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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 

FORM 10-Q

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

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2008
 
or
 
o
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
For the transition period from    to    
 
Commission file number: 001-02292

NYFIX, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
06-1344888
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
 
100 Wall Street
New York, New York
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
10005
(Zip code)
(646) 525-3000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 

 
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.  Yes x No o
 

 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
 
Large accelerated Filer ¨
Accelerated filer ý
Non-accelerated filer ¨
Smaller reporting company ¨
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
 
Yes o No x
 
There were 37,460,286 shares of our common stock outstanding on May 6, 2008.
 



 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

   
Page
PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.
Unaudited Financial Statements
 
 
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007
4
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2008 and 2007
5
 
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2008
6
 
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2008 and 2007
7
 
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
8
Item 2.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
19
Item 3.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
31
Item 4.
Controls and Procedures
31
     
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.
Legal Proceedings
32
Item 1A.
Risk Factors
32
Item 2.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
32
Item 3.
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
32
Item 4.
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
32
Item 5.
Other Information
32
Item 6.
Exhibits
33
 
Signatures
34
 
Page 2

 
PRELIMINARY NOTES
 
When we use the terms “NYFIX”, the “Company”, “we”, “us” and “our”, we mean NYFIX, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.
 
Forward Looking Statements
 
This quarterly report on Form 10-Q contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as “may,” “might,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential” or “continue,” and the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, may include projections of our future financial performance based on our growth strategies and anticipated trends in our business. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In particular, you should consider the numerous risks and uncertainties described under Part I Item 1A. - Risk Factors in our Form 10-K filed for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.
 
These risks and uncertainties are not exhaustive. Other sections of this report describe additional factors that could adversely impact our business and financial performance. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
 
Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance or achievements. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of these forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as guarantees of future events. We disclaim any duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the filing of this report to conform our prior statements to actual results or revised expectations and we do not intend to do so, and these forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to the filing of this report.
 
Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

 
·
the impact of recording a significant impairment charge relating to goodwill due to the fact that we have not been profitable;
 
·
the effects of current, pending and future legislation;
 
·
the impact of regulation and regulatory actions;
 
·
our ability to achieve and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules promulgated under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”);
 
·
the impact of accounting for stock-based compensation and ongoing regulatory investigations, including the possibility of new and significant information subsequently arising which could lead to different determinations and require different accounting treatment;
 
·
actions and initiatives by both current and future competitors;
 
·
our ability to accommodate increased levels of trading activity and keep current with market data requirements;
 
·
our business’ possible or assumed future results of operations and cash flows;
 
·
our business’ competitive position;
 
·
potential growth opportunities available to our business;
 
·
the likelihood of success and impact of litigation;
 
·
our expectation with respect to securities markets and general economic conditions; and
 
·
our ability to keep up with rapid technological change.
 
We expressly qualify in their entirety all forward-looking statements attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section.
 
Page 3


 PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Unaudited Financial Statements
 
NYFIX, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)

   
March 31,
 
December 31,
 
   
2008
 
2007
 
   
(Unaudited)
 
(Audited)
 
Assets
             
Current assets:
             
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
57,642
 
$
75,657
 
Accounts receivable, less allowances of $226 and $282, respectively
   
16,444
   
14,609
 
Clearing assets
   
729,266
   
483,867
 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
   
7,693
   
7,900
 
Total current assets
   
811,045
   
582,033
 
Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization of $39,529 and $37,984, respectively
   
22,284
   
21,478
 
Capitalized software costs, net of accumulated amortization of $16,067 and $15,755, respectively
   
6,720
   
5,789
 
Goodwill
   
57,322
   
57,401
 
Acquired intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization of $11,074 and $10,967, respectively
   
3,601
   
3,708
 
Other assets, net
   
860
   
1,745
 
Total assets
 
$
901,832
 
$
672,154
 
               
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity
             
Current liabilities:
             
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
 
$
29,143
 
$
39,163
 
Clearing liabilities
   
725,382
   
483,600
 
Current portion of capital lease obligations
   
725
   
923
 
Current portion of other long-term liabilities
   
1,489
   
1,564
 
Deferred revenue
   
4,551
   
4,648
 
Total current liabilities
   
761,290
   
529,898
 
Long-term portion of capital lease obligations
   
431
   
550
 
Long-term debt
   
9,949
   
9,941
 
Other long-term liabilities
   
1,343
   
2,354
 
Total liabilities
   
773,013
   
542,743
 
Commitments and contingencies
             
Stockholders' equity:
             
Preferred stock, $1.00 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized:
             
Series A, none issued
   
-
   
-
 
Series B Voting Convertible, 1,500,000 shares issued and outstanding; liquidation preference of $76,313 at March 31, 2008
   
62,092
   
62,092
 
Series C Non-Voting Convertible, none issued
   
-
   
-
 
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 38,373,268 and 37,725,758 shares issued, respectively
   
266,262
   
261,307
 
Preferred stock dividend distributable, 525,000 common shares
   
-
   
2,441
 
Accumulated deficit
   
(186,949
)
 
(183,232
)
Treasury stock, 923,108 and 906,826 shares, respectively, at cost
   
(12,600
)
 
(13,194
)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
   
14
   
(3
)
Total stockholders' equity
   
128,819
   
129,411
 
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
 
$
901,832
 
$
672,154
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
Page 4


NYFIX, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)
(in thousands, except per share amounts)

   
Three Months Ended 
March 31,
 
   
2008
 
2007
 
           
Revenue:
             
Subscription and maintenance
 
$
17,518
 
$
17,274
 
Transaction
   
13,268
   
9,776
 
Product sales and services
   
621
   
680
 
Total revenue
   
31,407
   
27,730
 
               
Cost of revenue:
             
Subscription and maintenance
   
7,651
   
8,546
 
Transaction
   
6,412
   
5,401
 
Product sales and services
   
81
   
387
 
Total cost of revenue
   
14,144
   
14,334
 
               
Gross profit
   
17,263
   
13,396
 
               
Operating expense:
             
Selling, general and administrative
   
20,396
   
16,878
 
SEC investigation, restatement and other related expenses
   
137
   
3,593
 
Depreciation and amortization
   
447
   
282
 
Restructuring charge
   
(158
)
 
-
 
               
Loss from operations
   
(3,559
)
 
(7,357
)
               
Interest expense
   
(211
)
 
(136
)
Investment income
   
546
   
1,227
 
Other expense, net
   
-
   
(15
)
Loss before income tax provision
   
(3,224
)
 
(6,281
)
Income tax provision
   
128
   
47
 
Net loss
   
(3,352
)
 
(6,328
)
Accumulated preferred dividends
   
(1,142
)
 
(1,717
)
Loss applicable to common stockholders
 
$
(4,494
)
$
(8,045
)
               
Basic and diluted loss per common share (net of accumulated preferred dividends)
 
$
( 0.12
)
$
( 0.22
)
               
Basic and diluted weighted average common shares outstanding
   
37,312
   
35,767
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
Page 5


NYFIX, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) (Unaudited)
For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2008
(in thousands, except share amounts)

   
Series B Voting
Convertible preferred
 
Preferred stock
             
Accumulated
other
 
Total
 
   
stock issued
 
dividend
 
Common stock issued
 
Accumulated
 
Treasury
 
comprehensive
 
stockholders'
 
   
Shares
 
Amount
 
distributable
 
Shares
 
Amount
 
deficit
 
stock
 
income (loss)
 
equity
 
Balance December 31, 2007
   
1,500,000
 
$
62,092
 
$
2,441
   
37,725,758
 
$
261,307
 
$
(183,232
)
$
(13,194
)
$
(3
)
$
129,411
 
Comprehensive loss:
                                                       
Net loss
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
(3,352
)
 
-
   
-
   
(3,352
)
Foreign currency translation adjustment
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
17
   
17
 
Total comprehensive loss
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
(3,335
)
Issuance of common stock for restricted stock units settled in shares
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
122,510
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Common shares issued in payment of preferred stock dividend
   
-
   
-
   
(2,441
)
 
525,000
   
2,441
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
Issuance of shares from treasury stock pursuant to employment agreement
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
(300
)
 
(365
)
 
665
   
-
   
-
 
Purchase of treasury shares (16,282 shares)
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
(71
)
 
-
   
(71
)
Contingent conversion price adjustment related to convertible notes
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
14
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
14
 
Stock-based compensation expense
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
2,800
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
2,800
 
Balance March 31, 2008
   
1,500,000
 
$
62,092
 
$
-
   
38,373,268
 
$
266,262
 
$
(186,949
)
$
(12,600
)
$
14
 
$
128,819
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
Page 6


NYFIX, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)
(in thousands)

   
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
   
2008
 
2007
 
Operating activities:
             
Net loss
 
$
(3,352
)
$
(6,328
)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
             
Depreciation and amortization
   
2,388
   
2,756
 
Restructuring charge
   
(158
)
 
-
 
Stock-based compensation expense
   
2,800
   
109
 
Amortization of debt discounts and premiums
   
21
   
10
 
Deferred income taxes
   
49
   
37
 
Changes in assets and liabilities:
             
Accounts receivable
   
(1,837
)
 
(3,793
)
Prepaid expenses and other assets
   
1,069
   
(677
)
Clearing assets
   
(245,312
)
 
(8,449
)
Deferred revenue
   
(100
)
 
207
 
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities
   
(6,273
)
 
1,971
 
Clearing liabilities
   
241,704
   
6,713
 
Net cash used in operating activities
   
(9,001
)
 
(7,444
)
Investing activities:
             
Capital expenditures for property and equipment
   
(2,544
)
 
(2,653
)
Capitalization of software costs
   
(1,453
)
 
(821
)
Tax benefit attributable to goodwill
   
79
   
10
 
Payment for acquisition of minority interests
   
(4,656
)
 
-
 
Net cash used in investing activities
   
(8,574
)
 
(3,464
)
Financing activities:
             
Principal payments under capital lease obligations
   
(317
)
 
(251
)
Purchases of treasury shares
   
(71
)
 
-
 
Other, net
   
(65
)
 
(92
)
Net cash used in financing activities
   
(453
)
 
(343
)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
   
13
   
(3
)
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
   
(18,015
)
 
(11,254
)
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
   
75,657
   
105,888
 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
 
$
57,642
 
$
94,634
 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.
 
Page 7


Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)
 
1.  Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
 
Nature of Operations
 
NYFIX, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries, provides trading workstations, middle office trade automation technologies and trade messaging services to domestic and international market participants. In addition, NYFIX’s registered broker-dealer subsidiaries also provide automated trade execution services to institutional counterparties and operate a matched-book stock borrow/stock loan business.
 
The Company has its headquarters and principal office on Wall Street in New York City, and has other offices in London, Hong Kong, Boston, MA, Stamford, CT, Lyndhurst, NJ and San Francisco, CA. The Company operates redundant data centers in the northeastern United States, as well as data center hubs in London and Amsterdam.
 
Basis of Presentation of Interim Financial Statements
 
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements were prepared by the Company pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals and adjustments necessary for adoption of new accounting standards) necessary to present fairly the results of the interim periods shown. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted pursuant to such SEC rules and regulations. Management believes that the disclosures made are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. The results for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year. The financial statements contained herein should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 (“2007 Form 10-K”).
 
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of NYFIX, Inc. and its majority-owned and wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
 
Significant Accounting Policies
 
There have been no material changes in the Company’s significant accounting policies during 2008, as compared to what was previously disclosed in the 2007 Form 10-K.
 
2. Equity Incentive Plans
 
 The Company has stock-based incentive plans under which time-based and performance-based stock options and restricted stock units (“RSUs”) have been granted to employees and non-employee members of the Board of Directors. Generally, these options and RSUs vest over a period of four years and are forfeited, except in certain circumstances, in the event the employee or director terminates his or her employment or relationship with the Company. Stock options expire in ten years. 
 
The fair value of options is estimated using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model which considers, among other factors, the expected life of the award and the expected volatility of the Company’s stock price. Although the Black-Scholes model meets the requirements of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment and Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 107, Share-Based Payment, the fair values generated by the model may not be indicative of the actual fair values of the Company’s awards, as it does not consider other factors important to those stock-based compensation awards, such as continued employment, periodic vesting requirements, and limited transferability.
 
Page 8


Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
Time-based Stock Option Awards
 
A summary of activity under time-based stock option plans for the three months ended March 31, 2008, follows:

Options
 
Shares 
 
Weighted
average
exercise
price 
 
Weighted
average
remaining
contractual
term (years)
 
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
(000's)
 
                   
Outstanding at beginning of the year
   
8,739,684
 
$
5.98
             
Granted
   
801,000
 
$
3.88
             
Exercised
   
-
   
-
             
Cancelled
   
(189,898
)
$
5.53
             
                           
Outstanding at end of the period
   
9,350,786
 (1)  
$
5.81
   
8.5
 
$
681
 
                           
Exercisable at end of the period
   
3,622,910
 (1)
$
7.91
   
6.8
 
$
291
 
 
(1) Includes 127,334 shares related to pending exercises not yet settled. The weighted average exercise price for such shares approximates $3.55 per share.
 
Time-Based RSUs
 
 
A summary of activity under time-based restricted stock units for the three months ended March 31, 2008, follows:

Restricted Stock Units
 
Shares
 
Weighted
average grant
date fair value
 
Aggregate
intrinsic value
($000's)
(1)
 
               
Outstanding at beginning of the year
   
768,250
 
$
4.60
       
Granted
   
164,500
 
$
3.76
       
Settled with shares
   
(122,510
)
$
4.60
 
$
479
 
Cancelled
   
(40,375
)
$
4.60
       
Outstanding at end of the period
   
769,865
 
$
4.42
       

(1) Represents the value of NYFIX stock on the date that the restricted stock units vest.
On grant date the fair value for these vested awards was $563.
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
Performance-based Awards
 
A summary of activity under performance-based stock option plans for the three months ended March 31, 2008, follows:

Options
 
Shares 
 
Weighted
average
exercise
price 
 
Weighted
average
remaining
contractual
term (years)
 
Aggregate
intrinsic
value
(000's)
 
                   
Outstanding at beginning of the year
   
1,428,855
 
$
4.60
             
Granted
   
300,000
 
$
3.85
             
Exercised
   
-
   
-
             
Cancelled
   
-
   
-
             
                           
Outstanding at end of the period
   
1,728,855
 
$
4.47
   
9.6
 
$
150
 
                           
Exercisable at end of the period
   
-
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
 
In addition, during 2007, 350,000 performance-based RSUs were granted. Performance-based stock options and performance-based RSUs are eligible to be earned (in amounts ranging from 0% to 100% of the award) in equal pro rata installments over four one-year performance periods based on the achievement of annual revenue and operating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization goals. Any portion not earned in years one through three is eligible to be earned in year four based on the achievement of goals in year four. The 2007 goals were not met and none of the eligible awards were earned in 2007.
 
During 2008, no additional performance-based RSUs have been granted.
 
Stock-based Compensation Expense
 
Stock-based compensation expense during the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007 was approximately $2.8 million and $0.1 million, respectively.
 
As of March 31, 2008, there was $16.4 million of unrecognized compensation costs related to outstanding awards. The Company expects to recognize these costs over a weighted average period of 1.6 years.
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
3. Loss Per Share Applicable to Common Stockholders
 
The following table sets forth the computations of loss per share applicable to common stockholders for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007:
 
   
Three Months Ended
March 31, 
 
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Net loss
 
$
(3,352
)
$
(6,328
)
Less: Accumulated preferred dividends
   
(1,142
)
 
(1,717
)
Loss applicable to common stockholders, basic and diluted
 
$
(4,494
)
$
(8,045
)
               
Basic and diluted loss per common share
 
$
(0.12
)
$
(0.22
)
               
Weighted average common shares outstanding (1):
             
Basic and diluted shares
   
37,312
   
35,767
 
               
Potentially dilutive securities (2):
             
Outstanding time-based stock options (3)
   
9,351
   
2,868
 
Outstanding time-based restricted stock units (3)
   
770
   
-
 
Warrants (3)
   
2,250
   
2,250
 
Convertible note(s) (3)
   
1,773
   
1,325
 
Convertible preferred stock (3)
   
15,000
   
15,000
 

(1) Excludes nonvested restricted stock and restricted stock units.
(2) Excludes performance-based grants as the necessary conditions have not been satisfied.
(3) The impact of time-based stock options, time-based restricted stock units, warrants, the convertible notes and the convertible preferred stock on earnings per share is antidilutive in a period of loss.
 
4. Other Balance Sheet Information
 
Accounts payable and accrued expenses consisted of the following at March 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007:
 
   
March 31,
 
December 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Accounts payable
 
$
14,257
 
$
16,369
 
Taxes, other than income and payroll taxes
   
316
   
439
 
Compensation and related
   
5,321
   
12,629
 
Modification of stock-based awards
   
370
   
370
 
Deferred insurance proceeds (Note 10)
   
5,000
   
-
 
Purchase price payable for minority interests
   
2,617
   
7,273
 
Other
   
1,262
   
2,083
 
Total accounts payable and accrued expenses
 
$
29,143
 
$
39,163
 
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
5. Broker-Dealer Operations
 
Clearing Assets and Liabilities
 
Clearing assets and liabilities consisted of the following at March 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007:
 
   
March 31,
 
December 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Securities borrowed
 
$
716,764
 
$
480,884
 
Securities failed-to-deliver
   
6,057
   
664
 
Deposits with clearing organizations and others
   
1,768
   
1,049
 
Receivables from clearing organizations and firms
   
4,677
   
1,270
 
Total clearing broker assets
 
$
729,266
 
$
483,867
 
               
Securities loaned
 
$
717,556
 
$
482,959
 
Securities failed-to-receive
   
2,997
   
641
 
Payables to clearing organizations and firms
   
4,829
   
-
 
Total clearing broker liabilities
 
$
725,382
 
$
483,600
 
 
Securities Lending
 
The Company receives collateral under securities borrowed transactions, which it is allowed by contract or custom to sell or repledge. As of March 31, 2008, securities borrowed with a fair value of $697.5 million were repledged for securities loaned. The gross amounts of interest earned on cash provided to counterparties as collateral for securities borrowed and interest incurred on cash received from counterparties as collateral for securities loaned and the resulting net amount included in transaction revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007, were as follows:
 
   
Three Months Ended
 
   
March 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Interest earned
 
$
2,918
 
$
3,652
 
Interest incurred
   
(2,653
)
 
(3,341
)
Net
 
$
265
 
$
311
 
 
Regulatory Net Capital Requirements
 
U.S. registered broker-dealer subsidiaries - NYFIX Securities Corporation (“NYFIX Securities” - previously comprised of NYFIX Clearing Corporation and NYFIX Transaction Services, Inc., which were merged and renamed on September 30, 2007) and NYFIX Millennium, L.L.C. (“NYFIX Millennium”) are subject to the SEC’s Uniform Net Capital Rule (15c3-1), which requires the maintenance of minimum regulatory net capital. NYFIX Securities has elected to use the alternative method, as permitted by the rule, which requires the maintenance of minimum regulatory capital (as defined in the rule) equal to the greater of $250,000 or 2% of aggregate debit items arising from customer transactions (as defined in the rule). NYFIX Securities’ membership in the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (the “DTCC”) requires it to maintain excess regulatory net capital of $10.0 million. NYFIX Millennium has elected to use the aggregate indebtedness standard method, which requires that the ratio of aggregate indebtedness to regulatory net capital (both as defined in the rule) shall not exceed 15 to 1. The regulatory net capital ratio for NYFIX Millennium at March 31, 2008 was 0.92 to 1.
 
U.K. registered subsidiaries - NYFIX International, Ltd. (“NYFIX International”) is a registered firm of the Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) in the United Kingdom. NYFIX International is required to maintain the greater of the base capital resources requirement of €730,000 or the variable capital resources requirement, which is made up of credit risk, market risk and fixed overhead (equal to three months average expenditures) requirements.
 
At March 31, 2008, the aggregate regulatory net capital/resources of the Company’s regulated subsidiaries in the United States and United Kingdom were $35.1 million, which was $23.4 million in excess of the Company’s aggregate requirement of $11.6 million (including the $10 million excess required by DTCC).
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
6. Restructuring Charges
 
During October 2007, the Company entered into a strategic agreement with Citi’s Lava Trading (“Lava”) to offer NYFIX Fusion OMS clients a transition arrangement to the Lava ColorPalette® OMS in connection with the decision to exit the Fusion OMS business. As part of this transaction, the Company offered one-time termination benefits to affected employees. The Company recorded a restructuring charge of $0.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, which consisted of severance and retention costs. The Company expects the transition to be substantially complete by the end of the second quarter of 2008 and expects to incur an additional $0.3 million of such costs provided that certain employees stay for all or a portion of the remaining transition period, as required.
 
In March 2008, the Company terminated its lease and corresponding sublease of office space previously occupied in Stamford, CT for the payment of a $0.5 million lease termination fee. As a result, the Company reversed $0.5 million of previously recorded restructuring costs in the first quarter of 2008.
 
The liabilities related to the restructuring charges are included in current portion of other long-term liabilities and other long-term liabilities. The following table summarizes the activity in the liabilities related to the restructuring charges for the three months ended March 31, 2008.
 
(in thousands)
 
Lease costs,
net of sublease
income
 
Severance 
 
Total
 
               
2004 restructuring costs
                   
Remaining liability at December 31, 2007
 
$
643
 
$
-
 
$
643
 
Cash payments
   
1
   
-
   
1
 
Non-cash charges and other
   
12
   
-
   
12
 
Remaining liability at March 31, 2008
   
656
   
-
   
656
 
                     
2006 restructuring costs
                   
Remaining liability at December 31, 2007
   
998
   
-
   
998
 
Lease termination fee
   
(514
)
 
-
   
(514
)
Cash payments
   
(22
)
 
-
   
(22
)
Restructuring charge reversal
   
(471
)
 
-
   
(471
)
Non-cash charges and other
   
9
   
-
   
9
 
Remaining liability at March 31, 2008
   
-
   
-
   
-
 
                     
2007 restructuring costs
                   
Remaining liability at December 31, 2007
   
-
   
293
   
293
 
Restructuring charge
   
-
   
314
   
314
 
Cash payments
   
-
   
(129
)
 
(129
)
Remaining liability at March 31, 2008
   
-
   
478
   
478
 
                     
Total restructuring liability at March 31, 2008
 
$
656
 
$
478
 
 
1,134
 
                     
Less: current portion
     
(827
)
Long-term portion
             
$
307
 
 
7. Income Taxes
 
The income tax provision differs from the statutory U.S. federal income tax rate due primarily to a valuation allowance provided against net deferred tax assets. As described in the Company’s 2007 Form 10-K, the Company maintains a valuation allowance in accordance with SFAS No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes, on its net deferred tax assets. This allowance excludes the potential off-setting impact of the deferred tax liability for amortization of goodwill related to the acquisition of NYFIX Millennium L.L.C. (“NYFIX Millennium”) and previously Renaissance Trading Technologies, LLC (“Renaissance”) due to the indefinite life of goodwill. Until the Company achieves and sustains an appropriate level of profitability, it plans to maintain a valuation allowance on its net deferred tax assets.
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
8. Total Comprehensive Loss
 
The components of total comprehensive loss were as follows:
 
   
Three Months Ended 
March 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Net loss
 
$
(3,352
)
$
(6,328
)
Foreign currency translation adjustment
   
17
   
1
 
Total comprehensive loss
 
$
(3,335
)
$
(6,327
)
 
9. Business Segment Information
 
In accordance with SFAS No. 131, Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information ("SFAS 131"), the Company is reporting certain information relating to its operating segments. The Company’s segments are organized into three operating divisions through which the Company’s chief operating decision makers manage the Company’s business. These divisions, as described in more detail below, are organized around the products and services provided to customers and represent the Company’s reportable segments under SFAS 131.
 
FIX Division. The FIX Division provides messaging channels for institutions that are members of its trading community for order routing and other value-added services. The FIX Division also provides software and consultative services to enable global financial institutions to utilize the industry established Financial Information Exchange Protocol for messaging, monitoring and processing transaction information.
 
Transaction Services Division. The Transaction Services Division is currently comprised of the two (formerly three) U.S. registered broker-dealer subsidiaries, NYFIX Millennium and NYFIX Securities, together with the execution business of NYFIX International in the U.K. NYFIX Millennium, an alternative trading system (“ATS”) registered under SEC Regulation ATS, provides anonymous matching and routing of U.S. equity securities. NYFIX Securities provides direct electronic market access and algorithmic trading products, operates a matched-book stock borrow/stock loan business and clears trades on behalf of itself and NYFIX Millennium. NYFIX Millennium and NYFIX Securities also resell certain products and services offered by the FIX Division and the OMS Division. In the second quarter of 2007 the Company’s Board of Directors approved a new initiative, Euro Millennium, a multilateral trading facility for non-displayed liquidity in pan-European listed cash equities housed within NYFIX International. During the three months ended March 31, 2008, the Company incurred pre-operating and start-up costs of $2.2 million related to this initiative. These pre-operating and start-up costs are included in Corporate & Other in the segment information reported below. Euro Millennium initiated trading activities during March 2008.
 
Order Management Systems Division. The OMS Division provides software applications for the management of New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and Nasdaq listed trading activities. These products enable customers to take advantage of the broad range of products and services offered by other divisions. The Company does not allocate to the OMS Division any introductory revenue for business generated by the FIX Division and the Transaction Services Division from OMS Division clients. The OMS Division includes revenues and expenses related to the Fusion OMS product which was discontinued in October 2007. The 2008 operating loss for the OMS Division includes severance related restructuring charges of $0.3 million associated with discontinuing the Fusion OMS product as well as an additional loss of $0.3 million associated with running the Fusion OMS business.
 
The Company does not currently break out total assets by reportable segment as there is a high level of shared utilization between certain reportable segments.
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
The following table presents information by reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007: 
 
(in thousands)
 
FIX Division
 
Transaction
Services
Division
 
OMS
Division
 
Corporate
& Other (1)
 
Total
 
March 31, 2008
                               
Revenue - external customers
 
$
15,375
 
$
14,370
 
$
1,662
 
$
-
 
$
31,407
 
Revenue (cost of revenues), net - intersegment
   
760
   
(977
)
 
217
   
-
   
-
 
Net revenue
   
16,135
   
13,393
   
1,879
   
-
   
31,407
 
Operating income (loss) (2)
   
2,186
   
(1,071
)
 
(2,689
)
 
(1,985
)
 
(3,559
)
                                 
March 31, 2007
                               
Revenue - external customers
 
$
13,309
 
$
11,014
 
$
3,407
 
$
-
 
$
27,730
 
Revenue (cost of revenues), net - intersegment
   
570
   
(808
)
 
238
   
-
   
-
 
Net revenue
   
13,879
   
10,206
   
3,645
   
-
   
27,730
 
Operating income (loss) (2)
   
1,563
   
873
   
(4,228
)
 
(5,565
)
 
(7,357
)

(1) Corporate & Other includes SEC investigation, restatement and other related expenses, corporate restructuring costs/reversals, Euro Millennium costs, certain transitional costs and other corporate items which are not allocated to reportable segments.
(2) Operating income (loss) by segment reflects a significant amount of costs which are allocated by headcount, usage and other methods, depending on the nature of the cost.
 
10. Commitments and Contingencies
 
Stock-based Compensation Related Matters
 
SEC Investigation
 
On October 28, 2004, the Company received a request from the SEC relating to its historical stock option granting practices and related matters. On February 15, 2005, the SEC obtained a formal order of investigation, and in April 2005 issued a subpoena to the Company. In March and April 2005, the SEC issued subpoenas to a current director and to former officers and directors. The SEC has taken testimony from one current director, at least three former directors and at least one of the Company’s former employees, as well as from third parties, including the Company’s former independent registered public accounting firm. The SEC has also issued subpoenas to at least two current and former directors from whom it has not asked for testimony. The Company produced more than 800,000 pages of documents to the SEC, and believes that it has completed producing responsive documents.
 
Grand Jury Subpoena
 
In May 2006, the Company received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.  The subpoena sought documents relating to the Company’s granting of stock options.  With the agreement of the Assistant U.S. Attorney handling the case, the Company has responded to the subpoena by producing the documents it produces to the staff of the Division of Enforcement of the SEC. The U.S. Attorney has also conducted interviews with at least one current employee and two former employees (one of whom is a former officer) and with at least one employee of the Company’s former independent registered public accounting firm.
 
Shareholder Derivative Actions
 
On or about June 1, 2006, the Company was served as a nominal defendant with a complaint (the “Ritchie Complaint”) in a shareholder derivative action titled Ritchie v. Castillo, et al in the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut.  The Ritchie Complaint also names the Company’s former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, another former Chief Executive Officer and director, the Company’s former Chief Information Officer, a former Chief Financial Officer, and six other current and former directors as defendants. The Ritchie Complaint asserts a claim for breach of fiduciary duty against all the individual defendants and a claim for unjust enrichment against four individual defendants based on claimed backdating of stock option grants to these individuals between 2000 and 2003.  On June 9, 2006, the Company was named as a nominal defendant in a shareholder derivative action titled McLaughlin v. Castillo, et al in the same court and with the same substantive allegations as the Ritchie action. In September 2006, the Court consolidated the Ritchie and McLaughlin actions. In October 2006, plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint (the “State Court Consolidated Complaint”). The State Court Consolidated Complaint contains nine counts (as opposed to the two counts previously alleged in each of two actions), including counts for an accounting of all stock options granted to the individual defendants, breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment, insider trading, rescission and breach of contract. The State Court Consolidated Complaint adds seven additional defendants: three former directors (one of whom is deceased); two former Chief Financial Officers, the Company’s former General Counsel and former Secretary and the Company’s former Executive Vice President and President of NYFIX Millennium. The nine counts of the State Court Consolidated Complaint are based on claimed backdating of stock option grants to eleven individual defendants between 1997 and 2003.  On January 25, 2007, the Company and the Outside Directors moved to dismiss the action on the grounds that plaintiffs failed to make a demand on the Company’s Board of Directors prior to initiating suit on the Company’s behalf. Plaintiffs opposed that motion on February 26, 2007, and the Company and the Outside Directors filed a reply on March 12, 2007. The motion was taken off calendar by plaintiffs’ counsel. The Court has not scheduled a hearing on the motion and the date of a ruling cannot be predicted at this time.  On February 21, 2007, the Court granted a motion to stay discovery pending resolution of the motion the Company filed to dismiss.
 
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On August 30, 2006, the Company was served as a nominal defendant with a complaint (the “Cattelona Complaint”) in a shareholder derivative action titled Cattelona v. Hansen, et al in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.   The Cattelona Complaint also names the Company’s former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, another former Chief Executive Officer and director, a former Chief Information Officer, a former Chief Financial Officer, and six other current and/or former directors as defendants. The Cattelona Complaint asserts counts against the individual defendants for violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, and Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act and Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act, and for breach of fiduciary duty, gross mismanagement and corporate waste. In addition, the Cattelona Complaint asserts a count against four of the individual defendants for unjust enrichment based on claimed backdating of stock option grants to the latter individuals between 1999 and 2002. 
 
On or about September 7, 2006, a complaint (the “Brock Complaint”) was filed in a shareholder derivative action titled Brock v. Hansen, et al in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. The Brock Complaint names the Company as a nominal defendant, as well as the Company’s former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, another former Chief Executive Officer and director, the Company’s former Chief Information Officer, a former Chief Financial Officer, and six other current and/or former directors as defendants. The Brock Complaint asserts a count for an accounting of all stock options granted to the individual defendants, and counts against all individual defendants for violation of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act, breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, constructive fraud, corporate waste, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract. In addition, the Brock Complaint asserts counts against three individual defendants for rescission and for breach of contract for stock option grants made between 1997 and 2001.
 
On December 5, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut consolidated the Brock and Cattelona actions. In December 2006, the plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint (the “Federal Court Consolidated Complaint”). The Federal Court Consolidated Complaint contains twelve counts (as opposed to the eleven counts previously alleged in the Brock Complaint and the seven counts previously alleged in the Cattelona Complaint), including counts against all defendants for: violations of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder; violations of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act; an accounting of all stock options granted to the individual defendants; breach of fiduciary duty and/or aiding and abetting; abuse of control; gross mismanagement; constructive fraud; corporate waste; and unjust enrichment. The Federal Court Consolidated Complaint also contains counts against six of the individual defendants for rescission and for breach of contract. The Federal Court Consolidated Complaint adds four additional defendants: two former directors, a former Chief Financial Officer and a former Executive Vice President of the Company and President of NYFIX Millennium. The twelve counts of the Federal Court Consolidated Complaint are based on claimed backdating of stock option grants to six individual defendants from 1997 to the filing of the Federal Court Consolidated Complaint. In June 2007, plaintiffs filed a corrected amended consolidated complaint (the “Federal Court Amended Consolidated Complaint”). The Federal Court Amended Consolidated Complaint drops eight individual defendants (two current directors, two former directors, a former Chief Executive Officer and director, a former Chief Financial Officer, a former Chief Information Officer and a former Executive Vice President of the Company and President of NYFIX Millennium), two counts for rescission and breach of contract and the count for violation of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act and adds a count under Section 20 of the Exchange Act. The ten counts of the Federal Court Amended Consolidated Complaint are based on claimed backdating of stock option grants and an allegedly false and misleading Form 10-K filed in June 2005.  On October 15, 2007, the Company moved to dismiss the amended complaint for failure to properly allege demand futility. Plaintiffs filed a response on November 12, 2007, and the Company filed a reply on November 26, 2007. On December 6, 2007, the Court ruled that plaintiffs’ demand futility allegations should be measured as against the Board of Directors in office on June 26, 2007, and requested further briefing in light of that ruling. The Company filed a further memorandum on December 17, 2007. Plaintiffs filed a response on January 7, 2008, and the Company filed a reply on January 25, 2008. The date of the Court’s ruling on the defendants’ motion to dismiss cannot be predicted at this time.
 
In addition, certain shareholders have made formal inquiries regarding alleged violations of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act based on the same facts alleged in the Ritchie and McLaughlin suits, to which the Company has responded that in no case did it appear that options were exercised within six months or less from the date of grant and that each option would qualify as an exempt transaction under applicable rules.
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
Related Tax Matters
 
In April 2008, the Company paid $0.2 million to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) related to payroll tax withholdings on prior option exercises by U.S. employees following an examination of the Company’s employment tax returns for the years 2003 through 2005.
 
In 2007 and 2008, the Company has had communications with the U. K. HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”) relating to historical stock option exercises. Subsequent to the sale of NYFIX Overseas, Inc. (“NYFIX Overseas”) in August 2006, G.L. Trade S.A. (“GL”) forwarded correspondence from the HMRC relating to NYFIX Overseas’ potential liability for payroll tax withholdings on prior option exercises by certain former employees.
 
As of March 31, 2008, the Company has recorded a liability of $1.9 million related to the payment to the IRS as well as for potential amounts due in the United Kingdom related to stock option exercises under Pay As You Earn, or PAYE, and National Insurance Contribution provisions (due to the Company’s indemnity obligations to GL).
 
Based upon the current information available and the liabilities recognized, the Company believes the resolution of these tax matters will not have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial condition or results of operations. However, the ongoing discussions with the taxing authorities could result in new information and higher than anticipated exposures. The Company is continuing to cooperate with the taxing authorities to resolve these matters.
 
Other
 
During the normal course of business, the Company becomes involved in various other routine legal proceedings, including issues pertaining to patent infringement, customer disputes and employee matters. The Company does not believe that the outcome of these matters will have a material adverse effect on its financial condition.
 
As noted separately in the condensed consolidated statements of operations, the Company incurred $0.1 million and $3.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively, relating to the stock option investigation and subpoenas, a grand jury subpoena related to its stock option grants, related shareholder derivative litigation, related financial restatements and expenses to resolve related matters. These costs include outside counsels, contract attorneys and forensic accountants, other consultants and, for the three months ended March 31, 2007, the cost of re-auditing previously issued financial statements following the resignation of the Company’s former independent registered public accounting firm. These costs do not include any portion of time that the Company’s employees have dedicated to these matters. The Company will continue to incur expenses associated with these matters until they are resolved.
 
In January 2008, the Company received a $5.0 million advance from its primary carrier (reflecting the policy limit) under its previous Directors and Officers insurance policy for fees incurred in defense of the SEC investigation into the Company’s historical stock option activity, as well as related litigation. As this amount can be recovered by the carrier in certain circumstances, the Company has deferred recognition of these proceeds in its operating results until further progress is made in resolving these contingencies. The Company is pursuing additional claims from its secondary carriers under its previous insurance policies which have additional limits aggregating $10.0 million.
 
Other than the amount described above for employee-related taxes for stock options, the Company, in accordance with SFAS No. 5, Accounting for Contingencies (“SFAS 5”), has not recorded any liability with respect to these matters as it is currently unable to predict the outcomes and reasonably estimate the amounts of loss, if any. With respect to the SEC investigation of stock option grants, the grand jury subpoena, the State Court Consolidated Complaint, and the Federal Court Consolidated Complaint associated with such matters and other related matters, the Company could be subject to penalties, fines or regulatory sanctions or claims by current and former officers, directors or employees for indemnification of costs or losses they may incur and such amounts, individually or collectively, could have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition. In addition, other actions may be brought against the Company related to the matters described above.
 
11. Stockholders’ Equity
 
Nasdaq Delisting and Relisting Proceedings
 
On October 12, 2005, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel determined to continue the listing of the Company’s securities on the Nasdaq National Market, subject to the Company’s filing of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2005, on or before October 31, 2005. As a result of additional questions raised during the ongoing SEC and internal investigation into the Company’s accounting for stock option grants (see Note 10), the Company was unable to make this filing by October 31, 2005 and the Company’s common stock was delisted from the Nasdaq National Market on November 1, 2005.
 
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Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements – continued (Unaudited)
 
As a result of this delisting, the Company’s common stock was traded in the over-the-counter (“OTC”) securities market with real-time quotes available on the Pink Sheets electronic quotation service using the symbol NYFX from November 1, 2005 through February 8, 2008.
 
On November 19, 2007, the Company applied to the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel for relisting on the Nasdaq Capital Market. That application was approved on February 8, 2008, and on February 11, 2008, the Company’s common stock resumed trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol NYFX.
 
Preferred Stock
 
The Company is authorized to issue 5 million shares of preferred stock. In connection with the private placement of convertible preferred stock discussed below, 1.5 million shares were designated as Series B Voting Convertible Preferred Stock and 0.5 million as Series C Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock.
 
At March 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007, the Company had outstanding 1.5 million shares of Series B Preferred Stock. Dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock are payable semiannually in shares of the Company’s common stock. The number of shares issuable in payment of dividends is determined at an annual rate of 7% of the $75 million purchase price (or $50 per share), divided by the conversion price then in effect (currently $5.00). Dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock are cumulative and all accumulated but unpaid dividends on the Series B Preferred Stock must be paid before any cash dividends may be paid to holders of common stock.
 
Common Stock and Treasury Stock
 
At December 31, 2007, the Company had outstanding 36,818,932 shares of common stock, with 906,826 held in treasury.
 
On December 11, 2007, the Board of Directors declared a dividend, payable January 2, 2008, to holders of Series B Preferred Stock in payment of dividends accumulated through December 31, 2007. As a result, the Company issued 525,000 restricted shares of common stock, with a fair value of approximately $2,441,000 based on the market price of its common stock on the declaration date.
 
During the first quarter 2008, restricted stock units totaling 122,510 shares vested and were settled in shares.
 
On March 29, 2008, restrictions on 48,169 shares of common stock issued to an officer in satisfaction of his employment agreement on March 31, 2007 expired. The fair value of such shares has been charged to stock based compensation over the requisite service period. Since these shares were issued from treasury, the excess of the average cost of these shares over the fair value of these shares on the grant date was charged to retained earnings at the conclusion of the requisite service period. Shares totaling 16,282 were issued back to the Company to settle employee tax liabilities as a result of this transaction, and these shares were returned to treasury.
 
As a result of the foregoing activity, at March 31, 2008, the Company had outstanding 37,450,160 shares of common stock, with 923,108 held in treasury.
 
12. Subsequent Event
 
On April 4, 2008, the Company acquired FIX City, Ltd. (“FIX City”), a U.K. based specialist in web-based electronic trading and liquidity discovery solutions.
 
Pursuant to the terms of the share purchase agreement, the Company paid £3.3 million (or approximately $6.6 million) in cash to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity in FIX City. The Company also agreed to pay an additional $1.0 million in cash consideration contingent on the successful completion of the integration of the existing FIX City and NYFIX technology platforms within six months of the closing date.
 
In addition, the share purchase agreement provides the potential for cash earn-out payments in years 1, 2 and 3 following the acquisition totaling up to £3.7 million (or approximately $7.4 million) if certain revenue targets are achieved, with potential additional payments to be based on varying percentages of all such revenue if higher level target thresholds are achieved.
 
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
 
The following discussion should be read together with the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto.
 
Overview
 
We are a pioneer in electronic trading solutions.  The NYFIX MarketplaceTM is a global community of trading counterparties utilizing innovative services that optimize the business of trading, including trading workstations, middle office trade automation technologies and trade messaging services.  NYFIX Millennium provides the NYFIX MarketplaceTM with enhanced methods of accessing liquidity.  We also provide value-added informational and analytic services and tools for measuring execution quality.  As a trusted business partner and service provider to investment managers, mutual fund, pension fund and hedge fund managers (the Buy-Side) and brokerage firms and banks (the Sell-Side), NYFIX enables low touch, low impact market access and transaction processing.
 
We operate businesses that design, produce and sell technology-based products and services to professional financial services organizations that are engaged in trading activities including traditional asset management (including the trading of those assets), proprietary trading, and/or the handling of client orders in the U.S. and international securities markets.
 
Many of our products and services utilize the FIX Protocol which is a messaging standard developed specifically for real-time electronic exchange of securities trading information.
 
We believe our innovative NYFIX products and services deliver value-added improvements in speed, quality of execution and cost efficiency by automating both the work flows at the user work station level and the interactive process of transmitting and executing orders between the Buy-Side institutional investors (e.g., hedge funds, investment advisers, mutual funds and pension funds) and the Sell-Side broker-dealers, and through exchanges (e.g., NYSE, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and other exchanges), the OTC market, ATSs and electronic communication networks, or ECNs.
 
Sources of Revenues and Components of Expenses
 
Our revenue is comprised of subscription and maintenance, transaction revenue and product sales and services, as follows:
 
Subscription and maintenance consists of contracts that provide for the use of our systems and our messaging channels, together with managed services, with a term of generally one to three years.  Additional services, provided under schedules, or addenda to the contracts, are either co-terminus with the original contract or have provisions similar to the original contract.  Under the terms of the subscription contracts and addenda, clients are typically invoiced a flat periodic charge after initial installation and acceptance. Subscription and maintenance also includes maintenance contracts for software under separate, renewable maintenance contracts. Software related maintenance contracts are generally for a term of one year. Revenue related to these contracts and addenda is recognized over the term of the contract, addendum, or service period, on a straight-line basis.  We include within our subscription and maintenance revenue charges for connectivity to the NYFIX trading community. These include the various costs of connecting clients which include telecommunications, installation and maintenance of routers, network management software, and staff, and other costs related to the management of connectivity. The connectivity charges are recognized as the services are provided.
 
Transaction revenue primarily consists of per-share commissions charged to clients who send and receive a match and execution in our NYFIX Millennium ATS and clients to whom we provide execution and smart order routing technology, gateways to access markets and algorithmic trading ability in: (i) their own name, (ii) a third party name, or (iii) our name. Revenue for these services is generally invoiced monthly in arrears or is obtained through the clearing process within three days of the trade date, and is recognized on a trade date basis, in the period in which it is earned. Transaction revenue also includes the net interest spread on our matched book of securities borrowed/loaned.
 
Product sales and services are primarily comprised of FIX software licenses, equipment sales and professional services fees. This revenue is recognized when the software and equipment have been shipped and accepted by the client and when other contractual obligations, including installation, if applicable, have been satisfied and collection of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured.
 
Cost of revenue includes the following:
 
 
·
Data center operating costs, including salaries, related to equipment, infrastructure and software supporting operations and the NYFIX MarketplaceTM;
 
 
·
Managed connectivity costs, including telecommunication and other costs incurred on behalf of clients, and costs to maintain the data centers, including depreciation and amortization of assets utilized by the data centers, which are recognized as either a cost of subscription and maintenance or cost of transaction revenue, as appropriate;
 
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·
Amortization expense of acquired intangible assets and capitalized software costs relating to the applicable revenue category;
 
 
·
Developer and quality assurance personnel labor for client and product support of software products;
 
 
·
The cost of leased subscription and service bureau equipment, which is depreciated over the estimated useful life of the equipment; and
 
 
·
Execution and clearing costs to access various markets and exchanges and to process and settle transactions.
 
Recent Developments
 
Fix City Acquisition 
 
On April 4, 2008, we acquired FIX City. Pursuant to the terms of the share purchase agreement, we paid £3.3 million (or approx. $6.6 million) in cash to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity in FIX City and also agreed to pay an additional $1.0 million in cash consideration contingent on the successful completion of the integration of the existing FIX City and NYFIX technology platforms within six months of the closing date.
 
In addition, the share purchase agreement provides the potential for cash earn-out payments in years 1, 2 and 3 following the acquisition totaling up to £3.7 million (or approx. $7.4 million) if certain revenue targets are achieved, with potential additional payments to be based on varying percentages of all such revenue if higher level target thresholds are achieved.
 
Following the acquisition, we expect to incur integration costs of approximately $1.0 million comprised of non-cash valuation adjustments to our existing capitalized software costs, as the acquired technology will replace certain capitalized initiatives, as well as third-party costs to integrate the technology platforms. FIX City generated $2.2 million in revenues during 2007.
 
Acquisition of Minority Interests
 
In October 2007, we acquired the 20% interest in NYFIX Millennium that we did not already own.  The membership interests of the former minority members of NYFIX Millennium were converted into a right to receive an aggregate of $8.0 million. During the three months ended December 31, 2007 and the three months ended March 31, 2008, $0.7 million and $4.7 million of this amount was paid, respectively. As a result, $2.6 million of this amount had not yet been paid as of March 31, 2008. We have previously included 100% of the operating results of NYFIX Millennium since inception in our consolidated financial statements.
 
Euro Millennium
 
During the second quarter of 2007, our Board of Directors approved a new initiative, Euro Millennium, a multilateral trading facility for non displayed liquidity in pan-European listed cash equities. This initiative leverages our experience gained with NYFIX Millennium in the United States with our goal of global expansion during a time of rapid regulatory change. During the three months ended March 31, 2008, we incurred $2.2 million of costs related to this initiative. These costs include compensation and related costs, consulting, marketing and travel related costs. Euro Millennium initiated trading during March 2008.
 
Discontinuance of the Fusion OMS Business
 
In October 2007, we entered into a strategic arrangement with Citi’s Lava Trading (“Lava”) to offer NYFIX Fusion OMS clients a transition arrangement to the Lava ColorPallette® OMS in connection with our decision to exit the Fusion OMS business. Discontinuing the Fusion OMS business will enable us to devote more time and resources to clients of other product offerings. In connection with exiting the Fusion OMS business, we offered one-time termination benefits to affected employees. We recorded a restructuring charge of $0.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2008, which consisted of retention and severance costs. We expect the transition to be substantially complete by the end of the second quarter of 2008 and expect to incur an additional $0.3 million of such costs provided that certain employees stay for all or a portion of the remaining transition period, as required. We incurred an additional loss of $0.3 million associated with running the Fusion OMS business during the first quarter of 2008 and expect to incur and additional $0.6 million loss to run this business during the second quarter of 2008.
 
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SEC Investigation and Related Contingencies
 
There is an ongoing SEC investigation of our historical stock option granting practices as well as a related grand jury subpoena and related shareholder derivative litigations and tax inquiries. In addition, in March 2007, we filed our Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2005 which included restatements of previously reported results related to stock-based compensation as well as acquisitions and investments, revenue recognition, income taxes and treasury stock. Our 2005 10-K includes detailed findings of the internal review of our historical stock-based awards.
 
In April 2008, we paid $0.2 million to the IRS related to payroll tax withholdings on prior option exercises by U.S employees following an examination of our employment tax returns for the years 2003 through 2005. We are also being reviewed by the HMRC in the U.K. related to withholdings and payroll taxes under PAYE and National Insurance Contribution provisions on prior stock option exercises of NYFIX Overseas employees (due to our indemnity obligations to GL). As of March 31, 2008, we have recorded a liability of $1.9 million related to these exposures.
 
During the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007, we incurred costs of $0.1 million and $3.6 million, respectively relating to the stock option investigation and subpoenas, a grand jury subpoena, related shareholder derivative litigation, related financial restatements and expenses to resolve related matters. These costs include expenses for outside counsel, contract attorneys and forensic accountants, other consultants and, for the three months ended March 31, 2007, the cost of re-auditing previously issued financial statements following the resignation of our former independent registered public accounting firm. These costs do not include any portion of time that our employees have dedicated to these matters. We will continue to incur expenses associated with these matters until they are resolved. The amount of such expenses will likely vary and may be material.
 
In January 2008, we received a $5.0 million advance from our primary carrier under our previous directors and officers’ insurance policy (reflecting the policy limit) for fees incurred in defense of an SEC investigation into our historical stock option activity, as well as related litigation. As this amount can be recovered by the carrier in certain circumstances, we have deferred recognition of these proceeds in our operating results until further progress is made in resolving these contingencies. We are pursuing additional claims from our secondary carriers under our previous insurance policies which have additional limits aggregating $10.0 million.
 
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Results of Operations for the Three Month Periods Ended March 31, 2008 and 2007
 
The following table presents our consolidated results of operations for the periods indicated. These consolidated results of operations are not necessarily indicative of the consolidated results of operations that will be achieved in any future period.
 
   
Three Months Ended March 31, 
 
(in thousands, except percentages)
 
2008
 
% of
revenue
 
2007
 
% of
revenue
 
Revenue:
                         
Subscription and maintenance
 
$
17,518
   
56
%  
$
17,274
   
62
%
Transaction
   
13,268
   
42
%
 
9,776
   
35
%
Product sales and services
   
621
   
2
%
 
680
   
2
%
Total revenue
   
31,407
   
100
%
 
27,730
   
100
%
Cost of revenue:
                         
Subscription and maintenance (1)
   
7,651
   
24
%
 
8,546
   
31
%
Transaction (1)
   
6,412
   
20
%
 
5,401
   
19
%
Product sales and services (1)
   
81
   
0
%
 
387
   
1
%
Total cost of revenue
   
14,144
   
45
%
 
14,334
   
52
%
Gross profit
   
17,263
   
55
%
 
13,396
   
48
%
Operating expense:
                         
Selling, general and administrative (1)
   
20,396
   
65
%
 
16,878
   
61
%
SEC investigation, restatement and other related expenses (1)
   
137
   
0
%
 
3,593
   
13
%
Depreciation and amortization
   
447
   
1
%
 
282
   
1
%
Restructuring charge
   
(158
)
 
-1
%
 
-
   
0
%
Loss from operations
   
(3,559
)
 
-11
%
 
(7,357
)
 
-27
%
Interest expense
   
(211
)
 
-1
%
 
(136
)
 
0
%
Investment income
   
546
   
2
%
 
1,227
   
4
%
Other expense, net
   
-
   
0
%
 
(15
)
 
0
%
Loss before income tax provision
   
(3,224
)
 
-10
%
 
(6,281
)
 
-23
%
Income tax provision
   
128
   
0
%
 
47
   
0
%
Net loss
   
(3,352
)
 
NM
   
(6,328
)
 
NM
 
Accumulated preferred dividends
   
(1,142
)
 
NM
   
(1,717
)
 
NM
 
Loss applicable to common stockholders
 
$
(4,494
)
 
NM
 
$
(8,045
)
 
NM
 
                           
NM - not meaningful
                         
Percentage sub-totals may not add due to rounding
                         
(1) Stock-based compensation expense included in the respective line items above follows:
       
Cost of revenue:
                         
Subscription and maintenance
 
$
130
       
$
10
       
Transaction
   
53
         
-
       
Product sales and services
   
3
         
1
       
Selling, general and administrative
   
2,614
         
98
       
SEC investigation, restatement and other related expenses (a)
   
-
         
(11
)
     
   
$
2,800
       
$
98
       

(a) Relates to expiring options to be cash settled and extending the normal 90 day post termination exercise period
 
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Revenue
 
The following table presents our components of revenue:
 
   
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Increase (Decrease) 
 
(in thousands, except percentages)
   
2008
 
 
2007
 
 
 
 
%
 
Subscription and maintenance
 
$
17,518
 
$
17,274
 
$
244
   
1%
 
Transaction
   
13,268
   
9,776
   
3,492
   
36%
 
Product sales and services
   
621
   
680
   
(59
)
 
-9%
 
Total revenue
 
$
31,407
 
$
27,730
 
$
3,677
   
13%
 
 
Subscription and Maintenance
 
The change in subscription and maintenance revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008, as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2007, primarily reflected the offsetting effects of an increase in subscriptions (and related managed services) of messaging channels offered by our FIX Division and a decrease in subscriptions (and related managed services) of our OMS Division desktop and floor products. The growth in messaging channels offered by our FIX Division was attributable to an increase in the number of Buy-Side to Sell-Side messaging channels, primarily for order routing, as we continued our efforts to increase the level of business with Buy-Side institutions. As of March 31, 2008, we had 8,666 billable order routing channels in service, an increase of 21% over the 7,158 billable order routing channels in service at March 31, 2007, and an increase of 5% over the 8,245 channels in service at December 31, 2007. The decline in subscriptions (and related managed services) of our OMS Division desktop and floor products of $2.4 million, to $1.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008 compared to $3.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2007, was due primarily to the discontinuation (during the second quarter of 2007) of certain floor application products, the wind-down of our Fusion OMS business as well as other cancellations from desktop clients. As a result of a strategic arrangement we entered into with Lava in October 2007 to offer NYFIX Fusion OMS customers a transition arrangement to Lava’s ColorPalette® OMS, we expect our OMS revenues to continue to decline during the balance of 2008. We do not expect that the discontinuation of our Fusion OMS business will have a material impact on our operating results once the transition is complete, since we expect to reduce related operating costs. Recurring maintenance on licensed software was comparable between the three months ended 2008 and 2007 at $0.9 and $1.0 million, respectively.
 
Transaction
 
The increase in transaction revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was attributable to an increase in commissions on trade executions. Commissions increased $3.6 million to $13.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2008 compared to $9.4 million during three months ended March 31, 2007 due primarily to a $2.1 million increase in commissions from Sell-Side clients and a $1.5 million increase in commissions from Buy-Side clients. The increase from Sell-Side clients was due to increased matched volumes in NYFIX Millennium and increased use of the NYFIX NEXASTM algorithmic trading products, offset in part by a decline in billed specialist fees. The average daily matched volume in NYFIX Millennium during the three months ended March 31, 2008 was 49.4 million shares, a 20% increase over the average of 41.3 million shares during the three months ended March 31, 2007. Discontinuing our Fusion OMS business could impact future transaction revenue, as many of the Fusion OMS clients use our execution services.  Our securities lending business generated a consistent amount of net interest spread on its matched book stock borrow/stock loan portfolio of $0.3 million during both the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007.
 
Included in the NYFIX Millennium volume figures reported above are conditional orders executed against pass-through orders and other conditional orders, and third market trades crossed by clients and reported by NYFIX Millennium to Nasdaq.
 
Product Sales and Services
 
The decrease in product sales and services for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was primarily due to a decrease in sales of software licenses by our FIX Division. License fees for our FIX software products decreased $0.1 million to $0.4 million during the three months ended March 31, 2008 as compared to $0.5 million for the same period in 2007. Professional services revenue, which includes training, was comparable at $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007. We continue to invest in our FIX software business, including the hiring of dedicated sales resources and the enhancing of features to our existing products which will be included in new versions released in the second and third quarters of 2008.
 
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Costs and Expenses
 
Cost of Revenue
 
The following table presents our cost of revenue:
 
   
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Increase (Decrease)
 
(in thousands, except percentages)
 
2008
 
2007
 
$
 
%
 
Subscription and maintenance
 
$
7,651
 
$
8,546
 
$
(895
)
 
-10%
 
Transaction
   
6,412
   
5,401
   
1,011
   
19%
 
Product sales and services
   
81
   
387
   
(306
)
 
-79%
 
Total cost of revenue
 
$
14,144
 
$
14,334
 
$
(190
)
 
-1%
 
Percent of total revenue
   
45
%
 
52
%
           
 
Subscription and Maintenance
 
The decrease in subscription and maintenance cost of revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was primarily attributable to lower amortization of capitalized software costs of $0.4 million, lower allocated labor costs of $0.4 million and a decrease in telecommunication costs of $0.2 million. These decreases were offset in part by an increase in fees paid of $0.1 million to third-party order management system providers to establish messaging channels with their clients and increases in various other costs. As a percentage of related revenue, these costs decreased to 44% for the three months ended March 31, 2008 as compared to 49% for the three months ended March 31, 2007.
 
Transaction
 
The increase in transaction cost of revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 primarily related to higher allocated data center costs of $0.4 million, market data fees of $0.2 million, depreciation costs of $0.2 million, and allocated labor costs of $0.2 million. Despite increased revenue, execution and clearing fees remained flat primarily due to changes in the revenue mix to higher margin services and a rebate received of $0.5 million on clearing services used. As a percentage of related revenue, these costs decreased to 48% for the three months ended March 31, 2008, as compared to 55% for the three months ended March 31, 2007.
 
Product Sales and Services
 
The decrease in product sales and services cost of revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was attributable to lower intangible asset amortization of $0.3 million as a result of certain intangible assets becoming fully amortized in the second quarter of 2007. As a percentage of related revenue these costs decreased to 13% for the three months ended March 31, 2008 as compared to 57% for the same period of 2007.
 
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Selling, General and Administrative Expenses (SG&A)
 
The following table presents the components of our selling, general and administrative expense:
 
   
Three Months Ended
March 31, 
 
Increase (Decrease)
 
(in thousands, except percentages)
 
2008
 
2007
 
 $
 
%
 
Compensation and related
 
$
8,932
 
$
7,838
 
$
1,094
   
14%
 
Occupancy and related
   
1,171
   
810
   
361
   
45%
 
Marketing, travel and entertainment
   
1,215
   
792
   
423
   
53%
 
Professional fees (including consulting)
   
2,389
   
2,921
   
(532
)
 
-18%
 
General and other
   
1,597
   
1,641
   
(44
)
 
-3%
 
Stock-based compensation
   
2,614
   
98
   
2,516
   
2567%
 
Transitional rebuilding and remediation
   
148
   
1,742
   
(1,594
)
 
-92%
 
Transitional employment costs
   
110
   
1,036
   
(926
)
 
-89%
 
Euro Millennium costs
   
2,220
   
-
   
2,220
   
-
 
Total SG&A
 
$
20,396
 
$
16,878
 
$
3,518
   
21%
 
                           
Percent of total revenue
   
65
%
 
61
%
           

Now that we have completed our restatement and re-listing initiatives and have substantially completed our transitional programs, we have increased our focus on improving our margins and are more actively managing our cost structure. We realized significant achievements in these efforts during the first quarter of 2008. Excluding stock-based compensation, Euro Millennium and transitional costs, SG&A for the first quarter of 2008 was down 14% and 15%, respectively, from the levels incurred in the fourth quarter of 2007 and the third quarter of 2007. These recent declines reflected reduced costs for outside professionals (e.g. legal and accounting), consultants and various other expenses. Total SG&A declined 26% and 7% from the levels incurred in the fourth quarter of 2007 and the third quarter of 2007, respectively. The discussion below compares the individual components of SG&A for the first quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2007.
 
Compensation and Related
 
The increase in the portion of recurring compensation and related costs included in SG&A for the three months ended March 31, 2008 as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2007 was primarily due to the impact of salary increases, growth in headcount during 2007 as we built-up our organization for scalable growth, increased incentive compensation associated with higher revenue levels and increased costs for employee benefits.
 
Occupancy and Related
 
Occupancy and related costs increased $0.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008 due primarily to additional rent expense associated with our expansion of office space in both our New York City and London locations.
 
Marketing, Travel and Entertainment
 
The increase in marketing, travel and entertainment expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2008 primarily reflected increased employee travel related costs incurred to support our European expansion efforts partially offset by a decrease in marketing as a result of the timing of industry trade show and our product promotion campaigns.
 
Professional Fees (including consulting)
 
The decrease in professional fees incurred for the three months ended March 31, 2008, was primarily due to a decrease in legal and accounting fees. Legal and accounting fees decreased $0.7 million to $0.5 million as compared to $1.2 million for the same period in 2007. Consulting costs included in this category do not include the time spent by outside consultants and advisors on the restatements and related legal issues as such costs have been separately categorized below.
 
General and Other
 
General and other expenses were comparable at $1.6 million for the three months ended 2008 as compared to the same period of 2007.
 
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Stock-based Compensation
 
The increase in stock-based compensation included in SG&A for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was primarily due to significant grants of stock options and restricted stock units during the fourth quarter of 2007 and first quarter of 2008 following the adoption of the 2007 Omnibus Equity Compensation Plan. These grants were intended to be an up-front, multi-year program to assist in retention and to further promote alignment of the interests of our employees with those of our stockholders. Stock-compensation expense (including the amount recorded in cost of revenue) is expected to be approximately $2.0 million per quarter for the remainder of 2008.
 
Transitional Rebuilding and Remediation Costs
 
Transitional rebuilding and remediation costs reflect the impact of a company-wide, Board-approved effort in 2007, following the $75 million preferred stock investment by Warburg Pincus, to remediate deficiencies involving critical operational systems and processes, including technology infrastructure and management information systems. As a result of this effort, during 2007 we remediated our lab environment, data replication and back-up, network monitoring, application security and we enabled more timely and detailed internal and external financial reporting. These efforts also addressed certain historical administrative issues such as reorganizing certain subsidiaries and initiating new compensation programs which were rolled out in October 2007. Substantially all of the costs for this program were incurred by December 31, 2007, which primarily consisted of fees paid to outside consultants. During the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007, we incurred $0.1 million and $1.7 million of such costs, respectively. We expect to incur an additional $0.1 million of these costs during the second quarter of 2008, as we complete our last project under this program.
 
Transitional Employment Costs
 
Transitional employment costs reflect our efforts to build critical teams, retain key employees, and remediate certain skill gaps. These transitional costs, primarily consisting of sign-on bonuses, retention bonuses and severance and other termination benefits are being expensed over the required service period. During the three months ended March 31, 2008 and March 31, 2007, we incurred $0.1 million and $1.0 million of such costs, respectively. We expect to incur approximately $0.1 million of such costs during the second quarter of 2008.
 
Euro Millennium Costs 
 
In the second quarter of 2007, our Board of Directors approved a new initiative, Euro MillenniumTM, a multilateral trading facility for non-displayed liquidity in pan-European listed cash equities. This initiative leverages our experience gained with NYFIX Millennium in the U.S. with our goal of global expansion during a time of rapid regulatory change. During the three months ended March 31, 2008, we incurred $2.2 million of costs related to this initiative. These costs include compensation and related costs, consulting, marketing and travel related costs.
 
Other Operating Expenses
 
Other operating expenses consist of the following:
 
   
Three Months Ended
March 31, 
 
Increase (Decrease)
 
(in thousands, except percentages)
 
2008
 
2007
 
 $
 
%
 
SEC investigation, restatement and other related expenses
 
$
137
 
$
3,593
 
$
(3,456
)
 
-96%
 
Depreciation and amortization
   
447
   
282
   
165
   
59%
 
Restructuring charge
   
(158
)
 
-
   
(158
)
 
-
 
 
SEC Investigation, Restatement and Other Related Expenses
 
During the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007, we incurred costs relating to the stock option investigation and subpoenas, a grand jury subpoena related to our stock option grants, related shareholder derivative litigation, related financial restatements and expenses to resolve related matters. These costs include outside counsels, contract attorneys and forensic accountants, other consultants and, for the three months ended March 31, 2007, the cost of re-auditing previously issued financial statements following the resignation of our former independent registered public accounting firm. These costs do not include any portion of time that our employees have dedicated to these matters. We will continue to incur expenses associated with these matters until they are resolved. The amount of such expenses will likely vary and may be material.
 
These costs decreased $3.5 million to $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2008, compared to $3.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2007 which reflects the filing of our 2005 10-K in March of 2007 following the restatement of our consolidated financial statements as a result of the SEC investigation into prior stock option grants and related restatements (the “2005 Restatement”). With the completion of the 2005 Restatement in March 2007, these costs have continued to decline.
 
In January 2008, we received a $5.0 million advance from our primary carrier (reflecting the policy limit) under our previous Directors and Officers insurance policy for fees incurred in defense of the SEC investigation into our historical stock option activity as well as related litigation. As this amount can be recovered by the carrier in certain circumstances, we have deferred recognition of these proceeds in our operating results until further progress is made in resolving these contingencies. We are pursuing additional claims from our secondary carriers under our previous insurance policies which have additional limits aggregating $10.0 million.
 
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Depreciation and Amortization
 
The increase in the portion of depreciation and amortization included in SG&A for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was due to increased general overhead capital expenditures during 2007.
 
Restructuring Charge
 
The restructuring charge in the three months ended March 31, 2008 reflects employment costs of $0.3 million related to discontinuance of our Fusion OMS product in the fourth quarter of 2007 and the continuing transition of our clients to other platforms, offset by a $0.5 million reversal of amounts previously recorded as restructuring costs as a result of the termination of our lease and corresponding sublease of office space previously occupied in Stamford.
 
Other Income (Expense)
 
Other income (expense) items are as follows:
 
   
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
Increase
(Decrease)
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
$
 
Interest expense
 
$
(211
)
$
(136
)
$
75
 
Investment income
   
546
   
1,227
   
(681
)
Other expense, net
   
-
   
(15
)
 
15
 
 
Interest Expense 
 
The increase in interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was primarily attributable to additional interest incurred due to the additional $2.5 million convertible note.
 
Investment Income
 
The decrease in investment income for the three months ended March 31, 2008 reflected lower average cash balances invested and lower interest rates during the period.
 
Income Tax Provision
 
The income tax provisions for the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007 were solely attributable to the impact of deducting goodwill related to the NYFIX Millennium acquisition and previously the Renaissance acquisition in our tax filings. All other tax effects during the three months ended March 31, 2008 and 2007 have been netted out in our deferred tax asset valuation reflecting our view that historical pre-tax book income and historical income for tax purposes are not sufficient to support a conclusion that the value of our net deferred tax assets are more likely than not to be realized. Until we achieve and sustain an appropriate level of profitability, we plan to maintain a valuation allowance on our net deferred tax assets.
 
Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
We derive our liquidity and capital resources primarily from issuances of stock and from long-term borrowings. At March 31, 2008, we had cash and cash equivalents of $57.6 million, a reduction from our balance at December 31, 2007, principally due to the timing of accrued employee compensation payments for 2007, including annual incentive and retention related bonuses, commissions, severance and employee benefit obligations, as well as payments to the former minority owners of NYFIX Millennium to acquire their interests. We believe resources available at March 31, 2008 will be sufficient to finance our current investing, and operating needs as well as the net capital requirements of our broker-dealer subsidiaries for at least the next twelve months. We may need to raise additional outside funding for strategic acquisitions and such sources may dilute existing stockholders. At March 31, 2008, $40.4 million of our total cash and cash equivalents were held in our broker-dealer subsidiaries to help meet their regulatory capital requirements.
 
   
As of
 
 
 
March 31,
 
December 31, 
 
(in thousands)
 
2008 
 
2007 
 
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
57,642
 
$
75,657
 
 
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Three Months Ended March 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Net cash used in operating activities
 
$
(9,001
)
$
(7,444
)
Net cash used in investing activities
   
(8,574
)
 
(3,464
)
Net cash used in financing activities
   
(453
)
 
(343
)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash
   
13
   
(3
)
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
 
$
(18,015
)
$
(11,254
)
 
Operating Activities
 
The following table sets forth our net loss adjusted for non-cash items, such as depreciation, amortization, deferred taxes, and stock-based compensation; and the effect on cash used in operating activities of changes in working capital and other operating accounts between periods.
 
   
Three Months Ended March 31, 
 
(in thousands)
 
2008
 
2007
 
Net loss adjusted for non-cash items
 
$
1,748
 
$
(3,416
)
Effect of changes in working capital and other operating accounts
   
(10,749
)
 
(4,028
)
Net cash used in operating activities
 
$
(9,001
)
$
(7,444
)
 
Changes in working capital and other operating accounts affected cash flows during the periods primarily as a result of a decrease in the level of accounts payable and accrued expenses between periods, primarily from the net effect of the timing of accrued employee compensation payments for 2007 including annual incentive and retention related bonuses, commissions, severance and employee benefit obligations, and the receipt of deferred insurance proceeds, as well as increases in net clearing assets and accounts receivable associated with the growth of our business.
 
Broker-Dealer Operations
 
Clearing assets reflect amounts on hand to support our ability to settle the transactions of NYFIX Millennium, NYFIX Securities and NYFIX International, such as receivables from clearing organizations and firms and deposits with clearing organizations and firms, as well as balances to support our matched-book stock borrow/stock loan business. Our matched-book balances include offsetting stock borrowed and stock loaned and offsetting securities failed-to-deliver and securities failed-to-receive. At March 31, 2008, the net balance for clearing assets and clearing liabilities was a net receivable of $3.9 million.
 
Securities borrowed and securities loaned are recorded at the amount of cash collateral provided for securities borrowed transactions and received for securities loaned transactions, plus accrued interest. We monitor the market value of securities borrowed and loaned on a daily basis with additional collateral obtained or refunded as necessary. At March 31, 2008, clearing assets include stock borrows of $716.8 million and clearing liabilities include stock loans of $717.5 million.
 
NYFIX Millennium and NYFIX Securities are U.S. registered broker-dealers required to maintain levels of regulatory net capital under Rule 15c3-1 of the Exchange Act. NYFIX Securities’ DTCC membership, used to self-clear securities transactions, requires it to maintain $10 million in excess of its required net capital. NYFIX International is a registered firm with the FSA, required to maintain the greater of the base capital resources requirement of €730,000 or the variable capital resources requirement, which is made up of credit risk, market risk and fixed overhead (equal to three months average expenditures) requirements. At March 31, 2008, the aggregate regulatory net capital/resources of our regulated subsidiaries in the U.S. and U.K. were $35.1 million, $23.4 million in excess of our aggregate requirement of $11.7 million (including the $10 million excess required by DTCC).
 
When Euro Millennium initiated trading activities in March 2008, the minimum financial resources requirement for NYFIX International increased to approximately €730,000. To satisfy this requirement, $1.5 million of subordinated debt on the books of NYFIX International was converted into equity capital in March 2008. In addition, in March 2008, we infused an additional $1.5 million of cash into NYFIX International to provide further excess regulatory capital resources to allow for business expansion.
 
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Investing Activities
 
Investments in current technology to maintain our infrastructure and to enhance our products remain an important requirement for our available cash resources.
 
Net cash used in investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was $8.6 million. This consisted of capital expenditures for property and equipment, principally for data center equipment and software, of $2.5 million, capitalized software costs of $1.5 million and $4.7 million in payments to the former minority owners of NYFIX Millennium to acquire their interests. We expect further investments during the remainder of 2008 including the $6.6 million paid for the acquisition of FIX City in April 2008.
 
Net cash used in investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $3.5 million. This consisted of capital expenditures for property and equipment, principally for data center equipment and software, of $2.7 million and capitalized software costs of $0.8 million.
 
Financing Activities
 
Our financing activities primarily consist of long-term debt issued for working capital purposes, capital lease obligations used for equipment purchases, and issuances of capital stock for general corporate purposes and business development activities. At March 31, 2008, we had long-term debt and capital lease obligations outstanding aggregating $11.2 million (including current portions).
 
At March 31, 2008, we had outstanding two convertible notes aggregating $10.0 million with substantially similar terms to the same lender. The convertible notes incur interest at a rate of 5% and are due in December 2009. At March 31, 2008, the price at which the lender could convert the convertible notes into shares of our common stock was $5.64 per share. The conversion price may be reduced if we issue shares of common stock at a price below the conversion price in effect, excluding stock option exercises, the settlement of obligations outstanding as of the date of the convertible note and other transactions previously approved by our Board of Directors.
 
Net cash used in financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $0.3 million, consisting primarily of principal payments under capital lease obligations.
 
Commitments and Contingencies
 
There are various lawsuits and claims pending against us as well as ongoing SEC and United States Attorney’s Office investigations into our accounting for stock option grants and an SEC investigation into our accounting for the losses incurred by NYFIX Millennium. We are currently unable to predict the outcomes and reasonably estimate the amounts of loss, if any, with respect to these matters. With respect to certain of these matters, we could be subject to penalties, fines or regulatory sanctions or claims by current and former officers, directors or employees for indemnification of costs or losses they may incur and such amounts, individually or collectively, could have a material impact on our financial condition. In addition, other actions may be brought against us related to these matters.
 
See Note 10 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Note 9 to our Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 filed with our 2007 Form 10-K for a description of our commitments and contingencies.
 
Seasonality and Inflation
 
We believe that our operations have not been significantly affected by seasonality or inflation.
 
Off-balance Sheet Arrangements
 
We have no material off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined under SEC rules, other than those related to the contingent obligations under the convertible notes as described above and under the terms of our Series B Preferred Stock as described in our 2007 Form 10-K.
 
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates 
 
The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates, including our allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory valuation and obsolescence, long-lived tangible and intangible assets, income taxes, and contingencies and litigation. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. In our 2007 10-K, we identified and disclosed critical accounting policies, which included revenue recognition, allowance for doubtful accounts, property and equipment, acquisitions and goodwill, capitalized software costs, long-lived assets, income taxes, contingencies and stock-based compensation. These critical accounting policies affect significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial statements. We reviewed our policies in conjunction with the preparation of this report and have determined that those critical policies remain and have not changed since December 31, 2007.
 
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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
 
There have been no material changes in our exposure to market risk during the three months ended March 31, 2008, from those described in Part II, Item 7A, Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk, included in our 2007 Form 10-K.
 
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
 
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
 
In connection with the preparation of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2008. Disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that the information that we are required to disclose in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s Rules and Forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
 
As disclosed in our 2007 Form 10-K, management and our independent registered public accounting firm identified two material weaknesses regarding elements of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2007. A material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Material weaknesses in internal controls may also constitute deficiencies in our disclosure controls and procedures. 
 
 Based on the results of this evaluation including the existence of material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level as of March 31, 2008.
 
Interim Measures to Ensure the Accuracy of Financial Reporting
 
In response to the material weaknesses identified as a result of management’s assessment of internal control over financial reporting as disclosed in our 2007 Form 10-K, our management, with oversight from our Audit Committee, has performed expanded and compensating measures to help ensure the accuracy of our financial reporting until such time as we are able to remedy all of our material weaknesses. Such measures included, among other things:
 
 
·
expansion of our period-end closing procedures;
 
·
enhanced monitoring and communications;
 
·
additional analyses and cross team reviews;
 
·
the dedication of significant internal resources; and
 
·
additional top-level management reviews of financial information and related disclosures.
 
As a result of these expanded and compensating procedures, we concluded that the consolidated financial statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with GAAP.
 
The certifications of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer required in accordance with Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are attached as exhibits to this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. The disclosures set forth in this Item 4 contain information concerning the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures and our internal control over financial reporting, referred to in the certifications. Those certifications should be read in conjunction with this Item 4 for a complete understanding of the matters covered by the certifications.
 
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
 
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarterly period ended March 31, 2008 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.
 
Our SOX 404 Operations & Remediation Committee and members of our finance team implemented a number of significant changes to our internal control structure during 2007 which resulted in the remediation of numerous previously disclosed material weaknesses. For the remaining two identified material weaknesses as of December 31, 2007 - controls over revenue from historical subscriptions and controls related to the acquisition, tracking and disposition of property and equipment, we have developed corrective action plans with the goal of completing the remediation during 2008. We have completed a number of significant milestones in these action plans, however, additional work remains. While we believe our ongoing efforts have improved our internal control over financial reporting, including our hiring in February 2008 of a new Chief Information Officer, we have not completed the redesign and/or implementation of all necessary procedures and controls or our documentation and testing of the processes. Accordingly, we will continue to perform the interim measures described above and monitor the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in the areas impacted by the material weaknesses discussed above.

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PART II — OTHER INFORMATION
 
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
 
There have been no material changes during the three months ended March 31, 2008, with respect to the legal proceedings described in Part I, Item 3, Legal Proceedings, included in our 2007 Form 10-K.
 
Item 1A. Risk Factors
 
There have been no material changes during the three months ended March 31, 2008 with respect to the Risk Factors described in Part I, Item 1A, Risk Factors, included in our 2007 Form 10-K.
 
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
 
(a)
Sales of Unregistered Securities during the Quarter ended March 31, 2008
 
Not applicable. 
 
(b)
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities during the Quarter ended March 31, 2008

Period
 
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
 
Average Price
Paid per Share
 
Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs
 
Maximum Number (or Approximate Dollar Value) of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
 
January 1 through 31
   
-
 
$
-
 
 NA
 
 NA
 
February 1 through 29
   
-
   
-
 
 NA
 
 NA
 
March 1 through 31
   
16,282
   
4.35
 
 NA
 
 NA
 
Total
   
16,282
       
 NA
 
 NA
 
 
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
 
Not applicable.
 
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
 
Not applicable.
 
Item 5. Other Information
 
Not applicable.

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Exhibits

Exhibit
No.
  
Description of Exhibit
     
*10.1 †
 
Agreement for the Sale and Purchase of the entire issued share capital of FIXCITY, LTD dated April 4, 2008
     
*10.2
 
NYFIX, Inc. 2008 Annual Incentive Plan
     
*31.1
  
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
*31.2
  
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
*32.1
  
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
*32.2
  
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 *
Filed herewith
Confidential treatment requested as to certain portions, which portions are omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Signatures 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 NYFIX, INC.
   
May 12, 2008 
/s/ P. Howard Edelstein  
 
P. Howard Edelstein  
 
President and Chief Executive Officer   
 
 
May 12, 2008 
/s/ Steven R. Vigliotti  
 
Steven R. Vigliotti   
 
Chief Financial Officer 
 
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EX-10.1 2 v113355_ex10-1.htm
Exhibit 10.1
 
Confidential Materials omitted and filed separately with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Asterisks denote omissions.
 
 
DATED April 4, 2008
 
(1)
THE SEVERAL PERSONS WHOSE NAMES ARE
 
SET OUT IN COLUMN 1 OF SCHEDULE 1
   
(2)
NYFIX GLOBAL SERVICES, LIMITED
   
(3)
                                          NYFIX, INC
 

AGREEMENT FOR THE SALE AND PURCHASE
OF THE ENTIRE ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL
OF FIX CITY LIMITED

 
STEPHENSON HARWOOD
One, St Paul's Churchyard
London EC4M 8SH
Tel: 020 7329 4422
Fax: 020 7329 7100
Ref: 1258/46-02758
 


CONTENTS
 
   
Page
     
1
Definitions and Interpretation
2
     
2
Agreement for Sale
8
     
4
Seller's Intellectual Property
13
     
5
Warranties and Indemnity
14
     
6
Restrictive Covenants
16
     
7
FSA Application Covenant
22
     
8
Payments
22
     
9
Assignment
23
     
10
Announcements and Confidentiality
23
     
11
Costs
24
     
12
Notices
24
     
13
Exclusion of Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
25
     
14
Further Assurance
25
     
15
No Merger
25
     
16
Counterparts
26
     
17
Waiver
26
     
18
Entire Agreement
26
     
19
Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Service Of Proceedings
27
     
20
Guarantee
27
     
Schedule 1
29
   
Particulars of Sellers and apportionment of Consideration
29
 

 
Schedule 2
30
   
Details of the Company
30
   
Schedule 3
32
   
Warranties
32
   
Limitations on Sellers' Liability
50
   
Schedule 4
58
   
1
Definitions and Interpretation
58
     
2
Covenant
60
     
3
Limitations on Liability
62
     
4
Mitigation
65
     
5
Over-Provisions, Reliefs, etc
65
     
6
Recovery from other Persons
67
     
7
Conduct of Tax Affairs
68
     
8
Due Date of Payment
73
     
9
Deductions from Payments
74
     
10
Buyer Covenants
75
     
1
Returns and payment of Taxation
76
     
2
Taxation claims, liabilities and reliefs
77
     
3
Tax residence and status
78
     
4
Corporation Tax on chargeable gains
79
     
5
Shares owned by directors or employees
80
     
6
Value Added Tax
80
     
7
Stamp Duty
81
 

 
8
Tax Avoidance
82
     
9
Miscellaneous
82
     
Schedule 5
85
   
Intellectual Property Rights
85
   
Schedule 6
86
   
Deferred Consideration
86
   
Appendix 1
97
   
Schedule 7
98
   
Relevant Competitors
98
   
Schedule 8
99
   
Bank Balance Figures
99
 

 
 
BETWEEN:
 
(1)
THE SEVERAL PERSONS whose names and addresses are set out in column 1 of Schedule 1 (together the "Sellers" and each a "Seller");
 
(2)
NYFIX GLOBAL SERVICES, LIMITED a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 05988275 whose registered office is at 160 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4BF (the "Buyer"); and
 
(3)
NYFIX, INC a company incorporated and registered in Delaware with offices at 100 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 ("the Guarantor")
 
RECITALS:
 
(A)
The Company has an authorised share capital of £100,000 divided into 100,000 shares of £1 each of which 1,288 of such shares have been issued and are fully paid.
 
(B)
Further particulars of the Company at the date of this Agreement are set out in Schedule 2.
 
(C)
The Sellers are the legal and beneficial owners of the legal and beneficial title to the number of shares set out opposite their respective names in Schedule 1, comprising in aggregate the whole of the issued share capital of the Company.
 
(D)
The Sellers have agreed to sell and the Buyer has agreed to buy the Shares subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
 
IT IS AGREED as follows:
 

 
1
Definitions and Interpretation
 
1.1
In this Agreement, the following words and expressions shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:
 
"Accounts"
the individual financial accounts of the Company compiled by the Company's external accountants for the two financial periods ended on the Accounts Date, together in each case with the notes, directors' and accountants' reports and all other statements incorporated in or annexed to them;
 
 
"Accounts Date"
31 December 2007;
 
 
"Act"
the Companies Act 1985 and the Companies Act 2006 to the extent that it is in force;
 
 
"this Agreement"
this agreement (and the schedules to it), as varied from time to time pursuant to its terms;
 
 
"Business Day"
a day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a bank or public holiday in England or New York;
 
 
"Buyer's Group"
the Buyer, its parent undertakings and its subsidiary undertakings from time to time and any subsidiary undertaking for the time being of a parent undertaking of the Buyer;
 
2

 
"Buyer's Solicitors"
Stephenson Harwood of One, St Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8SH and any successor firm;
 
 
"Company"
FIX City Limited, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 04511314 whose registered office is at Financial House, 14 Barclay Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 1JN, brief particulars of which are set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2;
 
 
"Completion"
completion of the sale and purchase of the Shares in accordance with this Agreement;
 
 
"Completion Date"
the date on which Completion takes place;
 
 
"Consideration"
£3,250,000 and the Deferred Consideration;
 
 
"Deferred Consideration"
the consideration, if any, to be calculated and paid in accordance with Schedule 6;
 
 
"Disclosure Letter"
the letter from the Sellers to the Buyer, dated with the date of this Agreement disclosing certain exceptions to the Warranties;
 
 
"Due Proportions"
in the case of the [**]%, in the case of [**]% and in the case of [**]%;
 
 
"Encumbrance"
a mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, option, restriction, right of first refusal, right of pre-emption, third party right or interest, a claim of any kind, other encumbrance or security interest of any kind or other type of preferential arrangement (including, without limitation, a title transfer and retention arrangement) having similar effect;
 
3

 
"Founders"
[**]; and “Founder” shall mean any one of them;
 
 
"FSA"
the Financial Services Authority;
 
 
"Group"
the Company and its Subsidiary Undertaking;
 
 
"Group Company"
the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking as appropriate;
 
 
"Intellectual Property Rights"
patents, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, moral rights, trade marks, and domain names, rights to goodwill or to sue for passing off or unfair competition, rights in computer software, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world;
 
4

 
"Key Employees"
[**];
 
 
"Losses"
in relation to any matter, all liabilities, losses, claims, costs and reasonable expenses relating to that matter;
 
 
"Parties"
the parties to this Agreement; and "Party" means any one of them;
 
 
"Property"
12-16 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5PQ (office numbers 107 and 108), 14 Wall Street, 20th Floor, New York NY10005 and Norwell Executive Center, 167 Washington Street, Norwell, Massachusetts 02061 USA and includes an individual property and a part of an individual property;
 
 
"Sellers' Solicitors"
H Montlake & Co, 197 High Road, Ilford IG1 1LX and any successor firm;
 
 
"Shares"
all the issued shares in the capital of the Company;
 
 
"Subsidiary Undertaking"
the subsidiary undertaking of the Company listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2;
 
 
"Tax" or "Taxation"
any form of tax, levy, duty, charge, contribution, withholding or impost of whatever nature capable of being imposed or demanded by a Tax Authority, any liability to pay for group relief, repay an amount received in relation to group relief, contribute to the tax liabilities of another person, and any other amount representative of Tax together with all penalties, charges, and interest relating to any of them regardless of whether any such liabilities are chargeable directly or primarily against or attributable directly or primarily to a Group Company or any other person and of whether any amount in respect of them is recoverable from any other person;
 
5

 
"Tax Authority"
any taxing or other authority (whether within or outside the United Kingdom) competent to impose or demand any Tax;
 
 
"Tax Covenant Claim"
a claim under the covenants set out in paragraph 2 of the Tax Deed;
 
 
"Tax Deed"
the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 4 to this Agreement;
 
 
"Tax Warranties"
the warranties set out in Part 2 of Schedule 4;
 
 
"TCGA"
the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992;
 
 
"VAT"
value added tax as provided for in VATA, and any tax imposed in substitution for it;
 
6

 
"VATA"
the Value Added Tax Act 1994;
 
 
"Warranties"
the warranties of the Sellers contained in Clause 5 and set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3 and the Tax Warranties;
 
 
"Warranty Claim"
a claim for any breach of any of the Warranties including the Tax Warranties; and
 
 
 
1.2
In this Agreement, unless the context requires otherwise:
 
 
1.2.1
any reference to the parties or a recital, Clause or Schedule is to the parties or the relevant recital, Clause or Schedule of or to this Agreement, and any reference in a Schedule to a paragraph is to a paragraph of that Schedule or, where relevant, that part of that Schedule; 

 
1.2.2
the Clause headings are included for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement; 

 
1.2.3
use of the singular includes the plural and vice versa; 

 
1.2.4
use of any gender includes the other genders; 

 
1.2.5
"financial year", "parent undertaking" and "subsidiary undertaking" have the meanings given to them by sections 223 and 258 of the Companies Act 1985 respectively; 

 
1.2.6
any reference to a statute, statutory provision or subordinate legislation ("legislation") shall be construed as referring to that legislation as amended and in force from time to time and to any legislation which re-enacts or consolidates (with or without modification) any such legislation except to the extent that any amendment, re-enactment or consolidation on or after the date of this Agreement would increase the liability of any party under this Agreement;
 
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1.2.7
any reference to a document being "in the agreed form" means a document in a form agreed by the Parties and either entered into on the date of this Agreement by the relevant Parties or initialled by the Parties or on their behalf, in the latter case with such amendments as they may subsequently agree;

 
1.2.8
unless otherwise stated herein, where a statement is qualified by the expression "so far as the Sellers are aware" or "to the best of the knowledge, information and belief of the Sellers", or any similar expression, that statement shall be deemed to include an additional statement that it has been made after due and careful enquiry; and

 
1.2.9
references to any English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceeding, legal document, legal status, court, organisation, body, official or any legal concept, state of affairs or thing shall in respect of any jurisdiction other than England be deemed to include that which most nearly approximates in that jurisdiction to the English legal term.

1.3
The Schedules and recitals form part of this Agreement and shall have effect as if set out in full in the body of this Agreement, and any reference to this Agreement includes the Schedules and recitals. 
 
2
Agreement for Sale
 
2.1
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Seller shall sell or cause to be sold and the Buyer shall buy the shares indicated in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite that Seller's respective name free from all Encumbrances and in all other respects with full title guarantee. The Shares shall be sold with all rights attaching to them at Completion or subsequently, including the rights to receive all dividends and other distributions declared, paid or made at or after Completion. 
 
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2.2
The purchase price for the Shares shall be the Consideration and the Sellers and the Buyer agree to give effect to all the provisions of Schedule 6. Each of the Sellers shall be entitled to receive that part of the Consideration set out opposite his name in column 3 of Schedule 1.
 
2.3
The Buyer shall not be obliged to complete the purchase of any of the Shares unless the purchase of all of the Shares is completed simultaneously.
 
2.4
The Sellers waive all rights of pre-emption over any of the Shares conferred either by the articles of association of the Company or in any other way.
 
3
Completion 
 
3.1
Completion shall take place at the offices of the Buyer's Solicitors immediately after the signing of this Agreement or at such other place and time as shall be mutually agreed between the Parties when the events set out in Clauses 3.2 to 3.5 (inclusive) shall take place.
 
3.2
At Completion, the Sellers shall deliver or make available to the Buyer: 
 
 
3.2.1
transfers of the Shares duly executed by the respective registered holders in each case in favour of the Buyer (or as it may direct);

 
3.2.2
the share certificates representing the Shares together with any power of attorney or other authority under which such transfers have been executed and such waivers or consents as the Buyer may require to enable the Buyer (or such person as the Buyer directs) to be registered as the holder(s) of the Shares; 
 
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3.2.3
certificates for all issued shares in the capital of the Subsidiary Undertaking held by the Company;

 
3.2.4
entry into by the Company's Key Employees of service agreements with the Buyer and/or the Company in the agreed form;

 
3.2.5
a letter executed as a deed in the form required by the Buyer from each present director and secretary of the Company in each case resigning their respective office (with effect from the end of the meeting held pursuant to Clause 3.3) and acknowledging that the writer has no claim against the Company for compensation for loss of office or otherwise;

 
3.2.6
a letter executed as a deed in the form required by the Buyer from each present director and secretary of the Subsidiary Undertaking in each case resigning their respective office (with effect from the end of the meeting held pursuant to Clause 3.4 or, if no such meeting occurs, pursuant to Clause 3.3) and acknowledging that the writer has no claim against the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking for compensation for loss of office or otherwise;

 
3.2.7
an irrevocable power of attorney (in such form as the Buyer may reasonably require) executed by each of the registered holders of the Shares in favour of the Buyer to enable the Buyer (pending registration of the transfers referred to in Clause 3.2.1) to exercise all voting and other rights attaching to the Shares and to appoint proxies for this purpose;

 
3.2.8
statements for each bank account of the Company at the close of business on the last Business Day preceding Completion which will show cash in the accounts totalling no less than £[**] (based on the figures for creditors paid and payments received being those set out in Schedule 8); and
 
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3.2.9
the seal (if any), statutory registers, certificate of incorporation (and any certificate of incorporation on change of name), minute books and share certificate books of each of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking complete and up-to-date in all material respects up to but not including Completion.

3.3
The Sellers shall ensure that a board meeting of the Company is held at Completion at which: 
 
 
3.3.1
the people nominated by the Buyer are appointed as the directors and secretary (as the case may be) of the Company with immediate effect;

 
3.3.2
the resignations referred to in Clauses 3.2.5 and 3.2.6 are accepted with effect from the close of the meeting;

 
3.3.3
the registered office of the Company is changed to 160 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BF.

 
3.3.4
the transfers referred to in Clause 3.2.1 are approved for registration; and

 
3.3.5
each existing bank mandate of the Company is cancelled and a new bank mandate appointing the Buyer's chosen signatories submitted to the relevant bank;

and shall cause the original minutes of such resolutions signed by the chairman to be delivered to the Buyer.
 
3.4
The Sellers shall ensure that, immediately after the board meeting referred to in Clause 3.3:
 
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3.4.1
any meeting of the board of directors of the Subsidiary Undertaking that the Buyer may require is held; and

 
3.4.2
any meeting held pursuant to Clause 3.4.1 deals with any matter referred to in Clause 3.3 that the Buyer may require.

3.5
At Completion, the Buyer shall: 
 
 
3.5.1
deliver to the Sellers a certified copy of the minutes of a meeting of the directors of the Buyer approving the purchase of Shares together with any related matters in the agreed form; and

 
3.5.2
pay the sum of £3,250,000 (three million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in accordance with Clause 8.

3.6
If either the Sellers or the Buyer (referred to in this Clause 3 as the "defaulting party") does not or is unable to fulfil any material obligations under Clauses 3.2 to 3.5 as the case may be, at the time when Completion is due to take place under Clause 3.1, the other party (referred to in this Clause 3 as the "non-defaulting party") may in addition to any other right or remedy it may have, by notice to the defaulting party: 
 
 
3.6.1
postpone Completion by up to 10 Business Days; or 

 
3.6.2
elect to proceed to Completion, in which case the defaulting party shall be obliged to fulfil those obligations under Clauses 3.2 to 3.5, as the case may be, which it is then able to fulfil and to fulfil the remaining obligations on or before any later date specified for the purpose in the notice; or 

 
3.6.3
if having already given notice under Clause 3.6.1 and a period of not less than 10 Business Days having elapsed without each unfulfilled obligation in question having been fulfilled in all material respects, elect not to complete the sale and purchase of the Shares. 
 
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3.7
If Completion is postponed on any occasion under Clause 3.6.1, Clause 3.6 shall apply with respect to each occasion to which it is so postponed. 
 
3.8
If the non-defaulting party elects not to complete the sale and purchase of the Shares in accordance with Clause 3.6.3, the Parties shall have no further rights or obligations under this Agreement, other than accrued rights and obligations at the time of that election in respect of prior breaches, save that Clauses 10-13 and 16-19 shall remain binding on the Parties in accordance with their terms. 
 
4
Seller's Intellectual Property 
 
Each Seller hereby assigns to the Buyer with full title guarantee all Intellectual Property Rights vested in them (the "Sellers' Intellectual Property") that has been used by the Company in its business or is utilizable by the Company (or the Buyer following Completion) (which includes but is not limited to the Intellectual Property Rights listed in Schedule 5) together with all goodwill attaching to such Intellectual Property Rights the right to sue for damages and other remedies for any infringement of such Intellectual Property Rights that occurred before the Completion Date.
 
4.2
The Sellers each agree and undertake to provide to the Buyer (at its request and expense) all reasonable assistance with any proceedings which may be brought by or against the Buyer against or by any third party relating to the rights assigned by this Agreement.
 
4.3
The Sellers shall at the cost and expense of the Buyer do or procure to be done all such further acts and things, and execute or procure the execution of all such other documents, as the Buyer may from time to time reasonably require (without the imposition of any liability on the Sellers in addition to that which they would have under this Agreement) in order to give the Buyer the full benefit of this agreement, whether in connection with any registration of title or other similar right or otherwise.
 
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4.4
The [**] used by the [**] the Company and the Buyer will [**].
 
5
Warranties and Indemnity
 
5.1
Subject to Clause 5.10, [**] warrant to the Buyer in the terms set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3 and Part 2 of Schedule 4 and not withstanding any other provision of this Agreement, any reference in any Warranty to a Seller shall be to the Sellers. 
 
5.2
The Sellers are aware and acknowledge that the Buyer has entered into this Agreement in reliance on the Warranties which have induced it to enter into this Agreement.
 
5.3
The Warranties are given subject only to the matters fairly disclosed in the Disclosure Letter. The rights and remedies of the Buyer in respect of any breach of the Warranties shall not be affected by Completion.
 
5.4
Each of the Warranties set out in each paragraph of Part 1 of Schedule 3 are separate and independent and unless otherwise expressly provided shall not be limited by reference to any other Warranty or anything in this Agreement.
 
5.5
If there is a breach of a Warranty and:
 
 
5.5.1
the value of an asset of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking is or becomes less than the value would have been had the breach not occurred; or

 
5.5.2
the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking is/are subject to or incur(s) a liability or an increase in a liability which it would not have been subject to or would not have incurred had the breach not occurred,
 
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[**] pay the Buyer on demand (at the Buyer’s option) an amount equal to the relevant Due Proportion of the reduction caused in the value of the Shares.
 
5.6
[**] indemnify the Buyer against the relevant Due Proportion of all reasonable and proper costs which the Buyer may incur whether before or after the start of an action in connection with:
 
 
5.6.1
the settlement of a claim against the Sellers in respect of a breach or an alleged breach of a Warranty or the enforcement of a settlement; and

 
5.6.2
legal proceedings against the Sellers in respect of a breach or an alleged breach of a Warranty in which judgment is given for the Buyer or the enforcement of the judgment.

5.7
[**] the Buyer against the relevant Due Proportion of all reasonable and proper costs which the Buyer may incur in relation to any and all losses suffered by the Company following Completion as a result of any variation or error in the figures set out in Schedule 8.
 
5.8
If in respect of or in connection with any breach of any of the Warranties or any indemnity claim under this Clause 5 any sum payable to the Buyer by the Sellers by way of compensation is subject to Taxation, then such further amount shall be paid to the Buyer by the Sellers so as to secure that the net amount received by the Buyer is the same as it would have been were the payment not subject to Taxation.
 
5.9
Each of the Sellers waives and may not enforce any rights which he/she may have in respect of a misrepresentation, inaccuracy or omission in or from information or advice supplied or given by the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking or any present or former officer or employee of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking for the purpose of assisting them in relation to any term of this Agreement, the making of a representation, the giving of a warranty or the preparation of the Disclosure Letter.
 
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5.10
Part 2 of Schedule 3 (Limitations on Sellers' liability) shall apply to limit or exclude, in accordance with its terms, any liability of the Sellers in respect of a Warranty Claim, provided that no provision of that schedule shall apply to limit or exclude any such liability arising out of any fraudulent act or omission by or on behalf of the Sellers. 
 
 
5.11
Any amount paid by or on behalf of the Sellers in respect of a breach of the Warranties and/or under a Warranty Claim made under Part 1 of Schedule 3 shall be deemed to reduce the Consideration and be a repayment of the Consideration to the extent of that amount.
 
6
Restrictive Covenants
 
6.1
In this Clause 6.1:
 
"Confidential Information"
means trade secrets, confidential knowledge, non-public data and any other proprietary information of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking. By way of illustration but not limitation, "Confidential Information" includes (i) inventions, trade secrets, ideas, processes, formulas, data, programs, other works of authorship, know-how, improvements, discoveries, developments, designs and techniques, in each case to the extent such items relate to communications and/or business transactions with one or more users over a computer network or the Internet; (ii) information regarding plans for research, development, new products and services, marketing and selling, business plans, budgets and unpublished financial statements, licenses, prices and costs, suppliers and customers; and (iii) information regarding the skills and compensation of any other employee of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking;
 
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"Founders"
means [**];
   
"Prospective Customer"
means any person with whom the relevant Seller had dealings during the Relevant Period in the course of his/her employment with a view to that person becoming a customer or client of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking;
   
"Relevant Area"
means [**];
   
"Relevant Competitors"
means those companies listed in Schedule 7;
   
"Relevant Customer"
means any person who has been at any time during the Relevant Period a customer or client of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking with whom the relevant Seller was actively involved in the course of his/her employment during the Relevant Period;
   
"Relevant Distributor"
means any distributor of the Company's and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking's products with whom the relevant Seller was actively involved in the course of his/her employment during the Relevant Period;
 
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"Relevant Employee"
means an employee of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking with whom the relevant Seller had material dealings in the course of his/her employment during the Relevant Period and who is employed wholly or mainly in a senior/managerial/customer facing capacity;
   
"Relevant Period"
means the period of [**] ending on Completion;
   
"Relevant Services"
means services the same as or similar to those being provided by the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking at Completion and with which the relevant Seller was actively involved in any capacity in the course of his/her employment during the Relevant Period;
   
"Relevant Supplier"
means any supplier to the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking with whom the relevant Seller was actively involved in the course of his/her employment during the Relevant Period.
 
6.2
The Founders covenant that they will not for a period of [**] after Completion and [**] covenant that they will not for a period of [**] after Completion:
 
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6.2.1
be concerned in any business which is carried on in the Relevant Area, or the Relevant Competitors, and which is competitive or likely to be competitive with any business in which the relevant Seller was actively involved during the course of his/her employment during the Relevant Period and which is carried on by the Company or another Group Company at Completion;
 
 
6.2.2
directly or indirectly, whether on his/her own account or on behalf of or in conjunction with any person:
 
 
(a)
canvass or solicit business or custom for the provision of any Relevant Services from any Relevant Customer;
 
 
(b)
deal with any Relevant Customer in respect of the provision or potential provision of any Relevant Services;
 
 
(c)
canvass or solicit business or custom for the provision of any Relevant Services from any Prospective Customer;
 
 
(d)
deal with any Prospective Customer in respect of the provision or potential provision of any Relevant Services;
 
 
(e)
induce or attempt to induce any Relevant Supplier to cease to supply, or to restrict or vary the terms of supply to, the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or otherwise interfere with the relationship between a Relevant Supplier and the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking;
 
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(f)
induce or attempt to induce any Relevant Distributor to cease to distribute, or to restrict or vary the terms of any distribution agreements in relation to, the Company's or the Subsidiary Undertaking's products or otherwise interfere with the relationship between a Relevant Distributor and the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking;
 
 
(g)
induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Company to leave the employment of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking (whether or not this would be a breach of contract by the Relevant Employee).
 
6.3
For the purposes of Clause 6.2.1 above, the relevant Seller is concerned in a business if:
 
6.3.1
he/she carries it on as a principal or agent; or
 
 
6.3.2
he/she is a partner, director, employee, secondee, consultant or agent in, of or to any person who carries on the business; or
 
 
6.3.3
(excluding [**] in relation to his employment at the date of this Agreement) he/she has any direct or indirect financial interest (as shareholder or otherwise) in any person who carries on the business; or
 
 
6.3.4
(excluding [**] in relation to his employment at the date of this Agreement) he/she is a partner, director, employee, secondee, consultant or agent in, of or to any person who has a direct or indirect financial interest (whether as shareholder or otherwise) in any person who carries on the business.
 
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6.4
The Sellers covenant that at any time during the course of their employment with the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or at any time thereafter, they shall not use in connection with any other business any name which includes the name or any part of the name of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or any product name or any colourable imitation of it or them.
 
6.5
The Sellers agree that they will not, during the course of their employment with the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or at any time thereafter:
 
 
6.5.1
disclose any Confidential Information to any person, firm, corporation, or other entity for any reason or purpose whatsoever;
 
 
6.5.2
copy any Confidential Information, except as reasonably required in the course of their duties for the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking; or
 
 
6.5.3
make use of any Confidential Information for their own purposes or for the benefit of any person, firm, corporation or other entity, other than the Subsidiary Undertaking, under any circumstances.
 
6.6
The covenants in this clause are for the benefit of the Company itself and as trustee for the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
6.7
Each of the restrictions in each paragraph or clause above are enforceable independently of each of the others and their validity is not affected if any of the others is invalid. If any of those restrictions is void but would be valid if some part of the restriction (including part of any of the definitions in Clause 6.1) were deleted, the restriction in question applies with such modification as may be necessary to make it valid.
 
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7
FSA Application Covenant
 
7.1
The Sellers hereby acknowledge and agree that the FSA has advised in its email to the Sellers of 2 April 2008 that FSA authorisation should be sought.

7.2
The Founders hereby covenant that they will use their reasonable endeavours to assist the Buyer in any and all respects in relation to the application to the FSA for authorisation and will take all reasonable actions necessary to ensure that such application for authorisation is submitted, including (but not limited to) providing all documentation and information required in respect of the application which is either in any of their possessions, power or control.
 
7.3
In the event that the Sellers breach the covenant set out in Clause 7.2, the Buyer has the right to set off any of the Deferred Consideration owing to the Sellers pursuant to Schedule 6 against any and all losses suffered by it in relation to such breach.
 
8
Payments 
 
8.1
The Buyer shall pay all payments due to the Sellers by telegraphic transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Sellers' Solicitors on behalf of the Sellers at: 
 
[**]
Sort code:
[**]
[**]
Account number:
[**]
 
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or to any other account of which the Sellers Solicitor's give the Buyer at least three Business Days' notice from time to time.
 
8.2
Payment of any sum to the Sellers' Solicitors will discharge the obligations of the Buyer to pay the sum in question and the Buyer shall not be concerned to see the application of the monies so paid.
 
9
Assignment 
 
No party may assign the benefit of any provision in this Agreement save for an assignment by the Buyer to any member of the Buyer's Group provided that any such assignment to any member of the Buyer's Group is made on terms that if such assignee would cease to be a member of the Buyer's Group, such rights will further be assigned to the Buyer or to another member of the Buyer's Group.
 
10
Announcements and Confidentiality 
 
10.1
Save as provided in Clause 10.2 no announcement or circular or disclosure in connection with or concerning this Agreement or any matter arising from the Agreement shall be made or issued by or on behalf of the Sellers without the prior written consent of the Buyer which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
 
10.2
Clause 10.1 shall not apply to any disclosure made by the Sellers to their professional advisers, or to any announcement or disclosure required by the laws of any relevant jurisdiction or by any competent regulatory or governmental body or securities exchange in any relevant jurisdiction.
 
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11
Costs
 
11.1
Except as set out in Clause 11.2, each Party shall bear its own costs and expenses in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution and performance of this Agreement and the documents referred to in it. 
 
11.2
The Buyer shall pay all stamp and other transfer duties and registration fees applicable to any document to which it is a Party and which arise as a result of or in consequence of this Agreement.
 
12
Notices 
 
12.1
Any notice, consent or other communication given under this Agreement shall be in writing and in English, and signed by or on behalf of the Party giving it, and shall be delivered by hand or sent by prepaid recorded or special delivery post (or prepaid international recorded airmail if sent internationally) or by fax as follows (and, for the avoidance of doubt, may not be given by e-mail): 
 
to the Buyer:
 
For the attention of: Office of the General Counsel, NYFIX, Inc
 
Address: 100 Wall Street, 24th Floor, New York NY10005 USA
 
Facsimile number: 001 917 637 1585
 
To the Sellers
 
At their respective addresses set out in Schedule 1 as may be altered from time to time by notice to the Buyer.
 
12.2
Any Party may from time to time notify the others of any other address or fax number for the receipt of notices. Any such change shall take effect five Business Days after notice of the change is received or (if later) on the date (if any) specified in the notice as the date on which the change is to take place. 
 
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12.3
Any notice, consent or other communication given in accordance with Clause 12.1 and received after 5.30 p.m. on a Business Day, or on any day which is not a Business Day, shall for the purposes of this Agreement be regarded as received on the next Business Day. 
 
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Exclusion of Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
 
13.1
The Parties to this Agreement do not intend any of its terms to be enforceable pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person who is not a party to this Agreement save for the provisions of Clause 6.
 
13.2
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Sellers and the Buyer may by agreement in writing rescind or vary any of the provisions of this Agreement without the consent of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking and accordingly section 2(1) of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply.
 
14
Further Assurance 
 
 
At or after Completion, the Sellers shall at the Buyer's cost execute all such documents and do or cause to be done all such other things as the Buyer may from time to time reasonably require in order to vest in the Buyer legal title to and the benefit of the Shares and otherwise to give full effect to this Agreement.
 
15
No Merger
 
The provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect as regards any of its unperformed or unimplemented provisions including, without limitation, all guarantees, warranties and undertakings notwithstanding Completion.

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16
Counterparts 
 
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the Parties to it on separate counterparts, each of which shall be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument, and shall not be effective until each of the Parties has executed at least one counterpart.
 
17
Waiver
 
 
No delay or failure by the Buyer or any of the Sellers to exercise any of their respective powers, rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of them, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such powers, rights or remedies preclude any further exercise of them. The remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and (except as otherwise provided in this Agreement) are not exclusive of any remedies provided by law. A waiver of a breach of any term of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of any other breach of this Agreement.
 
18
Entire Agreement
 
18.1
This Agreement, and the documents referred to in it together constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the Parties and supersede any previous agreement between the Parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. 
 
18.2
The Buyer acknowledges that no provisions are to be regarded as implied into this Agreement, save for those implied by law and which are not lawfully capable of being excluded. All implied provisions lawfully capable of being excluded are hereby excluded for all purposes. 
 
18.3
In entering into this Agreement and subject to Part 2 of Schedule 3, the Buyer accepts that it is not relying on any representation, warranty or on any other information or statement of opinion or belief, whether written or oral, express or implied, which is not expressly comprised within or the subject of any of the Warranties.
 
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18.4
Except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, no change to its terms shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by on or behalf of each of the Parties.
 
19
Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Service Of Proceedings
 
19.1
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. Each Party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales over any claim, dispute or matter arising under or in connection with this Agreement. 
 
19.2
Each Party irrevocably waives any objection which it may have now or later to proceedings being brought in the courts of England and Wales and any claim that proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum. Each Party further irrevocably agrees that a judgment in any proceedings brought in the courts of England and Wales shall be conclusive and binding upon each Party and may be enforced in the courts of any other jurisdiction.
 
19.3
Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the right to serve process in any manner permitted by law. 
 
20
Guarantee
 
20.1
The Guarantor unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to the Sellers to discharge on written demand by the Sellers payment of all sums payable by the Buyer under Schedule 6 of this Agreement (such payment obligations of the Buyer being referred to below as "Obligations").
 
20.2
The Sellers must make written demand against the Buyer but may make demand upon the Guarantor in respect of any of the Obligations if not satisfied by the Buyer within 30 Working Days of the Sellers' demand against the Buyer.
 
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20.3
This Agreement is a continuing security and shall remain in full force and effect until all of the Obligations have been discharged and performed in full.
 
20.4
The provisions of this Clause 20 are in addition to any other guarantee or security, present or future, held by the Sellers in respect of the Obligations or any of them, and shall not merge with or prejudice such other guarantee or security, or any contractual or legal rights of the Sellers.
 
THIS AGREEMENT has been executed by or on behalf of the Parties on the date at the top of page 1. 
 
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Schedule 1
 
Particulars of Sellers and apportionment of Consideration
 
Column 1
 
Column 2
 
Column 3
 
           
Seller's name and address
  Number of shares held by Seller   Seller's proportion of the Consideration  
               
Karl Spencer Breeze
[**]
   
399
   
30.9783
%
               
Amy Jane Muddimer
[**]
   
399
   
30.9783
%
               
Paul Denby Scott
[**]
   
399
   
30.9782
%
               
Andrew Southon
[**]
   
65
   
5.0466
%
               
Matthew George Barkway
[**]
   
26
   
2.0186
%
 
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Schedule 2
 
Part 1
Details of the Company
 
Date and place of incorporation 
:
Incorporated on 14 August 2002 in England and Wales
     
Registered number  
:
04511314
     
Registered office   
:
Financial House, 14 Barclay Road, Croydon, Surrey, CRO 1JN
     
Authorised share capital  
:
£100,000 divided into 100,000 ordinary shares of £1.00 each and £10,000 divided into 1,000,000 ordinary B shares of £0.01 each
     
Issued share capital  
:
£1288.00 divided into 1,288 ordinary shares of £1.00 each
     
Directors   
:
1) Matthew George Barkway
 
2) Karl Spencer Breeze
 
3) Amy Jane Muddimer
 
4) Paul Denby Scott
     
Secretary   
:
Amy Jane Muddimer
     
Shareholders    
:
1) Karl Spencer Breeze (399 Ordinary Shares)
 
2) Amy Jane Muddimer (399 Ordinary Shares)
 
3) Paul Denby Scott (399 Ordinary Shares)
 
4) Andrew Southon (65 Ordinary Shares)
 
5) Matthew George Barkway (26 Ordinary Shares)
     
Accountants   
:
The McCay Partnership
     
Accounting reference date  
:
31 December
     
Tax residence   
:
England and Wales

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Part 2
Details of the Subsidiary Undertaking
 
Date and place of incorporation 
:
27 April 2006, New York State
     
Registered number  
:
N/A
     
Registered office   
:
14 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
     
Authorised share capital   
:
200 Shares of no par value
     
Issued share capital  
:
100 Shares of no par value
     
Directors   
:
Andrew Southon (President)
     
Secretary   
:
Karl Breeze
     
Shareholder   
:
FIX City Limited
     
Accounting reference date  
:
31st December
     
Tax residence   
:
New York

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Schedule 3
 
Part 1
Warranties
 
1
SHARES AND OTHER SECURITIES OF THE COMPANY
 
1.1
The Shares represent the entire issued share capital of the Company.
 
1.2
The shareholders of Company listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 are and will at Completion be the holders of the shares set out against their names and have the right to sell such shares.
 
1.3
The Company will not, at Completion, have any debenture or any other security in issue.
 
1.4
No person has the right or has claimed to have a subsisting right (whether exercisable now or at a future date and whether contingent or not) to subscribe for, or to convert any security into any shares, debentures or other securities of the Company, including pursuant to an option or warrant.
 
1.5
The Company has not at any time purchased its own shares or redeemed or forfeited any shares, or agreed to do so, or granted an option whereby it might become liable to do so.
 
1.6
There will not at Completion be any Encumbrance over any issued or unissued shares in the capital of the Company and there is no subsisting agreement to create any such Encumbrance.
 
1.7
No share in the capital of the Company has been allotted at a discount or otherwise than as fully paid.
 
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2
THE COMPANY AND THE SUBSIDIARY UNDERTAKING
 
2.1
Save for the Subsidiary Undertaking, the Company has no interest in nor is it under a subsisting obligation to acquire any interest in any shares, debentures or other securities of any other body corporate.
 
2.2
The details shown in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 relating to the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking are accurate and complete in all respects.
 
2.3
A true and complete copy of the Accounts and of the memorandum and articles of association of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking are annexed to the Disclosure Letter.
 
2.4
The whole of the issued share capital of the Subsidiary Undertaking is beneficially owned by the Company free from any Encumbrance.
 
2.5
The Subsidiary Undertaking has never been a subsidiary of any body corporate other than the Company and the Company has never been a subsidiary of any body corporate.
 
2.6
No person is a shadow director of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking who is not treated as a director for all the purposes of the Act.
 
3
AUTHORITY AND CAPACITY OF THE SELLERS
 
3.1
Each of the Sellers has all necessary right, power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and each document to be executed at or before Completion.
 
3.2
This Agreement constitutes (or will when executed constitute) binding and enforceable obligations on the Sellers in accordance with its terms.
 
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4
THE ACCOUNTS 
 
4.1
The Accounts:
 
4.1.1
have been were prepared under the historical cost convention;
 
 
4.1.2
have been prepared in accordance with applicable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice, Financial Reporting Standards, statements from the Urgent Issues Task Force, other generally accepted accounting practices in the United Kingdom and the Act;
 
 
4.1.3
are not affected by any material unusual or non-recurring items and do not include material transactions not normally undertaken by the Company;
 
 
4.1.4
make full provision or reserve for all actual liabilities and contain proper provision or reserve for all contingent liabilities or capital or burdensome commitments.
 
4.2
The Accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company as at the end of each financial year to which they relate and of its profit or loss for the period ended on that date.
 
4.3
Since their incorporation, neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking have engaged auditors.
 
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5
BORROWINGS AND BANK ACCOUNTS
 
5.1
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking will not at Completion have outstanding any borrowing or indebtedness, in the nature of borrowing, including any bank overdraft.
 
5.2
There are no Encumbrances over the assets of either of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
6
POSITION SINCE THE ACCOUNTS DATE
 
6.1
Since the Accounts Date:
 
 
6.1.1
no resolution of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking in general meeting has been passed;
 
 
6.1.2
no change in the accounting reference period of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has been made; 
 
 
6.1.3
save as referred to in the Disclosure Letter, neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking has declared or paid any dividend;
 
6.1.4
the business of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course, without any material interruption or alteration in its nature, scope or manner, and so as to maintain the same as a going concern; 
 
 
6.1.5
there has been no material adverse change (nor is any material adverse change expected) in the turnover or profit margins or financial position of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or in the assets or liabilities of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking as compared with the position disclosed by the Accounts and all amounts received by the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking have been deposited with the Company's bankers and appear in the appropriate books of account;
 
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6.1.6
neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking has not borrowed or raised any money or taken any financial facility which exceeded £50,000; and
 
 
6.1.7
neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking has paid any bonuses of any kind.
 
6.2
The IOI Revenues (as defined in Schedule 6) for 2007 are true, accurate and not misleading.
 
7
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
 
7.1
So far as the Sellers are aware, the Company and its directors, officers, employees and agents (during the course of their duties in relation to the Company) have complied in all material respects with all legislation of the United Kingdom applicable to the Company. 
 
7.2
The Subsidiary Undertaking's only activity has been acting as marketing agent for the Company. The Subsidiary Undertaking has not entered into any contracts with customers and charges the Company for its services on a cost plus fee basis.
 
8
CONTRACTS AND LIABILITIES, TERMS OF TRADE
 
8.1
True and complete copies of all of the material contracts or arrangements entered into by the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking that remain to be fulfilled as performed in whole or in part have been supplied to the Buyer.
 
8.2
In the case of any contract entered into by the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking and disclosed to the Buyer as having been entered into orally, such contracts are believed to be valid; no party to any such contract has given any indication that the terms of such contract are different from the Company's and/or Subsidiary Undertakings then current standard terms; that such contracts have been invoiced in accordance with the then current standard terms and no client of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking has failed to make payment as though it had entered into a contract on the Company's or the Subsidiary Undertakings then current standard terms. 
 
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8.3
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking has received any claim or assertion that any limitations of liability clause in the Company's or the Subsidiary Undertaking's contracts entered into with their clients before Completion is invalid, void or voidable.
 
Contracts
 
8.4
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking is a party to any mortgage, charge, lien or debenture; any contract of guarantee, indemnity or suretyship; any joint venture, partnership or consortium agreement or arrangement; any agency or distributorship agreement; any contract which is not on an arm's-length basis.
 
8.5
No power of attorney has been granted by the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking which may be effective or in force at any time after the date of this Agreement.
 
Validity of Agreements
 
8.6
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking is in default under, or has knowingly committed any breach of any of the terms of or done, or omitted to do, anything whereby any agreement, instrument or arrangement to which it is a party is liable to be prematurely terminated, rescinded, avoided or terminated by any other party, or whereby the terms of such agreement, instrument or arrangement are liable to be altered without the consent and to the detriment of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking and no threat or claim of any such default or breach or notice of termination has been made or given and is outstanding against the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
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8.7
No party to any agreement with, or under an obligation to, the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking is in default under such agreement or obligation, and there are no circumstances known to give rise to such a default.
 
8.8
The Company has existing agreements with all of its clients and such agreements are in full force and effect.
 
9
BOOKS, RECORDS AND RETURNS
 
9.1
The register of members, minute books, other statutory books and registers and all other records required to be kept by the Company under the applicable laws and regulations of England and Wales are in the possession and ownership or under the control of the Company, have been properly kept in all material respects and are up-to-date in all material respects.
 
9.2
No claim has been made that any of the books, registers and records referred to in paragraph 9.1 of this Part 1 of Schedule 3 is incorrect or should be rectified.
 
9.3
So far as the Sellers are aware (but without having made any enquiries with regard to the requirements of the United States), all returns, particulars, resolutions and other documents required by the applicable laws and regulations of England and Wales or the United States to be given or delivered by the Company to the registrar of companies or any other governmental, regulatory or other authority of competent jurisdiction have been correctly made up and duly given or delivered in all material respects.

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10
LITIGATION
 
10.1
So far as the Sellers are aware, neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking is engaged in any litigation, arbitration, mediation, conciliation, expert determination, adjudication or other dispute resolution process, whether as claimant or defendant or in any other capacity.
 
10.2
So far as the Sellers are aware, there are no dispute resolution processes, proceedings and other processes or disputes such as are referred to in paragraph 10.1 pending or threatened by or against the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking, and, so far as the Sellers are aware, there are no circumstances which might give rise to any such dispute resolution processes, proceedings and other processes or disputes against the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or against any person for whose acts or defaults the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking may be vicariously liable or whom the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking is liable to indemnify.
 
10.3
There is no unsatisfied judgement, order or decree of any court or any governmental agency outstanding against the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or which may have an adverse affect upon the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or the whole or part of its business, operations assets or liabilities.
 
11
LIABILITIES
 
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking will at Completion have any material liabilities (actual or contingent) other than (i) those which have arisen in the ordinary course of business; (ii) those which are provided for in the Accounts to the extent that they are actual liabilities and (iii) as set out in the Disclosure Letter.
 
12
EMPLOYEES
 
12.1
The Disclosure Letter contains complete and accurate details of:

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12.1.1
all officers, employees and consultants of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking;
 
 
12.1.2
all individuals to whom the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has made an offer of employment or consultancy;
 
 
12.1.3
all employees of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking who may have a right to return following leave for maternity, incapacity or any other absence; and
 
 
12.1.4
the job title of all employees and all remuneration payable and other benefits which the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking is obliged to provide (whether now or in the future) to each of its officers, employees and consultants, or former officers, employees or consultants including particulars of all commission, incentive, profit sharing, bonus and share option schemes which the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking has operated whether contractually binding on it or not together with the entitlement to notice of employees and consultants and the length of continuous employment of employees for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
 
12.2
No remuneration or other sum whatsoever is due from the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking to any officer, employee or consultant or former officer, employee or consultant other than the outstanding part of any current salaries, commissions and fees which are payable to the present officers, employees and consultants.
 
12.3
No variation to any of the terms of employment or consultancy listed in the Disclosure Letter have been agreed or offered by the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking and no increases in fees, salaries, wages, pension contributions or other benefits have been paid or are payable to any officer, employee or consultant of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking since the Accounts Date nor has there been any negotiation for such an increase, nor any notification of any demand for such an increase on behalf of any officer, employee or consultant.

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12.4
The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking have, in relation to each of its or their officers, employees and consultants:
 
 
12.4.1
materially complied with its or their statutory and contractual obligations;
 
 
12.4.2
maintained complete and materially accurate records; and
 
 
12.4.3
conducted adequate immigration checks;
 
12.4.4
None of the employees of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has given notice terminating his or her contract of employment or engagement, and none of the employees of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking is under notice of dismissal.
 
12.4.5
No dispute has arisen within the last two years between the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking and any of its employees or former employees and there are no present circumstances which are likely to give rise to any such dispute.
 
13
PENSIONS AND OTHER BENEFITS
 
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking has ever agreed to establish, sponsored, participated in or contributed to any arrangement (whether or not closed, funded or approved) for providing pensions or other benefits on, or in anticipation of, the retirement, death, accident or sickness of any current or former director or employee of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking, nor has it agreed or announced any proposal to enter into or establish any such arrangement.

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14
PROPERTY
 
 
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking have owned, used or occupied any property other than the Property.
 
15
INSOLVENCY WINDING UP ETC
 
15.1
No order has been made, petition presented, resolution passed or meeting convened for the winding up of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
15.2
No petition has been presented for an administration order to be made in relation to the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking, nor has any such order been made.
 
15.3
No receiver (including an administrative receiver) has been appointed of the whole or any part of any of the property, assets and/or undertaking of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
15.4
No composition in satisfaction of the debts of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking, or scheme of arrangement of its affairs, or compromise or arrangement between it and its creditors and/or members or any class of its creditors and/or members, has been proposed, sanctioned or approved.
 
15.5
No distress, distraint, charging order, garnishee order, execution or other process has been levied or applied for in respect of the whole or any part of any of the property, assets and/or undertaking of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
15.6
No event has occurred causing, or which upon intervention or notice by any third party may cause, any floating charge created by the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking to crystallise or any charge created by it to become enforceable, nor has any such crystallisation occurred nor is such enforcement in process.
 
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15.7
In relation to any property or assets held by the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking under any hire purchase, conditional sale, chattel leasing or retention of title agreement or otherwise belonging to a third party, no event has occurred which entitles, or which upon intervention or notice by a third party may entitle, the third party to repossess the property or assets concerned or terminate the agreement or any licence in respect of the same.
 
15.8
Each of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking is able to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123(1)(e) or section 123(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986.
 
15.9
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking has been party to any transaction with any third party or parties which, in the event of any such third party going into liquidation or an administration order or a bankruptcy order being made in relation to it or him, would constitute (in whole or in part) a transaction at an undervalue, a preference, an invalid floating charge or an extortionate credit transaction or part of a general assignment of debts, under sections 238 to 245 (inclusive) and sections 339 to 344 (inclusive) of the Insolvency Act 1986.
 
15.10
None of the persons who at present is, or who at any time within the last three years was, a director or officer of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking is, or at any material time was, subject to any disqualification order under the Act (or the acts which it replaced or consolidated), the Insolvency Act 1985 or the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986.
 
16
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
 
16.1
Complete and accurate particulars are set out in the Disclosure Letter of all registered Intellectual Property Rights (including applications for such rights) and material unregistered Intellectual Property Rights owned, used or held for use by the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
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16.2
Complete and accurate particulars are set out in the Disclosure Letter of all licences, agreements, authorisations and permissions (in whatever form and whether express of implied) under which:
 
 
16.2.1
the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking uses or exploits Intellectual Property Rights owned by any third party; or
 
 
16.2.2
the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has licensed or agreed to license Intellectual Property Rights to, or otherwise permitted the use of any Intellectual Property Rights by, any third party.
 
16.3
Except as set out in the Disclosure Letter, the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking is the sole legal and beneficial owner of (or applicant for) the Intellectual Property Rights set out in the Disclosure Letter, free from all Encumbrances.
 
16.4
The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking do not require any Intellectual Property Rights other than those set out in the Disclosure Letter in order to carry on their activities.
 
16.5
The Intellectual Property Rights set out in the Disclosure Letter are valid, subsisting and enforceable and nothing has been done or not been done as a result of which any of them has ceased or might cease to be valid, subsisting or enforceable. In particular:
 
 
16.5.1
all application and renewal fees and other steps required for the maintenance or protection of such rights have been paid on time or taken;
 
 
16.5.2
all confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) owned or used by the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has been kept confidential and has not been disclosed to third parties (other than parties who have signed written confidentiality undertakings in respect of such information, details of which are set out in the Disclosure Letter);
 
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16.5.3
so far as the Sellers are aware, no trade mark or domain name identical or similar to any such rights has been registered, or is being used by any person in the same or a similar business to that of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking, in any country in which the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has registered or is using that trade mark, or domain name; and
 
 
16.5.4
there are and have been no claims, challenges disputes or proceedings, pending or threatened, in relation to the ownership, validity or use of such rights.
 
16.6
Nothing is due to be done within 30 days of Completion the omission of which would jeopardise the maintenance or prosecution of any of the Intellectual Property Rights owned or used by the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking that are registered or the subject of an application for registration.
 
16.7
So far as the Seller's are aware, there has been no infringement by any third party of any of the Intellectual Property Rights set out in the Disclosure Letter, nor any third party breach of confidence, passing off or actionable act of unfair competition in relation to the business and assets of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking, and no such infringement, breach of confidence, passing off or actionable act of unfair competition is current or anticipated.
 
16.8
The Sellers warrant on an ongoing basis with respect to the Sellers' Intellectual Property owned by them, that, at the Completion Date that the Seller's Intellectual Property:
 
 
16.8.1
has not been copied wholly or substantially from any other source, and that the use by the Company, the Subsidiary Undertaking or the Seller of the rights assigned to it will not infringe the rights of any third party; and
 
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16.8.2
have not been licensed or assigned to any third party.
 
16.9
The agreements and licences set out in the Disclosure Letter:
 
16.9.1
are valid and binding;
 
 
16.9.2
have not been the subject of any breach or default by any party or of any event which, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would constitute a default; and
 
 
16.9.3
are not the subject of any claim, dispute or proceeding, pending or threatened.
 
16.10
A Change of Control of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking will not result in the termination of or materially affect any of the Intellectual Property Rights set out in the Disclosure Letter.
 
16.11
The activities of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking and of any licensee of Intellectual Property Rights granted by the Company or any of the Subsidiaries:
 
 
16.11.1
have not infringed, do not infringe and are not likely to infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party; or
 
 
16.11.2
have not constituted, do not constitute and are not likely to constitute any breach of confidence, passing off or act of unfair competition; or
 
 
16.11.3
have not given and do not give rise to any obligation to pay any royalty, fee, compensation or any other sum whatsoever.
 
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 
17.1
The definitions in this paragraph apply in this agreement.
 
IT System: all computer hardware (including network and telecommunications equipment) and software (including associated user manuals and other related documentation) owned, used, leased or licensed by or to the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
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IT Contracts: all arrangements and agreements under which any third party provides any element of, or services relating to, the IT System, including leasing, hire purchase, licensing, maintenance and services agreements.
 
17.2
Complete and accurate particulars of the IT System and all IT Contracts are set out in the Disclosure Letter.
 
17.3
Except as provided in the IT Contracts, the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking own the IT System free from Encumbrances. The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking have obtained all necessary rights from third parties to enable them to make exclusive and unrestricted use of the IT System.
 
17.4
The IT Contracts are valid and binding and no act or omission has occurred that would constitute a breach of any such contract.
 
17.5
There are and have been no claims, disputes or proceedings arising or threatened under any IT Contracts.
 
17.6
None of the IT Contracts is liable to be terminated or materially affected by a Change of Control of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
17.7
The elements of the IT System:
 
 
17.7.1
are functioning properly and materially in accordance with all applicable specifications;
 
 
17.7.2
have not been materially defective or materially failed to function during the last 2 years;
 
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17.7.3
have sufficient capacity and performance to meet the current and foreseeable business requirements of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking subject to the matters identified in the model attached as Appendix 1; and
 
 
17.7.4
have been satisfactorily and regularly maintained and the IT System has the benefit of appropriate maintenance and support agreements.
 
17.8
The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking have implemented appropriate procedures, for ensuring the integrity and security of the IT System and the confidentiality and integrity of all data stored in it.
 
17.9
The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking have in place a disaster recovery plan which is documented. A copy of the plan is attached to the Disclosure Letter.
 
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DATA PROTECTION
 
18.1
No personal data have been transferred outside the European Economic Area.
 
18.2
The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking have:
 
 
complied in all respects with the Data Protection Act 1984 and the Data Protection Act 1998 (together, the "Act"); and
 
 
18.2.2
so far as the Sellers are aware but without having made any further enquiries, established the procedures necessary to ensure continued compliance with such legislation.
 
18.3
Neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking have received any notice or complaint under the Data Protection Act 1998 alleging non-compliance with the Act.
 
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18.4
The Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking have complied with their obligations under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 in respect of the use of electronic communications for direct marketing purposes.
 
19
INSURANCES
 
19.1
Copies of all insurance policies maintained by the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking are attached to the Disclosure Letter.
 
19.2
So far as the Sellers are aware, each of the insurance policies maintained by the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking is valid and enforceable and is not void or voidable. So far as the Sellers are aware, the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking has not done anything or omitted to do anything which might make of its insurance policies void or voidable.
 
19.3
No claim is outstanding under any of the insurance policies and so far as the Sellers are aware no matter exists which might give rise to a claim under any of the insurance policies.
 
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INFORMATION SUPPLIED
 
 
All information contained in this Agreement and the Disclosure Letter is true and accurate in all material respects.
 
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Part 2

Limitations on Sellers' Liability

1.
Financial Limits
 
1.1
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any Warranty Claim or Tax Covenant Claim except to the extent that they have a liability in respect of that Warranty Claim or Tax Covenant Claim in excess of £[**], excluding any liability for costs and interest, in which event, subject to paragraph 1.2, the Buyer shall be entitled to claim the whole amount of such Warranty Claim or Tax Covenant Claim and not merely the excess. 
 
1.2
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any Warranty Claim (but excluding any Warranty Claim in respect of breach of any of the Tax Warranties) unless they have an aggregate liability in respect of all such Warranty Claims (excluding all Warranty Claims for which the Sellers have no liability by reason of paragraph 1.1 and excluding any Warranty Claim in respect of breach of any of the Tax Warranties) in excess of £[**], excluding any liability for costs and interest, in which event the Buyer shall be entitled to claim the whole amount of such Warranty Claim and not merely the excess.
 
1.3
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any Warranty Claim in respect of breach of any of the Tax Warranties or Tax Covenant Claim unless they have an aggregate liability in respect of all such Warranty Claims (excluding all Warranty Claims for which the Sellers have no liability by reason of paragraph 1.1) and Tax Covenant Claims in excess of £[**], excluding any liability for costs and interest, in which event the Buyer shall be entitled to claim the whole amount of such Warranty Claim and/or such Tax Covenant Claim and not merely the excess.

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1.4
For the purposes of this paragraph 1, a Warranty Claim which is based on more than one event or circumstance, each of which would separately give rise to a Warranty Claim, shall be treated as a separate Warranty Claim, as the case may be, in respect of each event or circumstance but for the avoidance of doubt a number of Warranty Claims arising out of the same circumstances shall be treated as a single Warranty Claim provided that the Buyer shall not be entitled to recover Losses in respect of any Warranty Claim where to do so would involve recovery more than once in respect of the same loss or damage.
 
1.5
The aggregate liability of the Founders for all Warranty Claims and Tax Covenant Claims, any liability for costs and interest, shall not exceed [**] paid and payable to the Founders. The liability of each of Matthew Barkway and Andrew Southon for all Warranty Claims and Tax Covenant Claims, any liability for costs and interest shall not to each of them exceed the Consideration paid and payable.
 
2.
Notices
 
If the Buyer becomes aware of any matter giving rise or likely to give rise to a Warranty Claim, save for a Warranty Claim for breach of any of the Tax Warranties, it shall give written notice to the Sellers as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event on or before the date falling [**] after the date on which the Buyer becomes aware of that matter and that it gives rise or is likely to give rise to a Warranty Claim, specifying the matter in reasonable detail and the nature and a reasonable estimate of the amount of the Warranty Claim or likely Warranty Claim.
 
3.
Time Limits
 
3.1
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any Warranty Claim unless notice of that Warranty Claim is given in accordance with paragraph 2, or paragraph 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 4 in the case of a Warranty claim for breach of any of the Tax Warranties, and in the case of a Warranty Claim, is received by them:

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3.1.1
on or before the expiry of [**] from the Completion Date in the case of a Warranty Claim for breach of any of the Warranties other than the Tax Warranties;
 
 
3.1.2
on or before the [**] anniversary of the Accounts Date in the case of a Warranty Claim for breach of the Tax Warranties.
 
3.2
Where notice has been given in respect of any Warranty Claim, save for a Warranty Claim for breach of any of the Tax Warranties, then that Warranty Claim shall be deemed to have been irrevocably withdrawn and lapsed unless proceedings in respect of that claim have been issued and served on the Sellers not later than the expiry of [**] from the date of that notice or the Warranty Claim is satisfied, settled or withdrawn before that date.
 
3.3
Where notice has been given in respect of any Warranty Claim for breach of any of the Tax Warranties then that Warranty Claim shall be deemed to have been irrevocably withdrawn and lapsed unless proceedings in respect of that claim have been issued and served on the Sellers not later than [**] or the Warranty Claim is satisfied, settled or withdrawn before that date.
 
4.
Exclusion of liability: general 
 
4.1
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any Warranty Claim to the extent that the matter giving rise to such Warranty Claim:
 
 
4.1.1
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4.1.2
was within the actual or constructive knowledge of the Buyer, the Buyer's Solicitors or KPMG LLP at the date of this Agreement.
 
4.2
The Sellers shall not be liable (or such liability shall be reduced) in respect of a Warranty Claim to the extent that there is specific provision or reference in the Accounts or reasonable details apparent on the face of the Accounts in respect of the matter relating to the subject of the Warranty Claim.
 
4.3
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of a Warranty Claim to the extent that the matter giving rise to the Warranty Claim results from: 
 
 
4.3.1
any act or omission before Completion carried out or omitted at the request or with the express written approval of the Buyer; or
 
 
4.3.2
any change after Completion in the accounting policies or practices used in preparing the Accounts; or
 
 
4.3.3
any reorganisation or change after Completion in the ownership of the Shares; or
 
 
4.3.4
any act, event, occurrence or omission after the date of this Agreement compelled by law, or from the enactment, amendment or change in the interpretation after that date, of any statute, regulation or practice of any governmental, regulatory or other body, including a Tax Authority, whether or not having retrospective effect, or any change after the date of this Agreement in the rate of Taxation.
 
4.4
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any Warranty Claim, save for a Warranty Claim for breach of any of the Tax Warranties, to the extent that the matter giving rise to the Warranty Claim constitutes a contingent liability of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or relates to a liability which is not capable of being quantified until such liability becomes an actual liability of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking or becomes capable of being quantified and, in either case, as long as any Warranty Claim arising by reason of a contingent liability has been notified to the Sellers in accordance with paragraph 2 then paragraph 3 shall be amended in relation to such Warranty Claim so as to require that legal proceedings be commenced prior to the later of the expiry of [**] from the date on which the liability ceases to be contingent and the expiry of [**] from the Completion Date. 
 
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5.
Conduct of Claims
 
5.1
If the Buyer or the Company becomes aware of any matter which it believes would or might give rise to a Warranty Claim (taking no account of paragraph 1.2 for these purposes) and the Buyer or the Company has a right to make recovery or claim indemnity from any third party (including under any policy of insurance) in relation to that matter, then the Buyer shall promptly notify the Sellers of the right.
 
5.2
If any sum is paid by or on behalf of the Sellers in satisfaction of a Warranty Claim, and the Buyer or the Company has or subsequently acquires a right to make recovery or claim indemnity from any third party (including under any policy of insurance) in respect of the matter giving rise to that Warranty Claim, the Buyer shall promptly notify the Sellers of the right.
 
5.3
The Buyer shall have conduct of any and all litigation or negotiation provided that it shall continue to consult with the Sellers with respect to the matter in question.
 
5.4
If there is any dispute between the Sellers and the Buyer as to whether liability in respect of any third party claim should be admitted or whether that claim should be settled or compromised, liability shall not be admitted, and that claim shall not be settled or comprised, other than in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph. Any such dispute shall be referred to leading counsel agreed between the Sellers and the Buyer or, in default of agreement on or before the date falling [**] after the date on which an individual is first proposed for the purpose by either the Sellers or the Buyer, by the President for the time being of the Law Society of England and Wales on the application of either the Sellers or the Buyer. Any individual to whom a dispute is so referred shall be instructed in writing to give a written opinion, as soon as is reasonably practicable, as to which of the courses of conduct proposed by the Buyer and by the Sellers is most likely to result in the third party claim being agreed, settled or compromised at the least cost to the Sellers. The decision of counsel (who shall act as expert and not as arbitrator) shall be final and binding on the Buyer and the Sellers for all purposes. Counsel's fees and expenses shall be borne by the Sellers and the Buyer as counsel may determine in his sole discretion or, if no such determination is made, by the Sellers and the Buyer in equal shares. The parties shall then implement counsel's decision as soon as is reasonably practicable.

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5.5
To the extent that the Buyer or the Company receives any sum or other benefit by reason of the enforcement of any rights such as are referred to in paragraphs 5.1 or 5.2, then either the Sellers' liability in relation to such Warranty Claim or potential Warranty Claim shall be reduced by the Amount Recovered, or if any sum has already been paid by or on behalf of the Sellers in satisfaction of a Warranty Claim, then the Buyer shall pay the Amount Recovered to the Sellers on or before the date falling five Business Days after the date on which that receipt or saving is made. For the purposes of paragraph 1.2 of this schedule, the Sellers shall be deemed never to have been liable to the Buyer in respect of the Amount Recovered.
 
5.6
For the purposes of paragraph 5.5 of this schedule, the "Amount Recovered" shall be equal to so much of the sum or benefit received by reason of the enforcement of any rights such as are referred to in paragraphs 5.1 or 5.2 as does not exceed the amount claimed by the Buyer in relation to such Warranty Claim or (as the case may be) the payment by or on behalf of the Sellers in satisfaction of the relevant Warranty Claim, less any Taxation payable by the Buyer or the Company in respect of that receipt and less all reasonable costs and expenses of the Buyer and the Company in recovering that receipt or saving.

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6.
Sellers' rights to information 
 
If the Buyer gives notice under paragraph 2 the Buyer shall and shall ensure that the Company shall allow the Sellers and their duly authorised representatives and advisers access during normal business hours to any relevant records or information of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking which relate to the period prior to Completion and those representatives and advisers to make copies (at the Sellers' cost) of those records and information.
 
7.
Remedies 
 
The Buyer irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right it may have to rescind this Agreement for any non-fraudulent misrepresentation, whether or not contained in this Agreement.
 
8.
Relief
 
8.1
The amount of any Warranty Claim shall take into account the relief from Taxation arising by virtue of the loss or damage in respect of which the Warranty Claim was made.
 
8.2
Nothing in this Agreement shall derogate from the Buyer's obligation to mitigate any loss which it suffers in consequence of a breach of the Warranties.
 
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8.3
The Buyer for itself and the Buyer's Group warrants and represents to the Sellers (and accepts that the Sellers are relying upon this warranty and representation in entering into this Agreement) neither it nor any of its agents or advisers, from the written information provided to it by the Sellers, is aware, as of the date of this Agreement, of any matter or thing which it knows to be inconsistent with the Warranties or to constitute a breach of the Warranties.
 
9.
Tax Warranty Claims
 
The provisions of paragraphs 6 (Recovery from Other Persons) and 7 (Conduct of Tax Affairs) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 shall mutatis mutandi apply to any claim for breach of the Tax Warranties as if set out in this schedule and, for these purposes, a "Potential Liability" shall include a potential liability for a claim for breach of Tax Warranty.

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Schedule 4
 
Part 1
 
Tax Covenants
 
1
Definitions and Interpretation
 
 
1.1
Definitions
 
In this Schedule:
 
"Accounts Relief" means any Relief which has been treated as an asset in the Accounts or has been taken into account in reducing or eliminating any provision for deferred tax which appears or would, but for the presumed availability of such Relief, have appeared in the Accounts;
 
"Event" means any event, occurrence, transaction, action or omission and without limitation includes the earning, receipt or accrual of any profit income or gain or distribution, failure to distribute, acquisition, disposal, transfer, payment, loan or advance, membership or ceasing to be a member of a group or VAT group, the death of any person, entering into this Agreement and Completion itself and:
 
 
1.1.1
any reference to an Event occurring shall include any Event which is deemed to have occurred; and
 
 
1.1.2
any reference to an Event occurring on or before a particular date shall include an Event which is deemed to have occurred on or before that date.
 
"Group Relief" means any Relief surrendered or claimed pursuant to Chapter IV of Part X of the Taxes Act, advance corporation tax surrendered or claimed pursuant to section 240 of the Taxes Act, any tax refund surrendered or claimed pursuant to section 102 Finance Act 1989;

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"Post Accounts Date Relief" means any Relief of or made available to any Group Company arising in respect of an Event occurring or period commencing after the Accounts Date;
 
"Buyer Relief" means any Accounts Relief or Post Accounts Date Relief;
 
"Relevant Amount" has the meaning set out in paragraph 5.3;
 
"Relief" means any loss, relief (including group relief), allowance, exemption, set-off, deduction, right to repayment or credit or other relief of a similar nature in respect of any Tax or relevant to the computation of any income, profits or gains (or deemed income, profits or gains) for the purposes of any Tax and any right to a payment or other consideration for the surrender of group relief;
 
 
1.2
Construction. References to any English legal term for any action, remedy, method of judicial proceedings, legal document, legal status, court, official or any legal concept or thing shall in respect of any jurisdiction other than England be deemed to include what most nearly approximates in that jurisdiction to the English legal term.
 
 
1.3
Instalment payments of Tax. Any reference in this Schedule to a liability to or for Tax shall include a liability to make an instalment payment of Tax.
 
 
1.4
Deemed accounting period closure. For the purposes of determining any liability of the Sellers under paragraph 2 of this Schedule an accounting period of each Group Company shall be deemed to have closed on Completion.
 
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1.5
Meaning of "Indemnify". In this Schedule, unless otherwise specified, references to "indemnify" or "indemnifying" any person against any circumstance include indemnifying and keeping him harmless from all actions, claims and proceedings from time to time made against that person and all loss or damage and all payments, costs or expenses made or incurred by that person as a consequence of or which would not have arisen but for that circumstance.
 
 
1.6
Meaning of "75% subsidiary". In this Schedule, a Group Company is a 75% subsidiary of another Group Company if it is a 75% subsidiary of the Group Company for the purposes of sections 838(1) and 413(7) of the Taxes Act.
 
2
Covenant 
 
 
2.1
Covenant to pay Tax Liabilities. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Schedule, [**] covenant to the Buyer to pay to the Buyer on the due date in the Due Proportions (for the avoidance of doubt, so far as possible by way of adjustment to the consideration for the sale of the Shares) an amount equal to any of the following:
 
 
2.1.1
any liability of any Group Company for Tax arising as a consequence of or by reference to any Event occurring on or before the Completion Date;
 
 
2.1.2
any liability of any Group Company for Tax which would not have arisen but for the loss, reduction, modification or disallowance of an Accounts Relief as a consequence of or by reference to any Event occurring on or before the Completion Date;
 
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2.1.3
any liability of any Group Company for Tax in respect of which the Sellers would have been liable under paragraph 2.1.1 but which is not payable as a consequence of or by reference to the use or set-off of a Buyer Relief;
 
 
2.1.4
the amount which would have been obtained but for the loss, disallowance or reduction of any right to repayment of Tax (including any repayment supplement or interest) or non-receipt of payment or other consideration for the surrender of group relief which has been treated as an asset in the Accounts or has been taken into account in computing (and so reducing or eliminating) any provision for deferred Tax appearing or which would have appeared in the Accounts;
 
 
2.1.5
any liability of the Buyer or any Group Company for reasonable costs or expenses reasonably and properly incurred by the Buyer or the relevant Group Company in connection with any successful claim under this Schedule, or successfully taking or defending any action under this Schedule;
 
 
2.1.6
any liability of any Group Company for Tax which the relevant Group Company is or became liable to discharge by virtue of its relationship with any person (other than another Group Company or any member of the Buyer's Group) at any time before Completion;
 
 
2.1.7
any liability of any Group Company for Tax arising as a consequence of the payment of the Deferred Consideration;
 
 
2.1.8
any liability to repay to any person other than a Group Company the whole or part of any payment received for group relief, or make a payment for group relief, in each case pursuant to any agreement or arrangement entered into on or before Completion;
 
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2.1.9
any liability of any Group Company for Tax arising as a consequence of or in connection with any loan, advance or dividend paid by any Group Company. 
 
3
Limitations on Liability
 
 
3.1
The Sellers shall not be under any liability under this part of this Schedule to the extent that:
 
 
3.1.1
provision or reserve for such liability is made or reflected in the Accounts including any provision or reserve made in respect of deferred tax or payment or discharge of such liability was taken into account therein;
 
 
3.1.2
the liability arises or is increased as a result of any retrospective change or changes in the tax rates or in the law of taxation announced after the date of this Agreement (including any retrospective change in published practice of any Tax Authority which is published in a form intended to be made available to taxpayers generally);
 
 
3.1.3
the liability would not have arisen but for a voluntary transaction, action or omission by a Group Company or the Buyer at any time after Completion other than any such transaction, action or omission:
 
 
(i)
which occurred after Completion in the ordinary course of business of the relevant Group Company or the Buyer as conducted at Completion; or
 
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(ii)
which it was outside the power of the relevant Group Company or the Buyer to prevent or was pursuant to a legally binding obligation entered into by the relevant Group Company before Completion;
 
 
3.1.4
the liability would not have arisen or would have been reduced or eliminated but for a failure on the part of any Group Company to make any claim, election, surrender or disclaimer or give any notice or consent or do anything after Completion the making, giving or doing of which was taken into account in the Accounts and in relation to which the Seller has given the Buyer reasonable notice of the requirement to make such claim, election, surrender or disclaimer or to give such notice or consent or do such act after Completion;
 
3.1.5
the liability arises from or is increased by:
 
 
(i)
any change of the accounting reference date of a Group Company on Completion or any subsequent change thereafter; or
 
 
(ii)
any change after Completion in accounting policy or the basis upon which a Group Company values its assets save where such change in accounting policy or basis of valuation is necessary to comply with generally accepted accounting standards and policies applicable to the relevant accounting periods;
 
 
3.1.6
the liability would not have arisen but for the loss, reduction, modification or disallowance of any relief for trading losses (other than a Buyer's Relief) which would otherwise have been available to a Group Company but for cessation of trade, or a change in the nature or conduct of the trade carried on by the relevant Group Company after Completion or the transfer of any trade or business or any reconstruction or reorganisation of the share capital of the relevant Group Company occurring after Completion;
 
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3.1.7
the liability arises as a result of or is otherwise attributable to any voluntary disclaimer of or revision after Completion of a claim for capital or other allowances in respect of any period ending on or before the Accounts Date;
 
 
3.1.8
the liability relates to stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax arising out of the transfer of the Shares or agreement to transfer the Shares;
 
 
3.1.9
the liability would not have arisen but for anything done or omitted to be done at the written request of the Buyer;
 
 
3.1.10
the liability has been satisfied by the Sellers by reason of being liable for such Tax under section 767A or 767AA of the Taxes Act or liable to the Buyer under any other statutory provision;
 
 
3.2
For the avoidance of doubt, paragraphs 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5 of Part 2 of Schedule 3 shall apply in respect of any Tax Covenant Claim.
 
 
3.3
The Sellers shall not be liable in respect of any claim under this Schedule, unless notice of such claim has been given in accordance with paragraph 7 before or on 31 December 2014.
 
 
3.4
If the Buyer is entitled to claim under this Schedule or under the Tax Warranties in respect of the same subject matter, the Buyer may claim under either or both, but payments under this Schedule shall be treated as being made in satisfaction of the claim for breach of Tax Warranty in respect of the same subject matter and vice versa.

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4
Mitigation
 
 
4.1
Mitigation of liability. The Buyer shall, to the extent permitted by law, at the direction of the Sellers, procure that each Group Company will take all such steps as the Sellers may reasonably require to use any Relief (other than any Buyer Relief) available (provided the Sellers indemnify and secure the relevant Group Company to its reasonable satisfaction in respect of any cost incurred in order to secure the Relief) to mitigate or eliminate any liability for Tax for which the Sellers would be liable under this Schedule, such Relief to be used in priority to Reliefs arising after Completion in so far as may be permissible under applicable Tax law, and at the Sellers' expense deliver to the Sellers a certificate from the auditors of the relevant Group Company for the time being confirming that all such Reliefs have been so used Provided that this paragraph 4.1 shall not prejudice any rights of the Buyer under this Schedule.
 
5
Over-Provisions, Reliefs, etc
 
5.1
Over-provisions. If the auditors for the time being of any Group Company shall certify at a time when the relevant Group Company is a 75 per cent subsidiary of the Buyer (at the request made within three years of Completion and expense of the Sellers) that any provision for Tax in the Accounts has proved to be an over-provision, then the amount of such over-provision shall be dealt with in accordance with paragraph 5.3.
 

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5.2
Reliefs. If the auditors for the time being of any Group Company shall certify (at the request and expense of the Sellers) that any Tax which has resulted in a payment having been made or becoming due from the Sellers under this Schedule has given or will give rise to a Relief (other than an Accounts Relief) for any Group Company which would not otherwise have arisen and which has given rise to a reduction in Tax of any Group Company for which the Sellers are not liable under this Schedule, then the amount by which that liability is so reduced shall be dealt with in accordance with paragraph 5.3.
 
 
5.3
Set-off of Relevant Amounts. Where it is provided under paragraph 5.1 or 5.2 that any amount (the "Relevant Amount") is to be dealt with in accordance with this paragraph the Relevant Amount shall first be set off against any payment then due from the Sellers under this Schedule then second to the extent that there is an excess a refund shall be made to the Sellers of any previous payment or payments made by the Sellers under this Schedule (and not previously refunded under this Schedule) up to the amount of the excess and then third to the extent that there remains an excess the remainder of that excess shall be carried forward and set of against any future payment or payments which become due from the Sellers under this Schedule.
 
 
5.4
Auditors' certificate. Where any such certification as is mentioned in paragraph 5.1 or 5.2 has been made, the Sellers or the Buyer or any Group Company may request the auditors for the time being of the relevant Group Company to review (at the expense of the requesting party) such certification in the light of all relevant circumstances, including any facts which have become known only since such certification, and to certify whether such certification remains correct or whether, in the light of those circumstances, the amount that was the subject of such certification should be amended.
 
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5.5
Effect of Auditors certificate. If the auditors certify under paragraph 5.4 that an amount previously certified should be amended, that amended amount shall be substituted for the purposes of paragraph 5.3 as the Relevant Amount in respect of the certification in question in place of the amount originally certified, and such adjusting payment (if any) as may be required by virtue of the above-mentioned substitution shall be made as soon as practicable by the Sellers or Buyer as appropriate.
 
6
Recovery from other Persons
 
 
6.1
Recovery from other persons. If, in the event of any payment becoming due from the Sellers under paragraph 2, a Group Company either is immediately entitled at the due date for the making of that payment to recover from any person (not being a Group Company or the Sellers, but including any Tax Authority) any sum in respect of the liability that has resulted in that payment becoming due from the Sellers, or at some subsequent date becomes entitled to make such a recovery, then the Buyer shall procure that the Group Company entitled to make that recovery shall (in either of those cases) notify the Sellers of its entitlement and shall within a reasonable period of it becoming aware of the entitlement, if so required by the Sellers, take all appropriate steps to enforce that recovery (keeping the Sellers fully informed of the progress of any action taken) and shall if the Sellers has made a payment under paragraph 2 in respect of the Liability in question account to the Sellers for whichever is the lesser of:
 
 
6.1.1
any sum so recovered (including any interest or repayment supplement paid by the Tax Authority or other person on or in respect thereof less any Tax chargeable on the relevant Group Company in respect of that interest); and

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6.1.2
the amount paid by the Sellers under paragraph 2 in respect of the liability in question,
 
Provided that neither the Group Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking shall be required to take such steps unless the Sellers agrees to indemnify and secure it to the reasonable satisfaction of the Buyer for all losses, costs, damages and expenses occurred in seeking such recovery.
 
7
Conduct of Tax Affairs
 
7.1
Interpretation. In this paragraph:
 
 
7.1.1
"Potential Liability" means a liability to or claim for Tax which may result in a claim against the Sellers under this Schedule, or which may do so if paragraph 3 of this Schedule were not to apply;
 
7.1.2
"Relevant Period" means:
 
 
(i)
in relation to corporation tax, any accounting period ended on or before the Accounts Date;
 
 
(ii)
in relation to any other Tax, any period ended before Completion in respect of which the relevant Group Company is required to make a return or a payment to a Tax Authority.
 
 
7.2
Potential Liabilities.
 
 
7.2.1
Notification. If the Buyer or any Group Company becomes aware of a Potential Liability of which the Sellers are not then aware the Buyer shall give written notice thereof to the Sellers (which notice shall set out reasonable particulars of the basis and amount of such Potential Liability to the extent that the same are available) as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 25 Business Days of first so becoming aware.
 
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7.2.2
Conduct. The Buyer shall have sole conduct of all tax affairs of the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking.
 
7.2.3
Buyer obligations
 
 
(i)
Action. Provided that the Sellers indemnify and secure the Buyer and the relevant Group Company to the reasonable satisfaction of the Buyer against all losses, liabilities, costs, damages and expenses (including any further liability to Tax or interest on overdue Tax) which may thereby be incurred, the Buyer shall take, or shall procure that the relevant Group Company shall take, such action as the Sellers may reasonably request in writing to avoid, dispute, resist, defend, appeal or compromise any Potential Liability; provided that where the Potential Liability has to be paid before an appeal can be made or before any other action requested by the Sellers can be taken, the Buyer shall not be obliged to take or procure that the relevant Group Company take such action until the Sellers shall have paid to the Buyer for the purpose of discharging the Potential Liability, an amount equal to the said liability.
 
 
(ii)
Timing. The Buyer shall or shall procure that the relevant Group Company takes any action pursuant to sub-paragraph (i) above as soon as reasonably practicable and shall use its reasonable endeavours to procure that any action is taken within the time limit for the valid taking of such action, provided that if such time limit has expired and the taking of such action might be validated by the exercise of judicial or administrative discretion, and the Sellers so request not more than 15 days after expiry of such time limit, the Buyer shall procure that the relevant Group Company requests that such discretion be exercised in favour of the relevant Group Company and, if such discretion is so exercised and, if so required under paragraph (i) above that the relevant Group Company takes such action.
 
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(iii)
Examples of subject - matter of instructions. Without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph but subject also to the other provisions of this paragraph, the Buyer shall procure that the relevant Group Company gives consideration to the Sellers' reasonable instructions with regard to:
 
 
-
the form and content of documents to be served, lodged or disclosed in connection with any proceedings taken by the relevant Group Company pursuant to paragraph (i) above and the extent of any such disclosure or of any disclosure in response to enquiries which is reasonable to suppose might lead to such proceedings being taken;
 
 
-
the choice of, and the content of instructions to, solicitors and Counsel for the purposes of any such proceedings;
 
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-
the choice of witnesses and the subject matter of their witness statements;
 
 
-
the choice (in conjunction with the Sellers' advisers and Counsel) of arguments to be advanced or points to be conceded in any such proceedings; and
 
 
-
the lodging or contesting of any appeals, any tactical decisions and any decisions in response to any offers of settlement in connection with such proceedings.
 
7.2.4
Buyer Protection
 
 
(i)
Appeals. Neither the Buyer nor any Group Company shall be obliged to take any action pursuant to this paragraph 7.2 which involves contesting a Potential Liability beyond the first appellate body (excluding the authority or body demanding the Tax in question) in the jurisdiction concerned unless the Sellers at their own expense and after disclosure of all relevant information obtain and deliver to the Buyer the written opinion of tax Counsel of appropriate experience to the effect that appealing or defending an appeal in respect of the Potential Liability will on a balance of probabilities be successful. The Buyer shall have the right to submit to tax Counsel any matters or arguments which in the reasonable opinion of the Buyer may be material for the proper consideration of tax Counsel and shall have the right to attend any consultation with tax Counsel.
 
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(ii)
Settling claims. The Buyer or any Group Company may compromise, settle, discharge or otherwise deal with any Potential Liability without reference to the Sellers if the Sellers at any time notify the Buyer that they do not wish to exercise their rights under this paragraph 7 or if the Sellers do not request the Buyer in writing to take any appropriate action within [**] of notice to the Sellers given pursuant to paragraph 7.2.1or if the Sellers fail to indemnify and secure the Buyer and the relevant Company to the reasonable satisfaction of the Buyer within a period of time (commencing with the date of the notice given to the Sellers) that is reasonable having regard to the nature of the Potential Liability and the existence of any time limit in relation to avoiding, disputing, defending, resisting, appealing or compromising such Potential Liability and which period will not in any event exceed a period of [**].
 
 
7.3
Buyer conduct
 
 
7.3.1
Conduct. The Buyer shall have sole conduct of all tax affairs of each Group Company.
 
 
7.3.2
Assisting the Buyer. The Sellers shall give the Buyer and/or the relevant Group Company all assistance as may reasonably be required to enable the Buyer and/or the relevant Group Company to deal with the tax affairs of the Companies which are not Sellers Conduct Matters, Sellers Appeals or Potential Liabilities of which the Sellers have conduct.
 
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7.3.3
Keeping the Sellers informed. The Buyer shall procure that:
 
 
(i)
the Sellers receive copies of all draft corporation tax returns, computations, amended returns and material correspondence relating thereto in respect of each Group Company for its pre-Completion Period; and
 
 
(ii)
any representations made promptly, and in any event within seven days after provision of the returns, computations, amended returns and/or correspondence referred to above, will be considered reasonably and in good faith.
 
8
Due Date of Payment
 
 
8.1
Due date of payment. Where the Sellers become liable to make any payment under paragraph 2, the due date for the making of that payment in cleared funds shall be:
 
 
8.1.1
in a case that involves an actual payment of Tax by the relevant Group Company, the day preceding the date that is the last date on which such Group Company would have had to have paid to the appropriate Tax Authority the Tax that has given rise to the Sellers' liability under this Schedule in order to avoid incurring a liability to interest or a charge or penalty in respect of that Tax liability or in order to enable the liability in question to be appealed; or
 
 
8.1.2
in a case falling within paragraph 2.1.2 the day preceding the date that is the last date on which the Tax, which but for such loss, reduction, modification or disallowance would have been saved, has to be paid to the appropriate Tax Authority in order to avoid incurring a liability to interest or a charge or penalty in respect of that Tax;
 
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8.1.3
in a case falling within paragraph 2.1.3, the day payment would have been due under 8.1.1 above assuming the Post Accounts Date Relief had not been used or set off as envisaged in paragraph 2.1.3; or
 
 
8.1.4
in a case falling within paragraph 2.1.4 the date on which the repayment of Tax or payment or other consideration for the surrender of group relief would have been payable; or
 
8.1.5
in a case falling within paragraph 2.1.5, within 30 days of demand;
 
 
8.1.6
in any other case falling within paragraph 2, on the date on which the relevant Group Company is required to meet such liability;
 
 
8.2
Interest for late payment. The Sellers shall not be liable to pay interest for late payment to the extent that such interest:
 
 
8.2.1
arises only as a result of any failure to give notice of a Potential Liability under paragraph 7.2.1 of this Schedule; or
 
 
8.2.2
in respect of any period of time in relation to which interest is due as a liability for Tax under paragraph 2 of this Schedule.
 
9
Deductions from Payments
 
 
9.1
No deductions or withholdings. All sums payable by the Sellers to the Buyer under this Schedule shall be paid free and clear of all deductions or withholdings whatsoever, save only as may be required by law.
 
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9.2
Gross-up for deductions. If any deductions or withholdings are required by law to be made from any of the sums payable as mentioned in paragraph 9.1, the Sellers, save where the deduction or withholding would not have been required but for any assignment or novation of the Buyer's rights under this Agreement or this Schedule or change in residence or tax status of the Buyer or the relevant Group Company, shall be obliged to pay to the Buyer such sum as will, after the deduction or withholding has been made (and allowing for any credit the Buyer is entitled to receive in respect of such deduction or withholding), leave the Buyer with the same amount as it would have been entitled to receive in the absence of any such requirement to make a deduction or withholding. The provisions of paragraphs 4, 5.2, 6 and 8 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any payment required under this paragraph.
 
10
Buyer Covenants
 
 
10.1
The Buyer hereby covenants with the Sellers to pay an amount by way of adjustment to the consideration for the sale of the Shares equal to any Tax paid by the Sellers under sections 767A, 767AA and 767B of the Taxes Act to the extent that such Tax is not of a type which would allow it to be claimed from the Sellers under paragraph 2 of this Schedule.
 
 
10.2
Paragraphs 4, 5.2, 6, 7, 8 and 9 shall apply to the covenants in this paragraph as they apply to the covenants in paragraph 2 mutatis mutandis.
 
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Schedule 4
 
Part 2
 
Tax Warranties
 
1
Returns and payment of Taxation
 
1.1
All information, notices, accounts, statements, reports, computations and returns which ought to have been made have been properly and duly submitted by each Group Company to the relevant Tax Authority within the required time period and are accurate, comply with each Group Company's obligations under all applicable provisions within the relevant jurisdiction (including but not limited to corporation tax self-assessment, PAYE, US federal and state income tax, sales tax, withholding tax and social security obligations), and are neither the subject of any dispute nor are the Sellers aware of any circumstances under which anything contained in any such information, notices, accounts, statements, reports, computations or returns are likely to become the subject of any dispute.
 
1.2
All Taxation for which each Group Company is liable including amounts provided for since the Accounts Date or for which each Group Company is liable to account have been duly provided for and no Group Company has incurred any liability to interest or penalties in respect of such amounts.
 
1.3
No Group Company is, nor has it been at any time since the date of its incorporation, liable to pay, to reimburse or to indemnify any person (including a Tax Authority) in respect of the Taxation liability of a third person whether or not as a consequence of that third person failing to discharge that liability.
 
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1.4
No Group Company has since the date of its incorporation paid or become liable to pay and there are no circumstances by reason of which a Group Company is likely to become liable to pay, a fine or penalty.
 
1.5
Each Group Company has complied with all notices served on it by any Tax Authority and no such notice remains outstanding.
 
1.6
No Group Company is subject to any control visit, audit, enquiry or investigation by any Tax Authority and the Sellers are not aware of any circumstances that make it reasonable to expect that such a control visit, audit, enquiry or investigation will take place within the next [**].
 
1.7
The Disclosure Letter gives all relevant particulars of any concession, agreement or other formal or informal arrangement with any Tax Authority which has affected the amount of Tax chargeable on or the amount of any Relief available to any Group Company and of any fact or circumstance from which it is reasonable to conclude that such concession, agreement or arrangement might not be available after Completion.
 
2
Taxation claims, liabilities and reliefs
 
2.1
Details of all matters relating to Taxation in respect of which each Group Company (either alone or jointly with any other person) has, or at Completion will have, an outstanding entitlement:
 
2.1.1
to make a claim or election in respect of Taxation or any Relief;
 
2.1.2
to make an appeal (including a further appeal) against an assessment to Taxation;
 
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2.1.3
to make an application for the postponement of, or the payment by instalments of, any Taxation; or
 
 
2.1.4
to disclaim or require the postponement of any allowance or relief,
 
have been Disclosed in the Disclosure Letter (including, where the claim, election, appeal, application or disclaimer must be made within eight weeks of Completion, the last date by which it must be made).
 
 
2.2
No Group Company has, or may become, liable to make any payment or reimbursement or give any indemnity in respect of Taxation, or any amounts, as a result of the failure of any person to discharge Taxation, where such Taxation relates to a profit, income or gain, transaction, event, omission or circumstance arising, occurring or deemed to arise or occur (wholly or partly) prior to Completion.
 
3
Tax residence and status
 
 
3.1
For the purposes of Taxation the Company has been resident in the United Kingdom at all times since its incorporation and will be so resident at Completion, and has never been resident in or liable to Taxation in any other jurisdiction for any Taxation purpose.
 
 
3.2
For the purposes of Taxation the Subsidiary Undertaking has been resident in the United States of America at all times since its incorporation and will be so resident at Completion, and has never been resident in or liable to Taxation in any other jurisdiction for any Taxation purpose.
 
 
3.3
No circumstances have occurred which could give rise to a liability on a Group Company under section 132 FA 1988 (Liability of other persons for unpaid tax) or sections 185 TCGA (Deemed disposal of assets on a Group Company ceasing to be United Kingdom tax resident) and no Group Company has been party to any election under section 187 TCGA (Postponement of charge on deemed disposal under section 185) or any equivalent provisions in the jurisdiction of the relevant Group Company.
 
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3.4
The Company is a close company within the meaning of section 414 of ICTA. The Company is not nor has it at any time been a close investment holding company within the meaning of section 13A of ICTA.
 
 
3.5
No distributions within section 418 of ICTA or transfers of value within section 94 Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (charge on participators) has been made by any Group Company
 
 
3.6
No loan or advance within section 419 ICTA (loans to participators etc) has been made or agreed to be made by any Group Company and no Group Company has, since the Accounts Date, released or written off, and there is no agreement or arrangement for the release or writing off of the whole or part of the debt in respect of any such loan or advance.
 
 
3.7
Full disclosure has been made of any election or claim (including but not limited to any "check the box" election in respect of US taxation) that affects or may affect the Tax treatment of any Group Company.
 
4
Corporation Tax on chargeable gains
 
Since the Accounts Date no Group Company has entered into or been a party to a transaction which will or may give rise to a liability to tax on any capital gain.
 
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5
Shares owned by directors or employees
 
All shares in the Company owned by any person who is or has been a director or employee of any Group Company, or any person who is connected with such a person, have been acquired at a price equal to UMV (as defined in section 428 Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003) and any such person who is subject to Taxation on income in the UK has entered into a valid election under section 431 Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003.
 
6
Value Added Tax
 
 
6.1
The Company:
 
 
6.1.1
is a duly registered taxable person for the purposes of VAT and has complied fully with all statutory requirements, orders, provisions, directions or conditions relating to VAT;
 
 
6.1.2
maintains and has at all times maintained complete, correct and up-to-date records for the purposes of the legislation relating to VAT and has preserved such records in such form and for such periods as are required by such legislation;
 
 
6.1.3
is not in arrears with any payment or returns required under any legislation relating to VAT and is not liable to any abnormal or non-routine payment, or any forfeiture or penalty or default surcharge, or to the operation of any penal provision or to pay any interest relating to VAT;
 
 
6.1.4
has not been required by HM Revenue & Customs to give security under any legislation relating to VAT; and
 
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6.1.5
is not and has never been a member of VAT group for the purposes of S.43 VATA.
 
 
6.2
The Subsidiary Undertaking is not and has never been registered, and is not and has never been required to be registered, as a taxable person for the purposes of VAT.
 
 
6.3
The Disclosure Letter contains particulars of the prescribed accounting periods for VAT that apply to the Company.
 
 
6.4
The Disclosure Letter contains all relevant particulars of any property in respect of which an election has been made to waive exemption from VAT under paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 to the VATA.
 
 
6.5
The Disclosure Letter contains all relevant particulars of any assets owned by any Group Company which are capital items that are subject to the capital goods scheme under Part XV of the VAT Regulations 1995.
 
7
Stamp Duty 
 
Each Group Company has duly paid all stamp duty land tax and all stamp duty reserve tax for which it is or has at any time been liable and no document pursuant to which a Group Company has any right is held by or on behalf of that Group Company outside the UK which would attract stamp duty if bought into the United Kingdom and no Group Company is liable to pay any penalty, interest or fine in respect of stamp duty or stamp duty reserve tax or to forfeiture of any relief from any such duty, penalty, interest or fine and so far as the Sellers is aware, there are no circumstances including execution, substantial performance of any contract for a land transaction and performance of this agreement which may result in a Group Company becoming liable to any such penalty, interest or fine or to any such forfeiture.
 
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8
Tax Avoidance
 
 
8.1
No Group Company has incurred nor will any Group Company incur any Tax Liability as a consequence of the relevant Group Company entering into any scheme which has as its main purpose the avoidance of Tax.
 
 
8.2
No Group Company has engaged in any transaction or entered into any arrangements in respect of which it is reasonably foreseeable that there may be substituted, or that any Tax Authority may seek to substitute, for the purposes of any Taxation, consideration that is different, in amount or in nature, from the actual consideration given or received.
 
9
Miscellaneous
 
 
9.1
The Company has not done or been party to the doing of anything which would be an offence under section 766 ICTA (offences in connection with creation, issue or transfer of shares or debentures of overseas companies).
 
 
9.2
The Company is not required to bring into account for any Tax purposes any earnings, income, profits or gains of an entity which is resident for Tax purposes in a different jurisdiction from that of the relevant Group Company. In so far as UK Taxation is concerned, this refers to any amounts which might be required to recognised under Chapter IV Part XVII of ICTA (controlled foreign companies) or Section 13 TCGA (attribution of gains to members of certain non-resident companies).
 
 
9.3
To the extent that the Group Company has an interest in a controlled foreign company (as defined in section 747 (1) and (2) ICTA), exemption from apportionment does not depend and has not in any accounting period of the Company ending within the last three years depended solely on the controlled company in question pursuing an acceptable distribution policy (as defined by Part 1 Schedule 25 ICTA) and/or satisfying the test set out in Section 748 (3) (the motive test).
 
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9.4
For each accounting period of the relevant Group Company ending within the last three years, the Disclosure Letter contains all relevant details of:
 
 
9.4.1
any Double Taxation Relief arising to the Group Company;
 
 
9.4.2
the utilisation of that Double Taxation Relief by way of credit against Tax or deduction in computing Tax by the Group Company;
 
 
9.4.3
the amounts (if any) of eligible unrelieved foreign tax (as defined by section 896B ICTA) arising to the Group Company;
 
 
9.4.4
the amounts (if any) of Double Taxation Relief that the Group Company has been unable to utilise or to treat as eligible unrelieved foreign tax;
 
 
9.4.5
the extent (if any) by which the amount of Double Taxation Relief which would otherwise arise or be available for utilisation or treatment as eligible unrelieved foreign tax falls or has fallen to be restricted or which it is reasonably foreseeable that a Tax Authority will seek to treat as restricted by reason of:
 
 
(a)
the application of Section 795A (failure to minimise the foreign tax in question) or
 
 
(b)
the application of Sections 798 or 803 ICTA (relief restricted to amount arising on profit margin) or
 
 
(c)
the existence of, or there having been, any scheme or arrangement the purpose, or one of the main purposes, of which is or was to give rise to an amount of Double Taxation Relief
 
where
 
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Double Taxation Relief means any Tax Relief referred to in Section 788 ICTA or given under Section 790 Taxes whether with respect to Tax withheld, deducted, or charged directly or with respect to underlying tax (as defined by Section 792 (1) ICTA).

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Schedule 5
 
Intellectual Property Rights
 
TM Number
   
Mark Text
 
 
Type
 
 
Date
 
 
Status
 
 
Classes
 
2337771
 
 
ATLANTISWEB
 
 
WO
 
 
15.07.2003
 
 
Registered
 
 
09
 

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Schedule 6
 
Deferred Consideration
 
1.
Definitions
 
1.1
In this schedule (unless inconsistent with the context or otherwise specified) the expressions defined in this paragraph shall have the meanings respectively set opposite them in that paragraph, and subject thereto the expressions defined in this Agreement shall have the same respective meanings wherever used in this schedule:-
 
 
"Agreed Operating Margins"
:
the CMO percentage for the relevant period as set out in the model attached as Appendix 1 less [**]%. The operating margin shall be calculated using the [**] in the model attached as Appendix 1;
 
 
"Buyer's Auditors"
:
the current auditors of the Buyer and any successor firm;
 
 
"Buyer's Group"
:
the Buyer, its parent undertakings and its subsidiary undertakings from time to time and any subsidiary undertaking for the time being of a parent undertaking of the Buyer;
 
 
"CMO
:
the margin from operations calculated in accordance with the methodology used by the Buyer's Group and as illustrated in Appendix 1;
 
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"Deferred Consideration"
:
the deferred consideration calculated in accordance with paragraph 2 of this schedule;
 
 
"Earn Out Period"
:
the period from the first day of the Fiscal Year 2008 to the last day of the Fiscal Year 2010;
 
 
"European IOI Revenues"
:
IOI Revenues generated from clients based in Europe being the forty eight countries forming part of the continent which shall include the European Union and non-European Union countries;
 
 
"European Union"
:
an economic and political confederation of European nations which share a common foreign and security policy and co-operate on justice and home affairs created on 1 November 1993 by the Treaty for European Union (the Maastricht Treaty);

 
"FCL Products"
 
Software applications derived from or based on [**];
 
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"Fiscal Year 2008"
 
the twelve months commencing on 1 May 2008;
 
 
"Fiscal Year 2009"
 
the twelve months commencing on 1 May 2009;
 
 
"Fiscal Year 2010"
 
the twelve months commencing on 1 May 2010;
 
 
"Global IOI Revenues"
:
all IOI Revenues earned anywhere in the world, including European IOI Revenues;
 
 
"Independent Accountants"
:
a firm of accountants of international standing appointed by agreement between the Buyer and the Sellers or, failing such agreement and within 3 Business Days of either the Buyer or the Sellers requesting an appointment (following notice to the other) appended by the President for the time being of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales;
 
 
"IOI Group in FIX Division" 
:
the Company, the Subsidiary Undertaking and the Buyer's existing IOI business (as Organically Grown);
 
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"IOI Revenues" 
:
shall be defined to include revenues earned in any asset class from the following businesses:
 
   
[**];
 
"Other Related Potential Business Opportunities":
 
 
(i)    IOI integration professional services directly related to integrating current and future FCL Products with Buyer's Group products or third party products for use by a third party (which for these purposes shall exclude a Buyer's Group company) who will pay for such integration and for the avoidance of doubt shall not include the technical integration as set out in paragraph 2.2 below and any other integration, including but not limited to [**];
 
(ii)
[**]
 
 
PROVIDED THAT IOI Revenues shall include [**] save as provided in paragraph 5.1.11.

 
"Organically Grown"
:
grown by the development of the existing business of the Company, the Subsidiary Undertaking and the Buyer's Group but excluding [**];
 
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"Viewer"
:
A software application developed by the Company which is able to access and display messages and data shared within ioinet.
 
For the purposes of defining IOI Revenues in US$, all UK£ revenues shall be converted into US$ at a ratio of [**]. All EU€ revenues shall be first converted into UK£ at prevailing market rates ([**]) and shall then be converted to US$ from UK£ at the ratio of [**]. Rest of the world revenues shall be converted to US$ at prevailing market rates ([**]).
 
2.
Payment of Deferred Consideration
 
2.1
As further consideration for the sale of the Shares, the Sellers shall be entitled to the following payments in addition to the payment to be made at Completion in accordance with Clause 3 (such payments to be divided between the Sellers pro rata on the basis of their shareholding in the Company as set out in column 3 of Schedule 1):
 
 
2.1.1
within thirty (30) days of the last Business Day of the first calendar month of the Fiscal Year 2009:
 
 
(a)
£[**], provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2008;
 
 
(b)
£[**], provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of European IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2008; and
 
 
(c)
provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2008, a cash payment equal to [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2008 up to US$[**], plus [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2008 between US$[**] and US$[**], plus[**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2008 in excess of US$[**].
 
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2.1.2
within thirty (30) days of the last Business Day of the first calendar month after the end of Fiscal Year 2009:
 
 
(a)
£[**], provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009;
 
 
(b)
£[**], provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of European IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009; and
 
 
(c)
provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009, a cash payment equal to [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009 up to US$[**], plus [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009 between US$[**] and $[**], plus [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009 in excess of US$[**].
 
 
2.1.3
within thirty (30) days of the last Business Day of the first calendar month after the end of Fiscal Year 2010:
 
 
(a)
£[**], provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2010;
 
 
(b)
£[**], provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of European IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2010; and
 
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(c)
provided that the IOI Group in FIX Division has achieved not less than US$[**] of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2010, a cash payment equal to [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2010 up to US$[**], plus [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2010 between US$[**] and $[**], plus [**]% of Global IOI Revenues in Fiscal Year 2009 in excess of US$[**];
 
in each case subject to [**] for the IOI Group in FIX Division. During the Earn Out Period, the targets set out at paragraphs 2.1.1, 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 may be adjusted by the mutual agreement of the Buyer and the Sellers. For the purpose of this paragraph, agreement by the Sellers to any adjustment to the targets set will require the consent of those Sellers who hold at least [**] per cent. of the Shares as at the Completion Date.
 
2.2
In addition, as further consideration for the sale of the Shares, the Sellers shall be entitled to the sum of US$1,000,000 on the successful technical integration (as defined below in this clause) of the combined IOI service of the Seller and the Buyer for customer use as soon as possible but in any event within six months of Completion. The Buyer and Sellers shall work together to accomplish the successful technical integration of the combined IOI service as early as is commercially reasonable after Completion and in any event not more than 6 months following Completion. For the purposes of this clause the successful technical integration of the combined IOI service of the Buyer and the Company shall be deemed to have taken place when after first mutually agreeing to a programme of development tasks to accomplish the objectives set forth below in such time that in fact has no materially adverse effect upon the parties' ability to complete the agreed development tasks within the time set forth in this paragraph 2.2:
 
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(i)
FIX City has completed an agreed programme of development tasks which [**];
 
 
(ii)
FIX City has completed an agreed programme of development tasks which [**];
 
 
(iii)
[**];
 
 
(iv)
Fix City has completed an agreed programme of development tasks which [**]; and
 
 
(v)
ioinet has been rebranded to include the NYFIX logo and colour scheme.
 
 
(v)
In any event where the Buyer fails to complete agreed development tasks for which it is solely responsible (and has no FIX City dependencies) and where any such failure in fact has a materially adverse effect upon Fix City's ability to complete the agreed development tasks within the time set forth in this paragraph 2.2, and further, insofar as FIX City has first brought any such material failure to the attention of the Buyer within such time that the Buyer may reasonably remedy such failure without such failure having a materially adverse effect upon Fix City's ability to complete the agreed development tasks within the time set forth in this paragraph 2.2.
 
2.3
For the avoidance of doubt, the further consideration payments set out in this paragraph 2 shall (save in the case of paragraph 2.2), subject to the satisfaction of the relevant conditions set out above, be payable [**] under this paragraph 2.
 
3.
Set-off and Deduction
 
The Buyer shall be entitled to set-off against any amount otherwise payable to the Sellers pursuant to the provisions of this schedule any amount payable to the Buyer by the Sellers in the event of a breach of any of the Warranties or payable by the Sellers to the Buyer under the Tax Deed.
 
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4.
Treatment of the IOI Group in FIX Division

4.1
The Buyer acknowledges and agrees that during the Earn Out Period, the Buyer shall [**] this Schedule 6. In addition, the Buyer acknowledges and agrees (having regard to the manner in which the Consideration for the Shares has been calculated) that the Sellers have a legitimate interest in ensuring that the IOI Group in FIX Division is maintained in the relevant years without prejudicing the business of the Buyer.
 
5.
Undertakings of the Buyer
 
5.1
The Buyer agrees and undertakes and the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking agree and undertake (where relevant) with each of the Sellers that during the Earn Out Period:
 
 
5.1.1
it will provide the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking with [**];
 
 
5.1.2
the Company shall not [**];
 
 
5.1.3
to procure that the business of the Company and/or the Subsidiary Undertaking are [**];
 
 
5.1.4
ensure that any goods or services provided to or in respect of the Company or the Subsidiary Undertaking by the Buyer [**];
 
 
5.1.5
that the memorandum and articles of association of the Company [**];
 
 
5.1.6
it will not change its accounting reference date;
 
 
5.1.7
neither the Company nor the Subsidiary Undertaking shall [**];
 
 
5.1.8
the Sellers shall be provided with [**] so that the Sellers can monitor progress against the milestones;
 
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5.1.9
[**];
 
 
5.1.10
the Buyer will not require the Company to do anything (i) (save as provided in paragraph 5.1.12 below) other than on an arms length basis [**];
 
 
5.1.11
that to the extent that any [**];
 
 
5.1.12
[**], the Buyer and the Sellers will negotiate in good faith whether there should be any adjustment to any of the provisions of this Schedule 6 [**];
 
 
5.1.13
the Sellers shall consider any proposals made by the Buyer [**]. However, the Sellers will not withhold consent [**]. In the event of any termination of the agreement with [**] for any reason, the Sellers agree to [**];
 
 
5.1.14
the Buyer will co-operate with the Sellers to introduce the Company to the Buyer's Group Clients;
 
 
5.1.15
the Buyer will use reasonable endeavours to file an application with the FSA for authorisation as soon as reasonably practicable;
 
in each case, where relevant, save to the extent that the Company otherwise agrees with the Sellers in writing.
 
6.
Calculation of the IOI Revenues
 
6.1
The Buyer shall procure that the Company issue a certificate ("IOI Revenue Certificate") in respect of the relevant years stating the European IOI Revenue and the Global IOI Revenue for that year.
 
6.2
The Sellers may, by notice (the "Notice") to the Buyer delivered within 14 days of receipt by the Sellers of the IOI Revenue Certificate, require that [**] for determination in which case any referral shall be deemed a joint referral by the Sellers and the Buyer. [**] and any other matter referred to them shall be provided to the Buyer and the Sellers within 14 days of receipt of the Notice. If no Notice is served the IOI Revenue Certificate shall be deemed agreed by the Sellers.
 
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6.3
If the Sellers continue to dispute the IOI Certificate by notifying the Buyer in writing, within 7 days of receipt of the Buyer's Auditors determination, requiring that the calculation of European IOI Revenue and the Global IOI Revenue be reviewed, the dispute will be referred to the Independent Accountants (acting as experts) in which case the referral shall be deemed a joint referral by the Sellers and the Buyer. If no such notice is served the decision of the Buyer's Auditors shall be deemed agreed by the Sellers. The Sellers shall be responsible for the costs of the Independent Accountants, save where the Independent Accountants determine that the Sellers are entitled to such sums which exceed those set out in the IOI Certificate. The decision of the Independent Accountants on the level of European IOI Revenue and the Global IOI Revenue and any other matter referred to them shall (except in the case of manifest error) be final and binding on the Sellers and the Buyer.
 
6.4
The Buyer shall procure that the Independent Accountants and the Sellers are each given access to all working papers prepared by the Company and the Subsidiary Undertaking or on their behalf and given any information and explanations they may reasonably request.
 
6.5
Upon the European IOI Revenue and the Global IOI Revenue being determined by the Buyer's Auditors or the Independent Accountants in accordance with this schedule, the Buyer shall notify the Sellers.

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Appendix 1
 
Confidential Materials omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

[**]

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Schedule 7
 
Relevant Competitors
 
[**]

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Schedule 8
 
Bank Balance Figures 

Description
GBP
Starting Bank Balance
[**]
Outstanding Invoices
[**]
   
Accrued payables
 
Outstanding Creditors
[**]
Tax Provision 2007
[**]
Tax Provision Q1 2008
[**]
VAT Payable Apr 2008
[**]
VAT Provision Mar 2008
[**]
PAYE/NI
[**]
Ending Bank Balance
[**]
   
Dividend at Close
[**]
Profit left in the company
[**]
   
Actual Closing Bank Balance
[**]
assuming we pay no-one, and no-one pays us

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)
       
KARL SPENCER BREEZE
 
)
       
in the presence of
 
)
 
/s/ K. Breeze
   
   
)
 
Karl Spencer Breeze
   
             
SIGNED by
 
)
       
AMY JANE MUDDIMER
 
)
       
in the presence of
 
)
 
/s/ A.J. Muddimer
   
 
  )  
Amy Jane Muddimer
   
             
SIGNED by
 
)
       
PAUL DENBY SCOTT
 
)
       
in the presence of
 
)
 
/s/ Paul Scott
   
   
)
 
Paul Denby Scott
   
             
SIGNED by
 
)
       
ANDREW SOUTHON
 
)
       
in the presence of
 
)
 
/s/ Andrew Southon
   
   
)
 
Andrew Southon
   
             
SIGNED by
 
)
       
MATTHEW GEORGE BARKWAY
 
)
       
in the presence of
 
)
 
/s/ Matthew Barkway
   
   
)
 
Matthew George Barkway
   
             
SIGNED by
 
)
       
duly authorised on behalf of
 
)
 
/s/ Christopher G. Smith
 
/s/ Paul Kelly
       
Christopher G. Smith
 
Paul Kelly
NYFIX GLOBAL SERVICES, LIMITED
 
)
       
             
SIGNED by
 
)
       
 
)
 
/s/ Steven R. Vigliotti
   
NYFIX, INC
 
)
 
Steven R. Vigliotti
   

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EX-10.2 3 v113355_ex10-2.htm
Exhibit 10.2


NYFIX, Inc. 2008 Annual Incentive Plan


 
1.
General:

The NYFIX, Inc. (“NYFIX” or the “Company”) 2008 Annual Incentive Plan (“AIP”) is a cash bonus program for the 12 month period from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008 that is intended to motivate eligible employees to achieve the Company’s 2008 Critical Success Factors (“CSFs”) and related Corporate, Divisional/Functional and Individual Goals and Objectives. The 2008 AIP provides employees the opportunity to receive financial rewards as a means of tangibly sharing in NYFIX’s success. All Corporate, Divisional/Functional and Individual Goals and Objectives are designed to align with NYFIX’s strategic and tactical goals and objectives (which are tied to our CSFs) for the period from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008.
 
The 2008 AIP has two stages:

 
a)
Stage 1 determines the size of each individual employee’s bonus target based upon how successful NYFIX has been in achieving the overall financial targets (Operating EBITDA and Revenue) included in the Base Plan for 2008 presented to and approved by the Company’s Board of Director’s on December 11, 2007 (the “Stage 1 Objective”). Each employee will have an initial individual bonus target. This initial individual bonus target will then be adjusted based on the percentage of the Stage 1 Objective achieved per the charts included in Appendix I. For Senior Executives, bonus targets will be determined by multiplying the initial individual bonus targets by adjustment factors ranging from 0% to 200% in accordance with Appendix I. For non-Senior Executives employees with significant bonus targets, the targets will be determined by multiplying the initial individual bonus targets by adjustment factors ranging from 65% to 135% in accordance with Appendix II. For all other employees, the targets will be determined by multiplying the initial individual bonus targets by adjustment factors ranging from 90% to 110% in accordance with Appendix III.

 
b)
Stage 2 calculates individual bonus payouts based upon the achievement of key performance goals and objectives (the “Stage 2 Objectives”). The Stage 2 Objectives categories are (i) Corporate, (ii) Divisional/Functional and (iii) Individual. The portion of the 2008 AIP payout attributable to each category of the three Stage 2 Objectives will vary depending on the roles and responsibilities of each individual within the Company. The following schedule details these allocable portions:
 
   
Corporate
 
Division/Functional Group
 
Individual
 
CEO
   
90
%
       
10
%
Functional Group Heads
   
60
%
 
30
%
 
10
%
Functional Group Managers
   
40
%
 
40
%
 
20
%
Business Division Heads
   
50
%
 
40
%
 
10
%
Business Division Managers
   
40
%
 
40
%
 
20
%
Other Participants
   
20
%
 
40
%
 
40
%
 
Following year-end, the CEO and CFO will make a reasonable determination as to the achievement of each of the Stage 2 Goals and Objectives with respect to non-executive officers, which determination shall be final. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors will make a reasonable determination as to the achievement of the Goals and Objectives with respect to the CEO and other executive officers, which determination shall be final.

 
1

 

 
2.
Stage 2 Objectives

 
a.
Corporate Goals and Objectives:

The specific performance measures that will be used for the Corporate Goals and Objectives are detailed below under each of the CSFs that they help achieve.

Profitably Grow the Business and Achieve the Financial Plan (30%)
 
·
Achieve Operating EBITDA Targets (Full Year & Exit Rate)
 
·
Achieve Annual Revenue Plan
 
·
Achieve Buy-Side Revenue Target
 
·
Grow Messaging Channels
 
·
Achieve Millennium ADV Target
 
Invest for the Future and Grow New Markets (20%)
 
·
Launch Euro Millennium On Time plus rollout to four markets
 
·
Execute on Buy-Side Strategic Roadmap
 
·
Grow EMEA and APAC Business
 
·
Successfully Launch Millennium 3.0
 
Align with Clients and Aggressively Market the Company (15%)
 
·
Achieve Significant Improvement in Service Delivery
 
·
Establish Clients First Program
 
·
Establish Reliable and Predictable Product Delivery Process
 
Achieve Operational Excellence (20%)
 
·
Meet or Exceed Service Levels for Marketplace Businesses
 
·
Meet or Exceed Service Levels for Transactions Businesses
 
·
Enhance Billing and Revenue Reporting Technology
 
Foster a Culture of Success (15%)
 
·
Enhance Communication Supporting Alignment Around Strategy
 
·
Ensure Staff are Empowered, Motivated and Driven toward Achievement of 2008 plan
 
·
Increase Opportunities for Employee Mobility
 
·
Achieve Re-listing on NASDAQ in Q1

 
Achievement of the Goals and Objectives within these five CSFs shall be separable, so that even if one or more is not achieved, the 2008 AIP will be paid on those portions that are achieved. Corporate rating will be in the range of 80-120% of target.

 
b.
Divisional/Functional Group Goals and Objectives

Divisional/Functional Goals and Objectives and related timetables will be developed by each Divisional/Functional head in conjunction with the CFO and HR and, following approval by the Company’s CEO, will be communicated to employees.

 
2

 
Divisional/Functional Group ratings will be in the range of 80-120% of target.


c.
Individual Goals and Objectives

Each eligible employee will be assigned an individual rating based on a performance review. The performance review will consider the employee’s contribution to the achievement of Company and Divisional/Functional Goals and Objectives, as well as other individual achievements determined by the employee’s supervisor. Individual ratings are capped at 120% of target.

3
Eligibility

The 2008 AIP is applicable to all non-sales employees. Employees who receive individual ratings below 50% are not eligible for payout and those that receive individual ratings between 50 and 75% are eligible for a payout of a maximum of 50% of target. New hires that join the Company during the calendar year will have their eligibility to participate in the 2008 AIP pro-rated based on date of hire. Participants must continue to be employed by NYFIX until the bonus is paid to receive the payment; except that employees who leave the Company as a result of disability, or who die during the bonus period, will be eligible to receive a bonus prorated through the effective date of termination. Employees terminated “for cause” (including for failure to achieve targets set out in a performance improvement plan) will receive no incentive payment.

4.
Payment
 
Individual bonuses will be calculated by multiplying the Stage 1 Bonus Targets by the sum of the Corporate, Divisional/Functional Group and Individual ratings. Bonuses are expected to be paid prior to March 15, 2009.

Example Calculation (Functional Head):

Bonus Target: $100,000
Revenue Achievement: 100%
Operating EBITDA Achievement: 90%
Corporate Achievement: 95%
Functional Achievement: 100%
Individual Achievement: 110%

Stage 1

$100,000 x 95% (see Appendix I) = $95,000

Stage 2

$95,000 x (95% x 60%) + $95,000 x (100% x 30%) + $95,000 x (110% x 10%) = $93,100.

As set forth in the Company’s corporate governance documents, the Compensation Committee and/or Board of Directors will approve all payments to the CEO and all employees (other than administrative) that report directly to the CEO. The Compensation Committee and/or Board of Directors shall have discretion to make additional payments to the any employee (including the CEO and the CEO’s direct reports) to reward strong performance and the completion of successful strategic initiatives.

 
3

 
Continued Employment: Nothing contained in this bonus scheme shall guarantee any employee employment for any duration.

Reservation of Rights: All determinations made regarding the NYFIX 2008 AIP and the Company’s rights and obligations hereunder shall be made by the Company, and all such determinations shall be final and binding. The Company may, in its sole discretion, modify the terms of this Plan, including the Corporate, Divisional/Functional and/or Individual Goals and Objectives, at any time.

 
4

 
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 EXHIBIT 31.1

Certification of Chief Executive Officer
pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

I, P. Howard Edelstein, Chief Executive Officer and President of NYFIX, Inc., certify that:
 
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of NYFIX, Inc.;
 
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 registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
 
4. The registrant’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 registrant 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 registrant, 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 registrant’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 registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
 
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’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 registrant’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 registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
 
Dated: May 12, 2008
 
 

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EXHIBIT 31.2

Certification of Chief Financial Officer
pursuant to Rules 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
I, Steven R. Vigliotti, Chief Financial Officer of NYFIX, Inc., certify that:
 
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of NYFIX, Inc.;
 
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 registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
 
4. The registrant’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 registrant 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 registrant, 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 registrant’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 registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
 
5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’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 registrant’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 registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.
 
Dated: May 12, 2008

 
 
 

 
EX-32.1 6 v113355_ex32-1.htm
EXHIBIT 32.1

Certification of Chief Executive Officer
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 
 
In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of NYFIX, Inc. for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2008, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), P. Howard Edelstein, as Chief Executive Officer of NYFIX, Inc., hereby certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to the best of his knowledge the Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of NYFIX, Inc.
 
Dated: May 12, 2008
By:
/ S / P. Howard Edelstein
P. Howard Edelstein
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 

 
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EXHIBIT 32.2

Certification of Chief Financial Officer
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 
 
In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of NYFIX, Inc. for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2008, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), Steven R. Vigliotti, as Chief Financial Officer of NYFIX, Inc., hereby certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to the best of his knowledge the Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of NYFIX, Inc.

Dated: May 12, 2008

/ S / Steven R. Vigliotti
Steven R. Vigliotti
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
 

 
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