Business Combination Agreement, dated as of June 16, 2022, by and among JATT Acquisition Corp, JATT Merger Sub, JATT Merger Sub 2, Zura Bio Holdings Ltd. and Zura Bio Limited
Exhibit 2.1
Execution Version
BUSINESS COMBINATION AGREEMENT
by and among
JATT ACQUISITION CORP,
JATT MERGER SUB,
JATT MERGER SUB 2,
ZURA BIO HOLDINGS LTD,
and
ZURA BIO LIMITED
DATED AS OF JUNE 16, 2022
ARTICLE I CERTAIN DEFINITIONS | 3 | |
Section 1.1 | Certain Definitions | 3 |
ARTICLE II MERGER; THE SUBSEQUENT MERGER | 20 | |
Section 2.1 | Merger | 20 |
Section 2.2 | Closing; Effective Time | 20 |
Section 2.3 | Effect of the Merger | 21 |
Section 2.4 | Subsequent Merger | 21 |
Section 2.5 | Subsequent Closing; Subsequent Effective Time | 21 |
Section 2.6 | Effect of the Subsequent Merger | 21 |
Section 2.7 | Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Surviving Company | 22 |
Section 2.8 | Register of Members of the Company | 22 |
Section 2.9 | Rights Not Transferable | 22 |
Section 2.10 | Taking of Necessary Action; Further Action | 22 |
Section 2.11 | Tax Treatment | 22 |
Section 2.12 | Transfers of Ownership | 23 |
ARTICLE III CONSIDERATION | 23 | |
Section 3.1 | Conversion of Shares | 23 |
Section 3.2 | Treatment of Holdco Options | 24 |
Section 3.3 | Closing Statement | 24 |
Section 3.4 | No Issuance of Fractional Shares | 24 |
Section 3.5 | Withholding | 24 |
ARTICLE IV CLOSING CONDITIONS | 25 | |
Section 4.1 | Conditions to the Obligations of the Parties at Closing | 25 |
ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ZB COMPANIES | 28 | |
Section 5.1 | Organization; Authority; Enforceability | 28 |
Section 5.2 | No Dissolution, Bankruptcy or Insolvency | 29 |
Section 5.3 | Corporate Books and Registers | 29 |
Section 5.4 | Noncontravention | 29 |
Section 5.5 | Capitalization | 29 |
Section 5.6 | Financial Statements; No Undisclosed Liabilities | 30 |
Section 5.7 | No Material Adverse Effect | 31 |
Section 5.8 | Absence of Certain Developments | 31 |
Section 5.9 | Real Property | 31 |
Section 5.10 | Tax Matters | 31 |
Section 5.11 | Contracts | 33 |
Section 5.12 | Intellectual Property | 36 |
Section 5.13 | Data Security; Data Privacy | 38 |
Section 5.14 | Information Supplied | 38 |
Section 5.15 | Litigation | 39 |
Section 5.16 | Brokerage | 39 |
Section 5.17 | Labor Matters | 39 |
Section 5.18 | Employee Benefit Plans | 41 |
Section 5.19 | Insurance | 42 |
Section 5.20 | Compliance with Laws; Permits | 42 |
Section 5.21 | Title to and Sufficiency of Assets | 43 |
Section 5.22 | Anti-Corruption Law Compliance | 43 |
Section 5.23 | Anti-Money Laundering Compliance | 43 |
Section 5.24 | Affiliate Transactions | 44 |
Section 5.25 | Environmental Matters | 44 |
Section 5.26 | Healthcare Laws | 44 |
Section 5.27 | No Other Representations and Warranties | 46 |
Section 5.28 | Inspections; SPAC’s Representations | 46 |
ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF SPAC | 47 | |
Section 6.1 | Organization; Authority; Enforceability | 47 |
Section 6.2 | Capitalization | 47 |
Section 6.3 | Brokerage | 48 |
Section 6.4 | Trust Account | 48 |
Section 6.5 | SPAC SEC Documents; Controls | 49 |
Section 6.6 | Information Supplied; Proxy/Registration Statement | 50 |
Section 6.7 | Litigation | 50 |
Section 6.8 | Listing | 51 |
Section 6.9 | Investment Company | 51 |
Section 6.10 | Noncontravention | 51 |
Section 6.11 | Business Activities | 51 |
Section 6.12 | SPAC Material Contracts | 52 |
Section 6.13 | Undisclosed Liabilities | 52 |
Section 6.14 | Employees; Benefit Plans | 52 |
Section 6.15 | Tax Matters | 52 |
Section 6.16 | Compliance with Laws | 54 |
Section 6.17 | Anti-Corruption Law Compliance | 54 |
Section 6.18 | Anti-Money Laundering Compliance | 54 |
Section 6.19 | Subscription Agreements | 55 |
Section 6.20 | Affiliate Transactions | 55 |
Section 6.21 | Acknowledgement Regarding Projections | 55 |
Section 6.22 | Inspections; Company’s Representations | 56 |
ARTICLE VII INTERIM OPERATING COVENANTS | 56 | |
Section 7.1 | Interim Operating Covenants | 56 |
2
ARTICLE VIII PRE-CLOSING AGREEMENTS | 62 | |
Section 8.1 | Commercially Reasonable Efforts; Further Assurances | 62 |
Section 8.2 | Trust & Closing Funding | 62 |
Section 8.3 | Listing | 62 |
Section 8.4 | LTIP | 62 |
Section 8.5 | Confidential Information | 63 |
Section 8.6 | Access to Information | 63 |
Section 8.7 | Notification of Certain Matters | 63 |
Section 8.8 | Regulatory Approvals; Efforts | 63 |
Section 8.9 | Communications; Press Release; SEC Filings | 65 |
Section 8.10 | Expenses | 68 |
Section 8.11 | PIPE Investment | 69 |
Section 8.12 | Directors and Officers | 70 |
Section 8.13 | Post-Closing Directors and Officers of SPAC | 70 |
Section 8.14 | Share Transactions | 71 |
Section 8.15 | Exclusivity | 71 |
ARTICLE IX TAX MATTERS | 71 | |
Section 9.1 | Tax Matters | 71 |
Section 9.2 | Tax Structuring | 72 |
Section 9.3 | Tax Cooperation | 72 |
Section 9.4 | Filing of Pre-Closing Tax Period Tax Returns | 72 |
Section 9.5 | Straddle Period | 72 |
ARTICLE X TERMINATION | 73 | |
Section 10.1 | Termination | 73 |
Section 10.2 | Effect of Termination | 74 |
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS | 74 | |
Section 11.1 | Amendment and Waiver | 74 |
Section 11.2 | Non-Survival of Representations and Warranties | 74 |
Section 11.3 | Notices | 74 |
Section 11.4 | Assignment | 75 |
Section 11.5 | Severability | 75 |
Section 11.6 | Interpretation | 76 |
Section 11.7 | Entire Agreement | 77 |
Section 11.8 | Counterparts; Electronic Delivery | 77 |
Section 11.9 | Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial; Jurisdiction | 77 |
Section 11.10 | Trust Account Waiver | 78 |
Section 11.11 | Specific Performance | 78 |
Section 11.12 | No Third-Party Beneficiaries | 79 |
Section 11.13 | Disclosure Letters and Exhibits | 79 |
Section 11.14 | No Recourse | 79 |
Section 11.15 | Acknowledgements | 80 |
Section 11.16 | Company Capital Restructuring | 81 |
Section 11.17 | Holdco Signing Date and Status of Agreement | 81 |
3
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A – A&R Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement
Exhibit B – Sponsor Support Agreement
Exhibit C – Company Support Agreement
Exhibit D – Lock-Up Agreement
Exhibit E – Subscription Agreement
BUSINESS COMBINATION AGREEMENT
This Business Combination Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of June 16, 2022 (the “Effective Date”), by and among JATT Acquisition Corp, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “SPAC”), JATT Merger Sub, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Merger Sub”), JATT Merger Sub 2, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Merger Sub 2”), and Zura Bio Limited, a limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Company”), and (with effect from the Holdco Signing Date) Zura Bio Holdings Ltd, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Holdco”). Each of SPAC, Merger Sub, Merger Sub 2, Holdco (with effect from the Holdco Signing Date), and the Company is also referred to herein as a “Party” and, collectively, as the “Parties”.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, SPAC is a blank check special purpose acquisition company incorporated for the purpose of entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more operating businesses or entities through a business combination;
WHEREAS, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, SPAC will enter into Subscription Agreements (as defined below) with certain PIPE Investors (as defined below) providing for aggregate investments in SPAC Shares in a private placement of an amount not less than $20,000,000 (the “PIPE Investment Amount”) at $10 per SPAC Class A Share (the “PIPE Investment”);
WHEREAS, in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the PIPE Investment, SPAC, Sponsor (as defined below) and the Company will agree to the treatment of the Private Placement Warrants in the manner set out in the Subscription Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit E providing for the forfeiture and transfer of certain of the Private Placement Warrants owned by Sponsor depending on the redemption on the SPAC Shares;
WHEREAS, SPAC has previously entered into Forward Purchase Agreements, as amended (the “Forward Purchase Agreements”) with two institutional investors (the “FPA Investors”) providing that at the Closing of the Merger (as defined below), the FPA Investors will (i) purchase an aggregate of 3,000,000 SPAC Class A Shares at $10 per share for $30,000,000 in the aggregate; and (ii) provide a binding redemption backstop (the “Redemption Backstop”) to purchase an additional $15,000,000 of SPAC Class A Shares from redeeming public SPAC Shareholders in the event that SPAC public share redemptions are greater than 90% in connection with the Merger (the “Excess Redemptions”);
WHEREAS, before the Closing, the Company intends to consummate a restructuring pursuant to which the shareholders in the Company will contribute all of the Company Shares to Holdco in exchange for their respective proportional amount of Holdco Shares (the “Company Capital Restructuring”), which Company Capital Restructuring is intended to be treated as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(F) of the Code for U.S. federal income Tax purposes, and it is intended that immediately following the Company Capital Restructuring Holdco will sign this Agreement and become a Party;
WHEREAS, Holdco is a newly incorporated Cayman Islands exempted company formed for the purpose of effectuating the Company Capital Restructuring and subsequently the Merger;
WHEREAS, Merger Sub is a newly incorporated Cayman Islands exempted company, wholly owned by SPAC, which Merger Sub is treated as a Corporation within the meaning of Section 1361(a)(2) of the Code for U.S. federal income Tax purposes, and was formed for the purpose of effectuating the Merger (as defined below);
WHEREAS, Merger Sub 2 is a newly incorporated Cayman Islands exempted company, wholly owned by SPAC, which Merger Sub 2 is treated as an entity “disregarded as separate from its owner” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section  ###-###-####-3(b)(1)(ii) for U.S. federal income Tax purposes, and was formed for the purpose of effectuating the Subsequent Merger (as defined below);
WHEREAS, the Parties intend to effect a merger of Merger Sub with and into Holdco whereby Holdco will be the surviving company and a wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC (the “Merger”);
WHEREAS, the Parties intend immediately following the Merger to effect a merger of Holdco with and into Merger Sub 2 whereby Merger Sub 2 will be the surviving company and a wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC (the “Subsequent Merger”), which Subsequent Merger and Merger, together, are intended to be treated as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(A) of the Code for U.S. federal income Tax purposes;
WHEREAS, at the Closing, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles, all then-outstanding SPAC Class B Shares, par value $0.0001 per share, will be automatically converted into SPAC Class A Shares on a one-for-one basis (the “SPAC Class B Share Conversion”);
WHEREAS, at the Closing, SPAC will amend and restate the SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles (as defined below) by adopting the Second Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and the Second Amended and Restated Articles of Association of the SPAC substantially in a form to be agreed by the Parties (the “SPAC A&R Memorandum and Articles”);
WHEREAS, at the Closing, the Parties intend SPAC and Holdco to amend and restate the Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “A&R Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement”);
WHEREAS, it is expected that the board of directors of Holdco will determine that the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby to which Holdco will be party are fair and advisable to, and in the best commercial interests of Holdco and the Holdco Shareholders;
WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Company has approved this Agreement, the Merger and other transactions contemplated hereby;
2
WHEREAS, SPAC Board has determined that this Agreement, the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby are fair and advisable to, and in the best commercial interests of SPAC and its shareholders;
WHEREAS, SPAC Board has approved this Agreement, the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby and has determined to recommend that the SPAC Shareholders adopt, authorize and approve this Agreement, the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the other transactions contemplated hereby;
WHEREAS, JATT Ventures, L.P., a Cayman Islands exempted limited partnership (“Sponsor”), and the officers and directors of SPAC, in their capacities as shareholders of SPAC, have entered into that certain support agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Sponsor Support Agreement”), pursuant to which such shareholders of SPAC agreed to, among other things, vote in favor of the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and each of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters; and
WHEREAS, the Company and certain of its shareholders have entered into that certain support agreement in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Company Support Agreement” and, together with Sponsor Support Agreement, the “Support Agreements”), pursuant to which those parties agree to, among other things, vote in favor of this Agreement, the Merger, the Subsequent Merger and the transactions contemplated hereby.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the respective representations, warranties, covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, capitalized terms used in this Agreement but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth below.
“A&R Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“Additional SPAC Filings” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.9(e).
“Affiliate” of any particular Person means any other Person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Person, where “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct the management and policies of a Person whether through the ownership of voting securities, its capacity as a sole or managing member or otherwise.
“Affiliated Transactions” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.24(a).
“Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
3
“Ancillary Agreements” means SPAC A&R Memorandum and Articles, the A&R Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement, the Lock-Up Agreements, the Sponsor Support Agreement, the Company Support Agreement, the Holdco SSA, and each other agreement, instrument and certificate required by, or contemplated in connection with, this Agreement to be executed by any of the Parties as contemplated by this Agreement, in each case, only as is applicable to the relevant Party or Parties to such Ancillary Agreement, as indicated by the context in which such term is used.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means applicable Laws related to corruption and bribery, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, legislation adopted in furtherance of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, and any other applicable Law that prohibits bribery, corruption, fraud or other improper payments (including, without limitation, any applicable Law of the Cayman Islands).
“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means applicable Laws related to money laundering, including the Currency and Foreign Transaction Reporting Act of 1970, as amended (also known as the Bank Secrecy Act), the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986, as amended, and any other applicable Law related to money laundering of any jurisdictions in which the Company conducts business, including any anti-racketeering laws involving money laundering or bribery as a racketeering act (including, without limitation, any applicable Law of the Cayman Islands).
“Audited Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.6(a).
“Available Closing Date Cash” means an aggregate amount of cash equal to the sum of (without duplication) (a) the cash in the Trust Account, less amounts required to satisfy any SPAC Share Redemptions plus (b) the aggregate proceeds actually received by SPAC from any PIPE Investment consummated at, or prior to, the Closing, plus (c) the aggregate proceeds received from the FPA Investors under the Forward Purchase Agreement.
“Business Combination” has the meaning ascribed to such term in SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles.
“Business Day” means any day except a Saturday, a Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks are required or authorized to close in the State of New York, London, England; or the Cayman Islands.
“Cayman Companies Act” means the Companies Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands.
“Clayton Act” means the Clayton Act of 1914.
“Closing” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2.
“Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.2.
“Closing Form 8-K” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.9(f).
“Closing Payment Shares” means the SPAC Class A Shares to be issued to Holdco Shareholders on Closing pursuant to Section 3.1.
4
“Closing Press Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.9(f).
“Closing Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.3
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Company” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Company Capital Restructuring” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.
“Company Disclosure Letter” means the Disclosure Letter delivered by the Company to SPAC concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
“Company Employee Benefit Plan” means each equity, phantom equity, or equity-based compensation, retirement, pension, savings, profit sharing, bonus, incentive, severance, separation, employment, individual consulting or individual independent contractor, change in control, retention, deferred compensation, vacation, paid time off, medical, dental, life or disability, retiree or post-termination health or welfare, salary continuation, fringe or other compensatory or benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or Contract, in each case, that is maintained, sponsored or contributed to (or required to be contributed to) by the Company or under or with respect to which the Company has or may have any Liability, and in each case whether or not (i) subject to the Laws of the United States, (ii) in writing or (iii) funded, but excluding in each case any statutory plan, program or arrangement that is required under applicable Law and/or maintained by any Governmental Entity.
“Company Fundamental Representations” means the representations and warranties set forth in Section 5.1 (Organization; Authority; Enforceability), Section 5.4 (Noncontravention), and Section 5.16 (Brokerage).
“Company Shares” shall mean all of the issued and outstanding shares in the Company immediately prior to the Company Capital Restructuring.
“Company Transaction Expenses” means, without duplication, all out-of-pocket expenses of the ZB Companies incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, including (i) costs, fees, expenses and disbursements of ZB Companies financial advisors, attorneys, accountants and other advisors and service providers and (ii) change in control payments, transaction bonuses, retention payments, termination payments, severance, retention bonuses and any other similar compensatory payments payable to any current or former employee, officer or director of the ZB Companies solely as a result of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (and not subject to any subsequent event or condition, such as a termination of employment), including any Taxes relating to such payments to be paid and/or borne by the ZB Companies. For the avoidance of doubt, Company Transaction Expenses shall exclude Indebtedness.
“Competing SPAC” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.16.
5
“Competing Transaction” means (a) any transaction involving, directly or indirectly, the Company, which upon consummation thereof, would (x) result in the Company becoming a public company or (y) which would impede, interfere with or prevent the transactions contemplated hereby, or otherwise agree to, make, implement or consummate any of the foregoing, (b) any direct or indirect sale (including by way of a merger, consolidation, license, transfer, sale, option, right of first refusal with respect to a sale or similar preemptive right with respect to a sale or other business combination or similar transaction) of any material portion of the assets (including Intellectual Property) or business of the Company, taken as a whole (but excluding the sale of assets in the Ordinary Course of Business that in the aggregate could not reasonably be expected to impede, interfere with, prevent, or would reasonably be expected to materially delay the transactions contemplated hereby), (c) any direct or indirect sale (including by way of an issuance, dividend, distribution, merger, consolidation, license, transfer, sale, option, right of first refusal with respect to a sale or similar preemptive right with respect to a sale or other business combination or similar transaction) of equity, voting interests or debt securities of any ZB Companies (excluding any such sale between or among the ZB Companies), or rights, or securities that grant rights, to receive the same including profits interests, phantom equity, options, warrants, convertible or preferred shares or other equity-linked securities (except, in each case, as contemplated by this Agreement), (d) any direct or indirect acquisition (whether by merger, acquisition, share exchange, reorganization, recapitalization, joint venture, consolidation or similar business combination transaction), but excluding procurement of assets in the Ordinary Course of Business (but not the acquisition of a Person or business via an asset transfer), by the Company of the equity or voting interests of, or a material portion of the assets or business of, a third party (except, in each case, as contemplated or permitted by this Agreement), or (e) any liquidation or dissolution (or the adoption of a plan of liquidation or dissolution) of the Company (except to the extent contemplated by the terms of this Agreement), in all cases of clauses (a) through (e), either in one or a series of related transactions, where such transaction(s) is to be entered into with a Competing SPAC (including any Interested Party or any representatives of any Interested Party).
“Contract” means any written or oral contract, agreement, license or Lease.
“Copyleft Terms” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.12(e).
“Copyrights” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Intellectual Property”.
“COVID-19” means SARS CoV-2 or COVID-19, and any evolutions or mutations thereof or related or associated epidemic, pandemic or disease outbreaks.
“COVID-19 Measures” means any applicable quarantine, “shelter in place,” “stay at home,” workforce reduction, social distancing, shut down, closure, sequester or any other applicable Law, Order, directive, guidelines or recommendations by an applicable Governmental Entity in connection with or in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including, but not limited to, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES).
“D&O Provisions” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.12(a).
“Disclosure Letters” means SPAC’s Disclosure Letter and the Company Disclosure Letter.
6
“Employee Share Call Option Agreements” means call option agreements, on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Company and SPAC, to be entered into on Closing between SPAC and each Holdco Shareholder who immediately before Closing held Employee Shares (as defined in Holdco’s Governing Documents) issued pursuant to Holdco’s UK share option plan, giving SPAC the right to acquire (or cancel or otherwise defer the rights attaching to) those Employee Shares if the holder ceases to be employed by the Company, SPAC or any of their Affiliates, in accordance with the terms of the leaver provisions in Holdco’s Governing Documents, mutatis mutandis, save that the vesting terms shall be as communicated by the Company to SPAC before Closing.
“Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“Environmental Laws” means any Laws relating to Hazardous Materials, pollution, the environment, natural resources, endangered or threatened species, or human health and safety.
“Equity Securities” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock, shares or equity of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock, shares or equity of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock, shares or equity of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares or equity (or such other interests), restricted stock awards, restricted stock units, equity appreciation rights, phantom equity rights, profit participation and all of the other ownership or profit interests of such Person (including partnership or member interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting.
“Exchange Ratio” means the quotient obtained by dividing the Per Share Merger Consideration by $10.00.
“Excluded Shares” means all shares in the capital of Holdco that are owned by Holdco (as treasury shares or otherwise) or any of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries and all deferred shares in the capital of Holdco from time to time.
“Executives” shall mean SPAC Executives and the ZB Chief Financial Officer.
“Forward Purchase Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“FPA Investors” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“Fully Diluted Holdco Shares” means, without duplication, the aggregate number of Holdco Shares that (i) are issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time or (ii) would be issuable upon the exercise of Holdco Options.
“GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.
7
“Governing Documents” means (a) in the case of a corporation or company, its certificate of incorporation (or analogous document), bylaws and/or its memorandum and articles of association; (b) in the case of a limited liability company, its certificate of formation (or analogous document) and limited liability company operating agreement; or (c) in the case of an exempted limited partnership, its certificate of registration and exempted limited partnership agreement; (d) in the case of a Person other than a corporation, company, exempted limited partnership or limited liability company, the documents by which such Person (other than an individual) establishes its legal existence or which govern its internal affairs.
“Governmental Entity” means any nation or government, any state, province, county, municipal or other political subdivision thereof, any entity exercising executive, legislative, tribal, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including any court, arbitrator (public or private) or other body or administrative, regulatory or quasi-judicial authority, agency, department, board, commission or instrumentality of any federal, state, local or foreign jurisdiction.
“Hazardous Materials” means any substance that is listed, defined, designated, characterized, or classified as, or otherwise determined to be, hazardous, radioactive, or toxic or a pollutant, waste or a contaminant, or words of similar import, under or pursuant to any Law, including any admixture or solution thereof, and specifically including petroleum and all derivatives thereof or synthetic substitutes therefor, petroleum byproducts, petroleum breakdown products, asbestos, asbestos-containing materials, mold, radon, flammable substances, explosive substances, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and any other substances regulated under Environmental Law at any time prior to, on or after the Closing Date.
“Healthcare Laws” means (i) the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”); (ii) the Public Health Service Act (“PHSA”); (iii) all federal or state criminal or civil fraud and abuse Laws (including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. §1320a-7(b)), the Federal Health Care Fraud law (18 U.S.C. § 1347), the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (42 U.S.C. §1320a-7(a)), the Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. §1320a-7(h)), the Exclusion Law (42 U.S.C. §1320a-7), the Criminal False Statements Law (42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b(a)), Stark Law (42 U.S.C. §1395nn), the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§3729 et seq. 42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b(a)), HIPAA (42 U.S.C. §§1320d et seq.) as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act), and any comparable Laws); (iv) licensing, disclosure and reporting requirements; and (v) any non-US equivalents of any of the foregoing.
“Holdco Option” shall mean any option to purchase Holdco Shares granted under a Holdco Option Plan that is outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time (whether or not it is then vested or exercisable, but excluding any that could then never become exercisable except at the discretion of Holdco).
“Holdco Option Plan” shall mean the option plan for US holders established by the Company (while operated by it and subsequently once adopted by Holdco pursuant to the Company Capital Restructuring) and any other equity incentive plan operated by Holdco.
“Holdco Shareholders” shall mean the holders of Holdco Shares from time to time (before the Effective Time).
8
“Holdco Shares” shall mean all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Holdco from time to time, other than Excluded Shares.
“Holdco Signing Date” shall mean the date on which Holdco signs this Agreement.
“Holdco SSA” shall mean the subscription and shareholders’ agreement between Holdco, the Company and the holders of the Company Shares pursuant to which the Company Capital Restructuring shall be implemented (substantially in the form attached to the Company Disclosure Letter or in such other form as the Company and JATT may agree, acting reasonably and in good faith).
“Holdco Vote” means the vote of Holdco Shareholders holding the requisite number of Holdco Shares required to approve the Merger, as determined in accordance with applicable Law and the Governing Documents of Holdco and the Holdco SSA.
“HSR Act” means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.
“Immediate Family” means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person’s spouse, parents, children and siblings, including adoptive relationships and relationships through marriage, or any other relative of such Person that shares such Person’s home.
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to a Party, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money or indebtedness issued or incurred in substitution or exchange for indebtedness for borrowed money; (b) all indebtedness evidenced by any note, bond, debenture, mortgage or other debt instrument or debt security; (c) all indebtedness for borrowed money of any Person for which such Party has guaranteed payment; (d) all capitalized Lease obligations or obligations required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP; (e) any Liabilities in respect of deferred purchase price for property or services with respect to which such Person is liable, contingently or otherwise, as obligor or otherwise for additional purchase price (excluding any purchase commitments for capital expenditures or otherwise incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business); (f) reimbursement obligations under any drawn letters of credit; and (g) obligations under derivative financial instruments, including hedges, currency and interest rate swaps and other similar instruments; provided, however, that, in the case of the Company, “Indebtedness” shall not include any Indebtedness between or among any ZB Company.
“Insurance Policies” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.19.
“Intellectual Property” means all intellectual property, including any and all rights, title, and interest, in any jurisdiction throughout the world, in or to the following: (a) all inventions (whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not reduced to practice) and invention disclosures, all improvements thereto, and all patents, utility models and industrial designs and all published and unpublished applications for any of the foregoing (and any patents, utility models, and industrial design that issue as a result of those applications), together with all reissuances, provisionals, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisionals, extensions, renewals, substitutions, and reexaminations thereof, or any counterparts and foreign equivalents thereof (collectively “Patents”); (b) all registered and unregistered trademarks, service marks, certification marks, trade dress, logos, slogans, trade names, taglines, corporate and business names, and all applications, registrations, and renewals in connection therewith, and other indicia of source, together with all goodwill symbolized or associated therewith (collectively, “Trademarks”); (c) Internet domain names, IP addresses, and rights of publicity and in social media usernames, handles, and accounts; (d) all works of authorship, registered and unregistered copyrights, all copyrights and rights in databases, mask works and design rights, and all applications, registrations, and renewals in connection therewith, and all moral rights associated with any of the foregoing (collectively “Copyrights”); (e) all trade secrets and confidential business information (including confidential ideas, research and development, know-how, formulas, compositions, algorithms, source code, data analytics, manufacturing and production processes and techniques, technical data and information, research, clinical and regulatory data, designs, drawings, specifications, customer and supplier lists, pricing and cost information, and business and marketing plans and proposals) (collectively “Trade Secrets”); (f) all rights in Software; (g) rights of publicity and privacy; and (h) rights recognized under applicable Law that are equivalent or similar to any of the foregoing.
9
“Interested Party” means (i) the ZB Chief Financial Officer, (ii) any direct or indirect equityholder of the ZB Companies or any of its respective Affiliates, and (iii) in the case of the ZB Chief Financial Officer, any Immediate Family or Affiliate of the ZB Chief Financial Officer.
“IT Assets” means any and all information technology systems, Software, systems, servers, computers, hardware, firmware, middleware, networks, data communications lines, routers, hubs, switches and all other information technology equipment, and all associated documentation, in each case, owned by one of the Company or leased, licensed, outsourced, and used, or held for use in or necessary for the operation of the Company.
“Knowledge” (a) as used in the phrase “to the Knowledge of the Company” or phrases of similar import means the knowledge of the ZB Chief Financial Officer after due inquiry, and (b) as used in the phrase “to the Knowledge of SPAC” or phrases of similar import means the knowledge of SPAC Executives after due inquiry.
“Latest Balance Sheet” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.6(a).
“Laws” means all laws, acts, statutes, constitutions, treaties, ordinances, codes, rules, regulations or rulings issued, enacted, adopted, promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority of a Governmental Entity, including common law. All references to “Laws” shall be deemed to include any amendments thereto, and any successor Law, unless the context otherwise requires.
“Liability” or “Liabilities” means any and all debts, liabilities and obligations, whether accrued or fixed, known or unknown, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured or determined or determinable.
“Liens” means, with respect to any specified asset, any and all liens, mortgages, charges, hypothecations, claims, encumbrances, options, pledges, licenses, rights of priority, easements, covenants, restrictions and security interests thereon.
“Lock-up Agreements” means the agreements relating to the certain SPAC Shares to be entered into among SPAC, the Sponsor, the Holdco Shareholders and the Optionholders to be effective as of the Closing, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit D.
10
“Lookback Date” means the date of incorporation of the Company.
“LTIP” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.4.
“Material Adverse Effect” means any event, circumstance or state of facts that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would reasonably be expected to have, a material and adverse effect upon (a) the business, results of operations or financial condition of the ZB Companies, taken as a whole, or (b) the ability of the ZB Companies to perform their respective obligations and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements; provided, however, that, with respect to the foregoing clause (a), none of the following (or the effect of the following), alone or in combination, will constitute a Material Adverse Effect, or will be considered in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred: (i) changes that are the result of factors generally affecting the industries or markets in which the ZB Companies operate; (ii) the public announcement or pendency of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the negotiation and execution of this Agreement; (iii) changes in Law or GAAP or the interpretation thereof, in each case effected after the Effective Date; (iv) changes that are the result of economic factors affecting the national, regional or world economy or financial markets; (v) any change in the financial, banking, or securities markets; (vi) any strike, embargo, labor disturbance, cyberattack, riot, earthquake, hurricane, tsunami, tornado, flood, mudslide, wild fire, other weather- related or meteorological event, pandemic (including the COVID-19 pandemic and any COVID-19 Measures), epidemic, disease outbreak or other natural disaster or act of god; or (vii) any national or international political conditions in or affecting any jurisdiction in which the ZB Companies conduct business; provided, however, that any event, circumstance or state of facts resulting from a matter described in any of the foregoing clauses (i), (iii), (v), (vi) and (vii) will be taken into account in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred or would reasonably be likely to occur only to the extent such event, circumstance or state of facts has a material and disproportionate effect on the ZB Companies, taken as a whole, relative to other comparable entities operating in the industries and markets in which the ZB Companies operate. For the avoidance of doubt, any announcements from companies developing the same or similar antibodies, including but not limited to (a) Q32 Bio Inc. with respect to ADX-914, (b) OSE Immunotherapeutics and Servier with respect to OSE-127, (c) GlaxoSmith Kline with respect to GSK ###-###-####, will not constitute a Material Adverse Effect.
“Merger Consideration” means One Hundred Sixty-Five Million Dollars ($165,000,000).
“Per Share Merger Consideration” means the quotient obtained by dividing the Merger Consideration by the Fully Diluted Holdco Shares.
“Non-Party Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.14.
“NYSE” means the New York Stock Exchange.
“Optionholder” means a holder of any Holdco Options.
“Order” means any order, writ, judgment, injunction, temporary restraining order, stipulation, determination, decree or award entered by or with any Governmental Entity or arbitral institution.
11
“Ordinary Course of Business” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any action taken or not taken by such Person in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, and (b) any other action taken or not taken by such Person in response to the actual or anticipated effect on such Person’s business of COVID-19 or any COVID-19 Measures, in each case with respect to this clause (b) in connection with or in response to COVID-19.
“Ordinary Course Tax Sharing Agreement” means any written commercial agreement entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business of which the principal subject matter is not Tax but which contains customary Tax indemnification provisions.
“Outside Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.1(c).
“Owned Intellectual Property” means all Intellectual Property owned or purported to be owned, in whole or in part, any of the ZB Companies
“Party” or “Parties” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“Patents” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Intellectual Property”.
“PCAOB” means the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
“PCAOB Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.9(g).
“Permits” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.20(b).
“Permitted Liens” means (a) Liens securing obligations under capital leases; (b) easements, permits, rights of way, restrictions, covenants, reservations or encroachments, minor defects, irregularities in and other similar Liens of record affecting title to the property which do not materially impair the use or occupancy of such real property in the operation of the business of any of the ZB Companies as currently conducted thereon; (c) Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies imposed with respect to property which are not yet due and payable or which are being contested in good faith (provided appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof on the books and records of the ZB Companies); (d) Liens in favor of suppliers of goods for which payment is not yet due or delinquent (provided appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof); (e) mechanics’, materialmen’s, workmen’s, repairmen’s, warehousemen’s, carrier’s and other similar Liens arising or incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business which are not yet due and payable or which are being contested in good faith (provided appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof); (f) Liens arising under workers’ compensation Laws or similar legislation, unemployment insurance or similar Laws; and (g) Liens arising under municipal bylaws, development agreements, restrictions or regulations, and zoning, entitlement, land use, building or planning restrictions or regulations, in each case, promulgated by any Governmental Entity, which do not restrict or are not violated by the ZB Companies’ current use of its real property.
“Person” means any natural person, sole proprietorship, partnership, exempted limited partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated association, corporation, company, exempted company, limited liability company, entity or Governmental Entity.
12
“Personal Information” means information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person.
“Pfizer License” means the License Agreement with an effective date of March 22, 2022, and between Pfizer Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware with offices at 235 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017 (“Pfizer”), with respect to the anti IL-7R antibody PF-06342674.
“PIPE Investment” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“PIPE Investment Amount” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.
“PIPE Investor” means those certain investors participating with the Company’s approval in the PIPE Investment pursuant to the Subscription Agreements.
“Pre-Closing Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1(a).
“Privacy and Security Requirements” means (a) all applicable Privacy Laws, (b) all applicable Security Laws; (c) all applicable information, network and technology security laws and contractual requirements, (d) provisions relating to Processing of Personal Information in all applicable Privacy Contracts, (e) all applicable Privacy Policies and (f) the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
“Privacy Contracts” means all Contracts between any ZB Company and any Person that govern the Processing of Personal Information.
“Privacy Laws” means all Laws pertaining to the collection, storage, use, access, disclosure, processing, security, modification, destruction, and transfer of Personal Information.
“Privacy Policies” means all written, external-facing policies of any ZB Company relating to the Processing of Personal Information, including all website and mobile application privacy policies.
“Proxy/Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement Form S-4 (the “Form S-4”) filed with the SEC, which shall also include proxy materials in the form of a Proxy Statement, whether in preliminary or definitive form, and any amendments or supplements thereto.
“Proceeding” means any action, suit, charge, litigation, arbitration, notice of violation or citation received, or other proceeding at law or in equity (whether civil, criminal or administrative) by or before any Governmental Entity.
“Process” or “Processing” means the creation, collection, use (including for the purposes of sending telephone calls, text messages and emails), storage, maintenance, processing, recording, distribution, transfer, transmission, receipt, import, export, protection (including safeguarding, security measures and notification in the event of a breach of security), access, disposal or disclosure or other activity regarding Personal Information (whether electronically or in any other form or medium).
“Prohibited Affiliate Transactions” means any of the following transactions not in the ordinary course of business, except for (a) those Prohibited Affiliate Transactions consented to (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) in writing by SPAC after the Effective Date, and (b) the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements:
13
(a) the declaration, making or payment of any dividend, other distribution or return of capital (whether in cash or in kind) by any ZB Company to any Holdco Shareholder or holder of shares in the Company;
(b) any payment by any ZB Company to any Interested Party in connection with any redemption, purchase or other acquisition of shares in the capital, partnership interests or other securities of any ZB Company;
(c) any (i) loan made or owed by any ZB Company to any Interested Party, or (ii) payment made or Liability incurred, assumed or indemnified, whether in cash or kind, by any ZB Company to, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any Interested Party or any payments made to any officer, director, employee or independent contractor of an Interested Party solely to the extent such payment is made to such officer, director, employee or independent contractor in his, her or its capacity as an officer, director, employee or independent contractor of an Interested Party, other than compensation, benefits or expense reimbursement (in each case, of the types available to the Executives or otherwise on arms’ length terms) paid or provided in the Ordinary Course of Business to individuals who are officers, directors or employees of any ZB Company;
(d) any Lien made, created or granted over any asset of any ZB Company in favor of any Interested Party;
(e) any guarantee by any ZB Company of any Liability of any Interested Party;
(f) any discharge, forgiveness or waiver by any ZB Company of any Liability owed by any Interested Party to the Company;
(g) material increases in the compensation or bonus payable by any ZB Company to any Interested Party;
(h) the sale, purchase, transfer, license, sublicense, covenant not to assert, or disposal of any Intellectual Property or material equipment owned by any ZB Company to or in favor of an Interested Party;
(i) the sale, purchase, transfer or disposal of any material asset or right of any ZB Company not referenced in clause (h) above to or in favor of an Interested Party, other than in the Ordinary Course of Business; and
(j) any commitment or agreement to do any of the foregoing.
“Private Placement Warrant” means a private placement warrant of the SPAC each exercisable for one SPAC Class A Share at $11.50 per share.
14
“Proxy Statement” means the Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A to be filed with the SEC by SPAC in connection with SPAC Shareholder Meeting.
“Public Warrant” means the warrants included in the public units of SPAC and each exercisable for one SPAC Class A Share.
“Publicly Available Software” means any Software (or portion thereof) (i) that is distributed (A) as free Software or open source Software (including, for example, Software distributed under the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, the Affero General Public License, Mozilla Public License, or Apache Software License), or (B) pursuant to open source, copy left or similar licensing and distribution models, or (ii) that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such Software that such Software or other Software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such Software (A) be disclosed or distributed in source code form, (B) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works or (C) be redistributable at no or minimal charge.
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands.
“Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement” means that certain Registration and Shareholder Rights Agreement, dated as of July 13, 2021, by and among, SPAC, Sponsor and the Holders signatory thereto (as defined therein).
“Released Claims” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.10.
“Required Vote” means the vote of SPAC Shareholders required to approve SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters, as determined in accordance with applicable Law, SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles and the NYSE rules and regulations.
“Sanctioned Country” means any country or region that is, or has been in the past five (5) years, the subject or target of a comprehensive embargo under Sanctions in effect at the time.
“Sanctioned Person” means any Person that is: (a) listed on any applicable U.S. or non-U.S. sanctions-related restricted party list, including the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (“OFAC”) Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List, the EU Consolidated List and HM Treasury’s Consolidated List of Persons Subject to Financial Sanctions; (b) in the aggregate, fifty percent (50%) or greater owned, directly or indirectly, or otherwise controlled by a Person or Persons described in clause (a); or (c) organized, resident or located in a Sanctioned Country.
“Sanctions” means all Laws and Orders relating to economic or trade sanctions administered or enforced by the United States (including by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Commerce), Canada, the United Kingdom, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, or any other relevant Governmental Entity.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
15
“Securities Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Securities Liens” means Liens arising out of, under or in connection with (a) applicable federal, state and local securities Laws and (b) restrictions on transfer, hypothecation or similar actions contained in any Governing Documents.
“Security Breach” means a data security breach or breach of Personal Information under applicable Privacy and Security Requirements or any other applicable Laws.
“Security Incident” means any unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or destruction of information or interference with IT Assets that impacts the confidentiality, integrity or availability of such information and IT Assets.
“Security Laws” means all Laws pertaining to the policies, methods, means and standards required to protect data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or destruction, and to ensure the confidentiality, availability and integrity of such data and IT Assets.
“Self-Help Code” means any back door, time bomb, drop dead device, or other Software routine designed to disable a computer program without input from, knowledge of, or notice to the user of the program.
“Sherman Act” means the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
“Signing Form 8-K” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.9(a).
“Signing Press Release” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.9(a).
“Software” means all computer software, applications, and programs (and all versions, releases, fixes, patches, upgrades and updates thereto, as applicable), including software compilations, development tools, compilers, files, scripts, manuals, design notes, programmers’ notes, architecture, application programming interfaces, mobile applications, algorithms, data, databases, and compilations of data, comments, user interfaces, menus, buttons, icons, as well as any foreign language versions, fixes, upgrades, updates, enhancements, new versions, previous versions, new releases and previous releases thereof, in each case, whether in source code, object code or human readable form.
“SPAC” has the meaning set forth in the Preamble.
“SPAC A&R Memorandum and Articles” means has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“SPAC Board” means, at any time, the board of directors of SPAC.
“SPAC Board Recommendation” means the unqualified recommendation of the SPAC Board to SPAC Shareholders that they vote in favor of all the SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters at the SPAC Shareholder Meeting.
“SPAC Class A Share” means a Class A Ordinary Share, par value $0.0001 per share, in the capital of SPAC.
16
“SPAC Class B Share” means a Class B Ordinary Share, par value $0.0001 per share, in the capital of SPAC.
“SPAC Class B Share Conversion” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
“SPAC Companies” means SPAC, Merger Sub and Merger Sub 2.
“SPAC Competing Transaction” means any transaction involving, directly or indirectly, any merger or consolidation with, or acquisition of, purchase of all or substantially all of the assets or equity of, consolidation or similar business combination with, or other transaction that would constitute a Business Combination with or involving SPAC and a third party, other than the Company or Holdco.
“SPAC Employee Benefit Plan” means each equity, phantom equity, or equity-based compensation, retirement, pension, savings, profit sharing, bonus, incentive, severance, separation, employment, individual consulting or individual independent contractor, change in control, retention, deferred compensation, vacation, paid time off, medical, dental, life or disability, retiree or post-termination health or welfare, salary continuation, fringe or other compensatory or benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or Contract, in each case, that is maintained, sponsored or contributed to (or required to be contributed to) by SPAC or under or with respect to which the SPAC has or may have any Liability, and in each case whether or not (i) subject to the Laws of the United States, (ii) in writing or (iii) funded, but excluding in each case any statutory plan, program or arrangement that is required under applicable Law and/or maintained by any Governmental Entity.
“SPAC Executives” means Someit Sidhu and Verender Badial.
“SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles” means the Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association of the SPAC adopted by special resolution dated July 12, 2021 and effective on July 13, 2021 and the Amended and Restated Articles of Association of the SPAC adopted by special resolution dated July 12, 2021 and effective on July 13, 2021.
“SPAC Fundamental Representations” means the representations and warranties set forth in Section 6.1 (Organization; Authority; Enforceability), Section 6.2 (Capitalization), and Section 6.4 (Trust Account).
“SPAC Governing Documents” means, at any time prior to the Closing, the certificate of incorporation issued by the Registrar, the SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles, at any time following the Closing, SPAC A&R Memorandum and Articles, as in effect at such time.
“SPAC Material Adverse Effect” means any event, circumstance or state of facts that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would be reasonably expected to have a material and adverse effect upon the ability of SPAC to perform its obligations and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements.
“SPAC Related Parties” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.20.
“SPAC SEC Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5(a).
17
“SPAC Share Redemption” means the election of an eligible holder of SPAC Class A Shares (as determined in accordance with the SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles and the Trust Agreement) to redeem all or a portion of such holder’s SPAC Class A Shares, at the per-share price, payable in cash, equal to such holder’s pro rata share of the Trust Account (as determined in accordance with the SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles and the Trust Agreement), by tendering SPAC Class A Shares of such holder for redemption not later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the date that is two (2) Business Days prior to the date of SPAC Shareholder Meeting.
“SPAC Shareholder Meeting” means an extraordinary general meeting of SPAC Shareholders to be called for the purpose of voting on the SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters.
“SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters” means, collectively, proposals to approve (a) as an ordinary resolution, the adoption of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (b) as a special resolution, the adoption of the proposed SPAC A&R Memorandum and Articles in replacement of SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles, (c) as an ordinary resolution the changes to the authorized share capital of SPAC, (d) as an ordinary resolution, the adoption of the LTIP and the approval of SPAC’s assumption of the Holdco Options in accordance with Section 3.2, (e) as an ordinary resolution, the issuance of SPAC Class A Shares, pursuant to this Agreement, including any approval which may be reasonably required by the NYSE, (f) as an ordinary resolution, the appointment of the directors constituting the post-Closing SPAC Board, (g) as an ordinary resolution, the adjournment of SPAC Shareholder Meeting if necessary, to permit further solicitation of proxies because there are not sufficient votes to approve and adopt any of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters, (h) as an ordinary resolution, the adoption and approval of any other proposals that the SEC (or staff members thereof) may indicate are necessary in its comments to the Registration Statement or correspondence related thereto, and (j) as an ordinary resolution (or, if required by applicable Law or the SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles, as a special resolution), any other proposals that are submitted to, and require the vote of, SPAC Shareholders in the Registration Statement.
“SPAC Shareholders” means the holders of SPAC Class A Shares and SPAC Class B Shares, in each case, as of immediately prior to the Closing.
“SPAC Shares” means SPAC Class A Shares and SPAC Class B Shares.
“SPAC Transaction Expenses” means, without duplication, all out-of-pocket fees and expenses of SPAC incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation and execution of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, the Registration Statement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including (i) fees, costs, expenses, brokerage fees, commissions, finders’ fees and disbursements of SPAC’s financial advisors, investment banks, data room administrators, attorneys, accountants and other advisors and service providers (including any deferred underwriting fees or any other accrued and unpaid fees incurred by SPAC in connection with its initial public offering) and (ii) all operating costs, including without limitation the premiums paid for directors’ and officers’ liability insurance; provided that SPAC Transaction Expenses shall not exceed seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000).
18
“SPAC’s Disclosure Letter” means the Disclosure Letter delivered by SPAC to the Company concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement.
“Sponsor” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.
“Subscription Agreement” means a subscription agreement (substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E) executed by a PIPE Investor on or prior to the date hereof.
“Subsidiaries” means, of any Person, any corporation, company, exempted company, association, partnership, exempted limited partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other business entity of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power or equity is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such Person, or one (1) or more of the Subsidiaries of such Person, or a combination thereof.
“Tail Policy” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.12(b).
“Tax” or “Taxes” means all federal, state, local, non-U.S., and other net or gross income, net or gross receipts, net or gross proceeds, payroll, employment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, windfall or excess profits, profits, customs, capital stock, withholding, social security, unemployment, disability, real property, personal property (tangible and intangible), sales, use, transfer, value added, alternative or add-on minimum, capital gains, user, leasing, lease, natural resources, ad valorem, franchise, capital, estimated, goods and services, fuel, interest equalization, registration, recording, premium, turnover, environmental or other taxes, social security contributions of any kind, charges, duties, fees, levies or other governmental charges of any kind whatsoever, including all interest, penalties, assessments and additions imposed with respect to the foregoing, imposed by (or otherwise payable to) any Governmental Entity, and, in each case, whether disputed or not, whether payable directly or by withholding and whether or not requiring the filing of a Tax Return.
“Tax Proceeding” means any audit, examination, claim or Proceeding with respect to Taxes, Tax matters, or Tax Returns.
“Tax Returns” means all federal, state, and local returns, declarations, reports, claims for refund, information returns, elections, disclosures, statements, or other documents (including any related or supporting schedules, attachments, statements or information, and including any amendments thereof) filed or required to be filed with a Taxing Authority in connection with, or relating to, Taxes.
“Tax Sharing Agreement” means any agreement or arrangement (including any provision of a Contract) pursuant to which the ZB Companies is or may be obligated to indemnify any Person for, or otherwise pay, any Tax of or imposed on another Person, or indemnify, or pay over to, any other Person any amount determined by reference to actual or deemed Tax benefits, Tax assets, or Tax savings.
“Taxing Authority” means any Governmental Entity having jurisdiction over the assessment, determination, collection, administration or imposition of any Tax.
“Trade Secrets” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Intellectual Property”.
19
“Trademarks” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Intellectual Property”.
“Transfer Taxes” means transfer, documentary, sales, use, real property, stamp, registration and other similar Taxes, fees and costs (including any associated penalties and interest) incurred in connection with this Agreement that are payable by SPAC, the Company or its Subsidiaries.
“Trust Account” means the trust account established by SPAC pursuant to the Trust Agreement.
“Trust Agreement” means that certain Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated as of July 16, 2021, by and between SPAC and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation.
“Trust Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4.
“Trustee” means Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, acting as trustee of the Trust Account.
“Unauthorized Code” means any virus, “Trojan horse”, worm, spyware, keylogger software, or other Software routines or hardware components, faults or malicious code or damaging device, designed to permit unauthorized access, to disable, erase, or otherwise harm Software, hardware or data that is not developed or authorized by any ZB Company or the licensor of the Software or hardware components, or that in each case, if activated would be material to the business of the Company.
“Unit” means the publicly traded units of SPAC, each consisting of one SPAC Class A Share and one-half of one Public Warrant.
“ZB Chief Financial Officer” means Oliver Levy.
“ZB Companies” means Holdco and the Company.
ARTICLE II
MERGER; THE SUBSEQUENT MERGER
Section 2.1 Merger. Upon and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, on the Closing Date, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Cayman Companies Act, Merger Sub shall be merged with and into Holdco. Following the Merger, the separate legal existence of Merger Sub shall cease, and Holdco shall continue as the surviving company in the Merger under the Cayman Companies Act and continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC.
20
Section 2.2 Closing; Effective Time. Unless this Agreement is earlier terminated in accordance with ARTICLE X, the closing of the Merger (the “Closing”) shall take place via electronic exchange of documents on a date no later than three (3) Business Days after the satisfaction or waiver of all the conditions set forth in ARTICLE IV that are required to be satisfied prior to the Closing Date, or at such other place and time as the Company and SPAC may mutually agree upon. The date on which the Closing actually occurs is hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date”. At the Closing, the Parties hereto shall (as appropriate) execute a plan of merger (the “Plan of Merger”) in form and substance acceptable to SPAC and the Company, along with all other documentation and declarations required under the Cayman Companies Act in connection with such Merger (together the “Merger Documents”) and the Parties hereto shall cause the Merger to be consummated by filing the Merger Documents with the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of the Cayman Companies Act. The Merger shall become effective at the time when the Plan of Merger is registered by the Registrar in accordance with the Cayman Companies Act (or such other date as may be specified in the Merger Documents, provided that such date shall not be a date later than the ninetieth date after the date of such registration) (the “Effective Time”).
Section 2.3 Effect of the Merger. At the Effective Time, the effect of the Merger shall be as provided in this Agreement, the Merger Documents and the applicable provisions of the Cayman Companies Act. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, Liabilities, duties and obligations of Merger Sub shall become the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, Liabilities, duties and obligations of Holdco, which shall include the assumption by Holdco of any and all agreements, covenants, duties and obligations of Merger Sub set forth in this Agreement to be performed after the Effective Time.
Section 2.4 Subsequent Merger. Immediately after the Effective Time, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Cayman Companies Act, SPAC shall cause Holdco to merge with and into Merger Sub 2. Following the Subsequent Merger, the separate legal existence of Holdco shall cease, and Merger Sub 2 shall continue (the “Surviving Company”) under the Cayman Companies Act and continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of SPAC.
Section 2.5 Subsequent Closing; Subsequent Effective Time. The closing of the Subsequent Merger (the “Subsequent Closing”) shall take place immediately after the Effective Time. At the Subsequent Closing, the Parties hereto shall (as appropriate) execute a plan of merger (the “Subsequent Plan of Merger”) in form and substance acceptable to SPAC and the Company, along with all other documentation and declarations required under the Cayman Companies Act in connection with such Subsequent Merger (together the “Subsequent Merger Documents”) and the Parties hereto shall cause the Subsequent Merger to be consummated by filing the Subsequent Merger Documents with the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of the Cayman Companies Act. The Subsequent Merger shall become effective at the time when the Subsequent Plan of Merger is registered by the Registrar in accordance with the Cayman Companies Act (or such other date as may be specified in the Subsequent Merger Documents, provided that such date shall not be a date later than the ninetieth date after the date of such registration) (the “Subsequent Effective Time”).
Section 2.6 Effect of the Subsequent Merger. At the Subsequent Effective Time, the effect of the Subsequent Merger shall be as provided in this Agreement, the Subsequent Merger Documents and the applicable provisions of the Cayman Companies Act. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, and subject thereto, at the Subsequent Effective Time, all the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, Liabilities, duties and obligations of Holdco shall become the property, rights, privileges, agreements, powers and franchises, debts, Liabilities, duties and obligations of the Surviving Company.
21
Section 2.7 Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Surviving Company. At the Subsequent Effective Time, and without any further action on the part of Holdco or Merger Sub 2, the Memorandum and Articles of Association of Merger Sub 2 shall become the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Surviving Company until thereafter amended in accordance with its terms and as provided by law.
Section 2.8 Register of Members of the Company. As soon as reasonably practicable following the Subsequent Effective Time, (i) the Surviving Company shall deliver a copy of this Agreement to the board of directors of the Company (together with any other documents requested by the board of directors of the Company), notifying the board of directors of the Company of the Subsequent Merger and the transmission of the shares in the Company held by Holdco to the Surviving Company pursuant to the Subsequent Merger and request the board of directors of the Company to record the Surviving Company as the holder of the shares in the Company and the issuance of a share certificate in respect of such shares in the Company; and (ii) as soon as reasonably practicable following receipt of the notice referred to in (i), the Company shall register the Surviving Company as the holder of the shares in the Company and shall issue a share certificate in respect of such shares to the Surviving Company.
Section 2.9 Rights Not Transferable. The rights of the Holdco Shareholders as of immediately prior to the Effective Time are personal to each such Holdco Shareholder and shall not be assignable or otherwise transferable for any reason (except (i) by operation of Law or (ii) in the case of a natural Person, by will or the Laws of descent and distribution). Any attempted transfer of such right by any Holdco Shareholder (otherwise than as permitted by the immediately preceding sentence) shall be null and void.
Section 2.10 Taking of Necessary Action; Further Action. If, at any time after the Effective Time or Subsequent Effective Time (as applicable), any further action is necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and to vest the Surviving Company with full right, title and interest in, to and under, and/or possession of, all assets, property, rights, privileges, powers and franchises of Merger Sub, Merger Sub 2 and Holdco, the officers and directors of Merger Sub, Merger Sub 2 and Holdco (as applicable) are fully authorized in the name of their respective exempted companies or otherwise to take, and will take, all such lawful and necessary action, so long as such action is not inconsistent with this Agreement.
Section 2.11 Tax Treatment. The Parties agree that for U.S. federal income Tax purposes (i) the Company Capital Restructuring shall be treated as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(F) of the Code, and the documents effectuating such transaction shall be treated as a plan of reorganization, as contemplated by Treasury Regulations Section 1.368-2(g), and (ii) the Merger and the Subsequent Merger shall together be treated as a reorganization within the meaning of Section 368(a)(1)(A) of the Code, and the documents effectuating such transaction shall be treated as a plan of reorganization, as contemplated by Treasury Regulations Section 1.368-2(g) (collectively, the “Intended Tax Treatment”). The Parties agree to file all Tax Returns consistent with such Intended Tax Treatment and no Party shall take any position inconsistent with the Intended Tax Treatment for any Tax purposes unless otherwise required by a final determination by a Taxing Authority within the meaning of Section 1313(a) of the Code. For the avoidance of doubt, if the SEC requires a tax opinion with respect to the qualification as a tax-free reorganization of either or both (i) the Company Capital Restructuring and (ii) the Merger and the Subsequent Merger as a tax-free reorganization under Section 368 be prepared and submitted, Loeb & Loeb LLP shall not be obligated or required to prepare and submit any such tax opinion.
22
Section 2.12 Transfers of Ownership. If any certificate for Closing Payment Shares is to be issued in a name other than that in which the Holdco Share in exchange for which it is issued is registered, it will be a condition of the issuance thereof that the person requesting such issue will have demonstrated his entitlement to such issue to the reasonable satisfaction of SPAC or any agent designated by it and shall pay to SPAC, any agent designated by it, or the relevant Taxing Authority any transfer or other Taxes required by reason of the issuance of a certificate for Closing Payment Shares in any name other than that of the registered holder of that Holdco Share, or established to the reasonable satisfaction of SPAC or any agent designated by it that such tax has been paid or is not payable.
ARTICLE III
CONSIDERATION
Section 3.1 Conversion of Shares.
(a) Conversion of Holdco Shares. At the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger and without any action on the part of SPAC, Merger Sub, Merger Sub 2, Holdco, the Company or the Holdco Shareholders, each Holdco Share issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be automatically converted into the right to receive, for no further consideration, a number of SPAC Class A Shares equal to the Exchange Ratio. Immediately upon the Effective Time, SPAC shall issue to the holders of the aforementioned Holdco Shares the Closing Payment Shares to which they are entitled pursuant to the preceding sentence, as fully paid, non-assessable and free from all Liens, in accordance with the Merger Documents. For avoidance of any doubt, each Holdco Shareholder will cease to have any other rights with respect to its Holdco Shares, and each Holdco Shareholder waives any such rights it might otherwise have pursuant to Holdco’s Governing Documents or any shareholders’ agreement or otherwise, including any rights to receive any other amount of consideration in respect of the conversion of its Holdco Shares pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) Treatment of Excluded Shares. At the Effective Time, all Excluded Shares shall be automatically canceled without any conversion or consideration delivered in exchange thereof.
(c) Adjustments in Certain Circumstances. Without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, if at any time during the period between the date of this Agreement and the Effective Time, the outstanding Holdco Shares or SPAC Class A Shares shall have been changed into a different number of shares or a different class, by reason of any share dividend, subdivision, reclassification, recapitalization, split, combination or exchange of shares, or any similar event shall have occurred, then any number or amount contained herein which is based upon the number of Holdco Shares or SPAC Class A Shares, as applicable, will be appropriately adjusted to provide to SPAC and the Holdco Shareholders the same economic effect as contemplated by this Agreement prior to such event.
23
(d) No Further Ownership Rights in Shares. The Closing Payment Shares issued or issuable in respect of Holdco Shares in accordance with the terms hereof shall be deemed to have been issued or be issuable in full satisfaction of all rights pertaining to such Holdco Shares, and from and after the Effective Time, no Holdco Shareholder shall have any ownership right in Holdco and there shall be no further registration of transfers of Holdco Shares on the register of members of the Surviving Company.
Section 3.2 Treatment of Holdco Options. At the Effective Time, each Holdco Option shall be converted into an option to acquire SPAC Class A Shares upon substantially the same terms and conditions as are in effect with respect to such option immediately prior to the Effective Time, including with respect to vesting and termination-related provisions (each, a “SPAC Option”) except that (a) such SPAC Option shall relate to a number of shares of SPAC Class A Shares (rounded to the nearest whole share) equal to the number of Holdco Shares subject to such Holdco Option, multiplied by the Exchange Ratio, and (b) the exercise price per SPAC Class A Share for each such SPAC Option shall be equal to the exercise price per Holdco Share of such Holdco Option in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, divided by the Exchange Ratio (the exercise price so determined being rounded to the nearest full cent).
Section 3.3 Closing Statement. No earlier than five (5) Business Days and no later than three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, Holdco shall deliver to SPAC a statement in a form reasonably acceptable to SPAC, which statement shall be certified as complete and correct by a director or the chief financial officer of Holdco in his capacity as such and which shall accurately set forth: (i) the names and addresses of each Holdco Shareholder and Optionholder; (ii) the number and class of Holdco Shares expected to be held by or subject to Holdco Options held by, each such holder immediately prior to the Closing; and (iii) the number of Closing Payment Shares to be issued to each such Holdco Shareholder and SPAC Class A Shares to be subject to each Optionholder’s SPAC Options (the “Closing Statement”). If there is any change to such Closing Statement between the time of such delivery and the Closing, Holdco shall promptly deliver an updated Closing Statement to SPAC.
Section 3.4 No Issuance of Fractional Shares. No fractional Closing Payment Shares will be issued pursuant to the Merger, and instead any such fractional share that would otherwise be issued will be rounded to the nearest whole share.
Section 3.5 Withholding. SPAC or Merger Sub and any other applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to deduct and withhold from any amounts payable pursuant to this Agreement, any amounts required to be deducted and withheld under the Code, or any provision of any federal, state, local or non-U.S. Tax Law. SPAC or Merger Sub (as applicable) shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (a) give, or cause the applicable withholding agent to give, advance written notice to Holdco of the intention to make any such deduction or withholding (except in the case of any withholding required as a result of a failure to deliver an applicable Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 or Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 that has been requested by SPAC or Merger Sub or any applicable withholding agent, or any withholding on compensatory payments made in connection with this Agreement) which notice shall include the basis for the proposed deduction or withholding, and (b) provide the relevant Holdco Shareholders with a reasonable opportunity to provide forms or other evidence that would exempt such amounts from such deduction or withholding under applicable Law. Any amounts so withheld shall be timely and properly paid over to the appropriate Taxing Authority by SPAC or Merger Sub or the applicable withholding agent. To the extent that amounts are so deducted and withheld, such deducted and withheld amounts shall be treated for all purposes of this Agreement as having been paid to the Person in respect of whom such deduction and withholding was made.
24
ARTICLE IV
CLOSING CONDITIONS
Section 4.1 Conditions to the Obligations of the Parties at Closing.
(a) Conditions to the Obligations of Each Party. The obligation of each Party to consummate the transactions to be performed by it in connection with the Closing is subject to the satisfaction or written waiver, as of the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions:
(i) Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. If a filing is required in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the HSR Act, the waiting period applicable to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the HSR Act shall have expired or been terminated.
(ii) No Orders or Illegality. There shall not be any applicable Law in effect that makes the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement illegal or any Order in effect enjoining or prohibiting the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(iii) Required Vote. The Required Vote to definitively approve the Merger shall have been obtained.
(iv) Holdco Vote. The Holdco Vote to definitively approve the Merger shall have been obtained.
(v) Net Tangible Assets. After giving effect to all redemptions of SPAC Shares, SPAC shall have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 immediately prior to the Merger.
(vi) Joint Registration/Proxy Statement. SPAC shall have filed a joint Registration/Proxy Statement with the SEC on Form S-4 and such Registration/Proxy Statement shall have been declared effective by the SEC and remain effective as of the Closing.
(vii) Government Action. No Party or its applicable directors, officers, employees, contractors, representatives or Affiliates shall have been the subject of any actual, pending or threatened enquiry or Proceeding by any Governmental Entity regarding any violation of any Law.
25
(viii) Company Capital Restructuring. Closing of the Company Capital Restructuring (as defined in the Holdco SSA) shall have occurred in accordance with the Holdco SSA.
(b) Conditions to Obligations of SPAC Companies. The obligations of SPAC Companies to consummate the transactions to be performed by SPAC Companies in connection with the Closing is subject to the satisfaction or written waiver, at or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions:
(i) Representations and Warranties.
(A) | The representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Article V of this Agreement (other than the Company Fundamental Representations) shall be true and correct as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though then made (or if such representations and warranties relate to a specific date, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such date), except in each case, to the extent such failure of the representations and warranties to be so true and correct, individually or in the aggregate, (i) has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) was caused by the undertaking of such actions set forth in Section 7.1(a) of this Agreement; and |
(B) | Company Fundamental Representations, in each case, without giving effect to any materiality or Material Adverse Effect qualifiers contained therein, shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though then made (or if such representations and warranties relate to a specific date, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such date). |
(ii) Performance and Obligations of the ZB Companies. Each ZB Company shall have performed or complied in all material respects with all covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by it, on or prior to the Closing Date.
(iii) Material Adverse Effect. Since the Effective Date, there has been no Material Adverse Effect.
(iv) Officer’s Certificate. (A) The Company shall deliver to SPAC, a duly executed certificate from an authorized Person of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying that the conditions set forth in Section 4.1(b)(i), Section 4.1(b)(ii), and Section 4.1(b)(iii) with respect to the Company have been satisfied.
26
(v) Ancillary Agreements. The Company and Holdco (as applicable) shall have executed and delivered a copy of each Ancillary Agreement to which it is a party.
(vi) PCAOB Financial Statements. The Company shall have delivered to SPAC Companies the PCAOB Financial Statements.
(c) Conditions to Obligations of ZB Companies. The obligation of ZB Companies to consummate the transactions to be performed by ZB Companies, in connection with the Closing is subject to the satisfaction or written waiver, at or prior to the Closing Date, of each of the following conditions:
(i) Representations and Warranties.
(A) | The representations and warranties of SPAC Companies set forth in Article VI of this Agreement (other than SPAC Fundamental Representations) shall be true and correct as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though then made (or if such representations and warranties relate to a specific date, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such date), except in each case, to the extent such failure of the representations and warranties to be so true and correct, individually or in the aggregate, has not had and would not reasonably be expected to have a SPAC Material Adverse Effect; and |
(B) | SPAC Companies Fundamental Representations, in each case, without giving effect to any materiality or material adverse effect qualifiers contained therein, shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date as though then made (or if such representations and warranties relate to a specific date, such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such date). |
(ii) Performance and Obligations of SPAC Companies. SPAC Companies shall have performed or complied in all material respects with all covenants required by this Agreement to be performed or complied with by SPAC Companies on or prior to the Closing Date.
(iii) SPAC Material Adverse Effect. Since the Effective Date there has been no SPAC Material Adverse Effect.
(iv) Officer’s Certificate. SPAC Companies shall deliver to the ZB Companies, a duly executed certificate from an officer of SPAC, dated as of the Closing Date, certifying that the conditions set forth in Section 4.1(c)(i) and Section 4.1(c)(ii) have been satisfied.
27
(v) Available Closing Date Cash. Available Closing Date Cash shall not be less than sixty five million dollars ($65,000,000).
(vi) SPAC Closing Deliveries. Each of the SPAC Companies shall have executed and delivered a copy of each Ancillary Agreement to which it is a party.
(vii) Stock Exchange Listing. SPAC Class A Shares to be issued in connection with the Merger have been approved for listing on NYSE, subject only to official notice of issuance thereof, and immediately following the Closing, SPAC shall satisfy all applicable initial and continuing listing requirements of NYSE and shall not have received any notice of non-compliance therewith.
(d) Frustration of Closing Conditions. None of ZB Companies or SPAC Companies may rely on the failure of any condition set forth in this Section 4.1 to be satisfied if such failure was caused by such Party’s failure to act in good faith or to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the closing conditions of such other Party to be satisfied.
(e) Waiver of Closing Conditions. Upon the occurrence of the Closing, any condition set forth in this Section 4.1 that was not satisfied as of the Closing shall be deemed to have been waived as of and from the Closing.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ZB COMPANIES
As an inducement to SPAC Companies to enter into this Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except as set forth in the applicable section of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company hereby represents and warrants to SPAC Companies, the following (in respect of Holdco, as of the Holdco Signing Date (and reading each reference to the Effective Date as a reference to the Holdco Signing Date) and except as disclosed in the documents provided to SPAC on or before the Holdco Signing Date pursuant to which the Company Capital Restructuring is implemented):
Section 5.1 Organization; Authority; Enforceability. Each ZB Company is (a) duly incorporated or formed, validly existing, and in good standing (or the equivalent), if applicable, under the Laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation (or, if continued in another jurisdiction, under the Laws of its current jurisdiction of registration (as applicable)), (b) qualified to do business and is in good standing (or the equivalent), if applicable, in the jurisdictions in which the conduct of its business or locations of its assets and/or its leasing, ownership, or operation of properties makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified to be in good standing (or the equivalent) would not reasonably be expected to be material to the ZB Companies and (c) each ZB Company has the requisite power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to carry on its businesses as presently conducted. Each ZB Company has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and each ZB Company has taken all corporate or other legal entity action necessary in order to execute, deliver and perform its respective obligations hereunder and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. Each ZB Company has duly approved this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and has duly authorized the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the Ancillary Agreements and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the ZB Companies and constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the ZB companies, enforceable against such Party in accordance with its terms, except as such may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, winding-up, reorganization or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, by general equitable principles and mandatory applicable Laws. Correct and complete copies of the Governing Documents of each ZB Company, as in effect on the date hereof, have been made available to SPAC.
28
Section 5.2 No Dissolution, Bankruptcy or Insolvency. No measures have been taken or threatened for the dissolution and liquidation or declaration of bankruptcy of any of the ZB Companies and no events have occurred which would justify any such measures to be taken, in particular (i) no order has been made, petition presented, resolution passed or meeting convened for the winding up, dissolution or liquidation of any of the ZB Companies and there are no proceedings under applicable insolvency, bankruptcy, composition, moratorium, reorganization, or similar laws and no events have occurred which would require the initiation of any such proceedings, nor are any such proceedings threatened; and (ii) no receiver, liquidator, administrator, commissioner or similar official has been appointed in respect of any of the ZB Companies and no step has been taken for or with a view to the appointment of such a person. The ZB Companies are neither over-indebted, nor insolvent nor unable to pay their debts as they fall due pursuant to the respective applicable Law.
Section 5.3 Corporate Books and Registers. The corporate books, registers, accounts, ledgers, records and supporting documents of the ZB Companies are up to date and contain complete and accurate records in all material respects of all matters since the Lookback Date, which were required to be dealt with in such documents pursuant to the relevant applicable Law.
Section 5.4 Noncontravention. Except for the filings pursuant to Section 8.8, the consummation by the ZB Companies of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements do not (a) conflict with or result in any breach of any of the material terms, conditions or provisions of, (b) constitute a material default under (whether with or without the giving of notice, the passage of time or both), (c) result in a material violation of, (d) give any third party the right to terminate or accelerate, or cause any termination or acceleration of, any material right or material obligation under, (e) result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the such Party’s assets, (f) require any approval from, or (g) require any filing with, (i) any Material Contract, (ii) any Governing Document of the ZB Companies or (iii) any Law or Order to which any ZB Company is bound or subject, with respect to clauses (d) through (g), which would reasonably be expected to be material to any ZB Company. No ZB Company is in material violation of any of the Governing Documents of such company.
29
Section 5.5 Capitalization.
(a) Section 5.5(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth with respect to each ZB Company as of the Effective Date, (i) its name and jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, (ii) its form of organization or formation and (iii) the Equity Securities issued by each ZB Company (including the number and class (as applicable) of vested and unvested Equity Securities) and the record and beneficial ownership (including the percentage interests held thereby) thereof. The Equity Securities set forth on Section 5.5(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter comprise all of the share capital, limited liability company interests or other Equity Securities, as applicable, of each ZB Company that are issued and outstanding as of the Effective Date and the holders of the Equity Securities are the registered and sole legal and beneficial owners of the Equity Securities free from any Liens.
(b) Except as set forth on Section 5.5(b) of the Company Disclosure Letter, or set forth in this Agreement and if applicable, as further detailed in the Ancillary Agreements or the Governing Documents of the ZB Companies:
(i) there are no outstanding options, warrants, Contracts, calls, puts, rights to subscribe, conversion rights or other similar rights to which any ZB Company is a party or which are binding upon any ZB Company providing for the offer, issuance, redemption, exchange, conversion, voting, transfer, disposition or acquisition of any of its Equity Securities;
(ii) no ZB Company is subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase or otherwise acquire or retire any of its Equity Securities;
(iii) no ZB Company is a party to any voting trust, proxy or other agreement or understanding with respect to the voting of any of its Equity Securities;
(iv) there are no contractual equityholder preemptive or similar rights, rights of first refusal, rights of first offer or registration rights in respect of Equity Securities of any of any ZB Company to which any ZB Company is a party;
(v) no ZB Company has violated in any material respect any applicable securities Laws or any preemptive or similar rights created by Law, Governing Document or Contract to which such company is a party in connection with the offer, sale or issuance of any of its Equity Securities; and
(vi) other than pursuant to applicable Law, there are no contractual restrictions which prevent the payment of dividends or distributions by any ZB Companies.
(c) Except as set forth on Section 5.5(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, all of the issued and outstanding Equity Securities of the ZB Companies have been duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free of any preemptive rights in respect thereto, and were not issued in violation of any preemptive rights, call options, rights of first refusal, subscription rights, transfer restrictions or similar rights of any Person or applicable Law.
(d) No ZB Company currently owns, directly or indirectly, any Equity Securities in any Person, and no ZB Company has agreed to acquire any Equity Securities of any Person or has any branch, division, establishment or operations outside the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated, formed or organized (as applicable).
30
Section 5.6 Financial Statements; No Undisclosed Liabilities.
(a) Attached as Section 5.6(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter are (x) the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of March 31, 2022 (the “Latest Balance Sheet”). and (y) the related audited consolidated statements of operations for the fiscal periods then ended (together with the Latest Balance Sheet, the “Audited Financial Statements”).
(b) The Audited Financial Statements have been, and the PCAOB Financial Statements will be, when delivered to SPAC, derived from the books and records of Company. (i) the Audited Financial Statements have been, and the PCAOB Financial Statements will be, when delivered SPAC, prepared in all material respects in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated therein and (ii) the Audited Financial Statements fairly presents, and the PCAOB Financial Statements will, when delivered to SPAC, fairly present, in all material respects, the combined assets, liabilities, and financial condition as of the respective dates thereof and the operating results of the Company for the periods covered thereby, subject to normal, year-end audit adjustments (none of which will be material) and the absence of footnotes and other presentation items.
(c) The ZB Companies have no material Liabilities that are required to be disclosed on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, other than (i) Liabilities set forth in or reserved against in the Audited Financial Statements; (ii) Liabilities which have arisen after the date of the Latest Balance Sheet in the Ordinary Course of Business (none of which results from, arises out of, or was caused by any breach of warranty, breach of Contract or infringement or violation of Law); or (iii) Liabilities arising under this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and/or the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder or thereunder or incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including the Company Transaction Expenses.
(d) No ZB Company has any outstanding indebtedness.
(e) No ZB Company maintains any “off-balance sheet arrangement” within the meaning of Item 303 of Regulation S-K of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Section 5.7 No Material Adverse Effect. Since the Lookback Date through the Effective Date, there has been no Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.8 Absence of Certain Developments. Since the Lookback Date each ZB Company has conducted its business in all material respects in the Ordinary Course of Business. Since March 31, 2022, other than as set forth in Section 5.8 of the Company Disclosure Letter no ZB Company has taken (or has had taken on its behalf) any action that would, if taken after the Effective Date, require SPAC’s consent under Section 7.1(a) of this Agreement.
Section 5.9 Real Property. No ZB Company owns or leases, or has ever owned or leased, any real property.
Section 5.10 Tax Matters. Each ZB Company has timely filed any income and other material Tax Returns required to be filed by it on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to applicable Laws (taking into account any validly obtained extensions of time within which to file). All income and other material Tax Returns filed by each of the ZB Companies, if any, are correct and complete in all material respects and have been prepared in material compliance with all applicable Laws. All income and other material amounts of Taxes due and payable by each of the ZB Companies for which the applicable statute of limitations remains open have been timely paid (whether or not shown as due and payable on any Tax Return).
31
(a) Each ZB Company has timely and properly withheld or collected and paid to the applicable Taxing Authority all material amounts of Taxes required to have been withheld and paid by it in connection with any amounts paid or owing to any employee, independent contractor, creditor, equityholder or other third party and all material sales, use, ad valorem, value added, and similar Taxes and has otherwise complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws relating to such withholding, collection and payment of Taxes.
(b) No written claim has been made by a Taxing Authority in a jurisdiction where a ZB Company does not file a Tax Return, or pay Tax, that such ZB Company is or may be subject to taxation, or required to file a Tax Return in, that jurisdiction, which claim has not been settled or resolved.
(c) No ZB Company is currently or has been since the Lookback Date the subject of any Tax Proceeding with respect to any Taxes or Tax Returns of or with respect to any ZB Company, no such Tax Proceeding is pending, and, no such Tax Proceeding has been threatened in writing, in each case, that has not been settled or resolved. No ZB Company has commenced a voluntary disclosure proceeding in any jurisdiction that has not been resolved or settled. All material deficiencies for Taxes asserted or assessed in writing against any ZB Company have been fully and timely (taking into account applicable extensions) paid, settled or withdrawn, and, no such deficiency has been threatened or proposed in writing against any ZB Company.
(d) There are no outstanding agreements extending or waiving the statute of limitations applicable to any Tax or Tax Return with respect to any ZB Company or extending a period of collection, assessment or deficiency for Taxes due from or with respect to any ZB Company, which period (after giving effect to such extension or waiver) has not yet expired, and no written request for any such waiver or extension is currently pending. No ZB Company is the beneficiary of any extension of time (other than an automatic extension of time not requiring the consent of the applicable Governmental Entity) within which to file any Tax Return not previously filed.
(e) No ZB Company will be required to include any material item of income, or exclude any material item of deduction, for any period (or portion thereof) after the Closing Date (determined with and without regard to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) as a result of: (i) an installment sale transaction occurring on or before the Closing Date; (ii) a disposition occurring on or before the Closing Date reported as an open transaction; (iii) any prepaid amounts received on or prior to the Closing Date or deferred revenue realized, accrued or received outside the Ordinary Course of Business on or prior to the Closing Date; (iv) a change in method of accounting that occurs or was requested on or prior to the Closing Date (or as a result of an impermissible method used prior to the Closing Date); or (v) an agreement entered into with any Governmental Entity on or prior to the Closing Date; (vi) intercompany transaction or excess loss account described in Treasury Regulations under Section 1502 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law); (vii) election under Section 108(i) of the Code made on or before the Closing Date, (viii) any ZB Company or their Subsidiaries that is a “controlled foreign corporation” (within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code) having “subpart F income” (within the meaning of Section 952(a) of the Code) accrued prior to the Closing Date, (ix) “global intangible low-taxed income” of the ZB Companies or their Subsidiaries within the meaning of Section 951A of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law) attributable to any taxable period (or portion thereof) on or before the Closing Date, or (x) election made pursuant to Section 965(h) of the Code.
32
(f) There is no Lien for Taxes on any of the assets of any ZB Company, other than Permitted Liens.
(g) No ZB Company has any material Liability for Taxes of any other Person as a successor or transferee, by contract, by operation of Law, or otherwise (other than pursuant to an Ordinary Course Tax Sharing Agreement). No ZB Company is party to or bound by any Tax Sharing Agreement, except for any Ordinary Course Tax Sharing Agreement.
(h) The unpaid Taxes of the ZB Companies (i) did not, as of the date of the Latest Balance Sheet, materially exceed the reserves for Tax liabilities (excluding any reserve for deferred Taxes established to reflect timing differences between book and Tax income) included in the Latest Balance Sheet and (ii) do not materially exceed such reserves as adjusted for the passage of time through the Closing Date in accordance with the past practices of the ZB Companies in filing its Tax Returns.
(i) No ZB Company has taken any action nor is aware of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to prevent the transactions contemplated by this Agreement from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment.
Section 5.11 Contracts.
(a) Except as set forth on Section 5.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter and except for the Pfizer License, no ZB Company is a party to, or bound by, any (other than any Contracts that are no longer in effect and under which no ZB Company has any continuing or potential material Liability):
(i) collective bargaining agreement;
(ii) leases, subleases, licenses, concessions and other Contracts pursuant to which the Company or its Subsidiaries holds any leased real property.;
(iii) (x) Contract for the employment or engagement of any directors, officers, employees or individual independent contractors providing for an annual base compensation in excess of $100,000, (y) Contract providing for severance payments in excess of $250,000, in the aggregate or (z) Contract requiring the payment of any compensation by any ZB Companies that is triggered as a result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(iv) Contract under which any ZB Company has created, incurred, assumed or borrowed any money or issued any note, indenture or other evidence of Indebtedness or guaranteed Indebtedness of others, in each case having an outstanding principal amount in excess of $250,000;
33
(v) written license or royalty Contract licensing-in or granting to any ZB Company right in or immunity under any Intellectual Property, other than Contracts (w) concerning uncustomized, commercially available Software (whether software, software-as-a-service services, platform-as-a-service services, and/or infrastructure-as-a-service services) licensed for less than $250,000 in annual fees; (x) that include a license in of any commercially available Intellectual Property pursuant to stock, boilerplate, or other generally non-negotiable terms, such as, for example, website and mobile application terms and conditions or terms of use, stock photography licenses, and similar Contracts; or (y) whereby Intellectual Property is implicitly licensed;
(vi) written license or royalty Contract licensing out or granting any rights in or immunity under any Owned Intellectual Property to any Person, other than Contracts (w) pursuant to which any ZB Company grants non-exclusive licenses that are immaterial to the business of such ZB Company; or (x) whereby Owned Intellectual Property is non-exclusively implicitly licensed or non-exclusively licensed to service providers, subcontractors, or suppliers of the Company solely to the extent necessary for such Person to provide services thereto;
(vii) Contract that any ZB Company reasonably expects will require aggregate future payments to or from the Company in excess of $500,000 in the twelve (12) month period following Closing, other than those Contracts that can be terminated without material penalty by the Company upon ninety (90) days’ notice or less and can be replaced with a similar Contract on materially equivalent terms in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(viii) joint venture, partnership or similar Contract;
(ix) other than this Agreement, Contract for the sale or disposition of any material assets or Equity Securities of any ZB Company (other than those providing for sales or dispositions of (x) assets and inventory in the Ordinary Course of Business, and (y) assets no longer used in the businesses of such ZB Company, in each case, under which there are material outstanding obligations of such Company) (including any sale or disposition agreement that has been executed, but has not closed);
(x) Contract that materially limits or restricts, or purports to limit or restrict, any ZB Company (or after the Closing, SPAC or the Company) from engaging or competing in any line of business or material business activity in any jurisdiction;
(xi) Contract that contains a provision providing for the sharing of any revenue or cost-savings with any other Person;
(xii) Contract involving the payment of any earnout or similar contingent payment;
34
(xiii) Contract involving the settlement, conciliation or similar agreement of any Proceeding or threatened Proceeding (y) involving payments (exclusive of attorney’s fees) in excess of $75,000 in any single instance or in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate, or (z) that by its terms limits or restricts any ZB Company from engaging or competing in any line of business in any jurisdiction;
(xiv) Contract requiring any capital commitment or capital expenditure (or series of capital commitments or expenditures) following the Closing Date by any ZB Company in an amount in excess of $250,000 annually or $500,000 over the life of the Contract;
(xv) Contract that relates to the future acquisition of material business, assets or properties by any ZB Company (including the acquisition of any business, stock or material assets of any Person or any real property and whether by merger, sale of stock, sale of assets or otherwise) for a purchase price in excess of $250,000 in any single instance or in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate, except for (x) any agreement related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (y) any non-disclosure, indications or interest, term sheets, letters of intent or similar agreements entered into in connection with such acquisitions, and (z) any agreement for the purchase of inventory or other assets or properties in the Ordinary Course of Business; or
(xvi) Contract pursuant to which any Person (other than the ZB Companies) has guaranteed the Liabilities of the ZB Companies.
(b) each Contract listed on Section 5.11(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter (each, a “Material Contract”) is in full force and effect and is valid, binding and enforceable against the Company and against each other party thereto, except as such may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles. The Company has made available to SPAC a copy of each Material Contract. With respect to all Material Contracts, none of the Company or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any other party to any such Material Contract is in breach or default thereunder, which breach or default would be or reasonably be expected to be material (or is alleged in writing to be in breach or default thereunder, which breach or default would be or reasonably be expected to be material) and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there does not exist under any Material Contract any event or circumstance which, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time (or both), would constitute such a breach or default by the Company thereunder (which breach or default would be or reasonably be expected to be material) or any other party to such Material Contract (which breach or default would be or reasonably be expected to be material). No ZB Company has received any written claim or notice, or, oral claim or notice, of breach of or default under any such Material Contract (which breach or default would be or reasonably be expected to be material).
(c) Set forth on Section 5.11(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter is a list of the Material Suppliers. Since the Lookback Date, no such Material Supplier has canceled, terminated or, materially and adversely altered its relationship with the Company (in each case would be or reasonably be expected to be material) or threatened in writing to cancel, terminate or materially and adversely alter its relationship with the Company (in each case, would be or reasonably be expected to be material). There have been no disputes between the Company and any Material Supplier since the Lookback Date which would be or reasonably be expected to be material.
35
(d) Other than as set forth in their Governing Documents, no ZB Company is subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase or otherwise retire any Equity Securities of another Person which is not a ZB Company.
Section 5.12 Intellectual Property.
(a) Pursuant to the Pfizer License, the Company has been granted exclusive worldwide rights to Develop and Commercialize the Licensed Technology in the Field (such italicized terms bearing the meanings ascribed to them in the Pfizer License), subject to the terms and conditions of the Pfizer License.
(b) As of the date of this Agreement, there is not and, to the Knowledge of the Company, within the six (6) years preceding the date of this Agreement there have not been, any Proceedings pending (or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, and, since the Lookback Date, the Company has not received any written charge, complaint, claim, demand, or notice that has not been fully resolved with prejudice) alleging any such infringement, misappropriation or other violation (including any claim that the Company must license or refrain from using any material Intellectual Property rights of any Person) or challenging the ownership, registration, validity or enforceability of any Owned Intellectual Property or any Licensed Technology. To the Knowledge of the Company, none of the Company, its products or services, nor the conduct of the business does or did infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any Person.
(c) As of the date of this Agreement, (i) to the Knowledge of the Company, no Person is, infringing upon, misappropriating or otherwise violating any Owned Intellectual Property or any Licensed Technology in a manner that is material to the Company; and (ii) the Company has not sent to any Person any written notice, charge, complaint, claim or other written assertion against such third Person claiming infringement or violation by or misappropriation of any Intellectual Property of the Company.
(d) The Company is the exclusive licensee under the Pfizer License as effected by an agreement among Pfizer, Rinat Neuroscience Corp (a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfizer) and the Company.
(e) The Company is the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title, and interest in and to all Owned Intellectual Property, free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens) and the Company owns, or has the valid right to use, all other Intellectual Property and IT Assets that are used in or necessary for the conduct of the business of the Company as currently conducted and as contemplated to be conducted, and none of the foregoing will be materially adversely impacted by (nor will require the payment or grant of additional material amounts or material consideration as a result of) the execution, delivery, or performance of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.
36
(f) All Publicly Available Software used by the Company in connection with the Company’s business has been used in all material respects in accordance with the terms of its governing license. The Company has not used any Publicly Available Software in connection with Owned Intellectual Property, nor licensed or distributed to any third party any combination of Publicly Available Software and Owned Intellectual Property, in each case, in a manner that (i) requires, or conditions the use or distribution of any Software that is Owned Intellectual Property on, the disclosure, licensing or distribution of any source code for any Owned Intellectual Property or (ii) otherwise imposes any limitation, restriction or condition on the right or ability of the Company to use, distribute or enforce Owned Intellectual Property in any manner (the terms of such Publicly Available Software giving rise to the events in clauses (i) and (ii), “Copyleft Terms”).
(g) No current or former director, officer, manager, employee, agent or third-party representative of the Company has any right, title or interest, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, in any material Intellectual Property owned or used by the Company, in each case except as would not be material to the Company. Except as disclosed in Section 5.12(g) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the Company has obtained from all Persons (including all current and former founders, officers, directors, shareholders, employees, contractors, consultants and agents) who have contributed to the creation of any Owned Intellectual Property a valid and enforceable written present assignment of all rights, title, and interest in and to any such Owned Intellectual Property to the Company, or all such rights, title, and interest in and to such Owned Intellectual Property have vested in the Company by operation of Law, in each case except where the failure to do so is not material to the Company. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Person is in violation of any such written assignment agreements.
(h) The Company has taken commercially reasonable measures to protect and maintain the confidentiality of all Trade Secrets and any other material confidential information (including material proprietary source code) owned by the Company (and any confidential information owned by any Person to whom any of the Company has a confidentiality obligation). Except as required by Law or as part of any audit or examination by a regulatory authority or self-regulatory authority, no such Trade Secret or confidential information has been disclosed by the Company to any Person other than to Persons subject to a duty of confidentiality or pursuant to a written agreement restricting the disclosure and use of such Trade Secrets or any other confidential information by such Person. To the Knowledge of the Company, no Person is in violation of any such written confidentiality agreements.
(i) No government funding, nor any facilities of a university, college, other educational institution, or similar institution, or research center, was used by the Company in the development of any Intellectual Property owned by the Company nor does any such Person have any rights, title, or interest in or to any Owned Intellectual Property. The Company is not member of or party to any patent pool, industry standards body, trade association, or other organization pursuant to which the Company is obligated to grant any license, rights, or immunity in or to any Owned Intellectual Property to any Person.
(j) The IT Assets are sufficient in all material respects for the current business operations of the Company. The Company has in place commercially reasonable disaster recovery and security plans and procedures and have implemented commercially reasonable security regarding the confidentiality, availability, security and integrity of the IT Assets owned by the Company and all confidential or sensitive data and information stored thereon, such as Personal Information, including from unauthorized access and infection by Unauthorized Code. The Company have maintained in the Ordinary Course of Business all required licenses and service contracts, including the purchase of a sufficient number of license seats, for all Software material to the operations of the Company as currently conducted.
37
(k) Each item of Intellectual Property owned or used by the Company immediately prior to the Closing will be owned or available for use by the Company immediately subsequent to the Closing on identical terms and conditions as owned or used by the Company immediately prior to the Closing.
Section 5.13 Data Security; Data Privacy.
(a) The ZB Companies have not experienced any material Security Breaches or material Security Incidents or a material failure of the IT Assets since the Lookback Date, and no ZB Company has received any uncured written notices, claims or complaints from any Person regarding such a material Security Breach or material Security Incident or material failure of the IT Assets since the Lookback Date. Since the Lookback Date, no ZB Company has received any uncured written complaint, claim, demand, inquiry or other notice, including a notice of investigation, from any Person (including any Governmental Entity or self- regulatory authority or entity) regarding any of the ZB Companies’ Processing of Personal Information or compliance with applicable Privacy and Security Requirements.
(b) Except as would not be or reasonably be expected to be material, to the Company’s Knowledge, the ZB Companies are, and since the Lookback Date have been, in compliance with all applicable Privacy and Security Requirements. To the Company’s Knowledge, the ZB Companies have a valid and legal right (whether contractually, by Law or otherwise) to access or use all Personal Information that is processed by or on behalf of the ZB Companies in connection with the use and/or operation of its products and business, in the manner such Personal Information is accessed and used by the ZB Companies except where the failure to have such right would not be material to the ZB Companies. The execution, delivery, or performance of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not violate any applicable Privacy and Security Requirements or result in or give rise to any right of termination or other right to impair or limit the ZB Companies’ right to own or process any Personal Information used in or necessary for the conduct of the business of the ZB Companies, except where such termination, impairment or limitation would not be material to the ZB Companies.
Section 5.14 Information Supplied. The information supplied in writing by the ZB Companies expressly for inclusion in the Proxy/Registration Statement, any other document submitted to any other Governmental Entity or any announcement or public statement regarding the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including the Signing Press Release and the Closing Press Release), shall not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they are made, not misleading at (a) the time such information is filed, submitted or made publicly available, and with respect to information supplied by the ZB Companies for inclusion in the Proxy/Registration Statement, such information is not revised by any subsequently filed amendment prior to the time that the Proxy/Registration Statement is first mailed, to the extent such initially included information does not result in Liabilities to SPAC under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act, (b) the time the Proxy/Registration Statement (or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto) is first mailed to SPAC Shareholders, or (c) the time of SPAC Shareholder Meeting (in each case, subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth in the materials provided by the ZB Companies or that are included in such filings and/or mailings), except that no warranty or representation is made by the ZB Companies with respect to statements made or incorporated by reference therein based on information supplied by SPAC or its Affiliates for inclusion in such materials.
38
Section 5.15 Litigation. There are no Proceedings (or to the Knowledge of the Company, investigations by a Governmental Entity) pending or threatened in writing against any ZB Company or any director or officer of the ZB Companies (in their capacity as such), and since the Lookback Date the ZB Companies have not been subject to or bound by any material outstanding Orders. There are no Proceedings pending or threatened by the ZB Companies against any other Person. There are no ongoing internal investigations by the ZB Companies with respect to any current employee of the ZB Companies.
Section 5.16 Brokerage. No ZB Company has any Liability in connection with this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, that would result in the obligation of the ZB Companies or SPAC Companies to pay any finder’s fee, brokerage or agent’s commissions or other like payments.
Section 5.17 Labor Matters.
(a) Section 5.17(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete list of all employees of each ZB Company as of the date hereof and title and/or job description, job location and base compensation and any bonuses paid with respect to the last fiscal year, or if the Company is less than one year since incorporation with respect to the current fiscal year, whereby bonuses shall be the target bonuses agreed upon but not yet paid between Company and employee and any bonuses already paid. As of the date hereof, all employees of each ZB Company are legally permitted to be employed by each ZB Company in the jurisdiction in which such employees are employed in their current job capacities and the necessary working permits are in place.
(b) All employment agreements between the ZB Companies and their employees are in writing and contain only customary terms and conditions. The ZB Companies do not retain, and have not retained in the past, any consultants or freelancers that could be requalified as employees under applicable Laws.
(c) As at the date of this Agreement, no material salary increases have been resolved but not yet implemented by the ZB Companies. Any claims of current or former employees of the ZB Companies, including any claims for compensation, bonus, overtime and holidays, are fully provided for in the Audited Financial Statement as per the respective accounts date. Since such accounts date, overtime claims and outstanding holiday entitlements accrued only in the Ordinary Course of Business.
39
(d) No ZB Company is a party to or negotiating any collective bargaining agreement with respect to its employees. There are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or other material labor disputes pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against any ZB Company, and no such strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or other material disputes have occurred since the Lookback Date. Since the Lookback Date, (i) no labor union or other labor organization, or group of employees of any ZB Company, has made a written demand for recognition or certification with respect to any employees, and there are no representation or certification proceedings presently pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened to be brought or filed with the National Labor Relations Board or any similar labor relations tribunal or authority, and (ii) there has been no actual or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, material unfair labor practice charges against any ZB Company.
(e) Each ZB Company, is, and since the Lookback Date has been, in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable Laws relating to the employment of labor, including (where applicable) provisions thereof relating to wages and hours, classification, equal opportunity, employment harassment, discrimination or retaliation, disability rights, workers’ compensation, affirmative action, collective bargaining, workplace health and safety, immigration, whistleblowing and layoffs, employee trainings and notices, labor relations, employee leave issues, unemployment insurance, and the payment of social security and other Taxes. Since the Lookback Date, none of any ZB Companies has implemented any mass layoff of their employees.
(f) Except as set forth on Section 5.17(f) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the ZB Companies do not have in existence any share or other incentive scheme, whether settled in cash or in (phantom) securities of any kind and the ZB Companies have no obligation to pay any bonus or similar payments to any present or former employee or consultant. No ZB Company has any obligation to make any severance, change-of-control or transaction bonus payment, or any payment of compensation for loss of office, employment or redundancy to any present or former employee, consultant or director as a consequence of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(g) Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in material Liabilities to any ZB Company, since the Lookback Date, (i) each ZB Company has withheld all amounts required by Law or by agreement to be withheld from the wages, salaries, and other payments that have become due and payable to employees; (ii) none of any ZB Company has been liable for any arrears of wages, compensation or related Taxes, penalties or other sums with respect to its employees; (iii) each ZB Company has paid in full to all employees and individual independent contractors all wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses and other compensation due and payable to or on behalf of such employees and such individual independent contractors; and (iv) each individual who since the Lookback Date has provided or is providing services to any ZB Company, and has been classified as (y) an independent contractor, consultant, leased employee, or other non-employee service provider, or (z) an exempt employee, has been properly classified as such under all applicable Laws relating to wage and hour and Tax.
(h) To the Knowledge of the Company, no employee or individual independent contractor of any ZB Companies is, with respect to his or her service, in breach of the terms of any employment agreement, nondisclosure agreement, noncompetition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, restrictive covenant or similar obligation (i) owed to any ZB Company; or (ii) owed to any third party. No senior executive has provided, to the Knowledge of the Company, oral or written notice, and no key employee has provided written notice of any present intention to terminate his or her relationship with any ZB Company within the first twelve (12) months following the Closing.
40
(i) Since the Lookback Date, each ZB Company has used reasonable best efforts to investigate all sexual harassment, or other discrimination, or retaliation allegations which have been reported to the appropriate individuals responsible for reviewing such allegations in accordance with the policies and procedures established by any ZB Company. With respect to each such allegation with potential merit, each ZB Company has taken such corrective action that is reasonably calculated to prevent further improper conduct. No ZB Company reasonably expects any material Liabilities with respect to any such allegations.
Section 5.18 Employee Benefit Plans.
(a) Section 5.18(a) of the Company Disclosure Letter sets forth a list of each material Company Employee Benefit Plan. The Company has made available to SPAC correct and complete copies of the constituting documents of the Company Employee Benefit Plans. The Company Employee Benefit Plans comply in all material respects with applicable Laws. There are no other pension plans, benefit plans or similar health or welfare commitments of the ZB Companies. All premiums, benefits, contributions due to be paid to, and all other liabilities relating to, the Company Employee Benefit Plans or social security have been paid when due or have been adequately provisioned for in the Audited Financial Statements. All Company Employee Benefit Plans that are required to be funded and/or book reserved under applicable Laws or pursuant to the Company Employee Benefit Plans are funded and/or book reserved based upon reasonable actuarial assumptions.
(b) None of the Company Employee Benefit Plans has any accumulated funding deficiency on a projected benefit obligations basis.
(c) Except as set forth on Section 5.18(c) of the Company Disclosure Letter, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, alone or together with any other event will not (i) result in any material payment or benefit becoming due or payable, to any current or former officer, employee, director or individual independent contractor under a Company Employee Benefit Plan or otherwise, (ii) increase the amount or value of any benefit or compensation otherwise payable or required to be provided to any current or former officer, employee, director or individual independent contractor under a Company Employee Benefit Plan or otherwise, (iii) result in (either alone or in conjunction with any other event including any termination of employment), or cause the acceleration of the time of payment, vesting or funding, delivery of, forfeiture, or increase the amount or value, of any such payment, benefit or compensation under a Company Employee Benefit Plan or otherwise to any employees of the ZB Companies or director of the ZB Companies, (iv) result in the forgiveness in whole or in part of any outstanding loans made by the ZB Companies to any current or former officer, employee, director or individual independent contractor, or (v) result in the payment of any amount that could, individually, or in combination with any other payment, constitute a “parachute payment” (as defined in Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code or any comparable Law).
41
(d) No Person has any right against any ZB Company to be grossed up for, reimbursed or otherwise indemnified for any Tax or interest imposed under Section 409A, Section 457A, or Section 4999 of the Code or otherwise. Each Company Employee Benefit Plan, to the extent subject to Section 409A or Section 457A of the Code complies in form and operation with Section 409A and 457A of the Code (or any comparable Law) in all material respects.
(e) All accrued pension claims of any ZB Company’s employees are either covered by funds of a special foundation, by insurance contracts or provisions the ZB Company has specifically established for such purpose, all pursuant to applicable laws and actuarial principles consistently applied since the Lookback Date. Each ZB Company has and will have complied up to the Closing Date with all relevant social security regulations and have and will have made up to the Closing Date all deductions and payments required to be made and due under such regulations for all social security, employment related insurance premiums and pension plan contributions in respect of its employees.
Section 5.19 Insurance. The ZB Companies have in effect policies of insurance (including all policies of property, fire and casualty, liability, workers’ compensation, directors and officers and other forms of insurance as may be applicable to the businesses of the ZB Companies) in amounts and scope of coverage as are customary for companies of a similar nature and size operating in the industries in which the ZB Companies operate (the “Insurance Policies”). As of the date of this Agreement: (a) all of the material Insurance Policies held by, or for the benefit of, the ZB Companies as of the date of this Agreement with respect to policy periods that include the date of this Agreement are in full force and effect, and (b) no ZB Company has received a written notice of cancellation of any of the Insurance Policies or of any material changes that are required in the conduct of the business of the ZB Companies as a condition to the continuation of coverage under, or renewal of, any of the Insurance Policies. No ZB Company is in material breach or material default under, nor has it taken any action or failed to take any action which, with notice or the lapse of time, or both, would constitute a material breach or material default under, or permit a material increase in premium, cancellation, material reduction in coverage, material denial or non-renewal with respect to any Insurance Policy. Since the Lookback Date, there have been no claims by or with respect to the ZB Companies under any Insurance Policy as to which coverage has been denied or disputed in any respect by the underwriters of such Insurance Policy.
Section 5.20 Compliance with Laws; Permits.
(a) The ZB Companies are, and since the Lookback Date have been, in material compliance with all Laws applicable to the conduct of the business of the ZB Companies and, since the Lookback Date, no uncured written notices have been received by the ZB Companies from any Governmental Entity or any other Person alleging a material violation of any such Laws.
(b) The ZB Companies hold all permits, licenses, registrations (excluding Intellectual Property registrations and certifications), approvals, consents, accreditations, waivers, exemptions, identification numbers and authorizations of any Governmental Entity, required for the ownership and use of its assets and properties or the conduct of their businesses as currently conducted (collectively, “Permits”) and are in compliance in all material respects with all terms and conditions of such Permits. All of such Permits are valid and in full force and effect and none of such Permits will be terminated as a result of, or in connection with, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. No ZB Company is in material default under any such Permit and to the Knowledge of the Company, no condition exists that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a material default under such Permit, and no Proceeding is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, to suspend, revoke, withdraw, modify or limit any such Permit in a manner that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a material and adverse effect on the ability of the applicable ZB Company to use such Permit or conduct its business.
42
Section 5.21 Title to and Sufficiency of Assets. Each ZB Company has good title to, or, in the case of leased or subleased assets, a valid and binding leasehold interest in, or, in the case of licensed assets, a valid license in, all of its tangible assets, properties and rights free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens (collectively, the “Assets”). All such Assets that are material to the operation of the business of each ZB Company are in reasonably good condition and in a state of reasonably good maintenance and repair (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and are suitable for the purposes used. All such tangible Assets comprise all the material assets used or held by the ZB Companies for the carrying on of the business of the ZB Companies as currently conducted and such Assets comprise all material assets necessary for the carrying on of the business of the ZB Companies as currently conducted.
Section 5.22 Anti-Corruption Law Compliance
(a) Since the Lookback Date, in connection with or relating to the business of the ZB Companies, no ZB Company, and to the Knowledge of the Company, no director, officer, manager, employee, agent or third-party representative of any ZB Company (in their capacities as such) (i) has made, authorized, solicited or received any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment or kickback, (ii) has used or is using any corporate funds for any contributions, gifts, entertainment, hospitality, travel, in each case, to the extent illegal, or (iii) has, directly or indirectly, knowingly made, offered, authorized, facilitated, received or promised to make or receive, any payment, contribution, gift, entertainment, bribe, rebate, kickback, financial or other advantage, or anything else of value, regardless of form or amount, to or from any officer of a Governmental Entity or other Person in violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws. There are no pending legal, regulatory, or administrative Proceedings, filings, Orders, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, governmental investigations, alleging (i) any such unlawful payments, contributions, gifts, entertainment, bribes, rebates, kickbacks, financial or other advantages, (ii) any other violation of any Anti-Corruption Law.
(b) The transactions of the ZB Companies are accurately reflected on their respective books and records in compliance in all material respects with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws.
Section 5.23 Anti-Money Laundering Compliance.
(a) The ZB Companies maintain and implement (or will cause to be maintained and implemented prior to Closing) procedures designed to reasonably prevent money laundering and otherwise ensure compliance with all applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws. There are no matters of material non-compliance with any Anti-Money Laundering Law that any Governmental Entity has required the ZB Company to correct since the Lookback Date.
43
(b) None of the ZB Companies nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any of their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, agents or third-party representatives (in their capacities as such) has knowingly engaged in a transaction that involves their receipt, payment or any other transfer of the proceeds of crime in violation of any Anti-Money Laundering Laws.
(c) There are no legal, regulatory, or administrative Proceedings, filings, Orders, or, to the Knowledge of the Company, governmental investigations, alleging any violations of any Anti-Money Laundering Laws by any ZB Company or any of their respective directors, officers, managers, or employees.
Section 5.24 Affiliate Transactions.
(a) (x) There are no Contracts (except for the Governing Documents) between any of the ZB Companies, on the one hand, and any Interested Party (other than the ZB Companies) on the other hand and (y) no Interested Party (other than the ZB Companies) (i) owes any amount to any ZB Company, (ii) owns any material assets, tangible or intangible, necessary for the conduct of the business of any ZB Company as it has been operated since the Lookback Date or (iii) owns any interest in, or is a director, officer, or owner of, or lender to or borrower from, or has the right to participate in the profits of, any Person which is a competitor, supplier, or landlord of any ZB Company (other than in connection with ownership of less than five percent (5%) of the stock of a publicly traded company) (such Contracts or arrangements described in clauses (x) and (y), “Affiliated Transactions”).
(b) There have been no Prohibited Affiliate Transactions since the Lookback Date.
Section 5.25 Environmental Matters
(a) Each ZB Company has obtained, hold and are, and have been, in material compliance with all Permits required under Environmental Laws.
(b) No material Proceeding or Order is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened with respect to any ZB Company’s compliance with or Liability under Environmental Laws, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, there are no facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to form the basis of such a Proceeding or Order.
Section 5.26 Healthcare Laws
(a) Each ZB Company is, and has been since the Lookback Date, in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Healthcare Laws, and no ZB Company, or to the Knowledge of the Company Pfizer with respect to the Licensed Technology, has received written notification of any pending Proceeding from the United States Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) or any other regulatory authority, agency or Governmental Entity alleging that any operation or activity of the ZB Company is in violation of any applicable Healthcare Law. There have been no inspections of any ZB Company or any of its contract research organization(s) by the FDA or any other regulatory authority.
44
(b) All preclinical and clinical (if any) investigations conducted or sponsored by any ZB Company, or in which any ZB Company has participated, and, to the Knowledge of the Company, any such investigations conducted or sponsored by Pfizer with respect to the Licensed Technology, intended to be submitted to a regulatory authority to support a regulatory approval, were, and are being conducted in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Healthcare Laws administered or issued by the applicable Governmental Entity.
(c) All material reports, documents, claims, permits and notices required to be filed, maintained or furnished to the FDA or any other regulatory authority, agency or Governmental Entity by any ZB Company, or to the Knowledge of the Company by Pfizer with respect to the Licensed Technology, have been so filed, maintained or furnished. To the Knowledge of the Company, all such reports, documents, claims, permits and notices were materially complete and accurate on the date filed (or were corrected in or supplemented by a subsequent filing). No ZB Company or any officer, employee or agent of any ZB Company, or to the Knowledge of the Company by Pfizer with respect to the Licensed Technology, has (i) made an untrue statement of a material fact or any fraudulent statement to the FDA or any other regulatory authority, agency or Governmental Entity, (ii) failed to disclose a material fact required to be disclosed to the FDA or any other regulatory authority, agency or Governmental Entity or (iii) committed an act, made a statement, or failed to make a statement that, at the time such disclosure was made, would reasonably be expected to provide a reasonable basis for the FDA or any other regulatory authority, agency or Governmental Entity to invoke its policy respecting “Fraud, Untrue Statements of Material Facts, Bribery, and Illegal Gratuities”, set forth in 56 Fed. Reg. 46191 (September 10, 1991) or any similar policy. No ZB Company or any officer, employee or agent of any ZB Company has been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct for which debarment is mandated by 21 U.S.C. §335a(a) or any similar Healthcare Law or authorized by 21 U.S.C. §335a(b) or any similar Healthcare Law. No ZB Company or any officer, employee or agent of any ZB Company has been convicted of any crime or engaged in any conduct for which such person could be excluded from participating in the federal health care programs under Section 1128 of the Social Security Act of 1935 or any Healthcare Law. No Proceedings that would reasonably be expected to result in material debarment or exclusion are pending or threatened in writing against any ZB Company or any of their officers, employees, contractors, suppliers (in their capacities as such), agents or other entities or individuals performing research or work on behalf of any ZB Company. No ZB Company is a party to any corporate integrity agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, or similar agreements with or imposed by any Governmental Entity.
(d) No ZB Company has received any written notice, correspondence or other communication from the FDA or any other regulatory authority, agency or Governmental Entity or from any institutional review board requiring the termination or suspension of ongoing or planned clinical trials (if any) conducted by, or on behalf of, any ZB Company.
(e) No data generated by any ZB Company with respect to its products, or to the Knowledge of the Company by Pfizer with respect to the Licensed Technology, are the subject of any written regulatory Proceeding, either pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened, by any Governmental Entity relating to the truthfulness or scientific integrity of such data.
45
(f) No ZB Company or, any director, officer or, to the Knowledge of the Company, any agent, employee, Affiliate or other Person acting on behalf of any such ZB Company, or to the Knowledge of the Company by Pfizer with respect to the Licensed Technology, has committed an act, made a statement, or failed to take any action or make a statement that, at the time such statement, disclosure, commission was made or failed to be made, in each case, would constitute a material violation of any Healthcare Law.
Section 5.27 No Other Representations and Warranties. Except for the representations and warranties contained in Article V and in any certificate or agreement delivered pursuant hereto, neither the Company nor any other Person on behalf of the Company or any of its Affiliates has made, makes or shall be deemed to make any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to the Company or with respect to any other information provided to SPAC and the Company disclaims any such representation or warranty. Except for the specific representations and warranties contained in this Article V (as modified by the Company Disclosure Schedule) and in any certificate or agreement delivered pursuant hereto, the Company hereby disclaims all liability and responsibility for any representation, warranty, projection, forecast, statement, or information made, communicated, or furnished (orally or in writing) to SPAC or their respective Affiliates or Representatives (including any opinion, information, projection, or advice that may have been or may be provided to SPAC by any director, officer, employee, agent, consultant, or Representative of the Company, its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates), and neither the Company nor any other Person will have or be subject to any liability or obligation to SPAC or any other Person resulting from the distribution to SPAC or any such party's use of, or reliance upon any such information.
Section 5.28 Inspections; SPAC’s Representations. The ZB Companies have undertaken such investigation and have been provided with and has evaluated such documents and information as it has deemed necessary to enable it to make an informed and intelligent decision with respect to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. The ZB Companies agree to engage in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement based upon its own inspection and examination of SPAC and on the accuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in Article VI by SPAC pursuant to this Agreement and hereby disclaims reliance upon any express or implied representations or warranties of any nature made by SPAC or its Affiliates or representatives, except for those set forth in Article VI by SPAC pursuant to this Agreement. The ZB Companies specifically acknowledge and agree to SPAC’s disclaimer of any representations or warranties other than those set forth in Article VI by SPAC pursuant to this Agreement, whether made by either SPAC or any of its Affiliates or representatives, and of all Liability and responsibility for any representation, warranty, projection, forecast, statement, or information made, communicated, or furnished (orally or in writing) to the Company, Holdco, their Affiliates or representatives (including any opinion, information, projection, or advice that may have been or may be provided to the Company, Holdco, their Affiliates or representatives by SPAC or any of its Affiliates or representatives), other than those set forth in Article VI by SPAC pursuant to this Agreement. The ZB Companies specifically acknowledge and agree that, without limiting the generality of this Section 5.28, neither SPAC nor any of its Affiliates or representatives has made any representation or warranty with respect to any projections or other future forecasts. The ZB Companies specifically acknowledge and agree that except for the representations and warranties set forth in Article VI, SPAC has not made any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to SPAC, its assets or Liabilities, the businesses of SPAC or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements.
46
ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF SPAC
As an inducement to the ZB Companies to enter into this Agreement and consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, except (a) for all representations and warranties of SPAC, as set forth in the applicable section of SPAC’s Disclosure Letter, or (b) as disclosed in any report, schedule, form, statement or other document filed with, or furnished to, the SEC by SPAC and publicly available prior to the Effective Date, and excluding disclosures referred to in “Forward Looking Statement”, “Risk Factors” and any other disclosures therein to the extent they are of a predictive or cautionary nature or related to forward looking statements, SPAC hereby represents and warrants to the ZB Companies as follows:
Section 6.1 Organization; Authority; Enforceability. SPAC is an exempted company duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the Cayman Islands. SPAC is qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign entity in each jurisdiction in which the character of its properties, or in which the transaction of its business, makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified and in good standing (or equivalent) would not have a SPAC Material Adverse Effect. Subject to receipt of the Required Vote, SPAC has the requisite power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which it is a party and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements to which SPAC is a party and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly approved and authorized by all requisite SPAC Board action on the part of SPAC. No other proceedings on the part of SPAC (including any action by SPAC Board or SPAC Shareholders), except for the receipt of the Required Vote, are necessary to approve and authorize the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements to which SPAC is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. This Agreement has been, and the Ancillary Agreements to be executed and delivered by SPAC at Closing will be, duly executed and delivered by SPAC and constitute valid and binding agreement of SPAC, enforceable against SPAC in accordance with their respective terms, except as such may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles. SPAC is not the subject of any bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, winding-up, reorganization or similar proceeding.
Section 6.2 Capitalization.
(a) As of the date of this Agreement, the authorized share capital of SPAC consists of (i) 200,000,000 SPAC Class A Shares, (ii) 20,000,000 SPAC Class B Shares, and (iii) 1,000,000 preference shares, par value $0.0001 per share (“SPAC Preferred Shares”). As of the date hereof and as of immediately prior to the Closing (without giving effect to SPAC Share Redemptions, the PIPE Investment, the Forward Purchase Agreements or the Class B Share Conversion), (1) 13,800,000 SPAC Class A Shares are and will be issued and outstanding, (2) 3,450,000 SPAC Class B Shares are and will be issued and outstanding, (3) no SPAC Preferred Shares are and will be issued and outstanding, (4) 13,800,000 Units are and will be issued and outstanding, (5) 6,900,000 Public Warrants are and will be issued and outstanding, and (6) 5,910,000 Private Placement Warrants are and will be issued and outstanding. The Equity Securities set forth in this Section 6.2(a) comprise all of the Equity Securities of SPAC that are issued and outstanding (without giving effect to SPAC Share Redemptions, the PIPE Investment, the Forward Purchase Agreements or the Class B Share Conversion to Class A Shares).
47
(b) Except as (w) set forth in the SPAC SEC Documents, (x) set forth on Section 6.2(b) of SPAC’s Disclosure Letter, or (y) set forth in this Agreement (including as set forth in Section 6.2(a)), the Ancillary Agreements or SPAC Governing Documents:
(i) there are no outstanding options, warrants, Contracts, calls, puts, bonds, debentures, notes rights to subscribe, conversion rights or other similar rights to which SPAC is a party or which are binding upon SPAC providing for the offer, issuance, redemption, exchange, conversion, voting, transfer, disposition or acquisition of any of its Equity Securities;
(ii) SPAC is not subject to any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to repurchase or otherwise acquire or retire any of its Equity Securities;
(iii) SPAC is not a party to any voting trust, proxy or other agreement or understanding with respect to the voting of any of its Equity Securities; and
(iv) there are no contractual equityholder preemptive or similar rights, rights of first refusal, rights of first offer or registration rights in respect of Equity Securities of SPAC.
(c) All of the issued and outstanding Equity Securities of SPAC, have been duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free of any preemptive rights in respect thereto, and were not issued in violation of any preemptive rights, call options, rights of first refusal or similar rights of any Person or applicable Law, other than in each case Securities Liens.
(d) SPAC does not own, directly or indirectly, any Equity Securities, participation or voting right or other investment (whether debt, equity or otherwise) in any Person (including any Contract in the nature of a voting trust or similar agreement or understanding) or any other equity equivalents in or issued by any other Person.
Section 6.3 Brokerage. Except as set forth on Section 6.3 of SPAC’s Disclosure Letter, SPAC has not incurred any Liability in connection with this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, that would result in the obligation of the Company or SPAC to pay a finder’s fee, brokerage or agent’s commissions or other like payments.
48
Section 6.4 Trust Account. As of the Effective Date, SPAC has at least $5,000,000 dollars (the “Trust Amount”) in the Trust Account, with such funds invested in United States government securities or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 promulgated under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and held in trust by the Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement is in full force and effect and is a legal, valid and binding obligation of SPAC, enforceable in accordance with its terms. The Trust Agreement has not been terminated, repudiated, rescinded, amended, supplemented or modified, in any respect by SPAC or the Trustee, and no such termination, repudiation, rescission, amendment, supplement or modification is contemplated by SPAC. SPAC is not party to or bound by any side letters with respect to the Trust Agreement or (except for the Trust Agreement) any Contracts, arrangements or understandings, whether written or oral, with the Trustee or any other Person that would (a) cause the description of the Trust Agreement in SPAC SEC Documents to be inaccurate in any material respect or (b) explicitly by their terms, entitle any Person (other than (i) SPAC Shareholders who shall have exercised their rights to participate in SPAC Share Redemptions, (ii) the underwriters of SPAC’s initial public offering, who are entitled to the Deferred Discount (as such term is defined in the Trust Agreement) and (iii) SPAC with respect to income earned on the proceeds in the Trust Account to cover any of its Tax obligations and up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) of interest on such proceeds to pay dissolution expenses) to any portion of the proceeds in the Trust Account. There are no Proceedings (or to the Knowledge of SPAC, investigations) pending or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, threatened with respect to the Trust Account.
Section 6.5 SPAC SEC Documents; Controls.
(a) SPAC has filed or furnished all material forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC since the consummation of the initial public offering of SPAC’s securities to the Effective Date, together with any material amendments, restatements or supplements thereto, and all such forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required to be filed or furnished under the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act (excluding Section 16 under the Securities Exchange Act) (all such forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents filed with the SEC, the “SPAC SEC Documents”). As of their respective dates, each of SPAC SEC Documents, as amended (including all financial statements included therein, exhibits and schedules thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), complied in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, or the Securities Exchange Act, as the case may be, and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder applicable to such SPAC SEC Documents. None of SPAC SEC Documents contained, when filed or, if amended prior to the Effective Date, as of the date of such amendment with respect to those disclosures that are amended, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. To the Knowledge of SPAC, as of the date hereof, (i) none of SPAC SEC Documents are the subject of ongoing SEC review or outstanding SEC comment and (ii) neither the SEC nor any other Governmental Entity is conducting any investigation or review of any SPAC SEC Document.
(b) The financial statements of SPAC contained or incorporated by reference in SPAC SEC Documents, including all notes and schedules thereto, complied in all material respects, when filed or if amended prior the Effective Date, as of the date of such amendment, with the rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, were prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto or, in the case of the unaudited statements, as permitted by Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X of the SEC) and Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K, as applicable, and fairly present in all material respects in accordance with applicable requirements of GAAP (subject, in the case of the unaudited statements, to normal year-end audit adjustments) the financial condition and the results of operations, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash flows of SPAC as at the respective dates of, and for the periods referred to, in such financial statements. SPAC has no off-balance sheet arrangements that are not disclosed in SPAC SEC Documents. No financial statements other than those of SPAC are required by GAAP to be included in the consolidated financial statements of SPAC.
49
(c) No notice of any SEC review or investigation of SPAC or SPAC SEC Documents has been received by SPAC. Since the consummation of its initial public offering, all comment letters received by SPAC from the SEC or the staff thereof and all responses to such comment letters filed by or on behalf of SPAC are publicly available on the SEC’s EDGAR website.
(d) Since the consummation of the initial public offering of SPAC’s securities, SPAC has filed all certifications and statements required by (x) Rule 13a-14 or Rule 15d-14 under the Securities Exchange Act or (y) 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) with respect to any SPAC SEC Document. Each such certification is true and correct. SPAC maintains disclosure controls and procedures required by Rule 13a-15 or Rule 15d-15 under the Securities Exchange Act. As used in this Section 6.5(d), the term “file” shall be broadly construed to include any manner in which a document or information is furnished, supplied or otherwise made available to the SEC.
(e) SPAC has established and maintained a system of internal controls over financial reporting, as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f), as applicable, of the Securities Exchange Act, that is sufficient to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP.
Section 6.6 Information Supplied; Proxy/Registration Statement. None of the information supplied or to be supplied by SPAC for inclusion in the Proxy/Registration Statement, will contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they are made, not misleading at (a) the time such information is filed, submitted or made publicly available with the SEC, (b) the time the Proxy/Registration Statement (or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto) is first mailed to SPAC Shareholders, or (c) the time of SPAC Shareholder Meeting (subject to the qualifications and limitations set forth in the materials provided by SPAC or that are included in such filings and/or mailings), except that no warranty or representation is made by SPAC with respect to (i) statements made or incorporated by reference therein based on information supplied by the Company or its Affiliates for inclusion therein or (ii) any projections or forecasts included in such materials.
Section 6.7 Litigation. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no material Proceedings (or to the Knowledge of SPAC, investigations by any Governmental Entity) pending or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, threatened against SPAC or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, any director, officer or employee of SPAC (in their capacity as such) and since SPAC’s date of incorporation there have not been any such Proceedings and SPAC is not subject to or bound by any material outstanding Orders. There are no material Proceedings pending or threatened by SPAC against any other Person.
50
Section 6.8 Listing. The issued and outstanding SPAC Class A Shares are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and listed for trading on NYSE. There is no Proceeding or investigation pending or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, threatened against SPAC by NYSE or the SEC with respect to any intention by such entity to deregister SPAC Class A Shares or prohibit or terminate the listing of SPAC Class A Shares on NYSE. SPAC has taken no action that is designed to terminate the registration of SPAC Class A Shares under the Securities Exchange Act. SPAC has not received any written or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, oral deficiency notice from NYSE relating to the continued listing requirements of SPAC Class A Shares.
Section 6.9 Investment Company. SPAC is not required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
Section 6.10 Noncontravention. Except for the filings pursuant to Section 8.9, the consummation by SPAC of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements do not (a) conflict with or result in any breach of any of the material terms, conditions or provisions of, (b) constitute a material default under (whether with or without the giving of notice, the passage of time or both), (c) result in a material violation of, (d) give any third party the right to terminate or accelerate, or cause any termination or acceleration of, any material right or material obligation under, (e) result in the creation of any Lien upon its Equity Securities under, (f) require any approval under, from or pursuant to, or (g) require any filing with, (i) any Contract or lease to which SPAC is a party, (ii) any Governing Document of SPAC, or (iii) any Law or Order to which SPAC is bound or subject, with respect to clauses (i) and (iii) that are or would reasonably be expected to be material to SPAC. SPAC is not in material violation of any of its Governing Documents.
Section 6.11 Business Activities.
(a) Since its incorporation, SPAC has not conducted any material business activities other than activities directed toward the accomplishment of a Business Combination. Except as set forth in SPAC Governing Documents, there is no Contract, commitment, or Order binding upon SPAC or to which SPAC is a party which has or would reasonably be expected to have the effect of prohibiting or impairing any business practice of SPAC or any acquisition of property by SPAC or the conduct of business by SPAC after the Closing, other than such effects, individually or in the aggregate, which are not, and would not reasonably be expected to be, material to SPAC.
(b) Except for this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, SPAC has no interests, rights, obligations or Liabilities with respect to, and SPAC is not party to, bound by or has its assets or property subject to, in each case whether directly or indirectly, any Contract or transaction which is, or could reasonably be interpreted as constituting, a Business Combination.
51
Section 6.12 SPAC Material Contracts. Each “material contract” (as such term is defined in Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K of the SEC) to which SPAC is a party (the “SPAC Material Contracts”) is an exhibit to the SPAC SEC Documents.
Section 6.13 Undisclosed Liabilities. There is no liability, debt or obligation (absolute, accrued, contingent or otherwise) of SPAC of a type required to be reflected or reserved for on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP, except for liabilities, debts and obligations: (a) provided for in, or otherwise reflected or reserved for on, the SPAC Financial Statements or disclosed in the notes thereto; (b) that have arisen since the date of the most recent balance sheet included in the SPAC Financial Statements in the ordinary course of the operation of business of SPAC; (c) incurred in connection with the Transactions; or (d) which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have an SPAC Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.14 Employees; Benefit Plans. Other than as described in the SPAC SEC Documents, SPAC has never had any employees. Other than reimbursement of any out-of-pocket expenses incurred by SPAC’s officers and directors in connection with activities on SPAC’s behalf in an aggregate amount not in excess of the amount of cash held by SPAC outside of the Trust Account, SPAC has no unsatisfied material liability with respect to any employee or individual independent contractor. Other than as described in the SPAC SEC Documents, SPAC does not maintain, sponsor, contribute to, participate in or have any liability (actual or contingent) with respect to any plan, program, agreement or arrangement providing compensation or benefits to officers or employees. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the other Transaction Agreements to which it is a party nor the consummation of the Transactions: (a) will result in any payment (including severance, unemployment compensation, golden parachute, bonus or otherwise) becoming due to any director, officer, individual independent contractor or employee of SPAC; or (b) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such payment or benefits.
Section 6.15 Tax Matters.
(a) SPAC has timely filed all income and other material Tax Returns required to be filed by it on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to applicable Laws (taking into account any validly obtained extension of time within which to file). All income and other material amounts of Tax Returns filed by SPAC, if any, are correct and complete in all material respects and have been prepared in material compliance with all applicable Laws. All income and other material amounts of Taxes and all income and other material amounts of Tax liabilities due and payable by SPAC for which the applicable statute of limitations remains open have been timely paid (whether or not shown as due and payable on any Tax Return).(b) SPAC has timely and properly withheld or collected and paid to the applicable Taxing Authority all material amounts of Taxes required to have been withheld and paid by it in connection with any amounts paid or owing to any employee, individual independent contractor, creditor, equityholder or other third party and all material sales, use, ad valorem, value added, and similar Taxes and has otherwise complied in all material respects with all applicable Laws relating to such withholding, collection and payment of Taxes.
(c) No written claim has been made by a Taxing Authority in a jurisdiction where SPAC does not file a particular type of Tax Return, or pay a particular type of Tax, that SPAC is or may be subject to taxation of that type by, or required to file that type of Tax Return in, that jurisdiction that has not been settled or resolved. The income Tax Returns of SPAC made available to the Company, if any, reflect all of the jurisdictions in which SPAC is required to remit material income Tax.
52
(d) SPAC is not currently the subject of any Tax Proceeding with respect to any Taxes or Tax Returns of or with respect to SPAC, no such Tax Proceeding is pending, and, no such Tax Proceeding has been threatened in writing, in each case, that has not been settled or resolved. SPAC has not commenced a voluntary disclosure proceeding in any jurisdiction that has not been resolved or settled. All material deficiencies for Taxes asserted or assessed in writing against SPAC have been fully and timely (taking into account applicable extensions) paid, settled or withdrawn, and no such deficiency has been threatened or proposed in writing against SPAC.
(e) There are no outstanding agreements extending or waiving the statute of limitations applicable to any Tax or Tax Return with respect to SPAC or extending a period of Tax collection, assessment or deficiency, which period (after giving effect to such extension or waiver) has not yet expired, and no written request for any such waiver or extension is currently pending. SPAC is not the beneficiary of any extension of time (other than an automatic extension of time not requiring the consent of the applicable Governmental Entity) within which to file any Tax Return not previously filed. No private letter ruling, administrative relief, technical advice, or other similar ruling or request has been granted or issued by, or is pending with, any Governmental Entity that relates to any Taxes or Tax Returns of SPAC.
(f) SPAC will not be required to include any material item of income, or exclude any material item of deduction, for any period (or portion thereof) after the Closing Date (determined with and without regard to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement) as a result of: (i) an installment sale transaction occurring on or before the Closing Date; (ii) a disposition occurring on or before the Closing Date reported as an open transaction; (iii) any prepaid amounts received on or prior to the Closing Date or deferred revenue realized, accrued or received outside the Ordinary Course of Business on or prior to the Closing Date; (iv) a change in method of accounting that occurs or was requested on or prior to the Closing Date (or as a result of an impermissible method used prior to the Closing Date); or (v) an agreement entered into with any Governmental Entity on or prior to the Closing Date; (vi) intercompany transaction or excess loss account described in Treasury Regulations under Section 1502 of the Code (or any corresponding or similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law); (vii) election under Section 108(i) of the Code made on or before the Closing Date, (viii) any SPAC Company or their Subsidiaries that is a “controlled foreign corporation” (within the meaning of Section 957(a) of the Code) having “subpart F income” (within the meaning of Section 952(a) of the Code) accrued prior to the Closing Date, (ix) “global intangible low-taxed income” of the SPAC Companies or their Subsidiaries within the meaning of Section 951A of the Code (or any similar provision of state, local or non-U.S. Law) attributable to any taxable period (or portion thereof) on or before the Closing Date, or (x) election made pursuant to Section 965(h) of the Code.
(g) There is no Lien for Taxes on any of the assets of SPAC, other than Permitted Liens.
53
(h) SPAC has not been a member of an affiliated, combined, consolidated or similar Tax group and does not have any material liability for Taxes of any other Person as a result of any successor liability, transferee liability, joint or several liability, by contract, by operation of Law, or otherwise (other than pursuant to this Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, if any). SPAC is not party to or bound by any Tax Sharing Agreement except for any Ordinary Course Tax Sharing Agreement.
(i) The unpaid Taxes of SPAC (i) did not, as of December 31, 2021, materially exceed the reserves for Tax liabilities (excluding any reserve for deferred Taxes established to reflect timing differences between book and Tax income) and (ii) do not materially exceed such reserves as adjusted for the passage of time through the Closing Date in accordance with the past practices of SPAC in filing its Tax Returns.
(j) At all times since its incorporation, SPAC has been properly classified as a C corporation within the meaning of Section 1361(a)(2) of the Code for U.S. federal income Tax purposes. At all times since its incorporation, Merger Sub has been properly classified as an entity “disregarded as separate from its owner” within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section  ###-###-####-3(b)(1)(ii) for U.S. federal income Tax purposes.
(k) SPAC has not taken any action and is not aware of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to prevent the transactions contemplated by this Agreement from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment.
Section 6.16 Compliance with Laws. SPAC is, and has been since March 10, 2021, in compliance in all material respects with all Laws, and no uncured written notices have been received by SPAC from any Governmental Entity or any other Person alleging a material violation of any such Laws.
Section 6.17 Anti-Corruption Law Compliance.
(a) To the Knowledge of SPAC, no director, officer, manager, employee, agent or third-party representative of SPAC (in their capacities as such) (i) has made, authorized, solicited or received any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment or kickback, (ii) has used or is using any corporate funds for any contributions, gifts, entertainment, hospitality, travel, in each case, to the extent illegal, or (iii) has, directly or indirectly, knowingly made, offered, authorized, facilitated, received or promised to make or receive, any payment, contribution, gift, entertainment, bribe, rebate, kickback, financial or other advantage, or anything else of value, regardless of form or amount, to or from any officer of a Governmental Entity or other Person in violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws. There are no pending legal, regulatory, or administrative Proceedings, filings, Orders, or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, governmental investigations, alleging (i) any such unlawful payments, contributions, gifts, entertainment, bribes, rebates, kickbacks, financial or other advantages, (ii) any other violation of any Anti-Corruption Law.
(b) The transactions of SPAC are accurately reflected on their respective books and records in compliance in all material respects with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws.
54
Section 6.18 Anti-Money Laundering Compliance.
(a) SPAC maintains and implements procedures designed to reasonably prevent money laundering and otherwise ensure compliance with all applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws. There are no matters of material non-compliance with any Anti-Money Laundering Law that any Governmental Entity has required SPAC to correct.
(b) None of SPAC or any of their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, agents or third-party representatives (in their capacities as such) has knowingly engaged in a transaction that involves their receipt, payment or any other transfer of the proceeds of crime in violation of any Anti-Money Laundering Laws.
(c) There are no legal, regulatory, or administrative Proceedings, filings, Orders, or, to the Knowledge of SPAC, governmental investigations, alleging any violations of any Anti-Money Laundering Laws by the SPAC or any of their respective directors, officers, managers, or employees.
Section 6.19 Subscription Agreements. SPAC has delivered to the Company copies of each of the Subscription Agreements on or prior to the Effective Date, pursuant to which certain PIPE Investors have committed to provide equity financing to SPAC solely for purposes of consummating the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. To the Knowledge of the SPAC, the Subscription Agreement with each PIPE Investor is in full force and effect and has not been withdrawn or terminated, or otherwise amended or modified, in any respect, and to the Knowledge of SPAC no withdrawal, termination, amendment or modification is contemplated by SPAC. Each Subscription Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation of SPAC and, to the Knowledge of SPAC, each PIPE Investor. Each such Subscription Agreement provides that the Company is a third-party beneficiary thereunder, entitled to enforce such agreements against the PIPE Investor. As of the date hereof, SPAC does not know of any facts or circumstances that may reasonably be expected to result in any of the conditions set forth in any Subscription Agreement not being satisfied, or the PIPE Investment Amount not being available to SPAC, on the Closing Date. No event has occurred that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach on the part of SPAC under any material term or condition of any such Subscription Agreement and, as of the date hereof, SPAC has no reason to believe that it will be unable to satisfy in all material respects on a timely basis any term or condition of closing to be satisfied by it contained in any such Subscription Agreement. Such Subscription Agreements contain all of the conditions precedent (other than the conditions contained in this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements) to the obligations of the PIPE Investors to contribute to SPAC the applicable portion of the PIPE Investment Amount set forth in such Subscription Agreements on the terms therein.
Section 6.20 Affiliate Transactions. Except as set forth in Section 6.20 of SPAC’s Disclosure Letter, there are no Contracts between (a) SPAC, on the one hand, and (b) any officer, director, employee, partner, member, manager, director or indirect equityholder of SPAC or Sponsor, or to the Knowledge of SPAC, any family member of any of the foregoing Persons, on the other hand, (the Persons identified in clause (b), the “SPAC Related Parties”).
55
Section 6.21 Acknowledgement Regarding Projections. SPAC acknowledges that it has received from the Company certain projections, forecasts and prospective or third party information relating to the Company. SPAC acknowledges that (i) there are uncertainties inherent in attempting to make such projections and forecasts and in such information; (ii) it is familiar with such uncertainties and is taking full responsibility for making its own evaluation of the adequacy and accuracy of all projections, forecasts and information so furnished; and (iii) neither SPAC nor any other Person shall have any claim against the Company or any of its respective directors, officers, Affiliates, agents or other representatives with respect thereto. Accordingly, SPAC acknowledges that neither the Company nor any other Person makes any representations or warranties with respect to such projections, forecasts or information (it being understood that this acknowledgment does not cover any underlying facts or information which are addressed by any of the representations and warranties made by the Company in Article V of this Agreement).
Section 6.22 Inspections; Company’s Representations. SPAC has undertaken such investigation and have been provided with and has evaluated such documents and information as it has deemed necessary to enable it to make an informed and intelligent decision with respect to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. SPAC agrees to engage in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement based upon its own inspection and examination of the Company and on the accuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in Article V by the Company pursuant to this Agreement and hereby disclaims reliance upon any express or implied representations or warranties of any nature made by the Company or its Affiliates or representatives, except for those set forth in Article V by the Company pursuant to this Agreement. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees to the Company’s disclaimer of any representations or warranties other than those set forth in Article V by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, whether made by either the Company or any of its Affiliates or representatives, and of all Liability and responsibility for any representation, warranty, projection, forecast, statement, or information made, communicated, or furnished (orally or in writing) to SPAC or its Affiliates or representatives (including any opinion, information, projection, or advice that may have been or may be provided to the SPAC or its Affiliates or representatives by the Company or any of its Affiliates or representatives), other than those set forth in Article V by the Company pursuant to this Agreement. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees that, without limiting the generality of this Section 6.22, neither the Company nor any of its Affiliates or representatives has made any representation or warranty with respect to any projections or other future forecasts. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees that except for the representations and warranties set forth in Article V, the Company has not made any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to the Company, its assets or Liabilities, the businesses of the Company or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements.
ARTICLE VII
INTERIM OPERATING COVENANTS
Section 7.1 Interim Operating Covenants.
(a) From the Effective Date until the earlier of: (1) the date this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Article X and (2) the Closing Date (such period, the “Pre-Closing Period”), unless SPAC shall otherwise give prior consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) in writing and except (x) as specifically contemplated or permitted by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, or (y) other than in respect of the restrictions set forth in subclauses (i), (iii), (iv), (v), (x) or (xiv), to the extent that any action is taken or omitted to be taken in response to or related to the actual or anticipated effect on any of the ZB Companies’ businesses of COVID-19 or any COVID-19 Measures, in each case with respect to this clause (z) in connection with or in response to COVID-19, the ZB Companies conduct and operate their business in all material respects in the Ordinary Course of Business and use commercially reasonable efforts to preserve their existing relationships with material customers, suppliers and distributors, and the ZB Companies shall not:
56
(i) amend or otherwise modify any of its Governing Documents in any manner that would be adverse to SPAC, except as otherwise required by Law;
(ii) make any changes to its accounting policies, methods or practices, other than as permitted under GAAP or applicable Law;
(iii) sell, issue, redeem, assign, transfer, pledge (other than in connection with existing credit facilities), convey or otherwise dispose of (x) any Equity Securities of any ZB Company, (y) any options, warrants, rights of conversion or other rights or agreements, arrangements or commitments obligating any ZB Company to issue, deliver or sell any Equity Securities of a ZB Company (except pursuant to the exercise of options under a Holdco Option Plan); provided that the ZB Companies may enter into any fundraising transactions for aggregate net proceeds of up to $5,000,000 to any ZB Company;
(iv) declare, make or pay any dividend, other distribution or return of capital (whether in cash or in kind) to any equityholder as of the date hereof of any ZB Companies;
(v) adjust, split, combine or reclassify any of its Equity Securities (except for any conversion of shares into deferred shares in accordance with the provisions of its Governing Documents);
(vi) (x) incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) any Indebtedness (other than (A) additional Indebtedness under existing credit facilities or lines of credit, (B) capital leases entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business, and (C) other Indebtedness not to exceed $250,000 in the aggregate), (y) make any advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any Person, other than the ZB Companies or in the Ordinary Course of Business, or (z) amend or modify in any material respect any Indebtedness;
(vii) commit to, authorize or enter into any agreement in respect of, any capital expenditure (or series of commitments or capital expenditures), other than capital expenditures in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000;
(viii) enter into any material amendment or termination (other than an expiration in accordance with the terms thereof) of, or waive compliance with, any material term of any Material Contract or enter into any Contract that if entered into prior to the Effective Date would be a Material Contract, in each case other than in the Ordinary Course of Business and solely to the extent such amendment, termination or waiver would not materially and adversely impact the ZB Companies, taken as a whole;
57
(ix) other than inventory and other assets acquired in the Ordinary Course of Business, acquire the business, properties or assets, including Equity Securities of another Person, except, in each case, for acquisitions whose consideration in an aggregate amount (for all such acquisitions) is not greater than $750,000 and the consideration for which is payable only in cash, so long as, based upon the advice of the Company’s accountants, such acquisition, individually or in the aggregate, would not require any additional disclosure pursuant to the rules and regulations adopted by PCAOB (whether through merger, consolidation, share exchange, business combination or otherwise);
(x) propose, adopt or effect any plan of complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or reorganization, or voluntarily subject to any material Lien, any of the material rights or material assets owned by, or leased or licensed to, the ZB Companies;
(xi) compromise, commence or settle any pending or threatened Proceeding (w) involving payments (exclusive of attorney’s fees) by any ZB Company not covered by insurance in excess of $75,000 in any single instance or in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate, (x) granting injunctive or other equitable remedy against any ZB Company, (y) which imposes any material restrictions on the operations of businesses of the ZB Companies, taken as a whole or (z) by the equityholders of the ZB Companies or any other Person which relates to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(xii) except (x) as required under applicable Law, the terms of any Company Employee Benefit Plan existing as of the date hereof with SPAC’s prior agreement, or (y) in respect of a Holdco Option Plan (A) increase in any manner the compensation, bonus, severance or termination pay of any of the current or former directors, officers, employees or individual consultants of any ZB Company, (B) become a party to, establish, amend, commence participation in, or terminate any share option plan or other share-based compensation plan, or any Company Employee Benefit Plan with or for the benefit of any current or former directors, officers, employees or individual consultants of any ZB Company, (C) accelerate the vesting of or lapsing of restrictions with respect to any share-based compensation or other long-term incentive compensation under any Company Employee Benefit Plan, (D) grant any new awards under any Company Employee Benefit Plan, (E) amend or modify any outstanding award under any Company Employee Benefit Plan, (F) enter into, amend or terminate any collective bargaining agreement or other agreement with a labor union, works council or similar organization respecting employees of the Company, (G) forgive any loans, or issue any loans to any directors, officers, contractors or employees without prior agreement of SPAC, or (H) hire or engage any new employee or consultant or terminate the employment or engagement, other than for cause, of any employee or consultant if such new employee or consultant will receive, or does receive, annual base compensation (or annual base wages or fees) in excess of $200,000;
58
(xiii) (A) sell, lease, assign, transfer, convey, license, sublicense, covenant not to assert, permit to lapse, abandon, allow to lapse, or otherwise dispose of, create, grant or issue any Liens (other than Permitted Liens), debentures or other securities in or on, any material rights or assets owned by, or leased or licensed to, any ZB Companies, other than (w) inventory or products in the Ordinary Course of Business, or (x) assets with an aggregate fair market value less than $500,000; or (B) subject any Owned Intellectual Property to Copyleft Terms;
(xiv) disclose any Trade Secrets and any other material confidential information of any ZB Companies to any Person;
(xv) fail to take any action required to maintain any material insurance policies of any ZB Company in force (other than (A) substitution of an insurance policy by an insurance policy with a substantially similar coverage or (B) with respect to any policy that covers any asset or matter that has been disposed or is no longer subsisting or application), or knowingly take or omit to take any action that could reasonably result in any such insurance policy being void or voidable (other than (1) substitution of an insurance policy by an insurance policy with a substantially similar coverage, (2) with respect to any policy that covers any asset or matter that has been disposed or is no longer subsisting or application, or (3) actions in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(xvi) except to the extent required by applicable Law, (A) make, change or revoke any material election relating to Taxes (subject to changes in applicable Law), (B) enter into any agreement, settlement or compromise with any Taxing Authority relating to a material amount of Taxes, (C) consent to any extension or waiver of the statutory period of limitations applicable to any material Tax matter, (D) file any amended material Tax Return, (E) fail to timely file (taking into account valid extensions) any material Tax Return required to be filed, (F) fail to pay any material amount of Tax as it becomes due, (G) enter into any Tax Sharing Agreement (other than an Ordinary Course Tax Sharing Agreement), or (H) surrender any right to claim any refund of a material amount of Taxes;
(xvii) take or cause to be taken any action, or knowingly fail to take or cause to fail to take any action, which action or failure to act would reasonably be expected to prevent the transactions contemplated by this Agreement from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment;
(xviii) except as included as a Company Transaction Expense, incur any Liability, in connection with this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, that would result in the obligation of any Company or SPAC to pay any investment banker fee, finder’s fee, brokerage or agent’s commissions or other similar payments or reimburse expenses of any of the foregoing; or
(xix) agree or commit to do any of the foregoing.
(b) From the Effective Date until the earlier of: (1) the date this Agreement is terminated in accordance with Article X and (2) the Closing Date, unless the ZB Companies shall otherwise give prior consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) in writing and except (x) as specifically contemplated or permitted by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, (y) as set forth on Section 7.1(b) of the SPAC’s Disclosure Letter or (z) other than in respect of the restrictions set forth in subclauses (i), (iii), (iv), (v) or (ix), to the extent that any action is taken or omitted to be taken in response to or related to the actual or anticipated effect on SPAC or Merger Sub’s businesses of COVID-19 or any COVID-19 Measures, in each case with respect to this clause (z) in connection with or in response to COVID-19, the SPAC and Merger Sub conduct and operate their business in all material respects in the Ordinary Course of Business and use commercially reasonable efforts to preserve their existing relationships with material customers, suppliers and distributors, and the SPAC and Merger Sub shall not:
59
(i) amend or otherwise modify any of its Governing Documents in any manner that would be adverse to the ZB Companies, except as otherwise required by Law;
(ii) make any changes to its accounting policies, methods or practices, other than as required by GAAP or applicable Law;
(iii) sell, issue, redeem, assign, transfer, pledge, mortgage, charge (other than in connection with existing credit facilities), convey or otherwise dispose of (x) any Equity Securities of SPAC or Merger Sub (y) any options, warrants, rights of conversion or other rights or agreements, arrangements or commitments obligating SPAC or Merger Sub to issue, deliver or sell any Equity Securities of SPAC or Merger Sub;
(iv) declare, make or pay any dividend, other distribution or return of capital (whether in cash or in kind) to any equityholder as of the date hereof of SPAC or Merger Sub, other than redemptions from the Trust Account that are required pursuant to the SPAC Governing Documents;
(v) adjust, split, combine or reclassify any of its Equity Securities;
(vi) incur, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for (whether directly, contingently or otherwise) any Indebtedness (other than (A) additional Indebtedness under existing credit facilities or lines of credit and (B) capital leases entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(vii) fail to maintain its existence or, without prior notice to the Company, acquire (including, without limitation, by merger, consolidation, or acquisition of stock or assets or any other business combination) the business, properties or assets, including Equity Securities of another Person;
(viii) propose, adopt or effect any plan of complete or partial liquidation, dissolution, recapitalization or reorganization, or voluntarily subject to any material Lien, any of the material rights or material assets owned by, or leased or licensed to, SPAC or Merger Sub, except for (x) Permitted Liens, (y) Liens under existing credit facilities or other Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.1(b)(vi) and (z) as required or contemplated by this Agreement;
(ix) amend the Trust Agreement or any other agreement related to the Trust Account;
60
(x) except to the extent required by applicable Law, make any material election relating to Taxes (subject to changes in applicable Law), fail to timely file (taking into account valid extensions) any material Tax Return required to be filed, fail to pay any material amount of Tax as it becomes due or settle or compromise any material U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. income Tax Liability, except in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(xi) take or cause to be taken any action, or knowingly fail to take or cause to fail to take any action, which action or failure to act would reasonably be expected to prevent the transactions contemplated by this Agreement from qualifying for the Intended Tax Treatment;
(xii) except as set forth on Section 6.3 or Section 7.1 of the SPAC Disclosure Letter or as included as a SPAC Transaction Expense, incur any Liability, in connection with this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements, or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, that would result in the obligation of any Company or SPAC to pay any investment banker fee, finder’s fee, brokerage or agent’s commissions or other similar payments or reimburse expenses of any of the foregoing;
(xiii) except (x) as required under applicable Law, the terms of any SPAC Employee Benefit Plan existing as of the date hereof with Company’s prior agreement, or (y) in respect of any option plan of SPAC (A) increase in any manner the compensation, bonus, severance or termination pay of any of the current or former directors, officers, employees or individual consultants of SPAC, (B) become a party to, establish, amend, commence participation in, or terminate any share option plan or other share-based compensation plan, or any SPAC Employee Benefit Plan with or for the benefit of any current or former directors, officers, employees or individual consultants of SPAC, (C) accelerate the vesting of or lapsing of restrictions with respect to any share-based compensation or other long-term incentive compensation under any SPAC Employee Benefit Plan, (D) grant any new awards under any SPAC Employee Benefit Plan, (E) amend or modify any outstanding award under any SPAC Employee Benefit Plan, (F) enter into, amend or terminate any collective bargaining agreement or other agreement with a labor union, works council or similar organization respecting employees of SPAC, (G) forgive any loans, or issue any loans to any directors, officers, contractors or employees without prior agreement of the Company, or (H) hire or engage any new employee or consultant or terminate the employment or engagement, other than for cause, of any employee or consultant if such new employee or consultant will receive, or does receive, annual base compensation (or annual base wages or fees) in excess of $200,000; or
(xiv) agree or commit to do any of the foregoing.
(c) Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be deemed to give SPAC, directly or indirectly, the right to control or direct the Company or any operations of the Company prior to the Closing. Prior to the Closing, the Company shall exercise, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, control over their respective businesses and operations.
61
ARTICLE VIII
PRE-CLOSING AGREEMENTS
Section 8.1 Commercially Reasonable Efforts; Further Assurances. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, and to applicable Laws, during the Pre-Closing Period, the Parties shall cooperate and use their respective commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all appropriate action (including executing and delivering any documents, certificates, instruments and other papers that are necessary for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement), and do, or cause to be done, and assist and cooperate with the other Parties in doing, all things necessary to consummate and make effective, in the most expeditious manner practicable (giving effect to the timing of the delivery of the PCAOB Financial Statements), the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts, and SPAC shall cooperate in all commercially reasonable respects, to solicit and obtain the consents of the Persons who are parties to the Contracts listed on Section 5.11 of the Company Disclosure Letter prior to the Closing; provided, however, that no Party nor any of their Affiliates shall be required to pay or commit to pay any amount to (or incur any obligation in favor of) any Person from whom any such consent may be required (unless such payment is required in accordance with the terms of the relevant Contract requiring such consent).
Section 8.2 Trust & Closing Funding. Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Section 4.1 (other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at Closing, but subject to the satisfaction or waiver of those conditions) and provision of notice thereof to the Trustee (which notice SPAC shall provide to the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement), in accordance with the Trust Agreement and SPAC Governing Documents, at the Closing, SPAC shall (a) cause the documents, opinions and notices required to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement to be so delivered, and (b) cause the Trustee to pay as and when due (x) all amounts payable to SPAC Shareholders who shall have validly elected to redeem their SPAC Class A Shares pursuant to SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles and direct and use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee to pay as and when due the Deferred Discount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) pursuant to the terms of the Trust Agreement, except to the extent that such Deferred Discount is waived, and (y) SPAC Transaction Expenses at the Closing.
Section 8.3 Listing. During the Pre-Closing Period, SPAC shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure SPAC remains listed as a public company on NYSE or other national securities exchange acceptable to the Company and keep SPAC Class A Shares listed for trading on NYSE or other national securities exchange acceptable to the Company.
Section 8.4 LTIP. Prior to the Closing Date, SPAC shall approve and, subject to the approval of SPAC Shareholders, adopt, an incentive equity plan, based on the terms and conditions as reasonably mutually agreed upon between SPAC and the ZB Companies to be effective upon and following the Closing (the “LTIP”). The LTIP shall initially reserve a number of shares of SPAC Class A Shares constituting no more than 10% of total number of shares of SPAC Class A Shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis, as determined immediately after the Effective Time. Nothing contained in this Section 8.4 (whether express or implied) shall confer any rights, remedies or benefits whatsoever (including any third-party beneficiary rights) on any Person other than the Parties to this Agreement.
62
Section 8.5 Confidential Information. During the Pre-Closing Period, each Party shall be bound by and comply with the provisions set forth in the Confidentiality Agreement as if such provisions were set forth herein, and such provisions are hereby incorporated herein by reference. Each Party acknowledges and agrees that each is aware, and each of their respective Affiliates and representatives is aware (or upon receipt of any material nonpublic information of the other Party, will be advised), of the restrictions imposed by the United States federal securities Laws and other applicable foreign and domestic Laws on Persons possessing material nonpublic information about a public company. Each Party hereby agrees, that during the Pre-Closing Period, except in connection with or support of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, while any of them are in possession of such material nonpublic information, none of such Persons shall, directly or indirectly (through its Affiliates or otherwise), acquire, offer or propose to acquire, agree to acquire, sell or transfer or offer or propose to sell or transfer any securities of SPAC, communicate such information to any other Person or cause or encourage any Person to do any of the foregoing.
Section 8.6 Access to Information.
(a) During the Pre-Closing Period, upon reasonable prior written notice, the Company shall afford the representatives of SPAC reasonable access, during normal business hours, to the properties, books and records of the ZB Companies and furnish to the representatives of SPAC such additional financial and operating data and other information regarding the business of any ZB Company as SPAC or its representatives may from time to time reasonably request for purposes of consummating the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, but only to the extent the ZB Companies may do so without violating any applicable Laws or result in the breach of any confidentiality or similar agreement to which any ZB Company is a party; provided that the ZB Companies shall use their reasonable best efforts to allow for such access or disclosure in a manner that does not result in a breach of such agreement, including using reasonable best efforts to obtain the required consent of any applicable third Person; and provided, further, that SPAC shall abide by the terms of the Confidentiality Agreement.
(b) SPAC shall coordinate its access rights pursuant to Section 8.6 with the Company to reasonably minimize any inconvenience to or interruption of the conduct of the business of the Company.
Section 8.7 Notification of Certain Matters. Each Party shall notify the other Parties of (a) any material actions, suits, claims or proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement commenced or, to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened, against any of the Parties, (b) the occurrence or non-occurrence of any fact or event which would be reasonably likely to cause any condition set forth in Article IV, Article V, or Article VI not to be satisfied, or (c) any notice or other communication from any Person alleging that the consent of such Person is or may be required in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
63
Section 8.8 Regulatory Approvals; Efforts.
(a) If a filing is required in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the HSR Act, the Parties will (i) cause the Notification and Report Forms required pursuant to the HSR Act with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be filed as promptly as practicable after the execution of this Agreement, (ii) request early termination of the waiting period relating to such HSR Act filings, if early termination is being granted at the time of such filing, (iii) supply as promptly as practicable any additional information and documentary material that may be requested by a regulatory authority pursuant to applicable Laws or a Governmental Entity pursuant to the HSR Act and (iv) otherwise use its reasonable best efforts to cause the expiration or termination of the applicable waiting periods under the HSR Act with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as soon as practicable. The Parties shall use reasonable best efforts to promptly obtain, and to cooperate with each other to promptly obtain, all authorizations, approvals, clearances, consents, actions or non-actions of any Governmental Entity in connection with the above filings, applications or notifications. Each Party shall promptly inform the other Parties of any material communication between itself (including its representatives) and any Governmental Entity regarding any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. If a Party or any of its Affiliates receives any formal or informal request for supplemental information or documentary material from any Governmental Entity with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, then the Party, to the extent necessary and advisable, shall provide a reasonable response to such request as promptly as reasonably practicable.
(b) The Parties shall keep each other apprised of the status of matters relating to the completion of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and, to the extent permissible, promptly furnish the other with copies of notices or other communications between any Party (including their respective Affiliates and representatives), as the case may be, and any third party and/or Governmental Entity with respect to such transactions. Each Party shall give the other Party and its counsel a reasonable opportunity to review in advance, to the extent permissible, and consider in good faith the views and input of the other Party in connection with, any proposed material written communication to any Governmental Entity relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each Party agrees not to participate in any substantive meeting, conference or discussion, either in person or by telephone, with any Governmental Entity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement unless it consults with the other Party in advance and, to the extent not prohibited by such Governmental Entity, gives the other Party the opportunity to attend and participate.
(c) Each Party shall use its reasonable best efforts to resolve objections, if any, as may be asserted by any Governmental Entity with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the HSR Act, the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and any other United States federal or state or foreign statutes, rules, regulations, Orders, decrees, administrative or judicial doctrines or other Laws that are designed to prohibit, restrict or regulate actions having the purpose or effect of monopolization or restraint of trade or constituting anticompetitive conduct (collectively, the “Antitrust Laws”). Subject to the other terms of this Section 8.8(c), each Party shall use its reasonable best efforts to take such action as may be required to cause the expiration of the notice periods under the HSR Act or other Antitrust Laws with respect to such transactions as promptly as possible after the execution of this Agreement.
64
(d) SPAC shall not take any action that would reasonably be expected to materially delay or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as a result of the application of any Antitrust Law.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, but subject to compliance with Section 8.5, nothing in this Section 8.8 shall require SPAC, Sponsor, Merger Sub, Holdco or the Company or any of their respective Affiliates to take any action with respect to any of their respective Affiliates (other than, with respect to SPAC and Sponsor, SPAC’s Subsidiaries and the Company), any of their respective affiliated investment funds or any portfolio company (as such term is commonly understood in the private equity industry) or investment of SPAC, Sponsor, or any ZB Company or their respective Affiliates (other than, with respect to SPAC and Sponsor, SPAC’s Subsidiaries and the Company ), or any interests therein, including selling, divesting or otherwise disposing of, licensing, holding separate, or otherwise restricting or limiting its freedom to operate with respect to, any business, products, rights, services, licenses, investments, or assets, of SPAC, Sponsor, or any ZB Company or their respective Affiliates (other than, with respect to SPAC, Sponsor, SPAC’s Subsidiaries and the Company), any of their respective affiliated investment funds or any portfolio company (as such term is commonly understood in the private equity industry) or investment of SPAC, Sponsor, or any The Company or their respective Affiliates (other than the Company ), or any interests therein.
Section 8.9 Communications; Press Release; SEC Filings.
(a) As promptly as practicable following the Effective Date (and in any event within four (4) Business Days thereafter), SPAC shall prepare and file a Current Report on Form 8-K pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act to report the execution of this Agreement (the “Signing Form 8-K”) and the Parties shall issue a mutually agreeable press release announcing the execution of this Agreement (the “Signing Press Release”). SPAC shall provide the Company with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the Signing Form 8-K prior to its filing and shall consider such comments in good faith. SPAC shall not file any such documents with the SEC without the prior written consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).
(b) As promptly as reasonably practicable after the Effective Date, but in any event following delivery of any information required to be delivered by the Company pursuant to this Section 8.9, (i) the Parties shall prepare and SPAC shall file with the SEC a preliminary Proxy/Registration Statement (which shall comply as to form with, as applicable, the provisions of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder) in connection with SPAC Shareholder Meeting for the purpose of (A) providing SPAC Shareholders with the opportunity to participate in SPAC Share Redemption and (B) soliciting proxies from SPAC Shareholders to vote at SPAC Shareholder Meeting in favor of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters. Each of SPAC and the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Proxy/Registration Statement to comply with the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC. SPAC shall file the definitive Proxy/Registration Statement with the SEC and cause the Proxy/Registration Statement to be mailed to its shareholders of record, as of the record date to be established by SPAC Board in accordance with Section 8.9(h), at such time as reasonably agreed by SPAC and the Company promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days) following (x) in the event the preliminary Proxy/Registration Statement is not reviewed by the SEC, the expiration of the waiting period in Rule 14a-6(a) under the Securities Exchange Act or (y) in the event the preliminary Proxy/Registration Statement is reviewed by the SEC, receipt of oral or written notification of the completion of the review by the SEC (the date in (x) or (y), the “Proxy Clearance Date”).
65
(c) Prior to filing with the SEC, the SPAC and the Company will make available to each other, respectively, drafts of the Proxy/Registration Statement and any other documents to be filed with the SEC that relate to the transactions completed hereby, both preliminary and final, and drafts of any amendment or supplement to the Proxy/Registration Statement or such other document and will provide the Company with a reasonable opportunity to comment on such drafts and shall consider such comments in good faith. SPAC will advise the Company promptly after it receives notice of (i) the time when the Proxy/Registration Statement has been filed, (ii) in the event the preliminary Proxy/Registration Statement is not reviewed by the SEC, the expiration of the waiting period in Rule 14a-6(a) under the Securities Exchange Act, (iii) in the event the preliminary Proxy/Registration Statement is reviewed by the SEC, receipt of oral or written notification of the completion of the review by the SEC, (iv) the filing of any supplement or amendment to the Proxy/Registration Statement, (v) any request by the SEC for amendment of the Proxy/Registration Statement, (vi) any comments, written or oral, from the SEC relating to the Proxy/Registration Statement and responses thereto and (vii) requests by the SEC for additional information in connection with the Proxy/Registration Statement. SPAC shall promptly respond to any comments of the SEC on the Proxy/Registration Statement, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to have the Proxy/Registration Statement cleared by the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act as soon after filing as practicable; provided that prior to responding to any requests or comments from the SEC, SPAC will make available to the Company drafts of any such response, will provide the Company with reasonable opportunity to comment on such drafts.
(d) If at any time prior to the Closing (including prior to SPAC Shareholder Meeting) any Party discovers or becomes aware of any information that is required to be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy/Registration Statement so that the Proxy/Registration Statement would not include any misstatement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, such Party shall promptly inform the other Parties hereto and the Parties shall cooperate reasonably in connection with preparing and, to the extent required by Law, disseminating (including by promptly transmitting to SPAC Shareholders) any such amendment or supplement to the Proxy/Registration Statement containing such information; provided that no information received by SPAC pursuant to this Section 8.9(d) shall operate as a waiver or otherwise affect any representation, warranty or agreement given or made hereunder by any Party, and no such information shall be deemed to change, supplement or amend the Schedules hereto.
(e) The Parties acknowledge that a substantial portion of the Proxy/Registration Statement and certain other forms, reports and other filings required to be made by SPAC under the Securities Exchange Act in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (collectively, “Additional SPAC Filings”) shall include disclosure regarding the Company, Holdco and the business of the Company’s management, operations and financial condition. Accordingly, the ZB Companies agree to, as promptly as reasonably practicable, to use commercially reasonable efforts to provide SPAC with all information concerning the ZB Companies, and its business, management, operations and financial condition, in each case, that is reasonably requested by SPAC to be included in the Proxy/Registration Statement, Additional SPAC Filings or any other SPAC filing with the SEC. The ZB Companies shall make and shall cause their Affiliates, directors, officers, managers and employees to make, available to SPAC and its counsel, auditors and other representatives in connection with the drafting of the Proxy/Registration Statement and Additional SPAC Filings, as reasonably requested by SPAC, and responding in a timely manner to comments thereto from the SEC. SPAC shall make all required filings with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement under the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act and applicable blue sky Laws and the rules and regulations thereunder, and the ZB Companies shall reasonably cooperate in connection therewith.
66
(f) At least five (5) days prior to Closing, SPAC shall begin preparing a draft Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with and announcing the Closing, together with, or incorporating by reference, such information that is or may be required to be disclosed with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement pursuant to Form 8-K (the “Closing Form 8-K”). SPAC shall provide the Company with a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the Closing Form 8-K prior to its filing and shall consider such comments in good faith. Prior to the Closing, the Parties shall prepare a mutually agreeable press release announcing the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (“Closing Press Release”). Concurrently or promptly following with the Closing, SPAC shall distribute the Closing Press Release, and within four (4) Business Days thereafter, file the Closing Form 8-K with the SEC.
(g) The Company has delivered to the SPAC (i) audited consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of March 31, 2022, and related audited consolidated statements of operations, partners’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal years ended on such dates, together with all related notes and schedules thereto, accompanied by the reports thereon of the Company’s independent auditors (which reports shall be unqualified), prepared in accordance with GAAP, applied on a consistent basis throughout the covered periods and Regulation S-X of the SEC and in each case, audited in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB (the “PCAOB Financial Statements”), and (ii) all other audited and unaudited financial statements of the Company and any company or business units acquired by the Company, as applicable, required under the applicable rules and regulations and guidance of the SEC to be included in the Proxy/Registration Statement and/or the Closing Form 8-K (including pro forma financial information).
67
(h) SPAC shall, prior to or as promptly as practicable following the Proxy/Registration Statement Clearance Date (and in no event later than the date the Proxy/Registration Statement is required to be mailed in accordance with Section 8.9(b)), establish a record date in accordance with the terms of SPAC Existing Memorandum and Articles of Association (which date shall be mutually agreed with the Company) for, duly call and give notice of, SPAC Shareholder Meeting. SPAC shall convene and hold SPAC Shareholder Meeting, for the purpose of obtaining the requisite approval of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters, which meeting shall be held as promptly as practicable after the date on which SPAC commences the mailing of the Proxy/Registration Statement to its shareholders; provided that in no event shall such meeting be held more than forty-five (45) days after such mailing date (unless the meeting has been adjourned as set out in the Proxy/Registration Statement). SPAC shall take all actions necessary to obtain the approval of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters at SPAC Shareholder Meeting, including as such SPAC Shareholder Meeting may be adjourned or postponed in accordance with this Agreement, including by soliciting proxies as promptly as practicable in accordance with applicable Law for the purpose of seeking the approval of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters. Except as otherwise required by applicable Law (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the fiduciary duties of the members of SPAC Board), SPAC Board shall include the SPAC Board Recommendation in the Proxy/Registration Statement and any amended or supplemental statement sent to SPAC Shareholders and shall not (and no committee or subgroup thereof shall) (i) change, withdraw, withhold, qualify or modify, or publicly propose to change, withdraw, withhold, qualify or modify, SPAC Board Recommendation, (ii) adopt, approve, endorse or recommend any SPAC Competing Transaction, (iii) following a request in writing by the Company that SPAC Board Recommendation be reaffirmed publicly, fail to reaffirm publicly SPAC Board Recommendation within ten (10) days after the Company made such request (it being agreed that the Company may only make one (1) request pursuant to this clause (iii); provided that SPAC (A) has not already publicly reaffirmed such SPAC Board Recommendation or (B) has made a change in SPAC Board Recommendation or is reasonably likely to do so in such ten (10) day period), or (iv) agree to take any of the foregoing actions. SPAC agrees that its obligation to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold SPAC Shareholder Meeting for the purpose of seeking approval of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters shall not be affected by intervening events or circumstances, and SPAC agrees to establish a record date for, duly call, give notice of, convene and hold SPAC Shareholder Meeting and submit for the approval of SPAC Shareholders SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters, in each case as contemplated by this Section 8.9(h), regardless of whether or not there shall have occurred any intervening events or circumstances. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, SPAC only shall be entitled to postpone or adjourn SPAC Shareholder Meeting: (A) to allow reasonable additional time for the filing or mailing of any supplement or amendment to the Proxy/Registration Statement that SPAC Board has determined in good faith after consultation with outside legal counsel is required under applicable Law, which supplement or amendment shall be promptly disseminated to SPAC’s shareholders prior to SPAC Shareholder Meeting; (B) if, as of the time for which SPAC Shareholder Meeting is originally scheduled (as set forth in the Proxy/Registration Statement), there are insufficient shares of SPAC represented (either in person or by proxy) to constitute a quorum necessary to conduct the business to be conducted at SPAC Shareholder Meeting; (C) to seek withdrawals of redemption requests from SPAC Shareholders; or (D) in order to solicit additional proxies from shareholders for purposes of obtaining approval of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters; provided that in the event of any such postponement or adjournment, SPAC Shareholder Meeting shall be reconvened as promptly as practicable following such time, and in no event later than ten (10) Business Days following such time, as the matters described in such clauses have been resolved.
Section 8.10 Expenses. The Company shall be solely liable for and pay at Closing all of the Company Transaction Expenses and SPAC shall be solely liable for and pay at Closing all of the SPAC Transaction Expenses, including in connection with the negotiation, execution and performance of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, the performance of each Party’s obligations hereunder and under the Ancillary Agreements and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; provided, that if the Closing shall occur each Party’s reasonable and documented costs and expenses will be paid from the Trust Account.
68
Section 8.11 PIPE Investment.
(a) SPAC shall take, or use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be taken, all actions required, necessary or that it otherwise deems to be proper or advisable to obtain the PIPE Investment and consummate the transactions contemplated by the Subscription Agreements on the terms described therein, including using its commercially reasonable efforts to (x) comply with its obligations under the Subscription Agreements, (y) in the event that all conditions in the Subscription Agreements have been satisfied (other than conditions that SPAC controls the satisfaction of and other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at Closing), consummate the transactions contemplated by the Subscription Agreements at or prior to Closing; and (z) enforce its rights under the Subscription Agreements in the event that all conditions in the Subscription Agreements have been satisfied (other than conditions that SPAC controls the satisfaction of and other than those conditions that by their nature are to be satisfied at Closing), to cause the applicable PIPE Investor to contribute to SPAC the applicable portion of the PIPE Investment Amount set forth in the applicable Subscription Agreement at or prior to Closing. SPAC shall give the Company prompt written notice upon (i) becoming aware of any breach or default by any party to any of the Subscription Agreements or any termination (or purported termination) of any of the Subscription Agreements, (ii) the receipt of any written notice or other written communication from any party to any Subscription Agreement with respect to any actual, potential or claimed expiration, lapse, withdrawal, breach, default, termination or repudiation by any party to any Subscription Agreement or any provisions of any Subscription Agreement and (iii) if SPAC does not expect to receive all or any portion of the PIPE Investment Amount on the terms, in the manner or from the sources contemplated by the Subscription Agreements. SPAC shall not permit, without the prior written consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), any amendment or modification to be made to, or any waiver of any provision or remedy under, or any replacements of, the Subscription Agreements.
(b) Each ZB Company agrees, and shall cause the appropriate officers and employees thereof, to use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate in connection with (x) the arrangement of any PIPE Investment, and (y) the marketing of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements in the public markets and with existing equityholders of SPAC (including in the case of clauses (x) with respect to the satisfaction of the relevant conditions precedent), in each case as may be reasonably requested by SPAC, including by (i) upon reasonable prior notice, participating in meetings, calls, drafting sessions, presentations, and due diligence sessions (including accounting due diligence sessions) and sessions with prospective investors at mutually agreeable times and locations and upon reasonable advance notice (including the participation in any relevant “roadshow”), (ii) assisting with the preparation of customary materials, (iii) providing the financial statements and such other financial information regarding the Company as is reasonably requested in connection therewith, subject to confidentiality obligations reasonably acceptable to the Company, (iv) taking all corporate actions that are necessary or customary to obtain the PIPE Investment and market the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and (v) otherwise reasonably cooperating in SPAC’s efforts to obtain the PIPE Investment and market the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
69
Section 8.12 Directors and Officers.
(a) Indemnification. Beginning on the Closing Date and continuing until the sixth (6th) anniversary of the Closing Date, SPAC (i) shall maintain in effect all rights to indemnification, advancement of expenses, exculpation and other limitations on Liability to the extent provided in SPAC Governing Documents and the Governing Documents of the Company in effect as of the Effective Date (“D&O Provisions”) in favor of any current or former director, officer, or manager, or, to the extent authorized under the applicable D&O Provisions, any employee, agent or representative of SPAC (whether before or after Closing) and the Company (the “Indemnified Persons”), and (ii) shall not, and shall not permit the Surviving Company to, amend, repeal or modify in a manner adverse to the beneficiary thereof any provision in the D&O Provisions as it relates to any Indemnified Person, in each case relating to a state of facts existing prior to Closing. After the Closing, in the event that SPAC or its successors (i) consolidates with or merges into any other Person and is not the continuing or surviving company or entity of such consolidation or merger or (ii) transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person, then in each such case, SPAC shall cause proper provision to be made so that the successors of SPAC shall succeed to and be bound by the obligations set forth in this Section 8.12.
(b) Tail Policy. For a period of six (6) years from and after the Closing Date, SPAC shall purchase and maintain in effect policies of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance covering those Persons on the date hereof who are covered by such policies of the Company and SPAC (including, for the avoidance, directors, officers, etc. of SPAC after the Closing Date and directors, officers etc. of the Company prior to and after the Closing Date) with respect to claims arising from facts or events that occurred on or before the Closing and with no less favorable coverage and amounts as, and contain terms and conditions no less advantageous than, in the aggregate, (i) the coverage currently provided by such policy held by SPAC and (ii) the coverage provided by a policy held by a similarly situated Company. At or prior to the Closing Date, SPAC and the Company shall purchase and maintain in effect for a period of six (6) years thereafter, “run-off” coverage as provided by the Company’s and SPAC’s fiduciary and employee benefit policies, in each case, covering those Persons who are covered on the Effective Date by such policies and with terms, conditions, retentions and limits of liability that are no less advantageous than the coverage provided under the Company’s or SPAC’s existing policies.
Section 8.13 Post-Closing Directors and Officers of SPAC. Subject to receipt of the Required Vote, SPAC shall take or cause to be taken all actions as may be necessary or appropriate to ensure that as soon as practical following the Closing:
(a) The post-Closing SPAC Board shall consist of at least six (6) directors, comprised of:
(i) two (2) director nominees, each of whom shall be designated by Sponsor;
(ii) four (4) director nominees, each of whom shall be designated by the Company’s Board;
70
(iii) any additional director nominees will be designated by mutual agreement of the Sponsor and the Company; and
(iv) the chairperson of the Board shall be nominated by the Company.
(b) The officers of SPAC shall be as set forth on Schedule 8.13(b) hereto, who shall serve in such capacity in accordance with the terms of the Governing Documents of SPAC following the Closing.
(c) If any Person nominated pursuant to Section 8.13(a) is not duly appointed at SPAC Shareholder Meeting, the Parties shall take all necessary action to fill any such vacancy on the post-Closing SPAC Board with an alternative Person designated pursuant to Section 8.13(a).
Section 8.14 Share Transactions. During the Pre-Closing Period, except as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement, none of the ZB Companies nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, directly or indirectly, shall engage in any transactions involving the securities of SPAC.
Section 8.15 Exclusivity. From the Effective Date, until the earlier of the Closing or the termination of this Agreement in accordance with ARTICLE X, none of the ZB Companies, nor any of their officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives (including, without limitation, their respective attorneys and accountants), directly or indirectly, shall (i) solicit, initiate or take any action to facilitate or encourage any inquiries or the making, submission or announcement of, any proposal or offer from any Person or group of Persons other than SPAC and the Sponsor (and their respective representatives, acting in their capacity as such) (a “Competing SPAC”) that may constitute, or could reasonably be expected to lead to, a Competing Transaction; (ii) enter into, participate in, continue or otherwise engage in, any discussions or negotiations with any Competing SPAC regarding a Competing Transaction; (iii) furnish (including through any virtual data room) any information relating to the Company or any of its assets or businesses, or afford access to the assets, business, properties, books or records of the Company to a Competing SPAC, in all cases for the purpose of assisting with or facilitating, or that could otherwise reasonably be expected to lead to, a Competing Transaction; (iv) approve, endorse or recommend any Competing Transaction; or (v) enter into a Competing Transaction or any agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any letter of intent or term sheet) relating to a Competing Transaction or publicly announce an intention to do so; provided that none of the foregoing restrictions shall prohibit the Company from taking the actions permitted by the exceptions set forth in Section 7.1(a)(xi) of this Agreement or the related sections of the Company Disclosure Letter, and any such action shall not be deemed a violation of this Section 8.16.
ARTICLE IX
TAX MATTERS
Section 9.1 Tax Matters. The Party required by Law to file any Tax Returns with respect to Transfer Taxes shall, at its expense, file all necessary Tax Returns with respect to all such Taxes, and, if required by applicable Law, the other Party will cooperate and join in the execution of any such Tax Returns. The Parties shall reasonably cooperate to establish any available exemption from (or reduction in) any Transfer Tax.
Section 9.2 Tax Structuring. In due time following the Closing, and in any event no later than before the end of the calendar year 2022, the ZB Companies and SPAC shall use their reasonable best efforts to undertake all reasonable measures to structure SPAC’s shareholding in the Company in a tax efficient way and to mitigate potential exposure for Taxes for both, SPAC and the Company. In particular, the ZB Companies and SPAC shall jointly (a) decide on the place of SPAC’s place of effective management and tax residence immediately after Closing, (b) ensure that SPAC’s place of effective management and tax residence will be located and remain at the place as decided according to clause (a), and (c) arrange any tax rulings facilitating actions (a)-(b) without delay.
71
Section 9.3 Tax Cooperation. SPAC and the Company agree to retain and furnish or cause to be furnished to one another, upon request, as promptly as practicable, such information and assistance relating to the ZB Companies as is reasonably necessary for the filing of all Tax Returns of or with respect to any ZB Company, the making of any election related to Taxes of or with respect to any ZB Company, the preparation for any audit by any Taxing Authority and the prosecution or defense of any claim or other disputes relating to any Tax Return of or with respect to any ZB Company.
Section 9.4 Filing of Pre-Closing Tax Period Tax Returns. The Company will prepare (or cause to be prepared) and file or cause to be filed all Tax Returns of the ZB Companies with respect to a Pre-Closing Period (other than any Straddle Period). The Company will deliver to SPAC all income Tax Returns at least thirty (30) days before the due date for such Tax Returns, and in the case of all other Tax Returns, as soon as reasonably practicable prior to the due date of such Tax Return (in each case, taking into account validly obtained extensions). The Company will allow SPAC to review and comment upon such Tax Returns and will reflect any comments reasonably requested by SPAC.
Section 9.5 Straddle Period. In the case of any taxable period that includes (but does not end on) the Closing Date (a “Straddle Period”), the amount of any Taxes based upon or measured by net income, gain, activities, events or the level of any item for the Pre-Closing Period will be determined based on an interim closing of the books as of the close of business on the Closing Date. The amount of Taxes, other than Taxes based upon or measured by net income, gain, activities, events or the level of any item for a Straddle Period, which relate to the Pre-Closing Tax Period will be deemed to be the amount of such Tax for the entire taxable period multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days in the taxable period ending on the Closing Date and the denominator of which is the number of days in such Straddle Period. SPAC shall prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed, in each case at its sole cost and expense, any Tax Returns of the Company for a Straddle Period. Such Tax Returns shall be prepared in a manner consistent with past practice of the ZB Companies. SPAC will deliver to the Company all income Tax Returns at least thirty (30) days before the due date for such Tax Returns, and in the case of all other Tax Returns, as soon as reasonably practicable prior to the due date of such Tax Return (in each case, taking into account validly obtained extensions). SPAC will allow the Company to review and comment upon such Tax Returns and will reflect any comments reasonably requested by the Company.
72
ARTICLE X
TERMINATION
Section 10.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement abandoned at any time prior to the Closing only as follows:
(a) by the mutual written consent of the Company and SPAC;
(b) by the Company or SPAC by written notice to the other Party if any applicable Law is in effect making the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement illegal or any final, non-appealable Order is in effect permanently preventing the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10.1(b) shall not be available to any Party whose breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement of this Agreement resulted in or caused such final, non-appealable Order or other action (including, with respect to the Company, any breach by Holdco);
(c) by the Company or SPAC by written notice to the other Party if the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall not have occurred on or before November 15, 2022 (the “Outside Date”); provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 10.1(c) shall not be available to any Party that has materially breached any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements under this Agreement (including, with respect to the Company, any breach by Holdco) if such material breach is the primary cause of or has resulted in the failure of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement to be consummated on or before such date;
(d) by the Company if SPAC or any SPAC Company breaches in any material respect any of its representations or warranties contained in this Agreement or breaches or fails to perform in any material respect any of its covenants contained in this Agreement, which breach or failure to perform (i) would render a condition precedent to the ZB Companies obligations to consummate the transactions set forth in Section 4.1(a) or Section 4.1(c) of this Agreement not capable of being satisfied, and (ii) after the giving of written notice of such breach or failure to perform to SPAC by the Company, cannot be cured or has not been cured by the earlier of the Outside Date and thirty (30) days after receipt of such written notice and the Company has not waived in writing such breach or failure; provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 10.1(d) shall not be available to the Company if any ZB Company is then in material breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement;
(e) by SPAC, if any ZB Company breaches in any material respect any of their representations or warranties contained in this Agreement or any ZB Company breaches or fails to perform in any material respect any of its covenants contained in this Agreement, which breach or failure to perform (i) would render a condition precedent to SPAC’s obligations to consummate the transactions set forth in Section 4.1(a) or Section 4.1(b) of this Agreement not capable of being satisfied, and (ii) after the giving of written notice of such breach or failure to perform to the relevant ZB Company by SPAC, cannot be cured or has not been cured by the earlier of the Outside Date and thirty (30) days after the delivery of such written notice and SPAC has not waived in writing such breach or failure; provided, however, that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 10.1(e) shall not be available to SPAC if SPAC or any SPAC Company is then in material breach of any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement;
73
(f) by the Company or SPAC by written notice to the other Party if the Required Vote is not obtained at the SPAC Shareholder Meeting (subject to any adjournment or postponement thereof); and
(g) by written notice from SPAC to the Company if the Holdco Vote is not obtained.
Section 10.2 Effect of Termination. In the event of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to Section 10.1, this Agreement shall immediately become null and void, without any Liability on the part of any Party or any other Person, and all rights and obligations of each Party shall cease; provided that (a) the agreements contained in Section 8.9, Section 8.10, this Section 10.2 and Article X of this Agreement survive any termination of this Agreement and remain in full force and effect and (b) no such termination shall relieve any Party from any Liability arising out of or incurred as a result of its Fraud or its willful and material breach of this Agreement.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.1 Amendment and Waiver. No amendment of any provision of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing and signed by SPAC and the Company. No waiver of any provision or condition of this Agreement shall be valid unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Party against which such waiver is to be enforced. No waiver by any Party of any default, breach of representation or warranty or breach of covenant hereunder, whether intentional or not, shall be deemed to extend to any other, prior or subsequent default or breach or affect in any way any rights arising by virtue of any other, prior or subsequent such occurrence. Any such amendment or waiver may occur after the approval of SPAC Shareholder Voting Matters at SPAC Shareholder Meeting so long as such amendment or waiver would not require the further approval of SPAC Shareholders under applicable Law without such approval having first been obtained.
Section 11.2 Non-Survival of Representations and Warranties.
None of the representations, warranties, covenants, obligations or other agreements in this Agreement or in any certificate, statement or instrument delivered pursuant to this Agreement, including any rights arising out of any breach of such representations, warranties, covenants, obligations, agreements and other provisions, shall survive the Closing and shall terminate and expire upon the occurrence of the Effective Time (and there shall be no Liability after the Closing in respect thereof), except for those covenants and agreements contained herein that by their terms expressly apply in whole or in part after the Closing and then only with respect to any breaches occurring on or after the Closing..
74
Section 11.3 Notices. All notices, demands and other communications to be given or delivered under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been given (a) when personally delivered (or, if delivery is refused, upon presentment) or received by email (with confirmation of transmission) prior to 5:00 p.m. eastern time on a Business Day and, if otherwise, on the next Business Day, (b) one (1) Business Day following sending by reputable overnight express courier (charges prepaid) or (c) three (3) days following mailing by certified or registered mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested. Unless another address is specified in writing pursuant to the provisions of this Section 11.3, notices, demands and other communications to the Company, Holdco, SPAC, Merger Sub and Merger Sub 2 shall be sent to the addresses indicated below:
Notices to ZB Companies | with copies to (which shall not constitute notice): | |
Zura Bio Limited 1 Ashley Road Altrincham WA14 2DT Attention: Oliver Levy | McDermott Will & Emery, LLP 110 Bishopsgate London EC2N 4AY Attention: Gary Howes | |
Notices to SPAC, Merger Sub and Merger Sub 2: | with copies to (which shall not constitute notice): | |
JATT Acquisition Corp. PO Box 309, Ugland House Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Attention: Verender Badial E-mail: ***@*** | Loeb & Loeb LLP 345 Park Avenue New York, NY 10154 Attention: Mitchell Nussbaum E-Mail: ***@*** |
Section 11.4 Assignment. This Agreement and all of the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Parties and their respective successors and assigns; provided that neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations hereunder may be assigned or delegated by any Party (including by operation of Law) without the prior written consent of the other Parties. Any purported assignment or delegation not permitted under this Section 11.4 shall be null and void.
Section 11.5 Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable Law, but if any provision of this Agreement or the application of any such provision to any Person or circumstance shall be held to be prohibited by or invalid, illegal or unenforceable under applicable Law in any respect by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, illegality or unenforceability, without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of this Agreement. Furthermore, in lieu of such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision, there shall be added automatically as a part of this Agreement a legal, valid and enforceable provision as similar in terms to such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision as may be possible.
75
Section 11.6 Interpretation. The headings and captions used in this Agreement and the table of contents to this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. Any capitalized terms used in any Disclosure Letter, Schedule or Exhibit attached hereto or delivered at the same time and not otherwise defined therein shall have the meanings set forth in this Agreement. The use of the word “including” herein shall mean “including without limitation”. The words “hereof,” “herein,” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement. References herein to a specific Section, Subsection, Clause, Recital, Section of a Disclosure Letter, Schedule or Exhibit shall refer, respectively, to Sections, Subsections, Clauses, Recitals, Sections of a Disclosure Letter, Schedules or Exhibits of this Agreement. Terms defined in the singular shall have a comparable meaning when used in the plural, and vice versa. References herein to any gender shall include each other gender. The word “or” shall not be exclusive unless the context clearly requires the selection of one (1) (but not more than one (1)) of a number of items. References to “written” or “in writing” include in electronic form. References herein to any Person shall include such Person’s heirs, executors, personal representatives, administrators, successors and permitted assigns; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section 11.6 is intended to authorize any assignment or transfer not otherwise permitted by this Agreement. References herein to a Person in a particular capacity or capacities shall exclude such Person in any other capacity. Any reference to “days” shall mean calendar days unless Business Days are specified; provided that if any action is required to be done or taken on a day that is not a Business Day, then such action shall be required to be done or taken not on such day but on the first succeeding Business Day thereafter. References herein to any Contract (including this Agreement) mean such Contract as amended, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof; provided that with respect to any Contract listed (or required to be listed) on the Disclosure Letters, all material amendments and modifications thereto (but excluding any purchase orders, work orders or statements of work) must also be listed on the appropriate section of the applicable Disclosure Letter. With respect to the determination of any period of time, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” each means “to but excluding”. References herein to any Law shall be deemed also to refer to such Law, as amended, and all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. If any Party has breached any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement in any respect, the fact that there exists another representation, warranty, covenant or agreement relating to the same subject matter (regardless of the relative levels of specificity) which the Party has not breached shall not detract from or mitigate the fact that the Party is in breach of the first representation, warranty, covenant or agreement. The word “extent” in the phrase “to the extent” (or similar phrases) shall mean the degree to which a subject or other thing extends, and such phrase shall not mean simply “if”. An accounting term not otherwise defined in this Agreement has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP. Except where otherwise provided, all amounts in this Agreement are stated and shall be paid in United States dollars. The Parties and their respective counsel have reviewed and negotiated this Agreement as the joint agreement and understanding of the Parties, and the language used in this Agreement shall be deemed to be the language chosen by the Parties to express their mutual intent, and no rule of strict construction shall be applied against any Person.
76
Section 11.7 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the Confidentiality Agreement (together with the Disclosure Letters and Exhibits to this Agreement) contain the entire agreement and understanding among the Parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements, understandings and discussions (including that certain non-binding letter of intent among SPAC and the Company, dated as of May 4, 2022, as amended), whether written or oral, relating to such subject matter in any way. The Parties have voluntarily agreed to define their rights and Liabilities with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement exclusively pursuant to the express terms and provisions of this Agreement, and the Parties disclaim that they are owed any duties or are entitled to any remedies not set forth in this Agreement. Furthermore, this Agreement embodies the justifiable expectations of sophisticated parties derived from arm’s-length negotiations and no Person has any special relationship with another Person that would justify any expectation beyond that of an ordinary SPAC and an ordinary seller in an arm’s-length transaction.
Section 11.8 Counterparts; Electronic Delivery. This Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements and the other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents delivered pursuant to this Agreement may be executed and delivered in one or more counterparts and by fax, email or other electronic transmission, each of which shall be deemed an original and all of which shall be considered one and the same agreement. No Party shall raise the use of a fax machine or email to deliver a signature or the fact that any signature or agreement or instrument was transmitted or communicated through the use of a fax machine or email as a defense to the formation or enforceability of a Contract and each Party forever waives any such defense.
Section 11.9 Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial; Jurisdiction. The Law of the State of New York shall govern (a) all claims or matters related to or arising from this Agreement (including any tort or non-contractual claims) and (b) any questions concerning the construction, interpretation, validity and enforceability of this Agreement, and the performance of the obligations imposed by this Agreement, in each case without giving effect to any choice-of-law or conflict-of-law rules or provisions (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the Law of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY PROCEEDING BROUGHT TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN OR AMONG ANY OF THE PARTIES (WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF, CONNECTED WITH, RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT AND/OR THE RELATIONSHIPS ESTABLISHED AMONG THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. THE PARTIES HERETO FURTHER WARRANT AND REPRESENT THAT EACH HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL, AND THAT EACH KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. Each of the Parties submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the District of New York, in any Proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, agrees that all claims in respect of the Proceeding shall be heard and determined in any such court and agrees not to bring any Proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any other courts. Nothing in this Section 11.9, however, shall affect the right of any Party to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by Law or at equity. Each Party agrees that a final judgment in any Proceeding so brought shall be conclusive and may be enforced by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by Law or at equity.
77
Section 11.10 Trust Account Waiver. Each of Holdco and the Company acknowledges that SPAC has established the Trust Account for the benefit of its public SPAC Shareholders, which contains the proceeds of its initial public offering and from certain private placements occurring simultaneously with the initial public offering (including interest accrued from time to time thereon) for the benefit of SPAC’s public shareholders and certain other parties (including the underwriters of the initial public offering). For and in consideration of SPAC entering into this Agreement and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each of Holdco and the Company, for itself and the Affiliates it has the authority to bind, hereby agrees it does not now and shall not at any time hereafter have any right, title, interest or claim of any kind in or to any assets in the Trust Account, regardless of whether such claim arises as a result of, in connection with or relating in any way to this Agreement or any other matter, and regardless of whether such claim arises based on contract, tort, equity or any other theory of legal liability (any and all such claims are collectively referred to hereafter as the “Released Claims”). Each of Holdco and the Company for itself and the Affiliates it has the authority to bind hereby irrevocably waives any Released Claims that it may have against the Trust Account now or in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any discussions, contracts or agreements with SPAC, Sponsor or any of their Affiliates and will not seek recourse against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever; provided that (a) nothing herein shall serve to limit or prohibit Holdco or the Company’s right to pursue a claim against SPAC for legal relief against monies or other assets held outside the Trust Account, for specific performance or other equitable relief in connection with the consummation of the transactions (including a claim for SPAC to specifically perform its obligations under this Agreement and cause the disbursement of the balance of the cash remaining in the Trust Account (after giving effect to redemptions by SPAC’s public shareholders) to the Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Trust Agreement) and (b) nothing herein shall serve to limit or prohibit any claims that the Company may have in the future against SPAC’s assets or funds that are not held in the Trust Account (including any funds that have been released from the Trust Account and any assets that have been purchased or acquired with any such funds).
Section 11.11 Specific Performance. Each Party acknowledges that the rights of each Party to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are unique and recognize and affirm that in the event any of the provisions of this Agreement are not performed in accordance with their specific terms or otherwise are breached, money damages would be inadequate (and therefore the non-breaching Party would have no adequate remedy at Law) and the non-breaching Party would be irreparably damaged. Accordingly, each Party agrees that each other Party shall be entitled to specific performance, an injunction or other equitable relief (without posting of bond or other security or needing to prove irreparable harm) to prevent breaches of the provisions of this Agreement and to enforce specifically this Agreement and the terms and provisions hereof in any Proceeding, in addition to any other remedy to which such Person may be entitled. Each Party agrees that it will not oppose the granting of specific performance and other equitable relief on the basis that the other Parties have an adequate remedy at Law or that an award of specific performance is not an appropriate remedy for any reason at Law or equity. The Parties acknowledge and agree that any Party seeking an injunction to prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions of this Agreement in accordance with this Section 11.11 shall not be required to provide any bond or other security in connection with any such injunction.
78
Section 11.12 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is for the sole benefit of the Parties and their permitted assigns and nothing herein expressed or implied shall give or be construed to give any Person, other than the Parties and such permitted assigns, any legal or equitable rights hereunder (other than in respect of the Indemnified Persons and Non-Party Affiliates, each of whom is an express third-party beneficiary hereunder to the specific provisions in which such Person is referenced and entitled to enforce only such obligations hereunder).
Section 11.13 Disclosure Letters and Exhibits. The Disclosure Letters and Exhibits attached hereto or referred to in this Agreement are (a) each hereby incorporated in and made a part of this Agreement as if set forth in full herein and (b) qualified in their entirety by reference to specific provisions of this Agreement. Any fact or item disclosed in any Section of a Disclosure Letter shall be deemed disclosed in each other Section of the applicable Disclosure Letter to which such fact or item may apply so long as (i) such other Section is referenced by applicable cross-reference or (ii) it is reasonably apparent on the face of such disclosure that such disclosure is applicable to such other Section or portion of the Disclosure Letter. The headings contained in the Disclosure Letters are for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed to modify or influence the interpretation of the information contained in the Disclosure Letters or this Agreement. The Disclosure Letters are not intended to constitute, and shall not be construed as, an admission or indication that any such fact or item is required to be disclosed. The Disclosure Letters shall not be deemed to expand in any way the scope or effect of any representations, warranties or covenants described in this Agreement. Any fact or item, including the specification of any dollar amount, disclosed in the Disclosure Letters shall not by reason only of such inclusion be deemed to be material, to establish any standard of materiality or to define further the meaning of such terms for purposes of this Agreement, and matters reflected in the Disclosure Letters are not necessarily limited to matters required by this Agreement to be reflected herein and may be included solely for information purposes; and no Party shall use the fact of the setting of the amounts or the fact of the inclusion of any item in the Disclosure Letters in any dispute or controversy between the Parties as to whether any obligation, item or matter not described or included in the Disclosure Letters is or is not required to be disclosed (including whether the amount or items are required to be disclosed as material or threatened) or is within or outside of the Ordinary Course of Business. No disclosure in the Disclosure Letters relating to any possible breach or violation of any Contract, Law or Order shall be construed as an admission or indication that any such breach or violation exists or has actually occurred. Moreover, in disclosing the information in the Disclosure Letters, ZB Companies do not waive any attorney-client privilege associated with such information or any protection afforded by the work-product doctrine with respect to any of the matters disclosed or discussed therein. The information contained in the Disclosure Letters shall be kept strictly confidential by the Parties and no third party may rely on any information disclosed or set forth therein.
79
Section 11.14 No Recourse. Notwithstanding anything that may be expressed or implied in this Agreement (except in the case of the immediately succeeding sentence) or any document, agreement, or instrument delivered contemporaneously herewith, and notwithstanding the fact that any Party may be a corporation, company, partnership, exempted limited partnership or limited liability company, each Party hereto, by its acceptance of the benefits of this Agreement, covenants, agrees and acknowledges that no Persons other than the Parties shall have any obligation hereunder and that it has no rights of recovery hereunder against, and no recourse hereunder or under any documents, agreements, or instruments delivered contemporaneously herewith or in respect of any oral representations made or alleged to be made in connection herewith or therewith shall be had against, any former, current or future director, officer, agent, Affiliate, manager, assignee, incorporator, controlling Person, fiduciary, representative or employee of any Party (or any of their successors or permitted assignees), against any former, current, or future general or limited partner, manager, stockholder or member of any Party (or any of their successors or permitted assignees) or any Affiliate thereof or against any former, current or future director, officer, agent, employee, Affiliate, manager, assignee, incorporator, controlling Person, fiduciary, representative, general or limited partner, stockholder, manager or member of any of the foregoing, but in each case not including the Parties (each, but excluding for the avoidance of doubt, the Parties, a “Non-Party Affiliate”), whether by or through attempted piercing of the corporate veil, by or through a claim (whether in tort, Contract or otherwise) by or on behalf of such Party against the Non-Party Affiliates, by the enforcement of any assessment or by any Proceeding, or by virtue of any statute, regulation or other applicable Law, or otherwise; it being agreed and acknowledged that no personal Liability whatsoever shall attach to, be imposed on, or otherwise be incurred by any Non-Party Affiliate, as such, for any obligations of the applicable Party under this Agreement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, under any documents or instruments delivered contemporaneously herewith, in respect of any oral representations made or alleged to be made in connection herewith or therewith, or for any claim (whether in tort, Contract or otherwise) based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Notwithstanding the forgoing, a Non-Party Affiliate may have obligations under any documents, agreements, or instruments delivered contemporaneously herewith or otherwise required by this Agreement if such Non-Party Affiliate is party to such document, agreement or instrument. Except to the extent otherwise set forth in, and subject in all cases to the terms and conditions of and limitations herein, this Agreement may only be enforced against, and any claim or cause of action of any kind based upon, arising out of, or related to this Agreement, or the negotiation, execution or performance of this Agreement, may only be brought against the entities that are named as Parties hereto and then only with respect to the specific obligations set forth herein with respect to such Party. Each Non-Party Affiliate is intended as a third-party beneficiary of this Section 11.14.
Section 11.15 Acknowledgements.
(a) ZB Companies. Each ZB Company specifically acknowledges and agrees to SPAC’s disclaimer of any representations or warranties other than those set forth in Article IV, Article VI and any Ancillary Agreement or certificate delivered by SPAC or Merger Sub pursuant to this Agreement, whether made by SPAC, Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates or representatives, and of all Liability and responsibility for any representation, warranty, projection, forecast, statement, or information made, communicated, or furnished (orally or in writing) to the Company and its Affiliates or representatives (including any opinion, information, projection, or advice that may have been or may be provided to SPAC, Merger Sub, their Affiliates or representatives by either SPAC or Merger Sub or any of their respective Affiliates or representatives), other than those set forth in Article IV, Article VI and any Ancillary Agreement or certificate delivered by SPAC or Merger Sub pursuant to this Agreement. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees that, without limiting the generality of this Section 11.15, neither the Company nor any of their respective Affiliates or representatives has made any representation or warranty with respect to any projections or other future forecasts. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees that except for the representations and warranties set forth in Article VI and any Ancillary Agreement or certificate delivered by SPAC or Merger Sub pursuant to this Agreement, neither SPAC nor Merger Sub makes, nor has SPAC or Merger Sub made, any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to SPAC or Merger Sub, their assets or Liabilities, the businesses of SPAC or Merger Sub or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements.
80
(b) SPAC. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees to the ZB Companies’ disclaimer of any representations or warranties other than those set forth in Article IV, Article V and any Ancillary Agreement or certificate delivered by any ZB Company pursuant to this Agreement, whether made by any ZB Company or any of their respective Affiliates or representatives, and of all Liability and responsibility for any representation, warranty, projection, forecast, statement, or information made, communicated, or furnished (orally or in writing) to SPAC, Merger Sub, their Affiliates or representatives (including any opinion, information, projection, or advice that may have been or may be provided to SPAC, Merger Sub, their Affiliates or representatives by either SPAC, Holdco, the Company or any of their respective Affiliates or representatives), other than those set forth in Article IV, Article V and any Ancillary Agreement or certificate delivered by Holdco or the Company pursuant to this Agreement. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees that, without limiting the generality of this Section 11.15, neither Holdco nor the Company nor any of their respective Affiliates or representatives has made any representation or warranty with respect to any projections or other future forecasts. SPAC specifically acknowledges and agrees that except for the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV, Article V and any Ancillary Agreement or certificate delivered by Holdco or the Company pursuant to this Agreement, neither Holdco nor the Company makes, nor has Holdco or the Company made, any other express or implied representation or warranty with respect to Holdco, the Company, their assets or Liabilities, the businesses of Holdco or the Company or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements.
Section 11.16 Company Capital Restructuring. Upon receipt of the Required Vote, ZB Companies shall promptly consummate the Company Capital Restructuring and in any event no later than three Business Days after the receipt of the Required Vote.
Section 11.17 Holdco Signing Date and Status of Agreement. This Agreement shall come into force between the Parties (excluding Holdco) on the Effective Date. It shall continue in force (unless terminated in accordance with its terms) between those Parties whether or not Holdco becomes a Party. With effect from the Holdco Signing Date, Holdco shall become a Party and this Agreement shall come into force with respect to Holdco and continue in force between all the Parties (including Holdco).
[Signature Pages Follow]
81
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Business Combination Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
SPAC: | ||
JATT ACQUISITION CORP | ||
By: | /s/ Verender Badial | |
Name: | Verender Badial | |
Title: | Chief Financial Officer |
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Business Combination Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
JATT MERGER SUB: | ||
By: | /s/ Verender Badial | |
Name: | Verender Badial | |
Title: | Director |
83
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Business Combination Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
JATT MERGER SUB 2: | ||
By: | /s/ Verender Badial | |
Name: | Verender Badial | |
Title: | Director |
84
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Business Combination Agreement to be duly executed as of the Holdco Signing Date.
ZURA BIO HOLDINGS LTD | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: | ||
Date: |
85
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Business Combination Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
ZURA BIO LIMITED | ||
By: | /s/ Oliver Levy | |
Name: | Oliver Levy | |
Title: | Director |