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SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
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CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
601 108th Avenue, NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
October 14, 2014
Dear Stockholder:
You are cordially invited to attend a special meeting of stockholders of Concur Technologies, Inc. (“Concur” or “we,” “us,” or “our”) to be held on November 19, 2014, at 11:00 a.m., local time, at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101.
At the special meeting, you will be asked to consider and vote upon a proposal to adopt a merger agreement (“Merger Agreement”) by and among SAP America, Inc. (“SAP”), Congress Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP, and Concur.
If the Merger Agreement is adopted and the merger is completed, Concur will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP and each share of Concur common stock that you own as of the date of the merger will be converted into the right to receive $129.00 in cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes (unless you have properly demanded your statutory rights of appraisal with respect to the merger).
Our board of directors (“Board”) considered a number of factors in evaluating the terms of the Merger Agreement. Based on its review, our Board unanimously determined that the terms and conditions of the merger and the Merger Agreement are advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Concur and our stockholders.Accordingly, our Board has unanimously approved the Merger Agreement, the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, and unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement.
The enclosed proxy statement provides detailed information about the special meeting, the Merger Agreement and the merger. A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached as Annex A to the proxy statement. We encourage you to read the proxy statement carefully in its entirety. The proxy statement is dated October 14, 2014 and is first being mailed to Concur stockholders on or about October 15, 2014.
Your vote is very important, regardless of the number of shares you own.The proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement must be approved by the holders of a majority of the shares of Concur common stock entitled to vote at the special meeting. Only stockholders who owned shares of Concur common stock at the close of business on October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, will be entitled to vote at the special meeting.
To vote your shares, you may return your proxy card, submit a proxy via the Internet or by telephone, as specified in the Internet and telephone voting instructions contained in the proxy statement, or attend the special meeting and vote in person. If your shares are held in the name of a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee, you must obtain a proxy, executed in your favor, from that record holder in order to vote at the special meeting. Even if you plan to attend the special meeting,we urge you to promptly submit a proxy for your shares via the Internet or by telephone or by completing, signing, dating and returning the enclosed proxy card.
If you fail to return your proxy or attend the special meeting and vote in person, then your shares will not be counted for determining whether a quorum is present at the special meeting and your decision not to respond will have the same effect as if you voted “AGAINST” the adoption of the Merger Agreement.
If you attend the special meeting and wish to vote in person, you may revoke your proxy and vote in person.
Thank you for your continued support of Concur.
Sincerely,
S. STEVEN SINGH
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Bellevue, Washington
October 14, 2014
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CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS AND PROXY STATEMENT
To the Stockholders of Concur Technologies, Inc.:
Concur Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Concur” or “we,” “us,” or “our”), will hold a special meeting of stockholders at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101, at 11:00 a.m., local time, on November 19, 2014, to consider and vote upon the following proposals:
1. | To adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 18, 2014, by and among SAP America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“SAP”), Congress Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP (“Merger Sub”), and Concur, as such agreement may be amended from time to time (“Merger Agreement”); |
2. | To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to Concur’s named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the merger, including the agreements and understandings with Concur pursuant to which such compensation may be paid or become payable (“compensation proposal”); and |
3. | To approve the adjournment of the special meeting to a later date, if the chairman of the special meeting determines that it is necessary or appropriate and is permitted by the Merger Agreement, to solicit additional proxies if there is not a quorum present or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting (“adjournment proposal”). |
Only record holders of Concur common stock at the close of business on October 8, 2014 are entitled to receive notice of, and will be entitled to vote at, the special meeting, including any adjournments or postponements of the special meeting. Your vote is important, regardless of the number of shares of Concur common stock you own.
The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Concur common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on the Merger Agreement at the special meeting is required to adopt the Merger Agreement. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Concur common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the compensation proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter is required to approve the compensation proposal, provided that a quorum is present. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Concur common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against the adjournment proposal is required to approve the adjournment proposal, provided that a quorum is present.
In addition, pursuant to Concur’s bylaws the chairman of the special meeting has the authority to adjourn the special meeting without approval of the stockholders. In the event that a quorum is not present in person or represented by proxy on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting or there are insufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting, we expect that the special meeting will be adjourned by the chairman of the meeting to solicit additional proxies if permitted by the Merger Agreement.
If the merger is completed, Concur stockholders who (i) submit a written demand for an appraisal of their shares prior to the stockholder vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement, (ii) do not vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement or consent thereto in writing, (iii) take certain actions and meet certain conditions under Delaware law and (iv) do not thereafter withdraw their demand for appraisal of their shares of Concur common stock or otherwise lose their appraisal rights, in each case in accordance with Delaware law, will have the right to have such shares appraised by the Delaware Court of Chancery and to receive payment of
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the fair value of such shares, exclusive of any element of value arising from the accomplishment or expectation of the merger, together with a fair rate of interest, if any, as determined by the court. For a more detailed discussion of your appraisal rights, see “The Merger—Appraisal Rights” beginning on page 37 of this proxy statement and Annex E to this proxy statement.
You are cordially invited to attend the special meeting in person. Whether or not you expect to attend the special meeting, please complete, date, sign and return the enclosed proxy card, or vote via the Internet or by telephone, as instructed in these materials as promptly as possible in order to ensure your representation at the special meeting. A return envelope (which is postage prepaid if mailed in the United States) is enclosed for your convenience. Even if you have voted by proxy, you may still vote in person if you attend the special meeting. Please note, however, that if your shares are held of record by a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee and you wish to vote at the special meeting, you must obtain a proxy issued in your name from that record holder.
If you sign, date and return your proxy card or submit a proxy via the Internet or by telephone without indicating how you wish to vote, your proxy will be voted “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement, “FOR” the compensation proposal and “FOR” the adjournment proposal. If you do attend the special meeting and wish to vote in person, you may revoke your proxy and vote in person. You may revoke your proxy in the manner described in the enclosed proxy statement at any time before it has been voted at the special meeting.
Our board of directors (“Board”) unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” adoption of the Merger Agreement, “FOR” the compensation proposal and “FOR” the adjournment proposal.
The merger is described in the accompanying proxy statement, which we urge you to read carefully. A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
S. STEVEN SINGH
Chairman of the Board of Directors and
Chief Executive Officer
Bellevue, Washington
October 14, 2014
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YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT
Whether or not you expect to attend the special meeting, please complete, date, sign and return the enclosed proxy card, or vote via the Internet or by telephone as instructed in these materials, as promptly as possible in order to ensure your representation at the special meeting. A return envelope (which is postage prepaid if mailed in the United States) is enclosed for your convenience. Even if you have voted by proxy, you may still vote in person if you attend the special meeting. Please note, however, that if your shares are held of record by a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee and you wish to vote at the special meeting, you must obtain a proxy issued in your name from that record holder.
REFERENCES FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this proxy statement, the special meeting, the merger or need assistance with voting procedures, you should contact:
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Attention: Corporate Secretary
Telephone: (425) 702-8808
or
MacKenzie Partners, Inc.
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10016
Telephone: (212) 929-5500
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SPECIAL MEETING AND THE MERGER
The following Q&A is intended to address some commonly asked questions about the special meeting of stockholders and the merger. These questions and answers may not address all questions that may be important to you as a Concur stockholder. We urge you to read carefully the more detailed information contained elsewhere in this proxy statement, the annexes to this proxy statement and the documents we refer to in this proxy statement.
Except as otherwise specifically noted in this proxy statement, “we,” “our,” “us” and similar words in this proxy statement refer to Concur Technologies, Inc. In addition, throughout this proxy statement, we refer to Concur Technologies, Inc., as “Concur,” to Congress Acquisition Corp. as “Merger Sub,” to SAP America, Inc. as “SAP,” and to SAP SE as “SAP SE.”
Q: | Why am I receiving this proxy statement? |
A: | You are receiving this proxy statement because you were a Concur stockholder as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting. To complete the merger, Concur’s stockholders holding a majority of the shares of Concur common stock outstanding as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, must vote to adopt the Merger Agreement. A copy of the Merger Agreement is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement. |
The Merger
Q: | What will happen to my Concur common stock as a result of the merger? |
A: | If the merger is completed, each share of Concur common stock that you hold at the effective time of the merger will be converted into the right to receive $129.00 in cash, without interest, less any applicable withholding taxes. This does not apply to shares of Concur common stock held by any Concur stockholders who have properly demanded their appraisal rights under Delaware law (as more fully described below under the heading “The Merger—Appraisal Rights” beginning on page 37 of this proxy statement). |
Q: | What will happen to Concur generally as a result of the merger? |
A: | If the merger is completed, Concur will cease to be an independent public company and will be a company wholly-owned by SAP. As a result, you will no longer have any ownership interest in Concur. Upon completion of the merger, shares of Concur common stock will no longer be listed on any stock exchange or quotation system, including The NASDAQ Global Select Market. In addition, following the completion of the merger, the registration of Concur common stock and our reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”) will be terminated. |
Q: | What are the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the merger to me? |
A: | The receipt of cash in exchange for shares of Concur common stock pursuant to the merger generally will be a taxable transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Generally, you will recognize gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount of cash you receive and the adjusted tax basis of your shares of Concur common stock. If you are a U.S. holder, you generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain recognized in connection with the merger. If you are a non-U.S. holder, you generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain recognized in connection with the merger unless you have certain connections to the United States. The tax consequences of the merger to you will depend on your particular circumstances, and you should consult your own tax advisors to determine how the merger will affect you. For a more detailed summary of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the merger, see “The Merger—Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Merger” beginning on page 41 of this proxy statement. |
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Q: | Am I entitled to appraisal rights in connection with the merger? |
A: | Statutory appraisal rights under Delaware law in connection with the merger will be available to stockholders who (i) submit a written demand for an appraisal of your shares prior to the stockholder vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement, (ii) do not vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement or consent thereto in writing, (iii) take certain actions and meet certain conditions under Delaware law and (iv) do not thereafter withdraw their demand for appraisal or their shares of Concur common stock or otherwise lose their appraisal rights, in each case in accordance with Delaware law. For a more detailed discussion of your appraisal rights, see the section entitled “The Merger—Appraisal Rights” beginning on page 37 of this proxy statement. |
A copy of the full text of Section 262 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) is included as Annex E to this proxy statement. Failure to precisely follow any of the statutory procedures set forth in Section 262 of the DGCL will result in the loss of appraisal rights.
Q: | When do you expect the merger to be completed? |
A: | We currently expect the merger to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2014 or the first quarter of 2015. However, the merger is subject to various closing conditions, including Concur stockholder approval and regulatory approvals, and it is possible that the failure to timely meet these closing conditions or other factors outside of our control could delay the completion of the merger. We cannot assure you that we will complete the merger on this schedule or at all. |
The Special Meeting
Q: | When and where will the special meeting of stockholders be held? |
A: | The special meeting of Concur stockholders will be held on November 19, 2014, starting at 11:00 a.m., local time, at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101. |
Q: | What are the proposals that will be voted on at the special meeting? |
A: | You will be asked to consider and vote on (i) a proposal to approve and adopt the Merger Agreement, (ii) a proposal to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation to be paid to Concur’s named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the merger, including the agreements and understandings with Concur pursuant to which such compensation may be paid or become payable (“compensation proposal”), and (iii) a proposal to adjourn the special meeting to a later date or time, if the chairman of the special meeting determines that it is necessary or appropriate and is permitted by the Merger Agreement, including to solicit additional proxies if there is not a quorum present or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting (“adjournment proposal”). |
Q: | How does Concur’s Board recommend that I vote on the proposals? |
A: | Concur’s Board unanimously approved the Merger Agreement and determined that the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement are advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Concur and our stockholders and unanimously recommends that you vote: |
• | “FOR” the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement; |
• | “FOR” the compensation proposal; and |
• | “FOR” the adjournment proposal. |
You should read the section entitled “The Merger—Recommendation of Concur’s Board and Reasons for the Merger” beginning on page 23 of this proxy statement.
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Q: | Who is entitled to attend and vote at the special meeting? |
A: | The record date for the special meeting is October 8, 2014. If you own shares of Concur common stock as of the close of business on the record date, you are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the special meeting or any adjournment of the special meeting. As of the record date, there were approximately 57,074,353 shares of Concur common stock issued and outstanding held collectively by approximately 158 stockholders of record. |
Q: | How many votes are required to adopt the Merger Agreement? |
A: | Under applicable law, we must receive the affirmative approval of the holders of a majority of the shares of Concur common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the special meeting on the Merger Agreement in order to adopt the Merger Agreement. |
Q: | How many votes are required to approve the compensation proposal? |
A: | In accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), stockholders have the opportunity to cast anon-binding, advisory vote with respect to certain compensation and related agreements with our named executive officers and arrangements that are based upon or otherwise relate to the merger, as reported in the Golden Parachute Compensation table on page 36 of this proxy statement. The vote to approve the compensation proposal is advisory and therefore will not be binding on Concur, nor will it overrule any prior decision or require Concur’s Board (or any committee of the Board) to take any action, regardless of whether the merger is completed. The compensation to be paid in connection with the proposed merger is contractual with respect to Concur’s named executive officers, regardless of the outcome of the advisory vote on the compensation proposal. Accordingly, if Concur’s stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement and the merger is completed, the compensation based on or otherwise relating to the merger will be paid to Concur’s named executive officers, regardless of whether Concur’s stockholders approve the compensation proposal. |
Concur’s Board will consider the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Concur common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the compensation proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter as advisory approval of the compensation proposal, provided that a quorum is present.
Q: | How many votes are required to adopt the adjournment proposal? |
A: | Approval of the adjournment proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Concur common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter, provided that a quorum is present. If a quorum fails to attend the special meeting or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting, the chairman of the meeting or the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Concur common stock present in person or represented by proxy on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against the adjournment proposal may adjourn the special meeting. |
Q: | How are votes counted? Why is my vote important? |
A: | If you do not submit a proxy or voting instructions or vote in person at the special meeting, it will be more difficult for us to obtain the necessary quorum to hold the special meeting. |
Votes will be counted by the inspector of election appointed for the special meeting, who will separately count “FOR” and “AGAINST” votes and abstentions.
If you abstain from voting, fail to cast your vote in person or by proxy, or fail to give voting instructions to your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee,it will have the same effect as a voteagainst the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement.
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If you abstain from voting, fail to cast your vote in person or by proxy, or fail to give voting instructions to your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee, it will have no effect on the compensation proposal.
If you abstain from voting, fail to cast your vote, in person or by proxy, or fail to give voting instructions to your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee, it will have no effect on the proposal to adjourn the special meeting.
Q: | Do any of Concur’s directors or executive officers have interests in the merger that may differ from those of Concur stockholders? |
A: | In considering the recommendation of Concur’s Board with respect to the Merger Agreement, you should be aware that our directors and executive officers have interests in the merger that may be different from, or in addition to, those of our stockholders generally. These interests may create potential conflicts of interest. Our Board was aware that these interests existed when it approved the Merger Agreement. You should read the section entitled “The Merger—Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger” beginning on page 34 of this proxy statement. |
Q: | What do I need to do now? |
A: | After carefully reading and considering the information contained in this proxy statement, including the annexes and the other documents referred to in this proxy statement, please vote your shares in one of the manners described below. You have one vote for each share of Concur common stock you own as of the record date. |
Q: | How do I vote if I am a stockholder of record? |
A: | You may vote: |
• | by following the Internet voting instructions printed on your proxy card; |
• | by following the telephone voting instructions printed on your proxy card; |
• | by completing, signing and dating each proxy card you receive and returning it in the enclosed postage-paid envelope; or |
• | by appearing and casting your vote in person at the special meeting. |
If you are voting via the Internet or by telephone, your voting instructions must be received by the date and time indicated on the applicable proxy card(s).
Voting via the Internet, by telephone or by mailing in your proxy card will not prevent you from voting in person at the special meeting. You are encouraged to submit a proxy via the Internet, by telephone or by mail even if you plan to attend the special meeting in person, to ensure that your shares of Concur common stock are present in person or represented at the special meeting.
If your shares are held by a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee, you may direct your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee to submit a proxy card by following the instructions that the brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee provides to you with these materials. If you hold shares through a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee and wish to vote your shares in person at the special meeting, you must obtain a proxy from your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee and present it to the inspector of elections with your ballot when you vote at the special meeting.
If you return a properly signed and dated proxy card but do not mark the box showing how you wish to vote, your shares will be voted “FOR” the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement, “FOR” the compensation proposal and “FOR” the adjournment proposal.
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Q: | How do I vote if my shares are held by my brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee? |
A: | If your shares are held in a brokerage account or by another nominee, such as a bank or trust, then the brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee is considered to be the stockholder of record with respect to those shares. However, you still are considered to be the beneficial owner of those shares, with your shares being held in “street name.” “Street name” holders generally cannot vote their shares directly and must instead instruct the brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee how to vote their shares. Your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee will only be permitted to vote your shares for you at the special meeting if you instruct it how to vote. Therefore, it is important that you promptly follow the directions provided by your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee regarding how to instruct them to vote your shares. If you wish to vote in person at the special meeting, you must bring a proxy from your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee authorizing you to vote at the special meeting. |
In addition, because any shares you may hold in “street name” will be deemed to be held by a different stockholder than any shares you hold of record, shares held in “street name” will not be combined for voting purposes with shares you hold of record. To be sure your shares are voted, you should instruct your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee to vote your shares that you hold in “street name.” Shares held by a corporation or business entity must be voted by an authorized officer of the entity.
Q: | May I change my vote after I have delivered my proxy? |
A: | Yes. If you are the stockholder of record of Concur common stock, you have the right to change or revoke your proxy at any time before the vote being taken at the special meeting: |
• | by delivering to Concur’s Corporate Secretary a signed written notice of revocation bearing a date later than the date of the proxy, stating that the proxy is revoked; |
• | by attending the special meeting and voting in person (your attendance at the meeting will not, by itself, revoke your proxy, so you must vote in person at the meeting to revoke your proxy); |
• | by signing and delivering a new proxy, relating to the same shares of Concur common stock and bearing a later date; or |
• | by submitting another proxy by telephone or via the Internet after the date of your prior proxy and by the date and time indicated on the applicable proxy card(s). |
Written notices of revocation and other communications with respect to the revocation of any proxies should be addressed to:
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Attn: Corporate Secretary
If you are a “street name” holder of Concur common stock, you should contact your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee to obtain instructions as to how to change or revoke your proxy.
Q: | What is the deadline for voting my shares? |
A: | If you are a stockholder of record, your proxy must be received via the Internet or by telephone by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on November 18, 2014 in order for your shares to be voted at the special meeting. However, if you are a stockholder of record, you may instead mark, sign, date and return the enclosed proxy card, which must be received before the polls close at the special meeting, in order for your shares to be voted at the special meeting. If you are a beneficial owner, please read the voting instructions provided by your bank, broker, trust or other nominee for information on the deadline for voting your shares. |
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Q: | Should I send in my stock certificates now? |
A: | No. After the merger is completed, you will be sent a letter of transmittal with detailed written instructions for exchanging your shares of Concur common stock for the merger consideration. If your shares are held in “street name” by your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee, you will receive instructions from your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee as to how to effect the surrender of your “street name” shares in exchange for the merger consideration.PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN YOUR CERTIFICATES NOW. |
Q: | What happens if I sell my shares of Concur common stock before the special meeting? |
A: | The record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the special meeting is earlier than the date of the special meeting and the expected closing date of the merger. If you transfer your shares of Concur common stock after the record date but before the special meeting, you will, unless special arrangements are made, retain your right to vote at the special meeting but will transfer the right to receive the merger consideration to the person to whom you transfer your shares. |
In addition, if you sell your shares prior to the special meeting or prior to the effective time of the merger, you will not be eligible to exercise your appraisal rights in respect of the merger. For a more detailed discussion of your appraisal rights and the requirements for properly demanding your appraisal rights, see “The Merger—Appraisal Rights” beginning on page 37 of this proxy statement and Annex E to this proxy statement.
Q: | What happens if the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement is not approved by our stockholders or if the merger is not completed for any other reason? |
A: | If the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement is not approved by our stockholders or if the merger is not completed for any other reason, our stockholders will not receive any payment for their shares in connection with the merger. Instead, we will remain a stand-alone public company and Concur common stock will continue to be listed and traded on The NASDAQ Global Select Market. Under specified circumstances, we may be required to pay to SAP a termination fee, as described below under “The Merger Agreement—Termination Fee and Expenses” beginning on page 69 of this proxy statement. |
Q: | Who can answer further questions? |
A: | For additional questions about the merger, assistance in submitting proxies or voting shares of Concur common stock, or to request additional copies of the proxy statement or the enclosed proxy card, please contact us at Concur Technologies, Inc., 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, Washington 98004, Attention: Corporate Secretary, or call (425) 590-5000, or contact our proxy solicitor at MacKenzie Partners, Inc., 105 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016, or call (212) 929-5500. |
If your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee holds your shares in “street name,” you should also call your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee for additional information.
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This proxy statement contains “forward-looking statements,” as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), that are based on our current expectations, assumptions, beliefs, estimates and projections about the proposed merger, Concur and our industry. The forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “should,” “could” and similar expressions. Factors that may affect those forward-looking statements include, among other things:
• | the parties’ inability to consummate the merger due to failure to satisfy conditions to the completion of the transaction, including the receipt of stockholder approval or the regulatory approvals required for the transaction, which may not be obtained on the terms expected, on the anticipated schedule or at all; |
• | the failure to retain Concur employees; |
• | the intense competition facing SAP and Concur which may pose unexpected future challenges; |
• | the risk that the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances that require us to pay SAP a termination fee of $265 million in connection therewith; |
• | the costs, fees, expenses and charges we incur related to the merger; |
• | risks arising from the merger’s diversion of management’s attention from our ongoing business operations; |
• | the outcome of lawsuits that have been or may be brought by certain purported stockholders seeking to rescind the Merger Agreement or enjoin the consummation of the merger; |
• | the risk that our financial results differ from those set forth in the projections described in this proxy statement; and |
• | other risks detailed in Concur’s filings with the SEC, including Concur’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which discuss these and other important risk factors concerning our operations. |
We caution you that reliance on any forward-looking statement involves risks and uncertainties and that, although we believe that the assumptions on which our forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, any of those assumptions could prove to be inaccurate, and as a result, the forward-looking statements based on those assumptions could be incorrect. In light of these and other uncertainties, you should not conclude that we will achieve any plans and objectives or projected financial results referred to in any of the forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to revise any of these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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This summary highlights selected information from this proxy statement and may not contain all of the information that is important to you. To understand the merger fully and for a more complete description of the legal terms of the merger, you should read carefully this entire proxy statement, the annexes to this proxy statement and the documents we refer to in this proxy statement. See “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 80 of this proxy statement. The Merger Agreement is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement. We encourage you to read the Merger Agreement, which is the legal document governing the merger. Each item in this summary references another section of this proxy statement with more detailed disclosure about that item. Throughout this proxy statement, all references to “Concur,” “we,” “our,” “us” and similar words in this proxy statement refer to Concur Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries, unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires. In addition, throughout this proxy statement, we refer to SAP America, Inc. as “SAP,” to SAP SE as “SAP SE” and to Congress Acquisition Corp. as “Merger Sub.”
Concur Technologies, Inc.
Concur was incorporated in Washington in 1993 and reincorporated in Delaware and completed its initial public offering of common stock in 1998. We are the leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions for companies of all industries, sizes and geographies. Our core mission is to reduce costs for our customers and enhance the user experience for their business travelers by leveraging our continuous innovation. Our easy-to-use cloud computing solutions help companies and their employees control costs, save time, and boost productivity by streamlining the expense management, travel procurement, itinerary management, and invoice management processes.
SAP America, Inc.
SAP is a Delaware corporation, an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP SE and the principal U.S. operating subsidiary of SAP SE. SAP SE began operating in the United States in 1988 through SAP. SAP engages in regional operations, administration, marketing, sales, consulting, training, customer support and research and development.
SAP SE
SAP SE is a European Company (Societas Europea, SE) established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union. Founded in 1972, SAP SE today is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue, and the world’s third-largest independent software manufacturer based on market capitalization. With more than 261,000 customers in over 180 countries, SAP SE and its subsidiaries employ more than 67,600 people. SAP SE derives its revenue from fees charged to its customers for licensing of on-premise software products and solutions, and the use of its cloud solutions by subscription.
Congress Acquisition Corp.
Merger Sub is a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP that was organized solely for the purpose of entering into the Merger Agreement and completing the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Merger Sub has not conducted any business operations other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Upon consummation of the merger, Merger Sub will cease to exist and Concur will continue as the surviving corporation.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and in accordance with Delaware law, at the effective time of the Merger, Merger Sub, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP and a party to the Merger
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Agreement, will merge with and into Concur and Concur will survive the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP and the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub will cease.
Special Meeting of Concur’s Stockholders (page 63)
Date, Time and Place. A special meeting of our stockholders will be held on November 19, 2014, at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101, at 11:00 a.m., local time, to consider and vote upon:
• | a proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement; |
• | a proposal to approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to Concur’s named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the merger, including the agreements and understandings with Concur pursuant to which such compensation may be paid or become payable (“compensation proposal”); and |
• | a proposal to adjourn the special meeting to a later date, if the chairman of the special meeting determines that it is necessary or appropriate and is permitted by the Merger Agreement, to solicit additional proxies if there is not a quorum present or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting (“adjournment proposal”). |
Record Date and Voting Power. You are entitled to vote at the special meeting if you owned shares of our common stock at the close of business on October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting. You will have one vote at the special meeting for each share of our common stock you owned at the close of business on the record date. There are 57,074,353 shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to be voted at the special meeting.
Quorum. A quorum of stockholders is necessary to hold a valid special meeting. Under our bylaws, a quorum is present at the special meeting if the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote generally in the election of directors are represented in person or by proxy.
Vote Required.The adoption of the Merger Agreement requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the close of business on the record date.
The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the compensation proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter is required to approve the compensation proposal, provided a quorum is present.
The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter is required to approve the adjournment proposal, provided that a quorum is present. In the event that a quorum is not present in person or represented by proxy on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting or there are insufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting, we expect that the special meeting will be adjourned by the chairman of the meeting to solicit additional proxies if permitted by the Merger Agreement.
Treatment of Outstanding Common Stock (page 47)
The Merger Agreement provides that each share of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger will be converted at the effective time of the merger into the right to receive $129.00 in cash, without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law.
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After the merger is completed, you will have the right to receive the merger consideration, but you will no longer have any rights as a Concur stockholder as a result, of the merger. Each Concur stockholder will receive the merger consideration in exchange for the shares of Concur common stock in accordance with the instructions contained in the letter of transmittal to be sent to Concur stockholders as soon as reasonably practicable after the closing of the merger, unless the Concur stockholder has properly demanded appraisal of its shares and not withdrawn the demand.
Treatment of Outstanding Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units (page 47)
Stock Options. Each Concur stock option (whether vested or unvested) that is unexpired, unexercised and outstanding at the effective time of the merger, without any action of the parties or the optionholder, will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to the product of (i) the aggregate number of shares subject to such stock option and (ii) the excess (if any) of the per share merger consideration of $129.00 over the applicable per share exercise price of such stock option (without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law).
Vested RSUs. Each Concur restricted stock unit (“RSU”) that is vested but not yet issued at the effective time of the merger, or that becomes vested at the effective time of the merger pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreement, will be cancelled and exchanged for the right to receive in cash the per share merger consideration of $129.00 for each share of our common stock underlying such Concur RSU (without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law).
Unvested RSUs. Each Concur RSU (other than Concur RSUs held by non-employee directors) that remains outstanding immediately prior to, and is unvested and does not become vested at, the effective time of the merger shall be cancelled in exchange for an unvested right to receive in cash the per share merger consideration of $129.00 for each share of our common stock underlying such Concur RSU (without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law), with such payment to become vested and payable on the date upon which each such Concur RSU would have vested under the terms and conditions set forth in the applicable award agreements. If such terms and conditions are not satisfied and such Concur RSU does not otherwise accelerate pursuant to the terms of the applicable equity plan award agreements, no cash payment will be made with respect to such Concur RSU.
Unvested RSUs Held by Non-Employee Directors. Each Concur RSU held by non-employee directors of Concur at the effective time of the merger will vest and be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive in cash the per share merger consideration of $129.00 for each share underlying each cancelled Concur RSU (without interest).
Treatment of Purchase Rights under Employee Stock Purchase Plan (page 48)
Each current offering period in progress as of the date of the Merger Agreement under our 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”) will continue after the date of the Merger Agreement and shares will be issued on the next currently scheduled purchase date that occurs after the date of the Merger Agreement (subject to the terms and conditions of the ESPP). However, any offering period in process as of the effective time of the merger will be shortened and each then-outstanding purchase right under the ESPP will be exercised automatically on the second business day prior to the effective time. Any purchased shares under the ESPP will be converted at the effective time of the merger into the right to receive in cash the per share merger consideration of $129.00, without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law. As of or immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, we will terminate the ESPP.
Recommendation of Concur’s Board and Reasons for the Merger (page 23)
At a meeting of our Board on September 18, 2014, our Board unanimously determined that the Merger Agreement and the merger are advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Concur and its stockholders and
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unanimously approved the Merger Agreement.Our Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement, “FOR” the compensation proposal and “FOR” the adjournment proposal.
In the course of reaching its decision, our Board consulted with our senior management, reviewed a significant amount of information and considered a number of factors. For a discussion of the factors considered by our Board in reaching its decision to approve the Merger Agreement and recommend that our stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement, see “The Merger—Recommendation of Concur’s Board and Reasons for the Merger” beginning on page 23 of this proxy statement.
Opinion of Concur’s Financial Advisor (page 26 and Annex B)
We retained Qatalyst Partners LP (“Qatalyst Partners”) to act as our financial advisor in connection with the merger. We selected Qatalyst Partners to act as our financial advisor based on Qatalyst Partners’ qualifications, expertise, reputation and knowledge of our business and affairs and the industry in which we operate. At the meeting of our Board on September 18, 2014, Qatalyst Partners rendered its oral opinion, subsequently confirmed in writing, that as of September 18, 2014 and based upon and subject to the considerations, limitations and other matters set forth therein, the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of Concur common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders.
The full text of the written opinion of Qatalyst Partners, dated September 18, 2014, is attached to this proxy statement as Annex B and is incorporated into this proxy statement by reference. The opinion sets forth, among other things, the assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations and qualifications of the review undertaken by Qatalyst Partners in rendering its opinion. You should read the opinion carefully in its entirety. Qatalyst Partners’ opinion was provided to our Board and addressed only, as of the date of the opinion, the fairness from a financial point of view of the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of Concur common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement. It does not address any other aspect of the merger and does not constitute a recommendation as to how any of our stockholders should vote with respect to the merger or any other matter. For a further discussion of Qatalyst Partners’ opinion, see “The Merger—Opinion of Concur’s Financial Advisor” beginning on page 26 of this proxy statement.
Under voting agreements dated September 18, 2014, our chief executive officer and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., who collectively own approximately 14.8% of our outstanding shares of common stock as of the record date, have agreed, among other things, to vote their shares of Concur common stock in favor of adoption of the Merger Agreement and against any proposal made in opposition to or in competition with the merger. Copies of the voting agreements are attached as Annex C and Annex D to this proxy statement.
Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger (page 34)
When considering the recommendation of our Board, you should be aware that members of our Board and our executive officers have interests in the merger in addition to their interests as Concur stockholders generally, as described below. These interests may be different from, or in conflict with, your interests as a Concur stockholder, including:
• | accelerated vesting of outstanding RSUs in connection with approval of the merger by our stockholders or the consummation of a “change in control” of Concur, pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreements; and |
• | continued indemnification and liability insurance for directors and officers following completion of the merger. |
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The members of our Board were aware of these additional interests, and considered them, when they approved the Merger Agreement. For a discussion of the interests of Concur’s directors and executive officers in the merger, see “The Merger—Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger” beginning on page 34 of this proxy statement.
Conditions to the Closing of the Merger (page 65)
As more fully described in this proxy statement and in the Merger Agreement, the completion of the merger depends on a number of conditions being satisfied or waived (where legally possible). The obligations of Concur, SAP and Merger Sub to effect the merger are subject to the satisfaction or waiver at or prior to the effective time of the merger of the following conditions (among others):
• | adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders at the special meeting; |
• | the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”), will have expired or been terminated, which condition was satisfied on October 3, 2014; |
• | required approvals pursuant to other antitrust laws will have been obtained or any mandatory waiting period related thereto will have expired; and |
• | the consummation of the merger will not then be restrained, enjoined or prohibited by any order of a court of competent jurisdiction or any other governmental entity of competent jurisdiction and there shall not be in effect any law which prevents the consummation of the merger. |
The obligations of SAP and Merger Sub to effect the merger are further subject to the satisfaction by us or waiver by them, at or prior to the effective time of the merger, of among others, the following conditions (among others):
• | continued accuracy of certain of our representations and warranties related to our capitalization, with an enumerated dollar threshold tied to the failure of such representations and warranties; |
• | continued accuracy of our representations and warranties other than those certain above-referenced representations and warranties related to capitalization, except as would have a material adverse effect on us; |
• | we will have performed in all material respects all obligations and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement that are to be performed by us prior to or on the closing date; |
• | a material adverse effect will not have occurred and will not continue to occur; and |
• | a written notification issued by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) that it has concluded a review of any notification voluntarily provided that: (i) CFIUS has favorably concluded its review of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; (ii) CFIUS has concluded an investigation into such transactions without sending a report to the President of the United States; or (iii) the President of the United States has decided not to take any action to suspend or prohibit such transactions. |
Our obligation to effect the merger is further subject to the satisfaction by SAP and/or Merger Sub or waiver by us at or prior to the effective time of the merger of the following conditions (among others):
• | the continued accuracy of their representations and warranties of SAP or Merger Sub; and |
• | the performance by each, in all material respects, of all obligations and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement to be performed or complied with by them prior to or on the closing date. |
See “The Merger Agreement—Conditions to the Closing of the Merger” beginning on page 65 of this proxy statement.
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No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals (page 59)
The Merger Agreement restricts our ability to initiate, solicit, knowingly encourage or induce, or engage in discussions or negotiations with a third party regarding specified transactions involving Concur. Notwithstanding these restrictions, prior to the time that our stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement, our Board may respond to an unsolicited bona fide written acquisition proposal that our Board concludes in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel and financial advisors) is, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, an acquisition proposal superior to the merger with SAP (as described under “The Merger Agreement—Covenants—No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals” beginning on page 59), by furnishing information with respect to Concur and by entering into discussions with the party or parties making the acquisition proposal, so long as we comply with the terms of the Merger Agreement.
In addition, prior to the time our stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement, our Board may withdraw its recommendation of the Merger Agreement in connection with a superior proposal if it concludes in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation) that in light of such superior proposal, the failure to change its recommendation would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties to our stockholders, so long as we comply with the terms of the Merger Agreement. Our Board may also withdraw its recommendation of the Merger Agreement prior to the time our stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement in certain circumstances unrelated to an acquisition proposal if it concludes in good faith (after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation) that in light of an intervening event, the failure to do so would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties to our stockholders, so long as we comply with the terms of the Merger Agreement.
Termination of the Merger Agreement (page 68)
The Merger Agreement may be terminated under certain circumstances by both SAP and Concur jointly and under other circumstances by either SAP or Concur alone. The Merger Agreement may be terminated prior to the effective time under the following circumstances:
by mutual written consent of Concur and SAP;
by either SAP or Concur if:
• | the effective time of the merger shall not have occurred on or before the “Outside Date,” which means February 18, 2015, except that if the merger is not completed by such date because any applicable waiting period under the HSR Act or other antitrust or competition law, or CFIUS or other governmental approval, that is required to complete the merger, is not obtained, terminated or expired, or because any order is in effect prohibiting the closing of the merger, but all other conditions have been satisfied or waived, in which case the Outside Date is May 18, 2015; |
• | a court or governmental entity has issued a final order or taken a final action to permanently prohibit the merger; or |
• | we fail to obtain stockholder approval of the merger; |
by Concur if:
• | at any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, our Board determines to accept a superior proposal, and we are permitted to accept such superior proposal pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, provided that we pay the termination fee to SAP as described below under the heading “—Termination Fee and Expenses;” or |
• | SAP breaches a representation or warranty or fails to perform a covenant contained in the Merger Agreement that would prevent or materially delay closing of the merger and such breach or failure has not or cannot be remedied within the specified cure period in the Merger Agreement; and |
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by SAP if:
• | our Board has changed its recommendation; |
• | we fail to issue a press release that expressly reaffirms our Board recommendation within five business days after our receipt of a written request by SAP to provide such reaffirmation following a third party’s acquisition proposal or declaration of its intent to issue an acquisition proposal; |
• | a tender offer or exchange offer that constitutes an acquisition proposal is commenced, and our Board has not recommended that our stockholders reject such tender offer or exchange offer within a specified timeframe; |
• | we have materially breached the non-solicitation provisions of the Merger Agreement in any material respect, or in any respect if such breach results in the submission of an acquisition proposal; |
• | we fail to include in this proxy statement our Board’s recommendation for our stockholders to adopt the Merger Agreement; |
• | we or our Board (or any committee thereof) resolves, authorizes or publicly proposes to do any of the actions specified above; |
• | we have an uncured inaccuracy of a representation or warranty or fail following the cure period to perform a covenant contained in the Merger Agreement so that the related closing conditions are not then satisfied; or |
• | we experience an uncured material adverse effect. |
See “The Merger Agreement—Termination of the Merger Agreement” beginning on page 68 of this proxy statement.
Termination Fee and Expenses (page 69)
We will be required to pay a termination fee of $265 million to SAP if the Merger Agreement is terminated by us if, at any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, our Board determines to accept a superior proposal and we are permitted to accept such superior proposal pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement. See “The Merger Agreement—Termination Fee and Expenses” beginning on page 69 of this proxy statement.
We will be required to pay a termination fee of $265 million to SAP if the Merger Agreement is terminated by SAP for the reasons set forth in the first six bullets under the header above captioned “—Termination of the Merger Agreement—by SAP if.”
We will be required to pay a termination fee of $265 million to SAP if:
• | the Merger Agreement is terminated by either SAP or us for the following reasons: |
¡ | if the Outside Date is reached, and our stockholders have not adopted the Merger Agreement at the special meeting of stockholders; or |
¡ | if our stockholders do not adopt the Merger Agreement at the special meeting of stockholders; and |
• | prior to the date of either such termination of the Merger Agreement, an acquisition proposal shall have been made known to us or publicly disclosed (and not publicly withdrawn prior to such termination) and concurrently with, or within 12 months after, such termination, we either (i) consummate a transaction that constitutes an acquisition proposal, or (ii) enter into a definitive agreement to engage in a transaction or a tender offer is commenced that, in either case, constitutes an acquisition proposal, |
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and such transaction or tender offer is subsequently consummated or completed (whether or not such consummation or completion occurs before or after the 12-month period following such termination). |
Solely for purposes of this paragraph, an acquisition proposal is: (1) the purchase of our stock or the commencement of a tender offer, which if consummated would result in the sale of 50% or more of our common stock; (2) the acquisition of 50% or more of one or more of our subsidiaries, which individually or in the aggregate generate 50% or more of our consolidated net revenues or net income or constitute more than 50% of our consolidated assets; (3) a merger, consolidation, combination or other similar transactions involving us or one or more of our subsidiaries, which subsidiaries individually or in the aggregate generate 50% or more of our consolidated net revenues or net income or constitute more than 50% of our consolidated assets, where our stockholders or the stockholders of our subsidiaries, as applicable, immediately preceding such transaction hold less than 50% of our or such subsidiaries stock or voting securities in the surviving entity of such transaction; (4) a liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or reorganization of Concur or any of our subsidiaries other than a wholly-owned subsidiary; (5) any sale of our or our subsidiaries’ assets that generate 50% or more of our consolidated net revenues or net income or constitute more than 50% of our consolidated assets; or (6) any combination of the foregoing.
See “The Merger Agreement—Termination of the Merger Agreement” beginning on page 68 of this proxy statement.
Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, SAP SE has absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed the payment and performance of SAP’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under the Merger Agreement (including for payment of the merger consideration and for breach by SAP or Merger Sub of their obligations).
The HSR Act prohibits us from completing the merger until we have furnished certain information and materials to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and the required waiting period has expired or been terminated. On September 29, 2014, the parties filed their respective notification and report forms pursuant to the HSR Act with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. On October 3, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission terminated the waiting period under the HSR Act.
The merger is also subject to review by the governmental authorities of various other jurisdictions under the antitrust or competition laws of those jurisdictions. Affiliates of SAP and Concur conduct business outside of the United States. Under the Austrian Cartel Act, the merger may not be completed until the expiration of a four week waiting period following the filing of a notification with the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (“FCA”), unless the waiting period is earlier terminated. The parties filed such notification with the FCA in connection with the merger on October 3, 2014. Based on a review of the information currently available relating to the countries and businesses in which SAP and Concur are engaged, SAP and Concur believe that no other mandatory antitrust premerger notification filing are required outside the United States.
SAP’s obligations to consummate the merger are also contingent on receiving notice from CFIUS that it has concluded its review of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and has determined not to conduct an investigation, or if an investigation is deemed to be required, its receiving notification that the U.S. government will not take action to suspend or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, as described below under the heading “The Merger Agreement—Conditions to the Closing of the Merger” beginning on page 65 of this proxy statement.
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Market Prices and Dividend Data (page 12)
Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “CNQR.” On September 17, 2014, the last full trading day before the public announcement of the merger, the closing price for our common stock was $107.47 per share, and on October 13, 2014, the latest practicable trading day before the printing of this proxy statement, the closing price for our common stock was $127.89 per share.
We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock.
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Merger (page 41)
The conversion of shares of our common stock into the right to receive $129.00 per share of cash merger consideration generally will be a taxable transaction to our stockholders for U.S. federal income tax purposes. See “The Merger—Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Merger” beginning on page 41 of this proxy statement.
Tax matters can be complicated, and the tax consequences of the merger to you will depend on your particular circumstances. We strongly recommend that you consult your own tax advisor to determine how the merger will affect you.
Litigation Relating to the Merger (page 44)
Five stockholder class action complaints in connection with the merger have been filed, two in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (collectively, “Delaware Complaints”) and three in the Superior Court of the State of Washington, King County (collectively, “Washington Complaints,” and together with the Delaware Complaints, “Complaints”). Individuals purporting to be our stockholders filed the Complaints. The Complaints name our directors, SAP and Merger Sub as defendants. The Washington Complaints and one of the Delaware Complaints also name Concur as a defendant.
The Complaints claim that by agreeing to sell Concur to SAP pursuant to the Merger Agreement, our directors breached their fiduciary duties by, among other things, allegedly failing to maximize stockholder value in connection with such sale, agreeing to deal protection devices that allegedly preclude competing offers from emerging, allegedly putting their personal interests ahead of those of the stockholders, allegedly unfairly depriving our stockholders of the true value inherent in Concur, allegedly failing to disclose all material information regarding the merger, allegedly failing to maximize stockholder value in connection with such sale, and allegedly ignoring or not protecting against the conflicts of interest of our directors. The Complaints also claim that Concur, SAP and Merger Sub aided and abetted these alleged breaches of fiduciary duties.
See “The Merger—Litigation Relating to the Merger” beginning on page 44 of this proxy statement.
Shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective time and held by a holder who is entitled to demand may elect to pursue their appraisal rights to receive the judicially determined fair value of their shares, which could be more or less than, or the same as, the per share merger consideration for the common stock, but only if they have properly demanded appraisal for such shares in accordance with, and complied in all respects with, Section 262 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). For a more detailed discussion of appraisal rights and the requirement for properly demanding such rights, see “The Merger—Appraisal Rights” beginning on page 37 of this proxy statement and Annex E to this proxy statement. An executed proxy that is not marked “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN” will, unless revoked, be voted “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement and will disqualify the stockholder submitting that proxy from demanding appraisal rights.
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A copy of Section 262 of the DGCL is included as Annex E to this proxy statement. Failure to precisely follow any of the statutory procedures set forth in Section 262 of the DGCL will result in the loss of appraisal rights. We encourage you to read these provisions carefully and in their entirety.
ANY CONCUR STOCKHOLDER WHO WISHES TO EXERCISE APPRAISAL RIGHTS OR WHO WISHES TO PRESERVE HIS, HER OR ITS RIGHT TO DO SO SHOULD REVIEW ANNEX E CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY AND SHOULD CONSULT HIS, HER OR ITS LEGAL ADVISOR, SINCE FAILURE TO TIMELY AND PROPERLY COMPLY WITH THE PROCEDURES SET FORTH THEREIN WILL RESULT IN THE LOSS OF SUCH RIGHTS.
Additional Information (page 80)
You can find more information about Concur in the periodic reports and other information we file with the SEC. The information is available at the SEC’s public reference facilities and at the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. For a more detailed description of the additional information available, see “Where You Can Find More Information” beginning on page 80 of this proxy statement.
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MARKET PRICES AND DIVIDEND DATA
Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “CNQR.” This table shows, for the periods indicated, the range of intraday high and low per share sales prices for our common stock as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market.
Three Months Ended: | High | Low | ||||||
December 31, 2014 (through October 13, 2014) | $ | 128.30 | $ | 126.40 | ||||
September 30, 2014 | $ | 127.55 | $ | 86.50 | ||||
June 30, 2014 | $ | 101.99 | $ | 74.43 | ||||
March 31, 2014 | $ | 130.39 | $ | 95.08 | ||||
December 31, 2013 | $ | 112.87 | $ | 91.22 | ||||
September 30, 2013 | $ | 114.32 | $ | 80.98 | ||||
June 30, 2013 | $ | 84.86 | $ | 62.01 | ||||
March 31, 2013 | $ | 73.34 | $ | 65.35 | ||||
December 31, 2012 | $ | 74.07 | $ | 57.70 | ||||
September 30, 2012 | $ | 76.15 | $ | 61.29 | ||||
June 30, 2012 | $ | 69.31 | $ | 53.33 | ||||
March 31, 2012 | $ | 62.60 | $ | 47.00 | ||||
December 31, 2011 | $ | 55.00 | $ | 34.54 |
The following table sets forth the closing price per share of our common stock, as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 17, 2014, the last full trading day before the public announcement of the merger, and on October 13, 2014, the latest practicable trading day before the printing of this proxy statement:
Common Stock Closing Price | ||||
September 17, 2014 | $ | 107.47 | ||
October 13, 2014 | $ | 127.89 |
You are encouraged to obtain current market quotations for our common stock in connection with voting your shares of common stock. If the merger is consummated, there will be no further market for our common stock and our common stock will be delisted from The NASDAQ Global Select Market and deregistered under the Exchange Act.
We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock. In the event that the merger is not consummated, we would expect to retain earnings, if any, to fund the development and growth of our business and would not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. In such event, our payment of any future dividends would be at the discretion of our Board after taking into account various factors, including our financial condition, operating results, cash needs and growth plans.
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The enclosed proxy is solicited on behalf of our Board for use at the special meeting of stockholders or at any adjournment or postponement thereof.
We will hold the special meeting at the offices of Fenwick & West LLP, 1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98101, at 11:00 a.m., local time, on November 19, 2014.
Purpose of the Special Meeting
At the special meeting, we will ask the holders of our common stock to (i) adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 18, 2014, by and among SAP America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“SAP”), Congress Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP (“Merger Sub”), and Concur, as such agreement may be amended from time to time, (ii) approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation to be paid to Concur’s named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the merger, including the agreements and understandings with Concur pursuant to which such compensation may be paid or become payable (“compensation proposal”), and (iii) approve the adjournment of the special meeting to a later date, if the chairman of the special meeting determines that it is necessary or appropriate and is permitted by the Merger Agreement, to solicit additional proxies if there is not a quorum present or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting (“adjournment proposal”).
Record Date; Shares Entitled to Vote; Quorum
Only holders of record of our common stock at the close of business on October 8, 2014, the record date, are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the special meeting. On the record date, shares of our common stock were issued and outstanding and held by approximately holders of record. Holders of record of our common stock on the record date are entitled to one vote per share at the special meeting on each of the proposal.
A majority of the outstanding shares of common stock must be present or represented at the special meeting in order to have a quorum for the conduct of business. Votes cast at the special meeting, by proxy or in person, will be tabulated by the inspector of elections appointed for the special meeting. In the event that a quorum is not present at the special meeting, it is expected that the special meeting will be adjourned by the chairman of the meeting to solicit additional proxies if permitted by the Merger Agreement. If shares are present at the special meeting in person or by proxy, but are not voted, those shares will count toward determining whether or not a quorum is present for the conduct of business at the Meeting, as will all shares voted “for”, “against” or “abstain” on a proposal.
The adoption of the Merger Agreement requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on the Merger Agreement at the close of business on the record date. Adoption of the Merger Agreement is a condition to the closing of the merger.
The vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the compensation proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter will constitute approval or disapproval of the compensation proposal on an advisory basis, provided that a quorum is present. Our Board will consider the result of this vote.
Approval of the adjournment proposal requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of our common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against such matter, provided that a quorum is present. In
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addition, pursuant to our bylaws the chairman of the special meeting has the authority to adjourn the special meeting without approval of the stockholders. In the event that a quorum is not present in person or represented by proxy on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting, we expect that the special meeting will be adjourned by the chairman of the meeting to solicit additional proxies if permitted by the Merger Agreement.
Voting by Concur Directors and Executive Officers
At the close of business on the record date, our directors and executive officers and their affiliates owned and were entitled to vote 1,372,298 shares of our common stock, which represented approximately 2.4% of the shares of our outstanding common stock on that date. We expect that these directors and executive officers will vote all of their shares of our common stock “FOR” adoption of the Merger Agreement, “FOR” the compensation proposal and “FOR” the adjournment proposal.
If your shares are registered in your name, you may cause your shares to be voted at the special meeting by returning a signed proxy card or voting in person at the meeting. Additionally, you may submit a proxy authorizing the voting of your shares via the Internet at www.proxyvote.com or by telephone bycalling (800) 690-6903. You must have the enclosed proxy card available, and follow the instructions on the proxy card, in order to submit a proxy via the Internet or by telephone.
If your shares are registered in your name and you plan to attend the special meeting and wish to vote in person, you will be given a ballot at the meeting. If your shares are registered in your name, you are encouraged to submit a proxy card even if you plan to attend the special meeting in person.
Voting instructions are included on your proxy card. All shares represented by properly executed proxies received in time for the special meeting will be voted at the special meeting in accordance with the instructions of the stockholder. Properly executed proxies that do not contain voting instructions will be voted “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement, “FOR” the compensation proposal and “FOR” the adjournment proposal; provided, however, that no proxy that is specifically marked “AGAINST” the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement will be voted “FOR” the compensation proposal or “FOR” the adjournment proposal unless it is specifically marked “FOR” the compensation proposal or “FOR” the adjournment proposal, respectively.
If your shares are held in “street name” through a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee, you may provide voting instructions by completing and returning the voting form provided by your nominee or via the Internet or by telephone through your nominee, if such a service is provided. To provide voting instructions via the Internet or telephone, you should follow the instructions on the voting form provided by your nominee. If you plan to attend the special meeting, you will need a proxy from your nominee in order to be given a ballot to vote the shares. If you do not return your nominee’s voting form, provide voting instructions via the Internet or by telephone through your nominee or attend the special meeting and vote in person with a proxy from your nominee, it will have the same effect as if you voted “AGAINST” the adoption of the Merger Agreement, and will have no effect on the compensation proposal or the adjournment proposal.
Any proxy you give pursuant to this solicitation may be revoked by you at any time before it is voted. Proxies may be revoked as follows:
If you have sent a proxy directly to Concur, you may revoke it by:
• | delivering a written revocation of the proxy or a later dated, signed proxy card, to our Corporate Secretary at 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, Washington 98004, on or before the business day prior to the special meeting; |
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• | delivering a new, later dated proxy via the Internet or by telephone until the date set forth in the instructions for voting via the Internet or by telephone; |
• | delivering a written revocation or a later dated, signed proxy card to us at the special meeting prior to the taking of the vote on the matters to be considered at the special meeting; or |
• | attending the special meeting and voting in person. |
If you have instructed a broker or nominee to vote your shares, you may revoke your proxy only by following the directions received from your broker or nominee to change those instructions.
Your attendance at the special meeting does not alone automatically revoke your proxy. If you have instructed your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee how to vote your shares, the above-described options for revoking your proxy do not apply. Instead, you must follow the directions provided by your brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee to change your vote.
Our Board has unanimously approved the Merger Agreement and determined that the Merger Agreement and the merger are advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Concur and its stockholders.Our Board unanimously recommends that Concur stockholders (i) vote “FOR” the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement, (ii) vote “FOR” the compensation proposal and (iii) vote “FOR” the adjournment proposal.See “The Merger—Recommendation of Concur’s Board and Reasons for the Merger” beginning on page 23 of this proxy statement. Concur stockholders should carefully read this proxy statement in its entirety for more detailed information concerning the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the merger. In addition, Concur stockholders are directed to the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement.
Effect of Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes
Abstentions and shares not in attendance at the special meeting and not voted by proxy will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement. Abstentions and shares not in attendance at the special meeting and not voted by proxy will have no effect on the compensation proposal or the adjournment proposal. Because brokerage firms, banks, trusts or other nominees holding shares of Concur common stock in “street name” may not vote your shares of Concur common stock on the adoption of the Merger Agreement, the compensation proposal or the adjournment proposal unless you provide instructions on how to vote, your failure to provide instructions will result in your shares not being present at the meeting and not being voted on those proposals. It is very important that all of our stockholders vote their shares of our common stock, so please promptly complete and return the enclosed proxy card.
This proxy solicitation is being made by Concur on behalf of the Board and will be paid for by Concur. Our directors and officers and employees may also solicit proxies by personal interview, mail, e-mail, telephone, facsimile or other means of communication. These persons will not be paid additional remuneration for their efforts. We have also retained MacKenzie Partners, Inc. to assist in the solicitation of proxies for a fee of $50,000 plus the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred on behalf of Concur. You should not send your stock certificates with your proxy card. A letter of transmittal with instructions for the surrender of your stock certificates, if any, will be mailed to our stockholders as soon as practicable after completion of the merger.
A list of our stockholders entitled to vote at the special meeting will be available for examination by any Concur stockholder at the special meeting. For 10 days prior to the special meeting, this stockholder list will be available for inspection by any stockholder for any purpose germane to the special meeting during ordinary business hours at our corporate offices located at 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, Washington 98004.
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601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Telephone: (425) 590-5000
Concur was incorporated in Washington in 1993 and reincorporated in Delaware and completed its initial public offering of common stock in 1998. We are the leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions for companies of all industries, sizes and geographies. Our core mission is to reduce costs for our customers and enhance the user experience for their business travelers by leveraging our continuous innovation. Our easy-to-use cloud computing solutions help companies and their employees control costs, save time, and boost productivity by streamlining the expense management, travel procurement, itinerary management, and invoice management processes.
3999 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
Telephone: (610) 661-1000
SAP is a Delaware corporation, an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP SE and the principal U.S. operating subsidiary of SAP SE. SAP SE began operating in the United States in 1988 through SAP. SAP engages in regional operations, administration, marketing, sales, consulting, training, customer support and research and development.
Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16
69190 Walldorf
Germany
Telephone: +49-6227-7-47474
SAP SE is a European Company (Societas Europea, SE) established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union. Founded in 1972, SAP SE today is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue, and the world’s third-largest independent software manufacturer based on market capitalization. With more than 261,000 customers in over 180 countries, SAP SE and its subsidiaries employ more than 67,600 people. SAP SE derives its revenue from fees charged to its customers for licensing of on-premise software products and solutions, and the use of its cloud solutions by subscription.
3999 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
Telephone: (610) 661-1000
Merger Sub is a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP that was organized solely for the purpose of entering into the Merger Agreement and completing the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Merger Sub has not conducted any business operations other than in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. Upon consummation of the merger, Merger Sub will cease to exist and Concur will continue as the surviving corporation.
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The following discussion describes material aspects of the merger. While we believe that the following description covers the material terms of the merger, the description may not contain all of the information that may be important to you. The discussion of the merger in this proxy statement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement and incorporated by reference into this proxy statement. We encourage you to read carefully this entire proxy statement, including the Merger Agreement, for a more complete understanding of the merger.
Our Board periodically reviews and assesses ourlong-term strategies and objectives and developments in the markets in which it operates, including, among other things, strategies to improve our business and operations through potential partnering, strategic alliances or other strategic opportunities with other companies. In addition, our senior management has met from time to time with representatives of other companies to discuss trends in their respective businesses and explore opportunities for strategic transactions.
In March 2012, SAP contacted us regarding exploring a potential business combination. The parties entered into a mutual non-disclosure agreement in April 2012, and held preliminary discussions regarding a strategic transaction. In connection with these discussions, our Board engaged Qatalyst Partners LP (“Qatalyst Partners”) as its financial advisor, and held multiple meetings in April and May 2012 to consider a potential strategic transaction with SAP. The discussions between the parties did not advance to the due diligence or definitive agreement stage and were mutually discontinued in May 2012.
On May 20, 2014, Arlen Shenkman, senior vice president and head of corporate development of SAP, contacted S. Steven Singh, the chairman of our Board and our chief executive officer, to request that we provide SAP with a non-confidential update on our business.
On May 28, 2014, Mr. Singh, John Torrey, our executive vice president, corporate strategy, Mr. Shenkman and other SAP personnel met in Palo Alto, California, to discuss publicly-available information regarding our business.
On June 13, 2014, Mr. Shenkman contacted Mr. Singh to inform him that SAP was not prepared to move forward with further discussions in the near-term.
On July 19, 2014, Mr. Shenkman contacted Mr. Singh to inquire whether Mr. Singh would be amenable to receiving a call from Bill McDermott, the chief executive officer of SAP SE, regarding SAP’s interest in a potential strategic transaction between the companies.
On July 22, 2014, SAP sent to us a proposed amendment to reinstate the mutual non-disclosure agreement the parties had entered into in 2012. SAP’s counsel, Jones Day, and Concur’s counsel, Fenwick & West LLP (“Fenwick & West”), negotiated the terms of the proposed amendment and on July 23, 2014, SAP SE and Concur executed the amendment to the mutual non-disclosure agreement.
On July 22, 2014, Mr. McDermott called Mr. Singh to discuss SAP’s interest in making a proposal regarding an acquisition of Concur.
On July 23, 2014, Mr. Shenkman called Mr. Torrey to inform him that SAP would be providing to us a preliminary indication of interest regarding an acquisition of Concur. Later that day, SAP delivered to us a written non-binding preliminary indication of interest proposing an all-cash acquisition of Concur at a price of $110.00 per share. The indication of interest stated that SAP’s proposed transaction would not be subject to any
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financing contingency. The indication of interest also stated that in order for SAP to proceed with the due diligence and negotiation of a transaction, SAP would require that we enter into a 30-day exclusivity period, and attached a proposed exclusivity agreement.
On July 24, 2014, Mr. Torrey contacted Mr. Shenkman to inform him that we had received SAP’s preliminary indication of interest and that our Board would give the proposal due consideration.
On July 24 and 25, 2014, in the interest of maximizing the opportunity for another party with the likely financial ability and potential strategic interest in making an acquisition proposal to us to have the time to do so, Mr. Singh conferred with each other member of our Board as well as representatives of Qatalyst Partners regarding soliciting other parties that would likely have the financial ability and potential strategic interest in acquiring Concur. Each member of our Board agreed that the only parties that would likely have the financial ability and potential strategic interest in making an acquisition proposal to us were three companies that we refer to as Strategic Party A, Strategic Party B and Strategic Party C.
On July 25, 2014, we entered into an agreement to engage Qatalyst Partners as its exclusive financial advisor with respect to a potential change of control transaction.
On July 25, 2014, Mr. Singh contacted the chief executive officer of Strategic Party A, stating that we had received an acquisition proposal that we were considering and inquired whether Strategic Party A would be interested in potentially making an acquisition proposal to Concur. The chief executive officer of Strategic Party A stated that it would consider potentially making an acquisition proposal and would respond further in a few days.
Also on July 25, at Mr. Singh’s direction, representatives of Qatalyst Partners contacted the chief executive officer of Strategic Party B and a senior corporate development executive of Strategic Party C stating that we had received an acquisition proposal that we were considering and inquired whether Strategic Party B and Strategic Party C, respectively, would be interested in potentially making an acquisition proposal for Concur. The chief executive officer of Strategic Party B stated that he would give further consideration to whether Strategic Party B would be potentially interested in making an acquisition proposal and would respond further in a few days. The senior business development executive of Strategic Party C stated that he would discuss with other executives at Strategic Party C whether it would be potentially interested in making an acquisition proposal and would respond further in a few days.
On July 26, 2014, a senior corporate development executive at Strategic Party A contacted Mr. Torrey to request additional information regarding Concur, which Mr. Torrey provided on July 27, 2014.
On July 27, 2014, our Board held a meeting, with representatives of Qatalyst Partners and Fenwick & West participating. Mr. Singh reviewed with our Board the recent contacts with SAP and SAP’s July 23 proposal as well as the initial contacts with Strategic Party A, Strategic Party B and Strategic Party C. The representatives of Fenwick & West reviewed with our Board its fiduciary duties in the context of considering a potential acquisition transaction. Our Board discussed with our management our business prospects on a stand-alone basis. The representatives of Qatalyst Partners discussed with our Board the financial aspects of SAP’s proposal of $110.00 per share. Our Board determined that SAP’s proposal of $110.00 per share represented insufficient value and instructed our management and Qatalyst Partners to convey this to SAP. Our Board also further considered the parties that would likely have the financial ability and potential strategic interest in making an acquisition proposal to us, and determined that only Strategic Party A, Strategic Party B and Strategic Party C were likely to have the financial ability and potential strategic interest in acquiring Concur, and that contacting additional parties that would be less likely to have such a financial ability and strategic interest would increase the risk of a public disclosure regarding our consideration of a potential acquisition transaction, resulting in potentially significant adverse effects on our business. Our Board also ratified the engagement of Qatalyst Partners as its exclusive financial advisor with respect to a potential change in control transaction.
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Also on July 27, 2014, Mr. Torrey and a representative of Qatalyst Partners spoke with a senior corporate development executive of Strategic Party A regarding Concur and the process regarding consideration of a potential acquisition transaction.
Also on July 27, 2014, pursuant to an existing contract between Concur and a company (whom we refer to as Strategic Party D), we provided written notice to Strategic Party D that we expected to engage in discussions regarding a potential acquisition transaction and that such company was invited to participate as a bidder in such process. Later on July 27, Strategic Party D confirmed to Mr. Singh that it did not wish to participate further in the process regarding a potential acquisition transaction.
On July 28, 2014, representatives of Qatalyst Partners discussed with Mr. Shenkman and Deutsche Bank, SAP’s financial advisor, that our Board had determined that SAP’s $110.00 proposal did not represent sufficient value. The representatives of SAP requested that we provide additional financial information so that SAP could consider whether to increase its proposal.
On July 29, 2014, Mr. Torrey and Mr. Shenkman met in San Francisco to discuss Concur’s business strategy and additional financial information.
On July 30, 2014, Strategic Party A informed us that it was not interested in pursuing a potential acquisition transaction at such time.
On July 31, 2014, Mr. Singh and Mr. McDermott met in New York and discussed the business strategies of their companies and the potential business combination. Mr. Singh and Mr. McDermott also discussed SAP potentially increasing the transaction price but no proposals were made.
Also on July 31, 2014, Mr. Torrey, Mr. Shenkman and representatives of Qatalyst Partners and Deutsche Bank met in San Francisco to further discuss a potential transaction.
On August 1, 2014, the chief executive officer of Strategic Party B contacted a representative of Qatalyst Partners and stated that while a potential acquisition of Concur was not a strategic priority for Strategic Party B, that he would be interested in meeting with Mr. Singh to better understand our business.
On August 3, 2014, our Board held a meeting, at which our Board discussed the recent communications with SAP and the other parties contacted.
On August 4, 2014, we announced its financial results for the third quarter of its 2014 fiscal year.
On August 5, 2014, representatives of Qatalyst Partners and Deutsche Bank discussed transaction valuation.
Also on August 5, 2014, Strategic Party C informed representatives of Qatalyst Partners that Strategic Party C was not interested in pursuing a potential acquisition transaction at such time.
On August 6, 2014, Mr. Shenkman and Mr. Torrey discussed our financial results and business and further discussed transaction valuation.
Later on August 6, 2014, SAP delivered to us a written non-binding preliminary indication of interest proposing an all-cash acquisition of Concur at a price of $120.00 per share. The indication of interest stated that SAP’s proposed transaction would not be subject to any financing contingency. The indication of interest also stated that in order for SAP to proceed with the due diligence and negotiation of a transaction, SAP would require that we enter into a 30-day exclusivity period, and attached a proposed exclusivity agreement.
In the days following August 6, 2014, Mr. Singh conferred with other members of our Board regarding SAP’s increased proposal.
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On August 7, 2014, Mr. Singh and the chief executive officer of Strategic Party B met and further discussed their companies’ business strategies. The chief executive officer of Strategic Party B stated that it was not likely that Strategic Party B would be interested in pursuing a potential acquisition of Concur, and that he would contact Mr. Singh within a few days with a decision.
On August 10, 2014, our Board held a meeting, with representatives of Qatalyst Partners and Fenwick & West participating. The representatives of Qatalyst Partners discussed with our Board the financial aspects of SAP’s proposal of $120.00 per share. Our Board discussed with our management our business prospects on a stand-alone basis. Our Board discussed the recent communications with the other parties contacted regarding a potential acquisition transaction. The representatives of Fenwick & West further reviewed with the Board its fiduciary duties in the context of considering a potential acquisition transaction. Our Board determined that SAP’s proposal of $120.00 per share represented insufficient value and instructed our management and Qatalyst Partners to convey this to SAP.
On August 11, 2014, Mr. Torrey and Mr. Shenkman met in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania to further discuss transaction valuation. During this discussion, Mr. Torrey informed Mr. Shenkman that SAP’s offer would need to be substantially higher in order for the transaction to be supported by our Board, and that a price of $135.00 per share might be supported by our Board.
On August 12, 2014, Mr. Singh and Mr. McDermott met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to further discuss the strategic opportunity presented by a potential business combination and transaction valuation. During this discussion, Mr. Singh informed Mr. McDermott that SAP’s offer would need to be substantially higher in order for the transaction to be supported by our Board.
On August 13, 2014, representatives of Qatalyst Partners and representatives of Deutsche Bank further discussed transaction valuation.
On August 14, 2014, the chief executive officer of Strategic Party B contacted Mr. Singh to inform him that Strategic Party B was not interested in pursuing a potential acquisition transaction at such time.
On August 14, 2014, Mr. Shenkman contacted Mr. Torrey to request additional financial information regarding Concur, which Mr. Torrey provided on August 15, 2014.
On August 19, 2014, Mr. Shenkman and Mr. Torrey further discussed transaction valuation. During this discussion, Mr. Shenkman stated that SAP was prepared to increase its offer.
Later on August 19, 2014, Mr. Singh and Mr. McDermott further discussed transaction valuation. During this discussion, Mr. McDermott stated that SAP would, as a final offer, increase its proposal to $129.00 per share, and that SAP would require that we enter into a 30-day exclusivity period in order for SAP to proceed with due diligence and the negotiation of a definitive transaction agreement.
On August 20, 2014, SAP delivered to us a written non-binding preliminary indication of interest proposing an all-cash acquisition of Concur at a price of $129.00 per share. The indication of interest stated that SAP’s proposed transaction would not be subject to any financing contingency. The indication of interest also stated that in order for SAP to proceed with the due diligence and negotiation of a transaction, SAP would require that we enter into a 30-day exclusivity period, and attached a draft exclusivity agreement.
On August 21, 2014, we sent to SAP our proposed revisions to the exclusivity agreement proposed by SAP. On August 21 and 22, 2014, Concur, SAP and their respective counsel at Jones Day and Fenwick & West negotiated the terms of the exclusivity agreement.
On August 23, 2014, our Board held a meeting, with representatives of Qatalyst Partners and Fenwick & West participating. The representatives of Qatalyst Partners discussed with our Board the financial aspects of SAP’s proposal of $129.00 per share. The representatives of Fenwick & West reviewed with our Board the
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proposed transaction timetable and SAP’s requirement that we enter into a period of exclusivity to conduct due diligence and for the parties to negotiate a definitive agreement. Our Board discussed with our management our business prospects on a stand-alone basis. Our Board discussed the recent communications with the other parties contacted regarding a potential acquisition transaction. Our Board determined to grant SAP a period of exclusivity for SAP to conduct due diligence and for the parties to try to negotiate a definitive agreement providing for a transaction in which our stockholders would receive $129.00 per share.
Later on August 23, 2014, Concur and SAP and their counsel further negotiated the terms of the exclusivity agreement, following which Concur and SAP SE entered into the agreement, providing for an exclusivity period expiring on September 21, 2014.
Commencing on August 25, 2014, representatives and advisors for SAP were granted access to an online data room for purposes of SAP’s due diligence review of Concur in connection with the proposed transaction. During the period from August 25, 2014 to September 17, 2014, representatives of SAP and its legal and financial advisors engaged with Concur and its legal and financial advisors for the purpose of extensive confirmatory due diligence activities.
On August 29, 2014, Jones Day and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP (“Paul, Weiss”), legal counsel to SAP, provided a draft of the Merger Agreement to Fenwick & West, reflecting proposed definitive terms of the transaction, including a proposed termination fee of 4.5% of the enterprise value of Concur in the transaction, and a draft voting agreement to be entered into by certain of our stockholders.
On September 2, 2014, Fenwick & West provided to Jones Day and Paul, Weiss proposed revisions to the draft Merger Agreement, including among other terms, a proposed termination fee 1.0% of the enterprise value of Concur in the transaction.
On September 2, 2014, following the close of regular trading on The NASDAQ Global Select Market, Bloomberg, a major news outlet, reported that we were exploring a potential sale of the company. On September 3, 2014, our stock price closed at $109.60, an increase of 8.6% over the closing price on September 2, 2014.
On September 3, 2014, Concur and SAP, with their respective financial and legal advisors, held a series of due diligence meetings at Fenwick & West’s offices in Seattle, Washington.
On September 4, 2014, Concur and SAP SE executed an addendum to the mutual non-disclosure agreement between them to provide for restricted access and process controls with respect to the review of competitively-sensitive information in the due diligence process.
From September 5, 2014 through September 18, 2014, representatives of Concur and SAP and their respective financial and legal advisors engaged in negotiations concerning the proposed terms of the definitive agreements for the proposed transaction. SAP requested that American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (“American Express”), a significant Concur stockholder with a designee on our Board, as well as Mr. Singh, enter into a voting agreement in support of the merger. During this period, our representatives and representatives of American Express engaged in negotiations with SAP’s legal advisors regarding the terms of the voting agreement.
On September 7, 2014, our Board held a meeting, with representatives from Qatalyst Partners and Fenwick & West participating, to discuss the potential transaction, including the material terms proposed in the Merger Agreement and key open issues under negotiation between the parties. Our Board discussed, among other issues, the need to permit our Board to be able to respond to and negotiate any unsolicited potentially superior proposals, and terminate the Merger Agreement to accept a superior proposal that is not matched by SAP upon the payment of a reasonable termination fee to SAP. The representatives of Qatalyst Partners reviewed with our Board SAP’s plans for financing the purchase price to be paid in the transaction.
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Between September 8 and 14, 2014, SAP and its advisors continued their due diligence of Concur, and the parties and their legal counsel continued to negotiate the terms of the definitive agreements for the transaction.
On September 14, 2014, our Board held a meeting, with representatives from Qatalyst Partners and Fenwick & West participating, to discuss the potential transaction. Representatives of Fenwick & West reviewed in detail the material terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and the proposed transaction, including the process for us to respond to unsolicited acquisition proposals and superior proposals as well as the amount of the termination fee and the circumstances under which it would be payable, as well as other terms then under negotiation. Our Board discussed with our management our business prospects on a stand-alone basis. The representatives of Qatalyst Partners discussed with our Board the financial aspects of SAP’s proposal of $129.00 per share to be paid in the merger.
Between September 14 and 18, 2014 the parties and their legal counsel continued to negotiate the terms of the definitive agreements for the transaction.
On September 15, 2014, Mr. Singh met with Hasso Plattner, the chairman of the supervisory board of SAP, and Mr. McDermott to discuss the potential business combination of Concur and SAP.
On September 17, 2014, following further discussions between their respective advisors, Concur and SAP agreed on a termination fee of $265 million, or approximately 3.2% of the enterprise value of Concur in the transaction.
On September 18, 2014, legal counsel for Concur and SAP completed their negotiations of the Merger Agreement and related documents.
Later on September 18, 2014, our Board held a meeting, with representatives from Qatalyst Partners and Fenwick & West participating, to consider approval of the potential transaction. Representatives of Fenwick & West reviewed the results of the final negotiations regarding the transaction terms, including the termination fee of $265 million, or approximately 3.2% of Concur’s enterprise value in the transaction. Representatives of Qatalyst Partners reviewed with our Board their financial analysis of the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by holders of shares of Concur common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and delivered to our Board an oral opinion, confirmed by delivery of a written opinion dated September 18, 2014, to the effect that, as of that date and based on and subject to the considerations, limitations, qualifications and other matters set forth in the written opinion, the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by holders of shares of Concur common stock (other than SAP or any of its affiliates) pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders. The full text of the written opinion of Qatalyst Partners, dated September 18, 2014, which sets forth, among other things, the assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations and qualifications on the review undertaken in connection with, such opinion, is attached as Annex B to this proxy statement. See also “—Opinion of Concur’s Financial Advisor.” Following consideration of the proposed terms of the Merger Agreement, further discussions with management and its legal and financial advisors, and the factors described under “—Recommendation of Concur’s Board and Reasons for the Merger,” our Board unanimously adopted resolutions that determined and declared that the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the merger, were advisable and fair to, and in the best interests of, Concur and its stockholders, approved and declared advisable the Merger Agreement, the merger and the other transactions contemplated thereby, authorized Concur to execute, deliver and perform the Merger Agreement and recommended that our stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement.
On September 18, 2014, the supervisory board of SAP SE approved the acquisition of Concur pursuant to the Merger Agreement.
Concur, SAP and Merger Sub then executed the Merger Agreement and the parties to the voting agreements executed the voting agreements.
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Immediately following the execution of the Merger Agreement, Concur and SAP issued a joint press release announcing the signing of the Merger Agreement.
Recommendation of Concur’s Board and Reasons for the Merger
At a meeting of our Board on September 18, 2014, our Board unanimously determined that the Merger Agreement and the merger are advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Concur and our stockholders and unanimously approved the Merger Agreement.Our Board unanimously recommends that you vote (i) “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement, (ii) “FOR” the compensation proposal and (iii) “FOR” the adjournment proposal.
In the course of reaching its decision to declare that the Merger Agreement and the merger are advisable and fair to and in the best interests of Concur and our stockholders, to approve the Merger Agreement, and to recommend that our stockholders vote to adopt the Merger Agreement, our Board consulted with our senior management and our financial advisor, Qatalyst Partners. Our Board also consulted with outside legal counsel regarding its fiduciary duties and the terms of the Merger Agreement and related matters. The following discussion includes the material reasons and factors that our Board considered in making its recommendation, but is neither exhaustive nor intended to be exhaustive.
Our Board considered the following factors in favor of the merger:
Merger Consideration. With respect to the merger consideration to be received by our stockholders, our Board considered:
• | that our stockholders will be entitled to receive merger consideration of $129.00 per share in cash upon the closing of the merger, providing liquidity and certainty of value as compared to the uncertain future long-term value that our stockholders might or might not realize if we remained an independent public company; |
• | the fact that the $129.00 per share value of the cash merger consideration represents a 20% premium over the closing price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on September 17, 2014 (the last trading day prior to our Board’s approval of the Merger Agreement), a 28% premium over the unaffected price on September 2, 2014 (the last trading day prior to publication by Bloomberg that we were engaged in a process regarding a potential sale), a 34% premium to the unaffected 30-day average closing price, and a 43% premium over the unaffected 90-day average closing price; |
• | the fact that the $129.00 per share value of the cash merger consideration represented, as of June 30, 2014, multiples of 12.6 times our last twelve months revenue and 10.2 times our projected next twelve months revenue (based on consensus analyst estimates as of September 17, 2014) and that these revenue multiples exceeded the revenue multiples in comparable merger transactions; |
• | the fact that the $129.00 per share value of the cash merger consideration is a premium of 1% over the $128.08 closing price of our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on February 18, 2014, which was the 52-week and all-time high closing price of our common stock; |
• | the recent and historical market prices of our common stock, including the market price performance of our common stock relative to that of other industry participants over the last 12 months, and the financial market conditions during that period (See “Market Prices and Dividend Data” beginning on page 12 of this proxy statement for information about our common stock prices over time); |
• | its belief, based on discussions and negotiations with SAP, that $129.00 per share was the highest price SAP would be willing to pay; and |
• | its belief, based on discussions with parties other than SAP, that it was unlikely that any other party would be willing to pay more than $129.00 per share in cash. |
Solicitation of Interest. Our Board considered the fact that, prior to entering into an exclusivity agreement with SAP SE, our Board with the assistance of Qatalyst Partners considered other potential acquirers and
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solicited interest from other parties that our Board determined would likely have the financial ability and strategic interest to be potentially interested in a business combination with us, and that none of the parties contacted made any proposals with respect to an acquisition of Concur. Our Board also observed that no parties contacted us following the September 2, 2014 published report by Bloomberg that we were exploring a potential sale.
Cash Consideration; Certainty of Value; No Financing Condition. Our Board considered the form of consideration to be paid to the stockholders in the merger and the liquidity and certainty of the value of cash consideration compared to stock or other forms of consideration, as well as the fact that SAP’s proposal was not subject to obtaining any outside financing. Our Board considered the business reputation of SAP and the substantial financial resources of SAP. Our Board believed these considerations supported the conclusion that a transaction with SAP could be completed relatively quickly and in an orderly manner and posed a relatively low risk of non-completion.
Prospects in Remaining Independent. Our Board considered the possibility of us continuing to operate as an independent public company, including the risks and uncertainties of achieving elements of our business plan over the foreseeable future, as well as market and general economic risks. In considering this alternative, our Board considered the following factors:
• | the financial projections prepared by our management and summarized below under “—Financial Projections” beginning on page 31 of this proxy statement; |
• | the fact that, even if we were to achieve our operating objectives, there would be no assurance that the implied present value of our future stock price would exceed the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be paid in the merger; and |
• | the potential for increased competition, particularly from larger competitors that have greater financial resources, larger sales forces, more extensive international presence and the ability to bundle services that compete with ours with their other product and service offerings, and from smaller independent vendors that offer solutions similar to ours to some segments of the market at a lower cost. |
Opinion of Qatalyst Partners. Our Board received the opinion of Qatalyst Partners, that as of September 18, 2014, and based upon and subject to the assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations and qualifications of the review undertaken by Qatalyst Partners as set forth in its written opinion, the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of shares of our common stock (other than SAP and its affiliates) pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders. The full text of the written opinion of Qatalyst Partners, dated as of September 18, 2014, is attached as Annex B and is incorporated by reference in this proxy statement in its entirety. See also “—Opinion of Concur’s Financial Advisor” beginning on page 26 of this proxy statement.
Terms of the Merger Agreement. Our Board considered the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and the course of negotiations thereof, including:
• | the structure of the transaction as a merger, requiring approval by our stockholders, which would provide a period of time prior to stockholder approval during which an unsolicited superior proposal could be made; |
• | our ability, under certain circumstances, to furnish information to and conduct negotiations with a third party, if our Board determines in good faith that the third party has made an acquisition proposal that is, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, a superior proposal (as defined in the Merger Agreement); |
• | the ability of our Board, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, to consider and to accept an unsolicited superior proposal and terminate the Merger Agreement, upon the payment to SAP of a termination fee of $265 million, in order to enter into a definitive agreement |
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providing for a superior proposal, as long as we have complied with the notice and other requirements described under “The Merger Agreement—Covenants—No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals; Board Recommendation” beginning on page 59 of this proxy statement; |
• | the ability of our Board, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, to withdraw or modify its recommendation that our stockholders vote in favor of adopting the Merger Agreement under certain circumstances in response to its receipt of a superior proposal, as long as we have complied with the notice and other requirements described under “The Merger Agreement—Covenants—No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals; Board Recommendation” beginning on page 59 of this proxy statement and SAP’s corresponding right to terminate the Merger Agreement and be paid a fee of $265 million by us; |
• | the ability of our Board, subject to compliance with the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, to change its recommendation in favor of adoption of the Merger Agreement, under certain circumstances, in response to an intervening event (as defined in the Merger Agreement) as long as we have complied with the notice and other requirements described under “The Merger Agreement—Covenants—No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals; Board Recommendation” beginning on page 59 of this proxy statement and SAP’s corresponding right to terminate the Merger Agreement and be paid a fee of $265 million by us; |
• | our Board’s belief that, the termination fee of $265 million would not preclude or substantially impede a possible superior proposal; |
• | our Board’s belief that we will retain sufficient operating flexibility to conduct our business in the ordinary course between the execution of the Merger Agreement and consummation of the merger; |
• | the conditions to SAP’s obligation to complete the merger, including the absence of a financing condition, the absence of a need for a vote of SAP’s stockholders and the definition of material adverse effect as described on page 53 of this proxy statement; and |
• | that our stockholders will be entitled to appraisal rights under Delaware law. |
Terms of the Voting Agreements. Our Board considered that, while the voting agreements cover approximately 15% of our outstanding shares of common stock as of September 15, 2014, the voting agreements terminate upon any termination of the Merger Agreement, including upon our termination to accept a superior proposal, so that the existence of the voting agreements would not be likely to inhibit a superior proposal. Copies of the voting agreements are attached as Annex C and Annex D to this proxy statement.
In the course of its deliberations, our Board also considered a variety of risks and factors weighing against the merger, including:
Risks of Announcement; Risks of Closing. Our Board considered:
• | the risks and contingencies related to the announcement and pendency of the merger, including the potential impact on our employees and our relationships with existing and prospective customers and business partners, as well as other third parties; |
• | the conditions of SAP’s obligation to complete the merger and the right of SAP to terminate the Merger Agreement under certain specified circumstances; |
• | the risks of a delay in receiving, or a failure to receive, the necessary antitrust and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) approvals and clearances to complete the merger and the extent of SAP’s obligations to expend efforts in seeking such approvals and clearances; |
• | our risks and costs if the merger is not completed, including the diversion of management and employee attention, potential employee attrition, the potential impact on our stock price and the effect on our business relationships; and |
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• | our obligations not to solicit proposals or offers that constitute, or would reasonably be expected to lead to, acquisition proposals that may be superior to the merger; the limited circumstances in which we may enter into, continue, or otherwise participate in any discussions regarding acquisition proposals, or agree to, accept, or recommend any acquisition proposals other than as described above with respect to superior proposals; the ability of SAP to match a superior proposal; and the requirement that we pay a $265 million termination fee to SAP related to a termination of the Merger Agreement in connection with a superior proposal in the circumstances specified in the Merger Agreement, all of which could dissuade another party from making an acquisition proposal for us. |
Cash Transaction. Our Board considered that the merger consideration is cash and, as a result, our stockholders will forego any potential future increase in our value that might result from our possible growth, and that gains realized as a result of the merger generally will be taxable to our stockholders.
Limitations on Our Business. Our Board considered the potential limitations on our pursuit of business opportunities due to pre-closing covenants in the Merger Agreement whereby we agreed that we will carry on our business in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and, subject to specified exceptions, not to take certain actions related to the conduct of our business without the prior written consent of SAP.
Voting Agreements. Our Board considered the fact that under voting agreements dated September 18, 2014, our chief executive officer and American Express, who together beneficially own approximately 15% of our outstanding shares of common stock as of September 15, 2014, have agreed, among other things, to vote their shares of Concur common stock in favor of adoption of the Merger Agreement and against any proposal made in opposition to or in competition with the merger. Copies of the voting agreements are attached as Annex C and Annex D to this proxy statement.
Termination Fee and Other Alternative Acquirers. Our Board considered the possibility that the $265 million termination fee payable to SAP under the circumstances set forth in the Merger Agreement might discourage a competing proposal to acquire Concur or reduce the price of any such proposal.
Interests of Directors and Officers. Our Board was aware of, and considered, the interests that our directors and executive officers may have with respect to the merger in addition to their interests as our stockholders generally, as described in “—Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger” beginning on page 34 of this proxy statement.
The foregoing discussion is not intended to be exhaustive, but we believe it addresses the material information and principal factors considered by our Board in its consideration of the merger.
In light of the variety of factors considered in connection with its evaluation of the merger and the complexity of these matters, our Board did not find it practicable to, and did not, quantify or otherwise attempt to assign relative weights to the various factors considered in reaching its determination, and individual directors may have given different weight to different factors. In addition, our Board did not reach any specific conclusion with respect to any of the factors or reasons considered. Instead, our Board conducted an overall analysis of the factors and reasons described above and determined that, in the aggregate, the potential benefits considered outweighed the potential risks or possible negative consequences of approving the Merger Agreement and accordingly recommends that our stockholders vote “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement.
Opinion of Concur’s Financial Advisor
We retained Qatalyst Partners to act as financial advisor to our Board in connection with a potential transaction such as the merger and to evaluate whether the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of our common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders. We selected Qatalyst Partners to act as our financial
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advisor based on Qatalyst Partners’ qualifications, expertise, reputation and knowledge of the business and affairs of Concur and the industry in which it operates. Qatalyst Partners has provided its written consent to the reproduction of the Qatalyst Partners’ opinion in this proxy statement. At the meeting of our Board on September 18, 2014, Qatalyst Partners rendered its oral opinion, that, as of such date and based upon and subject to the considerations, limitations and other matters set forth therein, the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of our common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement was fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders. Qatalyst Partners delivered its written opinion, dated September 18, 2014, to our Board following the meeting of our Board.
The full text of Qatalyst Partners’ written opinion, dated September 18, 2014 to our Board is attached hereto as Annex B and is incorporated by reference herein. The opinion sets forth, among other things, the assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations and qualifications of the review undertaken by Qatalyst Partners in rendering its opinion. You should read the opinion carefully in its entirety. Qatalyst Partners’ opinion was provided to our Board and addresses only, as of the date of the opinion, the fairness from a financial point of view, of the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of our common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and it does not address any other aspect of the merger. It does not constitute a recommendation as to how any stockholder should vote with respect to the merger or any other matter and does not in any manner address the price at which our common stock will trade at any time. The summary of Qatalyst Partners’ opinion set forth herein is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the opinion.
In arriving at its opinion, Qatalyst Partners reviewed the Merger Agreement, certain related documents, and certain publicly available financial statements and other business and financial information of Concur. Qatalyst Partners also reviewed certain forward-looking information prepared by our management, including our financial projections and operating data (“Projections”) and which are described below in the section entitled “—Financial Projections.” Additionally, Qatalyst Partners discussed our past and current operations and financial condition and prospects with senior executives of Concur. Qatalyst Partners also reviewed the historical market prices and trading activity for our common stock and compared our financial performance and the prices and trading activity of our common stock with that of certain other selected publicly-traded companies and their securities. In addition, Qatalyst Partners reviewed the financial terms, to the extent publicly available, of selected acquisition transactions and performed such other analyses, reviewed such other information and considered such other factors as Qatalyst Partners deemed appropriate.
In arriving at its opinion, Qatalyst Partners assumed and relied upon, without independent verification, the accuracy and completeness of the information that was publicly available or supplied or otherwise made available to, or discussed with, Qatalyst Partners by Concur. With respect to the Projections, Qatalyst Partners was advised by our management, and Qatalyst Partners assumed, that the Projections had been reasonably prepared on bases reflecting the best currently available estimates and judgments of our management of our future financial performance and other matters covered thereby. Qatalyst Partners assumed that the merger will be consummated in accordance with the terms set forth in the Merger Agreement, without any modification, waiver or delay in any respect material to its opinion. In addition, Qatalyst Partners assumed, that in connection with the receipt of all the necessary approvals of the proposed merger, no delays, limitations, conditions or restrictions will be imposed that could have an adverse effect on Concur or the contemplated benefits expected to be derived in the proposed merger. Qatalyst Partners did not make any independent evaluation or appraisal of our assets or liabilities (contingent or otherwise), nor was Qatalyst Partners furnished with any such evaluation or appraisal. In addition, Qatalyst Partners relied, without independent verification, upon the assessment of the management of Concur as to our existing and future technology and products and the risks associated with such technology and products. Qatalyst Partners’ opinion has been approved by Qatalyst Partners’ opinion committee in accordance with its customary practice.
Qatalyst Partners’ opinion is necessarily based on financial, economic, market and other conditions as in effect on, and the information made available to it as of, the date of the opinion. Events occurring after the date
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of the opinion may affect Qatalyst Partners’ opinion and the assumptions used in preparing it, and Qatalyst Partners has not assumed any obligation to update, revise or reaffirm its opinion. Qatalyst Partners’ opinion does not address the underlying business decision of Concur to engage in the merger, or the relative merits of the merger as compared to any strategic alternatives that may be available to Concur. Qatalyst Partners’ opinion is limited to the fairness, from a financial point of view, of the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of our common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and Qatalyst Partners expressed no opinion with respect to the fairness of the amount or nature of the compensation to any of our officers, directors or employees, or any class of such persons, relative to the $129.00 per share cash consideration.
The following is a brief summary of the material analyses performed by Qatalyst Partners in connection with its opinion dated September 18, 2014. The analyses and factors described below must be considered as a whole; considering any portion of such analyses or factors, without considering all analyses and factors, could create a misleading or incomplete view of the process underlying Qatalyst Partners’ opinion. For purposes of its analyses, Qatalyst Partners utilized both the consensus of third-party research analysts’ projections (“Analyst Projections”) and the Projections. Some of the summaries of the financial analyses include information presented in tabular format. The tables are not intended to stand alone, and in order to more fully understand the financial analyses used by Qatalyst Partners, the tables must be read together with the full text of each summary. Considering the data set forth below without considering the full narrative description of the financial analyses, including the methodologies and assumptions underlying the analyses, could create a misleading or incomplete view of Qatalyst Partners’ financial analyses.
Illustrative Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Qatalyst Partners performed an illustrative discounted cash flow (“DCF”) analysis, which is designed to imply a potential, present value of share values for our common stock as of June 30, 2014 by:
• | adding: |
(a) | the implied net present value of the estimated future unlevered free cash flows of Concur, based on the Projections, for fiscal 2014 through fiscal 2018 (which implied present value was calculated by using a range of discount rates of 9.0% to 11.0%, based on an estimated weighted average cost of capital for Concur); and |
(b) | the implied net present value of a corresponding terminal value of Concur, calculated by multiplying the estimated unlevered free cash flow in fiscal 2019, based on the Projections, by a range of multiples of enterprise value to next-twelve-months estimated unlevered free cash flow of 30.0x to 45.0x, and discounted to present value using the same range of discount rates used in item (a) above; |
• | applying a dilution factor of 13% to reflect the dilution to current stockholders over the projection period due to the effect of future equity compensation grants projected by our management; |
• | subtracting our net debt estimated as of June 30, 2014, net of customer funding liabilities and assuming net share settlement of warrants associated with convertible debt above the exercise price of such warrants; and |
• | dividing the resulting amount by the number of fully-diluted shares of our common stock outstanding, adjusted for RSUs and stock options outstanding, as provided by our management as of June 30, 2014 and assuming net share settlement of warrants associated with convertible debt above the exercise price of such warrants. |
Based on the calculations set forth above, this analysis implied a range of values for the our common stock of approximately $91.43 to $141.21 per share.
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Qatalyst Partners compared selected financial information and public market multiples for Concur with publicly available information and public market multiples for selected companies. The companies used in this comparison included those companies listed below and were selected because they are publicly traded companies in our industry. Based upon research analyst consensus estimates for calendar year 2015, and using the closing prices as of September 17, 2014 for shares of the selected companies, Qatalyst Partners calculated, among other things, the implied fully diluted enterprise value divided by the estimated consensus revenue for calendar year 2015 (“CY2015E Revenue Multiples”), for each of the selected companies as set forth below.
Company | CY2015E Revenue Multiples | |||
Salesforce.com, Inc. | 5.8x | |||
Workday, Inc. | 14.9x | |||
ServiceNow, Inc. | 10.9x | |||
NetSuite, Inc. | 9.5x | |||
The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. | 7.0x |
The CY2015E Revenue Multiple for Concur was 6.8x based on the Analyst Projections using the unaffected price of $100.95 as of September 2, 2014 prior to the publication of rumors related to a possible strategic transaction involving Concur.
Based on an analysis of the CY2015E Revenue Multiples for the selected companies, Qatalyst Partners selected a representative range of 6.0x to 7.0x and applied this range to our estimated calendar year 2015 revenue based on each of the Projections and the Analyst Projections. Based on our fully-diluted shares (assuming the treasury stock method), including common stock, RSUs and stock options outstanding as provided by our management for the period ended June 30, 2014, and assuming net share settlement of warrants associated with convertible debt above the exercise price of such warrants, this analysis implied a range of values for our common stock of approximately $94.68 to $109.44 per share based on the Projections and approximately $90.20 to $104.22 per share based on the Analyst Projections.
No company included in the selected companies analysis is identical to Concur. In evaluating the selected companies, Qatalyst Partners made judgments and assumptions with regard to industry performance, general business, economic, market and financial conditions and other matters. Many of these matters are beyond our control, such as the impact of competition on our business and the industry in general, industry growth and the absence of any material adverse change in our financial condition and prospects or our industry or in the financial markets in general. Mathematical analysis, such as determining the arithmetic mean, median, or the high or low, is not in itself a meaningful method of using selected company data.
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Selected Transactions Analysis
Qatalyst Partners compared eight selected public SaaS transactions announced between October 2011 and December 2013 with an equity value greater than $500,000,000. These transactions are listed below:
Announcement Date | Target | Acquiror | ||
December 20, 2013 | Responsys, Inc. | Oracle Corporation | ||
June 4, 2013 | ExactTarget, Inc. | Salesforce.com, Inc. | ||
December 20, 2012 | Eloqua, Inc. | Oracle Corporation | ||
May 22, 2012 | Ariba, Inc. | SAP AG | ||
February 9, 2012 | Taleo Corporation | Oracle Corporation | ||
December 8, 2011 | DemandTec, Inc. | International Business Machines Corp. | ||
December 3, 2011 | SuccessFactors, Inc. | SAP AG | ||
October 24, 2011 | RightNow Technologies, Inc. | Oracle Corporation |
For each of the transactions listed above, Qatalyst Partners reviewed, among other things, the implied fully diluted enterprise value of the target company as a multiple of the last-twelve months revenue of the target company as reflected in certain publicly available financial statements and press releases, the median of which was 8.0x, the minimum of which was 5.0x and the maximum of which was 10.2x. The implied fully diluted enterprise value of Concur includes the cash settlement of warrants based on the Black-Scholes methodology. Based on the analysis of such metrics for the transactions noted above, Qatalyst Partners selected a representative range of 5.0x to 10.2x applied to our last-twelve months (ending June 30, 2014) revenue. Based on the calculations set forth above and our fully-diluted shares (assuming treasury stock method), including common stock, RSUs and stock options outstanding as provided by management of Concur for the period ended June 30, 2014, this analysis implied a range of values for the our common stock of approximately $53.29 to $105.73 per share.
Qatalyst Partners also reviewed, among other things, the implied fully diluted enterprise value of the target company as a multiple of the next-twelve months revenue of the target company as reflected in Wall Street analyst research, certain publicly available financial statements and press releases, the median of which was 6.7x, the minimum of which was 4.4x and the maximum of which was 8.7x. The implied fully diluted enterprise value of Concur includes the cash settlement of warrants based on the Black-Scholes methodology. Based on the analysis of such metrics for the transactions noted above, Qatalyst Partners selected a representative range of 4.4x to 8.7x applied to our next-twelve-months (ending June 30, 2015) estimated revenue reflected in the Analyst Projections. Based on the calculations set forth above and our fully-diluted shares (assuming treasury stock method), including common stock, RSUs and stock options outstanding as provided by our management for the period ended June 30, 2014, this analysis implied a range of values for our common stock of approximately $58.18 to $111.01 per share.
No company or transaction utilized in the selected transactions analysis is identical to Concur or the merger. In evaluating the selected transactions, Qatalyst Partners made judgments and assumptions with regard to general business, market and financial conditions and other matters, many of which are beyond our control, such as the impact of competition on our business or the industry generally, industry growth and the absence of any material adverse change in our financial condition or the industry or in the financial markets in general, which could affect the public trading value of the companies and the aggregate value of the transactions to which they are being compared. Because of the unique circumstances of each of these transactions and the merger, Qatalyst Partners cautioned against placing undue reliance on this information.
In connection with the review of the merger by our Board, Qatalyst Partners performed a variety of financial and comparative analyses for purposes of rendering its opinion. The preparation of a financial opinion is a complex process and is not necessarily amenable to a partial analysis or summary description. In arriving at its
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opinion, Qatalyst Partners considered the results of all of its analyses as a whole and did not attribute any particular weight to any analysis or factor it considered. Qatalyst Partners believes that selecting any portion of its analyses, without considering all analyses as a whole, could create a misleading or incomplete view of the process underlying its analyses and opinion. In addition, Qatalyst Partners may have given various analyses and factors more or less weight than other analyses and factors, and may have deemed various assumptions more or less probable than other assumptions. As a result, the ranges of valuations resulting from any particular analysis described above should not be taken to be Qatalyst Partners’ view of the actual value of Concur. In performing its analyses, Qatalyst Partners made numerous assumptions with respect to industry performance, general business, economic, market and financial conditions and other matters, many of which are beyond our control. Any estimates contained in Qatalyst Partners’ analyses are not necessarily indicative of future results or actual values, which may be significantly more or less favorable than those suggested by such estimates.
Qatalyst Partners conducted the analyses described above solely as part of its analysis of the fairness, from a financial point of view, of the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by the holders of our common stock, other than SAP or any affiliates of SAP, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, and in connection with the delivery of its opinion to our Board. These analyses do not purport to be appraisals or to reflect the price at which our common stock might actually trade.
Qatalyst Partners’ opinion and its presentation to our Board was one of many factors considered by our Board in deciding to approve the Merger Agreement. Consequently, the analyses as described above should not be viewed as determinative of the opinion of our Board with respect to the $129.00 per share cash consideration to be received by our stockholders pursuant to the merger or of whether our Board would have been willing to agree to a different consideration. The $129.00 per share cash consideration was determined through arm’s-length negotiations between Concur and SAP and was approved by our Board. Qatalyst Partners provided advice to Concur during these negotiations. Qatalyst Partners did not, however, recommend any specific consideration to Concur or that any specific consideration constituted the only appropriate consideration for the merger.
Qatalyst Partners provides investment banking and other services to a wide range of corporations and individuals, domestically and offshore, from which conflicting interests or duties may arise. In the ordinary course of these activities, affiliates of Qatalyst Partners may at any time hold long or short positions, and may trade or otherwise effect transactions in debt or equity securities or loans of Concur, SAP or certain of their respective affiliates. During the two year period prior to the date of Qatalyst Partners’ opinion, no material relationship existed between Qatalyst Partners or any of its affiliates and Concur or SAP pursuant to which compensation was received by Qatalyst Partners or its affiliates; however, Qatalyst Partners and/or its affiliates may in the future provide investment banking and other financial services to Concur or SAP or any of their respective affiliates for which it would expect to receive compensation.
Under the terms of its engagement letter, Qatalyst Partners provided Concur with financial advisory services in connection with the proposed merger for which it will be paid approximately $45,000,000, $125,000 of which was payable upon the execution of such engagement letter and $3,000,000 of which was payable upon delivery of its opinion (regardless of the conclusion reached in the opinion), and the remaining portion of which will be paid upon, and subject to, consummation of the merger. We have also agreed to reimburse Qatalyst Partners for its expenses incurred in performing its services. We have also agreed to indemnify Qatalyst Partners and its affiliates, their respective members, directors, officers, partners, agents and employees and any person controlling Qatalyst Partners or any of its affiliates against certain liabilities, including liabilities under federal securities law, and certain expenses related to or arising out of Qatalyst Partners’ engagement.
Our management made available prospective financial information about Concur (“Projections”) for use in connection with the financial analyses performed by Qatalyst Partners in connection with delivering its fairness opinion to our Board. Our management provided the same projections to Qatalyst Partners and our Board.
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A subset of this information, including prospective financial information about our 2015 fiscal year and 2016 fiscal year, was delivered to SAP to assist with its due diligence review.
These projections did not take into account any circumstances or events occurring after the date they were prepared, including the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or the announcement thereof. Further, these projections did not take into account the effect of any failure of the merger to occur, and should not be viewed as applicable or continuing in that context.
We do not as a matter of course make public projections as to future revenues, operating income or other results beyond the current fiscal year. However, our management prepared the Projections to assist Qatalyst and the Board in their evaluation of the merger and the other strategic alternatives available to us. The information was not prepared with a view toward public disclosure or with a view toward complying with the published guidelines of the SEC regarding projections or GAAP, or the guidelines established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants with respect to prospective financial information. However, in the view of our management, the information was prepared on a reasonable basis, reflected the best estimates and judgments available to our management at the time and presented, to the best of our management’s knowledge and belief, the expected course of action and our expected future financial performance as of the date such information was prepared. However, this information is not fact and should not be relied upon as being necessarily indicative of future results.
The Projections reflect numerous estimates and assumptions made by us with respect to industry performance, general business, economic, regulatory, market and financial conditions and other future events, as well as matters specific to our business, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond our control. The Projections reflect subjective judgment in many respects and thus are susceptible to multiple interpretations and periodic revisions based on actual experience and business developments. As such, the Projections constitute forward-looking information and are subject to many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results forecasted in the Projections, including, but not limited to, our performance, industry performance, general business and economic conditions, customer requirements, competition, adverse changes in applicable laws, regulations or rules, and the various risks set forth in our reports filed with the SEC. There can be no assurance that the Projections will be realized or that actual results will not be significantly higher or lower than forecast. The Projections cover several years and such information by its nature becomes less reliable with each successive year. In addition, the Projections will be affected by our ability to achieve strategic goals, objectives and targets over the applicable periods. The Projections reflect assumptions as to certain business decisions that are subject to change. The Projections cannot, therefore, be considered a guarantee of future operating results, and this information should not be relied on as such. The inclusion of the Projections should not be regarded as an indication that we and our financial advisors or anyone who received this information then considered, or now considers, them a reliable prediction of future events, and this information should not be relied upon as such. The inclusion of the Projections herein should not be deemed an admission or representation by us that we view such Projections as material information; in fact we view the Projections as non-material because of the inherent risks and uncertainties associated with such long-range forecasts. The inclusion of the Projections in this proxy statement should not be regarded as an indication that the Projections will be necessarily predictive of actual future events. No representation is made by us or any other person regarding the Projections or our ultimate performance compared to such information. The Projections should be evaluated, if at all, in conjunction with the historical financial statements and other information about us contained in our public filings with the SEC. In light of the foregoing factors, and the uncertainties inherent in the Projections, stockholders are cautioned not to place undue, if any, reliance on the Projections.
Neither our independent auditor nor any other independent accountant has compiled, examined, or performed any procedures with respect to the Projections, nor have they expressed any opinion or any other form of assurance on such information or its achievability.
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Some of the Projections are “non-GAAP financial measures,” which are financial performance measures that are not calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). These non-GAAP financial measures should not be viewed as a substitute for GAAP financial measures, and may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. Furthermore, there are limitations inherent in non-GAAP financial measures, because they exclude charges and credits that are required to be included in a GAAP presentation. Accordingly, these non-GAAP financial measures should be considered together with, and not as an alternative to, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The summary of such information below is included solely to give stockholders access to the information that was made available to Qatalyst Partners, SAP and our Board, and is not included in this proxy statement in order to influence any stockholder to make any investment decision with respect to the merger, including whether or not to seek appraisal rights with respect to the shares of our common stock.
The following table presents selected unaudited financial information for the fiscal years ending 2014 through 2019, which information summarizes information that was provided by our management to the Board at a meeting held on September 18, 2014 and to Qatalyst Partners in connection with the rendering of its opinion to the Board and performing its related financial analysis, as described above under the heading “—Opinion of Concur’s Financial Advisor”:
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Non-GAAP revenue(1) | $ | 693 | $ | 902 | $ | 1,162 | $ | 1,487 | $ | 1,889 | $ | 2,380 | ||||||||||||
Non-GAAP free cash flow(2) | $ | 31 | $ | 49 | $ | 75 | $ | 153 | $ | 227 | $ | 311 |
(1) | Non-GAAP revenue is a non-GAAP financial revenue and it excludes revenues from our business operations divested or to be divested. See “—Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for a reconciliation of non-GAAP revenue to GAAP revenue. |
(2) | Free cash flow is a non-GAAP financial measure and is net of the impact of capital expenditures. See “—Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for a reconciliation of free cash flow to cash flow from operations. |
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Pursuant to the applicable rules, regulations, interpretations and positions of the SEC and its staff under the Exchange Act related to the presentation of non-GAAP financial information, the information in the following tables provides a reconciliation of projected non-GAAP revenue to projected GAAP revenue, and a reconciliation of projected non-GAAP free cash flow to projected GAAP cash flow from operations.
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Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger
When considering the recommendation of our Board, you should be aware that members of our Board and our executive officers have interests in the merger in addition to their interests as Concur stockholders generally. These interests are described below and may be different from, or in conflict with, your interests as a Concur stockholder. The members of our Board were aware of the material facts as to these additional interests, and considered them, when they approved the Merger Agreement.
Overview
A description of the interests of our directors and executive officers, including interests in equity-based awards and other compensation and benefit arrangements, is set forth below. The dates used to quantify these interests have been selected for illustrative purposes only, and do not necessarily reflect the dates on which certain events will occur.
Interests of Non-Employee Directors
The general treatment of stock options and restricted stock units (“RSUs”) in the merger, including such awards held by our non-employee directors, is described below under “The Merger Agreement—The Merger—Treatment of Outstanding Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units” beginning on page 47 of this proxy statement.
Under the terms of their existing equity awards, all currently outstanding unvested RSUs held by our non-employee directors will become fully vested upon a “change in control” as defined in the applicable award agreements. As of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, there were no unvested stock options held by our non-employee directors. The Merger Agreement provides that stock options, including stock options held by each of our non-employee directors, will be cashed out in an amount equal to the excess of the per share merger consideration of $129.00 over the applicable exercise price per share of such stock option (with such resulting amount multiplied by the number of shares subject to each such stock option). The Merger Agreement also provides that vested RSUs, including RSUs held by each of our non-employee directors, will be cancelled in exchange for $129.00 multiplied by the number of shares subject to the RSUs held by such individual.
The following table summarizes, as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, the outstanding vested stock options held by each of our non-employee directors, the weighted average exercise price of their stock options, the number of vested RSUs, the number of unvested RSUs, and the consideration that each of them will become entitled to upon closing of the merger pursuant to the terms of their outstanding equity awards.
Non-Employee Directors | Number of Shares Underlying Vested Stock Options | Weighted Average Exercise Price of All Stock Options ($) | Number of Unvested RSUs(1) | Dollar Value of All Equity Awards (2)($) | ||||||||||||
Randall H. Talbot | — | — | 2,923 | 377,067 | ||||||||||||
Jeffrey T. Seely | 40,000 | 14.23 | 2,873 | 4,961,417 | ||||||||||||
Gordon Eubanks | 20,000 | 16.00 | 2,848 | 367,392 | ||||||||||||
Jeffrey T. McCabe | — | — | 2,773 | 357,717 | ||||||||||||
Edward P. Gilligan | — | — | — | — |
(1) | All currently outstanding unvested RSUs held by non-employee directors will accelerate in connection with approval of the merger by our stockholders or the consummation of a “change in control” of Concur, pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreements. |
(2) | The dollar value of stock options is calculated by multiplying the number of shares subject to the stock options by the excess of the per-share merger consideration of $129.00 over the per-share exercise price of the stock options. The dollar value of RSUs is calculated by multiplying the number of RSUs by the per-share merger consideration of $129.00. |
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Interests of Executive Officers
Our current executive officers are S. Steven Singh (our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board), Francis J. Pelzer V (our Chief Financial Officer), Rajeev Singh (our President and Chief Operating Officer), John Torrey, (our Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy), Robert Cavanaugh (our Executive Vice President and General Manager, Global Enterprise Business Unit) and Elena Donio (our Executive Vice President and General Manager, Global Small and Mid-Size Business Unit). All of such executive officers, except for Ms. Donio, are our named executive officers (“NEOs”) in the proxy statement for our 2014 annual stockholders’ meeting (“2014 Proxy Statement”). We described all fiscal 2013 compensation for our NEOs in our 2014 Proxy Statement.
The general treatment of stock options and RSUs in the merger, including such awards held by our executive officers, is described below under “The Merger Agreement—The Merger—Treatment of Outstanding Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units” beginning on page 47 of this proxy statement.
Under the terms of their existing equity awards, all currently outstanding unvested RSUs held by our executive officers will become fully vested on or prior to the closing of the merger. As of October 8, 2014, all stock options held by our executive officers had already vested. The Merger Agreement provides that stock options, including stock options held by each of our executive officers, will be cashed out in an amount equal to the excess of the per share merger consideration of $129.00 over the applicable exercise price per share of such stock option (with such resulting amount multiplied by the number of shares subject to each such stock option). The Merger Agreement also provides that vested RSUs, including RSUs held by each of our executive officers, will be cancelled in the merger and exchanged for $129.00 multiplied by the number of shares subject to the RSUs held by each such individual.
The following table summarizes, as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, the outstanding vested stock options held by each of our executive officers, the weighted average exercise price of their stock options, the number of vested RSUs, the number of shares subject to the unvested RSUs, and the consideration that each of them will become entitled to upon closing of the merger pursuant to the terms of their outstanding equity awards.
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S. Steven Singh | — | — | 239,914 | 30,948,906 | ||||||||||||
Francis J. Pelzer V | — | — | 86,476 | 11,155,404 | ||||||||||||
Rajeev Singh | 66,928 | 12.33 | 190,163 | 24,531,027 | ||||||||||||
John Torrey | — | — | 67,886 | 8,757,294 | ||||||||||||
Robert Cavanaugh | — | — | 83,340 | 10,750,860 | ||||||||||||
Elena Donio | — | — | 79,840 | 10,299,360 |
(1) | All unvested RSUs held by executive officers will accelerate in connection with approval of the merger by our stockholders or the consummation of a “change in control” of Concur, pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreements. |
(2) | The dollar value of stock options is calculated by multiplying the number of shares subject to the stock options by the excess of the per-share merger consideration of $129.00 over the per-share exercise price of the stock options. The dollar value of RSUs is calculated by multiplying the number of RSUs by the per-share merger consideration of $129.00. |
Existing Compensation Arrangements with Concur
Other than acceleration of vesting of equity awards, we have no severance arrangements or “change in control” agreements with our executive officers that would entitle them to cash severance benefits or payments in
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the event of a change in control of Concur. Our grants of RSUs to executive officers provide that all covered unvested shares automatically become vested upon a “change in control” of Concur pursuant to the terms of their applicable award agreements in which case our executive officers would receive estimated payments and benefits as set forth in the table in the section below entitled “—Potential Payments in Connection with a Change in Control.”
Arrangements between Our Executive Officers and SAP
There are no employment agreements, retention arrangements, or other contractual rights between SAP and any of our executive officers, although SAP has stated publicly that it expects our executives and employees to continue with Concur after the proposed merger.
Potential Payments in Connection with a Change in Control
The table below sets forth the information required by Item 402(t) of Regulation S-K regarding compensation for each of our NEOs that is based upon or otherwise related to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. For purposes of calculating the potential payments and benefits set forth in the table below, we have assumed that the approval of the merger by our stockholders or the consummation of a “change in control” of Concur as defined in the applicable award agreements occurs on November 30, 2014. This compensation is referred to as “golden parachute” compensation by the applicable SEC disclosure rules, and in this section such term is used to describe the compensation payable to our NEOs as it relates to the Merger. The “golden parachute” compensation payable to these individuals is subject to a non-binding advisory vote of our stockholders.
To the extent that the payments and benefits shown below constitute “parachute payments” within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Code”) and would be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, then the payments and benefits will be payable either (i) in full, or (ii) as to such lesser amount which would result in no portion of such payments and benefits being subject to the excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code, whichever of the foregoing amounts (taking into consideration applicable taxes, including the excise tax under Section 4999) would result in the receipt by such NEO on an after-tax basis of the greatest amount of benefits (even if some of such benefits are taxable under Section 4999). The amounts are estimates based on multiple assumptions that may or may not actually occur. As a result, the actual amounts, if any, to be received by a NEO may materially differ from the amounts set forth below. The amounts set forth below do not take into effect any possible reduction due to the application of Section 280G of the Code as set forth above. No NEO is entitled to tax gross ups on these payments and benefits.
Golden Parachute Compensation
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S. Steven Singh | 28,691,406 | 28,691,406 | ||||||
Francis J. Pelzer V | 11,155,404 | 11,155,404 | ||||||
Rajeev Singh | 23,886,027 | 23,886,027 | ||||||
John Torrey | 8,757,294 | 8,757,294 | ||||||
Robert Cavanaugh | 10,750,860 | 10,750,860 |
(1) | Assumes full vesting of all unvested RSUs held by our NEOs, which will accelerate in connection with approval of the merger by our stockholders or the consummation of a “change in control” of Concur, pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreements. The dollar value of RSUs is calculated by multiplying the number of RSUs by the per-share merger consideration of $129.00. Mr. S. Singh is entitled to acceleration of 222,414 unvested RSUs. Mr. Pelzer is entitled to acceleration of 86,476 unvested RSUs. Mr. R. Singh is entitled to acceleration of 185,163 unvested RSUs. Mr. Torrey is entitled to acceleration of 67,886 unvested RSUs. Mr. Cavanaugh is entitled to acceleration of 83,340 unvested RSUs. |
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Indemnification and Insurance
For a period of six years from and after the effective time, Concur as the surviving corporation, will (and SAP will cause the surviving corporation to) indemnify and hold harmless all of our and our subsidiaries’ past and present directors, officers and employees to the same extent such persons were indemnified as of the date of the Merger Agreement by us pursuant to applicable law, our and our subsidiaries’ certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and specified indemnification agreements in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement, arising out of acts or omissions in their capacity as our and our subsidiaries’ directors, officers or employees occurring at or prior to the effective time of the merger. The surviving corporation will (and SAP will cause the surviving corporation to) advance expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred in the defense of any actions with respect to the matters subject to indemnification pursuant to the preceding sentence in accordance with the procedures set forth in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and indemnification agreements, if any, in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement; provided, however, that any of our and our subsidiaries’ directors, officers or employees to whom expenses are advanced undertakes, to the extent required by the DGCL, to repay such advanced expenses to the surviving corporation if it is ultimately determined that such director, officer or employee is not entitled to indemnification under applicable law or pursuant to the applicable indemnification agreement or organization document.
We have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. Each indemnification agreement provides that we will indemnify the director or officer to the fullest extent permitted by law including against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and settlement amounts paid or reasonably incurred by them in any action, suit or proceeding, including any derivative action by or in the right of Concur, on account of their services as our directors, officers, employees or agents or as directors, officers, employees or agents of any other company or enterprise when they are serving in such capacities at our request. We are obligated pursuant to the agreements to indemnify or advance expenses to an indemnified party, except with respect to certain proceedings or claims. A director or executive officer shall reimburse us for expenses advanced only to the extent it is ultimately determined that the director or executive officer is not entitled, under Delaware law, our bylaws, his or her indemnity agreement or otherwise to be indemnified for such expenses.
In the event the surviving corporation or our subsidiaries consolidate with or merges into another entity and is not the continuing or surviving entity of such consolidation or merger or transfers all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another entity, then proper provision will be made so that such continuing or surviving corporation or entity or transferee of such assets, as the case may be, assumes the obligations described above (without relieving SAP of the obligations described above).
Prior to the effective time of the merger, we will obtain a directors and officers runoff insurance policy, or “tail” insurance policy, with a claims period of six years from the effective time of the merger with respect to directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering those persons who were, as of the date of the Merger Agreement, covered by our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy, for acts or omissions occurring prior to the effective time of the merger, on terms that are no less favorable than our policies in effect on the date of the Merger Agreement. Neither we nor the surviving corporation shall be required to pay an annual premium for such tail policy in excess of 300% of the last annual premium paid prior the date of the Merger Agreement.
If the merger is completed, Concur stockholders who (i) submit a written demand for an appraisal of their shares prior to the stockholder vote on the adoption of the Merger Agreement, (ii) do not vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement or consent thereto in writing, (iii) take certain actions and meet certain conditions under Delaware law and (iv) do not thereafter withdraw their demand for appraisal of their shares of Concur common stock or otherwise lose their appraisal rights, in each case in accordance with Delaware law, will have the right to have such shares appraised by the Delaware Court of Chancery. Under Section 262 of the DGCL, you have the right to dissent from the merger and to receive payment in cash of the fair value of your
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common stock (exclusive of any element of value arising from the accomplishment or expectation of the merger) as determined by the Delaware Court of Chancery, together with a fair rate of interest, if any, as determined by the court, in lieu of the consideration you would otherwise be entitled to receive pursuant to the Merger Agreement. These rights are known as appraisal rights. Concur’s stockholders electing to exercise appraisal rights must comply with the provisions of Section 262 of the DGCL in order to properly demand their rights. Concur will require strict compliance with the statutory procedures.
The following is intended as a brief summary of the material provisions of the Delaware statutory procedures required to be followed by a stockholder in order to dissent from the merger and properly demand appraisal rights. All references in Section 262 of the DGCL and in this summary to a “stockholder” are to the record holder of shares of Concur common stock as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, as to which appraisal rights are asserted. A person having a beneficial interest in such shares held of record in the name of another person, such as a broker or nominee, must act promptly to cause the record holder to follow the steps summarized below properly and in a timely manner to properly demand appraisal rights.
This summary, however, is not a complete statement of all applicable requirements and is qualified in its entirety by reference to Section 262 of the DGCL, the full text of which appears in Annex E to this proxy statement. Failure to precisely follow any of the statutory procedures set forth in Section 262 of the DGCL will result in the loss of appraisal rights.
Section 262 of the DGCL requires that stockholders be notified that appraisal rights will be available not less than 20 days before the stockholders’ meeting to vote on the merger. A copy of Section 262 of the DGCL must be included with such notice.This proxy statement constitutes Concur’s notice to its stockholders of the availability of appraisal rights in connection with the merger in compliance with the requirements of Section 262 of the DGCL.
ANY CONCUR STOCKHOLDER WHO WISHES TO EXERCISE APPRAISAL RIGHTS OR WHO WISHES TO PRESERVE HIS, HER OR ITS RIGHT TO DO SO SHOULD REVIEW ANNEX E CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY AND SHOULD CONSULT WITH HIS, HER OR ITS LEGAL ADVISOR, SINCE FAILURE TO TIMELY AND PROPERLY COMPLY WITH THE PROCEDURES SET FORTH THEREIN WILL RESULT IN THE LOSS OF SUCH RIGHTS.
If you elect to demand appraisal of your shares, you must satisfy each of the following conditions:
• | You must deliver to Concur a written demand for appraisal of your shares before the vote with respect to the merger is taken. This written demand for appraisal must be in addition to and separate from any proxy or vote abstaining from or voting against the adoption of the Merger Agreement. Voting “AGAINST” or failing to vote “FOR” the adoption of the Merger Agreement by itself does not constitute a demand for appraisal within the meaning of Section 262 of the DGCL. |
• | You must either vote against the adoption of the Merger Agreement or abstain from voting on the adoption of the Merger Agreement. A vote in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement, by proxy, over the Internet, by telephone or in person, will constitute a waiver of your appraisal rights in respect of the shares so voted and will nullify any previously filed written demands for appraisal. Because a proxy that does not contain voting instructions will, unless revoked, be voted in favor of adoption of the Merger Agreement, a stockholder who wishes to exercise appraisal rights must vote against the adoption of the Merger Agreement or abstain from voting. |
• | You must continuously hold the shares of record from the date of making the demand through the effective time of the merger. |
If you fail to timely and properly comply with any of these conditions and the merger is completed, you will be entitled to receive the cash payment for your shares of common stock as provided for in the Merger Agreement, but you will have no appraisal rights with respect to your shares of common stock.
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All demands for appraisal should be addressed to our Corporate Secretary at Concur Technologies, Inc., 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, Washington 98004, and must be delivered before the vote on the Merger Agreement is taken at the special meeting, and should be executed by, or on behalf of, the record holder of the shares of our common stock. The demand must reasonably inform Concur of the identity of the stockholder and that the stockholder intends thereby to demand appraisal of his, her or its shares. To be effective, a demand for appraisal by a holder of our common stock must be made by, or in the name of, such registered stockholder, fully and correctly, as the stockholder’s name appears on our share transfer books or, for shares in certificate form, on his, her or its stock certificate(s).
Only a holder of record of shares of our common stock on October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, is entitled to demand appraisal rights for such shares of our common stock registered in that holder’s name. In addition, the stockholder must continuously hold the shares of record from the date of making the demand through the effective time of the merger.
Except as otherwise permitted by Section 262(e) of the DGCL, beneficial owners of Concur common stock who do not also hold the shares of record may not directly make appraisal demands to Concur. The beneficial holder must, in such cases, have the registered owner, such as a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee, submit the required demand in respect of those shares.
If shares are owned of record in a fiduciary capacity, such as by a trustee, guardian or custodian, execution of a demand for appraisal should be made by or for the fiduciary.
If the shares are owned of record by more than one person, as in a joint tenancy or tenancy in common, the demand should be executed by or for all joint owners.
An authorized agent, including an authorized agent for two or more joint owners, may execute the demand for appraisal for a stockholder of record; however, the agent must identify the record owner or owners and expressly disclose the fact that, in executing the demand, he or she is acting as agent for the record owners.
A record owner who holds shares as a nominee for others, may exercise his or her right of appraisal with respect to the shares held for one or more beneficial owners, while not exercising this right for other beneficial owners. In that case, the written demand should state the number of shares as to which appraisal is sought. Where no number of shares is expressly mentioned, the demand will be presumed to cover all shares held in the name of the record owner.
If you hold your shares of common stock in a brokerage account or in other nominee form and you wish to exercise appraisal rights, you should consult with your bank, brokerage firm or the other nominee to determine the appropriate procedures for the nominee to make a demand for appraisal. A person having a beneficial interest in shares of common stock held of record in the name of another person, such as a bank, brokerage firm or nominee, must act promptly to cause the record holder to properly follow the steps summarized below and demand appraisal rights in a timely manner.
Within 10 days after the effective time of the merger, our successor, the surviving corporation, will provide notice of the date the merger has become effective to each former Concur stockholder who has properly demanded appraisal rights under Section 262 of the DGCL and has not voted in favor of or consented to the adoption of the Merger Agreement.
Within 120 days after the effective time of the merger, either the surviving corporation or any stockholder who has complied with the requirements of Section 262 of the DGCL may commence an appraisal proceeding by filing a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery demanding a determination of the value of the shares of all stockholders. Upon the filing of the petition by a stockholder, service of a copy of such petition shall be made upon the surviving corporation. The surviving corporation has no obligation to file such a petition in the event there are dissenting stockholders. Accordingly, the failure of a stockholder to file such a petition within the period specified could nullify the stockholder’s previously written demand for appraisal.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time within 60 days after the effective time of the merger, any stockholder who has not commenced an appraisal proceeding or joined that proceeding as a named party has the right to withdraw the demand and to accept the cash payment specified by the Merger Agreement for his or her shares of common stock. Any attempt to withdraw a demand for appraisal made more than 60 days after the effectiveness of the merger will require the written approval of the surviving corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no appraisal proceeding before the Delaware Court of Chancery as to any stockholder will be dismissed without the approval of the Delaware Court of Chancery, which approval may be conditioned upon any terms the Delaware Court of Chancery deems just. If the surviving corporation does not approve a stockholder’s request to withdraw a demand for appraisal when the approval is required or if the Delaware Court of Chancery does not approve the dismissal of an appraisal proceeding, the stockholder would be entitled to receive only the appraised value determined in any such appraisal proceeding. This value could be higher or lower than, or the same as, the value of the merger consideration.
Within 120 days after the effective time of the merger, any stockholder who has complied with Section 262 of the DGCL shall, upon written request to the surviving corporation, be entitled to receive a written statement setting forth the aggregate number of shares not voted in favor of the Merger Agreement and with respect to which demands for appraisal rights have been received and the aggregate number of holders of such shares. Such written statement will be mailed to the requesting stockholder within 10 days after such written request is received by the surviving corporation or within 10 days after expiration of the period for delivery of demands for appraisal, whichever is later.
If a petition for appraisal is duly filed by a stockholder and a copy of the petition is delivered to the surviving corporation, the surviving corporation will then be obligated, within 20 days after receiving service of a copy of the petition, to file in the office of the Register in Chancery in which the petition was filed, a duly verified list containing the names and addresses of all stockholders who have demanded payment for their shares and with whom agreements as to the value of their shares have not been reached by the surviving corporation. If so ordered by the Delaware Court of Chancery, the Register in Chancery will give notice of the time and place fixed for the hearing upon the petition by registered or certified mail to the surviving corporation and to the stockholders shown on the list at the addresses therein stated. Such notice will also be given by one or more publications at least one week before the day of the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Wilmington, Delaware or such publication as the Delaware Court of Chancery deems advisable. The forms of the notices by mail and by publication will be approved by the Delaware Court of Chancery, and the costs thereof shall be borne by the surviving corporation. After providing notice to dissenting stockholders who demanded appraisal of their shares, the Delaware Court of Chancery is empowered to conduct a hearing upon the petition, and to determine those stockholders who have complied with Section 262 of the DGCL and who have become entitled to the appraisal rights provided thereby.
After determination of the stockholders entitled to appraisal of their shares of our common stock, the Delaware Court of Chancery will appraise the shares, determining their fair value exclusive of any element of value arising from the accomplishment or expectation of the merger, together with interest, if any. When the fair value is determined, the Delaware Court of Chancery will direct the payment of such value, together with interest, if any, by the surviving corporation to the stockholders entitled thereto. Payment shall be made to each such stockholder, in the case of holders of book-entry shares, and in the case of holders of shares represented by certificates, upon the surrender of such certificates. Unless the Delaware Court of Chancery in its discretion determines otherwise for good cause shown, interest from the effective time of the merger through the date of payment of the judgment shall be compounded quarterly and shall accrue at 5% over the Federal Reserve discount rate (including any surcharge) as established from time to time during the period between the effective time of the merger and the date of payment of the judgment.
In determining fair value, the Delaware Court of Chancery is required to take into account all relevant factors. You should be aware that the fair value of your shares as determined under Section 262of the DGCLcould be more than, the same as, or less than the value that you are entitled to receive under the terms of the Merger Agreement.
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Costs of the appraisal proceeding may be determined by the Delaware Court of Chancery and taxed upon the surviving corporation and the stockholders participating in the appraisal proceeding as the Delaware Court of Chancery deems equitable in the circumstances. Upon the application of a stockholder, the Delaware Court of Chancery may order all or a portion of the expenses incurred by any stockholder in connection with the appraisal proceeding, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and the fees and expenses of experts, to be charged pro rata against the value of all shares entitled to appraisal.
From and after the effective time of the merger, any stockholder who had demanded appraisal rights will not be entitled to vote shares subject to that demand for any purpose or to receive payments of dividends or any other distribution with respect to those shares, other than with respect to dividends or other distributions payable as of a record date which is prior to the effective time of the merger; provided, however, if no petition for appraisal is filed within 120 days after the effective time of the merger, or if the stockholder delivers a written withdrawal of his, her or its demand for appraisal and an acceptance of the terms of the merger either within 60 days after the effective time of the merger or thereafter with the written approval of the surviving corporation, then the right of that stockholder to appraisal will cease and that stockholder will be entitled to receive the cash payment for shares of his, her or its common stock pursuant to the Merger Agreement.
IN VIEW OF THE COMPLEXITY OF SECTION 262, ANY CONCUR STOCKHOLDER WHO WISHES TO DISSENT FROM THE MERGER AND PURSUE APPRAISAL RIGHTS SHOULD CONSULT HIS, HER OR ITS LEGAL ADVISORS.
Delisting and Deregistration of Concur Common Stock
If the merger is completed, our common stock will be delisted from and will no longer be traded on The NASDAQ Global Select Market and will be deregistered under the Exchange Act. Following the closing of the merger, we will no longer be an independent public company.
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences of the Merger
The following discussion summarizes the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the merger to holders of Concur common stock. This discussion is based upon the provisions of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Code”), the U.S. Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder and judicial and administrative rulings, all as in effect as of the date of this proxy statement and all of which are subject to change or varying interpretation, possibly with retroactive effect. Any such changes could affect the accuracy of the statements and conclusions set forth herein.
This discussion assumes that holders of Concur common stock hold their shares as capital assets within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code (generally, property held for investment). This discussion does not address all aspects of U.S. federal income taxation that may be relevant to a holder of Concur common stock in light of such holder’s particular circumstances, nor does it discuss the special considerations applicable to holders of our common stock subject to special treatment under the U.S. federal income tax laws, such as, for example, financial institutions or broker-dealers, mutual funds, partnerships or other pass-through entities and their partners or members, tax-exempt organizations, insurance companies, dealers in securities or foreign currencies, traders in securities who elect the mark-to-market method of accounting, controlled foreign corporations, passive foreign investment companies, U.S. expatriates, holders who acquired their Concur common stock through the exercise of options or otherwise as compensation, holders who hold their Concur common stock as part of a hedge, straddle, constructive sale or conversion transaction, holders who acquired Concur common stock through a 401(k), deferred compensation plan or retirement plan, U.S. holders (as defined below) whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar, non-U.S. holders who own, actually or constructively, more than 5% of Concur’s common stock, and holders who exercise appraisal rights. This discussion does not address any aspect of foreign, state, local, alternative minimum, estate, gift or other tax law that may be applicable to a holder.
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This discussion provides only a general summary of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the merger to holders of Concur common stock. It is not a complete analysis or description of all potential U.S. federal income tax consequences of the merger. The U.S. federal income tax laws are complex and subject to varying interpretation. Accordingly, the Internal Revenue Service may not agree with the tax consequences described in this proxy statement. No ruling has been or will be sought from the Internal Revenue Service as to the tax consequences of the merger.
If an entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes holds Concur common stock, the tax treatment of a partner in such partnership generally will depend on the status of the partner and activities of the partnership. If you are a partner of such a partnership holding Concur common stock, you should consult your own tax advisor.
All holders should consult their own tax advisor to determine the particular tax consequences to them (including the application and effect of any state, local or foreign income and other tax laws or tax treaties) of the receipt of cash in exchange for shares of Concur common stock pursuant to the merger.
For purposes of this discussion, the term “U.S. holder” means a beneficial owner of Concur common stock that is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes:
• | an individual citizen or individual resident of the United States for U.S. federal income tax purposes; |
• | a corporation (including any entity treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; |
• | a trust if (i) its administration is subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (ii) it has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations to be treated as a U.S. person; or |
• | an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of its source. |
A “non-U.S. holder” is a beneficial owner (other than a partnership) of Concur common stock that is not a U.S. holder.
U.S. Holders
The conversion of shares of Concur common stock into cash pursuant to the merger will be a taxable transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes. A U.S. holder generally will recognize gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes equal to the difference, if any, between the amount of cash received pursuant to the merger and such U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in the shares converted into cash pursuant to the merger. Such gain or loss generally will be capital gain or loss, and will be long-term capital gain or loss if the holder’s holding period for such shares exceeds one year as of the date of the merger. Long-term capital gains for certain non-corporate U.S. holders, including individuals, are generally subject to U.S. federal income tax at a maximum rate of 20%. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations. If a U.S. holder acquired different blocks of Concur common stock at different times or different prices, such U.S. holder must determine its tax basis, holding period, and gain or loss separately with respect to each block of Concur common stock.
U.S. holders who are individuals will be subject to the Medicare net investment income tax of 3.8%, if they have “net investment income” and have modified adjusted gross income that is greater than $250,000 for taxpayers filing a joint return or as a surviving spouse, $125,000 for married taxpayers filing separately and $200,000 for other taxpayers. This tax is in addition to any income taxes also imposed on such gain. “Net investment income” generally will include gain from the disposition of Concur common stock in the Merger.
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A U.S. holder may, under certain circumstances, be subject to information reporting on the cash received in the merger unless such U.S. holder is a corporation or other exempt recipient. Backup withholding will also apply at the applicable rate (currently, 28%) with respect to the cash received pursuant to the merger, unless such holder properly establishes an exemption or provides its correct tax identification number and otherwise complies with the applicable requirements of the backup withholding rules. Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules can be refunded or credited against a payee’s U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, provided that such U.S. holder furnishes the required information to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner.
Non-U.S. Holders
Any gain recognized on the receipt of cash pursuant to the merger by a non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax unless:
• | the gain is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of such non-U.S. holder (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, is also attributable to a permanent establishment or, in certain cases involving individuals, a fixed base in the United States maintained by such non-U.S. holder), in which case the non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to tax on such gain in the same manner as a U.S. holder and, if the non-U.S. holder is a foreign corporation, such corporation may also be subject to branch profits tax at the rate of 30% (or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty); or |
• | the non-U.S. holder is a nonresident alien individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the merger and certain other conditions are met, in which case the non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to a 30% flat rate tax (unless reduced or eliminated by an applicable income tax treaty) on the non-U.S. holder’s net gain realized in the merger, which may be offset by U.S. source capital losses of the non-U.S. holder, if any. |
A non-U.S. holder will be subject to information reporting and, in certain circumstances, backup withholding (currently, at a rate of 28%) will apply with respect to the cash received by such holder pursuant to the merger, unless such non-U.S. holder certifies under penalties of perjury that it is a non-U.S. holder (and the payor does not have actual knowledge or reason to know that the holder is a U.S. person as defined under the Code) or such holder otherwise establishes an exemption from backup withholding. Backup withholding is not an additional tax and any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules may be refunded or credited against a non-U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, provided that the non-U.S. holder furnishes the required information to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner.
THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX DISCUSSION SET FORTH ABOVE IS INCLUDED FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT A COMPLETE ANALYSIS OR DISCUSSION OF ALL POTENTIAL TAX CONSEQUENCES RELEVANT TO CONCUR STOCKHOLDERS. THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE MERGER MAY VARY DEPENDING UPON THE PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH STOCKHOLDER. YOU SHOULD CONSULT YOUR TAX ADVISOR CONCERNING THE FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, FOREIGN OR OTHER TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE MERGER TO YOU.
Antitrust Laws
HSR Act. The closing of the merger is subject to expiration or termination of the applicable waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”) and the rules thereunder. Under the HSR Act and the rules thereunder, the merger may not be completed unless certain information has been furnished to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and to the Federal Trade Commission and the applicable waiting period expires or is terminated. The HSR Act requires the parties to observe a 30-day waiting period (“initial 30-day waiting period”), during which time the merger may not be
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consummated, unless that initial 30-day waiting period is terminated early. If, before the expiration of the initial 30-day waiting period, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission issues a request for additional information (a “Second Request”), the parties may not consummate the transaction until 30 days after Concur and SAP have each substantially complied with such request for additional information (unless this period is shortened pursuant to a grant of earlier termination or extended by agreement between the parties and the relevant antitrust agency). On September 29, 2014, Concur and SAP filed their respective notification and report forms pursuant to the HSR Act with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. On October 3, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission terminated the waiting period under the HSR Act.
At any time before or after the effective time of the merger, the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, state attorneys general or private parties can file suit under the antitrust laws to enjoin consummation of the merger, to impose conditions on the merger, or to require divestitures. There can be no assurance that the merger will not be challenged on antitrust grounds or, if such a challenge is made, that the challenge will not be successful.
Other Jurisdictions. Affiliates of SAP and Concur also conduct business outside of the United States. Under the Austrian Cartel Act, the merger may not be completed until the expiration of a four-week waiting period following the filing of a notification with the FCA, unless the waiting period is earlier terminated. The parties filed such notification with the FCA in connection with the merger on October 3, 2014. Under the Cartel Act, the required four-week waiting period will expire if neither the FCA nor the Federal Cartel Prosecutor has lodged an appeal for “Phase II” proceedings within such four-week period. If a Phase II proceeding is undertaken, the waiting period with respect to the merger would be extended for an addition period of up to five months.
Based on a review of the information currently available relating to the countries and businesses in which SAP and Concur are engaged, SAP and Concur believe that no other mandatory antitrust premerger notification filing are required outside the United States. Further, based upon an examination of publicly available and other information relating to the businesses in which Concur is engaged, SAP and Concur believe that the merger should not violate applicable antitrust laws. Nevertheless, SAP and Concur cannot be certain that a challenge to the merger on antitrust grounds will not be made, or, if such challenge is made, what the result will be.
U.S. National Security Regulations
The Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (“FINSA”) and the Exon-Florio amendments to the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, as amended by the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993, as amended, and Sec. 721 of Title VII of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2170), as amended (collectively, “Exon-Florio”), empower the President of the United States to review and, if necessary, prohibit or suspend an acquisition of, or investment in, a U.S. company by a “foreign person” if the President, after investigation, determines that the foreign person’s control threatens to impair the national security of the United States. Pursuant to FINSA, CFIUS has been statutorily delegated the authority to receive notices of proposed transactions, determine when an investigation is warranted, conduct investigations, require mitigation measures and submit recommendations to the President to suspend or prohibit the completion of transactions or to require divestitures of completed transactions. A party or parties to a transaction may, but are not required to (except in limited circumstances, which do not apply in this case), submit to CFIUS a voluntary notice of the transaction. CFIUS also has the power to initiate reviews on its own in the absence of a voluntary notification. The parties intend to file a voluntary notice with CFIUS pursuant to FINSA on or around October 15, 2014. See “The Merger Agreement—Conditions to Closing the Merger” beginning on page 65 of this proxy statement.
Litigation Relating to the Merger
Five stockholder class action complaints in connection with the merger have been filed, two in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (collectively, “Delaware Complaints”) and three in the Superior Court of the
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State of Washington, King County (collectively, “Washington Complaints,” and together with the Delaware Complaints, “Complaints”). Individuals purporting to be our stockholders filed the Complaints. The Complaints name our directors, SAP and Merger Sub as defendants. The Washington Complaints and one of the Delaware Complaints also name Concur as a defendant.
The Complaints claim that by agreeing to sell Concur to SAP pursuant to the Merger Agreement, our directors breached their fiduciary duties by, among other things, allegedly failing to maximize stockholder value in connection with such sale, agreeing to deal protection devices that allegedly preclude competing offers from emerging, allegedly putting their personal interests ahead of those of Concur’s stockholders, allegedly unfairly depriving our stockholders of the true value inherent in Concur, allegedly failing to disclose all material information regarding the merger, allegedly failing to maximize stockholder value in connection with such sale, and allegedly ignoring or not protecting against the conflicts of interest of our directors. The Complaints also claim that Concur, SAP and Merger Sub aided and abetted these alleged breaches of fiduciary duties.
The plaintiffs in the Complaints seek, among other things, class action status, an injunction preventing the completion of the merger, a declaration that the merger is in breach of the fiduciary duties of the defendants and therefore the Merger Agreement is unlawful and unenforceable, an award of damages to the plaintiffs if the merger is consummated prior to the final judgment, disclosure of all material information about the merger, an order requiring a new process to evaluate our value and maximize strategic alternatives, an accounting from defendants for all profits and any special benefits they may have obtained as a result of their alleged unlawful conduct, pre- and post-judgment interest, an imposition of a constructive trust in favor of the plaintiffs and members of the class upon any benefits improperly received by the defendants, an injunction against any material transactions or changes in our business and assets until a new process is conducted to evaluate our strategic alternatives, an injunction rescinding the Merger Agreement, an injunction against the consummation of the merger, and the payment of attorneys’ fees and expenses.
We may become subject to similar litigation relating to the merger in these or other jurisdictions.
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The following summary describes certain material provisions of the Merger Agreement. This summary is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Merger Agreement, which is attached to this proxy statement as Annex A and incorporated into this proxy statement by reference. We urge you to read carefully the Merger Agreement in its entirety because this summary may not contain all the information about the Merger Agreement that is important to you.
The Merger Agreement and the following description have been included to provide you with information regarding the terms of the Merger Agreement and is not intended to modify or supplement any factual disclosures about Concur, SAP or Merger Sub in Concur’s or SAP’s public reports filed with the SEC. Such information can be found elsewhere in this proxy statement and in the other public filings Concur and SAP make with the SEC, which are available, without charge, at www.sec.gov.
In particular, the assertions embodied in the representations, warranties, and covenants contained in the Merger Agreement were made only for purposes of the Merger Agreement and as of specified dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Merger Agreement, and are subject to limitations agreed upon by the parties to the Merger Agreement, including being qualified by confidential disclosure schedules provided by Concur to SAP and Merger Sub in connection with the execution of the Merger Agreement. These disclosure schedules contain information that modifies, qualifies and creates exceptions to the representations, warranties and covenants set forth in the Merger Agreement. Moreover, certain representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement have been made for the purposes of allocating risk between the parties to the Merger Agreement instead of establishing matters of fact. Accordingly, the representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement may not constitute the actual state of facts about Concur, SAP or Merger Sub. The representations, warranties and covenants set forth in the Merger Agreement may also be subject to a contractual standard of materiality different from that generally applicable under federal securities laws or from what may be viewed as material to stockholders. Investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Merger Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties, or covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or the actual condition of Concur, SAP or Merger Sub, or any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Merger Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in our public disclosures. The Merger Agreement is described in this proxy statement and included as Annex A only to provide you with information regarding its terms and conditions, and not to provide any other factual information regarding Concur, SAP or Merger Sub, or their respective businesses.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement and in accordance with Delaware law, at the effective time of the merger, Merger Sub, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP and a party to the Merger Agreement, will merge with and into Concur where Concur will survive the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SAP and the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub will cease.
Effective Time; Closing
The merger will become effective upon the filing of a certificate of merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware or at such later date and time as is agreed upon by the parties and specified in the certificate of merger. The filing of the certificate of merger will occur on the date of closing, which will take place on a date to be specified by the parties and which will be no later than the business day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York, San Francisco, California, London, United Kingdom, Luxembourg or Germany are authorized or required by law to be closed (an “International Business Day”) after satisfaction or waiver of the conditions to the closing of the merger set forth in the Merger Agreement and described in this proxy statement, or at such other time as is agreed to between the parties. Although we expect to
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complete the merger as soon as possible following the special meeting of our stockholders (if our stockholders adopt the Merger Agreement) and the satisfaction or waiver of the other conditions to the closing of the merger set forth in the Merger Agreement, we cannot specify when or assure that Concur and SAP will satisfy or waive all of the conditions to the closing of the merger. See “—Conditions to the Closing of the Merger” beginning on page 65 of this proxy statement.
Treatment of Outstanding Common Stock
The Merger Agreement provides that each share of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger will be converted at the effective time of the merger into the right to receive $129.00 in cash, without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law, except that shares held by Concur as treasury stock or by any of our subsidiaries or by SAP or any of its subsidiaries will be cancelled and no payment will be made with respect to those shares, and shares held by stockholders who properly demand appraisal rights with respect to any such shares will be treated as described under “The Merger—Appraisal Rights” beginning on page 37 of this proxy statement.
Treatment of Outstanding Stock Options and Restricted Stock Units
Stock Options. Each Concur stock option (whether vested or unvested) that is unexpired, unexercised and outstanding at the effective time of the merger, without any action of the parties or the optionholder, will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to the product of (i) the aggregate number of shares subject to such stock option and (ii) the excess (if any) of the per share merger consideration of $129.00 over the applicable per share exercise price of such stock option (without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law).
Vested RSUs. Each Concur RSU that is vested where stock is not yet issued at the effective time of the merger, or that becomes vested at the effective time of the merger pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreement, will be cancelled and exchanged for the right to receive the per share merger consideration of $129.00 for each share of our common stock underlying such Concur RSU (without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law).
Unvested RSUs. Each Concur RSU (other than our non-employee directors) that remains outstanding immediately prior to, and is unvested and does not become vested at, the effective time of the merger shall be cancelled in exchange for the unvested right to receive in cash the per share merger consideration of $129.00 for each share of our common stock underlying such Concur RSU (without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law), with such payment to be vest and be paid on the date upon which each such Concur RSU would have vested under the terms and conditions set forth in the applicable award agreements. If such terms and conditions are not satisfied and such Concur RSU does not otherwise vest pursuant to the terms of the applicable equity plan award agreements, no cash payment will be made with respect to such Concur RSU.
Unvested RSUs Held by Non-Employee Directors. All Concur RSUs held by our non-employee directors at the effective time of the merger will vest and be cancelled in exchange for the right to receive the per share merger consideration of $129.00 for each share underlying each cancelled Concur RSU (without interest).
Prior to the completion of the merger, we will take all actions necessary to effectuate the foregoing actions relating to outstanding stock options and RSUs and we will terminate all of our equity plans at or immediately prior to completion of the merger.
Our executive officers are entitled to accelerated vesting of their RSUs in connection with approval of the merger by our stockholders or the consummation of a “change in control” of Concur, pursuant to the terms of the applicable award agreements. See the sections entitled “The Merger—Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Interests of Non-Employee Directors” beginning on page 34 of this proxy statement and “The Merger—Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Interests of Executive Officers” beginning on page 35 of this proxy statement for details regarding these arrangements.
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Treatment of Purchase Rights under Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Each current offering period in progress as of the date of the Merger Agreement under our ESPP will continue after the date of the Merger Agreement and shares will be issued on the next currently scheduled purchase date that occurs after the date of the Merger Agreement (subject to the terms and conditions of the ESPP). However, any offering period in process as of the effective time of the merger will be shortened, and the last day of each such offering period shall be two business days before the date on which the effective time of the merger occurs and each then outstanding purchase right under the ESPP will be exercised automatically on the second business day prior to the effective time. Any purchased shares under the ESPP will be converted at the effective time of the merger into the right to receive $129.00 in cash, without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law. As of or immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, we will terminate the ESPP. We will also take any actions necessary to give effect to the foregoing transactions and to avoid the commencement of a new offering period following the date of the Merger Agreement and prior to the termination of the Merger Agreement or the effective time of the merger.
Surrender of Stock Certificates; Payment of Merger Consideration; Lost Certificates
Prior to the effective time of the merger, SAP or Merger Sub will designate a paying agent and, at or promptly after the effective time of the merger (but in no event later than five International Business Days after the effective time of the merger) and from time to time thereafter to the extent necessary, SAP or Merger Sub will deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the paying agent funds sufficient to pay the aggregate merger consideration to which holders of our common stock will be entitled at the effective time of the merger (other than shares held by stockholders who properly demand appraisal rights with respect to any such shares and shares subject to RSUs).
As promptly as practicable after the effective time of the merger, the paying agent will mail to each person who was a holder of record of a certificate or certificates representing shares of our common stock or shares held in book-entry with our transfer agent immediately prior to the effective time of the merger a letter of transmittal containing instructions for surrendering certificates or book-entry shares formerly representing such shares of our common stock in exchange for merger consideration. After the effective time of the merger, each holder of a certificate or book-entry shares previously representing such shares of our common stock will, upon surrender to the paying agent of a certificate (if such shares are certificated) and/or a properly completed letter of transmittal in accordance with the instructions thereto, be entitled to receive the merger consideration of $129.00 in cash, without interest and less any withholding taxes required by applicable law, for each share of our common stock formerly represented by such certificate or book-entry shares. Each certificate or book-entry share so surrendered shall be cancelled. Until surrendered as contemplated by the terms of the Merger Agreement, each certificate or book-entry share formerly representing such shares of our common stock shall be deemed at any time after the effective time to represent only the right to receive the merger consideration in cash as contemplated by the Merger Agreement, without interest.
The cash paid upon surrender of any such certificate or book-entry shares will be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to the shares of our common stock formerly represented by such certificate or book-entry shares. At the effective time of the merger, our stock transfer books will be closed and we will not register transfers of shares on our records.
SAP, Merger Sub and Concur (as the surviving entity) and the paying agent shall have the right to deduct and withhold from the merger consideration such amounts as such parties are required to deduct and withhold with respect to making such payment in accordance with applicable rules and regulations, including the Code, including any stock transfer taxes.
If any such certificate has been lost, stolen or destroyed, the paying agent will pay the merger consideration with respect to each share of our common stock formerly represented by such certificate upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming such certificate to be lost, stolen or destroyed and, if required by
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SAP, the posting by such person of a bond in an amount as SAP may reasonably direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the parties to the merger with respect to such certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
At any time following the nine-month anniversary of the closing date of the merger, the surviving corporation may require the paying agent to deliver to it any funds (including any interested paid thereon) previously made available to the paying agent that have not been disbursed to holders of certificates or book-entry shares formerly representing shares of our common stock. After that point, stockholders will no longer be able to receive the merger consideration from the paying agent. Instead, they will be required to seek to obtain the merger consideration from only the surviving corporation and in so doing will be treated as general creditors with respect to the payment of any such merger consideration, without interest and subject to any withholding taxes required by applicable law.
The Merger Agreement provides that Merger Sub’s directors and officers immediately prior to the effective time of the merger will, from and after the effective time of the merger, be the initial directors and continue as the officers, respectively, of the surviving corporation, each to hold office in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the surviving corporation until their respective successors shall have been duly elected, designated or qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the surviving corporation.
Representations and Warranties
We have made a number of representations and warranties to SAP and Merger Sub in the Merger Agreement regarding aspects of our business and other matters pertinent to the merger. The topics covered by these representations and warranties include the following:
• | our and our subsidiaries’ organization, existence, good standing and qualification, organizational and governing documents, and similar corporate matters; |
• | our subsidiaries; |
• | our and our subsidiaries’ capital structure; |
• | our corporate power and authority to execute and deliver the Merger Agreement, to perform our obligations under the Merger Agreement and to consummate the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; |
• | the enforceability of the Merger Agreement against us; |
• | the inapplicability of any state takeover or similar statute or regulation to the Merger Agreement and the merger; |
• | the unanimous approval of our Board of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and our Board’s approving and declaring advisable the Merger Agreement and recommendation that our stockholders vote to adopt the Merger Agreement; |
• | the absence of any stockholder rights agreement, rights plan, “poison pill” or other similar agreement adopted by us or our subsidiaries; |
• | the absence of any violation of our or our subsidiaries’ organizational or governing documents, NASDAQ rules or regulations, certain contracts or laws or judgments to which we are subject as a result of our execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement and our consummation of the merger; |
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• | the consents, approvals, notices, waiting periods, filings and other similar actions with respect to governmental entities required as a result of our execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement and our consummation of the merger; |
• | our and our subsidiaries’ permits, authorizations, licenses and other matters of any governmental entity required for us and our subsidiaries to own, lease and operate the properties and assets and operate its business as currently conducted; |
• | violations of law and material liabilities associated with any such violations or with any governmental entity; |
• | compliance with the anti-corruption laws, environmental and hazardous substance laws and export and import laws; |
• | the filing of required reports and other documents by us with the SEC since October 1, 2011, the compliance of such reports and documents with the applicable requirements of the federal securities laws, rules and regulations, the absence of any outstanding or unresolved comments received by us from the SEC and the accuracy of the information supplied by us contained therein; |
• | compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; |
• | the preparation of our financial statements included in our reports and documents filed with the SEC in accordance with GAAP and that such financial statements present fairly in all material respects our and our subsidiaries’ financial position and the consolidated results of operations, cash flows and stockholders’ equity as of the dates and for the periods referred to therein; |
• | the absence of any enforcement actions or investigations by the SEC; |
• | the maintenance by us of internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure timely and adequate reporting; |
• | the absence of complaints, allegations or assertions regarding questionable auditing practices or reported evidence of material violations of securities laws or fiduciary duties by our officers, directors, employees or agents; |
• | compliance with NASDAQ corporate governance and listing requirements; |
• | our adoption of and waivers of our code of ethics; |
• | the absence of undisclosed liabilities; |
• | the absence of any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or other similar arrangement entered into for the purpose of, intended to, or with the known result of, avoiding the disclosure of any material transaction or material liability; |
• | the conduct of our and our subsidiaries’ respective businesses in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, in each case from June 30, 2014 to the date of the Merger Agreement; |
• | the absence, in each case from June 30, 2014 to the date of the Merger Agreement, of: |
¡ | any material adverse effect on us; |
¡ | amendments or other changes to our or our subsidiaries’ organizational or governing documents; |
¡ | certain dividends or other distributions on our or our subsidiaries’ capital stock or entering into any agreement with respect to the voting or registration of our or our subsidiaries’ capital stock; |
¡ | redemptions, purchases or other acquisitions of any of our or our subsidiaries’ outstanding shares, except in connection with our stock options, RSUs, our note hedges purchased by Concur in connection with our convertible senior notes due April 15, 2015 and June 15, 2018 (the note hedges hereinafter referred to as “Bond Hedges”, and the convertible senior notes, “Senior Notes”), and warrants issued by us in connection with the Senior Notes (“Warrants”); |
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• | any splits, combinations or reclassifications of, or issuances of securities in respect of, our or our subsidiaries’ capital stock; |
• | mergers or consolidations with any third party or adoption of a plan of complete or partial liquidation or other reorganization of us or any material subsidiary; |
• | acquisitions of (including by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock assets) any interest in any person or any division thereof or any assets (other than acquisitions of assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice); |
• | incurrence of additional indebtedness, issuances or sales of options, warrants or other rights to acquire any of our or our subsidiaries’ indebtedness, or modification of our or our subsidiaries’ current indebtedness terms; |
• | investments, loans or advances , or capital contributions to any person or entity, other than to our subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and consistent with our past practice; |
• | except as required by law or as provided in our benefit plans or other agreements of Concur: |
¡ | any increase in the compensation or benefits payable or to become payable to our or our subsidiaries’ directors, officers, employees, independent contractors or consultants (or any of their dependents or beneficiaries) except for (i) increases in salary or wages in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice for employees below the level of senior vice president, (ii) increases in salary or wages in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice for employees at the level of senior vice president in the ordinary course of business in connection with the annual focal review, (iii) payments of bonuses for our 2014 fiscal year pursuant to the our 2010 Cash Incentive Plan and the specific terms thereunder for our 2014 fiscal year, or (iv) increases of salary, wages and target incentive compensation in connection with the promotion of an existing employee, other than promotions of employees at the level of senior vice president or higher; |
¡ | any grant of any rights to severance or termination pay to, or enter into any severance agreement with, any director, officer, stockholders, independent contractors, consultants or employee of ours or our subsidiaries (or any of their respective dependents or beneficiaries) (other than any agreement with a non-U.S. employee of ours or our subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business providing for terms that are customary for employment in such jurisdiction and consistent with the terms of agreements entered into by us or our applicable subsidiary with its other similarly situated employees in such jurisdiction), or establish, adopt, enter into or amend any collective bargaining, bonus, profit sharing, thrift, compensation, stock option, restricted stock, pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment, termination, severance or other plan, agreement, trust, fund, policy or arrangement for the benefit of any director, officer, stockholder, independent contractor, consultant or employee or any of their respective dependents or beneficiaries, or establish, adopt, enter into any plan, program or arrangement that would be one of our benefit plans, compensation arrangements or stock option plans if in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement; |
¡ | the taking any action to amend or waive any performance or vesting criteria or accelerate vesting, exercisability or funding under any of our benefit plans, compensation arrangements or stock option plans; or |
¡ | the termination of the employment of any executive other than for “cause;” |
• | any material change in financial accounting methods, principles or practices, except as required by GAAP or law; |
• | any material tax election or any change or revocation of any material tax election, change to any tax accounting period or change to any material method of tax accounting; |
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¡ | any tax allocation, sharing, indemnity or closing agreement; |
¡ | any settlement of tax liabilities; |
¡ | filing any material amended tax return; |
¡ | any consent to any extension or waiver of the limitations period applicable to any claim or assessment regarding taxes; |
¡ | any write up, write down or write off the book value of any assets in the aggregate, in excess of $2,000,000, except for depreciation and amortization in accordance with GAAP or as otherwise required by GAAP; and |
¡ | any action to exempt or make not subject to takeover laws any person or any action which would otherwise have been subject to such laws; |
• | employee benefits plans; |
• | labor and other employment matters; |
• | specified and material contracts; |
• | certain pending and threatened litigation, orders, awards, judgments, and investigations; |
• | our intellectual property; |
• | tax matters; |
• | our insurance policies; |
• | title to our material properties and tangible assets and leasehold interests in any leased property; |
• | our receipt of a fairness opinion from Qatalyst Partners; |
• | the accuracy of the information supplied by us in connection with this proxy statement; |
• | the required vote of our stockholders required to adopt the Merger Agreement; |
• | the absence of pending indemnification claims by any of our or our subsidiaries’ officers or directors; |
• | the absence of any outstanding material disputes concerning our products or services with respect to any of our significant customers; |
• | the absence of any knowledge or communication from any of our significant customer that it intends to not continue to be our customer; |
• | privacy matters; |
• | our compliance with applicable laws with respect to government contracts and government bids; |
• | the accuracy of statements, facts and certifications submitted by us or our subsidiaries with respect to any government contract or government bid; |
• | the absence of any actual, pending or potential debarment or suspension by any governmental entity of us, our subsidiaries or employees; |
• | the absence of a negative determination of responsibility issued, threatened or proposed against and provided to us or any of our subsidiaries in connection with any government contract or government bid; |
• | the provision of technical data, intellectual property and software to any government entity as a “commercial item” in connection with any government contract; |
• | our engagement of, and payment of fees to, brokers, investment bankers and financial advisors, and fees payable by us to other advisors in connection with the Merger Agreement and the merger; |
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• | related party transactions; and |
• | contracts related to our subsidiary ClearTrip Inc. (“ClearTrip”). |
Definition of Material Adverse Effect
Some of our representations and warranties are qualified by a material adverse effect standard. The Merger Agreement provides that a material adverse effect is any change, event, development, occurrence, state of facts, circumstance or effect that:
• | is, or would reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate with all other effects, materially adverse to the business, financial condition or results of operations of us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or |
• | prevents, or would reasonably be expected to prevent, consummation of the merger or our performance of any of our material obligations under the Merger Agreement. |
For purposes of the first bullet point above, the Merger Agreement provides that none of the following will constitute or be taken into account in determining whether there has been or reasonably would be expected to be, a material adverse effect:
• | changes affecting the economies or general business conditions of or financial, credit or capital market conditions anywhere in the world in which we and our subsidiaries operate, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate; |
• | changes in the trading volume or trading price of our common stock in and of itself (provided that the facts and circumstances giving rise to such changes in such volume or price may be deemed to constitute, and may be taken into account in determining whether there has been, a material adverse effect); |
• | changes in the industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate (including changes in the use, adoption or non-adoption of industry standards), to the extent such changes do not adversely affect us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate; |
• | national or international political conditions, acts of war (whether or not declared), the commencement, continuation or escalation of a war, acts of armed hostility, sabotage or terrorism or other international or national calamity or any material worsening of such conditions threatened or existing as of the date of the Merger Agreement, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate; |
• | changes in law or GAAP or interpretations thereof, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect us or our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a manner disproportionate to other similarly situated participants in industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate; |
• | any failure by us to meet any published analyst projections, estimates or expectations of our past or projected revenue, bookings, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, in and of itself, and any resulting analyst downgrade of our securities, or any failure by us to meet its internal budgets, plans or forecasts of our revenues, bookings, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations, in and of itself (provided that the facts and circumstances giving rise to such failures may be deemed to constitute, and may be taken into account in determining whether there has been, a material adverse effect); |
• | any legal or related proceedings made or brought by any of our current or former stockholders (on their own behalf or on behalf of us) against us or our Board relating to, in connection with, or arising out of the merger or the other transactions, including this proxy statement; |
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• | any effects primarily resulting from or arising out of the execution, announcement or pendency of the Merger Agreement or the anticipated consummation of the merger, (including the identity of SAP as the acquirer of us or SAP SE as parent of SAP), including the impact thereof on relationships, contractual or otherwise, with our and our subsidiaries’ officers, employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, vendors, licensors, licensees, lenders, investors, subcontractors or partners; |
• | fires, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or other natural disasters, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate; |
• | any effects directly or indirectly attributable to the U.S. government sequestration or other broad-based reductions in U.S. government spending, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which we and our subsidiaries operate; or |
• | any actions taken by us or any of our subsidiaries or the failure by us and our subsidiaries to take any action as required by the Merger Agreement, provided that we sought, but did not receive, the prior written consent of SAP and identified reasonable facts and circumstances in writing indicating that taking such required action or failing to take such prohibited action, as the case may be, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect. |
SAP and Merger Sub have made a number of representations and warranties to us regarding aspects of their business and various matters pertinent to the merger. The topics covered by these representations and warranties include the following:
• | their organization, existence and good standing; |
• | their corporate power and authority to execute and deliver the Merger Agreement, to perform their obligations under the Merger Agreement and to consummate the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; |
• | the absence of any violation of SAP’s or Merger Sub’s organizational or governing documents, certain contracts or laws and judgments applicable to SAP or Merger Sub as a result of SAP’s and Merger Sub’s execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the merger; |
• | the enforceability of the Merger Agreement against them; |
• | the consents, approvals, notices and other similar actions with respect to governmental entities required as a result of SAP’s or Merger Sub’s execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement and SAP’s or Merger Sub’s consummation of the merger; |
• | the absence of actual or threatened litigation against SAP, Merger Sub or any SAP subsidiary challenging the merger, which, if adversely determined, would, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to prevent consummation of the merger or performance by SAP or Merger Sub of any of their material obligations under the Merger Agreement; |
• | the accuracy of information supplied by SAP and Merger Sub for inclusion in this proxy statement; |
• | Merger Sub’s lack of prior operating activity and formation solely for the purpose of engaging in the transactions pursuant to the Merger Agreement; |
• | having sufficient funds for payments and obligations under the Merger Agreement; and |
• | that neither SAP nor Merger Sub is an “interested stockholder” under Delaware’s takeover statute. |
SAP SE has made representations and warranties to us in connection with its guaranty with respect to, among other matters:
• | SAP SE’s authority to enter into the Merger Agreement; and |
• | the enforceability of the Merger Agreement against SAP SE. |
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The representations and warranties of each of the parties to the Merger Agreement will expire upon effective time of the merger.
Conduct of Our Business Prior to the Merger
In the Merger Agreement, we have agreed that from September 18, 2014 until the earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement and the effective time of the merger, subject to certain exceptions, we will carry on our, and we will use reasonable best efforts to cause each of our subsidiaries to carry on their, business in the ordinary course and comply, in all material respects, with the requirements of all applicable contracts and applicable laws and maintain all material permits.
In addition, during such timeframe, we have agreed, with specified exceptions, to various restrictions on the conduct of our and our subsidiaries’ business (except as expressly permitted by the terms of the Merger Agreement and applicable law), including restrictions on our and our subsidiaries’ ability to:
• | amend our certificate of incorporation or bylaws or any of our subsidiaries’ certificate of incorporation or bylaws or equivalent organizational documents; |
• | issue, deliver, sell, pledge, dispose of, grant, transfer or otherwise subject to any lien (except for permitted liens), or authorize any of the foregoing, any capital stock or other equity interests in Concur or any of our subsidiaries other than (i) upon the exercise or settlement of options and RSUs that are outstanding on the date of the Merger Agreement solely in accordance with their terms as of such date, (ii) pursuant to the ESPP, and (iii) upon conversion of our convertible notes, in connection with the bond hedges, or upon exercise of our warrants, in each case outstanding as of the date of the Merger Agreement and solely in accordance with their terms as of such date; |
• | sell, lease, license, transfer or otherwise dispose of, allow to lapse or expire, pledge, mortgage or otherwise encumber or subject to any lien (other than a permitted lien), any of our intellectual property or software or any other material properties, rights or assets (including any equity interests in our subsidiaries), except (i) services agreements in our ordinary course of business, (ii) transfers among us and our directly or indirectly wholly-owned subsidiaries or (iii) any outbound license agreement in the ordinary course of business, in each case, excluding entering into any reseller or hosting agreement under which we or any of our subsidiaries will distribute software to a third party; |
• | declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend or other distribution with respect to any of our capital stock or enter into any contract with respect to the voting or registration of our capital stock; |
• | (i) except as required by the terms of the instruments governing such securities as of the date of the Merger Agreement, redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any of our or our subsidiaries’ outstanding equity interests, except in connection with the exercise or settlement of any option, RSUs or the convertible notes, the bond hedges, the warrants, in each case that are outstanding as of the date of the Merger Agreement, or are issued thereafter in compliance with the terms of Merger Agreement, and solely in accordance with their terms as of the date of the Merger Agreement; or (ii) reclassify, combine, split, subdivide, adjust or amend the rights of, any of our or our subsidiaries’ equity interests; |
• | merge or consolidate us or any of our subsidiaries with any third party or adopt a plan of complete or partial liquidation or resolutions providing for a complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization of us or any of our subsidiaries; |
• | acquire (including by merger, consolidation or acquisition of stock or assets) any interest in any party or any division thereof, or any assets (other than acquisitions of assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice); |
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• | incur, create, assume or otherwise become liable for any indebtedness, including through borrowings under any of our existing credit facilities, or issue or sell options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire any of our or our subsidiaries’ indebtedness, or take any action that would result in any amendment, modification or change of any term of any of our or our subsidiaries’ indebtedness; |
• | repurchase, prepay or amend or modify the terms of any of our or our subsidiaries’ indebtedness (except as required by the terms of the instruments governing such indebtedness); |
• | make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other party (other than (i) advancement of expenses to our employees in connection with the performance of their duties or (ii) to any of our wholly-owned subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice); |
• | terminate (other than by expiration in accordance with its terms), cancel, materially amend or agree to any material change in or material waiver under any material contract, or enter into any material contract other than: |
¡ | services agreements and outbound license agreements in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice that are not otherwise a material contract; |
¡ | contracts with an original equipment manufacturer; and |
¡ | material amendments of contracts with our 50 largest sources of revenue or with any of our ten largest suppliers, where such amendment does not otherwise make such contract a material contract; |
provided, however, that with SAP’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, and which consent shall be deemed received if SAP does not respond to a request for consent within five International Business Days), we and our subsidiaries may enter into contracts:
¡ | for any lease or sublease for real property with payments in excess of $1,000,000 per year; |
¡ | where a third party is authorized to sell company products under such third party’s brand without any branding of Concur, or any general or limited partnership agreement; material joint development agreement or joint venture agreement; |
¡ | for the settlement of any civil, administrative, or judicial action, or investigation involving payments in excess of $1,000,000 and which do not otherwise constrain Concur; |
¡ | with a standstill or similar agreement, or any contract that requires Concur or any of its subsidiaries to provide notice or information to any person prior to considering or accepting an acquisition proposal; |
¡ | with any governmental entity or incorporating government acquisition terms involving payments in excess of $850,000 (other than entry or modifications of task orders and other ordinary course services provided under current customer contracts or customer contracts entered into since September 18, 2013 that are not otherwise material contracts, for which no prior written consent is needed); |
¡ | for custom development or consulting services involving recurring payments in excess of $250,000 or aggregate payments in excess of $500,000; |
¡ | for material software, content, technology, or intellectual property development related to a material company product; |
¡ | for the purchase or license to Concur of any software, content, technology or intellectual property that is incorporated into any material company product; provided, that any additional software, capacity under existing contracts shall not be prohibited; |
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¡ | material co-location or data hosting services, or application services providers (other than with respect to ordinary course co-location and data hosting, for which no prior consent is needed); |
¡ | pursuant to which Concur or any of its subsidiaries is authorized to market, distribute or resell any product, service or intellectual property of a third party, where such product, service or intellectual property is material to a material company product; or |
¡ | pursuant to which the terms and conditions thereof or any information or data contained therein is deemed classified; |
• | make, commit to or authorize any capital expenditures that (i) involve the purchase of real property or (ii) are in excess of our projected capital expenditures by more than 15 percent; |
• | except as required by law or as provided in our benefit plans or our other agreements or policies with respect to severance or termination pay in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement: |
¡ | increase the compensation or benefits payable or to become payable to our or our subsidiaries’ directors, officers, employees, independent contractors or consultants (or any of their dependents or beneficiaries) except for (i) increases in salary or wages in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice for employees below the level of senior vice president, (ii) increases in salary or wages in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice for employees at the level of senior vice president in the ordinary course of business in connection with the annual focal review, (iii) payments of bonuses for our 2014 fiscal year pursuant to the our 2010 Cash Incentive Plan and the specific terms thereunder for our 2014 fiscal year, or (iv) increases of salary, wages and target incentive compensation in connection with the promotion of an existing employee, other than promotions of employees at the level of senior vice president or higher; |
¡ | grant any rights to severance or termination pay to, or enter into any severance agreement with, any director, officer, stockholders, independent contractors, consultants or employee of ours or our subsidiaries (or any of their respective dependents or beneficiaries) (other than any agreement with a non-U.S. employee of ours or our subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business providing for terms that are customary for employment in such jurisdiction and consistent with the terms of agreements entered into by us or our applicable subsidiary with its other similarly situated employees in such jurisdiction), or establish, adopt, enter into or amend any collective bargaining, bonus, profit sharing, thrift, compensation, stock option, restricted stock, pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment, termination, severance or other plan, agreement, trust, fund, policy or arrangement for the benefit of any director, officer, stockholder, independent contractor, consultant or employee or any of their respective dependents or beneficiaries, or establish, adopt, enter into any plan, program or arrangement that would be one of our benefit plans, compensation arrangements or stock option plans if in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement; |
¡ | take any action to amend or waive any performance or vesting criteria or accelerate vesting, exercisability or funding under any of our benefit plans, compensation arrangements or stock option plans; or |
¡ | terminate the employment of any executive officer other than for “cause”; |
• | allow the commencement of any new offering period or grant of any new ESPP Purchase Rights; |
• | hire any person at a level of senior vice president or higher (provided, that we may hire any person at the senior vice president level or higher to fill any currently existing senior vice president position that becomes vacant after the date of the Merger Agreement); |
• | make any material changes in financial accounting methods, principles or practices (or change an annual accounting period), except insofar as may be required by GAAP, applicable law or regulatory guidelines (in each case following consultation with our independent auditor); |
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• | waive, relinquish, release or assign any right with a value of more than $1,000,000 in any individual case or series of related cases or $7,500,000 in the aggregate (except that actions expressly permitted by the Merger Agreement shall not count towards such amounts); |
• | pay, discharge, compromise, settle or satisfy any actions or claims in excess of $1,000,000 in any individual case or series of related cases or $5,000,000 in the aggregate, other than (i) as required by their terms as in effect on the date of the Merger Agreement, (ii) claims reserved against in the balance sheet as of June 30, 2014 (for amounts not in excess of such reserves), or (iii) claims incurred since June 30, 2014 in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (provided that, in the case of each of the foregoing, the payment, discharge, settlement or satisfaction of such action or claim does not include any obligation (other than the payment of money) to be performed by us or any of our subsidiaries, and provided further that the amount of any payment for which we receive indemnity reimbursement from an escrow fund established pursuant to an acquisition shall not count towards the settlement thresholds set forth above); |
• | (i) make, change or revoke any material tax election, change any annual tax accounting period or change any method of tax accounting, (ii) enter into any “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code, in each case involving taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (iii) enter into any tax allocation agreement, tax sharing agreement or tax indemnity agreement, in each case involving taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (iv) settle or compromise any liability with respect to taxes, or audit or assessment related to taxes or file or surrender any claim for a refund of taxes (including any such refund to the extent it is used to offset or otherwise reduce tax liability), in each case involving taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (v) file any amended tax return, in each case involving the payment of additional taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (vi) consent to any extension or waiver of the limitations period applicable to any claim or assessment with respect of taxes, or (vii) other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, take any action that voids, lessens or impedes the use or value of any tax incentives, tax credits, tax losses, deferred tax assets or other favorable tax benefit; |
• | write up, write down or write off the book value of any assets, in the aggregate, in excess of $2,000,000, except (i) for depreciation and amortization in accordance with GAAP consistently applied or (ii) as otherwise required under GAAP; |
• | convene any regular or special meeting (or any adjournment thereof) of our stockholders other than a stockholder meeting to adopt the Merger Agreement (unless such a meeting is required by applicable law); |
• | take any action to exempt the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL or any other takeover law, any party (other than SAP SE, SAP, Merger Sub or any subsidiary of SAP) or any action, which party or action would otherwise have been subject to such restrictive provisions; |
• | engage in any of the following activities outside the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices: (i) any promotional sales or discount activity with any customers or any practice with the intent to or which would have the effect of accelerating to prior fiscal quarters (including the current fiscal quarter), (ii) collections of receivables that would otherwise be expected (based on past practice) to be made in subsequent fiscal quarters or postponing to subsequent fiscal quarters payments by us or our subsidiaries that would otherwise be expected (based on past practice) to be made in prior fiscal quarters (including the current fiscal quarter), or (iii) any other promotional sales or discount activity in a manner outside the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices; |
• | with respect to our material owned intellectual property, (i) encumber, impair, abandon, fail to diligently maintain, transfer or otherwise dispose of any right of ours in any of our owned intellectual |
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property (other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in connection with the license, distribution or sale of any of our products or services or the abandonment of any intellectual property which we, in our reasonable business judgment, believes is not material and no longer worthwhile to us), or (ii) divulge, furnish to or make accessible any of our trade secrets to any party who is not subject to an enforceable written obligation to maintain the confidentiality of such trade secrets; or |
• | agree in writing or otherwise to take any of the actions described above. |
For certain of the prohibited actions listed above, we may request consent from SAP and Merger Sub to undertake such actions. If SAP and Merger Sub fail to respond to any request for consent within five International Business Days after we deliver such request, SAP and Merger Sub shall be deemed to have provided its prior written consent to the taking of such action upon and under the circumstances described in such request and only as the specific instances subject to such request.
We have agreed not to vote or cause our applicable subsidiary to vote or deliver a written consent covering our shares in ClearTrip in favor of any matter submitted to the ClearTrip stockholders that would result in ClearTrip taking any actions that we or any of our subsidiaries are restricted from taking pursuant to the bullets listed above that would reasonably be expected to result in a liability of us or any of our subsidiaries.
No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals
We have agreed that at all times from September 18, 2014 until the earlier of the termination of the Merger Agreement and the effective time of the merger, we and our subsidiaries shall not, and we shall direct our and our subsidiaries’ directors, officers, accountants, consultants, legal counsel, advisors, agents and other representatives not to, and shall not authorize or knowingly permit our representatives to, directly or indirectly:
• | initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage or knowingly induce (including by way of providing information relating to us or our subsidiaries or affording access to the business or properties of ours) the making, submission or announcement of any acquisition proposal or acquisition inquiry or otherwise knowingly cooperate with or knowingly assist or participate in or knowingly facilitate the making, submission or announcement of any acquisition proposal or acquisition inquiry; |
• | participate or engage in discussions or negotiations with any party with respect to an acquisition proposal or acquisition inquiry; |
• | approve, adopt, endorse, or recommend to our stockholders, or publicly propose to approve, adopt, endorse, declare advisable or recommend to our stockholders, any acquisition proposal; |
• | withdraw, change, amend, modify or qualify or publicly propose to withdraw, change, amend, modify or qualify, in a manner adverse to SAP or Merger Sub, our Board’s recommendation to our stockholders in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement; |
• | enter into any Merger Agreement, letter of intent, term sheet, agreement in principle, memorandum of understanding, share purchase agreement, asset purchase agreement, share exchange agreement, option agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement or other similar contract constituting or relating to an acquisition proposal or enter into any contract or agreement requiring us to abandon, terminate or fail to consummate the transactions, or resolve or agree to take any of the foregoing actions; or |
• | terminate, waive, amend or modify any provision of, or grant permission under, any standstill, confidentiality agreement or similar contract to which we or any of our subsidiaries is a party (provided, that we shall be permitted to grant waivers of, and not enforce, any standstill agreement solely to the extent such provision would otherwise prohibit the other party to such agreement from making an unsolicited acquisition proposal). |
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Despite these general prohibitions, at any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders and subject to the conditions below, in response to a bona fide written acquisition proposal that our Board determines in good faith, after consultation with our outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation, constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to or result in a superior proposal, we and our representatives may:
• | engage or participate in discussions or negotiations with, and only with, the party (or such party’s representatives) that has made such acquisition proposal; and |
• | furnish to the party (or such party’s representatives) that has made the acquisition proposal information relating to us and our subsidiaries and/or afford access to the business, properties, assets, books, records or the personnel of us and our subsidiaries, in each case pursuant to an acceptable confidentiality agreement. |
We may only take these actions if:
• | we did not receive such acquisition proposal in connection with or as a result of breaching or violating the terms of the Merger Agreement; |
• | prior to engaging or participating in any such discussions or negotiations with or furnishing any information to, such party, we give SAP written notice of the identity of such party and its representatives and all of the material terms and conditions of such acquisition proposal and of our intention to engage or participate in discussions or negotiations with, or furnish information to such party; |
• | contemporaneously with or prior to furnishing any information to such party, we furnish such information to SAP (to the extent such information has not been previously furnished by us to SAP); |
• | we promptly, and in all cases within 24 hours after the receipt by us, notify SAP orally and in writing of the receipt by us or our representatives of any acquisition proposal or acquisition inquiry, which notice shall include (i) the material terms and conditions thereof and (ii) the identity of the party or group making any such acquisition proposal or acquisition inquiry; |
• | provide prompt notice to SAP no later than 24 hours after any material change regarding the material terms (including all amendments) of any such acquisition proposal or acquisition inquiry and upon SAP’s request will provide an update on the status of discussions regarding such acquisition proposal; |
• | promptly (and in any event not later than 24 hours) after receipt or delivery thereof, provide SAP (or its outside counsel) with copies of all material documents (including any written, or electronic material to the extent such material contains any financial terms, conditions or other material terms relating to any acquisition proposal, including the financing thereof) exchanged between us or any of our subsidiaries or any of our representatives, on the one hand, and the party making an acquisition proposal or any of its affiliates, or their respective officers, directors, employees, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants or other advisors or representatives, on the other hand; |
• | we provide SAP with at least 24 hours prior notice (or such shorter notice as may be provided to our Board) of a meeting of our Board at which it is reasonably expected to consider an acquisition proposal; and |
• | we do not, and shall cause any of our subsidiaries not to, enter into any contract with any party subsequent to the date of the Merger Agreement, and neither we nor any of our subsidiaries is party to any contract, which prohibits us from providing the any of the foregoing information to SAP. |
Board Recommendation
The Merger Agreement provides that neither our Board nor any committee of our Board will, or will agree or resolve to:
• | approve, adopt, endorse, or recommend to our stockholders, or publicly propose to approve, adopt, endorse, declare advisable or recommend to our stockholders, any acquisition proposal; or |
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• | withdraw, change, amend, modify or qualify or publicly propose to withdraw, change, amend, modify or qualify, in a manner adverse to SAP or Merger Sub, our Board’s recommendation to our stockholders in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement (“change of Board recommendation”). |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, subject to the conditions described below, our Board may, at any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, in response to a superior proposal or an intervening event (as defined in the Merger Agreement and as described below under this heading), effect a change of Board recommendation.
At any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, our Board may (i) effect a change of Board recommendation in response to a superior proposal or (ii) terminate the Merger Agreement and simultaneously enter into a definitive agreement with respect to a superior proposal only if (1) we receive an acquisition proposal from a party that our Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation, constitutes a superior proposal, (2) our Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation, that the failure to do so would be inconsistent with its fiduciary duties to our stockholders under applicable law and (3) in the case of clause (ii) above, in advance of or concurrently with such termination we pay the fee described below under “—Termination Fee and Expenses” beginning on page 69 of this proxy statement. However, for such change of Board recommendation to be valid, the following must have occurred:
• | we shall have provided prior written notice to SAP, at least four business days in advance of our intention to effect a change of Board recommendation or terminate the Merger Agreement to enter into a definitive agreement with respect to a superior proposal (which notice itself shall not constitute a change of Board recommendation), which notice shall specify the details of such superior proposal, and provides the execution draft of the definitive agreement with respect to such superior proposal and other material documents with respect to such superior proposal, and the basis upon which our Board intends to effect a change of Board recommendation or to terminate this Agreement; and |
• | prior to effecting such change of Board recommendation or terminating the Merger Agreement to enter into a definitive agreement with respect to a superior proposal, (i) if requested by SAP, we shall have, and shall have caused our representatives to, during such four business day period of notice, negotiate with SAP in good faith to make such adjustments in the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement so that a change of Board recommendation is no longer necessary, and (ii) SAP shall not have, during the portion of such four business day period of notice remaining after the submission of such offer, made a written offer irrevocable during the portion of the four business day period of notice that would, upon our acceptance thereof, be binding on SAP and that, after due consideration of such offer by our Board in good faith and after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation, results in our Board determining that such superior proposal no longer constitutes a superior proposal. |
In the event of any amendment to the financial terms or any other material revisions to the superior proposal, we are required to deliver a new notice to SAP pursuant to the requirements set forth above (including the start of a new notice period for a superior proposal), except that the notice period shall be at least three business days rather than four business days as contemplated above.
At any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, our Board may effect a change of Board recommendation in response to an intervening event only if our Board determines in good faith, after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation, that the failure to do so would be inconsistent with our Board’s fiduciary duties to our stockholders under applicable law. However, for such change of Board recommendation to be valid, the following must have occurred:
• | we shall have provided prior written notice to SAP, at least four business days in advance of our intention to effect such a change of Board recommendation, which notice shall specify the details of such intervening event and the basis upon which our Board intends to effect a change of Board recommendation; and |
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• | prior to effecting such change of Board recommendation, (i) if requested by SAP, we shall have, and shall have caused our representatives to, during the foregoing four business day intervening event notice period, negotiate with SAP in good faith to make such adjustments in the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement so that a change of Board recommendation is no longer necessary, and (ii) SAP shall not have, during the portion of the foregoing intervening event notice period remaining after the submission of such offer, made a written offer irrevocable during the remaining portion of the intervening event notice period that would, upon our acceptance thereof, be binding on SAP and that, after due consideration of such offer by our Board in good faith and after consultation with its outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation, results in the Board determining that it would continue to be inconsistent with the director’s fiduciary duties to our stockholders under applicable law to not effect the change of Board recommendation. |
Should any material changes to the circumstances applicable to the intervening event occur after the start of the notice period for the intervening event, we are required to deliver a new notice to SAP pursuant to the requirements set forth above (including the start of a new notice period for the intervening event), except that the notice period shall be at least three business days rather than four business days as contemplated above.
The covenant in the Merger Agreement generally prohibiting us from soliciting takeover proposals does not prevent us from complying with Rules 14e-2(a) or Rule 14d-9 promulgated under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that except as otherwise permitted by the terms of the Merger Agreement, such disclosure is limited to: (i) a “stop, look and listen” or similar communication of the type contemplated by Rule 14d-9(f) under the Exchange Act, (ii) an express rejection of any applicable acquisition proposal, and/or (iii) an express reaffirmation of the our Board recommendation.
An “acquisition proposal” means any offer or proposal (whether or not in writing) concerning, for or relating to any
• | direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by any party or “group” (as defined in or under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of our total outstanding equity interests in or voting securities, or any tender offer or exchange offer that, if consummated, would result in any party or “group” (as defined in or under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) beneficially owning 15% or more of our total outstanding equity interests in or voting securities; |
• | direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition of 50% or more of any class of equity or other voting securities of one or more of our subsidiaries, the business(es) of which, individually or in the aggregate, generate or constitute (as applicable) 15% or more of the consolidated net revenues or net income (for the twelve month period ending on the last day of our most recently completed fiscal quarter) or assets (measured by the greater of book value or fair market value thereof as of the date of such transaction) of us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole; |
• | merger, consolidation, business combination, share exchange, joint venture or other similar transaction involving the us or one or more of our subsidiaries, the business(es) of which, individually or in the aggregate, generate or constitute (as applicable) 15% or more of the consolidated net revenues or net income (for the twelve month period ending on the last day of our most recently completed fiscal quarter) or assets (measured by the greater of book value or fair market value thereof as of the date of such transaction) of us and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, pursuant to which our stockholders (as a group) or such subsidiary of ours or our subsidiaries, as applicable, immediately preceding such transaction hold less than 85% of the equity interests in or voting securities of the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction; |
• | our or any of our subsidiaries’ liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or reorganization, other than one of our wholly-owned subsidiaries; |
• | direct or indirect sale, transfer or disposition of assets (including by any license or lease, other than licenses or leases under customer agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business) of ours or |
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one or more of our subsidiaries, which assets, individually or in the aggregate, generate or constitute (as applicable) 15% or more of the consolidated net revenues or net income (for the twelve month period ending on the last day of our most recently completed fiscal quarter) or assets (measured by the greater of book value or fair market value thereof as of the date of such transaction) of ours and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or |
• | any combination of the foregoing transactions that results in one of the effects referenced in foregoing bullets above; provided that in no event shall the transactions between SAP, Merger Sub and us (or any other transactions between SAP, Merger Sub or their affiliates, on the one hand, and us and our subsidiaries, on the other hand), be deemed to be an “acquisition proposal.” |
A “superior proposal” means any unsolicited, bona fide written offer or proposal (that has not been withdrawn and that did not result from a material breach of the non-solicitation provisions of the Merger Agreement), to acquire all of our outstanding equity interests, which (i) is not subject to a financing condition (and if financing is required, such financing is then committed to the party or “group” (as defined in or under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) making such offer or proposal), (ii) is reasonably likely to be consummated on the terms and conditions contemplated thereby and (iii) the Concur Board shall have determined in good faith after consultation with our outside legal counsel and a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation is more favorable to our stockholders (in their capacity as such) from a financial point of view than the merger, in each case taking into account the various legal, financial and regulatory aspects of the proposal, including the financing terms thereof, the likelihood of consummation in a timely manner, and the identity of the party making such proposal.
An “intervening event” means any material event or development or material change in circumstances with respect to us and our subsidiaries taken as a whole that (i) was neither known to our Board or any of our officers, nor reasonably foreseeable as of or prior to the date of the Merger Agreement and (ii) does not relate to (1) any acquisition proposal, (2) any events, changes or circumstances relating to SAP, Merger Sub or any of their affiliates, including the announcement or pendency of the Merger Agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby, (3) clearance of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement under the HSR Act or compliance with any other antitrust laws, (4) the fact we meet or exceed any internal or published projections, forecasts, estimates or predictions of revenue, earnings or other financial or operating metrics for any period ending on or after the date of the Merger Agreement, or (5) changes after the date of the Merger Agreement in the market price or trading volume of our shares or our credit rating (it being understood that matters underlying the changes described in clauses (4) and (5) may be deemed to constitute, or be taken into account, in determining whether there has been an “intervening event”).
Special Meeting of Concur’s Stockholders
We have agreed, subject to any applicable legal restraints, to convene and hold a special meeting of our stockholders, for the purpose of the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, no earlier than the 30th calendar day and no later than the 40th calendar day immediately following the date of mailing of the definitive proxy statement to our stockholders. We have also agreed to use our reasonable best efforts to solicit from our stockholders proxies in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement and to secure the vote or consent of our stockholders as required by the rules of The NASDAQ Global Select Market, the DGCL or other applicable law to effect the merger. We may not change the record date or postpone or adjourn the special meeting without the prior written consent of SAP, and SAP may cause us to postpone or adjourn the special meeting by prior written notice to us.
Unless the Merger Agreement is terminated, we are required to convene and hold the stockholders meeting regardless of whether our Board effects a change of Board recommendation. Further, our obligation to hold the stockholders meeting will not be affected by the commencement, public proposal, public disclosure or communication to us of any acquisition proposal (whether or not such acquisition proposal is a superior
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proposal). Unless the Merger Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms, we have agreed that we shall not submit to the vote of our stockholders any acquisition proposal (whether or not a superior proposal) prior to the vote of our stockholders with respect to the merger at the special meeting.
Efforts to Consummate the Merger; Regulatory Matters
We have agreed to use our reasonable best efforts to obtain any consents, approvals or waivers of third parties with respect to any of our or our subsidiaries’ contracts, as may be necessary or appropriate for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or required by the terms of any such contract (including such consents as are necessary such that no third party will obtain additional rights under any such contract as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement) as a result of the execution, performance or consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; provided that, we shall coordinate with SAP and cooperate in determining whether any actions, consents, approvals or waivers should be sought to be obtained from third parties (including under any of our material contracts) in connection with consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and seeking any such actions, consents, approvals or waivers.
We and SAP have each agreed to use reasonable best efforts to:
• | take, or cause to be taken, all other appropriate action and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable law or otherwise to consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement as promptly as practicable; |
• | as promptly as practicable, obtain from any governmental entities any consents, licenses, permits, certificates, filings, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, waiting period expirations or terminations, clearances or orders required to be obtained by SAP or us or any of our respective subsidiaries, or to avoid any action by any governmental entity (including those in connection with the antitrust laws and the approval of CFIUS, in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; |
• | avoid possible rejection or deferred acceptance of the preliminary joint voluntary notice in accordance with Exon-Florio; |
• | respond as promptly as practicable and within any time limitations imposed by applicable regulations to any inquiries from CFIUS or any other governmental entity involved in the Exon-Florio review and make any other submissions under Exon-Florio that are required to be made or that the parties agree should be made; and |
• | obtain the CFIUS Approval, as promptly as practicable. |
We, SAP and Merger Sub shall as promptly as practicable:
• | make all necessary applications, notices, petitions and filings required, and thereafter make any other required submissions and respond as promptly as practicable to any requests for additional information or documentary material with respect to the Merger Agreement and the merger as is required under (i) the Exchange Act, and any other applicable foreign, federal or state securities laws, (ii) the antitrust laws, (iii) Exon-Florio and (iv) any other applicable law; and |
• | as promptly as practicable, obtain from any governmental entities any consents, licenses, permits, certificates, filings, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, waiting period expirations or terminations, clearances or orders required to be obtained by SAP or us or any of our respective subsidiaries, or to avoid any action by any governmental entity (including those in connection with the antitrust laws and the approval of CFIUS), in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement. |
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However, neither SAP, Merger Sub nor any of their respective affiliates are obligated to (and we and our subsidiaries shall not, without the prior written consent of SAP, agree to):
• | divest, hold separate (including by establishing a trust), or enter into any license (whether pursuant to an exclusive or nonexclusive license) or similar agreement with respect to, or agree to restrict the ownership or operation of, or agree to conduct or operate in a specified manner, any portion of the business or assets of SAP, Concur or any of our respective affiliates; |
• | pay any amounts or make any commitments to obtain any consents, licenses, permits, certificates, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, clearances or orders of a governmental entity or any other party (other than the payment of filing fees and expenses and fees of counsel) in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; |
• | limit in any manner the ability of such entities to conduct, own, operate or control their respective businesses, assets or properties or of the businesses, properties or assets of us and our subsidiaries, or otherwise enter into any voting trust arrangement, proxy arrangement or similar agreement or arrangement; or |
• | agree to take mitigation measures, if any, to obtain the approval of CFIUS. |
SAP or any of its affiliates are not obligated to litigate or participate in the litigation of any action brought by any governmental entity or appeal any order that:
• | challenges or seeks to make illegal, delay materially or otherwise directly or indirectly restrain or prohibit the consummation of the merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement or seeking to obtain from SAP or any of its affiliates any damages in connection therewith; or |
• | seeking to prohibit or limit in any respect, or place any conditions on, the ownership or operation by us, SAP or any of our respective affiliates of all or any portion of the business, assets or any of our products or product of SAP or any of its affiliates or to require any such party to divest, hold separate, or enter into any license (whether pursuant to an exclusive or nonexclusive license) or similar agreement with respect to any portion of the business or assets of SAP, us or any of our respective affiliates. |
In addition, nothing contained in the Merger Agreement restricts SAP or its affiliates from developing, soliciting, considering, communicating, exchanging, or furnishing information, negotiating, disclosing, entering into or consummating potential or definitive strategic transactions through both internally generated and third-party proposals.
Conditions to the Closing of the Merger
Our, SAP’s and Merger Sub’s obligations to effect the merger are subject to the satisfaction or waiver at or prior to the effective time of the merger of each of the following conditions:
• | adoption of the Merger Agreement by an affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock; |
• | the waiting period under the HSR Act will have expired or been earlier terminated; |
• | the affirmative approval of a governmental entity required under certain other antitrust laws will have been obtained or any mandatory waiting period related thereto shall have expired; |
• | in the event that any governmental entity of competent jurisdiction takes certain specified actions under any other antitrust law, any affirmative approval of such governmental entity, or confirmation from such governmental entity that it does not have jurisdiction, under such antitrust law shall have been obtained or any mandatory waiting period related thereto shall have expired; and |
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• | the consummation of the merger shall not then be restrained, enjoined or prohibited by any order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) of a court of competent jurisdiction or any other governmental entity of competent jurisdiction and there shall not be in effect any law promulgated or deemed applicable to the merger by any governmental entity of competent jurisdiction which prevents the consummation of the merger. |
SAP’s and Merger Sub’s obligations to effect the merger are further subject to the satisfaction or waiver at or prior to the effective time of the merger of the following conditions:
• | certain representations and warranties relating to our capitalization contained in the Merger Agreement are true and correct in all material respects as of immediately prior to the effective time of the merger with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, except for representations and warranties that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct in all material respects as of such date or time); provided, however, that if any inaccuracies in the representations and warranties relating to our capitalization, individually or in the aggregate, result in the aggregate amount required to be paid by SAP as additional consideration in the merger (including as a result of the assumption of additional stock options, restricted stock, RSUs, or other securities convertible into our common stock in connection with the merger) to increase by more than $10,000,000, such representations and warranties will be deemed to fail to be true and correct in all material respects; |
• | our representations and warranties contained in the Merger Agreement relating to our organization and qualification, subsidiaries; no conflicts, required filings and consents; opinion of our financial advisor; required vote; and brokers and fees (collectively, the “fundamental representations”) to the extent qualified by materiality or material adverse effect on us shall be true and correct in all respects as of immediately prior to effective time of the merger with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the effective time of the merger except for fundamental representations that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct as of such date or time), and all of the fundamental representations to the extent not qualified by materiality or material adverse effect on us shall be true and correct in all material respects as of immediately prior to the effective time of the merger with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the effective time of the merger except for fundamental representations that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct as of such date or time); |
• | our representations and warranties contained in the Merger Agreement (other than certain representations and warranties related to our capitalization and the fundamental representations (without giving effect to any materiality or material adverse effect on us qualifications therein, except for certain representations relating to absence of certain changes or events)), will be true and correct in all respects as of immediately prior to the effective time of the merger with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the effective time, except for such representations and warranties that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct in all material respects as of such date or time); provided, however, that the representations and warranties shall be deemed true and correct unless the individual or aggregate impact of the failure to be so true and correct has had a material adverse effect on us; |
• | we will have performed in all material respects all obligations and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement to be performed or complied with by us prior to or on the closing date; |
• | since September 18, 2014, a material adverse effect on us has not occurred and does not continue to occur; |
• | SAP shall have received a certificate from our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, dated as of the closing of the merger, to the effect that each of the conditions set forth in the preceding five bullet points and the condition that holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock shall have adopted the Merger Agreement have been satisfied or waived; |
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• | there shall not be pending any action brought by any specified governmental entity against SAP, Merger Sub, us, any of our subsidiaries or any of our respective affiliates in connection with the merger, (i) that could lead to making illegal, restraining or prohibiting the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the merger, (ii) that could lead to prohibiting or imposing limitations on the ability of SAP or Merger Sub, or otherwise rendering SAP or Merger Sub unable, to pay for or acquire any or all of our common stock pursuant to the merger, or seeking to require divestiture of any or all of our common stock to be acquired pursuant to the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, (iii) that could lead to prohibiting or imposing any limitations on the ownership or operation by SAP, us or any of our affiliates of all or any portion of the businesses or assets of SAP, us or any of our affiliates as a result of or in connection with the merger or the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, or otherwise compelling SAP, us or any of our affiliates to divest, hold separate, or enter into any license (whether pursuant to an exclusive or nonexclusive license) or similar agreement with respect to any portion of the business or assets of SAP, us or any of our respective affiliates, (iv) that could lead to a requirement that SAP, us or any of our affiliates enter into any voting trust arrangement, proxy arrangement or similar agreement or arrangement with respect to any portion of the business or assets of SAP, us or any of our respective affiliates, or (v) that could lead to prohibiting or imposing limitations on the ability of SAP or Merger Sub effectively to acquire, hold or exercise full rights of ownership of our common stock to be acquired pursuant to the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the right to vote our common stock on all matters properly presented to our stockholders; |
• | there shall be no law enacted, entered, enforced or promulgated by any specified governmental entity, other than the application to the merger of applicable waiting periods under the HSR Act or similar waiting periods with respect to any other antitrust laws that (x) has resulted, or is reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to result, directly or indirectly, in any of the consequences referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of the preceding bullet point or (y) has the effect of making the merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement illegal or which has the effect of prohibiting or otherwise preventing the consummation of the merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; and |
• | that the parties (or their respective counsel) shall have received a written notification issued by CFIUS that it has concluded a review of any notification voluntarily provided pursuant to Exon-Florio that (i) CFIUS has concluded its review of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and that (1) such transactions do not constitute a “covered transaction,” (2) there are no unresolved national security issues with respect to such transactions, or (3) the U.S. government will not take action to prevent or suspend such transactions; (ii) CFIUS has concluded an investigation into such transactions without sending a report to the President of the United States and that (1) there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to such transactions or (2) the U.S. government will not take action to prevent or suspend such transactions; or (iii) the President of the United States has decided not to take any action to suspend or prohibit such transactions; provided that written notice from CFIUS shall not be required if (x) the period under Exon-Florio during which CFIUS or the President must act shall have expired without any such action being threatened, announced or taken or (y) the President shall have announced (or otherwise communicated, directly or indirectly, to SAP and us) a decision not to take any action to suspend or prohibit the such transactions. |
Our obligations to effect the merger are further subject to the satisfaction by SAP and/or Merger Sub or waiver by us at or prior to the effective time of the merger of the following conditions:
• | the representations and warranties of SAP and Merger Sub contained in the Merger Agreement (without giving effect to any materiality qualifications or any effect that, individually or in the aggregate with all other effects would prevent or materially delay, or would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay, consummation of the merger or performance by SAP or Merger Sub of any of their material obligations under the Merger Agreement) will be true and correct as of immediately |
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prior to the effective time of the merger with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the effective time, except for such representations and warranties in the Merger Agreement that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct in all material respects as of such date or time); provided, however, that the representations and warranties will be deemed true and correct unless the individual or aggregate impact of the failure to be so true and correct would prevent or materially delay the closing of the merger; |
• | each of SAP and Merger Sub will have performed in all material respects all obligations and agreements contained in the Merger Agreement to be performed or complied with by them prior to or on the closing date; and |
• | we will have received a certificate from an officer of SAP, dated as of the closing of the merger, to the effect that each of the conditions in the preceding two bullet points have been satisfied or waived. |
Termination of the Merger Agreement
The Merger Agreement may be terminated under the following circumstances:
by mutual written consent of Concur and SAP, by action of our respective boards of directors, at any time prior to the effective time of the merger;
by either SAP or Concur if:
• | the effective time of the merger shall not have occurred on or before February 18, 2015, except that if the merger is not completed by such date because any applicable waiting period under the HSR Act or other antitrust or competition law, or other governmental approval, including CFIUS approval, that is required to complete the merger, is not obtained, terminated or expired, or because any order is in effect prohibiting the closing of the merger, but all other conditions have been satisfied or waived, in which case either SAP or we can terminate the Merger Agreement if the merger is not completed by May 18, 2015 (“Outside Date”); provided, however that the right to terminate the Merger Agreement in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement shall not be available to any party whose breach of the Merger Agreement has been the primary cause of the failure of the effective time of the merger to have occurred on or before such date; |
• | a court or governmental entity has issued a final order or taken any other final action to permanently restrain, enjoin or otherwise prohibit, whether before or after receipt of our stockholder approval, the merger, and such order shall have become final and nonappealable; or |
• | our special meeting of the stockholders (including any adjournment or postponement thereof) has concluded, our stockholders have duly voted, and the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders was not obtained; |
by Concur if:
• | at any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, our Board determines to accept a superior proposal, but only if we have complied in all material respects with our obligations with respect to such proposal under the terms of the Merger Agreement, and we are permitted to accept such superior proposal pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, provided that such termination shall not be effective unless we, simultaneously with such termination, enter into the alternative acquisition agreement and pay the termination fee to SAP as described below under the heading “—Termination Fee and Expenses”; or |
• | SAP breaches a representation or warranty or fails to perform a covenant contained in the Merger Agreement that would prevent or materially delay closing of the merger or performance by SAP or Merger Sub of their material obligations under the Merger Agreement and such breach or |
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failure to perform cannot be remedied or is not remedied by SAP or Merger Sub within 20 business days after we give notice to SAP of such breach or failure to perform, but this right to terminate the Merger Agreement will not be available to us if such breach or failure to perform resulted primarily from our breach of the Merger Agreement; and |
by SAP if:
• | our Board shall have effectuated a change of Board recommendation (or any action by any committee of our Board which, if taken by our full Board, would be a change of Board recommendation); |
• | we fail to issue a press release that expressly reaffirms our Board recommendation within five business days after our receipt of a written request by SAP to provide such reaffirmation following the date that any party or group (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act), other than SAP or Merger Sub, (i) shall have made an acquisition proposal (other than a tender offer or exchange offer described in the bullet below) and the existence of such acquisition proposal becomes publicly known or (ii) shall have publicly announced an intention (whether or not conditional) to make an acquisition proposal or the existence of an intention to make an acquisition proposal shall have otherwise become publicly known; |
• | a tender offer or exchange offer that constitutes an acquisition proposal is commenced, and our Board has not recommended that our stockholders reject such tender offer or exchange offer and not tender their common stock into such tender offer or exchange offer within ten business days after commencement of such tender offer or exchange offer; |
• | we have materially breached the non-solicitation provisions of the Merger Agreement in any material respect, or in any respect if such breach results in the submission of an acquisition proposal; |
• | we fail to include in this proxy statement our Board’s recommendation for our stockholders to adopt the Merger Agreement; |
• | we or our Board (or any committee thereof) resolves, authorizes or publicly proposes to do any of the actions specified above; |
• | we breach a representation or warranty or fail to perform a covenant contained in the Merger Agreement so that the related closing conditions is not then satisfied and such breach or failure to perform cannot be cured or is not cured by us within 20 business days after SAP gives notice to us of such breach or failure to perform, but this termination right will not be available to SAP if the circumstances of such breach or failure to perform resulted primarily from the breach of the Merger Agreement by SAP or Merger Sub; or |
• | there shall have occurred any adverse event or development which, individually or in the aggregate, has had, and continues to have, a material adverse effect and either such event or development is not capable of being remedied or at least 20 business days shall have elapsed since the occurrence of such event or development provided, however, that SAP shall not be permitted to terminate the Merger Agreement pursuant to pursuant to the terms hereof if such condition was caused by the breach of the Merger Agreement by SAP or Merger Sub. |
Each party will generally pay its own fees and expenses in connection with the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, whether or not the merger is consummated.
We will be required to pay a termination fee of $265 million to SAP if the Merger Agreement is terminated by us if, at any time prior to the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, our Board determines to accept a superior proposal and we are permitted to accept such superior proposal pursuant to the terms of the
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Merger Agreement; provided, however, that such termination shall not be effective unless we, simultaneously with such termination, enter into the alternative acquisition agreement.
We will be required to pay a termination fee of $265 million to SAP if the Merger Agreement is terminated by SAP for the reasons set forth in the first six bullets above under the header “—Termination of the Merger Agreement—by SAP if,” starting on page 69 of this proxy statement.
We will be required to pay a termination fee of $265 million to SAP if:
• | the Merger Agreement is terminated by either SAP or us for the following reasons: |
¡ | if the Outside Date is reached, and our stockholders have not adopted the Merger Agreement at the special meeting of stockholders (or at any adjournment or postponement thereof) that we have held and completed for such purpose; or |
¡ | if our stockholders do not adopt the Merger Agreement at the special meeting of stockholders; and |
• | prior to the date of such termination of the Merger Agreement, an acquisition proposal shall have been made known to us or publicly disclosed (and not publicly withdrawn prior to such termination) and concurrently with, or within 12 months after, such termination, we either (i) consummate a transaction that constitutes an acquisition proposal, or (ii) enter into a definitive agreement to engage in a transaction or a tender offer is commenced that, in either case, constitutes an acquisition proposal, and such transaction or tender offer is subsequently consummated or completed (whether or not such consummation or completion occurs before or after the 12-month period following such termination). |
Solely for purposes of this paragraph, an acquisition proposal is (1) the purchase of or commencement of a tender offer, which if consummated results in 50% or more of the sale of our common stock; (2) results in the acquisition of 50% or more of one or more of our subsidiaries, which individually or in the aggregate generates 50% or more of our consolidated net revenues or net income or constitute more than 50% of our consolidated assets; (3) merge, consolidate, combine or are a party to another similar transaction, involving us or one or more of our subsidiaries, which individually or in the aggregate generates 50% or more of our consolidated net revenues or net income or constitute more than 50% of our consolidated assets, where our stockholders or the stockholders of our subsidiaries, as applicable, immediately preceding such transaction hold less than 50% of our stock or voting securities in the surviving entity of such transaction; (4) liquidate, dissolve, recapitalize or reorganize Concur or any of our subsidiaries other than a wholly-owned subsidiary; (5) sell us or our subsidiaries’ assets which assets generates 50% or more of our consolidated net revenues or net income or constitute more than 50% of our consolidated assets; or (6) any combination of the foregoing.
For a period of six years from and after the effective time, the surviving corporation will (and SAP will cause the surviving corporation to) indemnify and hold harmless all of our and our subsidiaries’ past and present directors, officers and employees to the same extent such persons were indemnified as of the date of the Merger Agreement by us pursuant to applicable law, our and our subsidiaries’ certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and specified indemnification agreements in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement, arising out of acts or omissions in their capacity as our and our subsidiaries’ directors, officers or employees occurring at or prior to the effective time of the merger. The surviving corporation will (and SAP will cause the surviving corporation to) advance expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred in the defense of any actions with respect to the matters subject to indemnification pursuant to the preceding sentence in accordance with the procedures set forth in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and indemnification agreements, if any, in existence on the date of the Merger Agreement; provided, however, that any of our and our subsidiaries’ directors, officers or employees to whom expenses are advanced undertakes, to the extent required by the DGCL, to repay such advanced expenses to the surviving corporation if it is ultimately determined that such director, officer or employee is not entitled to indemnification under applicable law or pursuant to the applicable indemnification agreement or organization document.
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In the event the surviving corporation or our subsidiaries consolidate with or merges into another entity and is not the continuing or surviving entity of such consolidation or merger or transfers all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another entity, then proper provision will be made so that such continuing or surviving corporation or entity or transferee of such assets, as the case may be, assumes the obligations described above (without relieving SAP of the obligations described above).
We will obtain prior to the effective time of the merger a directors and officers runoff insurance policy, or “tail” insurance policy, with a claims period of six years from the effective time of the merger with respect to directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering those persons who were, as of the date of the Merger Agreement, covered by our directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy, for acts or omissions occurring prior to the effective time of the merger, on terms that are no less favorable than our policies in effect on the date of the Merger Agreement. Neither we nor the surviving corporation shall be required to pay an annual premium for such tail policy in excess of 300% of the last annual premium paid prior the date of the Merger Agreement.
SAP has agreed to generally recognize the service of our employees prior to the merger for vesting and eligibility purposes (but not for benefit accrual purposes, except for vacation and severance, if applicable) in connection with certain employee benefit plans maintained by SAP or its subsidiaries in which our employees will participate following the completion of the merger. In addition, subject to certain exceptions, SAP has agreed to waive pre-existing condition limitations (to the extent satisfied under one of our benefit plans immediately prior to the effective time of the merger), participation waiting periods and credit co-payments and deductibles paid by our employees for the plan year under certain welfare plans in which our employees may be eligible to participate after the completion of the merger. Until September 30, 2015, SAP or its subsidiaries shall provide our employees in the United States who continue to be employed by SAP or a subsidiary of SAP with base salary and base wage rates, and target annual cash performance bonus opportunities (but not equity or cash-settled equity based incentive opportunities) that are not less favorable in the aggregate than such employees were eligible to earn from us immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, but only to the extent that we disclose such salaries, wage rates and target annual cash performance bonuses of such employees are within 30 days after the effective time of the merger.
Except as would violate applicable law or securities exchange rules, we, SAP and SAP SE have agreed that no public release or announcement concerning the merger shall be issued without the prior written consent of SAP and us.
We and SAP have agreed to promptly notify each other of the occurrence of any event that would be likely to cause any condition to the obligations of SAP or us, respectively, to effect the merger or any other transaction not to be satisfied.
We and SAP have agreed, subject to applicable law, that our executive officers, including our chief executive officer, shall, in response to reasonable requests from SAP, discuss with SAP, in good faith, material operational developments, the status of relationships with customers, partners and others having material business relationships with Concur, the status of ongoing operations and other matters relating to our business as reasonably requested by SAP.
We have agreed, subject to applicable law, to afford to SAP, Merger Sub and SAP SE and their respective officers, directors, employees, accountants, consultants, legal counsel, advisors, agents and other representatives:
• | upon reasonable prior notice to us, access to the officers, agents, properties, offices and other facilities of ours and our subsidiaries, and to the books and records thereof (excluding any confidential information contained in personnel files to the extent the disclosure of such information is prohibited |
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by privacy and security laws), and, with our consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), to our and our subsidiaries’ employees; |
• | upon reasonable request, furnish as promptly as reasonably practicable such information concerning the business, properties, contracts, assets, liabilities, personnel and other aspects of Concur and our subsidiaries; |
• | reasonably cooperate SAP and its representatives in connection with the arrangement of any financing to be consummated in order to fund the payment of the aggregate merger consideration and SAP’s other obligations under the Merger Agreement, subject to certain limitations as specified in the Merger Agreement; and |
• | to perform, or to reasonably cooperate with SAP in performing, a review and scan of our and our subsidiaries’ software. |
Notwithstanding the obligations described above, we may restrict the foregoing access (i) to the extent that providing access to such properties or information would violate applicable law, our or our subsidiaries’ contracts, and an order or (ii) would reasonably be expected to violate or result in a loss or impairment of any attorney-client or work product privilege. In the event that we do not provide access or information in reliance on foregoing, we shall promptly notify SAP and use our reasonable best efforts to, as promptly as practicable, as the case may be, obtain any necessary clearance or consent in order to permit such access or disclosure and provide such access or communicate such information to SAP or its representatives in a way, to the extent reasonably practicable, that would not violate the applicable law or contract or waive any such a privilege.
We have also agreed to the following with SAP:
• | to provide SAP with the opportunity to participate in the defense, settlement or compromise of any litigation action against us and/or our directors relating to the transactions and we have agreed to obtain the prior written consent of SAP prior to settling or satisfying any such action; |
• | prior to the effective time of the merger, comply with our obligations and duties under the terms of the those certain indentures governing the Senior Notes and maintain the Bond Hedges in full force and effect; and |
• | additional agreements relating to, among other things, reporting requirements Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, restrictions on entry into a stockholder rights agreement or “poison pill”, and timely filings with the SEC of all of our documents required to be filed under the Exchange Act. |
Extension, Waiver and Amendment of the Merger Agreement
We, SAP and Merger Sub may amend the Merger Agreement at any time prior to the effective time of the merger. However, after the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, no amendment can be made that by law or the rules of The NASDAQ Global Select Market requires further approval by our stockholders without obtaining such approval.
We, SAP or Merger Sub may extend the time for performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other parties under the Merger Agreement, waive any inaccuracies in another party’s representations and warranties and waive compliance by another party with any of the agreements or conditions contained in the Merger Agreement. However, after the adoption of the Merger Agreement by our stockholders, no waiver can be provided that by law or the rules of The NASDAQ Global Select Market requires further approval by our stockholders without obtaining such approval.
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As a condition and inducement to SAP and Merger Sub entering into the Merger Agreement, S. Steven Singh, our chief executive officer and our chairman of the Board, an entity affiliated with Mr. Singh, and American Express entered into voting agreements with SAP, dated September 18, 2014, pursuant to which they have undertaken to vote their shares in favor of the merger and against, among other things, any business combination or extraordinary corporate transaction other than the merger, unless the Merger Agreement is terminated, and not to transfer their shares during the pendency of the merger, subject to the right of American Express to sell up to 1,000,000 shares of Concur common stock prior to the date of the merger. As of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, these stockholders own approximately 14.8% of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock. In connection with the execution and delivery of the voting agreements, SAP did not pay these stockholders any consideration in addition to the consideration they may receive pursuant to the Merger Agreement in respect of their shares. Copies of the voting agreements are attached as Annex C and Annex D to this proxy statement.
The voting agreements require each of the stockholders, among others things, to vote the subject shares
in favor of:
• | the adoption of the Merger Agreement and approval of the merger and other transactions contemplated thereby; and |
• | any other matter reasonably relating to the consummation or facilitation of, or otherwise in furtherance of, the merger and the other transactions contemplated thereby; |
against any acquisition proposal (as such term is defined under the heading entitled “The Merger Agreement—Covenants—No Solicitation of Acquisition Proposals”) and against any other action, proposal, agreement, transaction or arrangement submitted for approval of our stockholders that is intended, or could reasonably be expected, to impede, interfere or be inconsistent with, delay, postpone, discourage or adversely affect the consummation of the merger.
Each stockholder subject to a voting agreement also agreed not to, directly or indirectly:
• | sell, pledge, encumber, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of its shares or any interest in its shares; |
• | deposit its shares or any interest in its shares into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to any of its shares or grant any proxy or power of attorney with respect thereto (other than as contemplated in the voting agreements); |
• | enter into any contract with respect to the direct or indirect acquisition or sale, pledge, encumbrance, assignment, transfer or other disposition of any of its shares; |
• | make any offer or enter into any agreement providing for any of the foregoing, other than transfers: |
¡ | if stockholder is an individual, to any immediate family member, to a trust solely for the benefit of stockholder or any member of stockholder’s immediate family, to a charitable entity, or upon the death of stockholder to stockholder’s heirs, and |
¡ | if stockholder is an entity, to an affiliate controlled by stockholder or under common control with stockholder, |
provided that in each of the foregoing cases, the transferee agrees to be bound by the applicable voting agreement.
American Express may transfer, free of any restriction or obligation pursuant to the voting agreements, up to 1,000,000 of its shares of our common stock.
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Each stockholder agreed to waive any appraisal rights in connection with the merger.
Each voting agreement and all obligations of the stockholder and SAP under each voting agreement will automatically terminate upon the earlier to occur of:
• | the date and time of the termination of the Merger Agreement in accordance with its terms; |
• | the effective time of the merger; |
• | the time the Merger Agreement is amended to change the form, or reduce the amount, of merger consideration to be paid pursuant thereto; or |
• | such time as SAP acquires beneficial ownership (as defined pursuant to Section 13d-3 of the Exchange Act) of any shares of our common stock. |
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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting, for:
• | each beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding common stock; |
• | each of our executive officers and each of our directors; and |
• | all of our executive officers and directors as a group. |
Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC, and the information is not necessarily indicative of beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Except as indicated by footnote, to our knowledge, the persons and entities named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of Concur common stock shown as beneficially owned by them, subject to applicable community property laws. Securities that may be acquired within 60 days of October 8, 2014, including shares subject to stock options that may be exercised, and restricted stock units that may vest, are deemed to be beneficially owned by the person or entity holding such securities for the purpose of computing beneficial ownership, but are not treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the ownership of any other person or entity. The information as to beneficial ownership presented in the table below does not take into account any accelerated vesting that may occur in connection with the closing of the merger. The applicable percentages of beneficial ownership are based on 57,074,353 shares of common stock outstanding as of October 8, 2014, the record date for the special meeting.
Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each of the individuals named below is: c/o Concur Technologies, Inc., 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, WA 98004.
Shares Beneficially Owned | ||||||||
Name of Beneficial Owner | Number | Percentage | ||||||
Directors and Executive Officers | ||||||||
S. Steven Singh(1) | 1,018,476 | 1.8 | ||||||
Rajeev Singh(2) | 258,812 | * | ||||||
Gordon Eubanks(3) | 41,182 | * | ||||||
Jeffrey T. Seely(4) | 48,230 | * | ||||||
Jeffrey T. McCabe | 19,207 | * | ||||||
Robert N. Cavanaugh | 37,652 | * | ||||||
Randall H. Talbot | 17,131 | * | ||||||
Francis J. Pelzer V | 36,479 | * | ||||||
John T. Torrey | 17,511 | * | ||||||
Edward P. Gilligan(5) | — | * | ||||||
All current directors and executive officers as a group (11 persons)(6): | 1,521,726 | 2.7 | ||||||
5% Stockholders: | ||||||||
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.(7) | 7,420,000 | 13.0 | ||||||
Entities affiliated with T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.(8) | 7,300,348 | 12.8 | ||||||
Entities affiliated with Capital World Investors(9) | 6,573,869 | 11.5 | ||||||
Entities affiliates with FMR LLC(10) | 4,437,867 | 7.8 | ||||||
Entities affiliated with Wellington Management Company, LLP(11) | 3,504,421 | 6.1 | ||||||
Entities affiliated with Artisan Partners Limited Partnership(12) | 3,305,674 | 5.8 |
* | Less than 1% |
(1) | Includes 17,500 shares to be issued upon the settlement of RSUs and 371,500 shares owned indirectly, as Managing Director of the Singh Family Trust LLC, to which Mr. Singh disclaims all beneficial ownership. |
(2) | Includes 66,928 shares subject to stock options and 5,000 shares to be issued upon the settlement of RSUs. |
(3) | Includes 20,000 shares subject to stock options. |
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(4) | Includes 40,000 shares subject to stock options. |
(5) | Edward P. Gilligan waived compensation, including the receipt of Concur common stock, pursuant to American Express Company internal policy. |
(6) | Includes 126,928 shares subject to stock options. |
(7) | Based on information contained in Form 4 filed September 23, 2014 by American Express; its address is c/o American Express Company, 200 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10285. |
(8) | Number of shares beneficially owned based on information contained in the most recent Schedule 13F. The Schedule 13G filed February 12, 2014 by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (“T. Rowe Price”) reflects that T. Rowe Price, in its capacity as an investment adviser, has sole voting power with respect to 1,736,960 of such shares and sole dispositive power with respect to all such shares; its address is 100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. |
(9) | Number of shares beneficially owned based on information contained in the most recent Schedule 13F. The Schedule 13G filed February 13, 2014 by Capital World Investors (“CWI”) reflects that CWI, a division of Capital Research and Management Company (“CRMC”), in its capacity as an investment adviser, is deemed to be the beneficial owner of, and has sole voting and dispositive power with respect to, 6,753,869 shares, as a result of CRMC acting as investment adviser to various investment companies. CWI disclaims all beneficial ownership of such shares; its address is 333 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California 90071. |
(10) | Number of shares beneficially owned based on information contained in the most recent Schedule 13F. The Schedule 13G filed on May 12, 2014 by FMR LLC (“FMR”) and Edward C. Johnson 3d (“Johnson”) reflects that FMR, behalf of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, and Johnson, have sole voting power with respect to 92,858 shares and sole dispositive power with respect to 4,434,389 shares and that shares include (i) 4,052,156 shares beneficially owned by Fidelity Management & Research Company (“Fidelity”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR and an investment adviser, with respect to which Johnson and FMR, through its control of Fidelity, has sole dispositive power; (ii) 292,853 shares beneficially owned by Fidelity SelectCo, LLC (“SelectCo”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR and an investment adviser, with respect to which Johnson and FMR, through its control of SelectCo, has sole dispositive power; (iii) 45,825 shares beneficially owned by Fidelity Management Trust Company (“Fidelity Trust”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR and a bank, with respect to which Johnson and FMR, through its control of Fidelity Trust, has sole voting and dispositive power; (iv) 46 shares beneficially owned by Strategic Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR and an investment adviser; (v) 26,319 shares beneficially owned by Pyramis Global Advisors, LLC (“Pyramis”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR and an investment adviser, with respect to which Johnson and FMR, through its control of Pyramis no dispositive power and sole voting power; (vi) 20,458 shares beneficially owned by Pyramis Global Advisors Trust Company (“Pyramis Trust”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR and a bank, with respect to which Johnson and FMR, through its control of Pyramis Trust has no dispositive power and sole voting power. With respect to 292,853 of such shares beneficially owned by SelectCo, members of the family of Johnson, Chairman of FMR, are the predominant owners, directly or through trusts, of Series B voting common shares of FMR, representing 49% of the voting power of FMR. The Johnson family group and all other Series B shareholders have entered into a shareholders’ voting agreement under which all Series B voting common shares will be voted in accordance with the majority vote of Series B voting common shares. Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common shares and the execution of the shareholders’ voting agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed, to form a controlling group with respect to FMR. Neither FMR nor Johnson, Chairman of FMR, has the sole power to vote or direct the voting of the shares owned directly by the various investment companies to which SelectCo acts as an investment adviser, which power resides with such companies’ Boards of Trustees. Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written guidelines established by such companies’ Boards of Trustees. FMR’s address is 245 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. |
(11) | Number of shares beneficially owned based on information contained in the most recent Schedule 13F. The Schedule 13G filed February 14, 2014 by Wellington Management Company, LLP (“Wellington”) reflects that Wellington, in its capacity as an investment adviser, may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 3,504,421 shares and has shared voting power with respect to 2,550,858 of such shares and shared dispositive power with respect to all such shares; its address is 280 Congress Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210. |
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(12) | Number of shares beneficially owned based on information contained in the most recent Schedule 13F. The Schedule 13G filed March 24, 2014 by Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (“APLP”) reflects that such number includes shares acquired on behalf of discretionary clients of APLP, an investment adviser, and beneficially owned equally by APLP, Artisan Investments GP LLC (“Artisan Investments”), Artisan Partners Holdings LP (“Artisan Holdings”) and Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. (“Artisan Management”), each of which has shared voting power with respect to 3,059,036 of such shares and shared dispositive power with respect to 3,305,674 of such shares. APLP is the sole limited partner of Artisan Holdings and the sole member of Artisan Investments. Artisan Investments is the general partner of APLP. Artisan Management is the general partner of Artisan Holdings. APLP’s address is 875 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 800, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202. |
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ADVISORY VOTE REGARDING MERGER-RELATED COMPENSATION PAID TO NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Compensation Paid to Named Executive Officers in Connection with the Merger
In accordance with Section 14A of the Exchange Act, we are providing our stockholders with the opportunity to cast an advisory (non-binding) vote on the merger-related compensation that may be paid or become payable to its named executive officers in connection with the proposed merger pursuant to agreements and arrangements with Concur, and on those agreements and arrangements. The amount of this compensation is set forth and as described below in the table entitled “Golden Parachute Compensation” and the accompanying footnotes on page 36 and under “The Merger—Interests of Concur’s Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Potential Payments in Connection with a Change in Control,” respectively. As required by those rules, we are asking our stockholders to adopt the following resolution:
RESOLVED, that the stockholders of Concur hereby APPROVE, on an advisory basis, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to Concur’s named executive officers in connection with the merger pursuant to agreements and arrangements with Concur, as disclosed, pursuant to Item 402(t) of Regulation S-K, in the table entitled “Golden Parachute Compensation” and the accompanying footnotes beginning on page 36 of Concur’s proxy statement for its special meeting of stockholders to be held on November 19, 2014.
Compensation that may be paid or become payable to our named executive officers following the merger pursuant to agreements or understandings between our named executive officers and SAP is not subject to the advisory vote on the compensation proposal. There are no agreements between SAP and our named executive officers regarding the officers’ post-closing employment terms or compensation arrangements.
The vote on this proposal is a vote separate and apart from the votes on the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement and the proposal to approve adjournments of the special meeting. Accordingly, you may vote to approve either of the other proposals and vote not to approve this proposal, and vice versa. Approval of this proposal is not a condition to completion of the proposed merger.
Because the vote on this proposal is only advisory in nature, it will not be binding on either Concur or SAP regardless of whether the proposed merger is completed. Accordingly, as the merger-related compensation described herein is contractual with respect to the executives, regardless of the outcome of this advisory vote, such compensation will be payable, subject only to the conditions applicable thereto, if the proposed merger is completed.
Vote Required and Board Recommendation
Our Board will consider the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Concur common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the compensation proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against this proposal on executive compensation, provided that a quorum is present. An abstention will not affect whether this matter is approved.
Our Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” thenon-binding, advisory
approval of the compensation that may be paid to our named executive officers that is
based upon or relates to the merger.
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ADJOURNMENT OF THE SPECIAL MEETING
Adjournment of the Special Meeting
In the event that the number of shares of Concur common stock present in person and represented by proxy on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting and voting “FOR” the merger is insufficient to adopt the Merger Agreement, we may move to adjourn the special meeting in order to enable our Board to solicit additional proxies in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement. In that event, we will ask our stockholders to vote only upon the adjournment proposal and not on the other proposals discussed in this proxy statement. In addition, pursuant to our bylaws the chairman of the special meeting has the authority to adjourn the special meeting without approval of the stockholders. Any adjournment to a date not more than 30 days after the date originally fixed for the special meeting may be made without notice, other than by an announcement made at the special meeting of the time and place of the adjourned meeting.
Vote Required and Board Recommendation
Approval of the proposal to adjourn the special meeting to a later date, if the chairman of the special meeting determines that it is necessary or appropriate and is permitted by the Merger Agreement, to solicit additional proxies if there is not a quorum present or there are not sufficient votes in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement at the time of the special meeting requires the affirmative vote of a majority of our shares of common stock present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on the adjournment proposal at the special meeting and casting a vote for or against this proposal on adjournment, provided that a quorum is present.
An abstention will have not affect whether this matter is approved. A failure to submit a proxy card or vote in person will not affect whether the adjournment proposal has been approved, although it will have the practical effect of reducing the number of affirmative votes required to achieve the required majority by reducing the total number of shares from which the majority is calculated.
Our Board unanimously recommends that you vote “FOR” this proposal.
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No business may be transacted at the special meeting other than the matters set forth in this proxy statement.
If the merger is completed, we will have no public stockholders and there will be no public participation in any of our future stockholder meetings. However, if the merger is not completed, our public stockholders will continue to be entitled to attend and participate in our stockholders meetings and we will hold an annual meeting of stockholders in 2015.
If the merger is not completed, our stockholders who intend to have a proposal considered for inclusion in our proxy statement and form of proxy for presentation at our 2015 annual meeting of stockholders pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act must submit the proposal to us to the attention of Corporate Secretary, 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, Washington 98004, not later than October 2, 2014. If the date of next year’s annual meeting of stockholders is moved more than 30 days before or 30 days after the anniversary date of the annual meeting, the deadline for inclusion of proposals in our proxy statement and proxy is instead a reasonable time before we begin to print and mail its proxy materials. Stockholders who intend to present a proposal at such meeting without inclusion of such proposal in our proxy statement and form of proxy pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act are required to provide the information required by our bylaws and give timely notice to our Corporate Secretary in accordance with our bylaws at the aforementioned address no earlier than December 12, 2014 and no later than January 11, 2015. If the date of next year’s annual meeting of stockholders is moved more than 30 days before or 60 days after the anniversary of the annual meeting, then notice of such proposal must be received no earlier than the close of business on the date 90 days prior to the meeting and no later than the close of business on the later of (i) the date 60 days prior to the meeting, and (ii) the date 10 days after public announcement of the meeting date. We reserve the right to reject, rule out of order, or take other appropriate action with respect to any proposal that does not comply with these and other applicable requirements, including conditions established by the SEC. Concur stockholders may contact our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices for a copy of the relevant bylaw provisions regarding the requirements for making stockholder proposals and nominating director candidates.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act, and file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You can read our SEC filings through the Internet at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. You may also read and copy any document we file with the SEC at its public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information about the public reference room.
You may obtain any of the documents we file with the SEC, without charge, by requesting them in writing or by telephone from us at the following address:
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Telephone: (425) 590-5000
Attn: Corporate Secretary
If you would like to request documents from us, please do so by November 12, 2014, to receive them before the special meeting. If you request any documents from us, we will mail them to you by first class mail, or another equally prompt method, promptly after we receive your request.
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The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information that we file with it into this proxy statement, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is an important part of this proxy statement. Information in this proxy statement supersedes information incorporated by reference that we filed with the SEC prior to the date of this proxy statement, while information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede the information in this proxy statement. We incorporate by reference into the proxy statement the documents listed below, and any future filings we will make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (other than Current Reports on Form 8-K containing only information furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, unless otherwise indicated therein) after the date of this proxy statement but prior to the date of the special meeting:
• | our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2013; |
• | our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended December 31, 2013, March 31, 2014 and June 30, 2014; |
• | our definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on January 30, 2014; and |
• | our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 14, 2014 and September 19, 2014 (as amended on September 19, 2014 by Amendment No. 1). |
We will make these documents available to you without charge upon your oral or written request. Requests should be directed to us at the following address:
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Telephone: (425) 590-5000
Attn: Corporate Secretary
Your vote is important. You may vote by returning the enclosed proxy card, submitting a proxy via the Internet or by telephone or by attending the special meeting and voting in person. If you have any questions about this proxy statement, the special meeting or the merger or need assistance with voting procedures, you should contact:
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, Washington 98004
Telephone: (425) 590-5000
Attn: Corporate Secretary
or
MacKenzie Partners, Inc.
105 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10016
Telephone: (212) 929-5500
Please note, however, that if your shares are held of record by a brokerage firm, bank, trust or other nominee and you wish to vote at the special meeting, you must obtain a proxy issued in your name from that record holder.
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You should not send in your Concur stock certificates until you receive the transmittal materials from the paying agent with instructions for the surrender of your stock certificates. Our record stockholders who have further questions about their share certificates or the exchange of our common stock for cash should contact the paying agent.
YOU SHOULD RELY ONLY ON THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT TO VOTE ON THE PROPOSALS DESCRIBED HEREIN. WE HAVE NOT AUTHORIZED ANYONE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT. THIS PROXY STATEMENT IS DATED OCTOBER 14, 2014. YOU SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT IS ACCURATE AS OF ANY DATE OTHER THAN THAT DATE (OR AS OF AN EARLIER DATE IF SO INDICATED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT). NEITHER THE MAILING OF THIS PROXY STATEMENT TO STOCKHOLDERS NOR THE ISSUANCE OF CASH IN THE MERGER CREATES ANY IMPLICATION TO THE CONTRARY. THIS PROXY STATEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A SOLICITATION OF A PROXY IN ANY JURISDICTION WHERE, OR TO OR FROM ANY PERSON TO WHOM, IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE A PROXY SOLICITATION.
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EXECUTION
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
by and among
SAP AMERICA, INC.
CONGRESS ACQUISITION CORP.
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CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Dated as of September 18, 2014
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Exhibit A – Certificate of Incorporation of the Surviving Corporation
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AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
This AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER, dated as of September 18, 2014 (this “Agreement”), is by and among SAP America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Congress Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Concur Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). All capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in Section 8.04 or as otherwise defined elsewhere in this Agreement unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company intend to effect a merger (the “Merger”) of Merger Sub with and into the Company in accordance with this Agreement and the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), with the Company to be the surviving corporation of the Merger (the “Surviving Corporation”), and each share of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (each a “Share” and collectively, the “Shares”) to be thereupon cancelled and converted into the right to receive cash in an amount equal to $129.00 per Share (the “Merger Consideration”), on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Company Board”) has, as of September 18, 2014, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, duly and unanimously adopted resolutions (a) approving and declaring the advisability of this Agreement, (b) approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, including the Merger, (c) determining this Agreement and the Transactions to be advisable, fair to and in the best interests of the Company and the Company’s stockholders and (d) recommending that the Company’s stockholders adopt this Agreement (the “Company Board Recommendation”);
WHEREAS, the respective boards of directors of Parent and Merger Sub have, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, approved and declared advisable this Agreement and the Transactions, including the Merger;
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, Parent, Merger Sub and certain stockholders of the Company are entering into a voting agreement of even date herewith (the “Voting Agreement”) pursuant to which such stockholders have agreed, subject to the terms thereof, to vote their Shares in favor of adoption of this Agreement among other matters;
WHEREAS, as a condition and inducement to the Company’s willingness to enter into this Agreement, Guarantor is entering into this Agreement to provide for the guaranty provided for in Section 8.15 in favor of the Company with respect to certain of Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company desire to make certain representations, warranties, covenants and agreements in connection with the Merger and also to prescribe various conditions to the Merger.
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AGREEMENT
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
THE MERGER
(a) Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, and in accordance with the DGCL, at the Effective Time, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into the Company. As a result of the Merger, the separate corporate existence of Merger Sub shall cease, and the Company shall continue as the Surviving Corporation. The Merger shall have the effects set forth in the applicable provisions of the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing and subject thereto, at the Effective Time, all of the property, rights, privileges, immunities, powers and franchises of the Company and Merger Sub shall vest in the Surviving Corporation, and all debts, Liabilities and duties of the Company and Merger Sub shall become the debts, Liabilities and duties of the Surviving Corporation.
(b) At the Effective Time, the Company Certificate shall, subject to Section 5.08, by virtue of or in connection with the Merger, be amended and restated in its entirety to read as set forth inExhibit A and, as so amended, shall be the certificate of incorporation of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter further amended as provided therein or by applicable Law.
(c) At the Effective Time, and without any further action on the part of the Company and Merger Sub, the Company Bylaws shall be amended and restated in their entirety to read as the bylaws of Merger Sub as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, except that all references therein to Merger Sub shall be automatically amended and shall become references to the Surviving Corporation and, as so amended, shall be the bylaws of the Surviving Corporation until thereafter amended as provided therein or by applicable Law.
(d) The directors of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, from and after the Effective Time, be the initial directors of the Surviving Corporation, each to hold office in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation until their respective successors shall have been duly elected, designated or qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation. The officers of Merger Sub immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, from and after the Effective Time, continue as the officers of the Surviving Corporation, each to hold office in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation until their respective successors shall have been duly elected, designated or qualified, or until their earlier death, resignation or removal in accordance with the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation.
(e) If at any time after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall determine, in its sole discretion, or shall be advised, that any deeds, bills of sale, instruments of conveyance, assignments, assurances or any other actions or things are necessary or desirable to vest, perfect or confirm of record or otherwise in the Surviving Corporation its right, title or interest in, to or under any of the rights, properties or assets of either of the Company or Merger Sub acquired or to be acquired by the Surviving Corporation as a result of, or in connection with, the Merger or otherwise to carry out this Agreement, then the officers and directors of the Surviving Corporation shall be authorized to execute and deliver, in the name and on behalf of either the Company or Merger Sub, all such deeds, bills of sale, instruments of conveyance, assignments and assurances and to take and do, in the name and on behalf of each of such corporations or otherwise, all such other actions and things as may be necessary or desirable to vest, perfect or confirm any and all right, title or interest in, to and under such rights, properties or assets in the Surviving Corporation or otherwise to carry out this Agreement.
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Section 1.02Closing and Effective Time of the Merger. The closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall take place at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on a date to be specified by the parties (the “Closing Date”), such date to be no later than the third International Business Day after satisfaction or waiver of all of the conditions set forth in ARTICLE VI (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the fulfillment or waiver of those conditions at the Closing), at the offices of Jones Day, 1755 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, California 94303, unless another time, date or place is agreed to in writing by the parties hereto. On the Closing Date, or on such other date as Parent and the Company may agree to in writing, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company shall cause a certificate of merger or other appropriate documents (in any case, the “Certificate of Merger”) to be executed and filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware in accordance with the relevant provisions of the DGCL and shall make all other filings or recordings required under the DGCL. The Merger shall become effective at the time the Certificate of Merger shall have been duly filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware or such later date and time as is agreed upon by the parties and specified in the Certificate of Merger, such date and time hereinafter referred to as the “Effective Time.”
Section 1.03Meeting of Stockholders to Approve the Merger.
(a) Promptly, and in any event within 10 Business Days, after the date of this Agreement, the Company shall prepare and file with the SEC preliminary proxy materials for the Special Meeting (together with any amendments and supplements thereto and any other required proxy materials, the “Proxy Statement”) relating to the Merger and this Agreement. Subject to Section 5.03(d) and Section 5.03(e), the Company shall include the Company Board Recommendation in the Proxy Statement. The Company shall also include the Fairness Opinion (in its entirety) in the Proxy Statement together with a summary thereof. Parent shall provide promptly to the Company such information concerning Parent and Merger Sub as may be reasonably requested by the Company for inclusion in the Proxy Statement.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1.03(a), prior to filing the preliminary Proxy Statement, a definitive Proxy Statement or any Other Filing with the SEC in connection with the Transactions, the Company shall provide Parent and its counsel with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on each such filing in advance, and the Company shall include in such filing all comments reasonably proposed by Parent in respect of such filings, except to the extent such disclosures relate to an Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall notify Parent promptly of the receipt of any oral or written comments from the SEC or its staff (or of notice of the SEC’s intent to review) and of any request by the SEC or its staff for amendments or supplements to the Proxy Statement or any Other Filing or for additional or supplemental information in connection therewith. The Company shall, as promptly as reasonably practicable after the receipt of such comments from the SEC or its staff with respect to the Proxy Statement or any such Other Filing (i) supply Parent with copies of all written correspondence received in connection therewith and (ii) provide Parent a reasonably detailed description of any oral comments received in connection therewith. The Company (1) shall provide Parent with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on any responses to comments or inquiries by the SEC with respect to any filings related to the Transactions, (2) shall include in such response all comments reasonably proposed by Parent in respect of the filings, except to the extent such comments relate to an Acquisition Proposal, (3) shall not file or mail such document, or respond to the SEC, prior to receiving the approval of Parent, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and (4) shall provide Parent and its counsel with a reasonable opportunity to participate in any discussions or meetings with the SEC or its staff with respect to such filings. The Company shall respond in good faith to any comments by the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable. Parent shall provide its comments to the Company as promptly as reasonably practicable.
(c) If the Company: (i) does not receive comments from the SEC with respect to the preliminary Proxy Statement, the Company shall file definitive proxy materials (including the definitive Proxy Statement) with the SEC and cause the definitive Proxy Statement to be mailed to the stockholders of the Company on or prior to the third Business Day after the expiration of the 10-day waiting period provided in Rule 14a-6(a) promulgated under the Exchange Act, or (ii) does receive comments from the SEC with respect to the preliminary Proxy Statement, the Company shall file definitive proxy materials (including the definitive Proxy Statement) with the
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SEC and cause the definitive Proxy Statement to be mailed to the stockholders of the Company on or prior to the third Business Day immediately following clearance by the SEC with respect to such comments.
(d) If, at any time prior to the date of the Special Meeting, any event or information relating to the Company, Parent, Merger Sub, or any of their Affiliates should be discovered by Parent or the Company which should be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy Statement, so that such document would not include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein not false or misleading, the party that discovers such information shall promptly notify the other parties and the Company shall cause an appropriate amendment or supplement describing such information to be filed with the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable thereafter and, to the extent required by applicable Law, disseminated to the stockholders of the Company.
(e) The Company, acting through the Company Board, shall, in accordance with applicable Law: (i) duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a special meeting of its stockholders as promptly as reasonably practicable, and in any event (to the extent permissible under applicable Law) no earlier than 30 days and no later than 40 days after the mailing of the definitive Proxy Statement to the stockholders of the Company, for the purpose of obtaining the Company Stockholder Approval (the “Special Meeting”) and (ii) subject to Section 5.03, use its reasonable best efforts to solicit from the stockholders of the Company proxies in favor of the adoption of this Agreement and secure the vote or consent of the stockholders of the Company as required by the rules of NASDAQ, the DGCL or other applicable Law to effect the Merger. The Company shall give Parent no less than 10 Business Days’ advance notice (or such shorter period of time as notice is provided to NASDAQ) of the date which shall be set as the “record date” for the Special Meeting. The Company shall consult with Parent regarding the date of the Special Meeting and shall not change the record date or postpone or adjourn the Special Meeting without the prior written consent of Parent;provided that the Company may, following reasonable consultation with Parent, adjourn the Special Meeting (i) to the extent reasonably necessary to ensure that any supplement or amendment to the Proxy Statement that the Company Board, after consultation with outside counsel, reasonably determines is necessary to comply with applicable Law, is made available to the Company’s stockholders in advance of the Special Meeting, (ii) to the extent that, as of the time that the Special Meeting is originally scheduled, adjournment of the Special Meeting is necessary to enable the Company to solicit additional proxies required to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business of the Special Meeting and to obtain the Company Stockholder Approval. The Company may, and if so requested by Parent shall, adjourn the Special Meeting in order to provide for the expiration of any time period provided for in Section 5.03(d) or Section 5.03(e).
(f) The Company shall ensure that the Special Meeting is called, noticed, convened, held and conducted, and that all Persons solicited in connection with the Special Meeting are solicited, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Law. The adoption of this Agreement and adjournment of the Special Meeting, as necessary, to solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes in favor of adoption of this Agreement shall be the only matters which the Company shall propose to be acted on by the stockholders of the Company at the Special Meeting, unless otherwise approved in writing by Parent.
(g) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company agrees that (i) its obligation to duly call, give notice of, convene and hold the Special Meeting shall not be affected by any Change of Board Recommendation and (ii) its obligations pursuant to this Section 1.03 shall not be affected by the commencement, public proposal, public disclosure or communication to the Company of any Acquisition Proposal (whether or not a Superior Proposal). Unless this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 7.01, the Company agrees that it shall not submit to the vote of the stockholders of the Company any Acquisition Proposal (whether or not a Superior Proposal) prior to the vote of the stockholders of the Company with respect to the Merger at the Special Meeting.
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Parent shall use its reasonable best efforts to deliver or provide (or cause to be delivered or provided), in its capacity as a stockholder of the Company, any other stockholder approvals that are required by applicable Law to effect the Merger.
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES IN THE MERGER
Section 2.01Conversion of Securities. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Company or the holders of any of the following securities:
(a)Conversion of Shares. Each Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time, other than Shares to be cancelled in accordance with Section 2.01(b) and other than Dissenting Shares, shall be converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, payable net to the holder in cash, without interest, subject to any withholding of Taxes required by applicable Law in accordance with Section 2.02(f), upon surrender of the Certificate formerly representing such Shares (or, in the case of Book-Entry Shares, surrender of such Book-Entry Shares) in accordance with Section 2.02. Notwithstanding the foregoing, shares subject to Full Value Awards shall be treated in accordance with Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c).
(b)Cancellation of Treasury Stock and Parent-Owned Stock. All Shares that are held in the treasury of the Company or owned of record by any Company Subsidiary that is directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company, and all Shares owned of record by Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiaries shall be cancelled and shall cease to exist, with no payment being made with respect thereto.
(c)Merger Sub Common Stock. Each share of common stock, no par value, of Merger Sub issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be converted into and become one newly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable share of common stock of the Surviving Corporation.
Section 2.02Payment for Securities; Surrender of Certificates.
(a)Paying Agent. Prior to the Effective Time, Parent or Merger Sub shall designate a reputable bank or trust company reasonably acceptable to the Company to act as the paying agent for purposes of effecting the payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration in connection with the Merger (the “Paying Agent”). At or promptly after the Effective Time (but in no event later than five International Business Days after the Effective Time), Parent or Merger Sub shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration to which holders of Shares (other than holders of Dissenting Shares and Shares subject to Full Value Awards) shall be entitled to receive pursuant to this Agreement as a result of the occurrence of at the Effective Time and upon surrender of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares as the case may be;provided,however, in the event that such funds on deposit with the Paying Agent are insufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration, Parent or Merger Sub shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, with the Paying Agent such additional funds as are necessary to ensure that the Paying Agent has funds sufficient to pay the aggregate Merger Consideration. Such funds shall be invested or otherwise held by the Paying Agent as directed by Parent or Merger Sub, in their sole discretion, pending payment thereof by the Paying Agent to the holders of the Shares. Earnings from such investments, if any, shall be the sole and exclusive property of Parent or Merger Sub, and no part of any such earnings shall accrue to the benefit of holders of Shares.
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(b)Procedures for Surrender. As promptly as practicable after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation or Parent shall cause the Paying Agent to mail to each holder of record of a certificate or certificates that represented Shares (the “Certificates”) or non-certificated Shares represented by book-entry (“Book-Entry Shares”), in each case, which Shares were converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration at the Effective Time pursuant to this Agreement:
(i) a letter of transmittal, which shall specify that delivery shall be effected, and risk of loss and title to the Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall pass, only upon delivery of the Certificates or transfer of the Book-Entry Shares, as the case may be, to the Paying Agent, and shall otherwise be in such form and have such other provisions as Parent or the Paying Agent may reasonably specify; and
(ii) instructions for use in effecting the surrender of the Certificates or transfer of Book-Entry Shares in exchange for payment of the Merger Consideration.
(c)Cancellation of Shares; Payment of Merger Consideration. Upon the surrender of Certificates or transfer of Book-Entry Shares for cancellation to the Paying Agent, and upon delivery of a letter of transmittal, duly executed and in proper form in accordance with the instructions thereto, with respect to such Certificates or an agent’s message in the case of a book entry transfer of Book-Entry Shares, the holder of such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall be entitled to receive the Merger Consideration for each Share formerly represented by such Certificates and for each Book-Entry Share. Any Certificates and Book-Entry Shares so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. If payment of the Merger Consideration is to be made to a Person other than the Person in whose name any surrendered Certificate is registered, it shall be a condition precedent of payment that the Certificate so surrendered shall be properly endorsed or shall be otherwise in proper form for transfer, and the Person requesting such payment shall have paid any transfer and other similar Taxes required by reason of the payment of the Merger Consideration to a Person other than the registered holder of the Certificate so surrendered and shall have established to the satisfaction of the Surviving Corporation that such Taxes either have been paid or are not required to be paid. Payment of the Merger Consideration with respect to Book-Entry Shares shall only be made to the Person in whose name such Book-Entry Shares are registered. Until surrendered as contemplated hereby, each Certificate or Book-Entry Share shall be deemed at any time after the Effective Time to represent only the right to receive the Merger Consideration in cash as contemplated by this Agreement, without interest thereon.
(d)Transfer Books; No Further Ownership Rights in Shares. All cash paid upon the surrender of Certificates or the transfer of Book-Entry Shares in accordance with the terms of this ARTICLE II shall be deemed to have been paid in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to the Shares formerly represented by such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares, as applicable. At the Effective Time, the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed and thereafter there shall be no further registration of transfers of Shares on the records of the Company. From and after the Effective Time, the holders of Certificates and Book-Entry Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall cease to have any rights with respect to such Shares except as otherwise provided for herein or by applicable Law. If, after the Effective Time, Certificates or Book-Entry Shares are presented to the Surviving Corporation for any reason, they shall be cancelled and exchanged as provided in this Agreement.
(e)Termination of Fund; Abandoned Property; No Liability. At any time following the nine month anniversary of the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation shall be entitled to require the Paying Agent to deliver to it any funds (including any interest received with respect thereto) made available to the Paying Agent and not disbursed to holders of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares, and thereafter such holders shall be entitled to look only to the Surviving Corporation (subject to abandoned property, escheat or other similar Laws) only as general creditors thereof with respect to the Merger Consideration payable upon due surrender of their Certificates or Book-Entry Shares and compliance with the procedures in Section 2.02(b), without interest and subject to any withholding of Taxes required by applicable Law in accordance with Section 2.02(f). If, immediately prior to such time on which any payment in respect hereof would escheat to or become the property of any Governmental Entity pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Laws, any holder
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of Certificates or Book-Entry Shares has not complied with the procedures in Section 2.02(b) to receive payment of the Merger Consideration to which such holder would otherwise be entitled, the payment in respect of such Certificates or Book-Entry Shares shall, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, become the property of the Surviving Corporation, free and clear of all claims or interest of any Person previously entitled thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither Parent, the Surviving Corporation nor the Paying Agent shall be liable to any holder of a Certificate or Book-Entry Shares for Merger Consideration delivered to a public official pursuant to any applicable abandoned property, escheat or similar Law.
(f)Withholding Rights. Parent, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation and the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from the Merger Consideration or any other payment otherwise payable pursuant to this Agreement to any holder of Shares, Company Options or shares subject to Full Value Awards, as applicable, such amounts that Parent, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent is required to deduct and withhold with respect to the making of such payment under the Code, the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or any provision of applicable Law, including with respect to any stock transfer Taxes payable by holder of Shares, Company Options or shares subject to Full Value Awards. To the extent that amounts are so withheld by Parent, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent, Parent shall pay (unless the Paying Agent is the entity withholding such amounts, in which case, Parent shall instruct the Paying Agent to pay) such amounts to the appropriate taxing authority and such amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the holder of Shares, Company Options or shares subject to Full Value Awards, as applicable, in respect of which such deduction and withholding was made by Parent, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent.
(g)Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates. In the event that any Certificates shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Paying Agent shall issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificates, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the holder thereof, the Merger Consideration payable in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.01(a);provided,however, that Parent may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the payment of such Merger Consideration, require the owners of such lost, stolen or destroyed Certificates to deliver a bond in such sum as it may reasonably direct as indemnity against any Action that may be made against Parent, Merger Sub, the Surviving Corporation or the Paying Agent with respect to the Certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
Section 2.03Dissenting Shares. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, Shares outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time and held by a holder who is entitled to demand and has properly demanded appraisal for such Shares in accordance with, and who complies in all respects with, Section 262 of the DGCL (such Shares, the “Dissenting Shares”) shall not be converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration, and shall instead represent the right to receive payment of the fair value of such Dissenting Shares in accordance with and to the extent provided by Section 262 of the DGCL. If any such holder fails to perfect or otherwise waives, withdraws or loses his right to appraisal under Section 262 of the DGCL or other applicable Law, then the right of such holder to be paid the fair value of such Dissenting Shares shall cease and such Dissenting Shares shall be deemed to have been converted, as of the Effective Time, into and shall be exchangeable solely for the right to receive the Merger Consideration, without interest and subject to any withholding of Taxes required by applicable Law in accordance with Section 2.02(f). The Company shall give Parent prompt notice of any demands received by the Company for appraisal of Shares, attempted withdrawals of such demands and any other instruments served pursuant to the DGCL and received by the Company relating to rights to be paid the fair value of Dissenting Shares, and Parent shall have the right to participate in all negotiations and Actions with respect to such demands. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall not, except with the prior written consent of Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), make any payment (unless required by Law) with respect to, or settle or compromise or offer to settle or compromise, any such demands, or agree to do any of the foregoing. Any portion of the aggregate Merger Consideration made available to the Paying Agent to pay for Shares that have become Dissenting Shares shall be returned to Parent upon demand.
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Section 2.04Treatment of Company Options, Company Restricted Stock and Company RSUs. No later than immediately prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall have taken all requisite action such that:
(a)Company Options. Each Company Option that is unexpired, unexercised and outstanding as of the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, shall be, by virtue of the occurrence of the Effective Time and without any action on the part of Parent, Merger Sub, the Company, the holder of such Company Option or any other Person, cancelled and converted at the Effective Time into the right to receive from the Surviving Corporation, within 21 days following the Effective Time, an amount in cash equal to the product of (x) the aggregate number of Shares subject to such Company Option, and (y) the excess, if any, of the Merger Consideration over the applicable per share exercise price under such Company Option. If the per share exercise price under any such Company Option is equal to or greater than the Merger Consideration, such Company Option shall be cancelled pursuant to this Section 2.04(a) without payment of consideration.
(b)Treatment of Unvested Full Value Awards. Each Share subject to a Company RSU and each Share of Company Restricted Stock (each such award, a “Full Value Award”) that remains outstanding immediately prior to, and is not vested and does not become vested at, the Effective Time shall be cancelled and converted into the right to receive, in cash, the Merger Consideration, and such right shall remain subject to the time-based vesting (including any “double-trigger” acceleration) terms that applied with respect to the applicable Full Value Award immediately prior to the Effective Time under the award agreement governing such Full Value Award (the “Replacement Right”). Each Replacement Right shall not vest or become payable by the Surviving Corporation at the Effective Time and shall instead vest and become payable by Parent on the date upon which the applicable Share subject to the Full Value Award would have vested under the time-based vesting terms and other conditions, including any “double-trigger” acceleration terms, set forth in the award agreement governing such Full Value Award. If such terms and conditions are not satisfied and vesting ceases to continue at any point after the Effective Time, the holder of the Replacement Right shall have no right to receive any payment in respect of the forfeited Replacement Right or the original Full Value Award. Following the Effective Time, no Replacement Right may be pledged, encumbered, sold, assigned or transferred (including any transfer by operation of law), by any Person, other than to the Surviving Corporation, or be taken or reached by any legal or equitable process in satisfaction of any Liability of such Person, prior to the payment to such Person of the Merger Consideration in accordance with this Section 2.04(b). Notwithstanding any of the foregoing to the contrary, each Full Value Award held by a non-employee director of the Company that is outstanding as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, shall not be assumed, converted or substituted for by Parent and shall instead be cancelled at the Effective Time in exchange for a payment by the Surviving Corporation in respect of each Share subject to such Full Value Award in an amount equal to the Merger Consideration, to be paid in cash in a single lump-sum payment as soon as practicable (but in no event later than 21 days) following the Effective Time.
(c)Treatment of Vested Company RSUs. Each Share subject to a Company RSU that is vested but not yet issued as of the Effective Time, or that becomes vested at the Effective Time pursuant to the applicable award agreement, shall not be assumed or substituted for by Parent and shall instead be cancelled at the Effective Time in exchange for a payment by the Surviving Corporation in respect of each unissued Share subject to a Company RSU in an amount equal to the Merger Consideration, to be paid in cash in a single lump-sum payment as soon as practicable (but in no event later than 21 days) following the Effective Time.
Section 2.05Treatment of Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Each current “Offering Period” (as defined in the ESPP) in progress as of the date of this Agreement under the ESPP shall continue, and, except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.05, the Shares shall be issued to participants thereunder on the next currently scheduled purchase dates thereunder occurring after the date of this Agreement as provided under, and subject to the terms and conditions of, the ESPP. Any Offering Period in progress as of the Effective Time shall be shortened, and the last day of each such Offering Period shall be the second Business Day immediately preceding the Effective Time. Each then outstanding ESPP Purchase Right shall be exercised automatically on the last day of such Offering Period. Notwithstanding any restrictions on transfer of stock in the ESPP, the treatment in the Merger of any Shares under this provision shall be in accordance with Section 2.01(a). The Company shall
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terminate the ESPP as of or immediately prior to the Effective Time. The Company shall, promptly after the date of this Agreement, take all actions (including, if appropriate, amending the terms of the ESPP) that are necessary to give effect to the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.05 and as are appropriate to avoid the commencement of any new Offering Period thereunder at or after the date of this Agreement and prior to the earlier of the termination of this Agreement or the Effective Time.
Section 2.06No Right to Equity Under Awards. The parties agree that following the Effective Time, no holder of a Company Option, Company RSU, ESPP Purchase Right or any other equity-based awards shall have any right hereunder to acquire any Equity Interest (including any “phantom” stock or stock appreciation rights) in the Company, any of the Company Subsidiaries or the Surviving Corporation.
Section 2.07Notices; Board or Committee Resolutions.
(a) To the extent necessary to give effect to the transactions contemplated in Section 2.04, the Company shall, at least 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated Effective Time, use its reasonable best efforts to provide notice, in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to Parent, to all holders of outstanding Company Options and shares subject to Full Value Awards that are subject to Section 2.04 and holders of ESPP Purchase Rights subject to Section 2.05.
(b) Prior to or promptly after the date of this Agreement, the Company Board or any committee thereof that administers the Company Stock Option Plans shall adopt resolutions, in a form reasonably acceptable to Parent, that (i) terminate each Company Stock Option Plan effective as of or immediately prior to the Effective Time, (ii) approve the transactions contemplated in Section 2.04 as valid under the terms of the Company Stock Option Plans and the award agreements issued thereunder, (iii) approve the transactions contemplated in Section 2.05 as valid under the terms of the ESPP and the award agreements issued thereunder and further document that:
(A) the transactions contemplated in Section 2.04 are consistent with the terms of the Company Stock Option Plans and the award agreements issued thereunder;
(B) the transactions contemplated in Section 2.05 are valid under the terms of the ESPP and the award agreements issued thereunder;
(C) Parent’s assumption of the obligation to pay any Replacement Rights that vest pursuant to the terms set forth in Section 2.04(b) will result in Parent substituting an equivalent award for each share subject to a Full Value Award that becomes subject to the terms set forth in Section 2.04(b); and
(D) the consummation of the Merger will not accelerate the vesting of any shares subject to Full Value Awards or Company Options that are exchanged for Replacement Rights, except as (1) specifically provided by Section 2.04(a) with respect to Company Options, (2) specifically provided by Section 2.04(b) with respect to any such Full Value Awards held by non-employee directors of the Company, or (3) specifically provided by the terms of the individual award agreement documenting a Full Value Award between the holder of any Full Value Award and the Company or a Company Subsidiary that is in effect on the date of this Agreement.
Section 2.08Adjustments to Prevent Dilution. In the event that the Company changes (or establishes a record date for changing) the number of shares of Company Stock issued and outstanding prior to the Effective Time as a result of a stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, subdivision, reclassification, combination, exchange of shares or similar transaction with respect to the outstanding shares of Company Stock, at any time during the period from the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, the Merger Consideration shall be equitably adjusted to reflect such transaction;provided, however, that nothing in this Section 2.08 shall be construed as permitting the Company to take any action or enter into any transaction otherwise prohibited by this Agreement.
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY
Except as set forth in the disclosure schedule delivered by the Company to Parent and Merger Sub prior to the execution of this Agreement (the “Company Disclosure Schedule”) which identifies items of disclosure by reference to a particular Section or subsection of this Agreement, as applicable, or any other part of the Company Disclosure Schedule where it is reasonably apparent based on the substance of such disclosure (without reference to the contents of the documents referred to therein) or the context in which such disclosure is made that such disclosure shall be deemed to be disclosed with respect to any other Section or subsection of this Agreement, the Company hereby represents and warrants to Parent and Merger Sub as follows:
Section 3.01Organization and Qualification; Subsidiaries.
(a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary is a corporation or other legal entity duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (to the extent a concept of “good standing” is applicable in the case of any jurisdiction outside the United States) under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, and has all requisite corporate or organizational, as the case may be, power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted in all material respects, except with respect to the Company Subsidiaries, where the failure to be in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, has not had a Company Material Adverse Effect. The Company and each Company Subsidiary is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing (to the extent a concept of “good standing” is applicable in the case of any jurisdiction outside the United States) in each jurisdiction where the ownership, leasing or operation of its properties or assets or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, has not had a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The Company has delivered or caused to be delivered to Parent and Merger Sub true and complete copies of the Company Certificate and the Company Bylaws, and the certificate of incorporation and bylaws, or equivalent organizational or governing documents, of each material Company Subsidiary and each Company Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company. Each of such documents is in full force and effect. The Company is not in violation of the Company Certificate or Company Bylaws, and the Company Subsidiaries are not in violation in any material respect of their respective organizational or governing documents.
(c) None of the Company or Company Subsidiaries is an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(d) Section 3.01(d) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a true and complete list of each Company Subsidiary, together with the jurisdiction of organization or formation of each Company Subsidiary and (ii) the directors and officers of the Company and each material Company Subsidiary, as of the date of this Agreement.
(a) The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of (i) 195,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001 and (ii) 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Company Preferred Stock”). As of the close of business on September 16, 2014 (the “Capitalization Date”), there were 57,074,353 Shares issued and outstanding (with no shares of Company Restricted Stock) and 2,440 Shares were held in treasury by the Company. No shares of Company Preferred Stock are issued or outstanding.
(b) As of the close of business on the Capitalization Date, the Company has no shares of capital stock reserved for or otherwise subject to issuance, except for (i) 204,696 Shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the exercise of outstanding Company Options under the Company Stock Option Plans, (ii) 2,961,750 Shares reserved
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for issuance pursuant to the vesting of Company RSUs under the Company Stock Option Plans, (iii) up to 180,000 Shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the exercise of outstanding ESPP Purchase Rights under the ESPP, (iv) 3,095,332 Shares reserved for future awards under the Company Stock Option Plans, (v) 5,491,882 Shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2015 Notes, (vi) 5,491,882 Shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2015 Warrants, (vii) 4,661,550 Shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2018 Notes, and (viii) 4,661,550 Shares reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2018 Warrants.
(c) All of the outstanding Shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights and were issued in compliance with applicable Law. All Shares subject to issuance under any Company Options or Company RSUs and any Company Stock Option Plan, the 2015 Notes, the 2015 Warrants, the 2018 Notes and the 2018 Warrants, upon issuance prior to the Effective Time, if any, pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in the instruments pursuant to which they are issuable, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights and issued in material compliance with applicable Law. Section 3.02(c) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth, as of the close of business on the Capitalization Date, an accurate and complete list of each outstanding Company Option, ESPP Purchase Right, Company RSU and award of Company Restricted Stock and (i) the employee number of each holder thereof, (ii) the date of grant, (iii) the portion which is vested of each Company RSU or award of Company Restricted Stock as of the close of business on the Capitalization Date, (iv) the vesting schedule of such Company RSU, (v) the exercise or purchase price thereof, if applicable, and in the case of ESPP Purchase Rights, the fair market value as of the offer date of each ongoing offering period, (vi) the Company Stock Option Plan (and the name of any foreign sub-plan) under which each Company Option, ESPP Purchase Right or Company RSU, as the case may be, was granted and (vii) the number of holders of ESPP Purchase Rights on a country-by-country basis. The ESPP is intended to qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” within the meaning of Section 423 of the Code. Each grant of a Company Option, Company RSU, award of Company Restricted Stock and ESPP Purchase Right was properly approved by the Company Board (or a duly authorized committee or subcommittee thereof) in compliance in all material respects with Law, recorded on the Company’s financial statements in accordance with GAAP in all material respects consistently applied, and were validly issued, and no such grants involved any “back dating,” “forward dating” or similar practices with respect to the effective date of the grant. Except for Company Options, Company RSUs, Company Restricted Stock and ESPP Purchase Rights, there are no awards or rights outstanding under any of the Company Stock Option Plans.
(d) Except as set forth in Section 3.02(b), there are no Contracts to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party, including options, warrants, debentures, notes or other rights, Contracts, arrangements or commitments of any character (i) relating to any Equity Interests of the Company, (ii) obligating the Company or any Company Subsidiary to issue, acquire or sell any Equity Interests of the Company, (iii) providing general voting rights with holders of Shares or Company Preferred Stock, or convertible into securities having such rights, or (iv) (A) restricting the transfer of, (B) affecting the voting rights of, (C) requiring the repurchase, redemption or disposition of, or containing any right of first refusal with respect to, (D) requiring the registration for sale of or (E) granting any preemptive or antidilutive rights with respect to, any Shares or other Equity Interests in the Company. From the close of business on the Capitalization Date, the Company has not issued any shares of its capital stock or other Equity Interests except upon the exercise of Company Options and the settlement of Company RSUs outstanding as of the close of business on the Capitalization Date, or upon conversion of the 2015 Notes or exercise of the 2015 Warrants outstanding on the Capitalization Date and except as permitted under Section 5.01.
(e) Section 3.02(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth, for each material Company Subsidiary and each Company Subsidiary that is not, directly or indirectly, wholly-owned by the Company, as applicable: (i) its authorized capital stock or other Equity Interests, (ii) the number of its outstanding shares of capital stock or other Equity Interests and type(s) of such outstanding shares of capital stock or other Equity Interests and (iii) the record owner(s) thereof. Other than the outstanding shares of capital stock of each Company Subsidiary, there are no other Equity Interests of any Company Subsidiary.
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(f) Except for the rights of the Company or a wholly-owned Company Subsidiary in their capacity as a holder of the outstanding Equity Interests of a Company Subsidiary, there are no Contracts of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, including options, warrants, debentures, notes or other rights, agreements, arrangements or commitments of any character to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party (i) relating to any Equity Interests of a Company Subsidiary, (ii) obligating the Company or any Company Subsidiary to issue, acquire or sell any Equity Interests of the Company Subsidiaries, (iii) providing general voting rights with holders of the Equity Interests of any Company Subsidiary, or convertible into securities having such rights, or (iv) (A) restricting the transfer of, (B) affecting the voting rights of, (C) requiring the repurchase, redemption or disposition of, or containing any right of first refusal with respect to, (D) requiring the registration for sale of, or (E) granting any preemptive or antidilutive rights with respect to, any Equity Interests in a Company Subsidiary. Other than Equity Interests that are owned by certain nominee equity holders as required by the applicable Law of the jurisdiction of organization of such Company Subsidiaries (which shares or other interests do not materially affect the Company’s control of such Company Subsidiaries), the Company or another Company Subsidiary owns, directly or indirectly, all of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each of the Company Subsidiaries, free and clear of any Liens, and all of such Equity Interests have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights and were issued in compliance with applicable Law. Except for Equity Interests in the Company Subsidiaries, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary owns directly or indirectly any Equity Interest in any Person, or has any obligation or has made any agreement to acquire any such Equity Interest, to provide funds to, or to make any investment (in the form of a loan, capital contribution or otherwise) in, any Company Subsidiary or any other Person.
(g) The conversion rate for the 2015 Notes is 19.1022 Shares per each $1,000 principal amount of the 2015 Notes.
(h) The conversion rate for the 2018 Notes is 9.5377 Shares per each $1,000 principal amount of the 2018 Notes.
(a) The Company has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and all other agreements and documents contemplated hereby to which it is a party, and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder and to consummate the Transactions including the Merger (subject to and assuming the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval in connection with the Merger). The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the Transactions, including the Merger, have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and no other corporate proceedings on the part of the Company and no stockholder votes are necessary to adopt or authorize this Agreement or to consummate the Transactions other than, with respect to the Merger, the Company Stockholder Approval and the filing of the Certificate of Merger with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware pursuant to the DGCL. This Agreement has been validly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by each of Parent, Merger Sub and Guarantor, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including all Laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in an Action at law or in equity).
(b) The Company Board has (i) taken all appropriate actions so that, assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.05, the restrictions on business combinations contained in Section 203 of the DGCL will not apply with respect to, or as a result of, the execution of this Agreement, the Voting Agreement or the consummation of the Transactions, including the Merger, without any further action on the part of the stockholders of the Company or the Company Board and (ii) subject to any Change of Board Recommendation effected in compliance with Section 5.03(d) or Section 5.03(e) after the date of this Agreement, duly and unanimously adopted resolutions (A) approving and declaring the advisability of this Agreement,
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(B) approving the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Transactions, including the Merger, (C) determining this Agreement and the Transactions to be advisable, fair to and in the best interests of the Company and the Company’s stockholders and (D) recommending that the Company’s stockholders adopt this Agreement. No other “fair price,” “moratorium,” “control share acquisition”, “business combination” or other anti-takeover statute or Law (each, together with Section 203 of the DGCL, a “Takeover Law”) is applicable to the Company or the Transactions. None of the Company or any Company Subsidiary has adopted a stockholder rights agreement, rights plan, “poison pill” or other similar agreement.
Section 3.04No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents. Assuming the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval and the making of the filings and the receipt of the consents and waiting period terminations or expirations identified in Section 3.04(b), none of the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by the Company, the consummation by the Company of the Merger or any other Transaction, or the Company’s compliance with any of the provisions of this Agreement will (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both):
(a) (i) conflict with or violate the Company Certificate or Company Bylaws, or any equivalent organization or governing documents of any Company Subsidiary; (ii) conflict with or violate any Law or rule of the NASDAQ applicable to the Company or any Company Subsidiary or by which any of their respective properties is bound or affected, in each case, in any material respect; (iii) result in any material violation or breach of, or constitute a material default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a material default) or impair the Company’s or any of the Company Subsidiaries’ material rights under, or alter their respective material obligations or alter the material rights or obligations of any third party under, or give to any third party any rights of purchase, termination, amendment, payment, acceleration or cancellation pursuant to any Company Material Contract or under any Company Permit, or (iv) result in the creation of a Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) on any of the material properties or assets (including intangible assets) of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
(b) require any consent, approval, waiting period termination or expiration, Order, license, authorization, declaration or permit of, or filing or registration with or notification to, any Governmental Entity, except (i) the applicable requirements, if any, of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including the filing of the Proxy Statement relating to the adoption by the stockholders of the Company of this Agreement, (ii) the filing and recordation of the Certificate of Merger or other documents as required by the DGCL, (iii) compliance with any applicable requirements of the HSR Act and the applicable requirements of non-U.S. Antitrust Laws, (iv) such filings as may be required under the rules and regulations of the NASDAQ, (v) the Exon-Florio Filing and clearance by CFIUS, (vi) such consents, approvals, Orders, licenses, authorizations, declarations, permits, filings, registrations and notifications as may be required under state or foreign securities or Takeover Laws and (vii) such other consents, approvals, Orders, licenses, authorizations, declarations, permits, filings, registrations or notifications which, if not obtained or made, would not have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
Section 3.05Permits; Compliance With Law.
(a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary holds all material authorizations, licenses, permits, certificates, filings, consents, variances, exemptions, waivers, approvals, orders, registrations and clearances of any Governmental Entity necessary for the Company and each Company Subsidiary to own, lease and operate its properties and assets, and to carry on and operate its businesses in all material respects as currently conducted (the “Company Permits”). The Company and each Company Subsidiary is, and has for the past six years been, in compliance with the terms of the Company Permits in all material respects, and all of the Company Permits are valid and in full force and effect in all material respects. As of the date of this Agreement, no material suspension, modification, revocation or cancellation of any of the Company Permits is, to the Knowledge of the Company, pending or threatened.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is in material violation, or has any continuing material Liability as a result of any, conflict or noncompliance with, default under or violation of, or has any continuing or unresolved material Liabilities in connection with, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, is being
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investigated for or charged by any Governmental Entity with, a material violation of or noncompliance with any Law applicable to the Company or any Company Subsidiary or by which any property or asset of the Company or any Company Subsidiary is bound or affected. To the Knowledge of the Company, no investigation by any Governmental Entity with respect to the Company or any Company Subsidiary is pending or threatened, nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, has any Governmental Entity indicated an intention to conduct any such investigation.
(c) None of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or executives, agents or representatives (i) has used any corporate funds for any illegal contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, (ii) has used any corporate funds for any direct or indirect unlawful payments to any foreign or domestic government officials or employees, (iii) has violated or is violating any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act of 2010 or any other applicable anticorruption Laws, (iv) has established or maintained any unlawful fund of corporate monies or other properties, (v) has made any bribe, unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment of any nature or (vi) violated or operated in noncompliance with any anti-money laundering law, anti-terrorism law or regulation, anti-boycott regulations or embargo regulations.
(d) There are, and have been, no Actions pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, Actions or investigations threatened, of any nature seeking to impose, or that are reasonably likely to result in the imposition, on the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries of any Liability arising under or relating to any Environmental Law or Company Permit relating to the environment, health or safety matters, or in connection with any Hazardous Substance, which Liability has been or is reasonably likely to be, either individually or in the aggregate, material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is subject to any continuing or unresolved material liabilities in connection with, any agreement, Order settlement, letter or memorandum by or with any Governmental Entity or third party imposing any Liability under any Environmental Law or Company Permit relating to the environment, health or safety matters, or in connection with any Hazardous Substance.
(e) The Company and each Company Subsidiary have at all times conducted their export transactions in material compliance with (i) applicable U.S. Export and Import Laws and (ii) applicable Foreign Export and Import Laws, and, since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has made a voluntary disclosure with respect to any violation of any U.S. Export and Import Laws or Foreign Export and Import Laws. Without limiting the foregoing: (i) the Company and each Company Subsidiary have obtained or invoked, and are in compliance in all material respects with, all material export licenses, license exceptions and other consents, notices, waivers, approvals, orders, authorizations, registrations, declarations, classifications, license exceptions and filings with any Governmental Entity required under U.S. Export and Import Laws and Foreign Export and Import Laws for (A) the export, import and re-export of products, services, software and technologies and (B) releases of technologies and software to foreign nationals located in the United States and abroad (collectively, “Export Approvals”), and (ii) there are no Actions pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, Actions or investigations threatened against the Company or any Company Subsidiary with respect to such Export Approvals, (iii) there are no actions, conditions or circumstances pertaining to the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s export transactions that have given rise to any material claims, and (iv) no Export Approvals for the transfer of export licenses to Parent or the Surviving Corporation are required. There are no Actions pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened Actions or investigations, against the Company or any Company Subsidiary with respect to violations of export approvals.
(a) Since October 1, 2011, the Company has timely filed or otherwise furnished (as applicable) all registration statements, prospectuses, forms, reports, proxy statements, schedules, statements and other documents (including exhibits) required to be filed or furnished (as applicable) by it under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, together with all certifications required pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley
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Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) (such documents and any other documents filed by the Company with the SEC since October 1, 2011, as have been supplemented, modified or amended since the time of filing, collectively, the “Company SEC Documents”). None of the Company Subsidiaries is currently or has, since becoming a Company Subsidiary been, required to file any forms, reports or other documents with the SEC.
(b) As of their respective effective dates (in the case of the Company SEC Documents that are registration statements filed pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act) and as of their respective SEC filing dates (in the case of all other Company SEC Documents), or in each case, if amended prior to the date of this Agreement, as of the date of the last such amendment, the Company SEC Documents complied (or with respect to Company SEC Documents filed or furnished after the date of this Agreement, will comply) in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act or the Securities Act, as the case may be, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder and did not (or with respect to Company SEC Documents filed or furnished after the date of this Agreement, will 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 therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(c) As of the date of this Agreement, to the Knowledge of the Company, none of the Company SEC Documents is the subject of ongoing SEC review or outstanding SEC comment.
Section 3.07Financial Statements.
(a) Each of the consolidated financial statements of the Company (including, in each case, any notes and schedules thereto) included in the Company SEC Documents (collectively, the “Company Financial Statements”) (i) have been prepared from, are in accordance with, and accurately reflect the books and records of the Company and the consolidated Company Subsidiaries in all material respects, (ii) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto or, in the case of interim financial statements, for normal and recurring year-end adjustments that are not material in amount or nature and as may be permitted by the SEC on Form 10-Q or any successor or like form under the Exchange Act, including the absence of footnotes) and (iii) present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position and the consolidated results of operations, cash flows and stockholders’ equity of the Company and the consolidated Company Subsidiaries as of the dates and for the periods referred to therein.
(b) Without limiting the generality of Section 3.07(a) or any of the representations made in Section 3.06(a), (i) Grant Thornton LLP has not resigned or been dismissed as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company as a result of or in connection with any disagreement with the Company on a matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure, (ii) neither the chief executive officer nor the chief financial officer of the Company has failed in any respect to make, without qualification, the certifications required of him or her under Section 302 or 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with respect to any form, report or schedule filed by the Company with the SEC since the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and (iii) no enforcement Action has been initiated or, to the Knowledge of the Company, Actions or investigations threatened against the Company by the SEC relating to disclosures contained in any Company SEC Document.
Section 3.08Internal Controls; Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
(a) The Company and the Company Subsidiaries (i) have established and maintain a system of internal control over financial reporting sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit the preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and
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appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; (ii) have implemented and maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated Company Subsidiaries, is made known to the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the Company by others within those entities as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, and (iii) have disclosed, based on the Company’s most recent evaluation prior to the date of this Agreement, to the Company’s outside auditors and the audit committee of the Company Board, (A) any significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information, and (B) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company has delivered to Parent prior to the date of this Agreement all disclosures of significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting that have been made by the Company to the Company’s auditors or audit committee at any time between January 1, 2009 and the date of this Agreement.
(b) Since January 1, 2009, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, auditor, accountant or representative of the Company or any Company Subsidiary has received or otherwise had or obtained Knowledge of any substantive complaint, allegation, assertion or claim, whether written or oral, that the Company or any Company Subsidiary has engaged in questionable accounting or auditing practices. Since October 1, 2011, no current or former attorney representing the Company or any Company Subsidiary has reported evidence of a material violation of securities Laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any Company Subsidiary, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents, to the current Company Board or any committee thereof or to any current director or executive officer of the Company.
(c) As of the date hereof, to the Knowledge of the Company, no employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary has provided or is providing information to any law enforcement agency regarding the commission or possible commission of any crime or the violation or possible violation of any applicable legal requirements of the type described in Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by the Company or any Company Subsidiary. Since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, contractor, subcontractor or agent of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, has discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed or in any other manner discriminated against an employee, contractor, subcontractor or agent of the Company or any Company Subsidiary in the terms and conditions of his or her employment or engagement because of any lawful act of such employee, contractor, subcontractor or agent described in Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
(d) The books and records of the Company and each Company Subsidiary have been, and are being, properly and accurately maintained in all material respects in accordance with GAAP (to the extent applicable) and any other applicable legal and accounting requirements and reflect only actual transactions. The Company has made available to Parent the minutes of the Company for the three years prior to the date of this Agreement and such minutes contain a complete (except as excluded with respect to any minutes which relate in all material respects exclusively to the Transactions or as redacted with respect to (i) information relating to the Transactions or other confidential information related to third parties in connection with the process conducted by the Company related to or resulting in the Transactions or (ii) information that is competitively sensitive vis a vis Parent and its business) and correct, in all material respects, record of the meetings and other corporate actions held or taken by its stockholders and board of directors, including committees of the board of directors.
(e) The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all current listing and corporate governance requirements of NASDAQ and is in compliance in all material respects with all rules, regulations and requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the SEC.
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accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions. The Company has promptly disclosed any change in or waiver of the Company’s code of ethics with respect to any such persons, as required by Item 5.05 of Form 8-K. To the Knowledge of the Company, there have been no violations of provisions of the Company’s code of ethics by any such persons.
Section 3.09Absence of Undisclosed Liabilities.
(a) Except as set forth in Section 3.09(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, there are no Liabilities of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, other than:
(i) Liabilities disclosed and provided for in the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of June 30, 2014 that is included in the Company SEC Documents as of the date of this Agreement (the “Most Recent Balance Sheet”), or disclosed in the notes thereto;
(ii) Liabilities incurred under this Agreement or in connection with the Transactions;
(iii) Liabilities under executory contracts to which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries are bound, other than as a result of a breach thereof; or
(iv) Liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice since the date of the Most Recent Balance Sheet in amounts that would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is a party to, or has any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or any similar Contract (including any Contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between or among the Company and any Company Subsidiary, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated Affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or Person, on the other hand, or any “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act)), where the result, purpose or effect of such Contract is to avoid disclosure of any material transaction involving, or material Liabilities of, the Company or any Company Subsidiary in the Company Financial Statements or any Company SEC Documents.
Section 3.10Absence of Certain Changes or Events. Since June 30, 2014 through the date hereof, (a) except as disclosed in the Company SEC Documents filed with the SEC on or after June 30, 2014, but prior to the date of this Agreement (other than disclosures in such Company SEC Documents contained under the heading “Risk Factors” or any disclosure of risks included in any “forward looking statements” disclaimers or other similar cautionary disclosure), the Company and the Company Subsidiaries have conducted their business in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in all material respects, (b) there has not been any Company Material Adverse Effect, and (c) there has not been any action taken by the Company or any Company Subsidiary from June 30, 2014 through the date of this Agreement that, if taken during the period from the date of this Agreement through the Effective Time without the prior written consent of Parent, would constitute a breach of Section 5.01(a)(i), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (x), (xiii), (xvi), (xix), (xx) or (xxii).
Section 3.11Employee Benefit Plans.
(a) Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a complete list of each Company Benefit Plan, other than (i) offer letters and other agreements, understandings or arrangements related to non-U.S. employees, (ii) offer letters and other agreements, understanding or arrangements related to U.S. employees that are terminable without any obligation of the Company to provide advance notice of termination or severance rights, and (iii) any agreement, understanding or arrangement under which a single individual who is not a director or does not hold a position of senior vice president or above of the Company is eligible to receive non-material compensation and/or benefits. None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary, any ERISA Affiliate or,
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to the Knowledge of the Company, any other Person has any express or implied commitment to: (i) modify, change or terminate any Company Benefit Plan, other than with respect to a modification, change or termination required by ERISA, the Code or other Law; or (ii) institute any plan, Contract, program, fund or arrangement of any kind for the benefit of any current or former directors, officers, employees, stockholders or consultants of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate, other than the Company Benefit Plans listed on Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule.
(b) With respect to each Company Benefit Plan listed in Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, the Company has delivered or made available, or with respect to Foreign Employee Benefit Plans will deliver or make available within 20 Business Days following the date of this Agreement, to Parent accurate and complete copies of (i) each Company Benefit Plan (or, if such Company Benefit Plan is not written, a written summary of its material terms), including all plan documents, trust agreements, insurance Contracts or other funding vehicles and all amendments thereto, (ii) all summaries and summary plan descriptions, including any summary of material modifications, (iii) the three most recent annual reports (Form 5500 series) with any required schedules filed with the IRS with respect to such Company Benefit Plan, (iv) the most recent actuarial report or other financial statement relating to such Company Benefit Plan, (v) the most recent determination or opinion letter, if any, issued by the IRS with respect to any Company Benefit Plan and any pending request for such a determination letter, (vi) with respect to each Company Benefit Plan, each trust agreement, insurance or group annuity contract, administration and similar agreements, and investment management or investment advisory agreements, (vii) the most recent nondiscrimination tests performed under the Code (including 401(k) and 401(m) tests) for each Company Benefit Plan, and (viii) all material filings made with any Governmental Entity within the past five years, including any filings under a government sponsored amnesty, voluntary compliance or similar program (including the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System and the Department of Labor Delinquent Filer Program or Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program).
(c) Each Company Benefit Plan has been maintained, operated, and administered in all material respects in accordance with its terms and any related documents or agreements and in compliance in all material respects in accordance with all Law, including ERISA and the Code. Contributions (including any premiums) required to be made under the terms of any of the Company Benefit Plans as of the date of this Agreement have been timely made or, if not yet due, have been properly reflected on the Most Recent Balance Sheet. With respect to the Company Benefit Plans, no event has occurred and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there exists no condition or set of circumstances in connection with which the Company, any Company Subsidiary, any ERISA Affiliate or any Company Benefit Plan fiduciary could be subject to any material Liability (other than for routine benefit Liabilities) under the terms of, or with respect to, such Company Benefit Plans, ERISA, the Code or any other applicable Law, nor would negotiation or consummation of the Transactions be reasonably likely to give rise to such material Liability. With respect to each Company Benefit Plan, all material Tax, annual reporting and other filings with a Governmental Entity required by ERISA, the Code and other applicable Law have been timely filed with the appropriate Governmental Entity and all notices and disclosures have been timely provided to participants.
(d) Each Company Benefit Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code either (i) has a current favorable determination letter from the IRS as to its qualified status (or is waiting to receive a favorable determination letter for an application filed during the last 12 months of its previous remedial amendment cycle), or (ii) may rely upon a prototype opinion letter, and each Company Benefit Plan and related trust which is intended to be exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code is so exempt. No fact or event has occurred that could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the qualified status of any such Company Benefit Plan or the exempt status of any such trust. There has been no termination, partial termination or discontinuance of contributions to any Company Benefit Plan intended to qualify under Code Section 401(a).
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Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate. There have been no breaches of any of the duties imposed on “fiduciaries” (within the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA) by ERISA (or breaches of any other fiduciary duty under applicable Law) with respect to any Company Benefit Plan that could reasonably be expected to result in any material Liability or material excise tax under ERISA, the Code or other applicable Law being imposed on the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate. Each Company Benefit Plan (other than an employment, severance, change in control or other similar agreement with an individual) can be unilaterally amended, terminated or otherwise discontinued after the Effective Time in accordance with its terms by the Company, a Company Subsidiary or an ERISA Affiliate, without material Liability to the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate (other than (A) Liability for ordinary administrative expenses typically incurred in a termination event or (B) Liability for benefits accrued as of the date of such amendment, termination or discontinuation to the extent that either (x) there are sufficient assets set aside in a trust or insurance Contract to satisfy such Liability or (y) such Liability is reflected on the Most Recent Balance Sheet). No Action is pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, is any investigation pending or Action or investigation threatened, against or with respect to any Company Benefit Plan, including any audit or inquiry by the IRS or United States Department of Labor (other than routine benefits claims). None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate has any material Liability under Section 502 of ERISA. All contributions and payments to such Company Benefit Plan are fully deductible under Sections 162 or 404 of the Code. No amount is subject to Tax as unrelated business taxable income under Section 511 of the Code, and no excise tax could reasonably be expected to be imposed upon the Company under Chapter 43 of the Code.
(f) Neither the Company, any Company Subsidiary nor any ERISA Affiliate has ever (i) maintained a Company Benefit Plan that was subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA or had any Liability with respect to such plan or (ii) been obligated to contribute to a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) that is subject to ERISA. No Company Benefit Plan is funded by, associated with or related to a “voluntary employees’ beneficiary association” within the meaning of Section 501(c)(9) of the Code, or is funded through a “welfare benefit fund” as defined in Section 419(e) of the Code or a supplemental unemployment benefit plan within the meaning of Section 501(c)(17) of the Code.
(g) With respect to any Contract or insurance policy providing funding for benefits under any Company Benefit Plan, there is no material Liability of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate in the nature of a retroactive rate adjustment, loss sharing arrangement, or other material Liability, nor would there be any such material Liability if such Contract or insurance policy was terminated on the date of this Agreement, and neither any party to any such Contract nor any insurance company issuing any such policy is in receivership, conservatorship, liquidation or similar proceeding and, to the Knowledge of the Company as of the date of this Agreement, no such Actions with respect to any such insurer are imminent.
(h) Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Transactions (either alone or in conjunction with any other event, such as termination of employment) will (i) result in any compensatory payment becoming due to any director or employee of the Company, any Company Subsidiary, any ERISA Affiliate or any of their respective Affiliates, or to any Governmental Entity or other Person on behalf of any such director or employee, from the Company, any Company Subsidiary, any ERISA Affiliate or any of their respective Affiliates under any Company Benefit Plan or otherwise, (ii) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Benefit Plan, (iii) result in any acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any benefits or (iv) result in the payment of any amount that, individually or in combination with any other such payment, would not be deductible pursuant to Section 280G of the Code (determined without regard to Section 280G(b)(4) of the Code) or Section 162(m) of the Code.
(i) Except as required by Law, no Company Benefit Plan provides any retiree or post-employment health, disability, life insurance or other welfare benefits (whether or not insured) to any Person. The Company, each Company Subsidiary and each ERISA Affiliate are in material compliance with (i) the requirements of the applicable health care continuation and notice provisions of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended, and the regulations (including proposed regulations) thereunder, and any similar state
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law and (ii) the applicable requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended, and the regulations (including the proposed regulations) thereunder.
(j) The Company does not maintain any Company Benefit Plans that are or may reasonably be deemed to be a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code). No award granted under any of the Company Stock Option Plans is or may reasonably be deemed to be a “non-qualified deferred compensation plan” (as defined in Section 409A(d)(1) of the Code) subject to Section 409A of the Code. None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate is a party to, or otherwise obligated under, any Company Benefit Plan that provides for the gross-up of the Tax imposed by Section 409A(a)(1)(B) of the Code. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation of the Transactions will not (either alone or upon the occurrence of any additional or subsequent events) constitute an event under any Company Benefit Plan or Contract that would reasonably be expected to result in any payment of deferred compensation which will not be in compliance with Section 409A of the Code.
(k) All Foreign Employee Benefit Plans (i) have been maintained, operated and funded in all material respects in accordance with material applicable Law (including applicable Tax withholding and reporting requirements and applicable legal filings), (ii) if they are intended to qualify for special tax treatment, to the Knowledge of the Company, meet all material requirements for such treatment and (iii) if they are intended to be funded and/or book-reserved, are funded and/or book reserved in all material respects, as appropriate, based upon reasonable actuarial assumptions.
(l) Section 3.11(l) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a list of all Company Benefit Plans with assets containing stock or other securities issued by the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
Section 3.12Labor and Other Employment Matters.
(a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary is in compliance in all material respects with all Laws respecting employment and employment practices, terms and conditions of employment, immigration, workers’ compensation, long term disability, occupational safety, plant closings, compensation and benefits, and wages and hours, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1967, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the applicable rules and regulations adopted by those federal agencies responsible for the administration of such Laws (“Employment Practices”). Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is liable for any payment to any trust or other fund or to any Governmental Entity, with respect to unemployment compensation benefits, social security or other benefits or obligations for employees (other than routine payments to be made in the normal course of business consistent with past practice). To the Knowledge of the Company, as of the date of this Agreement, (i) there are no Actions or investigations pending or scheduled by any Governmental Entity pertaining to the Employment Practices of the Company or any Company Subsidiary; and (ii) no material complaints relating to Employment Practices of the Company or any Company Subsidiary have been filed with any Governmental Entity or submitted in writing to the Company or any Company Subsidiary. To the Knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred, nor does any condition or circumstance exist, that would reasonably be expected to provide a basis for the commencement of any material labor strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages, lockouts, or any similar activity or dispute. To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries are not engaged, and have never been engaged, in any unfair labor practice (as defined under the National Labor Relations Act) and there is no charge or complaint against the Company or any Company Subsidiary by the National Labor Relations Board, any comparable state or foreign agency, or any individual, pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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Company or any Company Subsidiary to authorize representation by any labor union or labor organization and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no current and there has not been at any time during the last five years any other union organizing activities concerning any employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary. There are no current and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there have not been any labor strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages, lockouts, or any similar activity or dispute, affecting the Company or any Company Subsidiary during the last five years. The consent of, consultation of or the rendering of formal advice by any labor or trade union, works council or any other employee representative body is not required for the Company to enter into this Agreement or to consummate any of the Transactions.
(c) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is delinquent in payments to any of its employees for any wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses or other direct compensation for any services performed for it or amounts required to be reimbursed to such employees. Other than normal accruals of wages during regular payroll cycles, there are no arrearages in the payment of wages except for possible violations or arrearages, which, individually or in the aggregate, are not, and will not be, individually or in the aggregate, material in magnitude.
(d) To the Knowledge of the Company, no employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary is in material violation of any term of any employment Contract, non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement, noncompetition agreement, or any restrictive covenant to a former employer relating to the right of any such employee to be employed by the Company or any Company Subsidiary by which the individual is employed because of the nature of the business conducted or presently proposed to be conducted by it or to the use of trade secrets or proprietary information of others.
(e) The Company and each Company Subsidiary is in compliance with the Worker Readjustment and Notification Act (29 U.S.C. §2101) (the “WARN Act”) and any applicable state laws or other Laws regarding redundancies, reductions in force, mass layoffs, and plant closings, including all obligations to promptly and correctly furnish all notices required to be given thereunder in connection with any redundancy, reduction in force, mass layoff, or plant closing to affected employees, representatives, any state dislocated worker unit and local government officials, or any other Governmental Entity. For the past two years, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has taken any action that would constitute a “mass layoff” or “plant closing” within the meaning of the WARN Act or would otherwise trigger notice requirements or Liability under any other comparable state or local law in the United States. To the Knowledge of the Company, for the past two years, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has taken any action that resulted in (or will result in) the termination of employment of 50 or more employees or more than 10% of the employees in any country outside of the United States during any 90 day period.
(f) The Company has made available to Parent a list, as of the date of this Agreement, of (i) the employee number of each employee that provides services to the Company or any Company Subsidiary and the country (and state, for those located in the U.S.) in which each such employee is based and primarily performs his or her duties or services (except where the disclosure of such information would be prohibited by data privacy/protection Laws without the employee’s consent); and (ii) each such person’s position or title, annual base salary or wages, date of hire, service credit date, visa status (if applicable) and the name of any applicable works council or collective bargaining agreement that applies to such person (a “Worker List”). As of the date of this Agreement, no officer or employee identified on the Worker List holding the position of senior vice president or above has terminated or has advised the Company or any Company Subsidiary in writing of his or her intention to terminate his or her relationship or status as an employee of the Company or the Company Subsidiary for any reason, including because of the consummation of the Transactions, and the Company and the Company Subsidiaries have no plans or intentions as of the date of this Agreement to terminate any such employee. The Company has delivered or made available, or will deliver or make available within 20 Business Days following the date of this Agreement, (A) a list of the number of Contingent Workers of the Company by jurisdiction as of the date of this Agreement, and (B) a list, as of the date of this Agreement of (i) the consultant number of each Consultant and (ii) each such person’s hourly or monthly fee, and (iii) the country in which such person is based and primarily performs his or her services.
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(g) All current employees of the Company and any Company Subsidiary who work in the United States are, and all former employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary who worked in the United States whose employment terminated, voluntarily or involuntarily, since October 1, 2011 were, legally authorized to work for the Company or the Company Subsidiary in the United States. The Company and any Company Subsidiary have completed and retained the necessary employment verification paperwork under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 for the employees hired prior to the Closing Date.
(h) The Compensation Committee of the Company Board is (and at all times during the past 18 months was, and at all times from the date of this Agreement through the Effective Time will be) composed solely of “independent directors” within the meaning of Rule 14d-10(d)(2) under the Exchange Act and the instructions thereto (each, an “Independent Director”). The Company Board, at a meeting duly called and held, has determined that each of the members of the Compensation Committee of the Company Board is an Independent Director.
(a) Section 3.13(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth, as of the date of this Agreement, a true and complete list of each Contract of the Company or any Company Subsidiary in effect as of the date of this Agreement and that is included within any of the following categories:
(i) all Contracts that purport to limit, curtail or restrict the freedom or right of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any of the Company’s current or future Affiliates in any material respect to engage or compete in any line of business or sell, supply, license or distribute any product or service, in each case, in any market or geographic area, with any Person or during any period of time (or pursuant to which a benefit or right is required to be given or would be lost as a result of so competing, engaging, selling, supplying or distributing);
(ii) any Contract that by its terms limits the payment of dividends or other distributions by the Company or any Company Subsidiary;
(iii) any Contract that grants any Person other than the Company or any Company Subsidiary any exclusive license, supply, distribution or other rights;
(iv) any Contract that grants any Person other than the Company or any Company Subsidiary any (A) “most favored nation” or other preferred pricing rights, (B) rights of first refusal, rights of first negotiation or similar rights or that materially limits or purports to materially limit the ability of the Company of any Company Subsidiary to own, operate, sell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of any material amount of assets or businesses, (C) exclusive rights to purchase any Company Products, or (D) right to require the Company or any Company Subsidiary to purchase all or any portion of the Company’s or a Company Subsidiary’s requirements from any third party, or similar provision;
(v) any Contract that obligates the Company or any Company Subsidiary (A) to provide maintenance and/or support with respect to any discontinued Company Product or any prior version of any Company Product for more than 24 months following the release of a replacement product or new version of a Company Product, as applicable or (B) except as set forth in Top Service Agreements, to maintain compatibility between Material Company Products, on the one hand, and any new versions or releases of end customer’s internal enterprise software systems (such as ERP or GL software) on the other hand;
(vi) any Contract relating to the disposition or acquisition by the Company or any Company Subsidiary of any business (whether by merger, sale or purchase of assets, sale or purchase of stock or equity ownership interests or otherwise) (A) entered into since October 1, 2011, (B) that contains “earn-out” provisions or other payment (including contingent payment) obligations that are payable after the date of this Agreement or (C) that contains ongoing non-competition, indemnification obligations or other ongoing obligations that are material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
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(vii) any Contract (A) governing the terms of any existing equity or debt investment by the Company or any Company Subsidiary in excess of $5,000,000 or (B) providing for ongoing capital commitments (including any obligation to provide funds, or make an investment, in the form of a loan, capital contribution or otherwise), other than, in each case, any such Contract between the Company and any direct or indirect wholly-owned Company Subsidiary, or between direct or indirect wholly-owned Company Subsidiaries (“Intercompany Contracts”);
(viii) any Indebtedness under which the currently outstanding maximum obligation of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries is $1,000,000 or greater, whether secured or unsecured, excluding any Indebtedness pursuant to Intercompany Contracts;
(ix) any Indebtedness under which the currently outstanding maximum obligation owed to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries is $5,000,000 or greater, whether secured or unsecured, excluding any Indebtedness pursuant to Intercompany Contracts;
(x) any lease, sublease or other Contract relating to the occupancy of the Leased Real Property involving payments by the Company or the Company Subsidiaries in excess of $1,000,000 in 2012 or any year thereafter;
(xi) any Contract pursuant to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary authorizes a third party to sell Company Products under its own brand without any branding of the Company or a Company subsidiary, any general or limited partnership agreement, or any material joint development or joint venture Contract;
(xii) any Contract relating to the settlement of any civil, administrative or judicial Action or investigation within the past five years other than any such Contract that provided solely for payment(s) of less than $1,000,000 in addition to other customary terms for settlement agreements, such as settlement and release provisions and confidentiality obligations, in each case that does not restrict the operation of the business conducted or to be conducted by the Company or the Company Subsidiaries, and that has not otherwise been material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(xiii) any (A) standstill or similar agreement restricting any Person from acquiring the securities of, soliciting proxies respecting, or affecting the control, of any other Person (other than agreements related to the Company’s investment in privately-held entities), or (B) Contract requiring the Company or any Company Subsidiary to provide any notice or information to any Person prior to considering or accepting any Acquisition Proposal or similar proposal or prior to entering into any discussions or Contract relating to any Acquisition Proposal or similar transaction;
(xiv) any Contract with any Governmental Entity or any Contract incorporating government acquisition terms (e.g., in the U.S., the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) or the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)) involving payments of more than $850,000 in the twelve month period prior to the Agreement Date;
(xv) each Contract that involves performance of custom Software development or consulting services commitments by the Company or any Company Subsidiary (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, implementation, configuration, maintenance and support, or training or other services related to the Company Products provided to customers, sublicensors, value added resellers, systems integrators or other distributors or resellers in the ordinary course of business), on its face explicitly providing for either (A) recurring annual payments to the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries after the date of this Agreement of $250,000 or more or (B) aggregate payments or potential aggregate payments to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries after the date of this Agreement of $500,000 or more;
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(xvi) any Contract (other than Contracts of employment) providing for the development of any Software, content (including textual content and visual, photographic or graphical content), technology or Intellectual Property for the Company or any Company Subsidiary under which the development undertaken was material to any Material Company Product;
(xvii) any Contract, other than a Contract for Commercially Available Software, providing for the purchase by or license to (or for the benefit or use of) the Company or any Company Subsidiary of any Software, content (including textual content and visual, photographic or graphical content), technology or Intellectual Property, which Software, content, technology or Intellectual Property is incorporated (or is contemplated by Company or any Company Subsidiary to be incorporated) into any Material Company Product sold by the Company or any Company Subsidiary and material with respect to any such Material Company Product (and not merely used to provide such Material Company Products (such as hosting infrastructure)) and excluding for the avoidance of doubt any arrangements in the ordinary course of business with suppliers, customers and channel partners with respect to implementation and integration with third party products, services and systems (including third parties who exchange data and other content with the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, such as global distribution systems, travel management resellers and travel content alliance partners);
(xviii) each Patent cross-license;
(xix) any Contract with (A) a customer, sublicensor, value added reseller, systems integrator, original equipment manufacturer, or other distributor or reseller, who, in the four consecutive quarters ended June 30, 2014 was one of the 50 largest sources of revenues for the Company and the Company Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, based on amounts paid, (B) any of the 10 largest suppliers (including licensors of Intellectual Property), including any supplier of hosting, outsourcing or development services (determined on the basis of aggregate payments made or owed to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries over the four consecutive fiscal quarter period ended June 30, 2014);
(xx) except as otherwise listed in response to this Section 3.13(a) and excluding Intercompany Contracts, any Contract that involves payments by or to the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries of more than $5,000,000 over the four consecutive fiscal quarters ended June 30, 2014;
(xxi) any Contract pursuant to which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries has agreed or is required to provide any third party with rights in or access to Company Source Code;
(xxii) any Contract providing for (A) indemnification of any Person with respect to material Liabilities relating to any current or former business of the Company, any of the Company Subsidiaries or any predecessor Person, other than indemnification obligations of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries pursuant to the provisions of a Contract entered into by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or that would not reasonably be expected be material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (B) any guaranty by the Company or any Company Subsidiary that is material to the Company or any Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole (in each case with respect to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary has continuing obligations as of the date of this Agreement);
(xxiii) any Contract (A) with providers of material co-location or data hosting services with respect to the provision of Company Products, or (B) with application services providers, in each case, whose services are material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(xxiv) any Contract pursuant to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is authorized to market, distribute or resell any product, service or Intellectual Property of any third party where such third party product, service, or Intellectual Property is material to a Material Company Product, other than pursuant to licenses to Commercially Available Software, in each case, that either (A) will not expire or cannot be terminated within 24 months after the Effective Time or (B) includes a minimum sales obligation on the part of the Company or any Company Subsidiary;
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(xxv) any Contract that limits or purports to limit the ability of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any current of future Affiliate of the Company to collect, receive, derive, store, transmit, transfer (including cross-border transfers), disclose or use personally identifiable information to an extent greater than imposed under applicable Privacy and Security Laws;
(xxvi) any Contract pursuant to which (A) any Person is authorized to use or is granted any right in or to any Company Products or Company Owned Intellectual Property, other than Outbound License Agreements, Services Agreements, or the On-Premise Agreements, (B) the Company or any Company Subsidiary has agreed to any restriction on the right of the Company or any Company Subsidiary to enforce any Intellectual Property rights other than pursuant to Outbound License Agreements, Services Agreements or the On-Premise Agreements, (C) the Company or any Company Subsidiary has agreed to limitations on the use of any Company Intellectual Property (other than Contracts under which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is licensed such Company Intellectual Property from a third party), in each case where such limitations are material to a Material Company Product; or (D) the Company or any Company Subsidiary has agreed to encumber, transfer or sell rights in or with respect to any Company Owned Intellectual Property (other than Outbound License Agreements, Services Agreements, the On-Premise Agreements, and Permitted Liens);
(xxvii) any other Contract under which the consequences of a default or breach or the early termination of which would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect;
(xxviii) any Contract pursuant to which the terms and conditions thereof or any information or data contained therein are deemed classified pursuant to the rules and regulations of any Governmental Entity; and
(xxix) all other Contracts required to be filed by the Company as a “material contract” pursuant to Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act (other than those “material contracts” described in Item 601(b)(10)(iii) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act) or disclosed by the Company on a Current Report on Form 8-K, whether or not so filed or disclosed.
Except for the Top Service Agreements and the On-Premise Agreements, with respect to the set of Contracts that provide for (i) material guaranteed availability of supply or services for a period of greater than five years, (ii) material rebates, or (iii) price guarantees for a period of greater than five years, the aggregate amount paid under such Contracts during the 12-month period prior to the Agreement Date (x) such set of Contracts in the aggregate does not exceed five percent of the revenues for the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, during such 12-month period and (y) each such Contract was subject to an approval process under which management would have approved any such provision.
Each Contract disclosed in Section 3.13(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, required to be disclosed pursuant to this Section 3.13(a) or which would have been required to be so disclosed if it had existed on the date of this Agreement is referred to herein as a “Company Material Contract.” True and complete copies (except as redacted) of each Company Material Contract have been made available by the Company to Parent in the electronic dataroom maintained by the Company, or publicly filed with the SEC.
(b) (i) Each Company Material Contract is a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Company or a Company Subsidiary and, to the Knowledge of the Company, of the other party or parties thereto, in accordance with its terms subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including all Laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally; (ii) each Company Material Contract is in full force and effect and upon consummation of the consummation of the Merger shall continue to be in full force and effect without penalty, acceleration, termination, repurchase right or other adverse consequence; (iii) the Company and each Company Subsidiary has performed all obligations required to be performed by it under each Company Material Contract in all material respects and, to the Knowledge of the Company, each other party to each Company Material Contract has performed all
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obligations required to be performed by it under such Company Material Contract in all material respects; (iv) none of the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has Knowledge of, or has received notice of, any violation or default under any Company Material Contract; and (v) neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received any written notice from any other party to any such Company Material Contract, and otherwise has no Knowledge, that such party intends to terminate prior to its stated term, or not renew, any such Company Material Contract.
(a) There is no Action pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, is any investigation pending or Action or investigation threatened, against or affecting the Company or any Company Subsidiary (including by virtue of indemnification or otherwise) or their respective assets or properties, or any executive officer or director (in their capacity as such) of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, in each case, other than an Action that (together with each related Action arising out of substantially similar facts) has not resulted in litigation for which the primary claim is for the payment of money in an amount equal to or less than $1 million or that (together with such other Actions) would not reasonably be likely to result in the payment of money in an amount equal to or greater than $1 million.
(b) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is subject to any material outstanding Order or arbitration ruling, award or other finding.
(c) There are no internal investigations or internal inquiries that, since October 1, 2011, have been conducted by or at the direction of the Company Board (or any committee thereof) concerning any financial, accounting or other misfeasance or malfeasance issues or that could reasonably be expected to lead to a voluntary disclosure or enforcement action.
Section 3.15Intellectual Property.
(a) Section 3.15(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth a complete and accurate list of Company Registered Intellectual Property. For each listed item, Section 3.15(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule indicates, as applicable, the owner of such Intellectual Property, the countries in which such Intellectual Property is patented or registered, the patent or registration number, and the filing dates thereof.
(b) All of the Company Owned Intellectual Property is wholly and exclusively owned by the Company or a Company Subsidiary free and clear of all Liens (other than Outbound License Agreements, Services Agreements, On-Premise Agreements and Permitted Liens). The foregoing representation and warranty is not intended to be a representation regarding the absence of infringement or misappropriation, which is addressed in Section 3.15(j) below.
(c) The Company or a Company Subsidiary owns all right, title and interest in, or has a valid ongoing right to use in a manner consistent with the current use in the Company Products, the Intellectual Property and Software incorporated or embedded in, included in, or necessary to offer the currently available Company Products, including all Company Source Code (but excluding Commercially Available Software). The foregoing representation and warranty is not intended to be a representation regarding the absence of infringement or misappropriation, which is addressed in Section 3.15(j) below.
(d) Other than pursuant to the Outbound License Agreements and On-Premise Agreements, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has distributed or otherwise transferred to any third party any Company Owned Intellectual Property or Company Product.
(e) No Person who has licensed Intellectual Property or Software to the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries has ownership rights or license rights to material improvements and other material amendments made by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in such Intellectual Property.
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(f) [Reserved].
(g) Neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries is in breach of any of the material terms or conditions of any license to any Open Source Materials, except as would not materially affect the business or operations of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
(h) All material Company Owned Intellectual Property that is used in or necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, was (A) created by employees of the Company or a Company Subsidiary acting within the scope of their employment who have validly and irrevocably assigned all of their rights, including Intellectual Property rights therein, to the Company or a Company Subsidiary, subject to any rights that may be reserved to the author by Law, or (B) validly and irrevocably assigned to the Company or a Company Subsidiary by other Persons, and subject to any rights that may be reserved to the author by Law, no other Person owns or has any rights to any portion of such Intellectual Property or Software (other than pursuant to Outbound License Agreements, On-Premise Agreements and Services Agreements).
(i) All Company Owned Intellectual Property and the Company Products will be fully transferable, alienable and licensable by the Company or its Affiliates without restriction and without payment to any Person, subject to Outbound License Agreements, On-Premise Agreements and Services Agreements.
(j) To the Knowledge of the Company, the operation by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries of their respective businesses, including the design, development, use, import, export, manufacture, licensing, sale, service offering or other disposition of the Company Products has not infringed or misappropriated the Intellectual Property rights of any Person, does not infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property rights of any Person and will not infringe or misappropriate the Intellectual Property rights of any Person. The operation by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries of their respective businesses does not constitute unfair competition or trade practices under applicable Laws. Since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received any notice from any Person (i) claiming that such operation or any Company Product (A) infringes or misappropriates the Intellectual Property rights of any third Person or (B) constitutes unfair competition or trade practices under the applicable Laws (nor to the Company’s Knowledge is there any basis therefor), or (ii) suggesting that a license to third party Intellectual Property is required in connection with operation by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries of their respective businesses or in connection with any Company Product.
(k) Each material item of Company Registered Intellectual Property (A) is subsisting and (B) is, to the Knowledge of the Company, valid and enforceable.
(l) To the Company’s Knowledge, since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received notice of any pending, decided or settled opposition, interference, reexamination, injunction, lawsuit, proceeding, hearing, investigation, complaint, arbitration, mediation, demand, decree, or any other dispute, disagreement, or claim (a “Dispute”) related to the Company Owned Intellectual Property and/or any Intellectual Property or Software material to and embodied or incorporated in any Company Product where such Dispute, if determined adversely, would or would reasonably be expected to have a material and adverse effect on the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole. To the Company’s Knowledge, no Dispute has been threatened, challenging the legality, validity, enforceability or ownership of any Company Owned Intellectual Property or Software and to the Company’s Knowledge, there exists no basis that would give rise to such a Dispute. Since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has initiated any lawsuits against any third Person based on allegations of infringement of any Company Owned Intellectual Property.
(m) To the Knowledge of the Company, none of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any other party acting on behalf of the Company or any Company Subsidiary has disclosed or delivered to any third party, or permitted the disclosure or delivery by any escrow agent or other third party to any third party, any Company
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Source Code. To the Knowledge of the Company, no event has occurred, and no circumstance or condition exists, that (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) will, or would reasonably be expected to, require the disclosure or delivery by the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any other party acting on behalf of Company or any Company Subsidiary to any third party of any Company Source Code. Neither the execution of this Agreement nor the consummation of the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby, in and of itself, would reasonably be expected to result in the release of any Company Source Code from escrow or an obligation to grant rights to or deliver any Company Source Code to any third party.
(n) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is bound to any Contract that will cause as a result of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby: (A) Parent, any Parent Subsidiary (including Merger Sub), the Company or any Company Subsidiary granting to any Person any right to or with respect to any Intellectual Property or Software owned by, or licensed to, Parent, Merger Sub, any Parent Subsidiary, the Company or any Company Subsidiary, or (B) Parent, Merger Sub, any Parent Subsidiary, the Company or any Company Subsidiary being obligated to pay any material royalties or other material amounts to any Person in excess of those payable by any of them, respectively, in the absence of this Agreement or the Transactions, provided, in each of clauses (A) and (B), any result affecting Parent, Merger Sub or any Parent Subsidiary in the manner described in such clauses must be solely related to the acquisition of, and future ownership by, Parent or Merger Sub of the Company or any Company Subsidiary as contemplated by this Agreement or the Transactions and shall not, under any circumstances, result from any other Contract or arrangement to which Parent, Merger Sub or any Parent Subsidiary is a party.
(o) The Company and each Company Subsidiary has taken all commercially reasonable measures to protect the Company’s or such Company Subsidiary’s rights in the Trade Secrets owned by the Company or such Company Subsidiary, and for any Trade Secrets owned by any other Person that have been provided to the Company or such Company Subsidiary under Contract, the Company and such Company Subsidiaries are not in material breach of the terms of such Contract with respect to the confidentiality or use of such Trade Secrets. The Company and each Company Subsidiary has, and enforces in all material respects, a policy requiring all employees, consultants and contractors of the Company and each Company Subsidiary to execute Intellectual Property assignment and confidentiality agreements for the benefit of the Company or such Company Subsidiary, and to the Company’s Knowledge, all current and former employees, consultants and contactors of the Company or such Company Subsidiary have executed such an agreement.
(p) To the Company’s Knowledge, none of the Company Owned Intellectual Property or Company Products was developed by, or using, nor has the Company nor any Company Subsidiary requested, sought, applied for or entered into any agreement with respect to, funds, grants or any other subsidies from, any Governmental Entity or any university, and no government funding, facilities, faculty or students of a university, college, other educational institution or research center or funding from third parties was used in the development of the Company Owned Intellectual Property or Company Products.
(q) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is subject to any agreement with any standards bodies or other entities that would obligate the Company or any Company Subsidiary to grant licenses or rights to or otherwise impair its control, enforcement or use of any Company Owned Intellectual Property, Company Products or Software owned by the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
(r) There are no pending, or the Company’s Knowledge, threatened claims made by any third party against the Company or the Company Subsidiaries for any product liability or breach of contract (whether based on contract or tort and whether relating to personal injury, including death, property damage or economic loss) arising from (A) services rendered by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, (B) the sale, distribution, or installation of Software or other products by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, or (C) the operation of the Company’s or any of the Company Subsidiaries’ respective businesses. In their operation and provision of the Company Products, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries materially comply with all applicable Laws.
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(a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary has timely filed with the appropriate taxing authorities all material Tax Returns required to be filed. All such Tax Returns are complete and accurate in all material respects. All Taxes due and owing by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries (whether or not shown on any Tax Return) have been paid.
(b) The unpaid Taxes of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries did not, as of the date of the Most Recent Balance Sheet, exceed the reserve for Tax Liability set forth in the Most Recent Balance Sheet. Since the date of the Most Recent Balance Sheet, neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries has incurred any Liability for Taxes as a result of transactions entered into outside the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice.
(c) No deficiencies for Taxes against any of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries have been claimed, proposed or assessed in writing by any Governmental Entity, except for delinquencies that have been paid or otherwise resolved or that are being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP. There are no pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened audits, assessments or other Actions for or relating to any Liability in respect of Taxes of the Company or any Company Subsidiary. The U.S. federal income Tax Returns of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries through the taxable year ended September 30, 2010 have been examined and closed or are Tax Returns with respect to which the period for assessment has expired. Neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries has granted any currently effective waiver of any statute of limitations in respect of Taxes.
(d) There are no Liens for Taxes other than Permitted Liens upon any of the assets of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries.
(e) There are no Tax-sharing agreements or similar arrangements (including Tax indemnity arrangements) with respect to or involving any of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, other than such an agreement exclusively between or among any of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries.
(f) Neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries (i) has been a member of a group filing a consolidated, combined or unitary Tax Return (other than a group the common parent of which was the Company or one of the Company Subsidiaries) or (ii) has any Liability for the Taxes of any Person (other than Taxes of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries) (A) under Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local or foreign Law), (B) by reason of being a transferee or successor of such Person, (C) by Contract, or (D) otherwise.
(g) Each of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries has withheld and paid all Taxes and other amounts required by Law to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or owing to any employee.
(h) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has distributed the stock of any corporation in a transaction intended to satisfy the requirements of Section 355 of the Code.
(i) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has participated in any “listed transaction” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Sections 1.6011-4(b)(2) or 301.6111-2(b)(2).
(j) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has been a United States real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897(c)(2) of the Code during the applicable period specified in Section 897(c)(1)(A)(ii) of the Code.
(k) Since December 31, 2011, no claim has been made in writing by a taxing authority in a jurisdiction where the Company or any Company Subsidiary does not file Tax Returns that the Company or any Company Subsidiary is or may be subject to taxation by that jurisdiction.
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(l) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary (i) is a party to or bound by any advance pricing agreement or other agreement or ruling relating to Taxes with any Tax authority, (ii) has requested a private letter ruling from the IRS or comparable rulings from any other Taxing authority, or (iii) has entered into any “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any material agreement under any corresponding or similar provision of state or local Tax Law).
(m) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has participated in or cooperated with an international boycott within the meaning of Section 999 of the Code.
(n) From and after the Effective Time, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary will be required to include any item of income in, or exclude any item of deduction from, taxable income for any taxable period (or portion thereof) ending after the Effective Time as a result of any (i) “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or foreign Law relating to Taxes) entered into prior to the Effective Time or (ii) installment sale or open transaction occurring on or prior to the Effective Time.
(o) To the Knowledge of the Company, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions of any Tax exemption, Tax holiday, or other Tax reduction agreement or Order that applies to any of them, and no Tax exemption, Tax holiday, or Order that applies to any of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries will be adversely affected by the Transactions.
(p) All material books and records that the Company and the Company Subsidiaries are required under any requirements of applicable Law to keep for Tax purposes (including all documents and records likely to be needed to defend any challenge by any Governmental Entity to the transfer pricing of any transaction) have been duly kept in accordance with applicable requirements and are available for inspection at the premises of the Company or the Company Subsidiaries.
Section 3.17Insurance. The Company has made available to Parent true and complete copies of all material insurance policies, surety bonds, and information about all material self insurance programs and similar arrangements (the “Insurance Policies”). Except as would not be material to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, each of the Insurance Policies is in full force and effect, all premiums due thereon, where applicable, have been paid in full and the Company and the Company Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with the terms and conditions of such Insurance Policies.
Section 3.18Properties and Assets.
(a) The Company and the Company Subsidiaries have good and valid title to, or in the case of leased property and leased tangible assets, valid leasehold interests in, all of its material real properties and tangible assets. All such material assets and real properties, other than assets and real properties in which the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries has leasehold interests, are free and clear of all material Liens, except for Permitted Liens.
(b) Since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary owns or ever owned any real property.
(c) Section 3.18(c) of the Company Disclosure Schedule sets forth, as of the date of this Agreement, (i) a true and complete list of all real property leased, subleased or otherwise occupied by the Company or any Company Subsidiary (collectively, the “Leased Real Property”) involving annual rental payments in excess of $1,000,000, (ii) the address for each such Leased Real Property and (iii) the current rent amounts payable by the Company or any Company Subsidiary related to each such Leased Real Property. Each of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, as applicable, has good leasehold title to the Leased Real Property, free and clear of any material Liens, other than Permitted Liens. No Person other than the Company or a Company Subsidiary has any right (whether by lease, sublease, license or otherwise) to use or occupy all or any portion of the Leased Real Property.
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(d) The Company and the Company Subsidiaries have a valid and existing interest in the Leased Real Property, and the Company and the Company Subsidiaries enjoy peaceful and undisturbed possession of the Leased Real Property. The Leased Real Property constitutes all of the real property used by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries in the operation of the business of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, and such Leased Real Property is sufficient in all material respects for the conduct of the business of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received any written notice from any Governmental Entity with respect to the ownership, lease, occupancy or use of the Leased Real Property that materially and adversely affects the rights of the Company or any Company Subsidiary or constitutes a material violation of Laws applicable to the Leased Real Property. Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received written notice of any Actions in eminent domain, condemnation or other similar Actions that are pending, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no such Actions threatened, affecting any portion of the Leased Real Property and neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has received written notice of the existence of any outstanding Order or of any pending Action, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there is no such Order or Action threatened, relating to the ownership, lease, use, occupancy or operation by any Person of the Leased Real Property.
(e) For any Leased Real Property encumbered with a mortgage, the Company or the Company Subsidiary has made available to Parent true and complete copies of a non-disturbance agreement from the mortgagee of such Leased Real Property which protects the Company or the Company Subsidiary’s leasehold interest in the property in the event such mortgagee forecloses on the applicable mortgage.
Section 3.19Opinion of Financial Advisor. The Company Board has received the Fairness Opinion. The Company shall provide a true and complete signed copy of the Fairness Opinion to Parent for information purposes as soon as reasonably practicable after the date of this Agreement. The Company has obtained the authorization of the Company Financial Advisor to permit the inclusion of the Fairness Opinion in its entirety (as well as a description of the material financial analyses underlying the Fairness Opinion subject to the Company Financial Advisor’s review and approval thereof (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)) and references thereto in the Proxy Statement.
Section 3.20Information in the Proxy Statement. The Proxy Statement (and any amendment thereof or supplement thereto), at the date mailed to the Company’s stockholders and at the time of the Special Meeting, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that no representation or warranty is made by the Company with respect to statements made therein based on information supplied by Parent or Merger Sub in writing expressly for inclusion in the Proxy Statement. The Proxy Statement will comply in all material respects with the provisions of the Exchange Act and any other applicable federal securities laws.
Section 3.21Required Vote. The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Shares in favor of the adoption of this Agreement is the only vote required to adopt or approve this Agreement and to consummate the Transactions, including the Merger (the “Company Stockholder Approval”). No other vote of holders of any capital stock or other Equity Interests of the Company is required by Law or otherwise in order for the Company to consummate the Merger and the other Transactions.
Section 3.22Absence of Indemnifiable Claims. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no pending claims for any director or officer of the Company or any Company Subsidiary to indemnification by the Company or such Company Subsidiary under applicable Law, the Company Certificate, the Company Bylaws, the governing documents of such Company Subsidiary or any insurance policy or Contract maintained by the Company or such Company Subsidiary.
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partner, value added reseller, systems integrator, original equipment manufacturer or other distributor or reseller, who, in the four consecutive quarters ended June 30, 2014 was one of the 25 largest sources of revenues for the Company and the Company Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, based on amounts paid (each, a “Significant Customer”). As of the date of this Agreement, the Company has not received any written notice or other formal written communication from any Significant Customer that such customer will not continue as a customer of the Company or any Company Subsidiary after the Effective Time or that any such customer intends to terminate or materially modify existing Contracts or arrangements with Company or any Company Subsidiary.
(a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary has (a) complied in all material respects with its published privacy, marketing and security policies and internal privacy, marketing and security policies and guidelines and all Privacy and Security Laws, including with respect to the notice, consent and opt out related to all data collection and the derivation, collection, storage, transmission, transfer (including cross-border transfers), disclosure and use of personally identifiable information (including personally identifiable information of employees, contractors, and third parties who have provided information to the Company or any Company Subsidiary and any information which may be re-identified or associated with a unique identifier) and (b) taken all commercially reasonable measures to ensure that personally identifiable information is protected against loss, damage, and unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse. To the Knowledge of the Company, since October 1, 2011, there has been no loss, damage, or unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse of any such information by the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any of their respective employees or contractors.
(b) To the Company’s Knowledge, the Company and each Company Subsidiary have (a) complied in all material respects with all third party privacy, marketing and security policies, procedures and guidelines and applicable contractual obligations related to privacy, marketing and security related to each service provider or client that are known to the Company and (b) taken all commercially reasonable measures to ensure that all third party service providers and clients have complied with the Company’s disclosed privacy, marketing and security policies, procedures and guidelines and all Privacy and Security Laws.
(c) To the Company’s Knowledge, no Person (including any Governmental Entity) has made any claim or commenced any Action with respect to loss, damage, or unauthorized access, use, modification, or other misuse of any Personal Information by the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any of their respective employees or contractors. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the Merger complies (and the disclosure to and use by the Surviving Corporation and Parent and its Affiliates of such information after the Effective Time will comply) with the Company’s and each Company Subsidiary’s applicable privacy policies and with all Privacy and Security Laws (including any such Laws in the jurisdictions where the applicable information is collected). To the Company’s Knowledge, the Company and each Company Subsidiary has at all times made all disclosures to, and obtained any necessary consents from, users, customers, employees, contractors and other applicable Persons required by applicable Privacy and Security Laws and has filed any required registrations with the applicable data protection authority.
(d) The Company and each Company Subsidiary has used and currently use commercially reasonable efforts, in accordance with industry standards, to monitor their information systems, networks, devices, physical infrastructure and facilities, and have implemented operational, managerial, physical and technical safeguards and controls in accordance with such standards to protect Company-Owned Intellectual Property, Company Products and any Personal Information under their control, where applicable, against loss, damage, and unauthorized and unlawful access, use, modification or other misuse. To the Knowledge of the Company, since October 1, 2011, neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries has suffered a security breach which has compromised either the security, confidentiality or integrity of Personal Information or the physical, technical, administrative or organizational safeguards put in place by Company that relate to the protection of the security, confidentiality or integrity of Personal Information.
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Section 3.25Government Contracts Matters.
(a) The Company and each Company Subsidiary have complied in all material respects with applicable Laws with respect to all Government Contracts and Government Bids.
(b) All facts set forth in or acknowledged by the Company or any Company Subsidiary in any certification, representation or disclosure statement submitted by the Company or any Company Subsidiary with respect to any Government Contract or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any Government Bid were current, accurate and complete in all material respects as of the date indicated in such submission or as of such other date as required by the Government Contract, or to the Knowledge of the Company, any Government Bid.
(c) None of the Company nor any Company Subsidiary, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no current employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, has been excluded, debarred or suspended from doing business with any Governmental Entity, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened with exclusion, debarment or suspension by any Governmental Entity (or by the relevant contracting official of such entity), or been informed that any actions by the Company or any Company Subsidiary could result in exclusion, debarment or suspension by any Governmental Entity, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no circumstances exist that would warrant the institution of debarment or suspension proceedings against the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
(d) No negative determination of responsibility has been issued, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened or proposed against and provided to the Company or any Company Subsidiary in connection with any Government Contract or Government Bid.
(e) In each case in which the Company or any Company Subsidiary has delivered or otherwise provided any technical data, Software or other Intellectual Property to any Governmental Entity in connection with any Government Contract, the Company or such Company Subsidiary has provided such technical data, computer software and other Intellectual Property solely as a “commercial item” pursuant to the Company’s commercial terms and conditions.
Section 3.26Brokers and Fees. Except for the Company’s obligations to the Company Financial Advisor, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary or any director or officer of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, has incurred or will incur on behalf of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, any brokerage, finders’, advisory or similar fee in connection with the Transactions, including the Merger. The Company has heretofore made available to Parent true and complete copies of all agreements with the Company Financial Advisor pursuant to which such firm would be entitled to any payment or commission relating to the Merger or any other Transactions.
Section 3.27Related Party Transactions. As of the date of this Agreement, except as set forth in the Company SEC Documents filed prior to the date of this Agreement, there are no outstanding amounts payable to or receivable from, or advances by the Company or any Company Subsidiary to, and neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is otherwise a creditor or debtor to, or party to any Contract or transaction with, any holder of 5% or more of the Shares or any director, officer, employee or Affiliate of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, or to any relative of any of the foregoing, except for employment or compensation agreements or arrangements with directors, officers and employees made in the ordinary course consistent with past practice.
Section 3.28Excluded Subsidiary. Schedule 3.28 of the Company Disclosure Schedule lists all Contracts entered into between the Company and the Excluded Subsidiary. Except pursuant to the Contracts listed in Schedule 3.28, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has any Liability related to or arising out of the Excluded Subsidiary or its operations. Other than the Contracts listed on Schedule 3.28, neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary, nor any property or assets of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, is bound
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by, subject to or otherwise affected by the terms of any Contract of the Excluded Subsidiary and neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has any obligations to the Excluded Subsidiary or relating to or arising out of the operation of the Excluded Subsidiary’s business. The Company has delivered or caused to be delivered to Parent and Merger Sub true and complete copies of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Excluded Subsidiary and of any Contract governing the investment by the Company or any Company Subsidiary in the Excluded Subsidiary.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PARENT AND MERGER SUB
Parent and Merger Sub hereby represent and warrant to the Company as follows:
Section 4.01Organization and Qualification. Each of Parent and Merger Sub is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation. Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted and is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction where the ownership, leasing or operation of its properties or assets or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except where the failure to have such corporate power and authority or be so qualified or in good standing has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
Section 4.02Authority. Each of Parent and Merger Sub has all necessary corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, to perform its obligations hereunder and to consummate the Transactions, including the Merger. Other than the approval of the principal terms of the Merger by Parent as Merger Sub’s sole stockholder (which will be effected immediately following execution of this Agreement), the execution and delivery of this Agreement by each of Parent and Merger Sub and the consummation by Parent and Merger Sub of the Transactions, including the Merger, have been duly and validly authorized by all necessary corporate action on behalf of each of Parent and Merger Sub, and no other corporate proceedings on the part of Parent or Merger Sub and no stockholder votes are necessary to authorize this Agreement or to consummate the Transactions. This Agreement has been validly executed and delivered by Parent and Merger Sub and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Company, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Parent and Merger Sub, enforceable against Parent and Merger Sub in accordance with its terms, subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all Laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in an Action at law or in equity).
Section 4.03No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents. None of the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by Parent or Merger Sub, the consummation by Parent and Merger Sub of the Merger or any other Transaction, or Parent’s or Merger Sub’s compliance with any of the provisions of this Agreement will (with or without notice or lapse of time, or both):
(a) (i) conflict with or violate the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of Parent or Merger Sub; (ii) conflict with or violate any Law applicable to Parent or Merger Sub or any other Subsidiary of Parent (each a “Parent Subsidiary” and, collectively, the “Parent Subsidiaries”) or by which any of their respective properties is bound or affected; or (iii) result in any violation, breach of or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) or impair Parent or Merger Sub’s or any Parent Subsidiaries’ rights or alter their respective obligations or alter the rights or obligations of any third party under, or give to any third party any rights of termination, amendment, payment, acceleration or cancellation, pursuant to any Contract or permit of Parent, Merger Sub or any of the Parent Subsidiaries, or (iv) result in the creation of a Lien on any of the properties or assets (including intangible assets) of Parent, Merger Sub or any Parent Subsidiary, except, in each case, for any such conflicts, violations, breaches, defaults or other occurrences that, individually or in the aggregate, have not had a Parent Material Adverse Effect; or
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(b) require any consent, approval, Order, license, authorization, declaration or permit of, or filing or registration with or notification to, any Governmental Entity, except (i) the applicable requirements, if any, of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including the filing of the Proxy Statement relating to the adoption by the stockholders of the Company of this Agreement, (ii) the filing and recordation of the Certificate of Merger or other documents as required by the DGCL, (iii) compliance with any applicable requirements of the HSR Act and the applicable requirements of the non-U.S. Antitrust Laws, (iv) such filings as may be required under the rules and regulations of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE Euronext or the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, (v) the Exon-Florio Filing and clearance by CFIUS, (vi) such consents, approvals, Orders, licenses, authorizations, registrations, declarations, permits, filings and notifications as may be required under state or foreign securities or Takeover Laws and (vii) such other consents, approvals, Orders, registrations, licenses, authorizations, declarations, permits, filings or notifications which, if not obtained or made, would not have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
Section 4.04Litigation. As of the date of this Agreement, there is no Action pending or, to the Knowledge of Parent, Action threatened, against Parent, Merger Sub or any Parent Subsidiary challenging the validity or propriety of the Transactions, which, if adversely determined, would, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
Section 4.05Ownership of Shares. Neither Parent nor Merger Sub is, nor at any time during the last three years has it been, an “interested stockholder” of the Company as defined in Section 203 of the DGCL (other than as contemplated by this Agreement).
Section 4.06Sufficient Funds. Parent and Merger Sub will have all of the funds available as and when needed that are necessary to consummate the Merger and to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement.
Section 4.07Ownership of Merger Sub; No Prior Activities.
(a) Merger Sub was formed solely for the purpose of engaging in the Transactions. Parent owns directly all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock and other Equity Interests of Merger Sub.
(b) Except for Liabilities incurred and activities undertaken in connection with its incorporation or organization and the Transactions, Merger Sub has not and will not prior to the Closing Date have incurred, directly or indirectly, through any Subsidiary or Affiliate, any Liabilities or engaged in any business activities of any type or kind whatsoever or entered into any agreements or arrangements with any Person.
Section 4.08Information in the Proxy Statement. The information supplied by Parent and Merger Sub for inclusion in the Proxy Statement, if any (and any amendment thereof or supplement thereto), at the date mailed to the Company’s stockholders and at the time of the Special Meeting, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that no representation or warranty is made by Parent or Merger Sub with respect to statements made therein based on information supplied by the Company in writing for inclusion in the Proxy Statement.
COVENANTS
Section 5.01Conduct of Business by the Company Pending the Closing.
(a) The Company agrees that, between the date of this Agreement and the earlier of the Effective Time and the valid termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.01, except as set forth in Section 5.01 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, expressly permitted by any other provision of this Agreement or as required by
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Law, unless Parent shall otherwise agree in writing, the Company shall, and shall cause each Company Subsidiary to, use reasonable best efforts to conduct its operations in the ordinary course of business, comply, in all material respects, with the requirements of all Contracts of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and all Laws, and maintain all material Company Permits. Without limiting the foregoing, and as an extension thereof, except as set forth in Section 5.01 of the Company Disclosure Schedule, as expressly permitted by any other provision of this Agreement or as required by Law, subject to Section 5.01(b), the Company shall not, and shall cause each Company Subsidiary to not, between the date of this Agreement and the earlier of the Effective Time and the valid termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.01, directly or indirectly, do, or agree to do, any of the following without the prior written consent of Parent:
(i) amend or otherwise change the Company Certificate or Company Bylaws or any Company Subsidiaries’ certificate of incorporation or bylaws or equivalent organizational documents;
(ii) issue, deliver, sell, pledge, dispose of, grant, transfer or otherwise subject to any Lien (except for Permitted Liens), or authorize the issuance, delivery, sale, pledge, disposition, grant, transfer, or subjection to any Lien (except for Permitted Liens) of, any Equity Interests in, the Company or any Company Subsidiary of any class, or securities convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, any shares of such capital stock or other Equity Interests, or any options, warrants or other rights of any kind to acquire any shares of such capital stock or other Equity Interests or such convertible or exchangeable securities or any other ownership interest (including any such interest represented by Contract rights), of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, other than (w) upon the exercise or settlement of Company Options, Company Restricted Stock and Company RSUs that are outstanding on the date of this Agreement solely in accordance with their terms as of the date of this Agreement, (x) pursuant to, and in accordance with, the ESPP, (y) upon conversion of the 2015 Notes or the 2018 Notes, in connection with the 2015 Bond Hedges or the 2018 Bond Hedges, or upon exercise of the 2015 Warrants or the 2018 Warrants, in each case outstanding as of the date hereof and solely in accordance with their terms as of the date of this Agreement, and (z) grants of Company RSUs in accordance with Section 5.01(a)(ii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule;
(iii) sell, lease, license, transfer or otherwise dispose of, allow to lapse or expire, pledge, mortgage or otherwise encumber or subject to any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien), any Company Intellectual Property or Software or any other material properties, rights or assets (including Equity Interests of a Company Subsidiary), except (A) Services Agreements in the ordinary course of business, (B) transfers among the Company and its directly or indirectly wholly-owned Company Subsidiaries or (C) any Outbound License Agreement in the ordinary course of business, in each case, excluding entering into any reseller or hosting agreement under which the Company or any Company Subsidiary will distribute software to a third party;
(iv) declare, set aside, make or pay any dividend or other distribution (whether payable in cash, stock, property or a combination thereof) with respect to any of its capital stock (other than dividends paid by a wholly-owned Company Subsidiary to the Company or another wholly-owned Company Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice) or enter into any Contract with respect to the voting or registration of its capital stock;
(v) (A) except as required by the terms of the instruments governing such securities as of the date of this Agreement, redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire any outstanding Equity Interests of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, except in connection with the exercise or settlement of any Company Option, Company Restricted Stock, Company RSUs or the 2015 Bond Hedges or the 2018 Bond Hedges, the 2015 Warrants or the 2018 Warrants, in each case that are outstanding on the date of this Agreement, or are issued thereafter in compliance with the terms of this Agreement, and solely in accordance with their terms as of the date of this Agreement; or (B) reclassify, combine, split, subdivide, adjust or amend the rights of, any Equity Interests of the Company or any Company Subsidiary;
(vi) merge or consolidate the Company or any Company Subsidiary with any third party or adopt a plan of complete or partial liquidation or resolutions providing for a complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, restructuring, recapitalization or other reorganization of the Company or any Company Subsidiary;
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(vii) acquire (including by merger, consolidation, or acquisition of stock or assets) any interest in any Person or any division thereof, or any assets (other than acquisitions of assets in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice);
(viii) incur, create, assume or otherwise become liable for any Indebtedness, including through borrowings under any of the Company’s existing credit facilities, or issue or sell options, warrants, calls or other rights to acquire any Indebtedness of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, or take any action that would result in any amendment, modification or change of any term of any Indebtedness of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries;
(ix) except as required by the terms of the instruments governing such Indebtedness as of the date of this Agreement, repurchase, prepay or amend or modify the terms of any Indebtedness of the Company or any Company Subsidiary;
(x) make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other Person (other than (x) advancement of expenses to Company Employees in connection with the performance of their duties or (y) to any wholly-owned Company Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice);
(xi) terminate (other than by expiration in accordance with its terms), cancel, materially amend or agree to any material change in or material waiver under any Company Material Contract, or enter into any Contract that would constitute a Company Material Contract (other than entering into Services Agreements and Outbound License Agreements in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice that are not otherwise a Company Material Contract or a Contract with an original equipment manufacturer, and provided that the Company may materially amend a Company Material Contract described in Section 3.13(a)(xix) where such amendment does not otherwise render such Contract a Company Material Contract), provided, however, that with Parent’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, and which may be sought and, to the extent granted or deemed to have been granted, obtained by the Company in accordance with Section 5.01(b)), the Company and the Company Subsidiaries may, subject to the other provisions of this Section 5.01, enter into any Contract of the types described in Section 3.13(a)(x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv) (other than entry into and/or modification of task orders and other ordinary course services provided under customer contracts in effect as of the date of this Agreement, or entered into after the date of this Agreement in compliance with this Section 5.01(a)(xi), for which no such consent shall be required), (xv), (xvi), (xvii) (provided, further, that the purchase of additional software, licenses, or capacity under Contracts in effect as of the date of this Agreement will not require any consent or be prohibited by this Section 5.01(a)(xi)), (xxiii) (other than with respect to ordinary course co-location and data hosting for which no such consent shall be required), (xxiv) or (xxviii);
(xii) make, commit to or authorize any capital expenditures that (A) involve the purchase of real property or (B) are in excess of the Company’s projected capital expenditures by more than 15 percent as disclosed in Section 5.01(a)(xii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule;
(xiii) except to the extent required by (A) applicable Law, (B) the terms of any Company Benefit Plan described in Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule as in effect on the date of this Agreement or (C) commitments under Contracts of the Company or any Company Subsidiary or policies with respect to severance or termination pay in existence on the date of this Agreement, in each case, as disclosed in Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule and as implemented in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (I) increase the compensation or benefits payable or to become payable to its directors, officers, employees, independent contractors or consultants (or any of their dependents or beneficiaries) except for (i) increases in salary or wages in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice for employees below the level of senior vice president, (ii) increases in salary or wages in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice for employees at the level of senior vice president in the ordinary course of business
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in connection with the annual focal review, (iii) payments of bonuses for the Company’s 2014 fiscal year pursuant to the Company’s 2010 Cash Incentive Plan and the specific terms thereunder for the Company’s 2014 fiscal year, or (iv) increases of salary, wages and target incentive compensation in connection with the promotion of an existing employee, other than promotions of employees to the level of senior vice president or higher, (II) grant any rights to severance or termination pay to, or enter into any severance agreement with, any director, officer, stockholders, independent contractors, consultants or employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (or any of their respective dependents or beneficiaries) (other than any agreement with a non-U.S. employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary entered into in the ordinary course of business providing for notice of termination, payment in lieu of notice, severance or other termination benefits required by applicable Law in the jurisdiction of employment of such employee or that is otherwise upon terms that are customary for employment in such jurisdiction and consistent with the terms of agreements entered into by the Company or such Company Subsidiary with its other similarly situated employees in such jurisdiction), or establish, adopt, enter into or amend any collective bargaining, bonus, profit sharing, thrift, compensation, stock option, restricted stock, pension, retirement, deferred compensation, employment, termination, severance or other plan, agreement, trust, fund, policy or arrangement for the benefit of any director, officer, stockholder, independent contractor, consultant or employee or any of their respective dependents or beneficiaries, or establish, adopt, enter into any plan, program or arrangement that would be a Company Benefit Plan, Company Compensation Arrangement or Company Stock Option Plan if in existence on the date hereof, (III) except as contemplated in Section 2.04 and Section 2.05, take any action to amend or waive any performance or vesting criteria or accelerate vesting, exercisability or funding under any Company Benefit Plan, Company Compensation Arrangement or Company Stock Option Plan, or (IV) terminate the employment of any executive officer other than for “cause”;
(xiv) allow the commencement of any new offering period or grant of any new ESPP Purchase Rights;
(xv) hire any Person for employment with the Company or any Company Subsidiary at a level of senior vice president or higher, provided, that the Company and the Company Subsidiaries may hire any Person for employment at the senior vice president level or higher to fill any currently existing senior vice president position that becomes vacant after the date hereof;
(xvi) make any material changes in financial accounting methods, principles or practices (or change an annual accounting period), except insofar as may be required by GAAP, applicable Law or regulatory guidelines (in each case following consultation with the Company’s independent auditor);
(xvii) waive, relinquish, release or assign any right with a value of more than $1,000,000 in any individual case or series of related cases or $7,500,000 in the aggregate; provided that actions that are addressed by another subsection of this Section 5.01(a) shall not count towards such amounts;
(xviii) pay, discharge, compromise, settle or satisfy any Actions or claims in excess of $1,000,000 in any individual case or series of related cases or $5,000,000 in the aggregate, other than (I) as required by their terms as in effect on the date of this Agreement, (II) claims reserved against in the Most Recent Balance Sheet (for amounts not in excess of such reserves), or (III) claims incurred since the date of the Most Recent Balance Sheet in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice,provided that, in the case of each of (I), (II) or (III), the payment, discharge, settlement or satisfaction of such Action or claim does not include any obligation (other than the payment of money) to be performed by the Company or any Company Subsidiary, andprovided further that the amount of any payment for which the Company receives indemnity reimbursement from an escrow fund established pursuant to an acquisition shall not count towards the settlement thresholds set forth above;
(xix) (A) make, change or revoke any material Tax election, change any annual Tax accounting period or change any method of Tax accounting, (B) enter into any “closing agreement” as described in Section 7121 of the Code (or any comparable or similar provisions of applicable Law), in each case involving
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Taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving Taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (C) enter into any Tax allocation agreement, Tax sharing agreement or Tax indemnity agreement, in each case involving Taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving Taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (D) settle or compromise any Liability with respect to Taxes or audit or assessment related to Taxes or file or surrender any claim for a refund of Taxes (including any such refund to the extent it is used to offset or otherwise reduce Tax Liability), in each case involving Taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving Taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (E) file any amended Tax Return, in each case involving the payment of additional Taxes in an amount in excess of $1,000,000 or involving Taxes in an amount in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate, (F) consent to any extension or waiver of the limitations period applicable to any claim or assessment with respect of Taxes; or (G) other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, take any action that voids, lessens or impedes the use or value of any Tax incentives, Tax credits, Tax losses, deferred Tax assets or other favorable Tax benefit;
(xx) write up, write down or write off the book value of any assets, in the aggregate, in excess of $2,000,000, except (A) for depreciation and amortization in accordance with GAAP consistently applied or (B) as otherwise required under GAAP;
(xxi) convene any regular or special meeting (or any adjournment thereof) of the stockholders of the Company other than a stockholder meeting to adopt this Agreement (unless such a meeting is required by applicable Law);
(xxii) take any action to exempt or make not subject to (A) the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL or (B) any other Takeover Law, any Person (other than Guarantor, Parent, Merger Sub or any Parent Subsidiary) or any action taken thereby, which Person or action would otherwise have been subject to the restrictive provisions thereof and not exempt therefrom;
(xxiii) engage in any of the following activities in any manner that is outside the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices (A) any promotional sales or discount activity with any customers with any intent of accelerating to prior fiscal quarters (including the current fiscal quarter) sales that would otherwise be expected (based on past practice) to occur in subsequent fiscal quarters, (B) any practice which would have the effect of accelerating to prior fiscal quarters (including the current fiscal quarter) collections of receivables that would otherwise be expected (based on past practice) to be made in subsequent fiscal quarters, (C) any practice which would have the effect of postponing to subsequent fiscal quarters payments by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries that would otherwise be expected (based on past practice) to be made in prior fiscal quarters (including the current fiscal quarter) or (D) any other promotional sales or discount activity in a manner outside the ordinary course of business consistent with past practices;
(xxiv) with respect to material Company Owned Intellectual Property, (A) encumber, impair, abandon, fail to diligently maintain, transfer or otherwise dispose of any right, title or interest of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in any Company Intellectual Property (other than in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in connection with the license, distribution or sale of any of the Company Products or services or the abandonment of any Intellectual Property which the Company, in its reasonable business judgment, believes is not material and no longer worthwhile to the Company), or (B) divulge, furnish to or make accessible any Trade Secrets within the Company Intellectual Property to any Person who is not subject to an enforceable written obligation to maintain the confidentiality of such Trade Secrets; or
(xxv) agree in writing or otherwise commit to take any of the actions restricted in the foregoing clauses of this Section 5.01.
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reasonableness standard may be sought), (xii), (xiii), (xv), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxiii) and (xxv) as applied to the foregoing listed clauses by delivery of written notice (including by electronic mail) of such request to any of the individuals specified on Section 5.01(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule with a copy to counsel for Parent and counsel to the Company (it being understood and agreed that, for the purposes of this Section 5.01, if Parent or Merger Sub does not respond to any request for consent within five International Business Days after the Company delivers such request to each of Parent, Merger Sub and Parent’s counsel (including at the email addresses set forth on Section 5.01(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule (or such other email address(es) as Parent or Merger Sub shall specify in a notice delivered in accordance with respect to Section 8.03)), Parent or Merger Sub shall be deemed to have provided its prior written consent to the taking of such action upon and under the circumstances described in such request and only as to the specific instances subject to such request).
(c) The Company (or the applicable Company Subsidiary) shall not vote (or cause to be voted), or deliver a written consent covering, its shares of capital stock in the Excluded Subsidiary, in favor of any matter submitted to the stockholders of the Excluded Subsidiary that would result in the Excluded Subsidiary taking, and shall otherwise exercise any rights of consent that it has pursuant to any Contract in respect of its investment in the Excluded Subsidiary in order to prevent the Excluded Subsidiary from taking, any of the actions that the Company or any Company Subsidiary is restricted from taking pursuant to Section 5.01(a) above that would reasonably be expected to result in a Liability of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
Section 5.02Access to Information; Confidentiality.
(a) From the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement and the Effective Time, the Company shall, and shall cause each Company Subsidiary to and shall cause each of their respective directors, officers, accountants, consultants, legal counsel, advisors, agents and other representatives, (collectively, the “Company Representatives”) to: (i) provide to Parent, Merger Sub and Guarantor and their respective officers, directors, employees, accountants, consultants, legal counsel, advisors, agents and other representatives (collectively, the “Parent Representatives”) reasonable access, at reasonable times, upon reasonable prior notice to the Company, to the officers, agents, properties, offices and other facilities of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, and to the books and records thereof (including Tax Returns, but excluding any confidential information contained in personnel files to the extent the disclosure of such information is prohibited by Privacy and Security Laws), and, with the Company’s consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), to the employees of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries; (ii) furnish as promptly as reasonably practicable such information concerning the business, properties, Contracts, assets, Liabilities, Personnel and other aspects of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries as Parent or the Parent Representatives may reasonably request; (iii) reasonably cooperate with Parent and the Parent Representatives in connection with the arrangement of any financing to be consummated in order to fund the payment of the aggregate Merger Consideration and Parent’s other obligations under this Agreement; provided, however, that with respect to clause (iii), (w) any information regarding the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries contained in any materials, offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda, prospectuses, business projections and similar documents in connection with the arrangement of any such financing shall be subject to the prior review of the Company, (x) none of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any Company Representative shall be required to incur any Liability with respect to the arrangement or, or incurrence of any Indebtedness with respect to, such financing prior to the Effective Time or require the Company or any Company Subsidiary to enter into or approve any financing or purchase agreement for such financing prior to the Effective Time, (y) securing any such financing or any portion thereof, on terms and conditions satisfactory to Parent or Merger Sub or otherwise, shall not constitute a modification of the representations and warranties made in Section 4.06 or a condition of Parent’s or Merger Sub’s obligation to consummate the Merger or perform any of their other respective obligations hereunder and (z) such cooperation shall not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing business or operations of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and (iv) perform, and to reasonably cooperate with Parent in performing, a review and scan of the Company’s and the Company Subsidiaries’ Software. None of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any Company Representative shall be required to provide access to or to disclose information where such access or
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disclosure would contravene any applicable Law, Contract of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, or Order, or would reasonably be expected to violate or result in a loss or impairment of any attorney-client or work product privilege,provided, however, that in the event that the Company does not provide access or information in reliance on this sentence, the Company shall promptly notify Parent and use its reasonable best efforts to, as promptly as practicable, as the case may be and except as otherwise provided in Section 5.02(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, (x) obtain any necessary clearance or consent in order to permit such access or disclosure and (y) provide such access or communicate such information to Parent (including through the Parent Representatives) in a way, to the extent reasonably practicable, that would not violate the applicable Law or Contract or waive any such a privilege. In furtherance of the foregoing, no information identifying individual employees or consultants of the Company or any Company Subsidiary or protected personal information regarding such employees or consultants will be disclosed under this Agreement (including in the Company Disclosure Schedule) in respect of employees or consultants that are employed (or were employed and remain domiciled) in any country that has enacted legislation implementing the Data Privacy Directive of the European Union or similar legislation, except to the extent permitted by a contractual undertaking entered into by Company, Parent and Merger Sub regarding the maintenance of privacy of such data in a form reasonably necessary to effect compliance with such legislation. No investigation conducted pursuant to this Section 5.02(a) shall affect or be deemed to qualify, modify or limit any representation or warranty made by the Company in this Agreement.
(b) Except as expressly prohibited by applicable Law, within 10 Business Days prior to the anticipated Effective Time, solely to the extent the directors and executive officers of the Company and the material Company Subsidiaries differ from those listed in Section 3.01(d) of the Company Disclosure Schedules, the Company shall provide Parent with a true and complete list of any changes to the directors and executive officers of the Company and each material Company Subsidiary, as of such date.
(c) With respect to the information disclosed pursuant to this Section 5.02, Parent and Merger Sub shall comply with, and shall cause the Parent Representatives to comply with, all of its obligations under the Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement, dated as of April 22, 2012, by and between the Company and Guarantor (the “Confidentiality Agreement”);provided that Parent and Guarantor shall be entitled to share any Evaluation Material (as defined in the Confidentiality Agreement) and otherwise discuss consideration of the Transactions with potential financing sources and the Confidentiality Agreement shall be deemed amended to include such financing sources within the meaning of Representatives (as such term is defined in the Confidentiality Agreement) of Parent.
Section 5.03No Solicitation of Transactions.
(a) Subject to Section 5.03(b), Section 5.03(d) and Section 5.03(e), at all times during the period commencing with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and continuing until the earlier of the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01 or the Effective Time, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries shall not, and the Company shall direct the Company Representatives not to, and shall not authorize or knowingly permit the Company Representatives to, directly or indirectly:
(i) initiate, solicit or knowingly encourage or knowingly induce (including by way of providing information relating to the Company or the Company Subsidiaries or affording access to the business or properties of the Company) the making, submission or announcement of any Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry or otherwise knowingly cooperate with or knowingly assist or participate in or knowingly facilitate the making, submission or announcement of any Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry,
(ii) participate or engage in discussions or negotiations with any Person with respect to an Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry (for avoidance of doubt, it being understood that the foregoing shall not prohibit the Company or the Company Representatives from making such Person aware of the restrictions of this Section 5.03 in response to the receipt of an Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry),
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(iii) approve, adopt, endorse, or recommend to the Company’s stockholders, or publicly propose to approve, adopt, endorse, declare advisable or recommend to the Company’s stockholders, any Acquisition Proposal,
(iv) withdraw, change, amend, modify or qualify or publicly propose to withdraw, change, amend, modify or qualify, in a manner adverse to Parent or Merger Sub, the Company Board Recommendation (any action or failure to act taken by the Company Board set forth in the foregoing clause (iii) or this clause (iv), a “Change of Board Recommendation”),
(v) enter into any merger agreement, letter of intent, term sheet, agreement in principle, memorandum of understanding, share purchase agreement, asset purchase agreement, share exchange agreement, option agreement, joint venture agreement, partnership agreement or other similar Contract constituting or relating to an Acquisition Proposal (other than an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement) or enter into any Contract or agreement requiring the Company to abandon, terminate or fail to consummate the Transactions, or resolve or agree to take any of the foregoing actions, or
(vi) terminate, waive, amend or modify any provision of, or grant permission under, any standstill, confidentiality agreement or similar Contract to which the Company or any Company Subsidiary is a party (provided, that the Company shall be permitted to grant waivers of, and not enforce, any standstill agreement solely to the extent such provision would otherwise prohibit the counterparty thereto from making an unsolicited Acquisition Proposal to the Company Board in compliance with this Section 5.03).
The Company shall (A) immediately cease and cause to be terminated any solicitation, knowing encouragement, discussion or negotiation with any Persons, conducted prior to the execution of this Agreement, by the Company, the Company Subsidiaries or any of the Company Representatives with respect to any Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry and (B) promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company shall demand the return or destruction of all confidential information provided by or on behalf of the Company or any Company Subsidiary to such Person prior to the date hereof and use its reasonable best efforts to enforce the terms of any confidentiality agreement with the recipient of such information (except as provided in this Section 5.03 with respect to any standstill provision thereof).
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time following the date of this Agreement and prior to the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, in response to a bona fide written Acquisition Proposal that the Company Board determines in good faith After Consultation constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to or result in a Superior Proposal, the Company and the Company Representatives may (i) engage or participate in discussions or negotiations with, and only with, the Person (or such Person’s representatives) that has made such Acquisition Proposal, and (ii) furnish to the Person (or such Person’s representatives) that has made the Acquisition Proposal information relating to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries and/or afford access to the business, properties, assets, books, records or the personnel of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, in each case pursuant to an Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement;provided that (A) the Company did not receive such Acquisition Proposal other than in connection with or as a result of breaching or violating the terms of this Section 5.03, (B) prior to engaging or participating in any such discussions or negotiations with or furnishing any information to, such Person, the Company gives Parent written notice of the identity of such Person and its representatives and all of the material terms and conditions of such Acquisition Proposal and of the Company’s intention to engage or participate in discussions or negotiations with, or furnish information to such Person and (C) contemporaneously with or prior to furnishing any information to such Person, the Company furnishes such information to Parent (to the extent such information has not been previously furnished by the Company to Parent).
(c) In addition to the obligations of the Company set forth in Section 5.03(b), the Company shall promptly, and in all cases within 24 hours after the receipt by the Company, notify Parent orally and in writing of the receipt by the Company or the Company Representatives of any Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry,
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which notice shall include (x) the material terms and conditions of such Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry (for the purposes of clarity, this clause (x) shall be deemed satisfied in the event a copy of any written Acquisition Proposal and any related agreements, reflecting conditions or other material terms relating to any Acquisition Proposal, including the financing thereof, is furnished to Parent) and (y) the identity of the Person or group (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) making any such Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry. Commencing upon the provision of any notice referred to above until any such Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry has been withdrawn, the Company (or its outside counsel) shall (A) provide prompt notice to Parent no later than 24 hours after any material change regarding the material terms (including all amendments) of any such Acquisition Proposal or Acquisition Inquiry and upon Parent’s request will provide an update on the status of discussions regarding such Acquisition Proposal and (B) promptly (and in any event not later than 24 hours) after receipt or delivery thereof, provide Parent (or its outside counsel) with copies of all material documents (including any written, or electronic material to the extent such material contains any financial terms, conditions or other material terms relating to any Acquisition Proposal, including the financing thereof) exchanged between the Company or Company Subsidiaries or any of the Company Representatives, on the one hand, and the Person making an Acquisition Proposal or any of its Affiliates, or their respective officers, directors, employees, investment bankers, attorneys, accountants or other advisors or representatives, on the other hand. The Company shall provide Parent with at least 24 hours prior notice (or such shorter notice as may be provided to the Company Board) of a meeting of the Company Board at which the Company Board is reasonably expected to consider an Acquisition Proposal. The Company shall not, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries not to, enter into any Contract with any Person subsequent to the date of this Agreement, and neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries is party to any Contract, that prohibits the Company from providing the information described in Section 5.03(b) or this Section 5.03(c) to Parent.
(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if the Company receives an Acquisition Proposal, other than in connection with or as a result of breaching or violating this Section 5.03, that the Company Board concludes in good faith, After Consultation, constitutes a Superior Proposal, the Company Board may, at any time prior to the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, if it determines in good faith, After Consultation, that the failure to take such actions contemplated by clauses (x) and/or (y) below would be inconsistent with the Company Board’s fiduciary duties to the stockholders of the Company under applicable Law, (x) effect a Change of Board Recommendation with respect to such Superior Proposal and/or (y) terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.01(f) and simultaneously enter into a definitive agreement with respect tosuch Superior Proposal;provided, however, that the Company shall not terminate this Agreement pursuant to the foregoing clause (y), and any purported termination pursuant to the foregoing clause (y) shall be void and of no force or effect, unless in advance of or concurrently with such termination the Company pays the Termination Fee and otherwise complies with the provisions of Section 7.01(f) and Section 7.02; andprovided further that the Company Board may not effect a Change of Board Recommendation pursuant to the foregoing clause (x) or terminate this Agreement pursuant to the foregoing clause (y) unless:
(i) the Company shall have provided prior written notice to Parent, at least four Business Days in advance (the “Superior Proposal Notice Period”), of its intention to effect such a Change of Board Recommendation (which notice itself shall not constitute a Change of Board Recommendation) or terminate this Agreement to enter into an Alternative Acquisition Agreement with respect to such Superior Proposal, which notice shall specify the basis upon which the Company Board intends to terminate this Agreement or effect such Change of Board Recommendation and the material terms and conditions of such Superior Proposal (and the identity of the Person or group making such Superior Proposal), and shall have contemporaneously provided the execution draft of the relevant proposed definitive transaction agreements with the Person making such Superior Proposal (the “Alternative Acquisition Agreement”)) and other material documents with respect to such Superior Proposal (including any with respect to the financing thereof); and
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of this Agreement so that such Acquisition Proposal ceases to constitute a Superior Proposal, and (B) Parent shall not have, during the Superior Proposal Notice Period, made a written offer irrevocable during the portion of the Superior Proposal Notice Period remaining after the submission of such offer that would, upon the Company’s acceptance thereof, be binding on Parent and that, after consideration of such offer by the Company Board in good faith and After Consultation, results in the Company Board determining that such Superior Proposal no longer constitutes a Superior Proposal.
In the event of any amendment to the financial terms or any other material revisions to the Superior Proposal, the Company shall be required to deliver a new written notice to Parent pursuant to Section 5.03(d)(i) and to comply with the requirements of this Section 5.03(d) with respect to such new written notice (including a new Superior Proposal Notice Period), except the Superior Proposal Notice Period shall be at least three Business Days (rather than the four Business Days contemplated by Section 5.03(d)(i) above).
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, and solely in response to an Intervening Event, the Company Board may effect a Change of Board Recommendation prior to the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval if the Company Board determines in good faith, After Consultation, that the failure to do so would be inconsistent with the directors’ fiduciary duties to the stockholders of the Company under applicable Law;provided, however, that the Company Board may not effect such a Change of Board Recommendation unless:
(i) the Company shall have provided prior written notice to Parent, at least four Business Days in advance (the “Intervening Event Notice Period”), of its intention to effect such a Change of Board Recommendation (which notice itself shall not constitute a Change of Board Recommendation), which notice shall specify the details of such Intervening Event and the basis upon which the Company Board intends to effect a Change of Board Recommendation; and
(ii) prior to effecting such Change of Board Recommendation, (A) if requested by Parent, the Company shall have, and shall have caused the Company Representatives to, during the Intervening Event Notice Period, negotiate with Parent in good faith to make such adjustments in the terms and conditions of this Agreement so that a Change of Board Recommendation is no longer necessary, and (B) Parent shall not have, during the Intervening Event Notice Period remaining after the submission of such offer, made a written offer irrevocable during the portion of the Intervening Event Notice Period that would, upon the Company’s acceptance thereof, be binding on Parent and that, after due consideration of such offer by the Company Board in good faith and After Consultation, results in the Company Board determining that it would continue to be inconsistent with the director’s fiduciary duties to the stockholders of the Company under applicable Law to not effect the Change of Board Recommendation.
In the event of any material changes to the circumstances applicable to the Intervening Event, after the start of the Intervening Event Notice Period, the Company shall be required to deliver a new written notice to Parent pursuant to Section 5.03(e)(i) and to comply with the requirements of this Section 5.03(e) with respect to such new written notice (including a new Intervening Event Notice Period) except the Intervening Event Notice Period shall be at least three Business Days (rather than the four Business Days contemplated by Section 5.03(e)(i) above).
(f) The Company shall keep confidential any proposals made by Parent to revise the terms of this Agreement, other than in the event of any amendment to this Agreement and to the extent required by applicable Law to be disclosed in any Company SEC Documents.
(g) The Company agrees that any action taken by a Company Representative that, if taken by the Company, would constitute a material breach of the restrictions set forth in this Section 5.03 shall be deemed to be a material breach of this Section 5.03 by the Company.
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complying with the provisions of Rule 14d-9;provided, however, that, except as otherwise permitted under Section 5.03, such disclosure is limited to: (i) a “stop, look and listen” or similar communication of the type contemplated by Rule 14d-9(f) under the Exchange Act, (ii) an express rejection of any applicable Acquisition Proposal, and/or (iii) an express reaffirmation of the Company Board Recommendation.
(i) No Change of Board Recommendation shall change the approval of the Company Board for purposes of causing any Takeover Law to be applicable to the Transactions.
Section 5.04Appropriate Action; Consents; Filings.
(a) Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain any consents, approvals or waivers of third parties with respect to any Contracts of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries, as may be necessary or appropriate for the consummation of the Transactions or required by the terms of any Contract of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (including such consents as are necessary such that no third party will obtain additional rights under any such Contract as a result of the consummation of the Transactions) as a result of the execution, performance or consummation of the Transactions, including such consents as are required to be disclosed in the Company Disclosure Schedule;provided that, the Company shall coordinate with Parent and cooperate in determining whether any actions, consents, approvals or waivers should be sought to be obtained from third parties (including under any Company Material Contract) in connection with consummation of the Transactions and seeking any such actions, consents, approvals or waivers. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall furnish Parent with an executed affidavit that satisfies the requirements of Treasury Regulation section 1.1445-2(c)(3)(i).
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including Section 5.04(j), prior to the Effective Time, each of the Company and Parent shall use their reasonable best efforts to (i) take, or cause to be taken, all other appropriate action and do, or cause to be done, all things necessary, proper or advisable under applicable Law or otherwise to consummate and make effective the Transactions as promptly as practicable and (ii) as promptly as practicable, obtain from any Governmental Entities any consents, licenses, permits, certificates, filings, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, waiting period expirations or terminations, clearances or orders required to be obtained by Parent or the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, or to avoid any Action by any Governmental Entity (including those in connection with the Antitrust Laws and CFIUS Approval), in connection with the authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the Merger and the other Transactions. The Company and Parent shall further (x) cooperate with each other in determining which additional filings, and which additional consents, licenses, permits, certificates, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, clearances or Orders are required to be obtained from Governmental Entities prior to the Effective Time in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and consummation of the Transactions and (y) use their reasonable best efforts to timely make all such filings and timely seek all such consents, licenses, permits, certificates, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, clearances or Orders.
(c) In furtherance and not in limitation of the provisions of Section 5.04(b), each of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub shall as promptly as practicable, make all necessary applications, notices, petitions and filings required, and thereafter make any other required submissions and respond as promptly as practicable to any requests for additional information or documentary material with respect to this Agreement and the Merger as is required under (A) the Exchange Act, and any other applicable foreign, federal or state securities Laws, (B) the Antitrust Laws, (C) subject to Section 5.04(e), Exon-Florio and (D) any other applicable Law. The parties further agree that (A) the initial filings to be made under the HSR Act shall in any event be made by each party no later than seven Business Days following the date of this Agreement and the initial filings to be made under any other Antitrust Laws requiring filings shall in any event be made no later than 10 Business Days following the date of this Agreement, and (B) unless mutually agreed otherwise by the Company and Parent, a preliminary joint voluntary notice in accordance with Exon-Florio (the “Exon-Florio Filing”) to CFIUS shall in any event be submitted for filing no later than 15 Business Days following the date of this Agreement.
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(d) The Company and Parent shall furnish to each other all information required for any application or other filing under the rules and regulations of any applicable Law in connection with the Transactions and copies of all filings made by any filing party with any Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions;provided, however, that materials provided by the Company or Parent and their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates to the other party may be redacted (x) as necessary to comply with contractual arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business without a purpose of avoiding or limiting such party’s obligations under this sentence and (y) as necessary to reasonably preserve attorney-client privilege or to comply with applicable Law,provided, however, that such materials shall be provided in unredacted form to outside counsel to the receiving party in connection with any such application or filing and the receiving party will cause its outside counsel receiving any such unredacted materials not to disclose such materials to the directors, officers or employees of such receiving party without the prior written consent of the producing party.
(e) Parent and the Company shall use their reasonable best efforts to (x) avoid possible rejection or deferred acceptance of the Exon-Florio Filing, (y) respond as promptly as practicable and within any time limitations imposed by applicable regulations to any inquiries from CFIUS or any other Governmental Entity involved in the Exon-Florio review and make any other submissions under Exon-Florio that are required to be made or that the parties agree should be made and (z) obtain the CFIUS Approval, as promptly as practicable.
(f) Without limiting the generality of anything contained in this Section 5.04, (A) each of the Company and Parent shall give prompt written notice to the other of any of the following: (i) any notice or other communication from any Person alleging that the consent of such Person is or may be required in connection with the Merger or any of the other Transactions (ii) any notice or other communication from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, CFIUS or any other Governmental Entity in connection with the Transactions and (iii) to the Knowledge of the Company or to Parent’s Knowledge, any Action commenced or threatened against, relating to or involving or otherwise affecting the Company or any Company Subsidiary which relate to the consummation of the Merger or any of the other Transactions.
(g) Subject to applicable Law, each party hereto (or its counsel) shall, to the extent practicable, permit the other party (or its counsel) to review in advance any proposed communication by such party relating to the Transactions to any Governmental Entity. To the extent practicable, none of the parties to this Agreement shall agree to participate in any meeting with any Governmental Entity in respect of any filings, investigation (including any settlement of the investigation), Action or other inquiry unless it consults with the other party in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, gives the other party (or its counsel) the opportunity to attend and participate at such meeting. The parties to this Agreement will coordinate andcooperate fully with each other in exchanging such information and providing such assistance as the other party may reasonably request in connection with the foregoing and in seeking early termination of any applicable waiting periods, including under the HSR Act. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, control and supervision over its business operations. Each party hereto will consult and cooperate with the other parties and will consider in good faith the views of the other parties in connection with any filing, analysis, appearance, presentation, memorandum, brief, argument, opinion or proposal made or submitted in connection with the Merger or any of the other Transactions. In addition, except as may be prohibited by any Governmental Entity or by any Law, in connection with any such Action, investigation or other inquiry, each party hereto will have access to and be consulted in connection with any document, opinion or proposal made or submitted to any Governmental Entity in connection with such Action, investigation or other inquiry,provided, however, that materials provided by the Company or Parent or their respective Subsidiaries or Affiliates to the other party may be redacted (x) as necessary to comply with contractual arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business without a purpose of avoiding or limiting such party’s obligations under this sentence and (y) as necessary to reasonably preserve attorney-client privilege or to comply with applicable Law;provided, however, that such materials shall be provided in unredacted form to the receiving party’s outside counsel representing such party before such Governmental Entity. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall give Parent or Merger Sub, directly or indirectly, the right to control, direct or interfere with the operations of the Company prior to the Effective Time.
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(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, in connection with obtaining any approval or consent from any Person with respect to the Merger or the other Transactions, other than filing fees required to be paid in connection with a filing under any applicable Antitrust Laws or Exon-Florio, (i) without the prior written consent of Parent, none of the Company or any Company Subsidiary shall pay or commit to pay to such Person whose approval or consent is being solicited any cash or other consideration, make any commitment or incur any Liability or other obligation due to such Person, and (ii) neither Parent nor Merger Sub shall be required to pay or commit to pay to such Person whose approval or consent is being solicited any cash or other consideration, make any commitment or incur any Liability or other obligation.
(i) Each of the parties hereto agrees that it will not extend any applicable waiting period under any Antitrust Law or enter into an agreement with any Governmental Entity to delay or not consummate the Transactions without the written consent of the other parties hereto (which shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned).
(j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall obligate Parent, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates to proffer to, agree to or actually (and none of the Company or any Company Subsidiary shall, without the prior written consent of Parent, proffer to, agree to or actually) (i) divest, hold separate (including by establishing a trust), or enter into any license (whether pursuant to an exclusive or nonexclusive license) or similar agreement with respect to, or agree to restrict the ownership or operation of, or agree to conduct or operate in a specified manner, any portion of the business or assets of Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates, (ii) pay any amounts or make any commitments to obtain any consents, licenses, permits, certificates, exemptions, waivers, approvals, authorizations, registrations, clearances or Orders of a Governmental Entity or any other Person (other than the payment of filing fees and expenses and fees of counsel) in connection with the Transactions, (iii) limit in any manner the ability of such entities to conduct, own, operate or control their respective businesses, assets or properties or of the businesses, properties or assets of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, or otherwise enter into any voting trust arrangement, proxy arrangement or similar agreement or arrangement, or (iv) agree to take mitigation measures, if any, to obtain the CFIUS Approval.
(k) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, in no event shall Parent or any of its Affiliates be obligated to litigate or participate in the litigation of any Action brought by any Governmental Entity or appeal any Order (i) challenging or seeking to make illegal, delay materially or otherwise directly or indirectly restrain or prohibit the consummation of the Merger or any of the other Transactions or seeking to obtain from Parent or any of its Affiliates any damages in connection therewith, or (ii) seeking to prohibit or limit in any respect, or place any conditions on, the ownership or operation by the Company, Parent or any of their respective Affiliates of all or any portion of the business, assets or any Company Product or product of Parent or any of its Affiliates or to require any such Person to divest, hold separate, or enter into any license (whether pursuant to an exclusive or nonexclusive license) or similar agreement with respect to any portion of the business or assets of Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates.
(l) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall restrict, Parent or any of its Affiliates from developing, soliciting, considering, communicating, exchanging or furnishing information, negotiating, disclosing, entering into or consummating potential or definitive strategic transactions through both internally generated and third party proposals.
(m) The Company shall give Parent the opportunity to participate in the defense, settlement or compromise of any Action or investigation against the Company and/or its directors relating to the Transactions and will obtain the prior written consent of Parent prior to settling or satisfying any such Action or investigation. For purposes of this paragraph “participate” means that Parent will be kept apprised of proposed strategy and other significant decisions with respect to the Action or investigation by the Company (to the extent that the attorney-client privilege between the Company and its counsel is not breached), and Parent may offer comments or suggestions with respect to the Action or investigation but will not be afforded any decision-making power or other authority over the Action or investigation, except for the settlement or compromise consent set forth above.
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Section 5.05Certain Notices. From and after the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time or the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 7.01, each of Parent and the Company shall promptly notify the other party of the occurrence of any event that would be likely to cause any condition to the obligations of Parent or the Company, respectively, to effect the Merger not to be satisfied;provided,however, that the delivery of any notice pursuant to this Section 5.05 shall not cure any breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or otherwise limit or affect the remedies available hereunder to the party receiving such notice.
Section 5.06Public Announcements. Each of the Company, Guarantor, Parent and Merger Sub agrees that no public release or announcement concerning the Transactions (including any communication required to be filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 14a-12 promulgated under the Exchange Act) shall be issued by any party or its parent company or Subsidiaries without the prior written consent of the Company and Parent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), except as such release or announcement may be required by applicable Law or the rules or regulations of any applicable national securities exchange or Governmental Entity to which the relevant party is subject, in which case the party required to make the release or announcement shall use its reasonable best efforts to allow each other party reasonable time to comment on such release or announcement in advance of such issuance. The Company, Parent and Merger Sub agree that the initial press release announcing the execution and delivery of this Agreement shall be a joint press release of, and shall not be issued prior to the approval of each of, the Company, on the one hand, and Parent or Guarantor, on the other hand. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.06, (i) Guarantor, Parent, the Parent Representatives, the Company and the Company Representatives and Guarantor’s and the Company’s respective Subsidiaries may make public releases or announcements concerning the Transactions that are not inconsistent with previous press releases or announcements made by Parent and/or the Company in compliance with this Section 5.06, (ii) Guarantor, Parent, the Parent Representatives, the Company and the Company Representatives and Guarantor’s and the Company’s respective Subsidiaries may make public statements in response to specific questions by the press, analysts, investors or those attending industry conferences or financial analyst conference calls, so long as any such statements are not materially inconsistent with previous press releases, public disclosures or public statements made jointly by the Company and Parent or Guarantor and do not reveal material, non-public information regarding the other parties, the Merger or the other Transactions and (iii) the restrictions set forth in this Section 5.06 shall not apply to any release or announcement made or proposed to be made in connection with, or in response to, a Change of Board Recommendation that is effected in compliance with Section 5.03.
Section 5.07Employee Benefit Matters.
(a) With respect to any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA maintained by Parent or any Parent Subsidiary in which any director, officer or employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary (the “Company Employees”) will participate effective as of or after the Effective Time (collectively, “New Plans”), subject to applicable Law and applicable Tax qualification requirements, Parent shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation to, recognize all service of the Company Employees in the United States with the Company or a Company Subsidiary that is reflected in the books and records of the Company, as the case may be, for vesting, eligibility and level of benefits purposes (but not for accrual purposes, except for vacation and severance, if applicable) in any New Plan in which such Company Employees are eligible to participate after the Effective Time, in each case except to the extent that recognizing such service would result in a duplication of benefits. To the extent any Company Employee in the United States participates in a New Plan that is a welfare plan or arrangement of Parent or any Parent Subsidiary following the Closing Date (a “Parent Welfare Plan”), Parent and any Parent Subsidiary will, to the extent permitted by applicable Law and any insurer or service provider under the applicable Parent Welfare Plan, cause all (i) pre-existing condition limitations which otherwise would be applicable to such Company Employee and his or her covered dependents to be waived to the extent satisfied under a Company Benefit Plan comparable to such Parent Welfare Plan immediately prior to the Closing Date or, if later, immediately prior to such Company Employee’s commencement of participation in such Parent Welfare Plan, (ii) participation waiting periods under each Parent Welfare Plan that would otherwise
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be applicable to such Company Employee to be waived to the same extent waived or satisfied under the Company Benefit Plan comparable to such Parent Welfare Plan immediately prior to the Closing Date or, if later, immediately prior to such Company Employee’s commencement of participation in such Parent Welfare Plan and (iii) co-payments and deductibles paid by Company Employees in the plan year in which the Effective Time occurs to be credited for purposes of satisfying any applicable deductible or out of pocket requirement under any such Parent Welfare Plan, but only to the extent that the Company provides documentation of such co-payments and deductibles reasonably requested by Parent or any Parent Subsidiary within 20 days of such request. Until September 30, 2015, Parent shall provide (or cause a Parent Subsidiary to provide) the Company Employees in the United States who continue to be employed by Parent or any Parent Subsidiary as of the Effective Time (the “U.S. Continuing Employees”) with base salary and base wage rates, and target annual cash performance bonus opportunities (but not equity or cash-settled equity based incentive opportunities) that are not less favorable in the aggregate than the U.S. Continuing Employees were eligible to earn from the Company immediately prior to the Effective Time, but only to the extent that such salaries, wage rates and target annual cash performance bonus opportunities of the U.S. Continuing Employees are disclosed to Parent within 30 days after the Effective Time. Parent shall use reasonable best efforts to provide U.S. Continuing Employees with the opportunity to participate in those Company Benefit Plans listed in Section 3.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Schedule in which the U.S. Continuing Employees were participants immediately prior to the Effective Time until the earliest to occur of (1) June 30, 2015, (2) the date the U.S. Continuing Employee becomes eligible to participate in a comparable New Plan and (3) the date the U.S. Continuing Employee ceases to be eligible to participate under the Company Benefit Plan terms.
(b) For a period of five Business Days after the date of this Agreement, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries may disseminate any communications to employees, the substance of which has been communicated to or coordinated with Parent on or prior to the date of this Agreement. Thereafter, the Company and the Company Subsidiaries shall provide Parent with a copy of any other written communication to be broadly disseminated to employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary relating to the Transactions or regarding compensation, benefits or other treatment they will receive in connection with or following the Merger at least three Business Days prior to such dissemination, and will include any reasonable comments from Parent to such communication that Parent makes in good faith within two Business Days after Parent’s receipt of such communication (unless such communication is substantively similar to such prior communications that have been initially made after such announcement of the Merger or prior communications that have been previously provided to Parent pursuant to this Section 5.07(b)).
(c) At least five Business Days prior to the date of the Proxy Statement, the Company shall deliver or make available to Parent a report prepared by an accounting firm, as of five Business Days prior to the date of the Proxy Statement, detailing the possible tax consequences of Section 280G of the Code.
(d) Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall take such actions as Parent may reasonably request so as to enable the Surviving Corporation to effect such actions relating to the 401(k) plan of the Company (the “401(k) Plan”), including amending and/or terminating the 401(k) Plan prior to the Effective Time, subject to the terms of the 401(k) Plan and applicable Law and provided that such action does not preclude the immediate participation of the Company Employees in any successor 401(k) plan.
(e) This Section 5.07 shall be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of each of the parties to this Agreement, and nothing in this Section 5.07, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any other Person any rights or remedies of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Section 5.07. Nothing contained herein shall (i) be treated as an amendment of any particular Company Benefit Plan, (ii) give any third party any right to enforce the provisions of this Section 5.07 or (iii) require Parent or any of its Affiliates to (A) maintain any particular Company Benefit Plan or (B) retain the employment of any particular employee.
Section 5.08Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
(a) For a period of six years from and after the Effective Time, the Surviving Corporation and each Company Subsidiary, as applicable, shall (and Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to) indemnify and
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hold harmless all past and present directors, officers and employees of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Indemnified Persons”) to the same extent such Persons are indemnified as of the date of this Agreement by the Company pursuant to applicable Law, the Company Certificate, the Company Bylaws, the corresponding organizational documents of the Company Subsidiaries and indemnification agreements, in each case as in existence on the date of this Agreement and listed in Section 3.13(a)(xxii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule (collectively, the “D&O Indemnification Agreements”), arising out of acts or omissions in their capacity as directors, officers or employees of the Company and such Company Subsidiaries occurring at or prior to the Effective Time. The Surviving Corporation shall (and Parent shall cause the Surviving Corporation to) advance expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) incurred in the defense of any Actions with respect to the matters subject to indemnification pursuant to this Section 5.08(a) in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Company Certificate, the Company Bylaws and indemnification agreements and the corresponding organizational documents of the Company Subsidiaries, in each case in existence on the date of this Agreement;provided, however, that the person to whom expenses are advanced undertakes, to the extent required by the DGCL or by the applicable indemnification agreement or organizational document, to repay such advanced expenses to the Surviving Corporation if it is ultimately determined that such director, officer or employee is not entitled to indemnification under applicable Law or pursuant to the applicable indemnification agreement or organizational document.
(b) For a period of six years from and after the Effective Time, to the extent permitted by applicable Law the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Surviving Corporation shall contain provisions no less favorable with respect to exculpation, indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors, officers and employees of the Company for periods at or prior to the Effective Time than are currently set forth in the Company Certificate and the Company Bylaws. To the extent permitted by applicable Law, the D&O Indemnification Agreements shall continue in full force and effect in accordance with their terms following the Effective Time.
(c) Prior to the Effective Time, the Company shall bind and purchase directors and officers runoff insurance coverage (the “D&O Runoff Insurance”), which by its terms shall survive the Merger for not less than six years for the benefit of the Company, the Company Subsidiaries, the Company’s and any Company Subsidiary’s past and present directors and/or officers that are insured under the Company’s current directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy in effect as of the date of this Agreement. The D&O Runoff Insurance shall provide coverage for the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and such persons in their capacity as directors, officers and/or employees of the Company or any Company Subsidiary prior to the Effective Time that is not less favorable in the aggregate than the Company’s existing directors and officers policy (true and complete copies of which have been made available to Parent) or, if substantially equivalent insurance coverage is unavailable, the best available coverage. The Surviving Corporation shall maintain the D&O Runoff Insurance in full force and effect and continue to honor the obligations thereunder for a period of six years after the Effective Time or, if such policies are terminated or cancelled during such six-year period, obtain (subject to the limitations set forth in the next sentence) alternative D&O Runoff Insurance on substantially similar terms as set forth in this Section 5.08(c). Neither the Company nor the Surviving Corporation shall be required to pay an annual premium for the D&O Runoff Insurance in excess of 300% (the “Maximum Amount”) of the last annual premium paid prior to the date of this Agreement (it being understood and agreed that in the event the cost of such D&O Runoff Insurance exceeds the Maximum Amount, in the aggregate, the Company shall remain obligated to provide, and the Surviving Corporation shall be obligated to maintain, the broadest D&O Runoff Insurance coverage as may be obtained for the Maximum Amount). The Company and Indemnified Parties may be required to make reasonable application and provide reasonable and customary representations and warranties to applicable insurance carriers for the purpose of obtaining such D&O Runoff Insurance. Parent shall upon written request furnish a copy of such insurance policy to each beneficiary of such policy.
(d) In the event the Surviving Corporation or the Company Subsidiaries or their respective successors or assigns (i) consolidate with or merge into any other Person and are not the continuing or surviving corporation or entity of such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfer all or substantially all of their properties and assets to
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any Person, then proper provision shall be made so that such continuing or surviving corporation or entity or transferee of such assets, as the case may be, shall assume the obligations set forth in this Section 5.08, without relieving Parent of its obligations under this Section 5.08.
(e) The obligations under this Section 5.08 shall not be terminated or modified in such a manner as to adversely affect in any material respect any indemnitee to whom this Section 5.08 applies without the consent of such affected indemnitee (it being expressly agreed that the indemnitees to whom this Section 5.08 applies shall be third party beneficiaries of this Section 5.08).
Section 5.09State Takeover Laws. If any Takeover Law becomes or is deemed to be applicable to the Company, Parent, Merger Sub, the Merger, including by reason of the acquisition of Shares pursuant thereto, the Voting Agreement or any other transaction contemplated to be consummated by the parties pursuant to this Agreement, then the Company Board shall take all action necessary to render such Law inapplicable to the foregoing.
Section 5.10Section 16 Matters. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company Board, or an appropriate committee of non-employee directors thereof, shall adopt a resolution consistent with the interpretive guidance of the SEC so that the disposition by any officer or director of the Company who is a covered person of the Company for purposes of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder (“Section 16”) of Shares (including the disposition of shares of Company Restricted Stock), Company Options and Shares acquired upon the vesting of any Company RSUs, pursuant to this Agreement, and the Merger shall be an exempt transaction for purposes of Section 16.
Section 5.11Notification of Certain Matters.
(a) Between the date of this Agreement and the earlier of (i) the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01 or (ii) the Effective Time, subject to applicable Law, the executive officers of the Company, including the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, shall discuss with Parent, in good faith, in response to reasonable requests from Parent, material (individually or in the aggregate) operational developments, the status of relationships with customers, partners and others having material business relationships with the Company, the status of ongoing operations and other matters relating to the Company’s business as reasonably requested by Parent.
(b) No such discussion contemplated by this Section 5.11 shall affect the representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or obligations of the parties (or remedies with respect thereto) or the conditions to the obligations of the parties under this Agreement.
Section 5.12Company SEC Documents. From the date of this Agreement to the Effective Time, the Company shall timely file with the SEC all Company SEC Documents required to be filed by it under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will prepare and file its 2014 Form 10-K no later than the earlier to occur of (i) December 1, 2014, and (ii) the date of the Special Meeting, but in no event earlier than November 17, 2014.
Section 5.13Rights Agreement. From the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time and the date this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Section 7.01, the Company shall not, and shall cause the Company Subsidiaries not to, enter into any stockholder rights agreement, rights plan, “poison pill” or other similar agreement, unless such plan or agreement exempts from its application this Agreement, the Voting Agreements and the Transactions, including the Merger.
Section 5.142015 Notes and 2018 Notes. Prior to the Effective Time, the Company will comply with all of its obligations and duties under the terms of the Indentures governing the 2015 Notes and the 2018 Notes (the “Indentures”) and maintain the 2015 Bond Hedges and the 2018 Bond Hedges in full force and effect.
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Section 5.15Further Action. In case at any time following the Effective Time any further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement or to vest the Surviving Corporation with full title to all properties, assets, rights, approvals, immunities and franchises of any of the parties to the Merger, the proper officers and directors of each party to this Agreement and their respective Subsidiaries shall take all such necessary action as may be reasonably requested by Parent. In addition, the Company shall undertake the actions specified in Section 5.15 of the Company Disclosure Schedule.
CONDITIONS TO CONSUMMATION OF THE MERGER
Section 6.01Conditions to Obligations of Each Party Under This Agreement. The respective obligations of each party to consummate the Merger shall be subject to the satisfaction at or prior to the Effective Time of each of the following conditions:
(a)Stockholder Approval. The Company Stockholder Approval shall have been obtained.
(b)Antitrust Consents. (i) Any waiting period under the HSR Act applicable to the Transactions shall have expired or been earlier terminated, (ii) any affirmative approval of a Governmental Entity required under any other Antitrust Law set forth in Section 6.01(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule (the “Specified Antitrust Laws”) shall have been obtained or any mandatory waiting period related thereto shall have expired, and (iii) in the event that any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction takes a Specified Merger Control Action under any other Antitrust Law, any affirmative approval of such Governmental Entity, or confirmation from such Governmental Entity that it does not have jurisdiction, under such Antitrust Law shall have been obtained or any mandatory waiting period related thereto shall have expired.
(c)No Injunctions or Restraints. The consummation of the Merger shall not then be restrained, enjoined or prohibited by any Order (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) of a court of competent jurisdiction or any other Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction and there shall not be in effect any Law promulgated or deemed applicable to the Merger by any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction which prevents the consummation of the Merger.
Section 6.02Conditions to Obligations of Parent and Merger Sub. The obligations of each of Parent and Merger Sub to effect the Merger are also subject to the satisfaction or waiver by Parent at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:
(a) The representations and warranties of the Company contained in:
(i) Sections 3.02(a), (b), (d), (g) and (h) (Capitalization) shall be true and correct in all material respects as of immediately prior to the Effective Time with the same force and effect as if made on and as ofimmediately prior to the Effective Time except for representations and warranties in Sections 3.02(a), (b), (d), (g) and (h) that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct in all material respects as of such date or time),provided, however, that if any inaccuracies in Sections 3.02(a), (b), (d), (g) or (h), individually or in the aggregate, result in the aggregate amount required to be paid by Parent as additional consideration in the Merger (including as a result of the assumption of additional Company Options, Company Restricted Stock, Company RSUs, or other securities convertible into Shares in connection with the Merger) to increase by more than $10,000,000, such representations and warranties in Sections 3.02(a), (b), (d), (g) and (h) shall be deemed to fail to be true and correct in all material respects;
(ii) Section 3.01 (other than Section 3.01(d)(ii)) (Organization and Qualification; Subsidiaries), Sections 3.02(c), (e) and (f) (Capitalization), Section 3.03 (Authority), Section 3.04(a)(ii) and (b) (No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents), Section 3.19 (Opinion of Financial Advisor), Section 3.21 (Required Vote) and Section 3.26 (Brokers and Fees) (the “Fundamental Representations”) to the extent qualified by materiality or
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“Company Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all respects as of immediately prior to the Effective Time with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the Effective Time except for representations and warranties in the Fundamental Representations that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct as of such date or time), and all of the Fundamental Representations to the extent not qualified by materiality or “Company Material Adverse Effect” shall be true and correct in all material respects as of immediately prior to the Effective Time with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the Effective Time except for representations and warranties in the Fundamental Representations that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct as of such date or time); and
(iii) Article III of this Agreement (other than in Sections 3.02(a), (b), (d), (g) and (h) (Capitalization) and other than the Fundamental Representations) (without giving effect to any materiality or “Company Material Adverse Effect” qualifications therein (except for the representation in Section 3.10(b) (Absence of Certain Changes or Events) of the Agreement)), shall be true and correct as of immediately prior to the Effective Time with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the Effective Time except for such representations and warranties in this Agreement that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct in all material respects as of such date or time), in each case except for such failures to be true and correct, individually and in the aggregate as has not had a Company Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The Company shall have performed in all material respects all obligations and agreements contained in this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it prior to or on the Closing Date.
(c) Since the date of this Agreement, a Company Material Adverse Effect shall not have occurred and be continuing.
(d) Parent shall have received a certificate of the Company, executed by the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the conditions set forth in Section 6.01(a), Section 6.02(a), Section 6.02(b) and Section 6.02(c) have been satisfied in accordance with the terms thereof.
(e) There shall not be pending any Action commenced by any Specified Governmental Entity against Parent, Merger Sub, the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any of their respective Affiliates in connection with the Merger, (i) that could lead to making illegal, restraining or prohibiting the consummation of any of the Transactions, including the Merger, (ii) that could lead to prohibiting or imposing limitations on the ability of Parent or Merger Sub, or otherwise rendering Parent or Merger Sub unable, to pay for or acquire any or all of the Shares pursuant to the Merger, or seeking to require divestiture of any or all of the Shares to be acquired pursuant to the Merger and the other Transactions, (iii) that could lead to prohibiting or imposing any limitations on the ownership or operation by Parent, the Company or any of their Affiliates of all or any portion of the businesses or assets of Parent, the Company or any of their Affiliates as a result of or in connection with the Merger or the other Transactions, or otherwise compelling Parent, the Company or any of their Affiliates to divest, hold separate, or enter into any license (whether pursuant to an exclusive or nonexclusive license) or similar agreement with respect to any portion of the business or assets of Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates, (iv) that could lead to a requirement that Parent, the Company or any of their Affiliates enter into any voting trust arrangement, proxy arrangement or similar agreement or arrangement with respect to any portion of the business or assets of Parent, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates, or (v) that could lead to prohibiting or imposing limitations on the ability of Parent or Merger Sub effectively to acquire, hold or exercise full rights of ownership of the Shares to be acquired pursuant to the Merger and the other Transactions, including the right to vote the Shares on all matters properly presented to the stockholders of the Company.
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or similar waiting periods with respect to any other Antitrust Laws that (x) has resulted, or is reasonably likely, individually or in the aggregate, to result, directly or indirectly, in any of the consequences referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 6.02(e), or (y) has the effect of making the Merger or any of the other Transactions illegal or which has the effect of prohibiting or otherwise preventing the consummation of the Merger or any of the other Transactions.
(g) The CFIUS Approval shall have been obtained.
Section 6.03Conditions to Obligation of the Company. The obligation of the Company to effect the Merger is also subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the Company at or prior to the Effective Time of the following conditions:
(a) The representations and warranties of Parent and Merger Sub contained in this Agreement (without giving effect to any materiality or “Parent Material Adverse Effect” qualifications therein) shall be true and correct as of immediately prior to the Effective Time with the same force and effect as if made on and as of immediately prior to the Effective Time except for such representations and warranties in this Agreement that relate to a specific date or time (which need only be true and correct in all material respects as of such date or time), except for such failures, individually and in the aggregate with any other failures, to be true and correct as has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Parent Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Each of Parent and Merger Sub shall have performed in all material respects all obligations and agreements contained in this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it prior to or on the Closing Date.
(c) The Company shall have received a certificate of Parent, executed by an officer of Parent, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that the conditions set forth in Section 6.03(a) and Section 6.03(b) have been satisfied.
TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
Section 7.01Termination. This Agreement may be terminated, and the Merger contemplated hereby may be abandoned by action taken or authorized by the Board of Directors of the terminating party or parties:
(a) By mutual written consent of Parent and the Company, by action of their respective Boards of Directors, at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether before or after receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval;
(b) By Parent or the Company, if the Effective Time shall not have occurred on or before the Outside Date;provided,however that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.01(b) shall not be available to any party whose breach of this Agreement has been the primary cause of the failure of the Effective Time to have occurred on or before the Outside Date;
(c) By either the Company or Parent, if any court of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction shall have issued an Order or taken any other action permanently restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting, whether before or after receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, the Merger, and such Order shall have become final and nonappealable;
(d) By either the Company or Parent, if the Special Meeting (including any adjournment or postponement thereof) has concluded, the stockholders of the Company have duly voted, and the Company Stockholder Approval was not obtained;
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the full Company Board, would be a Change of Board Recommendation) (whether or not in compliance with Section 5.03), (ii) the Company fails to issue a press release that expressly reaffirms the Company Board Recommendation within five Business Days after the Company’s receipt of a written request by Parent to provide such reaffirmation following the date that any Person or group (as defined under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act), other than Parent or Merger Sub, (A) shall have made an Acquisition Proposal (other than a tender offer or exchange offer described in clause (iii) below) and the existence of such Acquisition Proposal becomes publicly known or (B) shall have publicly announced an intention (whether or not conditional) to make an Acquisition Proposal or the existence of an intention to make an Acquisition Proposal shall have otherwise become publicly known, (iii) any tender offer or exchange offer that constitutes an Acquisition Proposal is commenced, and the Company Board shall not have recommended that the Company’s stockholders reject such tender offer or exchange offer and not tender their Shares into such tender offer or exchange offer within 10 Business Days after commencement of such tender offer or exchange offer, (iv) the Company shall have breached Section 5.03 (A) in any material respect, or (B) in any respect if such breach directly resulted in the submission of an Acquisition Proposal, (v) the Company shall have failed to include the Company Board Recommendation in the Proxy Statement, or (vi) the Company or the Company Board (or any committee thereof) shall resolve, authorize or publicly propose to do any of the actions specified in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (v) of this Section 7.01(e);
(f) By the Company, at any time prior to the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval if the Company Board determines to accept a Superior Proposal, but only if the Company shall have complied in all material respects with its obligations under Section 5.03 and is otherwise permitted to accept such Superior Proposal pursuant to Section 5.03(d);provided, however, that such termination shall not be effective unless the Company shall simultaneously with such termination enter into the Alternative Acquisition Agreement and pay the Termination Fee to Parent substantially concurrently with such termination;
(g) By Parent, at any time prior to the Effective Time if:
(i) (A) there shall be an Uncured Inaccuracy in any representation or warranty of the Company contained in this Agreement or a breach of any covenant of the Company contained in this Agreement, in any case, such that any condition to the Merger set forth in Section 6.02(a) or Section 6.02(b) would not then be satisfied, (B) Parent shall have delivered to the Company written notice of such Uncured Inaccuracy or breach of covenant, and (C) either such Uncured Inaccuracy or breach of covenant is not capable of cure or at least 20 Business Days shall have elapsed since the date of delivery of such written notice to the Company and such Uncured Inaccuracy or breach of covenant shall not have been cured;provided,however, that Parent shall not be permitted to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this clause (i) of this Section 7.01(g) if any of the circumstances referred to in clauses (A) or (C) of this clause (i) was caused by the breach of this Agreement by Parent or Merger Sub;
(ii) there shall have occurred any adverse event or development which, individually or in the aggregate, has had, and continues to have, a Company Material Adverse Effect and either such event or development is not capable of being remedied or at least 20 Business Days shall have elapsed since the occurrence of such event or developmentprovided, however, that Parent shall not be permitted to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this clause (ii) of this Section 7.01(g) if any of the circumstances referred to in this clause (ii) was caused by the breach of this Agreement by Parent or Merger Sub; or
(h) By the Company, at any time prior to the Effective Time if:
(i) there shall be an Uncured Inaccuracy in any representation or warranty of Parent or Merger Sub contained in this Agreement or breach of any covenant of Parent or Merger Sub contained in this Agreement that shall have had, individually or in the aggregate, a Parent Material Adverse Effect,
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(iii) either such Uncured Inaccuracy or breach is not capable of cure or at least 20 Business Days shall have elapsed since the date of delivery of such written notice to Parent and such Uncured Inaccuracy or breach shall not have been cured; provided, however, that the Company shall not be permitted to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 7.01(h) if any of the circumstances referred to in clause (i) of this Section 7.01(h) above was caused by the breach of this Agreement by the Company.
Section 7.02Effect of Termination.
(a) In the event of termination of this Agreement by either the Company or Parent as provided in Section 7.01, this Agreement shall forthwith become void and there shall be no Liability on the part of Parent, Merger Sub or the Company or their respective Subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives except (i) with respect to Section 5.02(c) (Confidentiality), Section 5.06 (Public Announcements), this Section 7.02 and ARTICLE VIII and (ii) with respect to any Liabilities incurred or suffered by a party as a result of the willful breach by another party of any of its representations, warranties, covenants or other agreements set forth in this Agreement.
(b) In the event that this Agreement is terminated by Parent pursuant to Section 7.01(e) or by the Company pursuant to Section 7.01(f), then the Company shall pay to Parent immediately prior to or concurrently with such termination, in the case of a termination by the Company, or within two Business Days thereafter, in the case of a termination by Parent, a termination fee of $265 million (the “Termination Fee”).
(c) In the event that this Agreement is terminated by Parent or the Company pursuant to Section 7.01(b) (in the event that the Company Stockholder Approval has not been obtained prior to such termination) or pursuant to Section 7.01(d) and (i) prior to the date of such termination of this Agreement an Acquisition Proposal shall have been made known to the Company or publicly disclosed (and not publicly withdrawn prior to such termination) and (ii) concurrently with, or within 12 months after, such termination, the Company either (A) consummates a transaction that constitutes an Acquisition Proposal or (B) enters into a definitive agreement to engage in a transaction or a tender offer is commenced that, in either case, constitutes an Acquisition Proposal and such transaction or tender offer is subsequently consummated or completed (whether or not such consummation or completion occurs before or after the 12-month period following such termination) (provided that for all purposes of this Section 7.02(c), the term Acquisition Proposal shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8.04, except that the references to “15%” and “85%” shall be deemed to be references to 50%), then the Company shall pay to Parent the Termination Fee on the date no later than two Business Days after, and subject to, the consummation or completion of such Acquisition Proposal.
(d) All payments under this Section 7.02 shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an account designated in writing by Parent.
(e) Each of the Company, Parent and Merger Sub acknowledges that (i) the agreements contained in this Section 7.02 are an integral part of the Transactions, (ii) without these agreements, Parent, Merger Sub and the Company would not enter into this Agreement and (iii) the Termination Fee is not a penalty, but rather constitutes damages in a reasonable amount that will partially compensate Parent and Merger Sub in the circumstances in which such Termination Fee is payable.
(f) In the event that the Company shall fail to pay the Termination Fee when due, the Company shall reimburse Parent and Merger Sub for all reasonable costs and expenses actually incurred or accrued by them (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with the collection under and enforcement of this Section 7.02, together with interest on the Termination Fee at the prime rate as quoted on Bloomberg screen (PRIMBB Index) in effect on the date such payment was required to be made through the date of payment plus 2% per annum.
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accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, payment of the Termination Fee shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of Guarantor, Parent, Merger Sub and each of their respective Affiliates against the Company, the Company Subsidiaries and any of their respective former, current and future Affiliates, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, stockholders, controlling Persons, agents or representatives for any liability, loss or damage based upon, arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the negotiation, execution, performance or any actual or purported breach hereof or the Transactions or in respect of any other document or theory of law or equity or in respect of any representations made or alleged to be made in connection herewith or therewith, whether at law or equity, in contract, in tort or otherwise. In no event shall the Company be required to pay the Termination Fee on more than one occasion.
Section 7.03Amendment. This Agreement may be amended by the Company, Parent and Merger Sub by action taken by or on behalf of their respective Boards of Directors at any time prior to the Effective Time;provided, however, that, after the receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, there shall be no amendment that by Law or in accordance with the rules of NASDAQ requires further approval by the Company’s stockholders, without the further approval of the Company’s stockholders. This Agreement may not be amended except by an instrument in writing signed by the parties hereto.
Section 7.04Waiver. At any time prior to the Effective Time, Parent and Merger Sub, on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand, may (i) extend the time for the performance of any of the obligations or other acts of the other, (ii) waive any Uncured Inaccuracies in the representations and warranties of the other contained herein or in any document delivered pursuant hereto and (iii) waive compliance by the other with any of the agreements or conditions contained herein;provided, however, that after receipt of the Company Stockholder Approval, there shall be made no waiver that by Law or in accordance with the rules of NASDAQ requires further approval by the Company’s stockholders, without the further approval of the Company’s stockholders. Any such extension or waiver shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed by the party or parties to be bound thereby, but such extension or waiver or failure to insist on strict compliance with an obligation, covenant, agreement or condition shall not operate as a waiver of, or estoppel with respect to, any subsequent or other failure. The failure of any party to assert any of its rights under this Agreement or otherwise shall not constitute a waiver of those rights.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 8.01Non-Survival of Representations and Warranties. None of the representations and warranties in this Agreement or in any instrument delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall survive the Effective Time. This Section 8.01 shall not limit any covenant or agreement of the parties which by its terms contemplates performance after the Effective Time.
Section 8.02Fees and Expenses. Subject to Section 7.02, all expenses incurred by the parties hereto shall be borne solely and entirely by the party which has incurred the same.
Section 8.03Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Agreement shall, except to the extent expressly provided to be oral under this Agreement, be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made as follows: (a) if sent by registered or certified mail in the United States return receipt requested, upon receipt; (b) if sent designated for overnight delivery by nationally recognized overnight air courier (such as DHL or Federal Express), upon receipt of proof of delivery; (c) if sent by facsimile transmission or e-mail of a ..pdf, .tif, .gif, .jpeg or similar electronic attachment on a Business Day before 5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the receiving party, when transmitted and receipt is confirmed; (d) if sent by facsimile transmission or e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, ..gif, .jpeg or similar electronic attachment on a day other than a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the receiving party, and receipt is confirmed, on the following Business
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Day; and (e) if otherwise actually personally delivered, when delivered,provided that such notices, requests, demands and other communications are delivered to the address set forth below, or to such other address as any party shall provide by like notice to the other parties to this Agreement:
If to Parent, Merger Sub or Guarantor, addressed to it at:
SAP America, Inc.
3999 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Attention: Brad C. Brubaker
Facsimile: (610) 661-2402
Email: brad.brubaker@sap.com
with a copy to (for information purposes only):
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
Telephone: (212) 373-3000
Facsimile: (212) 757-3990
Attention: Toby S. Myerson and Steven J. Williams
Email: tmyerson@paulweiss.com, swilliams@paulweiss.com
and
Jones Day
1755 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California 94303
Telephone: (650) 739-3939
Facsimile: (650) 739-3900
Attention: Daniel R. Mitz and Jonn R. Beeson
Email: drmitz@jonesday.com, jbeeson@jonesday.com
If to the Company, addressed to it at:
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 – 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, WA 98004
Attention: John T. Torrey and Kyle R. Sugamele
Facsimile: (425) 671-2405
Email: john.torrey@concur.com, kyles@concur.com
with a copy to (for information purposes only):
Fenwick & West LLP
555 California Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Attention: Douglas N. Cogen, Horace Nash and Kee Bong Kim
Facsimile: (650) 938-5200
Email: dcogen@fenwick.com, hnash@fenwick.com, kkim@fenwick.com
Section 8.04Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the term:
“2015 Notes” means the Company’s 2.50% convertible senior notes due April 15, 2015.
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“2015 Bond Hedges” means note hedges, purchased by the Company in connection with the 2015 Notes, covering 5,491,883 Shares at a strike price of $52.35 per share.
“2015 Warrants” means warrants, issued by the Company in connection with the 2015 Notes, to acquire up to 5,491,883 Shares at an exercise price of $73.29 per share.
“2018 Notes” means the Company’s 0.50% convertible senior notes due June 15, 2018.
“2018 Bond Hedges” means note hedges, purchased by the Company in connection with the 2018 Notes, covering 4,661,551 Shares at a strike price of $104.85 per share.
“2018 Warrants” means warrants, issued by the Company in connection with the 2018 Notes, to acquire up to 4,661,551 Shares at an exercise price of $138.48 per share.
“Acceptable Confidentiality Agreement” means a confidentiality agreement that (a) contains provisions that are no less favorable to the Company than those contained in the Confidentiality Agreement, provided, that such confidentiality agreement need not contain any standstill provision, (b) does not prohibit the Company from complying with the provisions of Section 5.03 and (c) does not include any provision calling for an exclusive right to negotiate with the Company prior to the termination of this Agreement.
“Acquisition Inquiry” means an inquiry, indication of interest or request for non-public information (other than an inquiry, indication of interest or request for information made or submitted by Parent, Merger Sub, Parent’s Affiliates or the Parent Representatives) that would reasonably be expected to lead to an Acquisition Proposal.
“Acquisition Proposal” means any offer or proposal (whether or not in writing) concerning, for or relating to any (a) direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by any Person or “group” (as defined in or under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) of beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the total outstanding Equity Interests in or voting securities of the Company, or any tender offer or exchange offer that, if consummated, would result in any Person or “group” (as defined in or under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) beneficially owning 15% or more of the total outstanding Equity Interests in or voting securities of the Company; (b) direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition of 50% or more of any class of equity or other voting securities of one or more Company Subsidiaries, the business(es) of which, individually or in the aggregate, generate or constitute (as applicable) 15% or more of the consolidated net revenues or net income (for the12-month period ending on the last day of the Company’s most recently completed fiscal quarter) or assets (measured by the greater of book value or fair market value thereof as of the date of such transaction) of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (c) merger, consolidation, business combination, share exchange, joint venture or other similar transaction involving the Company or one or more Company Subsidiaries, the business(es) of which, individually or in the aggregate, generate or constitute (as applicable) 15% or more of the consolidated net revenues or net income (for the12-month period ending on the last day of the Company’s most recently completed fiscal quarter) or assets (measured by the greater of book value or fair market value thereof as of the date of such transaction) of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, pursuant to which the stockholders of the Company (as a group) or such Company Subsidiary or Company Subsidiaries, as applicable, immediately preceding such transaction hold less than 85% of the Equity Interests in or voting securities of the surviving or resulting entity of such transaction; (d) liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or reorganization of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, other than a wholly-owned Company Subsidiary, (e) direct or indirect sale, transfer or disposition of assets (including by any license or lease, other than licenses or leases under customer agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business) of the Company or one or more Company Subsidiaries, which assets, individually or in the aggregate, generate or constitute (as applicable) 15% or more of the consolidated net revenues or net income (for the12-month period ending on the last day of the Company’s most recently completed fiscal quarter) or assets (measured by the greater of book value or fair market value thereof as of the date of such transaction) of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or
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(f) any combination of the foregoing transactions that results in one of the effects referenced in clauses (a) – (e) above; provided that in no event shall the Transactions between Parent, Merger Sub and the Company (or any other transactions between Parent, Merger Sub or their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, on the other hand), be deemed to be an Acquisition Proposal.
“Action” means any litigation, action, claim, suit, hearing, arbitration, mediation or other proceeding (public or private) by or before, or otherwise involving, any Governmental Entity.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person.
“After Consultation” by a Person means after consultation with such Person’s outside legal counsel and, other than with respect to determinations with respect to the fiduciary duties of such Person’s board of directors, such Person’s financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation (it being acknowledged and agreed that the Company Financial Advisor is a financial advisor of nationally recognized reputation).
“Antitrust Laws” means the Sherman Act of 1890, the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, the HSR Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, and all other federal, state or foreign statutes, rules, regulations, orders, decrees, administrative and judicial doctrines and other Laws, including antitrust, competition or trade regulation Laws that are designed or intended to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of monopolization or restraint of trade or lessoning competition through merger or acquisition.
“beneficial ownership” (and related terms such as “beneficially owned” or “beneficial owner”) has the meaning set forth in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act.
“Business Day” means a day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York or San Francisco, California are authorized or required by Law to be closed.
“CFIUS” means the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, including any successor or replacement thereof.
“CFIUS Approval” means that the parties (or their respective counsel) shall have received a written notification issued by CFIUS that it has concluded a review of any notification voluntarily provided pursuant to Exon-Florio and Section 5.04(c) and that (a) CFIUS has concluded its review of the Transactions and that (i) the Transactions do not constitute a “covered transaction,” (ii) there are no unresolved national security issues with respect to the Transactions, or (iii) the United States government will not take action to prevent or suspend the Transactions; (b) CFIUS has concluded an investigation into the Transactions without sending a report to the President of the United States and that (i) there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to the Transactions or (ii) the United States government will not take action to prevent or suspend the Transactions; or (c) the President of the United States has decided not to take any action to suspend or prohibit the Transactions; provided that written notice from CFIUS shall not be required if (x) the period under Exon-Florio during which CFIUS or the President must act shall have expired without any such action being threatened, announced or taken or (y) the President shall have announced (or otherwise communicated, directly or indirectly, to Parent and the Company) a decision not to take any action to suspend or prohibit the Transactions.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commercially Available Software” means “shrink wrap,” “click through,” “browse wrap” or generally available commercial off-the-shelf Software that has not been materially modified or customized by a third party for the Company or any Company Subsidiary, including Open Source Materials.
“Company Benefit Plan” means each “employee benefit plan” as defined in ERISA (whether or not subject to ERISA), and any other plan, policy, program, practice, agreement, understanding or arrangement (whether
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written or oral, qualified or nonqualified, funded or unfunded, foreign or domestic, currently effective or terminated) providing compensation or other benefits to any current or former director, officer, employee, consultant or independent contractor (or to any dependent or beneficiary thereof) of the Company, a Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate, which are now, or were within the past six years, maintained, sponsored or contributed to by the Company, a Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate, or under which the Company, a Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate has any Liability or obligations, including all incentive, bonus, pension, profit sharing, consulting, employment, retirement, deferred compensation, severance, vacation, paid time off, holiday, cafeteria, medical, disability, death benefit, workers’ compensation, fringe benefit, change in control, stock purchase, stock option, stock appreciation, phantom stock, restricted stock or other stock-based compensation plans, policies, programs, practices, agreements or arrangements.
“Company Bylaws” means the currently effective bylaws of the Company.
“Company Certificate” means the currently effective amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Company.
“Company Compensation Arrangement” means (A) any employment agreement, severance agreement or change of control agreement between the Company or any Company Subsidiary, on the one hand, and any holder of Shares who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary, on the other hand, entered into during the 18 months immediately prior to the date of this Agreement, and (B) any Company Options, Company Restricted Stock, Company RSUs or other Equity Plan Stock Awards awarded to, or any acceleration of vesting of any Company Options, Company RSUs or other Equity Plan Stock Awards held by, any holder of Shares who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company or any Company Subsidiary during the 18 months immediately prior to the date of this Agreement
“Company Financial Advisor” means Qatalyst Partners LP.
“Company Intellectual Property” means any Company Owned Intellectual Property and any Intellectual Property that is licensed to the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries or otherwise used or held for use in connection with the operation of the business of the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
“Company Material Adverse Effect” means any Effect that (i) is, or would reasonably be expected to be, individually or in the aggregate with all other Effects, materially adverse to the business, financial condition or results of operations of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) prevents, or would reasonably be expected to prevent, consummation of the Merger or performance by the Company of any of its material obligations under this Agreement (it being understood that the obligation to comply with the HSR Act or other Antitrust Laws or Exon-Florio shall not be deemed to constitute a Company Material Adverse Effect pursuant to this clause (ii));provided, however, that, in the case of clause (i), none of the following Effects shall constitute, nor shall be taken into account in determining whether there has been or would reasonably be expected to be, a Company Material Adverse Effect: (a) changes affecting the economies or general business conditions of or financial, credit or capital market conditions anywhere in the world in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate; (b) changes in the trading volume or trading price of the Shares in and of itself (provided that the facts and circumstances giving rise to such changes in such volume or price may be deemed to constitute, and may be taken into account in determining whether there has been, a Company Material Adverse Effect), (c) changes in the industries in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate (including changes in the use, adoption or non-adoption of industry standards), to the extent such changes do not adversely affect the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate, or (d) national or international political conditions, acts of war (whether or not declared), the commencement, continuation or escalation of a war, acts of
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armed hostility, sabotage or terrorism or other international or national calamity or any material worsening of such conditions threatened or existing as of the date of this Agreement, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate, (e) changes in Law or GAAP or interpretations thereof, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect the Company or the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a manner disproportionate to other similarly situated participants in industries in which the Company and Company Subsidiaries operate, (f) any failure by the Company to meet any published analyst projections, estimates or expectations of the Company’s past or projected revenue, bookings, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations for any period, in and of itself, and any resulting analyst downgrade of the Company’s securities, or any failure by the Company to meet its internal budgets, plans or forecasts of its revenues, bookings, earnings or other financial performance or results of operations, in and of itself (provided that the facts and circumstances giving rise to such failures may be deemed to constitute, and may be taken into account in determining whether there has been, a Company Material Adverse Effect), (g) any legal or related proceedings made or brought by any of the current or former stockholders of the Company (on their own behalf or on behalf of the Company) against the Company or the Company Board relating to, in connection with or arising out of the Merger or the other Transactions, including the Proxy Statement, (h) any Effects primarily resulting from or arising out of the execution, announcement or pendency of this Agreement or the anticipated consummation of the Merger (including the identity of Parent as the acquirer of the Company or Guarantor as parent of Parent), including the impact thereof on relationships, contractual or otherwise, with officers, employees, customers, suppliers, distributors, vendors, licensors, licensees, lenders, investors, subcontractors or partners of the Company or the Company Subsidiaries, other than for purposes of Section 3.04 or Section 6.02(a) (insofar as it relates to Section 3.04), (i) fires, epidemics, quarantine restrictions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or other natural disasters, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate (j) any Effects directly or indirectly attributable to the U.S. Government sequestration or other broad-based reductions in U.S. Government spending, to the extent such changes do not adversely affect the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in a disproportionate manner relative to other similarly situated participants in the industries in which the Company and the Company Subsidiaries operate, and (k) the taking of any action by the Company or any Company Subsidiaries as required by this Agreement (other than operation by the Company and the Company Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business), or the failure by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries to take any action prohibited by Section 5.01, provided that the Company sought, but did not receive, the prior written consent of Parent and identified reasonable facts and circumstances in writing indicating that taking such required action or failing to take such prohibited action, as the case may be, would reasonably be expected to have a Company Material Adverse Effect.
“Company Option” means an option to purchase Shares issued under any of the Company Stock Option Plans.
“Company Owned Intellectual Property” means any Intellectual Property that is owned by or purported to be owned by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries.
“Company Products” means all product (including service) offerings, including all Software, of the Company and each of the Company Subsidiaries (a) that have been sold, licensed, distributed or otherwise disposed of, as applicable, within the past five years, and (b) that the Company, or any of the Company Subsidiaries, is obligated to license, distribute or otherwise provide pursuant to any Outbound License Agreement or Services Agreement or is otherwise obligated to maintain or support (in each case, excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, (1) those third party products or Open Source Materials identified in Section 3.13(a)(xvii) of the Company Disclosure Schedule and (2) any of the Company’s support services).
“Company Registered Intellectual Property” means all Company Owned Intellectual Property that is Registered Intellectual Property.
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“Company Restricted Stock” means each outstanding restricted Share that is, at the time of determination, unvested or is subject to a repurchase option, risk of forfeiture or other condition on title or ownership under any applicable restricted stock purchase agreement or other Contract with the Company.
“Company RSU” means a restricted stock unit issued under any of the Company Stock Option Plans.
“Company Source Code” means, collectively, any human-readable Software source code, or any portion or aspect of the Software source code, or any proprietary information or algorithm contained, embedded or implemented in, in any manner, any Software source code, in each case in any Company Product.
“Company Stock Option Plans” means the Company’s 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, the ESPP, and any other stock option, stock incentive or other equity compensation plan or agreement assumed, sponsored or maintained by the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any Affiliate of the Company.
“Company Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Company, whether direct or indirect, other than the Excluded Subsidiary.
“Consultant” means any independent contractor whose compensation is reported on Form 1099 in the United States or on comparable form under the Laws of a Governmental Entity other than the United States.
“Contingent Worker” means a temporary or leased employee who is not a Consultant and whose compensation is not included on the Company’s employment tax and payroll systems.
“Contracts” means any of the binding agreements, arrangements, commitments, understandings, contracts, leases (whether for real or personal property), powers of attorney, notes, bonds, mortgages, indentures, deeds of trust, loans, evidences of indebtedness, purchase orders, letters of credit, settlement agreements, franchise agreements, undertakings, covenants not to compete, employment agreements, licenses, instruments, and obligations, to which a Person is a party or to which any of the assets of such Person or its Subsidiaries are subject.
“control” (including the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”) means the possession, directly or indirectly or as trustee or executor, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of stock or as trustee or executor, by Contract or credit arrangement or otherwise.
“Copyrights” means all copyrights in works of authorship, including rights in databases, data collections, “moral” rights, mask works, copyright registrations and applications therefor.
“Domain Names” means all Internet domain name registrations.
“Effect” means any change, event, development, occurrence, state of facts, circumstance or effect.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all Laws, treaties, policies, guidance, standards, rules, administrative rulings, court decisions, common law, stipulations, consent decrees, permits, restrictions and licenses, which (a) regulate or relate to: the pollution, protection, investigation, preservation, restoration, reclamation or clean up of the environment; including waterways, groundwater, drinking water, air, land, soils, subsurface strata, animals, wildlife, plants or other natural resources or natural habitats; the use, generation, handling, transport, treatment, storage, recycling, reuse, disposal, presence, management, Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Substances; or the health, safety and welfare of Persons or property, including protection of the health and safety of employees; or (b) impose Liability or responsibility with respect to any of the foregoing, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.), or any other law of similar effect.
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“Equity Interest” means any share, capital stock, partnership, membership or similar interest in any Person, and any option, warrant, right or security (including debt securities) convertible, exchangeable or exercisable thereto or therefor.
“Equity Plan Stock Awards” means each award with respect to a share subject to a Full Value Award outstanding under any Company Stock Option Plan that is, at the time of determination, subject to forfeiture or repurchase by the Company and each ESPP Purchase Right that is outstanding and unexercised at the time of determination.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
“ERISA Affiliate” means each trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control (within the meaning of Section 4001(b) of ERISA) with the Company, or which together with the Company is treated as a single employer under Section 414(t) of the Code.
“ESPP” means the Company’s 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
“ESPP Purchase Right” means a right to purchase Shares issued under the ESPP.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means ClearTrip Inc., a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and any Subsidiaries of ClearTrip Inc.
“Exon-Florio” means the Exon-Florio amendments to the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, as amended by the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993, as amended, the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 and Sec. 721 of Title VII of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2170), as amended.
“Fairness Opinion” means the opinion to the Company Board from the Company Financial Advisor to the effect that, as of the date of such opinion, and based upon and subject to the considerations, limitations, qualifications and other matters set forth therein, the Merger Consideration to be received by the holders of Shares (other than Parent or any affiliates of Parent) pursuant to this Agreement is fair, from a financial point of view, to such holders.
“Foreign Employee Benefit Plan” means any Company Benefit Plan that provides benefits only for employees, consultants, independent contractors, stockholders or directors of the Company, any Company Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate who are employed or otherwise regularly providing service outside of the United States.
“Foreign Export and Import Laws” means the Laws and regulations of a non-U.S. Governmental Entity regulating exports, imports or re-exports to or from such non-U.S. country, including the export or re-export of any goods, services or technical data.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States.
“Government Bid” means any quotation, bid or proposal submitted to any Governmental Entity or any proposed prime contractor or higher tier subcontractor of any Governmental Entity in connection with any proposed Government Contract.
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subcontractor, or under which any Governmental Entity or any such prime contractor or subcontractor otherwise has or may acquire any right or interest, including offerings and agreements based on GSA schedule listings by the Company or any Company Subsidiary.
“Governmental Entity” means (a) any national, federal, state, county, municipal, local or foreign government, or other political subdivision, (b) any governmental agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, department or instrumentality, (c) any court or administrative tribunal, (d) any non-governmental agency, tribunal or entity that is vested by a governmental agency with applicable jurisdiction, including any quasi-regulatory body, such as NASDAQ, or (e) any arbitration tribunal or other similar non-Governmental Entity with applicable jurisdiction.
“Hazardous Substances” means any material, chemical, substance, mixture or waste that is capable of causing harm to or damaging man or any other living organism, the environment or natural resources, including, but not limited to, any material, chemical, substance, mixture or waste: that is designated, regulated or classified by any Law or Governmental Entity as a pollutant, a contaminant, toxic, hazardous, dangerous, infectious, carcinogenic, radioactive, explosive, biohazardous, controlled, special, industrial, reactive, corrosive, ignitable or flammable, or other words of similar meaning or effect, including noise, odor, vibration, electricity or heat, or that is otherwise subject to regulation, control, investigation, reporting or remediation under any Laws or by any Governmental Entity; or that is or contains any quantity of asbestos in any form, urea formaldehyde, PCBs, radon gas, crude oil or any fraction thereof, all forms of natural gas, radon gas, ozone-depleting substances, greenhouse gases, petroleum products, by-products, components, distillates or derivatives.
“HSR Act” means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
“Indebtedness” means, without duplication (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (b) all obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables entered into in the ordinary course of business), (c) all reimbursement or payment obligations with respect to letters of credit, surety bonds and other similar instruments, (d) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, (e) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing, in either case with respect to any property or assets acquired with the proceeds of such indebtedness (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (f) all monetary obligations under any leasing or similar arrangement which, in connection with GAAP, consistently applied for the periods covered thereby, is or should be classified as a capital lease, (g) all indebtedness referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or in any property or assets (including accounts and Contract rights) owned by any Person, even though the Person which owns such assets or property has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness, and (h) all contingent obligations (including any guaranty or “keep well” agreement) in respect of indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above.
“Intellectual Property” means rights in or arising out of any of the following: (a) Patents; (b) Trade Secrets; (c) Copyrights, (d) Trademarks, (e) Domain Names and (f) any similar, corresponding or equivalent intellectual property rights to any of the foregoing anywhere in the world.
“International Business Day” means a day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York, San Francisco, California, London, United Kingdom, Luxembourg or Germany are authorized or required by Law to be closed.
“Intervening Event” means any material event or development or material change in circumstances with respect to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries taken as a whole that (a) was neither known to the Company Board or any officer of the Company, nor reasonably foreseeable as of or prior to the date of this
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“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Knowledge” of a Person means (i) (a) with respect to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, the actual knowledge of the persons set forth on Section 8.04(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule, (b) with respect to Parent or Merger Sub, the actual knowledge of the persons set forth on Schedule 8.04(c) and (c) with respect to any other Person, the actual knowledge of any senior executive officer of the Person and (ii) any fact or matter which any such person in clause (i) of this definition would reasonably be expected to discover or otherwise become aware in the course of the reasonable conduct of his or her duties.
“Law” means any federal, state, local, foreign or international law (including common law), treaty, convention, statute, code, directive, ordinance, rule, interpretation, regulation or Order of any Governmental Entity having applicable jurisdiction or other similar binding requirement of a Governmental Entity having applicable jurisdiction
“Liability” means any known or unknown liability, Indebtedness, obligation or commitment of any kind, nature or character (whether accrued, absolute, contingent, matured, unmatured or otherwise, and whether or not required to be recorded or reflected on a balance sheet prepared under GAAP).
“Lien” means any lien, mortgage, pledge, conditional or installment sale agreement, encumbrance, covenant, condition, restriction, charge, option, right of first refusal, easement, security interest, deed of trust, right-of-way, encroachment, community property interest or other claim or restriction of any nature, whether voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of Law (including any restriction on the voting of any security, any restriction on the transfer of any security or other asset, and any restriction on the possession, exercise or transfer of any other attribute of ownership of any asset).
“Material Company Products” means Concur Travel, Concur Expense, Concur Travel and Expense, and TripIt.
“NASDAQ” means the NASDAQ Global Select Market.
“On-Premise Agreements” means the Contracts between the Company or a Company Subsidiary granting licenses (i) to various customers for on premise use of the Company’s software products acquired with ETAP-ON-LINE, (ii) to the two customers identified in Section 8.04(e) of the Company Disclosure Schedule to use certain Company Products as an on-premise solution, and (iii) to various customers for on premise use of the Company’s software products, the terms of which are perpetual but pursuant to which neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has any remaining service obligations as of the date of this Agreement and that were first entered into, and under which the Company or the Company Subsidiary ceased providing maintenance and support, more than five years before the date of this Agreement.
“Open Source Materials” refers to any Software or other material that is distributed as “free software,” “open source software” or pursuant to any license identified as an open source license by the Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org) (including but not limited to the GNU General Public License (GPL), LGPL,
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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), and the Apache License).
“Order” means any order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, stipulation, determination, ruling, verdict or award entered by or with any Governmental Entity.
“Other Filings” means all filings made by, or required to be made by, the Company with the SEC in connection with the Transactions, other than the Proxy Statement.
“Outbound License Agreements” means non-exclusive licenses to access or use immaterial object or source code of the Company Products granted to customers (directly or indirectly through third Person partners acting as sublicensors, value added resellers, systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers, or other distributors or resellers of any kind), sublicensors, value added resellers, systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers, or other distributors or resellers of any kind, by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.
“Outside Date” means 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on February 18, 2015,provided, however, that such date may be extended by Parent or the Company for a period of up to three months, if any of the conditions set forth in Section 6.01(b), Section 6.01(c), Section 6.02(e), Section 6.02(f) or Section 6.02(g) (but for purposes of Section 6.01(c) only if such restraint or prohibition is attributable to an Antitrust Law) have not been satisfied (or waived by Parent in the case of Section 6.02(e), Section 6.02(f) or Section 6.02(g)) as of 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on February 18, 2015 but all other conditions to Closing shall be, or shall be capable of being, fulfilled.
“Parent Material Adverse Effect” means any Effect that, individually or in the aggregate with all other Effects would prevent or materially delay, or would reasonably be expected to prevent or materially delay, consummation of the Merger or performance by Parent or Merger Sub of any of their material obligations under this Agreement.
“Patents” means domestic and foreign patents and patent applications, together with all reissuances, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, revisions, renewals, extensions, and reexaminations thereof.
“Permitted Liens” means (a) Liens for Taxes and other charges and assessments of a Governmental Entity that are not yet due and payable and Liens for Taxes and other charges and assessments of a Governmental Entity that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which an appropriate reserve has been made in the Company Financial Statements that are included in the Company SEC Documents prior to the date of this Agreement, (b) Liens in favor of vendors, carriers, warehousemen, repairmen, mechanics, workmen, materialmen, construction or similar liens arising in the ordinary course of business for sums that are immaterial in amount to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and not yet due and payable and (c) other encumbrances arising by operation of Law that are immaterial in amount to the Company and the Company Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and are not yet due and payable arising in the ordinary course of business.
“Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, syndicate, person (including a “person” as defined in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), trust, association, entity or Governmental Entity.
“Personal Information” means information provided to Company or any Company Subsidiary by or at the direction of any Customer, employee, contractor or other third party that: (i) identifies or can be used to identify an individual (including, without limitation, names, signatures, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and other unique identifiers); or (ii) can be used to authenticate an individual (including, without limitation, employee identification numbers, government-issued identification numbers, passwords or PINs, financial account numbers, credit report information, biometric or health data, answers to security questions and other personal identifiers).
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“Privacy and Security Laws” means Laws regarding collecting, accessing, using, disclosing, electronically transmitting, securing, sharing, transferring and storing personally identifiable data, including federal, state or foreign laws or regulations regarding (i) data privacy and information security, (ii) data breach notification (as applicable), and/or (iii) trespass, computer crime and other laws governing unauthorized access to or use of electronic data.
“Registered Intellectual Property” means any of the following Intellectual Property that is the subject of an application, certificate, filing or registration issued, filed with, or recorded by any Governmental Entity, including any of the following:
(a) issued Patents and Patent applications;
(b) Trademark registrations, renewals and applications;
(c) Copyright registrations and applications; and
(d) Domain Name registrations.
“Release” means any releasing, disposing, discharging, injecting, spilling, leaking, leaching, pumping, pouring, dumping, depositing, emitting, escaping, emptying, seeping, dispersal, migrating or placing, including movement through, into or upon the environment or any natural or man-made structure.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Services Agreements” means the Top Services Agreements and all non-exclusive subscriptions to use, access or market hosted Company Products granted to customers (directly or indirectly through third Person partners acting as sublicensors, value added resellers, systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers, or other distributors or resellers of any kind), sublicensors, value added resellers, systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers, or other distributors or resellers of any kind, by the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.
“Software” means computer software, computer programs, applications (including mobile apps) and databases in any form, including Internet web sites, web content and links, source code, object code, operating systems and specifications, data, databases, database management code, utilities, graphical user interfaces, menus, images, icons, forms, methods of processing, software engines, platforms, development tools, library functions, compilers, and data formats, all versions, updates, corrections, enhancements and modifications thereof, and all related documentation, developer notes, comments and annotations.
“Specified Governmental Entity” means (i) any U.S. federal Governmental Entity, or (ii) any non-U.S. or supranational Governmental Entity listed in Section 6.01(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule.
“Specified Merger Control Action” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01(b) of the Company Disclosure Schedule.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any entity of which (a) such Person or any other Subsidiary of such Person is a general partner (in the case of a partnership) or managing member (in the case of a limited liability company), (b) voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors, board of managers or others performing similar functions with respect to such organization is held by such Person or by any one or more of such Person’s Subsidiaries, (c) at least 50% of any class of capital stock or of the outstanding Equity Interests are beneficially owned by such Person, or (d) any Person that would otherwise be deemed a “subsidiary” under Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act.
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“Superior Proposal” means any unsolicited,bona fide written offer or proposal (that has not been withdrawn and that did not result from a material breach of the provisions of Section 5.03), to acquire all of the outstanding Equity Interests of the Company, which (a) is not subject to a financing condition (and if financing is required, such financing is then committed to the Person or “group” (as defined in or under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) making such offer or proposal), (b) is reasonably likely to be consummated on the terms and conditions contemplated thereby and (c) the Company Board shall have determined in good faith After Consultation is more favorable to the stockholders of the Company (in their capacity as such) from a financial point of view than the Merger, in each case taking into account the various legal, financial and regulatory aspects of the proposal, including the financing terms thereof, the likelihood of consummation in a timely manner, and the identity of the Person making such proposal.
“Tax” or “Taxes” means any and all taxes, levies, duties, tariffs, imposts and other charges in the nature of a tax (together with any and all interest, penalties, additions to tax and additional amounts imposed with respect thereto) imposed by any Governmental Entity, including income, franchise, windfall or other profits, gross receipts, property, sales, use, net worth, capital stock, payroll, employment, social security, workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, excise, withholding, escheat, estimated, gross margins, ad valorem, stamp, transfer, value-added, and gains tax.
“Tax Return” means any report, return (including information return), claim for refund, election, estimated tax filing or declaration required to be supplied to any Governmental Entity or domestic or foreign taxing authority with respect to Taxes, including any schedule or attachment thereto, and including any amendments thereof.
“Top Services Agreements” means the Contracts identified or required to be identified in Section 3.13(a)(xix)(A) of the Company Disclosure Schedule.
“Trade Secrets” means trade secret rights and corresponding rights in confidential information and other non-public information (whether or not patentable), including ideas, formulas, compositions, inventor’s notes, discoveries and improvements, know-how, manufacturing and production processes and techniques, testing information, research and development information, inventions, unpatented blueprints, drawings, specifications, designs, plans, proposals and technical data, business and marketing plans, market surveys, market know-how and customer lists and information.
“Trademarks” means all trademarks, service marks, logos, trade dress and trade names and domain names indicating the source of goods or services, and other indicia of commercial source or origin (whether registered, common law, statutory or otherwise), all registrations and applications to register the foregoing anywhere in the world and all goodwill associated therewith.
“Transactions” means the Merger and the other transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Voting Agreement and all other agreements contemplated by this Agreement.
“Uncured Inaccuracy” with respect to a representation or warranty of a party to this Agreement as of a particular date shall be deemed to exist only if such representation or warranty shall be inaccurate as of such date as if such representation or warranty were made as of such date, and the inaccuracy in such representation or warranty shall not have been cured since such date; provided, however, that if such representation or warranty by its terms speaks as of the date of this Agreement or as of another particular date, then there shall not be deemed to be an Uncured Inaccuracy in such representation or warranty unless such representation or warranty shall have been inaccurate as of the date of this Agreement or such other particular date, respectively, and the inaccuracy in such representation or warranty shall not have been cured since such date.
“U.S. Export and Import Laws” means the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR 120-130), the Export Administration Act of 1979(50 U.S.C. 2401-2420), the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1707), the Export
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Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR 730-774), the Foreign Assets Control Regulations (31 CFR Parts 500-598), the Laws and regulations administered by Customs and Border Protection (19 CFR Parts 1-199) and all other Laws of the United States and regulations regulating exports, imports or re-exports to or from the United States, including the export or re-export of goods, services or technical data from the United States.
Section 8.05Terms Defined Elsewhere. The following terms are defined elsewhere in this Agreement, as indicated below:
Defined Term | Section | |
401(k) Plan | Section 5.07(d) | |
Agreement | Preamble | |
Alternative Acquisition Agreement | Section 5.03(d)(i) | |
Book-Entry Shares | Section 2.02(b) | |
Capitalization Date | Section 3.02(a) | |
Certificate of Merger | Section 1.02 | |
Certificates | Section 2.02(b) | |
Change of Board Recommendation | Section 5.03(a)(v) | |
Closing | Section 1.02 | |
Closing Date | Section 1.02 | |
Company | Preamble | |
Company Board | Recitals | |
Company Board Recommendation | Recitals | |
Company Disclosure Schedule | ARTICLE III | |
Company Employees | Section 5.07(a) | |
Company Financial Statements | Section 3.07(a) | |
Company Material Contract | Section 3.13(a) | |
Company Permits | Section 3.05(a) | |
Company Preferred Stock | Section 3.02(a) | |
Company Representatives | Section 5.02(a) | |
Company SEC Documents | Section 3.06(a) | |
Company Stockholder Approval | Section 3.21 | |
Confidentiality Agreement | Section 5.02(c) | |
D&O Indemnification Agreements | Section 5.08(a) | |
D&O Runoff Insurance | Section 5.08(c) | |
DGCL | Recitals | |
Dispute | Section 3.15(l) | |
Dissenting Shares | Section 2.03 | |
Effective Time | Section 1.02 | |
Electronic Delivery | Section 8.13 | |
Employment Practices | Section 3.12(a) | |
Exon-Florio Filing | Section 5.04(c) | |
Export Approvals | Section 3.05(e) | |
Full Value Award | Section 2.04(b) | |
Fundamental Representations | Section 6.02(a)(ii) | |
Guarantee | Section 8.15(c) | |
Guaranteed Obligations | Section 8.15(a) | |
Guarantor | Section 8.15(a) | |
Indentures | Section 5.14 | |
Independent Director | Section 3.12(h) | |
Insurance Policies | Section 3.17 | |
Intercompany Contracts | Section 3.13(a)(vii) | |
Intervening Event Notice Period | Section 5.03(e)(i) |
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Defined Term | Section | |
Leased Real Property | Section 3.18(c) | |
LGPL | Section 3.15(f) | |
Maximum Amount | Section 5.08(c) | |
Merger | Recitals | |
Merger Consideration | Recitals | |
Merger Sub | Preamble | |
Most Recent Balance Sheet | Section 3.09(a)(i) | |
New Plans | Section 5.07(a) | |
Parent | Preamble | |
Parent Representatives | Section 5.02(a) | |
Parent Subsidiary | Section 4.03(a) | |
Parent Welfare Plan | Section 5.07(a) | |
Paying Agent | Section 2.02(a) | |
Proxy Statement | Section 1.03(a) | |
Replacement Right | Section 2.04(b) | |
Sarbanes-Oxley Act | Section 3.06(a) | |
Section 16 | Section 5.10 | |
Shares | Recitals | |
Significant Customer | Section 3.23 | |
Special Meeting | Section 1.03(e) | |
Superior Proposal Notice Period | Section 5.03(d)(i) | |
Surviving Corporation | Recitals | |
Takeover Law | Section 3.03(b) | |
Termination Fee | Section 7.02(b) | |
U.S. Continuing Employees | Section 5.07(a) | |
Voting Agreement | Recitals | |
WARN Act | Section 3.12(e) | |
Worker List | Section 3.12(f) |
Section 8.06Headings. The table of contents and headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
Section 8.07Severability. Any term or provision of this Agreement that is invalid or unenforceable in any situation in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms and provisions of this Agreement or the validity or enforceability of the offending term or provision in any other situation or in any other jurisdiction. If the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction declares that any term or provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, the parties hereto agree that the court making such determination shall have the power to limit the term or provision, to delete specific words or phrases or to replace any invalid or unenforceable term or provision with a term or provision that is valid and enforceable and that comes closest to expressing the intention of the invalid or unenforceable term or provision, and this Agreement shall be enforceable as so modified. In the event such court does not exercise the power granted to it in the prior sentence, the parties hereto agree to replace such invalid or unenforceable term or provision with a valid and enforceable term or provision that will achieve, to the extent possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such invalid or unenforceable term.
Section 8.08Entire Agreement. This Agreement (together with the Company Disclosure Schedule and the other documents delivered pursuant hereto) and the Confidentiality Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the parties and supersede all prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, are not intended to confer upon any other Person any rights or remedies hereunder. EACH PARTY HERETO AGREES THAT, EXCEPT FOR THE REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES CONTAINED IN THIS
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AGREEMENT, NEITHER PARENT AND MERGER SUB, ON THE ONE HAND, NOR THE COMPANY, ON THE OTHER HAND, MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES TO THE OTHER, AND EACH PARTY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY OTHER INFORMATION, MADE (OR MADE AVAILABLE BY) BY ITSELF OR ANY OF ITS REPRESENTATIVES, WITH RESPECT TO, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THE NEGOTIATION, EXECUTION OR DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY, NOTWITHSTANDING THE DELIVERY OR DISCLOSURE TO THE OTHER OR THE OTHER’S REPRESENTATIVES OF ANY DOCUMENTATION OR OTHER INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOREGOING.
Section 8.09Assignment. The Agreement shall not be assigned by any party by operation of Law or otherwise without the prior written consent of the other parties, and any such purported assignment in contravention of this Agreement shall be null and void,provided that Parent or Merger Sub may assign any of their respective rights and obligations to an Affiliate of Parent or to a successor-in-interest by reason of merger or consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Parent;provided further that, with respect to an assignment or transfer by Parent or Merger Sub in accordance with the prior proviso, (a) with respect to an assignment to a successor-in-interest, such assignment includes all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (b) such successor-in-interest or Affiliate shall have agreed as of such assignment or transfer to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in a writing provided to the Company, and (c) Parent remains responsible for the performance of this Agreement and Guarantor remains responsible for all of its obligations under Section 8.15.
Section 8.10Parties in Interest. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of each party hereto and their respective permitted successors and permitted assigns, and nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, other than pursuant to Section 5.08, is intended to or shall confer upon any other Person any right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement. The representations and warranties in this Agreement are the product of negotiations among the parties hereto and are for the sole benefit of the parties hereto. Any inaccuracies in such representations and warranties are subject to waiver by the parties hereto, without notice or Liability to any other Person. The representations and warranties in this Agreement may represent an allocation among the parties hereto of risks associated with particular matters regardless of the knowledge of any of the parties hereto. Accordingly, Persons other than the parties hereto may not rely upon the representations and warranties in this Agreement as characterizations of actual facts or circumstances as of the date of this Agreement or as of any other date.
Section 8.11Mutual Drafting; Interpretation. Each party hereto has participated in the drafting of this Agreement, which each party acknowledges is the result of extensive negotiations between the parties. If an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision. In this Agreement, except to the extent otherwise provided or that the context otherwise requires:
(a) whenever the context requires: the singular number shall include the plural, and vice versa; the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders; the feminine gender shall include the masculine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender shall include masculine and feminine genders;
(b) the words “include” and “including,” and variations thereof, shall not be deemed to be terms of limitation, but rather shall be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation”
(c) all references in this Agreement to “Sections,” “Annexes” and “Schedules” are intended to refer to Sections of this Agreement and Annexes and Schedules to this Agreement;
(d) the words “hereof,” “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement;
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(e) all terms defined in this Agreement have the defined meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto, unless otherwise defined therein;
(f) references to a Person are also to such Person’s successors and permitted assigns;
(g) all references in this Agreement to “$“or other monetary amounts refer to U.S. dollars;
(h) unless otherwise specifically provided for herein, the term “or” shall not be deemed to be exclusive;
(i) all references to the “date of this Agreement” shall refer to the date this Agreement is made and entered into;
(j) although the same or similar subject matters may be addressed in different provisions, the parties intend that, except as reasonably apparent on the face of the Agreement or as expressly provided in this Agreement, each such provision shall be read separately, be given independent significance and not be construed as limiting any other provision of this Agreement (whether or not more general or more specific in scope, substance or content); and
any Contract or Law defined or referred to herein or in any agreement or instrument that is referred to herein means such Contract or Law as from time to time amended, modified or supplemented, including (in the case of Laws) by succession of comparable successor Laws and (in the case of Laws) any rules and regulations promulgated under said Laws.
Section 8.12Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Trial by Jury.
(a) This Agreement (and any Actions arising out of or related hereto or to the Transactions or to the inducement of any party to enter herein, whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall in all respects be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws of the State of Delaware, including all matters of construction, validity and performance, in each case without reference to any conflict of law rules that might lead to the application of the Laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.
(b) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and any appellate court from any thereof, in any Action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the agreements delivered in connection herewith or the Transactions or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment relating thereto (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise), and each of the parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i) agrees not to commence any such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) except in Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), (ii) agrees that any Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) may be heard and determined in Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and any appellate court from any thereof, (iii) 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 (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and (iv) waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) in Delaware Court of Chancery (and if
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jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware). Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions within and outside the United States of America by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Law. Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process anywhere in the world in the manner provided for notices in Section 8.03. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by Law.
(c) EACH PARTY 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 AGREEMENTS DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) 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 EITHER OF SUCH WAIVERS, (II) IT UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH WAIVERS, (III) IT MAKES SUCH WAIVERS VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 8.12(C).
Section 8.13Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed and delivered (including by facsimile transmission or by e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .jpeg or similar attachment (“Electronic Delivery”)) in two or more counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Any such counterpart, to the extent delivered using Electronic Delivery shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original executed counterpart and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. No party hereto shall raise the use of Electronic Delivery to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of Electronic Delivery as a defense to the formation of a contract, and each such party forever waives any such defense, except to the extent that such defense relates to lack of authenticity.
Section 8.14Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money damages or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for any such damage. It is accordingly agreed that prior to any valid termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 7.01, (a) each party shall be entitled at its election to seek an injunction or injunctions to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to seek to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement, this being in addition to any other remedy to which they are entitled at Law or in equity and (b) the parties shall waive, in any Action for specific performance, the defense of adequacy of a remedy at Law. A party’s pursuit of specific performance at any time shall not be deemed an election of remedies or waiver of the right to pursue any other right or remedy to which such party may be entitled, including the right to pursue remedies for Liabilities or damages incurred or suffered by such party in the case of a breach of this Agreement involving fraud or willful or intentional misconduct.
(a) To induce the Company to enter into this Agreement, SAP SE, a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE) established under the laws of Germany and the European Union, with a business address at Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany (“Guarantor”), intending to be legally bound, hereby
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absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to the Company the due and punctual payment and performance of (i) all of Parent’s and Merger Sub’s obligations under this Agreement, in each case as and when due, including payment of Merger Consideration and any breach of this Agreement by Parent or Merger Sub (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). This guarantee may not be revoked or terminated and shall remain in full force and effect without interruption and shall be binding on Guarantor and its successors and assigns until the Guaranteed Obligations have been satisfied in full. Guarantor further covenants and agrees that, if requested by the Company, it will promptly appoint in accordance with applicable Law a registered agent for service of process in the State of Delaware, and Guarantor shall maintain such registered agent as its agent for service of process in the State of Delaware without interruption until the Effective Time.
(b) All payments pursuant to this Section 8.15 shall be made in lawful money of the United States, in immediately available funds. Guarantor promises and undertakes to make all payments hereunder free and clear of any deduction, offset, defense, claim or counterclaim of Guarantor of any kind.
(c) The guarantee set forth in Section 8.15(a) (the “Guarantee”) is an absolute, unconditional and continuing guarantee of the full and punctual payment and performance by Parent and Merger Sub of the Guaranteed Obligations and not of collection. Should Parent or Merger Sub default in the payment or performance of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, Guarantor’s obligations hereunder shall become immediately due and payable to the Company or, to the extent such obligations become due and payable after the Effective Time, to the former holders of Certificates, Book-Entry Shares, Company Options and Full Value Awards, or to the Indemnified Persons. Claims hereunder may be made on one or more occasions. If any payment in respect of any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be returned for any reason whatsoever, Guarantor shall remain liable hereunder with respect to such Guaranteed Obligation as if such payment had not been made.
(d) Guarantor agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations shall not be released or discharged, in whole or in part, or otherwise affected by (i) the failure or delay on the part of the Company to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against Parent or Merger Sub; (ii) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or rescission, waiver, compromise, consolidation or other amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement made in accordance with the terms of this Agreement or any agreement evidencing, securing or otherwise executed in connection with any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (iii) the addition, substitution or release of any Person interested in the Transactions; (iv) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of Parent or Merger Sub; (v) any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting Parent or Merger Sub or their assets; (vi) the adequacy of any means the Company may have of obtaining payment related to the Guaranteed Obligations; or (vii) the existence of any claim, set-off or other right which Parent or Merger Sub may have at any time against the Company (other than satisfaction of the Guaranteed Obligations or rights of Merger Sub pursuant to this Agreement), whether in connection with the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Guarantor waives promptness, diligence, notice of the acceptance of the Guarantee and of the Guaranteed Obligations, presentment, demand for payment, notice of non-performance, default, dishonor and protest, notice of the Guaranteed Obligations incurred and all other notices of any kind, all defenses which may be available by virtue of any valuation, stay, moratorium Law or other similar Law now or hereafter in effect, any right to require the marshalling of assets of Parent or Merger Sub or any other Person interested in the Transactions, and all suretyship defenses generally (other than fraud by the Company), defenses to the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations that are available to Parent or Merger Sub under this Agreement and defenses available to Guarantor under the Guarantee. Guarantor acknowledges that it has received and will receive substantial direct and indirect benefits from the Transactions and that the waivers set forth in this Section 8.15 are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
(e) No failure on the part of the Company to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right, remedy or power pursuant to this Section 8.15 shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Company of any right, remedy or power pursuant to this Section 8.15 preclude any other or future exercise of any right, remedy or power pursuant to this Section 8.15. Each and every right, remedy and power granted to the Company pursuant to this Section 8.15 or allowed it by Law or agreement with respect to this Section 8.15 shall
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be cumulative and not exclusive of any other, and may be exercised by the Company at any time or from time to time. The Company shall not have any obligation to proceed at any time or in any manner against, exhaust any or all of the Company’s rights against Parent, Merger Sub or any other Person liable for any Guaranteed Obligations prior to proceeding against Guarantor hereunder or resort to any security or other means of collecting payment. This Guarantee may only be amended by a writing signed and delivered by Guarantor and the Company. Guarantor hereby covenants and agrees that it shall not institute, and shall cause its respective Affiliates not to institute, any Action asserting that the Guarantee is illegal, invalid or unenforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, and general equitable principles (whether considered an Action in equity or at law).
(f) Guarantor hereby represents and warrants to the Company and covenants that: (i) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary action, and no other proceedings on the part of Guarantor or its stockholders are necessary to authorize this Agreement, and do not contravene any provision of Guarantor’s organizational documents or any Law or contractual restriction binding on Guarantor or its assets; (ii) this Agreement constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Guarantor enforceable against Guarantor in accordance with its terms, subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency (including all Laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether considered in an Action at law or in equity), (iii) nothing in this Agreement will terminate its obligations under the Confidentiality Agreement and (iv) Guarantor will not issue any press release or other communication in contravention of Section 5.06.
(g) Nothing in this Section 8.15 shall waive any defenses, counterclaims or rights of setoff that Parent or Merger Sub may have under this Agreement or applicable Law.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Parent, Merger Sub, the Company and Guarantor have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written above by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized.
SAP AMERICA, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Brad C. Brubaker | |
Name: | Brad C. Brubaker | |
Title: | Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary | |
CONGRESS ACQUISITION CORP. | ||
By: | /s/ Arlen Shenkman | |
Name: | Arlen Shenkman | |
Title: | President | |
CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ S. Steven Singh | |
Name: | S. Steven Singh | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |
Solely for purposes of Sections 5.04 and 5.06 and Article VIII: | ||
SAP SE | ||
By: | /s/ Luka Mucic | |
Name: | Luka Mucic | |
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
By: | /s/ Michael Junge | |
Name: | Michael Junge | |
Title: | General Counsel |
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September 18, 2014
Board of Directors
Concur Technologies, Inc.
601 – 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000
Bellevue, WA 98004
Members of the Board:
We understand that Concur Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”), SAP America, Inc. (“Parent”), and Congress Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), have entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 18, 2014 (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company (the “Merger”). Pursuant to the Merger, the Company will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, and each outstanding share of common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (“Company Common Stock”), other than shares that are owned of record by Parent or Merger Sub, shares held in treasury by the Company, shares owned of record by any of their respectivewholly-owned subsidiaries and shares as to which appraisal rights have been properly demanded, will be converted into the right to receive $129.00 in cash (the “Consideration”). The terms and conditions of the Merger are more fully set forth in the Merger Agreement.
You have asked for our opinion as to whether the Consideration to be received by the holders of shares of Company Common Stock, other than Parent or any affiliates of Parent (the “Holders”), pursuant to the Merger Agreement is fair, from a financial point of view, to such Holders.
For purposes of the opinion set forth herein, we have reviewed the Merger Agreement, certain related documents and certain publicly available financial statements and other business and financial information of the Company. We have also reviewed certain forward-looking information prepared by management of the Company, including financial projections and operating data of the Company (collectively, the “Company Projections”). Additionally, we discussed the past and current operations and financial condition and the prospects of the Company with senior executives of the Company. We also reviewed the historical market prices and trading activity for Company Common Stock and compared the financial performance of the Company and the prices and trading activity of Company Common Stock with that of certain other selected publicly-traded companies and their securities. In addition, we reviewed the financial terms, to the extent publicly available, of selected acquisition transactions and performed such other analyses, reviewed such other information and considered such other factors as we have deemed appropriate.
In arriving at our opinion, we have assumed and relied upon, without independent verification, the accuracy and completeness of the information that was publicly available or supplied or otherwise made available to, or discussed with, us by the Company. With respect to the Company Projections, we have been advised by the management of the Company, and have assumed, that they have been reasonably prepared on bases reflecting the best currently available estimates and judgments of the management of the Company of the future financial performance of the Company and other matters covered thereby. We have assumed that the Merger will be consummated in accordance with the terms set forth in the Merger Agreement, without any modification, waiver or delay in any respect material to our opinion. In addition, we have assumed that in connection with the receipt of all the necessary approvals of the proposed Merger, no delays, limitations, conditions or restrictions will be imposed that could have an adverse effect on the Company or the contemplated benefits expected to be derived
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in the proposed Merger. We have not made any independent evaluation or appraisal of the assets or liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of the Company, nor have we been furnished with any such evaluation or appraisal. In addition, we have relied, without independent verification, upon the assessment of the management of the Company as to the existing and future technology and products of the Company and the risks associated with such technology and products.
We have acted as financial advisor to the Board of Directors of the Company in connection with this transaction and will receive a fee for our services payable upon rendering of this opinion. We will also receive an additional, larger fee if the Merger is consummated. In addition, the Company has agreed to reimburse our expenses and indemnify us for certain liabilities arising out of our engagement. During the two year period prior to the date hereof, no material relationship existed between Qatalyst or any of its affiliates and the Company or Parent pursuant to which compensation was received by Qatalyst or its affiliates; however, Qatalyst and/or its affiliates may in the future provide investment banking and other financial services to the Company or Parent and their respective affiliates for which we would expect to receive compensation.
Qatalyst provides investment banking and other services to a wide range of corporations and individuals, domestically and offshore, from which conflicting interests or duties may arise. In the ordinary course of these activities, affiliates of Qatalyst may at any time hold long or short positions, and may trade or otherwise effect transactions in debt or equity securities or loans of the Company, Parent or certain of their respective affiliates.
This opinion has been approved by our opinion committee in accordance with our customary practice. This opinion is for the information of the Board of Directors of the Company and may not be used for any other purpose without our prior written consent. This opinion does not constitute a recommendation as to how any Holder should vote with respect to the Merger or any other matter and does not in any manner address the price at which Company Common Stock will trade at any time.
Our opinion is necessarily based on financial, economic, market and other conditions as in effect on, and the information made available to us as of, the date hereof. Events occurring after the date hereof may affect this opinion and the assumptions used in preparing it, and we do not assume any obligation to update, revise or reaffirm this opinion. Our opinion does not address the underlying business decision of the Company to engage in the Merger, or the relative merits of the Merger as compared to any strategic alternatives that may be available to the Company. Our opinion is limited to the fairness, from a financial point of view, of the Consideration to be received by the Holders pursuant to the Merger Agreement and we express no opinion with respect to the fairness of the amount or nature of the compensation to any of the Company’s officers, directors or employees, or any class of such persons, relative to such Consideration.
Based on and subject to the foregoing, we are of the opinion on the date hereof that the Consideration to be received by the Holders pursuant to the Merger Agreement is fair, from a financial point of view, to such Holders.
Yours faithfully,
QATALYST PARTNERS LP
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VOTING AGREEMENT
VOTING AGREEMENT (this “Voting Agreement”), dated as of September 18, 2014, by and among SAP America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Singh Family Trust LLC and S. Steven Singh (collectively, “Stockholder”).
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement, Concur Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Parent and Congress Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”) and SAP SE, a European company, are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as the same may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”);
WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, Stockholder is the record or beneficial owner of the number of Shares set forth opposite his, her or its name on Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce Parent to enter into the Merger Agreement, Stockholder has agreed to enter into this Voting Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual agreements and covenants set forth herein and in the Merger Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1Defined Terms. The following capitalized terms, as used in this Voting Agreement, shall have the meanings set forth below. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Merger Agreement.
(a) “Beneficially Own”, “Beneficial Ownership” or “beneficial owner” with respect to any Shares means having “beneficial ownership” of such securities (as determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), including pursuant to any Contract, whether or not in writing. Without duplicative counting of the same securities by the same holder, securities Beneficially Owned by a Person shall include securities Beneficially Owned by all other Persons who are Affiliates of such Person and who together with such Person would constitute a “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
(b) “Stockholder Shares” means all Shares held of record or Beneficially Owned by Stockholder, whether currently issued and outstanding or hereinafter acquired, including, without limitation, including by exercising any Company Options held of record or Beneficially Owned by Stockholder and any Shares acquired pursuant to Company Benefit Plans and held of record or Beneficially Owned by Stockholder, and in each case with respect to which Stockholder has both the power to vote and dispose of such Shares.
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ARTICLE II
TRANSFER AND VOTING OF SHARES
2.1No Transfer of Shares. Stockholder shall not, directly or indirectly, (a) sell, pledge, encumber, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of its Stockholder Shares or any interest in its Stockholder Shares, (b) deposit its Stockholder Shares or any interest in its Stockholder Shares into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to any of its Stockholder Shares or grant any proxy or power of attorney with respect thereto (other than as contemplated herein) or (c) enter into any Contract with respect to the direct or indirect acquisition or sale, pledge, encumbrance, assignment, transfer or other disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to hedging, cash settlement or otherwise) of any of its Stockholder Shares (any such action in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, a “transfer”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing sentence, this Section 2.1 shall not prohibit a transfer of Stockholder Shares by Stockholder (i) if such Stockholder is an individual, (A) to any member of Stockholder’s immediate family or to a trust solely for the benefit of Stockholder or any member of Stockholder’s immediate family, (B) upon the death of Stockholder to Stockholder’s heirs or (C) to a charitable entity qualified as a 501(c)(3) organization under the Code or (ii) if Stockholder is not a natural person, to an Affiliate controlled by Stockholder or under common control with Stockholder, as applicable;provided,however, that in each case a transfer shall be permitted only if, and as a condition precedent to the effectiveness of such transfer, the transferee agrees in a writing, satisfactory in form and substance to Parent, to be bound by all of the terms of this Voting Agreement as though such transferee were the “Stockholder” hereunder.
2.2Vote in Favor of the Merger and Related Matters. Stockholder, solely in Stockholder’s capacity as a stockholder of the Company (and not, if applicable, in Stockholder’s capacity as an officer or director of the Company), irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, from and after the date hereof until the Expiration Date (as defined below), at any meeting of the stockholders of the Company or any adjournment thereof, or in connection with any action by written consent of the stockholders of the Company, Stockholder shall:
(a) appear at each such meeting or otherwise cause all of its Stockholder Shares to be counted as present thereat for purposes of calculating a quorum; and
(b) vote (or cause to be voted), in person or by proxy, or deliver a written consent (or cause a consent to be delivered) covering, all of its Stockholder Shares: (i) in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement and approval of the Merger and the other Transactions, (ii) in favor of any other matter reasonably relating to the consummation or facilitation of, or otherwise in furtherance of, the Merger and the other Transactions, (iii) against any Acquisition Proposal and (iv) against any other action, proposal, agreement, transaction or arrangement submitted for approval of the Company’s stockholders that is intended, or could reasonably be expected, to impede, interfere or be inconsistent with, delay, postpone, discourage or adversely affect the consummation of the Merger, including, without limitation, any extraordinary transaction, merger, consolidation, sale of assets, recapitalization or other business combination involving the Company or any other action, agreement or arrangement that could reasonably be expected to result in a material breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or any other obligation or agreement of the Company under the Merger Agreement or that could reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions to the Company’s obligations under the Merger Agreement not being fulfilled or satisfied.
2.3Termination. This Voting Agreement and the obligations of the parties hereunder shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Merger Agreement shall have been validly terminated pursuant to its terms, (b) the Effective Time, (c) such time as the Merger Agreement is amended to change the form, or reduce the amount, of Merger Consideration to be paid pursuant thereto, and (d) such time as Parent acquires Beneficial Ownership of any Shares (such earliest date, the “Expiration Date”);provided,however, that the provisions of Article V shall survive any termination of this Voting Agreement.
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ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
Stockholder hereby represents and warrants to Parent, as of the date hereof, as follows:
3.1Authorization; Binding Agreement. Stockholder has all legal right, power, authority and capacity to execute and deliver this Voting Agreement, to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder, and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This Voting Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by or on behalf of Stockholder and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement by Parent, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Stockholder, enforceable against Stockholder in accordance with its terms (except as enforcement may be limited by any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws of general applicability affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity).
3.2No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.
(a) The execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement to Parent by Stockholder does not, and the performance of this Voting Agreement will not, except where it would not interfere with Stockholder’s ability to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder, (i) conflict with or violate any Law applicable to Stockholder or by which Stockholder is bound or affected, (ii) violate or conflict with the articles of incorporation or bylaws or other equivalent organizational documents of Stockholder, if applicable, or (iii) result in or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) any breach of or default under, or give to another party any right of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of any lien or encumbrance or restriction on any of the property or assets of Stockholder pursuant to, any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, lease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or obligation to which Stockholder is a party or by which Stockholder or any of Stockholder’s properties or assets is bound or affected. There is no beneficiary or holder of a voting trust certificate or other interest of any trust of which Stockholder is a trustee whose consent is required for the execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement or the consummation by Stockholder of the transactions contemplated by this Voting Agreement.
(b) The execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement to Parent by Stockholder does not, and the performance of this Voting Agreement will not, require any consent, approval, authorization, waiver, Order or permit of, or filing with or notification to, any third party or any Governmental Entity, except where the failure to obtain such consents, approvals, authorizations, waivers, Orders or permits, or to make such filings or notifications, would not interfere with such Stockholder’s ability to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder.
3.3Litigation. There is no Action pending or, to the knowledge of Stockholder, threatened, against Stockholder or any of Stockholder’s Affiliates or any of their respective properties or assets or any of their respective officers, directors, partners, managers or members (in their capacities as such), as applicable, that would interfere with such Stockholder’s ability to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder. There is no Order against Stockholder or any of Stockholder’s Affiliates, or, to the knowledge of Stockholder, any of their respective officers, directors, partners, managers or members (in their capacities as such), that would prevent, enjoin, alter or delay any of the transactions contemplated by this Voting Agreement, or that would otherwise interfere with such Stockholder’s ability to perform its obligations hereunder.
3.4Title to Shares. Stockholder is the record or beneficial owner of the Shares set forth opposite its name on Exhibit A. Stockholder has good title to his, her or its Stockholder Shares free and clear of all Liens other than pursuant to this Voting Agreement and applicable securities Laws. As of the date of this Voting Agreement, Stockholder’s Stockholder Shares constitute all of the Shares Beneficially Owned or owned of record by Stockholder. Except as otherwise set forth in this Voting Agreement, Stockholder has, and will have at all times
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through the Closing Date, sole voting power (including the right to control such vote as contemplated herein), sole power of disposition and sole power to agree to all of the matters set forth in this Voting Agreement, in each case with respect to all of its Stockholder Shares.
3.5Acknowledgement of the Merger Agreement. Stockholder hereby acknowledges and agrees that Stockholder has received a draft of the Merger Agreement presented to Stockholder as in substantially final form and has reviewed and understood the terms thereof.
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
4.1Further Assurances. From time to time and without additional consideration, Stockholder shall execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, such additional transfers, assignments, endorsements, proxies, consents and other instruments, and shall take such further actions, as Parent may reasonably request for the purpose of carrying out and furthering the intent of this Voting Agreement.
4.2Waiver of Appraisal Rights. Stockholder hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives any rights of appraisal or rights to dissent from the Merger that Stockholder may have (including under Section 262 of the DGCL).
4.3No Inconsistent Agreements. Except for this Voting Agreement, during the term of this Voting Agreement, Stockholder shall not: (a) enter into any voting agreement, voting trust or similar agreement with respect to any of the Stockholder Shares, (b) grant any proxy, consent, power of attorney or other authorization or consent with respect to any of the Stockholder Shares or (c) knowingly take any action that would constitute a breach hereof, make any representation or warranty of Stockholder set forth in Article III untrue or incorrect or have the effect of preventing or disabling Stockholder from performing any of its obligations under this Voting Agreement.
4.4Public Announcements. Stockholder further agrees to permit the Company and Parent to publish and disclose, including in filings with the SEC and in the press release announcing the Transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Announcement Release”), this Voting Agreement and the Stockholder’s identity and ownership of the Stockholder Shares and the nature of the Stockholder’s commitments, arrangements and understandings under this Voting Agreement, in each case, to the extent the Company or Parent reasonably determines that such information is required to be disclosed by applicable Law (or in the case of the Announcement Release, to the extent the information contained therein is consistent with other disclosures being made by the Company and Parent).
4.5Fiduciary Duties. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary: (i) Stockholder makes no agreement or understanding herein in any capacity other than in Stockholder’s capacity as a record holder and beneficial owner of the Shares, and not in Stockholder’s capacity as a director, officer or employee of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or in Stockholder’s capacity as a trustee or fiduciary of any Company Benefit Plan, and (ii) nothing herein will be construed to limit or affect any action or inaction by Stockholder or any representative of Stockholder, as applicable, serving on the board of directors of the Company or any Subsidiary or as an officer or fiduciary of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, acting in such person’s capacity as a director, officer, employee or fiduciary of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
4.6Additional Purchases. Stockholder agrees that any Shares (or any Company Options related thereto) acquired or purchased by him, her or it after the execution of this Voting Agreement shall be subject to the terms of this Voting Agreement to the same extent as if they constituted Stockholder Shares as of the date of this Voting Agreement.
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ARTICLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
5.1Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Voting Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Voting Agreement may not be amended or modified except in an instrument in writing signed by, or on behalf of, the parties hereto.
5.2Assignment. No party to this Voting Agreement may assign any of its rights or obligations under this Voting Agreement without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto, except that Parent may assign, in its sole discretion, all or any of its rights, interests and obligations hereunder to an Affiliate of Parent or to a successor-in-interest by reason of merger or consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Parent; provided, that with respect to such assignment by Parent (a) to a successor-in-interest, such assignment includes all rights and obligations under this Voting Agreement, (b) such assignee shall have agreed as of such assignment or transfer to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in a writing provided to the Stockholder, and (c) Parent remains responsible for the performance of this Voting Agreement. Any assignment contrary to the provisions of this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.
5.3Severability. If any term or other provision of this Voting Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Voting Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. 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 Voting Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties hereto as closely as possible to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law in an acceptable manner.
5.4Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Voting Agreement are not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money damages or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for any such damage. The parties agree that, in the event of any breach or threatened breach by such Stockholder of any covenant or obligation contained in this Voting Agreement, Parent shall be entitled to seek (a) a decree or order of specific performance to enforce the observance and performance of such covenant or obligation, with Stockholder agreeing that it shall waive the defense of adequacy of a remedy at Law in any such Action, and/or (b) an injunction restraining such breach or threatened breach. Stockholder further agrees that neither Parent nor any other party shall be required to obtain, furnish or post any bond or similar instrument in connection with or as a condition to obtaining any remedy referred to in this Section 5.4, and Stockholder irrevocably waives any right he, she or it may have to require the obtaining, furnishing or posting of any such bond or similar instrument. The parties further agree that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Stockholder shall not be liable for any money damages for any breach of this Voting Agreement other than a breach resulting from an action or omission intentionally taken (or failed to be taken) by Stockholder with the knowledge that such action or omission would, or would reasonably be expected to, cause such breach of a representation, warranty, covenant or obligation contained in this Voting Agreement.
5.5Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial.
(a) This Voting Agreement (and any Actions arising out of or related hereto or to the inducement of any party to enter herein, whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall in all respects be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws of the State of Delaware, including all matters of construction, validity and performance, in each case without reference to any conflict of law rules that might lead to the application of the Laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.
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(b) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and any appellate court from any thereof, in any Action arising out of or relating to this Voting Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment relating thereto (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise), and each of the parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i) agrees not to commence any such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) except in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), (ii) agrees that any Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) may be heard and determined in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and any appellate court from any thereof, (iii) 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 (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and (iv) waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware). Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions within and outside the United States of America by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Law. Each party to this Voting Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process anywhere in the world in the manner provided for notices in Section 5.7. Nothing in this Voting Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Voting Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by Law.
(c) EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS VOTING 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 VOTING AGREEMENT AND ANY OF THE AGREEMENTS DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) 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 EITHER OF SUCH WAIVERS, (II) IT UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH WAIVERS, (III) IT MAKES SUCH WAIVERS VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS VOTING AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 5.5(C).
5.6No Waiver. No failure or delay by any party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. Neither party shall be deemed to have waived any claim available to it arising out of this Voting Agreement, or any right, power or privilege hereunder, unless the waiver is expressly set forth in writing duly executed and delivered on behalf of such party. The rights and remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by Law.
5.7Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Voting Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made as follows: (a) if sent by registered or certified
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mail in the United States return receipt requested, upon receipt; (b) if sent designated for overnight delivery by nationally recognized overnight air courier (such as DHL or Federal Express), upon receipt of proof of delivery; (c) if sent by facsimile transmission or e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .gif, .jpeg or similar electronic attachment on a Business Day before 5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the receiving party, when transmitted and receipt is confirmed; (d) if sent by facsimile transmission or e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .gif, .jpeg or similar electronic attachment on a day other than a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the receiving party, and receipt is confirmed, on the following Business Day; and (e) if otherwise actually personally delivered, when delivered, provided that such notices, requests, demands and other communications are delivered to the address set forth below, or to such other address as any party shall provide by like notice to the other parties to this Voting Agreement:
If to Parent:
SAP America, Inc.
3999 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Facsimile: (610) 661-2402
Attention: Arlen Shenkman
with a copy to (for information purposes only):
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
Facsimile: (212) 757-3990
Attention: Toby S. Myerson
Steven J. Williams
and
Jones Day
1755 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California 94303
Facsimile: (650) 739-3900
Attention: Daniel R. Mitz
Jonn R. Beeson
If to a Stockholder, to the address or facsimile number set forth on the signature page hereof or, if not set forth thereon, to the address reflected in the stock books of the Company.
5.8No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Voting Agreement is for the sole benefit of, shall be binding upon, and may be enforced solely by, Parent and Stockholder and nothing in this Voting Agreement, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any Person (other than Parent and Stockholder) any legal or equitable right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever;provided, that the Company shall be a third party beneficiary of this Voting Agreement and shall be entitled to enforce any power, right, privilege or remedy of Parent hereunder.
5.9Headings. The heading references herein are for convenience of reference only and do not form part of this Voting Agreement, and no construction or reference shall be derived therefrom.
5.10Counterparts. This Voting Agreement may be executed and delivered (including by facsimile transmission or by e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .jpeg or similar attachment (“Electronic Delivery”)) in two or more counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Any such counterpart, to the extent delivered using Electronic Delivery shall be treated in all manner
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and respects as an original executed counterpart and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. No party hereto shall raise the use of Electronic Delivery to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of Electronic Delivery as a defense to the formation of a contract, and each such party forever waives any such defense, except to the extent that such defense relates to lack of authenticity.
5.11Parent Share Ownership. As of the date hereof, Parent does not Beneficially Own any Shares.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Voting Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
SAP AMERICA, INC. | ||||
By: | /s/ Brad C. Brubaker | |||
Name: | Brad C. Brubaker | |||
Title: | Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary | |||
STOCKHOLDER | ||||
If other than a natural person: | ||||
Singh Family Trust LLC | ||||
By: | /s/ S. Steven Singh | |||
Name: | S. Steven Singh | |||
Title: | Managing Director | |||
Date: | September 17, 2014 | |||
Address: | 601 108th Avenue NE | |||
Suite 1000 | ||||
Bellevue, Washington 98004 | ||||
Facsimile: | (425) 702-0674 | |||
If a natural person: | ||||
/s/ S. Steven Singh | ||||
Name: | S. Steven Singh | |||
Date: | September 17, 2014 | |||
Address: | 601 108th Avenue NE | |||
Suite 1000 | ||||
Bellevue, Washington 98004 | ||||
Facsimile: | (425) 702-0674 |
Signature Page to Voting Agreement
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Exhibit A
Stockholder Name | Company Common Stock | |
S. Steven Singh | 629,476 | |
Singh Family Trust LLC | 371,500 |
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VOTING AGREEMENT
VOTING AGREEMENT (this “Voting Agreement”), dated as of September 18, 2014, by and among SAP America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (“Stockholder”).
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement, Concur Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Parent and Congress Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”) and SAP SE, a European company, are entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as the same may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”);
WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, Stockholder is the record or beneficial owner of the number of Shares set forth opposite its name on Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, in order to induce Parent to enter into the Merger Agreement, Stockholder has agreed to enter into this Voting Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual agreements and covenants set forth herein and in the Merger Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1Defined Terms. The following capitalized terms, as used in this Voting Agreement, shall have the meanings set forth below. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Merger Agreement.
(a) “Beneficially Own”, “Beneficial Ownership” or “beneficial owner” with respect to any Shares means having “beneficial ownership” of such securities (as determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), including pursuant to any Contract, whether or not in writing. Without duplicative counting of the same securities by the same holder, securities Beneficially Owned by a Person shall include securities Beneficially Owned by all other Persons who are controlled Affiliates of such Person and who together with such Person would constitute a “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
(b) “Stockholder Shares” means all Shares held of record or Beneficially Owned by Stockholder, whether currently issued and outstanding or hereinafter acquired, including, without limitation, including by exercising any Company Options held of record or Beneficially Owned by Stockholder and any Shares acquired pursuant to Company Benefit Plans and held of record or Beneficially Owned by Stockholder, and in each case with respect to which Stockholder has both the power to vote and dispose of such Shares.
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ARTICLE II
TRANSFER AND VOTING OF SHARES
2.1No Transfer of Shares. From the date hereof until the earlier of (x) February 18, 2015 and (y) such time as the Company Stockholder Approval has been obtained (the “Transfer Restriction Period”), Stockholder shall not, directly or indirectly, (a) sell, pledge, encumber, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of its Stockholder Shares or any interest in its Stockholder Shares, (b) deposit its Stockholder Shares or any interest in its Stockholder Shares into a voting trust or enter into a voting agreement or arrangement with respect to any of its Stockholder Shares or grant any proxy or power of attorney with respect thereto (other than as contemplated herein) or (c) enter into any Contract with respect to the direct or indirect acquisition or sale, pledge, encumbrance, assignment, transfer or other disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to hedging, cash settlement or otherwise) of any of its Stockholder Shares (any such action in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, a “transfer”), provided, however, that Stockholder may transfer free of any restriction or obligation hereunder (a “Permitted Transfer”) up to one million (1,000,000) Stockholder Shares (the “Non-Restricted Shares”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Non-Restricted Shares shall not be subject to any of the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.1, and any Non-Restricted Shares that are the subject of a Permitted Transfer shall, upon the effectiveness of such Permitted Transfer, cease to be subject to this Voting Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.1, this Section 2.1 shall not prohibit a transfer of Stockholder Shares by Stockholder (i) if Stockholder is an individual, (A) to any member of Stockholder’s immediate family or to a trust solely for the benefit of Stockholder or any member of Stockholder’s immediate family, (B) upon the death of Stockholder to Stockholder’s heirs or (C) to a charitable entity qualified as a 501(c)(3) organization under the Code or (ii) if Stockholder is not a natural person, to an Affiliate controlled by Stockholder or under common control with Stockholder, as applicable;provided,however, that in each case a transfer of Stockholder Shares, other than a transfer of the Non-Restricted Shares shall be permitted only if, and as a condition precedent to the effectiveness of such transfer, the transferee agrees in a writing, satisfactory in form and substance to Parent, to be bound by all of the terms of this Voting Agreement as though such transferee were the “Stockholder” hereunder.
2.2Vote in Favor of the Merger and Related Matters. Stockholder, solely in Stockholder’s capacity as a stockholder of the Company (and not, if applicable, in Stockholder’s capacity as an officer or director of the Company), irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that, from and after the date hereof until the Expiration Date (as defined below), at any meeting of the stockholders of the Company or any adjournment thereof, or in connection with any action by written consent of the stockholders of the Company, Stockholder shall:
(a) appear at each such meeting or otherwise cause all of its Stockholder Shares to be counted as present thereat for purposes of calculating a quorum; and
(b) vote (or cause to be voted), in person or by proxy, or deliver a written consent (or cause a consent to be delivered) covering, all of its Stockholder Shares: (i) in favor of the adoption of the Merger Agreement and approval of the Merger and the other Transactions, (ii) in favor of any other matter reasonably relating to the consummation or facilitation of, or otherwise in furtherance of, the Merger and the other Transactions, (iii) against any Acquisition Proposal and (iv) against any other action, proposal, agreement, transaction or arrangement submitted for approval of the Company’s stockholders that is intended, or could reasonably be expected, to impede, interfere or be inconsistent with, delay, postpone, discourage or adversely affect the consummation of the Merger, including, without limitation, any extraordinary transaction, merger, consolidation, sale of assets, recapitalization or other business combination involving the Company or any other action, agreement or arrangement that could reasonably be expected to result in a material breach of any covenant, representation or warranty or any other obligation or agreement of the Company under the Merger Agreement or that could reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions to the Company’s obligations under the Merger Agreement not being fulfilled or satisfied.
2.3Termination. This Voting Agreement and the obligations of the parties hereunder shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of (a) such date and time as the Merger Agreement shall have been validly
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terminated pursuant to its terms, (b) the Effective Time, (c) such time as the Merger Agreement is amended to change the form, or reduce the amount, of Merger Consideration to be paid pursuant thereto, and (d) such time as Parent acquires Beneficial Ownership of any Shares (such earliest date, the “Expiration Date”);provided,however, that the provisions of Article V shall survive any termination of this Voting Agreement.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
Stockholder hereby represents and warrants to Parent as of the date hereof as follows:
3.1Authorization; Binding Agreement. Stockholder has all legal right, power, authority and capacity to execute and deliver this Voting Agreement, to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder, and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. This Voting Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by or on behalf of Stockholder and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement by Parent, constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of Stockholder, enforceable against Stockholder in accordance with its terms (except as enforcement may be limited by any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar Laws of general applicability affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity).
3.2No Conflict; Required Filings and Consents.
(a) The execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement to Parent by Stockholder does not, and the performance of this Voting Agreement will not, except where it would not interfere with Stockholder’s ability to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder, (i) conflict with or violate any Law applicable to Stockholder or by which Stockholder is bound or affected, (ii) violate or conflict with the articles of incorporation or bylaws or other equivalent organizational documents of Stockholder, if applicable, or (iii) result in or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) any breach of or default under, or give to another party any right of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, or result in the creation of any lien or encumbrance or restriction on any of the property or assets of Stockholder pursuant to, any note, bond, mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement, lease, license, permit, franchise or other instrument or obligation to which Stockholder is a party or by which Stockholder or any of Stockholder’s properties or assets is bound or affected. There is no beneficiary or holder of a voting trust certificate or other interest of any trust of which Stockholder is a trustee whose consent is required for the execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement or the consummation by Stockholder of the transactions contemplated by this Voting Agreement.
(b) The execution and delivery of this Voting Agreement to Parent by Stockholder does not, and the performance of this Voting Agreement will not, require any consent, approval, authorization, waiver, Order or permit of, or filing with or notification to, any third party or any Governmental Entity, except where the failure to obtain such consents, approvals, authorizations, waivers, Orders or permits, or to make such filings or notifications, would not interfere with Stockholder’s ability to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder.
3.3Litigation. There is no Action pending or, to the knowledge of Stockholder, threatened, against Stockholder or any of Stockholder’s Affiliates or any of their respective properties or assets or any of their respective officers, directors, partners, managers or members (in their capacities as such), as applicable, that would interfere with Stockholder’s ability to perform his, her or its obligations hereunder. There is no Order against Stockholder or any of Stockholder’s Affiliates, or, to the knowledge of Stockholder, any of their respective officers, directors, partners, managers or members (in their capacities as such), that would prevent, enjoin, alter or delay any of the transactions contemplated by this Voting Agreement, or that would otherwise interfere with Stockholder’s ability to perform its obligations hereunder.
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3.4Title to Shares. Stockholder is the record or beneficial owner of the Shares set forth opposite its name on Exhibit A. Stockholder has good title to its Stockholder Shares free and clear of all Liens other than pursuant to this Voting Agreement and applicable securities Laws. As of the date of this Voting Agreement, Stockholder’s Stockholder Shares constitute all of the Shares Beneficially Owned or owned of record by Stockholder. Except as otherwise set forth in this Voting Agreement, Stockholder has, and will have at all times through the Transfer Restriction Period, sole voting power (including the right to control such vote as contemplated herein), sole power of disposition and sole power to agree to all of the matters set forth in this Voting Agreement, in each case with respect to all of its Stockholder Shares.
3.5Acknowledgement of the Merger Agreement. Stockholder hereby acknowledges and agrees that Stockholder has received and reviewed a draft of the Merger Agreement presented to Stockholder dated September 16, 2014, excluding all schedules and exhibits thereto.
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
4.1Further Assurances. From time to time and without additional consideration, Stockholder shall execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, such additional transfers, assignments, endorsements, proxies, consents and other instruments, and shall take such further actions, as Parent may reasonably request for the purpose of carrying out and furthering the intent of this Voting Agreement.
4.2Waiver of Appraisal Rights. Stockholder hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives any rights of appraisal or rights to dissent from the Merger that Stockholder may have (including under Section 262 of the DGCL).
4.3No Inconsistent Agreements. Except for this Voting Agreement, during the term of this Voting Agreement Stockholder shall not: (a) enter into any voting agreement, voting trust or similar agreement with respect to any of the Stockholder Shares, (b) grant any proxy, consent, power of attorney or other authorization or consent with respect to any of the Stockholder Shares or (c) knowingly take any action that would constitute a breach hereof, make any representation or warranty of Stockholder set forth in Article III untrue or incorrect or have the effect of preventing or disabling Stockholder from performing any of its obligations under this Voting Agreement.
4.4Public Announcements. Stockholder further agrees to permit the Company and Parent to publish and disclose, including in filings with the SEC and in the press release announcing the Transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Announcement Release”), this Voting Agreement and the Stockholder’s identity and ownership of the Stockholder Shares and the nature of the Stockholder’s commitments, arrangements and understandings under this Voting Agreement, in each case, to the extent the Company or Parent reasonably determines that such information is required to be disclosed by applicable Law (or in the case of the Announcement Release, to the extent the information contained therein is consistent with other disclosures being made by the Company and Parent); provided that Stockholder shall be provided with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment upon the form of such disclosure, and the Company or Parent, as applicable, shall consider such comments in good faith.
4.5Fiduciary Duties. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary: (i) Stockholder makes no agreement or understanding herein in any capacity other than in Stockholder’s capacity as a record holder and beneficial owner of the Shares, and not in Stockholder’s capacity as a director, officer or employee of the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or in Stockholder’s capacity as a trustee or fiduciary of any Company Benefit Plan, and (ii) nothing herein will be construed to limit or affect any action or inaction by Stockholder or any representative of Stockholder, as applicable, serving on the board of directors of the Company or any Subsidiary or as an officer or fiduciary of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, acting in such person’s capacity as a director, officer, employee or fiduciary of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
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4.6Additional Purchases. Stockholder agrees that any Shares (or any Company Options related thereto) acquired or purchased by him, her or it after the execution of this Voting Agreement shall be subject to the terms of this Voting Agreement to the same extent as if they constituted Stockholder Shares as of the date of this Voting Agreement.
ARTICLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
5.1Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Voting Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the parties hereto and supersedes all prior agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Voting Agreement may not be amended or modified except in an instrument in writing signed by, or on behalf of, the parties hereto.
5.2Assignment. No party to this Voting Agreement may assign any of its rights or obligations under this Voting Agreement without the prior written consent of the other parties hereto, except that Parent may assign, in its sole discretion, all or any of its rights, interests and obligations hereunder to an Affiliate of Parent or to a successor-in-interest by reason of merger or consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Parent; provided, that with respect to such assignment by Parent (a) to a successor-in-interest, such assignment includes all rights and obligations under this Voting Agreement, (b) such assignee shall have agreed as of such assignment or transfer to be bound by the terms of this Agreement in a writing provided to the Stockholder, and (c) Parent remains responsible for the performance of this Voting Agreement. Any assignment contrary to the provisions of this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.
5.3Severability. If any term or other provision of this Voting Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule of law or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Voting Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect. 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 Voting Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the parties hereto as closely as possible to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law in an acceptable manner.
5.4Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Voting Agreement are not performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise breached and that money damages or other legal remedies would not be an adequate remedy for any such damage. The parties agree that, in the event of any breach or threatened breach by Stockholder of any covenant or obligation contained in this Voting Agreement, Parent shall be entitled to seek (a) a decree or order of specific performance to enforce the observance and performance of such covenant or obligation, with Stockholder agreeing that it shall waive the defense of adequacy of a remedy at Law in any such Action, and/or (b) an injunction restraining such breach or threatened breach. Stockholder further agrees that neither Parent nor any other party shall be required to obtain, furnish or post any bond or similar instrument in connection with or as a condition to obtaining any remedy referred to in this Section 5.4, and Stockholder irrevocably waives any right he, she or it may have to require the obtaining, furnishing or posting of any such bond or similar instrument. The parties further agree that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Stockholder shall not be liable for any money damages for any breach of this Voting Agreement other than a breach resulting from an action or omission intentionally taken (or failed to be taken) by Stockholder with the knowledge that such action or omission would, or would reasonably be expected to, cause such breach of a representation, warranty, covenant or obligation contained in this Voting Agreement.
5.5Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Jury Trial.
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Laws of the State of Delaware, including all matters of construction, validity and performance, in each case without reference to any conflict of law rules that might lead to the application of the Laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Delaware.
(b) Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and any appellate court from any thereof, in any Action arising out of or relating to this Voting Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment relating thereto (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise), and each of the parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i) agrees not to commence any such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) except in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), (ii) agrees that any Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) may be heard and determined in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and any appellate court from any thereof, (iii) 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 (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware), and (iv) waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) in the Delaware Court of Chancery (and if jurisdiction in the Delaware Court of Chancery shall be unavailable, the Federal courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Delaware). Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such Action (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise and whether predicated on common law, statute or otherwise) shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions within and outside the United States of America by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Law. Each party to this Voting Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process anywhere in the world in the manner provided for notices in Section 5.7. Nothing in this Voting Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Voting Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by Law.
(c) EACH PARTY ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS VOTING 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 VOTING AGREEMENT AND ANY OF THE AGREEMENTS DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY. EACH PARTY CERTIFIES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT (I) 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 EITHER OF SUCH WAIVERS, (II) IT UNDERSTANDS AND HAS CONSIDERED THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH WAIVERS, (III) IT MAKES SUCH WAIVERS VOLUNTARILY, AND (IV) IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS VOTING AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 5.5(C).
5.6No Waiver. No failure or delay by any party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. Neither party shall be deemed to have waived any claim available to it arising out of this Voting Agreement, or any right, power or privilege hereunder,
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unless the waiver is expressly set forth in writing duly executed and delivered on behalf of such party. The rights and remedies herein provided shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by Law.
5.7Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Voting Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made as follows: (a) if sent by registered or certified mail in the United States return receipt requested, upon receipt; (b) if sent designated for overnight delivery by nationally recognized overnight air courier (such as DHL or Federal Express), upon receipt of proof of delivery; (c) if sent by facsimile transmission or e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .gif, .jpeg or similar electronic attachment on a Business Day before 5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the receiving party, when transmitted and receipt is confirmed; (d) if sent by facsimile transmission or e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .gif, .jpeg or similar electronic attachment on a day other than a Business Day or after 5:00 p.m. in the time zone of the receiving party, and receipt is confirmed, on the following Business Day; and (e) if otherwise actually personally delivered, when delivered, provided that such notices, requests, demands and other communications are delivered to the address set forth below, or to such other address as any party shall provide by like notice to the other parties to this Voting Agreement:
If to Parent:
SAP America, Inc.
3999 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Facsimile: (610) 661-2402
Attention: Arlen Shenkman
with a copy to (for information purposes only):
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
Facsimile: (212) 757-3990
Attention: Toby S. Myerson
Steven J. Williams
and
Jones Day
1755 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California 94303
Facsimile: (650) 739-3900
Attention: Daniel R. Mitz
Jonn R. Beeson
If to Stockholder, to the address or facsimile number set forth on the signature page hereof or, if not set forth thereon, to the address reflected in the stock books of the Company.
5.8No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Voting Agreement is for the sole benefit of, shall be binding upon, and may be enforced solely by, Parent and Stockholder and nothing in this Voting Agreement, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any Person (other than Parent and Stockholder) any legal or equitable right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever.
5.9Headings. The heading references herein are for convenience of reference only and do not form part of this Voting Agreement, and no construction or reference shall be derived therefrom.
5.10Counterparts. This Voting Agreement may be executed and delivered (including by facsimile transmission or by e-mail of a .pdf, .tif, .jpeg or similar attachment (“Electronic Delivery”)) in two or more
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counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Any such counterpart, to the extent delivered using Electronic Delivery shall be treated in all manner and respects as an original executed counterpart and shall be considered to have the same binding legal effect as if it were the original signed version thereof delivered in person. No party hereto shall raise the use of Electronic Delivery to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of Electronic Delivery as a defense to the formation of a contract, and each such party forever waives any such defense, except to the extent that such defense relates to lack of authenticity.
5.11Parent Share Ownership. As of the date hereof, Parent does not Beneficially Own any Shares.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Voting Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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Name: | Brad C. Brubaker | |||
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By: | /s/ Carol V. Schwartz | |||
Name: | Carol V. Schwartz | |||
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Exhibit A
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8 Del. C. 1953, § 262
Appraisal rights
(a) Any stockholder of a corporation of this State who holds shares of stock on the date of the making of a demand pursuant to subsection (d) of this section with respect to such shares, who continuously holds such shares through the effective date of the merger or consolidation, who has otherwise complied with subsection (d) of this section and who has neither voted in favor of the merger or consolidation nor consented thereto in writing pursuant to § 228 of this title shall be entitled to an appraisal by the Court of Chancery of the fair value of the stockholder’s shares of stock under the circumstances described in subsections (b) and (c) of this section. As used in this section, the word “stockholder” means a holder of record of stock in a corporation; the words “stock” and “share” mean and include what is ordinarily meant by those words; and the words “depository receipt” mean a receipt or other instrument issued by a depository representing an interest in 1 or more shares, or fractions thereof, solely of stock of a corporation, which stock is deposited with the depository.
(b) Appraisal rights shall be available for the shares of any class or series of stock of a constituent corporation in a merger or consolidation to be effected pursuant to § 251 (other than a merger effected pursuant to § 251(g) of this title and, subject to paragraph (b)(3) of this section, § 251(h) of this title), § 252, § 254, § 255, § 256, § 257, § 258, § 263 or § 264 of this title:
(1) Provided, however, that, except as expressly provided in § 363(b) of this title, no appraisal rights under this section shall be available for the shares of any class or series of stock, which stock, or depository receipts in respect thereof, at the record date fixed to determine the stockholders entitled to receive notice of the meeting of stockholders to act upon the agreement of merger or consolidation, were either: (i) listed on a national securities exchange or (ii) held of record by more than 2,000 holders; and further provided that no appraisal rights shall be available for any shares of stock of the constituent corporation surviving a merger if the merger did not require for its approval the vote of the stockholders of the surviving corporation as provided in § 251(f) of this title.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(1) of this section, appraisal rights under this section shall be available for the shares of any class or series of stock of a constituent corporation if the holders thereof are required by the terms of an agreement of merger or consolidation pursuant to §§ 251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 263 and 264 of this title to accept for such stock anything except:
a. Shares of stock of the corporation surviving or resulting from such merger or consolidation, or depository receipts in respect thereof;
b. Shares of stock of any other corporation, or depository receipts in respect thereof, which shares of stock (or depository receipts in respect thereof) or depository receipts at the effective date of the merger or consolidation will be either listed on a national securities exchange or held of record by more than 2,000 holders;
c. Cash in lieu of fractional shares or fractional depository receipts described in the foregoing paragraphs (b)(2)a. and b. of this section; or
d. Any combination of the shares of stock, depository receipts and cash in lieu of fractional shares or fractional depository receipts described in the foregoing paragraphs (b)(2)a., b. and c. of this section.
(3) In the event all of the stock of a subsidiary Delaware corporation party to a merger effected under § 251(h), § 253 or § 267 of this title is not owned by the parent immediately prior to the merger, appraisal rights shall be available for the shares of the subsidiary Delaware corporation.
(4) In the event of an amendment to a corporation’s certificate of incorporation contemplated by § 363(a) of this title, appraisal rights shall be available as contemplated by § 363(b) of this title, and the procedures of this section, including those set forth in subsections (d) and (e) of this section, shall apply as nearly as
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practicable, with the word “amendment” substituted for the words “merger or consolidation,” and the word “corporation” substituted for the words “constituent corporation” and/or “surviving or resulting corporation.”
(c) Any corporation may provide in its certificate of incorporation that appraisal rights under this section shall be available for the shares of any class or series of its stock as a result of an amendment to its certificate of incorporation, any merger or consolidation in which the corporation is a constituent corporation or the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the corporation. If the certificate of incorporation contains such a provision, the procedures of this section, including those set forth in subsections (d) and (e) of this section, shall apply as nearly as is practicable.
(d) Appraisal rights shall be perfected as follows:
(1) If a proposed merger or consolidation for which appraisal rights are provided under this section is to be submitted for approval at a meeting of stockholders, the corporation, not less than 20 days prior to the meeting, shall notify each of its stockholders who was such on the record date for notice of such meeting (or such members who received notice in accordance with § 255(c) of this title) with respect to shares for which appraisal rights are available pursuant to subsection (b) or (c) of this section that appraisal rights are available for any or all of the shares of the constituent corporations, and shall include in such notice a copy of this section and, if 1 of the constituent corporations is a nonstock corporation, a copy of § 114 of this title. Each stockholder electing to demand the appraisal of such stockholder’s shares shall deliver to the corporation, before the taking of the vote on the merger or consolidation, a written demand for appraisal of such stockholder’s shares. Such demand will be sufficient if it reasonably informs the corporation of the identity of the stockholder and that the stockholder intends thereby to demand the appraisal of such stockholder’s shares. A proxy or vote against the merger or consolidation shall not constitute such a demand. A stockholder electing to take such action must do so by a separate written demand as herein provided. Within 10 days after the effective date of such merger or consolidation, the surviving or resulting corporation shall notify each stockholder of each constituent corporation who has complied with this subsection and has not voted in favor of or consented to the merger or consolidation of the date that the merger or consolidation has become effective; or
(2) If the merger or consolidation was approved pursuant to § 228, § 251(h), § 253, or § 267 of this title, then either a constituent corporation before the effective date of the merger or consolidation or the surviving or resulting corporation within 10 days thereafter shall notify each of the holders of any class or series of stock of such constituent corporation who are entitled to appraisal rights of the approval of the merger or consolidation and that appraisal rights are available for any or all shares of such class or series of stock of such constituent corporation, and shall include in such notice a copy of this section and, if 1 of the constituent corporations is a nonstock corporation, a copy of § 114 of this title. Such notice may, and, if given on or after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, shall, also notify such stockholders of the effective date of the merger or consolidation. Any stockholder entitled to appraisal rights may, within 20 days after the date of mailing of such notice or, in the case of a merger approved pursuant to § 251(h) of this title, within the later of the consummation of the tender or exchange offer contemplated by § 251(h) of this title and 20 days after the date of mailing of such notice, demand in writing from the surviving or resulting corporation the appraisal of such holder’s shares. Such demand will be sufficient if it reasonably informs the corporation of the identity of the stockholder and that the stockholder intends thereby to demand the appraisal of such holder’s shares. If such notice did not notify stockholders of the effective date of the merger or consolidation, either (i) each such constituent corporation shall send a second notice before the effective date of the merger or consolidation notifying each of the holders of any class or series of stock of such constituent corporation that are entitled to appraisal rights of the effective date of the merger or consolidation or (ii) the surviving or resulting corporation shall send such a second notice to all such holders on or within 10 days after such effective date; provided, however, that if such second notice is sent more than 20 days following the sending of the first notice or, in the case of a merger approved pursuant to § 251(h) of this title, later than the later of the consummation of the tender or exchange offer contemplated
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by § 251(h) of this title and 20 days following the sending of the first notice, such second notice need only be sent to each stockholder who is entitled to appraisal rights and who has demanded appraisal of such holder’s shares in accordance with this subsection. An affidavit of the secretary or assistant secretary or of the transfer agent of the corporation that is required to give either notice that such notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein. For purposes of determining the stockholders entitled to receive either notice, each constituent corporation may fix, in advance, a record date that shall be not more than 10 days prior to the date the notice is given, provided, that if the notice is given on or after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, the record date shall be such effective date. If no record date is fixed and the notice is given prior to the effective date, the record date shall be the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the notice is given.
(e) Within 120 days after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, the surviving or resulting corporation or any stockholder who has complied with subsections (a) and (d) of this section hereof and who is otherwise entitled to appraisal rights, may commence an appraisal proceeding by filing a petition in the Court of Chancery demanding a determination of the value of the stock of all such stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time within 60 days after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, any stockholder who has not commenced an appraisal proceeding or joined that proceeding as a named party shall have the right to withdraw such stockholder’s demand for appraisal and to accept the terms offered upon the merger or consolidation. Within 120 days after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, any stockholder who has complied with the requirements of subsections (a) and (d) of this section hereof, upon written request, shall be entitled to receive from the corporation surviving the merger or resulting from the consolidation a statement setting forth the aggregate number of shares not voted in favor of the merger or consolidation and with respect to which demands for appraisal have been received and the aggregate number of holders of such shares. Such written statement shall be mailed to the stockholder within 10 days after such stockholder’s written request for such a statement is received by the surviving or resulting corporation or within 10 days after expiration of the period for delivery of demands for appraisal under subsection (d) of this section hereof, whichever is later. Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person who is the beneficial owner of shares of such stock held either in a voting trust or by a nominee on behalf of such person may, in such person’s own name, file a petition or request from the corporation the statement described in this subsection.
(f) Upon the filing of any such petition by a stockholder, service of a copy thereof shall be made upon the surviving or resulting corporation, which shall within 20 days after such service file in the office of the Register in Chancery in which the petition was filed a duly verified list containing the names and addresses of all stockholders who have demanded payment for their shares and with whom agreements as to the value of their shares have not been reached by the surviving or resulting corporation. If the petition shall be filed by the surviving or resulting corporation, the petition shall be accompanied by such a duly verified list. The Register in Chancery, if so ordered by the Court, shall give notice of the time and place fixed for the hearing of such petition by registered or certified mail to the surviving or resulting corporation and to the stockholders shown on the list at the addresses therein stated. Such notice shall also be given by 1 or more publications at least 1 week before the day of the hearing, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Wilmington, Delaware or such publication as the Court deems advisable. The forms of the notices by mail and by publication shall be approved by the Court, and the costs thereof shall be borne by the surviving or resulting corporation.
(g) At the hearing on such petition, the Court shall determine the stockholders who have complied with this section and who have become entitled to appraisal rights. The Court may require the stockholders who have demanded an appraisal for their shares and who hold stock represented by certificates to submit their certificates of stock to the Register in Chancery for notation thereon of the pendency of the appraisal proceedings; and if any stockholder fails to comply with such direction, the Court may dismiss the proceedings as to such stockholder.
(h) After the Court determines the stockholders entitled to an appraisal, the appraisal proceeding shall be conducted in accordance with the rules of the Court of Chancery, including any rules specifically governing appraisal proceedings. Through such proceeding the Court shall determine the fair value of the shares exclusive
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of any element of value arising from the accomplishment or expectation of the merger or consolidation, together with interest, if any, to be paid upon the amount determined to be the fair value. In determining such fair value, the Court shall take into account all relevant factors. Unless the Court in its discretion determines otherwise for good cause shown, interest from the effective date of the merger through the date of payment of the judgment shall be compounded quarterly and shall accrue at 5% over the Federal Reserve discount rate (including any surcharge) as established from time to time during the period between the effective date of the merger and the date of payment of the judgment. Upon application by the surviving or resulting corporation or by any stockholder entitled to participate in the appraisal proceeding, the Court may, in its discretion, proceed to trial upon the appraisal prior to the final determination of the stockholders entitled to an appraisal. Any stockholder whose name appears on the list filed by the surviving or resulting corporation pursuant to subsection (f) of this section and who has submitted such stockholder’s certificates of stock to the Register in Chancery, if such is required, may participate fully in all proceedings until it is finally determined that such stockholder is not entitled to appraisal rights under this section.
(i) The Court shall direct the payment of the fair value of the shares, together with interest, if any, by the surviving or resulting corporation to the stockholders entitled thereto. Payment shall be so made to each such stockholder, in the case of holders of uncertificated stock forthwith, and the case of holders of shares represented by certificates upon the surrender to the corporation of the certificates representing such stock. The Court’s decree may be enforced as other decrees in the Court of Chancery may be enforced, whether such surviving or resulting corporation be a corporation of this State or of any state.
(j) The costs of the proceeding may be determined by the Court and taxed upon the parties as the Court deems equitable in the circumstances. Upon application of a stockholder, the Court may order all or a portion of the expenses incurred by any stockholder in connection with the appraisal proceeding, including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees and the fees and expenses of experts, to be charged pro rata against the value of all the shares entitled to an appraisal.
(k) From and after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, no stockholder who has demanded appraisal rights as provided in subsection (d) of this section shall be entitled to vote such stock for any purpose or to receive payment of dividends or other distributions on the stock (except dividends or other distributions payable to stockholders of record at a date which is prior to the effective date of the merger or consolidation); provided, however, that if no petition for an appraisal shall be filed within the time provided in subsection (e) of this section, or if such stockholder shall deliver to the surviving or resulting corporation a written withdrawal of such stockholder’s demand for an appraisal and an acceptance of the merger or consolidation, either within 60 days after the effective date of the merger or consolidation as provided in subsection (e) of this section or thereafter with the written approval of the corporation, then the right of such stockholder to an appraisal shall cease. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no appraisal proceeding in the Court of Chancery shall be dismissed as to any stockholder without the approval of the Court, and such approval may be conditioned upon such terms as the Court deems just; provided, however that this provision shall not affect the right of any stockholder who has not commenced an appraisal proceeding or joined that proceeding as a named party to withdraw such stockholder’s demand for appraisal and to accept the terms offered upon the merger or consolidation within 60 days after the effective date of the merger or consolidation, as set forth in subsection (e) of this section.
(l) The shares of the surviving or resulting corporation to which the shares of such objecting stockholders would have been converted had they assented to the merger or consolidation shall have the status of authorized and unissued shares of the surviving or resulting corporation.
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CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 601 108TH AVENUE NE, SUITE 1000 BELLEVUE, WA 98004 | VOTE BY INTERNET -www.proxyvote.com
Use the Internet to transmit your voting instructions and for electronic delivery of information up until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, on November 18, 2014. Have your proxy card in hand when you access the web site and follow the instructions to obtain your records and to create an electronic voting instruction form.
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CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR Proposals 1, 2 and 3: | For | Against | Abstain | |||||||
1. | Proposal 1 – Adoption of the Merger Agreement | ¨ | ¨ | ¨ | ||||||
2. | Proposal 2 – Approval, by non-binding vote, of golden parachute compensation | ¨ | ¨ | ¨ | ||||||
3. | Proposal 3 – Approval of adjournment proposal | ¨ | ¨ | ¨ |
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CONCUR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
November 19, 2014, 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
1191 Second Avenue, 10th Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING
DELIVERY OF STOCKHOLDER DOCUMENTS
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted rules that permit companies to send a single copy of annual reports, proxy statements, prospectuses and other disclosure documents to two or more investors sharing the same address, subject to certain conditions. The “householding” rules will provide greater convenience for investors and cost savings for companies by reducing the number of duplicate documents the investors receive.
Implementation and Consent
Unless we receive contrary instructions, if you have the same last name or are a member of the same family as any other investor who shares the same address, your household will receive only one copy of our proxy statement and other disclosure documents, although you will receive a separate proxy card for each investor in the household. This program began January 1, 2004.
Revoking and Duration of Consent
If you choose to revoke your consent to the householding program at a future date, you may do so by writing to Concur Technologies, Inc., Attn: Corporate Secretary, 601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1000, Bellevue, WA 98004. We will remove you from the householding program within 30 days of receipt of your revocation of your consent. If we do not receive instructions from you to discontinue householding, your proxy materials will continue to be “household” until we notify you otherwise. However, if at any time you would like a separate copy of the annual report or proxy statement, please write us at the address shown above, and we will deliver it promptly.
We encourage your participation in this program. It not only allows us to reduce costs, it is more environmentally friendly by reducing the unnecessary use of materials.
Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Special Meeting: The Notice and Proxy Statement is available at www.proxyvote.com.
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This proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors of Concur Technologies, Inc. for use at the Special Meeting of Stockholders on November 19, 2014.
This proxy will be voted as you specify on the reverse side.
If no choice is specified, the proxy will be voted “FOR” Proposals 1, 2 and 3.
By signing the proxy, you revoke all prior proxies and appoint S. Steven Singh and Francis J. Pelzer V (the “Named Proxies”), and each of them, with full power of substitution, to vote on the matters shown on the reverse side and, in their discretion, on any other matters which may properly come before the Special Meeting and all adjournments and postponements thereof. This proxy, when properly executed, will be voted in the manner directed herein. If no such direction is made, this proxy will be voted in accordance with the Board of Directors’ recommendations.
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