EXHIBIT 10.39
JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT
THIS JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT made this 30th day of June, 2003, by and
between DATAMATICS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, a company incorporated in India under
the Companies Act, 1956 having its Registered Office at Unit #117-120, SDF IV,
SEEPZ, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 096, India (hereinafter referred to as
"Datamatics," which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof
mean and include its successors and assigns), and CADMUS KNOWLEDGEWORKS
INTERNATIONAL LTD., a company incorporated under the laws of Mauritius having
its Registered Office at c/o Abacus Financial Services (Mauritius) Limited,
Third Floor, TM Building, Pope Hennessy Street, Port Louis, Republic of
Mauritius (hereinafter referred to as "Cadmus," which expression shall unless
repugnant to the context thereof mean and include its successors and assigns).
RECITALS:
A. Datamatics is engaged in the business, inter alia, of software
development and providing and rendering information technology enabled services,
business process outsourcing services and software professional services.
B. Cadmus is an Affiliate of Cadmus Professional Communications
which is engaged in the business of producing scientific, technical, medical and
professional information products, including journals, books, trade magazines
and online products and which provides a full complement of editorial,
composition, content management, prepress, press, finishing and electronic
services to its customers.
C. Datamatics and Cadmus have agreed to jointly establish a joint
venture in India to undertake the business of providing content management,
content processing and other services to Cadmus Professional Communications and
other customers.
D. For the purpose aforesaid, prior to the execution of this
Agreement, Datamatics has incorporated a private limited company under Indian
Company Law (as defined below) under the name and style of KnowledgeWorks Global
Private Limited which the Parties intend to convert to a public limited company
which will thereafter be known under the name and style of KnowledgeWorks Global
Limited.
E. KnowledgeWorks Global Limited has its Registered Office at
Knowledge Centre, Street No. 17, MIDC, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 093, India and
has an authorized share capital of Rupees 10,000,000 divided into 1,000,000
number of equity shares of the value of Rupees 10/- each, of which 100,000
number of shares have been issued and fully paid up, and the entire issued and
paid up share capital of KnowledgeWorks Global Limited is currently owned and
beneficially held by Datamatics and its nominees.
F. Datamatics and Cadmus have agreed to develop KnowledgeWorks
Global Limited as a joint venture company for the purposes of carrying on the
content management and content processing business as more particularly
described in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT:
Accordingly, in consideration of the mutual promises and agreements
contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Datamatics and Cadmus hereby agree
as follows:
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1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETIVE MATTERS.
1.1 DEFINED TERMS. The following capitalized terms when
used in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them in this Section
1.1:
"ACCELERATED PUT OPTION" shall have the meaning assigned
thereto in Section 5.3(b).
"ACCELERATED PUT PURCHASE PRICE" shall have the meaning
assigned thereto in Section 5.3(b).
"AFFILIATE" means, with respect to either Party or any third
Person, any other Person which, directly or indirectly, through one or more
intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with,
such Party. The term "control" means the power to vote ten percent (10%) or more
of the securities or other equity interests of a Person having ordinary voting
power, or the possession, directly or indirectly, of any other power to direct
or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether
through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
"AGREEMENT" means this Joint Venture Agreement as amended,
modified or supplemented by the Parties hereto in writing from time to time.
"ALTERNATE DIRECTOR" means a substitute or an alternate to an
original member of the Board of Directors.
"ANNUAL BUSINESS PLAN" means the JVC's budgets (including
annual and supplementary budgets), including the capital expenditure budget, the
operating budget and the manpower establishment budget and shall also include,
without limitation, annual forecasts of
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the Business and operating plans, profit and loss statements, balance sheet and
cash flow statements.
"ARBITRATION RULES" means the International Arbitration Rules
of the American Arbitration Association International Center for Dispute
Resolution as they exist from time to time.
"ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION" means the Articles of Association of
the JVC.
"AUDITORS" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section
8.8.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means the Board of Directors of the JVC
as described in Section 7.1.
"BUSINESS" means the business of the JVC of providing content
management, content processing and other services to Cadmus Professional
Communications and other customers.
"CADMUS" means Cadmus KnowledgeWorks International Ltd., a
Mauritius corporation.
"CADMUS CUSTOMER" means any society, association, commercial
publisher or other Person to which Cadmus Professional Communications or any of
its Affiliates sells goods and/or provides services relating to STM Content at
any time while this Agreement continues to remain in force and in effect; it
being understood and agreed that, to avoid any misunderstandings concerning the
identity of Cadmus Customers, Cadmus shall at the time of execution of this
Agreement identify existing Cadmus Customers to Datamatics (and periodically
update the list of Cadmus Customers) as mutually agreed by Datamatics and
Cadmus.
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"CADMUS DEFAULT" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 14.2.
"CADMUS DEFAULT PURCHASE PRICE" means the product obtained by
multiplying (x) 15, by (y) EBITDA for the twelve-month period ending on the June
30 immediately preceding the applicable Cadmus Default, by (z) .20 (or such
lesser or greater percentage, expressed as a decimal, which corresponds to the
percentage of outstanding Equity Shares then owned by Datamatics and its
Affiliates).
"CADMUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means any and all computer
software, programs and applications (including applicable object codes and
source codes), inventions, copyrights, copyright applications, patents, patent
rights and licenses, patent applications, trademarks, trademark rights, trade
names, trade name rights, servicemarks, servicemark rights, trade secrets,
domain names, developments, methods, processes, ideas, works, concepts, know-how
and other intellectual property now or hereafter owned by or licensed to Cadmus
or any of its Affiliates (including, without limitation, Cadmus Professional
Communications); provided that the term "Cadmus Intellectual Property" does not
include any Datamatics Intellectual Property or any JVC Intellectual Property.
"CADMUS PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS" means Cadmus Journal
Services, Inc., a Virginia corporation, having its principal place of business
at 1801 Bayberry Court, Suite 200, Richmond, Virginia 23226, and doing business
as Cadmus Professional Communications.
"CADMUS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION" means any Proprietary
Information of Cadmus or any of its Affiliates (including, without limitation,
Cadmus Professional Communications) disclosed to Datamatics or any of its
Affiliates under or in connection with this Agreement. "Cadmus Proprietary
Information" includes Rapid Review and the other Cadmus Intellectual Property.
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"CADMUS SUBSCRIPTION AMOUNT" shall have the meaning assigned
thereto in Section 4.1(a)(ii).
"CALL OPTION" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 5.4.
"CDMS" means CDMS Management Corporation, a Delaware
corporation having its principal place of business at 1105 North Market Street,
Suite 1018, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, and an intellectual property holding
company Affiliate of Cadmus.
"COMPLETION" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 4.1(d).
"CONTENT SERVICES AGREEMENT" means the Content Services
Agreement to be entered into between Cadmus Professional Communications and the
JVC, pursuant to which the JVC shall provide content management and content
processing services to Cadmus Professional Communications, which Content
Services Agreement shall be substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
A, with such changes thereto as may be agreed to by Cadmus Professional
Communications and the JVC.
"DATAMATICS" means Datamatics Technologies Limited, an Indian
company.
"DATAMATICS DEFAULT" shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in Section 14.1.
"DATAMATICS DEFAULT PURCHASE PRICE" means the aggregate amount
Datamatics has paid to the JVC to subscribe for Equity Shares of the JVC.
"DATAMATICS EXISTING STM CUSTOMERS" means the customers of
Datamatics specified in Schedule 1 attached hereto.
"DATAMATICS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means any and all computer
software, programs and applications (including applicable object codes and
source codes), inventions, copyrights, copyright applications, patents, patent
rights and licenses, patent applications,
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trademarks, trademark rights, trade names, trade name rights, servicemarks,
servicemark rights, trade secrets, domain names, developments, methods,
processes, ideas, works, concepts, know-how and other intellectual property now
or hereafter owned by or licensed to Datamatics or any of its Affiliates;
provided that the term "Datamatics Intellectual Property" does not include any
Cadmus Intellectual Property or any JVC Intellectual Property.
"DATAMATICS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION" means any Proprietary
Information of Datamatics or any of its Affiliates disclosed to Cadmus or any of
its Affiliates under or in connection with this Agreement. "Datamatics
Proprietary Information" includes the Datamatics Intellectual Property.
"DATAMATICS SUBSCRIPTION AMOUNT" shall have the meaning
assigned thereto in Section 4.1(a)(i).
"DCL" means Datamatics Consultants Limited, an Indian company,
and an Affiliate of Datamatics.
"DEDICATED FACILITY" means the facility in Datamatics'
Knowledge Centre complex in Mumbai, India from which the JVC shall initially
operate in Mumbai.
"DEED OF ADHERENCE" means the deed or instrument to be entered
into between a transferor Shareholder and a transferee of Equity Shares whereby
the transferee agrees to adhere to and be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
"DIRECT COMPETITORS" means the companies specified in Schedule
2 attached hereto.
"DISPUTE" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section
16.1.
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"EBITDA" means, for any period and without duplication, the
net income of the JVC for such period plus the aggregate amount deducted in
determining such net income for such period with respect to interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization plus the aggregate amount deducted in determining
such net income for such period with respect to royalties paid by the JVC to
CDMS under the License Agreement; it being understood and agreed that, for all
purposes of this Agreement, EBITDA and the components of EBITDA shall be
calculated using Indian generally accepted accounting principles.
"EQUITY SHARES" shall mean the equity shares of the JVC of
face value of Rupees 10/-, each issued by the JVC from time to time.
"FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT" means the Facilities
Management Agreement to be entered into between the JVC and DCL, pursuant to
which DCL will provide the Management Services to the JVC, which Facilities
Management Agreement shall be substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit B, with such changes thereto as may be agreed to by the JVC and DCL.
"FAIR MARKET VALUE" means, for the applicable Put/Call Closing
Date, the product obtained by multiplying (x) the Fair Market Value Multiple, by
(y) EBITDA for the twelve-month period ending on the June 30 immediately
preceding the applicable Put/Call Closing Date, by (z) .20 (or such lesser or
greater percentage, expressed as a decimal, which corresponds to the percentage
of outstanding Equity Shares then owned by Datamatics and its Affiliates).
"FAIR MARKET VALUE MULTIPLE" means the multiple of EBITDA
which approximates the then average EBITDA trading multiple in India of public
companies most closely comparable to the JVC engaged in the business of
providing content management,
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content processing, IT enabled services and business process outsourcing; it
being understood and agreed that the Fair Market Value Multiple shall be
determined (i) by the mutual agreement of Datamatics and Cadmus, or (ii) if
Datamatics and Cadmus are unable to agree on a Fair Market Value Multiple, by a
well respected business appraiser chosen by Cadmus and approved by Datamatics,
which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. In any event, the business
appraiser chosen shall have experience in valuing companies in the business of
providing content management, content processing, IT enabled services and
business process outsourcing, and the determination of the Fair Market Value
Multiple by such appraiser shall be conclusive, final and binding on Datamatics
and Cadmus. The costs and expenses of the business appraiser shall be shared
equally by Datamatics and Cadmus.
"FCPA" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section
17.5.
"GENERAL MANAGER" means the general manager of the JVC
appointed from time to time by the Board of Directors.
"GOVERNMENTAL APPROVALS" means all authorizations, consents,
approvals, licenses, permissions, confirmations, validations, clearances and
exemptions of, registrations and filings with, and reports to all Governmental
Authorities.
"GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means any central, state, municipal
or local authority, or political subdivision thereof, and any government or any
Person exercising executive, legislative, regulatory or administrative functions
of or pertaining to government, and any corporation or other entity owned or
controlled, through stock or capital ownership or otherwise, by any of the
foregoing.
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"INDIAN COMPANY LAW" means the [Indian] Companies Act, 1956
and the rules and regulations made thereunder and shall include any amendments
thereto for the time being in force.
"JVC" means KnowledgeWorks Global Private Limited, an Indian
company, which the Parties intend to convert to a public limited company which
will thereafter be known under the name and style of KnowledgeWorks Global
Limited.
"JVC DEED OF ADHERENCE" means the deed or instrument in the
nature of a deed of adherence to be executed by the JVC to evidence its
agreement to adhere to and be bound by the terms hereof.
"JVC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means any and all computer
software, programs and applications (including applicable object codes and
source codes), inventions, copyrights, copyright applications, patents, patent
rights and licenses, patent applications, trademarks, trademark rights, trade
names, trade name rights, servicemarks, servicemark rights, trade secrets,
domain names, developments, methods, processes, ideas, works, concepts, know-how
and other intellectual property now or hereafter owned by or licensed to the
JVC; provided that the term "JVC Intellectual Property" does not include any
Datamatics Intellectual Property or any Cadmus Intellectual Property.
"JVC PROPRIETARY INFORMATION" means any Proprietary
Information of the JVC disclosed to Datamatics, Cadmus or any of their
respective Affiliates under or in connection with this Agreement. "JVC
Proprietary Information" includes the JVC Intellectual Property.
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"LEASE AGREEMENT" means the Lease Agreement to be entered into
between the JVC and Datamatics, pursuant to which Datamatics shall lease the
Dedicated Facility to the JVC, which Lease Agreement shall be in a form
acceptable to the JVC and Datamatics.
"LICENSE AGREEMENT" means the License Agreement to be entered
into between CDMS and the JVC, pursuant to which CDMS shall license the
KnowledgeWorks name to the JVC on the terms and subject to the conditions
contained therein, which License Agreement shall be substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit C, with such changes thereto as may be agreed to by
CDMS and the JVC.
"LIEN" means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security
interest, hypothecation or encumbrance or liability of any kind with respect to
an asset.
"MANAGEMENT COUNCIL" shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in Section 7.2.
"MANAGEMENT SERVICES" means the services DCL shall be
providing to the JVC under the Facilities Management Agreement.
"MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION" means the Memorandum of
Association of the JVC.
"PARTY" or "PARTIES" shall mean a reference to Datamatics or
Cadmus, individually or collectively, as the case may be.
"PERCENTAGE OWNERSHIP" shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in Section 4.4; with the Percentage Ownership of Cadmus initially being 80% and
the Percentage Ownership of Datamatics initially being 20%, in each case of the
outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC.
"PERSON" means an individual, corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, association, trust, business trust, joint venture, joint
stock company, pool, syndicate,
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sole proprietorship, unincorporated organization, Governmental Authority or
other form of entity or group thereof.
"PROHIBITED SERVICES" shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in Section 12.1(a).
"PROPRIETARY INFORMATION" means any confidential or
proprietary information or data of the disclosing Person or its Affiliates,
including, without limitation, the Cadmus Intellectual Property, the Datamatics
Intellectual Property, the JVC Intellectual Property and any other confidential
or proprietary information relating to (i) customers, suppliers, products or
services; (ii) prices or pricing policies, sales margins or discounts; (iii)
marketing plans, methods or objectives; (iv) organization or capital structure,
financial performance, business plans or initiatives or strategy; (v) product
technologies, project plans, data models, systems design, methodology,
processes, competitive advantages and disadvantages, operating procedures and
product features; and (vi) any other matter which is generally regarded as
confidential or proprietary in any industry or other business engaged in by the
disclosing Person, which would give the receiving Person an opportunity to gain
an advantage over its competitors or which the disclosing Person informs the
receiving Person that the disclosing Person considers confidential or
proprietary. Proprietary Information may be oral, written or pictorial and may
be in the form of computerized or other electronic data. Proprietary Information
shall not include information the receiving Person can clearly establish was (i)
in the public domain at the time of disclosure; (ii) published or otherwise part
of the public domain after disclosure other than by breach of this Agreement by
the receiving Person; (iii) already known by the receiving Person at the time of
disclosure and not acquired, directly or indirectly, from the disclosing Person
or anyone on behalf of the disclosing Person; or (iv) lawfully provided to the
receiving Person by a third
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Person which did not require the receiving Person to hold the same in confidence
and which did not acquire such information, directly or indirectly, from the
disclosing Person or anyone on behalf of the disclosing Person.
"PUT/CALL CLOSING DATE" means the date on which Datamatics
and/or its Affiliates transfers its 20% Percentage Ownership of the outstanding
Equity Shares of the JVC (or such lesser or greater Percentage Ownership then
owned by Datamatics and/or its Affiliates) to Cadmus or its Affiliate as a
result of Datamatics' election to exercise the Put Option or the Accelerated Put
Option under Section 5.3 or Cadmus' election to exercise the Call Option under
Section 5.4.
"PUT/CALL PURCHASE PRICE" means (A) for any Put/Call Closing
Date which occurs on or before June 30, 2007, the product obtained by
multiplying (x) 15, by (y) EBITDA for the twelve-month period ending June 30,
2006, by (z) .20 (or such lesser or greater percentage, expressed as a decimal,
which corresponds to the percentage of outstanding Equity Shares then owned by
Datamatics and/or its Affiliates); (B) for any Put/Call Closing Date which
occurs on or after July 1, 2007, but on or before June 30, 2008, the product
obtained by multiplying (x) 10, by (y) EBITDA for the twelve-month period ending
June 30, 2007, by (z) .20 (or such lesser or greater percentage, expressed as a
decimal, which corresponds to the percentage of outstanding Equity Shares then
owned by Datamatics and/or its Affiliates); and (C) for any Put/Call Closing
Date which occurs on or after July 1, 2008, Fair Market Value; and, in the event
that Cadmus has exercised the Call Option under Section 5.4, the Put/Call
Purchase Price shall be increased by the amount, if any, by which the amount of
new equity capital (the face value of Equity Shares plus share premium amount,
if any) contributed by Datamatics to the
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JVC during the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the applicable
Put/Call Closing Date exceeds US $100,000.
"PUT OPTION" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 5.3(a).
"RUPEES" or "INR" means the lawful currency of India.
"SENIOR MANAGEMENT" means the President (or equivalent
thereof) of Datamatics and the President (or equivalent thereof) of Cadmus.
"SHAREHOLDER" means a holder of Equity Shares of the JVC
registered in the Register of Members of the JVC.
"STM CONTENT" means any journals, other publications,
articles, documents or other content relating to scientific, technical or
medical information or matters.
"TRANSFER" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section
5.1.
1.2 INTERPRETIVE MATTERS. Unless the context otherwise
requires, when used in this Agreement:
(a) words importing the singular number include the
plural number and vice versa;
(b) the words "hereof," "herein" and "hereunder" and
words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement;
(c) the headings to the sections and subsections hereof
shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement or be taken into
consideration in the interpretation or construction thereof or of this
Agreement;
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(d) references to sections or subsections are references
to the sections and subsections of this Agreement;
(e) references to documents include references to
modifications, variations and replacements thereof and supplements thereto;
(f) references to statutes and other legislation include
re-enactments and amendments thereof and include any subordinate or subsidiary
legislation made under any such statute or legislation; and
(g) references to Datamatics and Cadmus include their
respective successors and assigns and their wholly-owned subsidiary companies.
2. CONDITIONS TO CLOSING.
2.1 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. Each of the following is a
condition precedent to Cadmus' agreement to subscribe to its 80% Percentage
Ownership in the outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC as described in Section
4.1:
(a) Content Services Agreement. The JVC and Cadmus
Professional Communications shall have negotiated, executed and delivered the
Content Services Agreement.
(b) Facilities Management Agreement. The JVC and DCL
shall have negotiated, executed and delivered the Facilities Management
Agreement.
(c) Lease Agreement. The JVC and Datamatics shall have
negotiated, executed and delivered the Lease Agreement.
(d) License Agreement. CDMS and the JVC shall have
negotiated, executed and delivered the License Agreement.
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(e) Sole Shareholders. Datamatics shall have taken, or
caused to be taken, all actions necessary to insure that Datamatics and Cadmus
shall be the sole beneficial Shareholders of the JVC upon consummation of the
actions described in Section 4.1.
(f) Governmental Approvals. Datamatics shall have
obtained all Governmental Approvals which are required (or recommended as
advisable by Cadmus' legal counsel) in India in connection with the arrangements
and transactions described herein or contemplated hereby, including, without
limitation, those required or advisable to permit Cadmus to subscribe to and own
its 80% Percentage Ownership in the outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC and
those required or advisable to permit the JVC to qualify for the tax benefits
under applicable Indian law and regulations available to a new company which is
registered as a software technology park unit with the concerned authorities at
the relevant Software Technology Parks under the Software Technology Parks of
India scheme. In addition, Datamatics and Cadmus shall ensure that the JVC makes
all such filings and satisfies all such reporting requirements as may be
necessary in terms of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the
Regulations issued thereunder, and Indian Company Law, in a timely manner.
(g) Due Diligence. Each of Datamatics and Cadmus shall
have completed to its satisfaction its legal, financial, operational and other
due diligence relating to its investment in the JVC and the other arrangements
and transactions described herein or contemplated hereby.
(h) Board Approval. The Board of Directors of Datamatics
and the Board of Directors of Cadmus shall have approved the Parties' respective
investments in the JVC and the other terms and conditions of this Agreement.
2.2 REASONABLE EFFORTS. Each of Datamatics and Cadmus
shall cooperate and work with the other Party and shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to satisfy the conditions
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precedent set forth in Sections 2.1(a), 2.1(b), 2.1(c), 2.1(d), 2.1(e) and
2.1(f). For Cadmus, such commercially reasonable efforts may include making
Cadmus officers available to meet with relevant Governmental Authorities in
India and assisting Datamatics in obtaining Governmental Approvals required or
advisable in India.
2.3 FAILURE TO SATISFY CONDITIONS. In the event that all
of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2.1 are not satisfied or waived
(to the extent waivable) to the mutual satisfaction of Datamatics and Cadmus on
or before June 30, 2003, either Party shall have the right to terminate this
Agreement by giving written notice to the other Party. Upon any such
termination, this Agreement shall be of no further force or effect, and neither
Party shall have any further obligations hereunder, except that Sections 10, 11,
16 and 17, and the Parties' respective obligations thereunder, shall survive any
such termination.
3. FORMATION AND ORGANIZATION OF JVC.
3.1 FORMATION. Datamatics represents and warrants to
Cadmus that KnowledgeWorks Global Limited has been duly formed and is validly
organized and existing in good standing under Indian Company Law.
3.2 ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS. A true copy of the
Memorandum of Association of the JVC (the "Memorandum of Association") is
attached hereto as Exhibit D, and a true copy of the Articles of Association of
the JVC (the "Articles of Association") is attached hereto as Exhibit E. The
Parties shall at all times mutually agree upon any modifications or amendments
to the Memorandum of Association and/or the Articles of Association which are
contrary to or a change in the terms of this Agreement.
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3.3 INTEGRATION; GOVERNING DOCUMENT. (a) In order to
confirm and consolidate the agreement and understanding reached herein between
the Parties and to give effect to such agreement and understanding, the Articles
of Association shall be amended to include the agreement on the transferability
of Equity Shares and certain other relevant provisions of this Agreement to the
extent permissive under Indian Company Law.
(b) Subject to the provisions of all laws, rules and
regulations, it is expressly agreed that whether or not the Memorandum of
Association or the Articles of Association fully incorporate the provisions
hereof, or any of them, the Parties' rights and obligations shall be governed by
this Agreement which shall also between the Parties prevail in the event of any
ambiguity or inconsistency between this Agreement and the Memorandum of
Association or the Articles of Association. To the extent permissible, the
Parties hereby undertake to forthwith take all necessary actions to amend the
Memorandum of Association and the Articles of Association to remove any such
ambiguity or inconsistency that may arise.
3.4 ADDITIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL STEPS. Promptly after all
of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2.1 are satisfied or waived (to
the extent waivable) to the mutual satisfaction of Datamatics and Cadmus, and
not more than thirty (30) days thereafter:
(a) Cadmus shall subscribe for Equity Shares in the JVC
as provided in Section 4; and
(b) Datamatics and Cadmus shall cause the JVC to enter
into the JVC Deed of Adherence.
4. OWNERSHIP AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE.
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4.1 SHARE CAPITAL; INITIAL SUBSCRIPTION. (a) The initial
authorized equity share capital of the JVC is Rupees Ten Million comprising
1,000,000 Equity Shares of Rupees 10/- each. The initial issued, subscribed and
paid up equity share capital of the JVC shall be Rupees Five Million comprising
of 500,000 Equity Shares of Rupees 10/- each, which shall be held as follows:
PERCENTAGE NUMBER OF
PARTY OWNERSHIP EQUITY SHARES EQUITY CAPITAL
----- ---------- ------------- --------------
Datamatics 20% 100,000 1,000,000
Cadmus 80% 400,000 4,000,000
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TOTAL 100% 500,000 5,000,000
It is understood and agreed that for the allotment of the
aforementioned Equity Shares:
(i) Prior to the execution of this Agreement, Datamatics
has subscribed Rupees 1,000,000 to the equity share
capital of the JVC (the "Datamatics Subscription
Amount"), and the JVC has allotted 100,000 Equity
Shares of Rupees 10/- to Datamatics and its nominees
for cash at par, and all such Equity Shares are
beneficially owned by Datamatics; and
(ii) Cadmus shall be obliged to pay into the JVC as
payment towards share subscription a sum of Rupees
4,000,000 ("Cadmus Subscription Amount").
(b) For the purposes of this Agreement and in order to
enable the issuance of the number of Equity Shares referred to in Section 4.1(a)
by the JVC to Cadmus, Datamatics shall insure that, subject to Section 4.1(d), a
meeting of the Board of Directors is held whereat a
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resolution under Indian Company Law approving the allotment of the Equity Shares
referred to in Section 4.1(a) above to Cadmus is passed. It is understood that
the Equity Shares being allotted to Cadmus shall be allotted at the par value of
INR 10 (Rupees Ten Only) each per Equity Share.
(c) Upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent set
forth in Section 2.1, the Parties shall intimate the JVC jointly by way of a
"Completion Notice" on the date on which they would like "Completion" to take
place, which date shall not be later than five (5) working days from the date of
the Completion Notice.
(d) Within two (2) working days after the date of the
Completion Notice, Cadmus shall remit into an account of the JVC the Cadmus
Subscription Amount, and the JVC shall (and Datamatics shall insure that the JVC
does) on receipt of the Cadmus Subscription Amount hold the Board of Directors
meeting referred to in Section 4.1(b) and allot to Cadmus 400,000 fully paid
Equity Shares. For the avoidance of any doubt, it is clarified that "Completion"
for the purposes of this Agreement shall be deemed to occur when the issue and
allotment of Equity Shares, as referred to above, takes place.
(e) As of the date of Completion, the Board of Directors
meeting referred to in Section 4.1(b) shall be held whereat the resolutions for
allotment of Equity Shares to Cadmus specified in Section 4.1(b) shall be
passed, and:
(i) Cadmus shall be registered as a registered
Shareholder and member of the JVC in respect of 80%
of the equity share capital of the JVC;
(ii) The Board of Directors shall handover to Cadmus (A)
true copies of the resolutions in respect of
allotment of Equity Shares to Cadmus and (B)
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share certificates to Cadmus in respect of the number
of Equity Shares set out against its name in Section
4.1(a);
(iii) The Board of Directors shall approve such transfers
of shares of the JVC as may be required to ensure
that Datamatics and Cadmus are the only two (2)
beneficial Shareholders of the JVC;
(iv) The Board of Directors shall appoint the nominees of
Cadmus as additional Directors of the JVC; and
(v) The Board of Directors shall take necessary steps to
call for an extraordinary general meeting of the
Shareholders of the JVC, in accordance with Section
4.1(f).
(f) Immediately on completion of the activities set out
in Section 4.1(e), the JVC shall hold an extraordinary meeting of its
Shareholders to consider and adopt the Articles of Association, which are
reflective of the terms of this Agreement.
4.2 EQUITY SHARE ATTRIBUTES. All Equity Shares shall be
alike in all respects, and each Equity Share shall be entitled to identical
rights and privileges including with respect to dividends, voting power and
distribution of assets in the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the JVC.
4.3 INCREASE IN SHARE CAPITAL. Any increase in the share
capital of the JVC beyond that specified in Section 4.1 must be approved by the
Board of Directors at a duly constituted meeting and by a general meeting of
Shareholders.
4.4 PERCENTAGE OWNERSHIP. The percentage ownership of
Equity Shares of each Party specified in Section 4.1 (the "Percentage
Ownership") shall (unless the Parties
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otherwise agree in writing) remain unchanged except as provided in Sections 5.3
and 5.4 or elsewhere in this Agreement; provided that, where one Party does not
subscribe to its pro-rata entitlement in any increase in the Equity Shares, the
other Party may additionally take up such unsubscribed Equity Shares.
4.5 DESIGNEES. Where either Party is precluded by any law
or governmental regulation from increasing its ownership of Equity Shares, it
may appoint a designee or designees to subscribe for its portion of the Equity
Shares.
4.6 ADDITIONAL FUND REQUIREMENTS. (a) Additional fund
requirements of the JVC in excess of the share capital may be met either through
the issue of such additional securities as are permitted under Indian Company
Law (including additional Equity Shares as provided under Section 4.3), through
borrowings from one or more Shareholders or through borrowings from such
reputable financial institutions or banks as the Board of Directors may from
time to time determine; provided, however, the JVC shall not raise funds through
a stock market transaction unless Datamatics and Cadmus mutually agree to do so.
(b) If the financial institutions or banks require any
security, the JVC may pledge by hypothecation or mortgage all or such portion of
its assets as the Board of Directors deem fit. The Parties shall (i) use their
commercially reasonable efforts to secure appropriate credit facilities for the
JVC on favorable terms, and (ii) cause the JVC to enter into agreements relating
to such credit facilities on terms reasonable and satisfactory to the Board of
Directors. Neither Party shall be obligated to guarantee the borrowings by the
JVC.
4.7 DIVIDENDS. It is the intention of Datamatics and
Cadmus that the JVC shall, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors and
the Shareholders in their discretion, distribute as dividends the JVC's legally
distributable after-tax profits, after taking into account
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the Annual Business Plan for the coming year and after making provisions for
retained earnings and required reserves.
5. TRANSFER OF EQUITY SHARES.
5.1 GENERAL PROHIBITION. (a) Except as otherwise
specifically provided in this Agreement, no sale, assignment, pledge,
hypothecation, gift, distribution, disposition or other transfer (any such
transaction being herein referred to as a "Transfer") of any Equity Shares may
be made by either Party to any Person without the prior written consent of the
other Party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. In addition, all
Transfers shall be made subject to the requirement that the transferee enter
into a Deed of Adherence satisfactory to the non-transferring Shareholder(s).
Any Transfer made in violation of this Section 5.1 shall be null and void, and
the JVC shall not register such Transfer.
(b) Notwithstanding the restrictions on Transfer
contained in Section 5.1(a), either Party may transfer Equity Shares to a
majority owned and controlled Affiliate but subject to such Governmental
Approvals as may be required, if any. In any such event, it shall be a condition
precedent to the right of the transferring Party to transfer Equity Shares to a
majority owned and controlled Affiliate that such Affiliate execute a Deed of
Adherence which has been approved in writing by each of the non-transferring
Shareholders. If any such transferee Affiliate ceases to be a majority owned and
controlled Affiliate of the transferring Party at any time during the term of
this Agreement, the applicable Equity Shares shall be transferred back to the
transferor Party or one of its majority owned and controlled Affiliates on the
same terms. Datamatics and Cadmus agree to comply with all laws, rules and
regulations, by-laws and requirements of any Governmental Authority applicable
to such Transfer to a Party's Affiliate
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and to cause their respective representatives on the Board of Directors to vote
in favor of such Transfer.
5.2 NO LIENS. Neither Party shall create, incur, assume
or suffer to exist any Lien on any Equity Shares owned by it or its Affiliates
without the prior written consent of the other Party; provided, however, that
Datamatics hereby acknowledges and agrees that Cadmus may grant a security
interest in the Equity Shares owned by it to the extent required by Cadmus'
senior bank lenders.
5.3 PUT OPTION; ACCELERATED PUT OPTION. (a) On June 30,
2006, and on each June 30 thereafter while this Agreement continues in effect,
Datamatics shall have the irrevocable option, exercisable upon not less than
ninety (90) days' prior written notice to Cadmus in advance of the applicable
June 30 date, to require Cadmus or, at the election of Cadmus, an Affiliate of
Cadmus to buy from Datamatics all of the Equity Shares owned by Datamatics and
its Affiliates for the Put/Call Purchase Price (the "Put Option"). In the event
that Datamatics exercises the Put Option, Cadmus or its applicable Affiliate
shall have the right to pay the Put/Call Purchase Price in cash, notes, Cadmus
Communications Corporation stock or some combination thereof. In the event that
Cadmus is unable to honor the Put Option for financial reasons, Datamatics shall
be permitted to sell its Equity Shares to a third Person approved by Cadmus with
such approval not to be unreasonably withheld.
(b) In addition, if the JVC issues new equity capital for
a total subscription amount (the face value of the Equity Shares plus share
premium amount, if any) of US $1,000,000 or more during the financial accounting
year of the JVC beginning on July 1, 2006 or during any subsequent financial
accounting year, and Datamatics declines to subscribe for its Percentage
Ownership of such new equity capital, Datamatics shall have the irrevocable
option,
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exercisable by giving the notice described in the next sentence, to require
Cadmus or, at the election of Cadmus, an Affiliate of Cadmus to buy from
Datamatics all of the Equity Shares owned by Datamatics and its Affiliates for
the Accelerated Put Purchase Price (the "Accelerated Put Option"). In the event
that Datamatics desires to exercise the Accelerated Put Option, it shall provide
written notice to the JVC within ten (10) days after the Board of Directors
approves the issuance of the new equity capital giving rise to the Accelerated
Put Option. The purchase price Cadmus shall be required to pay upon the exercise
of the Accelerated Put Option by Datamatics (the "Accelerated Put Purchase
Price") shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying (x) the multiple
which would have been used in determining the Put/Call Purchase Price if
Datamatics had exercised the Put Option under Section 5.3(a) on the immediately
preceding June 30, by (y) EBITDA for the twelve-month period ending on the
immediately preceding June 30, by (z) .20 (or such lesser or greater percentage,
expressed as a decimal, which corresponds to the percentage of outstanding
Equity Shares then owned by Datamatics and its Affiliates). In the event that
Datamatics exercises the Accelerated Put Option, Cadmus or the applicable
Affiliate shall be required to pay the Accelerated Put Purchase Price in cash.
5.4 CALL OPTION. On June 30, 2006, and on each June 30
thereafter while this Agreement continues in effect, Cadmus shall have the
irrevocable option, exercisable upon not less than ninety (90) days' prior
written notice to Datamatics in advance of the applicable June 30 date, to
require Datamatics and/or its Affiliates to sell to Cadmus or, at the election
of Cadmus, an Affiliate of Cadmus all of the Equity Shares owned by Datamatics
and its Affiliates for the Put/Call Purchase Price (the "Call Option"). In the
event that Cadmus exercises the Call Option, Cadmus or its applicable Affiliate
shall be required to pay the Put/Call Purchase Price in cash.
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5.5 PUT/CALL CLOSING DATE. Datamatics and Cadmus agree to
use their commercially reasonable best efforts to cause the Put/Call Closing
Date to occur not later than (i) one hundred twenty (120) days after the
applicable June 30 date (prior to which notice has been given under Section
5.3(a) or Section 5.4) in the case of an exercise of the Put Option or the Call
Option, or (ii) one hundred twenty (120) days after the Board of Directors
receives written notice of the exercise of the Accelerated Put Option in the
case of an exercise of the Accelerated Put Option; provided, however, that, in
the event that all necessary Governmental Approvals have not been obtained by
such date, the Put/Call Closing Date shall occur within ten (10) days after all
necessary Governmental Approvals have been obtained
6. MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS, ETC.
6.1 GENERAL. The meetings of the Shareholders of the JVC shall be
conducted in accordance with the provisions of Indian Company Law and the
Articles of Association. Datamatics and Cadmus agree and undertake that they
shall exercise their voting rights at meetings of the Shareholders in such a
manner so as to ensure that the provisions of this Agreement are upheld.
6.2 REQUIRED PERCENTAGE. Except for matters requiring approval of
Shareholders by a special resolution at a meeting of Shareholders under the
provisions of Indian Company Law, all other matters at any general meeting of
the Shareholders shall be decided by the votes representing a fifty-one percent
(51%) or greater majority of the issued and paid-up Equity Shares.
6.3 SHAREHOLDER APPROVAL ITEMS. Subject to the provisions of
Indian Company Law and any other applicable laws, the following matters shall
require approval of the Shareholders at a general meeting:
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(a) approval of the audited Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss
Account of the JVC and any report or statement accompanying such Balance Sheet
and Profit and Loss Account;
(b) the declaration, recommendation and payment of any
distribution or dividend (whether in cash or in kind);
(c) increase, reduction or other alteration of the share capital
of the JVC;
(d) issue and allotment of Equity Shares or other securities of
the JVC to any individual or entity (other than to one or both of the Parties)
or the listing and quotation of the Equity Shares or other securities of the JVC
on any stock exchange;
(e) purchase by the JVC or cancellation of any Equity Shares or
issue of further Equity Shares or other dilution of the shareholding interest of
the Shareholders or variation of any rights attaching to any Equity Shares;
(f) amendments or modifications to the Memorandum of Association
and/or Articles of Association;
(g) reorganization, restructure or consolidation of the JVC or its
merger or amalgamation with any other entity and acquisition of any stocks in
any body corporate or participation in any partnership or joint venture
arrangement;
(h) liquidation or dissolution of the JVC or placing the JVC under
a liquidator, judicial manager, administrator or similar officer; and
(i) issue of Equity Shares to employees under any employee stock
ownership scheme.
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7. MANAGEMENT OF THE JVC.
7.1 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. (a) The Board of Directors shall
be the highest organ of authority of the JVC and shall set policies for the JVC.
Unless otherwise mutually agreed by Datamatics and Cadmus, the Board of
Directors shall consist of three (3) Directors, two (2) to be appointed by
Cadmus and one (1) to be appointed by Datamatics. Cadmus shall appoint one of
its members of the Board of Directors to serve as the non-executive Chairman of
the JVC. Datamatics and Cadmus shall at all times ensure that their appointees
on the Board exercise their respective voting rights to appoint each other's
nominees on the Board of Directors in accordance with this Section 7.1.
(b) From time to time, the Board of Directors may
establish Committees to which it may delegate the powers and responsibility for
setting specified policies of the JVC.
(c) Any casual vacancy on the Board of Directors arising
from the death, retirement, resignation or removal of a director shall be filled
by the Party whose nominee causes the casual vacancy.
(d) Either Party shall be entitled to nominate an
Alternate Director to act for its appointed Director during his absence for a
period of not less than three (3) months which prevents him from attending
meetings of the Board of Directors.
(e) Except as provided in Section 7.1(j), no remuneration
shall be payable by the JVC to either Party or its appointed Director(s) for any
services provided by such appointed Director(s) to the JVC.
(f) A quorum for the Board of Directors shall be two (2)
Directors. Subject to the provisions of Indian Company Law and any other
applicable laws, any resolution at any
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meeting of the Board of Directors may be passed by the vote of a majority of the
Directors present at such meeting; provided, however, that the following matters
shall require the affirmative vote of at least one Director nominated by
Datamatics:
(i) any sale of all or substantially all Equity Shares or
any transfer of all or substantially all of the JVC's
assets and properties;
(ii) entry by the JVC into any material contract or
arrangement with Cadmus or one of its Affiliates;
(iii) any issuance of Equity Shares by the JVC which would
cause the cumulative subscription amount (the face
value of Equity Shares plus share premium amount, if
any) for all Equity Shares issued by the JVC during
the first three (3) years of its existence to exceed
US $3,000,000;
(iv) reorganization, restructure or consolidation of the
JVC or its merger or amalgamation with any other
entity or acquisition of any stocks in any body
corporate or participation in any partnership or
joint venture arrangements;
(v) any capital expenditure of the JVC which would cause
the cumulative amount of all capital expenditures in
a given financial accounting year of the JVC to
exceed Rupees five (5) million;
(vi) any alteration to the Articles of Association which
is contrary to or a change in the terms of this
Agreement;
(vii) any investment by the JVC in excess of US $100,000 in
another Person;
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(viii) liquidation or dissolution of the JVC or placing the
JVC under a liquidator, judicial manager,
administrator or similar officer; and
(ix) any borrowings on terms which entitle a lender to
appoint a representative on the Board of Directors or
to convert the loan or any part thereof into Equity
Shares or any issuance of new Equity Shares pursuant
to such right or otherwise.
(g) Subject to the requirements of Indian Company Law as
to resolutions which are required to be passed at a meeting of the Board of
Directors, resolutions of the Board of Directors may be passed by circular
resolution signed by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors or in
accordance with Section 7.1(f), as applicable, with respect to such matters set
forth therein, which may consist of several documents in original or facsimile
in the like form each signed by one or more Board members.
(h) Persons who are nominated as Directors on the Board
of Directors shall not be disqualified to serve by reason of their being
officers, directors or stockholders of any other corporation, incorporated
within or outside India. Directors need not be shareholders of the JVC. Subject
to the provisions of Indian Company Law, no Director shall be deemed to have an
interest in a matter and thereby disqualified to vote on the ground that such
Director is a nominee of Datamatics or Cadmus if the matter under consideration
involves commercial, financial or other relationships between the JVC and
Datamatics or any of its Affiliates or Cadmus or any of its Affiliates, as the
case may be.
(i) Datamatics and Cadmus agree to exercise their voting
rights as Shareholders and shall cause their respective appointed Directors on
the Board of Directors to exercise their voting rights and to take such other
steps as are required to ensure that this
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Agreement is upheld by the Parties and the JVC and to prevent the taking of any
action by the JVC contrary to, and/or with a view or intent to evade or defeat,
the terms hereof.
(j) The JVC shall reimburse, in accordance with Cadmus
Travel Policy, Datamatics and Cadmus for any out-of-pocket costs and expenses,
including, without limitation, reasonable travel, lodging and meal costs and
expenses, incurred by their respective appointed members of the Board of
Directors in connection with attending Board meetings or otherwise carrying out
their Board duties.
7.2 MANAGEMENT COUNCIL. (a) Datamatics and Cadmus agree
that the JVC shall establish a management council (the "Management Council")
consisting of the following initial members:
CADMUS MEMBERS DATAMATICS MEMBERS JVC GENERAL MANAGER
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Walter Peter (Chairman) Manish Modi Sunil Parekh
Atul Goel Mahesh Zurale
Karen Snyder Suman Pai
Hai Tran
Cadmus shall have the right from time to time during the term hereof to replace
its members of the Management Council after notice to and consultation with
Datamatics, and Datamatics shall have the right from time to time during the
term hereof to replace its members of the Management Council after notice to and
consultation with Cadmus. The General Manager shall be a member of the
Management Council.
(b) Subject to the supervision, direction and control of
the Board of Directors, the Management Council shall have primary responsibility
for the day to day operations of the
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JVC. The Management Council shall meet (in person or by video conference) at
least quarterly to review the following:
(i) the financial performance of the JVC;
(ii) the delivery plan (recruitment, training, human
resources, capacity management, technology and
similar matters) and budget for the JVC;
(iii) the joint sales and business development efforts of
the JVC and the sales and business development
activities of the JVC;
(iv) the development of the JVC's "Direct to India"
business model;
(v) the business strategies, competitive landscape,
service offerings, pricing and costs of the JVC and
Cadmus Professional Communications;
(vi) the operational issues between the JVC and Cadmus
Professional Communications, both in India and the
United States;
(vii) the capital expenditure plans of the JVC; and
(viii) the overall recommendations to the Board of
Directors.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, the Management Council shall be subject to the supervision, direction
and control of the Board of Directors and shall have no right, power or
authority to amend or modify any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement or
the Facilities Management Agreement. No recommendation of the Management Council
shall be binding on the Board of Directors or the JVC unless and until it is
approved by the Board of Directors.
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(d) The JVC shall reimburse, in accordance with Cadmus
Travel Policy, Datamatics and Cadmus for any out-of-pocket costs and expenses,
including, without limitation, reasonable travel, lodging and meal costs and
expenses, incurred by their respective appointed members of the Management
Council in connection with attending Management Council meetings or otherwise
carrying out their Management Council duties.
7.3 OFFICERS. The Board of Directors shall appoint the
General Manager and such other officers of the JVC as are required by Indian
Company Law or as the Board of Directors deems appropriate.
8. FACILITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE JVC.
8.1 FACILITIES. (a) The JVC shall initially lease
facilities at Mumbai and Chennai, India.
(b) The JVC may set up additional facilities as may be
determined by the Board of Directors from time to time.
8.2 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT. DCL and the JVC
shall enter into the Facilities Management Agreement.
8.3 CAPITAL EXPENDITURES. Capital expenditures required
to run the business of the JVC shall be reviewed and recommended by the
Management Council, approved by the Board of Directors and funded through
operating cash flow, additional contributions made by the Shareholders according
to their Percentage Ownership or loans from one or more of the Shareholders.
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8.4 REFERRAL COMMISSIONS. Each of Datamatics and Cadmus
shall be entitled to referral commissions for work referred to the JVC as agreed
from time to time by Datamatics and Cadmus.
8.5 OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PARTIES. (a) Each of
Datamatics and Cadmus shall endeavor to establish the Business in India as
expeditiously as possible and contribute their respective initial share capital
as provided in Section 4.1.
(b) Datamatics shall advise and assist the JVC and Cadmus
on matters pertaining to tax, investment incentives, customs clearances and
other local laws, rules, regulations and customers.
(c) Datamatics shall provide to the JVC the technical
know-how, technical data and such other support as may be required by the JVC
for the conduct of the Business for such fee and on such other terms and
conditions as may be agreed to by Datamatics and the JVC in the Facilities
Management Agreement.
8.6 FINANCIAL YEAR. The financial accounting year of the
JVC shall be from July 1 to June 30 of the following year.
8.7 GENERAL ACCOUNTING PRACTICES. (a) The books of
account of the JVC shall be maintained in accordance with the provisions of
Indian Company Law and other applicable laws and the applicable accounting
standards. The JVC shall also maintain a set of books of account in accordance
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
(b) The JVC shall submit monthly financial statements
comprising profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements to the Board
of Directors for its perusal by the tenth (10th) day of the following month. In
case no Board meeting is scheduled on or before that day
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of the month, the financial statements shall be circulated by fax or courier
service to each Director of the JVC. The General Manager shall, before the end
of each financial year, present to the Board members for their consideration and
approval the Annual Business Plan for the following year.
8.8 AUDIT. The JVC shall initially appoint the Mumbai
office of the Indian Affiliate of Ernst & Young, LLP (the "Auditors") to carry
out the statutory audit of the books of account, records and affairs of the JVC.
At the end of each financial year, the books of account and records of the JVC
shall be examined and audited at the expense of the JVC. The Auditors shall
prepare and provide to the JVC reports stating their findings and opinions on
the results of the audit. The Parties may call for discussion of these reports
at the Board meetings.
9. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
9.1 DATAMATICS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. To induce
Cadmus to subscribe to and purchase its 80% Percentage Ownership of the
outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC and to enter into this Agreement,
Datamatics hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of Cadmus that:
(a) Datamatics is a company duly incorporated and validly
existing in good standing under Indian Company Law, and it has the corporate
power to own its property and to carry on its business as now being conducted.
(b) Datamatics has full power and authority to enter into
this Agreement, to subscribe to, purchase and own Equity Shares so as to have a
20% Percentage Ownership of the outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC and to
perform its other obligations under this Agreement, all of which have been duly
authorized by all proper and necessary corporate action by
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Datamatics. No consent or approval of stockholders or consent or approval of,
notice to or filing with any Governmental Authority is required as a condition
to the validity or enforceability of this Agreement as to Datamatics.
(c) This Agreement constitutes the valid and legally
binding agreement of Datamatics enforceable in accordance with its terms.
(d) There are no provisions of its memorandum of
association, articles of association or other organizational documents, and no
proceedings pending or threatened before any court or governmental or
administrative agency, that would reasonably be expected to affect the validity
or enforceability of this Agreement as to Datamatics or that would reasonably be
expected to materially adversely affect the financial condition or operations of
Datamatics.
(e) Datamatics is not a party to or otherwise bound by
any contract or agreement which in any manner would prohibit Datamatics from
subscribing to or owning its 20% Percentage Ownership in the JVC or performing
any of its other obligations under this Agreement.
9.2 CADMUS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. To induce
Datamatics to subscribe to and purchase its 20% Percentage Ownership of the
outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC and to enter into this Agreement, Cadmus
hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of Datamatics that:
(a) Cadmus is a corporation duly organized and validly
existing in good standing under the laws of Mauritius, and it has the corporate
power to own its property and to carry on its business as now being conducted.
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(b) Cadmus has full power and authority to enter into
this Agreement, to subscribe to, purchase and own Equity Shares so as to have a
80% Percentage Ownership of the outstanding Equity Shares of the JVC and to
perform its other obligations under this Agreement, all of which have been duly
authorized by all proper and necessary corporate action by Cadmus. No consent or
approval of stockholders or consent or approval of, notice to or filing with any
Governmental Authority is required as a condition to the validity or
enforceability of this Agreement as to Cadmus.
(c) This Agreement constitutes the valid and legally
binding agreement of Cadmus enforceable in accordance with its terms.
(d) There are no provisions of its organizational
documents, and no proceedings pending or threatened before any court or
governmental or administrative agency, that would reasonably be expected to
affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement as to Cadmus or that
would reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the financial
condition or operations of Cadmus.
(e) Cadmus is not a party to or otherwise bound by any
contract or agreement which in any manner would prohibit Cadmus from subscribing
to or owning its 80% Percentage Ownership in the JVC or performing any of its
other obligations under this Agreement.
9.3 SURVIVAL. All representations and warranties set
forth in this Section 9 are made at and as of the date of this Agreement and
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
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10. PROTECTION OF JVC PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.
10.1 DATAMATICS' AGREEMENTS. (a) Datamatics acknowledges
that, in connection with providing Management Services to the JVC under the
Facilities Management Agreement and being a Shareholder of the JVC, the JVC may
disclose to Datamatics or one or more of its Affiliates, and Datamatics or one
or more of its Affiliates may assist in developing, JVC Proprietary Information,
including, without limitation, the JVC Intellectual Property. Datamatics further
acknowledges the confidential nature and competitive value of the JVC
Proprietary Information disclosed or to be disclosed by the JVC to Datamatics or
one or more of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, the JVC
Proprietary Information relating to Cadmus Professional Communications and the
JVC's other customers. Datamatics agrees that (i) the use of any such JVC
Proprietary Information by Datamatics or any of its Affiliates for any purpose
other than providing the Management Services to the JVC under the Facilities
Management Agreement or managing its investment in the JVC or (ii) the
disclosure or divulgence of any such JVC Proprietary Information to third
Persons would result in damages to and otherwise adversely affect the business
and affairs of the JVC.
(b) Datamatics agrees that (i) access to the JVC
Proprietary Information disclosed by the JVC shall be limited to Datamatics'
managers who are responsible for managing Datamatics' investment in the JVC and
employees of DCL who have a need to know such information in order to provide
the Management Services to the JVC under the Facilities Management Agreement and
who have executed an agreement satisfactory to the JVC relating to
confidentiality and the assignment of intellectual property rights in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit F, and (ii) Datamatics and its Affiliates shall use
the JVC Proprietary Information solely
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as necessary to manage the JVC and/or provide such Management Services to the
JVC, as applicable.
(c) Datamatics shall keep, and shall cause its Affiliates
and its and their respective employees to keep, the JVC Proprietary Information
disclosed by the JVC to Datamatics or its Affiliates strictly confidential, and
Datamatics shall not disclose or divulge, or permit any of its Affiliates or any
of its or their respective employees to disclose or divulge, to any third Person
any such JVC Proprietary Information now or hereafter disclosed to or otherwise
obtained by Datamatics or its Affiliates, without the prior written consent of
the JVC.
(d) Upon the termination of this Agreement and the
Facilities Management Agreement, Datamatics agrees that (i) neither Datamatics
nor any of its Affiliates nor any of its or their respective employees shall,
without the prior written consent of the JVC, use any JVC Proprietary
Information thereafter for any purpose, (ii) all JVC Proprietary Information,
including, without limitation, all copies, abstracts and extracts thereof, shall
be returned to the JVC and not retained by Datamatics or any of its Affiliates
or any of its or their employees in any form or for any reason, and (iii) any
and all analyses, compilations, studies and other documents based on or
including any such JVC Proprietary Information prepared by Datamatics or any of
its Affiliates or any of its or their employees for internal use shall be
promptly destroyed. At the request of the JVC, Datamatics shall provide to the
JVC a written warranty certificate signed by the President (or equivalent
officer) of Datamatics to the effect that Datamatics and its Affiliates have
complied with clauses (ii) and (iii) immediately above.
10.2 CADMUS' AGREEMENTS. (a) Cadmus acknowledges that, in
connection with being a Shareholder of the JVC, the JVC may disclose to Cadmus
JVC Proprietary Information, including, without limitation, the JVC Intellectual
Property. Cadmus further
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acknowledges the confidential nature and competitive value of the JVC
Proprietary Information disclosed or to be disclosed by the JVC to Cadmus.
Cadmus agrees that (i) the use of any such JVC Proprietary Information by Cadmus
for any purpose other than managing its investment in the JVC, or (ii) the
disclosure or divulgence of any such JVC Proprietary Information to third
Persons would result in damages to and otherwise adversely affect the business
and affairs of the JVC.
(b) Cadmus agrees that (i) access to the JVC Proprietary
Information disclosed by the JVC shall be limited to Cadmus' managers who are
responsible for managing Cadmus' investment in the JVC and Cadmus Professional
Communication's employees who have a need to know such information in connection
with the Content Services Agreement and who have executed an agreement
satisfactory to the JVC relating to confidentiality and the assignment of
intellectual property rights, and (ii) Cadmus and its employees shall use the
JVC Proprietary Information solely as necessary to manage the JVC and/or in
connection with the Content Services Agreement, as applicable.
(c) Cadmus shall keep, and shall cause its employees to
keep, the JVC Proprietary Information disclosed by the JVC to Cadmus strictly
confidential, and Cadmus shall not disclose or divulge, or permit any of its
employees to disclose or divulge, to any third Person any such JVC Proprietary
Information now or hereafter disclosed to or otherwise obtained by Cadmus,
without the prior written consent of the JVC.
10.3 VIOLATIONS; REMEDIES. (a) Datamatics acknowledges and
agrees that any violation by it or any of its Affiliates or any of its or their
respective employees of any of the provisions set forth in Section 10.1 would
result in irreparable harm and injuries to the JVC, and Datamatics therefore
also acknowledges and agrees that, in the event of any such violation, the
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JVC shall be entitled to obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction
preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, damages and an accounting of all
earnings and profits received by Datamatics or its Affiliates as a result of or
in connection with such violation and to exercise all other rights and remedies
to which the JVC may be entitled in connection therewith.
(b) Cadmus acknowledges and agrees that any violation by
it or any of its employees of any of the provisions set forth in Section 10.2
would result in irreparable harm and injuries to the JVC, and Cadmus therefore
also acknowledges and agrees that, in the event of any such violation, the JVC
shall be entitled to obtain from any court of competent jurisdiction preliminary
and permanent injunctive relief, damages and an accounting of all earnings and
profits received by Cadmus or its Affiliates as a result of or in connection
with such violation and to exercise all other rights and remedies to which the
JVC may be entitled in connection therewith.
11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
11.1 JVC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. As between the JVC on the
one hand and Datamatics and Cadmus on the other, the JVC shall retain full and
exclusive rights to and ownership of all JVC Intellectual Property, including,
without limitation, full and exclusive rights to and ownership of all related
copyrights and other intellectual property rights and full and exclusive rights
to license, market, assign and modify all such JVC Intellectual Property.
Datamatics and Cadmus acknowledge and agree that, except for any rights granted
in the Content Services Agreement and any other rights granted in a written
agreement signed by the JVC, Datamatics and Cadmus have and shall have no rights
in or to any of the JVC Intellectual Property.
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11.2 DATAMATICS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. As between
Datamatics on the one hand and the JVC and Cadmus on the other, Datamatics shall
retain full and exclusive rights to and ownership of all Datamatics Intellectual
Property, including, without limitation, full and exclusive rights to and
ownership of all related copyrights and other intellectual property rights and
full and exclusive rights to license, market, assign and modify all such
Datamatics Intellectual Property. The JVC and Cadmus acknowledge and agree that,
except for the rights granted in the Facilities Management Agreement and any
other rights granted in a written agreement signed by Datamatics, the JVC and
Cadmus have and shall have no rights in or to any of the Datamatics Intellectual
Property.
11.3 CADMUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. As between Cadmus on
the one hand and the JVC and Datamatics on the other, Cadmus shall retain full
and exclusive rights to and ownership of all Cadmus Intellectual Property,
including, without limitation, full and exclusive rights to and ownership of all
related copyrights and other intellectual property rights and full and exclusive
rights to license, market, assign and modify all such Cadmus Intellectual
Property. The JVC and Datamatics acknowledge and agree that, except for the
rights granted in the License Agreement and the Content Services Agreement and
any other rights granted in a written agreement signed by Cadmus, the JVC and
Datamatics have and shall have no rights in or to any of the Cadmus Intellectual
Property.
12. EXCLUSIVITY PROVISIONS.
12.1 AGREEMENTS OF DATAMATICS. As specific consideration
for Cadmus' agreement to subscribe to its 80% Percentage Ownership in the JVC
and to enter into this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged:
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(a) Datamatics agrees that, while this Agreement
continues in effect (and thereafter to the extent provided in Section 12.3),
without the prior written consent of Cadmus, neither Datamatics nor any of its
Affiliates shall, directly or indirectly, provide or perform to or for any of
the Direct Competitors or to or for any other STM publisher any keyboarding,
data conversion, *ML, editorial production or composition services or any other
services of the type (or similar to the type) now or hereafter provided to
Cadmus Professional Communications by the JVC under the Content Services
Agreement or any successor agreement (collectively, the "Prohibited Services").
In addition, while this Agreement continues in effect (and thereafter to the
extent provided in Section 12.3), without the prior written consent of Cadmus,
neither Datamatics nor any of its Affiliates shall, directly or indirectly,
provide or perform to or for any other society, association, commercial
publisher or other Person any Prohibited Services with respect to STM Content.
(b) In addition, Datamatics agrees that, while this
Agreement continues in effect (and thereafter to the extent provided in Section
12.3), without the prior written consent of Cadmus, neither Datamatics nor any
of its Affiliates shall, directly or indirectly, provide or perform any
Prohibited Services for any Cadmus Customer.
12.2 AGREEMENTS OF CADMUS. As specific consideration for
Datamatics' agreement to subscribe to its 20% Percentage Ownership in the JVC
and to enter into this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged:
(a) Cadmus agrees that, while this Agreement continues in
effect, without the prior written consent of Datamatics, neither Cadmus nor any
of its Affiliates shall, directly or indirectly, establish, or enter into any
agreement or arrangement with any third Person pursuant
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to which such third Person would establish for Cadmus, an offshore production
facility in India to provide or perform for Cadmus any keyboarding, data
conversion, *ML, editorial production and composition services or any services
identical or similar to those services provided to Cadmus Professional
Communications by the JVC under the Content Services Agreement, to the extent
that any such action would have a material adverse effect or a material adverse
impact on the business operations of the JVC.
(b) In addition, Cadmus agrees that, while this Agreement
continues in effect, without the prior written consent of Datamatics, neither
Cadmus nor any of its Affiliates shall outsource outside of North America any
keyboarding, data conversion, *ML, editorial production and composition services
identical or similar to those services provided to Cadmus Professional
Communications by the JVC under the Content Services Agreement, to the extent
that any such outsourcing would have a material adverse effect or a material
adverse impact on the business operations of the JVC.
12.3 POST-TERMINATION EXCLUSIVITY. In the event that this
Agreement is terminated because Datamatics exercises the Put Option under
Section 5.3(a) or the Accelerated Put Option under Section 5.3(b) or because
Cadmus exercises its right to purchase Datamatics' Percentage Ownership under
Section 14.1 because of a Datamatics Default, (i) the restrictions set forth in
Section 12.1 shall remain in full force and effect for a period of two (2) year
after the effective date of such termination of this Agreement.
12.4 PERMITTED SERVICES. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Section 12, Datamatics shall have the right to
continue to provide services to the Datamatics Existing STM Customers, as long
as neither the type of services nor the volume of services provided by
Datamatics to any Datamatics Existing STM Customer is expanded or
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increased in any material respect, and as long as Datamatics uses commercially
reasonable efforts to transfer to the JVC any work relating to STM Content for
Datamatics Existing STM Customers as promptly as possible (it being understood
and agreed that Datamatics shall not be in violation of this Agreement in the
event that a Datamatics Existing STM Customer decides to maintain its existing
work with Datamatics despite Datamatics' commercially reasonable efforts to
transfer the applicable work to the JVC).
13. GENERAL MUTUAL INDEMNIFICATION.
13.1 INDEMNIFICATION BY DATAMATICS. (a) Datamatics agrees
that it shall indemnify, defend and hold the JVC and Cadmus and their respective
Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, successors and assigns
harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses
(including reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the JVC, Cadmus or any such
other indemnified Person for counsel of its choice) which are incurred by the
JVC, Cadmus or any such other indemnified Person as a result of or in connection
with (i) any representation or warranty made by Datamatics hereunder being
untrue or incorrect and/or (ii) Datamatics' failure to comply with any of the
other terms, conditions or agreements contained herein.
(b) Other than damages, costs and expenses incurred as a
result of or in connection with (i) Datamatics' failure to comply with any of
the terms, conditions or agreements contained in Sections 10.1, 11 or 12.1, or
(ii) the fraud, willful misconduct or gross negligence of Datamatics (which
damages, costs and expenses are not subject to the limitation of liability set
forth in this Section 13.1(b)), Datamatics' liability for damages, costs and
expenses under this Section 13.1 shall in no event exceed US $1,000,000 in the
aggregate.
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13.2 INDEMNIFICATION BY CADMUS. (a) Cadmus agrees that it
shall indemnify, defend and hold the JVC and Datamatics and their respective
Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, successors and assigns
harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs and expenses
(including reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the JVC, Datamatics or any
such other indemnified Person for counsel of its choice) which are incurred by
the JVC, Datamatics or any such other indemnified Person as a result of or in
connection with (i) any representation or warranty made by Cadmus hereunder
being untrue or incorrect and/or (ii) Cadmus' failure to comply with any of the
other terms, conditions or agreements contained herein.
(b) Other than damages, costs and expenses incurred as a
result of or in connection with (i) Cadmus' failure to comply with any of the
terms, conditions or agreements contained in Sections 10.2, 11 or 12.2, or (ii)
the fraud, willful misconduct or gross negligence of Cadmus (which damages,
costs and expenses are not subject to the limitation of liability set forth in
this Section 13.2(b)), Cadmus' liability for damages, costs and expenses under
this Section 13.2 shall in no event exceed US $1,000,000 in the aggregate.
14. DEFAULT; REMEDIES.
14.1 DATAMATICS DEFAULT. (a) Each of the following shall
constitute a "Datamatics Default" under this Agreement:
(i) Datamatics violates any of its agreements or
obligations under Sections 10.1, 11 or 12.1, and such
violation is not cured within ten (10) days after
Datamatics receives written notice thereof from
Cadmus;
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(ii) Datamatics violates any of its other material
agreements under this Agreement or fails to perform
any of its other material obligations under this
Agreement, and such violation or failure is not cured
within forty-five (45) days after Datamatics receives
written notice thereof from Cadmus; or
(iii) Datamatics shall be generally not paying its debts as
such debts become due, shall become insolvent or
unable to meet its obligations as they mature, shall
make an assignment for the benefit of creditors,
shall consent to the appointment of a trustee or a
receiver, shall admit in writing its inability to pay
its debts as they mature, or shall commence or have
commenced against it any bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, liquidation or similar proceedings.
(b) Upon the occurrence of a Datamatics Default, in
addition to the other rights and remedies available to it, Cadmus shall have the
right to exercise, at Cadmus' option and sole discretion, any or all of the
following rights and remedies at the same or different times:
(i) to suspend or terminate all of Datamatics' rights and
privileges under Section 5.1(b), Section 5.3 and the
second sentence of Section 7.1(f) by giving written
notice to Datamatics;
(ii) to require Datamatics and/or its Affiliates to sell
to Cadmus or, at the election of Cadmus, an Affiliate
or designee of Cadmus all of the Equity Shares owned
by Datamatics and its Affiliates for (A) the
Datamatics Default Purchase Price if the Datamatics
Default occurs on or before June 30, 2006, or (B) the
Put/Call Purchase Price if the Datamatics Default
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occurs after June 30, 2006, in either case payable in
cash; and, in the event Cadmus exercises its rights
under this Section 14.1(b)(ii), Datamatics and Cadmus
and/or their respective Affiliates, as applicable,
shall execute and enter into all such transfer
documents and take all such other actions as Cadmus
may reasonably require to effect such sale; and/or
(iii) subject to the limitation imposed by Section 13.1(b),
if any, to collect from Datamatics all direct damages
incurred by the JVC or Cadmus or any of their
respective Affiliates as a result of the Datamatics
Default.
14.2 CADMUS DEFAULT. (a) Each of the following shall
constitute a "Cadmus Default" under this Agreement:
(i) Cadmus violates any of its agreements or obligations
under Sections 10.2, 11 or 12.2, and such violation
is not cured within ten (10) days after Cadmus
receives written notice thereof from Datamatics;
(ii) Cadmus violates any of its other material agreements
under this Agreement or fails to perform any of its
other material obligations under this Agreement, and
such violation or failure is not cured within
forty-five (45) days after Cadmus receives written
notice thereof from Datamatics; or
(iii) Cadmus shall be generally not paying its debts as
such debts become due, shall become insolvent or
unable to meet its obligations as they mature, shall
make an assignment for the benefit of creditors,
shall consent to the appointment of a trustee or a
receiver, shall admit in writing its inability to
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pay its debts as they mature, or shall commence or
have commenced against it any bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or similar
proceedings.
(b) Upon the occurrence of a Cadmus Default, in addition
to the other rights and remedies available to it, Datamatics shall have the
right to exercise, at Datamatics' option and sole discretion, any or both of the
following rights and remedies at the same or different times:
(i) to require Cadmus or, at the election of Cadmus, an
Affiliate or designee of Cadmus to purchase from
Datamatics and/or its Affiliates all of the Equity
Shares owned by Datamatics and its Affiliates for (A)
the Cadmus Default Purchase Price if the Cadmus
Default occurs on or before June 30, 2006, or (B) the
Put/Call Purchase Price if the Cadmus Default occurs
after June 30, 2006, in either case payable in cash;
and, in the event Datamatics exercises its rights
under this Section 14.2(b)(i), Datamatics and Cadmus
and/or their respective Affiliates, as applicable,
shall execute and enter into all such transfer
documents and take all such other actions as
Datamatics may reasonably require to effect such
sale; and/or
(ii) subject to the limitations imposed by Section
13.2(b), if any, to collect from Cadmus all direct
damages incurred by Datamatics or any of its
Affiliates as a result of the Cadmus Default.
15. TERMINATION.
15.1 TERMINATION EVENTS. This Agreement shall terminate as
follows:
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(a) In the event that Datamatics exercises the Put Option
under Section 5.3(a) or the Accelerated Put Option under Section 5.3(b), this
Agreement shall terminate on the applicable Put/Call Closing Date;
(b) In the event that Cadmus exercises the Call Option
under Section 5.4, this Agreement shall terminate on the applicable Put/Call
Closing Date;
(c) In the event that Cadmus acquires all Equity Shares
held by Datamatics and/or its Affiliates as a result of a Datamatics Default
under Section 14.1, this Agreement shall terminate on the date on which the
Equity Shares held by Datamatics and/or its Affiliates are transferred to Cadmus
or its Affiliate under Section 14.1(b)(ii); and
(d) In the event that Cadmus acquires all Equity Shares
held by Datamatics and/or its Affiliates as a result of a Cadmus Default under
Section 14.2, this Agreement shall terminate on the date on which the Equity
Shares held by Datamatics and its Affiliates are transferred to Cadmus under
Section 14.2(b)(i).
15.2 RESIGNATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. Upon the
termination of this Agreement, Datamatics shall cause the members of the Board
of Directors and the Management Council which it has appointed to resign from
their respective positions.
15.3 SURVIVAL. Sections 10, 11, 12.3, 13, 15.2, 16 and 17
and the Parties' respective rights and obligations thereunder shall survive the
termination of this Agreement.
16. DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
16.1 GENERAL. Datamatics and Cadmus agree to use their
commercially reasonable efforts to resolve any dispute, conflict, disagreement,
controversy or claim between the Parties arising out of or relating to this
Agreement (a "Dispute") in a timely and diligent
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manner in accordance with this Section 16. Datamatics and Cadmus intend that the
arbitration procedures outlined in Section 16.4 are to be used only if the
efforts by the Parties to resolve a Dispute under Section 16.2 and Section 16.3
are unsuccessful.
16.2 MANAGEMENT COUNCIL; DESIGNATED EXECUTIVES. Any
Dispute shall be initially referred to the Management Council for resolution; it
being specifically understood and agreed that any resolution of a Dispute
recommended by the Management Council shall not be binding on either Party
unless agreed to in writing by both Parties. Either Party may give the other
Party written notice of any Dispute not resolved in the normal course of
business by the Management Council. Within ten (10) days after receipt of such a
written notice, the receiving Party shall submit to the other Party a written
response. The initial notice and the response shall include (a) a statement of
the applicable Party's position and a summary of arguments supporting its
position, and (b) the name and title of the executive who shall represent that
Party in attempting to resolve the Dispute. Within ten (10) days after receipt
of the receiving Party's response, the designated executives of both Parties
shall meet at a mutually acceptable time and place, and thereafter, as often as
they reasonably deem necessary, to attempt to resolve the Dispute. All
reasonable requests for information made by one Party to the other Party shall
be honored.
16.3 SENIOR MANAGEMENT. If a Dispute is not resolved to
the mutual satisfaction of the Parties under Section 16.2 within thirty (30)
days, either Party may escalate the Dispute to Senior Management by giving
written notice to the other Party of its desire to do so. Within ten (10) days
after receipt of such a written notice, the receiving Party shall submit to the
other a written response. The initial notice and the response shall include a
statement of the applicable Party's position. Within ten (10) days after receipt
of the receiving Party's response,
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the Senior Management of both Parties shall meet at a mutually acceptable time
and place, and thereafter, as often as they reasonably deem necessary, to
attempt to resolve the Dispute. All reasonable requests for information made by
one Party to the other Party shall be honored. Senior Management shall take such
steps as are mutually agreeable to attempt to resolve such Dispute. If the
Dispute is not resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the Parties by Senior
Management within thirty (30) days after it has been referred to Senior
Management, either Party may require that the Dispute be resolved by binding
arbitration as provided in Section 16.4.
16.4 BINDING ARBITRATION. (a) Except as otherwise
specifically provided in Section 16.5, any Dispute which is not resolved under
the procedures established in Sections 16.2 and 16.3 shall be resolved by
binding arbitration in accordance with the Arbitration Rules. Datamatics and
Cadmus agree that
(i) the number of arbitrators shall be one;
(ii) the arbitrator shall be selected from a panel of
arbitrators in accordance with the Arbitration Rules;
(iii) the arbitration proceedings, and any hearings in
connection therewith, shall be held at London, United
Kingdom and each Party irrevocably (A) submits to the
jurisdiction of London, United Kingdom for such
arbitration proceedings and hearings, (B) waives any
objection which it may have to the venue of such
arbitration proceedings and hearings at London,
United Kingdom, (C) waives any claim that such
arbitration proceedings and hearings have been
brought in an inconvenient forum and (D) waives the
right to object, with respect to such arbitration
proceedings
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and hearings, that such arbitrator does not have
jurisdiction over such Party;
(iv) the language of the arbitration shall be English;
(v) the Arbitration Rules shall govern the procedural
elements of any arbitration;
(vi) the laws of India shall govern the substantive
elements of any arbitration;
(vii) the judgment upon the award rendered by the
arbitrator may be entered in any court having
jurisdiction;
(viii) the arbitrator may award attorneys' fees and costs to
the prevailing Party and may assess the
administrative fees and costs of the proceeding in
the award;
(ix) the arbitrator is not empowered to award punitive
damages or any damages in excess of compensatory
damages, and each Party hereby irrevocably waives any
right to recover such damages with respect to any
Dispute resolved by arbitration; and
(x) the Parties may modify the provisions of this Section
16.4 and/or may supercede the Arbitration Rules, in
either case, as mutually agreed in writing by the
Parties.
(b) With respect to any arbitration proceeding under this
Section 16.4, each Party agrees that either Party may approach a court of
competent jurisdiction to obtain temporary injunctive relief in aid of
arbitration. Any such suit, action or proceeding may be brought by
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either Party either prior to the initiation of or during any arbitration
proceeding brought by either Party under this Section 16.4.
(c) Similarly, either Party may approach any court of
competent jurisdiction to enforce this Section 16.4.
16.5 EXCEPTION TO ARBITRATION. (a) In addition,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 16 or
elsewhere in this Agreement, Datamatics and Cadmus hereby agree that Cadmus may
at any time enforce its rights and remedies under Section 10.3(a) above, Section
11 above and/or Section 12 above in an appropriate suit, action or other
proceeding brought or initiated by Cadmus in any court in India having
jurisdiction over Datamatics. Any such suit, action or other proceeding may be
brought by Cadmus either prior to the initiation of or during any arbitration
proceeding brought by either Party under Section 16.4.
(b) With respect to any suit, action or proceeding
described in Section 16.5(a) above brought or initiated by Cadmus, (i) each
Party irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the applicable
Indian court, and (ii) each Party irrevocably waives any objection which it may
have to the venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought or initiated by
Cadmus in any such court; irrevocably waives any claim that any such suit,
action or proceeding brought or initiated by Cadmus in any such court has been
brought in an inconvenient forum and irrevocably waives the right to object,
with respect to any such suit, action or proceeding brought or initiated by
Cadmus in any such court, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such
Party.
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17. MISCELLANEOUS.
17.1 RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARTIES. The relationship of the
Parties under and in relation to this Agreement shall be limited to the matters
contained herein and what is provided by law as the liability of a shareholder
in a company, and nothing provided herein shall be considered or interpreted as
constituting the relationship of the Parties as a partnership, association or
other relationship in which either Party may be liable for the acts or omissions
of the other Party, nor shall anything contained herein be interpreted or
considered as constituting either Party as the agent of the other Party.
17.2 PUBLICITY. Neither Party shall issue any press
release or make any other public statement concerning this Agreement, the JVC or
the relationship between the Parties; or prepare, use or distribute any
marketing materials describing this Agreement, the JVC or the relationship
between the Parties, without prior consultation with and prior approval of the
other Party, which prior approval of the other Party shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed.
17.3 LIMITATION OF DAMAGES. Neither Party shall be
responsible to the other Party for any consequential, punitive, incidental or
special damages, and each Party hereby irrevocably waives any right it would
otherwise have to collect any such damages.
17.4 FORCE MAJEURE. Neither Datamatics nor Cadmus shall be
liable for any delay in its performance hereunder to the extent caused by wars,
riots, civil disorders, accidents, fire, floods, acts of God, strikes or labor
troubles, or any action of any Governmental Authority, or other causes beyond
the reasonable control of such Party.
17.5 FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. Datamatics and Cadmus
hereby agree to comply with and meet the standards of conduct required by, and
to cause the JVC to comply with
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and meet the standards of conduct required by, the provisions of United States
Public Law 95-213, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and any amendments
thereto ("FCPA"). Datamatics and Cadmus specifically understand and agree that
they shall not make, nor permit the JVC to make, any offer, payment, promise to
pay, or authorization of the payment of any money, or offer, gift, promise to
give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value, to any governmental
official, any political party or official thereof, any candidate for political
office, any official of a public international organization, or any other
Person, that is contrary to the prohibitions set forth in the FCPA.
17.6 NOTICES. All communications, notices and disclosures
required or permitted by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed
to have been given on the earlier of the date (a) when delivered personally, by
messenger, by overnight delivery service or otherwise, or (b) when received via
facsimile, telex or other electronic transmission, in all cases addressed to the
Party to which it is intended at its address or telefacsimile number set forth
below, unless and until a Party notifies the other Party in writing of a change:
If to Datamatics:
Datamatics Technologies Limited
Unit 117-120, SDF IV, SEEPZ
Andheri (E)
Mumbai 400 096
India
Attn: Mr. Manish H. Modi
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: 91-22-5697-1101
Telefacsimile: 91 22-5697-1102
E-mail: Manish_Modi@datamatics.com
If to Cadmus:
Cadmus KnowledgeWorks International Ltd.
c/o Cadmus Communications Corporation
1801 Bayberry Court, Suite 200
56
Richmond, Virginia 23226
United States
Attn: Mr. Stephen E. Hare
President, Publisher Services Group
Telephone: 804-287-5685
Telefacsimile: 804-287-5683
E-mail: hares@cadmus.com
17.7 GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with and governed by the laws of India, without regard to its
conflict of laws provisions.
17.8 GOVERNMENTAL APPROVALS. Any action contemplated under
the terms of this Agreement which requires any Governmental Approval shall be
subject to such Governmental Approval, and the Parties agree to use commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain such Governmental Approval.
17.9 MODIFICATIONS. No modification, amendment or waiver
of any provision of this Agreement shall in any event be effective unless it is
in writing and signed by both Parties hereto.
17.10 BINDING AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENT. This Agreement shall
be binding on and inure to the benefit of Datamatics and Cadmus and their
respective successors and assigns. Neither Party may assign this Agreement or
any rights or licenses granted to it hereunder without the prior written consent
of the other Party, except that Cadmus may assign all of its rights and
obligations under this Agreement to any direct or indirect subsidiary of Cadmus
Communications Corporation. Any purported assignment in contravention of this
Section 17.10 shall be null and void and of no force or effect.
17.11 SEVERABILITY. If at any time any provision hereof
shall become or be declared illegal or invalid or unenforceable for any reason
whatsoever, that provision shall be severable from this Agreement, without
affecting or impairing the legality, validity or
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enforceability of any of the remaining provisions, but if such severance would
substantially affect the commercial basis of this Agreement, the Parties shall
negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement as may be necessary or
desirable in the circumstances.
17.12 EXPENSES. Unless otherwise agreed to in writing by
the Parties, each Party shall bear all of its own costs and expenses incurred in
the negotiation, execution and performance of this Agreement; provided that all
reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Parties directly related to the
incorporation of the JVC shall be reimbursed by the JVC.
17.13 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by different Parties hereto in separate counterparts,
each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original
and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same agreement.
17.14 LANGUAGE. This Agreement is written and executed in
English only.
17.15 OTHER ARRANGEMENTS. (a) It is recorded and each of
the Parties hereby agrees and in particular Datamatics by execution hereof
covenants that it is a term of this Agreement that Cadmus shall at all times
during and after the term of this Agreement be entitled to enter into similar,
analogous and/or other arrangements with any third Person in India. Further and
in consideration of Cadmus executing this Agreement and agreeing to fulfill its
obligations in terms hereof Datamatics represents and confirms that it would
have no objection to Cadmus entering into similar, analogous and/or other
arrangements in India with other Persons and/or to Cadmus making any investments
in the share capital of companies in India engaged in any activity whatsoever
including without limitation in activities that may be in the same or allied
fields as the business of Datamatics and/or the JVC as extant as of the date
hereof and at any time subsequent hereto. Further, Datamatics hereby covenants
and undertakes that in the
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event that at any time subsequent to the execution of this Agreement Cadmus
requires a certification/confirmation in writing reiterating the terms of the
preceding sentence Datamatics shall forthwith and without demur or delay issue
such a certification/confirmation, in writing.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Agreement, Datamatics and Cadmus acknowledge and agree that Section 12.2
shall take precedence over Section 17.15(a), and, in the event that there is any
inconsistency between the terms of Section 12.2 and the terms of Section
17.15(a), the terms of Section 12.2 shall govern and control.
17.16 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement (including the
Exhibits and Schedules hereto) constitutes the entire agreement between
Datamatics and Cadmus with respect to the subject matter hereto.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Datamatics and Cadmus have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their duly authorized officers.
DATAMATICS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
By:
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Its:
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CADMUS KNOWLEDGEWORKS
INTERNATIONAL LTD.
By:
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Its:
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EXHIBIT A
CONTENT SERVICES AGREEMENT
THIS CONTENT SERVICES AGREEMENT is made and entered into this 30th day
of June, 2003, by and between KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED, a company
incorporated in India under the Companies Act, 1956 having its Registered Office
at Knowledge Centre, Street No. 17, MIDC, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 093, India
(hereinafter referred to as "KGL," which expression shall unless repugnant to
the context thereof mean and include its successors and assigns) of the One
Part, and CADMUS JOURNAL SERVICES, INC., a corporation organized under the laws
of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States of America having its principal
place of business at 1801 Bayberry Court, Suite 200, Richmond, Virginia 23226
(hereinafter referred to as "Cadmus," which expression shall unless repugnant to
the context thereof mean and include its successors and assigns) of the Other
Part.
BACKGROUND:
A. KGL is an Indian company in the business of providing content
management, content processing and other services.
B. Cadmus is a producer of scientific, technical, medical and
professional information products, including journals, books, trade magazines
and online products, which provides a full complement of editorial, composition,
content management, prepress, press, finishing and electronic services to its
customers.
C. KGL and Cadmus have agreed that KGL will provide certain
content management, content processing and other services to Cadmus as provided
in this Agreement.
AGREEMENT:
Accordingly, in consideration of the mutual promises and agreements
contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, KGL and Cadmus agree as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS. The following capitalized terms when used in
this Agreement will have the meanings assigned to them in this Section 1:
1.1 "CADMUS" means Cadmus Journal Services, Inc., a
Virginia corporation.
1.2 "CADMUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means any and all
computer software, programs and applications (including applicable object codes
and source codes), inventions, copyrights, copyright applications, patents,
patent rights and licenses, patent applications, trademarks, trademark rights,
trade names, trade name rights, servicemarks, servicemark rights, trade secrets,
developments, methods, processes, ideas, works, concepts, know-how and other
intellectual property now or hereafter owned by or licensed to Cadmus or any of
its subsidiaries or affiliates.
1.3 "CADMUS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION" means any
Proprietary Information of Cadmus or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates
disclosed to KGL or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates under or in connection
with the Services provided hereunder or this Agreement. "Cadmus Proprietary
Information" includes Rapid Review, the other Cadmus Intellectual Property and
the Developed Intellectual Property.
1.4 "DEVELOPED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means any and all
computer software, programs and applications (including applicable object codes
and source codes), inventions, copyrights, copyright applications, patents,
patent rights and licenses, patent
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applications, trademarks, trademark rights, trade names, trade name rights,
servicemarks, servicemark rights, trade secrets, developments, methods,
processes, ideas, works, concepts, know-how and other intellectual property
developed, created or reduced to practice by either party, whether alone or in
cooperation with the other party or other Persons, as a result of or in
connection with the Services provided under this Agreement or otherwise as a
result of or in connection with this Agreement.
1.5 "DPS FACILITIES" means Cadmus' DPS facilities in the
United States, currently located in Richmond, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland and
Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
1.6 "KGL" means KnowledgeWorks Global Private Limited, an
Indian company, which will be converted to a public limited company which will
thereafter be known under the name and style of KnowledgeWorks Global Limited.
1.7 "KGL FACILITIES" will have the meaning assigned
thereto in Section 3.1 below.
1.8 "KGL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means any and all
computer software, programs and applications (including applicable object codes
and source codes), inventions, copyrights, copyright applications, patents,
patent rights and licenses, patent applications, trademarks, trademark rights,
trade names, trade name rights, servicemarks, servicemark rights, trade secrets,
developments, methods, processes, ideas, works, concepts, know-how and other
intellectual property now or hereafter owned by or licensed to KGL or any of its
subsidiaries or affiliates.
1.9 "PERFORMANCE STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS" will have
the meaning assigned thereto in Section 4 below.
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1.10 "PERSON" means an individual (including an employee
of KGL), corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association,
trust, business trust, joint venture, joint stock company, pool, syndicate, sole
proprietorship, unincorporated organization, governmental authority or other
form of entity or group thereof.
1.11 "PROPRIETARY INFORMATION" means any confidential or
proprietary information of the disclosing party, including, without limitation,
the Cadmus Intellectual Property, the KGL Intellectual Property, the Developed
Intellectual Property and any other confidential or proprietary information
relating to (i) customers, suppliers, products or services; (ii) prices or
pricing policies, sales margins or discounts; (iii) marketing plans, methods or
objectives; (iv) organization or capital structure, financial performance,
business plans or initiatives or strategy; (v) product technologies, project
plans, data models, systems design, methodology, processes, competitive
advantages and disadvantages, operating procedures and product features; and
(vi) any other matter which is generally regarded as confidential or proprietary
in any industry or other business engaged in by the disclosing party, which
would give the receiving party an opportunity to gain an advantage over its
competitors or which the disclosing party informs the receiving party that the
disclosing party considers confidential or proprietary. Proprietary Information
may be oral, written or pictorial and may be in the form of computerized or
other electronic data. Proprietary Information will not include information the
receiving party can clearly establish was (i) in the public domain at the time
of disclosure; (ii) published or otherwise part of the public domain after
disclosure other than by breach of this Agreement by the receiving party; (iii)
already known by the receiving party at the time of disclosure and not acquired,
directly or indirectly, from the disclosing party or anyone on behalf of the
disclosing party; or (iv) lawfully provided to the receiving party by a third
Person which
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did not require the receiving party to hold the same in confidence and which did
not acquire such information, directly or indirectly, from the disclosing party
or anyone on behalf of the disclosing party.
1.12 "RAPID REVIEW" means Cadmus' proprietary on-line
manuscript submission and peer review system known as "Rapid Review."
1.13 "SERVICES" will have the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 2.1 below.
2. SERVICES.
2.1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES. (a) KGL and Cadmus
agree that, during the term of this Agreement, KGL will provide to Cadmus the
content management and content processing services described in this Agreement
as requested by Cadmus from time to time (the "Services"). The Services will
include keyboarding, data conversion, *ML, editorial production and composition
services.
(b) The Services will be provided to Cadmus by KGL using
the workflows and other processes and procedures agreed to by KGL and Cadmus
from time to time.
(c) KGL and Cadmus agree that Cadmus will not be required
to provide any specified minimum volume of work to KGL under this Agreement.
2.2 INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. (a) For all purposes of this
Agreement and the performance of the Services hereunder, KGL is and will remain
an independent contractor. Nothing contained in this Agreement is intended or
should be construed to make or constitute KGL or any of its employees an
employee or agent of Cadmus or a partner or joint venture with Cadmus. Cadmus is
interested only in the results of the work to be performed by KGL under
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this Agreement, and KGL will have responsibility for the manner and means by
which such work is accomplished.
(b) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, KGL
and Cadmus acknowledge and agreed that (i) Cadmus will not be withholding any
federal, state, local, social security or other taxes from any payments due to
KGL, (ii) KGL is solely responsible for the payment of all such taxes, and (iii)
neither KGL nor any of its employees will be covered by or otherwise eligible
for any benefits, including without limitation, employment insurance and
workers' compensation insurance, that Cadmus provides to its employees.
(c) KGL and Cadmus further acknowledge and agree that
neither party has any authority to make any representation or warranty on behalf
of the other party, to enter into any contract or agreement on behalf of the
other party, or to make any binding commitment or assume any binding obligation
on behalf of the other party.
3. KGL FACILITIES.
3.1 GENERAL. (a) KGL and Cadmus agree that KGL will
provide the Services from KGL's facilities in India (the "KGL Facilities"). It
is the intent of the parties that the KGL Facilities will to a great extent
operationally replicate a DPS Facility as operated by Cadmus in the United
States, with such changes as KGL and Cadmus may agree.
(b) The KGL Facilities will be owned by or leased to KGL.
3.2 EMPLOYEES OF KGL. KGL and Cadmus agree that KGL will
be solely responsible for recruiting, hiring and training its employees who will
be providing the Services hereunder. KGL and Cadmus further agree that KGL will
designate a KGL employee as the
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primary contact for each DPS Facility, and KGL will provide to Cadmus the name
and contact information for each such primary contact.
3.3 REPORTS, INSPECTIONS AND AUDIT RIGHTS. (a) In
connection with the Services, KGL agrees that it will provide to Cadmus the
periodic reports reasonably requested by Cadmus from time to time.
(b) In addition, KGL agrees that it will permit
representatives of Cadmus (i) to visit and inspect the KGL Facilities, and (ii)
to inspect, audit and make abstracts from the books, records and files of KGL
relating to the Services, in each case, at reasonable times and upon reasonable
advance notice to KGL.
3.4 COSTS. Except as otherwise specifically provided in
this Agreement or agreed to in writing by the parties, KGL will be responsible
for all costs relating to locating, establishing, building, equipping, owning
and operating the KGL Facilities and recruiting, hiring, training and paying its
employees who provide the Services hereunder.
4. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. (a) KGL and Cadmus agree that, in
providing the Services hereunder, KGL will comply with the performance standards
and specifications, including those relating to turn-around time and accuracy,
agreed to from time to time by KGL and Cadmus (the "Performance Standards and
Specifications").
(b) In the event that KGL fails to meet the Performance Standards
and Specifications in providing the Services hereunder and such failure is not
cured to the satisfaction of Cadmus within thirty (30) days after KGL receives
written notice thereof from Cadmus, it will constitute a violation by KGL of a
material agreement under this Agreement and will entitle Cadmus to
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exercise the rights and remedies available to it under Section 9.2 below or
otherwise available to Cadmus.
5. PRICING; PAYMENTS BY CADMUS.
5.1 CONTENT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT. In consideration for
the Services provided by KGL hereunder relating to keyboarding, data conversion
and *ML, KGL and Cadmus agree that Cadmus will pay KGL the prices agreed to from
time to time by KGL and Cadmus and set forth in the applicable Cadmus purchase
order.
5.2 EDITORIAL PRODUCTION; PAGE COMPOSITION. In
consideration for the Services provided by KGL hereunder relating to editorial
production and composition, KGL and Cadmus agree that Cadmus will pay KGL a unit
price as agreed to from time to time by KGL and Cadmus and set forth in the
applicable Cadmus purchase order.
5.3 INVOICING; PAYMENTS. (a) KGL and Cadmus agree that
KGL will invoice Cadmus on a monthly basis for Services provided hereunder
during the preceding month, with invoices containing such information and detail
as may be requested by Cadmus.
(b) Cadmus agrees that it will make payment of all
amounts due under this Agreement within thirty (30) calendar days after Cadmus
receives the applicable KGL invoice unless Cadmus disputes in good faith the
amount stated on such invoice or otherwise disputes in good faith its obligation
to pay such invoice. In the event that Cadmus disputes any invoice it receives
from KGL, Cadmus agrees to notify KGL of such dispute promptly after receipt of
such invoice. KGL and Cadmus agree to negotiate in good faith to resolve such
dispute.
(c) All Services hereunder will be invoiced by KGL in,
and all payments due hereunder will be made by Cadmus in, United States Dollars.
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6. CADMUS PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.
6.1 PROTECTION OF PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. (a) KGL
acknowledges that, in connection with providing Services hereunder, Cadmus may
disclose to KGL, and KGL may assist in developing, Cadmus Proprietary
Information, including, without limitation, the Cadmus Intellectual Property and
the Developed Intellectual Property. KGL further acknowledges the confidential
nature and competitive value of the Cadmus Proprietary Information disclosed or
to be disclosed by Cadmus to KGL, including, without limitation, the Cadmus
Proprietary Information relating to Rapid Review and the other electronic
publishing products, programs, applications and processes of Cadmus. KGL agrees
that (i) the use of any such Cadmus Proprietary Information by KGL for any
purpose other than providing the Services hereunder or (ii) the disclosure or
divulgence of any such Cadmus Proprietary Information to third Persons would
result in damages to and otherwise adversely affect the business and affairs of
Cadmus.
(b) KGL agrees that (i) access to the Cadmus Proprietary
Information disclosed by Cadmus to KGL will be limited to KGL's employees who
have a need to know such information in order to provide the Services and who
have executed an agreement satisfactory to Cadmus relating to confidentiality
and the assignment of intellectual property rights, and (ii) KGL and its
employees will use the Cadmus Proprietary Information solely as necessary to
provide the Services hereunder.
(c) KGL will keep, and will cause its employees to keep,
the Cadmus Proprietary Information disclosed by Cadmus to KGL strictly
confidential, and KGL will not disclose or divulge, or permit any of its
employees to disclose or divulge, to any third Person any such Cadmus
Proprietary Information now or hereafter disclosed to or otherwise obtained by
KGL, without the prior written consent of Cadmus.
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(d) Upon the termination of this Agreement, KGL agrees
that (i) neither KGL nor any of its employees will, without the prior written
consent of Cadmus, use any Cadmus Proprietary Information thereafter for any
purpose, (ii) all Cadmus Proprietary Information, including, without limitation,
all copies, abstracts and extracts thereof, will be returned to Cadmus and not
retained by KGL or any of its employees in any form or for any reason, and (iii)
any and all analyses, compilations, studies and other documents based on or
including any such Cadmus Proprietary Information prepared by KGL or any of its
employees for internal use will be promptly destroyed. At the request of Cadmus,
KGL will provide to Cadmus a written warranty certificate signed by the General
Manager of KGL to the effect that KGL has complied with clauses (ii) and (iii)
immediately above.
6.2 VIOLATIONS; REMEDIES. KGL acknowledges and agrees
that any violation by it or any of its employees of any of the provisions set
forth in Section 6.1 above would result in irreparable harm and injuries to
Cadmus, and KGL therefore also acknowledges and agrees that, in the event of any
such violation, Cadmus will be entitled to obtain from any court of competent
jurisdiction preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, damages and an
equitable accounting of all earnings and profits and to exercise all other
rights and remedies to which Cadmus may be entitled in connection therewith.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
7.1 CADMUS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. As between KGL and
Cadmus, Cadmus will retain full and exclusive rights to and ownership of all
Cadmus Intellectual Property, including, without limitation, full and exclusive
rights to and ownership of all related copyrights and other intellectual
property rights and full and exclusive rights to license, market, assign and
modify all such Cadmus Intellectual Property. KGL acknowledges and agrees that,
except for
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the limited license granted in Section 7.3(a) below, KGL has and will have no
rights in or to any of the Cadmus Intellectual Property. KGL agrees that,
without the prior written consent of Cadmus, KGL will not alter, merge, modify,
adapt, reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile in any way any of the Cadmus
Intellectual Property.
7.2 DEVELOPED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. (a) KGL and Cadmus
specifically agree that all of the Developed Intellectual Property has been
specially ordered and commissioned by Cadmus and to the extent applicable,
constitutes "works made for hire" in favor of Cadmus under the copyright laws of
the United States and the (Indian) Copyright Act, 1957. KGL hereby
unconditionally assigns to Cadmus all of its right, title and interest in and to
the Developed Intellectual Property and all related copyrights, trademarks,
patents and other intellectual property rights. KGL and Cadmus further
specifically agree that, as between KGL and Cadmus, Cadmus will have full and
exclusive rights to and ownership of all Developed Intellectual Property,
including, without limitation, full and exclusive rights to and ownership of all
related copyrights and other intellectual property rights and full and exclusive
rights to license, market, assign and modify all such Developed Intellectual
Property. To the extent that any Person other than an employee of KGL or an
employee of Cadmus is involved in the development, creation or reduction to
practice of any Developed Intellectual Property, KGL will ensure that each such
Person has executed an agreement satisfactory to Cadmus relating to
confidentiality and the assignment of intellectual property rights. KGL
acknowledges and agrees that, except for the limited license granted in Section
7.3(a) below, neither KGL nor any of its employees has and will have any rights,
interest or title in or to any of the Developed Intellectual Property. KGL
agrees that, without the prior written consent of Cadmus, neither KGL nor any of
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its employees will alter, merge, modify, adapt, reverse engineer, disassemble or
decompile in any way any of the Developed Intellectual Property.
(b) KGL specifically agrees that it will execute and
deliver (and cause its employees to execute and deliver) to Cadmus all such
additional deeds, assignments and other documents, agreements, instruments and
certificates, and take all such other actions (and cause its employees to take
all such other actions), as Cadmus may from time to time reasonably determine to
be necessary or advisable to protect Cadmus' ownership of the Developed
Intellectual Property or to otherwise carry out the purposes of Section 7.2(a)
above.
7.3 LIMITED LICENSES. (a) Cadmus hereby grants to KGL a
nonexclusive, nontransferable, royalty-free, limited license to use the Cadmus
Intellectual Property and the Developed Intellectual Property only to the extent
that KGL and Cadmus determine that the use of such Cadmus Intellectual Property
and Developed Intellectual Property is required in connection with KGL providing
the Services to Cadmus hereunder.
(b) KGL hereby grants to Cadmus a nonexclusive,
nontransferable, royalty-free, limited license to use the KGL Intellectual
Property to the extent that such use is necessary for Cadmus to obtain the full
benefit of the Services provided by KGL hereunder or for KGL or Cadmus to
perform its obligations under this Agreement.
(c) The licenses granted in this Section 7.3 are (i)
granted solely to permit Cadmus to obtain the full benefit of the Services
provided by KGL hereunder and to permit KGL to provide the Services to Cadmus
hereunder, and (ii) not intended to provide to either party any rights not
specified herein.
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8. TERM. The term of this Agreement will begin on the date of
execution of this Agreement and, unless terminated early by KGL or Cadmus as
provided in Section 9 below, will continue for an initial term ending three (3)
years after the date of this Agreement. Thereafter, the term of this Agreement
will be automatically extended for successive one (1) year periods unless and
until one of the parties hereto gives the advance written notice of termination
described in the next sentence. In the event that a party hereto desires to
terminate this Agreement at the end of the initial three (3) year term or at the
end of any one (1) year extension, that party must give the other party written
notice of termination not later than thirty (30) days prior to the end of the
initial three (3) year term or the applicable one (1) year extension, as
applicable.
9. EARLY TERMINATION.
9.1 BY KGL. KGL may terminate this Agreement prior to the
scheduled termination date under Section 8 above if:
(a) Cadmus fails to make any payment due under Section
5.3(b) above, and such failure is not cured within ten (10) days after Cadmus
receives written notice thereof from KGL;
(b) Cadmus violates any of its other material agreements
under this Agreement or fails to perform any of its other material obligations
under this Agreement, and such violation or failure is not cured within
forty-five (45) days after Cadmus receives written notice thereof from KGL; or
(c) Cadmus shall be generally not paying its debts as
such debts become due, shall become insolvent or unable to meet its obligations
as they mature, shall make an
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assignment for the benefit of creditors, shall consent to the appointment of a
trustee or a receiver, shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts as
they mature, or shall commence or have commenced against it any bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or similar proceedings.
9.2 BY CADMUS. Cadmus may terminate this Agreement prior
to the scheduled termination date under Section 8 above if:
(a) KGL violates any of its agreements or obligations
under Section 6 above and such violation is not cured within ten (10) days after
KGL receives written notice thereof from Cadmus;
(b) KGL violates any of its other material agreements
under this Agreement or fails to perform any of its other material obligations
under this Agreement and such violation or failure is not cured within
forty-five (45) days after KGL receives written notice thereof from Cadmus; or
(c) KGL shall be generally not paying its debts as such
debts become due, shall become insolvent or unable to meet its obligations as
they mature, shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, shall
consent to the appointment of a trustee or a receiver, shall admit in writing
its inability to pay its debts as they mature or shall commence or have
commenced against it any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation or
similar proceedings.
9.3 EFFECT OF TERMINATION. Upon the scheduled termination
of this Agreement under Section 8 above or the early termination of this
Agreement under this Section 9, (i) Cadmus will pay KGL all amounts due under
Section 5.3(b) above, and each party will pay
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to the other party all other amounts due to the other party under this
Agreement, (ii) KGL will cooperate in good faith and assist Cadmus in the
transition of the Services to a new provider, (iii) KGL will comply with Section
6.1(d) above with respect to the Cadmus Proprietary Information, and (iv) each
party will have all of the other rights and remedies available to it under the
terms of this Agreement and applicable law.
9.4 SURVIVAL. Sections 6, 7, 9.3 and 10, and the parties'
respective rights and obligations thereunder, will survive the scheduled
termination of this Agreement under Section 8 above and the early termination of
this Agreement under this Section 9.
10. MISCELLANEOUS.
10.1 LIMITATION OF DAMAGES. Neither party hereto will be
responsible to the other party for any consequential, punitive, incidental or
special damages, and each party hereby irrevocably waives any right it would
otherwise have to collect any such damages.
10.2 NOTICES. All communications, notices and disclosures
required or permitted by this Agreement will be in writing and will be deemed to
have been given on the earlier of the date (a) when delivered personally, by
messenger, by overnight delivery service or otherwise, or (b) when received via
facsimile, telex or other electronic transmission, in all cases addressed to the
party to which it is intended at its address set forth hereinabove unless and
until a party notifies the other party in writing of a change.
10.3 GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION. (a) This Agreement will
be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions; except that, in any
suit, action or other proceeding brought or
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initiated by Cadmus in India under Section 10.3(c) below, applicable Indian
procedural laws (and any other mandatory provisions of Indian law) will apply.
(b) Except as specifically provided in Section 10.3(c)
below, KGL and Cadmus specifically agree that the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division and the Circuit Court
for the City of Richmond, Virginia will have exclusive jurisdiction over any
suit, action, proceeding, complaint or other dispute between the parties arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or the Services provided by KGL hereunder,
and, except as specifically provided in Section 10.3(c) below, any such suit,
action, or proceeding will be brought only in one of such courts. With respect
to any such suit, action, proceeding, complaint or other dispute, (i) each party
irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division and the Circuit
Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, and (ii) each party irrevocably waives
any objection which it may have at any time to the venue of any such suit,
action or proceeding brought in either such court; irrevocably waives any claim
that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in either such court has been
brought in an inconvenient forum and irrevocably waives the right to object,
with respect to any such suit, action or proceeding brought in either such
court, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such party.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Section 10.3 or elsewhere in this Agreement, KGL and Cadmus hereby agree
that Cadmus may at any time enforce its rights and remedies under this Agreement
in an appropriate suit, action or other proceeding brought or initiated by
Cadmus in any court in India having jurisdiction over KGL. Any such suit, action
or other proceeding may be brought by Cadmus either prior to the initiation of
or during any proceeding brought by either party under Section 10.3(b) above.
With respect
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to any suit, action or proceeding described in this Section 10.3(c) brought or
initiated by Cadmus, (i) each party irrevocably submits to the nonexclusive
jurisdiction of the applicable Indian court, and (ii) each party irrevocably
waives any objection which it may have to the venue of any suit, action or
proceeding brought or initated by Cadmus in any such court; irrevocably waives
any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought or initiated by
Cadmus in any such court had been brought in an inconvenient forum and
irrevocably waives the right to object, with respect to any such suit, action or
proceeding brought or initiated by Cadmus in any such court, that such court
does not have jurisdiction over such party.
10.4 BINDING AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENT. This Agreement will be
binding on and inure to the benefit of KGL and Cadmus and their respective
successors and assigns. Neither party may assign this Agreement or any rights or
licenses granted to it hereunder without the prior written consent of the other
party, except that Cadmus may assign all of its rights and obligations under
this Agreement to any direct or indirect subsidiary of Cadmus Communications
Corporation. Any purported assignment in contravention of this Section 10.4 will
be null and void and of no force or effect.
10.5 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts,
each of which when so executed and delivered will be deemed to be an original
and all of which taken together will constitute but one and the same agreement.
10.6 OTHER ARRANGEMENTS. It is recorded and each of the
parties hereby agrees and in particular KGL by execution hereof covenants that
this Agreement, the terms hereof and the transactions contemplated hereby are
not intended to be and are not any form of collaboration between the parties
whether financial, technical or otherwise. In any event, it is a
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term of this Agreement that Cadmus shall at all times during and after the term
of this Agreement be entitled to enter into similar and/or analogous
arrangements with any third Person in India. Further and in consideration of
Cadmus executing this Agreement and agreeing to fulfill its obligations in terms
hereof KGL represents and confirms that it would have no objection to Cadmus
entering into similar or analogous arrangements in India with other Persons
and/or to Cadmus making any investments in the share capital of companies in
India engaged in any activity whatsoever including without limitation in
activities that may be in the same or allied fields as the business of KGL as
extant as of the date hereof and at any time subsequent hereto. Further KGL
hereby covenants and undertakes that in the event that at any time subsequent to
the execution of this Agreement Cadmus requires a certification/ confirmation in
writing reiterating the terms of the preceding sentence KGL shall forthwith and
without demur or delay issue such a certification/ confirmation, in writing.
10.7. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. Each party hereto agrees that
it shall observe and comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules and
regulations to which such party is subject and to do all such acts, deeds and
things as may be necessary to ensure due performance of its obligations under
this Agreement.
10.8 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement constitutes the
entire agreement between KGL and Cadmus with respect to the subject matter
hereto.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, KGL and Cadmus have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed by their duly authorized officers.
KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE
LIMITED
By:
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Its:
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CADMUS JOURNAL SERVICES, INC.
By:
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Its:
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EXHIBIT B
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
THIS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT made this 30th day of June, 2003
between DATAMATICS CONSULTANTS LIMITED, a company incorporated under the
Companies Act, 1956 and having its Registered Office at Technology Centre, Plot
No. F 17, MIDC, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 093 (hereinafter referred to as
"DCL," which expression unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof shall
mean and include its successors and assigns) of the One Part and KNOWLEDGEWORKS
GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956 and
having its Registered Office at Knowledge Centre, Street No. 17, MIDC, Andheri
(East), Mumbai 400 093 (hereinafter referred to as "KGL," which expression
unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof shall mean and include its
successors and assigns) of the Other Part;
WHEREAS DCL is engaged in the business of software development,
information technology products and services, information technology solutions
and consulting services of various types;
AND WHEREAS DCL has over a period of time and during the course of its
business developed systems, processes, methods, techniques, manuals, tools,
software and has also developed policies and procedures relating to the
functions like finance, human resources development, training, recruitment,
manufacture, marketing, administrative and other services as are or may be
required for the conduct of its business;
AND WHEREAS KGL is in the process of establishing facilities at Mumbai
and Chennai, India for the purpose of carrying on the business of providing
content management, content processing and other services to its clients
(hereinafter referred to as the "Business");
AND WHEREAS KGL has requested that DCL provide certain facilities
management services as specified from time to time by KGL (hereinafter referred
to as "Facilities Management Services") to enable KGL to carry on the Business
in India for a fee and on the terms and conditions as set forth hereinafter;
NOW THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH AND IT IS HEREBY AGREED BY AND BETWEEN
THE PARTIES HERETO AS FOLLOWS:
1. SCOPE OF SERVICES
1.1 DCL shall provide to KGL the Facilities Management
Services requested by KGL from time to time during the term of this Agreement
which may include the following management, administrative and support services:
(i) Document human resources policies and practices;
(ii) Recruitment, training and evaluation of performance
of employees and Knowledge Associates;
(iii) Maintenance of payroll records and assisting in
payment of employee related statutory dues;
(iv) Basic accounting and administrative services for
maintenance of books of account and related documents
in accordance with the applicable Indian laws and
accounting standards and U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles;
(v) Services relating to the compliance with local laws,
rules and regulations and provision of legal advise
on the matters relating to the business operations of
KGL;
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(vi) Coordination with KGL's auditors, attorneys,
consultants, regulatory authorities and other
external agencies;
(vii) Administrative services in the nature of canteen,
housekeeping, air conditioning, security, etc.;
(viii) Technical support services relating to the
maintenance of computer hardware and software,
equipment maintenance, etc.; and
(ix) Procurement of insurance covering KGL's property and
operations, with coverage and policy limits as
determined from time to time by the Board of
Directors of KGL.
1.2 KGL shall follow the same human resource and
administrative policies as DCL so long as KGL operates from any premises
belonging to the Datamatics Group.
2. FEES
2.1 In consideration of the Facilities Management
Services to be provided by DCL to KGL in terms of Clause 1.1 above, KGL shall
pay to DCL, subject to deduction of tax at source, as applicable, as and by way
of a management fee (i) a sum of Rupees 405,000 (Rupees four hundred five
thousand only) per month for the first year of this Agreement, (ii) a sum of
Rupees 665,000 (Rupees six hundred sixty five thousand only) per month for the
second year of this Agreement, and (iii) a mutually agreed amount for the third
year of this Agreement; provided that the monthly fee mentioned above for the
first and second years are on the basis that KGL shall have manpower strength of
not exceeding 100 persons. In case the manpower strength of KGL exceeds 100
persons during a given month, KGL shall pay to DCL an additional management fee
of Rupees 3000/- per month for each person over 100. All the
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amounts payable by KGL to DCL pursuant to this Clause 2.1 shall be payable by
the 15th day of the month following the month in which the applicable Facilities
Management Services are provided by DCL.
2.2 In addition, KGL shall reimburse to DCL actual,
out-of-pocket general and administrative expenses incurred under this Agreement,
including expenses relating to electricity, air conditioning, telephone, travel,
insurance premium, legal and professional fees, stationery, security,
housekeeping, equipment maintenance, bank charges, external agency recruitment
charges (other than to a DCL affiliate), fees paid to any regulatory and other
authorities, motor car, general repairs, entertainment, membership and
subscription fees and other miscellaneous expenses.
2.3 DCL shall provide KGL on a bi-weekly basis a
statement giving details of expenses incurred by DCL in terms of the preceding
clause and KGL shall reimburse to DCL the expenses so incurred within thirty
(30) days of the date of receipt of the statement.
2.4 In the event of failure of KGL to make payments
within the time period specified in the foregoing clauses, KGL shall pay to DCL
a late fee at the rate of 1.5 percent per month.
2.5 The Facilities Management Services provided by DCL to
KGL hereunder shall be consistent with Datamatics' internal service levels and
in compliance with the standards and requirements required by KGL. In case of
any deficiency in the service levels, KGL shall give a written notice to DCL
requiring improvements in the service levels within a thirty (30) day period. In
case DCL fails to improve the service levels to the required standard within the
30-day time period stipulated above, KGL shall be entitled to withhold the
payments in respect of the Facilities Management Services not up to the given
levels and provide a further period of
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thirty (30) days to DCL to improve the service levels. In case DCL fails to
improve the service levels to the required standard during the extended period,
KGL shall have the right to terminate this Agreement.
3. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
3.1 During the term of this Agreement, either party may
provide to the other or the other party (the Receiving Party) may acquire
various types of information, including but not limited to, the trade
information or data, trade secrets, business processes and procedures, financial
information, customer information, client information, data provided by clients,
etc. which may be of proprietary or confidential nature and/or may be protected
under Data Protection Laws of various countries (herein referred to as
"Confidential Information"). The parties hereto agree and undertake that neither
party nor any of its employees shall, during the term of this Agreement or at
any time thereafter, disclose the said Confidential Information to any person
other than to a person who is required under the terms of this Agreement to know
such Confidential Information, nor shall they use the said Confidential
Information for any purpose other than for the purpose of discharge of their
obligations under this Agreement.
3.2 The parties hereto shall ensure that their respective
directors, officers, employees and other persons associated with the Business
under this Agreement maintain complete secrecy with regards to all the
Confidential Information coming to their knowledge or possession, and the
parties hereto shall have a Non-Disclosure Agreement signed by each of such
persons. In addition, each person engaged by either party who may in any manner
be associated with the discharge of either party's obligations under this
Agreement shall also sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with such party in such
form as may be agreed to by and between the parties hereto.
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4. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Other than damages incurred by the other party hereto as a result of or
in connection with the fraud or willful misconduct of a party hereto, the
maximum liability of a party hereto shall in no event and under no circumstances
exceed Rupees 9,000,000 (Rupees Nine Million only). In addition, neither party
shall be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive
loss or damage, incident to or arising out of or in connection with or resulting
from the providing or the failure to provide Facilities Management Services
under this Agreement or otherwise under this Agreement.
5. TERM
This Agreement shall be valid for a period of three (3) years unless
(i) terminated early by Cadmus under Section 2.5 or (ii) terminated early by
either party by giving six (6) months' notice in writing to the other without
assigning any reason whatsoever. In the event that a party hereto terminates
this Agreement early under clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the
terminating party shall be required to pay an early termination fee in an amount
equal to six months' management fees payable to DCL hereunder (to be calculated
on the basis of the average management fee per month paid during the twelve
months immediately preceding the date of notice of termination) to the other
party.
6. FORCE MAJEURE
6.1 If either party to this Agreement is prevented by any
event or circumstances such as government action or inaction, war, serious fire,
flood, typhoon, earthquake or other natural calamity beyond its control, the
time for the performance of this
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Agreement shall be extended by a period equal to the effect of such cause and
neither party shall be responsible for loss or damage due to the delay.
6.2 The party so prevented by such event or circumstances
shall notify the other party by telex, cable or fax as soon as possible from the
time of the occurrence of the force majeure.
7. ASSIGNMENT
The provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the parties hereto, their successors and assigns. Neither party
shall assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer its interest or any of its
obligations under this Agreement in whole or in part to any third person and
shall not sub-contract or delegate any of its obligations hereunder, in whole or
in part, to any other person without the prior written consent of the other
party.
8. RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED
The only relationship between DCL and KGL intended to be created by
this Agreement is that of independent contractors, and neither party shall be or
represent itself to be an agent, employee, partner or joint venture of the
other, nor shall either party transact any business in the name of the other or
on the other's behalf or in any manner make any promises, representations or
warranties or incur any liability, direct or indirect, contingent or fixed, for
or on behalf of the other party.
9. GOVERNING LAW
Any and all questions of enforceability and interpretation which may
arise under this Agreement shall be determined and governed by and in accordance
with the laws of India.
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10. ARBITRATION
Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of, or relating to any
provision of this Agreement or the interpretation, enforceability, performance,
breach, termination or validity hereof, shall be solely and finally settled by
arbitration at Mumbai in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act,
1996 by a single arbitrator. An award rendered in connection with arbitration
pursuant to this Clause shall be final, non-appealable and binding upon the
parties and any judgment upon such an award may be entered and enforced in any
court of competent jurisdiction.
11. SEVERABILITY
11.1 In the event any one or more provisions contained in
this Agreement shall for any reason be held to be unenforceable in any respect,
such unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of this Agreement.
Instead, this Agreement shall be construed as if such unenforceable provision
had not been contained herein.
11.2 If either Party fails to strictly enforce its rights
under this Agreement, such failure shall not be deemed to be a waiver of those
rights or any future rights.
12. HEADINGS
The paragraph headings in this Agreement are for convenience only and
shall not be considered part of or affect the interpretation of any provision of
this Agreement.
13. NOTICES
13.1 Notices required under this Agreement shall be in
writing and shall be deemed to have been received after expiry of 72 hours of
being mailed by certified or registered mail postage prepaid to the respective
parties at the following addresses:
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TO: DATAMATICS CONSULTANTS LIMITED
TECHNOLOGY CENTRE, PLOT NO. F 17
MIDC, ANDHERI (E)
MUMBIA - 400 093
Attn: Vice President - Legal
TO: KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL LIMITED
KNOWLEDGE CENTER, STREET NO. 17
MIDC, ANDHERI (E)
MUMBAI - 400 093
Attn: General Manager
With a copy to:
Cadmus KnowledgeWorks International Ltd.
c/o Cadmus Communications Corporation
1801 Bayberry Court, Suite 200
Richmond, Virginia 23226
United States
Attn: Mr. Stephen E. Hare
President, Publisher Services Group
Telephone: 804-287-5685
Telefacsimile: 804-287-5683
E-mail: hares@cadmus.com
13.2 Either party may change its address for the purpose
of this Agreement by giving the other party written notice of its new address.
14. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement represents the entire Agreement between the
parties hereto with regard to the subject matter hereof and supersedes, cancels
and replaces any and all prior agreements, arrangements or understandings
whether oral or in writing between the parties hereto regarding the subject
matter hereof, and neither party shall be bound by any condition, term or
obligation other than as set forth in this Agreement. No change, alteration,
variation, renewal, extension or waiver of this Agreement or any of its
provisions shall be binding unless the same shall be in writing and signed by
both the parties.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have executed these presents on
the day and year first hereinabove written:
DATAMATICS CONSULTANTS LIMITED KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE
LIMITED
Signature: Signature:
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Name: Manish Modi Name:
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Title: Director Title:
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Date: Date:
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EXHIBIT C
LICENSE AGREEMENT
THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT is made and entered into this 30th day of June,
2003, by and between CDMS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, a corporation organized under
the laws of the State of Delaware, United States and having its principal place
of business at 1105 North Market Street, Suite 1018, Wilmington, Delaware 19801
(hereinafter referred to as "CDMS," which expression shall unless repugnant to
the context thereof mean and include its successors and assigns) of the One
Part, and KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED, a company incorporated in India
under the Companies Act, 1956 having its Registered Office at Knowledge Centre,
Street No. 17, MIDC, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 093, India (hereinafter referred
to as "KGL," which expression shall unless repugnant to the context thereof mean
and include its successors and assigns) of the Other Part.
BACKGROUND:
A. CDMS owns all right, title and interest in and to the
"KnowledgeWorks" trademark and servicemark and all of the goodwill associated
therewith and in and to any registrations which have been and/or may be obtained
in respect thereof (collectively, the "KnowledgeWorks Mark") as such
KnowledgeWorks Mark is used in connection with or associated with printed goods
and materials and content management, content processing and printing services.
B. KGL desires to obtain from CDMS, and CDMS agrees to grant to
KGL, a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the KnowledgeWorks Mark
in India (the "Territory") in connection with KGL producing printed goods and
materials (the "Goods") and providing content management and content processing
services to customers (the "Services").
AGREEMENT:
Accordingly, in consideration of the mutual promises and agreements
contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, CDMS and KGL hereby agree as
follows:
1. LICENSE.
1.1 Grant. CDMS hereby grants to KGL a non-exclusive and
non-transferable license to use the KnowledgeWorks Mark only in connection with
the Goods and Services in the Territory, and KGL hereby undertakes to use the
KnowledgeWorks Mark solely and exclusively in connection with the Goods and
Services in the Territory in accordance with such quality standards as may be
specified by CDMS from time to time during the term of this Agreement and
strictly adhered to by KGL.
1.2 Assignments and Sub-licenses. KGL acknowledges that
only CDMS has the right to license the use of the KnowledgeWorks Mark to other
entities. KGL agrees that it will not grant sub-licenses to any entity or
individual to use the KnowledgeWorks Mark in any manner whatsoever and will not
assign this Agreement nor any of its rights hereunder, and will not delegate any
of its obligations or duties hereunder, without the prior written consent of
CDMS in each instance.
1.3 Rights Reserved by CDMS. CDMS reserves the right to
use or license others to use the KnowledgeWorks Mark inside or outside the
Territory and reserves the right to assign or otherwise dispose of the
KnowledgeWorks Mark, subject to the specific rights granted by CDMS to KGL
herein and subject to the terms and conditions hereof.
1.5 Withdrawal of KnowledgeWorks Mark. CDMS may in its
discretion withdraw the KnowledgeWorks Mark from the terms of this Agreement, if
CDMS reasonably determines that the use, distribution or other exploitation of
such KnowledgeWorks Mark would or might violate or infringe or reasonably tend
to violate or infringe the copyright, trademark, servicemark, patent or other
rights of any other person or entity.
2. KGL OBLIGATIONS.
2.1 Standards. In providing, promoting, advertising and
selling the Goods and Services, KGL will maintain standards of quality that
conform to those high-quality standards that have been used by Cadmus
Communications Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively,
"Cadmus") with respect to producing, providing, promoting, advertising and
selling its goods and services.
2.2 Quality Control. To maintain the high-level quality
standards hereinabove described:
(a) CDMS or its duly authorized representative, at KGL's
expense and on reasonable notice to KGL, may inspect at any reasonable
time the premises of KGL, the Goods and Services offered by KGL and the
production, advertising, promotion and sale thereof. CDMS will have
sixty (60) calendar days from the date of any such inspection to
approve any such Goods and Services identified by the KnowledgeWorks
Mark. If CDMS objects to any such Goods or Services, KGL will
immediately cease use of the relevant KnowledgeWorks Mark. If CDMS
makes no objection to the Goods or Services within the sixty (60) day
period, approval will be deemed granted;
(b) CDMS or its designee may inspect samples of all
products and all advertising, promotional and sales materials, as well
as the venues owned or operated by KGL from which KGL offers the Goods
and Services identified by the KnowledgeWorks Mark;
(c) KGL will utilize the quality control system specified
by CDMS. KGL will not change its quality control system without the
prior consent of CDMS. KGL will provide Goods and Services in strict
conformity with all applicable laws and regulations; and
(d) KGL will maintain all quality control records and
reports that may be requested by CDMS. KGL will not change such records
or reports without the prior consent of CDMS.
2.3 Labeling. Whenever KGL uses the KnowledgeWorks Mark
in connection with the production, promotion, advertising or sale of Goods or
Services, or in any other manner in connection with the Services, KGL will cause
the "tm," "sm" or "(R)" symbol, as applicable, to be placed adjacent to the word
"KnowledgeWorks." CDMS will provide notice to KGL from time to time regarding
the proper label to use with the KnowledgeWorks Mark. KGL will use the
KnowledgeWorks Mark in the exact form as specified by CDMS from time to time. In
using the KnowledgeWorks Mark, KGL will comply with all laws pertaining to
trademarks and servicemarks in force at any time in the Territory, including
without limitation marking requirements. KGL will comply with all applicable
federal (or central) and state labeling requirements for the Goods and Services.
KGL will, when using the KnowledgeWorks Mark, clearly indicate that CDMS is the
owner of the said KnowledgeWorks Mark and that KGL has been licensed to use the
same.
3. OWNERSHIP AND PROTECTION.
3.1 Ownership of KnowledgeWorks Mark Generally. (a) KGL
acknowledges CDMS' exclusive right, title and interest in and to the
KnowledgeWorks Mark and all of the good will associated therewith and further
acknowledges that nothing herein will give KGL any right, title or interest in
the KnowledgeWorks Mark or in any identical or deceptively similar mark, name or
word, except the license to use the KnowledgeWorks Mark granted in Section 1
above. KGL will not, at any time, either during the term of this Agreement or
thereafter, challenge CDMS' ownership of the KnowledgeWorks Mark, challenge the
validity of the KnowledgeWorks Mark, or do or cause to be done or omit to do any
act or thing, the doing or omission of which would contest or in any way impair
or tend to impair any right, title or interest of CDMS in the KnowledgeWorks
Mark and the goodwill associated therewith. KGL will not, in any manner
whatsoever, represent that it has any ownership in or right, title or interest
to the KnowledgeWorks Mark, or any registrations thereof or any good will
associated therewith and will not make any application for registration of the
said KnowledgeWorks Mark.
(b) If KGL has or obtains any right or interest, other
than those granted herein, in the KnowledgeWorks Mark or any derivative work
thereof, then KGL will promptly disclaim such rights or interests and assign
them exclusively to CDMS. KGL will confirm such assignment by execution and
delivery of confirmations of assignment or other written instruments as CDMS may
from time to time request.
(c) KGL shall execute any and all instruments or other
documents that CDMS deems necessary or appropriate to confirm or protect CDMS'
ownership of the KnowledgeWorks Mark.
4. ROYALTIES.
4.1. Amount. In consideration of the license granted
herein, KGL will pay CDMS a royalty (the "Royalty") equal to (a) two percent
(2%) of KGL's Net Sales of Goods and Services relating to export sales (but
excluding for this purpose any sales to Cadmus Professional Communications or
any other Cadmus affiliate), and (b) one percent (1%) of KGL's Net Sales of
Goods and Services relating to Indian domestic sales; where "Net Sales" means
gross sales less agents'/dealers' commission, transport cost, including ocean
freight, insurance, duties, taxes and other charges, and costs of raw materials,
parts, and components imported from a foreign supplier or its
subsidiary/affiliated company; provided that in no event shall the Royalty
exceed the maximum amount permitted to be paid under applicable law.
4.2. Reporting. KGL will provide CDMS with a monthly
statement in a format agreeable to CDMS, itemizing the Net Sales and Royalty
within 30 days following the end of each month. Each monthly report will be
accompanied by a statement signed by an officer of KGL certifying that the
report is correct and complete and prepared in compliance with the Agreement.
4.3. Payment. KGL and CDMS will agree from time to time
during the term of this Agreement upon appropriate procedures, mechanics and
timing for payment of the Royalty by KGL to CDMS. For example, but without
limitation, KGL could pay the Royalty to CDMS contemporaneously with each
statement; or KGL could pay the Royalty to CDMS periodically when CDMS' Board of
Directors meet to agree upon final arrangements for settlement of intercompany
receivables; or KGL and CDMS could agree upon any other procedure that is
mutually satisfactory to them. Time is of the essence with respect to all
Royalty payments made hereunder. If KGL defaults or fails to make payment when
such obligation is due in accordance with their aforesaid agreement, KGL will
pay CDMS interest on such past-due amount at the rate of 1.5% per month from the
date such payment was due until such payment is received by CDMS, and
for this purpose KGL will obtain all such approvals as may be required in order
to enable KGL to pay the amount of interest to CDMS.
4.4. Books and Records. KGL will keep accurate books of
account and records at its principal place of business covering all transactions
relating to this Agreement, for at least three years after the payment of the
corresponding Royalty, and CDMS will have the right, at all reasonable hours of
the day, to audit KGL's books of account and records on five days' prior notice.
5. INDEMNIFICATION. KGL acknowledges and understands that CDMS,
as a result of its execution of this Agreement, assumes no duty or
responsibility and consequently has no liability to KGL or any third party with
respect to any product liability, personal injury or other similar claim arising
out of KGL's production, advertising, promotion or sale of the Goods and
Services or the consumption or other use of the Goods or Services. KGL hereby
indemnifies and agrees to defend and hold harmless CDMS and its directors,
officers and employees from and against any and all claims, suits, demands and
actions arising out of or related to KGL's use of the KnowledgeWorks Mark, or
KGL's production, advertising, promotion or sale of the Goods or Services or any
related product, or the consumption or other use of Goods or Services or any
related product, except such claims, if any, resulting from the fraud, willful
misconduct or gross negligence of CDMS. CDMS may participate in the defense of
any claim or action in which it is a party, at its own expense and through its
own counsel.
6. THIRD PARTY INFRINGEMENT. KGL undertakes that it shall
continuously be alert to discover the existence of any mark, word or symbol,
identical or deceptively similar to the KnowledgeWorks Mark, the use of which
causes or is likely to cause confusion or damage to the goodwill of CDMS and
constitutes or be deemed to constitute a passing off, of the KnowledgeWorks Mark
and shall promptly notify CDMS in writing, of any (actual or apparent),
counterfeiting or passing off, of the KnowledgeWorks Mark of which KGL is
cognizant. KGL shall immediately notify CMDS of any third party claim that use
of the KnowledgeWorks Mark infringes the rights of such third party, claiming to
have an identical or similar mark as a registered trademark, and of any suit or
action which is filed claiming such infringements. If a third party infringes or
otherwise violates CDMS' right, title or interest in and to the KnowledgeWorks
Mark, KGL will cooperate fully with CDMS to terminate such violations. KGL will
not litigate, defend or enter into any compromise with respect to the
KnowledgeWorks Mark without prior written approval of CDMS. CDMS will in its
sole discretion take all reasonably necessary steps at its own expense to
protect the rights and acquired goodwill in the KnowledgeWorks Mark and put to
an end to any infringement, counterfeiting or passing off action, to maintain
the KnowledgeWorks Mark, to keep all reasonably necessary registrations in full
force and effect and to protect KGL against infringement of the KnowledgeWorks
Mark by third parties; provided, however, that KGL will notify CDMS of any
violations of CDMS' right, title or interest in the KnowledgeWorks Mark of which
KGL has notice. CDMS has the exclusive right to prosecute and defend at its own
expense all suits or proceedings (whether legal or other) which involve in any
way the validity of, title to, or infringement or other violation of the
KnowledgeWorks Mark. KGL agrees to execute all papers and documents necessary
and required to ensure protection of CDMS's rights in the KnowledgeWorks Mark.
Any award of damages by the Court or any other competent authority shall be and
where required inure to the benefit of CDMS.
7. BREACH OF AGREEMENT. If KGL fails to comply with the terms of
this Agreement, CDMS will notify KGL in writing of such failure and KGL will
have thirty (30) days after the date of its receipt of such notice within which
to cure its failure. If such failure is not cured to CDMS'
satisfaction during such thirty (30) day period, CDMS may, at its option, seek
one or more of the following remedies: sue to enjoin such failure, sue for
damages resulting from such failure, or terminate this Agreement. The provisions
of this Section 7 are in addition to and not in limitation of those rights and
duties provided elsewhere in this Agreement and by law.
8. TERM AND TERMINATION.
8.1 Term. Except as expressly provided to the contrary
herein, this Agreement will remain in effect for one year from the date hereof,
and will thereafter be automatically renewed and extended for additional
successive periods of one year unless either CDMS or KGL, on or before thirty
(30) days' prior to the expiration of such first one-year period or any
subsequent one-year period, delivers to the other written notice terminating
this Agreement as of the end of such period.
8.2 Termination for Service Discontinuation. CDMS may
terminate this Agreement at any time by serving written notice of termination
upon KGL if KGL ceases to offer the Goods and Services. This Agreement will
thereafter terminate automatically thirty (30) days after KGL is served with
such notice.
8.3 Termination for Bankruptcy. This Agreement will
terminate forthwith, and without notice, if KGL makes any assignment of assets
or business for the benefit of creditors or if a trustee or receiver is
appointed to administer or conduct its business or affairs or if it is the
subject of any voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding. In
such event, the rights granted herein will forthwith cease and terminate without
prior notice or legal action by CDMS.
9. EFFECT OF TERMINATION. On termination of this Agreement under
Section 7 or Section 8, in any manner, KGL will immediately cease and desist
from all uses of the
KnowledgeWorks Mark in any form or manner, will deliver up to CDMS, or its duly
authorized representative, all advertisements, containers, wrappers, papers and
other items on which any marks appear, will de-identify all company-owned or
operated facilities and at no time after termination of this Agreement will
adopt or use without CDMS' prior written consent the KnowledgeWorks Mark or any
mark which is confusingly similar to or a colorable imitation of the
KnowledgeWorks Mark.
10. MISCELLANEOUS.
10.1 Independent Contractor. The relationship between the
parties to this Agreement will be that of principal-independent contractor, and
not that of a franchise, joint venture, partnership or agency between the
parties.
10.2 Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement
without the prior written consent of the other party, which will not be
unreasonably withheld.
10.3 Waiver; Modification. Failure by either party hereto
to enforce at any time or for any period of time any provision or right
hereunder will not constitute a waiver of such provision or of the right of such
party thereafter to enforce each and every such provision. No change or
modification of this Agreement will be valid or binding on the parties hereto,
nor will any waiver of any term or condition be deemed a waiver of any such term
or condition in the future, unless such change or modification or waiver is in a
writing signed by the parties hereto.
10.4 Applicable Law. (a) This Agreement will be construed
in accordance with and governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia
without regard to its conflict of laws provisions; except that, in any suit,
action or other proceeding brought or initiated by CDMS in India under Section
10.4(c) below, applicable Indian procedural laws (and any other mandatory
provisions of Indian law) will apply.
(b) Except as specifically provided in Section 10.4(c)
below, CDMS and KGL specifically agree that the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division and the Circuit Court for
the City of Richmond, Virginia will have exclusive jurisdiction over any suit,
action, proceeding, complaint or other dispute between the parties arising out
of or relating to this Agreement or the license provided to KGL hereunder, and,
except as specifically provided in Section 10.4(c) below, any such suit, action,
or proceeding will be brought only in one of such courts. With respect to any
such suit, action, proceeding, complaint or other dispute, (i) each party
irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division and the Circuit
Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, and (ii) each party irrevocably waives
any objection which it may have at any time to the venue of any such suit,
action or proceeding brought in either such court; irrevocably waives any claim
that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in either such court has been
brought in an inconvenient forum and irrevocably waives the right to object,
with respect to any such suit, action or proceeding brought in either such
court, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such party.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Section 10.4 or elsewhere in this Agreement, CDMS and KGL hereby agree that
CDMS may at any time enforce its rights and remedies under this Agreement in an
appropriate suit, action or other proceeding brought or initiated by CDMS in any
court in India having jurisdiction over KGL. Any such suit, action or other
proceeding may be brought by CDMS either prior to the initiation of or during
any proceeding brought by either party under Section 10.4(b) above. With respect
to any suit, action or proceeding described in this Section 10.4(c) brought or
initiated by CDMS, (i) each party irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction ofo the applicable Indian court,
and (ii) each party irrevocably waives any objection which it may have to the
venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought or initiated by CDMS in any such
court; irrevocably waives any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding
brought or initiated by CDMS in any such court has been brought in an
inconvenient forum and irrevocably waives the right to object, with respect to
any such suit, action or proceeding brought or initiated by CDMS in any such
court, that such court does not have jurisdiction over such party.
10.5 Severability. If any non-essential provision of this
Agreement is declared invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such
declaration will have no effect upon the remaining provisions of this Agreement,
all of which will remain in full force and effect and will constitute the
complete understanding of the parties.
10.6 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which will be deemed to be an original and all
of which together will be deemed one and the same instrument.
10.7 Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the
entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior understanding or
agreement between them respecting the subject matter hereof.
10.8 Notices. All communications, notices and disclosures
required or permitted by this Agreement will be in writing and shall be deemed
to have been given on the earlier of the date (a) when delivered personally, by
messenger, by overnight delivery service or otherwise, or (b) when received via
facsimile, telex or other electronic transmission, in all cases addressed to the
party to which it is intended at its address set forth hereinabove unless and
until a party notifies the other party in writing of a change.
IN WITNESS HEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their duly authorized corporate officers, all as of the day and year
first above written.
CDMS MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
By:
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KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE
LIMITED
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EXHIBIT D
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION
OF
KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED
I. The name of the Company is KnowledgeWorks Global Private Limited.
II. The Registered Office of the Company will be situated in the State of
Maharashtra i.e. within the jurisdiction of the Registrar of Companies,
Maharashtra, Mumbai.
III. The objects for which the Company is established are :
A. MAIN OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY TO BE PURSUED BY THE COMPANY ON ITS
INCORPORATION :
1. To carry on the business of providing information technology
products and services and information technology enabled
services.
B. OBJECTS INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE MAIN
OBJECTS :
2. To carry on the business of manufacturing, development and
marketing of information technology products and services,
software and hardware systems and to design, develop, create,
produce, compile, convert, alter, operate, write, test,
record, print and document and to buy, sell, import, export,
exchange, let on hire, lease, licence or otherwise deal in,
whether as principals or as agents, software systems,
packages, programmes and information technology products,
electronic products and services required for or by different
organisations, industries, businesses or individuals. To carry
on the business of manufacturing
3. To enter into agreement, contract for undertaking or otherwise
arranging for receiving, or forwarding any circulars, notices,
reports, brochures, materials, articles and things belonging
to any company, corporation, firm, institution or person or
persons by means of delivery by hand or otherwise.
4. To purchase take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise
acquire any real or personal property and any right or
privilege which the Company may think necessary or convenient
for the purposes of its business or which may enhance the
value of any other property of the Company and in particular
any land, buildings, factories, basement, machinery, plant,
vehicle and stock-in-trade.
5. To cause the Company to be recognised in any foreign country
or place and to open branches in India or outside for the
purpose of the Company.
6. To acquire, improve, manage, work, develop, exercise all
rights in respect of lease and mortgage and to sell, dispose
off, turn to account and otherwise deal with, property of all
kinds and in particular land, buildings, concessions, patents,
business concerns and undertakings.
7. To acquire or amalgamate with any other company whose objects
are or include objects, similar to those of this Company
whether by sale or purchase (for fully or partly paid-up share
of otherwise or the undertaking subject to liabilities of this
or any such other company as aforesaid, with or without
winding up or by sale or purchase (of fully or partly paid-up
shares or otherwise) all shares or stock of this or any such
other company as aforesaid or by partnership or in any other
manner.
8. To acquire or amalgamate or enter into any arrangements or
partnership for sharing profit, union of interest,
co-operation, joint ventures, reciprocal concession either in
whole or in part with any other company, firm, person,
government or authorities, Central, Provincial, Municipal,
Local or otherwise, public or quasi-public bodies that may
seem conducive to the Company's objects or any of them.
9. Subject to provision of the Companies Act, 1956, to borrow or
raise money from its members, Directors or their relatives
with or without interest or secure the payment of money in
such manner as the Company shall think fit or by the issue of
debentures, debenture-stocks, perpetual or otherwise, mortgage
of any other securities charged or based upon the undertaking
of the Company, both present and future including the uncalled
capital of the Company or without any such security and upon
such terms as to priority or otherwise and generally to borrow
money in such manner as the Directors shall think fit.
Provided that the Company shall not carry on the business of
banking as defined in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
10. Subject to provisions of Section 293-A, of the Companies Act,
1956, to accept as a gift and to give in gifts, property,
movable or immovable, inside or outside India, stocks,
debentures, securities, assigning of insurance policies or in
cash or shares from or to the individuals or firms or
companies whose objects may be the same or different, in
appreciation of the service rendered or otherwise.
11. To apply for, purchase, or otherwise acquire, and protect and
renew in any part of the world any patents, patent rights,
brevets d'invention, trade marks, designs. licences,
concessions and the like, conferring any exclusive, or
non-exclusive or limited right to their use, or any secret or
other information as to any invention which may seem capable
of being used for any of the purposes of the Company, or to
use, exercise, develop, or grant licences in respect or
otherwise turn to account the property, rights or information
so acquired and to expend money in experimenting upon, testing
or improving any such patents, inventions or rights and
without prejudice to the generality of the above any contracts
or concessions.
12. To acquire from any Government, Central, State, Local or
Foreign or public body, or persons or authority, or from any
private individual any concessions, grants, decrees, rights,
powers and privileges whatsoever which may seem to the Company
capable of being turned to account, or which the Company may
think directly or indirectly conducive to any of the objects
or capable of being carried on in connection with its
business, and to work, develop, carry out, exercise and turn
to account the same.
13. To provide, clean, comfortable, and inexpensive residential
and/or sleeping accommodation for directors, ex-directors,
staff, workmen and in connection therewith to afford to such
persons facilities and conveniences for washing, bathing,
cooking, reading, writing and finding employment, and for the
purchase, sale and consumption of provisions, both liquid and
solid, and for the safe custody of goods.
14. To apply for, promote and obtain any Act of Parliament,
charter, privilege, concession, licence, or authorisation of
any Government, State or Municipality, provisional order or
licence from any authority for enabling the Company to carry
any of its objects into effect or for extending any of the
powers of the Company or for effecting any modification of the
constitution of the Company or for any other purpose which may
seem expedient, and to oppose any proceedings or applications,
which may seem calculated directly or indirectly to prejudice
the interests of the Company.
15. To improve, manage, develop, grant rights or privileges in
respect of, otherwise deal with, all or any part of the
property and rights of the Company.
16. To promote and form and to be interested in and take hold and
dispose of shares in other companies having similar interest
and to transfer to any such company any property of this
Company, and to take or otherwise acquire, hold and dispose of
shares, debentures and other securities in or of any such
company and to subsidise or otherwise assist any such company.
17. To pay for any rights or property acquired by the Company and
to remunerate any person or company whether by cash payment or
by allotment or shares, debentures or other securities of the
Company credited as paid up in full or in part
or otherwise.
18. To invest and deal with surplus money of the Company in any
manner.
19. To obtain from any such government or authority any rights,
privileges and concessions which the Company may think
desirable to obtain and to carry out, exercise and comply with
any such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions.
20. To accumulate capital for any of the purposes of the Company
and to appropriate the Company's assets for specific purposes
and to hold shares and securities of any other firms,
companies or corporate body or Government.
21. To issue shares and debentures of the Company at par or at
premium or at a discount and to sell or to dispose of the
undertaking of the Company or any part thereof for such
considerations as the Company may think fit.
22. To remunerate any person or company and pay commission or
brokerage in cash or otherwise for services rendered for the
Company.
23. To employ brokers, commission agents and underwriters on issue
of shares, debentures or other securities and to provide for
the remuneration of such persons for their services by payment
in cash or by the issue of shares, debentures or other
securities of the Company or by the granting of options to
take the same, or in any other manner allowed by law.
24. To vest any real or personal property, rights or interests
acquired by or belonging to the Company in any person or
company on behalf of the Company and with or without any
declared trust in favour of the Company.
25. To act as agents or brokers and as trustees for any person or
company and to undertake and perform subcontracts and to do
all or any of the above things in any part of the world and as
principals, agents, contractors, trustees or otherwise and by
or through agents, sub-contractors or trustees or otherwise
and either alone or jointly with others.
26. To purchase, take on lease or licence or in exchange hire or
otherwise any real personal property and any rights or
privileges which the Company may think necessary or convenient
for the purposes of its business or may enhance the value of
any other property of the Company and in particular any land
freehold, plant and stock-in-trade and on any such lands to
erect buildings, factories, sheds, godowns, or other
structures for the works and purposes of the Company and also
for the residence and amenity of its directors, ex-directors,
employees, staff and other workmen and erect and install
machinery and plant and other equipments deemed necessary or
convenient or profitable for the purposes of the Company.
27. To sell, lease, mortgage or otherwise dispose off or transfer
the business, property, assets, or undertaking of the Company
or any part thereof for such consideration as the Company may
think fit and in particular for shares, stocks, debentures or
other securities of any other company whether or not having
objects altogether or in part similar to those of the Company.
28. To pay out of the funds of the Company all costs, charges and
expenses which the Company may lawfully pay with respect to
the promotion, formation and registration of the Company
and/or the issue of capital or which the Company shall
consider to be preliminary including therein the cost of
advertising, printing and stationery and commission for
obtaining application for taking, placing or undertaking or
procuring the underwriting of shares, debentures or other
securities of the Company, expenses, attended upon the
formation of agencies, branches and local boards.
29. To establish and maintain or procure the establishment and
maintenance of any contributory or non-contributory provident,
pension or superannuation funds for the benefit of and give or
procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions,
allowances or emoluments to any person, who are or were at any
time in the employment or service of the Company, or of any
company which is subsidiary of the Company or is allied to or
associated with the Company or with any such subsidiary
company, or who are or were at any time the Directors or
Officers of the Company or of any such other company as
aforesaid, and the wives, widows, families and dependants of
any such persons, and also establish and subsidise and
subscribe to any institutions, associations, clubs or funds,
calculated to the benefit of or to advance the interests and
well being of the Company or of any such other company as
aforesaid, and make payments to or towards the insurance of
any such person as aforesaid and to any of the matters
aforesaid either alone or in conjunction with any such other
company as aforesaid.
30. To subscribe or contribute or otherwise to assist or to
guarantee money to charitable, benevolent, religious,
scientific, national, public or any other useful institutions,
objects or purposes or for any exhibition.
31. To distribute in specie or otherwise any property of the
Company or any proceeds of sale or disposal of any property of
the Company, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act,
1956, in event of winding up.
32. To give to any officers, servants or employees of the Company
any share or interest in the profits of the Company's business
or any branch thereof, and whether carried on by means or
through the agency of any subsidiary company or not, and for
that purposes to enter into any arrangements the Company may
think fit.
33. To train or pay for the training in India or abroad of any of
the Company's officers or employees or any candidate in the
interest of or for furtherance of the
Company's objects.
34. To take or concur in taking all such steps and proceedings as
may seem best calculated to uphold and support the credit of
the Company and to obtain and justify public confidence and to
avert or minimise financial disturbances which might affect
the Company.
35. To establish, provide, maintain and conduct research and other
laboratories, training colleges, schools and other
institutions for the training, education, and instruction of
students and others who may desire to avail themselves of the
same and to provide for the delivery and holding of lectures,
demonstrations, exhibitions, classes, meetings and conferences
in connection therewith.
36. To subsidise, assist, and guarantee the payment of money by or
by the performance of any contract, engagement or obligation
by any persons or companies and in particular, customers of
the Company or any persons or companies with whom the Company
may have or intend to have business relations.
37. To pay legally any premiums or salaries and to pay for
property, rights or privileges acquired by the Company or for
services rendered or to be rendered in connection with the
promotion, formation of or the business of the Company or for
services, rendered or to be rendered by any persons, firms or
body corporate in placing or assisting to place or
guaranteeing the placing of any of the shares of the Company
or any debentures or other securities of the Company or
otherwise wholly or partly in cash or in shares, bonus,
debentures or other securities of the Company and to issue any
such shares either as fully paid up or with such amount
credited as paid-up thereon as may be agreed upon and to
charge any such bonds, debentures, or other securities upon
all or any part of the property of the Company.
38. To take into consideration and to approve and confirm all
acts, deeds or things that may be done or entered into with
any person, firm or body corporate by the promoters of the
Company and further to enter into any arrangement, agreement
or contract with the promoters and to reimburse them for all
costs and expenses that may be incurred by them in or in
connection with the formation or promotion of the Company.
39. To support, donate, contribute, subscribe, to give and to pay
in cash or in kind for any purpose to any individual or body
of individuals and also to contribute, donate and subscribe to
any charitable, religious, educational or other public
institutions, trusts, fund, clubs, societies or individuals or
body of individuals, subject to the provisions of Section
298-A of the Companies Act, 1956, but not intended to serve
any political cause or purpose.
40. To form, incorporate or promote any company or companies
whether in India or in any foreign country having amongst its
or their objects the object which in the opinion of the
Company could or might directly or indirectly assist the
Company in the development of its properties or otherwise
prove advantageous on the Company and to pay all or any of the
costs and expenses incurred in connection with any such
promotion on incorporation and to remunerate any person or
company in any manner it shall think fit for services rendered
or to be rendered in or about the formation or promotion of
the Company or the conduct of its business or in or about the
promotion or formation of any other company in which the
Company may have an interest.
41. To borrow or raise or secure the payment of money from any
Bank or Banks or any other person, firm, institution or body
whether incorporated or not, for the purpose of the Company's
business in such manner and on such terms and with such
rights, powers and privileges as the Company may think fit and
in particular by issue of or upon debentures, bonds,
obligations, deposit notes and securities of all kinds and to
frame, constitute and secure the same as may seem expedient,
with power to make the same transferable by delivery or by
instrument of transfer or otherwise and either perpetual or
terminable and either redeemable or otherwise and to charge or
secure the same by trust deed or otherwise on the undertaking
of the Company, or upon any specific property and rights
present and future of the Company or otherwise whatsoever and
collaterally or further to secure any securities of the
Company by a trust deed or other assurance, subject to the
provisions of Section 58-A and directives of RBI.
42. To procure the registration or recognition of the Company in
or under the laws of any place outside India.
43. To subscribe to become a member or subsidise and cooperate
with any other association, whether incorporated or not, whose
objects are altogether or in part similar to those of the
Company and to procure from and communicate to any such
association, such information as may be likely to further the
objects of the Company.
44. To constitute any trusts with a view to the issue of preferred
securities based on or representing any shares or other assets
specifically appropriated for the purposes of any such trust
and to settle and regulate and if thought fit, to undertake
and execute any such trusts and to issue, dispose of or hold
any such preferred or other securities.
45. To lease, let out on hire, mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, sell
or otherwise dispose of the whole or any part or parts of the
undertaking of the Company or any land, business, property,
rights or assets of any kind of the Company or any share or
interest therein respectively in such manner and for such
consideration as the Company may think fit and in particular
for shares, debentures or securities of any other body
corporate having objects altogether or in part similar to
those of the
Company.
46. To undertake, carry out, promote or sponsor any programme of
rural health or development including any programme for mass
immunisation or for promoting the health, social and economic
welfare or uplift the public in any rural or other areas to
assist in the execution and promotion of any such programme
either directly or through the agency of any person or persons
or in any other manner and to incur expenditure on any such
programmes with power to directors to transfer with or without
consideration to divest the ownership of any property of the
Company to or in favour of any person or persons including any
public or local body or authority, central or state government
any public institution or any trust or funds as the directors
may in their sole and absolute discretion decide. Without
prejudice to the generality of foregoing the words `Rural
Area' shall include such areas, as may be regarded as rural
areas under Section 35-CC of the Income Tax Act, 1961 or any
other relating to rural development for the time being in
force or as may be regarded by the directors as rural areas.
47. To undertake, carry out, promote and sponsor or assist any
activity for the promotion and growth of the national economy
and for discharging what the Directors may consider to be the
social and moral responsibilities of the Company to the public
or any section of the public as also any activities which the
Directors consider likely to promote national welfare of the
social, economic or moral uplift of the public or any section
of the public in such manner and by such means as the
Directors may think fit and the Directors may without any
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing undertake, carry
out, promote and sponsor any activity for publication of any
books, literature, newspapers, or for organising lectures or
seminars likely to advance these objects or for giving merit
awards, scholarships, loans or any other assistance to
deserving students or other scholars or persons to enable them
to prosecute their studies or academic pursuits or researches
or for establishing, conducting or assisting any institution,
fund, trust. Having any one of the aforesaid objects by giving
donations or in any other manner and the Directors may at
their discretion in order to implement any of the
above-mentioned objects or purposes transfer without
consideration or at such fair or concessional value as the
Directors may think fit subject to the Provisions of contracts
and divest the ownership of any property of the Company to or
in favour of any public or local body or authority or central
or state government or any public institutions or trusts or
funds as the directors may approve.
48. Subject to provisions of the Act and directions issued by RBI
to receive money deposit from its members, Directors or their
relatives on interest or otherwise and to lend money on
interest or otherwise negotiate with or without security such
companies, firms, or persons and on such conditions as may
seem expedient and to guarantee the performance of contracts
by any person, companies or firms provided that the Company
shall not carry on the business of banking as defined in the
Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
C. OTHER OBJECTS :-
49. To act and carry on business of consultants, advisers,
registrars, and share transfer agents of companies, industrial
enterprises, firms or persons.
50. To carry on business of management consultants to any type of
industry, trade, business, institution, corporation,
federations, State/Central Government, financial institutions
including banks, company, firm and individuals in and outside
the Union of India, and to advice problems related to
industrial management, marketing, sales and distribution
management, protection management, financial management,
stores and inventory management, office administration and
personnel selection and management, export and import
management and management of every type and to collect,
propose, process and distribute information and statistics
related to any type of business, trade and industry and to
promote or propose such methods, procedures and measures as
may be considered desirable or beneficial.
51. To cultivate and produce and to carry on the business of tea
planters of all varieties of tea and produce tea of all
varieties in loose form or tea bags or other preparation of
readymade tea, blend and in any way deal in tea as merchants
and planters and for that purpose to plant, to purchase or
otherwise acquire tea gardens in India and elsewhere and to
erect, set up, purchase or otherwise acquire all plants,
machinery and equipment necessary or required for carrying on
the business of tea planters, importers, exporters of tea and
allied products and byproducts and to carry on business in tea
estates and to do all and every other thing incidental or
ancillary to the carrying on the business as aforesaid.
52. To carry on in all their respective branches the business of
General Finance, investments, trust and legal trust.
53. To undertake and carry on the business of safe deposit
companies and trust companies and guarantee business but not
amounting to banking business.
54. To carry in all their aspects the business of hire purchase or
general finance, investment trust and finance brokers.
55. To make or cause to be made studies, reports, and tests to
determine the desirability and feasibility of establishing
plants, factories, mines and other facilities at various
locations to serve such an industry.
56. To carry on the business of firm financing whether by system
or hire purchase, profits sharing, royalty and/or on
percentage commission or any other items.
57. To carry on the business of cold storage, refrigeration,
cooking, dehydrating, preserving, canning of any product of
Company's own account or as contractors for any governmental,
municipal body or individual on such terms and conditions.
58. To carry on the business of manufacturers and dealers in all
kinds of oil including vegetable oil and as mean
manufacturers, oil merchants, cake and corn merchants,
millers, flour merchants, bakers, biscuit makers,
confectioners, milling of flour, whole meal atta, suji, raw
(semolina), basin (gram flour), manufacturing of breakfast
food, spaghetti and macaroni.
59. To carry on all or any of the business of mechanical and
electrical engineers and manufacturers and suppliers of
implements and machinery, tool-makers, smiths, steel and brass
founders, metal workers, machinists, iron and steel workers,
metallurgists.
60. To carry on the business of exhibition of films,
cinema-owners, film distributors, studio-owners and all other
allied material traders and techniques.
61. To purchase or otherwise acquire any land, building or
premises and to turn into account, develop, improve, alter,
demolish or let out for the purpose of carrying on the
business of hotel, restaurant, coffee tavern, lodging,
housekeepers and to carry on the business of wine, spirit and
liquor merchants, importers, exporters and manufacturers of
aerated, mineral and artificial waters and other drinks
whether intoxicating or not or caterers for public amusement
or entertainment, proprietors of motor and other vehicles,
garage proprietors, job-masters, refreshment-room keepers,
farmers, dairymen and ice-merchants, victuallers, live and
dead stock and colonial and foreign produce of all
descriptions, hairdressers, perfumers, chemists, proprietors
of clubs, baths, dressing-room, museum, reading, writing and
newspaper room, library, playgrounds, indoor and outdoor game,
sport, recreation, exhibition, entertainment of all kinds,
tobacco and cigarettes, agents for railways and shipping
company and tourist, theatrical, cinemas and opera-box.
62. To purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire land,
buildings, vineyard, gardens and other places for growing,
keeping, brewing, preparing and storing of land products,
plants or other things as may be requisite for carrying on the
said business.
63. To carry on, execute and conduct a general contracting
business, to submit tenders and undertake to do all sorts of
building manufacturing, producing, farming, surveying,
supplying, designing. enlarging, repairing, re-modelling,
managing, administering, controlling and supervising business.
64. To manufacture cotton, woollen and silk, artificial and
synthetic Fibre goods of all kinds and to carry on all or any
of the following business: Cotton, Silk, Dyeing materials,
processors, and printers of all textiles woollen and silk
spinners and doublers, flex, and jute spinners, wool combers,
worsted spinners, linen manufacturers, worsted stuff
manufacturers, drapers, flex, hemp, jute, wool and silk
merchants, bleachers and dyers and makers of vitriol,
bleaching and dyeing
materials, growers of mulbery or other trees and producers of
any other articles or things whether by cultivation or
afforestation or by any other mechanical or chemical power or
appliances for the purpose of obtaining silk, woollen, cotton
or any other materials to be converted into cloth,
wool-combers.
65. To carry on the business as dealers in and purchasers of
dairy, farms, garden and their produce of all kinds and in
particular milk, cream, butter, ghee, cheese, poultry, eggs,
fruits, vegetable oils, vegetable ghee, artificial ghee,
spices, sausages, prawn, potted meat, table delicacies,
loaves, bread, manures.
66. To carry on the business of houses, shops, saloons, halls and
other apartment and exhibition decorators and execute
decorative work of all sorts; to prepare, manufacture, paint,
use, import, export, device, design all kinds of artistic
objects for use and ornamentation or any property used in the
decoration of furnishing of buildings, exhibitions or other
structures of all kinds and nature whatsoever.
67. To carry on all kinds of business of manufacturers, importers,
exporters, dealers, assemblers and distributors of radios.
radiograms, gramophones, wireless apparatus, domestic and
commercial refrigerators, coolers, freezers of all kinds,
humidifying, dehumidifying, ventilating and cooling-plants,
room-coolers and air-conditioning of all kinds, records, bare
and rubber insulated wires, cables, flexible cords, fuse
wires, copper weld and aluminium wires, electric switches and
switch gears, contents, lamps, motors, fans and electric
goods, plastic and light material products, equipments and
accessories of all kinds cold storage equipments and all
articles and things used in manufacture, construction,
erection, maintenance and working thereof in connection
therewith in any way whatsoever. To repair the same and their
machinery and apparatus etc. To manufacture and deal in
loud-speakers, transformers, microphones, transmitters,
amplifiers, receivers, public address equipments of all kinds
and accessories of all kinds used in the manufacture,
installation, erection, repairs, maintenance and working
thereof or in connection therewith in any way whatsoever.
68. To manufacture sewing machines, reaping machines, thrashing
machines, tractors and all other kinds of farm implements and
machinery, dairy machineries, elevating machines, conveying
machines, transmission machines, incubators and parts and
tools thereof and accessories requisite therefor.
69. a. To carry on the business of founders, manufacturers,
importers, exporters, dealers of ferrous and nonferrous
metals, sheet metal workers, mechanical, structural,
electrical and metallurgical engineers, to carry on the
work of cast iron foundry for the manufacture of all
types of pipes and pipe-fittings, water reservoirs,
drainage requisites including manhole frames and covers,
gratings and ladders, cast-iron-sanitary appliances and
fittings including flushing cisterns, bath-tubs,
wash-basins, cast iron building requisite including
railing, spiral stairs, ladders, ventilators, ornamental
window-frames, pillars, agricultural implements
including
choppers, ploughs, cast iron, railway casting including
sleepers, fish-plates, wheels and other fittings,
household requisites and utensils including cooking
pans, containers, coal mining and engineering requisites
including pinions, tube-wheels, pump parts and other
general and special castings.
b. To carry on the work of mechanical and electrical
engineers and to run a workshop to undertake and execute
all types of mechanical and structural jobs of
manufacturing, fabrication, and erection of buildings
and articles and to do various types of sheets, metal
work including manufacturing and construction of storage
tanks, buckets, drums, various types of containers and
other similar items that may be easily marketable.
70. To carry on the business of jewellers, bullion merchants,
goldsmiths, silversmiths, gem and stone merchants.
71. To deal, hold and let out precious stones, diamonds, pearls,
jewelery, watches, clocks, chronometers, gold and silver
utensils and items electroplated cutlery, presents and gifts,
coins, cups, medals, shields, curios, articles of virtue, art
and antiquities, dressing bags, and bronzes.
72. To engage and carry on the business of raising, packing,
grading, preparing for market butter, cream, milk farm
products of all description.
73. To carry on the business of manufacturers of paper envelopes,
cardboard and mill-board, and tanners in all its branches and
makers, buyers and sellers of and dealers in any articles
which can be manufactured out of pulp, compressed paper or
paper stock and to sell in either a raw or partially or wholly
completed prepared state all such paper envelopes, card-board,
mill-board, fibres substances, pulp or things, as may furnish
materials for paper manufacturing in any of its branches and
to undertake all or any manufacturing or preparing processes
connected with or useful for the purposes of such business or
undertaking and to purchase and vend the raw material and
manufacture articles both in wholesale and retail manner.
74. To manufacture sugar and related products from beet-root,
produce or chemicals.
75. To produce, grow, raise, preserve, purify, refine, import,
export, prepare, sell and deal in sugar, sugarcandy,
sugar-cane, gur, molasses, syrups, alcohol and all other
byproducts and food products, fertilizers and things and to
maintain refineries, foundries, workshops, distilleries and
other works.
76. To manufacture and deal in an atomical, orthopaedic and
surgical instruments and appliances of all kinds.
77. To grow, raise, tend, cultivate tea, coffee, cinchona, rubber
and other products and to carry on the business of
tea-planters in all its branches, to carry on and work the
business of cultivators mine owners and buyers to every kind
of vegetable, mineral or other products of the soil.
78. To carry on the business as travel agents, tourists and cargo
carriers by road, air, sea, or by other modes of transport and
to carry on all allied business and activities pertaining to
the travelling and tourist business.
79. To carry on the business of helicopter spraying on farms,
grove lands, cultivation, products and other allied business
of eradication of diseases, virus and insecticides.
80. To carry on business as exporters, manufacturers, importers,
buyers and sellers of and dealers in all chemicals,
petrochemicals and plastics (including without prejudice to
the said generality and in particular Soda Ash, Caustic Soda,
Sulphuric Acid, Super Phosphate, Ammonium Chloride, Di-Calcium
Phosphate, Alcohol, Cosmetics, Chlorine products, both organic
and inorganic such as polyvinyl chloride, carbontetra
chloride, trichloroethylene, per choroethylene, ethylene
dichloride, carbon disulphide, Barium chloride, Aluminium
trichloride, Titanium tetrachloride etc.,) alkalis, acids,
cordials-drugs, tanins, essences and pharmaceutical,
photographical, sizing, medical, chemical, industrial and
other preparations and articles of any nature and kind
whatsoever, mineral and other waters, cements, oils, paints,
pigments and varnishes, compounds, drugs. dyestuffs, organic
or mineral intermediates, paint and colour grinders, makers
and dealers in proprietory articles of all kinds and
electrical, chemical, photographical, surgical and scientific
apparatuses, instruments, goods and materials.
81. To acquire from or sell to any person, firm, body corporate or
un-incorporate, whether in India or elsewhere, technical and
managerial information, know-how process engineers,
manufacturing, operating and commercial data, plans, layouts
and blue-prints useful for the design, erection and operation
or any plant or process of manufacture and to acquire, grant
or licences other rights and benefits in the foregoing,
matters, to render any kind of managerial, technical and
financial consultancy services and to carry on the business of
market research organisers, sales promotion agents, general,
advisers, technical and marketing consultants either alone or
in partnership.
82. To undertake, carry out, promote and sponsor scientific
research related to business of the Company and to incur any
expenditure on such research, and to assist and contribute to
any scientific research association which has as its objects
the undertaking of scientific research or to assist and
contribute to any University, college or other institution any
sums to be used for scientific research or research in social
science or statistical research.
83. To produce, extra, manufacture, purchase, refine, prepare,
process, import, export, buy, sell and to deal in graphite,
synthetic and natural coal, and other cokes, carbon and other
minerals, chemicals, petro-chemicals, gas and other petroleum
substances in all their various forms and derivations and
their products, by-products and ancillary products and to
carry on all or any of the business of distillers, refinery
operators, compounders, synthetic analysts, physicists,
reactor operators, compounders, synthetic gas producers and
consumers, manufacturers, chemists, druggists, analytical
chemists, drysalters, oil and colour men.
84. To carry on all or any of the business of the manufacturers,
of and dealers and workers, in cement, lime, plaster, mortar,
marble, mosaic, tiles, whitings, minerals, clay, earth,
gravel, sand, coke, fuel, artificial stones and builders'
requisites of all kinds, nature and description.
85. To purchase, take on lease, acquire in exchange or otherwise
own, hold, occupy, manage, control, construct, erect, alter,
develop, pull down, improve, repair, renovate, work, build,
plan lay out, sell, transfer, mortgage, charge, assign, let
out, hire sub-let, sub-lease all types of lands, plots,
buildings, hereditaments, bunglows, quarters, offices, flats,
chawls, warehouses, godowns, shops, stalls, markets, houses,
structures, undertakings, constructions, tenaments, roads,
bridges, forests, estates, assets and properties, moveable or
immoveable freehold or leasehold of whatever nature and
description and wherever situated.
86. To manage land, building and other property and to collect
rents, profits and issues and to provide and supply to tenants
or other occupiers, refreshments, lights, waiting rooms,
reading rooms, meeting rooms, swimming pools, club rooms,
gardens, lavatories, laundry, convenience, garaging
facilities, play-grounds, water, air conditioning facilities
and equipment, lifts and escalators and all other conveniences
and appliances relating to or connected with offices and
residence requirements in general.
87. To acquire, construct, maintain, improve, develop, work,
control, manage, sell, dispose off or otherwise turn to
account any hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of amusement,
pleasure grounds, gardens, reading rooms, stores, dairies,
estates, orchards, river or harbour sites and other places of
sites wherever situated and other works and conveniences of
each and every nature and description.
88. To carry on business as financers and to undertake, and carry
on and execute all kinds of financial, operations and to
discount, buy, sell and deal in bills, notes, warrants,
coupons, suits and decrees for money granted by any court in
the Union of India and other negotiable or transferable
securities or documents.
89. To carry on business as timber merchants, saw-mill proprietors
and timber growers and to buy, sell, grow, prepare for market,
manipulate(1), import, export and deal in timber and wood of
all kinds and to manufacture and deal in articles of all kinds
in the manufacture of which timber or wood is used, and to
buy, clear,
plant and work timber estates, and to establish, own, erect,
acquire, work and manage veneer mills, plywood factories and
similar mills and factories and peel, produce, manufacture and
prepare for market, store, stock, buy, sell, export, import,
distribute, deal in and carry on business in veneers, veneer
products, veneer for tea-chests packing cases and commercial
boards, decorative veneer, veneers for furniture and cabinet
making and other purposes, tea chests, matches, bobbins,
commercial plywood, plywood for cabinet-making,
coach buildings, ship buildings, aeroplanes, partitions,
panellings, doors, windows and other constructional purposes
decorative veneer boards, laminated boards, black-boards,
composite boards, compressed boards, pressed boards, hard
boards, chip-boards, bent wood, moulded wood, and any other
articles of like nature.
90. To establish, purchase, sell, take on lease, hire or otherwise
acquire and work and textile-mill, handlooms, power-looms or
other mills, cotton ginning and pressing factory, jute mills,
jute-presses, hemp or other fibre presses, spinning mills,
weaving mills and chemicals factories, waste plants or press
for pressing merchandise into bales and to cultivate, process,
buy, sell, import, export, pledge, speculate enter into
forward transactions and deal in whether as commission agents,
brokers or otherwise in raw jute, jute goods, cotton, kapas,
cotton seeds, flax, hemp and silk.
91. To plant, cultivate, produce and raise sugarcane, hemp, flax,
food-grains, oilseeds, fruits and seeds, nuts, vegetables and
to prepare, preserve, manufacture, crush and render marketable
any such produce and to deal in the same.
92. To carry on the business of the electric supply in all its
branches and in particular to construct, lay down, establish,
fix and carry out all necessary power stations, cables, wires,
lines, accumulators, lamps and works, generate, develop and
accumulate electrical power at places for which licence be
obtained and to transmit distribute and supply such power
throughout the area of supply named therein and without
prejudice to the generality of the above to transmit,
distribute and supply such power to and for the purpose of
feeding the plants of the Company and generally to generate
develop and accumulate power at any such places and to
transmit, distribute and supply such power for all lawful
purposes.
93. To search, prospect, win, work, get, raise, querry, smelt,
refine, dress, manufacture, produce, plant, manipulate,
convert, make merchantable, sell, buy or deal in lime, cement,
sand-glasses, marble, limestone, silica, mica, brick, earth,
fireclay, manganese, mineral oils, ores, clays and other
metals, metalliferrous ores, minerals and to manufacture,
sell, buy and deal in any of such articles and commodities and
to carry on the business of manufacture of bricks, tiles,
pipes, pottery, earthenware, china and terracotta, cream and
ceramicware of all kinds.
94. To carry on the business of manufacturers or processors and/or
importers, exporters, buyers, sellers, stockists and
distributors of and/or dealers in all kinds of chemicals,
drugs, pharmaceuticals.
95. To carry on the business of chemists, druggists, researchers,
technicians, designers, planners, advisers, purchasers,
testers, erectors, superintendents and contractors.
96. To carry on the business of public carriers, transporters and
carriers of goods, passengers, merchandise, corn commodities
and other products and goods and luggages of all kinds and
descriptions in any part of India and elsewhere on land, water
and air by any conveyances whatsoever.
97. To manufacture, build, construct, develop, buy, sell, import,
export, assemble, equip, distribute, exchange, barter, let on
hire, buy or sell on hire-purchase or instalment system or
otherwise deal in lorries, trucks, motor-cars, motor cycles
and other motor vehicles including cycles and scooters of all
kinds and descriptions generally to carry on the business as
manufacturers, repairers, assemblers, mechanical engineers,
carriage builders of motors, omnibuses, taxi-cars, lorries,
motor-cars, and all other kinds of vehicles and vessels for
the transport of persons and goods whether propelled or moved
by petrol, electricity, steam, oil, vapour or other motives or
mechanical power.
98. To manufacture, buy, cell, exchange, process, refine, smelt,
prepare, work, alter, improve, import, export and to carry on
business as agents, distributors, stockists and otherwise deal
in iron, steel and their scraps and by-products, metal scrap,
iron ores and minerals in all forms and carry on the business
of iron and steel founders and manufacturers, iron workers,
iron masters, brass founders and metal makers, steel makers,
steel converters, fabricators, smiths, tinplate makers,
manufacturers of industrial, agricultural and other fittings
and to establish rolling mills and rollers in their respective
branches.
99. To act as shipping agents, stevedores, Freight and Chartering
Brokers, Ship Brokers, Charters of vessels, Suppliers and
Purveyors of ships and other Vessels and Boating contractors.
100. To carry on the business of gold and silver-smiths and to
import, export, buy, sell, exchange or otherwise deal in all
types of jewelleries and ornaments and utensils made of gold
and/or silver.
101. To carry on the business of manufacturers and dealers in
airconditioning and refrigeration equipments, consumer and
domestic appliances, radios and transistors, electronic
equipment including television and computers, electrodes
including graphite electrodes, weighing scales, batteries,
flashlight, detonators and wireropes, linoleum, vinyl tiles,
glass, calculators, type-writers and all forms of office
equipment, magnets, gauges and precision instruments, all
types of electronic equipments, conductors, capacitors,
meters, grinding and abrasive equipment.
102. To carry on business as manufacturers, producers, dealers,
traders, importers, stockists, distributors, or agents of
G.L.P. lamps, electric bulbs, miniature bulbs, tube lights,
flood lights, flash lights, mercury vapour bulb and other type
or types of bulbs, lamps, tubes or domestic, electronics,
transport vehicles or commercial purposes and glass shells
fittings, tubes, filaments, tungsten and molybdenum wires,
caps and other materials, machineries, accessories and spares
required or used for manufacture of bulbs, lamps, tubes.
103. To carry on the business as traders, dealers, wholesalers,
retailers, combers, scourers, spinners, weavers, finishers,
dyers and manufacturers and processors of yarns and fabrics of
wool, cotton, jute, silk, rayon, nylon, hemp and other natural
synthetic and/or fibrous substances including polyester,
polyacry-lonitrile, polyvinyl acetate, cashmilon, acrylic
fibres, polyproplene polymers, monomers, clastomers, and
resins of all types, grades and copylymer formulations and
forms or as processed goods and including polythelene,
ploostyrene, plyvinylchloride, polymethyl, methacrylatem eposy
resins, alkyl resins, mealmine polycarbonates, polyamides or
any other or new substances being improvements upon,
modifications of or being derived from additions to
petrochemicals or other products or resulting from any process
and/or manufacturer of materials from the waste realised from
the above mentioned products either on its own account or on
commission and to carry on the business as drapers and dealers
of furnishing fabrics in all its branches as conturiers,
readymade dress and mantle makers, silk mercers, makers and
suppliers of closing linherie and trimmings of every kind,
furriers, drapers, haberdashers, milliners, hosiers, glovers,
lace makers, rope makers, felt and tarpaulin makers, feather
dressers, felt makers, dealers in and manufacturers of yarns,
fabrics and materials of all kinds, varieties and substances;
and also to manufacture, deal in or process natural starch and
other auxiliaries and sizing materials, dye-stuff, synthetic
or chemical substances of all kinds and compounds and other
substances either basic, intermediate or otherwise as required
for the above mentioned product or products.
104. To prospect for, examine, exports, win, get, quarry, smelt,
calcine, refine, crush and grind, dress, amalgamate,
manipulate and prepare for market, purchase, sell or deal in
ores, metals and minerals of all kinds and to carry on any
other prospecting, mining or metallurgical operations and to
buy, sell, manufacture and deal in minerals, plant, machinery,
implements, conveniences, provisions and things capable of
being used in connection with prospecting, mining or
metallurgical operations.
105. To carry on business as producers, distributors, importers,
exporters, exhibitors and financiers of cinematograph film and
to manufacture, own, acquire, provide, secure, arrange or deal
in films and photographic paper and equipment, cameras, sound
recording, musical, lighting appliances, instruments,
equipments and machines and to construct, establish, own, hire
or otherwise acquire, and to manage, let out for rent fee,
monetary gain or otherwise studios, laboratories, theatres,
buildings, halls, open air theatres, bars, restaurants and
other buildings or
work required for the purpose of production, distribution or
exhibition of the films, operas, stageplays, dances,
operattas, barrisques, vaudeville, revues, ballets,
pantomimes, spectacular pieces, promenade concert circus or
other performance and entertainments and to act as dealers,
importers, exporters of musical instruments and records,
tapes, cinema and film projectors and cameras, wigs and other
products or materials related or connected with the aforesaid
objects and business; and to acquire exclusive or limited
rights to any play, story, script, musical songs and lyric,
book, article or any technique by producing, purchasing or
otherwise acquiring and to use, exercise, develop or exploit
or turn to account such rights for the business of the
Company, and to act as agents for training, retaining,
arranging, and supplying artists, stars, art directors script
or story-writers, technicians, extra and other personnel
required by the Company or other film, cinema or show
business.
106. To manufacture, process, import, export. buy, sell and deal in
vanaspati oils, de-hydrated vegetable oils, oils made or
processed or solvent extracted from seeds, cotton-seeds,
coconuts, products of plantations, horticulture, agriculture
and forest produce and oil cakes and to get vanaspati soaps
and lubricants made from oils or by-products thereof.
107. To carry on business of manufacturers, fabricators,
processors, producers, growers, makers, importers, exporters,
buyers, sellers, suppliers, stockists, agents, merchants,
distributors and concessionaries of and dealers in flour,
cakes, pastry, cornflakes, bread, biscuits, chocolates,
confectionery, sweets, fruit-drops, sugar, glucose, chewing
gums, milk, cream, ice, ice-cream, aerated or mineral waters,
fruit juices, wines, liquors and other alcoholic drinks and
fermentation products, canned fruits and fruit products, milk
and malted food, protein foods, maize products, butter, ghee,
cheese and other dairy products, pickles, jams, jellies,
sausages, cider, pulses, spices, oils, powder and condensed
milk, honey, fresh and dehydrated vegetables, coffee, tea,
cocoa-seeds, processed seeds, concentrate for cattle or
poultry feed, fruits and all kinds or processed food as well
as materials or used for preparation of or being food
articles.
108. To carry on business as producers, importers, exporters,
processors, manufacturers, buyers, sellers, distributors,
stockists, agents and brokers of coal, coke, charcoal,
lignite, petroleum coke, copper, iron-ore, bauxite, kyanite,
fire-clay, chinaclay, salt, sodium chloride, calcium,
phosphate, nickel, barillium, uranium, zinc, lead, asbestos,
tin, allumina, mercury, silicon, sulphur, graphite, brass,
aluminium, silica, sand, bentonite, quartz, destrine,
magnesite, dolomite, ferro alloys, corrounlum, manganese,
mica, silver, gold, platinum, sapphire, ruby, topaz, garnet,
emerald, pearl, and other precious, semi-precious or
commercial minerals and stones and to act as metal founders,
manufacturers, agents and dealers of metals, sheets, wires,
rods, squares, plates, metal foils, pipes, tubes, ingots,
billets, circle parts, coils, utensils, ornaments, decorative
and art materials and jewelery made wholly or partly from any
one or more of the metals and materials mentioned herein or
their derivatives.
109. To manufacture, deal in and process all kinds of medical and
surgical instruments and appliances, industrial instruments
including meters, weighing machines and devices for
indicating, recording and regulating pressure, temperature,
rate of flow weights and levels, scientific instruments,
mathematical, surveying and drawing instruments as well as
items produced in miscellaneous mechanical and engineering
industries like plastic-moulded goods, hand-tools, small tools
and the like and razor blades.
110. To manufacture, export, import, buy, sell and deal in voltaic
battery cells over pack or storage batteries and battery
containers and battery eliminators of different types required
for or used in domestic, household, industrial, commercial,
agricultural, mining, hospital, surgical or scientific
appliances, machinery, apparatus or accessories, and railways,
tramways, automobile and other vehicles, aircrafts, boats,
ships, defence establishments, army, navy and air-force for
wireless, radios, torches, toys, electronic equipments or
otherwise and also to carry on business of manufacturers of
lamp, dealers in torches, toys, personal aids and other
appliances working on such batteries and such items and goods,
which may be useful, skin or otherwise connected with any one
or more of the aforesaid items or products.
111. To manufacture, deal in, export, import, assemble, fit,
repair, convert, overhaul alter, maintain and improve all
types of electronic components, devices, equipments and
appliances and raw materials therefore and to deal in and with
stores and other materials used in or in connection with
electronic and electrical industries.
112. To carry on the business of manufacturers and dealers in
capacitors, resistors, tubes, condensors, semi-conductor
materials and devices, transistors, rectifiers, zenerdiodes,
thermistors, integrated and hybrid circuits, relays and
varistors, potentiometers, connectors, Printed circuits,
coils, chokes, transformers, switches, volume controls, plugs,
sockets, bases, aerial gears, electrical, diesel motors and
pumps, batteries, accumulators, cables, metals, and other
cases piezo electric quartz, crystals of all types including
those made from synthetic materials, meters of all kinds
including those for industrial, Domestic and other uses etc.,
chasis-holders and covers.
113. To carry on the business of manufacturers and/or deal in all
types of tapes, magnetic and otherwise, tape-recorder,
television, broadcast, relay and reception equipments,
phonographs and the equipments used in and/or for and audio
visual communications, apparatus and equipment including those
using electro-magnetic waves intended for radio-telegraphic or
radio telephonic communications, photo-copies, electronic,
lighting controls, continuous fan motor speed controls,
continuous flashers and fire-alarm systems, digital and other
electronic clocks, time relays, electromechanical pneumatic
controls, automatic calculators, x-ray machines, surgical,
medical and other appliances intended for electro and other
therapy treatment.
114. To carry on the business of manufacturers, producers,
refiners, exporters, importers, buyers and sellers of and
dealers in all and any fertilizers, manures, dips, sprays,
vermifuges, fungicides, insecticides, germicides, medicines
and remedies of all kinds for by any process whether chemical,
mechanical, electrical or otherwise.
115. To manufacture, export, import, buy, sell and deal in
containers, cans, boxes, drums, cylinders, bottle-tops, crown
corks, packages, packing materials, bags pressed netwares,
utensils, cutlery tablewares and articles made all of tin,
metal aluminium plates, sheets, glass fibre, paper, board,
cloth hessian, leather, plastic or other synthetic compound or
materials, timber or plywood and to deal in tinplates, wire,
aluminium sheets and to undertake either or on own account or
on commission basis or otherwise printing, painting,
designing, enamelling, electroplating, engraving or otherwise
decorating aforesaid products or any of such products or
articles.
116. To carry on research and development work for industrial,
agricultural and minerals, productiving and methods of
production into matters and problems relating to accountancy,
business management, distribution, marketing and selling and
to collect, analyse, examine, prepare, formulate, publish,
distribute and circulate date statistics, reports, journals,
books, magazines, newspapers, literature and information
relating to any type of business, trade, industry, sports,
education, society, cinema or real estates and to promote or
propose such methods, procedures and measures as may be
considered desirable or beneficial for all or any of the
objects of the Company and for extending, developing and/or
improving any type of business, trade, estate, industry,
commerce organisation, methods, techniques, technical
know-how, patents, trade marks and procedures to consider and
evaluate problems relating to administration, management,
manufacture, production, strong, distribution, finance,
marketing and sale and/or relating to the rendering of any
service.
117. To act as registrars and share transfer agents, shipping and
forwarding agents or mercantile agents.
118. To carry on the trade, industry, business occupation and
profession of architects, engineers, builders, contractors,
electrical, sanitary and plumbing engineers and contractors,
flooring contractors and general builders, furnishers,
decorators and contractors in all such other branches.
119. To carry on business as designers, fabricators, manufacturers,
importers. exporters, contractors, constructors and erectors
of buildings, plants and machineries of all kinds and to
provide all service and facilities in connection therewith and
to act as contractors for the supply of labour personnel and
export manpower in India or any part of the world.
120. To carry on business of manufacturers, fabricators,
processors, producers, makers, importers, exporters, buyers,
sellers, suppliers, stockists, agents, merchants, distributors
and concessionaires of all types of Refractories.
121. To carry on the business of purchase, sale, hiring, letting,
importers, exporters, breeders and developers or thoroughbred
and other horses, mares or geldings and develop and maintain
breeding farms and race-courses and all facilities connected
therewith.
122. To carry on the business of manufacturers of saddles and
saddlery and other equipments required for horse and horse
racing and to engage and participate in any races, held or
conducted under any recognised racing rules under any law for
the time being in force.
123. To make or take wagers or bets and settle the same upon any
race held under the recognised racing rule under any law for
the time being in force provided that the Company shall not
carry on any business or engage in any activity of faming or
wagering prohibited by any law for the time being in force.
124. To establish and carry on the business of manufacturers,
stockists, dealers, importers, exporters and testers of
chains, rings, books, shakles, swivels, connectors, slings,
elevators, loaders, conveyors, sprockets, sushes, rollers,
hoists, pulley blocks, pulleys, granties, drums, winches,
cranes, lifting and handling delices and all parts and
components thereof.
125. To establish and carry on the business of manufacturers,
repairers, stockists, distributors, dealers, importers and
exporters of balls, rollers, buses, needles, ball and roller
bearing, thinwalled bearings, needle roller bearings, plummber
blocks, pillow blocks, pedestals rollers, chains, power
transmission chains, convator chains, chains prockers, chain
couplings, chain wheels, chain tensioners and all accessories
and components.
126. To carry on the business of technical and management
consultants and advisers and to enter into collaboration
agreements for the manufacture of items, which the Company is
entitled to produce in India and abroad with the companies,
firms and individuals, Central and/or State Government and
their concerns and to tender and provide all types of services
including managerial, personnel, secretarial, designing,
engineering, preparation of feasibility and project reports,
drawings, plant, layouts, tenders for all the plant and
machinery, equipments, buildings and other structures and
helping finalisation of contract and creation and
commissioning of plants.
127. To carry on the business of manufacturers of and dealers in
sheet glass, plate glass, wired glass, figured glass and all
sorts of glass and glassware.
128. To manufacture, prepare, import, export, buy, sell and
otherwise deal in all kinds of glass, glassware, glass-goods,
mirrors, looking-glass, scientific glass-ware, sheet and plate
glass, bangle false pearls, bottles, phials and all kinds of
articles prepared of glass and carry on the business of glass
leveller patent solver, glass embosser, eccosiastical lead
worker glass tablet, show card and show case manufacturer.
129. To carry on the business of iron founders, civil and
mechanical engineers, consulting engineers, project engineers,
technical consultants, and manufacturers of agricultural,
industrial and other machinery, and tool bits, machine tool
makers, brass founders, metal workers, boiler makers, makers
of locomotive and engines of every description, mill-wright,
machinists, iron and steel converts, smiths, and to buy, sell,
design, specify, manufacture, fabricate, export, import,
repair, convert; alter, let on hire, and deal in machinery,
implements, plants, tools, tackles, instruments, rolling stock
and hardware of all kinds, general fittings, accessories and
appliances of all descriptions made of metal, alloy, other
material and any parts of such accessories or fittings.
130. To manufacture, assemble, prepare, export, import, trade and
deal in Railway materials, pole track, fittings, signaling and
interlocking equipment and fittings wamoncoach and carriage
components and fittings, agricultural implements and
accessories, structural materials of all kinds, bolts, nuts,
washers, screws, nails, hinges, poles and other materials,
steel and metal furniture and containers, telephone, telegraph
and electronic equipments, materials and appliances; and all
machineries, stores, tools, raw materials required in
connection therewith and all its finished and semifinished
products, by-products and scraps.
131. To explore, prospect take on lease or on royalty basis or
otherwise acquire, mines, mining rights and lands or any
interest therein and to quarry, mine, dress, reduce, draw,
extract, pints, calcine, smelt, refine, manufacture, process,
acquire, sell or otherwise dispose of and deal in all goods of
all types, qualities and descriptions and to carry on any
other metallurgical operations.
132. To carry on the business of a water works company in all its
branches and to sink wells and shafts, and to make, build and
construct, lay, down and maintain reservoirs, waterworks,
cistern, culverts, filterbeds, main and other pipes and
appliances, and to execute and to all other works and things
necessary or convenient for obtaining, storing, selling,
delivering, measuring and distributing water.
133. To carry on all or any of the business of manufacturers,
drawers, rollers, repairers, converters, makers, exporters,
importers, agents, stockists, brokers, traders and dealers of
and in iron, steel, alloy steel, all ferrous and non-ferrous
metals castings, scrap, skull, borings, billets, rods, wires,
pipes, tubes, bars, angles, plates, hoops, strips.
engineering, industrial and consumer products and goods,
machines, machine tools, agricultural and industrial tools,
equipments and
accessories and all raw materials, machinery and stores
required in connection therewith.
134. To carry on all or any of the business as supplying,
purchasing, selling, importing, exporting, manufacturing,
factories, offices and buildings and the business of
brickmakers, potters.
135. To carry on the business of manufactures, importers,
exporters, dealers, hirers, repairers, cleaners, carriers and
stores of motor cars, automobile spare and parts, omnibuses,
trucks, lorries, tractors, buldozers, motor cycles, scooters,
motor-boats, motorlaunches, motor-buses, motor-lorries, motor
vans, sea-planes, ships, gliders and other conveyances of all
descriptions whether propelled or assisted by petrol, steam,
gas, electricity, animal, automatic or other power or engines,
chassis, bodies and other things used in or in connection
therewith.
136. To carry on the business of hotels, clubs, boarding and
lodging houses, restaurants, cafes, canteens, soda fountains,
ice cream parlours, milk bars, casinos, licenced victuallers,
wine, beer and spirit merchants, manufacturers of aerated,
mineral and artificial waters and other drinks, caterers and
provisions of facilities, services, necessaries and articles
of every type and description for travellers and tourists.
137. To carry on business of amusement parks and promote, organise
and manage all kinds of entertainments, sports, recreations,
fairs, exhibitions, competitions, concerts, stage and variety
shows or performances and other types or kinds of recreation
or entertainment.
138. To carry on in India or elsewhere the business of
manufacturers, processors, fabricators, drawers, rollers and
re-rollers of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, steels, alloy
steels, special and stainless steels all kinds of castings,
shaftings, bars, rods, flats, squares from scrap, sponge iron,
pre-reduced pillars, billets, ingots, including manufacturing,
processing and fabricating of pipes, utensils, wire nails,
wire ropes, wire products, screws expanded metal hinges,
plates, sheets, strips, hoops, rounds, circles, angles and to
manufacture any other engineering products and to act as
exporters and importers and dealers in all such merchandise.
139. To carry on the business of purchasing or otherwise acquiring
and obtaining in any part of the world exclusive and other
interests in copyrights and rights of representations and any
other rights of or in any plays, operas, dramas, musical
compositions, songs, Cinema or T.V. films, Video and other
tapes or any other entertaining or educational productions
either artistic or commercial.
140. To manufacture, design, develop, rent out, buy, sell, repair,
service, import, export, take on lease or otherwise deal in
and render services through computers, computing systems,
software materials, instrumentation, medical, electronics,
communication and visual devices, telecommunication,
television, video, video equipment, electronics and electrical
products, equipments and devices and to act as consultants in
the matter of manufacturing, mining, engineering, quality
control.
141. To carry on the business as growers, farmers, harvesters,
proprietors, agents, processors, sellers, buyers, extractors,
canners, cultivators, distillators, importers, exporters and
dealers of agricultural products, including cotton, jute,
flax, rubber, hemp, grass timber wood, bamboo, straw, tea,
coffee, cocoa, cinchona, food products, including wheat,
barley, rice, pepervite, spicate card-ears, palmarose, maize,
sugar cane, beet, millets, mushrooms, vegetables and fruits,
other horticultural products and floricultural products and
any other articles produced from lands, and essences, pickles,
ciders, jams, chutneys, marmalades, vinegars, sausages,
ketchups, squashes, juices, syrups, drinks including beverages
produced from these or other products, chocolates, preserved
dehydrated, canned or converted fruits and vegetables,
processed foods, sugar products and to carry on the business
of cold storages, refrigeration, cooling of all the aforesaid
products or otherwise on Company's own account or as
contractors, lessors and the lessees.
142. To carry on the business of maintaining, operating,
purchasing, selling, taking or giving on lease or otherwise
acquiring dairies, poultry farms, horticultural farms,
semi-cultural farms, gardens, orchards and doing cow keeping,
buffalo keeping, goat and sheep keeping, horse and other
animals breeding and keeping. Nothing in this paragraph shall
authorise the Company to do any business which may fall within
the purview of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, or Insurance
Act, 1938.
143. To carry on the business of processing both manual as well as
with use of Data Processing Equipment and Computers, of
Financial Instruments like shares, debentures, bonds issued by
Private and Public Sectors Companies, Financial Institutions,
Commercial Banks, Government and Semi-Government Bodies, Local
Authorities and such other Bodies and to act and carry on the
business of Registrar and Transfer Agents, and to perform all
such services associated with such business.
IV. The liability of the Members is limited.
V. a. The Authorised Share Capital of the Company is Rs.
1,00,00,000/- (Rupees One Crore) divided into 10,00,000
(Ten Lakh) Equity Shares of Rs. 10/- (Rupees Ten) each.
b. The Paid Up Capital of the Company shall be minimum of
Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees One lakh).
We, the several persons, whose names, addresses and description are subscribed
hereunder are desirous of being formed into a Company, in pursuance of this
Memorandum of Association and we respectively agree to take the number of shares
in the capital of the Company set opposite to our respective names.
Signature of
Name, address, Number of Witness and his
description and Equity Shares Signature Name, Address,
occupation of each taken by each of Description and
subscriber Subscriber Subscriber Occupation
- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
Dr. Lalit S. Kanodia 5,000 Sd/- Witness to
S/o Surajmal Kanodia (Five Thousand Subscriber no. 1
1201, Red Rose Hsg. only) & 2
Soc., Sir
Pochkhanwala Road, Sd/-
Worli, Mumbai 400 025
Business Upendra S. Kulkarni
S/o of Mr.
Manish H. Modi 5,000 Sd/- Shivanand N.
S/o of Dr. Harsukh J. (Five Thousand Kulkarni
Modi only) A/9, Sindhutirtha
601/B,Gazdar Apts., Society, LBS
Juhu Tara Road, Road, Near
Mumbai 400 049 Makhmali Talao,
Company Executive Thane (W) 400 601
Company Executive
Total 10,000
(Ten Thousand
only)
Place: Mumbai Date: January 23, 2003
EXHIBIT E
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
THE COMPANIES ACT, 1956
(I of 1956)
COMPANY LIMITED BY SHARES
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
OF
KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED
PRELIMINARY
Table `A' not 1. No regulations contained in Table `A' in the First
to apply but Schedule to the Companies Act, 1956 shall apply to this
company to be Company, but the regulations for the management of the
governed by Company and for the observance of the members thereof and
these Articles. their representatives, shall subject to any exercise or
the statutory powers of the Company with reference to the
repeal or alteration of, or addition to, its regulation
by Special Resolution, as prescribed by the said
Companies Act, 1956 be such as are contained in these
Articles.
INTERPRETATION
Interpretation 2. In the interpretation of these Articles, unless repugnant
clause to the subject or context :
The Company or "The Company" or "this Company" means KNOWLEDGEWORKS
this Company GLOBAL PRIVATE LIMITED.
The Act "The Act" means "the Companies Act, 1956" or any
statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the
time being in force.
Auditors "Auditors" means and includes those persons appointed as
such for the time being by the Company at its General
Meeting.
Board or Board "Board" or "Board of Directors" means a meeting of the
of Directors Directors duly called and constituted, or as the case may
be, the directors assembled at a Board.
Capital "Capital" means the share capital for the time being
raised or authorised to be raised, for the purpose of the
Company.
Debenture "Debenture" includes debenture stock and bonds.
Directors "Directors" means the Directors for the time being of the
Company, or as the case may be, the Directors assembled
at the Board.
Dividend "Dividend" includes bonus.
Gender Words importing the masculine gender also include the
feminine gender.
In writing and "In writing" and "Written" include printing, lithography
Written and other modes of representing or reproducing words in
visible forms.
Member "Member" means the duly registered holder from time to
time of the shares of the Company and includes the
subscribers to the Memorandum of Association of the
Company.
Meeting or "Meeting" or "General Meeting" means a meeting of
General Meeting members.
Annual General "Annual General Meeting" means a general meeting of the
Meeting members held in accordance with the provisions of Section
166 of the Act and any adjourned holding thereof.
Extraordinary "Extraordinary General Meeting" means an Extraordinary
General Meeting General Meeting of the members duly called and
constituted and any adjourned holding thereof.
Month "Month" means a calendar month.
Non-retiring "Non-retiring Director" means a Director not subject to
Director retirement by rotation.
Office "Office" means the Registered Office for the time being
of the Company.
Paid-up "Paid-up" includes capital credited as paid-up.
Persons "Persons" includes companies and firms as well as
individuals.
Register of "Register of Members" means the Register of Members to be
Members kept pursuant to Section 150 of the Act.
The Registrar "The Registrar" means the Registrar of Companies of the
state in which the office of the Company is for the time
being situate.
Secretary "Secretary" means the Company Secretary appointed in
pursuance of Section 383A of the Act.
Seal "Seal" means the Common Seal for the time being of the
Company.
Share Singular "Share" means a share in the share capital of the Company
number and includes stock except where a distinction between
stock and shares is expressed or implied.
Singular number "Words" importing the singular number include, where the
context admits or requires, the plural number and vice
versa.
Ordinary "Ordinary Resolution" and "Special Resolution" shall have
Resolution and the meanings assigned thereto by Section 189 of the Act.
Special
Resolution
Year and "Year" means the calendar year and "Financial Year" and
Financial Year shall have the meaning assigned thereto by Section 2(17)
of the Act.
Subject as aforesaid, any words or expression defined in
the Act, shall, except where the subject or context
forbids, bear the same meaning in these Articles.
The marginal notes used in these Articles shall not
affect the construction hereof.
PRIVATE COMPANY
Private Company 2A The Company is a private company within the meaning of
Section 3(1)(iii) of the Companies Act, 1956, and
accordingly:
(a) the right to transfer shares in the Company is
restricted in the manner hereinafter appearing;
(b) the number of members of the Company (exclusive of
(i) the persons who are in employment of the
Company and (ii) person who having been formerly
in the employment of the Company, were members of
the Company while in that employment and have
continued to be members after the employment
ceased) shall be limited to fifty provided that
for the purpose of this provision, where two or
more persons hold one or more shares in the
Company jointly, they shall be treated as a single
member; and
(c) no invitation shall be issued to the public to
subscribe for any shares in or debentures of the
Company.
(d) invitation or acceptance of deposits from persons
other than the members, directors or their
relatives is hereby prohibited.
Amount of 3. The authorised share capital of the Company is Rs.
Capital 1,00,00,000/- (Rupees One Crore) divided into 10,00,000
(Ten Lakhs) Equity Shares of Rs.10/- (Rupees Ten Only)
each. The paid up capital of the Company shall be minimum
of Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees One Lakh).
Increase of 4. The Company in General Meeting may, from time to time,
capital by the increase the capital by the creation of new shares, such
Company and how increase to be of such aggregate amount and to be divided
carried effect into shares of such respective amount as the resolution
shall prescribe. Subject to the provisions of the Act,
any shares of the original or increased capital shall be
issued upon such terms and conditions and with such
rights and privileges annexed thereto, as the General
Meeting resolving upon the creation thereof, shall
direct, and if no direction be given, as the Directors
shall determine; and in particular, such shares may be
issued with a preferential or qualified right to
dividends and in the distribution of assets of the
Company, and with a right of voting at General Meeting of
the Company in conformity with Section 87 and 88 of the
Act.
Whenever the capital of the Company has been increased
under the provisions of this Article, the Directors shall
comply with the provisions of Section 97 of the Act.
New Capital 5. Except so far as otherwise provided by the condition of
same as issue or by these presents, any capital raised by the
existing creation of new shares shall be considered as part of the
capital existing capital, and shall be subject to the provisions
herein contained, with reference to the payment of calls
and instalments, forfeiture, lien, surrender, transfer,
and transmission, voting and otherwise.
Redeemable 6. Subject to the provisions of Section 80 of the Act, the
Preference Company shall have the power to issue Preference Shares
Shares which are or at the option of the Company are liable to
be redeemed and the resolution authorizing such issue
shall prescribe the manner, terms and condition of
redemption.
Provisions to 7. On the issue of Redeemable Preference Shares under the
apply on issue provisions of Article 6 hereof the following provisions
of Redeemable shall take effect:
Preference
Shares (a) no such shares shall be redeemed except out of the
profits of the Company which would otherwise be
available for dividend or out of proceeds of a
fresh issue of shares made for the purpose of the
redemption;
(b) no such shares shall be redeemed unless they are
fully paid;
(c) the premium if any, payable on redemption must
have been provided for out of profits of the
Company or the Company's Share Premium Account
before the shares are redeemed;
(d) where any such shares are redeemed otherwise than
out of the proceeds of a fresh issue, there shall,
out of the profits which would otherwise have been
available for dividend, be transferred to a
reserve fund, to be called the "Capital Redemption
Reserve Account", a sum equal to the nominal
amount of the shares redeemed and the provisions
of the Act, relating to the reduction of the share
capital of the Company shall, except as provided
in Section 80 of the Act, apply as if the Capital
Redemption Reserve Account were paid up share
capital of the Company.
Reduction of 8. The Company may (subject to the provisions of Section 78,
capital 80 and 100 to 105 inclusive, of the Act) from time to
time by a Special Resolution reduce its share capital and
any Capital Redemption Reserve Account or Share Premium
Account in any manner for the time being authorised by
law and in particular capital may be paid off on the
footing that it may be called upon again or otherwise.
This Article is not to derogate from any power the
Company would have if it were omitted.
Sub-division 9. Subject to the provisions of Section 94 of the Act the
Consolidation Company in General Meeting may, from time to time,
and sub-divide or consolidate its shares, or any of them, and
cancellation of the resolution whereby any share is sub-divided, may
shares determine that, as between the holder of the shares
resulting from such sub-division one or more of such
shares shall have some preference or special advantage as
regards dividend, capital or otherwise over or as
compared with the others or other. Subject as aforesaid
the Company in General Meeting may also cancel shares
which have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any
person and diminish the amount of its share capital by
the amount of the shares so cancelled.
Modification of 10. Whenever the capital, by reason of the issue of
rights preference shares or otherwise, is divided into different
classes of shares, all or any of the rights and
privileges attached to each class (unless otherwise
provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that
class) may, subject to the provisions of Section 106 and
107 of the Act be varied, modified, commuted, affected or
abrogated, or dealt with by agreement, between the
Company and any person purporting to contract on behalf
of that class, provided such an agreement is ratified in
writing by holders of at least three-fourths in nominal
value of the issued shares of the class or is confirmed
by a Special Resolution passed at a separate General
Meeting of the holders of shares of that class.
SHARES AND CERTIFICATES
Register and 11. The Company shall cause to be kept a Register and Index
Index of of Members in accordance with Sections 150 and 151 of the
Members Act. The Company shall be entitled to keep in any state
or country outside India a Branch Register of Members
Declaration by resident in that state or country.
person not
holding (a) Notwithstanding anything herein contained a person
beneficial whose name is at any time entered, in the Register
interest in of Members of the Company as the holder of a share
any shares in the Company, but who does not hold the
beneficial interest in such share, shall, within
such time and in such form as may be prescribed,
make a declaration to the Company specifying the
name and other particulars of the person or
persons, who hold the beneficial interest in such
share in the manner provided in Section 187-C of
the Act;
(b) a person who holds a beneficial interest in a
share or a class of shares of the Company shall,
within the time prescribed, after his becoming
such owner, make a declaration to the Company
specifying the nature of his interest, particulars
of persons in whose name the shares stand in the
Register of Members of the Company and such other
particulars as may be prescribed as provided in
Section 187-C of the Act;
(c) whenever there is a change in the beneficial
interest in a share referred to above, the
beneficial owner shall, within the time prescribed
from the date of such change, make a declaration
to the Company in such form and containing such
particulars as may be prescribed as provided in
Section 187-C of the Act;
(d) notwithstanding anything herein contained in
Section 153 of the Act and Sub-Article (a), (b)
and (c) above, where any declaration referred to
above is made to the Company, the Company shall
make a note of such declaration, in the Register
of Members and file within the time prescribed
from the date of receipt of the declaration a
return in the prescribed form with the Registrar
with regard to such declaration.
Share to be 12. THE SHARES IN THE CAPITAL SHALL BE NUMBERED PROGRESSIVELY
numbered ACCORDING TO THEIR SEVERAL DENOMINATIONS AND EXCEPT IN
progressively THE MANNER HEREIN BEFORE MENTIONED NO SHARE SHALL BE
and no share to SUB-DIVIDED. EVERY FORFEITED OR SURRENDERED SHARE SHALL
be subdivided CONTINUE TO BEAR THE NUMBER BY WHICH THE SAME WAS
ORIGINALLY DISTINGUISHED.
Further issue 13. (a) Subject to the provisions of the Act where at any
of capital time after the
expiry of two years from the formation of the
Company or expiry of one year from the allotment
of shares made for the first time after its
formation whichever is earlier, it is proposed to
increase the subscribed capital of the Company by
allotment of further shares, whether out of
unissued share capital or out of increased share
capital, then such further shares shall be offered
to the persons who at the date of the offer, are
holders of the equity shares of the Company, in
proportion, as nearly as circumstances admit, to
the capital paid up on these shares at the date.
Such offer shall be made by a notice specifying
the number of shares offered and limiting a time
not being less than fifteen days from the date of
the offer within which the offer, if not accepted,
will be deemed to have been declined. After the
expiry of time specified in the notice aforesaid
or on receipt of earlier intimation from the
person to whom such notice is given that he
declines to accept the shares offered, the Board
may dispose of them in such manner as they think
most beneficial to the Company.
(b) Notwithstanding anything contained in the
preceding sub-clause the Company may :
i. by a special resolution; or
ii. where no such special resolution is passed, if the
votes cast (whether on a show of hands, or on a
poll as the case may be) in favour of the proposal
contained in the resolution moved in that general
meeting (including the casting vote, if any, of
the Chairman) by members who, being entitled so to
do, vote in person, or where proxies are allowed,
by proxy exceed the votes, if any, cast against
the proposal by members so entitled and voting and
the Central Government is satisfied, on an
application made by the Board of Directors in this
behalf, that the proposal is most beneficial to
the Company, offer further shares to any person or
may not include the persons who at the date of the
offer, are the holders of the equity shares of the
Company.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-clause
(a) above, but subject, however, to Section 81(3)
of the Act, the Company may increase its
subscribed capital on exercise of an option
attached to the debentures issued or loans raised
by the Company to convert such debentures or loans
into shares, or to subscribe for shares in the
Company.
Shares under 14. Subject to the provisions of these Articles and of the
control of Act, the shares (including any shares forming part of any
Directors increased capital of the Company) shall be under the
control of the Directors; who may allot or otherwise
dispose of the same to such persons in such proportion on
such terms and conditions and at such times as the
Directors think fit and subject to the sanction of the
Company in General Meeting with full power, to give any
person the option to call for or be allotted shares of
any class of the Company either (subject to the
provisions of Sections 78 and 79 of the Act) at premium
or at par or at a discount and such option being
exercisable for such time for such consideration as the
Directors think fit. The Board shall cause to be filed a
return as to allotment as provided for in Section 75 of
the Act.
Power also to 15. IN ADDITION TO AND WITHOUT DEROGATING FROM THE POWERS FOR
Company to in THAT PURPOSE CONFERRED ON THE BOARD UNDER ARTICLES 13 AND
General Meeting 14 THE COMPANY IN GENERAL MEETING MAY, SUBJECT TO THE
to issue shares PROVISIONS OF SECTION 81 OF THE ACT, DETERMINE THAT ANY
SHARES (WHETHER FORMING PART OF THE ORIGINAL CAPITAL OR
OF ANY INCREASED CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY) SHALL BE OFFERED
TO SUCH PERSON (WHETHER MEMBERS OR NOT) IN SUCH
PROPORTION AND ON SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND EITHER
(SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 78
AND 79 OF THE ACT) AT A PREMIUM OR AT PAR OR AT A
DISCOUNT, AS SUCH GENERAL MEETING SHALL DETERMINE AND
WITH FULL POWER TO GIVE ANY PERSON (WHETHER A MEMBER OR
NOT) THE OPTION TO CALL FOR OR BE ALLOTTED SHARES OF ANY
CLASS OF THE COMPANY EITHER (SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE WITH
THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 78 AND 79 OF THE ACT) AT A
PREMIUM OR AT PAR OR AT A DISCOUNT SUCH OPTION BEING
EXERCISABLE AT SUCH TIMES AND MEETINGS AND FOR SUCH
CONSIDERATION AS MAY BE DIRECTED BY SUCH GENERAL MEETING
OR THE COMPANY IN GENERAL MEETING MAY MAKE ANY OTHER
PROVISION WHATSOEVER FOR THE ISSUE, ALLOTMENT, OR
DISPOSAL OF ANY SHARES.
Acceptance of 16. Any application signed by or on behalf of an applicant
shares for shares in the Company, followed by an allotment of
any shares therein, shall be an acceptance of shares
within the meaning of these Articles, and every person
who thus or otherwise accepts any share and whose name is
on the Register shall, for the purposes of these
Articles, be a Member.
Deposit and 17. The money (if any) which the Board shall, on the
call etc to be allotment of any shares made by them, require or direct
a debt payable to be paid by way of deposits, call or otherwise, in
immediately respect of any shares allotted by them, shall immediately
on the insertion of the name of the allottee in the
Register of Members as the name of the holder of such
shares, become a debt due to and recoverable by the
Company from the allottee thereof, and shall be paid by
him accordingly.
Liability of 18. Every member, or his heirs, executors or administrator
Members shall pay to the Company the portion of the capital
represented by his share or shares which may, for the
time being, remain unpaid thereon, in such amounts, at
such time or times, and in such a manner as the Board
shall, from time to time in accordance with the Company's
regulations, require or fix for the payment thereof.
Share 19. a) Every Member or allottee of shares shall be
Certificate entitled without payment to receive one
certificate specifying the name of the person in
whose favour it is issued, the shares to which it
relates and the amount paid-up thereon. Such
certificate shall be issued only in pursuance of a
resolution passed by the Board and on surrender to
the Company of its letter of allotment or its
fractional coupons of requisite value, save in
case of issues against letters of acceptance or of
renunciation or in case of issue of bonus shares.
Every such certificate shall be issued under the
seal of the Company, which shall be affixed in the
presence of two Directors or person acting on
behalf of the Directors under a duly Registered
power of attorney and the Secretary or some other
person appointed by the Board for the purpose, and
two Directors or their Attorneys and the Secretary
or other person shall sign the share certificate,
provided that if the composition of the Board
permits of it, at least one of the aforesaid two
Directors shall be a person other than the
Managing or whole-time Director. Particulars of
every share certificate issued shall be entered in
the Register of Members against the name of the
person to whom it has been issued, indicating the
date of issue.
b) Any two or more joint allottees of a share shall,
for the purpose of this Article, be treated as a
single Member, and the Certificate of any share,
which may be the subject of joint ownership, may
be delivered to any one of such joint owners on
behalf of all them. For any further certificate
the Board shall be entitled, but shall not be
bound, to prescribe a charge not exceeding rupee
one. The Company shall comply with the provisions
of Section 113 of the Act.
c) A Director may sign a share certificate by
affixing his signature thereon by means of any
machine, equipment or other mechanical means, such
as engraving in metal or lithography, but not by
means of a rubber stamp, provided that the
Director shall be responsible for the safe custody
of such machine, equipment or other material used
for the purpose.
Renewal of 20. (a) No certificate of any share or shares shall be
Share issued either in exchange for those which are
Certificate sub-divided or consolidated or in
replacement of those which are defaced, torn or
old,decrepit, worn out, or where the cages on the
reverse for recording transfers have been duly
utilized unless the certificate in lieu of which
it is issued is surrendered to the Company.
(b) When a new share certificate has been issued in
pursuance of the clause (a) of this Article, it
shall state on the face of it and the stub or
counterfoil to the effect that it is "issued in
lieu of share certificate
No.....sub-divided/replaced/on consolidation of
shares".
(c) If a share certificate is lost or destroyed, a new
certificate in lieu thereof shall be issued only
with the prior consent of the Board and on such
terms, if any, as to evidence, indemnity and as to
the payment of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by
the Company in investigating evidence, as the
Board thinks fit.
(d) When a new share certificate has been issued in
pursuance of clause (c) of this Article, it shall
state on the face of it and against the stub or
counterfoil to the effect that it is "duplicate
issued in lieu of share certificate no....." The
word "Duplicate" shall be stamped or punched in
bold letters across the face of the share
certificate.
(e) Where a new share certificate has been issued in
pursuance of clause (a) or clause (c) of this
Article, particulars of every such certificate
shall be entered in a Register of Renewal and
Duplicate Certificates indicating against the name
of the persons to whom the certificate is issued,
the number and date of issue of the certificate in
lieu of which the new certificate is issued, and
the necessary changes indicated in the Register of
Members by suitable cross reference in the
"Remarks" column.
(f) All blank forms to be issued for the issue of
share certificates shall be printed and the
printing shall be done only on the authority of a
resolution of the Board. The blank forms shall be
consecutively machine numbered and the forms and
blocks, engravings, facsimiles and hues relating
to the printing of such forms shall be kept in the
custody of the Secretary or such other person as
the Board may appoint for the purpose and the
Secretary or the other person aforesaid shall be
responsible for rendering an account of these
forms to the Board.
(g) The Managing Director of the Company for the time
being or, if the Company has no Managing Director,
every Director of the Company shall be responsible
for the maintenance, preservation
and safe custody of all books and documents
relating to the issue of share certificates except
the blank forms of share certificates referred to
in Sub-Article(f).
(h) All books referred to in Sub-Article (g) shall be
preserved in good order permanently.
The first name 21. If any share stands in the names of two ore more persons
of joint the person first named in the Register of Members shall
holders deemed as regards receipt of dividends or bonus or service of
sole holder notices and all or any other matter connected with the
Company, except voting at Meetings, and the transfer of
the shares, be deemed the sole holder thereof but the
joint holders of a share shall be severally as well as
jointly liable for the payment of all instalments and
calls due in respect of such share and for all incidents
thereof according to the Company's regulations.
Company not 22. Except as ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction or
bound to as by law required, the Company shall not be bound to
recognize any recognize any equitable contingent, future or partial
interest in interest in any share, or (except only as is by these
share other Articles otherwise expressly provided) any right in
than that of respect of a share other than an absolute right thereto,
registered in accordance with these Articles, in the person from
share holder time to time registered as the holder thereof, but the
Board shall be at liberty at their sole discretion to
register any share in the joint names of any two or more
persons or the survivor or survivors of them.
Funds of 23. None of the funds of the Company shall be applied in the
Company may not purchase of any shares of the Company, and it shall not
be applied in give any financial assistance for or in connection with
purchase of the purchase or subscription of any shares in the Company
share of the or in its holding company save as provided by Section 77
company of the Act.
UNDERWRITING AND BROKERAGE
Commission may 24. Subject to the provisions of Section 76 of the Act, the
be paid Company may at any time pay a commission to any person in
consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe
(whether absolutely or conditionally) for any shares or
debentures in the Company, or procuring, or agreeing to
procure subscription (whether absolute or conditional)
for any shares or debentures in the Company, but so that
the commission shall not exceed in the case of shares
five percent of the price at which the shares are issued
and in the case of debentures two and a half per cent of
the price at which the debentures are issued, or such
higher rate or rates as may be permissible under any
statutory provisions for the time being in force. Such
commission may be satisfied by payment of cash or by
allotment of fully or partly paid shares or partly in
one way and partly in the other.
Brokerage 25. The Company may pay a reasonable sum for brokerage.
INTEREST OUT OF CAPITAL
Interest may be 26. Where any shares are issued for the purpose of raising
paid out of money to defray the expenses of the construction of any
capital work or building, or the provision of any plant, which
cannot be made profitable for a lengthy period, the
Company may pay interest on so much of that share capital
as is for the time being paid up, for the period, at the
rate and subject to the conditions and restrictions
provided by Section 208 of the Act and may charge the
same to capital as part of the cost of construction of
the work of building, or the provision of plant.
CALLS
Directors may 27. The Board may, from time to time, subject to the terms on
make calls which any shares may have been issued and subject to the
conditions of allotment, by a resolution passed at a
meeting of the Board (and not by circular resolution)
make such call as it thinks fit upon the Members in
respect of all moneys unpaid on the shares held by them
respectively and each member shall pay the amount of
every call so made on him to the person or persons and at
all times and places appointed by the Board. A call may
be made payable by instalments.
Calls on shares 28. Whenever any calls for further share capital are made on
of same class shares, such calls shall be made on uniform basis on all
to be made on shares falling under the same class. For the purposes of
uniform basis this Article shares of the same nominal value of which
different amounts have been paid up shall not be deemed
to fall under the same class.
Notice of calls 29. Fifteen days' notice in writing of any call shall be
given by the Company specifying the time and place of
payment, and the person or persons to whom such call
shall be paid.
Calls to date 30. A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when
from resolution the resolution authorizing such call was passed at a
meeting of the Board and may be made payable by the
members whose names appear on the Register of Members on
such date or at the discretion of the Board on such
subsequent date as may be fixed by the Board.
Call may be 31. A call may be revoked or postponed at the discretion of
revoked or the Board.
postponed
Liability of 32. The joint holder of a share shall be jointly and
joint holders severally liable to pay all
calls in respect thereof.
Directors may 33. The Board may, from time to time at its discretion,
extend time extend the time fixed for the payment of any call, but no
member shall be entitled to such extension save as matter
of grace and favour.
Calls to carry 34. If any member fails to pay any call due from him on the
interest day appointed for payment thereof, or any such extension
thereof as aforesaid, he shall be liable to pay interest
on the same from the day appointed for the payment
thereof to the time of actual payment at such rate as
shall from time to time be fixed by the Board but nothing
in this Article shall render it obligatory for the Board
to demand or recover any interest from any such member.
Sums due to be 35. Any sum, which by the terms of issue of a share becomes
calls payable on allotment or at any fixed date, whether on
account of the nominal value of the share or by way of
premium, shall for the purpose of these Articles be
deemed to be a call duly made and payable on the date on
which by the terms of issue the same becomes payable, and
in case of non-payment all the relevant provisions of
these Articles as to the payment of interest and
expenses, forfeiture or otherwise shall apply as if such
sum had become payable by virtue of a call duly made and
notified.
Proof on trial 36. On the trial or hearing of any action or suit brought by
of suit for the Company against any member or his representatives for
money due on the recovery of any money claimed to be due to the
shares Company in respect of his shares, it shall be sufficient
to prove that the name of the Member in respect of whose
shares the money is sought to be recovered appears
entered on the Register of Members as the holder, at our
subsequently to the date at which the money is sought to
be recovered is alleged to have become due on the share
in respect of which such money is sought to be recovered;
that the resolution making the call is duly recorded in
the Minute Book and that notice of such call was duly
given to the member or his representatives issued in
pursuance of these Articles, and that it shall not be
necessary to prove the appointment of the Directors who
made such a call, nor that quorum of Directors was
present at the Board at which any call was made, nor that
the Meeting at which any call was made was duly convened
or constituted, nor any other matters whatsoever, but the
proof of the matters aforesaid shall be conclusive
evidence of the debt.
Partial payment 37. Neither the receipt by the Company of a portion of any
not to preclude money which shall from time to time be due from any
forfeiture Member to the Company in respect of his shares, either by
way of principal or interest, nor any indulgence granted
by the Company in respect of the payment of any such
money, shall preclude the Company from thereafter
proceeding to enforce a forfeiture of such shares as
hereinafter provided.
Payment in 38. (a) The Board may, if it thinks fit, agree to and
anticipation of receive from any member willing to advance the
calls may carry same, all or any part of the amounts of his
interest respective shares beyond the sums, actually called
up and upon the moneys so paid in advance or upon
so much thereof, from time to time, and at any
time thereafter as exceeds the amount of the calls
then made upon and due in respect of the shares on
account of which such advances are made the Board
may pay or allow interest, at such rate as the
member paying the sum in advance and the Board
agree upon. The Board may agree to repay at any
time the amount so advanced or may at any time
repay the same upon giving to the Member three
months' notice in writing. Provided that moneys
paid in advance of calls on any shares may carry
interest but shall not confer a right to dividend
or participate in profits.
(b) No member paying any such sum in advance shall be
entitled to voting rights in respect of the moneys
so paid by him until the same would but for such
payment become presently payable.
Company to have 39. The Company shall have a first and paramount lien upon
lien on shares all the shares (other than fully paid up shares)
registered in the name of each Member (whether solely or
jointly with others) and upon the proceeds of sale
thereof for all moneys (whether presently payable or not)
called or payable at a fixed time in respect of such
shares, and no equitable interest in any shares shall be
created except upon the footing and upon the condition
that Article 22 hereof is to have full effect. Any such
lien shall extend to all dividends from time to time
declared in respect of such shares. Unless otherwise
agreed the registration of a transfer of shares shall
operate as a waiver of the Company's lien, if any, on
such shares.
As to enforcing 40. For the purpose of enforcing such lien the Board may sell
lien by sale the shares subject thereto in such manner as they shall
think fit, and for that purpose may cause to be issued a
duplicate certificate in respect of such share and may
authorize one of their member to execute a transfer
thereof on behalf of and in the name of such Member. No
sale shall be made until such period as aforesaid shall
have arrived, and until notice in writing of the
intention to sell shall have been served on such Member
or his representatives and default shall have been made
by him or them in payment, fulfillment, or discharge of
such debts, liabilities or engagements for fourteen days
after such notice.
Application of 41. The net proceeds of any such sale shall be received by
proceeds of the Company and applied in or towards payment of such
sale part of the amount in respect of which the lien exists as
is presently payable and the residue, if any, shall
(subject to a like lien for sums not presently payable as
existed upon the shares before the sale) be paid to the
person entitled to the shares at the date of sale.
FORFEITURE OF SHARES
If money 42. If any member fails to pay any call or instalment of a
payable on call on or before the day appointed for the payment of
shares not paid the same or any such extension thereof as aforesaid, the
notice to be Board may at any time thereafter, during such time as the
given to Member call or instalment remains unpaid, give notice to him
requiring him to pay the same together with any interest
that may have accrued and all expenses that may have been
incurred by the company by reason of such non-payment.
Form of notice 43. The notice shall name a day (not being less than fourteen
days from the date of the notice) and a place or places
on and at which such a call or instalment and such
interest thereon at such rate as the Directors shall
determine from the day on which such call or instalment
ought to have been paid and expenses as aforesaid are to
be paid. The notice shall also state that, in the event
of the non-payment at or before the time and at the place
appointed, the shares in respect of which the call was
made or instalment is payable will be liable to be
forfeited.
In default of 44. If the requirements of any such notice as aforesaid shall
payment, shares not be complied with, every or any share in respect of
to be forfeited which such notice has been given, may at any time
thereafter before payment of all calls or instalments,
interest and expenses due in respect thereof, be
forfeited by a resolution of the Board to that effect.
Such forfeiture shall include all dividends declared or
any other moneys payable in respect of the forfeited
share not actually paid before the forfeiture.
Notice of 45. When any share shall have been so forfeited notice of the
forfeiture to a forfeiture shall be given to the member in whose name it
Member stood immediately prior to the forfeiture and an entry of
the forfeiture, with the date thereof, shall forthwith be
made in the Register of Members but no forfeiture shall
be in any manner invalidated by any commission or neglect
to give such notice or to make any such entry as
aforesaid.
Forfeited 46. Any share so forfeited shall be deemed to be the property
shares to be of the Company and may be sold, reallotted, or otherwise
property of the disposed of, either to the original holder thereof or to
Company and may any other person, upon such terms and in such a manner as
be sold etc. the Board shall think fit.
Member still 47. Any member whose shares have been forfeited shall not
liable to pay withstanding the forfeiture, be liable to pay and shall
money owing at forthwith pay to the Company, on demand all calls,
time of installments, interest and of expenses owing upon or in
forfeiture and
interest
respect of such shares at the time of forfeiture,
together with interest thereon from the time of the
forfeiture until payment at such rate as the Board may
determine and the Board may enforce the payment thereof,
if it thinks fit.
Effect of 48. The forfeiture of a share shall involve extinction, at
forfeiture the time of forfeiture, of all interest in and all
claims, and demands against the Company, in respect of
the share and all other rights incidental to the share,
except only such of those rights as by these Articles are
expressly saved.
Evidence of 49. A declaration in writing that the declarant is Director
forfeiture or Secretary of the Company and that a share in the
Company has been duly forfeited in accordance with these
Articles on a date stated in the declaration, shall be
conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated as
against all persons claiming to be entitled to the
shares.
Validity of 50. Upon any sale after forfeiture or for enforcing a lien in
sale under purported exercise of the powers hereinbefore given, the
Articles 40 Board may appoint some person to execute an instrument of
and 46 transfer of the shares sold and may cause the purchaser's
name to be entered in the Register in respect of the
shares sold, and the purchaser shall not be bound to see
the regularity of the proceedings, or to the application
of the purchase money, and after his name has been
entered in the Register in respect of such shares, the
validity of the sale shall not be impeached by any person
and the remedy of any person aggrieved by the sale shall
be in damages only and against the Company exclusively.
Cancellation of 51. Upon any sale, re-allotment or other disposal under the
share provisions of the preceding Articles, the certificate or
certificates in certificates originally issued in respect of relative
respect of shares shall (unless the same shall on demand by the
forfeited Company have been previously surrendered to it by the
shares defaulting member) stand cancelled and become null and
void and of no effect, and the Directors shall be
entitled to issue duplicate certificates in respect of
the said shares to the person or persons entitled
thereto.
Power to annul 52. The Board may at any time before any share so forfeited
forfeiture shall have been sold, re-allotted or otherwise disposed
of, annul the forfeiture thereof upon such conditions as
it thinks fit.
TRANSFER AND TRANSMISSION OF SHARES
Register of 53. The Company shall keep a "Register of Transfers" and
Transfers therein shall be fairly and distinctly entered
particulars of every transfer or transmission of any
share.
Restriction on 54. (a) The shares in the capital of the Company shall not
transfer be transferred except to an existing member or any
other person approved by the Board. The
consideration for the transfer of shares shall be
determined by an agreement between the member
intending to sell his shares and the Board. In the
event of disagreement, the consideration for
transfer of shares shall be determined by the
Auditors of the Company.
Form of (b) The instrument of transfer shall be in writing and
transfer all the provisions of Section 108 of the Companies
Act, and or any statutory modification thereof for
the time being shall be duly complied with in
respect of all transfer of shares.
Transfer form to 55. The instrument of transfer duly stamped and executed by
be completed the transferor and the transferee shall be delivered to
and presented the Company in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
to the Company The instrument of transfer shall be accompanied by such
evidence as the Board may require to prove the title of
transferor and every registered instrument of transfer
shall remain in the custody of the Company until
destroyed by the order of the Board. The transferor shall
be deemed to be the holder of such shares until the name
of the transferee shall have been entered in the Register
of Members in respect thereof. Before the registration of
a transfer the certificate or certificates of the shares
must be delivered to the Company.
Transfer Books 56. The Board shall have power of giving not less than seven
and Register of days' previous notice by advertisement in some newspaper
Members when circulating in the district in which the office of the
closed Company is situate to close the transfer books, the
Register of Members or Register of Debenture holders at
such time or times and for such period or periods, not
exceeding in the aggregate forty five days in each year,
and thirty days at one time.
Directors may 57. The Board may, in its own, absolute and uncontrolled
refuse to discretion and without assigning any reason, decline to
register register or acknowledge any transfer of shares (whether
transfers fully paid or not and notwithstanding that the proposed
transferee be already a member), but in such case it
shall, within one month from the date on which the
instrument of transfer was lodged with the Company, send
to the transferee and the transferor notice of refusal to
register such transfer. Provided that the registration of
a transfer shall not be refused on the grounds that the
transferor being either alone or jointly with any other
person or persons is indebted to the Company on any
account whatsoever except a lien on shares.
Notice of 58. Where, in the case of partly paid shares, an application
application for registration is made by the transferor, the Company
when to be shall give notice of the application to the transferee in
given accordance with the provisions of Section 110 of the
Act.
Death of one or 59. In the case of the death of any one or more of the
more Joint- persons named in the Register of Members as the joint
holders of holders of any share, the survivor or survivors shall be
shares the only persons recognized by the Company as having any
title to or interest in such share, but nothing herein
contained shall be taken to release the estate of a
deceased joint holder from any liability on shares held
by him jointly with any other person.
Title to shares 60. The executors or administrators or holders of a
of deceased succession certificate or the legal representatives of a
member deceased member (not being one or two or more
joint-holders) shall be the only persons recognized by
the Company as having any title to shares registered in
the name of such Member and the Company shall not be
bound to recognize such executors or administrators or
holders of a succession certificate or the legal
representatives unless such executors or administrators
or legal representatives shall have first obtained a
probate or letters of administration or succession
certificate as the case may be, from a duly constituted
Court in the Union of India; provided that in any case
where the Board in its absolute discretion thinks fit,
the Board may dispense with production of probate or
letters of administration or succession certificate, upon
such terms as to indemnity or otherwise as the Board in
its absolute discretion may think necessary and under
Article 62 register the name of any person who claims to
be absolutely entitled to the shares standing in the name
of a deceased member, as a member.
No transfer to 61. No share shall in any circumstances be transferred to any
insolvent etc insolvent or a person of unsound mind.
Registration of 62. Subject to the provisions of the Act and Articles 59 and
persons 60 any person becoming entitled to share in consequence
entitled to of the death, lunacy, bankruptcy or insolvency of any
share otherwise Member or by any lawful means other than by a transfer in
than transfer accordance with these Articles may, with the consent of
the Board (which it shall not be under any obligation to
give), upon producing such evidence that he sustains the
character in respect of which he proposes to act under
this Article or of such title as the Board thinks
sufficient, either be registered himself as the holder of
the share or elect to have some person nominated by him
and approved by the Board registered as such holder,
provided nevertheless, that if such person shall elect to
have his nominee registered, he shall testify the
election by executing in favour of his nominee an
instrument of transfer in accordance with the provisions
herein contained, and until he does so, he shall not be
free from any liability in respect of the shares. This
clause is hereinafter referred to as the "transmission
clause."
Persons 63. A person entitled to a share by transmission shall,
entitled may subject to the right of
receive
dividend
without being the Directors to retain such dividends or money as
registered as hereinafter provided, be entitled to receive and may give
Member. a discharge for, any dividend or other moneys payable in
respect of the shares.
Fee on transfer 64. The Company shall not charge any fee in respect of
or transmission transfer or transmission of any number of shares.
Company not 65. The Company shall incur no liability or responsibility
liable for whatsoever in consequence of its registering or giving
disregard of a effect to any transfer of shares made or purporting to be
notice made by an apparent legal owner thereof (as shown or
prohibiting appearing in the Register of Members) to the prejudice of
registration of person having or claiming any equitable right, title or
a transfer interest to or in the said shares, notwithstanding that
the Company may have had notice of such equitable right,
title or interest or notice prohibiting registration of
such transfer, and may have entered such notice, or
referred thereto, in any book of the Company, and the
Company shall not be bound to be required to regard or
attend to give effect to any notice when may be given to
it of any equitable right, title or interest or be under
any liability whatsoever for refusing or neglecting so to
do, though it may have been entered or referred to in
some book of the Company, but the Company shall
nevertheless be at liberty to regard and attend to any
such notice and give effect thereto if the Board shall so
think fit.
COPIES OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES
TO BE SENT TO MEMBERS
A copy of 66. A copy of the Memorandum and the Articles of Association
Memorandum & of the Company and other documents referred to in Section
Articles of 39 of the Act shall be sent by the Company to every
Association to member at his request within seven days of the request on
be sent by the payment of such fee as may be prescribed.
Company
BORROWING POWERS
Power to borrow 67. Subject to the provisions of Sections 58A, 292 and 293 of
the Act the Board may, from time to time at its
discretion by a resolution passed at a Meeting of the
Board, accept deposits from members either in advance of
calls or otherwise and generally raise or borrow or
secure the repayment of any sum or sums of money for the
purposes of the Company. Provided, however, where the
moneys to be borrowed together with the moneys already
borrowed (apart from temporary loans obtained from the
Company's bankers in the ordinary course of business)
exceed the aggregate of the paid up capital of the
Company and its free reserves (not being reserves set
apart for any specific purpose) the Board shall not
borrow such moneys without the consent of the Company in
General Meeting.
Payment or 68. Subject to the provisions of Article 67, the payment or
repayment of repayment of moneys borrowed as aforesaid may be secured
money borrowed in such manner and upon such terms and conditions in all
respects as the Special Resolution shall prescribe
including by the issue of debentures or debenture-stock
of the Company, charged upon all or any part of the
property of the Company (both present and future),
including its uncalled capital for the time being and
debentures, debenture-stock and other securities may be
made assignable free from any equities between the
Company and the person to whom the same may be issued.
Terms of issue 69. Any debentures, debenture-stock or other securities may
of Debentures be issued at a discount, premium or otherwise and may be
issued on condition that they shall be convertible into
shares of any denomination, and with any privileges and
conditions as to redemption, surrender, drawing,
allotment of shares and attending (but not voting) at
General Meetings, appointment of Directors and otherwise.
Debentures with the right to conversion into or allotment
of shares shall be issued only with the consent of the
Company in General Meeting accorded by a special
resolution.
Register of 70. The Board shall cause a proper register to be kept in
charges etc. accordance with the provisions of Section 143 of the Act
to be kept of all mortgages, and charges specifically affecting the
property of the Company and shall cause the requirements
of Section 118, 125 and 127 to 144 (both inclusive) of
the Act in that behalf to be duly complied with, so far
as they are required to be complied with by the Board.
Register & 71. The Company shall, if any time it issues debentures, keep
Index of a Register and Index of Debenture holders in accordance
Debenture with Section 152 of the Act. The Company shall have the
holders power to keep in any state or country outside India
branch Register of Debenture holders resident in that
state of country.
SHARE WARRANTS
Power to issue 72. The Company may issue share warrants subject to, and in
share warrants accordance with, the provisions of Section 114 and 115 of
the Act and accordingly the Board may in its discretion,
with respect to any share which is fully paid, upon
application in writing, signed by the person registered
as holder of the share, from time to time require as to
identity of the person signing the application, and on
receiving the certificate (if any) of the share, and the
amount of the stamp duty on the warrant and such fee as
the Board may from time to time require, issue a share
warrant.
Deposit of 73. (1) The bearer of a share warrant may at any time
share warrant deposit the warrant at the office of the Company,
and so long as the warrant remains
so deposited, the depositor shall have the same
right of signing a requisition for calling a
Meeting of the Company, and of attending and voting
and exercising the other privileges of a Member at
any Meeting held after the expiry of two clear days
from the time of deposits, as if his name were
inserted in the Register of Members as the holder
of the share included in the deposited warrant.
(2) Not more than one person shall be recognized as
depositor of the share warrant.
(3) The Company shall, on two days' written notice,
return the deposited share warrant to the
depositor.
74. (1) Subject as herein otherwise expressly provided, no
person shall, as bearer of a share warrant, sign a
requisition for calling a Meeting of the Company,
or attend, or vote or exercise any of the
privileges of a member at a Meeting of the Company,
or be entitled to receive any notice from the
company.
(2) The bearer of a share warrant shall be entitled in
all other respects to the same privileges and
advantages as if he were named in the Register of
Members as the holder of the share included in the
warrant and he shall be a Member of the Company.
Issue of new 75. The Board may, from time to time, make rules as to the
share warrant terms on which (if it shall think fit) a new share
or coupon warrant or coupon may be issued by way of renewal in case
of defacement, loss or destruction.
CONVERSION OF SHARES INTO STOCK
AND RECONVERSION
Shares may be 76. The Company in General Meeting may convert any paid up
converted shares into stock, and when any shares shall have been
into stock converted into stock, the several holders of such stock
may thenceforth transfer their respective interest
therein, or any part of such interest, in the same manner
and subject to the same regulation as, and subject to
which shares from which the stock arise might have been
transferred if no such conversion had taken place or as
near thereto as circumstances, will admit. The Company
may at any time convert any stock into paid up shares of
any denomination.
Right of 77. The holders of stock shall, according to the amount of
Stock holders the stock held by them, have the same rights, privileges
and advantages as regards
dividend, voting at meetings of the Company, and other
matters, as if they held the shares from which the stock
arose; but no such privilege or advantage (except
participation in dividend and profits of the Company and
in the assets of winding up) shall be conferred by an
amount of stock which would not, if existing in shares,
have conferred that privilege or advantage.
MEETING OF MEMBERS
Annual General 78. The Company shall in each year hold a General Meeting as
Meeting, Annual its Annual General Meeting in addition to any other
summary meetings in that year. All General Meetings other than
the Annual General Meeting shall be called Extra-ordinary
General Meetings. An Annual General Meeting of the
Company shall be held within six months after the expiry
of each financial year, provided that not more than
fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one
Annual General Meeting and that of next. Provided that it
will be permissible to hold its first Annual General
Meeting within a period of not more than eighteen months
from the date of its incorporation; and if such a Meeting
is held within that period it shall not be necessary for
the Company to hold any Annual General Meeting in the
year of its incorporation or in the following calendar
year. Nothing contained in the foregoing provision shall
be taken as affecting the right conferred upon the
Registrar under the provisions of Section 166(1) of the
Act to extend the time within which any Annual General
Meeting may be held. Every Annual General Meeting shall
be called for a time during business hours, on a day that
is not a public holiday, shall be held at the Registered
Office of the Company or some other place within the city
in which the Registered Office of the Company is situated
as the Board may determine and the notice calling the
Meeting shall specify it as the Annual General Meeting.
The Company may in any one Annual General Meeting fix the
time for its subsequent Annual General Meeting. Every
member of the Company shall be entitled to attend either
in person or by a proxy and the Auditor of the Company
shall have the right to attend and to be heard at any
General Meeting which he attends on any part of the
business which concerns him as Auditor. At every Annual
General Meeting of the Company there shall be laid on the
table the Directors' Report and Audited Statement of
Accounts and Auditors' Report (if not already
incorporated in the audited statement of Accounts), the
Proxy Register with Proxies and the Register of
Directors' shareholdings, which latter Register shall
remain open and accessible during the continuance of the
Meeting. The Board shall cause to be prepared the Annual
List of Members, Summary of the Share Capital, Balance
Sheet and Profit and Loss Account and forward the same to
the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of
Section 159, 161 and 220 of the Act.
Extra Ordinary 79. The Board may, whenever it thinks fit, call an
General Meeting Extra-ordinary General Meeting and it shall do so upon a
requisition in writing by any member or members holding
in the aggregate not less than one-tenth of such of the
paid-up capital as at that date carries the right of
voting in regard to the matter in respect of which the
requisition has been made.
Requisition of 80. Any valid requisition so made by Members must state
members to object or objects of the meeting proposed to be called,
state object and must be signed by the requisitionists and be
of meeting deposited at the office, provided that such requisition
may consist of several documents in like form each signed
by one or more requisitionists.
On receipt of 81. Upon the receipt of any such requisition, the Board shall
requisition, forthwith call an Extraordinary General Meeting and if
Directors to they do not proceed within twenty-one days from the date
call Meeting of the requisition being deposited at the office to cause
and in default a Meeting to be called on a day not later than forty-five
requisitionist days from the date of deposit of the requisition, the
may do so requisitionist, or such of their number as represent
either a majority in value of the paid up share capital
held by all of them or not less than one tenth of such of
the paid up share capital of the Company as is referred
to in Section 169(4) of the Act, whichever is less, may
themselves call a Meeting, but in either case any Meeting
so called shall be held within three months from the date
of delivery of the requisition as aforesaid.
Meeting called 82. Any Meeting called under the foregoing Articles by the
by requisitionists shall be called in the same manner, as
requisitionists nearly as possible, as that in which Meetings are to be
called by the Board.
Twentyone days 83. At least twenty-one days notice of every General Meeting,
notice of Annual or Extra-Ordinary, and by whomsoever called
meeting to be specifying the day, place, and hour of Meeting and the
given general nature of the business to be transacted thereat,
shall be given in the manner hereinafter provided, to
such persons as are under these Articles entitled to
receive notice from the Company. Provided that in the
case of Annual General Meeting with the consent in
writing from all members entitled to vote thereat and in
case of any other Meeting, with the consent of the
Members holding not less than 95 per cent of such part of
the paid-up share capital of the Company as gives a right
to vote at the Meeting, a Meeting may be convened by a
shorter notice. In the case of an Annual General Meeting
if any business other than (i) the consideration of the
Accounts, Balance Sheets and Reports of the Board of
Directors and Auditors (ii) the declaration of the
dividend (iii) the appointment of Directors in place of
those retiring, (iv) the appointment of, and fixing of
the remuneration of the Auditors, is to be transacted and
in the case of any other Meeting, in any event, there
shall be annexed to the notice of the Meeting a statement
setting out all
material facts concerning each such item of business
including in particular the nature of the concern or
interest, if any, therein of every Director, and the
Manager (if any). Where any such item or special business
relates to, or affects any other company, the extent of
shareholding interest in the other company of every
Director or Manager, if any, of the Company shall also be
set out in the statement if the extent of such
shareholding interest is not less than 2 percent of the
paid-up share capital of that other company. Where any
item of business consists of according of approval to any
documents by the Meeting, the time and place where the
document can be inspected shall be specified in the
statement aforesaid.
Omission to 84. The accidental omission to give any such notice as
give notice not aforesaid to any of the Members, or the non-receipt
to invalidate a thereof shall not invalidate any resolution passed at any
resolution such Meeting.
passed
Meeting not to 85. No General Meeting, Annual or Extra-ordinary, shall be
transact competent to enter upon, discuss or transact any business
business not which has not been mentioned in the notice or notices
mentioned in upon which it was convened.
notice
Quorum at 86. Two Members present in person shall be a quorum for a
General Meeting General Meeting.
Body Corporate 87. A body corporate being a Member shall be deemed to be
deemed to be personally present if it is represented in accordance
personally with Section 187 of the Act.
present
If quorum not 88. If, at the expiration of half an hour from the time
present, appointed for holding a Meeting of the Company, a quorum
Meeting to be shall not be present, the Meeting, if convened by or upon
dissolved or the requisition of Members shall stand dissolved, but in
adjourned any other case the Meeting shall stand adjourned to the
same day in the next week or if that day is a public
holiday, until the next succeeding day which is not a
public holiday at the same time and place or to such
other day and at such other time and place in the city or
town in which the office of the Company is for the time
being situate, as the Board may determine, and if at such
adjourned Meeting a quorum is not present at the
expiration of half an hour from the time appointed for
holding the Meeting, the Members present shall be a
quorum, and may transact the business for which the
Meeting was called.
Chairman of 89. The Chairman (if any) of the Directors shall be entitled
General Meeting to take the Chair at every General Meeting, whether
Annual or Extra-ordinary. If there be no such Chairman of
the Directors, or if at any Meeting he shall not be
present within fifteen minutes of the time appointed for
holding such Meeting or if he shall be unable or
unwilling to take the chair then the members present
shall elect another Director as Chairman, and if no
Director be present or if all the Directors present
decline to take the
Chair, then the Members present shall elect one of their
number to be Chairman.
Business 90. No business shall be discussed at any General Meeting
confined to except the election of a Chairman, whilst the Chair is
election of vacant.
Chairman whilst
Chair vacant
Chairman with 91. The Chairman with the consent of the members may adjourn
consent may any Meeting from time to time and from place to place
adjourn meeting where the Registered Office is situated. But no business
shall be transacted at any adjourned Meeting other than
the business left unfinished at the Meeting from which
the adjournment took place.
Questions at 92. At any General Meeting a resolution put to the vote of
General Meeting the Meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, unless a
how decided poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of
the show of hands) demanded by at least two members
having the right to vote on the resolution and present in
person or by proxy, or by the Chairman of the Meeting or
by any member or members holding not less than one-tenth
of the total voting power in respect of the resolution or
by any member or any members present in person or by
proxy and holding shares in the Company conferring a
right to vote on the resolution being shares on which an
aggregate sum had been paid-up which is not less than
one-tenth of the total sum paid-up on all the shares
conferring that right, and unless a poll is demanded, a
declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has on a
show of hands, been carried or carried unanimously, or by
a particular majority or lost, and an entry to that
effect in the Minute Book of the Company shall be
conclusive evidence of the fact, without proof of the
number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of
or against the resolution.
Chairman's 93. In the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall
casting vote both on a show of hands and at a poll (if any) have a
casting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he
may be entitled as a Member.
Poll to be 94. If a poll is demanded as aforesaid the same shall subject
taken, if to Article 96 be taken at such time (not later than
demanded forty-eight hours from the time when the demand was made)
and place in the city or town in which the Office of the
Company is for the time being situate and either by open
voting or by ballot, as the Chairman shall direct, and
either at one or after an interval or adjournment or
otherwise, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to
be the resolution of the Meeting at which the poll was
demanded. The demand for a poll may be withdrawn at any
time by the person or persons who made the demand.
Scrutineers at 95. Where a poll is to be taken, the Chairman of the Meeting
poll shall appoint two scrutineers to scrutinize the votes
given on the poll and to report thereon to him. One of
the scrutineers so appointed shall always be a
Member (not being an officer of employee of the Company )
present at the Meeting provided such a Member is
available and willing to be appointed. The Chairman shall
have power at any time before the result of the poll is
declared to remove a scrutineer from such office and fill
vacancy in the office of scrutineer arising from such
removal or from any other cause.
In what case 96. Any poll duly demanded on the election of a Chairman of a
poll taken Meeting or on any question of adjournment shall be taken
without at the Meeting forthwith.
adjournment
Demand for poll 97. The demand for a poll except on the questions of the
not to prevent election of the Chairman and on an adjournment shall not
transaction of prevent the continuance of a Meeting for the transaction
other business of any business other than the question on which the poll
has been demanded.
VOTE OF MEMBERS
Members in 98. No member shall be entitled to vote either personally or
arrears not to by proxy at any General Meeting or Meeting of a class of
vote shareholders either upon a show of hands or upon a poll
in respect of any shares registered in his name on which
any calls or other sums presently payable by him have not
been paid or in regard to which the Company has, and has
exercised, any right of lien.
Number of votes 99. Subject to the provisions of the Articles and without
to which Member prejudice to any special privileges or restrictions as to
entitled voting for the time being attached to any class of shares
for the time being forming part of the capital of the
Company, every Member not disqualified by the last
preceding Article shall be entitled to be present, and to
speak and vote at such Meeting, and on a show of hands
every Member present in person shall have one vote and
upon poll the voting right of every member present in
person or by proxy shall be in proportion to his share of
the paid-up equity shares capital of the Company.
Provided, however, if any preference shareholder be
present at any Meeting of the Company, save as provided
in clause (b) of (2) of Section 87, he shall have a right
to vote on resolutions placed before the Meeting which
directly affect the rights attached to his preference
shares.
Casting of 100. On a poll taken at a Meeting of the Company, a Member
votes by a entitled to more than one vote, or his proxy or other
Member entitled person entitled to vote for him, as the case may be, need
to more than not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast in the same
one vote way all the votes he uses.
How members 101. A Member of unsound mind or in respect of whom an order
non-composement has been made by any Court having jurisdiction in lunacy
is and minor may vote, whether on a
may vote by his show of hands or upon a poll in respect of any shares
committee or registered in his name and any such committee or guardian
other legal may, on poll vote by proxy, if any member be a minor the
guardian vote in respect of his share or shares shall be by his
guardian, or any one of his guardians, if more than one,
to be selected in case of dispute by the Chairman of the
Meeting.
Votes of joint 102. If there be joint registered holders of any shares, any
members one of such persons may vote at any Meeting or may
appoint another person (whether a Member or not) as his
proxy in respect of such shares, as if he were solely
entitled thereto but the proxy so appointed shall not
have any right to speak at the Meeting, and if more than
one of such joint-holders be present at any Meeting, that
one of the said persons so present whose name stands
higher on the Register shall alone be entitled to speak
and to vote in respect of such shares, but the other or
others of the joint-holders shall be entitled to be
present at the Meeting. Several executors or
administrators of a deceased Member in whose name shares
stand shall for the purpose of these Articles be deemed
joint-holders thereof.
Voting person 103. Subject to the provisions of these Articles votes may be
or by proxy given either personally or by proxy. A body corporate
being a Member may vote either by a proxy or by a
representative duly authorised in accordance with Section
187 of the Act and such representative shall be entitled
to exercise the same rights and powers (including the
right to vote by proxy) on behalf of the body corporate
which he represents as that body could exercise if it
were an individual Member.
Votes in 104. Any person entitled under Article 62 to transfer any
respect of share may vote at any General Meeting in respect thereof
shares of in the same manner as if he were the registered holder of
deceased and such shares, provided that forty-eight hours at least
insolvent before the time of holding the Meeting or adjourned
member Meeting, as the case may be, at which he proposes to vote
he shall satisfy the Directors of his right to transfer
such shares and give such indemnity, if any, as the
Directors may require or the Directors shall have
previously admitted his right to vote at such Meeting in
respect thereof.
Appointment of 105. Every proxy (whether a Member or not) shall be appointed
proxy in writing under the hand of the appointer or his
attorney, or if such appointer is a corporation under the
common seal of such corporation, or be signed by an
officer or any attorney duly authorised by it, and any
Committee or guardian may appoint such proxy. The proxy
so appointed shall not have any right to speak at the
Meeting.
Proxy either 106. An instrument of proxy may appoint a proxy either for the
for specified purpose of a particular Meeting specified in the
meeting or for instrument and any adjournment thereof or it may appoint
a period for the purpose of every Meeting of the Company or of
every Meeting to be held before a date specified in the
instrument and every adjournment of any such Meeting.
Vote by Proxy 107. A Member present by proxy shall be entitled to vote on a
show of hands as well as a poll.
Deposit of 108. The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of
instrument of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is
appointment signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or
authority, shall be deposited at the Office not later
than forty-eight hours before the time for holding the
Meeting at which the person named in the instrument
proposes to vote, and in default the instrument or proxy
shall not be treated as valid. No instrument appointing a
proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve
months from the date of its execution.
Form of proxy 109. Every instrument of proxy whether for a specified Meeting
or otherwise shall as nearly as circumstances will admit,
be in any of the forms set out in Schedule IX of the Act.
Validity of 110. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an
votes given by instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the
proxy not previous death or insanity of the principal, or the
withstanding transfer of the share in respect of which the vote is
death of Member given, provided that no intimation in writing of the
death or insanity, revocation or transfer shall have been
received at the office before the Meeting.
Time for 111. No objection shall be made to the validity of any vote,
objections of except at any Meeting or poll at which such vote shall be
votes tendered and every vote whether given personally or by
proxy, not disallowed at such Meeting or poll shall be
deemed valid for all purposes of such Meeting or poll
whatsoever.
Chairman of the 112. The Chairman of any Meeting shall be the sole judge of
Meeting to be the validity of every vote tendered at such Meeting. The
the judge of Chairman present at the taking of a poll shall be the
validity of sole judge of the validity of every vote tendered at such
any vote poll.
MINUTES OF MEETING
Minutes of 113. (1) The Company shall cause minutes of all proceedings
General Meeting of every General Meeting to be kept within thirty
and inspection days of the conclusion of very such Meeting
thereof by concerned entries thereof in books kept for that
members purpose with their pages consecutively numbered.
(2) Each page of every such book shall be initialed or
signed and the last page of the record of
proceedings of each Meeting in such
book shall be dated and signed by the Chairman of
the same Meeting within the aforesaid period of
thirty days or in the event of the death or
inability of that Chairman within that period by a
Director duly authorised by the Board for the
purpose.
(3) In no case the minutes of the proceedings of a
Meeting shall be attached to any such book as
aforesaid by pasting or otherwise.
(4) The minutes of each Meeting shall contain a fair
and correct summary of the proceedings thereat.
(5) All appointments of Officers made at any Meeting
aforesaid shall be included in the minutes of the
Meeting.
(6) Nothing herein contained shall require or be
deemed to require the inclusion in any such
minutes of any matter which in the opinion of the
Chairman of the Meeting (a) is or could reasonably
be regarded as defamatory on any person, or (b) is
irrelevant or immaterial to the proceedings, or
(c) is detrimental to the interests of the Company.
The Chairman of the Meeting shall exercise an
absolute discretion in regard to the inclusion or
non-inclusion of any matter in the minutes on the
aforesaid grounds.
(7) Any such minutes shall be evidence of the
proceedings recorded therein.
(8) The book containing the Minutes of proceedings of
the General Meetings shall be open during business
hours, for such periods not being less in the
aggregate than two hours in each day, as the
Directors determine to the inspection of any Member
without charge.
DIRECTORS
Number of 114. Until otherwise determined by a General Meeting of the
Directors Company and subject to the provisions of Section 252 of
the Act, the number of Directors shall not be less than
two and more than twelve.
The first Directors of the Company are :
1) DR. LALIT SURAJMAL KANODIA
2) MR. MANISH MODI
The above named first Directors of the Company shall hold
office upto
the date of the first Annual General Meeting of the
Company and thereafter the Directors of the Company shall
be appointed in accordance with the provisions contained
in these Articles.
Appointment of 115. The Board may appoint an Alternate Director to act for a
Alternate Director (hereinafter in this Article called "the
Director original Director") during his absence for a period of
not less than three months from the State in which the
Meetings of the Board are ordinarily held. An alternate
Director appointed under this Article shall not hold
office for a period longer than that permissible to the
original Director in whose place he has been appointed
and shall vacate office if and when the original Director
returns to that State. If the term of the office of the
original Director is determined before he so returns to
that State, any provision in the Act or in these Articles
for the automatic reappointment or retiring Director in
default of another appointment shall apply to the
original Director and not to the Alternate Director.
Directors' 116. (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 260 of the
power to add Act, the Board shall have power at any time and
to the Board from time to time to appoint any qualified person
to be an Additional Director, but so that the
total number of Directors shall not at any time
exceed the maximum fixed under Article 114. Any
such additional Director shall hold office only
upto the next Annual General Meeting.
Directors' (b) Subject to the provisions of Sections 262, 264 and
power to other applicable provisions of the Act the Board
fill casual shall have power at any time and from time to time
vacancies to appoint any qualified person to be a Director
to fill a casual vacancy. Any person so appointed
shall hold office only upto the date of which the
Director in whose place he is appointed would have
held office if it had not been vacated by him.
Qualification 117. A Director shall not be required to hold any share
of Directors qualification.
Remuneration of 118. (a) Subject to the provision of the Act, a Managing
Directors Director or a Director, who is in the whole time
employment of the Company may be paid remuneration
either by way of monthly payment or at a specified
percentage of the net profits of the Company or
partly by one way and partly by the other.
(b) Subject to the provisions of the Act, a Director
who is neither in the whole-time employment, nor a
Managing Director may be paid remuneration by way
of Commission if the Company by a special
resolution authorising such payment.
(c) The fee payable to a Director for attending a
Meeting of the
Board or a Committee thereof shall be such sum as
may be prescribed.
Traveling 119. The Board may allow and pay to any Director who travels
expenses for the purpose of attending and returning from Meetings
incurred by of the Board of Directors or any Committee thereof or
Director not General Meetings, or in connection with the business of
a bonafide the Company, his actual traveling, hotel and other out of
resident or pocket expenses incurred by him in consequence or for the
by Director purpose of his attendance, and in connection with the
going out on business of the Company in addition to his fees for
Company's attending such meetings as above specified and other
business remuneration payable to him.
Directors may 120. The continuing Directors may act notwithstanding any
act vacancy in their body but if and so long as their number
notwithstanding is reduced below the minimum fixed by Article 114 hereof
any vacancy the continuing Directors not being less than two may act
for the purpose of increasing the number of Directors to
that number, or of summoning a General Meeting but for no
other purpose.
When office of 121. Subject to Section 283(2) of the Act the Office of a
Directors to Director shall become vacant if :
become vacant
(a) he is found to be of unsound mind by a Court of
competent jurisdiction; or
(b) he applies to be adjudicated an insolvent; or
(c) he is adjudged an insolvent; or
(d) he fails to pay any call made on him in respect of
shares of the Company held by him, whether alone
or jointly with others, within six months from the
last date fixed for the payment of such call unless
the Central Government has by notification in the
Official Gazette removed the disqualification
incurred by such failure; or
(e) he absents himself from three consecutive Meetings
of the Directors or from all Meetings of the
Directors for a continuous period of three months,
whichever is longer, without leave of absence from
the Board; or
(f) he becomes disqualified by an order of the Court
under Section 203 of the Act; or
(g) he is removed in pursuance of Section 284; or
(h) he (whether by himself or by any person for his
benefit or on his
account) or any firm in which he is a partner or
any private company of which he is a Director
accepts a loan or any guarantee or security for a
loan from the Company in contravention of Section
295 of the Act; or
(i) he acts in contravention of Section 299 of the Act;
or
(j) he is convicted by a Court of an offence involving
moral turpitude and is sentenced in respect thereof
to imprisonment for not less than six months; or
(k) having been appointed a Director by virtue of his
holding any office or other employment in the
Company, he ceases to hold such office or other
employment in the Company; or
(l) he resigns his office by a notice in writing
addressed to the Company.
Directors may 122. Subject to the provisions of the Act, a Director or his
contract with relative, a firm in which such Director or relative is a
Company partner, or any other partner in such firm or a private
company of which the Director is a member or Director,
may enter into any contract with the Company for the
sale, purchase or supply of any goods, materials or
services or for underwriting the subscription of any
shares in or debentures of the Company.
Disclosure of 123. A Director of the Company who is in any way, whether
interest directly or indirectly concerned or interested in a
contract or arrangement or proposed contract or
arrangement entered into or to be entered into by or on
behalf of the Company, shall disclose the nature of his
concern or interest at the Meeting of the Board in the
manner provided in Section 299(2) of the Act. Provided
that it shall not be necessary for a Director to disclose
his concern or interest in any contract or arrangement
entered into or to be entered into between two companies
where any of the Directors of the Company or two or more
of them together holds or hold not more than two percent
of the paid-up share capital in any such other company.
General Notice 124. A general notice given to the Board by a Director to the
of interest effect that he is a director or a member of a specified
body corporate or is a member of a specified firm and is
to be regarded as concerned or interested in any contract
or arrangement which may, after the date of the notice,
be entered into with that body corporate or firm, shall
be deemed to be a sufficient disclosure of concern or
interest in relation to any contract or arrangement so
made. Any such general notice shall expire at the end of
the financial year in which it is given but may be
renewed for a further period of one financial year at a
time by a fresh notice given in the last
month of the financial year in which it would have
otherwise expired. No such general notice and no renewal
thereof shall be of effect unless, either it is given at
a Meeting of the Board or the Director concerned takes
reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read
at the first Meeting of the Board after it is given.
Register of 125. The Company shall keep a Register in accordance with
Contracts in Section 301 (1) and shall within the time specified in
which Directors Section 301(2) enter therein such of the particulars as
are interested may be relevant having regard to the application thereto
of Section 297 of Section 299 of the Act as the case may
be. The Register aforesaid shall also specify, in
relation to each Director of the Company the names of the
bodies corporate and firms of which notice has been given
by him under Article 125. The Register shall be kept at
the Office of the Company and shall be open to inspection
at such Office, and extracts may be taken therefrom and
copies thereof may be required by any member of the
Company to the same extent, in the same manner, and on
payment of the same fees as in the case of the Register
of Members of the Company and the provisions of Section
163 of the Act shall apply accordingly.
Director may be 126. A Director may be or become a Director of any company
Director of promoted by the Company, or in which it may be interested
companies as a vendor, shareholders, or otherwise and no such
promoted by Director shall be accountable for any benefit received as
the Company Director or shareholder of such company except in so far
Section 309(6) or Section 314 of the Act may be
applicable.
Retirement and 127. At every Annual General Meeting of the Company, one-third
rotation of of such of the Directors for the time being as are liable
Directors to retire by rotation or if their number is not three or
a multiple of three, the number nearest to one-third
shall retire from Office. The non-retiring Directors and
Debentures Directors, if any, shall not be subject to
retirement under this clause and shall not be taken into
account in determining the rotation of retirement or the
number of Directors to retire.
Ascertainment 128. Subject to provisions of the Act, the Directors to retire
of Directors by rotation under Article 127 at every Annual General
retiring by Meeting shall be those who have been longest in Office
rotation and since their last appointment, but as between persons who
filling of became Directors on the same day, those who are to
vacancies retire, shall in default of and subject to any agreement
among themselves, be determined by lot.
Eligibility for 129. A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election.
re-election
Company to 130. Subject to provisions of the Act, the Company at the
appoint General Meeting, at which a Director retires in the
successors manner aforesaid, may fill up the vacated
office by electing a person thereto.
Provision in 131. (a) If the place of the retiring Director is not so
default of filled up and the Meeting has not expressly
appointment resolved not to fill the vacancy, the Meeting
shall stand adjourned till the same day in the
next week, at the same time and place, or if that
day is a public holiday, till the next succeeding
day which is not a public holiday, at the same
time and place.
(b) If at the adjourned Meeting also the place of the
retiring Director is not filled up and that
Meeting also has not expressly resolved not to
fill the vacancy, the retiring Director shall be
deemed to have been reappointed at the adjourned
Meeting unless :
(i) at the Meeting or at the previous Meeting a
resolution for the re-appointment of such
Director has been put to the Meeting and
lost; or
(ii) the retiring Director has, by a notice in
writing addressed to the Company or its
Board, expressed his unwillingness to be
so appointed; or
(iii) he is not qualified or is disqualified for
appointment; or
(iv) a resolution, whether special or ordinary, is
required for the appointment or
re-appointment by virtue of any provisions
of the Act; or
(v) the proviso to sub-section (2) of Section 263
of the Act is applicable to the case.
Company may 132. Subject to Section 258 of the Act, the Company may by
increase or Ordinary Resolution from time to time, increase or reduce
reduce the the number of Directors within the limits fixed in that
number of behalf by these Articles, and may alter their
Directors qualifications and the Company may, subject to the
provisions of Section 284 of the Act, remove any Director
before the expiration of his period of office and appoint
another qualified person in his stead. The person so
appointed should hold office during such time as the
Director in whose place he is appointed would have held
the same if he had not been removed.
Notice of 133. (1) No person not being a retiring Director, shall
candidate for be eligible for appointment to the office of
office of Director at any General Meeting unless he or some
Director member intending to propose him has, not less than
excepting fourteen days before the Meeting, left at the
certain cases Office of the Company a notice in writing under
his hand signifying his
candidature for the office of Director or the
intention of such Member to propose him as a
candidate for that office.
(2) Every person (other than a Director retiring by
rotation or otherwise or a person who has left at
the office of the Company a notice under Section
257 of the Act signifying his candidature for the
office of a Director) proposed as a candidate for
the office of a Director shall sign and file with
the Company the consent in writing to act as a
Director, if appointed.
(3) A person other than a Director re-appointed
after retirement by rotation or immediately on the
expiry of his term of office or an Additional or
Alternate Director, or a person filling a casual
vacancy in the office of a Director under Section
262 of the Act, appointed as a Director or
re-appointed as an Additional or Alternate
Director, immediately on the expiry of his term of
office, shall not act as a Director of the
Company, unless he has within thirty days of his
appointment signed and filed with the Registrar
his consent in writing to act as such Director.
Register of 134. (a) The Company shall keep at its Office Register
Directors containing the particulars of its Directors,
etc. and Manager, Secretary and other persons mentioned in
notification Section 303 of the Act, and shall otherwise comply
of change to with the provisions of the said Section in all
register respects.
Register of (b) The Company shall in respect of each of its
shares or Directors also keep at its office a Register, (as
debentures required by sub-Section (1) of Section 307 of the
held by Act), and shall otherwise comply with the
Directors provisions of the said Section.
Disclosure by 135. (1) Every Director (including a person deemed to be a
Director of Director by virtue of the Explanation to
appointment to sub-section (1) of Section 303 of the Act),
any other body Managing Director, Manager or Secretary of the
corporate Company shall within twenty days of his
appointment to any of the above offices to any
other body corporate disclose to the Company the
particulars relating to his office in the other
body corporate which are required to be specified
under sub-section (1) of Section 303 of the Act.
Disclosure by (2) Every Director and every person deemed to be a
a Director of Director of the Company by virtue of sub-section
his holdings of (1) of Section 307 of the Act, shall give notice
shares and to the Company of such matters relating to himself
debentures of as may be necessary for the purpose of enabling
the Company the Company to comply with the provisions of that
etc. Section.
Chairman 136. The Board of Directors shall elect one among them as the
Chairman of
the Board of Directors.
Managing 137. Subject to the superintendence, direction and control of
Director the Board, the Managing Director, shall have the
management of the affairs of the Company. The
remuneration of the Managing Director shall be such as
may be determined by the Board from time to time and may
be by way of monthly payment, fee for each Meeting or
participation in profits or by any or all these modes or
any other mode not expressly prohibited by the Act.
Restriction on 138. The Managing Director or Managing Directors shall not
management exercise the power to :
(a) make calls on shareholders in respect of money
unpaid on the shares in the Company,
(b) issue debentures,
and except to the extent mentioned in the resolution
passed at the Board Meeting under Section 292 of the Act
shall also not exercise the power to :
(c) borrow monies, other than on debentures,
(d) invest the funds of the Company, and
(e) make loans.
Certain persons 139. The Company shall not appoint or employ, or continue the
not to be appointment or employment of a person as its Managing or
appointed whole time Director who :
Managing
Director (a) is an undischarged insolvent, or has at any time
been adjudged as insolvent,
(b) suspends, or has at any time suspended, payment to
his creditors, or makes or has at any time made, a
composition with them, or
(c) is, or has at any time been convicted by a Court of
an offence involving mortal turpitude.
Special 140. A Managing Director shall not while he continues to hold
position of that office be subject to retirement by rotation, in
Managing accordance with Article 127 if he ceases to hold the
Director office of Director he shall ipso facto and immediately
cease to be a Managing Director.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Meeting of 141. The Directors may meet together as a Board for the
Directors despatch of business from time to time and shall so meet
at least once in every three months and at least four
such Meetings shall be held in every year. The Directors
may adjourn and otherwise regulate their Meetings, as
they think fit.
Notice of 142. Notice of every Meeting of the Board shall be given in
Meetings writing to every Director for the time being in India,
and at his usual address in India, to every other
Director.
Quorum 143. Subject to Section 287 of the Act, the quorum for a
Meeting of the Board shall be one-third of its total
strength (excluding Directors, if any, whose places may
be vacant at the time and any fraction contained in that
one-third being rounded off as one) or two Directors,
whichever is higher.
Adjournment of 144. If a Meeting of the Board could not be held for want of a
meeting for quorum then, the Meeting shall stand adjourned to such
want of quorum other date and time (if any) as may be fixed by the
Chairman.
When meeting 145. The Secretary shall, as and when directed by any Director
to be convened to do so, convene a Meeting of the Board by giving a
notice in writing to every other Director.
When Chairman 146. If at any Meeting of the Board, the Chairman is not
is not present present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed
for the Board for holding the same, the Directors present may choose
Meeting one of their number to be Chairman of the Meeting.
Questions by 147. Questions arising at any Meeting of the Board of
Board how Directors or a resolution to be passed by circular shall
decided be decided by a majority of votes and in the case of
equality of votes, the Chairman shall have a second or
casting vote.
Powers of Board 148. A Meeting of the Board for the time being at which a
quorum is present shall be competent to exercise all or
any of the authorities, powers, and discretions which by
or under the Act or the Articles of the Company are for
the time being vested in or exercisable by the Board
generally.
Directors may 149. Subject to the restrictions contained in Section 292 of
appoint the Act the Board may delegate any of their powers to one
committee or more Committees of the Board consisting of such member
or members of its body as it thinks fit, and it may from
time to time revoke and discharge any such Committee of
the Board either wholly or in part, and either as to
persons or purposes; but every Committee of the Board so
formed shall in the
exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any
regulations that may from time to time be imposed on it
by the Board. All acts done by any such Committee of the
Board in conformity with such regulations and in
fulfillment of the purposes of their appointment but not
otherwise, shall have the like force and effect as if
done by the Board.
Meetings of 150. The Meetings and proceedings of any such Committee of the
committee how Board consisting of two or more members shall be governed
to be governed by the provisions herein contained for regulating the
Meetings and proceedings of the Directors, so far as the
same are applicable thereto and are not superseded by any
regulations made by the Directors under the last
preceding Article
Resolution by 151. No resolution shall be deemed to have been duly passed by
circulation the Board or by a Committee thereof by circulation,
unless the resolution has been circulated in draft,
together with the necessary papers, if any, to all the
Directors or all the members of the Committee, then in
India (not being less in number than the quorum fixed for
the Meeting of the Board, or a Committee, as the case may
be), and to all other Directors or members of the
Committee at their usual address in India and has been
approved by such of the Directors or members as are then
in India, or by a majority of such of them, as are
entitled to vote on the resolution.
Acts of Board 152. All acts done by any Meeting of the Board or by a
or committee Committee of the Board, or by any person acting as a
valid Director shall notwithstanding that it shall afterwards
notwithstanding be discovered that there was some defect in the
any defect in appointment of such Director or persons acting as
appointment aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified
or had vacated office or that the appointment of any of
them had been terminated by virtue of any provisions
contained in the Act or in these Articles, be as valid as
if every such person have been duly appointed, and was
qualified to be a Director and had not vacated his office
or his appointment had not been terminated; provided that
nothing in this Article shall be deemed to give validity
to acts done by a Director after his appointment has been
shown to the Company to be invalid or to have terminated.
Minutes of 153. (1) The Company shall cause minutes of all proceedings
proceedings of of every Meeting of the Board and Committee thereof
Meetings of to be kept by making within thirty days of the
the Board and conclusion of very such Meeting entries thereof in
Committee books kept for that purpose with their pages
consecutively numbered.
(2) Each page of every such book shall be initialed or
signed and the last page of the record of
proceedings of each Meeting in such book shall be
dated and signed by the Chairman of the next
succeeding Meeting.
(3) In no case the minutes of proceedings of a Meeting
shall be attached to any such book as aforesaid by
pasting or otherwise.
(4) The minutes of each Meeting shall contain a fair
and correct summary of the proceedings thereat.
(5) All appointments of officers made at any of the
Meetings aforesaid shall be included in the minutes
of the Meeting.
(6) The minutes shall also contain -
(a) the names of the Directors present at the
Meeting and
(b) in the case of each resolution passed at the
Meeting, the names of the Directors, if any,
dissenting from or not concurring in the
resolution.
(7) Nothing contained in sub-clauses (1) to (6) shall
be deemed to require the inclusion in any such
minutes of any matter which, in the opinion of the
Chairman of the Meeting:
(a) is, or could reasonably be regarded as
defamatory of any person;
(b) is irrelevant or immaterial to the
proceedings; or
(c) is detrimental to the interest of the
Company.
The Chairman shall exercise an absolute discretion in
regard to the inclusion or non-inclusion of any matter in
the minutes on the grounds specified in this sub-clause.
(8) Minutes of Meetings kept in accordance with the
aforesaid provisions shall be evidence of the
proceedings recorded therein.
Powers of 154. The Board may exercise all such powers of the Company and
Directors do all such acts and things as are not, by the Act, or
any other Act or by the Memorandum or by the Articles of
the Company required to be exercised by the Company in
General Meeting, subject nevertheless to these Articles,
to the provisions of the Act, or any other Act and to
such regulations, as may be prescribed by the Company in
General Meeting but no regulation made by the Company in
General Meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the
Board which would have been valid if that regulation had
not been made. Provided that the Board shall not, except
with the consent of the Company in General Meeting:
(a) sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the whole, or
substantially the whole, of the undertaking of the
Company, or where the Company owns more than one
undertaking of the whole, or substantially the
whole, of any such undertaking;
(b) remit, or give time for the repayment of, any debt
due by a Director,
(c) invest otherwise than in trust securities the
amount of compensation received by the Company in
respect of the compulsory acquisition of any such
undertaking as is referred to in clause (a) or of
any premises or properties used for any such
undertaking and without which it cannot be carried
on or can be carried on only with difficulty or
only after a considerable time;
(d) borrow moneys where the moneys to be borrowed
together with the moneys already borrowed by the
Company (apart from temporary loans obtained from
the Company's bankers in the ordinary course of
business), will exceed the aggregate of the
paid-up capital of the Company and its free
reserves that is to say, reserves not set apart
for any specific purpose;
Provided further that the powers specified in Section
292 of the Act shall subject to these Articles be
exercised only at Meetings of the Board, unless the same
be delegated to the extent therein stated; or
(e) contribute to charitable and other funds not
directly relating to the business of the Company
or the welfare of its employees, any amounts the
aggregate of which will, in any financial year,
exceed fifty thousand rupees or five percent of
its average net profits as determined in
accordance with the provisions of Sections 349 and
350 of the Act during the three financial years
immediately preceding, whichever is greater.
Certain powers 155. Without prejudice to the general powers conferred by the
of the Board last preceding Article and so as not in any way to limit
or restrict these powers, and without prejudice to the
other powers conferred by these Articles, but subject to
the restrictions contained in the last preceding Article,
it is hereby declared that the Directors shall have the
following powers, that is to say, power:
(1) To pay the cost, charges and expenses preliminary
and incidental to the promotion, formation,
establishment and registration of the Company.
(2) To pay and charge to the capital account of the
Company
commission or interest lawfully payable thereout
under the provisions of Sections 76 and 208 of
the Act.
(3) Subject to Sections 293 and 360 of the Act to
purchase or otherwise acquire for the Company any
property, right or privileges which the Company is
authorised to acquire, at or for such price or
consideration and generally on such terms and
conditions as they think fit and in any such
purchase or other acquisition to accept such title
as the Directors may believe or may be advised to
be reasonably satisfied.
(4) At their discretion and subject to the provisions
of the Act to pay for any property, rights or
privileges acquired by or services rendered to the
Company, either wholly or partially in cash or in
share, bonds, debentures, mortgages, or otherwise
securities of the Company, and any such shares may
be issued either as fully paid-up or with such
amount credited as may be agreed upon and any such
bonds, debentures, mortgages or other securities
may be either specifically charged upon all or any
part of the property of the Company and its
uncalled capital or not so charged.
(5) To secure the fulfillment of any contracts or
engagements entered into by the Company by
mortgage or charge of all or any of the property
of the Company and its uncalled capital for the
time being or in such manner as they think fit.
(6) To accept from any Member, as far as may be
permissible by law to a surrender of his shares or
any part thereof, on such terms and conditions as
shall be agreed.
(7) To appoint any person to accept and hold in trust
for the Company any property belonging to the
Company; in which it is interested, or for any
other purpose and to execute and do all such deeds
and things as may be required in relation to any
trust, and to provide for the remuneration of such
trustee or trustees.
(8) To institute, conduct, defend, compound, or
abandon any legal proceedings by or against the
Company or its officers or otherwise concerning
the affairs of the Company, and also to compound
and allow time for payment or satisfaction of any
debts due and of any claim or demands by or
against the Company and to refer any differences
to arbitration and observe and perform any awards
made thereon.
(9) To act on behalf of the Company in all matters
relating to bankrupts and insolvents.
(10) To make and give receipts, releases and other
discharges for moneys payable to the Company and
for the claims and demands of the Company.
(11) Subject to the provisions of Sections 292, 295,
370 and 372 of the Act, to invest and deal with
any moneys of the Company not immediately required
for the purposes thereof upon such security (not
being shares of this Company), or without security
and in such manner as they may think fit, and from
time to time vary or realize such investments.
Save as provided in Section 49 of the Act, all
investments shall be made and held in the
Company's own name.
(12) To execute in the name and on behalf of the
Company in favour of any Director or other person
who may incur or be about to incur any personal
liability whether as principal or surety, for the
benefit of the Company, such mortgages of the
Company's property (present or future) as they
think fit, and any such mortgage may contain a
power of sale and such other powers, provisions,
covenants and agreements as shall be agreed upon.
(13) To determine from time to time who shall be
entitled to sign, on the Company's behalf, bills,
notes, receipts, acceptances, endorsements,
cheques, dividend warrants, releases, contracts
and documents and to give the necessary authority
for such purpose.
(14) To distribute by way of bonus amongst the staff of
the Company a share or shares in the profits of
the Company and to give to any officer or other
person employed by the Company a commission on the
profits of any particular business or transaction,
and to charge such bonus or commission as part of
the working expenses of the Company.
(15) To provide for the welfare of Directors or
ex-Directors or employees or ex-employees of the
Company and their wives, widows and families or
the dependents or connections of such persons, by
building or contributing to the building of
houses, dwelling or chawls, or by grants of moneys
pension, gratuities, allowances, bonus or other
payments, or by creating and from time to time
subscribing or contributing provident and other
associations, institutions, funds or trusts and by
providing or subscribing or contributing towards
place of instruction and recreation, hospitals and
dispensaries, medical and other attendance and
other assistance as the Board shall think fit, and
to subscribe or contribute or otherwise to assist
or to guarantee any
charitable, benevolent, religious, scientific,
national or other institutions or objects which
shall have any moral or other claim to support or
aid by the Company, either by reason of locality
of operation, or of public and general utility or
otherwise.
(16) Before recommending any dividend, to set aside out
of the profits of the Company such sums as they
may think proper for depreciation or to
depreciation fund, or to an insurance fund, or as
Reserve Fund or any special fund to meet
contingencies or to repay debentures or debenture
stock, or for special dividends or for repairing,
improving, extending and maintaining any of the
property of the Company and for such other
purposes (including the purpose referred to in the
preceding clause), as the Board may in their
absolute discretion, think conducive to the
interest of the Company and subject to Section 292
of the Act, to invest several sums so set aside or
so much thereof as required to be invested, upon
such investments (other than shares of the
Company) as they may think fit, and from time to
time to deal with and vary such investments and
dispose of and apply and expend all or any such
part thereof for the benefit of the Company, in
such a manner and for such purposes as the Board
in their absolute discretion, think conducive to
the interest of the Company notwithstanding that
the matters to which the Board apply or upon which
they expend the same or any part thereof, may be
matters to or upon which the capital moneys of the
Company might rightly be applied or expended; and
to divide the Reserve Fund into such special funds
as the Board may think fit with full power to
employ assets constituting all or any of the above
funds, including the depreciation fund, in the
business of the Company or in the purchase or
repayment of debentures or debenture stock, and
without being bound to pay interest on the same
with power however, to the Board at their
discretion to pay or allow to the credit of such
funds interest at such rate as the Board may think
proper.
(17) To appoint, and at their discretion, remove or
suspend such general managers, managers,
secretaries, assistants, supervisors, clerks,
agents and servants for permanent, temporary or
special services as they may from time to time
think fit and to determine their powers and
duties, and fix their salaries or emoluments or
remuneration, and to require security in such
instances and to such amount as they may think
fit. And also from time to time to provide for the
management and transaction of the affairs of the
Company in any specified locality in India or
elsewhere in such manner as they think and the
provisions contained in the four next following
sub-clauses shall be without prejudice to the
general
powers conferred by this sub-clause.
(18) From time to time and at any time to establish any
local Board for managing any of the affairs of the
Company in any specified locality in India or
elsewhere and to appoint any persons to be members
of such local Board, and to fix their
remuneration.
(19) Subject to Section 292 of the Act, from time to
time and at any time to delegate to any person so
appointed any of the powers, authorities and
discretions for the time being vested in the
Board, other than their power to make calls or to
make loans or borrow money, and to authorize the
members for the time being of any such local
Board, or any of them to fill up any vacancies
therein and to act notwithstanding vacancies, and
any such appointment or delegation may be made on
such terms and subject to such terms and subject
to such conditions as the Board may think fit, and
Board may at any time remove any person so
appointed, and may annul or vary any such
delegation.
(20) At any time and from time to time by Power of
Attorney under the Seal of the Company, to appoint
any person or persons to be Attorney or the
Attorneys of the Company, for such purposes and
with such powers, authorities and discretions (not
exceeding those vested in or exercisable by the
Board under these presents and subject to the
provisions of Section 292 of the Act) and for such
period and subject to such conditions as the Board
may from time to time think fit; and any such
appointment may (if the Board think fit) be made
in favour of the Local Board established as
aforesaid or in favour of any company, or the
shareholders, directors, nominees, or managers of
any company or firm or otherwise in favour any
fluctuating body of persons whether nominated
directly or indirectly by the Board and any such
Power of Attorney may contain such powers for the
protection or convenience of persons dealing with
such Attorney as the Board may think fit, and may
contain powers enabling any such delegates or
Attorneys as aforesaid to sub-delegate all or any
of the powers, authorities and discretions for the
time being vested in them.
(21) Subject to Section 294 and 297 of the Act, for or
in relating to any of the matters aforesaid or,
otherwise for the purposes of the Company to enter
into all such negotiations and contracts and
rescind and vary all such contracts, and execute
and do all such acts, deeds and things in the name
and on behalf of the Company as they may consider
expedient.
(22) From time to time to make, vary and repeal by laws
for the regulation of the business of the Company,
its officers and servants.
SECRETARY
Secretary 156. The Directors shall from time to time appoint a
Secretary, and at their discretion, remove any such
Secretary to perform any functions, which by the Act are
to be performed by the Secretary and to execute any other
ministerial or administrative duties, which may from time
to time be assigned to the Secretary by the Directors.
The Directors may also appoint at any time any person or
persons (who need not be the Secretary) to keep the
Registers required to be kept by the Company.
THE SEAL
The seal, its 157. (a) The Board shall provide a Common Seal for the
custody and use purposes of the Company, and shall have the power
from time to time to destroy the same and
substitute a new seal in lieu thereof, and the
Board shall provide for the safe custody of the
Seal for the time being and the Seal shall never
be used except by the authority of the Board or a
Committee of the Board previously given.
(b) The Company shall also be at liberty to have an
official seal in accordance with Section 50 of the
Act, for use in any territory, district or place
outside India.
Deeds how 158. Every deed or other instrument, to which the Seal of the
executed Company is required to be affixed, shall, unless the same
is executed by a duly constituted attorney, be signed by
two Directors or one Director and Secretary or some other
person appointed by the Board for the purpose provided
that in respect of the Share Certificate the Seal shall
be affixed in accordance with Article 19(a).
DIVIDENDS
Division of 159. The profits of the Company, subject to any special rights
profits relating thereto created or authorised to be created by
these Articles and subject to the provisions of these
Articles, shall be divisible among the members in
proportion to the amount of capital paid-up or credited
as paid up and to the period during the year for which
the capital is paid-up on the shares held by them
respectively.
The Company in 160. The Company in General Meeting may declare dividends to
General be paid to Members according to their respective rights,
Meeting may but no dividends shall exceed the amount recommended by
declare a the Board, but the Company in General Meeting may declare
dividend a smaller dividend.
Dividend only 161. No dividend shall be declared or paid otherwise by the
to be paid out Company for any financial year out of profits for the
of profits year arrived at after providing for depreciation in
accordance with the provisions of Section 205 of the Act
except after the transfer to the reserves of the Company
of such percentage of its profits for the year as may be
prescribed or out of the profits of the Company for any
previous financial year or years arrived at after
providing for depreciation in accordance with these
provisions and remaining undistributed or out of both
provided that:
(a) if the Company has not provided for depreciation
for any previous financial year, provide for such
depreciation out of the profits of any other
previous financial year or years;
(b) if the Company has incurred a loss in any previous
financial year or years the amount of loss or any
amount which is equal to the amount provided for
depreciation for that year or these years
whichever is less shall be set off against the
profits of the Company for the years for which the
dividend is provided to be declared or paid or
against the profits of the Company for any
previous financial year or years arrived at in
both cases after providing for depreciation in
accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2)
of Section 205 of the Act or against both;
Provided further that, no dividend shall be declared or
paid for any financial year out of the profits of the
Company for the year arrived at after providing for
depreciation as above, except after the transfer to the
reserves of the Company of such percentage of its profits
for that year as may be prescribed in accordance with
Section 205 of the Act or such higher percentage of its
profits as may be allowed in accordance with that
Section.
Interim 162. The Board may, from time to time, pay to Members such
dividend interim dividend as in their judgment the position of the
Company justifies.
Capital paid 163. Where capital is paid in advance of calls, such capital
up in advance may carry interest but shall not in respect thereof
and interest confer a right to dividend or participate in profits.
not to earn
dividend
Dividends in 164. All dividends shall be apportioned and paid
proportion to proportionately to the amounts paid or credited as paid
amount paid up on the shares during any portion or
portions of the period in respect of which the dividend
is paid; but if any share is issued on terms providing
that it shall rank for dividend as from a particular
date, such share shall rank for dividend accordingly.
Retention of 165. The Board may retain dividends payable upon shares in
dividends respect of which any person is, under Article 63 entitled
until to become a member, or which any person under that
completion of Article is entitled to transfer, until such person shall
transfer under become a member, in respect of such shares or share duly
Article 63 transfer the same.
Dividend etc 166. Any one of several persons who are registered as the
to joint joint-holder of any share may give effectual receipts for
holders all dividends or bonus and payments on account of
dividends or bonus or other moneys payable in respect of
such shares.
No member to 167. No Member shall be entitled to receive payment of any
receive interest or dividend in respect of his share or shares,
dividend whilst any money be due or owing from him to the Company
whilst in respect of such share or shares or otherwise
indebted to howsoever, either alone or jointly with any other person
the Company or person, and the Board may deduct from the interest or
and Company's dividend payable to any Member all sums of money so due
right of from him to the Company.
reimbursement
thereof
Transfer of 168. A transfer of shares shall not pass the right to any
shares must be dividend declared thereon before the registration of the
registered transfer.
Dividends how 169. Unless otherwise directed any dividend may be paid by
remitted cheque or warrant or by a pay slip or receipt having the
force of a cheque or warrant sent through the post to the
registered address of the member or person entitled or in
case of joint holders to that one of them first named in
the register in respect of the joint-holdings. Every such
cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of
the person to whom it is sent. The Company shall not be
liable or responsible for any cheque or warrant or pay
slip or receipt lost in transmission, or for any dividend
loss to the member or person entitled thereto by the
forged endorsement of any cheque or warrant or the forged
signature of any pay slip or receipt of the fraudulent
recovery of the dividend by any other means.
Unclaimed 170. (a) If the Company has declared a dividend but which
dividend has not been paid within 42 days from the date of
declaration to any shareholders entitled to the
payment of the dividend the Company shall within 7
days from the date of the expiry of the said period
of 42 days open a special account in that behalf in
any Scheduled bank called "the unpaid dividend
account of "Knowledgeworks Global Private Limited".
(b) Any money transferred to the unpaid dividend
account of the
Company which remains unclaimed for a period of
three years from the date of such transfer, shall
be transferred by the Company to the general
revenue account of the Central Government. A claim
to any money so transferred to the general revenue
account may be referred to the Central Government
by the shareholders to whom the money is due.
No interest on 171. No unclaimed or unpaid dividend shall be forfeited and no
dividends unpaid dividend shall bear interest as against the
Company.
Dividend and 172. Any General Meeting declaring a dividend may on the
call together recommendation of the Directors make a call on the
Members of such amount as the Meeting fixes but so that
the call on each Member shall not exceed the dividend
payable to him and so that the call be made payable at
the same time as the dividend may, if so arranged between
the Company and the Member, be set off against the calls.
Capitalisation 173. (a) The Company in the General Meeting may resolve
that any moneys, investments or other assets
forming part of the undivided profits of the
Company, standing to the credit of the Reserve
Fund, or any Capital Redemption Reserve Account,
or in the hands of the Company and available for
dividend (or representing premium received on the
issue of shares and standing to the credit of the
Share Premium Account) be capitalized and
distributed amongst such of the shareholders as
would be entitled to receive the same if
distributed by way of dividend and in same
proportions on the footing that they become
entitled thereto as capital and that all or any
part of such capitalized fund be applied on behalf
of such shareholders in paying up in full either
at par or at such premium as the resolution may
provide, any unissued shares or debentures or
debenture stock of the Company which shall be
distributed accordingly or in or towards payment
of the uncalled liability on any issued shares or
debentures or debenture stock and that such
distribution or payment shall be accepted by such
shareholders in full satisfaction of their
interest in the said capitalized sum, provided
that a Share Premium Account and a Capital
Redemption Reserve Account may, for the purposes
of this Article only be applied in the paying of
any unissued shares to be issued to members of the
Company as fully paid bonus shares.
(b) A General Meeting may resolve that any surplus
moneys arising from the realization of any capital
assets of the Company, or in investments
representing the same, or any other undistributed
profit of the Company not subject to charge for
income tax be distributed among the members on the
footing that they receive
the same as capital.
(c) For the purpose of giving effect to any resolution
under the preceding paragraphs of this Article the
Board may settle any difficulty which may arise in
regard to the distribution as it thinks expedient
and in particular may issue fractional
certificates, and may fix the value for
distribution of any specific assets, and may
determine that such cash payments shall be made to
any members upon the footing of the value so fixed
or that fraction of less value than Rs.10/- may be
disregarded in order to adjust the rights of all
parties, and may vest any such cash or specific
assets in trustees upon such trusts for the person
entitled to the dividend or capitalized fund as
may seem expedient to the Board. Where requisite a
proper contract shall be delivered to the
Registrar for registration in accordance with
Section 75 of the Act, and the Board may appoint
any person to sign such contract on behalf of the
persons entitled to the dividend or capitalized
fund, and such appointment shall be effective.
ACCOUNTS
Directors to 174. The Company shall keep at the office or at such other
keep true place in India as the Board thinks fit proper Books of
accounts Account in accordance with Section 209 of the Act with
respect to:
(a) all sums of money received and expended by the
Company and the matters in respect of which the
receipts and expenditure take place;
(b) all sales and purchases of goods by the Company;
and
(c) the assets and liabilities of the Company.
Where the Board decides to keep all or any of the Books
of Account at any place other than the office of the
Company, the Company shall within seven days of the
decision file with the Registrar a notice in writing
giving the full address of that other place.
The Company shall preserve in good order the Books of
Account relating to a period of not less than eight years
preceding the current year together with the vouchers
relevant to any entry in such Books of Account.
Where the Company has a branch office, whether in or
outside India, the Company shall be deemed to have
complied with this Article if proper Books of Account
relating to the transactions effected at the branch
office are kept at the branch office and proper
summarized returns, made up to date at intervals of not
more than three months, are sent by the branch office to
the Company at its office or other place in India, at
which the Company's Books of Accounts are kept as
aforesaid.
The Books of Account shall give a true and fair view of
the state of affairs of the Company or branch office, as
the case may be, and explain its transactions. The Books
of Account and other books and papers shall be open to
inspection by any director during business hours.
As to 175. The Board shall from time to time determine whether and
inspection of to what extent and at what times and places and under
accounts or what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of
books by the Company or any of them shall be open to the
members inspection of members not being Directors, and no member
(not being a Director) shall have any right of inspecting
any accounts or books or documents of the Company except
as conferred by law or authorised by the Board.
Statement of 176. The Directors shall from time to time, in accordance with
accounts to be Sections 210, 211, 212, 215, 216 and 217 of the Act,
furnished to cause to be prepared and to be laid before the Company in
General Meeting General Meeting such Balance sheet, Profit and Loss
Accounts and Reports as are required by these Sections.
Directors to 177. The Directors shall, if they consider it to be necessary
have power to and in the interest of the Company, be entitled to amend
amend the the Audited Accounts of the Company of any financial year
audited which have been laid before the Company in General
accounts Meeting. The amendments to the Accounts effected by the
Directors in pursuance of this Article shall be placed
before the Members in General Meeting for their
consideration and approval.
Copies shall 178. A copy of every such Profit and Loss Account and Balance
be sent to Sheet (including the Auditors' Report and every other
each member document required by law to be annexed or attached to the
Balance Sheet), shall at least twenty one days before the
Meeting at which the same are to be laid before the
Members, be sent to the Members of the Company, to the
holders of debentures issued by the Company (not being
debentures which ex-facie are payable to the bearer
thereof), to trustees for the holders of such debentures
and to all persons entitled to receive notice of General
Meeting of the Company.
AUDIT
Accounts to be 179. Auditors shall be appointed and their rights and duties
audited regulated in accordance with Section 224 to 23 of the
Act.
DOCUMENTS AND NOTICE
Service of 180. A document or notice may be served or given by the
documents or Company on any Member either personally or by sending it
notices on by post to him to his registered address or (if he has no
members by registered address in India) to the address, if any, in
Company India supplied by him to the Company for serving
documents or notices on him.
181. Where a document or notice is sent by post, service of
the document or notice shall be deemed to be effected by
properly addressing, preparing and posting a letter
containing the document or notice, provided, that where a
Member has intimated to the Company in advance that
documents or notices should be sent to him under
certificate of posting or by registered post with or
without acknowledgement due and has deposited with the
Company a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of doing
so; service of the document or notice shall not be deemed
to be effected unless it is sent in the manner intimated
by the member and such service shall be deemed to have
been effected in the case of a Notice of a Meeting at the
expiration of forty eight hours after the letter
containing the document or notice is posted and in any
other cases, at the time at which the letter would be
delivered in the ordinary course of post.
By 182. A document or notice advertised in a newspaper
advertisement circulating in the neighborhood of the office shall be
deemed to be duly served or sent on the day on which the
advertisement appears on to every member who has no
registered address in India and has not supplied to the
Company an address within India for the serving of
documents on or the sending of notices to him.
On joint 183. A document or notice may be served or given by the
holders Company on or to the joint-holders of a share by serving
or giving the document or notice on or to the
joint-holder named first in the Register of Members in
respect of the share.
On personal 184. A document or notice may be served or given by the
representatives Company on or to the persons entitled to a share in
etc. consequence of the death or insolvency of a member by
sending it through the post in prepaid letter addressed
to them by name or by the title of representatives of the
deceased, or assignee of the deceased, or assignee of the
insolvent or by any like description, at the address (if
any) in India supplied for the purpose by the persons
claiming to be entitled, or (until such an address has
been so supplied) by serving the document or notice in
any manner in which the same might have been given if the
death or insolvency had not occurred.
To whom 185. Documents or notices of every General Meeting shall be
documents or served or given in same manner hereinbefore authorised on
notices must or to (a) every member, (b) every person entitled to a
be served or share in consequence of the death or insolvency of a
given member, and (c) the Auditor or Auditors for the time
being of the Company.
Members bound 186. Every person who, by operation of law, transfer or other
by documents means whatsoever, shall become entitled to any share
or notices shall be bound by every document or notice in respect of
served on or such share, which previously to his name and address
given to being entered on the Register of Members, shall have been
previous duly served on or given to the person from whom he
holders derives his title to such shares.
Services of 187. All documents or notices to be served or given by members
documents or on or to the Company or any officer thereof shall be
notice by served or given by sending it to the Company or Officer
members at the Office by post under a certificate of posting or
by registered post, or by leaving it at the office.
WINDING-UP
Liquidator may 188. The Liquidator on any winding-up (whether voluntary under
divide assets supervision or compulsory) may, with the sanction of a
in specie Special Resolution, but subject to the rights attached to
any preference share capital, divide among the
contributories in specie any part of the assets of the
Company and may with the like sanction, vest any part of
the assets of the Company in trustees upon such trusts
for the benefit of the contributories as the liquidator,
with the like sanction, shall think fit.
INDEMNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
Directors' and 189. Subject to Section 201 of the Act, every Director,
others' right Officer or Agent for the time being of the Company shall
of indemnity be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against
all liability incurred by him in defending any
proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which
judgement is given in his favour or in which he is
acquitted or discharged or in connection with any
application under Section 633 of the Act in which relief
is granted to him by the Court.
SECRECY CLAUSE
Secrecy clause 190. (a) Every Director, Manager, Auditor, Treasurer,
Trustee, member of a committee, officer, servant,
agent, accountant, or other person employed in the
business of the Company shall, if so required by
the Directors, before entering upon his duties
sign a declaration
pledging himself to observe strict secrecy
respecting all transactions and affairs of the
Company with the customers and the state of the
accounts with individuals and in matters relating
thereto, and shall by such declaration pledge
himself not to reveal any of the matters which may
come to his knowledge in the discharge of his
duties except when required so to do by the
Directors or by law or by the person to whom such
matters relate and except so far as may be
necessary in order to comply with any of the
provisions in these presents contained.
(b) No member shall be entitled to visit or inspect
any works of the Company without the permission of
the Directors or to require discovery of or any
information respecting any details of the
Company's trading, or any matter which is or may
be in the nature of a trade secret, mystery of
trade, secret process or any other matter, which
may relate to the conduct of the business of the
Company and which in the opinion of Directors, it
would be inexpedient in the interest of the
Company to disclose.
*****
We, the several persons, whose names and addresses are subscribed, are
desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of these Articles of
Association.
Name, address,
description and
occupation of each Signature of Signature of Witness and his Name,
subscriber Subscriber Address, Description and Occupation
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Dr. Lalit S. Kanodia Sd/- Witness to Subscriber no. 1 & 2
S/o Surajmal Kanodia
1201, Red Rose Hsg. Soc., Sd/-
Sir Pochkhanwala Road,
Worli, Mumbai 400 025 Upendra S. Kulkarni
Business S/o of Mr. Shivanand N. Kulkarni
A/9, Sindhutirtha Society, LBS
Manish H. Modi Road, Near Makhmali Talao,
S/o of Dr. Harsukh J. Modi Sd/- Thane (W) 400 601
601/B,Gazdar Apts., Company Executive
Juhu Tara Road,
Mumbai 400 049
Company Executive
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Place : Mumbai Date : January 23, 2003
EXHIBIT F
EMPLOYEE CONFIDENTIALITY AND INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY AGREEMENT
[DOCUMENT IN PROGRESS 07/09/03]
SCHEDULE 1
DATAMATICS EXISTING STM CUSTOMERS
1. Elsevier Science
2. Wolters Kluwer
3. British Printing Company
4. Pentacom
5. Derwent
6. DCL
7. Photographics/Lucid Digital
8. Page Brothers
9. SPX Corporation
10. RBI
11. ADIS
12. CAB International
13. Blackwell
14. Saztec
15. IHS
16. Cambridge University Press
17. ISI
SCHEDULE 2
DIRECT COMPETITORS
1. The Sheridan Group (including, without limitation, The Sheridan Press and
The Capital City Press)
2. Banta Corporation
3. Fry Communications
4. Brown Printing Company
5. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
6. TechBooks & TechBooks India
7. Technical Typesetting Incorporated
8. Springer Publisher Services
9. MacMillan India Ltd.
10. Wolters Kluwer