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Timestamp: 2020-01-26 06:09:07
Document Index: 658165062

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This SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is dated as of July 31, 2019, by and between Resonant Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each individual or entity named on the Schedule of Buyers attached hereto (each such individual or entity, individually, a “Buyer” and all of such individuals or entities, collectively, the “Buyers”).
2.4 “CFIUS” means the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States or any U.S. Governmental Authority acting in its capacity as a member of CFIUS or directly involved in CFIUS’s assessment, review or investigation of the Contemplated Transactions.
2.5 The “CFIUS Condition” shall be deemed to have been satisfied if the parties receive written notice from CFIUS stating that: (i) CFIUS has concluded that the Contemplated Transactions are neither “covered transactions” nor “pilot program covered transactions” as those terms are defined at 31 C.F.R. § 800.207 and 31 C.F.R. § 801.210, respectively, and, therefore, not subject to review by CFIUS; (ii) CFIUS has concluded all action under Section 721 of the DPA with respect to the Contemplated Transactions and CFIUS has determined that there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to the Contemplated Transactions; provided, however, that if the written notice described in this clause “(ii)” requires or contemplates that either Murata or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates take or agree to take, or will take or agree to take, any action or actions that are not acceptable to Murata or the Company, in their sole discretion, then the CFIUS Condition shall not be deemed to have been satisfied; (iii) pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 801.407(a)(2), CFIUS is not able to complete action under the DPA with respect to the Contemplated Transactions on the basis of the declaration submitted and leaves the parties with discretion whether to file a Joint Voluntary Notice pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 800.401(a), but the Company and Murata decide that filing a Joint Voluntary Notice is not warranted; or (iii) CFIUS has sent a report to the President of the United States requesting the President’s decision on the Contemplated Transactions and the President either has announced a decision not to take any action to suspend or prohibit the Contemplated Transactions pursuant to the DPA or has taken no action within the fifteen (15) day period under the DPA during which the President may announce his decision to take action to suspend or prohibit the purchase after receiving the report from CFIUS.
2.6 “CFIUS Notification Event” shall be deemed to have occurred if CFIUS notifies the Company that CFIUS intends to send a report to the President of the United States recommending that the President of the United States act to suspend or prohibit the Contemplated Transactions pursuant to the DPA.
2.7 “CFIUS Warranty” means that the Company has conducted a good-faith assessment of its products and technology and has determined that it does not produce, design, test, manufacture, fabricate, or develop “critical technologies” as defined pursuant to 31 CFR § 801.204 and in turn is not a Pilot Program U.S. Business within the meaning of 31 C.F.R. § 801.213.
2.8 “Claims” means any Proceedings, Judgments, Obligations, threats, losses, damages, deficiencies, settlements, assessments, charges, costs and expenses of any nature or kind.
2.9 “Commercial Agreement” means a technology development and licensing agreement contemplated between the Company and Murata or one or more of its Affiliates, which both the Company and Murata agree constitutes the “Commercial Agreement” hereunder, which agreement provides Murata or one or more of its Affiliates with rights to certain of the Company’s filter technology.
2.10 “Common Stock” means the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share.
2.11 “Consent” means any consent, approval, order or authorization of, or any declaration, filing or registration with, or any application or report to, or any waiver by, or any other action (whether similar or dissimilar to any of the foregoing) of, by or with, any Person, which is necessary in order to take a specified action or actions, in a specified manner and/or to achieve a specific result.
2.12 “Contemplated Transactions” means both (i) the purchase by Murata of Shares pursuant to this Agreement and (ii) Murata’s acquisition of rights to certain of the Company’s filter technology pursuant to the Commercial Agreement.
2.13 “Contract” means any written or oral contract, agreement, order or commitment of any nature whatsoever, including, any sales order, purchase order, lease, sublease, license agreement, services agreement, loan agreement, mortgage, security agreement, guarantee, management contract, employment agreement, consulting agreement, partnership agreement, shareholders agreement, buy-sell agreement, option, warrant, debenture, subscription, call or put.
2.14 “DPA” means Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. § 4565), and all rules and regulations thereunder, including those codified at 31 C.F.R. Part 800 et seq.
2.15 “Encumbrance” means any lien, security interest, pledge, mortgage, easement, leasehold, assessment, tax, covenant, restriction, reservation, conditional sale, prior assignment, or any other encumbrance, claim, burden or charge of any nature whatsoever.
2.16 “Environmental Requirements” means all Laws and requirements relating to human, health, safety or protection of the environment or to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of pollutants, contaminants, or Hazardous Materials in the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, ground water, land surface or subsurface strata), or otherwise relating to the treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of any Hazardous Materials.
2.17 “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
2.18 “Final CFIUS Turndown” shall be deemed to have occurred if: (i) a decision to suspend or prohibit the Contemplated Transactions, or any of them, is publicly announced by the President of the United States pursuant to the DPA; or (ii) at any time after a CFIUS Notification Event, either Murata or the Company makes a determination in good faith that the CFIUS Condition is unlikely to be satisfied on terms acceptable to Murata or the Company, and Murata or the Company provides written notice of such determination to the other party.
2.19 “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles, methods and practices set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the SEC or of such other Person as may be approved by a significant segment of the U.S. accounting profession, in each case as of the date or period at issue, and as applied in the U.S. to U.S. companies.
2.20 “Governmental Authority” means any foreign, federal, state or local government, or any political subdivision thereof, or any court, agency or other body, organization, group, stock market or exchange exercising any executive, legislative, judicial, quasi-judicial, regulatory or administrative function of government.
2.21 “Hazardous Materials” means: (i) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation and transformers or other equipment that contain dielectric fluid containing
levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s); (ii) any chemicals, materials, substances or wastes which are now or hereafter become defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous wastes,” “hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous wastes,” “restricted hazardous wastes,” “toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants” or words of similar import, under any Law; and (iii) any other chemical, material, substance, or waste, exposure to which is now or hereafter prohibited, limited or regulated by any Governmental Authority.
2.22 “Joint Voluntary Notice” means a joint voluntary notice filed with CFIUS in accordance with the DPA.
2.23 “Judgment” means any order, writ, injunction, fine, citation, award, decree, or any other judgment of any nature whatsoever of any Governmental Authority.
2.24 “Law” means any provision of any law, statute, ordinance, code, constitution, charter, treaty, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority.
2.25 “Leases” means all leases for real or personal property.
2.26 “Losses” means losses, damages, liabilities, interest, awards, costs and expenses of whatever kind, including losses resulting from Claims against the Company and reasonable attorneys’ fees and the cost of enforcing any right of indemnification hereunder; provided, that Losses shall not include punitive damages except to the extent in the case of fraud or to the extent actually awarded against the Company.
2.27 “Material Adverse Effect” means with respect to the event, item or question at issue, that such event, item or question would have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents; (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, Assets, business or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ ability to perform, on a timely basis, its or their respective Obligations under this Agreement or any Transaction Documents.
2.28 “Material Contract” means any Contract to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound which has been filed or is required to have been filed as an exhibit to the SEC Filings pursuant to Item 601(b)(4) or Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC.
2.29 “Murata” means Murata Electronics North America, Inc., a Texas corporation.
2.30 “Obligation” means any debt, liability or obligation of any nature whatsoever, whether secured, unsecured, recourse, nonrecourse, liquidated, unliquidated, accrued, absolute, fixed, contingent, ascertained, unascertained, known, unknown or obligations under executory Contracts.
2.31 “Ordinary Course of Business” means the ordinary course of business consistent with past custom and practice (including with respect to quantity, quality and frequency).
2.32 “Outside Closing Date” shall have the meaning given in Section 12.1.
2.35 “Principal Trading Market” shall mean the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the OTC Markets, including the Bulletin Board and Pink Sheets, the NYSE Euronext or the New York Stock Exchange, whichever is at the time the principal trading exchange or market for the Common Stock.
2.36 “Proceeding” means any demand, claim, suit, action, litigation, investigation, audit, study, arbitration, administrative hearing, or any other proceeding of any nature whatsoever.
2.37 “Real Property” means any real estate, land, building, structure, improvement, fixture or other real property of any nature whatsoever, including, but not limited to, fee and leasehold interests.
2.38 “Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated the date hereof, among the Company and the Buyers, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
2.39 “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
2.40 “SEC Documents” shall have the meaning given in Section 6.7.
2.41 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
2.42 “Shares” means up to Seven Million Nine Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Thirty Eight (7,905,138) shares of Common Stock issued or issuable to the Buyers pursuant to this Agreement.
2.43 “Tax” means (i) any foreign, federal, state or local income, profits, gross receipts, franchise, sales, use, occupancy, general property, real property, personal property, intangible property, transfer, fuel, excise, accumulated earnings, personal holding company, unemployment compensation, social security, withholding taxes, payroll taxes, or any other tax of any nature whatsoever, (ii) any foreign, federal, state or local organization fee, qualification fee, annual report fee, filing fee, occupation fee, assessment, rent, or any other fee or charge of any nature whatsoever, or (iii) any deficiency, interest or penalty imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
2.44 “Tax Return” means any tax return, filing, declaration, information statement or other form or document required to be filed in connection with or with respect to any Tax.
2.45 “Transaction Documents” means this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.
4.1 Sale and Issuance of Shares. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, each Buyer agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase, and the Company agrees to sell and issue to each Buyer, the number of Shares set forth in the column designated “Number of Shares” opposite such Buyer’s name on the Schedule of Buyers, which in the aggregate shall equal up to Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) of Shares, at a cash purchase price of $2.53 per Share (the “Purchase Price”). The Company’s agreement with each Buyer is a separate agreement, and the sale and issuance of the Shares to each Buyer is a separate sale and issuance.
(a) The purchase, sale and issuance of the Shares shall take place at one or more closings (each of which is referred to in this Agreement as a “Closing” and the date of each is referred to in this Agreement as a “Closing Date”). The initial Closing (the “Initial Closing”) shall have a minimum total Purchase Price of not less than Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) (the “Minimum Purchase Proceeds”). The Initial Closing shall take place at the offices of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP, 15260 Ventura Boulevard, 20th Floor, Sherman Oaks, California 91403, or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree, no later than the second business day following the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions provided in Articles VIII and IX of this Agreement (other than conditions that, by their terms, are intended to be satisfied at the Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of those conditions) (“Initial Closing Date”), but in no event later than the Outside Closing Date.
(b) If less than all of the Shares are sold and issued at the Initial Closing, then, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company may sell and issue at one or more subsequent closings (each, a “Subsequent Closing”), up through but no later than the Outside Closing Date, to one or more buyers (the “Additional Buyers”), who shall become “Buyers” hereunder, provided that (i) such subsequent sale is consummated no later than the Outside Closing Date, (ii) each Additional Buyer becomes a party to this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement by executing and delivering a counterpart signature page to this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and (iii) any such sale and issuance in a Subsequent Closing shall be on the same terms and conditions as those contained herein. The Schedule of Buyers shall be updated to reflect the Additional Buyers and the
number of Shares purchased by them. Each Subsequent Closing shall take place at such date, time and place as shall be approved by the Company in its sole discretion.
4.3 Form of Payment; Delivery. At each Closing, a Buyer shall deliver to the Company the Buyer’s Purchase Price for the Shares to be purchased by such Buyer at such Closing in the form of a wire transfer of immediately available U.S. funds.
5.1 Investment Purpose. Each Buyer is acquiring the Shares for its own account for investment only and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the Securities Act; provided, however, that by making the representations herein, each Buyer reserves the right to dispose of the Shares at any time in accordance with or pursuant to an effective registration statement covering such Shares or an available exemption under the Securities Act. The Buyer acknowledges that a legend will be placed on the certificates representing the Shares in the following form:
5.3 Reliance on Exemptions. Each Buyer understands that the Shares are being offered and sold to it in reliance on specific exemptions from the registration requirements of United States federal and state securities Laws and that the Company is relying in part upon the truth and accuracy of, and each Buyer’s compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of each Buyer set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of each Buyer to acquire the Shares.
5.4 Information. Each Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been furnished with all materials relating to the business, finances and operations of the Company and other information each Buyer deemed material to making an informed investment decision regarding its purchase of the Shares, which have been requested by each Buyer. Buyer acknowledges that it has received and reviewed a copy of the SEC Documents. Each Buyer and its advisors, if any, have been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the Company and its management. Neither such inquiries, nor any other due diligence investigations conducted by any Buyer or
its advisors, if any, or its representatives, shall modify, amend or affect each Buyer’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in Article VI below. Each Buyer understands that its investment in the Shares involves a high degree of risk. Each Buyer is in a position regarding the Company, which, based upon employment, family relationship or economic bargaining power, enabled and enables such Buyer to obtain information from the Company in order to evaluate the merits and risks of this investment. Each Buyer has sought such accounting, legal and tax advice as it has considered necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to its acquisition of the Shares.
5.5 No Governmental Review. Each Buyer understands that no United States federal or state Governmental Authority has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Shares, or the fairness or suitability of the investment in the Shares, nor have such Governmental Authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Shares.
5.7 General Solicitation. The Buyer is not purchasing the Shares as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Shares published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement. The Buyer represents that it has a relationship preceding its decision to purchase the Shares with the Company.
5.8 No Conflicts; Consents and Approvals. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the purchase of the Shares to be acquired by the Buyer, will not: (i) constitute a violation of or conflict with any provision of the Buyer’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents; or (ii) constitute a violation of, or conflict with, any Law. Except as specifically contemplated by this Agreement, and except with respect to Murata’s purchase of Shares as may be required pursuant to the DPA and the rules and regulations thereunder or any other legal requirement applicable to the CFIUS Condition, the Buyer is not required to obtain any Consent of, from, or with any Governmental Authority, or any other Person, in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its Obligations under this Agreement or the Transaction Documents in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof, or to purchase the Shares in accordance with the terms hereof.
Except as set forth and disclosed in the Company’s disclosure schedules (“Disclosure Schedules”) attached to this Agreement and made a part hereof, the Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Buyer. The Disclosure Schedules shall be arranged in sections corresponding to the numbered and lettered sections and subsections contained in this Article VI and certain other sections of this Agreement, and the disclosures in any section or subsection of the Disclosure Schedules shall qualify other sections and
subsections in this Article VI only to the extent it is readily apparent from a reading of the disclosure that such disclosure is applicable to such other sections and subsections.
6.1 Subsidiaries. Except for a one hundred percent (100%) ownership in GVR Trade S.A., a corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) duly incorporated in accordance with the laws of Switzerland, the Company has no subsidiaries and the Company does not own, directly or indirectly, any outstanding voting securities of or other interests in, or have any control over, any other Person. Each representation and warranty contained in this Article VI or otherwise set forth in this Agreement shall be deemed to mean and be construed to include the Company and each of its subsidiaries, as applicable, regardless of whether each of such representations and warranties in Article VI specifically refers to the Company’s subsidiaries or not.
6.3 Authority and Approval of Agreement; Binding Effect. The execution and delivery by Company of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, and the performance by Company of all of its Obligations hereunder and thereunder, including the issuance of the Shares, have been duly and validly authorized and approved by Company and its board of directors pursuant to all applicable Laws and no other corporate action or Consent on the part of Company, its board of directors, stockholders or any other Person is necessary or required by the Company to execute this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, consummate the transactions contemplated herein and therein, perform all of Company’s Obligations hereunder and thereunder, or to issue the Shares. This Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents have been duly and validly executed by Company (and the officer executing this Agreement and all such other Transaction Documents is duly authorized to act and execute same on behalf of Company) and constitute the valid and legally binding agreements of Company, enforceable against Company in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation and other similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of applicable creditors’ rights and remedies.
6.4 Capitalization. Immediately prior to the Initial Closing, the authorized capital stock of the Company will consist of 103,000,000 shares, with a par value of $0.001 per share, of which 100,000,000 shares are designated Common Stock and 3,000,000 shares are designated preferred stock, of which 28,379,505 shares of Common Stock and no shares of preferred stock are issued and outstanding. All of such outstanding shares have been validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. The Common Stock is currently quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the trading symbol “RESN.” The Company has received no notice, either oral or written, with respect to the continued eligibility of the Common Stock for quotation on the Principal Trading Market, and the Company has maintained all requirements on its part for the continuation of such quotation. Except as set forth on Schedule 6.4, no shares
of Common Stock are subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any Encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 6.4, as of the date hereof: (i) there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or Contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional Shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (collectively, “Derivative Securities”); (ii) there are no outstanding debt securities, notes, credit agreements, credit facilities or other Contracts or instruments evidencing indebtedness of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may become bound; (iii) there are no outstanding registration statements with respect to the Company or any of its securities (other than registration statements on Form S-8); (iv) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is obligated to register the sale of any of their securities under the Securities Act (except pursuant to this Agreement); (v) there are no financing statements securing obligations filed in connection with the Company or any of its Assets; (vi) there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by this Agreement or any related agreement or the consummation of the transactions described herein or therein; and (vii) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company which contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no Contracts by which the Company is or may become bound to redeem a security of the Company. Except as set forth on Schedule 6.4, there are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders. Schedule 6.4 sets forth a detailed calculation of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding as of the date hereof assuming (i) the issuance of 7,905,138 Shares pursuant to this Agreement; (ii) the exercise in full of all outstanding Derivative Securities taking into account all applicable anti-dilution or similar adjustments or rights, including without limitation those resulting from the issuance of Shares pursuant to this Agreement; and (iii) the exercise of all Derivative Securities authorized for issuance, but not yet issued, under any plan of the Company.
6.5 No Conflicts; Consents and Approvals. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the Transaction Documents, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the issuance of any of the Shares, will not: (i) constitute a violation of or conflict with any provision of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents; (ii) constitute a violation of, or a default or breach under (either immediately, upon notice, upon lapse of time, or both), or conflict with, or give to any other Person any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any provision of any Material Contract; (iii) constitute a violation of, or a default or breach under (either immediately, upon notice, upon lapse of time, or both), or conflict with, any Judgment; (iv) assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Buyers set forth in Article V above, constitute a violation of, or conflict with, any Law (including United States federal and state securities Laws and the rules and regulations of any market or exchange on which the Common Stock is quoted); or (v) result in the loss or adverse modification of, or the imposition of any fine, penalty or other Encumbrance with respect to, any Permit granted or issued to, or otherwise held by or for the use of, Company or any of Company’s Assets. The Company is not in
violation of its articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or governing documents and the Company is not in default or breach (and no event has occurred which with notice or lapse of time or both could put the Company in default or breach) under, and the Company has not taken any action or failed to take any action that would give to any other Person any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any Material Contract. Except as specifically contemplated by this Agreement, and except as may be required by the DPA and the rules and regulations thereunder or any other legal requirement applicable to the CFIUS Condition, the Company is not required to obtain any Consent of, from, or with any Governmental Authority, or any other Person, in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its Obligations under this Agreement or the Transaction Documents in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof, or to issue and sell the Shares in accordance with the terms hereof.
6.6 Issuance of Shares. The Shares are duly authorized and, upon issuance in accordance with the terms hereof, shall be duly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and free from all Encumbrances with respect to the issue thereof, and, assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Buyers set forth in Article V above, will be issued in compliance with all applicable United States federal and state securities Laws. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Buyers set forth in Article V above, the offer and sale by the Company of the Shares is exempt from: (i) the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act; and (ii) the registration and/or qualification provisions of all applicable state and provincial securities and “blue sky” laws.
6.7 SEC Documents; Financial Statements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act and the Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC under the Exchange Act (all of the foregoing filed within the two (2) years preceding the date hereof or amended after the date hereof and all exhibits included therein and financial statements and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being hereinafter referred to as the “SEC Documents”). The Company is current with its filing obligations under the Exchange Act and all SEC Documents have been filed on a timely basis or the Company has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Document prior to the expiration of any such extension. The Company represents and warrants that true and complete copies of the SEC Documents are available on the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov) at no charge to Buyers, and Buyers acknowledge that each of them may retrieve all SEC Documents from such website and each Buyer’s access to such SEC Documents through such website shall constitute delivery of the SEC Documents to Buyers; provided, however, that if any Buyer is unable to obtain any of such SEC Documents from such website at no charge, as result of such website not being available or any other reason beyond any Buyer’s control, then upon request from such Buyer, the Company shall deliver to such Buyer true and complete copies of such SEC Documents. As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. None of the statements made in any such SEC Documents is, or has been, required to be amended or updated under applicable Law (except as such statements have been amended or updated in subsequent filings prior to the date hereof, which amendments or updates are also part of the SEC Documents). As of their respective dates, the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents (“Financial Statements”) complied in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published
rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto (except as such Financial Statements have been amended or updated in subsequent filings prior to the date hereof, which amendments or updates are also part of the SEC Documents). All of the Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied, during the periods involved (except: (i) as may be otherwise indicated in such Financial Statements or the notes thereto; or (ii) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may exclude footnotes or may be condensed or summary statements), and fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the consolidated results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments). To the knowledge of the Company and its officers, no other information provided by or on behalf of the Company to the Buyers which is not included in the SEC Documents contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstance under which they are or were made, not misleading.
6.9 Absence of Litigation or Adverse Matters. Except as disclosed in the SEC Documents: (i) there is no Proceeding before or by any Governmental Authority or any other Person, pending, or to the best of Company’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated by, against or affecting the Company, its business or Assets; (ii) there is no outstanding Judgments against or affecting the Company, its business or Assets; and (iii) the Company is not in breach or violation of any Material Contract.
6.10 Liabilities of the Company. The Company does not have any Obligations of a nature required by GAAP to be disclosed on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company, except: (i) as disclosed in the Financial Statements; or (ii) incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business since the date of the last Financial Statements filed by the Company with the SEC that have not had, and would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
6.11 Title to Assets. The Company has good and marketable title to, or a valid license or leasehold interest in, all of its Assets which are material to the business and operations of the Company as presently conducted, free and clear of all Encumbrances or restrictions on the transfer or use of same, other than restrictions on transfer or use arising under a license or Lease with respect to such Assets that, individually or in the aggregate, would not have, or be reasonably expected to, materially interfere with the purposes for which they are currently used and for the purposes for which they are proposed to be used. Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company’s Assets are in good operating condition and repair, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and are free of any latent or patent defects which might impair their usefulness, and are suitable for the purposes for which they are currently used and for the purposes for which they are proposed to be used.
(b) Real Property Leases. Except pursuant to the Leases described in the SEC Documents (the “Company Leases”), the Company does not lease any Real Property. With respect to each of the Company Leases: (i) the Company has been in peaceful possession of the property leased thereunder and neither the Company nor, to the Company’s knowledge, the landlord is in default thereunder; (ii) no waiver, indulgence or postponement of any of the Obligations thereunder has been granted by the Company or landlord thereunder; and (iii) there exists no event, occurrence, condition or act known to the Company which, upon notice or lapse of time or both, would be or could become a default thereunder or which could result in the termination of the Company Leases, or any of them, or have a Material Adverse Effect on the business of the Company, its Assets or its operations or financial results. The Company has not violated nor breached any provision of any such Company Leases, and all Obligations required to be performed by the Company under any of such Company Leases have been fully, timely and properly performed. If requested by any of the Buyers, the Company has delivered to such Buyers true, correct and complete copies of all Company Leases, including all modifications and amendments thereto, whether in writing or otherwise. The Company has not received any written or oral notice to the effect that any of the Company Leases will not be renewed at the termination of the term of such Company Leases, or that any of such Company Leases will be renewed only at higher rents.
6.13 Material Contracts. A list of the Material Contracts is attached as Schedule 6.13. An accurate, current and complete copy of each of the Material Contracts has been furnished to Buyers and/or is readily available as part of the SEC Documents, and each of the Material Contracts constitutes the entire agreement of the respective parties thereto relating to the subject matter thereof. Each of the Material Contracts is in full force and effect and is a valid and binding Obligation of the parties thereto in accordance with the terms and conditions thereof. To the knowledge of the Company and its officers, all Obligations required to be performed under the terms of each of the Material Contracts by any party thereto have been fully performed by all parties thereto, and no party to any Material Contracts is in default with respect to any term or condition thereof, nor has any event occurred which, through the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default thereunder or would cause the acceleration or modification of any Obligation of any party thereto or the creation of any Encumbrance upon any of the Assets of the Company. Further, the Company has received no notice, nor does the Company have any knowledge, of any pending or contemplated termination of any of the Material Contracts and, no such termination is proposed or has been threatened, whether in writing or orally.
6.14 Compliance with Laws. Except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company is and at all times has been in material compliance with all Laws. The Company has not received any notice that it is in violation of, has violated, or is under investigation with respect to, or has been threatened to be charged with, any violation of any Law.
6.15 Intellectual Property. The Company owns or possesses adequate and legally enforceable rights or licenses to use all trademarks, trade names, service marks, service mark registrations, service names, patents, patent rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, approvals, governmental authorizations, trade secrets and all other intellectual property rights necessary to conduct its business as now conducted. The Company is not infringing upon trademark, trade
name rights, patents, patent rights, copyrights, inventions, licenses, service names, service marks, service mark registrations, trade secret or other intellectual property rights of others, and there is no Claim being made or brought against, or to the Company’s knowledge, being threatened against, the Company regarding trademark, trade name, patents, patent rights, invention, copyright, license, service names, service marks, service mark registrations, trade secret or other intellectual property infringement; and there are no facts or circumstances which might give rise to any of the foregoing.
6.17 Employee Benefit Plans. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all presently applicable provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (“ERISA”); no “reportable event” (as defined in ERISA) has occurred with respect to any “pension plan” (as defined in ERISA) for which the Company would have any liability; the Company has not incurred and does not expect to incur liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “pension plan” or (ii) Sections 412 or 4971 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, including the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”); and each “pension plan” for which the Company would have any liability that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified in all material respects and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification. To the Company’s knowledge, the Company has promptly paid and discharged all Obligations arising under ERISA of a character which if unpaid or unperformed might result in the imposition of an Encumbrance against any of its Assets or otherwise have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.18 Tax Matters. The Company has made and timely filed all Tax Returns required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, and each such Tax Return has been prepared in compliance with all applicable Laws, and all such Tax Returns are true and accurate in all respects. Except and only to the extent that the Company has set aside on its books provisions reasonably adequate for the payment of all unpaid and unreported Taxes, the Company has timely paid all Taxes shown or determined to be due on such Tax Returns, except those being contested in good faith, and the Company has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all Taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such Tax Returns apply. There are no unpaid Taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company know of no basis for any such claim. The Company has withheld and paid all Taxes to the appropriate Governmental Authority required to have been withheld and paid in connection with amounts paid or owing to any Person. There is no Proceeding or Claim for refund now in progress, pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against or with respect to the Company regarding Taxes.
6.19 Insurance. The Company is covered by valid, outstanding and enforceable policies of insurance which were issued to it by reputable insurers of recognized financial responsibility, covering its properties, Assets and businesses against losses and risks normally insured against by other corporations or entities in the same or similar lines of businesses as the Company is engaged and in coverage amounts which are prudent and typically and
reasonably carried by such other corporations or entities (the “Insurance Policies”). Such Insurance Policies are in full force and effect, and all premiums due thereon have been paid. None of the Insurance Policies will lapse or terminate as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Company has complied with the provisions of such Insurance Policies. The Company has not been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for and the Company does not have any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing Insurance Policies as and when such Insurance Policies expire or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not materially and adversely affect the condition, financial or otherwise, or the earnings, business or operations of the Company.
6.21 Business Location. The Company has no office or place of business other than as identified in the SEC Documents and the Company’s principal executive offices are located in Goleta, California. All books and records of the Company and other material Assets of the Company are held or located at the offices and places of business identified in the SEC Documents.
6.22 Environmental Laws. The Company is and has at all times been in compliance in all material respects with any and all applicable Environmental Requirements, and there are no pending Claims against the Company relating to any Environmental Requirements, nor to the best knowledge of the Company, is there any basis for any such Claims.
6.24 Related Party Transactions. Except as disclosed in the SEC Documents, and except for arm’s length transactions pursuant to which the Company makes payments in the Ordinary Course of Business upon terms no less favorable than the Company could obtain from third parties, none of the officers, directors or employees of the Company, nor any stockholders who own, legally or beneficially, five percent (5%) or more of the issued and outstanding shares of any class of the Company’s capital stock (each a “Material Shareholder”), is presently a party to any transaction with the Company (other than for services as employees, officers and directors), including any Contract providing for the furnishing of services to or by, providing for rental of real or personal property to or from, or otherwise requiring payments to or from, any officer, director or such employee or Material Shareholder or, to the best knowledge of the Company, any other Person in which any officer, director, or any such employee or Material Shareholder has a substantial or material interest in or of which any officer, director or employee of the Company or Material Shareholder is an officer, director, trustee or partner.
There are no Claims or disputes of any nature or kind between the Company and any officer, director or employee of the Company or any Material Shareholder, or, to the Company’s knowledge, between any of them, relating to the Company and its business.
6.26 Acknowledgment Regarding Buyers’ Purchase of the Shares. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Buyer is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length purchaser with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Buyer is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and any advice given by any Buyer or any of its representatives or agents in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby is merely incidental to such Buyer’s purchase of the Shares. The Company further represents to each Buyer that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives.
6.27 Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Company’s Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to the best of its knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act, nor has the Company received any notification that the SEC is contemplating terminating such registration.
6.28 Bad Actor. No “bad actor” disqualifying event described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i)-(viii) of the Securities Act (a “Disqualification Event”) is applicable to the Company or, to the Company’s knowledge, any Company Covered Person, except for a Disqualification Event as to which Rule 506(d)(2)(ii—iv) or (d)(3), is applicable. As used in this Section 6.28, the term “Company Covered Person” means, with respect to the Company as an “issuer” for purposes of Rule 506 promulgated under the Securities Act, any Person listed in the first paragraph of Rule 506(d)(1).
6.29 Brokerage Fees. There is no Person acting on behalf of the Company who is entitled to or has any claim for any financial advisory, brokerage or finder’s fee or commission in connection with the execution of this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
7.2 Form D. If required by applicable Law, the Company agrees to file a Form D with respect to the Shares as required under Regulation D of the Securities Act and to provide a copy thereof to any Buyer upon request. The Company shall, on or before the Closing Date, take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary to qualify the Shares, or obtain an exemption for the Shares for sale to each of the Buyers at the Closing pursuant to this Agreement under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” Laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of any such action so taken to any Buyer upon request.
(a) Reporting Status; Listing. So long as any Buyer owns, legally or beneficially any of the Shares, the Company shall: (i) file in a timely manner all reports required to be filed under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or any securities Laws and regulations thereof applicable to the Company of any state of the United States, or by the rules and regulations of the Principal Trading Market, and, if not otherwise publicly available, to provide a copy thereof to a Buyer upon request; (ii) not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under the Exchange Act even if the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would otherwise permit such termination; (iii) if required by the rules and regulations of the Principal Trading Market, promptly secure the listing of any of the Shares upon the Principal Trading Market (subject to official notice of issuance) and, take all reasonable action under its control to maintain the continued listing, quotation and trading of its Common Stock on the Principal Trading Market, and the Company shall comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other Obligations under the bylaws or rules of the Principal Trading Market, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. and such other Governmental Authorities, as applicable.
(b) Rule 144. With a view to making available to each Buyer the benefits of Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”), or any similar rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit Buyers to sell any of the Shares to the public without registration, the Company represents and warrants that: (i) the Company is, and has been for a period of at least ninety (90) days immediately preceding the date hereof, subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; (ii) the Company has filed all required reports under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable, during the twelve (12) months preceding the Closing Date (or for such shorter period that the Company was required to file such reports); (iii) the Company is not an issuer defined as a “Shell Company” (as hereinafter defined); and (iv) if the Company has, at any time, been an issuer defined as a Shell Company, the Company has: (A) not been an issuer defined as a Shell Company for at least six (6) months prior to the Closing Date; and (B) has satisfied the requirements of Rule 144(i) (including, without limitation, the proper filing of “Form 10 information” at least six (6) months prior to the Closing Date). For the purposes hereof, the term “Shell Company” shall mean an issuer that meets the description set forth under Rule 144(i)(1)(i). In addition, so long as any Buyer owns, legally or beneficially, any of the Shares, the Company shall, at its sole expense:
(ii) furnish to each Buyer, promptly upon reasonable request: (A) a written statement by the Company that it has complied with the reporting requirements of Rule 144, the Securities Act and the Exchange Act; and (b) such other information as may be reasonably requested by each Buyer to permit each Buyer to sell any of the Shares pursuant to Rule 144 without limitation or restriction; and
(iii) promptly at the request of each Buyer, give the Company’s transfer agent instructions to the effect that, upon the transfer agent’s receipt from any Buyer of a certificate (a “Rule 144 Certificate”) certifying that such Buyer’s holding period (as determined in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144) for any portion of the Shares which such Buyer proposes to sell (the “Securities Being Sold”) is not less than six (6) months, and receipt by the transfer agent of the “Rule 144 Opinion” (as hereinafter defined) from the Company or its counsel (or from such Buyer and its counsel as permitted below), the transfer agent is to effect the transfer of the Securities Being Sold and issue to such Buyer or transferee(s) thereof one or more stock certificates representing the transferred Securities Being Sold without any restrictive legend and without recording any restrictions on the transferability of such Securities Being Sold on the transfer agent’s books and records. In this regard, upon each Buyer’s request, the Company shall have an affirmative obligation to cause its counsel to promptly issue to the transfer agent a legal opinion providing that, based on the Rule 144 Certificate, the Securities Being Sold were or may be sold, as applicable, pursuant to the provisions of Rule 144, even in the absence of an effective registration statement (the “Rule 144 Opinion”). If the transfer agent requires any additional documentation in connection with any proposed transfer by any Buyer of any Securities Being Sold, the Company shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered to the transfer agent or to any other Person, all such additional documentation as may be necessary to effectuate the transfer of the Securities Being Sold and the issuance of an unlegended certificate to any transferee thereof, all at the Company’s expense.
(i) Removal of Restrictive Legends. In the event that any Buyer has any shares of the Company’s Common Stock bearing any restrictive legends, and such Buyer, through its counsel or other representatives, submits to the Company’s transfer agent (“Transfer Agent”) any such shares for the removal of the restrictive legends thereon, whether in connection with a sale of such shares pursuant to any exemption to the registration requirements under the Securities Act, or otherwise, and the Company and or its counsel refuses or fails for any reason (except to the extent that such refusal or failure is based solely on applicable Law that would prevent the removal of such restrictive legends) to render an opinion of counsel or any other documents or certificates required for the removal of the restrictive legends, then the Company hereby agrees and acknowledges that such Buyer is hereby irrevocably and expressly authorized to have counsel to such Buyer render any and all opinions and other certificates or instruments which may be required for purposes of removing such restrictive legends, and the Company hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs the Transfer Agent to, without any further confirmation or instructions from the Company, issue any such shares without restrictive legends as instructed by such Buyer, and surrender to a common carrier for overnight delivery to the address as specified by such Buyer, certificates, registered in the name of such Buyer or its designees, representing the shares of Common Stock
to which such Buyer is entitled, without any restrictive legends and otherwise freely transferable on the books and records of the Company.
(ii) Authorized Agent of the Company. The Company hereby irrevocably appoints each Buyer and each Buyer’s counsel and its representatives, each as the Company’s duly authorized agent and attorney-in-fact for the Company for the purposes of authorizing and instructing the Transfer Agent to process issuances, transfers and legend removals upon instructions from each Buyer, or any counsel or representatives of each Buyer, consistent with this Section 7.3(c). The authorization and power of attorney granted hereby is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable so long as any Buyer owns or has the right to receive, any shares of the Company’s Common Stock hereunder. In this regard, the Company hereby confirms to the Transfer Agent and each Buyer that it can not and will not give instructions, including stop orders or otherwise, inconsistent with the terms of this Section 7.3(c) with regard to the matters contemplated herein, and that each Buyer shall have the absolute right to provide a copy of this Agreement to the Transfer Agent as evidence of the Company’s irrevocable authority for each Buyer and Transfer Agent to process issuances, transfers and legend removals upon instructions from each Buyer, or any counsel or representatives of each Buyer, in each case as specifically contemplated in this Section 7.3(c), without any further instructions, orders or confirmations from the Company.
7.4 Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Shares for general corporate purposes, including general and administrative expenses, and for the repayment of any outstanding Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
7.5 Fees and Expenses. The Company agrees to pay to each Buyer (or any designee or agent of the Buyers), upon demand, or to otherwise be responsible for the payment of, any and all costs, fees, charges and expenses, including the reasonable fees, costs, expenses and disbursements of counsel for any Buyer, and of any experts and agents, which any Buyer may incur or which may otherwise be due and payable in connection with: (i) any documentary stamp taxes, intangibles taxes, recording fees, filing fees, or other similar taxes, fees or charges imposed by or due to any Governmental Authority in connection with this Agreement or any other Transaction Documents; (ii) the exercise or enforcement of any of the rights of any Buyer under this Agreement or the Transaction Documents; or (iii) the failure by the Company to perform or observe any of the provisions of this Agreement or any of the Transaction Documents. The provisions of this Section 7.5 shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
7.6 Public Disclosure of Buyers. The Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Buyer, or include the name of any Buyer in any filing with the SEC or any regulatory agency or Principal Trading Market, without the prior written consent of such Buyer except: (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement or (b) to the extent such disclosure is
required by Law or Principal Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide Buyers with prior written notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).
7.7 Regulatory Approvals and Related Matters.
(a) Each of the Company and Murata shall use its commercially reasonable best efforts to file, as soon as practicable after the date of this Agreement, all notices, reports and other documents required to be filed by such party with any Governmental Authority with respect to the Contemplated Transactions, and to submit promptly any additional information requested by any such Governmental Authority. Without limiting any of the foregoing, if the Company and Murata determine in good faith that a declaration pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 801.402(a) is required for the Contemplated Transactions, CFIUS indicates that such a declaration is required for the Contemplated Transactions, or if the Company and Murata determine in good-faith that a Joint Voluntary Notice otherwise is advisable, the Company and Murata shall: (i) as promptly as practicable after the date of this Agreement, prepare and file with CFIUS such a declaration or Joint Voluntary Notice, as appropriate, which shall state that if the action taken by CFIUS at the end of the declaration assessment or Joint Voluntary Notice review or investigation period satisfies the CFIUS Condition, then the parties intend to consummate the purchase and sale of the Shares to be acquired by Murata hereunder promptly after the satisfaction or waiver of the last to be satisfied or waived of the conditions set forth in ARTICLE VIII and ARTICLE IX; (ii) if, in the event of a mandatory declaration, CFIUS requests at the conclusion of the 30-day declaration assessment period described in 31 C.F.R. § 801.404 that the parties to the transaction file a Joint Voluntary Notice pursuant to subpart E, the Company and Murata shall draft and promptly prepare and submit a formal Joint Voluntary Notice to CFIUS pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 800.401(a); (iii) if, in the event of a mandatory declaration, the CFIUS Condition has been satisfied at the conclusion of the 30-day declaration assessment period described in 31 C.F.R. § 801.404, then the Company and Murata shall forgo submission of a Joint Voluntary Notice to CFIUS pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 800.401(f); and (iv) in all cases, use commercially reasonable efforts to respond as promptly as practicable, and no later than the deadline specified by CFIUS for such a response, to any information request from CFIUS in connection with the CFIUS assessment, review or investigation of the Contemplated Transactions, as the case may be; provided that, if a declaration pursuant to 31 C.F.R. § 801.402(a) is not required for the Contemplated Transactions, the Company shall provide Murata with the CFIUS Warranty. The Company and Murata agree that if CFIUS suggests or requests, or if Murata and the Company determine it to be reasonably appropriate in connection with satisfying the CFIUS Condition, that the parties withdraw and resubmit a declaration or Joint Voluntary Notice submitted to CFIUS pursuant to this Section 7.7(a), the Company and Murata shall cooperate in withdrawing and resubmitting such declaration or Joint Voluntary Notice.
(b) The Company and Murata each shall promptly supply the other with any information which may be required in order to effectuate any filings (including applications) pursuant to (and to otherwise comply with its obligations set forth in) Section 7.7(a). The Company: (i) shall have the principal responsibility for devising and implementing the strategy of the parties with respect to seeking any actions or Consents of any Governmental Authority with respect to the Contemplated Transactions and coordinating any contacts with any Governmental Authority; and (ii) shall take the lead in all meetings and communications with any Governmental Authority in connection with obtaining any such action or Consent.
(c) Each of the Company and Murata shall notify the other promptly upon the receipt of: (i) any communication from any official of any Governmental Authority in
connection with any filing or submission made pursuant to this Agreement; (ii) knowledge of the commencement or threat of commencement of any legal proceeding by or before any Governmental Authority with respect to any of the Contemplated Transactions (and shall keep the other party informed as to the status of any such legal proceeding or threat); and (iii) any request by any official of any Governmental Authority for any amendment or supplement to any filing made pursuant to this Agreement or any information required to comply with any legal requirement applicable to any of the Contemplated Transactions. Whenever any event occurs that is required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to any filing made pursuant to Section 7.7(a), the Company or Murata, as the case may be, shall (promptly upon learning of the occurrence of such event) inform the other of the occurrence of such event and cooperate in filing with the applicable Governmental Authority such amendment or supplement.
(d) Subject to Section 7.7(e), each of the Company and Murata shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions necessary to consummate the purchase and sale of the Shares to be acquired by Murata hereunder on a timely basis, including satisfying the CFIUS Condition.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 7.7(d) or elsewhere in this Agreement, neither the Company nor Murata shall have any obligation under this Agreement to enter into a Commercial Agreement unless such agreement is acceptable to such party in its sole discretion. Furthermore, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 7.7(d) or elsewhere in this Agreement, the Company shall have no obligation under this Agreement to: (i) propose, negotiate, commit to or effect, by consent decree, hold separate order or otherwise, the sale, divestiture, disposition, holding separate or license (or similar arrangement) of, or limit the Company’s freedom of action with respect to, any of the businesses, product lines or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or otherwise propose, proffer or agree to any other requirement, obligation, condition, limitation or restriction on any of the businesses, product lines or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (ii) commence or contest, or cause any of its subsidiaries or Affiliates to commence or contest, any litigation in which a Governmental Authority is a party relating to any of the Contemplated Transactions; (iii) amend or modify any of the Company’s rights or obligations under this Agreement or any Commercial Agreement; or (iv) directly or indirectly restructure or commit to restructure any of the Contemplated Transactions.
The obligation of the Company hereunder to issue and sell the Shares to a Buyer at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions, provided that these conditions are for the Company’s sole benefit and may be waived by the Company at any time in its sole discretion:
8.2 The Buyer shall have paid the Buyer’s Purchase Price to the Company, which payment shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available U.S. funds to an account designated by the Company and in accordance with wire transfer instructions provided by the Company.
8.4 The Company shall have obtained all other governmental, regulatory or third party consents and approvals necessary for the sale of the Shares to the Buyer.
8.8 The Company shall have received the Minimum Purchase Proceeds.
8.9 Solely with respect to the Company’s sale to Murata of the Shares to be acquired by it hereunder, (i) the Commercial Agreement shall have been entered into and shall be in full force and effect and (ii) either (a) the CFIUS Condition shall have been satisfied, or (b) the Company and Murata shall have determined in good faith that a Joint Voluntary Notice is neither required nor warranted for the Contemplated Transactions, and the Company shall have provided the CFIUS Warranty to Murata.
The obligation of a Buyer hereunder to purchase the Shares at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction, at or before the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions (in addition to any other conditions precedent elsewhere in this Agreement), provided that these conditions are for the Buyer’s sole benefit and may be waived by the Buyer at any time in its sole discretion:
9.1 The Company shall have executed and delivered the Transaction Documents and delivered the same to the Buyer.
9.2 The Company shall have delivered to Computershare, the transfer agent for the Company’s Common Stock, instructions and all such other documents required of the Company by Computershare to issue to the Buyer a certificate registered in such Buyer’s name representing the number of Shares that such Buyer is purchasing.
9.3 The representations and warranties of the Company shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that any of such representations and warranties are
already qualified as to materiality in Article VI above, in which case, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects without further qualification) as of the date when made and as of the Closing Date as though made at that time (except for representations and warranties that speak as of a specific date) and the Company shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with the covenants, agreements and conditions required by this Agreement to be performed, satisfied or complied with by the Company at or prior to the Closing Date. The Buyer shall have received a certificate, executed by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the foregoing effect.
9.4 The Company shall have delivered to the Buyer a certificate evidencing the formation and good standing of the Company in its jurisdiction of formation issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of such jurisdiction of formation as of a date within twenty (20) days of the Closing Date.
9.5 The Company shall have delivered to the Buyer a certificate or other reasonably acceptable evidence evidencing the Company’s qualification as a foreign corporation and good standing issued by the Secretary of State (or comparable office) of each jurisdiction in which the Company conducts business and is required to so qualify, as of a date within twenty (20) days of the Closing Date.
9.6 The Company shall have delivered to the Buyer a certified copy of the Certificate of Incorporation as certified by the Secretary of State of the Company’s jurisdiction of incorporation within twenty (20) days of the Closing Date.
9.7 The Company shall have delivered to the Buyer a certificate, in the form acceptable to the Buyer, executed by the Secretary of the Company dated as of the Closing Date, as to (i) the resolutions consistent with Section 6.3 as adopted by the Company’s board of directors, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company and (iii) the Bylaws of the Company as in effect at the Closing.
9.8 The Company shall have delivered to the Buyers an opinion of counsel to the Company, as of the Closing Date, in a form satisfactory to the Buyer and its counsel.
9.9 No event shall have occurred which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
9.10 The Company shall have received the Minimum Purchase Proceeds.
9.11 Solely with respect to Murata’s obligation to purchase the Shares to be acquired by it hereunder, (i) the Commercial Agreement shall have been entered into and shall be in full force and effect and (ii) either (a) the CFIUS Condition shall have been satisfied, or (b) the Company and Murata shall have determined in good faith that a Joint Voluntary Notice is neither required nor warranted for the Contemplated Transactions, and the Company shall have provided the CFIUS Warranty to Murata.
10.1 Company’s Obligation to Indemnify. In consideration of the Buyers’ execution and delivery of this Agreement and acquiring the Shares hereunder, and in addition to all of
the Company’s other obligations under this Agreement, the Company hereby agrees to defend and indemnify each Buyer and each Buyer’s Affiliates and subsidiaries, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives, and the successors and assigns of each of them (collectively, the “Buyer Indemnified Parties”) and the Company does hereby agree to hold the Buyer Indemnified Parties harmless, from and against any and all Claims or Losses made, brought or asserted against, or incurred by, the Buyer Indemnified Parties, or any one of them, and the Company hereby agrees to pay or reimburse the Buyer Indemnified Parties for any and all Claims payable by any of the Buyer Indemnified Parties to any Person, including reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and expenses, court costs, settlement amounts, costs of investigation and interest thereon from the time such amounts are due at the highest non-usurious rate of interest permitted by applicable Law, through all negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, trial and appellate levels, as a result of, or arising out of, or relating to: (i) any misrepresentation or breach of any representation or warranty made by the Company in this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby; (ii) any breach of any covenant, agreement or Obligation of the Company contained in this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or any other certificate, instrument or document contemplated hereby or thereby; or (iii) any Claims brought or made against the Buyer Indemnified Parties, or any one of them, by any Person and arising out of or resulting from the execution, delivery, performance or enforcement of this Agreement, the Transaction Documents or any other instrument, document or agreement executed pursuant hereto or thereto, any transaction financed or to be financed in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the proceeds of the issuance of the Shares, or the status of the Buyers of any of the Shares, as a buyer and holder of such Shares in the Company. To the extent that the foregoing undertaking by the Company may be unenforceable for any reason, the Company shall make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of each of the Claims covered hereby, which is permissible under applicable Law. The Company will not be liable to any Buyer under this indemnity: (i) for any settlement by a Buyer in connection with any Claim effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed; or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent, that a Claim is attributable to any Buyer’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Buyer in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents.
11.1 Independent Nature of Buyers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Buyer under this Agreement and the Transaction Documents are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Buyer, and no Buyer shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Buyer under any one or more of the Transaction Documents. The decision of each Buyer to purchase the Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents has been made by each such Buyer independently of any other Buyer and independently of any information, materials, statements or opinions as to the business, affairs, operations, assets, properties, liabilities, results of operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the Company or of its subsidiaries, if any, which may have been made or given by any other Buyer or any of their respective officers, directors, principals, employees, agents, counsel or representatives (collectively, including the Buyer in question, the “Buyer Representatives”). No Buyer Representative shall have any liability to any other Buyer or the Company relating to or arising from any such information, materials, statements or opinions, if any. Each Buyer acknowledges that no other Buyer has acted as agent for such
Buyer in connection with making its investment hereunder and that no Buyer will be acting as agent of such other Buyer in connection with monitoring its investment in the Shares or enforcing its rights under the Transaction Documents. Each Buyer shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Buyer to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. The Company and each of the Buyers acknowledge that, for reasons of administrative convenience the Company has elected to provide each of the Buyers with the same Transaction Documents for the purpose of closing a transaction with multiple Buyers and not because it was required or requested to do so by any Buyer. In furtherance of the foregoing, and not in limitation thereof, the Company and the Buyers acknowledge that nothing contained in this Agreement or in any Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Buyer pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute any two or more Buyers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Buyers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
12.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated prior to the Closing (i) by mutual written agreement of the Company and a Buyer (as to itself but no other Buyer), (ii) by either the Company or a Buyer other than Murata (as to itself but no other Buyer) upon written notice to the other, if the Initial Closing shall not have taken place by 5:00 p.m., Los Angeles time on August 16, 2019, or such later date approved by the Company’s Board of Directors, but in no event later than August 30, 2019 (“Outside Closing Date”), (iii) by either the Company or Murata, upon written notice to the other, following a Final CFIUS Turndown, (iv) by either the Company or Murata, upon written notice to the other, if the Commercial Agreement has not been entered into by 5:00 p.m., Los Angeles time on September 30, 2019, or (v) by either the Company or Murata, upon written notice to the other, if the Closing of the purchase and sale of Shares to Murata shall not have taken place by 5:00 p.m., Los Angeles time on the earlier of (A) the tenth (10th) business day following the date the CFIUS Condition has been satisfied and (B) October 31, 2019; provided, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 12.1 shall not be available to any party whose failure to comply with its obligations under this Agreement has been the cause of or resulted in the failure of the Closing to occur on or before such time.
Attention: Martin S. McDermut
Email: mmcdermut@resonant.com
Attention: John McIlvery
Facsimile: (818) 444-4502
unless the address is changed by the party by like notice given to the other parties. Notice shall be in writing and shall be deemed delivered: (i) if mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid and properly addressed to the address below, then three (3) business days after deposit of same in a regularly maintained U.S. Mail receptacle; or (ii) if mailed by Federal Express, UPS or other nationally recognized overnight courier service, next business morning delivery, then one (1) business day after deposit of same in a regularly maintained receptacle of such overnight courier; or (iii) if hand delivered, then upon hand delivery thereof to the address indicated on or prior to 5:00 p.m., Los Angeles time, on a business day. Any notice hand delivered after 5:00 p.m., Los Angeles time, shall be deemed delivered on the following business day. Notwithstanding the foregoing, notice, consents, waivers or other communications referred to in this Agreement may be sent by facsimile, e-mail, or other method of delivery, but shall be deemed to have been delivered only when the sending party has confirmed (by reply e-mail or some other form of written confirmation from the receiving party) that the notice has been received by the other party.
13.2 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, including the Exhibits and Schedules attached hereto and the documents delivered pursuant hereto, including the Transaction Documents, set forth all the promises, covenants, agreements, conditions and understandings between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings, inducements or conditions, expressed or implied, oral or written, except as contained herein and in the Transaction Documents; provided, however, except as explicitly stated herein, nothing contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document shall (or shall be deemed to) (i) have any effect on any agreements any Buyer has entered into with, or any instruments any Buyer has received from, the Company prior to the date hereof with respect to any prior investment made by such Buyer in the Company or (ii) waive, alter, modify or amend in any respect any obligations of the Company, or any rights of or benefits to any Buyer or any other Person, in any agreement entered into prior to the date hereof between or among the Company and any Buyer, or any instruments any Buyer received from the Company prior to the date hereof, and all such agreements and instruments shall continue in full force and effect.
13.3 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement, and any and all rights, duties and obligations hereunder, shall not be assigned, transferred, delegated or sublicensed by the Company without the prior written consent of each Buyer. Subject to the foregoing and except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and
be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto.
13.5 Amendment. Except as specifically set forth herein, neither the Company nor any Buyer makes any representation, warranty, covenant or undertaking with respect to such matters. For clarification purposes, the Recitals are part of this Agreement. No provision of this Agreement may be amended other than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the Required Buyers. Any amendment to any provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 13.5 shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Shares, as applicable, provided that no such amendment shall be effective to the extent that it (1) applies to less than all of the holders of the Shares then outstanding or (2) imposes any obligation or liability on any Buyer without such Buyer’s prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in such Buyer’s sole discretion). No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party, provided that the Required Buyers may waive any provision of this Agreement, and any waiver of any provision of this Agreement made in conformity with the provisions of this Section 13.5 shall be binding on all Buyers and holders of Shares, as applicable, provided that no such waiver shall be effective to the extent that it (1) applies to less than all of the holders of the Shares then outstanding (unless a party gives a waiver as to itself only) or (2) imposes any obligation or liability on any Buyer without such Buyer’s prior written consent (which may be granted or withheld in such Buyer’s sole discretion). No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of any of the Transaction Documents unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to the Transaction Documents who are holders of Shares. The Company has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreements with any Buyers relating to the terms or conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents except as set forth in the Transaction Documents or, with respect to Murata, the Commercial Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company confirms that, except as set forth in this Agreement, no Buyer has made any commitment or promise or has any other obligation to provide any financing to the Company or otherwise. As a material inducement for each Buyer to enter into this Agreement, the Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that no due diligence or other investigation or inquiry conducted by a Buyer, any of its advisors or any of its representatives shall affect such Buyer’s right to rely on, or shall modify or qualify in any manner or be an exception to any of, the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any other Transaction Document. “Required Buyers” means Buyers holding and/or subscribing hereunder for a majority of the Shares sold or to be sold pursuant to this Agreement.
13.7 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which taken together shall be deemed and considered one and the same Agreement, and same shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and each party has delivered its signed counterpart to the other party. A digital reproduction, portable document format (“PDF”) or other reproduction of this Agreement may be executed by one or more parties hereto and delivered by such party by electronic signature (including signature via DocuSign or similar services), electronic mail or any similar electronic transmission device
pursuant to which the signature of or on behalf of such party can be seen. Such execution and delivery shall be considered valid, binding and effective for all purposes.
13.9 Governing Law; Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of California without regard to the choice of law principles thereof. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of California located in Los Angeles County and the United States District Court for the Central District for the purpose of any suit, action, proceeding or judgment relating to or arising out of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Service of process in connection with any such suit, action or proceeding may be served on each party hereto anywhere in the world by the same methods as are specified for the giving of notices under this Agreement. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding and to the laying of venue in such court. Each party hereto irrevocably waives any objection to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such courts and irrevocably waives any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. If either party shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the other party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.
13.11 Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Shares. Each Buyer shall be responsible only for its own representations, warranties and covenants hereunder.
13.12 Time is of the Essence. The parties hereby agree that time is of the essence with respect to performance of each of the parties’ Obligations under this Agreement. The parties agree that in the event that any date on which performance is to occur falls on a Saturday, Sunday or state or national holiday, then the time for such performance shall be extended until the next business day thereafter occurring.
13.13 Joint Preparation. The preparation of this Agreement has been a joint effort of the parties and the resulting documents shall not, solely as a matter of judicial construction, be construed more severely against one of the parties than the other.
13.14 Severability. If any one of the provisions contained in this Agreement, for any reason, shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and be construed as if the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.
13.15 No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.
13.16 Compliance with Federal Law. The Company shall: (i) ensure that no Person who owns a controlling interest in or otherwise controls the Company is or shall at any time be listed on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Person List or other similar lists maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), the Department of the Treasury, included in any Executive Orders or in any other similar lists of any Governmental Authority; (ii) not use or permit the use of the proceeds of the purchase of the Shares to violate any of the foreign asset control regulations of OFAC or any enabling statute, Executive Order relating thereto or any other requirements or restrictions imposed by any Governmental Authority; and (iii) comply with all applicable Lender Secrecy Act (“BSA”) laws and regulations, as amended.
RESONANT INC.,
WITH RESONANT INC.
Aggregate Purchase Price for Shares to be Purchased:
6,999,998.94
OTHER INVESTORS OMITTED