0001193125-12-290702.txt : 20120702 0001193125-12-290702.hdr.sgml : 20120702 20120702060523 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-12-290702 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120629 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20120702 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120702 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: INGRAM MICRO INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001018003 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: WHOLESALE-COMPUTER & PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT & SOFTWARE [5045] IRS NUMBER: 621644402 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12203 FILM NUMBER: 12938478 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1600 E ST ANDREW PLACE CITY: SANTA ANA STATE: CA ZIP: 92799 BUSINESS PHONE: 7145661000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1600 E ST ANDREW PLACE CITY: SANTA ANA STATE: CA ZIP: 92799 8-K 1 d376118d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

June 29, 2012

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

 

Ingram Micro Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-12203   62-1644402

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

1600 E. St. Andrew Place, Santa Ana, CA   92705
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (714) 566-1000

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Agreement and Plan of Merger

On June 29, 2012, Ingram Micro Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ingram Micro”), Brightpoint, Inc., an Indiana corporation (“Brightpoint”) and Beacon Sub, Inc., an Indiana corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Ingram Micro (“Merger Subsidiary”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) under which Ingram Micro will acquire Brightpoint. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions therein, Merger Subsidiary will be merged with and into Brightpoint (the “Merger”) and Brightpoint will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ingram Micro. As a result of the Merger, each share of Brightpoint common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), other than treasury shares and shares held by any direct or indirect subsidiary of Brightpoint or Ingram Micro, will be converted into the right to receive $9.00 in cash, without interest.

The Merger Agreement also provides that at the Effective Time, each outstanding restricted stock unit, restricted stock award and restricted share of Common Stock granted under any company stock plan will be converted into the right to receive $9.00 in cash.

The Merger Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants by each of Ingram Micro and Brightpoint.

The parties’ obligations to complete the Merger are conditioned upon (i) the receipt of antitrust approvals or the expiration or early termination of waiting periods, as applicable, in the United States, the European Union and certain other jurisdictions, (ii) approval of the Merger Agreement by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Brightpoint’s Common Stock and (iii) other customary closing conditions.

The Merger Agreement contains certain termination rights for both Ingram Micro and Brightpoint and further provides that, upon termination of the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances, Brightpoint may be obligated to pay Ingram Micro a termination fee of $26 million.

The Merger Agreement has been filed as an exhibit to this Form 8-K to provide you with information regarding the terms of the agreement and is not intended to modify or supplement any factual disclosures about Ingram Micro in its public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). In particular, the Merger Agreement and related summary are not intended to be, and should not be relied upon as, disclosures regarding any facts and circumstances relating to Ingram Micro or Brightpoint. The representations and warranties have been negotiated with the principal purpose of establishing the circumstances in which a party may have the right not to close the merger if the representations and warranties of the other party prove to be untrue due to a change in circumstance or otherwise, and allocate risk between the parties, rather than establishing matters as facts.

The foregoing description of the Merger Agreement does not purport to be complete, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 2.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

Debt Commitment Letter

In connection with the Merger Agreement, Ingram Micro entered into a commitment letter (the “Debt Commitment Letter”) with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. (“Morgan Stanley”) on June 29, 2012, pursuant to which Morgan Stanley has committed to provide up to $300 million under a 364-day senior unsecured bridge term loan facility (the “Facility”). The Facility is intended to be used to finance a portion of the merger consideration and related fees and expenses to the extent that Ingram Micro does not finance such consideration through (i) available cash and borrowings under its existing credit agreement and/or (ii) the issuance of unsecured debt and equity securities or other debt financing at or prior to the closing of the Merger. If Ingram Micro chooses to draw under the Facility, it may refinance all or a portion of the Facility at a later date. Morgan Stanley will act as sole lead arranger, sole bookrunner and administrative agent for the Facility. The commitment to provide the Facility is subject to certain conditions, including the negotiation of definitive documentation and other customary closing conditions. The funding under the Facility is not a condition to the obligations of Ingram Micro under the terms of the Merger Agreement. Ingram Micro will pay customary fees and expenses in connection with obtaining the Facility and has agreed to indemnify the lenders if certain losses are incurred by the lenders in connection therewith.

The foregoing summary of certain terms of the Debt Commitment Letter does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Debt Commitment Letter, a copy which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.


Item 8.01 Other Events

On July 2, 2012, Ingram Micro and Brightpoint issued a joint press release announcing that they had entered into the Merger Agreement.

A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements that are based on current management expectations. Certain risks may cause such expectations to not be achieved and, in turn, may have a material adverse effect on Ingram Micro’s business, financial condition and results of operations. Ingram Micro disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements.

Important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, without limitation: our ability to timely complete the transaction, if at all; our ability to complete the transaction considering the various closing conditions, including those conditions related to regulatory approvals and shareholder approval; the financial performance of Brightpoint and Ingram Micro through the completion of the merger; Brightpoint’s business may not perform as expected due to transaction-related uncertainty or other factors; the ability of Brightpoint and Ingram Micro to retain relationships with customers, vendors and carriers; management’s ability to execute its plans, strategies and objectives for future operations, including the execution of integration plans; growth of the mobility industry; our ability to maintain access to adequate levels of capital at reasonable rates; and our ability to achieve the expected benefits and manage the expected costs of the transaction.

For a further discussion of significant factors to consider in connection with forward-looking statements concerning Ingram Micro, reference is made to Item 1A Risk Factors of Ingram Micro’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and Item 1A Risk Factors of Ingram Micro’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012; other risks or uncertainties may be detailed from time to time in Ingram Micro’s future SEC filings.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

 

2.1    Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated June 29, 2012, among Ingram Micro Inc., Brightpoint, Inc. and Beacon Sub, Inc.*
10.1    Commitment Letter, dated June 29, 2012, among Ingram Micro Inc. and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.
99.1    Press Release, dated July 2, 2012, of Ingram Micro Inc. and Brightpoint, Inc.

 

* Ingram Micro has omitted certain schedules and exhibits pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K and shall furnish supplementally to the SEC copies of any of the omitted schedules and exhibits upon request by the SEC.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    INGRAM MICRO INC.

Dated: July 2, 2012

    By:  

/s/ Larry C. Boyd

     

Name: Larry C. Boyd

Title: Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel

EX-2.1 2 d376118dex21.htm AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER Agreement and Plan of Merger

Exhibit 2.1

The Merger Agreement has been attached as an exhibit in order to provide information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about Brightpoint, Parent, Merger Sub or their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. The representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement were made only for purposes of that agreement and as of specific dates; were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement; may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties (including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purpose of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing such matters as facts); and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not third party beneficiaries under the Merger Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements, or any description thereof, as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of Brightpoint, Parent or Merger Sub or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures by Brightpoint and Parent.

Execution Copy

 

 

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

by and among

Ingram Micro Inc.,

Beacon Sub, Inc.

and

Brightpoint, Inc.

Dated as of June 29, 2012

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I THE MERGER

     1   

Section 1.1

 

The Merger

     1   

Section 1.2

 

Closing; Effective Time

     1   

Section 1.3

 

Effects of the Merger

     2   

Section 1.4

 

Articles of Incorporation; Bylaws

     2   

Section 1.5

 

Directors and Officers

     2   

ARTICLE II EFFECTS OF THE MERGER ON THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE CONSTITUENT CORPORATIONS

     2   

Section 2.1

 

Conversion of Securities

     2   

Section 2.2

 

Stock Options, Restricted Shares, RSUs and RSAs

     3   

Section 2.3

 

Surrender of Shares

     4   

ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

     6   

Section 3.1

 

Organization and Qualification

     6   

Section 3.2

 

Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws

     7   

Section 3.3

 

Capitalization

     7   

Section 3.4

 

Authority

     8   

Section 3.5

 

No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents

     9   

Section 3.6

 

Compliance

     10   

Section 3.7

 

SEC Filings; Financial Statements

     11   

Section 3.8

 

Absence of Certain Changes or Events

     13   

Section 3.9

 

Absence of Litigation

     13   

Section 3.10

 

Employee Benefit Plans

     13   

Section 3.11

 

Labor and Employment Matters

     14   

Section 3.12

 

Insurance

     14   

Section 3.13

 

Properties

     14   

Section 3.14

 

Tax Matters

     14   

Section 3.15

 

Proxy Statement

     15   

Section 3.16

 

Takeover Statutes

     15   

Section 3.17

 

Intellectual Property

     16   

Section 3.18

 

Environmental Matters

     17   

Section 3.19

 

Contracts

     18   

Section 3.20

 

Affiliate Transactions

     18   

Section 3.21

 

Opinion of Financial Advisor

     19   

Section 3.22

 

Brokers

     19   

Section 3.23

 

No Other Representations or Warranties

     19   

 

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(Continued)

 

         Page  

ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND MERGER SUB

     19   

Section 4.1

 

Organization

     19   

Section 4.2

 

Authority

     20   

Section 4.3

 

No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents

     20   

Section 4.4

 

Proxy Statement

     21   

Section 4.5

 

Brokers

     21   

Section 4.6

 

Operations of Merger Sub

     21   

Section 4.7

 

Ownership of Shares

     21   

Section 4.8

 

Vote/Approval Required

     21   

Section 4.9

 

No Other Representations or Warranties

     21   

Section 4.10

 

Sufficiency

     22   

ARTICLE V CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PENDING THE MERGER

     22   

Section 5.1

 

Conduct of Business of the Company Pending the Merger

     22   

Section 5.2

 

No Control of Other Party’s Business

     24   

ARTICLE VI ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

     25   

Section 6.1

 

Proxy Statement

     25   

Section 6.2

 

Shareholders Meeting

     25   

Section 6.3

 

Confidentiality

     25   

Section 6.4

 

No Solicitation; Acquisition Proposals

     26   

Section 6.5

 

Employment and Employee Benefits Matters

     29   

Section 6.6

 

Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification and Insurance

     31   

Section 6.7

 

Further Action; Efforts

     32   

Section 6.8

 

Public Announcements

     34   

Section 6.9

 

Anti-Takeover Statutes

     34   

Section 6.10

 

Notification of Certain Matters

     35   

Section 6.11

 

Access to Information

     35   

Section 6.12

 

Rule 16b-3

     35   

Section 6.13

 

Obligations of Merger Sub

     36   

Section 6.14

 

Stock Exchange Delisting

     36   

Section 6.15

 

Parent Vote

     36   

ARTICLE VII CONDITIONS OF MERGER

     36   

Section 7.1

 

Conditions to Each Party’s Obligation to Effect the Merger

     36   

Section 7.2

 

Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub

     37   

Section 7.3

 

Conditions to Obligations of the Company

     38   

Section 7.4

 

Frustration of Closing Conditions

     38   

 

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ARTICLE VIII TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER

     38   

Section 8.1

 

Termination by Mutual Consent

     38   

Section 8.2

 

Termination by Either Parent or the Company

     39   

Section 8.3

 

Termination by the Company

     39   

Section 8.4

 

Termination by Parent

     40   

Section 8.5

 

Effect of Termination and Abandonment

     40   

Section 8.6

 

Expenses

     41   

Section 8.7

 

Amendment

     41   

Section 8.8

 

Waiver

     41   

ARTICLE IX GENERAL PROVISIONS

     42   

Section 9.1

 

Non-Survival of Representations, Warranties, Covenants and Agreements

     42   

Section 9.2

 

Notices

     42   

Section 9.3

 

Certain Definitions

     43   

Section 9.4

 

Severability

     47   

Section 9.5

 

Entire Agreement; Assignment

     47   

Section 9.6

 

Parties in Interest

     47   

Section 9.7

 

Governing Law

     48   

Section 9.8

 

Headings

     48   

Section 9.9

 

Counterparts

     48   

Section 9.10

 

Specific Performance

     48   

Section 9.11

 

Jurisdiction

     48   

Section 9.12

 

Interpretation

     49   

Section 9.13

 

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

     49   

 

Exhibits

       

Exhibit A

    

Articles of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation

     A-1   

Exhibit B

    

Bylaws of the Surviving Corporation

     B-1   

 

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INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS

 

Acquisition Proposal

   Section 6.4(d)(i)

affiliate

   Section 9.3(a)

Agreement

   Preamble

Alternative Acquisition Agreement

   Section 6.4(e)(ii)

Anti-Takeover Statute

   Section 3.16

Antitrust Law

   Section 9.3(b)

Applicable Law

   Section 9.3(c)

Articles of Incorporation

   Section 3.2

Articles of Merger

   Section 1.2

beneficially owned

   Section 9.3(d)

Book-Entry Shares

   Section 2.3(b)

Business Day

   Section 9.3(e)

Bylaws

   Section 3.2

Certificates

   Section 2.3(b)

Change of Recommendation

   Section 6.4(e)

Closing

   Section 1.2

Closing Date

   Section 1.2

Code

   Section 3.10(a)

Company

   Preamble

Company Board

   Recitals

Company Common Stock

   Section 2.1(a)

Company Disclosure Schedule

   Article III

Company Employees

   Section 9.3(g)

Company Plan

   Section 9.3(f)

Company Recommendation

   Section 3.4

Company Requisite Vote

   Section 3.4

Company Restricted Share

   Section 2.2(b)

Company Securities

   Section 3.3(a)

Company Stock Option

   Section 2.2(a)

Company Stock Plans

   Section 2.2(a)

Confidentiality Agreement

   Section 6.3

Contract

   Section 3.5(a)

control

   Section 9.3(h)

Credit Agreement

   Section 9.3(i)

D&O Insurance

   Section 6.6(c)

DTC

   Section 2.3(c)

DTC Payment

   Section 2.3(c)

Effective Time

   Section 1.2

e-mail

   Section 9.2

Environmental Laws

   Section 3.18(d)(i)

Environmental Permits

   Section 3.18(d)(ii)

ERISA

   Section 9.3(f)

Exchange Act

   Section 3.5(b)

Financial Advisor

   Section 3.21

Foreign Export and Import Laws

   Section 9.3(j)

GAAP

   Section 3.7(b)

Governmental Entity

   Section 3.5(b)

Hazardous Materials

   Section 3.18(d)(iii)

HSR Act

   Section 3.5(b)

IBCL

   Recitals

Indemnified Parties

   Section 6.6(a)

Intellectual Property

   Section 3.17(b)(i)

IT Assets

   Section 3.17(b)(ii)

knowledge

   Section 9.3(k)

Licenses

   Section 3.6(b)

Lien

   Section 9.3(l)

Material Adverse Effect

   Section 9.3(m)

Material Contract

   Section 3.19(a)

Measurement Date

   Section 3.3(a)

Merger

   Recitals

Merger Consideration

   Section 2.1(a)

Merger Sub

   Preamble

NASDAQ

   Section 3.5(b)

Notice of Superior Proposal

   Section 6.4(h)

Order

   Section 7.1(c)

Parent

   Preamble

Parent Material Adverse Effect

   Section 4.1(a)

Parent Plan

   Section 6.5(c)

Paying Agent

   Section 2.3(a)

person

   Section 9.3(n)

Preferred Stock

   Section 3.3(a)

Proxy Statement

   Section 3.15

Representatives

   Section 6.4(a)

Required Divestiture

   Section 6.7(e)

Retirement Agreement

   Section 6.5(e)

RSA

   Section 2.2(d)

RSU

   Section 2.2(c)

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

   Section 3.7(c)

SEC

   Section 3.7(a)

SEC Reports

   Section 3.7(a)

Securities Act

   Section 3.7(a)

Shareholders Meeting

   Section 6.2(a)

Shares

   Section 2.1(a)

Significant Subsidiary

   Section 9.3(o)

subsidiary, subsidiaries

   Section 9.3(p)

Superior Proposal

   Section 6.4(d)(ii)

Surviving Corporation

   Section 1.1

Tax Return

   Section 9.3(r)

Taxes

   Section 9.3(q)

Termination Date

   Section 8.2

Termination Fee

   Section 8.5(b)

U.S. Export and Import Laws

   Section 9.3(s)
 


AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of June 29, 2012 (this “Agreement”), by and among Ingram Micro Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Beacon Sub, Inc., an Indiana corporation and a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Brightpoint, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the “Company”).

WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Company (the “Company Board”) has (i) determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and the shareholders of the Company to enter into this Agreement with Parent and Merger Sub providing for the merger (the “Merger”) of Merger Sub with and into the Company in accordance with the Indiana Business Corporation Law of the State of Indiana (the “IBCL”), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and (ii) adopted this Agreement in accordance with the IBCL;

WHEREAS, the board of directors of each of Parent and Merger Sub has (i) determined that it is in the best interests of the stockholders of Parent and the sole shareholder of Merger Sub, respectively, and declared it advisable for Parent and Merger Sub, respectively, to enter into this Agreement and (ii) approved this Agreement in accordance with the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the IBCL, respectively; and

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements herein contained, and intending to be legally bound hereby, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

THE MERGER

Section 1.1 The Merger. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement and in accordance with the IBCL, at the Effective Time, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company. As a result of the Merger, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease and the Company shall continue as the surviving corporation of the Merger (the “Surviving Corporation”).

Section 1.2 Closing; Effective Time. Subject to the provisions of Article VII, the closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall take place at the offices of Blank Rome LLP, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, at 10:00 a.m. local time, on the second Business Day after the satisfaction or waiver (to the extent permitted by Applicable Law) of the conditions set forth in Article VII (excluding conditions that by their terms cannot be satisfied until the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of those conditions). The date on which the Closing actually occurs is hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date.” At the Closing, the parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing articles of merger (the “Articles of Merger”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana, in such form as required by, and executed in accordance with, the relevant provisions of the IBCL


and shall make all other filings or recordings required under the IBCL. The Merger shall become effective at such date and time as the Articles of Merger are filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana or at such later time (or subsequent date and time) as Parent and the Company shall agree and specify in the Articles of Merger. The date and time at which the Merger becomes effective is referred to in this Agreement as the “Effective Time.”

Section 1.3 Effects of the Merger. The Merger shall have the effects set forth herein and in the applicable provisions of the IBCL, including Section 23-1-40-6 of the IBCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and subject thereto, at the Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of the Company and Merger Sub shall vest in the Surviving Corporation and all debts, liabilities and duties of the Company and Merger Sub shall become the debts, liabilities and duties of the Surviving Corporation.

Section 1.4 Articles of Incorporation; Bylaws.

(a) At the Effective Time, the articles of incorporation of the Company shall be amended so that they read in their entirety as set forth in Exhibit A annexed hereto, and, as so amended, shall be the articles of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter amended in accordance with their terms and as provided by Applicable Law.

(b) At the Effective Time, and without any further action on the part of the Company or Merger Sub, the bylaws of the Company shall be restated so that they read in their entirety as set forth in Exhibit B annexed hereto, and, as so restated, shall be the bylaws of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter amended or restated in accordance with their terms, the articles of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation and as provided by law.

Section 1.5 Directors and Officers. The directors of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the initial directors of the Surviving Corporation and shall hold office until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation or removal. The officers of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be the initial officers of the Surviving Corporation, each to hold office until their successors are duly appointed and qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation or removal.

ARTICLE II

EFFECTS OF THE MERGER ON THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE CONSTITUENT CORPORATIONS

Section 2.1 Conversion of Securities. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Company or the holders of any of the following securities:

(a) Each share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Company Common Stock”) issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, other than any shares of Company Common Stock (“Shares”) to be canceled pursuant to Section 2.1(b) or converted pursuant to Section 2.1(c), shall be converted into the right to receive Nine Dollars ($9.00) in cash (the “Merger Consideration”)

 

2


payable to the holder thereof, without interest, in the manner provided in Section 2.3. All Shares that have been converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration as provided in this Section 2.1 shall be automatically canceled and shall cease to exist. If, between the date hereof and the Effective Time, there is a reclassification, recapitalization, stock split, stock dividend, subdivision, combination or exchange of shares with respect to, or rights issued in respect of, Shares, the Merger Consideration shall be adjusted accordingly, without duplication, to provide to the holders of Shares the same economic effect as contemplated by this Agreement prior to such event;

(b) Each Share held in the treasury of the Company and each Share owned by Parent or Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time (other than Shares held on behalf of third parties) shall be canceled and shall cease to exist without any conversion thereof and no payment or distribution shall be made with respect thereto;

(c) Each Share held by any direct or indirect subsidiary of either the Company or Parent (other than Merger Sub) immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into such number of shares of stock of the Surviving Corporation such that each such subsidiary owns the same percentage of the outstanding capital stock of the Surviving Corporation immediately following the Effective Time as such subsidiary owned of the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time; and

(d) Each share of common stock of Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into and become one validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock of the Surviving Corporation and shall constitute the only outstanding shares of capital stock of the Surviving Corporation.

Section 2.2 Stock Options, Restricted Shares, RSUs and RSAs.

(a) Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each then-outstanding option to purchase Shares (a “Company Stock Option”) granted under any director, consultant or employee stock option or compensation plan or arrangement of the Company (collectively, the “Company Stock Plans”), whether or not vested or exercisable, shall be converted into the right to receive, and the Company shall pay to each former holder of any such converted Company Stock Option, at or promptly after the Effective Time, an amount in cash equal to the product of (i) the excess, if any, of the Merger Consideration, as provided in Section 2.1(a), over the applicable exercise price per Share of such Company Stock Option and (ii) the number of Shares such holder could have purchased had such holder exercised such Company Stock Option in full immediately prior to the Effective Time.

(b) Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each then-outstanding restricted Share granted under any Company Stock Plan (a “Company Restricted Share”) shall be converted into the right to receive, and the Company shall pay to each holder of any such Company Restricted Share, at or promptly after the Effective Time, an amount in cash equal to the Merger Consideration, as provided in Section 2.1(a), for each such Company Restricted Share.

 

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(c) Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each then-outstanding restricted stock unit (“RSU”) shall be converted into the right to receive, and the Company shall pay to each holder of any such RSU, at or promptly after the Effective Time, an amount in cash equal to the Merger Consideration for each such RSU (which payment shall be deemed to be the issuance of the appropriate number of Shares and receipt of the Merger Consideration, as provided in Section 2.1(a), to the extent required by the terms of the applicable RSU agreement). Parent understands and acknowledges that all RSUs will become fully vested at or immediately prior to the Effective Time.

(d) Immediately prior to the Effective Time, each then-outstanding restricted stock award (“RSA”) shall be converted into the right to receive, and the Company shall pay to each holder of any such RSA, at or promptly after the Effective Time, an amount in cash equal to the Merger Consideration for each such RSA (which payment shall be deemed to be the issuance of the appropriate number of Shares and receipt of the Merger Consideration, as provided in Section 2.1(a), to the extent required by the terms of the applicable RSA agreement).

(e) Unless a later time for payment is expressly provided in this Section 2.2, the Company shall pay the holders of Company Stock Options, Company Restricted Shares, RSUs and RSAs the cash payments described in this Section 2.2 promptly after the Effective Time, but in any event not later than the first regular payroll date for the Company that occurs after the Effective Time.

Section 2.3 Surrender of Shares.

(a) Prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall enter into an agreement with the Company’s transfer agent (or other suitable financial institution reasonably satisfactory to the Company) pursuant to which such agent (the “Paying Agent”) shall agree to exchange the Merger Consideration for Shares that have been converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration to which the shareholders of the Company shall become entitled pursuant to Section 2.1. At or prior to the Effective Time, Parent shall deposit with the Paying Agent sufficient funds to make all payments pursuant to Section 2.1. Such funds may be invested by the Paying Agent as directed by Parent, provided that (i) no such investment or losses thereon shall affect the Merger Consideration payable to the holders of Company Common Stock and following any losses Parent shall promptly provide additional funds to the Paying Agent for the benefit of the shareholders of the Company in the amount of any such losses and (ii) such investments shall be in short-term obligations of the United States of America with maturities of no more than 30 days or guaranteed by the United States of America and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America. Any interest or income produced by such investments shall be payable to the Surviving Corporation or Parent, as directed by Parent.

(b) Promptly after the Effective Time and in any event not later than the fourth Business Day following the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall cause to be mailed to each record holder, as of the Effective Time, of an outstanding certificate or outstanding certificates (“Certificates”) that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented outstanding Shares, which have converted into the right to receive

 

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the Merger Consideration with respect thereto pursuant to Section 2.1(a), a letter of transmittal (which shall be in customary form and shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to the Certificates held by such person shall pass, only upon proper delivery of Certificates to the Paying Agent) and instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent of a Certificate, together with such letter of transmittal, duly completed and validly executed in accordance with the instructions thereto, the holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor the Merger Consideration for each Share formerly represented by such Certificate and such Certificate shall then be canceled. Promptly after the Effective Time and in any event not later than the fourth Business Day following the Effective Time, the Paying Agent shall issue and deliver to each holder of uncertificated Shares represented by book-entry (“Book-Entry Shares”) a check or wire transfer for the amount of cash that such holder is entitled to receive pursuant to Section 2.1(a) in respect of such Book-Entry Shares, without such holder being required to deliver a Certificate or an executed letter of transmittal to the Paying Agent, and such Book-Entry Shares shall then be canceled. No interest shall be paid or accrued for the benefit of holders of the Shares on the Merger Consideration payable in respect of the Certificates or Book-Entry Shares. In the event of a transfer of ownership of Shares that is not registered in the transfer records of the Company, it shall be a condition of payment that such Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise in proper form for transfer or such Book-Entry Share shall be properly transferred and that the person requesting such payment shall have paid any transfer and other Taxes required by reason of the payment of the Merger Consideration to a person other than the registered holder of the Certificate or Book-Entry Share surrendered or shall have established to the satisfaction of Parent that such Tax either has been paid or is not applicable. Until surrendered as contemplated by this Section 2.3(b), each Certificate shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive upon such surrender the applicable Merger Consideration as contemplated by this Article II.

(c) Prior to the Effective Time, Parent and the Company shall cooperate to establish procedures with the Paying Agent and the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) to ensure that (i) if the Closing occurs at or prior to 11:30 a.m. (New York time) on the Closing Date, the Paying Agent will transmit to DTC or its nominees on the Closing Date an amount in cash in immediately available funds equal to the number of Shares held of record by DTC or such nominee immediately prior to the Effective Time multiplied by the Merger Consideration (such amount, the “DTC Payment”), and (ii) if the Closing occurs after 11:30 a.m. (New York time) on the Closing Date, the Paying Agent will transmit to DTC or its nominees on the first Business Day after the Closing Date an amount in cash in immediately available funds equal to the DTC Payment.

(d) At any time following the date that is twelve months after the Effective Time, Parent shall be entitled to require the Paying Agent to deliver to it any funds (including any interest received with respect thereto) that have been made available to the Paying Agent and that have not been disbursed to holders of Certificates and Book-Entry Shares and thereafter such holders shall be entitled to look to Parent and the Surviving Corporation (subject to abandoned property, escheat or other similar laws) only as general creditors thereof with respect to the Merger Consideration payable upon due surrender of their Certificates and Book-Entry Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Parent shall not be liable to any holder of Shares for

 

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any amounts paid to a public official pursuant to applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar laws. The Surviving Corporation shall pay all charges and expenses, including those of the Paying Agent, in connection with the exchange of Shares for the Merger Consideration.

(e) At the Effective Time, the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed and thereafter there shall be no further registration of transfers of Shares that were outstanding prior to the Effective Time. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates are presented to the Surviving Corporation for transfer, such Certificates shall be canceled and exchanged for the consideration provided for, and in accordance with the procedures set forth, in this Article II.

(f) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Parent, the Company, the Surviving Corporation and the Paying Agent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from the consideration otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement any amount as may be required to be deducted and withheld with respect to the making of such payment under applicable Tax laws. To the extent that amounts are so withheld by Parent, the Company, the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent, such withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the person in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made by Parent or the Paying Agent.

(g) In the event that any Certificate shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the holder’s compliance with the replacement requirements established by the Paying Agent, including, if necessary, the posting by the holder of a bond in customary amount as indemnity against any claim that may be made against it or the Surviving Corporation with respect to the Certificate, the Paying Agent will deliver in exchange for the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate the applicable Merger Consideration payable in respect of the Shares represented by such Certificate pursuant to this Article II.

ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as set forth on the disclosure schedule delivered by the Company to Parent and Merger Sub prior to or contemporaneously with the execution of this Agreement (the “Company Disclosure Schedule,” it being agreed that disclosure of any item in any section of the Company Disclosure Schedule shall also be deemed disclosure with respect to any other Section of this Agreement to which the relevance of such item is reasonably apparent) or as disclosed in the SEC Reports filed prior to the date hereof (but excluding any risk factor disclosures contained under the heading “Risk Factors,” any disclosure of risks included in any “forward-looking statements” disclaimer or any other statements that are similarly predictive or forward-looking in nature, in each case, other than any specific factual information contained therein), the Company hereby represents and warrants to Parent and Merger Sub that:

Section 3.1 Organization and Qualification. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries (a) is an entity duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has all requisite corporate or similar power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on its business as now being conducted and (c) is duly qualified or licensed to do business and is in good standing (with respect to jurisdictions that

 

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recognize such concept) in each jurisdiction in which the nature of its business or the ownership, leasing or operation of its properties makes such qualification or licensing necessary, except, with respect to clauses (b) and (c), for any such failures to have such power and authority or to be so qualified or licensed or in good standing as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.2 Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws. The Company has heretofore furnished or otherwise made available to Parent a complete and correct copy of the articles of incorporation of the Company, as amended through the date hereof (the “Articles of Incorporation”), and the bylaws of the Company, as amended through the date hereof (the “Bylaws”). The Articles of Incorporation and the Bylaws are in full force and effect. The Company is not in violation of the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws in any material respect.

Section 3.3 Capitalization.

(a) The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 100,000,000 Shares and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). At the close of business on June 28, 2012 (the “Measurement Date”): (i) 68,792,074 Shares were issued and outstanding; (ii) 23,610,114 Shares were held in treasury; (iii) no shares of Preferred Stock were outstanding; (iv) no Shares were subject to or otherwise deliverable in connection with the exercise of outstanding Company Stock Options; (v) 3,486,831 RSUs were outstanding; and (vi) 384,816 RSAs were outstanding. Since the close of business on the Measurement Date, no options to purchase shares of Company Common Stock or Preferred Stock have been granted and no shares of Company Common Stock or Preferred Stock have been issued, except (x) for Shares issued pursuant to the exercise or vesting of Company Stock Options, Company Restricted Shares, RSUs and RSAs in accordance with their terms and (y) with respect to periods after the date hereof, as permitted by Section 5.1. Except as set forth above, (A) there are no outstanding (1) shares of capital stock or other voting securities of, or ownership interests in, the Company, (2) securities of the Company convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock or voting securities of or ownership interests in the Company, (3) options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire from the Company, or obligations of the Company to issue, any capital stock, voting securities or securities convertible into or exchangeable for capital stock or voting securities of the Company or (4) restricted shares, stock appreciation rights, performance units, contingent value rights, “phantom” stock or similar securities or rights that are derivative of, or provide economic benefits based on, directly or indirectly, the value or price of, any capital stock of or voting securities of the Company (the items in clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) are referred to collectively as “Company Securities”), and (B) there are no outstanding obligations of the Company to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any Company Securities. All outstanding Shares (other than Company Restricted Shares) are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to preemptive rights. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any voting agreement with respect to the voting of any Company Securities. Section 3.3 of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a complete and correct list as of the Measurement Date of each outstanding Company Stock Option, Company Restricted Share, RSU and RSA, including the holder, date of grant, exercise price, vesting schedule and number of Shares subject thereto, as applicable.

 

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(b) All shares of the Company’s subsidiaries are owned by the Company or another wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company free and clear of all security interests, Liens, adverse claims, pledges, limitations in voting rights, charges or other encumbrances, other than restrictions imposed by law or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Except for the Company’s subsidiaries and as set forth in Section 3.3 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, the Company does not own any capital stock of or other equity interest in, or any interest convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for any capital stock of or other equity interest in, any other person. Each of the outstanding shares of capital stock of each of the Company’s subsidiaries is duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable (in each case, to the extent applicable), except where any such failure to be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no issued, reserved for issuance or outstanding (1) securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock or voting securities of or ownership interests in any subsidiary of the Company, (2) options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire from the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or obligations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to issue, any capital stock, voting securities or securities convertible into or exchangeable for capital stock or voting securities of subsidiaries of the Company or (3) restricted shares, stock appreciation rights, performance units, contingent value rights, “phantom” stock or similar securities or rights that are derivative of, or provide economic benefits based on, directly or indirectly, the value or price of, any capital stock of or voting securities of any subsidiary of the Company. There are no outstanding obligations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of the Company’s subsidiaries or any of the securities, instruments or rights described in the immediately preceding sentence.

(c) No Company Securities are owned by any subsidiary of the Company.

Section 3.4 Authority. The Company has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and, subject to receipt of the Company Requisite Vote, to perform its obligations hereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action and no other corporate proceedings on the part of the Company are necessary to authorize this Agreement or to consummate the transactions so contemplated (other than approval of this Agreement by the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding Shares on the record date for the Shareholders Meeting (the “Company Requisite Vote”), and the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana of the Articles of Merger as required by the IBCL). This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by Parent and Merger Sub, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, and general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). As of the date

 

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hereof, the Company Board, at a duly called and held meeting, has duly adopted resolutions: (a) determining that the terms of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby are fair and in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders, and declaring it advisable to enter into this Agreement; (b) approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the Merger; and (c) subject to Section 6.4, recommending that the shareholders of the Company approve this Agreement (the “Company Recommendation”). The only vote of the shareholders of the Company required to approve this Agreement and approve the transactions contemplated hereby is the Company Requisite Vote.

Section 3.5 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.

(a) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation of the Merger by the Company do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company, (ii) conflict with or violate any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries or by which its or any of their respective properties are bound, assuming that all consents, approvals and authorizations contemplated by clauses (i) through (v) of subsection (b) below have been obtained, and all filings described in such clauses have been made, (iii) result in any breach or violation of or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) or result in the loss of a benefit under, or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, amendment or acceleration of, any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, lease or other instrument or obligation (each, a “Contract”) to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or any of their respective properties are bound or (iv) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except, in the case of clauses (ii) through (iv), for any such conflict, violation, breach, default, loss, right, Lien or other occurrence that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation of the Merger by the Company do not and will not require any consent, approval, authorization or permit of, action by, filing with or notification to, any governmental or regulatory (including stock exchange) authority, agency, court or other judicial body, commission or other governmental body (each, a “Governmental Entity”), except for (i) applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including the filing of the Proxy Statement) and state securities, takeover and “blue sky” laws, (ii) (A) the filing of a premerger notification and report form by the Company under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the “HSR Act”), (B) the filings required under Article 4 of Council Regulation 139/2004 of the European Union, as amended (the “EU Merger Regulation”), and the receipt of a decision under Article 6(1)(b), 8(1) or 8(2) thereunder declaring the Merger compatible with the EU Internal Market and (C) the filings and receipt, termination or expiration, as applicable, of such other approvals or waiting periods as may be required under any Antitrust Law, (iii) the applicable requirements of the NASDAQ Global Select Market (“NASDAQ”), (iv) the filing with

 

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the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana of the Articles of Merger as required by the IBCL and (v) any such consent, approval, authorization, permit, action, filing or notification the failure of which to make or obtain would not (A) prevent or materially delay the Company from performing its obligations under this Agreement in any material respect or (B) individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 3.6 Compliance.

(a) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries are, and since January 1, 2010 have not been, in violation of any Applicable Law, except for any such violation which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is under investigation with respect to or has been threatened to be charged with or given notice of any violation of any Applicable Law, except for matters which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no judgment, decree, injunction, rule or order of any arbitrator or Governmental Entity outstanding against the Company or any of its subsidiaries that has had, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or that in any manner seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter or materially delay the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby.

(b) The Company and its subsidiaries have all permits, licenses, authorizations, exemptions, orders, consents, approvals and franchises (“Licenses”) from Governmental Entities required to conduct their respective businesses as now being conducted, except for any such Licenses the absence of which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. All Licenses of the Company are in full force and effect, except where the failure to be in full force and effect would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees or any other persons acting on their behalf has, at any time during the last five years, in connection with the operation of their respective businesses, (i) used any corporate or other funds for unlawful contributions, payments, gifts or entertainment, or made any unlawful expenditures relating to political activity to government officials, candidates or members of political parties or organizations, or established or maintained any unlawful or unrecorded funds in violation of Section 104 of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or any other similar Applicable Law, (ii) paid, accepted or received any unlawful contributions, payments, expenditures or gifts or (iii) violated, or operated not in compliance with, any export restrictions, anti-boycott regulations, embargo regulations or other applicable domestic or foreign laws and regulations, except for any actions, violations or non-compliance under (i), (ii) or (iii) that would not be or reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(d) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has, at any time during the last five years, violated any applicable U.S. Export and Import Laws, or made a voluntary disclosure with respect to any violation thereof, except such violations that have not had and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each of its subsidiaries (i) has been during the last five years and is currently in

 

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compliance with all applicable Foreign Export and Import Laws, (ii) to the extent applicable, has prepared and applied for all import and export licenses required in accordance with U.S. Export and Import Laws and Foreign Export and Import Laws for the conduct of its business and (iii) has at all times been in compliance with all Applicable Laws relating to trade embargoes and sanctions, except in the cases of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) where such failure to be in compliance or failure to apply for such licenses, as applicable, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(e) This Section 3.6 does not relate to employee benefit matters, which are the subject of Section 3.10, or Taxes, which are the subject of Section 3.14.

Section 3.7 SEC Filings; Financial Statements.

(a) The Company has filed or otherwise transmitted all forms, reports, statements, certifications and other documents (together with all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) required to be filed by it with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) since January 1, 2010 (all such forms, reports, statements, certificates and other documents filed since January 1, 2010, collectively, the “SEC Reports”). Each of the SEC Reports, when filed (or, with respect to any SEC Reports filed prior to the date hereof, as amended or supplemented prior to the date hereof, if applicable), complied as to form in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as the case may be, each as in effect on the date so filed. None of the SEC Reports contained, when filed (or, with respect to any SEC Reports filed prior to the date hereof, as amended or supplemented prior to the date hereof, if applicable), any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated or incorporated by reference therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Each SEC Report that is a registration statement, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, filed pursuant to the Securities Act, as of the date such registration statement became effective, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated or incorporated by reference therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

(b) The financial statements (including all related notes and schedules) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included in the SEC Reports present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries, as at the respective dates thereof, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows for the respective periods then ended (subject, in the case of the unaudited statements, to normal year-end adjustments and to any other adjustments described therein, including the notes thereto) and were prepared in all material respects in conformity with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) (except, in the case of the unaudited statements, as permitted by the SEC) applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be expressly indicated therein or in the notes thereto), except in each case to the extent that such information has been amended or superseded by later SEC Reports filed prior to the date hereof.

 

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(c) Since January 1, 2010, the Company has been and is in compliance in all material respects with (i) the applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) and (ii) the applicable listing and corporate governance rules and regulations of NASDAQ.

(d) The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures required by Rule 13a-15 or 15d-15 under the Exchange Act. Such disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared. Such disclosure controls and procedures are effective in all material respects in timely alerting the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer to material information required to be included in the Company’s periodic reports required under the Exchange Act. The Company and its subsidiaries have established and maintained a system of internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act) sufficient in all material respects to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of the Company’s financial reporting and the preparation of the Company’s financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP.

(e) The Company has disclosed, based on the most recent evaluation of its principal executive officer and its principal financial officer prior to the date hereof, to the Company’s auditors and the audit committee of the Company Board (A) any significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of its internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information and (B) any fraud, to the knowledge of the Company, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

(f) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to, or has any commitment to become a party to, any securitization transaction or off-balance sheet arrangement (as defined in Item 303 of Regulation S-K under the Exchange Act).

(g) Except (i) as reflected, accrued or reserved against in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet (or the notes thereto) included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed prior to the date hereof for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the SEC Reports, (ii) for liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the SEC Reports, (iii) for liabilities or obligations which have been discharged or paid in full prior to the date hereof and (iv) for liabilities or obligations incurred pursuant to the transactions contemplated hereby, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any liabilities, commitments or obligations, asserted or unasserted, known or unknown, absolute or contingent, whether or not accrued, matured or un-matured or otherwise, other than those which have not had, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 3.8 Absence of Certain Changes or Events. From the date of the most recent financial statements included in the SEC Reports through the date hereof, the Company and its subsidiaries have conducted their business in all material respects in the ordinary course consistent with past practice, except in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, and since such date, there has not been: (a) any change, event or occurrence which has had a Material Adverse Effect or (b) any action taken by the Company or any of its subsidiaries that, if taken during the period from the date hereof through the Effective Time without Parent’s consent, would constitute a breach of Section 5.1.

Section 3.9 Absence of Litigation. There are no suits, claims, actions, arbitrations, mediations or other proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, other than any such suit, claim, action, arbitration, mediation or other proceeding that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor any of their respective properties is or are subject to any order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or award, except for those that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. There have not been, since January 1, 2010, nor are there currently any internal investigations or inquiries being conducted by the Company, the Company Board (or any committee thereof) or any third party at the request of any of the foregoing concerning any financial, accounting, tax, conflict of interest, self-dealing, fraudulent or deceptive conduct or other misfeasance or malfeasance issues, except for those that would not, individually or in the aggregate, be material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

Section 3.10 Employee Benefit Plans.

(a) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, each Company Plan has been established and administered in accordance with its terms and in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), and other Applicable Law, rules and regulations.

(b) Except as set forth on Section 3.10 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has any obligation to contribute to any multiemployer plan (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA) or any plan subject to Title IV of ERISA.

(c) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, with respect to each Company Plan, as of the date hereof, no actions, suits or claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the ordinary course) are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(d) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Company has not incurred any liability under Title IV of ERISA that has not been satisfied in full and (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, no condition exists that presents a risk to the Company of incurring any such liability other than liability for premiums due to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

 

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(e) Each Company Plan which is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a determination or opinion letter to that effect from the Internal Revenue Service and, to the knowledge of the Company, no circumstances exist which would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect such qualification or exemption.

(f) The execution, delivery of and performance by the Company of its obligations under the transactions contemplated hereby will not (either alone or upon occurrence of any additional or subsequent events) result in “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G(b)(1) of the Code.

Section 3.11 Labor and Employment Matters. As of the date hereof, neither the Company nor any subsidiary is a party to any collective bargaining agreement with any labor organization or other representative of any Company Employees, nor is any such agreement presently being negotiated by the Company. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) there are no unfair labor practice complaints pending against the Company or any subsidiary before the National Labor Relations Board or any other labor relations tribunal or authority and (b) as of the date hereof, there are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts, material arbitrations or material grievances, or other material labor disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened in writing against or involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

Section 3.12 Insurance. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) all material insurance policies of the Company and its subsidiaries are in full force and effect and provide insurance in such amounts and against such risks as is sufficient to comply with Applicable Law and (b) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in breach or default, and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has taken any action or failed to take any action which, with notice or the lapse of time, would constitute such a breach or default, or permit termination or modification, of any of such insurance policies.

Section 3.13 Properties. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company or a subsidiary of the Company has good title to all of their respective owned real property and good title to all of its tangible personal property and has valid leasehold interests in all of its leased properties, sufficient to conduct their respective businesses as currently conducted, free and clear of all Liens (except in all cases for (i) those permissible under any applicable loan agreements and indentures or other indebtedness reflected on the consolidated financial statements of the Company, (ii) statutory liens securing payments not yet due and (iii) title exceptions, defects, encumbrances, liens, charges, restrictions, restrictive covenants and other matters, whether or not of record, which in the aggregate do not materially affect the continued use of the property for the purposes for which the property is currently being used), assuming the timely discharge of all obligations owing under or related to the owned real property, the tangible personal property and the leased property; provided that no representation is made under this Section 3.13 with respect to any intellectual property or intellectual property rights.

Section 3.14 Tax Matters. (a) All material Tax Returns required to be filed by or on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries have been filed when due (after giving effect to any valid extensions) in accordance with Applicable Law and are true, correct and complete in all

 

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material respects, (b) all material Taxes of the Company and its subsidiaries that are due and payable have been timely paid or withheld and remitted to the appropriate Governmental Entity, (c) the Company and its subsidiaries have established in accordance with GAAP an adequate accrual for all Taxes on the most recent financial statements included in the SEC Reports filed prior to the date hereof, (d) the income and franchise Tax Returns of the Company and its subsidiaries through the Tax year ended December 31, 2008 have been examined and closed or are Tax Returns with respect to which the applicable period for assessment under Applicable Law, after giving effect to extensions or waivers, has expired, (e) there is no, claim, audit, action, suit, proceeding or investigation now pending or threatened in writing against or with respect to the Company or its subsidiaries in respect of any Tax or Tax asset, (f) during the two-year period ending on the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries was a distributing corporation or a controlled corporation in a transaction intended to be governed by Section 355 of the Code, (g) there are no liens for Taxes (other than Taxes not yet due and payable or Taxes being contested in good faith) upon any of the assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (h) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (i) has been a member of an affiliated group filing a consolidated federal income Tax Return (other than a group the common parent of which was the Company), (ii) has any liability for the Taxes of any person (other than the Company, or any subsidiary of the Company) under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign law) or (iii) is a party to or is bound by any material Tax sharing, allocation or indemnification agreement or arrangement (other than such an agreement or arrangement the parties to which consist exclusively of the Company and its subsidiaries), and (i) Section 3.14 of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a list of all jurisdictions (whether foreign or domestic) in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries currently files Tax Returns.

Section 3.15 Proxy Statement. The proxy statement to be sent to the shareholders of the Company in connection with the Shareholders Meeting (such proxy statement, as amended or supplemented, the “Proxy Statement”) will not, at the date it is first mailed to the shareholders of the Company or at the time of the Shareholders Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. The Proxy Statement will, at the time of the Shareholders Meeting, comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any information supplied by Parent or Merger Sub or any of their respective representatives which is contained or incorporated by reference in the Proxy Statement.

Section 3.16 Takeover Statutes. The Company Board has unanimously adopted, by all directors present, this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement and the consummation of the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, and such adoption represents all the actions necessary to render inapplicable to this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and the restrictions on “business combinations” (as defined in Section 23-1-43-5 of the IBCL) set forth in Section 23-1-43-18 of the IBCL, in each case to the extent, if any, such restrictions would otherwise be applicable to this Agreement, the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby. No other similar provision of the Company Articles or the Company By-laws or, to the knowledge of the Company, other state takeover Law or similar

 

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Law (collectively, “Anti-Takeover Statute”) applies or purports to apply to this Agreement, the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby.

Section 3.17 Intellectual Property.

(a) Section 3.17 of the Company Disclosure Schedule contains a list of all material registrations and applications for registration of any Intellectual Property owned and currently used by the Company or any of its subsidiaries. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect: (a) the Company or one of its subsidiaries owns or has been granted a license to use all the Intellectual Property used in or necessary for the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted free and clear of any Liens; (b) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened claims, actions or proceedings by any person alleging infringement or misappropriation by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of the Intellectual Property rights of such person or challenging the validity, enforceability or ownership of, or the right to use, any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed exclusively to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (c) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has infringed, violated or misappropriated the Intellectual Property rights of any person and to the knowledge of the Company, the conduct of the businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries as currently conducted does not infringe, violate or misappropriate any Intellectual Property rights of any person; (d) to the knowledge of the Company, no person has challenged or is infringing, violating or misappropriating any Intellectual Property owned by or licensed exclusively to the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (e) the Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps to protect and maintain their Intellectual Property; (f) no Intellectual Property owned by or licensed exclusively to the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject to any outstanding order, judgment or decree restricting or limiting the use or licensing thereof by the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (g) the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby will not materially alter, encumber or impair any Intellectual Property right of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or materially impair the right of Parent to develop, use, sell, license or dispose of, or to bring any action for the infringement of, any Intellectual Property right of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (h) the IT Assets operate and perform in all material respects in a manner that permits the Company and its subsidiaries to conduct their respective businesses as currently conducted and to the knowledge of the Company, no person has gained unauthorized access to the IT Assets; and (i) the Company and its subsidiaries have implemented reasonable backup and disaster recovery business processes.

(b) For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned below:

(i) “Intellectual Property” shall mean (i) trademarks, service marks, brand names, certification marks, trade dress, domain names and other indications of origin, the goodwill associated with the foregoing and registrations in any jurisdiction of, and applications in any jurisdiction to register, the foregoing, including any extension, modification or renewal of any such registration or application; (ii) inventions and discoveries in any jurisdiction; patents, applications for patents (including, without limitation, divisions, continuations, continuations in part and renewal

 

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applications), and any renewals, extensions or reissues thereof, in any jurisdiction; (iii) trade secrets and confidential information and rights in any jurisdiction to limit the use or disclosure thereof by any person; (iv) writings and other works in any jurisdiction, and any and all copyright rights, whether registered or not; and registrations or applications for registration of copyrights in any jurisdiction, and any renewals or extensions thereof; and (v) moral rights, database rights, design rights, industrial property rights, publicity rights and privacy rights.

(ii) “IT Assets” shall mean computers, computer software, firmware, middleware, servers, workstations, routers, hubs, switches, data communications lines, and any similar information technology equipment, and all associated documentation owned by the Company or its subsidiaries or licensed or leased by the Company or subsidiaries pursuant to written agreement (excluding any public networks).

Section 3.18 Environmental Matters.

(a) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) the Company and each of its subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, and possess and are in compliance with all applicable Environmental Permits necessary to operate the business as presently operated; (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, there have been no releases of Hazardous Materials at or on any property owned or operated by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, except under circumstances that are not reasonably likely to result in liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any applicable Environmental Law; (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received from a Governmental Entity a request for information pursuant to section 104(e) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 or similar state statute, or any written notification alleging that it is liable for any release or threatened release of Hazardous Materials at any location, except with respect to any such notification or request for information concerning any such release or threatened release, to the extent such matter has been resolved with the appropriate foreign, federal, state or local regulatory authority or otherwise; and (iv) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any written claim or complaint, or is presently subject to any lawsuit, proceeding or action, relating to noncompliance with Environmental Laws or any other liabilities pursuant to Environmental Laws, and to the knowledge of the Company, no such matter has been threatened in writing.

(b) There has been no environmental investigation, study, audit, test, review or other analysis conducted during the last two years of which the Company has knowledge in relation to the current or prior business of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any property or facility now or previously owned or leased by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

(c) Notwithstanding any other representations and warranties in this Agreement, the representations and warranties in this Section 3.18 are the only representations and warranties in this Agreement with respect to Environmental Laws or Hazardous Materials.

(d) For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned below:

(i) “Environmental Laws” shall mean all Applicable Laws protecting the quality of the ambient air, soil, surface water or groundwater, in effect as of the date hereof.

 

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(ii) “Environmental Permits” shall mean all permits, licenses, registrations, approvals, and other authorizations required under applicable Environmental Laws.

(iii) “Hazardous Materials” shall mean any pollutant, contaminant, waste or chemical or any substance or waste defined and regulated as hazardous, acutely hazardous, or toxic under applicable Environmental Laws.

Section 3.19 Contracts.

(a) Except for this Agreement, as of the date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to or bound by: (i) any Contract (whether written or oral) that is a material contract (as defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC); (ii) any Contract containing any provision or covenant limiting in any material respect the ability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (or, after the consummation of the Merger, Parent, the Surviving Corporation or any of their respective subsidiaries) to (1) sell any product or services of or to any other person or in any geographic region, (2) engage in any line of business or (3) compete with or obtain products or services from any person, except in the cases of each of clauses (1), (2) and (3) for any such Contract that (A) may be canceled without penalty by the Company or any of its subsidiaries upon notice of ninety days or less or that (B) both (x) is not material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and (y) would not restrict or reasonably be expected to restrict the ability of Parent and its subsidiaries, after the consummation of the Merger, to conduct their current operations or operate their current businesses; or (iii) any material Contract that would prohibit or materially delay the Company’s ability to consummate the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby. Each Contract of the type described in this Section 3.19(a), whether or not set forth in Section 3.19(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, is referred to herein as a “Material Contract.” The Company has made available to Parent true and correct copies of all Material Contracts.

(b) Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Material Contract is valid and binding on the Company or one of its subsidiaries and in full force and effect (except to the extent that any Material Contract expires in accordance with its terms), (ii) the Company and each of its subsidiaries has performed all obligations required to be performed by it to date under each Material Contract, (iii) no event or condition exists which constitutes, or after notice or lapse of time or both would constitute, a default on the part of the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any Material Contract and (iv) no other party to such Material Contract is, to the knowledge of the Company, in default in any respect thereunder.

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document filed by the Company with the SEC prior to the date hereof, as of the date hereof no executive officer or director of the Company is a party to any Material Contract with or binding upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets or has any material interest in any material property owned by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

Section 3.21 Opinion of Financial Advisor. Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. (the “Financial Advisor”) has delivered to the Company its written opinion (or oral opinion to be confirmed in writing), dated as of the date hereof, to the effect that, as of such date, subject to the assumption and limitations set forth therein, the Merger Consideration to be received by the holders of the Shares in the Merger is fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders.

Section 3.22 Brokers. No broker, finder or investment banker (other than the Financial Advisor) is entitled to any brokerage, finder’s or other fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby based upon arrangements made by or on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

Section 3.23 No Other Representations or Warranties. Except for the representations and warranties contained in this Article III, each of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledges that neither the Company nor any other person on behalf of the Company makes, and the Company disclaims, any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to any other information provided to Parent or Merger Sub in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. Each of Parent and Merger Sub acknowledges and agrees that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any projections, forecasts or other estimates, plans or budgets of future revenues, expenses or results of operations of the Company or any of its subsidiaries heretofore or hereafter delivered or made available to Parent, Merger Sub or their respective representatives or affiliates.

ARTICLE IV

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND MERGER SUB

Parent and Merger Sub hereby, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to the Company that:

Section 4.1 Organization.

(a) Each of Parent and Merger Sub (i) is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated and (ii) has the requisite corporate power and authority to own, operate and lease its properties and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted, except where the failure to have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect. For purposes of this Agreement a “Parent Material Adverse Effect” means any event, change, occurrence or effect that has prevented, materially delayed or materially impeded, or would prevent, materially delay or materially impede, the performance by Parent or Merger Sub of its obligations under this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby. The organizational or governing documents of Parent and Merger Sub, as previously provided to the Company, are in full force and effect.

 

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(b) Parent owns beneficially and of record all of the outstanding capital stock of Merger Sub free and clear of all security interests, liens, claims, pledges, agreements, limitations in voting rights, charges or other encumbrances of any nature whatsoever.

Section 4.2 Authority. Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform its obligations hereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by each of Parent and Merger Sub and the consummation by each of Parent and Merger Sub of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action by the boards of directors of Parent and Merger Sub and, immediately following execution of this Agreement, will be duly and validly authorized by all necessary actions by Parent as the sole shareholder of Merger Sub, and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Parent or Merger Sub are necessary to authorize this Agreement, to perform their respective obligations hereunder, or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby (other than the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana of the Articles of Merger as required by the IBCL). This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by Parent and Merger Sub and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery hereof by the Company, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of each of Parent and Merger Sub enforceable against each of Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, or general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

Section 4.3 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.

(a) The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by Parent and Merger Sub and the consummation of the Merger by Parent and Merger Sub, do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate the respective certificate of incorporation or bylaws (or similar organizational documents) of Parent or Merger Sub, (ii) assuming that all consents, approvals and authorizations contemplated by clauses (i) through (iv) of subsection (b) below have been obtained, and all filings described in such clauses have been made, conflict with or violate any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree applicable to Parent or Merger Sub or by which either of them or any of their respective properties are bound, (iii) result in any breach or violation of or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) or result in the loss of a benefit under, or give rise to any right of termination, cancellation, amendment or acceleration of, any Contracts to which Parent or Merger Sub is a party or by which Parent or Merger Sub or any of their respective properties are bound or (iv) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of Parent or Merger Sub, except, in the case of clauses (ii) through (iv), for any such conflict, violation, breach, default, acceleration, loss, right, Lien or other occurrence which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.

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and Merger Sub do not and will not require any consent, approval, authorization or permit of, action by, filing with or notification to, any Governmental Entity, except for (i) the applicable requirements, if any, of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and state securities, takeover and “blue sky” laws, (ii) the filing of a premerger notification and report form by Parent and Merger Sub under the HSR Act and the filings and receipt, termination or expiration, as applicable, of such other approvals or waiting periods as may be required under the EU Merger Regulation or any other Antitrust Law, (iii) the filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana of the Articles of Merger as required by the IBCL and (iv) any such consent, approval, authorization, permit, action, filing or notification the failure of which to make or obtain would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.

Section 4.4 Proxy Statement. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by Parent or Merger Sub for inclusion or incorporation by reference in the Proxy Statement will, at the date it is first mailed to the shareholders of the Company and at the time of the Shareholders Meeting, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.

Section 4.5 Brokers. No broker, finder or investment banker (other than Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, whose fees shall be paid by Parent) is entitled to any brokerage, finder’s or other fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby based upon arrangements made by or on behalf of Parent, Merger Sub or their respective affiliates.

Section 4.6 Operations of Merger Sub. Merger Sub has been formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions contemplated hereby and prior to the Effective Time will have engaged in no other business activities and will have incurred no liabilities or obligations other than as contemplated herein. The authorized capital stock of Merger Sub consists of 100 shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per share, all of which are validly issued and outstanding. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Merger Sub is, and at the Effective Time will be, owned by Parent.

Section 4.7 Ownership of Shares. None of Parent, Merger Sub or their respective affiliates owns (directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record) any Shares and none of Parent, Merger Sub or their respective affiliates holds any rights to acquire or vote any Shares except pursuant to this Agreement.

Section 4.8 Vote/Approval Required. No vote or consent of the holders of any class or series of capital stock of Parent is necessary to approve this Agreement or the Merger or the transactions contemplated hereby. The vote or consent of Parent as the sole shareholder of Merger Sub (which shall have occurred immediately following execution of this Agreement) is the only vote or consent of the holders of any class or series of capital stock of Merger Sub necessary to approve this Agreement or the Merger or the transactions contemplated hereby.

Section 4.9 No Other Representations or Warranties. Except for the representations and warranties contained in this Article IV, the Company acknowledges that none of Parent, Merger Sub or any other person on behalf of Parent or Merger Sub makes, and the Parent and Merger Sub disclaim, any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to Parent or Merger Sub or with respect to any other information provided to the Company.

 

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Section 4.10 Sufficiency. Parent has and will as of the Closing have, sufficient cash, sufficient and available lines of credit or other sources of sufficient and immediately available funds to enable it to pay the Merger Consideration for all outstanding Shares and will make available to Merger Sub sufficient funds to permit Merger Sub to consummate the Merger.

ARTICLE V

CONDUCT OF BUSINESS PENDING THE MERGER

Section 5.1 Conduct of Business of the Company Pending the Merger. The Company covenants and agrees that, during the period from the date hereof until the Effective Time, except as contemplated or permitted by this Agreement, as set forth in Section 5.1 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or as required by law or regulation, or unless Parent shall otherwise consent in writing, the business of the Company and its subsidiaries shall be conducted in their ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve substantially intact its business organization, keep available the services of its directors, officers and key employees and preserve in all material respects its present relationships with customers, suppliers and other persons with which it has material business relations; provided, however, that no action by the Company or its subsidiaries with respect to matters specifically addressed by clauses (a)-(n) below shall be deemed a breach of this Section 5.1 unless such action constitutes a breach of such clauses (a)-(n). In addition, and not in limitation of the foregoing, between the date hereof and the Effective Time, except as otherwise contemplated or permitted by this Agreement, as set forth in Section 5.1 of the Company Disclosure Schedule or as required by law or regulation, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall without the prior written consent of Parent:

(a) amend or otherwise change its Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws or any similar governing instruments, or amend any term of any outstanding Company Securities or security of any of the Company’s subsidiaries;

(b) issue, deliver, sell, pledge, dispose of or encumber any shares of capital stock, ownership interests or voting securities, or any options, warrants, convertible securities or other rights of any kind to acquire or receive any shares of capital stock, any other Company Securities, ownership interests or any voting securities (including stock appreciation rights, phantom stock or similar instruments), of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (except for (i) the issuance of Shares upon the exercise of Company Stock Options, in accordance with the terms of any Company Stock Plan, (ii) the issuance of Shares upon the settlement of Company Restricted Shares, RSUs and RSAs (and dividend equivalents thereon, if applicable) in accordance with the terms of such instruments, (iii) the grant of Company Restricted Shares, RSUs, RSAs and Company Stock Options (and issuances of Shares pursuant thereto) to newly hired non-executive employees made in the ordinary course of business, provided that the aggregate number of Shares underlying such grants shall not exceed 100,000 Shares, (iv) the issuance of shares by a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company to the Company or another wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company or (v) any transfer or pledge of equity securities of the Company’s subsidiaries to the extent required by the Credit Agreement;

 

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(c) declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend or other distribution, payable in cash, stock, property or otherwise, with respect to any of its capital stock (except for any dividend or distribution by a subsidiary of the Company to the Company or a subsidiary of the Company);

(d) reclassify, combine, split, subdivide, redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any shares of capital stock of the Company (other than the acquisition of Shares (i) pursuant to the Company’s previously disclosed Share repurchase program, or (ii) tendered by employees or former employees in connection with a cashless exercise of Company Stock Options or in order to pay Taxes in connection with the vesting or exercise of any grants (including Company Stock Options, Company Restricted Shares, RSUs and RSAs) pursuant to the terms of a Company Plan or a Company Stock Plan), or reclassify, combine, split or subdivide any capital stock or other ownership interests of any of the Company’s subsidiaries;

(e) (i) acquire (whether by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock or assets or otherwise) any corporation, partnership or other business organization or division thereof or any assets or securities, in each case, which is or are material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, other than (x) acquisitions of inventory in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or (y) pursuant to existing Contracts that were disclosed to Parent prior to the date hereof or (ii) sell or otherwise dispose of (whether by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock or assets or otherwise) any corporation, partnership or other business organization or division thereof or any assets or securities, in each case, which is or are material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, other than (x) sales or dispositions of inventory and other assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or (y) pursuant to existing Contracts that were disclosed to Parent prior to the date hereof;

(f) other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, (i) enter into any Contract which, if entered into prior to the date hereof would be a Material Contract or (ii) and other than in connection with the renewal of any Material Contract, amend in any material respect any Material Contract;

(g) (i) amend or modify in any material respect the Credit Agreement or (ii) incur or modify in any material respect the terms of any material indebtedness for borrowed money, or assume, guarantee or endorse, or otherwise as an accommodation become responsible for, the obligations of any person, or make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other person (other than a subsidiary of the Company or acquisitions permitted by clause (e)(i) above), in the case of each of clauses (g)(i) and (g)(ii) above, other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (including any borrowings under the Credit Agreement and in respect of letters of credit), and subject to the requirement that any such amendment, modification or incurrence of indebtedness not result or be expected to result in the imposition of any material cost on the Company or Parent, whether prior to, at or subsequent to the Closing;

(h) (i) hire any employees with salaries over $150,000 or (ii) hire any employees other than on an at-will basis except, in the case of this clause (ii), for employees hired in non-U.S. jurisdictions with employment agreements that are the standard employment agreements used by the Company in the relevant non-U.S. jurisdiction in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice prior to the date hereof;

 

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(i) except as contemplated by Section 2.2 or Section 6.5 of this Agreement, as required by Applicable Law or statutory requirement or required pursuant to any existing Contract or Company Plan (i) increase the compensation or fringe benefits of any of its directors, officers or employees, except in the ordinary course of business, (ii) grant any severance or termination pay not provided for under any Company Plan or existing Contract, or any retention pay or cash bonus other than (x) cash retention benefits, not to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate and $200,000 to any individual employee, payable to employees other than executive officers and (y) cash bonus awards determined by the Company Board to be earned under the 2012 Executive Cash Bonus Program in an amount not to exceed, in the aggregate, $2,300,000, (iii) enter into any employment, consulting or severance agreement or arrangement with any of its present directors, officers or other employees, except for offers of employment to prospective employees or use of consulting agreements or arrangements in the ordinary course of business with consultants who are not directors or executive officers or (iv) establish, adopt, enter into or amend in any material respect or terminate any Company Stock Plan, excluding adjustment of performance targets for performance-based awards in a manner (A) contemplated by this Agreement or (B) required under the terms of such awards;

(j) make any material change to the Company’s methods of accounting, except as required by changes in statutory or regulatory accounting rules or GAAP or regulatory requirements with respect thereto, including the rules or policies of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board;

(k) other than as required by Applicable Law, (i) make or change any material Tax election, (ii) enter into any settlement or compromise of any material Tax liability, (iii) file any amended Tax Return with respect to any material Tax or any claim for any material Tax refund, (iv) change any annual Tax accounting period, (v) enter into any closing agreement relating to any material Tax, (vi) surrender any right to claim a material Tax refund, offset or other reduction in Tax liability or (vii) adopt or change any method of Tax accounting;

(l) settle, offer to settle or compromise any (i) shareholder litigation or other litigation relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) any other litigation, arbitration, proceeding or dispute, except in the case of this clause (l)(ii) within the limitations set forth in Section 5.1(l)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule;

(m) create or otherwise incur any Lien on any asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than Liens on assets that are not material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and its subsidiaries and that are incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(n) agree to take any of the actions described in Sections 5.1(a)-(m).

Section 5.2 No Control of Other Party’s Business. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall give Parent, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ operations prior to the Effective Time, and nothing contained in this

 

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Agreement shall give the Company, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct Parent’s or its subsidiaries’ operations prior to the Effective Time. Prior to the Effective Time, each of the Company and Parent shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, complete control and supervision over its and its subsidiaries’ respective operations. Each of Parent and the Company hereby agree that the Company’s compliance with its obligations under Section 5.1, and the granting or withholding by Parent of any consent requested by the Company pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, shall not be deemed to be the exercise by Parent of any right to control, direct or supervise the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ operations, and nothing in this Section 5.2 shall be construed to permit the Company to fail to take any action required by Section 5.1 or to undertake any action prohibited by Section 5.1.

ARTICLE VI

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

Section 6.1 Proxy Statement. As soon as reasonably practicable following the date hereof, the Company shall, with the assistance of Parent, prepare and file the Proxy Statement with the SEC. Parent, Merger Sub and the Company will cooperate with each other in the preparation of the Proxy Statement, and the Company shall provide Parent with reasonable opportunity to review a draft of the Proxy Statement prior to its filing with the SEC. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of Parent and Merger Sub will furnish to the Company the information relating to it required by the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder to be set forth in the Proxy Statement. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to resolve all SEC comments with respect to the Proxy Statement as promptly as reasonably practicable after receipt thereof. Each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company agrees to correct any information provided by it for use in the Proxy Statement which shall have become false or misleading. The Company shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt thereof, notify Parent and Merger Sub of the receipt of any comments from the SEC with respect to the Proxy Statement and any request by the SEC for any amendment to the Proxy Statement or for additional information.

Section 6.2 Shareholders Meeting.

(a) As soon as reasonably practicable following confirmation by the SEC that it has no further comments on the Proxy Statement, the Company, acting through the Company Board (or a committee thereof), shall (i) take all action necessary to duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of its shareholders for the purpose of approving this Agreement (the “Shareholders Meeting”), (ii) subject to Section 6.4(c), include in the Proxy Statement the Company Recommendation and use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the Company Requisite Vote and (iii) otherwise comply with all legal requirements applicable to such meeting.

(b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not be required to hold the Shareholders Meeting if this Agreement is terminated.

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furnished to Parent or Merger Sub in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby in accordance with the Nondisclosure and Confidentiality Agreement, dated as of December 20, 2011 between the Company and Parent (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), which Confidentiality Agreement shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with its terms.

Section 6.4 No Solicitation; Acquisition Proposals.

(a) No Solicitation or Negotiation. Except as expressly permitted by this Section 6.4 (including Section 6.4(c)), from and after the date hereof until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Article VIII or the Effective Time, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall, nor shall the Company or any of its subsidiaries authorize or permit any of its or their directors, officers, employees, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and other advisors or representatives (collectively, “Representatives”) to, directly or indirectly, (i) initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage any inquiries or the making of any proposal or offer that constitutes an Acquisition Proposal, (ii) engage in, continue or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or provide any non-public information or data concerning the Company or its subsidiaries, or afford access to the business, properties, assets, books or records of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, to any person that has made or to the Company’s knowledge is considering making or seeking to make any Acquisition Proposal, (iii) otherwise knowingly facilitate or encourage any effort or attempt to make an Acquisition Proposal, (iv) grant any waiver or release under any standstill or similar agreement with respect to any class of equity securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (v) enter into any agreement in principle, letter of intent, term sheet, merger agreement, acquisition agreement, option agreement or similar instrument relating to an Acquisition Proposal. It is agreed that any violation of the restrictions on the Company set forth in this Section by any Representative of the Company or any of its subsidiaries shall be deemed a breach of this Section by the Company.

(b) Obligation to Terminate Existing Discussions. The Company shall, and shall cause its subsidiaries and its and their Representatives to, cease immediately and cause to be terminated any and all existing activities, discussions or negotiations, if any, with any person and its Representatives conducted prior to the date hereof with respect to any Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall promptly request that each person other than Parent, if any, that has executed a confidentiality agreement within the 24-month period prior to the date hereof in connection with its consideration of any Acquisition Proposal return or destroy all confidential information heretofore furnished to such person by or on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (and all analyses and other materials prepared by or on behalf of such person that contains, reflects or analyzes that information). The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to secure its rights and ensure the performance of such other party’s obligations under the relevant confidentiality agreement and to cause such other party to return or destroy (and confirm destruction of) all such information as promptly as reasonably practicable.

(c) Exceptions. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, at any time prior to the time, but not after, the Company Requisite Vote is obtained, if the Company receives a written Acquisition Proposal from any person, (i) the Company and its Representatives may provide non-public information and data concerning the Company and its subsidiaries in

 

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response to a request therefor by or on behalf of such person to such person, its outside counsel, financial advisor(s), lenders or other financing sources and/or potential divestiture counterparties, so long as the Company receives from such person an executed confidentiality agreement on customary terms (it being understood that such confidentiality agreement need not prohibit the making or amendment of an Acquisition Proposal or otherwise contain any standstill or similar provision); provided that the Company shall promptly make available to Parent and Merger Sub any material non-public information concerning the Company or its subsidiaries that the Company made available to any person given such access which was not previously made available to Parent or Merger Sub (unless precluded by Applicable Law), (ii) the Company and its Representatives may engage or participate in any discussions or negotiations with such person, its outside counsel, financial advisor(s), lenders or other financing sources and/or potential divestiture counterparties and (iii) the Company Board may authorize, adopt, approve, recommend, or otherwise declare advisable or propose to authorize, adopt, approve, recommend or declare advisable (publicly or otherwise) such an Acquisition Proposal, if and only to the extent that, (1) the receipt of such Acquisition Proposal did not result from a breach of this Section 6.4, (2) prior to taking any action described in clause (i) or (ii) above, the Company Board determines in good faith that failure to take such action would be inconsistent with the directors’ fiduciary duties under Applicable Law, (3) in each such case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, the Company Board has determined in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel and the Financial Advisor) that such Acquisition Proposal either constitutes a Superior Proposal or is reasonably expected to result in a Superior Proposal, and (4) in the case referred to in clause (iii) above, the Company Board determines in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel and the Financial Advisor) that such Acquisition Proposal is a Superior Proposal.

(d) Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement:

(i) “Acquisition Proposal” means any inquiry, proposal or offer from any person or group of persons other than Parent or one of its subsidiaries for (A) a merger, reorganization, consolidation, share exchange, business combination, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or similar transaction involving an acquisition of the Company (or any subsidiary or subsidiaries of the Company whose business constitutes 15% or more of the net revenues, net income or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole), (B) the acquisition in any manner, directly or indirectly, of over 15% of the equity securities or consolidated total assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case other than the Merger or (C) a transaction or series of transactions which is similar in form, substance or purpose to any of the foregoing transactions, or any combination of the foregoing.

(ii) “Superior Proposal” means a bona fide, unsolicited written Acquisition Proposal for at least a majority of the outstanding Shares or all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its subsidiaries that the Company Board has determined in its good faith judgment, after consultation with and considering the advice of its outside legal counsel and the Financial Advisor, (A) is reasonably likely to be consummated in accordance with its terms, taking into account all legal, financial and regulatory aspects of the proposal and the person making the proposal, and (B) if consummated, would result in a transaction superior to the Company than

 

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the transactions contemplated hereby (after giving effect to all of the adjustments which may be offered by Parent and Merger Sub pursuant to Section 6.4(h) and taking into account break-up fees, expense reimbursement provisions and conditions to consummation).

(e) No Change in Recommendation or Alternative Acquisition Agreement. Except as set forth in this Section 6.4(e), Section 6.4(f), or Section 8.3(a), the Company Board shall not:

(i) withhold, withdraw, qualify or modify, in a manner adverse to Parent, the Company Recommendation with respect to the Merger (a “Change of Recommendation”), it being understood that the Company Board may take no position with respect to an Acquisition Proposal until the close of business as of the tenth Business Day after the commencement of such Acquisition Proposal pursuant to Rule 14d-2 under the Exchange Act without such action being considered an adverse modification; or

(ii) except as expressly permitted by Section 8.3(a), cause or permit the Company to enter into any acquisition agreement, merger agreement or similar definitive agreement (other than a confidentiality agreement referred to in Section 6.4(a) or Section 6.4(c)) (an “Alternative Acquisition Agreement”) relating to any Acquisition Proposal.

For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or otherwise restrict the Company Board from making a Change of Recommendation following a termination of this Agreement pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, Section 8.3(a).

(f) Certain Permitted Disclosure. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to prohibit the Company or the Company Board from (i) complying with its disclosure obligations under Applicable Law with regard to an Acquisition Proposal, including taking and disclosing to its shareholders a position contemplated by Rule 14d-9 and Rule 14e-2(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act (or any similar communication to shareholders), in each case so long as any action taken or statement made to so comply is consistent with this Section 6.4, and provided that in the case of any such action that is taken or statement made that relates to an Acquisition Proposal, the Company Board shall, upon written request by Parent, publicly reaffirm the Company Recommendation within three Business Days of such request (if the Company Recommendation was not already reaffirmed in such statement or in connection with such action) or (ii) making any “stop-look-and-listen” communication to the shareholders of the Company pursuant to Rule 14d-9(f) promulgated under the Exchange Act (or any similar communications to the shareholders of the Company).

(g) Notice. From and after the date hereof, the Company agrees that it will promptly (and, in any event, within three Business Days) notify Parent if any proposals or offers with respect to an Acquisition Proposal are received by, any non-public information is requested from, or any discussions or negotiations are sought to be initiated or continued with, it or any of its Representatives indicating, in connection with such notice, the material terms and conditions of any proposals or offers (including, if applicable, copies of any written requests, proposals or offers, including proposed agreements, redacted, if necessary, to remove the identity of the

 

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person making the proposal or offer or to comply with confidentiality obligations to such person) and thereafter shall keep Parent reasonably informed of the status and terms of any such proposals or offers (including any amendments thereto) and the status of any such discussions or negotiations.

(h) Notification of Certain Actions. The Company shall not be entitled to take any of the actions described in Section 6.4(c)(iii) or to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.3(a) with respect to a Superior Proposal unless (i) the Company has provided notice (a “Notice of Superior Proposal”) to Parent that the Company intends to take such action, describing the material terms and conditions of the Superior Proposal that is the basis of such action, and, if applicable, provides copies of all documents relating thereto (it being understood that such material terms need not include the identity of the person making such proposal), (ii) during the 48-hour period following Parent’s receipt of the Notice of Superior Proposal, the Company shall, and shall cause its Representatives to, negotiate with Parent in good faith (to the extent Parent desires to negotiate) to make such adjustments in the terms and conditions of this Agreement so that such Superior Proposal ceases to constitute a Superior Proposal and (iii) at the end of such 48-hour period Parent has not made a written offer of changes to this Agreement, in response to the Notice of Superior Proposal or otherwise, that would cause the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be at least as favorable to the Company as the Superior Proposal. Any material amendment to the financial terms or any other material amendment of such Superior Proposal shall require a new Notice of Superior Proposal and the Company shall be required to comply again with the requirements of this Section 6.4(h); providedhowever, that references to the 48-hour period above shall be deemed to be references to a 24-hour period.

Section 6.5 Employment and Employee Benefits Matters.

(a) Without limiting any additional rights that any Company Employee may have under any Company Plan, Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation and each of its subsidiaries to maintain, until December 31, 2012 (or, if later, the Closing Date), the severance-related provisions of the Company Plans existing immediately prior to the Effective Time and to provide 100% of the severance payments and benefits provided thereunder to be delivered to any Company Employee.

(b) Without limiting any additional rights that any Company Employee may have under any Company Plan, Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation and each of its subsidiaries to maintain for any Company Employee who remains employed, subject to paragraph (a) above, (i) until the later of (x) December 31, 2012 and (y) the Closing Date, compensation levels (such term to include salary and target incentive compensation in the aggregate) that are no less favorable than those provided to such Company Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time, and (ii) for twelve months following the Effective Time, health and welfare benefits and retirement benefits that in the aggregate are substantially comparable to the overall health and welfare benefits, and retirement benefits maintained for and provided to such Company Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time.

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vesting, severance and benefit accruals (but not for purposes of benefit accruals under any defined benefit pension plans, except to the extent such plan or plans provide for past service credit, or to the extent this credit would result in a duplication of benefits for the same period of service), under any employee compensation and incentive plans, benefit (including vacation) plans, programs, policies and arrangements maintained for the benefit of Company Employees as of and after the Effective Time by Parent, its subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation for the Company Employees’ service with the Company, its subsidiaries and their predecessor entities (each, a “Parent Plan”) to the same extent recognized by the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time, and as contemplated by this Agreement. With respect to each Parent Plan that is a “welfare benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA, regardless as to whether or not such Parent Plan is subject to ERISA), Parent or its subsidiaries shall (i) cause there to be waived any pre-existing condition or eligibility limitations and (ii) give effect, in determining any deductible and maximum out-of-pocket limitations, to claims incurred and amounts paid by, and amounts reimbursed to, Company Employees under similar plans maintained by the Company and its subsidiaries in the plan year in which the Effective Time occurs.

(d) From and after the Effective Time, subject to the actions contemplated in Sections 2.2 and 6.5 hereof, Parent will honor, and will cause its subsidiaries to honor, in accordance with its terms, (i) each existing employment, change in control, severance and termination protection plan, policy or agreement of or between the Company or any of its subsidiaries and any officer, director or employee of that company, (ii) all bonus plans or programs and (iii) all obligations pursuant to outstanding restoration plans, bonus plans or programs, bonus deferral plans, vested and accrued benefits under any employee benefit plan, program or arrangement of the Company or its subsidiaries and similar employment compensation and benefit arrangements and agreements in effect as of the date hereof, in each case to the extent legally binding on the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

(e) (i) No more than thirty days prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall have the right, in its sole option and discretion, to terminate each Agreement for Supplemental Executive Retirement Benefits entered into by and between the Company and certain of its executive officers, each of which is set forth in Section 6.5(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule (each a “Retirement Agreement” and collectively the “Retirement Agreements”), in a manner that meets the requirements of Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-3(j)(4)(ix)(B), and shall liquidate all benefits payable under such Retirement Agreements by paying to each such executive officer the present value, using reasonable actuarial factors, of the benefit accrued under his Retirement Agreement as of the date of such termination, provided that such terminations and liquidations shall occur only if all of such executive officers party to a Retirement Agreement consent thereto. (ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company does not terminate the Retirement Agreements prior to the Effective Time, Parent hereby expressly agrees that, from and after the Effective Time, it will cause the Surviving Corporation (and/or Parent’s subsidiaries, as applicable) to assume and agree to perform in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform if the Merger had not taken place, each Retirement Agreement in effect as of the Effective Time.

 

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(f) Nothing in this Section shall give any person any third-party beneficiary right, amend any Company Plan or other employee agreement, or operate to supersede or conflict with any collective bargaining arrangement.

(g) If directed in writing by Parent at least ten (10) days prior to Closing, the Company shall terminate any and all 401(k) plans prior to the Closing, pursuant to resolutions of the Company Board reasonably satisfactory to Parent.

Section 6.6 Directors’ and Officers’ Indemnification and Insurance.

(a) Without limiting any additional rights that any employee may have under any employment agreement or Company Plan, from the Effective Time through the sixth anniversary of the date on which the Effective Time occurs, Parent shall or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, indemnify and hold harmless each present (as of the Effective Time) and former officer and director of the Company and its subsidiaries and any employee or agent of the Company serving as an officer or director of another entity at the request of the Company and identified in Section 6.6 of the Company Disclosure Schedule (the “Indemnified Parties”), against all claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, inquiries, fines and reasonable fees, costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, incurred in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, arising out of or pertaining to (i) the fact that an Indemnified Party is or was an officer or director or is or was serving at the request of the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a director or officer of another entity or (ii) matters existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time (including this Agreement and the transactions and actions contemplated hereby), whether asserted or claimed prior to, at or after the Effective Time, to the fullest extent permitted under Applicable Law. In the event of any such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation, the Surviving Corporation shall cooperate in the defense of any such matter.

(b) The articles of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation shall contain provisions no less favorable with respect to indemnification, advancement of expenses and exculpation of former or present directors and officers than are presently set forth in the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, which provisions shall not be amended, repealed or otherwise modified for a period of six years from the Effective Time in any manner that would adversely affect the rights thereunder of any such individuals.

(c) Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall and, if the Company is unable to, Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation as of the Effective Time, to obtain and fully pay the premium for a “tail” policy extension of (i) the directors’ and officers’ liability coverage of the Company’s existing directors’ and officers’ insurance policies, and (ii) the Company’s existing fiduciary liability insurance policies, in each case for a claims reporting or discovery period of at least six years from and after the Effective Time from an insurance carrier with the same or better credit rating as the Company’s current insurance carrier with respect to directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and fiduciary liability insurance (collectively, “D&O Insurance”) with terms, conditions, retentions and limits of liability that are at least as favorable as the Company’s existing policies with respect to any actual or alleged error, misstatement, misleading statement, act, omission, neglect, breach

 

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of duty or any matter claimed against a director or officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by reason of him or her serving in such capacity that existed or occurred at or prior to the Effective Time (including in connection with this Agreement or the transactions or actions contemplated hereby); provided that if the aggregate premium for such “tail” policy exceeds 300% of the per annum rate of premium paid by the Company as of the date hereof, then the Company (or the Surviving Corporation, as applicable) shall procure the maximum coverage that will then be available with the expenditure of 300% of such rate. If the Company and the Surviving Corporation for any reason fail to obtain such “tail” policy as of the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall, and Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, continue to maintain in effect for a period of at least six years from and after the Effective Time the D&O Insurance in place as of the date hereof with terms, conditions, retentions and limits of liability that are at least as favorable as provided in the Company’s existing policies as of the date hereof, or the Surviving Corporation shall, and Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, use reasonable best efforts to purchase comparable D&O Insurance for such six-year period with terms, conditions, retentions and limits of liability that are at least as favorable as provided in the Company’s existing policies as of the date hereof; provided that in satisfying its obligation under this Section 6.6(c), the Surviving Corporation shall not be obligated to pay an aggregate premium in excess of 300% of the per annum rate of premium paid by the Company as of the date hereof.

(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation (whether arising before, at or after the Effective Time) is made against any Indemnified Party on or prior to the sixth anniversary of the Effective Time, the provisions and benefits of this Section 6.6 shall continue in full effect until the final disposition of such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation.

(e) This covenant is intended to be for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, each of the Indemnified Parties and their respective heirs and legal representatives. The indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which an Indemnified Party is entitled, whether pursuant to law, contract or otherwise.

(f) In the event that the Surviving Corporation or Parent or any of their respective successors or assigns (i) consolidates with or merges into any other person and shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation or entity of such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfers or conveys all or a majority of its properties and assets to any person, then, and in each such case, proper provision shall be made so that the successors and assigns of the Surviving Corporation or Parent, as the case may be, shall succeed to the obligations set forth in this Section 6.6. In addition, the Surviving Corporation shall not distribute, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets in a manner that would reasonably be expected to render the Surviving Corporation unable to satisfy its obligations under this Section 6.6.

Section 6.7 Further Action; Efforts.

(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, each of the parties shall use its reasonable best efforts to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, and cooperate with each other in order to do, all things necessary, proper or advisable (including under any Antitrust Law) to consummate the transactions contemplated

 

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hereby as soon as practicable and (ii) do all things necessary, proper or advisable under Applicable Law and regulations to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby at the earliest practicable date, including: (A) causing the preparation and filing of all forms, registrations and notices required to be filed to consummate the Merger and the taking of such actions as are necessary to obtain any requisite approval, consent or expiration of any applicable waiting period (including under the HSR Act, the EU Merger Regulation or any other Antitrust Law) and duly make all notifications and other filings required under the HSR Act, the EU Merger Regulation or any other Antitrust Law and; (B) using reasonable best efforts to resolve any objection asserted with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby under any Antitrust Law raised by any Governmental Entity.

(b) In furtherance and not in limitation of the provisions of Section 6.7(a), each of the parties, as applicable, agrees to prepare and file as promptly as practicable an appropriate filing of a Notification and Report Form pursuant to the HSR Act and any other appropriate filings pursuant to the EU Merger Regulation or any other Antitrust Law. Each of the Company and Parent shall bear its respective expenses, charges and filing fees associated with the filings by the Company and Parent required under the HSR Act, the EU Merger Regulation or any other Antitrust Law.

(c) If a party receives a request for information or documentary material from any Governmental Entity with respect to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby then such party shall in good faith make, or cause to be made, as soon as reasonably practicable and after consultation with the other party, a response which is, at a minimum, in substantial compliance with such request.

(d) The parties shall keep each other apprised of the status of matters relating to the completion of the transactions contemplated hereby and work cooperatively in connection with obtaining the approvals of or clearances from each applicable Governmental Entity, including:

(i) cooperating with each other in connection with filings required to be made by any party under any Antitrust Law and liaising with each other in relation to each step of the procedure before the relevant Governmental Entities and as to the contents of all communications with such Governmental Entities. In particular, to the extent permitted by law or Governmental Entity, no party will make any notification in relation to the transactions contemplated hereby without first providing the other party with a copy of such notification in draft form and giving such other party a reasonable opportunity to discuss its content before it is filed with the relevant Governmental Entities, and such first party shall consider and take account of all reasonable comments timely made by the other party in this respect;

(ii) furnishing to the other party all information within its possession that is required for any application or other filing to be made by the other party pursuant to Applicable Law in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby;

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(iv) consulting and cooperating with one another in connection with all analyses, appearances, presentations, memoranda, briefs, arguments, opinions and proposals made or submitted by or on behalf of any party hereto in connection with proceedings under or relating to the Antitrust Law; and

(v) without prejudice to any rights of the parties hereunder, and subject to Section 6.7(e)(iv), consulting and cooperating in all respects with the other in defending all lawsuits and other proceedings by or before any Governmental Entity challenging this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, nothing in this Section 6.7 shall require either Parent or any of its subsidiaries to: (i) agree to or to effect any divestiture of, or hold separate (including by establishing a trust or otherwise), or agree to restrict its ownership or operation of, any business or assets of the Company or its subsidiaries or of Parent or its subsidiaries, or to enter into any settlement or consent decree, or agree to any undertaking, with respect to any business or assets of the Company or its subsidiaries or of Parent or its subsidiaries, (ii) enter into, amend or agree to enter into or amend, any contracts or agreements of the Company or its subsidiaries or of Parent or its subsidiaries, (iii) otherwise waive, abandon or alter any material rights or obligations of the Company or its subsidiaries or of Parent or its subsidiaries or (iv) file or defend any lawsuit, appeal any judgment or contest any injunction issued in a proceeding initiated by a Governmental Entity, except in the case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), that Parent shall be obligated to commit to and undertake, if necessary, to a sale, divestiture, other conveyance, license or hold separate arrangement of assets that contributed up to 10% of the Company and its subsidiaries’ consolidated earnings before interest and taxes for the 12-month period ended June 30, 2012 (a “Required Divestiture” ). Parent’s obligations with respect to any Required Divestiture shall be unconditional and not qualified by reasonable best efforts and no actions taken with respect to any Required Divestiture shall be considered for purposes of determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred.

Section 6.8 Public Announcements. The Company and Parent will consult with and provide each other the reasonable opportunity to review and comment upon any press release or other public statement or comment prior to the issuance of such press release or other public statement or comment relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby and shall not issue any such press release or other public statement or comment prior to such consultation except as may be required by Applicable Law or by obligations pursuant to any listing agreement with any national securities exchange. Parent and the Company agree that the press release announcing the execution and delivery of this Agreement shall be a joint release of Parent and the Company.

Section 6.9 Anti-Takeover Statutes. If the restrictive provisions of any Anti-Takeover Statute is or may become applicable to this Agreement (including the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby), each of Parent, the Company and Merger Sub and their respective boards of directors shall grant all such approvals and take all such actions as are reasonably necessary so that such transactions may be consummated as promptly as practicable hereafter on the terms contemplated hereby and otherwise act to eliminate or minimize the effects of such statute or regulation on such transactions.

 

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Section 6.10 Notification of Certain Matters. The Company shall give prompt notice to Parent, and Parent shall give prompt notice to the Company, of (a) any notice or other written communication received by such party from any Governmental Entity in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby or from any person alleging that the consent of such person is or may be required in connection with the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby, if the subject matter of such communication or the failure of such party to obtain such consent could be material to the Company, the Surviving Corporation or Parent, (b) any actions, suits, claims, investigations or proceedings commenced or, to such party’s knowledge, threatened against, relating to or involving or otherwise affecting such party or any of its subsidiaries which relate to the Merger or the other transactions contemplated hereby, (c) the discovery of any fact or circumstance that, or the occurrence or non-occurrence of any event the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, would cause or result in any of the conditions to the Merger set forth in Article VII not being satisfied or satisfaction of those conditions being materially delayed in violation of any provision of this Agreement; provided, however, that the delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section 6.10 shall not (i) cure any breach of, or non-compliance with, any other provision of this Agreement or (ii) limit the remedies available to the party receiving such notice. The parties agree and acknowledge that (1) the Company’s compliance or failure of compliance with this Section 6.10 shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining whether the condition set forth in Section 7.2(b) shall have been satisfied or, in and of itself, give rise to any right of termination under Section 8.4(b) and (2) Parent’s compliance or failure of compliance with this Section 6.10 shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining whether the condition set forth in Section 7.3(b) shall have been satisfied or, in and of itself, give rise to any right of termination under Section 8.3(b).

Section 6.11 Access to Information. Subject to the last sentence of this Section 6.11, from the date hereof until the earlier of the Effective Time or the termination of this Agreement and subject to Applicable Law and the Confidentiality Agreement, the Company shall upon reasonable advance notice (i) give to Parent and its authorized representatives reasonable access during normal business hours to the offices, properties, books and records of the Company and its subsidiaries, (ii) furnish to Parent and its authorized representatives such financial and operating data and other information as they may reasonably request and (iii) instruct its authorized Representatives to cooperate with Parent and its authorized representatives with respect to such matters. Any investigation pursuant to this Section shall be conducted in such manner as not to interfere unreasonably with the conduct of business of the Company and its subsidiaries. No information or knowledge obtained in any investigation pursuant to this Section shall affect or be deemed to modify any representation or warranty by any party hereunder. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, under no circumstances shall the Company, its subsidiaries or their respective Representatives be required to furnish any person with, or be required to provide access to any person to, information about the Company or any of its subsidiaries that the Company in its sole and absolute discretion, acting reasonably, deems to be either confidential business information or information the sharing of which is or may be prohibited by any Applicable Law (including any Antitrust Law) or contractual restraint enforceable upon the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

Section 6.12 Rule 16b-3. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall be permitted to take such steps as may be reasonably necessary or advisable hereto to cause dispositions of Company equity securities (including derivative securities) pursuant to the transactions contemplated hereby by each individual who is a director or officer of the Company to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act.

 

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Section 6.13 Obligations of Merger Sub. Parent shall take all action necessary to cause Merger Sub and the Surviving Corporation to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement.

Section 6.14 Stock Exchange Delisting. Parent shall take such actions prior to the Effective Time to cause the Company’s securities to be de-listed from NASDAQ and de-registered under the Exchange Act as soon as practicable following the Effective Time.

Section 6.15 Parent Vote.

(a) Parent shall vote (or consent with respect to) or cause to be voted (or a consent to be given with respect to) any Shares beneficially owned by it or any of its subsidiaries or with respect to which it or any of its subsidiaries has the power (by agreement, proxy or otherwise) to cause to be voted (or to provide a consent), in favor of the approval of this Agreement at any meeting of shareholders of the Company at which this Agreement shall be submitted for approval and at all adjournments or postponements thereof (or, if applicable, by any action of shareholders of the Company by consent in lieu of a meeting).

(b) Immediately following the execution of this Agreement, Parent shall execute and deliver, in accordance with Section 23-1-34-2 of the IBCL and in its capacity as the sole shareholder of Merger Sub, a written consent adopting this Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

CONDITIONS OF MERGER

Section 7.1 Conditions to Each Party’s Obligation to Effect the Merger. The respective obligation of each party to effect the Merger is subject to the satisfaction or waiver at or prior to the Effective Time of each of the following conditions:

(a) Shareholder Approval. The Company Requisite Vote shall have been obtained.

(b) Regulatory Consents. (i) The waiting period applicable to the consummation of the Merger under the HSR Act or any other Antitrust Law (other than the EU Merger Regulation) shall have expired or been earlier terminated and (ii) Parent and the Company shall have received a decision under Article 6(1)(b), 8(1) or 8(2) of the EU Merger Regulation declaring the Merger compatible with the EU Internal Market.

(c) Orders. As of the Closing, no court or other Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any order, injunction, ruling or Applicable Law (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that is in effect and restrains, enjoins or otherwise prohibits consummation of the Merger (collectively, an “Order”).

 

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Section 7.2 Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub. The obligations of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger are also subject to the satisfaction or waiver by Parent at or prior to the Effective Time of the following additional conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties. (i) The representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 3.3 (Capitalization) shall be true and correct in all respects other than de minimis inaccuracies, both as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of such date and time (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct as of such earlier date); (ii) the representation and warranty of the Company set forth in Section 3.8(a) shall be true and correct in all respects, both as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of such date and time; (iii) the other representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement (disregarding all materiality and Material Adverse Effect qualifications contained therein) shall be true and correct as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of such date and time (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct as of such earlier date), with, in the case of this clause (iii) only, only such exceptions as have not had, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and (iv) Parent shall have received at the Closing a certificate signed on behalf of the Company by a senior executive officer of the Company to the effect that the conditions set forth in this Section 7.2(a) have been satisfied.

(b) Performance of Obligations of the Company. The Company shall have performed in all material respects all obligations required to be performed by it under this Agreement at or prior to the Closing Date, and Parent shall have received a certificate signed on behalf of the Company by a senior executive officer of the Company to such effect.

(c) Governmental Litigation. There shall not have been instituted and be pending any action or proceeding by any Governmental Entity (i) challenging or seeking to make illegal, to delay materially or otherwise directly or indirectly to restrain or prohibit the consummation of the Merger or seeking to obtain material damages relating to the transactions contemplated by the Merger, (ii) seeking to restrain or prohibit Parent’s, Merger Sub’s or any of Parent’s other affiliates’ (A) ability effectively to exercise full rights of ownership of the Shares, including the right to vote any Shares acquired or owned by Parent, Merger Sub or any Parent’s other affiliates following the Effective Time on all matters properly presented to the Company’s shareholders or (B) ownership or operation (of that of its respective subsidiaries or affiliates) of all or any material portion of the business or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or of Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole or (iii) seeking to compel Parent or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates to dispose of or hold separate all or any material portion of the business or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or of Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in each of cases (i), (ii) and (iii), other than any action or proceeding that seeks to force Parent to undertake a Required Divestiture and that does not seek any remedy to which Parent would not be obligated to agree pursuant to Section 6.7 hereof.

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may be substituted with the Surviving Corporation or another subsidiary of Parent upon consummation of the Merger) upon terms and conditions substantially similar to the letters dated June 28, 2012 previously provided to each of such persons and none of such employees shall have (i) ceased to be employed by the Company and its subsidiaries, except as a result of such employee’s death or disability such that such person can no longer perform his duties at work or (ii) expressed in writing an intention to terminate their employment with the Company and its subsidiaries or to decline to accept employment with Parent.

Section 7.3 Conditions to Obligations of the Company. The obligation of the Company to effect the Merger is also subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the Company at or prior to the Effective Time of the following additional conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties. (i) The representations and warranties of Parent and Merger Sub set forth in this Agreement (disregarding all materiality and Parent Material Adverse Effect qualifications contained therein) shall be true and correct, both as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date as though made on and as of such date and time (except to the extent that any such representation and warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct as of such earlier date), with only such exceptions as have not had, individually or in the aggregate, a Parent Material Adverse Effect; and (ii) the Company shall have received at the Closing a certificate signed on behalf of Parent by a senior executive officer of Parent to the effect that the conditions set forth in this Section 7.3(a) have been satisfied.

(b) Performance of Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub. Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall have performed in all material respects all obligations required to be performed by it under this Agreement at or prior to the Closing Date, and the Company shall have received a certificate signed on behalf of Parent and Merger Sub by a senior executive officer of Parent to such effect.

Section 7.4 Frustration of Closing Conditions. None of the Company, Parent or Merger Sub may rely on the failure of any condition set forth in this Article VII to be satisfied to excuse such party’s obligation to effect the Merger if the direct, principal and proximate cause of such failure was such party’s failure to use the standard of efforts required from such party to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby, including as required by and subject to Section 6.7; provided, however, that no action by any party that such party is permitted to take under this Agreement and that has the consequential or indirect effect of delaying or impeding the Merger shall be deemed to constitute or contribute to any alleged failure by such party to use the standard of efforts required from such party to consummate the Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby.

ARTICLE VIII

TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER

Section 8.1 Termination by Mutual Consent. This Agreement may be terminated and the Merger may be abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after the Company Requisite Vote has been obtained, by mutual written consent of the Company, by action of the Company Board, and Parent, by action of its board of directors.

 

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Section 8.2 Termination by Either Parent or the Company. This Agreement may be terminated and the Merger may be abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time by Parent, by action of its board of directors, or the Company, by action of the Company Board, if (a) the Merger shall not have been consummated by March 31, 2013, whether such date is before or after the date on which the Company Requisite Vote is obtained (such date, as it may be extended pursuant to the provisions hereof, the “Termination Date”); (b) the Shareholders Meeting shall have been held and completed and the Company Requisite Vote shall not have been obtained at such Shareholders Meeting or at any adjournment or postponement thereof; or (c) any Order permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting consummation of the Merger shall become final and non-appealable (whether before or after the Company Requisite Vote has been obtained), provided, that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.2 shall not be available to any party that has breached in any material respect its obligations under this Agreement in any manner that shall have been the direct, principal and proximate cause of the failure to consummate the Merger.

Section 8.3 Termination by the Company. This Agreement may be terminated and the Merger may be abandoned by written notice of the Company:

(a) at any time prior to the time the Company Requisite Vote is obtained, if: (i) the Company Board authorizes the Company, subject to complying with the terms of this Agreement, to enter into an Alternative Acquisition Agreement with respect to a Superior Proposal; (ii) the Company has complied with Section 6.4(h), (iii) immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with the termination of this Agreement the Company enters into an Alternative Acquisition Agreement with respect to a Superior Proposal; and (iv) the Company immediately prior to or substantially concurrently with such termination pays to Parent in immediately available funds any fees required to be paid pursuant to Section 8.5;

(b) if there has been a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by Parent or Merger Sub in this Agreement, or any such representation and warranty shall have become untrue after the date hereof, such that the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) or 7.3(b) would not be satisfied and such breach or condition is not curable or, if curable, is not cured prior to the earlier of (i) thirty calendar days after written notice thereof is given by the Company to Parent or (ii) two Business Days prior to the Termination Date; provided, however, that the Company is not then in material breach of this Agreement so as to cause any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.2(a) or 7.2(b) not to be capable of being satisfied; or

(c) if (i) all of the conditions set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 have been and continue to be satisfied (other than those conditions that by their nature cannot be satisfied other than at the Closing), (ii) the Company has notified Parent in writing that as of the date of such notice all conditions set forth in Section 7.3 have either been satisfied or waived by the Company and that it is ready, willing and able to consummate the Closing and (iii) Parent and Merger Sub fail to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby within five (5) Business Days of the date the Closing should have occurred pursuant to Section 1.2.

 

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Section 8.4 Termination by Parent. This Agreement may be terminated and the Merger may be abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Time by written notice of Parent if:

(a) the Company Board shall have made a Change of Recommendation or there shall have otherwise been an intentional and material breach of Section 6.4, and in the case of a breach other than a Change of Recommendation, that if capable of being cured has not been cured within three Business Days of the occurrence thereof; or (b) there has been a breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Company in this Agreement, or any such representation and warranty shall have become untrue after the date hereof, such that the conditions set forth in Section 7.2(a) or 7.2(b) would not be satisfied and such breach cannot be or is not cured prior to the earlier of (i) thirty calendar days after written notice thereof is given by Parent to the Company or (ii) two Business Days prior to the Termination Date; provided, however, that Parent is not then in material breach of this Agreement so as to cause any of the conditions set forth in Section 7.3(a) or 7.3(b) not to be capable of being satisfied.

Section 8.5 Effect of Termination and Abandonment.

(a) In the event of termination of this Agreement and the abandonment of the Merger pursuant to this Article VIII, this Agreement shall become void and of no effect with no liability to any person on the part of any party hereto (or of any of its Representatives or affiliates); provided, however, and notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to the contrary, that (i) except as otherwise provided herein and subject to Section 8.5(c), no such termination shall relieve any party hereto of any liability for damages to the other party hereto resulting from knowing and intentional material breach of this Agreement and (ii) the provisions set forth in this Section 8.5 Section 8.6 and Article IX and the Confidentiality Agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

(b) In the event that:

(i) (x) before obtaining the Company Requisite Vote, this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 8.2(a) or Section 8.2(b), (y) any person shall have made and publicly disclosed a bona fide Acquisition Proposal after the date hereof but prior to such termination, and such Acquisition Proposal shall not have been publicly withdrawn prior to such termination or, with respect to a termination pursuant to Section 8.2(b), prior to the Shareholders Meeting and (z) within twelve (12) months of such termination the Company shall have entered into a definitive agreement with respect to such Acquisition Proposal and such Acquisition Proposal is consummated (provided that for purposes of this clause (z) the references to “15%” in the definition of “Acquisition Proposal” shall be deemed to be references to “50%”);

(ii) this Agreement is terminated by Parent pursuant to Section 8.4(a); or

(iii) this Agreement is terminated by the Company pursuant to Section 8.3(a),

then the Company shall (A) in the case of clause (i) above, within four Business Days after the date on which the Company consummates the Acquisition Proposal referred to in subclause (i)(z) above, (B) in the case of clause (ii) above, no later than four Business Days after the date of such termination, and (C) in the case of clause (iii) above, immediately prior or substantially concurrently with such termination, pay Parent an amount equal to Twenty-Six Million Dollars ($26,000,000) (the “Termination Fee” by wire transfer of immediately available funds (it being understood that in no event shall the Company be required to pay the Termination Fee on more than one occasion).

 

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(c) The parties acknowledge that the agreements contained in Section 8.5 are an integral part of the transactions contemplated hereby, and that, without these agreements, the parties would not enter into this Agreement; accordingly, if the Company fails to promptly pay the amount due pursuant to Section 8.5(b) and, in order to obtain such payment, Parent or Merger Sub commences a suit that results in a judgment against the Company for the amount set forth in Section 8.5(b) or any portion thereof, the Company shall pay to Parent or Merger Sub its costs and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) in connection with such suit, together with interest on such amount or portion thereof at the prime rate of Citibank N.A. in effect on the date such payment was required to be made through the date of payment. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the event that the Termination Fee is paid, Parent’s receipt of the Termination Fee from the Company pursuant to this Section 8.5 shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of Parent and Merger Sub and their respective affiliates against the Company, its subsidiaries and any of their respective former, current, or future general or limited partners, shareholders, directors, officers, managers, members, affiliates or agents for any loss suffered as a result of any breach of any covenant or agreement in this Agreement or the failure of the Merger to be consummated, and upon payment of such amounts, none of the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their respective former, current, or future general or limited partners, shareholders, directors, officers, managers, members, affiliates or agents shall have any further liability or obligation relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for any reimbursement and expense obligations of the Company pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 8.5(c)).

Section 8.6 Expenses. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, each party shall bear its own expenses in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Expenses incurred in connection with the printing, filing and mailing of the Proxy Statement shall be shared equally by Parent and the Company.

Section 8.7 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after the Company Requisite Vote has been obtained, by action taken (i) with respect to Parent and Merger Sub, by their respective boards of directors, and (ii) with respect to the Company, by the Company Board; provided, however, that, after the Company Requisite Vote has been obtained, no amendment may be made which by law requires the further approval of the shareholders of the Company without such further approval. This Agreement may not be amended except by an instrument in writing signed by the parties hereto.

Section 8.8 Waiver. At any time prior to the Effective Time, any party hereto by action taken (i) with respect to Parent and Merger Sub, by their respective boards of directors, and (ii) with respect to the Company, by the Company Board, may (a) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other parties hereto, (b) waive any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto and (c) subject to the requirements of Applicable Law, waive compliance with any of the agreements or conditions contained herein. Any such extension or waiver shall only be valid if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by the party or parties to be bound thereby. The failure of any party to assert any rights or remedies shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies.

 

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ARTICLE IX

GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 9.1 Non-Survival of Representations, Warranties, Covenants and Agreements. None of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements in this Agreement or in any instrument delivered pursuant to this Agreement, including any rights arising out of any breach of such representations, warranties, covenants and agreements, shall survive the Effective Time, except for (a) those covenants and agreements contained herein to the extent that by their terms apply or are to be performed in whole or in part after the Effective Time and (b) those contained in this Article IX.

Section 9.2 Notices. All notices, requests, claims, demands and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be given (and shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt) by delivery in person, by facsimile, by registered or certified mail (postage prepaid, return receipt requested) or by electronic email (“e-mail”) transmission (so long as a receipt of such e-mail is requested and received) to the respective parties at the following addresses (or at such other address for a party as shall be specified by like notice):

 

  (a) if to Parent or Merger Sub:

Ingram Micro Inc.

1600 E. St. Andrew Place

Santa Ana, California 92705

Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile: 714-566-9370

E-mail: larry.boyd@ingrammicro.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

1600 El Camino Real

Menlo Park, CA 94025

Attention:  Alan F. Denenberg

                  Mischa Travers

Facsimile: 650-752-3604

E-mail:      alan.denenberg@davispolk.com

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  (b) if to the Company:

Brightpoint, Inc.

7635 Interactive Way, Suite 200

Indianapolis, Indiana 46278

Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile: 317-707-2465

E-mail: craig.carpenter@brightpoint.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Blank Rome LLP

405 Lexington Avenue

New York, NY 10174

Attention: Robert J. Mittman

Facsimile:   (212) 885-5001

E-mail:        RMittman@blankrome.com

Section 9.3 Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the term:

(a) “affiliate” of any person means any other person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such first person;

(b) “Antitrust Law” means the Sherman Act, as amended, the Clayton Act, as amended, the HSR Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended, the EU Merger Regulation and all other federal, state and foreign, if any, statutes, rules, regulations, orders, decrees, administrative and judicial doctrines and other laws that are designed or intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of monopolization or restraint of trade or lessening of competition through merger or acquisition;

(c) “Applicable Law” means, with respect to any person, any federal, state or local law (statutory, common or otherwise), constitution, treaty, convention, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, injunction, judgment, decree, ruling or other similar requirement enacted, adopted, promulgated or applied by a Governmental Entity that is binding upon or applicable to such person, as amended unless expressly specified otherwise;

(d) “beneficially owned” with respect to any Shares has the meaning ascribed to such term under Rule 13d-3(a) of the Exchange Act;

(e) “Business Day” means any day on which the principal offices of the SEC in Washington, D.C. are open to accept filings or, in the case of determining a date when any payment is due, any day on which banks are not required or authorized by law to close in New York, New York;

 

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(f) “Company Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)), and each other material director and employee plan, program, agreement or arrangement, vacation or sick pay policy, fringe benefit plan, and compensation, bonus, severance or employment agreement contributed to, sponsored or maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries as of the date hereof for the benefit of any Company Employee.

(g) “Company Employee” means any current, former or retired employee, officer, consultant, independent contractor or director of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company Employees”).

(h) “control” (including the terms “controlled,” “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, directly or indirectly or as trustee or executor, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management policies of a person, whether through the ownership of stock, as trustee or executor, by contract or credit arrangement or otherwise;

(i) “Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of February 16, 2007, among the Company and certain of its subsidiaries identified therein as borrowers, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries identified therein as guarantors, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, swing line lender and L/C issuer and the other lender parties thereto, as amended.

(j) “Foreign Export and Import Laws” means the Applicable Laws of a foreign Governmental Entity regulating exports, imports or re-exports to or from such foreign country, including the export or re-export of any goods, services or technical data;

(k) “knowledge” (i) with respect to the Company means the actual knowledge of any executive officer of the Company and (ii) with respect to Parent or Merger Sub means the actual knowledge of any executive officer of Parent;

(l) “Lien” means, with respect to any property or asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, encumbrance or other adverse claim of any kind in respect of such property or asset. For purposes of this Agreement, a person shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any property or asset that it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement relating to such property or asset;

(m) “Material Adverse Effect” means any event, change, occurrence or effect that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, other than any event, change, occurrence or effect resulting from (i) changes in general economic, financial market, business or geopolitical conditions, (ii) changes or developments in the wireless telecommunications industry or any of the other industries in which the Company or its subsidiaries operate that do

 

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not have a materially disproportionate effect on the Company and its subsidiaries relative to other participants in such industry, (iii) changes in any Applicable Law or applicable accounting regulations or principles or interpretations thereof that do not have a materially disproportionate effect on the Company and its subsidiaries relative to other participants in the industries in which the Company and its subsidiaries operate, (iv) any change in the price or trading volume of the Shares, in and of itself (it being understood that this clause (iv) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that may have contributed to such change independently constitutes or contributes to a Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Material Adverse Effect), (v) any failure by the Company to meet any published analyst estimates or expectations of the Company’s revenue, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, or any failure by the Company to meet its internal or published projections, budgets, plans or forecasts of its revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations, in each case in and of itself (it being understood that this clause (v) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that may have contributed to such failure independently constitutes or contributes to a Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Material Adverse Effect), (vi) any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, civil unrest or war, or any act of terrorism, (vii) the announcement of this Agreement and the performance or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including without limitation, the initiation or the threat of litigation or other claim by any person with respect to or as a result of this Agreement and (viii) any termination of, reduction in, or other negative action by or from any of the Company’s relationships or dealings, contractual or otherwise, with any customers, suppliers, distributors, partners or employees of the Company and its subsidiaries notwithstanding whether or not it is due to the announcement and performance of this Agreement or the identity of the parties to this Agreement (it being understood that this clause (viii) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that may have contributed to such termination, reduction or other negative action independently constitutes or contributes to a Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Material Adverse Effect), (ix) any action taken by any person due in whole or in part to the announcement of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, (x) any failure to obtain any consent required under any Contract (including, without limitation, the Credit Agreement and any default under the Credit Agreement that results from a failure to obtain any consent required thereunder, it being understood that this clause (x) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that arises out of, stems from or relates to any such default independently constitutes or contributes to a Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Material Adverse Effect), (xi) the performance of this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof and the performance or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, compliance with the covenants and satisfaction of any conditions set forth herein, (xii) any action taken (or omitted to be taken) by the Company, or which the Company causes to be taken (or omitted to be taken) by any of its subsidiaries, in each case which is required by this Agreement, (xiii) any actions taken (or omitted to be taken) at the request of Parent or Merger Sub or (xiv) any factual event, change, occurrence or effect arising out of matters disclosed in the SEC Reports filed prior to the date

 

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hereof (excluding any risk factor disclosures contained under the heading “Risk Factors” and any disclosure of risks included in any “forward-looking statements” disclaimer or any other statements in such SEC Reports that are similarly predictive or forward-looking in nature, in each case, other than any specific factual information contained therein) and such disclosed matter does not have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;

(n) “person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, unincorporated organization, or other entity;

(o) “Significant Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X promulgated pursuant to the Exchange Act;

(p) “subsidiary” or “subsidiaries” of the Company, the Surviving Corporation, Parent or any other person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other legal entity of which the Company, the Surviving Corporation, Parent or such other person, as the case may be (either alone or through or together with any other subsidiary), owns, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the stock or other equity interests the holder of which is generally entitled to vote for the election of the board of directors or other governing body of such corporation or other legal entity;

(q) “Taxes” means (i) any taxes of any kind, including but not limited to those on or measured by or referred to as income, gross receipts, capital, sales, use, ad valorem, franchise, profits, license, withholding, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, value added, property or windfall profits taxes, customs, duties or similar fees, assessments or charges of any kind whatsoever, and any interest, penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts relating thereto imposed by any Governmental Entity, domestic or foreign, and any liability for any of the foregoing as transferee, (ii) in the case of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, liability for the payment of any amount of the type described in clause (i) as a result of being or having been before the Closing a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group, or a party to any agreement or arrangement, as a result of which liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to a Governmental Entity is determined or taken into account with reference to the activities of any other person and (iii) liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries for the payment of any amount as a result of being party to any agreement or arrangement (whether or not written) entered into prior to the Closing that provides for the allocation, apportionment, sharing or assignment of any Tax liability or benefit, or the transfer or assignment of income, revenues, receipts, or gains for the purpose of determining any person’s Tax liability;

(r) “Tax Return” means any return, report, document or statement (including any estimated Tax or information returns or reports) required to be filed with or provided to any Governmental Entity or other person, or maintained, with respect to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto or amendment thereof; and

 

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(s) “U.S. Export and Import Laws” means the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR 120-130), the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 2401-2420), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR 730-774), the Foreign Assets Control Regulations (31 CFR Parts 500-598), the Applicable Laws administered by Customs and Border Protection (19 CFR Parts 1-199) and all other Laws of the United States and regulations regulating exports, imports or re-exports to or from the United States, including the export or re-export of goods, services or technical data from the United States, in each case as amended.

Section 9.4 Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any manner adverse to any party. Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end that the transactions contemplated hereby are fulfilled to the fullest extent possible.

Section 9.5 Entire Agreement; Assignment. This Agreement (including the Exhibits hereto), the Company Disclosure Schedule and the Confidentiality Agreement constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement shall not be assigned by operation of law or otherwise without the prior written consent of each of the other parties.

Section 9.6 Parties in Interest. Except (i) as provided in Section 6.6 and (ii) only with respect to shareholders and only after the Effective Time, for the provisions set forth in Article II, Parent and the Company hereby agree that their respective representations, warranties and covenants set forth herein are solely for the benefit of the other party hereto, in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Agreement, and this Agreement is not intended to, and does not, confer upon any person other than the parties hereto any rights or remedies hereunder, including the right to rely upon the representations and warranties set forth herein. The parties hereto further agree that the rights of third party beneficiaries under Section 6.6 shall not arise unless and until the Effective Time occurs. The representations and warranties in this Agreement are the product of negotiations among the parties hereto and are for the sole benefit of the parties hereto. Any inaccuracies in such representations and warranties are subject to waiver by the parties hereto in accordance with Section 8.8 without notice or liability to any other person. In some instances, the representations and warranties in this Agreement may represent an allocation among the parties hereto of risks associated with particular matters regardless of the knowledge of any of the parties hereto. Consequently, persons other than the parties hereto may not rely upon the representations and warranties in this Agreement as characterizations of actual facts or circumstances as of the date hereof or as of any other date.

 

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Section 9.7 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Indiana (without giving effect to choice of law principles thereof).

Section 9.8 Headings. The descriptive headings contained in this Agreement are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

Section 9.9 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed and delivered (including by facsimile, “.pdf,” or other electronic transmission) in one or more counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when executed shall be deemed to be an original but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

Section 9.10 Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage, for which monetary damages, even if available, would not be an adequate remedy, would occur in the event that the parties hereto do not perform the provisions of this Agreement (including failing to take such actions as are required hereunder in order to consummate this Agreement) in accordance with its specified terms or otherwise breach such provisions. It is accordingly agreed that the parties hereto shall be entitled seek an injunction or injunctions to prevent or cure breaches of this Agreement and to specifically enforce the terms hereof, this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at law or in equity. Each of the parties agrees that it will not oppose the granting of an injunction, specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that (i) the other party has an adequate remedy at law or (ii) an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at law or equity. Furthermore, each of the parties hereto agrees to waive any requirement for the security or posting of any bond in connection with a remedy for specific performance. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, it is explicitly agreed that the Company shall be entitled to enforce specifically the obligations of Parent and the Merger Sub to consummate the Closing in the event that all conditions set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.2 have been satisfied (other than delivery of items to be delivered at the Closing and other than satisfaction of those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing) at the time Section 1.2 contemplates the Closing to occur. To the extent any party hereto brings an action, suit or proceeding to enforce specifically the performance of the terms and provisions of this Agreement (other than an action to specifically enforce any provision that expressly survives termination of this Agreement) when expressly available to such party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Termination Date shall automatically be extended to (i) the twentieth Business Day following the resolution of such action, suit or proceeding, or (ii) such other time period established by the court presiding over such action, suit or proceeding.

Section 9.11 Jurisdiction. Each of the parties hereto (a) consents to submit itself to the personal jurisdiction of the federal court located in the Southern District of Indiana or of any state court located in Marion County, Indiana, in the event any dispute arises out of this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, (b) agrees that it will not attempt to deny or defeat such personal jurisdiction by motion or other request for leave from any such court, (c) agrees that it will not bring any action relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby in any court other than the federal court located in the Southern District of Indiana or a state court located in Marion County, Indiana and (d) consents to service

 

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being made through the notice procedures set forth in Section 9.2. Each of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub hereby agrees that service of any process, summons, notice or document by U.S. registered mail to the respective addresses set forth in Section 9.2 shall be effective service of process for any suit or proceeding in connection with this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

Section 9.12 Interpretation. When reference is made in this Agreement to a Section, such reference shall be to a Section of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. Whenever the words “include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation.” The words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereby” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. The word “or” shall not be exclusive. This Agreement shall be construed without regard to any presumption or rule requiring construction or interpretation against the party drafting or causing any instrument to be drafted.

Section 9.13 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF PARENT, MERGER SUB AND THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE ACTIONS OF PARENT OR THE COMPANY IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION, PERFORMANCE AND ENFORCEMENT THEREOF.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized.

 

INGRAM MICRO INC.
By:  

/s/ Alain Monié

Name:   Alain Monié
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer
BEACON SUB, INC.
By:  

/s/ William D. Humes

Name:   William D. Humes
Title:   President
BRIGHTPOINT, INC.
By:  

/s/ Robert J. Laikin

Name:   Robert J. Laikin
Title:   Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
  Officer

[AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER]


LIST OF OMITTED SCHEDULES TO THE COMPANY DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE

 

Schedule Section

  

Description

Section 3.3

   Capitalization

Section 3.5

   No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents

Section 3.7

   SEC Filings; Financial Statements

Section 3.8

   Absence of Certain Changes or Events

Section 3.9

   Absence of Litigation

Section 3.10

   Employee Benefit Plans

Section 3.11

   Labor and Employment Matters

Section 3.14

   Tax Matters

Section 3.17

   Intellectual Property

Section 3.18

   Environmental Matters

Section 3.19

   Contracts

Section 3.20

   Affiliate Transactions

Section 5.1

   Conduct of Business Pending the Merger

Section 6.5

   Employment and Employee Benefit Matters

Section 6.6

   Indemnified Parties

Section 7.2(d)

   Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub

Exhibit 3.3(a)

   List of Outstanding Equity Awards
EX-10.1 3 d376118dex101.htm COMMITMENT LETTER Commitment Letter

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.

1585 Broadway

New York, New York 10036

June 29, 2012

Ingram Micro Inc.

1600 E. St. Andrew Place

Santa Ana, CA 92705

 

Attention: William D. Humes

Chief Operating and Financial Officer

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Project Beacon

364-Day Bridge Facility

Commitment Letter

You (“you” or the “Borrower”) have advised Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. (“MSSF”, and together with each Lender (as defined below) that becomes a party to this Commitment Letter as an additional “Commitment Party” pursuant to Section 2 hereof, collectively, the “Commitment Parties”, “we” or “us”) that you intend to acquire (the “Acquisition”) all of the outstanding share capital of a company previously identified to us and codenamed “Beacon” (the “Target”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Acquired Business”), pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger to be entered into among you, one of your wholly owned domestic subsidiaries (“Acquisition Sub”) and the Target (including all annexes, schedules and exhibits thereto, as amended, modified and supplemented in accordance with the terms hereof, the “Acquisition Agreement”).

In that connection, you have advised us that the total amount required to finance the Acquisition and to pay the fees and expenses incurred in connection therewith shall be provided by, at the election of the Borrower, a combination of (a) the Borrower’s available cash and borrowings under its Existing Credit Agreement (as defined below), (b) the issuance by the Borrower of a combination of unsecured debt and equity securities (the “Securities”) and other debt financing (the “Debt Financing”), and/or (c) to the extent the Borrower does not issue the Securities and/or Debt Financing on or prior to the Effective Date (as defined below), the borrowing by the Borrower of loans under a 364-day senior unsecured bridge term loan facility (the “Facility”) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300.0 million. The Acquisition, the Facility and the transactions contemplated by or related to the foregoing are collectively referred to as the “Transactions”. No other financing will be required for the Transactions. The date of the consummation of the Acquisition and on which the Facility shall be available is herein referred to as the “Effective Date”.


1. Commitment. MSSF is pleased to commit to provide 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Facility, subject to and on the terms and conditions set forth in this letter and in the Summary of Terms and Conditions attached hereto as Exhibit A (including the Annex attached thereto) and the Conditions Precedent to Closing attached hereto as Exhibit B (collectively, the “Term Sheets” and collectively with this letter, this “Commitment Letter”); provided that, the amount of the Facility and the aggregate commitment of the Commitment Parties hereunder for the Facility shall be automatically reduced at any time on or after the date hereof as set forth in the section titled “Mandatory Prepayments” in Exhibit A hereto. It is understood that MSSF shall act as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner (in such capacity, the “Arranger”) and MSSF shall act as sole administrative agent for the Facility. You agree that, as a condition to the commitments, agreements and undertakings set forth herein, no other agents, co-agents, arrangers or bookrunners will be appointed, no other titles will be awarded and no compensation will be paid in connection with the Facility, unless you and we shall agree. It is further agreed that MSSF will have “upper left” placement in all documentation used in connection with the Facility and shall have all roles and responsibilities customarily associated with such placement.

Our commitment and agreements hereunder are subject to the following:

(A) there not having occurred (i) since March 31, 2012 any Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect and (ii) since January 1, 2011 no event or events which, singly or in the aggregate, has or have resulted, or is or are reasonably likely to result, in a material adverse effect on the ability (whether financial, legal or otherwise) of the Obligors (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement referred to below) to comply with their obligations (future or otherwise) under the Existing Credit Agreement. For the purposes hereof, “Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect” means any event, change, occurrence or effect that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or results of operations of the Acquired Business taken as a whole, other than any event, change, occurrence or effect resulting from (i) changes in general economic, financial market, business or geopolitical conditions, (ii) changes or developments in the wireless telecommunications industry or any of the other industries in which the Acquired Business operate that do not have a materially disproportionate effect on the Acquired Business relative to other participants in such industry, (iii) changes in any Applicable Law (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof) or applicable accounting regulations or principles or interpretations thereof that do not have a materially disproportionate effect on the Acquired Business relative to other participants in the industries in which the Acquired Business operates, (iv) any change in the price or trading volume of the Shares (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof), in and of itself (it being understood that this clause (iv) shall not prevent Parent (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof) or Merger Sub (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof) from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that may have contributed to such change independently constitutes or contributes to an Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect), (v) any failure by the Target to meet any published analyst estimates or expectations of the Target’s revenue, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, or any failure by the Target to meet its internal or published projections, budgets, plans or forecasts of its revenues, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations, in each case in and of itself (it being understood that this clause (v) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that may have contributed to such failure independently constitutes or contributes to an Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect), (vi) any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, civil unrest or war, or any act of terrorism, (vii) the announcement of the Acquisition Agreement and the performance or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including without limitation, the initiation or the threat of litigation or other claim by any person with respect to or as a result of the Acquisition Agreement and (viii) any termination of, reduction in, or other negative action by or from any of the Target’s relationships or dealings, contractual or otherwise, with any customers, suppliers, distributors, partners or employees of

 

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the Acquired Business notwithstanding whether or not it is due to the announcement and performance of the Acquisition Agreement or the identity of the parties to the Acquisition Agreement (it being understood that this clause (viii) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that may have contributed to such termination, reduction or other negative action independently constitutes or contributes to an Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect), (ix) any action taken by any person due in whole or in part to the announcement of the Acquisition Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby, (x) any failure to obtain any consent required under any Contract (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof) (including, without limitation, the Credit Agreement (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof) and any default under the Credit Agreement that results from a failure to obtain any consent required thereunder, it being understood that this clause (x) shall not prevent Parent or Merger Sub from asserting that any event, change, occurrence or effect that arises out of, stems from or relates to any such default independently constitutes or contributes to an Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect so long as such event, change, occurrence or effect is not expressly carved out from this definition of Acquired Business Material Adverse Effect), (xi) the performance of the Acquisition Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof and the performance or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including, without limitation, compliance with the covenants and satisfaction of any conditions set forth herein, (xii) any action taken (or omitted to be taken) by the Target, or which the Target causes to be taken (or omitted to be taken) by any of its subsidiaries, in each case which is required by the Acquisition Agreement (unless any such action which is materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders has not received the prior written consent of the Arranger); (xiii) any actions taken (or omitted to be taken) at the request of Parent or Merger Sub (unless any such action which is materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders has not received the prior written consent of the Arranger); or (xiv) any factual event, change, occurrence or effect arising out of matters disclosed in the SEC Reports (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement on the date hereof) filed prior to the date hereof (excluding any risk factor disclosures contained under the heading “Risk Factors” and any disclosure of risks included in any “forward-looking statements” disclaimer or any other statements in such SEC Reports that are similarly predictive or forward-looking in nature, in each case, other than any specific factual information contained therein) and such disclosed matter does not have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or results of operations of the Acquired Business taken as a whole.

(B) the negotiation, execution and delivery, on or before March 31, 2013 (the “Commitment Termination Date”), of definitive documentation for the Facility, consistent with the applicable terms of this Commitment Letter (the “Credit Documentation”);

(C) the Borrower shall have engaged (on or before the Borrower’s execution of this Commitment Letter) one or more investment and/or commercial banks satisfactory to the Arranger on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Arranger to arrange permanent financing or refinancing for the Acquisition; and

(D) the other conditions set forth or referred to in Exhibit B.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter or any other letter agreement or undertaking concerning the financing of the Acquisition, the only conditions to closing and funding of our commitment hereunder on the Effective Date are limited solely to those set forth in this Section 1 and in Exhibit B.

2. Syndication. The Arranger reserves the right, prior to or after execution of the Credit Documentation, in consultation with you, to syndicate all or a part of the commitments hereunder to one or more financial institutions and/or lenders (collectively, the “Lenders”), acceptable to the Borrower, provided that such approval shall not be required with respect to any Lender that is a party to the Borrower’s existing revolving credit agreement dated as of September 28, 2011, with The Bank of Nova

 

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Scotia, as administrative agent, as in effect on the date hereof (the “Existing Credit Agreement”), which syndication shall be managed by the Arranger in consultation with the Borrower. The commitment of MSSF hereunder with respect to the Facility shall be reduced dollar-for-dollar as and when commitments for the Facility are received from Lenders to the extent that each such Lender becomes (i) party to this Commitment Letter as an additional “Commitment Party” pursuant to a joinder agreement or other documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Arranger and you or (ii) party to the applicable Credit Documentation as a “Lender” thereunder. The Arranger intends to commence syndication efforts as soon as is practicable after the execution of this Commitment Letter by the parties hereto, and you agree to use your commercially reasonable efforts to actively assist the Arranger in completing a syndication satisfactory to the Arranger and you as soon thereafter as practicable. Such assistance shall include, without limitation, (a) your using commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Arranger’s syndication efforts benefit materially from your existing lending and investment banking relationships, (b) direct contact between appropriate senior management and advisors of the Borrower, on the one hand, and the proposed Lenders, on the other hand, at reasonable times and intervals to be mutually agreed, (c) your assistance in the preparation of a customary confidential information memorandum and other customary marketing materials to be used in connection with the syndication and (d) the hosting, with the Arranger, of one or more meetings or conference calls with prospective Lenders, at times and locations to be mutually agreed upon, as reasonably deemed necessary by the Arranger. Until the earlier of 60 days after the date hereof and achievement of a Successful Syndication (used herein as such term is defined in the Fee Letter), you agree that there shall be no competing offering, placement or arrangement of any commercial bank or other credit facilities (other than with respect to the Securities, the Debt Financing, the RPA (as defined in Exhibit A) and bilateral bank credit/factoring facilities for working capital purposes of non-U.S. subsidiaries of the Borrower) by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries. The Arranger will manage all aspects of the syndication in consultation with you, including, without limitation, decisions as to the selection of institutions to be approached and when they will be approached, when their commitments will be accepted, which institutions will participate (subject to the applicable provisions set forth above) and the allocations of the commitments among the Lenders. In acting as the Arranger, MSSF will have no responsibility other than to arrange the syndication as set forth herein and shall in no event be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties. To assist the Arranger in its syndication efforts, you agree promptly to prepare and provide to us all information with respect to the Borrower and its subsidiaries and the Transactions, including, without limitation, all financial information and projections (the “Projections”), as the Arranger may reasonably request in connection with the arrangement and syndication of the Facility. The Arranger and the Borrower agree to each use its commercially reasonable efforts to negotiate, execute and deliver the Credit Documentation promptly following execution of this Commitment Letter, with the initial drafts thereof consistent with this Commitment Letter to be prepared by counsel to the Arranger.

You agree that the Arranger may make available any Information (as defined below) and Projections (collectively, the “Company Materials”) to potential Lenders by posting the Company Materials on IntraLinks, the Internet or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”). You further agree to assist, at the request of the Arranger, in the preparation of a version of a confidential information memorandum and other marketing materials and presentations to be used in connection with the syndication of the Facility, consisting exclusively of information or documentation that is either (a) publicly available (or contained in the prospectus or other offering memorandum for any securities to be issued by the Borrower in connection with the Transactions) or (b) not material with respect to the Borrower, the Target or their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective securities for purposes of foreign, United States federal and state securities laws (all such information and documentation being “Public Lender Information”). Any information and documentation that is not Public Lender Information is referred to herein as “Private Lender Information.” You further agree, at our request, to identify any document to be disseminated by the Arranger to any Lender or potential Lender in connection with the syndication of the Facility as either (i) containing Private Lender Information or (ii) containing solely Public Lender Information (provided that the Borrower has been afforded an opportunity to comply with the applicable Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) disclosure obligations). You acknowledge

 

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that the following documents will contain solely Public Lender Information: (i) drafts and final Credit Documentation; (ii) administrative materials prepared by the Arranger for potential Lenders (e.g. a lender meeting invitation, allocation and/or funding and closing memoranda), in each case to the extent submitted to the Borrower for review prior to distribution; and (iii) notification of changes in the terms of the Facility.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter or any other letter agreement or undertaking concerning the financing of the Acquisition, none of the commencement or the completion of any syndication of the Facility, or the performance of your obligations to assist in syndication efforts as provided herein, shall in any case constitute a condition to the commitments hereunder or the funding of the Facility on the Effective Date.

3. Information. You hereby represent and covenant that (a) all written information and formally presented materials (other than the Projections and information of a general economic or industry nature) (the “Information”) that has been or will be made available to us or any of our affiliates or any Lender by you, or any of your representatives, is or will be, when taken as a whole, complete and correct in all material respects and does not or will not, when taken as a whole, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements are made and (b) the Projections that have been or will be made available to us or any of our affiliates or any Lender by you or any of your representatives have been or will be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by you to be reasonable at the time such Projections are furnished to us (it being understood that such Projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, any of which are beyond your control, and that no assurance can be given that any particular Projection will be realized and that any such difference between actual results and any Projection may be material); provided, however, that the foregoing representations and covenants, to the extent relating to the Acquired Business, are made only to the best of your knowledge. You agree that if at any time prior to (i) the Effective Date or (ii) if a Successful Syndication has not been achieved by the Effective Date, the earlier of (x) the date on which a Successful Syndication is achieved and (y) the date that is 90 days following the Effective Date, any of the representations in the preceding sentence would be incorrect if the Information and Projections were being furnished, and such representations were being made, at such time, then you will promptly supplement, or cause to be supplemented, the Information and Projections so that such representations will be correct in all material respects under those circumstances. You acknowledge that we will be entitled to use and rely on the Information and Projections without independent verification thereof.

We reserve the right to employ the services of one or more of our affiliates in providing services contemplated by this Commitment Letter and to allocate, in whole or in part, to such affiliates certain fees payable to us in such manner as we and our affiliates may agree. You acknowledge that we may share, in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section 8 of this Commitment Letter, with any of our affiliates, and such affiliates may share with us, any information related to the Transactions, you and your subsidiaries or the Acquired Business or any of the matters contemplated hereby in connection with the Transactions.

4. Fees. As consideration for our commitments hereunder and the Arranger’s agreement to perform the services described herein, you agree to pay the non-refundable fees set forth in the Term Sheets and in the Fee Letter delivered herewith from MSSF to you relating to the Facility and dated the date hereof (the “Fee Letter”).

5. Indemnity and Expenses; Other Activities. You agree (a) to indemnify and hold harmless each Commitment Party and its affiliates and each officer, director, employee, advisor and agent of each Commitment Party or its affiliates (each, an “indemnified person”) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities to which any such indemnified person may become subject arising out of or in connection with this Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter, the Facility, the use of the proceeds

 

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thereof, the Transactions or any related transaction or any claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, regardless of whether any indemnified person is a party thereto and regardless of whether brought by a third party or by the Borrower or any of its affiliates (any of the foregoing, a “Proceeding”), and to reimburse each indemnified person within 30 days of written demand (together with backup documentation supporting such reimbursement request) for any legal or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating or defending any of the foregoing, provided that the foregoing indemnity will not, as to any indemnified person, apply to losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses to the extent they are found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to arise from (i) the bad faith, willful misconduct or gross negligence of such indemnified person or any controlling person (if any) of such indemnified person or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees, advisors or agents or (ii) a material breach by any Commitment Party of its express obligations under this Commitment Letter and (b) to reimburse MSSF and its affiliates within 5 days of written demand (together with backup documentation supporting such reimbursement request) for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of a single counsel (and, if reasonably required by MSSF, a single local and regulatory counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction and regulatory field, as applicable) incurred in connection with the Facility and any related documentation (including, without limitation, this Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter and the Credit Documentation) or the administration, amendment, modification or waiver thereof. You further agree to pay all costs and expenses of MSSF and its affiliates (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) incurred in connection with the enforcement of any of its rights and remedies hereunder. In no event shall (i) any indemnified person shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of Information or other materials obtained through electronic, telecommunications or other information transmission systems, except to the extent arising from the bad faith, willful misconduct or gross negligence of such indemnified person or (ii) any indemnified person or the Borrower be liable for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages in connection with the Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter, the Facility, the use of the proceeds thereof, the Transaction or any related transaction; provided that nothing in this sentence will limit your indemnification obligations to the extent set forth herein to the extent such special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages are included in any third party claim in connection with which such indemnified person is entitled to indemnification hereunder.

You will not be liable for any settlement of any Proceedings effected without your written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). If any settlement of any Proceeding is consummated with your written consent or if there is a final judgment for the plaintiff in any such Proceeding, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless each indemnified person from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses by reason of such settlement or judgment in accordance with the provisions of this Commitment Letter. You will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified person, settle, compromise, consent to the entry of any judgment in or otherwise seek to terminate any Proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought hereunder (whether or not any indemnified person is a party thereto) unless such settlement, compromise, consent or termination (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified person from all liability arising out of such Proceeding and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability, or a failure to act by or on behalf of such indemnified person.

You acknowledge that each Commitment Party and its affiliates (the term “Commitment Party” as used below in this paragraph being understood to include such affiliates) may be providing debt financing, equity capital or other services (including, without limitation, financial advisory services) to other companies in respect of which you may have conflicting interests or a commercial or competitive relationship with and otherwise. In particular, you acknowledge that Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (“MS&Co.”) is acting as a buy-side financial advisor to you in connection with the Transactions. You agree not to assert or allege any claim based on actual or potential conflict of interest arising or resulting from, on the one hand, the engagement of MS&Co. in such capacity and our obligations hereunder, on the other hand. No Commitment Party will use confidential information obtained from you by virtue of the

 

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transactions contemplated hereby or other relationships with you in connection with the performance by the Commitment Parties of services for other companies, and no Commitment Party will furnish any such information to other companies or their advisors. You also acknowledge that no Commitment Party has any obligation to use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, or to furnish to you, confidential information obtained from other companies. You acknowledge that each Commitment Party is acting pursuant to a contractual relationship on an arm’s length basis, and the parties hereto do not intend that any Commitment Party or its affiliates act or be responsible as a fiduciary to the Borrower, its management, stockholders, creditors or any other person with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby. The Borrower hereby expressly disclaims any fiduciary relationship and agrees that it is responsible for making its own independent judgments with respect to any transactions entered into between it and the Commitment Parties contemplated hereby. The Borrower also acknowledges that no Commitment Party has advised and none is advising the Borrower as to any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax matters with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and that the Borrower is consulting its own advisors concerning such matters to the extent it deems appropriate.

6. Governing Law, etc. This Commitment Letter shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York. The parties hereto hereby waive any right they may have to a trial by jury with respect to any claim, action, suit or proceeding arising out of or contemplated by this Commitment Letter. The parties hereto submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal and New York State courts located in the County of New York in connection with any dispute related to, contemplated by, or arising out of this Commitment Letter and agree that any service of process, summons, notice or document by registered mail addressed to such party shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or proceeding relating to any such dispute. The parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and agree that any final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit upon the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.

7. PATRIOT Act. We hereby notify you that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (October 26, 2001), as amended) (the “PATRIOT Act”), the Commitment Parties and the other Lenders may be required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies you, which information includes your name and address, and other information that will allow the Commitment Parties and the other Lenders to identify you in accordance with the PATRIOT Act. This notice is given in accordance with the requirements of the PATRIOT Act and is effective for each Commitment Party and the other Lenders.

8. Confidentiality. This Commitment Letter is delivered to you on the understanding that neither this Commitment Letter nor the Fee Letter nor any of their terms or substance shall be disclosed, directly or indirectly, to any other person except (a) to your officers, directors, employees, stockholders, partners, members, accountants, attorneys, agents and advisors who are directly involved in the consideration of this matter on a confidential and need-to-know basis, (b) as may be compelled in a judicial or administrative proceeding or as otherwise required by law or requested by a governmental authority (in which case you agree to the extent permitted under applicable law to inform us promptly thereof), (c) this Commitment Letter (and, if required by the Target and to the extent provisions thereof have been redacted in a manner satisfactory to the Arranger, the Fee Letter) may be disclosed to the Target and its officers, directors, employees, accountants, attorneys, agents and advisors who are directly involved in the consideration of this matter on a confidential and need-to-know basis, (d) after your acceptance of this Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter, you may disclose this Commitment Letter (but not the Fee Letter) in filings with the SEC and other applicable regulatory authorities and stock exchanges, as required by law, (e) you may disclose the fees contained in the Fee Letter as part of a generic disclosure of aggregate sources and uses related to fee amounts to the extent (i) customarily required in marketing materials, any proxy or other public filing, in the Confidential Information Memorandum or any prospectus or other offering memorandum relating to the Securities and/or Debt

 

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Financing, (ii) prepared in consultation with the Arranger and (iii) prepared in a manner which does not identify the amount of fees attributable to the Facility, or (f) the Commitment Letter and the contents thereof (but not the Fee Letter or the contents thereof) may be disclosed to any prospective Commitment Party and their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys, accountants and advisors on a confidential and need-to-know basis.

Each Commitment Party will treat as confidential all confidential information provided to it by or on behalf of the Borrower hereunder; provided, that nothing herein shall prevent such person from disclosing any such information (i) to any Lenders or participants or prospective Lenders or participants and any direct or indirect contractual counterparties to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrower or its obligations under the Facility (collectively, “Specified Counterparties”), (ii) to its officers, directors, employees, stockholders, partners, members, accountants, attorneys, agents, advisors and to actual or prospective assignees and participants on a confidential basis, (iii) as may be compelled in a judicial or administrative proceeding or as otherwise required by law or requested by a governmental authority (in which case such person agrees to the extent permitted under applicable law to inform you promptly thereof), (iv) to any rating agency on a confidential basis, (v) as requested by any state, federal or foreign authority or examiner regulating banks or banking, (vi) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter, or the transaction contemplated thereby or enforcement hereof and thereof, (vii) to any of its affiliates on a confidential basis and (viii) to the extent such confidential information becomes publicly available (x) other than as a result of a breach of this provision or (y) to it from a source, other than the Borrower, the Acquired Business or their respective affiliates, which it has to our knowledge no reason to believe has any confidentiality or fiduciary obligation to the Borrower or the Acquired Business with respect to such information; provided, that the disclosure of any such information to any Lenders or prospective Lenders or participants or prospective participants or Specified Counterparties referred to above shall be made subject to the acknowledgment and acceptance by such Lender or prospective Lender or participant or prospective participant or Specified Counterparty that such information is being disseminated on a confidential basis in accordance with the standard syndication processes of the Arranger or customary market standards for dissemination of such types of information; provided, further, that the foregoing obligations of the Commitment Parties shall remain in effect until the earlier of (i) one year from the date hereof, and (ii) the execution and delivery of the Credit Documentation by the parties thereto, at which time any confidentiality undertaking in the Credit Documentation shall supersede the provisions of this paragraph.

9. Miscellaneous. This Commitment Letter shall not be assignable by you without our prior written consent (and any purported assignment without such consent shall be null and void), is intended to be solely for the benefit of the parties hereto and is not intended to confer any benefits upon, or create any rights in favor of, any person other than the parties hereto and the indemnified persons. We may assign our commitments and agreements hereunder, in whole or in part (i) to any of our respective affiliates (provided that no such assignment to an affiliate shall reduce the amount of our commitments) and (ii) subject to the applicable requirements set forth in Section 2 above, to any proposed Lender, prior to the Effective Date. This Commitment Letter may not be amended or waived except by an instrument in writing signed by you and us. This Commitment Letter may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one agreement. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Commitment Letter by electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. This Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter are the only agreements that have been entered into among us with respect to the Facility and set forth the entire understanding of the parties with respect thereto. No individual has been authorized by any party hereto or its affiliates to make any oral or written statements that are inconsistent with this Commitment Letter or the Fee Letter.

The compensation, reimbursement, indemnification, confidentiality, syndication and clear market provisions contained herein and in the Fee Letter shall remain in full force and effect

 

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regardless of whether Credit Documentation shall be executed and delivered and notwithstanding the termination of this Commitment Letter or our commitments hereunder. You may terminate our commitments hereunder at any time subject to the provisions of the immediately preceding sentence.

If the foregoing correctly sets forth our agreement, please indicate your acceptance of the terms hereof and the Fee Letter by returning to us executed counterparts hereof and of the Fee Letter, prior to the earlier of (i) 11.59 p.m. (New York City time), June 29, 2012 and (ii) the time of the public announcement of the Acquisition. If the Commitment Letter and Fee Letter have not been executed and returned, together with a copy of the fully executed Acquisition Agreement, as described in the preceding sentence by such earlier time, then the Commitment Parties’ offer hereunder shall terminate at such earlier time. After your execution and delivery to us of this Commitment Letter and the Fee Letter, our outstanding commitments with respect to the Facility in this Commitment Letter shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of (i) the execution and delivery of the Credit Documentation by all parties thereto, (ii) the Commitment Termination Date, if the Credit Documentation shall not have been executed and delivered by all parties thereto and (iii) the date of abandonment of the Acquisition or termination of your or Acquisition Sub’s obligations under the Acquisition Agreement to consummate the Acquisition in accordance with the terms thereof.

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We are pleased to have been given the opportunity to assist you in connection with this important financing.

 

Very truly yours,
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
By:  

/s/ Subhalakshmi Ghosh-Kohli

  Name: Subhalakshmi Ghosh-Kohli
  Title: Authorized Signatory

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO COMMITMENT LETTER]


Accepted and agreed to as of

the date first written above by:

INGRAM MICRO INC.
By:  

/s/ William D. Humes

  Name: William D. Humes
  Title: Chief Operating and Financial Officer
By:  

/s/ Erik Smolders

  Name: Erik Smolders
  Title: Vice President and Treasurer, Corporate

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO COMMITMENT LETTER]


Exhibit A

PROJECT BEACON

364-DAY SENIOR UNSECURED BRIDGE FACILITY

Summary of Terms and Conditions

Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meanings as specified with respect thereto in the Commitment Letter to which this Exhibit A is attached.

 

I.    PARTIES   
   Borrower:    Ingram Micro Inc. (the “Borrower”).
   Guarantors:    Certain existing and future subsidiaries of the Borrower shall guarantee the Bridge Facility on a basis consistent with the Borrower’s existing revolving credit agreement dated as of September 28, 2011, with The Bank of Nova Scotia, as administrative agent, as in effect on the date hereof (the “Existing Credit Agreement”).
   Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner:    Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. (“MSSF”) will act as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner for the Facility (in such capacities, the “Arranger”).
   Administrative Agent:    MSSF will act as the sole and exclusive administrative agent for the Facility (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).
   Lenders:    A syndicate of banks, financial institutions and other entities, including MSSF and/or any of its affiliates, arranged by the Arranger in consultation with and (to the extent required pursuant to Section 2 of the Commitment Letter) with the consent of the Borrower (collectively, the “Lenders”).
II.    THE FACILITY   
   Type and Amount of Facility:    364-day senior unsecured term loan bridge facility in the amount of $300.0 million (the “Facility”).
   Availability:    The loans (the “Loans”) under the Facility in the amount of $300.0 million less the amount of commitment reductions made pursuant to “Mandatory Prepayments” below, shall be made in a single drawing on the Effective Date and any undrawn commitments under the Facility shall automatically be terminated on the Effective Date.
   Maturity:    The Loans shall mature and be payable in full on the date that is 364 days after the Effective Date (the “Maturity Date”). There shall be no amortization with respect to the Loans.

 


   Purpose:    The proceeds of the Loans shall be used to finance the Transactions, including the repayment of indebtedness of the Acquired Business and fees and expenses in connection therewith.
III.    CERTAIN PAYMENT PROVISIONS
   Fees and Interest Rates:    As set forth on Annex I to this Exhibit A.
   Optional Prepayments:    The Loans may be prepaid at par by the Borrower without premium or penalty (other than the payment of customary LIBO Rate breakage amounts) in minimum amounts to be agreed upon. Loans prepaid may not be reborrowed.
   Mandatory Prepayments:    The following amounts shall be applied to prepay the Loans (and, prior to the Effective Date, the commitments under the Facility, pursuant to the Commitment Letter and the Credit Documentation, shall be automatically and permanently reduced by such amounts):
     

(a)    100% of the net proceeds of any sale or issuance of debt securities or incurrence of other debt (other than Excluded Debt (as defined below)) and equity securities or equity-linked securities (other than issuances pursuant to employee stock plans), in each case on or after the date of the Commitment Letter by the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries; and

     

(b)    100% of the net proceeds (for any single transaction or series of related transactions which exceed $20.0 million and to the extent not reinvested or committed to be reinvested within 6 months following receipt) of any sale or other disposition (including as a result of casualty or condemnation) in each case on or after the date of the Commitment Letter by the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries of any assets, except for the sale of inventory or other assets in the ordinary course of business.

      For the purposes hereof, “Excluded Debt” means (i) intercompany debt among the Borrower and/or its subsidiaries, (ii) credit extensions under the Existing Credit Agreement up to the existing commitments thereunder, (iii) credit extensions under that certain Receivables Purchase Agreement dated April 26, 2010 among Ingram Funding Inc., the Borrower, the various purchaser groups from time to time party thereto and BNP Paribas, as administrative agent (as amended, the “RPA”) as the borrowing capacity under the RPA may be increased from time to time after the date hereof and (iv) borrowings under bilateral bank credit/factoring facilities for working capital purposes.
      Amounts prepaid pursuant to any mandatory prepayment of the Loans may not be reborrowed.

 

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      Prepayments from asset sale proceeds will be limited under the Credit Documentation, subject to certain conditions, to the extent such prepayments (including the repatriation of cash in connection therewith) would violate applicable law or result in material adverse tax consequences to the Borrower.
IV.    CERTAIN CONDITIONS   
   Conditions to Availability of Loans:    The Facility shall be available on the date (the “Effective Date”) on which the conditions precedent set forth in the Commitment Letter and Exhibit B attached thereto are satisfied.
V.    CERTAIN DOCUMENTATION MATTERS
   Representations & Warranties, Covenants and Events of Default:    The definitive credit documentation for the Facility (the “Credit Documentation”) shall contain representations and warranties, covenants and events of default which are customary for financings of this type and substantially similar to the corresponding provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement except as herein provided; provided that, if the Existing Credit Agreement is amended, modified or supplemented after the date hereof in a manner more favorable to the Lenders, the Credit Documentation will reflect such amendment, modification or supplement to the extent applicable.
   Financial Covenants:    (a) A maximum net Leverage Ratio (to be defined, calculated and tested on a basis consistent with the Existing Credit Agreement) of 4.00 to 1.
      (b) A minimum interest coverage ratio (to be defined, calculated and tested on a basis consistent with the Existing Credit Agreement) of 2.75 to 1.
   Voting:    Amendments and waivers with respect to the Credit Documentation shall require, subject to the “Defaulting Lender” provisions referred to below, the approval of Lenders holding not less than a majority of the aggregate amount of the Loans and commitments under the Facility (the “Required Lenders”), except that (a) the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby shall be required with respect to (i) reductions in the amount or extensions of the scheduled date of final maturity of any Loan, (ii) reductions in the rate of interest or any fee or extensions of any due date thereof, (iii) increases in the amount or extensions of the expiry date of any Lender’s commitment and (iv) modifications to the pro rata provisions of the Credit Documentation and (b) the consent of 100% of the Lenders shall be required with respect to modifications to any of the voting percentages.
     

 

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  Defaulting Lender:    The Credit Documentation shall contain “Defaulting Lender” provisions substantially consistent with the applicable corresponding provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement.
  Assignments and Participations:    The Lenders shall be permitted to assign (other than to the Borrower or its affiliates) all or a portion of their Loans and commitments with the consent, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, of (a) the Borrower, unless (i) the assignee is a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an approved fund, (ii) an event of default under the Credit Documentation has occurred and is continuing or (iii) such consent is not required pursuant to the syndication provisions of the Commitment Letter, and (b) the Administrative Agent, unless a Loan is being assigned to an existing Lender, an affiliate thereof or an approved fund. In the case of partial assignments (other than to another Lender or to an affiliate of a Lender), the minimum assignment amount shall be $5,000,000, unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower (unless an event of default has occurred and is continuing) and the Administrative Agent.
     The Lenders shall also be permitted to sell participations in their Loans. Participants shall have the same (but no greater) benefits as the Lenders with respect to yield protection and increased cost provisions. Voting rights of participants shall be limited to those matters with respect to which the affirmative vote of the specific Lender from which it purchased its participation would be required as described under “Voting” above.
     Pledges of Loans in accordance with applicable law shall be permitted without restriction. Promissory notes shall be issued under the Bridge Facility only upon request.
  Yield Protection:    The Credit Documentation shall contain customary provisions (a) protecting the Lenders against increased costs or loss of yield resulting from changes in reserve, tax, capital adequacy and other requirements of law (provided, that for the purposes of determining a change in law, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Basel III, and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated under, or issued in connection with, either of the foregoing, shall be deemed to have been introduced or adopted after the date of the Credit Documentation, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued) and from changes in withholding or other taxes (other than franchise or income taxes) and (b) indemnifying the Lenders for “breakage costs” incurred in connection with, among other things, any payment or prepayment of, or failure to borrow, a LIBOR Loan (as defined in Annex I) on a day other than the last day of an interest period with respect thereto.
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     Arranger associated with the syndication of the Facility and the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of the Credit Documentation and any amendment or waiver with respect thereto (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel (and, if reasonably required by the Administrative Agent or the Arranger, one local and regulatory counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction and regulatory field, as applicable)) and (b) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel) in connection with the enforcement of the Credit Documentation.
     The Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders (and their affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, advisors and agents) will have no liability for, and will be indemnified and held harmless against, any loss, liability, cost or expense incurred in respect of the financing contemplated hereby or the use or the proposed use of proceeds of the Facility (except (i) to the extent found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to arise from the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of the indemnified party or its related parties, (ii) a material breach by such indemnified party of its express obligations under the Facility or (iii) a claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding by one Lender against another Lender not involving an act or omission of the Borrower or any of its affiliates (other than claims against any Lender in its capacity or in fulfilling its role as the Administrative Agent under the Facility)).
  Governing Law and Forum:    New York.
 

Counsel to the

Administrative Agent and the

Arranger:

   Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

 

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Annex I

 

          Interest and Certain Fees
   Interest Rate Options:    The Borrower may elect that the Loans bear interest at a rate per annum equal to:
     

(i)     the ABR plus the Applicable Margin; or

     

(ii)    the Adjusted LIBO Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

      As used herein:
      ABR” means, for any day, a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (i) the federal funds effective rate from time to time plus 0.50%, (ii) the rate of interest per annum from time to time published in the “Money Rates” section of The Wall Street Journal as being the “Prime Lending Rate” or, if more than one rate is published as the Prime Lending Rate, then the highest of such rates (the “Prime Rate”) (each change in the Prime Rate to be effective as of the date of publication in The Wall Street Journal of a “Prime Lending Rate” that is different from that published on the preceding domestic business day); provided, that in the event that The Wall Street Journal shall, for any reason, fail or cease to publish the Prime Lending Rate, the Administrative Agent shall choose a reasonably comparable index or source to use as the basis for the Prime Lending Rate and (iii) the one month Adjusted LIBO Rate plus 1.00%. Each change in any interest rate provided for herein based upon the ABR resulting from a change in the Prime Lending Rate, the federal funds effective rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall take effect at the time of such change in the Prime Lending Rate, the federal funds effective rate, or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively.
      Adjusted LIBO Rate” means the LIBO Rate, as adjusted for statutory reserve requirements for eurocurrency liabilities (if any).
      Applicable Margin” means a percentage determined in accordance with the pricing grid attached hereto as Annex I-A (the “Pricing Grid”).
      LIBO Rate” means the rate for eurodollar deposits in the London interbank market for a period of one, two, three or six months, in each case as selected by the Borrower, appearing on Page LIBOR01 of the Reuters screen.
   Interest Payment Dates:    In the case of Loans bearing interest based upon the ABR (“ABR Loans”), quarterly in arrears on the last business day of each March, June, September and December.

 

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      In the case of Loans bearing interest based upon the Adjusted LIBO Rate (“LIBOR Loans”), on the last day of each relevant interest period and, in the case of any interest period longer than three months, on each successive date three months after the first day of such interest period.
   Commitment Fees:    The Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, commitment fees (the “Commitment Fees”) to each Lender under the Facility calculated at a rate per annum equal to 0.225% on the daily average undrawn commitments of such Lender under the Facility, accruing during the period commencing on the date of execution of the credit agreement for the Facility, payable quarterly in arrears and upon repayment or termination of the Facility.
   Duration Fees:   

The Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, duration fees (the “Duration Fees”) for the account of each Lender in amounts equal to the percentage, as determined in accordance with the grid below, of the principal amount of the Loan of such Lender outstanding at the close of business, New York City time, on each date set forth in the grid below, payable on each such date:

 

         

Duration Fee

         

90 days after the

Effective Date

  

180 days after the

Effective Date

  

270 days after the

Effective Date

      0.50%    1.00%    1.50%
   Default Rate:    The Borrower shall pay interest on any overdue principal of the Loans and any other overdue amounts at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of principal of any Loan, 2% above the rate otherwise applicable thereto or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% above the rate applicable to ABR Loans; provided that such increased interest rates shall apply automatically following a payment event of default, bankruptcy-related event of default or an acceleration of the Loans.
   Rate and Fee Basis:    All per annum rates shall be calculated on the basis of a year of 360 days (or 365/366 days, in the case of ABR Loans the interest rate payable on which is then based on the Prime Rate) for actual days elapsed.

 

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Annex I-A

Project Beacon

Bridge Facility Pricing Grid

 

    

Applicable Margin

Borrower’s Index Debt Rating (Moody’s or
S&P)

  

Effective Date

through 89 days after
Effective Date

  

90 days after

Effective Date

through 179 days after
Effective Date

  

180 days after Effective
Date through 269 days after
Effective Date

  

270 days after

Effective Date and
thereafter

   ABR Loans    LIBOR Loans   

ABR

Loans

   LIBOR Loans   

ABR

Loans

  

LIBOR

Loans

  

ABR

Loans

   LIBOR Loans

Rating Level 1: ³ Baa2 / BBB

   50 bps    150 bps    100 bps    200 bps    150 bps    250 bps    200 bps    300 bps

Rating Level 2: ³ Baa3 / BBB-

   75 bps    175 bps    125 bps    225 bps    175 bps    275 bps    225 bps    325 bps

Rating Level 3: ³ Ba1 / BB+

   100 bps    200 bps    150 bps    250 bps    200 bps    300 bps    250 bps    350 bps

Rating Level 4: £ Ba2 / BB

   125 bps    225 bps    175 bps    275 bps    225 bps    325 bps    275 bps    375 bps

For purposes of the foregoing, if the ratings assigned by Moody’s and S&P fall into different Rating Levels, then the applicable Rating Level shall be determined by reference to the lower of the two Rating Levels; provided further that any period during which there is no Moody’s rating or S&P rating the rating shall be a Rating Level 4 period. Rating Level changes shall be deemed to take effect as of the day subsequent to the date on which Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be, releases the applicable change in its rating. For the purposes hereof, “Index Debt” means the long-term, senior, unsecured, non-credit enhanced indebtedness of the Borrower for borrowed money.


Exhibit B

PROJECT BEACON

364-DAY SENIOR UNSECURED BRIDGE FACILITY

Conditions Precedent to Closing

The commitments of the Lenders in respect of the Facility and the extensions of credit thereunder shall be conditioned upon satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on or before the Commitment Termination Date:

1. Each party thereto shall have executed and delivered the Credit Documentation.

2. (i) The Acquisition shall have been, or shall concurrently with the funding under the Facility be, consummated in accordance with terms of the Acquisition Agreement and (ii) no provision of the Acquisition Agreement, in the form of the execution draft Acquisition Agreement (dated June 29, 2012) provided to the Arranger on or before the date hereof prior to its execution of the Commitment Letter, shall have been waived, amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, and no consent or request by the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries shall have been provided thereunder, in each case which is materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders without the Arranger’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

3. The Arranger shall have received (i) audited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its subsidiaries for the three years ended December 31, 2011, and unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its subsidiaries for each subsequent fiscal quarter ended at least 40 days prior to the Effective Date, in each case prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP; (ii) solely if, and to the extent required by Rule 3-05 and Article 11 of Regulation S-X, audited annual consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Acquired Business and unaudited interim consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Acquired Business, in each case prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP; and (iii) solely if, and to the extent required by Rule 3-05 and Article 11 of Regulation S-X, pro forma financial statements, which in each case meet the requirements of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all other accounting rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder; provided that the Borrower’s public filing of any required audited or unaudited financial statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or provision of such financial statements on its website will satisfy the requirements under clause (i) above.

4. The Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Commitment Parties and the Arranger shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses required to be paid for which invoices have been presented at least 2 business days prior to the Effective Date, on or before the Effective Date.

5. The Lenders shall have received such legal opinions from such counsel to the Borrower as may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent, corporate organizational documents, good standing and officer certificates (including, without limitation, customary certificates from the chief financial officer of the Borrower demonstrating (i) the solvency (on a consolidated basis of the Borrower and its subsidiaries) as of the Effective Date, in the form of Exhibit C to the Commitment Letter and (ii) compliance with the financial and other covenants contained in the agreements governing the existing indebtedness (including the Existing Credit Agreement) of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, in the case of each of (i) and (ii), on a pro forma basis for the Transactions), resolutions and other instruments, each as is customary for transactions of this type and reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (including, without limitation, at least 5 business days prior to the Effective Date with respect to PATRIOT Act and related compliance requested no later than 10 business days prior to the Effective Date).


6. At the time of and after giving effect to the extensions of credit under the Facility on the Effective Date, (a) there shall not exist any default or event of default under the provisions in the Facility corresponding to the event of default listed in (i) Section 9.1.1 (Non-Payment of Obligations), (ii) Section 9.1.3 (Non-Performance of Certain Covenants and Obligations) (but solely with respect to the following covenants: Section 8.2.1 (Restriction on Incurrence of Indebtedness), Section 8.2.2 (Restriction on Incurrence of Liens) (excluding the involuntary incurrence of liens involving individually or collectively amounts in controversy or encumbered assets or both having a value of less than $100,000,000 at any time), Section 8.2.4 (Dividends), Section 8.2.5 (Mergers, Consolidations, Substantial Asset Sale, and Dissolutions), Section 8.2.6 (Transactions with Affiliates), Section 8.2.7 (Limitations on Acquisitions) and Section 8.2.8 (Limitation on Businesses)) or (iii) Section 9.1.8 (Bankruptcy, Insolvency, etc.) of the Existing Credit Facility and (b) the following representations shall be true and correct as of the Effective Date: (i) the representations made by or on behalf of the Acquired Business in the Acquisition Agreement as are material to the interests of the Lenders, but only to the extent that the Borrower (or a subsidiary, including Acquisition Sub) has the right to terminate its obligations to consummate the Acquisition or decline to consummate the Acquisition (or otherwise does not have an obligation to close) under the Acquisition Agreement as a result of a breach of such representations in the Acquisition Agreement and (ii) the Specified Representations (as defined below); it being understood that, notwithstanding anything in this Commitment Letter, the Fee Letter or the definitive documentation for the Facility to the contrary, (x) the commitments of the Lenders in respect of the Facility and the extensions of credit thereunder on the Effective Date shall not be conditioned on the accuracy or correctness of any representation or warranty other than as set forth in this paragraph 6 and (y) the terms of the Credit Documentation shall be in a form such that they do not impair the availability of the Facility on the Effective Date if the conditions set forth in Section 1 of the Commitment Letter and in this Exhibit B are satisfied as of the Effective Date. For purposes hereof, “Specified Representations” means the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors relating to (a) corporate power and authority, (b) the authorization, execution, delivery and enforceability of the Credit Documentation, (c) no conflicts of the Credit Documentation with organizational documents, any material agreement or any applicable law or order of any court or governmental authority in any material respect, (d) solvency, (e) Federal Reserve margin regulations, (f) accuracy and completeness of the Borrower’s historical financial information, (g) the PATRIOT Act and (h) the Investment Company Act.

 

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Exhibit C

Project Beacon

Form of Solvency Certificate

This Solvency Certificate (this “Certificate”) is delivered pursuant to Section [    ] of the Bridge Loan Agreement, dated as of [            ], 2012 (as amended, supplemented, restated, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Ingram Micro Inc. (the “Borrower”), Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Administrative Agent and each lender from time to time party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”). Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the same meanings as in the Credit Agreement.

I, [                    ], solely in my capacity as the duly elected qualified, and acting Chief Financial Officer of the Borrower, and not individually, DO HEREBY CERTIFY to the Lenders, as follows:

1. I am knowledgeable of the financial and accounting matters of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, the Credit Agreement and the covenants and representations (financial or otherwise) contained therein.

2. Immediately after giving effect to the Transactions on the Closing Date:

a. the fair value of the property of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, will be greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis;

b. the present fair saleable value of the assets of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of the Borrower and its subsidiaries on their debts, on a consolidated basis, as they become absolute and matured in the ordinary course of business;

c. the capital of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, is not unreasonably small in relation to their business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted following the Closing Date; and

d. the Borrower and its subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, do not intend to incur, or believe that they will incur, debts, including current obligations, beyond their ability to pay such debts as they become absolute and matured in the ordinary course of business.

For the purposes of this Certificate, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as of the date first written above.

 

INGRAM MICRO INC.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title: Chief Financial Officer
EX-99.1 4 d376118dex991.htm PRESS RELEASE Press Release

Exhibit 99.1

For More Information Contact:

 

Investors:      Media:
Damon Wright (714) 382-5013      Lisa Zwick (949) 230-8794
damon.wright@ingrammicro.com      lisa.zwick@ingrammicro.com
Tom Ward (317) 707-2745     
tom.ward@brightpoint.com     

INGRAM MICRO TO BECOME LEADING PROVIDER OF MOBILITY

PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS WITH ACQUISITION OF BRIGHTPOINT

 

   

Provides immediate scale in rapidly-growing mobility market

 

   

Expands Ingram Micro’s suite of high-value logistics services and solutions

 

   

More than $55 million in expected annual cost synergies and efficiencies by 2014

 

   

All cash acquisition expected to expand margins and be meaningfully accretive to earnings per share

SANTA ANA, Calif. and INDIANAPOLIS, July 2, 2012 — Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world’s largest technology distributor and supply-chain services provider, and Brightpoint, Inc. (“BrightPoint”) (Nasdaq: CELL), a global leader in providing device lifecycle services to the wireless industry, announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which, subject to customary closing conditions, Ingram Micro will acquire all of the outstanding shares of BrightPoint common stock for $9.00 per share in cash, a 66 percent premium to BrightPoint’s closing stock price on June 29, 2012, and a 35 percent premium to the 90-day average trading price. The transaction is valued at approximately $840 million, including the value of approximately $190 million of BrightPoint’s estimated debt (net of cash), as of June 30, 2012.

The complementary combination of Ingram Micro with BrightPoint will create a leading global provider of device lifecycle services and solutions for the mobility industry. Together, Ingram Micro and BrightPoint will have tremendous customer reach and deep relationships with key vendors, network operators and mobile virtual network operators. The combined company will have an expanded global geographic footprint and customer base in the rapidly growing and strategically important mobility market.

“BrightPoint is a well-run company with leading, high-value services and solutions coupled with excellent distribution channels in the global mobility market,” said Ingram Micro president and chief executive officer Alain Monié. “BrightPoint’s offerings are highly complementary to both our logistics and distribution businesses, which will enable us to go to market with the leading portfolio of mobility device lifecycle services and solutions. Our expanded geographic footprint and strong financial position create growth opportunities for the combined company and give vendors, network operators and mobile virtual network operators, partners and customers one-stop access to one of the widest ranges of mobility and technology products, services and solutions.


“Strategically, it is a great fit and is immediately additive to Ingram Micro’s existing offerings,” Monié added. “Expanding our presence in the mobility market has been a focus of Ingram Micro and the acquisition of BrightPoint accomplishes this to an extent that would have been challenging to achieve on our own. Additionally, the complementary nature of our businesses provides a unique opportunity to drive synergies and efficiencies across the combined companies, which is expected to result in meaningful accretion to earnings per share beginning in 2013. The transaction clearly supports our longer-term growth and profitability targets and meets our return-on-investment criteria for creating shareholder value.”

BrightPoint, established in 1989 and with corporate offices in Indianapolis, generated $5.2 billion in revenues, of which nearly $550 million was from unique value-added logistics services, and total gross margin of approximately 7.2 percent of revenues for the 2011 fiscal year. The company employs approximately 4,000 people and operates facilities in 24 countries, with sales in more than 75 countries around the world. BrightPoint serves more than 25,000 B2B customers with over 100,000 points of sale across the globe and handled more than 112 million wireless devices in 2011.

BrightPoint founder, chairman and chief executive officer Robert J. Laikin commented: “The transaction with Ingram Micro will deliver significant value to our shareholders and will enable us to accelerate our global growth strategy. This powerful combination will also provide compelling opportunities for BrightPoint’s vendor partners, customers and employees to benefit from the financial strength, scale and broad geographic reach of the world’s largest technology distribution company. This is the right time for this transaction. I believe strongly that Ingram Micro is the best partner for our business and employees going forward and I am excited at the prospect of BrightPoint becoming part of a Fortune 100 company.”

“Ingram Micro and BrightPoint share a common culture,” said Ingram Micro chief operating and financial officer Bill Humes. “We admire the in-depth industry expertise and enthusiasm of the BrightPoint team and their excellent long-term relationships with customers, vendor partners, network operators and mobile virtual network operators. The mobility industry is forecasted to grow faster than other technology sectors, driven in-part by exponential growth in the smartphone and tablet segments due to the ever-increasing demand for access to data anytime, anywhere and on any device. Additionally,” Humes said, “the convergence of telecommunications, computing and media is driving strong demand and should lead to cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, as our respective customer bases continue to converge. Together we expect to capitalize on this growth and generate benefits for our combined vendors, partners, customers, associates and shareholders greater than either company could on its own.”

Ingram Micro expects to fund the transaction with existing credit facilities and available cash balances. Ingram Micro has obtained a commitment for a $300 million debt facility to be provided by Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., which would supplement its existing committed debt capacity. Ingram Micro expects to realize


annual cost synergies and efficiencies in excess of $55 million by 2014, and the transaction is expected to be accretive to earnings per share by at least 18 cents in 2013 and 35 cents in 2014, excluding one-time charges and integration costs.

The following members of BrightPoint’s senior management team have committed to senior roles within the new organization after the acquisition is complete: existing Regional Presidents, Mark Howell (Americas), Bruce Thomlinson (APAC) and Anurag Gupta (EMEA), and Vincent Donargo, BrightPoint’s Chief Financial Officer. In addition, Robert Laikin will serve in a senior advisory role to Alain Monié.

The transaction requires approval of a majority of BrightPoint’s outstanding shares at a special meeting, which is expected to take place in the 2012 third quarter. Closing of the transaction is also conditioned on customary regulatory approvals. The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year.

Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP acted as outside counsel and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Ingram Micro in connection with the transaction. Blank Rome LLP acted as outside counsel and Blackstone Advisory Partners L.P. acted as the exclusive financial advisor to BrightPoint in connection with the transaction.

Conference Call and Webcast

There will be a conference call today to discuss the transaction at 8:00AM PT. Investors may listen to the conference call by dialing (800) 369-2005 or (210) 839-8501 outside the United States and Canada, or access the call via a live audio webcast at www.ingrammicro.com (Investor Relations section). A replay of the conference call will be available for one week at www.ingrammicro.com (Investor Relations section) or by calling (866) 435-1317 or (203) 369-1016 outside the United States and Canada.

Cautionary Statement for the Purpose of the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

The matters in this press release that are forward-looking statements are based on current management expectations. Certain risks may cause such expectations to not be achieved and, in turn, may have a material adverse effect on Ingram Micro’s business, financial condition and results of operations. Ingram Micro disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements.

All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements.

Important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, without limitation: our ability to timely complete the transaction, if at all; our ability to complete the transaction considering the various closing conditions, including those conditions related to regulatory approvals and shareholder approval; the financial performance of BrightPoint and Ingram Micro through the completion of the merger; BrightPoint’s business may not perform as expected due to transaction-related uncertainty or other factors; the ability of BrightPoint and Ingram Micro to retain relationships with customers, vendors and carriers; management’s ability to execute its plans, strategies and objectives for future operations, including the execution of integration plans; growth of the mobility industry; our ability to maintain access to adequate levels of capital at reasonable rates; and our ability to achieve the expected benefits and manage the expected costs of the transaction.

For a further discussion of significant factors to consider in connection with forward-looking statements concerning Ingram Micro, reference is made to Item 1A Risk Factors of Ingram Micro’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 and Item 1A Risk Factors of Ingram Micro’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012; other risks or uncertainties that may be detailed from time to time in Ingram Micro’s future SEC filings.


About Brightpoint, Inc.

Brightpoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: CELL) is a global leader in providing device lifecycle services to the wireless and high-tech industries. In 2011, BrightPoint handled more than 112 million wireless devices globally. BrightPoint’s 5 key service areas – Plan, Market, Customize, Move, Recover, offer over 110 innovative services, such as distribution channel management, procurement, inventory management, reverse logistics and repair services, software loading, kitting and customized packaging, fulfillment, product customization, eBusiness solutions, and other outsourced services that integrate seamlessly with its customers’ IT systems and operations. BrightPoint’s effective and efficient platform allows its customers to benefit from rapidly deployed, flexible and cost effective solutions. BrightPoint has more than 4,000 employees, as well as a significant number of temporary staff, and a global footprint covering more than 35 countries, including 13 Latin American countries through its investment in Intcomex, Inc. In 2011, BrightPoint generated revenue of $5.2 billion, from customers in over 75 countries. BrightPoint provides distribution and customized services through over 100,000 points-of-sale and to over 25,000 B2B customers worldwide. Additional information about BrightPoint can be found on its website at www.BrightPoint.com, or by calling its toll-free Information and Investor Relations line at 877-IIR-CELL (877-447-2355).

About Ingram Micro Inc.

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries on six continents with the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

Additional Information and Where to Find It

BrightPoint intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a proxy statement and intends to furnish or file other materials with the SEC in connection with the proposed merger. The definitive proxy statement will be sent or given to the shareholders of BrightPoint and will contain important information about the proposed merger and related matters. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, BRIGHTPOINT’S SHAREHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND THOSE OTHER MATERIALS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT BRIGHTPOINT AND THE PROPOSED MERGER. The proxy statement and other relevant materials (when they become available), and any other documents filed by BrightPoint with the SEC, may be obtained free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement from BrightPoint by contacting BrightPoint’s Investor Relations by telephone at (317) 707-2745, or by mail at BrightPoint, Inc., 7635 Interactive Way, Suite 200, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46278, Attention: Investor Relations, or by going to BrightPoint’s Investor Relations page on its corporate website at www.BrightPoint.com.


Participants in the Solicitation

BrightPoint and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the shareholders of BrightPoint in connection with the proposed merger. Information regarding the interests of these directors and executive officers in the merger will be included in the proxy statement described above. Additional information regarding these directors and executive officers is included in BrightPoint’s proxy statement for its 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on March 23, 2012, and in BrightPoint’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, which was filed with the SEC on February 29, 2012.

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