Exhibit 10.29
THIS AGREEMENT
made on
2009
BETWEEN:-
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(1)
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LOGOS
TECHNOLOGIES LTD (IN ADMINISTRATION) (registered in England with company no.
04164080) whose registered office is at Begbies Traynor LLP, 41
Castle Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 2BW (“ the
Vendor ”) acting by its joint administrators ANTONY
ROBERT FANSHAWE and JULIE ANN PALMER (without personal
liability) (“ the Administrators ”);
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(2)
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OMNICOMM,
LTD (registered in
England with company no. 6960362) whose registered office is at c/o
Hunton & Williams, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8EP
(“ the Purchaser ”); and
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BACKGROUND
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(A)
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The
Administrators were appointed as joint administrators of the Vendor
on 31 July 2009.
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(B)
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The Vendor has
agreed to sell and the Purchaser has agreed to buy whatever right
title and interest (if any) the Vendor may have in the Business and
the Assets (both as defined below) subject to the terms of this
Agreement with a view to the Purchaser carrying on the Business as
a going concern in succession to the Vendor.
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NOW IT IS HEREBY
AGREED as
follows:-
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1.1
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In this
Agreement the following expressions shall unless the context
otherwise requires have the following meanings:-
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1.1.1
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“Administrators’ Solicitors”
means Paris Smith LLP of Number 1 London Road, Southampton,
Hampshire SO15 2AE;
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1.1.2
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“Assets” means as defined in Clause
2.1;
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1.1.3
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“Book
Debts” means:
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(a)
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all debts and
other sums due or payable to the Vendor in connection with the
Business at the Transfer Time;
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(b)
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all debts or
other sums which become due or payable to the Vendor after the
Transfer Time in connection with goods supplied or services
performed in connection with the Business prior to the Transfer
Time;
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(c)
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any interest
payable on those debts or other sums; and
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(d)
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the benefit of
all securities, guarantees, indemnities and rights relating to
those debts or other sums;
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1.1.4
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“Business” means the Vendor’s
business of writing and maintaining software for phase 1 clinical
trials carried on by the Vendor at the Transfer Time;
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1.1.5
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“Completion” means completion in
accordance with the provisions of Clause 4;
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1.1.6
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“Contracts” means the contracts and
arrangements (if any) of the Vendor with and orders (if any) from
the persons listed in Schedule 4 subsisting at the Transfer
Time;
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1.1.7
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“Employees” means those persons
listed in Schedule 3;
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1.1.8
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“Encumbrance” means all encumbrances
and includes any mortgage, debenture, charge, rent charge, pledge,
hypothecation, lien, assignment by way of security, title
retention, option, right to acquire, right of pre-emption, right of
set off, counterclaim, trust arrangement or other security,
preferential right or agreement to confer any of the foregoing or
any equity or restriction;
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1.1.9
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“Excluded
Assets” means those assets of the Vendor listed in Schedule
2;
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1.1.10
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“Excluded
Contracts” means the Rent Deposit Deeds, the Lease, the
contracts and arrangements entered into by the Vendor prior to the
Transfer Time with Singapore Healthe Services Pte Ltd, Duke
Clinical Research Unit and Cetero Research and any other contracts
and arrangements entered into by the Vendor prior to the Transfer
Time for the sale of goods or the provision of services by or to
the Vendor which at the Transfer Time remain to be performed, in
whole or in part, by the Vendor but excluding the
Contracts;
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1.1.11
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“Goodwill” means the goodwill custom
and connections of the Vendor in relation to the Business together
with the exclusive right (so far as the Vendor can grant it) for
the Purchaser to represent and hold itself out as carrying on the
Business in succession to the Vendor;
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1.1.12
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“Intellectual Property” means (if
any) the patents, patentable rights, rights in inventions,
copyrights, design rights and related rights, utility models, trade
marks (whether or not registered (including the trademark ALPHADAS
registered in the UK in classes 09 and 16)), trade names and domain
names, and any other intellectual property rights in each case
owned and used in the Business (including without limitation the
software in Alphadas 3), in each case whether registered or
unregistered and including all applications (and rights to apply)
for and the right to apply for or register the same (present,
future and contingent and all renewals, extensions or revivals of,
such rights including all accrued rights of action) and all similar
or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will
subsist, now or in the future, in any part of the world;
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1.1.13
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“Lease” the lease of the Premises
entered into between the Vendor (as tenant) and the Berthon Boat
Company Limited (as landlord) dated 15 May 2009;
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1.1.14
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“Lease
Agreements” means any credit, deferred sale, hire purchase or
leasing arrangement or agreement and “Lease Agreement”
shall be construed accordingly;
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1.1.15
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“Leased
Assets” means any of the Assets which are subject to Lease
Agreements;
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1.1.16
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“Office
Furniture” means (if any) the office furniture and office
equipment at the Premises as listed in Schedule 1;
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1.1.17
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“Plant
and Machinery” means (if any) all plant and equipment
including any motor vehicles of the Vendor at the Premises as
listed in Schedule 1;
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1.1.18
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“Premises” means the leasehold
premises occupied by the Vendor at Navigation House, The Shipyard,
Bath Road, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 3YJ;
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1.1.19
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“Purchase
Price” means £92,000;
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1.1.20
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“Records” means (if any) all
commercial records information paperwork costings and files at the
Premises which relate exclusively to the Business but excluding any
financial and accounting and VAT records;
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1.1.21
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“Regulations” means the Transfer of
Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations
2006;
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1.1.22
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“Rent
Deposit Deeds” means the rent deposit deeds entered into
between the Vendor and Berthon Boat Company Limited dated
30 April 2007 and 15 May 2009;
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1.1.23
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“Stocks” means the stock (if any) of
the Vendor at the Premises as listed in Schedule 1;
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1.1.24
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“Transfer
Time” means 5.00pm on the date of this Agreement;
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1.1.25
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“Working
Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a bank or
public holiday in England.
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1.2
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References to
any statutory provisions are to those provisions as from time to
time amended, extended, re-enacted or consolidated and (so far as
liability thereunder may exist or can arise) shall include any
prior statutory provisions (as from time to time amended, extended,
re-enacted or consolidated) which such provisions have directly or
indirectly replaced.
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1.3
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References to
“persons” shall include individuals, bodies corporate,
unincorporated associations and partnerships.
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1.4
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The headings in
this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not
affect the construction of this Agreement.
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1.5.1
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words in the
singular include the plural and vice versa and words in one gender
include any other gender;
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1.5.2
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references to
clauses and schedules are to clauses and schedules of this
agreement and references to sub-clauses and paragraphs are
references to sub-clauses and paragraphs of the clause or schedule
in which they appear;
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1.5.3
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any phrase
introduced by the terms “including”, “in
particular” or any other similar expression shall be
construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the
words preceding these terms;
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1.5.4
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a reference to
the Administrators shall be construed as being to any other person
who is appointed as an Administrator in substitution for the
Administrators or as an additional Administrator in conjunction
with the Administrators.
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2.1
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With effect
from the Transfer Time, the Vendor acting by the Administrators
shall sell and the Purchaser shall purchase as a going concern the
entirety of the Vendor’s right title and interest (if any) in
the following (the “ Assets ”):
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2.1.1
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the Business,
the benefit (but subject to the burden) of the Contracts, the
Goodwill, the Intellectual Property and the Records for
£78,500;
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2.1.2
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the Office
Furniture, Plant and Machinery and Stocks for
£13,500;
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2.2
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The Excluded
Assets are excluded from the sale.
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3.1
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The Purchase
Price shall be paid in cash in full upon Completion by way of
telegraphic transfer to the Administrators’ Solicitor’s
client account being “Paris Smith LLP Undesignated Client
Account, National Westminster Bank plc, sort code 56-00-68, account
number 37559583 - reference RAA/19914/18”. The
Administrators’ Solicitors are authorised by the Vendor to
receive payment of the Purchase Price and all other sums payable
hereunder, on the Vendor’s behalf and the
Administrators’ Solicitors receipt shall be a sufficient
discharge for the Purchaser.
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3.2
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The parties
intend that Article 5 of the Value Added Tax (Special Provisions)
Order 1995 shall apply to the sale under this Agreement and each
party shall use its reasonable endeavours to procure that the sale
of the Business is treated as neither a supply of goods nor a
supply of services under that Article. If the said relief is not
available then the Purchaser shall pay to the Vendor a sum equal to
the Value Added Tax at the appropriate rate in respect of such of
the Assets as are chargeable to Value Added Tax within 5 Working
Days after the Vendor has issued a valid tax invoice for
them.
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4.1
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Completion of
the sale and purchase shall take place at the offices of the
Administrators’ Solicitors or at such other place as the
parties may agree immediately after the execution of this
Agreement.
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4.2
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On Completion
of the sale and purchase:-
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4.2.1
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the Purchaser
shall pay the Purchase Price in accordance with clause
3.1;
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4.2.2
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the Vendor
shall deliver to the Purchaser the Assets, title to which is
capable of transfer by delivery;
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4.2.3
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hold all other
Assets on trust for the Purchaser absolutely, pending the
assignment or novation thereof (as the case may be); and
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4.2.4
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the Purchaser
shall accept delivery of the Assets.
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4.3
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On Completion
and not before but with effect from the Transfer Time, risk in and
title to (to the extent that the Vendor is able to transfer title)
the Assets shall pass to the Purchaser.
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5.1
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With effect
from the Transfer Time, the Vendor (acting by the Administrators)
hereby assigns (as far as it is able to) the benefit, subject to
the burden, of the Contracts. The Purchaser shall take over, adopt
and accept responsibility for the completion of the Contracts and
assume all obligations and liabilities (relating to the performance
of the Contracts after the Transfer Time) in respect of the
Contracts and the Purchaser shall indemnify and keep the Vendor and
the Administrators fully indemnified against any such obligations
and liabilities.
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5.2
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Insofar as the
Contracts cannot effectively be assigned to the Purchaser without
the consent of a third party or except by an agreement of
novation:
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5.2.1
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the Vendor, the
Administrators and the Purchaser shall (at the Purchaser’s
expense) co-operate (so far as is reasonable and practicable) to
procure that such consent is obtained and the Vendor, the
Administrators and the Purchaser shall enter into a deed of
novation (to the satisfaction of the Administrators) where such
consent has been obtained;
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5.2.2
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unless and
until such consent is obtained or the Contracts are novated, the
Purchaser shall, for its own benefit and to the extent that the
Contracts permits, perform (but at the Purchaser’s expense)
all the obligations arising from the Transfer Time of the Vendor
and shall indemnify and keep the Vendor and the Administrators
fully indemnified against any liability arising as a result of any
act, neglect, default or omissio
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