CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED
Exhibit 4.8
CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED
EXECUTION VERSION
1 March 2015
NOVARTIS AG
and
and
GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER
HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS LIMITED
DEED OF AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT
relating to the
relating to the Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture,
dated 22 April 2014 (as amended)
This Deed (the “Deed”) is made on 1 March 2015 between:
(1) | NOVARTIS AG, a corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) incorporated in Switzerland whose registered office is at Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00, 0000 Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx (“Novartis”); |
(2) | GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC, a public limited company incorporated in England and Wales whose registered office is at 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, XX0 0XX, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx (“GSK”); and |
(3) | GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS LIMITED (formerly XXX CONSTELLATION LIMITED), a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales whose registered office is at 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, XX0 0XX, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx (the “Purchaser”), |
each a “party” and together the “parties”.
Whereas:
(A) | The parties entered into the Contribution Agreement relating to the Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture on 22 April 2014 (the “CA”). |
(B) | The CA was subsequently amended and restated on 29 May 2014 (the “Original Agreement”). |
(C) | The parties now wish to further amend and restate the Original Agreement, in the form of the Amended Agreement (as defined below). |
It is agreed as follows:
1. | DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION |
In this Deed, unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this clause 1 apply.
1.1 | Incorporation of defined terms |
Unless otherwise stated, terms defined in the Original Agreement shall have the same meaning in this Deed.
1.2 | Definitions |
“Amended Agreement” means the Original Agreement, as amended and restated in the form set out in the Schedule to this Deed; and
“Signing Date” means 22 April 2014.
1.3 | Interpretation clauses |
1.3.1 | The principles of interpretation set out in Clause 1 of the Original Agreement shall have effect as if set out in this Deed, save that references to “this Agreement” shall be construed as references to “this Deed”. |
1.3.2 | References to this Deed include the Schedule. |
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2. | AMENDMENT |
2.1 | In accordance with Clauses 15.5.3 and 15.6.1 of the Original Agreement, the parties agree that the Original Agreement shall be amended and restated as set out in the Schedule to this Deed. |
2.2 | The amendment and restatement of the Original Agreement pursuant to clause 2.1 shall take effect from the Signing Date, as if the Amended Agreement had been entered into on the Signing Date. |
2.3 | Upon this Deed being entered into, the Amended Agreement shall supersede the Original Agreement in its entirety. |
3. | MISCELLANEOUS |
3.1 | Each party represents and warrants that it has full power and authority to enter into this Deed and to perform its obligations under it. |
3.2 | The provisions of Clauses 12, 15.3 to 15.6 and 15.14 to 15.18 of the Amended Agreement shall apply to this Deed as if set out in full in this Deed and as if references in those Clauses to “this Agreement” are references to this Deed and references to “party” or “parties” are references to parties to this Deed. |
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In witness whereof this Deed has been delivered on the date first stated above.
Executed as a DEED by |
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GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC acting by |
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its duly appointed attorney |
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In the presence of: | ||||
Witness’ signature: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Name (print): | Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Occupation: | Solicitor | |||
Address: | One Bunhill Row, London |
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In witness whereof this Deed has been delivered on the date first stated above.
Executed as a DEED by | ) | |||
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Xxxx Xxxx as Attorney and | ) | /s/ Xxxx Xxxx | ||
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Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx As Attorney | ) | |||
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on behalf of NOVARTIS AG | ) |
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In witness whereof this Deed has been delivered on the date first stated above.
Executed as a DEED by | ) | |||
GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER | ) | |||
HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS LIMITED | ) | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxx | ||
acting by its duly appointed attorney | ) | (Signature of attorney) | ||
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In the presence of: | ||||
Witness’ signature: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Name (print): | Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |||
Occupation: | Solicitor | |||
Address: | One Bunhill Row, London |
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SCHEDULE
Amended Agreement
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EXECUTION VERSION
Dated 22 April 2014
as amended and restated on 29 May 2014, and further amended and restated on 1 March 2015
and
NOVARTIS AG
and
GLAXOSMITHKLINE CONSUMER HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS LIMITED
relating to the Consumer Healthcare Joint Venture
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CONTENTS
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1. | Interpretation | 11 | ||||
2. | Sale and Purchase of the Target Groups | 58 | ||||
3. | Consideration | 66 | ||||
4. | Conditions | 69 | ||||
5. | Pre-Closing | 76 | ||||
6. | Closing | 80 | ||||
7. | Post-Closing Adjustments | 87 | ||||
8. | Post-Closing Obligations | 90 | ||||
9. | Warranties | 103 | ||||
10. | Limitation of Liability | 105 | ||||
11. | Claims | 109 | ||||
12. | Confidentiality | 110 | ||||
13. | Insurance | 113 | ||||
14. | France Business and the Netherlands Business | 114 | ||||
15. | Other Provisions | 117 | ||||
Schedule 1 Details of the Share Sellers, Shares etc. |
128 | |||||
Schedule 2 The Properties |
136 | |||||
Schedule 3 Excluded Assets |
157 | |||||
Schedule 4 Product Approvals etc. |
159 | |||||
Schedule 5 Certificate |
168 | |||||
Schedule 6 Shared Business Contracts, Transferred Contracts and Certain Other Businesses |
170 | |||||
Schedule 7 Employees |
186 | |||||
Schedule 8 Employee Benefits |
215 |
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Schedule 9 Products | 231 | |||||
Schedule 10 VAT | 240 | |||||
Schedule 11 Closing Obligations | 242 | |||||
Schedule 12 Post Closing Adjustments | 246 | |||||
Schedule 13 Warranties given under Clause 9.1 | 256 | |||||
Schedule 14 Warranties given by the Purchaser under Clause 9.3 | 274 | |||||
Schedule 15 Pre-Closing Obligations | 276 | |||||
Schedule 16 Key Personnel | 281 | |||||
Schedule 17 Reorganisations | 282 | |||||
Schedule 18 Statement of Net Assets | 286 | |||||
Schedule 19 Novartis International Assignees | 294 | |||||
Schedule 20 Clearances, Approvals etc. | 295 | |||||
Schedule 21 Seller Marks | 296 | |||||
Schedule 22 Delayed Businesses | 297 | |||||
Schedule 23 Ukraine Business | 327 | |||||
Schedule 24 Local Payments | 329 | |||||
Schedule 25 Global TDSA Jurisdictions | 332 | |||||
Schedule 26 Novartis Excluded Employees | 333 | |||||
Schedule 27 Anti-bribery and corruption | 334 | |||||
Attachments 1 and 2 Management Presentations | 335 |
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This Agreement is made on 22 April 2014, amended and restated on 29 May 2014, and as further amended and restated on 1 March 2015
between:
(1) | Novartis AG, a corporation (Aktiengesellschaft) registered in the Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, Switzerland under number CHE-103.867.266 and whose registered office is at Basel Switzerland and whose address is Xxxxxxxxxxxx 00, 0000 Xxxxx (“Novartis”); |
(2) | GlaxoSmithKline Plc, a company registered in England under number 03888792 and whose registered office is at 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (“GlaxoSmithKline”, with each of Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline being, a “Seller” and together, the “Sellers”); and |
(3) | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Holdings Limited, a company registered in England under number 08998608 whose registered office is at 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX (the “Purchaser”), |
each a “party” and together the “parties”.
Whereas:
(A) | Each Seller and certain of its Affiliates (as defined below), including that Seller’s Target Group Companies (as defined below), are engaged in that Seller’s Contributed Business (as defined below). |
(B) | As of the date of this Agreement, each Seller and certain of its Affiliates directly or indirectly own shares or other equity interests in that Seller’s Target Group Companies. |
(C) | Each Seller has agreed to sell (or procure the sale of) its Target Group (as defined below) and to assume the obligations imposed on it as a Seller under this Agreement, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement. |
(D) | The Purchaser has agreed to purchase (or procure the purchase of) the Target Groups and to assume the obligations imposed on the Purchaser under this Agreement, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement. |
(E) | In connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Purchaser and GlaxoSmithKline and/or Novartis, and/or certain of their respective Affiliates, have entered into or will enter into the Ancillary Agreements (as defined below). |
It is agreed as follows:
1. | INTERPRETATION |
In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions in this Clause 1 apply:
1.1 | Definitions |
“2012 Accounts” means, for each Target Group Company, the audited financial statements of that Target Group Company, prepared in accordance with legislation as in force and applicable to that Target Group Company for the accounting reference period
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ended on the 2012 Accounts Date, comprising the balance sheet, the profit and loss account and the notes to the accounts;
“2012 Accounts Date” means 31 December 2012;
“2013 Operating Income” means the operating income for 2013 annexed to the Disclosure Letter at Annex B.
“A Shares” means the A ordinary shares in the capital of the Purchaser, having the rights and restrictions set out in the articles of association of the Purchaser as at Closing, and which, immediately following Closing, will represent 63.5 per cent. of the ordinary share capital of the Purchaser;
“Action” means the taking of any steps by any Governmental Entity to seek a Judgment which would have the effect of preventing the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement by the Purchaser;
“Additional 2015 Products” means
(i) | products reported in the Allergy and Dermatology Business Unit in China, being Flixonase, Avamys, Beconase, Valtrex, Drapolene, Cutivate, Physiogel and Spectraban; |
(ii) | Flonase / Flixonase Prescription Products in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, Malaysia; |
(iii) | Stieprox in BMA, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, Brazil, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines; |
(iv) | Darrier in Mexico; and |
(v) | any Consumer Healthcare Products in Israel. |
“Affiliate” means:
(i) | with respect to the parties, any other person that is Controlled by such person; or |
(ii) | with respect to any other person, any other person that Controls, is Controlled by or is under common Control with such person, and “Affiliates” shall be interpreted accordingly, |
provided that any Delayed Target Group Company shall not constitute an “Affiliate” of the Purchaser unless, and until, the relevant Delayed Closing Date in respect of such Delayed Target Group Company;
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“Affiliate Contract” means:
(i) | in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, any Contract between or among any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group (other than its Target Group Company) on the one hand, and its Target Group Company on the other hand, to the extent that it relates to any services that will be and, as at Closing are, provided under the Ancillary Agreements, but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt: (i) any Ancillary Agreement; and (ii) any Contract comprising or related to any Intra-Group Trading Payables or Intra-Group Trading Receivables; or |
(ii) | in respect of Novartis, any Contract between or among any member of Novartis’s Group (other than its Target Group Company) on the one hand, and its Target Group Company on the other hand, but excluding: |
(a) | any Ancillary Agreement; |
(b) | any Contract comprising or related to any Intra-Group Trading Payables or Intra-Group Trading Receivables; |
(c) | any Novartis Services Contract; |
(d) | any Novartis Distribution and Sales Products Contract; |
(e) | the Algerian Distribution Contracts; and |
(f) | the Saudi Distribution Contracts. |
“Agreed Terms” means, in relation to a document, such document in the terms agreed between GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis and initialled for identification purposes by GlaxoSmithKline’s Lawyers and Novartis’s Lawyers, with such alterations as may be agreed in writing between the parties from time to time;
“Agreed UK Restructuring Arrangement” means the pension augmentation (or cash in lieu of augmentation) policy applying on redundancy to UK employees of the GlaxoSmithKline Group who joined service prior to 1 April 2005 as disclosed to Novartis prior to the date of this Agreement via a document which was signed on 22 April 2014 by Xxxxxxx Xxxx of Xxxxxxxxx and May and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of Freshfields Bruckhaus Xxxxxxxx LLP for identification purposes;
“Agreement” means this contribution agreement as it may have been amended or restated from time to time;
“Algerian Distribution Contracts” means any contracts entered into between Novartis Consumer Health SA and Sandoz SPA and any other contracts entered into by any Novartis Target Group Company in relation to the Novartis OTC Business in Algeria as Novartis and the Purchaser may agree from time to time;
“Alliance Market Businesses” means the GlaxoSmithKline Alliance Market Businesses and the Novartis Alliance Market Businesses;
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“Alliance Market Distribution Agreement” has the meaning given in the Shareholders’ Agreement;
“Alliance Market Local Transfer Agreements” means the local transfer agreements listed in Appendix 1;
“Alliance Market Territories” means Austria, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Jamaica, Morocco, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela;
“Ancillary Agreement Liabilities” means, in respect of a Seller, the Liabilities of any member of that Seller’s Group to any member of the Purchaser’s Group and the Liabilities of any member of the Purchaser’s Group to any member of that Seller’s Group, in each case arising under any Ancillary Agreement;
“Ancillary Agreements” means the Implementation Agreement, the Local Transfer Documents, the Disclosure Letters, the Tax Indemnity, the France Offer Letters, the France SAPAs, the Netherlands Offer Letter, the Netherlands SAPA, the Transitional Services Agreement, the Manufacturing and Supply Agreements, the Transitional Distribution Services Agreements, the Purchaser Trademark Licence Agreements, the Purchaser Patent and Know-How Licence Agreements, the Intellectual Property Assignment Agreements, the Pharmacovigilance Agreement, the Support Services Agreement, the Shareholders’ Agreement and the Claims Management Agreement;
“Animal Health Term Sheet” has the meaning given to it in Clause 5.2.3(i);
“Anti-Bribery Law” means any Applicable Law that relates to bribery or corruption, including the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and the UK Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000, in each case, as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time;
“Applicable Law” means any supra-national, federal, national, state, municipal or local statute, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, code, order (whether executive, legislative, judicial or otherwise), judgment, injunction, notice, decree or other requirement or rule of law or legal process (including common law), or any other order of, or agreement issued, promulgated or entered into by, any Governmental Entity or any rule or requirement of any national securities exchange, including all Healthcare Laws, and GCP, GLP, and GMP, each as may be amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time;
“Appointment Notice” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.4 of Schedule 12;
“Articles of Association” means the articles of association of the Purchaser in the Agreed Terms, as amended from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Shareholders’ Agreement;
“Associated Person” means, in relation to a Seller’s Group, a person (including any director, officer, employee, agent or other intermediary) who performs services for or on behalf of any member of that Seller’s Group or who holds shares of capital stock, partnership interests, limited liability company membership interests or units, shares,
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interests or other participations in any member of that Seller’s Group (in each case, when performing such services or acting in such capacity);
“Assumed Liabilities” means all Liabilities relating to the Target Group Businesses (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Delayed Target Group Businesses and any Alliance Market Businesses) other than: (i) the Excluded Liabilities; (ii) any Assumed Pension and Employment Liabilities; (iii) any Liabilities in respect of Tax (other than Tax which has been provided for or reflected in the Closing Statement and Tax which has been assumed by a member of the Purchaser’s Group under an express provision of this Agreement); and (iv) any Ancillary Agreement Liabilities;
“Assumed Pension and Employment Liabilities” means (i) any Liabilities assumed by the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group as contemplated by Schedule 7; and (ii) any Transferred Employee Benefit Liabilities (as defined in Schedule 8) which the Purchaser agrees to assume in accordance with Schedule 8;
“B Shares” means the B ordinary shares in the capital of the Purchaser, having the rights and restrictions set out in the articles of association of the Purchaser as at Closing, and which, immediately following Closing, will represent 36.5 per cent. of the ordinary share capital of the Purchaser;
“Base Working Capital Range” means, in respect of a Seller, the range between its Minimum Working Capital Amount and its Maximum Working Capital Amount;
“Baxter” means Xxxxxx Healthcare Corporation;
“Xxxxxx Excluded Contract” means the supply and distribution agreement entered into between Novartis Consumer Health Inc. and Baxter dated 1 January 2003;
“Benefit Plans” means the US Benefit Plans and the Non-US Benefit Plans;
“Brand” means the primary name of a Product;
“Business Day” means a day which is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the canton of Xxxxx-Xxxxx (Xxxxxxxxxxx) xx Xxxxxx (Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx);
“Business Information” means, in respect of a Seller: (i) Commercial Information; (ii) Medical Information; and (iii) any other information Predominantly Related to its Contributed Business;
“Business Sellers” means, in respect of a Seller, the members of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies) that own assets of or otherwise conduct any of its Target Group Businesses;
“Call for New Tender” means, in respect of a Seller, any calls for a tender (including any tender for a basket of products), whether a new tender or the renewal of an existing tender, which includes its Products and which is published after Closing of which that Seller and/or any of its Affiliates become aware and which relates in whole or in part to the sale of its Products;
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“Cash Balances” means cash in hand or credited to any account with a financial institution and securities which are readily convertible into cash;
“Cash Pooling Arrangements” means, in respect of a Seller, the cash pooling arrangements of that Seller’s Group in which any of its Target Group Companies participate;
“Cash Portion” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, £190,500,000 and, in respect of Novartis, £109,500,000;
“Certificate” means, in the case of a Seller, a certificate signed by a director, officer or an authorised signatory of that Seller in the form set out in Schedule 5 to be provided to the Purchaser immediately prior to Closing;
“CFIUS” means the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States;
“CFIUS Approval” means written notice from CFIUS that any review or investigation of the Transaction under Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 of the United States, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. Section 2170), has been concluded and there are no unresolved national security concerns with respect to the Transaction or the President shall have determined not to take action with respect to the Transaction;
“CFIUS Filing” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.2.3(ii);
“Chinese JV Contracts” means the joint venture contract between Tianjin Pharmaceutical Corporation and SmithKline Xxxxxxx Corporation dated April 1984, as amended from time to time, and any other ancillary agreements thereto;
“Chinese JV Interests” means all of the shares or other equity interests held by SmithKline Xxxxxxx Corporation in The Sino-American Tianjin Xxxxx Xxxxx & French Laboratories, Ltd, a joint venture company governed by the Chinese JV Contracts;
“Claims Management Agreement” means the agreement between each of the Sellers and the Purchaser, to be negotiated in good faith between the parties and entered into at Closing, in respect of the management of claims or investigations by or against third parties (including by any Governmental Agency), including those which constitute or may constitute an Assumed Liability or Excluded Liability;
“Clinical Trials/Data Liability” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any breach of Applicable Law in connection with the conduct of, or reporting or data in relation to, clinical studies or trials (including post-approval studies) sponsored or supported by or in relation to a Target Group or otherwise recommended by a Governmental Entity;
“Closing” means the completion of the sale of (i) the Shares and (ii) the Target Group Businesses in respect of each of GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, in each case, pursuant to this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreement, and Closing shall be deemed to have taken place even if some of the Shares in relation to the Joint Venture Entities only or other elements of the Contributed Businesses have not transferred to the Purchaser
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pursuant to Schedule 6, Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses) and Clause 2.6 (Alliance Market Businesses) to which the provisions of Schedule 6, Schedule 22 and Clause 2.6 respectively shall then apply;
“Closing Date” means the date on which Closing takes place in accordance with Clause 6.1;
“Closing Statement” means, in respect of a Seller, the statement setting out the Working Capital, the Working Capital Adjustment, the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances, the Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables, the Third Party Indebtedness, the Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables and the Tax Adjustment, to be prepared by that Seller and agreed or determined in accordance with Clause 7 and Schedule 12;
“COBRA” means the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 of the United States, as amended, section 4980B of the Code, Title I Part 6 of ERISA and any similar US state group health plan continuation law, together with its implementing regulations;
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, together with its implementing regulations;
“Commercial Information” means, in respect of a Seller, information that is, as of the Closing Date, or, in respect of any Delayed Business, the Delayed Closing Date, as applicable, owned by that Seller and/or its Affiliates and Predominantly Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business;
“Commercial Practices Liability” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any breach of Applicable Law in connection with Commercialisation;
“Commercialise” means to promote, market, distribute, sell and/or otherwise commercialise a product and “Commercialising” and “Commercialisation” shall be construed accordingly;
“Company Lease” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2;
“Company Leased Properties” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2;
“Company Owned Properties” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2;
“Company Properties” means the Company Owned Properties and the Company Leased Properties, and “Company Property” means any one of them;
“Consumer Healthcare Product” means, in respect of any jurisdiction, any oral care, nutritional care, skin care or other cosmetic or healthcare product or device of any kind, in each case, for the treatment of, or use by, human beings which is available without, or both with and without, a prescription, but excluding any such product or device that is
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subject to the same regulatory classification and/or regulatory treatment (including in relation to advertising) as a product or device that is available only with a prescription;
“Contract” means any binding contract, agreement, instrument, lease, licence or commitment, excluding: (i) any lease or other related or similar agreements, undertakings and arrangements with respect to the leasing or ownership of the Properties (to which the provisions set out in Schedule 2 shall apply); and (ii) any contract with any Employee;
“Contracts Liabilities” means Liabilities relating to: (i) the Transferred Contracts; (ii) the Transferred Intellectual Property Contracts; and (iii) all other contracts (or any part thereof) transferred, assigned, novated or assumed by the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement or to which a Target Group Company is or was a party or under which a Target Group Company has any Liability, and “Contracts Liability” shall be construed accordingly;
“Contributed Business” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis OTC Business;
“Control” means the power to direct the management and policies of a person (directly or indirectly), whether through ownership of voting securities, by Contract or otherwise (and the term “Controlled” shall be interpreted accordingly);
“Controlled Business Instruction” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Controlled Delayed Business” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Co-Owned Target Group Intellectual Property Rights” means any Target Group Intellectual Property Right that is owned in part by a third party;
“Copyright” means any works of authorship, copyrights, database rights, mask work rights and registrations and applications thereof;
“December Presentation” means, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline December 2013 Presentation and, in the case of Novartis, the Novartis December 2013 Presentation;
“Decision” means the issuing of any decision by a competition, antitrust, foreign investment, national, local, supranational or supervisory or other government, governmental, quasi-governmental, trade, or regulatory body, agency, branch, subdivision, department, commission, official or authority, including any Tax Authority and any governmental department and any court or other tribunal, that would have the effect of prohibiting the acquisition of the Target Groups by the Purchaser;
“Deferred Employee” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, any GlaxoSmithKline Deferred Employee and, in respect of Novartis, any Novartis Deferred Employee;
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“Delayed Assets” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Delayed Businesses” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Delayed Business Employees” has the meaning given in Schedule 7 (Employees);
“Delayed Business Representatives” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Delayed Closing” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Delayed Closing Date” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Delayed Company Employees” has the meaning given in Schedule 7 (Employees);
“Delayed Employees” has the meaning given in Schedule 7 (Employees);
“Delayed Local Payment Amount” has the meaning given to it in Clause 6.5.3;
“Delayed Payment Date” has the meaning given to it in Clause 6.5.4;
“Delayed Target Group Business” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Delayed Target Group Company” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses);
“Disclosure Letter” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the letter dated on the same date as this Agreement from GlaxoSmithKline to the Purchaser and, in respect of Novartis, the letter dated on the same date as this Agreement from Novartis to the Purchaser;
“Distribution Contract” has the meaning given in paragraph 4.6.2 of Schedule 6;
“Distribution Transfer Date” has the meaning given to it in the Transitional Distribution Services Agreement;
“Draft Closing Statement” has the meaning given to it in Clause 7.1.1;
“Effective Time” means 11.59 p.m. (local time in the relevant location) on the Closing Date or, if the Closing Date is not the last day of a month but the first Business Day of a month, 11.59 p.m. on the last day of the immediately preceding month;
“Election Date” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.2.3(ii);
“Employee Benefit Indemnification Amount” has the meaning given to it in Schedule 8;
“Employee Benefits” has the meaning given to it in Schedule 8;
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“Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Employees;
“Encumbrance” means any claim, charge, mortgage, lien, option, equitable right, power of sale, pledge, hypothecation, usufruct, retention of title, right of pre-emption, right of first refusal or other security interest of any kind or an agreement, arrangement or obligation to create any of the foregoing, and for the avoidance of doubt, shall exclude any licences of, or claims of infringement in relation to, Intellectual Property Rights;
“Endo” means Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.;
“Endo Excluded Contract” means the license and supply agreement between Novartis, Novartis Consumer Health, Inc. and Endo dated 4 March 2008, in relation to, among other things, a license to Commercialise Voltaren Gel as a Prescription Product;
“Environmental Laws” means any and all Applicable Law regulating or imposing Liability or standards of conduct concerning pollution or protection of the environment (including surface water, groundwater or soil);
“Environmental Liabilities” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any Environmental Law or environmental, health or safety matter or condition, including natural resources, but excluding any Product Liability;
“Environmental Permit” means any permit, licence, consent or authorisation required by Environmental Laws issued by any relevant competent authority and used in relation to the operation or conduct of Manufacturing at any Property;
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 of the United States, as amended, together with its implementing regulations;
“Estimated Employee Benefit Adjustment” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate (in so far as practicable), made in good faith after consulting with the other Seller, of 95 per cent of the anticipated aggregate of its Employee Benefit Indemnification Amounts, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4. However, GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis may agree in writing to apply a different mechanism to determine and calculate the Estimated Employee Benefit Adjustment of each Seller;
“Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Intra-Group Trade Balances” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Intra-Group Trade Balances, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
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“Estimated Intra-Group Trade Payables” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Intra-Group Trade Payables, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Intra-Group Trade Receivables” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Intra-Group Trade Receivables, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Tax Adjustment” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Tax Adjustment, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Third Party Indebtedness” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Third Party Indebtedness, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Transferred Accounts Payables” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Transferred Accounts Payables, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Transferred Accounts Receivables” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Transferred Accounts Receivables, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Working Capital” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller’s reasonable estimate of its Working Capital, to be notified by that Seller to the Purchaser pursuant to Clause 6.4;
“Estimated Working Capital Adjustment” means, in respect of a Seller:
(i) | if its Estimated Working Capital is no less than its Minimum Working Capital Amount and no greater than its Maximum Working Capital Amount, zero; |
(ii) | if its Estimated Working Capital is less than its Minimum Working Capital Amount, the amount by which its Estimated Working Capital is less than its Minimum Working Capital Amount, such amount being treated as a negative amount; or |
(iii) | if its Estimated Working Capital is greater than its Maximum Working Capital Amount, the amount by which its Estimated Working Capital exceeds its Maximum Working Capital Amount, such amount being treated as a positive amount; |
“Excluded Assets” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Assets and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Excluded Assets;
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“Excluded Contracts” means, in respect of a Seller, each Contract that is not Exclusively Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business;
“Excluded Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Excluded Employees;
“Excluded Liabilities” means, in respect of a Seller:
(i) | all Liabilities: |
(a) | relating to that Seller’s Target Group Businesses (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Delayed Target Group Businesses and any Alliance Market Businesses); and |
(b) | of that Seller’s Target Group Companies (other than Liabilities in respect of Tax), |
in either case, to the extent that they have arisen or arise (whether before or after the applicable Liability Cut-off Time for that Liability) as a result of, or otherwise relate to, any act, omission, fact, matter, circumstance or event undertaken, occurring, in existence or arising before the applicable Liability Cut-off Time for that Liability, and in either case, other than:
(a) any Assumed Pension and Employment Liabilities,
(b) any Liabilities to the extent taken into account, provided for or reflected in the Closing Statement (including in respect of Tax),
(c) any Intra-Group Trade Payables,
(d) Transferred Accounts Payables between any member of that Seller’s Group (other than a Target Group Company) and a Business Seller of that Seller’s Group; and
(e) any Ancillary Agreement Liability; and
(ii) | all Liabilities relating to its Seller’s Retained Business; |
“Exclusively Related to” means, in respect of a Seller’s Contributed Businesses, exclusively related to, or used or held for use exclusively in connection with, that Contributed Business;
“FCA” means the Financial Conduct Authority;
“FDA” means the United States Food and Drug Administration (or its successor);
“Final Payment Date” means five Business Days after the date on which the process described in Part 1 of Schedule 12 for the preparation of its Closing Statement is complete;
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“France Assumed Liabilities” means, in respect of a Seller, the Assumed Liabilities to the extent they relate to that Seller’s France Business;
“France Business” means, in respect of Novartis, that part of its Contributed Business that is conducted in France, including Novartis Santé Familiale S.A.S, its France Assumed Liabilities and its France Employees and, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, that part of its Contributed Business that is conducted in France, its France Assumed Liabilities and its France Employees;
“France Closing” has, in respect of a Seller, the meaning given to it in that Seller’s France SAPA;
“France Employees” means, in respect of Novartis, the Employees employed by Novartis Santé Familiale S.A.S. and, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, those of the GlaxoSmithKline Employees who are employed in France;
“France Offer Letter” means, in respect of a Seller, the letter from the Purchaser to that Seller in respect of the binding offer from the Purchaser to acquire that Seller’s France Business dated on the date hereof;
“France Put Option Exercise” means, in respect of a Seller, the meaning given to it in that Seller’s France Offer Letter;
“France SAPA” means, in respect of a Seller, the meaning given to it in that Seller’s France Offer Letter;
“FSMA” means the Financial Services and Markets Xxx 0000;
“Full Disclosure” means disclosure by the relevant Seller to the Purchaser of the material terms, including financial terms, of a Relevant Part of a Shared Business Contract;
“Full Title Guarantee” means, in respect of a Seller on the basis that the covenants implied under Part 1 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Xxx 0000 where a disposition is expressed to be made with full title guarantee are deemed to be given by that Seller (on behalf of its relevant Share Seller or Business Seller) on Closing;
“GlaxoSmithKline Alliance Market Businesses” means the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses in the Alliance Market Territories;
“GlaxoSmithKline’s Articles of Association” means the articles of association of GlaxoSmithKline in force and effect from time to time;
“GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh” means GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh Limited, a company incorporated in Bangladesh and listed on the Dhakar Stock Exchange;
“GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh Business” means that part of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business conducted by GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh or any person Controlled by GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh from time to time;
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“GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees” means the employees of any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group who work wholly or substantially in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business from time to time including, for the avoidance of any doubt, the GlaxoSmithKline International Assignees other than the GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees and the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Employees and provided that, in relation to the Seller’s Warranties only, the words “from time to time” shall be deemed to be replaced by “at the date of this Agreement”, and “GlaxoSmithKline Business Employee” means any one of them;
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“GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees” means the employees from time to time of any of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies other than the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Employees, and provided that, in relation to the Seller’s Warranties only, the words “from time to time” shall be deemed to be replaced by “at the date of this Agreement”, and “GlaxoSmithKline Company Employee” means any one of them;
“GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business” means:
(i) | the business of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising the GlaxoSmithKline Products in the GlaxoSmithKline Territories; |
(ii) | the business of researching and developing the GlaxoSmithKline Pipeline Products; |
(iii) | all rights, title and interest in relation to researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising GlaxoSmithKline’s In-Scope Switch Product, in any jurisdiction, as a Consumer Healthcare Product only; |
(iv) | the business of manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising the Prescription Products which are managed by and reported for financial purposes in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Division for, or since, the year ended December 2013 and, in respect of any such Prescription Product, in the territories in which sales are reported for such Prescription Product for financial purposes in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Division for, or since, the year ended December 2013; and |
(v) | any royalty streams in respect of any products received by and reported for financial purposes in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Division for, or since, the year ended 31 December 2013, |
in each case, conducted by GlaxoSmithKline’s Group, but excluding the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Assets;
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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“GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group” means the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies and the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses;
“GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses” means the businesses of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business (but excluding the businesses carried on by the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies) as set out in Clause 2.3.1, but subject always to Clause 2.3.2, and “GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Business” means any of them;
“GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies” means:
(i) | those members of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group whose operations, assets and/or businesses are Exclusively Related to the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business, an indicative list of which are set out in the table in Part A of Part 1 of Schedule 1, including any Intermediate Holdco as defined in Schedule 17 (Reorganisations), but excluding any such members whose operations, assets and/or businesses form any part of the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Assets; and |
(ii) | any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group whose operations, assets and/or businesses are not Exclusively Related to the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business only by virtue of owning an Rx Spin-out Business, |
and “GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Company” shall mean any one of them;
“GlaxoSmithKline December 2013 Presentation” means the management presentation entitled Project Constellation Consumer Healthcare and dated 3 December 2013 and attached to this Agreement as Attachment 1;
“GlaxoSmithKline Deferred Employee” means any person to whom GlaxoSmithKline, any GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Company or any other member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group has made an offer of employment for a role in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business in compliance with Clause 5 and who has accepted such offer in writing and whose employment in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business will take effect on a date following the Closing Date, save that no person shall become a GlaxoSmithKline Deferred Employee unless and until GlaxoSmithKline has provided to Novartis a copy of the offer letter setting out the agreed principal terms of employment and/or employment agreement (if executed) applicable to such person;
“GlaxoSmithKline Employees” means the GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees and the GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees, and “GlaxoSmithKline Employee” means any one of them;
“GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Assets” means the property, rights, businesses and assets referred to in Clause 2.3.2 in respect of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses and the assets and businesses set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3;
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“GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Businesses” means:
(i) | the business(es) (from time to time) of or reported for financial purposes in the business(es) of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited, an Indian listed company, and its successors and assigns and any person Controlled by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Limited from time to time; |
(ii) | the business(es) (from time to time) of or reported for financial purposes in the business(es) of GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria plc, a Nigerian listed company, and its successor and assigns and any person Controlled by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria plc from time to time; |
(iii) | the business(es) (from time to time) of the GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Division, including the business of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising any Consumer Healthcare Products which are managed by and reported for financial purposes in the GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Division on or prior to the date of this Agreement (including any development of such products); |
(iv) | any business(es) (from time to time) of or reported for financial purposes in the business(es) of: (i) Asia Private Limited, a private limited company incorporated in India; and/or (ii) its successors and assigns and any person Controlled by Asia Private Limited from time to time, in each case, to the extent that such business(es) are part of the business(es) conducted by the business(es) referred to in paragraph (i) of this definition; and |
(v) | any assets or liabilities that are deemed to constitute GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Assets pursuant to paragraph 11 of Schedule 6, |
but shall not include the business(es) (from time to time) of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising the Additional 2015 Products;
“GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Employees” means the employees of any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group (including the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies) as identified as GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Employees in the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Employee list provided to the Purchaser on 26 February 2015, subject to such further changes as GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser may agree. It being agreed that inclusion in such list of any specific employee or category of employee does not denote agreement by the parties that such employee or category of employee would otherwise have been considered to be working wholly or substantially in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business;
“GlaxoSmithKline’s Group” means GlaxoSmithKline and its Affiliates from time to time, provided that, for the purposes of this Agreement, the Purchaser and any person Controlled by the Purchaser (whether directly or indirectly) from time to time shall not be included in GlaxoSmithKline’s Group;
“GlaxoSmithKline International Assignees” means the employees of any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group (including the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies) as may be identified as International Assignees in the International Assignee List
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provided to the Purchaser on 26 February 2015, subject to such further changes as GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser may agree;
“GlaxoSmithKline Joint Venture Entities” means all entities in which GlaxoSmithKline’s Group holds equity interests of less than 100 per cent. but whose operations, assets and/or businesses are Exclusively Related to the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business, an indicative list of which are set out in the relevant part of the table in Part B of Part 1 of Schedule 1, excluding any such entity whose operations, assets and/or businesses form part of the GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Assets;
“GlaxoSmithKline JV Funding Loan” means all outstanding loans or other financing liabilities or obligations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, interest accrued, dividends declared or payable but not paid) owed by JV Treasury Co to GSK Finance plc as at the Effective Time;
“GlaxoSmithKline Key Personnel” means the GlaxoSmithKline Employees listed in Part 1 of Schedule 16;
“GlaxoSmithKline’s Lawyers” means Xxxxxxxxx and May of Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX;
“GlaxoSmithKline Material Employee Jurisdictions” means Brazil, China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America;
“GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan” means GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Limited, a company incorporated in Pakistan as a limited liability company and listed on the Karachi and Lahore Stock Exchanges;
“GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Business” means that part of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business conducted by GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan or any person Controlled by GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan from time to time;
“GlaxoSmithKline Pakistan Consent” has the meaning given in paragraph 9.1 of Schedule 6;
“GlaxoSmithKline Pipeline Products” means each product that the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Division is researching and developing;
“GlaxoSmithKline Products” means, in respect of any territory, any Consumer Healthcare Products which are managed by and reported for financial purposes in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Division in that territory for the year ended 31 December 2013 or since, an indicative list of which is set out in Part 1 of Schedule 9, and including the Additional 2015 Products;
“GlaxoSmithKline Shareholder Meeting” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.1.6;
“GlaxoSmithKline Shareholder Resolution” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.1.6;
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“GlaxoSmithKline Shareholders” means the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of GlaxoSmithKline from time to time;
“GlaxoSmithKline Shares” means the shares and other ownership interests in the capital of: (i) the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies; and (ii) the GlaxoSmithKline Joint Venture Entities that are owned by any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group;
“GlaxoSmithKline Statement of Net Assets” has the meaning given to it in Part 1 of Schedule 18;
“GlaxoSmithKline Territories” means, in respect of any GlaxoSmithKline Product, each of the territories in which sales are reported for such GlaxoSmithKline Product for financial purposes in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Division for the year ended 31 December 2013 or since;
“Good Clinical Practices” or “GCP” means the then-current standards, practices and procedures promulgated or endorsed by: (i) the ICH Harmonised Tripartite Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice (CPMP/ICH/135/95) and any other guidelines for good clinical practices for trials on medicinal products in the European Union; (ii) the FDA as set forth in the guidelines entitled “Guidance for Industry E6 Good Clinical Practice: Consolidated Guidance,” including related regulatory requirements imposed by the FDA; and (iii) the equivalent Applicable Law in any relevant country;
“Good Laboratory Practices” or “GLP” means the then-current standards, practices and procedures promulgated or endorsed by: (i) the European Commission Directive 2004/10/EC relating to the application of the principles of good laboratory practices as well as “The rules governing medicinal products in the European Union,” Volume 3, Scientific guidelines for medicinal products for human use (ex - OECD principles of GLP); (ii) the then-current standards, practices and procedures promulgated or endorsed by the FDA as defined in 21 C.F.R. Part 58; and (iii) the equivalent Applicable Law in any relevant country;
“Good Manufacturing Practices” or “GMP” means the then-current standards, practices and procedures promulgated or endorsed by: (i) the European Commission Directive 91/356/EEC, as amended by Directives 2003/94/EC and 91/412/EEC respectively, as well as “The rules governing medicinal products in the European Union,” Volume 4, Guidelines for good manufacturing practices for medicinal products for human and veterinary use; (ii) the FDA and the provisions of 21 C.F.R. Parts 210 and 211; (iii) the principles detailed in the ICH Q7A guidelines; and (iv) all Applicable Law with respect to each of (i) through (iii);
“Governmental Entity” means any supra-national, federal, national, state, county, local, municipal or other governmental, regulatory or administrative authority, agency, commission or other instrumentality, any court, tribunal or arbitral body with competent jurisdiction, or any national securities exchange or automated quotation service, including any governmental regulatory authority or agency responsible for the grant, approval, clearance, qualification, licensing or permitting of any aspect of the research, development, manufacture, marketing, distribution, promotion, sale or other
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commercialisation of the relevant Products including the FDA, the European Medicines Agency, or any successor agency thereto;
“Governmental Liability” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any claim, demand, action, suit, proceedings or investigation by a Governmental Entity (other than a Tax Authority) brought or undertaken in connection with products sold or developed by, or operations or practices of, the relevant Target Group prior to Closing;
“Gross Negligence” has the meaning given in paragraph 2.16 of Schedule 22;
“GSK Finance Cash Balances” means the amounts held on deposit by GSK Finance plc on behalf of any GlaxoSmithKline Target Group Companies as part of GlaxoSmithKline’s Cash Pooling Arrangement to the extent that such amounts are immediately accessible on demand and constitute Readily Available Cash for the purposes of the Shareholders’ Agreement;
“Hazardous Substance” means any gasoline or petroleum products, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea-formaldehyde insulation, hazardous wastes, toxic substances, asbestos, pollutants, or contaminants defined as such in or regulated under any applicable Environmental Law;
“Healthcare Laws” means the federal Anti-kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)); the Anti-Inducement Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a (a)(5)); the civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729 et seq.); the administrative False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)); the Exclusion Laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7); the Medicare statute (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act), including Social Security Act §§ 1860D-1 to 1860D-43 (relating to Medicare Part D and the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Program); the Medicaid statute (Title XIX of the Social Security Act); the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7h) and any analogous state laws; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. § 1320d et seq.), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, and any other similar law, including the price reporting requirements and the requirements relating to the processing of any applicable rebate, chargeback or adjustment, under applicable rules and regulations relating to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (42 U.S.C. § 1396r-8), any state supplemental rebate program, Medicare average sales price reporting (42 U.S.C. § 1395w-3a); the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. § 256b); the Veterans Health Care Act (38 U.S.C. § 8126), regulatory requirements applicable to sales on the Federal Supply Schedule or under any state pharmaceutical assistance program or United States Department of Veterans Affairs agreement, all legal requirements relating to the billing or submission of claims, collection of accounts receivable, underwriting the cost of, or provision of management or administrative services in connection with, any and all of the foregoing, by the relevant Seller’s Group and any successor government programmes, and all foreign equivalents of the foregoing;
“HSR Act” means the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxxxx Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, together with its implementing regulations;
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“IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards, comprising the accounting standards and interpretations issued, adopted and/or approved by the International Accounting Standards Board;
“Implementation Agreement” means the implementation agreement dated the date of this Agreement between Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline relating to, amongst other things, the implementation of the Transaction;
“In-Market Inventory” means, in respect of a Seller, all inventory of the Products for Commercialisation that, at any particular time: (i) is beneficially owned by a member of that Seller’s Group; (ii) is in finished packed form and released for Commercialisation; and (iii) is located: (a) in (or in transit to) the relevant market; or (b) in (or in transit to) a multi-market warehouse owned or operated by a member of that Seller’s Group or by a third party; or (c) at a Property pending despatch following release by the relevant qualified person to the relevant market or multi-market warehouse;
“In-Scope Switch Product” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, Flonase /Flixonase and, in respect of Novartis, Voltaren, but, in each case, only to the extent relating to the rights to research and develop, manufacture, distribute, market, sell, promote and/or otherwise Commercialise the same as a Consumer Healthcare Product, and “GlaxoSmithKline’s In-Scope Switch Product” and “Novartis’s In-Scope Switch Product” shall be construed accordingly;
“Indebtedness” means all loans and other financing liabilities and obligations in the nature of borrowed moneys and overdrafts, but excluding trade debt and liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business;
“Information Technology” means computer hardware, software and network;
“Intellectual Property Assignment Agreements” means the assignments between a Seller and/or one or more of its Affiliates and the Purchaser and/or one or more of its Affiliates on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms, to be entered into at Closing, in respect of the transfer of certain Intellectual Property Rights in each of the relevant jurisdictions;
“Intellectual Property Rights” means all (i) Patents; (ii) Know-How; (iii) Trademarks; (iv) internet domain names; (v) Copyrights; (vi) rights in designs; (vii) database rights; and (viii) all rights or forms of protection, anywhere in the world, having equivalent or similar effect to the rights referred to in paragraphs (i) to (vii) above, in each case, whether registered or unregistered and including applications for registration of any such thing;
“International Assignees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline International Assignees and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis International Assignees;
“Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables” means, in respect of a Seller, all outstanding loans or other financing liabilities or obligations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, interest accrued, dividends declared or payable but not paid) owed by its Target Group
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Company to a member of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Company) as at the Effective Time as derived from the Closing Statement and the GlaxoSmithKline JV Funding Loan, but excluding: (i) Intra-Group Trade Payables and Intra-Group Trade Receivables; (ii) any item which falls to be included in calculating the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances or the Third Party Indebtedness; and (iii) the Novartis Transferred Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables;
“Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables” means, in respect of a Seller, all outstanding loans or other financing liabilities or obligations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, interest accrued, dividends declared or payable but not paid) owed by a member of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Company) to its Target Group Company as at the Effective Time as derived from the Closing Statement, but excluding: (i) Intra-Group Trade Payables and Intra-Group Trade Receivables; (ii) any item which falls to be included in calculating the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the GSK Finance Cash Balances) or the Third Party Indebtedness; and (iii) the Novartis Transferred Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables;
“Intra-Group Trade Payables” means, in respect of a Seller, all trade accounts and notes payable to any member of any Seller’s Group (excluding a Target Group Company) on the one hand, by any Target Group Company, on the other hand, in each case, to the extent related to its Target Group, arising in the ordinary course, together with any unpaid financing charges accrued thereon;
“Intra-Group Trade Receivables” means, in respect of a Seller, all trade accounts and notes receivable from any member of any Seller’s Group (excluding a Target Group Company) on the one hand, to any Target Group Company, on the other hand, in each case, to the extent related to its Target Group, arising in the ordinary course, together with any unpaid financing charges accrued thereon;
“Intra-Group Trading Balances” means, in respect of a Seller, the aggregate of its Intra-Group Trade Payables and its Transferred Accounts Payables payable to any member of that Seller’s Group (other than a Target Group Company) by a Business Seller of that Seller’s Group less the aggregate of its Intra-Group Trade Receivables and its Transferred Accounts Receivables payable by any member of that Seller’s Group (other than a Target Group Company) to a Business Seller of that Seller’s Group;
“IP Liability” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any actual or alleged infringement, misappropriation or other violation of Intellectual Property Rights of third parties;
“Joint Venture Entities” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Joint Venture Entities and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Joint Venture Entities;
“Judgment” means any order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree, decision, stipulation, determination or award entered by or with any Governmental Entity of competent jurisdiction;
“JV Treasury Co” means GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (UK) Finance Limited;
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“Key Personnel” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Key Personnel and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Key Personnel;
“Know-How” means all existing and available technical information, know-how and data, including inventions (whether patentable or not), discoveries, trade secrets, specifications, instructions, processes and formulae, including all biological, chemical, pharmacological, biochemical, toxicological, pharmaceutical, physical, safety, quality control, preclinical and clinical data;
“Lease” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1 of Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Liabilities” means all liabilities, claims, damages, proceedings, demands, orders, suits, costs, losses and expenses, in each case, of every description, whether deriving from contract, common law, statute or otherwise, whether present or future, actual or contingent, ascertained or unascertained or disputed and whether owed or incurred severally or jointly or as principal or surety;
“Liability Cut-off Time” means (i) Closing in respect of any Liability that is a Clinical Trials/Data Liability, Commercial Practices Liability, Environmental Liability, Governmental Liability, IP Liability, Manufacturing Liability or Product Liability; (ii) Delayed Closing in respect of any Liability that relates to a Non-Controlled Delayed Business and is a Clinical Trials/Data Liability, Commercial Practices Liability, Environmental Liability, Governmental Liability, IP Liability, Manufacturing Liability or Product Liability (but, in respect of any such Environmental Liability, IP Liability or Product Liability that arises as a result of, or otherwise relates to, any act, omission, fact, matter or circumstance or event undertaken, occurring, in existence or arising between Closing and Delayed Closing, only to the extent that such Liability arises due to the wilful default or Gross Negligence of the relevant Seller or any of its Associated Persons); or (iii) the Effective Time in respect of any other Liability;
“LIBOR” means the London interbank offered rate, being the interest rate offered in the London inter-bank market for three month US dollar deposits as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen at 11 a.m. (London) on the second Business Day prior to the Closing Date;
“Licensed Intellectual Property Contract” means any Target Group Intellectual Property Contract constituting or containing a licence of Intellectual Property Rights in respect of the Contributed Business or Products;
“Listing Rules” means the listing rules made by the FCA under section 73A of FSMA;
“Local Payment Amount” has the meaning given to it in Clause 6.5.1;
“Local Transfer Document” has the meaning given to it in Clause 2.8.1;
“Long Stop Date” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.3;
“Losses” means all losses, liabilities, costs (including legal costs and experts’ and consultants’ fees), charges, expenses, actions, proceedings, claims and demands;
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“MA Costs” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 4 of Part 2 of Schedule 4;
“MA Documentation” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.6 of Part 2 of Schedule 4;
“Manufacture” or “Manufacturing” or “Manufactured” means, as applicable, the planning, purchasing of materials for, production, processing, compounding, storage, filling, packaging, labelling, leafleting, warehousing, quality control testing, waste disposal, quality release, sample retention and stability testing of any products of the relevant Seller’s Contributed Business;
“Manufacturing Inventory” means, in respect of a Seller, any packed inventory of Products for Commercialisation that is: (i) in finished form (save for any secondary packaging undertaken outside of a primary manufacturing site); (ii) beneficially owned by any member of that Seller’s Group; (iii) held at a primary manufacturing site; and (iv) not yet released by the qualified person at a primary manufacturing site, and excluding in each case, for the avoidance of doubt, any In-Market Inventory and Manufacturing Stocks;
“Manufacturing Liability” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from any breach of Applicable Law in connection with the Manufacturing of products of the relevant Seller’s Contributed Business;
“Manufacturing Licences” means any certificates, permits, licences, consents and approvals issued by any Governmental Entity, used in the operation or conduct of Manufacturing at each relevant Property, and “Manufacturing Licence” shall be construed accordingly;
“Manufacturing Stocks” means, in respect of a Seller, all stocks of raw materials, active pharmaceutical ingredients, ingredients, adjuvants, drug substances, intermediates, packaging materials, components, devices and other production and pre-production consumables and work-in-progress that are beneficially owned by any member of that Seller’s Group for use in the Manufacture of Products or Pipeline Products, respectively, and held at a primary manufacturing Property;
“Manufacturing and Supply Agreement” means, in respect of a Seller, each manufacturing and supply agreement expected to be entered into between that Seller (or its Affiliate) and the Purchaser (or its Affiliate) at Closing on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms;
“Marketing Authorisation Data” means, in respect of a Seller, the existing and available dossiers containing the relevant Know-How used by that Seller and/or its Affiliates to obtain and maintain the Marketing Authorisations;
“Marketing Authorisation Holder” means the holder of a Marketing Authorisation;
“Marketing Authorisation Re-Registration” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1(ii) of Part 2 of Schedule 4;
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“Marketing Authorisation Re-Registration Date” means the date on which the Governmental Entity approves, or is deemed to approve, the Marketing Authorisation Re-Registration;
“Marketing Authorisation Transfer” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1(i) of Part 2 of Schedule 4;
“Marketing Authorisation Transfer Date” means the date on which the Governmental Entity approves, or is deemed to approve, the Marketing Authorisation Transfer;
“Marketing Authorisation Transferee” means the member of the Purchaser’s Group or, where no member of the Purchaser’s Group satisfies the requirements under Applicable Law to be transferred the relevant Marketing Authorisation, such third party as is nominated by the Purchaser, in either case, to whom the relevant Marketing Authorisation is to be transferred;
“Marketing Authorisations” means, in respect of a Seller, the marketing authorisations issued or applications for marketing authorisations with respect to its Products, and all supplements, amendments and revisions thereto;
“Markets” means, in respect of a Seller, the markets in which its Products are marketed and sold under the relevant Marketing Authorisation and “Market” shall be construed accordingly;
“Material Adverse Effect” means, in respect of a Seller, any matter, change, event or circumstance arising or discovered on or after the date of this Agreement and prior to Closing (including a breach of that Seller’s obligations under Clause 5 or Clause 9.1) (a “Relevant Matter”) that, individually or in aggregate with other Relevant Matters, if known to the Purchaser prior to the date of this Agreement, could reasonably have been expected to have resulted in the Purchaser reducing the number of A Shares or B Shares (as the case may be) to be issued by 30 per cent. or more, and, in determining such reduction regard shall be had to the actual basis on which the number of A Shares to be issued or the number of B Shares to be issued (as the case may be) was calculated. A Relevant Matter shall not constitute or count towards a “Material Adverse Effect” to the extent resulting or arising from:
(i) | any change that is generally applicable to, or generally affects, the industries or markets in which the relevant Seller’s Target Group operates (including changes arising as a result of usual seasonal variations) or arises from or relates to changes in Applicable Law or accounting rules or changes in any authoritative interpretation of any Applicable Law by any Governmental Entity; |
(ii) | any change in financial, securities or currency markets or general economic or political conditions or changes in prevailing interest rates or exchange rates; |
(iii) | the execution of this Agreement, the public announcement thereof or the pendency or consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (including any cancellations of or delays in customer orders or other decreases in |
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customer demand, any reduction in revenues and any disruption in supplier, distributor, customer or similar relationships); or |
(iv) | the taking of any action expressly required by this Agreement or by any Ancillary Agreement or otherwise taken with the advance written consent of the Purchaser, |
except, in relation to either paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii) above, if that change adversely affects that Seller’s Target Group in a disproportionate manner relative to other comparable businesses operating in the same industry and geographic markets as that Seller’s Target Group (in which case it may constitute or count towards a “Material Adverse Effect”);
“Material Employee Jurisdictions” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Material Employee Jurisdictions and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Material Employee Jurisdictions;
“Maximum Working Capital Amount” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, £600,000,000 and, in respect of Novartis, US$600,000,000;
“Medical Information” means, in respect of each Seller, information Predominantly Related to its Contributed Business which is available to or used by it and/or its Affiliates as of the Closing Date, or, in respect of any Delayed Business, the Delayed Closing Date, as applicable, relating to clinical and technical matters, such as therapeutic uses for the approved indications, drug-disease information, and other product characteristics;
“Minimum Working Capital Amount” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, £500,000,000 and, in respect of Novartis, US$500,000,000;
“Minority Notification” has the meaning given in clause 4.2.10;
“Netherlands Assumed Liabilities” means the Assumed Liabilities to the extent that they relate to the Netherlands Business;
“Netherlands Business” means that part of GlaxoSmithKline’s Contributed Business that is conducted in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Assumed Liabilities and the Netherlands Employees;
“Netherlands Closing” has the meaning given to it in the Netherlands SAPA;
“Netherlands Employees” means those of the GlaxoSmithKline Employees who are employed in the Netherlands;
“Netherlands Offer Letter” means the letter from the Purchaser to the Seller in respect of the binding offer from the Purchaser to acquire the Netherlands Business dated on or around the date hereof;
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“Netherlands Put Option Exercise” has the meaning given to it in the Netherlands Offer Letter;
“Netherlands SAPA” has the meaning given in the Netherlands Offer Letter;
“Non-Controlled Delayed Business” has the meaning given in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses)
“Non-US Benefit Plans” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 17.3.1 of Schedule 13;
“Notice” has the meaning given to it in Clause 15.14.1;
“Notifier” has the meaning given in paragraph 1.1 of Schedule 17;
“Novartis Alliance Market Businesses” means the Novartis OTC Group Businesses in the Alliance Market Territories;
“Novartis Animal Health Business” means the business conducted by any member of Novartis’s Group of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising the Novartis Animal Health Products;
“Novartis Animal Health Products” means any products which are managed by the Novartis Animal Health Division and reported in the Animal Health reporting segment of Novartis’s Consumer Health Division;
“Novartis Business Employees” means the employees of any member of Novartis’s Group who work wholly or substantially in the Novartis OTC Business from time to time including, for the avoidance of any doubt, the Novartis International Assignees other than the Novartis Company Employees and the Novartis Excluded Employees and provided that, in relation to the Seller’s Warranties only, the words “from time to time” shall be deemed to be replaced by “at the date of this Agreement”, and “Novartis Business Employee” means any one of them;
“Novartis Company Employees” means the employees from time to time of any of the Novartis OTC Group Companies other than the Novartis Excluded Employees, and provided that, in relation to the Seller’s Warranties only, the words “from time to time” shall be deemed to be replaced by “at the date of this Agreement”, and “Novartis Company Employee” means any one of them;
“Novartis December 2013 Presentation” mean the management presentation entitled “Gazelle Management Presentation: NOTC” and dated December 2013 and attached to this Agreement as Attachment 2;
“Novartis Deferred Employee” means any person to whom Novartis, any Novartis OTC Group Company or any other member of Novartis’s Group has made an offer of employment for a role within the Novartis OTC Business in compliance with clause 5 and who has accepted such offer in writing and whose employment within the Novartis
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OTC Business will take effect on a date following the Closing Date, save that no person shall become an Novartis Deferred Employee unless and until Novartis has provided to GlaxoSmithKline a copy of the offer letter setting out the agreed principal terms of employment and/or employment agreement (if executed) applicable to such person;
“Novartis Distribution and Sales Products Contracts” means any contract between a member of Novartis’s Group (other than a Novartis OTC Group Company) on the one hand, and any Novartis OTC Group Company on the other hand, relating to the distribution and sale by the Novartis OTC Business of products owned, managed and reported by the Seller’s Retained Business;
“Novartis Employees” means the Novartis Business Employees and the Novartis Company Employees, and “Novartis Employee” means any one of them;
“Novartis Excluded Assets” means the property, rights, businesses and assets referred to in Clause 2.3.2 in respect of the Novartis OTC Group Businesses and the assets and businesses set out in Part 2 of Schedule 3;
“Novartis Excluded Businesses” means:
(i) | the Novartis Animal Health Business; |
(ii) | the Novartis US NRT Business; |
(iii) | the Novartis Pharmaceutical Division’s business of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising any Consumer Healthcare Products which are managed by and reported for financial purposes in the Novartis Pharmaceutical Division on or prior to the date of this Agreement (including any development of such products); |
(iv) | the business(es) (as conducted from time to time) owned or managed by, or reported for financial purposes in, Novartis’s: |
(a) | Alcon division (including for the avoidance of doubt, Ciba-Giegy); or |
(b) | Sandoz division (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, Sandocal and Calcium Sandoz, which are included within the definition of the Novartis OTC Business); and |
(v) | any assets or liabilities that are deemed to constitute Novartis Excluded Assets pursuant to paragraph 11 of Schedule 6; |
“Novartis Excluded Employees” means the employees of any member of Novartis’s Group (including the Novartis OTC Group Companies) who are referred to in Schedule 26;
“Novartis’s Group” means Novartis and its Affiliates from time to time, provided that, for the purposes of this Agreement, the Purchaser and any person Controlled by the
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Purchaser (whether directly or indirectly) from time to time shall not be included in Novartis’s Group;
“Novartis IndiaCo” means Novartis India Ltd, an Indian listed company;
“Novartis Indian Business” means that part of the Novartis OTC Business conducted by Novartis IndiaCo or any person Controlled by Novartis IndiaCo from time to time;
“Novartis International Assignees” means the employees of any member of Novartis’s Group (including the Novartis OTC Group Companies) who are referred to in Schedule 19;
“Novartis Joint Venture Entities” means an entity in which Novartis’s Group holds equity interests of less than 100 per cent. but whose operations, assets and/or businesses are Exclusively Related to the Novartis OTC Business, an indicative list of which are set out in Part B of Part 2 of Schedule 1, excluding any such entity whose operations, assets and/or businesses form part of the Novartis Excluded Assets;
“Novartis Key Personnel” means the Novartis Employees listed in Part 2 of Schedule 16;
“Novartis’s Lawyers” means Freshfields Bruckhaus Xxxxxxxx LLP of 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX;
“Novartis Material Employee Jurisdictions” means United States, Switzerland, Russia, China and India;
“Novartis OTC Business” means:
(i) | the business of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising the Novartis Products in the Novartis Territories; |
(ii) | the business of researching and developing any Novartis Pipeline Products; |
(iii) | all rights, title and interest in relation to researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising Novartis’s In-Scope Switch Product, in any jurisdiction, as a Consumer Healthcare Product only; |
(iv) | the business of manufacturing, marketing, distributing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising the Prescription Products which are managed by the Novartis OTC Division and which have been reported for financial purposes in the OTC reporting segment of the Novartis Consumer Health Division for, or since, the year ended 31 December 2013 and, in respect of any such Prescription Product, in the territories in which sales are reported for such Prescription Product in the OTC reporting segment of the Novartis Consumer Health Division for the year ended 31 December 2013 or since; and |
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(v) | any royalty streams in respect of any products received by and reported for financial purposes in the OTC reporting segment of the Novartis Consumer Healthcare Division for, or since, the year ended 31 December 2013, |
in each case, conducted by Novartis’s Group, but excluding the Novartis Excluded Assets;
“Novartis OTC Group” means the Novartis OTC Group Companies and the Novartis OTC Group Businesses, taken as a whole;
“Novartis OTC Group Businesses” means the businesses of the Novartis OTC Business (but excluding the businesses carried on by the Novartis OTC Group Companies) as set out in Clause 2.3.1, but subject always to Clause 2.3.2, and “Novartis OTC Group Business” means any of them;
“Novartis OTC Group Companies” means the members of Novartis’s Group whose operations, assets and/or businesses are Exclusively Related to the Novartis OTC Business, a non-exhaustive list of which are set out in Part A of Part 2 of Schedule 1, but excluding any such members whose operations, assets and/or businesses form part of the Novartis Excluded Assets, and “Novartis OTC Group Company” means any one of them;
“Novartis Pipeline Product” means each product that the Novartis OTC Division is researching and developing, with the intention of that product becoming a Consumer Healthcare Product (but excluding, in any event, Diovan), an indicative list of which is set out in Schedule 9, Part 3;
“Novartis Products” means, in respect of any territory, any Consumer Healthcare Products which are managed by the Novartis OTC Division and which have been reported for financial purposes in the OTC reporting segment of the Novartis Consumer Health Division in that territory for the year ended 31 December 2013 or since, an indicative list of which is set out in Schedule 9, Part 2;
“Novartis Services Contracts” means any Contract between or among any member of Novartis’s Group (other than its Target Group Company and its Business Seller) on the one hand, and its Target Group Company or Business Seller on the other hand which, in addition to the Ancillary Agreements and any other assets to be transferred pursuant to this Agreement, is necessary to enable the Purchaser and/or any other member of the Purchaser’s Group to carry on Novartis’s Contributed Business (or the relevant part thereof) in substantially the same manner as it has been during the twelve months prior to the date of this Agreement;
“Novartis Shares” means the shares and other equity, partnership or similar interests in the capital of: (i) the Novartis OTC Group Companies; and (ii) the Novartis Joint Venture Entities that are owned by any member of Novartis’s Group;
“Novartis Statement of Net Assets” has the meaning given to it in Part 2 of Schedule 18;
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“Novartis Territories” means, in respect of any Novartis Product, each of the Territories in which sales are reported for such Novartis Product in the OTC reporting segment of the Novartis Consumer Healthcare Division for the year ended 31 December 2013 or since;
“Novartis Transferred Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables” means the outstanding loans or other financial liabilities or obligations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, interest accrued, dividends declared or payable but not paid) owed by any Novartis Target Group Company to Novartis Holding AG as at the Effective Time;
“Novartis Transferred Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables” means the outstanding loans or other financial liabilities or obligations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, interest accrued, dividends declared or payable but not paid) owed by Novartis Holding AG to any Novartis Target Group Company as at the Effective Time;
“Novartis US NRT Business” means the business of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising any nicotine related products of any nature whatsoever in the United States of America, conducted by Novartis’s Group, including those commercialised under the Habitrol brand and any other private label nicotine related products;
“Novartis US RX Business” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.2 of Schedule 6;
“Novartis US RX Management” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.5 of Schedule 6;
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“Novartis US RX Product Disposal” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.14 of Schedule 6;
“Novartis US RX Products” means [***];
“Novartis US RX Territory” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.2 of Schedule 6;
“Novartis US RX Transfer” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.6 of Schedule 6;
“Novartis US RX Transfer Date” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.6 of Schedule 6;
“Novartis US RX Transition Plan” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 11.9 of Schedule 6;
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*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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“Oncology Sale and Purchase Agreement” means the sale and purchase agreement dated the date of this agreement between GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis relating to the sale and purchase of certain oncology products;
“Ongoing Clinical Trials” means, in respect of a Seller, the ongoing clinical studies sponsored or supported by that Seller’s Group (including post-approval studies) or otherwise recommended by a Governmental Entity in respect of the relevant Products;
“Owned Information Technology” means, in respect of a Seller, the Information Technology Exclusively Related to its Contributed Business and owned by any of its Target Group Companies;
“Owned Intellectual Property Contracts” means, in respect of a Seller, the Contracts Exclusively Related to its Contributed Business which relate to Intellectual Property Rights and that are held by any of its Target Group Companies;
“Owned Intellectual Property Rights” means, in respect of a Seller, the Intellectual Property Rights Exclusively Related to its Contributed Business and owned by any of its Target Group Companies;
“PA Transfer Date” means, in relation to a Product or Product Application, the date upon which the relevant Governmental Entity approves and notifies such Product Approval or Product Application (as applicable) naming the Purchaser or the relevant Affiliate of the Purchaser (or designee thereof) as the holder of such Product Approval or Product Application in the relevant country or territory covered by that Product Approval or Product Application;
“Patents” means patents, design patents, patent applications, and any reissues, re-examinations, divisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, provisionals, and extensions thereof or any counterparts to any of the foregoing (including rights resulting from any post-grant proceedings relating to any of the foregoing);
“Payables and Receivables Plan” has the meaning given in Clause 8.6.1;
“Payment” has the meaning given to it in Clause 1.9;
“Payee” has the meaning given in Clause 15.11.1;
“Payer” has the meaning given in Clause 15.11.1;
“Permit” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 10.2 of Schedule 13;
“Permitted Encumbrance” means, in respect of a Seller:
(i) | Encumbrances imposed by Applicable Law; |
(ii) | Encumbrances imposed in the ordinary course of business which are not yet due and payable or which are being contested in good faith; |
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(iii) | pledges or deposits to secure obligations under Applicable Law relating to workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance or to secure public or statutory obligations; and |
(iv) | liens, title retention arrangements or deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money), conditional sales contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of its Contributed Business; |
“Pharmacovigilance Agreement” means the agreement between each of the Sellers and the Purchaser, to be entered into at Closing, in respect of pharmacovigilance and regulatory matters;
“Pipeline Product Approvals” means, in respect of a Seller, the approvals in relation to its Pipeline Products;
“Pipeline Products” means the GlaxoSmithKline Pipeline Products and the Novartis Pipeline Products;
“Predominantly Related to” means, in respect of a Seller’s Contributed Business, exclusively or predominantly related to, or used or held for use predominantly in connection with, that Seller’s Contributed Business;
“Prescription Product” means, in respect of any jurisdiction, any oral care, nutritional care, skin care or other cosmetic or healthcare product or device of any kind, in each case, for the treatment of, or use by, human beings, which is (i) only available with a prescription, or (ii) available without, or both with and without, a prescription but is subject to the same regulatory classification and/or regulatory treatment (including in relation to advertising) as a product or device that is only available with a prescription;
“Proceedings” means any legal actions, proceedings, suits, litigations, prosecutions, investigations, enquiries, mediations or arbitrations;
“Product Applications” means, in respect of a Seller, all applications for Product Approval filed with respect to the relevant Products Under Registration, with each individual application being a “Product Application”;
“Product Approvals” means, in respect of a Seller, all permits, licences, certificates, registrations or other authorisations or consents issued by any Governmental Entity to that Seller or one of its Affiliates with respect to its Products or the use, research, development, marketing, distribution or sale thereof, including the Marketing Authorisations;
“Product Filings” means, in respect of any Seller, all filings, written representations, declarations, listings, registrations, reports or submissions with or to any Governmental Entity, including adverse event reports and all submitted data relating to each relevant Product;
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“Product Liabilities” means any Liability arising out of, relating to or resulting from actual or alleged harm, injury, damage or death to persons in connection with the use of any product (including in any clinical trial or study);
“Product Partners” means, in respect of a Seller, any third parties which, pursuant to a Contract with that Seller or any of its Affiliates, co-develop, co-promote, co-market, or otherwise have a licence or other right to research, develop, manufacture, promote, distribute, market, or sell any Product, including all manufacturers and suppliers of that Product;
“Products” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Products and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Products;
“Products Under Registration” means, in respect of a Seller, the Products of that Seller which are pending Product Approval as of the date hereof;
“Properties” means the Company Properties and the Transferred Properties, and “Property” means any one of them;
“Proprietary Information” means, in respect of a Seller, all confidential and proprietary information of that Seller or its Affiliates that is Predominantly Related to its Contributed Business, including relevant confidential Medical Information, confidential Know-How and confidential Commercial Information;
“Purchase Consideration” has the meaning given to it in Clause 3.1.1;
“Purchaser’s Bank Account” means the account notified by the Purchaser to each of the Sellers no later than two Business Days prior to the Closing Date;
“Purchaser’s Disagreement Notice” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.4 of Schedule 12;
“Purchaser’s Group” means the Purchaser and its Affiliates from time to time, excluding any member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group or Novartis’s Group;
“Purchaser Patent and Know-How Licence Agreement” means an agreement between a Seller and/or one or more of its Affiliates and the Purchaser and/or one or more of its Affiliates on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms, to be entered into at Closing, in respect of the grant of licence from that Seller to the Purchaser of certain Intellectual Property Rights not licensed under a Purchaser Trademark Licence Agreement;
“Purchaser Trademark Licence Agreement” means an agreement between a Seller and/or one or more of its Affiliates and the Purchaser and/or one or more of its Affiliates on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms, to be entered into at Closing, in respect of the grant of licences from that Seller to the Purchaser of certain Trademarks, internet domain names and rights in designs;
“Recipient” has the meaning given in paragraph 1.1 of Schedule 17;
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“Registered Intellectual Property Rights” means all Intellectual Property Rights that are registered, issued, filed, or applied for under the authority of any Governmental Entity;
“Registered Target Group Intellectual Property Rights” means all Target Group Intellectual Property Rights that are Registered Intellectual Property Rights;
“Regulation” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.1.1;
“Relevant Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Relevant Novartis Employees;
“Relevant Employers” means, in respect of each Seller, the Business Seller’s and such other members of that Seller’s Group that employ that Seller’s Relevant Employees;
“Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees” means the GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees immediately prior to the Closing Date, and “Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Business Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees” means the GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees immediately prior to the Closing Date (excluding any who do not work wholly or substantially in the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business), and “Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Company Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Employees” means the Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees and the Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees, and “Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant Novartis Business Employees” means the Novartis Business Employees immediately prior to the Closing Date, and “Relevant Novartis Business Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant Novartis Company Employees” means the Novartis Company Employees immediately prior to the Closing Date (excluding any who do not work wholly or substantially in the Novartis OTC Business), and “Relevant Novartis Company Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant Novartis Employees” means the Relevant Novartis Business Employees and the Relevant Novartis Company Employees, and “Relevant Novartis Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant Part” means, in respect of a Shared Business Contract, the part of it which Exclusively Relates to the relevant Contributed Business (or the part of the relevant Contributed Business that is transferred to the Purchaser at Closing);
“Relevant Period” means the period of two years prior to the date of this Agreement;
“Relevant Persons” has the meaning given to it in Clause 8.2.2(vi);
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“Relevant Target Business Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Relevant Novartis Business Employees, and “Relevant Target Business Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant Target Company Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the Relevant GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Relevant Novartis Company Employees, and “Relevant Target Company Employee” means any one of them;
“Relevant Tax Deduction” has the meaning given in Clause 15.11.2;
“Relevant Working Day” means a normal working day in the relevant jurisdiction and excludes a Saturday or Sunday or a public holiday in the relevant jurisdiction;
“Reorganisation” has the meaning given to it in Clause 2.3.5;
“Representatives” means, in relation to any party, any of its and/or any member of the Purchaser’s Group’s or a Seller’s Group’s directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, bankers, auditors, accountants, financial advisers, legal advisers and any other professional advisers;
“Reporting Accountants” means the London office of Ernst & Young or, if that firm is unable or unwilling to act in any matter referred to them under this Agreement, the London office of Deloitte or, if that firm is also unable or unwilling to act in any matter referred to them under this Agreement, an internationally recognised and independent firm of accountants who does not act as auditor to the relevant Seller or the Purchaser, to be agreed by the Seller and the Purchaser within seven days of a notice by one to the other requiring such agreement or, failing such agreement, to be nominated on the application of either of them by or on behalf of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales;
“Required Notifications” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.2.1;
“Restricted Target Group Employee” means, in respect of a Seller, any Transferred Employee of that Seller or the other Seller who is at or above grade GG5 or GJFA3 (or in either case the Purchaser’s equivalent from time to time);
“Restricted GSK Employee” means any employee of a member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group who is grade GG5 or above and who works primarily in the business of the Target Group;
“Retained Inventory” has the meaning given in Clause 2.9.1;
“Rx Spin-out Businesses” means GlaxoSmithKline’s business of researching and developing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, selling, promoting and/or otherwise Commercialising Prescription Products in Kenya, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Xxxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxxx and Denmark, but only to the extent that such business constitutes a GlaxoSmithKline Excluded Business;
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“Sanctions Law” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 10.5 of Schedule 13;
“Sandoz” means Sandoz Inc., a corporation having a principal place of business at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000;
“Saudi Distribution Contracts” any contracts entered into between Novartis Consumer Health SA and Saudi Pharmaceutical Distribution Co. Ltd. and any other contracts entered into by any Novartis Target Group Company in relation to the Novartis OTC Business in Saudi Arabia as Novartis and the Purchaser may agree from time to time;
“Select Equity Plans” means the Novartis Restricted Stock Plan of 1 November 2007 (Rest of the World), the Novartis Restricted Stock Plan of 1 November 0000 (Xxxxxxxxxxx), the Novartis Restricted Stock Unit Plan of November 2007 (Rest of the World and Switzerland), the Novartis Stock Option Plan of September 2003 (Rest of the World), the Novartis Stock Option Plan of February 0000 (Xxxxxxxxxxx) and the Novartis Corporation 2011 Stock Incentive Plan for North American Employees effective 1 January 2011, and a “Select Equity Plan” means any one of them;
“Seller Marks” means:
(i) | with respect to GlaxoSmithKline, any Trademark of GlaxoSmithKline containing the xxxx “GlaxoSmithKline”, and any other xxxx listed in Part 1 of Schedule 21, or any variants of the foregoing; and |
(ii) | with respect to Novartis, any Trademark of Novartis containing the xxxx including the names “Novartis”, “Sandoz”, “Alcon” or “Ciba Vision” or any of the variants of the foregoing; |
“Seller Partner” means, in respect of a Seller, any counterparty to a development, contract research, commercialisation, manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing, supply, consulting or other collaboration contract with that Seller or any of its Affiliates;
“Seller’s Bank Account” means, in respect of a Seller, the account notified by such Seller to the Purchaser no later than two Business Days prior to the Closing Date;
“Seller’s Disagreement Notice” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.5 of Schedule 12;
“Seller’s Group” means, in respect of a Seller, that Seller and its Affiliates from time to time, provided that, for the purposes of this Agreement, the Purchaser and any person Controlled by the Purchaser (whether directly or indirectly) from time to time shall not be included in any Seller’s Group;
“Seller’s Group Insurance Policy” means, in respect of a Seller, all insurance policies (whether under policies maintained with third party insurers or any member of that Seller’s Group), other than the Target Group Insurance Policies, maintained by that Seller or any member of that Seller’s Group in relation to its Contributed Business or under which, immediately prior to Closing, any of that Seller’s Target Group Companies
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or that Seller or member of that Seller’s Group in relation to its Contributed Business is entitled to any benefit, and “Seller’s Group Insurance Policy” means any one of them;
“Seller’s Knowledge” has the meaning given to it in Clause 9.1.4;
“Seller’s Retained Business” means, in respect of a Seller, all businesses of that Seller’s Group from time to time, including its Excluded Assets, but excluding its Contributed Business;
“Seller’s Warranties” means, in respect of a Seller, the warranties given by that Seller pursuant to Clause 9 and Schedule 13, and “Seller’s Warranty” means any one of them;
“Service Provider” means an Associated Person who is a legal person;
“Share Sellers” means, in respect of a Seller, the members of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies and Joint Venture Entities) that own shares or other equity interests in any of that Seller’s Target Group Companies or Joint Venture Entities, an indicative list of which is set out in column (1) of Schedule 1, Part A (in respect of GlaxoSmithKline) or Part B (in respect of Novartis);
“Shared Business Contracts” means, in respect of a Seller, any Contract which relates both:
(i) | to its Contributed Business; and |
(ii) | to any other business of its Group, any part of its Contributed Business which is not transferred to the Purchaser at Closing (until it is so transferred), or any of its Excluded Assets, |
and to which a member of the Seller’s Group is a party or in respect of which a member of the Seller’s Group has any right, liability or obligation at Closing, and “Shared Business Contract” shall mean any of them;
“Shareholders’ Agreement” means the shareholders’ agreement to be entered into by the parties and certain of the Sellers’ Affiliates on Closing in the Agreed Terms;
“Shares” means, together, the GlaxoSmithKline Shares and the Novartis Shares;
“Statement of Net Assets” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Statement of Net Assets and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Statement of Net Assets;
“Support Services Agreement” means the support services agreement expected to be entered into between GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser (or its Affiliate) at Closing on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms;
“Statement of Net Assets Date” means 31 December 2013;
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“Statement of Net Asset Rules” means, for each Seller, the rules in accordance with which its Statement of Net Assets was prepared, as set out in Part 1 (in the case of GlaxoSmithKline) or Part 2 (in respect of Novartis) of Schedule 18;
“Target Asset Agreement” has the meaning given in the Implementation Agreement;
“Target Business Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Business Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Business Employees, and “Target Business Employee” means any of them;
“Target Company Employees” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Company Employees and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis Company Employees, and “Target Company Employee” means any one of them;
“Target Group” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies and the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses, and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis OTC Group Companies and the Novartis OTC Group Businesses, in each case, taken as a whole, and “Target Groups” shall mean both of them;
“Target Group Businesses” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses and, in respect of Novartis, Novartis OTC Group Businesses, and “Target Group Business” means any one of them;
“Target Group Companies” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies, and, in respect of Novartis, the Novartis OTC Group Companies, and “Target Group Company” means any one of them;
“Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances” means, in respect of a Seller, an amount equal to the sum of the aggregate amount of Cash Balances (including the GSK Finance Cash Balances) held by or on behalf of the Target Group Companies within that Seller’s Group at the Effective Time, as derived from the Closing Statement, excluding in respect of GlaxoSmithKline any Cash Balances held by a Target Group Company (other than GlaxoSmithKline Panama S.A.) for the purposes of satisfying a payment obligation under a Local Transfer Document on Closing;
“Target Group Goodwill” means all goodwill of the Target Group Businesses, but excluding any Trademark goodwill;
“Target Group Information Technology” means the Transferred Information Technology and the Owned Information Technology;
“Target Group Insurance Policies” means all insurance policies held exclusively by and for the benefit of the relevant Target Group Companies, and “Target Group Insurance Policy” means any one of them;
“Target Group Intellectual Property Contracts” means the Transferred Intellectual Property Contracts and the Owned Intellectual Property Contracts;
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“Target Group Intellectual Property Rights” means the Transferred Intellectual Property Rights and the Owned Intellectual Property Rights;
“Taxation” or “Tax” has the meaning given to it in the Tax Indemnity;
“Tax Adjustment” means, in respect of a Seller, the amount by which:
(i) | the aggregate amount of the income taxes and sales taxes payable by the Target Group Companies, as at the Effective Time, as derived from the Closing Statement; |
exceeds or is less than
(ii) | the aggregate amount of the current income tax and sales tax receivables of the Target Group Companies, as at the Effective Time, as derived from the Closing Statement, |
and any such excess amount shall be treated as a positive number and any shortfall shall be treated as a negative amount;
“Tax Authority” has the meaning given to it in the Tax Indemnity;
“Tax Group” has the meaning given to it in the Tax Indemnity;
“Tax Indemnity” means the deed of covenant against taxation, on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms, to be entered into on the Closing Date between each Seller and the Purchaser;
“Tax Return” has the meaning given to it in the Tax Indemnity;
“Tax Warranties” means, in respect of a Seller, the Seller’s Warranties set out in paragraph 14 of Schedule 13;
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“Third Party Claim” has the meaning given to it in Clause 11.4;
“Third Party Consents” means all consents, licences, approvals, permits, authorisations or waivers required from third parties, and “Third Party Consent” means any one of them;
“Third Party Indebtedness” means the aggregate amount as at the Effective Time of all outstanding Indebtedness owed by the Target Group Companies to any third party less any Indebtedness owed by any third party to any Target Group Company as derived from the Closing Statement (but excluding any item included in respect of any Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances or Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables), and, for the purposes of this definition, third party shall exclude any member of either Seller’s Group;
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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“Time-Limited Excluded Liability” means an Excluded Liability which is:
(i) | a Contracts Liability; |
(ii) | an Environmental Liability; |
(iii) | a Manufacturing Liability; or |
(iv) | a Commercial Practices Liability, |
but excludes an IP Liability;
“Trademarks” means trademarks, service marks, trade names, certification marks, service names, industrial designs, brand names, brand marks, trade dress rights, identifying symbols, logos, emblems, and signs or insignia and all goodwill of the business in relation to which any of the foregoing are used (but no other or greater goodwill);
“Transaction” has the meaning given to it in Clause 4.1.1;
“Transfer Regulations” means the relevant national measure by which the employment of a Relevant Target Business Employee automatically transfers to the Purchaser or a relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group;
“Transferred Accounts Payables” means, in respect of a Seller, all trade accounts and notes payable of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies) to the extent related to its Contributed Business, and outstanding at the Effective Time, arising in the ordinary course, together with any unpaid financing charges accrued thereon;
“Transferred Accounts Receivables” means, in respect of a Seller, all trade accounts and notes receivable of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies) to the extent related to its Contributed Business, and outstanding at the Effective Time, arising in the ordinary course, together with any unpaid financing charges accrued thereon;
“Transferred Books and Records” means, in respect of a Seller, all books, ledgers, files, reports, plans, records, manuals and other materials (in any form or medium) to the extent of, or maintained predominantly for, that Seller’s Contributed Business by that Seller’s Group (excluding its Target Group Companies) (other than emails), but excluding:
(i) | any such items to the extent that: (A) they are related to any Excluded Assets or Excluded Liabilities; (B) they are related to any corporate, Tax, human resources or stockholder matters of that Seller or its Affiliates (other than its Target Group Companies); (C) any Applicable Law prohibits their transfer; (D) any transfer thereof otherwise would subject that Seller or any of its Affiliates to any material liability; or (E) they are retained by the Seller’s Group pursuant to Clause 8.18; |
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(ii) | any laboratory notebooks to the extent containing research and development information unrelated to its Contributed Business; and |
(iii) | any books and records (including but not limited to the content of any personnel files) kept by the Seller’s Group relating to the employment of the Transferred Employees with the Seller’s Group; |
“Transferred Contracts” means: (i) in respect of a Seller, the Contracts, other than its Transferred Intellectual Property Contracts, that are Exclusively Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business between a Business Seller of that Seller’s Group, on the one hand, and any third party, on the other hand (other than this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreement); and (ii) in the case of Novartis, the Novartis Distribution and Sales Products Contracts and the Novartis Services Contracts; and (iii) in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, any Contracts between a member of its Group (other than its Target Group Company and its Business Seller) on the one hand and its Business Seller, on the other hand, that are Exclusively Related to GlaxoSmithKline’s Contributed Business, other than any contracts that relate to any services that will be and, as at Closing are, provided under the Ancillary Agreements;
“Transferred Employees” means, in relation to a Seller: (i) any Target Business Employees of that Seller to whom the Purchaser (or a member of the Purchaser’s Group) offers employment and who accept such employment and become employed by the Purchaser (or a member of the Purchaser’s Group) in accordance with Schedule 7; (ii) any Relevant Target Business Employees of that Seller who transfer to the Purchaser (or a member of the Purchaser’s Group) by operation of the Transfer Regulations and do not object to such transfer (to the extent permitted by the Transfer Regulations) in accordance with Schedule 7; and (iii) the Relevant Target Company Employees of that Seller, and “Transferred Target Business Employees” means the employees in (i) and (ii), “Transferred Target Company Employees” means the employees in (iii), and “Transferred Employee”, “Transferred Target Business Employee” and “Transferred Target Company Employee” respectively means any one of them;
“Transferred Information Technology” means, in respect of a Seller, all Information Technology of any member of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Company) to the extent Exclusively Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business;
“Transferred Intellectual Property Contracts” means, in respect of a Seller, Contracts Exclusively Related to its Contributed Business which relate to Intellectual Property Rights (but excluding the rights under any such Contracts that are held by its Target Group Companies);
“Transferred Intellectual Property Rights” means, in respect of a Seller, the Intellectual Property Rights of any member of that Seller’s Group (other than a Target Group Company) Exclusively Related to its Contributed Business. For the avoidance of doubt, whether a Trademark is Exclusively Related to a Contributed Business will be assessed on a Brand basis rather than a country by country basis, so that a Brand (and the Trademarks used or registered for use with a Product to which that Brand is associated) shall be deemed not to be Exclusively Related to a Contributed Business
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where, as at the date of this Agreement, a Brand is Commercialised by a Seller or its Affiliates in relation to both (i) a Product and (ii) a product of that Seller’s Retained Business, in any part of the world;
“Transferred Inventory” means, in respect of a Seller, all inventories (including its Manufacturing Inventory, Manufacturing Stocks and In-Market Inventory), wherever located, including all raw materials, work in progress, finished GlaxoSmithKline Products or Novartis Products (as the case may be), and packaging and labelling material in respect of the GlaxoSmithKline Products or Novartis Products (as the case may be) and otherwise, in each case, that are, Predominantly Related to its Contributed Business (but excluding any such items held by its Target Group Companies), whether held at any location or facility of a member of that Seller’s Group or in transit to a member of that Seller’s Group, in each case, as of the Effective Time;
“Transferred Leased Properties” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1 of Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Transferred Owned Properties” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.1 of Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Transferred Plant and Equipment” means, in respect of a Seller:
(i) | its Transferred Information Technology; and |
(ii) | all plant, furniture, furnishings, vehicles, equipment, tools and other tangible personal property (other than its Transferred Inventory or its Transferred Information Technology) of that Seller’s Group that are Predominantly Related to its Contributed Business (but excluding any such items owned by its Target Group Companies); |
“Transferred Properties” means, in respect of a Seller:
(i) | its Transferred Owned Properties; |
(ii) | its Transferred Leased Properties; |
(iii) | all other freehold, leasehold or other immovable property comprising research and development, production or manufacturing facilities Exclusively Related to its Contributed Business, other than any freehold, leasehold or other immovable property within the definition of “Excluded Assets”; and |
(iv) | all other freehold, leasehold or other immovable property comprising warehousing, distribution or office facilities Predominantly Related to its Contributed Business, other than any freehold, leasehold or other immovable property within the definition of “Excluded Assets”, |
and “Transferred Property” means any one of them;
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“Transitional Distribution Services Agreement” means, in respect of a Seller, the transitional distribution services agreement expected to be entered into between it (or its Affiliate) and the Purchaser (or its Affiliate) at Closing (and each local agreement entered pursuant to such transitional distribution services agreement) on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms;
“Transitional Services Agreement” means the transitional services agreement expected to be entered into between Novartis (or its Affiliate) and the Purchaser (or its Affiliate) at Closing (and each local agreement entered pursuant to such transitional services agreement) on terms consistent with the Agreed Terms;
“US Benefit Plans” means all United States “employee benefit plans” (within the meaning of section 3(3) of ERISA), severance, change in control or employment, vacation, incentive, bonus, stock option, stock purchase, or restricted stock plans, programmes, agreements or policies benefiting the relevant Target Business Employees;
“Vaccines Sale and Purchase Agreement” means the sale and purchase agreement dated the date of this agreement between Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline relating to the sale and purchase of Novartis’s vaccines business (excluding Novartis’s Influenza vaccines business);
“VAT” means, within the European Union, such Taxation as may be levied in accordance with (but subject to derogations from) Council Directive 2006/112/EC and, outside the European Union, any Taxation levied by reference to added value or sales;
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“WARN Act” means the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 of the United States;
“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” means, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, any body corporate that is a 100 per cent. owned and controlled subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline and, in respect of Novartis, any body corporate that is a 100 per cent. owned and controlled subsidiary of Novartis (where “subsidiary” has the meaning given in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006);
“Working Capital” means, in respect of a Seller, the aggregate amount of the working capital items of its Target Group falling into the categories set out in Part A of Part 4 of Schedule 12 (in respect of Novartis) or Part B of Part 4 of Schedule 12 (in respect of GlaxoSmithKline) as set out in its Closing Statement (which shall not include any amount in respect of Tax), at the Effective Time, as derived from its Closing Statement;
“Working Capital Adjustment” means, in respect of a Seller:
(i) | if its Working Capital is no less than its Minimum Working Capital Amount and no greater than its Maximum Working Capital Amount, zero; |
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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(ii) | if its Working Capital is less than its Minimum Working Capital Amount, the amount by which its Working Capital is less than its Minimum Working Capital Amount, such amount being treated as a negative amount; or |
(iii) | if its Working Capital is greater than its Maximum Working Capital Amount, the amount by which its Working Capital exceeds its Maximum Working Capital Amount, such amount being treated as a positive amount; |
“Withholding Seller” has the meaning given in Clause 15.11.2; and
“Workstream Lead” has the meaning given to it in the Implementation Agreement.
1.2 | Shares |
References to shares shall include, where relevant, quotas.
1.3 | Singular, plural, gender |
References to one gender include all genders and references to the singular include the plural and vice versa.
1.4 | References to persons and companies |
References to:
1.4.1 | a person include any individual, company, partnership or unincorporated association (whether or not having separate legal personality); and |
1.4.2 | a company include any company, corporation or any body corporate, wherever incorporated. |
1.5 | Schedules etc. |
References to this Agreement shall include any Recitals and Schedules to it and references to Clauses and Schedules are to Clauses of, and Schedules to, this Agreement. References to paragraphs and Parts are to paragraphs and Parts of the Schedules.
1.6 | Reference to documents |
References to any document (including this Agreement), or to a provision in a document, shall be construed as a reference to such document or provision as amended, supplemented, modified, restated or novated from time to time.
1.7 | References to enactments |
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, any express reference to an enactment (which includes any legislation in any jurisdiction) includes references: (i) to that enactment as amended, consolidated or re-enacted by or under any other
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enactment before or after the date of this Agreement; (ii) any enactment which that enactment re-enacts (with or without modification); and (iii) any subordinate legislation (including regulations) made before or after the date of this Agreement under that enactment as amended, consolidated or re-enacted as described in paragraph (i) or paragraph (ii) above, except to the extent that any of the matters referred to in paragraph (i) to paragraph (iii) (inclusive) above occurs after the date of this Agreement and increases or alters the liability of a Seller or the Purchaser under this Agreement.
1.8 | Information |
References to books, records or other information mean books, records or other information in any form including paper, electronically stored data, magnetic media, film and microfilm.
1.9 | References to “indemnify” |
Unless specified to the contrary, references to “indemnify” and “indemnifying” any person against any circumstance include indemnifying and holding that person harmless on an after-Tax basis and:
1.9.1 | references to the Purchaser indemnifying each member of a Seller’s Group shall constitute undertakings by the Purchaser to that Seller for itself and on behalf of each other member of that Seller’s Group; |
1.9.2 | references to the relevant Seller indemnifying each member of the Purchaser’s Group shall constitute undertakings by that Seller to the Purchaser for itself and on behalf of each other member of the Purchaser’s Group; |
1.9.3 | to the extent that the obligation to indemnify relates to any Shares (including any Target Group Companies) or other assets or liabilities transferred by a Share Seller or Business Seller (as the case may be) to a member of the Purchaser’s Group pursuant to this Agreement, references to the Seller indemnifying the Purchaser and references to the Seller indemnifying the Purchaser or any member of the Purchaser’s Group shall constitute undertakings by the Seller to indemnify or procure the indemnification of the relevant purchaser of the Shares transferred or to be transferred by that Share Seller or the relevant purchaser of the assets or liabilities transferred or to be transferred by that Business Seller (as the case may be), and references to the Purchaser indemnifying the Seller and references to the Purchaser indemnifying the Seller and each member of the Seller’s Group shall constitute undertakings by the Purchaser to indemnify or procure the indemnification of the relevant member of the Seller’s Group; and |
1.9.4 | where under the terms of this Agreement one party is liable to indemnify or reimburse another party in respect of any costs, charges or expenses, the payment shall include an amount equal to any VAT thereon not otherwise recoverable by the other party or any member of any group or |
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consolidation of which it forms part for VAT purposes, subject to that party using reasonable endeavours to recover or to procure recovery of such amount of VAT as may be practicable. |
For the purposes of this Clause 1.9, indemnifying and holding harmless a person on an “after-Tax basis” means that the amount payable pursuant to the indemnity (the “Payment”) shall be calculated in such a manner as will ensure that, after taking into account:
(i) | any Tax required to be deducted or withheld from the Payment and any additional amounts required to be paid by the payer of the Payment in consequence of such withholding; |
(ii) | the amount and timing of any additional Tax which becomes (or would, but for the use of any credit or other relief which would otherwise have been available to reduce the Tax liabilities of any member of a Seller’s Group or of the Purchaser’s Group, as the case may be, have become) payable by the recipient of the Payment (or a member of a Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group, as the case may be) as a result of the Payment’s being subject to Tax in the hands of that person; and |
(iii) | the amount and timing of any Tax benefit which is obtained by the recipient of the Payment (or a member of a Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group, as the case may be) to the extent that such Tax benefit is attributable to the matter giving rise to the indemnity payment or to the receipt of the Payment, |
which amount and timing is to be determined by the auditors of the recipient at the shared expense of both relevant parties and is to be certified as such to the party making the Payment, the recipient of the Payment is in no better and no worse after Tax position as that in which it would have been if the matter giving rise to the indemnity payment had not occurred, provided that if any party to this Agreement shall have assigned or novated the benefit of this Agreement in whole or in part or shall, after the date of this Agreement, have changed its Tax residence or the permanent establishment to which the rights under this Agreement are allocated then no Payment to that party shall be increased by reason of the operation of paragraphs (i) to (iii) above to any greater extent than would have been the case had no such assignment, novation or change taken place.
1.10 | References to wholly or substantially in the Contributed Business |
References to any employee employed by a member of a Seller’s Group working “wholly or substantially” in a Contributed Business (whether the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Business or the Novartis OTC Business, as the case may be) means that such employee spends more than 70 per cent. of their time working in the Contributed Business at the relevant time.
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1.11 | Legal terms |
References to any English legal term shall, in respect of any jurisdiction other than England and Wales, be construed as references to the term or concept which most nearly corresponds to it in that jurisdiction.
1.12 | Non-limiting effect of words |
The words “including”, “include”, “in particular” and words of similar effect shall not be deemed to limit the general effect of the words that precede them.
1.13 | Currency conversion |
1.13.1 | Subject to Clause 1.13.2 and Clause 6.5, any amount to be converted from one currency into another currency for the purposes of this Agreement shall be converted into an equivalent amount at the Conversion Rate prevailing at the Relevant Date. For the purposes of this Clause 1.13: |
“Conversion Rate” means the spot reference rate for a transaction between the two currencies in question as quoted by the European Central Bank on the Business Day immediately preceding the Relevant Date or, if no such rate is quoted on that date, on the preceding date on which such rates are quoted;
“Relevant Date” means, save as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the date on which a payment or an assessment is to be made, save that, for the following purposes, the date shall mean:
(i) | for the purposes of Clause 5, the date of this Agreement; |
(ii) | for the purposes of Clause 7 and Schedule 12 and Schedule 18, the Closing Date; or |
(iii) | for the purposes of Clause 10, the date of this Agreement; and |
(iv) | for the purposes of the monetary amounts set out in Schedule 13, the date of this Agreement. |
1.13.2 | For the purposes of Schedule 12, the conversion of an amount from one currency into another shall be carried out in accordance with the accounting policies and practices of the Purchaser’s Group in operation from time to time. |
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2. | SALE AND PURCHASE OF THE TARGET GROUPS |
2.1 | Sale and Purchase of the Target Groups |
On and subject to the terms of this Agreement and the Local Transfer Documents:
2.1.1 | GlaxoSmithKline undertakes to Novartis and the Purchaser to procure that its Share Sellers and Business Sellers shall sell the GlaxoSmithKline Target Group; |
2.1.2 | Novartis undertakes to GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser to procure that its Share Sellers and Business Sellers shall sell the Novartis Target Group; and |
2.1.3 | the Purchaser undertakes to GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis to purchase (or procure the purchase by a member(s) of the Purchaser’s Group of) each of the Target Groups, |
in each case, as a going concern.
2.2 | Sale of the Shares |
2.2.1 | GlaxoSmithKline shall procure that its Share Sellers shall sell the GlaxoSmithKline Shares, and Novartis shall procure that its Share Sellers shall sell the Novartis Shares, and the Purchaser shall purchase (or procure the purchase of) the Shares, in each case, with Full Title Guarantee free from Encumbrances (other than any rights of first refusal that exist as at the date of this Agreement in relation to any Shares in any Joint Venture Entities) and together with all rights and advantages attaching to them as at Closing (including the right to receive all dividends or distributions declared, made or paid on or after the Effective Time), subject to and in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 6. |
2.2.2 | GlaxoSmithKline shall procure that, on or prior to Closing, any and all rights of pre-emption over the GlaxoSmithKline Shares (other than such rights of pre-emption that exist at the date of this Agreement in respect of its Joint Venture Entities) and Novartis shall procure that, on or prior to Closing, any and all rights of pre-emption over the Novartis Shares (other than in respect of its Joint Venture Entities), in each case, are waived irrevocably by the persons entitled thereto. |
2.3 | Sale of the Target Group Businesses |
2.3.1 | Each Seller shall sell (or procure the sale of) the assets comprising its Target Group Businesses and the Purchaser shall purchase (or procure the purchase of), each Seller’s Target Group Businesses, in each case, under this Agreement or, where relevant, the Local Transfer Documents. Each of those assets shall be sold by that Seller or Business Seller (as the case may be) with Full Title Guarantee (save in respect of the Transferred |
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Intellectual Property Rights) and free from Encumbrances other than Permitted Encumbrances (save for the Transferred Properties, which shall be sold free from Encumbrances other than as provided in paragraph 1.9 of Part 4 of Schedule 2) and shall comprise, in respect of each Target Group Business of each Seller (unless otherwise expressly provided below): |
(i) | the Transferred Properties; |
(ii) | the Transferred Plant and Equipment; |
(iii) | the Transferred Inventory; |
(iv) | the Transferred Accounts Receivables; |
(v) | the Transferred Books and Records; |
(vi) | subject to and in accordance with Schedule 6, the Transferred Intellectual Property Rights; |
(vii) | subject to and in accordance with Schedule 6, the Transferred Intellectual Property Contracts; |
(viii) | the Transferred Information Technology; |
(ix) | subject to and in accordance with Schedule 6, its Transferred Contracts and the Relevant Part of the Shared Business Contracts; |
(x) | subject to and in accordance with Clause 6.2 and Schedule 4, all Product Approvals and all Product Applications and all other permits, licences, certificates, registrations, marketing or other authorisations or consents issued by a Governmental Entity Predominantly Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business and not held by its Target Group Companies; |
(xi) | subject to and in accordance with Schedule 4, all Marketing Authorisation Data not held by its Target Group Companies; |
(xii) | all Business Information not held at Closing by its Target Group Companies; |
(xiii) | all rights of the Purchaser, its Affiliates and its Target Group Companies as contemplated by Schedule 7 and Schedule 8; |
(xiv) | the Target Group Goodwill; |
(xv) | all other property, rights and assets owned or held by that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies) and Predominantly Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business at Closing (other than any |
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property, rights and assets of that Seller’s Target Group expressly excluded from the sale under this Agreement); and |
(xvi) | Novartis Holding AG’s rights under the Novartis Transferred Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables. |
2.3.2 | There shall be excluded from the sale of each Target Group Business by a Seller under this Agreement and the Local Transfer Documents the following: |
(i) | the Seller’s Retained Business; |
(ii) | any Intellectual Property Right that is not a Target Group Intellectual Property Right; |
(iii) | any Information Technology other than the Target Group Information Technology; |
(iv) | the Seller Marks; |
(v) | any product and any permits, licences, certificates, registrations, marketing or other authorisations or consents issued by any Governmental Entity in respect of any products, or any applications therefor, other than: (a) products to the extent included in the relevant Seller’s Contributed Business (including the Products), Product Approvals, Products Under Registration and Pipeline Product Approvals; and (b) Permits Predominantly Related to that Seller’s Contributed Business; |
(vi) | all cash, marketable securities and negotiable instruments, and all other cash equivalents, of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies); |
(vii) | the land and buildings of Novartis’s Group at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx XX, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of America, together with all fixtures and improvements erected thereon; |
(viii) | the land and buildings of the Novartis’s Group at Jaboatão dos Guarapas, State of Pernambuco, Brazil, together with all fixtures and improvements erected thereon and any other assets, rights and Contracts related thereto; |
(ix) | all real property and any leases therefor and interests therein other than the Properties; |
(x) | the company seal, minute books, charter documents, stock or equity record books and such other books and records pertaining to that Seller or its Affiliates (other than the Target Group Companies and the Transferred Books and Records), as well as any other records or |
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material relating to that Seller or its Affiliates (other than its Target Group Companies) generally and not involving or related to that Seller’s Target Group; |
(xi) | any right of that Seller or its Affiliates to be indemnified in respect of Assumed Liabilities; |
(xii) | all Tax assets (including Tax refunds and prepayments), other than Tax assets of any Target Group Company; |
(xiii) | all Tax Returns of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies) and all Tax Returns relating to Tax Groups of which persons other than Target Group Companies are members and, in each case, all books and records (including working papers) related thereto; |
(xiv) | any rights in respect of any insurance policies of that Seller’s Group as provided in and subject to Clause 13; |
(xv) | all artwork, paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, lithographs and other artistic works of that Seller’s Group that are not embodiments of the Target Group Intellectual Property Rights; |
(xvi) | any rights of that Seller’s Group (other than its Target Group Companies) under any of its Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables or Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables (excluding its Transferred Accounts Receivables), with the exception of the Novartis Transferred Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables; |
(xvii) | any rights of that Seller or its Affiliates (other than its Target Group Companies) contemplated by Schedule 7 and Schedule 8; |
(xviii) | any equity interest in any person other than a Target Group Company or the Joint Venture Entities; |
(xix) | the Excluded Contracts, but, subject to paragraph 11.8 of Schedule 6, including the Endo Excluded Contract and the Xxxxxx Excluded Contract; |
(xx) | all rights of that Seller’s Group under this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements; |
(xxi) | the Seller’s Bank Account; |
(xxii) | in the case of GlaxoSmithKline only, those items, assets and businesses set out in Part 1 of Schedule 3; and |
(xxiii) | in the case of Novartis only, those items, assets and businesses set out in Part 2 of Schedule 3. |
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2.3.3 | Each Seller agrees to procure the transfer of (to the extent it is able so to do) and the Purchaser agrees to accept or procure the acceptance by another member of the Purchaser’s Group of the transfer of, and to assume, duly and punctually pay, satisfy, discharge, perform or fulfil or procure that another member of the Purchaser’s Group will assume, duly and punctually pay, satisfy, discharge, perform or fulfil, the Assumed Liabilities relating to that Seller’s Contributed Business, with effect from Closing. |
2.3.4 | Clause 2.3.3 shall not apply to, and the Purchaser shall not be obliged to accept (or procure the acceptance by another member of the Purchaser’s Group of), the transfer of or to assume, duly and punctually pay, satisfy, discharge, perform or fulfil (or procure that another member of the Purchaser’s Group will assume, duly and punctually pay, satisfy, discharge, perform or fulfil): |
(i) | any Excluded Liability; or |
(ii) | any Liability to the extent it relates to an Excluded Asset. |
2.3.5 | Each Seller shall comply with its obligations in Schedule 17 (Reorganisations) in respect of any reorganisation of that Seller’s Group carried out prior to Closing involving its Target Group (including assigning or otherwise transferring assets, liabilities and (only where in compliance with Clause 5 other than Clause 5.2.5) employees between members of that Seller’s Group and including, without limitation, transferring all or part of its Target Group into or (directly or indirectly) beneath, as the case may be, a single newly incorporated company or holding company, as the case may be, with the intention of that new company being transferred to the Purchaser on Closing) (each a “Reorganisation”). In the event that a Seller carries out a Reorganisation such that the structure of the Target Group has been altered, the provisions of this Agreement shall apply to such altered structure mutatis mutandis. |
2.3.6 | Promptly after the date of this Agreement: |
(i) | the project manager of each of GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis shall appoint a Workstream Lead who shall be generally responsible for the implementation of this Agreement; and |
(ii) | GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and each Workstream Lead appointed in accordance with Clause 2.3.6(i) shall use their reasonable endeavours to further identify the assets and liabilities comprising GlaxoSmithKline’s and Novartis’s respective Target Group and make any amendments or updates to Schedule 1, Schedule 2, Schedule 3, Schedule 6, Schedule 9, Schedule 16, Schedule 19 and Schedule 21 as may be necessary to |
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ensure that such Schedules accurately reflect the scope of each of GlaxoSmithKline’s and Novartis’s respective Target Group, |
provided that nothing in this Clause 2.3.6 shall be construed as a right or obligation to amend or update the scope of each of GlaxoSmithKline’s and Novartis’s respective Target Group as defined in this Agreement.
2.4 | Employees and Employee Benefits |
2.4.1 | The provisions of Schedule 7 shall apply in respect of the Employees. |
2.4.2 | The provisions of Schedule 8 shall apply in respect of Employee Benefits. |
2.5 | Properties |
The provisions of Schedule 2 shall apply in respect of the Properties.
2.6 | Alliance Market Businesses |
2.6.1 | The parties agree that the Alliance Market Businesses shall not be transferred by the relevant Seller to the Purchaser on Closing but shall be governed by this Clause 2.6. |
2.6.2 | On and with effect from Closing, the GlaxoSmithKline Alliance Market Businesses shall be retained by the relevant entity in GlaxoSmithKline’s Group or (where applicable) transferred to the relevant entity in the Purchaser’s Group listed opposite the Alliance Market Territory in Appendix 1. |
2.6.3 | At Closing, the Novartis Alliance Market Businesses shall be transferred to the relevant member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group listed opposite the Alliance Market Territory in Appendix 1. |
2.6.4 | At Closing, GlaxoSmithKline shall procure that the relevant entity in GlaxoSmithKline’s Group listed in Appendix 1 shall, GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser shall procure that the relevant entity in the Purchasers’ Group listed in Appendix 1 shall and Novartis shall procure that the relevant entity in Novartis’s Group listed Appendix 1 shall, in each case, enter into the relevant Alliance Market Local Transfer Agreements listed therein. |
2.7 | Rx Spin-out Businesses |
2.7.1 | Notwithstanding Clause 2.3.2, GlaxoSmithKline shall be permitted to transfer its Rx Spin-out Businesses to the Purchaser’s Group (including by virtue of such businesses being owned by a Target Group Company), provided that GlaxoSmithKline shall, and shall procure that members of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group shall, use all reasonable endeavours to procure that each Rx Spin-out Business is transferred from the Purchaser’s Group |
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to an entity in GlaxoSmithKline’s Group as soon as reasonably practicable following Closing (in each case, an “Rx Spin-out”). |
2.7.2 | From Closing until the relevant Rx Spin-out completes, Part 3 of Schedule 22 (Economic Benefit Transfer) shall apply to the Rx Spin-out Businesses, such that the Purchaser’s Group and GlaxoSmithKline’s Group are put in the same net economic position as they would have been in had the relevant Rx Spin-out Business not transferred to the Purchaser’s Group on Closing. |
2.7.3 | The parties acknowledge that the purchaser of any Rx Spin-out Business may wish to enter into transitional supply, service or distribution arrangements with the Purchaser (or its Affiliates). The Purchaser and GlaxoSmithKline shall negotiate in good faith whether, and, if so, the terms on which, such transitional supply, service or distribution arrangements will be entered into, which terms shall be based on the terms of any Ancillary Agreement that would have applied in respect of that Rx Spin-out Business, if it had been a member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group at Closing. |
2.8 | Local Transfer Documents |
2.8.1 | On Closing or at such other time as agreed between the parties, each Seller shall procure that its Share Sellers and Business Sellers execute, and the Purchaser shall execute (or procure the execution by one or more other members of the Purchaser’s Group of), such agreements, transfers, conveyances and other documents, as may be required pursuant to the relevant local law and otherwise as may be agreed between such Seller and the Purchaser to implement the transfer of (i) the Shares held by such Share Sellers and (ii) the Target Group Businesses held by such Business Sellers, in each case on Closing subject to the provisions of Schedule 6, Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses) and Clause 2.6 (Alliance Market Businesses) (the “Local Transfer Documents” and each, a “Local Transfer Document”). The parties do not intend this Agreement to transfer title to any of the Shares. Title shall be transferred by the applicable Local Transfer Document. |
2.8.2 | To the extent that the provisions of a Local Transfer Document are inconsistent with or (except to the extent they implement a transfer in accordance with this Agreement) additional to the provisions of this Agreement: |
(i) | the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail; and |
(ii) | so far as permissible under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction, the relevant Seller and the Purchaser shall procure that the provisions of the relevant Local Transfer Document are adjusted, to the extent necessary to give effect to the provisions of this Agreement or, to the extent this is not permissible, that Seller shall indemnify the Purchaser against all Liabilities suffered by the Purchaser or its Affiliates or, as the |
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case may be, the Purchaser shall indemnify that Seller against all Liabilities suffered by that Seller or its Affiliates, in either case, through or arising from the inconsistency between the Local Transfer Document and this Agreement or the additional provisions (except to the extent they implement a transfer in accordance with this Agreement). |
2.8.3 | If there is an adjustment to the Purchase Consideration under Clause 7.3 which relates to a part of the Target Group which is the subject of a Local Transfer Document, then, if required to implement the adjustment and so far as permissible under Applicable Law, the Purchaser shall (or shall procure that the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group will), and the relevant Seller shall procure that its relevant Affiliate shall, enter into a supplemental agreement reflecting such adjustment and the allocation of such adjustment. |
2.8.4 | Neither Seller shall, and each Seller shall procure that none of its Affiliates shall, bring any claim against the Purchaser or any member of the Purchaser’s Group (including any Target Group Company) in respect of or based upon the Local Transfer Documents save to the extent necessary to implement any transfer of the Shares or Target Group Businesses as contemplated by this Agreement. To the extent that any Seller or a member of that Seller’s Group does bring a claim in breach of this Clause, that Seller shall indemnify the Purchaser and each member of the Purchaser’s Group (including any Target Group Company) against all Liabilities which the Purchaser or that member of the Purchaser’s Group (including any Target Group Company) may suffer through or arising from the bringing of such a claim. |
2.8.5 | The Purchaser shall not, and shall procure that none of its Affiliates shall, bring any claim against any Seller or any member of any Seller’s Group in respect of or based upon the Local Transfer Documents save to the extent necessary to implement any transfer of the Shares or the Target Group Businesses as contemplated by this Agreement. To the extent that the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group does bring a claim in breach of this Clause, the Purchaser shall indemnify the relevant Seller and each member of that Seller’s Group against all Liabilities which that Seller or any member of that Seller’s Group may suffer through or arising from the bringing of such a claim. |
2.9 | Inventory |
2.9.1 | The parties agree that neither this Agreement nor the applicable Local Transfer Agreement shall transfer legal title to any Transferred Inventory held by the relevant Seller’s Target Group Business in the jurisdictions set out in Schedule 25 (Global TDSA Model Jurisdictions) (the “Retained Inventory”) on Closing. |
2.9.2 | Legal title to all In-Market Inventory that is Retained Inventory shall be transferred to the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group in |
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accordance with Article XVII of the Transitional Distribution Services Agreement. |
2.9.3 | In respect of the relevant Target Group Business in each jurisdiction set out in Schedule 25 the relevant Seller shall, by no later than 5 Business Days after the date on which it or the relevant member of that Seller’s Group receives payment under section 17.01(b) of the Transitional Distribution Services Agreement for In-Market Inventory in respect of the relevant Target Group Business, contribute to the Purchaser (in accordance with Clause 15.7) an amount equal to the value of the Retained Inventory recorded in the Closing Statement in respect of the relevant Target Group Business. |
2.9.4 | If, following Closing, any Manufacturing Inventory or Manufacturing Stock is found to have formed part of the Retained Inventory, the relevant Seller shall procure that such Manufacturing Inventory and/or Manufacturing Stock is transferred from the relevant member of that Seller’s Group to the member of the Purchaser’s Group nominated by the Purchaser as soon as practicable following Closing at no cost to the Purchaser. |
2.9.5 | Clause 3.4 shall apply to payments or other contributions under this Clause 2.9 as if such payments or other contributions were made or procured in respect of an indemnity under this Agreement. |
3. | CONSIDERATION |
3.1 | Amount |
3.1.1 | The aggregate consideration for the purchase of each of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group and the Novartis OTC Group under this Agreement and the Local Transfer Documents (together with any payment required to be made pursuant to clause 3.1.3, the “Purchase Consideration”) shall be: |
(i) | in the case of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group, the allotment and issue by the Purchaser to GlaxoSmithKline (and/or such other of its Affiliates as are Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries as GlaxoSmithKline may direct prior to Closing, provided that no more than two members of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group shall be issued A Shares at Closing) of the A Shares in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement; and |
(ii) | in the case of the Novartis OTC Group, the allotment and issue by the Purchaser to Novartis (and/or such other of its Affiliates as are Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries as Novartis may direct prior to Closing, provided that no more than two members of Novartis’s Group shall be issued B Shares at Closing of the B Shares in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement). |
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3.1.2 | The Sellers and the Purchaser acknowledge and agree that the Purchase Consideration has been determined on the basis of the Base Working Capital Range, with the intention that for each of the Target Groups, the sum of the amounts set out in Clause 3.1.3(i) to 3.1.3(vii) will equal zero. |
3.1.3 | If, in respect of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group or the Novartis OTC Group, the sum of the following: |
(i) | the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances and the Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables; |
minus |
(ii) | the Third Party Indebtedness |
minus |
(iii) | the Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables; |
minus |
(iv) | any Employee Benefit Indemnification Amount paid in accordance with Schedule 8; |
minus |
(v) | the excess over US$20,000,000, if any, of the Intra-Group Trading Balances; |
minus |
(vi) | the Tax Adjustment; and |
plus (if it is zero or a positive amount) or minus (if it is a negative amount) |
(vii) | the Working Capital Adjustment, |
does not equal zero, balancing payments shall be made between GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser (in the case of the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group) or Novartis and the Purchaser (in the case of the Novartis OTC Group) in accordance with Clauses 6.3 and 7.3 to 7.6 (inclusive). |
3.1.4 | For the avoidance of doubt, the amounts set out in Clause 3.1.3 in each case include all such amounts payable in respect of the Delayed Businesses and the Alliance Market Businesses. |
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3.2 | Satisfaction of Purchase Consideration |
3.2.1 | The Purchaser shall allot and issue the A Shares and the B Shares credited as fully paid. The amount payable under Clause 3.1.3 shall be paid in cash to the relevant Seller’s Bank Account(s) or the Purchaser’s Bank Account, as the case may be, pursuant to Clauses 6.3 and 7.6. |
3.2.2 | Any cash payment required to be made by the Purchaser pursuant to Clauses 3.1.3, 3.2.1, 6.3 and/or 7.3 to 7.6 (inclusive), shall be funded through Shareholder Loans (as defined in the Shareholders’ Agreement), made pro rata to each Seller’s Group’s shareholding in the Purchaser (and each Seller shall procure its relevant Affiliates make such Shareholder Loans required by this Clause 3.2.2). |
3.2.3 | Any cash payment required to be made or procured by the Purchaser under Clause 3.3 shall be funded from the cash reserves of the Purchaser’s Group. For the avoidance of doubt, this Clause 3.2.3 is without prejudice to the rights and obligations of the Company under Clause 12 of the Shareholders’ Agreement. |
3.3 | VAT |
3.3.1 | The provisions of Schedule 10 shall apply in respect of VAT. |
3.3.2 | Each Seller and the Purchaser agree that the consideration given under this Agreement in respect of the sale of the Target Group Businesses and the Shares is exclusive of any VAT. |
3.3.3 | To the extent that VAT is chargeable in respect of that sale or any part thereof, the Purchaser shall, against delivery of a valid VAT invoice (or equivalent, if any), in addition to any other amount expressed in this Agreement to be payable by the Purchaser, pay or procure the payment to the relevant Seller (on behalf of its relevant Business Seller or Share Seller as applicable) any amount of any VAT so chargeable for which that Seller (or the relevant member of that Seller’s Group, as the case may be) is liable to account, in accordance with Schedule 10. |
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3.4 | Treatment of Payments |
If any payment is made or procured (i) by a Seller or a member of that Seller’s Group to the Purchaser or relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group, or (ii) by a Purchaser or member of the Purchaser’s Group to the Seller or relevant member of a Seller’s Group, in either case, in respect of any claim under or for any breach of this Agreement or pursuant to an indemnity (or equivalent covenant to pay) under this Agreement, the payment shall be treated, so far as possible, as an adjustment of the Purchase Consideration paid by the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group for the particular part of the Target Group to which the payment and/or claim relates under this Agreement and the Purchase Consideration shall be deemed to be increased or reduced (as applicable) by the amount of such payment,
PROVIDED THAT this Clause 3.4 shall not require any amount to be treated as an amount in respect of the Purchase Consideration for the purposes of Clause 15.11 (Grossing-up) if it would not otherwise have been so treated.
4. | CONDITIONS |
4.1 | Conditions Precedent |
The sale and purchase of each Target Group is conditional upon satisfaction of the following conditions, or their satisfaction subject only to Closing:
4.1.1 | to the extent that the proposed transaction contemplated under this agreement (the “Transaction”) either constitutes (or is deemed to constitute under Article 4(5) or Article 5(2)) a concentration with a Community dimension within the meaning of Council Regulation (EC) 139/2004 (as amended) (the “Regulation”) or is to be examined by the European Commission as a result of a decision under Article 22(3) of the Regulation: |
(i) | the European Commission taking a decision (or being deemed to have taken a decision) under Article 6(1)(b) or, if the Commission has initiated proceedings pursuant to Article 6(1)(c), under Article 8(1) or 8(2) of the Regulation declaring the Transaction compatible with the common market; or |
(ii) | the European Commission taking a decision (or being deemed to have taken a decision) to refer the whole or part of the Transaction to the competent authorities of one or more Member States under Article 4(4) or 9(3) of the Regulation; and |
(a) | each such authority taking a decision with equivalent effect to Clause 4.1.1(i) with respect to those parts of the Transaction referred to it; and |
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(b) | the European Commission taking any of the decisions under Clause 4.1.1(i) with respect to any part of the Transaction retained by it; |
4.1.2 | any waiting period (and any extension thereof) under the HSR Act applicable to the Transaction having expired; |
4.1.3 | to the extent required or otherwise agreed between the parties as appropriate to permit the parties to consummate the Transaction in the jurisdictions listed in Schedule 20, any additional clearances, approvals, waivers, no-action letters and consents having been obtained and any additional waiting periods having expired under applicable antitrust, merger control or foreign investment rules set forth in Schedule 20; |
4.1.4 | receipt of CFIUS Approval if CFIUS has initiated a review of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, whether pursuant to Clause 4.2.3 or otherwise; |
4.1.5 | no Governmental Entity having enacted, issued, promulgated, enforced or entered any Applicable Law or Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that is in effect at the Closing Date and that has the effect of making the transactions contemplated by this Agreement illegal or otherwise restraining or prohibiting the consummation of such transactions; |
4.1.6 | the passing at a duly convened and held general meeting of GlaxoSmithKline’s Shareholders (as defined in the Implementation Agreement) of an ordinary resolution validly approving the sale and purchase under each of the Target Asset Agreements and any sale and purchase under the Put Option Agreement (as defined in the Implementation Agreement) in accordance with GlaxoSmithKline’s Articles of Association, the Listing Rules (as defined in the Implementation Agreement) and all other Applicable Law and regulation (such resolution being the “GlaxoSmithKline Shareholder Resolution” and such meeting being the “GlaxoSmithKline Shareholder Meeting”); |
4.1.7 | Novartis not delivering, in accordance with Clause 3 of the Implementation Agreement, a Novartis Board Certificate (as defined in the Implementation Agreement) prior to the conclusion of the vote on the GlaxoSmithKline Shareholder Resolution at the GlaxoSmithKline Shareholder Meeting; and |
4.1.8 | each of the other Target Asset Agreements having become unconditional in accordance with its terms (save for any condition in those agreements relating to this Agreement or the other of those agreements having become unconditional). |
4.2 | Responsibility for Satisfaction |
4.2.1 | The Sellers shall prepare and file the notifications necessary for the fulfilment of the conditions in Clauses 4.1.1 to 4.1.3 (the “Required |
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Notifications”) as soon as reasonably practicable (with notifications under the HSR Act to be filed by 29 May 2014). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, GlaxoSmithKline shall have primary responsibility for obtaining all consents, approvals or actions of any Governmental Entity which are required in connection with the Required Notifications (with the exception of the Minority Notifications addressed in Clause 4.2.10, for which Novartis shall have such responsibility). |
4.2.2 | GlaxoSmithKline shall be responsible for payment of all filing and other fees and expenses in connection with the Required Notifications and the satisfaction of the conditions in Clauses 4.1.1 to 4.1.3, (with the exception of the Minority Notifications addressed in Clause 4.2.10, for which Novartis shall have such responsibility). |
4.2.3 | CFIUS: |
(i) | The Sellers and the Purchaser shall consult, cooperate and keep each other reasonably informed regarding communications with, and requests for additional information from, CFIUS with respect to the Transaction. The Sellers and the Purchaser shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to provide promptly all information that is pursuant to a request by CFIUS. |
(ii) | Within 30 calendar days after the execution of this Agreement, any party wishing to submit a formal joint voluntary notice to CFIUS pursuant to 31 C.F.R. Section 800.401, et. seq. (“CFIUS Filing”) shall provide the other parties with written notice of its intent to make a CFIUS Filing (“Election Date”). Prior to making its election to submit a CFIUS Filing, the party wishing to make a CFIUS Filing shall consult in good faith with senior executives of the other parties. If neither of the Sellers nor the Purchaser provide notice to submit a formal joint voluntary notice to CFIUS, a CFIUS Filing will not be made unless requested by CFIUS. |
(iii) | If any one or more of the parties elects to make a CFIUS Filing following the procedures and consultations in Clause 4.2.3(ii) or if CFIUS requires a filing, then: |
(a) | the Sellers and the Purchaser shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to submit a draft CFIUS Filing no later than 15 Business Days following the Election Date, and a final CFIUS Filing the earlier of (1) five Business Days after submitting the draft CFIUS filing or (2) five calendar days after the receipt of any comments from CFIUS staff regarding the draft CFIUS Filing; |
(b) | the Sellers and the Purchaser will provide each other with the reasonable opportunity to review and comment on any information provided to CFIUS to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, with the exception of personal identifier |
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information required under Section 800.402(c)(6)(vi)(B) of the CFIUS regulations, 31 C.F.R. competitively sensitive information, or information not related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, may be restricted to each party’s external counsel to the extent reasonably considered necessary or advisable by the providing party; |
(c) | the Sellers and the Purchaser shall each have an opportunity to approve and mutually agree on the joint contents of the CFIUS Filing and shall be jointly responsible for the accuracy of such contents. The Sellers and the Purchaser respectively, shall each be responsible for the accuracy of contents of the CFIUS Filing that exclusively relate to itself, its business, and any subsidiaries, parents or other related parties; and |
(d) | the Sellers and the Purchaser shall use their respective reasonable best efforts to obtain CFIUS Approval as promptly as practicable and shall consult with each other on strategic matters related to obtaining such CFIUS Approval, provided that the Purchaser shall have no obligation to agree to any mitigation or other restrictive provision that could reasonably be considered to have a substantial impact on either of the Contributed Business or the Purchaser. |
4.2.4 | Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, GlaxoSmithKline shall and, shall cause its subsidiaries and affiliates to: |
(i) | propose, negotiate, offer to commit and effect (and if such offer is accepted, commit to and effect), by consent decree, undertaking, hold separate order, or otherwise, the sale, divestiture, licence or disposition of such combination of assets or businesses of: (i) the GlaxoSmithKline Target Group; (ii) GlaxoSmithKline’s other assets, businesses, subsidiaries or affiliates; and (ii) the Novartis Target Group; and/or |
(ii) | otherwise offer to take or offer to commit to take any action (including any action that limits its freedom of action, ownership or control with respect to, or its ability to retain or hold, any of the businesses, assets, product lines, properties or services of: the GlaxoSmithKline Target Group; GlaxoSmithKline’s other assets, businesses, subsidiaries or affiliates; or the Novartis Target Group) and, if the offer is accepted, take or commit to take such action; and/or |
(iii) | use its best efforts to defend through litigation on the merits any claim asserted in court by any party in order to avoid entry of, or to have vacated or terminated, any decree, order or Judgment (whether temporary, preliminary or permanent) that would restrain, prevent, or delay the Closing, |
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in each case, as may be required or desirable in order to procure the satisfaction of the conditions in Clauses 4.1.1 to 4.1.3 as soon as reasonably possible (and, in any event, not later than the Longstop Date) or to avoid the commencement of any Action or the issuing of any Decision to prohibit the Transaction, or if such Action is already commenced, to avoid the entry of, or to effect the dissolution of, any injunction, temporary restraining order or other order in any Action so as to enable the Closing to occur as soon as reasonably possible (and, in any event, not later than the Longstop Date).
4.2.5 | GlaxoSmithKline, after reasonably and in good faith consulting with Novartis and considering Novartis’s views, shall make all decisions, lead all discussions, negotiations and other proceedings, and coordinate all activities and any requests that may be made by, or any actions, consents, undertakings, approvals, waivers or authorizations that may be sought by or from, any Governmental Entity, including determining the strategy and manner in which to contest or otherwise respond, by litigation or otherwise, to objections to, or proceedings or other actions challenging, the consummation of the Transaction. |
4.2.6 | At GlaxoSmithKline’s request, Novartis shall, and shall cause the Novartis Target Group to take all reasonable actions GlaxoSmithKline deems prudent in order to reasonably assist GlaxoSmithKline in obtaining any actions, consents, undertakings, approvals, waivers or authorizations by or from any Governmental Entity for or in connection with consummating the Transaction including, inter alia: |
(i) | providing to GlaxoSmithKline such information with respect to the Novartis Target Group as GlaxoSmithKline may reasonably require in connection with satisfaction of its obligations under this Clause; |
(ii) | effecting the sale, divestiture, licence or disposition of such assets or businesses of the Novartis Target Group or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates as may be reasonably necessary to consummate the Transaction; |
(iii) | reasonably assisting GlaxoSmithKline in litigating or otherwise contesting any objections to or proceedings or other actions challenging, the consummation of the Transaction; and/or |
(iv) | assisting to ensure that any proposal or offer made (or intended to be made) by GlaxoSmithKline to a Governmental Entity pursuant to Clause 4.2.4 can also be proposed or offered to a Governmental Entity which examines the transaction pursuant to a Minority Notification. |
4.2.7 | GlaxoSmithKline will, to the extent practicable and subject to Applicable Law: (i) consult with Novartis in advance of participating in any substantive meeting or discussion with any Governmental Entity with respect to any filings, investigation or inquiry concerning the Transaction and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, give Novartis the |
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opportunity to attend and participate in any such meeting or discussion; (ii) discuss with and permit Novartis to review in advance, and consider in good faith Novartis’s reasonable comments in connection with, any proposed filing or communication to any Governmental Entity concerning the Transaction, or relating to any investigation, inquiry or other proceeding in connection with the Transaction; and (iii) furnish Novartis with copies of all written correspondence and communications between GlaxoSmithKline and its Affiliates and their respective representatives on the one hand, and any Governmental Entity or members of their respective staffs on the other hand, with respect to the Transaction. |
4.2.8 | Novartis shall not participate in or permit any of its representatives to participate in any meeting with any Governmental Entity in respect of any filings, investigation, proceeding or other matters relating to the Transaction unless Novartis consults with GlaxoSmithKline in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental Entity, gives GlaxoSmithKline the opportunity to attend and lead the discussions at such meeting. |
4.2.9 | Novartis shall (i) discuss with and permit GlaxoSmithKline to review in advance, and consider in good faith GlaxoSmithKline’s reasonable comments in connection with, any proposed filing or communication to any Governmental Entity concerning the Transaction, or relating to any investigation, inquiry or other proceeding in connection with the Transaction; and (ii) furnish GlaxoSmithKline with copies of all written correspondence and communications between Novartis and its Affiliates and their respective representatives on the one hand, and any Governmental Entity or members of their respective staffs on the other hand, with respect to the Transaction. |
4.2.10 | In respect of any filings or notifications to Governmental Entities that are related solely to Novartis’s non-controlling minority stake in the Purchaser (the “Minority Notifications”), Novartis shall be responsible for all filing fees and other fees and expenses and responsible for obtaining any necessary clearances, approvals, waivers, no action letters, consents or waiting period expirations. |
4.2.11 | Clauses 4.2.5 to 4.2.10 (inclusive) shall not apply in respect of dealings with any Tax Authority in connection with any Tax matter. |
4.2.12 | The party responsible for satisfaction of each condition pursuant to this Clause 4.2 shall give notice to the other parties of the satisfaction of the relevant condition within one Business Day of becoming aware of the same. |
4.2.13 | The Sellers shall cooperate to confirm, within 15 Business Days from signing of this Agreement, any additional merger notification requirements reasonably required or advisable in respect of the Transaction in jurisdictions beyond those listed in Schedule 20, and shall cooperate with each other, in accordance with the other provisions of this Clause 4, in |
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achieving any additional clearances, approvals, waivers, no action letters, consents or waiting period expirations in such jurisdictions. For the avoidance of doubt, Closing shall not be conditional upon such additional clearances, approvals and consents or waiting period expirations. |
4.2.14 | The Sellers shall cooperate, in accordance with the other provisions of this Clause 4, and use reasonable endeavours to ensure that no Governmental Entity shall enact, issue, promulgate, enforce or enter any Applicable Law or Judgment as contemplated under Clause 4.1.5. In the event that any Governmental Entity enacts, issues, promulgates, enforces or enters any Applicable Law or Judgment as contemplated under Clause 4.1.5, the parties shall cooperate and use reasonable endeavours to put in place arrangements that would allow the Transaction to complete to the greatest possible extent in compliance with the relevant Applicable Law or Judgment. |
4.3 | Non-Satisfaction by the Long Stop Date |
If the conditions in Clause 4.1 are not satisfied as of 22 October 2015 (the “Long Stop Date”), any party may, in its sole discretion, terminate this Agreement (other than Clauses 1, 12 and 15.1 to 15.17) and no party shall have any claim against any other under it, save for any claim arising from breach of any obligation contained in such Clauses or Clause 4.2. Neither of the Sellers nor the Purchaser may terminate this Agreement after satisfaction of the conditions in Clause 4.1, except in accordance with this Agreement.
4.4 | Termination |
4.4.1 | This Agreement may be terminated at any time prior to Closing: |
(i) | by written consent of the parties; |
(ii) | by any of the parties by notice to the other parties in the event that any Judgment restraining, enjoining or otherwise prohibiting the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall have become final and non-appealable, provided that the party seeking to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Clause 4.4 has complied with the terms of the Implementation Agreement and this Agreement in connection with having such Judgment vacated or denied; or |
(iii) | by the Purchaser by notice to the Sellers if: |
(a) | a Material Adverse Effect occurs in relation to any Seller prior to Closing (which shall include any breach or breaches of Clause 9.1 which alone or together constitute a Material Adverse Effect); or |
(b) | any Seller fails to provide a Certificate immediately prior to Closing; or |
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(iv) | in accordance with the terms of the Implementation Agreement. |
4.4.2 | This Agreement shall terminate automatically at any time prior to Closing if: |
(i) | any other Target Asset Agreement terminates or is terminated in accordance with its terms; or |
(ii) | the GSK Break Fee or the Novartis Break Fee (each as defined in the Implementation Agreement) becomes payable in accordance with clause 5.1 or clause 5.8, respectively, of the Implementation Agreement. |
4.4.3 | Save as provided in this Clause 4, no party shall be entitled to terminate or rescind this Agreement, whether before or after Closing. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Clause 4.4, this Agreement shall be of no further force and effect and there shall be no further liability under this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements on the part of any party, except that Clauses 1, 12 and 15.1 to 15.17, in each case, to the extent applicable, shall survive any termination. |
4.4.4 | Nothing in this Clause 4.4 shall be deemed to release any party from any liability for any breach by such party of the terms and provisions of this Agreement prior to termination of this Agreement. |
5. | PRE-CLOSING |
5.1 | The Sellers’ Obligations in Relation to the Conduct of Business |
5.1.1 | Each Seller undertakes to procure that between the date of this Agreement and Closing, it and the relevant members of that Seller’s Group shall, so far as permitted by Applicable Law, carry on its Contributed Business as a going concern in the ordinary course as carried on immediately prior to the date of this Agreement save in so far as agreed in writing by the other Seller (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). |
5.1.2 | Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 5.1.1 and subject to Clause 5.2, each Seller undertakes to procure that, with respect to its Contributed Business, between the date of this Agreement and Closing, no member of that Seller’s Group shall, except as may be required to comply with this Agreement, without the prior written consent of the other Seller (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) take any of the actions listed in Part 1 of Schedule 15. |
5.1.3 | Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 5.1.1, each Seller shall, in each case with respect to its Contributed Business only: (i) undertake to procure the satisfaction of its obligations listed in paragraph 1, Part 2 of Schedule 15; and (ii) procure that that Seller’s Group shall, between the date of this Agreement and Closing, comply with the requirements of paragraph 2, Part 2 of Schedule 15. |
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5.2 | Exceptions to Sellers’ Obligations in Relation to the Conduct of Business |
Clause 5.1 shall not operate so as to prevent or restrict:
5.2.1 | the disposal or transfer by one or more members of Novartis’s Group of any or all or part of the Novartis US NRT Business in accordance with Schedule 6; |
5.2.2 | any US RX Product Disposal in accordance with Schedule 6; |
5.2.3 | the entry by Novartis or its Target Group Companies into any arm’s length transitional arrangements, contracts or agreements (including any transitional services agreement, manufacturing and supply agreement, distribution or other similar agreement) in relation to the disposal to a third party purchaser of any of its Seller’s Retained Business (including its Novartis Animal Health Business, and/or any of the Novartis US RX Products) with such a purchaser, any other member of the Seller’s Group that owns, or any successor in title to, any part of the Seller’s Retained Business being disposed of, provided that: |
(i) | prior to entering into any such transitional arrangements, contracts or agreements, Novartis shall: (a) provide GlaxoSmithKline with a copy of the substantially final draft of the written agreement(s) in relation to the same; (b) give GlaxoSmithKline a reasonable period of time to review the terms of such arrangements, contracts or agreements and provide any comments thereon; and (c) take into account (acting reasonably and in good faith) any reasonable (in the context of, to the extent applicable, the terms of the term sheet agreed between Novartis and the purchaser of the Novartis Animal Health Business upon entry into the sale agreement in respect of the Novartis Animal Health Business (the “Animal Health Term Sheet”) and the services to be provided thereunder) comments of GlaxoSmithKline in relation to such transitional arrangements, contracts or agreements provided within that period of time; |
(ii) | without prejudice to the above and other than in relation to any manufacturing and supply agreement or any arrangements to which Clause 5.2.3(iii) below applies, any such transitional arrangement, contract or agreement terminates or is terminable by the relevant Target Group Company or the Business Seller (as the case may be) without any costs, losses, liabilities, expenses or penalties being incurred or payable within a period of 12 months following closing of the relevant transaction; and |
(iii) | the transitional services to be provided to the Novartis Animal Health Business pursuant to the terms of the Animal Health Term Sheet shall not be required to be provided by the relevant Target Group Company or the Business Seller (as the case may be) for any longer term than the relevant service period as set out in the Animal Health Term Sheet |
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and, in any event, not more than 24 months following the closing of the sale and purchase of the Novartis Animal Health Business (subject to any extension that may be agreed by the relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group and the counterparty thereto); |
5.2.4 | the disposal or transfer by a Seller of any Seller’s Retained Business; |
5.2.5 | any matter undertaken by any member of the relevant Seller’s Group to facilitate or implement a Reorganisation in accordance with Clause 2.3.5; |
5.2.6 | any action to the extent it is required to be undertaken to comply with Applicable Law; |
5.2.7 | any matter reasonably undertaken by any member of the relevant Seller’s Group in an emergency or disaster situation with the intention of minimising any adverse effect of such situation in relation to that Seller’s Group and where any delay arising by virtue of having to give notice to the other Seller and await consent would materially prejudice that Seller’s Group; or |
5.2.8 | Third Party Indebtedness entered into by the relevant member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group for the purpose of funding the acquisition by the relevant member of Purchaser’s Group of the Contributed Business in Indonesia, |
provided that the relevant Seller shall, other than in respect of any action taken or proposed to be taken as described in Clause 5.2.5 (to which the provisions of Clause 2.3.5 and Schedule 17 (Reorganisations) shall apply), notify the other Seller as soon as reasonably practicable of any action taken or proposed to be taken as described in this Clause 5.2, shall provide to the other Seller all such information as the other Seller may reasonably request in respect of any such action and shall use reasonable endeavours to consult with the Purchaser in respect of any such action.
5.3 | The Sellers’ Obligations in relation to Cash, Intra-Group Payables and Receivables and Third Party Indebtedness |
5.3.1 | Prior to Closing, each Seller shall seek to minimise the amounts which would, but for this Clause 5.3, otherwise fall to be treated as its: |
(i) | Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables; |
(ii) | Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables; |
(iii) | Target Group Companies Cash Balances; and |
(iv) | Third Party Indebtedness, |
in each case: (i) including any such items which arise in connection with any Reorganisation; and (ii) to the extent reasonably possible, taking into account the consequences of any such reduction for the Seller’s Group. In addition,
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each Seller shall use reasonable endeavours to minimise any adjustment payable by it in accordance with Clause 7.3.7.
5.3.2 | Prior to Closing, GlaxoSmithKline shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that all of its existing Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables shall become owed by its Target Group Companies directly to JV Treasury Co (such that they shall not be Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables) and that, in respect of GlaxoSmithKline, the only Intra-Group Non-Trade Payable shall be the GSK JV Funding Loan. |
5.4 | Other Sellers’ Obligations Prior to Closing |
5.4.1 | Prior to Closing each Seller shall, and shall procure that its Target Group Companies and that Seller’s Affiliates shall, allow the other Seller and its respective agents, upon reasonable notice, reasonable access to, and to take copies of, the books, records and documents of or relating in whole or in part to its Target Group, provided that the obligations of each Seller under this Clause shall not extend to allowing access to information which is (i) reasonably regarded as confidential to the activities of that Seller and that Seller’s Group otherwise than in relation to its Target Group or (ii) commercially sensitive or other information of its Target Group if such information cannot be shared with the other Seller prior to Closing in compliance with Applicable Law (though the Seller sharing the books, records and/or documents shall seek to share such information with the other Seller to the extent and in such a manner as would comply with Applicable Law). |
5.4.2 | The parties shall comply with their respective obligations under Schedule 6. |
5.5 | Affiliate Contracts |
Other than as provided in and without prejudice to the provisions of the Ancillary Agreements, each Seller and the Purchaser shall procure that:
5.5.1 | the Cash Pooling Arrangements excluding the GSK Finance Cash Balances; and |
5.5.2 | each Affiliate Contract in force immediately prior to Closing, |
shall terminate prior to Closing and each counterparty thereto shall, effective as of Closing, settle all outstanding financial obligations arising out of any such Affiliate Contract and unconditionally release and irrevocably discharge each other party thereto from (i) any and all further obligations to perform or any further performance of the various covenants, undertakings, warranties and other obligations contained in such Affiliate Contract and (ii) any and all claims and Liabilities whatsoever arising out of, in any way connected with, as a result of or in respect of such Affiliate Contract.
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5.6 | Tax Groups |
5.6.1 | Each Seller shall take all reasonable steps to procure that any Tax Group existing between any member of that Seller’s Group and any GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Company or the Novartis OTC Group Company (as the case may be) is terminated on or before Closing, so far as permitted by Applicable Law, or otherwise on the earliest date on which such termination is permitted under Applicable Law, and that Seller and the Purchaser shall take such action as is necessary to procure or effect this, including timely submitting any necessary Tax documents. |
5.6.2 | Pending the taking effect of the action referred to in Clause 5.6.1, and for so long thereafter as may be necessary, the Purchaser shall (subject to the provisions of the Tax Indemnity) procure that such information is provided to each Seller as may reasonably be required to enable any relevant member of that Seller’s Group to make all Tax Returns and other filings required of it in respect of the Tax Group. |
5.6.3 | Each Seller shall take, and shall procure that each member of that Seller’s Group takes, all reasonable procedural or administrative steps (including the making of elections and filings with any relevant Tax Authority) which are reasonably necessary to procure the minimisation of the extent to which Tax liabilities of members of that Seller’s Group (other than the GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Companies or Novartis OTC Group Companies (as the case may be)) can be assessed on the Purchaser or members of the Purchaser’s Group or on the relevant Target Group Companies by reason of having been members of a Tax Group. |
5.7 | US tax classification |
Between the date of this Agreement and Closing, the Purchaser shall not file any election to be treated as a partnership or disregarded entity for US federal income tax purposes.
5.8 | Insurance |
Without prejudice to the generality of this Clause 5, between the date of this Agreement and Closing or, in the case of Delayed Target Group Companies, Delayed Closing, each Seller shall and shall procure that the relevant member of that Seller’s Group shall maintain in force all its Target Group Insurance Policies and all Seller’s Group Insurance Policies for the benefit of its Target Group.
6. | CLOSING |
6.1 | Date and Place |
Save where otherwise provided in this Agreement (including in Parts 7 to 14 (inclusive) of Schedule 6 (Shared Business Contracts, Transferred Contracts and Certain Other Businesses), Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses) and Clause 2.6 (Alliance Market
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Businesses)), Closing shall take place simultaneously with closing under the other Target Asset Agreements at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Xxxxxxxx LLP, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX0X 0XX (other than in respect of any Local Transfer Documents agreed between the parties to be executed in another jurisdiction) on the last Business Day of the month in which fulfilment of the condition(s) set out in Clause 4.1 takes place, except that:
6.1.1 | where the last day of such month is not a Business Day, the Closing shall instead take place on the first Business Day of the following month; and |
6.1.2 | where less than five Business Days remain between such fulfilment and the last Business Day of the month, Closing shall take place: |
(i) | on the last Business Day of the following month; |
(ii) | where the last day of such month is not a Business Day, the Closing shall instead take place on the first Business Day of the month following the month referred to in Clause 6.1.2(i); or |
(iii) | at such other location, time or date as may be agreed between the Sellers, |
provided that:
(a) | Closing shall not take place and shall not be effective in any circumstances unless closing also takes place simultaneously under and in accordance with the terms of the other Target Asset Agreements; and |
(b) | in determining the date on which the last of the conditions set out in Clause 4.1 is fulfilled or waived, the date shall be the date on which the last of the conditions set out in Clauses 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.6, 4.1.7, and 4.1.8 is fulfilled or waived unless the condition set out in Clauses 4.1.5 is not fulfilled or waived on that date, in which case the date shall then be the first following date on which the condition set out in Clauses 4.1.5 is fulfilled or waived. |
6.2 | Closing Events |
6.2.1 | On Closing, the parties shall comply with their respective obligations specified in Schedule 11. GlaxoSmithKline may waive some or all of the obligations of Novartis and/or of the Purchaser insofar as they relate to GlaxoSmithKline or its Affiliates as set out in Schedule 11 and Novartis may waive some or all of the obligations of GlaxoSmithKline and/or the Purchaser insofar as they relate to Novartis or its Affiliates as set out in Schedule 11. |
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6.2.2 | The parties acknowledge that the transfer of Product Approvals and Product Applications in respect of Target Group Businesses to the Purchaser or other members of the Purchaser’s Group may be subject to the approval of applicable Governmental Entities, and that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, each Product Approval and Product Application in respect of a Target Group Business shall continue to be held by the relevant member of the relevant Seller’s Group from the Closing Date until the relevant PA Transfer Date. |
6.2.3 | The parties shall perform their respective obligations with respect to: |
(i) | the transfer of the Product Approvals, Product Applications and Pipeline Product Approvals as set out in Schedule 4; |
(ii) | the transfer of Contracts (other than Product Approvals, Product Applications and Pipeline Product Approvals) and the Transferred Intellectual Property Contracts as set out in Schedule 6; |
(iii) | to the extent the Purchaser has elected to have the Relevant Part of a Shared Business Contract transferred to it, the separation and treatment of each Shared Business Contract as set out in Schedule 6; |
(iv) | the Chinese JV Interests and the Chinese JV Contracts, the Novartis US NRT Business as set out in Schedule 6; |
(v) | Novartis Consumer Health-Gebro GmbH, if Novartis does not hold its Shares in Novartis Consumer Health-Gebro GmbH through a Novartis Group Company at Closing, as set out in Schedule 6; |
(vi) | Delayed Businesses as set out in Schedule 22 (Delayed Businesses); |
(vii) | Alliance Market Businesses as set out in 2.6 (Alliance Market Businesses). |
6.3 | Payment on Closing |
6.3.1 | On Closing the Purchaser shall pay (for itself and on behalf of each relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group) to a Seller (if such amount is positive) or that Seller (for itself and on behalf of each other relevant member of that Seller’s Group) shall pay to the Purchaser (if such amount is negative), in each case, in accordance with Clause 15.7, an amount in cleared funds, to that Seller or the Purchaser (as the case may be) to that Seller’s Bank Account or the Purchaser’s Bank Account (as the case may be), which is equal to the sum of the following, in respect of that Seller: |
(i) | the Estimated Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances and the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables; |
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(ii) | the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness; |
minus
(iii) | the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables; |
minus
(iv) | any Estimated Employee Benefit Adjustment; |
minus
(v) | the Estimated Tax Adjustment; and |
plus (if it is zero or a positive amount) or minus (if it is a negative amount)
(vi) | the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment. |
6.3.2 | The amounts payable in accordance with Clause 6.3.1 shall, in each case, include all such amounts payable in respect of the Delayed Businesses and the Alliance Market Businesses. |
6.3.3 | On Closing each Seller shall pay to the Purchaser an amount equal to its Cash Portion in cleared funds to the Purchaser’s Bank Account. In the event that the amount set out in Clause 6.3.1 is a positive amount in respect of any Seller, that Seller and the Purchaser may (but shall not be obliged to) agree to net off any or all of the amount owed by the Purchaser to that Seller under Clause 6.3.1 against any or all of the Cash Portion owned by that Seller to the Purchaser under this Clause 6.3.2. The parties’ current intention is that the Cash Portion will be used to fund the short-term working capital requirements of the Purchaser’s Group. |
6.4 | Notifications to determine payments on Closing |
6.4.1 | Five Business Days prior to Closing, each Seller shall notify the Purchaser of: |
(i) | the Estimated Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances; |
(ii) | the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness; |
(iii) | the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables; |
(iv) | the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables; |
(v) | any Estimated Employee Benefit Adjustment; |
(vi) | the Estimated Tax Adjustment; |
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(vii) | the Estimated Working Capital; |
(viii) | the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment; and |
(ix) | the Estimated Intra-Group Trading Balances, |
and shall at the same time provide to the Purchaser reasonable supporting calculations and information to enable the Purchaser to review the basis on which the estimates have been prepared. Each Seller shall also provide the Purchaser with reasonable details (including the relevant debtor and creditor) in relation to the Intra-Group Trading Balances.
6.4.2 | Each Seller’s notification pursuant to Clause 6.4.1 shall specify the relevant debtor and creditor for each Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payable, Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivable, Estimated Intra-Group Trade Payable, Estimated Intra-Group Trade Receivable, and Estimated Transferred Accounts Payable or Estimated Transferred Accounts Receivable included within the Estimated Intra-Group Trading Balances. |
6.4.3 | Immediately following Closing: |
(i) | the Purchaser shall procure that each Target Group Company repays to the relevant member of each Seller’s Group the amount of any Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables and shall acknowledge on behalf of each Target Group Company the payment of the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables in accordance with Clause 6.4.3(ii); and |
(ii) | each Seller shall procure that each relevant member of that Seller’s Group repays to the relevant Target Group Company the amount of any relevant Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables and shall acknowledge on behalf of each relevant member of that Seller’s Group the payment of the relevant Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables in accordance with Clause 6.4.3(i). |
6.4.4 | The repayments made pursuant to Clause 6.4.3 shall be adjusted in accordance with Clauses 7.3 and 7.4 when the Closing Statement becomes final and binding in accordance with Clause 7.2.1. |
6.5 | Local Payments |
Local payments to be funded on Closing
6.5.1 | On or before Closing each Seller shall contribute to the Purchaser the aggregate of the amounts set out against its name in column 4 of the table in Part A of Schedule 24 (each a “Local Payment Amount”) in cleared funds to the Purchaser’s Bank Account in exchange for the allotment and issue to the relevant Seller of A Shares or B Shares, as applicable. |
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6.5.2 | The Purchaser shall procure that each member of the Purchaser’s Group (or, in the case of Novartis Alliance Market Businesses, the Purchaser and GlaxoSmithKline shall procure that the relevant member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group) set out in column 2 of the table in Part A of Schedule 24 shall pay to the relevant member of the relevant Seller’s Group set out in column 3 an amount equal to the relevant Local Payment Amount converted into the relevant local currency set out in the relevant Local Transfer Document as at the Closing Date, on: |
(i) | the date falling 7 days after the Closing Date; or |
(ii) | if this is not possible, the date falling 14 days after the Closing Date; or |
(iii) | if this is not possible, the date falling 21 days after the Closing Date, or |
(iv) | if this is not possible, the date falling 28 days after the Closing Date, or |
provided that, in any event, all such payments shall be made by no later than the date falling 28 days (or, in the case of the local payments in respect of South Africa, 42 days) after the Closing Date.
Local payments to be funded post-Closing
6.5.3 | In respect of each Delayed Business, within 20 Business Days of satisfaction of the relevant Delay Milestone (or on such other date as the Sellers may agree), the relevant Seller shall pay to the Purchaser the amounts set out in column 4 of the table in Part B of Schedule 24 in respect of that Delayed Business (or such alternative amount as may be agreed between the parties) or, where no amount is set out in column 4 of the table in Part B of Schedule 24, such amount as may be agreed between the parties on a basis consistent with the calculation of equivalent amounts (each a “Delayed Local Payment Amount”). |
6.5.4 | The Purchaser shall procure that each member of the Purchaser’s Group set out in column 3 of the table in Part B of Schedule 24 shall pay to the relevant member of the relevant Seller’s Group set out in column 2 an amount equal to the relevant Delayed Local Payment Amount converted into the relevant currency as set out in the relevant Local Transfer Document at the date on which the Seller pays the Purchaser the relevant Delayed Local Payment Amount pursuant to paragraph 6.5.3 above (the “Delayed Payment Date”), as soon as reasonably practicable following the Delayed Payment Date and, in any event, within 10 Business Days following the Delayed Payment Date, in accordance with the terms of the relevant Local Transfer Document. |
Australia
6.5.5 | The Purchaser shall procure that in accordance with the terms of the Local Transfer Document entered into between GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty |
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Ltd. (the “Australian Seller”) and GSK Cx Healthcare Pty Ltd (the “Australian Purchaser”) (the “Australia LTA”), as soon as reasonably practicable after the date on which the Deferred Sale (as defined in the Australian LTA) completes and, in any event, within 28 days, the Australian Purchaser shall pay the Deferred Transferring Assets Consideration (as defined in the Australian LTA) to the Australian Seller (the “Australian Delayed Payment”). |
6.5.6 | As soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by the Australian Seller of the Australian Delayed Payment, the Seller shall pay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the amount of the Australian Delayed Payment, converted into US Dollars calculated on the basis of the Euro foreign exchange reference rate for (i) a transaction between Australian Dollars and Euros; and (ii) between Euros and Pounds Sterling, in each case quoted by the European Central Bank on the date on which the Australian Purchaser pays the Australian Seller the Australian Delayed Payment. |
Panama
6.5.1 | The Purchaser shall procure that in accordance with the terms of the Local Transfer Document entered into between Novartis Pharma (Logistics), Inc. (the “Panama Seller”) and GlaxoSmithKline Panama S.A. (the “Panama Purchaser”) (the “Panama LTA”), as soon as reasonably practicable after Closing and, in any event, within 28 days, the Panama Purchaser shall pay to the Panama Seller [***]. |
6.5.2 | As soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by the Panama Seller of the Panama Local Payment, the Seller shall pay to the Purchaser [***]. |
China
6.5.3 | As soon as reasonably practicable following Closing, the parties shall (acting reasonably) agree the structure and funding requirements for the local payment in respect of the Delayed Businesses in China, taking into account the Tax implications of such funding, which shall, as far as reasonably practicable, be consistent with the provisions of the rest of this Clause 6.5, including that the Delayed Local Payment Amount shall be converted into local currency on the Delayed Local Payment Date. |
6.5.4 | Clause 3.4 shall apply to payments under this Clause 6.5 as if such payments were made or procured in respect of an indemnity under this Agreement. |
JV Treasury Co
6.5.5 | GlaxoSmithKline warrants to the Purchaser, as at the Closing Date, that JV Treasury Co is a member of the Purchaser’s Group. |
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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6.6 | Breach of Closing Obligations |
Subject to Clause 6.2.1, if any party fails to comply with any material obligation in Clauses 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4, and Schedule 11 in relation to Closing, GlaxoSmithKline, in the case of non-compliance by Novartis, or Novartis, in the case of non-compliance by GlaxoSmithKline or the Purchaser, shall be entitled (in addition to and without prejudice to all other rights or remedies available) by written notice to Novartis or GlaxoSmithKline (as the case may be) to fix a new date for Closing (which, except as agreed by the parties, shall be the last day of the month next ending or, if that day is not a Business Day, the first Business Day falling after that day) in which case the provisions of Schedule 11 shall apply to Closing as so deferred, but provided such deferral may only occur once. In all circumstances Closing shall only occur simultaneously with closing under the other Target Asset Agreements.
7. | POST-CLOSING ADJUSTMENTS |
7.1 | Closing Statements |
7.1.1 | Each Seller shall procure that as soon as practicable following Closing there shall be drawn up a draft of its Closing Statement (the “Draft Closing Statement”) in accordance with Schedule 12 in relation to its Target Group, on a combined basis. |
7.1.2 | The Closing Statements shall be drawn up as at the Effective Time and shall in each case include the Delayed Businesses and the Alliance Market Businesses which, for the purposes of this Clause 7 shall be deemed to have transferred to the Purchaser with effect from the Effective Time. |
7.2 | Determination of Closing Statement |
7.2.1 | Any Draft Closing Statement as agreed or determined pursuant to paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12: |
(i) | shall constitute the Closing Statement as between the relevant Seller and the Purchaser for the purposes of this Agreement; and |
(ii) | shall be final and binding on that Seller and the Purchaser. |
7.2.2 | The Working Capital, the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances, the Third Party Indebtedness, the Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables, the Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables, the Employee Benefit Adjustment and the Tax Adjustment in respect of a Seller shall each be derived from its Closing Statement. |
7.3 | Adjustments to Consideration |
7.3.1 | Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances: |
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(i) | in respect of each Seller, if the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances are less than the Estimated Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances, that Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(ii) | in respect of each Seller, if the Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances are greater than the Estimated Target Group Companies’ Cash Balances, the Purchaser shall pay to that Seller an additional amount equal to the excess. |
7.3.2 | Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables: |
(i) | in respect of each Seller, if the Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables are less than the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables, that Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(ii) | in respect of each Seller, if the Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables are greater than the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables, the Purchaser shall pay to that Seller an additional amount equal to the excess. |
7.3.3 | Third Party Indebtedness: |
(i) | in respect of each Seller, if the Third Party Indebtedness is less than the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness, the Purchaser shall repay to that Seller an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(ii) | in respect of each Seller, if the Third Party Indebtedness is greater than the Estimated Third Party Indebtedness, that Seller shall pay to the Purchaser an additional amount equal to the excess. |
7.3.4 | Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables: |
(i) | in respect of each Seller, if the Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables are greater than the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables, that Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the excess; or |
(ii) | in respect of each Seller, if the Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables are less than the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables, the Purchaser shall pay to that Seller an additional amount equal to the deficiency. |
7.3.5 | Tax Adjustment |
(i) | in respect of each Seller, if the Tax Adjustment is greater than the Estimated Tax Adjustment, that Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the difference; or |
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(ii) | in respect of each Seller, if the Tax Adjustment is less than the Estimated Tax Adjustment, the Purchaser shall pay to that Seller an additional amount equal to the difference. |
7.3.6 | Working Capital: |
(i) | in respect of each Seller, if the Working Capital Adjustment is less than the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment, that Seller shall repay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the deficiency; or |
(ii) | in respect of each Seller, if the Working Capital Adjustment exceeds the Estimated Working Capital Adjustment, the Purchaser shall pay to that Seller an additional amount equal to the excess. |
7.3.7 | Intra-Group Trading Balances: in respect of each Seller, if the amount of that Seller’s Intra-Group Trading Balances is greater than US$20,000,000, that Seller shall pay to the Purchaser the amount of the excess. |
7.4 | Adjustments to repayment of Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables and Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables |
Following the determination of any Closing Statement pursuant to Clause 7.2 and paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12, if the amount of any Intra-Group Non-Trade Payable and/or any Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivable contained in that Closing Statement is greater or less than the amount of the corresponding Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payable or Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivable, then the relevant Seller and the Purchaser shall procure that such adjustments to the repayments pursuant to Clause 6.4.3 are made as are necessary to ensure that (taking into account such adjustments) the actual amount of each Intra-Group Non-Trade Payable and each Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivable has been repaid by each Target Group Company to the relevant member of that Seller’s Group or by the relevant member of that Seller’s Group to the relevant Target Group Company, as the case may be.
7.5 | Interest |
Any payment to be made in accordance with Clause 7.3 shall include interest thereon calculated from the Effective Time to the date of payment at a rate per annum of LIBOR.
7.6 | Payment |
7.6.1 | Any payments pursuant to Clause 7.3 or 7.4, and any interest payable pursuant to Clause 7.5, shall be made on or before the Final Payment Date. |
7.6.2 | Where any payment is required to be made pursuant to Clause 7.3 or Clause 7.5 (in relation to a payment pursuant to Clause 7.3) the payment made pursuant to clause 3.1.3 on account of the Purchase Consideration shall be reduced or increased accordingly. |
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8. | POST-CLOSING OBLIGATIONS |
8.1 | Indemnities |
8.1.1 | Indemnity by Purchaser against Assumed Liabilities |
The Purchaser hereby undertakes to each Seller (for itself and on behalf of each other member of such Seller’s Group (excluding any Delayed Target Group Companies) and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents) that, with effect from Closing, the Purchaser will indemnify on demand and hold harmless each member of that Seller’s Group (excluding any Delayed Target Group Companies) and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents against and in respect of any and all Assumed Liabilities.
8.1.2 | Indemnity by Sellers |
Subject to Clause 8.1.3, each Seller hereby undertakes to the Purchaser (for itself and on behalf of each other member of the Purchaser’s Group (including any Delayed Target Group Companies) and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents) that, with effect from Closing, such Seller will indemnify on demand and hold harmless each member of the Purchaser’s Group (including any Delayed Target Group Companies) and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents against and in respect of any and all:
(i) | Excluded Liabilities; and |
(ii) | Liabilities, including legal fees, to the extent they have arisen or arise (whether before or after Closing) as a result of or otherwise relate to any act, omission, fact, matter, circumstance or event undertaken, occurring or in existence or arising before Closing so far as related to: (a) any anti-bribery warranty set out in this Agreement, including without limitation those set forth in paragraph 10 of Schedule 13, not being true and correct when made; (b) any governmental inquiries or investigations involving that Seller, its Affiliates or its Associated Persons; (c) save to the extent in existence as at the date of this Agreement, any limitation, restriction or other reduction in drug registrations, regulatory licenses, listings or market approvals, governmental pricing or reimbursement rates relating to any products of the relevant Seller’s Contributed Business and affecting their future profits as a result of any such limitation, restriction or reduction; or (d) any other claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding to the extent related to any of the foregoing (a) to (c), including but not limited to costs of investigation and defence and legal fees. |
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8.1.3 | Limitations on Indemnities |
Subject to Clause 8.1.4, no Seller shall be liable under Clause 8.1.2 in respect of:
(i) | any Time-Limited Excluded Liability unless a notice of a claim in respect of the matter giving rise to such Liability is given by the Purchaser to that Seller within ten years of Closing, provided that this Clause 8.1.3(i) shall not apply in respect of any claim by the Purchaser which relates to: |
(a) | a Product Liability; |
(b) | a Governmental Liability; |
(c) | a Clinical Trials/Data Liability; or |
(d) | an Excluded Asset; |
(ii) | any claim if and to the extent that the relevant Liability is included in the Closing Statement; or |
(iii) | any individual claim (or a series of claims arising from similar or identical facts or circumstances) where the Liability (disregarding the provisions of this Clause 8.1.3(iii)) in respect of any such claim or series of claims does not exceed US$10 million, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, where the Liability in respect of any such claim or series of claims exceeds US$10 million, the Liability of such Seller shall be for the whole amount of such claim(s) and not just the excess. |
8.1.4 | Disapplication of limitations |
(i) | None of the limitations contained in Clause 8.1.3 shall apply to any claim to the extent that such claim arises or is increased as the consequence of, or which is delayed as a result of, fraud by any member of the relevant Seller’s Group or any director, officer or employee of any member of the relevant Seller’s Group. |
(ii) | The limitation contained in Clause 8.1.3(iii) shall not apply to any claim which relates to any Liabilities of GlaxoSmithKline Landholding Company, Inc. in relation to any premises used by the GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical Division, including the sale of any such premises. |
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8.2 | Conduct of Claims |
8.2.1 | Assumed Liabilities |
(i) | If the Seller becomes aware after Closing of any claim by a third party which constitutes or may constitute an Assumed Liability, the Seller shall as soon as reasonably practicable: |
(a) | give written notice thereof to the Purchaser and the other Seller setting out such information as is available to the Seller as is reasonably necessary to enable the Purchaser and the other Seller to assess the merits of the potential claim; |
(b) | take all appropriate actions to preserve evidence; and |
(c) | provide the Purchaser and the other Seller with periodic updates on the status of the claim upon request and shall not admit, compromise, settle, discharge or otherwise deal with such claim without the prior written agreement of the Purchaser and the other Seller (such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). |
(ii) | Each Seller shall, and shall procure that each of its Share Sellers and Business Sellers shall, take such action as the Purchaser may reasonably request to avoid, dispute, resist, appeal, compromise, defend or mitigate any claim which constitutes or may constitute an Assumed Liability subject to that Seller and each of its Share Sellers and Business Sellers being indemnified and secured to their reasonable satisfaction by the Purchaser against all Liabilities which may thereby be incurred. In connection therewith, that Seller shall make or procure to be made available to the Purchaser or its duly authorised agents on reasonable notice during normal business hours all relevant books of account, records and correspondence relating to its Target Group Businesses which have been retained by that Seller’s Group (and shall permit the Purchaser to take copies thereof at its expense) for the purposes of enabling the Purchaser to ascertain or extract any information relevant to the claim. |
8.2.2 | Liabilities Indemnified by a Seller |
(i) | If the Purchaser becomes aware after Closing of any claim by a third party which constitutes or may constitute an a Liability covered by Clause 8.1.2 or relates to a Liability or any investigations related thereto, regardless of whether the Purchaser believes that such claim would be made against a member of the Purchaser’s Group or a member of a Seller’s Group, the Purchaser shall as soon as reasonably practicable: |
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(a) | give written notice thereof to the relevant Seller, setting out such information as is available to the Purchaser as is reasonably necessary to enable that Seller to assess the merits of the potential claim; |
(b) | take all appropriate actions to preserve evidence; and |
(c) | provide the relevant Seller with periodic updates on the status upon request and shall not admit, compromise, settle, discharge or otherwise deal with such claim without the prior written agreement of that Seller (such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). |
(ii) | The Purchaser shall take such action as the relevant Seller may reasonably request to avoid, dispute, resist, appeal, compromise, defend or mitigate any claim which constitutes or may constitute a Liability covered by Clause 8.1.2 subject to the Purchaser being indemnified and secured to its reasonable satisfaction by the relevant Seller against all Liabilities which may thereby be incurred by it or any member of the Purchaser’s Group (including for this purpose any Delayed Target Group Companies). |
(iii) | In addition, where any such claim or investigation involves a Governmental Entity, the Purchaser shall, subject to Applicable Law, the requirements of any relevant Governmental Entity and the relevant Seller providing an appropriate confidentiality undertaking in favour of the Purchaser’s Group, provide to that Seller, at least five Business Days in advance (or, where not possible, as soon as reasonably possible), any analyses, appearances, presentations, memoranda, briefs, arguments, opinions and proposals they or their agents make or submit to a Governmental Entity. Without limiting the foregoing, the parties agree, subject to Applicable Law and the requirements of the relevant Governmental Entity and the Seller providing an appropriate confidentiality undertaking in favour of the Purchaser’s Group to: |
(a) | give that Seller reasonable advance notice of all meetings with any Governmental Entity; |
(b) | give that Seller an opportunity to participate in each of such meetings; |
(c) | to the extent practicable, give that Seller reasonable advance notice of all substantive oral communications with any Governmental Entity; |
(d) | if any Governmental Entity initiates a substantive oral communication, promptly notify that Seller of the substance of such communication; |
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(e) | provide that Seller with a reasonable advance opportunity to review and comment upon all substantive written communications (including any substantive correspondence, analyses, presentations, memoranda, briefs, arguments, opinions and proposals) that the Purchaser or its agents intend to make or submit to a Governmental Entity in connection with such claim; |
(f) | provide that Seller with copies of all substantive written communications to or from any Governmental Entity; and |
(g) | not advance arguments with the Governmental Entity without prior agreement of that Seller that would reasonably be likely to have a significant adverse impact on the Seller, |
provided however, that the Purchaser shall not be required to comply with paragraph (b) above to the extent that the Governmental Entity objects to the participation of a party, or with paragraph (e) or (f) above to the extent that such disclosure may raise regulatory concerns (in which case, the disclosure may be made on an outside counsel basis). |
(iv) | Other than in respect of any claim to the extent it relates to an IP Liability, a Commercial Practices Liability, or a Governmental Liability (other than in respect of any Liability arising solely by virtue of a breach of Contract with any Governmental Entity which breach does not also constitute a breach of Applicable Law), the relevant Seller shall be entitled at its own expense and in its absolute discretion, by notice in writing to the Purchaser, to take such action as it shall deem necessary to avoid, dispute, deny, defend, resist, appeal, compromise or contest any such claim (including making counterclaims or other claims against third parties) in the name of and on behalf of the Purchaser or other member of the Purchaser’s Group concerned and to have the conduct of any related proceedings, negotiations or appeals. In taking action on behalf of any member of the Purchaser’s Group as permitted by this Clause 8.2, the relevant Seller shall, in good faith, take into account and have due regard to any reputational matters or issues arising out of the claim for any member of the Purchaser’s Group or any of their respective directors, officers, employees or agents which are brought to its attention by the Purchaser or a member of the Purchaser’s Group. |
(v) | The Purchaser shall make or procure to be made available to the relevant Seller or its duly authorised agents on reasonable notice during normal business hours full and free access to all relevant books of account, records and correspondence relating to its Target Group which are in the possession or control of the Purchaser or any member of the Purchaser’s Group (and shall permit the relevant Seller to take copies thereof) for the purposes of enabling that Seller to ascertain or extract any information relevant to the claim. |
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(vi) | The Purchaser shall, and shall procure that each other member of the Purchaser’s Group shall, on reasonable notice from the relevant Seller, give such assistance to that Seller as it may reasonably require in relation to the claim including providing the relevant Seller or any member of that Seller’s Group and its representative and advisers with access to and assistance from directors, officers, managers, employees, advisers, agents or consultants of the Purchaser and/or of each other member of the Purchaser’s Group (including, to the extent it has the power to do so, any Delayed Target Group Company) (collectively, the “Relevant Persons”) and the Purchaser will use its reasonable endeavours to procure that such Relevant Persons comply with any reasonable requests from that Seller and generally co-operate with and assist that Seller and other members of that Seller’s Group. |
(vii) | When seeking assistance under Clauses 8.2.2(v) and 8.2.2(vi), the relevant Seller, or any other relevant member of that Seller’s Group, shall use reasonable endeavours to minimise interference with the Purchaser and the Purchaser’s Group’s conduct of the relevant business or the performance by the Relevant Persons of their employment duties. |
8.3 | Release of Guarantees |
8.3.1 | The Purchaser shall use reasonable endeavours to procure as soon as reasonably practicable after Closing, the release of each Seller or any member of that Seller’s Group from any securities, guarantees or indemnities given by or binding upon that Seller or any member of that Seller’s Group in respect of any Assumed Liabilities or in connection with a liability of any of the relevant Target Group Companies (other than an Excluded Liability). Pending such release, the Purchaser shall indemnify that Seller and any member of that Seller’s Group against all amounts paid by any of them (acting reasonably) pursuant to any such securities, guarantees or indemnities in respect of such Assumed Liabilities or such liability of the relevant Target Group Companies (other than an Excluded Liability). |
8.3.2 | Each Seller shall use reasonable endeavours to procure by Closing or, to the extent not done by Closing, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, the release of its Target Group Companies from any securities, guarantees or indemnities given by or binding upon those Target Group Companies in respect of any liability of that Seller or any member of that Seller’s Group (other than those Target Group Companies). Pending such release, that Seller shall pay to the Purchaser an amount equal to the sum that would have been payable to the Target Group Companies had that Seller indemnified the relevant Target Group Companies against all amounts paid by any of them (acting reasonably) pursuant to any such securities, guarantees or indemnities in respect of such liability of that Seller which arises after Closing. |
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8.4 | Transferred Accounts Payable |
If at any time after Closing, a Seller or any of its Affiliates (but, in relation to any Delayed Business, only with effect from the relevant Delayed Closing Date) pays any monies in respect of any Transferred Accounts Payable, then the Purchaser shall pay or procure payment to that Seller (for the relevant Business Seller), as soon as reasonably practicable the amount paid, plus any Taxation suffered or incurred by that Seller’s Group which would not have arisen but for the payment and receipt of such monies.
8.5 | Transferred Accounts Receivable |
If at any time after Closing, a Business Seller receives any monies in respect of any Transferred Accounts Receivables, then that Business Seller shall pay or procure payment to the Purchaser, as soon as reasonably practicable the amount recovered, less any Taxation suffered or incurred by the relevant Seller’s Group which would not have arisen but for the receipt and payment of such monies.
8.6 | Payables and Receivables Plan |
8.6.1 | Without prejudice to the provisions of Clauses 8.4 and 8.5, the parties shall cooperate in good faith to agree, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Closing Date and in any event within one month of the Closing Date, a written plan in respect of each Market detailing: (i) the process for the collection of Transferred Accounts Receivables by each Seller (or its Affiliates) and the process and periodic timing of payment of monies received in respect of Transferred Accounts Receivable to the Purchaser; and (ii) the process for the settlement of Transferred Accounts Payable by each Seller (or its Affiliates) and the payment of monies by the Purchaser to the relevant Seller in respect thereof (together, the “Payables and Receivables Plan”). In agreeing the Payables and Receivables Plan, the parties shall take into account the comments of the parties’ respective accounting and tax teams. |
8.6.2 | If the parties fail to agree the Payables and Receivables Plan by the date specified in Clause 8.6.1, the matter shall be referred to and discussed by the Purchaser’s and relevant Seller’s chief financial officers who shall aim to resolve the matter within 10 Business Days. |
8.7 | Intra-Group Trading Balances |
Any Intra-Group Trade Payables, any Intra-Group Trade Receivables and any Transferred Accounts Payables and Transferred Accounts Receivables, in each case, between a member of the Seller’s Group (other than a Target Group Company) and a Business Seller of that Seller’s Group, shall be settled after Closing in the ordinary course of business and, in any event, within 60 days of Closing.
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8.8 | Wrong Pockets Obligations |
8.8.1 | Except as provided in Schedule 2, Schedule 4, Schedule 6, Schedule 7, or Schedule 8 and Schedule 25, if any property, right or asset forming part of a Target Group (other than any property, right or asset expressly excluded from the sale under this Agreement) has not and should have been transferred to the Purchaser, or to another member of the Purchaser’s Group, pursuant to this Agreement, the relevant Seller shall procure that such property, right or asset (and any related liability which is an Assumed Liability) is transferred to the Purchaser (or another member of the Purchaser’s Group as the Purchaser may nominate reasonably acceptable to the Seller) as soon as practicable and at no cost to the Purchaser. |
8.8.2 | If, following Closing (or, in respect of Delayed Businesses, Delayed Closing) any property, right or asset not forming part of a Target Group (other than any property, right or asset expressly included in the sale under this Agreement) is found to have and should not have been transferred to the Purchaser or another member of the Purchaser’s Group pursuant to this Agreement, the Purchaser shall transfer (or procure the transfer of) such property, right or asset as soon as practicable to the transferor or another member of the relevant Seller’s Group nominated by the relevant Seller reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser at no cost to the Seller. |
8.9 | Covenant not to xxx |
8.9.1 | Each Seller hereby undertakes not to enforce any Intellectual Property Rights against the Purchaser or its Affiliates which qualify to be transferred pursuant to Clause 8.8.1 in relation to the period from Closing to the completion of the transfer under that Clause. |
8.9.2 | The Purchaser hereby undertakes not to enforce any Intellectual Property Rights against a Seller or its Affiliates which qualify to be transferred pursuant to Clause 8.8.2 in relation to the period from Closing to the completion of the transfer under that Clause. |
8.10 | The Purchaser’s Continuing Obligations |
8.10.1 | Except as provided in the GlaxoSmithKline Seller Intellectual Property Trademark Licence, or if the Purchaser is unable to obtain the necessary third party consent to do so in relation to a Joint Venture Entity, the Purchaser shall procure that as soon as practicable after Closing (or, in respect of any Delayed Business, the relevant Delayed Closing Date), each of the Target Group Companies and Joint Venture Entities shall change its name so that it does not contain the Seller Marks or any name which is likely to be confused with the same and shall provide the relevant Seller with appropriate evidence of such change of name. |
8.10.2 | Except as provided in the Ancillary Agreements, the Purchaser shall not, and shall procure that no member of the Purchaser’s Group shall, after |
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Closing (or, in respect of any Delayed Business, the relevant Delayed Closing Date), use the Seller Marks or any confusingly similar name or xxxx, any extensions thereof or developments thereto in any business which competes with the Seller’s business, or any other business of a Seller or any member of a Seller’s Group in which the Seller Marks are used for a minimum period of five years following Closing and thereafter for so long as any member of a Seller’s Group continues to retain an interest in the relevant Seller Marks. |
8.10.3 | During the 90 calendar days following the Closing Date, the Purchaser shall provide and cause to be provided to each Seller the information reasonably required to enable that Seller to prepare and audit the standard monthly reporting forms of the Seller’s Group, to the extent that such financial reporting relates to the Contributed Business, in respect of the period prior to the Closing and in respect of the calendar month in which the Closing occurs. The Purchaser shall provide such financial reporting in respect of the calendar month in which Closing occurs to each Seller within six Business Days of the last day of the relevant month. |
8.11 | The Sellers’ Continuing Obligations |
Each Seller shall retain and not dispose of or destroy and make or procure to be made available to the Purchaser or their duly authorised agents and/or professional advisers on reasonable notice during normal business hours:
8.11.1 | in each case for a period of one (1) year from Closing (or from the relevant Delayed Closing Date in respect of e-mails relating to a Delayed Business) all emails relating to that Seller’s Contributed Business (and shall permit the Purchaser to take copies thereof); |
8.11.2 | in each case for a period of 10 years from Closing (and, upon notice from the Purchaser between 9 and 10 years from Closing, for a further period of 5 years), all relevant books, accounts, other records and correspondence (except, in each case, emails) relating to that Seller’s Contributed Business which have not been, or to the extent they have not been, transferred to the Purchaser’s Group under this Agreement (and shall permit the Purchaser to take copies thereof), save as otherwise agreed by the parties in relation to any books and records (including but not limited to the content of any personnel files) relating to the employment of the Transferred Employees; |
8.11.3 | in each case for a period of 10 years from Closing (and, upon notice from the Purchaser between 9 and 10 years from Closing, for a further period of 5 years), reasonable access to employees of the relevant Seller’s Group who have knowledge relating to that Seller’s Contributed Business (including any inventor of the Products) for the purposes of the defence, prosecution or enforcement of any Intellectual Property Rights, or as required by Applicable Law or a Governmental Entity, provided that the Purchaser shall promptly reimburse the relevant Seller in relation to the |
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provision of such access for (i) out of pocket expenses reasonably incurred by that Seller; and (ii) for the time of that employee of that Seller’s Group if it exceeds 25 man hours in aggregate per annum; and |
8.11.4 | in each case for a period of 3 years from Closing, each Seller shall make or procure to be made available to the Purchaser or their duly authorised agents on reasonable notice during normal business hours reasonable access to any employees of the relevant Seller’s Group who have knowledge relating to that Seller’s Contributed Business (including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any background information relating to the legal position of that Seller’s Contributed Business), to the extent that such employees are retained by the relevant Seller after Closing, to answer any questions other than those covered by clause 8.13.3 that the Purchaser may reasonably ask in relation to that Seller’s Contributed Business, provided that: |
(i) | the Purchaser shall promptly reimburse the relevant Seller in relation to the provision of such access for the time of that employee of that Seller’s Group if it exceeds 25 man hours in aggregate per annum; |
(ii) | a Seller shall have no obligations under this Clause where such access to employees of that Seller’s Group is prohibited under Applicable Law; |
(iii) | the Purchaser shall have no access rights under this Clause to employees of the relevant Seller’s Group to the extent such access is prohibited by applicable anti-trust rules or any undertakings, contractual arrangements, or guidelines entered into or provided, with the aim of reasonably ensuring compliance with applicable anti-trust rules; and |
(iv) | without prejudice to any indemnity provided by the relevant Seller to the Purchaser under this Agreement, no member of that Seller’s Group shall have any Liability to any member of the Purchaser’s Group in connection with the provision of any information by employees of that Seller’s Group pursuant to this Clause. |
8.12 | Ancillary Agreements |
If any of the Purchaser Trademark Licence Agreements or Purchaser Patent and Know-How Licence Agreements have not been entered into at Closing, the provisions of the licences in the Agreed Terms shall be binding on the relevant Seller (and its Affiliates) and the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) until the earlier of: (i) the date of which the relevant licence is entered into; or, if applicable, (ii) the date on which the relevant licence expires or terminates (if applicable) in accordance with its Agreed Terms.
8.13 | Transitional Services Agreement |
If the Transitional Services Agreement has not been entered into at Closing, the provision of the heads of terms in the Agreed Terms shall be binding on Novartis (and its Affiliates) and the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) until the earlier of: (i) the date on which
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the Transitional Services Agreement is entered into; or (ii) the date on which that Novartis (or its Affiliates) no longer provides the relevant transitional services to the Purchaser (or its Affiliates) and the Purchaser (or its Affiliates) no longer provides the relevant transitional services to Novartis (or its Affiliates).
8.14 | Manufacturing and Supply Agreement |
In respect of each Seller, if the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement has not been entered into at Closing, the provisions of the heads of terms in the Agreed Terms shall be binding on that Seller (and its Affiliates) and the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) until the earlier of: (i) the date on which the Manufacturing and Supply Agreement is entered into; or (ii) the date on which the Seller (and its Affiliates) or the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) (as applicable) no longer manufactures and supplies Products to the other party to that agreement.
8.15 | Transitional Distribution Services Agreement |
In respect of each Seller, if the relevant Transitional Distribution Services Agreements have not been entered into at Closing, the provision of the heads of terms in the Agreed Terms shall be binding on that Seller (and its Affiliates) and the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) until the earlier of: (i) the date on which the relevant Transitional Distribution Services Agreement is entered into; or (ii) the date on which that Seller (and its Affiliates) or the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) (as applicable) no longer provides such transitional distribution services to the Purchaser.
8.16 | Support Services Agreement |
In respect of GlaxoSmithKline, if the Support Services Agreement has not been entered into at Closing, the provisions of the heads of terms in the Agreed Terms shall be binding on GlaxoSmithKline (and its Affiliates) and the Purchaser (and its Affiliates) until the earlier of: (i) the date on which the Support Services Agreement is entered into; or (ii) the date on which GlaxoSmithKline (and its Affiliates) no longer provides the relevant services to the Purchaser (or its Affiliates).
8.17 | Transfer of Marketing Authorisations and Tenders |
8.17.1 | The transfer of the Marketing Authorisations following Closing shall take place in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 4 and the terms of the Transitional Distribution Services Agreements. |
8.17.2 | Between the Closing Date and the Marketing Authorisation Transfer Date, the Seller agrees to assist the Purchaser in accordance with Part 3 of Schedule 4 in respect of any tenders relating to the Products. |
8.18 | Retention of Books and Records |
To the extent and for so long as required by, or to the extent and for so long as required in order to perform any obligations under, any Ancillary Agreement or Applicable Law, or where otherwise agreed between the Parties, each Seller shall be entitled to retain the
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original or a copy of any book, ledger, file, report, plan, record, manual or other material (in any form or medium) which would otherwise transfer to the Purchaser under this Agreement, provided that:
8.18.1 | any copy or original retained is treated as strictly confidential in accordance with Clause 12.2; |
8.18.2 | in the case of retained originals, a copy of such book, ledger, file, report, plan, record, manual or other material is provided to the Purchaser; |
8.18.3 | upon reasonable notice by the Purchaser, such Seller shall provide access to such retained book, ledger, file, report, plan, record, manual or other material in accordance with Clause 8.11.2; and |
8.18.4 | upon expiry of the relevant obligation under the applicable Ancillary Agreement, such Seller is entitled to retain a copy of any such book, ledger, file, report, plan, record, manual or other material to comply with Applicable Law but shall transfer the original to the Purchaser. |
8.19 | Sanctions |
8.19.1 | For the purposes of Clauses 8.19.2 to 8.19.7 only, the terms below shall have the following meanings: |
“Assignor” means an assignor under any Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement or any relevant member of the Seller’s Group’s (other than a Target Group Company);
“Assignee” means an assignee under any Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement or a Target Group Company; and
“Further Assurance Obligations” means any obligation to be performed by an Assignor under clause 3 (Recordals and Further Assurance) of any Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement or Clause 15.1 of this Agreement in relation to any Target Group Intellectual Property Rights;
8.19.2 | The parties agree that to the extent that Target Group Intellectual Property Rights which are the subject of a transfer pursuant to the Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement are registered (or are the subject of an application to register) in Iran, Iraq, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or Syria, the Assignor’s Further Assurance Obligations shall be modified as set out in Clauses 8.19.3 to 8.19.7 below. |
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8.19.3 | If an Assignor is prevented from complying with its Further Assurance Obligations, with the effect that the recordal of assignment of legal title from the Assignor to the Assignee under the Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement cannot be completed for any Target Group Intellectual Property Rights by reason of: |
(i) | Applicable Law; |
(ii) | other factors beyond the reasonable control of the Assignor; or |
(iii) | application of the Assignor’s: |
(a) | internal sanctions and export control policy (or equivalent); or |
(b) | anti-bribery and corruption policy, |
in each case in force from time to time, provided that such policy applies to all Affiliates of the Assignor and the policy is applied in the same way it would apply if the Assignee were an Affiliate of the Assignor, each such Target Group Intellectual Property Right (being an “Affected Right” and each of (i) to (iv) being a “Restriction” and in the plural the “Restrictions”), Clauses 8.19.4 to 8.19.7 shall apply.
8.19.4 | The relevant Assignor shall notify the Assignee as soon as reasonably practicable after Closing of: |
(i) | each Affected Right and the country in which it is registered (or is the subject of an application to register); and |
(ii) | the relevant Restriction. |
8.19.5 | As soon as reasonably practicable and, in any event within three months after the date that Assignor notifies the Assignee of an Affected Right under Clause 8.19.4 above the parties shall discuss in good faith the means by which the Assignee may be able to achieve protection in the relevant country which is equivalent or similar to the protection provided by the Affected Right. Such means may include, without limitation: |
(i) | the Assignee filing a new trade xxxx application and the Assignor providing to the Assignee the consent of the Assignor to the new application to endeavour to overcome any objection raised by the relevant intellectual property registry on relative grounds based on the Affected Right; or |
(ii) | the Assignor filing a WIPO trade xxxx application in the name of the Assignor, which shall be assigned by the Assignor to the Assignee on grant of registration or earlier if possible. The reasonable costs incurred by the Assignor in filing and prosecuting that registration to grant to be met by the Assignee; or |
(iii) | the Assignor withdrawing or cancelling any Affected Right subject to the written consent of the Assignee. |
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The parties will agree such means as are possible in light of the limitations imposed by the Restrictions and both parties will use reasonable efforts to achieve the agreed means. Neither party shall be obliged to take any action agreed pursuant to this Clause 8.19.5 to the extent that such party is prevented from doing so by a Restriction.
The reasonable costs incurred by either party in fulfilling any such actions shall be met by the Assignee.
8.19.6 | The relevant Assignor undertakes (at the cost of the Assignee), during the current registration period up to the next renewal date of the Affected Right: |
(i) | to take any action to comply with its Further Assurance Obligations to the extent it is able to do so given the Restrictions; |
(ii) | to comply with its Further Assurance Obligations as soon as reasonably practicable if and to the extent that such obligations are no longer prevented by the Restrictions; and |
(iii) | not to take any other action in connection with an Affected Right without the consent of the Assignee. |
8.19.7 | The parties acknowledge that in relation to Target Group Intellectual Property Rights that are Trademarks, there is nothing in this Agreement to preclude the Assignee from taking action to revoke or cancel an Affected Right and the Assignor hereby undertakes not to defend any such action. |
8.20 | Anti-bribery and corruption |
The provisions of Schedule 27 shall apply in respect of the parties’ compliance with anti-bribery and corruption laws.
8.21 | [***] |
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8.21.1 [***] and
8.21.2 [***].
9. | WARRANTIES |
9.1 | The Sellers’ Warranties |
9.1.1 | Subject to Clause 9.2, each Seller warrants (on behalf of the relevant Business Sellers or Share Sellers, as applicable) to the Purchaser and each member of the Purchaser’s Group to which shares or assets are transferred pursuant to this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document, that the statements set out in Schedule 13 (save for paragraph 2.4.2 in the |
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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case of GlaxoSmithKline and 2.4.1 in the case of Novartis) are true and accurate as of the date of this Agreement. |
9.1.2 | Each of the Seller’s Warranties shall be separate and independent and shall not be limited by reference to any other paragraph of Schedule 13 or by anything in this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document or in the Tax Indemnity. |
9.1.3 | Neither of the Sellers gives or makes any warranty as to the accuracy of the forecasts, estimates, projections, statements of intent or statements of opinion provided to the Purchaser or any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or advisers on or prior to the date of this Agreement. |
9.1.4 | Any Seller’s Warranty qualified by the expression “so far as the Seller is aware” or to the “Seller’s Knowledge” or any similar expression shall, unless otherwise stated, be deemed to refer to the knowledge of: |
(i) | in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, the following persons: [***] and |
(ii) | in the case of Novartis, the following persons: [***], |
in each case having made due and reasonable enquiry.
9.1.5 | Each of the Seller’s Warranties shall be deemed to be repeated immediately before Closing by reference to the facts, circumstances and knowledge then existing as if references in the Seller’s Warranties to the date of this Agreement were references to the Closing Date. Without prejudice to the provisions of Clause 4.4, no Seller shall have any liability for any breach of any Seller’s Warranty given by it where such Seller’s Warranty was true as at the date of this Agreement unless (i) the fact, event or circumstances giving rise to the breach (i) constitutes a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) was not the result of an act or omission expressly permitted by the terms of this Agreement or any other Ancillary Agreement. No Seller shall have any liability under this Clause 9.1.5 if the Purchaser has exercised its termination right in accordance with Clause 4.4.1(iii). |
9.2 | Sellers’ Disclosures |
9.2.1 | Each Seller’s Warranties are subject to all matters which are fairly disclosed in this Agreement or in the Disclosure Letter. |
9.2.2 | References in a Disclosure Letter to paragraph numbers shall be to the paragraphs in Schedule 13 to which the disclosure is most likely to relate. Such references are given for convenience only and, shall not limit the effect of any of the disclosures, all of which are made against the Seller’s Warranties as a whole. |
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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9.3 | The Purchaser’s Warranties |
The Purchaser warrants to each Seller that the statements set out in Schedule 14 are true and accurate as of the date of this Agreement.
10. | LIMITATION OF LIABILITY |
10.1 | Application |
10.1.1 | In respect of the Tax Indemnity, the provisions of this Clause 10 shall operate to limit the liability of a Seller only in so far as any provision in this Clause 10 is expressed to be applicable to the Tax Indemnity, and the provisions of the Tax Indemnity shall further operate to limit the liability of the Sellers in respect of any claims thereunder. |
10.1.2 | References to the Seller’s Warranties in Clauses 10.2 to 10.5 (inclusive), 10.7, 10.8 and 10.10 shall not include the Tax Warranties and the provisions of clauses 3 and 9 of the Tax Indemnity shall operate to limit the liability of the Sellers and to govern the claims procedure in respect of any claim under the Tax Warranties in respect of a liability for Tax as if such claim had been a claim in respect of a Tax Liability (as defined in the Tax Indemnity) under the Tax Indemnity. |
10.2 | Time Limitation for Claims |
No Seller shall be liable under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty, any Tax Warranty or under the Tax Indemnity in respect of any claim unless a notice of the claim is given by the Purchaser to such Seller specifying the matters set out in Clause 11.2:
10.2.1 | in the case of a claim under any of paragraphs 1, 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.3 or 2.5 of Schedule 13, within the applicable statutory limitation period; |
10.2.2 | in respect of claims under the Tax Warranties or the Tax Indemnity, before the date falling six months after the expiry of the period specified by statute during which an assessment of the relevant liability to Tax may be issued by the relevant Tax Authority; and |
10.2.3 | in the case of any other claim, before the date falling two years following Closing. |
10.3 | Minimum Claims |
10.3.1 | No Seller shall be liable under: |
(i) | this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty in respect of any individual claim (or a series of claims arising from similar or identical facts or circumstances) where the liability agreed or determined (disregarding the provisions of this |
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Clause 10.3) in respect of any such claim or series of claims does not exceed, in the case of Novartis, US$10.95 million, or, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, US$19.05 million; or |
(ii) | this Agreement for breach of any Tax Warranty or under the Tax Indemnity in respect of any individual claim (or a series of claims arising from similar or identical facts or circumstances) where the liability agreed or determined (disregarding the provisions of this Clause 10.3) in respect of any such claim or series of claims does not exceed US$1 million. |
10.3.2 | Where the liability agreed or determined in respect of any such claim or series of claims exceeds, in the case of claims falling within Clause 10.3.1(i), US$10.95 million (in the case of Novartis) or US$19.05 million (in the case of GlaxoSmithKline) or, in the case of claims falling within Clause 10.3.1(ii), US$1 million, the liability of the relevant Seller shall be for the whole amount of such claim(s) and not just the excess. |
10.4 | Aggregate Minimum Claims |
10.4.1 | No Seller shall be liable under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty in respect of any claim unless the aggregate amount of all claims for which such Seller would otherwise be liable under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty (disregarding the provisions of this Clause 10.4) exceeds, in the case of Novartis, US$109.5 million, or, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, US$190.5 million, in which case the relevant Seller shall be liable for the aggregate amount of all claims as agreed or determined and not just the excess. |
10.4.2 | Where the liability agreed or determined in respect of all claims exceeds US$109.5 million (in the case of Novartis) or US$190.5 million (in the case of GlaxoSmithKline) such Seller shall be liable for the aggregate amount of all claims as agreed or determined and not just the excess. |
10.4.3 | For the avoidance of doubt, the Purchaser may give notice of any single claim in accordance with and for the purposes of Clause 10.2, irrespective of whether, at the time the notice is given, the amount set out in Clause 10.4.2 has been exceeded. |
10.5 | Maximum Liability |
The aggregate liability of a Seller in respect of:
10.5.1 | any breaches of the Seller’s Warranties (other than the Seller’s Warranties contained in paragraphs 1, 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.3 or 2.5 of Schedule 13) shall not exceed an amount equal to, in the case of Novartis, US$3.285 billion, or, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, US$5.715 billion; and |
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10.5.2 | any breaches of such Seller’s Warranties contained in paragraphs 1, 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.3 or 2.5 of Schedule 13 shall not exceed, in the case of Novartis, US$10.95 billion, or, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, US$19.05 billion. |
10.6 | Contingent Liabilities |
No Seller shall be liable under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any such Seller’s Warranties in respect of which the liability is contingent, unless and until such contingent liability becomes an actual liability and is due and payable (but the Purchaser has the right under Clause 11.1 to give notice of such claim before such time). For the avoidance of doubt, the fact that the liability may not have become an actual liability by the relevant date provided in Clause 10.2 shall not exonerate such Seller in respect of any claim properly notified before that date.
10.7 | Provisions |
No Seller shall be liable under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document in either case in respect of any claim for breach of any Seller’s Warranty in respect of any claim if and to the extent that any allowance, provision or reserve has been properly made in the Closing Statement applicable to that Seller for the matter giving rise to the claim and such Seller can demonstrate that the allowance, provision or reserve so made was in respect of such matter.
10.8 | Matters Arising Subsequent to this Agreement |
Subject to Clause 8.1.2, no Seller shall be liable under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document in either case in respect of any claim for breach of any Seller’s Warranty in respect of any matter, act, omission or circumstance (or any combination thereof), to the extent that the same would not have occurred but for:
10.8.1 | Agreed matters |
any matter or thing done or omitted to be done by such Seller or any member of such Seller’s Group before Closing pursuant to and in compliance with this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document or otherwise at the request in writing of the Purchaser; or
10.8.2 | Changes in legislation |
the passing of, or any change in, after the Closing Date, any Applicable Law or administrative practice of any government, governmental department, agency or regulatory body having the force of the law including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) any increase in the rates of Taxation or any imposition of Taxation or any withdrawal of relief from Taxation not in force at the Closing Date.
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10.9 | Insurance |
Without prejudice to Clause 13, any Seller’s Liability under this Agreement for breach of any Seller’s Warranty shall be reduced by an amount equal to any loss or damage to which such claim related which has actually been recovered under a policy of insurance held by the Purchaser or a Target Group Company (after deducting any reasonable costs incurred in making such recovery including the amount of any excess or deductible).
10.10 | Purchaser’s Right to Recover |
If any Seller has paid an amount in discharge of any claim under this Agreement for breach of any Seller’s Warranty and subsequently the Purchaser recovers (whether by payment, discount, credit, relief, insurance or otherwise) from a third party a sum which indemnifies or compensates the Purchaser (in whole or in part) in respect of the loss or liability which is the subject matter of the claim, the Purchaser shall pay to such Seller as soon as practicable after receipt an amount equal to (i) the sum recovered from the third party less any costs and expenses incurred in obtaining such recovery and any Tax on any amounts recovered (or Tax that would have been payable on such amounts but for the availability of any Tax relief), or if less (ii) the amount previously paid by such Seller to the Purchaser. Any payment made by the Purchaser to such Seller under this Clause shall be made or procured by way of further adjustment of the Purchase Consideration.
10.11 | No Double Recovery and no Double Counting |
A party shall be entitled to make more than one claim under this Agreement arising out of the same subject matter, fact, event or circumstance but shall not be entitled to recover under this Agreement or any relevant Local Transfer Document or the Tax Indemnity or otherwise more than once in respect of the same Losses suffered or amount for which the party is otherwise entitled to claim (or part of such Losses or amount), regardless of whether more than one claim arises in respect of it. No amount (including any relief) (or part of any amount) shall be taken into account, set off or credited more than once under this Agreement or any relevant Local Transfer Document or the Tax Indemnity or otherwise, with the intent that there will be no double counting under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document or the Tax Indemnity or otherwise.
10.12 | Fraud |
None of the limitations contained in this Clause 10 shall apply to any claim to the extent that such claim arises or is increased as the consequence of, or which is delayed as a result of, fraud by any director or officer of any member of a Seller’s Group.
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11. | CLAIMS |
11.1 | Notification of Potential Claims |
Without prejudice to the obligations of the Purchaser under Clause 11.2, if the Purchaser becomes aware of any fact, matter or circumstance that may give rise to a claim against any Seller under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty other than a Tax Warranty (ignoring for these purposes the application of Clause 11.2 or 11.3), the Purchaser shall as soon as reasonably practicable give a notice in writing to that Seller of such facts, matters or circumstances as are then available regarding the potential claim. Failure to give notice within such period shall not affect the rights of the Purchaser to make a relevant claim under this Agreement or any Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty, except that the failure shall be taken into account in determining the liability of that Seller for such claim to the extent that Seller establishes that the amount of it is increased, or is not reduced, as a result of such failure.
11.2 | Notification of Claims under this Agreement |
Notices of claims under this Agreement or any relevant Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty (other than a Tax Warranty) shall be given by the Purchaser to the relevant Seller within the time limits specified in Clause 10.2 and shall specify information (giving reasonable detail) in relation to the basis of the claim and setting out the Purchaser’s estimate of the amount of Losses which are, or are to be, the subject of the claim.
11.3 | Commencement of Proceedings |
Any claim notified pursuant to Clause 11.2 shall (if it has not been previously satisfied, settled or withdrawn) be deemed to be irrevocably withdrawn 9 months after the relevant time limit set out in Clause 10.2 unless, at the relevant time, legal proceedings in respect of the relevant claim have been commenced by being both issued and served except:
11.3.1 | where the claim relates to a contingent liability, in which case it shall be deemed to have been withdrawn unless legal proceedings in respect of it have been commenced by being both issued and served with 9 months of it having become an actual liability; or |
11.3.2 | where the claim is a claim for breach of any Seller’s Warranty of which notice is given for the purposes of Clause 11.2 at a time when the amount set out in Clause 10.4.1 has not been exceeded, in which case it shall be deemed to have been withdrawn unless legal proceedings in respect of it have been commenced by being both issued and served within 9 months of the date of any subsequent notification to that Seller pursuant to Clause 11.1 of one or more claims which result(s) in the total amount claimed in all claims notified to that Seller pursuant to Clause 11.2 exceeding the amount set out in Clause 10.4.1 for the first time. |
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11.4 | Conduct of Third Party Claims |
11.4.1 | If the matter or circumstance that may give rise to a claim against a Seller under this Agreement or any relevant Local Transfer Document for breach of any Seller’s Warranty (other than a Tax Warranty) is a result of or in connection with a claim by a third party (a “Third Party Claim”) then: |
(i) | the Purchaser shall as soon as reasonably practicable give written notice thereof to that Seller and thereafter shall provide that Seller with periodic updates upon reasonable request and shall consult with that Seller so far as reasonably practicable in relation to the conduct of the Third Party Claim and shall take reasonable account of the views of that Seller in relation to the Third Party Claim; |
(ii) | the Third Party Claim shall not be admitted, compromised, disposed of or settled without the written consent of that Seller (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); and |
(iii) | subject to that Seller indemnifying the Purchaser or other member of the Purchaser’s Group (including any Delayed Target Group Company) concerned against all reasonable costs and expenses (including legal and professional costs and expenses) that may be incurred thereby, the Purchaser shall, or the Purchaser shall procure that any other members of the Purchaser’s Group shall, take such action as that Seller may reasonably request to avoid, dispute, deny, defend, resist, appeal, compromise or contest the Third Party Claim, provided that this Clause 11.4.1(iii) shall not apply where the claim by the third party relates to matters or circumstances referred to in paragraph 4 or paragraph 9 of Schedule 13 and the Purchaser shall then have the right to conduct the claim at its discretion (subject to Clauses 11.4.1(i) and 11.4.1(ii)), |
provided that failure to give notice in accordance with Clause 11.4.1(i)(i) shall not affect the rights of the Purchaser to make a relevant claim under this Agreement for breach of any Seller’s Warranty, except that the failure shall be taken into account in determining the liability of that Seller for such claim to the extent that Seller establishes that the amount of it is increased, or is not reduced, as a result of that failure.
11.4.2 | Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 11.4.1, if a Third Party Claim may also give rise to an indemnity claim under Clause 8.1.2, the provisions of Clause 8.2.2 shall apply instead of the provisions of Clause 11.4.1. |
12. | CONFIDENTIALITY |
12.1 | Announcements |
No announcement, communication or circular concerning the existence or the subject matter of this Agreement shall be made or issued by or on behalf of any member of any Seller’s Group or the Purchaser’s Group without the prior written approval of the parties (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed). This shall not affect any
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announcement, communication or circular required by law or any governmental or regulatory body or the rules of any stock exchange on which the shares of any party (or its holding company) are listed but the party with an obligation to make an announcement or communication or issue a circular (or whose holding company has such an obligation) shall consult with the other parties (or shall procure that its holding company consults with the other parties) insofar as is reasonably practicable before complying with such an obligation.
12.2 | Confidentiality |
12.2.1 | Subject to Clause 12.1 and Clause 12.2.2, each of the parties shall treat as strictly confidential and not disclose or use any information received or obtained as a result of entering into this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement (or any other agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement, including the Ancillary Agreements) which relates to: |
(i) | the existence and provisions of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, or any other agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement, including the Ancillary Agreements; |
(ii) | the negotiations relating to this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, or any other agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement; |
(iii) | (in the case of a Seller) any information relating to its Target Group Companies and Target Group Businesses following Closing and any other information relating to the business, financial or other affairs (including future plans and targets) of the Purchaser’s Group; or |
(iv) | (in the case of the Purchaser) any information relating to the business, financial or other affairs (including future plans and targets) of any Seller’s Group including, prior to Closing, the Target Group Companies and Target Group Businesses, and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Purchaser shall not disclose any such information relating to a Seller Group to the other Seller Group. |
12.2.2 | Clause 12.2.1 shall not prohibit disclosure or use of any information if and to the extent: |
(i) | the disclosure or use is required by law, any governmental or regulatory body or any stock exchange on which the shares of any party (or its holding company) are listed; |
(ii) | the disclosure or use is required to vest the full benefit of this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements in any party; |
(iii) | the disclosure or use is required for the purpose of any arbitral or judicial proceedings arising out of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, or any other agreement entered into under or pursuant to |
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this Agreement or to enable a determination to be made by the Reporting Accountants under this Agreement; |
(iv) | the disclosure is made to a Tax Authority in connection with the Tax affairs of the disclosing party; |
(v) | the disclosure is made on a confidential basis to a ratings agency in connection with the affairs of the disclosing party; |
(vi) | the disclosure is made by the Purchaser to any of its Representatives, any member of the Purchaser’s Groups and/or any of their Representatives, or by a Seller to any of its Representatives, any member of that Seller’s Group and/or any of their Representatives, in each case on a “need-to-know” basis and provided they have a duty (contractual or otherwise) to keep such information confidential; |
(vii) | the information was lawfully in the possession of that party without any obligation of secrecy prior to its being received or held, in either case as evidenced by written records; |
(viii) | the information is or becomes publicly available (other than by breach of this Agreement); |
(ix) | the other party(ies) in respect of whom the information relates has given prior written approval to the disclosure or use; or |
(x) | the information is independently developed, |
provided that prior to disclosure or use of any information pursuant to Clause 12.2.2(i), (ii) or (iii), the party concerned shall, where not prohibited by law, promptly notify the other parties of such requirement with a view to providing the other parties with the opportunity to contest such disclosure or use or otherwise to agree the timing and content of such disclosure or use.
12.3 | Non-solicit |
12.3.1 | Neither Seller will, and each Seller undertakes to procure that no member of its Group will, for a period of two years after the Closing Date, solicit or induce any Restricted Target Group Employee to become employed or engaged whether as employee, consultant or otherwise by any member of that Seller’s Group. |
12.3.2 | Novartis will not, and undertakes to procure that no member of Novartis’s Group will, for a period of two years after the Closing Date, solicit or induce any Restricted GSK Employee to become employed or engaged whether as employee, consultant or otherwise by any member of Novartis’s Group. |
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12.4 | Exceptions to the non-solicit |
12.4.1 | The restrictions in Clauses 12.3.1 and 12.3.2 may be relaxed or additional exceptions allowed by written approval of the Purchaser’s Head of HR, and shall in any event not apply to the solicitation, inducement or recruitment of any person: |
(i) | through the placing of advertisements of posts available to the public generally; |
(ii) | through an employment agency, provided that no member of the relevant Seller’s Group encourages or advises such agency to approach any such person; |
(iii) | who is no longer employed by the Target Group (or a member of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group in the case of 12.3.2); or |
(iv) | who is under formal notice of termination from his employer, provided that this exception only applies if the employment or engagement by the member of the relevant Seller’s Group is offered with a start date which is no earlier than the day after the last scheduled date of the person’s employment with the Target or the GlaxoSmithKline Group. |
13. | INSURANCE |
13.1 | No cover under any Seller’s Group Insurance Policies from Closing |
Subject to the provisions of the Support Services Agreement, the Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that following Closing:
13.1.1 | neither the Purchaser nor any Target Group Company (but, in relation to any Delayed Business, only with effect from the relevant Delayed Closing Date) shall have or be entitled to the benefit of any Seller’s Group Insurance Policy in respect of any event, act or omission that takes place after Closing and it shall be the sole responsibility of the Purchaser to ensure that adequate insurances are put in place for the Target Group Companies (but, in relation to any Delayed Business, only with effect from the relevant Delayed Closing Date) and the Target Group Businesses (but, in relation to any Delayed Business, only with effect from the relevant Delayed Closing Date) with effect from Closing; |
13.1.2 | except in respect of any Delayed Target Group Company or Delayed Target Group Business until the relevant Delayed Closing Date, no Seller nor any member of its Group shall be required to maintain any Seller’s Group Insurance Policy for the benefit of the relevant Target Group; and |
13.1.3 | no Target Group Company shall make or shall be entitled to make or notify a claim under any Seller’s Group Insurance Policy in respect of any event, act or omission that occurred prior to the Closing Date or, in respect of a Delayed Target Group Company, prior to the relevant Delayed Closing Date. |
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13.2 | Existing claims under any Seller’s Group Insurance Policies |
With respect to any claim made under any Seller’s Group Insurance Policy (i) before the Closing Date by or on behalf of any Target Group Company or in relation to any Target Group Business (ii) before the relevant Delayed Closing Date in respect of any claim made by or on behalf of any Delayed Target Group Company or Delayed Target Group Business, to the extent that:
13.2.1 | neither the Purchaser nor the Target Group Companies have been indemnified by a Seller prior to the Closing Date in respect of the matter in respect of which the claim was made; or |
13.2.2 | the Liability in respect of which the claim was made has not been properly provided for in the Closing Statement and reduced the Working Capital accordingly, |
that Seller shall use reasonable endeavours after Closing to recover all monies due from insurers and shall pay any monies received (after taking into account any deductible under such Seller’s Group Insurance Policies and less any Taxation suffered on the proceeds and any reasonable out of pocket expenses suffered or incurred by such Seller or any member of such Seller’s Group in connection with the claim) to the Purchaser or, at the Purchaser’s written direction, the relevant Target Group Company as soon as practicable after receipt.
13.3 | GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser shall co-operate together after the date of this Agreement with a view to determining the most effective way of insuring the Purchaser’s Group following Closing, taking into account the fact that the Purchaser’s Group will be consolidated with GlaxoSmithKline’s Group following Closing. In the event that they determine that it is preferable for GlaxoSmithKline’s Group’s existing insurance arrangements to remain in place following Closing and for the Purchaser’s Group to be included within them, the provisions in this Cause 13.3 shall not apply to the extent they are no longer relevant and the parties shall seek to agree the details in relation to such insurance arrangements to be included in the Support Services Agreement. |
14. | FRANCE BUSINESS AND THE NETHERLANDS BUSINESS |
14.1 | France Business |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, this Agreement shall not constitute a binding agreement by a Seller to sell or purchase its France Business, provided that:
14.1.1 | in the event that a France Put Option Exercise occurs before Closing, this Clause 14.1 (other than this Clause 14.1.1) shall terminate and shall cease to have effect, and the sale and purchase of the relevant France Business shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement as if it had been with effect from the date of this Agreement; |
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14.1.2 | in the event that a France Put Option Exercise does not occur before Closing: |
(i) | the provisions of Clauses 2, 6 and 9 (the “Disapplied Provisions”) shall not apply to the relevant France Business; |
(ii) | prior to the relevant France Closing, the provisions of Schedule 7 and Schedule 8 (the “Suspended Provisions”) shall not apply to the relevant France Business; and |
(iii) | in respect of the Disapplied Provisions and, prior to the relevant France Closing, the Suspended Provisions only: |
(a) | the term “Contributed Business” shall be deemed to exclude the relevant France Business; |
(b) | the term “Target Group Companies” shall be deemed to exclude, in the case of Novartis, Novartis Santé Familiale S.A.S. and, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline, any Target Group Companies that relate to its France Business; |
(c) | Target Group Businesses shall be deemed to exclude, in the case of GlaxoSmithKline only, its France Business; |
(d) | the term “Assumed Liabilities” shall be deemed to exclude the relevant France Assumed Liabilities; and |
(e) | the term “Employees” shall be deemed to exclude the relevant France Employees; |
14.1.3 | with effect from a France Closing, the Suspended Provisions shall apply to the France Business mutatis mutandis save that in respect of the Suspended Provisions only (A) the term “Closing” shall be deemed to refer to that France Closing and (B) the term “Closing Date” shall be deemed to refer to the date of that France Closing; |
14.1.4 | the parties shall negotiate in good faith to agree any amendments to this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreements as are required in order to give effect to the principles set forth in this Clause 14.1 for the purposes of complying with the information and consultation requirements in respect of the relevant works council(s) in respect of GlaxoSmithKline’s France Business (in the case of GlaxoSmithKline) and the Délégation Unique du Personnel (being the relevant works council in respect of Novartis France Business) (in the case of Novartis); and |
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14.1.5 | the provisions of Clause 8 shall apply to the relevant France Business as if the remaining provisions of this Clause 14.1 did not have any force or effect. |
14.2 | Netherlands Business |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, this Agreement shall not constitute a binding agreement to sell or purchase the Netherlands Business, provided that:
14.2.1 | in the event that the Netherlands Put Option Exercise occurs before Closing, this Clause 14.2 (other than this Clause 14.2.1) shall terminate and shall cease to have effect, and the sale and purchase of the Netherlands Business shall be subject to the terms of this Agreement as if it had been with effect from the date of this Agreement; |
14.2.2 | in the event that the Netherlands Put Option Exercise does not occur before Closing: |
(i) | the Disapplied Provisions shall not apply to the Netherlands Business; |
(ii) | prior to the Netherlands Closing, the Suspended Provisions shall not apply to the Netherlands Business; and |
(iii) | in respect of the Disapplied Provisions and, prior to the Netherlands Closing, the Suspended Provisions only: |
(a) | the term “Contributed Business” (when used in respect of GlaxoSmithKline) shall be deemed to exclude the Netherlands Business; |
(b) | the term “GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Group Businesses” shall be deemed to exclude the Netherlands Business; |
(c) | the term “Assumed Liabilities” (when used in respect of GlaxoSmithKline) shall be deemed to exclude the Netherlands Assumed Liabilities; and |
(d) | the term “Employees” (when used in respect of GlaxoSmithKline) shall be deemed to exclude the Netherlands Employees; |
14.2.3 | with effect from the Netherlands Closing, the Suspended Provisions shall apply to the Netherlands Business mutatis mutandis save that in respect of the Suspended Provisions only (A) the term “Closing” shall be deemed to refer to the Netherlands Closing and (B) the term “Closing Date” shall be deemed to refer to the date of the Netherlands Closing; |
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14.2.4 | the parties shall negotiate in good faith to agree any amendments to this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreements as are required in order to give effect to the principles set forth in this Clause 14.2 for the purposes of complying with such information and consultation requirements (if any) required under Applicable Law with the relevant works council or employee representative body (if any) in respect of GlaxoSmithKline’s Netherlands Business; and |
14.2.5 | the provisions of Clause 8 shall apply to the Netherlands Business as if the remaining provisions of this Clause 14.2 did not have any force or effect. |
15. | OTHER PROVISIONS |
15.1 | Further Assurances |
Without prejudice to any restriction or limitation on the extent of any party’s obligations under this Agreement, each of the parties shall from time to time, so far as each is reasonably able, do or procure the doing of all such acts and/or execute or procure the execution of all such documents in a form reasonably satisfactory to the party concerned as it may reasonably consider necessary to transfer the relevant Contributed Business to the Purchaser or otherwise to give the other parties the full benefit of this Agreement.
15.2 | Ancillary Agreements |
The parties shall negotiate in good faith to agree definitive and legally binding documentation in respect of each of the Ancillary Agreements for which heads of terms are in Agreed Terms on the date of this Agreement, and shall duly execute and deliver such definitive and legally binding documentation in respect of the Ancillary Agreements at Closing. Following Closing, the parties shall continue to negotiate in good faith to agree definitive and legally binding documentation in respect of any Ancillary Agreements that are not executed at Closing, and such documentation shall supersede the heads of terms in the Agreed Terms.
15.3 | Whole Agreement |
15.3.1 | This Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements contain the whole agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement at the date hereof to the exclusion of any terms implied by law which may be excluded by contract and supersedes any previous written or oral agreement between the parties in relation to the matters dealt with in this Agreement. |
15.3.2 | The Purchaser acknowledges that, in entering into this Agreement, it is not relying on any representation, warranty or undertaking not expressly incorporated into it. |
15.3.3 | Each of the parties agrees and acknowledges that its only right and remedy in relation to any representation, warranty or undertaking made or |
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given in connection with this Agreement shall be for breach of the terms of this Agreement and each of the parties waives all other rights and remedies (including those in tort or arising under statute) in relation to any such representation, warranty or undertaking. |
15.3.4 | In Clauses 15.3.1 to 15.3.3, “this Agreement” includes the Ancillary Agreements and all documents entered into pursuant to this Agreement. |
15.3.5 | Nothing in this Clause 15.3 excludes or limits any liability for fraud. |
15.4 | No Assignment |
No party may, without the prior written consent of the other parties, assign, grant any security interest over, hold on trust or otherwise transfer the benefit of the whole or any part of this Agreement.
15.5 | Third Party Rights |
15.5.1 | Subject to Clause 15.5.2, the parties do not intend that any term of this Agreement should be enforceable, by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000, by any person who is not a party to this Agreement. |
15.5.2 | Certain provisions of this Agreement confer benefits on the Affiliates of the Purchaser and the Affiliates of any Seller (each such Affiliate being, for the purposes of this Clause 15.5, a “Third Party”) and, subject to Clause 15.5.3, are intended to be enforceable by each Third Party by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Xxx 0000. |
15.5.3 | Notwithstanding Clause 15.5.2, this Agreement may be varied in any way and at any time without the consent of any Third Party. |
15.6 | Variation or waiver |
15.6.1 | No variation of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by or on behalf of each of the parties. |
15.6.2 | No failure or delay by a party in exercising any right or remedy provided by Applicable Law or under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall impair such right or remedy or operate or be construed as a waiver or variation of it or preclude its exercise at any subsequent time and no single or partial exercise of any such right or remedy shall preclude any further exercise of it or the exercise of any other remedy. |
15.7 | Method of Payment and set off |
15.7.1 | Except as set out in Clause 15.7.2, payments (including payments pursuant to an indemnity, compensation or reimbursement provision ) made or expressed to be made by the Purchaser or the Sellers pursuant to |
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this Agreement or any claim for breach of this Agreement shall, insofar as the payment or claim relates to or affects any Shares (including the underlying Target Group Companies transferred (directly or indirectly) by reason of the transfer of those Shares), assets or liabilities, transferred pursuant to this Agreement and the Local Transfer Documents, be made or received (as the case may be) by: |
(i) | the relevant Seller, for itself or on behalf of its Share Seller or Business Seller (each in respect of the Shares and/or assets and liabilities to be transferred by it pursuant to this Agreement and the relevant Local Transfer Documents); and |
(ii) | the Purchaser, for itself and on behalf of the relevant members of the Purchaser’s Group (each in respect of the Shares and/or the assets and liabilities to be transferred by it pursuant to this Agreement and the relevant Local Transfer Documents). |
15.7.2 | The repayment of the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables and the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables pursuant to Clause 6.4.3 and any adjustments to such repayment pursuant to Clause 7.4 shall be settled by payments between the Seller, for itself and on behalf of the relevant members of the Seller’s Group, and the Purchaser, for itself and on behalf of the relevant Target Group Companies. |
15.7.3 | Without prejudice to Clause 6.3.2, any payments pursuant to this Agreement shall be made in full, without any set-off, counterclaim, restriction or condition and without any deduction or withholding (save as may be required by law or as otherwise agreed), except that payments due between any Seller and the Purchaser: |
(i) | in relation to repayments of the Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Payables and Estimated Intra-Group Non-Trade Receivables pursuant to Clause 6.4.3; or |
(ii) | in relation to adjustments to those repayments pursuant to Clause 7.4, |
respectively, shall be discharged to the fullest extent possible by way of set-off against each other.
15.7.4 | Any payments pursuant to this Agreement shall be effected by crediting for same day value the account specified by each Seller or the Purchaser (as the case may be) on behalf of the party entitled to the payment (reasonably in advance and in sufficient detail to enable payment by telegraphic or other electronic means to be effected) on or before the due date for payment. |
15.7.5 | Payment of a sum in accordance with this Clause 15.7 shall constitute a payment in full of the sum payable and shall be a good discharge to the payer (and those on whose behalf such payment is made) of the payer’s |
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obligation to make such payment and the payer (and those on whose behalf such payment is made) shall not be obliged to see to the application of the payment as between those on whose behalf the payment is received. |
15.8 | Costs |
15.8.1 | Subject to Clause 15.9, each Seller shall bear all costs incurred by it and its Affiliates in connection with the preparation and negotiation of, and the entry into, this Agreement the relevant Ancillary Agreements and the sale of its Target Group. |
15.8.2 | The Purchaser shall bear all such costs incurred by it and its Affiliates in connection with the preparation and negotiation of, and the entry into, this Agreement the relevant Ancillary Agreements and the purchase of Target Groups. |
15.9 | Notarial Fees, Registration, Stamp and Transfer Taxes and Duties |
Each Seller shall bear the cost of all notarial fees and all registration, stamp and transfer taxes and duties or their equivalents in all jurisdictions where such fees, taxes and duties are payable as a result of that Seller’s sale of its Target Group to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement.
15.10 | Interest |
If any party defaults in the payment when due of any sum payable under this Agreement, the Local Transfer Documents or the Tax Indemnity the liability of that party shall be increased to include interest on such sum from the date when such payment is due until the date of actual payment (as well after as before judgment) at a rate per annum of two per cent. above LIBOR. Such interest shall accrue from day to day.
15.11 | Grossing-up |
15.11.1 | All sums payable under this Agreement, the Local Transfer Documents and the Tax Indemnity shall be paid free and clear of all deductions, withholdings, set-offs or counterclaims whatsoever save only as may be permitted by Clause 15.7.3 or required by law. Subject to 15.11.2 to 15.11.7 (inclusive), if any deductions or withholdings are required by law, the party making the payment (the “Payer”) shall (except in the case of any interest payable under this Agreement) be obliged to pay to the party to whom the payment is being made (the “Payee”) such sum as will after such deduction or withholding has been made leave the Payee with the same amount as it would have been entitled to receive in the absence of any such requirement to make a deduction or withholding, provided that if the Payee shall have assigned or novated the benefit in whole or in part of this Agreement or shall, after the date of this Agreement, have changed its tax residence or the permanent establishment to which the rights under this Agreement are allocated then the liability of the Payer under this Clause |
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15.11.1 shall be limited to that (if any) which it would have been had no such assignment, novation or change taken place. |
15.11.2 | If either Seller is or becomes aware of any facts making it reasonably likely that the Purchaser will be required to deduct or withhold any amount in respect of the Purchase Consideration (a “Relevant Tax Deduction”) payable to a Seller (the “Withholding Seller”), then that Seller shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, give notice to the other Seller and the Purchaser (including details of the relevant facts and, so far as possible, details of the rate and basis of such withholding). |
15.11.3 | The Sellers and the Purchaser shall, and shall procure that the members of their respective groups shall (at the Withholding Seller’s cost), co-operate with each other in good faith and use all reasonable efforts to reduce or mitigate any Relevant Tax Deduction (or its amount) and /or to enable the Withholding Seller or the relevant Share Seller or Business Seller to obtain any available credit or refund in respect of such Relevant Tax Deduction, including, without limitation, making any available claim under an applicable double taxation treaty. |
15.11.4 | Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 15.11.3, the Sellers and the Purchaser shall co-operate in good faith to establish or agree the amount or basis of calculation of any Relevant Tax Deduction prior to Closing (and in this regard the Purchaser shall consider reasonably any relevant information or evidence provided or obtained by the Sellers) including, if requested by the Withholding Seller and at the Withholding Seller’s expense, by seeking to obtain a ruling or confirmation from a relevant Tax Authority, or obtaining an opinion from reputable local tax counsel or a firm of accountants of international standing satisfactory to the Purchaser (acting reasonably) and instructed jointly by the Withholding Seller and the Purchaser. |
15.11.5 | The Purchaser shall make any Relevant Tax Deduction in the minimum amount required by applicable law, provided that: |
(i) | if a double taxation treaty between the jurisdiction under the laws of which the Relevant Tax Deduction is required and the jurisdiction of residence of the Withholding Seller or the relevant Share Seller or Business Seller is in force, the Purchaser shall (and shall procure that any relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group shall) make any Relevant Tax Deduction in an amount not exceeding the rate specified in such double taxation treaty (which may be nil), provided that the Withholding Seller has provided the Purchaser with such evidence as is required under applicable law to establish the entitlement of the Withholding Seller (or relevant Share Seller or Business Seller) to the benefit of the applicable treaty; and |
(ii) | if an opinion from reputable local counsel or a firm of accountants of international standing has been obtained at the request of the |
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Withholding Seller as envisaged by Clause 15.11.4, the Purchaser shall (and shall procure that any relevant member of the Purchaser Group shall) make such Relevant Tax Deduction in an amount or on a basis which is consistent with that opinion (which may result in no withholding or deduction), provided that the Withholding Seller has indemnified the Purchaser and any relevant member of the Purchaser’s Group, to the Purchaser’s reasonable satisfaction, against any Liabilities arising (including any interest and penalties) should such opinion be wholly or partly incorrect. |
15.11.6 | The Purchaser shall promptly provide the Withholding Seller with evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Withholding Seller that a Relevant Tax Deduction has been made and an appropriate amount paid to the relevant Tax Authority. |
15.11.7 | If any Relevant Tax Deduction is required an additional sum shall be payable in accordance with Clause 15.11.1 only if and to the extent that such deduction or withholding would not have been required had the Purchaser been resident for Tax purposes only in the United Kingdom. |
15.12 | Structure of indemnity payments |
Where it is agreed or determined that an amount is payable by either Seller to the Purchaser or to another member of the Purchaser’s Group pursuant to any indemnity or covenant to pay in this Agreement, or as damages in respect of a breach of this Agreement, then both Sellers and the Purchaser shall consult in good faith for a period of not less than ten Business Days (or such longer or shorter period as the parties may agree) with a view to agreeing an acceptable arrangement for satisfying that obligation to pay the amount so claimed in an efficient manner that does not prejudice the interests of the Purchaser’s Group (which may involve, by way of example only, a subscription for deferred shares in the Purchaser or making an additional contribution to the Purchaser in respect of existing shares in the Purchaser). If both Sellers and the Purchaser fail to agree on any particular manner of payment during the course of such consultations (but not before), the Seller which is liable to make the payment under or in respect of this Agreement shall make that payment in cash to the person entitled to it.
15.13 | Changes to share rights |
15.13.1 | GlaxoSmithKline shall be entitled, by written notice to Novartis and the Purchaser not less than 20 Business Days before the Closing Date, to stipulate that, subject to the parties implementing the changes agreed pursuant to the final sentence of this clause 15.13.1, the A Shares which shall be issued to members of GlaxoSmithKline’s Group under this Agreement shall be split, before Closing, into two classes of Shares, referred to as “A1” and “A2” shares. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, GlaxoSmithKline shall be entitled to specify the rights attaching to each of these classes of shares, provided that the rights attaching to the A1 and A2 shares, in aggregate, may not in any respect exceed the rights attaching to the A Shares as set out in the Agreed Terms Shareholders’ |
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Agreement. If GlaxoSmithKline gives notice of the same, the parties shall promptly agree and implement such changes to the Agreed Terms Shareholders’ Agreement as are necessary to give effect to the division of the A Shares into “A1” and “A2” shares and to ensure that both Sellers will be in the same relative economic and governance position as they would have been in had the A Shares not been divided into two classes. |
15.13.2 | Novartis shall be entitled, by written notice to GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser not less than 20 Business Days before the Closing Date, to stipulate that, subject to the parties implementing the changes agreed pursuant to the final sentence of this clause 15.13.2, the B Shares which shall be issued to members of Novartis’s Group under this Agreement shall be split, before Closing, into two classes of Shares, referred to as “B1” and “B2” shares. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, Novartis shall be entitled to specify the rights attaching to each of these classes of shares, provided that the rights attaching to the B1 and B2 shares, in aggregate, may not in any respect exceed the rights attaching to the B Shares as set out in the Agreed Terms Shareholders’ Agreement. If Novartis gives notice of the same, the parties shall promptly agree and implement such changes to the Agreed Terms Shareholders’ Agreement as are necessary to give effect to the division of the B Shares into “B1” and “B2” shares and to ensure that both Sellers will be in the same relative economic and governance position as they would have been in had the B Shares not been divided into two classes. |
15.13.3 | GlaxoSmithKline shall be entitled, by written notice to Novartis and the Purchaser not less than 20 Business Days before the Closing Date, to stipulate that it will only have one shareholder in the Purchaser as at Closing. If GlaxoSmithKline gives notice of the same, the parties shall promptly agree such changes to the Agreed Terms Shareholders’ Agreement and Agreed Terms Articles of Association as are necessary to give effect to the fact that the A Shares will be held by just one shareholder as at Closing. |
15.13.4 | Novartis shall be entitled, by written notice to GlaxoSmithKline and the Purchaser not less than 20 Business Days before the Closing Date, to stipulate that it will only have one shareholder in the Purchaser as at Closing. If Novartis gives notice of the same, the parties shall promptly consult each other in good faith with a view to agreeing such changes to the Agreed Terms Shareholders’ Agreement and Agreed Terms Articles of Association as are necessary to give effect to the fact that the B Shares will be held by just one shareholder as at Closing |
15.14 | Notices |
15.14.1 | Any notice or other communication in connection with this Agreement (each, a “Notice”) shall be: |
(i) | in writing in English; |
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(ii) | delivered by hand, fax, or by courier using an internationally recognised courier company. |
15.14.2 | A Notice to GlaxoSmithKline shall be sent to such party at the following address, or such other person or address as GlaxoSmithKline may notify to the Purchaser from time to time: |
GlaxoSmithKline
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Fax: x00 (0)000 0000000
Attention: Company Secretary and General Counsel of Consumer Healthcare
with a copy to the GlaxoSmithKline’s Lawyers, marked for the urgent attention of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx (delivery of such copy shall not in itself constitute valid notice).
15.14.3 | A Notice to Novartis shall be sent to such party at the following address, or such other person or address as Novartis may notify to the Purchaser from time to time: |
Novartis
x/x Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx XX
Xxxxxxxx
XX-0000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx
Fax: x00 000000000
Attention: Head of Legal M&A, Novartis International AG
with a copy to Novartis’s Lawyers, marked for the urgent attention of Xxxxxxxx Bethlehem (delivery of such copy shall not in itself constitute valid notice).
15.14.4 | A Notice to the Purchaser shall, prior to Closing, be sent to each Seller at the addresses specified above, and, with effect from Closing, be sent to such party at the following address, or such other person or address as the Purchaser may notify to the Sellers from time to time: |
The Purchaser
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
000
Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Fax: x00 (0)000 0000000
Attention: Company Secretary and General Counsel of Consumer Healthcare
with a copy to GlaxoSmithKline’s Lawyers, marked for the urgent attention of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, and to Novartis’s Lawyers, marked for the urgent attention of Xxxxxxxx Bethlehem (delivery of such copy shall not in itself constitute valid notice).
15.14.5 | A Notice shall be effective upon receipt and shall be deemed to have been received: |
(i) | at the time of delivery, if delivered by hand or courier; or |
(ii) | at the time of transmission in legible form, if delivered by fax. |
15.15 | Invalidity or Conflict |
15.15.1 | If any provision in this Agreement shall be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, the provision shall apply with whatever deletion or modification is necessary so that the provision is legal, valid and enforceable and gives effect to the commercial intention of the parties. |
15.15.2 | To the extent it is not possible to delete or modify the provision, in whole or in part, under Clause 15.15.1, then such provision or part of it shall, to the extent that it is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, be deemed not to form part of this Agreement and the legality, validity and enforceability of the remainder of this Agreement shall, subject to any deletion or modification made under Clause 15.15.1, not be affected. |
15.15.3 | If there is any conflict between the terms of this Agreement and any of the Ancillary Agreements this Agreement shall prevail (as between the parties between this Agreement and as between any member of the relevant Seller’s Group and any member of the Purchaser’s Group) unless (i) such Ancillary Agreement expressly states that it overrides this Agreement in the relevant respect and (ii) that Seller and the Purchaser are either also parties to that Ancillary Agreement or otherwise expressly agree in writing that such Ancillary Agreement shall override this Agreement in that respect. |
15.15.4 | For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement is intended to limit or exclude the Liabilities of any party under any Ancillary Agreement (other than, to the extent expressly stated, the Tax Indemnity). |
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15.16 | Counterparts |
This Agreement may be entered into in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Any party may enter into this Agreement by executing any such counterpart. Delivery of a counterpart of this Agreement by email attachment shall be an effective mode of delivery.
15.17 | Governing Law and Submission to Jurisdiction |
15.17.1 | This Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, save as expressly referred to therein, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with the Agreement and such documents shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. |
15.17.2 | Each of the parties irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales are to have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, save as expressly referred to therein, and that accordingly any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Agreement and the documents to be entered into pursuant to it, save as expressly referred to therein, shall be brought in such courts. Each of the parties irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such courts and waives any objection to proceedings in any such court on the ground of venue or on the ground that proceedings have been brought in an inconvenient forum. |
15.18 | Appointment of Process Agent |
15.18.1 | Novartis hereby irrevocably appoints Hackwood Secretaries Limited of Xxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX as its agent to accept service of process in England and Wales in any legal action or proceedings arising out of this Agreement, service upon whom shall be deemed completed whether or not forwarded to or received by Novartis. |
15.18.2 | Novartis agrees to inform the Purchaser in writing of any change of address of such process agent within 28 days of such change. |
15.18.3 | If such process agent ceases to be able to act as such or to have an address in England and Wales, Novartis irrevocably agrees to appoint a new process agent in England and Wales and to deliver to the Purchaser within 14 days a copy of a written acceptance of appointment by the process agent. |
15.18.4 | Nothing in this Agreement shall affect the right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. |
This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning.
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Schedule 1
Details of the Share Sellers, Shares etc.
Part 1
GlaxoSmithKline Shares
Part A
(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name of Share Seller |
Name of Target Group Company |
Shares | ||
Glaxo Group Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Argentina S.A. | 84.2% | ||
Setfirst Limited |
15.8% | |||
Wellcome Limited (UK) | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare S.A. | 100% | ||
SmithKline Xxxxxxx Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Inc. (Canada) | 100% (common shares) | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Inc. |
100% (preference shares) | |||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare A/S | 100% | ||
Groupe GlaxoSmithKline SAS (France) | GlaxoSmithKline Sante Grand Public SAS | 100% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Beteiligungs GmbH (Germany) | GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG | 100% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG | GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare GmbH | 100% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare GmbH | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG | 88.89% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Holding B.V. | 11.11% |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name of Share Seller |
Name of Target Group Company |
Shares | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG | Panadol GmbH | 100% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG | Xxxx GmbH | 100% | ||
Xxxx GmbH | Xxxxxxx-Produktion GmbH | 100% (DM 2,500,000 shares) | ||
Panadol GmbH |
100% (DM 1,600,000 shares) | |||
Panadol GmbH |
100% (DM 1,500,000 shares) | |||
Setfirst Limited |
100% (DM 80,000 shares) | |||
Setfirst Limited |
100% (DM 40,000 shares) | |||
Setfirst Limited |
100% (DM 20,000 shares) | |||
Xxxx GmbH | Xxxx Naturarznei GmbH | 100% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare GmbH & Co. KG | Abtei Pharma Vertriebs GmbH | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Dungarvan Limited | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (Ireland) Limited | 100% |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name of Share Seller |
Name of Target Group Company |
Shares | ||
Glaxo Group Limited | Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxx (Ireland) Limited | 100% | ||
Glaxo Group Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Investments (Ireland) Limited | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Investments (Ireland) (No.2) | 100% | ||
SmithKline Xxxxxxx Limited (UK) | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare SpA | 100% | ||
Xxxxxxx Group plc (UK) | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Sdn. Bhd. | 100% | ||
S.R. One International B.V. | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Holding B.V. | 100% | ||
S.R. One International B.V. | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare B.V. | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare S.p.z.o.o. | 100% | ||
Glaxo Group Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare SRL | 100% | ||
Glaxo Group Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Pte. Limited | 100% | ||
Glaxo Group Limited | GlaxoSmithKline South Africa (Pty) Limited | 100% |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name of Share Seller |
Name of Target Group Company |
Shares | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare S.A. | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare A.B. | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare AG | 100% | ||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Trading Services Limited (UK) | 100% | ||
The Wellcome Foundation Limited (UK) | Wellcome Consumer Products Limited | 100% | ||
The Wellcome Foundation Limited (UK) | Wellcome Consumer Healthcare Limited (UK) | 100% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline LLC | Block Drug Company Inc. | 100% | ||
Block Drug Company Inc. | Block Drug Corporation | 100% | ||
Block Drug Company Inc. | Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Limited (UK) | 100% (common shares) | ||
Wellcome Limited |
100% (non-cumulative non-redeemable preference shares) | |||
GlaxoSmithKline LLC | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare LLC | 100% |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name of Share Seller |
Name of Target Group Company |
Shares | ||
Block Drug Company Inc. |
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Limited (UK) branches | 100% |
Part B
(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name |
Name of |
Shares | ||
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare LLC | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare L.P. | 0.4% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline LLC |
87.6% | |||
Sanofi-Aventis US |
12.0% | |||
GSK (China) Investment Co. Limited | The Sino-American Tianjin Xxxxx Xxxxx & French Laboratories Limited | 55% | ||
Tianjin Pharmaceutical Group Co. Limited | 20% | |||
Tianjin Xxxxx Xxx Pharmaceutical Group Corporation Limited | 25% | |||
Setfirst Limited | GlaxoSmithKline Algérie SPA | 99% | ||
Nominees / private individuals |
1% | |||
Interpharma Dienstleistungen Gmbh | Laboratoire Pharmaceutique Algérien LPA Production SPA | 99% | ||
Private individuals |
1% |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name |
Name of |
Shares | ||
Laboratoire Pharmaceutique Algérien LPA Production SPA |
Laboratoire Pharmaceutique Algérien SPA | 66% | ||
GlaxoSmithKline SAS |
33% | |||
Nominees / private individuals |
1% |
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Part 2
Novartis Shares
Part A
(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name |
Name of |
Shares | ||
Novartis AG | Novartis Consumer Health Australasia Pty Ltd | 100% | ||
Novartis AG | Novartis Consumer Health S.A. | 100% | ||
Novartis AG | Novartis Consumer Health Schweiz AG | 100% | ||
Novartis Consumer Health S.A. | N.V. Novartis Consumer Health S.A. | 99.33% | ||
Various minority shareholders | 0.67% | |||
Novartis Deutschland GmbH | Novartis Consumer Health GmbH | 51% | ||
Novartis Consumer Health S.A. |
49% | |||
Novartis Farma SpA | Novartis Consumer Health SpA | 100% | ||
Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. | Novartis Consumer Health S.A. | 100% | ||
Novartis Finance Corporation | Novartis Consumer Health, | 80% | ||
Novartis Consumer Health S.A. | Inc. | 20% |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name |
Name of |
Shares | ||
Novartis Groupe France S.A. | Novartis Santé Familiale SAS | 100% | ||
Novartis Holding AG | Ex-Lax, Inc. | 100% | ||
Novartis Pharma AG | Novartis Consumer Health Canada | 100% | ||
Novartis Portugal SGPS Lda | Novartis Consumer Health - Produtos Farmacêuticos | 100% | ||
Novartis UK Limited | Novartis Consumer Health UK Limited | 100% |
Part B
(1) |
(2) |
(3) | ||
Name of Share Seller |
Name of Joint Venture Entity |
Shares | ||
Novartis Consumer Health S.A. |
Novartis Consumer Health-Gebro GmbH | 60% | ||
Gebro Pharma GmbH |
40% |
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Schedule 2
The Properties
Part 1
GlaxoSmithKline Properties
Manufacturing and production facilities:
[***]
Research and development facilities:
[***]
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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Part 2
Novartis Properties
Manufacturing and production facilities:
1. | [***] |
2. | [***] |
3. | [***] |
4. | [***] |
Research and development facilities:
1. | [***] |
2. | [***] |
*** | Note: Confidential treatment has been requested with respect to the information contained within the [***] marking. Such portions have been omitted from this filing and have been filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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Part 3
Terms Relating to the Company Properties
1. | GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE COMPANY PROPERTIES |
1.1 | Interpretation |
The following further definitions apply in this Part 3 of Schedule 2:
“Company Landlord” means the person for the time being entitled to the reversion immediately expectant on the termination of the term granted by a Company Lease;
“Company Leased Properties” means the properties identified in Parts 1 and 2 of this Schedule 2 which, as at Closing, are held by a Target Group Company under a lease, licence or tenancy agreement, and “Company Leased Property” means any one of them;
“Company Leases” means the leases, licence documents or tenancy agreements under which the Company Leased Properties are held, including all documents supplemental to them, and “Company Lease” means any one of them;
“Company Owned Properties” means the properties identified in Parts 1 and 2 of this Schedule 2 in which the freehold estate (or nearest local law equivalent) is owned by a Target Group Company as at Closing, together (subject to Clause 2.3.2) with all buildings, structures, fixed plant, fixed machinery and fixed equipment thereon (except as excluded in Clause 2.3.2, and “Company Owned Property” means any one of them;
“Company Property Longstop Date” means the date on which a court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that a Company Third Party Consent has been lawfully refused or cannot be obtained and/or that the Purchaser may not acquire (directly or indirectly, acting through a subsidiary) the relevant Company Property; and
“Company Third Party Consents” means all consents, licences, approvals, permits, authorisations or waivers required from any Company Landlord, superior landlord and/or other third party, including any consents, licences, approvals, permits, authorisations or waivers required by any legislation or regulation or by any statutory, governmental, state, provincial or municipal bodies or authorities which are required under a Company Lease or otherwise in relation to any change of control, shareholders or directors of the relevant Target Group Company, and “Company Third Party Consent” means any one of them.
1.2 | Company Third Party Consents |
1.2.1 | This paragraph 1.2.1 applies to those Company Properties in relation to which a Company Third Party Consent is required, and if such Company Third Party Consent remains to be obtained as at the Closing Date this paragraph 1.2.1 shall continue to apply until the relevant Company Third |
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Party Consent shall have been obtained or until the Company Property Longstop Date. If any Company Third Party Consents are required: |
(i) | the Seller in relation to the Target Group Company which owns the Company Property in question shall make an application for, and shall use all reasonable endeavours to obtain each Company Third Party Consent as soon as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement and shall at all times keep the Purchaser informed of progress in obtaining such Company Third Party Consents; |
(ii) | the Purchaser and each Seller shall supply such information and references as may reasonably be required by a Company Landlord, any superior landlord or other relevant third party in connection with a Company Third Party Consent; |
(iii) | the Purchaser shall be responsible for and undertake to pay, or procure the giving of undertakings to pay the professional and other fees of any Company Landlord, any superior landlord or other relevant person (including any Tax or disbursements in respect of such fees but excluding any Tax on the actual net income, profit or gains of the Company Landlord, any superior landlord or any other relevant person) properly incurred in connection with any application for Company Third Party Consents, whether or not such Company Third Party Consents are given; and |
(iv) | in respect of the period after Closing only, the Purchaser shall enter into such covenants for the payment of the rent under the Company Lease and for the observance and performance of the covenants and conditions contained in the Company Lease as may reasonably be required by the Company Landlord, any superior landlord or other relevant third party. |
1.2.2 | Each Seller shall give written notice to the other Seller as soon as reasonably practicable after obtaining any Company Third Party Consents which shall be accompanied by a copy of such consent. |
1.2.3 | Save as set out in paragraph 1.2.1(iii) of this Part 3 of Schedule 2, the Seller in relation to the Target Group Company which owns the Company Property in question shall pay any moneys or provide or procure the giving of any guarantees or other security, in each case as may be lawfully required by a Company Landlord, superior landlord or other relevant third party in connection with the obtaining of the Company Third Party Consents, provided that the Purchaser shall indemnify and keep indemnified that Seller in an amount equal to: |
(i) | any moneys required to be paid by that Seller pursuant to this paragraph; and |
(ii) | any Liabilities under any guarantees or other security given or procured by that Seller pursuant to this paragraph 1.2.3 and arising out of, or in |
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connection with, an act or omission on the part of the Purchaser or (following Closing) the relevant Target Group Company, |
and where the Company Landlord, superior landlord or other relevant third party lawfully requires any guarantees or other security to be given by the person who is acquiring a membership interest in respect of the relevant Target Group Company, the Purchaser shall provide or procure the giving of any such guarantees or security. |
1.3 | Company Third Party Consent not Obtained |
1.3.1 | If a Company Third Party Consent has been refused or otherwise not obtained within 12 months following the Closing Date, the Sellers may (acting reasonably) agree that an application is to be made to a court of competent jurisdiction that the relevant Company Third Party Consent has been unreasonably withheld or delayed. |
1.3.2 | If an application is to be made to a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to paragraph 1.3.1 of this Part 3 of Schedule 2: |
(i) | the proceedings shall be brought by, and prosecuted at the expense of the Purchaser; |
(ii) | the Sellers shall provide all such assistance in connection with such proceedings as the Purchaser (acting reasonably) may require in the interests of obtaining the Company Third Party Consent; and |
(iii) | provided that the Seller has complied with its obligation under paragraph 1.2.1(i) of this Part 3 of Schedule 2, the Purchaser shall indemnify and keep indemnified the Seller for any costs and expenses properly incurred in connection with any such assistance provided by the Seller. |
1.3.3 | If a Company Third Party Consent has not been obtained by the Company Property Longstop Date then the relevant Seller in relation to the Target Group Company which owns the Company Property in question shall indemnify and keep indemnified the Purchaser against all Losses arising out of or in connection with the failure to obtain such Company Third Party Consent. |
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Part 4
Terms Relating to the Transferred Properties
1. | GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TRANSFERRED PROPERTIES |
1.1 | Interpretation |
The following further definitions apply in this Part 4 of Schedule 2:
“Expert” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.3.2(i) of this Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Landlord” means the person for the time being entitled to the reversion immediately expectant on the termination of the term granted by a Lease;
“Leases” means the leases, licences or tenancy agreements under which the Transferred Leased Properties are held by the relevant member of the Seller’s Group, including all documents supplemental to them, and “Lease” means any one of them;
“Letting Document” means any lease, licence or tenancy agreement to which a Transferred Property is subject;
“Licence” means a right in favour of the Purchaser and all persons authorised by it to occupy the Licensed Premises during the Licence Period pursuant to this Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Licence Fee” means the payments to be made by the Purchaser to the Seller’s Group pursuant to paragraph 1.4.4 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Licence Period” means a period, which may be different for each of the Licensed Premises, commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the earliest of the following dates:
(i) | the date on which this Agreement is terminated by whatever means whether in whole or in relation to the relevant Licensed Premises; |
(ii) | the date immediately preceding the date on which the term of the relevant Lease ends by whatever means; |
(iii) | the date of Property Transfer Completion in relation to the relevant Transferred Property; and |
(iv) | the Property Longstop Date; |
“Licensed Premises” means any of the Transferred Properties for which all relevant Property Third Party Consents have not been obtained prior to, or at, the Closing Date;
“President” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.3.2(ii) of this Part 4 of Schedule 2;
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“Property Agreed Terms” means a transfer in the terms agreed between the Sellers, the Purchaser and any relevant third party or determined pursuant to paragraph 1.3.2 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2 and signed for identification by or on behalf of the Sellers and by or on behalf of the Purchaser from time to time before or after the date of this Agreement, with such alterations as may be agreed from time to time in writing between the Sellers, the Purchaser and any relevant third party;
“Property Longstop Date” means the date on which a court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that a Property Third Party Consent has been lawfully refused;
“Property Third Party Consents” means all consents, licences, approvals, permits, authorisations or waivers required from any Landlord, superior landlord and/or other third party, including any consents, licences, approvals, permits, authorisations or waivers required by any legislation or regulation or by any statutory, governmental, state, provincial or municipal bodies or authorities for or in connection with the transfer of a Transferred Property by the relevant member of the Seller’s Group to the Purchaser and includes (where the context so admits) Sublease Consents;
“Property Transfer Completion” means the completion of the transfer of a Transferred Property under this Agreement, where such completion does not take place on the Closing Date because any relevant Property Third Party Consents have not been obtained on or prior to such date;
“Property Transfer Completion Date” means the date of Property Transfer Completion in accordance with paragraph 1.7 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“Registered Title” means the registered title relating to a Transferred Property;
“Sublease Consent” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 1.11.2 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2;
“transfer”, for the purposes of this Part 4 of Schedule 2 only, means in respect of a Transferred Leased Property, the transfer or assignment of the relevant Lease or Leases, and in the case of a Transferred Owned Property the transfer thereof, and “a transfer” means and includes any instruments, deeds or agreements effecting such transfer;
“Transferred Leased Properties” means the leasehold properties identified in Parts 1 and 2 of this Schedule 2 which are not owned by a Target Group Company as at Closing, and “Transferred Leased Property” means any one of them; and
“Transferred Owned Properties” means the properties identified in Parts 1 and 2 of this Schedule 2 in which the freehold estate (or nearest local law equivalent) is not owned by a Target Group Company as at Closing, together (subject to Clause 2.3.2) with all buildings, structures, fixed plant, fixed machinery and fixed equipment thereon (except as excluded in Clause 2.3.2), and “Transferred Owned Property” mean any one of them.
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1.2 | Each of the Transferred Properties and/or the Leases thereof shall be transferred subject to the terms set out in this Part 4 of Schedule 2 and all other applicable terms of this Agreement. |
1.3 | Pre-Closing |
1.3.1 | Prior to Closing, the Business Sellers and the Purchaser shall agree (acting reasonably) the form of all documents on Property Agreed Terms necessary for the transfer of each of the Transferred Properties pursuant to the terms set out in this Part 4 of Schedule 2 and all other applicable terms of this Agreement. |
1.3.2 | Any dispute arising out of or connected with paragraph 1.3.1 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2 which is not resolved by agreement between the parties within nine months of such dispute arising shall be referred for and resolved by expert determination as follows: |
(i) | either Seller may initiate an expert reference under this provision by proposing to the other Seller the appointment of an expert (the “Expert”); |
(ii) | the Expert shall either be the nearest equivalent to a chartered surveyor in the relevant jurisdiction or (in relation to legal issues) a single QC (or equivalent), in each case with no less than 15 years’ post-qualification experience in commercial real estate in the relevant jurisdiction chosen by agreement between the Sellers or, failing agreement within 14 days of the initiation of the reference, by the President for the time being of the relevant professional body to which the Expert belongs (the “President”) on the application of either Seller; |
(iii) | the Sellers shall request that the Expert determines the referred dispute within ten days of receiving the reference; |
(iv) | if the Expert has been appointed but is unable or unwilling to complete the reference, another Expert shall be appointed by agreement between the Sellers or, failing agreement within 7 days of the parties being notified that the Expert is unable or unwilling to complete the reference, by the President on the application of either party; |
(v) | the Expert shall act as an expert and not as an arbitrator; |
(vi) | the Sellers shall have the right to make representations and submissions to the Expert, but there will be no formal hearing; |
(vii) | the Sellers shall make all relevant documents and information within their control available to the Expert; |
(viii) | the costs of the Expert shall be borne by the Sellers in equal shares; and |
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(ix) | the decision of the Expert shall, in the absence of fraud or manifest error, be final and binding on the parties. |
1.3.3 | This paragraph 1.3.3 applies to those Transferred Properties in relation to which a Property Third Party Consent is required and if such Property Third Party Consent remains to be obtained as at the Closing Date this paragraph 1.3.3 shall continue to apply until the relevant Property Third Party Consent shall have been obtained or until the Property Longstop Date. If any Property Third Party Consents are required: |
(i) | the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question shall make an application for, and shall use all reasonable endeavours to obtain each Property Third Party Consent as soon as reasonably practicable following the date of this Agreement for the transfer of the Transferred Property and shall, at all times, keep the Purchaser and the other Seller informed of progress in obtaining such Property Third Party Consents; |
(ii) | the Purchaser and each Seller shall supply such information and references as may reasonably be required by a Landlord, any superior landlord or other relevant third party in connection with a Property Third Party Consent; |
(iii) | in respect of the period after Closing only, the Purchaser shall enter into such covenants for the payment of the rent in respect of the Transferred Leased Properties and for the observance and performance of the covenants and conditions on the part of the lessee contained in any Lease as may reasonably be required by the Landlord, any superior landlord or other relevant third party; |
(iv) | if reasonably required by a Landlord, any superior landlord or any other relevant third party, the Purchaser shall provide a rent deposit or the Purchaser shall procure that a surety acceptable to such person guarantees the Purchaser’s obligations under the Lease following the transfer of the relevant Transferred Leased Property; and |
(v) | the Purchaser shall be responsible for and undertake to pay, or procure the giving of undertakings to pay the professional and other fees of any Landlord, any superior landlord or other relevant person (including any Tax or disbursements in respect of such fees but excluding any Tax on the actual net income, profit or gains of the Landlord, any superior landlord or any other relevant person) properly in connection with any application for Property Third Party Consents, whether or not such Property Third Party Consents are given. |
1.3.4 | Each Seller shall give written notice to each other Seller as soon as reasonably practicable after obtaining any Property Third Party Consents which shall be accompanied by a copy of such consent. |
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1.3.5 | Subject to the Purchaser complying with its obligations under paragraphs 1.3.3(iii) to (v) of this Part 4 of this Schedule 2, the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question shall pay, or shall procure that a member of the Seller’s Group pays, any moneys or provide or procure the giving of any guarantees or other security, in each case as may be lawfully required by a Landlord, superior landlord or other relevant third party in connection with the obtaining of the Property Third Party Consents, provided that the Purchaser shall indemnify and keep indemnified such Seller in an amount equal to: |
(i) | any moneys required to be paid or procured to be paid by the Seller pursuant to this paragraph; and |
(ii) | any Liabilities under any guarantees or other security given or procured by the Seller pursuant to this paragraph and arising out of, or in connection with, an act or omission on the part of the Purchaser. |
1.4 | Licence |
1.4.1 | In the event that any Property Third Party Consents are not obtained on or before the Closing Date, notwithstanding the terms of the Leases, the Seller shall procure that the owner of the Transferred Property in question allows the Purchaser to occupy the Licensed Premises for the Licence Period relating to the relevant Licensed Premises on the terms set out in this paragraph 1.4. |
1.4.2 | The Purchaser acknowledges that the grant of each Licence may amount to a breach of the terms of the relevant Lease. |
1.4.3 | The Licence of each Licensed Premises is granted: |
(i) | subject to all of the matters to which the relevant Leases relating to the Transferred Leased Property are subject; |
(ii) | subject to the matters referred to in the Registered Title and the Letting Documents; |
(iii) | out of whatever right, title and interest that the owner of the Transferred Property has in the Licensed Premises and/or under the relevant Lease; |
(iv) | in such state of repair and condition as the Licensed Premises may be in as at the date on which the relevant Licence is granted; and |
(v) | without making any statement or representation that the owner of the Transferred Property is entitled to grant it. |
1.4.4 | From Closing and pending Property Transfer Completion, the Purchaser shall pay to the owner of the Transferred Property in question a “Licence Fee” equivalent to: |
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(i) | all rents and other charges (including VAT due thereon under the relevant Lease where payable at the date of this Agreement by the relevant owner) payable in respect of the Licensed Premises; and |
(ii) | all outgoings (including VAT due thereon under the relevant Lease) (including, but not limited to, rates, service charges, management charges, levies, air-conditioning charges, insurance, heating, electricity, gas, telecommunications and other services and the cost of complying with fire and other statutory regulations) payable by the relevant owner in respect of the Licensed Premises or charged upon the owner or occupier of the Licensed Premises, |
such payments to be made not less than ten Business Days before any such sum falls due subject to the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question giving the Purchaser not less than ten Business Days’ prior written notice to that effect. To the extent that there has been a prepayment at the Closing Date of the amounts in paragraphs 1.4.4(i) and (ii) of this Part 4 of Schedule 2 by the owner of the Transferred Property which is not otherwise accounted for in the Closing Statement, the Purchaser shall pay to such owner within ten Business Days of written demand an amount equal to the amount of such prepayment in respect of any period after the Closing Date.
1.4.5 | Throughout the Licence Period, the Purchaser shall, in respect of the Licensed Premises only: |
(i) | keep the Licensed Premises in no worse a state of repair than they are in at the Closing Date, fair wear and tear excepted; |
(ii) | observe and perform the covenants and conditions on the part of the lessee in the relevant Lease under which the Licensed Premises are held (other than in relation to the payment of rent and other charges paid as part of the Licence Fee and subject to paragraph 1.4.5(i) of this Part 4 of Schedule 2); and |
(iii) | use the Licensed Premises only in accordance with the terms of the Lease of the relevant Licensed Premises and in compliance with the law and regulations where the relevant Licensed Premises is located (save for any such law or regulation that prohibits the use of the Licensed Premises without a Property Third Party Consent having been obtained). |
1.4.6 | The Purchaser and each Seller agrees that: |
(i) | the Licence is personal to the Purchaser and may only be exercised by the Purchaser and those authorised by it; |
(ii) | (subject to paragraph 1.4.5 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2) the Purchaser and all persons authorised by it are permitted to have the unrestricted use and occupation of the Licensed Premises; and |
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(iii) | no relationship of landlord and tenant is created as a result of the Licence. |
1.4.7 | If a Landlord or any other relevant third party commences proceedings, raises any lawful objection or takes any other action in connection with the Purchaser’s occupation or use of any of the Licensed Premises pending the obtaining of the relevant Property Third Party Consents, the Purchaser and the Sellers shall meet and negotiate in good faith in order to determine which steps should be taken in respect of the relevant Transferred Property. |
1.4.8 | Throughout the Licence Period, the Purchaser shall, in respect of the Licensed Premises only, indemnify and keep indemnified the owner of the Transferred Property in question from and against any Licence Fee, any Losses arising from the Licence and/or as a result of the occupation of the Licensed Premises by the Purchaser. |
1.4.9 | The Purchaser and the Sellers shall each inform each other forthwith of any notice received by any of them in relation to any of the Licensed Premises from the Landlord or any other third party. |
1.5 | Determination of Licence |
1.5.1 | The Licence in relation to any one or more of the Licensed Premises shall determine: |
(i) | immediately if the Property Longstop Date occurs; |
(ii) | by the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question giving at least three months’ prior written notice to the Purchaser if the Purchaser fails to make the payment of the Licence Fee for a period of one month or is otherwise in material breach of the provisions of the Licence for a continuous period of one month following written notification by such Seller to the Purchaser of the same, and in either case the Purchaser has failed to remedy the relevant failure to pay or to remedy the breach prior to the expiry of the three month notice period or, if the breach is not capable of remedy within such three month period, the Purchaser has failed to commence to remedy the breach within that period and thereafter failed diligently to continue with such remedy; or |
(iii) | if the relevant Landlord in relation to a Transferred Leased Property prosecutes forfeiture proceedings (or the nearest local law equivalent) as a result of the occupation by the Purchaser of the Licensed Premises then the parties shall either: |
(a) | agree that the Licence shall determine on a date to be agreed between the parties (acting reasonably); or |
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(b) | in the absence of such agreement, either party may require a QC (or equivalent) with no less than 15 years’ post-qualification experience in commercial real estate in the relevant jurisdiction to be appointed (such appointment to be by agreement between the Sellers or, failing agreement, within 14 days, by the President (as defined in paragraph 1.3.2(ii) of this Part 4 of Schedule 2)). Should the QC determine that there is more than a 50% chance of the proceedings in question resulting in the Lease in question being forfeited (or equivalent), then the Licence shall determine on a date to be agreed between the Sellers (acting reasonably) in order to afford the relevant Seller the opportunity to apply for relief from forfeiture or otherwise challenge the proceedings in question on the basis that any breach resulting from the grant of the Licence has been cured, |
provided that this paragraph 1.5.1(iii) shall at all times operate without prejudice to paragraphs 1.4.7, 1.5.1(i) and 1.12. |
1.5.2 | If, for whatever reason, the Licence Period comes to an end in relation to any of the Licensed Premises then: |
(i) | the Licence insofar as it relates to the relevant Licensed Premises shall be severable from the remainder of this Agreement and this Agreement shall otherwise remain in full force and effect; |
(ii) | the Purchaser shall be entitled to a refund in respect of any Licence Fee prior to the termination of the Licence for the Licensed Premises and which relates to the period following termination of the Licence; |
(iii) | it shall not prejudice or affect any claim in respect of any prior breach of this Agreement by the Purchaser in respect of that Licensed Premises; and |
(iv) | unless the Licence Period comes to an end due to Property Transfer Completion in respect of the relevant Licensed Premises taking place, the Purchaser shall: |
(a) | vacate the Licensed Premises forthwith; |
(b) | remove from the Licensed Premises all items belonging to it; |
(c) | leave the Licensed Premises in a clean and tidy condition; and |
(d) | at the request of the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question, reinstate the Licensed Premises or any part or parts thereof to at least as good a state of repair or condition as at Closing, fair wear and tear excepted. |
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1.6 | Closing |
1.6.1 | The transfer of the Transferred Property shall only take place on Closing to the extent that all necessary Property Third Party Consents in respect of the relevant transfer have been obtained prior to the Closing Date. |
1.6.2 | Completion of the transfer of the Transferred Property shall take place at such place (or places) as the parties may agree. |
1.7 | Property Transfer Completion |
Property Transfer Completion in respect of a Transferred Property shall take place on the date falling 15 Business Days following the grant of all relevant Property Third Party Consents for such Transferred Property or on such other date as the parties shall agree acting reasonably (but not before the Closing Date).
1.8 | General Transfer Provisions |
1.8.1 | Each Seller shall procure that each member of that Seller’s Group shall transfer the Transferred Property to the Purchaser subject to the terms set out in this Part 4 of Schedule 2 and all other applicable terms of this Agreement on the Closing Date or (if later) Property Transfer Completion. |
1.8.2 | The Transferred Property is sold subject to the Letting Documents (if any) but otherwise with vacant possession together with all buildings, structures, fixed plant, fixed machinery and fixed equipment thereon except as excluded in Clause 2.3.2. |
1.8.3 | The transfer of each Transferred Property shall contain covenants with the relevant transferor by the Purchaser to comply with the: |
(i) | obligations arising from the matters mentioned in the Registered Title; and |
(ii) | obligations on the part of the landlord arising under the Letting Documents (if any), |
insofar as the relevant transferor may remain liable directly or indirectly for them after the Closing Date or Property Transfer Completion (as the case may be) and to indemnify and keep indemnified the relevant transferor against any non-compliance, and a further covenant by the Purchaser to indemnify the relevant transferor against any liability arising under an authorised guarantee agreement (or equivalent) entered into by the relevant transferor.
1.8.4 | The transfer of each Transferred Property shall be on the nearest equivalent terms that exist under local (national) law to a transfer of real property in England and Wales made with full title guarantee save that where it is a Transferred Leased Property the covenant set out in Section 4(2)(b) of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Xxx 0000 shall |
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not extend to the imposition on the transferor of liability for any subsisting breach of obligation relating to the physical state of the Transferred Leased Property. |
1.8.5 | On the Closing Date or Property Transfer Completion (as the case may be) in respect of each of the Transferred Properties: |
(i) | each Seller shall procure that each relevant transferor delivers to the Purchaser a duly executed transfer in respect of the relevant Transferred Property on Property Agreed Terms; and |
(ii) | the Purchaser shall deliver to the Seller a duly executed transfer in respect of the relevant Transferred Property on Property Agreed Terms. |
1.8.6 | The Purchaser shall procure that all transfers are duly stamped, filed or registered at the relevant registries on a timely basis and within the statutory period (if any) and the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question shall promptly assist the Purchaser with any requisitions or enquiries raised in relation thereto. Any notarial fees and registration, stamp and transfer taxes and duties (or their equivalents in any jurisdiction) in connection with such transfers shall be borne as provided in Clause 15.8. |
1.9 | Subjections |
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement:
1.9.1 | Each of the Transferred Properties is transferred subject to and (where appropriate) with the benefit of the following matters (to the extent applicable under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction): |
(i) | any unregistered interest which overrides first registration under Schedule 1 of the Land Registration Act 2002 (the “2002 Act”) and any interest which fall within Section 11(4)(c) of the 2002 Act and any unregistered interests which override registered dispositions under Schedule 3 of the 2002 Act or their local jurisdiction equivalent (if any); |
(ii) | such unregistered interests as may affect that Transferred Property to the extent and for so long as they are preserved by the transitional provisions of Schedule 12 of the 2002 Act or its local jurisdiction equivalent (if any); |
(iii) | all matters contained or referred to in the Letting Documents; |
(iv) | all matters contained or referred to in the Property, Proprietorship and Charges registers (or equivalent entries and registers) of the Registered Title relating to that Transferred Property (except fixed and floating charges securing money or liabilities); |
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(v) | all exceptions, reservations, rights, easements, quasi-easements, wayleaves, rent charges, covenants, conditions, declarations, leases, tenancies (including statutory tenancies), licences and agreements affecting the same; |
(vi) | (in the case of a leasehold property) the rents, covenants and conditions reserved by or contained in the Lease under which the same is respectively held; |
(vii) | all local land charges (whether or not registered before the date of this Agreement) and all matters capable of registration as local land charges (whether or not actually registered) or their local jurisdiction equivalent (if any); |
(viii) | all notices served and orders, demands, proposals, or requirements made by any local or other public or competent authority; |
(ix) | all actual or proposed orders, directions, plans, notices, instruments, charges, restrictions, conditions, agreements or other matters arising under any statute relating to town and country planning and any laws and regulations intended to control or regulate the construction, demolition, alteration or change of use of land or buildings or to preserve or protect the environment; and |
(x) | matters which are fairly disclosed by the Disclosure Letter. |
1.9.2 | The Purchaser is deemed to acquire with full knowledge of the matters referred to in paragraph 1.9.1 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2. |
1.9.3 | Each Seller shall procure that any and all financial charges affecting the Transferred Properties will be discharged on or before the date on which such Transferred Property is to be transferred to the Purchaser, and shall provide to the Purchaser and the other Seller such evidence as the Purchaser or the other Seller may reasonably require in order to satisfy itself that such discharge has been effected and to remove any notices or entries in respect of such charges from any relevant register. |
1.9.4 | The Sellers do not give any warranty as to the use or area of any of the Transferred Properties and shall not be required to define the boundaries of any of the Transferred Properties. The transfer of the Transferred Properties shall not be annulled, nor shall any compensation be allowed or payable, in respect of any error in respect of any such matters. |
1.9.5 | On the date on which the transfer of each Transferred Property is completed, the Seller in relation to the Transferred Property in question shall deliver to the Purchaser (or such other third party as the Purchaser may reasonably direct) all of the original documents in the possession of the Seller or the transferor of the Transferred Property in question in respect of each of the Transferred Properties. |
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1.9.6 | The Purchaser shall not raise any requisition on matters arising after the date of this Agreement, except where the subject matter of the requisition is registered at the Land Registry (or equivalent local registry) after the date of this Agreement and does not relate to any matter referred to in paragraph 1.9.1 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2. |
1.9.7 | To the extent that deposit guarantees have been given by a Seller or any member of a Seller’s Group in respect of any Transferred Property and/or insofar as a Seller or any member of a Seller’s Group retains any residual or ongoing liabilities or obligations including performance guarantees in connection with the Transferred Property, the Purchaser shall use all reasonable endeavours to procure that the Seller or the relevant member of the Seller’s Group is released from all deposit guarantees and all other residual or ongoing liabilities or obligations and, insofar as the counterparties thereto shall properly and lawfully refuse to give any such release, the Purchaser shall indemnify and keep indemnified that Seller (or the member of that Seller’s Group) in an amount equal to any Liabilities under any such residual or ongoing liabilities or obligations arising out of, or in connection with, an act or omission on the part of the Purchaser. |
1.10 | Insurance |
The Sellers shall procure that any existing insurance (if any) on the Transferred Properties shall be maintained and that any such insurance will be cancelled with effect from the Closing Date or, if later, the date of Property Transfer Completion (as the case may be) unless agreed otherwise with the Purchaser.
1.11 | Grant of Sublease |
If a Seller is unable to obtain a Property Third Party Consent from a Landlord for the transfer of a Transferred Leased Property the provisions of this paragraph 1.11 of Part 4 of Schedule 2 shall apply:
1.11.1 | where a Lease permits a sublease to be granted without the requirement for any Property Third Party Consent from the Landlord, the Seller shall procure that the owner of the Transferred Property in question shall grant to the Purchaser a sublease of the Transferred Leased Property on the same rent and other terms and conditions as the Lease of the Transferred Leased Property with such changes as are appropriate and agreed between the Seller in relation to the Transferred Leased Property in question and the Purchaser acting reasonably and the term of the sublease shall be the term of such Lease less one day; and |
1.11.2 | where the Transferred Leased Property is held from a Landlord on terms which require the consent of the Landlord to: |
(i) | the grant of a sublease; or |
(ii) | the terms on which a sublease is granted, |
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the Seller in relation to the Transferred Leased Property in question shall use all reasonable endeavours to obtain such consent (“Sublease Consent”) from such Landlord. Where the Seller is able to obtain the appropriate Sublease Consent (or, where applicable, the court of competent jurisdiction referred to in paragraph 1.12.1 of this Part 4 of Schedule 2 declares that the Sublease Consent has been unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Seller shall procure that the owner of the Transferred Property in question shall grant to the Purchaser a sublease of the Transferred Leased Property on the same rent and other terms and conditions as the Lease of the Transferred Leased Property with such changes as are appropriate and agreed between the Seller and the Purchaser acting reasonably and the term of the sublease shall be the term of such Lease less one day.
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