Sale and Purchase of Assets (a) At Closing, Sellers shall convey, sell, transfer, assign and deliver unto Purchaser and its successors and assigns forever, all of the right, title and interest of Sellers in the following properties and assets owned, used or held for use by Sellers in connection with the Acquired Business or, to the extent relating to the Acquired Business, by any affiliates of Sellers (hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the "Purchased Assets"): (i) all tangible personal property used or held for use exclusively in connection with the Acquired Business, including without limitation all machinery, equipment, parts, tooling, vehicles, furniture, leasehold improvements, fixtures, office equipment, supplies and other items of tangible Personal property owned by Sellers and used or held for use exclusively in connection with the Acquired Business, including without limitation all such personal property located in, at or on the Purchaser's facilities located in Roseland, New Jersey, and all of the Sellers' rights and benefits under any leases and with respect to any of the foregoing items, all of the material foregoing items having been described on Schedule 1.1(a)(i) hereto (collectively, the "Equipment"); (ii) all intangible assets, including without limitation the brand names, trademarks, copyrights and registrations and applications for registrations thereof listed on Schedule 1.1 (a) (ii) and all associated goodwill (the "Principal Trademarks") and any and all patents, copyrights, trade names, trade secrets, service marks, customer lists, relationships and arrangements with suppliers (including without limitation suppliers of raw materials), customers, authors and designers, sales literature, inventions, formulae, technology, UPC codes, processes and computer software, used or held for use exclusively in connection with the Acquired Business and all licenses, agreements, applications and registrations with respect to any of the foregoing, together with any goodwill associated therewith (collectively with the Principal Trademarks, the "Intellectual Property"); (iii) all rights and benefits of Sellers under all contracts, leases, agreements, licenses, commitments (collectively, "Contracts") (i) described on Schedule 3.1(j) hereto or (ii) that (A) relate exclusively to the Acquired Business, (B) under the terms of this Agreement are not required to be disclosed pursuant to Section 3.1(j), and (C) have been entered into in the ordinary course of the Acquired Business and are consistent in nature and scope with past practices of the Acquired Business (collectively, the "Assumed Contracts"), provided, however, that the Assumed Contracts shall not include the Contracts identified on Schedule 1.1(a)(iii) hereto (the "Seller Contracts"); (iv) except as provided in Section 7.11, all inventory held for resale and all raw materials, work in process, finished products, shipments in transit, wrapping, supply and packaging items related exclusively to the Acquired Business (collectively, the "Inventory"); (v) all licenses, authorizations, permits and other approvals issued by any governmental agency, public or self-regulatory authority, and all applications therefor pending, used or held for use exclusively in connection with the Acquired Business; (vi) all blueprints, designs, drawings, patterns, specifications, work plans and scheduling procedures, exclusively related to, or exclusively required or used in connection with, the production of products and products in development of the Acquired Business; (vii) all books, records, files and correspondence (whether in original or photostatic form) to the extent used or held for use in connection with, or relating to the Acquired Business, including lists of past customers and suppliers; (viii) all goodwill associated with or attributable to the Acquired Business; and (ix) any other tangible asset owned by Sellers and used or held for use exclusively in connection with the Acquired Business which is necessary to operate the Acquired Business as presently conducted (other than the Excluded Assets, as hereafter defined). (b) To the extent any asset of the type set forth in Section 1.1(a), other than any Excluded Assets, related exclusively to the Acquired Business is owned, used or held for use by any affiliate of Seller, such asset is included with the term "Purchased Assets" and Sellers shall cause such affiliate to convey such assets to Purchaser on the Closing Date in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1.1(a), the Purchased Assets shall not include any right, title or interest of Sellers or their affiliates in, to or under any of the following properties, assets or items (collectively, the "Excluded Assets"): (i) cash, including bank balances and bank accounts, cash equivalents and similar type items on hand on the Closing Date; (ii) all accounts and notes receivable (including without limitation any claims, remedies, and other rights related thereto) entered into prior to the Closing Date and relating to the Acquired Business; (iii) the Tax returns of Seller; (iv) all refunds of Taxes to the extent that Taxes being refunded were an Excluded Liability; (v) the articles or certificate of incorporation and by-laws of Sellers and the corporate minutes, corporate seals and stock books of Sellers; (vi) all refunds, deposits, prepayments or prepaid expenses (including any prepaid insurance premiums); (vii) all rights to insurance or indemnity, and all claims, causes of action, rights of recovery or set-off of any kind and against any person, relating to or covering the Acquired Business before the Closing or related to the Excluded Assets; and (viii) any franchise tax or sales and use permits of Sellers.
Purchase and Sale of Assets Assumption of Liabilities 8 2.1 Purchase and Sale of Assets 8 2.2 Excluded Assets 10 2.3 Assumption of Liabilities 11 2.4 Excluded Liabilities 12 2.5 Further Conveyances and Assumptions; Consent of Third Parties 12 2.6 Purchase Price Allocation 13
Purchase of Assets 11 3.1 Assets Purchased by Assuming Bank 11 3.2 Asset Purchase Price 11 3.3 Manner of Conveyance; Limited Warranty; Nonrecourse; Etc. 12 3.4 Puts of Assets to the Receiver 12 3.5 Assets Not Purchased by Assuming Bank 13 3.6 Assets Essential to Receiver 15
Assignment of Assets Subject to Sections 1.1 and 1.2, Assignor does hereby grant, assign, bargain, sell and transfer to Assignee, its successors and assigns, in trust, for the benefit of all the Assignor’s creditors generally, all of the property and assets of Assignor of every kind and nature wherever situated, whether in possession, reversion, remainder or expectancy, both real and personal, and any interest or equity therein not exempt from the enforcement of a money judgment, including, without limitation, all inventory, merchandise, goods, furniture, fixtures, machinery, equipment, raw materials, work in process, accounts, general intangibles, intellectual property, deposits, books, records, fixtures, cash on hand, bank accounts, tax refunds, all choses in action, insurance policies and refunds and all other property of every kind and nature owned by Assignor, or in which Assignor has an interest (the “Assignment Estate”).
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Purchase of Assets, etc The Borrower will not, nor will permit any of its respective Subsidiaries to, wind up, liquidate or dissolve its affairs or enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation, or convey, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its property or assets, or enter into any sale-leaseback transactions, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one or a series of related transactions) any part of the property or assets (other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials and equipment in the ordinary course of business) of any Person or agree to do any of the foregoing at any future time, except that the following shall be permitted: (i) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may lease (as lessee) or license (as licensee) real or personal property (including intellectual property) in the ordinary course of business (so long as any such lease or license does not create a Capitalized Lease Obligation); (ii) Capital Expenditures by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (iii) any Investments permitted pursuant to Section 10.05; (iv) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary course of business, sell or otherwise dispose of assets (excluding capital stock of, or other Equity Interests in, Subsidiaries and joint ventures) which, in the reasonable opinion of such Person, are obsolete, uneconomic or worn-out; (v) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell assets (other than (I) the capital stock or other Equity Interests of any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary unless all of the capital stock or other Equity Interests of such Wholly-Owned Subsidiary are sold in accordance with this clause (v) and (II) assets subject to a Contemplated Asset Sale (which shall be governed by Section 10.02(xviii)), so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is in an arm’s-length transaction and the Borrower or the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (x) except for customary post-closing adjustments (to be paid in cash within 180 days following the closing of the respective sale or disposition), at least 75% of the total consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale or disposition (provided that sales of assets for aggregate consideration of $20,000,000 (taking the Fair Market Value of any non-cash consideration) in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower shall not be subject to the minimum cash requirement set forth above in this subclause (x)), (y) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(b) and (z) the aggregate amount of the proceeds received from all assets sold pursuant to this clause (v) shall not exceed $150,000,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower; (vi) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or discount, in each case without recourse and in the ordinary course of business, overdue accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection with the compromise or collection thereof and not as part of any financing transaction; (vii) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may grant licenses, sublicenses, leases or subleases to other Persons not materially interfering with the conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case so long as no such grant otherwise affects the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the asset or property subject thereto; (viii) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), transfers of assets (w) pursuant to the Foreign Asset Transfer, (x) among the Qualified Obligors, (y) by any Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Qualified Obligor, and (z) by any Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower to any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower, in the case of any such transfer, so long as (I) no Specified Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect to the respective transfer, (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors pursuant to the relevant Security Documents in the assets so transferred shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such transfer) and (III) if the respective transferor is party to a Subsidiaries Guaranty, the nature and scope of the obligations of such transferor under its Subsidiaries Guaranty are substantially identical to the nature and scope of the obligations of the respective transferee under its Subsidiaries Guaranty; (ix) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), (x) any Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged, consolidated or liquidated with or into the Borrower (so long as the Borrower is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or liquidation) or any Subsidiary Guarantor (so long as a Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or liquidation), and (y) any Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged, consolidated or liquidated with or into any Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Borrower, so long as such Wholly-Owned Foreign Subsidiary is the surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or liquidation; provided that any such merger, consolidation or liquidation shall only be permitted pursuant to this Section 10.02 (ix), so long as (I) no Specified Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto, (II) any security interests granted to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the assets (and Equity Interests) of any such Person subject to any such transaction shall remain in full force and effect and perfected and enforceable (to at least the same extent as in effect immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or liquidation) and (III) if the Person to be merged, consolidated or liquidated into another Person as contemplated above is party to a Subsidiaries Guaranty, the nature and scope of the obligations of such Person under its Subsidiaries Guaranty are substantially identical to the nature and scope of the obligations of such other Person under its Subsidiaries Guaranty; (x) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may transfer inventory in a non-cash or cash transfer to Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are not Qualified Obligors, in each case so long as (I) any such transfer is made in the ordinary course of its business and consistent with past practice of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as in effect on the Effective Date, (II) if the respective transfer is being made to any Credit Party, all actions needed to maintain the perfection, priority and enforceability of the security interests, if any, of the Collateral Agent in the assets so transferred are taken at the time of the respective transfer, (III) the Borrower reasonably determines that the transfer is not reasonably likely to be adverse to the interests of the Lenders in any material respect and (IV) no Specified Default and no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect to the respective transfer; (xi) subject to Sections 10.01(b) and (c), so long as no Specified Default and no Event of Default exists at the time of the respective transfer or immediately after giving effect thereto, Qualified Obligors shall be permitted to transfer additional assets (other than inventory, cash, Cash Equivalents and Equity Interests in any Credit Party) to other Subsidiaries of the Borrower, so long as cash in an amount at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the assets so transferred is received by the respective transferor; (xii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or exchange specific items of equipment, so long as the purpose of each such sale or exchange is to acquire (and results within 90 days of such sale or exchange in the acquisition of) replacement items of equipment which are useful in a Permitted Business; (xiii) the U.S. ▇▇▇▇ Group shall be permitted to make Permitted Acquisitions, so long as such Permitted Acquisitions are effected in accordance with the requirements of Section 9.14; (xiv) one or more Subsidiaries identified to the Agents may sell all of the Equity Interests of a certain Subsidiary of the Borrower owned by such Subsidiaries and identified to the Agents, so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is in an arm’s-length transaction and the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (x) except for customary post-closing adjustments, at least 20% of the total consideration received by such Subsidiaries (in the aggregate) is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale or disposition, (y) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(b) and (z) the aggregate amount of the consideration (taking the Fair Market Value of any non-cash consideration) received from all assets sold pursuant to Section (xiv), together with the sale or sales made pursuant to Section 10.02(xx), shall not exceed $50,000,000; (xv) the Sale-Lease Back Transaction; (xvi) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell or liquidate Cash Equivalents, in each case for cash at fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower or the respective Subsidiary); (xvii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may sell inventory to their respective customers in the ordinary course of business; (xviii) each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may effect Contemplated Asset Sales, so long as (i) no Event of Default then exists or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto, (ii) each such sale is an arms’-length transaction and the Borrower or the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (iii) the consideration therefor consists solely of cash and/or Permitted Installment Notes (to the extent same may be issued in accordance with the definition thereof), (iv) at least 50% of the total consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale, and (v) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as, and to the extent, required by Section 5.02(b); (xix) the Borrower and its Domestic Subsidiaries may sell and leaseback (i) Real Property located in ▇▇▇▇▇▇ County, North Carolina (the “▇▇▇▇▇▇ Property”), to the extent same is not a Principal Property and (ii) Principal Properties, so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is made pursuant to an arm’s-length transaction, (x) 100% of the total consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale, (y) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom equal at least 90% of the Fair Market Value of the Property subject to such sale-leaseback transaction and (z) the Net Sale Proceeds therefrom are applied as a mandatory repayment and/or commitment reduction and/or reinvested, in any case, in accordance with the requirements of Section 5.02(b); and (xx) certain Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower identified to the Agents may sell the Equity Interests of certain other Domestic Subsidiaries identified to the Agents which own Real Property located in California, and certain Domestic Subsidiaries identified to the Agents which own Real Property located in California may sell Real Property and other assets, in each case, so long as (v) no Default or Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom, (w) each such sale is in an arm’s-length transaction and the respective Subsidiary receives at least Fair Market Value, (x) except for customary post-closing adjustments, at least 75% of the total consideration received by such Subsidiaries (in the aggregate) is paid in cash at the time of the closing of such sale, (y) unless on-loaned to an Affiliate of a Borrower in accordance with the requirements of Sections 10.05 and 10.07 promptly following the consummation of such sale, any Net Sale Proceeds therefrom received by a Subsidiary of a Borrower (exclusive of any portion thereof which is distributed to a minority shareholder of such Subsidiary in accordance with the requirements of Section 10.06) are applied and/or reinvested as (and to the extent) required by Section 5.02(b) and (z) the aggregate amount of the consideration (taking the Fair Market Value of any non-cash consideration) received from such sale or sales pursuant to Section (xx), together with the sale or sales made pursuant to Section 10.02(xiv) shall not exceed $50,000,000 (the “California Disposition”).