ARTICLE VII.
“Fully Indemnified Representations” means the representations and warranties contained in Section 2.1, Section 2.2, Section 2.3 and Section 2.14.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles of the United Kingdom.
“Governmental Entity” means the government of the United States of America, the United Kingdom or any state, local or foreign government, court of competent jurisdiction, administrative agency, commission, instrumentality, administrative or self-regulatory authority or other public or quasi-public governing body.
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, charge or other lien (whether arising by contract, agreement or by operation of law), other than any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, charge or other lien (i) in the nature of mechanic’s, materialmen’s, carrier’s, repairer’s, landlord’s or other similar liens, (ii) arising under worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, social security, retirement or similar legislation, (iii) arising in the ordinary course of business on goods in transit, (iv) for Taxes not yet due and payable, (v) for Taxes which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings, or (vi) arising solely by action of the Buyer.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, Governmental Entity, unincorporated organization or other entity.
“Personal Data” means any Personal Data (as defined in the DPA 1998) held by any Savient Group Company concerning the Business, which Personal Data is disclosed to the Buyer in contemplation of or in connection with this Agreement.
“Rosemont Companies” means, collectively, Acacia, Rosemont and the Rosemont Subsidiary.
“Savient Group Companies” means, collectively, Savient and all of its Subsidiaries.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to a Person, any corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company or other non-corporate business enterprise in which such Person (or another Subsidiary of such Person) holds stock or other ownership interests representing more that 50% of the voting power of all issued and outstanding stock or ownership interests of such corporation, partnership, trust, limited liability company or other non-corporate business enterprise.
“Tax” means all taxes, including income, foreign income, gross receipts, ad valorem, value-added, customs, duties, excise, real property, personal property, sales, use, transfer, withholding, employment, social security charges and franchise taxes imposed by any Governmental Entity, and any interest, penalties, assessments or additions to tax resulting from, attributable to or incurred in connection with any tax or any contest or dispute thereof.
“Tax Returns” means all reports, returns, declarations, statements, forms, claims for refunds or statements relating to Taxes or other information required to be supplied to a Governmental Entity in connection with Taxes under any applicable United States, United Kingdom, state, local or foreign law.
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Section 7.2 Savient Guarantee. Savient hereby unconditionally guarantees the due and punctual performance of all of the Seller’s obligations to the Buyer pursuant to and in accordance with this Agreement. This guarantee is an irrevocable guarantee of payment (and not just of collection) and shall continue in effect notwithstanding any extension or modification of the terms of this Agreement or any other act or event which might otherwise operate as a legal or equitable discharge of such guarantor.
Section 7.3 [Intentionally omitted]
Section 7.4 Public Disclosure. No public disclosure concerning the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be issued by either party without the prior consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of the Buyer (in the case of a disclosure by either Savient Company) or the Seller (in the case of a disclosure by the Buyer), except as such disclosure may be required by law or regulations, including the rules of any securities exchange or quotation service or to any financing source (in the case of a disclosure by the Buyer).
Section 7.5 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement shall not confer any rights or remedies upon any Person other than the Buyer, each Savient Company and their respective successors and permitted assigns and, to the extent expressly specified herein, their respective Affiliates.
Section 7.6 Action to be Taken by Affiliates. Each of the Buyer and the Savient Companies shall cause their respective Affiliates to comply with all of the obligations specified in this Agreement to be performed by such Affiliates.
Section 7.7 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the agreement entered into as of the date hereof among the Buyer, Close Brothers Private Equity LLP and the Savient Companies regarding confidentiality (the “Confidentiality Agreement”), and the letter agreement entered into as of the date hereof among Savient, on the one hand, and the Buyer and Rosemont, on the other hand, regarding a commercial arrangement relating to allopurinol (the “Allopurinol Letter Agreement”), constitute the entire agreement between the Buyer and the Savient Companies with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and supersede any prior agreements or understandings between the Buyer and either Savient Company with respect to such matters. Any deeds, bills of sale, instruments of transfer or assumption, assignments and other instruments of conveyance executed in connection with the transactions to be consummated at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement are intended to document the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and not to modify any of the terms or conditions hereof, and when delivered at the Closing, shall not supersede or modify this Agreement, the Confidentiality Agreement or the Allopurinol Agreement in any respect.
Section 7.8 Succession and Assignment. No party may assign this Agreement or any of its rights, interests, or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Buyer (in the case of an assignment by either Savient Company) or the Seller (in the case of an assignment by the Buyer), and any such assignment without such prior written consent shall be null and void. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) any party may assign this Agreement or some or all of its rights, interests and obligations hereunder without such consent to one or more Affiliates of such party and (ii) the Buyer may assign this Agreement or some or all of its rights, interests and obligations hereunder to parties providing financing to the Buyer; provided that in any assignment pursuant to clause (i) or (ii), such assigning party shall remain liable for all of its obligations under this Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
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Section 7.9 Notices. All notices, requests, demands, claims and other communications hereunder shall be in writing. Any notice, request, demand, claim or other communication hereunder shall be deemed duly delivered or given (i) one Business Day after it is sent within either the United States or the United Kingdom by commercial one-day overnight courier service or (ii) two Business Days after it is sent internationally by commercial two-day international overnight courier service, in each case to the intended recipient as set forth below:
If to the Buyer: | | Copy to: |
INGLEBY (1705) Limited c/o Rosemont Pharmaceuticals Limited Rosemont House Yorkdale Industrial Park Braithwaite Street Leeds, LS11 9XE United Kingdom Attention: Neil Salvin | | Close Brothers Private Equity LLP 10 Throgmorten Avenue London EC2N 2DL United Kingdom Attention: Sean Dinnen |
Fax: +44 113 245 3567 | | Fax: +44 207 588 6815 |
If to the Seller: | | Copy to: |
Savient Pharma Holdings, Inc. 103 Foulk Road, Suite 273 Wilmington, DE 19803 United States Attention: Philip K. Yachmetz, Esq. | | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 60 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 United States Attention: David E. Redlick, Esq. |
Fax: +1 302 652 8667 | | Fax: +1 617 526 5000 |
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If to Savient: | | Copy to: |
Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. One Tower Center Fourteenth Floor East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816 United States Attention: Philip K. Yachmetz, Esq. | | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 60 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 United States Attention: David E. Redlick, Esq. |
Fax: +1 732 418 9065 | | Fax: +1 617 526 5000 |
Any party may give any notice, request, demand, claim, or other communication hereunder using any other means (including personal delivery, messenger service, facsimile, telecopy, telex, ordinary mail, or electronic mail), but no such notice, request, demand, claim or other communication shall be deemed to have been duly given or delivered unless and until it actually is received by the party for whom it is intended. Any party may change the address to which notices, requests, demands, claims and other communications hereunder are to be delivered by giving the other parties notice in the manner herein set forth.
Section 7.10 Amendments and Waivers. The Buyer and the Savient Companies may mutually amend or waive any provision of this Agreement at any time. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing and signed by all of the parties.
Section 7.11 Severability. 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 hereof 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 hereof is invalid or unenforceable, the parties agree that the body making the determination of invalidity or unenforceability shall have the power to reduce the scope, duration or area of 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.
Section 7.12 Governing Law. This Agreement and any disputes hereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America, without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule that would cause the application of any other laws.
Section 7.13 Submission to Jurisdiction. Each of the parties to this Agreement (a) consents to submit itself to the personal jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or, if such court lacks jurisdiction, any appropriate state or federal court in the State of Delaware, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (b) agrees that all claims in respect of such action or proceeding shall be heard and determined in any such court, (c) agrees that it shall not attempt to deny or defeat such personal jurisdiction by motion or other request for leave from any such court, and (d) agrees not to bring any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or any of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement in any other court. Each of the parties hereto waives any defense of inconvenient forum to the maintenance of any action or proceeding so brought and waives any bond, surety or other security that might be required of any other party with respect thereto. Any party hereto may make service on another party by sending or delivering a copy of the process to the party to be served at the address and in the manner provided for the giving of notices in Section 7.9. Nothing in this Section 7.13, however, shall affect the right of any party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law.
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Section 7.14 Disclosure. The Disclosure Schedule shall be arranged in sections and subsections corresponding to the numbered and lettered sections and subsections contained in Article II. The disclosures in any section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedule shall qualify other sections and subsections in Article II to the extent it is reasonably clear from a reading of the disclosure that such disclosure is applicable to such other sections and subsections. The inclusion of any information in the Disclosure Schedule shall not be deemed to be an admission or acknowledgment, in and of itself, that such information is required by the terms hereof to be disclosed, is material to the Business, has resulted in or would result in a Business Material Adverse Effect, or is outside the ordinary course of business. The phrase “to the knowledge of the Savient Companies” or any phrase of similar import means and is limited to the actual knowledge, without inquiry, of Paul Hamelin, R.Ph., Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations and Managing Director of Rosemont; John Blythe, General Manager and Sales and Marketing Director of Rosemont; Neil Salvin, Finance Director and Secretary of Rosemont; Desmond Boyd, Quality Director of Rosemont; and Philip K. Yachmetz, Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Savient.
Section 7.15 Construction. Except where expressly stated otherwise in this Agreement, the following rules of interpretation apply to this Agreement: (i) “either” and “or” are not exclusive and “include”, “includes” and “including” are not limiting; (ii) “hereof”, “hereto”, “hereby”, “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; (iii) “date hereof” refers to the date set forth in the initial caption of this Agreement; (iv) “extent” in the phrase “to the extent” means the degree to which a subject or other thing extends, and such phrase does not mean simply “if”; (v) descriptive headings and the table of contents are inserted for convenience only and do not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement; (vi) definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms; (vii) references to a contract or agreement mean such contract or agreement as amended or otherwise modified from time to time; (viii) references to a Person are also to its permitted successors and assigns; (ix) references to an “Article”, “Section”, “Exhibit” or “Schedule” refer to an Article or Section of, or an Exhibit or Schedule to, this Agreement; (x) references to “$” or otherwise to dollar amounts refer to the lawful currency of the United States; (xi) references to “£” or otherwise to pound sterling amounts refer to the lawful currency of the United Kingdom; (xii) references to the “U.S.” or the “United States” means the United States of America; (xiii) references to the “U.K.” or the “United Kingdom” means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and (xiv) references to a law include any rules, regulations and delegated legislation issued thereunder. The language used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be the language chosen by the Buyer and the Savient Companies to express their mutual intent, and no rule of strict construction shall be applied against the Buyer or either Savient Company.
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Section 7.16 Waiver of Jury Trial. To the extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Buyer and the Savient Companies hereby irrevocably waives all rights to trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim (whether based on contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or the actions of any party in the negotiation, administration, performance and enforcement of this Agreement.
Section 7.17 Counterparts and Facsimile Signature. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement may be executed by exchange of signatures by facsimile or a portable document format or similar electronic file format attachment to email.
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The parties have executed this Agreement as of the date set forth in the initial caption of this Agreement.
| | SAVIENT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. |
| | By: | /s/ Philip K. Yachmetz
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| | | Name: Philip K. Yachmetz |
| | | Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer |
| | SAVIENT PHARMA HOLDINGS, INC. |
| | By: | /s/ Christopher Clement
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| | | Name: Christopher Clement |
| | | Title: Director, President and Chief Executive Officer |
| | INGLEBY (1705) LIMITED |
| | By: | /s/ John Blythe
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| | | Name: John Blythe |
| | | Title: Director |