NEVRO CORP false 0001444380 0001444380 2023-11-30 2023-11-30

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 30, 2023

 

 

NEVRO CORP.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-36715   56-2568057
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
 

(Commission

File Number)

  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)

 

1800 Bridge Parkway  
Redwood City, California     94065
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)     (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (650) 251-0005

N/A

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share   NVRO   The New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Stock Purchase Agreement

On November 30, 2023, Nevro Corp. (“Nevro” or the “Company”), entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) pursuant to which it acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Interventional Pain Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Vyrsa Technologies (“Vyrsa”), a corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that develops medical devices (the “Vyrsa Acquisition”).

Under the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of Vyrsa for an up-front aggregate cash consideration of approximately $40.0 million in cash (the “Upfront Consideration”). The Upfront Consideration is subject to certain adjustments, including Vyrsa’s net working capital and cash amounts at closing. The Company has also agreed to pay up to an additional $35.0 million in cash or common stock of the Company tied to achievement of certain development and sales milestones. The Vyrsa Acquisition was completed on November 30, 2023 (the “Closing Date”).

The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and covenants. Subject to certain limitations, each party has agreed to indemnify the other for certain breaches of representations, warranties and covenants and other specified matters.

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

Credit Agreement

On Closing Date, the Company, as borrower, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nevro Medical CR, LLC (“Nevro CR”, and, together with the Company, the “Obligors”), as guarantor, entered into that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty (the “Credit Agreement”), by and among the Obligors, funds managed by Braidwell LP (“Braidwell”), as a lender (in such capacity, the “Lender”), and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Agent”). The Credit Agreement provides for a term loan facility in the amount of $200.0 million, which was funded in its entirety on the Closing Date.

Loans borrowed pursuant to the Credit Agreement (the “Loans”) bear interest at a rate per annum equal to Term SOFR (as defined in the Credit Agreement and with a floor of 3.50%) plus 5.25%. At the option of the Company, a portion of the interest payable on the Loans equal to (i) (a) on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, 5.25%, (b) following the first anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, 2.50% and (c) following the third anniversary of the Closing Date, 1.50%, may be paid in-kind rather than in cash. The Loans do not amortize, and have a maturity date of November 30, 2029. The Company is obligated to pay certain agency fees in connection with the Credit Agreement.


The Company may prepay or repay all or a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued unpaid interest under the Loan Agreement at any time upon prior notice to the Lender subject to (i) an early prepayment fee on the portion of principal prepaid or repaid equal to, for any prepayment or repayment (A) on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, 4.0%, (B) after the first anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the second anniversary of the Closing Date, 3.0%, (C) after the second anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, 2.0%, (D) after the third anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the fourth anniversary of the Closing Date, 1.0% and (E) after the fourth anniversary of the Closing Date, 0.0% and (ii) an exit fee equal to 3.00% of the principal amount of any prepayment or repayment of the Loans. The Credit Agreement contains customary mandatory prepayment provisions. Once repaid or prepaid, the Loans may not be reborrowed.

The Credit Agreement includes representations and warranties and covenants, including affirmative covenants and negative covenants that restrict the Obligors’ and their subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things, incur indebtedness, grant liens, merge or consolidate, make investments, dispose of assets, make acquisitions, pay dividends or make distributions, repurchase stock and enter into certain transactions with affiliates, in each case subject to certain exceptions. The Credit Agreement also has a financial covenant requiring the Borrower and its subsidiaries to maintain, as of the last day of each fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, at least $300.0 million in trailing twelve month revenue; provided that a failure of the Borrower and its subsidiaries to maintain such minimum revenue shall not be an event of default under the Credit Agreement unless such failure continues for three consecutive fiscal quarters, so long as the Borrower and its subsidiaries maintain at least $75.0 million of liquidity at all times starting from the first day after the first fiscal quarter in which the foregoing financial covenant is not met and ending on the date the Company delivers a certificate to the Agent evidencing compliance with the foregoing financial covenant.

The Credit Agreement also contains customary events of default, including among other things, the Company’s failure to make any principal or interest payments when due, the occurrence of certain bankruptcy or insolvency events, or the Company’s breach of the covenants under the Credit Agreement. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, the Lenders may, among other things, accelerate the Company’s obligations under the Credit Agreement.

As security for their obligations under the Credit Agreement, the Obligors granted the Agent (for the benefit of the secured parties) a continuing security interest in substantially all of their assets (including intellectual property), subject to certain customary exceptions.

Proceeds from the Loans will be used (i) to fund all or a portion of the consideration to be paid in respect of the Vyrsa Acquisition, (ii) to repurchase all or a portion of the Company’s existing 2.75% convertible senior notes, due April 1, 2025, (iii) for working capital and general corporate purposes, and (iv) for the payment of fees and expenses associated with the Credit Agreement, the Vyrsa Acquisition and the repurchase of the 2025 convertible senior notes.

The above description of the Credit Agreement is a summary and is not complete. A copy of the Credit Agreement is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and the above summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of the Credit Agreement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Warrants

In connection with the Credit Agreement, the Company issued to Braidwell warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of approximately 2.58 million shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”). The Warrants are exercisable in whole or in part at an exercise price of $23.1862 per share and expire on the sixth anniversary of issuance. The Warrant holder may pay the exercise price in cash (including through a reduction in principal amount of the Loans), or elect to exercise the Warrants on a “cashless” basis. The Warrants prohibit any exercise by a holder to the extent that, following such exercise, the holder, together with any affiliates and “group” members (as such term is used under Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), would beneficially own more than a fixed percentage of the total number of shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock (the “Beneficial Ownership Cap”), initially 4.99% and increasable or decreasable, at the Warrant holder’s election upon 61 days’ notice to the Company.

In connection with an Event of Default, a Cashless Default Exercise or a Cashless Major Exercise (each as defined in the Warrants), the Company may be required to purchase the Warrants for a number of shares of Company common stock equal to the Black-Scholes Value (as defined in the Warrants) of the unexercised portion of the Warrants.

In the event of a Major Transaction other than a Takeout Major Transaction or Asset Sale (each as defined in the Warrants), and without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap, the successor entity of the Company shall assume in writing all of the obligations under the Warrants, including agreement to deliver to the Holder a security of the successor entity substantially similar in form and substance to the Warrants, which, among other things, is exercisable for the appropriate number of shares of capital stock of the successor entity and which entitles the Holder to any additional consideration receivable by holder of common stock of the Company as a result of the Major Transaction.

 


Upon the occurrence of an Organic Change (as defined in the Warrants), the holder will be entitled to receive, at its option and without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap, the kind and amount of stock, securities and/or assets of the Company or the successor entity, as the case may be, that the holder would have been entitled to receive if the shares underlying the Warrants were outstanding immediately prior to the Organic Change.

The Company sold the Warrants in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The Company relied on this exemption from registration based in part on representations made by such investors in the Warrants. This Current Report on Form 8-K does not constitute an offer to sell any securities or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities.

The above description of the Warrants is a summary and is not complete. A form of the Warrant is filed as exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and the above summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of the Warrants, which are incorporated herein by reference.

Registration Rights Agreement

On November 30, 2023, the Company also entered into a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) with the investors party thereto, whereby the Company agreed to prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Registration Statement on Form S-3, or such other form as required to effect a registration of the common stock issued or issuable upon exercise of the Warrants (the “Registrable Securities”), covering the resale of the Registrable Securities and such indeterminate number of additional shares of the Company’s common stock as may become issuable upon exercise of, in exchange for, or otherwise pursuant to the Warrants to prevent dilution resulting from certain corporate actions. Such Registration Statement must be filed within 30 days following the execution of the Credit Agreement. The Company will pay certain expenses of the parties incurred in connection with the exercise of their rights under the Registration Rights Agreement, and indemnify them for certain securities law matters in connection with any registration statement.

The above description of the Registration Rights Agreement is a summary and is not complete. A copy of the Registration Rights Agreement is filed as exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and the above summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Repurchase Agreement

On or about November 30, 2023, the Company entered into in separate, privately negotiated repurchase agreements with a limited number of holders of its 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Existing Convertible Notes”) to repurchase approximately $150.1 million principal amount of Existing Convertible Notes for aggregate consideration consisting of approximately $150.1 million in cash, which includes accrued interest on the Existing Convertible Notes. The repurchase transactions are expected to be consummated on or about November 30, 2023.

Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets

The disclosure set forth under Item 1.01 is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The disclosure set forth in Item 1.01 above is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The disclosure set forth under Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.

 


Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On November 30, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing the transactions described herein, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

The information in Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including the press release incorporated herein by reference, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and it shall not be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or under the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing to this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

 

2.1*    Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of November 30, 2023, by and among Interventional Pain Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Vyrsa Technologies, Nevro Corp., the sellers of Interventional Pain Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Vyrsa Technologies and Project Andy Newco, LLC, as sellers representative.
4.1    Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of Nevro Corp.
10.1    Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of November 30, 2023, by and among Nevro Corp., as borrower, the subsidiary guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as administrative agent
10.2    Registration Rights Agreement, dated November 30, 2023, by and between Nevro Corp. and the Lenders listed thereto.
99.1    Press Release of Nevro Corp. dated November 30, 2023.
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

 

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Portions of this exhibit have been omitted for confidentiality purposes. Certain schedules referenced in the Stock Purchase Agreement have been omitted in accordance with Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. A copy of any omitted schedule and/or exhibit will be furnished supplementally to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.

 


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 hereunto duly authorized.

 

    NEVRO CORP.
Date: December 1, 2023     By:  

/s/ Roderick H. MacLeod

      Roderick H. MacLeod
      Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit 2.1

Execution Version

 

 

STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

by and among

NEVRO CORP.,

INTERVENTIONAL PAIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

D/B/A VYRSA TECHNOLOGIES,

THE SELLERS LISTED ON ANNEX A ATTACHED HERETO,

PROJECT ANDY NEWCO, LLC, AS SELLERS REPRESENTATIVE,

and

EACH OF PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC, CAMBER

SPINE TECHNOLOGIES LLC, INSTITUTE FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCE

AND EDUCATION LTD. AND S1 SPINE LLC, SOLELY FOR PURPOSES OF

SECTION 5.7

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

     Page  

ARTICLE I. PURCHASE AND SALE OF THE SHARES

     1  

1.1

  Delivery of Closing Payment Certificate; Calculation of Purchase Price      1  

1.2

  Escrow Amount & Expense Fund      3  

1.3

  The Closing; Deliverables; Payments      3  

1.4

  Post-Closing Adjustments to Estimated Closing Payment      6  

1.5

  Post-Closing Adjustment Payments      8  

1.6

  Withholding      8  

1.7

  Milestone Payments      9  

ARTICLE II. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SELLERS

     9  

2.1

  Organization      9  

2.2

  Power; Authorization      9  

2.3

  Title to Shares      9  

2.4

  No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents      10  

2.5

  Legal Proceedings; Orders      10  

2.6

  Brokerage      10  

2.7

  Affiliated Transactions      10  

2.8

  No Other Representations and Warranties      11  

2.9

  No Outside Reliance      11  

ARTICLE III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE COMPANY

     11  

3.1

  Organization and Qualification of the Company      11  

3.2

  Authorization      12  

3.3

  No Conflicts; Consents      12  

3.4

  Capitalization of the Company      12  

3.5

  Financial Statements      14  

3.6

  Undisclosed Liabilities      14  

3.7

  Absence of Certain Changes, Events and Conditions      15  

3.8

  Material Contracts      17  

3.9

  Title to Assets; Real Property      20  

3.10

  Condition and Sufficiency of Assets; Inventory      20  

3.11

  Intellectual Property      21  

3.12

  Suppliers and Customers      25  

3.13

  Insurance      25  

3.14

  Legal Proceedings; Orders      25  

3.15

  Compliance with Laws and Regulations; Permits      26  

3.16

  Environmental Matters      26  

3.17

  Employee Benefit Matters      27  

 

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3.18

  Employment Matters      31  

3.19

  Taxes      32  

3.20

  Health Care Compliance      35  

3.21

  Product Liability      37  

3.22

  Information Technology Systems      38  

3.23

  Data Security and Privacy      38  

3.24

  Certain Business Practices      39  

3.25

  Export Compliance      40  

3.26

  Books and Records      40  

3.27

  Related Party Transactions      41  

3.28

  Brokers      41  

3.29

  No Other Representations and Warranties      41  
ARTICLE IV. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BUYER      41  

4.1

  Organization; Power      41  

4.2

  Due Execution      42  

4.3

  Valid Issuance of Buyer Common Stock      42  

4.4

  Investment and Financial Ability      42  

4.5

  No Conflicts; Consents      42  

4.6

  Compliance with Laws and Regulations; Permits      42  

4.7

  SEC Reports      43  

4.8

  Financial Statements      43  

4.9

  No Other Representations and Warranties      43  
ARTICLE V. ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS      43  

5.1

  Litigation Support      43  

5.2

  Tax Matters      44  

5.3

  Confidentiality      47  

5.4

  Confidentiality of Terms of Transaction      48  

5.5

  Further Actions      48  

5.6

  Employee Matters      48  

5.7

  Wrong Pockets      48  

5.8

  Termination of Related Party Transactions      49  

5.9

  Use of Corporate Name or Trade Name      49  

5.10

  Director and Officer Liability and Indemnification      49  
ARTICLE VI. INDEMNIFICATION      49  

6.1

  Survival Periods      49  

6.2

  Indemnification of the Buyer Indemnified Parties by the Sellers      50  

6.3

  Indemnification of the Seller Indemnified Parties by the Buyer      52  

6.4

  Notice and Defense of Third-Party Claims      52  

6.5

  Notice of Non-Third-Party Claims      54  

6.6

  Right of Set Off for Breaches; Recourse      54  

6.7

  Determination of Loss Amount      55  

6.8

  Indemnification as Sole Remedy      56  

6.9

  Tax Treatment of Indemnity Payments      56  

 

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ARTICLE VII. DEFINITIONS      56  

7.1

  Interpretation      56  

7.2

  Certain Definitions      57  
ARTICLE VIII. MISCELLANEOUS      71  

8.1

  Release      71  

8.2

  No Third-Party Beneficiaries      72  

8.3

  Entire Agreement      72  

8.4

  Successors and Assigns      72  

8.5

  Counterparts      73  

8.6

  Titles      73  

8.7

  Notices      73  

8.8

  Governing Law      74  

8.9

  Consent to Jurisdiction      74  

8.10

  Amendment or Modification      75  

8.11

  Waivers      75  

8.12

  Specific Performance      75  

8.13

  Cumulative Remedies      75  

8.14

  Press Releases      76  

8.15

  Expenses      76  

8.16

  Construction      76  

8.17

  Severability of Provisions      77  

8.18

  Sellers Representative      77  

8.19

  Provision Respecting Legal Representation; Attorney-Client Privilege      79  

[***]

 

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STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of November 30, 2023, by and among (i) Interventional Pain Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Vyrsa Technologies, a corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the “Company”), (ii) Nevro Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Buyer”), (iii) the Persons listed on Annex A under the heading “Sellers” (collectively, the “Sellers”) and (iv) Project Andy Newco, LLC, in its capacity as representative of the Sellers (the “Sellers Representative”). Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning given such terms in Article VII.

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Sellers own all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company, which as of the date of this Agreement consists of 10,000,000 shares of common stock, without par value (the “Common Stock”, and the shares of such Common Stock, the “Shares”).

WHEREAS, the Buyer desires to purchase from the Sellers, and the Sellers desire to sell to the Buyer, all of the Sellers’ right, title and interest in and to the issued and outstanding Shares, after which the Company shall become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Buyer.

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has authorized the adoption of this Agreement and determined that it is advisable and in the best interest of their stockholders.

WHEREAS, effective with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as a material inducement to the Buyer’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, (i) each Seller owning more than five percent (5.0%) of the Shares and (ii) each PMMC Company (as defined herein) is concurrently entering into a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement in the form of Exhibit A-1 or Exhibit A-2, as applicable (the “Restrictive Covenant Agreements”).

WHEREAS, effective with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and as a material inducement to the Buyer’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, the Company has entered into that certain amended and restated license agreement attached hereto as Exhibit F with Camber Spine Technologies, LLC (“Camber Spine”) (the “Amended and Restated License Agreement”).

AGREEMENT

In consideration of the mutual representations, warranties, covenants, and agreements contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE I.

PURCHASE AND SALE OF THE SHARES

1.1 Delivery of Closing Payment Certificate; Calculation of Purchase Price.

(a) Two (2) Business Days prior to the date hereof, the Sellers have delivered to the Buyer (1) a certificate satisfactory to the Buyer and executed by an executive officer of the

 

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Company (the “Closing Payment Certificate”), setting forth the Sellers’ good faith calculation of (i) the Estimated Closing Payment, including the calculations of each of (A) the Indebtedness Amount, (B) the Company Transaction Expenses, (C) the amount of Working Capital, and (D) the Closing Cash as of 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the day immediately preceding the Closing Date (such estimate, “Estimated Working Capital”); (ii) (X) the aggregate amount to be paid to each Equityholder and Noteholder at the Closing in accordance with Section 1.1(c), (Y) each Equityholder’s Pro Rata Portion of the Estimated Closing Payment, (Z) each Equityholder’s and Noteholder’s address and payment information (together with Section 1.1(a)(ii)(X) and (Y), the “Payment Spreadsheet”); and (iii) a draft balance sheet for the Company (the “Draft Closing Date Balance Sheet”) and (2) a tax identification number and duly completed and executed IRS Form W-9 or W-8, as applicable, for each Equityholder and Noteholder. The Draft Closing Date Balance Sheet and Estimated Working Capital shall have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with the preparation of the Financial Statements.

(b) For purposes of this Agreement, the “Estimated Closing Payment” means an amount equal to (i) $40,000,000; plus (ii) the Closing Cash; minus (iii) the Indebtedness Amount; minus (iv) the Company Transaction Expenses; plus (v) the amount (if any) by which Estimated Working Capital exceeds Target Working Capital; minus (vi) the amount (if any) by which Target Working Capital exceeds Estimated Working Capital. The Estimated Closing Payment shall be subject to adjustment as set forth in Section 1.4 and Section 1.5 hereof.

(c) Purchase and Sale of the Shares. Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, at the Closing, each Seller shall sell, assign, transfer, convey and deliver to the Buyer, and the Buyer shall purchase, acquire and accept from each Seller, all right, title and interest in and to all of the Shares held by such Seller immediately prior to the Closing, free and clear of all Liens.

(i) Shares. Each Seller with respect to each share of Common Stock shall receive: (i) at the Closing an amount in cash equal to that portion of the Estimated Closing Payment set forth on the Payment Spreadsheet for each such Seller minus the product of (A) the Escrow Amount plus the amount of the Expense Fund, multiplied by (B) such Seller’s Pro Rata Portion; (ii) the right to receive the amount in cash, without interest, equal to the Seller’s Pro Rata Portion of any cash disbursements that may become payable in the future with respect to such Seller’s portion of the Escrow Amount in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement; (iii) the right to receive the amount in cash, without interest, equal to the Seller’s Pro Rata Portion of any cash disbursements that may become payable in the future with respect to such Seller’s portion of the Expense Fund in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and (iv) the right to receive the amount in cash or shares of Buyer Common Stock (as may be applicable), without interest, equal to the Seller’s Pro Rata Portion of any Milestone Payments that become payable in accordance with in the terms of this Agreement.

(ii) Stock Options. Effective as of immediately prior to the Closing, each Company Stock Option, to the extent then outstanding and unexercised, whether vested or unvested, shall automatically, without any action on the part of the holder thereof (the “Optionholder”), be cancelled and converted into the right of the holder thereof to receive from the Company, subject to execution and timely delivery of a Stock Option Cancellation

 

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Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E, (i) that portion of the Estimated Closing Payment set forth on the Payment Spreadsheet for such Optionholder (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be net of the aggregate exercise price of the Company Stock Options held by such holder) minus the product of (A) the Escrow Amount plus the amount of the Expense Fund multiplied by (B) such Optionholder’s Pro Rata Portion and subject to applicable withholding Tax, paid on the first regular payroll date that is at least five (5) Business Days following the Closing; (ii) the right to receive, with respect to each Company Stock Option, the amount in cash, without interest, equal to the Optionholder’s Pro Rata Portion of any cash disbursements that may become payable in the future with respect to such Optionholder’s portion of the Escrow Amount in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement; (iii) the right to receive, with respect to each Company Stock Option, the amount in cash, without interest, equal to the Optionholder’s Pro Rata Portion of any cash disbursements that may become payable in the future with respect to such Optionholder’s portion of the Expense Fund in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and (iv) the right to receive, with respect to each Company Stock Option, the amount in cash or shares of Buyer Common Stock (as may be applicable), without interest, equal to the Optionholder’s Pro Rata Portion of any Milestone Payments that become payable in accordance with in the terms of this Agreement.

(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, in no event shall the aggregate purchase price paid at the Closing pursuant to this Section 1.1 exceed an amount equal to the Estimated Closing Payment minus the Escrow Amount minus the amount of the Expense Fund.

1.2 Escrow Amount & Expense Fund.

(a) The Sellers hereby authorize and instruct the Buyer to deduct from the Estimated Closing Payment otherwise payable to the Sellers and Optionholders at the Closing an aggregate amount of $4,000,000 (the “Escrow Amount”). At the Closing, the Buyer shall deposit the Escrow Amount into an escrow account (the “Escrow Account”) established pursuant to the terms of an Escrow Agreement entered into at the Closing among the Sellers Representative, the Buyer and Wilmington Trust, as escrow agent (the “Escrow Agent”), attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Escrow Agreement”), in order to support the Sellers’ and Optionholders’ indemnification obligations under Article VI and the Sellers’ and Optionholders’ payment obligations under Section 1.5.

(b) The Sellers hereby authorize and instruct the Buyer to deduct from the Estimated Closing Payment otherwise payable to the Sellers and Optionholders at the Closing an aggregate amount of $500,000 (the “Expense Fund”). At the Closing, the Buyer shall deposit the Expense Fund into a separate account with the Escrow Agent.

1.3 The Closing; Deliverables; Payments.

(a) Closing. The closing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Closing”) shall take place via the exchange of electronic signatures on the date hereof. The date of the Closing hereunder is referred to herein as the “Closing Date” and the Closing Date will be deemed to have occurred at 12:01 a.m. on the date upon which the Closing occurs.

 

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(b) Closing Deliverables. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, and on the basis of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth herein, at the Closing:

(i) Consents. All filings, notices, licenses, Permits, approvals (including any required corporate approvals) and other consents of, to or with, any Person that are listed on Schedule 3.4(a) of the Disclosure Letter shall have been duly made or obtained and shall be in full force and effect as of the Closing, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Buyer;

(ii) Amended and Restated License Agreement. Camber Spine and the Company shall concurrent with the Closing execute and deliver the Amended and Restated License Agreement;

(iii) Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement. The Company and the PMMC Companies shall concurrent with the Closing execute and deliver the intellectual property assignment agreement (the “Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement”) set forth in Exhibit G dated as of the date hereof;

(iv) Transition Services Agreement. The Company and Camber Spine shall concurrent with the Closing execute and deliver the transition services agreement (the “Transition Services Agreement”) set forth in Exhibit H dated as of the date hereof;

(v) Escrow Agreement. The Escrow Agent, the Buyer and the Sellers Representative shall concurrent with the Closing execute and deliver the Escrow Agreement, dated as of the date hereof and the Buyer shall deliver the Escrow Amount to the Escrow Agent, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by the Escrow Agent, in accordance with Section 1.2;

(vi) Paying Agent Agreement. The Buyer, the Sellers Representative and Wilmington Trust, as paying agent (the “Paying Agent”) shall concurrent with the Closing execute and deliver the Paying Agent Agreement, dated as of the date hereof and the Buyer shall deliver the Estimated Closing Payment minus the Escrow Amount minus the Expense Fund to the Paying Agent, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by the Paying Agent, in accordance with Section 1.1(c);

(vii) Termination of Related-Party Agreements. The Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered to the Buyer, written evidence, in form and substance satisfactory to the Buyer, evidencing the termination of the Contracts listed on Schedule 3.27 of the Disclosure Letter;

(viii) FIRPTA Certificate. The Company shall deliver to the Buyer a properly executed certificate by the Company that meets the requirements of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.1445-2(c)(3) and 1.897-2(h), dated as of the Closing Date, certifying that no interest in the Company is a U.S. real property interest, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Buyer along with written authorization for the Buyer to deliver such notice form to the Internal Revenue Service on behalf of the Company upon Closing; provided, that if such certificate is not provided, the Buyer shall proceed with Closing and withhold from any payment to be made under this Agreement an amount the Buyer determines appropriate to comply with applicable Law;

 

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(ix) Restrictive Covenant Agreements. The Restrictive Covenant Agreements, separately executed by each of the Sellers owning more than five percent (5.0%) of the Shares in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A-1, and by each of the PMMC Companies in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A-2, shall be in full force and effect;

(x) Offer Letters. Offer letters from the Buyer, accepted and signed by each of the persons set forth on Schedule 1.3(b)(x) of the Disclosure Letter, shall be in full force and effect;

(xi) 401(k) Plan. By the date of this Agreement, the Company shall have withdrawn as an adopting employer under the Camber 401(k) Plan, and the Company shall have fully vested all Continuing Employees who are Camber 401(k) Plan participants in their account balances. After the Closing, Continuing Employees shall be eligible for distributions from the Camber 401(k) Plan;

(xii) Resignations. Resignations of the Company’s directors and officers, in the form of Exhibit B, executed by each officer and director prior to the Closing shall be in full force and effect;

(xiii) Share Certificates. Each Seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Buyer one or more certificates representing all of the Shares held by such Seller, free and clear of all Liens, Encumbrances, and restrictions, duly endorsed for transfer or accompanied by appropriate transfer documents, or such deeds, bills of sale, endorsements, consents, assignments and other good and sufficient instruments of conveyance and assignment as the Buyer shall deem reasonably necessary to vest in the Buyer or one or more of their designees all right, title and interest in, to and under the Shares in the manner described herein, free and clear of all Liens, Encumbrances, and restrictions, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Buyer;

(xiv) Company Transaction Expenses. The Sellers shall deliver to the Buyer invoices or other supporting documentation evidencing the Company Transaction Expenses set forth on the Closing Payment Certificate;

(xv) Convertible Notes and Other Indebtedness Payoff. The Company shall deliver to the Buyer (A) one or more payoff letters, duly executed by the applicable lenders, with respect to all Indebtedness of the Company, accompanied by UCC termination statements, releases and any other documentation reasonably requested by the Buyer to evidence the satisfaction in full of such Indebtedness, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to the Buyer, (B) payoff letters duly executed by the Noteholders with respect to all Indebtedness of the Company with respect to such Convertible Notes and (C) Noteholder Cancellation Agreements in the form of Exhibit I-1 or Exhibit I-2, as applicable, in full force and effect and as executed by each respective holder of Convertible Notes as of immediately prior to the Closing;

 

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(xvi) Stock Option Cancellation Agreements. Stock Option Cancellation Agreements in the form of Exhibit E, executed by each holder of Company Stock Options as of immediately prior to the Closing shall be in full force and effect; and

(xvii) Other. The Company shall deliver such other documents or instruments as the Buyer may reasonably request or may be required to effect the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(c) Closing Payments.

(i) The Buyer shall cause the Paying Agent to deliver to the Equityholders (other than Optionholders who are current or former employees of the Company) and Noteholders the consideration specified in Section 1.1(c) by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account(s) designated by the Company in the Payment Spreadsheet in exchange for all Shares held by the Sellers and payoff letters pursuant to Section 1.1(a) executed by each Noteholder, respectively.

(ii) As promptly as practicable following the Closing Date, the Company shall pay, through the Company’s payroll system, to each Optionholder who is a current or former employee of the Company and entitled to receive consideration specified in Section 1.1(c)(ii), that portion of the consideration specified in Section 1.1(c)(ii) in respect of their Company Stock Options subject to any amounts required to be withheld pursuant to Section 1.6.

(iii) The Buyer shall or shall cause the Paying Agent to pay, or cause to be paid, on behalf of the Sellers or the Company, those Company Transaction Expenses required to be paid at the Closing by wire transfer of immediately available funds to account(s) specified by the Company in the Closing Payment Certificate.

(iv) The Buyer shall or shall cause the Paying Agent to pay, or cause to be paid, the Indebtedness Amount by wire transfer of immediately available funds to account(s) specified by the Company in the Closing Payment Certificate.

1.4 Post-Closing Adjustments to Estimated Closing Payment.

(a) No later than ninety (90) days following the Closing Date, the Buyer will prepare, or cause to be prepared, and deliver to the Sellers Representative a statement (the “Closing Statement”) setting forth the Buyer’s calculation of (i) the Indebtedness Amount, (ii) the Company Transaction Expenses, (iii) the Closing Working Capital, and (iv) the Closing Cash. The Closing Statement shall be accompanied by such supporting documentation reasonably necessary to derive the numbers set forth therein. In the event the Buyer fails to deliver the Closing Statement within such ninety (90) day time period, it shall be deemed to have waived the right to collect a negative Adjustment Amount from the Escrow Account.

(b) During the thirty (30) days after delivery of the Closing Statement, the Buyer will provide the Sellers Representative and its accountants reasonable access, during normal business hours and upon reasonable notice, to review the financial books and records of the Company, any of the Company’s accountants’ work papers related to the calculation of amounts in the Closing

 

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Statement (subject to the execution of any access letters that such accountants may require in connection with the review of such work papers). Any information shared with the Sellers Representative or its accountants will be subject to Section 5.3. If the Sellers Representative disagrees with any of the Buyer’s calculations of any items or amounts set forth in the Closing Statement, the Sellers Representative may, within thirty (30) days after delivery of the Closing Statement, deliver a written notice (the “Objection Notice”) to the Buyer disagreeing with such calculations. The Objection Notice shall specify those items or amounts with which the Sellers Representative disagrees, together with a detailed written explanation of the reasons for disagreement with each such item or amount, and shall set forth the Sellers Representative’s calculation, based on such objections, of (i) the Indebtedness Amount, (ii) the Company Transaction Expenses, (iii) the Closing Working Capital, and (iv) the Closing Cash. To the extent any item or amount in the Closing Statement is not set forth in the Objections Notice, the Sellers Representative shall be deemed to have agreed with the Buyer’s calculation of all other items and amounts contained therein. If the Sellers Representative does not deliver the Objection Notice within thirty (30) days after delivery of the Closing Statement, then all of the items and amounts set forth in the Closing Statement, including the Indebtedness Amount, the Company Transaction Expenses and the Closing Working Capital, as applicable, shall be deemed to be Final and Binding on the Sellers and the Buyer.

(c) If the Objection Notice is timely delivered pursuant to Section 1.4(b), the Sellers Representative and the Buyer shall, during the thirty (30) days following such delivery, negotiate in good faith to reach agreement on the value of the disputed items or amounts. If, during such period, the Sellers Representative and the Buyer are unable to reach agreement on all disputed items and amounts, they shall promptly thereafter mutually engage and submit such dispute to an independent accounting firm nationally recognized and reasonably satisfactory to the Sellers Representative and the Buyer (the “Accounting Referee”) for Final and Binding resolution. Each of the Sellers Representative and the Buyer shall submit a statement of its position and supporting documentation to the Accounting Referee and the other party within fifteen (15) calendar days of engagement of the Accounting Referee, and within ten (10) calendar days of its receipt of such documentation from the other party may provide a responsive statement to the Accounting Referee (in which case it shall provide a copy to the other party). The Accounting Referee shall act as an expert and not as an arbitrator and neither the Buyer nor the Sellers Representative shall have any ex parte communication or meetings related hereto with the Accounting Referee without receiving the prior written consent of the other party. The Accounting Referee’s determination will be based solely on presentations by the Sellers Representative and the Buyer or their respective representatives that are in accordance with the guidelines and procedures set forth in this Agreement (i.e., not on the basis of independent review) and the Sellers Representative and the Buyer shall cause the Accounting Referee to deliver to the Sellers Representative and the Buyer as promptly as practicable a written report setting forth its determination of the items and/or amounts in dispute. Such report shall be Final and Binding on the Sellers and the Buyer, absent manifest error. The fees of the Accounting Referee shall be borne by the Buyer and the Sellers in inverse proportion as each shall prevail in respect of the dollar amount of disputed items so submitted (as finally determined by the Accounting Referee). “Final Resolution Date” shall be the earlier of (i) the day on which written notice is received by the Buyer from the Sellers Representative that the Sellers Representative is in agreement with the Closing Statement and will not deliver an Objection Notice with respect thereto, (ii) thirty (30) days after delivery of the Closing Statement if the Objection Notice is not delivered or (iii) if the Objection Notice is timely delivered, then the earlier of when the parties reach a written agreement on the value of the disputed items pursuant to the terms of this Section 1.4 or three (3) Business Days after the Accounting Referee delivers its final report.

 

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1.5 Post-Closing Adjustment Payments.

(a) The “Final Closing Payment” shall be an amount equal to (i) $40,000,000; plus (ii) the Closing Cash as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4, minus (iii) the Company’s Indebtedness Amount as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4; minus (iv) the Company Transaction Expenses as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4; plus (v) the amount (if any) by which Closing Working Capital as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4 exceeds Working Capital Upper Collar; minus (vi) the amount (if any) by which Working Capital Lower Collar exceeds Closing Working Capital as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4, minus (vii) the Escrow Amount, minus (viii) the Expense Fund. The “Adjustment Amount” shall be an amount (which may be expressed as a positive or negative number) equal to the Final Closing Payment minus the Estimated Closing Payment.

(b) If the Adjustment Amount, as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4, is a negative number, within five (5) days after the Final Resolution Date, the Buyer and the Sellers Representative shall direct the Escrow Agent to pay to the Buyer from the Escrow Account an aggregate amount equal to the absolute value of the Adjustment Amount.

(c) If the Adjustment Amount, as finally determined pursuant to Section 1.4, is a positive number, then the Buyer shall, within five (5) days after the Final Resolution Date, deliver to the Paying Agent to deliver to each Seller a payment, by check or by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account designated by the Sellers Representative, equal to such Seller’s Pro Rata Portion of the Adjustment Amount.

(d) If the Adjustment Amount is equal to zero (0), then no payment shall be made by or to any party hereunder.

(e) Any payment of an Adjustment Amount shall constitute an adjustment to the Estimated Closing Payment for all Tax purposes and shall be treated as such by the Buyer and the Sellers on their Tax Returns to the extent permitted by Law.

1.6 Withholding. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Buyer, the Company, the Escrow Agent, the Paying Agent and their Affiliates (and any other Person that has a withholding obligation with respect to any payment made pursuant to this Agreement) shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any Person such amounts as are required to be deducted and withheld under the Code (or any provision of applicable Law with respect to the making of such payment) with respect to such payment; provided, however, if the Buyer or the Company determines that it is obligated to deduct or withhold any amounts from any non-compensatory amounts payable or otherwise deliverable pursuant to this Agreement, such Person shall (i) use commercially reasonable efforts to provide two (2) days prior written notice of its intent to deduct and withhold, and (ii) the parties shall reasonably cooperate to minimize or eliminate any potential deductions and withholdings. To the extent that amounts are so deducted and withheld and paid to the appropriate Tax Authority, such deducted and withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to such Person in respect of whom such deduction and withholding were made.

 

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1.7 Milestone Payments. The Buyer, the Sellers and the Sellers Representative shall fulfill their respective obligations pursuant to Exhibit K, which is incorporated by reference herein as if set forth herein.

ARTICLE II.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SELLERS

Except as set forth in the disclosure schedules dated as of the date of this Agreement and delivered to the Buyer herewith (the “Disclosure Letter”), each Seller hereby represents and warrants to the Buyer that the statements contained in this Article II are true and correct as of the date hereof.

2.1 Organization. Such Seller, if not a natural person, is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and all other jurisdictions in which its ownership of property or conduct of business requires it to be qualified (except, in the case of good standing, for entities incorporated or organized under the Laws of any jurisdiction that does not recognize such concept).

2.2 Power; Authorization. Such Seller has all requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform his, her or its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party, and the compliance by such Seller with the provisions of this Agreement and each Transaction Document to which it is a party, have been duly authorized by such Seller. All actions and proceedings required to be taken by or on the part of such Seller to authorize and permit the execution, delivery and performance by such Seller of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party have been duly and validly taken. This Agreement has been, and each other Transaction Document to which such Seller is a party has been, duly executed and delivered by such Seller. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Transaction Document to which such Seller is or will be a party constitutes, or will constitute when so duly executed and delivered, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Seller, enforceable against such Seller in accordance with its terms, in each case subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or similar Laws from time to time in effect affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject, as to enforceability, to the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) (the “Enforceability Exceptions”).

2.3 Title to Shares. Such Seller is the record and beneficial owner of the Shares set forth opposite such Seller’s name on Schedule 2.3 of the Disclosure Letter, free and clear of all Liens or any other restrictions on transfer, other than restrictions on transfer under federal and state securities Laws. Such Seller has all requisite power and authority to sell, transfer, assign and deliver the Shares as provided in this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party, and at the Closing, such Seller shall transfer to the Buyer good title to the Shares owned by such Seller, free and clear of all Liens or any other restrictions on transfer. Other than this Agreement, such Shares are not subject to any voting trust agreement or any other Contract restricting or otherwise relating to the voting, dividend rights or disposition of such Shares.

 

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2.4 No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.

(a) The execution and delivery by such Seller of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party does not, and the performance by such Seller of this Agreement and such other Transaction Documents will not: (i) if such Seller is an entity, conflict with or violate any provision of the organizational documents of such Seller; (ii) conflict with or violate any Law applicable to such Seller or any of his, her or its Affiliates or by which any of the Shares of such Seller is bound or affected; (iii) (A) require any consent or approval under, (B) result in any breach of or any loss of any benefit under, (C) constitute a change of control or default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or (D) give to others any right of termination, vesting, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any obligation or right under any Contract or Permit to which such Seller is a party and which any of his or her Shares is subject; or (iv) result in the creation of a Lien on any of the Shares of such Seller.

(b) The execution and delivery by such Seller of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party does not and will not, and the performance of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents to which such Seller is a party will not, require any consent, approval, Order, authorization or permit of, or registration, declaration or filing with or notification to, any Governmental Entity.

2.5 Legal Proceedings; Orders. There are no Actions or Orders pending or, to such Seller’s Knowledge, threatened against or affecting such Seller, that (a) could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the ability of such Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which such Seller is a party, or (b) challenge or that could reasonably be expected to prevent, impede, hinder, delay, make illegal, impose limitations or conditions on, or otherwise interfere with, any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which such Seller is a party. Such Seller is not subject to any Order that relates to the Business of, or any assets owned or used by, the Company.

2.6 Brokerage. There are no claims for brokerage commissions, finders’ fees, financial advisors’ fees or similar compensation in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which such Seller is a party based on any Contract to which such Seller is a party or that is otherwise binding upon such Seller and no Person is entitled to any fee or commission or like payment in respect thereof.

2.7 Affiliated Transactions. Neither such Seller nor any Affiliate of such Seller that is a Related Party (a) is a party to any Contract with the Company; (b) has any direct or indirect financial interest in, or is an officer, director, manager, employee or consultant of, any competitor, supplier, licensor, distributor, lessor, independent contractor or customer of the Company (it being

 

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agreed, however, that the passive ownership of securities listed on any national securities exchange representing no more than five percent of the outstanding voting power of any Person shall not be deemed to be a “financial interest” in any such Person); (c) has any interest in any property, asset or right used by the Company or necessary for the Business; (d) has outstanding any Indebtedness owed to the Company; or (e) has received any funds from the Company since September 30, 2023, or is the obligee or beneficiary of any Liability of the Company, in each case, except for employment-related compensation or Liabilities therefore received or payable in the ordinary course of business.

2.8 No Other Representations and Warranties. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and each other Transaction Document, none of the Sellers nor any of their agents, employees or representatives have made, nor are any of them making any representation or warranty, written or oral, express or implied, in respect of the Company or its Business. The Buyer expressly acknowledges and agrees that neither the Buyer nor any of its agents, employees or representatives is relying on any other representation or warranty of any of the Sellers or any of their agents, employees or representatives, including regarding the accuracy or completeness of any such other representations and warranties, whether express or implied.

2.9 No Outside Reliance. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article II or any other provision hereof, each Seller acknowledges and agrees that neither the Buyer nor any of its directors, officers, employees or representatives, has made, or is making, any representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied (and has not relied on any representation, warranty or statement of any kind by the Buyer or any of its directors, officers, employees or representatives), beyond those expressly given in Article IV, including any implied warranty or representation as to the future development, regulatory approval or sale of any Company Product or likelihood of achievement of any Milestone Payment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is understood that any plans, projections or other predictions, as well as any information, documents or other materials or presentations that have been or shall hereafter be provided to the Sellers, the Sellers Representative, the Company or any of its Affiliates, agents or representatives are not and will not be deemed to be representations or warranties of the Buyer and no representation or warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the foregoing.

ARTICLE III.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE COMPANY

Except as set forth in the correspondingly numbered Schedule of the Disclosure Letter, the Company represents and warrants to the Buyer that the statements contained in this Article III are true and correct as of the date hereof.

3.1 Organization and Qualification of the Company.

(a) The Company is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and all other jurisdictions in which its ownership of property or conduct of business requires it to be qualified. The Company possesses all requisite corporate power and authority necessary to (i) own, operate, lease and license its properties, (ii) to carry on its Business as now conducted, to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Company is or will be a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder. True, correct, and complete copies of the Company’s organizational documents currently in effect have been provided to the Buyer and reflect all amendments made thereto at any time prior to the date hereof.

 

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(b) The Company does not have any subsidiaries. The Company does not own any capital stock of, or any other Equity Interest of, or any Equity Interest of any nature in, any other Person.

3.2 Authorization. All corporate actions and proceedings required to be taken by or on the part of the Company to authorize and permit the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Company is or will be a party, have been duly and validly taken. This Agreement has been, and each other Transaction Document to which the Company is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Company. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Transaction Document to which the Company is a party constitutes, or will constitute when so duly executed and delivered, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, in each case subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

3.3 No Conflicts; Consents. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, do not and will not: (i) conflict with or result in a violation or breach of, or default under, any provision of the organizational documents of the Company; (ii) conflict with or result in a material violation or breach of any provision of any Law or Order applicable to the Company; (iii) require any consent, notice or other action by any Person under (whether with or without notice or lapse of time or both), contravene, conflict with, result in a violation or breach of or constitute a default under (or an event that, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a violation or breach of or constitute a default under), result in or permit the acceleration, termination, modification or cancellation of, or create in any party the right to accelerate, terminate, modify or cancel, or result in or permit any other change to any right or obligation of the Company or the loss of any benefit to which the Company is entitled under, any provision of any Material Contract or any Permit affecting the properties, assets or Business of the Company; or (iv) result in the creation or imposition of any Encumbrance other than Permitted Encumbrances on any properties or assets of the Company. No consent, approval, Permit, Order, declaration or filing with, or notice to, any Governmental Entity is required by or with respect to the Company in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.

3.4 Capitalization of the Company.

(a) The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 50,000,000 shares of Common Stock, of which 10,000,000 shares are issued and outstanding as of Closing. Schedule 3.4(a) of the Disclosure Letter sets forth, as of the date hereof (i) the name of each Person that is the registered owner of any Shares and the corresponding number of Shares owned by such Person, and (ii) a list of all holders of outstanding Company Stock Options, including the number of Shares subject to each such Company Stock Option, the grant date, the per-share exercise price, whether the holder of such Company Stock Option is a current or former employee of the Company, the vesting schedule for such Company Stock Option, the extent to which such Company Stock Option is vested and exercisable, whether such Company Stock Option is intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Code, and the date on which such Company Stock Option expires.

 

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(b) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.4(b) of the Disclosure Letter, each Company Stock Option was granted in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws and all of the terms and conditions of the Company Equity Plan. Each Company Stock Option was granted with an exercise price per share equal to or greater than the fair market value of the underlying shares of Common Stock on the date of grant. Each Company Stock Option has a grant date identical to the date on which the Company Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee or subcommittee thereof) approved the Company Stock Option. Each Company Stock Option intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Code, if any, so qualifies. The Company has heretofore provided or made available to the Buyer (or the Buyer’s representatives) true and complete copies of the standard form of option agreement and any stock option agreements that differ from such standard form.

(c) As of the date of this Agreement, there were 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Company Equity Plan, of which 1,615,933 shares of Common Stock were subject to outstanding Company Stock Options and 384,067 shares of Common Stock were reserved for future option grants. Except for currently outstanding Company Stock Options and shares of Common Stock which have been reserved for direct issuances or purchase upon exercise of Company Stock Options to be granted in the future, under the Company Equity Plan and except as disclosed on Schedule 3.4(a) of the Disclosure Letter, (i) no Equity Interest in the Company is authorized or outstanding, and (ii) there is no commitment by the Company to issue Equity Interests, to distribute to holders of any of their Equity Interests any evidence of Indebtedness or asset, to repurchase or redeem any of their Equity Interests or to grant, extend, accelerate the vesting of, change the price of, or otherwise amend any Equity Interest. There are no declared or accrued unpaid dividends with respect to any Shares.

(d) All issued and outstanding Shares are, and all shares of Common Stock which may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Company Stock Options, when issued in accordance with the applicable security, will be: (i) duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; (ii) not subject to any preemptive rights created by statute, the organizational documents of the Company or any agreement to which the Company is a party; and (iii) free of any Encumbrances created by the Company in respect thereof. All issued and outstanding Shares and Company Stock Options were issued in compliance with applicable state and federal Law.

(e) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.4(a) of the Disclosure Letter, no outstanding Shares are subject to vesting or forfeiture rights or repurchase by the Company. There are no outstanding or authorized stock appreciation, dividend equivalent, phantom stock, profit participation or other similar rights with respect to the Company or any of its securities.

(f) All distributions, dividends, repurchases and redemptions of any Equity Interests in the Company were undertaken in compliance with the organizational documents of the Company then in effect, any agreement to which the Company then was a party and in compliance in all material respects with applicable Law.

 

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3.5 Financial Statements. Complete copies of the Company’s financial statements consisting of the balance sheet of the Company as at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022 and the related statements of income and retained earnings, stockholders’ equity and cash flow for the years then ended (the “Annual Financial Statements”), and unaudited financial statements consisting of the balance sheet of the Company as at September 30, 2023 and the related statements of income and retained earnings, stockholders’ equity and cash flow for the nine-month period then ended (the “Interim Financial Statements” and together with the Annual Financial Statements, the “Financial Statements”) are included in the Disclosure Letter. The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the period involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto), subject, in the case of the Interim Financial Statements, to normal and recurring year-end adjustments (the effect of which will not be materially adverse) and the absence of notes (that, if presented, would not differ materially from those presented in the Annual Financial Statements). All normalization adjustments included in the Financial Statements are bona fide discretionary or non-continuing costs incurred by the Company and will not be incurred in the future in order to achieve the projections forming part of the Financial Statements. The Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Company as of the respective dates they were prepared and the results of the operations of the Company for the periods indicated, in each case, in conformity with GAAP. The most recent balance sheet included in the Annual Financial Statements is referred to herein as the “Balance Sheet” and the date thereof as the “Balance Sheet Date” and the most recent balance sheet included in the Interim Financial Statements is referred to herein as the “Interim Balance Sheet” and the date thereof as the “Interim Balance Sheet Date.” The Company maintains a standard system of accounting established and administered in accordance with GAAP.

(a) The Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with the books, records and accounts of the Company, all of which accurately and fairly reflect, in reasonable detail, the transactions in and dispositions of the assets of the Company. The systems of internal accounting controls maintained by the Company are sufficient for a company in its stage of development to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. To the Knowledge of the Company, there have been no instances of fraud with respect to the Company or its internal accounting controls. Neither the Company nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, accountant or auditor of the Company has received or otherwise obtained Knowledge of any complaint, allegation, assertion or claim regarding the accounting or auditing practices and procedures of the Company or its internal accounting controls.

3.6 Undisclosed Liabilities. The Company does not have any material Liabilities of a nature required to be disclosed on a consolidated balance sheet or in the related notes to the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP, except (a) those which are adequately reflected or reserved against in the Balance Sheet as of the Balance Sheet Date, (b) those which have been incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice since the Balance Sheet Date and which are not, individually or in the aggregate, material in amount, (c) Liabilities incurred pursuant to Contracts in effect as of the date hereof, provided, that

 

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such Liabilities are of a nature not required to be disclosed on a consolidated balance sheet or in the related notes to the consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP and such Contracts were entered into in the ordinary course of business, and (d) Liabilities under this Agreement (including Company Transaction Expenses, Indebtedness and current Liabilities, but only to the extent such amounts are paid prior to the Closing or are set forth on the Closing Payment Certificate).

3.7 Absence of Certain Changes, Events and Conditions. Since the Interim Balance Sheet Date through the date hereof, and other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, there has not been, with respect to the Company (and, in the case of subsections (j) and (k), any Relevant Company), any:

(a) event, occurrence or development that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;

(b) amendment of any organizational documents of the Company;

(c) split, combination or reclassification of any of its Equity Interests;

(d) issuance, sale, grant, Encumbrance or other disposition of any of its Equity Interests or an authorization, agreement or other commitment to do so (other than in connection with the exercise of Company Stock Options as required by the terms of such Company Stock Options) or as set forth on Section 3.7(d) of the Disclosure Letter;

(e) declaration or payment of any dividends or distributions on or in respect of any of its Equity Interests or redemption, purchase or acquisition of its Equity Interests (exclusive of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement);

(f) material change in any method of accounting or accounting practice of the Company, except as required by GAAP or as disclosed in the notes to the Financial Statements;

(g) material change in cash management practices and its policies, practices and procedures with respect to collection of accounts receivable, establishment of reserves for uncollectible accounts, accrual of accounts receivable, inventory control, prepayment of expenses, payment of trade accounts payable, accrual of other expenses, deferral of revenue and acceptance of customer deposits;

(h) incurrence, assumption or guarantee of any Indebtedness for borrowed money except unsecured current obligations and Liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(i) transfer, assignment, sale or other disposition of any of the assets shown or reflected in the Balance Sheet or cancellation of any debts or entitlements;

(j) transfer, assignment or grant of any license or sublicense under or with respect to any Company IP;

 

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(k) failure to maintain, or lapse or abandonment of (including by failure to pay the required fees in any jurisdiction) any Registered Company IP, or intentional failure to disclose or maintain any material trade secrets included in the Company IP;

(l) material damage, destruction or Loss (whether or not covered by insurance) to its property;

(m) any capital investment in, or any loan to, any other Person, except for travel and other related expense advances to employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(n) acceleration, termination, cancellation, amendment, modification or renewal of, or waiver of any rights under, any material Contract (including, but not limited to, any Material Contract) to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

(o) any material capital expenditures;

(p) imposition of any Encumbrance other than Permitted Encumbrances upon any of the properties, Equity Interests or assets, tangible or intangible, of the Company;

(q) (i) grant of any bonuses, whether monetary or otherwise, or increase in any wages, salary, severance, pension or other compensation or benefits in respect of its current or former employees, officers, directors, independent contractors or consultants, other than as required by applicable Law, (ii) action to accelerate the vesting or payment of any compensation or benefit for any current or former employee, officer, director, independent contractor or consultant, or (iii) actual or announced resignation or termination of any officers or key employees of the Company;

(r) hiring or promoting any person as or to (as the case may be) an officer or hiring or promoting any employee below officer except to fill a vacancy in the ordinary and usual course of business;

(s) adoption, modification or termination of any: (i) employment, severance, retention or other agreement with any current or former employee, officer, director, independent contractor or consultant, (ii) Benefit Plan or (iii) collective bargaining or other agreement with a Union, in each case whether written or oral;

(t) any loan to (or forgiveness of any loan to), or entry into any other transaction with, any Related Party, except for travel and other related expense advances in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(u) entry into a new line of business or abandonment or discontinuance of existing lines of Business;

(v) adoption of any plan of merger, consolidation, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution or filing of a petition in bankruptcy under any provisions of federal or state bankruptcy Law or consent to the filing of any bankruptcy petition against the Company under any similar Law;

 

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(w) purchase, lease or other acquisition of the right to own, use or lease any property or assets for an amount in excess of $50,000, individually (in the case of a lease, per annum) or $100,000 in the aggregate, except for purchases of inventory or supplies in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice;

(x) acquisition by merger or consolidation with, or by purchase of a substantial portion of the assets or stock of, or by any other manner, any business or any Person or any division thereof;

(y) action by the Company to make, change or rescind any Tax election, amend any income or other material Tax Return, settle or compromise any claim, notice, audit report or assessment in respect of material Taxes, change any annual Tax accounting period, adopt or change any method of Tax accounting, enter into any Tax allocation agreement, Tax sharing agreement, Tax indemnity agreement or closing agreement relating to any material Tax (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any commercial agreement the primary purpose of which does not relate to Taxes), knowingly surrender any right to claim a material Tax Refund, or consent to any extension or waiver of the statute of limitations period applicable to any material Tax claim or assessment (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any extensions of time to file a Tax Return); or

(z) any Contract to do any of the foregoing, or any action or omission that would result in any of the foregoing.

3.8 Material Contracts.

(a) Schedule 3.8 of the Disclosure Letter sets forth a categorized list as of the date hereof of each of the following Contracts of the Company and its Affiliates (such Contracts, together with all leases of any Real Property and including brokerage Contracts required to be disclosed in Schedule 3.9(b) of the Disclosure Letter, “Material Contracts”):

(i) each Contract involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25,000 and which, in each case, cannot be cancelled by the Company without penalty or without more than ninety (90) days’ notice;

(ii) all Contracts that require the Company to purchase its total requirements of any product or service from a third party, that include minimum purchase provisions or that contain “take or pay” provisions;

(iii) all Contracts evidencing outstanding Indebtedness, including notes, debentures, guarantees, loans, credit or financing agreements or instruments or other Contracts for money borrowed by the Company;

(iv) all Contracts requiring capital expenditures after the date of this Agreement in excess of $25,000;

(v) Contracts pursuant to which any Intellectual Property Right or Technology is licensed, sold, assigned or otherwise conveyed or provided to the Company or pursuant to which any Person has agreed not to enforce any Intellectual Property Right against the Company, other than (A) Standard Software, (B) offer letters, employment agreements,

 

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invention assignment agreements, individual consulting agreements, and individual contracting agreements, in each case, entered into in the ordinary course of business on a form previously provided to the Buyer (together with Standard Software, the “Standard Inbound Licenses”), and (C) permitted use rights to confidential information in a non-disclosure agreement granting a limited right to use confidential information subject to customary protections to preserve confidentiality and proprietary rights, entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(vi) Contracts pursuant to which any Intellectual Property Right or Technology is or has been licensed (whether or not such license is currently exercisable), sold, assigned or otherwise conveyed or provided to a third party by the Company, or pursuant to which the Company has agreed not to enforce any Intellectual Property Right against any third party, other than (A) offer letters, employment agreements, invention assignment agreements, individual consulting agreements, and individual contracting agreements, in each case, entered into in the ordinary course of business on a form previously provided to the Buyer, and (B) permitted use rights to confidential information in a non-disclosure agreement granting a limited right to use confidential information subject to customary protections to preserve confidentiality and proprietary rights, entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(vii) Contracts providing for the development of any Technology or Intellectual Property Rights, independently or jointly, by or for the Company, other than Contracts entered into pursuant to the Company’s form employee invention assignment agreements (copies of which have been made available to the Buyer) between the Company and an employee of the Company regarding the development of Technology or Intellectual Property Rights by such employee;

(viii) all Contracts between the Company and an Affiliate;

(ix) all Contracts that provide for the indemnification by the Company of any Person or the assumption of any Tax, environmental or other Liability of any Person, except for Contracts entered into the ordinary and usual course of business;

(x) all Contracts that relate to the acquisition or disposition of any business, a material amount of stock or assets of any other Person or any real property (whether by merger, sale of stock, sale of assets or otherwise);

(xi) all broker, distributor, dealer, manufacturer’s representative, franchise, agency, sales promotion, market research, marketing consulting and advertising Contracts;

(xii) all Contracts with any officer, director, consultant or employee of the Company, other than any employment letter that: (1) sets forth the terms of an “at will” employment arrangement and (2) does not obligate the Company to make payments to or for the benefit of such Person following termination of employment;

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(xiv) all Contracts with, or relating to any grant, incentive, benefit, qualification or subsidy from, any Governmental Entity;

(xv) all Contracts that limit or purport to limit the ability of the Company or its Affiliates to (A) engage or compete in any line of business or market, or with any Person, or in any geographic area or during any period of time (including granting exclusive rights or rights of first refusal to license, market, sell or deliver any Company Products or any related Intellectual Property Rights or Technology); (B) compete with, or solicit any customer of, any other person; (C) acquire any product or other asset or any services from any other Person; (D) solicit, hire or retain any Person as an employee, consultant or independent contractor; (E) develop, sell, supply, distribute, offer, support or service any product or any Intellectual Property Rights or Technology or other asset to or for any other Person; (F) perform services for any other Person; (G) transact business or deal in any other manner with any other Person; or (H) use, assert, enforce, or otherwise exploit any Intellectual Property Rights anywhere in the world;

(xvi) Contracts which provide for “most favored customer” or similar terms (including with respect to pricing);

(xvii) Contracts which grant to any Person a right of first refusal, right of first negotiation, right of exclusivity or any other similar right;

(xviii) Contracts that include a covenant not to sue or any settlement agreements or co-existence agreements;

(xix) any Contracts that provide for a royalty, milestone or similar payments by the Company that has or could result in such obligations outstanding after the Closing;

(xx) any Contracts that provide for any joint venture, partnership or similar arrangement; and

(xxi) all Contracts that relate to research, clinical trial, testing, design, development, distribution, sale, supply, license, marketing, promotion (including co-promotion), commercialization, use, exploitation or manufacturing of products (currently or under development) of the Company.

(b) Each Material Contract is valid and binding on and enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms and, to the Knowledge of the Company, each other party thereto (in each case, except as limited by laws of general application relating to bankruptcy, insolvency and the relief of debtors and as limited by rules of law governing specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and by general principles of equity) and is in full force and effect. The Company is not, and, to the Company’s Knowledge, no other party thereto is in breach of or default under (or is alleged to be in breach of or default under) or has provided or received any written notice of any intention to terminate, any Material Contract, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred that, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a breach or default under or permit termination or modification of such Material Contract. Complete and correct copies of each Material Contract (including all modifications and amendments thereto and written waivers thereunder) have been made available to the Buyer.

 

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3.9 Title to Assets; Real Property.

(a) The Company does not own any real property and is not a party to any written lease, sublease, or occupancy agreement as tenant, subtenant or occupant. The Company has good and valid title to, or a valid leasehold interest in the personal property and other assets reflected in the Annual Financial Statements or acquired after the Balance Sheet Date, other than properties and assets sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary and usual course of business consistent with past practice since the Balance Sheet Date. All such properties and assets (including leasehold interests) are free and clear of Encumbrances except for the following (collectively referred to as “Permitted Encumbrances”):

(i) those items set forth in Schedule 3.9(a) of the Disclosure Letter;

(ii) Liens for Taxes not yet due or payable, or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings with appropriate reserves maintained in accordance with GAAP;

(iii) mechanics, carriers’, workmen’s, repairmen’s, landlord’s or other like Liens arising or incurred in the ordinary and usual course of business consistent with past practice or amounts that are not delinquent and which are not, individually or in the aggregate, material to the Business of the Company; or

(iv) Encumbrances expressly set forth in Material Contracts.

(b) Schedule 3.9(b) of the Disclosure Letter lists, if any: (i) the street address of each Real Property; (ii) whether such Real Property is held by the Company; (iii) if such property is leased or subleased by the Company; and (iv) if applicable, the landlord under the lease.

3.10 Condition and Sufficiency of Assets; Inventory. The buildings, plants, structures, furniture, fixtures, machinery, equipment, vehicles and other items of tangible personal property of the Company are adequate for the uses to which they are being put. The buildings, plants, structures, furniture, fixtures, machinery, equipment, vehicles and other items of tangible personal property currently owned or leased by the Company, together with all other properties and assets of the Company, are sufficient for the continued conduct of its Business after the Closing in substantially the same manner as conducted prior to the Closing and constitute all of the rights, property and assets necessary to conduct the Business of the Company as currently conducted. All of the inventory of the Company is in good condition and free of any material defect or deficiency, is not obsolete, is useable or saleable in the ordinary and usual course of business and, if saleable, is saleable at customary gross margins consistent with the past practices of the Company. The inventory levels maintained by the Company (i) are not excessive in light of its normal operating requirements and (ii) are adequate for the conduct of the Company’s operations in the ordinary and usual course of business. The value of all items of obsolete and of below standard quality has been written down to the net realizable value or adequate reserves have been provided therefor.

 

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3.11 Intellectual Property.

(a) Schedule 3.11(a) of the Disclosure Letter lists all Registered Company IP, setting forth for each item of Registered Company IP (i) whether such item is exclusively or jointly owned by the applicable Relevant Company, (ii) the record owner(s) of such item and if different, the legal owner and beneficial owner(s) of such item, (iii) the jurisdiction in which such item is registered or filed and the applicable application, registration, or serial or other similar identification number, (iv) the filing date or registration date and issuance date or grant date for such item, and (v) with respect to domain names, the applicable domain name registrar. All required filings, fees and other actions required to be made or taken to obtain, perfect or maintain in full force and effect each item of Registered Company IP have been made, taken, filed with and paid to the relevant Governmental Entities and authorized registrars by the applicable deadline and otherwise in accordance with all applicable Law, and all Registered Company IP is in good standing and validly registered in the name of the applicable Relevant Company. The Company has provided the Buyer with true and complete copies of file histories, documents, certificates, office actions, correspondence and other materials related to all Registered Company IP. As of the date hereof, the patent counsel prosecuting all patents and patent applications included in the Company IP have complied with their duty of candor and disclosure to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other foreign patent offices in connection with such patents and patent applications. Schedule 3.11(a) of the Disclosure Letter accurately identifies and describes each filing, payment, and action that must be made or taken on or before the date that is one hundred and eighty (180) days after the Closing Date in order to maintain each such item of Registered Company IP in full force and effect.

(b) All Registered Company IP is valid, subsisting, and enforceable. No cancellation, interference, opposition, inter partes review, reissue, reexamination, or other proceeding of any nature is, or has been, pending or threatened in which the scope, validity, or enforceability of any Registered Company IP is being, has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, contested or challenged and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there is no basis for a claim that any Registered Company IP is invalid or unenforceable. No application for, or registration with respect to, any Registered Company IP has been abandoned, cancelled, allowed to lapse, or rejected.

(c) The Relevant Companies own or otherwise have the right to use, and after the Closing, the Buyer will own or otherwise have the right to use, all Intellectual Property Rights and Technology used in, held for use in, or necessary for the conduct of the Company’s Business as currently conducted and planned to be conducted, including regarding the design, development, coding, license, sale, provision, maintenance, support and use of all Company Products. The Company IP, together with the Intellectual Property Rights and Technology licensed to the Company under the Contracts listed in Schedule 3.8(a)(v) of the Disclosure Letter and the Standard Inbound Licenses, constitute all of the Technology and Intellectual Property Rights used in or necessary for the conduct of the Company’s Business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted.

(d) The Relevant Companies are the sole and exclusive legal and beneficial, and with respect to the Registered Company IP, record, owner of all right, title and interest in and to the Company IP (excluding any Intellectual Property Rights exclusively licensed to the Company, as identified in Schedule 3.8(a)(v) of the Disclosure Letter). The Company has the valid right and license to use all Company IP and all other Intellectual Property Rights used in, held for use in or necessary for the conduct and operation of the Company’s Business as currently conducted and contemplated to be conducted, in each case, free and clear of Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances.

 

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(e) Each Person who is or was an employee, officer, director, consultant or contractor of any Relevant Company and who is or was engaged by or on behalf of such Relevant Company to design, create or otherwise develop any Intellectual Property Rights or Technology has signed a valid and enforceable agreement containing an irrevocable assignment to such Relevant Company of all such Intellectual Property Rights and Technology. No current or former stockholder, officer, director, or employee of any Relevant Company has any claim, right (whether or not currently exercisable), or interest to or in any Intellectual Property Rights or Technology used or held for use by such Relevant Company. No employee of any Relevant Company is (i) bound by or otherwise subject to any Contract restricting him or her from performing his or her duties for such Relevant Company; or (ii) in breach of any Contract with any former employer or other Person, in each case, concerning Technology, Intellectual Property Rights or confidentiality. To the Knowledge of the Company, none of the employees, consultants or other independent contractors are in violation of such agreements.

(f) Neither the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, nor the consummation of any of the transactions or agreements contemplated by this Agreement, will, with or without notice or the lapse of time or both, result in or give any other Person the right or option to cause or declare, (i) a loss of, or Encumbrance on, any Company IP; (ii) the grant, assignment, or transfer to any other Person of any license or other right or interest under, to, or in any Company IP, including any such grant, assignment or transfer by the Buyer or its Affiliates; (iii) any Company IP becoming subject to any restriction with respect to its use or operation in any line of business or market or with any Person or in any area; or (iv) the Buyer or any of its Affiliates as being bound by or subject to any exclusivity obligations, non-compete or other restrictions on the operation or scope of their respective businesses, or to any obligation to grant any rights in or to any of the Buyer’s or its Affiliates’ Technology or Intellectual Property Rights. Following the Closing, the Buyer will be permitted to exercise all of the rights of the Company, including under all Company IP, without the payment of any consideration, to the same extent the Company would have been able to, had the transactions contemplated by this Agreement not occurred.

(g) Each Relevant Company has taken all measures reasonably necessary or appropriate to protect and maintain (i) the confidentiality of all material proprietary information that it holds as a trade secret; and (ii) its ownership of, and rights in, all Company IP. Without limiting the foregoing, no Relevant Company has made any of its trade secrets or other material confidential or proprietary information that it intended to maintain as confidential information (including source code of any Company Software) available to any other Person, including past and present employees, consultants and independent contractors, except pursuant to written agreements requiring such Person to maintain the confidentiality of such confidential information. No employee, consultant or independent contractor of any Relevant Company is, to the Knowledge of the Company, in default or breach of any non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement, covenant or obligation owed to such Relevant Company. Each Relevant Company has complied with all of its obligations of confidentiality in respect of the trade secrets, confidential information and other proprietary information of third parties.

 

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(h) None of (i) the Company IP; (ii) the products, processes and services designed, developed, marketed, licensed, sold, or otherwise provided by the Company; and (iii) the conduct of the Company’s Business, as previously and currently conducted and contemplated to be conducted, have infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated, and do not currently infringe, misappropriate, dilute or otherwise violate, the Intellectual Property Rights or other rights of any third Person. No Relevant Company has received any written communication alleging that such Relevant Company or its Affiliates has infringed or misappropriated any Intellectual Property Rights of any Person in any respect, including any notice or communication inviting such Relevant Company or any of its Affiliates to take a license under any Intellectual Property Rights. No Person, to the Knowledge of the Company, has infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated, or is currently infringing, misappropriating, diluting or otherwise violating, any Company IP, and no threat, notice, demand or other communication regarding any actual, alleged, or suspected infringement, misappropriation or other violation of any Company IP has been made in writing by any Relevant Company against any Person. No Relevant Company is subject to any outstanding or prospective Order (including any motion or petition therefor) or any other governmental prohibition or restriction under applicable Law that does or would restrict or impair the use by such Relevant Company or its Affiliates of any Company IP.

(i) At no time during the conception of or reduction to practice of any Company IP was any Relevant Company or any developer, inventor or other contributor to such Company IP operating under any grants from any Governmental Entity or agency or private source, or any university, college, other educational institution, military, multi-national, bi-national or international organization or research center or institution (each an “R&D Sponsor”), performing (directly or indirectly) research sponsored by any R&D Sponsor or subject to any employment agreement or invention assignment or nondisclosure agreement or other obligation with any third party that could adversely affect such Relevant Company’s rights in such Company IP. Without limiting the foregoing, no such developer, inventor or other contributor was employed by or has performed services for any R&D Sponsor during the period of time during which such developer, inventor or other contributor was also performing services for the applicable Relevant Company or during the twelve (12)-month period immediately prior to his or her employment or engagement with the applicable Relevant Company. No R&D Sponsor has any claim of right to, ownership of or other Encumbrance on any such Company IP. No funding, facilities, or personnel of any R&D Sponsor were used, directly or indirectly, to develop or create, in whole or part, any such Company IP.

(j) No Relevant Company is nor has ever been a member or promoter of, or a contributor to, any industry standards body or similar organization that could require or obligate such Relevant Company to grant or offer to any other Person any license or right to or otherwise impair such Relevant Company’s control of any Company IP.

(k) No source code for any Company Software has been delivered, licensed, or made available to any escrow agent or other Person who is not, as of the date of this Agreement, an employee of the Company who needs such source code to perform his or her job duties. No Relevant Company has any duty or obligation (whether present, contingent, or otherwise) to deliver, license, or make available the source code for any Company Software to any escrow agent or other Person. No event has occurred, and no circumstance or condition exists, that, with or without notice or lapse of time, will, or could reasonably be expected to, result in the delivery, license, or disclosure of any source code for any Company Software to any other Person.

 

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(l) No Company Software contains any “back door,” “drop dead device,” “time bomb,” “Trojan horse,” “virus,” “worm,” “malware,” “vulnerability,” “spyware” or “adware” (as such terms are commonly understood in the software industry) or any other code designed or intended to have, or capable of performing or facilitating, any of the following functions: (i) disrupting, disabling, harming, or otherwise impeding in any manner the operation of, or providing unauthorized access to, a computer system or network or other device on which such code is stored or installed; or (ii) compromising the privacy or security of any data or damaging or destroying any data or file without consent (collectively, “Malicious Code”). Each Relevant Company implements industry standard measures designed to prevent the introduction of Malicious Code into Company Software, including firewall protections and regular virus scans.

(m) Schedule 3.11(m) of the Disclosure Letter sets forth an accurate and complete list of all Open Source Software that is or has been included, incorporated or embedded in, linked to, combined with or otherwise used in the provision of any product or service of the Company, which list specifies (i) the Contract under which each such item of Open Source Software has been licensed to the applicable Relevant Company; (ii) whether such item of Open Source Software has been modified by the applicable Relevant Company; and (iii) whether such item of Open Source Software is or was distributed by the Company.

(n) With respect to Open Source Software that is or has been used by any Relevant Company in any way, such Relevant Company has been and is in compliance with the terms and conditions of all applicable licenses for the Open Source Software, including attribution and copyright notice requirements. Except as specified in Schedule 3.11(n) of the Disclosure Letter, no source code that is incorporated or used in any product or service of the Company (including any product or service currently under development) is subject to any “copyleft” or other obligation or condition (including any obligation or condition under any “open source” license such as the GNU Public License, Lesser GNU Public License, or Mozilla Public License) that could require, or could condition the use or distribution of such product or service or portion thereof on, (i) the disclosure, licensing, or distribution of any source code for any Company Software or any portion(s) thereof; (ii) the granting to licensees of the right to reverse engineer or make derivative works or other modifications to such Company Software or portion(s) thereof; or (iii) licensing or otherwise distributing or making available Company Software or any portion(s) thereof for a nominal or otherwise limited fee or charge.

(o) None of the Company Products (i) contains any bug, defect, or error that materially and adversely affects the use, functionality, or performance of such Company Products or any product or service used in conjunction therewith; or (ii) fails to comply with any applicable warranty or other contractual commitment relating to the use, functionality, or performance of such Company Product or any product or service used in conjunction therewith.

 

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3.12 Suppliers and Customers.

(a) Schedule 3.12(a) of the Disclosure Letter sets forth: (i) each supplier to whom the Company has paid consideration for goods or services rendered in an amount greater than or equal to $25,000 for the most recent fiscal year and the current year-to-date period (collectively, the “Material Suppliers”); and (ii) the amount of purchases from each Material Supplier during such periods. The Company has not received any written notice that any of its Material Suppliers has ceased to supply goods or services to the Company or to otherwise terminate or materially reduce its relationship with the Company.

(b) Schedule 3.12(b) of the Disclosure Letter sets forth: (i) each customer who has paid the Company consideration for goods or services in an amount greater than or equal to $50,000 for the most recent fiscal year and the current year-to-date period (collectively, the “Material Customers”); and (ii) the amount of purchases from each Material Customer during such periods. The Company has not received any written notice that any of its Material Customers has ceased to purchase goods or services from the Company or to otherwise terminate or materially reduce its relationship with the Company.

3.13 Insurance. Schedule 3.13 of the Disclosure Letter sets forth a true and complete list as of the date hereof of all current policies or binders of fire, liability, product liability, umbrella liability, real and personal property, workers’ compensation, vehicular, directors and officers’ liability, fiduciary liability and other casualty and property insurance maintained by the Company and relating to the assets, Business, operations, employees, officers and directors of the Company (collectively, the “Insurance Policies”) and true and complete copies of such Insurance Policies have been made available to the Buyer. Such Insurance Policies are in full force and effect. As of the date hereof, the Company has not received any written notice of cancellation of, premium increase with respect to, or alteration of coverage under, any of such Insurance Policies. All premiums due on such Insurance Policies have either been paid or, if due and payable prior to Closing, will be paid prior to Closing in accordance with the payment terms of each Insurance Policy. The Insurance Policies do not provide for any retrospective premium adjustment or other experience-based liability on the part of the Company. There are no claims related to the Business of the Company pending under any such Insurance Policies as to which coverage has been questioned, denied or disputed or in respect of which there is an outstanding reservation of rights. The Company is not in default under, and has not otherwise failed to comply with, in any material respect, any provision contained in any such Insurance Policy. The Insurance Policies are sufficient for compliance with all applicable Laws and Contracts to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.

3.14 Legal Proceedings; Orders.

(a) Since January 1, 2020, there have been no Actions pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened: (i) against or by the Company or affecting any of its properties or assets; or (ii) against or by the Company that challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin or otherwise delay the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(b) There are no outstanding Orders and no unsatisfied judgments, penalties or awards against or affecting the Company or affecting any of its properties or assets.

 

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3.15 Compliance with Laws and Regulations; Permits.

(a) The Company has complied, and is now complying, in all material respects with all Laws applicable to it and its Business, properties or assets. The Company has no material liability for failure to comply with any Law and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there is no act, omission, event or circumstance that would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such Liability. The Company has not conducted any internal investigation with respect to any actual, potential, or alleged violation of Law or received any written notice from any Governmental Entity concerning any violation of any Law by any manager, shareholder, officer or employee or concerning any actual or alleged fraud. The Company has not received written notice from any Governmental Entity of any violation or alleged violation by it of any applicable Law.

(b) The Company has obtained and currently holds all material Permits required for the Company to conduct its Business as currently conducted and all such material Permits are valid and in full force and effect. All fees and charges with respect to such material Permits as of the date hereof have been paid in full. To the Knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred that, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would reasonably be expected to result in the revocation, suspension, or lapse of any such material Permits. Schedule 3.15(b) of the Disclosure Letter lists as of the date hereof all current material Permits issued to the Company, including the names of the material Permits and their respective dates of issuance and expiration.

(c) All inspections conducted by any Governmental Entity of any operation or activity of the Company (or of any third-party contractor providing finished goods or sterilization services to the Company) are set forth on Schedule 3.15(c) of the Disclosure Letter. To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company has accurately and completely responded to all issues raised in such inspections of the Company. The Company has not received notice (and does not otherwise have Knowledge) of any Actions, citations, decisions, product recall requests or requirements, information requests, warning letters, untitled letters or Section 305 notices directed to the Company from any Governmental Entity.

3.16 Environmental Matters.

(a) The Company is currently and has for the past three (3) years been in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws and has not received from any Person any: (i) Environmental Notice or Environmental Claim; or (ii) written request for information pursuant to Environmental Law, which, in each case, either remains pending or unresolved, or is the source of ongoing material obligations or requirements as of the Closing Date.

(b) The Company has obtained and is in compliance in all material respects with all Environmental Permits required pursuant to applicable Environmental Law for the ownership, lease, operation or use of its Business or assets and all such Environmental Permits are in full force and effect in accordance with applicable Environmental Law, except for any failure to obtain or maintain such Environmental Permits which would not reasonably be likely to result in a material liability.

 

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(c) To the Knowledge of the Company, no real property currently or formerly owned, operated or leased by the Company is listed on, or has been proposed for listing on, the National Priorities List (or CERCLIS) under CERCLA, or any similar state list.

(d) To the Knowledge of the Company, (i) there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials caused by the Company at any real property currently or formerly owned, operated or leased by the Company, and (ii) the Company has not received an Environmental Notice that any real property currently or formerly owned, operated or leased in connection with the Business of the Company (including soils, groundwater, surface water, buildings and other structures located on any such real property) has been contaminated with any Hazardous Material which, in the case of (i) and (ii) above, would reasonably be expected to result in a material Environmental Claim against the Company.

(e) To the Knowledge of the Company, there are no active or abandoned aboveground or underground storage tanks owned or operated by the Company. The Company has not received any Environmental Notice regarding potential liabilities with respect to off-site Hazardous Materials treatment, storage, or disposal facilities or locations used by the Company or any predecessors.

(f) The Company has not retained or assumed, by Contract, any material liabilities or obligations of third parties under Environmental Law.

(g) The Company has provided or otherwise made available to the Buyer copies of all material environmental site assessment reports, audits, and other similar documents materially bearing on the Business or assets of the Company or any currently or formerly owned, operated or leased real property which are in the possession of the Company related to compliance with Environmental Laws, Environmental Claims or an Environmental Notice or the Release of Hazardous Materials.

(h) This Section 3.16 contains all of the Company’s representations and warranties with respect to Environmental Laws, Hazardous Materials, Environmental Claims, Environmental Notices and other environmental matters.

3.17 Employee Benefit Matters.

(a) Schedule 3.17(a) of the Disclosure Letter contains a true and complete list, as of the date hereof, of each current severance, separation, change in control, retention, pension, benefit, retirement, compensation, employment, individual consulting, profit-sharing, deferred compensation, incentive, bonus, performance award, phantom equity, stock, stock-linked or stock-based, vacation, paid time off, health or welfare, life insurance, disability insurance, fringe-benefit and other similar agreement, plan, policy, program or arrangement (and any amendments thereto), in each case whether or not reduced to writing and whether funded or unfunded, including each “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, whether or not tax-qualified and whether or not subject to ERISA, which is or has been maintained, sponsored, contributed to, or required to be contributed to by the Company for the benefit of any current or former employee, officer, director, retiree, independent contractor or consultant of the Company or any spouse or dependent of such individual, or under which the Company or any of

 

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its ERISA Affiliates has or may have any Liability, or with respect to which the Buyer or any of its Affiliates would reasonably be expected to have any Liability, contingent or otherwise (as listed on Schedule 3.17(a) of the Disclosure Letter, each, a “Benefit Plan”), other than with respect to (i) Contracts that provide for employment that is terminable “at will” and that are terminable without severance or change of control pay or benefits, in which case only forms of such Contracts shall be scheduled, (ii) individual Company Stock Option agreements, in which case only forms of such Company Stock Option agreements shall be scheduled, unless such individual agreements provide acceleration of vesting of awards in a manner not provided for under the applicable form(s) or that otherwise materially differ from such forms, and (iii) consulting Contracts that are terminable without penalty on no more than thirty (30) days’ notice, in which case only forms of such Contracts shall be scheduled, unless any such Contract provides severance or change of control pay or benefits that are, in each case, greater than required by applicable Law.

(b) With respect to each Benefit Plan, the Company has made available to the Buyer accurate, current and complete copies of each of the following: (i) where the Benefit Plan has been reduced to writing, all versions or restatements of the plan document together with all amendments from the initial adoption of the Benefit Plan until present; (ii) where the Benefit Plan has not been reduced to writing, a written summary of all material plan terms; (iii) where applicable, copies of any trust agreements or other funding arrangements, custodial agreements, Insurance Policies and contracts, administration agreements and similar agreements, and investment management or investment advisory agreements, now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise; (iv) copies of any summary plan descriptions, summaries of material modifications, employee handbooks and any other written communications (or a description of any oral communications) relating to any Benefit Plan; (v) in the case of any Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, a copy of the most recent determination, opinion or advisory letter from the Internal Revenue Service; (vi) in the case of any Benefit Plan for which a Form 5500 is required to be filed, a copy of the three (3) recently filed Form 5500, with schedules and financial statements attached; (vii) actuarial or other valuations and reports related to any Benefit Plans with respect to the two (2) most recently completed plan years; (viii) the three (3) most recent nondiscrimination tests performed under the Code; (ix) in the case of any Benefit Plan that is intended to be a 401(k) safe harbor plan as defined in the Code, a copy of the safe harbor notices for the last two (2) plan years; and (x) copies of material notices, letters or other correspondence from the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or other Governmental Entity during the past three (3) years.

(c) Each Benefit Plan and any related trust has been established, administered and maintained in all material respects in the past three (3) years in accordance with its terms and in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws (including ERISA, the Code and any applicable local Laws). Each Benefit Plan that is intended to be qualified within the meaning of Section 401(a) of the Code (a “Qualified Benefit Plan”) is so qualified and has received a favorable and current determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service, or with respect to a prototype plan, can rely on an opinion letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the prototype plan sponsor, to the effect that such Qualified Benefit Plan is so qualified and that the plan and the trust related thereto are exempt from federal income Taxes under Sections 401(a) and 501(a), respectively, of the Code, and nothing has occurred that would reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of any Qualified Benefit Plan. Nothing has occurred within the past three (3) years

 

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with respect to any Benefit Plan that has subjected or would reasonably be expected to subject the Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates or, with respect to any period on or after the Closing Date, the Buyer or any of its Affiliates, to a penalty under Section 502 of ERISA or to Tax or penalty under Section 4975 of the Code. Within the past three (3) years, and except as would not reasonably be expected to be material to the Company, all benefits, contributions and premiums relating to each Benefit Plan have been timely paid in accordance with the terms of such Benefit Plan and all applicable Laws and accounting principles, and all benefits accrued under any unfunded Benefit Plan have been paid, accrued or otherwise adequately reserved to the extent required by, and in accordance with, GAAP.

(d) Neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has (i) incurred or reasonably expects to incur, either directly or indirectly, any Liability under Title I or Title IV of ERISA or related provisions of the Code or applicable local Law relating to employee benefit plans; (ii) failed to timely pay premiums to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; (iii) withdrawn from any Benefit Plan; or (iv) engaged in any transaction which would reasonably give rise to liability under Section 4069 or Section 4212(c) of ERISA or (v) maintained, sponsored, contributed to, or been required to be contributed to by the Company any Benefit Plan for the benefit of employees outside of the United States.

(e) With respect to each Benefit Plan (i) such Benefit Plan is not a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 3(37) of ERISA; (ii) such Benefit Plan is not a “multiple employer plan” within the meaning of Section 413(c) of the Code or a “multiple employer welfare arrangement” (as defined in Section 3(40) of ERISA); (iii) no Action has been initiated by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to terminate such Benefit Plan or to appoint a trustee for such Benefit Plan; (iv) such Benefit Plan is not subject to the minimum funding standards of Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA; (v) none of the assets of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is, or may reasonably be expected to become, the subject of any Lien arising under Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412(a) of the Code; and (vi) no “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA, has occurred with respect to such Benefit Plan.

(f) Each Benefit Plan can be amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Closing in accordance with its terms, without material liabilities to the Buyer, the Company or any of their Affiliates other than ordinary administrative expenses typically incurred in a termination event. The Company has no commitment or obligation and has not made any representations to any employee, officer, director, independent contractor or consultant, whether or not legally binding, to adopt, amend, modify or terminate any Benefit Plan material to the Company or any collective bargaining agreement, in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise.

(g) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.17(g) of the Disclosure Letter and other than as required under Section 601 et. seq. of ERISA or other applicable Law, no Benefit Plan provides post-employment or post-termination medical, health, welfare, or life insurance benefits to any individual for any reason, and neither the Company nor any of its ERISA Affiliates has any Liability to provide post-employment or post-termination medical, health, welfare, or life insurance benefits to any individual or ever represented, promised or contracted to any individual that such individual would be provided with such post-employment or post-termination benefits.

 

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(h) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.17(h) of the Disclosure Letter, there is no pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened Action relating to a Benefit Plan (other than routine claims for benefits in the ordinary course), and for the past three (3) years, no Benefit Plan has been the subject of an examination, audit, or investigation by a Governmental Entity or the subject of an application or filing under or is a participant in, an amnesty, voluntary compliance, self-correction or similar program sponsored by any Governmental Entity.

(i) Neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates has any commitment or obligation or has made any representations to any director, officer, employee, independent contractor or consultant, whether or not legally binding, to adopt, amend, modify or terminate any Benefit Plan or any collective bargaining agreement.

(j) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.17(j) of the Disclosure Letter, neither the execution of this Agreement nor any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events): (i) entitle any current or former director, officer, employee, independent contractor or consultant of the Company to severance pay or any other payment; (ii) accelerate the time of payment, funding or vesting, or increase the amount of compensation or benefits due to any such individual; (iii) limit or restrict the right of the Company to merge, amend or terminate any Benefit Plan; (iv) increase the amount payable under or result in any other material obligation pursuant to any Benefit Plan; (v) result in “excess parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G(b) of the Code; or (vi) require a “gross-up” or other payment to any “disqualified individual” within the meaning of Section 280G(c) of the Code. The Company has made available to the Buyer true and complete copies of Section 280G calculations prepared (whether or not final) with respect to each disqualified individual in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(k) Except as set forth on Schedule 3.17(k) of the Disclosure Letter, no Benefit Plan is a self-insured plan that provides medical, dental or any other similar employee benefits (including any such plan pursuant to which a stop-loss policy or Contract applies), and the obligations of all Benefit Plans that provide health, welfare or similar insurance are fully insured by bona fide third-party insurers.

(l) The Company, together with Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC and Camber Spine, is considered under common control and treated as one employer under 414(b), (c), (m), or (o) of the Code.

(m) For each calendar month beginning on or after January 1, 2020, the Company either (i) was not an “applicable large employer member” within the meaning of Section 4980H of the Code, or (ii) has offered minimum value, affordable health coverage to its full-time employees (as those terms are defined under Section 4980H of the Code) in compliance in all material respects with the applicable standards under Section 4980H of the Code.

 

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3.18 Employment Matters.

(a) Schedule 3.18(a) of the Disclosure Letter contains a true, correct, and complete list of all persons who are current employees, independent contractors or consultants of the Company, including any employee who is on a leave of absence of any nature, paid or unpaid, authorized or unauthorized, and sets forth for each such individual the following as applicable: (i) name; (ii) title or position (including whether full or part time); (iii) hire date; (iv) primary physical work location; (v) classification as full-time or part-time and as exempt or non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act and applicable local wage and hour Laws (as applicable); (vi) annual salary or hourly wage rate; and (vii) commission, bonus or other incentive-based compensation.

(b) As of the date hereof, (i) all compensation, including wages, commissions and bonuses, accrued and payable to all employees, independent contractors or consultants of the Company for services performed on or within the past three (3) years have been paid in full (or accrued in full as current liabilities on the Closing Payment Certificate); (ii) there are no outstanding agreements, understandings or commitments of the Company with respect to any compensation, commissions or bonuses for any current employees, independent contractors or consultants or any such individuals who were employed or engaged by the Company within the past three (3) years other than those made available to the Buyer; and (iii) there is no claim with respect to payment of wages, salary or overtime pay that has been asserted in the past three (3) years, is now pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened with respect to any employee, independent contractor or consultant of the Company.

(c) Within the past (3) years, the Company is not, and has not been, a party to, bound by, or negotiating any collective bargaining agreement or other Contract with a union, works council or labor organization (collectively, “Union”), and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there is not, and has not been, any Union representing or purporting to represent any employee of the Company, and no Union or group of employees is seeking or has sought to organize employees for the purpose of collective bargaining. There has never been, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, has there been any threat of, any strike, slowdown, work stoppage, lockout, concerted refusal to work overtime or other similar labor disruption or dispute affecting the Company or any of its employees. The Company does not have a duty to bargain with any Union. To the Knowledge of the Company, there have been no formal or informal grievances, complaints or charges of unfair labor practices brought by any Union on behalf of any current or former employee of the Company. The transactions contemplated by this Agreement have not required and will not require the consent of, advice of, consultation with, or advance notification to, any Union.

(d) The Company is in compliance and, for the past three (3) years, has been in all material respects with all applicable Laws pertaining to employment and employment practices, including all Laws relating to labor relations, equal employment opportunities, fair employment practices, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, reasonable accommodation, disability rights or benefits, immigration (including with respect to the requirements of the Immigration Reform Control Act of 1986), wages, hours, overtime compensation, child labor, hiring, promotion and termination of employees, working conditions, meal and break periods, privacy, health and safety, workers’ compensation, leaves of absence and unemployment insurance. All individuals currently characterized and treated by characterized and treated by the Company as independent contractors or consultants are properly classified and treated as independent contractors under all applicable Laws. All employees of the Company classified as exempt within the past three (3) years under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state and local wage and hour laws are properly classified. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.18(d) of the Disclosure Letter, as of the date hereof, there are no Actions against the Company pending, or to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to be brought or filed, by or with any Governmental Entity or

 

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arbitrator in connection with the employment of any current or former applicant, employee, consultant, volunteer, intern or independent contractor of the Company, including any claim relating to unfair labor practices, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, equal pay, wage and hours or any other employment-related matter arising under applicable Laws.

(e) To the Company’s Knowledge, no current employee or consultant of the Company is in violation of any term of any employment contract, proprietary information agreement or any other agreement relating to the right of any such individual to be employed by, or to contract with, the Company; and, to the Knowledge of the Company, the continued employment by the Company of its present employees, and the performance of the agreements of the Company with its independent contractors, will not result in any such violation.

(f) To the Company’s Knowledge, no officer or employee, or any group of employees, intends to terminate their employment with the Company prior to thirty (30) days following the Closing Date, nor does the Company have a present intention to terminate the employment of any officer, employee or group of employees prior to thirty (30) days following the Closing Date.

(g) The Company is in material compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the “WARN Act”), and it currently has no plans to undertake any action in the future that would trigger the WARN Act.

(h) To the Knowledge of the Company, none of the employees or independent contractors of the Company are included on the “List of Excluded Individuals/Entities” maintained by the Office of Inspector General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

3.19 Taxes.

(a) All income Tax Returns and other material Tax Returns required to be filed by the Company have been timely filed with the appropriate Tax Authority. Such Tax Returns are true, complete and correct in all material respects. All Taxes due and owing by the Company (whether or not shown on any Tax Return) have been timely paid. The Company has not requested or been granted an extension of the time for filing any Tax Return that has not yet been filed (other than any automatic extension for which approval of a Tax Authority is not required).

(b) The Company has withheld and paid all material Taxes required to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor, creditor, customer, shareholder or other party, and complied in all material respects with all information reporting and backup withholding provisions of applicable Law.

(c) No claim has been made in writing or, to the Knowledge of the Company, other than in writing by any Tax Authority to the Company in any jurisdiction asserting that the Company is or may be subject to Taxes imposed by that jurisdiction but not paid by the Company, including, without limitation, sales and use Taxes required to be collected by the Company and remitted to that jurisdiction and income Taxes payable to that jurisdiction.

(d) No extensions or waivers of the time in which any Tax may be assessed or collected by any Tax Authority have been given or requested with respect to any Taxes of the Company, which are still outstanding, excluding an automatic extension for which approval of a Tax Authority is not required. Schedule 3.19(d) of the Disclosure Letter lists all the extensions that are outstanding.

 

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(e) The amount of the Liability of the Company for unpaid Taxes for all periods ending on or before the Balance Sheet Date does not, in the aggregate, exceed the amount of accruals for Taxes (excluding reserves for deferred Taxes) reflected on the Financial Statements. The Liability of the Company for unpaid Taxes for all periods following the Balance Sheet Date shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the amount of any accruals for Taxes (excluding reserves for deferred Taxes) reflected in the accounting books and records of the Company.

(f) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company is not currently subject to any audits or examinations by taxing authorities.

(g) No issues relating to material Taxes of the Company were raised by the relevant Tax Authority in any completed audit or examination that would reasonably be expected to result in a material amount of Taxes in a later taxable period.

(h) No deficiency or adjustment in respect of Taxes has been claimed, proposed, asserted or assessed, in each case in writing or, to the Knowledge of the Company, other than in writing, by any Tax Authority against the Company. There are no outstanding refund claims requested by the Company with respect to any Tax or Tax Return of the Company.

(i) The Company is not a party to any Action by any Tax Authority. There are no pending or threatened in writing Actions by any Tax Authority.

(j) The Company has delivered or made available to the Buyer copies of all federal, state, local and non-U.S. income, franchise and similar Tax Returns (and all relevant documents and information with respect thereto, including work papers and records), examination reports, and statements of deficiencies assessed against, or agreed to by, the Company for all Tax periods since January 1, 2020.

(k) No power of attorney with respect to any Taxes of the Company has been filed or executed with any Tax Authority that will still be in effect following the Closing.

(l) There are no Encumbrances for Taxes (other than for current Taxes not yet due and payable) upon the assets of the Company.

(m) The Company is not a party to, or bound by, any Tax indemnity, Tax sharing or Tax allocation agreement (other than, in each case, a commercial agreement entered into in the ordinary and usual course of business, the principal purpose of which does not relate to Tax).

(n) No private letter rulings, technical advice memoranda or similar agreement or rulings have been requested, entered into or, to the Knowledge of the Company, issued by any Tax Authority with respect to the Company.

(o) The Company is not and has not been a member of an affiliated, combined, consolidated or unitary Tax group for income Tax purposes (other than a group of which the Company is the common parent). The Company has no Liability for Taxes of any other Person under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-6 (or any corresponding provision of state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law), as transferee or successor, by Contract (other than commercial Contracts the primary purpose of which does not relate to Taxes) or otherwise.

 

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(p) The Company will not be required to include any item of income in, or exclude any deduction from, taxable income for any taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Closing Date as a result of any: (i) change in method of accounting, or the use of a cash or an improper method of accounting, for a taxable period ending on or prior to the Closing Date; (ii) “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. income Tax Law) executed prior to the Closing; (iii) installment sale or open transaction disposition made prior to the Closing; and (iv) prepaid or deposit amount received prior to the Closing.

(q) All material elections filed by the Company with respect to Taxes affecting the Company that were not made in the Tax Returns of the Company that have been made available to the Buyer are described in Schedule 3.19(q) of the Disclosure Letter.

(r) The Company is not, and has not been, a United States real property holding corporation (as defined in Section 897(c)(2) of the Code) during the applicable period specified in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code.

(s) The Company is not (i) a shareholder of a “controlled foreign corporation” as defined in Section 957 of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law), or (ii) a shareholder of a “passive foreign investment company” within the meaning of Section 1297 of the Code.

(t) Within the last two (2) years, the Company has not been a “distributing corporation” or a “controlled corporation” in connection with a distribution described in Section 355 of the Code.

(u) The Company is not, and has not been, a party to, or a promoter of, a “listed transaction” within the meaning of Section 6707A(c)(2) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.6011-4(b)(2).

(v) The Company is not subject to Tax in any country other than its country of organization.

(w) The Company is not a partner for Tax purposes with respect to any joint venture, partnership or other arrangement or Contract which is treated as a partnership for Tax purposes.

(x) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.19(x) of the Disclosure Letter, the exercise price of each Company Stock Option is no less than the fair market value of a share of Common Stock determined on the date of grant of such Company Stock Option (and as of each later modification thereof within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code). Each plan, program, arrangement or agreement that constitutes in any part a nonqualified deferred compensation plan within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code is identified as such in Schedule 3.19(x) of the Disclosure Letter. Each plan, program, arrangement or agreement identified or required to be identified in Schedule 3.19(x) of the Disclosure Letter has been operated and maintained in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and applicable guidance thereunder in all material respects, including but not limited to the final regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein: (i) the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 3.17, 3.18 and 3.19 constitute the sole and exclusive representations and warranties of the Company with respect to Tax matters; and (ii) other than the representations contained in Sections 3.19(o), 3.19(p), and 3.19(x) such representations and warranties (and any claims based thereon) shall be limited to Taxes attributable to Tax periods (or portions thereof) ending on or before the Closing Date; and (iii) such representations and warranties (and any claims based thereon) shall in no event include the existence, amount, or usability of the Tax attributes of the Company (or any Affiliate thereof) for Tax periods (or portions thereof) beginning after the Closing Date (such as net operating loss carryforward, capital loss carryforward, credits or Tax credits carryforwards or similar attributes).

3.20 Health Care Compliance.

(a) Each of the Company, and, to the Company’s Knowledge, its directors, officers, employees, and agents (while acting in such capacity) are, and at all times have been, in material compliance with all applicable Health Care Laws. The Company has not received any written notification, correspondence, or any other communication from any Governmental Entity alleging or asserting non-compliance by, or liability of, the Company under any applicable Health Care Laws. The Company is not a party to or does not have any ongoing reporting obligations pursuant to or under any Order or corporate integrity agreements, deferred or non-prosecution agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement Orders, plans of correction or similar agreements with or imposed by any Governmental Entity.

(b) As of the date hereof, there is no Action pending, received or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened against the Company alleging a violation of any applicable Health Care Law or other Law pertaining to governmental health care programs or which could result in the imposition of penalties against or the debarment, suspension or exclusion of the Company from participation in any such health care program. None of the Company, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, any of its officers, directors, employees, or agents has engaged in any activity which is reasonable cause for civil penalties or mandatory or permissive exclusion, debarment or suspension from any governmental health care program.

(c) The Company has obtained and maintained each Permit required under any applicable Health Care Laws (collectively, “Regulatory Permits”) necessary for the conduct of its business as presently conducted. All such Regulatory Permits are in full force and effect, and the Company has fulfilled and performed all of its material obligations with respect to such Regulatory Permits. All of such Regulatory Permits are listed on Schedule 3.20(c) of the Disclosure Letter. The Company has not received any notice of proceedings, whether pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened, relating to the suspension, modification, withdrawal, rescission, revocation or cancellation of any such Regulatory Permit, and to the Company’s Knowledge, no event has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation, termination or any material impairment of the rights of the holder of any Regulatory Permit.

 

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(d) All applications, notifications, information, claims, reports and data submitted in connection with any and all requests for a Regulatory Permit from the FDA or other Governmental Entity, when submitted to the FDA or such other Governmental Entity were true, complete and correct in all material respects as of the date of submission and any necessary or required updates, changes, corrections or modification to such applications, notifications, information, claims, reports and data have been submitted to the FDA or other Governmental Entity.

(e) The development, testing, manufacture, storage, packaging, import, export, advertising, sale, promotion, of the Company’s products, whether by or on behalf of the Company, is being conducted, and at all times has been conducted, in compliance in all material respects with all Regulatory Permits and applicable Health Care Laws, including, without limitation, the FDA’s medical device reporting requirements codified at 21 C.F.R. Part 803 and the FDA’s current good manufacturing practice regulations for products sold in the United States. No manufacturing site (whether Company-owned or that of a contract manufacturer for Company Products) has been subject to a Governmental Entity (including FDA) shutdown or import or export prohibition, nor received any FDA Form-483 or other Governmental Entity notice of inspectional observations, “warning letters,” “untitled letters” or similar correspondence or notice from the FDA or other Governmental Entity and alleging or asserting noncompliance with any applicable Health Care Laws or Regulatory Permits, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, neither the FDA nor any Governmental Entity has threatened such Action.

(f) All nonclinical and clinical trials that have been or are being conducted by or on behalf of, or sponsored by, the Company, or in which the Company or its products have participated, and which have been or will be submitted to regulatory authorities in connection with applications for Regulatory Permits (collectively, “Studies”), were and, if still pending, are being or have been conducted in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Health Care Laws and all rules, policies and protocols to which they are or were subject. The Company has not received any written notices, correspondence or other communication from the FDA or any other Governmental Entity requiring the termination, suspension or adverse modification of any clinical trials being conducted or proposed to be conducted by or on behalf of the Company, or in which the Company has participated. Schedule 3.20(f) of the Disclosure Letter lists all Studies.

(g) Neither the Company nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, any officer, employee or agent of the Company has been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct that has previously caused or would reasonably be expected to result in (A) disqualification or debarment by the FDA under 21 U.S.C. Sections 335(a) or (b), or any similar law, rule or regulation of any other Governmental Entities, (B) debarment, suspension, or exclusion under any federal healthcare programs or by the General Services Administration, or (C) exclusion under 42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7 or any similar law, rule or regulation of any Governmental Entities. Neither the Company nor any of its officers, employees, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, any of its contractors or agents is the subject of any threatened or pending investigation by the FDA pursuant to its “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities” policy as stated at 56 Fed. Reg. 46191 (September 10, 1991) (the “FDA Application Integrity Policy”) and any amendments thereto, or by any other similar Governmental Entity pursuant to any similar policy. Neither the Company nor any of its officers, employees, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, any of its contractors or agents has committed any act, made any statement or failed to make any statement that would reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the FDA to invoke the FDA Application

 

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Integrity Policy or for any similar Governmental Entity to invoke a similar policy. Neither the Company nor any of its officers, employees, or to the Company’s Knowledge, any of its contractors or agents has made any materially false statements on, or material omissions from, any notifications, applications, approvals, reports and other submissions to the FDA or any similar Governmental Entity.

(h) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.20(h) of the Disclosure Letter, there have been no recalls, field notifications, field corrections, market withdrawals, “dear doctor” letters, safety alerts or other notice of Action relating to an alleged lack of safety, efficacy, or regulatory compliance of the Company or its products (collectively, “Safety Notices”). To the Company’s Knowledge, there are no facts that would be reasonably likely to result in (A) a Safety Notice with respect to the Company or its products, (B) a change in the marketing classification or a material change in labeling of any the products of the Company; or (C) a termination or suspension of marketing or testing of any the products of the Company.

(i) Except as set forth in Schedule 3.20(i) of the Disclosure Letter, none of the Equityholders is a Health Care Professional.

3.21 Product Liability.

(a) As of the date hereof, no product liability claim has been made against the Company and there is no Action against it giving rise to any liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any injury to any individual or property as a result of the ownership, possession or use of any product manufactured, sold, leased or distributed by the Company. The Company has not received written notice as to any claim for personal injury or death, any claim for property, economic, punitive or exemplary damages, any claim for contribution or indemnification or any claim for injunctive relief, in each case in connection with any product manufactured, sold, leased or distributed by the Company. There has not been any material product recall (voluntary, involuntary or otherwise) by the Company.

(b) Each product manufactured, sold, leased or delivered by the Company is and was at all times when such actions occurred in conformance with all applicable contractual obligations, including all applicable express and implied warranties. To the Knowledge of the Company, there are no material defects in the design or technology embodied in any products marketed by the Company that impair or are likely to impair the safe and effective performance of any such product for its intended use. The Company does not have any Liability (and there is no reasonable basis for any Action against it giving rise to any Liability) for replacement or repair thereof or other damages in connection therewith, subject only to the reserve for product warranty claims shown on the face of the Interim Balance Sheet (rather than in any notes thereto). Schedule 3.21(b) of the Disclosure Letter contains copies of the standard terms and conditions of sale and lease for the Company (including applicable guarantee, warranty and indemnity provisions). No product manufactured, sold, leased or delivered by the Company is subject to any guarantee, warranty or other indemnity beyond the applicable standard terms and conditions of sale and lease shown in such Schedule of the Disclosure Letter.

 

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3.22 Information Technology Systems.

(a) The IT Systems have been, and currently are sufficient for and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation and needs of the Company’s Business as currently conducted, including as to capacity, and ability to process current and currently anticipated peak volumes in a timely manner. The IT Systems and the Relevant Companies’ related procedures and practices are designed, implemented, operated and maintained in accordance with reasonable industry standards and practices for entities operating businesses similar to the Company’s Business, including with respect to redundancy, reliability, and security. Without limiting the foregoing, (i) the Relevant Companies have taken reasonable steps and implemented reasonable procedures to ensure that the IT Systems are free from Malicious Code; and (ii) the Relevant Companies have in effect industry standard disaster recovery plans, procedures and facilities for the Business and has taken reasonable steps to safeguard the security and the integrity of the IT Systems.

(b) There has been no failure or other substandard performance of the IT Systems which has caused any material disruption to the Company’s Business. The Company has not suffered any data loss, material business interruption, or other material harm as a result of, any Malicious Code intentionally designed to permit (i) unauthorized access to a computer or network; or (ii) unauthorized disablement or erasure of Software, hardware or data. The Relevant Companies have implemented any and all security patches or upgrades that are generally available for the IT Systems.

3.23 Data Security and Privacy.

(a) The Company has complied with all applicable: (i) Data Security and Privacy Laws; (ii) Privacy Policies; and (iii) the terms of all Contracts to which the Company is bound relating to the Processing of Personal Information or Business Data (the “Data Protection Requirements”), except as would not have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has obtained written agreements from all third parties that Process Personal Information or Business Data for or on behalf of the Company (each, a “Third Party Processor”) that satisfy the requirements of applicable Data Protection Requirements, and to the Knowledge of the Company, no such Third Party Processor is in material breach of any such agreement.

(b) The Company has developed, implemented, and maintained, all necessary and appropriate policies, procedures and training programs to maintain and protect the Company’s Personal Information and Business Data in compliance with Data Security and Privacy Laws. The Company has all necessary authority, rights, consents and authorizations to Process any Personal Information maintained by or for the Company to the extent required in connection with the operation of the Business as currently conducted. The Company does not sell, rent or otherwise make available to any Person any Personal Information, except in a manner that complies in all material respects with the applicable Data Protection Requirements.

(c) The Company has not, nor to the Knowledge of the Company has any Third Party Processor, (i) been subject to any Order or any Action with respect to the Processing of Personal Information maintained by or for Company, (ii) received written notice of any commenced or threatened Action with respect to the Processing of Personal Information maintained by or for

 

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Company; or (iii) received any written complaint from any Person, alleging a violation of any Data Protection Requirement with respect to the Processing of Personal Information maintained by or for Company or in connection with any privacy or data protection practices of the Company. The consummation of the transaction contemplated hereunder will comply in all material respects with the Data Protection Requirements.

(d) The Company has implemented and maintained reasonable physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures, procedures and policies designed to maintain and protect the confidentiality, integrity and security of the IT Systems and all Personal Information and Business Data used in connection with the Business against any Security Incident (defined below). The Company has implemented appropriate backup and disaster recovery technology, plans and procedures consistent with reasonable industry practices. The Company has not discovered or been notified of any breach or outage of, or unauthorized access to, its IT Systems, or of any unauthorized Processing of Personal Information or Business Data Processed by or for the Company (“Security Incident”), nor are any incidents under internal review or investigation relating to the same. The Company has not, nor to the Knowledge of the Company has any Third Party Processor, made or been required to make any notification to any Person in connection with any Security Incident under any applicable Data Protection Requirement. The Company has undertaken appropriate security audits, inventories, reviews, risk analyses and/or other security assessments and remediated any critical or high-risk deficiencies identified thereby.

3.24 Certain Business Practices. During the past five years, none of the Company, or to the Company’s Knowledge, any Person acting on behalf of the Company, has, directly or indirectly, given or agreed to give any payment, gift or other item of value or similar benefit to any Person (including any Foreign Official, foreign political party, foreign political party official or candidate for foreign political office) who was in a position to help or hinder the Business of the Company that (a) would reasonably subject the Company to any Action that would result in a Material Adverse Effect on the Company, (b) if not given in the past, would have or would have been reasonably likely to have materially and adversely affected the Company, (c) if not continued in the future, will or is reasonably likely to materially and adversely affect the Company, or (d) was for a corrupt and unlawful purpose of obtaining or retaining any business or any other business advantage, in each case in violation of applicable international or domestic anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during the past five years, none of the Company or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of its officers, directors, agents, employees or other Persons acting on its behalf, has taken any action which would cause the Company to be in violation of any applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and any applicable implementing legislation under the OECD Convention Against the Bribery of Foreign Government Officials in International Business Transactions (or legislation implementing such convention). The Company has not received any communication (written or otherwise) from any Governmental Entity that alleges that the Company, or any current or former representatives thereof, is or may be in violation of, or has, or may have, any liability under, any anti-bribery or anti-corruption law, and no such potential violations have been discovered by or brought to the attention of the Company. To the Company’s Knowledge, none of the Company’s current or former representatives is currently an officer, agent or employee of a Governmental Entity.

 

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3.25 Export Compliance.

(a) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company has conducted business in compliance in all material respects with applicable provisions of economic sanctions and export control Laws (including rules regarding classification, marking, packaging, and payments of tariffs and duties), including the Export Administration Act, the Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. 730 et seq.), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Foreign Trade Regulations, the U.S. anti-boycott Laws, the Laws implemented and administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and associated executive Orders related to any such Laws, and other applicable export and sanction Laws of the countries where it is licensed to conduct business (collectively, the “Trade Control Laws”).

(b) The Company has obtained any export licenses, registrations, approvals, and other authorizations required under the applicable Trade Control Laws for its manufacture and exports of products, software and technology in and from the United States and its re-exports of products, software and technology subject to United States Law. The Company: (i) is in compliance in all material respects with the terms of such applicable export licenses, registrations, approvals, and other authorizations; and (ii) has not received any written communication alleging that it is not in compliance with, or has any Liability under any such applicable export licenses, registrations, approvals, and other authorizations. Neither the Company nor its officers, directors or employees, nor any Person acting on behalf of the Company is (i) a Sanctioned Party; (ii) located, organized or a resident in a country or territory which is itself the subject of any trade or economic sanctions, (iii) included in the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities maintained by the HHS Office of Inspector General pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1320a-7, 13955ccc, 1320c-5 and regulations promulgated thereunder, which, as of the Closing Date, can be searched at the internet website of http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov; or (iv) listed as excluded on the list maintained by the United States General Services Administration which, as of the Closing Date, can be searched at the internet website of System for Award Management https://www.sam.gov.

(c) There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened claims against, or audits or investigations of, the Company with respect to any export licenses, registrations or other approvals. Neither the Company nor its officers, directors or employees, nor any Person acting on behalf of the Company has conducted or initiated any internal investigation or made a voluntary, directed or involuntary disclosure to any Governmental Entity with respect to any alleged act or omission arising under or relating to any potential noncompliance with a Trade Control Law.

3.26 Books and Records. The minute books and stock record books of the Company, all of which have been made available to the Buyer, are complete and correct as of the date hereof and have been maintained in accordance with sound business practices. The minute books of the Company contain accurate and complete records of all meetings, and actions taken by written consent of, holders of its Equity Interests, its Board of Directors or other governing body, and any committees thereof, prior to the date hereof, and no meeting, or action taken by written consent, of any of the foregoing has been held prior to the date hereof for which minutes have not been prepared and are not contained in such minute books. At the Closing, all of those books and records will be in the possession of the Company.

 

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3.27 Related Party Transactions. No Seller, entity controlled by any Seller, or executive officer, director, employee, stockholder, Affiliate, agent or Equityholder of the Company (or any of such person’s immediate family members or Affiliates or associates) (each, a “Related Party”): (a) has any direct or indirect interest (i) in, or is, a director, officer or employee of, any Person that is a client, customer, franchisee, supplier, lessor, lessee, debtor, creditor or competitor of the Company (except with respect to any interest in less than 5% of the stock of any corporation whose stock is publicly traded or, in the case of any such Person that is an investment fund, in any of such Person’s affiliated portfolio companies), or (ii) in any material property, asset or right that is owned or used by the Company (except with respect to any interest in less than 5% of the stock of any corporation whose stock is publicly traded or, in the case of any such Person that is an investment fund, in any of such Person’s affiliated portfolio companies); (b) has any claim or cause of action against the Company or (c) is a party to any agreement or transaction with the Company (except for any agreement or transaction between the Company, with respect to any interest in less than 5% of the stock of any corporation whose stock is publicly traded, and, in the case of any such Person that is an investment fund, such Person’s affiliated portfolio companies) or any other agreements, arrangements or understandings that would be required to be disclosed under Item 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act if applied to the Company (collectively, the “Company Related-Party Agreements”). Except as set forth in Schedule 3.27 of the Disclosure Letter, there is no outstanding Indebtedness to the Company of any current or former director, officer, consultant, employee or member of the Company.

3.28 Brokers. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.28, no broker, finder or investment banker is entitled to any brokerage, finder’s or other fee or commission in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each other Transaction Document based upon arrangements made by or on behalf of the Company.

3.29 No Other Representations and Warranties. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and each other Transaction Document, neither the Company nor any of its agents, employees or representatives have made, nor are any of them making any representation or warranty, written or oral, express or implied, in respect of the Company or its Businesses. The Buyer expressly acknowledges and agrees that neither the Buyer nor any of its agents, employees or representatives is relying on any other representation or warranty of the Company or any of its agents, employees or representatives, including regarding the accuracy or completeness of any such other representations and warranties, whether express or implied.

ARTICLE IV.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BUYER

Except as set forth in the correspondingly numbered Schedule of the Buyer Disclosure Letter, the Buyer represents and warrants to the Sellers that the statements contained in this Article IV are true and correct as of the date hereof.

4.1 Organization; Power. The Buyer is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the State of Delaware. The Buyer possesses all requisite organizational power and authority necessary to own, operate and lease and license its properties, to carry on its business as now conducted and to carry out the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

 

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4.2 Due Execution. This Agreement has been, and each other Transaction Document to which the Buyer is or will be a party has been, duly executed and delivered by the Buyer. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Transaction Document to which the Buyer is or will be a party constitutes, or will constitute when so duly executed and delivered, a valid and binding obligation of the Buyer, enforceable against the Buyer in accordance with its terms, in each case subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

4.3 Valid Issuance of Buyer Common Stock. Any shares of Buyer Common Stock issuable under this Agreement, when issued, sold and delivered in accordance with the terms and for the consideration set forth in this Agreement, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable; and will be registered with the SEC under the Securities Act and shall be included for listing on the NYSE at the time of issuance.

4.4 Investment and Financial Ability. The Buyer is purchasing the Shares for investment for its own account and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, any distribution of such Shares in violation of federal and state securities Laws. The Buyer has sufficient funds available to complete the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.

4.5 No Conflicts; Consents. The execution, delivery and performance by the Buyer of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, do not and will not: (i) conflict with or result in a violation or breach of, or default under, any provision of the organizational documents of the Buyer; (ii) conflict with or result in a material violation or breach of any provision of any Law or Order applicable to the Buyer; (iii) require any consent, notice or other action by any Person under (whether with or without notice or lapse of time or both), contravene, conflict with, result in a violation or breach of or constitute a default under (or an event that, with or without notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a violation or breach of or constitute a default under), result in or permit the acceleration, termination, modification or cancellation of, or create in any party the right to accelerate, terminate, modify or cancel, or result in or permit any other change to any right or obligation of the Buyer or the loss of any benefit to which the Buyer is entitled under, any provision of any material Contract or any Permit affecting the properties, assets or business of the Buyer; or (iv) result in the creation or imposition of any Encumbrance other than Permitted Encumbrances on any properties or assets of the Buyer. No consent, approval, Permit, Order, declaration or filing with, or notice to, any Governmental Entity is required by or with respect to the Buyer in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.

4.6 Compliance with Laws and Regulations; Permits. The Buyer has complied, and is now complying, in all material respects with all Laws applicable to it and its business, properties or assets. The Buyer has no material Liability for failure to comply with any Law and, to the Knowledge of the Buyer, there is no act, omission, event or circumstance that would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such material Liability. The Buyer has not received written notice from any Governmental Entity of any violation or alleged violation by it of any applicable Law, where such violation would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Buyer.

 

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4.7 SEC Reports.

(a) Each of the SEC Reports (i) as of the date of the filing of such report, complied with the requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the SOX, the rules and regulations thereunder, and (ii) as of its filing date (or, if amended or superseded by a subsequent filing prior to the date hereof, on the date of such filing) did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(b) The Buyer is in compliance with the applicable listing rules and corporate governance rules and regulations of the NYSE.

4.8 Financial Statements. Each of the financial statements (including, in each case, any notes thereto) contained or incorporated by reference in the SEC Reports complied with the rules and regulations of the SEC as of the date of the filing of such reports, was prepared in accordance with GAAP and fairly presents the financial condition and the results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flow of the Buyer and its subsidiaries as of the respective dates of and for the periods referred to in such financial statements, subject, in the case of interim financial statements, to (i) the omission of notes to the extent permitted by Regulation S-X (that, in the case of interim financial statements included in the SEC Reports since the Buyer’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, would not differ materially from the notes to the financial statements included in such annual report) and (ii) normal, recurring year-end adjustments (the effect of which will not, individually or in the aggregate, be material).

4.9 No Other Representations and Warranties. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement and each other Transaction Document, neither the Buyer nor any of its subsidiaries, agents, employees or representatives have made, nor are any of them making any representation or warranty, written or oral, express or implied, in respect of the Buyer or its businesses. The Company and the Sellers expressly acknowledge and agree that none of the Company, the Sellers, or any of their respective agents, employees or representatives is relying on any other representation or warranty of the Buyer or any of its subsidiaries, agents, employees or representatives, including regarding the accuracy or completeness of any such other representations and warranties, whether express or implied.

ARTICLE V.

ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS

5.1 Litigation Support. For a period of seven (7) years after the Closing, in the event that, and for so long as, the Buyer or the Company is actively contesting or defending against any charge, audit, complaint, Action, suit, proceeding, hearing, investigation, grievance, arbitration, claim, or demand in connection with (a) any transaction contemplated by the Transaction Documents or (b) any fact, situation, circumstance, status, condition, activity, practice, plan, occurrence, event, incident, Action, failure to act, or transaction on or prior to the Closing Date involving the Company, the Sellers Representative and each Seller will reasonably cooperate with such contesting or defending party and its counsel in the contest or defense, make available their personnel, and provide such testimony and access to their books and records as shall be reasonably necessary in connection with the contest or defense, at the sole cost and expense of the Buyer, or, at the Buyer’s discretion, the Company (unless the Buyer is entitled to indemnification therefor under Article VI of this Agreement).

 

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5.2 Tax Matters.

(a) Tax Returns.

(i) The Buyer (at its cost and expense) shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, all Tax Returns in respect of the Company that relate to taxable periods ending on or before the Closing Date that are required to be filed after the Closing Date and the Sellers shall pay, or cause to be paid, to the Buyer all Taxes due with respect to such Tax Returns (except to the extent such Taxes were taken into account in determining the Final Closing Payment (or any component thereof)). All such Tax Returns shall be prepared and filed in a manner consistent with past practices of the Company unless otherwise required by applicable Law. The Buyer shall deliver drafts of such Tax Returns (together with schedules, statements and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Sellers Representative, supporting documentation) at least ten (10) days prior to the due date (considering any extension) for the filing of such Tax Returns, to the Sellers Representative for the Sellers Representative’s review. The Buyer shall consider in good faith any comment that the Sellers Representative submits to the Buyer no fewer than five (5) days prior to the due date (taking into account any extension) for the filing of such Tax Returns. The Buyer shall timely file, or cause to be timely filed, such Tax Returns and Sellers shall make the payment due to the Buyer under this Section 5.2(a)(i) at least two (2) days before timely payment of Taxes is due to the Tax Authority to the extent such Taxes are Pre-Closing Taxes.

(ii) The Buyer shall (at its cost and expense) prepare and timely file, or cause to be prepared and timely filed, any Tax Return required to be filed by the Company for a Straddle Period (a “Straddle Period Tax Return”). Each Straddle Period Tax Return shall be prepared in a manner consistent with past practices of the Company unless otherwise required by applicable Law. A draft of each Straddle Period Tax Return shall be submitted by the Buyer to the Sellers Representative (together with schedules, statements and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Sellers Representative, supporting documentation, and, in the case of a Straddle Period, the allocation of Taxes between the pre-Closing and post-Closing portion of the Straddle Period pursuant to Section 5.2(a)(iii)) for its review and comment at least ten (10) days prior to the due date of such Tax Return (including any applicable extension) for any Tax Return that is an income Tax Return (and for any other Tax Returns, such period of time prior to the due date that is reasonable, taking into account applicable extension and the nature of the Tax Return and Tax). The Buyer shall consider in good faith any comment that the Sellers Representative submits to the Buyer no less than five (5) days prior to the due date of such Straddle Period Tax Return.

(iii) With respect to Taxes of the Company relating to a Straddle Period, the amount of such Taxes allocable to the portion of the Straddle Period that is deemed to end on the close of business on the Closing Date shall be, to the extent such Taxes are Pre-Closing Taxes, paid by the Sellers to the Buyer (except to the extent such Taxes were taken into account in determining the Final Closing Payment (or any component thereof)).

 

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The portion of any Tax that is allocable to the taxable period that is deemed to end on the Closing Date will be, (A) in the case of Property Taxes, the amount of such Taxes for the entire Straddle Period multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of calendar days of such Straddle Period in the Pre-Closing Tax Period and the denominator of which is the number of calendar days in the entire Straddle Period and (B) for all other Taxes, determined as though the taxable year of the Company terminated at the close of business on the Closing Date. The Sellers shall make such payment to the Buyer at least two (2) days before timely payment of Taxes is due to the Tax Authority to the extent such Taxes are Pre-Closing Taxes (except to the extent such Taxes were taken into account in determining the Final Closing Payment (or any component thereof)).

(b) Cooperation. The Buyer and the Sellers agree to furnish or cause to be furnished to the other, upon request, as promptly as practicable, such information and assistance relating to Taxes, including, without limitation, access to books and records, as is reasonably necessary for the filing of all Tax Returns by the Buyer or the Sellers, the making of any election relating to Taxes, the preparation for any audit by any Tax Authority and the prosecution or defense of any claim, suit or proceeding relating to any Tax. Each of the Buyer and the Sellers shall retain all books and records with respect to Taxes for a period of at least seven (7) years following the Closing Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Buyer shall not be required to provide any information, books, records or Tax Returns not directly relating to the Company, and the Buyer shall be entitled to reasonably redact any information contained in any books, records or Tax Returns provided to the Sellers.

(c) Tax Contests.

(i) The Buyer and the Company, on the one hand, and the Sellers, the Sellers Representative and their Affiliates, on the other hand, shall promptly notify each other upon receipt by such party of written notice of any inquiries, claims, assessments, audits or similar events with respect to Taxes of the Company for a Pre-Closing Tax Period, including a Straddle Period (any such inquiry, claim, assessment, audit or similar event, a “Tax Matter”). Any failure to so notify the other party of any Tax Matter shall not relieve such other party of any liability with respect to such Tax Matters except to the extent such party was actually and materially prejudiced as a result thereof.

(ii) The Buyer shall have sole control of the conduct of all Tax Matters, including any settlement or compromise thereof, provided, however, that, with respect to any Tax Matter for which any Seller may be liable, (A) the Buyer shall keep the Sellers Representative reasonably informed concerning the progress of any such Tax Matter, (B) the Sellers Representative shall be entitled to participate (at its own cost and expense) in such Tax Matter (including having the opportunity to consult with the Buyer regarding significant actions and developments and the opportunity to review and comment on significant written materials furnished in connection with such actions and developments) and (C) the Buyer shall not settle, compromise or abandon any such Tax Matter without obtaining the prior written consent of the Sellers Representative (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

 

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(iii) In the event of any conflict or overlap between the provisions of this Section 5.2(c) and Section 6.4, this Section 5.2(c) shall control with respect to Tax Matters.

(d) Tax Sharing Agreements. All Tax sharing agreements, Tax indemnity agreements, Tax allocation agreements or similar agreements (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, this Agreement and other commercial agreements the primary purpose of which does not relate to Taxes) between the Company, on the one hand, and any of the Sellers and their Affiliates, on the other hand, shall be terminated prior to the Closing Date, and, after the Closing Date, the Company shall not be bound thereby or have any liability thereunder.

(e) Transfer Taxes. All transfer, stamp, documentary, sales, use, registration, value-added and other similar Taxes (including all applicable real estate transfer Taxes) incurred in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (“Transfer Taxes”) will be borne 50% by the Sellers and 50% by the Buyer. Each Seller hereby agrees to file in a timely manner all necessary documents (including, but not limited to, all Tax Returns) with respect to all such amounts. The Buyer shall cooperate in the preparation and filing and, if required by applicable Law, join in the execution of any such Tax Returns, and other documentation including any exemption certificates or reductions in Tax. Each Seller shall provide the Buyer with evidence satisfactory to the Buyer that such Transfer Taxes have been paid by such Seller.

(f) Tax Refunds. The Sellers will be entitled to all Tax refunds, including any interest thereon (each, a “Tax Refund”), of the Company for Pre-Closing Tax Periods, including Straddle Periods, to the extent (1) such Taxes were paid by the Company prior to Closing or by any Seller after the Closing or otherwise economically borne by any Seller, (2) such Tax Refund is actually recognized by the Buyer after the Closing and (3) such Tax Refund was not taken into account in determining the Final Closing Payment (or any component thereof)). Such Tax Refunds will be net of: (i) any reasonable out-of-pocket costs incurred in obtaining such Tax Refunds (which the Buyer or the Company will incur at the reasonable request of the Sellers Representative) and (ii) any Taxes borne by the Buyer or the Company as a result of their receipt of such Tax Refunds, and provided that any such Tax Refund related to a Straddle Period will be determined in accordance with the principles set forth in Section 5.2(a)(iii). Any such Tax Refund will be paid over to the Sellers Representative within fifteen (15) days of receipt for distribution to each Seller. In the event that any Tax Refund is required to be repaid to the applicable Tax Authority, the applicable Persons will promptly pay or cause to be promptly paid an amount equal to such repaid Tax Refund (together with any applicable interest and penalties) to the Buyer. All payments pursuant to this Section 5.2(f) shall be treated as an adjustment to the purchase price for all Tax purposes, unless otherwise required by applicable Law.

(g) Other Tax Matters.

(i) To the extent such action would reasonably be expected to increase the Sellers’ indemnity obligation, without the prior written consent of the Sellers Representative (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), the Buyer will not (and will not permit any Person to): (i) except for Tax Returns that are filed in accordance with Section 5.2(a), file or amend any Tax Return of the Company with respect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period; (ii) extend or waive any statute of limitations or other period for the assessment of any Tax of the Company with respect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period;

 

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(iii) make or change any Tax election under Section 336 or 338 of the Code or change any method of Tax accounting of the Company with retroactive effect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period; (iv) initiate discussions or examinations with any Tax Authority (including any voluntary disclosures) regarding Pre-Closing Taxes; or (v) engage in any transaction on the Closing Date after the Closing outside ordinary course of business.

(ii) The Buyer shall cause the Company to (i) join the Buyer’s consolidated group (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-1(h)) effective as of the beginning of the date following the Closing Date and (ii) as a result, the taxable year of the Company will close for U.S. federal and applicable state and local income Tax purposes as of the end of the day on the Closing Date. All Tax deductions of the Company resulting from the payment or accrual of an amount in a Pre-Closing Tax Period (including the Transaction Tax Deductions) shall be treated as occurring or allocable to the day of or prior to the Closing Date for U.S. federal income Tax purposes to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Law and shall be reported consistent with such treatment, and the Buyer shall not nor shall it cause any of its Affiliates to treat such deductions as occurring after the Closing Date under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b) (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. applicable Law).

5.3 Confidentiality. In further consideration for the payment of the Estimated Closing Payment and in order to protect the value of the Shares purchased by the Buyer (including the goodwill inherent in the Company as of the Closing), as of the date hereof, each Seller agrees as follows:

(a) as an owner of the Shares, or an employee, officer or director of the Company (as applicable), each Seller has had access to and contributed to information and materials of a highly sensitive nature (including Confidential Information, as defined below) of the Company, its current and future, direct and indirect, parent (including, without limitation, the Buyer), and related entities (each of the foregoing, a “Company Entity”). Each Seller agrees that unless such Seller first secures the written consent of an authorized representative of the Buyer, such Seller shall not use for himself, herself, itself or anyone else, and shall not disclose to others, any Confidential Information, except to the extent such use or disclosure is required by Law or any Order (in which event each Seller shall, to the extent practicable, inform the Buyer and the Company in advance of any such required disclosure, shall cooperate with the Buyer and the Company in all reasonable ways in obtaining a protective Order or other protection in respect of such Confidential Information, and shall limit disclosure of any such Confidential Information to the extent reasonably possible while still complying with such Law or Order). Each Seller shall use all reasonable care to safeguard Confidential Information and to protect it against disclosure, misuse, espionage, loss and theft.

(b) to, (i) promptly after the Closing, deliver to the Company or destroy all Confidential Information and other Company IP, if any, in such Seller’s possession and control, in whatever form or medium and (ii) at the Buyer’s request, promptly provide written confirmation and certification that such Seller has returned or destroyed all such materials.

 

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5.4 Confidentiality of Terms of Transaction. The Sellers and the Sellers Representative will keep confidential, and not disclose, the terms and status of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and the identity of the Buyer; provided, that each of the Sellers, the Sellers Representative and the Company shall have the right to communicate and discuss with, and provide to, their respective legal advisors, representatives, officers, employees, directors, consultants and agents, and any third party in connection with obtaining any consent, waiver or approval required to be obtained in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein, any information regarding the terms and status of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.

5.5 Further Actions. If at any time after the Closing any further actions are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Agreement, each party hereto will take such further actions (including the execution and delivery of such further instruments and documents) as any other such party may reasonably request, at the sole cost and expense of the requesting party. The Sellers acknowledge and agree that from and after the Closing, the Buyer will be entitled to possession of all documents, books, records (including Tax records), agreements, and financial data of any sort relating to the Company.

5.6 Employee Matters.

(a) The Buyer shall, and shall cause its Affiliates to, grant all Company employees who continue employment with the Buyer or any Affiliate of the Buyer after the Closing (collectively, “Continuing Employees”) credit for any service to the Company and its Affiliates earned prior to the Closing for purposes of eligibility, vesting and determination of the level of benefits, vacation or paid time off accrual and severance benefit determinations, under any benefit or compensation plan, program, agreement or arrangement in which a Continuing Employee participates that may be established or maintained by the Buyer or its Affiliates on or after the Closing; provided, however, that such service credit shall not be recognized to the extent that it would result in a duplication of benefits for the same period of time.

(b) Nothing contained herein, express or implied, (x) is intended to confer upon any Continuing Employee any right to continued employment for any period or continued receipt of any specific employee benefit, or shall constitute an amendment to or any other modification of any Benefit Plan, (y) shall alter or limit the Buyer’s or the Company’s or their Affiliates’ ability to amend, modify or terminate any particular Benefit Plan, program, agreement or arrangement or (z) is intended to confer upon any individual (including employees, retirees or dependents or beneficiaries of employees or retirees) any right as a third party beneficiary of this Agreement.

5.7 Wrong Pockets. After the Closing, if any Seller becomes aware that any asset (including Intellectual Property Rights and Technology) owned or held by a PMMC Company necessary to operate the Business of the Company, or primarily related to the Business of the Company has not been transferred to the Buyer, it shall promptly notify the Buyer in writing and the Buyer and the Sellers Representative shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, ensure that such asset is assigned at the pertinent PMMC Company’s sole cost and expense, with any necessary prior third party consent or approval, to the Buyer .

 

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5.8 Termination of Related Party Transactions. Except (i) as set forth in Schedule 5.8 of the Disclosure Letter and (ii) for Contracts for employment, compensation or benefits entered into in the ordinary course of business, the Company shall cause all Contracts in accordance with their terms (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Company Related-Party Agreements) between any Related Party, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand, to be settled or terminated on or prior to the Closing, without any further obligations, liability or payments by or on behalf of the Company as of the Closing. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing shall not require the breach of any agreement by the Company in order to comply with this Section 5.8.

5.9 Use of Corporate Name or Trade Name. After the Closing, the Sellers acknowledge that no rights in the name “VYRSA Technologies” or “VYRSA” or any trademark, service mark or trade name included within the Company IP, or any derivative or variation thereof or any name confusingly similar thereto will be retained by any Seller or their respective Affiliates. The Sellers may use or refer to the foregoing names solely (i) in connection with the performance of their post-Closing employment obligations with the Company, (ii) to identify the fact that they had been, as applicable, owners, directors, officers and/or employees of the Company or (iii) as required by Law or any Governmental Entity or regulatory agency, or in any filings required thereby, whether public or private in nature.

5.10 Director and Officer Liability and Indemnification.

(a) For a period of six (6) years after the Closing, Buyer will not, and will not permit the Company to, amend, repeal or modify any provision in the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation or organization, bylaws, applicable operating agreement, limited liability company agreement, or other equivalent governing documents relating to the exculpation, indemnification or advancement of expenses of any officers and directors (each, an “Indemnified Person”) (unless required by law), it being the intent of the parties that the officers, managers and directors of the Company will continue to be entitled to such exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses to the full extent of the law.

(b) In the event that the Buyer or the Company are sold, then the provisions of Section 5.10(a) shall apply to all of the successors and assigns of the Company.

ARTICLE VI.

INDEMNIFICATION

6.1 Survival Periods.

(a) Subject to the limitations contained in this Article VI, and other than as set forth in the Disclosure Letter, all representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement and in any Transaction Document shall (A) survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and such other Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and (B) expire and be of no further force and effect on the date that is twelve (12) months after the date hereof (the “Survival Date”), except:

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(ii) with respect to the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 2.1 (Organization), 2.2 (Power; Authorization), 2.3 (Title to Shares), 2.6 (Brokerage), 3.1 (Organization and Qualification of the Company), 3.2 (Authorization), 3.4 (Capitalization of the Company), 3.19 (Taxes), 3.20 (Health Care Compliance), 3.28 (Brokers), 4.1 (Organization; Power) and 4.4 (Investment and Financial Ability) (such representations, collectively, the “Fundamental Representations”), the Survival Date shall be the longer of (x) three years after the date hereof or (y) the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations; and

(iii) covenants and agreements shall survive the Closing until fully performed or observed in accordance with their terms and the Survival Date shall be the date of such performance or observance.

(b) The parties agree that so long as written notice is given on or prior to the applicable Survival Date with respect to such claim, the representations and warranties with respect to such breach shall continue to survive until such matter is finally resolved.

6.2 Indemnification of the Buyer Indemnified Parties by the Sellers.

(a) Individual Obligations of the Sellers. The Sellers hereby agree, on a several and not joint basis, to indemnify the Buyer and its Affiliates (including the Company) and their respective officers, directors, stockholders, employees, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Buyer Indemnified Parties”) and to hold each of them harmless from and against, and to pay on behalf of or reimburse any such Buyer Indemnified Party in respect of, the entirety of any Loss which any such Buyer Indemnified Party may suffer, sustain or become subject to, as a result of, arising out of, relating to or in connection with the breach or inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of such Seller contained in Article II of this Agreement or any Transaction Document;

(b) Obligations of the Sellers. The Sellers hereby agree, severally and jointly, up to the amount then remaining in the Escrow Account, and severally and not jointly, thereafter to indemnify the Buyer Indemnified Parties and to hold each of them harmless from and against, and to pay on behalf of or reimburse any such Buyer Indemnified Party in respect of, the entirety of any Loss which any such Buyer Indemnified Party may suffer, sustain or become subject to, as a result of, arising out of, relating to or in connection with:

(i) the breach or inaccuracy of any representation or warranty of the Company or the Sellers contained in Article II or Article III of this Agreement or any Transaction Document, in each case, without giving effect to any limitation or qualification as to “materiality,” “material,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar qualifiers or monetary qualifiers to similar effect set forth in such representation or warranty for purposes of determining whether there is a breach and the Losses resulting from, arising out of or relating to such breach;

(ii) the breach, non-compliance or non-performance of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Company contained in this Agreement or any Transaction Document;

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(iv) Pre-Closing Taxes; and

(v) any inaccuracy in, or challenge, dispute or objection to, the Payment Spreadsheet as set forth in Section 1.1(a) (and updated from time to time pursuant to the terms of this Agreement) and any challenge, dispute or objection to the allocation of the Aggregate Consideration (including any claim or allegation made by or on behalf of any current or former holder or purported or alleged holder of any Shares or Company Stock Options disputing or objecting to the form or amount of the Aggregate Consideration received or to be received by such current or former holder or purported or alleged holder of any Shares or Company Stock Options, including, without limitation, any Liability as a result of any Stock Option Cancellation Agreement and the transactions contemplated by such agreements).

(c) Limitations. The indemnification provided for in Sections 6.2(a) and (b) shall be subject to the following limitations:

(i) Except in the case of Fraud, no Buyer Indemnified Party will be entitled to any indemnification for a Loss hereunder if, with respect to any individual item of Loss, such item is less than $10,000 (“Minor Claim”);

(ii) Except in the case of Fraud, no amount shall be payable to the Buyer Indemnified Parties pursuant to Section 6.2(a) and 6.2(b)(i) with respect to a breach of a representation that is not a Fundamental Representation unless and until the aggregate amount of all Losses actually incurred by the Buyer Indemnified Parties exceeds $200,000 (the “Deductible”) and then only to the extent such Losses exceed the Deductible;

(iii) Except in the case of Fraud, the aggregate amount of all Losses for which the Sellers shall be liable pursuant to Section 6.2(a) and 6.2(b)(i) with respect to a breach of a representation that is not a Fundamental Representation or set forth in Schedule 6.2(c) of the Disclosure Letter shall not exceed, in the aggregate, $4,000,000 (the “Cap”);

(iv) Except in the case of Fraud, the aggregate amount of all Losses for which the Sellers shall be liable pursuant to Sections 6.2(a), 6.2(b)(i) and (b)(iv), including with respect to a breach of a Fundamental Representation, shall not exceed, in the aggregate, the Aggregate Consideration actually paid to the Equityholders under this Agreement (the “Fundamental Representations Cap”);

(v) Except in the case of Fraud, the aggregate amount of all Losses for which any individual Seller shall be liable pursuant to this Agreement shall not exceed the Aggregate Consideration actually paid to such Seller under this Agreement; and

(vi) Except in the case of Fraud, no Seller shall be liable for any Loss to the extent such Loss is taken into account in determining the Closing Payment (or any component thereof) or was otherwise included in the Payment Spreadsheet.

 

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6.3 Indemnification of the Seller Indemnified Parties by the Buyer.

(a) Obligation of the Buyer. The Buyer agrees to indemnify the Sellers and their respective Affiliates and each of their respective officers, directors, stockholders, managers, members, partners, employees, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Seller Indemnified Parties”) and to hold each of them harmless against any Losses which any of them may suffer, sustain or become subject to, as the result of, arising out of, relating to or in connection with:

(i) the breach or inaccuracy by the Buyer of any representation or warranty made by the Buyer in this Agreement or any Transaction Document, in each case, without giving effect to any limitation or qualification as to “materiality,” “material,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar qualifiers or monetary qualifiers to similar effect set forth in such representation or warranty for purposes of determining whether there is a breach and the Losses resulting from, arising out of or relating to such breach; or

(ii) the breach, non-compliance or non-performance of any covenant, agreement or obligation of the Buyer contained in this Agreement or any Transaction Document.

(b) Limitations. The indemnification provided for in Section 6.3(a)(i) shall be subject to the following limitations:

(i) Except in the case of Fraud, the aggregate amount of all Losses for which the Buyer shall be liable pursuant to Section 6.3(a)(i) with respect to a breach of a representation that is not a Fundamental Representation shall not exceed the Cap;

(ii) Except in the case of Fraud, no amount shall be payable to the Seller Indemnified Parties pursuant to Section 6.3(a)(i) with respect to a breach of a representation that is not a Fundamental Representation unless and until the aggregate amount of all Losses of the Seller Indemnified Parties exceeds the Deductible; and

(iii) Except in the case of Fraud, the aggregate amount of all Losses for which the Buyer shall be liable pursuant to Section 6.3(a)(i) with respect to a breach of a Fundamental Representation shall not exceed, the Fundamental Representations Cap.

(iv) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, it shall not be a breach of Section 3.11 if any representation or warranty therein is breached or determined to be inaccurate to the extent such breach or inaccuracy is caused by or results from a Patent Challenge (as defined in the Amended and Restated License Agreement) brought by or on behalf of the Buyer and its Affiliates.

6.4 Notice and Defense of Third-Party Claims.

(a) If a party hereto seeks indemnification under this Article VI with respect to any Action, lawsuit, proceeding, investigation or other claim brought against it by a third party (a “Third-Party Claim”), such party seeking indemnification (the “Indemnified Party”) shall promptly give written notice to the other party (the “Indemnifying Party”), describing the

 

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Third-Party Claim, the amount thereof (if known and quantifiable), and the basis therefor; provided, that any failure to so notify or any delay in notifying the Indemnifying Party shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its, his or her obligations hereunder. With respect to any Third-Party Claim which, if adversely determined, would entitle the Indemnified Party to indemnification pursuant to this Article VI, the Indemnifying Party shall be entitled, at its sole cost and expense, (i) to participate in the defense of such Third-Party Claim giving rise to the Indemnified Party’s claim for indemnification, or (ii) at its option (subject to the limitations set forth below), to assume control of such defense and appoint lead counsel reasonably acceptable to the Indemnified Party; provided, that as a condition precedent to the Indemnifying Party’s right to assume control of such defense, it must first: (A) notify the Indemnified Party in writing within ten (10) days after the Indemnified Party has given notice of the Third-Party Claim that the Indemnifying Party will indemnify the Indemnified Party from and against the entirety of any Losses (without any limitations) the Indemnified Party may suffer resulting from, arising out of, relating to, in the nature of, or caused by the Third-Party Claim in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, and (B) furnish the Indemnified Party with evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party that the Indemnifying Party has sufficient resources to defend such Third-Party Claim and to satisfy its obligations to the Indemnified Party under this Article VI in respect of such Third-Party Claim. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indemnifying Party shall not have the right to assume control of such defense if the Third-Party Claim which the Indemnifying Party seeks to assume control (I) seeks non-monetary relief, (II) involves criminal or quasi-criminal allegations, (III) involves a claim which, if adversely, determined, would be reasonably expected, in the good faith judgment of the Indemnified Party, to establish a precedent, custom or practice adverse to the continuing business interests or prospects of the Indemnified Party or the Company, (IV) seeks Losses in excess of funds available in the Escrow Account (subject to Section 6.4(b)), or (V) involves a claim that, in the good faith judgment of the Indemnified Party, the Indemnifying Party failed or is failing to vigorously prosecute or defend (each of the foregoing, an “Exception Claim”).

(b) In the event that the Indemnifying Party fails to elect to assume control of the defense of any Third-Party Claim in the manner set forth in Section 6.4(a) or such Third-Party Claim is or at any time becomes, an Exception Claim, the Indemnified Party may defend against, and consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement with respect to, the Third-Party Claim in any manner it may deem appropriate, provided, however, that the Indemnified Party shall act reasonably and in good faith in connection with giving consent to the entry of any judgment or entering into any settlement with respect to such Third-Party Claim and shall not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement with respect to such Third-Party Claim to the extent that any Losses related thereto for which indemnification is sought under this Article VI would exceed the Escrow Amount without the prior written consent of the Indemnifying Party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

(c) If the Indemnifying Party is controlling the defense of any Third-Party Claim in accordance with Section 6.4(a), (i) the Indemnified Party shall nonetheless have the right to participate in the defense of such Third-Party Claim giving rise to the Indemnified Party’s claim for indemnification at the Indemnified Party’s sole cost and expense, and (ii) the Indemnifying Party will not consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement with respect to or cease to defend such Third-Party Claim without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed); provided, that the

 

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Indemnified Party shall have no obligation of any kind to consent to the entrance of any judgment or into any settlement unless such judgment or settlement (A) is for only money damages, the full amount of which shall be paid by the Indemnifying Party, (B) includes, as a condition thereof, an express, unconditional release of the Indemnified Party from any liability or obligation with respect to such Third-Party Claim, and (C) would not be reasonably expected, in the good faith judgment of the Indemnified Party, to establish a precedent, custom or practice adverse to the continuing business interests or prospects of the Indemnified Party or the Company.

(d) Irrespective of which party controls the defense of any Third-Party Claim, the other parties to this Agreement will, and will cause any non-party Affiliate to, cooperate with the controlling party in such defense and make available to the controlling party all witnesses, pertinent records, materials and information in such non-controlling party’s possession or under its control relating thereto as is reasonably required by the controlling party. The parties agree that all communications between any party and counsel responsible for or participating in the defense of any Third-Party Claim shall, to the extent possible, be made so as to preserve any applicable attorney-client or work-product privilege.

(e) In the event of any conflict or overlap between the provisions of Section 6.4 and Section 5.2(c), Section 5.2(c) shall control with respect to Tax Matters.

6.5 Notice of Non-Third-Party Claims. If an Indemnified Party seeks indemnification under this Article VI with respect to any matter which does not involve a Third-Party Claim, the Indemnified Party shall give written notice to the Indemnifying Party promptly after discovering the liability, obligation or facts giving rise to such claim for indemnification, describing the nature of the claim in reasonable detail, the amount thereof (if known and quantifiable), and the basis therefor (the “Indemnity Notice”); provided, that any failure to so notify or any delay in notifying the Indemnifying Party shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its, his or her obligations hereunder. If the Indemnifying Party does not notify the Indemnified Party in writing within thirty (30) days from its receipt of the Indemnity Notice that the Indemnifying Party disputes such claim in writing (a “Indemnity Dispute Notice”), the Indemnifying Party shall be deemed to have accepted and agreed to indemnify the Indemnified Party from and against the entirety of any Losses described in the Indemnity Notice. If the Indemnifying Party has delivered an Indemnity Dispute Notice to the Indemnified Party, the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party shall proceed in good faith to negotiate a resolution to such dispute. If the Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party cannot resolve such dispute within thirty (30) days after delivery of the Indemnity Dispute Notice, the underlying claim shall be resolved by litigation in an appropriate court of competent jurisdiction.

6.6 Right of Set Off for Breaches; Recourse.

(a) If and to the extent that any Buyer Indemnified Party is entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Agreement for breach of a covenant or a Fundamental Representation, each such Buyer Indemnified Party may recoup all or any portion of the damages to which such Buyer Indemnified Party is entitled by withholding and offsetting against the Milestone Payments, if any, that are actually earned and payable (and not yet paid) pursuant to Exhibit K. The provisions in this Section 6.6 shall be subject to the limitations contained in Section 6.2(c). Subject to the limitations contained in this Article VI, nothing herein shall prevent any Buyer Indemnified Party

 

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from recovering cash payment of monetary damages directly from the applicable Indemnifying Party at any time when the Milestone Payments are not sufficient to offset the aggregate amount of such damages, whether because the Milestone Payments have previously been paid or offset against prior damages, the Milestone Payments have not yet been achieved, the Milestone Payments can never be achieved, or otherwise. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if the Buyer is entitled to indemnification under Section 6.2(b)(i) in connection with a breach of a Fundamental Representation, or under Section 6.2(b)(iv) with respect to Taxes, the Buyer shall be entitled to recover cash payment of monetary damages directly from the applicable Indemnifying Party without first recovering from the Escrow Amount or withholding and offsetting against the Milestone Payments.

(b) Any indemnification payment pursuant to this Article VI shall be effected by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated by the Sellers Representative or the Buyer, as the case may be, within three (3) Business Days after the determination of the amount thereof, whether pursuant to a final judgment, settlement or agreement among the parties hereto.

6.7 Determination of Loss Amount.

(a) For purposes of determining whether any breach has occurred, and the amount of Losses pursuant to this Article VI, all qualifications and limitations as to materiality, including “material,” “in all material respects,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar qualifiers or monetary qualifiers to similar effect shall be deemed to be deleted therefrom.

(b) Each Person entitled to indemnification hereunder will take commercially reasonable steps to mitigate all Losses after becoming aware of any event that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any Losses that are indemnifiable or recoverable hereunder or in connection herewith. In the event that an Indemnifying Party makes any payment to any Indemnified Party for indemnification for which such Indemnified Party could have collected on a claim against a third party (including under any contract and any insurance claims), such Indemnifying Party will be entitled to pursue claims and conduct litigation on behalf of such Indemnified Party to pursue and collect on any indemnification or other remedy available to such Indemnified Party thereunder with respect to such claim. Except pursuant to a settlement agreed to by the Indemnifying Party, the Indemnified Party will not waive or release any contractual right to recover from a third party any Loss subject to indemnification hereby without the prior written consent of such Indemnifying Party. The Indemnified Party will, and will cause its Affiliates (including the Company if the Company is an Affiliate) to, cooperate with the Indemnifying Party, at such Indemnifying Party’s expense, with respect to any such effort to pursue and collect with respect thereto, including executing any assignments or related documents.

(c) The amount of any and all Losses under this Article VI will be determined net of any amounts actually recovered by the Indemnified Party under or pursuant to any Insurance Policy or title insurance policy (net of the present value of any increase in premiums actually imposed by the applicable insurance carrier as a result of the occurrence of the Loss, the deductible and all costs and expenses incurred in recovering such insurance proceeds with respect to such Loss).

 

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(d) In no event will any Indemnified Party be entitled to recover or make a claim for any amounts in respect of consequential, incidental or indirect damages, lost profits, or punitive damages unless such Losses (i) are required to be paid to a third party pursuant to a Third Party Claim for which the Indemnified Parties were entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Article VI or (ii) were reasonably foreseeable as of the date hereof and flow proximately from the breach giving rise to such Losses.

(e) No Indemnified Party will be entitled to any indemnification under this Article VI to the extent such amount is included in the Final Closing Statement (i.e., “no double counting”).

6.8 Indemnification as Sole Remedy. The indemnification provided for in this Article VI shall be the sole and exclusive remedy and recourse of any breach of a non-Fundamental Representation under the Agreement, except that the foregoing shall not (a) limit any party’s right to seek and obtain equitable remedies (including specific performance) with respect to this Agreement or any covenant hereunder or (b) apply with respect to the purchase price adjustment procedures set forth in Section 1.5.

6.9 Tax Treatment of Indemnity Payments. Any payments made to any party pursuant to Article VI shall constitute an adjustment of the consideration paid by the Buyer to the Sellers pursuant to this Agreement for Tax purposes and shall be treated as such by the Buyer and the Sellers on their Tax Returns to the extent permitted by applicable Law.

ARTICLE VII.

DEFINITIONS

7.1 Interpretation. Where specific language is used to clarify by example a general statement contained herein (such as by using the word “including”), such specific language shall not be deemed to modify, limit or restrict in any manner the construction of the general statement to which it relates. The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms. Whenever required by the context, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa. The words “include” and “including,” and other words of similar import when used herein shall not be deemed to be terms of limitation but rather shall be deemed to be followed in each case by the words “without limitation.” The word “if” and other words of similar import when used herein shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the phrase “and only if.” The words “herein,” “hereto,” and “hereby” and other words of similar import in this Agreement shall be deemed in each case to refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of this Agreement. Any reference herein to “dollars” or “$” shall mean United States dollars. The words “as of the date of this Agreement” and words of similar import shall be deemed in each case to refer to the date this Agreement was first signed, and unless otherwise specified herein, all dates shall be measured using Pacific Time. The term “or” shall be deemed to mean “and/or.” Any reference to any particular Code, Section or any other Law will be interpreted to include any revision of or successor to that Section regardless of how it is numbered or classified and any reference herein to a Governmental Entity shall be deemed to include reference to any successor thereto.

 

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7.2 Certain Definitions.

Action” means any action, arbitration, charge, claim, complaint, demand, dispute, governmental audit, grievance, hearing, inquiry, investigation, litigations, proceeding, qui tam action, suit (whether civil, criminal, administrative, judicial, or investigative) commenced, brought, conducted, or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any Governmental Entity or arbitrator, whether at law or in equity.

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, (including, but not limited to, all directors and officers of such Person) controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, such Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any Person, means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by Contract or otherwise, and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative of the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, each of the PMMC Companies shall be considered an Affiliate of the Company prior to the Closing.

Aggregate Consideration” means the Final Closing Payment, the Escrow Amount, the Expense Fund, and the Maximum Milestone Consideration.

Business” means the business operation of the Company in the ordinary course as of the date hereof.

Business Data” means all data collected, generated or received in connection with the services rendered by the Company and the marketing, delivery or use of any Company Product.

Business Day” means each day of the week except Saturdays, Sundays and days on which banking institutions are authorized by Law to close in the State of Delaware.

Buyer Commercially Reasonable Efforts” means such reasonable and good faith efforts and resources an entity of similar size and resources to the Buyer with products similar to the Covered Products would normally use to accomplish a similar objective under similar circumstances and shall be determined in light of all relevant factors (but excluding the obligation to pay the Milestone Payments), taken as a whole, including but not limited to those efforts and resources consistent with the exercise of prudent scientific and business judgment as applied by an entity of similar size and resources to the Buyer to the development or commercialization (as applicable) of its own products that are at a similar stage of development or commercialization have similar market potential, taking into account the perceived present and future market potential of the applicable products (including anticipated and actual profit margin), the anticipated level of regulatory approval that may be available for the applicable products, the efficacy, safety, patent and regulatory exclusivity, anticipated or approved labelling of the applicable products, the level of intellectual property protection of the applicable products, the presence of third party intellectual property that may impact the marketability of the applicable products, the presence or absence of particularly difficult marketing issues, the profitability of the applicable products in light of pricing and reimbursement issues (including the level of reimbursement that may be available for the applicable products), the likely availability and cost of necessary raw materials, the competitiveness of third party products (including with respect to the expected or actual efficacy

 

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and cost of such third party products) and competitive market conditions, but not with regard to the performance of the Buyer’s other similar products. Buyer Commercially Reasonable Efforts shall be determined on a market-by-market and indication-by-indication basis, and it is anticipated that the level of efforts required may be different for different markets and indications and may change over time, reflecting changes in the status of the product and markets involved.

Buyer Common Stock” means the common stock of the Buyer.

Buyer Transaction” means any of (A) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Buyer and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or (B) a merger, consolidation or other business combination or similar event in which the stockholders of the Buyer immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or other business combination or similar event own less than fifty percent (50%) of the surviving entity’s voting power immediately after the transaction.

Camber 401(k) Plan” means the Camber Spine Technologies, LLC Employee Retirement Security Savings Plan.

Camber Sacroiliac (SI) Fixation System” means the VYRSA V1 posterior approach SI fusion transfixing titanium implant, as cleared by the FDA in November 2022.

Cash” means cash and cash equivalents.

Closing Cash” means the aggregate amount of all unrestricted Cash of the Company as of 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the day immediately preceding the Closing Date.

Closing Working Capital” means the Working Capital as of 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the day immediately preceding the Closing Date.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Company Equity Plan” means Interventional Pain Technologies, Inc.’s 2022 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended.

Company IP” means all Intellectual Property Rights and Technology owned or purported to be owned by, or exclusively licensed to, in whole or in part, one or more of the Relevant Companies, including all Intellectual Property Rights and Technology licensed to the Company pursuant to the Existing License Agreements.

Company Product” means (a) the Company’s VYRSA Pro, VYRSA V1 and VYRSA Fix products as approved in their respective indications of use as of Closing, (b) any expanded indication of use obtained for VYRSA Pro, VYRSA V1 or VYRSA Fix in satisfaction of either the Regulatory Approval Milestone or the Product Development Milestone, as applicable and (c) any component of the foregoing, in each case (a)-(c) as such system, components and products may be improved or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

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Company Software” means all Software (a) owned or purported to be owned by any Relevant Company; (b) that is incorporated in any Company Product or distributed in connection with any Company Product; or (c) that is otherwise related to the development, commercialization, distribution, provision, management or support of any Company Product.

Company Stock Options” means any option to purchase shares of Company Common Stock granted pursuant to the Company Equity Plan or otherwise.

Company Transaction Expenses” means (a) all fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees, costs and expenses of legal counsel, investment bankers, brokers or other representatives and consultants and appraisal fees, costs and expenses) incurred by the Company or any Seller (to the extent that the Company is responsible for the payment thereof) in connection with the negotiation and execution of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the performance of its respective obligations hereunder and thereunder, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby (including, without limitation, any such amounts required to be paid to any third party in connection with obtaining any consent, waiver or approval required to be obtained in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby); (b) any transaction bonuses, retention payments, severance or change of control payments payable by the Company to a current or former service provider as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including any payments pursuant to “double-trigger” arrangements resulting in payments and/or benefits provided upon a termination of employment on or following the consummation of the Closing), and the employer portion of any employment Taxes that are incurred by the Company in connection with the payment of any amounts described in this clause (b); (c) a one-time non-refundable license fee of three million dollars ($3,000,000) by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated in writing by Camber Spine, or as otherwise instructed by Camber Spine, in the case of each of clauses (a), (b) and (c), to the extent unpaid prior to the Closing Date; and (d) 50% of the fees payable to the Escrow Agent and the Paying Agent in connection with the execution of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents.

Confidential Information” means all information (whether or not specifically identified as confidential), in any form or medium, that is disclosed to, or developed or learned by, the Company or any Seller as an owner of the Shares, or as an employee, officer or director of the Company, as the case may be, in the performance of duties for, or on behalf of, any Company Entity or that relates to the Business, products, services or research of any Company Entity or any of their investors, partners, Affiliates, strategic alliance participants, officers, directors, employees or stockholders or their respective Affiliates; provided, that “Confidential Information” shall not include any information that the Sellers can demonstrate has become generally known to and widely available for use within the industry other than as a result of the acts or omissions of the Sellers or a Person that the Sellers have direct control over to the extent such acts or omissions are not authorized by the Sellers in the performance of such Person’s assigned duties for the Sellers.

Contract” means any agreement, contract, instrument, commitment, lease, guaranty, indenture, license, or other arrangement or understanding (and all amendments, side letters, modifications and supplements thereto) between parties or by one party in favor of another party, whether written or oral.

Convertible Notes” means each of the convertible notes of the Company set forth on Schedule 7.2(a) of the Disclosure Letter.

 

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Covered Product” means (a) Company Products; (b) components (including replacement parts) of Company Products; and (c) any product that is, in whole or in part, a derivative of or a modification to a Company Product (including next generation versions of a Company Product); provided that, with respect to (c), such product performs a substantially similar function, in substantially the same manner, and for the same indications as the Company Products. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company acknowledges (i) that the Buyer’s existing business includes developing and commercializing products, that the Buyer holds Intellectual Property Rights related thereto and that no product or component of the Buyer as of or prior to Closing shall be Covered Products and (ii) other than as expressly described herein, no further products developed or acquired by the Company or the Buyer after Closing shall constitute a “Covered Product”.

Data Security and Privacy Law” means any applicable Law relating to the Processing of data, data privacy, security, and the cross-border transfer of Personal Information.

Encumbrance” means any charge, claim, community property interest, pledge, condition, equitable interest, Lien (statutory or other), option, security interest, mortgage, easement, encroachment, right of way, right of first refusal, or restriction or other similar encumbrance of any kind, including any restriction on use, voting, transfer, receipt of income or exercise of any other attribute of ownership.

Environmental Claim” means any Action, Order, fine, penalty, costs or damages, or, as to each, any settlement or judgment arising therefrom, by or from any Person alleging liability of whatever kind or nature (including liability or responsibility for the costs of enforcement proceedings, investigations, cleanup, governmental response, removal or remediation, natural resources damages, property damages, personal injuries, medical monitoring, penalties, contribution, indemnification and injunctive relief) arising out of, based on or resulting from: (a) the presence, Release of, or exposure to, any Hazardous Materials or (b) any actual or alleged non-compliance with any Environmental Law or term or condition of any Environmental Permit held by the Company.

Environmental Law” means any and all international, federal, state, local or foreign Laws, statutes, ordinances, regulations, treaties, policies, guidance, rules, judgments, Orders, writs, court decisions, stipulations and injunctions, which (a) regulate or relate to the protection or cleanup of the environment; the use, treatment, storage, transportation, handling, disposal or Release of hazardous substances, the preservation or protection of waterways, groundwater, drinking water, air, wildlife, plants or other natural resources, including without limitation protection of the health and safety of employees (to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials); or (b) impose liability or responsibility with respect to any of the foregoing, including without limitation the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.), or any other Law of similar effect, in effect on or prior to the Closing.

Environmental Notice” means any written directive, notice of violation or infraction, or notice respecting any Environmental Claim relating to actual or alleged non-compliance with any Environmental Law or any term or condition of any Environmental Permit.

Environmental Permit” means any Permit required under or issued, granted, given, authorized by or made by any Governmental Entity pursuant to Environmental Law.

 

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Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, units, participations, rights in or other equivalents of such Person’s capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests, limited liability company interests or other equivalent equity or ownership interests, any rights, warrants, options exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into such capital stock or other equity or ownership interests (whether embedded in other securities or not), and any right to purchase or otherwise acquire any of the foregoing, in each case whether or not subject to any contingencies or vesting, forfeiture or other conditions.

Equityholder” means each Seller and each holder of Company Stock Options.

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated, and rulings issued thereunder.

ERISA Affiliate” means any Person (whether or not incorporated), together with the Company, that is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001(a)(14) or 4001(b)(1) of ERISA.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Existing License Agreements” means (a) that certain Patent/Technology License Agreement, effective October 1, 2022, by and between the Company and Camber Spine Technologies, LLC; and (b) that certain Irrevocable Patent/Technology License Agreement, effective September 1, 2022, by and between the Company and Camber Spine Technologies, LLC.

Fault” means any action or inaction of the Buyer or the Company, after the closing, which would constitute bad faith, gross negligence, willful delay or Fraud. For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of the Regulatory Approval Milestone, (i) MCRA will prepare the regulatory submission and provide the same to the Buyer and (ii) the Buyer will thereafter use commercially reasonable efforts to evaluate and review the same for submission into the FDA in a timely manner.

FDA” means the United States Food and Drug Administration, or any successor thereto.

FDA 510(k) Clearance” means the FDA’s written clearance of a premarket notification for a medical device product, whereby the FDA has determined such medical device to be substantially equivalent to a predicate medical device pursuant to Section 513 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, thereby permitting marketing and commercial distribution of such medical device in the United States.

Final and Binding” means, with respect to any calculation or determination, that such calculation or determination shall have the same preclusive effect for all purposes as if such calculation or determination had been embodied in a final judgment, no longer subject to appeal, entered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Foreign Official” means any officer or employee of a foreign Governmental Entity, a public international organization or any department or agency thereof, any Person acting in an official capacity on behalf of a foreign Governmental Entity, a member of a royal family or a member of a foreign legislative body, any employee of a state-owned enterprise and any other individual included within the definition of such term under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.

 

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Fraud” means common law fraud under Delaware law with respect to the making of a representation or warranty contained in this Agreement with the actual knowledge that such representation or warranty was false when made or with reckless indifference to the truth of such representation or warranty.

GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.

Government Shutdown” means the cessation by U.S. federal agencies of non-essential functions after the date hereof.

Governmental Entity” means any (a) province, region, state, county, city, town, village, district or other jurisdiction; (b) federal, provincial, regional, state, local, municipal, foreign or other government; (c) governmental or quasi-Governmental Entity of any nature (including any governmental agency, branch, bureau, commission, department, instrumentality, office, political subdivision or other entity and any court or other tribunal); (d) multinational organization; (e) body exercising, or entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, judicial, legislative, police, regulatory or Tax Authority or power of any nature; or (f) official of any of the foregoing.

Hazardous Materials” means: any material, substance, chemical, waste, product, derivative, compound, mixture, solid, liquid, mineral or gas, in each case, whether naturally occurring or manmade, that are regulated under Environmental Laws based on its hazardous or toxic properties or characteristics, including any petroleum or petroleum-derived products, radon, radioactive materials or hazardous wastes, asbestos in any form, lead or lead-containing materials, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, and polychlorinated biphenyls.

Health Care Laws” means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.), the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.), the Medicare statute (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act), the Medicaid statute (Title XIX of the Social Security Act) and any other Law pertaining to or governing a government healthcare program, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)), the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a), the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq.), the criminal false statements Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)), the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h, the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7), all criminal Laws relating to health care fraud and abuse, including but not limited to 18 U.S.C. §§ 286, 287, 1035, 1347, 1349 and the health care fraud criminal provisions under HIPAA, and any comparable Law that regulates the design, development, testing, manufacturing, processing, storing, sale, importing or exporting, licensing, labeling or packaging, advertising, distributing or marketing of medical device or biological products, or that is related to kickbacks, patient or program charges, recordkeeping, claims process, documentation requirements, medical necessity, referrals, the hiring of employees or acquisition of services or supplies from those who have been excluded from government health care programs, quality, safety, licensure or any other aspect of providing health care services, and all regulation promulgated pursuant to such Laws.

 

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Health Care Professional” means any Person, and any of their related foundations, Affiliates, associations and similar entities, (i) involved in the provision of health care services to patients, or (ii) that purchase, lease, recommend, approve, use, arrange for the purchase or lease of, or prescribe medical devices, biological product, pharmaceuticals or other health care products or services, specifically including Persons providing health care services, and Persons who do not directly provide services but who are involved in the decision to purchase, lease, approve, use or recommend a medical device, biological product, pharmaceutical or other health care product or service (in each case, excluding any person’s personal purchase or use of health care products), or (iii) who is a “physician” or “immediate family member” of a “physician,” as such terms are defined in 42 CFR § 403.902.

Indebtedness” means, at any specified time, any of the following indebtedness of any Person (whether or not contingent and including, without limitation, any and all principal, accrued and unpaid interest, prepayment premiums or penalties, related expenses, commitment and other fees, sale or liquidity participation amounts, reimbursements, indemnities and other amounts which would be payable in connection therewith): (a) any obligations of such Person for borrowed money or in respect of loans or advances (whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, or other similar instruments or debt securities); (b) any obligations of such Person as lessee under any lease or similar arrangement required to be recorded as a capital lease in accordance with GAAP; (c) all liabilities of such Person under or in connection with letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances, performance bonds, sureties or similar obligations that have been drawn down, in each case, to the extent of such draw; (d) any obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property, goods or services other than those trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business; (e) all liabilities of such Person arising from cash/book overdrafts; (f) all liabilities of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements; (g) all obligations of such Person with respect to vendor advances or any other advances made to such Person; (h) all liabilities of such Person arising out of interest rate and currency swap arrangements and any other arrangements designed to provide protection against fluctuations in interest or currency rates; (i) any liability or obligation of others guaranteed by, or secured by any Lien on the assets of, such Person; (j) without duplication, the Convertible Notes; and (k) with respect to the Company, the net amount of any obligation or liability of the Company to any Seller or Affiliate of any Seller (except for compensation payable to any such Seller in the ordinary course of business for such Seller’s services as an employee of the Company).

Indebtedness Amount” means the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness of the Company outstanding as of immediately prior to the Closing.

Intellectual Property Rights” means and includes all past, present, and future intellectual property rights and other proprietary rights of any kind, whether registered or unregistered, which may exist or be created under the Laws of any jurisdiction worldwide, including such rights in (a) trademarks, trade names, service names, trade dress, corporate or business names, logos, slogans, social media designations, service mark rights and similar rights, URL and domain name registrations, and all translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations of the foregoing, together with all goodwill associated therewith, (b) rights associated with works of authorship, including exclusive exploitation rights, copyrights and copyrightable works (including rights in Software), design rights, mask work rights and related moral rights, (c) patents and patent applications, including any renewals, extensions, reexaminations and reissues, divisions,

 

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continuations and continuations-in-part, substitutions and foreign counterparts relating to any such patents and patent applications, inventions (whether or not patentable or whether or not reduced to practice), invention disclosures, discoveries, improvements, and industrial property rights, (d) know-how, trade secrets and other rights in confidential or proprietary information (including specifications, formulae, techniques, technical data and manuals, research and development information, methods, processes and technology), (e) all registrations and applications for any of the foregoing, (f) rights in databases and data collections (including knowledge databases, customer lists and customer databases) and (g) all past, present and future claims and causes of action arising out of or related to infringement or misappropriation of any of the foregoing.

IT Systems” means any of (or any combination of) the computer software, computer hardware (whether general or special purpose), automated, computerized or software systems and any other information technology network, system or related service that is used in, held for use in, necessary for or otherwise relied on by the Company in the conduct of its Business.

Knowledge” means, with respect to any Person, the actual knowledge after reasonable inquiry of any director, governing body member or executive officer of such Person; provided, that, in the case of the Company, “Knowledge” means the actual knowledge after reasonable inquiry of each of the Persons set forth on Schedule 7.2(b) of the Disclosure Letter.

Law” means any Permit, statute, constitution, principle of common law, law, treaty, ordinance, edict, decree, regulation, rule, ruling, code, Order, temporary restraining order, judgment, injunction, enforcement action or consent decree, issued, promulgated or entered by any arbitrator or Governmental Entity.

Liability” means any liability, Indebtedness, obligation, deficiency, interest, Tax, penalty, fine, claim, demand, judgment, cause of action or other Losses (including, without limitation, loss of benefit or relief), cost or expense of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, and whether due or to become due and regardless of when asserted.

Lien” means any security interest, pledge, bailment (in the nature of a pledge or for purposes of security), mortgage, deed of trust, hypothecation, the grant of a power to confess judgment, conditional sales and title retention agreement (including any lease in the nature thereof), option, right of first refusal, right of first offer or other similar preemptive right, charge, Encumbrance, lien, easement, right of way, covenant, condition or restriction or other similar arrangement or interest in tangible or intangible property.

Losses” means (i) any and all losses, liabilities, Actions, causes of action, costs, Taxes, damages or expenses, whether or not arising from or in connection with any Third-Party Claims (including, without limitation, interest, penalties, reasonable attorneys’, consultants’ and experts’ fees and expenses and all amounts paid in investigation, defense or settlement of any of the foregoing), and (ii) any and all amounts determined by the Buyer to be necessary or appropriate to indemnify and hold harmless any current or former service provider of the Company in respect of, or as the result of, income, employment, penalty and excise Taxes incurred by such current or former service provider of the Company as a result of the inaccuracy or breach of a Fundamental Representation set forth in Section 3.19.

 

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Market Value” means the volume-weighted average price as reported on Bloomberg (or an agreed to equivalent nationally recognized service if Bloomberg ceases to exist) of a share of Buyer Common Stock on each of the fifteen (15) consecutive trading days immediately prior to two (2) consecutive trading days prior to the date of the applicable Milestone Payment in accordance with Exhibit K, for purposes of any Milestone Payment paid in shares of Buyer Common Stock (if so elected by the Buyer pursuant to subsection (h) of Exhibit K).

Material Adverse Effect” means any change, event, occurrence or circumstance that, individually or in the aggregate with all other changes, events, occurrences and circumstances, results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a material adverse effect on the Business, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise), assets, or Liabilities of the Company, taken as a whole, or on the ability of the Sellers or the Company to perform their respective obligations hereunder or to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, except to the extent resulting from (a) changes in general local, domestic, foreign, or international economic conditions, (b) changes affecting generally the industry in which the Company operates, (c) acts of war, sabotage or terrorism, military actions or the escalation thereof, (d) any changes in applicable Law or accounting rules or principles, including changes in GAAP, (e) any other action required by this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, or (f) the announcement of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents; provided, that with respect to clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d), only to the extent that any such change, event, occurrence or circumstance does not affect the Company, taken as a whole, in a substantially disproportionate manner from the impact on other companies generally or that are in the specific Business in which the Company is engaged.

Milestone Payments” means, collectively, the Regulatory Approval Milestone Payment, the Product Development Milestone Payment, the 2024 Sales Milestone Payment, the 2025 Sales Milestone Payment, and the 2026 Sales Milestone Payment.

Mutual Nondisclosure Agreement” means that certain Mutual Nondisclosure Agreement, dated as of July 24, 2023, by and between the Company and the Buyer.

Net Sales” means amounts received during the applicable period with respect to the sale, lease, transfer, disposition, distribution or license (excluding upfront, milestone and similar payments) of the Covered Products by or on behalf of the Buyer and its Affiliates and its and their licensees to third parties, less the following deductions, all in accordance with GAAP applied consistently with the policies, conventions, methodologies and procedures used by the Buyer to report revenue in its financial statements included in the filings with the SEC:

 

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customary trade, cash and quantity discounts actually given;

 

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amounts repaid or credits or allowances actually given or made for rejection, defect, recall or return of Covered Products or for retroactive price reductions and billing errors;

 

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price reductions, rebates, loyalty cards, incentive offers (or other patient discount programs) and chargeback provisions granted to managed health care organizations (or equivalents thereof), national, state/provincial, local, and other governments, their agencies and purchasers and reimbursers, or to other trade customers, or deductions due to legislative actions by any Governmental Entity;

 

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costs of freight, insurance, and other transportation charges to the extent included in the total amount invoiced;

 

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if included in the aggregate gross invoice price of such Covered Product, sales or excise Taxes, duties or other similar governmental charges (including any Tax such as a value added or similar Tax, and excluding any Taxes based on, or in lieu of, income) relating to the sale of such Covered Product, as adjusted for rebates and refunds;

 

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the portion of administrative fees paid during the relevant time period to group purchasing organizations relating to such Covered Product;

 

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any commissions paid to any distributor that was engaged with the Company prior to the Closing Date and that continues providing services to and receiving sales commission from the Company following the Closing Date; and

 

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that portion of the user fees imposed on device manufacturers by the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 that the Buyer and its Affiliates allocate to sales of the Covered Products in accordance with the standard policies and procedures consistently applied by the Buyer and its Affiliates across its products.

No deductions shall be made for any costs or expenses of collections.

In no event will any particular amount identified above be deducted more than once in calculating Net Sales. Sales, licenses and distribution of Covered Products between the Buyer and its Affiliates and their licensees for resale, sublicense or further distribution shall be excluded from the computation of Net Sales, but the subsequent resale, license or distribution of such Covered Products to a third party shall be included within the computation of Net Sales. For purposes of determining Net Sales, a sale or other disposition shall not include sales, supply, transfers or dispositions of Covered Product for research, development or clinical purposes or as samples or charitable donations.

Noteholders” means each holder of a Convertible Note.

Open Source Software” means any Software licensed, provided, or distributed under any open-source or similar license, including any license meeting the Open Source Definition (as promulgated by the Open Source Initiative) or the Free Software Definition (as promulgated by the Free Software Foundation) (including the GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Mozilla Public License (MPL), BSD licenses, the Artistic License, the Netscape Public License, the Sun Community Source License (SCSL), the Sun Industry Standards License (SISL), Open Source Initiative, and the Apache License).

Order” means any order, injunction, judgment, decree, ruling, assessment, or arbitration award of any Governmental Entity or arbitrator with binding authority.

 

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Permit” means any approval, exemption, consent, ratification, registration, waiver, authorization, license, permit, certificate or clearance issued, granted, given, or otherwise made available by or under the authority of any Governmental Entity or pursuant to any Law.

Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, an association, a limited liability company, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization, or a Governmental Entity.

Personal Information” has the same meaning as the term “personal data,” “personal information,” or the equivalent under applicable Data Security and Privacy Laws.

PMMC Company(ies)” means each of (a) Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; (b) Camber Spine; (c) Institute for Musculoskeletal Science and Education Ltd., a limited company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and (d) S1 Spine LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Pre-Closing Tax Period” means any Tax period ending on or before the Closing Date and that portion of any Straddle Period ending on (and including) the Closing Date.

Pre-Closing Taxes” means (a) any Taxes of the Company with respect to any Pre-Closing Tax Period (and in the case of a Straddle Period, the portion of any Taxes of the Company ending on and including the Closing Date as calculated pursuant to Section 5.2(a)(iii)), (b) Taxes of the Sellers (including, without limitation, capital gains Taxes arising as a result of the transactions required by this Agreement); (c) Taxes for which the Company (or any predecessor thereof) is held liable under Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law) by reason of such entity being included in any consolidated, affiliated, combined or unitary group at any time before the Closing; (d) Taxes imposed on or payable by third parties with respect to which the Company has an obligation to indemnify such third party pursuant to a transaction consummated prior to the Closing (other than with respect to any commercial agreement the primary purpose of which does not relate to Taxes); and (e) Transfer Taxes for which the Sellers are responsible pursuant to Section 5.2(e); provided that Pre-Closing Taxes shall not include (I) any Taxes resulting from an election made under Sections 336 or 338 of the Code, (II) any Taxes incurred with respect to any transaction outside the ordinary course of business on the Closing Date after the Closing, (III) the portion of any Transfer Taxes borne by the Buyer pursuant to Section 5.2(e) or (IV) any Taxes (A) included in the definition of Indebtedness, (B) included in the definition of Company Transaction Expenses or (C) to the extent such Taxes were taken into account in determining the Final Closing Payment (or any component thereof)), in each case as finally determined.

Privacy Policies” means all published, posted, and internal agreements and policies relating to the Company’s Processing of Personal Information or other Business Data.

Pro Rata Portion” means with respect to each payment made by or to each Equityholder under this Agreement, each such holder’s portion of such payment, expressed as a percentage, pursuant to the certificate of incorporation of the Company, as applicable, (with each share of Common Stock subject to a Company Stock Option treated as an outstanding Share for such purpose) and set forth in the Payment Spreadsheet or Milestone Payment Spreadsheet, each as updated from time to time by the Sellers Representative in accordance with this Agreement.

 

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Process” or “Processing” or “Processed” means, with respect to data, the collection, use, accessing, storage, transfer, disclosure, disposal, or other processing of such data.

Product Development Milestone” means the reasonable completion of the development and readiness for a limited market release of the VYRSA Pro MIS Single Use System, as reasonably determined by the Buyer.

Property Taxes” means all real property Taxes, personal property Taxes and similar ad valorem Taxes.

Real Property” means the real property owned, leased or subleased by the Company, together with all buildings, structures and facilities located thereon.

Registered Company IP” means all Company IP that is subject to any issuance registration, application or other filing by, to, with or under the authority of any Governmental Entity or authorized private registrar in any jurisdiction, including registered trademarks, domain names and registered copyrights, registered databases, issued and reissued patents and pending applications for any of the foregoing.

Registrable Securities” means, if any, shares of Buyer Common Stock issued after the Closing pursuant to this Agreement as part of the Milestone Payments; provided, however, that shares of Buyer Common Stock shall cease to be Registrable Securities hereunder if and when (A) such Registrable Securities have been sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of pursuant to an effective registration statement registering such Registrable Securities under the Securities Act, (B) such Registrable Securities have been sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) or (C) with respect to the Registrable Securities held by any particular Seller, such Seller holds a number of Registrable Securities less than the number of shares of Buyer Common Stock that can be sold by such Seller in a single 90-day period pursuant to Rule 144 (including Rule 144(e)).

Regulatory Approval Milestone” means the receipt by the Company of FDA 510(k) Clearance of the Camber Sacroiliac (SI) Fixation System, where such FDA 510(k) Clearance includes an amended indications for use statement that does not include the requirement to use one or more SICONUS SI Joint Fixation System screws) during sacroiliac joint fusion as such requirement is currently set forth in FDA 510(k) Clearance #K203503.

Release” means any actual release, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, abandonment, or disposing into the environment.

Relevant Company(ies)” means the Company and each PMMC Company.

 

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Sanctioned Party” means (a) any Person listed on (i) any of the restricted party lists maintained by the U.S. Government, including the Specially Designated Nationals List and Foreign Sanctions Evaders List administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls, the Denied Parties List, Unverified List or Entity List maintained by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security, and the List of Statutorily Debarred Parties maintained by the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, (ii) the consolidated list of asset freeze targets designated by the United Nations, European Union, United Kingdom, Australia or any other applicable jurisdictions, or (iii) any other restricted party lists maintained by any Governmental Entity or agency in the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Australia or any other applicable jurisdictions; or (b) any Person 50% or more owned (either individually or in the aggregate, directly or indirectly) by any Person or Persons described in clause (a).

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Software” means any and all computer programs, operating systems, application systems, application programming interfaces, firmware or other software code of any nature, whether in machine-readable form, source code or a programming language or any other language or symbols, whether operational or under development, and any derivations, updates, enhancements, and customizations of any of the foregoing and related documentation, operating procedures, methods, tools, developers’ kits, utilities, developers’ notes, technical manuals, user manuals, build scripts, test scripts, and other documentation thereof, including comments and annotations related thereto, whether stored, encoded, recorded or written on disk, tape, film, memory device, paper or other media of any nature.

SOX” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended.

Standard Software” means non-customized Software that is (i) licensed solely in executable or object code form or as a hosted subscription service pursuant to a nonexclusive, internal use software license; (ii) not incorporated into, or used directly in the development, manufacturing, or distribution of, any Company Product; and (iii) generally available on standard terms for either (x) annual payments by the Company of $25,000 or less; or (y) aggregate payments by the Company of $25,000 or less.

Straddle Period” means any Tax period beginning before or on and ending after the Closing Date.

Target Working Capital” means an amount equal to Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800,000.00).

Tax” means any federal, state, local, or foreign income, gross receipts, license, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, premium, windfall profits, escheat, environmental, customs duties, capital stock, branch profits, franchise, profits, withholding, social security, unemployment, disability, real property, personal property, sales, use, transfer, registration, ad valorem, value added, alternative or add on minimum or estimated tax or other tax of any kind whatsoever, including any interest, penalty, or addition thereto, whether disputed or not.

Tax Authority” shall mean any Governmental Entity having or purporting to exercise jurisdiction with respect to any Tax.

 

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Tax Return” means any return, election, declaration, report, claim for refund, or information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any Schedule or attachment thereto and any amendment thereof.

Technology” means any algorithms, diagrams, inventions (whether or not patentable), invention disclosures, know-how, trade secrets and other proprietary information, lab notebooks, prototypes, network configurations and architectures, methods, processes, formulae, compositions, routines, protocols, schematics, specifications, technical data, Software, mask works, user interfaces, databases and data collections, works of authorship, logos, marks and other brand elements (including brand names, product names and slogans), business plans, proposals, designs, customer data, financial information, pricing and cost information, bills of material, reports, performance data, quality data, and any other forms of technical information and technology, in each case whether or not registered with a Governmental Entity or embodied in any tangible form.

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement, the Amended and Restated License Agreement, the Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement, the Restrictive Covenant Agreements, the Offer Letters, and the Contracts and other documents contemplated to be delivered or executed in connection herewith.

Transaction Tax Deductions” means, without duplication, all income Tax deductions available to the Company that are, under a “more likely than not” standard (or at a higher level of confidence), deductible in a Pre-Closing Tax Period for U.S. federal income Tax purposes as a result of (a) the repayment of Indebtedness in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (b) the payment of Company Transaction Expenses and payments of amounts that would have been Company Transaction Expenses but for the fact that they were paid prior to the Closing, any costs, expense or other liabilities included in the calculation of Working Capital or Indebtedness, any deduction for unamortized financing costs of a the Company and premium deductions arising from the repayment of indebtedness and any other costs or expenses, in each case, incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (c) the vesting or exercise of, or payments or incurrence of liability with respect to, any Company Stock Options, or other equity-based compensation arrangements arising from the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (d) the payment of any fees or other costs and expenses associated with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. For purposes of determining Transaction Tax Deductions, seventy percent (70%) of any success-based fees of the Company (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.263(a)-5(f)), if any, shall be treated as deductible in accordance with Revenue Procedure 2011-29.

VYRSA Pro MIS Single Use System” means the VYRSA Pro posterior approach SI Fusion allograft implant system, as approved by the FDA and as presented to the Buyer.

Working Capital means, as of any date of determination, the current assets (excluding Closing Cash) less the current liabilities of the Company as calculated according to the methodology set forth on Schedule 7.2(c) of the Disclosure Letter, each calculated in accordance with GAAP and agreed upon accounting practices; provided, that the definition of “Working Capital” shall not include (a) the Indebtedness Amount; (b) the Company Transaction Expenses; and (c) current non-income tax assets and liabilities.

 

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Working Capital Lower Collar” means Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($700,000.00).

Working Capital Upper Collar” means Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($900,000.00).

ARTICLE VIII.

MISCELLANEOUS

8.1 Release.

(a) Each Seller on behalf of himself, herself or itself and each of his, her or its Affiliates, heirs, administrators, estates, executors, personal representatives, successors and assigns, or other Persons or entities claiming by, through, or under any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Releasing Party”), does hereby unconditionally and irrevocably release and forever discharge the Company and its Affiliates, heirs, administrators, estates, employee benefit plans and their fiduciaries, predecessors, officers, directors, stockholders, agents, executors, personal and other representatives, and successors and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”), effective as of the date hereof, from any and all Actions, causes of action, complaints, claims, demands, debts, damages, costs, Losses, penalties, attorneys’ fees, obligations, judgments, expenses, compensation, rights and liabilities of any nature whatsoever, in law or equity, whether known or unknown, contingent or otherwise (“Claims”), that the Releasing Party now has, may ever have had in the past or may have in the future against any of the Released Parties by reason of any act, omission, transaction, occurrence, conduct, circumstance, condition, harm, matter, cause or thing that has occurred or existed at any time from the beginning of time up to and including the date hereof, in each case that arise from or out of, are based upon or relate to (i) the Releasing Party’s capacity as a current or former stockholder of the Company, an officer, director, manager, employee or agent of any of the Released Parties, including, without limitation, any and all Claims that the Releasing Party may have against any of the Released Parties with respect thereto, whether pursuant to an alleged breach of any Contract, including any Transaction Document, or alleged breach of fiduciary duty or otherwise and (ii) the negotiation or execution of this Agreement or any of the other documents referenced in this Agreement, or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 8.1 shall modify, waive, replace, supersede, or impair in any way (1) any claims of any Releasing Party under this Agreement, or any other Transaction Document to which such Releasing Party is a party or (2) any claims of any Releasing Party as of the date hereof under or as to: (i) any earned but unpaid wages or consulting fees, (ii) any right to reimbursement of business expenses incurred as of the date hereof that are reimbursable in accordance with the applicable Company policy, (iii) any accrued but unused vacation or paid-time-off days in accordance with the applicable Company policy, (iv) accrued or vested benefits the Releasing Party may have, if any, under any applicable plan, policy, practice, program, contract or agreement with the Company, (v) any indemnification or other protections owing to the Releasing Party under the Company’s organizational documents, any indemnification agreement between the Company and such Releasing Party or under any directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy maintained by the Company, or (vi) any applicable Law that cannot be waived as a matter of law, (all Claims described in (1) and (2), “Excluded Claims”). The undersigned understands that this is a full and final general release of all such claims, demands, causes of action and liabilities of any nature whatsoever, other than Excluded Claims, whether or not known, suspected or claimed, that could have been asserted in any Action against any of the Released Parties.

 

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(b) Each Releasing Party acknowledges that he, she or it is familiar with Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California (“Section 1542”), which provides as follows:

A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.

(c) Each Releasing Party hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives and relinquishes any rights and benefits that such Releasing Party may have under Section 1542 or any similar or analogous statute or common law principle of any jurisdiction. Each Releasing Party acknowledges that he or she may hereafter discover facts in addition to or different from those that such Releasing Party now knows or believes to be true with respect to the subject matter of this release, but it is each Releasing Party’s intention to fully and finally and forever settle and release any and all Claims (other than Excluded Claims) that do now exist, may exist or heretofore have existed with respect to the subject matter of this release. In furtherance of this intention, the releases contained herein shall be and remain in effect as full and complete general releases notwithstanding the discovery or existence of any such additional or different facts.

8.2 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and nothing herein, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any other Person any legal or equitable right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement; provided, that any Person that is not a party to this Agreement but, by the terms of Article VI, is entitled to indemnification, shall be considered a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement, with full rights of enforcement as though such Person was a signatory to this Agreement.

8.3 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, including the exhibits and annexes hereto, the Disclosure Letter, and the other Transaction Documents, constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto and supersede any prior understandings, agreements or representations by or between such parties, written or oral, that may have related in any way to the subject matter hereof.

8.4 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective heirs, successors and permitted assigns, but neither this Agreement nor any of the rights or obligations hereunder may be assigned (whether by operation of Law, through a change in control or otherwise) by the Company or the Sellers without the prior written consent of the Buyer.

 

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8.5 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

8.6 Titles. The titles, captions or headings of the Articles and Sections herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be a part of or to affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.

8.7 Notices. All notices, requests, demands, claims and other communications which are required or may be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (i) when received if personally delivered; (ii) if transmitted by electronic mail; (iii) the Business Day after it is sent, if sent for next day delivery to a domestic address by recognized overnight delivery service (e.g., Federal Express); and (iv) five (5) Business Days after the date mailed by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid, if sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. In each case notice shall be sent to:

If to the Sellers or the Sellers Representative:

Project Andy Newco, LLC

501 Allendale Road Suite 101B

King of Prussia, PA 19406

Attention: Daniel Pontecorvo

E-mail: [***]

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

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

3580 Carmel Mountain Road, Suite 300

San Diego, CA 92130

Attention: Jeremy Glaser

E-mail: [***]

If to the Buyer or the Company:

Nevro Corp.

1800 Bridge Parkway

Redwood City, CA 94065

Attention: General Counsel

E-mail: [***]

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

Latham & Watkins LLP

650 Town Center Drive, 20th Floor,

Costa Mesa, California 92626

Attention: Daniel E. Rees

Email: [***]

 

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Any party hereto may send any notice, request, demand, claim or other communication hereunder to the intended recipient at the address set forth above using any other means. Any party hereto may change the address or facsimile number to which notices, requests, demands, claims, and other communications hereunder are to be delivered by giving each other party notice in the manner herein set forth.

8.8 Governing Law. This Agreement (and any claim or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic Laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule that would cause the application of the Laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.

8.9 Consent to Jurisdiction.

(a) Each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any Delaware state court, or federal court of the United States of America, sitting in the County of New Castle in the State of Delaware, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any Action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the Transaction Documents delivered in connection therewith or the transactions contemplated thereby or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment relating thereto, and each party hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (a) agrees not to commence any such Action or proceeding except in such courts; (b) agrees that any claim in respect of any such Action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such Delaware state court or, to the extent permitted by law, in such federal court; (c) waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such Action or proceeding in any such Delaware state or federal court; and (d) waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such Action or proceeding in any such Delaware state or federal court. Each party hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such Action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Each party hereto irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 8.7. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party hereto to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

(b) Waiver of Trial by Jury. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND THEREFORE IT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY OF THE TRANSACTION DOCUMENTS DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (A) NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE SUCH WAIVER; (B) IT UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH WAIVER; (C) IT MAKES SUCH WAIVER VOLUNTARILY; AND (D) IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 8.9(b).

 

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8.10 Amendment or Modification. This Agreement may not be amended except in a written instrument executed by the Buyer and the Sellers Representative. No amendment, supplement, modification, or waiver of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by the party hereto to be bound thereby.

8.11 Waivers. Except where a specific period for action or inaction is provided herein, neither the failure nor any delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Agreement or any Transaction Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any waiver on the part of any party hereto of any such right, power or privilege, nor any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or privilege, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other such right, power or privilege. The failure of a party hereto to exercise any right conferred herein within the time required shall cause such right to terminate with respect to the transaction or circumstances giving rise to such right, but not to any such right arising as a result of any other transactions or circumstances.

8.12 Specific Performance. The parties agree that irreparable damage, for which monetary damages (even if available) would not be an adequate remedy, would occur in the event that the parties do not perform their obligations under the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with their specified terms or otherwise breach such provisions. Subject to the following sentence, the parties acknowledge and agree that (a) each of the Buyer and the Sellers Representative shall be entitled to an injunction, specific performance or other equitable relief to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement, in each case, without proof of damages, this being in addition to any other remedy to which the parties are entitled under this Agreement and (b) the right of specific enforcement in favor of the Buyer and the Sellers Representative is an integral part of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and without that right, none of the parties hereto would have entered into this Agreement. Each party agrees that it will not oppose the granting of specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that any other party has an adequate remedy at Law or that an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at Law or equity. The parties acknowledge and agree that neither the Buyer nor the Sellers Representative, when seeking an injunction to prevent breaches of this Agreement and/or to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in accordance with this Section 8.12, shall be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such Action. The parties hereto hereby acknowledge that, other than the Buyer and the Sellers Representative, no other party or any of their respective Affiliates shall be entitled to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

8.13 Cumulative Remedies. All rights and remedies of any party hereto are cumulative of each other and of every other right or remedy such party may otherwise have at law or in equity, and the exercise of one or more rights or remedies shall not prejudice or impair the concurrent or subsequent exercise of other rights or remedies.

 

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8.14 Press Releases. The timing and content of all press releases and other public announcements to the Company’s customers, vendors and employees relating to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents shall be determined by the Buyer; provided however, that the Buyer shall deliver to the Company copies of any press release to the extent announcing entry into this Agreement reasonably prior to the publication of such press release and shall consider any comments from the Company in good faith; provided further, that any party hereto may make any public disclosure required by Law (in which case the disclosing party will use its reasonable best efforts to advise the other parties hereto prior to making the disclosure).

8.15 Expenses. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Company shall bear all fees, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, fees, costs and expenses of legal counsel or other representatives and consultants and appraisal fees, costs and expenses) incurred by any party hereto in connection with the negotiation of the Transaction Documents, the performance of its obligations thereunder and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby. Notwithstanding the foregoing, without limitation, the Buyer shall be responsible for the payment of all fees of legal counsel to the Buyer directly related to the transactions contemplated herein. All such Company-borne expenses shall be accrued consistent with GAAP and reflected in the Draft Closing Date Balance Sheet (other than the Buyer’s expenses); provided, that if the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents are not consummated, each of the Buyer and the Company shall pay all of its own fees and expenses.

8.16 Construction.

(a) Each party hereto agrees that they have been represented by counsel during the negotiation and execution of this Agreement and, therefore, waive the application of any Law, regulation, holding or rule of construction providing that ambiguities in an agreement or other document will be construed against the party drafting such agreement or document. The parties hereto intend that each representation, warranty, and covenant contained herein shall have independent significance. If any party hereto has breached any representation, warranty, or covenant contained herein (or is otherwise entitled to indemnification) in any respect, the fact that there exists another representation, warranty, or covenant (including any indemnification provision) relating to the same subject matter (regardless of the relative levels of specificity) which such party has not breached (or is not otherwise entitled to indemnification with respect thereto) shall not detract from or mitigate the fact that such party is in breach of the first representation, warranty, or covenant (or is otherwise entitled to indemnification pursuant to a different provision).

(b) The Disclosure Letter are hereby incorporated by reference into the Sections in which they are directly referenced and nothing in the Disclosure Letter shall be deemed adequate to disclose an exception to a representation or warranty made herein unless the Disclosure Letter identify the exception with reasonable particularity and describes the relevant facts in reasonable detail. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the mere listing (or inclusion of a copy) of a document or other item shall not be deemed adequate to disclose an exception to a representation or warranty made herein (unless the representation or warranty has to do with the existence of the document or other item itself) and the provision of monetary or other quantitative thresholds for disclosure on the Disclosure Letter does not and shall not be deemed to create or imply a standard of materiality hereunder. The Section headings contained herein are for reference purposes only and do not broaden or otherwise affect any of the provisions of the Agreement.

 

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

8.18 Sellers Representative.

(a) By virtue of the adoption of this Agreement, by the Company’s stockholders, and without further action of any Seller, each Seller shall be deemed to have irrevocably constituted and appointed (i) Project Andy Newco, LLC (and by execution of this Agreement such Person hereby accepts such appointment) to act as the Sellers Representative under this Agreement in accordance with the terms of this Section 8.18 and the Escrow Agreement and (ii) the Sellers Representative as agent and attorney-in-fact for and on behalf of the Sellers (in their capacity as such), with full power of substitution, to act in the name, place and stead of each Seller with respect to this Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement and the Escrow Agreement and to facilitate the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, including the taking by the Sellers Representative of any and all actions and the making of any decisions required or permitted to be taken by the Sellers Representative under this Agreement, the Paying Agent Agreement and the Escrow Agreement and to accept on behalf of each Seller service of process and any notices required to be served on the Sellers. All such actions shall be deemed to be facts ascertainable outside the Agreement and shall be binding on the Sellers as a matter of contract Law. The power of attorney granted in this Section 8.18 is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable, may be delegated by the Sellers Representative and shall survive the death or incapacity of each Seller. In the event of the resignation, death or disability of the Sellers Representative, the Sellers may appoint a replacement Sellers Representative by a vote of the majority of the Shares, and any such successor shall succeed the Sellers Representative as Sellers Representative hereunder. For the avoidance of doubt, any compromise or settlement of any matter by the Sellers Representative hereunder shall be binding on, and fully enforceable against, all the Sellers. No bond shall be required of the Sellers Representative, and the Sellers Representative shall receive no compensation for its services.

(b) Upon the dissolution of the initial Sellers Representative appointed pursuant to Section 8.18(a), each of the Sellers acknowledges and agrees that Daniel A. Pontecorvo shall be the Sellers Representative (and, if both Project Andy Newco, LLC and Daniel A. Pontecorvo have been dissolved or died, become legally incapacitated or resigned, then such Person as is appointed by the Sellers who held a majority of the outstanding Shares immediately prior to the Closing); provided, that no change in the Sellers Representative shall be effective prior to the delivery to the Buyer of written notice thereof from the Sellers who held a majority of the Shares immediately prior to the Closing. The Sellers Representative may resign at any time; provided, that it must provide the Sellers who held a majority of the Shares immediately prior to the Closing thirty (30) days’ prior written notice of such decision to resign.

 

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(c) Any and all actions taken or not taken, exercises of rights, power or authority and any decision or determination made by the Sellers Representative in connection herewith shall be absolutely and irrevocably binding upon the Sellers as if such Person had taken such action, exercised such rights, power or authority or made such decision or determination in its individual capacity, and the Paying Agent, the Escrow Agent and the Buyer may rely upon such action, exercise of right, power, or authority or such decision or determination of the Sellers Representative as the action, exercise, right, power, or authority, or decision or determination of such Person, and no Seller shall have the right to object, dissent, protest or otherwise contest the same. The Buyer is hereby relieved from any liability to any Person for any acts done by the Sellers Representative and any acts done by the Buyer in accordance with any decision, act, consent, or instruction of the Sellers Representative.

(d) The Sellers Representative will incur no liability of any kind to any Indemnifying Party with respect to any action or omission by the Sellers Representative in connection with its services pursuant to this Agreement and any other Transaction Document, except in the event of Liability directly resulting from the Sellers Representative’s Fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Sellers Representative shall not be liable for any action or omission pursuant to the written advice of reputable counsel. The Seller Indemnifying Parties will indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Sellers Representative from and against any and all Losses, liabilities, damages, claims, penalties, fines, forfeitures and actions, and documented fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Sellers Representative (including the fees and expenses of counsel and experts and their staffs and all expense of document location, duplication and shipment) (collectively, “Representative Losses”) arising out of or in connection with the Sellers Representative’s execution and performance of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document, in each case as such Representative Loss is suffered or incurred; provided, that in the event that any such Representative Loss is finally adjudicated to have been directly caused by the gross negligence or willful misconduct of, or Fraud by, the Sellers Representative, the Sellers Representative will reimburse the Seller Indemnifying Parties the amount of such indemnified Representative Loss to the extent attributable to such gross negligence or willful misconduct or Fraud. Representative Losses may be recovered by the Sellers Representative from (i) the funds in the Expense Fund and (ii) any other funds that become payable to the Seller Indemnifying Parties under this Agreement at such time as such amounts would otherwise be distributable to the Seller Indemnifying Parties; provided, that while the Sellers Representative may be paid from the aforementioned sources of funds, this does not relieve the Seller Indemnifying Parties from their obligation to promptly pay such Representative Losses as they are suffered or incurred. In no event will the Sellers Representative be required to advance its own funds on behalf of the Seller Indemnifying Parties or otherwise. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, any restrictions or limitations on liability or indemnification obligations of the Seller Indemnifying Parties set forth elsewhere in this Agreement are not intended to be applicable to the indemnities provided to the Sellers Representative under this section. The foregoing indemnities will survive the Closing, the resignation or removal of the Sellers Representative or the termination of this Agreement.

(e) The Expense Fund will be used for any expenses incurred by the Sellers Representative. The Sellers Representative will hold these funds separate from its corporate funds or personal funds, as may be applicable, and will not voluntarily make these funds available to its creditors in the event of bankruptcy. As soon as practicable following the completion of the Sellers Representative’s responsibilities, the Sellers Representative will deliver any remaining balance of the Expense Fund to the Paying Agent for further distribution to the Sellers. For Tax purposes, the Expense Fund will be treated as having been received and voluntarily set aside by the Sellers at the time of Closing.

 

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8.19 Provision Respecting Legal Representation; Attorney-Client Privilege.

(a) If the Sellers Representative so desires, acting on behalf of the Sellers, Optionholders and Noteholders and without the need for any consent or waiver by the Company or the Buyer, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (“Mintz”) shall be permitted to represent each and any Seller, Optionholder and Noteholder and each of their respective Affiliates (collectively, the “Holder Group”) after the Closing in connection with any matter, including without limitation, anything related to the transaction contemplated hereby or any disagreement or dispute relating thereto. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, after the Closing, Mintz shall be permitted to represent the members of the Holder Group, or any one or more of them, in connection with any negotiation, transaction or dispute (including any litigation, arbitration or other adversarial proceeding) with the Buyer and the Company or any of their respective representatives under or relating to this Agreement or the Transaction Documents, the transaction contemplated hereby, and any related matter. Without waiving any attorney-client privilege in connection with the period prior to Closing, upon and after the Closing, the Company shall cease to have any attorney-client relationship with Mintz, unless and to the extent Mintz is specifically engaged in writing by the Company to represent it after the Closing. Any such representation of the Company by Mintz after the Closing shall not affect the foregoing provisions hereof.

(b) For good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Buyer, for itself and on behalf of any its Affiliates and subsidiaries (including without limitation, the Company), hereby transfers and assigns to the Holder Group any and all rights, privileges and ownership of any and all attorney-client privilege, attorney work product, legal advice and any other expectation of client confidentiality, in any form or format whatsoever, solely with respect to the evaluation, negotiation, documentation, execution, delivery, consummation and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the transaction contemplated hereby and any dispute or proceeding arising under or in connection thereto that, immediately prior to the Closing, would be deemed to be privileged communications between the Holder Group and the Company (collectively, the “Seller Parties”), on the one hand, and the Seller Parties’ counsel, including, without limitation, Mintz, on the other hand, and would not be subject to disclosure to the Buyer or the Company in connection with any process relating to a dispute arising under or in connection with this Agreement or the Transaction Documents or otherwise as a result of the Seller Parties and the Buyer or the Company or their respective Affiliates being adverse to each other prior to the Closing (the “Closing Legal Communications”). The rights and privileges of the Closing Legal Communications shall be controlled, and waiver thereto may only be approved, by the Sellers Representative in writing. If there is a dispute between the Buyer or the Company and a third party, the Buyer and/or the Company may assert privilege against such third party with respect to the Closing Legal Communications but may not waive such privilege without the prior written consent of the Sellers Representative. If the Buyer or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates is required by any legal proceeding or Governmental Entity to disclose any Closing Legal Communications notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Buyer or the Company, as the case may be, shall be entitled to disclose such Closing Legal Communications and shall notify the Sellers Representative as soon as reasonably practicable after furnishing such information.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

BUYER
NEVRO CORP.
By:   /s/ Kevin Thornal
Name:   Kevin Thornal
Title:   Chief Executive Officer & President


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

COMPANY
INTERVENTIONAL PAIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. D/B/A VYRSA TECHNOLOGIES
By:   /s/ Daniel Pontecorvo

Name:

 

Daniel Pontecorvo

Title:

 

Co-Chief Executive Officer


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
By:   /s/ Daniel Pontecorvo
Name:   Daniel Pontecorvo
Title:   Founder
CAMBER SPINE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
By:   /s/ Daniel Pontecorvo
Name:   Daniel Pontecorvo
Title:   Co-Founder
INSTITUTE FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION, LTD.
By:   /s/ Gary DiGiovanni
Name:   Gary DiGiovanni
Title:   Trustee
S1 SPINE LLC
By:   /s/ Daniel Pontecorvo
Name:   Daniel Pontecorvo
Title:   Partner


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLERS REPRESENTATIVE
PROJECT ANDY NEWCO, LLC
By:   /s/ Daniel Pontecorvo

Name:

 

Daniel Pontecorvo

Title:

 

Manager


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
DANIEL PONTECORVO
By:   /s/ Daniel Pontecorvo
Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
CRESTCO CAPITAL LLC
By:   /s/ Jennifer Morris

Name:

 

Jennifer Morris

Title:

 

Managing Member

Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
BOWEN DAVIS TRUST

By:

 

/s/ Noble Anderson

Name:

 

Noble Anderson

Title:

 

Trustee - Bowen Davis Trust

Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
EARL FENDER

By:

 

/s/ Earl Fender

Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
GREG BAILEY

By:

 

/s/ Greg Bailey

Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
GERALD MCGEE
By:   /s/ Gerald McGee
Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
NOBLE ANDERSON AND JOY ANDERSON
By:   /s/ Noble Anderson and Joy Anderson
Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
MLF HOLDINGS LLC
By:   /s/ Michael Fernandez
Name:   Michael Fernandez
Title:   Shareholder
Number of Common Stock Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
TERRY HARVEY
By:   /s/ Terry Harvey
Number of Shares Underlying Options Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
SYLVAN GATTI
By:   /s/ Sylvan Gatti
Number of Shares Underlying Options Owned: [***]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

SELLER
MEHUL DESAI
By:   /s/ Mehul Desai
Number of Shares Underlying Options Owned: [***]

Exhibit 4.1

Execution Version

THIS WARRANT AND THE SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE HEREOF HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAW. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, INCLUDING PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A PRIVATE SALE EFFECTED UNDER SECTION 4(a)(7) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR APPLICABLE FORMAL OR INFORMAL SEC INTERPRETATION OR GUIDANCE, SUCH AS A SO-CALLED “4[a](1) AND A HALF SALE.” NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.

AN INVESTMENT IN THESE SECURITIES INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. HOLDERS MUST RELY ON THEIR OWN ANALYSIS OF THE INVESTMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF THE RISKS INVOLVED.

 

Warrant to Purchase

[    ] shares

   Warrant Number [     ]

Warrant to Purchase Common Stock

of

Nevro Corp.

THIS CERTIFIES that [            ], a Delaware limited liability company, or any subsequent holder hereof (“Holder”) has the right to purchase from Nevro Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Two Million Five Hundred Eighty Seven Thousand Seven Hundred Forty Two (2,587,742) fully paid and nonassessable shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (“Common Stock”), subject to adjustment as provided herein, at a price equal to the Exercise Price (as defined in Section 3(a) below), at any time during the Term (as defined below).

Holder agrees with the Company that this Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of the Company (this “Warrant” or this “Agreement”) is issued and all rights hereunder shall be held subject to all of the conditions, limitations and provisions set forth herein.

1. Date of Issuance and Term.

This Warrant shall be deemed to be issued on [            ] (“Date of Issuance”). The exercise period of this Warrant begins on the Date of Issuance and ends at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on November 30, 2029 (the “Term”). This Warrant was issued in conjunction with that certain Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated as of November 30, 2023, by and among the Company, the other Obligors signatory thereto, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as agent, and the Lenders (as defined therein) party thereto from time to time (as may be amended, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Credit Agreement”), and in conjunction with that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated November 30, 2023, by and between the Company and the Holder (as may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Registration Rights Agreement”).

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not issue to Holder, and Holder may not acquire, a number of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant to the extent that, upon such exercise, the number of shares of Common Stock then beneficially owned by Holder and its Affiliates and any other persons or entities whose beneficial ownership of Common Stock would be aggregated with


Holder’s for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (including shares held by any “group” of which Holder is a member, but excluding shares beneficially owned by virtue of the ownership of securities or rights to acquire securities that have limitations on the right to convert, exercise or purchase similar to the limitation set forth herein) would exceed 4.99% of the total number of shares of Common Stock then issued and outstanding (the “Beneficial Ownership Cap”); provided, however, that the Beneficial Ownership Cap shall only apply to the extent that the Common Stock is deemed to constitute an “equity security” pursuant to Rule 13d-1(i) promulgated under the Exchange Act; and provided, further, that Holder, upon notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Cap to any other percentage specified, provided, however that any increase in the Beneficial Ownership Cap will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company. For purposes hereof, “group” has the meaning set forth in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and applicable regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and the percentage beneficially owned by Holder shall be determined in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act. Upon the written request of Holder, the Company shall, within two (2) Trading Days, confirm orally and in writing to Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding.

For purposes hereof:

Affiliate” means any person or entity that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a person or entity, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 144 (“Rule 144”) under the Securities Act. With respect to Holder, any investment fund or managed account that is managed on a discretionary basis by the same investment manager as Holder will be deemed to be an Affiliate of Holder.

Asset Sale” means a transaction covered by the provisions of clause (B) of the definition of “Major Transaction” in connection with which the Company distributes its assets to stockholders.

Black-Scholes Value” means the Black-Scholes Value of this Warrant or applicable portion thereof, as determined by use of the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model using the criteria set forth on Schedule 1 hereto.

Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in the City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

Cashless Default Exercise” means an exercise of this Warrant as a “Cashless Default Exercise” in accordance with Sections 3(b) and 11(b) hereof.

Cashless Major Exercise” means an exercise of this Warrant or portion thereof as a “Cashless Major Exercise” in accordance with Section 3(b) and clause (2) of Section 5(c)(i) hereof.

Eligible Market” means the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (the “NYSE”), the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, an OTC Market or, in each case, any successor thereto.

Enterprise Value” means, as of any date of determination, (i) the product of (x) the number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock on such date, multiplied by (y) the per share closing price of the Common Stock on such date, plus (ii) the amount of the Company’s debt, as shown on the latest financial statements filed with the SEC prior to such date (the “Current Financial Statements”), less (iii) the amount of cash and cash equivalents of the Company, as shown on the Current Financial Statements.

Holder” has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Warrant.

 

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Marketable Securities” means the securities of a publicly traded corporation (or similar entity) whose common stock is quoted on or listed for trading on an Eligible Market.

OTC Markets” means the OTC Bulletin Board, the OTCQX Market or the OTCQB Market or, in each case, any successor thereto.

Parent Entity” of a Person means an entity that, directly or indirectly, controls the applicable Person and whose common stock or equivalent equity security is quoted, listed or traded on an Eligible Market or, if there is more than one such Parent Entity, the Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of consummation of a Major Transaction.

Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and a government or any department or agency thereof.

Shares” means whole shares of Common Stock covered by this Warrant.

Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period for equity trades effected by U.S. broker-dealers, expressed in a number of Trading Days, as in effect on the applicable date.

Successor Entity” means (i) any Person acquiring the Company’s assets or Common Stock in a transaction that qualifies as a Major Transaction, and any successor entity resulting from such Major Transaction, if the common stock or equivalent equity security of such Person or successor entity is (or immediately following the Major Transaction will be) quoted, listed or traded on an Eligible Market or (ii) any Parent Entity of such Person or successor entity, or any corporation (or similar entity that otherwise becomes a new Parent Entity of the Company as a result of a Major Transaction; provided that, in the case of a Major Transaction as to which both of the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) apply, the Successor Entity shall be the Person (or successor entity) or Parent Entity with the largest public market capitalization as of the date of consummation of the Major Transaction.)

Takeout Major Transaction Consideration” means (i) the amount of cash, other assets and/or the number of securities or other property of any Person that are issuable in such Takeout Major Transaction in respect of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Takeout Major Transaction Conversion Share Amount and (ii) in the case of an Asset Sale, an amount of cash equal to the Black-Scholes Value of this Warrant upon consummation of the applicable Asset Sale.

Takeout Major Transaction Conversion Share Amount” means an amount equal to the Black-Scholes Value of this Warrant determined as of the date the applicable Major Transaction is consummated divided by the closing price of the Common Stock on the principal securities exchange or other securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the applicable Major Transaction is consummated.

Takeout Major Transaction” means a Change of Control Transaction prior to the end of the Term in which the shares of Common Stock of the Company are converted into the right to receive cash, securities of another entity and/or other assets.

Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded for any period on the NYSE, or on the principal United States securities exchange or trading market on which the Common Stock is then being traded; provided, however, that during any period in which the Common Stock is not listed or quoted on the NYSE, or any other United States securities exchange or trading market, the term “Trading Day” shall mean any Business Day.

 

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2. Exercise.

(a) Manner of Exercise. During the Term, Holder may at any time and from time to time exercise this Warrant, in whole or in part, by delivering to the Company at warrant@nevro.com or at such other location or electronic mail as the Company may designate in writing, a copy of this Warrant together with a duly executed Exercise Form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Form”) duly completed and executed and, unless Holder is exercising this Warrant pursuant to a cashless exercise set forth in Section 3(a)(ii) or Note Exchange Exercise as set forth in Section 3(a)(iii), a check, wire transfer of same-day funds (to an account designated by the Company), or other form of payment acceptable to the Company for the full Exercise Price for the Shares being purchased (any such exercise of this Warrant being hereinafter called an “Exercise” of this Warrant).

(b) Date of Exercise. The “Date of Exercise” of this Warrant shall be defined as the date that the Exercise Form attached hereto as Exhibit A, completed and executed, is sent by electronic mail to the Company; provided that the Exercise Price, if applicable, is satisfied as soon as practicable thereafter but no later than the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period after the Date of Exercise. In the event that the Exercise Price (if applicable) set forth in the Exercise Form is not paid to the Company by the deadline therefor, the Date of Exercise shall be such date as the Exercise Price is received by the Company, unless the exercise contemplated by such Exercise Form is rescinded by Holder. Alternatively, the Date of Exercise shall be defined as the date the original Exercise Form (and Exercise Price, if applicable) is received by the Company or the Transfer Agent if Holder has not previously sent the Exercise Form by electronic mail. Upon delivery of the Exercise Form (and Exercise Price, if applicable) to the Company electronic mail or otherwise, Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been Exercised, irrespective of the date such Warrant Shares are credited to Holder’s or its designee’s Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) account or the date of delivery of the certificates evidencing such Warrant Shares, as the case may be. Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and this Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading Days following the date the final Exercise Form is delivered to the Company. Execution and delivery of an Exercise Form with respect to a partial Exercise shall have the same effect as cancellation of the original Warrant and issuance of a new Warrant evidencing the right to purchase the remaining number of Warrant Shares.

(c) Delivery of Common Stock Upon Exercise. Within the earlier of (x) two (2) Trading Days and (y) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period after any Date of Exercise or, in the case of a Cashless Default Exercise, within the period provided in Section 3(b), as applicable (the “Delivery Period”), the Company shall issue and deliver (or cause its transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) to issue and deliver) in accordance with the terms hereof to Holder that number of Shares for the portion of this Warrant exercised as shall be determined in accordance herewith. Upon the Exercise of this Warrant or any part hereof, the Company shall, at its own cost and expense, take all necessary action, including obtaining and delivering an opinion of counsel, if applicable, to assure that the Transfer Agent shall issue stock certificates in the name of Holder (or its nominee) or such other persons as designated by Holder representing the number of Shares issuable upon such Exercise. The Company warrants that no instructions other than these instructions have been or will be given to the Transfer Agent and that, unless waived by Holder, this Warrant and the Exercise Shares will be free-trading and freely transferable during such period as any of the Unrestricted Conditions (as defined below) are met.

(d) Delivery Failure. In addition to any other remedies that may be available to Holder, in the event that the Company fails for any reason to effect delivery of the Shares by the end of the Delivery Period (a “Delivery Failure”), Holder will be entitled to revoke all or part of the relevant Exercise by delivery of a notice to such effect to the Company whereupon the Company and Holder shall each be restored to their respective positions immediately prior to the delivery of such notice of revocation, except that the liquidated damages described herein shall be payable through the date such notice of revocation is given to the Company.

 

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(e) Legends.

(i) Restrictive Legend. Holder understands that until such time as this Warrant and the Shares have been registered under the Securities Act or otherwise may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act without any restriction as to the number of securities as of a particular date that can then be immediately sold, this Warrant and the Shares may bear a restrictive legend in substantially the following form (and a stop-transfer order consistent therewith may be placed against transfer of the certificate for such securities):

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, INCLUDING PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A PRIVATE SALE EFFECTED UNDER SECTION 4(a)(7) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR APPLICABLE FORMAL OR INFORMAL SEC INTERPRETATION OR GUIDANCE, SUCH AS A SO-CALLED “4[(a)](1) AND A HALF SALE.” NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.”

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE ENTITLED TO THE BENEFITS OF A CERTAIN REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT DATED AS OF [•], 2023, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, AMONG THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN HOLDERS OF ITS OUTSTANDING SECURITIES. COPIES OF SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED AT NO COST BY WRITTEN REQUEST MADE BY THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.”

(ii) Removal of Restrictive Legends. This Warrant and the certificates (or electronic book entries, if applicable) evidencing the Shares, shall not be required to contain or be subject to (and Holder shall be entitled to removal of) any legend restricting the transfer thereof (including the legend set forth above in subsection 2(e)(i)) and shall not be subject to any stop-transfer instructions: (A) while a registration statement (including a Registration Statement, as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) covering the sale or resale of such security by such Holder is effective under the Securities Act and the use of such registration statement, if applicable, is not suspended at such time under the Registration Rights Agreement by such Holder, with respect to Warrant and/or Shares that have been sold pursuant to such registration statement or (B) following any sale of such Warrant and/or Shares pursuant to Rule 144 or (C) if such Warrant and/or Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144(b)(1) as set forth in customary non-affiliate certifications provided by the Holder upon request by Company, or (D) at any time on or after the date hereof that Holder certifies that it is not an “affiliate” of the Company (as such term is used under Rule 144 pursuant to the Securities Act) and that Holder’s holding period for purposes of Rule 144 and subsection (d)(3)(iii) thereof with respect to such Warrant and/or Shares is at least six (6) months, or (E) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the SEC) as determined in good faith by counsel to the Company (collectively, the “Unrestricted Conditions”). The Company shall cause its counsel to deliver a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent promptly after such time as any of the Unrestricted Conditions have been met, if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the issuance of this Warrant or the Shares, as applicable, without a restrictive legend or removal of the legend hereunder to the extent required or requested as set forth in the

 

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immediately following two sentences. If any of the Unrestricted Conditions is met at the time of issuance of this Warrant or the Shares, then the Company shall (i) instruct the Transfer Agent to issue this Warrant or Shares, as applicable, free of all legends and stop transfer instructions and (ii) if required by the Transfer Agent, instruct its counsel to deliver a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent to effect the issuance of such Warrant or Shares free of all legends and stop transfer instructions. The Company agrees that following such time as any of the Unrestricted Conditions is met or such legend is otherwise no longer required under this Section 2(e), it will, no later than the earlier of (x) two (2) Trading Days and (y) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period following the delivery by Holder to the Company or the Transfer Agent of this Warrant and a certificate (or electronic transfer) representing such shares that are issued with a restrictive legend, deliver or cause to be delivered to Holder this Warrant a certificate (or electronic transfer) representing such shares that are free from all restrictive and other legends (or similar notations).

(iii) Sale of Unlegended Shares. Holder agrees that the removal of the restrictive legend from this Warrant and any certificates representing securities as set forth in Section 2(e)(ii) above is predicated upon the Company’s reliance that Holder will sell this Warrant or any Shares, as applicable, pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if such securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein.

(f) Cancellation of Warrant. This Warrant shall be canceled upon the full Exercise of this Warrant, and, as soon as practical after the Date of Exercise, Holder shall be entitled to receive Common Stock for the number of shares purchased upon such Exercise of this Warrant, and, if this Warrant is not Exercised in full, Holder, upon physical surrender of this Warrant, shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant (containing terms identical to this Warrant) representing any unexercised portion of this Warrant in addition to such Common Stock; provided, however, that, as set forth in Section 2(b), Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant, if this Warrant is not Exercised in full.

(g) Holder of Record. Each Person in whose name this Warrant is issued shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be Holder of record of the Shares on the Date of Exercise, irrespective of the date of delivery of the Shares purchased upon the Exercise of this Warrant.

(h) Delivery of Electronic Shares. In lieu of delivering physical certificates representing the Shares, the Company may cause its Transfer Agent to electronically transmit the Shares issuable upon Exercise to Holder by crediting the account of Holder’s prime broker with DTC through its Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian (DWAC) system. The time periods for delivery described herein shall apply to the electronic transmittals described herein. Any delivery not effected by electronic transmission shall be effected by delivery of physical certificates.

(i) Buy-In. In addition to any other rights or remedies available to Holder hereunder or otherwise at law or in equity, if the Company fails to cause its Transfer Agent to deliver to Holder a certificate or certificates, or electronic shares through DWAC, representing the Shares pursuant to an Exercise on or before the last day of the Delivery Period, and if after such date Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or Holder or Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by Holder of the Shares that Holder was entitled to receive upon such Exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall pay in cash to Holder the amount by which (x) Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (A) the number of Shares that the Company was required to deliver to Holder in connection with the Exercise on or before the last day of such Delivery Period, by (B) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (2) at the option of Holder, either reinstate the portion of this Warrant and equivalent number of Shares for which such Exercise was not honored (and refund the Exercise Price therefor, to the extent paid by Holder,

 

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and/or reinstate the principal amount of any indebtedness used to satisfy the applicable Exercise Price), or deliver to Holder the number of Shares that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its Exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted Exercise to cover the sale of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (1) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay Holder $1,000. Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to Holder in respect of the Buy-In, together with applicable confirmations and other evidence reasonably requested by the Company. Nothing herein shall limit Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing Shares upon Exercise of this Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

(j) HSR Submissions. If Holder determines that, in connection with the exercise of this Warrant, it and the Company are required to file Premerger Notification Reports with the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) and the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and observe the Waiting Period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the related rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “HSR Act”), the Company agrees to (i) cooperate with Holder in Holder’s preparing and making such submission and any responses to inquiries of the FTC and DOJ; (ii) prepare and make any submission required to be filed by the Company under the HSR Act and respond to inquiries of the FTC and DOJ in connection therewith and (iii) reimburse Holder for the cost of the required filing fee for Holder’s submission under the HSR Act. For the avoidance of doubt, Holder shall bear all of its other costs and expenses in connection with such submission, including any attorneys’ fees associated therewith.

(k) Taxes. The Company shall be responsible for paying all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar taxes that arise from any payment or issuance made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, exercise, enforcement or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or the sale of Shares issued hereunder; provided that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer and the issuance and delivery of any Shares in a name other than that of Holder.

3. Payment of Warrant Exercise Price for Cash Exercise or Cashless Exercise; Cashless Major Exercise and Cashless Default Exercise.

(a) Exercise Price. The exercise price shall initially equal $23.1862 per share, subject to adjustment pursuant to the terms hereof (as so adjusted, the “Exercise Price”), including but not limited to Section 5 below.

Payment of the Exercise Price may be made by either of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of Holder:

(i) Cash Exercise: Holder may exercise this Warrant in cash, bank or cashier’s check, wire transfer or through a reduction of an amount of principal outstanding under any Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement) then held by Holder (a “Cash Exercise”); or

(ii) Cashless Exercise: In lieu of paying all or any portion of the Exercise Price in cash, Holder, at its option, may exercise this Warrant (in whole or in part) on a cashless basis by making appropriate notation on the applicable Exercise Form, in which event the Company shall issue to Holder a number of Shares computed using the following formula (a “Cashless Exercise”):

X = Y (A-B)/A

 

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where: X = the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to Holder.

Y = the number of shares of Common Stock for which this Warrant is being Exercised.

A = the Market Price of one (1) share of Common Stock (for purposes of this Section 3(a)(ii), where “Market Price,” as of any date, means the arithmetic average of the Volume Weighted Average Prices (as defined below) of the Company’s Common Stock on each of the five (5) consecutive Trading Days immediately preceding the Date of Exercise).

B = the Exercise Price.

As used herein, the “Volume Weighted Average Price” for any security as of any date means the volume weighted average sale price on the NYSE as reported by, or based upon data reported by, Bloomberg Financial Markets or an equivalent, reliable reporting service mutually acceptable to and hereafter designated by Holder and the Company (“Bloomberg”) or, if the NYSE is not the principal trading market for such security, the volume weighted average sale price of such security on the principal securities exchange or trading market where such security is listed or traded as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no volume weighted average sale price is reported for such security, then the last closing trade price of such security as reported by Bloomberg, or, if no last closing trade price is reported for such security by Bloomberg, the average of the bid prices of any market makers for such security that are listed or quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board, the OTCQX Market or the OTCQB Market or in the Pink market of OTC Markets Group (or, in each case, any successor to such market). If the Volume Weighted Average Price cannot be calculated for such security on the applicable date in the manner provided above, the volume weighted average price shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and Holder . In the event that a Stock Event (as defined below) is consummated during any period for which the Volume Weighted Average Price is to be determined, the Volume Weighted Average Price for all Trading Days during such period prior to the effectiveness of the Stock Event shall be appropriately adjusted to reflect such Stock Event.

(iii) Note Exchange Exercise: In lieu of paying all or any portion of the Exercise Price in cash, Holder, at its option may exercise this Warrant (in whole or in part) through a reduction of any amount of principal outstanding under any Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement) then held by Holder (a “Note Exchange Exercise”).

For purposes of Rule 144 and subsection (d)(3)(ii) thereof, it is intended, understood and acknowledged that the Common Stock issuable upon Exercise of this Warrant in a Cashless Exercise transaction or a Note Exchange Exercise transaction shall be deemed to have been acquired, and the holding period thereof shall be deemed to have commenced, at the time this Warrant was issued. As provided in Section 2(b), Holder shall only be required to physically surrender this Warrant in the event that Holder is exercising this Warrant in full.

(b) Cashless Major Exercise. To the extent Holder shall exercise this Warrant as a Cashless Major Exercise pursuant to Section 5(c)(i) below, Holder shall send to the Company (in any manner permitted under Section 2(a)) the Exercise Form indicating that Holder is exercising this Warrant (or any portion thereof) pursuant to a Cashless Major Exercise, in which event the Company shall issue a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Black-Scholes Value of the applicable portion of the Warrant being exercised divided by the closing price of the Common Stock on the principal securities exchange or other securities market on which the Common Stock is then traded on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the applicable Major Transaction is consummated, or, if in respect of a Cashless Major Exercise made after the date of consummation of the applicable Major Transaction, on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the exercise form in respect of such Cashless Major Exercise is delivered. As provided in Section 2(b), Holder shall only be required to physically surrender this Warrant in the event that this Warrant is being exercised in full. Holder shall be permitted to make successive Cashless Major Exercises and send successive Exercise Forms in respect of a Cashless Major Exercise, from time to time at any time during the Cashless Major Exercise Period.

 

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(c) Cashless Default Exercise. To the extent Holder exercises this Warrant as a Cashless Default Exercise pursuant to Section 11(b)(i) below, Holder shall send to the Company (in any manner permitted under Section 2(a)) the Exercise Form indicating that Holder is exercising this Warrant pursuant to a Cashless Default Exercise, in which event the Company shall issue to Holder, within five (5) Trading Days of the applicable Default Notice, a number of Shares (which Shares shall be valued at the Volume Weighted Average Price on the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of the applicable Default Notice) equal to the Black-Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant (or such portion thereof subject to such exercise) as of the date of such Default Notice. Holder shall be permitted to make successive Cashless Default Exercises and send successive Exercise Forms in respect of a Cashless Default Exercise, from time to time and at any time from and after the date of the applicable Default Notice through the Term of this Warrant.

(d) Dispute Resolution. In the case of a dispute as to the determination of the closing price or the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock or the arithmetic calculation of the Exercise Price, Market Price or the Takeout Major Transaction Consideration, the Company shall submit the disputed determinations or arithmetic calculations to Holder in accordance with the notice provisions hereunder within two (2) Trading Days of receipt, or deemed receipt, of the Exercise Form or Major Transaction Early Termination Notice, or other event giving rise to such dispute, as the case may be. If Holder and the Company are unable to agree upon such determination or calculation within two (2) Trading Days of such disputed determination or arithmetic calculation being submitted to Holder, then the Company shall, within two (2) Trading Days submit (i) the disputed determination of the closing price or the Volume Weighted Average Price of the Common Stock to an independent, reputable investment bank selected by the Company and approved by Holder, which approval shall not be unreasonably conditioned or withheld, or (ii) the disputed arithmetic calculation of the Exercise Price, Market Price or any Takeout Major Transaction Consideration to the Company’s independent, outside registered public accountants. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the investment bank or the accountants, as the case may be, to perform the determinations or calculations and notify the Company and Holder of the results no later than five (5) Trading Days from the time it receives the disputed determinations or calculations. Such investment bank’s or accountants’ determination or calculation, as the case may be, shall be binding upon all parties absent demonstrable error. Notwithstanding the existence of a dispute contemplated by this paragraph, if requested by Holder, the Company shall issue to Holder the Shares, if any, that are not in dispute in accordance with the terms hereof.

4. Transfer and Registration.

(a) Transfer Rights. Subject to the provisions of Section 8 of this Warrant, this Warrant may be transferred on the books of the Company, in whole or in part, in person or by attorney, upon surrender of this Warrant properly completed and endorsed. This Warrant shall be canceled upon such surrender and, as soon as practicable thereafter, the person to whom such transfer is made shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant or Warrants as to the portion of this Warrant transferred, and Holder shall be entitled to receive a new Warrant as to the portion hereof retained.

(b) Registrable Securities. The Shares issuable upon the Exercise of this Warrant entitles Holder (and applicable assignees or transferees of such Shares) to registration and other rights pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

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5. Adjustments Upon Certain Events.

(a) Participation. Holder, as the holder of this Warrant, shall be entitled to receive such dividends paid and distributions of any kind made to the holders of Common Stock of the Company to the same extent as if Holder had Exercised this Warrant into Common Stock (without regard to any limitations on exercise herein or elsewhere and without regard to whether or not a sufficient number of shares are authorized and reserved to effect any such exercise and issuance) and had held such shares of Common Stock on the record date for such dividends and distributions. Payments under the preceding sentence shall be made concurrently with the dividend or distribution to the holders of Common Stock.

(b) Recapitalization or Reclassification. If the Company shall at any time effect any subdivision of outstanding Common Stock (by any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization or otherwise), combination of outstanding Common Stock (by consolidation, combination, reverse stock split or otherwise), reclassification or other similar transaction of such character that shares of Common Stock shall be changed into or become exchangeable for a larger or smaller number of shares (a “Stock Event”), then upon the effective date thereof, the number of shares of Common Stock that Holder shall be entitled to purchase upon Exercise of this Warrant shall be increased or decreased, as the case may be, in direct proportion to the increase or decrease in the number of shares of Common Stock by reason of such Stock Event, and the Exercise Price shall be, in the case of an increase in the number of shares, proportionally decreased and, in the case of decrease in the number of shares, proportionally increased. The Company shall give Holder the same notice it provides to holders of Common Stock of any transaction described in this Section 5(b).

(c) Treatment of Warrant Upon Major Transaction or Organic Change.

(i) Major Transaction. In the event that a Major Transaction (as defined below) occurs, then (1) in the case of a Takeout Major Transaction or an Asset Sale, this Warrant shall automatically and without need of any action or notice by the Holder or any other Person be converted into the right to receive, upon consummation of the Takeout Major Transaction, the Takeout Major Transaction Consideration and (2) in the case of all other Major Transactions, Holder shall have the right to exercise this Warrant (or any portion thereof), at any time and for thirty (30) days following the occurrence of such event, as a Cashless Major Exercise. In the event Holder shall not have exercised any of its rights under clause (2) within the applicable time periods set forth herein, and provided that the Major Transaction constitutes an Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction (as defined in Section 5(c)(ii) below), Holder shall have the right to elect to have this Warrant assumed in accordance with Section 5(c)(ii)(A) . Each of the following events shall constitute a “Major Transaction”:

(A) a consolidation, merger, tender or exchange of shares, recapitalization, reorganization, business combination or other similar event, following which the holders of Common Stock immediately preceding such consolidation, merger, exchange, recapitalization, reorganization, combination or event either (a) no longer hold a majority of the shares of Common Stock or (b) no longer have the ability to elect a majority of the board of directors of the Company (collectively, a “Change of Control Transaction”);

(B) a sale or transfer (other than to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company) of assets in one transaction or a series of related transactions for a purchase price of more than 50% of the Company’s Enterprise Value or a sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets;

(C) an issuance or series of related issuances by the Company after the date of this Warrant (other than to the Company, Holder and their respective Affiliates), of an aggregate number of shares of Common Stock equal to 50% or more of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock as of the date of such issuance, other than in a Change of Control Transaction;

(D) the liquidation, bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution or winding-up (or the occurrence of any analogous proceeding) affecting the Company;

 

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(E) the shares of Common Stock (or equivalent equity securities of any Parent Entity resulting from a transaction of the type specified by clause (A) that does not qualify as a Change of Control Transaction) cease to be listed on an Eligible Market and are not promptly re-listed on another Eligible Market that is not an OTC Market; or

(F) the Common Stock ceases to be registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, other than as a Change of Control Transaction.

(ii) Assumption; Organic Changes.

(A) If the Company consummates a Major Transaction (other than a Takeout Major Transaction or Asset Sale) in which (X) the Company is not the surviving entity or as a result of which the Company has a new Parent Entity, and (Y) the Person that acquires the Company’s assets or Common Stock (or Parent Entity thereof) or becomes a new Parent Entity of the Company, as applicable, is a publicly traded corporation (or similar entity) whose common stock or equivalent equity security is quoted, listed or traded on an Eligible Market (an “Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction”), with respect to which Holder has delivered an Assumption Election Notice, the Successor Entity shall assume in writing all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Credit Agreement as it relates to this Warrant and the Shares, if any, in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5(c)(ii), including agreement to deliver to Holder in exchange for this Warrant a security of the Successor Entity evidenced by a written instrument substantially similar in form and substance to this Warrant that, among other things, (1) is exercisable for the appropriate number of shares of the Successor Entity’s capital stock (without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap or any other restriction or limitation on exercise; provided that such instrument shall contain a limitation on exercise comparable to that contained in the second paragraph of Section 1 of this Warrant with respect to the Successor Entity’s capital stock), (2) has an exercise price similar to the then-effective Exercise Price (taking into account the relative value of Common Stock compared to the capital stock of the Successor Entity implied by the terms of such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction, and any conversion or exchange ratio applicable to the Common Stock in such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction) and exercise price adjustment provisions similar to those in this Warrant; (3) entitles Holder to such additional securities or other consideration, if any, as Holder would be entitled pursuant to Section 5(c)(i) in connection with such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction; and (4) provides for registration rights similar to those provided by the Registration Rights Agreement and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to Holder. Upon the occurrence of any Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction with respect to which Holder shall have delivered an Assumption Election Notice, any Successor Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that, from and after the date of such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction, the provisions of this Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement referring to the “Company” shall refer instead to the Successor Entity), and may exercise every right and power of the Company and shall assume all of the obligations of the Company under this Warrant with the same effect as if such Successor Entity had been named as the Company herein. Upon consummation of such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction, such a Successor Entity shall deliver to Holder confirmation that there shall be issued upon exercise of this Warrant at any time after the consummation of such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction, in lieu of shares of Common Stock (or other securities, cash, assets and/or other property) issuable upon the exercise of this Warrant prior to such Assumption Qualifying Major Transaction, such shares of publicly traded common stock or equivalent equity securities of the Successor Entity, as adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Warrant. The provisions of this Section shall apply similarly and equally to successive Assumption Qualifying Major Transactions and shall be applied without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant.

 

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(B) Any recapitalization, reorganization, reclassification, consolidation, merger, or any other transaction (other than a Takeout Major Transaction or Asset Sale, but including any other Major Transaction as to which Holder has not exercised any of its rights pursuant to Section 5(c)(i)), in each case, that is effected in such a way that holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive (either directly or upon subsequent liquidation) stock, securities or assets with respect to, or in exchange for, Common Stock is referred to herein as an “Organic Change.” Prior to the consummation of any Organic Change, the Company will make appropriate provision to ensure that Holder will thereafter have the right to acquire and receive in lieu of the shares of Common Stock otherwise acquirable or receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant (without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap or any other restriction or limitation on exercise), such shares of stock, securities and/or assets as would have been issued or payable in such Organic Change with respect to, or in exchange for, the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been acquirable or receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such Organic Change (without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap or any other restriction or limitation on exercise). In any such case, the Company will make appropriate provision with respect to Holder’s rights and interests to ensure that the provisions of this Section 5(c)(ii) will thereafter be applicable to this Warrant. The Company shall not effect any Non-Surviving Organic Change (as defined below), unless prior to the consummation thereof, the Acquiring Entity (as defined below) provides a written agreement to deliver to Holder, upon exercise of this Warrant, such shares of stock, securities and/or assets as would have been issued or payable in such Non-Surviving Organic Change with respect to, or in exchange for, the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been acquirable or receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant immediately prior to such Organic Change (without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap) or any other restriction or limitation on exercise). For purposes of this Warrant, “Non-Surviving Organic Change” means any Organic Change following which the Company is not a surviving entity or as a result of which the Company has a new parent company; and “Acquiring Entity” means the Person purchasing assets of the Company in a Non-Surviving Organic Change or the successor or new parent company resulting from any Non-Surviving Organic Change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall a Major Transaction be subject to the provisions of this Section 5(c)(ii).

(C) Notice. At least ten (10) Trading Days prior to the consummation of any Major Transaction the Company shall deliver written notice thereof pursuant to Section 12 hereunder to Holder (a “Major Transaction Notice”). To the extent an early termination required by this Section 5(c) is deemed or determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be prepayments of this Warrant by the Company, such early termination shall be deemed to be voluntary prepayments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5, until the Takeout Major Transaction Consideration is paid in full, this Warrant may be exercised, in whole or in part, by Holder into Shares, or, in the event the Date of Exercise is after a consummation of the Major Transaction other than a Takeout Major Transaction or Asset Sale, shares of publicly traded common stock or equivalent equity securities of the Successor Entity pursuant to Section 5(c).

(d) Exercise Price Adjusted. As used in this Warrant, the term “Exercise Price” shall mean the purchase price per share of Common Stock specified in Section 3(a) of this Warrant, until the occurrence of an event stated in this Section 5 or otherwise set forth in this Warrant, and thereafter shall mean said price as adjusted from time to time in accordance with the provisions of said subsection. No adjustment made pursuant to any provision of this Section 5 shall have the net effect of increasing the Exercise Price in relation to the split adjusted and distribution adjusted price of the Common Stock.

(e) Adjustments: Additional Shares, Securities or Assets. In the event that at any time, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Section 5 or otherwise, Holder shall, upon Exercise of this Warrant, become entitled to receive shares and/or other securities or assets (other than Common Stock) then, wherever appropriate, all references herein to shares of Common Stock shall be deemed to refer to and include such shares and/or other securities or assets; and thereafter the number of such shares and/or other securities or assets shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and upon terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions of this Section 5.

 

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(f) Notice of Adjustments. Whenever the Exercise Price and/or number or type of securities issuable upon Exercise is adjusted pursuant to the terms of this Warrant, the Company shall promptly mail to Holder a notice (an “Exercise Price Adjustment Notice”) setting forth the Exercise Price and/or number or type of securities issuable upon Exercise after such adjustment and setting forth a statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. The Company shall, upon the written request at any time of Holder, furnish to Holder a like Warrant setting forth (i) such adjustment or readjustment, (ii) the Exercise Price at the time in effect and (iii) the number of shares of Common Stock and the amount, if any, of other securities or property that at the time would be received upon Exercise of this Warrant. For purposes of clarification, whether or not the Company provides an Exercise Price Adjustment Notice pursuant to this Section 5(f), upon the occurrence of any event that leads to an adjustment of the Exercise Price, Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of Shares based upon the new Exercise Price, as adjusted, for exercises occurring on or after the date of such adjustment, regardless of whether Holder accurately refers to the adjusted Exercise Price in the Exercise Form.

(g) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, if the Company or other applicable withholding agent pays withholding taxes or backup withholding on behalf of Holder as a result of a distribution or deemed distribution with respect to the Warrant, the Company or other applicable withholding agent may, at its option, set off such payments against payments or other deliveries on the Warrant.

6. Fractional Interests.

No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issuable upon the Exercise of this Warrant, but on Exercise of this Warrant, Holder may purchase only a whole number of shares of Common Stock. If, on Exercise of this Warrant, Holder would be entitled to a fractional share of Common Stock or a right to acquire a fractional share of Common Stock, such fractional share shall be disregarded and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon Exercise shall be the next lower whole number of shares.

7. Reservation of Shares.

From and after the date hereof, the Company shall at all times reserve for issuance such number of authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock (or other securities substituted therefor as herein above provided) as shall be sufficient for the Exercise of this Warrant and payment of the Exercise Price, based on the actual number of Shares issuable upon Exercise of this Warrant (without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Cap). If at any time the number of shares of Common Stock authorized and reserved for issuance is below the number of shares sufficient for the Exercise of this Warrant, the Company will promptly take all corporate action necessary to authorize and reserve a sufficient number of shares, including, without limitation, calling a special meeting of stockholders to authorize additional shares to meet the Company’s obligations under this Section 7, in the case of an insufficient number of authorized shares, and using its best efforts to obtain stockholder approval of an increase in such authorized number of shares. The Company covenants and agrees that upon the Exercise of this Warrant, all shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Exercise shall be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and not subject to preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or similar rights of any Person. The Company covenants and agrees that all shares of Common Stock issuable upon Exercise of this Warrant shall be approved for listing on the NYSE, or, if that is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, such principal market on which the Common Stock is traded or listed.

8. Restrictions on Transfer.

(a) Registration or Exemption Required. This Warrant has been issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and exempt from state registration or qualification under applicable state securities (or “blue sky”) laws. None of this Warrant or the Shares may be pledged, transferred, sold or assigned except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state laws, including pursuant to Section 4(a)(7) of the Securities Act or in a so-called “4[(a)](1) and a half” transaction.

 

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(b) Assignment. Subject to Section 8(a), Holder may sell, transfer, assign, pledge, or otherwise dispose of this Warrant, in whole or in part. Holder shall deliver a written notice to Company, substantially in the form of the Assignment attached hereto as Exhibit B, indicating the Person or Persons to whom this Warrant shall be assigned and the respective number of warrants to be assigned to each assignee. The Company shall effect the assignment within three (3) Trading Days (the “Transfer Delivery Period”), and shall deliver to the assignee(s) designated by Holder a Warrant or Warrants of like tenor and terms entitling Holder to purchase the appropriate number of shares. This Warrant and the rights evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of all holders from time to time of this Warrant, and shall be enforceable by any such holder. For avoidance of doubt, in the event Holder notifies the Company that such sale or transfer is being effected pursuant to Section 4(a)(7) of the Securities Act or in a so called “4[(a)](1) and half” transaction, the parties hereto agree that a legal opinion from outside counsel for Holder delivered to counsel for the Company substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C shall be the only requirement to satisfy an exemption from registration under the Securities Act to effectuate such transaction.

9. Noncircumvention.

The Company hereby covenants and agrees that the Company will not, by amendment of its certificate of incorporation, bylaws or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, scheme of arrangement, dissolution, issue or sale of securities, or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, and will at all times in good faith carry out all the provisions of this Warrant and take all action as may be required to protect the rights of Holder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company (i) shall not increase the par value of any shares of Common Stock receivable upon the exercise of this Warrant above the Exercise Price then in effect, and (ii) shall take all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of this Warrant.

10. Reserved.

11. Events of Default.

(a) Events Of Default. Each of the following events shall be considered to be an “Event of Default,” unless waived by Holder:

(i) Failure To Effect Registration. (A) With respect to all Registration Failures, a Registration Failure occurs and remains uncured for a period of more than thirty (30) days or such Registration Failure relates solely to the Company’s failure to have the Registration Statement declared effective by the Registration Deadline (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement); and (B) with respect to a Registration Failure provided in clause (E) of the definition of “Registration Failure”, such Registration Failure occurs and remains uncured for a period of more than ten (10) Trading Days.

For purpose hereof, “Registration Failure” means that (A) the Company fails to file with the SEC on or before the Filing Deadline (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) any Registration Statement required to be filed pursuant to Section 2(a) of the Registration Rights Agreement, (B) the Company fails to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain effectiveness with the SEC, prior to the Registration Deadline (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) and, if such effectiveness does not occur within such period, as soon as possible thereafter, of any Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) that is required to be filed pursuant to Section 2(a) of the Registration Rights Agreement, or fails to use its reasonable best efforts to keep each such Registration Statement current and effective as required in Section 3 of the Registration Rights Agreement, (C) the Company fails to file any additional Registration Statement required to be filed pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii) of the Registration Rights Agreement

 

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on or before the Additional Filing Deadline or fails to use its reasonable best efforts to cause such additional Registration Statement to become effective on or before the Additional Registration Deadline, and, if such effectiveness does not occur within such period, as soon as possible thereafter, (D) the Company fails to file any amendment to any Registration Statement, or any additional Registration Statement required to be filed pursuant to Section 3(b) of the Registration Rights Agreement within twenty (20) Trading Days of the applicable Registration Trigger Date (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), or fails to use its reasonable best efforts to cause such amendment and/or additional Registration Statement to become effective within sixty (60) days of the applicable Registration Trigger Date, and, if such effectiveness does not occur within such period, as soon as possible thereafter, (E) any Registration Statement required to be filed under the Registration Rights Agreement, after its initial effectiveness and during the Registration Period (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), lapses in effect or sales of all of the Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) cannot otherwise be made thereunder (whether by reason of the Company’s failure to amend or supplement the prospectus included therein in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company’s failure to file and use its reasonable best efforts to obtain effectiveness with the SEC of an additional Registration Statement or amended Registration Statement required pursuant to Sections 2(a)(ii) or 3(b) of the Registration Rights Agreement, as applicable, or otherwise), except to the extent such failure is expressly permitted under the Registration Rights Agreement, or (F) the Company fails to provide a commercially reasonable written response to any comments to any Registration Statement submitted by the SEC within twenty-five (25) days of the date that such SEC comments are received by the Company.

(ii) Failure To Deliver Common Stock or Cash. A Delivery Failure occurs and remains uncured for a period of more than ten (10) Trading Days where a “Delivery Failure” shall be deemed to have occurred if the Company fails to use its best efforts to deliver Shares to Holder within any applicable Delivery Period; or, at any time, the Company announces or states in writing that it will not honor its obligations to issue Shares to Holder upon Exercise by Holder of the Warrant.

(iii) Legend Removal Failure. A Legend Removal Failure occurs and remains uncured for a period of ten (10) Trading Days where a “Legend Removal Failure” shall be deemed to have occurred if the Company fails to use its best efforts to issue this Warrant and/or Shares without a restrictive legend, or fails to use its best efforts to remove a restrictive legend, when and as required under Section 2(e) hereof; and

(iv) Transfer Delivery Failure. Transfer Delivery Failure occurs and remains uncured for a period of ten (10) Trading Days where a “Transfer Delivery Failure” shall be deemed to have occurred if the Company fails to use its best efforts to deliver a Warrant within any applicable Transfer Delivery Period.

(b) Mandatory Early Termination.

(i) Mandatory Early Termination Amount; Cashless Default Exercise. The Company shall notify Holder in writing within two (2) Trading Days of the occurrence of an Event of Default. If any Event of Default shall occur and Holder, at its option, delivers to the Company written notice thereof (the “Default Notice”), the Company shall have the right to terminate the outstanding amount of this Warrant and pay to Holder (a “Mandatory Early Termination”), in full satisfaction of its obligations hereunder by delivery of a notice to such effect to Holder within two (2) Trading Days following receipt of the Default Notice, an amount payable in cash (the “Mandatory Early Termination Amount” or the “Default Amount”) equal to the Black-Scholes Value of the remaining unexercised portion of this Warrant on the date of such Default Notice. In the event the Company does not exercise its right to consummate a Mandatory Early Termination, then Holder shall have the right to exercise this Warrant, at any time prior to two (2) Trading Days thereafter, pursuant to a Cashless Default Exercise in accordance with Section 3(b) above.

The Mandatory Early Termination Amount shall be payable within five (5) Trading Days following the date of the applicable Default Notice.

 

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(ii) Liquidated Damages. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the sums payable pursuant to a Mandatory Early Termination shall constitute partial liquidated damages and not penalties. The parties further acknowledge that (i) the amount of loss or damages likely to be incurred by Holder is incapable or is difficult to precisely estimate, (ii) the amounts specified bear a reasonable proportion and are not plainly or grossly disproportionate to the probable loss likely to be incurred by Holder, and (iii) the parties are sophisticated business parties and have been represented by sophisticated and able legal and financial counsel and negotiated this Agreement at arm’s length.

The Default Amount, together with all other amounts payable hereunder, shall immediately become due and payable, all without demand, presentment or notice, all of which hereby are expressly waived, together with all costs, including, without limitation, legal fees and expenses, of collection, and Holder shall be entitled to exercise all other rights and remedies available at law or in equity.

(c) Remedies, Other Obligations, Breaches And Injunctive Relief. The remedies provided in this Warrant shall be cumulative and in addition to all other remedies available under this Warrant, the Credit Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and any other Loan Document, at law or in equity (including a decree of specific performance and/or other injunctive relief), and nothing herein shall limit the right of Holder to pursue actual damages for any failure by the Company to comply with the terms of this Warrant. The Company acknowledges that a breach by it of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to Holder and that the remedy at law for any such breach may be inadequate. The Company therefore agrees that, in the event of any such breach or threatened breach, the holder of this Warrant shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies, to an injunction restraining any breach, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

12. Holder’s Early Terminations.

In the event that the Company does not deliver the applicable Takeout Major Transaction Consideration or Default Amount or the Shares in respect of a Cashless Major Exercise or a Cashless Default Exercise, as the case may be, to Holder within the time period or as otherwise required pursuant to the terms hereof, at any time thereafter Holder shall have the option, upon notice to the Company, in lieu of early termination, Cashless Major Exercise or Cashless Default Exercise, as the case may be, to require the Company to promptly return to Holder all or any portion of this Warrant that was submitted for early termination or exercise. Upon the Company’s receipt of such notice, (x) the applicable early termination or exercise, as the case may be, shall be null and void with respect to such applicable portion of this Warrant, (y) the Company shall immediately return this Warrant, or issue a new Warrant to Holder representing the portion of this Warrant that was submitted for early termination or exercise and (z) the Exercise Price of this Warrant or such new Warrant shall be adjusted to the lesser of (A) the Exercise Price as in effect on the date on which the applicable early termination, default or exercise notice, as the case may be, is voided and (B) the lowest closing price for the Common Stock on the NYSE, or, if the NYSE is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, the principal securities exchange or other securities market on which the Common Stock is then being traded, during the period beginning on and including the date on which the applicable early termination, default or exercise notice, as the case may be, is delivered to the Company and ending on and including the date on which the applicable early termination or exercise is voided. Holder’s delivery of a notice voiding an early termination or exercise and exercise of its rights following such notice shall not affect the Company’s obligations to make any payments of Failure Payments which have accrued prior to the date of such notice with respect to this Warrant subject to such notice.

13. Benefits of this Warrant.

Nothing in this Warrant shall be construed to confer upon any person other than the Company and Holder any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Warrant and this Warrant shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company and Holder.

 

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14. Governing Law.

All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, stockholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state commercial division courts and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state commercial division courts and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. The parties hereby waive all rights to a trial by jury. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

15. Loss of Warrant.

Upon receipt by the Company of evidence of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant, and (in the case of loss, theft or destruction) of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to the Company, and upon surrender and cancellation of this Warrant, if mutilated, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant of like tenor and date.

16. Notice or Demands.

Except as otherwise provided herein, notices or demands pursuant to this Warrant to be given or made by Holder to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by overnight delivery with a nationally recognized overnight courier service, certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, and addressed, until another address is designated in writing by the Company, to the following address:

Nevro Corp.

1800 Bridge Parkway

Redwood City, CA 94065

Attention: General Counsel

Email: [***]

To the extent any notice or demand pursuant to this Warrant can be made by electronic mail, such notice or demand given or made by Holder to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given or made if it is sent by electronic mail to the address designated above.

Notices or demands pursuant to this Warrant to be given or made by the Company to or on Holder shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, and addressed, to the address of Holder set forth in the Company’s records, until another address is designated in writing by Holder.

 

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17. Stockholder Rights

Without limiting any of the rights of Holder or any of the obligations of the Company hereunder, this Warrant shall not entitle Holder to the rights of a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise of this Warrant, except to the extent such rights are expressly granted herein, including pursuant to Section 5 hereof.

18. Material Nonpublic Information.

Upon receipt or delivery by the Company of any notice in accordance with the terms of this Warrant, unless the Company has in good faith determined that the matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company or its securities, if requested by Holder, the Company shall within four (4) Trading Days after any such receipt or delivery, publicly disclose such material, nonpublic information in a Current Report on Form 8-K or otherwise. In the event that the Company believes that a notice contains material, nonpublic information relating to the Company, the Company shall so indicate to Holder contemporaneously with delivery of such notice, and such indication shall provide Holder the means to refuse to receive such notice or communication; and, in the absence of any such indication, Holder shall be allowed to presume that all matters relating to such notice do not constitute material, nonpublic information relating to the Company.

19. Construction.

Unless the context otherwise requires, (a) all references to Articles, Sections, Schedules or Exhibits are to Articles, Sections, Schedules or Exhibits contained in or attached to this Warrant, (b) words in the singular or plural include the singular and plural and pronouns stated in either the masculine, the feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter and (c) the use of the word “including” in this Warrant shall be by way of example rather than limitation.

20. Signatures.

In the event that any signature to this Warrant or any amendment hereto is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall be obligated, upon the request of the Holder, to deliver to Holder an original signature to this Warrant. At the request of Holder, the Company shall promptly re-execute an original form of this Warrant or any amendment hereto and deliver the same to Holder. No party hereto shall raise the use of a facsimile machine or e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file to deliver a signature to this Warrant or any amendment hereto or the fact that such signature was transmitted or communicated through the use of a facsimile machine or e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a contract, and each party hereto forever waives any such defense.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Warrant as of the [    ] day of [            ].

 

NEVRO CORP.
By:    
  Print Name: Rod MacLeod
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT A

EXERCISE FORM FOR WARRANT

TO: [            ]

CHECK THE APPLICABLE BOX:

 

Cash Exercise or Cashless Exercise

The undersigned hereby irrevocably exercises Warrant Number (the “Warrant”) with respect to [            ] shares of Common Stock (the “Common Stock”) of Nevro Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”).

[IF APPLICABLE: The undersigned hereby encloses $             as payment of the Exercise Price.]

☐ The undersigned is exercising the Warrant with respect to [            ] shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Cashless Exercise, and makes payment of the Exercise Price with respect to such shares in full, all in accordance with the conditions and provisions of the Warrant applicable to such Cashless Exercise.

☐ The undersigned is exercising the Warrant with respect to [            ] shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Note Exchange Exercise. The undersigned hereby agrees to cancel $             of principal outstanding under the Notes indicated below of the Company held by Holder in satisfaction of the Exercise Price in accordance with the conditions and provisions of the Warrant applicable to such Note Exchange Exercise.

 

Cashless Major Exercise

The undersigned hereby irrevocably exercises the Warrant with respect to        % of the Warrant currently outstanding pursuant to a Cashless Major Exercise in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

 

Cashless Default Exercise

The undersigned hereby irrevocably exercises the Warrant pursuant to a Cashless Default Exercise, in accordance with the terms of the Warrant.

1. The undersigned requests that any stock certificates for such shares be issued free of any restrictive legend, if appropriate, and, if requested by the undersigned, a warrant representing any unexercised portion hereof be issued, pursuant to the Warrant in the name of the undersigned and delivered to the undersigned at the address set forth below.

2. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Exercise Form shall have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Warrant.

Dated:                             

 

 

 

Signature

 

 

Print Name

 

Address


NOTICE

The signature to the foregoing Exercise Form must correspond to the name as written upon the face of the attached Warrant in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.


EXHIBIT B

ASSIGNMENT

(To be executed by the registered holder

desiring to transfer the Warrant)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned holder of the attached warrant (the “Warrant”) hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto the person or persons below named the right to purchase            shares of the common stock of Nevro Corp., a Delaware corporation, evidenced by the attached Warrant and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                    as attorney to transfer the said Warrant on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:                        

 

 

Signature

Fill in for new registration of Warrant:

 

 
Name
 

Address

 
Please print name and address of assignee (including zip code number)

NOTICE

The signature to the foregoing Assignment must correspond to the name as written upon the face of the attached Warrant in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.


EXHIBIT C

FORM OF OPINION

            , 20      

[                             ]

Re: Nevro Corp. (the “Company”)

Dear Madams and Sirs:

[            ] (“[            ]”) intends to transfer Warrant No. [            ] (the “Warrant”) of the Company to (“            ”) without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In connection therewith, we have examined and relied upon the truth of representations contained in an Investor Representation Letter attached hereto and have examined such other documents and issues of law as we have deemed relevant.

Based on and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the transfer of the Warrant by             to              may be effected without registration under the Securities Act.

The foregoing opinion is furnished only to             and may not be used, circulated, quoted or otherwise referred to or relied upon by you for any purposes other than the purpose for which furnished or by any other person for any purpose, without our prior written consent.

Very truly yours,


[FORM OF INVESTOR REPRESENTATION LETTER]

            , 20      

[                        ]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

(“            ”) has agreed to purchase Warrant No. [    ] (the “Warrant”) of Nevro Corp. (the “Company”) from [            ] (“[            ]”). We understand that the Warrant is a “restricted security.” We represent and warrant that is a sophisticated institutional investor that would qualify as an “Accredited Investor” as defined in Rule 501 of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

represents and warrants as of the date hereof as follows:

1. That it is acquiring the Warrant and the shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share underlying such Warrant (the “Shares”) solely for its account for investment and not with a view to or for sale or distribution of said Warrant or Shares or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act.            also represents that the entire legal and beneficial interests of the Warrant and Shares            is acquiring or being acquired for, and will be held for, its account only;

2. That the Warrant and the Shares must be held indefinitely unless they are subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available.            recognizes that the Company has no obligation to register the Warrant, or to comply with any exemption from such registration; or

3. That neither the Warrant nor the Shares may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act unless certain conditions are met.

We acknowledge that the Company will place stop orders with respect to the Warrant and the Shares, and if a registration statement is not effective, the Shares shall bear the following restrictive legend:

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, INCLUDING PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO A PRIVATE SALE EFFECTED UNDER SECTION 4(a)(7) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR APPLICABLE FORMAL OR INFORMAL SEC INTERPRETATION OR GUIDANCE, SUCH AS A SO-CALLED “4[(a)](1) AND A HALF SALE.” NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THE SECURITIES.”

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE ARE ENTITLED TO THE BENEFITS OF A CERTAIN REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT DATED AS OF [•], 2023, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME, AMONG THE COMPANY AND CERTAIN HOLDERS OF ITS OUTSTANDING SECURITIES. COPIES OF SUCH AGREEMENT MAY BE OBTAINED AT NO COST BY WRITTEN REQUEST MADE BY THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THIS CERTIFICATE TO THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.”

 

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At any time and from time to time after the date hereof,            shall, without further consideration, execute and deliver to [            ] or the Company such other instruments or documents and shall take such other actions as they may reasonably request to carry out the transactions contemplated hereby.

Very truly yours,

 

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Schedule 1

Black-Scholes Value

 

    

Calculation Under Sections 3(b) and 5(c)(i)

  

Calculation Under Section 11(b)

Remaining Term    Number of calendar days from date of first public announcement of the Major Transaction until the last date on which this Warrant may be exercised.    Number of calendar days from date of the Default Notice until the last date on which this Warrant may be exercised.
Interest Rate    A risk-free interest rate corresponding to the SOFR for a period equal to the Remaining Term.*    A risk-free interest rate corresponding to SOFR for a period equal to the Remaining Term.*
Cost to Borrow    Zero    Zero
Volatility    40%.    40%
Stock Price    The closing price of the Common Stock on the NYSE, or, if that is not the principal trading market for the Common Stock, such principal market on which the Common Stock is traded or listed (the “Closing Market Price”) on the first Closing Market Price following the first public announcement of a Major Transaction.    The Volume Weighted Average Price on the date of such calculation.
Dividends    Zero.    Zero.
Strike Price    Exercise Price as defined in section 3(a).    Exercise Price as defined in section 3(a).

 

*

If the SOFR shall cease to exist in substantially its current form, Holder shall be permitted to select an alternate interest rate that reasonably approximates the rate of interest per annum at which deposits of United States dollars in immediately available funds are offered by major financial institutions reasonably satisfactory to Holder in the New York interbank market (or a replacement interbank market reasonably determined by Holder in consultation with the Company).

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

 

 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT AND GUARANTY

dated as of

November 30, 2023

by and among

NEVRO CORP.,

as the Borrower,

THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,

as the Subsidiary Guarantors,

THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,

as the Lenders,

and

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as the Agent

U.S. $200,000,000

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

             Page  

Section 1 DEFINITIONS

     1  
  1.01  

Certain Defined Terms

     1  
  1.02  

Accounting Terms and Principles

     41  
  1.03  

Interpretation

     42  
  1.04  

Divisions

     43  
  1.05  

Times of Day; Times of Performance

     43  
  1.06  

Interest Rates

     43  
Section 2 THE COMMITMENTS AND THE LOANS      44  
  2.01  

Loans

     44  
  2.02  

Borrowing Procedures

     44  
  2.03  

Notes

     44  
  2.04  

Use of Proceeds

     44  
  2.05  

Closing Fee

     45  
  2.06  

Agent Fee

     45  
Section 3 PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST      45  
  3.01  

Repayments Generally; Application

     45  
  3.02  

Interest

     45  
  3.03  

Prepayments; Prepayment Fees

     46  
  3.04  

Exit Fee

     49  
  3.05  

AHYDO Catch-Up Payment

     49  
Section 4 PAYMENTS, ETC.      49  
  4.01  

Payments

     49  
  4.02  

Computations

     49  
  4.03  

Set-Off

     50  
Section 5 YIELD PROTECTION, ETC.      50  
  5.01  

Additional Costs

     50  
  5.02  

Making or Maintaining SOFR Loans

     52  
  5.03  

Taxes

     55  
  5.04  

Mitigation Obligations

     59  
Section 6 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT      60  
 

6.01

  Conditions to the Borrowing of the Loan      60  

 

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             Page  
Section 7 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES      63  
 

7.01

  Power and Authority      63  
 

7.02

  Authorization; Enforceability      64  
 

7.03

  Governmental and Other Approvals; No Conflicts      64  
 

7.04

  Financial Statements; Material Adverse Change      64  
 

7.05

  Properties      65  
 

7.06

  No Actions or Proceedings      67  
 

7.07

  Compliance with Laws      68  
 

7.08

  Taxes      68  
 

7.09

  Full Disclosure      68  
 

7.10

  Investment Company Act and Margin Stock Regulation      69  
 

7.11

  Solvency      69  
 

7.12

  Equity Holders, Subsidiaries and Other Investments      69  
 

7.13

  [Reserved]      70  
 

7.14

  Material Agreements      70  
 

7.15

  [Reserved]      70  
 

7.16

  Real Property      70  
 

7.17

  Pension Matters      70  
 

7.18

  Priority of Obligations      70  
 

7.19

  Regulatory Approvals      71  
 

7.20

  [Reserved]      71  
 

7.21

  Sanctions      71  
 

7.22

  Anti-Corruption      71  
 

7.23

  [Reserved]      72  
 

7.24

  Royalties and Other Payments      72  
 

7.25

  Non-Competes      72  
Section 8 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS      72  
 

8.01

  Financial Statements and Other Information      72  
 

8.02

  Notices of Material Events      74  
 

8.03

  Existence; Conduct of Business      77  
 

8.04

  Payment of Obligations      77  

 

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             Page  
 

8.05

  Insurance      77  
 

8.06

  Books and Records; Inspection Rights      77  
 

8.07

  Compliance with Laws and Other Obligations      78  
 

8.08

  Maintenance of Properties, Etc.      78  
 

8.09

  Licenses      78  
 

8.10

  Action under Environmental Laws      78  
 

8.11

  Use of Proceeds      78  
 

8.12

  Certain Obligations Respecting Subsidiaries; Further Assurances      79  
 

8.13

  [Reserved]      81  
 

8.14

  Intellectual Property      81  
 

8.15

  Maintenance of Regulatory Approvals, Intellectual Property, Etc.      81  
 

8.16

  ERISA and Foreign Pension Plan Compliance      82  
 

8.17

  Cash Management      82  
 

8.18

  Conference Calls      82  
 

8.19

  Post-Closing Covenants      82  
Section 9 NEGATIVE COVENANTS      82  
 

9.01

  Indebtedness      82  
 

9.02

  Liens      85  
 

9.03

  Fundamental Changes, Acquisitions, Etc.      87  
 

9.04

  Lines of Business      88  
 

9.05

  Investments      88  
 

9.06

  Restricted Payments      90  
 

9.07

  Payments and Modifications of Junior Indebtedness      92  
 

9.08

  Change in Fiscal Year      94  
 

9.09

  Sales of Assets, Etc.      94  
 

9.10

  Transactions with Affiliates      96  
 

9.11

  Restrictive Agreements      97  
 

9.12

  Modifications and Terminations of Certain Agreements      97  
 

9.13

  Sales and Leasebacks      97  
 

9.14

  Hazardous Material      97  
 

9.15

  Accounting Changes      97  
 

9.16

  [Reserved]      97  
 

9.17

  Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Use of Proceeds      97  
 

9.18

  Inbound and Outbound Licenses      98  

 

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(continued)

 

             Page  
Section 10 FINANCIAL COVENANT      98  
 

10.01

  Minimum Revenue      98  
Section 11 EVENTS OF DEFAULT      99  
 

11.01

  Events of Default      99  
 

11.02

  Remedies      102  
 

11.03

  Additional Remedies      102  
Section 12 THE AGENT      103  
 

12.01

  Appointment and Duties      103  
 

12.02

  Binding Effect      104  
 

12.03

  Use of Discretion      104  
 

12.04

  Delegation of Rights and Duties      105  
 

12.05

  Reliance and Liability      105  
 

12.06

  Agent Individually      106  
 

12.07

  Lender Credit Decision      106  
 

12.08

  Expenses; Indemnities      106  
 

12.09

  Resignation and Succession of the Agent      107  
 

12.10

  Release of Collateral or Guarantors      108  
 

12.11

  Additional Secured Parties      108  
 

12.12

  Erroneous Payments      109  
 

12.13

  Defaulted Lenders      111  
Section 13 GUARANTEE      111  
 

13.01

  The Guarantee      111  
 

13.02

  Obligations Unconditional      112  
 

13.03

  Reinstatement      112  
 

13.04

  Subrogation      112  
 

13.05

  Remedies      113  
 

13.06

  Instrument for the Payment of Money      113  
 

13.07

  Continuing Guarantee      113  
  13.08  

General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations

     113  

 

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             Page  
Section 14 MISCELLANEOUS      114  
  14.01  

No Waiver

     114  
  14.02  

Notices

     114  
  14.03  

Expenses, Indemnification, Etc.

     114  
  14.04  

Amendments, Etc.

     116  
  14.05  

Successors and Assigns

     117  
  14.06  

Survival

     120  
  14.07  

Captions

     120  
  14.08  

Counterparts

     121  
  14.09  

Governing Law

     121  
  14.10  

Jurisdiction, Service of Process and Venue

     121  
  14.11  

Waiver of Jury Trial

     122  
  14.12  

Waiver of Immunity

     122  
  14.13  

Entire Agreement

     122  
  14.14  

Severability

     122  
  14.15  

Confidentiality

     122  
  14.16  

No Fiduciary Relationship

     123  
  14.17  

Interest Rate Limitation

     123  
  14.18  

Early Prepayment Fee; Exit Fee

     124  
  14.19  

Judgment Currency

     124  
  14.20  

USA PATRIOT Act

     125  
  14.21  

Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions

     125  
  14.22  

MNPI

     125  

 

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SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

 

Schedule 1    -      Commitments
Schedule 1.01(a)    -      Permitted Licenses
Schedule 1.01(b)    -      Specified Sublease Transaction
Schedule 7.05(b)    -      Products
Schedule 7.05(c)    -      Material Intellectual Property
Schedule 7.06(a)    -      Certain Litigation
Schedule 7.06(c)    -      Labor Matters
Schedule 7.12(a)    -      Subsidiaries of the Borrower
Schedule 7.12(b)    -      Other Equity Interests Owned by the Obligors (other than in Subsidiaries)
Schedule 7.14    -      Material Agreements
Schedule 7.16    -      Real Property
Schedule 7.17    -      Pension Matters
Schedule 7.19(b)    -      Regulatory Approvals
Schedule 7.24    -      Royalties and Other Payments
Schedule 8.19    -      Post-Closing Covenants
Schedule 9.01    -      Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 9.02(b)    -      Existing Liens
Schedule 9.05    -      Existing and Contemplated Investments
Schedule 9.09    -      Committed Asset Sales
Schedule 9.10    -      Transactions with Affiliates
Schedule 9.11    -      Restrictive Agreements
Schedule 9.13    -      Permitted Sales and Leasebacks
Schedule 9.18    -      Committed Licenses
Exhibit A    -      Form of Note
Exhibit B    -      Form of Borrowing Notice
Exhibit C    -      Form of Guaranty Assumption Agreement
Exhibit D-1    -     

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships

for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Exhibit D-2    -     

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships

for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Exhibit D-3    -     

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships

for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Exhibit D-4    -     

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships

for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Exhibit E    -      Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit F    -      Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit G    -      Form of Information Certificate
Exhibit H    -      Form of Intercompany Subordination Agreement
Exhibit I    -      Form of Solvency Certificate
Exhibit J    -      Form of Security Agreement

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT AND GUARANTY

CREDIT AGREEMENT AND GUARANTY, dated as of November 30, 2023 (this “Agreement”), by and among NEVRO CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower that may be required to provide Guaranties from time to time hereunder, each lender from time to time party hereto (each, a “Lender” and collectively, the “Lenders”) and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Agent”).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide a senior secured term loan facility to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000.00, to be available on the Closing Date, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, including the applicable terms and conditions set forth in Section 6 hereof; and

WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to provide such senior secured term loan facility.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:

SECTION 1

DEFINITIONS

1.01 Certain Defined Terms. As used herein (including the preamble and recitals), the following terms have the following respective meanings:

510(k)” means (i) any FDA order of substantial equivalence, or 510(k) clearance, for a Device pursuant to a premarket notification submitted to the FDA pursuant to the FD&C Act and FDA regulations, (ii) all similar marketing authorizations and clearances, including authorization to affix the CE Mark, received from any other non-U.S. Regulatory Authority, including Competent Authorities in Europe, and (iii) all amendments, supplements, and other additions and modifications thereto.

Acquired Company” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Specified Acquisition”.

Acquisition” means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, by which any Person directly or indirectly, by means of an amalgamation, consolidation, merger, purchase of Equity Interests or other assets, tender offer, or similar transaction having the same effect as any of the foregoing, (i) acquires all or substantially all of the assets of any other Person, (ii) acquires all or substantially all of a business, business line or unit or division of any other Person, (iii) with respect to any other Person that is managed or governed by a Board, acquires control of Equity Interests of such other Person representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the ordinary voting power for the control of such Board, determined on a fully-diluted, as-if-converted or exercised basis, (iv) acquires control of fifty percent (50%) or more of the Equity Interests in any other Person engaged in any business that is not managed by a Board, determined on a fully-diluted, as-if-converted or exercised basis or (v) acquires (including through licensing) any Product or Product line or material Intellectual Property of or from any other Person (in each case, excluding in-bound licenses of, and purchases of, over-the-counter and other software that is commercially available to the public, open source licenses and non-exclusive enabling licenses in the ordinary course of business).


Adverse Regulatory Event means the occurrence of any of the following events or circumstances:

(a) the failure of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to hold, directly or through licensees or agents, in full force and effect, all Regulatory Approvals necessary or required for the Borrower or any such Subsidiary to conduct its respective operations and businesses;

(b) if required by any applicable Law, the failure of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to make or file with the FDA or any other applicable Regulatory Authority, in compliance with such applicable Law, any required notice, registration, listing, supplemental application or notification or report;

(c) in connection with any clinical, preclinical, safety or other studies or tests being conducted by (or on behalf of) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as required by the applicable Regulatory Authority to obtain Regulatory Approval of any Product or any Product Commercialization and Development Activities (i) the failure of any clinical, pre-clinical, safety or other required trial, study or test to be conducted in material compliance with any applicable Law or Regulatory Approval; or (ii) the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of written notice from the FDA or any other Regulatory Authority requiring the termination or suspension of any such clinical, preclinical, safety or other study or test;

(d) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any agent, supplier, licensor or licensee of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, receives any written notice with respect to any Product or any Product Commercialization and Development Activities with respect thereto from the FDA or any other Regulatory Authority asserting (i) that such Person lacks a required Regulatory Approval with respect to any Product or Product Commercialization and Development Activity, (ii) a material breach of applicable Laws or Regulatory Approvals (or any similar order, injunction or decree) or (iii) that such Regulatory Authority has commenced any regulatory enforcement action, investigation or inquiry (other than routine or periodic inspections or post-marketing reviews), or has issued a warning letter, with respect to any Product or any Product Commercialization and Development Activities with respect thereto, including, without limitation, any such notice that requires (or is reasonably likely to require or cause) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to discontinue, withdraw or recall the marketing or sale of any Product, or requires or causes (or is reasonably likely to require or cause) a cessation or delay in the manufacture or sale of any Product; or

 

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(e) with respect to any Product or Product Commercialization and Development Activity of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (i) any Regulatory Authority commences any criminal, injunctive, seizure, detention or civil penalty action or (ii) the Borrower or any Subsidiary enters into any consent decree, plea agreement or other settlement with any Regulatory Authority with respect to any of the foregoing.

Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

Affected Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(i).

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with such Person; provided that with respect to any Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender shall include, without limitation, all of such Lender’s Related Funds. The term “Affiliated” has a correlative meaning.

Agent” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

Agency Fee Letter” means that certain Agency Fee Letter, dated the date hereof, by and between the Borrower and the Agent.

Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

“AHYDO” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.05.

Anti-Corruption Law” means any applicable international, foreign, federal, or local statute, treaty, law, or regulation concerning or relating to bribery or corruption, including, without limitation, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (“FCPA”), the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, each as amended, and any other applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws and regulations of those jurisdictions in which the Obligors conduct business.

Applicable Margin” means, with respect to (a) SOFR Loans, 5.25% per annum and (b) Base Rate Loans, 6.25% per annum, in each case, as such percentage may be increased pursuant to Section 3.02(b).

Applicable PIK Amount” means (a) on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, 5.25%, (b) following the first anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, 2.50% and (c) following the third anniversary of the Closing Date, 1.50%.

ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Asset Sale” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.09.

Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee of such Lender in substantially the form of Exhibit F.

 

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Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (x) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark pursuant to this Agreement, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 5.02(h)(iv).

Average Total Market Cap” means the average Total Market Cap of the Borrower measured over the most recent fifteen (15) consecutive Trading Days.

Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy.”

Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such date, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1.00% and (c) Term SOFR determined on such date (or if such day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the immediately preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day) for a deposit in Dollars with a maturity of one month plus 1.00%. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Term SOFR shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Term SOFR, respectively, automatically and without notice to any Person. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Base Rate shall not be less than the Floor.

Base Rate Loan” means any Loan which bears interest at a rate based on the Base Rate.

Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Term SOFR”.

Benchmark” means, initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 5.02(h).

 

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Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event, the sum of: (i) the alternate benchmark rate that has been reasonably selected by the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders in consultation with the Borrower) giving due consideration to (A) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (B) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement to the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (ii) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined (including any related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment) would be less than the Floor, such Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), that has been selected by the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders in consultation with the Borrower) giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time.

Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(a) in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

(b) in the case of clause (c) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative; provided that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.

For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

 

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Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

(a) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(b) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

(c) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative.

For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

Benchmark Transition Start Date” means, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (a) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (b) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the 90th day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than 90 days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).

Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, the period (if any) (a) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 5.02(h) and (b) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 5.02(h).

Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

 

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Benefit Plan” means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA (whether governed by the laws of the United States or otherwise) to which any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.

Board” means, with respect to any Person, the board of directors (or equivalent management or oversight body) of such Person.

Bona Fide Lending Affiliate” means any bona fide debt fund, investment vehicle, regulated banking entity, non-regulated lending entity or other similar entity that is primarily engaged in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business.

Borrower” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

Borrowing” means the borrowing of the Loans on the Closing Date.

Borrowing Notice” means a written notice substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

Braidwell” means Braidwell Transaction Holdings LLC – Series 3, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and permitted assigns and its Related Funds.

Business Day” means (a) a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which commercial banks are not authorized or required to close in New York, New York and (b) if such day relates to a SOFR Loan, any such day described in clause (a) which is also a U.S. Government Securities Business Day.

Capital Lease Obligation” means, as to any Person, any obligation of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real and/or personal property, which obligation is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for purposes of this Agreement, the amount of any such obligation shall be the capitalized amount thereof, determined in accordance with GAAP.

Casualty Event” means the damage, destruction, condemnation, confiscation, requisition, seizure or forfeiture, as the case may be, of any property of any Person.

Change of Control” means an event or series of events (including any Acquisition) that occurs after the Closing Date and causes or results in any of the following:

(i) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its Subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an “option right”)), directly or indirectly, of more than forty percent (40%) of the Equity Interests of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right);

 

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(ii) during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months, a majority of the members of the Board of the Borrower ceases to be composed of individuals (a) who were members of such Board on the first day of such period, (b) whose election or nomination to such Board was approved by individuals referred to in clause (a) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of such Board or (c) whose election or nomination to such Board was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (a) and (b) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of such Board;

(iii) except to the extent permitted by this Agreement, the Borrower shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, beneficially and of record or legally, one hundred percent (100%) of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each of its Subsidiaries (other than minority holdings in Subsidiaries that are not U.S. Persons solely in accordance with applicable Law), free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens);

(iv) the sale of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or

(v) the occurrence of any “Change of Control”, “Change in Control”, “Fundamental Change” or terms of similar import under any Material Indebtedness.

Claim” means any claim, demand, complaint, grievance, action, application, suit, cause of action, order, charge, indictment, prosecution, judgment or other similar process, assessment or reassessment, in each case, before a Governmental Authority, whether made, converted or assessed in connection with a debt, liability, dispute, breach, failure or otherwise.

Closing Date” means November 30, 2023.

Closing Fee” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time.

Collateral” means any asset or property in which a Lien is purported to be granted under any Loan Document, including future acquired or created assets or properties (or all such assets or properties, as the context may require), in each case, to secure payment of the Obligations, it being understood that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Excluded Assets shall not constitute Collateral.

Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Loans to the Borrower on the Closing Date subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in, and in accordance with the terms and provisions of, this Agreement, which commitments are in the amounts set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1 hereto, as such Schedule may be amended from time to time pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption or otherwise; provided that the aggregate Commitments of all Lenders on the Closing Date equal $200,000,000.00.

 

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Commodity Account” means any commodity account, as such term is defined in Section 9-102 of the NY UCC.

Common Stock” means shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share of the Borrower.

Competitor” means, at any time of determination, any Person engaged in the same or substantially the same line of business as the Obligors, including, without limitation, any Person that is listed as a competitor in the Borrower’s filings with the Commission.

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto.

Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions and other technical, administrative or operational matters that the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders) decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders) decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).

Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

Contract” means any contract, license, lease, agreement, obligation, promise, undertaking, understanding, arrangement, document, commitment, entitlement, indenture, instrument, or engagement under which a Person has, or will have, any liability or contingent liability (in each case, whether written or oral, express or implied, and whether in respect of monetary or payment obligations, performance obligations or otherwise), in each case, other than the Loan Documents.

 

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Control” means, in respect of a particular Person, the possession, by one or more other Persons, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such particular Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” (and similar derivatives) have meanings correlative thereto.

Controlled Account” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.17.

Copyright” means all rights in works of authorship including any rights in software and the contents of Internet websites, copyrights, copyright registrations and applications for copyright registrations, including (i) all renewals, reversions, amendments and extensions thereof, (ii) any income, fees, royalties, damages or payments now, previously or hereafter due and payable with respect thereto, and (iii) all rights to sue for or collect any damages for past, present or future infringements thereof.

Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

Default” means any event that, upon the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

Default Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02(b).

Defaulted Lender” means any Lender (a) that has failed to make any Loan or other credit accommodation, disbursement, settlement or reimbursement required pursuant to the terms hereunder or under any other Loan Document or has failed to confirm its commitment to make such Loans, accommodations, disbursements or reimbursements hereunder or under any other Loan Document within two (2) Business Days after any such amounts are required to be funded or paid by it under this Agreement or such Loan Document (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulted Lender with respect to this clause (a) upon satisfaction in full of all outstanding funding and payment obligations of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents) unless, prior to the expiration of such two (2) Business Day period, such Lender notifies Agent and Borrower in writing that such failure to fund is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in writing) has not been satisfied, (b) that has given oral or written notice to Borrower or Agent or has otherwise publicly announced that such Lender believes it will, or intends to, fail to fund any portion of its Loans, accommodations, disbursements or reimbursements hereunder or under any other Loan Document or under any other committed loan facility (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulted Lender with respect to this clause (b) upon delivery to Agent of a written rescission of such notice or announcement), or (c) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or other liquidation, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, conservatorship, moratorium, receivership, insolvency, rearrangement, reorganization or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States, or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or Federal regulatory

 

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authority acting in such a capacity; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulted Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by Agent that a Lender is a Defaulted Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (c) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulted Lender upon delivery of written notice of such determination to Borrower and each Lender.

Deposit Account” means any deposit account, as such term is defined in Section 9-102 of the NY UCC.

Designated Jurisdiction” means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory itself is the subject of any comprehensive Sanction (as of the date of this Agreement, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Crimea region of Ukraine, and the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) regions of Ukraine).

Device” shall have the meaning set forth in 21 U.S.C. § 321(h).

Disqualified Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest of such Person that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interest into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable upon exercise or otherwise), or upon the happening of any event or condition (i) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for obligations that would constitute Permitted Indebtedness both at the time of issuance of the relevant Equity Interests and upon the conversion or exchange of such Equity Interests and/or Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower), including pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (ii) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for obligations that would constitute Permitted Indebtedness both at the time of issuance of the relevant Equity Interests and upon the conversion or exchange of such Equity Interests and/or Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests), in whole or in part, (iii) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends or other distributions in cash or other securities that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, or (iv) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness (other than obligations that would constitute Permitted Indebtedness both at the time of issuance of the relevant Equity Interests and upon the conversion or exchange of such Equity Interests) or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Maturity Date; provided that Equity Interests issued pursuant to any plan for the benefit of directors, officers, employees or consultants of such Person, or by any such plan to such directors, officers, employees or consultants, shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because such Equity Interests may be required to be repurchased by such Person upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment or service of such director, officer, employee or consultant. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because the holders thereof have the right to require the redemption or repurchase of such Equity Interests upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, fundamental change, delisting or an asset sale will not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests if

 

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the “asset sale,” “fundamental change”, “delisting” or “Change of Control” provisions applicable to such Equity Interests provide that the issuer thereof will not redeem or repurchase any such Equity Interests pursuant to such provisions prior to all other Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations for which no claim has been asserted) having been irrevocably paid in full in cash.

Disqualified Institution” means (a) any vulture fund, activist fund, distressed debt fund or other fund that principally invests in distressed debt for the purpose of owning equity in the applicable borrower (but may include any Bona Fide Lending Affiliate) and (b) any Persons identified in writing to the Agent prior to the Closing Date and supplemented from time to time after the Closing Date subject to the consent of the Majority Lenders (not to be unreasonably withheld); provided that no Lender, Agent or any Affiliate of a Lender or Agent shall constitute a “Disqualified Institution”.

Dollars” and “$” means lawful money of the United States of America.

Domestic Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of an Obligor that is a U.S. Person.

Early Prepayment Fee” means, with respect to any repayment or prepayment (or other payment made prior to the Maturity Date) of all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans on any Prepayment Date, whether pursuant to clause (a) or (b) of Section 3.03 or otherwise (including as a result of acceleration, an Insolvency Proceeding or other Event of Default), an amount equal to (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Loans being repaid or prepaid on such Prepayment Date multiplied by (ii) for any Prepayment Date that occurs (A) on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, four percent (4.0%), (B) after the first anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the second anniversary of the Closing Date, three percent (3.0%), (C) after the second anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, two percent (2.0%), (D) after the third anniversary of the Closing Date and on or prior to the fourth anniversary of the Closing Date, one percent (1.0%) and (E) after the fourth anniversary of the Closing Date, zero percent (0.0%).

EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person (or business), the consolidated earnings of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries (or such business) before interest, taxes and non-cash items such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, in each case as determined in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.

EBITDA Shortfall” means, with respect to any Person or business that (i) has been acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition and (ii) at the time of consummation of such Acquisition, had negative EBITDA for the twelve consecutive month period ended on the last day of the most recently ended calendar month prior to the date of such Permitted Acquisition, the absolute value of such negative EBITDA during such twelve (12) consecutive month period.

 

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EEA Financial Institution” means (i) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (ii) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (i) of this definition, or (iii) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (i) or (ii) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

Eligible Transferee” means (i) any commercial bank, (ii) any insurance company, (iii) any finance company, (iv) any financial institution, (v) any investment fund that invests in loans or other obligations for borrowed money, (vi) with respect to any Lender, any other Lender and/or such Lender’s Affiliates, and (vii) any other “accredited investor” (as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act) that is principally in the business of managing investments or holding assets for investment purposes; provided, however, that Eligible Transferees shall not include any Disqualified Institution.

Environmental Law” means any Law or Governmental Approval relating to pollution or protection of the environment or the treatment, storage, disposal, release or handling of Hazardous Materials, and all local laws and regulations, whether U.S. or non-U.S., related to environmental matters and any specific agreements entered into with any competent authorities which include commitments related to environmental matters.

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person (for purposes of this defined term, an “issuer”), all shares of, interests or participations in, or other equivalents in respect of such Person’s capital stock, including all membership interests, partnership interests or equivalent, and all debt or other securities (including warrants, options and similar rights) directly or indirectly exchangeable, exercisable or otherwise convertible into, such Person’s capital stock, whether now outstanding or issued after the Closing Date, and in each case, however classified or designated and whether voting or non-voting.

Equivalent Amount” means, with respect to an amount denominated in a single currency, the amount in another currency that could be purchased by the amount in the former currency determined by reference to the Exchange Rate at the time of determination.

ERISA” means the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

ERISA Affiliate” means, collectively, any Obligor, Subsidiary thereof, and any Person under common control, or treated as a single employer, with any Obligor or Subsidiary thereof, within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.

 

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ERISA Event” means (i) a reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA with respect to a Title IV Plan, excluding, however, such events as to which the PBGC by regulation has waived the requirement of Section 4043(a) of ERISA that it be notified within thirty (30) days of the occurrence of such event; (ii) the applicability of the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, to any Title IV Plan where an event described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with respect to such plan within the following thirty (30) days; (iii) a withdrawal by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof from a Title IV Plan or the termination of any Title IV Plan resulting in liability under Sections 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal of any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Section 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan if there is any potential liability therefor, or the receipt by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency pursuant to Section 4241 or 4245 of ERISA; (v) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof pursuant to Sections 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the failure by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof to make any required contribution to a Plan, or the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code) or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (viii) the determination that any Title IV Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered to critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; (ix) an event or condition which might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (x) the imposition of any liability under Title I or Title IV of ERISA, other than PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof; (xi) an application for a funding waiver under Section 303 of ERISA or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Title IV Plan; (xii) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Sections 406 or 407 of ERISA for which any Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof may be directly or indirectly liable and which is reasonably expected to result in material liability to any Obligor or any Subsidiary; (xiii) a violation of the applicable requirements of Section 404 or 405 of ERISA or the exclusive benefit rule under Section 401(a) of the Code by any fiduciary or disqualified person for which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof may be directly or indirectly liable and which is reasonably expected to result in material liability to any Obligor or any Subsidiary; (xiv) the occurrence of an act or omission which could reasonably be expected to give rise to the imposition on any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof of material fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Code or under Sections 409, 502(c), (i) or (1) or 4071 of ERISA; (xv) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Plan or the assets thereof, or against any Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof in connection with any such Plan; (xvi) receipt from the IRS of notice of the failure of any Qualified Plan to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Qualified Plan to qualify for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code; or (xvii) the imposition of any Lien (or the fulfillment of the conditions for the imposition of any Lien) on any of the rights, properties or assets of any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof, in either case pursuant to Title I or Title IV of ERISA, including Section 302(f) or 303(k) of ERISA or to Section 401(a)(29) or 430(k) of the Code.

 

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ERISA Funding Rules” means the rules regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Title IV Plans, as set forth in Sections 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.

EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.

Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.01.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Exchange Rate” means, as of any date of determination, the rate at which any currency may be exchanged into another currency, as set forth on the relevant Bloomberg screen at or about 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date. In the event that such rate does not appear on the Bloomberg screen, the “Exchange Rate” shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be reasonably designated by the Agent.

Excluded Account” means, collectively, (i) accounts used exclusively for payroll, the withheld employee portion of payroll taxes and other employee wage and benefit payments plus any minimum balance requirements of the applicable bank, (ii) accounts used exclusively for escrow, trust, or other fiduciary arrangements established in the ordinary course and not in contemplation of this Agreement, (iii) accounts constituting cash collateral accounts with a balance not exceeding the amount specified in Section 9.02(l), (iv) accounts used exclusively for pledges or deposits permitted by Section 9.02(r)(ii) and (v) de minimis accounts with balances not exceeding $5,000,000 in the aggregate for all such accounts under this clause (iv) at any time; provided that no account used for collecting payments from customers, suppliers or clients of any Obligor or any of their Subsidiaries shall constitute an Excluded Account.

Excluded Assets” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.

Excluded Subsidiary” means, collectively, (i) Immaterial Subsidiaries and (ii) any Subsidiary for which the requirement to provide a Lien, security interest or Guaranty, as the case may be, has been waived by the Agent in accordance with Section 8.12(d), but only for so long as such waiver remains in effect.

Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient: (i) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (x) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivisions thereof) or (y) that are Other Connection Taxes, (ii) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts

 

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payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (1) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 5.04) or (2) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.03, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (iii) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 5.03(f), and (iv) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

Exculpated Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.03(b)(ii).

Existing Convertible Notes” means those certain 2.75% Convertible Senior Notes due April 1, 2025 issued by the Borrower in favor of the parties thereto designated as “Holders” issued by the Borrower pursuant to that certain Indenture, dated as of June 13, 2016, between the Borrower and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee, as supplemented by that certain Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 6, 2020, and as otherwise amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Exit Fee” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.04.

FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities and implementing such Sections of the Code.

FCPA” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Anti-Corruption Law”.

FD&C Act” means the U.S. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (21 U.S.C. §§ 301 et seq.) (or any successor thereto), as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations issued or promulgated thereunder.

FDA” means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and any successor entity.

Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (i) the rate calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions (as determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York sets forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the federal funds effective rate and (ii) zero percent (0%).

Financial Officer” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, and any other financial officer of such Person with equivalent responsibilities.

 

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Floor” means a rate of interest per annum equal to 3.50%.

Foreign Benefit Event” means, with respect to any Foreign Pension Plan, (a) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable Law, or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from a Governmental Authority, (b) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable Law, on or before the due date for such contributions or payments, (c) the receipt of a notice by a Governmental Authority relating to the intention to terminate any such Foreign Pension Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar official to administer any such Foreign Pension Plan, or alleging the insolvency of any such Foreign Pension Plan, (d) the incurrence of any liability in excess of $5,000,000 by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under applicable Law on account of the complete or partial termination of such Foreign Pension Plan or the complete or partial withdrawal of any participating employer therein, or (e) the occurrence of any transaction that is prohibited under any applicable Law and that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any liability by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or the imposition on the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any fine, excise tax or penalty resulting from any noncompliance with any applicable Law, in each case in excess of $5,000,000.

Foreign Collateral” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.12(c).

Foreign Lender” means a Lender that is not a U.S. Person.

Foreign Pension Plan” means any benefit plan that under applicable Law, other than the Laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, is required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle other than a trust or funding vehicle maintained exclusively by a Governmental Authority.

Foreign Security Documents” means any pledge, security or other collateral agreement pursuant to which the assets owned by a Foreign Subsidiary, the Equity Interests in a Foreign Subsidiary, or any other Foreign Collateral, are made subject to a Lien in favor of the Agent, and which is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Subsidiary is formed, or such Foreign Collateral is located, as applicable, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Majority Lenders, in each case as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Obligor (other than the Borrower) or direct or indirect Subsidiary of any Obligor, in each case, that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, as in effect from time to time, set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, in the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and in such other statements by such other entity as may be in general use by significant segments of the accounting profession that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination. All references to “GAAP” used herein shall be to GAAP applied consistently with the principles used in the preparation of the financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(g)(i).

Governmental Approval” means any consent, authorization, approval, order, license, franchise, permit, certification, accreditation, registration, clearance, exemption, filing or notice that is issued or granted by or from (or pursuant to any act of) any Governmental Authority, including any Regulatory Approval.

 

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Governmental Authority” means any nation, government, branch of power (whether executive, legislative or judicial), state, province or municipality or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, monetary, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including without limitation regulatory authorities, governmental departments, agencies, commissions, bureaus, officials, ministers, courts, bodies, boards, tribunals and dispute settlement panels, and other law-, rule- or regulation-making organizations or entities of any state, territory, county, city or other political subdivision of any country, including the FDA and any other agency, branch or other governmental body, whether U.S. or non-U.S., that has regulatory, supervisory or administrative authority or oversight over, or is charged with the responsibility or vested with the authority to administer or enforce, any Healthcare Laws.

Guaranty” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment thereof, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation or (iv) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or monetary obligation; provided that the term Guaranty shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.

Guaranty Assumption Agreement” means a Guaranty Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit C, executed by any entity that, pursuant to Section 8.12 is required to become a “Subsidiary Guarantor”.

Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 13.01.

Hazardous Material” means any substance, element, chemical, compound, product, solid, gas, liquid, waste, by-product, pollutant, contaminant or material which is hazardous or toxic, and includes, without limitation, (i) asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) and (ii) any material classified or regulated as “hazardous” or “toxic” or words of like import pursuant to an Environmental Law.

 

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Healthcare Laws” means, collectively, all Laws of any Regulatory Authority with respect to the Product and any Product Commercialization and Development Activities, whether U.S. or non-U.S., federal, state, local or equivalent, including the development, manufacture, sale and distribution of Devices, including, without limitation, the federal Anti-kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)) (the “Federal Anti-Kickback Statute”); the U.S. Physician Payments Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h); the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq.); the criminal False Claims Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)); all criminal laws relating to health care fraud and abuse, including but not limited to 18 U.S.C. Sections 286, 287, 1035, 1347 and 1349, and the health care fraud criminal provisions under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (42 U.S.C. §§ 1320d et seq.); the exclusion law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7); the civil monetary penalties law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a); HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 17921 et seq.); the FD&C Act; all applicable regulations promulgated thereunder, including but not limited to the Good Manufacturing Practice requirements addressed in the FDA’s Quality System Regulation (21 C.F.R. Part 820); the Investigational Device Exemption regulations and regulations related to clinical trials (21 C.F.R. Part 812, and Parts 50, 54, and 56); all applicable labeling requirements addressed in FDA’s Device labeling regulations (21 C.F.R. Part 801); and, all statutes and regulations of applicable federal or state healthcare programs, including but not limited to Medicare and Medicaid, any rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the statutes listed herein, and any and all comparable U.S. federal, state, and local laws and non-U.S. Laws.

Hedging Agreement” means any interest rate exchange agreement, foreign currency exchange agreement, commodity price protection agreement or other interest or currency exchange rate or commodity price hedging arrangement, including forward rate transactions, forward commodity contracts, forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, forward foreign exchange transactions or credit derivatives transactions.

IDE” means an application filed with any Regulatory Authority for authorization to commence human clinical studies with respect to any Device, including (i) an Investigational Device Exemption as defined in the FD&C Act or any successor application or procedure filed with the FDA, (ii) any clinical trial application or equivalent of the foregoing pursuant to or under any non-U.S. country or regulatory jurisdiction, and (iii) all amendments, variations, extensions and renewals of any of the foregoing that may be filed with respect thereto.

Immaterial Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination, any Foreign Subsidiary of an Obligor (i) the unconsolidated assets of which does not exceed five percent (5.0%) of the consolidated assets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as set forth in the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01, 8.01(b) or 8.01(c), as applicable, and (ii) the unconsolidated revenues of which does not exceed five percent (5.0%) of the consolidated revenues of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as set forth in the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01, 8.01(b) or 8.01(c), as applicable; provided that no Subsidiary of the Obligors shall qualify as an Immaterial Subsidiary if (x) the assets or revenue of such Subsidiary taken together with the assets or revenue of all then existing Immaterial Subsidiaries exceeds ten percent (10.0%) of the consolidated assets or revenue, as applicable, of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries or (y) such Subsidiary (A) holds or maintains any Regulatory Approval necessary or required for any Product Commercialization and Development Activities,

 

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(B) owns or operates any manufacturing or similar facility involved in Product Commercialization and Development Activities or (C) owns or licenses any Material Intellectual Property.

Indebtedness” of any Person means, as of any date, without duplication:

(i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money;

(ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or similar instruments;

(iii) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person;

(iv) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services, including earn-out and similar deferred purchase price consideration obligations as reflected as liabilities on the balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP;

(v) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed;

(vi) all Guaranties by such Person of any obligations of others that constitute Indebtedness under clauses (i) through (iv) or (vii) through (xii) hereof;

(vii) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person;

(viii) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty;

(ix) net obligations under any Hedging Agreement;

(x) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances;

(xi) all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests; and

(xii) all other obligations required to be classified as indebtedness of such Person under GAAP.

The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding the above provisions, in no event shall the following constitute Indebtedness: (i) any balance that constitutes a trade payable, accrued expense or similar obligation to a trade creditor, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business and not overdue by more than one hundred twenty (120) days, other than any such payable that is being disputed by such Person in good faith and for which adequate reserves are being maintained in accordance with GAAP;

 

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(ii) obligations in respect of earn-outs and similar deferred purchase consideration that would not be reflected as liabilities on the balance sheet of the relevant Person in accordance with GAAP; (iii); prepaid or deferred revenue arising in the ordinary course of business; (iv) Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests); or (v) any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or Permitted Warrant Transaction.

Indemnified Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.03(b)(ii).

Indemnified Taxes” means (i) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any Obligation and (ii) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (i), Other Taxes.

Information Certificate” means a Perfection Certificate, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit G.

Initial Fiscal Quarter” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01.

Insolvency Proceeding” means (i) any case, action or proceeding before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors (other than Permitted Fundamental Changes), or (ii) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement in respect of any Person’s creditors generally or any substantial portion of such Person’s creditors, in each case, undertaken under any Debtor Relief Law.

Intellectual Property” means all Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, and rights in Technical Information, whether registered or not, U.S. or non-U.S., including (without limitation) all of the following:

(i) applications, registrations, amendments and extensions relating to such Intellectual Property;

(ii) any income, fees, royalties, damages or payments now, previously or hereafter due and payable with respect thereto;

(iii) rights and privileges arising under any applicable Laws with respect to such Intellectual Property;

(iv) rights to sue for or collect any damages for any past, present or future infringements of such Intellectual Property; and

(v) rights of the same or similar effect or nature in any jurisdiction corresponding to such Intellectual Property throughout the world.

 

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Intercompany Subordination Agreement” means a subordination agreement to be executed and delivered by the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries, pursuant to which all obligations in respect of any Indebtedness owing to any such Person by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations, such agreement to be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit H.

Interest Period” means, in connection with the making, conversion or continuation of any SOFR Loan, an interest period (as selected by the Borrower) therefor, which shall be one (1) month; provided, however:

 

  (i)

each Interest Period shall commence on the date the SOFR Loan is made and shall expire on the numerically corresponding day in the following calendar month;

 

  (ii)

if any Interest Period commences on a day for which there is no corresponding day in the following calendar month or if such corresponding day falls after the last Business Day of such month, then the Interest Period shall expire on the last Business Day of such month and, if any Interest Period would expire on a day that is not a Business Day, the Interest Period shall expire on the next Business Day, unless the next Business Day falls in the next calendar month then it shall expire on the preceding Business Day; and

 

  (iii)

no Interest Period shall extend beyond Maturity Date.

Interest Rate” means (i) for SOFR Loans, the sum of the Applicable Margin for SOFR Loans plus Term SOFR and (ii) for Base Rate Loans, the sum of the Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans plus the Base Rate.

Invention” means any novel, non-obvious (or inventive) and useful art, apparatus, method, process, machine (including any article or Device), manufacture or composition of matter, or any novel, non-obvious (or inventive) and useful improvement in any art, method, process, machine (including article or Device), manufacture or composition of matter.

Investment” means, for any Person: (i) the acquisition (whether for cash, property, securities or otherwise) of Equity Interests, bonds, notes, debentures, partnership or other ownership interests or other securities of any other Person, or any Acquisition; (ii) the making of any deposit with, or advance, loan, assumption of debt, or other extension of credit to, or capital contribution in any other Person, but excluding any such advance, loan or extension of credit arising in connection with the sale of services, inventory or supplies by such Person in the ordinary course of business or (iii) the entering into of any Guaranty of, or other contingent obligation with respect to, Indebtedness or other liability of any other Person and (without duplication) any amount committed to be advanced, lent or extended to such Person. The amount of an Investment will be determined at the time the Investment is made without giving effect to any subsequent changes in value.

IRS” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or any successor agency and to the extent relevant, the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Junior Indebtedness” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.07.

 

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Law” means any U.S. or non-U.S. federal, state, provincial, territorial, municipal or local statute, treaty, rule, guideline, regulation, ordinance, code, administrative or judicial precedent or authority, or (solely with respect to Patents) arising under an international convention, including any interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority or (solely with respect to Patents) international body charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority or (solely with respect to Patents) international body, in each case whether or not having the force of law.

Lenders” has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.

Legal Reservations” means, in respect of a UK Guarantor only:

 

  (i)

the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court, the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, court schemes, moratoria, administration and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors;

 

  (ii)

the time barring of claims under the Limitation Acts, the possibility that an undertaking to assume liability for or indemnify a person against non-payment of stamp duty may be void and defenses of set-off or counterclaim;

 

  (iii)

any other matters which are expressly set out as reservations or qualifications, in each case, as to matters of law of general application as set out in any legal opinion delivered to the Agent pursuant to Section 6.01 or where required by any other Loan Document;

 

  (iv)

the principle that any additional interest imposed under any relevant agreement may be held to be unenforceable on the grounds that it is a penalty and thus void;

 

  (v)

the principle that in certain circumstances security granted by way of fixed charge may be characterized as a floating charge or that security purported to be constituted by way of an assignment may be recharacterized as a charge;

 

  (vi)

the principle that an English court may not give effect to an indemnity for legal costs incurred by an unsuccessful litigant;

 

  (vii)

the principle that the creation or purported creation of security over any contract or agreement which is subject to a prohibition against transfer, assignment or charging may be void, ineffective or invalid and may give rise to a breach entitling the contracting party to terminate or take any other action in relation to such contract or agreement;

 

  (viii)

provisions of a contract being invalid or unenforceable for reasons of oppression or undue influence; and

 

  (ix)

similar principles, rights and defenses under the laws of any relevant jurisdiction.

 

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Lien” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge or other security interest, or any lease, title retention agreement, mortgage, restriction, easement, right-of-way, option or adverse claim (of ownership or possession) or other similar encumbrance of any kind or character whatsoever or any preferential arrangement that has the practical effect of creating a security interest.

Liquidity” means the aggregate amount of cash and Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments of the Obligors, in one or more Controlled Accounts (subject to Section 8.19), that are free and clear of all Liens, other than Permitted Liens.

Limitation Acts” shall mean the Limitation Act 1980, the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 and the Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973, in each case of the United Kingdom.

Liquidity Condition” means, as of any time of determination, Liquidity is at least seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000).

Loan” means the Loans to be made by the Lenders to the Borrower on the Closing Date.

Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, the Notes, any Borrowing Notice, the Security Documents, any Guaranty Assumption Agreement, any Information Certificate, the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, the Agency Fee Letter, the Registration Rights Agreement, any Warrant and any other guaranty, security agreement, subordination agreement, intercreditor agreement or other present or future document, instrument, agreement or certificate identified as a “Loan Document” or otherwise expressly required to be delivered pursuant to a Loan Document or other amendment, waiver or modification of the foregoing, delivered to the Agent or any Lender by or on behalf of (and at the direction or request of) an Obligor in connection with this Agreement (including, without limitation, in connection with Section 8.12) or any of the other Loan Documents, in each case, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.

Loss” means judgments, debts, liabilities, expenses, costs, damages or losses, contingent or otherwise, whether liquidated or unliquidated, matured or unmatured, disputed or undisputed, contractual, legal or equitable, including loss of value, reasonable and documented (in reasonable detail) out-of-pocket professional fees, including reasonable and documented (in reasonable detail) out-of-pocket fees and disbursements of legal counsel on a full indemnity basis, and all reasonable and documented (in reasonable detail) out-of-pocket costs incurred in investigating or pursuing any claim or any proceeding relating to any claim.

Majority Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having at such time in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate Commitments (or, if such Commitments are terminated, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans) then in effect.

Margin Stock” means “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulation U and Regulation X.

Material Adverse Change” and “Material Adverse Effect” mean any event, occurrence, fact, development or circumstance that has had a material adverse change in or effect on (i) the financial condition, operations, business or property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) the ability of the Obligors, taken as a whole, to perform their obligations under the

 

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Loan Documents to which they are a party, as and when due, (iii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Obligor of any material portion of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, or (iv) the rights and remedies available to or conferred upon the Agent or the Lenders under the Loan Documents, taken as a whole, other than, in the case of this clause (iv), solely as a result of any action on the part of the Agent and/or any Lender that is within such Person’s control; provided that such action or inaction is not caused by any Obligor’s failure to comply with the terms of the Loan Documents.

Material Agreement” means (i) each Contract listed on Schedule 7.14, (ii) any Contract providing for the license of Material Intellectual Property either by or to any Obligor, and (iii) any other Contract to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or a beneficiary from time to time, or to which any assets or properties of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries are bound the absence, non-renewal or termination of which, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or in a material adverse effect on any Product Commercialization and Development Activities material to the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in each case, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Material Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, the outstanding principal amount of which, individually or in the aggregate, exceeds $10,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies).

Material Intellectual Property” means, for purposes of the Loan Documents, all Intellectual Property owned by, licensed to or otherwise held by any Obligor (i) the loss of which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a material and adverse effect on any Product Commercialization and Development Activities material to the conduct of business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or (ii) that is otherwise material to the business of Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in each case, excluding over-the-counter, “shrink wrap”, or other standard software that is commercially available to the public and software licensed under open source licenses.

Material Regulatory Event” means, an Adverse Regulatory Event that, individually or when taken together with each other Adverse Regulatory Event that has occurred since the Closing Date, (a) has resulted in or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (b) has, or could reasonably be expected to, result in fines, penalties and Losses (including loss of revenue) in excess of $10,000,000; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) no Adverse Regulatory Event shall constitute a “Material Regulatory Event” for the purposes of the foregoing clause (b) so long as, immediately after giving effect to the payment of all fines, penalties and other Losses resulting from each such Adverse Regulatory Event, (1) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (2) the Liquidity Condition is satisfied; (y) a “Material Regulatory Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if the Civil Investigative Demand No. 22-13 issued by the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, December 15, 2022 results in a criminal Proceeding which could reasonably be expected to result in a breach of Section 8.15; and (z) a “Material Regulatory Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if there is a ship hold on the implantable SCS devices of the Borrower that results in a material impairment on the ability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to ship and sell such devices for more than fifteen (15) consecutive days.

 

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Maturity Date” means November 30, 2029.

Medicaid” means that government-sponsored entitlement program under Title XIX, P.L. 89-97 of the Social Security Act, which provides federal grants to states for medical assistance based on specific eligibility criteria, as set forth on Section 1396, et seq. of Title 42 of the United States Code.

Medicare” means that government-sponsored insurance program under Title XVIII, P.L. 89-97, of the Social Security Act, which provides for a health insurance system for eligible elderly and disabled individuals, as set forth at Section 1395, et seq. of Title 42 of the United States Code.

Minimum Revenue Covenant” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01.

Multiemployer Plan” means any multiemployer plan, as defined in Section 400l(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any ERISA Affiliate incurs or otherwise has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.

Net Cash Proceeds” means, (i) with respect to any Casualty Event experienced or suffered by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, the amount of cash proceeds received (directly or indirectly) including, without limitation, in the form of insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event, from time to time by or on behalf of such Person after deducting therefrom only (a) reasonable costs and expenses related thereto incurred (or estimated by the Borrower in good faith) by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, (b) amounts required to be repaid on account of any Permitted Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) secured by a Permitted Lien that is required to be repaid as a result of such Casualty Event, (c) amounts required to be reserved in accordance with GAAP for indemnities and against liabilities associated with the property damaged, destructed or condemned in such Casualty Event, and (d) Taxes (including transfer Taxes or net income Taxes) paid or payable in connection therewith; and (ii) with respect to any Asset Sale by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, the amount of cash proceeds received (directly or indirectly) from time to time by or on behalf of such Person after deducting therefrom only (a) reasonable costs and expenses related thereto incurred (or estimated by the Borrower in good faith) by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in connection therewith, (b) amounts required to be repaid on account of any Permitted Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) secured by a Permitted Lien that is required to be repaid as a result of such Asset Sale, (c) amounts held in escrow to be applied as part of the purchase price for any assets, as applicable, unless and until received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary and (d) Taxes (including transfer Taxes or net income Taxes) paid or payable in connection therewith; provided that, in each case of clauses (i) and (ii), costs and expenses shall only be deducted to the extent, that the amounts so deducted are (X) actually paid or payable to a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and (Y) properly attributable to such Casualty Event or Asset Sale, as the case may be.

Note” means a promissory note, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, executed and delivered by the Borrower to any Lender in accordance with Section 2.03.

NY UCC” means the UCC as in effect from time to time in New York.

 

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Obligations” means, all amounts, obligations, liabilities, covenants and duties of every type and description (including all Guaranteed Obligations) owing by any Obligor to any Secured Party, any indemnitee hereunder or any participant, arising out of, under, or in connection with, any Loan Document, whether direct or indirect (regardless of whether acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, whether liquidated or not, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired, and whether or not evidenced by any instrument or for the payment of money, including, without duplication, (i) all Loans, (ii) all interest, whether or not accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or after the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding, and whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in any such proceeding, and (iii) all other fees, expenses (including, subject to the limitations contained herein and in the other Loan Documents, fees, charges and disbursement of counsel), interest, commissions, charges, costs, disbursements, indemnities and reimbursement of amounts paid and other sums chargeable to such Obligor under any Loan Document. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the “Obligations” shall not include any obligations under the Warrants or the Registration Rights Agreement, or any other obligation owed to the Agent or any Lender other than in connection with the Loan Documents (other than the Warrant or the Registration Rights Agreement).

Obligors” means, collectively, the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors (including any Subsidiary of the Borrower that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 8.12), together with their respective successors and permitted assigns.

OFAC” means the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Organizational Document” means, for any Person, such Person’s formation documents (or, for any Obligor incorporated in the United Kingdom, its constitutional documents then in force), including, as applicable its certificate of incorporation, articles of association, by-laws, certificate of partnership, partnership agreement, certificate of formation, limited liability agreement, operating agreement and all shareholder agreements, voting trusts and similar agreements and arrangements applicable to such Person’s Equity Interests, or any equivalent document of any of the foregoing.

Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).

Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 5.04).

 

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Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(e).

Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(g).

Patents” means all patents and patent applications, including (i) patents and patent applications in any form in any worldwide jurisdiction, including but not limited to industrial designs, utility models, provisional applications, design patent rights, reissues, reexaminations, substitutions, supplementary protection certificates, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, renewals, extensions, statutory invention registrations, rulings from any governmental authority, including ones arising from any proceeding such as Inter Partes review and oppositions, (ii) all income, fees, royalties, damages and payment now, previously or hereafter due and payable with respect thereto, and (iii) all rights to sue for or collect any damages for past, present or future infringements thereof.

Patriot Act” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.20.

Payment Date” means (i) for all Base Rate Loans, the last day of each calendar month (provided that if such last day of any calendar month is not a Business Day, then the Payment Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day), (ii) for all SOFR Loans, (A) with respect to payments made in cash in accordance with Section 3.02(c), on the last day of the third (3rd) Interest Period ending after the Borrowing of such SOFR Loan and the last day of each third (3rd) Interest Period applicable to such SOFR Loan thereafter and (B) with respect to payments made in kind in accordance with Section 3.02(c), on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such SOFR Loan and (iii) the Maturity Date.

PBGC” means the United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.

Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Term SOFR”.

Perfection Requirements” means the making or the procuring of the appropriate registrations, filings, endorsements, notarization, stampings and/or notifications of the UK Security Documents and/or the security interests created thereunder (including any such action contemplated by any legal opinion delivered under or in connection with any Loan Document).

Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition by an Obligor; provided that:

(a) immediately prior to, and immediately after giving effect to such Acquisition no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(b) all transactions in connection therewith shall be consummated in all material respects in accordance with all applicable Law;

(c) unless the Agent (acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders) otherwise agrees in writing, the Borrower shall have taken, or caused to be taken, each of the actions set forth in Section 8.12(a) (to the extent applicable);

 

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(d) such Person (in the case of an Acquisition of Equity Interests of such Person) or assets (in the case of an Acquisition of assets or a division of such Person) shall be engaged or used, as the case may be, in businesses or lines of business that would be permitted pursuant to Section 9.04;

(e) on a pro forma basis immediately after giving effect to the consummation of such Acquisition, the Liquidity Condition shall be satisfied; provided, that to the extent the Person or business being acquired has an EBITDA Shortfall at the time of such Acquisition, Liquidity shall, immediately after giving effect to the consummation of such Acquisition, be equal to or greater than the sum of (x) the amount of such EBITDA Shortfall, plus (y) seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000);

(f) to the extent that all or any portion of the purchase price for any such Acquisition is paid in Equity Interests, all such Equity Interests shall be Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower;

(g) in the case of any Acquisition that has a purchase price in excess of $10,000,000, the Borrower shall have provided the Agent with at least ten (10) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as agreed to by the Majority Lenders) prior written notice of any such Acquisition, together with (i) a copy of the draft purchase agreement related to the proposed Acquisition (and any related documents reasonably requested by the Agent or any Lender), (ii) historical financial statements and projected financial information with respect to the target and, upon request by the Agent or any Lender and to the extent available, copies of any due diligence report, memorandum or similar material prepared for or by the Borrower or its Affiliates in connection with such Acquisition; provided that the Agent or any such Lender shall deliver any customary non-reliance letters with respect to the receipt of any third party diligence memoranda required by such third party and (iii) any other information reasonably requested by the Agent or any Lender and available to the Obligors, including information regarding any contingent liabilities or projected research and development costs associated with the Person, business or assets being acquired;

(h) neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, in connection with (and upon giving effect to) any such Acquisition, assume or remain liable with respect to, or be subject to (x) any Indebtedness of the related seller or the business, Person or properties acquired, except to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 9.01 or (y) any Lien on any business, Person or assets acquired, except to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 9.02;

(i) such Acquisition shall have been approved by the board of directors (or other similar body) and/or the stockholders or other equity holders of any Person being acquired in such Acquisition, in each case, as required by such Person’s Organizational Documents; and

 

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(j) after giving effect to such Acquisition, the aggregate cash consideration paid during the term of this Agreement for all such Acquisitions of Persons that have not become Obligors under this Agreement and all assets that are not acquired by an Obligor or which do not constitute Collateral, in each case, within the time periods specified in and subject to the terms of Section 8.12, shall not exceed an amount equal to forty million dollars ($40,000,000); provided that the aggregate cash consideration shall exclude any consideration or payment funded with the proceeds of Qualified Equity Interests applied to such Permitted Acquisition within thirty (30) days of receipt of such proceeds.

On or prior to the proposed date of any such Acquisition, the Agent shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (prepared in reasonable detail), certifying that the Acquisition complies with the requirements of this definition.

Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction” means any call or capped call option (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) relating to the common stock of Borrower (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock) purchased by an Obligor in connection with the issuance of any Permitted Convertible Debt and as may be amended in accordance with its terms; provided that (x) the net purchase price of any such call option transaction less the amount received by Borrower in respect of any Permitted Warrant Transaction in connection with such issuance of Permitted Convertible Debt shall not exceed the net proceeds to the Obligors from such issuance of Permitted Convertible Debt and (y) the terms, conditions and covenants of each such call option transaction are customary for agreements of such type, as determined in good faith by Borrower.

Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments” means (i) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or any agency or any state thereof having maturities of not more than twenty four (24) months from the date of acquisition, (ii) commercial paper maturing no more than two hundred and seventy (270) days after the date of its creation and having the highest rating from either Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., (iii) certificates of deposit maturing no more than 180 days after issued or guaranteed by or placed with any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof that has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000, (iv) money market funds that (A) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (B) are rated AAA and Aaa (or equivalent rating) by at least two credit rating agencies and (C) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000, and (v) registered money market funds at least ninety-five percent (95.0%) of the assets of which constitute Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments of the kinds described in clauses (i) through (iv) above.

Permitted Convertible Debt” means (a) the Existing Convertible Notes and (b) any other Indebtedness incurred by the Obligors after the Closing Date that (i) is a note or other debt instrument issued by an Obligor which is convertible into Equity Interests of the Borrower (and cash in lieu of fractional shares), cash or any combination thereof; (ii) the obligations of all Persons (including all Obligors) in respect of such notes and/or other debt instruments (and any guarantee thereof) are fully unsecured; (iii) does not have a stated maturity prior to the date that is six (6) months following the Maturity Date; (iv) has no scheduled amortization or principal payments or requires any mandatory redemptions or payments of principal (other than as a result of a conversion thereof into Equity Interests of Borrower) prior to the date that is six (6) months following the Maturity Date other than customary payments upon a change of control or fundamental change event (it being understood that conversion of any such Debt shall not be

 

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considered a redemption or payment); (v) the rate of interest payable in cash in respect of such notes shall not exceed eight percent (8.00%) per annum (as may be increased by not more than fifty basis points of additional interest under the terms of the related indenture); (vi) the terms, conditions, fees, covenants, and settlement mechanics (if applicable) of such notes shall be such as are typical and customary for Indebtedness of such type (as determined by the Borrower in good faith); (vii) no Subsidiary that is not an Obligor shall guarantee the obligations under such notes and (viii) immediately before and after giving pro forma effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

Permitted Fundamental Changes” means transactions permitted under Section 9.03 or other transactions as may be expressly permitted or consented to from time to time in accordance with Section 14.04.

Permitted Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01 or other Indebtedness as may be expressly permitted or consented to from time to time in accordance with Section 14.04.

Permitted Licenses” means (a) licenses and sublicenses of rights to Intellectual Property existing or contemplated on the Closing Date that are disclosed in Schedule 1.01(a), (b) non-exclusive and exclusive licenses or sublicenses, covenants or other rights in the ordinary course of business to Intellectual Property owned or controlled by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is not Material Intellectual Property; provided that exclusive licenses pursuant to this clause (b) shall not have a fair market value exceeding $3,000,000 in the aggregate during the term of this Agreement, (c) with respect to Material Intellectual Property owned or controlled by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries non-exclusive (except as set forth in this clause (c)) licenses or sublicenses of rights over such Intellectual Property entered into in the ordinary course of business in connection with Product Commercialization and Development Activities so long as such licenses or sublicenses of rights over such Intellectual Property on market terms that do not result in a legal transfer of title of the licensed Intellectual Property; provided that that such licenses or sublicenses may be exclusive as to territory only as to discrete geographical areas other than the United States or the jurisdiction of the organization or formation, as applicable, of the Borrower or any Obligor and (d) Investments in the form of licenses and sublicenses of rights to Intellectual Property, to the extent permitted by Section 9.05(o).

Permitted Liens” means any Liens permitted under Section 9.02 or other Liens as may be expressly permitted or consented to from time to time in accordance with Section 14.04.

Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, any refinancings, extensions, renewals and replacements of such Indebtedness; provided that such refinancing, extension, renewal or replacement (A) shall be incurred by the same obligor or obligors as the Indebtedness being so refinanced (and no other Person) and (B) shall not (i) increase the outstanding principal amount of the Indebtedness being refinanced, extended, renewed or replaced (provided that, the final maturity date of such Indebtedness shall be on or after the final maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced and the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness shall be greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced), except by an amount equal to the existing unutilized commitments thereunder

 

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(to the extent not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement), accrued but unpaid interest thereon and any premium paid, and reasonable and customary fees and expenses incurred, in connection with such refinancing, extension, renewal or replacement (including any fees and original issue discount incurred in respect of such resulting Indebtedness) (unless the additional amount is permitted pursuant to another provision of Section 9.01 without regard to the term Permitted Refinancing), (ii) contain material terms that are materially less favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, than the terms of any agreement or instrument governing the Indebtedness being refinanced, extended, renewed or replaced (other than covenants or any other provisions applicable only to periods after the Maturity Date), in each case, as determined by such Obligor(s) in their reasonable business judgment (it being understood and agreed that (a) any Subordinated Indebtedness may only be refinanced, renewed, extended or replaced with other Subordinated Indebtedness on subordination terms no less favorable to the Lenders than the Subordinated Indebtedness being refinanced, renewed, extended or replaced (unless such replacement is otherwise permitted pursuant to another provision of Section 9.01 without regard to the term Permitted Refinancing) and (b) unsecured Indebtedness shall not be refinanced, renewed, extended or replaced with secured Indebtedness (unless such secured Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to another provision of Section 9.01 without regard to the term Permitted Refinancing)), (iii) require or result in any Lien that is not a Permitted Lien, or (iv) contain any new requirement to give Guaranties that was not an existing requirement of the Indebtedness being refinanced, extended, renewed or replaced (unless the obligors in respect of such Guaranties become guarantors hereunder simultaneously with such Persons giving such Guaranties); provided further that, other than Permitted Refinancings of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 9.01(b), after giving effect to such refinancing, extension, renewal or replacement, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

Permitted Tax Distributions” means, with respect to any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries which is a member of an affiliated group filing consolidated, combined, unitary or similar tax returns of which such Obligor or Subsidiary is not the common parent, an amount with respect to any taxable year no greater than the corresponding Tax liabilities of the common parent of such affiliated group (including, without limitation, federal, state, and local income, franchise, sales, use, or similar Taxes) to the extent attributable to such Obligor or such Subsidiary; provided that the amount of such Permitted Tax Distribution in any taxable period shall not be greater than the lesser of (a) the amount of such Taxes that would have been due and payable by the Obligors and their Subsidiaries had the Obligors and their Subsidiaries filed a consolidated, combined, unitary or similar type return and (b) the actual Tax liability of such Obligors and such Subsidiaries; provided further that if the Obligors or their Subsidiaries receive a refund from a Governmental Authority in respect of any amounts paid as Permitted Tax Distributions, any subsequent Permitted Tax Distributions shall be reduced by the amount of such refund.

Permitted Warrant Transaction” means any call option, warrant or right to purchase (or substantively equivalent derivative transaction) relating to common stock of the Borrower (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock) and/or cash (in an amount determined by reference to the price of such common stock) sold by Borrower of the Borrower substantially concurrently with any purchase by an Obligor of a related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction and as may be amended in accordance with its term; provided that the terms, conditions and covenants of each such transaction are customary for agreements of such type, as determined in good faith by Borrower.

 

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Person” means any individual, corporation, company, voluntary association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.

Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

Prepayment Date” means any Business Day on which the Borrower (i) elects to optionally prepay or repay or (ii) is required to prepay or repay, in each case, all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans pursuant to Section 3.03(a) or Section 3.03(b), respectively.

Prepayment Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(a)(i).

Prime Rate” means the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate, as published and defined in The Wall Street Journal.

Proceeding” means any claim, action, legal proceeding, audit, cause of action, complaint, suit, litigation, arbitration, subpoena, notice of violation, summons or investigation outside the ordinary course of business, hearing or other legal proceeding, in each case, that is brought by or heard before a Governmental Authority.

Product” means all medical products (including Devices) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that have been, or are in the process of being, researched, developed, tested, manufactured, distributed, imported, exported, shipped, stored, packaged, handled, designed, labeled, promoted, licensed, marketed, sold or otherwise subject to Product Commercialization and Development Activities by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries at any time.

Product Commercialization and Development Activities” means, with respect to any Product, any combination of (i) research, development, manufacturing, quality compliance, use, sale, licensing, importation, exportation, shipping, storage, handling, designing, labeling, marketing, promotion, supply, dispensing, distribution, testing, supporting, packaging, purchasing or other commercialization activity, (ii) receipt of payment or other remuneration in respect of any of the foregoing or (iii) any similar or other activities the purpose of which is to commercially exploit such Product.

Prohibited Payment” means any offer of anything of value, directly or indirectly, to any foreign, public or government official or commercial counterparty to assist Borrower in obtaining or retaining business or directing business to a third party, or any other improper business in violation of any Anti-Corruption Law.

 

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Projections” means a written projection of the revenues and expenses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a quarterly basis, including projected revenues and capital expenditures.

Proportionate Share” means, with respect to each Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (i) the sum of all Commitments (or, if the Commitments are terminated, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans) of such Lender then in effect by (ii) the sum of all Commitments (or, if the Commitments are terminated, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans) of all Lenders then in effect.

Qualified Equity Interest” means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest of such Person that is not a Disqualified Equity Interest.

Qualified Plan” means an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) other than a Multiemployer Plan (i) that is or was at any time maintained or sponsored by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof or to which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof has ever made, or was ever obligated to make, contributions, and (ii) that is intended to be tax qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code.

Real Property Security Documents” means any landlord consents, bailee letters, any mortgage or deed of trust or any other real property security document executed or required hereunder to be executed by any Obligor and granting a security interest in real property owned or leased (as tenant) by any Obligor in favor of the Secured Parties for purposes of securing the Obligations, in each case, as amendment, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

Recipient” means any Lender, the Agent or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any Obligation, as applicable.

Register has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(d).

Regulation T” means Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as amended.

Regulation U” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as amended.

Regulation X” means Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as amended.

Regulatory Approval” means any Governmental Approval, whether U.S. or non-U.S., that is required to be held or maintained by, or for the benefit of, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under Healthcare Laws with respect to any Product or Product Commercialization and Development Activities, including all applicable approved IDEs, cleared 510(k)s, any approved premarket approval application submitted under Section 515 of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. § 360e) (a “PMA”), governmental pricing approvals, reimbursement approvals and approvals of applications for regulatory exclusivity, in each case necessary for the ownership, use or other commercialization of such Product or for any such Product Commercialization and Development Activities.

 

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Regulatory Authority” means any Governmental Authority, whether U.S. or non-U.S., that is concerned with or has regulatory or supervisory oversight with respect to any Product or any Product Commercialization and Development Activities relating to any Product, including the FDA and all equivalent Governmental Authorities, whether U.S. or non-U.S.

Related Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as such Lender or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of such Lender.

Registration Rights Agreement” means that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Borrower and Braidwell or its Affiliates.

Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.

Replacement Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 14.05(i).

Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

Responsible Officer” of any Person means each of the president, vice president, chief executive officer, manager, director, secretary, any Financial Officer and any other officer of such Person with similar responsibilities.

Restricted Payment” means, any (i) dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, Equity Interests or other property) with respect to any Equity Interests of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) payment (whether in cash, Equity Interests or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interests of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any such Equity Interests of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

Restrictive Agreement” means any Contract or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (i) the ability of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its properties or assets to secure the Obligations, or (ii) the ability of any Subsidiary of the Borrower to make Restricted Payments with respect to any of their respective Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or other Subsidiary of the Borrower or to Guaranty Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of other Subsidiary of the Borrower, in each case of (i) and (ii) above, other than (A) customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (B)(1) customary provisions in Contracts (including, without limitation, leases and licenses of Intellectual Property) restricting the assignment or transfer thereof, and (2) customary restrictions and conditions contained in any agreement relating to any disposition or Asset Sale (including by way of merger, acquisition or consolidation); provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the assets or property subject to such transaction (and that such sale is

 

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permitted or, in the case of the sale of the Borrower or any other Change of Control, such agreement contemplates the prior or contemporaneous repayment in full of the Obligations hereunder (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made), (C) restrictions or conditions imposed by any Contract governing secured Permitted Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01(e), to the extent that such restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, (D) customary provisions in any Contract governing Permitted Convertible Debt (other than the Existing Convertible Notes) which prohibit the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the property of Person to any other Person (other than a sale or transfer by any Subsidiary to an Obligor) which is not, or does not become, an obligor with respect to such Permitted Convertible Debt, (E) customary anti-assignment provisions contained in leases, sublease, licenses, contracts and other agreements), (F) restrictions in any Indebtedness permitted by Section 9.01 that are no more restrictive in any material respect with respect to the Obligors than the terms of the Loan Documents, (G) restrictions binding on a Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower; provided that such restrictions shall not have been created or incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrower and (H) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures permitted under this Agreement and applicable solely to such joint venture.

Revenue” means for any applicable fiscal period, consolidated total net revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal period resulting from Product Commercialization and Development Activities, as recognized on the income statement of the Borrower and its

Subsidiaries for such fiscal period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and reported by the Borrower in its filings with the Commission. Revenue shall be determined in a manner consistent with the methodologies, practices and procedures used in developing the Borrower’s audited financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(g)(i).

Sanction” means any applicable international economic sanction administered or enforced by the United States government (including OFAC and the U.S. Department of State), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or its Member States, His Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority.

Secured Party” means each Lender, the Agent, each other Indemnified Party, any other holder of any Obligation, and any of their respective permitted transferees or assigns.

Securities Account” means any securities account, as such term is defined in Section 8-501 of the NY UCC.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement, in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit J dated as of the Closing Date, among the grantors party thereto (including the Borrower) and the Agent, granting a security interest in such grantor’s personal property in favor of the Agent, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

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Security Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, each Real Property Security Document, each Short-Form IP Security Agreement, each Foreign Security Document, and each other security agreement, control agreement or financing statement, registration, recordation, filing, instrument or approval required, entered into or recommended to grant, perfect and otherwise render enforceable Liens in favor of the Secured Parties for purposes of securing the Obligations, including (without limitation) pursuant to Section 8.12, in each case, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time.

Short-Form IP Security Agreements” means short-form copyright, patent or trademark (as the case may be) security agreements, substantially in the form Exhibit C, Exhibit D or Exhibit E to the Security Agreement (or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent), entered into by one or more Obligors in favor of the Secured Parties, each as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.

SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).

SOFR Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on Term SOFR, other than a Base Rate Loan for which Base Rate is determined pursuant to clause (c) of the definition thereof.

Solvent” means, with respect to any Person at any time, that (i) (other than in respect of a UK Guarantor) the present fair saleable value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities (including contingent liabilities) of such Person, (ii) the present fair saleable value of the property of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured in the ordinary course, and (iii) such Person has not incurred and does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s (or such group of Persons’) ability to pay as such debts and liabilities as they mature in the ordinary course.

Specified Acquisition” means the Acquisition by the Borrower of 100% of the Equity Interests of Interventional Pain Technologies, Inc. d/b/a Vyrsa Technologies (the “Acquired Company”), substantially on the terms set forth in the Specified Acquisition Agreement.

Specified Acquisition Agreement” means the Stock Purchase Agreement, in the form provided to the Lenders on November 30, 2023, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in any manner not prohibited hereunder.

Specified Acquisition Milestone Payments” means the Milestone Payments (as defined in the Specified Acquisition Agreement).

Specified Asset Sale” means any Asset Sale of the type described in any of clauses (d), or (r) of Section 9.09 or clause (c) of the definition of Permitted License.

Specified Sublease Transaction” means the transaction described on Schedule 1.01(b).

 

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Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (for purposes of this definition, the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity, (i) the financial statements of which would be consolidated with those of the parent if such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date or (ii) of which Equity Interests representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the Equity Interests or more than fifty percent (50%) of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than fifty percent (50%) of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held, directly or indirectly. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means, (i) initially as of the Closing Date, each Subsidiary of the Borrower identified under the caption “SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS” on the signature pages hereto and, thereafter, (ii) each Subsidiary of the Borrower that becomes, or is required to become, a “Subsidiary Guarantor” after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 8.12, in each case of clauses (i) and (ii), other than an Immaterial Subsidiary.

Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Technical Information” means all confidential and proprietary information, including know-how, any information of a scientific, technical, or commercial nature related to any Product Commercialization and Development Activities, any information of a business nature in any form or medium, standards and specifications, conceptions, ideas, innovations, discoveries, Invention disclosures, all documented research, developmental, demonstration or engineering work and all other information, data (including experimental data), plans, specifications, reports, summaries, processes, formulae, methods, methodologies, manuals, models and samples.

Term SOFR” means,

(a) for any calculation with respect to a SOFR Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (such day, the “Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day, and

 

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(b) for any calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any day, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one month on the day (such day, the “Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day”) that is two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Base Rate Term SOFR Determination Day;

provided, further, that if Term SOFR determined as provided above (including pursuant to the proviso under clause (a) or clause (b) above) shall ever be less than the Floor, then Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor.

Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Agent (acting upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders, in their reasonable discretion).

Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

Title IV Plan” means an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) other than a Multiemployer Plan (i) that is or was at any time maintained or sponsored by any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof or to which any Obligor or any ERISA Affiliate thereof has ever made, or was obligated to make, contributions, and (ii) that is or was subject to Section 412 of the Code, Section 302 of ERISA or Title IV of ERISA.

Total Market Cap” means, as of any date of determination, the product of (x) the number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock on such date, multiplied by (y) the per share closing price of the Common Stock as of the end of the most recent Trading Date.

Trademarks” means all trade names, service names, trademarks and service marks, logos, trademark and service mark registrations, and applications for trademark and service mark registrations, including (i) all renewals of trademark and service mark registrations, (ii) any income, fees, royalties, damages or payments now, previously or hereafter due and payable with respect thereto, and (iii) all rights sue for or collect any damages for past, present and future infringements thereof, together, in each case, with the goodwill of the business connected with the use thereof.

Transactions” means the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance by each Obligor of this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Obligor is (or is intended to be) a party, the making of the Loans hereunder, and all other transactions contemplated pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

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Trading Day” means any day on which the Common Stock is traded for any period on the New York Stock Exchange, or on the principal United States securities exchange or trading market on which the Common Stock is then being traded; provided, however, that during any period in which the Common Stock is not listed or quoted on the New York Stock Exchange, or any other United States securities exchange or trading market, the term “Trading Day” shall mean any Business Day.

UCC” means, with respect to any applicable jurisdictions, the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such jurisdiction, as may be modified from time to time.

UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.

United Kingdom” means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

UK Guarantor” means any Guarantor incorporated in England and Wales.

UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

UK Security Document” means any Security Document governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America, its fifty (50) states and the District of Columbia.

U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.

U.S. Person” means a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.03(f)(ii)(B)(3).

Warrant” means, collectively, (i) that certain Warrant to Purchase Common Stock of Nevro Corp., dated as of the Closing Date, issued by the Borrower in favor of Braidwell or its Affiliates and (ii) any other warrant or warrants issued by the Borrower during the term of this Agreement in favor of the Lenders to purchase Equity Interests of the Borrower.

 

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Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness on any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the product obtained by multiplying (x) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (y) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (ii) then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.

Withdrawal Liability” means, at any time, any liability incurred (whether or not assessed) by any ERISA Affiliate and not yet satisfied or paid in full at such time with respect to any Multiemployer Plan pursuant to Section 4201 of ERISA.

Withholding Agent” means any of the Borrower, any other Obligor or the Agent.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

1.02 Accounting Terms and Principles. Unless otherwise specified, all accounting terms used in each Loan Document shall be interpreted, and all accounting determinations and computations thereunder (including under Section 10 and any definitions used in such calculations) shall be made, in accordance with GAAP. Unless otherwise expressly provided, all financial covenants and defined financial terms shall be computed on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in each case without duplication. If the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of (a) any change in GAAP or the application thereof or (b) the issuance of any new accounting rule or guidance or in the application thereof, in either case, occurring after the Closing Date, then the Lenders and the Borrower agree that they will negotiate in good faith amendments to the provisions of this Agreement that are directly affected by such change or issuance with the intent of having the respective positions of the Lenders and the Borrower after such change or issuance conform as nearly as possible to their respective positions as of the Closing Date and, until any such amendments have been agreed upon, (i) the provisions in this Agreement shall be calculated as if no such change or issuance has occurred and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Lenders a written reconciliation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lenders, between calculations of any baskets and other requirements hereunder before and after giving effect to such change or issuance. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, for purposes of Section 9 hereof and any other negative covenant in the Loan Documents (but not, for the avoidance of doubt any financial reporting obligations under the Loan Documents), with respect to the accounting for leases as either operating leases or capital leases and the impact of such accounting in accordance with ASC 842 on the definitions and covenants contained herein, GAAP as in effect on December 31, 2018, shall be applied.

 

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Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein or in any other Loan Document, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein and in the other Loan Documents shall be made, without giving effect to (a) any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 159 (Codification of Accounting Standards 825-10) (or any other Codification of Accounting Standards or Statement of Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of the Borrower or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined therein, or (b) any treatment of Indebtedness in respect of convertible debt instruments under Codification of Accounting Standards 470-20 (or any other Codification of Accounting Standards or Statement of Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any such Indebtedness in a reduced or bifurcated manner as described therein, and such Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof.

1.03 Interpretation. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires,

(a) the terms defined in this Agreement include the plural as well as the singular and vice versa;

(b) words importing gender include all genders;

(c) any reference to a Section, Annex, Schedule or Exhibit refers to a Section of, or Annex, Schedule or Exhibit to, this Agreement;

(d) any reference to “this Agreement” refers to this Agreement, including all Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits hereto, and the words herein, hereof, hereto and hereunder and words of similar import refer to this Agreement and its Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits as a whole and not to any particular Section, Annex, Schedule, Exhibit or any other subdivision;

(e) references to days, months and years refer to calendar days, months and years, respectively;

(f) all references herein to “include” or “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”;

(g) the word “from” when used in connection with a period of time means “from and including” and the word “until” means “to but not including”;

(h) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer broadly to any and all assets and properties, whether tangible or intangible, real or personal, including cash, securities, rights under contractual obligations and permits and any right or interest in any such assets or properties;

(i) accounting terms not specifically defined herein (other than “property” and “asset”) shall be construed in accordance with GAAP;

 

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(j) where any provision in this Agreement or any other Loan Document refers to an action to be taken by any Person, or an action which such Person is prohibited from taking, such provision shall be applicable whether such action is taken directly or indirectly;

(k) the word “will” shall have the same meaning as the word “shall”;

(l) references to any Lien granted or created hereunder or pursuant to any other Loan Document securing any Obligations shall be deemed to be a Lien for the benefit of the Secured Parties;

(m) references to any Law will include all statutory and regulatory provisions amending, consolidating, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law from time to time; and

(n) references to “knowledge” shall mean, with respect to any Person, actual knowledge after reasonable inquiry of any Responsible Officer or facts and circumstances that a Responsible Officer would become aware of with reasonable inquiry.

Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, references to organizational documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto permitted by the Loan Documents.

1.04 Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (i) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (ii) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

1.05 Times of Day; Times of Performance.

(a) Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to New York City time (daylight or standard, as applicable).

(b) If any delivery or other performance obligation hereunder (including payments) falls due on a day which is not a Business Day, then such due date shall be extended to the immediately following Business Day; provided that, with respect to payment only, if such following Business Day would fall after the Maturity Date, payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

1.06 Interest Rates. Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to (a) the continuation of, internal administration of, submission of, or internal calculation of, the Term SOFR Reference Rate or Term SOFR, or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or any alternative successor or replacement rate thereto (including any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark

 

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Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes consented to by the Borrower. The Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Base Rate, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, that are unrelated to the Obligations, in each case, that is not in violation or contravention of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, in a manner adverse to the Borrower. The Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Base Rate, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR or any other Benchmark, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall, to the extent such actions are taken in accordance and compliance with this Agreement, have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind; provided that the foregoing absence of liability shall not apply to the extent it is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non-appealable judgement to have resulted from gross negligence or willful misconduct.

SECTION 2

THE COMMITMENTS AND THE LOANS

2.01 Loans.

(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, each Lender agrees to make the Loan to the Borrower, in a single Borrowing on the Closing Date, in an aggregate principal amount for all Lenders of $200,000,000.00 in immediately available funds. Upon the receipt of funds from the Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall disburse such amounts as set forth in, and in accordance with, the Borrowing Notice.

(b) No amounts repaid or prepaid with respect to any Loan may be reborrowed.

(c) Any term or provision hereof (or of any other Loan Document) to the contrary notwithstanding, Loans made hereunder will be denominated solely in Dollars, and all Loans and other Obligations will be repayable solely in Dollars and no other currency.

2.02 Borrowing Procedures. At least three (3) Business Days prior to the Borrowing on the Closing Date, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent an irrevocable Borrowing Notice, which notice, if received by the Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the next Business Day.

2.03 Notes. If requested by any Lender, any Loan of such Lender shall be evidenced by one or more Notes. The Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to the Lender such Notes in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

2.04 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Loans for purposes of (i) the funding of all or any portion of the consideration to be paid in respect of the Specified Acquisition (including Specified Acquisition Milestone Payments), (ii) repurchasing all or any portion of the Existing Convertible Notes, (iii) working capital and general corporate purposes, and (iv) without duplication, the payment of fees and expenses associated with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the Specified Acquisition Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.

 

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2.05 Closing Fee. On the Closing Date, the Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, to the Agent (which may be netted from the proceeds of the Loans to be made on the Closing Date) for distribution to each Lender in accordance with its Proportionate Share of the Loans, a fully-earned, non-refundable fee (the “Closing Fee”) in an aggregate amount equal to 0.50% of the aggregate amount of the Commitments as of the Closing Date ($1,000,000). Payment of the Closing Fee shall be in addition to any fees, costs and expenses due and payable pursuant to Section 14.03.

2.06 Agent Fee. In addition to any fees, costs and expenses due and payable pursuant to Section 14.03, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Agent, for its own account, the fees set forth in the Agency Fee Letter in the amounts and at the times specified therein.

SECTION 3

PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST

3.01 Repayments Generally; Application.

(a) The outstanding principal balance of the Loans shall be paid in full, to the Agent for the account of each Lender in accordance with its Proportionate Shares thereof, on the Maturity Date.

(b) Subject to Section 3.02(c), the Borrower agrees that all amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, in respect of any Loans, fees or interest accrued or accruing thereon, or any other Obligations, shall be repaid and prepaid solely in Dollars. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, proceeds of each payment (including each repayment and prepayment of Loans) by or on behalf of the Borrower shall be deemed to be made ratably to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares of the Loans being repaid or prepaid.

3.02 Interest.

(a) Interest Generally. The outstanding principal amount of the Loans, as well as the amount of all other outstanding Obligations, shall accrue interest at the applicable Interest Rate on and from the Closing Date. The Agent’s determination of the applicable Interest Rate shall be binding on the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and the Lenders in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error.

(b) Default Interest. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default described in clauses (a), (b), and (h) of Section 11.01, and (ii) upon notice from the Agent (acting at the instruction of the Majority Lenders) upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any other Event of Default, the Applicable Margin shall increase automatically by three percent (3.0%) per annum (the Interest Rate, as increased pursuant to this Section 3.02(b), being the “Default Rate”).

 

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(c) Interest Payment Dates. Accrued interest on the Loans shall be payable in cash, in arrears, on each Payment Date, and upon the payment or prepayment of the Loans (on the principal amount being so paid or prepaid); provided, that, solely with respect to the Applicable Margin of any such accrued interest, a portion thereof equal to the Applicable PIK Amount shall, unless otherwise elected by the Borrower, be paid in kind (and not in cash) and added to the principal balance of the Loans and thereafter shall be considered principal of the Loans for all purposes, including, without limitation, for purposes of redemption and calculation of interest on subsequent Payment Dates; provided, further, that interest payable at the Default Rate, or any accrued interest not paid on or before the Maturity Date, shall be payable from time to time in cash on demand by the Agent until paid in full. In order to elect to pay interest in cash, the Borrower shall submit a written notice to the Agent not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the applicable Payment Date, indicating the amount of interest to be paid in cash; if, for any Payment Date, the Agent has not received an election from the Borrower in accordance with this sentence, then the interest due on such Payment Date shall be paid in kind (and not in cash), in an amount equal to the Applicable PIK Amount.

3.03 Prepayments; Prepayment Fees.

(a) Optional Prepayments.

(i) Subject to prior written notice pursuant to clause 3.03(a)(ii) below, the payment of the Early Prepayment Fee pursuant to clause (c) below and the Exit Fee pursuant to Section 3.04, the Borrower shall have the right to optionally prepay, in whole or in part, the outstanding principal amount of the Loans on a Prepayment Date; provided that any such partial prepayment shall be shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000 and in multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof; provided, further, that, in addition to such prepaid principal amount and the Early Prepayment Fee payable pursuant to clause (c) below, the Borrower shall also make payment in full in cash on such Prepayment Date of all accrued but unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid (such aggregate amount of principal, the Early Prepayment Fee payable pursuant to clause (c) below, the Exit Fee payable pursuant to Section 3.04 below and accrued interest, the “Prepayment Price”).

(ii) A notice of optional prepayment shall be effective only if received by the Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a date not less than three (3) Business Days (or such shorter period agreed to by the Majority Lenders in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed Prepayment Date. Each notice of optional prepayment shall specify the proposed Prepayment Date, the principal amount of the Loans to be prepaid, the amount of accrued and unpaid interest that will be paid on the Prepayment Date, and, in reasonable detail, a calculation of the Early Prepayment Fee and the Exit Fee, payable on such Prepayment Date in connection with such proposed prepayment. The Borrower’s notice of optional prepayment may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities or one or more other events specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied.

 

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(b) Mandatory Prepayments.

(i) Within five (5) Business Days of the receipt by any Obligor of Net Cash Proceeds from the occurrence of any Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale, in either case in excess of $2,500,000 in the aggregate during any fiscal year, the Borrower shall cause an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Net Cash Proceeds received with respect to such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale (or in the case of a Specified Asset Sale pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of Permitted License, fifty percent (50%) of the Net Cash Proceeds received with respect to such Specified Asset Sale), as the case may be, to be applied and allocated as set forth in clause (d) below to (i) the prepayment of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans, (ii) the payment of accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid and (iii) the payment of the Early Prepayment Fee payable pursuant to clause (c) below and the Exit Fee payable pursuant to Section 3.04 below.

(ii) Notwithstanding clause (i) above, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or shall immediately result therefrom, if, prior to the date a prepayment is required pursuant to clause (i) above, a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivers to the Agent a notice to the effect that the Borrower intends to apply (or cause to be applied) the Net Cash Proceeds from such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale, to (A) repair, refurbish, restore, replace or rebuild the asset subject to such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale, (B) the cost of purchase or constructing other assets useful in the business of the Borrower or another Obligor, or (C) other general corporate purposes (excluding Restricted Payments) permitted by the terms of this Agreement, then such Net Cash Proceeds of such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale may be applied for such purpose in lieu of such mandatory prepayment otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.03(b)(i) to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds of such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale are actually applied for such purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that Net Cash Proceeds have not been so applied within three hundred sixty (360) days following the occurrence of such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale, the Borrower shall cause an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such unused balance of such Net Cash Proceeds with respect to such Casualty Event or Specified Asset Sale, as the case may be, to be applied and allocated as set forth in clause (d) below to the prepayment of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans, together with payment of accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of the Loans being so prepaid, the applicable Early Prepayment Fee payable pursuant to clause (c) below and the Exit Fee pursuant to Section 3.04 below.

(c) Early Prepayment Fee. Without limiting the foregoing, whenever any repayment or prepayment of Loans is made or required to be made hereunder, pursuant to Section 3.03(a), Section 3.03(b) or otherwise, whether voluntary, involuntary, mandatory, as a result of an Event of Default, acceleration or otherwise (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, repayment on or after the scheduled Maturity Date), the Early Prepayment Fee shall be payable in full in cash on the applicable Prepayment Date for such repayment or prepayment. Until payment in full in cash of all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made), all Early Prepayment Fees shall continue to be due and payable, including after the occurrence of any Event of Default, acceleration, maturity or otherwise.

 

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(d) Application.

(i) With respect to any payment, repayment or prepayment made pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above, the aggregate amount of such payment, repayment or prepayment shall be applied and allocated to (A) the prepayment of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans (including capitalized interest), (B) the payment of accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount being prepaid and (C) the payment of any applicable Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee such that the full amount of the principal amount of the Loans being prepaid, together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon and the Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee payable hereunder, shall be paid in full through such application and allocation of such aggregate amount of such payment, repayment or prepayment.

(ii) With respect to any other payment, repayment or prepayment of the outstanding principal amount of the Loans (including, for the avoidance of doubt, upon the maturity or following the acceleration thereof, whether from the proceeds of Collateral or otherwise), proceeds thereof shall be applied in the following order of priority, with proceeds being applied to a succeeding level of priority only if amounts owing pursuant to the immediately preceding level of priority have been paid in full in cash; provided that all such applications to Lenders shall be made in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares:

(A) first, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations payable to the Agent constituting fees, indemnities, costs, expenses, and other amounts then due and owing (including fees and disbursements and other charges of counsel payable under Section 14.03);

(B) second, to the payment of that portion of the Obligations payable to the Lenders constituting fees (other than any Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee), indemnities, expenses, and other amounts then due and owing (including fees and disbursements and other charges of counsel payable under Section 14.03) ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (ii) payable to them;

(C) third, to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest then due and owing;

(D) fourth, to the payment of unpaid principal of the Loans (including capitalized interest);

(E) fifth, to the payment of any Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee then due and payable;

(F) sixth, to the payment in full of all other Obligations then due and payable to the Agent and the Lenders, ratably among them accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares, to the extent such Obligations are payable to them; and

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3.04 Exit Fee. In addition to any fees payable pursuant to Section 3.03(c), on the date of each repayment or prepayment of all or any portion of the Loans, whether by voluntary, involuntary or mandatory prepayment or repayment (including upon payment in full of the Obligations on the Maturity Date or otherwise), acceleration (including as a result of the occurrence of any event described in Section 11.01(h)) or otherwise, and whether on, prior to or after the scheduled Maturity Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent a fully-earned and nonrefundable exit fee equal to three percent (3.00%) of the principal amount of such repayment or prepayment (an “Exit Fee”). Until payment in full in cash of all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made), all Exit Fees shall continue to be due and payable, including after the occurrence of any Event of Default, acceleration, maturity or otherwise.

3.05 AHYDO Catch-Up Payment. If a Loan hereunder would otherwise constitute an ‘applicable high yield discount obligation’ within the meaning of Section 163(i)(1) of the Code (an “AHYDO”), on any Payment Date on or after the accrual period that ends after the date that is five years after the date of the Borrowing of such Loan, Borrower shall pay a minimum amount of accrued and unpaid interest on the Loan (including any Applicable PIK Amount that has been added to the principal balance of the Loans) in cash as shall be necessary to ensure that the Loan shall not be considered an AHYDO.

SECTION 4

PAYMENTS, ETC.

4.01 Payments.

(a) Payments Generally. Each payment of principal, interest and other amounts to be made by the Obligors under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be made (i) in Dollars, in immediately available funds, without deduction (except to the extent provided in Section 5.03), set off or counterclaim, to the Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, to the deposit account of the Agent designated by the Agent by notice to the Borrower, and (ii) not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date on which such payment is due (each such payment made after such time on such due date shall be deemed to have been made on the next succeeding Business Day).

(b) Application of Payments. All such payments referenced in clause (a) above shall be applied as set forth in Section 3.03(d) above.

(c) Non-Business Days. If the due date of any payment under this Agreement (whether in respect of principal, interest, fees, costs or otherwise) would otherwise fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day; provided that if such next succeeding Business Day would fall after the Maturity Date, payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

4.02 Computations. All computations of interest and fees hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty (360) days and actual days elapsed during the period for which payable, except in the case of interest computed by reference to the Base Rate, which shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year). The date of funding of a Loan shall be included in the calculation of interest, and the date of payment of a Loan shall be excluded from the calculation of interest.

 

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4.03 Set-Off.

(a) Set-Off Generally. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Agent, each of the Lenders and each of their Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness or obligations at any time owing by the Agent, any Lender and any of their Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of any Obligor against any and all of the Obligations, whether or not such Person shall have made any demand and although such obligations may be unmatured. Any Person exercising rights of set off hereunder agrees promptly to notify the Borrower after any such set-off and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights of the Agent, the Lenders and each of their Affiliates under this Section 4.03 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of set-off) that such Persons may have.

(b) Exercise of Rights Not Required. Nothing contained in Section 4.03(a) shall require the Agent or any Lender to exercise any such right or shall affect the right of such Persons to exercise, and retain the benefits of exercising, any such right with respect to any other indebtedness or obligation of any Obligor.

(c) Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of any Obligor is made to the Agent or any Lender, or the Agent or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Agent or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, then (i) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (ii) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective Rate from time to time in effect.

SECTION 5

YIELD PROTECTION, ETC.

5.01 Additional Costs.

(a) Changes in Law Generally. If, on or after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes party to this Agreement), the adoption of any Law, or any change in any Law, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any court or other Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by the Agent or any of the Lenders (or its lending office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, shall

 

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impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve (including any such requirement imposed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), special deposit, contribution, insurance assessment or similar requirement, in each case that becomes effective after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes party to this Agreement), against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, a Lender (or its lending office) or other Recipient or shall impose on a Lender (or its lending office) or other Recipient any other condition affecting the Loans or the Commitment, not as a result of any action or inaction on the part of such Lender, and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender or such other Recipient of making or maintaining the Loans, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or other Recipient under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or subject any Lender or other Recipient to any Taxes on its loans, loan principal, commitments or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital (if any) attributable thereto (other than (i) Indemnified Taxes, (ii) Taxes described in clauses (ii) through (iv) of the definition of “Excluded Taxes” and (iii) Connection Income Taxes), then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender or other Recipient within five (5) Business Days after any demand for such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction.

(b) Change in Capital Requirements. If a Lender shall have determined that, on or after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes party to this Agreement), the adoption of any applicable Law regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, in each case that becomes effective after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes party to this Agreement), has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on capital of a Lender (or its parent) as a consequence of a Lender’s obligations hereunder or the Loans to a level below that which a Lender (or its parent) could have achieved but for such adoption, change, request or directive by an amount reasonably deemed by it to be material, then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender within five (5) Business Days after any demand for such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender (or its parent) for such reduction.

(c) Notification by Lender. Each Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of any event of which it has knowledge, occurring after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes party to this Agreement), which will entitle such Lender to compensation pursuant to this Section 5.01, together with a certificate setting forth the calculation (in reasonable detail) of such compensation. Before giving any such notice pursuant to this Section 5.01(c) such Lender shall designate a different lending office if such designation (x) will, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, avoid the need for, or reduce the amount of, such compensation and (y) will not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, be materially disadvantageous to such Lender. A certificate of such Lender claiming compensation under this Section 5.01, setting forth in reasonable detail the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder, shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower in the absence of manifest or demonstrable error.

 

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(d) Delays in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.01 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 5.01 for any increased costs or reductions incurred or suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the circumstance giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the circumstances giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

(e) Other Changes. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to constitute a change in Law for all purposes of this Section 5.01, regardless of the date enacted or adopted.

(f) General Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall only be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 5.01 to the extent it is such Person’s general policy or practice to demand compensation from debtors similarly situated in similar circumstances under comparable provisions of other financing agreements (it being understood that this paragraph shall not be deemed to require any such Person to make available any information that it deems in its reasonable discretion confidential).

5.02 Making or Maintaining SOFR Loans.

(a) Inability to Determine Applicable Interest Rate. Subject to 5.02(h), if, on or prior to the first day of any Interest Period for any SOFR Loan, (i) the Agent (acting upon the direction of the Majority Lenders) shall have determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto, absent manifest error) that reasonable and adequate means do not exist for ascertaining Term SOFR or (ii) the Majority Lenders determine (which determination shall be binding and conclusive absent manifest error) that for any reason in connection with any request for a SOFR Loan that Term SOFR with respect to any proposed SOFR Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making and maintaining such Loan, and the Majority Lenders have provided notice of such determination to Agent, Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Upon notice thereof by the Agent to the Borrower, any obligation of the Lenders to make SOFR Loans shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Agent (with respect to clause (b), at the instruction of the Majority Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, (i) the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of SOFR Loans (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) or, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein and (ii) any outstanding affected SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted into Base Rate Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period. Upon any such

 

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conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted. Subject to Section 5.02(h), if the Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that “Term SOFR” cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof on any given day, the interest rate on Base Rate Loans shall be determined by the Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate” until the Agent revokes such determination.

(b) Illegality. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if, on or after the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes party to this Agreement), the adoption of or any change in any applicable Law or in the interpretation or application thereof by any competent Governmental Authority shall make it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable lending office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, or Term SOFR, or to determine or charge interest based upon SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, or Term SOFR, then, upon notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower (through the Agent) (an “Illegality Notice”), (i) any obligation of the Lenders to make SOFR Loans, and any right of the Borrower to continue SOFR Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to SOFR Loans, shall be suspended, and (ii) the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate”, in each case until each affected Lender notifies the Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of an Illegality Notice, the Borrower shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, upon demand from any Lender (with a copy to the Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all SOFR Loans to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Agent without reference to clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate”), on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if all affected Lenders may lawfully continue to maintain such SOFR Loans to such day, or immediately, if any Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such SOFR Loans to such day, in each case until the Agent is advised in writing by each affected Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, or Term SOFR. Upon any such prepayment, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 5.02(c).

(c) Compensation for Breakage or Non-Commencement of Interest Periods. The Borrower shall compensate each Lender, upon written request by such Lender (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting such amounts), for all reasonable out-of-pocket losses, expenses and liabilities (including any interest paid or calculated to be due and payable by such Lender to lenders of funds borrowed by it to make or carry its SOFR Loans and any loss, expense or liability sustained by such Lender in connection with the liquidation or re-employment of such funds but excluding loss of anticipated profits) which such Lender sustains: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender) a borrowing of any SOFR Loans does not occur on a date specified therefor in the Borrowing Notice for such SOFR Loans; (ii) if any prepayment or other principal payment of any SOFR Loans occurs on any day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable to such Loans (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise), including as a result of an assignment in connection with the replacement of a Lender pursuant to Section 5.04; (iii) for any failure to borrow or prepay any of its SOFR Loans on any date specified in a notice given by such Borrower; or (iv) the assignment of any SOFR Loans for acceptance and purchase other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower.

 

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(d) Booking of SOFR Loans. Any Lender may make, carry or transfer SOFR Loans at, to or for the account of any of its branch offices or the office of an Affiliate of such Lender.

(e) [Reserved].

(f) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender setting forth in reasonable detail the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender, as specified in paragraph (c) of this Section 5.02 and the circumstances giving rise thereto shall be delivered to such Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. In the absence of any such manifest error, such Borrower shall pay such Lender, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) Business Days after receipt thereof.

(g) Delay in Requests. The Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to Section 5.02(c) for any such amounts incurred more than nine (9) months prior to the date that such Lender delivers to such Borrower the certificate referenced in Section 5.02(f).

(h) Benchmark Replacement Setting.

(i) Benchmark Replacement.

(A) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Agent may amend this Agreement to replace the then-current Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement. Any such amendment with respect to a Benchmark Transition Event will become effective at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the Agent has posted such proposed amendment to all affected Lenders and the Borrower so long as the Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such amendment from Lenders comprising the Majority Lenders. No replacement of a Benchmark with a Benchmark Replacement pursuant to this Section 5.02(h)(i) will occur prior to the applicable Benchmark Transition Start Date.

1. No Hedging Agreement shall be deemed to be a “Loan Document” for purposes of this Section 5.02(h).

(ii) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

2. Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark

 

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Replacement. The Agent will notify the Borrower of (x) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to Section 5.02(h)(e) and (y) the commencement of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 5.02(h), including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 5.02(h).

(iii) Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Agent may, in its reasonable discretion, modify the definition of “Interest Period” (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.

3. Benchmark Unavailability Period. Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a SOFR Borrowing of SOFR Loans to be made during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. During a Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Base Rate based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of Base Rate.

5.03 Taxes.

(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any Obligation shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If any applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such

 

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deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by such Obligor shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 5.03) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.

(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. The Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of the Agent or each Lender, timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c) Evidence of Payments. As soon as reasonably practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section 5.03, the Borrower shall deliver to the Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Agent.

(d) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower and each other Obligor party hereto each hereby jointly and severally agree to indemnify, hold harmless and reimburse each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 5.03) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Agent), or by the Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest or demonstrable error.

(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Agent, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 14.05(g) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register, and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest or demonstrable error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Agent under this clause (e).

 

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(f) Status of Lenders.

(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or as reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 5.03(f)(ii)(A), 5.03(f)(ii)(B), and 5.03(f)(ii)(D)) shall not be required if in such Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if the Borrower is a U.S. Person:

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Agent), executed copies of IRS Form W-9 (or successor form) certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax;

(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income Tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or successor forms), establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such Tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or successor forms), establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such Tax treaty;

(2) executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form);

(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or successor forms); or

 

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(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY (or successor form), accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI (or successor form), IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or successor form), a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2 or Exhibit D-3, IRS Form W-9 (or successor form), and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner.

(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Agent), executed copies of any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by such applicable Law to permit the Borrower or the Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Recipient’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount, if any, to deduct and withhold from such payment under FATCA. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.

(E) On or before the date the Agent becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower), the Agent shall provide to the Borrower executed copies of IRS Form W-9 (or successor form) certifying that the Agent is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax.

Each Recipient agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

 

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(g) Treatment of Certain Tax Benefits. If any party to this Agreement determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section 5.03 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.03), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 5.03 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this Section 5.03(g) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) if such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.03(g), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 5.03(g) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This Section 5.03(g) shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

(h) Investment Unit. The Borrower and the applicable Lenders agree, for U.S. federal income (and applicable U.S. state and local and non-U.S.) tax purposes, that (i) each of the Loans issued pursuant to this Agreement constitute an “investment unit” under Section 1273(c)(2) of the Code and United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.1273-2(h), and (ii) if the difference between the aggregate principal amount of the Loans and the aggregate “issue price” of the Loans is more than “de minimis,” the difference shall be reported as “original issue discount”. No party shall take any position inconsistent with the tax treatment set forth in this Section 5.03(h) on any U.S. federal (or applicable U.S. state or local or non-U.S.) tax return or for any other U.S. federal income (or applicable U.S. state or local or non-U.S.) tax purpose, except as required pursuant to a “determination” within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the Code or pursuant to a good faith settlement of an audit by any tax authority.

(i) Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section 5.03 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations under any Loan Document.

5.04 Mitigation Obligations. If the Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or to any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.03, then such Lender shall (at the request of the Borrower) use commercially reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign and delegate its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates if, in the sole, reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment and delegation would (i) eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 5.01 or Section 5.03, as the case may be, in the future, (ii) not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and (iii) not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment and delegation.

 

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SECTION 6

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

6.01 Conditions to the Borrowing of the Loan. The obligation of the Lenders to make the Loan on the Closing Date shall be subject to the prior or concurrent satisfaction (or waiver thereof by the Agent and each Lender) of each of the conditions precedent set forth below in this Section 6.01.

(a) Credit Agreement and Loan Documents. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received (i) from each of the parties hereto, a counterpart to this Agreement signed on behalf of such party, (ii) all other Loan Documents to be entered into on the Closing Date in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders and (iii) all information, approvals, resolutions, opinions, documents or instruments as the Lenders shall have reasonably requested in writing.

(b) Borrowing Notice. The Borrower shall have delivered to the Agent a Borrowing Notice in accordance with Section 2.02, together with a funds flow memorandum summarizing, in reasonable detail, the application of the proceeds of the Loans on the Closing Date.

(c) Warrants; Registration Rights Agreement. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received a fully-executed copy of the (i) Warrants issued by the Borrower on the Closing Date and (ii) Registration Rights Agreement, in each case, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lenders.

(d) Secretary’s Certificate, Etc. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received from each Obligor party to a Loan Document on the Closing Date:

(i) a copy of a good standing certificate or the equivalent thereof (to the extent such concepts are recognized in such jurisdictions as are applicable) of the Secretary of State (or similar official) of such Obligor’s jurisdiction of organization, dated a date reasonably close to the Closing Date, for each such Person; and

(ii) a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by such Person’s authorized officer, secretary or assistant secretary, managing member, general partner or equivalent, as to:

(A) resolutions of each such Person’s Board then in full force and effect authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of each Loan Document to be executed and delivered by such Person;

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(C) true and complete copies of each Organizational Document of such Person.

(e) Information Certificate. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received a fully completed Information Certificate, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, which is true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date. All documents and agreements required to be appended to the Information Certificate, if any, shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders, shall have been executed and delivered by the requisite parties and shall be in full force and effect.

(f) Closing Date Certificate. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received a certificate, dated as of the Closing Date and in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that: after giving effect to the Borrowing on the Closing Date, (x) the representations and warranties set forth in each Loan Document that are qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or the like are, in each case, true and correct; provided that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date, (y) the representations and warranties set forth in each Loan Document that are not qualified by materiality, Material Adverse Effect or the like are, in each case, true and correct in all material respects; provided that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date, and (z) immediately before and after the Borrowing of the Loan on the Closing Date, no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. All documents and agreements required to be appended to the certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 6.01(f), if any, shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders, shall have been, as applicable, executed and delivered by the requisite parties, and shall, as applicable, be in full force and effect.

(g) Financial Information, Etc. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received:

(i) audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower (or any predecessor thereof) and its Subsidiaries for each of the three (3) fiscal years ended prior to the Closing Date for which such audited consolidated financial statements are available; and

(ii) unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for each fiscal quarter ended at least forty five (45) days prior to the Closing Date ended after the date of the most recently available audited consolidated financial statements delivered pursuant to clause (i) above, together with the related consolidated statement of operations, shareholder’s equity and cash flows for each such fiscal quarter.

(h) Insurance. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received certificates of insurance evidencing that the insurance required to be maintained pursuant to Section 8.05 is in full force and effect, naming the Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders.

 

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(i) Solvency. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received a solvency certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I, duly executed and delivered by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders.

(j) Security Documents. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received executed counterparts of all Security Documents of all Obligors to be entered into on the Closing Date, each dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by each such Obligor, together with the following:

(i) The delivery of all certificates (in the case of Equity Interests that are securities (as defined in the UCC)) evidencing the issued and outstanding capital securities owned by each Obligor that are required to be pledged under such Security Documents, which certificates in each case shall be accompanied by undated instruments of transfer duly executed in blank, or, in the case of Equity Interests that are uncertificated securities (as defined in the UCC), confirmation and evidence satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders that the security interest required to be pledged therein under such Security Documents has been transferred to and perfected for the benefit of the Secured Parties in accordance with Articles 8 and 9 of the applicable UCC and all Laws otherwise applicable to the perfection of the pledge of such Equity Interests; provided that those certificated Equity Interests and undated instruments of transfer required to be delivered after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 8.19 shall be delivered on or before the applicable dates, and subject to the terms and conditions, provided in Section 8.19;

(ii) financing statements naming each Obligor as a debtor and the Agent as the secured party, or other similar instruments, registrations, or documents, in each case suitable for filing, filed under the UCC (or equivalent law) of all jurisdictions as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Agent or the Lenders, desirable to perfect the Liens of the Secured Parties pursuant to such Security Documents;

(iii) UCC-3 termination statements, as may be necessary to release all Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and other rights of any Person in any collateral described in the Security Documents previously granted by any Person; and

(iv) all Short-Form IP Security Agreements, Real Property Security Documents and any other agreement, document or instrument required to be provided under any Security Document, in each case, to the extent required to be provided on the Closing Date pursuant to such Security Document, duly executed and delivered by the applicable Obligors.

(k) Lien Searches. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received the results of Lien searches regarding the Borrower and its Subsidiaries made within thirty (30) days prior to the Closing Date, and such searches shall reveal no Liens on any of the assets of such Persons except for Liens permitted by Section 9.02 or to be discharged on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to documentation satisfactory to the Agent and the Lenders.

(l) Opinions of Counsel. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received one or more legal opinions, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Agent and the Lenders, from independent legal counsel to the Borrower and their Subsidiaries, and if necessary, other legal counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, in each case, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent and the Lenders.

 

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(m) [Reserved].

(n) Material Regulatory Event; Material Adverse Change. (i) Since December 31, 2020, no Material Regulatory Event has occurred and (ii) since December 31, 2022, no Material Adverse Change has occurred.

(o) Anti-Terrorism Laws. The Agent shall have received, as applicable, all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, in each case to the extent requested by the Agent or any Lender at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

(p) Governmental Approvals and Third Party Consents. The Agent and the Lenders shall have received evidence that the Borrower and the applicable Subsidiaries have obtained all Governmental Approvals and third party permits, licenses, approvals and consents necessary in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents by the Obligors, the consummation by the Obligors of their obligations in respect of Transactions or the operation and conduct of the Obligors’ business and ownership of their properties (including their Product Commercialization and Development Activities).

(q) Fees, Expenses, Etc. The Agent shall have received (or shall substantially contemporaneously with the funding of the Loans receive) for its account or the account of each Lender, as applicable, the Closing Fee and all other fees, costs and expenses due and payable pursuant to Section 14.03, to the extent a reasonably detailed invoice has been delivered to the Borrower at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Closing Date.

SECTION 7

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

The Obligors hereby jointly and severally represent and warrant to the Agent and each Lender that:

7.01 Power and Authority. Each of the Obligors (subject, in the case of the UK Guarantor only, to the Legal Reservations) (i) is duly organized or incorporated and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization or incorporation, (ii) has all requisite corporate or other organizational power, and has all Governmental Approvals necessary to own its assets and carry on its business as now being or as proposed to be conducted, including all Regulatory Approvals, (iii) is qualified to do business and, to the extent such concept is recognized in such jurisdictions as are applicable, is in good standing in all jurisdictions in which the nature of the business conducted by it makes such qualification necessary and where failure to so qualify, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (iv) has full power, authority and legal right to enter into and perform its obligations under each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to borrow the Loans hereunder.

 

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7.02 Authorization; Enforceability. (Subject, in the case of the UK Guarantor only, to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements), each Transaction to which an Obligor is a party (or to which it or any of its assets or properties is subject) is within such Person’s corporate or other powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action including, if required, approval by all necessary holders of Equity Interests. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by each Obligor party hereto and constitutes, and each of the other Loan Documents to which it is a party when executed and delivered by such Obligor, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Person, enforceable against such Person in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws of general applicability in its relevant jurisdictions affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and (ii) the application of general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

7.03 Governmental and Other Approvals; No Conflicts. No authorization or approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person (other than those that have been duly obtained or made and which are in full force and effect) is required for the due execution, delivery or performance by any Obligor of any Loan Document to which it is a party, except for filings and recordings in respect of perfecting or recording the Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents and including in respect of the UK Security Documents the Perfection Requirements. The execution, delivery and performance by each Obligor of each Loan Document to which it is a party will not (i) violate or conflict with any applicable Law in any material respect, (ii) violate or conflict with any Organizational Document of such Obligor, (iii) violate or conflict with any applicable Governmental Approval of any Governmental Authority or (iv) violate or result in a default under any Material Agreement binding upon such Obligor that, with respect to the foregoing clauses (i), (iii) or (iv), individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each Obligor, its Subsidiaries and their respective properties and businesses are in compliance in all respects with all applicable Laws (including Healthcare Laws) and Governmental Approvals applicable to such Person and its properties or businesses, as the case may be, except where the failure to so comply would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Regulatory Event.

7.04 Financial Statements; Material Adverse Change.

(a) Financial Statements. The consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 6.01(g) present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position and results of operations, cash flows and shareholders’ equity of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the dates and for such periods as to which such financial statement relate, in each case in accordance with GAAP. All financial statements delivered by the Borrower after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 8.01 present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position and results of operations, cash flows and shareholders’ equity of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements of the type described in Section 8.01(b).

 

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(b) No Material Adverse Change. Since December 31, 2022, there has been no Material Adverse Change.

7.05 Properties.

(a) Property Generally. With respect to all real and personal assets and properties of each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries (other than Intellectual Property which is covered in clause (c) below), such Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries has good and valid title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all such real and personal property, whether tangible or intangible, material to its business, including all Products and all properties and assets of such Obligor and its Subsidiaries relating to their Products or Product Commercialization and Development Activities, subject only to Permitted Liens.

(b) Products. Schedule 7.05(b) contains, as of the Closing Date, a complete and accurate list and description (in reasonable detail) of all commercialized Products (set forth on an Obligor-by-Obligor or Subsidiary-by-Subsidiary basis, as the case may be).

(c) Intellectual Property.

(i) Schedule 7.05(c) contains, as of the Closing Date, with respect to each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries (set forth on an Obligor-by-Obligor or Subsidiary-by-Subsidiary basis):

(A) a complete and accurate list of all pending patent applications or unexpired, non-lapsed, non-abandoned, issued Patents, owned by such Obligor or Subsidiary, including the jurisdiction and patent number;

(B) a complete and accurate list of all Trademark applications and registrations, owned by such Obligor or Subsidiary, including the jurisdiction, trademark application or registration number and the application or registration date; and

(C) a complete and accurate list of all Copyright applications or registrations owned by or exclusively licensed to such Obligor or Subsidiary.

(ii) As of the Closing Date, the Borrower is the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to Intellectual Property indicated on Schedule 7.05(c) with good and valid title, free and clear of any Liens of any kind whatsoever other than Permitted Liens, and the Borrower has the right to exercise its rights under such Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of its businesses as currently conducted or as anticipated to be conducted in a written roadmap. Without limiting the foregoing, and except as set forth on Schedule 7.05(c), as of the Closing Date:

(A) other than as permitted by Section 9.09 none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries has transferred ownership of any Material Intellectual Property, in whole or in part, to any Person who is not an Obligor;

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(C) the conduct of the business of each Obligor and its Subsidiaries as currently conducted or as anticipated to be conducted does not, to the knowledge of any of the Obligors, breach, violate, infringe or interfere with or constitute a misappropriation of any valid rights arising under any Intellectual Property of any other Person;

(D) (1) there are no pending written, or to any of the Obligor’s or its Subsidiaries’ knowledge, threatened Claims, and there have not been any written Claims in the past two (2) years, in each case against any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries asserted by any other Person relating to any Obligor or its Subsidiaries’ ownership or use of any Material Intellectual Property including any Claims of adverse ownership, invalidity, infringement, misappropriation, violation or other opposition to or conflict with such Intellectual Property; and (2) none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries has received any written notice in the past two (2) years from any other Person that the business of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries as currently conducted or as anticipated to be conducted, the use of Material Intellectual Property by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries in the conduct of the Obligors’ business as currently conducted or as anticipated to be conducted, or any Product Commercialization and Development Activities with respect to any Product, infringes upon, violates or constitutes a misappropriation of, or may infringe upon, violate or constitute a misappropriation of, or otherwise interfere with, or otherwise offering a license with respect to, any Intellectual Property of any such other Person, in each case, which has not been finally resolved;

(E) all relevant current and former employees and contractors of each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries who contributed within the scope of their employment or engagement, as applicable, to the creation or development of any Material Intellectual Property owned or purported to be owned by such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, have executed written confidentiality and valid and enforceable invention assignment Contracts with such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, that irrevocably (to the extent permitted under applicable Law) assigns to such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, or its designee all rights of such employees and contractors to any such Material Intellectual Property; and

(F) each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries has taken reasonable precautions to protect the secrecy, confidentiality and value of its Technical Information constituting Material Intellectual Property.

(iii) with respect to the Patents constituting Material Intellectual Property that are owned, purported to be owned by, or exclusively licensed to an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, except as set forth on Schedule 7.05(c) as of the Closing Date, and without limiting the representations and warranties in Section 7.05(c)(ii), as of the Closing Date:

(A) to the knowledge of each of the Obligors and each of its Subsidiaries, each of the issued claims in such issued, non-expired, non-lapsed, non-abandoned Patents is valid and enforceable;

(B) each inventor, including any Person who was an employee or contractor of an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, named in such Patents, has executed written Contracts with an Obligor or its predecessor-in-interest that properly and irrevocably assigns to such Obligor or its predecessor-in-interest all of such inventor’s rights, title and interest to any of the Inventions claimed in such Patents;

 

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(C) no such issued Patents, or the Inventions claimed in any such Patent, have been dedicated to the public except through natural expiration as a result of intentional decisions made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in their reasonable, good faith judgment;

(D) none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries has knowledge of any ongoing interference, re-examination, opposition, inter partes review, post grant review or any other post-grant proceedings of any allowable or allowed claims in such Patents;

(E) with the exception of publicly available documents in the applicable patent office recorded with respect to any Patents, none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries has received any written notice asserting that such Patents are invalid, unpatentable or unenforceable except as occurs in the normal course of prosecution by the relevant patent office with regard to pending patent applications;

(F) none of the Obligors, nor any of their Subsidiaries, or any of their respective agents or representatives, has engaged in any conduct, or omitted to perform any necessary act, the result of which would invalidate or render unpatentable or unenforceable any such Patent; and

(G) all maintenance fees, annuities, and the like due or payable on or with respect to any such Patents have been timely paid.

(iv) The Obligors own or hold all necessary rights to conduct all Product Commercialization and Development Activities relating to the Products as such activities are currently conducted or as anticipated to be conducted in a written roadmap; provided that this Section 7.05(c)(iv) shall not constitute a representation or warranty regarding the infringement, misappropriation, or violation of Intellectual Property.

7.06 No Actions or Proceedings.

(a) Litigation. As of the Closing Date, except as specified on Schedule 7.06(a), there is no Proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, threatened, with respect to each Obligor and any of their Subsidiaries by or before any Governmental Authority or arbitrator that (i) could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Regulatory Event, or (ii) involves this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Transactions.

(b) Environmental Matters. The operations and property of each Obligor and each of their Subsidiaries comply with all applicable Environmental Laws, except to the extent the failure to so comply (either individually or in the aggregate) could not reasonably be expected to result in Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(c) Labor Matters. There are no strikes, lockouts or other material labor disputes against any Obligor or any of their Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of each Obligor, threatened against or affecting such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, and no material unfair labor practice complaint is pending against such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of such Obligor, threatened against any of them before any Governmental Authority. Except as set forth on Schedule 7.06(c), as of the Closing Date, none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries is a party to any collective bargaining agreements or similar Contracts, no union representation exists on any facilities of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries and none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries has any knowledge of any union organizing activities that are taking place.

7.07 Compliance with Laws.

(a) Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable Laws, except (other than with respect to Material Intellectual Property, as covered in Section 7.05(c)) where the failure to do so could not individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Regulatory Event.

(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries is, and at all times during the past six (6) years has been, in compliance with all applicable Healthcare Laws and Regulatory Approvals, except where the failure to do so could not individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Regulatory Event. None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries has, during the last three (3) years, received any written notice from any Governmental Authority of any material violation (or of any investigation, audit, or other proceeding involving allegations of any violation) of any Healthcare Laws.

(c) None of the Obligors, their Subsidiaries, nor any of their officers, directors, employees, or, to the knowledge of such Obligor or any Subsidiary, agents, is or, during the past six (6) years, has been debarred or excluded from participation under any state or federal health care program or under any federal Law, including any state or federal workers compensation programs.

(d) None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries is a party to any corporate integrity agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, or similar agreements with, or imposed by, any Governmental Authority.

7.08 Taxes. Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it (whether or not shown on such Tax returns), except (i) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or (ii) to the extent that the failure to so file or pay could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

7.09 Full Disclosure. None of the reports, financial statements, certificates or other written information furnished by or on behalf of the Obligors to the Agent or any Lender (other than information of a general economic or industry-specific nature) in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or delivered hereunder or thereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains, as of the date such report,

 

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statement, or certificate was so furnished, and, taken as a whole, any material misstatement of material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading in any material respect; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, each Obligor represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time so furnished (it being understood by the Agent and the Lenders that such projected financial information is not to be viewed as facts, and that no assurances can be given that any particular projections will be realized and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results and such differences may be material).

7.10 Investment Company Act and Margin Stock Regulation.

(a) Investment Company Act. None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries is, or is required to be registered as, an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

(b) Margin Stock. None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying or carrying Margin Stock, and no part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used to buy or carry any Margin Stock in violation of Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X.

7.11 Solvency. The Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are, and, immediately after giving effect to the Borrowing and the use of proceeds thereof on the Closing Date, will be Solvent.

7.12 Equity Holders, Subsidiaries and Other Investments.

(a) As of the Closing Date, set forth on Schedule 7.12(a) is a complete and correct list of all direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Borrower. As of the Closing Date the jurisdiction of its organization shown in Schedule 7.12(a), and the percentage ownership by the Borrower of each such Subsidiary thereof is as shown in Schedule 7.12(a).

(b) As of the Closing Date, set forth on Schedule 7.12(b) is a complete and correct list of all other Equity Interests owned or held by any Obligor in any Person that does not qualify as a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 7.12(b) also sets forth, in reasonable detail, the type of Equity Interest held by each Obligor in such other Person and the fully-diluted percentage ownership held beneficially by the Borrower or one or more of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in such other Person.

 

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7.13 [Reserved].

7.14 Material Agreements. As of the Closing Date, set forth on Schedule 7.14 is a complete and correct list of (i) each Material Agreement and (ii) each Contract creating or evidencing any Material Indebtedness, in each case, as of the Closing Date. Accurate and complete copies of each Material Agreement disclosed on such schedule have been made available to the Lenders, unless the Borrower is prohibited from sharing all or a portion of such Material Agreement due to applicable confidentiality obligations. As of the Closing Date, no Obligor nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default or reasonably expected to be in default under any Material Agreement in any respect, nor does any Obligor have knowledge of (i) any Claim against it or any of its Subsidiaries for any breach of any such Material Agreement that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Product Commercialization and Development Activities material to the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or (ii) any default by any party to any such Material Agreement that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a material adverse effect on any Product Commercialization and Development Activities material to the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.

7.15 [Reserved].

7.16 Real Property. As of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 7.16, none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries owns or leases (as tenant thereof) (excluding any co-working arrangements) any real property.

7.17 Pension Matters. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 7.17 sets forth a complete and correct list of, and that separately identifies, (i) all Title IV Plans, and (ii) all Multiemployer Plans. Except for those that could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (x) each Benefit Plan and Foreign Pension Plan is in compliance with all applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code or other applicable Law and (y) there are no existing or pending or, to the knowledge of any Obligor, threatened Claims (other than routine claims for benefits in the normal course of business), sanctions, actions, lawsuits or other proceedings or investigation involving any Benefit Plan to which an Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof incurs or otherwise has or could reasonably be expected to have an obligation or any liability or Claim. Each Obligor and each of its ERISA Affiliates has met all applicable requirements under the ERISA Funding Rules with respect to each Title IV Plan, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards under the ERISA Funding Rules has been applied for or obtained. As of the most recent valuation date for any Title IV Plan, the funding target attainment percentage (as defined in Section 430(d)(2) of the Code) is at least sixty percent (60%), and none of the Obligors, nor any of their Subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates knows of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause the funding target attainment percentage to fall below sixty percent (60%) as of the most recent valuation date. Except as would not (either individually or in the aggregate) reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, no ERISA Event or Foreign Benefit Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur in connection with which obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) remain outstanding. No ERISA Affiliate would have any Withdrawal Liability as a result of a complete withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan on the date this representation is made.

7.18 Priority of Obligations. (Subject, where relating to the UK Guarantor only, to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements), no monetary Obligation arising hereunder or under any Loan Document, or arising in connection herewith or therewith, is contractually subordinated to any other Indebtedness, except as may from time to time be agreed or consented to in writing by the Agent (acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders) or any Lender.

 

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7.19 Regulatory Approvals.

(a) Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries holds either directly or through licensees and agents, all material Regulatory Approvals, necessary or required for such Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries to conduct their respective operations and businesses, in the manner currently conducted and as anticipated to be conducted in the ordinary course of business.

(b) All such Regulatory Approvals described in Section 7.19(a) are set forth on Schedule 7.19(b) and are valid, enforceable, in good standing, and in full force and effect with the applicable Regulatory Authority in all material respects. Except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Regulatory Event, all required notices, registrations, listing, supplemental applications or notifications, reports (including field alerts or other reports of adverse experiences) and other required filings have been timely filed with the appropriate Regulatory Authority, and all such filings are complete and correct and are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Laws.

7.20 [Reserved].

7.21 Sanctions. None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, any of their respective directors, officers, or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, any agents or other Persons acting on behalf of any of the foregoing (in each case, in their capacity as such) (i) is currently the target of any Sanctions, (ii) is located, organized or residing in any Designated Jurisdiction, (iii) is engaged in any transaction or dealing with, or for the benefit of, any Person who is the target of Sanctions or who is located, organized or residing in any Designated Jurisdiction, in each case, in violation of Sanctions or (iv) is in violation of or subject to an investigation relating to Sanctions. No Loan, nor the proceeds from any Loan, has been or will be used, directly or knowingly after due care and inquiry indirectly, to lend, contribute or provide to, or has been or will be otherwise made available to fund, any activity or business in any manner that will result in any violation by any party to this Agreement (including the Agent, the Lenders and their Affiliates) of Sanctions. The Obligors have implemented and maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Obligors, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Sanctions.

7.22 Anti-Corruption. None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, any of their respective directors, officers or employees nor, to the knowledge of the Obligors, any agents or other Persons acting on behalf of any of the foregoing (in each case, in their capacity as such), directly or indirectly, (i) is in violation of any Anti-Corruption Law, or (ii) has made, offered to make, promised to make or authorized the payment or giving of, directly or indirectly, any Prohibited Payment. None of the Obligors is aware of any investigation by any Governmental Authority with regard to any actual or alleged Prohibited Payment or violation of any Anti-Corruption Law by any Obligor, or by any Person on an Obligor’s behalf. The Obligors have implemented and maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Obligors, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws.

 

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7.23 [Reserved].

7.24 Royalties and Other Payments. As of the Closing Date, except as set forth on Schedule 7.24, none of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries is obligated, pursuant to any Contract or otherwise, to pay any royalty, milestone payment, deferred payment or any other contingent payment in respect of any Product.

7.25 Non-Competes. None of the Obligors nor any of their Subsidiaries nor any of their respective directors, officers or employees is subject to a non-compete agreement that prohibits or will interfere with any of the Product Commercialization and Development Activities, including the development, commercialization or marketing of any Product, that would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

SECTION 8

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

The Obligors jointly and severally covenant and agree, for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, that until all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) have been paid in full in cash, and subject to Section 14.22:

8.01 Financial Statements and Other Information. Subject to Section 14.22, the Borrower shall furnish to the Agent for distribution to the Lenders:

(a) [Reserved].

(b) Within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year (which date shall be automatically extended for a period not to exceed ten (10) Business Days, if and to the extent of any initial extension granted by SEC for 10-Q reporting for such period), (i) an unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal quarter, and (ii) the related unaudited consolidated statements of operations and stockholders’ equity of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such quarter and unaudited consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such fiscal quarter, in each case, prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied (subject to changes resulting from normal, year-end audit adjustments and except for the absence of notes), all in reasonable detail and setting forth in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period in the preceding fiscal year, together with (iii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating that such financial statements (x) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower as of, and for, the period ended on such date and (y) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, subject to changes resulting from normal, year-end audit adjustments and except for the absence of footnotes (it being understood and agreed that such certifications may be set forth in the relevant Compliance Certificate); provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(b) shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are publicly available on “EDGAR”.

 

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(c) As soon as available and in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year, (i) the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year (which date shall be automatically extended for a period not to exceed ten (10) Business Days, if and to the extent of any initial extension granted by SEC for 10-Q reporting for such period), and (ii) the related audited consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, all in reasonable detail and, other than the statement of stockholders’ equity, setting forth in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, accompanied by a report and opinion thereon of any “Big Four” accounting firm or another firm of independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing reasonably acceptable to the Agent, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit (provided that any such opinion may have a going concern qualification based solely on the upcoming maturity date of the Obligations under this Agreement occurring within 12 months of the date of such audit), and in the case of such consolidated financial statements, certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(c) shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are publicly available on “EDGAR”

(d) (i) together with the financial statements required pursuant to Sections 8.01(b) and 8.01(c), a Compliance Certificate delivered by a Financial Officer of the Borrower as of the end of the applicable accounting period, substantially in the form of Exhibit E including a summary of Revenue generated by the Products (in reasonable detail and in a manner that segregates Revenue by type of Product) and which evidences the Obligors’ compliance with Section 10.01 and (ii) together with the financial statements required pursuant to Sections 8.01(b) and 8.01(c), a management discussion and analysis, prepared in writing and in reasonable detail, discussing the Borrower’s financial condition and results of operations as set forth in such financial statements; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(b) shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are publicly available on “EDGAR”.

(e) As soon as available and in any event no later than sixty (60) days following the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, copies of an annual budget (or equivalent) on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, approved by the Borrower’s Board, for the then current fiscal year, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, together with the Projections used in the preparation thereof.

(f) Promptly, and in any event within five (5) Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, copies of each material notice or other material correspondence received from any securities regulator or exchange to the authority of which the Borrower may become subject from time to time concerning any investigation or other written inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(f) shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are publicly available on “EDGAR”.

 

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(g) Promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other material report or communication sent to all the stockholders of the Borrower, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower may file or be required to file with any securities regulator or exchange to the authority of which the Borrower may become subject from time to time; provided that documents required to be furnished pursuant to this Section 8.01(g) shall be deemed furnished on the date that such documents are publicly available on “EDGAR”.

(h) [Reserved].

(i) Concurrently with delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), written notice from a Responsible Officer of the Borrower with respect to any written claim related to any Product or inventory involving more than $5,000,000 which the Borrower obtained knowledge during the period covered by such Compliance Certificate, which notice shall include a statement setting forth details of such claim.

(j) Such other information respecting the operations, properties, business or financial condition of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries (including with respect to the Collateral) as the Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request in writing.

8.02 Notices of Material Events. Subject to Section 14.22, the Borrower shall furnish to the Agent written notice of each of the following within the time period specified below (or, if no such time period is specified, on or within ten (10) days after any Responsible Officer of the Borrower first learns of or acquires knowledge with respect to any of the below events or circumstances):

(a) The occurrence of any Event of Default.

(b) The occurrence of any event with respect to any property or assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries resulting in a Loss, which notice shall include whether such Loss is covered by insurance or if the insurance carrier has disclaimed coverage of such Loss, in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies) or more.

(c) Any Claim or other Proceeding pending, or to the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened (in writing) against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or with respect to the ownership, use, maintenance and operation of their respective businesses, operations or properties, whether made by a Governmental Authority or other Person that, if adversely determined could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) (i) On or prior to the date of any filing by any ERISA Affiliate of any notice of intent to terminate any Title IV Plan, a copy of such notice and (ii) promptly, and in any event within ten (10) days, after any Responsible Officer of any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know or would reasonably be expected to know (A) that an ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, (B) that a Foreign Benefit Event that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, or (C) that a request for a minimum funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code has been filed with respect to any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan, a notice (which may be made by telephone if promptly confirmed in writing) describing such waiver request and any action that any ERISA Affiliate proposes to take with respect to either of the foregoing, together with a copy of any notice filed with the PBGC or the IRS pertaining thereto.

 

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(e) Prompt written notice of any report, notice, filing or other delivery to the Agent for posting on the Platform, together with a general description of contents of such report, notice, filing or other delivery (without disclosing or describing the nature of any MNPI).

(f) Concurrently with delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), notice of (i) any new Material Agreement by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (and a copy thereof, subject to any applicable confidentiality thereunder); (ii) the termination of any Material Agreement other than in accordance with its terms, including as a result of a breach or default; (iii) the non-renewal of any Material Agreement, in each case, occurring during the fiscal quarter covered by such Compliance Certificate.

(g) Concurrently with delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), notice of any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by the Obligors occurring during the period covered by such Compliance Certificate; provided that disclosure in the notes to the accompanying financial statements, if any, shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements of this Section 8.02(f).

(h) Notice of any labor controversy resulting in or threatening to result in any strike, work stoppage, boycott, shutdown or other material labor disruption against or involving the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(i) Concurrently with delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), any licensing agreement or similar arrangement entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the period covered by such Compliance Certificate as a result of any infringement or alleged infringement of any Intellectual Property of another Person whereby such Intellectual Property, when licensed to the Company, constitutes Material Intellectual Property.

(j) Each Obligor shall, (i) promptly following delivery of the Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), deliver to Agent an updated Schedule 7.05(c) in respect of any Material Intellectual Property acquired or created by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the period covered by such Compliance Certificate and correcting any outdated, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information in such Schedule that the Obligors become aware of during such period, (ii) promptly following request by the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders), deliver an updated Schedule 2 to the Security Agreement, in respect of any Intellectual Property Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement) acquired or created by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the most recently ended twelve-month period and correcting any outdated, inaccurate, incomplete or misleading information in such Schedule that the Obligors become aware of during such period (provided, that no such request pursuant to this clause (ii) shall be made more than once annually unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) and (iii) execute and deliver to Agent a supplemental Short-Form IP Security Agreement in respect of any such new and/or corrected

 

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Intellectual Property (other than Excluded Assets) that is registered or becomes registered or the subject of an application for registration with the U.S. Copyright Office or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as applicable, or, subject to Section 8.12(c), foreign equivalent office and, if requested by Agent, assist the Agent in the filing of such supplemental Short-Form IP Security Agreement.

(k) [Reserved].

(l) Concurrently with delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), the acquisition by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, in a single or series or related transactions during the period covered by such Compliance Certificate, of any fee interest in any real property having a fair market value in excess of $2,500,000.

(m) [Reserved].

(n) Concurrently with delivery of each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 8.01(d), the occurrence during the period covered by such Compliance Certificate of any material product recalls, safety alerts, corrections, withdrawals, marketing suspensions, removals or the like conducted, undertaken or issued by an Obligor, any Subsidiary thereof or their respective suppliers whether or not at the request, demand or order of any Governmental Authority or otherwise with respect to any Product, or any basis for undertaking or issuing any such action or item.

(o) The occurrence or existence of any event, circumstance, act or omission that has resulted in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect or a Material Regulatory Event.

Each notice delivered under this Section 8.02 shall be accompanied by summary details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto. Nothing in this Section 8.02 is intended to waive, consent to or otherwise permit any action or omission that is otherwise prohibited by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 8.01 and this Section 8.02 (i) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the Commission) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Borrower’s website on the Internet at any website address of the Borrower, or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Agent). The Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of or to maintain paper copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower with any such request by a Lender for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.

 

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8.03 Existence; Conduct of Business. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and all Governmental Approvals necessary or material to the conduct of its business, except in each case (other than with respect to the legal existence of the Borrower), where failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any Permitted Fundamental Changes.

8.04 Payment of Obligations. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay and discharge its obligations, including (i) all income and other material Taxes, fees, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its properties or assets prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto, and all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might become a Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) upon any properties or assets of such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, except to the extent such Taxes, fees, assessments or governmental charges or levies, or such claims are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and are adequately reserved against in accordance with GAAP, and (ii) all other lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by Law become a Lien upon any properties or assets of such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, other than any Permitted Lien.

8.05 Insurance. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. Upon the reasonable request of the Agent or any Lender, the Borrower shall furnish to the Agent from time to time information as to the insurance carried by such Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries and, if so requested, copies of all such insurance policies. The Obligors (other than any UK Guarantor) shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure, or cause others to ensure, that all insurance policies required under this Section 8.05 provide that such policies list the Agent as additional insured with respect to commercial general liability insurance and lender loss payee (which shall include, as applicable, identification as mortgagee) with respect to property insurance, pursuant to endorsements in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Majority Lenders and shall not be terminated or cancelled without at least thirty (30) days’ (or ten (10) days’ for nonpayment of premium) prior written notice to the applicable Obligor and the Agent. Receipt of notice of cancellation of any such insurance policies or reduction of coverage or amounts thereunder shall entitle the Agent (acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders), upon ten (10) days’ prior notice to the Borrower (except during the continuance of an Event of Default), to renew any such policies, cause the coverage and amounts thereof to be maintained at levels required pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 8.05 or otherwise to obtain similar insurance in place of such policies, in each case at the expense of the applicable Obligor (payable on written demand), which such expenses shall constitute “Obligations.” Such Obligor may later cancel any such insurance purchased by Agent and Agent will cooperate with such Obligor in this regard, but only after such Obligor provides Agent with evidence that such Obligor has obtained insurance as required by this Agreement.

8.06 Books and Records; Inspection Rights. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. Subject to Section 14.22, each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior written notice, to, during normal business hours, visit and reasonably inspect its properties, to reasonably

 

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examine and make extracts from its books and records (excluding trade secrets, records subject to attorney-client privilege, subject to confidentiality agreements with third parties that preclude disclosure to any Secured Party (acting in such capacity) or subject to confidentiality restrictions pursuant to Law), and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition (financial or otherwise) with its officers, all at such reasonable times (but not more often than once per year unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) as the Agent or the Lenders may reasonably request. Each Obligor shall pay all reasonable and documented costs and expenses of all such inspections.

8.07 Compliance with Laws and Other Obligations. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (i) comply with all applicable Laws and applicable Governmental Approvals (including Environmental Laws and Healthcare Laws); and (ii) maintain in full force and effect, remain in compliance with, and perform in all material respects all terms of outstanding Material Agreements and all Regulatory Approvals, except, in each case of clause (i) and (ii) above, as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or Material Regulatory Event.

8.08 Maintenance of Properties, Etc. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain and preserve all of its assets and properties, whether tangible or intangible, relating to its Products or Product Commercialization and Development Activities or otherwise, necessary in the proper conduct of its business in good working order and condition in all material respects in accordance with the general practice of other Persons of similar character and size, ordinary wear and tear and damage from casualty or condemnation excepted.

8.09 Licenses. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, obtain and maintain all Governmental Approvals (including Regulatory Approvals) necessary in connection with the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents, the consummation of the Transactions or the operation and conduct of its business and ownership of its properties (including its Product Commercialization and Development Activities), unless a failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

8.10 Action under Environmental Laws. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, upon becoming aware of the release of any Hazardous Materials or the existence of any environmental liability under applicable Environmental Laws with respect to their respective businesses, operations or properties, take all actions, at their cost and expense, as shall be necessary or advisable to investigate and clean up the condition of their respective businesses, operations or properties, including all required removal, containment and remedial actions, to restore their respective businesses, operations and properties to a condition in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws, except where failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

8.11 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans shall be used only as provided in Section 2.04. Without limiting the foregoing, no part of the proceeds of the Loans shall be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including Regulation T, Regulation U and Regulation X.

 

 

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8.12 Certain Obligations Respecting Subsidiaries; Further Assurances.

(a) Subsidiary Guarantors. The Borrower shall take such action from time to time as shall be necessary to ensure that (x) it and each of its Subsidiaries that is a party to this Agreement as of the Closing Date will be and will remain an Obligor and Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder (except as otherwise permitted by Section 9.03), and (y) each of its other Subsidiaries (other than any Excluded Subsidiary), whether direct or indirect, now existing or hereafter created, will, within (x) thirty (30) days of becoming a Subsidiary organized under the laws of the United States or (y) ninety (90) days of becoming a Foreign Subsidiary (in each case, as may be extended by the Majority Lenders in their reasonable discretion) or ceasing to constitute an Excluded Subsidiary, become an “Obligor” and a “Subsidiary Guarantor” pursuant to this Section 8.12. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if (i) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries form or acquire any new Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) or (ii) a Subsidiary ceases to constitute an Excluded Subsidiary, then the Borrower shall (unless otherwise agreed by the Agent in its sole discretion), within thirty (30) days (or ninety (90) days or such longer period agreed to by the Agent in its reasonable discretion, as the context may require) of such event:

(i) cause such Subsidiary to become an “Obligor” and a “Subsidiary Guarantor” hereunder, a “Grantor” (or the equivalent thereof) under the applicable Security Documents, and a “Subsidiary Party” under the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;

(ii) take such action or cause such Subsidiary to take such action (including joining the Security Agreement or the applicable Security Documents and delivering certificated Equity Interests together with undated transfer powers executed in blank, applicable control agreements, and other instruments) as shall be necessary or reasonably desirable by the Agent (upon instructions by the Majority Lenders) to create and perfect, in favor of the Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties valid and enforceable first priority Liens (subject to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements in respect of any UK Guarantor and otherwise subject to Permitted Liens) on the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary (other than to the extent constituting Excluded Assets, or already constituting Collateral) and the Collateral of such new Subsidiary as collateral security for the Obligations hereunder; and

(iii) deliver such proof of corporate action, incumbency of officers or directors (as applicable), opinions of counsel and other documents as is consistent with those delivered by each Obligor pursuant to Section 6.01 as the Agent (acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders) shall have reasonably requested.

(b) Further Assurances.

(i) Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries (including any newly formed or newly acquired Subsidiaries) to take such action from time to time as shall reasonably be requested by the Agent (acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders) to effectuate the purposes and objectives of this Agreement (including this Section 8.12) and the applicable Security Documents.

 

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(ii) In the event that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries holds or acquires rights to any additional Intellectual Property that is registered or is the subject of an application for registration with the U.S. Copyright Office or the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or subject to Section 8.12(c), foreign equivalent office (other than any Intellectual Property that constitutes an Excluded Asset) during the term of this Agreement or any other material assets or properties (other than Excluded Assets), then, upon the written request of the Agent, the Borrower or any such Subsidiary shall take any action as shall be necessary or reasonably desirable to ensure that the provisions of this Agreement and the Security Agreement shall apply thereto and any such Intellectual Property or other assets or properties (other than Excluded Assets) shall constitute part of the Collateral under the Security Documents, including the execution and delivery of supplemental Short-Form IP Security Agreements and assisting Agent in the filing of such supplemental Short-Form IP Security Agreements.

(iii) In the event that the Borrower delivers a notice to the Agent pursuant to Section 8.02(k) in respect of real property (other than any real property located in the United Kingdom which is subject to a UK Security Document) with a value in excess of $2,500,000, upon the written request of the Agent (upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders), the Borrower or any such Subsidiary shall execute and deliver a Mortgage with respect to such acquired real property to secure the Obligations.

(c) Foreign Subsidiaries and Foreign Collateral. Notwithstanding any term or provision of this of this Section 8.12, or any other Loan Document, to the contrary, with respect to (x) any Foreign Subsidiary that is, or is required to be, a Subsidiary Guarantor or (y) any Collateral of a the Borrower or any Domestic Subsidiary that is, or is required to be, a Subsidiary Guarantor, that is located in or otherwise governed by a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, its fifty (50) states or the District of Columbia (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Collateral consisting of the Equity Interests of a Foreign Subsidiary) (any such Collateral described in this clause (y), “Foreign Collateral”), the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, shall only be required to execute such Foreign Security Documents, and otherwise take such action to create and perfect (if applicable), in favor of the Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties valid and enforceable first priority Liens (subject to the Legal Reservations, the Perfection Requirements and Permitted Liens) on the Collateral of such Foreign Subsidiary, or such Foreign Collateral, as applicable, as is customary for the creation and perfection (if applicable) of Liens in the applicable jurisdiction which, in respect of a UK Guarantor shall consist of (i) a customary English law debenture granted by such UK Guarantor and (ii) an English law governed share charge over the shares of such UK Guarantor owned by its direct parent; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will the Borrower or any Subsidiary be required to take any action for the creation or perfection of any Lien in a jurisdiction other than the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, any jurisdiction in which any Obligor is organized or formed and, in the case of the filing of intellectual property security agreements, any Applicable Jurisdiction (as defined in the Security Agreement).

(d) Costs and Benefits. Notwithstanding any term or provision of this Section 8.12, or any other Loan Document, to the contrary, without limiting the right of the Agent or the Lenders to require a Lien or a security interest in the Equity Interests of, or guaranty from, any newly acquired or created Subsidiary of the Borrower, or a Lien or security interest on any assets or properties of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case pursuant to the terms of the Loan Documents, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower may request in writing to the Agent that the Majority Lenders waive the requirements of this Section 8.12 to provide a Lien, security interest or guaranty,

 

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as the case may be, due to the cost or burden thereof to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (when taken as a whole) being unreasonably excessive relative to the benefit that would inure to the Secured Parties, and describing such cost or burden in reasonable detail. Upon receipt of any such written notice, the Agent shall review and consider such request with the Lenders in good faith and, within five (5) Business Days of receipt of such request, the Majority Lenders shall determine in their commercially reasonable discretion, and notify the Borrower of such determination, whether the Majority Lenders will grant such request for a waiver. With respect to any Subsidiary for which the requirement to provide a Lien, security interest or Guaranty, as the case may be, has been waived by the Agent and the Majority Lenders in accordance with this Section 8.12(d), such waiver may be terminated by the Agent and the Majority Lenders if they determine in their commercially reasonable discretion that the cost or burden of providing such Lien, security interest or Guaranty is no longer unreasonably excessive relative to the benefits that would inure to the Secured Parties. If such waiver is terminated, such Subsidiary shall be required to comply with the requirements of this Section 8.12; provided that any time periods in this Section 8.12 with respect to the subject of such waiver shall be measured from the date such waiver is terminated.

8.13 [Reserved].

8.14 Intellectual Property. In the event that an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries creates, develops or acquires rights to additional Intellectual Property during the term of this Agreement, then the applicable provisions of this Agreement shall automatically apply thereto and any such Intellectual Property shall automatically constitute part of the Collateral under the Security Documents (other than to the extent such Intellectual Property constitutes an Excluded Asset), without further action by any party, in each case from and after the date of such creation, development, or acquisition (except that any applicable representations or warranties of any Obligor shall apply to any such Intellectual Property only from and after the date, if any, subsequent to such acquisition that such representations and warranties are brought down or made anew as provided herein).

8.15 Maintenance of Regulatory Approvals, Intellectual Property, Etc. Each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries (to the extent applicable) to, (i) use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare, execute, deliver and file any and all agreements, documents or instruments, and to pay any costs and expenses, that are necessary or desirable to secure all material Regulatory Approvals, Material Intellectual Property, and other rights, interests or assets (whether tangible or intangible) reasonably necessary for the operations of such Person’s business in all material respects, including any material Product Commercialization and Development Activities, (ii) maintain in full force and effect, and pay all costs and expenses relating to, all such Regulatory Approvals and Material Intellectual Property, (iii) promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, notify the Agent and Lenders of any infringement, misappropriation or violation by any Person of any Material Intellectual Property and, if deemed advisable in the Company’s reasonable business judgment, take commercially reasonable efforts to pursue any such infringement, misappropriation or other violation, (iv) promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, notify the Agent and Lenders of any written Claim by any Person that the conduct of the business of Obligor or its Subsidiaries has infringed, misappropriated or violated any Intellectual Property of such Person if, in the Company’s reasonable business judgment, such Claim may result in a Material Adverse Effect, (v) promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof, notify the Agent and Lenders of any institution of

 

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any proceeding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, or equivalent foreign Governmental Authority with respect to any Material Intellectual Property if, in the Company’s reasonable business judgment, such Claim may result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (vi) use commercially reasonable efforts to pursue and maintain in full force and effect legal protection for all new Material Intellectual Property created, developed or acquired by such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, as is customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar business as such Obligor or its Subsidiaries.

8.16 ERISA and Foreign Pension Plan Compliance. Except as could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply in all material respects with the provisions of ERISA or applicable Law with respect to any Plans or Foreign Pension Plans to which the Borrower or any such Obligor is a party as an employer.

8.17 Cash Management. Subject to Section 8.19, other than in respect of a Controlled Account located in England and Wales, each Obligor shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to maintain at all times all Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts, Commodity Accounts, lockboxes and similar accounts (other than Excluded Accounts) to be held by each Obligor with a bank or financial institution that has executed and delivered to and in favor of the Agent a customary “springing” account control agreement (or, with respect to any such accounts maintained outside of the United States, subject to Foreign Security Documents customary for accounts in such jurisdiction, as reasonably requested by Agent (acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders)), in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent (each such Deposit Account, Securities Account, Commodity Account, lockbox or similar account, a “Controlled Account”).

8.18 Conference Calls. Subject in all respects to Section 14.22, after delivery of the financial statements pursuant to Sections 8.01(b) and 8.01(c), at the request of the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders), the Borrower shall cause its chief financial officer to participate in conference calls with the Agent and the Lenders to discuss, among other things, the financial condition of each Obligor and any financial or earnings reports; provided that such conference calls shall be held at reasonable times during normal business hours and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, not more frequently than once after delivery of each such financial statement.

8.19 Post-Closing Covenants. The Borrower shall complete or shall cause to be completed each of the items set forth on Schedule 8.19 in the timeframes set forth therein (or, in each case, such longer timeframe as the Majority Lenders may agree in their reasonable discretion).

SECTION 9

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

The Obligors jointly and severally covenant and agree, for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders that until all Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) have been paid in full in cash:

9.01 Indebtedness. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, whether directly or indirectly, except for the following:

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(b) Indebtedness existing as of the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Transactions contemplated to occur on or prior to the Closing Date) set forth on Schedule 9.01;

(c) (i) Indebtedness of an Obligor owing to another Obligor, (ii) Indebtedness of a non-Obligor owing to another non-Obligor, or (iii) any non-Obligor owing to any Obligor, so long as, in the case of this subclause (iii), such Indebtedness constitutes an Investment permitted by Section 9.05; provided that, in each case, such Indebtedness of any Obligor shall be subordinated to the Obligations pursuant to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;

(d) Guaranties by an Obligor or any Subsidiary of the Indebtedness of another Obligor or Subsidiary to the extent such Indebtedness is otherwise permitted hereunder; provided that any Guaranty by an Obligor of any Indebtedness of a Subsidiary that is not an Obligor constitutes an Investment permitted by Section 9.05 and any such Guaranty will be subordinated to the Obligations to the extent and on the same terms and conditions as the Indebtedness being Guarantied;

(e) ordinary course of business equipment financing and leasing; provided that (i) if secured, the collateral therefor consists solely of the assets being financed, the products and proceeds thereof and books and records related thereto, and (ii) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness shall not exceed $2,500,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies) at any time;

(f) so long as no Event of Default exists both immediately prior to and after giving effect to any such transaction, Indebtedness under Hedging Agreements entered into in any Obligor’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ ordinary course of business for the purpose of hedging currency risks or interest rate risks (but not for speculative purposes);

(g) (i) Indebtedness assumed pursuant to any Permitted Acquisition; provided that (x) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this Section 9.01(g) shall not exceed $3,000,000 at any time outstanding and (y) no such Indebtedness shall have been created or incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Permitted Acquisition and (ii) earn-out, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature incurred in connection with Acquisitions permitted hereunder;

(h) Indebtedness in respect of any agreement providing for treasury, depositary or cash management services, including in connection with any automated clearing house transfers of funds or any similar transfers, netting services, overdraft protections and other cash management and similar arrangements, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(i) advances or deposits from customers or vendors received in the ordinary course of business;

(j) workers’ compensation claims, early retirement or termination obligations, deferred compensatory or employee or director equity plans, pension fund obligations or contributions or similar claims, obligations or contributions, social security or wage taxes, payment obligations in connection with health, disability or other types of social security benefits, unemployment or other insurance obligations and reclamation and statutory obligations, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(k) Indebtedness owed to any Person providing property, casualty, liability or other insurance to the Obligors and their Subsidiaries, including to finance insurance premiums that are written or arranged in the ordinary course of business and which are payable within one (1) year;

(l) Indebtedness incurred from the endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business;

(m) credit card Indebtedness in a principal amount not to exceed $4,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;

(n) Indebtedness under any letters of credit in an aggregate face amount not to exceed $1,500,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding;

(o) Indebtedness incurred under performance, surety, bid, statutory and appeal bonds, completion guarantees, bids, tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money or the deferred purchase price of property or services), statutory obligations and other obligations of a like nature and other similar obligations, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(p) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, obligations in respect of Specified Acquisition Milestone Payments and any other earn-out, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature incurred in connection with the Specified Acquisition pursuant to the terms of the Specified Acquisition Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date;

(q) Permitted Refinancings of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to this Section 9.01 (other than Sections 9.01(h), (i), (j) and (u));

(r) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, customary transfer pricing and cost-sharing arrangements (i.e., “cost-plus” arrangements) among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are in the ordinary course of business;

(s) other Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed $7,500,000 at any time outstanding;

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(u) (i) the Existing Convertible Notes and (ii) Permitted Convertible Debt (other than the Existing Convertible Notes); provided that, immediately after giving pro forma effect to the incurrence thereof, the aggregate amount of unsecured Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (excluding any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 9.01(s), but including the aggregate outstanding amount of all Permitted Convertible Debt (including the Existing Convertible Notes)) shall not exceed forty percent (40%) of the Average Total Market Cap of the Borrower as of the most recent Trading Day prior to pricing thereof.

9.02 Liens. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or assets now owned or hereafter acquired by it or such Subsidiary, except for the following:

(a) Liens securing the Obligations;

(b) any Lien on any property or asset of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 9.02(b), and any Liens securing a Permitted Refinancing thereof; provided, that no such Lien shall extend to any asset not subject to a Lien on the date hereof, other than proceeds thereof and additions thereto;

(c) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01(e) (including any Permitted Refinancings thereof); provided that such Liens are restricted solely to the collateral permitted to be secured pursuant to Section 9.01(e);

(d) Liens imposed by any applicable Law arising in the ordinary course of business, including (but not limited to) carriers’, warehousemen’s, lessor’s and mechanics’ liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business and (x) with respect to obligations which are not overdue for a period of more than sixty (60) days or (y) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property subject to such Liens and for which adequate reserves have been made if required in accordance with GAAP;

(e) pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or other similar social security legislation;

(f) Liens securing Taxes, assessments and other governmental charges, the payment of which is not yet due or delinquent or is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly initiated and diligently conducted and for which such reserve or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required GAAP shall have been made;

(g) servitudes, easements, rights of way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances on real property imposed by any applicable Law and Liens consisting of zoning or building restrictions, licenses, restrictions on the use of property or minor imperfections in title thereto which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of any of the Obligors or any of their Subsidiaries;

 

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(h) with respect to any real property, (i) such defects or encroachments as might be revealed by an up-to-date survey of such real property; (ii) the reservations, limitations, provisos and conditions expressed in the original grant, deed or patent of such property by the original owner of such real property pursuant to applicable Law; (iii) rights of expropriation, access or user or any similar right conferred or reserved by or in any applicable Law, which, in the aggregate for clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of any of the Obligors or their Subsidiaries; and (iv) leases or subleases in the ordinary course of business;

(i) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 9.01(g); provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such Permitted Acquisition, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries other than the property or assets being acquired pursuant to such Permitted Acquisition, and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secured immediately prior to the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;

(j) (i) bankers’ liens, rights of setoff and similar Liens incurred on deposits made in the ordinary course of business and (ii) Liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-208 or Section 4-210 of the UCC on items in the course of collection;

(k) (i) licenses not prohibited by Section 9.18, (ii) any ordinary course interest or title of a licensor, sublicensor, collaborator, lessor or sublessor with respect to any assets under any license agreement, collaboration agreement or lease agreement not prohibited by Section 9.18; and (iii) to the extent constituting a Lien, the lease agreement in respect of the Specified Sublease Transaction;

(l) cash collateral accounts serving as collateral in connection with Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 9.01(m) and Section 9.01(n) in an amount up to 105% of such Indebtedness;

(m) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 11.01(i);

(n) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement in connection with a Permitted Acquisition;

(o) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of Law which secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importations of goods in the ordinary course of business;

(p) purported Liens evidenced by the filing of precautionary UCC financing statements relating solely to operating leases for, or consignments of, personal property entered into in the ordinary course of business;

(q) other Liens securing obligations in an aggregate amount not to exceed $4,000,000 at any time outstanding; provided that Liens pursuant to this clause (q) shall not secure Indebtedness for borrowed money exceeding an aggregate amount of $2,000,000 at any time outstanding;

 

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(r) pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with obligations in respect of (i) surety or appeal bonds, bid or performance bonds, bids, tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money or the deferred purchase price of property or services), statutory obligations or other obligations of a like nature to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 9.01(o), or (ii) leases in the ordinary course of business;

(s) Liens granted in the ordinary course of business on the unearned portion of insurance premiums securing the financing of insurance premiums;

(t) [reserved];

(u) Liens of sellers of goods to any Obligor or any Subsidiary arising under Article 2 of the UCC in effect in the relevant jurisdiction in the ordinary course of business, covering only the goods sold and covering only the unpaid purchase price for such goods and related expenses, to the extent the relevant Asset Sale is permitted by Section 9.09;

(v) [reserved];

(w) Liens encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes; and

(x) Liens consisting of Permitted Licenses.

Any term or provision of this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, no Lien otherwise permitted under any of the foregoing clauses (b) through (x) (other than pursuant to clauses (m), (k) or (x) above and Permitted Liens) shall apply directly or indirectly to any Material Intellectual Property.

9.03 Fundamental Changes, Acquisitions, Etc. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, (i) enter into any transaction of merger, amalgamation or consolidation, (ii) liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), (iii) sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business or (iii) other than Permitted Acquisitions and the Specified Acquisition, make any Acquisition:

(a) the merger, amalgamation or consolidation of any Subsidiary with or into any other Obligor or among Subsidiaries that are not Obligors; provided that, with respect to any such transaction involving the Borrower, the Borrower must be the surviving or successor entity of such transaction and with respect to any transaction involving any other Obligor and a Subsidiary that is not an Obligor, the Obligor must be the surviving or successor entity of such transaction;

 

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(b) the sale, lease, transfer or other disposition by any Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) of any or all of its property (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to any Obligor or between or among Subsidiaries that are not Obligors;

(c) the sale, transfer or other disposition of the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) to any Obligor or between or among Subsidiaries that are not Obligors;

(d) transactions permitted by Section 9.05;

(e) the creation of any Subsidiary in compliance with Section 8.12; and

(f) any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition permitted by Section 9.09 and any merger, amalgamation, consolidation, liquidation, winding up or dissolution, the purpose of which is to effect a transaction permitted by Section 9.09 may be consummated.

9.04 Lines of Business. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, engage in any business other than the business engaged in on the Closing Date by such Persons or a similar, corollary, ancillary, incidental, complementary or related line of business, or a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof, which shall include, for the avoidance of doubt, the business of the Acquired Company.

9.05 Investments. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, make, directly or indirectly, or permit to remain outstanding any Investments except for the following:

(a) Investments outstanding on, or contemplated as of, the Closing Date and identified on Schedule 9.05 and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof to the extent not involving new or additional Investments or otherwise increasing the amount thereof, and Investments by the Borrower in the Equity Interests of its Subsidiaries funded as of the Closing Date;

(b) (i) operating Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts or Commodity Accounts with banks or financial institutions that are Controlled Accounts or Excluded Accounts, (ii) Investments in cash and Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments and (iii) Investments consisting of the endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection or similar transactions in the ordinary course of business;

(c) extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the sales of goods or services in the ordinary course of business and prepaid royalties in the ordinary course of business;

(d) [Reserved];

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(f) Investments consisting of security deposits with utilities and landlords to secure office space and other like Persons made in the ordinary course of business;

(g) employee loans, travel advances and guarantees in accordance with the Borrower’s usual and customary practices with respect thereto (if permitted by applicable Law) which in the aggregate shall not exceed $1,000,000 outstanding at any time (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies);

(h) Investments received in connection with any Insolvency Proceedings in respect of any customers, suppliers or clients and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers, suppliers or clients;

(i) Investments (i) by an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries in an Obligor, (ii) by a non-Obligor Subsidiary in any other non-Obligor Subsidiary and (iii) by an Obligor in a non-Obligor Subsidiary, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 outstanding at any time;

(j) (i) Permitted Acquisitions and (ii) the Specified Acquisition (including payments of Specified Acquisition Milestone Payments), in accordance with the terms of the Specified Acquisition Agreement, as in effect on the Closing Date;

(k) (i) loans to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of equity securities of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by the Borrower’s Board and (ii) non-cash loans to employees, officers or directors relating to the exercise of options to purchase equity securities of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries which, in each case, in the aggregate of (i) and (ii) together shall not exceed $1,000,000 outstanding at any time;

(l) Investments of any Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or consolidates or merges with the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case, so long as (i) such Person becomes a Subsidiary pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or such consolidation or merger, as the case may be, is permitted pursuant hereto, (ii) such Person becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor to the extent required by Section 8.12 and (iii) such Investments were not made in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary or of such merger;

(m) Investments consisting of payments of the cost of the formation of and maintenance of Subsidiaries so long as such Subsidiaries comply with Section 8.12 and the aggregate amount of such Investments does not exceed $250,000 per fiscal year;

(n) advances in respect of customary transfer pricing and cost-sharing arrangements (i.e., “cost-plus” arrangements) among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are in the ordinary course of business;

(o) non-cash Investments in joint ventures or strategic alliances in the ordinary course of the Borrower’s business consisting of the licensing of technology, the development of technology or the providing of technical support; provided that (i) the aggregate value of all Investments in all such joint ventures and strategic alliances shall not exceed $2,000,000;

 

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(p) Investments in connection with, and performance of obligations under, (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the entry into, payment of any premium with respect to, and the settlement of) any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction, in accordance with its terms;

(q) [Reserved];

(r) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of UCC Article 3 endorsements for collection or deposit and UCC Article 4 customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;

(s) to the extent constituting Investments, purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and equipment or purchases of contract rights or inbound licenses or leases of Intellectual Property, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(t) Investments arising directly out of the receipt by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of non-cash consideration for any sale of assets permitted under Section 9.09;

(u) Investments to the extent that payment for such Investments is made solely with Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower, solely to the extent not previously applied for any other purpose;

(v) the granting of any Permitted Lien or Permitted License; and

(w) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, Investments not otherwise permitted hereunder in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time outstanding.

9.06 Restricted Payments. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment except for the following:

(a) dividends with respect to the Borrower’s Equity Interests payable solely in shares of its Qualified Equity Interests;

(b) dividends or other distributions paid by any Obligor (other than the Borrower) or any Subsidiary of any Obligor to its equity holders generally so long as the Borrower or its Subsidiary who owns the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary paying such dividend receives at least its proportional share thereof;

(c) upon the death, retirement, incapacity or termination of any present or former officer, director, advisor or employee that is a holder of Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower or the exercise of a right of first refusal or similar right in respect of any such holder, the Borrower may repurchase such Qualified Equity Interests of such holder or such holder’s family, trusts, estates and heirs pursuant to stock repurchase agreements in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 per fiscal year so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom;

 

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(d) the payment by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries of cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares made to redeem, purchase, repurchase, or retire the obligations under any warrants issued by it in accordance with the terms thereof;

(e) the repurchase or other acquisition of Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower deemed to occur (i) upon the exercise of stock options, warrants, restricted stock units or other rights to purchase Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price thereof or conversion price thereof and (ii) in connection with any tax withholding required upon the grant of or any exercise or vesting of any Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower (or options in respect thereof);

(f) cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares;

(g) the Borrower may honor any non-cash (or, in the case of fractional shares, cash) conversion or exercise requests in respect of any convertible securities, options, or warrants of the Borrower into Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower pursuant to the terms of such convertible securities, options or warrants or otherwise in exchange therefor;

(h) the payment by any Obligor of any or its Subsidiaries of Permitted Tax Distributions;

(i) to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, the payment of Specified Acquisition Milestone Payments in accordance with the terms of the Specified Acquisition Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date;

(j) to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, the Borrower or any Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions permitted by any provision of Section 9.03 or Section 9.09; and

(k) Restricted Payments not otherwise permitted hereunder in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,500,000 since the Closing Date so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, but subject to the limitations set forth in Section 9.07(c), the issuance of, performance of obligations under (including any payments of interest), and conversion, exercise, repurchase, redemption (including, for the avoidance of doubt, a required repurchase in connection with the redemption of Permitted Convertible Debt upon satisfaction of a condition related to the stock price of the common stock), settlement or early termination or cancellation of (whether in whole or in part and including by netting or set-off) (in each case, whether in cash, common stock, following a merger event or other change of the common stock, other securities or property), or the satisfaction of any condition that would permit or require any of the foregoing, any Permitted Convertible Debt shall not be prohibited by this Section 9.06; provided that, to the extent the aggregate amount of cash payable upon conversion or payment of any Permitted Convertible Debt (excluding any required payment of interest with respect to such Permitted Convertible Debt and excluding any payment of cash in lieu of a fractional share due upon conversion thereof) exceeds the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount thereof and (b) the net cash proceeds, if any, received by the Obligors pursuant to an exercise or early unwind or settlement of a corresponding portion of the Permitted Bond

 

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Hedge Transactions and Permitted Warrant Transactions relating to such Permitted Convertible Debt (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the case where there is no Bond Hedge Transaction relating to such Permitted Convertible Debt), the payment of such excess cash shall not be permitted by the preceding sentence.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 9.06 shall not prohibit (x) the repurchase of any Existing Convertible Notes or (y) the repurchase, exchange or inducement of the conversion of any Permitted Convertible Debt by delivery of shares of common stock of the Borrower and/or a different series of Permitted Convertible Debt and/or by payment of cash (in an amount that does not exceed the proceeds received by the Obligors from the substantially concurrent issuance of common stock of the Borrower and/or such different series of Permitted Convertible Debt minus the net cost of any Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and/or Permitted Warrant Transactions plus the net cash proceeds, if any, received by the Obligors pursuant to the related exercise or early unwind or termination of the related Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and Permitted Warrant Transactions, if any.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Obligors may (A) pay the purchase price of any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or (B) settle, unwind or terminate all or any portion of any Permitted Warrant Transaction by (I) set-off against the concurrent settlement, unwind or other termination of all or any portion of any related Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction or (II) delivery of common stock of the Borrower.

9.07 Payments and Modifications of Junior Indebtedness. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, with respect to any Indebtedness that (x) is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, (y) is secured by a Lien that is junior in right of priority to the Liens securing the Obligations or (z) is unsecured (excluding the Existing Convertible Indebtedness, any such Indebtedness, “Junior Indebtedness”):

(a) declare, pay, make or set aside any amount for payment in respect of Junior Indebtedness (other than any Permitted Convertible Debt), except for payments (i) expressly permitted under the applicable subordination agreement or intercreditor agreement; (ii) regularly scheduled payments of interest set forth in the applicable note or instrument therefor; (iii) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, regularly scheduled payments of principal set forth in the applicable note or instrument therefor; (iv) in the form of, or in an amount not to exceed the Net Cash Proceeds received by Borrower from a substantially contemporaneous issuance of, Qualified Equity Interests; (v) with the proceeds of other Indebtedness that constitutes Permitted Refinancing of such Junior Indebtedness; and (vi) additional payments not to exceed $3,000,000 in the aggregate;

(b) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Junior Indebtedness or the Existing Convertible Notes, if, after giving effect to such amendment, modification, waiver, change or consent, the obligors with respect to such Indebtedness would not have been permitted to incur, guarantee or secure such Indebtedness pursuant to the terms hereof if such Indebtedness, as amended, modified, waived or otherwise changed, was instead incurred, guaranteed or secured as Permitted Refinancing Debt in respect of such Indebtedness;

 

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(c) declare, pay, or make any payment or distribution under or in respect of any Permitted Convertible Debt, except for: (i) regularly scheduled payments of interest as set forth in the applicable note or instrument therefor; (ii) payment of reasonable and customary fees and expenses incurred in connection with any Permitted Convertible Debt; (iii) payments of the initial purchase price or premium for each Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction; provided that such purchase price or premium less the proceeds received by Borrower from the sale of any related Permitted Warrant Transaction, does not exceed the Net Cash Proceeds received by Borrower from the issuance of the Permitted Convertible Debt issued in connection with such Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction; (iv) the issuance of shares of common stock (plus, if applicable, cash for accrued but unpaid interest and in lieu of fractional shares in connection with such issuance) of Borrower in connection with any conversion, exercise, repurchase, exchange, redemption, settlement or early termination or cancellation of any Permitted Convertible Debt or in connection with any Permitted Warrant Transaction; (v) the making of cash payments in connection with any conversions, redemptions, repurchases or exchanges of Permitted Convertible Debt in an aggregate amount not to exceed the principal amount of the Permitted Convertible Debt so converted; provided that no payments shall be made under this clause (v) unless, after giving effect to such payment, on a pro forma basis (x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the making of such payment, (y) after giving effect to the making of such payment, the Liquidity Condition is satisfied and (z) Agent shall have received a duly executed certificate of a Responsible Officer of Borrower certifying as to the foregoing clauses (x) and (y); (vi) the issuance of Permitted Convertible Debt permitted pursuant to this Agreement (and not for the avoidance of doubt any payment of cash or Cash Equivalents) or any Qualified Equity Interests in exchange for any Permitted Convertible Debt; or (vii) the redemption, repurchase, exchange or other retirement for cash of the Permitted Convertible Debt in an amount not to exceed (x) the Net Cash Proceeds received by Borrower from the issuance of additional Permitted Convertible Debt in connection with a Permitted Refinancing of such Permitted Convertible Debt being redeemed, repurchased or retired or (y) from the Net Cash Proceeds received by Borrower from an issuance of Qualified Equity Interests; provided, that, in each case, such redemption occurs substantially contemporaneously with Borrower’s receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; and

(d) declare, pay, make or set aside any amount for payment in respect of any obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services, including earn-out and similar deferred purchase price consideration obligations, unless at the time of such payment, (x) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (y) immediately after giving effect to such payment, the Liquidity Condition shall be satisfied; provided, that this clause (d) shall not prohibit payments of Specified Acquisition Milestone Payments in accordance with the terms of the Specified Acquisition Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, but subject to the limitations set forth in Section 9.07(c), the issuance of, performance of obligations under (including any payments of interest), and conversion, exercise, repurchase, redemption (including, for the avoidance of doubt, a required repurchase in connection with the redemption of Permitted Convertible Debt upon satisfaction of a condition related to the stock price of the common stock), settlement or early termination or cancellation of (whether in whole or in part and including by netting or set-off) (in each case, whether in cash, common stock, following a merger event or other change of the common stock, other securities or property), or the satisfaction of any condition that would permit or require any of the foregoing, any Permitted Convertible Debt shall not be

 

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prohibited by this Section 9.07; provided that, to the extent the aggregate amount of cash payable upon conversion or payment of any Permitted Convertible Debt (excluding any required payment of interest with respect to such Permitted Convertible Debt and excluding any payment of cash in lieu of a fractional share due upon conversion thereof) exceeds the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount thereof and (b) the net cash proceeds, if any, received by the Obligors pursuant to an exercise or early unwind or settlement of a corresponding portion of the Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions relating to such Permitted Convertible Debt (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the case where there is no Bond Hedge Transaction and Permitted Warrant Transactions relating to such Permitted Convertible Debt), the payment of such excess cash shall not be permitted by the preceding sentence.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 9.07 shall not prohibit (x) the conversion of any Junior Indebtedness to Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower, (y) repurchase of any Existing Convertible Notes or (z) the repurchase, exchange or inducement of the conversion of any Permitted Convertible Debt by delivery of shares of common stock of the Borrower and/or a different series of Permitted Convertible Debt and/or by payment of cash (in an amount that does not exceed the proceeds received by the Obligors from the substantially concurrent issuance of common stock of the Borrower and/or such different series of Permitted Convertible Debt minus the net cost of any Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and/or Permitted Warrant Transactions plus the net cash proceeds, if any, received by the Obligors pursuant to the related exercise or early unwind or termination of the related Permitted Bond Hedge Transactions and Permitted Warrant Transactions, if any.

9.08 Change in Fiscal Year. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, change the last day of their fiscal year from that in effect on the Closing Date, except to change the fiscal year of a Subsidiary acquired in connection with an Acquisition to conform its fiscal year to that of the Obligors or as otherwise required by Law or GAAP.

9.09 Sales of Assets, Etc.. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to sell, lease, transfer, or otherwise dispose of any of their assets or properties, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including accounts receivable, Intellectual Property or Equity Interests of Subsidiaries), grant or enter into any license (or equivalent) of Intellectual Property owned by the Obligors, or forgive, release or compromise any amount owed to any Obligor or any such Subsidiary, or irretrievably abandon or dispose of any Patents, in each case, in one transaction or series of transactions (any thereof, an “Asset Sale”), except for the following (provided that, in the case of any Asset Sale of the type described in clauses (o), (r), and (s) below, the Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, allow any such Asset Sale to occur if any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such Asset Sale):

(a) sales of inventory in the ordinary course of its business;

(b) the forgiveness, release or compromise of any amount owed to an Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(c) transfers of assets or properties by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries to another Obligor or between or among Subsidiaries that are not Obligors;

 

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(d) dispositions of any asset or property (including leasehold interests, but other than any Material Intellectual Property) that is surplus, obsolete or worn out or no longer used or useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (in the reasonable, good faith judgment of the Obligors);

(e) as expressly permitted under Sections 9.02, 9.03 or 9.05;

(f) the use of cash and Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments for any purpose not prohibited or otherwise restricted hereby or by any other Loan Document;

(g) dispositions consisting of the sale, discount, transfer, assignment or other disposition of unpaid and overdue accounts receivable in connection with the collection, compromise or settlement thereof or in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers or customers;

(h) dispositions of any asset or property (other than Material Intellectual Property) to the extent that such asset or property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property;

(i) the granting of any license of Intellectual Property to the extent permitted by Section 9.18;

(j) any Casualty Event that would constitute an Asset Sale;

(k) the sale of Qualified Equity Interests of the Borrower (to the extent not resulting in a Change of Control or other Event of Default);

(l) the expiration, forfeiture, cancellation, lapse or abandonment of any registrations or applications for registration of any Intellectual Property (other than Material Intellectual Property) no longer used or useful in the conduct in the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or to the extent no longer economically desirable in the conduct of their business (in the reasonable, good faith judgment of the Obligors);

(m) customary transfer pricing and cost-sharing arrangements (i.e., “cost-plus” arrangements) among the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are in the ordinary course of business;

(n) any early unwind, settlement or termination of any Permitted Bond Hedge Transaction;

(o) other Asset Sales (other than any abandonment or disposal of Material Intellectual Property) not otherwise permitted hereunder not to exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate since the Closing Date;

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(q) cancellations, terminations or surrender by an Obligor or any Subsidiary thereof of any lease or sublease in the ordinary course of business;

(r) other Asset Sales of tangible personal property (other than any abandonment or disposal of Material Intellectual Property) so long as (i) the assets subject to such Asset Sale are sold for fair value, as determined by the applicable Obligor or Subsidiary in good faith, (ii) at least 75% of the consideration therefor is cash or Permitted Cash Equivalent Investments and (iii) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing immediately after giving effect to such Asset Sale; provided that the aggregate fair market value of all property subject to Asset Sales under this clause (r) shall not exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year;

(s) the Specified Sublease Transaction;

(t) dispositions of Equity Interests in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements between any joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements; and

(u) Asset Sales contractually committed to but unconsummated as of the Closing Date and identified on Schedule 9.09.

9.10 Transactions with Affiliates. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, (i) the Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to (x) directly or indirectly transfer, by means of contribution, sale, assignment, lease or sublease, license or sublicense, or other disposition of any kind (including as an Investment, Restricted Payment or Asset Sale), any Material Intellectual Property other than pursuant to Permitted Licenses or (y) permit any Person other than an Obligor to license or own any interest in any Material Intellectual Property owned by such Obligor other than pursuant to Permitted Licenses, and (ii) no Material Intellectual Property shall be contributed as an Investment or distributed as a Restricted Payment to any Subsidiary other than an Obligor (other than pursuant to Permitted Licenses). The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, sell, lease, license or otherwise transfer any assets to, or purchase, lease, license or otherwise acquire any assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except:

(a) transactions between or among Obligors and their Subsidiaries that are not prohibited by this Agreement;

(b) customary compensation and indemnification of, and other employment arrangements and benefits (including retirement, health, stock option, restricted stock units and other benefit plans and indemnification arrangements approved by the relevant board of directors, board managers or equivalent corporate body in the ordinary course of business) with, directors, officers and employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

(c) any other transaction of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries that is on fair and reasonable terms that are no less favorable (including with respect to the amount of cash or other consideration receivable or payable in connection therewith) to such Obligor or such Subsidiary, as applicable, than it could obtain in an arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of such Obligor or such Subsidiary;

 

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(d) transactions disclosed on Schedule 9.10 as of the Closing Date;

(e) Permitted Convertible Debt and equity financing transactions otherwise permitted by this Agreement; and

(f) Restricted Payments permitted under Section 9.06, and Investments permitted by Section 9.05.

9.11 Restrictive Agreements. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any Restrictive Agreement other than (i) restrictions and conditions imposed by applicable Laws or by the Loan Documents and (ii) Restrictive Agreements listed on Schedule 9.11, and Permitted Refinancings thereof that are Permitted Indebtedness.

9.12 Modifications and Terminations of Certain Agreements. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to: (a) waive, amend, modify, terminate, replace or otherwise modify any term or provision of any Organizational Document in any manner materially adverse to the interests of the Agent or to the Lenders in their capacities as such; or (b) waive, amend, replace or otherwise modify any term or provision of any Material Agreement in a manner materially adverse to the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Loan Documents.

9.13 Sales and Leasebacks. Except as disclosed on Schedule 9.13, the Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, become liable, directly or indirectly, with respect to any lease, whether an operating lease or a Capital Lease Obligation, of any asset or property (whether real, personal, or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, (i) which such Person has sold or transferred or is to sell or transfer to any other Person and (ii) which such Person intends to use for substantially the same purposes as property which has been or is to be sold or transferred.

9.14 Hazardous Material. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, use, generate, manufacture, install, treat, release, store or dispose of any Hazardous Material, except in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws or where the failure to comply could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

9.15 Accounting Changes. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, make any significant change in accounting treatment or reporting practices, except as required or permitted by GAAP.

9.16 [Reserved].

9.17 Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall not, directly or knowingly indirectly, use the proceeds of the Loans, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person, (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of any applicable Anti-Corruption Law, or (ii) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, would result in a violation by any party to this Agreement (including the Agent and the Lenders) of Sanctions.

 

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9.18 Inbound and Outbound Licenses.

(a) Inbound Licenses. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, enter into or become bound by any license agreement granting a license (or equivalent right) to third party Intellectual Property requiring any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, during any twelve (12) month period during the term of such license agreement, to make aggregate payments in excess of $5,000,000 in respect of such inbound license unless the Borrower has (i) provided prior written notice to the Agent of the material terms of such license or agreement with a description of its anticipated and projected impact on the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s, as applicable, business or financial condition and (ii) taken such commercially reasonable actions as the Agent may reasonably request to obtain the consent of, or waiver by, any Person whose consent or waiver is necessary for the Agent and the Lenders to be granted a valid and perfected Lien on such license agreement and the right to fully exercise its rights under any of the Loan Documents in the event of a disposition or liquidation (including in connection with a foreclosure) of the rights, assets or properties that are the subject of such license agreement; provided that (x) contractually committed, but unconsummated licenses as of the Closing Date and described on Schedule 9.18 and (y) non-exclusive license agreements in the nature of over the counter or “shrink wrap” software that is commercially available to the public or software licensed under open source licenses, shall not be prohibited by this Section 9.18(a).

(b) Outbound Licenses. The Obligors shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, enter into or become or remain bound by any outbound license, including any collaboration or development agreement, of Intellectual Property of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries other than Permitted Licenses.

SECTION 10

FINANCIAL COVENANT

10.01 Minimum Revenue. As of the last day of each fiscal quarter ending following the Closing Date, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall have received consolidated Revenue for the period of twelve (12) consecutive months ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter, determined on the basis of the financial statements most recently delivered pursuant to Sections 8.01(b) or 8.01(c), as applicable, in an aggregate amount not less than three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) (the “Minimum Revenue Covenant”); provided, that, in the event the Borrower and its Subsidiaries fail to comply with the Minimum Revenue Covenant as of the last day of any fiscal quarter (such fiscal quarter, the “Initial Fiscal Quarter”), such failure to comply shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default unless (x) such failure to comply continues for three (3) consecutive fiscal quarters (including the Initial Fiscal Quarter) or (y) at any time on or following the first day after the end of the Initial Fiscal Quarter until the earlier of (1) the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to the foregoing clause (x) and (2) the date on which the Borrower delivers to the Agent a Compliance Certificate indicating compliance with the Minimum Revenue Covenant, the Liquidity Condition is not satisfied.

 

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SECTION 11

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

11.01 Events of Default. Each of the following events shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a) Principal Payment Default. The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of the Loans, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof, at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise.

(b) Other Payment Defaults. Any Obligor shall fail to pay any Obligation (other than an amount referred to in Section 11.01(a)) when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of three (3) Business Days.

(c) Representations and Warranties. Any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document: (i) prove to have been incorrect when made or deemed made to the extent that such representation or warranty contains any materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifier; or (ii) prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made to the extent that such representation or warranty does not otherwise contain any materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifier.

(d) Certain Covenants. Any Obligor shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Sections 8.01, 8.02, 8.03 (with respect to the Borrower’s existence), 8.11, 8.12, 8.15, 8.17, 8.19, Section 9 or Section 10.

(e) Other Covenants. Any Obligor shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in Section 11.01(a), 11.01(b) or 11.01(d)) or any other Loan Document, and, such default is not remedied by the Obligor or waived by the Agent (at the direction of the Majority Lenders) within thirty (30) days after the earlier of (i) receipt by Borrower of notice from the Agent or Majority Lenders of such failure or (ii) knowledge of any Responsible Officer of any Obligor of such default.

(f) Payment Default on Other Indebtedness. Any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure period as originally provided by the terms of such Indebtedness.

 

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(g) Other Defaults on Other Indebtedness. (i) Any breach of, “default” or “event of default”, or similar event shall occur under, pursuant to or in connection with Material Indebtedness, or any other event or condition shall occur, that, in either case, shall, after the expiration of any cure or grace period thereunder (x) result in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or (y) enable or permit (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders or beneficiaries of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity, or (ii) there occurs under any Hedging Agreement an early termination date (as defined in such Hedging Agreement) resulting from (x) any event of default under such Hedging Agreement as to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is the defaulting party (as defined in such Hedging Agreement) and such event of default shall continue unremedied, uncured or unwaived after the expiration of any cure or grace period thereunder or (y) any termination event (as defined in such Hedging Agreement) under such Hedging Agreement as to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is an affected party (as defined in such Hedging Agreement) and, in either event, the termination value (if determined in accordance with the Hedging Agreement) or the amount determined as the mark-to-market value (if the termination value has not been so determined) for such affected Hedging Agreement that is owed by the Borrower or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than $10,000,000; provided that this clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 11.01(g) shall not apply to (x) secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the sale transfer (including as a result of a Casualty Event) of the property or assets securing such Material Indebtedness so long as such Material Indebtedness is repaid in full substantially contemporaneously with such sale or transfer (y) events of default, termination events or any other similar event under the documents governing Hedging Agreements for so long as such event of default, termination event or other similar event does not result in the occurrence of an early termination date or any acceleration or prepayment of any amounts or other Indebtedness payable thereunder or (z) Permitted Convertible Debt that upon the happening of any such default or event automatically converts into Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) in accordance with its terms and does not give rise to a right on behalf of the holders thereof to accelerate such Permitted Convertible Debt and demand cash payment in respect thereof.

(h) Insolvency, Bankruptcy, Etc.

(i) (Other than in respect of any Obligor incorporated in the United Kingdom) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (x) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Debtor Relief Law now or hereafter in effect or (y) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for a period of 60 or more days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;

(ii) (Other than in respect of any Obligor incorporated in the United Kingdom) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall (w) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Debtor Relief Law now or hereafter in effect, (x) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (i) above, (y) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of its assets, (z) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (aa) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (bb) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;

 

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(iii) (Other than in respect of any Obligor incorporated in the United Kingdom) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or

(iv) Any Obligor incorporated in the United Kingdom (i) is unable to pay its debts or fails or admits in writing its inability generally to pay its debts as they become due which results in a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or the entry of an order for relief or the making of an order for its winding-up or liquidation; or (ii) has any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or formal step or a resolution passed for its winding-up, official management or liquidation (other than pursuant to a solvent liquidation, consolidation, amalgamation or merger); or (iii) is subject to any legal proceedings or any formal corporate action or step in relation to (A) the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) or (B) a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any material portion of its creditors (other than any Obligor), which, in each case or is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained in each case within 30 days of the institution or presentation thereof.

(i) Judgments. One or more final judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $10,000,000 (or the Equivalent Amount in other currencies) (in each case excluding any amounts covered by insurance as to which the applicable carrier has not denied coverage) shall be rendered against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any combination thereof and the same shall remain effectively unstayed, unbonded, undismissed, unsatisfied or undischarged for a period of forty-five (45) consecutive calendar days after being executed against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any combination thereof, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of any Obligor to enforce any such judgment.

(j) ERISA and Pension Plans. An ERISA Event or Foreign Benefit Event shall have occurred that, in the opinion of the Agent, when taken together with all other ERISA Events and Foreign Benefit Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

(k) Material Adverse Change, Etc. A Material Adverse Change, Material Adverse Effect or Material Regulatory Event shall have occurred.

(l) Change of Control. A Change of Control shall have occurred.

(m) Impairment of Security, Etc. (Subject, in the case of the UK Guarantor only, to the Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements), if any of the following events occurs, and with respect to the following clause (i), other than as a result of the acts or omissions of the Agent or any Lender: (i) the Liens created by any of the Security Documents shall at any time not constitute a valid and perfected Lien on a material portion of the applicable Collateral in favor of the Secured Parties, free and clear of all other Liens (other than Permitted Liens), (ii) except for expiration in accordance with its terms or as a result of payment in full of the Obligations, any

 

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material portion of the Security Documents, taken as a whole, or of any material Guaranty of any of the Obligations (including that contained in Section 13) shall for whatever reason cease to be in full force and effect, or (iii) other than by reason of payment in full of the Obligations or permitted release in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, any Obligor shall, directly or indirectly, contest in any manner such effectiveness, validity, binding nature or enforceability of any such Lien or any Loan Document, in each case subject to any limitations following from (x) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws of general applicability affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights and (y) the application of general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

(n) Registration. If any Obligor is or becomes an entity whose equity is registered with the Commission, and/or is publicly traded on and/or registered with a public securities exchange, such Obligor’s equity fails to remain registered with the Commission in good standing, and/or such equity fails to remain publicly traded on and registered with such public securities exchange.

11.02 Remedies. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, then, and in every such event (other than an Event of Default described in Section 11.01(h)), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Agent may, or upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other Obligations, shall become due and payable immediately (in the case of the Loans, at the Prepayment Price therefor), without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Obligor; and upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section 11.01(h), the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other Obligations, shall automatically become due and payable immediately (in the case of the Loans, at the Prepayment Price therefor), without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by each Obligor.

11.03 Additional Remedies. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default under Section 11.01(a), (d) (solely with respect to Section 10) or (h), if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall have an uncured event of default under a Material Agreement, the Agent or the Lenders shall have the right (but not the obligation) to cause such event of default under such Material Agreement to be remedied (including without limitation by paying any unpaid amount thereunder) and otherwise exercise any and all rights of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, thereunder, as may be necessary to prevent or cure any such event of default. Without limiting the foregoing, during the continuance of any Event of Default described in Section 11.01(a), (d) (solely with respect to Section 10) or Section 11.01(h), upon any such event of default under a Material Agreement, the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries shall promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Agent such instruments as may reasonably be required of the Borrower or such Subsidiary to permit the Agent and the Lenders to cure any such event of default under the applicable Material Agreement or permit the Agent and the Lenders to take such other action

 

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required to enable the Agent and the Lenders to cure or remedy the matter in default and preserve the interests of the Agent or Lenders. Any amounts paid by the Agent or Lenders pursuant to this Section 11.03 shall be payable on demand by Obligors, shall accrue interest at the Default Rate if not paid on demand, and shall constitute “Obligations.”

SECTION 12

THE AGENT

12.01 Appointment and Duties. Subject in all cases to clause (c) below:

(a) Appointment of the Agent. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association (together with any successor Agent pursuant to Section 12.09) as the administrative agent hereunder and authorizes the Agent to (i) execute and deliver the Loan Documents and accept delivery thereof on its behalf from the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) take such action on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies and perform the duties as are expressly delegated to the Agent under such Loan Documents and (iii) exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.

(b) Duties as Collateral and Disbursing Agent. Without limiting the generality of Section 12.01(a), the Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority (to the exclusion of the Lenders), and is hereby authorized, to (i) act as the disbursing and collecting agent for the Lenders with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection with the Loan Documents (including in any proceeding described in Section 11.01(h) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding); provided that (i) the Agent shall only be required to act in such agency capacity if it has notified the Borrower and the Lenders in writing that it has elected to do so, and (ii) so long as the Agent has not delivered any such election notice it shall not be deemed to be acting as a disbursing and collecting agent for any other Lender or Secured Party and no Person (including any Withholding Agent) shall be authorized to make any payment to the Agent for such purpose, (ii) file and prove claims and file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Secured Parties with respect to any Obligation in any proceeding described in Section 11.01(h), and each Person making any payment in connection with any Loan Document to any Secured Party is hereby authorized to make such payment to the Agent, (ii) file and prove claims and file other documents necessary or desirable to allow the claims of the Secured Parties with respect to any Obligation in any proceeding described in Section 11.01(h) or any other bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceeding (but not to vote, consent or otherwise act on behalf of such Secured Party), (iii) act as collateral agent for each Secured Party for purposes of the perfection of all Liens created by such agreements and all other purposes stated therein, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal with the Collateral, (v) take such other action as is necessary or desirable to maintain the perfection and priority of the Liens created or purported to be created by the Loan Documents, (vi) except as may be otherwise specified in any Loan Document, exercise all remedies given to the Agent and the other Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral, whether under the Loan Documents, applicable Laws or otherwise and (vii) execute any amendment, consent or waiver under the Loan Documents on behalf of any Lender that has consented in writing to such amendment, consent or waiver.

 

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(c) Limited Duties. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that under the Loan Documents, the Agent (i) is acting solely on behalf of the Lenders (except to the limited extent provided in Section 12.11), with duties that are entirely administrative in nature and do not (and are not intended to) create any fiduciary obligations, notwithstanding the use of the defined term “the Agent”, the terms “agent”, “administrative agent” and “collateral agent” and similar terms in any Loan Document to refer to the Agent, which terms are used for title purposes only, (ii) is not assuming any obligation under any Loan Document other than as expressly set forth therein or any role as agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender or any other Secured Party and (iii) shall have no implied functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or other liabilities under any Loan Document (fiduciary or otherwise), and each Lender hereby waives and agrees not to assert any claim against the Agent based on the roles, duties and legal relationships expressly disclaimed in this clause (c). The permissive right of the Agent to do things enumerated in this Agreement shall not be construed as a duty. Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers herein unless it has received reasonable assurances that it will be reimbursed or indemnified in accordance with the terms hereof. The Agent (in its capacity as such) shall not be responsible or liable to the extent of any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its control, including without limitation, any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority; acts of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; wars; terrorism; civil or military disturbances; sabotage; epidemics; pandemics; riots; interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications service; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority or governmental actions; or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex or other wire or communication facility.

12.02 Binding Effect. Each Lender agrees that (i) any action taken by the Agent or the Majority Lenders (or, if expressly required hereby, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents, (ii) any action taken by the Agent in reliance upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) and (iii) the exercise by the Agent or the Majority Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Secured Parties.

12.03 Use of Discretion.

(a) No Action without Instructions. The Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion, provide any consent or approval, make any determination, or take, or omit to take, any action, including with respect to enforcement or collection, except (subject to clause (b) below) any action it is required to take or omit to take (i) under any Loan Document or (ii) pursuant to instructions from the Majority Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders).

(b) Right Not to Follow Certain Instructions. Notwithstanding Section 12.03(a) or any other term or provision of this Section 12, the Agent shall not be required to take, or to omit to take, any action (i) unless, upon demand, the Agent receives an indemnification satisfactory to it from the Lenders (or, to the extent

 

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applicable and acceptable to the Agent, any other Secured Party) against all liabilities that, by reason of such action or omission, may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Agent or any Related Parties thereof or (ii) that is, in the opinion of the Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, contrary to any Loan Document, applicable Law or the best interests of the Agent or any of its Affiliates or Related Parties.

12.04 Delegation of Rights and Duties. The Agent may, upon any term or condition it specifies, delegate or exercise any of its rights, powers and remedies under, and delegate or perform any of its duties or any other action with respect to, any Loan Document by or through any trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact and any other Person (including any Secured Party). The Agent shall not be responsible for the acts or omissions of any such trustee, co-agent, employee, attorney-in-fact or any other Person, in each case, to the extent appointed with due care.

12.05 Reliance and Liability.

(a) The Agent may, without incurring any liability hereunder, (i) consult with any of its Related Parties and, whether or not selected by it, any other advisors, accountants and other experts (including advisors to, and accountants and experts engaged by, any Obligor) and (ii) rely and act upon any advice, resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, judgment, note, other evidence of indebtedness, or other paper or document and information and any telephone message or conversation, in each case reasonably believed by it to be genuine and transmitted, signed or otherwise authenticated by the appropriate parties.

(b) Neither the Agent nor any of its Related Parties shall be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with any Loan Document, and each Lender hereby waives and shall not assert any right, claim or cause of action based thereon, except to the extent of liabilities resulting primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Party (each as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment or order by a court of competent jurisdiction) in connection with the duties expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the foregoing, the Agent:

(i) shall not be responsible or otherwise incur liability for any action or omission taken in reliance upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders or for the actions or omissions of any of their Related Parties selected with reasonable care (other than employees, officers and directors of the Agent, when acting on behalf of the Agent);

(ii) shall not be responsible to any Secured Party for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, effectiveness, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien created or purported to be created under or in connection with, any Loan Document, including for executing, delivering, filing, recording, authorizing or obtaining any financing statements, notices, instruments, documents, agreements, consents or other papers with or in any recording office;

(iii) makes no warranty or representation, and shall not be responsible, to any Secured Party for any statement, document, information, representation or warranty made or furnished by or on behalf of any Related Party, in or in connection with any Loan Document or any transaction contemplated therein, whether or not transmitted by the Agent, including as to completeness, accuracy, scope or adequacy thereof, or for the scope, nature or results of any due diligence performed by the Agent in connection with the Loan Documents; and

 

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(iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any provision of any Loan Document, whether any condition set forth in any Loan Document is satisfied or waived, as to the financial condition of any Obligor or as to the existence or continuation or possible occurrence or continuation of any Default or Event of Default and shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of such occurrence or continuation unless it has received a notice from the Borrower, any Lender describing such Default or Event of Default clearly labeled “notice of default” (in which case the Agent shall promptly give notice of such receipt to all Lenders);

and, for each of the items set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) above, each Lender hereby waives and agrees not to assert any right, claim or cause of action it might have against the Agent based thereon.

12.06 Agent Individually. The Agent and its Affiliates may make loans and other extensions of credit to acquire stock and stock equivalents of, engage in any kind of business with, any Obligor or Affiliate thereof as though it were not acting as the Agent and may receive separate fees and other payments therefor. To the extent the Agent or any of its Affiliates makes any Loan or otherwise becomes a Lender hereunder, it shall have and may exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and shall be subject to the same obligations and liabilities as any other Lender and the terms “Lender”, “Majority Lender”, and any similar terms shall, except where otherwise expressly provided in any Loan Document, include, without limitation, the Agent or such Affiliate, as the case may be, in its individual capacity as Lender or as one of the Majority Lenders, respectively.

12.07 Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agent, any Lender or any of their Related Parties or upon any document solely or in part because such document was transmitted by the Agent or any of its Related Parties, conducted its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and has made and continues to make its own credit decisions in connection with entering into, and taking or not taking any action under, any Loan Document or with respect to any transaction contemplated in any Loan Document, in each case based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate.

12.08 Expenses; Indemnities.

(a) Each Lender agrees to reimburse the Agent and each of its Related Parties (to the extent not reimbursed by any Obligor) promptly upon demand for such Lender’s Proportionate Share of any costs and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of financial, legal and other advisors and Other Taxes paid in the name of, or on behalf of, any Obligor) that may be incurred by the Agent or any of its Related Parties in connection with the preparation, syndication, execution, delivery, administration, modification, consent, waiver or enforcement (whether through negotiations, through any work-out, bankruptcy, restructuring or other legal or other proceeding or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of its rights or responsibilities under, any Loan Document.

 

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(b) Each Lender further agrees to indemnify the Agent and each of its Related Parties (to the extent not reimbursed by any Obligor), from and against such Lender’s aggregate Proportionate Share of the liabilities (including taxes, interests and penalties imposed for not properly withholding or backup withholding on payments made to on or for the account of any Lender) that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Agent or any of its Related Parties in any matter relating to or arising out of, in connection with or as a result of any Loan Document or any other act, event or transaction related, contemplated in or attendant to any such Loan Document, or, in each case, any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Agent or any of its Related Parties under or with respect to any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable to the Agent or any of its Related Parties to the extent such liability has resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent or, as the case may be, such Related Party, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable judgment or order.

12.09 Resignation and Succession of the Agent.

(a) At any time upon not less than thirty (30) Business Days prior written notice, the Agent may resign as the “the Agent” hereunder, in whole or in part (in the sole and absolute discretion of the Agent), effective on the date set forth in such notice, which effective date shall not be less than thirty (30) (or more than sixty (60)) days following delivery of such notice. If the Agent delivers any such notice, the Majority Lenders shall, in consultation with the Borrower (unless an Event of Default under Section 11.01(a), (d) (solely with respect to Section 10.01) or (h) has occurred and is continuing), have the right to appoint a successor to the Agent; provided that if a successor to the Agent has not been appointed on or before the effectiveness of the resignation of the resigning Agent, then the resigning Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint any Person reasonably chosen by it as the successor to the Agent (but in no event shall any successor Agent be a Competitor, Defaulted Lender or a Disqualified Institution).

(b) Effective immediately upon its resignation, (i) the resigning Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents to the extent set forth in the applicable resignation notice, (ii) the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Agent until a successor the Agent shall have accepted a valid appointment hereunder, (iii) the resigning Agent and its Related Parties shall no longer have the benefit of any provision of any Loan Document other than with respect to (x) any actions taken or omitted to be taken while such resigning Agent was, or because the Agent had been, validly acting as the Agent under the Loan Documents or (y) any continuing duties such resigning Agent continues to perform, and (iv) subject to its rights under Section 12.04, the resigning Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor the Agent its rights as the Agent under the Loan Documents. Effective immediately upon its acceptance of a valid appointment as the Agent, a successor the Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the resigning Agent under the Loan Documents.

(c) Any entity into which any Agent may be converted or merged, or with which it may be consolidated, or to which it may sell or transfer all or substantially all of its loan agency business and assets as a whole or substantially as a whole, or any entity resulting from any such conversion, sale, merger, consolidation or transfer to which such Agent is a party, will be and become the successor Agent under this Agreement and will have and succeed to the rights, powers, duties, benefits, indemnities, immunities, protections and privileges as its predecessor, without the execution or filing of any instrument or paper or the performance of any further act.

 

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12.10 Release of Collateral or Guarantors. Each Lender hereby consents to the release and hereby directs the Agent to release the following:

(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower from its guaranty of any Obligation of any Obligor if all of the Equity Interests in such Subsidiary owned by any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries are disposed of in an Asset Sale permitted under and in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a valid waiver or consent), to the extent that, after giving effect to such Asset Sale, such Subsidiary would not be required to guaranty any Obligations pursuant to Section 8.12(a); and

(b) any Lien held by the Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties against (i) any Collateral that is disposed of by an Obligor in an Asset Sale permitted by and in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents (including pursuant to a valid waiver or consent), and (ii) all of the Collateral and all Obligors, upon (w) termination of the Commitments, (x) payment and satisfaction in full of all Loans and all other Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) that the Agent has been notified in writing are then due and payable, (y) deposit of cash collateral with respect to all contingent Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made), in amounts and on terms and conditions and with parties satisfactory to the Agent and each Indemnified Party that is owed such Obligations, and (z) to the extent requested by the Agent, receipt by the Secured Parties of liability releases from the Obligors, each in form and substance acceptable to the Agent.

The Agent shall not be required to execute any document necessary to evidence such release authorized under this Section 12.10 unless a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall certify in writing to the Agent that the transaction requiring such release is permitted under the Loan Documents (it being acknowledged that the Agent may rely on any such certificate without further inquiry). Each Lender hereby directs the Agent, and the Agent hereby agrees, upon receipt of reasonable advance notice from the Borrower, to execute and deliver or file such documents and to perform other actions reasonably necessary to release the Guaranties and Liens when and as directed in this Section 12.10.

12.11 Additional Secured Parties. The benefit of the provisions of the Loan Documents directly relating to the Collateral or any Lien granted thereunder shall extend to and be available to any Secured Party that is not a Lender so long as, by accepting such benefits, such Secured Party agrees, as among the Agent and all other Secured Parties, that such Secured Party is bound by (and, if requested by the Agent, shall confirm such agreement in a writing in form and substance acceptable to the Agent) this Section 12 and the decisions and actions of the Agent and the Majority Lenders (or, where expressly required by the terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders) to the same extent a Lender is bound; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) such Secured Party shall be bound by Section 12.08 only to the extent of liabilities, costs and expenses with respect to or otherwise relating to the Collateral held for the benefit of such Secured Party, in which case the obligations

 

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of such Secured Party thereunder shall not be limited by any concept of Proportionate Share or similar concept, (ii) each of the Agent and each Lender shall be entitled to act at its sole discretion, without regard to the interest of such Secured Party, regardless of whether any Obligation to such Secured Party thereafter remains outstanding, is deprived of the benefit of the Collateral, becomes unsecured or is otherwise affected or put in jeopardy thereby, and without any duty or liability to such Secured Party or any such Obligation and (iii) such Secured Party shall not have any right to be notified of, consent to, direct, require or be heard with respect to, any action taken or omitted in respect of the Collateral or under any Loan Document.

12.12 Erroneous Payments.

(a) If the Agent notifies a Lender or any Person who has received funds on behalf of a Lender, such Lender, in connection with the Loan Documents (any such Lender or other recipient, a “Payment Recipient”) that the Agent has determined in its sole discretion (whether or not after receipt of any notice under immediately succeeding clause (b)) that any funds received by such Payment Recipient from the Agent or any of its Affiliates, in each case, in connection with the Loan Documents were erroneously transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Payment Recipient (whether or not known to such Lender or other Payment Recipient on its behalf) (any such funds, whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise, in each case, in connection with the Loan Documents, individually and collectively, an “Erroneous Payment”) and demands the return of such Erroneous Payment (or a portion thereof)) (provided that, without limiting any other rights or remedies (whether at law or in equity), the Agent may not make any such demand under this clause (a) with respect to an Erroneous Payment unless such demand is made within sixty (60) days of the date of receipt of such Erroneous Payment by the applicable Payment Recipient), such Erroneous Payment shall at all times remain the property of the Agent, and such Lender shall (or, with respect to any Payment Recipient who received such funds on its behalf, shall cause such Payment Recipient to) promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days following written demand, return to the Agent the amount of any such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made, in same day funds (in the currency so received). A written notice of the Agent to any Payment Recipient setting forth the date and amount of such Erroneous Payment under this clause (a) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error; and

(b) Without limiting immediately preceding clause (a), each Payment Recipient hereby further agrees that if it receives a payment, prepayment or repayment (whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise) from the Agent (or any of its Affiliates) (x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment (a “Payment Notice”), (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a Payment Notice, or (z) that such Payment Recipient otherwise becomes aware was transmitted, or received, in error or by mistake (in whole or in part) in each case:

(i) an error may have been made (in the case of immediately preceding clauses (x) or (y)) or an error has been made (in the case of immediately preceding clause (z)) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment; and

 

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(ii) such Payment Recipient shall promptly (and, in all events, within one Business Day of its knowledge of such error) notify the Agent of its receipt of such payment, prepayment or repayment, the details thereof and that it is so notifying the Agent pursuant to this Section 12.12(b).

(c) Each Lender hereby authorizes the Agent to set off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by the Agent to such Lender from any source, against any amount due to the Agent under immediately preceding clause (a) or under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement; provided that, the Agent shall endeavor to give prompt notice to each Lender of any such setoff; provided further that, failure by Agent to provide any such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff or result in any liability therefor.

(d) In the event an Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered by the Agent for any reason, after demand therefor by the Agent in accordance with the immediately preceding clause (a), from any Lender that has received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) (or from any Payment Recipient who received such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) on its respective behalf) (such unrecovered amount, an “Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency”), upon the Agent’s request to such Lender at any time, (i) such Lender shall be deemed to have assigned its Loans (but not its Commitments) of the relevant Loans with respect to which such Erroneous Payment was made (the “Erroneous Payment Impacted Class”) in an amount equal to the Erroneous Payment Return Deficiency (such assignment of the Loans (but not Commitments) of the Erroneous Payment Impacted Class, the “Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment”) at par (with the assignment fee to be waived by the Agent in such instance), and is hereby (together with the Borrower) deemed to execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption (or, to the extent applicable, an agreement incorporating an Assignment and Assumption by reference pursuant to an electronic settlement system as to which the Agent and such parties are participants) with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, and such Lender shall deliver any Notes evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or the Agent, (ii) the Agent as the assignee Lender shall be deemed to acquire the Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment and (iii) upon such deemed acquisition, the Agent as the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment and the assigning Lender shall cease to be a Lender hereunder with respect to such Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment, excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, its obligations under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement and its applicable Commitments which shall survive as to such assigning Lender. For the avoidance of doubt, no Erroneous Payment Deficiency Assignment will reduce the Commitments of any Lender and such Commitments shall remain available in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(e) The parties hereto agree that an Erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower or any other Obligor, except, in each case, to the extent such Erroneous Payment is, and solely with respect to the amount of such Erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds received by the Agent or its Affiliates from or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Obligor or from the proceeds of Collateral.

 

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(f) To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Payment Recipient shall assert any right or claim to an Erroneous Payment, and hereby waives, and is deemed to waive, any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of set-off or recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Agent for the return of any Erroneous Payment received, including without limitation waiver of any defense based on “discharge for value” or any similar doctrine.

(g) Each party’s obligations, agreements and waivers under this Section 12.12 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Agent, the termination of the Commitments and/or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all Obligations (or any portion thereof) under any Loan Document.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, no Obligor nor any of their respective Affiliates shall have any additional obligations or liabilities directly or indirectly arising out of this Section 12.12 in respect of any Erroneous Payment (including the repayment or recovery of any amounts) and, for the avoidance of doubt, it is understood and agreed that if an Obligor has paid principal, interest, fees or any other amounts owed pursuant to a Loan Document, nothing in this Section 12.12 (or Section 14.03 (or any equivalent provision) in connection therewith)) shall require any such Obligor to pay additional amounts that are duplicative of such previously paid amounts.

12.13 Defaulted Lenders. The failure of any Defaulted Lender to make any payment required by it hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations to make payment, but none of the Lenders or Agent shall be responsible for the failure of any Defaulted Lender to make any payment required hereunder. Notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary, a Defaulted Lender shall not have any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document or constitute a “Lender” (or be included in the calculation of “Majority Lenders” hereunder or under any other Loan Document) for any voting or consent rights under or with respect to any Loan Document.

SECTION 13

GUARANTEE

13.01 The Guarantee. Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby jointly and severally guarantees to the Agent and the Lenders, and their successors and assigns, the prompt payment in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the principal of and interest on the Loans, all fees and other amounts and Obligations from time to time owing to the Agent and the Lenders by the Borrower and each other Obligor under this Agreement or under any other Loan Document, in each case strictly in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof (such obligations being herein collectively called the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby further jointly and severally agrees that if the Borrower or any other Obligor shall fail to pay in full when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Subsidiary Guarantors shall promptly pay the same, without any demand or notice whatsoever, and that in the case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the same shall be promptly paid in full when due (whether at extended maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) in accordance with the terms of such extension or renewal.

 

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13.02 Obligations Unconditional. The obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under Section 13.01 are absolute and unconditional, joint and several, irrespective of the value, genuineness, validity, regularity or enforceability of the obligations of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein, or any substitution, release or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and, to the fullest extent permitted by all applicable Laws, irrespective of any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor (other than payment in full in cash), it being the intent of this Section 13.02 that the obligations of the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional, joint and several, under any and all circumstances. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is agreed that the occurrence of any one or more of the following shall not alter or impair the liability of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereunder, which shall remain absolute and unconditional as described above:

(a) at any time or from time to time, without notice to the Subsidiary Guarantors, the time for any performance of or compliance with any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be extended, or such performance or compliance shall be waived;

(b) any of the acts mentioned in any of the provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein shall be done or omitted;

(c) the maturity of any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be accelerated, or any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall be modified, supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein shall be waived or any other guarantee of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any security therefor shall be released or exchanged in whole or in part or otherwise dealt with; or

(d) any lien or security interest granted to, or in favor of, the Secured Parties as security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations shall fail to be perfected.

The Subsidiary Guarantors hereby expressly waive diligence, presentment, demand of payment, protest and all notices whatsoever, and any requirement that the Agent or any Lender exhaust any right, power or remedy or proceed against the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor under this Agreement or any other agreement or instrument referred to herein, or against any other Person under any other guarantee of, or security for, any of the Guaranteed Obligations.

13.03 Reinstatement. The obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Section 13 shall be automatically reinstated if and to the extent that for any reason any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must be otherwise restored by any holder of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, whether as a result of any proceedings in bankruptcy or reorganization or otherwise.

13.04 Subrogation. Each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that, until the payment and satisfaction in full of all Guaranteed Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made), but subject to the reinstatement provisions set forth in Section 13.03, they shall not exercise any right or remedy arising by reason of any performance by them of their guarantee in Section 13.01, whether by subrogation or otherwise, against the Borrower or any other guarantor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or any security for any of the Guaranteed Obligations.

 

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13.05 Remedies. The Subsidiary Guarantors jointly and severally agree that, as between the Subsidiary Guarantors, on one hand, and the Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and under the other Loan Documents may be declared to be forthwith due and payable as provided in Section 11 (and shall be deemed to have become automatically due and payable in the circumstances provided in Section 11) for purposes of Section 13.01 notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such declaration (or such obligations from becoming automatically due and payable) as against the Borrower and that, in the event of such declaration (or such obligations being deemed to have become automatically due and payable), such obligations (whether or not due and payable by the Borrower) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Subsidiary Guarantors for purposes of Section 13.01.

13.06 Instrument for the Payment of Money. Each Subsidiary Guarantor and the Borrower hereby acknowledges that the guarantee in this Section 13 constitutes an instrument for the payment of money, and consents and agrees that the Agent and the Lenders, at their sole option, in the event of a dispute by such Subsidiary Guarantor in the payment of any moneys due hereunder, shall have the right to proceed by motion for summary judgment in lieu of complaint pursuant to N.Y. Civ. Prac. L&R § 3213.

13.07 Continuing Guarantee. The guarantee in this Section 13 is a continuing guarantee, and shall apply to all Guaranteed Obligations (other than inchoate indemnification and expense reimbursement obligations for which no claim has been made) whenever arising.

13.08 General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations. In any Claim or Proceeding involving any provincial, territorial or state corporate law, or any state or federal bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other law affecting the rights of creditors generally, if the obligations of any Subsidiary Guarantor under Section 13.01 would otherwise be held or determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, or subordinated to the claims of any other creditors, on account of the amount of its liability under Section 13.01, then, notwithstanding any other provision hereof to the contrary, the amount of such liability shall, without any further action by such Subsidiary Guarantor, the Agent, any Lender or any other Person, be automatically limited and reduced to the highest amount that is valid and enforceable and not subordinated to the claims of other creditors as determined in such action or proceeding. The guarantee in this Section 13 shall not apply to any liability to the extent that it would result in this guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the meaning of Section 678 or Section 679 of the Companies Act 2006 of the United Kingdom.

 

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SECTION 14

MISCELLANEOUS

14.01 No Waiver. No failure on the part of the Agent or the Lenders to exercise and no delay in exercising, and no course of dealing with respect to, any right, power or privilege under any Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege under any Loan Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.

14.02 Notices. All notices, requests, instructions, directions and other communications provided for herein (including any modifications of, or waivers, requests or consents under, this Agreement) or in the other Loan Documents shall be given or made in writing (including by telecopy or email) delivered, if to the Borrower, another Obligor, the Agent or any Lender, to its address specified on the signature pages hereto or its Guaranty Assumption Agreement, as the case may be, or at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement or therein, all such communications shall be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt of a legible copy thereof, in each case given or addressed as aforesaid. All such communications provided for herein by telecopy shall be confirmed in writing promptly after the delivery of such communication (it being understood that non-receipt of written confirmation of such communication shall not invalidate such communication). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, notices, documents, certificates and other deliverables to the Lenders by any Obligor may be made solely to the Agent and the Agent shall promptly deliver such notices, documents, certificates and other deliverables to the Lenders.

14.03 Expenses, Indemnification, Etc.

(a) Expenses. Each Obligor, jointly and severally, agrees to pay or reimburse (i) the Agent and the Lenders for all of their reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses limited to, in the case of legal counsel, the reasonable and documented (in reasonable detail) charges and disbursements of (i) Goodwin Procter LLP, lead counsel for the Lenders, (ii) Covington & Burling LLP, lead counsel for the Agent, and (iii) one additional local outside counsel in each material jurisdiction or discipline in each case for the Agent and the Lenders in connection with (x) the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the making of the Loans, and (y) any such costs or expenses incurred after the Closing Date, including any costs or expenses relating to the negotiation or preparation of any modification, supplement, forbearance, consent or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents (whether or not consummated); and (ii) the Agent and the Lenders for all of their reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the out-of-pocket fees and expenses of legal counsel, but limited to, in the case of legal counsel, the reasonable and documented (in reasonable detail) charges and disbursements of one lead counsel for each of (x) the Agent and (y) all Lenders together, and one additional local outside counsel in each material jurisdiction or discipline in each case for the Agent and all Lenders together and, in the case of actual conflict of interest, one additional such set of applicable counsel)) in connection with any enforcement or collection proceedings resulting from the occurrence of an Event of Default.

 

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(b) Exculpation, Indemnification, etc.

(i) In no event shall any party hereto, any successor, transferee or assignee of any party hereto, or any of their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents, advisors or controlling parties (each, an “Exculpated Party”) have any obligation or responsibility for (and the Obligors jointly and severally waive any claims they may have in respect of) any Loss, on any theory of liability, for consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or any of the Transactions or the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Loans; provided that, nothing in this clause (i) shall relieve any Obligor of any obligation such Obligor may have to indemnify an Indemnified Person, as provided in clause (ii) below, against any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages asserted against such Indemnified Person by a third party. Each party hereto agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, that it will not assert, directly or indirectly, any claim against any Exculpated Party with respect to any of the foregoing.

(ii) Each Obligor, jointly and severally, hereby indemnifies the Agent, each Lender, each of their respective successors, transferees and assigns and each of their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents, advisors and controlling parties (each, an “Indemnified Party”) from and against, and agrees to hold them harmless against, any and all claims and Losses of any kind (limited to, in the case of legal counsel, the reasonable and documented (in reasonable detail) charges and disbursements of one lead counsel for all Indemnified Parties, together, and one additional local outside counsel in each material jurisdiction or discipline in each case for the Indemnified Parties together and, in the case of actual conflict of interest, one additional such set of applicable counsel), joint or several, that may be incurred by or asserted or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or relating to any Proceeding or the preparation of any defense with respect thereto arising out of or in connection with or relating to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the Transactions or any use made or proposed to be made with the proceeds of the Loans, whether or not such Proceeding is brought by any Obligor, any of its Subsidiaries, any of its shareholders or creditors, an Indemnified Party or any other Person, or an Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto, and whether or not any of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 6 are satisfied or the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated, except to the extent such claim or Loss is found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Party’s gross negligence or willful misconduct. This Section 14.03(b)(ii) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent Losses arising from any non-Tax claim.

(c) No Obligor shall be liable for any settlement of any Proceeding if the amount of such settlement was effected without such Obligor’s consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), but if settled with such Obligor’s written consent or if there is a final judgment for the plaintiff in any such Proceeding, each Obligor agrees to, jointly and severally, indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person from and against any and all Loss and related expenses by reason of such settlement or judgment in accordance with the terms of clause (ii) above. No Obligor shall, without the prior written consent of the Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), effect any settlement of any pending Proceedings in respect of which indemnity could have been sought hereunder by any

 

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Indemnified Person unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceedings and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person or any injunctive relief or other non-monetary remedy. Each Obligor acknowledges that any failure to comply with the obligations under the preceding sentence may cause irreparable harm to the Agent and the other Indemnified Persons.

14.04 Amendments, Etc. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any provision of this Agreement and any other Loan Document may be modified or supplemented only by an instrument in writing signed by the Borrower, the Agent and the Majority Lenders; provided that:

(a) any such modification or supplement that is disproportionately adverse to any Lender as compared to other Lenders or subjects any Lender to any additional obligation shall not be effective without the consent of such affected Lender;

(b) the consent of all of the Lenders directly affected thereby shall be required to:

(i) amend, modify, discharge, terminate or waive any of the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document if such amendment, modification, discharge, termination or waiver would increase the amount of the Loans or any Commitment of any Lender, reduce the fees payable to any Lender hereunder, reduce interest rates or other amounts payable with respect to the Loans held by any Lender, extend any date fixed for payment of principal, interest or other amounts payable relating to the Loans held by any Lender or extend the repayment dates of the Loans held by any Lender;

(ii) amend, modify, discharge, terminate or waive any Security Document if the effect is to release a material part of the Collateral subject thereto, other than pursuant to the express terms hereof or thereof;

(iii) amend this Section 14.04 or the definition of “Majority Lenders”;

(iv) amend, restate, amend and restate, waive or otherwise modify this Agreement or any other Loan Document that provides for subordination of the Obligations or of the Liens granted under any Loan Document to any other Indebtedness or Lien, as the case may be;

(c) if the Majority Lenders and the Borrower shall have jointly identified an obvious error or any error or omission of a technical nature, in each case, in any provision of the Loan Documents, then the Majority Lenders and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend such provision; and

(d) no amendment, modification, or waiver shall affect the rights, duties, benefits, privileges, protections, indemnities or immunities of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Agent, unless consented to and signed by the Agent.

 

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14.05 Successors and Assigns.

(a) General. The provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto or thereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby or thereby, except that no Obligor may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Agent. Any Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 14.05(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 14.05(e), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 14.05(h). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 14.05(e) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b) Assignments by Lender. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Transferees (other than (x) a Disqualified Institution, unless an Event of Default under Section 11.01(a), (d) (solely with respect to Section 10.01 ) or (h) has occurred and is continuing or (y) a Competitor) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of the Loans at the time owing to it) and the other Loan Documents; provided that (i) no such assignment shall be made to any Obligor, any Affiliate of any Obligor, any employees or directors of any Obligor or to any natural Person at any time, (ii) no such assignment shall be made without the prior written consent of the Agent and (iii) unless (x) an Event of Default under Section 11.01(a), (d) (solely with respect to Section 10) or (h) has occurred and is continuing or (y) such assignment is to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Eligible Transferee, no such assignment shall be made to any Person without the prior written consent of Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) provided that Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received written notice thereof. Subject to the payment by the assigning Lender of a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (which may be waived by the Agent in its sole discretion) and the recording thereof by the Lender pursuant to Section 14.05(d), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of the Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and correspondingly the assigning Lender shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) and the other Loan Documents but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 5 and Section 14.03. Any assignment or transfer by the Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 14.05(b) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 14.05(e).

 

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(c) Amendments to Loan Documents. Each of the Agent, the Lenders, the Borrower, and its Subsidiaries agrees to enter into such amendments to the Loan Documents, and such additional Security Documents and other instruments and agreements, in each case in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Agent, the Lenders, the Borrower, and its Subsidiaries, as shall reasonably be necessary to implement and give effect to any assignment made under this Section 14.05.

(d) Register. The Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices in the United States a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest or demonstrable error, and the Borrower, the Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(e) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower, sell participations to any Eligible Transferee (other than to a Competitor or a Disqualified Institution unless an Event of Default under Section 11.01(a), (d) (solely with respect to Section 10) or (h) has occurred and is continuing) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of the Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of the Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection therewith. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which any Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce the Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender shall not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver that would (i) increase or extend the term of such Lender’s Commitment, (ii) extend the date fixed for the payment of principal of or interest on the Loans or any portion of any fee hereunder payable to the Participant, (iii) reduce the amount of any such payment of principal, or (iv) reduce the rate at which interest is payable thereon to a level below the rate at which the Participant is entitled to receive such interest. Subject to Section 14.05(f), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 5 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein including the requirements under Section 5.03(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.03(f) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 14.05(b); provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 5.04 as if it were an assignee under Section 14.05(b) above. To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 4.03(a) as though it were a Lender.

 

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(f) Limitations on Rights of Participants. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 5.01 or 5.03 with respect to any participation than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation.

(g) Participant Register. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other Obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans, or its other Obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan, or other Obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) and proposed Section 1.163-5(b) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest or demonstrable error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

(h) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under the Loan Documents to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(i) Replacement of Lenders. Within thirty (30) days after: (i) receipt by Agent of notice and demand from any Lender for payment of additional costs as provided in Section 5.01, which demand shall not have been revoked, (ii) Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.03, (iii) any Lender is a Defaulted Lender, and the circumstances causing such status shall not have been cured or waived; or (iv) any failure by any Lender to consent to a requested amendment, waiver or modification to any Loan Document in which the Majority Lenders have already consented to such amendment, waiver or modification but the consent of each Lender, or each Lender affected thereby, is required with respect thereto (each relevant Lender in the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv) being an “Affected Lender”) each of Borrower and Agent may, at its option, notify such Affected Lender and, in the case of Borrower’s election, Agent, of such Person’s intention to obtain, at Borrower’s expense, a replacement Lender (“Replacement Lender”) for such Lender, which Replacement Lender shall be an Eligible Transferee and, in the event the Replacement Lender is to replace an Affected Lender described in the preceding clause (iv), such Replacement

 

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Lender consents to the requested amendment, waiver or modification making the replaced Lender an Affected Lender. In the event Borrower or Agent, as applicable, obtains a Replacement Lender within ninety (90) days following notice of its intention to do so, the Affected Lender shall sell, at par plus the Exit Fee and any Early Prepayment Fee as though the Affected Lender had received payment of its Loans on such date, and assign all of its Loans and any funding commitments hereunder to such Replacement Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 14.05(b); provided, however, that (A) following payment of the applicable Exit Fee and/or Early Prepayment Fee to the Affected Lender, the assignee of such Affected Lender (and any future assignee thereof) shall not be entitled to receive the Exit Fee or Early Prepayment Fee with respect to the assigned Loans, and (B) Borrower shall have reimbursed such Lender for its increased costs and additional payments for which it is entitled to reimbursement under Section 5.01 or Section 5.03, as applicable, of this Agreement through the date of such sale and assignment. In the event that a replaced Lender does not execute an Assignment and Assumption pursuant to Section 14.05(b) within five (5) Business Days after receipt by such replaced Lender of notice of replacement pursuant to this Section 14.05(i) and presentation to such replaced Lender of an Assignment and Assumption evidencing an assignment pursuant to this Section 14.05(i), such replaced Lender shall be deemed to have consented to the terms of such Assignment and Assumption, and any such Assignment and Assumption executed by Agent, the Replacement Lender and, to the extent required pursuant to Section 14.05(b), Borrower, shall be effective for purposes of this Section 14.05(i) and Section 14.05(b). Upon any such assignment and payment, such replaced Lender shall no longer constitute a “Lender” for purposes hereof, other than with respect to such rights and obligations that survive termination as set forth in Section 14.06.

14.06 Survival. The obligations of the Obligors under Sections 5.01, 5.02(c), 5.03, Section 12, 14.03, 14.06, 14.09, 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13, 14.14 and the obligations of the Subsidiary Guarantors under Section 13 (solely to the extent guaranteeing any of the obligations under the foregoing Sections) shall survive the repayment of the Obligations and the termination of the Commitment and, in the case of the Lenders’ assignment of any interest in the Commitment or the Loans hereunder, shall survive, in the case of any event or circumstance that occurred prior to the effective date of such assignment, the making of such assignment, notwithstanding that the Lenders may cease to be “Lenders” hereunder. In addition, each representation and warranty made, or deemed to be made by a Borrowing Notice, herein or pursuant hereto shall survive the making of such representation and warranty.

14.07 Captions. The table of contents and captions and section headings appearing herein are included solely for convenience of reference and are not intended to affect the interpretation of any provision of this Agreement.

 

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14.08 Counterparts; Electronic Signatures. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission or electronic transmission (in PDF format) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. Any signature (including, without limitation, (x) any electronic symbol or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record and (y) any facsimile or .pdf signature) hereto or the other Loan Documents or to any other certificate, agreement or document related to any Loan Document or the Transactions, and any contract formation or record-keeping, in each case, through electronic means, shall have the same legal validity and enforceability as a manually executed signature or use of a paper-based record-keeping system to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any similar state law based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and the parties hereto hereby waive any objection to the contrary.

14.09 Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION; PROVIDED THAT SECTION 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SHALL APPLY.

14.10 Jurisdiction, Service of Process and Venue.

(a) Submission to Jurisdiction. Each Obligor agrees that any suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party or any judgment entered by any court in respect thereof may be brought initially in the federal or state courts in New York, New York and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court for the purpose of any such suit, action, proceeding or judgment. This Section 14.10(a) is for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders only and, as a result, no Lender shall be prevented from taking proceedings in any other courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by any applicable Law, the Lenders may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.

(b) Alternative Process. Nothing herein shall in any way be deemed to limit the ability of the Agent and the Lenders to serve any process or summons in any manner permitted by any applicable Law.

(c) Waiver of Venue, Etc. Each Obligor irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document and hereby further irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. A final judgment (in respect of which time for all appeals has elapsed) in any such suit, action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which such Obligor is or may be subject, by suit upon judgment.

 

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14.11 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

14.12 Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that any Obligor may be or become entitled to claim for itself or its property or revenues any immunity on the ground of sovereignty or the like from suit, court jurisdiction, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution of a judgment or execution of a judgment, and to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there may be attributed such an immunity (whether or not claimed), such Obligor hereby irrevocably agrees not to claim and hereby irrevocably waives such immunity with respect to its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

14.13 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof, including any confidentiality (or similar) agreements. EACH OBLIGOR ACKNOWLEDGES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IN DECIDING TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR IN TAKING OR NOT TAKING ANY ACTION HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER, IT HAS NOT RELIED, AND SHALL NOT RELY, ON ANY STATEMENT, REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, COVENANT, AGREEMENT OR UNDERSTANDING, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, OF OR WITH THE AGENT OR THE LENDERS OTHER THAN THOSE EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.

14.14 Severability. If any provision hereof is found by a court to be invalid or unenforceable, to the fullest extent permitted by any applicable Law the parties agree that such invalidity or unenforceability shall not impair the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof.

14.15 Confidentiality. The Agent and each Lender agree to keep confidential all information provided to them by or on behalf of any Obligor or Subsidiary pursuant to this Agreement relating to any Obligor or Subsidiary that has not been made publicly available on “EDGAR” or is not otherwise available to the Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior disclosure; provided that, in the case of information received from or on behalf of any Obligor or Subsidiary after the Closing Date, such information is clearly designated by such Obligor or Subsidiary as confidential in accordance with reasonable and customary procedures for handling its own confidential information; provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such information (i) to the Agent, any other Lender or, subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section 14.15, any Affiliate of a Lender or any Eligible Transferee or other assignee permitted under Section 14.05(b) in connection with an actual or bona fide prospective assignment permitted under Section 14.05, (ii) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section and the request of the Borrower, to any actual or prospective direct or indirect counterparty to any Hedging Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (iii) to its employees, officers, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants, trustees and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates (collectively, its “Related Parties”)

 

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subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section 14.15 or other customary professional confidentiality obligations, (iv) upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority or any Regulatory Authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (v) in response to any order of any court or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any applicable Law; provided, however, that to the extent legally permissible, such party shall give the Borrower prompt written notice of such requirement and shall reasonably cooperate (at Borrower’s sole cost) with Borrower’s attempts to limit any such disclosure, (vi) if required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding; provided, however, that to the extent legally permissible, such party shall give the Borrower prompt written notice of such requirement and shall reasonably cooperate (at Borrower’s sole cost) with Borrower’s attempts to limit any such disclosure, (vii) that has been publicly disclosed (other than as a result of a disclosure in violation of this Section 14.15), (viii) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender, (ix) in connection with the exercise of any remedy permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (x) on a confidential basis to (A) any rating agency in connection with rating the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or the Loans or (B) the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers of other market identifiers with respect to the Loans or (xi) to any other party hereto; provided, further that, unless specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, each Lender shall, to the extent reasonably practicably, notify the Borrower of any request or demand by any Governmental Authority or representative thereof (other than any such request in connection with any examination of the financial condition or other routine examination of such Lender by such Governmental Authority) for disclosure of any such non-public information prior to disclosure of such information and shall reasonably cooperate (at the Borrower’s sole cost) with the Borrower’s efforts to limit any such disclosure.

14.16 No Fiduciary Relationship. The Borrower acknowledges that the Agent and the Lenders have no fiduciary relationship with, or fiduciary duty to, the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between the Lenders and the Borrower is solely that of creditor and debtor. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents do not create a joint venture among the parties.

14.17 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts that are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable Law (collectively, “charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) that may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Agent and the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable Law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate. To the extent lawful, the interest and charges that would have been paid in respect of such Loan but were not paid as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the amount collectible at the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate for each day to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such

 

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Lender. Any amount collected by such Lender that exceeds the maximum amount collectible at the Maximum Rate shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of such Loan so that at no time shall the interest and charges paid or payable in respect of such Loan exceed the maximum amount collectible at the Maximum Rate.

14.18 Early Prepayment Fee; Exit Fee. It is understood and agreed that if the Loans are accelerated or otherwise become due prior to the Maturity Date, in each case, in respect of any Event of Default (including upon the occurrence of a Insolvency Proceeding (including the acceleration of claims by operation of Law)), the Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee applicable with respect to a voluntary prepayment of the Loans will also be due and payable on the date of such acceleration or such other prior due date as though such Loans were voluntarily prepaid as of such date and shall constitute part of the Obligations, in view of the impracticability and extreme difficulty of ascertaining actual damages and by mutual agreement of the parties as to a reasonable calculation of each Lender’s loss as a result thereof. Any such premium payable above shall be presumed to be the liquidated damages sustained by each Lender and the Borrower agrees that it is reasonable under the circumstances currently existing. THE BORROWER EXPRESSLY WAIVES (TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY LAWFULLY DO SO) THE PROVISIONS OF ANY PRESENT OR FUTURE STATUTE OR LAW THAT PROHIBITS OR MAY PROHIBIT THE COLLECTION OF THE EARLY PREPAYMENT FEE AND EXIT FEE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SUCH ACCELERATION. The Borrower expressly agrees (to the fullest extent it may effectively do so) that: (i) the Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee is reasonable and is the product of an arm’s length transaction between sophisticated business people, ably represented by counsel; (ii) the Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee shall be payable notwithstanding the then prevailing market rates at the time payment is made; (iii) there has been a course of conduct between the Lenders and the Borrower giving specific consideration in this transaction for such agreement to pay the Early Prepayment Fee and Exit Fee; and (iv) the Borrower shall be estopped hereafter from claiming differently than as agreed to in this paragraph.

14.19 Judgment Currency.

(a) If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in Dollars into another currency, the parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which, in accordance with normal banking procedures, the Agent could purchase Dollars with such other currency at the buying spot rate of exchange in the New York foreign exchange market on the Business Day immediately preceding that on which any such judgment, or any relevant part thereof, is given.

(b) The obligations of the Obligors in respect of any sum due to the Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency other than Dollars, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency the Agent may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase Dollars with such other currency. If the amount of Dollars so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Agent in Dollars, the Borrower agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Agent against such loss. If the amount of Dollars so purchased exceeds the sum originally due to the Agent in Dollars, the Agent shall remit such excess to the Borrower.

 

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14.20 USA PATRIOT Act. The Agent and the Lenders hereby notify the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Patriot Act”) and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, they are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and other information that will allow such Person to identify the Borrower or such Subsidiary in accordance with the Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

14.21 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and

(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or

(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.

14.22 MNPI.

(a) At or prior to 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the first (1st) Business Day following the Closing Date, the Borrower shall file one or more Forms 8-K with the Commission describing the terms of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and including as exhibits to such Form 8-K this Agreement (including the schedules and exhibits hereto) (such Form or Forms 8-K, collectively, the “Announcing Form 8-K”).

(b) The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the Lenders or their respective personnel may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities. Borrower and each Lender hereby acknowledges that (i) the Agent will make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of Borrower hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (ii) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive information that has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD

 

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promulgated by the Commission under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (all such information described in the foregoing, “MNPI”). Borrower hereby agrees that (1) it will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Borrower Materials to be identified as either (A) “PUBLIC” (which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof) or (B) “PRIVATE”; (2) by marking the Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Agent and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any MNPI (although it may be sensitive and proprietary); (3) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information,” and (4) the Agent shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Side Information” (it being understood that Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall not otherwise be under any obligation to mark any particular Borrower Materials “PUBLIC”). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, financial statements and other documentation delivered pursuant to Sections 8.01 (b), (c) and (g) (with respect to clause (g), only to the extent such reports and filings are filed by Borrower with any stock exchange on which any securities of Borrower are traded and/or the Commission) shall be deemed to be suitable for posting on a portion of the Platform designated for “Public Side Information.” Unless expressly marked “PUBLIC” and subject to the prior sentence, the Agent agrees not to make any such Borrower Materials available to Public Lenders. In the event that any Public Lender has elected for itself to not access any information disclosed through the Platform or otherwise, such Public Lender acknowledges that (i) the Agent and other Lenders may have access to such information and (ii) none of the Obligors, the Agent or other Lender with access to such information shall have (x) any responsibility for such Public Lender’s decision to limit the scope of information it has obtained in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or (y) any duty to disclose such information to such electing Lender or to use such information on behalf of such electing Lender, and shall not be liable for the failure to so disclose or use such information.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent the Borrower in good faith determines that it is necessary to disclose MNPI to a Public Lender for purposes relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including seeking a waiver, consent or amendment), the Borrower shall inform the Agent via email at jrose@WilmingtonTrust.com (or any other email address as may be notified by the Agent to the Borrower in writing from time to time) of such determination, and Agent shall distribute such email to the applicable Public Lender, and within two (2) Business Days after the sending of such email by the Borrower to the Agent, such Public Lender shall engage with the Borrower to discuss such purposes.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the day and year first above written.

 

BORROWER:

NEVRO CORP.

By

  /s/ Rod MacLeod

      

 

Name: Rod MacLeod

 

Title: Chief Financial Officer

GUARANTOR:

NEVRO MEDICAL CR, LLC

By:

  /s/ Rod MadLeod

Name: Rod MacLeod

Title: Manager

Address for Notices:

Nevro Corp.

1800 Bridge Parkway

Redwood City, CA 94065

Attn:  

Rod MacLeod

Tel.:   (650) 251-0005
Email:   [***]

 

 

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AGENT:

WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

By

  /s/ Jeffery Rose

      

 

Name: Jeffery Rose

 

Title: Vice President

Address for Notices:

Wilmington Trust, National Association

50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290

Minneapolis, MN 55402
Attn:   Nevro Corp. Loan Administrator
Tel.:   (612) 217-5630
Fax:   (612) 217-5651
Email:   jrose@wilmingtontrust.com
With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
Covington & Burling LLP

The New York Times Building

620 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10018
Attn:   Ronald A. Hewitt
Tel.:   (212) 841-1220
Email:   rhewitt@cov.com

 

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LENDERS:

BRAIDWELL TRANSACTION HOLDINGS

LLC – SERIES 3

By

  /s/ Manish K. Mital

      

 

Name: Manish K. Mital

 

Title: Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel

By

  /s/ Colin Bettison

Name: Colin Bettison

Title: Head of Finance & Operations

Address for Notices:

Braidwell LP

One Harbor Point, 2200 Atlantic

Street, 4th Floor

Stamford, CT 06902

Attn:   Manish K. Mital
Tel.:   203-694-3275
Email:   [***]
With a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

Goodwin Procter LLP

520 Broadway

Suite 500
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Attn:   Kris Ring
Tel.:   (424) 252-6364
Email:   kring@goodwinlaw.com

 

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Schedule 1

to Credit Agreement

COMMITMENTS

 

Lender    Commitment      Proportionate Share  

Braidwell Transaction Holdings LLC – Series 3

   $ 200,000,000.00        100

TOTAL

   $ 200,000,000.00        100

Exhibit 10.2

Execution Version

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of November 30, 2023, by and among Nevro Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Braidwell Transaction Holdings LLC – Series 4, a Delaware limited liability company (“Braidwell”).

WHEREAS:

A. In connection with the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, of even date herewith, by and among the Company, Wilmington Trust, National Association, as agent, the other Obligors (as defined therein) party thereto from time to time, and the Lenders (as defined therein) party thereto from time to time (as may be amended, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Credit Agreement”) (i) the Company has agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained therein, to issue and sell the Warrants (as defined below) to Braidwell in the amounts described in the Credit Agreement, each of which Warrants is exercisable for shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) and (ii) the Company may issue shares of Common Stock to satisfy obligations to pay interest due and payable under the Credit Agreement.

B. To induce the Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement) to execute and deliver the Credit Agreement, the Company has agreed to provide certain registration rights under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, or any similar successor statute (collectively, the “Securities Act”), and applicable state securities laws.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and Braidwell hereby agree as follows:

1. DEFINITIONS.

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

(i) “Additional Filing Deadline” means, with respect to any Registration Statement that may be required pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii), (A) the thirtieth (30th) day following the first date on which such Registrable Securities may then be included in a Registration Statement if such Registration Statement is required because the SEC shall have notified the Company in writing that certain Registrable Securities were not eligible for inclusion on a previously filed Registration Statement, or (B) if such additional Registration Statement is required for a reason other than as described in (A) above, the thirtieth (30th) day following the date on which the Company first knows, or reasonably should have known, that such additional Registration Statement is required.

(ii) “Additional Registration Deadline” means, with respect to any additional Registration Statement(s) required to be filed pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii), the thirtieth (30 ) day following the applicable Additional Filing Deadline.

(iii) “Eligible Market” means the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market (“Nasdaq GM”) or the Nasdaq Global Select Market or, in each case, any successor thereto.

(iv) “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and any successor statute.

(v) “Filing Deadline,” for the Registration Statement required pursuant to Section 2(a)(i), shall mean the date that is thirty (30) days following the Closing Date (as defined in the Credit Agreement), and, for each Registration Statement required pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii) shall mean the Additional Filing Deadline.


(vi) “FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (or successor thereto).

(vii) “Investor” means Braidwell and any transferee or assignee who agrees to become bound by the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Section 10 hereof.

(viii) “Person” means and includes any natural person, partnership, joint venture, corporation, trust, limited liability company, limited company, joint stock company, unincorporated organization, government entity or any political subdivision or agency thereof, or any other entity.

(ix) “Principal Market” means the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (the “NYSE”), or if after the date of this Agreement the Common Stock is listed on another Eligible Market, such other Eligible Market.

(x) “Prospectus” means (A) any prospectus (preliminary or final) included in any Registration Statement, as may be amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement and by all other amendments and supplements to such prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus, and (B) any “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, relating to any offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement.

(xi) “Register,” “Registered,” and “Registration” refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing a Registration Statement or Statements in compliance with the Securities Act and pursuant to Rule 415, and the declaration or ordering of effectiveness of such Registration Statement by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

(xii) “Registrable Securities,” for a given Registration, means (A) any shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares”) issued or issuable upon exercise of, or otherwise pursuant to, the Warrants (without giving effect to any limitations on exercise set forth in the Warrants), (B) shares of Common Stock issued to satisfy obligations to pay interest due and payable under the Credit Agreement, if the Company has elected to include them in a Registration Statement, (C) to the extent allowable under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including Rule 416), such additional shares of Common Stock as may become issuable pursuant to the Warrants to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends, stock issuances or similar transactions; and (D) to the extent not covered by clause (C), solely from and after the date such securities are issued, any securities issued upon any stock split, dividend or other distribution, recapitalization or similar event with respect to any of the foregoing.

(xiii) “Registration Deadline” shall mean, for purposes of the Registration Statement required pursuant to Section 2(a)(i), the earlier of (A) the date that is ninety (90) days after the date that the applicable Registration Statement is actually filed or (B) the date that is ninety (90) days after the applicable Filing Deadline and, with respect to any Registration Statement required pursuant to Section 2(a)(ii), the Additional Registration Deadline. Any Registration Deadline (or any extension thereof) shall be automatically extended if the Company has, and continues to use, its reasonable best efforts to respond and resolve as promptly as practicable any comments to the Registration Statement received from the SEC.

(xiv) “Registration Statement(s)” means any registration statement(s) of the Company filed under the Securities Act that covers the resale of any of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, all amendments and supplements to such Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments, and all exhibits to, and all material incorporated by reference in, such Registration Statement.

 

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(xv) “Reporting Period” means the period beginning on the Closing Date (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and ending on the later of (A) the first date on which no Warrants remain outstanding, and (B) the first date on which none of the Secured Parties owns any Securities.

(xvi) “Rule 405” means Rule 405 under the Securities Act or any successor rule.

(xvii) “Rule 415” means Rule 415 under the Securities Act or any successor rule providing for the offering of securities on a continuous basis.

(xviii) “SEC Documents” means all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents filed by any Obligor or any of its subsidiaries with the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act or the Exchange Act after December 31, 2019, including, in each case, all financial statements and schedules and pro forma financial information included therein, all exhibits thereto and all documents incorporated by reference therein.

(xix) “Securities” means any Loans, Notes, related guaranties set forth in the Credit Agreement, the Warrants, any shares of Common Stock issued upon exercise of a Warrant and any Shares of Common Stock to satisfy obligations to pay interest due and payable under the Credit Agreement.

(xx) “Warrants” means any warrant issued by the Company pursuant to the Credit Agreement, together with any other warrant or other security or instrument issued as a replacement or substitute therefor, in whole or in part.

2. REGISTRATION.

a. MANDATORY REGISTRATION. (i) Following the Agreement Date, the Company shall prepare, and, on or prior to the applicable Filing Deadline, file with the SEC a shelf Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or, if Form S-3 is not then available, on such form of Registration Statement as is then available to effect a registration of the Registrable Securities, subject to the consent of the Investors, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) covering the resale of the Registrable Securities, which Registration Statement, to the extent allowable under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including Rule 416), shall state that such Registration Statement also covers such indeterminate number of additional shares of Common Stock as may become issuable upon exercise of or otherwise pursuant to the Warrants or the Warrant Shares to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends, stock issuances or similar transactions. The number of shares of Common Stock initially included in such Registration Statement shall be no less than 2,587,742, subject to adjustment for any stock split, share or stock dividend, recapitalization, combination of outstanding Common Stock (by consolidation, combination, reverse stock split or otherwise) or similar transactions occurring prior to the effective date of such Registration Statement. Each Registration Statement (and each amendment or supplement thereto, and each request for acceleration of effectiveness thereof) shall be provided to (and shall be subject to the approval, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, of) the Investors and their counsel prior to its filing or other submission.

(ii) If for any reason, despite the Company’s use of its best efforts to include all of the Registrable Securities in the Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a)(i) above (and subject to Section 3(q) below), the SEC does not permit all of the Registrable Securities to be included in, or for any other reason any Registrable Securities are not then included in, such Registration Statement, then the Company shall prepare, and, as soon as practicable but in no event later than the Additional Filing Deadline, file with the SEC an additional Registration Statement covering the resale of all Registrable Securities not already covered by an existing and effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415.

 

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(iii) To the extent the Company is a well-known seasoned issuer (as defined Rule 405) at the time the Company is required to effect any registration in accordance with this Section 2(a), if so requested, file an automatic shelf registration statement (as defined Rule 405) to effect such registration.

(iv) If at any time when the Company is required to re-evaluate its well-known seasoned issuer status for purposes of an outstanding automatic shelf registration statement used to effect a registration in accordance with this Section 2 and the Company determines that it is not a well-known seasoned issuer and (a) the registration statement is required to be kept effective in accordance with this Agreement and (b) the registration rights of the applicable Investors have not terminated, use all commercially reasonable efforts to amend the registration statement on a form the Company is then eligible to use or file a new registration statement on such form, and keep such registration statement effective in accordance with the requirements otherwise applicable under this Agreement.

b. NOTICES. Each Investor acknowledges and agrees that, in the event the Company would be required by the terms of this Section 2 to provide notice to such Investor of the filing of any Registration Statement or any underwritten offering in which any Registrable Securities of any Investor are eligible to be included, the Company shall provide such notice only to counsel to such Investor (which shall be Goodwin Procter LLP (Attn: Kristopher Ring, Esq.) or such other counsel as shall have been designated by such Investor), unless such Investor has given prior written instructions to the contrary to the Company. Delivery of such notice to an Investor’s counsel in accordance with the foregoing shall constitute delivery to such Investor for purposes hereof and shall not constitute a breach of Section 14.22 of the Credit Agreement.

3. OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY. In connection with any registration of the Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall have the following obligations:

a. The Company shall prepare promptly, and file with the SEC as soon as practicable after such registration obligation arises hereunder (but in no event later than the applicable Filing Deadline), a Registration Statement with respect to the number of Registrable Securities provided in Section 2(a), and thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement relating to Registrable Securities to become effective as soon as possible after such filing, but in any event shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement relating to Registrable Securities to become effective no later than the Registration Deadline, and shall thereafter use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement current and effective pursuant to Rule 415 at all times until such date as is the earlier of (i) the date on which all of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement have been sold and (ii) assuming the Warrants will be exercised pursuant to Cash Exercises (as defined in the Warrants), the date on which all of the Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement (in the opinion of counsel to the Investors) may be immediately sold to the public without registration or restriction (including without limitation as to volume by each holder thereof), and without compliance with any “current public information” requirement, pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (the “Registration Period”), which Registration Statement (including any amendments or supplements thereto and prospectuses contained therein), except for information provided in writing by an Investor pursuant to Section 4(a), shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. In the event that Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of any Registrable Securities hereunder (but, for the avoidance of doubt, without in any way affecting the Company’s obligation to register the resale of the Registrable Securities on such other form as is available, as provided in Section 2(a)), (i) the Company shall undertake to file, within thirty (30) days of such time as such form is available for such registration, a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement then in effect, or otherwise file a Registration Statement on Form S-3, registering such Registrable Securities on Form S-3; provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement (or post-effective amendment) on Form S-3 covering such

 

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Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the SEC, and (ii) the Company shall provide that any Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed hereunder shall incorporate documents by reference (including by way of forward incorporation by reference) to the maximum extent possible. If the Company is a “well-known seasoned issuer” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) at the time the Company is requested or required hereunder to file a Registration Statement or amendment to a Registration Statement hereunder (including pursuant to Section 3(b)), the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file the Registration Statement or amendment as an “automatic shelf registration statement” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company’s reasonable best efforts obligations set forth in this Section 3(a) shall not prohibit the Company from filing, and seeking the effectiveness of a registration statement in respect of primary offerings of the Company’s securities.

b. The Company shall prepare and file with the SEC such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to each Registration Statement and the prospectus used in connection with each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep each Registration Statement current and effective at all times during the Registration Period, and, during the Registration Period, shall comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by each Registration Statement until such time as all of such Registrable Securities have been disposed of in accordance with the intended methods of disposition by the seller or sellers thereof as set forth in such Registration Statement. In the event that on any Trading Day (as defined below) (the “Registration Trigger Date”) the number of shares available under the Registration Statements filed pursuant to this Agreement is insufficient to cover all of the Registrable Securities, including the Registrable Securities issued or issuable upon exercise of, or otherwise pursuant to, the Warrants (including any additional shares of Common Stock issued in connection with any anti-dilution provisions contained in the Warrants), without giving effect to any limitations on the Investors’ ability to exercise the Warrants, together with such additional shares of Common Stock as the Company intends to issue in satisfaction of interest payments under the Credit Agreement, the Company shall amend the Registration Statements, or file a new Registration Statement (on the short form available therefor, if applicable), or both, so as to cover the total number of Registrable Securities, including the Registrable Securities issued or issuable upon exercise of or otherwise pursuant to the Warrants (without giving effect to any limitations on exercise contained in the Warrants) as of the Registration Trigger Date as soon as practicable, but in any event within twenty (20) days after the Registration Trigger Date. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such amendment and/or new Registration Statement to become effective as soon as reasonably practicable following the filing thereof, but in any event the Company shall cause such amendment and/or new Registration Statement to become effective within sixty (60) days of the Registration Trigger Date or as promptly as practicable in the event the Company is required to increase its authorized shares. “Trading Day” shall mean any day on which the Common Stock is traded for any period on the NYSE, or if not the NYSE, the principal securities exchange or other securities market on which the Common Stock is then being traded. The parties acknowledge and agree that, for purposes of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement, shares of Common Stock shall not be deemed to be covered by a Registration Statement hereunder (and shall not be deemed “freely tradable”) as of any date of determination, unless, and then only to the extent that, the number of shares covered by effective Registration Statements hereunder exceeds the number of shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon exercise of, or otherwise pursuant to, the Warrants (including any additional shares of Common Stock issued in connection with any anti-dilution provisions contained in the Warrants), without giving effect to any limitations on the Investors’ ability to exercise the Warrants.

 

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c. The Company shall furnish to each Investor and the Legal Counsel (defined below) (i) promptly after the same is prepared and publicly distributed, filed with the SEC or received by the Company, one copy of each Registration Statement and any amendment thereto, each preliminary prospectus and prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto, and, in the case of a Registration Statement referred to in Section 2(a) or any supplement or amendment filed pursuant to Section 2(c), each letter written by or on behalf of the Company to the SEC or the staff of the SEC, and each item of correspondence from the SEC or the staff of the SEC, in each case relating to such Registration Statement, amendment or supplement (other than any portion of any thereof that contains material non-public information in the context of U.S. federal securities laws), and (ii) such number of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, and all amendments and supplements thereto and such other documents as an Investor may reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Investor; provided that the Company may determine in its reasonable judgment to provide any such copies in electronic form only provided further that the Company need not provide any such copies of filings under the Exchange Act that are automatically incorporated. The Company will promptly notify each of the Investors by electronic mail of the effectiveness of each Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement. The Company will promptly respond to any and all comments received from the SEC with respect to any Registration Statement filed pursuant to this Agreement, with a view towards causing each Registration Statement or any amendment thereto to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practicable, but in no event later than three (3) business days, following the resolution or clearance of all SEC comments or, if applicable, following notification by the SEC that any such Registration Statement or any amendment thereto will not be subject to review, and shall file a request for acceleration of effectiveness of such Registration Statement to a time and date not later than two (2) business days after the submission of such request. No later than the first business day after such Registration Statement becomes effective, the Company will file with the SEC the final prospectus included therein pursuant to Rule 424 (or successor thereto) under the Securities Act.

d. The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to (i) register and qualify, in any jurisdiction where registration and/or qualification is required, the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statements under such other securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Investors shall reasonably request, (ii) prepare and file in those jurisdictions such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registrations and qualifications as may be reasonably necessary to maintain the effectiveness thereof during the Registration Period, (iii) take such other actions as may be necessary to maintain such registrations and qualifications in effect at all times during the Registration Period, and (iv) take all other actions reasonably necessary or advisable to qualify the Registrable Securities for sale in such jurisdictions; except that in no event shall the Company be required to qualify to do business as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction where it would not, but for the requirements of this paragraph (d), be required to be so qualified to subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction or to consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction, except where the Company is then already required to be so qualified, already subject to taxation or required to consent to general service of process.

e. As promptly as practicable after becoming aware of such event, the Company shall notify each Investor that holds Registrable Securities of the happening of any event (but without providing any material nonpublic information related thereto, which for the avoidance of doubt, should not be construed to include the notice to the Investors pursuant to this subsection), of which the Company has knowledge, as a result of which the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and use its reasonable best efforts promptly to prepare a supplement or amendment to any Registration Statement to correct such untrue statement or omission, and deliver such number of copies of such supplement or amendment to each Investor as such Investor may reasonably request.

 

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f. The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or other suspension of effectiveness of any Registration Statement, and, if such an order is issued, to obtain the withdrawal of such order and to notify each Investor that holds Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (and, in the event of an underwritten offering, the managing underwriters) of the issuance of such order and the resolution thereof, in each case, as promptly as reasonably practicable.

g. The Company shall permit a single firm of counsel designated by the Investors (“Legal Counsel”) to review such Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements thereto (as well as all requests for acceleration or effectiveness thereof but excluding the Company’s filings under the Exchange Act) a reasonable period of time prior to their filing with the SEC (not less than five (5) business days but not more than eight (8) business days) and not file any documents in a form to which Legal Counsel reasonably objects and will not request acceleration of such Registration Statement without prior notice to Legal Counsel.

h. The Company shall hold in confidence and not make any disclosure of information concerning an Investor provided to the Company unless (i) disclosure of such information is necessary to comply with federal or state securities laws, (ii) the disclosure of such information is necessary to avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in any Registration Statement, (iii) the release of such information is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction, or (iv) such information has been made generally available to the public other than by disclosure in violation of this or any other agreement. The Company agrees that it shall, upon learning that disclosure of such information concerning any Investor is sought in or by a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction or through other means, give prompt notice to such Investor prior to making such disclosure (to the extent such notice is permissible under applicable law or order from a court or governmental body of competent jurisdiction in the sole discretion of the Company), and allow such Investor, at its expense, to undertake appropriate action to prevent disclosure of, or to obtain a protective order for, such information.

i. The Company shall use all commercially reasonable efforts to cause all the Registrable Securities covered by each Registration Statement to be listed on each securities exchange on which securities of the same class or series issued by the Company are then listed, if the listing of such Registrable Securities is then permitted under the rules of such exchange, and to arrange for at least two market makers to register with FINRA as such with respect to such Registrable Securities.

j. The Company shall provide a transfer agent and registrar, which may be a single entity, for the Registrable Securities not later than the effective date of the initial Registration Statement.

k. The Company shall cooperate with each Investor that holds Registrable Securities being offered and the managing underwriter or underwriters with respect to an applicable Registration Statement, if any, to facilitate the timely (i) preparation and delivery of evidence of book-entry registration or certificates (not bearing any restrictive legends) representing Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to such Registration Statement, and enable such book-entries or certificates to be registered in such names and in such denominations or amounts, as the case may be, or (ii) crediting of the Registrable Securities to be offered pursuant to a Registration Statement to the applicable account (or accounts) with The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (DWAC) system, in any such case as such Investor or the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, may reasonably request. Within three (3) business days after a Registration Statement that includes Registrable Securities becomes effective, the Company shall deliver, and shall cause legal counsel selected by the Company to deliver, to the transfer agent for the Registrable Securities an appropriate instruction and an opinion of such counsel in the form required by the transfer agent in order to issue the Registrable Securities free of restrictive legends (with a copy of each provided, for information purposes, to Investor).

 

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l. At the reasonable request of an Investor, the Company shall prepare and file with the SEC such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to a Registration Statement and any prospectus used in connection with the Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to change the plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement.

m. The Company shall not, and shall not agree to, allow the holders of any securities of the Company to include any of their securities (other than Registrable Securities) in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) or 3(a) hereof or any amendment or supplement thereto under Section 3(b) hereof, without the consent of Investors holding a majority-in-interest of the then outstanding Registrable Securities. In addition, the Company shall not include any securities for its own account or the account of others in any Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2(a) or 3(a), or any amendment or supplement thereto filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereof, without the consent of Investors holding a majority-in-interest of the then outstanding Registrable Securities.

n. The Company shall take all other commercially reasonable actions necessary to expedite and facilitate disposition by the Investors of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement. Without limiting the foregoing, during the Registration Period, (a) the Company and each Obligor shall ensure that all written information, exhibits and reports furnished to any Secured Party (as defined in the Credit Agreement), when taken as a whole, do not and will not, and that each SEC Document filed during the Reporting Period does not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact and do not and will not (or does not, as applicable) omit to state any material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not materially misleading in light of the circumstances in which made, and the Company will promptly disclose to Agent and the Lenders (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and correct any defect or error that may be discovered therein or in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgement or recordation thereof, and (b) the Company shall take all actions reasonably necessary to cause the Common Stock to remain listed on an Eligible Market at all times during the Reporting Period; and shall not, and shall cause each of its subsidiaries not to, take any action that would be reasonably expected to result in the delisting or suspension or termination of trading of the Common Stock on the Principal Market. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing contained herein shall prohibit the Company from effecting a Major Transaction (as defined in the Warrants) in which all shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such Major Transaction are converted into the right to receive consideration consisting of cash or property other than Common Stock; provided that the Company complies with its obligations under this Agreement, the Warrants and the other Loan Documents in connection therewith. The Loan Parties shall pay all fees, costs and expenses in connection with satisfying its obligations under this Section 3(n).

o. The Company shall comply with all applicable laws related to a Registration Statement and offering and sale of securities and all applicable rules and regulations of governmental authorities in connection therewith (including the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC).

p. If required by the FINRA Corporate Financing Department, the Company shall promptly effect a filing with FINRA pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110 (or successor thereto) with respect to the public offering contemplated by resales of securities under the Registration Statement (an “Issuer Filing”), and pay the filing fee required by such Issuer Filing. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to pursue the Issuer Filing until FINRA issues a letter confirming that it does not object to the terms of the offering contemplated by the Registration Statement.

q. If at any time the SEC advises the Company in writing that the offering of some or all of the Registrable Securities in a Registration Statement is not eligible to be made on a delayed or continuous basis under the provisions of Rule 415 under the Securities Act, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to persuade the SEC that the offering contemplated by a Registration Statement is a bona fide secondary offering and not an offering “by or on behalf of the issuer,” as defined in Rule 415, and that none of the Investors is an “underwriter.” To the extent permitted by the SEC, the Investors shall have the

 

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right to participate or have their respective counsel participate in any meetings or discussions with the SEC regarding the SEC’s position and to comment or have their respective counsel comment on any written submission made to the SEC with respect thereto. In the event that, despite the Company’s reasonable best efforts and compliance with the terms of this Section 3(q), the SEC refuses to alter its position, the Company shall remove from the Registration Statement such portion of the Registrable Securities as the SEC requires in writing be removed therefrom. Any such cut-back imposed by the SEC as contemplated by this Section 3(q) shall be imposed on a pro rata basis (based upon the Registrable Securities held by each of the Investors), unless otherwise required by the SEC or otherwise directed by any Investor.

r. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 3(e), at any time after the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, the Company may suspend the use of any prospectus forming a part of any Registration Statement and delay the disclosure of material non-public information concerning the Company, the disclosure of which at the time is not, in the good faith opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company, in the best interest of the Company and not, in the advice of counsel to the Company, otherwise required (a “Grace Period”); provided that the Company shall (i) promptly notify the Investors in writing of the existence of material non-public information giving rise to a Grace Period (provided that in each notice the Company shall not disclose the content of such material non-public information to any Investor, unless otherwise requested in writing by such Investor) and the date on which the Grace Period will begin, and (ii) as soon as such date may be determined, promptly notify the Investors in writing of the date on which the Grace Period ends; and, provided, further, that (A) no Grace Period shall exceed thirty (30) consecutive days, (B) during any three hundred sixty five (365) day period, such Grace Periods shall not exceed an aggregate of sixty (60) days, (C) the first day of any Grace Period must be at least ten (10) business days after the last day of any prior Grace Period and (D) no Grace Period shall be in effect on any day during any period beginning on (and including) the date that is ten (10) business days prior to any issuance by the Company of any shares of Common Stock to satisfy obligations to pay interest due and payable under the Credit Agreement and ending on (and including) the date that is fifteen (15) business days after such issuance, unless, at all times during such period, such shares are eligible for resale by the Investors receiving the same without limitation or restriction, including any volume limitations (but excluding any “current public information” requirement so long as such requirement is then satisfied), under state or Federal securities laws pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (each Grace Period that satisfies all of the requirements of this Section 3(r) being referred to as an “Allowable Grace Period”). For purposes of determining the length of a Grace Period above, the Grace Period shall begin on and include the date the Investors receive the notice referred to in clause (i) and shall end on and include the later of the date the Investors receive the notice referred to in clause (ii) and the date referred to in such notice. The provisions of Section 3(e) hereof shall not be applicable during the period of any Allowable Grace Period, and the unavailability of a Registration Statement for resales of the Registrable Securities on any day during an Allowable Grace Period shall not constitute a “Registration Failure” (for purposes of this Agreement or the Warrants). Upon expiration of the Grace Period, the Company shall again be bound by the first sentence of Section 3(e) with respect to the information giving rise thereto unless such material non-public information is no longer applicable.

s. At all times during the Registration Period, (i) the Company shall provide a transfer agent and registrar, which may be a single entity, for the Registrable Securities, (ii) the Common Stock shall be eligible for clearing through The Depositary Trust Company (“DTC”), through its Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian (DWAC) system, (iii) the Company shall be eligible and participating in the Direct Registration System (DRS) of DTC with respect to the Common Stock, and (iv) the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Common Stock to not at any time be subject to any DTC “chill,” “freeze” or similar restriction with respect to any DTC services, including the clearing of transactions in shares of Common Stock through DTC, or, in the event the Common Stock becomes subject to any DTC “chill,” “freeze” or similar restriction with respect to any DTC services, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause any such “chill,” “freeze” or similar restriction to be removed at the earliest possible time.

 

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4. OBLIGATIONS OF THE INVESTOR. In connection with the registration of the Registrable Securities, each Investor shall have the following obligations:

a. It shall be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Company to complete the registration pursuant to this Agreement with respect to the Registrable Securities of an Investor that such Investor shall furnish to the Company such information regarding itself, the Registrable Securities held by it and the intended method of disposition of the Registrable Securities held by it as shall be reasonably required to effect the registration of such Registrable Securities and shall execute such documents in connection with such registration as the Company may reasonably request. At least five (5) business days prior to the first anticipated filing date of a Registration Statement, the Company shall notify each Investor of the information the Company requires from such Investor. Any such information shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein, or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

b. Each Investor, by such Investor’s acceptance of the Registrable Securities, agrees to cooperate with the Company as reasonably requested by the Company in connection with the preparation and filing of a Registration Statement hereunder, unless such Investor has notified the Company in writing of such Investor’s election to exclude all of the Investor’s Registrable Securities from such Registration Statement.

c. Each Investor agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(e) or 3(f), such Investor will immediately discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement covering such Registrable Securities until such Investor’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 3(e) or 3(f).

5. EXPENSES OF REGISTRATION. All reasonable expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, incurred in connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant to Sections 2 and 3, including, without limitation, all registration, listing and qualification fees, printers and accounting fees, and the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company shall be borne by the Company. The Company shall also reimburse the Investors for the reasonable fees and disbursements of Legal Counsel in the aggregate amount up to $25,000.

6. INDEMNIFICATION. In the event any Registrable Securities are included in a Registration Statement under this Agreement:

a. The Company will indemnify, hold harmless and defend (i) each Investor and (ii) the directors, officers, partners, managers, members, employees and agents of each Investor, and each Person who controls any Investor within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, if any, (iii) (each, an “Indemnified Person”), against any joint or several losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (collectively, together with actions, proceedings or inquiries by any regulatory or self-regulatory organization, whether commenced or threatened, in respect thereof, “Claims”) to which any of them may become subject insofar as such Claims arise out of or are based upon: (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact in any Registration Statement, or any amendment as supplement thereto, or any filing made under state securities laws as required hereby, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein any material fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which the statements therein were made, not misleading; or (iii) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any other law, including any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder relating to the offer or sale of the Registrable Securities (the matters in the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) being, collectively, “Violations”). The Company shall reimburse the Indemnified Person, promptly as such expenses are incurred and are due and payable, for any reasonable legal fees and other reasonable expenses incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending

 

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any such Claim. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the indemnification agreement contained in this Section 6(a) shall not apply (x) to a Claim arising out of or based upon a Violation to the extent that such Violation occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person for use in connection with the preparation of such Registration Statement or any such amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or (y) to any amounts paid in settlement of any Claim effected without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Indemnified Person and shall survive the transfer of the Registrable Securities by any of the Investors pursuant to Section 9.

b. Promptly after receipt by an Indemnified Person under this Section 6 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental action), such Indemnified Person shall, if a Claim in respect thereof is to be made against the Company under this Section 6, deliver to the Company a written notice of the commencement thereof, and the Company shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent the Company so desires, to assume control of the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to the Company and the Indemnified Person, as the case may be;

provided, however, that an Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel with the reasonable fees and expenses to be paid by the Company, if, in the opinion of counsel for such Indemnified Person, the representation by such counsel of the Indemnified Person and the Company would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between such Indemnified Person and any other party represented by such counsel in such proceeding. The Company shall pay for only one separate legal counsel for the Indemnified Persons, and such legal counsel shall be selected by the Investors. The failure to deliver written notice to the Company within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such action shall not relieve the Company of any liability to the Indemnified Person under this Section 6, except to the extent that the Company is actually prejudiced in its ability to defend such action. The Company shall not, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Persons, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement or other compromise with respect to any Claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be or has been sought hereunder (whether or not any such Indemnified Person is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) that does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to the Indemnified Persons of a full release from all liability with respect to such Claim or which includes any admission as to fault or culpability on the part of any Indemnified Person. The indemnification required by this Section 6 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as any expense, loss, damage or liability is incurred and is due and payable.

c. Each Investor will indemnify, hold harmless and defend (i) the Company, and (ii) the directors, officers, partners, managers, members, employees and agents of the Company, if any (each, a “Company Indemnified Person”), against any Claims to which any of them may become subject insofar as such Claims arise out of or are based upon any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any other law, including any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder relating to the offer or sale of the Registrable Securities, which occurs due to the inclusion by the Company in a Registration Statement of false or misleading information about an Investor, where such information was furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such Investor for the purpose of inclusion in such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 6(c) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any Claim if such settlement is effected without the prior written consent of the Investors, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; and provided, further, however, that an Investor shall be liable under this Section 6(c) for only that amount of a Claim as does not exceed the net amount of proceeds received by such Investor as a result of the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

 

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d. Promptly after receipt by a Company Indemnified Person under this Section 6 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental action), such Company Indemnified Person shall, if a Claim in respect thereof is to be made against any Investor under this Section 6, deliver to such Investor a written notice of the commencement thereof, and such Investor shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent such Investor so desires, to assume control of the defense thereof with counsel mutually satisfactory to such Investor and such Company Indemnified Person.

7. CONTRIBUTION. If for any reason the indemnification provided for in Section 6(a) or 6(c) (as applicable) is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or Company Indemnified Person (as applicable) or insufficient to hold it harmless, other than as expressly specified therein, then the indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the Indemnified Person or Company Indemnified Person (as applicable) as a result of the Claim in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnified Person or Company Indemnified Person (as applicable) and the indemnifying party (provided that the relative fault of any Company Indemnified Person shall be deemed to include the fault of all other Company Indemnified Persons), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act shall be entitled to contribution from any Person not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. In no event shall the contribution obligation of an Investor be greater in amount than the net amount of proceeds received by such Investor as a result of the sale of Registrable Securities giving rise to such contribution obligation pursuant to the applicable Registration Statement (net of the aggregate amount of any damages or other amounts such Investor has otherwise been required to pay (pursuant to Section 6(c) or otherwise) by reason of false or misleading information furnished by such Investor).

8. REPORTS UNDER THE EXCHANGE ACT. With a view to making available to the Investors the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act or any other similar rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit the Investors to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration, the Company agrees to:

a. make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144;

b. file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act so long as the Company remains subject to such requirements and the filing of such reports and other documents is required for the applicable provisions of Rule 144; and

c. so long as any of the Investors owns Registrable Securities, promptly upon request, furnish to such Investor (i) a written statement by the Company that it has complied with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act as required for applicable provisions of Rule 144, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company and (iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested to permit such Investor to sell such Registrable Securities pursuant to Rule 144 without registration.

9. ASSIGNMENT OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS. The rights under this Agreement shall be automatically assignable by each Investor to any transferee of all or any portion of the Registrable Securities if: (a) such Investor agrees in writing with the transferee or assignee to assign such rights, and a copy of such agreement is furnished to the Company within a reasonable time after such assignment, (b) the Company is, within a reasonable time after such transfer or assignment, furnished with written notice of (i) the name and address of such transferee or assignee, and (ii) the securities with respect to which such registration rights are being transferred or assigned, and (c) at or before the time the Company receives the written notice contemplated in clause (b) of this sentence, the transferee or assignee agrees in writing with the Company to be bound by all of the provisions contained herein as applicable to the Investors. In the event that the Company receives written notice from an Investor that it has transferred all or any portion of its Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section, the Company shall have up to ten (10) days to file any amendments or supplements necessary to keep a Registration Statement current and effective pursuant to Rule 415, and the commencement date of any Event of Default (as defined in the Warrants) under the Warrants caused thereby will be extended by ten (10) days.

 

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10. AMENDMENT OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Provisions of this Agreement may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively), only with written consent of the Company and the holders of a majority in interest of then-outstanding Registrable Securities. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this Section 10 shall be binding upon each of the Investors and the Company.

11. MISCELLANEOUS.

a. A Person is deemed to hold, and be a holder of, shares of Common Stock or other Registrable Securities whenever such Person owns of record or beneficially through a “street name” holder such shares of Common Stock or other Registrable Securities (or the Warrants or other securities upon exercise, conversion or exchange of which such Registrable Securities are directly or indirectly issuable, without giving effect to any limitations on exercise, conversion or exchange of such Warrants or other securities), and, solely for purposes hereof, Registrable Securities shall be deemed outstanding to the extent they are directly or indirectly issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange of the Warrants or other outstanding securities, Registrable Securities, without giving effect to any limits on exercise, conversion or exchange of the Warrants or other securities. If the Company receives conflicting instructions, notices or elections from two or more Persons with respect to the same Registrable Securities, the Company shall act upon the basis of instructions, notice or election received from the registered owner of such Registrable Securities (or the Warrants or other securities upon exercise, conversion or exchange of which such Registrable Securities are directly or indirectly issuable).

b. Any notices required or permitted to be given under the terms hereof shall be sent by certified or registered mail (return receipt requested) or delivered personally or by courier (including a recognized overnight delivery service) or by electronic mail and shall be effective five days after being placed in the mail, if mailed by regular United States mail, or upon receipt, if delivered personally or by courier (including a recognized overnight delivery service) or by electronic mail, in each case addressed to a party. The addresses for such communications shall be:

If to the Company:

Nevro Corp.

1800 Bridge Pkwy

Redwood City, CA 94065

Email: [***]

Attn: General Counsel

With copy to:

Latham & Watkins LLP

650 Town Center Dr. #20

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Email: daniel.rees@lw.com; phillip.stoup@lw.com

Attn: Daniel Rees; Phillip Stoup

 

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If to an Investor:

Braidwell LP

One Harbor Point, 2200 Atlantic Street, 4th Floor

Stamford, CT 06902

Attn: Manish K. Mital

Tel.: 203-694-3275

Email: [***]

With a copy to:

Goodwin Procter LLP

520 Broadway, Suite 500

Santa Monica, CA 90401

Fax: 424-252-6401

Email: KRing@goodwinlaw.com and MSarrazin@goodwinlaw.com

Attn: Kristopher Ring, Esq.

Marianne Sarrazin, Esq.

Each party shall provide notice to the other party of any change in address.

c. Failure of any party to exercise any right or remedy under this Agreement or otherwise, or delay by a party in exercising such right or remedy, shall not operate as a waiver thereof.

d. Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. The parties hereby waive all rights to a trial by jury. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provision of this Agreement, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

e. This Agreement, the Warrants and the Credit Agreement (including all schedules and exhibits thereto) constitute the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement, the Warrants and the Credit Agreement (including all schedules and exhibits thereto) supersede all prior agreements and understandings among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.

 

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f. Subject to the requirements of Section 9 hereof, this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto, and the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, each Indemnified Person and Company Indemnified Person (as applicable).

g. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

h. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which shall constitute one and the same agreement. This Agreement, once executed by a party, may be delivered to the other party hereto by electronic transmission of a copy of this Agreement bearing the signature of the party so delivering this Agreement.

i. Each party shall do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and shall execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as the other parties may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

j. The parties hereto acknowledge that a breach by either party of its obligations hereunder will cause irreparable harm to the other party by vitiating the intent and purpose of the transactions contemplated hereby. Accordingly, the parties hereto acknowledge that the remedy at law for breach of its obligations hereunder will be inadequate and agrees, in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the other party of any of the provisions hereunder, that the aggrieved party shall be entitled, in addition to all other available remedies in law or in equity, to an injunction or injunctions to prevent or cure breaches of the provisions of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, without the necessity of showing economic loss and without any bond or other security being required.

k. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

l. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law, then such provision shall be deemed inoperative to the extent that it may conflict therewith and shall be deemed modified to conform with such statute or rule of law. Any provision hereof that may prove invalid or unenforceable under any law shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof.

m. In the event an Investor shall sell or otherwise transfer any of such holder’s Registrable Securities, each transferee shall be allocated a pro rata portion of the number of Registrable Securities included in a Registration Statement for such transferor.

n. There shall be no oral modifications or amendments to this Agreement. This Agreement may be modified or amended only in writing.

o. The Company shall not grant any Person any registration rights with respect to shares of Common Stock or any other securities of the Company, other than registration rights that will not adversely affect the rights of the Investors hereunder (including by limiting in any way the number of Registrable Securities that could be included in any Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415) and shall not otherwise enter into any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Investors hereunder; provided that the grant of registration rights to other securityholders shall not in and of itself be deemed to adversely affect the rights of the Investors hereunder.

p. The obligations of each Investor hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Investor, and no provision of this Agreement is intended to confer any obligations on any Investor vis-à-vis any other Investor. Nothing contained herein, and no action taken by any Investor pursuant hereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Investors as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Investors are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated herein.

 

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q. Unless the context otherwise requires, (i) all references to Sections, Schedules or Exhibits are to Sections, Schedules or Exhibits contained in or attached to this Agreement, (ii) words in the singular or plural include the singular and plural, and pronouns stated in either the masculine, the feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter, and (iii) the use of the word “including” in this Agreement shall be by way of example rather than limitation.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Investors and the Company have caused this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

COMPANY:
NEVRO CORP., a Delaware corporation
By:   /s/ Rod MacLeod
Name:   Rod MacLeod
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Investors and the Company have caused this Registration Rights Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

INVESTORS:
BRAIDWELL TRANSACTION HOLDINGS LLC - SERIES 4
By: its Investment Manager, Braidwell LP
By:  

/s/ Manish K. Mital

Name:   Manish K. Mital
Title:   Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel
By:  

/s/ Colin Bettison

Name:   Colin Bettison
Title:   Head of Finance & Operations

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]

Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

Nevro Announces Acquisition of Vyrsa Technologies

Refinances with $200M Structured Debt Maturing in 2029

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. November 30, 2023  Nevro Corp. (NYSE: NVRO), a global medical device company that is delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions for the treatment of chronic pain, today announced that it has acquired Vyrsa Technologies (“Vyrsa”), a privately held medical technology company focused on a minimally invasive treatment option for patients suffering from chronic sacroiliac joint (“SI Joint”) pain.

Under the terms of the transaction, which signed and closed on November 30, 2023, Nevro paid $40 million at closing and agreed to pay up to an additional $35 million in cash or stock tied to achievement of certain development and sales milestones.

The US SI joint fusion market is valued at over $2 billion and expected to grow by double digits over the next several years1. Vyrsa, established in 2021, is the only SI joint company that manufactures and supports a complete portfolio of FDA-cleared, state-of-the-art sacroiliac joint fusion devices.

Nevro CMO David Caraway, M.D., stated, “Vyrsa’s comprehensive product suite allows physicians to tailor therapy to specific patient needs. Their innovative implants provide optimal stability and enhance the opportunity for the SI joint to fuse, providing relief to patients suffering from chronic SI joint pain.”

The portfolio allows physicians to access established SI joint fusion Category I CPT codes at all approved sites of service for SI joint fusion procedures.

Nevro CEO Kevin Thornal commented, “The acquisition of Vyrsa leverages Nevro’s ability to drive long-term shareholder value by accelerating our key strategic initiatives of commercial execution, market penetration, and profit progress. Vyrsa offers differentiated implants to our current call point of physicians that will help drive growth. We are ecstatic to be able to bring long-term pain relief to the 15-30% of people suffering with chronic low back pain associated with the SI joint2.”

Vyrsa is projected to be accretive to Nevro in 2024 for both revenue and AEBITDA.

Closes $200 Million Term Loan Credit Facility and Refinances Portion of 2025 Convertible Notes

Nevro also announced the closing of a 6-year, $200 million term loan credit facility, the proceeds of which will be used to repurchase the majority of its 2025 Convertible Notes and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. Interest on the term loans accrues at a per annum rate of SOFR + 5.25%. At Nevro’s election, certain portions of the interest may be paid-in-kind. Nevro also issued the lender a warrant to purchase approximately 2.6 million shares of Nevro common stock at a $23.19 exercise price, representing a 40% premium to Nevro’s trailing 5-day VWAP.

Nevro CFO Rod MacLeod noted, “We are excited to be able to diversify our product offering and drive growth with Vyrsa. We are also pleased to refinance a majority of our debt and push the maturity out to 2029. We evaluated multiple financing options and chose this path to limit equity dilution to 2.6 million warrant shares versus a typical convertible offering that would have been much more dilutive. Nevro has had a strong, long-term relationship with Braidwell, an investor in our company and our lender for this transaction, and we look forward to having their continued support for years to come.”

 

 

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“We are delighted to expand our existing investment in Nevro”, said Narendra Nayak, Partner at Braidwell. “Over the years, Nevro has done the hard work of scaling its commercial infrastructure and is now poised to offer its customers a growing portfolio of complementary technologies to drive the company’s top and bottom lines.”

Latham & Watkins served as Nevro’s legal counsel. J. Wood Capital Advisors served as financial advisor to Nevro on the financing.

About Nevro

Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Nevro is a global medical device company focused on delivering comprehensive, life-changing solutions that continue to set the standard for enduring patient outcomes in chronic pain treatment. The company started with a simple mission to help more patients suffering from debilitating pain and developed its proprietary 10 kHz Therapy, an evidence-based, non-pharmacologic innovation that has impacted the lives of more than 100,000 patients globally. Nevro’s comprehensive HFX spinal cord stimulation (SCS) platform includes a SenzaTM SCS system and support services for the treatment of chronic pain of the trunk and limb and painful diabetic neuropathy.

Senza®, Senza II®, Senza Omnia, and HFX iQ are the only SCS systems that deliver Nevro’s proprietary 10 kHz Therapy. Nevro’s unique support services provide every patient with an HFX Coach throughout their pain relief journey and every physician with HFX Cloud insights for enhanced patient and practice management.

SENZA, SENZA II, SENZA OMNIA, OMNIA, HF10, the HF10 logo, 10 kHz Therapy, HFX, the HFX logo, HFX iQ, the HFX iQ logo, HFX Algorithm, HFX CONNECT, the HFX Connect logo, HFX ACCESS, the HFX Access logo, HFX COACH, the HFX Coach logo, HFX CLOUD, the HFX Cloud logo, RELIEF MULTIPLIED, the X logo, NEVRO, and the NEVRO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nevro Corp. Patents covering Senza HFX iQ and other Nevro products are listed at Nevro.com/patents.

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Forward-Looking Statements

In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements reflecting the company’s current beliefs and expectations of management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including regarding the acquisition, integration, and prospects of Vyrsa, its products and the US SI joint market. These forward-looking statements are based upon information that is currently available to us or our current expectations, speak only as of the date hereof, and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including our ability to successfully integrate Vyrsa with Nevro’s existing business, our ability to successfully continue to develop and commercialize our products; our ability to manufacture our products to meet demand; the level and availability of third-party payor reimbursement for our products; our ability to effectively manage our anticipated growth and the costs and expenses of operating our business; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and proprietary technologies; our ability to operate our business without infringing the intellectual property rights and proprietary technology of third parties; competition in our industry; additional capital and credit availability; our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; and product liability claims, in each case, including with respect to Vyrsa. These factors, together with those that are described in greater detail in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 21, 2023, as well as any subsequent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied by our forward-looking statements. We expressly disclaim any obligation, except as required by law, or undertaking to update or revise any such forward-looking statements.

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