0001193125-11-081804.txt : 20110330 0001193125-11-081804.hdr.sgml : 20110330 20110329215554 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-11-081804 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 20-F/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 13 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20101231 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110330 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110329 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NXP Semiconductors N.V. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001413447 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SEMICONDUCTORS & RELATED DEVICES [3674] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 20-F/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-34841 FILM NUMBER: 11720281 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 31 40 27 43704 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: HIGH TECH CAMPUS 60 CITY: EINDHOVEN STATE: P7 ZIP: 5656AG FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: KASLION Acquisition B.V. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20070925 20-F/A 1 d20fa.htm AMENDMENT TO FORM 20-F Amendment to Form 20-F

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2011

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 20-F/A

(Amendment No. 1)

 

 

 

¨ REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

OR

 

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

OR

 

¨ SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of event requiring this shell company report

For the transition period from                     to                    

Commission file number 001-34841

 

 

NXP Semiconductors N.V.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

The Netherlands

(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

High Tech Campus 60, Eindhoven 5656 AG, the Netherlands

(Address of principal executive offices)

Jean Schreurs, SVP and Senior Corporate Counsel, High Tech Campus 60, 5656 AG, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Telephone: +31 40 2728686 / E-mail: jean.schreurs@nxp.com

(Name, Telephone, E-mail and/or Facsimile number and Address of Company Contact Person)

 

 

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act.

 

Title of each class

 

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common shares—par value euro (EUR) 0.20 per share

  The NASDAQ Global Select Market

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act.

None

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act.

Common shares—par value EUR 0.20 per share

(Title of class)

 

 

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the annual report.

 

Class

 

Outstanding at December 31, 2010

Ordinary shares, par value EUR 0.20 per share

  250,751,500 shares

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.     ¨  Yes    x  No

If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.     ¨  Yes    x  No

Note—Checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from their obligations under those Sections.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.     x  Yes    ¨  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    ¨  Yes    ¨  No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one)

 

Large accelerated filer  ¨   Accelerated filer  ¨    Non-accelerated filer  x

Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:

U.S. GAAP  x                         International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board ¨                         Other ¨

If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow. Item 17  ¨    Item 18  ¨

If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).     ¨  Yes     x  No

 

 

 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 1 on Form 20-F/A (the “Amendment”) to our annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on March 9, 2011 (the “Form 20-F”), is being filed solely for the purpose of re-filing Exhibit 2.1 to the Form 20-F for which we have submitted a confidential treatment request to the Commission to reflect changes in the redacted portions of such exhibit in connection with our request for confidential treatment of such exhibit. These changes in the redactions were made in response to comments that we received from the Commission regarding our confidential treatment request. Such Exhibit 2.1 is hereby replaced in its entirety.

Therefore, this Amendment consists of a cover page, this explanatory note, a revised list of exhibits (Item 19 of Part III), a signature page, the revised Exhibit 2.1 and updated 13a-14(a) and 13a-14(b) certifications.

This Amendment speaks as of the date of the initial filing of the Form 20-F. Other than as described above, this Amendment does not, and does not purport to, amend, update or restate any other information or disclosure included in the Form 20-F and does not, and does not purport to, reflect any events that have occurred after the date of the initial filing of the Form 20-F. As a result, our annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, as amended by this Amendment, continues to speak as of the initial filing date of the Form 20-F.


PART III

 

Item 19. Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number

 

Description of Document

  2.1#**   Sale and Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2010, between NXP Semiconductors N.V., NXP B.V., the Dover Corporation, Knowles Electronics, LLC and EFF Acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH
  3.1   Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of Amendment No. 7 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V., filed on August 2, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
  3.2   Articles of Association of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Amendment No. 7 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V., filed on August 2, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
  4.1   Senior Secured Indenture dated as of October 12, 2006 among NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as Issuers, each of the Guarantors named on the signature pages thereto, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc. as Global Collateral Agent and Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. as Taiwan Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of the Registration Statement on Form F-4 of NXP B.V. filed on April 23, 2007 (File No. 333-142287))
  4.2   Super Priority Notes Indenture dated as of April 2, 2009 among NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as Issuers, each of the Guarantors named on the signature pages thereto and Law Debenture Trust Company of New York as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on April 16, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
  4.3   Senior Unsecured Indenture dated as of October 12, 2006 among NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as Issuers, each of the Guarantors named on the signature pages thereto and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Registration Statement on Form F-4 of NXP B.V. filed on April 23, 2007 (File No. 333-142287))
  4.4   Collateral Agency Agreement dated as of September 29, 2006 among NXP Semiconductors N.V. (formerly known as KASLION Acquisition B.V.), NXP B.V., the Guarantors named therein, the Secured Parties as defined therein and from time to time parties thereto, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as Global Collateral Agent and Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. as Taiwan Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the Registration Statement on Form F-4 of NXP B.V. filed on April 23, 2007 (File No. 333-142287))
  4.5   Senior Secured Indenture dated as of July 20, 2010 among NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as Issuers, each of the Guarantors named on the signature pages thereto, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as trustee, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc. as Global Collateral Agent and Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. as Taiwan Collateral Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of Amendment No. 5 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V., filed on July 22, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
  4.6   Amended and Restated Shareholders’ Agreement dated August 5, 2010 among the AlpInvest Parties, Apax Parties, Bain Capital Parties, Co-Invest Parties, Kaslion S.à r.l., KASLION Holding B.V., the KKR Parties, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., the Silver Lake Parties and Stichting Management Co-Investment NXP (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2 of the current report on Form 6-K of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on August 10, 2010)
  4.7   Registration Rights Agreement dated August 5, 2010 among NXP Semiconductors N.V., AlpInvest Partners CSI 2006 Lion C.V., AlpInvest Partners Later Stage II-A Lion C.V., Meridian Holding S.à.r.l., Bain Pumbaa Luxco S.à.r.l., KKR NXP Investor S.à.r.l., NXP Co-Investment Investor S.à.r.l., SLII NXP S.à.r.l., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Stichting Management Co-Investment NXP and certain hedge funds party to the agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3 of the current report on Form 6-K of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on August 10, 2010)


Exhibit
Number

  

Description of Document

10.1    Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement dated as of September 28, 2006 between Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and NXP B.V. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 30, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.2    Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement dated as of November 16, 2009 among NXP B.V., Virage Logic Corporation and VL C.V. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 30, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.3    Secured Revolving Credit Facility dated as of September 29, 2006 among NXP Semiconductors N.V., NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as borrowers, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as Global Collateral Agent and Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., as Taiwan Collateral Agent, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, as Syndication Agent, Merrill Lynch Capital Corporation as Documentation Agent and Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as Joint-lead arrangers and Joint bookrunners (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Registration Statement on Form F-4 of NXP B.V. filed on April 23, 2007 (File No. 333-142287))
10.4    Shareholders’ agreement dated as of March 30, 1999, as amended among EBD Investments Pte. Ltd., Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of the Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 30, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.5    Forward Start Revolving Credit Facility dated as of May 10, 2010 among NXP Semiconductors N.V., NXP B.V., NXP Funding LLC as borrowers, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as Global Collateral Agent and Administrative Agent and Barclays Capital, Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (trading as Rabobank), Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V., Goldman Sachs International, HSBC Bank plc, Merrill Lynch International and Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited as Joint-Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 of the Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on May 24, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.6    Lease Agreement dated as of September 15, 2009 between Beijing Economic-Technological Investment & Development Corporation and NXP Semiconductors (Beijing) Limited for the property at No. 20 Tong Ji Nan Lu of the Beijing Economic-Technological Area of China (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.7    Supplementary Agreement dated as of September 15, 2009 to the Lease Agreement dated as of September 15, 2009, between Beijing Economic-Technological Investment & Development Corporation and NXP Semiconductors (Beijing) Limited for the property at No. 20 Tong Ji Nan Lu of the Beijing Economic-Technological Area of China (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.8    Lease Agreement dated as of December 23, 2004 between Jurong Town Corporation and Systems on Silicon Manufacturing Company Pte. Ltd. for the property at No. 70 Pasir Ris Drive 1, Singapore (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.9    Lease Agreement dated September 26, 2003 between Huangjiang Investment Development Company and NXP Semiconductors (Guangdong) Company Ltd. for the property at Tian Mei High Tech Industrial Park, Huang, Jiang Town, Dongguan City, China (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))


Exhibit
Number

  

Description of Document

10.10    Building Lease Contract dated as of May 12th, 2000 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.11    Agreement with regard to the Lease of a Single (vehicle) Shelter dated as of October 30, 2009 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.12    Agreement with regard to the Lease of a Standard Plant Basement dated as of July 1, 2009 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.13    Agreement with regard to the Lease of a Single (vehicle) Shelter dated as of March 8, 2010 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.14    Agreement with regard to the Lease of Additional Land dated as of July 1, 2008 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.15    Agreement with regard to the Lease of a Dangerous Goods Warehouse dated as of November 27, 2009 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.16    Agreement with regard to the Lease of a Standard Plant Basement dated as of July 1, 2009 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.17    Storage and Transportation Agreement dated as of January 15, 2007 between Phi-Kai Technology Co., Ltd. and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.18    Agreement with regard to the Lease of Land at Property Number AL012 dated as of July 1, 2008 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.18 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.19    Agreement with regard to the Lease of Land at Property Number AL020 dated as of July 1, 2008 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.19 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))


Exhibit
Number

 

Description of Document

10.20   Agreement with regard to the Lease of Land at Property Number AL071 dated as of July 1, 2008 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.21   Agreement with regard to the Lease of Land at Property Number CL102 dated as of July 1, 2008 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.22   Agreement with regard to the Lease of Land dated as of September 30, 2008 between the Export Processing Zone Administration (Ministry of Economic Affairs) and NXP Semiconductors Taiwan Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22 of the Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 10, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.23*   Management Equity Stock Option Plan Terms and Conditions dated August 2010
10.24*   Management Equity Stock Option Plan Terms and Conditions dated January 2011
10.25*   Long Term Incentive Plan 2010 Terms and Conditions with regard to the Stock Option Plan, the Performance Stock Unit Plan, Restricted Stock Unit Plan and Share Plan
10.26   NXP Global Equity Incentive Program (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.26 of the Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form F-1 of NXP Semiconductors N.V. filed on June 30, 2010 (File No. 333-166128))
10.27*   Secured Term Credit Agreement dated March 4, 2011, among NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as borrowers, Barclays Bank plc as Administrative Agent, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. as Taiwan Collateral Agent, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as Global Collateral Agent and the lenders party thereto
12.1**   Certification of R. Clemmer filed pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(a)
12.2**   Certification of K. Sundström filed pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(a)
13.1**   Certification of R. Clemmer furnished pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(b)
13.2**   Certification of K. Sundström furnished pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(b)
15.1*   Separate Financial Statements of Trident Microsystems, Inc. for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
21.1*   List of Significant Subsidiaries of the Registrant

 

# Confidential treatment requested
* Previously filed
** Filed herewith


SIGNATURES

The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.

 

 

NXP Semiconductors N.V.

(Registrant)

  /s/    RICK CLEMMER     /s/    KARL SUNDSTRÖM
 

Rick Clemmer

    Karl Sundström
 

Chief executive officer

    Chief financial officer
 

(Principal Executive Officer)

    (Principal financial and accounting officer)
  Date: March 29, 2011.    

 

EX-2.1 2 dex21.htm SALE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF DECEMBER 22, 2010 Sale and Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2010

Exhibit 2.1

Confidential Treatment Request — Pages where confidential treatment has been requested are stamped “Confidential Treatment Requested.” The redacted materials have been separately filed with the SEC; the appropriate section has been marked at the appropriate place with a “*.”

EXECUTION VERSION

LOGO

Sale and Purchase Agreement

relating to

the Sound Solutions business of NXP

between

NXP B.V.

and

KNOWLES ELECTRONICS, LLC

and

EFF ACHT BETEILIGUNGSVERWALTUNG GmbH

and

DOVER CORPORATION

and

NXP SEMICONDUCTORS N.V.

dated 22 December 2010


Contents

 

Clause         Page  

1

   INTERPRETATION      8   

1.1

   Definitions      8   

1.2

   References to persons      8   

1.3

   Headings and references to Clauses, Schedules and Paragraphs      9   

1.4

   References to liabilities and obligations      9   

1.5

   Information      9   

1.6

   Legal terms      9   

1.7

   Other references      9   

1.8

   Drafting Party      10   

2

   SALE AND PURCHASE; TRANSFER      10   

2.1

   Shares      10   

2.2

   Nomination of other purchasers      10   

2.3

   Singular liability and right to claim      10   

3

   CONSIDERATION      11   

3.1

   Purchase Price      11   

3.2

   Allocation      11   

3.3

   Claims      11   

4

   CLOSING CONDITIONs      11   

4.1

   Conditions      11   

4.2

   Responsibility for satisfaction      12   

4.3

   (Non-)Satisfaction/Waiver      14   

4.4

   Long stop date      14   

5

   PRE-CLOSING COVENANTS      14   

5.1

   Conduct of the Business      14   

5.2

   Austrian Carveout      17   

5.3

   Intra-group balances; Termination of intra-group agreements      17   

5.4

   Access to information      17   

5.5

   NXP China pre-registration name change      18   

5.6

   China Equity Transfer Agreement      18   

5.7

   Filing with Approval Authority China      18   

6

   CLOSING      19   

6.1

   Date and place      19   

6.2

   Payment of Initial Purchase Price      19   

6.3

   Closing Actions      20   

 

2


Clause         Page  

6.4

   Breach of Closing obligations      20   

7

   CLOSING STATEMENTS      21   

7.1

   Preparation of the Statements      21   

7.2

   Agree or disagree      21   

7.3

   No indemnified liabilities      22   

7.4

   No forward looking valuations      22   

7.5

   Post-Closing market or business developments      22   

7.6

   Cooperation in connection with the Statements      23   

8

   ADJUSTMENT OF THE INITIAL PURCHASE PRICE      23   

8.1

   Working Capital adjustment      23   

8.2

   Net Cash adjustment      23   

8.3

   Payment and interest      23   

9

   POST-CLOSING OBLIGATIONS      24   

9.1

   Filing with Registration Authority China      24   

9.2

   Trade receivables/payables; Post-Closing receipts      24   

9.3

   Use of names      25   

9.4

   Retention of records      25   

9.5

   Insurance      26   

9.6

   Employees and Long-Term Benefit Arrangements      26   

9.7

   Trapped Cash      26   

9.8

   Information for Seller’s Group’s financial reporting      27   

10

   WARRANTIES      27   

10.1

   Seller’s Warranties      27   

10.2

   Seller’s disclosures      28   

10.3

   Liability of Seller for breach      28   

10.4

   Purchaser’s Warranties      29   

10.5

   Liability of Purchaser for breach      29   

11

   TAX INDEMNITy      29   

11.1

   Tax indemnity      29   

12

   LIMITATION OF THE SELLER’S LIABILITY      29   

12.1

   Time limitation for claims      29   

12.2

   Minimum claims      30   

12.3

   Maximum liability      30   

12.4

   Provisions      31   

12.5

   Matters arising subsequent to this Agreement      31   

12.6

   Insurance      31   

12.7

   Net financial benefit      31   

12.8

   Mitigation of Losses      32   

 

3


Clause         Page  

12.9

   Purchaser’s right to recover      32   

12.10

   Further limitations      33   

13

   CLAIMS      33   

13.1

   Notification of potential claims      33   

13.2

   Notification of claims under this Agreement      34   

13.3

   Commencement of proceedings      34   

13.4

   Investigation by the Seller      34   

13.5

   Procedure for third party claims      34   

14

   PARENT GUARANTEE      35   

14.1

   Guarantee      35   

14.2

   Default; enforcement; non-waiver      36   

15

   RESTRICTIONS      36   

15.1

   Restrictions on Seller      36   

15.2

   Restriction on Purchaser      37   

16

   ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY      38   

16.1

   Announcements      38   

16.2

   Confidentiality      38   

17

   OTHER PROVISIONS      39   

17.1

   Further assurances      39   

17.2

   Entire agreement      39   

17.3

   No assignment      39   

17.4

   Waiver      39   

17.5

   Amendment      40   

17.6

   Third-party rights      40   

17.7

   Rescission      40   

17.8

   Method of payment      40   

17.9

   No withholding      40   

17.10

   Invalidity      41   

17.11

   Costs      41   

17.12

   Interest      41   

17.13

   Notices      41   

18

   GOVERNING LAW AND SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION      44   

18.1

   Governing law      44   

18.2

   Forum      44   

 

4


Schedules     
Schedule 1    DEFINITIONS
Schedule 2    THE GROUP ENTITIES
Schedule 3    AUSTRIAN CARVEOUT
Schedule 4    CLOSING ACTIONS
Schedule 5    AUSTRIAN LOCAL TRANSFER DOCUMENT
Schedule 6    CHINA EQUITY TRANSFER AGREEMENT
Schedule 7    ALLOCATION OF (INITIAL) PURCHASE PRICE
Schedule 8    RETAINED INTRA-GROUP AGREEMENTS
Schedule 9    LINE ITEMS OF THE WORKING CAPITAL STATEMENT
Schedule 10    LINE ITEMS OF THE NET CASH STATEMENT
Schedule 11    REPORTING ACCOUNTANTS
Schedule 12    INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AND LICENSE AGREEMENT
Schedule 13    TRANSITIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
Schedule 14    EMPLOYEES
Schedule 15    LONG-TERM BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS
Schedule 16    SELLER’S WARRANTIES
Schedule 17    DISCLOSURE LETTER
Schedule 18    PURCHASER’S WARRANTIES
Schedule 19    INDIVIDUALS DEEMED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN RESPECT OF THE GROUP
Schedule 20    TAX INDEMNITY
Schedule 21    COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT TERM SHEETS
Schedule 22    LIST OF EMPLOYEES
Schedule 23    LEASED PROPERTIES
Schedule 24    PEOPLE DEEMED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN RESPECT OF THE PURCHASER
Schedule 25    ITEMS OF WHICH THE PURCHASER IS AWARE
Schedule 26    FORM OF CERTIFICATES
Schedule 27    ACCOUNTS
Schedule 28    LICENSED-IN THIRD PARTY IP
Schedule 29    LICENSED-OUT NXP PATENTS

In accordance with Regulation S-K, certain of the schedules listed above have been omitted; Dover Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of any omitted schedule to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

 

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SALE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THE UNDERSIGNED:

 

(1) NXP B.V., a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, with corporate seat in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, having its address at High Tech Campus 60, 5656 AG Eindhoven, the Netherlands, (the “Seller”),

and

 

(2) Knowles Electronics, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, USA, and having its address at 1151 Maplewood Drive, Ilinois, USA 60143 (the “Purchaser”),

and

 

(3) Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH, a limited liability company organized under the laws of Austria, and having its address at Porzellangasse 51, 1090 Vienna, registered under 354699t in the companies register of the Vienna Commercial Court (the “Austrian Purchaser” and, together with the Purchaser, the “Purchasers” as further defined in Schedule 1),

and

 

(4) Dover Corporation, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, and having its address at 3005 Highland Parkway, Suite 200, Downers Grove Illinois, USA 60515, (the “Purchaser Parent”),

and

 

(5) NXP Semiconductors N.V., a public liability company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, with corporate seat in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, having its address at High Tech Campus 60, 5656 AG Eindhoven, the Netherlands, (the “Seller Parent”),

WHEREAS:

 

(A) The Seller holds all of the issued shares in the capital of (i) NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH (as further defined in Schedule 1, “NXP Austria”) and (i) NXP Semiconductors Beijing Ltd (as further defined in Schedule 1NXP China”);

 

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(B) The Sound Solutions business of the Seller consists of the research into and development of, and the production, marketing, sale and distribution of audio transducer and audio transducer modules specifically for (i) dynamic speakers/receiver and MEMS microphone applications, (ii) mobile phone headset devices and (iii) joystick sensor devices (subject to the exclusions in the next sentence, the “Business”). For the avoidance of doubt, (a) the semiconductor integrated circuits that are part of the components and devices mentioned in (i), (ii) and (iii) above and that are supplied to the Business either by external semiconductor suppliers or other NXP businesses, are not part of the Business, and (b) with regard to MEMS technology, intellectual property that is specific to MEMS microphone applications is included in the Business, while intellectual property which relates to both a MEMS microphone application and an application outside of MEMS microphones, is not included in the Business;

 

(C) NXP China is fully dedicated to the Business. NXP Austria operates different NXP businesses, including the Business;

 

(D) The Purchaser is a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced acoustic components and is a leading provider of MEMS surface mount microphones to major cell phone brands and consumer electronic devices the world over. The Purchaser Parent owns and operates a global portfolio of manufacturing companies providing innovative components and equipment, specialty systems and support services for a variety of applications in the industrial products, engineered systems, fluid management and electronic technologies markets;

 

(E) On 3 November 2010, the Seller Parent and the Purchaser signed a confidential non-binding letter of intent (the “LOI”) regarding the potential acquisition by the Purchaser of the Business;

 

(F) The Seller provided the Purchaser and its Representatives access to the Virtual Data Room containing information about the Business: The Purchaser and its Representatives were further given the opportunity to attend and participate in management presentations, conduct site visits and were allowed to ask questions;

 

(G) The Seller wishes to sell to the Purchaser and the Purchaser wishes to purchase from the Seller the Business through (a) a sale and purchase of the Austrian Shares and the Chinese Shares on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement; and (b) through a sale and purchase and a transfer and acquisition of certain intellectual property rights and as well as through a license agreement in respect of certain other intellectual property rights to a member of the Purchaser Parent’s Group on the terms and conditions set forth in the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement (the “Relevant IP-Rights”);

 

(H)

For these purposes, prior to the Closing the Seller is to (i) at its own cost, transfer to a Subsidiary of the Seller, being a new limited liability company incorporated under the

 

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laws of Austria (GmbH), all of the activities of NXP Austria that do not relate to the Business (the “Non-Sonar Business”), such transfer to be effected by way of demerger (Abspaltung zur Neugründung) in accordance with the draft Demerger Deed attached as Schedule 3, (the “Austrian Carveout”);

 

(I) The Seller and the Purchaser have obtained from their respective corporate bodies all approvals and consents required for the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;

 

(J) The Purchaser Parent has agreed to guarantee to the Seller the performance by the Purchaser of its obligations under this Agreement (including agreements to be entered into hereunder) and the performance by [a member of the Purchaser Parent’s Group] of its obligations under the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement. The Seller Parent has agreed to guarantee to the Purchaser the performance by the Seller of its obligations under this Agreement (including agreements to be entered into hereunder) and the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement;

 

(K) The Parties have been engaged in negotiations for ongoing commercial arrangements in respect of the sale by the Seller of semiconductor integrated circuits to the Purchaser to be entered into at Closing, the material terms of which are set out in the term sheet attached as Schedule 21; and

 

(L) The Purchaser has had satisfactory discussions at a principal level with certain key customers of the Business.

IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

 

1 INTERPRETATION

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions in this Clause 0 apply throughout.

 

1.1 Definitions

Capitalised words, including those used in the introduction and recitals to this Agreement, shall have the meaning as defined in Schedule 1.

 

1.2 References to persons

References to a person include any individual, company or partnership whether or not having separate legal personality and wherever incorporated or registered.

 

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1.3 Headings and references to Clauses, Schedules and Paragraphs

 

1.3.1 Headings have been inserted for convenience of reference only and do not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

1.3.2 A reference in this Agreement to:

 

  (a) a Clause or Schedule is to the relevant Clause of or Schedule to this Agreement;

 

  (b) a Part is to the relevant Part of the relevant Schedule; and

 

  (c) a Paragraph is to the relevant Paragraph of (the relevant Part of) the relevant Schedule.

 

1.4 References to liabilities and obligations

 

1.4.1 Any reference in this Agreement to a liability or obligation of any member of the Seller’s Group shall be deemed to incorporate a reference to an obligation on the part of the Seller to procure that the relevant liability is discharged or obligation is performed by the relevant member(s) of the Seller’s Group, on and subject to the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.

 

1.4.2 Any reference in this Agreement to a liability or obligation of any member of the Purchaser’s Group shall be deemed to incorporate a reference to an obligation on the part of Purchaser to procure that the relevant liability is discharged or obligation is performed by the relevant member(s) of the Purchaser’s Group, on and subject to the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.

 

1.5 Information

References to books, records or other information include books, records or other information stored in any form including paper, magnetic media, films, microfilms, electronic storage devices and any other data carriers.

 

1.6 Legal terms

In respect of any jurisdiction other than the Netherlands, a reference to any Netherlands legal term shall be construed as a reference to the term or concept which most nearly corresponds to it in that jurisdiction.

 

1.7 Other references

 

1.7.1 Whenever used in this Agreement, the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”.

 

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1.7.2 Whenever used in this Agreement, the words “as of” shall be deemed to include the day or moment in time specified thereafter.

 

1.7.3 Any reference in this Agreement to any gender shall include all genders, and words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.

 

1.8 Drafting Party

No provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted against a Party solely as a result of the fact that such Party was responsible for the drafting of such provision.

 

2 SALE AND PURCHASE; TRANSFER

 

2.1 Shares

On and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement:

 

2.1.1 the Seller hereby agrees to sell, assign and transfer the Austrian Shares to the Austrian Purchaser, who hereby agrees to purchase and accept the transfer and assignment of the Austrian Shares; and

 

2.1.2 the Seller hereby agrees to sell and transfer the Chinese Shares to the Purchaser, who hereby agrees to purchase and accept the Chinese Shares,

such sale, assignment and transfer to take place in accordance with Clause 6.

 

2.2 Nomination of other purchasers

 

2.2.1 The Purchaser shall be entitled to nominate, to the extent permitted by Law, at its own cost, by notice to the Seller delivered no later than 1 February 2011, one other purchaser to purchase all of the Chinese Shares.

 

2.2.2 The Austrian Purchaser shall purchase and acquire the Austrian Shares and for that reason is a party to the Agreement.

 

2.3 Singular liability and right to claim

 

2.3.1 Subject to Clauses 14 and 15.1, no member of the Seller’s Group, with the exception of the Seller, shall have any liability under this Agreement, it being agreed that the Seller shall be fully liable under this Agreement for any breach thereof by any member of the Seller’s Group. Only the Purchaser may seek recourse against the Seller for breach by the Seller or a member of the Seller’s Group of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

2.3.2

Subject to Clause 14, no member of the Purchaser’s Group, with the exception of the Purchaser and, to the extent it relates to the Austrian Shares, the Austrian Purchaser shall have any liability under this Agreement, it being agreed that the Purchaser shall be

 

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fully liable under this Agreement for any breach thereof by any member of the Purchaser’s Group. Only the Seller may seek recourse against the Purchaser for breach by the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

2.3.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, a third party stipulation (derdenbeding) expressly identified as such in this Agreement, shall be for the benefit of and enforceable by the relevant third parties, provided that the Parties exclude the applicability of the articles 6:254, 6:255 and 6:256 of the Netherlands Civil Code.

 

3 CONSIDERATION

 

3.1 Purchase Price

The purchase price for the Shares (the “Purchase Price”) shall be an amount equal to the aggregate of the following:

 

3.1.1 the Initial Purchase Price; plus

 

3.1.2 the Net Cash of each Group Entity; plus

 

3.1.3 the Working Capital Adjustment of each Group Entity; minus

 

3.1.4 the Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liability amount.

 

3.2 Allocation

The Initial Purchase Price and the Purchase Price shall be allocated in accordance with Schedule 7 and the Seller’s Group shall and the Purchaser’s Group shall adopt such allocation for all purposes, including in respect of Tax.

 

3.3 Claims

If any payment is made by the Seller to the Purchaser or by the Purchaser to the Seller in respect of any claim (i) for any breach of this Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, a breach of a Seller’s Warranty or a Purchaser’s Warranty) or any agreement entered into pursuant thereto or (ii) pursuant to an indemnity under this Agreement, then the amount of the payment shall be an adjustment of the Purchase Price.

 

4 CLOSING CONDITIONS

 

4.1 Conditions

The respective obligations of the Parties to perform the Closing Actions set out in Schedule 4 are subject to the fulfillment of the following conditions (the “Closing Conditions”):

 

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4.1.1 The Anti-Trust Approval shall have been obtained (such approval being, subject to Clause 4.2.2(c), unconditional and unqualified) or, alternatively, any waiting periods shall have expired or been terminated, provided such expiration or termination is considered under Chinese Law to be a grant of all requisite clearances under the relevant anti-trust Laws.

 

4.1.2 No Government Authority of competent jurisdiction shall have enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered into any Law that prohibits the consummation of the Transaction in all material respects, it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that the China Transfer Registration shall take place in accordance with Clause 9.1.

 

4.1.3 No legal action or legal proceeding shall be pending by a bona fide third party (including any Governmental Authority) seeking to enjoin or restrain completion of the Transaction, it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that the China Transfer Registration shall take place in accordance with Clause 9.1.

 

4.1.4 No Group Material Adverse Effect occurs between Signing and Closing (the “MAE Condition”).

 

4.1.5 The Austrian Carveout has been registered in the competent companies register.

 

4.1.6 There is no breach of the Seller’s Warranties that individually or in the aggregate constitutes a Group Material Adverse Effect (provided that this Closing Condition does not prejudice the Purchaser’s claims arising from any breach of Sellers’ Warranties).

 

4.1.7 The Seller has satisfied or performed all of its covenants and obligations to be performed prior to the Closing Date to the extent that no Group Material Adverse Effect has occurred (provided that this Closing Condition does not prejudice the Purchaser’s claims arising from any breach by Seller under this Agreement).

 

4.1.8 The China Transfer Approval has been obtained at such a date that it will be valid during a period of at least three (3) Business Days after the Closing Date.

 

4.2 Responsibility for satisfaction

 

4.2.1 Save as otherwise provided in the remaining provisions of this Clause 4.2 and Clause 5.2, each of the Parties shall use reasonable efforts to ensure satisfaction of and compliance with all of the Closing Conditions.

 

4.2.2 Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 4.2.1, the Purchaser shall:

 

  (a)

as soon as practicable, and in any event no later than five (5) Business days after the Signing Date, prepare and file with the Competition Authority the notices and applications necessary to satisfy the Closing Condition set out in Clause 4.1.1(the “Competition Condition”), provided that, with respect to written

 

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submission, information or documentary materials requested from the Seller, the Seller has provided the same to the Purchaser in advance;

 

  (b) supply as promptly as practicable any additional information and documentary material that may be requested by the Competition Authority in connection with the Competition Condition, provided that, with respect to any written submission, information or documentary materials, the Seller has the right to approve the same; and

 

  (c) use reasonable efforts to cause the expiration or termination of any applicable waiting period under any applicable law and the fulfillment (whether explicit or implicit) of the Competition Condition as soon as practicable, including by agreeing to:

 

  (i) take any reasonable action that may be required in order to obtain an unconditional clearance (including by agreeing to perform any disposition of assets or businesses that may be required by the Competition Authority); or

 

  (ii) duly and promptly comply with any condition that any relevant Competition Authority may impose to clear this Agreement and the Transaction,

provided that the foregoing Clause 4.2.2 shall not require Purchaser to make any material divestiture.

 

4.2.3 The Purchaser and the Seller shall each bear their own costs incurred in relation to filing the merger clearance filing in China in connection with the Purchaser acquisition of the Group. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence of this Clause

 

4.2.3, the Purchaser shall bear all filing fees incurred in relation to the same. The Purchaser shall also bear all costs, penalties and fines resulting from not filing in any jurisdiction where it is determined that filing should have taken place, provided that if the failure to file resulted from incorrect revenues or market share data from Seller, Seller shall bear all costs, penalties and fines.

 

4.2.4 Without prejudice to Clause 4.2.2, the Seller and the Purchaser shall:

 

  (a) promptly cooperate with and provide all necessary information and assistance reasonably required by the Competition Authority in connection with the Competition Condition upon being requested to do so by the other Party; and

 

  (b) promptly inform the other Party of any communication received from, or given by it to, the Competition Authority with respect to the Competition Condition;

 

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provided that any and all communications by either Party with the Competition Authority in connection with the Competition Condition shall require the prior written approval of the other Party, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.

 

4.2.5 Without prejudice to Clauses 4.2.2 (c) and 4.2.4, in the event that any administrative or judicial action or proceeding is instituted (or threatened to be instituted) by the Governmental Authority or any other person challenging (any part of) the Transaction, each Party shall co-operate in all respects with the other Party and use its reasonable efforts to defend, contest and resist any such action or proceeding and to have vacated, lifted, reversed or overturned any order, whether temporary, preliminary or permanent, that is in effect and that prohibits, prevents or restricts the consummation of the Transaction.

 

4.3 (Non-)Satisfaction/Waiver

 

4.3.1 Within two (2) Business Days of becoming aware of the same:

 

  (a) the Purchaser shall give notice to the Seller of the satisfaction of the Closing Conditions;

 

  (b) the Seller shall give notice to the Purchaser of the satisfaction of the Closing Conditions; and

 

  (c) the Purchaser shall give notice to the Seller, or vice versa, of non-satisfaction of any of the Closing Conditions.

 

4.3.2 The Closing Conditions in Clauses 4.1.1 to 4.1.3 may only be waived by written agreement between the Seller and the Purchaser. The Closing Conditions in Clauses 4.1.4 to 4.1.8 (inclusive) can only be waived by the Purchaser by written declaration to be addressed to the Seller.

 

4.4 Long stop date

Unless otherwise agreed by the Parties hereto, if the Closing Conditions are not satisfied or waived on or prior to 30

September 2011, the Purchaser or the Seller may, in its sole discretion, terminate this Agreement by notice to the other, and no Party shall have any claim against the other save for any claim arising from breach of any obligation contained in Clause 4.2, provided that no such termination notice may be given by a Party which is in default of its obligations under this Agreement.

 

5 PRE-CLOSING COVENANTS

 

5.1 Conduct of the Business

 

5.1.1

During the period from the date hereof up to the Closing, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or as the Purchaser otherwise agrees in writing in

 

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advance (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Seller shall, and to the extent applicable shall cause the other members of the Seller’s Group to, conduct the Business in the Ordinary Course of Business and use its commercially reasonable efforts to preserve intact and protect the Business and its relationship with customers, suppliers, creditors and others having dealings with it and use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep available to the Purchaser the services of the Employees involved in the business.

 

5.1.2 During the period from the date hereof up to the Closing, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement or as the Purchaser shall otherwise consent in writing in advance (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Seller shall not take any of the following actions with respect to the Business and, to the extent applicable, shall cause the other members of the Seller’s Group not to:

 

  (a) amend or otherwise change any articles of association, by-laws, certificates of incorporation or similar corporate governing documents of the Group Entities;

 

  (b) reclassify, split (splitsing van aandelen, samenvoeging van verschillende klassen van aandelen), repay, recapitalize (omzetting reserves in aandelenkapitaal), redeem, adjust the par value of, pay out stock dividend or repurchase, or allow to be reclassified, split, repaid, redeemed or repurchased any shares or other ownership interests of the Group Entities;

 

  (c) create, allot, issue, dispose of, pledge or otherwise encumber, or allow to be created, allotted, issued, disposed of, pledged or otherwise encumbered any shares, ownership interests or voting securities, or any warrants, convertible securities, other rights of any kind to acquire or receive any shares, any other ownership interests or any voting securities of the Group Entities, or issue any instruments that give rise to the right of the holder to obtain shares, ownership interests or voting securities in the Group Entities, except as required by the NXP Financing Arrangements;

 

  (d) declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend in kind or otherwise or make any equity distribution in kind or otherwise to shareholders of the Group Entities;

 

  (e) incur any additional indebtedness, or issue any debt securities or assume, guarantee or endorse any material obligations of any other Person, except in the Ordinary Course of Business and except as required by the NXP Financing Arrangements;

 

  (f) make any (i) capital expenditures which exceed, on a quarterly basis, USD 500,000 (five hundred thousand United States dollars), or (ii) material loans or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other Person (other than the Group Entities), in each case except in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

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  (g) acquire (by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock or assets) any corporation, partnership or other business organization or division thereof or any equity interest therein;

 

  (h) sell, assign, lease, transfer, license, or otherwise dispose of, or extend or exercise any option to sell, assign, lease, transfer, license, or otherwise dispose of, any assets of the Group Entities, except in the Ordinary Course of Business, provided that no Relevant IP-Rights are affected;

 

  (i) mortgage or pledge any assets of the Group Entities except as required by the NXP Financing Arrangements;

 

  (j) terminate or materially extend or materially modify any Material Contract;

 

  (k) enter into any contract, arrangement or commitment or amend any contract, arrangement or commitment, other than in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

  (l) materially increase, amend or grant any employee benefits in any manner, except in the Ordinary Course of Business, including (i) adopting, entering into or amending any bonus, profit sharing, compensation, stock option, warrant pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment, severance, termination or other employee benefit plan, agreement or arrangement for the benefit or welfare of any officer, director or employee or (ii) agree to any increase in the compensation payable or to become payable to any officer, director of employee;

 

  (m) settle any legal proceedings or other disputes (i) that would result in the Seller, or to the extent applicable the Group, being enjoined in any respect material to the Transaction or the Business or (ii) for an amount, in the aggregate, exceeding USD 250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand United States dollars);

 

  (n) accelerate the delivery or sale of products or the incurrence of capital expenditures, or offer discounts on sale of products or premiums on purchase of raw materials, except in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

  (o) increase the headcount of any of the Group Entities other than in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

  (p) take any action that would cause any Seller’s Warranty not to be true and accurate as at Closing;

 

  (q) save for a change as per 1 January 2011 in respect of the depreciation period for new high volume automation assets, make any change in the Accounting Principles Consistently Applied;

 

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  (r) change any Tax accounting method of, or make any Tax election (except as permitted by this Agreement) for, or settle or compromise any Tax liability of, any Group Entity; or

 

  (s) authorize or enter into any agreement or commitment with respect to any of the foregoing.

 

5.2 Austrian Carveout

 

5.2.1 The Seller shall (i) use reasonable efforts to procure that the audited accounts for the financial year ending 31 December 2010 of NXP Austria are produced and ready for inclusion in the De-merger Deed by 15 February 2011; (ii) procure that the managing directors of NXP Austria, as soon as practicable, draw up, publish in the official gazette and file with the competent Companies Register the De-Merger Deed; (iii) procure the adoption of a shareholders’ resolution of NXP Austria approving the De-Merger Deed and resolving on the Austrian Carveout; and (iv) procure the instruction to the managing directors of NXP Austria to file without undue delay after the adoption of the respective shareholders’ resolution a respective registry application. The Seller shall regularly inform the Purchaser of the progress being made with respect to the Austrian Carveout and provide the Purchaser with such information as it may reasonably request with respect thereto.

 

5.2.2 The Purchaser undertakes to give all reasonable information and other assistance to the Seller to complete the Austrian Carveout as soon as reasonably practicable after the date hereof.

 

5.3 Intra-group balances; Termination of intra-group agreements

 

5.3.1 The Seller shall procure that (i) each of the relevant members of the Seller’s Group pays in full prior to Closing all IntraGroup Receivables, and (ii) each of the Group Entities pays in full prior to Closing all Intra-Group Payables.

 

5.3.2 The Seller shall procure that, except as expressly set out in this Agreement or otherwise agreed between the Parties in writing, all existing agreements and arrangements (excluding the Retained Intra-Group Agreements) between one or more members of the Seller’s Group (excluding the Group Entities) on the one hand and one or more Group Entities on the other hand shall be, prior to Closing, terminated or amended to remove any such Group Entity as a party thereto.

 

5.4 Access to information

 

5.4.1

Between Signing and Closing, the Seller shall procure that each of the Group Entities (a) provides the Purchaser in a timely fashion with monthly statements (in a form consistent with the form used by the Seller’s Group, however in any event comprising a balance sheet and a profit and loss account) in respect of each month ending after the Signing

 

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but before Closing and (b) affords the Purchaser and its Representatives upon reasonable notice, reasonable access during normal business hours to the books and records of or relating in whole or in part to the Group. The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that any information provided to it or any of its Representatives is subject to the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

5.4.2 The obligation of the Seller under this Clause 5.4 shall be subject to the right of the Seller or the relevant Group Entity to refuse access to information on the grounds that access:

 

  (a) would be contrary to any Law provided that the Seller or the relevant Group Entity received written advice to such effect from outside counsel;

 

  (b) would cause material undue disruption to the business activities of the relevant Group Entity or its management; or

 

  (c) would, in the reasonable opinion of the Seller or the management of the relevant Group Entity, involve issues of commercial sensitivity and confidentiality such that access could materially damage the value or competitiveness of the relevant Group Entity or lead to a material breach of any obligations of the relevant Group Entity.

 

5.5 NXP China pre-registration name change

As soon as practicable, but in any event no later than two (2) Business Days after the satisfaction of the Competition Condition, the Seller shall cause NXP China, with the assistance of the Purchaser, to prepare and file all documentation, notices or applications necessary to register a proposed new name of NXP China with the Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce (the registration authority of NXP China).

 

5.6 China Equity Transfer Agreement

As soon as practicable, but in any event no later than five (5) Business Days after the satisfaction of the Competition Condition, the Parties shall enter into the China Equity Transfer Agreement. Neither Party shall enforce, or seek to enforce, the China Equity Transfer Agreement until after the China Transfer Registration Certificate, signed by the Parties, has been received by De Brauw. In the event that this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Clauses 4.4 or 6.4, the Parties agree to terminate the China Equity Transfer Agreement in accordance with clause 7 of the China Equity Transfer Agreement, in which case parties may enforce clause 7 of the China Equity Transfer Agreement.

 

5.7 Filing with Approval Authority China

As soon as reasonably practicable following entry into the China Equity Transfer Agreement, but in any event no earlier than thirty-five (35) calendar days before the estimated Closing Date, the

 

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Seller and the Purchaser shall prepare and Seller shall cause NXP China to file with the Administrative Committee of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (the approval authority of NXP China) all notices and applications necessary to obtain (i) approval for the transfer of the Chinese Shares, and (ii) a revised certificate of approval of NXP China (together the “China Transfer Approval”). The Purchaser shall cooperate with and timely provide to the Seller all documents, information and other materials as required by the Seller for the purposes of obtaining the China Transfer Approval.

 

6 CLOSING

 

6.1 Date and place

Subject to the satisfaction, or waiver under Clause 4.3.2, of each of the Closing Conditions, the Closing shall take place:

 

6.1.1 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at the offices of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and (in parallel) in Vienna, Austria, at the offices of Purchaser’s Austrian counsel, commencing at 11.00 a.m. CET on the first Business Day of the Seller’s Group’s monthly reporting period immediately following satisfaction or waiver of the Closing Conditions, or

 

6.1.2 at any such other date, time or location as may be agreed between the Seller and the Purchaser in writing.

 

6.2 Payment of Initial Purchase Price

 

6.2.1 The Purchaser shall pay the Chinese Initial Purchase Price and the Austrian Purchaser shall pay the Austrian Initial Purchase Price, in each case on the Business Day immediately before and with value on the Closing Date, into the DBBW Account under the reference “Purchase Price Sonar; 777/20493509” and under the instruction to De Brauw (for the attention of Arne Grimme) that such amount shall be held by De Brauw in the DBBW Account on behalf of the Purchaser until signature by the Parties of the Closing Certificate, after which De Brauw in the DBBW Account shall:

 

  (a) hold the Austrian Initial Purchase Price on behalf of the Seller and pay said amount in accordance with the Seller’s instructions; and

 

  (b) subject to Clause 6.2.2, continue to hold the Chinese Initial Purchase Price on behalf of the Purchaser until receipt of the China Transfer Registration Certificate signed by the Parties, after which De Brauw in the DBBW Account shall hold the Chinese Initial Purchase Price on behalf of the Seller and pay said amount in accordance with the Seller’s instructions.

For the avoidance of doubt, the title to the China Shares will transfer from Seller to Purchaser at the moment the China Transfer Registration Certificate, signed by the Parties, has been received by De Brauw.

 

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6.2.2 In the event that the China Transfer Registration does not take place within 12 months of the Closing Date, the Seller’s obligations under this Agreement to transfer the Chinese Shares to the Purchaser shall terminate and De Brauw in the DBBW Account shall pay the Chinese Initial Purchase Price in accordance with the Purchaser’s instructions. In such event Parties also agree to terminate the China Equity Transfer Agreement in accordance with clause 7 of the China Equity Transfer Agreement.

 

6.3 Closing Actions

At the Closing, the Parties shall perform the Closing Actions as set out in Schedule 4. Upon completion of the Closing Actions, or waiver in respect thereof, the Parties shall sign the Closing Certificate.

 

6.4 Breach of Closing obligations

 

6.4.1 If any Party fails to comply with any of its material obligations in this Clause 6 or its obligations under Schedule 4, the Purchaser, in the case of non-compliance by the Seller, or the Seller, in the case of non-compliance by the Purchaser, shall be entitled (in addition to and without prejudice to the right to claim damages) by written notice to the Seller or the Purchaser, as the case may be, served on the date set for Closing, (a) to waive the fulfillment of the obligations of the other Party, or (b) to fix a new date for the Closing (being the first Business Day of the next monthly reporting period of the Seller’s Group) in which case the provisions of Clauses 6.2 and 6.3 and Schedule 4 shall apply to the Closing as so deferred.

 

6.4.2 If the non-complying Party fails to comply with any material obligation in this Clause 6 or its obligations under Schedule 4 on the new date for the Closing pursuant to Clause 6.4.1, the other Party shall be entitled (in addition to and without prejudice to it’s right to claim damages) by written notice served on such new date for the Closing:

 

  (a) to terminate this Agreement without liability on its part or on the part of those on whose behalf notice is served; or

 

  (b) to effect the Closing so far as practicable having regard to the defaults which have occurred; or

 

  (c) subject to Clause 4.4, to set a new date for the Closing (being the first Business Day of the next monthly reporting period of the Seller’s Group) in which case the provisions of Clauses 6.2 and 6.3 and Schedule 4 shall apply to the Closing as so deferred.

 

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7 CLOSING STATEMENTS

 

7.1 Preparation of the Statements

As soon as practicable, and in any event within sixty (60) Business Days after the Closing Date, the Seller shall prepare and deliver to the Purchaser:

 

7.1.1 an unaudited statement prepared in the form of Schedule 9, setting forth the Working Capital as per the Effective Time (the “Working Capital Statement”); and

 

7.1.2 an unaudited statement prepared in the form of Schedule 10, setting forth the Net Cash as per the Effective Time (the “Net Cash Statement”, together with the Working Capital Statement, the “Statements”).

 

7.2 Agree or disagree

 

7.2.1 The draft Working Capital Statement and draft Net Cash Statement shall be delivered to the Purchaser at the same time, it being further agreed that:

 

  (a) if the Purchaser disagrees with the draft Working Capital Statement or draft Net Cash Statement, then the Purchaser shall within sixty (60) Business Days after receipt thereof, but no sooner than ninety (90) Business Days after Closing deliver notice of such disagreement to the Seller, such notice (the “Notice of Disagreement”) to specify (i) each line item in the relevant draft statement(s) with which the Purchaser disagrees, (ii) the amount of adjustment proposed by the Purchaser, and (iii) in reasonable detail, the reason for the Purchaser’s disagreement in respect of each such line item;

 

  (b) if the Purchaser does not deliver a Notice of Disagreement in terms of Clause 7.2.1(a), then the draft Working Capital Statement and draft Net Cash Statement shall be final and binding on the Seller (and each relevant other member of the Seller’s Group) and the Purchaser (and each relevant other member of the Purchaser’s Group) for purposes of the determination of the Purchase Price, provided that such determination shall not prejudice recovery of the Losses incurred due to a breach of the Seller’s Warranties, to the extent this would not result in the Seller compensating the Purchaser twice in relation to substantially the same facts and circumstances.

 

  (c) if the Purchaser delivers a Notice of Disagreement in terms of Clause 7.2.1(a), then:

 

  (i)

at the election of the Seller, each line item in the draft Working Capital Statement and draft Net Cash Statement in respect of which the Purchaser does not deliver a Notice of Disagreement in accordance with Clause 7.2.1(a), shall be final and binding

 

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on the Seller (and each other member of the Seller’s Group) and the Purchaser (and each other member of the Purchaser’s Group) in the meaning of Clause (b); and

 

  (ii) the Seller and the Purchaser shall attempt in good faith to reach agreement in respect of those line items in the relevant draft Working Capital Statement and/or draft Net Cash Statement in respect of which the Purchaser has thus given Notice of Disagreement, provided that if the Seller and the Purchaser are unable to reach such agreement within twenty (20) Business Days of delivery of the Notice of Disagreement, the Seller or the Purchaser may by notice to the other require that those line items in the relevant draft Working Capital Statement and/or draft Net Cash Statement that have been properly specified in the Purchaser’s Notice of Disagreement in accordance with Clause 7.2.1(a) and subsequently have not been agreed upon between the Seller and the Purchaser within the aforesaid twenty (20) Business Days, be referred to the Reporting Accountants in the terms of Schedule 11.

 

7.3 No indemnified liabilities

The Statements will not take into account liabilities for which the Seller is liable under this Agreement, which liabilities will include the Tax indemnity as set out in Schedule 20, provided that these liabilities are also not taken into account when determining the Reference Working Capital.

 

7.4 No forward looking valuations

It is understood between the Parties that no corrections to the Statements may be proposed by or on behalf of the Purchaser to the extent these are based on a judgment about the future earnings potential, prospects or feasibility of (part of) the Business.

 

7.5 Post-Closing market or business developments

The Statements include certain estimates and judgments which may change over time. The Seller and the Purchaser agree that any market or business developments after the preparation by the Seller of the Statements shall not be taken into consideration and that the status of the affairs of the Group and market circumstances at the time of the Closing and during the preparation of the Statements by the Seller shall prevail. Any facts or events arising after the date, upon which the Seller has prepared the draft Statements and presented them in accordance with Clause 7.1 to the Purchaser, shall not be taken into consideration in the final determination of the Statements.

 

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7.6 Cooperation in connection with the Statements

In order to enable the preparation and determination of the Statements, the Purchaser shall, and shall cause the Group Entities to (i) keep up-to-date all books and records relating to the Business, and (ii) co-operate with the Seller and its Representatives with regard to the preparation and determination of the Statements. The Purchaser agrees to make available the services of the Employees to provide reasonable assistance to the Seller in the performance of the Seller’s duties under this Clause 7.

 

8 ADJUSTMENT OF THE INITIAL PURCHASE PRICE

 

8.1 Working Capital adjustment

 

8.1.1 If the aggregate Working Capital is greater than 105 percent (105%) of the Reference Working Capital or more, the excess (only the amount over 105 percent (105%)), shall on a dollar-for-dollar basis be paid to the Seller by the Purchaser.

 

8.1.2 If the aggregate Working Capital is less than 95 percent (95%) of the Reference Working Capital or less, the difference (only the amount less than 95 percent (95%)) shall on a dollar-for-dollar basis be paid to the Purchaser by the Seller.

 

8.2 Net Cash adjustment

 

8.2.1 If the aggregate Net Cash is greater than nil (0), the excess shall on a dollar-for-dollar basis be paid to the Seller by the Purchaser.

 

8.2.2 If the aggregate Net Cash is less than nil (0), the difference shall on a dollar-for-dollar basis be paid to the Purchaser by the Seller.

 

8.3 Payment and interest

 

8.3.1 Any payment to be made pursuant to Clauses 8.1 or 8.2 shall:

 

  (a) to the extent possible, be aggregated and discharged by way of set-off between these payments;

 

  (b) be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to such bank account as the recipient Party may designate on or before the fifth (5th) Business Day after the Statements become final and binding upon the Seller and the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 7 and Schedule 11; and

 

  (c) include interest thereon calculated from the day after the Effective Time to the date of payment, both days inclusive, at the Interest Rate.

 

8.3.2 All payments (including interest payments) made under this Clause 8 shall be made on account of the Purchase Price.

 

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9 POST-CLOSING OBLIGATIONS

 

9.1 Filing with Registration Authority China

 

9.1.1 On the Closing Date, however in any event no later than three (3) Business Days after the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall prepare and Seller shall cause NXP China to file with the Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce (the registration authority of NXP China) all application documents necessary to obtain (i) approval for amendment of the registration information of NXP China and (ii) a revised business license for NXP China reflecting the transfer of the Chinese Shares from the Seller to the Purchaser and the change of name so as to exclude “NXP” and/or LOGO from the name of NXP China (together the “China Transfer Registration”). The Seller shall promptly cooperate with and provide all necessary information and assistance reasonably required by the Purchaser in connection with the obtainment of the China Transfer Registration.

 

9.1.2 As soon as practicable following the completion of the China Transfer Registration, the Purchaser shall prepare and file all application documents necessary to register the change of name and shareholder of NXP China with all other relevant Governmental Authorities in the People’s Republic of China, including, without limitation, any applicable tax authorities, foreign exchange authorities, customs offices and finance authorities (the “China Residual Registrations”). Seller shall promptly cooperate with and provide all necessary information and assistance reasonably required by the Purchaser in connection with the obtainment of the China Residual Registrations.

 

9.1.3 All filing fees and other costs incurred in relation to the China Transfer Approval, China Transfer Registration and China Residual Registrations shall be borne by the Parties in equal parts.

 

9.1.4 Immediately following completion of the China Transfer Registration, and in any event no later than two (2) Business Days after the revised business license has been issued to NXP China, the Parties shall sign and deliver to De Brauw (for the attention of Arne Grimme) the China Transfer Registration Certificate.

 

9.2 Trade receivables/payables; Post-Closing receipts

 

9.2.1 Subject to Closing, if at any time after the Effective Time, any member of the Seller’s Group receives any amount in respect of any receivable of a Group Entity, then the Seller shall procure that the relevant member of the Seller’s Group pays the amount received, less reasonable administrative expenses, to the relevant Group Entity, as soon as reasonably practicable.

 

9.2.2

Subject to Closing, if at any time after the Effective Time, any member of the Purchaser’s Group receives any amount in respect of any receivable of any member of the Seller’s Group then the Purchaser shall procure that the relevant member of the Purchaser’s

 

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Group pays the amount received, less reasonable administrative expenses, to the relevant member of the Seller’s Group, as soon as reasonably practicable.

 

9.3 Use of names

 

9.3.1 The Purchaser shall procure that, as soon as practicable after the Closing, but in any event (a) in the case of NXP Austria, within twenty (20) Business Days after the Closing Date, and (b) in the case of NXP China, as part of the completion of the China Transfer Registration, the shareholders of the relevant Group Entity adopt the shareholders’ resolutions and the managing directors of the relevant Group Entity file the register applications required to change the relevant Group Entity’s name so that it does not contain the name “NXP”, or any abbreviation thereof or any name or lettering which is likely to be confused with the same, and (ii) the Seller is furnished with appropriate written evidence of such actions.

 

9.3.2 After registration of the new name following the application pursuant to Clause 9.3.1 the Purchaser shall not, and shall procure that no member of the Purchaser’s Group shall, use in any way whatsoever, by means of trading names, domain names, registered or unregistered trade marks, logos or otherwise, the name “NXP”, or any abbreviation thereof or any name or lettering which is confusingly similar to the same. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Clause 9.3.2, the Purchaser shall, as soon as practicable after the Closing, but in any event within nine (9) months after the Closing Date, procure that the name “NXP”, or any abbreviation thereof, is removed from all future products, business stationery and other assets held by the Group, and from all premises occupied by the Purchaser’s Group.

 

9.4 Retention of records

 

9.4.1 The Purchaser shall retain for a period of five (5) years from Closing, or such longer period as may be prescribed by applicable law, all books, records and other written information relating to the Business which are held at premises occupied by the Group at Closing and, to the extent reasonably required by the Seller, shall allow the Seller, upon reasonable notice, access during normal office hours to such books, records and other information, including the right to inspect and take copies at the Seller’s expense, provided that this does not cause any material undue interference in the operation of the Business.

 

9.4.2 The Seller shall retain for a period of five (5) years from Closing, or such longer period as may be prescribed by law, any books, records or other written information relating to the Business and/or the Group Entities which are not held at the premises occupied by the Group at Closing and, to the extent reasonably required by the Purchaser, shall allow the Purchaser, upon reasonable notice, access during normal office hours to such books, records and information, including the right to inspect and take copies at the Purchaser’s expense, provided that this does not cause any material undue interference in the operation of the Seller’s business.

 

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9.5 Insurance

 

9.5.1 The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that as from the Closing Date all insurance cover provided in relation to the Group pursuant to policies maintained by (any member of) the Seller’s Group, whether such policies are maintained with third party insurers or within the Seller’s Group, shall be terminated or shall no longer provide coverage for any events, occurrences or accidents occurring, on or after the Closing Date, and no third party or member of the Seller’s Group shall have any liability or responsibility for any such events, occurrences or accidents under such policies occurring on or after the Closing Date.

 

9.5.2 In respect of any events, occurrences or accidents occurring prior to the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall procure that, as from thirty (30) calendar days after the Closing Date, no members of the Purchaser’s Group (including the Group) shall make any claim under any insurance policy of any member of the Seller’s Group (excluding the Group).

 

9.5.3 In accordance with the provisions of the Seller’s respective D&O policies, the Seller shall provide notice to all its appropriate insurers of any pending claim or act, incident or omission of which the Seller is aware that may give rise to a claim after Closing as a result of an alleged act, incident or omission that occurred prior to Closing.

 

9.6 Employees and Long-Term Benefit Arrangements

 

9.6.1 The provisions of Schedule 14 shall apply in respect of the Employees.

 

9.6.2 The provisions of Schedule 15 shall apply in respect of Long-Term Benefit Arrangements.

 

9.7 Trapped Cash

 

9.7.1 For the purpose of this provision:

Trapped Cash” means cash available to NXP China at Closing that cannot be transferred out of China in a reasonably short period after Closing;

Closing Trapped Cash” shall mean the amount of Trapped Cash at Closing.

Maximum Trapped Cash Amount” means USD 13,000,000 (thirteen million United States dollars) of Closing Trapped Cash, decreased by (i) any dividends paid by NXP China to the Seller between Signing and Closing (ii) any payment made by NXP China for services rendered under the GSA China or under similar agreements entered into by NXP China or under a recapitalization of NXP China or under an IP license agreement entered into by NXP China with any Member of the Seller’s Group, in each case between Signing and Closing;

“Excess Trapped Cash” means the amount of Closing Trapped Cash in excess of the Maximum Trapped Cash Amount;

 

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9.7.2 Between Signing and Closing, the Seller shall use reasonable efforts to minimize the availability of Trapped Cash by, among others and to the extent permissible, paying dividends or making payments for services rendered by the Seller.

 

9.7.3 Closing Trapped Cash shall be included as freely available cash in the Net Cash Statement up to the Maximum Trapped Cash Amount.

 

9.7.4 After Closing, the Purchaser shall cause NXP China to pay to the Seller such amounts due to the Seller for services rendered prior to Closing up to the amount of Closing Trapped Cash. Within five (5) Business Days from receipt of such payments, the Seller shall pay to the Purchaser the amount that was taken into account in the Net Cash determination as for Trapped Cash.

 

9.7.5 After Closing, Purchaser shall pay to the Seller promptly any cash that it receives from NXP China up to the amount of Excess Trapped Cash to the extent these amounts can legally be paid by NXP China to the Purchaser or any of its affiliates by way of dividend and/or by way of payment for services rendered (similar to the GSA Agreement) and/or by way of recapitalization and/or by way of payment of IP royalties under licenses granted by members of the Purchaser’s Group to NXP China, provided that such obligation shall be limited to USD 5,000,000 (five million United States dollars) per financial year. The Purchaser shall use its reasonable efforts to pay to the Seller any amounts of Excess Trapped Cash in an amount as high as possible but in no event more than USD 5,000,000 (five million United States dollars) per financial year.

 

9.7.6 Any costs, including Tax, reasonably incurred by NXP China and/or the Purchaser in connection with the Purchaser’s obligations under Clauses 9.7.4 and 9.7.5 as well as costs, including Tax, reasonably incurred by NXP China and/or the Purchaser in connection with any dividend paid after Closing (to the extent the payments which Purchaser has received have not exceeded the Maximum Trapped Cash Amount) shall be borne by the Seller.

 

9.8 Information for Seller’s Group’s financial reporting

The Purchaser shall provide the Seller, in a timely manner as reasonably requested by the Seller and at the Seller’s cost, with all such information as the Seller’s Group may require in order to comply with its financial reporting obligations.

 

10 WARRANTIES

 

10.1 Seller’s Warranties

 

10.1.1 Subject to the remaining provisions of this Clause 10 and Clauses 12 and 13, the Seller represents and warrants to the Purchaser that the Seller’s Warranties:

 

  (a) are true and accurate as at Signing; and

 

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  (b) shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in the Seller’s Warranties, also be true and accurate as at Closing.

 

10.1.2 The Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Seller makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of any forecasts, estimates, projections, statements of intent or statements of opinion howsoever provided to the Purchaser on or prior to the date hereof (including any information of that nature contained in the Disclosure Letter or in the Due Diligence Information). The Purchaser acknowledges that no representations or warranties, express or implied, have been given or are given other than the Seller’s Warranties.

 

10.1.3 Any Seller’s Warranty qualified by the expression “so far as the Seller is aware” or “to the Seller’s knowledge” or any similar expression shall, unless otherwise stated, be deemed to refer to the actual knowledge of any individual whose name is set out in Part 1 of Schedule 19, and such knowledge such individual should have had after having made reasonable enquiry taking into account the individual’s position and the individual’s responsibility.

 

10.1.4 Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy against the Seller for a breach of Seller’s Warranties shall be a claim for Losses made pursuant to this Clause 10.

 

10.1.5 The applicability of Sections 7:17 and 7:23 of the Netherlands Civil Code is hereby excluded.

 

10.2 Seller’s disclosures

The Seller’s Warranties are subject to, and the Seller shall not be liable for breach of any of the Seller’s Warranties in relation to, any matter which is fairly disclosed in this Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Disclosure Letter) or fairly disclosed in the Due Diligence Information except for any disclosures against the Seller’s Warranties in paragraphs 3 (Accounts) and 11 (Tax) of Schedule 16 in respect of which valid disclosures can only be made in the Disclosure Letter. Fair disclosure in the meaning of the preceding sentence shall mean that the respective breach of the relevant Seller’s Warranty would have been appreciated and understood by a reasonable business person upon due consideration and without recourse to, and independent review of, any other source of information.

 

10.3 Liability of Seller for breach

After the Closing and subject to this Clause 10 and Clauses 12 and 13, the Seller shall be liable to the Purchaser for any Losses incurred by the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group including the Group Entities in connection with or as a result of any breach of the Seller’s Warranties, which breach of Seller’s Warranties shall occur where same is untrue or inaccurate as at the date on which the same is given or such breach is attributable to the fraud, dishonesty or willful concealment on the part of the Seller.

 

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10.4 Purchaser’s Warranties

The Purchaser represents and warrants to the Seller that:

 

10.4.1 the Purchaser’s Warranties are true and accurate as at the date hereof and shall also be true and accurate as at Closing; and

 

10.4.2 neither the Purchaser, nor any other member of the Purchaser’s Group is aware of any breach of the Seller’s Warranties other than those items included in Schedule 25, which shall not prejudice the Purchaser’s right to claim for Losses under this Clause 10.

 

10.4.3 Any reference to the expression “so far as the Purchaser is aware” or “to the Purchaser’s knowledge” or any similar expression shall, unless otherwise stated, be deemed to refer to the actual knowledge of any individual whose name is set out in Schedule 24.

 

10.4.4 Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in this Agreement, the Seller’s sole and exclusive remedy against the Purchaser for a breach of Purchaser’s Warranties shall be a claim for Losses made pursuant to this Clause 10.

 

10.5 Liability of Purchaser for breach

After the Closing, the Purchaser shall be liable to the Seller for any Losses incurred by the Seller in connection with or as a result of any breach of the Purchaser’s Warranties, which breach of Purchaser’s Warranties shall occur where same is untrue or inaccurate in any material respect as at the date on which the same is given.

 

11 TAX INDEMNITY

 

11.1 Tax indemnity

The provisions of Schedule 20 shall apply in respect of Taxes.

 

12 LIMITATION OF THE SELLER’S LIABILITY

 

12.1 Time limitation for claims

The Seller shall not be liable under this Agreement in respect of any Losses resulting from a breach under the Seller’s Warranties unless the Purchaser gives a notice of the Losses to the Seller specifying the matters set out in Clause 13.2:

 

12.1.1 within the applicable statutory limitation period following Closing in respect of the Seller’s Warranties given in respect of the Shares and the Group Entities as contained in Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 16;

 

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12.1.2 within sixty (60) days after expiry of the statutory limitation period applicable in the relevant jurisdiction for the Tax matter giving rise to such claims and any applicable term during which additional assessments can be levied under the relevant Law;

 

12.1.3 within three (3) years following Closing in respect of the Seller’s Warranties given in respect intellectual property matters as contained in Paragraph 13 of Schedule 16; and

 

12.1.4 within eighteen (18) months following Closing in respect of any other Seller’s Warranties.

 

12.2 Minimum claims

Subject to any other limitations set out in this Agreement, the Seller shall only be liable under this Agreement

 

12.2.1 If the liability agreed or determined in respect of any individual claim, or a series of claims arising from identical facts exceeds USD 250,000 (two hundred fifty thousand United States dollars) (“Minimum Claim”), and

 

12.2.2 If the Aggregate of the Minimum Claims exceeds USD 4,000,000 (four million United States Dollars) (“Deductible”),

provided if such Deductible is exceeded, the Seller shall be liable only for the amount exceeding the Deductible provided that this Clause 12.2 shall not apply to any claim (a) under Paragraphs 1, 2.1 or 2.2 of Schedule 16, (b) under Clause 11, (c) under Paragraph 11 of Schedule 16 (Tax), (d) under Paragraph 7.4 of Schedule 16 (Employee Bonuses for time period prior to December 31, 2010) and (e) arising out of or in connection with circumstances set out in Schedule 25 to the extent the circumstances set out in Schedule 25 are not listed in the Disclosure Letter.

 

12.3 Maximum liability

 

12.3.1 Excluding (a) claims under Paragraphs 1, 2.1 or 2.2 of Schedule 16 and (b) claims under the Tax indemnity set out in Schedule 20, the aggregate liability of the Seller in respect of all claims under this Agreement shall not exceed 5% (five percent) of the Purchase Price, provided that, together with any of the other claims under this Agreement, the aggregate liability of the Seller in respect of (a) Paragraph 6.3.1 of Schedule 16 (GSA Agreement), (b) Paragraph 3 of Schedule 16 (Accounts), (c) Paragraph 11 of Schedule 16 (Tax), and (d) Paragraph 16 of Schedule 16 (Intellectual Property) shall not exceed 10% (ten percent) of the Purchase Price.

 

12.3.2 Without detracting from Clause 12.3.1, the aggregate liability of the Seller in respect of all claims under this Agreement including in case of (a) claims under Paragraphs 1, 2.1 or 2.2 of Schedule 16 and (b) claims under the Tax indemnity set out in Schedule 20, shall not exceed the Purchase Price.

 

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12.4 Provisions

Seller shall not be liable under this Agreement in respect of any claim if and to the extent that any allowance, provision or reserve is made in a Working Capital Statement, a Net Cash Statement, or in the Accounts (and not released prior to the Effective Time) for the matter giving rise to the claim provided that allowances, provisions or reserves for Taxes, except for payroll related Taxes and VAT related Taxes in the Ordinary Course of Business, shall not reduce the Seller’s liabilities for such amounts.

 

12.5 Matters arising subsequent to this Agreement

The Seller shall not be liable in respect of any matter, act, omission or circumstance (or any combination thereof), including the aggravation of a matter or circumstance, to the extent that the same would not have occurred but for:

 

12.5.1 any matter or thing done or omitted to be done pursuant to and in compliance with this Agreement or otherwise at the request in writing or with the approval in writing of the Purchaser;

 

12.5.2 any act, omission or transaction of the Purchaser or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group, or their respective directors, officers, employees or agents or successors in title, after the Closing;

 

12.5.3 the passing of, or any change in, after the date of this Agreement, any law or administrative practice of any Governmental Authority, including any increase in the rates of Taxation or any imposition of Taxation or any withdrawal of relief from Taxation not actually (or prospectively) in effect at the date of this Agreement;

 

12.5.4 any change after the date of this Agreement of any generally accepted interpretation or application of any law; or

 

12.5.5 any change in accounting or Taxation policy, bases or practice of the Purchaser or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group introduced or having effect after the Closing Date.

 

12.6 Insurance

The Seller shall not be liable under this Agreement in respect of any claim to the extent that the Losses in respect of which such claim is made are covered by a policy of insurance, in which event Clauses 12.9.2 and 12.9.3 shall apply.

 

12.7 Net financial benefit

Any Losses which the Purchaser may be entitled to claim hereunder shall be calculated on an after-Tax basis provided that the Tax benefit has been realized, meaning that such Losses shall be reduced by (i) any Tax refund actually received by the relevant Group Entity; (ii) any reduction

 

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of Tax actually owing by the relevant Group Entity; or (iii) in case of additional depreciations or amortisations for Tax purposes, the net present value of future Tax refunds or reductions of Tax as a result of such additional depreciations or amortisations and calculated at the Interest Rate; to the extent that the Tax refund or reduction of Tax is directly connected with the facts as a result of which the Losses have been incurred.

 

12.8 Mitigation of Losses

The Purchaser shall procure that all reasonable steps are taken and all reasonable assistance is given to avoid or mitigate any Losses which in the absence of mitigation might give rise to a liability in respect of any claim under this Agreement.

 

12.9 Purchaser’s right to recover

 

12.9.1 Recovery for direct and actual Losses. The Seller shall not be liable in respect of:

 

  (a) any loss of profit, loss of goodwill or any (other) indirect or consequential losses; and

 

  (b) any Losses relating to any actual liability unless and until such actual liability is due and payable, or any Losses relating to any liability which is contingent unless and until such contingent liability becomes an actual liability and is due and payable, provided that this Clause 12.9.1(b) shall not operate to exclude liability in relation to a claim made in respect of an actual or contingent liability within the relevant time limit specified in Clause 12.1 and specifying the matters set out in Clause 13.1.

 

12.9.2 Prior to recovery from the Seller. If, before the Seller pays an amount in discharge of any claim under this Agreement, the Purchaser, a Group Entity or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group recovers or is entitled to recover (whether by payment, discount, credit, relief, insurance or otherwise) from a third party a sum which indemnifies or compensates the Purchaser, the Group Entities or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group (in whole or in part) in respect of the Loss which is the subject matter of the claim, the Purchaser shall either:

 

  (a) before steps are taken to enforce a claim against the Seller (but, for the avoidance of doubt, following the required notification of the Seller under Clause 13.2), procure that all reasonable steps are taken to enforce recovery against the third party and any actual recovery (less any reasonable costs incurred in obtaining such recovery) shall reduce or satisfy, as the case may be, such claim to the extent of such recovery; or

 

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  (b) procure that the Seller be subrogated to all rights that the Purchaser has or would otherwise have in respect of the claim against the third party, upon the Purchaser receiving payment of the Loss by the Seller.

 

12.9.3 Following recovery from the Seller. If the Seller has paid an amount in discharge of any claim under this Agreement and the Purchaser, a Group Entity or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group subsequently is entitled to recover or does recover (whether by payment, discount, credit, relief, insurance or otherwise) from a third party a sum which indemnifies or compensates the Purchaser, the Group Entity or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group (in whole or in part) in respect of the Loss which is the subject matter of the claim, the Purchaser shall either:

 

  (a) procure that all steps are taken to enforce such recovery or shall procure that the relevant Group Entity or other member of the Purchaser’s Group shall pay to the Seller as soon as practicable after receipt an amount equal to (a) any sum recovered from the third party less any costs and expenses reasonably incurred in obtaining such recovery or, if less, (b) the amount previously paid by the Seller to the Purchaser; or

 

  (b) procure that the Seller be subrogated to all rights that the Purchaser has or would otherwise have in respect of the claim against the third party.

 

12.10 Further limitations

 

12.10.1 In no event shall the Seller be liable more than once for the same matter under different Seller’s Warranties or under Seller’s Warranties and an indemnity.

 

12.10.2 The Seller shall not be liable for an amount higher than the actual damages and any liability shall not take into consideration any valuation principle (including any multiplier) applied by the Purchaser in calculating the Initial Purchase Price.

 

13 CLAIMS

 

13.1 Notification of potential claims

If key managers, officers or directors of the Purchaser or of a Group Entity become aware of any matter or circumstance that may give rise to a claim against the Seller under this Agreement, the Purchaser shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event within thirty (30) Business Days, give a notice in writing to the Seller setting out such information as is available to the Purchaser or the Group as is reasonably necessary to enable the Seller to assess the merits of the claim, to act to preserve evidence and to make such provision as the Seller may consider necessary, provided that failure to give such notification within the aforesaid thirty (30) Business

 

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Days shall not affect the Purchaser’s right to make the claim except to the extent the Seller shall have been or will be actually prejudiced as a result of such failure.

 

13.2 Notification of claims under this Agreement

Notices of claims under this Agreement shall be given by the Purchaser to the Seller within the time limit specified in Clause 12.1, specifying full information of the legal and factual basis of the claim and the evidence on which the Purchaser relies and, if practicable, an estimate of the amount of Losses which are, or are to be, the subject of the claim (including any Losses which are contingent on the occurrence of any future event).

 

13.3 Commencement of proceedings

Any claim notified pursuant to Clause 13.2 shall (if it has not been previously satisfied, settled or withdrawn) be deemed to be withdrawn six (6) months after the notice is given pursuant to Clause 13.2, and any claim notified pursuant to Clause 13.2 (contingent liability) shall (if it has not been previously satisfied, settled or withdrawn) be deemed to be withdrawn six (6) months after such contingent liability becomes an actual liability and is due and payable, unless legal proceeding which may include arbitration as set forth in Clause 18.2, in respect of it (i) have been commenced by being both issued and served and (ii) are being and continue to be pursued with reasonable diligence.

 

13.4 Investigation by the Seller

In connection with any matter or circumstance notified by the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 13.1 or 13.2:

 

13.4.1 the Purchaser shall allow, and shall procure that each Group Entity and the other relevant members of the Purchaser’s Group allow, the Seller and its Representatives to investigate the matter or circumstance alleged to give rise to such claim and whether and to what extent any amount is payable in respect of such claim; and

 

13.4.2 the Purchaser shall disclose to the Seller all information of which the Purchaser or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group is aware which relates to the claim, and shall procure that all relevant members of the Purchaser’s Group give, subject to their being paid reasonable costs and expenses, all such information and assistance, including access to premises and personnel, and the right to examine and copy or photograph any assets, accounts, documents and records, in each case as the Seller or its Representatives may reasonably request.

 

13.5 Procedure for third party claims

If the claim notified pursuant to Clause 13.1 and 13.2 is a result of or connected with a claim by or liability to a third party, then:

 

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13.5.1 no admissions in relation to such third party claim shall be made by or on behalf of the Purchaser or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group and the claim shall not be compromised, disposed of or settled without the express prior written consent of the Seller;

 

13.5.2 the Seller shall be entitled at its own expense and in its absolute discretion, upon approval by the Purchaser which shall not be unreasonably withheld to take such action as it shall deem necessary to avoid, dispute, deny, defend, resist, appeal, compromise or contest such claim or liability (including making counterclaims or other claims against third parties) in the name of and on behalf of the Purchaser or other member of the Purchaser’s Group concerned and to have the conduct of any related proceedings, negotiations or appeals; and

 

13.5.3 where the Seller has received approval pursuant to Clause 13.5.2:

 

  (a) the Purchaser shall, and shall procure that the other members of the Purchaser’s Group shall give, subject to their being paid all reasonable costs and expenses, all such information and assistance including access to premises and personnel, and the right to examine and copy or photograph any assets, accounts, documents and records, as the Seller may reasonably request for the purpose referred to in Clause 13.5.2, including instructing such professional or legal advisers as the Seller may nominate to act on behalf of the Purchaser or other member of the Purchaser’s Group concerned but in accordance with the Seller’s instructions; and

 

  (b) the Seller shall keep the Purchaser informed of all relevant matters relating to the claim and shall promptly forward or procure to be forwarded to the Purchaser copies of all correspondence and other written communications relating to the claim.

 

14 PARENT GUARANTEE

 

14.1 Guarantee

Each of the Purchaser Parent and the Seller Parent hereby:

 

14.1.1

as a separate and independent obligation, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Seller respectively the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser, and shall be jointly and severally liable, as an absolute guarantor (Abstrakte Garantie) to the Seller respectively the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser for the due and punctual performance and observance by the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser and the Purchasers’ assigns respectively the Seller and the Seller’s assigns of all their obligations, commitments, undertakings, warranties and indemnities under or pursuant to this Agreement and under or pursuant to the Austrian Demerger Deed, (whereby it is hereby explicitly recorded that

 

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in respect of the indemnities contained in the Austrian Demerger Deed the limitations provided under Clause 12 shall not apply) (the “Guaranteed Obligations”); and

 

14.1.2 agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Seller respectively the Purchaser and, as an irrevocable third party stipulation (derdenbeding), all other members of the Seller’s Group respectively the Purchaser’s Group against all Losses which any of same may suffer through or arising from any breach by the Purchaser and/or the Purchaser’s assigns respectively the Seller and the Seller’s assigns, of the Guaranteed Obligations.

 

14.2 Default; enforcement; non-waiver

 

14.2.1 If and whenever a default occurs for any reason whatsoever in the performance of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Purchaser Parent or the Seller Parent, as the case may be, shall forthwith upon demand unconditionally perform (or procure performance of) and satisfy (or procure the satisfaction of) the Guaranteed Obligations in regard to which such default has been made in the manner prescribed by this Agreement and so that the same benefits shall be conferred on the Seller respectively the Purchaser as it would have received if the Guaranteed Obligations had been duly performed and satisfied by the Purchaser respectively the Seller.

 

14.2.2 As a separate and independent obligation each of the Purchaser Parent and the Seller Parent agrees that any of the Guaranteed Obligations (including any moneys payable) which may not be enforceable against or recoverable from the Purchaser respectively the Seller by reason of any legal limitation, disability or incapacity on or of any of the same or any other fact or circumstances (other than any limitation imposed by this Agreement) shall nevertheless be enforceable against and recoverable from the Purchaser Parent respectively the Seller Parent as though the same had been incurred by the Purchaser Parent respectively the Seller Parent and the Purchaser Parent respectively the Seller Parent were the sole or principal obligor in respect thereof and shall be performed or paid by the Purchaser Parent respectively the Seller Parent on demand.

 

14.2.3 The liability of each of the Purchaser Parent and the Seller Parent under this Clause 14 shall not be released or diminished by any variation of the Guaranteed Obligations or any forbearance, neglect or delay in seeking performance of the Guaranteed Obligations or any granting of time for such performance.

 

15 RESTRICTIONS

 

15.1 Restrictions on Seller

 

15.1.1 The Seller and the Seller Parent undertake with the Purchaser to procure that no member of the Seller’s Group shall, during the Restricted Period:

 

  (a) undertake any Restricted Activity; or

 

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  (b) without the prior written consent of the Purchaser, induce or seek to induce any Employee to become employed whether as employee, consultant or otherwise by any member of the Seller’s Group, whether or not such Employee would thereby commit a breach of his or her contract of service, provided that the placing of an advertisement of a post available to a member of the public generally and the recruitment of a person through an employment agency shall not constitute a breach of this Clause 15.1.1(b), provided that no member of the Seller’s Group instructs or encourages such agency to approach any Employee.

 

15.1.2 The restrictions in Clause 15.1.1 shall not operate to prohibit any member of the Seller’s Group from:

 

  (a) undertaking a Restricted Activity after such time as the Purchaser’s Group ceases to directly carry on a Restricted Activity;

 

  (b) fulfilling any obligation pursuant to this Agreement and any agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement;

 

  (c) acquiring the whole or part of any business if the turnover attributed to Restricted Activities of such business does not (i) represent more than twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate annual turnover thereof and (ii) does not exceed USD 50 million; and

 

  (d) without detracting from Clause 15.1.2(c), holding an interest in a business which is engaged in a Restricted Activity in respect of which the Seller’s Group does not have a majority shareholding or other controlling interest, or the right to nominate the majority of directors or representatives of similar standing to the board of directors or a governing body of similar standing, provided that if such business is listed on any recognised stock exchange, a controlling interest shall be deemed to exist if the interest held amounts to fifteen percent (15%) or more of the outstanding issued share capital of a company.

 

15.2 Restriction on Purchaser

The Purchaser undertakes with the Seller to procure that no member of the Purchaser’s Group shall, during the Restricted Period, without the prior written consent of the Seller actively induce or directly seek to induce any person employed in the Seller’s Group other than the Employees to become employed by any member of the Purchaser’s Group, provided that the placing of an advertisement of a post available to a member of the public generally and the recruitment of a person through an employment agency shall not constitute a breach of this Clause 15.2, provided further that no member of the Purchaser’s Group instructs or encourages such agency to approach any such person.

 

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16 ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY

 

16.1 Announcements

No announcement or circular in connection with the existence or the subject matter of this Agreement shall be made or issued by or on behalf of any member of the Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group without the prior written approval of the Seller and the Purchaser. This shall not affect any announcement or circular required by Law or, if applicable, the rules of any recognised stock exchange on which the shares of any member of either the Seller’s Group or the Purchaser Parent’s Group are listed, provided that the Party or the Purchaser Parent that has, or whose group member has, an obligation to make an announcement or issue a circular, shall consult with the other Party or the Purchaser Parent insofar as is reasonably practicable before compliance with such an obligation.

 

16.2 Confidentiality

 

16.2.1 The Parties acknowledge that the Confidentiality Agreement shall cease to have any force or effect from the Closing Date.

 

16.2.2 Subject to Clause 16.1 and Clause 16.2.3, each of the Parties shall treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information contained in or received or obtained as a result of entering into this Agreement (or any agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement) which relates to:

 

  (a) the provisions of this Agreement or any agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement;

 

  (b) the negotiations relating to this Agreement (or any such other agreement); or

 

  (c) a Party to this Agreement or the business activities carried on by it or any member of its group.

 

16.2.3 Clause 16.2.2 shall not prohibit disclosure or use of any information if and to the extent:

 

  (a) the disclosure or use is required by Law or, if applicable, the rules of any recognised stock exchange on which the shares of any Party (or a member of the Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group or the Purchaser Parent) are listed;
  (b) the disclosure or use is required to vest the full benefit of this Agreement in any Party;

 

  (c) the disclosure or use is required for the purpose of any legal proceedings arising out of this Agreement or any other agreement entered into under or pursuant to this Agreement or the disclosure is made to a Tax Authority in connection with the Tax affairs of the disclosing Party;

 

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  (d) the disclosure is made to professional advisors of any Party on terms that such professional advisors undertake to comply with the provisions of Clause 16.2.2 in respect of such information as if they were a party to this Agreement;

 

  (e) the information is or becomes publicly available other than by breach of the Confidentiality Agreement or of this Agreement;

 

  (f) the other Party has given prior written approval to the disclosure or use; or

 

  (g) the information is independently developed after Closing,

provided that prior to disclosure or use of any information pursuant to Clause 16.2.3(a), the Party concerned promptly notifies the other Party of such requirement with a view to providing the other Party with the opportunity to contest such disclosure or use or otherwise to agree the timing and content of such disclosure or use.

 

17 OTHER PROVISIONS

 

17.1 Further assurances

Each of the Parties shall from time to time execute such documents and perform such acts and things as any Party may reasonably require to transfer the Shares to the Purchaser and to give any Party the full benefit of this Agreement.

 

17.2 Entire agreement

 

17.2.1 This Agreement and its ancillary agreements contain the entire agreement between the parties to this Agreement relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, to the exclusion of any terms implied by Law which may be excluded by contract, and supersedes any previous written or oral agreement between the parties to this Agreement in relation to the matters dealt with in this Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the LOI which is hereby terminated).

 

17.2.2 The Purchaser acknowledges that it has not been induced to enter into this Agreement by any representation, warranty or undertaking not expressly set out in this Agreement.

 

17.3 No assignment

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, no party to this Agreement may, unless with the prior written consent of the Parties, assign, grant any security interest over or otherwise transfer, in whole or in part, any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement.

 

17.4 Waiver

No waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless such waiver is in writing and signed by or on behalf of the party entitled to make such waiver.

 

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17.5 Amendment

No amendment of this Agreement shall be effective unless such amendment is in writing and signed by or on behalf of each of the Parties.

 

17.6 Third-party rights

Save as expressly otherwise stated, this Agreement does not contain any stipulation in favour of a third party (derdenbeding).

 

17.7 Rescission

Without prejudice to Clauses 4.3.1 and 6.4.2(a), the Parties waive their respective rights to rescind or cancel this Agreement on the basis of Sections 6:265 or 6:228 of the Netherlands Civil Code.

 

17.8 Method of payment

 

17.8.1 Any payments shall be effected by crediting for same day value the account specified by the Seller or the Purchaser, as the case may be, on behalf of the Party entitled to the payment (reasonably in advance and in sufficient detail to enable payment by telegraphic or other electronic means to be effected) on or before the due date for payment.

 

17.8.2 Payment of any amount in accordance with this Agreement shall be a good discharge to the payor (and those on whose behalf such payment is made) of its obligation to make such payment and the payor (and those on whose behalf such payment is made) shall not be obliged to see to the application of the payment as between those on whose behalf the payment is received.

 

17.9 No withholding

 

17.9.1 All sums payable under this Agreement shall be paid free and clear of all deductions or withholdings for or on account of Tax whatsoever save only as may be required by law. If any such deductions or withholdings are required to be made by the Party making the payment pursuant to applicable law, such Party shall be obliged to pay to the other Party such sum as will after such deduction or withholding has been made leave the other Party with the same amount as it would have been entitled to receive in the absence of any such requirement to make such deduction or withholding.

 

17.9.2

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Clause 17.9 shall not apply to any Taxes imposed by China on the transfer of the Chinese Shares (including with respect to any adjustment of the Purchase Price allocable to the Chinese Shares under Clause 8). In the case of the transfer of the Chinese Shares under this Agreement, Seller shall timely pay all of the Taxes due with respect to such

 

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transfer in accordance with applicable Law and shall provide proper evidence of payment of such Taxes to Purchaser in a timely manner.

 

17.10 Invalidity

If any provision in this Agreement shall be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, under any Law, such provision or part shall to that extent be deemed not to form part of this Agreement but the legality, validity and enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected. To the extent permitted by Law, such provision shall be deemed substituted by provisions (i) that are valid, legal and enforceable and (ii) the operation and effect of which are as similar as possible to the provisions they substitute for.

 

17.11 Costs

Unless this Agreement provides otherwise, all costs which a party has incurred or must incur in preparing, concluding or performing this Agreement are for its own account. All stamp, transfer, registration, sales and other similar Taxes, duties, fees, imposts, levies and charges and all notarial fees payable in connection with the sale, assignment, transfer or purchase of the Shares under this Agreement shall be paid by the Purchaser, except for stamp duty arising in respect of the transfer of the Chinese Shares, which shall be shared equally between the Parties and except for stamp duty arising out of or triggered in respect of agreements to which the Purchaser is not a party.

 

17.12 Interest

If any Party defaults in the payment when due of any amount payable under this Agreement, then the liability of that Party shall be increased to include interest on such amount from the date when such payment is due under this Agreement until the date of actual payment (both days inclusive) at the Interest Rate.

 

17.13 Notices

 

17.13.1 Notices and other statements in connection with this Agreement and any other agreement that is connected with this Agreement (unless the parties expressly agree otherwise) shall be (i) written in the English language, (ii) delivered by hand, email, facsimile or courier to the recipient’s address as set forth below or to such other address as a Party may notify to the other Parties from time to time and (iii) shall be given:

if to the Seller, to:

 

Name:    NXP B.V.
Address:    High Tech Campus 60
   5656 AG Eindhoven

 

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Country:    The Netherlands
Fax:    +31 40 272 9658
Attention:    General Counsel
if to the Seller Parent, to:
Name:    NXP Semiconductors N.V.
Address:    High Tech Campus 60
   5656 AG Eindhoven
Country:    The Netherlands
Fax:    +31 40 272 9658
Attention:    General Counsel
with a copy to:
Name:    De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Address:    Claude Debussylaan 80
   1082 MD Amsterdam
Country:    The Netherlands
Fax:    +32 20 577 1775
Email:    arne.grimme@debrauw.com
Attention:    Arne Grimme

 

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and   
if to the Purchaser to:
Name:    Knowles Electronics, LLC
Address:    1151 Maplewood Drive, Illinois, USA 60143
Country:    USA
Fax:    630-250-0575
Email:    jeff.niew@knowles.com
Attention:    Jeffrey Niew
if to the Purchaser Parent to:
Name:    Dover Corporation
Address:    3005 Highland Parkway, Suite 200, Downers Grove Illinois, USA 60515
Country:    USA
Fax:    630-743-26575
Email:    IMC@dovercorp.com
Attention:    Ivonne Cabrera and Peter Marshall

 

17.13.2 The Purchaser and the Purchaser Parent for service of process in connection with this Agreement choose domicile at the following address, or such other person or address in the Netherlands as the Purchaser and the Purchaser Parent, acting jointly, may notify to the Seller from time to time:

 

Name:    Baker & McKenzie
Address:    Claude Debussylaan 54, 1082 MD Amsterdam
Country:    The Netherlands
Fax:    + 31 20 626 7949
Email:    mike.jansen@bakermckenzie.com[•]

 

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Attention:    Mike Jansen

 

17.13.3 A notice shall be effective upon receipt and shall be deemed to have been received:

 

  (a) at the time of delivery, if delivered by hand, or courier;

 

  (b) at the time of transmission in legible form, if delivered by fax or email.

 

18 GOVERNING LAW AND SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION

 

18.1 Governing law

This Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, save as expressly otherwise provided therein, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Laws of the Netherlands.

 

18.2 Forum

Except for any dispute relating to the determination of the Statements, which shall be resolved in accordance with the dispute resolution method as set forth in Clause 7.2 and Schedule 11, the Seller, the Seller Parent, the Purchaser and the Purchaser Parent irrevocably agree that all disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, including disputes concerning the existence and validity thereof, shall be finally and exclusively settled by arbitration in accordance with the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”). The tribunal shall be composed of three arbitrators. The place of arbitration shall be Paris. The proceedings shall be conducted in the English language in accordance with the rules of law (regelen des rechts). The right, if any, to discovery is excluded. The ICC shall not be permitted to have the award published. The parties undertake to keep confidential all awards in their arbitration, together with all materials in the proceedings created for the purpose of the arbitration and all other documents produced by another party in the proceedings not otherwise in the public domain, save and to the extent that disclosure may be required of a party by legal duty, to protect or pursue a legal right or to enforce or challenge an award in bona fide legal proceedings before a state court or other judicial authority.

 

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AGREED AND SIGNED ON 22 DECEMBER BY:

     

NXP B.V., as the Seller

     

/s/ Edward R. Arnstein

   

/s/ Mark A. Hamersma

By:

  Edward R. Arnstein     By:   Mark A. Hamersma

Title:

  Senior Vice President     Title:   Proxy holder

Date:

  22/12/10     Date:   December 22, 2010

NXP Semiconductors N.V., as the Seller Parent

     

/s/ Edward R. Arnstein

   

/s/ Mark A. Hamersma

By:

  Edward R. Arnstein     By:   Mark A. Hamersma

Title:

  Senior Vice President     Title:   Proxy holder

Date:

  22/12/10     Date:   December 22, 2010

Knowles Electronics, LLC, as the Purchaser

     

/s/ Peter Marshall

     

By:

  Peter Marshall      

Title:

  Proxy Holder      

Date:

  12/22/10      

 

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Eff Acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH, as the Austrian Purchaser

/s/ Peter Marshall

By:   Peter Marshall
Title:   Proxy Holder
Date:   12/22/10
Dover Corporation, as the Purchaser Parent

/s/ Peter Marshall

By:   Peter Marshall
Title:   Proxy Holder
Date;   12/22/10

 

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Schedule 1 DEFINITIONS

A-Patents” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 13.1 of Schedule 16.

Accounting Principles” means the NXP accounting principles in accordance with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or US GAAP.

Accounts” means the agreed form for the unaudited balance sheet and profit and loss accounts in respect of the Business as of December 31, 2009 and per the Accounts Date and for the year and for the nine months then ended, respectively, with amounts derived from the general ledgers, using the Accounting Principles, and as provided to the Seller in the format of FS-items for the purpose of incorporating these in the Seller’s consolidated balance sheet, but adjusted, in respect of NXP Austria, to reflect solely the assets and liabilities related to the Business. A copy of these Accounts is attached as Schedule 27.

Accounts Date” means the last Sunday of the NXP financial book month of the period of the reported Accounts, being 3 October 2010.

Agreement” means this agreement between the Seller, the Purchaser, the Austrian Purchaser, the Seller Parent and the Purchaser Parent, including the schedules hereto (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes the Ancillary Agreements).

Ancillary Agreements” means the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement and the Transitional Services Agreement, and “Ancillary Agreement” means any one of them.

Assumed Long Term Benefits Liability” has the meaning set forth in Schedule 15.

Anti-Trust Approval” means the anti-trust, merger control or similar approvals, consents and clearances required under Chinese Law for completion of the Transaction.

Audit” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 8.2.1 of Schedule 20.

Austrian Carveout” has the meaning set forth in recital (H).

Austrian Demerger Deed” means the demerger deed in respect of the Austrian Carveout in substantially the same form as attached in Part 1 of Schedule 3.

Austrian Initial Purchase Price” means the portion of the Initial Purchase Price attributable to the Austrian Shares in accordance with Schedule 7.

Austrian Local Sale and Purchase Agreement” means the agreement (in the form of a notarial deed) in substantially the same form as attached to Schedule 5 and entered into between the Parties on or around the date of this Agreement.

 

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Austrian Purchaser” has the meaning set forth in the introduction of this Agreement.

Austrian Shares” means the entire issued share capital of NXP Austria.

B-Patents” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 13.1 of Schedule 16.

Business” has the meaning set forth in recital (B).

Business Day” means a calendar day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, on which commercial banks in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Chicago, Illinois USA are generally open for business.

Business Plan” the business plan in relation to the Business contained in the Virtual Data Room.

China Equity Transfer Agreement” means the agreement in substantially the same form as attached to Schedule 6 and entered into between the Parties on the date specified in Clause 5.6 of this Agreement.

China Transfer Approval” has the meaning set forth in Clause 5.7.

China Transfer Registration” has the meaning set forth in Clause 9.1.1.

China Transfer Registration Certificate” means the certificate to be signed by both Parties in accordance with Clause 9.1.4 substantially in the form set forth in 0 (Part 2).

Chinese Initial Purchase Price” means the portion of the Initial Purchase Price attributable to the Chinese Shares in accordance with Schedule 7.

Chinese Residual Registrations” has the meaning set forth in Clause 9.1.2.

Chinese Shares” means 100% of the issued shares of NXP China.

Closing” means the performance of the actions set forth in Clause 6.3.

Closing Actions” means the closing actions set forth in Schedule 4.

Closing Certificate” means the certificate to be signed by both Parties in accordance with Clause 6.3 substantially in the form set forth in Schedule 26 (Part 1).

Closing Conditions” has the meaning set forth in Clause 4.1 and “Closing Condition” means any one of them.

Closing Date” means the date on which the Closing takes place, which in no event shall be more than 5 calendar days after the Effective Time.

 

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Commercial Agreement” means the commercial agreement agreed and to be entered into between the Purchaser, the Group and the Seller between Signing and Closing on the basis of the binding term sheet, attached hereto as Schedule 21 (Part 3), in relation to the MMDS for group MEMS microphone components.

Competition Authority” means the Anti Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China.

Competition Condition” has the meaning set forth in Clause 4.2.2(a).

Confidentiality Agreement” means the confidentiality agreement dated 1 October 2008 between the Seller and the Purchaser in relation to information concerning the Business.

Consistently Applied” means the consistent application of the Accounting Principles, to be measured on the basis of the application of the Accounting Principles by the Seller’s Group in its financial statements for the period ended on the Accounts Date.

DBBW Account” means the third party bank account (“advocatuurlijke derdengeldrekening”) of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V., account no. 24.34.76.795 from ABN AMRO Bank (Blaak 555, 3011 GB ROTTERDAM), BIC Code FTSBNL2RXXX, IBAN Code NL41 FTSB 0243 4767 95 in the name of “Stg Beheer Derdengelden De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek”.

De Brauw” means De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek N.V.

Disclosure Letter” means the document (together with its attachments) disclosing information constituting exceptions to the Seller’s Warranties, annexed to this Agreement as Schedule 17.

Domain Names” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 13.1 of Schedule 16.

Due Diligence Information” means the information contained in the Virtual Data Room as at 23:59 CET on 9 December 2010 (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, the IPO-prospectus) which information is electronically stored on the DVDs delivered by the Seller to the Purchaser on the Signing Date.

Effective Time” means the end of the day CET on the last day of the monthly reporting period of the Seller’s Group immediately preceding the Closing Date.

Employees” means all those persons who are at the Effective Time employed by:

 

  (a) NXP China or who are, immediately after the Registration Date, employed by NXP Austria; or

 

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  (b) a member of the Seller’s Group (other than the Group Entities) and working primarily or exclusively in the Business and whose details (formal employer, name and country of location) are set forth in Part 2 of Schedule 14.

and “Employee” means any one of them.

Encumbrance” means any charge, mortgage, lien, option, equity, power of sale, pledge, usufruct, retention of title, right of preemption, right of first refusal or other similar third party rights or security interest of any kind or an agreement to create any of the foregoing.

Environment”, “Environmental Authority”, Environmental Law”, “Environmental Permit” and “Event” have the meanings set forth in Paragraph 9.1.

Global Release Letter” means the global release letter issued by the global collateral agent under the NXP Financing

Arrangements, pursuant to which the lenders or secured parties under the NXP Financing Arrangements release the assets of the Group from liens and shall cease to have any rights under any security established over the assets of the Group pursuant to the NXP Financing Arrangements.

Governmental Authority” means any government or any agency, bureau, board, commission, court, department, official, political subdivision, tribunal or other instrumentality of any government, whether supranational, federal, state or local, domestic or foreign.

Group” means NXP China and NXP Austria, taken as a whole.

Group Entities” means NXP China and NXP Austria, and “Group Entity” means anyone of them or the relevant one of them, as the context requires.

Group Material Adverse Effect” means any fact, circumstance or change that has or is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the Business taken as a whole; provided, however, that facts, circumstances or changes or effects resulting from, relating to or arising out of the following shall not be taken into account when determining whether a Group Material Adverse Effect has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (i) general market or economic conditions; (ii) general market or economic conditions in the industries in which the Group conducts the Business; (iii) currency exchange rate fluctuations; (iv) political conditions (including changes arising out of acts of terrorism, sabotage, armed hostilities or war), weather conditions or other force majeure events; (v) changes in Law or changes in the accounting principles pursuant to which the Group is required to change its prior accounting policies or practices; and (vi) any loss of, or adverse change in the relationship with, Employees, customers or suppliers of the Business proximately caused by the pendency or

 

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announcement of the Transaction or any other transactions or actions contemplated by this Agreement.

GSA Agreements” means (a) the General Services Agreement dated 29 September 2006 between the Seller as service provider and NXP China as service recipient and (b) the General Services Agreement dated 29 September 2006 between the Seller as service provider and NXP Austria as service recipient.

Guarantee” means any guarantee, indemnity, surety, letter of comfort, letter of credit or other assurance, security or right of set-off given or undertaken by a Person to secure or support the obligations (actual or contingent) of any other Person, whether given directly or by way of counter-indemnity, excluding Guarantees provided under the NXP Financing Arrangements.

Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Clause 14.1.1.

Hazardous Substances” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 9.1.

ICC” has the meaning set forth in Clause 18.2.

Initial Purchase Price” means USD 855,000,000 (eight hundred and fifty five million United States dollars).

Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement” means the intellectual property transfer and license agreement to be entered into by the Seller and the Group Entities in agreed form attached hereto as Schedule 12.

Interest Rate” means 3 month EURIBOR plus 300 basis points.

Intra-Group Payables” means, in relation to each Group Entity, all amounts owed at any time prior to the Effective Time by that Group Entity to a member of the Seller’s Group (other than the Group Entities) in respect of (a) loans and other indebtedness, in each case including accrued interest calculated consistent with past practice, and (b) trading payables.

Intra-Group Receivables” means, in relation to each Group Entity, all amounts owed at any time prior to the Effective Time by a member of the Seller’s Group (other than the Group Entities) to that Group Entity in respect of (a) loans and other indebtedness, in each case including accrued interest calculated consistent with past practice, and (b) trading receivables.

Know-How” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 13.1 of Schedule 16.

Law” means any applicable statute, law, ordinance, decree, judgment, order, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority.

 

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Liabilities” means all liabilities, duties and obligations of every description, whether deriving from contract, common law, statute, court order or stipulation, or otherwise, whether present or future, actual or contingent, known or unknown, ascertained or unascertained or disputed and whether owed or incurred severally or jointly or as principal or surety, and “Liability” means any one of them or the relevant one of them, as the context requires.

LOI” has the meaning set forth in recital (E).

Losses” means all damage, losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, claims and demands.

Net Cash” means, in relation to each Group Entity, the net cash position (cash plus cash equivalents, cash in transit and current investments available within three (3) months minus outstanding cheques in transit minus third party indebtedness items), of the Group Entity as at the Effective Time in accordance with the Accounting Principles Consistently Applied and included in the line items set forth in Schedule 10, as finally agreed between the Parties or determined in accordance with Clause 7.2 and Schedule 11, excluding any item to be included in calculating the Working Capital.

Net Cash Statement” has the meaning set forth in Clause 7.1.2.

Non-Sonar Business” has the meaning set forth in Recital (H).

Notice of Disagreement” has the meaning set forth in Clause 7.2.1(a).

NXP Austria” means the private limited company, NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH, incorporated under the laws of Austria, further details of which are set forth in Schedule 2.

NXP China” has the meaning set forth in recital (A), further details of which are set forth in Schedule 2.

NXP Financing Arrangements” means financing arrangements entered into by NXP Semiconductors N.V., NXP B.V. and NXP Funding LLC as borrowers, namely the so-called Secured Revolving Credit Facility, Forward Start Revolving Credit Facility, Super Priority Notes, Secured Notes, Unsecured Notes and the Collateral Agency Agreement.

Ordinary Course of Business” means the conduct of the Sound Solutions business in accordance with normal day-to-day customs, practices and procedures and consistent with past practice, including, but not limited to, the Business Plan.

Overprovision” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 4 of Schedule 20.

Parties” means the Seller and the Purchaser collectively, and “Party” means any one of them, as the case may be.

 

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Patents” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 13.1 of Schedule 16.

Permitted Encumbrances” means:

 

  (a) security interests arising under sales contracts with title retention provisions and equipment leases with third parties involving expenditure of less than USD 100,000 (one hundred thousand United States dollars) per year and entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business;

 

  (b) security interests for Taxes and other governmental charges which are not due and payable or which may be paid without penalty; and

 

  (c) any other security interests arising by operation of Law.

Person” means an individual, a company or corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, a trust or other entity, organization or unincorporated association, including a Governmental Authority.

Properties” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 4.1 of Schedule 16, and “Property” means any one of them or the relevant one of them, as the context requires.

Purchase Price” has the meaning set forth in Clause 3.1.

Purchasers” means the Purchaser and Austrian Purchaser, whereas in case the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser enter into any obligation jointly, they shall be jointly liable, and to the extent only the Austrian Purchaser enters into an obligation under this Agreement, the Purchaser shall guarantee the fulfillment of the Austrian Purchaser’s obligation in the meaning, that such guarantee shall be a separate undertaking independent from the Purchaser’s obligation (abstrakte Garantie).

Purchaser Parent” has the meaning set forth in the introduction of this Agreement.

Purchaser Parent’s Group” means Dover Corporation and its respective Subsidiaries from time to time, including, as of the Closing Date, the Group Entities.

Purchaser’s Group” means Knowles Electronics, LLC and its respective Subsidiaries from time to time, including, as of the Closing Date, the Group Entities.

Purchaser’s Warranties” means the representations and warranties set forth in Schedule 18.

Reference Working Capital” means USD 45,711,000 (forty five million seven hundred and eleven thousand United States Dollars)

Registration Date” means the date on which the Austrian Carveout is registered.

 

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Relevant Employees” has the meaning set forth in Schedule 14.

Relevant IP-Rights” has the meaning set forth in Recital (G)

Relevant Period” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 9.1.

Relief” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 1 of Schedule 20.

Reporting Accountant” means Deloitte or, if that firm is unable or unwilling to act in any matter referred to them under this Agreement, a firm of accountants to be agreed by the Seller and the Purchaser within five (5) Business Days of a notice by the Seller to the Purchaser, or vice versa, requiring such agreement or, failing such agreement, to be nominated on the application of the Seller or the Purchaser by or on behalf of the chairman of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Representative” means any officer, employee, legal advisor, financial advisor, accountant or other agent, of the Party concerned.

Restricted Activity” means the Business as carried on at Signing by the Group Entities.

Restricted Period” means three (3) years commencing on the Closing Date, or such shorter period of time recognised by Law as being binding on the Seller, and the other members of the Seller’s Group.

Retained Intra-Group Agreements” means those agreements listed in Schedule 8.

Retirement Benefit Arrangements” has the meaning set forth in Schedule 15.

Seller” has the meaning set forth in the introduction of this Agreement.

Seller Parent” has the meaning set forth in the introduction of this Agreement.

Seller’s Group” means the Seller Parent and its Subsidiaries from time to time (excluding, as of the Closing Date, the Group Entities).

Seller’s Warranties” means the representations and warranties set forth in Schedule 16.

Shares” means the Austrian Shares and the Chinese Shares.

Signing” means the signing of this Agreement by the Parties.

Signing Date” means the date on which the last Party to sign this Agreement does so.

Software” has the meaning set forth in paragraph 13.1 of Schedule 16.

 

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Statements” has the meaning set forth in Clause 7.1.2.

Subsidiary” means:

 

  (a) in respect of the Purchaser, any and all Persons with respect to which, now or hereafter, Knowles Electronics, LLC; or

 

  (b) in respect of the Seller, any and all Persons with respect to which, now or hereafter, Seller Parent,

directly or indirectly, holds more than fifty percent (50%) of the nominal value of, or more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power at general meetings, or has the power to appoint and to dismiss a majority of the directors or otherwise to direct the activities of such Person, or any other Person qualifying as a ‘subsidiary” as referred to in Section 2:24a Netherlands Civil Code, excluding in the case of Subsidiaries of the Seller or the Seller Parent, Trident Microsystems, Inc.

Taxation” or “Tax” means all forms of taxation whether direct or indirect and whether levied by reference to income, profits, gains, net wealth, excise, import, asset values, turnover, added value or other reference and statutory, governmental, state, provincial, local governmental or municipal impositions, duties, contributions, rates and levies (including without limitation social security contributions and any other payroll taxes), whenever and wherever imposed (whether imposed by way of a withholding or deduction or otherwise) and in respect of any person as well as all penalties, fines, charges and interest relating thereto.

Tax Authority” means any taxing or other authority competent to impose any liability in respect of Taxation or responsible for the administration and/or collection of Taxation or enforcement of any law in relation to Taxation.

Tax Liability” means any liability of any of the Group Entities to make an actual payment of (or in respect of) Tax.

Tax Refund” has the meaning set forth in Paragraph 3 of Schedule 20.

Tax Return” means any return, declaration, report or information return relating to Taxes, including any schedule or attachments thereto, and including any amendment thereof.

Tax Warranties” means Seller’s Warranties in Paragraph 11 of Schedule 16.

Transaction” means the sale, purchase, assignment and transfer of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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Transitional Services Agreement” means the transitional services agreement to be entered into by the Seller and the Purchaser attached hereto in agreed form as Schedule 13.

Virtual Data Room” means the electronic data room created for purposes of the Transaction and maintained by Imprima Group.

Working Capital” means, in relation to each Group Entity, the working capital of the Group Entity as at the Effective Time in accordance with the Accounting Principles Consistently Applied and consisting of the line items set forth in Schedule 9, as finally agreed between the Parties or determined in accordance with Clause 7.2 and Schedule 11, excluding any item to be included in calculating the Net Cash.

Working Capital Adjustment” means, in relation to each Group Entity, the amount by which its Working Capital is greater than its Reference Working Capital (in which case such amount shall be expressed as a positive figure) or by which its Working Capital is less than its Reference Working Capital (in which case such amount shall be expressed as a negative figure) as set out in Clause 8.1.

Working Capital Statement” has the meaning set forth in Clause 7.1.1.

 

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Schedule 2 THE GROUP ENTITIES

1 NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH

 

Registration Number:    FN 282889 p   
Registered Office:    Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Wien
Date and place of incorporation:    23.09.2006, Vienna
Authorised share capital:    EUR 7,500,000
Paid in share capital:    EUR 7,500,000
Shareholders:    NXP B.V. (100%)
Shares held:    1 share in a nominal value of EUR 7.500.000
Directors:    Ernst Müllner, born 10.06.1954
   Dr. Volker Graeger, born 29.08.1950
   Arno Campostrini, born 07.07.1964

2 NXP Semiconductors Beijing Ltd

 

Registration Number:    110000410153239
Registered Office:    No.20 Tongji South Road, Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Date and place of incorporation:    22 November, 2000, Beijing
Registered capital:    USD 54,452,400
Shareholders and shares held:    NXP B.V. (100%)
Directors:    Mike Yeh
   Ernst Muellner
   David Siu Kee Kiang
   Carlo van den Akker.

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

Schedule 3    AUSTRIAN CARVEOUT


DEMERGER PLAN

concerning the demerger of the

“semiconductors” business to a new recipient company

from

NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH

FN 282889 p

Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12

1100 Vienna

(hereinafter referred to as “NXP Semiconductors”)

as transferring company to

NXP Austria GmbH

Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12

1100 Vienna

(hereinafter referred to as “NXP Austria”)

as recipient company as follows:


Definitions
EStG    shall mean the Federal Act on the taxation of income of individuals (Income Tax Act 1988 (nineteen eighty-eight) Federal Law Gazette 1988/400 (nineteen eighty-eight/four hundred), as amended from time to time.
Opening Balance Sheet    shall mean the opening balance sheet of NXP Austria for the year ending on 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven), which recognizes the assets actually transferred to NXP Austria in the course of the demerger.
NewCo    shall mean NXP Austria.
NXP Austria    shall mean a company with limited liability organized under the laws of Austria with its seat in Vienna, and its business address at Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Vienna, which will come into existence in the course of the demerger.
NXP Semiconductors    shall mean NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH, a company with limited liability organized under the laws of Austria with its seat in Vienna and its business address at Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Vienna, registered under number FN 282889 p in the commercial register of the Vienna Commercial Court.
NXV B.V.    shall mean NXP B.V., a company established under the laws of the Netherlands, with its seat in Eindhoven and its business address at High Tech Campus 60, NLD-5656AG Eindhoven, registered under number 17070622 of the companies register of Eindhoven.
Closing Balance Sheet    shall mean the closing balance sheet of NXP Semiconductors for the year ending 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten), being part of the annual accounts of NXP Semiconductors for the year ending 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten).
SpaltG    shall mean the Federal Act on the demerger of corporations (Demerger Act), Federal Law Gazette 1996/304 (nineteen ninety-six/three hundred and four), as amended from time to time.
Demerger Balance Sheet    shall mean the balance sheet of NXP Seminconductors for the year ending 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven), which recognizes the assets retained by NXP Semiconductors after the demerger.
Semiconductors Business    shall mean the competence and research center in Gratkorn for chip-based identification technology on RFID basis for the application in connection with Tags, electronic labels, Smart

 

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   Cards and products for the car industry.
Sound Solutions Business    shall mean the research with, the development and production of, the marketing, sale and distribution of audio transducers and audio transducer modules especially for (i) dynamic speakers/receivers and MEMS microphone applications, (ii) mobile phone headset devices and (iii) joystick sensor devices.
Transferring Company    shall mean NXP Semiconductors.
UmgrStG    shall mean the Federal Act by which tax measures in connection with the reorganization of companies are taken and which amends the 1988 (nineteen eighty-eight) Individual Income Tax Act, the 1988 (nineteen eighty-eight) Corporation Tax Act, the 1955 (nineteen fifty-five) Act on the Valuation of Companies, the Act on Structural Improvements and the Fiscal Crimes and Penalties Act (Reorganization Tax Act), Federal Law Gazette 1991/699 (nineteen ninety-one/six hundred and ninety-nine), as amended.

 

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Preamble

NXP Seminconductors is currently engaged in the “Sound Solutions” and “Semiconductors” businesses in Austria. NXP Semiconductors intends to separate those two businesses by way of transferring and demerging the Semiconductors Business from NXP Semiconductors as Transferring Company to NXP Austria as NewCo according to the terms and conditions of the SpaltG and the UmgrStG.

 

1. Subject-matter of Agreement

NXP Semiconductors, as Transferring Company, transfers to NXP Austria, as thereby established company, the Semiconductors Business by way of a transfer of assets to a new recipient company (Abspaltung zur Neugründung) pursuant to § 1 (Section one) paragraph 2 (two) number 2 (two) and § 2 (Section two) et seq of the SpaltG, subject to the application of Article VI (six) UmgrStG.

 

2. Mandatory particulars of the Agreement [§ 2 (Section two) SpaltG]

 

2.1 Transferring and Recipient Companies and articles of association of the companies[§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 1 (one) SpaltG]

 

  2.1.1 Transferring Company is NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH, a company with limited liability organized under the laws of Austria with its seat in Vienna and its business address at Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Vienna, registered under number FN 282889 p in the commercial register of the Vienna Commercial Court. Transferring Company will survive after the consummation of the demerger.

 

  2.1.2 Newly-established company is NXP Austria, a company with limited liability organized under the laws of Austria with its seat in Vienna and its business address at Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Vienna, which will come into existence in the course of the demerger.

 

  2.1.3 The articles of association of NXP Semiconductors will not be changed on the occasion of the demerger of the Semiconductors Business; a restated version of NXP Semiconductors’ articles of association need hence not be attached to this Agreement.

 

  2.1.4 NXP Austria’s articles of association are attached hereto as Exhibit /.2.1.4.

 

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2.2 Transfer agreement [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 2 (two) SpaltG]

NXP Semiconductors, as Transferring Company, declares to transfer to NXP Austria as thereby newly-established company its Semiconductors Business by way of a demerger that does not change the shareholding ratios (verhältniswahrende Abspaltung zur Neugründung) along with all related rights and obligations by way of universal succession pursuant to Section 2 et seq SpaltG and Article VI UmgrStG. That transfer is effective retroactively for purposes of tax law and the law of obligations as of the expiration of 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December 2010).

Transferring Company will survive after the consummation of the demerger.

 

2.3 Allotment of shares [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 3 (three) SpaltG]

 

  2.3.1 The share capital of NXP Semiconductors amounts to EUR 7,500,000 (Euros seven million five hundred thousand). NXP Semiconductors’ sole shareholder is NXP B.V., the latter holding a share in the nominal amount of EUR 7,500,000 that represents a participation of 100%.

 

  2.3.2 The share capital of the NewCo NXP Austria will be EUR 1,000,000 (Euro one million) and will be fully paid up by way of transfer of the assets.

 

  2.3.3 The demerger does not result in a change of shareholding ratios. Transferring Company’s sole shareholder will receive the entire share in NXP Austria as a result of the demerger. Transferring Company’s shareholder will hence receive 100% of the shares of NXP Austria. It is therefore not necessary to determine a share exchange ratio.

 

  2.3.4 Cash payments or payments to third parties will not be made.

 

2.4 Decrease of share capital [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 4 (four) SpaltG]

 

  2.4.1 NXP Semiconductors’ share capital in the amount of EUR 7,500,000 (Euros seven million five hundred thousand) will not be decreased on the occasion of the demerger. The provisions of Section 3 SpaltG, including but not limited to § 3 (4) SpaltG, are complied with.

 

  2.4.2 The sum total of the share capitals (nominal capitals) of the NewCo and the Recipient Company is not lower than the Transferring Company’s share capital prior to the demerger. The Transferring Company’s share capital (nominal capital) amounts to EUR 7,500,000 (Euros seven million five hundred thousand). Transferring Company’s appropriated reserves amount to EUR 3,250,000 (Euro three million and two hundred and fifty thousand).

 

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  2.4.3 The actual value of Transferring Company’s residual net assets is at least equal to the amount of its share capital (nominal capital) plus appropriated reserves after the consummation of the demerger. Similarly, the actual value of the NewCo’s net assets after the consummation of the demerger and hence NesCo’s registration in the commercial register is at least equal to its share capital (nominal capital).

 

  2.4.4 Compliance with these terms will be reviewed by an auditor appointed by the registry court for the purpose of auditing the formation procedure of the NewCo and the Transferring Company’s residual net assets.

 

2.5 Granting of shares [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 5 (five) SpaltG]

Pursuant to Section 2.3, there will not be a change in the Transferring Company’s shareholder structure. As a result of the demerger, Transferring Company’s sole shareholder will receive the entire share in NXP Austria, which represents a fully paid up initial contribution of EUR 1,000,000 (Euro one million). Cash payments or payments to third parties will not be made (see Section 2.3.4).

 

2.6 Right to net profit [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 6 (six) SpaltG]

The shares in NewCo will grant a right to a share in net profits as of the day of the establishment of the company.

 

2.7 Demerger effective date and retroactive effect [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 7 (seven) SpaltG]

Demerger effective date within the meaning of § 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 7 (seven) SpaltG and § 33 (Section thirty-three) paragraph 6 (six) UmgrStG shall be 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten). The demerger effective date is the same as the Transferring Company’s Closing Balance Sheet date. As between the companies involved in the demerger, namely NXP Semiconductors and NXP Austria, all acts NXP Semiconductors is taking in respect of the Semiconductors Business shall be deemed taken for the account of NewCo as of the expiration of the demerger effective date, thus as of the beginning of 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven) for the purpose of tax law and the law of obligations. Any changes in the assets and the contractual relationships of the Semiconductors Business having occurred or occurring between the demerger effective date and the date on which the

 

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demerger is registered in the commercial register shall be attributable to NewCo.

 

2.8 Rights [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 8 (eight) SpaltG]

Rights within the meaning of § 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) no 8 (eight) SpaltG will not be granted to individual shareholders and other persons and special measures will not be taken for those persons.

 

2.9 Special advantages [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 9 (nine) SpaltG]

Neither members of the managing boards or of the supervisory boards of any of the companies involved in the demerger nor the auditor of the closing balance sheet, demerger balance sheet or residual assets or any other auditor will be granted any special advantage. The compensation payable to the auditor of the closing balance sheet and the auditor of the opening balance sheet and residual assets is adequate and does not represent a special advantage within the meaning of § 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 9 (nine) SpaltG.

 

2.10 Description and allocation of assets [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 10 (ten) SpaltG]

 

  2.10.1 The demerger hereunder involves the transfer of the entire Semiconductors Business of NXP Semiconductors along with all rights and obligations and all contractual relationships of the Semiconductors Business and is carried out on the basis of the Closing Balance Sheet ending 31 December 2010 (Exhibit./1), the Opening Balance Sheet (Exhibit./2), and the Demerger Balance Sheet after the demerger of the Semiconductors Business (Exhibit ./3), hereinafter referred to as the “Assets”.

 

  2.10.2 The Assets include but are not limited to:

 

  a. all assets and liabilities of the Semiconductors Business set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.2a;

 

  b. any machinery, furniture and fixtures, and other property, plant and equipment pertaining to the Semiconductors Business set forth in Exhibit .2.10.2b;

 

  c. all contracts, except those exclusively attributable to the Sound Solutions Business, including any amendment, modification and collateral understanding, including but not limited to any supplier, customer, management and consulting agreements, any financing and lease agreements, including but not limited to the contracts pertaining to the Semiconductors Business set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.2c;

 

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  d. all insurance contracts pertaining to the Semiconductors Business set forth in Exhibit./2.10.2d;

 

  e. all contracts of employment with employees assigned to the Semiconductors Business set forth in Exhibit 2.10.2e, including any liabilities arising from entitlements and claims of these employees from or in connection with these contracts of employment, including but not limited to liabilities arising from (i) claims with respect to pension agreements, (ii) claims with respect to post-termination payments, (iii) bonus agreements, (iv) loyalty benefits agreements, (v) payments for unconsumed annual leave and (vi) unjustified termination of employment and existing liabilities, if any, arising from bonus payments with employees, that are associated with Sound Solution Business for periods of time before 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven) according to Exhibit 2.10.3e;

 

  f. all legal disputes in which the Semiconductors Business is involved either as plaintiff or defendant, arbitration proceedings and administrative and other proceedings, including but not limited to those set forth in Exhibit./2.10.2f;

 

  g. all patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights, except those exclusively attributable to the Sound Solutions Business, including but not limited to those set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.2g;

 

  h. the real property belonging to the Semiconductors Business set forth in Exhibit./2.10.2h;

 

  i. all known, conditional or unconditional liabilities, pertaining or relating to the assets to be transferred hereunder set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.2i as well as any unknown, conditional or unconditional liability, pertaining or relating to the assets to be transferred hereunder;

 

  j. all liabilities pertaining to the Semiconductors Business, including provisions and accruals, accrued and deferred items, untaxed reserves as well as the contingent liabilities shown in the Opening Balance Sheet attached as Exhibit./2.10.2j as well as any unknown, conditional or unconditional liability, pertaining or relating to the assets to be transferred hereunder.

 

  k.

the rights and claims of the company to (A) the total amount of the research and education premium pursuant to Art 108c EStG for the business year 2010 pertaining to the transferring company; (B) the total amount of the apprenticeship premium pursuant to Art 108f EStG for the business year 2010 pertaining to the transferring company, as well as (C) the pro rata research premium pursuant to Art 108c EstG for the period as of the demerger effective date until the date of registration of the demerger with the companies register, in each case irrespective of whether the constitutive facts for any of these rights and

 

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entitlements of the company pertain to the Semiconductors or Sound Solution Business.

It is held that on 08 February 2011, NXP B.V. as sole shareholder of the transferring company has resolved on the distribution of parts of the balance sheet profits as of 31 December 2010 in an amount of EUR 54 million (Euro fifty four million). The funds necessary for the performance of dividend payment as well as the equity position and the related liabilities respectively are assigned to the assets to be transferred hereunder. Pursuant to Art 33 para 5 in connection with Art 16 para 5 number 5 UmgrStG, corresponding liabilities are shown in the tax balance sheet.

Further it is held that the transferring company intends to pay all employees / managing director / supervisory board member premiums and bonus payments pertaining to the period before 01 January 2011 (first January two thousand and eleven) before the day of the registration of the demerger in the companies register. The funds necessary for the performance of the employees / managing director / supervisory board member premiums and bonus payments, as well as the respective debt position are assigned to the assets to be transferred hereunder.

 

  2.10.3 The assets to be demerged does not include:

 

  a. all assets and liabilities of the Sound Solutions Business set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.3a;

 

  b. any machinery, furniture and fixtures, and other property, plant and equipment pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.3b;

 

  c. all contracts exclusively attributable to the Sound Solutions Business, including any amendment, modification and collateral understanding, including but not limited to any supplier, customer, management and consulting agreements, any financing and lease agreements set forth in Exhibit ./2.10.3c;

 

  d. all insurance contracts pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business set forth in Exhibit./2.10.3d;

 

  e.

all contracts of employments with employees assigned to the Sound Solutions Business as set forth in Exhibit./2.10.3e, including any liabilities arising from entitlements and claims of these employees from or in connection with these contracts of employment, including but not limited to liabilities arising from (i) claims with respect to post-termination payments, (ii) bonus agreements for periods of time commencing after 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten), (iii) loyalty benefits agreements, (iv) from unconsumed annual leave and (v) unjustified termination of employment, whereas it

 

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is explicitly stated that liabilities arising from bonus payments agreements for periods of time before 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven) are part of the assets to be demerged;

 

  f. all legal disputes in which the Sound Solutions Business is involved either as plaintiff or defendant, arbitration proceedings and administrative and other proceedings, including but not limited to those set forth in Annex./2.10.3f;

 

  g. all patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights exclusively pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business as set forth in Exhibit./2.10.3g;

 

  h. all liabilities, whether known, conditional or unconditional, pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business according to Exhibit ./2.10.3h as well as liabilities, whether unknown, conditional or unconditional pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business;

 

  i. all liabilities pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business, including provisions and accruals, accrued and deferred items, untaxed reserves as well as contingent liabilities as shown in the Opening Balance Sheet attached as Exhibit./2.10.3i, as well as .liabilities, whether unknown, conditional or unconditional pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business.

 

2.11 Allocation of residual assets [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 11 (eleven) SpaltG]

The allocation contained in Section 2.10 of those assets to be transferred to the NewCo shall not be final. Pursuant to § 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 11 (eleven) SpaltG, it is agreed that both assets and liabilities or legal relationships which are not attributable to any of the companies involved in the demerger shall be attributable to NXP Austria.

 

2.12 Balance sheets [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 12 (twelve) SpaltG]

 

  2.12.1 This demerger is consummated in reliance on the following balance sheets which are attached hereto and shall form integral parts hereof:

 

  a. as Exhibit ./1, the Closing Balance Sheet of NXP Semiconductors as Transferring Company as of the demerger effective date 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten) along with notes thereto within the meaning of § 2 (1) (12) and § 2 (2) SpaltG;

 

  b.

as Exhibit ./2, the Opening balance sheet of NXP Austria as NewCo which shows the transferred assets effective with the

 

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demerger of the Semiconductors Business along with all related rights and obligations, including but not limited to those of the Semiconductors Business;

 

  c. as Exhibit ./3, the Demerger Balance Sheet of NXP Semiconductors as Transferring Company for the year ending 1 January 2011 (first January two thousand and eleven) after the demerger of the Semiconductors Business, which shows the assets retained by Transferring Company.

 

2.13 Cash compensation [§ 2 (Section two) paragraph 1 (one) number 13 (thirteen) SpaltG]

Information about a cash compensation is redundant, because the demerger does not involve a change of the shareholdings and legal forms of the companies concerned.

 

3. Reorganization tax law

§§ 33 to 38 UmgrStG are applicable to the respective demerger.

 

3.1 Continued valuation at carrying value

This demerger will be consummated pursuant to the provisions of Article VI (six) UmgrStG based on a continued valuation of assets at their carrying value for tax purposes and by taking advantage of the related benefits. [Any difference which may arise from valuing assets at their carrying value under commercial law will be transferred to the Recipient Company’s non-appropriated capital reserves.]

 

3.2 Partial business and positive market value

The Assets represent a partial business pursuant to § 32 (Section thirty-two) paragraph 1 (one) UmgrStG in conjunction with § 12 (Section twelve) paragraph 2 (two) number 1 (one) UmgrStG. The Assets’ market value is positive both on the demerger effective date and on the date of the set-up of this Demerger Plan.

 

3.3 Taxation right of the Republic of Austria

The Republic of Austria’s right to tax the hidden reserves, including a goodwill, if any, of NewCo is not restricted (§ 31 (Section thirty-one) paragraph 1 (one) UmgrStG).

Before the demerger there was no right to tax the hidden reserves on a shareholder level. Also after the demerger there will not be a right to tax the

 

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hidden reserves of the shareholders of the transferring company (NXP Semiconductors) and of NewCo (NXP Austria).

 

3.4 Losses

The Assets represent a partial business pursuant to § 32 (Section thirty-two) in conjunction with § 12 (Section twelve) paragraph 2 (two) number 1 (one) UmgrStG intended to generate income pursuant to § 2 (Section two) paragraph 3 (three) number 3 (three) EStG. In the context of a continued valuation of assets at their carrying value, losses, if any, which NXP Semiconductors may have incurred up until the demerger effective date shall be deemed deductible losses of NXP Austria from NXP Austria’s tax assessment period following the demerger effective date, provided these losses are attributable to the demerged partial business and could not be used for tax purposes of the transferring company by the end of the business year ending with the demerger effective date.

 

3.5 Exemption from capital transfer taxes

The entire demerged Semiconductors Business has been part of the Transferring Company’s assets for more than two years. This demerger is thus exempt from capital transfer taxes pursuant to § 38 (Section thirty-eight) paragraph 5 (five) bullet point 2 (two) UmgrStG.

 

4. Transfer of title

 

4.1 Recognizable assets and liabilities are shown in the Opening Balance Sheet (Exhibit./2) which shows also any benefit and encumbrance with respect to the transferred assets due up until the demerger effective date, provided those must be recognized. Also those assets, albeit part of the Semiconductors Business, which are not separately recognized in that balance sheet will be transferred.

 

4.2 At the inception of the day subsequent to the demerger effective date 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December nineteen and ten), any benefit and encumbrance with respect to the transferred assets shall transfer to NewCo, the latter acceding to any of Transferring Company’s pending transactions and contracts that are attributed to it. From that date onward, Transferring Company’s actions pertaining to the Assets shall be deemed taken for the NewCo’s account, and the Assets will hence transfer to NewCo for the purposes of tax law and the law of obligations with retroactive effect upon the inception of the day subsequent to the demerger effective date 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten).

 

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5. Public permits

Any real public permits (dingliche öffentlich-rechtliche Bewilligungen) concerning the Semiconductors Business will transfer to the NewCo by operation of the law. Other public permits shall be transferred and/or re- issued, if necessary. The necessary measures, including but not limited to pertinent applications and filings, shall be procured directly by NXP Austria, if necessary.

 

6. Contracts of employment

For the record, with the registration of the demerger into the commercial register, NXP Austria will replace Transferring Company as employer under the contracts of employment with the employees of the Semiconductors Business according to Exhibit ./2.10.2e.

 

7. Real estate

Immovable property will be transferred to NXP Austria by virtue of this demerger plan (see Section 2.10.2h).

 

8. Mutual indemnification

 

8.1 NXP Semiconductors as Transferring Company undertakes to hold harmless and indemnify NewCo for and against all liabilities attributable to the Sound Solution Business.

 

8.2 NXP Austria undertakes to hold harmless and indemnify NXP Semiconductors for and against all liabilities attributable to the Semiconductors Business.

 

9. Conditions precedent and subsequent

 

9.1 The effectiveness of this Demerger Plan shall be subject to its approval by the shareholders’meeting of NXP Semiconductors.

 

9.2 The effectiveness of this Demerger Plan shall also be subject to the condition subsequent of the demerger described herein being filed for registration in the commercial register by 30 September 2011 (thirtieth of September two thousand and eleven) at the latest.

 

10. Other provisions

 

10.1 Dr. Volker Graeger, born 29 August 1950, resident at Zusertalgasse 64g, 8010 Graz, Mag. Irene Pseiner, born 16 December 1969, resident at Antoniehöhe 5, 8130 Frohnleiten, and Dipl. Ing. Andreas Mühlberger, born 7 July 1967, resident at Hörgas 303/4, 8103 Eisbach shall be appointed as

 

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managing directors of NXP Austria. They shall represent the NXP Austria collectively together with a managing director or an authorized agent.

 

10.2 A supervisory board will be installed for NXP Austria in the course of the demerger and/or the formation of NXP Austria.

 

10.3 In the context of this demerger, application will be made to strike NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH Styria, an NXP Semiconductors branch, from the commercial register.

 

11. Expenses

All expenses, duties and taxes arising in connection with the drawing up and consummation of this Demerger Plan shall be borne by NewCo.

 

12. Final provisions

 

12.1 This demerger plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Austrian law.

 

12.2 Place of jurisdiction shall be Vienna.

 

12.3 Should any term hereof be or become invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms. The invalid or unenforceable term shall be replaced by a valid or enforceable term that closest reflects the economic substance of the invalid or unenforceable term.

 

13. Exhibits

The following Exhibits are attached to this demerger plan and form integral parts hereof:

 

Exhibit ./ 1

   NXP Semiconductors’ Closing Balance Sheet for the year ending 31 December 2010 (thirty-first of December two thousand and ten)

Exhibit ./2

   NXP Austria’s Opening Balance Sheet for the year ending 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven)

Exhibit ./3

   NXP Semiconductors’ Transfer Balance Sheet for the year ending 1 January 2011 (first of January two thousand and eleven)

Exhibit . / 2.1.4.

   NXP Austria’s articles of association

Exhibit ./2.10.2a

   Assets and liabilities of the Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./2.10.2b

   Machinery, furniture and fixtures, and other property, plant and equipment pertaining to the Semiconductors

 

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   Business

Exhibit ./2.10.2c

   Contractual Relationships of Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./2.10.2d

   Insurance Contracts pertaining to the Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.2e

   List of all employees of Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.2f

   Legal Disputes of Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.2g

   IP of Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.2h

   Real Property belonging to Semiconductors Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.2i

   Liabilities pertaining or relating to the assets to be transferred

Exhibit ./ 2.10.2j

   Liabilities pertaining to the Semiconductors’ Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3a

   Assets and liabilities of Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3b

   Machinery, furniture and fixtures, and other property, plant and equipment pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3c

   Contractual Relationships of Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3d

   Insurance Contracts pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3e

   List of all employees of Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3f

   Legal Disputes of Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3g

   IP of Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3h

   Liabilities pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business

Exhibit ./ 2.10.3i

   Liabilities pertaining to the Sound Solutions Business, including provisions and accruals, accrued and deferred items, untaxed reserves as well as contingent liabilities

 

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   Vienna, dated 8 March 2011

NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH

 

 

Arno Campostrini,

 

 

Ernst Müller,

born 7 July 1964   born 10 June 1954

 

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Schedule 4 CLOSING ACTIONS

 

1 Evidence of authority

 

1.1 Seller’s obligations

At Closing, the Seller shall deliver or make available to the Purchaser:

 

  (a) evidence of the due satisfaction of the Closing Conditions;

 

  (b) evidence that each of the Seller Parent and the Seller is authorised to sign this Agreement;

 

  (c) the Global Release Letter;

 

  (d) a certificate that, to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, all intra-group balances have been settled in accordance with Clause 5.3.1; and

 

  (e) a certificate that, to the best of the Seller’s knowledge, all intra-group agreements have been terminated or amended in accordance with Clause 5.3.2.

 

1.2 Purchaser’s obligations

At Closing, the Purchaser shall deliver or make available to the Seller:

 

  (a) evidence of the due satisfaction of the Closing Conditions;

 

  (b) evidence that each of the Purchaser Parent and the Purchaser is authorised to sign this Agreement.

 

2 Transfer of the Shares

 

2.1 General transfer obligations

At Closing, the Seller and the Purchaser shall take such steps as are required to transfer the Shares.

 

2.2 Specific transfer obligations

For the purposes of compliance with Paragraph 2.1, the Seller and the Purchaser shall do the following, in relation to the Group Entities incorporated in the jurisdictions listed below:

 

  (a) Austria: The Seller shall sell, assign and transfer the Austrian Shares to the Austrian Purchaser, the foregoing to be effected in accordance with terms of the Austrian Local Sale and Purchase Agreement.

 

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  (b) China: The Seller shall sell and transfer the Chinese Shares to the Purchaser, the foregoing to be effected in accordance with terms of the China Equity Transfer Agreement.

 

3 Further obligations in addition to transfer

At Closing, the Seller shall deliver or make available to the Purchaser the following:

 

  (a) in each case where the said information is not in the possession or under the control of the Group Entities, the corporate books and records, including the shareholders” register and share certificates in respect of the Group Entities, and all other books and records required to be kept by Law by any Group Entity, all to the extent they are in the possession or under the control of any member of the Seller’s Group (excluding the Group Entities); and

 

  (b) in each case where the information is not otherwise already in the possession or under the control of the Group Entities at Closing, such other books and records in the possession or under the control of the Seller or relevant other member of the Seller’s Group (excluding the Group Entities) relating exclusively to the Group Entities save for books, records and other information which such member of the Seller’s Group is required by Law to retain.

 

4 Ancillary Agreements

At Closing, each of the Parties shall, and shall procure that the relevant members of the Seller’s Group and the Purchaser’s Group, as the case may, and/or the relevant Group Entities, shall, enter into the following Ancillary Agreements:

 

  (a) the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement, the agreed form of which is attached as Schedule 12;

 

  (b) the Transitional Services Agreement, the agreed form of which is attached as Schedule 13;

 

  (c) the binding term sheet for product category 1: smart speaker drivers, substantially in the form attached hereto as Schedule 21 (Part 1);

 

  (d) the binding term sheet for product category 2B: AGC- based MMDs for K&S, substantially in the form attached hereto as Schedule 21(Part 2);

 

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  (e) the Commercial Agreement for product category 2A: MMDs for group MEMS microphone components; and

 

  (f) the binding term sheet for produce category 3: optical joystick for KFS substantially in the form attached here to as Schedule 21 (Part 3).
 

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

 

Schedule 5 AUSTRIAN LOCAL TRANSFER DOCUMENT


[FORM REQUIREMENT: AUSTRIAN NOTARIAL DEED]

Share Purchase and Transfer Agreement

concluded by and between

NXP B.V.

companies register Eindhoven 17070622

High Tech Campus 60

NLD-5656 AG Eindhoven

(the “Seller”)

ON THE ONE HAND

And

Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH

companies register of the Vienna Commercial Court

Porzellangasse 31

1090 Wien

(the “Purchaser”)

ON THE OTHER HAND

as follows:


1. Preamble

 

1.1 NXP B.V. with corporate seat in Eindhoven and business address at High Tech Campus 60, NLD-5656AG Eindhoven, registered in the Eindhoven companies register under 17070622 (the “Seller”), is the sole shareholder of NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH with corporate seat in Vienna and business address at Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Wien, registered in the companies register of the Vienna Commercial Court under FN 282889 p (the “Company”).

 

1.2 Seller holds a share in the Company with a nominal value of EUR 7.500.000 (Euro seven million five hundred thousand), fully contributed, corresponding to a participation of 100 % (one hundred percent) of the nominal share capital of the Company (the “Share”).

 

1.3 Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH is a limited liability company, duly established and existing under the laws of Austria with corporate seat in Vienna and business address at Porzellangasse 51, 1090 Wien, registered in the companies register of the Vienna Commercial Court under 354699 t (the “Purchaser”; the Seller and the Purchaser are collectively also referred to as the “Parties” and each of the Parties is individually also referred to as a “Party”).

 

2. Sale and Transfer of the Share

 

2.1 Seller hereby sells and, subject to the fulfilment of the Condition Precedent pursuant to Clause 4 of this Agreement, with effect as of the Closing Date, transfers and assigns the Share in the Company to Purchaser.

 

2.2 The Purchaser hereby purchases and, subject to the fulfilment of the Condition Precedent pursuant to Clause 4 of this Agreement, with effect as of the Closing Date, accepts this transfer and assignment of the Share.

 

3. Purchase Price and Other Terms

The purchase price for the Share amounts to USD [693,400,000] ([six hundred ninety three million four hundred thousand United States Dollars]) and is subject to adjustment as separately agreed between the Parties (the “Purchase Price”). In addition, other terms including representations, warranties and indemnities have been separately agreed between the Parties.

 

4. Condition Precedent

The purchase, transfer and assignment of the Share shall be conditional and effective upon receipt by De Brauw on its third party account of the Purchase Price, free and clear of any deductions and withholdings, in immediately available funds. The date on which the Purchase Price shall be received shall be the “Closing Date”.

 

5. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

 

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5.1 This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Law of the Netherlands, subject to Austrian mandatory law, where applicable under conflicts of laws rules.

 

5.2 All disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, including disputes concerning the existence and validity thereof, shall be finally and exclusively settled by arbitration in accordance with the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”). The tribunal shall be composed of three arbitrators. The place of arbitration shall be Paris. The proceedings shall be conducted in the English language in accordance with the rules of law. The right, if any, to discovery is excluded. The ICC shall not be permitted to have the award published. Notwithstanding Clause 6, the Parties undertake to keep confidential all awards in their arbitration, together with all materials in the proceedings created for the purpose of the arbitration and all other documents produced by another Party in the proceedings not otherwise in the public domain, save and to the extent that disclosure may be required of a party by legal duty, to protect or pursue a legal right or to enforce or challenge an award in bona fide legal proceedings before a state court or other judicial authority.

 

6. Confidentiality

The Parties shall treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information received or obtained as a result of entering into this Agreement which relates to (A) the existence and/or provisions of this Agreement; or (B) the negotiations relating to this Agreement, unless (i) the disclosure or use is required by law, any regulatory body or any recognised stock exchange on which the shares of any Party are listed; or (ii) the disclosure or use is required to vest the full benefit of this Agreement or of any other agreement entered into in connection with this Agreement in any Party; or (iii) the disclosure or use is required for the purpose of any judicial proceedings arising out of this Agreement or any other agreement entered into under or pursuant to this Agreement or the disclosure is made to a tax authority in connection with the tax affairs of the disclosing Party; (iv) the disclosure is made to professional advisers of any Party on terms that such professional advisers undertake to comply with the provisions of this Clause 6 in respect of such information as if they were a party to this Agreement, or (v) the other Party has given prior written approval to the disclosure or use.

 

7. Costs and Expenses; Final Provisions

 

7.1 Each Party shall be responsible for and bear its own costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, conclusion and consummation of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including without limitation the costs and expenses of its advisors, in particular attorneys fees, auditors fees, as well as fees of financial advisors, if any.

 

7.2 The notary fees in connection with the execution of this Agreement in the form of an Austrian notarial deed shall be borne by Purchaser.

 

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7.3 Each of the Parties shall from time to time execute such documents and perform such acts and things as any Party may reasonably require to transfer the Share to Purchaser and to give each Party the full benefit of this Agreement.

 

7.4 This Agreement has been drawn up in English and the English language shall therefore be the governing language. Any translations are for convenience only and shall thus not be authorative for the interpretation of this Agreement.

 

7.5 This Agreement is executed in one original notarial deed, which shall remain with the notary public in accordance with the provisions of the Austrian Notaries Code (Notariatsordnung). Any number of official counterparts (Ausfertigungen), certified true copies (beglaubigte Kopien) or uncertified copies (einfache Kopien), all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument, may be issued to either Party upon a Party’s unilateral request. The Party requesting a counterpart or copy shall bear and pay all costs and expenses associated with such request.

 

7.6 If any provision of this Agreement shall be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such provision or part shall to that extent be deemed not to form a part of this Agreement but the legality, validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected. The illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision, in whole or in part, shall be replaced by such valid and enforceable provision which corresponds to the original intention and purpose of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision.

Vienna, this []

For NXP B.V.

 

 

[ name], born []

acting under special power of attorney

dated []

For Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH

 

 

David Van Loan, born 24 January 1949

managing director

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

 

Schedule 6 CHINA EQUITY TRANSFER AGREEMENT


 

EQUITY TRANSFER AGREEMENT

 

 

Between

NXP B.V.

and

[Knowles Electronics, LLC]

Dated [    ]


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I

   DEFINITIONS      1   

SECTION 1.01.

   Certain Defined Terms.      1   

SECTION 1.02.

   Interpretation.      3   

ARTICLE II

   SALE AND PURCHASE      3   

SECTION 2.01.

   Sale and Purchase of the Equity Interest.      3   

SECTION 2.02.

   Purchase Price.      3   

SECTION 2.03.

   Payment of the Purchase Price.      3   

ARTICLE III

   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF SELLER      4   

SECTION 3.01.

   Authority to Execute and Perform this Agreement.      4   

SECTION 3.02.

   No Conflict.      4   

SECTION 3.03.

   Ownership of the Equity Interests.      4   

ARTICLE IV

   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER      4   

SECTION 4.01.

   Authority to Execute and Perform this Agreement.      4   

SECTION 4.02.

   No Conflict.      5   

SECTION 4.03.

   No Action.      5   

ARTICLE V

   APPROVAL AND REGISTRATION      5   

SECTION 5.01.

   Approval of Equity Transfer.      5   

SECTION 5.02.

   Registration of Equity Transfer.      5   

SECTION 5.03.

   Change of Other Registrations.      5   

SECTION 5.04.

   Further Action.      5   

SECTION 5.05.

   Fees and Costs.      6   

ARTICLE VI

   LIABILITIES FOR BREACH      6   

SECTION 6.01.

   Liabilities for breach.      6   

ARTICLE VII

   TERMINATION      6   

SECTION 7.01.

   Termination upon Mutual Agreement.      6   

SECTION 7.02.

   Upon Termination.      6   

ARTICLE VIII

   GENERAL PROVISIONS      6   

SECTION 8.01.

   Effectiveness.      6   

SECTION 8.02.

   Expenses.      6   

SECTION 8.03.

   Language.      6   

SECTION 8.04.

   Governing Law.      7   

SECTION 8.05.

   Dispute Resolution.      7   

 

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EQUITY TRANSFER AGREEMENT

This Equity Transfer Agreement, dated [    ], by and between NXP B.V., a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, having its registered address at High Tech Campus 60, 5656 AG Eindhoven, the Netherlands (“Seller”), and [Knowles Electronics, LLC], a company duly established under the laws of [], having its registered address at [] (“Purchaser”). Seller and Purchaser shall also be collectively referred to as the “Parties” and, individually, a “Party.”

W I T N E S S E T H:

WHEREAS, Seller owns one hundred percent (100%) equity interest in NXP Semiconductors Beijing Ltd (“Company”), the total amount of which is USD54,452,400; and

WHEREAS, Seller desires to sell to Purchaser, and Purchaser desires to purchase from Seller, all right, title and interest of Seller in and to the 100% equity interest in the Company held by it (the “Equity Interest”) upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement (the “Equity Transfer”).

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements and covenants hereinafter set forth and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Seller and Purchaser hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms.

(a) As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Action” means any claim, action, suit, arbitration, inquiry, proceeding or investigation by or before any Governmental Authority.

“AIC” means the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the PRC or its local counterpart having jurisdiction over the registration of the Company, i.e., the Administration of Industry and Commerce of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area and/or Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce.

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Chicago, Illinois USA or the PRC are required or authorized by Law or executive order to be closed.

Encumbrance” means any security interest, pledge, mortgage, lien or any contract or agreement constituting a privilege or right of any nature restricting the ownership or

 

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transferability of the Equity Interest or any other arrangement having a similar effect.

Governmental Authority” means any nation or government or any federation, province or state or any other political subdivision thereof, any entity, authority or body exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to a government, including any government authority, agency, department, board, commission or instrumentality of the PRC or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, any court, tribunal or arbitrator or self-regulatory organization, or the governing body of any securities exchange.

Governmental Order” means any order, instruction, requirement, judgment, injunction, decree or award entered by or with any Governmental Authority.

Law” means any promulgated and publicly available applicable national, provincial or other local law, ordinance, code, regulation, rule, provision, order, measure, circular, other requirement or rule of law.

Losses” means all damage, losses, liabilities, costs, charges, expenses, claims and demands.

MOFCOM” means the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC or its local counterpart having jurisdiction over the approval of the Equity Transfer, i.e., the Administrative Committee of Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area.

PRC” or “China” means the mainland of the People’s Republic of China, which for the purpose of this Agreement does not include the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan.

(b) Each of the following terms is defined in the Section set forth opposite each term:

 

Term

  Section
AIC Registration   5.02
Company   Recitals
Equity Interest   Recitals
Equity Transfer   Recitals
ICC   8.05
MOFCOM Approval   5.01
Party” or “Parties   Preamble
Purchaser   Preamble
Purchase Price   2.02
Other Registrations   5.03
Seller   Preamble

 

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SECTION 1.02. Interpretation. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:

(a) words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;

(b) words importing a gender include every gender;

(c) references to any document (including this Agreement) are references to that document as amended, consolidated, supplemented, novated or replaced from time to time;

(d) references to Articles, Sections, paragraphs and Exhibits are references to Articles, Sections, paragraphs and Exhibits to this Agreement;

(e) headings used in this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not be considered in the construction of this Agreement;

(f) references to any Party to this Agreement or Person include references to its successor and permitted assign;

(g) references to any Law are references to that Law as amended, consolidated, supplemented, re-enacted or replaced from time to time;

(h) whenever the words “include,” “includes” or “including” are used in this Agreement, they are deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”;

(i) the words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; and

(j) the use of “or” is not intended to be exclusive.

ARTICLE II

SALE AND PURCHASE

SECTION 2.01. Sale and Purchase of the Equity Interest. In accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, Seller shall sell to Purchaser, and Purchaser shall purchase from Seller, all right, title and interest of Seller in and to the Equity Interest, free of any Encumbrance.

SECTION 2.02. Purchase Price. Both Parties agree that the purchase price for the Equity Interests shall be [] (the “Purchase Price”).

SECTION 2.03. Payment of the Purchase Price. The Purchase Price shall be paid to Seller immediately upon completion of the AIC Registration (as defined below).

 

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ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF SELLER

Seller hereby represents and warrants to Purchaser as follows and that each of the following representations and warranties is true as of the date hereof and shall remain true until the receipt by Seller of the Purchase Price:

SECTION 3.01. Authority to Execute and Perform this Agreement. Seller is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the Netherlands and has all necessary power and authority (a) to enter into this Agreement, (b) to sell the Equity Interest pursuant hereto, (c) to carry out its obligations hereunder and (d) to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery by Seller of this Agreement, the performance by Seller of its obligations hereunder and the consummation by Seller of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all requisite action on the part of Seller.

SECTION 3.02. No Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by Seller does not and will not (a) violate, conflict with or result in the breach of, any provision of its articles of association (or similar organizational documents) or (b) conflict with or violate any Law or Governmental Order applicable to it or any of its assets, properties or businesses or (c) conflict with, result in any breach of, constitute a default (or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a default) under, require any consent under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration, suspension, revocation or cancellation of, any note, bond, mortgage or indenture, contract, agreement, lease, sublease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or arrangement to which it is a party or by which any of its assets is bound or affected.

SECTION 3.03. Ownership of the Equity Interests. Seller has good and valid title to, and beneficial ownership of, the Equity Interest, free and clear of all Encumbrances.

ARTICLE IV

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER

Purchaser hereby represents and warrants to Seller as follows and that each of the following representations and warranties is true as of the date hereof and shall remain true until the receipt by Seller of the Purchase Price:

SECTION 4.01. Authority to Execute and Perform this Agreement. Purchaser is a company duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of [] and has all necessary power and authority (a) to enter into this Agreement, (b) to purchase the Equity Interest, (c) to carry out its obligations hereunder and (d) to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The execution and delivery by Purchaser of this Agreement, the performance by Purchaser of its obligations hereunder and the consummation by Purchaser of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all requisite actions on the part of Purchaser.

 

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SECTION 4.02. No Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by Purchaser does not and will not (a) violate, conflict with or result in the breach of, any provision of its articles of association (or similar organizational documents) or (b) conflict with or violate any Law or Governmental Order applicable to it or any of its assets, properties or businesses or (c) conflict with, result in any breach of, constitute a default (or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a default) under, require any consent under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration, suspension, revocation or cancellation of, any note, bond, mortgage or indenture, contract, agreement, lease, sublease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or arrangement to which it is a party or by which any of its assets is bound or affected.

SECTION 4.03. No Action. There is no Action pending or, to the knowledge of Purchaser, threatened against Purchaser which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect Purchaser’s ability to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

ARTICLE V

APPROVAL AND REGISTRATION

SECTION 5.01. Approval of Equity Transfer. As soon as practicable, and in any event no later than five (5) Business Days after the date of this Agreement, Seller shall prepare and cause the Company to file with MOFCOM all notices and applications necessary to obtain (i) approval for the Equity Transfer, and (ii) a revised certificate of approval of the Company (together the “MOFCOM Approval”). Purchaser shall cooperate with and provide Seller with all documents, information and other materials as required by Seller for purpose of obtaining the MOFCOM Approval.

SECTION 5.02. Registration of Equity Transfer. As soon as practicable, and in any event no later than three (3) Business Days after obtaining the MOFCOM Approval, Purchaser shall prepare and Seller shall cause the Company to file with AIC all application documents necessary to obtain (i) approval for amendment of the registration information of the Company and (ii) a revised Business License for the Company reflecting the transfer of the Equity Interest from Seller to Purchaser and the change of name so as to exclude “NXP” and/or “ LOGO” from the name of the Company (together the “AIC Registration”).

SECTION 5.03. Change of Other Registrations. Upon completion of the AIC Registration, Purchaser shall, and shall cause the Company to, complete, as soon as possible, the change of all of the Company’s other registrations with any PRC Governmental Authorities to reflect the Equity Transfer, including foreign exchange registration, tax registrations, institution code registration, finance registration and custom registration (together “Other Registrations”). Seller shall cooperate with and shall provide Purchaser with all documents, information and other materials as required by Purchaser for purpose of completion of the Other Registrations.

SECTION 5.04. Further Action. Seller and Purchaser shall execute and deliver such other documents and other papers and take such further actions as may reasonably be required to perform the terms hereof or to give effect to the transactions contemplated hereby, including those necessary for obtaining the MOFCOM Approval and AIC Registration and those

 

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necessary for the resignation of the directors on the board of directors and supervisor of the Company appointed by Seller.

SECTION 5.05. Fees and Costs. All filing fees and other costs incurred by the Company in relation to the MOFCOM Approval, AIC Registration and Other Registrations shall be borne by the Parties in equal parts.

ARTICLE VI

LIABILITIES FOR BREACH

SECTION 6.01. Liabilities for breach. If either Party fails to comply with any of its obligations under this Agreement, it shall be liable to compensate the other Party all Losses it suffers therefrom.

ARTICLE VII

TERMINATION

SECTION 7.01. Termination upon Mutual Agreement. This Agreement may be terminated by both Parties at any time prior to the receipt by Seller of the Purchase Price by mutual agreement in writing.

SECTION 7.02. Upon Termination. In case this Agreement is terminated in accordance with this Article 7, each Party shall take all actions and sign all documents necessary to unwind the transaction contemplated hereby, including applying for any approvals of the Governmental Authorities required for the return of the Equity Interest to Seller and the restoration of the effectiveness of the original articles of association of the Company.

ARTICLE VIII

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 8.01. Effectiveness. This Agreement shall, after due execution by the Parties, become effective on the date on which the MOFCOM Approval is issued. For the avoidance of doubt, unless and until the AIC Registration is completed, the legal ownership of the Equity Interest shall be vested in Seller.

SECTION 8.02. Expenses. Unless this Agreement provides otherwise, all costs which a party has incurred or must incur in preparing, concluding or performing this Agreement are for its own account. All stamp, transfer, registration, sales and other similar taxes, duties, fees, imposts, levies and charges and all notarial fees payable in connection with the sale, assignment, transfer or purchase of the Equity Interest under this Agreement shall be paid by Purchaser, [except for stamp duty arising in respect of the transfer of the Equity Interest, which shall be shared equally between the Parties.]

SECTION 8.03. Language. This Agreement is written in both English and Chinese languages. Both versions shall be equally valid and binding. In the event of any

 

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discrepancy between the two versions, the Chinese version shall prevail.

SECTION 8.04. Governing Law. The formation, validity, interpretation, execution of this Agreement and settlement of any disputes arising hereunder shall be governed by and in accordance with the laws of the PRC.

SECTION 8.05. Dispute Resolution. The Parties agree that all disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be finally and exclusively settled by arbitration in accordance with the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”). The tribunal shall be composed of three arbitrators. The place of arbitration shall be Paris. The proceedings shall be conducted in the English language in accordance with the rules of law. The right, if any, to discovery is excluded. The ICC shall not be permitted to have the award published. The parties undertake to keep confidential all awards in their arbitration, together with all materials in the proceedings created for the purpose of the arbitration and all other documents produced by another party in the proceedings not otherwise in the public domain, save and to the extent that disclosure may be required of a party by legal duty, to protect or pursue a legal right or to enforce or challenge an award in bona fide legal proceedings before a state court or other judicial authority.

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Seller and Purchaser have caused this Agreement to be executed in [] originals by their duly authorized representatives as of the date first written above.

 

[]
By:  

 

  Name:   []
  Title:   []
[]
By:  

 

  Name:   []
  Title:   []

 

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Schedule 7 ALLOCATION OF (INITIAL) PURCHASE PRICE

 

1. Initial Purchase Price

The allocation of the Initial Purchase Price shall be agreed between the Parties prior to Closing. The shares in NXP Austria shall have a value of at least USD 693,000,000 (six hundred and ninety three million United States Dollars):

 

2. Allocation of (Initial) Purchase Price

 

(f) The (Initial) Purchase Price shall be allocated as follows in respect of each Group Entity:

 

  (a) its Initial Purchase Price as agreed pursuant to Paragraph 1 of this Schedule; plus

 

  (b) the Net Cash of the relevant Group Entity; plus

 

  (c) the Working Capital Adjustment of the relevant Group Entity.

 

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Schedule 8 RETAINED INTRA-GROUP AGREEMENTS

 

1. To the extent necessary, the GSA Agreement between the Seller and NXP China, only insofar as it relates to the determination and payment to the Seller by NXP China of the relevant amounts owed thereunder in respect of services rendered prior to Closing.

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

 

Schedule 9 LINE ITEMS OF THE WORKING CAPITAL STATEMENT

 

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Details

 

FS Items

  ***    

Notes

Gross production inventories

 

110010

    ***     

Value adj. re prod. invent.

 

110300

    ***     

Prepayments work in process Prod.Inv.

      ***     

Gross commercial inventories

 

111000

    ***     

Value adj. re comm. invent.

 

111300

    ***     

Prepayments work in process Comm.Inv.

      ***     

Goods transit 2b rec

 

110210

    ***     

Intr GR/IR cl acc

 

110211

    ***     

GRIR Matis FSilem(A)

 

110212

    ***     

adjustment

 

111890

    ***     

Goods transit receiv

 

110220

    ***     

Goods transit shippd

 

111294

    ***     

Inv Parts & Cons

 

110013

    ***     

Comm inv consign 3rd

 

111004

    ***     

Work In Progress Stock

 

110020

    ***     

Net Inventories

      ***     

Trade Acc. receiv. from uncons. comp.

 

112000

    ***     

Remaining trade acc. receiv.

 

112000

    ***     
      ***     

Value Adj. Total Trade Acc. Receiv.

 

112100 113100

    ***     

Trade Accounts receivables

      ***     

Gross sundry acc. receiv.

 

114200, 114300, 114590 115590

    ***     

Value adj. sundry acc. receiv.

      ***     

Other amounts owed by uncons. comp.

      ***     

Value adj. other amts. owed Uncons.Cies

      ***     

Prepayments/Accrued Income

 

115595

    ***     

Discounted bills, prom. notes

 

116210 117750

    ***     

Other receivables

      ***     

Receivables

      ***     

Trade Payables

 

116110

    ***     

Inc. Tax Payable ( BG 9299 )

      ***     

Inc. Tax Payable ( BG 9298 )Debit

      ***      For avoidance of doubt, all pre-paid and accrued income tax or similar amounts are to be excluded from the Reference Working Capital calculation and the Working Capital calculation

Inc. Tax Payable ( BG 9298 )Credit

      ***     

Hedging-Claims

      ***     

dividend payment

      ***     

Sal & wages payable

 

117010

    ***     

Accr. Bonus

 

117011

    ***     

Bonus Accr.G I P

 

117120

    ***      This account is to be excluded from the Reference Working Capital calculation and the Working Capital calculation

Bonus Accr.S I P

 

117130

    ***      This account is to be excluded from the Reference Working Capital calculation and the Working Capital calculation

Bonus Accr.O I P

 

117140

    ***      This account is to be excluded from the Reference Working Capital calculation and the Working Capital calculation

Accr holiday rights

 

117100

    ***     

Other Liabilities

 

117080

    ***     

Inc tax pay cred cur

 

116220

    ***     

Oth tax & soc sec co

 

116300

    ***     

Oth AP non interest

 

116900

    ***     

Carr, frght, dut pay

 

117040

    ***     

Interest payable

 

117050

    ***     

Liab from int exch

 

117680

    ***     

Claims from int exch

 

117780

    ***     

Oth person rel accru

 

117902

    ***     

Comm & IT rel accru

 

117904

    ***     

Oth cost rel accru

 

117908

    ***     

Material rel accrual

 

117910

    ***     

Prop/env tax etc pay

 

117912

    ***     

Oth fix ass rel accr

 

117913

    ***     

Oth distrib cost pay

 

117914

    ***     

Oth sales rel accru

 

117916

    ***     

Trnsf ncur liab acc

 

116990

    ***     

Remaining liab ncur

 

116991

    ***     

Accruals and Deferred income

      ***     

Accruals

      ***     

Curr. Acc. betw. Cons. Comp. - TA/GSA ( BG 9206 )

      ***     

Curr. Acc. betw. CC Goods/Serv.

     
***
  
 

Stock comprasation

      ***     

ICA AR re goods/serv

 

151000

    ***     

ICA AP re goods/serv

 

151100

   
***
  
 

ICA - interest

 

151300

    ***     

Curr. Acc. betw. CC Remaining ( BG 9299 )

      ***     

Intercompany Accounts

      ***     

Working Capital

      ***     

WC Excl ICA, excl. Bonus accrual.

      ***      REFERENCE WORKING CAPITAL AMOUNT


Schedule 10 LINE ITEMS OF THE NET CASH STATEMENT

The Net Cash shall be determined using the line items set forth in the following table:

 

    

Cash

  

Sefira accounting code FS-

item reference

  

Description

1.       130390    Cash in hand, at bank and short term deposits
2.       130990    Remaining liquid assets


Schedule 11 REPORTING ACCOUNTANTS

 

1 Reporting Accountants

 

1.1 The Reporting Accountants shall be engaged jointly by the Seller and the Purchaser on the terms set out in Paragraph 1 of this Schedule 11 and otherwise on such terms as shall be agreed; provided that neither the Seller nor the Purchaser shall unreasonably refuse their agreement to terms proposed by the Reporting Accountants or by the Purchaser or the Seller, as the case may be. If the terms of engagement of the Reporting Accountants have not been settled within thirty (30) Business Days of their identity having been determined (or such longer period as the Seller and the Purchaser may agree) then, unless the Seller or the Purchaser unreasonably refuses agreement to those terms, those accountants shall be deemed never to have become the Reporting Accountants and new Reporting Accountants shall be selected in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

 

1.2 Except to the extent that the Seller and the Purchaser mutually agree otherwise, the Reporting Accountants shall determine their own procedure; provided that the Reporting Accountants:

 

  (a) apart from procedural matters and as otherwise set out in the Agreement, shall determine only whether any of the arguments for an alteration to the draft Statements put forward in the notice referred to in Clause 7.2 is correct with respect to the application of the Accounting Principles Consistently Applied in whole or in part; and if so, what alterations should be made to the Statements in order to correct the relevant inaccuracy in it;

 

  (b) shall apply the principles set out in Clause 7;

 

  (c) shall make their determination as soon as is reasonably practicable.

 

1.3 The procedures of the Reporting Accountants shall:

 

  (a) give the Seller and the Purchaser a reasonable opportunity to make written representations to them;

 

  (b) require that each of the Seller and the Purchaser supply the other with a copy of any written representations at the same time as they are made to the Reporting Accountants; and

 

  (c) permit each Party to be present while oral submissions are being made to the Reporting Accountants.

 

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1.4 For the avoidance of doubt, the Reporting Accountants shall not be entitled to determine the scope of their own jurisdiction.

 

1.5 The determination of the Reporting Accountants shall:

 

  (a) be made in writing and made available for collection by the Seller and the Purchaser at the offices of the Reporting Accountants or by mail at such time as they shall determine; and

 

  (b) unless otherwise agreed by the Sellers and the Purchaser, include reasons for each relevant determination.

 

1.6 The Reporting Accountants shall act as experts and not as arbitrators and their determination of any matter falling within their competence shall be final and binding (bindend advies) on the Seller and the Purchaser, save in the event of manifest error (when the relevant part of their determination shall be void and the matter shall be remitted to the Reporting Accountants for correction). In particular, without limitation, their determination shall be deemed to be incorporated into the draft Statements.

 

1.7 The expenses (including VAT) of the Reporting Accountants shall be borne as they shall direct at the time they make any determination or, failing such direction equally between the Purchaser, on the one hand, and the Seller, on the other hand.

 

1.8 The Seller and the Purchaser shall co-operate with the Reporting Accountants and comply with their reasonable requests made in connection with the carrying out of their duties under this Agreement. In particular, without limitation, the Purchaser shall keep up-to-date all books and records relating to the Group, subject to reasonable notice and confidentiality arrangements, and shall make available to one another’s representatives and accountants and the Reporting Accountants all books and records relating to the Group during normal office hours during the period from the appointment of the Reporting Accountants to the making of the relevant determination.

 

1.9 Each Party shall, and shall procure that its accountants and the other advisers and the Reporting Accountants shall, keep all information and documents provided to them pursuant to this Schedule 11 confidential and shall not use the same for any purpose, except for disclosure or use in connection with the preparation of the draft Net Cash Statement, Working Capital Statement, proceedings of the Reporting Accountants.

 

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Schedule 12 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AND LICENSE AGREEMENT

 

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Confidential Treatment Request — Pages where confidential treatment has been requested are stamped “Confidential Treatment Requested.” The redacted materials have been separately filed with the SEC; the appropriate section has been marked at the appropriate place with a “*.”

Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement

Relating to

THE SOUND SOLUTIONS BUSINESS OF NXP

between

NXP B.V.

NXP SEMICONDUCTORS BEIJING LIMITED

NXP SEMICONDUCTORS AUSTRIA GMBH

and

DOVER CORPORATION

Dated 22 December 2010


Contents

 

Clause    Page  

1 Definitions

     5   

2 Interpretation

     7   

2.1 References to persons

     7   

2.2 References to obligations

     7   

2.3 Legal Terms

     8   

2.4 Other References

     8   

2.5 Drafting Party

     8   

2.6 Headings and References

     8   

2.7 Effective date

     9   

3 Assignment of A-Patents

     9   

3.1 Assignment and License Back

     9   

3.2 Effectuation

     9   

3.3 Cost of Assignment

     10   

3.4 Other Costs

     10   

3.5 *****

     10   

3.6 No Pre-Closing Rights

     10   

4 License under B-Patents

     10   

5 Other licenses

     11   

6 *****

     11   

7 Know-How

     11   

7.1 License Back Business Know-How

     11   

7.2 License NXP Know-How

     12   

8 Software

     12   

8.1 License Back Business Software

     12   

9 Domain Names

     12   

9.1 Assignment

     12   

9.2 Effectuation

     13   

9.3 Costs

     13   

10 PRIOR Commitments

     13   

11 *****

     13   

12 Confidential Information

     13   

 

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Clause    Page  

13 Disclaimer

     14   

14 SPA

     14   

15 Termination

     14   

16 Assignment and *****

     14   

17 Miscellaneous

     15   

Annex A- A-Patents

     18   

Annex B- A2-Patents

     18   

Annex C- B-Patents

     18   

Annex D- B2-Patents

     18   

Annex E- List of Domain Names

     18   

Annex F- Form of Deed of Transfer of A-Patents

     18   

Annex G- Form of Deed of Transfer of Domain Names

     18   

 

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSFER AND LICENSE AGREEMENT

THE UNDERSIGNED:

 

(1) NXP B.V., a limited liability company incorporated in the Netherlands, with corporate seat in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and address at High Tech Campus 60, 5656AG Eindhoven, the Netherlands (“Seller”),

and

 

(2) NXP SEMICONDUCTORS BEIJING LIMITED, a limited liability company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China, and having its address at No 20 Tongji South Road, Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, (“NXP China”),

 

(3) NXP SEMICONDUCTORS AUSTRIA GMBH, a private limited company, incorporated under the laws of Austria, and having its address at Gutheil-Schoder-Gasse 8-12, 1100 Vienna, Austria, (“NXP Austria”),

 

(4) DOVER CORPORATION, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, and having its address at 3005 Highland Parkway, Suite 200, Downers Grove Illinois, USA 60515, (“Dover”),

together also be referred to as “Parties” and each party individually as a “Party”, as the case may be,

WHEREAS:

 

(A) The Seller holds all of the issued shares in the capital of NXP China (the “Chinese Shares”) and in the capital of NXP Austria (the “Austrian Shares”) (the Chinese Shares and the Austrian Shares together the “Shares”).

 

(B) NXP China and NXP Austria (each a “Company” and jointly referred to as the “Group” or the “Companies”) together own and conduct the Business.

 

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(C) The Seller and Knowles Electronics, LLC, together with their respective parents and Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH, entered into a sale and purchase agreement on 22 December 2010 for the sale and transfer of the Shares by the Seller to the Purchaser (the “SPA”).

 

(D) By this Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement the Seller and the Group wish to set out the terms and conditions applicable to the assignment and licensing to the Group and its Affiliates of intellectual property relating to the Business at the Closing Date, relevant to the aforementioned sale of shares, in order to achieve that (each relevant Company of) the Group and its Affiliates shall acquire, by way of assignment or license, the benefit of rights used in the Business at the Closing Date, to the extent the Seller is able to grant such rights. Furthermore, the Parties wish to ensure that Seller’s remaining business activities do not infringe on the assigned intellectual property rights through a license-back of such rights.

IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS

 

1 DEFINITIONS

When used in this Agreement, the following capitalised terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

 

Agreement   

This Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement (including all Annexes attached hereto), as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof.

A-Patents   

The Patents that are listed in Annex A to this Agreement.

A2-Patents   

The Patents that are listed in Annex B to this Agreement.

Affiliates    (a)    In respect of the Group, any and all Persons with respect to which, now or hereafter, Dover; or
   (b)    in respect of the Seller, any and all Persons with respect to which, now or hereafter, Seller Parent,

 

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directly or indirectly, holds more than fifty percent (50%) of the nominal value of, or more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power at general meetings, or has the power to appoint and to dismiss a majority of the directors or otherwise to direct the activities of such Person, or any other Person qualifying as a ‘subsidiary’ as referred to in Section 2:24a Netherlands Civil Code, excluding in the case of Affiliates of the Seller or the Seller Parent: (i) Trident Microsystems, Inc., and (ii) as of the Closing Date, the Group.

B-Patents    The Patents that are listed in Annex C to this Agreement.
B2-Patents    The Patents that are listed in Annex D to this Agreement.
Business    The meaning as ascribed thereto in the SPA.
Business Know-How    All Know-How owned by the Seller and/or its Affiliates, which is exclusively used within the Business immediately prior to the Closing Date.
Business Software    All software owned by the Seller and/or its Affiliates, which is exclusively used within the Business immediately prior to the Closing Date.
Closing Date    The meaning as ascribed thereto in the SPA.
Confidential Information    The meaning as ascribed thereto in Clause 12.
******    *******
******    *******
Domain Names    The Internet domain names and applications therefor listed in Annex E to this Agreement, including the registrations of such domain names.
Know-How    All technical and commercial information, data and documents of whatever nature, including drawings, specifications, photographs, samples, trade secrets, models, processes, procedures, libraries, manuals, reports and correspondence, including any copyright and/or database rights and other rights for the protection of know how as they may exist, but excluding any (right in) Software, Patents, trademarks, the Domain Names and any other intellectual property rights therein.

 

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NXP Know-How    All Know-How other than Business Know-How owned by the Seller and/or its Affiliates and which is used within the Business immediately prior to the Closing Date.
Patents    Patents, petty patents, design patents, provisionals, utility models and any applications therefor, including any divisionals, continuations (in part), re-examinations, renewals and re-issues thereof, in any country in the world, as well as any inventions described in invention disclosures.
Software    A code in any programming language contained in any format, including human and machine-readable format.
SPA    As defined in Recital (C).

Any capitalised term used in this Agreement but not defined shall have the same meaning as ascribed thereto in the SPA.

 

2 INTERPRETATION

 

2.1 References to persons

References to a person include any individual, company or partnership whether or not having separate legal personality and wherever incorporated or registered.

 

2.2 References to obligations

 

  2.2.1 Any reference in this Agreement to an obligation of the Seller and/or its Affiliates shall be deemed to incorporate a reference to an obligation on the part of the Seller to procure that the relevant obligation is performed by the relevant Affiliates of the Seller, on and subject to the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.

 

  2.2.2 Any reference in this Agreement to an obligation of any member of the Group and/or its Affiliates, shall be deemed to incorporate a reference to an obligation on the part of the Group to procure that the relevant obligation is performed by the relevant member(s) of the Group and its Affiliates, subject to the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.

 

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  2.2.3 Any reference in this Agreement to an obligation of any member of the Group and/or its Affiliates, shall be deemed to incorporate a reference to an obligation on the part of the Group to impart such obligation on any of its or its Affiliates’ successors in interest.

 

  2.2.4 Any reference in this Agreement to an obligation of any member of the Seller and/or its Affiliates, shall be deemed to incorporate a reference to an obligation on the part of the Seller to impart such obligation on any of its or its Affiliates’ successors in interest.

 

2.3 Legal Terms

In respect of any jurisdiction other than the Netherlands, a reference to any Netherlands legal term shall be construed as a reference to the term or concept which most nearly corresponds to it in that jurisdiction.

 

2.4 Other References

 

  2.4.1 Whenever used in this Agreement, the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”.

 

  2.4.2 Whenever used in this Agreement, the words “as of” shall be deemed to include the day or moment in time specified thereafter.

 

  2.4.3 Any reference in this Agreement to any gender shall include all genders, and words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.

 

2.5 Drafting Party

No provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted against a Party solely as a result of the fact that such Party was responsible for the drafting of such provision.

 

2.6 Headings and References

The clause and paragraph headings and table of contents contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

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A reference in this Agreement to a Recital, Clause or Annex is to the relevant Recital to, Clause of or Annex to this Agreement.

 

2.7 Effective date

The rights and obligations of the Parties under this Agreement will not become effective until the Closing Date.

 

3 ASSIGNMENT OF A-PATENTS

 

3.1 Assignment and License Back

 

  3.1.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Seller assigns and will procure its Affiliates to assign to the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Parent Group (the “Recipients”), effective as of the Closing Date, all of the Seller’s and — as applicable — the Affiliate’s rights, title and interest in and to the A-Patents.

 

  3.1.2 Dover on behalf of the Purchaser’s Parent Group accepts, as of the Closing Date, the assignment of the A-Patents and hereby grants (and agrees to grant) and on behalf of the Recipients grants (and agrees to grant) to the Seller and its Affiliates, with effect from the transfer of the A-Patents to the Group, a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable (except as set forth in Clause 16), irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free, fully paid-up license, *******, under the A-Patents, to make, have made, use (in the broadest sense), sell and offer to sell, import and export, promote or commercialise in any other way products and services ********, which license is hereby accepted by the Seller.

 

  3.1.3 *******

 

  3.1.4 *******

 

3.2 Effectuation

The Seller shall, and shall cause its relevant Affiliates to, execute and deliver all files, assignments, and titles, evidence or authorisations as may be required to effect or to formalise the transfer of the A-Patents, and to assist the Group or Purchaser Parent’s Group entity in recording the A-Patents at the relevant patent registers in the name of the relevant Company of the Group or its designated Affiliate. For the purpose of the registration of the transfer of the legal title to the A-Patents as per Clause 3.1.1 hereof, the Seller and the relevant member of the Purchaser Parent’s Group shall sign a deed of transfer attached substantially in the form of Annex F effective as of the Closing Date.

 

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3.3 Cost of Assignment

The Group shall bear all costs related to the assignment and transfer of the A-Patents from the Seller to the Group pursuant to Clause 3.1.1 including registration thereof.

 

3.4 Other Costs

The Group shall bear all costs of prosecution and maintenance of the A-Patents arising after the Closing Date, including any remuneration payable to inventors in accordance with applicable national laws with respect to any of the A-Patents on and after the Closing Date, however, Seller shall be responsible for all costs and obligations under agreements existing as of the Closing Date between the inventors and Seller.

 

3.5 *******

*******

*******

 

3.6 No Pre-Closing Rights

It is confirmed that the Group does not acquire any rights accruing from ownership of the A-Patents prior to the Closing Date. Accordingly, the Group shall not have the right to (i) collect royalties with respect to the period up to the Closing Date, or to (ii) sue and to collect damages in respect of any act of infringement committed prior to the Closing Date. The Seller and its Affiliates shall not be obliged to take any action in relation to any third party for any act of infringement prior to the Closing Date.

 

4 LICENSE UNDER B-PATENTS

 

4.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Seller hereby grants, and shall cause its relevant Affiliates to grant, to the Group and its Affiliates, effective as of the Closing Date, a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable (except as set forth in Clause 16 below), irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free, fully paid-up license, under the B-Patents, to make, have made, use (in the broadest sense), sell and offer to sell, import and export, promote or commercialise in any other way products and product components ******, which license the Group hereby accepts.

 

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4.2 As to the “have made” rights listed in Clause 4.1 and ****, these rights are restricted to have products made by a third party solely for the use, sale or other disposal by the Group, subject to the condition that all relevant designs and specifications, including working drawings, for the manufacture of such products are owned and furnished by the Group, and said designs, specifications and working drawings are in sufficient detail, such that no modification by the manufacturer is required other than small adaptations to the production processes and standards normally used by the manufacturer, which changes the characteristics of the products only to a negligible extent.

 

4.3 ******

 

4.4 ******

 

5 OTHER LICENSES

Reference is made to the commercial agreements included as a Schedule to the SPA for other licenses (referred to therein as the C-Patent, D-Patent and E-Patent lists as attached to the commercial agreements) which under certain circumstances may be granted by the Seller to the Group and/or its Affiliates in the future.

 

6 ********

 

6.1 ********

 

6.2 ********

 

6.3 *******

 

6.4 *******

 

6.5 *******

 

7 KNOW-HOW

 

7.1 License Back Business Know-How

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Group hereby grants (and agrees to grant) to the Seller and its Affiliates, effective as of the Closing Date, a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable (except as set forth in Clause 16), irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free, fully paid-up license, *******, under the Business Know-How, to make, have made, use (in the broadest sense), sell and offer to sell, import and export, promote or commercialise in any other way products and services, to the extent such Business Know-How is available to the Seller and/or its Affiliates outside the Business immediately prior to the Closing Date, *********, which license is hereby accepted by the Seller.

 

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7.2 License NXP Know-How

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Seller hereby grants to the Group and its Affiliates, effective as of the Closing Date, a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable (except as set forth in Clause 16 below), irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free, fully paid-up license, *********, under the NXP Know-How, to make, have made, use (in the broadest sense), sell and offer to sell, import and export, promote or commercialise in any other way products within the field of the Business.

 

8 SOFTWARE

 

8.1 License Back Business Software

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Group hereby grants (and agrees to grant) to the Seller and its Affiliates, effective as of the Closing Date, a non-exclusive, perpetual, non-transferable (except as set forth in Clause 16), irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free, fully paid-up license, ********, under the Business Software, to distribute, display, reproduce, copy, perform, modify, use (in the broadest sense), prepare derivative works of and otherwise exploit such Business Software within the business of the Seller and its Affiliates, including the right to make, have made, use (in the broadest sense), sell and offer to sell, import and export, promote or commercialise in any other way products and services based thereon, to the extent such Business Software is available to the Seller and/or its Affiliates outside the Business immediately prior to the Closing Date, *********, which license is hereby accepted by the Seller.

 

9 DOMAIN NAMES

 

9.1 Assignment

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Seller hereby assigns to the relevant member of the Purchaser Parent’s Group and shall cause its Affiliates to assign all Domain Names, effective as of the Closing Date.

 

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9.2 Effectuation

The Seller shall, and shall cause its relevant Affiliates to, execute and deliver all files, assignments, and titles, evidence or authorisations as may be required to effect or to formalise the transfer of the Domain Names, and to assist the Group in recording the Domain Names at the relevant registers in the name of the relevant member of the Purchaser Parent’s Group or its designated Affiliate. For the purpose of the registration of the transfer of the legal title to the Domain Names as per Clause 9.1 hereof, the Seller and the Group shall sign a deed of transfer substantially in the form of Annex G effective as of the Closing Date.

 

9.3 Costs

The Group shall bear all costs related to the assignment and transfer of the Domain Names from the Seller to the Group pursuant to Clause 9.1 including registration thereof. The Group shall bear all costs of registration and maintenance of the Domain Names arising on and after the Closing Date.

 

10 PRIOR COMMITMENTS

 

10.1 In addition to the conditions expressly set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, all rights in or to any Patents, Know-How, Software or Domain Names granted to the Group and/or its Affiliates by assignment, license or otherwise under this Agreement, are subject to any and all prior commitments entered into prior to the Closing Date *******.

 

10.2 In addition to the conditions expressly set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, ******.

 

11 *********

*********

 

12 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

In connection with the disentanglement and assignments to be performed and licenses to be granted by the Seller to the Group under this Agreement, the Seller and/or its Affiliates and the Purchaser Parent Group may disclose certain Confidential Information to each other. The Seller and the Purchaser Parent’s Group shall, and shall cause their Affiliates to, each maintain the confidentiality of such Confidential Information and shall not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, use, disclose, or otherwise exploit any Confidential Information for any purpose not expressly authorised by this Agreement. For the purpose of this Agreement, the term “Confidential Information” as used herein shall mean all intellectual property licensed under this Agreement or any other data or information that is designated as confidential by the Seller or the Purchaser Parent’s Group. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that (i) is publicly available or in the public domain at the time disclosed, or (ii) is or becomes publicly available or enters the public domain through no fault of the Purchaser Parent’s Group.

 

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13 DISCLAIMER

Other than as represented and warranted in the SPA or otherwise agreed elsewhere in the SPA or this Agreement, the assignments made and licenses granted by the Seller and/or its Affiliates hereunder are on an “as is” basis and that the Seller does not make and hereby expressly disclaims any express, statutory or implied representation or warranty (including any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, enforceability or non-infringement). The Parties acknowledge and agree that neither the Seller nor its Affiliates shall have any obligation under this Agreement to maintain, prosecute or file for any Patents, Know-How, Software or any other intellectual property rights, or to provide any upgrades or enhancements thereto to the Group and/or its Affiliates.

 

14 SPA

Any claim for a breach of any covenants or undertakings of the Seller and/or its Affiliates hereunder or of any of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement (if any) shall only be enforceable against the Seller and/or its Affiliates in accordance with Clause 13 of the SPA, and liability, and limitations on such liability, in respect of any breach of such covenants, undertakings, representations and warranties shall be determined solely in accordance with the terms of the SPA.

 

15 TERMINATION

This Agreement may not be terminated by any Party after the Closing Date.

 

16 ASSIGNMENT AND ******

 

16.1 Save as explicitly provided otherwise in this Agreement, neither this Agreement nor any right or obligation hereunder is assignable in whole or in part, by operation of Law or otherwise, by any Party without the prior written consent of all other Parties, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, except that each Party may transfer or assign its rights under this Agreement without the consent of the other Parties: (a) to one or more of its current Affiliates or an Affiliate created due to an internal reorganisation; or (b) to a third party merger partner or the purchaser in connection with a merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of its stock directly or indirectly or assets or of any portions of its business to which this Agreement relates.

 

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16.2 Any license granted to a Party’s Affiliate hereunder will terminate on the date that Person ceases to be an Affiliate of such Party.

 

16.3 ********

 

16.4 ********

 

17 MISCELLANEOUS

 

17.1 No licenses are granted except those expressly granted under this Agreement. To the extent an expressly granted license under this Agreement includes the right to practice under one or more Patents that are part of the A-Patents or B-Patents, each such license includes not only Patents in existence as of the Closing Date that are part of the A-Patents and B-Patents, as the case may be, but also: (i) all subsequent divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part (but these only to the extent based on inventions existing as of the Closing Date), re-examinations, re-issues, provisionals, extensions and counterparts relating thereto; (ii) all Patents issuing after the Closing Date that arise from inventions first made, conceived or reduced to practice prior to the Closing Date that are part of the Business Know-How, Business Software, or NXP Know-How, as the case may be; and (iii) all Patent claims entitled to the benefit of a priority date from any of the foregoing Patents.

 

17.2 This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the Parties to this Agreement relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, to the exclusion of any terms implied by Law which may be excluded by contract, and supersedes any previous written or oral agreement between the parties to this Agreement in relation to the matters dealt with in this Agreement.

 

17.3 Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed or construed to constitute or create a partnership, association, joint venture or other agency between the Parties.

 

17.4 No variation of this Agreement shall be binding upon any Party unless made by a written instrument, signed by an authorised signatory of each of the Parties.

 

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17.5 Save as expressly otherwise stated, this Agreement does not contain any stipulation in favour of a third party (derdenbeding).

 

17.6 No waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless such waiver is in writing and signed by or on behalf of the party entitled to make such waiver.

 

17.7 All notices or other communications hereunder shall be given in accordance with Clause 17.13 of the SPA.

 

17.8 The provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed severable and the invalidity or unenforceability of any provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the other provisions hereof.

 

17.9 The provisions of this Agreement that by their nature are intended to survive termination or expiration of this Agreement shall so survive.

 

17.10 Except as otherwise set forth herein or in the SPA, each Party shall pay its own legal, accounting and other expenses incidental to this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby.

 

17.11 This Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, save as expressly otherwise provided therein, shall be governed by and in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to the conflict of laws principles thereof. Any action or proceeding in respect of any claim arising out of or related to this Agreement shall be solely conducted by the Seller and the Purchaser Parent’s Group in accordance with the procedure provided in Clause 18.2 of the SPA.

 

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AGREED AND SIGNED ON 22 DECEMBER 2010 BY:    
NXP B.V.    
By:  

/s/ Ted Arnstein

   

/s/ Mark Hamersma

  Ted Arnstein     Mark Hamersma
Title:   Senior Vice President    
NXP SEMICONDUCTORS BEIJING LIMITED    
By:  

 

   
Title:      
NXP SEMICONDUCTORS AUSTRIA GMBH    
By:  

 

   
Title:      
DOVER CORPORATION    
By:  

/s/ Peter Marshall

   
  Peter Marshall    
Title:   Proxy Holder    

 

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Annex A — ***


Annex B — ***


Annex C — ***


Annex D — ***


Annex E — ***


Annex F — ***


Annex G — ***


Schedule 13   TRANSITIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT

 

1


LOGO

Transitional Services Agreement

relating to

the Sound Solutions business of NXP

between

NXP B.V.

and

KNOWLES ELECTRONICS, LLC

dated         [] 2010

 

    

P.O. Box 75084

1070 AB Amsterdam

The Netherlands

    
    


Contents

 

Clause    Page  
1   

INTERPRETATION

     4   
1.1   

Definitions

     5   
1.2   

References to persons

     5   
1.3   

Headings and references to Clauses, Schedules and Paragraphs

     5   
1.4   

Information

     5   
1.5   

Legal terms

     5   
1.6   

Other references

     5   
1.7   

Drafting Party

     6   
1.8   

Relation between the Principal Agreement and the Agreement

     6   
1.9   

Interaction of the Schedules and the remainder of this Agreement

     6   
1.10   

Meaning of Supplier and Receiver

     6   
2   

SUPPLY OF THE SERVICES

     7   
2.1   

Services

     7   
2.2   

Sub-contractors

     7   
2.3   

Standard

     7   
2.4   

Failure or omission to agree

     8   
2.5   

Temporary shortage

     8   
3   

CHARGES, INVOICE AND PAYMENT

     8   
3.1   

Charge

     8   
3.2   

Invoice and payment

     9   
4   

EMPLOYEES

     9   
5   

IT

     10   
5.1   

Objectives

     10   
5.2   

Obligations Purchaser

     10   
5.3   

SOx IT general controls

     10   
6   

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

     11   
7   

IT SECURITY AND DATA

     11   
7.1   

IT Security

     11   
7.2   

Unauthorised access

     11   
7.3   

No access to networks

     12   
8   

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LICENCES AND CONSENTS

     12   
8.1   

Licences and consents

     12   
8.2   

Receiver’s indemnification

     12   
8.3   

Receiver’s rights

     13   
8.4   

Compliance

     13   

 

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9   

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

     13   
9.1   

Aggregate liability

     13   
9.2   

No liability

     13   
10   

FORCE MAJEURE

     14   
10.1   

Notification

     14   
10.2   

Termination

     14   
11   

TEMPORARY SHUTDOWNS

     14   
11.1   

Suspension

     14   
11.2   

Information and consultation

     14   
11.3   

Replacement Services

     15   
11.4   

Permanent interruption

     15   
12   

TERM AND TERMINATION

     15   
12.1   

Term

     15   
12.2   

Termination

     16   
12.3   

Effect of Termination of a Service

     17   
12.4   

Effect of Termination of this Agreement

     17   
12.5   

Clauses to survive termination

     18   
13   

MISCELLANEOUS

     18   
13.1   

Confidentiality

     18   
13.2   

Entire agreement

     18   
13.3   

No assignment

     19   
13.4   

Waiver

     19   
13.5   

Amendment

     19   
13.6   

Third party rights

     19   
13.7   

Rescission

     19   
13.8   

Costs

     19   
13.9   

Notices

     19   
13.10   

Invalidity

     20   
13.11   

Counterparts

     21   
13.12   

Dispute resolution

     21   
13.13   

Governing law

     21   

 

Schedules   
Schedule 1    Definitions
Schedule 2    Transitional Services to Purchaser
Schedule 3    Transitional Services to Seller
Schedule 4    Change Request Form
Schedule 5    Obligations Project Manager

 

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TRANSITIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT

THE UNDERSIGNED:

 

(1) NXP B.V., a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, with corporate seat in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, having its address at High Tech Campus 60, 5656 AG Eindhoven, the Netherlands, (the “Seller”),

and

 

(2) Knowles Electronics, LLC, [], having its address at [], [], (the “Purchaser”),

WHEREAS:

 

(A) On [] 2010, Seller and Purchaser, entered into the Sale and Purchase Agreement (the “Principal Agreement”) relating to the sale and transfer to Purchaser of the Business.

 

(B) As a consequence of the sale of the Business the Group Entities require the continued provision after Closing, on a transitional basis, of certain limited IT services by certain members of Seller’s Group to be provided on the terms and conditions of this agreement (the “Agreement”) [and Seller’s Group requires the continued provision after Closing, on a transitional basis, of a limited set of services by certain members of the Group to be provided on the terms and conditions of this Agreement].

 

(C) Schedule 2 to this Agreement sets out (i) the services to be provided to the relevant members of the Group and (ii) any further conditions under which such services shall be provided.

 

(D) [Schedule 3 to this Agreement sets out (i) the services to be provided to the relevant members of Seller’s Group and (ii) any further conditions under which such services shall be provided.]

IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS

 

1 INTERPRETATION

In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions in this Clause 1 apply throughout.

 

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1.1 Definitions

Capitalised words, including those used in the introduction and recitals to this Agreement, shall have the meanings set out in the Principal Agreement, unless expressly stated in Schedule 1 or otherwise in this Agreement.

 

1.2 References to persons

References to a person include any individual, company or partnership whether or not having separate legal personality and wherever incorporated or registered.

 

1.3 Headings and references to Clauses, Schedules and Paragraphs

 

1.3.1 Headings have been inserted for convenience of reference only and do not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions of this Agreement.

 

1.3.2 A reference in this Agreement to:

 

  (a) a Clause or Schedule is to the relevant Clause of or Schedule to this Agreement; and

 

  (b) a Paragraph is to the relevant Paragraph of the relevant Schedule.

 

1.4 Information

References to books, records or other information include books, records or other information stored in any form including paper, magnetic media, films, microfilms, electronic storage devices and any other data carriers.

 

1.5 Legal terms

In respect of any jurisdiction other than the Netherlands, a reference to any Netherlands legal term shall be construed as a reference to the term or concept which most nearly corresponds to it in that jurisdiction.

 

1.6 Other references

 

1.6.1 Whenever used in this Agreement, the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”.

 

1.6.2 Whenever used in this Agreement, the words “as of” shall be deemed to include the day or moment in time specified thereafter.

 

1.6.3 Any reference in this Agreement to any gender shall include all genders, and words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.

 

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1.7 Drafting Party

No provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted against a Party solely as a result of the fact that such Party was responsible for the drafting of such provision.

 

1.8 Relation between the Principal Agreement and the Agreement

To the extent that the provisions of this Agreement are inconsistent with provisions of the Principal Agreement:

 

1.8.1 the provisions of the Principal Agreement shall prevail; and

 

1.8.2 Seller and Purchaser shall adjust, so far as permissible under the Laws of the relevant jurisdiction, the provisions of this Agreement to the extent necessary to give effect to the provisions of the Principal Agreement.

 

1.9 Interaction of the Schedules and the remainder of this Agreement

In the event of any conflict between the provision of a Schedule and Clauses 1 through 13 of this Agreement (the “Front End of the Agreement”), the Schedule shall override any conflicting provision of the Front End of the Agreement.

 

1.10 Meaning of Supplier and Receiver

 

1.10.1 If the Supplier is Seller or a member of the Seller’s Group any obligation of the “Supplier” or benefit expressed to be conferred on the “Supplier” under this Agreement shall either be an obligation on, or a benefit conferred on, (as the case maybe), Seller itself if it is the Supplier, or Seller shall procure that the relevant member of the Seller’s Group complies with the relevant obligation and Seller shall be entitled to enjoy the benefit conferred on any member of the Seller’s Group as trustee for the relevant member of the Seller’s Group (as the case maybe).

 

1.10.2 [If the Receiver is Seller or a member of the Seller’s Group any obligation of the “Receiver” or benefit expressed to be conferred on the “Receiver” under this Agreement shall either be an obligation on, or a benefit conferred on, (as the case maybe), Seller itself if it is the Receiver, or Seller shall procure that the relevant member of the Seller’s Group complies with the relevant obligation and Seller shall be entitled to enjoy the benefit conferred on any member of the Seller’s Group as trustee for the relevant member of the Seller’s Group (as the case maybe).]

 

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1.10.3 [If the Supplier is the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group any obligation of the “Supplier” or benefit expressed to be conferred on the “Supplier” under this Agreement shall either be an obligation on, or a benefit conferred on, (as the case maybe), the Purchaser itself if it is the Supplier, or the Purchaser shall procure that the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group complies with the relevant obligation and the Purchaser shall be entitled to enjoy the benefit conferred on any member of the Purchaser’s Group as trustee for the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group (as the case maybe).]

 

1.10.4 If the Receiver is the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group any obligation of the “Receiver” or benefit expressed to be conferred on the “Receiver” under this Agreement shall either be an obligation on, or a benefit conferred on, (as the case maybe), the Purchaser itself if it is the Receiver, or the Purchaser shall procure that the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group complies with the relevant obligation and the Purchaser shall be entitled to enjoy the benefit conferred on any member of the Purchaser’s Group as trustee for the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group (as the case maybe).

 

2 SUPPLY OF THE SERVICES

 

2.1 Services

 

2.1.1 The Supplier agrees to supply each of the Services set out against its name in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires,] to the relevant Receiver set out in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires,] and the Receiver shall receive and accept the Services from the relevant Supplier, in accordance with the terms of, and the Description set out in, this Agreement.

 

2.1.2 If a Service includes payroll services, the Supplier will act as a paying agent for the Receiver. The Receiver will reimburse the Supplier within 5 working days for any payments made pursuant to such payroll service.

 

2.2 Sub-contractors

Each party may, and may allow any relevant Supplier to, appoint one or more suitably qualified sub-contractors to supply one or more of the Services, provided such sub-contractors shall be subject to the provisions of Clauses 7, 8.4.1 and 13.1.

 

2.3 Standard

 

2.3.1

Each Supplier agrees to provide each Service with the same care and skills as such Service would be performed in accordance with the Seller’s Group’s internal business standards. No Supplier shall be under an obligation to supply any extension or development of any Service beyond the standard and scope

 

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of such Service or similar service as set out in the Description of the Services, nor any Service at a level of demand which exceeds the level of demand for that Service or similar service.

 

2.3.2 In addition, if any Supplier amends or develops the standard and scope of any service it provides in its own business or to any other member of the Supplier Group which is of a similar nature to any Service, each party may, and may allow such Supplier to, make similar amendments or developments to the standard and scope of such Service, provided that (i) each Supplier shall, within a reasonable period, notify the relevant Receiver in writing of the amendment or development and (ii) the standard and scope of such amended or developed Service is not, when considered overall, lower than the standard and scope of the service of a similar nature provided to other members of the Supplier Group.

 

2.4 Failure or omission to agree

If the parties have not prior to the Commencement Date agreed any Term Sheet for a service reasonably required by the other party they shall, subject always to the remaining provisions of this Agreement, use their reasonable endeavours to agree it and the relevant party shall use its reasonable endeavours to provide those services to the other party at the reasonable cost of the other party until that Term Sheet is agreed.

 

2.5 Temporary shortage

In the event that there is a temporary shortage in the availability of a Service, the Supplier shall, to the extent available, allocate such Service fairly between the Receiver and any other recipients of such Service, provided that Receiver shall have no obligation for any Charge or other costs in respect of the portion of the Service it does not receive.

 

3 CHARGES, INVOICE AND PAYMENT

 

3.1 Charge

 

3.1.1 The relevant Receiver shall pay to the relevant Supplier the Charge in respect of each Service.

 

3.1.2 The Charges shall be calculated on the basis stipulated in a Schedule for such Service, or in the absence thereof, on the basis of fully loaded costs plus 5%, and do not include any value added tax or other applicable sales tax or duty, which, if applicable, shall be added thereto and paid by the relevant Receiver following receipt of an appropriate tax invoice.

 

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3.1.3 Any additional or unexpected costs reasonably incurred by the Supplier in excess of the Price in supplying any Service resulting from change requests by the other party or the relevant Receiver shall be charged to such other party notwithstanding that such costs are not referred to in the relevant Schedule.

 

3.2 Invoice and payment

 

3.2.1 The Charges shall be invoiced on a monthly basis, in arrear for the relevant calendar month. The relevant Receiver shall pay each invoice at the end of the month following the month of the invoice date by way of transfer to the bank or giro account indicated by the Supplier (in the invoice or otherwise), unless otherwise informed in a timely manner by the Supplier.

 

3.2.2 If an invoice has not been paid by the due date, the Receiver shall pay to the Supplier interest on the overdue amount at the Dutch statutory rate. Interest shall accrue from the date on which the default commences, up to and including the date on which it ends. Interest shall not be due to the extent that the default in payment is attributed to the Supplier or a person for whom it is liable.

 

3.2.3 Each invoice shall be paid in full without any set-off, restriction or deduction. The costs of making the payment shall be for the account of the party making the payment. All payments under this Agreement are made in the local currency of the country in which the Services are provided, as specified in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires].

 

3.2.4 In the event that the relevant Receiver considers the invoice incorrect or any amount not to be due, the Receiver shall pay all undisputed amounts and notify the relevant Supplier in writing of the disputed item(s), together with the reasons therefor, as soon as reasonably possible and in any event within 5 Business Days after the relevant Receiver becomes aware of the disputed item(s). The parties shall use reasonable endeavours to resolve the dispute within 20 Business Days of receipt by the relevant Supplier of the aforementioned written notice, falling which Clause 13.12 shall apply.

 

4 EMPLOYEES

[To the extent Relevant Employees, as defined in the Principal Agreement, have not yet been transferred to Purchaser at Closing, Seller shall cause its relevant employer entity to keep the Relevant Employees for a maximum of 2 months on its payroll for the sole benefit and at the cost of Purchaser.]

 

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5 IT

 

5.1 Objectives

The parties shall use their reasonable endeavours to achieve the following objectives:

 

5.1.1 the continuity of the IT and communications services supplied to the Group during a limited transitional period; and

 

5.1.2 the absence of any material adverse impact on the IT operations (taken as a whole) of the Group or of Seller’s Group due to transition.

 

5.2 Obligations Purchaser

In relation to any Transitional IT Service, the Purchaser agrees that it shall, and shall procure that any Receiver within Purchaser’s Group shall:

 

5.2.1 not decommission, replace or change its information technology or communications systems or other services without Seller’s prior written consent, if this will materially adversely affect Seller’s ability to perform, or lead to unrecoverable costs to Seller of performing, its obligations under this Agreement;

 

5.2.2 comply with and accept any operational, technical or architectural change Seller (or its third party suppliers) implements generally in relation to any Transitional IT Service, provided that change does not materially adversely affect the Group; and

 

5.2.3 co-operate with any reasonable request of Seller or any third party supplier of an Transitional IT Service in the event that Seller or such third party suppliers requires unplanned changes or interruption to or affecting a Transitional IT Service or the manner in which a Transitional IT Service is configured or delivered.

 

5.3 SOx IT general controls

To the extent Seller uses IT systems that are within the scope of the SOx IT general controls, Purchaser shall rely on the outcome of the SOx testing on those systems which are tested by KPMG. For the avoidance of doubt, the Purchaser will not be entitled to its own independent testing, provided, however, the Purchaser will have access to KPMG in order to discuss their scope and findings if required as part of the Purchaser’s SOx compliance.

 

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6 PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Within five Business Days following the date of this Agreement, each of the parties shall nominate a project manager to manage and coordinate their respective obligations under this Agreement and to act as the primary contact between them for that purpose (a “Project Manager”). A non-exhaustive list of such obligations of the parties under this Agreement is set out in Schedule 5. Neither party may replace its Project Manager (except on a temporary and urgent basis) without obtaining the other’s prior written approval of the replacement, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. The Project Managers shall meet (in person or by telephone) no less frequently than once per month. Where a Project Manager is absent due to holiday or illness, the relevant party shall arrange for a suitable delegate to attend such meetings. Immediately following the nomination of the Project Managers, the parties shall work together to establish a joint IT transition project team (the “Team”).

 

7 IT SECURITY AND DATA

 

7.1 IT Security

 

7.1.1 Seller and Purchaser shall comply and shall ensure that all persons providing and receiving Services with regard to the IT network provided by a Supplier to a Receiver in accordance with Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires,] respectively comply with the Supplier’s IT security policy and network standards as amended from time to time as such pertain to the Services being provided.

 

7.1.2 The parties shall enter into, or shall procure that the Receivers shall enter into, any ancillary agreements relating to IT security and do such other things reasonably required by such policy and standards for any software, equipment, data or services which may be connected to the relevant Supplier’s telecommunications network or computing equipment. Each party shall, for the purpose of protecting the security of the other party’s telecommunications network and computing equipment, each maintain appropriate security procedures to protect its own network from any unauthorised third party access and to reasonably ensure that all programs and data used on such network or computing equipment will be free from all types of computer viruses.

 

7.2 Unauthorised access

 

7.2.1 Neither party shall use the other’s network for any improper purpose, including any purpose which could expose the other party to risk, including by way of example only:

 

  (a) in breach of any applicable laws;

 

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  (b) for the purpose of gaining or attempting to gain access to the other party’s data or to other networks other than exclusively for the purpose of receiving or providing the Services; or

 

  (c) for the purpose of carrying data for the benefit of a third party.

 

7.3 No access to networks

Neither party shall have access to the systems, networks, services nor data of the other party except as may be necessary to provide or receive Services.

 

8 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, LICENCES AND CONSENTS

 

8.1 Licences and consents

 

8.1.1 Where the provision of any of the Services requires a licence or consent from a third party, Supplier shall use its reasonable efforts to procure that such a licence or consent is granted and Receiver shall provide Supplier with all reasonable assistance required in this regard. Where any third party requires or has required Supplier to pay any further sum in respect of or in order to obtain such licence or consent and where Seller or Supplier has paid any such sum, Receiver shall pay such further sum, in the proportion to be shared equally with any other recipients in respect of which such further sum also applies, to Supplier forthwith (including for the avoidance of doubt any VAT, sales and any other equivalent local tax or duty), and any agreement with such third party made or executed after the Commencement Date relating to such payments shall only be made with the prior written consent of Receiver (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

 

8.1.2 Where, despite Supplier’s reasonable efforts, a licence or consent is not granted or a granted licence or consent has been withdrawn, Supplier shall procure that the relevant Receiver is immediately notified that such a licence or consent has not been or is no longer granted. The Service which required such licence or consent shall immediately terminate, the Supplier shall no longer be under any obligation to provide any such Service and the relevant Supplier shall not have any liability to the relevant Receiver or its Affiliates with respect to such Service.

 

8.2 Receiver’s indemnification

The Receiver shall not, wilfully do or omit to do anything which would result in the Supplier or its Affiliates being in breach of any of its or their obligations under any agreement with a third party in connection with (the provision of) a Service of which Receiver has been advised in writing by Supplier and the

 

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Receiver shall indemnify the Supplier and its Affiliates in full in respect of any loss or damage it or they may suffer as a result of any such act or omission.

 

8.3 Receiver’s rights

Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give any party any right, title or interest in Intellectual Property rights of the other party or its Affiliates. The Principal Agreement and any agreements regarding the use of Intellectual Property entered into pursuant to it (apart from this Agreement) shall prevail over this Agreement in relation to the Receiver’s rights to use or receive any assignment or licence of Intellectual Property. Receiver’s rights to use Intellectual Property rights owned or used by Supplier and provided to the Receiver pursuant to this Agreement shall be limited to its rights to receive the Services as set out in this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Receiver does not have a right to sub-license or assign any such Intellectual Property rights unless otherwise expressly provided herein or in the Principal Agreement or any agreements regarding the use of Intellectual Property entered into pursuant to it.

 

8.4 Compliance

 

8.4.1 No party shall do or omit to do or authorise any third party to do or omit to do any act, which act or omission, to the knowledge of such party, would or might invalidate the Intellectual Property, or be inconsistent with the rights, ownership or use (as the case may be) of Intellectual Property, of the other party. Purchaser and Seller shall procure that each of the Receivers and the Suppliers, respectively, comply with this Clause.

 

9 LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

 

9.1 Aggregate liability

Without detracting from any other limitation of liability under this Agreement (including, any specific limitations of liability set out in any Term Sheet), the aggregate liability of a Supplier or its Affiliates for claims for breach of this Agreement, including pursuant to failure to supply a Service in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (“Supply Failure”), shall be limited to the total Charges paid for the Service or part thereof to which the breach relates from the Commencement Date to the date of breach.

 

9.2 No liability

 

9.2.1

Without prejudice to Clauses 10 and 11, Suppliers or its Affiliates shall not be liable in respect of any Supply Failure arising from a failure to obtain, or a

 

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withdrawal of, a consent or licence of a third party as set out in Clauses 8.1.1 and 8.1.2.

 

9.2.2 No party shall be liable under this Agreement to any other party in respect of any loss of production, loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of contract, loss of goodwill, loss of claim or any (other) indirect or consequential losses.

 

10 FORCE MAJEURE

 

10.1 Notification

In the event of Force Majeure (‘overmacht’) affecting the ability of a Supplier to supply any Service, that party shall notify the other party in writing as soon as reasonable possible after becoming aware thereof. For the period of such Force Majeure, the affected Supplier will be relieved of its obligations under this Agreement in respect of such Service and the relevant Receiver shall have the right to obtain elsewhere at its own risk and cost such quantities of a service similar to the Service in question to cover its requirements during the period of Force Majeure. The relevant Supplier shall provide the relevant Receiver all reasonable assistance required in this regard. The relevant Receiver shall be relieved of its obligations under this Agreement for any payments in respect of such Service during the period of Force Majeure.

 

10.2 Termination

If, due to Force Majeure, a Service is not provided in accordance with this Agreement for a consecutive period of one calendar month, the Receiver may give written notice of the immediate termination of this Agreement in respect of such Service.

 

11 TEMPORARY SHUTDOWNS

 

11.1 Suspension

In the event of a Temporary Shutdown of Facilities affecting the supply of any Service, Supplier shall, acting in each case as a reasonable and prudent operator, for the period of such shutdown have the right to suspend temporarily the provision of such Service.

 

11.2 Information and consultation

The relevant Supplier shall, timely inform, and consult with, Receiver in respect of (i) the likely duration of such shutdown, (ii) the effect which such shutdown will have on the provision of the relevant Services in accordance with this Agreement and (iii) when the provision of such Services is likely to be resumed.

 

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The relevant Supplier shall use reasonable endeavours (i) to minimise interruptions to the provision of the relevant Services, but shall not be obliged to procure the provision of a replacement service from third parties, and (ii) to resume performance to the extent possible, as soon as practicable after the end of the relevant Temporary Shutdown of Facilities.

 

11.3 Replacement Services

Where required by receiver, the relevant Supplier shall use reasonable efforts to make good any shortfall in the supply of a Service as a result of the Temporary Shutdown of Facilities and, in such event, the relevant Receiver shall receive and accept any such replacement Services. For the avoidance of doubt, any affected Receiver shall have the right to obtain services similar to the Services in question elsewhere at its own risk and cost to cover its requirements during any period of Temporary Shutdown of Facilities. The affected Receiver shall be relieved of its obligations under this Agreement for any payments in respect of any portion of such Service not provided during any period of Temporary Shutdown of Facilities or any Service for which the affected Receiver has obtained services similar to the Services in question.

 

11.4 Permanent interruption

If the Temporary Shutdown of Facilities causes interruption to Services for a consecutive period of one calendar month, performance of such Services shall be deemed to be impossible on a permanent basis.

 

12 TERM AND TERMINATION

 

12.1 Term

 

12.1.1 This Agreement shall commence on the Commencement Date and shall, subject to the provisions for early termination set out herein, continue in force until the last of the Term Sheets terminates or expires.

 

12.1.2 Unless previously terminated in accordance with this Agreement, the provision of each Service shall cease upon the expiry of the Transition Period in relation to that Service. Unless otherwise agreed between the parties, each Service shall be provided for a maximum period of 6 months after the Commencement Date, subject to earlier termination under Clause 12.2. Where any Term Sheet expires or terminates, the parties agree that any other Services which are dependent on the Term Sheet being terminated or expiring shall be deemed to terminate or expire on the same date as that terminating or expiring Term Sheet.

 

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12.1.3 Either party may request, by providing the other party with a written notice at least 1 month prior to the expiry of the Transition Period in relation to the relevant Service(s), to continue to use one or more Services for a period that will exceed the Transition Period. The other party may, at its sole discretion, decide to continue to provide such Service(s).

 

12.1.4 Either party may request, by providing the other party with a written notice at least 1 month prior to the expiry of the Transition Period in relation to the relevant Service(s), to add one or more Services, by using the change request form as set out in Schedule 4. The other party may, at its sole discretion, decide to provide such Service(s).

 

12.1.5 The rates for the Services under Clauses 12.1.3 and 12.1.4 shall be, unless otherwise agreed between the parties, charged on commercial terms (to be negotiated) by the party providing the Service to the other under this Agreement. The scope of the Services under Clauses 12.1.3 and 12.1.4 shall be negotiated in good faith on terms and conditions to be agreed upon between the parties hereto.

 

12.1.6 This Agreement shall remain in force to each Service which is continued after the Transition Period until new terms and conditions are agreed upon and have taken effect.

 

12.2 Termination

 

12.2.1 Either the Supplier or Receiver of a Service may terminate a Service, or part or all of the Service provided under a Term Sheet, by providing the other party with at least 3 months written notice.

 

12.2.2 Either party to a Term Sheet (the “Terminating Party”) may terminate a Service with immediate effect by written notice to the other party to the relevant Term Service (the “Defaulting Party”) on or at any time after a material breach by the Defaulting Party of any of its obligations under this Agreement relating to that Term Sheet which (if the breach is capable of remedy) the Defaulting Party has failed to remedy within 15 Business Days after receipt of notice in writing of the breach from the Terminating Party requiring the Defaulting Party to do so.

 

12.2.3 Without prejudice to any of its other rights and obligations, each party may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by notifying the other party in writing if:

 

  (a) the other party, or any of its Affiliates, has ceased to exist or has been dissolved;

 

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  (b) the other party, or any of its Affiliates, has been declared bankrupt, or has been granted suspension of payments, on a temporary basis or otherwise, or the other party, or any of its Affiliates, has lost the free management or disposal of its property in any other way, the foregoing irrespective of whether that situation is irrevocable;

 

  (c) the other party, or any of its Affiliates, has offered its creditors a composition in or outside a bankruptcy or suspension of payments; or

 

  (d) the other party’s business, or the business of any of its Affiliates, has been discontinued,

provided that this Agreement may only be terminated in respect of an event as aforementioned affecting any Affiliate of the other party for the Service or Services relating to such Affiliate.

 

12.3 Effect of Termination of a Service

 

12.3.1 Upon termination of the supply of any Service under this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Agreement all rights and obligations of the parties in respect of that Service only shall cease to have effect except that termination shall not affect:

 

  (a) accrued rights and obligations of the parties in respect of that Service at the date of termination (but for the avoidance of doubt the Supplier is not obliged to comply with any orders to the extent they relate to the period after termination); and

 

  (b) the continued existence and validity of the rights and obligations of the parties under those Clauses listed in Clause 12.5 and any provisions of this Agreement necessary for the interpretation or enforcement of this Agreement.

 

12.3.2 For the avoidance of doubt, the termination of the supply of any Service under this Agreement shall not affect the parties’ rights and obligations in respect of other Services supplied under this Agreement.

 

12.4 Effect of Termination of this Agreement

 

12.4.1 Upon termination of this Agreement all rights and obligations of the parties shall cease to have effect immediately except that termination shall not affect:

 

  (a)

accrued rights and obligations of the parties under this Agreement at the date of termination (but for the avoidance of doubt the Supplier is

 

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not obliged to comply with any orders to the extent they relate to the period after termination); and

 

  (b) the continued existence and validity of the rights and obligations of the parties under those Clauses listed in Clause 12.5 and any provisions of this Agreement necessary for the interpretation or enforcement of this Agreement.

 

12.5 Clauses to survive termination

Clauses 3.1, 3.2, 8, 9, and 13 shall survive the expiration of this Agreement or termination of this Agreement for whatever cause.

 

13 MISCELLANEOUS

 

13.1 Confidentiality

Each party shall not, and shall procure that its Affiliates shall not, use or disclose, unless the performance or enforcement of this Agreement so requires, any information which relates to the other party or any of its Affiliates or their activities or products, including information concerning suppliers and customers and other relationships and proprietary know-how, and which has been obtained in the provision of the Services, excluding (i) information that is or has become part of the public domain through no fault of the recipient, (ii) information that has been lawfully acquired by the recipient from a third party on a non-confidential basis and (iii) information that has been conceived or generated by the recipient independently of the information received from the other party, provided that information conceived or generated by the Group Entities shall, for purposes of this provision, be deemed received from the Purchaser.

 

13.2 Entire agreement

 

13.2.1 This Agreement together with the Principal Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, to the exclusion of any terms implied by Law which may be excluded by contract, and supersedes any previous written or oral agreement between the parties in relation to the matters dealt with in this Agreement.

 

13.2.2 The Purchaser acknowledges that it has not been induced to enter into this Agreement by any representation, warranty or undertaking not expressly set out in this Agreement.

 

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13.3 No assignment

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, no party to this Agreement may, unless with the prior written consent of the parties, assign, grant any security interest over or otherwise transfer, in whole or in part, any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement.

 

13.4 Waiver

No waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective unless such waiver is in writing and signed by or on behalf of the waiving party.

 

13.5 Amendment

No amendment of this Agreement shall be effective unless such amendment is in writing and signed by or on behalf of each of the parties.

 

13.6 Third party rights

Save as expressly otherwise stated, this Agreement does not contain a stipulation in favour of a third party (‘derdenbeding’).

 

13.7 Rescission

Each party waives its right to rescind (‘ontbinden’) or cancel this Agreement on the basis of Sections 6:265 or 6:228 of the Netherlands Civil Code.

 

13.8 Costs

Unless the Principal Agreement or this Agreement provides otherwise, all costs which a party has incurred or must incur in preparing, concluding or performing this Agreement are for its own account.

 

13.9 Notices

 

13.9.1 Any notice in connection with this Agreement and any other agreement that is connected with this Agreement (unless the parties expressly agree otherwise) (a “Notice”) shall be:

 

  (a) in writing;

 

  (b) in English; and

 

  (c) delivered by hand, email, facsimile or courier using an internationally recognised courier company.

 

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13.9.2 A Notice to Seller shall be sent to Seller at the following address, or such other person or address as Seller may notify to Purchaser from time to time:

 

Name:    NXP B.V.
Address:    High Tech Campus 60
   5656 AG Eindhoven
Country:    The Netherlands
Fax:    +31 40 27 29658
Email:    charles.smit@nxp.com
Attention:    Mr Charles Smit

 

13.9.3 A Notice to Purchaser shall be sent to Purchaser at the following address, or such other person or address as Purchaser may notify to Seller and Seller from time to time:

 

Name:    [Knowles Electronics, LLC]
Address:    []
Country:    []
Fax:    []
Email:    []
Attention:    []

 

13.9.4 A Notice shall be effective upon receipt and shall be deemed to have been received:

 

  (a) at the time of delivery, if delivered by hand, or courier;

 

  (b) at the time of transmission in legible form, if delivered by fax or email.

 

13.10 Invalidity

If any provision in this Agreement shall be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, under any Law:

 

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13.10.1 such provision or part shall to that extent be deemed not to form part of this Agreement but the legality, validity or enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected;

 

13.10.2 Seller and Purchaser shall use reasonable efforts to agree a replacement provision that is legal, valid and enforceable to achieve so far as possible the intended effect of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision.

 

13.11 Counterparts

This Agreement may be entered into in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Seller and Purchaser may enter into this Agreement by signing any such counterpart.

 

13.12 Dispute resolution

All disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement, including the existence and validity thereof, shall be resolved in accordance with Clause 18.2 (Forum) of the Principal Agreement.

 

13.13 Governing law

This Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, save as expressly otherwise provided therein, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the Law of the Netherlands.

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS:]

 

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on [] for and on behalf of Seller:    
NXP B.V.    

 

   

 

Name:     Name:
Title:     Title:
on [] for and on behalf of Purchaser:    
Knowles Electronics, LLC    

 

   

 

Name:     Name:
Title:     Title:

 

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Schedule 1 Definitions

(Clause 1.1)

Affiliates” with respect to any person, any other person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such person and “Affiliate” means any one of them or the relevant one of them, as the context requires;

Charges” means, in relation to a Service, the charges set out in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires];

Commencement Date” means the date of signature of this Agreement by all parties thereto;

Description” means, in relation to a Service, the description set out in relation to such Service in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires];

Force Majeure” means any circumstance beyond the reasonable control of Seller or a Supplier including:

 

(a) fire, flood, explosion, war, riots, government action or inaction or a request of any governmental, regulatory or administrative authority;

 

(b) inability to obtain, or shortage of, fuel, water, power, gas, equipment, transportation or materials, or accident to, or breakage of, machinery or apparatus, where Seller or the Supplier is acting and has acted as a reasonable and prudent operator;

 

(c) emergency Temporary Shutdown of Facilities; or

 

(d) strikes or labour disputes;

Front End of the Agreement” shall have the meaning given to it in Clause 1.9.

Intellectual Property” means trade marks, service marks, trade names, domain names, logos, patents, design rights, copyrights, semi-conductor topography rights, database rights, plant variety rights and all other similar rights in any part of the world (including know-how) including, where such rights are obtained or enhanced by registration, any registration of such rights and applications and rights to apply for such registrations;

Project Manager” shall have the meaning given to it in Clause 6.

Purchaser” has the meaning set forth in the introduction of this Agreement;


Receivers” means all those members of the Receiver Group identified in relation to a Service in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires] as a receiver of such Service and “Receiver” means any one of them or the relevant one of them, as the context requires;

Receiver Group” means Purchaser and its Affiliates;

Seller” has the meaning set forth in the introduction of this Agreement;

Service” means the service set out in each Term Sheet;

Supplier Group” means Seller and its Affiliates;

Suppliers” means all those members of the Supplier Group identified in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires] as a supplier in a relevant country, and any Affiliates of such suppliers who will be providing any of the Services on behalf of such suppliers, and “Supplier” means any one of them or the relevant one of them, as the context requires;

Supply Failure” has the meaning given in Clause 9.1;

Team” shall have the meaning given to it in Clause 6.

Temporary Shutdown of Facilities” means the temporary shutdown, for improvement, maintenance and/or updating purposes or similar purposes, and any scheduled shutdowns for vacation periods, of any facilities of any members of the Supplier Group or of any other person, in each case used for the provision of any Services or the support of such Services;

Term Sheet” means the relevant details in relation to each Service set out in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires]; and

Transitional IT Service” means any transitional Service provided by the Seller’s Group in relation to information technology or communications services as described in the Term Sheets contained in Schedule 2;

Transition Period” means, in relation to a Service, the transition period set out in relation to such Service in Schedule 2 [or Schedule 3, as the context requires].


Schedule 2 Transitional Services to Purchaser

 

 

FUNCTION

 

          SERVICE/ SUBFUNCTION     
               
             

 

NXP UID

 

        NXP COUNTRY             NXP ORU    
               
SERVICE PROVIDER (MAG/DESCRIPTION)          

SERVICE RECEIVER (DECOY COUNTRY/

LEGAL ENTITIY)

    
               
START MONTH         EXPECTED DURATION IN MONTHS             TERMINATION MONTH    
               
FTE         NOTICE PERIOD IN MONTHS             COST TYPE (COGS, R&D, SG&A)    
               

 

 

SERVICE

DESCRIPTION

 

 

  

DETAILS OF AGREED SERVICES CONTAINED IN ATTACHMENT TO THIS SCHEDULE 2

 

LOGO              LOGO

               
MONTHLY COST IN FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY         FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY             TOTAL COST UNTIL EXPECTED TERMINATION DATE    
               
NXP RESPONSIBLE CONTROLLER          

DECOY

RESPONSIBLE CONTROLLER

        
               
NXP RESPONSIBLE PERSON          

DECOY

RESPONSIBLE PERSON

        
         

 

DATE

 

          DATE         
         

 

SIGNATURE

 

          SIGNATURE         


Service
ID

 

Function

 

Service/ Sub
function

 

Detailed service
description

 

Type
of TSA

 

Country
specific or
Corporate
service

 

Service
provider
(function, legal

entity, country)

 

Service
Recipient
(function,
legal entity,
country)

 

Start
Date
(date)

 

Duration

(months)

 

Cost In
USA
as per
month

 

Dependencies

on other Services

(incl Services IDs
of related
services #
available)

 

Responsible
contact a
Service
provider

XXX_+

                       

IT001

  IT Generic (SUM)   IT mail, WAN, telecom, HACS, etc   Generic IT services - includes service for storage, network (WAN), mail, intranet, voice equipment, etc.   TSA   Corporate IT  

IT, NXP B.V. (Netherlands)

NL63231837

  Operations, Newco US   apr-11   6   65   Max of 6 month, Min. 3 month. In between (if TSA is ended) the grace costs.  

Johan de Groote

IT002

  IT Generic Covering the Grace cost.                   26     Johan de Groote

IT003

  IT BP&A   SPEED1, EDI, reports.   See for application overview KIP report data-room   TSA   Corporate IT   IT, NXP B.V. (Netherlands) NL63231837   Operations, Newco US   apr-11   12   61   Max of 12 month, Min. 6 month. In between (if TSA is ended) the grace costs.   Johan de Groote

IT004

  IT BP&A covering the Grace cost.                   7     Johan de Groote
      TSA IT005 till IT009 to be decided 6 weeks before day1                  

IT005

  Additional Services   Mail handling   Mail forwarding, mail address transaction, exchange of mail Identities   STSA   Corporate IT   IT, NXP B.V. (Netherlands)   Operations, Newco US     6   4   When NewCo stops Services   Johan de Groote

IT006

  Additional Services   Extra Helpdesk   Helpdesk expected for 1 call per month per WP   STSA   Corporate IT   IT, NXP B.V. (Netherlands) NL63231837   Operations, Newco US     6   18   When NewCo stops Services   Johan de Groote

IT007

  Additional Services   Fire Wall management and Interconnect   Support for the extra Service Interconnect.   STSA   Corporate IT  

IT, NXP B.V.

(Netherlands) NL63231837

  Operations, Newco US     12   15   When NewCo stops Services   Johan de Groote

IT008

  Additional Services   Reversed connectivity (Citrix, Proxy)   Temporary gateway to securely access (through reverse proxy or Citrix) central NXP applications through specifically configured network connection with NewCo   STSA   Corporate IT   IT, NXP B.V. (Netherlands) NL83231837   Operations, Newco US     12   10   When NewCo stops Services   Johan de Groote

IT009

  Additional Services   Shared FTP   Temporary gateway to securely transfer high volume files with NewCo   STSA   Corporate IT   IT, NXP B.V. (Netherlands)   Operations, Newco US     6   5   When NewCo steps Services   Johan de Groote

 

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Schedule 3 Transitional Services to Seller

 

 

FUNCTION

 

             

SERVICE /

SUBFUNCTION

        
              

 

NXP UID

 

       NXP COUNTRY             NXP ORU    
              
SERVICE PROVIDER (MAG/DESCRIPTION)              

SERVICE RECEIVER

(DECOY COUNTRY/

LEGAL ENTITY)

        
              
START MONTH        EXPECTED DURATION IN MONTHS             TERMINATION MONTH    
              
FTE        NOTICE PERIOD IN MONTHS            

COST TYPE

(COGS, R&D, SG&A)

   
              

 

 

SERVICE DESCRIPTION

 

 

                          
              

MONTHLY COST

IN FUNCTIONAL

CURRENCY

       FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY             TOTAL COST UNTIL EXPECTED TERMINATION DATE    
              

NXP RESPONSIBLE

CONTROLLER

             

DECOY

RESPONSIBLE

CONTROLLER

        
              

NXP RESPONSIBLE

PERSON

             

DECOY

RESPONSIBLE

PERSON

        

 

DATE

 

              DATE       

 

SIGNATURE

 

              SIGNATURE         


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Schedule 14 EMPLOYEES

Part 1

 

1 Definitions

In this Schedule 14:

Relevant Employees” has the meaning set out in Paragraph 3.1.

 

2 Employees employed by the Group Entities

 

2.1 The Employees employed by the Group Entities will remain employed by the Group Entities following the transfer of the Shares as contemplated by this Agreement.

 

3 Employees employed by a member of the Seller’s Group other than a Group Entity

 

3.1 The Employees falling within item (b) of the definition of Employees (“Relevant Employees”) will not transfer to the Purchaser or the Group as employees of NXP Austria or NXP China. The following shall apply in respect of the Relevant Employees that do not otherwise transfer by operation of relevant national laws:

 

  (a) The Purchaser shall, in sufficient time to allow proper contractual or statutory notice of termination of employment to be given to Relevant Employees or at such time as the Parties may agree but in any event not less than ten (10) Business Days prior to the date set in Clause 6.1 for Closing, make an offer to each Relevant Employee listed in Part 2 of this Schedule 14 (other than those under notice of termination of employment for whatever reason) to employ him or her under a new contract of employment commencing immediately after the Effective Time.

 

  (b) The offer of employment to be made by the Purchaser under Paragraph 3.1(a) shall be such that:

 

  (i) the provisions of the new employment contract shall be, as to the capacity and place in which the Relevant Employee concerned will be employed, and as to the other terms and conditions of his or her employment, as far as is practically achievable, unchanged and, when considered overall, no less favourable than the corresponding provisions of his or her contract of employment as existing immediately prior to the Effective Time; and

 

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  (ii) the offer of employment provides that the Relevant Employee’s period of continuous service with the Seller’s Group shall be counted as continuous service with the Purchaser’s Group. Excepting where the Seller has, in accordance with normal national practice, made severance payments in respect of such period of continuous service.

 

  (c) The Seller’s Group shall terminate the employment of each Relevant Employee with effect from the moment after the Effective Time.

 

3.2 The Purchaser shall, in sufficient time to allow proper contractual or statutory notice of termination of employment to be given or at such time as the Parties may agree but in any event not less than ten (10) Business Days prior to the date set in Clause 6.1 for Closing, procure that a Subsidiary of the Purchaser incorporated in Germany makes the Employee currently employed by a Subsidiary of the Seller’s Group incorporated in Germany and involved in sales for the Business (the “German Employee”), an offer of employment on the same terms and in accordance with paragraph 3.1 as if the German Employee were a Relevant Employee that does not otherwise transfer by operation of relevant national laws.

 

4 Further provisions regarding Employees

 

4.1 The Seller and the Purchaser shall, where and to the extent required by the relevant local Law or custom, inform and consult with employees, trade unions, works councils or other employee representatives regarding the Transaction and/or regarding the offers of employment to be made pursuant to this Schedule 14 and shall fulfil any obligations to notify any statutory or other authority whatsoever about the Transaction.

 

4.2 Subject to Closing, the Purchaser shall be responsible for and shall indemnify and keep indemnified the Seller and, as an irrevocable third-party stipulation (onherroepelijk derdenbeding), each member of the Seller’s Group (excluding the Group), and the Seller shall in turn indemnify the Purchaser against any Losses which the indemnified Party incurs as a result of the indemnifying Party’s failure to consult and/or inform and/or notify in accordance with Paragraph 4.1.

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

Part 2

List of Relevant Employees (Employees falling within (b) of the definition of Employees)

 

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Part 2 List of Relevant Employees (Employees falling within (b) of the definition of Employees)

 

     

Country

  

Functional area

  

Function Detail NEW

   Person
No
     Corporate
Grade
     Head     

Comments

1.

   Austria, expat to USA    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ ARCH/RESEARCH      82         50         1.0      

2.

   Austria, expat to USA    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ ARCH/RESEARCH      101         50         1.0      

3.

   China, on Local Hong Kong contract    Commercial    REG.BU S&M MANAGER      517         80         1.0       Potentially offer via Beijing entity

4.

   China, expat from Austria    G&A   

GENERAL

MANAGER

COUNTRY/SITE

     520         90         1.0       Package tbd by Decoy

5.

   China, expat from NL    G&A    COUNTRY/SITE CONTR      546         90         1.0       Package tbd by Decoy

6.

   China, expat from Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      600         80         1.0       Package tbd by Decoy

7.

   China, on Local Hong Kong contract    Manufacturing    INNOVATION      608         80         1.0       Potentially offer via Beijing entity

8.

   China, expat to USA    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ ARCH/RESEARCH      990         <50         1.0       Package tbd by Decoy

9.

   Korea    Commercial   

PRODUCT

MARKETING

MANAGER

     1013         60         1.0      

10.

   Korea    Commercial    FAE      1014         50         1.0      

11.

   Korea    Commercial    FAE      1015         50         1.0      

12.

   Korea    Commercial   

PRODUCT

MARKETING

MANAGER

     1016         50         1.0      

13.

   Korea    Commercial   

PRODUCT

MARKETING

MANAGER

     1017         60         1.0      

14.

   Korea    Commercial   

PRODUCT

MARKETING

MANAGER

     1018         70         1.0      

15.

   Finland    Commercial    FAE      1019         60         1.0      

16.

   Taiwan    Commercial    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      1020         <50         1.0      

17.

   Taiwan    Commercial    FAE      1021         60         1.0      

18.

   Taiwan    Commercial    FAE      1022         50         1.0      

19.

   Taiwan    Commercial    ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT      1023         60         1.0      

 

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Schedule 15 LONG-TERM BENEFIT ARRANGEMENTS

This Schedule describes how relevant material company pension and jubilee plans will transfer from the Seller to the Purchaser. In addition it explains why in some countries where a defined benefit pension plan exists no pension liabilities from the Seller will transfer. When a material pension liability will be assumed by the Purchaser’s Group, the Seller will provide a calculation of the liability including the assumptions that have been used for this.

Part 1

 

1 Introduction

 

1.3 The Seller will make all reasonable effort to procure that the disentanglement for Retirement Benefit Arrangements will be completed within forty (40) Business Days after the Closing Date (with the Effective Time as calculation date), unless specified otherwise or otherwise agreed between the Seller and the Purchaser.

 

1.4 In any country where the transfer/disentanglement process triggers an immediate cash payment to Employees in respect of accrued benefits in Retirement Benefit Arrangements and/or Jubilee Benefit Arrangements, this payment will be made by the Seller. After such payments the Purchaser will not be required to recognise service before Closing for benefit purposes, except if required by Law.

 

1.5 Except if required by law, Purchaser shall not be required to provide benefits with respect to service prior to Closing, where such benefits are funded and no transfer of liabilities and plan assets is made by the Seller or the Seller’s plans to Purchaser or Purchaser’s plans.

 

1.6 Where applicable, the provisions of Paragraphs 1.2 and 1.3 will prevail above the provisions in Paragraph 2.3.

 

1.7 In this Schedule 15 and as elsewhere used in this Agreement:

Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liability” means the value as defined below in this paragraph 1.7 of Schedule 15 for the following benefit plans: a) the Defined Benefit pension plans of Austria and Korea listed in Schedule 15 Part 2 Section 2 and b) the Jubilee Plan of Austria listed in Schedule 15 Part 2 Section 3. The value of the Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liability for each plan for which a calculation is required equals the value of the Projected Benefit Obligation (PBO) and, in case of the Korean pension plan, the value of the Projected Benefit Obligation (PBO) less the fair value of assets of the Korean pension plan. The PBO and fair value of assets will be calculated at the Closing Date in accordance with US GAAP accounting standard topic 715 as consistently applied in Seller’s financial statement accounting policy.

 

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Jubilee Benefit Arrangements” means the arrangements and plans relating to jubilee benefits forming part of the Due Diligence Information, those material arrangements and plans being listed in Part 2 of this Schedule.

Long-Term Benefit Arrangements” means Retirement Benefit Arrangements, and Jubilee Benefit Arrangements described in Part 2 respectively Section 2 and 3 of this Schedule.

Retirement Benefit Arrangements” means the arrangements and plans relating to retirement benefits forming part of the Due Diligence Information, those material arrangements and plans being listed in Part 2 of this Schedule.

 

2 Separation of Long-Term Benefits Arrangements in individual countries

 

2.1 Material Long-Term Benefit Arrangements relating to the Business in relevant jurisdictions are set forth in Part 2 (Pension and Jubilee Plans) to this Schedule.

 

2.2 Disentanglement of Retirement Benefit Arrangements will be realised as follows:

 

2.2.1 Austria

 

  (a) In Austria all the Seller’s liabilities with respect to the Long-Term Benefit Arrangements are assumed by a member of the Purchaser’s Group. The structure of all Long-Term Benefit Arrangements will remain unchanged.

 

  (b) It will be the Purchaser’s responsibility to give note to the external providers of the Defined Contribution Retirement Plans (see Part 2 Section 1) of the transaction to ensure the continuation of those plans during three (3) months after the Closing Date. Costs in connection with this notification will be borne by the Purchaser.

 

2.2.2 China

In China, Seller has no Retirement Benefit Arrangement other than what is mandatory included in social security cost.

 

2.2.3 Korea

In Korea, unless the benefit obligations have been paid out by Seller at Closing, the defined benefit retirement scheme will continue with the current insurance company until three (3) months after the Closing Date and it will be Seller’s responsibility to obtain commitment from the insurance provider for the continuation of the scheme during these three (3) months under the current terms and conditions to enable

 

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Purchaser to establish a successor contract in its own name. As per the Closing Date, all costs will be borne by Purchaser. After Purchaser establishes a successor contract in its own name, Seller will obtain a commitment from the current insurance company to transfer the amounts contributed to the schemes into a new contract in a timely manner. If the benefit obligations have been paid out by Seller at Closing, employees will transfer to Purchaser without seniority.

 

2.2.4 Taiwan

In Taiwan, the Seller will make severance payments to transferring Employees. Thus Employees will transfer to Purchaser without seniority. Both book reserved provisions and the external CTC fund will not transfer to Purchaser. Accrued rights will not transfer to Purchaser.

 

2.3 For arrangements that are (a) not listed in Part 2 but have been (or subsequently) identified through the disentanglement process; and/or, (b) not covered under Paragraph 2.2, the Seller and the Purchaser will separately agree on the disentanglement approach.

 

3 Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liability

 

3.4 Ultimately three (3) months after Closing, Seller will calculate, on the basis of Part 3, the Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liability amount. The provisions of Clause 8 shall further apply mutatis mutandis to the agreement on or determination by an expert of the Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liability amount.

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

Part 2 Pension & Jubilee Plans

 

COUNTRY    PLAN
Section 1: Defined Contribution Retirement Plans
Austria    Severance Pay Plan (Abfertigung Neu)
Austria    Defined Contribution pension plan (Pensionskasse and Direct Insurance in combination)
Austria    AD&D insurance (Risk Insurance)
Austria    Management Incentive Plan (Deferred Compensation – individual contracts with the respective employee and pension insurance policy)
Taiwan    DC Plan
Section 2: Defined Benefit Retirement and Other Long-Term Benefit Plans
Austria    Termination Indemnity Plan (Abfertigung Old)
Korea    Pension Plan
Taiwan    Pension Plan
Taiwan    Top Up Plan
Section 3: Jubilee Plans
Austria    Jubilee Plan
Taiwan    Jubilee Plan

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

Part 3 Actuarial Assumptions

The following provisions shall apply in respect of Seller’s pension plans:

 

1. If the Employees have accrued rights with Seller’s pension plans and if these accrued rights transfer to Purchaser these currently may be either (i) funded with an insurance company or pension fund or (ii) book reserved, which later will be duly reflected in the Assumed Long-Term Benefits Liabilities.

 

2. Following Closing, in principal there will be no continuation of plan membership in the Seller pension scheme of the transferring employees, unless agreed otherwise.

 

3. Discount rate adjustment

The final discount rate for the pension calculations at the Closing Date will be equal to the discount rate in the country specific plans listed below, plus or minus an adjustment based on the nominal movement in the reference index (as outlined in the discount rate adjustment table below) between the reference date in the discount rate adjustment table (30/09/2010) and the Closing Date. The discount rate will be finally rounded to the nearest 10 basis points (where up to and including 0.05% is rounded off downwards, and above 0.05% is rounded off upwards).

DISCOUNT RATE ADJUSTMENT TABLE

 

Country

  

Plan name

  

Reference

Index

   Benchmark
30-9-2010
    Seller
discount rate
as per
30-9-2010
 

Austria

   Termination Indemnity Plan   

iBoxx Corporate

Euro AA 10+

     3.95     4.25

Austria

   Jubilee Plan   

iBoxx Corporate

Euro AA 10+

     3.95     4.00

Korea

   Pension Plan   

Bloomberg

Government

Bond Yields

(15-Year Maturity

     4.26     4.75

 

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EXECUTION VERSION

Austria

 

Demographic assumptions
Mortality Table:    AVOe 2008 P, Standard Austrian Actuarial Association (AVOe) Generational Mortality Tables for White Collar Employees
Disability Table:    Not applicable
Turnover Rates:    3%
Economic assumptions
Discount Rate:    4.25%
Inflation Rate:    2.00%
Salary Increase:    3%
Korea   
Demographic assumptions
Mortality Table:    6th Korean Experience Mortality Table (2009)
Disability Table:    Not applicable
Turnover Rates:    11.6% (age<35); 5.1% (35<age<45); 3.8% (45<age<55)
Economic assumptions
Discount Rate:    4.75%
Inflation Rate:    3.25%
Salary Increase:    5%

 

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Schedule 16 SELLER’S WARRANTIES

 

1 Incorporation, authority, corporate action

 

1.1 The Seller validly exists and is a company duly incorporated and registered under the laws of the Netherlands.

 

1.2 The Seller has the full power and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement and any other documents to be executed by the Seller under this Agreement, which, when executed, will constitute valid and binding obligations on the Seller, in accordance with their respective terms and conditions.

 

1.3 The Seller has taken or will have taken by the Closing Date all corporate action required by it to authorise it to perform its obligations pursuant to this Agreement and any other documents to be executed by it pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement.

 

1.4 The execution and performance of this Agreement by Seller does not violate any legal obligations of the Seller and is not subject to challenge by any third party on the basis of creditor protection laws.

 

1.5 No insolvency or similar proceedings have been, or have been threatened to be, opened over the assets of the Seller and / or Seller Parent and there are no circumstances that would require or justify the opening of or application for such proceedings.

 

1.6 There is no action, suit, investigation or other proceeding pending or threatened against or affecting the Seller before any court, arbitrator, governmental body, agency or official that in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter or materially delay the execution or performance of this Agreement, and there are no circumstances likely to give rise to any of the foregoing.

 

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2 Corporate information

 

2.1 The Shares and the Group Entities

 

2.1.1 The Seller is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the Chinese Shares.

 

2.1.2 The Chinese Shares comprise the whole of the issued share capital of NXP China, and have been properly and validly issued and are each fully paid.

 

2.1.3 The Seller is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the entire issued share capital of NXP Austria GmbH which has been properly and validly issued and fully paid.

 

2.1.4 No person (other than the Purchaser under this Agreement) has the right, or has claimed to have the right, whether exercisable now or in the future and whether contingent or not, to call for the conversion, issue, registration, sale or transfer, amortisation or repayment of any share capital or any other security giving rise to a right over, or an interest in, the capital of any Group Entity under any option, agreement or other arrangement.

 

2.1.5 At Closing, there will be no Encumbrances on any of the Shares (other than the rights of the Purchaser under this Agreement in respect of the Shares) and the Shares will transfer free of any Encumbrances.

 

2.1.6 All subscriptions for share capital and contributions into the Group Entities have been made in compliance with applicable laws and have not been repaid or returned, in whole or in part, whether open or disguised, directly or indirectly. There are no obligations to make further contributions.

 

2.1.7 The Shares represent shareholder rights corresponding to their respective par value. At Closing, besides the Shares there will not exist any other equity interest or similar interest or debt interest granting a share in the profit/liquidation profit of any Group Entity or any influence in the shareholders meeting of any Group Entity.

 

2.1.8 There does not exist any shareholders’ resolution in respect of any Group Entity regarding the distribution of profits, profits carried forward or other reserves which has not been fully implemented.

 

2.1.9 The de-merger plan signed by Philips Austria GmbH dated September 1, 2006 was duly executed and is valid. Any request for the provision of securities pursuant to Section 15 para 5 of the Austrian De-Merger Act (if any) have been satisfied.

 

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2.2 Existence

 

2.2.1 Each Group Entity is duly organised and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and has the corporate power and authority to carry on the Business as being conducted.

 

2.2.2 No Group Entity is insolvent under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or unable to pay its debts as they fall due.

 

2.2.3 There are no proceedings in relation to any compromise or arrangement with creditors or any winding up, bankruptcy or other insolvency proceedings concerning any Group Entity and, no events have occurred which, under applicable laws, would justify such proceedings.

 

2.2.4 No steps have been taken to enforce any security over any assets of any Group Entity and no event has occurred to give the right to enforce such security.

 

2.2.5 None of the Group Entities holds any equity interest or similar interest or debt interest in any legal entity.

 

2.2.6 No Group Entity is a party to any agreement relating to the acquisition or sale of, or an economically equivalent transaction involving, any equity interest or debt interests in other legal entities or any business or parts thereof, other than agreements where the material obligations have already been fully performed by all parties thereto and all remedy periods have already expired.

 

2.3 Constitutional documents, corporate registers and minute books

 

2.3.1 The constitutional documents of the Group Entities are true, complete and accurate and, so far as the Seller is aware, there have not been and are not any breaches by the Group Entities of their constitutional documents which will have a material adverse effect on the Business.

 

2.3.2 No unimplemented resolutions to amend these constitutional documents have been made, and no filings with any companies register (or with an equivalent corporate authority) in respect of any Group Entity are pending.

 

2.3.3 All material filings, publications, registrations and other formalities required by Law to be delivered or made by the Group Entities to company registries in each relevant jurisdiction (including, but not limited to the registration of branches) have been delivered or made on a timely basis.

 

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3 Accounts

 

3.1 The Accounts (i) give in all material respects a true and fair view of the financial position of the Business as at the Accounts Date, and (ii) were prepared in accordance with the Accounting Principles Consistently Applied.

 

3.2 Except as disclosed in the Accounts, as per the Accounts Date no Group Entity has any material undisclosed liabilities of the type that should have been included in the Accounts in accordance with the Accounts Principles.

 

3.3 Since the Accounts Date up to the Signing Date, the Seller and the relevant members of the Seller’s Group have conducted the Business in the Ordinary Course of Business without any material interruption or material alteration in its nature, scope or manner.

 

3.4 The provisions in the Accounts in respect of existing product recall matters, including but not limited to the Samsung product recall matter, are sufficient to cover the costs relating to that matter. The term “costs” for the purposes of this Paragraph 3.5 shall mean those costs, relating to the product recall matters, which are required under the Accounting Principles to be provided for in the Accounts.

 

3.5 The books and accounting and other records of the Group Entities (i) are in all material respects up to date, accurate and complete with regard to details of the business activities of the Group Entities and of all matters to be recorded under applicable law and accounting rules, and (ii) have been maintained in accordance with applicable legal requirements on a proper and consistent basis. No notice or allegation that any books or accounting or other records are incorrect or should be rectified has been received by any Group Entity.

 

3.6 The Group Entities are not bound by any (joint and/or several) Guarantee in relation to any liability of the Seller or any other member of the Seller’s Group.

 

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4 Assets

 

4.1 Properties

 

4.1.1 Schedule 23 contains a list of all material real property (the “Properties”) leased by any Group Entity at the Signing Date.

 

4.1.2 The Group Entities do not own any Properties and, do not hold any building rights or similar rights in respect of real property or buildings constructed thereon other than, for the avoidance of doubt, the leased Properties.

 

4.1.3 So far as the Seller is aware, there is no outstanding written notice or dispute involving the relevant Group Entity and any bona fide third party as to the occupation or use of any Property.

 

4.1.4 There is no outstanding written notice or dispute as to any contravention of the relevant planning or zoning legislation or regulations in relation to each Property which, if implemented or enforced, will have a material adverse effect on the business activities carried out at the Properties.

 

4.2 Leases

In respect of any Property leased by the Group Entities:

 

4.2.1 There is no subsisting breach of any covenant, condition or agreement contained in the lease under which the relevant Group Entity holds its interest in the Property, on the part of the relevant lessor or the Group Entity, which will have a material adverse effect on the business activities carried out at the Property;

 

4.2.2 All payments due under the lease agreements have been timely paid. None of the lease agreements is currently subject to a termination notice or challenge notice. In respect of none of these agreements has the delivery of such a termination notice or challenge notice been threatened. The execution and/or the performance of this Agreement will not entitle any of the other parties to terminate or to challenge or to alter any of these agreements or to increase the payments owed by a Group Entity under these agreements.

 

4.2.3 None of the Properties (including any buildings constructed thereon) leased by the Group Entities has suffered any material damage by fire or other casualty which has not been or will not prior to the Closing have been repaired and restored in all material respects, except for damage that would not, individually or in the aggregate, materially impair the conduct of the Group.

 

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4.2.4 The leased Properties are adequate to conduct the business of the respective Group Entity as conducted as at the Signing Date.

 

4.2.5 NXP China has complied with all its obligations under the lease agreement with Beijing Economic-Technological Investment & Development Cooperation dated September 15, 2009 and is entitled to continue to enjoy the rent concessions thereunder in accordance with its terms.

 

4.3 Ownership of assets

Each of those assets which are used by the Group Entities and are material to the Business of the Group, other than intellectual property rights, which shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Intellectual Property Transfer and Licence Agreement, the Properties and any assets disposed of or realised in the Ordinary Course of Business:

 

  (a) is legally and beneficially owned by the relevant Group Entity, except for assets which are subject to hire-purchase or lease arrangements where the hire-purchase or lease payments do not exceed USD 10,000 (ten thousand United States dollars) per year;

 

  (b) is, where capable of possession, in the possession or under the control of the relevant Group Entity; and

 

  (c) is free from Encumbrances, except for Permitted Encumbrances.

 

4.4 Plant and machinery and other fixed assets

The plant and machinery, vehicles and other equipment owned or used by the Group Entities material to the Business as at Signing are in satisfactory working order having regard to their age and use, have been adequately maintained where such maintenance is usually required, and are not obsolete.

 

4.5 Sufficiency of assets

The assets owned, leased or otherwise used by the Group Entities comprise all the assets used in the carrying on of the Business substantially in the manner in and to the extent to which they are conducted as at the Date of this Agreement.

 

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5 Information technology

 

5.1 Each Group Entity owns or leases and/or holds valid licenses to all computer and network hardware and material software (“Information Technology”) (i) which is used by such Group Entity to conduct the Business and (ii) which has the capacity and performance necessary to adequately meet the requirements of the Group.

 

5.2 In the twelve (12) months prior to the Signing Date, there have been no material failures, material data losses or material breakdowns of any computer hardware or software, or other computer or communication systems, used or licensed in relation to the Business.

 

5.3 To the extent the Information Technology is subject to a lease or license agreement, such lease or license agreement is in full force and effect. The execution and/or the performance of this Agreement will not entitle any of the other parties to terminate or to challenge or to alter any of these agreements.

 

6 Contracts and agreements

 

6.1 Contracts

 

6.1.1 No Group Entity is a party to or subject to any contract or obligation which is material to the Business as conducted at Signing and which is not in the Ordinary Course of Business and/or not on an arm’s length basis.

 

6.1.2 All contracts which are material, and exclusively related, to the Business as conducted at Signing Date that have not been signed by a Group Entity but by a company affiliated with the Group Entities will, as at Closing, have been duly assigned to the benefit of a Group Entity.

 

6.2 Agreements with connected parties

 

6.2.1 There are no existing contracts between, on the one hand, a Group Entity and, on the other hand, any member of the Seller’s Group (excluding the Group Entities) other than on arm’s length terms in the Ordinary Course of Business.

 

6.2.2 No Group Entity is party to any contract material to the Business as conducted at Signing, with any current or former employee, director or officer of any such Group Entity or any person connected (as defined by Law in the relevant jurisdiction) with any of such persons, other than on arm’s length terms in the Ordinary Course of Business.

 

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6.3 Compliance with agreements

 

6.3.1 All the contracts material to the Business as conducted at Signing to which any of the Group Entities is a party, including but not limited to the GSA Agreements, contain valid and binding obligations of the relevant Group Entity and the terms thereof are at arm’s length and have been complied with in all material respects by the relevant Group Entity and, so far as the Seller is aware, by any other party to such contracts. No written notice of termination or of intention to terminate has been received by a member of the Seller’s Group in respect of any such contracts.

 

6.4 Effect of Transaction

There are no express provisions in any contract to which any Group Entity is a party which shall give any third party the right to terminate or amend that contract as a result of the Transaction.

 

7 Employees and employee benefits

 

7.1 Employees and terms of employment

 

7.1.1 Schedule 21 contains an anonymous, correct and complete list of the Employees, including in respect of each Employee, their department and their function.

 

7.1.2 The Group Entities have complied in all material respects with its obligations under the relevant Laws and regulations concerning the performance of employment agreements, payment of salary and overtime salary to its employees.

 

7.1.3 There are no existing service or other agreements or contracts between NXP China and any of its non-PRC national employees which contain a change of control provision such that the agreements or contracts may be terminated upon completion of the transaction contemplated under the Agreement.

 

7.1.4 All collective agreements (including shop agreements — Betriebsvereinbarungen) that relate to employees in Austria have been provided to the Purchaser in the Data Room under the heading “Chapter 2.5”.

 

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7.2 Termination of employment

 

7.2.1 Neither the Seller nor any member of the Seller’s Group has received any written notice of resignation from any member of the management team (executive employee) conducting the Business in the six (6) months prior to the date hereof or any employee material to the Business (“Key Employees”).

 

7.2.2 No circumstances exist which give any key employee a special right to terminate or modify the respective employment agreement. The execution or performance of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated therein do not trigger any termination rights of any Key Employee

 

7.3 Industrial and Employment Disputes

 

7.3.1 No Group Entity has been during the last 3 years prior to the Signing Date involved in any strike or industrial or trade dispute or any dispute or negotiation regarding a claim of material importance with any trade union or other body representing employees or former Employee of any Group Entity or any proceedings alleging a material violation of labor law.

 

7.3.2 In the last three years prior to the Signing Date the Group Entities have not experienced any disputes with any authorities (in particular regarding employee health protection matters, disabled persons and repayment duties) or any strike or labour interruption.

 

7.4 Bonus and other profit-related schemes

The Data Room contains all details of the rules and other documentation relating to all share incentive, share options, profit-sharing, bonus and other incentive arrangements in respect of any Employees. None of the Group Entities are liable for any bonus payments and payments under other incentive arrangements for periods ending prior to or on December 31, 2010.

 

7.5 Retirement Benefit Arrangements

 

7.5.1 The Data Room contains details of all material [Retirement] Benefit Arrangements, except for arrangements to which any of the Group Entities contributes in compliance with any Law.

 

7.5.2 So far as the Seller is aware, the Retirement Benefit Arrangements are in compliance with their terms and with the Law and government Taxation or funding requirements in all material respects.

 

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8 Legal compliance

 

8.1 Licenses and consents

All licences, permits, consents, authorisations, certificates and registrations material to the Business (the “Permits”) have been obtained, are in force and, are being complied with in all material respects. The Seller is not aware of any reason why any of them will be suspended or revoked.

 

8.2 Compliance with law

 

8.2.1 So far as the Seller is aware, the Group Entities are and within the last three (3) years prior to the Date of this Agreement have been in compliance in all material respects with (i) the Permits (including without limitation any ancillary provisions thereto); (ii) applicable laws governing these Permits; and (iii) orders, decrees or rulings of, or restrictions imposed by, any court or authority in connection with such Permits.

 

8.2.2 Neither the Seller nor any member of the Seller’s Group has received any written notice during the twenty four (24) months prior to the Signing Date from any Governmental Authority with respect to a material violation and/or failure to comply with any applicable law, or requiring it to take or omit any action which could have a material adverse effect on the Group or the Business.

 

8.3 So far as the Seller is aware, none of the Group Entities nor any Person acting for or on behalf of any Group Entity has directly or indirectly paid, offered, given, promised to pay, or authorized the payment of any money or anything of value to any Person acting for or on behalf of any Governmental Authority or any political party or official thereof. None of the Group Entities nor directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents or other representatives acting for or on behalf of any Group Entity (nor any Person acting on behalf of any of the foregoing) has violated or is in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (the “FCPA”), any other applicable Law of similar effect, including Laws implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or any applicable Laws prohibiting commercial bribery.

 

8.4

Since December 31, 2005, (i) none of the Group Entities has conducted or initiated any internal investigation or made a voluntary disclosure to any Governmental Authority with respect to any alleged act or omission arising under any applicable Laws and (ii) no Governmental Authority has send notice to the Seller that it initiated, or so far as the Seller is aware, threatened to initiate, a Proceeding against any Group Entity nor any of its respective directors, officers, consultants, employees, agents or other representatives

 

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asserting that such Group Entity is not in compliance with any export or import Laws or the FCPA or any other applicable Law of similar effect.

 

8.5 Since December 31, 2005, all exports, re-exports, sales or transfers of products or services of each Group Entity have been effected in accordance with all applicable Laws, including customs, export control, trade sanctions, anti-terrorism and anti-boycott Laws of the United States, Austria, the PRC or any other relevant jurisdiction. All products shipped by a Group Entity have been accurately marked, labelled and transported in all material respects in accordance with applicable Laws.

 

8.6 So far as the Seller is aware, none of the Group Entities nor any of their respective directors and officers, nor employees, consultants, agents or other representatives acting for or on behalf of any Group Entity (nor any Person acting on behalf of any of the foregoing) has violated or is in violation of any Anti-Money Laundering Laws. As used in this clause, “Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means all applicable regulations regarding anti-money laundering.

 

9 Environment

 

9.1 For the purposes of this Paragraph 9:

Environment” means any or all of the following media (alone or in combination): air; water (including water underground or in the soil); soil and land and any ecological systems and living organisms supported by these media;

Environmental Authority” means any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction to determine any matter arising under Environmental Law and/or relating to the Environment;

Environmental Law” means all Law of any relevant jurisdiction in force at Signing whose purpose is to protect or prevent pollution of the Environment or to regulate emissions, discharges, or releases of Hazardous Substances into the Environment, or to regulate the use, treatment, storage, burial, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Substances;

Environmental Permit” means any licence, permit, consent, authorisation, certificate, registration and exemption which is issued, granted or required under Environmental Law which is material to the Business as at Signing;

Hazardous Substances” means, to the extent regulated by the Environmental Authority, any wastes, pollutants, contaminants and any other natural or artificial substance (whether in the form of a solid, liquid, gas or vapour) which is capable of causing harm or damage to the Environment or a nuisance to any person; and

 

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Relevant Period” means the period commencing four (4) years preceding the Signing Date.

 

9.2 So far as the Seller is aware, the Group Entities are conducting and, during the Relevant Period, have conducted, the business activities of the Group in full compliance with Environmental Law. In particular, there has not been and is no release of any Hazardous Substances at, on, under, in, to, or from any of the Properties, except in compliance with applicable environmental laws and the Group entities are not otherwise liable for any such releases.

 

9.3 There are no underground storage tanks presently located at the Properties.

 

9.4 There is no asbestos or asbestos-containing material located at, on, under or in the Properties.

 

9.5 All Environmental Permits have been obtained, are in force and, have been complied with in all material respects during the Relevant Period.

 

9.6 No Group Entity has received any written notice during the Relevant Period of any civil, criminal, regulatory or administrative action, claim, investigation or other proceeding or suit relating to a contravention of Environmental Law or Environmental Permits.

 

9.7 No Group Entity has received written notice during the Relevant Period that:

 

  (a) an environmental Authority is intending to revoke or suspend any Environmental Permits; or

 

  (b) any amendment to any Environmental Permit is required to enable the continued operation of the business activities of the Group. or

 

  (c) a person is alleging any actual or threatened injury or damage to any person, property, natural resource or the environment arising from or relating to the presence, release or threatened release of any hazardous substances at, on, under, in, to or from the Properties or from any other property or from or attributable to any Property.

 

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10 Litigation

 

10.1 The Group is not involved, whether as claimant or defendant or other party, in any claim, proceeding, litigation, prosecution, investigation, criminal proceeding, enquiry or arbitration, either before court or an arbitration tribunal (other than as claimant in the collection of debts arising in the ordinary course of its business) which is material to the Business as at Signing.

 

10.2 So far as the Seller is aware, no such claim, proceedings, litigation, prosecution, investigation, enquiry or arbitration of material importance to the Business is threatened against the Business as at the date hereof.

 

11 Tax

 

11.1 Each Group Entity has completely and timely filed in accordance with applicable Law all Tax Returns with the competent Tax Authorities and these Tax Returns are correct in all material respects and are not misleading. Each Group Entity has given or delivered within the requisite periods to the competent Tax Authorities all documents and information required in relation to Taxes. All these documents and information are up-to-date, correct and not misleading and have been prepared in accordance with applicable Laws.

 

11.2 All Taxes to be paid or withheld and remitted by any Group Entity have been duly paid or withheld and remitted to the appropriate Tax Authority.

 

11.3 No Group Entity is involved in any current dispute with any Tax Authority. No Group Entity is currently subject to any audit by any Tax Authority. To the best of Seller’s knowledge, no legal proceeding has been threatened, formally or informally, against or with respect to any Group Entity regarding Taxes.

 

11.4 Each Group Entity is and has at all times been resident for Tax purposes in the country stated in Schedule 2 and is not and has not at any time been treated as resident in any other jurisdiction for any Tax purpose (including any double taxation arrangement).

 

11.5 No adjustment for any amount of Tax has been asserted or assessed, formally or informally, by a Tax Authority against any Group Entity, the amount of which is still outstanding, no Group Entity reasonably expects that any such adjustment, assertion or assessment of Tax liability will be made, and no basis for any such adjustment, assertion or assessment exists.

 

11.6 There are no requests for rulings or determinations in respect of any Tax pending between any Group Entity and any Tax Authority.

 

11.7 No Group Entity has any outstanding claims for any Tax refunds.

 

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11.8 No Group Entity or any Person on behalf of an Group Entity, other than by operation of Law, has consented to extend the time in which any Tax may be assessed or collected by any Tax Authority.

 

11.9 No Group Entity has been a member of a group filing a Tax Return on an affiliated basis.

 

11.10 No Group Entity is a member of any partnership or joint venture or is the holder of any beneficial interest in a trust.

 

11.11 No claim, notice or inquiry has ever been made against any Group Entity by a Tax Authority in a jurisdiction where such Group Entity does not file Tax Returns that it or any other Group Entity is or may be subject to Taxes assessed by such jurisdiction or obligated to file a Tax Return in such jurisdiction.

 

11.12 No Group Entity has made a Tax election or entered into a contract with respect to Taxes with any Tax Authority (including a gain recognition agreement).

 

11.13 There are no liens for Taxes on any of the assets of any Group Entity.

 

11.14 All transactions before the Closing Date between Group Entities and between Group Entities and the Seller’s Group have been conducted on an arm’s length basis.

 

11.15 Each Group Entity has complied with all transfer pricing rules that are relevant and all documentation required by relevant transfer pricing laws have been timely prepared.

 

11.16 No Group Entity has entered into, or been a party to, a transaction or arrangement which contravenes (or would have contravened had a Tax Authority known about the transaction or arrangement) an anti-avoidance provision, general or otherwise, of any Tax Law.

 

11.17 None of the Group Companies have made any disguised distributions. The Seller has not made disguised contributions in kind.

 

12 Insurance

 

12.1 All material policies of insurance maintained as of the date of this Agreement with respect to the Business are listed in the Virtual Data Room.

 

12.2 In respect of the insurance policies referred to in Paragraph 12.1, all premiums have been duly paid to date and, so far as the Seller is aware, no member of the Seller’s Group has received any notification that any such insurance policy is not valid or enforceable.

 

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12.3 Details of all paid and outstanding insurance claims in excess of the applicable policy deductibles made during the two (2) years prior to the date of this Agreement in relation to the Business are contained in the Virtual Data Room.

 

13 Intellectual Property

 

13.1 For the purposes of this paragraph 13:

A-Patents” means the Patents that are listed in Annex A to the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement;

B-Patents” means the Patents that are listed in Annex C to the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement;

Domain Names” means the Internet domain names and applications therefor listed in Annex E to the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement, including the registrations of such domain names;

Know-How” means all technical and commercial information, data and documents of whatever nature, including drawings, specifications, photographs, samples, trade secrets, models, processes, procedures, libraries, manuals, reports and correspondence, including any copyright and/or database rights and other rights for the protection of know how as they may exist, but excluding any (right in) Software, Patents, trademarks, the Domain Names and any other intellectual property rights therein;

Office Action” means actions of the relevant jurisdiction’s patent office or other governmental intellectual property office received in the ordinary course of prosecution of Patents.

Patents” means patents, petty patents, design patents, provisionals, utility models and any applications therefor, including any divisionals, continuations (in part), re-examinations, renewals and re-issues thereof, in any country in the world, as well as any inventions described in invention disclosures.

Software” means a code in any programming language contained in any format, including human and machine-readable format.

Licensed-In Third Party IP” means the Patents, Know-How or other intellectual property licensed to the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries from third parties, the contracts for which are identified in Schedule 28.

 

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Licensed-Out NXP Patents” means the Patents licensed from the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries to third parties, the contracts for which are identified in Schedule 29.

 

13.2 The Seller represents and warrants that it has full title to assign and grant the licences under the Patents (except as indicated in Annex A, B, C or D of the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement, as applicable) and Know-How as assigned and licensed to the Group under the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement.

 

13.3 The Seller represents and warrants that the A-Patents and B-Patents (i) (with the exception of applications and invention disclosures) are in full force and effect, (ii) (with the exception of invention disclosures) have been properly maintained, and (iii) (with the exception of applications and invention disclosures) to the best of Seller’s knowledge, are valid and enforceable.

 

13.4 The Seller represents and warrants that, except for any Office Action, no administrative action, lawsuit, arbitration proceeding or similar action has been brought or threatened in writing against the Seller and no unresolved claim received from any third party in writing exists, concerning the ownership, validity or enforceability of any of the A-Patents or B-Patents.

 

13.5 The Seller represents and warrants that it has not granted licenses with regard to the A-Patents or B-Patents that would prohibit or limit the Group from exercising the rights granted to it with respect thereto under the Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement.

 

13.6 *****

 

13.7 The Seller represents and warrants that the A-Patents, A2-Patents, B-Patents and B2-Patents together include all of the Patents owned by the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries that (i) are used in the ordinary conduct of the Business (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, semiconductor integrated circuits) as presently conducted by the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries, including without limitation the making, using, offering to sell and selling of products *****

 

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13.8 The Seller represents and warrants that other than (x) the Licensed-In Third Party IP, (y) any Patents, Know-How or other intellectual property licensed in pursuant to any contract to which a Group Entity is a party, and (z) purchased off-the-shelf items or items licensed by shrink-wrap or click-wrap licences: (i) there are no Patents, Know-How or other intellectual property licensed by the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries from third parties and used in the ordinary conduct of the Business (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, semiconductor integrated circuits) as presently conducted by the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries, including without limitation the making, using, offering to sell and selling of products, and *****

 

13.9 The Seller represents and warrants that no payment is due and owing under any licences granted to the Group or the Seller within the field of the Business, pursuant to the Licensed-In Third Party IP.

 

13.10 The Seller represents and warrants that (i) during the three (3) years preceding the date hereof, it has not received a written notification from any third party claiming or asserting that the ordinary conduct of the Business (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, semiconductor integrated circuits) as presently conducted by the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries, including without limitation the making, using, offering to sell and selling of products, infringes upon any Patent or Know- How rights of any third party, and (ii) to its knowledge, the ordinary conduct of the Business (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, semiconductor integrated circuits) as presently conducted by the Seller and/or its Subsidiaries, including without limitation the making, using, offering to sell and selling of products, does not infringe upon any Patent or Know-How rights of any third party, and *****

 

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14 Product quality

 

14.1 So far as the Seller is aware, no Group Entity has any Liability (and no event has occurred or circumstance exists that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any Proceeding, claim or demand against any of them giving rise to any Liability) arising out of any injury to individuals or property as a result of the ownership, possession or use of any product designed, manufactured, sold, leased, delivered or distributed by any Group Entity. So far as the Seller is aware, the products designed, manufactured, sold, leased, delivered or distributed and the services rendered by the Group Entities prior to the Closing Date do not suffer from any defects which give or could give rise to any material product liability or warranty claims and no such claims against any Group Entities have been threatened or raised or are outstanding or were settled in the past. So far as the Seller is aware, all these products and services comply with the regulations applicable to these products and services in the territories where such products and/or services are designed, manufactured, sold, leased, delivered or otherwise distributed or provided.

 

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    Schedule 17      DISCLOSURE LETTER


Schedule 17 DISCLOSURE LETTER

 

1 Disclosure Letter

 

1.1 Terms defined in the Agreement shall have the same meanings in this Disclosure Letter, unless the context otherwise requires.

 

1.2 This Disclosure Letter is deemed to include by reference the specific disclosures as set out below. Any disclosure below may or may not already be included in the Virtual Data Room or in the Due Diligence Information. For convenience, each disclosure refers to the Paragraph number of the Seller’s Warranty to which the disclosure is most likely to relate, but a disclosure applies to all of Seller’s Warranties and a disclosure is not thereby limited in any way to the specific Seller’s Warranty to which it refers below.

 

1.3 To the extent any items in this Schedule are also listed in Schedule 25 (items that the Purchaser is aware of), such items shall still be deemed disclosed under Clause 10.2 and Seller shall not liable in accordance with such Clause 10.2.

 

Reference in

Warranties

 

Disclosures

Paragraph

3.1

 

Accounts

 

Warranty:

 

The Accounts (i) give in all material respects a true and fair view of the financial position of the Business as at the Accounts Date, and (ii) were prepared in accordance with the Accounting Principles Consistently Applied.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

3.2

 

Accounts

 

The exception to warranty paragraph 3.1 also applies (as an exception) to this warranty paragraph 3.2.


Paragraph 4.2.2  

Leases

 

Warranty:

 

All payments due under the lease agreements have been timely paid. None of the lease agreements is currently subject to a termination notice or challenge notice. In respect of none of these agreements has the delivery of such a termination notice or challenge notice been threatened. The execution and/or the performance of this Agreement will not entitle any of the other parties to terminate or to challenge or to alter any of these agreements or to increase the payments owed by a Group Entity under these agreements.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

4.3

 

Assets

 

Warranty:

 

Ownership of assets:

 

Each of those assets which are used by the Group Entities and are material to the Business of the Group other than intellectual property rights, which shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Intellectual Property Transfer and Licence Agreement the Properties and any assets disposed of or realised in the ordinary course of business: (a) is legally and beneficially owned by the relevant Group Entity, except for assets which are subject to hire-purchase or lease arrangements where the hire-purchase or lease payments do not exceed [USD[] ([] United States dollars)] per year (b) etc.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

6.4

 

Contracts

 

Warranty:

 

There are no express provisions in any contract to which any Group Entity is a party which shall give any third party the right to terminate or amend that contract as a result of the Transaction.

 

***


Paragraph

7.4

  

HR

 

Warranty:

 

The Data Room contains details of the rules and other documentation relating to all share incentive, share options, profit-sharing, bonus and other incentive arrangements in respect of any Employees. None of the Group Entities are liable for any bonus payments for periods ending prior to or on December 31, 2010.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

7.5.1

  

HR

 

Warranty:

 

The Data Room contains details of all material [Retirement] Benefit Arrangements, except for arrangements to which any of the Group Entities contributes in compliance with any Law.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

11.2

  

Tax

 

Warranty:

 

All Taxes to be paid or withheld and remitted by any Group Entity have been duly paid or withheld and remitted to the appropriate Tax Authority.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

11.3

  

Tax

 

Warranty:

 

No Group Entity is involved in any current dispute with any Tax Authority. No Group Entity is currently subject to any audit by any Tax Authority. To the best of Seller’s knowledge, no legal proceeding has been threatened, formally or informally, against or with respect to any Group Entity regarding Taxes.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

11.5

  

Tax

 

Warranty:

 

No adjustment for any amount of Tax has been asserted or assessed, formally or informally, by a Tax


  

Authority against any Group Entity, the amount of which is still outstanding, no Group Entity reasonably expects that any such adjustment, assertion or assessment of Tax liability will be made, and no basis for any such adjustment, assertion or assessment exists.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

11.7

  

Tax

 

Warranty:

 

No Group Entity has any outstanding claims for any Tax refunds.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

11.8

  

Tax

 

Warranty:

 

No Group Entity or any Person on behalf of an Group Entity, other than by operation of Law, has consented to extend the time in which any Tax may be assessed or collected by any Tax Authority.

 

Exception:

 

***

Paragraph

11.9

  

Tax

 

Warranty:

 

No Group Entity has been a member of a group filing a Tax Return on an affiliated basis.

 

Exception:

 

***


Schedule 18 PURCHASER’S WARRANTIES

 

1 Incorporation, authority, corporate action

 

1.2 The Purchaser validly exists and is a company duly organized under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation. The Austrian Purchaser validly exists and is a company duly organized under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation.

 

1.3 The Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser have the full power and authority to enter into and perform this Agreement and any other documents to be executed by it pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement, which, when executed, and assuming due execution by the other parties hereto, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser in accordance with their respective terms, subject to mandatory provisions of applicable law.

 

1.4 The Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser have taken all corporate actions required by each of them to authorise it to enter into and to perform this Agreement and any other documents to be executed by it pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement.

 

2 Financing

 

2.5 The Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser have and will have at the Closing Date sufficient funds to effect the payments due by it at the Closing Date and to pay for all other transactions and fulfil all of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement. The performance of any obligation by the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser under this Agreement is not subject to any third party financing commitments or arrangements.

 

3 Non-contravention

 

3.1 The execution and performance by the Purchaser and the Austrian Purchaser of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not (i) violate any provision of the charter, articles of association or other organizational documents of the Purchaser or of the Austrian Purchaser and (ii) violate or result in a breach of or constitute a default under any law, order, decree or other restriction of any Governmental Authority to which the Purchaser or the Austrian Purchaser is subject, other than in the cases of clause (ii) any violation, breach or default which would not impair or delay the Purchaser’s or the Austrian Purchaser’s ability to perform its obligations hereunder.

 

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Schedule 19 INDIVIDUALS DEEMED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN RESPECT OF THE GROUP

The following people are deemed to have actual knowledge in accordance with Clause 10.1.3.

(A) Seller

Chris van Merode

Harry Ligthart

Ted Arnstein

Hans Adriaans

Johan de Groote

Jose Stinis

Johann Moser

Erik Fredriks

Minou Weerts

Ronald van Cleef

Charles Smit

Mark Hamersma

Gijs van Ijsel Smits;

Chunlei Xu;

(B) Group

Ernst Muellner

Arno Campostrini

Karin Margetich

Ursula Wutte

Franz Obenaus

Josef Lutz

Herbert Nemeth

Josef Nieszner

Walter Schmidtkunz

Friedrich Barisits

Klaus Fiedler

Andreas Tax

 

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Schedule 20 TAX INDEMNITY

 

1 Definitions

In this Schedule:

Event” means any transaction, event, act or omission;

Pre-Closing Tax Period” means any Tax period ending on or before the Effective Time and the portion of any Straddle Tax Period through the end of the Effective Time.

Purchasers’ Tax Group” means any of the Purchasers and any other company or companies which either are or become after the Closing Date treated as members of the same group as, or otherwise connected or associated in any way with, any of the Purchasers for any Tax purpose;

Relief” means any relief, allowance, amortisation, depreciation, credit, deduction, exemption, set-off or other relief of a similar nature granted or available in relation to Tax and any repayment or right to repayment of Tax; and

Straddle Tax Period” means any period of account for Tax purposes which commences prior to the Effective Time and ends after the Effective Time.

 

2 Tax indemnity

 

2.1 The Seller shall indemnify the Purchaser for an amount equal to:

 

  (i) any Tax Liability which arises for the Purchaser and/or any of the Group Entities in respect of any Event arising in or allocable to a Pre-Closing Tax Period; ;

 

  (ii) any Tax Liability which arises in respect of or with reference to any income, profits or gains which were earned, accrued, received or allocable to a Pre-Closing Tax Period ;

 

  (iii) the loss, non-availability or reduction of any Relief or refund that is reflected or included in the Statements or Accounts (“Tax Asset”), or the utilization or set-off of such Tax Asset where such utilization or set-off reduces any Taxes described in (i) and (ii); or

 

  (iv) any withholding Tax imposed on Purchaser with respect to the transfer of the Chinese Shares from Seller to Purchaser.

 

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For purposes of determining Seller’s indemnity under this Paragraph 2.1, any gain, income, deduction or loss relating to, arising from or attributable to the Austrian Carveout shall be allocated to the Pre-Closing Tax Period.

 

2.2 In the case of any Straddle Tax Period, the amount of any Taxes based on or measured by income or receipts of any Group Entity for the Pre-Closing Tax Period shall be determined based on an interim closing of the books as of the close of business at the Effective Time and the amount of other Taxes of any Group Entity for a Straddle Tax Period that relates to the Pre-Closing Tax Period shall be deemed to be the amount of such Tax for the entire Tax period multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days in the Tax period ending on the Effective Time and the denominator of which is the number of days in such Straddle Tax Period.

 

2.3 If the facts underlying a matter would constitute a breach of any Tax Warranty in this Agreement and in addition would be indemnified under Paragraph 2.1, any indemnification obligations for a claim arising from such breach shall be determined pursuant to Seller’s indemnification obligations under Paragraph 2.1 without any duplication of recovery.

 

2.4 The covenant contained in Paragraph 2.1 shall not cover any Tax Liability to the extent that:

 

  (a) any allowance, provision or reserve is made in the Working Capital Statement, the Net Cash Statement, or in the Accounts (and not released prior to the Effective Time) provided that allowances, provisions or reserves for Taxes, except for payroll related Taxes and VAT related Taxes in the Ordinary Course of Business shall not reduce the Seller’s liabilities for such amounts; or

 

  (b) the Tax Liability arises or is increased as a result of any change, after the Effective Time, in Tax rates or the passing of or any change in Law or generally accepted accounting practice, regulation, directive or requirement or any withdrawal of any extra-statutory concession by a Tax Authority; or

 

  (c) the Tax Liability would not have arisen but for, or is increased by, an Event (including a failure or omission to make any claim for Relief) carried out or effected by any member of the Purchasers’ Tax Group, including directors, employees, advisors, agents or successors in title, at any time after the Effective Time, other than any such transaction, action or omission carried out or effected by the Group Entity or a member of the Purchasers’ Tax Group:

 

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  (i) under a legally binding commitment created on or before the Effective Time; or

 

  (ii) at the specific written request or direction of the Seller; or

 

  (iii) pursuant to an obligation imposed on any of the Group Entities by any Law, regulation or directive or the published practice of any Tax Authority; or

 

  (d) notice of a claim in respect of the Tax Liability is delivered by the Purchaser to the Seller after expiry of the statutory limitation period applicable in the relevant jurisdiction to make a timely objection or appeal to the Tax matter giving rise to such claim in accordance with Clause 13.1 of this Agreement, the foregoing without detracting from Purchaser’s notification obligations under Clauses 13.1 and 13.2 of this Agreement; or

 

  (e) the Tax Liability arises as a result of any change after the Effective Time in any accounting policy (including the length of any accounting period for Tax purposes) or any Tax or accounting basis, method or practice of any of the Group Entities introduced or having effect after the Effective Time, other than a change which is necessary in order to comply with the law or generally accepted accounting principles applicable to the relevant Group Entity at the Effective Time; or

 

  (f) recovery has been made or can be made (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the right to recover Taxes from employees), recovery is available under an insurance policy or the Tax Liability is otherwise compensated for without cost to the Purchaser, any of the Group Entities or any other member of the Purchasers’ Tax Group, including under the Tax Warranties.

 

2.5 Paragraph 2.4 shall mutatis mutandis apply to the Tax Warranties.

 

3 Tax Benefits

If Seller is to make or has made an indemnification payment pursuant to paragraph 2.1 and the facts on which the Purchaser’s claim pursuant to paragraph 2.1 is based give rise to (i) any Tax refund actually received by the relevant Group Entity; or (ii) any reduction of Tax actually owing by the relevant Group Entity; then the amount of such refund or reduction shall be paid by Purchaser to Seller within 20 (twenty) Business Days following the date on which Purchaser realises the Tax benefit. For purposes of this paragraph, in case of additional depreciations or amortisations, the amount to be repaid shall be equal to the net present value of future Tax refunds or reductions of Tax

 

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as a result of these additional depreciations or amortisations as calculated at the Interest Rate and such amount shall be immediately set-off against the amount of the indemnity claim pursuant to paragraph 2.1.

 

4 Tax Refund

If the Purchaser or any of the Group Entities have a right to, or receive, a rebate, refund or repayment in respect of Tax after the Effective Time in respect of Tax from any Tax Authority in respect of any period up to the Effective Time other than a Tax benefit referred to in paragraph 3 of this Schedule 20 and where such payment has not been included in the Accounts or the Statements and such payment does not arise from the use of a Purchaser’s Relief (the amount of such rebate, refund or repayment being hereinafter referred to as a “Tax Refund”), then:

 

  (a) the Purchaser will promptly notify the Seller and will take such action as may reasonably be requested to obtain such Tax Refund; and

 

  (b) the amount of the Tax Refund shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Seller within ten (10) Business Days of the receipt of the Tax Refund.

 

5 Overprovision

If and to the extent that the amount of any provision, reserve or accrual in respect of an identified Tax Liability that is included in the Accounts or the Statements exceeds the amount which actually becomes due by the Purchaser or the Group Entities with respect to such Tax Liability (such amount being referred to as an “Overprovision”) then the amount of the Overprovision shall be paid by the Purchaser to the Seller within ten (10) Business Days after the date on which the amount of the Overprovision has been finally and irrevocably determined by the Tax Authority.

 

6 Mitigation

Purchaser shall, at the reasonable direction of Seller, procure that the Group Entities take all such reasonable steps as Seller may require to:

 

  (a) use any Relief available to the Group Entities to reduce or eliminate any Tax Liability in respect of which the Purchaser would have been able to make a claim against the Seller under Paragraph 2.1, provided that the use of such Relief does not cause a material disadvantage for the respective Group Entity;

 

  (b)

make all such claims and elections specified by the Seller in respect of any period commencing prior to the Effective Time having the effect of reducing or eliminating any Tax Liability referred to under Paragraph

 

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2.1, provided that such claims and elections do not result in an increase of the Tax Liabilities of the Purchaser’s Group; and

 

  (c) allow the Seller to reduce or eliminate any Tax Liability by surrendering or transferring, or procuring the surrender or transfer, by any company other than the Group Entities of a Relief to the Group Entities to the extent permitted by Law but without any payment being made in consideration for such surrender or transfer.

 

7 Due date for payment

A payment to be made by Seller or Purchaser under this Schedule shall be made within twenty (20) Business Days after the earliest of:

 

  (a) the date on which a compromise or settlement has been reached between the Parties with respect to a claim on the basis of Paragraph 2;

 

  (b) the date on which a compromise or settlement has been reached with the Tax Authority in respect of a Tax Liability subject to a claim on the basis of Paragraph 2; and

 

  (c) the date on which a final decision is made on appeal with respect to a Tax Liability subject to a claim on the basis of Paragraph 2 against which no appeal is permitted (uitspraak in kracht van gewijsde).

 

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8 Purchaser’s indemnity

 

8.1 The Purchaser covenants with the Seller to pay to the Seller, so far as possible by way of an adjustment to the consideration for the sale of the Shares, an amount equal to any Tax Liability for which a member of the Seller’s Group is liable as a result of any provision imposing liability for any Taxation primarily chargeable against the Purchaser or the Group Entities, save to the extent the Purchaser has the right to claim, but has not received, payment in respect of that Tax Liability under Paragraph 2.1 of this Schedule.

 

9 Tax Conduct

 

9.1 Preparation of Tax Returns

 

9.1.1 The Seller shall prepare and file (or procure the preparation and filing of) all Tax Returns in respect of the Group Entities in a manner and on a basis consistent with past practice, to the extent that these are required to be filed on or prior to the Closing Date.

 

9.1.2 The Purchaser shall prepare and file (or procure the preparation and filing of) all Tax Returns in respect of the Group Entities not covered by Paragraph 9.1.1. The Seller shall provide the Purchaser such information and render the Purchaser such assistance as is necessary and reasonable to ensure the proper and timely completion and filing of such Tax Returns. To the extent that any such Tax Return relates to a Straddle Tax Period, the Seller shall have the right to review such Tax Return at least twenty (20) Business Days prior to the due date for filing thereof and the Purchaser shall not file such Tax Return without the prior written consent of Seller, such consent not to be unreasonably delayed or denied.

 

9.1.3 The Seller shall cancel any existing authority held by any employee or agent of or adviser to the Seller or the Group Entities to sign Tax Returns on behalf of the Group Entities with effect from the Closing Date.

 

9.1.4 The Purchaser shall procure that the Group Entities nor any other member of the Purchasers’ Tax Group shall take any position in the Tax Returns relating to the Group Entities that is contrary to the position that the Seller or the Group Entities have taken or will take in the Tax Returns relating to the period up to and including the Effective Time, except to the extent that Purchaser reasonably determines that such position is contrary to applicable Law. In such case Purchaser shall notify Seller and the Seller shall have the right to review such Tax Return at least twenty (20) Business Days prior to the due date for filing thereof and the Purchaser shall not file such Tax Return without the prior written consent of Seller, such consent not to be unreasonably delayed or denied.

 

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9.2 Tax Audits

 

9.2.1 Upon becoming aware of any pending audit, investigation, assessment or other material proceedings (“Audit”) with respect to Tax matters of the Group Entities that may effect a Tax Liability for which the other Party may be liable under this Agreement, the Seller shall, or as the case may be, the Purchaser shall within ten (10) Business Days give written notice of such Audit to the other party. The notice shall set out such information as is available and as is reasonably necessary to enable the other party to assess the merits of the claim, to act to preserve evidence and to make such provision as such other party may consider necessary. Any failure to notify the other Party of an Audit shall not relieve the other Party of any liability with respect to the Audit except to the extent the Party was actually prejudiced as a result thereof.

 

9.2.2 The Seller shall control the conduct of any such Audit relating to any accounting period for Tax purposes ending at or prior to the Effective Time and shall be entitled to settle and compromise any such Audit. To the extent that any such Audit could have a material adverse effect on the Purchaser or the Group Entity with respect to the period after the Effective Time, the Seller shall advise the Purchaser periodically of developments in the Audit investigation and obtain the Purchaser’s prior written approval (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) on critical Audit decisions and on material written communication to be forwarded to any Tax Authority or competent court in relation to the Audit.

 

9.2.3 The Purchaser shall control the conduct of any Audit relating to Tax matters of the Group Entities not covered by Paragraph 9.2.2 and shall be entitled to settle and compromise any such Audit. To the extent that any such Audit relates to a Straddle Tax Period, the Purchaser shall advise the Seller periodically of developments in the Audit investigation and obtain the Seller’s prior written approval (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) on critical Audit decisions and on material written communication to be forwarded to any Tax Authority or competent court in relation to the Audit if and to the extent it regards Taxes attributable to the period ending on or prior to the Effective Time.

 

9.2.4 The Seller and the Purchaser shall provide each other such information and render such assistance as may reasonably be requested in order to ensure the proper and adequate defence of any Audit as mentioned in Paragraph 9.2.

 

9.2.5 The Seller and the Purchaser agree to retain all records that may be required for the conduct of any Audit until the expiration of applicable statutory limitation period and, upon reasonable notice, to provide each other access to all books and records relating to the Group Entities as may be reasonably required to exercise their rights under this Paragraph.

 

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10 Limitations

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the limitations set forth in Clause 12 of this Agreement with respect to any claim by the Purchaser under this Agreement shall mutatis mutandis apply with respect to the indemnification provided in Paragraph 2.1. This Schedule governs the procedure for all Tax Liability claims and, in case of a conflict between this Schedule and the remainder of the Agreement, this Schedule will take precedence.

 

11 Adjustment to Purchase Price

The amount of any payment made under this Schedule shall, to the extent allowed under applicable Law, be an adjustment of the Purchase Price.

 

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Schedule 21 COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT TERM SHEETS

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Project Sonar

Confidential

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TERM SHEET COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT

(PRODUCT CATEGORY ***)

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

1.    Parties to the Agreement   

(i)     NXP B.V (“NXP”);

 

(ii)    [Knowles Electronics, LLC]

 

(iii)  NXP Semiconductors Beijing Limited; and

 

(iv)   NXP [Semiconductors] Austria

 

((ii), (iii), and (iv) together “K&S”, (iii) and (iv) together the “Group”)

2a.    Products covered    *** developed by NXP to be integrated into *** developed by K&S
2b.    Product definitions   

***

 

*** developed by Purchaser Group and containing at least the following:

 

***

 

***

 

***

3a.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•         K&S shall be NXP’s *** for ***, and NXP shall be K&S’s ***, except that ***

 

•         K&S and NXP shall jointly market the *** and joint solutions with device OEMs, next to each offering its standalone solutions

 

•         Quarterly product roadmaps and requirements definitions shall be shared between K&S and NXP in order to facilitate delivery on the envisioned value proposition ***

 

•         ***

 

•         ***

     

•          ***


LOGO

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

3b.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•         K&S shall purchase *** from NXP;

 

•          ***.

 

•         When, after a period of a ***, NXP begins to supply ***.

 

•         ***.

3c.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•         K&S can work with multiple suppliers for *** to be integrated in its ***.

 

•         NXP can supply its *** to multiple ***.

 

•         NXP will not be obliged to license its IP to K&S’s alternative supplier(s).

3d.    Definition ***   

If and when NXP ceases to make and sell *** to K&S during a *** NXP shall:

 

•         Provide a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to Knowles for the IP required to have customer specific ICs developed by another IC supplier to replace NXP’s ICs in its offering, provided that IP licensed in such a way cannot be used by K&S’s new suppliers for ICs other than those supplied to K&S for integration in its ***. The attached Patent C-List schedules the specific patents that are to be licensed.

 

•         Continue to supply ICs for K&S products that are in production ***.


LOGO

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

      If and when K&S shall cease promoting and offering to sell *** NXP shall be notified thereof and be allowed to offer to sell and sell *** to other speaker suppliers.
4.    Time Periods and Transitions   

Commencing on the Closing Date, the *** will last for a continuing period of *** years.

 

After *** from the Closing Date, K&S, at its sole option and discretion, may terminate the *** in favour of and commence the period of a ***

 

After *** years, the *** will move automatically to a *** unless decided otherwise by both parties. The *** will last ***, and can after that be extended by mutual consent of both parties on an annual basis.

5.    Commercial terms    NXP and K&S agree to negotiate in good faith the commercial terms for products for which prices have not been set as of the Closing Date.

ANNEX 1

Patent C-List

(NXP Exclusive - Speakers/Receivers)


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Project Sonar

Confidential

   LOGO

TERM SHEET COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT

(PRODUCT CATEGORY ***)

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

1.    Parties to the Agreement   

(i)     NXP B.V (“NXP”);

 

(ii)    [Knowles Electronics, LLC]

 

(iii)  NXP Semiconductors Beijing Limited; and

 

(iv)   NXP [Semiconductors] Austria

 

((ii), (iii), and (iv) together “K&S”, (iii) and (iv) together the “Group”)

2a.    Products covered   

***

2b.    Product definitions   

***

3.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•        K&S shall purchase for Group products *** from ***, and ***

 

•        Knowles will make ***

 

•        NXP shall grant K&S ***


LOGO

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

     

•      ***

4.    Time Periods and Transitions   

K&S and NXP enter into a *** for ***.

 

Any supplies for *** will be covered by the commercial agreement *** between K&S and NXP.

 

For purposes of clarification, ***. In the event of any conflict between the terms outlined for ***, the provisions on of *** take priority.

5.    Commercial terms   

***

 

NXP and K&S agree to negotiate in good faith for commercial terms for products for which prices have not been set as of the Closing Date.


***

 

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Project Sonar

Confidential

  LOGO

TERM SHEET COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT

(PRODUCT CATEGORY ***)

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

1.    Parties to the Agreement    (i)   

NXP B.V (“NXP”);

     

 

(ii)

  

 

[Knowles Electronics, LLC]

      (iii)   

NXP Semiconductors Beijing Limited; and

      (iv)   

NXP [Semiconductors] Austria

     

((ii), (iii), and (iv) together “K&S”, (iii) and (iv) together the “Group”)

2a.    Products covered   

***

2b.    Product definitions   

***  

3a.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

        

K&S shall be NXP’s ***, and NXP shall be ***

        

Quarterly product roadmaps and requirements shall be shared between K&S and NXP in order to ensure that ***

        

***

        

***


LOGO

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

     

•        ***

 

•        ***

3b.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•        K&S shall purchase *** from NXP ***

 

•        NXP shall grant ***

 

•        ***

3c.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•        K&S can ***

 

•        NXP can ***

 

•        ***

3d.    Definition ***   

*** NXP shall:

 

•        Provide a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to Knowles for the IP required to have customer specific ICs developed by another IC supplier to replace NXP’s ICs in its offering, ***. The attached Patent D-List schedules the specific patents that are to be licensed.

 

•        Continue to supply ICs for K&S products that are in production until K&S succeeds in ***

 

***


 

Draft, 21 December 2010   LOGO

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

4.    Time Periods and Transitions   

***

 

After *** K&S, at its sole option and discretion, may ***

 

NXP can terminate, at its sole option and discretion ***

5.    Commercial terms    NXP and K&S agree to negotiate in good faith the commercial terms for products for which prices have not been set as of the Closing Date.


***

 


***

 

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Project Sonar

Confidential

 

LOGO

TERM SHEET COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT

(PRODUCT CATEGORY ***)

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

1.    Parties to the Agreement    (i)   

NXP B.V (“NXP”);

 

      (ii)   

[Knowles Electronics, LLC]

      (iii)   

NXP Semiconductors Beijing Limited; and

      (iv)   

NXP [Semiconductors] Austria

     

((ii), (iii), and (iv) together “K&S”, (iii) and (iv) together the “Group”)

2a.    Products covered   

***

2b.    Product definitions   

***

3a.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

         K&S shall be NXP’s ***, and NXP shall be K&S’s ***
         Quarterly product roadmaps and requirements shall be shared between K&S and NXP in order to ensure that ***
         ***
         ***
3b.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:


LOGO

 

No.

  

Topic

  

Detail

     

•        K&S shall purchase *** from NXP, and ***

 

•        NXP shall grant K&S ***

 

•        ***

3c.    Definition ***   

During the period of a *** between the parties:

 

•        K&S can ***

 

•        NXP can ***

 

•        ***

3d.    Definition ***   

If and when *** NXP shall:

 

•        Provide a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to Knowles for the IP required to have customer specific ICs developed by another IC supplier to replace NXP’s ICs in its offering, *** The attached Patent E-List schedules the specific patents that are to be licensed.

 

•        Continue to supply ICs for K&S products that are in production until K&S ***

 

If and when ***

4.    Time Periods and Transitions   

K&S and NXP will discuss having ***, and as part of an agreement on that to ***

 

***

5.    Commercial terms    NXP and K&S agree to negotiate in good faith the commercial terms for products for which prices have not been set as of the Closing Date.

 

2/3


LOGO

 

ANNEX 1

Patent C-List


PatentId   Reference    Status    Priority
Date
   Filed
Date
   Region    AppNr    PubNr    Patnr
***                                       


Title    Bucket

***


LOGO

 

ANNEX 1

Patent D-List


PatentId
  Reference   Status   Priority
Date
  Filed Date   Region   AppNr  

PubNr

   Patnr Title    Bucket

***


LOGO

 

ANNEX 1

Patent E-List


PatentId    Reference    Status
   Priority
Date
   Filed
Date
   Region    AppNr
   PubNr    Patnr Title    Bucket

***


LOGO

 

ANNEX 1

Patent E2-List


Patentld   Reference    Status    PriorityDate    FiledDate    Region    AppNr    PubNr Patnr    Title    Ownership    Bucket

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NXP R&D related to commercial agreements

The following item is to be non-binding on all parties at signing. It is intended to be an outline of a possible agreement between the parties which they will discuss between signing and closing. Though the parties agree to discuss this issue, either party may elect not to enter into any form of NRE or other agreement.

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EXECUTION VERSION

Schedule 22    LIST OF EMPLOYEES

 

1


Country

  

Functional
area

  

Function Detail NEW

   Person
No
     Corporate
Grade
     Head  
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      1         70         0.50   
Austria    G&A    Qlty Management      1         70         0.50   
Austria    G&A    Bus Planning & Analysis      2         60         0.50   
Austria    G&A    Bus Planning & Analysis      2         60         0.50   
Austria    Commercial    ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT      3         70         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      4         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      5         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      6         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    SITE TRANSACTIONAL PROCUREMENT/S      7         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    DEMAND PLANNING      8         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      8         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    DEMAND PLANNING      9         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      9         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    Q ENGINEER      10         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      11         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      12         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      13         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      14         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      15         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      16         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      17         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      18         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      19         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      20         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      21         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      22         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      23         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      24         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      25         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      26         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      27         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      28         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      29         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      30         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      31         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      32         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      33         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      34         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      35         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      36         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      37         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      38         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      39         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      40         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      41         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      42         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      43         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      44         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      45         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      47         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      48         90         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      49         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      50         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      51         70         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      52         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      53         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      54         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Generalist      55         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      56         90         0.20   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      56         90         0.80   
Austria    G&A    Generalist      57         <50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      57         <50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    SYSTEM ANALYST/ SUPPORT      58         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    SYSTEM ANALYST/ SUPPORT      58         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    SYSTEM ANALYST/ SUPPORT      59         50         0.40   
Austria    G&A    SYSTEM ANALYST/ SUPPORT      59         50         0.60   
Austria    G&A    Financial Reports      60         60         0.75   
Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      60         60         0.25   
Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      61         <50         0.20   
Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      61         <50         0.80   
Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      62         60         0.30   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      62         60         0.70   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      63         90         0.20   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      63         90         0.80   
Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      64         60         0.70   
Austria    G&A    Financial Reports      64         60         0.30   


Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      65         <50         0.40   
Austria    G&A    ACC & CONTROLLING      65         <50         0.60   
Austria    Manufacturing    CONTROL MANAGER      66         60         0.70   
Austria    Manufacturing    CONTROL MANAGER      66         60         0.30   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      67         <50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Bus Planning & Analysis      68         60         0.30   
Austria    G&A    Bus Planning & Analysis      68         60         0.70   
Austria    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      69         50         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      70         50         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      71         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      72         80         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      73         60         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    PRODUKT MARKETING      74         60         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    PRODUKT MARKETING      75         <50         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT      76         70         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    PRODUKT MARKETING      77         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      78         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      79         80         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      80         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      81         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      83         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      84         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      85         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    SUPPORT      86         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      87         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      88         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      89         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      90         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      91         80         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      92         80         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      93         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      94         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    SUPPORT      95         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      96         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      97         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      98         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      99         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      100         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      102         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      103         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    LIFE TEST TECHNICIAN      104         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    LIFE TEST TECHNICIAN      105         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    Q ENGINEER      106         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    COMMODITY PURCHASING MNGT      107         60         0.40   
Austria    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      107         60         0.60   
Austria    G&A    COMMODITY PURCHASING MNGT      108         60         0.60   
Austria    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      108         60         0.40   
Austria    G&A    SITE TRANSACTIONAL PROCUREMENT/S      109         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    SITE PURCHASING MANAGEMENT      110         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      111         80         1.00   


Austria    G&A    SITE PURCHASING MANAGEMENT      112         70         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    PRODUKT MARKETING      113         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      114         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    COMMODITY PURCHASING MNGT      115         60         0.40   
Austria    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      115         60         0.60   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      116         60         0.50   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      116         60         0.50   
Austria    G&A    DEMAND PLANNING      117         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      117         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    DEMAND PLANNING      118         50         0.50   
Austria    G&A    PLANNING MANAGER      118         50         0.50   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      119         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      120         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      121         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      122         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      123         <50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    CUSTOMER COMPLAINT ASSISTANT      124         <50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Qlty Management      125         70         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      126         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      127         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      128         <50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      129         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Q ENGINEER      130         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      131         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Qlty Management      132         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      133         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      134         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      135         70         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      136         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      137         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      138         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      139         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      140         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      141         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      142         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      143         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      144         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      145         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      146         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      147         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      148         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      149         80         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      150         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      151         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      152         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      153         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      154         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      155         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      156         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      157         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      158         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      159         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      160         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      161         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      162         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      163         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      164         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      165         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      166         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      167         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      168         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      169         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      170         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      171         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      172         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      173         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      174         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      175         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      176         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      177         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      178         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      179         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      180         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      181         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      182         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      183         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      184         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      185         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      186         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      187         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      188         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      189         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      190         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      191         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      192         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      193         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      194         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      195         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      196         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      197         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      198         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      199         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      200         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      201         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      202         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      203         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      204         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      205         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      206         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      207         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      208         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      209         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      210         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      211         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      212         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      213         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      214         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      215         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      216         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      217         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      218         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      219         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    CONTROL MANAGER      220         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      221         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      222         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      223         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      224         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      225         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      226         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      227         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      228         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      229         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      230         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      231         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      232         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      233         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      234         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      235         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      236         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      237         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      238         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      239         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      240         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      241         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      242         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      243         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      244         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      245         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      246         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      247         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      248         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      249         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      250         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      251         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      252         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      253         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      254         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      255         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      256         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      257         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      258         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      259         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      260         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      261         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      262         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      263         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      264         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      265         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      266         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      267         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      268         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      269         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      270         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      271         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      272         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      273         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      274         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      275         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      276         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      277         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      278         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      279         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      280         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      281         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      282         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      283         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      284         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      285         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      286         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      287         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      288         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      289         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      290         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      291         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      292         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      293         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      294         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      295         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      296         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      297         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      298         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      299         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      300         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      301         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      302         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      303         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      304         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      305         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      306         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      307         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      308         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      309         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      310         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      311         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      312         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      313         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      314         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      315         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      316         70         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      317         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      318         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      319         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      320         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      321         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      322         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      323         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      324         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      325         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      326         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      327         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      328         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      329         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      330         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      331         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      332         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      333         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      334         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      335         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      336         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      337         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      338         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      339         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      340         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      341         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      342         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      343         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      344         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      345         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      346         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      347         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      348         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      349         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      350         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      351         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      352         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    LIFE TEST TECHNICIAN      353         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      354         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      355         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      356         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      357         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      358         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      359         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      360         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      361         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      362         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      363         70         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      364         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      365         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      366         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      367         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      368         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      369         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      370         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      371         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      372         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      373         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      374         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      375         60         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      376         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      377         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      378         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    Q ENGINEER      379         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      380         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      381         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      382         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      383         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      384         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      385         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      386         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      387         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      388         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      389         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      390         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      391         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      392         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      393         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      394         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      395         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      397         60         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      398         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      399         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      400         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      401         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      402         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      403         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      404         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      406         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      407         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    SUPPORT      408         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      409         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    COMMODITY PURCHASING MNGT      410         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Administration      411         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      412         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      413         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      414         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      415         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      416         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      417         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Administration      418         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      419         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      422         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      423         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      424         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      425         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      426         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      427         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      428         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      429         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      430         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      431         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      432         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      433         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      434         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      435         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      436         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      437         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      438         <50         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      439         70         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      440         50         1.00   
Austria    Commercial    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      441         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    MANAGEMENT      442         SVP         1.00   


Austria    G&A    Q ENGINEER      443         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    CUSTOMER COMPLAINT ASSISTANT      444         <50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      445         60         1.00   
Austria    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      446         50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Generalist      447         <50         1.00   
Austria    G&A    Generalist      448         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    LIFE TEST ENGINEER      449         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      450         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      451         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      452         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      453         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      454         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      455         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      456         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      457         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      458         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      459         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      460         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      461         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      462         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      463         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      464         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      465         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      466         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      467         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      468         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      469         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      470         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      471         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      472         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      473         <50         1.00   


Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      474         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      475         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      476         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      477         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      478         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      479         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      480         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      481         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      482         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      483         50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      484         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      485         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      486         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      487         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      488         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      489         <50         1.00   
Austria    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      490         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      491         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      492         60         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      493         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      494         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      495         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      496         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    MNGT:GENERAL MGR/GRP LEADER      497         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      498         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      499         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      500         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      501         <50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      502         50         1.00   
Austria    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      503         50         1.00   
Austria    Not assigned    #      504         <50         1.00   
China    Not assigned    ACC INVENTORY      505         50         0.50   
China    Not assigned    ACC MNF / PC&A      505         50         0.50   
China    G&A    FINANCIAL BUDGET & FORECASTS      506         50         0.50   
China    G&A    PERFORMING FINANCIAL ANALYSIS      506         50         0.50   
China    G&A    FINANCIAL BUDGET & FORECASTS      507         <50         0.50   
China    G&A    TREASURY      507         <50         0.50   
China    G&A    CONSOLIDATION & CLOSE      508         <50         0.50   
China    G&A    EXT & REGULATORY REPORTING      508         <50         0.50   


China    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      509         <50         1.00   
China    Commercial    ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT      510         <50         1.00   
China    Commercial    ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT      511         60         1.00   
China    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      512         <50         1.00   
China    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      513         <50         1.00   
China    Commercial    ACCOUNT SERVICE MANAGER      514         50         1.00   
China    Commercial    PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER      515         50         1.00   
China    Commercial    ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT      516         60         1.00   
China    Commercial    APPLICATION MARKETING MANAGER      518         <50         1.00   
China    Commercial    PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER      519         50         1.00   
China    G&A    ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/SECRETARY      521         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    GENERAL MANAGEMENT      522         60         1.00   
China    G&A    SOFTWARE ENGINEERING      523         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    GENERAL MANAGEMENT      524         60         1.00   
China    G&A    SOFTWARE ENGINEERING      525         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SYSTEM ANALYST      526         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SOFTWARE ENGINEERING      527         0         1.00   
China    G&A    SECURITY SERVICES      528         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ENGINEER FACILITIES      529         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT      530         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      531         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      532         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE TRANSACTIONAL PROCUREMENT/S      533         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      534         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE PURCHASING MANAGEMENT      535         60         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      536         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      537         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    PROCESSES & (E) SYSTEMS/PROJECTS      538         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE TRANSACTIONAL PROCUREMENT/S      539         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE (PROJECT) BUYING      540         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE TRANSACTIONAL PROCUREMENT/S      541         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC CUST INV & C&R      542         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC P2P      543         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC COST ACC & BS      544         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC FIXED ASSETS      545         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC BANKING & TREAS      547         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC FIXED ASSETS      548         0         1.00   
China    G&A    ACC COST ACC & BS      549         0         1.00   
China    G&A    ADMIN/SECRETARIAL SUPPORT      550         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    MANAGER PAYROLL      551         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    SITE/LOCAL HRM      552         70         1.00   
China    G&A    RECRUITMENT MANAGER      553         50         1.00   
China    G&A    MATERIAL MANAGEMENT      554         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    MATERIAL MANAGEMENT      555         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      556         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      557         50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      558         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    BU SCM MANAGEMENT      559         70         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      560         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      561         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      562         50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      563         <50         1.00   
China    G&A    INDUSTRIAL      564         0         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      565         50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      566         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      567         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      568         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      569         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      570         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      571         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      572         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      573         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      574         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      575         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      576         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      577         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      578         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      579         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      580         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      581         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      582         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      583         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      584         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      585         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      586         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      587         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      588         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      589         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      590         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      591         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      592         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      593         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      594         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      595         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      596         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      597         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      598         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      599         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      601         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      602         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      603         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      604         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      605         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      606         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      607         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      609         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    INNOVATION      610         60         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      611         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      612         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      613         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      614         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      615         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      616         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      617         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      618         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      619         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      620         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      621         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      622         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      623         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      624         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      625         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      626         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      627         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      628         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      629         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      630         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      631         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      632         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      633         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      634         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      635         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      636         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      637         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      638         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      639         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      640         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      641         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      642         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      643         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      644         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      645         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      646         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      647         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      648         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      649         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      650         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      651         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      652         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      653         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      654         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      655         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      656         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      657         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      658         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      659         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      660         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      661         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      662         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      663         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      664         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      665         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      666         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      667         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      668         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      669         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      670         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      671         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      672         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      673         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      674         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      675         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      676         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      677         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      678         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      679         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      680         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      681         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      682         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      683         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      684         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      685         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      686         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      687         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      688         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      689         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      690         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      691         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      692         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      693         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      694         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      695         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      696         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      697         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      698         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      699         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      700         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      701         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      702         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      703         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      704         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      705         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      706         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      707         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      708         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      709         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      710         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      711         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      712         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      713         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      714         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      715         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      716         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      717         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      718         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      719         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      720         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      721         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      722         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      723         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      724         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      725         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      726         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      727         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      728         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      729         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      730         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      731         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      732         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      733         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      734         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      735         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      736         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      737         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      738         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      739         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      740         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      741         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      742         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      743         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      744         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      745         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      746         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      747         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      748         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      749         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      750         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      751         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      752         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      753         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      754         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      755         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      756         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      757         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      758         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      759         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      760         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      761         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      762         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      763         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      764         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      765         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      766         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      767         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      768         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      769         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      770         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      771         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      772         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      773         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      774         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      775         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      776         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      777         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      778         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      779         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      780         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      781         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      782         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      783         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      784         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      785         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      786         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      787         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      788         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      789         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      790         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      791         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      792         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      793         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      794         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      795         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      796         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      797         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      798         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      799         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      800         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      801         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      802         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      803         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      804         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      805         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      806         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      807         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      808         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      809         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      810         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      811         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      812         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      813         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      814         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      815         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      816         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      817         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      818         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      819         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      820         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      821         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      822         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      823         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      824         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      825         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      826         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      827         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      828         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      829         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      830         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      831         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      832         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      833         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      834         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      835         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      836         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      837         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      838         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      839         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      840         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      841         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      842         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      843         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      844         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      845         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      846         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      847         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      848         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      849         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      850         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      851         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      852         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      853         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      854         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      855         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      856         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      857         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      858         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      859         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      860         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      861         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      862         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      863         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      864         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      865         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      866         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      867         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      868         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      869         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      870         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      871         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      872         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      873         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      874         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      875         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      876         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      877         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      878         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      879         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      880         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      881         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      882         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      883         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      884         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      885         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      886         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      887         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      888         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      889         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      890         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      891         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      892         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      893         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      894         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      895         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      896         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      897         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      898         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      899         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      900         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      901         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      902         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      903         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      904         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      905         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      906         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      907         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      908         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      909         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      910         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      911         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      912         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      913         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      914         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      915         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      916         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      917         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      918         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      919         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      920         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      921         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      922         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      923         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      924         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      925         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      926         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      927         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      928         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      929         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      930         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      931         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      932         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      933         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      934         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      935         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      936         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      937         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      938         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      939         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      940         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      941         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      942         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      943         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      944         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      945         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      946         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      947         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      948         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      949         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      950         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      951         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      952         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      953         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      954         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      955         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      956         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      957         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      958         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-INDIRECT      959         <50         1.00   


China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      960         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      961         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      962         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      963         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      964         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      965         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      966         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAB-DIRECT      967         <50         1.00   
China, on Local China contract    Manufacturing    Q MANAGEMENT MANUFACTURING      968         70         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      969         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      970         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    FAILURE ANALYSIS ENGINEER      971         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      972         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      973         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    Q SYSTEMS SUPPORT      974         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      975         50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      976         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      977         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      978         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      979         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      980         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      981         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      982         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY SYSTEMS      983         60         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE      984         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE      985         <50         1.00   
China    Manufacturing    QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER      986         0         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      987         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      988         <50         1.00   


China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      989         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      991         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      992         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      993         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      994         50         1.00   
China    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      995         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      996         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      997         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      998         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      999         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      1000         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    SUPPORT      1001         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      1002         60         1.00   
China    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      1003         50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      1004         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    SUPPORT      1005         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    ENG/DEV/EXPERT/ARCH/RESEARCH      1006         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    OTHER      1007         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    OTHER      1008         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    PROGRAM/PROJECT MANAGER      1009         50         1.00   
China    R&D    #      1010         60         1.00   
China    R&D    #      1011         <50         1.00   
China    R&D    #      1012         <50         1.00   


Schedule 23 LEASED PROPERTIES

 

    

Jurisdiction

 

Property
Address

 

Use in

relation to
Property

 

Tenant

 

Date and

Parties to lease

 

Term and

expiry date

 

Current

rent

 

Underletting
permitted

1   Austrian law, court in Vienna  

Gutheil-Schoder- Gasse 8-12,

1100 Vienna

 

Offices,

Chemical

Warehouse,

Logistics

 

NXP

Semiconductors

Austria GmbH

 

Westcore Geneva B.V.

 

Signature date: 20 September 2007

 

Lease start date: 1 January 2007;

9 May 2007;

5 June 2007;

1 July 2007;

1 October 2007

 

Unlimited, minimum term until 31

December 2011 with 12 months prior notice, i.e. if we want to terminate by end of next year we have to give notice within December 2010

 

Rental costs

monthly net:

5,680.68 Euro VAT

 

Operating costs monthly: 4,015.71 Euro

 

Yes, after

approval of

landlord

2  

Austrian law,

court in Vienna

 

Gutheil-Schoder- Gasse 8-12,

1100 Vienna

 

Offices,

Production,

Warehouse

 

Philips

Semiconductors

Austria GmbH

 

Philips Austria GmbH

 

Signature date:

7 December 2006

 

Start date of lease:

1 January 2007

 

Unlimited but

minimum term 5 years from start

date

12 months notice

period

 

Rental costs

monthly net:

77,963.39

Euro

VAT

 

Operating costs monthly: 5,2308.59

Euro

 

Yes, after

approval of

landlord

3  

China

 

No.20 Tongji

South Road,

Beijing

Economic-

Technological

Development

Area, Beijing,

PRC

 

Offices,

Production

 

NXP

Semiconductors

(Beijing) Ltd

 

Landlord: Beijing

Economic-

Technological

Investment &

Development

Corporation

 

Signing Date;

15 September 2009.

 

Five years. Expiry on:

1 January 2016

 

RMB

41/square

meter/month,

including

management

fees

 

After Landlord’s written consent, Lessee can

sublet the

premises to its affiliated

companies and/or

business partner


EXECUTION VERSION

 

Schedule 24 PEOPLE DEEMED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN RESPECT OF THE PURCHASER

Part 1

Esquinca, Arturo

Sellhausen, Steve

Starrantino, Paul

Van Loan, Dave R

Cabrera, Ivonne

Marshall, P.

Part 2

Cabrera, Ray

Zhu, Pauline

Adell, Mike

Close, Scott

Giesecke, Dan

Godish, Mark

Hung,Janson

Johnson, Mark

Kirchhoefer, Ray

Loeppert, Pete

Lu, Wenjie (Steven)

Ma, Patrick

Modloff, Brian

Parfitt, Roger

Piro, Jane

Ren, Rong

Schutter, Michael

Sweeney, Vince

Thomas, Michael

Victor, Austin

Walker, Gordon

Warren, Daniel

Wynn, Jim

Niew, Jeff

 

1


    Schedule 25      ITEMS OF WHICH THE PURCHASER IS AWARE

 

1 Items of which the Purchaser is Aware Letter

 

1.1 Terms defined in the Agreement shall have the same meanings in this Schedule 25, unless the context otherwise requires.

 

1.2 Pursuant to Clause 10.4.2 of the Agreement the Purchaser and/or the members of the Purchaser’s Group are aware of the following items, which may qualify as a breach of Seller’s Warranties. For convenience, each item refers to the Paragraph number of the Seller’s Warranty to which the item is most likely to relate, but an item applies to all of Seller’s Warranties and an item is not thereby limited in any way to the specific Seller’s Warranty to which it refers below.

 

1.3 To the extent any items in this Schedule are also listed in Seller’s Disclosure Letter (Schedule 17), such items shall be deemed disclosed under Clause 10.2 and Seller shall not liable in accordance with such Clause 10.2.

 

Reference in

Warranties

  

Item

***


***


Schedule 26   FORM OF CERTIFICATES

Part 1

Form of Closing Certificate

This closing certificate (the “Closing Certificate”) is being executed by NXP B.V. (the “Seller”), Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH and Knowles Electronics, LLC (together, the “Purchasers”) pursuant to Clause 6.3 of the Sale and Purchase Agreement, dated on or around 22 December 2010, between the Seller, the Purchasers, Dover Corporation and NXP Semiconductors N.V., relating to the sale and transfer of the shares in NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH and NXP Semiconductors Beijing Limited (the “Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein have the same meaning as set forth in the Agreement unless defined herein.

The Seller and the Purchasers each hereby confirm and acknowledge that with effect from the signing by each of the Seller and the Purchasers of this Closing Certificate:

 

(a) all of the Closing Actions set out in Schedule 4 of the Agreement are completed;

 

(b) the Initial Austrian Purchase Price shall be held in the DBBW Account on behalf of the Seller in accordance with Clause 6.2.1(a) of the Agreement; and

 

(c) the condition precedent in Clause 4 of the Austrian Local Sale and Purchase Agreement is satisfied.

 

Agreed and signed on [] 2011 by:
NXP B.V.

 

Name:
Title:
Knowles Electronics, LLC

 

Name:
Title:
Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH

 

Name:
Title:


Part 2

Form of China Transfer Registration Certificate

This certificate (the “China Transfer Registration Certificate”) is being executed by NXP B.V. (the “Seller”), Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH and Knowles Electronics, LLC (together, the “Purchasers”) pursuant to Clause 9.1.4 of the Sale and Purchase Agreement, dated on or around 22 December 2010, between the Seller, the Purchasers, Dover Corporation and NXP Semiconductors N.V., relating to the sale and transfer of the shares in NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH and NXP Semiconductors Beijing Limited (the “Agreement”). Capitalized terms used herein have the same meaning as set forth in the Agreement unless defined herein.

The Seller and the Purchasers each hereby confirm and acknowledge that:

 

(a) the China Transfer Registration was completed on [the date of this China Transfer Registration Certificate] [[or] [] 2011 with effect from that date; and

 

(b) De Brauw is hereby instructed to hold the Chinese Initial Purchase Price, held in the DBBW Account, on behalf of the Seller in accordance with Clause 6.2.1 (b) of the Agreement.

 

Agreed and signed on [] 2011 by:
NXP B.V.

 

Name:
Title:
Knowles Electronics, LLC

 

Name:
Title:
Eff acht Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH

 

Name:
Title:


EXECUTION VERSION

 

Schedule 27   ACCOUNTS

 

1


          FY’2009      YTD
Q3’2010
 

Total Sales

        ***         ***   
                    

Cost of Sales

   Other Material-Related-Costs Stock movem      ***         ***   
   Other Primary Material-Related-Costs      ***         ***   
   Secondary Material-Related-Costs      ***         ***   
   External Purchased Materials         ***   
   Offset External Purchased Materials         ***   
   Internal Purchased Materials         ***   
   Offset Internal Purchased Materials         ***   
   Subcontracted Work      ***         ***   
   Salaries      ***         ***   
   Secondary cost of organization      ***      
   Depreciation/Amortization      ***         ***   
   OCOO      ***         ***   
   SSC Allocations      ***         ***   
   Cross Charges & Recovery non SSC      ***         ***   
   Currency-Exposure      ***         ***   
                    

Cost of Sales Total

        ***         ***   
                    

Gross Margin

        ***         ***   
                    

Selling costs

   Other Material-Related-Costs Stock movem      ***      
   Other Primary Material-Related-Costs      ***         ***   
   Subcontracted Work      ***      
   Salaries      ***         ***   
   Depreciation/Amortization      ***         ***   
   OCOO      ***         ***   
   SSC Allocations      ***         ***   
   Cross Charges & Recovery non SSC      ***         ***   
                    

Selling costs Total

        ***         ***   
                    

R&D Costs

   Other Material-Related-Costs Stock movem      ***         ***   
   Other Primary Material-Related-Costs      ***         ***   
   Subcontracted Work      ***         ***   
   Salaries      ***         ***   
   Depreciation/Amortization      ***         ***   
   OCOO      ***         ***   
   SSC Allocations      ***         ***   
   Cross Charges & Recovery non SSC      ***         ***   
                    

R&D Costs Total

        ***         ***   
                    

G&A Costs

   Salaries      ***         ***   
   OCOO      ***         ***   
   SSC Allocations      ***         ***   
   Cross Charges & Recovery non SSC      ***         ***   
                    

G&A Costs Total

     ***         ***   
                    

Other income & expenses

     ***         ***   
                    

Earnings before interest and tax

     ***         ***   
                    

Net income PD

     ***         ***   
                    

Financial income & expense

     

Income taxes

     

Net income from continuing operations

     ***         ***   
                    

Net income

     ***         ***   
                    


Reporting Item

  

Functional Group High

  

Functional Group Low

   End 2009      End Q3’10  

Intangible fixed assets

   Non-Current-Assets    Intangibles Amortization      ***         ***   
      Intangibles excl. Goodwill      ***         ***   
                       

Intangible fixed assets Total

     ***         ***   
                       

Tangible fixed assets

   Non-Current-Assets    Proprty, plant, eqpm      ***         ***   

Tangible fixed assets Total

           ***         ***   

Working capital

   Warehouse Stock    Commercial Warehouse Stock      ***         ***   
      Production Warehouse Stock      ***         ***   
   Work In Progress Stock    Production Work In Progress Stock      ***         ***   
   Obsolesence    Commercial Obsolescence      ***         ***   
      Production Obsolescence      ***         ***   
   Value Adjustments    Commercial Value Adjustments      ***         ***   
   Goods in Transit    Commercial Goods in Transit      ***         ***   
      Production Goods in Transit      ***         ***   
   Current Assets excl. Inventories    Other Current Assets      ***         ***   
      Receivables      ***         ***   
   Non-Current-Assets    Other Non-Current Receivables      ***         ***   
   Current Liabilities    Accounts/Notes Payable      ***         ***   
      Accrued Liabilities      ***         ***   
      Other Current Liabilities      ***         ***   
   Non-Current Liabilities    Long-Term Provisions         ***   
      Other Non-Current Liabilities      ***         ***   
   NXP Investment    Current Accounts      ***         ***   
                       

Working capital Total

     ***         ***   
                       

Provisions

   Current Liabilities    Short-Term Provisions      ***         ***   
   Non-Current Liabilities    Long-Term Provisions      ***         ***   
                       

Provisions Total

     ***         ***   
                       

Net operating capital PD

     ***         ***   
                       

Funding by NXP

   Current Assets excl. Inventories    Cash and equivalents      ***         ***   
  

Current Assets excl. Inventories Total

     ***         ***   
   Group Equity    Stockholders’ Equity      ***         ***   
  

Group Equity Total

     ***         ***   
   Non-Current Liabilities    Long-Term Debt         ***   
      Long-Term Provisions      ***         ***   
  

Non-Current Liabilities Total

     ***         ***   
   Non-Current-Assets    Other Non-Current Assets      ***         ***   
   Non-Current-Assets Total         ***         ***   
   NXP Investment    Debt Financing      ***         ***   
      Equity Financing      ***         ***   
      Translation Differences      ***         ***   
  

NXP Investment Total

     ***         ***   
                       

Funding by NXP Total

     ***         ***   
                       


Schedule 28    LICENSED-IN THIRD PARTY IP

The contracts listed below also include any subsequent amendment or side letters thereto, in each case disclosed in the Virtual Data Room

 

     

Description

  

Name

  

Parties

  

Date

1    *** patent cross   

***

  

(i) N.V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken; Allgemeine Deutsche Philips Industrie GmbH; and

(ii) ***

   9 April 1974
2    *** patent cross    Semiconductor / IC Patent License Exchange Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   19 July 2007
3    *** patent cross    Semiconductor Patent Cross License Agreement   

(i) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; and

(ii) ***

   19 December 2000
4    *** patent cross    Patent Cross License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   effective: 1 October 2006
5    *** patent cross    Semiconductor / IC Patent License Exchange Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   27 November 2006
6    *** patent cross (assigned to ***)    Patent License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

   1 October 1998
7    *** patent cross    Patent License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

   30 May 2006
8    *** patent cross    License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   22 March 2007
9    *** patent cross    Semiconductor / IC Patent License Exchange Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   15 December 2006
10    *** patent cross    Schutzrechts- Lizenztauschvertrag   

(i) Philips Electronics N.V.; N.V. Philips’

Gloeilampenfabrieken; and

(ii) ***

   3 May 1994
11    *** patent cross    Patent License Agreement   

(i) ***;

(ii) N.V. Phillips Gloeilampenfabrieken; and (ii) US Philips Corporation

   18 February 1988
12    *** patent cross    Semiconductor Patent Cross License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) Philips Electronics N.V.

   12 February 1993
13    *** collaboration agreement    Amended and Restated Research and    (i) ***; and    5 November 2009


     

Description

  

Name

  

Parties

  

Date

      Development Collaboration Agreement    (ii) NXP B.V.   
14    *** collaboration agreement    Frame Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.; NXP Semiconductors Belgium N.V.

   30 November 2010
15    *** IPTLA    Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement   

(i) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; and

(ii) ***

   28 September 2006
16    *** collaboration agreement    Framework R&D Agreement   

(i) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; and

(ii) ***

   28 September 2006
16A    Project agreement to the *** Framework R&D Agreement    R-2007-008   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   16 November 2007
16B    Extension of and amendment to the project agreement R-2007-008    Extension of and amendment to existing R&D project agreement in the field of System-in-Package technology   

(i) ***

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   9 June 2008
16C    Project agreement to the *** Framework R&D Agreement    R-2007-003   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   5 April 2007
16D    Amendment to multiple project agreements, including R-2007- 003    Amendments to existing R&D project agreements in the field of audio-video processing   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   29 June 2007
16E    Replacement of schedules to multiple project agreements, including R-2007-003    Contract Research Program 2008 – Ref: RWC-86582-RPO-08013   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   16 March 2008


Schedule 29    LICENSED-OUT NXP PATENTS

The contracts listed below also include any subsequent amendment or side letters thereto, in each case disclosed in the Virtual Data Room

 

     

Description

  

Name

  

Parties

  

Date

1    *** patent cross   

***

  

(i) N.V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken; Allgemeine Deutsche Philips Industrie GmbH; and

(ii) ***

   9 April 1974
2    *** patent cross    Semiconductor / IC Patent License Exchange Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   19 July 2007
3    *** patent cross    Semiconductor Patent Cross License Agreement   

(i) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; and

(ii) ***

   19 December 2000
4    *** patent cross    Patent Cross License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   effective: 1 October 2006
5    *** patent cross    Semiconductor / IC Patent License Exchange Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   27 November 2006
6    *** patent cross (assigned to ***)    Patent License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

   1 October 1998
7    *** patent cross    Patent License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

   30 May 2006
8    *** patent cross    License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   22 March 2007
9    *** patent cross    Semiconductor / IC Patent License Exchange Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP B.V.

   15 December 2006
10    *** patent cross    Schutzrechts- Lizenztauschvertrag   

(i) Philips Electronics N.V.; N.V. Philips’

Gloeilampenfabrieken; and

(ii) ***

   3 May 1994
11    *** patent cross    Patent License Agreement   

(i) ***;

(ii) N.V. Phillips Gloeilampenfabrieken; and

(ii) US Philips Corporation

   18 February 1988
12    *** patent cross    Semiconductor Patent Cross License Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) Philips Electronics N.V.

   12 February 1993
13    *** collaboration agreement    Amended and Restated Research and    (i) ***; and    5 November 2009


     

Description

  

Name

  

Parties

  

Date

      Development Collaboration Agreement    (ii) NXP B.V.   
14    *** collaboration agreement    Frame Agreement   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.; NXP Semiconductors Belgium N.V.

   30 November 2010
15    *** IPTLA    Intellectual Property Transfer and License Agreement   

(i) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; and

(ii) ***

   28 September 2006
16    *** collaboration agreement    Framework R&D Agreement   

(i) Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.; and

(ii) ***

   28 September 2006
16A    Project agreement to the *** Framework R&D Agreement    R-2007-008   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   16 November 2007
16B    Extension of and amendment to the project agreement R-2007-008    Extension of and amendment to existing R&D project agreement in the field of System-in-Package technology   

(i) ***

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   9 June 2008
16C    Project agreement to the *** Framework R&D Agreement    R-2007-003   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   5 April 2007
16D    Amendment to multiple project agreements, including R-2007-003    Amendments to existing R&D project agreements in the field of ***   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   29 June 2007
16E    Replacement of schedules to multiple project agreements, including R-2007-003    Contract Research Program 2008 - Ref: RWC-86582-RPO-08013   

(i) ***; and

(ii) NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V.

   16 March 2008
EX-12.1 3 dex121.htm CERTIFICATION OF R. CLEMMER FILED PURSUANT TO 17 CFR 240. 13A-14(A) Certification of R. Clemmer filed pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(a)

Exhibit 12.1

CERTIFICATION

I, Rick Clemmer, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of NXP Semiconductors N.V.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The company’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the company and have:

 

  (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  (b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

  (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the company’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The company’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and the audit committee of the company’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the company’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: March 29, 2011

 

/S/    RICK CLEMMER        

Rick Clemmer

President, Chairman of the Board of

Management and the Management Team

EX-12.2 4 dex122.htm CERTIFICATION OF K. SUNDSTROM FILED PURSUANT TO 17 CFR 240. 13A-14(A) Certification of K. Sundstrom filed pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(a)

Exhibit 12.2

CERTIFICATION

I, Karl-Henrik Sundström, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of NXP Semiconductors N.V.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The company’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the company and have:

 

  (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

  (b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

  (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

  (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the company’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The company’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and the audit committee of the company’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

  (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the company’s internal control over financial reporting.

Date: March 29, 2011

 

/S/    KARL-HENRIK SUNDSTRÖM        

Karl-Henrik Sundström
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
EX-13.1 5 dex131.htm CERTIFICATION OF R. CLEMMER FURNISHED PURSUANT TO 17 CFR 240. 13A-14(B) Certification of R. Clemmer furnished pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(b)

Exhibit 13.1

CERTIFICATION

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States Code), the undersigned officer of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (the “Company”), hereby certifies, to such officer’s knowledge, that:

The Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2010 (the “Report”) of the Company fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Dated: March 29, 2011

 

/S/    RICK CLEMMER        

Rick Clemmer

President, Chairman of the Board of

Management and the Management Team

The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (subsections (a) and (b) of section 1350, chapter 63 of title 18, United States Code) and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document.

EX-13.2 6 dex132.htm CERTIFICATION OF K. SUNDSTROM FURNISHED PURSUANT TO 17 CFR 240. 13A-14(B) Certification of K. Sundstrom furnished pursuant to 17 CFR 240. 13a-14(b)

Exhibit 13.2

CERTIFICATION

Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States Code), the undersigned officer of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (the “Company”), hereby certifies, to such officer’s knowledge, that:

The Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2010 (the “Report”) of the Company fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Dated: March 29, 2011

 

/S/    KARL-HENRIK SUNDSTRÖM        

Karl-Henrik Sundström
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (subsections (a) and (b) of section 1350, chapter 63 of title 18, United States Code) and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document.

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