Section 4.01 Organization; Standing and Power; Charter Documents; Subsidiaries. <omitted>
Section 4.02 Capital Structure.  <omitted>
Section 4.03 Authority; Non-Contravention; Governmental Consents; Board Approval; Anti-Takeover Statutes. <omitted>
(a) <omitted> This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due execution and delivery by Parent and Merger Sub, constitutes the legal, valid, and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, and other similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (the“Enforceability Exceptions”). <omitted> (d) Board Approval. <omitted> (e) Anti-Takeover Statutes. <omitted>
Section 4.05 Absence of Certain Changes or Events. Since the date of the Company Balance Sheet, except in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and except for anyCOVID-19Measures, the business of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has been conducted in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and there has not been or occurred: (a) any Company Material Adverse Effect or any event, condition, change, or effect that could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect; or <omitted>
Section 4.10 Brokers’ and Finders’ Fees. <omitted>
Section 4.19 Fairness Opinion. <omitted>

CONDITIONS TO THE OFFER Notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of August 12, 2021, by and among by and among IEC Electronics Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Creation Technologies International Inc., a Delawarecorporation (“Parent”), CTI Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”) and, solely for purposes of Sections 5.04, 6.05, 9.13 (to the extent related to specific performance of its obligations under Section 6.05) and 9.17, Creation Technologies Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Guarantor”), to which this Annex I is attached (the “Agreement”) or the Offer, Merger Sub shall not be required to (and Parent shall not be required to cause Merger Sub to) accept for payment or, subject toany applicable rules and regulations of the SEC including Rule 14e-1(c), pay for any Company Common Stock validly tendered and notproperly withdrawn pursuant to the Offer unless all of the following conditions have been satisfied, or waived by Parent (to the extentpermitted by applicable Law), at the scheduled Expiration Time of the Offer: <omitted> 
(d) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company: (i) set forth in ARTICLE IV of the Agreement (other than in Section 4.01(a), Section 4.02 (with respect to Section 4.02(b)(i), only the first sentence and clause (C) of second sentence), Section 4.03(a), Section 4.03(b)(i), Section 4.03(d), Section 4.03(e), Section 4.05(a), Section 4.10 and Section 4.19) shall be true and correct in all respects (without giving effect to any limitation indicated by the words “Company Material Adverse Effect,” “in all material


respects,” “in any material respect,” “material,” or “materially”) when made and as of immediately prior to the Expiration Time, as if made at and as of such time (except those representations and warranties that address matters only as of a particular date, in which case on and as of that date), except where the failure of such representations and warranties to be so true and correct would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Company Material Adverse Effect; (ii) contained in Section 4.02 (with respect to Section 4.02(b)(i), only the first sentence and clause (C) of second sentence) of the Agreement shall be true and correct (other than de minimis inaccuracies) when made and as of immediately prior to the Expiration Time, as if made at and as of such time (except those representations and warranties that address matters only as of a particular date, which shall be true and correct in all material respects as of that date); (iii) contained in Section 4.01(a), Section 4.03(a), Section 4.03(b)(i), Section 4.03(d), Section 4.03(e), Section 4.05(a), Section 4.10, and Section 4.19 of the Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects when made and as of immediately prior to the Expiration Time, as if made at and as of such time (except those representations and warranties that address matters only as of a particular date, in which case on and as of that date); and (iv) contained in Section 4.05(a) of the Agreement shall be true and correct in all respects when made and as of immediately prior to the Expiration Time, as if made at and as of such time (except those representations and warranties that address matters only as of a particular date, in which case on and as of that date). (Pages 100-101)

Question: Accuracy of Fundamental Target R&Ws-Types of R&Ws
Subquestion: Tax
Answer: Capitalization-Other, Authority, Approval, Enforceability, Organization, No MAE, Brokers' Fee, Takeover Statutes, Opinion of Financial Advisor, Other