i. | Closing for Hong Kong, Ireland and Belgium (“First Closing Countries”) will take place on 6 April 2020 (rather than 30 March 2020); |
ii. | Closing for Cyprus, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Malaysia and Romania (“Second Closing Countries”) will take place on 20 April 2020 (rather than 30 March 2020); and |
iii. | subject to obtaining works council approval, closing for the Netherlands under SPA 2 will take place on 6 April 2020. |
1 | SPA 1 |
1.1 | G4S and Brink’s agree to the following changes to SPA 1: |
1.1.1 | schedule 1 of SPA 1 with the amended schedule 1 contained in Schedule 1 to this Deed; |
1.1.2 | a new clause 1.14 in SPA 1 shall be included in SPA 1 which shall read as follows: |
1.14.1 | Any references in this Agreement to “Closing” or “Closing Date” shall be deemed to be references to the relevant Closing or the relevant Closing Date for the Shares and/or Group Companies to which the relevant provision relates. |
1.14.2 | Any references in this Agreement to “Closing Statement” shall be deemed to be references to the relevant Closing Statement for the Group Companies or Closing to which the relevant provision relates.” |
1.1.3 | a new clause 1.15 shall be included in SPA 1 which shall read as follows: |
1.15.1 | Any references to “Group Company” or “Group Companies” in the definitions of “Cash Balances”, “Estimated Cash”, “Estimated Intra-Group Financing Payables”, “Estimated Intra-Group Financing Receivables”, “Estimated Third Party Indebtedness”, “Group Companies’ Cash Balances”, “Intra-Group Financing Payables”, “Intra-Group Financing Receivables”, “Intra-Group Trading Payables”, “Intra-Group Trading Receivables”, “Third Party Indebtedness” shall be deemed to be references to Group Companies that are being transferred, directly or indirectly, at the relevant Closing for which the Closing Statement is being prepared. |
1.15.2 | Any references to “Group Company” or “Group Companies” in the definitions of “Cash Processing Centre”, “Cash Solutions Customer” and “CDM Services” shall be deemed to be references to Group Companies that are being transferred, directly or indirectly, at the relevant Closing for which the Cash Reconciliation Process is taking place. |
1.15.3 | Any references to “Group Company” or “Group Companies” in: (i) the definitions of “Claims Made Policies”, “Existing Deposita Contract”, “Existing Financing Arrangements”, “G4S Trade Marks”, “Purchaser’s Group” and “Seller’s Group”; (ii) clause 5.5 of SPA1; and (iii) clause 5.8 of SPA 1, shall be deemed to be references to the Group Companies to which the relevant provision relates.” |
1.1.4 | a new clause 5.2.6 shall be included in SPA 1 which shall read as follows: |
“5.2.6 | G4S Cash Solutions (2019) Limited (UK503) from repaying existing debt using the proceeds from the sale of G4S Cash Solutions (Hong Kong – Holding) Limited (HK122) or G4S Cash Solutions Holdings BV (NL501) from distributing the proceeds of a sale of G4S Cash Solutions (Ireland) Limited (IE100) out of its share premium account, |
1.1.5 | a new clause 5.3.5 shall be included in SPA 1 which shall read as follows: |
(i) | G4S Cash Solutions (Ireland) Limited shall not be a subsidiary of G4S Cash Solutions Holdings BV at the time of the Closing of the sale of the shares of G4S Cash Solutions Holdings BV; |
(ii) | G4S Cash Solutions (Hong Kong – Holding) Limited and its subsidiaries shall not be subsidiaries of G4S Cash Solutions Holdings No 2 Limited at the time of the Closing of the sale of the shares of G4S Cash Solutions Holdings No 2 Limited; |
(iii) | G4S Cash Solutions (2019) Limited shall be entitled to use the sums received in respect of the consideration for the sale pursuant to this Agreement of the |
(iv) | G4S Cash Solutions Holdings BV shall be entitled to distribute the sums received in respect of the consideration for the sale pursuant to this Agreement of the shares of G4S Cash Solutions (Ireland) Limited to G4S Cash Solutions Holdings No 2 B.V. out of its share premium account; |
1.1.6 | clauses 7.1 to 7.5 in SPA 1 shall be amended to read as follows: |
“7 | Closing |
7.1 | Date and place |
7.1.2 | The Seller and the Purchaser shall perform their respective Closing obligations set out in Clauses 7.2 and 7.3 on the relevant Closing Date. |
7.2 | Closing events |
7.3 | Payment on Closing |
(i) | the Bid Amount for the Shares that are the subject of that Closing, as set out in column (5) of the table in Schedule 1; |
(ii) | the Estimated Cash and the Estimated Intra-Group Financing Receivables that relate to the Companies whose Shares are the subject of that Closing and their subsidiaries and subsidiary undertakings; |
(iii) | the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness and the Estimated Intra-Group Financing Payables that relate to the Companies whose Shares are the subject of that Closing and their subsidiaries and subsidiary undertakings; |
(iv) | the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment that relates to the Companies whose Shares are the subject of that Closing and their subsidiaries and subsidiary undertakings; |
(v) | in the case of the Closing of the shares in G4S Cash Solutions Holdings No 2 Limited only, the amount of the Deferred Consideration, |
7.4.1 | All documents and items delivered at each Closing pursuant to Clause 7.2 and Schedule 6 shall be delivered by email and held by the recipient to the order of the person delivering the same until such time as that Closing shall have taken place pursuant to Clause 7.4.2. |
(i) | delivery of all documents and items required to be delivered at a Closing pursuant to Clause 7.2 and Schedule 6 (or waiver of such delivery by the person entitled to receive the relevant document or item); and |
(ii) | receipt into the account specified by the Seller pursuant to Clause 16.6.2 of the payment to be made pursuant to Clause 7.3 in immediately cleared funds in Pounds Sterling, |
1.1.7 | clause 8.2.3 of SPA 1 shall be amended to read as follows: |
“8.2.3 | The Working Capital, the Group Companies’ Cash Balances, the Third Party Indebtedness, the Intra-Group Financing Receivables and the Intra-Group Financing Payables for each Closing, in relation to the relevant Group Companies, shall be derived in relation to the relevant Group Companies from the relevant Closing Statement.” |
1.1.8 | clause 8.3 of SPA 1 shall be amended to read as follows: |
“8.3.1 | Group Companies’ Cash Balances |
(i) | If the relevant Group Companies’ Cash Balances are less than the Estimated Cash, the Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(ii) | if the relevant Group Companies’ Cash Balances are greater than the Estimated Cash, the Purchaser shall pay to the Seller an additional amount equal to the excess. |
8.3.2 | Intra-Group Financing Receivables |
(iii) | If the relevant Intra-Group Financing Receivables are less than the Estimated Intra-Group Financing Receivables, the Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(iv) | if the relevant Intra-Group Financing Receivables are greater than the Estimated Intra-Group Financing Receivables, the Purchaser shall pay to the Seller an additional amount equal to the excess. |
8.3.3 | Third Party Indebtedness |
(v) | If the relevant Third Party Indebtedness is greater than the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness, the Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the excess; or |
(vi) | if the relevant Third Party Indebtedness is less than the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness, the Purchaser shall pay to the Seller an additional amount equal to the deficiency. |
8.3.4 | Intra-Group Financing Payables |
(vii) | If the relevant Intra-Group Financing Payables are greater than the Estimated Intra-Group Financing Payables, the Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the excess; or |
(viii) | if the relevant Intra-Group Financing Payables are less than the Estimated Intra-Group Financing Payables, the Purchaser shall pay to the Seller an additional amount equal to the deficiency. |
8.3.5 | Working Capital |
(ix) | If the relevant Working Capital is less than the Estimated Working Capital, the Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(x) | if the relevant Working Capital exceeds the Estimated Working Capital, the Purchaser shall pay to the Seller an additional amount equal to the excess.” |
1.1.1 | a new paragraph 3.1.2(iv) shall be included in Schedule 6 to SPA 1 which shall read as follows: |
“(iv) | Hong Kong |
1.1.2 | a new paragraph 3.1.2(v) shall be included in Schedule 6 to SPA 1 which shall read as follows: |
“(v) | Ireland |
1.1.3 | paragraph 2.2 in Part 1 of Schedule 7 to SPA 1 shall be amended to read as follows: |
“2.2 | No account shall be taken of the requirements of IFRS 16. There shall be no re-categorisation of leases accounted for as finance leases in the Carve-out Accounts to operating leases in the relevant Closing Statement, or vice versa. A £9,400,000 liability in respect of finance leases shall be included in Third Party Indebtedness in respect of the First Closing Countries and a £1,300,000 liability in respect of finance leases shall be included in Third Party Indebtedness in respect of the Second Closing Countries; no other liability in respect of finance leases (as defined in IAS 17) shall be included in the relevant Closing Statement.” |
1.1.4 | the definition of “ATM Territories” in Part 2 of Schedule 8 to SPA 1 shall be amended to read as follows: |
1.1.5 | a new schedule 13 shall be included in SPA 1 which shall be the schedule 13 contained in Schedule 2 to this letter. |
1.1 | G4S and Brink’s further agree to the inclusion of the following new and amended definitions in clause 1.1 of SPA 1: |
(i) | in respect of each First Closing Country, the amount set out in Part 1 of Schedule 13 attributable to the relevant Company; and |
(ii) | in respect of each Second Closing Country, the amounts set out in Part 2 of Schedule 13 attributable to the relevant Company;”; |
(i) | when the relevant Closing Date is 6 April 2020, 3.3%; or |
(i) | when the relevant Closing Date is 20 April 2020, the SONIA rate on the last day of the month immediately preceding the month of the relevant Closing Date plus 175 basis points;” |
2 | SPA 2 |
2.1 | G4S and Brink’s agree to the following changes to SPA 2: |
2.1.1 | to amend clause 7.1 of SPA 2 to delete clause 7.1.4 which shall be replaced with the words “deleted”; |
2.1.2 | to amend clause 7.2 of SPA 2 to delete clauses 7.2.1(iv) and 7.2.2(iv) which shall be replaced with the words “deleted”; |
2.1.3 | to further amend clause 7.2 of SPA 2 include a new clause 7.2.3 in relation to the Netherlands Shares which shall read as follows: |
(i) | the Seller shall notify the Purchaser in writing of the new date for the NL Closing, such date to be to be a Monday and at least 2 weeks from the date of such notification to the Purchaser; and |
(ii) | the Seller and Purchaser shall each comply with their respective Closing obligations as set out in Clauses 7.3 and 7.4 of this Agreement on the date notified by the Seller as the date for the NL Closing. |
2.2 | G4S and Brink’s further agree to the following changes to SPA 2: |
2.2.1 | to include a new clause 7.10 and a new definition in clause 1.1 in SPA2, which shall read as follows: |
(i) | when the relevant Closing Date is 6 April 2020, 3.3%; or |
(ii) | when the relevant Closing Date is not 6 April 2020, the SONIA rate on the last day of the month immediately preceding the month of the relevant Closing Date plus 175 basis points;” |
2.2.2 | to amend the definition of “Effective Time” in clause 1.1 of SPA 2 to read as follows |
3 | Miscellaneous |
3.1 | This letter is without prejudice to the various assertions made by both parties in correspondence with respect to Closing (and the parties’ obligations with respect thereto) under SPA 1, as to which both parties reserve their respective positions. |
3.2 | The provisions of clauses 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.12, 15.13, 15.15, 15.16 and 15.17 of SPA 1 shall apply to this letter as if set out in full in this letter and as if references in those clauses to “this Agreement” are references to this letter and references to “party” or “parties” are references to Parties to this letter. |
SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by Soren Lundsberg, GC on behalf of G4S plc in the presence of: | /s/ Soren Lundsberg, GC | |
Signature |
Witness’s signature | ||
Name: Line Lundsberg-Nielson | ||
Address: | ||
Occupation: Director |
SIGNED and DELIVERED as a DEED by The Brink’s Company, a company incorporated in Virginia, United States of America, acting by: Ronald J. Domanico, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer who, in accordance with the laws of that territory, is acting under the authority of the company: | /s/ Ronald J. Domanico | |
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