to the section numbers in the Agreements. References to
any document do not purport to be complete and are qualified in
their entirety by the document itself. Capitalized terms used but
not defined herein shall have the same meanings given them in the
Agreements.
Schedule 3(a)
Subsidiaries
The table below
sets forth all subsidiaries of Global Employment Holdings, Inc. and
the state or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of
each subsidiary.
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Incorporation
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Global Employment Solutions, Inc.
(2)
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CO
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Excell Personnel Services, Inc.
(3)
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IL
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PD Quick Temps Inc. (4) (inactive)
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PA
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Friendly Advanced Software Technology,
Inc. (3)
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NY
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Main Line Personnel Service, Inc.
(3)
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PA
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Southeastern Personnel Management, Inc.
(3)
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Southeastern Staffing, Inc.
(3)
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FL
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Placer Staffing, Inc. (5) (inactive)
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Southeastern Georgia HR, Inc.
(5)
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GA
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Southeastern Staffing II, Inc.
(5)
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FL
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Southeastern Staffing III, Inc.
(5)
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Southeastern Staffing IV, Inc.
(5)
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Southeastern Staffing V, Inc.
(5)
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Southeastern Staffing VI, Inc.
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Temporary Placement Service, Inc.
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Wholly-owned
subsidiary of Global Employment Holdings, Inc.
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Majority-owned
subsidiary of Global Merger Corp
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Wholly-owned
subsidiary of Global Employment Solutions, Inc.
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Wholly-owned
subsidiary of Excell Personnel Services, Inc.
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Wholly-owned
subsidiary of Southeastern Staffing, Inc.
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Schedule 3(m)
Transactions with Affiliates
The Company
leases office space in Dalton, Georgia from MPS Partnership in
which Stephen Pennington, one of its executive officers, is a
partner. For the fiscal years ended 2005, 2004 and 2003, the
Company paid rent to MPS Partnership in the amounts of
approximately $74,000, $74,250 and $59,900, respectively. The
Company expects to continue renting office space from
Mr. Pennington for the foreseeable future.
The Company is
party to a management consulting agreement with KRG Colorado, LLC
(“ KRG ”), a company controlled by some
of the Company’s shareholders. The agreement will be
terminated upon the closing of the transaction contemplated by the
Agreements. Under the agreement, the Company receives management,
advisory and corporate structure services from KRG for an annual
fee. KRG is eligible for a bonus fee, based on performance
thresholds, for each fiscal year, and fees related to acquisitions
and divestitures. On November 15, 2001, KRG agreed to waive
and forgive amounts accrued as of that date. During the fiscal
years ended January 1, 2006 and January 2, 2005, the
Company paid $180,000 and $90,000, respectively, in consulting
fees, and such amounts were included in operating expenses in the
statements of income. The Company did not pay KRG under the
agreement during the fiscal year ended December 28,
2003.
The Company
will cause PubCo to issue KRG 50,000 shares of PubCo common stock,
valued at $5 per share, upon the consummation of the transaction
contemplated by the Agreements in consideration for financial
advisory services rendered by KRG during the
transaction.
In 2001, KRG,
advanced working capital funds to the Company in the approximate
principal amount of $1,500,000 in exchange for a promissory note.
These advances are non-interest bearing and were to mature on
February 5, 2005, or share in distributable proceeds from a
sale of the Company along with other holders of the Company’s
subordinated debt. On February 25, 2005, the maturity date of
these notes was extended to February 28, 2007. The Company
will retire the debt on the closing of the transaction contemplated
by the Agreements through a payment partly in cash, partly in PubCo
common stock.
In 2001, as
part of a recapitalization, certain of the management and debt and
equity holders of the Company formed a limited liability company
named Global Investment I, LLC (the “ LLC
”) for the purpose of purchasing at a discount certain senior
debt of the Company. The Company then issued its Series C
preferred stock to the LLC to retire the senior debt and related
accrued interest. It is expected that the LLC will participate in
the Recapitalization and thereby exchange its shares of the
Company’s Series C preferred stock for PubCo Common
Stock. Furthermore, it is expected that the LLC will dissolve and
distribute to its members all its assets, including any PubCo
Common Stock held, shortly after the Closing.
Schedule 3(n)
Outstanding Securities
542,166
warrants are exercisable into 542,166 shares of common stock at
$.01 per share, at any time prior to the earlier of March 13,
2008 or six years after the Company’s senior subordinated
notes are paid in full. The warrants provide the holders the right
to require the Company to redeem them for fair value at any time
after July 29, 2003. Pursuant to Section 5.1(d) of the
Share Purchase Agreement, dated March 31, 2006, among GES,
PubCo and GES shareholders signatory thereto, the warrants are
forfeited to GES and cancelled, without any further action
required, in consideration of the warrant holders’ receiving
PubCo Common Stock and the Special Dividend upon consummation of
the transaction contemplated by the Agreements.
2,000,000
shares of GES common stock are issued under the Company’s
Restricted Stock Plan; all of these shares will be repurchased for
the amount set forth on Schedule 3(aa)(ii) to the Notes SPA
and Schedule 3(y)(ii) to the Preferred SPA and the Common
SPA.
Schedule 3(o)
Indebtedness and Other Contracts
Effective in
March 2002 and as subsequently amended in June 2003,
August 2004, January 2005 and May 2005, the Company and
its subsidiaries executed a Credit and Security Agreement (the
“ Credit Agreement ”) with Wells Fargo
Bank, National Association (“ Wells Fargo
”) for revolving credit borrowings and letters of credit
collateralized by the Company’s accounts receivable. Maximum
available borrowings of up to $10.0 million ($7.5 million
prior to August 30, 2004) are limited to 85% of eligible
billed receivables and 70% of unbilled receivables. Interest was
payable at Wells Fargo’s prime rate plus 1% per annum through
August 29, 2004, and effective August 30, 2004, interest is
payable at Wells Fargo’s prime rate (7% at January 1,
2006), subject to a minimum of $7,500 per month. A fee of 0.25% per
annum is payable on the unused portion of the commitment. The term
of the Credit Agreement expires on July 31, 2006. There were
no outstanding borrowings at January 1, 2006 and
January 2, 2005. The Credit Agreement requires certain
customer payments to be paid directly to blocked lockbox accounts
controlled by Wells Fargo, and the Credit Agreement contains a
provision that allows the lender to call the outstanding balance of
the line of credit if any material adverse change in the business
or financial condition of the Company occurs. As of the date hereof
and prior to giving effect to the transaction contemplated by the
Agreements, there is an aggregate of $235,085 outstanding under the
Credit Agreement, consisting of two outstanding letters of credit
with Wells Fargo, both of which will remain outstanding after the
closing of the transaction contemplated by the Agreements until
they expire on December 31, 2006.
Concurrently
with the Closing, the Credit Agreement will be further amended
pursuant to a Fifth Amendment to the Credit Agreement that will
effect the following changes to the credit facilities provided by
Wells Fargo: (i) the maximum amount of revolving credit
borrowings (including letters of credit) will be increased to
$15.0 million and the maturity date for the revolving portion
of the credit facility will be extended to January 31, 2009,
(ii) Wells Fargo will provide a term loan to the borrowers
under the Credit Agreement in the amount of $5.0 million, with
interest thereon to accrue at Wells Fargo’s prime rate plus
2.75% per annum, and payable based on a 36-month amortization with
a balloon payment at maturity on April 1, 2008, (iii) 25%
of excess cash flow of the borrowers will be applied to make
principal payments in respect of the term loan on an annual basis,
(iv) advance rates will change to 90% for eligible billed
accounts receivable and 75% for eligible unbilled accounts
receivable (reducing to 85% and 70%, respectively, upon payment of
the term loan), (v) the borrowers will pay an amendment fee of
$175,000 to Wells Fargo concurrently with the Closing,
(vi) the requirement for minimum average availability under
the revolving portion of the credit facility will be increased to
$2.0 million, and (vii) certain changes will be made to
the financial covenants imposed by the Credit Agreement.
Subordinated
Indebtedness
Senior
Subordinated Notes
On
March 13, 1998, the Company entered into a senior subordinated
Note Purchase Agreement as part of its acquisition of Temporary
Placement Service, Inc. and Excell Personnel Service Corporation.
This agreement was amended on July 29, 1998, and
September 11, 1998, in conjunction with the Company’s
acquisitions of four other companies. This agreement was further
amended on November 15, 2001 as part of a
recapitalization.
The senior
subordinated notes bore interest at a fixed annual rate of 13% per
annum. Monthly interest payments of approximately $151,000 were
originally to be paid through September 30, 2004. However,
interest payments have not been made after November 2000, and
as amended in conjunction with a 2001 recapitalization, all
remaining principal, together with all unpaid interest as of
November 15, 2001, was payable on February 28, 2005.
However, on February 25, 2005 the maturity date of these notes
was extended to February 28, 2007. Interest ceased to accrue
on these notes effective November 15, 2001. If the Company is
sold prior to maturity, the subordinated note holders will be
entitled to receive only the amount provided for by the sales
proceeds distribution schedule as described in the Master
Investment Agreement.
The Company
will retire the senior subordinated notes on the closing of the
transaction contemplated by the Agreements through a payment partly
in cash, partly in PubCo Common Stock.
Purchase
Money Subordinated Notes
In conjunction
with the Company’s purchase of Southeastern Staffing, Inc.,
the Company issued subordinated notes to the sellers that bore
interest at a fixed rate of 8% per annum, payable quarterly.
Quarterly principal payments were to commence June 30, 2000,
until paid in full, with any remaining balance due at maturity on
July 29, 2005. As part of a 2001 recapitalization, effective
November 15, 2001, the remaining notes no longer bear interest
and were scheduled to mature July 29, 2005, or share in
proceeds from a sale of the Company along with other subordinated
note holders. On February 25, 2005, the maturity date of these
notes was extended to February 28, 2007.
The Company
will retire the purchase money subordinated notes on the closing of
the transaction contemplated by the Agreements through a payment
partly in cash, partly in PubCo Common Stock.
KRG
Colorado, LLC Subordinated Note
In 2001, KRG
advanced working capital funds to the Company in the approximate
principal amount of $1,500,000 in exchange for a promissory note.
These advances are non-interest bearing and were to mature on
February 5, 2005, or share in distributable proceeds from a
sale of the Company along with other holders of the Company’s
subordinated debt. On February 25, 2005, the maturity date of
these notes was extended to February 28, 2007.
The Company
will retire the subordinated note on the closing of the transaction
contemplated by the Agreements through a payment partly in cash,
partly in PubCo Common Stock.
Financing
Statements to Secure Indebtedness
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Debtor
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Secured Party
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Type
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File #
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Collateral
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Global
Employment
Solutions, Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business Credit, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
(and 3
amendments)
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20012107251
20022009136
20022017483
20022032356
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Personal
property
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Global
Employment
Solutions, Inc.
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U.S.
Bancorp
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Financing
Statement
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20012113564
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Equipment
lease
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Wells Fargo
Business
Credit, Inc
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Financing
Statement
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200407033031
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Personal
property
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Excell
Personnel
Service
Corporation
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Wells Fargo
Business
Credit, Inc
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Financing
Statement
(and 1
amendment)
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4465054000
4807456
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Personal
property
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Friendly
Advanced
Software
Technology, Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business
Credit, Inc
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Financing
Statement
(and 3
amendments)
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228104
040570
040572
070535
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Personal
property
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Main Line
Personnel
Services, Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business
Credit, Inc
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Financing
Statement
(and 1
amendment)
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34590242
34941059
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Personal
property
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Main Line
Personnel
Services, Inc.
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CIT Technology
Financing Services, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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20220007868
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Equipment
lease
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Main Line
Personnel
Services, Inc.
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Citicorp Vendor
Finance, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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20040080356
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Equipment
lease
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Main Line
Personnel
Services, Inc. (1)
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General
Electric
Capital Corporation
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Financing
Statement
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2006011902869
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Accounts
receivable
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Southeastern
Georgia HR, Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business Credit, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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060-2004-006974
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Personal
property
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Southeastern
Personnel
Management, Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business Credit, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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200202990026
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Personal
property
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business Credit, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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200200554253
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Equipment
lease
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Greatamerica
Leasing
Corporation
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Financing
Statement
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200202295468
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Equipment
lease
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Debtor
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Secured Party
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Type
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File #
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Collateral
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Eplus Group,
Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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200304038731
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Equipment
lease
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Irwin
Business
Finance
Corporation
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Financing
Statement
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200304744067
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Equipment
lease
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Irwin
Business
Finance
Corporation
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Financing
Statement
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200305356982
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Equipment
lease
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Greatamerica
Leasing
Corporation
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Financing
Statement
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20040722922X
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Equipment
lease
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Credential
Leasing Corp of Florida, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
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200509981737
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Equipment
lease
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Southeastern
Staffing, Inc.
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Inter-Tel
Leasing
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Financing
Statement
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200601654402
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Equipment
lease
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Temporary
Placement Service, Inc.
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US
Bancorp
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Financing
Statement
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007-2005-018588
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Equipment
lease
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Temporary
Placement Service,
Inc.
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Wells Fargo
Business Credit, Inc.
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Financing
Statement
(and 4
amendments)
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060-2001-018586
060-2002-002811
060-2002-004508
060-2002-012053
060-2004-006845
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Personal
property
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(1)
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See Section
4(v) in the Notes SPA.
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Schedule 3(o)(i)
Permitted Indebtedness
Senior
Indebtedness
Permitted Liens to secure Senior Indebtedness
Permitted Liens securing the Company’s obligations under the
Notes
We have
capitalized lease obligations for office furniture and equipment in
the aggregate amount of $135,546 as of January 1, 2006. We
also have other leases that would qualify as capitalized leases,
for example copier leases, but we account for them as operating
leases because of the immateriality of such leases.
Schedule 3(v)
Subsidiary Rights
Senior
Indebtedness restricts, but does not preclude altogether, payment
of dividends by the Company and its subsidiaries.
The Company and
two of its subsidiaries, Southeastern Staffing, Inc. (including all
of Southeastern Staffing, Inc.’s subsidiaries) and
Southeastern Personnel Management, Inc., have a tax sharing
agreement. Southeastern Staffing, Inc. (including all of its
subsidiaries) and Southeastern Personnel Management file a
consolidated tax return with the Company, and the income tax
provision (benefit) is allocated based on the separate return
method.
Schedule 3(y)(i) to Preferred Stock
Securities Purchase Agreement and
Common Stock Securities
Purchase Agreement — Required Repayments
Schedule 3(aa)(i) to Notes Securities Purchase
Agreements — Required Repayments
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Sub Debt
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Principal
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Cash
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Invested
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Distribution
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# of Shares ($5.00)
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Parties to the Note Purchase Agreement, Dated
March 13, 1998, as amended:
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$
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4,300,000.00
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$
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4,184,998.64
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23,000.272
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2,866,000.00
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2,789,350.26
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15,329.949
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4,050,000.00
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3,941,684.77
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21,663.047
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2,750,000.00
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2,676,452.62
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14,709.476
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$
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13,966,000.00
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$
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13,592,486.28
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74,702.744
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Party to the Promissory Note dated
November 15, 2001:
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