UNITED
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SECURITIES
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NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
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$111,600,000
(aggregate cash to be received by wholly-owned subsidiary of
registrant)
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maximum aggregate value of transaction: $111,600,000
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12264 El
Camino Real, Suite 305
San
Diego, CA 92130
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PROXY
STATEMENT
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NOTICE
OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
To
Be
Held ,
2010
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To our
stockholders:
You are
cordially invited to attend a special meeting of stockholders of NextWave
Wireless Inc. (“NextWave” or the “Company”) to be held
on , 2010
at 8:00 a.m. local time at the Company’s offices located at 12264 El Camino
Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California 92130.
At the
special meeting we will ask you to consider and to vote upon the following
matters:
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To
consider and vote upon a proposal to adopt and approve the stock purchase
agreement dated July 30, 2010, by and among the Company, NextWave
Broadband Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“NextWave
Broadband”), PacketVideo Corporation, a majority-owned
subsidiary of NextWave Broadband (“PacketVideo”), and NTT
DOCOMO, INC. (“DOCOMO”), and authorize the transactions contemplated
thereby, including the sale by NextWave Broadband of all of the shares of
common stock of PacketVideo owned by it to DOCOMO for $111.6
million.
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To
consider and vote upon any proposal to adjourn, postpone or continue the
special meeting to a later date to enable the Company to solicit
additional proxies in favor of the proposal to adopt and approve the stock
purchase agreement and authorize the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO contemplated thereby at the special meeting;
and
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To
transact such other business as may properly come before the special
meeting or any adjournments, postponements or continuations
thereof.
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In
connection with the exercise by DOCOMO of its call option to purchase all of the
shares of PacketVideo stock owned by NextWave Broadband, and after careful
consideration, our Board of Directors determined that the stock purchase
agreement, the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and the other
transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement are advisable and are
fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and our stockholders and
unanimously adopted and approved the stock purchase agreement and authorized the
execution and delivery of the stock purchase agreement and the consummation of
the transactions contemplated thereby. Therefore, our Board of Directors
recommends that you vote “FOR” the adoption and approval of the stock purchase
agreement and authorize the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO
contemplated thereby.
Our Board
of Directors considered a number of factors in evaluating the sale, in
consultation with our legal and financial advisors.
Your
vote is very important. Adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement
and the authorization of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO
contemplated thereby requires the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority
of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the special
meeting.
Our Board
of Directors has fixed the close of business
on ,
2010 as the record date for the determination of the holders of our common
stock, par value $0.007 per share, entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the
special meeting. At the close of business
on ,
2010, there
were shares
of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote. Whether or not
you plan to attend the special meeting, it is important that your
shares,
regardless of the number, be represented. Stockholders of record may vote their
shares via a toll-free telephone number, over the Internet or by signing, dating
and mailing the proxy card in the envelope provided. Instructions regarding all
three methods of voting are contained on the proxy card. If your shares are held
in the name of a bank, broker, fiduciary or custodian, follow the voting
instructions on the form you receive from such record holder. The availability
of Internet and telephone proxies will depend on their voting procedures.
Completing a proxy now will not prevent you from being able to vote at the
special meeting by attending in person and casting a vote. Failure to submit a
signed proxy or to vote in person at the special meeting will have the same
effect as a vote “AGAINST” the adoption and approval of the stock purchase
agreement and authorization of the sale of PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO
contemplated thereby.
Important Notice Regarding the
Availability of Proxy Materials for the Special Meeting of Stockholders to Be
Held
on ,
2010. In accordance with new rules and regulations adopted by
the Securities and Exchange Commission, we have elected to provide access to our
proxy materials both by sending you this full set of proxy materials, including
a notice of special meeting and proxy card, and by notifying you of the
availability of our proxy materials on the Internet. The notice of
special meeting, proxy statement and proxy card are available on the Internet at
http://www.proxyvote.com, using the 12-digit control number printed on your
proxy card, and may also be requested by calling toll-free at 800-579-1639 or by
e-mailing at sendmaterial@proxyvote.com.
The
enclosed proxy statement explains the proposed sale, the stock purchase
agreement and the transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement and
provides specific information concerning the special meeting. Please read the
entire proxy statement carefully. This proxy statement is
dated ,
2010, and this proxy statement and accompanying form of proxy are first being
sent to holders of our common stock on or
about ,
2010.
By Order
of the Board of Directors
FRANK A.
CASSOU
Chief
Legal Counsel and Secretary
San Diego,
California
,
2010
NEITHER
THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS
APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THE TRANSACTIONS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT,
PASSED UPON THE MERITS OR FAIRNESS OF SUCH TRANSACTIONS, OR PASSED UPON THE
ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE DISCLOSURE IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT. ANY
REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.
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IMPORTANT
Your
vote is important. Stockholders of record may vote their shares
via a toll-free telephone number, over the Internet or by signing, dating
and mailing the proxy card in the envelope provided. Instructions
regarding all three methods of voting are contained on the proxy card. If
your shares are held in the name of a bank, broker, fiduciary or
custodian, follow the voting instructions on the form you receive from
such record holder. The availability of Internet and telephone proxies
will depend on their voting procedures. Voting your shares by
one of these three methods will ensure that your shares are represented at
the meeting.
If
you need assistance in voting your shares, please call the firm assisting
us in the distribution and tabulation of proxies for the special
meeting:
Broadridge
Financial Services
51
Mercedes Way
Edgewood,
NY 11717
800-579-1639
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ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
This
document incorporates important business and financial information about us from
documents that are not included in or delivered with this document. See “Where
You Can Find More Information” on page 42. You can obtain documents incorporated
by reference in this document from us by requesting them in writing at 12264 El
Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California 92130, Attn: Secretary, or by
calling 858-731-5300. You will not be charged for any of these documents that
you request. If you wish to request documents, you should do so by ,
2010 in order to receive them before the special meeting.
If
you require assistance in submitting proxies or voting shares of our common
stock, or if you would like to receive additional copies of the proxy statement
or the enclosed proxy card, please contact Broadridge Financial
Services:
Broadridge
Financial Services
51
Mercedes Way
Edgewood,
NY 11717
800-579-1639
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SUMMARY
TERM SHEET
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CAUTIONARY
STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
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QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SALE AND THE SPECIAL MEETING
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THE
SPECIAL MEETING
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THE
PARTIES TO THE STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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THE
SALE
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THE
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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USE
OF PROCEEDS
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SPECIAL
RISK CONSIDERATIONS YOU SHOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IN DECIDING HOW TO VOTE
ON THE PROPOSAL
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SECURITY
OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
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UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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PROPOSALS
BY STOCKHOLDERS
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WHERE
YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
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ANNEX
A: STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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ANNEX
B: OPINION OF THE COMPANY’S FINANCIAL ADVISOR
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ANNEX
C: UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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SUMMARY
TERM SHEET
This
summary term sheet highlights selected information from this proxy statement
with respect to the stock purchase agreement and the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby and may not contain all of the information
that is important to you. To understand the sale fully and for a more complete
description of the terms of the sale, you should read this entire proxy
statement carefully, including the annexes, and the documents we refer to or
incorporate by reference herein. We encourage you to read each of
these documents, in particular the stock purchase agreement attached as Annex A
hereto.
Except
as otherwise specifically noted in this proxy statement, “sale” refers to the
sale by NextWave Broadband of PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated by the
stock purchase agreement, and “transactions” refers to the transactions
contemplated by the stock purchase agreement, including the sale by NextWave
Broadband of PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO. References to the Company, NextWave,
us, our and we all refer to NextWave Wireless Inc.
The
Sale (page 16)
On July
30, 2010, the Company, NextWave Broadband and PacketVideo entered into a stock
purchase agreement with DOCOMO pursuant to which the Company and NextWave
Broadband agreed to sell to DOCOMO all of the issued and outstanding shares of
common stock of PacketVideo held by NextWave Broadband, representing
approximately 65% of the issued and outstanding common stock of PacketVideo, for
an aggregate purchase price of $111.6 million. We expect to receive
approximately $107.5 million of net proceeds from the sale, after deduction of
estimated expenses for the transaction, of which we expect to apply
approximately $95 million to retire principal of and accrued interest on our
Senior Secured First Lien Notes due 2011, or “First Lien Notes,” pursuant to our
secured note agreements, and we expect to retain approximately $12.5 million to
fund our working capital needs.
DOCOMO
acquired 35% of the issued and outstanding common stock of PacketVideo in July
2009. In connection with the July 2009 transaction, the Company, NextWave
Broadband, PacketVideo and DOCOMO entered into a Stockholders’ Agreement dated
July 2, 2009, pursuant to which DOCOMO was granted a call option exercisable
under certain conditions to purchase all (but not less than all) of the
remaining shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave
Broadband. In November 2009, PacketVideo achieved the milestone which
triggered DOCOMO’s right to exercise the option and, on June 28, 2010, after the
completion and finalization of an independent valuation of the PacketVideo
shares owned by NextWave Broadband, DOCOMO confirmed in writing to the Company
and NextWave Broadband that DOCOMO still intended to exercise the call option
and acquire all of the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave
Broadband in accordance with the procedures set forth in the stockholders’
agreement. The current transaction pursuant to the stock purchase
agreement represents DOCOMO’s exercise of the call option.
Under the
terms of the stock purchase agreement, the Company and NextWave Broadband have
agreed to sell to DOCOMO all of the issued and outstanding shares of common
stock of PacketVideo held by NextWave Broadband, for an aggregate purchase price
of $111.6 million, which was established pursuant to valuation procedures set
forth in the stockholders’ agreement.
Information About the Parties to the
Transaction (page 15)
NextWave Wireless
Inc. We are a holding company for mobile multimedia businesses and a
significant wireless spectrum portfolio. Our mobile multimedia business segment
consists of PacketVideo, our majority-owned subsidiary. As a result
of the sale of our remaining interest in PacketVideo, our continuing operations
would be focused solely on the management, operation, marketing and selling of
our wireless spectrum interests. We will continue to manage and
operate and pursue the sale of our wireless spectrum holdings over time to repay
our significant secured indebtedness.
The
Company is a Delaware corporation. Our principal executive office is
located at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California, 92130, and
our telephone number is 858-731-5300.
PacketVideo
Corporation. Founded in 1998, PacketVideo develops, produces
and markets advanced mobile multimedia and consumer electronic connectivity
product solutions, including embedded software for mobile handsets,
client-server platforms for mobile media applications such as music, photos,
video and software for
sharing
media in the connected home. PacketVideo supplies multimedia software
and services to many of the world’s largest network operators and wireless
handset manufacturers which, in turn, use PacketVideo’s platform to offer music
and video services on mobile handsets, generally under their own brands. To
date, over 350 million PacketVideo-powered handsets have been shipped worldwide.
PacketVideo has been contracted by some of the world’s largest carriers, such as
Orange, DOCOMO, Rogers Wireless, TeliaSonera, TELUS Mobility and Verizon
Wireless, to design and implement the embedded multimedia software capabilities
contained in their handsets. PacketVideo’s software is compatible with virtually
all network technologies, including CDMA, GSM, WiMAX, LTE and
WCDMA. As a result of the sale, PacketVideo would become a
wholly-owned subsidiary of DOCOMO.
PacketVideo
is a Delaware corporation. DOCOMO owns 35% of PacketVideo’s issued
and outstanding shares of common stock, and the remainder of PacketVideo’s
issued and outstanding shares are currently owned by NextWave
Broadband. PacketVideo’s principal executive office is located at
10350 Science Center Drive, Suite 210, San Diego, California, 92121, and its
telephone number is 858-731-5300.
NextWave
Broadband Inc. NextWave Broadband is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
NextWave and a holding company for our equity interest in PacketVideo and our
wireless spectrum interests. NextWave Broadband is a Delaware
corporation. Its principal executive office is located at 12264
El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California, 92130, and its telephone
number is 858-731-5300.
NTT DOCOMO,
INC. DOCOMO’s parent company is NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
CORPORATION, or “NTT.” NTT, together with its subsidiaries, including DOCOMO,
constitutes one of the world’s leading telecom operators and providers of
advanced telecom services.
DOCOMO is
a joint stock corporation incorporated and registered under Japanese
Law. Its corporate head office is at Sanno Park
Tower, 11-1, Nagata-cho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-6150, Japan. Its telephone number
is 81-3-5156-1111.
The Special Meeting (page 12)
We are
furnishing this proxy statement to our stockholders as part of the solicitation
of proxies by our Board of Directors for use at the special meeting which will
be held at 8:00 a.m., local time,
on ,
2010, at the Company’s offices located at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San
Diego, California 92130.
Board
Recommendation (pages 12 and 20)
After
careful consideration, our Board of Directors determined that the stock purchase
agreement, the sale and the other transactions contemplated by the stock
purchase agreement are advisable and are fair to, and in the best interests of,
the Company and our stockholders, and unanimously adopted and approved the stock
purchase agreement and authorized the execution and delivery of the stock
purchase agreement and the consummation of the sale and the other transactions
contemplated thereby. Therefore, our Board of Directors recommends that you vote
“FOR” the adoption and
approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorize the sale of the
PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby.
Required
Vote (page 12)
For us to complete the sale,
stockholders holding at least a majority of the shares of our common stock
issued and outstanding at the close of business on the record
date, ,
2010 must vote “FOR” the
adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorize the sale of
the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby.
Opinion
of the Company’s Financial Advisor (page 20)
In
connection with the sale, on July 28, 2010, the Company’s financial advisor,
Moelis & Company, which we refer to in this proxy statement as “Moelis,”
rendered its oral opinion to our Board of Directors, which opinion was
subsequently confirmed in writing, that, as of such date, and based upon and
subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in the written opinion, the
consideration to be paid to NextWave Broadband and us in the sale was fair, from
a financial point of view, to NextWave Broadband and us.
The full
text of Moelis’ written opinion, dated July 28, 2010, which sets forth the
assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered, and limitations on
the review undertaken by Moelis in connection with its fairness opinion, is
attached to this proxy statement as Annex B and is incorporated into this
proxy statement by reference.
We
encourage you to read Moelis’ opinion and the section “The Sale—Opinion of the
Company’s Financial Advisor” beginning on page 20, carefully and in their
entirety. Moelis’ opinion is limited solely to the
fairness to NextWave Broadband and the Company of the consideration to be paid
from a financial point of view as of the date of the fairness opinion and does
not address the underlying business decision to effect the sale or the relative
merits of the sale as compared to any alternative business strategies or
transactions that might be available to us, NextWave Broadband or
PacketVideo. Moelis’ opinion does not constitute a recommendation to
any stockholder of PacketVideo (including NextWave Broadband), NextWave
Broadband (including us) or the Company as to how such stockholder should vote
with respect to the sale or whether NextWave Broadband should sell shares in the
sale or any other matter.
Reasons
for the Sale (page 18)
In making
its recommendation that you vote “FOR” the proposal to adopt and
approve the stock purchase agreement and authorize the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby, our Board of Directors considered a
number of factors, including the financial performance of and prospects for
PacketVideo’s multimedia business; the resources required to fund the further
development and growth of PacketVideo’s business; the current and future
competitive environment for PacketVideo’s multimedia business and related risks
associated with its business; the process and procedures set forth in the
stockholders’ agreement to determine and agree upon the fair market value of the
PacketVideo shares held by NextWave Broadband; our global restructuring
initiative which was commenced in 2008; the amount of our current cash reserves
and cash generated from operations and our significant outstanding secured
indebtedness; the amount of the consideration to be paid in connection with the
sale which will be used to pay down a portion of the First Lien Notes and
provide us with working capital; the maturity dates of our outstanding
indebtedness and the interest accurals on such indebtedness prior to the
respective maturity dates; the value of our spectrum assets and cash required to
continue to manage and operate our spectrum assets; the market for and recent
market developments with respect to our spectrum assets; the challenging public
market to raise necessary capital to further develop our multimedia business;
the contractual obligations set forth in the stockholders’ agreement with DOCOMO
and DOCOMO’s right to exercise its option to acquire all of the shares of common
stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband; limitations on our ability to
sell the shares of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband to a third party set
forth in the stockholders’ agreement; and the written opinion received from our
financial advisor that, subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in
the opinion, the consideration to be paid to NextWave Broadband and us in the
sale was fair, from a financial point of view, to NextWave Broadband and
us.
In the
course of deliberations, our Board of Directors also considered a variety of
risks and potentially negative factors, including the risks and contingencies
related to the announcement and pendency of the sale, including the impact of
the sale on our relationships with third parties; the loss of future revenue as
a result of the sale of our multimedia business; the effect the sale will have
on the value of our stock; the possibility that the sale might not be
consummated and we will have expended extensive resources and time during the
pendency of the transaction; and the fact that after the sale our business will
consist solely of our wireless spectrum interests.
NextWave
After the Sale (page 24)
We
anticipate that the management, operation, marketing and selling of our
portfolio of licensed wireless spectrum assets will, following the closing of
the sale, make up the entirety of our business, which we refer to as our
“Strategic Initiatives” business. Our total domestic spectrum
holdings consist of approximately ten billion MHz POPs (the term “MHz-POPs” is
defined as the product derived from multiplying the number of megahertz
associated with a license by the population of the license's service area),
covering approximately 215.9 million total POPs, with 106.9 million POPs covered
by 20 MHz or more of spectrum, and an additional 90.6 million POPs covered by at
least 10 MHz of spectrum. In addition, a number of markets, including much of
the New York City metropolitan region, are covered by 30 MHz or more of
spectrum. Our domestic spectrum resides in the 2.3 GHz Wireless Communication
Services, 2.5 GHz Broadband Radio Service/Educational Broadband Service and
1.7/2.1 GHz Advanced Wireless Service or “AWS.” Our domestic spectrum resides in
the 2.3 GHz WCS, 2.5 GHz BRS/ EBS and 1.7/2.1 GHz AWS bands and offers
propagation and other characteristics suitable to support high-capacity, mobile
broadband services. Our international spectrum held for continuing
operations include 2.3 GHz licenses in Canada, covering 15 million
POPs. Following the sale, we will continue to manage and operate and
pursue the sale and license of our wireless spectrum holdings over time to repay
our significant secured indebtedness. In order to retire our debt, we will need
to successfully monetize a substantial portion of our wireless spectrum assets
for net proceeds substantially in excess of our cost basis. There is
no guarantee that we will be able to successfully
monetize
our wireless spectrum assets or successfully retire our outstanding
indebtedness.
Interests
of Certain Persons in the Sale (page 25)
When
considering the recommendation of our Board of Directors with respect to the
adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and the authorization of
the transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO, you should be aware that some of our directors and executive
officers have interests in the sale that may be different from, and in addition
to, the interests of our stockholders generally. Approximately $95 million
of the net proceeds from the sale will be used to retire a portion of principal
and interest on our First Lien Notes, with priority given to holders other than
those affiliated with Avenue Capital Group and Solus Core Opportunities Master
Fund Ltd., or “Solus.” As of July 3, 2010, funds managed by Avenue Capital
Group held approximately $116.8 million in principal amount of the First Lien
Notes, representing approximately 55.5% of such indebtedness. Robert
Symington, a portfolio manager with Avenue Capital Group, is a member of our
Board of Directors. As a result of the transactions contemplated by the stock
purchase agreement, the Company anticipates that affiliates of Avenue Capital
Group will receive approximately $30.5 million in redemption of the senior
secured notes held by them pursuant to the terms of our secured note
agreements. In addition, Navation, Inc., an affiliate of Allen Salmasi,
our Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors, held approximately $79.5
million in principal amount of our Third Lien Subordinated Secured Convertible
Notes, or “Third Lien Notes,” representing approximately 14.1% of such
indebtedness as of July 3, 2010, and Douglas Manchester, a member of our Board
of Directors, held approximately $79.5 million in principal amount of our Third
Lien Notes, representing approximately 14.1% of such indebtedness as of July 3,
2010. The holders of the Third Lien Notes will not receive any proceeds as
a result of the stock purchase agreement but will receive an indirect benefit as
a result of the reduction in our senior secured debt that is senior to the Third
Lien Notes. As of July 30, 2010, our directors and executive officers as a
group were the beneficial owners of 26.9% of our outstanding common stock,
Navation, Inc. was the beneficial owner of 13.5% of our outstanding common
stock, and affiliates of Avenue Capital Group were the beneficial owners of
34.8% of our outstanding common stock.
In
connection with the signing of the stock purchase agreement, we have established
cash retention bonuses for certain officers and employees of PacketVideo in the
aggregate amount of $2 million. The cash retention bonuses are anticipated to be
paid in connection with the closing of the sale, subject to such persons’
continued employment with PacketVideo. Dr. James Brailean, who also
served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and
President and a member of our Board of Directors prior to July 30, 2010, the
date of signing of the stock purchase agreement, would be eligible to receive a
cash retention bonus of $280,000 at closing.
In
addition, DOCOMO and PacketVideo have agreed that promptly after the closing of
the sale (but no later than six months after such closing), PacketVideo will
diligently prepare proposed forms of written agreements, amendments, plans,
policies and other documents as may be necessary to (i) implement 2010 merit
increases for PacketVideo’s senior executives, (ii) establish a cash bonus
program, (iii) amend PacketVideo’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, (iv) establish a
severance pay program for PacketVideo’s senior executives, (v) establish
long-term incentive and retention bonus programs, (vi) adopt policies pertaining
to DOCOMO’s rules and procedures for internal reporting and consultation, and
(vii) enter into a management agreement with DOCOMO, in each case as
contemplated by and containing the applicable terms and conditions set forth in
that certain term sheet dated July 30, 2010 and entitled “PacketVideo Proposed
Management and Employee Retention Plan,” as executed by DOCOMO and
PacketVideo. The agreements, amendments, plans, policies and
documents to be prepared by PacketVideo will be subject to the review and
approval of DOCOMO.
Our Board
of Directors was aware of these interests during its deliberations on the merits
of the sale and in deciding to recommend that you vote for the adoption and
approval of the stock purchase agreement and the authorization of the sale at
the special meeting. Dr. Brailean recused himself from such
discussions and the decision of our Board of Directors because of his interest
in the sale and submitted his resignations from our Board of Directors and from
his position as our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and
President in connection with the signing of the stock purchase agreement on July
30, 2010. Dr. Brailean continues to serve as the President and Chief
Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of PacketVideo
following his resignations.
Certain
United States Federal Income Tax Consequences to the Company
(page 26)
The sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO likely will not result in any material
United States federal or California state corporate income tax liability
(including any alternative minimum tax liability) to the Company because we
anticipate using our net operating losses to offset any taxable gain from the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO.
The
Stock Purchase Agreement (page 27)
The
rights and obligations of the parties to the stock purchase agreement are
governed by the specific terms and conditions of the stock purchase agreement
and not by any summary or other information set forth in this proxy statement.
Therefore, the information in this proxy statement regarding the stock purchase
agreement and the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby
is qualified in its entirety by reference to the stock purchase agreement, a
copy of which is attached as Annex A to this proxy statement.
Conditions
to the Sale (page 31)
A number
of conditions must be satisfied or waived before the sale can be completed,
including, without limitation, the expiration or termination of the waiting
period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as
amended, or the “HSR Act,” receipt of the required stockholder approval and the
required consents of third parties. We cannot offer any assurance
that all of the conditions will be satisfied or waived or that the sale of the
PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO will occur.
Termination
of Stock Purchase Agreement; Termination Fee (page 33)
The stock purchase agreement may be
terminated by either the Company or DOCOMO under certain circumstances,
including the failure of the transaction to close by September 28, 2010 (unless
the party seeking termination is responsible for any such delay and unless
certain other circumstances set forth in the stock purchase agreement exist) and
failure to obtain the required stockholder approval at a duly convened meeting
of our stockholders.
If either the Company or DOCOMO
terminates the stock purchase agreement due to failure to obtain the required
stockholder approval at a duly convened meeting of our stockholders, the Company
and NextWave Broadband shall be required to pay DOCOMO up to $700,000 in cash as
reimbursement for its expenses in connection with the transactions.
Use
of Proceeds (page 35)
We plan to
receive approximately $107.5 million of net proceeds from the sale, after
deduction of estimated expenses for the transaction, of which we expect to apply
approximately $95 million to retire principal and accrued interest of our First
Lien Notes pursuant to our secured note agreements, and we expect to retain
approximately $12.5 million to fund our working capital needs.
After we
apply the proceeds from the sale to retire approximately $95 million of our
First Lien Notes, we anticipate that at September 30, 2010 approximately $117
million of principal owed under the First Lien Notes will remain outstanding and
be due and payable in July 2011. In addition, we anticipate that at
September 30, 2010, approximately $161 million of principal under our Senior
Subordinated Secured Second Lien Notes, or “Second Lien Notes,” that mature in
November 2011 and approximately $582 million of principal owed under our Third
Lien Notes that mature in December 2011 will remain outstanding, together with
accrued interest on such notes.
CAUTIONARY
STATEMENT CONCERNING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
This
proxy statement, and the documents to which we refer you in this proxy
statement, include forward-looking statements based on estimates and assumptions
reflecting management’s current expectations. For this purpose, any statements
contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be
forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, words
such as “believes,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “continues,” “predict,”
“potential,” “contemplates,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “likely,” “could,”
“should” or “would” or other similar words or phrases are intended to identify
forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks,
uncertainties, and other factors, including, among others:
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effect of the announcement of the sale on our business relationships,
operating results and business
generally;
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the
occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give
rise to the termination of the stock purchase
agreement;
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the
outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against us, DOCOMO
or others related to the stock purchase
agreement;
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the
failure to obtain the required stockholder approval, to satisfy other
conditions to the completion of the sale, or to obtain regulatory
approvals required for the sale on the terms expected or on the
anticipated schedule;
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the
amount of the costs, fees, expenses and charges related to the sale;
and
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our
and DOCOMO’s ability to meet expectations regarding the timing and
completion of the sale.
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We
discuss some of the above risks in greater detail in this proxy statement in the
section “Special Risk Considerations Regarding the Proposal to Adopt the Stock
Purchase Agreement.” In addition, we are subject to risks and
uncertainties and other factors detailed in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, or “SEC,” including our annual report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended January 2, 2010 and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the
fiscal quarter ended April 3, 2010 and in subsequent filings with the SEC, which
should be read in conjunction with this proxy statement. See “Where You Can Find
More Information” on page 42. Many of the factors that will impact the
completion of the proposed sale are beyond our ability to control or predict. In
light of the significant uncertainties inherent in the forward-looking
statements contained in this proxy statement, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements. We cannot guarantee any future results,
levels of activity, performance or achievements. The statements made in this
proxy statement represent our views as of the date of this proxy statement, and
it should not be assumed that the statements made in this proxy statement remain
accurate as of any future date. Moreover, we assume no obligation to update
forward-looking statements, except as required by law.
QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE SALE AND THE SPECIAL MEETING
The
following questions and answers are intended to address briefly some commonly
asked questions regarding the sale and the special meeting. These questions and
answers may not address all questions that may be important to you as a NextWave
stockholder. Please refer to the more detailed information contained elsewhere
in this proxy statement, the annexes to this proxy statement and the documents
referred to in this proxy statement, which you should read
carefully.
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Why am I receiving this proxy
statement?
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We
entered into a stock purchase agreement dated July 30, 2010, with
PacketVideo, NextWave Broadband and DOCOMO. Upon completion of
the sale contemplated by the stock purchase agreement, PacketVideo will
become a wholly-owned subsidiary of DOCOMO. A copy of the stock
purchase agreement is attached to this proxy statement as Annex
A.
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To
consummate the sale, the stock purchase agreement must be adopted and
approved and the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated by
the stock purchase agreement must be authorized by the affirmative vote of
the holders of a majority of the shares of our common stock outstanding at
the close of business on the record date. Our Board of Directors is
providing this proxy statement to give you information for use in
determining how to vote on the proposals submitted to the stockholders at
the special meeting. You should carefully read this proxy
statement, the attached annexes and the documents referred to in, or
incorporated by reference into, this proxy statement. The enclosed proxy
card and voting instructions allow you, as a stockholder, to vote your
shares without attending the special meeting in
person.
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What
is the date, time and place of the special
meeting?
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The
special meeting of stockholders of the Company will be held at
8:00 a.m., local time, on , 2010, at the
Company’s corporate headquarters located at the Company’s offices located
at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California
92130.
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What
matters am I being asked to vote on at the special
meeting?
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You
are being asked to vote on the following
proposals:
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Adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the
transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale by NextWave
Broadband of all the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by it to
DOCOMO;
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Consideration
of any proposal to adjourn, postpone or continue the special meeting to a
later date to solicit additional proxies in favor of the proposal to adopt
and approve the stock purchase agreement and authorize the transactions
contemplated thereby, including the sale by NextWave Broadband of all of
the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by it to DOCOMO;
and
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Consideration
and action upon any other business that may properly come before the
special meeting or any adjournments, postponements or continuations
thereof. The Company does not currently expect any other
business to come before the
meeting.
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How
many shares must be present or represented at the special meeting in order
to conduct business?
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A
quorum of stockholders is necessary to hold a valid special meeting. A
quorum is present at the special meeting if a majority of the shares of
our common stock entitled to vote on the record date are present in person
or represented by proxy. Abstentions and broker non-votes are
counted as present for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is
present.
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Who
is entitled to vote at the special
meeting?
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Only
stockholders of record as of the close of business
on ,
2010 are entitled to receive notice of the special meeting and to vote
their shares of our common stock that they held at that time at the
special meeting, or at any adjournments or postponements of the special
meeting. You will have one vote at the special meeting for each share of
our common stock you owned at the close of business on the record
date.
As
of the record
date, shares
of our common stock were outstanding and entitled to vote at the special
meeting.
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What
vote of our stockholders is required to approve the
proposals?
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The
voting requirements to approve the proposals are as
follows:
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Adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the
transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale by NextWave
Broadband of all of the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by it
to DOCOMO requires the affirmative vote of holders of the majority of the
Company’s shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the
special meeting; and
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Any
proposal to adjourn or postpone the special meeting requires the
affirmative vote of a majority of the Company’s shares represented in
person or by proxy and entitled to vote, excluding
abstentions.
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How
does our Board of Directors recommend I
vote?
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Our
Board of Directors unanimously recommends that our stockholders vote
“FOR” the approval
and adoption of the stock purchase agreement and the authorization of the
transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO. You should read “The Sale—Reasons for the Sale,”
beginning on page 18, for a discussion of the factors that our Board
of Directors considered in deciding to recommend the approval and adoption
of the stock purchase agreement and the authorization of the authorization
of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale of the
PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO.
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What factors did our Board of
Directors consider in making its recommendation regarding the stock
purchase agreement and the
sale?
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In
making its recommendation that you vote “FOR” the proposal to
adopt and approve the stock purchase agreement and authorize the
transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO, our Board of Directors considered a number of factors,
including the financial performance of and prospects for PacketVideo’s
multimedia business; the resources required to fund the further
development and growth of PacketVideo’s business; the current and future
competitive environment for PacketVideo’s multimedia business and related
risks associated with its business; the process and procedures set forth
in the stockholders’ agreement to determine and agree upon the fair market
value of the PacketVideo shares held by NextWave Broadband; our global
restructuring initiative, which was commenced in 2008; the amount of our
current cash reserves and cash generated from operations and our
significant outstanding secured indebtedness; the amount of the
consideration to be paid in connection with the sale which will be used to
pay down a portion of the First Lien Notes and provide us with working
capital; the maturity dates of our outstanding indebtedness and the
interest accruals on such indebtedness prior to the respective maturity
dates; the value of our spectrum assets and cash required to continue to
manage and operate our spectrum assets; the market for and recent market
developments with respect to our spectrum assets; the challenging public
market to raise necessary capital to further develop our multimedia
business; the contractual obligations set forth in the stockholders’
agreement with DOCOMO and DOCOMO’s right to exercise its option to acquire
all of the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave
Broadband; limitations on our ability to sell the shares of PacketVideo
owned by NextWave Broadband to a third party set forth in the
stockholders’ agreement; and the opinion received from our financial
advisor (the full text of which is attached as Annex B to this proxy
statement) that, subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in
the written opinion, the consideration to be paid to NextWave Broadband
and us in the sale was fair, from a financial point of view, to NextWave
Broadband and us.
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How
are votes counted?
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For
the proposal relating to the adoption and approval of the stock purchase
agreement and authorization of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO contemplated thereby, you may vote “FOR,” “AGAINST” or “ABSTAIN.” Abstentions
will not count as votes cast on the proposal relating to adoption and
approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the sale of
the PacketVideo shares to
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DOCOMO
contemplated thereby but will count for the purpose of determining whether
a quorum is present. As a result, if you “ABSTAIN,” it has the
same effect as if you vote “AGAINST” the adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby with respect to
the majority of outstanding shares voting requirement. If you sign and
return your proxy and do not indicate how you want to vote, your proxy
will be voted “FOR” the proposal to
adopt the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the sale of the
PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby. If your shares are held
in “street name” by your broker, follow the instructions from your broker
on how to vote your
shares.
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What
do I need to do now? How do I
vote?
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We
urge you to read this proxy statement carefully, including its annexes,
and to consider how the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO affects
you. Then you can vote by telephone, using the toll-free telephone number
shown on your proxy card; via the Internet, by visiting the Internet
website indicated on your proxy card and following the on-screen
instructions; or by mail, by completing, signing, dating and returning
your proxy card in the enclosed envelope. You can also attend
the special meeting and vote in person. See the question below
“May I vote in person?”
If
your shares of our common stock are held in “street name” by your broker,
be sure to give your broker instructions on how you want to vote your
shares because your broker will not be able to vote on the sale proposal
without instructions from you. See the question below “If my broker holds
my shares in ‘street name,’ will my broker vote my shares for
me?”
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Why
is it important for me to vote?
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Your
vote is important. The failure to return your proxy card or vote in person
at the special meeting will mean that your shares will not be counted for
purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the special meeting
and will have the same effect as voting “AGAINST” the proposal to
adopt and approve the stock purchase agreement and authorize the sale
contemplated thereby.
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If
my broker holds my shares in “street name,” will my broker vote my shares
for me?
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Your
broker will not be able to vote your shares with regard to the adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and the authorization of the
sale contemplated thereby without instructions from you but may be able to
vote with respect to any other proposals that may properly come before the
special meeting. You should instruct your broker to vote your shares,
following the procedures provided by your broker. Without instructions,
your shares will be considered present at the special meeting for purposes
of determining a quorum but will have the same effect as being voted
“AGAINST” the
adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and the
authorization of the sale contemplated
thereby.
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Yes.
If your shares are held directly in your name and not in “street name”
through a broker, you may attend the special meeting and vote your shares
in person. If your shares are held in “street name,” you must get a proxy
card from your broker in order to attend the special meeting and vote in
person.
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We
urge you to complete, sign, date and return the enclosed proxy card (or
vote by telephone or Internet) as soon as possible, even if you plan to
attend the special meeting, as it is important that your shares be
represented and voted at the special meeting. If you attend the
special meeting in person, you may vote by written ballot as you wish,
even though you have previously returned your proxy card. See the question
below “May I change my vote after I have mailed my signed proxy
card?”
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May
I change my vote after I have mailed my signed proxy
card?
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Yes.
You may change your vote at any time before the shares of our common stock
reflected on your proxy card are voted at the special meeting. If your
shares are registered in your name, you can do this in one of three
ways:
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you
can deliver to our Secretary, at our address set forth herein, a written
notice stating that you would like to revoke your proxy (the written
notice must bear a date later than the proxy card and be received before
the taking of the vote at the special
meeting);
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you
can complete, execute and deliver to our Secretary a new, later-dated
proxy card (either in writing, by telephone or via the Internet) for the
same shares, provided the new proxy card is received before the taking of
the vote at the special meeting; or
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you
can attend the special meeting and vote in person. Your attendance alone
will not revoke your proxy.
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If you
have instructed a broker to vote your shares, you must follow directions
received from your broker to change those instructions. You cannot vote shares
held in “street name” by returning a proxy card directly to us or by voting in
person at the special meeting unless you obtain a proxy card from your
broker.
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Who
will bear the cost of this
solicitation?
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We
will bear the expense of soliciting proxies for the special
meeting. We have retained Broadridge Financial Services, a
proxy solicitation firm, to solicit proxies in connection with the special
meeting at a cost of approximately $25,000 plus expenses. In
addition, we may reimburse brokers, banks and other custodians, nominees
and fiduciaries representing beneficial owners of shares for their
expenses in forwarding soliciting materials to such beneficial
owners. Proxies also may be solicited by certain of our
directors, officers and employees, personally or by telephone, facsimile
or other means of communication, but no additional compensation will be
paid for such services. For a description of the costs and
expenses to us of soliciting proxies, see “The Special
Meeting—Solicitation Costs” below.
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What
should I do if I receive more than one set of voting
materials?
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You
may receive more than one set of voting materials, including multiple
copies of this proxy statement and multiple proxy cards or voting
instruction cards. For example, if you hold your shares in more
than one brokerage account, you will receive a separate voting instruction
card for each brokerage account in which you hold shares. If you are a
stockholder of record and your shares are registered in more than one
name, you will receive more than one proxy card. Please complete, sign,
date and return each proxy card and voting instruction card that you
receive.
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What
happens if I sell my shares of NextWave common stock before the special
meeting?
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The
record date for the special meeting is earlier than the date of the
special meeting. If you transfer your shares of our common stock after the
close of business on the record date but before the special meeting, you
will retain your right to vote at the special
meeting.
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How
will DOCOMO finance the sale?
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DOCOMO
has indicated that it will have sufficient cash on hand to complete the
transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement. The
sale is not conditioned upon DOCOMO obtaining financing from any outside
sources.
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When
do you expect the sale to be
completed?
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We
are working toward completing the sale as quickly as possible, but we
cannot predict the exact timing. We expect to complete the sale by the end
of the third quarter of this year. In addition to obtaining
stockholder approval and obtaining required third party consents, we must
satisfy all other closing conditions set forth in the stock purchase
agreement, including the expiration or termination of the waiting period
under the HSR Act.
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Should
I send in my stock certificates?
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No. The
number of shares of stock that you own will not be affected by the sale of
the PacketVideo Shares to DOCOMO and you should not send in certificates
in response to the sale.
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How
does the sale impact my ownership of stock of the
Company?
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The
sale will have no impact on any stockholder’s ownership of stock of the
Company.
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Will
we continue to operate as a public reporting
company?
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Yes. Following
the sale of the PacketVideo Shares to DOCOMO, we will focus solely on the
operation and management of our wireless spectrum interests and will
continue operating as a public reporting company. Following the
sale, we will continue to manage and operate our wireless spectrum assets
and pursue the sale our wireless spectrum holdings over time to repay our
significant secured indebtedness.
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How
will I know if the Company’s stockholders have adopted and approved the
stock purchase agreement and authorized the transactions contemplated
thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO?
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We
will issue a press release regarding the outcome of the stockholder vote
at the special meeting. We will also file a Current Report on
Form 8-K with the SEC disclosing the results of the
vote.
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What
plans does the Company have if the stock purchase agreement is not
approved?
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If
the stock purchase agreement is not approved, we will continue to hold our
multimedia business and PacketVideo will continue to be a majority-owned
subsidiary of ours. We may pursue alternative transactions
regarding the sale of our equity interest in PacketVideo. We
will also continue to manage and operate our wireless spectrum assets and
pursue the sale and license of our wireless spectrum holdings over time to
repay our significant secured
indebtedness.
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What
happens to DOCOMO’s call option under the stockholders’ agreement if the
stock purchase agreement is
terminated?
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If
the stock purchase agreement is terminated, the Company believes DOCOMO’s
call option under the stockholders’ agreement with the Company and
NextWave Broadband will terminate. Nevertheless, the
stockholders’ agreement previously entered into by the parties will remain
in effect. The stockholders’ agreement provides DOCOMO with,
among other things, a right of first negotiation and first refusal
applicable to a sale of the PacketVideo shares owned by NextWave
Broadband, a drag-along right in the event a third party proposes to
acquire all our PacketVideo shares, and preemptive rights to acquire
DOCOMO’s pro rata portion of any new securities issued by PacketVideo, in
each case as further described in the stockholders’
agreement. Also pursuant to the stockholders’ agreement,
PacketVideo and NextWave Broadband would retain a right of first refusal
in the event a third party proposes to acquire any of the PacketVideo
shares owned by DOCOMO.
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Where
can I learn more about DOCOMO?
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Information
about DOCOMO is available for free from its website at www.nttdocomo.com
or from its public filings with the SEC at
www.sec.gov.
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Who
can help answer my questions?
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If
you have any questions about the sale, including the procedures for voting
your shares, or if you need additional copies of this proxy statement or
the enclosed proxy card (which will be provided without charge) you should
contact Broadridge Financial Services as
follows:
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Broadridge
Financial Services
51
Mercedes Way
Edgewood,
NY 11717
800-579-1639
THE SPECIAL
MEETING
We are
furnishing this proxy statement to our stockholders as part of the solicitation
on behalf of our Board of Directors of proxies to be voted at the special
meeting of stockholders or any postponement or adjournment of that
meeting. The special meeting will be held on , 2010, at
8:00 a.m. local time at the Company’s offices located at 12264 El Camino
Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California 92130.
Matters
to be Considered
At the
special meeting, we will ask holders of our common stock (a) to consider and
vote on a proposal to adopt and approve the stock purchase agreement and
authorize the transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale by NextWave
Broadband of all of the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by it to
DOCOMO, (b) to consider and vote on any proposal to adjourn, postpone or
continue the special meeting to a later date to enable the Company to solicit
additional proxies in favor of the proposal to adopt and approve the stock
purchase agreement and authorize the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO
contemplated thereby and (c) to act upon any other business that may properly
come before the special meeting or any adjournments, postponements or
continuations thereof. Our Board of Directors does not know of any
matters to be brought before the meeting other than as set forth in the notice
of meeting. If any other matters properly come before the meeting,
the persons named in the enclosed form of proxy card or their substitutes will
vote in accordance with their best judgment on such matters.
Recommendation
of NextWave’s Board of Directors
In
connection with the exercise by DOCOMO of its call option to purchase all of the
shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband, and after
careful consideration, our Board of Directors determined that the stock purchase
agreement, the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and the other
transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement are advisable and are
fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and our stockholders and
unanimously adopted and approved the stock purchase agreement and authorized the
execution and delivery of the stock purchase agreement and the consummation of
the sale and the other transactions contemplated thereby. Therefore, our Board
of Directors recommends that you vote “FOR” the adoption and approval
of the stock purchase agreement and authorize the transactions contemplated
thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO.
Our Board
of Directors has fixed the close of business
on ,
2010, as the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to
receive notice of, and to vote at, the special meeting. The only outstanding
class of our stock is our common stock, par value $0.007 per share.
A quorum
must be present to transact business at the special meeting. A quorum will be
present at the special meeting if a majority of all shares of our common stock
issued and outstanding on the record date and entitled to vote at the special
meeting are represented at the special meeting in person or by a properly
executed proxy. If you submit a properly executed proxy card, even if you
abstain from voting or vote against the adoption of the stock purchase
agreement, your shares will be counted for purposes of calculating whether a
quorum is present at the special meeting. As of the record date, shares of our common
stock were outstanding and entitled to vote.
If a
quorum is not present at the special meeting, it is expected that the meeting
will be adjourned or postponed to enable the Company solicit additional proxies.
If a new record date is set for the adjourned meeting, however, a new quorum
would have to be established at the adjourned meeting.
Adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and the sale of PacketVideo shares
contemplated thereby require the affirmative vote of holders of the majority of
shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the special
meeting.
Any
proposal to adjourn or postpone the special meeting to permit further
solicitation of proxies requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the
shares represented at the meeting in person or by proxy, entitled to vote on the
matter and actually voted in favor of adjournment or postponement.
Effect
of Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes
If you
are the beneficial owner of shares held for you by a broker, your broker must
vote those shares in accordance with your instructions. If you do not
give voting instructions to your broker, the shares will be treated as “broker
non-votes.”
For
purposes of the special meeting, abstentions and broker non-votes will be
included in the number of shares present for purposes of constituting a quorum,
assuming such broker has submitted a proxy or attends the annual
meeting. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have the same effect
as votes “AGAINST” the
proposal for the adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and
authorization of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated
thereby. Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the
outcome of any proposal to adjourn or postpone the special
meeting.
Voting Procedure
There are
a number ways to vote our common stock at the special meeting:
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You
can vote by telephone, using the toll-free telephone number shown on your
proxy card; via the Internet, by visiting the Internet website indicated
on your proxy card and following the on-screen instructions; or by mail,
by completing, signing, dating and returning your proxy card in the
enclosed envelope. If you submit a proxy card, the “proxy” (i.e., one of
the individuals named on the proxy card) will vote the holder’s shares as
the holder instructs on the proxy card. If a holder signs and returns the
proxy card but does not give instructions on how to vote the shares, the
shares will be voted as recommended by our Board of Directors, “FOR” the proposal for
the adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and
authorization of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated
thereby, and in the discretion of the proxy on any other matter properly
brought before the special meeting;
or
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You
can attend the special meeting and vote in person. We will give each
stockholder a ballot when he or she arrives at the special
meeting. Stockholders who are beneficial owners of shares held
in “street name” by a broker, trustee or bank or other nominee holder on
behalf of such stockholder may vote in person at the meeting by obtaining
a proxy from the nominee holding the
shares.
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If you
vote by proxy, voting instructions (including instructions for both telephonic
and Internet proxies) are provided on the proxy card. The Internet and telephone
proxy procedures are designed to authenticate stockholder identities, to allow
stockholders to give voting instructions and to confirm that stockholders’
instructions have been recorded properly. A control number, located on the proxy
card, will identify stockholders and allow them to submit their proxies and
confirm that their voting instructions have been properly recorded. Costs
associated with electronic access, such as usage charges from Internet access
providers and telephone companies, must be borne by the stockholder. If you
submit your proxy by Internet or telephone, it will not be necessary to return
your proxy card.
If you do
not return a signed proxy card or submit a proxy by the Internet or by
telephone, and do not attend the meeting and vote in person, your shares will
not be voted. Shares of our common stock represented by properly executed proxy
cards that are received by us and are not revoked will be voted at the meeting
in accordance with the instructions contained therein. If
instructions are not given, such proxies will be voted “FOR” the proposal
for the adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization
of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated
thereby. In addition, we reserve the right to exercise discretionary
authority to vote proxies, in the manner determined by the Company in its sole
discretion, on any matters brought before the special meeting of stockholders
for which we did not receive adequate notice under the proxy rules promulgated
by the SEC.
If your
shares are held in the name of a bank, broker, fiduciary or custodian, follow
the voting instructions on the form you receive from such record holder. The
availability of Internet and telephone proxies will depend on their voting
procedures.
Revocation
of Proxy
You may
revoke your proxy prior to its exercise. You may do this by (a)
delivering to our Secretary, at our address set forth herein, a written notice
stating that you would like to revoke your proxy (the written notice must bear a
date later than the proxy card and be received before the taking of the vote at
the special meeting); (b) completing, executing and delivering a new,
later-dated proxy card (either in writing, by telephone or via the Internet) for
the same shares, provided the new proxy card is received before the taking of
the vote at the special meeting; or (c) attending the special meeting and voting
in person. Your attendance at the meeting alone will not revoke your
proxy.
We will
pay the expenses of soliciting proxies for the special meeting, including
preparation, assembly, printing and mailing of this proxy statement, the proxy
card and any additional information furnished to stockholders. Copies of our
proxy statement and related materials will be furnished to banks, brokerage
houses, fiduciaries and custodians holding shares of common stock beneficially
owned by others to forward to such beneficial owners. Although there
is no formal agreement to do so, we may reimburse banks, brokerage houses and
other custodians, nominees and fiduciaries for their reasonable expenses in
forwarding this proxy statement to stockholders whose common stock is held of
record by such entities. In addition, we have retained Broadridge
Financial Services, a proxy solicitation firm, to solicit proxies in connection
with the special meeting at a cost of $25,000 plus expenses. Solicitation of
proxies by mail may be supplemented by means of personal calls upon, or
telephonic or electronic communications with, stockholders or their personal
representatives by our directors, officers and employees, who will not be
specially compensated for such services.
The SEC
has adopted rules that permit companies and intermediaries (e.g., brokers) to
satisfy the delivery requirements for proxy statements with respect to two or
more stockholders sharing the same address by delivering a single proxy
statement addressed to those stockholders. This process, which is commonly
referred to as “householding,” potentially means extra convenience for
stockholders and cost savings for companies. To take advantage of this
opportunity, we have delivered only one proxy statement to multiple stockholders
who share an address, unless we have received contrary instructions from the
impacted stockholders prior to the mailing date. We agree to deliver promptly,
upon written or oral request, a separate copy of the proxy statement and annual
report to any stockholder at the shared address to which a single copy of those
documents was delivered. If you prefer to receive separate copies of the proxy
statement and annual report, contact Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. at
800-542-1061 or in writing at Broadridge, Householding Department, 51 Mercedes
Way, Edgewood, New York 11717.
If you
are currently a stockholder sharing an address with another stockholder and wish
to receive only one copy of future stockholder communications for your
household, please contact Broadridge at the above phone number or
address.
THE
PARTIES TO THE STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
NextWave Wireless
Inc. We are a holding company for mobile multimedia businesses and a
significant wireless spectrum portfolio. Our mobile multimedia business segment
consists of PacketVideo, our majority-owned subsidiary. As a result
of the sale of our remaining interest in PacketVideo, our continuing operations
would be focused solely on the management, operation, marketing and selling of
our wireless spectrum interests. We will continue to manage and
operate and pursue the sale of our wireless spectrum holdings over time to repay
our significant secured indebtedness.
The
Company is a Delaware corporation. Our principal executive office is
located at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California, 92130, and
our telephone number is 858-731-5300.
PacketVideo
Corporation. Founded in 1998, PacketVideo develops, produces
and markets advanced mobile multimedia and consumer electronic connectivity
product solutions, including embedded software for mobile handsets,
client-server platforms for mobile media applications such as music, photos,
video and software for sharing media in the connected
home. PacketVideo supplies multimedia software and services to many
of the world’s largest network operators and wireless handset manufacturers
which, in turn, use PacketVideo’s platform to offer music and video services on
mobile handsets, generally under their own brands. To date, over 350 million
PacketVideo-powered handsets have been shipped worldwide. PacketVideo has been
contracted by some of the world’s largest carriers, such as Orange, DOCOMO,
Rogers Wireless, TeliaSonera, TELUS Mobility and Verizon Wireless, to design and
implement the embedded multimedia software capabilities contained in their
handsets. PacketVideo’s software is compatible with virtually all network
technologies, including CDMA, GSM, WiMAX, LTE and WCDMA. As a result
of the sale, PacketVideo would become a wholly-owned subsidiary of
DOCOMO.
PacketVideo
is a Delaware corporation. DOCOMO owns 35% of PacketVideo’s issued
and outstanding common stock, and the remainder of the outstanding shares are
currently owned by NextWave Broadband. PacketVideo’s principal
executive office is located at 10350 Science Center Drive, Suite 210, San Diego,
California, 92121, and its telephone number is 858-731-5300.
NextWave
Broadband Inc. NextWave Broadband is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
NextWave and a holding company for our equity interest in PacketVideo and our
wireless spectrum interests. NextWave Broadband is a Delaware
corporation. Its principal executive office is located
at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California, 92130, and
its telephone number is 858-731-5300.
NTT DOCOMO,
INC. DOCOMO’s parent company is NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
CORPORATION, or “NTT.” NTT, together with its subsidiaries, including DOCOMO,
constitutes one of the world’s leading telecom operators and providers of
advanced telecom services.
DOCOMO is
a joint stock corporation incorporated and registered under Japanese
Law. Its corporate head office is at Sanno Park
Tower, 11-1, Nagata-cho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-6150, Japan. Its telephone number
is 81-3-5156-1111.
THE
SALE
The discussion in this proxy statement
of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and the principal terms of the
stock purchase agreement is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by
reference to, the stock purchase agreement, a copy of which is attached to this
proxy statement as Annex A. You should read the entire stock purchase agreement
carefully.
Background
of the Sale
In
mid-2007 and in early 2008, we held preliminary discussions with DOCOMO
regarding a potential investment in PacketVideo. Preliminary
discussions did not result in agreement on the proposed terms of the investment
and further discussions were discontinued.
In the
second half of 2008, we announced the commencement of our global restructuring
initiative and initiated significant financing and restructuring
activities. In connection with such restructuring activities, we
terminated 620 employees, vacated seven leased facilities and filed insolvency
for our WiMAX Telecom business in Austria and Croatia, sold a controlling
interest in our IPWireless subsidiary and shut down our semiconductor and
network infrastructure business. In August 2008, we reported that our current
cash position would be sufficient only to meet our working capital requirements
into September 2008 and that we were seeking additional financing. We
further reported that if we did not obtain further financing in September 2008,
we would not be able to meet our financial obligations at the beginning of the
fourth quarter of 2008, would not be able to continue our operations in the
normal course of business, and may be forced to restructure our obligations. At
that time, although we believed that PacketVideo’s products were advantageous
and well positioned for success, we believed that PacketVideo’s business largely
depended upon volume-based sales of devices into the market. The economic
downturn in the global markets also had affected consumer spending habits as
well as PacketVideo’s customers and distribution partners, telecommunications
companies and consumer electronics device manufacturers. We were also concerned
about competitive pressures that could adversely impact PacketVideo’s business
and were aware of the need to fund the further development and growth of
PacketVideo’s business in light of these market and competitive dynamics. The
need to fund PacketVideo’s business and growth and our operating and financial
issues led us to contemplate pursuing the potential sale of PacketVideo or a
potential outside investment in PacketVideo.
In late
2008 and early 2009, as part of our global restructuring initiatives, we engaged
a financial advisor to assist in our restructuring and to evaluate strategic
alternatives for PacketVideo, including pursuing a potential investment or sale.
In September and November 2008, we received indications of interest for the
acquisition of PacketVideo from various private equity firms and strategic
buyers, including DOCOMO. We engaged in preliminary discussions with
various parties, including DOCOMO, which did not result in terms acceptable to
the Board of Directors.
In early
2009, we continued discussions with DOCOMO regarding a potential equity
investment in PacketVideo. As part of those discussions, DOCOMO
required a comprehensive stockholders’ agreement that would include rights of
first refusal, preemptive rights and a call option right that would be
exercisable under certain conditions, including upon the taking of certain
actions by our creditors and upon the satisfaction of an agreed upon PacketVideo
technology milestone. We negotiated further to ensure that there
would be an appropriate mechanism for appraisal and valuation of the PacketVideo
shares in connection with the call option. In April 2009, we and
DOCOMO entered into a non-binding term sheet that contemplated that DOCOMO would
acquire a 35% equity interest in PacketVideo at an implied valuation of $130
million.
In July
2009, DOCOMO purchased a 35% noncontrolling interest in our PacketVideo
subsidiary. In connection with the approval of the sale of the 35% interest in
PacketVideo to DOCOMO, our Board of Directors considered a number of factors in
evaluating the sale, in consultation with our legal and financial advisors,
including the desire to retire a portion of our outstanding indebtedness, our
challenging financial condition, working capital needs and substantial amount of
senior secured indebtedness, the process to evaluate strategic alternatives for
the potential sale of PacketVideo, the valuations reflected in the indications
of interest received by us, the business and prospects of PacketVideo, the cash
needed to further develop and grow PacketVideo’s business, the terms and
conditions of the proposed stockholders’ agreement, including the call option
procedures and appraisal provisions, and a written fairness opinion from the
financial advisor we previously engaged to assist us in connection with the July
2009 transaction to the effect that, as of June 24, 2009, and based upon and
subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in the opinion, the
consideration received by us and NextWave Broadband for the sale of the 35%
interest in PacketVideo was fair to us and NextWave Broadband from a financial
point of view. Pursuant to the stockholders’
agreement
we entered into with DOCOMO, NextWave Broadband, and PacketVideo in connection
with the July 2009 sale of the 35% interest in PacketVideo to DOCOMO, DOCOMO was
granted certain rights in the event of future transfers of PacketVideo stock or
assets, preemptive rights in the event of certain issuances of PacketVideo
stock, and a call option exercisable under certain conditions, including upon
the satisfaction of an agreed upon PacketVideo technology milestone, to purchase
the remaining shares of PacketVideo at an appraised value to be determined and
agreed upon in accordance with the terms and conditions of the stockholders’
agreement.
In late
November 2009, PacketVideo achieved the technology milestone that
enabled DOCOMO to exercise its call option under the stockholders’
agreement.
On
December 1, 2009, our Board of Directors received an update on DOCOMO’s
potential exercise of the call option, including the proposed timeline and
process relating to the exercise, valuation determinations and retention of an
investment bank to advise our Board of Directors.
On
December 2, 2009, PacketVideo sent notice of the completion of the technology
milestone to DOCOMO.
On
December 9, 2009, our Board of Directors received an update on the call option
process and authorized a negotiation committee composed of Carl Vogel, Robert
Symington and Frank Cassou to seek to mutually agree with DOCOMO on a price for
the remaining shares of PacketVideo common stock owned by NextWave
Broadband.
On
December 22, 2009, DOCOMO notified us and NextWave Broadband of its intent to
exercise the call option and thereby purchase all of the remaining shares of
common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband. We and
DOCOMO agreed to pursue negotiations between our negotiation committee and
DOCOMO to determine the price for the remaining shares of PacketVideo stock
owned by NextWave Broadband.
On
December 28, 2009, we retained Moelis & Company, or “Moelis,” as our
financial advisor and to render a fairness opinion in connection with
the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO pursuant to the call
option. Moelis is an internationally recognized investment banking
firm providing a full range of financial advisory and other services. Moelis was
selected to act as our financial advisor because of its qualifications,
experience and reputation in investment banking and mergers and acquisitions, as
well as its familiarity with our business. On January 10, 2010, Moelis provided
to the negotiating committee a preliminary analysis and certain background
valuation materials.
In
January through March 2010, our negotiation committee engaged in valuation
discussions with DOCOMO. As the parties did not reach agreement on
valuation based on these discussions, in April 2010, we and DOCOMO mutually
selected and jointly engaged Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Financial Advisors, Inc., or “Houlihan Lokey,” to act as the third party
valuation firm contemplated by the stockholders’ agreement to provide us and
DOCOMO with its view, based on methodologies agreed upon between us and DOCOMO,
as to the estimated fair market value of the remaining shares of common stock of
PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband.
On May
19, 2010, we and DOCOMO were informed by Houlihan Lokey of its view to the
effect that, as of April 30, 2010 (the valuation date agreed upon by us and
DOCOMO) and based on methodologies agreed upon by us and DOCOMO, the estimated
fair market value of the remaining shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned
by NextWave Broadband was approximately $111.6 million.
On May
27, 2010, we and DOCOMO agreed to extend the dates provided under the
stockholder’ agreement (i) by which we could object to the estimated fair market
value provided to us and DOCOMO by Houlihan Lokey for the remaining shares of
common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband, (ii) by which DOCOMO
would have to confirm its intent to exercise its call option, and (iii) the date
by which the stock purchase agreement would have to be signed.
On June
4, 2010, our Board of Directors considered, with Moelis’s assistance, the
process and procedures for determining the fair market value of the remaining
common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband, including the estimated
fair market value provided by Houlihan Lokey. The Board of Directors
decided to accept the estimated fair market value of $111.6 million derived for
such remaining shares. At that same meeting, our Board of Directors
discussed with our senior management and our advisors the sale process to
DOCOMO, DOCOMO’s rights under the 2009 stockholders’ agreement and our limited
ability, in light of DOCOMO’s rights under the stockholders
agreement, to sell the remaining shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by
NextWave Broadband to other potential buyers.
On June
28, 2010, DOCOMO confirmed in writing to the Company and NextWave Broadband that
DOCOMO
still
intended to exercise the call option and acquire all of the shares of common
stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the stockholders’ agreement. During July
2010, the parties negotiated the terms of the stock purchase agreement relating
to the sale to DOCOMO.
On July
19, 2010, our Board of Directors was presented with a summary of, and carefully
considered, a draft of the stock purchase agreement. Our Board of
Directors discussed in detail the terms and conditions of the proposed
transaction and the process leading up to the proposed transaction.
On July
28, 2010, our Board of Directors was presented with, and carefully considered, a
revised draft of the stock purchase agreement. At the same meeting,
Moelis delivered its oral opinion to our Board of Directors, which opinion was
subsequently confirmed in writing, that, as of July 28, 2010, and based upon and
subject to the conditions and limitations set forth in the written opinion, the
consideration to be paid to us and NextWave Broadband in the sale was fair, from
a financial point of view, to NextWave Broadband and us. Our Board of
Directors further discussed in detail the terms and conditions of the stock
purchase agreement and the process leading up to the proposed
transaction. In the course of its deliberations, our Board of
Directors carefully considered a number of factors that are described under
“Reasons for the Sale” below. After due consideration, our Board of
Directors unanimously determined that the stock purchase agreement, the sale of
the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby and the other transactions
contemplated by the stock purchase agreement are fair to, and in the best
interests of, the Company and our stockholders, and unanimously adopted and
approved and declared advisable the stock purchase agreement and authorized the
transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement.
On July
30, 2010, the parties executed and delivered the stock purchase agreement in the
form attached hereto as Annex A. In connection with the execution of
the stock purchase agreement, James C. Brailean, Ph.D. tendered his resignation
as a member of our Board of Directors and as our Chief Executive Officer, Chief
Operating Officer and President, effective immediately. Dr. Brailean
continues to serve as the President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member
of the Board of Directors of PacketVideo. Our Board of Directors
called a special meeting of the stockholders of the Company to consider the
proposed sale of the remaining shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by
NextWave Broadband pursuant to the stock purchase agreement.
Reasons
for the Sale
The
following describes material reasons, factors and information taken into account
by our Board of Directors in deciding to adopt and approve the stock purchase
agreement, authorize the transactions contemplated by the stock purchase
agreement, and recommend that our stockholders adopt and approve the stock
purchase agreement and authorize the transactions contemplated thereby,
including the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO.
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The
financial performance of and prospects for PacketVideo’s multimedia
business;
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The
resources required to fund the further development and growth of
PacketVideo’s business in order to preserve or increase its
value;
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The
current and future competitive environment for PacketVideo’s multimedia
business and related risks associated with its
business;
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Our
global restructuring initiative, which was commenced in
2008;
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The
amount of our current cash reserves and cash generated from operations and
our significant outstanding secured
indebtedness;
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The
amount of the consideration to be paid in connection with the sale of the
PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO which will be used to pay down a portion of
the First Lien Notes and provide us with working
capital;
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The
maturity dates of our outstanding indebtedness and the cash required to
satisfy the interest payments on such indebtedness prior to the respective
maturity dates;
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The
value of our wireless spectrum assets and cash required to continue to
manage and operate and pursue the sales and licensing of our wireless
spectrum assets;
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The
market for and recent market developments with respect to our spectrum
assets;
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The
challenging public market to raise necessary capital to further develop
our multimedia business;
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The
contractual obligations set forth in the stockholders’ agreement with
DOCOMO and DOCOMO’s right to exercise its option to acquire all of the
shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the stockholders’ agreement;
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Limitations
on our ability to sell the remaining shares of PacketVideo to a third
party set forth in the stockholders’
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Our Board
of Directors considered the reasons, factors and information described above in
reaching its recommendation and determination and believes such reasons, factors
and information are positive and support the proposed sale. In addition, our
Board of Directors believes that sufficient procedural safeguards were and are
present to ensure the fairness of the sale consideration and to permit our Board
of Directors to represent effectively the interests of our stockholders and our
executive officers and directors. These procedural safeguards include the
following:
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The
process and procedures to determine and agree upon the fair market value
of the PacketVideo shares owned by NextWave
Broadband;
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The
fact that neither PacketVideo nor the Company has received any third-party
bids or in-bound expressions of interest to acquire the remaining shares
of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband following the closing of the
July 2009 sale of the 35% interest in PacketVideo to
DOCOMO;
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The
fact that Moelis was retained as financial advisor to advise our Board of
Directors with respect to the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and
to render an opinion as to the fairness from a financial point of view to
NextWave Broadband and us of the consideration to be paid for the
PacketVideo shares; and
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The
fact that our Board of Directors consulted with its legal and financial
advisors regarding the negotiation of the terms of the stock purchase
agreement, including the amount of the sale
consideration.
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In the
course of its deliberations, our Board of Directors also considered a variety of
risks and other potentially negative factors, including the
following:
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The
risks and contingencies related to the announcement and pendency of the
sale of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO, including the impact of the sale
on our customers and our relationships with other third
parties;
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The
loss of future revenue as a result of the sale of our multimedia
business;
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The
effect the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO will have on the value
of our stock and our ability to remain a publicly traded
corporation;
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The
possibility that the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO might not be
consummated and we will have expended extensive resources and time during
the pendency of the transaction;
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The
fact that, after the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO, our
business will consist solely of our wireless spectrum
interests.
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Our Board
of Directors carefully considered these factors as a whole in reaching its
determination and recommendation. Our Board of Directors concluded
that, overall, the risks, uncertainties, restrictions and potentially negative
factors associated with the sale of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO were
outweighed by the potential benefits of the sale. In addition, our Board of
Directors considered the interests that certain of our directors and executive
officers may have with respect to the sale, in addition to their interests as
stockholders of the Company generally.
The
foregoing discussion of factors considered by our Board of Directors is not
meant to be exhaustive but includes the material factors considered by our Board
of Directors (i) in declaring that the stock purchase
agreement,
the sale
of the PacketVideo shares owned by NextWave Broadband to DOCOMO contemplated
thereby and the other transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement
are advisable and fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and its
stockholders, (ii) in adopting and approving the stock purchase agreement
and authorizing the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated
thereby and the other transactions contemplated by the stock purchase agreement,
and (iii) in recommending that our stockholders adopt and approve the stock
purchase agreement and authorize the transactions contemplated thereby,
including the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO. In view of
the wide variety of factors considered by our Board of Directors in connection
with the evaluation of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and the
complexity of these matters, our Board of Directors did not find it practicable
to, and did not, quantify or otherwise assign relative weights to the specific
factors considered in reaching its determination and
recommendation. Rather, the directors made their determinations and
recommendations based on the totality of the information presented to them, and
the judgments of individual members of our Board of Directors may have been
influenced to a greater or lesser degree by different factors.
Recommendation
of our Board of Directors
In
connection with the exercise by DOCOMO of its call option to purchase the
remaining shares of PacketVideo stock held by NextWave Broadband, and after
careful consideration, including consultation with our legal and financial
advisors, our Board of Directors determined that the stock purchase agreement,
the sale of the PacketVideo shares owned by NextWave Broadband to
DOCOMO and the other transactions contemplated by the stock purchase
agreement are fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and our
stockholders and unanimously adopted and approved the stock purchase agreement
and authorized the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby
and the other transactions contemplated by the stock purchase
agreement. Accordingly, our Board of Directors unanimously recommends
that you vote “FOR” the
adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization
of the transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale by
NextWave Broadband of all of the shares of common stock of PacketVideo owned by
it to DOCOMO.
Opinion of the Company’s Financial
Advisor
At the
meeting of our Board of Directors on July 28, 2010, Moelis delivered its oral
opinion, which was later confirmed in writing, that based upon and subject to
the conditions and limitations set forth in its written opinion, as of July 28,
2010, the consideration to be received by NextWave Broadband in the sale is
fair, from a financial point of view, to NextWave Broadband and the
Company.
The
full text of Moelis’ written opinion dated July 28, 2010, which sets forth the
assumptions made, procedures followed, matters considered and limitations on the
review undertaken in connection with the opinion, is attached as Annex B to this
proxy statement and is incorporated herein by reference. Stockholders
are urged to read Moelis’ written opinion carefully and in its
entirety. The following summary describes the material analyses
underlying Moelis’ opinion, but does not purport to be a complete description of
the analyses performed by Moelis in connection with its
opinion. Moelis’ opinion is limited solely to the fairness of the
sale consideration from a financial point of view as of the date of the opinion
and does not address the underlying business decision of the Company, NextWave
Broadband or PacketVideo to effect the sale or the relative merits of the sale
as compared to any alternative business strategies or transactions that might be
available to the Company, NextWave Broadband or PacketVideo. Moelis’
opinion does not constitute a recommendation to any stockholder of PacketVideo
(including NextWave Broadband), NextWave Broadband (including us) or the Company
as to how such stockholder should vote with respect to the sale or whether
NextWave Broadband should sell shares in the sale or any other
matter. Moelis’ opinion was approved by a Moelis fairness opinion
committee.
In
arriving at its opinion, Moelis, among other things:
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reviewed
certain publicly available business and financial information relating to
PacketVideo that Moelis deemed
relevant;
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reviewed
certain internal information relating to the business, including financial
forecasts, earnings, cash flow, assets, liabilities and prospects of
PacketVideo furnished to Moelis by PacketVideo and the
Company;
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reviewed
the stock purchase agreement, dated as of July 2, 2009, or the “2009 stock
purchase agreement,” and the stockholders’ agreement, dated as of July 2,
2009, or the “stockholders’ agreement,” each by and among the Company,
NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo and
DOCOMO;
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reviewed
the valuation materials related to the determination of the consideration
to be received by NextWave Broadband in the sale pursuant to the
stockholders’ agreement provided to Moelis by the
Company;
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conducted
discussions with members of senior management and representatives of
PacketVideo and the Company concerning the matters described in the
foregoing, as well as the business and prospects of PacketVideo
generally;
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compared
certain financial information for PacketVideo furnished to Moelis by
PacketVideo and the Company to publicly available financial and stock
market data, including valuation multiples, for certain other companies in
lines of business that Moelis deemed
relevant;
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compared
the proposed financial terms of the sale with the financial terms of
certain other transactions that Moelis deemed
relevant;
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reviewed
a draft of the stock purchase agreement, dated July 27,
2010;
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participated
in certain discussions and negotiations among representatives of the
Company, NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo and DOCOMO and their financial
and legal advisors; and
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conducted
such other financial studies and analyses and took into account such other
information as Moelis deemed
appropriate.
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In
connection with its review, Moelis did not assume any responsibility for
independent verification of any of the information supplied to, discussed with,
or reviewed by Moelis for the purpose of its opinion and has, with our consent,
relied on such information being complete and accurate in all material
respects. In addition, at the direction of our Board of Directors,
Moelis did not make any independent evaluation or appraisal of any of the assets
or liabilities (contingent, derivative, off-balance-sheet, or otherwise) of
PacketVideo, nor has Moelis evaluated the solvency of the Company, NextWave
Broadband, PacketVideo or DOCOMO under any state or federal laws relating to
bankruptcy. With respect to the forecasted financial information
referred to above, Moelis assumed, with our consent, that such financial
information was reasonably prepared on a basis reflecting the best currently
available estimates and judgments of the management of PacketVideo, NextWave
Broadband and the Company as to the future performance of PacketVideo including
the technology, products and services of PacketVideo and the validity of, and
risks associated with, the technology, products and services of
PacketVideo. Moelis expressed no view as to such forecasts or the
assumptions on which they were based. Moelis is not a legal,
regulatory or tax expert and has relied on the assessments made by advisors to
the Company, NextWave Broadband and PacketVideo with respect to such issues.
Moelis further assumed, with our consent, that all material governmental,
regulatory or other consents and approvals necessary for the consummation of the
sale will be obtained without any adverse effect on the Company, NextWave
Broadband or PacketVideo.
Moelis’
opinion is necessarily based on economic, monetary, market and other conditions
as in effect on, and the information made available to Moelis as of, the date of
its opinion. It should be understood that subsequent developments may
affect the opinion and that Moelis does not have any obligation to update,
revise or reaffirm its opinion.
The
following is a summary of the material financial analyses utilized by Moelis in
connection with providing its opinion. The summary set forth below
does not purport to be a complete description of the analyses performed and
factors considered by Moelis in arriving at its opinion. The preparation of a
fairness opinion is a complex analytical process involving various
determinations and subjective judgments and is not necessarily susceptible to
partial analysis or summary description. Some of the summaries of the financial
analyses below include information presented in tabular format. In order to
fully understand Moelis’ analyses, the tables must be read together with the
text of each summary. The tables alone do not constitute a complete description
of the analyses. Considering the
data
described below without considering the full narrative description of the
financial analyses, including the methodologies and assumptions underlying the
analyses, could create a misleading or incomplete view of Moelis’ analyses.
Selecting portions of the analyses or summary set forth below, without
considering the analyses as a whole, could create an incomplete view of the
processes underlying Moelis’ opinion. With respect to the comparable public
companies analysis and the precedent transactions analysis summarized below, no
company, business or transaction used in such analyses as a comparison is either
identical or directly comparable to PacketVideo or the sale, nor is an
evaluation of such analyses entirely mathematical. These analyses necessarily
involve complex considerations and judgments concerning financial and operating
characteristics and other factors. In arriving at its fairness determination,
Moelis considered the results of all of its analyses and did not attribute any
particular weight to any factor or analysis. Rather, Moelis made its
fairness determination on the basis of its experience and professional judgment
after considering the results of all of its analyses.
In
addition, such analyses do not purport to be appraisals, nor do they necessarily
reflect the prices at which businesses or securities actually may be sold.
Analyses based upon forecasts of future results are not necessarily indicative
of actual future results, which may be significantly more or less favorable than
suggested by such analyses. Because the analyses described above are inherently
subject to uncertainty, being based upon numerous factors or events beyond the
control of the parties or their respective advisors, neither the Company, nor
Moelis or any other person assumes responsibility if future results are
materially different from those forecast.
Public Trading
Multiples. Using publicly available information, Moelis
compared selected financial data of PacketVideo with similar data for six
publicly traded companies engaged in businesses that Moelis judged to be
generally comparable to PacketVideo:
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Micro Software, Inc.;
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Moelis
evaluated PacketVideo relative to the comparable companies based on financial
metrics including revenue, revenue growth and EBITDA margin. In all
instances, multiples were based on closing stock prices on July 23, 2010. For
each of the following analyses performed by Moelis, estimated financial data for
the selected companies other than PacketVideo were based on publicly available
Wall Street research analysts’ estimates and estimated financial data for
PacketVideo was based on the financial information and forecasts prepared by
management of PacketVideo and provided to Moelis by the Company.
In
conducting its analysis, Moelis reviewed publicly available estimates of
financial performance, including revenue, revenue growth and EBITDA margin,
through each company’s most recently reported twelve-month period, which is
referred to as “LTM” (for “Last Twelve Months”), as well as for the calendar
years ending December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2011. Moelis reviewed the
selected companies’ trading multiples based on enterprise value (calculated as
diluted market value, plus total debt, plus minority interest, plus capital
leases, plus preferred stock, less cash and cash equivalents) to estimated
revenues for projected calendar years 2010 and 2011. Moelis applied a
reference range of selected multiples of estimated revenue for the LTM period
and the fiscal years ending December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2011 derived from
its analysis of the selected companies to PacketVideo’s corresponding financial
data. Specifically, the reference range was 2.0x to 2.8x for the LTM estimated
revenues, 1.9x to 2.4x for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 estimated
revenues, and 1.6x to 2.1x for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011 estimated
revenues yielding a range of enterprise values of $122.4 million to $174.3
million for all of PacketVideo.
Selected Transaction
Analysis. Using publicly available information, Moelis
compared selected financial data of the sale with similar data for selected
transactions deemed by Moelis to be generally comparable to the sale.
Specifically, Moelis reviewed the following transactions:
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Date
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Target
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Acquiror
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06/02/10
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DivX
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Sonic
Solutions
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01/06/10
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On2
Technologies
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Google
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01/05/10
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Quattro
Wireless
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Apple
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12/04/09
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La
La Media
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Apple
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11/09/09
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AdMob
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Google
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10/24/09
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VeriSign
Messaging Business
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Syniverse
Technologies
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10/07/09
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Open
TV
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Kudelski
Group
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09/14/08
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Napster
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Best
Buy
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06/24/08
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Symbian
Limited
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Nokia
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02/11/08
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Danger
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Microsoft
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01/28/08
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Trolltech
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Nokia
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01/02/08
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Apertio
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Nokia
Siemens
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06/21/07
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Tegic
Communications
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Nuance
Communications
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05/15/07
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VoiceSignal
Technologies
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Nuance
Communications
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03/15/07
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TellMe
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Microsoft
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03/14/07
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MapInfo
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Pitney
Bowes
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02/22/07
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BeVocal
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Nuance
Communications
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11/10/06
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Good
Technology
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Motorola
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11/05/06
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Mobile
365
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Sybase
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10/23/06
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MetaSolv
Software
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Oracle
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04/17/06
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Qpass
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Amdocs
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04/12/06
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Portal
Software
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Oracle
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03/20/06
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m-Qube
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Verisign
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For each
of the selected transactions, Moelis calculated and, to the extent information
was publicly available, compared the target’s enterprise value divided by the
target’s estimated revenues for the LTM and for the forward twelve months as
estimated based on publicly available Wall Street research analysts’ estimates,
press releases or publicly available other research analysts’
estimates.
Moelis
applied a reference range of estimated revenue multiples for the LTM period and
the year ended December 31, 2010 derived from its analysis of the selected
transactions to PacketVideo’s corresponding financial data based on the
financial information and forecasts for PacketVideo provided to Moelis by
management of PacketVideo and the Company. Specifically, the reference range for
estimated revenues for the twelve months ended March 31, 2010 was 2.3x to 3.5x
yielding a range of enterprise values between $140.8 million and $214.2 million
for all of PacketVideo, and the reference range for estimated revenues for the
twelve months ended December 31, 2010 was 2.0x to 2.8x yielding a range of
enterprise values of $132.8 million to $186.0 million for all of
PacketVideo.
Discounted Cash Flow
Analysis. Moelis performed a discounted cash flow analysis using the
after-tax unlevered free cash flows that PacketVideo is expected to generate
during fiscal years 2010 through 2012 based upon the financial forecasts from
management of PacketVideo and the Company. After-tax unlevered free cash flows
and terminal values were discounted to present value as of July 23, 2010 using
discount rates ranging from 14% to 18%, which were derived taking into account
the estimated weighted average cost of capital, which we refer to as “WACC,” of
PacketVideo. The WACC was calculated as PacketVideo’s derived cost of equity
which was in turn calculated per the capital asset pricing model, using the
median of the unlevered betas observed for the universe of selected comparable
companies identified in the comparable public companies analysis, multiplied by
the equity risk premium per the 2010 Ibbotson Risk Premia Report plus
the risk free rate of return (using a 10-year U.S. Treasury interpolated yield
curve as of July 23, 2010), plus a small cap risk premium based on 2010 Ibbotson
Risk Premia Report. Moelis computed a terminal value based on the EBITDA exit
multiple method, and selected an EBITDA exit multiple range of 7.0x to 11.0x. In
calculating the terminal value, Moelis applied a 50% growth rate as provided by
management of PacketVideo to the EBITDA metric for the calendar year ending
December 31, 2012 and multiplied the estimated EBITDA metric by the selected
EBITDA exit multiple range of 7.0x to 11.0x . Using the projections, the
selected ranges of discount rates and the selected EBITDA exit multiples range,
Moelis calculated a range of enterprise values of $141.9 million to $228.7
million for all of PacketVideo.
These
value ranges compare to the sale consideration of $111.6 million for
approximately 65% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of
PacketVideo, which implies an enterprise value of approximately $173 million for
all of PacketVideo.
The sale
consideration was determined and agreed upon by the Company and
DOCOMO in accordance with the procedures set forth in the stockholders’
agreement and was approved by our Board of Directors and the Board of Directors
of NextWave Broadband. Moelis provided advice to the Company during these
negotiations. Moelis did not, however recommend any amount of consideration to
the Company or NextWave Broadband or their respective Boards of Directors, or
that any specific amount or type of consideration constituted the only
appropriate consideration for the sale.
Moelis’
opinion was prepared for the use and benefit of our Board of Directors in its
evaluation of the sale. Moelis was not asked to address, and its
opinion does not address, the fairness to, or any other consideration of, the
holders of any class of securities, creditors or other constituencies of the
Company, NextWave Broadband (other than the Company) or PacketVideo (other than
NextWave Broadband). The Company advised Moelis that the sale consideration to
be paid to NextWave Broadband will be transferred by NextWave Broadband to or as
directed by the Company. In addition, Moelis’ opinion does not
express any opinion as to the fairness of the amount or nature of any
compensation to be received by any of PacketVideo’s officers, directors or
employees, or any class of such persons, relative to the sale
consideration. Moelis expressed no opinion as to the prices at which
the common stock of the Company will trade at any time. At the
direction of our Board of Directors, Moelis was not asked to, nor did it, offer
any opinion as to the material terms of the stock purchase agreement or the form
of the sale. In rendering its opinion, Moelis assumed, with our
consent, that the final executed form of the stock purchase agreement would not
differ in any material respect from the draft that Moelis examined, and that
DOCOMO, PacketVideo, NextWave Broadband and the Company would comply with all
the material terms of the stock purchase agreement. Moelis was not authorized to
and did not solicit indications of interest in a possible transaction with
PacketVideo, or with respect to NextWave Broadband’s or the Company’s interest
in PacketVideo from any party.
Moelis
acted as financial advisor to the Company in connection with the sale and will
receive a fee for its services, a significant portion of which is contingent
upon the consummation of the sale. Moelis also received a fee upon
delivery of its opinion. In addition, the Company has agreed to
indemnify Moelis for certain liabilities arising out of its engagement. In the
past, Moelis provided investment banking and other services to the Company and
its affiliates, and Moelis is currently providing investment banking services to
the Company and its affiliates on other matters, and Moelis received, or may
receive, compensation for the rendering of such services.
We
anticipate that the management, operation, marketing and selling of our
portfolio of licensed wireless spectrum assets will, following the closing of
the sale, make up the entirety of our business, which we refer to as our
“Strategic Initiatives” business. Our total domestic spectrum
holdings consist of approximately ten billion MHz POPs (the term “MHz-POPs” is
defined as the product derived from multiplying the number of megahertz
associated with a license by the population of the license’s service area),
covering approximately 215.9 million total POPs, with 106.9 million POPs covered
by 20 MHz or more of spectrum, and an additional 90.6 million POPs covered by at
least 10 MHz of spectrum. In addition, a number of markets, including much of
the New York City metropolitan region, are covered by 30 MHz or more of
spectrum. Our domestic spectrum resides in the 2.3 GHz Wireless Communication
Services, 2.5 GHz Broadband Radio Service/Educational Broadband Service and
1.7/2.1 GHz Advanced Wireless Service or “AWS.” Our domestic spectrum resides in
the 2.3 GHz WCS, 2.5 GHz BRS/ EBS and 1.7/2.1 GHz AWS bands and offers
propagation and other characteristics suitable to support high-capacity, mobile
broadband services. Our international spectrum held for continuing
operations include 2.3 GHz licenses in Canada, covering 15 million
POPs. Following the sale, we will continue to manage and operate and
pursue the sale and license of our wireless spectrum holdings over time to repay
our significant secured indebtedness. In order to retire our debt, we will need
to successfully monetize a substantial portion of our wireless spectrum assets
for net proceeds substantially in excess of our cost basis. There is
no guarantee that we will be able to successfully monetize our wireless spectrum
assets or successfully retire our outstanding indebtedness.
Effects
on NextWave if the Sale Is Not Completed
If the
sale of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO is not completed, we will continue to
hold our multimedia business, and PacketVideo will continue to be a
majority-owned subsidiary of ours. We may pursue alternative
transactions regarding the sale of our equity interest in
PacketVideo. We will also continue to manage and operate our wireless
spectrum assets and pursue the sale and license our wireless spectrum holdings
over time to repay our significant secured indebtedness. We would
continue to seek to sell our wireless spectrum holdings over time to repay our
significant secured indebtedness.
The total
amount of funds required by DOCOMO to pay all the sale consideration and related
fees and expenses in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO
and the related transactions is estimated to be approximately
$111,600,000. DOCOMO expects to finance the sale with cash on hand.
Interests
of Certain Persons in the Sale
When
considering the recommendation of our Board of Directors with respect to the
adoption and approval of the stock purchase agreement and the authorization of
the transactions contemplated thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO, you should be aware that some of our directors and executive
officers have interests in the sale that may be different from, and in addition
to, the interests of our stockholders generally. Approximately $95 million
of the net proceeds from the sale will be used to pay down a portion of
principal and interest on our First Lien Notes, with priority given to holders
other than those affiliated with Avenue Capital Group and Solus Core
Opportunities Master Fund Ltd., or “Solus.” As of July 3, 2010, funds
managed by Avenue Capital Group held approximately $116.8 million in principal
amount of the First Lien Notes, representing approximately 55.5% of such
indebtedness. Robert Symington, a portfolio manager with Avenue Capital,
is a member of our Board of Directors. As a result of the transactions
contemplated by the stock purchase agreement, the Company anticipates that
affiliates of Avenue Capital Group will receive approximately $30.5 million in
redemption of their senior secured notes pursuant to the terms of our secured
note agreements. In addition, Navation, Inc., an affiliate of Allen
Salmasi, our Chairman and member of the Board of Directors, held approximately
$79.5 million in principal amount of our Third Lien Notes, representing
approximately 14.1% of such indebtedness as of July 3, 2010, and Douglas
Manchester, a member of our Board of Directors, held approximately $79.5 million
in principal amount of our Third Lien Notes, representing approximately 14.1% of
such indebtedness as of July 3, 2010. The holders of the Third Lien Notes
will not receive any proceeds as a result of the stock purchase agreement but
will receive an indirect benefit as a result of the reduction in our senior
secured debt that is senior to the Third Lien Notes. As of July 30, 2010,
our directors and executive officers as a group were the beneficial owners of
26.9% of our outstanding common stock, Navation, Inc. was the beneficial owner
of 13.5% of our outstanding common stock, and affiliates of Avenue Capital Group
were the beneficial owners of 34.8% of our outstanding common
stock.
In
connection with the signing of the stock purchase agreement, we have established
cash retention bonuses for certain officers and employees of PacketVideo in the
aggregate amount of $2 million. The cash retention bonuses are anticipated to be
paid in connection with the closing of the sale, subject to such persons’
continued employment with PacketVideo. Dr. James Brailean, who served
as our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President and a
member of our Board of Directors prior to June 30, 2010, the signing date of the
stock purchase agreement, would be eligible to receive a cash retention bonus of
$280,000 at the closing of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO.
In
addition, DOCOMO and PacketVideo have agreed that promptly after the closing of
the sale (but no later than six months after such closing), PacketVideo will
diligently prepare proposed forms of written agreements, amendments, plans,
policies and other documents as may be necessary to (i) implement 2010 merit
increases for PacketVideo’s senior executives, (ii) establish a cash bonus
program, (iii) amend PacketVideo’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, (iv) establish a
severance pay program for PacketVideo’s senior executives, (v) establish
long-term incentive and retention bonus programs, (vi) adopt policies pertaining
to DOCOMO’s rules and procedures for internal reporting and consultation, and
(vii) enter into a management agreement with DOCOMO, in each case as
contemplated by and containing the applicable terms and conditions set forth in
that certain term sheet dated July 30, 2010 and entitled “PacketVideo Proposed
Management and Employee Retention Plan,” as executed by DOCOMO
and
PacketVideo. The agreements, amendments, plans, policies and
documents to be prepared by PacketVideo will be subject to the review and
approval of DOCOMO.
The
members of our Board of Directors are aware of and considered the interests of
our directors and executive officers, among other matters, when they considered
and approved the stock purchase agreement, the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO contemplated thereby and the other transactions and determined to
recommend to our stockholders that they vote for the proposal to adopt and
approve the stock purchase agreement and authorize the sale contemplated
thereby. Dr. Brailean recused himself from such discussions and
the decision of our Board of Directors because of his interest in the sale and
submitted his resignations from the our Board of Directors and from his position
as our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President in
connection with the signing of the stock purchase agreement on July 30,
2010. Dr. Brailean continues to serve as the President and Chief
Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of PacketVideo
following his resignations. For a more information on these
interests, see “Transactions with Related Persons.”
Accounting
Treatment
The
disposition of the PacketVideo shares pursuant to the stock purchase agreement
will be accounted for by the Company in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles in the United States.
Certain
United States Federal Income Tax Consequences to the Company
The sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO likely will not result in any material
United States federal or California state corporate income tax liability
(including any alternative minimum tax liability) to the Company because we
anticipate using our net operating losses to offset any taxable gain from the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO.
No
United States Federal Income Tax Consequences to Our Stockholders
The sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO will not result in any United States federal
income tax liability to our stockholders.
Governmental
and Regulatory Matters
Completion
of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO is subject to the termination or
expiration of the waiting period under the HSR Act. The Company and
DOCOMO filed their respective notification and report forms pursuant to the HSR
Act with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, or
“DOJ,” or the United States Federal Trade Commission, or “FTC”, on August 3,
2010. Under the HSR Act, the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO may not be
consummated until 30 days after the latter of the initial filings (unless early
termination of this waiting period is granted) or, if the Antitrust Division of
the DOJ or the FTC issues a request for additional information, 30 days after
the Company and DOCOMO each have substantially complied with such request for
additional information (unless this period is shortened pursuant to a grant of
earlier termination).
As of the
date of this proxy statement, we and DOCOMO have not yet obtained any
governmental or regulatory clearances that may be required to complete the sale
of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO. There can be no assurance that the
governmental reviewing authorities will terminate or permit any applicable
waiting periods to expire, or approve or clear the sale of the PacketVideo stock
to DOCOMO at all or without restrictions or conditions. We and DOCOMO have
agreed to use reasonable best efforts to take such actions as are necessary or
advisable to obtain prompt approval of the transactions contemplated by the
stock purchase agreement.
THE
STOCK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
The
following description sets forth the material provisions of the stock purchase
agreement but does not purport to describe all of the terms of the stock
purchase agreement. The full text of the stock purchase agreement is attached to
this proxy statement as Annex A. You are urged to read the stock purchase
agreement in its entirety because it is the legal document that governs the sale
of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO. The stock purchase agreement should be read
in conjunction with the disclosures in our filings with the SEC available at the
SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. The provisions contained in the stock purchase
agreement are intended to govern the contractual rights and relationships, and
to allocate risks, between us, NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo and DOCOMO with
respect to the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO.
General
On July
30, 2010, the Company, NextWave Broadband and PacketVideo entered into a stock
purchase agreement with DOCOMO pursuant to which the Company and NextWave
Broadband agreed to sell to DOCOMO all of the issued and outstanding shares of
common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband, representing 65% of the
issued and outstanding common stock of PacketVideo, for an aggregate purchase
price of $111.6 million. We expect to receive approximately $107.5 million of
net proceeds from the sale, after deduction of estimated expenses for the
transaction, of which we expect to apply approximately $95 million to retire
principal and accrued interest of our First Lien Notes pursuant to our secured
note agreements, and we expect to retain approximately $12.5 million to fund our
working capital needs.
DOCOMO
acquired 35% of the issued and outstanding common stock of PacketVideo in July
2009. In connection with the July 2009 transaction, the Company, NextWave
Broadband, PacketVideo and DOCOMO entered into a Stockholders’ Agreement dated
July 2, 2009, pursuant to which DOCOMO was granted a call option exercisable
under certain conditions to purchase all (but not less than all) of the shares
of common stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband. In
November 2009, PacketVideo achieved the milestone which enabled DOCOMO to
exercise its call option under the stockholders’ agreement. In
December 2009, DOCOMO notified us and NextWave Broadband of its intent to
exercise the call option and thereby purchase all of the remaining shares of
common stock of PacketVideo held by NextWave Broadband. Between
January and June 2010, DOCOMO and the Company followed the process and
procedures set forth in the stockholders’ agreement to determine and agree upon
the fair market value of the PacketVideo shares owned by NextWave
Broadband. On June 28, 2010, after the completion and finalization of
the valuation of the PacketVideo shares held by NextWave Broadband, DOCOMO
confirmed in writing to the Company and NextWave Broadband that DOCOMO still
intended to exercise the call option and acquire all of the shares of common
stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the stockholders’ agreement. The current
transaction pursuant to the stock purchase agreement represents DOCOMO’s
exercise of the call option.
Under the
terms of the stock purchase agreement, the Company and NextWave Broadband have
agreed to sell to DOCOMO all of the issued and outstanding shares of common
stock of PacketVideo owned by NextWave Broadband, for an aggregate purchase
price of $111.6 million.
In
connection with the signing of the stock purchase agreement, we have established
cash retention bonuses for certain officers and employees of PacketVideo in the
aggregate amount of $2 million. The cash retention bonuses are anticipated to be
paid in connection with the closing of the sale, subject to such persons’
continued employment with PacketVideo. Dr. Brailean, who served as
our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President and a member
of our Board of Directors prior to July 30, 2010, the signing date of the stock
purchase agreement, would be eligible to receive a cash retention
bonus of $280,000 at the closing of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO. Dr. Brailean continues to serve as the President and Chief
Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of PacketVideo.
Closing
Closing
of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO under the stock purchase
agreement will occur within five business days following the satisfaction or
waiver of the conditions to the obligations of the parties to consummate the
transactions contemplated thereby, including the adoption and approval of the
stock purchase agreement and the authorization of the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO contemplated thereby by the holders of a majority of the issued
and outstanding shares of our common stock.
Representations
and Warranties
The stock
purchase agreement contains customary representations and warranties that the
Company, NextWave Broadband and PacketVideo, on the one hand, and DOCOMO, on the
other hand, made to, and solely for the benefit of, each other. Our
representations and warranties to DOCOMO relate to, among other
things:
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organization, good standing and qualification of PacketVideo, NextWave
Broadband and us;
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capital structure of PacketVideo;
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authority
to enter into the stock purchase
agreement;
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conflicts
or violations under charter documents, contracts and instruments or
law;
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due
authorization and issuance of PacketVideo common
stock;
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required
consents to consummate the sale of the PacketVideo stock to
DOCOMO;
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the
financial statements of
PacketVideo;
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the
use of brokers or other advisors in connection with the sale of the
PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO;
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absence
of certain changes or events;
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compliance
with applicable laws;
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compliance
with securities laws in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo stock
to DOCOMO;
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PacketVideo’s
subsidiaries;
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corporate
records of PacketVideo;
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tax
matters related to PacketVideo;
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PacketVideo’s
title to assets;
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intellectual
property related to PacketVideo;
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insurance
matters related to PacketVideo;
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material
contracts related to PacketVideo;
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labor
and employment matters related to
PacketVideo;
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related
party transactions;
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environmental,
health and safety matters related to
PacketVideo;
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PacketVideo’s
customers;
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information
supplied for inclusion in this proxy
statement;
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the
solvency of NextWave Broadband and us;
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the
absence of other representations and
warranties.
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DOCOMO’s
representations and warranties to us and NextWave Broadband relate to, among
other things:
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the
organization, good standing and qualification of
DOCOMO;
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authority
to enter into the stock purchase
agreement;
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conflict
with applicable laws;
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DOCOMO’s
investment intent, experience and “accredited investor”
status;
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compliance
with securities laws in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo stock
to DOCOMO;
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receipt
of information in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo stock to
DOCOMO; and
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receipt
of restricted securities and associated stock legend
requirements.
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The
representations and warranties expire eight months after the closing of the sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO. The assertions embodied in the
representations and warranties are qualified by information in confidential
disclosure schedules that we delivered to DOCOMO in connection with the
execution and delivery of the stock purchase agreement. Accordingly, you should
not rely on the representations and warranties as unqualified characterizations
of the actual state of facts or circumstances, since
they were made only as of the date of the stock purchase agreement and are
modified in important part by the underlying disclosure schedules. Moreover,
information concerning the subject matter of such representations and warranties
may change after the date of the stock purchase agreement, which subsequent
information may or may not be fully reflected in our public
disclosures.
Certain
representations and warranties in the stock purchase agreement provide
exceptions for items that are not reasonably likely to have be “material” or
have a “Material Adverse Effect.” For purposes of the stock purchase agreement,
a “Material Adverse Effect” means any condition, change, situation or set of
circumstances that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or would
reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (i) PacketVideo and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the business, assets, properties,
liabilities, financial condition, operations, or results of operations of
PacketVideo and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) the ability of
NextWave Broadband to consummate the transactions contemplated by the stock
purchase agreement or perform its material obligations under the stock purchase
agreement; excluding,
however, any condition, change, situation or set of circumstances or
effect that directly and primarily results from (A) changes adversely affecting
the United States or global economy as a whole (so long as PacketVideo and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, are not disproportionately affected thereby),
(B) changes adversely affecting the industry in which PacketVideo and its
subsidiaries operate (so long as PacketVideo and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, are not disproportionately affected thereby), (C) acts of
terrorism or war, (D) changes in applicable laws or in United States generally
accepted accounting principals, (E) public or industry knowledge of the sale of
the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO, or (F) the consummation of the sale of the
PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO or any action by any party required to be taken
pursuant to the stock purchase agreement or reasonably necessary to consummate
the sale.
Conduct of Our Business Prior to the
Sale
Until the
closing of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO, except as otherwise
provided in the stock purchase agreement or consented to in writing by DOCOMO,
PacketVideo has agreed to, and the Company and NextWave Broadband have agreed to
use reasonable best efforts to cause PacketVideo to, (x) conduct the business of
PacketVideo in the ordinary course of business; and (y) use reasonable best
efforts to maintain and preserve intact the current organization, business and
franchise of PacketVideo and to preserve the rights, franchises, goodwill and
relationships of its employees, customers, lenders, suppliers, regulators and
others having business relationships with PacketVideo, except for any failure to
so preserve or maintain such organization, business or franchise of PacketVideo
or otherwise preserve such rights and other matters that would not be reasonably
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect . Without limiting the
foregoing, until the closing of the sale of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO,
PacketVideo has agreed to, and the Company and NextWave Broadband have agreed to
use reasonable best efforts to cause PacketVideo to:
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preserve
and maintain all of PacketVideo’s material
permits;
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pay
PacketVideo’s debts, taxes and other material obligations when
due;
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maintain
the properties and assets owned, operated or used by PacketVideo in the
same condition as they were on the date of the stock purchase agreement,
subject to reasonable wear and
tear;
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continue
without material modification all fire and casualty insurance policies
that PacketVideo maintains on the date of the stock purchase agreement,
except as required by applicable
law;
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defend
and protect PacketVideo’s material properties and assets from infringement
or usurpation in substantially the same manner as PacketVideo has defended
and protected such properties and assets prior to the date of the stock
purchase agreement;
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perform
in all material respects all of PacketVideo’s obligations under all
material contracts relating to or affecting PacketVideo’s properties,
assets or business;
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maintain
PacketVideo’s books and records in accordance with past
practice;
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comply
in all material respects with all applicable laws;
and
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not
agree or commit to do any of the
foregoing.
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Access
to Information
Until the
closing of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO, PacketVideo and its
subsidiaries have agreed to, and the Company and NextWave Broadband have agreed
to use reasonable best efforts to cause PacketVideo and its subsidiaries to, (i)
afford DOCOMO and its representatives full and free access to and the right to
inspect all of the properties, assets, premises, books and records, contracts
and other documents and data related to PacketVideo and its subsidiaries; (ii)
furnish DOCOMO and its representatives with such financial, operating and other
data and information related to PacketVideo and its subsidiaries as DOCOMO or
any of its representatives may reasonably request; and (iii) instruct the
representatives of NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo and its subsidiaries to
cooperate with DOCOMO in DOCOMO’s investigation of PacketVideo and its
subsidiaries.
Notification
of Certain Matters
Until the
closing of the sale of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO, NextWave Broadband has
agreed to promptly notify DOCOMO in writing of:
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any
fact, circumstance, event or action the existence, occurrence or taking of
which (1) has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually
or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (2) has resulted in, or
could reasonably be expected to result in, any material inaccuracy in any
representation or warranty made by the Company, NextWave Broadband or
PacketVideo hereunder or (3) has resulted in, or could reasonably be
expected to result in, the failure of any of the conditions to DOCOMO’s
obligation to close to be
satisfied;
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any
notice or other communication from any governmental authority in
connection with the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO;
and
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any
proceeding commenced or, to the knowledge of the Company, NextWave
Broadband or PacketVideo, threatened against, relating to or involving or
otherwise affecting us, NextWave Broadband or PacketVideo that, if pending
on the date of the stock purchase agreement, would have been required to
have been disclosed pursuant to the representations and warranties we made
in the stock purchase agreement or that relates to the consummation of the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO.
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Governmental Approvals and
Consents
The
Company, NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo and DOCOMO each have agreed to use our
respective commercially reasonable efforts to take all appropriate actions
necessary or advisable to consummate the transaction, including obtaining
appropriate consents from governmental authorities and promptly making all
necessary filings required to be made under the HSR Act. In
addition, the Company and NextWave Broadband each have agreed to use reasonable
best efforts to give certain notices and obtain certain consents from third
parties.
Indemnification;
Survival of Indemnification Obligations
Under the
stock purchase agreement, the Company and NextWave Broadband have agreed to
indemnify and hold DOCOMO and its affiliates harmless from any loss arising out
of any inaccuracy or breach of any representations or warranties of the Company,
NextWave Broadband or PacketVideo or any breach of any covenant or agreement by
the Company, NextWave Broadband or PacketVideo. The Company and NextWave
Broadband are not obligated to indemnify DOCOMO for any losses until DOCOMO
suffers losses in excess of $200,000, at which point we are obligated to
indemnify DOCOMO only for such losses in excess of $200,000. In addition, the
Company’s and NextWave Broadband’s indemnification obligations are limited to
$8,000,000, unless such claim is based upon, arises out of or relates to any
matter constituting fraud, in which case there is no limit.
Under the
stock purchase agreement, DOCOMO has also agreed to indemnify and hold the
Company, NextWave Broadband and each of our respective affiliates harmless from
any loss arising out of any inaccuracy or breach of representations and
warranties of DOCOMO contained in the stock purchase agreement.
All
representations and warranties of the Company, NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo,
and DOCOMO in the stock purchase agreement survive for a period of eight months
following the closing of the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and,
except in the case of fraud, breaches of certain post-closing covenants and
agreements, the indemnitees and the conditions thereon in the stock purchase
agreement are the sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of the stock purchase
agreement.
Proxy
Statement; Stockholders Meeting
We agreed
to file this proxy statement with the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable
following the date of the stock purchase agreement, use commercially reasonable
efforts to resolve comments made by the SEC with respect to this proxy statement
as promptly as practicable and cause this proxy statement and form of proxy to
be mailed to our stockholders as promptly as reasonably practicable
after its clearance by the SEC. Under the stock purchase agreement, as soon as
practicable following the date of the stock purchase agreement we are required
to call and hold a meeting of our stockholders, for the purpose of obtaining the
stockholder approval for the stock purchase agreement and the transactions
contemplated thereby, including the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO, as
soon as practicable.
The
obligation of DOCOMO to complete the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO is
subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following additional
conditions:
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subject
to certain conditions and limitations set forth in the stock purchase
agreement, the representations and warranties of the Company, NextWave
Broadband and PacketVideo in the stock purchase agreement must be true and
correct in all material respects as of the closing
date;
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the
Company, NextWave Broadband and PacketVideo must perform in all material
respects all covenants, obligations and conditions in the stock purchase
agreement;
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DOCOMO’s
receipt of certain certificates executed by certain officers of NextWave
Broadband, PacketVideo and the
Company;
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the
receipt of all authorizations, approvals or permits, if any, of any
governmental authority or regulatory body of the United States or of any
state that are required in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO;
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termination
or expiration of the waiting period under the HSR
Act;
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the
receipt of certain third-party consents required in connection with the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO;
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the
absence of an injunction or other binding
order, decree or ruling issued by a court or government agency which shall have the
effect of preventing the consummation of the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO;
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receipt
of evidence reasonably satisfactory to DOCOMO that PacketVideo has repaid
all outstanding indebtedness, if any, to the Company or NextWave
Broadband;
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Francis
Harding shall have resigned from the Board of Directors of
PacketVideo;
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James
C. Brailean shall have resigned from each and every position he holds with
the Company, including as an
employee;
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receipt
of evidence reasonably satisfactory to DOCOMO that all liens on the assets
of PacketVideo securing obligations of us or our affiliates and the
delivery of certain certificates required under each purchase agreement,
as amended, under which any notes evidencing our indebtedness were
issued;
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delivery
to DOCOMO of an opinion from our legal
counsel;
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delivery
to DOCOMO of a duly executed certificate of non-foreign status meeting the
requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1445-2(b)(2);
and
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adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the sale
of the PacketVideo stock to DOCOMO by the holders of a majority of the
issued and outstanding shares of our common stock at the special
meeting;
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The
obligation of NextWave Broadband to complete the sale of the PacketVideo stock
to DOCOMO is also subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following
additional conditions:
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the
representations and warranties of DOCOMO in the stock purchase agreement
must be true and correct in all material respects as of the closing
date;
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DOCOMO
must perform in all material respects all covenants, obligations and
conditions in the stock purchase
agreement;
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the
absence of an injunction or other binding
order, decree or ruling issued by a court or government agency which shall have the
effect of preventing the consummation of the sale of the PacketVideo stock
to DOCOMO;
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the
receipt of all authorizations, approvals or permits, if any, of any
governmental authority or regulatory body of the United States or of any
state that are required in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO;
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termination
or expiration of the waiting period under the HSR
Act;
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adoption
and approval of the stock purchase agreement and authorization of the sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO by the holders of a majority of the
issued and outstanding shares of our common stock at the special
meeting;
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receipt
by the Company of payment for any indebtedness owed to the Company by
PacketVideo or any of its subsidiaries;
and
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the
July 2009 stockholders’ agreement, by and among the Company, NextWave
Broadband, PacketVideo and DOCOMO shall have been terminated, and the
Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2009, by and between
NextWave Broadband and DOCOMO shall have been amended to remove NextWave
Broadband as a party thereto and to extinguish all rights and obligations
of NextWave Broadband thereunder.
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Termination
The stock
purchase agreement may be terminated and the sale of the PacketVideo shares to
DOCOMO may be abandoned by any of the following means, at any time prior to the
closing of the sale, whether before or after the stock purchase agreement has
been adopted and approved by the holders of a majority of the issued and
outstanding shares of our common stock at the special meeting:
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by
mutual written consent of us and
DOCOMO;
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by
DOCOMO if it is not in material breach of any provision of the stock
purchase agreement and there has been a material breach, inaccuracy in or
failure to perform any representation, warranty, covenant or agreement
made by the Company, NextWave Broadband or PacketVideo that would give
rise to the failure of any of the conditions to DOCOMO’s obligation to
close under the stock purchase agreement that has not been cured within 20
days of such our receiving notice of such
breach;
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by
DOCOMO if any of the conditions to DOCOMO’s obligation to close under the
stock purchase agreement have not been met or it becomes apparent will not
be met by September 28, 2010 (or such later date as is specified in the
stock purchase agreement), unless DOCOMO has caused such condition not to
be fulfilled;
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by
the Company if neither we nor NextWave Broadband are in material breach of
any provision of the stock purchase agreement and there has been a
material breach, inaccuracy in or failure to perform any representation,
warranty, covenant or agreement made by DOCOMO that would give rise to the
failure of any of the conditions to the Company’s or NextWave Broadband’s
obligation to close under the stock purchase agreement that has not been
cured within 20 days of such our receiving notice of such
breach;
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by
the Company if any of the conditions to NextWave Broadband’s obligation to
close under the stock purchase agreement, other than our having received
stockholder approval, have not been met or it becomes apparent will not be
met by a specified end date, unless the Company, NextWave Broadband or
PacketVideo have caused such condition not to be fulfilled;
or
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by
the Company or DOCOMO, subject to certain limitations set forth in the
stock purchase agreement, if any law makes consummation of the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO illegal or otherwise prohibited,
if any governmental authority shall have issued an order, writ, judgment,
injunction, decree or determination restraining or enjoining the sale and
such order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or determination shall have
become final and non-appealable, or if the stock purchase agreement is
submitted for adoption and approval to our stockholders at the special
meeting and the required stockholder vote is not
obtained.
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Effect of Termination; Termination
Fee
Upon the
termination of the stock purchase agreement, the stock purchase agreement will
become null and void and there will be no liability or obligation on the part of
any party thereto; provided, however, that certain confidentiality obligations
will survive the termination of the stock purchase agreement and shall remain in
full force and effect. If the Company or DOCOMO terminates the stock
purchase agreement due to failure to obtain the required stockholder approval at
a duly convened meeting of our stockholders, the Company and NextWave Broadband,
jointly and severally, will be required to pay DOCOMO up to $700,000 in cash as
reimbursement for its expenses in connection with the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO.
Public
Statements
The
Company, DOCOMO, NextWave Broadband and PacketVideo each have agreed to not
issue any public release or announcement concerning the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO without the Company’s prior written consent and the prior
written consent of DOCOMO, unless such release or announcement is permitted by
the stock purchase agreement or required by law or the rules or regulations of
any applicable governmental authority.
Non-Competition;
Non-Solicitation
For
a period of two years commencing on the closing of the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO, or the restricted period, the Company and NextWave Broadband
have agreed not to, and will not permit any of our respective subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, anywhere in the world, compete with PacketVideo with
respect to the business of development, distribution, sale, license and
maintenance of multimedia software and related technology and equipment for home
and/or mobile devices as currently conducted by PacketVideo and its
subsidiaries.
During
the restricted period, the Company and NextWave Broadband have agreed not to,
and will not permit any of our respective subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly, hire or solicit any employee of PacketVideo or any of its
subsidiaries or encourage any such employee to leave such employment or hire any
such employee who has left such employment, except pursuant to a general
solicitation which is not directed specifically to any such employees, except
for certain exceptions as set forth in the stock purchase
agreement.
During
the restricted period, the Company and NextWave Broadband have agreed not to,
and will not permit any of our respective subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly, solicit or entice, or attempt to solicit or entice, any client or
customer of PacketVideo to terminate or materially modify its relationship with
PacketVideo with respect to the business of development, distribution, sale,
license and maintenance of multimedia software and related technology and
equipment for home and/or mobile devices as currently conducted by PacketVideo
and its subsidiaries.
The stock
purchase agreement clarifies that none of the foregoing covenants will be deemed
to restrict the Company or NextWave Broadband or our respective subsidiaries
from managing, operating, marketing or selling our wireless spectrum assets or
from otherwise engaging in any activity related to the provision of wireless
services utilizing such wireless spectrum assets.
Expenses
Except as
otherwise expressly provided in the stock purchase agreement, each party to the
stock purchase agreement will bear its respective expenses incurred in
connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and
performance of the stock purchase agreement and the consummation of the sale of
the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO, including all fees and expenses of agents,
representatives, counsel, financial advisors and accountants, and other
professional fees and expenses.
Amendment
The stock
purchase agreement may be amended only with the written consent of the Company,
PacketVideo, NextWave Broadband and DOCOMO, which will be binding upon the
Company, DOCOMO, NextWave Broadband, PacketVideo and their respective successors
and assigns.
PacketVideo
Retention Plan
PacketVideo
and DOCOMO have agreed that promptly after the closing of the sale (but no later
than six months after such closing), PacketVideo will diligently prepare
proposed forms of written agreements, amendments, plans, policies and other
documents as may be necessary to (i) implement 2010 merit increases for
PacketVideo’s senior executives, (ii) establish a cash bonus program, (iii)
amend PacketVideo’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, (iv) establish a severance pay
program for PacketVideo’s senior executives, (v) establish long-term incentive
and retention bonus programs, (vi) adopt policies pertaining to DOCOMO’s rules
and procedures for internal reporting
and
consultation, and (vii) enter into a management agreement with DOCOMO, in each
case as contemplated by and containing the applicable terms and conditions set
forth in that certain term sheet dated July 30, 2010 and entitled “PacketVideo
Proposed Management and Employee Retention Plan,” as executed by DOCOMO and
PacketVideo. The agreements, amendments, plans, policies and
documents to be prepared by PacketVideo will be subject to the review and
approval of DOCOMO.
We plan
to receive approximately $107.5 million of net proceeds from the sale, after
deduction of estimated expenses for the transaction, of which we expect to apply
approximately $95 million to retire principal and accrued interest of our First
Lien Notes pursuant to our secured note agreements, and we expect to retain
approximately $12.5 million to fund our working capital needs.
After we
apply the proceeds from the sale to retire approximately $95 million of our
First Lien Notes, we anticipate that at September 30, 2010 approximately $117
million of principal owed under the First Lien Notes will remain outstanding and
be due and payable in July 2011. In addition, we anticipate that at
September 30, 2010, approximately $161 million of principal under our Second
Lien Notes that mature in November 2011 and approximately $582 million of
principal owed under our Third Lien Notes that mature in December 2011 will
remain outstanding, together with accrued interest on such
notes.
SPECIAL RISK CONSIDERATIONS YOU SHOULD
TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IN DECIDING HOW TO VOTE ON THE PROPOSAL TO ADOPT THE STOCK
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
In addition to the other information
included in this proxy statement, including the matters addressed in “Cautionary
Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Information,” you should carefully consider
the special risk considerations described below as well as other information
provided to you or referenced in this document in deciding how to vote on the
proposal to adopt and
approve the stock purchase agreement and authorize the transactions contemplated
thereby, including the sale of all of the PacketVideo shares held by NextWave
Broadband to DOCOMO. The special risk considerations described below are not the
only ones facing us. For a discussion of risk factors applicable to an
investment in our common stock, we refer to you the documents we file from time
to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly our Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2010, and our Form 10-Q for the
quarterly period ended April 3, 2010 and any of our subsequent filings with the
SEC.
Special
Risk Considerations Regarding the Proposal to Adopt and Approve the Stock
Purchase Agreement and Authorize the Sale and Transactions Contemplated
thereby
If
we fail to complete the sale, our business may be harmed and our ability to sell
our interest in PacketVideo may be impaired.
We cannot
assure you that the sale of our equity interest in PacketVideo will be
completed. The completion of the sale is subject to the satisfaction of a number
of conditions, including, among others, the requirement that we obtain
stockholder approval of the stock purchase agreement. We cannot guarantee that
we will be able to meet all of these closing conditions. If we are
unable to meet all of the closing conditions, DOCOMO is not obligated to
purchase our equity interest in PacketVideo. If the stock purchase agreement is
not approved or does not close, our Board of Directors will be forced to
evaluate other alternatives, which may be less favorable to us than the proposed
sale.
If the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO is not completed, we will be subject to
a number of risks, including (i) the possible failure of the Company to obtain
access to sufficient cash to service its debt, including its senior secured
indebtedness, and to obtain working capital to pay its operational expenses and
continue as a going concern; (ii) the possible loss of key employees and
management personnel; (iii) the accrual of legal, accounting and other fees and
costs incurred in connection with the transaction, all of which must be paid
even if the transaction is not completed; and (iv) the risk of disruption of our
business.
In
addition, if the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO is not completed, it
may be very difficult for us to sell our remaining interest in PacketVideo to a
third party because our stockholders’ agreement with DOCOMO will continue in
effect and we will need to comply with the pre-emptive rights, rights of first
negotiation, rights of first refusal and other rights that may adversely impact
our ability to complete such a transaction or obtain fair value for our interest
in PacketVideo.
In
addition, if the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO is not consummated,
our directors, executive officers and other employees will have expended
extensive time and effort and will have experienced significant distractions
from their work during the pendency of the transaction, and we will have
incurred significant out-of-pocket transaction costs, in each case without any
commensurate benefit, which may have a material and adverse effect on our stock
price and results of operations.
Most
of the proceeds from the sale will be applied to pay down our First Lien Notes
and no proceeds from the sale will be distributed to our
stockholders.
We expect
to receive approximately $107.5 million of net proceeds from the sale, after
deduction of estimated expenses for the transaction, of which we expect to apply
approximately $95 million to retire principal and accrued interest of our First
Lien Notes pursuant to our secured note agreements, and we expect to retain
approximately $12.5 million to fund our working capital needs. The proceeds from
the sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO will not be distributed to our
stockholders.
After
giving effect to the redemption of the First Lien Notes using the net proceeds
of the sale, we will still have substantial secured debt
outstanding.
Even
after we apply the proceeds from the sale to retire approximately $95 million of
our First Lien Notes, we anticipate that, at September 30, 2010, approximately
$117 million of principal owed under the First Lien Notes will remain
outstanding and be due and payable in July 2011. In addition, we
anticipate that at September 30, 2010, approximately $161 million of principal
under our Second Lien Notes that mature in November 2011 and approximately $582
million of principal owed under our Third Lien Notes that mature in December
2011 will remain outstanding, together with accrued interest on such
notes. If we are unable to consummate sales of our wireless spectrum
assets that are sufficient to retire our indebtedness, the holders of our notes
could proceed against the assets pledged to secure these obligations, which
include our spectrum assets and the capital stock of our material subsidiaries,
which would impair our ability to continue as a going concern and the value of
our equity securities will be impaired.
Some
directors and executive officers of the Company have interests that could affect
their decision to support or approve the sale.
The
interests of some of the Company’s directors and executive officers in the sale
of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO and related arrangements are different from,
or are in addition to, those of other stockholders of the Company and could
affect their decision to support or approve the sale. Please see
“Interests of Certain Persons in the Sale” in this proxy statement.
The
stock purchase agreement may expose us to contingent liabilities.
Under the
stock purchase agreement, we agreed to indemnify DOCOMO, jointly and severally
with NextWave Broadband, for losses arising out of any inaccuracy or breach of
any representation or warranty of the Company, NextWave Broadband or PacketVideo
or any breach of any covenant or agreement by the Company, NextWave Broadband or
PacketVideo, subject to certain limitations. Significant indemnification claims
by DOCOMO could have a material adverse effect on our financial
condition. In the event that claims for indemnification for such
losses exceed the $200,000 threshold, we may be obligated to indemnify DOCOMO
for up to $8,000,000 of such losses, unless the claim for indemnification is
based upon, arising out of or relating to any matter constituting fraud, in
which case there is no limit.
Special
Risk Considerations Regarding the Remaining Wireless Spectrum Business Assuming
the Sale is Completed
After
the sale, if completed, we will no longer have any significant operating
revenues.
Given our
previous divestiture and/or discontinuation of operations of our network
infrastructure subsidiaries, all of our significant operating revenues are
currently generated by PacketVideo. After the sale of the PacketVideo
shares to DOCOMO, we will no longer have any significant operating revenues and,
if we are not able to successfully manage, operate sell or license any of our
wireless spectrum assets to generate cash flow, we may not be able to comply
with our debt covenant and may not be able to continue as going
concern.
We
will be a very small public company without any significant operating
revenues.
Once the
sale of the PacketVideo shares to DOCOMO is completed, the Company will remain a
publicly traded company and will continue to be subject to SEC rules and
regulations, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. While all public
companies face the costs and burdens associated with being publicly traded,
given the small size of our company and the lack of significant
operating revenues, these costs and burdens will be particularly significant to
us.
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SECURITY
OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND
MANAGEMENT
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The
following table sets forth certain information regarding the ownership of our
common stock as of July 30, 2010 by all persons who, to our knowledge, were the
beneficial owners of more than 5% of the outstanding shares of our common stock,
each of our directors, each of our current named executive officers (as defined
in Item 402(a)(3) of Regulation S-K) and all directors and executive officers as
a group.
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Beneficial
Ownership (1)
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Beneficial
Owner
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Number
of Shares
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Percent
of Total
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Principal
Security Holders:
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Navation
Inc. (1)
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3,184,234
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13.5%
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Avenue
Capital Group (2)
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8,568,229
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34.8%
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Sola
Ltd. (3)
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3,446,428
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13.8%
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Officers
and Directors:
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James
C. Brailean (4)
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105,771
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*
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Frank
A. Cassou (5)
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474,031
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2.1%
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Francis
J. Harding (6)
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73,033
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*
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Douglas
F. Manchester (7)
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1,182,619
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5.0%
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Jack
Rosen (8)
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123,995
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*
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Allen
Salmasi (9)
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4,540,866
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19.2%
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Robert
T. Symington (10)
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101,926
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*
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Carl
E. Vogel (11)
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148,810
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*
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William
H. Webster (12)
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125,711
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*
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All
directors and officers as a group
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6,876,762
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26.9%
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* Less
than one percent.
The
shares beneficially owned and ownership percentages reflected in the table above
are based on the inclusion in the calculations for each individual or entity of
(i) options held by such individual or entity that are exercisable within a
period of 60 days from July 30, 2010, (ii) convertible Third Lien Notes held by
such individual or entity that are convertible within a period of 60 days from
July 30, 2010, and (iii) warrants held by such individual or entity
that are exercisable within a period of 60 days from July 30, 2010, as
applicable.
(1)
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The
address for Navation, Inc. is c/o Mr. Alain Tripod, 15, rue
Général-Dufour, Case Postale 5556, CH - 1211 Genéve 11, Switzerland.
Includes 1,027,967 shares issuable upon conversion of Third Lien
Notes.
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(2)
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Based
on the Schedule 13D filed by Avenue Capital Group and its affiliates on
November 19, 2008, as amended on December 18, 2009. The address
for Avenue Capital Group is 535 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
10022. Robert T. Symington, a member of the NextWave Board of
Directors, is a portfolio manager of an Avenue Capital Group
affiliate. Includes 2,055,933 shares issuable upon conversion
of Third Lien Notes and 98,972 shares underlying options held by Mr.
Symington that are exercisable within 60 days. Marc Lasry is
the managing member of Avenue Capital Management II GenPar, LLC, the
general partner of Avenue Capital II and exercises voting and investment
power over the securities beneficially owned by Avenue Capital II and by
the funds thereof.
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(3)
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Based
on the Schedule 13G filed by Solus Alternative Asset Management LP, Solus
GP LLC and Christopher Pucillo on February 16, 2010. The
address for Sola Ltd is 430 Park Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY
10022. Includes 892,857 shares held as common stock with the
remainder being held as notes
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and
warrants which were convertible into 2,553,571 shares of common
stock. Mr. Pucillo is the managing member of Solus GP LLC, the
general partner of Solus Alternative Asset Management LP and exercises voting
and investment power over the securities beneficially owned by Solus Alternative
Asset Management LP. The Third Lien Notes and warrants held by Sola Ltd.
and its affiliates provide that in no event will any holder of such securities
be entitled to receive common stock upon exercise or conversion to the extent
(but only to the extent) that such receipt would cause Sola Ltd. and its
affiliates to become, directly or indirectly, a beneficial owner of more than
9.9% of the shares of our common stock outstanding at such time.
(4)
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Includes
104,760 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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(5)
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Includes
125,525 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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(6)
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Includes
71,739 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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(7)
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Represents
shares held by Douglas F. Manchester directly and indirectly through each
of Manchester Financial Group, LP and Manchester Grand Resorts, LP.
Includes 1,820 shares underlying options to purchase our common stock,
arising from the conversion of options to purchase CYGNUS common stock
that were converted into options to purchase common stock of the Company
in November 2006, 1,027,967 shares issuable upon conversion of Third Lien
Notes and 107,375 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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(8)
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Includes
98,972 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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(9)
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Allen
Salmasi is Chief Executive Officer of Navation, Inc. Mr. Salmasi may be
deemed to beneficially own the shares of common stock held or record by
Navation, Inc. Represents shares held by Allen Salmasi directly and
indirectly through Navation, Inc. Includes 1,027,967 shares issuable upon
conversion of Third Lien Notes and 75,440 shares underlying options that
are exercisable within 60 days.
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(10)
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Includes
98,972 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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(11)
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Includes
148,810 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days
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(12)
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Includes
110,235 shares underlying options that are exercisable within 60
days.
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UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Attached
as Annex C to this proxy statement are the unaudited pro forma condensed
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its subsidiaries as of April 3,
2010 and the unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statements of operations
of the Company and its subsidiaries for the three months ended April 3, 2010,
and for the years ended January 2, 2010 and December 27, 2008. The
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements are presented to
illustrate the effects solely of the sale of the remaining 65% interest in its
PacketVideo for net proceeds of $107.0 million, after deducting estimated direct
and incremental costs of $4.6 million, and the retention by the Company of $37.5
million of the net proceeds for general working capital purposes and permitted
investments, to pay estimated transaction costs and to retire outstanding debt.
On July 2, 2009, the Company sold a 35% noncontrolling interest in PacketVideo
to DOCOMO for $45.5 million. Actual application of net proceeds to redeem
outstanding debt and the amount of available working capital upon consummation
of the proposed transaction to sell the remaining 65% interest in PacketVideo
will be different due to additional indebtedness incurred after the April 3,
2010 balance sheet date.
The
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
subsidiaries as of April 3, 2010 illustrates the estimated effects of the sale
of the remaining 65% interest in PacketVideo as if the sale had occurred on
April 3, 2010. The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statements of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries for the three months ended April
3, 2010, and for the years ended January 2, 2010 and December 27, 2008
illustrate the estimated effects of the sales as if the sale of the remaining
65% interest in PacketVideo were consummated on December 30, 2007. These pro
forma adjustments and assumptions are described in the accompanying notes to the
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements. We are
providing two years of unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated income
statements because we anticipate that PacketVideo will be included in
discontinued operations in future filings.
The
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company
and its subsidiaries attached as Annex C have been prepared using assumptions
and estimates that NextWave management believes are reasonable under the
circumstances and are intended for informational purposes only. They are not
necessarily indicative of the financial results that would have occurred if the
transactions described herein had taken place on the dates indicated, nor are
they indicative of the future consolidated results of NextWave. However,
management believes that the estimates and assumptions used provide a reasonable
basis for presenting the significant effects of the sale of
PacketVideo. Management also believes the pro forma adjustments give
appropriate effect to the estimates and assumptions and are applied in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
America.
The
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements attached as
Annex C should be read in conjunction with the historical consolidated financial
statements and accompanying notes and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations of NextWave for the three months
ended April 3, 2010 (unaudited) and for the years ended January 2, 2010 and
December 27, 2008 (audited), including the related notes, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-Q on May 18, 2010 and on Form 10-K
on April 2, 2010, respectively.
PROPOSALS
BY STOCKHOLDERS
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In order
to include information with respect to a stockholder proposal in the Company’s
proxy statement and related form of proxy for a stockholder’s meeting,
stockholders must provide notice as required by the regulations promulgated
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the “Exchange
Act”. Pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act, to include a
stockholder in our proxy statement and form of proxy for a meeting of
stockholders other than a regularly scheduled annual meeting, the stockholder
proposal must be submitted to us at a reasonable time before we begin to print
and send our proxy materials.
Proposals
that stockholders wish to include in our proxy statement and form of proxy for
presentation at our 2011 annual meeting of stockholders must be received by us
at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California 92130, Attention,
Secretary, no later than January 11, 2011. Any stockholder proposal
submitted for inclusion must be eligible for inclusion in our proxy statement in
accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission, or “SEC”.
With
respect to proposals submitted by a stockholder other than for inclusion in our
proxy statement and related form of proxy for our 2011 annual meeting of
stockholders, timely notice of any stockholder proposal must be received by us
in accordance with our Bylaws and our rules and regulations no later than
February 10, 2011, unless the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days
before or 60 days after the anniversary of the 2010 annual meeting of
stockholders. Any proxies solicited by the Board of Directors for the
2011 annual meeting of stockholders may confer discretionary authority to vote
on any proposals notice of which is not timely received. In order to
include information with respect to a stockholder proposal in our proxy
statement and form of proxy for a stockholder's meeting, stockholders must
provide notice as required by the regulations promulgated under the Exchange
Act.
The
notice shall set forth as to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring
before the annual meeting: (i) a brief description of the business desired to be
brought before the annual meeting and the reasons for conducting such business
at the annual meeting, (ii) the name and address, as they appear on the
Company’s books, of the stockholder proposing such business, (iii) the class and
number of shares of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by the
stockholder, (iv) any material interest of the stockholder in such business and
(v) any other information that is required to be provided by the stockholder
pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, in his capacity as a
proponent to a stockholder proposal.
A
stockholder’s notice relating to nomination for directors shall set forth as to
each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or
re-election as a director: (A) the name, age, business address and residence
address of such person, (B) the principal occupation or employment of such
person, (C) the class and number of shares of the Company which are beneficially
owned by such person, (D) a description of all arrangements or understandings
between the stockholder and each nominee and any other person(s) (naming such
person(s)) pursuant to which the nominations are to be made by the stockholder
and (E) any other information relating to such person that is required to be
disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise
required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act
(including without limitation such person's written consent to being named in
our proxy statement, if any, as a nominee and to serving as a director if
elected); and as to such stockholder giving notice, the information required to
be provided as set forth in the preceding paragraph and our Bylaws. No person
shall be eligible for election as a director of the Company, unless nominated in
accordance with the procedures set forth herein and in our Bylaws, as
amended.
WHERE
YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION
We file
annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information
with the SEC. You may read and copy any document we file at the SEC’s public
reference room located at 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549.
Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public
reference room. Our SEC filings are also available to the public at the SEC’s
website at http://www.sec.gov.
Statements
contained in this proxy statement, or in any document incorporated by reference
in this proxy statement regarding the contents of any contract or other
document, are not necessarily complete and each such statement is qualified in
its entirety by reference to that contract or other document filed as an exhibit
with the SEC. The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” into this proxy
statement documents we file with the SEC. This means that we can disclose
important information to you by referring you to those documents. The
information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this proxy
statement, and later information that we file with the SEC will update and
supersede that information. We incorporate by reference the documents listed
below and any documents filed by us pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this proxy statement and before the
date of the special meeting (other than Current Reports or portions thereof
furnished under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of Form 8-K):
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Our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended January 2, 2010
(filed on April 2, 2010);
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Our
Definitive Proxy Statement for our 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
(filed on May 6, 2010);
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Our
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for our fiscal quarter ended April 3, 2010
(filed on May 18, 2010); and
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·
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Our
Current Reports on Form 8-K or 8-K/A filed on January 25, 2010, March 19,
2010, March 29, 2010, June 3, 2010, June 8, 2010, June 18, 2010, July 22,
2010 and August 2, 2010 .
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Any
person, including any beneficial owner, to whom this proxy statement is
delivered may request copies of reports, proxy statements or other information
concerning us, without charge, by written or telephonic request directed to us
at 12264 El Camino Real, Suite 305, San Diego, California 92130 Attn: Secretary,
or from the SEC through the SEC’s website at the address provided above.
Documents incorporated by reference are available without charge, excluding any
exhibits to those documents unless the exhibit is specifically incorporated by
reference into those documents.
THIS
PROXY STATEMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE THE SOLICITATION OF A PROXY IN ANY
JURISDICTION TO OR FROM ANY PERSON TO WHOM OR FROM WHOM IT IS UNLAWFUL TO MAKE
SUCH PROXY SOLICITATION IN THAT JURISDICTION. YOU SHOULD RELY ONLY ON THE
INFORMATION CONTAINED OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT TO
VOTE YOUR SHARES AT THE SPECIAL MEETING. WE HAVE NOT AUTHORIZED ANYONE TO
PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THIS
PROXY STATEMENT. THIS PROXY STATEMENT IS DATED , 2010. YOU SHOULD NOT
ASSUME THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PROXY STATEMENT IS ACCURATE AS OF
ANY DATE OTHER THAN THAT DATE, AND THE MAILING OF THIS PROXY STATEMENT TO
STOCKHOLDERS DOES NOT CREATE ANY IMPLICATION TO THE CONTRARY.
Sincerely,
Frank A.
Cassou
Chief
Legal Counsel and Secretary
San
Diego, California
, 2010
ANNEX A
STOCK
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
dated
as of July 30, 2010
by
and among
PACKETVIDEO
CORPORATION,
NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.,
NEXTWAVE
BROADBAND INC.
and
NTT
DOCOMO, INC.
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Page
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AGREEMENT
TO PURCHASE AND SELL SHARES
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2
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(a)
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Purchase
and Sale of the Purchased Shares
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2
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(b)
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Use
of Proceeds
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2
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2.
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CLOSING
CONDITIONS
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2
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(a)
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Conditions
to Obligations of the Purchaser at Closing
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2
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(b)
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Conditions
to Obligations of Seller at Closing
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4
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3.
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CLOSING
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5
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4.
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REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES AND CERTAIN AGREEMENTS OF PARENT, SELLER AND THE
COMPANY
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5
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(a)
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Organization,
Good Standing and Qualification
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6
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(b)
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Capitalization
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6
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(c)
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Authority;
Noncontravention
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7
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(d)
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Valid
Issuance of Purchased Shares
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8
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(e)
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Consents
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8
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(f)
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Financial
Statements Accounts Receivable Undisclosed Liabilities
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9
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(g)
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Brokers
and Other Advisors
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10
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(h)
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Absence
of Certain Changes or Events
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10
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(i)
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Legal
Proceedings
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11
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(j)
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Compliance
with Laws, Permits
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11
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(k)
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Compliance
with Securities Laws
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12
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(l)
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No
Integrated Offering
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12
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(m)
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Subsidiaries
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12
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(n)
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Corporate
Records
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13
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(o)
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Taxes
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13
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(p)
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Property
and Assets
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14
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(q)
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Intellectual
Property
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15
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(r)
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Insurance
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16
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(s)
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Material
Contracts and Obligations
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16
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(t)
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Employee
Benefits
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17
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(u)
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Labor
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18
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(v)
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Related-Party
Transactions
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18
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
(continued)
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(w)
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Environmental,
Health and Safety Matters
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19
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(x)
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Customers
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19
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(y)
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SEC
Filings
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20
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(z)
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Solvency
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20
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(aa)
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Fairness
Opinion
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20
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(bb)
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Disclosure
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20
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5.
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REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES AND CERTAIN AGREEMENTS OF THE PURCHASER
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20
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(a)
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Organization,
Good Standing and Qualification
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21
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(b)
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Authority
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21
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(c)
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No
Conflicts
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21
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(d)
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Purchase
for Own Account
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21
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(e)
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Investment
Experience
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21
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(f)
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Status
of the Purchaser
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22
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(g)
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Reliance
Upon the Purchaser’s Representations
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22
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(h)
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Receipt
of Information
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22
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(i)
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Restricted
Securities
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22
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(j)
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Legends
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23
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6.
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PRE-CLOSING
COVENANTS
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23
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(a)
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Conduct
of Business Prior to the Closing
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23
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(b)
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Access
to Information
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24
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(c)
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Notice
of Certain Events
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24
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(d)
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Governmental
Approvals and Consents
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25
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(e)
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Approval
of Parent’s Stockholders
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26
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(f)
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Settlement
of Working Capital
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27
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(g)
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Communication
with Employees
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27
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7.
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CERTAIN
POST-CLOSING COVENANTS
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27
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(a)
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Certain
Tax Matters
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27
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(b)
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Non-competition;
Non-solicitation
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28
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(c)
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Confidentiality
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30
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
(continued)
Page
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(d)
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Company
Information and Parent and Seller Information
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30
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(e)
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Proposed
Management and Employee Retention Plan
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31
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8.
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INDEMNIFICATION
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31
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(a)
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties
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31
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(b)
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Indemnification
Provisions for the Purchaser’s Benefit
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31
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(c)
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Indemnification
Provisions for Parent and Seller’s Benefit
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32
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(d)
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Exclusive
Remedy
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32
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9.
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TERMINATION
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32
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(a)
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Termination
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32
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(b)
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Effect
of Termination
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33
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(c)
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Payment
of Expenses
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34
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10.
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DEFINED
TERMS
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34
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11.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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41
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(a)
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Successors
and Assigns
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41
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(b)
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Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial
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41
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(c)
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Specific
Enforcement
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42
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(d)
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Expenses
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42
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(e)
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Counterparts
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42
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(f)
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Headings
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42
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(g)
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Notices
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42
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(h)
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Amendments
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43
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(i)
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Reporting
and Publicity
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44
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(j)
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Waivers
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44
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(k)
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Replacement
of Shares
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44
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(l)
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Severability
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44
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(m)
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Entire
Agreement
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44
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(n)
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Further
Assurances
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44
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(o)
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Meaning
of “Include” and “Including”
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45
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(p)
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No
Presumption Against Drafting Party
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45
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(q)
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No
Third-Party Beneficiaries
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45
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
(continued)
Page
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(r)
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Facsimile
and E-mail Signatures
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45
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(s)
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Corporate
Securities Law
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45
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Annex
A |
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Resigning Directors
and Officers of the Company |
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Exhibit
A |
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Officer’s
Certificate |
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Exhibit
B |
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Wire Transfer
Instructions |
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Exhibit
C |
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Certain Employees of
the Purchaser |
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STOCK
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
This
Stock Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”)
is made and entered into as of July 30, 2010, by and among PacketVideo
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),
NextWave Wireless Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”),
NextWave Broadband Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of
Parent (“Seller”),
and NTT DOCOMO, INC. (the “Purchaser”
and, together with the Company, Parent and Seller, each a “Party”
and, collectively, the “Parties”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS,
on July 2, 2009, the Parties entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “2009
Stock Purchase Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, Seller
agreed to sell, and the Purchaser agreed to purchase, 16,362,500 shares of Class
A Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Class A
Common Stock”), which constituted 100% of the issued and outstanding
shares of Class A Common Stock and 35% of the issued and outstanding shares of
common stock of the Company;
WHEREAS,
in connection with the Parties’ entry into the 2009 Stock Purchase Agreement,
the Parties entered into that certain Stockholders’ Agreement dated as of July
2, 2009 (the “Stockholders’
Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, the Purchaser was
granted the right (but not the obligation) (the “Option”)
to purchase all (but not less than all) of the common stock of the Company held
by Seller;
WHEREAS,
Seller currently holds 30,387,500 shares of Class B Common Stock of the Company,
par value $0.001 per share (the “Class B
Common Stock”), which constitutes 100% of the issued and outstanding
shares of Class B Common Stock and 65% of the issued and outstanding shares of
common stock of the Company;
WHEREAS,
by a letter dated December 22, 2009, the Purchaser notified Parent and Seller
that the Purchaser desires to exercise the Option and thereby purchase all of
the 30,387,500 shares of Class B Common Stock held by Seller (the “Purchased
Shares”), and by a letter dated June 28, 2010, the Purchaser confirmed in
writing to Parent and Seller that the Purchaser still intended to pursue the
purchase of the Purchased Shares, as further confirmed by entering into this
Agreement;
WHEREAS,
pursuant to the Purchaser’s exercise of the Option as evidenced hereby, Seller
desires to sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser desires to purchase and
acquire from Seller, the Purchased Shares subject to the terms and conditions
set forth herein; and
WHEREAS,
certain capitalized terms are used herein as defined in Article 10
hereof.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the mutual promises hereinafter
set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as
follows:
1. AGREEMENT
TO PURCHASE AND SELL SHARES.
(a) Purchase and Sale of the
Purchased Shares. Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, at the Closing (as defined below), Seller agrees to sell to the
Purchaser, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase, the Purchased Shares for an
aggregate purchase price of $111.6 million (the “Purchase
Price”). The Company, Parent, Seller and the Purchaser have
determined and agree that the Purchase Price represents the Fair Market Value
(as defined and determined in accordance with the Stockholders’ Agreement) of
the Purchased Shares.
(b) Use of Proceeds. The
Seller shall apply the “Net Proceeds” (as defined by each Note Agreement) from
the sale of the Purchased Shares in accordance with the terms and conditions of
the Notes and of the related Note Agreements.
2. CLOSING
CONDITIONS.
(a) Conditions to Obligation of
the Purchaser at Closing. The obligation of the Purchaser to
purchase the Purchased Shares at the Closing are subject to the fulfillment, on
or before the Closing, of each of the following conditions, unless otherwise
waived by the Purchaser in writing.
(i) Representations and
Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company,
Parent and Seller contained in Article 4 shall be
true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that such
representations and warranties are qualified by the term “material” or contain a
term such as “Material Adverse Effect,” in which case such representations and
warranties (as so written, including the term “material” or “Material Adverse
Effect”) shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the Closing with the
same effect as if made on and as of the Closing, without giving effect to
any supplement to the Disclosure Schedule or any notification given pursuant to
Section 6(c)
hereof or otherwise, except for representations and warranties which speak as of
a specific date or time other than the Closing Date which need only be true and
correct in all material respects (except to the extent that such representations
and warranties are qualified by the term “material” or contain a term such as
“Material Adverse Effect,” in which case such representations and warranties (as
so written, including the term “material” or “Material Adverse Effect”) shall be
true and correct in all respects) as of such date or time.
(ii) Performance. Each
of the Company, Parent and Seller shall have performed and complied in all
material respects with all covenants, agreements, obligations and conditions
contained in this Agreement that are required to be performed or complied with
by it on or before the Closing.
(iii) Compliance
Certificate. The President(s) of each of the Company, Parent
and Seller shall have delivered to the Purchaser at the Closing a certificate
certifying that the conditions specified in Section 2(a)(i) and (ii) have been
fulfilled.
(iv) Company Secretary’s
Certificate. The Secretary of the Company shall have delivered
to the Purchaser at the Closing a certificate and attached thereto (i) a true
and correct copy of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company as in effect at the time of the Closing (the “Restated
Certificate of Incorporation”), (ii) the
Company’s
Bylaws as in effect at the time of the Closing, (iii) good standing certificates
(including tax good standing) with respect to the Company from the applicable
authorities in Delaware and California, dated no more than ten (10) days before
the Closing Date, and (iv) resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company
adopting and approving the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated under this Agreement.
(v) Parent Secretary’s
Certificate. The Secretary of Parent shall have delivered to
the Purchaser at the Closing a certificate and attached thereto resolutions of
the Board of Directors of Parent adopting and approving the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
under this Agreement and resolving to recommend in the Proxy Materials (as
defined below) filed with the SEC as promptly as reasonably practicable
following the date of this Agreement that the holders of shares of Parent’s
capital stock authorize the transactions contemplated hereby.
(vi) Seller Secretary’s
Certificate. The Secretary of Seller shall have delivered to
the Purchaser at the Closing a certificate and attached thereto resolutions of
the Board of Directors of Seller adopting and approving the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated
under this Agreement.
(vii) Qualifications. All
authorizations, approvals or Permits, if any, of any governmental authority or
regulatory body of the United States or of any state or country that are
required in connection with the lawful sale of the Purchased Shares pursuant to
this Agreement shall be obtained and effective as of the Closing.
(viii) Expiration of Waiting
Period. The filings of the Parties pursuant to the HSR Act, if
any, shall have been made, and the applicable waiting period and any extensions
thereof shall have expired or been terminated.
(ix) Consents. The
Company shall have obtained the consents, Permits and waivers set forth in Schedule 2(a)(ix)
hereto.
(x) No
Injunction. No preliminary or permanent injunction or other
binding order, decree or ruling issued by a court or government agency shall be
in effect which shall have the effect of preventing the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(xi) Resignations of Officers and
Directors. The Purchaser shall have received the resignations,
effective as of the Closing, of each director and officer of the Company listed
on Annex A
attached hereto.
(xii) Resignations of James
Brailean. The Purchaser shall have received the resignation,
effective as of the Closing, of James Brailean from each and every position he
has with Parent, including as an employee.
(xiii) Certain Releases and
Documentation. The Purchaser shall have received evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Purchaser of the following: (i) the
irrevocable and unconditional release and discharge of all Liens on the assets
of the Company securing obligations of any members of Parent’s Affiliated Group,
and (ii) the delivery of counterparts of
the
officer’s certificate required under Section 10.4 of each Note Agreement, in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit A (or in such
other form reasonably agreed to by the Parties), duly executed by an officer of
Parent and executed by The Bank of New York Mellon as Agent.
(xiv) Opinion of Seller’s
Counsel. The Purchaser shall have received from Cooley LLP,
counsel for the Company, Parent and Seller, an opinion, dated as of the Closing
Date, in a form reasonably agreed to by the Parties.
(xv) FIRPTA
Certificate. The Purchaser shall have received from Seller a
duly executed certificate of non-foreign status meeting the requirements of
Treasury Regulation Section 1.1445-2(b)(2).
(xvi) Stockholder
Approval. The stockholders of Parent shall have, by the
Required Parent Stockholder Vote, adopted and approved this Agreement and
authorized the sale of the Purchased Shares.
(b) Conditions to Obligations of
Seller at Closing. The obligations of Seller to sell the
Purchased Shares to the Purchaser at the Closing are subject to the fulfillment,
on or before the Closing, of each of the following conditions, unless otherwise
waived by it.
(i) Representations and
Warranties. The representations and warranties of the
Purchaser contained in Article 5 shall be
true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that such
representations and warranties are qualified by the term “material” or contain a
term such as “Material Adverse Effect,” in which case such representations and
warranties (as so written, including the term “material” or “Material Adverse
Effect”) shall be true and correct in all respects) as of the Closing with the
same effect as if made on and as of the Closing, except for representations
and warranties which speak as of a specific date or time other than the Closing
Date which need only be true and correct in all material respects (except to the
extent that such representations and warranties are qualified by the term
“material” or contain a term such as “Material Adverse Effect,” in which case
such representations and warranties (as so written, including the term
“material” or “Material Adverse Effect”) shall be true and correct in all
respects) as of such date or time.
(ii) Performance. The
Purchaser shall have performed and complied in all material respects with all
covenants, agreements, obligations and conditions contained in this Agreement
that are required to be performed or complied with by it on or before the
Closing.
(iii) No
Injunction. No preliminary or permanent injunction or other
binding order, decree or ruling issued by a court or government agency shall be
in effect which shall have the effect of preventing the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
(iv) Qualifications. All
authorizations, approvals or Permits, if any, of any governmental authority or
regulatory body of the United States or of any state or country that are
required in connection with the lawful sale of the Purchased Shares pursuant to
this Agreement shall be obtained and effective as of the Closing.
(v) Expiration of Waiting
Period. The filings of the Parties pursuant to the HSR Act, if
any, shall have been made, and the applicable waiting period and any extensions
thereof shall have expired or been terminated.
(vi) Stockholder
Approval. The stockholders of Parent shall have, by the
Required Parent Stockholder Vote, adopted and approved this Agreement and
authorized the sale of the Purchased Shares.
(vii) Indebtedness. Except
for Indebtedness to be repaid in accordance with Section 6(f), all
Indebtedness owed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to Parent or Seller
or any of their other Affiliates, as identified on Schedule 4(s), as
such schedule may be updated through and including the Closing Date, shall have
been repaid in full, and upon such repayment in full, the agreements evidencing
any such Indebtedness shall be terminated and of no further force or effect as
of the Closing Date.
(viii) 2009 Transaction
Agreements. The Stockholders’ Agreement shall have been terminated and of
no further force or effect, as effected pursuant to a termination agreement
reasonably satisfactory to the Parties, and the Registration Rights Agreement
shall have been amended to remove Seller as a party thereto and to extinguish
all rights and obligations of Seller thereunder, as effected pursuant to an
amendment agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Parties.
3. CLOSING.
(a) The
closing of the purchase and sale of the Purchased Shares (the “Closing”)
shall take place at the offices of Seller at 10350 Science Center Drive, Suite
210, San Diego, California 92121 on the fifth (5th) Business Day following the
satisfaction or waiver of the conditions described in Article 2 hereof or
at such other time or place as the Parties may mutually agree. The
date of the Closing is referred to herein as the “Closing
Date.”
(b) At the
Closing, against full payment of the Purchase Price for the Purchased Shares, by
wire transfer of immediately available funds by the Purchaser to The Bank of New
York, as collateral agent for and representative of the holders of the Notes,
for the benefit of Seller in accordance with the wire transfer instructions
attached hereto as Exhibit B, which wire
transfer shall constitute full and final payment of the Purchase Price to
Seller, Seller shall deliver to the Purchaser one or more stock certificates
registered in the name of Seller, representing the Purchased Shares and bearing
the legends set forth in Section 5(j) herein,
duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by a stock assignment separate from
certificate duly executed in blank. Closing documents may be
delivered by facsimile or by electronic mail.
4. REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES
AND CERTAIN AGREEMENTS OF PARENT, SELLER AND THE COMPANY.
The
Company, Parent and Seller each hereby represents and warrants to the Purchaser
that, except as disclosed in the disclosure schedule delivered to Purchaser in
connection herewith (the “Disclosure
Schedule”), which exceptions shall be deemed to be part of and qualify
the representations and warranties made hereunder, the following representations
and warranties are true and correct in all respects as of the date hereof (or
such other date and time specified in a
representation
and warranty), and they will be true and correct in all material respects
(except to the extent that such representations and warranties are qualified by
the term “material” or contain a term such as “Material Adverse Effect,” in
which case such representations and warranties (as so written, including the
term “material” or “Material Adverse Effect”) will be true and correct in all
respects) as of the Closing Date, except as otherwise indicated. The
Disclosure Schedule shall be arranged with specific reference to the Section or
subsection of this Article 4 to which
the information stated in such Disclosure Schedule relates (provided, however, that any
disclosure contained in any section of the Disclosure Schedule shall be deemed
to be disclosed with respect to any other Section or subsection of this Article 4 only to the
extent that it is reasonably and readily apparent that such disclosure is
applicable to such other Section or subsection of this Article
4).
(a) Organization, Good Standing
and Qualification. Each of the Company, Parent and Seller is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws
of the State of Delaware and has all requisite corporate power and authority
necessary to own, lease and operate all of its properties and assets and to
carry on its business as it is now being conducted and as currently proposed by
its management to be conducted. Each of the Company, Parent and
Seller is duly qualified or authorized to do business and is in good standing in
each jurisdiction in which it owns or leases real property and each other
jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or the ownership of its
properties requires such qualification or authorization, except where the
failure to be so qualified, authorized or in good standing would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Capitalization. The
authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 75,000,000 shares of Common
Stock, consisting of 18,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, 16,362,500
shares of which are issued and outstanding, and 57,000,000 shares of Class B
Common Stock, of which 30,387,500 shares are issued and outstanding and owned by
Seller and 16,362,500 shares of Class B Common Stock are reserved for issuance
upon conversion of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, and all of
such outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and are
validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable. All of the
Purchased Shares are free of all Liens (including any option, right of first
refusal, proxy, voting trust or agreement, or Transfer restriction under any
stockholder or similar agreement) and restrictions on Transfer other than
restrictions on Transfer under applicable federal and state securities Laws and
under the 2009 Transaction Documents. All outstanding shares of
capital stock of the Company were issued in compliance with all applicable
federal and state securities Laws. No shares of preferred stock are
authorized, issued or outstanding, and no shares of Common Stock or preferred
stock are held by the Company in its treasury. The Company has
reserved 8,250,000 shares of Class B Common Stock for issuance to officers,
directors, employees and consultants of the Company pursuant to its 2009 Equity
Incentive Plan duly adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors and approved by
the Company’s stockholders. Of such reserved shares of Common Stock,
no shares have been issued pursuant to restricted stock purchase agreements,
options to purchase 6,364,300 shares have been granted and are currently
outstanding, and 1,885,700 shares of Class B Common Stock remain available for
issuance to officers, directors, employees and consultants pursuant to the 2009
Equity Incentive Plan. The Company has furnished to the Purchasers
complete and accurate copies of the 2009 Equity Incentive Plan and forms of
agreements used thereunder. Except as set forth in this Section 4(b), no
awards have been granted under the 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, and, except
as
set forth
in the 2009 Transaction Documents, there is no existing option, warrant, call,
right or Contract of any character to which the Company is a party requiring,
and there are no securities of the Company outstanding which upon conversion or
exchange would require, the issuance, sale or Transfer of any additional shares
of capital stock or other equity securities of the Company or other securities
convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the right to subscribe for or
purchase shares of capital stock or other equity securities of the
Company. Schedule 4(b) sets
forth the capitalization of the Company as of the date of this Agreement,
including the number of shares of the following: (i) issued and outstanding
Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, including, with respect to
restricted Class B Common Stock, if any, vesting schedule and repurchase price;
(ii) issued stock options, including vesting schedule and exercise price; (iii)
stock options not yet issued but reserved for issuance; and (iv) warrants and
other stock purchase rights, if any. Except as set forth in the 2009
Transaction Documents, none of the Company, Parent and Seller is a party to any
voting trust or other Contract with respect to the voting, redemption, sale,
Transfer or other disposition of the capital stock of the Company other than the
2009 Transaction Documents.
(c) Authority;
Noncontravention.
(i) Each of
the Company, Parent and Seller has all necessary corporate power, authority and
legal capacity to execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the
transactions contemplated herein, subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein (collectively, the “Transactions”). The
execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance by the Company, Parent
and Seller of their respective obligations hereunder, and the consummation by
the Company, Parent and Seller of the Transactions, have been duly authorized
and approved by such Party’s board of directors and no other corporate action on
the part of such Party is necessary to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by such Party of this Agreement and the consummation of the
Transactions, except for (A) the approval of this Agreement by the Required
Parent Stockholder Vote and (B) the requisite approvals contemplated by Section
4(c)(i). This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and
delivered by the Company, Parent and Seller and, assuming due authorization,
execution and delivery hereof and thereof by the Purchaser, constitutes legal,
valid and binding obligations of each of the Company, Parent and Seller,
enforceable against such Party in accordance with its terms, except that such
enforceability (x) may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other similar Laws of general
application affecting or relating to the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally and (y) is subject to general principles of equity, whether considered
in a proceeding at Law or in equity.
(ii) None of
the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company, Parent and Seller,
the consummation by the Company, Parent and Seller of this Agreement, or
compliance by the Company, Parent and Seller with any of the terms or provisions
of this Agreement, will conflict with or result in a violation of or default
(with or without notice or lapse of time, or both) under, or give rise to a
right of termination, cancellation or acceleration of any obligation or to loss
of a material benefit under, or give rise to any obligation of such Party to
make any material payment under, or to the increased, additional, accelerated or
guaranteed rights or entitlements of any Person under, or result in the creation
of any Liens upon any of the properties or assets of such Party or any
Subsidiary of such Party under, any provision of (A) the certificate of
incorporation and bylaws or other comparable organizational documents of
such
Party,
(B) any Contract or Permit to which such Party or any Subsidiary of such Party
is a party or by which any of the properties or assets of such Party or any or
any Subsidiary of such Party are bound, (C) any Order of any Governmental
Authority applicable to such Party or any Subsidiary of such Party or any of the
properties or assets of such Party or any Subsidiary of such Party, or (D) any
applicable Law; except in the cases of clauses (B) and (C) for any conflict,
violation, default, loss of benefit, or right of termination, cancellation or
acceleration that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(iii) Company Board
Actions. The boards of directors of Parent, Seller and the
Company, at respective meetings duly called and held, have (A) determined that
the Transactions are fair to, and in the best interests of, Parent, Seller and
the Company, respectively, and their respective stockholders, (B) declared the
advisability of and duly approved this Agreement and the Transactions, (C) in
the cases of Parent and Seller, resolved to recommend that their respective
stockholders authorize the Transactions, and (D) to the extent necessary,
adopted a resolution having the effect of causing the Company not to be subject
to any state Takeover Law or similar Law that might otherwise apply to the
Transactions, and, as of the date hereof, none of the aforesaid actions by the
boards of directors of Parent, Seller or the Company have been amended,
rescinded or modified.
(d) Valid Issuance of Purchased
Shares.
(i) The
Purchased Shares are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid, nonassessable,
and free of all Liens, except Liens in favor of holders of the Notes, and
restrictions on Transfer other than restrictions on Transfer under applicable
federal and state securities Laws and under the 2009 Transaction
Documents. Based in part upon the representations of the Purchaser in
Article 5, the
Purchased Shares, upon transfer to the Purchaser, shall have been transferred in
compliance with all applicable federal and state securities Laws and free of all
Liens.
(ii) The
Purchase Price represents the Agreed Valuation (as defined in the Stockholders’
Agreement) of the Purchased Shares.
(e)Consents. No consent,
waiver, approval, Order, Permit or authorization of, or filings, declarations or
registrations with, or notification to, any Person or Governmental Authority is
required in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Company, Parent or Seller, the compliance by the Company, Parent and Seller with
any of the provisions hereof or the consummation by the Company, Parent or
Seller of the Transactions, except for (i) the filing with the SEC of the
Proxy Materials and such reports under Section 13 or 16 of the Exchange Act as
may be required in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions, (ii)
compliance with and filings pursuant to the HSR Act, (iii) those consents and
filings set forth on Schedule
4(e) and Schedule
2(a)(ix), and (iv) such consents, waivers, approvals, Orders, Permits, or
authorizations of, or filings, declarations or registrations with, or
notifications to any Person or Governmental Authority that, if not obtained,
made or given, would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(f) Financial Statements;
Accounts Receivable; Undisclosed Liabilities.
(i) True,
correct and complete copies of (i) the unaudited consolidated financial
statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the years ending
December 27, 2008 and December 31, 2009, each of which include a statement of
cash flows and statement of operations for such fiscal year and a balance sheet
as at the last day thereof and (ii) the unaudited consolidated financial
statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of and for the five-month
period ending May 29, 2010, which include a statement of cash flows and
statement of operations for such five-month period and a balance sheet (the
“Balance
Sheet”) as of the last day thereof (the “Balance
Sheet Date”), are attached hereto as Schedule 4(f)(i) (the
financial statements referred to in this clause (ii) are the “Interim
Financial Statements,” and, collectively, the financial statements
referred to in clause (i) above and this clause (ii) are the “Financial
Statements”). Each of the Financial Statements (x) has been
prepared in accordance with the books and records of the Company, (y) has been
prepared in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the
periods indicated (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto), and (z)
presents fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial position,
results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at
the respective dates for the periods indicates and for the respective periods
indicated therein, except as otherwise noted therein and subject to normal and
recurring year-end adjustments and the absence of notes that will not,
individually or in the aggregate, be material. The Company maintains
a standard system of accounting established and administered in accordance with
GAAP.
(ii) All
accounts receivable of the Company and its Subsidiaries that are reflected on
the Balance Sheet or on the accounting records of the Company and its
Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date (collectively, the “Accounts
Receivable”) represent or will represent valid obligations arising from
sales actually made or services actually performed in the Ordinary Course of
Business. Unless paid prior to the Closing Date, the Accounts
Receivable are or will be as of the Closing Date current and collectible net of
the respective reserves shown on the Balance Sheet or on the accounting records
of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date (which reserves are
believed by the Company to be adequate in all material respects and calculated
consistent with past practice).
(iii) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any Indebtedness, Liabilities or
obligations of any nature (whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise,
whether known or unknown) whether or not required, if known, to be reflected in
or reserved against or otherwise described on a consolidated balance sheet of
the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP or the notes thereto, except
Indebtedness, Liabilities and obligations (A) as and to the extent fully
reflected in, reserved against or otherwise described in the balance sheets
included in the Financial Statements, (B) liabilities incurred for legal and
transactional expenses in connection with the Transactions or this Agreement,
(C) incurred after the Balance Sheet Date in the Ordinary Course of Business,
which, in all such cases, individually and in the aggregate would not have a
Material Adverse Effect, or (D) liabilities pursuant to any Material Contract
(as defined in Section
4(s) below) to which a Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or
any Contract entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the
Ordinary Course of Business (except to the extent any such liability would not
be ascertainable by reference to such Contract). Since the Balance
Sheet Date, neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries
has failed to promptly pay and discharge any current Liabilities except where
disputed in good faith by appropriate proceedings, and has not accelerated the
collection of any accounts receivable.
(g) Brokers and Other
Advisors. No Person has acted, directly or indirectly, as a
broker, finder or financial advisor for the Company, Parent or Seller in
connection with the Transactions, and no Person is entitled to any fee or
commission or like payment in respect thereof.
(h)Absence of Certain Changes or
Events. Since the Balance Sheet Date, there have not been any
events, changes, occurrences or state of facts that, individually or in the
aggregate, have had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. Since the Balance Sheet Date, the Company and its
Subsidiaries have carried on and operated their respective businesses in all
material respects in the Ordinary Course of Business. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, since the Balance Sheet Date, except
as contemplated by the Transactions or this Agreement:
(i) there has
not been any declaration, setting aside or payment of any dividend or other
distribution in respect of any shares of capital stock of the Company or any
repurchase, redemption or other acquisition by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries of any outstanding shares of capital stock or other securities of
or other ownership interest in the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(ii) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has made any loan (other than advances
of compensation) to, or entered into any other material transaction (other than
employment-related transactions) with, any of its Affiliates, directors,
officers or employees other than in the Ordinary Course of
Business;
(iii) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has mortgaged, pledged or been subjected
to any Lien (other than the Permitted Exceptions) on any of its material assets,
or acquired any material assets or sold, assigned, conveyed, leased or otherwise
disposed of or Transferred any material assets of the Company or any Subsidiary,
except for assets acquired or sold, assigned, conveyed, leased or otherwise
disposed of or Transferred in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(iv) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has issued any note, bond or other debt
security or created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed any indebtedness for
borrowed money or capitalized lease obligation involving more than $100,000 in
the aggregate;
(v) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has assigned, granted any exclusive
license or sublicense of any rights under or with respect to, or otherwise
Transferred, any material Intellectual Property, except non-exclusive licenses
granted in the Ordinary Course of Business;
(vi) neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received notice of, instituted or
settled any material Proceeding;
(vii) there has
been no change made or authorized in the certificate of incorporation, bylaws or
other comparable organizational documents of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries except as expressly contemplated by this Agreement;
(viii) neither
the Company nor any Subsidiary has issued, sold or otherwise disposed of any of
its capital stock, or granted any options, warrants or other rights to purchase
or obtain (including upon conversion, exchange or exercise) any of its capital
stock except to the Purchaser pursuant to this Agreement or under the Company’s
2009 Equity Incentive Plan;
(ix) none of
Company or any of its Subsidiaries has agreed, committed, arranged or entered
into any understanding to do anything set forth in this Section
4(h).
(i) Legal
Proceedings. Except for matters
that have not had or would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or
in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect, there is no pending or, to
the Knowledge of the Company, Parent or Seller threatened legal, administrative,
arbitral or other Proceeding against, or governmental or regulatory
investigation of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or to the Knowledge of
the Company, Parent or Seller, pending or threatened, against any of the
officers, directors or employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with
respect to their business activities on behalf of the Company), or to which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is otherwise a party before any Governmental
Authority, nor is there any Order imposed (or, to the Knowledge of the Company,
Parent or Seller threatened to be imposed) upon the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries or the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, by or
before any Governmental Authority. To Knowledge of the Company,
Parent or Seller, there is no action, suit, proceeding, hearing or investigation
that is expected to be brought against Company or any Subsidiary that would
have or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(j) Compliance with Laws,
Permits.
(i) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects
with all Laws and Permits applicable to it, any of its properties or other
assets or any of its businesses or operations, except for any noncompliance with Permits that,
individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries hold all material Permits
necessary for the lawful conduct of their respective businesses as they are now
being conducted and as currently proposed by their respective managements to be
conducted, and each such material
Permit is in full force and effect and will continue to be in full force and
effect on identical terms upon the consummation of the Transactions, other than
any Permits the failure of which to remain in full force and effect would not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(iii) There is
no term or provision of any Law or Order applicable to or binding upon the
Company, that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. To the Knowledge of the Company, Parent or Seller, none of
the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any
contract or covenant (either with the Company or with another entity) relating
to employment, patent, other proprietary information
disclosure,
non-competition, or non-solicitation, other than
any such violations that would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(k) Compliance with Securities
Laws. Subject to the accuracy of the representations made by
the Purchaser in Article 5 hereof, the
offer and transfer of the Purchased Shares to the Purchaser is exempt from the
registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities
Act. Neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates,
nor any Person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged in any form of general
solicitation or general advertising, including but not limited to,
advertisement, articles, notices or other communications published in any
newspaper, magazine or similar medium or broadcast over television or radio, or
any seminar or meeting whose attendees have been invited by any general
solicitation or general advertising, in connection with the offer and sale of
the Purchased Shares.
(l) No Integrated
Offering. None of the Company, its Subsidiaries, any of their
Affiliates, and any Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly,
made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any
security, under circumstances that would require registration or qualification
of any of the Purchased Shares under the Securities Act or cause the offering of
the Purchased Shares to be integrated with prior or concurrent offerings by the
Company for purposes of the Securities Act. None of the Company, its
Subsidiaries, their Affiliates and any Person acting on their behalf will take
any action or steps referred to in the preceding sentence that would require
registration or qualification of any of the Purchased Shares under the
Securities Act or cause the offering of the Purchased Shares to be integrated
with any other offering.
(m) Subsidiaries. Schedule 4(m) sets
forth each Subsidiary of the Company and the jurisdiction in which each such
Subsidiary is incorporated or organized, the number of shares of its authorized
capital stock, the number and class of shares thereof duly issued and
outstanding, the names of all stockholders or other equity owners and the number
of shares of stock owned by each stockholder or the amount of equity owned by
each equity owner thereof. Each Subsidiary of the Company is a duly
organized and validly existing corporation or other entity in good standing
under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization and is
duly qualified or authorized to do business as a foreign corporation or entity
and is in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction in which it owns or
leases real property and each other jurisdiction in which the conduct of its
business or the ownership of its properties requires such qualification or
authorization, except for such jurisdictions in which the failure to be
qualified and in good standing would not have a Material Adverse
Effect. Each Subsidiary of the Company has all requisite corporate or
entity power and authority necessary to own, lease and operate all of its
properties and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being conducted
and as currently proposed by its management to be conducted. The
outstanding shares of capital stock or equity interests of each Subsidiary have
been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and
were issued in compliance with all applicable securities Laws, and all such
shares or other equity interests represented as being owned by the Company are
owned by it free and clear of any and all Liens (including any option, right of
first refusal, proxy, voting trust or agreement, or Transfer restriction under
any stockholder or similar agreement) except as set forth in Schedule 4(m). No
shares of capital stock are held by any Subsidiary of the Company as treasury
stock. There is no existing option, warrant, call, right or Contract
of any character to which any Subsidiary of the Company is a party requiring,
and there
are no
securities of any Subsidiary of the Company outstanding which upon conversion or
exchange would require, the issuance, sale or other Transfer of any additional
shares of capital stock or other equity interests of any Subsidiary of the
Company or other securities convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the
right to subscribe for or purchase shares of capital stock or other equity
interests of any Subsidiary of the Company. Other than the
Subsidiaries of the Company, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the
Company owns, directly or indirectly, any shares of capital stock or equity or
ownership interests in, any other Person (collectively, “Third-Party
Interests”). Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the
Company have any rights to, or are bound by any commitment or obligation to,
acquire by any means, directly or indirectly, any Third-Party Interests or to
make any investment in any Person.
(n) Corporate
Records.
(i) The
Company has delivered to the Purchaser true, correct and complete copies of the
certificates of incorporation (each certified by the Secretary of State or other
appropriate official of the applicable jurisdiction of organization) and by-laws
(each certified by the secretary, assistant secretary or other appropriate
officer) or comparable organizational, documents of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries.
(ii) The
minute books of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries previously made
available to the Purchaser contain true, correct and complete records of all
meetings and accurately, reflect in all material respects all other corporate
action of the stockholders and board of directors (including committees thereof)
of the Company and its Subsidiaries. The stock certificate books and
stock transfer ledgers of the Company and its Subsidiaries previously made
available to the Purchaser are true, correct and complete. All stock
transfer Taxes levied or payable with respect to all Transfers of shares of the
Company and its Subsidiaries prior to the date hereof have been paid and
appropriate transfer Tax stamps affixed.
(o) Taxes. Except
as set forth on Schedule
4(o):
(i) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries has filed all Tax Returns that were
required to be filed by it. All such Tax Returns are true, correct
and complete in all material respects and the Company has maintained, to the
extent required, documentation supporting all positions taken
thereon. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has timely paid all
Taxes which were required to be paid by it. The amount shown on the
Financial Statements as provision for Taxes is sufficient for payment of all
accrued and unpaid Taxes for the period then ended and all prior
periods.
(ii) Subsequent
to July 19, 2005, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been a
member of an Affiliated Group filing a Consolidated Tax Return, other than an
Affiliated Group of which Parent is the parent corporation. Each such
Affiliated Group of which Parent is the parent corporation has filed all
Consolidated Tax Returns that were required to be filed by it for each taxable
period during which any of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries was a member
of such Affiliated Group. All such Consolidated Tax Returns are true,
correct and complete in all material respects and Parent has maintained, to the
extent required by applicable Laws, documentation supporting all positions taken
thereon to the extent relating to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. Subsequent to July 19, 2005, each such
Affiliated
Group of which Parent is the parent corporation has timely paid all Taxes which
were required to be paid by it for each taxable period during which any of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries was a member of such Affiliated
Group. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to
or bound by any tax sharing, tax allocation, tax indemnity or similar agreement
or arrangement (whether or not written). Neither the Company nor any
of its Subsidiaries has any liability for the Taxes of another Person (other
than the Company and its Subsidiaries) under Treasury Regulation Section
1.1502-6 (or any comparable provision of state, local or foreign Tax Law), as a
transferee or successor, by contract, or otherwise.
(iii) Except as
set forth in Schedule
4(o)(iii), none of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ federal or
state income Tax Returns or other material Tax Returns have been audited or
examined by any Taxing Authority, and no controversy with respect to Taxes of
any type in a material amount is pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company,
Parent or Seller, threatened with regard to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries. Except as set forth in Schedule 4(o)(iii),
there have been no audits or other examinations of any of the Consolidated Tax
Returns filed by any Affiliated Group for any taxable period during which any of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries was a member of such Affiliated Group,
and no controversy with respect to Taxes of any type in a material amount is
pending or, to the Knowledge of the Company, Parent or Seller, threatened with
regard to such Affiliated Group.
(iv) The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects with
all applicable Laws relating to the payment and withholding of Taxes, and has
duly and timely withheld and paid over to the appropriate Taxing Authority all
amounts required to be so withheld and paid under all applicable
Laws.
(v) No claim
has been made by any Taxing Authority in a jurisdiction where the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries does not file Tax Returns that it is or may be subject to
taxation by, or required to file any Tax Return in, that
jurisdiction.
(vi) There are
no outstanding assessments, claims or deficiencies for any material amount of
Taxes of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that have been proposed,
asserted or assessed. No issue has been raised by a Taxing Authority in any
prior examination of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which, by
application of the same or similar principles, would reasonably be expected to
result in a proposed deficiency of Taxes in a material amount for any subsequent
taxable period. There are no Liens for Taxes (other than Taxes not
yet due and payable) upon any of the assets of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(vii) None of
the Transactions will give rise to any withholding obligation under any
provision of Law (including Section 1445 of the Code).
(viii) For
purposes of this Section 4
(o) , any reference
to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to include any Person
that merged with or was liquidated into the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
respectively.
(p) Property and
Assets. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good and
marketable title to all of the tangible properties and assets that each purports
to own, including all tangible properties and assets reflected in the Financial
Statements, except those disposed of
since the
Balance Sheet Date in the Ordinary Course of Business, and none of such
properties or assets is subject to any Lien other than the Permitted
Exceptions. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries owns any
real property.
(q) Intellectual
Property.
(i) The
Company and its Subsidiaries own or otherwise have (or believes in good faith
they can acquire on commercially reasonable terms) sufficient rights in and to
all Intellectual Property used in and necessary to conduct the business of the
Company and its Subsidiaries as now being conducted and as currently proposed by
its management to be conducted.
(ii) All Owned
Registered IP (other than patents and patent applications) which is material to
the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as now being conducted is
owned entirely by the Company and its Subsidiaries, is valid and subsisting, and
all patents and patent applications owned by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries which are material to the business of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as now being conducted are owned entirely by the Company and its
Subsidiaries and, to the Knowledge of the Company are valid and
subsisting. All necessary registration, maintenance, renewal, and
other relevant filing fees due through the date hereof in connection with the
Owned Registered IP (other than any Owned Registered IP that has been
intentionally abandoned by the Company) have been timely paid and all necessary
documents and certificates in connection therewith have been timely filed with
the relevant patent, copyright, trademark, or other authorities in the United
States or foreign jurisdictions, as the case may be, for the purposes of
maintaining such Owned Registered IP in full force and effect, except where the
failure to timely pay such fees or timely file such documents would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(iii) The
Company is not a party to any action, suit or proceeding, and is not asserting
any claim, against any Person for infringing or misappropriating any of the
Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ Intellectual Property. To the
Knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is
infringing or misappropriating the Intellectual Property rights of any other
Person. No claim or demand is
pending, or to the Knowledge of the Company, threatened against the Company or
any Subsidiary that challenges the validity, enforceability, use or
exclusive ownership of any of Intellectual Property or alleges any infringement,
misappropriation, violation, or unfair competition or trade practices
(including, without limitation, any claim that the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries must license or refrain from using any Intellectual Property of any
third party). None of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ owned
Intellectual Property is subject to any outstanding Order that restricts in any
manner the use, Transfer or licensing thereof by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or affects the validity, use or enforceability of any such
Intellectual Property, except for any restriction that would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(iv) The
Company and its Subsidiaries have executed written agreements with all of their
employees who have contributed to the development of the Intellectual Property
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in which such employees have assigned or
agreed to assign to the Company or its Subsidiaries all their rights in and to
all material Intellectual Property they may develop for the Company in the
course of their employment pursuant to the terms of such
agreements,
except where the failure to have any such agreement would not have a Material
Adverse Effect. The Company and its Subsidiaries have executed
written agreements with all consultants and contractors who have been retained
in connection with the development of material Intellectual Property by which
the consultants and contractors have assigned to the Company or its Subsidiaries
all their rights in and to such material Intellectual Property and agreed to
confidentiality provisions in such agreements, except where the failure to have
such agreements would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) No
government funding and no facilities of a university, college, other educational
institution or research center were used in the development of any Intellectual
Property owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries where, as a result of
such funding or the use of such facilities, the government or any university,
college, other educational institution or research center has any rights in such
Intellectual Property owned by the Company.
(r) Insurance. The
Company and each of its Subsidiaries has in full force and effect fire and
casualty insurance policies with extended coverage, sufficient in amount
(subject to reasonable deductions) to allow it to replace any of its properties
that might be damaged or destroyed. All such insurance policies are
in force and effect, and the Company and each of its Subsidiaries has timely
paid all applicable premiums thereunder. Except as set forth on Schedule 4(r),
to the Knowledge of the Company, Parent and Seller, no event relating to the
Company or any of the Subsidiaries has occurred which would reasonably be
expected to result in a retroactive upward adjustment in premiums under any such
insurance policies or which would reasonably be expected to result in a
prospective upward adjustment in such premiums.
(s) Material Contracts and
Obligations.
(i) The
Company has made available to the Purchaser copies of all of the following
Contracts (or written summaries in the case of oral Contracts) to which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it is bound (but only
to the extent material): (A) all material Contracts to which Parent, Seller or
any of their Affiliates (other than Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries), or
any stockholder, officer, director or “associate” (as such term is defined in
the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act) of any such
Person, is a party, (B) all indenture, loan or credit agreements, note
agreements, deeds of trust, mortgages, security agreements, promissory notes and
other Contracts relating to or evidencing Indebtedness, (C) all Contracts
granting any option to purchase assets, or acquire an exclusive license,
preemptive right, right of first refusal or similar right to any Person, (D) all
covenants not to compete or similar restriction on its ability to conduct a
business and any standstill agreements, (E) all agreements to register
securities under the Securities Act, and (F) all Contracts with the five (5)
largest customers (based on net sales by the Company and its Subsidiaries) of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, for the most recently
completed fiscal year and for the period beginning on January 3, 2010 and ending
on the Balance Sheet Date (the Contracts described in clauses (A) through (F)
above, collectively referred to as the “Material
Contracts”). To the Knowledge of the Company, all of the
Material Contracts are valid, binding and in force and effect on the
Company. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in
default under any material provision of any of such Material Contracts, except
where any such default would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) As of the
date hereof, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any
written communication from any other party to the Material Contracts stating
that such other party has decided or plans to terminate or otherwise discontinue
such Contract and, to the Knowledge of the Company, no other party to any such
Material Contract is in default under any provision thereof, except in each case
where such termination or discontinuance or default would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(iii) None of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party to or bound by any guaranty of
Indebtedness of another Person.
(iv) Schedule 4(s)
attached hereto describes in reasonable detail all Indebtedness owed by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries to Parent or Seller or any of their other
Affiliates.
(t) Employee
Benefits.
(i) The
Company has made available to the Purchaser accurate and complete copies of all
Company Plan documents. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary nor
any ERISA Affiliate has ever maintained or contributed to any “defined benefit
plan” as defined in Section 3(35) of ERISA, nor do any of them have a current or
contingent obligation to contribute to, or Liability with respect to, any
“multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA), or any multiple
employer plan within the meaning of ERISA Section 210 or Code Section 413(c), or
any “multiple employer welfare arrangement” (as defined in ERISA Section
3(40)). No Company Plan is subject to Section 412 of the
Code.
(ii) The
Company Plans have been operated, administered and maintained in all material
respects in accordance with their terms and applicable Law. Each
Company Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and any
related trust thereunder intended to be exempt from federal income taxation
under Section 501(a) of the Code has either (A) applied for a favorable
determination letter, prior to the expiration of the requisite remedial
amendment period under applicable Treasury Regulations or IRS pronouncements,
but has not yet received a response, (B) obtained at least one favorable
determination, notification, advisory and/or opinion letter, as applicable, on
which the Company is entitled to rely, as to its qualified status from the IRS,
or (C) still has a remaining period of time to apply for such a determination
letter from the IRS and to make any amendments necessary to obtain a favorable
determination, and nothing has occurred with respect to the operation of such
Company Plan that would reasonably be expected to cause the revocation of such
most recent determination (if any), or the imposition of any Liability, penalty
or tax under ERISA or the Code, except where any failure to comply has not had,
nor reasonably would be expected to have, a Material Adverse
Effect.
(iii) None of
the Company Plans provides for post-employment life or health insurance,
benefits or coverage for any participant or any dependent of a participant,
except as may be required under Section 4980B of the Code, Part 6 of Subtitle B
of Title I of ERISA, and the regulations thereunder, or as may be required under
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Title III, Section 3001, and
except at the expense of the participant or the participant’s
dependent(s).
(iv) Except as
set forth on Schedule
4(t)(iv) or as otherwise
contemplated by this Agreement or the Transactions contemplated hereby, neither
the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the consummation of the
Transactions will (A) result in any payment becoming due to any Company
employee, (B) increase any benefits otherwise payable under any Company Plan, or
(C) result in the acceleration of the time of payment or vesting of any such
benefits under any Company Plan.
(u) Labor.
(i) Neither
the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a party to any labor or collective
bargaining agreement and there are no labor or collective bargaining agreements
which pertain to employees of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(ii) No
Employees are represented by any labor organization. No labor
organization or group of employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has
made a pending demand for recognition, and there are no representation
proceedings or petitions seeking a representation proceeding presently pending
or, to the Knowledge of the Company, Parent and Seller, threatened to be brought
or filed, with the National Labor Relations Board or other labor relations
tribunal. To the Knowledge of the Company, Parent and Seller, there
is no organizing activity involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
pending or threatened by any labor organization or group of employees of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(iii) There are
no (A) strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, lockouts or arbitrations or (B)
material grievances or other labor disputes pending or, to the Knowledge of the
Company, Parent and Seller, threatened against or involving the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries. To the Knowledge of the Company, Parent and
Seller, there are no unfair labor practice charges, grievances or complaints
pending or threatened by or on behalf of any employee or group of employees of
the Company that would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(iv) There are
no complaints, charges or claims against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
pending with any Governmental Authority, or, to Knowledge of the Company, Parent
and Seller, that
have been threatened in writing to be brought or filed, with any Governmental
Authority based on, or arising out of, the employment or termination of
employment or failure to employ by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, of
any individual. There has been no “mass layoff” or “plant closing” (as defined
by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988, as amended)
with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries within the six (6) months
prior to Closing.
(v) To the
Knowledge of the Company, Parent and Seller, none of the officers or employees
listed on Schedule
4(u)(v) intends to terminate his or her employment with the Company, and
the Company does not have a present intention to terminate the employment of any
such officer or employee.
(v) Related-Party
Transactions. Schedule 4(v) lists
all material Contracts to which the Company, on the one hand, and Parent, Seller
or any of their Affiliates (other than Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries),
or any stockholder, officer, director or “associate” (as such
term is
defined in the rules and regulations promulgated under the Securities Act), on
the other hand, are parties. Except as set forth in Schedule 4(v) or as
otherwise contemplated by the Transactions, the 2009 Transaction Documents or
this Agreement, to the Knowledge of the Company, no director or officer of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) owns any direct or indirect interest of
any kind in, or controls or is a director, officer, employee or partner of, or
consultant to, or lender to or borrower from or has the right to participate in
the profits of, any Person (excluding Parent, Seller or any of their Affiliates)
which is (A) a competitor, supplier, customer, landlord, tenant, creditor or
debtor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (B) engaged in a business
related to the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or (C) a
participant in any transaction to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
is a party, or (ii) is a party to any Contract with the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries.
(w) Environmental, Health and
Safety Matters.
(i) Except as
set forth on Schedule
4(w),
the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance in all material respects with
all Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements.
(ii) Except
for such matters which have not resulted and would not reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect,
neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice, claim,
subpoena, or
report from any Person (A) alleging any violation by such entity of any
Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements, (B) asserting any claim that the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is liable to conduct any investigatory,
remedial or corrective actions under Environmental, Health and Safety
Requirements at any real property formerly or currently occupied by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries, or (C) asserting any other liability under
Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements.
(iii) The
Company has furnished or made available to the Purchaser all environmental
audits, reports and other material environmental documents (including, without
limitation, Phase I and Phase II site assessments) that are in its possession or
under its reasonable control and relate to the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or their operation of any facilities or real property ever owned,
operated or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(x) Customers. Schedule 4(x) sets
forth a true and complete list of the five (5) largest customers (based on net
sales by the Company and its Subsidiaries) of the Company and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, for the most recently completed fiscal year and sets forth
opposite the name of each such customer the percentage of consolidated net sales
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, attributable to such
customer and distributor. Schedule 4(x) also
sets forth, for the period beginning on January 3, 2010 and ending on the
Balance Sheet Date, a true and complete list of the five (5) largest customers
(based on net sales by the Company and its Subsidiaries) of Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, for the current fiscal year and sets forth
opposite the name of each such customer the percentage of consolidated net sales
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, attributable to such
customer.
(y) SEC
Filings. Parent’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the fiscal
years ended December 27, 2008 and January 2, 2010, and all other reports,
registration statements, definitive proxy statements or information statements
filed by it or any of its Subsidiaries subsequent to January 2, 2010 under the
Securities Act, or under the Exchange Act, in the form filed (collectively, the
“SEC
Filings”) with the SEC as of the date filed, (i) complied in all material
respects as to form with the applicable requirements under the Securities Act or
the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and (ii) did not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be
stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each of the
financial statements contained in or incorporated by reference into any such SEC
Filing (including the related notes and schedules) fairly presented in all
material respects Parent’s financial position and that of its Subsidiaries as of
the date of such statement, and each of the consolidated balance sheets,
consolidated statements of earnings, consolidated statements of stockholders’
equity and comprehensive income, and consolidated statements of cash flows or
equivalent statements in such SEC Filings (including any related notes and
schedules thereto) fairly and accurately presented in all material respects, the
results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and changes in cash
flows, as the case may be, of Parent and its Subsidiaries for the periods to
which those statements relate, in each case in accordance with GAAP consistently
applied during the periods involved, except in each case as may be noted
therein, and subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and as permitted by
Form 10-Q in the case of unaudited statements.
(z) Solvency. Seller,
individually, is, and the Company, Parent and Seller, taken as a whole on a
consolidated basis, are, and after consummating the Transactions will be,
Solvent.
(aa) Fairness
Opinion. Parent has received a written opinion from Moelis
& Company to the effect that, as of July 28, 2010, based upon and subject to
the assumptions, procedures, factors, qualifications and limitations set forth
therein, the Purchase Price is fair, from a financial point of view, to Parent
and Seller, and such opinion has not been withdrawn, revoked or modified as of
the date of this Agreement.
(bb) Disclosure. The
Company has made available to the Purchaser all the information reasonably
available to the Company that the Purchaser has requested for deciding whether
to acquire the Purchased Shares. To the Knowledge of the Company, no
representation or warranty of the Company contained in this Agreement, as
qualified by the Disclosure Schedule, and no certificate furnished or to be
furnished by the Company, Parent or Seller to Purchaser at the Closing contains
any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements contained herein or therein not
misleading in light of the circumstances under which they were
made.
5. REPRESENTATIONS,
WARRANTIES AND CERTAIN AGREEMENTS OF THE PURCHASER. The Purchaser
hereby represents and warrants to Parent and Seller that the following
representations and warranties are true and correct as of the date hereof (or
such other date and time specified in a representation and warranty), and they
will be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that
such representations and warranties are qualified by the term “material” or
contain a term such as “Material Adverse Effect,” in which case such
representations and warranties (as so written, including the term “material” or
“Material Adverse
Effect”)
will be true and correct in all respects) as of the Closing Date, except as
otherwise indicated.
(a) Organization, Good Standing
and Qualification. The Purchaser is a corporation duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of Japan and has
all requisite corporate power and authority necessary to own, lease and operate
all of its properties and assets and to carry on its business as it is now being
conducted.
(b) Authority. The
Purchaser has all necessary corporate power, authority and legal capacity to
execute and deliver this Agreement and to consummate the
Transactions. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the
performance by the Purchaser of its obligations hereunder, and the consummation
by the Purchaser of the Transactions, have been duly authorized and approved by
all necessary corporate action of the Purchaser and no other corporate action on
the part of such Party is necessary to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by the Purchaser of this Agreement and the consummation of the
Transactions. This Agreement has been duly and validly executed and
delivered by the Purchaser and, assuming due authorization, execution and
delivery hereof by each of the Company, Parent and Seller, constitutes legal,
valid and binding obligations of the Purchaser, enforceable against the
Purchaser in accordance with its terms, except that such enforceability (i) may
be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar Laws of general application affecting or relating
to the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and (ii) is subject to general
principles of equity, whether considered in a proceeding at Law or in
equity.
(c) No
Conflicts. None of the execution and delivery of this
Agreement by the Purchaser, the consummation by the Purchaser of the
Transactions, or compliance by the Purchaser with any of the terms or provisions
of this Agreement, will conflict with or result in a violation of any applicable
Law.
(d) Purchase for Own
Account. The Purchased Shares are being acquired for
investment for the Purchaser’s own account, not as a nominee or agent, in the
ordinary course of business, and not with a view to the distribution
thereof. The Purchaser does not have any agreement or understanding,
whether or not legally binding, direct or indirect, with any other Person, to
sell or otherwise distribute the Purchased Shares. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Parties acknowledge (i) that the Purchaser does not agree to
hold any of the Purchased Shares for any minimum or other specific term, and
(ii) the Purchaser’s right at all times to sell or otherwise dispose of all or
any part of such securities in compliance with applicable federal and state
securities Laws and as otherwise contemplated by this Agreement.
(e) Investment
Experience. The Purchaser understands that the purchase of the
Purchased Shares involves substantial risk. The Purchaser has
experience as an investor in securities of companies and acknowledges that the
Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of its investment in the Purchased
Shares, and has such knowledge and experience in financial or business matters
to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of this investment in the
Purchased Shares and protecting the Purchaser’s own interests in connection with
this investment.
(f) Status of the
Purchaser. The Purchaser is an “accredited investor” as such
term is defined in Rule 501 promulgated under the Securities Act. The
Purchaser acknowledges that the Purchased Shares were not offered to the
Purchaser by means of any form of general or public solicitation or general
advertising, or publicly disseminated advertisements or sales literature,
including (i) any advertisement, article, notice or other communication
published in any newspaper, magazine, or similar media, or broadcast over
television or radio, or (ii) any seminar or meeting to which the Purchaser was
invited by any of the foregoing means of communications.
(g) Reliance Upon the
Purchaser’s Representations; Observance of Foreign Laws. The
Purchaser understands that the transfer of the Purchased Shares to it will not
be registered under the Securities Act on the ground that such transfer will be
exempt from registration under the Securities Act, and that the Company’s and
the Purchaser’s reliance on such exemption is based on the Purchaser’s
representations set forth herein. Purchaser hereby represents that it
has satisfied itself as to observance in all material respects of the Laws of
Japan in connection with any invitation to subscribe for the Purchased Shares or
any use of this Agreement in connection with such invitation, including (i) the
material legal requirements within Japan for the purchase of the Purchased
Shares, and (ii) any material governmental or other material consents that may
need to be obtained for the purchase of the Purchased
Shares. Purchaser’s subscription and payment for and continued
beneficial ownership of the Purchased Shares will comply in all material
respects with any applicable securities or other Laws of Japan.
(h) Receipt of
Information. The Purchaser has had an opportunity to ask
questions and receive answers from the Company, Parent and Seller regarding the
terms and conditions of the transfer of the Purchased Shares to the Purchaser
and the business, properties, prospects and financial condition of the Company
and its Subsidiaries and to obtain any additional information requested and,
subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and
Parent and Seller in Section 4(y) and 4(aa) hereof, has
received and considered all information the Purchaser deems relevant to make an
informed decision to purchase the Purchased Shares. Neither such
inquiries nor any other investigation conducted by or on behalf of the Purchaser
or its representatives or counsel thereof shall modify, amend or affect the
Purchaser’s right to rely on the truth, accuracy and completeness of such
information and the representations and warranties of the Company, Parent and
Seller, contained in this Agreement.
(i) Restricted
Securities. The Purchaser understands that the Purchased
Shares have not been, and will not upon transfer to the Purchaser be, registered
under the Securities Act and that the Purchaser may not Transfer any of the
Purchased Shares unless (i)(A) they are registered with the SEC and qualified by
state authorities, or (B) an exemption from such registration and/or
qualification requirements is available, (ii) upon request of the Company, the
Purchaser provides an opinion of counsel, in a form reasonably acceptable to the
Company, to the effect that the Transfer of the Purchased Shares may be made
without registration under the Securities Act or an exemption from such
registration and/or qualification requirements is available, and (iii) the
transferee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement that
place restrictions on the Purchased Shares.
(j) Legends. The
Purchaser understands that the Purchased Shares and any securities issued in
respect of or exchange for the Purchased Shares, may bear one or all of the
following legends:
(i) “THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE, MAY NOT BE
SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT RELATING THERETO UNDER SUCH ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION UNDER SUCH ACT OR SUCH LAWS.”
(ii) Any
legend required by the securities Laws of any state to the extent such Laws are
applicable to the Purchased Shares and any securities issued in respect of or
exchange for the Purchased Shares represented by the certificate so
legended.
6. PRE-CLOSING
COVENANTS.
(a) Conduct of Business Prior to
the Closing. From the date hereof until the Closing, except as
otherwise provided in this Agreement or consented to in writing by the Purchaser
(which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Company
shall, and Parent and Seller shall use reasonable best efforts to cause the
Company to, (x) conduct the business of the Company in the Ordinary Course of
Business; and (y) use reasonable best efforts to maintain and preserve intact
the current organization, business and franchise of the Company and to preserve
the rights, franchises, goodwill and relationships of its employees, customers,
lenders, suppliers, regulators and others having business relationships with the
Company, except for any failure to so preserve or maintain such organization,
business or franchise of the Company or otherwise preserve such rights and other
matters that would not be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect
.. Without limiting the foregoing, from the date hereof until the
Closing Date, the Company shall, and Parent and Seller shall use reasonable best
efforts to cause the Company to:
(i) preserve
and maintain all of the Company’s material Permits;
(ii) pay the
Company’s debts, Taxes and other material obligations when due;
(iii) maintain
the properties and assets owned, operated or used by the Company in the same
condition as they were on the date of this Agreement, subject to reasonable wear
and tear;
(iv) continue
without material modification all fire and casualty insurance policies that the
Company maintains on the date of this Agreement, except as required by
applicable Law;
(v) defend
and protect the Company’s material properties and assets from infringement or
usurpation in substantially the same manner as the Company has defended and
protected such properties and assets prior to the date of this
Agreement;
(vi) perform
in all material respects all of the Company’s obligations under all
material
Contracts relating to or affecting the Company’s properties, assets or
business;
(vii) maintain
the Company’s books and records in accordance with past practice;
(viii) comply in
all material respects with all applicable Laws; and
(ix) not agree
or commit to do any of the foregoing.
(b) Access to
Information. From the date hereof until the Closing, the
Company and its Subsidiaries shall, and Parent and Seller shall use reasonable
best efforts to cause the Company and its Subsidiaries to, (i) afford the
Purchaser and its representatives full and free access to and the right to
inspect all of the properties, assets, premises, books and records, Contracts
and other documents and data related to the Company and its Subsidiaries; (ii)
furnish the Purchaser and its representatives with such financial, operating and
other data and information related to the Company and its Subsidiaries as the
Purchaser or any of its representatives may reasonably request; and (iii)
instruct the representatives of Seller, the Company and the Company’s
Subsidiaries to cooperate with the Purchaser in the Purchaser’s investigation of
the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries. Any investigation
pursuant to this Section 6(b) shall be
at the Purchaser’s sole cost and shall be conducted during normal business hours
in such manner as not to interfere unreasonably with the conduct of the business
of Seller, the Company or the Company’s Subsidiaries. Except as set
forth in Section
8(b)(iv), no investigation by the Purchaser or other information received
by the Purchaser shall operate as a waiver or otherwise affect any
representation, warranty, covenant or agreement given or made by Seller, Parent
or the Company in this Agreement. Purchaser acknowledges that all confidential
information provided hereunder shall be subject to the confidentiality provision
set forth in Section 1(f) of the Stockholders’ Agreement.
(c) Notice of Certain
Events.
(i) From the
date hereof until the Closing, Seller shall promptly notify the Purchaser in
writing of:
(A) any
fact, circumstance, event or action the existence, occurrence or taking of which
(1) has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (2) has resulted in, or could reasonably
be expected to result in, any material inaccuracy in any representation or
warranty made by Parent, Seller or the Company hereunder or (3) has resulted in,
or could reasonably be expected to result in, the failure of any of the
conditions set forth in Section 2(a) to be
satisfied;
(B) any
notice or other communication from any Governmental Authority in connection with
the Transactions; and
(C) any
Proceeding commenced or, to the Knowledge of the Company, Parent or Seller,
threatened against, relating to or involving or otherwise affecting the Company,
Parent or Seller that, if pending on the date of this Agreement, would have been
required to have been disclosed pursuant to Section 4(i) or that
relates to the consummation of the Transactions.
(ii) Except as
set forth in Section
8(b)(iv), the Purchaser’s receipt of information pursuant to this Section 6(c) shall
not (A) operate as a waiver of or otherwise affect any representation, warranty,
covenant or agreement given or made by Parent, Seller or the Company in this
Agreement (including Section 9(a)(ii)),
(B) operate as a waiver of or otherwise affect the Purchaser’s right to require
that the conditions set forth in Section 2(a) be
fulfilled on or before the Closing or the Purchaser’s rights to terminate this
Agreement under Section 9(a), or (C)
be deemed to amend or supplement the Disclosure Schedule.
(d) Governmental Approvals and
Consents.
(i) Each of
the Parties shall use commercially reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be
taken, all appropriate action to do, or cause to be done, all things necessary,
proper or advisable under applicable Law or otherwise to consummate and make
effective the Transactions as promptly as practicable, including to (A) obtain
from Governmental Authorities and other Persons all consents, approvals,
authorizations, qualifications and orders as are necessary for the consummation
by such Party of the Transactions and (B) promptly after the date of this
Agreement, but in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of this
Agreement, make all necessary filings, and thereafter make any other required
submissions, with respect to the Transactions required to be made by such Party
under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the
“HSR
Act”) or any other applicable Law. Each Party shall use
commercially reasonable efforts to take such action as may be required to cause
the expiration of the notice period under the HSR Act with respect to the
Transactions as promptly as possible. The Parties hereto shall not
willfully take any action that will have the effect of delaying, impairing or
impeding the receipt of any required consents, authorizations, orders and
approvals.
(ii) Parent
and Seller shall use reasonable best efforts to give all notices to, and obtain
all consents from, all third parties that are described in Section 2(a)(ix) and
Section 4(e) of
the Disclosure Schedule.
(iii) Without
limiting the generality of the Parties’ undertakings pursuant to Sections 6(d)(i) and
6(d)(ii) above,
each of the Parties shall use all reasonable best efforts to:
(A) respond
to any inquiries by any Governmental Authority regarding antitrust or other
matters with respect to the Transactions;
(B) avoid
the imposition of any order or the taking of any action that would restrain,
alter or enjoin the Transactions; and
(C) in
the event any Governmental Order adversely affecting the ability of the Parties
to consummate the Transactions has been issued, to have such Governmental Order
vacated or lifted.
(iv) If any
consent, approval or authorization necessary to preserve any right or benefit
under any Contract to which the Company is a party is not obtained prior to the
Closing, Parent and Seller shall, subsequent to the Closing, cooperate with the
Purchaser and the Company in attempting to obtain such consent, approval or
authorization as promptly thereafter as practicable. If such consent,
approval or authorization cannot be obtained, Parent and Seller
shall use
their reasonable best efforts to provide the Company with the rights and
benefits of the affected Contract for the term thereof, and, if Parent and
Seller provide such rights and benefits, the Company shall assume all
obligations and burdens thereunder.
(v) All
analyses, appearances, meetings, discussions, presentations, memoranda, briefs,
filings, arguments, and proposals made by or on behalf of any Party before any
Governmental Authority or the staff or regulators of any Governmental Authority,
in connection with the Transactions (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not
including any interactions between Parent, Seller or the Company with any
Governmental Authorities in the ordinary course of business thereof, any
disclosure which is not permitted by Law, or any disclosure containing
confidential information) shall be disclosed to the other Parties, or indirectly
to them and restricted to their outside counsel to the extent that the
information’s highly confidential nature reasonably requires, in advance of any
filing, submission or attendance, and, to the extent reasonably possible, the
Parties will consult and cooperate with one another, and consider in good faith
the views of one another, in connection with any such analyses, appearances,
meetings, discussions, presentations, memoranda, briefs, filings, arguments, and
proposals. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of
the Parties, unless prohibited or restricted by Law or any Governmental
Authority, shall promptly notify the other Parties of any communication it or
any of its Affiliates receives from any Governmental Authority relating to a
Proposed Exercise and permit the other Parties to review in advance any proposed
communication by such Party to any Governmental Authority. No Party
shall agree to participate in any meeting with any Governmental Authority in
respect of any filings, investigation or other inquiry unless it consults with
the other Parties in advance and, to the extent permitted by such Governmental
Authority, gives the other Parties the opportunity to attend and participate at
such meeting.
(vi) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing in this Section 6(d) shall
require, or be construed to require, the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates to
agree to (A) sell, hold, divest, discontinue or limit, before or after the
Closing Date, any assets, businesses or interests of the Purchaser, the Company
or any of their respective Affiliates; (B) any conditions relating to, or
changes or restrictions in, the operations of any such assets, businesses or
interests which, in either case, could reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect or materially and adversely impact the economic or
business benefits to the Purchaser of the Transactions; or (C) any material
modification or waiver of the terms and conditions of this
Agreement.
(e) Approval of Parent’s
Stockholders.
(i) As
promptly as reasonably practicable, to the extent the approval of the
stockholders of Parent is required pursuant to applicable Law in order to permit
the sale of the Purchased Shares hereunder, Parent shall prepare and file with
the SEC within ten (10) Business Days of the date of this Agreement the notices
to stockholders and proxy materials necessary to solicit the requisite vote of
such stockholders at an annual or special meeting of Parent (the “Proxy
Materials”), which meeting shall be scheduled for no more than twenty-two
(22) Business Days following the date on which the Proxy Materials are sent to
Parent’s stockholders. The Company, Parent, Seller and the Purchaser
shall cooperate with each other in connection with the preparation of the Proxy
Materials. Parent will use its commercially reasonable efforts to
have the Proxy Materials cleared by any Governmental Authority from which
clearance is
required
by Law as promptly as practicable. Parent shall as promptly as
practicable notify the other Parties of the receipt of any oral or written
comments to the Proxy Materials from any applicable Governmental
Authority. Parent shall cooperate and provide the other Parties with
a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the draft of the Proxy
Materials (including each amendment or supplement thereto). If, at
any time prior to the Closing Date, any information should be discovered by any
Party that should be set forth in an amendment or supplement to the Proxy
Materials so that the Proxy Materials would not include any misstatement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
under which they were made, not misleading, the Party that discovers such
information shall promptly notify the other Parties and, to the extent required
by applicable Law, an appropriate amendment or supplement describing such
information shall be promptly filed by Parent with any applicable Governmental
Authority and disseminated by Parent to the other Parties.
(ii) Subject
to the other provisions of this Agreement, to the extent the approval of the
stockholders of Parent is required pursuant to Delaware Law in order to permit
the sale of the Purchased Shares hereunder, Parent shall (A) take all action
necessary in accordance with Parent’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws
and applicable Law to duly call, give notice of, convene and hold a meeting of
its stockholders as promptly as reasonably practicable following the mailing of
the Proxy Materials for the purpose of obtaining the requisite approval of
Parent’s stockholders to consummate the Transactions, and (B) use its best
efforts to solicit from its stockholders proxies in favor of the approval of the
Transactions.
(f) Settlement of Working
Capital. The Company, the Purchaser, Parent and Seller each
acknowledge and agree that (x) the Company owes Parent $2.5 million in principal
amount (plus interest accrued thereon) under that certain Working Capital and
Intercompany Agreement dated June 27, 2009, by and between Parent and the
Company, as amended on June 30, 2010 and subject to that certain forbearance
letter dated July 13, 2010 (as amended and subject to the forbearance letter,
the “Working
Capital Agreement”), which shall be repaid by the Company to Parent no
later than August 30, 2010, and (y) no further borrowing by the Company from
Parent shall occur after the date hereof under the Working Capital Agreement or
otherwise under any of the 2009 Transaction Documents.
(g) Communication with
Employees. The Company shall, and Parent and Seller shall
cause the Company to, reasonably facilitate communication by the Purchaser with
the Company’s employees to enable the Purchaser to communicate to the Company’s
employees (including, if requested by the Purchaser, at a meeting with the
Company’s employees) the Purchaser’s views and intentions with respect to the
operation of the Company’s business after the Closing.
7. CERTAIN POST-CLOSING
COVENANTS.
(a) Certain Tax
Matters.
(i) Filing of Tax
Returns. Purchaser shall prepare and file or cause to be
prepared and filed all Tax Returns for the Company and its Subsidiaries that are
filed after the Closing Date, except for Consolidated Tax Returns (as defined in
the Stockholders’ Agreement)
that are
required to be filed by Parent pursuant to Section 10 of the Stockholders’
Agreement, which Consolidated Tax Returns shall be prepared and filed by Parent
in accordance with Section 10 of the Stockholders’ Agreement. At
least fifteen (15) days prior to the due date of any Tax Return that includes a
period prior to the Closing Date, the party responsible pursuant to this Section 7(a)(i) for
filing the Tax Return (the “Filing
Party”) (i.e., either the Purchaser or Parent) shall deliver to the other
party (the “Reviewing
Party”) (i.e., Parent in the case of a Tax Return to be filed by the
Purchaser and to the Purchaser in the case of a Tax Return to be filed by
Parent) for their review a draft of such Tax Returns (or in the case of a
Consolidated Tax Return, those portions of such Tax Return relating to the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries). The Filing Party shall consider
in good faith any comments that the Reviewing Party may have with respect to
such Tax Returns (or portions thereof).
(ii) Cooperation on Tax
Matters. Each of the Parties agrees to cooperate fully, as and
to the extent reasonably requested by any other Party, in connection with the
filing of Tax Returns pursuant to this Section 7(a) and any
audit, litigation or other proceeding with respect to Taxes of the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries for any taxable period beginning prior to the Closing
Date. Such cooperation shall include the retention and (upon the
reasonable request of Purchaser or Parent, as the case may be) the provision of
records and information that are reasonably relevant to any such audit,
litigation or other proceeding and making employees available on a mutually
convenient basis to provide additional information and explanation of any
material provided hereunder. The Company and its Subsidiaries, on the
one hand, and on the other, Seller and Parent, agree (A) to retain all books and
records with respect to Tax matters pertinent to the Company and its
Subsidiaries relating to any taxable period beginning prior to the Closing Date
until the expiration of the statute of limitations applicable thereto (and, to
the extent notified by Purchaser or Parent, any extensions thereof), and to
abide by all record retention agreements entered into with any taxing authority,
and (B) to give Parent or Purchaser, as applicable, reasonable written notice
prior to transferring, destroying or discarding any such books and records and,
if requested by Parent or Purchaser, as the case may be, Purchaser, Company and
its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and on the other, Seller and Parent, shall
allow Parent or Purchaser, as applicable, to take possession of such books and
records. Purchaser and Parent further agree, upon the request of the
other Party, to provide such other Party with all information that Parent,
Seller or the Company may be required to report pursuant to Sections 6043 or
6043A of the Code or the Treasury Regulations promulgated
thereunder.
(iii) Tax Sharing
Agreements. Any tax allocation, tax sharing, tax indemnity or
other similar agreement or arrangement (including Section 10 of the
Stockholders’ Agreement), whether written or oral, between the Company (or any
of its Subsidiaries) and Parent (or any of its other Affiliates) shall be
terminated as of the Closing Date and, after the Closing Date, neither the
Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be bound thereby or have any liability
thereunder.
(b) Non-competition;
Non-solicitation.
(i) For a
period of two (2) years commencing on the Closing Date (the “Restricted
Period”), Parent and Seller shall not, and shall not permit any of their
respective Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, anywhere in the world,
compete with the Company with respect to the business of development,
distribution, sale, provision, license and maintenance of
multimedia
software and related technology, services and equipment for home and/or mobile
devices as currently conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries (the “Restricted
Business”).
(ii) During
the Restricted Period, Parent and Seller shall not, and shall not permit any of
their respective Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, hire or solicit any
employee of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or encourage any such
employee to leave such employment or hire any such employee who has left such
employment, except pursuant to a general solicitation which is not directed
specifically to any such employees; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section 7(b) shall
prevent Parent or Seller or any of their respective Subsidiaries from hiring (A)
any employee whose employment has been terminated by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or the Purchaser or (B) after 90 days from the date of termination
of employment, any employee whose employment has been terminated by the
employee.
(iii) During
the Restricted Period, Parent and Seller shall not, and shall not permit any of
their respective Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, solicit or entice, or
attempt to solicit or entice, any client or customer of the Company to terminate
or materially modify its relationship with the Company with respect to the
Restricted Business;
(iv) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing in this Section 7(b) shall be
deemed to restrict Parent or Seller or any of their respective Subsidiaries from
managing, operating, marketing or selling the wireless spectrum assets as
described in Parent’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on April 2, 2010 or from otherwise engaging in any activity
related to the provision of wireless services utilizing such wireless spectrum
assets.
(v) If Parent
or Seller breaches, or threatens to commit a breach of, any of the provisions of
this Section
7(b), the Purchaser and the Company shall have the right to pursue the
following rights and remedies, each of which rights and remedies shall be
independent of the others and severally enforceable, and each of which is in
addition to, and not in lieu of, any other rights and remedies available to the
Purchaser or the Company under Law or in equity:
(A) the
right and remedy to have such provision specifically enforced by any court
having jurisdiction, it being acknowledged and agreed that any such breach or
threatened breach may cause irreparable injury to each of the Purchaser and the
Company and that money damages may not provide an adequate remedy to the
Purchaser or the Company; and
(B) the
right and remedy to recover from Parent and Seller, jointly and severally, all
monetary damages suffered by the Purchaser and/or the Company as the result of
any acts or omissions constituting a breach of this Section
7(b).
(vi) Each of
Parent and Seller acknowledges that the restrictions contained in this Section 7(b) are
reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Purchaser
and constitute a material inducement to the Purchaser to enter into this
Agreement and consummate the Transactions. In the event that any
covenant or agreement contained in this Section 7(b) should
ever be adjudicated to exceed the time or other limitations permitted
by
applicable
Law in any jurisdiction, then any court is expressly empowered to reform such
covenant, and such covenant or agreement shall be deemed reformed, in such
jurisdiction to the maximum time or other limitations permitted by applicable
Law. The covenants and agreements contained in this Section 7(b) and each
provision hereof are severable and distinct covenants and
provisions. The invalidity or unenforceability of any such covenant
or provision as written shall not invalidate or render unenforceable the
remaining covenants or agreements or provisions hereof, and any such invalidity
or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such covenant or agreement or provision in any other
jurisdiction.
(c) Confidentiality. For
a period of two (2) years after the Closing, Parent and Seller shall, and shall
cause their respective Affiliates (excluding the Company and its Subsidiaries)
to, hold, and shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause their respective
representatives to hold, in confidence any and all proprietary and confidential
information, whether written or oral, concerning the Company, except to the
extent that Parent or Seller can show that such information (i) is generally
available to or known by the public through no fault of Parent or Seller, or
their respective Affiliates (excluding the Company and its Subsidiaries); (ii)
is or has been independently conceived by Parent, Seller and their respective
Affiliates (excluding the Company and its Subsidiaries) without use of
confidential information of the Company; or (iii) is lawfully acquired by Parent
or Seller, any of their respective Affiliates or their respective
representatives from and after the Closing from sources without a breach of any
obligation of confidentiality that such source may have to the Company; provided, however, that Parent and
Seller and their respective Affiliates may disclose confidential and proprietary
information concerning the Company (A) to its attorneys, accountants,
consultants, advisors, employees, directors and other professionals, provided
that they are bound by contract, fiduciary duty or otherwise to maintain the
confidentiality of such confidential information or (B) as may otherwise be
required to be disclosed by Law, provided that, to the extent reasonably
practicable, Parent notifies the Company of such proposed disclosure to enable
the Company to seek an appropriate protective order and, upon the reasonable
request of the Company, Parent agrees to take reasonable steps to cooperate with
the Company, as applicable, in connection therewith.
(d) Company Information and
Parent and Seller Information. For a period of two (2) years commencing
on the Closing Date, (i) upon reasonable request of the Company, Parent and
Seller will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide to the Company copies
of any historical financial and business records of the Company pertaining to
periods prior to the Closing that are within the custody and control of Parent
or Seller, respectively, and (ii) upon reasonable request of Parent or Seller,
the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide to Parent or
Seller, as applicable, copies of any historical financial and business records
of Parent or Seller, respectively, pertaining to periods prior to the Closing
that are within the custody and control of the
Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 7(d), no
Party shall be required to provide copies of or otherwise disclose any financial
or business records or other documents or information where such provision or
disclosure would violate or contravene the rights of employees, customers or
vendors of the Party receiving the request or any of its Subsidiaries,
jeopardize any attorney-client privilege, work product privilege or other
similar privilege, or violate or contravene any applicable Law, fiduciary duty
or Contract entered into prior to the date of this Agreement, provided that a
Party withholding such records, documents or information shall deliver to the
requesting Party a written log notifying the
requesting
Party of the existence of, and the basis for withholding or denying access to,
such records, documents or information.
(e) Proposed Management and
Employee Retention Plan. Promptly after the Closing Date (but
no later than six (6) months after the Closing), the Company shall diligently
prepare proposed forms of written agreements, amendments, plans, policies and
other documents as may be necessary to (i) implement 2010 merit increases for
the Company’s senior executives, (ii) establish a cash bonus program, (iii)
amend the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, (iv) establish a severance pay
program for the Company’s senior executives, (v) establish long-term incentive
and retention bonus programs, (vi) adopt policies pertaining to the Purchaser’s
rules and procedures for internal reporting and consultation, and (vii) enter
into a management agreement with the Purchaser, in each case as contemplated by
and containing the applicable terms and conditions set forth in that certain
term sheet dated July 30, 2010 and entitled “PacketVideo Proposed Management and
Employee Retention Plan,” as executed by the Purchaser and the
Company. The agreements, amendments, plans, policies and documents
prepared by the Company pursuant to this Section 7(e) shall be
subject to the review and approval of the Purchaser, which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed.
8. INDEMNIFICATION.
(a) Survival of Representations
and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the
Parties contained in this Agreement shall survive the Closing for a period of
eight (8) months after the Closing Date. The covenants and other
agreements of the Parties set forth herein shall survive the Closing Date until
they are otherwise terminated, whether by their terms or as a matter of
applicable Law.
(b) Indemnification Provisions
for the Purchaser’s Benefit.
(i) Parent
and Seller, jointly and severally, shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the
Purchaser, the Purchaser’s Affiliates, and their respective directors, officers,
employees, agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Purchaser
Indemnitees”) from and against the entirety of any Damages any of the
Purchaser Indemnitees may suffer, sustain or become subject to (including any
Damages a Purchaser Indemnitee may suffer, sustain or become subject to after
the end of any applicable survival period, provided that the Purchaser makes a
written claim for indemnification within the applicable survival period)
resulting from, arising out of, or caused by (A) any inaccuracy or breach of any
representation or warranty of the Company, Parent or Seller contained in Article 4 of this
Agreement; or (B) any breach of any covenant or agreement of the Company, Parent
or Seller contained in Sections 1(b) or
6(e).
(ii) The
indemnification obligations of Parent and Seller under Section 8(b)(i)
hereof shall in no event exceed $8.0 million in the aggregate (the “Indemnification
Cap”); provided,
however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary,
the Indemnification Cap shall not apply to indemnification claims based upon,
arising out of or relating to any matter constituting fraud.
(iii) Parent
and Seller shall not be liable to the Purchaser Indemnitees for any Damages in
connection with a claim pursuant to Section 8(b)(i)
hereunder unless and until the
aggregate
amount of such Damages exceed $200,000 (the “Indemnity
Basket”) and then, only for the amount by which Damages exceed the
Indemnity Basket.
(iv) For
purposes of this Article 8, neither
Parent nor Seller shall be deemed to have breached any representation or
warranty of the Company, Parent or Seller contained in this Agreement, if (A)
the Purchaser had, on or prior to the Closing Date, any knowledge of a breach
occurring after July 2, 2009 of, or of any facts or circumstances that would
constitute or result in a breach occurring after July 2, 2009 of, such
representation or warranty (including without limitation any knowledge acquired
by the Purchaser pursuant to Sections 6(b) or
6(c)), or (B)
such breach resulted from any action or inaction or omission by or on behalf of
Purchaser. For purposes of clause (A) above, the Purchaser shall be
deemed to have knowledge of any breach, facts or circumstances if, and only if,
any of the persons listed on Exhibit C had actual
knowledge of such breach, facts or circumstances or if actual knowledge of such
breach, facts or circumstances was otherwise acquired by the Purchaser pursuant
to Sections
6(b) or 6(c).
(c) Indemnification Provisions
for Parent and Seller’s Benefit. The Purchaser shall
indemnify, defend and hold harmless Parent, Seller, their Affiliates and their
respective directors, officers, employees, agents, successors and assigns
(collectively, the “Seller
Indemnitees”) from and against the entirety of Damages any of the Seller
Indemnitees may suffer, sustain or become subject to (including any Damages a
Seller Indemnitee may suffer, sustain or become subject to after the end of any
applicable survival period, provided that the Seller makes a written claim for
indemnification within the applicable survival period) resulting from, arising
out of, or caused by any breach or inaccuracy of any representation or warranty
of the Purchaser contained in Article 5 of this
Agreement.
(d) Exclusive
Remedy. Except in the case of fraud, breaches of any covenants
or agreements set forth in Article 7 to be
performed after the Closing, or as otherwise specified herein, the indemnities
and the conditions thereon provided in this Agreement shall be the sole and
exclusive remedy for any breach of this Agreement or arising out of the
transactions contemplated hereby, whether sounding in contract, tort, warranty,
strict liability or any other form, and no party shall be able to avoid the
provisions set forth in this Article 8 by electing
to pursue some other remedy, provided, however, it being
understood that the foregoing shall not prohibit specific performance if
available under applicable Law as a remedy exercisable by either party with
respect to any breach by the other parties hereto of any provision of this
Agreement; provided,
further, that neither Parent nor Seller shall be liable for any breach by
the Company of any covenant or agreement contained in Sections 7(a), (d) or (e).
9. TERMINATION.
(a) Termination. This
Agreement may be terminated and the Transactions may be abandoned at any time
prior to the Closing, whether before or after this Agreement has been adopted by
the Required Parent Stockholder Vote:
(i) by the
mutual written consent of Parent and the Purchaser;
(ii) by the
Purchaser by written notice to Parent if:
(A) the
Purchaser is not then in material breach of any provision of this Agreement and
there has been a material breach, inaccuracy in or failure to perform any
representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by Parent, Seller or the
Company pursuant to this Agreement that would give rise to the failure of any of
the conditions specified in Section 2(a) and such
breach, inaccuracy or failure has not been cured by Parent, Seller or the
Company, as the case may be, within twenty (20) days of receipt by Parent,
Seller or the Company, as the case may be, of written notice of such breach from
the Purchaser; or
(B) any
of the conditions set forth in Section 2(a) shall
not have been, or if it becomes apparent that any of such conditions will not
be, fulfilled by the End Date, unless such failure shall be due to the failure
of the Purchaser to perform or comply with any of the covenants, agreements or
conditions hereof to be performed or complied with by it prior to the Closing or
if Purchaser has otherwise caused such condition not to be fulfilled by the End
Date;
(iii) by Parent
by written notice to the Purchaser if:
(A) Neither
Parent nor Seller is then in material breach of any provision of this Agreement
and there has been a material breach, inaccuracy in or failure to perform any
representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Purchaser pursuant
to this Agreement that would give rise to the failure of any of the conditions
specified in Section
2(b) and such breach, inaccuracy or failure has not been cured by the
Purchaser within twenty (20) days of the Purchaser’s
receipt of written notice of such breach from Parent or Seller; or
(B) any
of the conditions set forth in Section 2(b) shall
not have been, or if it becomes apparent that any of such conditions will not
be, fulfilled by the End Date, unless such failure shall be due to the failure
of Parent, Seller or the Company to perform or comply with any of the covenants,
agreements or conditions hereof to be performed or complied with by it prior to
the Closing or if Parent or Seller has otherwise caused such condition not to be
fulfilled by the End Date; or
(iv) by the
Purchaser or Parent in the event that (A) there shall be any Law that makes
consummation of the Transactions illegal or otherwise prohibited, (B) any
Governmental Authority shall have issued an order, writ, judgment, injunction,
decree or determination restraining or enjoining the Transactions, and such
order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree or determination shall have become
final and non-appealable, or (C) the Required Parent Stockholder Vote to adopt
and approve this Agreement and authorize the sale of the Purchased Shares shall
not have been obtained at a duly convened meeting of the stockholders of
Parent.
(b) Effect of
Termination. In the event of termination of this Agreement in
accordance with this Agreement, all rights and obligations of the Parties
hereunder this Agreement shall forthwith become void and there shall be no
liability on the part of any Party, except that:
(i) this
Section 9(b)
and Section
9(c) and Articles 10 and 11 shall survive such
termination; and
(ii) notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, a breaching Party shall
not be relieved or released from any liability or obligation to pay
or
reimburse
the Expenses of any non-breaching Party as provided under Law.
(c) Payment of
Expenses.
(i) If Termination by
Parent. If Parent intends to terminate this Agreement pursuant
to Section
9(a)(iii)(B) due to the failure of the condition set forth in Section 2(b)(vi) to
have been satisfied and/or pursuant to Section 9(a)(iv)(C),
Parent and Seller, jointly and severally, shall pay, in cash by wire transfer of
immediately available funds, the Expenses of the Purchaser, up to $700,000, on
the date of and as a precondition to such termination.
(ii) If Termination by the
Purchaser. If the Purchaser terminates this Agreement pursuant
to Section
9(a)(ii)(B) due to the failure of the condition set forth in Section 2(a)(xvi) to
have been satisfied and/or pursuant to Section 9(a)(iv)(C),
Parent and Seller, jointly and severally, shall pay, in cash by wire transfer of
immediately available funds, the Expenses of the Purchaser, up to $700,000,
within three (3) Business Days of the date of such termination.
10. DEFINED
TERMS. For the purposes
of this Agreement:
“2009
Transaction Documents” means, collectively, the 2009 Stock Purchase
Agreement; the Stockholders’ Agreement; the Registration Rights Agreement dated
as of July 2, 2009 by and between the Company and the Purchaser; and any and all
other agreements, instruments, documents, schedules, exhibits and certificates
entered into pursuant to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that “2009
Transaction Documents” does not include the Master Technology Collaboration
Agreement effective as of August 31, 2009 by and among the Company and the
Purchaser.
“Affiliate”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly
through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under
common control with, such Person, where the term “control”
(including the terms “controlled
by” and “under
common control with”) means the possession, directly or indirectly, of
the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such Person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise.
‘‘Affiliated
Group’’ means an “affiliated group” within the meaning of
Section 1504(a) of the Code or any similar consolidated, combined or
unitary group defined under any similar or comparable provision of state, local
or foreign Tax Law.
“Business
Day” means a day, except a Saturday or a Sunday, on which banks in New
York, New York and Tokyo, Japan, are open for business during normal banking
hours.
“Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Company
Plans” mean each “employee benefit plan”, as defined in Section 3(3) of
ERISA, and each other employment, consulting, bonus or other incentive
compensation, salary continuation during any absence from active employment for
disability or other reasons, supplemental retirement, cafeteria benefit (Section
125 of the Code) or dependent care (Section 129 of the Code), sick pay, tuition
assistance, club membership, employee discount, employee loan, vacation pay,
severance, deferred compensation, incentive, fringe benefit,
perquisite,
change in
control, retention, stock option, stock purchase, restricted stock or other
compensatory plan, policy, agreement or arrangement (including, without
limitation, any collective bargaining agreement) (A) that is currently
maintained, administered, contributed to or required to be contributed to by the
Company or any Subsidiary, (B) to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party
or has any Liability, or (C) that covers any current or former officer,
director, employee or independent contractor (or any of their dependents) of the
Company, or any Subsidiary.
“Consolidated
Tax Return” means a consolidated, combined or unitary Tax Return and any
returns of estimated income tax filed by Parent or any of its Affiliates that
includes the Company.
“Contract”
means a loan instrument, credit agreement, debenture, indenture, note, bond,
mortgage, indenture, deed of trust, license, lease, contract, agreement,
commitment, obligation, or other legally binding arrangement, whether written or
oral.
“Damages”
means all damages, awards, judgments, dues, penalties, fines, out-of-pocket
costs, obligations, deficiencies, amounts paid in settlement, liabilities,
Taxes, Liens, losses, expenses and fees, including court costs and reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses; provided, however, that for
the purposes of computing the amount of Damages incurred, paid, or accrued by a
Person, there shall be deducted an amount equal to the amount of any insurance
proceeds actually received by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates in
connection with the Damages or the circumstances giving rise thereto (it being
understood that no party shall be obligated to pursue any such proceeds as a
condition to recover Damages or otherwise); and provided further that Damages
shall not include any consequential, incidental, punitive or special
damages.
“End
Date” means the sixtieth (60th) day following the date of this Agreement
(or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day); provided, however, that if
any of the conditions set forth in Sections 2(a)(vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xiii) or (xvi) or 2(b)(iii), (iv), (v) or (vi) relating to, or
requiring receipt of, any required stockholder or regulatory approvals or
required third-party consents, have not been satisfied on or prior to the
sixtieth (60th) day following the date of this Agreement (or if such day is not
a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), “End Date” shall mean the six
month anniversary of the date of this Agreement or such later date as may be
agreed upon in writing by the Parties.
“Environmental,
Health and Safety Requirements” means all Laws relating to the protection
of the environment, natural resources or health and safety of persons
(including, without limitation, employees), including without limitation, Laws
relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of Hazardous
Substances into or on land, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, personal
property or structures (including the protection, cleanup, removal, remediation
or damage thereof), or otherwise related to the manufacture, processing,
distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport, discharge or
handling of Hazardous Substances.
“ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
“ERISA
Affiliate” means any Person at any relevant time considered a single
employer under Code Section 414 with the Company or any Subsidiary; or any
member of a controlled group of corporations, groups of trades or businesses
under common control or affiliated service group that includes the Company or
any Subsidiary (as defined for purposes of Section 414(b), (c) and (m) of the
Code).
“Exchange
Act” means the United States Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any
successor statute thereto, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated
from time to time thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the
time.
“Expenses”
means all expenses incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation,
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the consummation of
the Transactions, including filing fees under the HSR Act with respect to the
Transactions, and all fees and expenses of agents, representatives, counsel,
financial advisors and accountants, and other professional fees and
expenses.
“GAAP”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States.
“Governmental
Authority” means any government or governmental or regulatory body
thereof, or political subdivision thereof, whether federal, state, local or
foreign, or any agency, instrumentality or authority thereof, or any court or
arbitrator (public or private).
“Hazardous
Substance” means any substance, material or waste that is regulated or
governed by any Environmental, Health and Safety Requirements, including,
without limitation, any substance, material or waste that is defined, used or
listed as “hazardous waste,” “extremely hazardous waste,” “restricted hazardous
waste,” “hazardous substance,” “hazardous material,” “toxic substance,” “toxic
waste,” “solid waste,” “pollutant” or “contaminant” under any applicable
Law.
“Indebtedness”
of any Person means, without duplication, (i) the principal of and premium (if
any) and prepayment penalties (if any) in respect of (A) indebtedness of such
Person for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by notes, debentures,
bonds or other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is
responsible or liable, (ii) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as
the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional sale obligations of
such Person and all obligations of such Person under any title retention
agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable and other accrued current
liabilities arising in the Ordinary Course of Business), (iii) all obligations
of such Person under leases required to be capitalized in accordance with GAAP,
(iv) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any
letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction, and (v) all
obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) of any Persons
for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable or for which any
property or asset of such Person is secured by a Lien, under any legally binding
obligation, including as obligor, guarantor, surety or otherwise.
“Intellectual
Property” means all intellectual property or other proprietary rights of
every kind throughout the world arising from or in respect of: (a) inventions,
utility models and invention disclosures, (b) patents, patent applications and
patent disclosures, together with all revisions, renewals, extensions,
reexaminations, provisionals, reissuances, continuations,
continuations-in-part,
divisionals and patents of addition thereof and any applications for any of the
foregoing, and all filings claiming priority to or serving as a basis for
priority thereof, (c) trademarks, service marks, trade names, trade dress,
corporate names, logos, slogans, domain names, uniform resource locators (URLs),
packaging design, any other source identifiers of any kind or nature, together
with all translations, adaptations, derivations and combinations thereof, all
common law rights therein, and the goodwill associated with all of the
foregoing, and any applications (including intent to use applications),
registration and renewals for any of the foregoing, (d) copyrights, copywritable
works, website content, all derivative works thereof, and any copyright
applications, registrations and renewals in connection therewith, (e) mask
works, design rights and any applications, registrations and renewals for any of
the foregoing, (f) industrial designs and any applications, registrations and
renewals for industrial designs, (g) technology, trade secrets, know-how and
confidential or proprietary business or technical information, and (h)
Software.
“IRS”
means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
“Knowledge”
means, with respect to any Person, the actual knowledge of the Chief Executive
Officer and President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Technology Officer and
General Counsel of such Person and such knowledge as would reasonably be
expected to be known by such Persons in the ordinary and usual course of the
performance of the duties and professional responsibilities of such
offices.
“Law”
means any foreign, federal, state or local law (including common law) statute,
ordinance, code, rule, regulation, or Order issued, enacted, adopted,
promulgated, implemented or otherwise put into effect by or under the authority
any Governmental Authority.
“Liability”
means any debt, loss, damage, adverse claim, liability or obligation (whether
known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, absolute or contingent, accrued or
unaccrued, liquidated or unliquidated, or due or to become due, and whether in
contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise).
“Lien”
means all liens, pledges, charges, mortgages, encumbrances, transfer
restrictions, adverse rights, leases, charges, pledges or claims and security
interests of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any restriction on the
right to vote or transfer the same, except for such transfer restrictions of
general applicability as may be provided under the Securities Act and the “blue
sky” Laws of the various States of the United States) .
“Material
Adverse Effect” means any condition, change, situation or set of
circumstances that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on (i) the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the
business, assets, properties, liabilities, financial condition, operations, or
results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or
(ii) the ability of the Seller to consummate the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement or perform its material obligations under this Agreement; excluding, however, any
condition, change, situation or set of circumstances or effect that directly and
primarily results from (A) changes adversely affecting the United States or
global economy as a whole (so long as the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as
a whole, are not disproportionately affected thereby), (B) changes adversely
affecting the industry in which the
Company
and its Subsidiaries operate (so long as the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, are not disproportionately affected thereby), (C) acts of terrorism
or war, (D) changes in applicable Laws or in GAAP, (E) public or industry
knowledge of the Transaction, or (F) the consummation of the Transactions or any
action by any Party required to be taken pursuant to this Agreement or
reasonably necessary to consummate the Transactions.
“Notes”
means, collectively, (i) the 7% Senior Secured Notes issued pursuant to the
Purchase Agreement (as amended or replaced from time to time pursuant to that
certain First Amendment to Purchase Agreement dated as of March 12, 2008, that
certain Second Amendment to Purchase Agreement dated as of September 26, 2008,
that certain Amendment and Limited Waiver to the Note Agreements dated as of
April 1, 2009 (the “April
2009 Amendment”), that certain Amendment and Limited Waiver to the Note
Agreements dated as of June 22, 2009 (the “June 2009
Amendment”), and that certain Amendment and Limited Waiver to the Note
Agreements dated as of March 16, 2010 (the “March
2010 Amendment”)), dated as of July 17, 2006, among NextWave Wireless
LLC, each Guarantor from time to time party thereto, the Purchasers set forth in
Schedule 1.2B thereto, and The Bank of New York, (ii) the Senior-Subordinated
Secured Second Lien Notes issued pursuant to the Second Lien Subordinated Note
Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 9, 2008 (as amended or replaced from
time to time pursuant to the April 2009 Amendment, the June 2009 Amendment, the
March 2010 Amendment, and as supplemented by that certain Second Lien
Incremental Indebtedness Agreement dated as of July 2, 2009), among NextWave
Wireless LLC, Parent, each Guarantor from time to time party thereto, the
purchasers set forth in Schedule 1.2B thereto and the Bank of New York Mellon,
and (iii) the Third Lien Subordinated Secured Convertible Notes issued pursuant
to the Third Lien Subordinated Exchange Note Exchange Agreement, dated as of
October 9, 2008 (as amended or replaced from time to time pursuant to the April
2009 Amendment, the June 2009 Amendment, and the March 2010 Amendment), among
Parent, NextWave Wireless LLC, each Guarantor from time to time party thereto,
the purchasers set forth in Schedule 1.2 thereto, and The Bank of New York
Mellon.
“Note
Agreements” means, collectively, as may be amended from time to time, (i)
the Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 17, 2006 (as amended by that certain
First Amendment to Purchase Agreement dated as of March 12, 2008, that certain
Second Amendment to Purchase Agreement dated as of September 26, 2008, the April
2009 Amendment, the June 2009 Amendment and the March 2010 Amendment), among
NextWave Wireless LLC, each Guarantor from time to time party thereto, the
purchasers set forth in Schedule 1.2B thereto, and The Bank of New York; (ii)
the Second Lien Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 9,
2008 (as amended by the April 2009 Amendment, the June 2009 Amendment, the March
2010 Amendment, and as supplemented by that certain Second Lien Incremental
Indebtedness Agreement dated as of July 2, 2009), among NextWave Wireless LLC,
Parent, each Guarantor from time to time party thereto, the purchasers set forth
in schedule 1.2B thereto, and The Bank of New York Mellon; (iii) the Third Lien
Subordinated Exchange Note Exchange Agreement, dated as of October 9, 2008 (as
amended by the April 2009 Amendment, the June 2009 Amendment, and the March 2010
Amendment), among Parent, NextWave Wireless LLC, each Guarantor from time to
time party thereto, the purchasers set forth in Schedule 1.2 thereto, and The
Bank of New York Mellon; and (iv) all loan documents related to the agreements
referenced in (i) through (iii) above (including without limitation the “Note
Documents” as such term is defined in each Note Agreement).
“Order”
means any order, award, injunction, judgment, decree, ruling, writ, assessment
or arbitration award entered, issued, made or rendered by any Governmental
Authority and any settlement agreement or stipulation.
“Ordinary
Course of Business” means the ordinary course of business of Company and
its Subsidiaries consistent with past practice. When determining
whether any occurrence, event, incident, action, failure to act or transaction
is in the Ordinary Course of Business, the Parties shall take into
consideration, among other things and without limitation (i) the frequency with
which such occurrence, event, incident, action, failure to act or transaction
occurred (or failed to occur) and (ii) quantitative factors such as costs and
amounts involved in the particular occurrence, event, incident, action, failure
to act or transaction in question (relative to that involved in similar
occurrences, events, incidents, actions, failures to act or
transactions.
“Owned
Registered IP” means (A) each issued patent owned by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries, (B) each pending patent application filed by or on behalf
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (C) each trademark registration,
service mark registration, and copyright registration owned by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries, (D) each application for trademark registration,
service mark registration, and copyright registration made by or on behalf of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (E) each domain name registered by
or on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Permits”
means any licenses, franchises, permits, consents, certificates, approvals and
authorizations of, from or required by a Governmental Authority.
“Permitted
Exceptions” means (i) all defects, exceptions, restrictions, easements,
rights of way and encumbrances disclosed in policies of title insurance which
have been disclosed to Purchaser, (ii) statutory liens for current Taxes,
assessments or other governmental charges not yet delinquent or the amount or
validity of which is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings,
(iii) mechanics’, carriers’, workers’, repairers’ and similar Liens arising or
incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business that are not material to the
business, operations and financial condition of the properties and assets of the
Company so encumbered, (iv) zoning, entitlement and other land use and
environmental regulations by any Governmental Authority, provided that such
regulations have not been violated by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
(v) statutory or common law liens to secure obligations to landlords, lessors or
renters under leases or rental agreements, (vi) deposits or pledges made in
connection with, or to secure payment of, workers’ compensation, unemployment
insurance or similar programs mandated by applicable Law, (vii) any right, title
or interest of a licensor under a license disclosed in the Disclosure Schedule
or entered into in the Ordinary Course of Business that are immaterial to the
Company and its Subsidiaries in the absence of any default by the licensee,
(viii) leases or subleases disclosed in the Disclosure Schedule or entered into
in the Ordinary Course of Business following the date of this Agreement that are
immaterial to the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ix) licenses or sublicenses
granted to others pursuant to any Contract, (x) immaterial, non-exclusive
licenses or sublicenses that are not required to be included on the Disclosure
Schedule.
“Person”
means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
association, firm, joint venture, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization, or any other entity, including a Governmental Authority or
political subdivision thereof.
“Proceeding”
means any proceeding, action, arbitration, audit, hearing, investigation,
charge, complaint, claim, demand, litigation or suit, foreign or domestic
(whether civil, criminal, legal, administrative, judicial or investigative,
whether formal or informal, whether public or private) commenced, brought,
conducted or heard by or before, or otherwise involving, any Governmental
Authority or arbitrator.
“Required
Parent Stockholder Vote” means the approval of the holders of a majority
of the issued and outstanding shares of the Parent’s Common Stock.
“SEC”
means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities
Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor
statute thereto, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated from time
to time thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time.
“Solvent”
means, with respect to any Person, that as of the date of determination both (i)
(a) the then fair saleable value of the property of such Person is (x) greater
than the total amount of liabilities (including disputed, contingent and
unliquidated liabilities but excluding amounts payable under intercompany
promissory notes and the like) of such Person and (z) not less than the amount
that will be required to pay the probable liabilities on such Person’s then
existing debts as they become absolute and matured, (b) such Person’s capital is
not unreasonably small in relation to its business or any contemplated or
undertaken transaction, and (c) such Person does not intend to incur, or believe
(nor should it reasonably believe) that it will incur, debts beyond its ability
to pay such debts as they become due, and (ii) such Person is “solvent” within
the meaning given that term and similar terms under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, 11
U.S.C. 101 et seq., and
applicable Laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances. For
purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time
shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and
circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably
be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether
such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of
Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).
“Software”
means any and all computer programs, whether in source code or object code form,
together with all related documentation.
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Party, any Person of which such Party directly or
indirectly owns voting securities, other voting rights or voting partnership
interests which are sufficient to elect at least a majority of such Person’s
board of directors or other governing body (or, if there are no such voting
interests, such Party directly or indirectly owns fifty percent (50%) or more of
the equity interests of such Person).
“Takeover
Law” means any state “moratorium,” “control share acquisition,” “business
combination,” “fair price” or other form of anti-takeover Law.
‘‘Tax
Return’’ means any return, declaration, report, claim for refund, or
information return or statement relating to Taxes, including any schedule or
attachment thereto, and including any amendment thereof.
“Taxes”
means (i) all federal, state, local or foreign taxes, charges, fees, imposts,
levies or other assessments, including all net income, gross receipts, capital,
sales, use, ad valorem, value added, transfer, franchise, profits, inventory,
capital stock, license, withholding, payroll, employment, social security,
unemployment, excise, severance, stamp, occupation, property and estimated
taxes, customs duties, fees, assessments and other taxes of any kind whatsoever,
(ii) all interest, penalties, fines, additions to tax or additional amounts
imposed by any Taxing Authority in connection with any item described in clause
(i), and (iii) any transferee liability in respect of any items described in
clauses (i) and/or (ii) payable by reason of contract, assumption, transferee
liability, operation of Law, Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-6(a) (or any
predecessor or successor thereof of any analogous or similar provision under
Law) or otherwise.
“Taxing
Authority” means the IRS and any other Governmental Authority responsible
for the administration of any Tax.
“Transfer”
means, with respect to any Common Stock, any transfer, sale, gift, exchange,
assignment (including by operation of Law) or pledge of, or the creation of any
Lien on such Common Stock or making any other disposition thereof.
11. MISCELLANEOUS.
(a) Successors and
Assigns. The terms and conditions of this Agreement will inure
to the benefit of and be binding upon the respective successors and permitted
assigns of the Parties. The rights and obligations of each Party
hereunder may not be assigned to any Person without the prior written consent of
each other Party hereto.
(b) Governing Law; Jurisdiction;
Waiver of Jury Trial.
(i) This
Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the Laws of
the State of California, applicable to contracts executed in and to be performed
entirely within that state; provided, however, that the
Federal Arbitration Act shall apply in lieu of any arbitration Law or rules that
may now exist or hereafter be enacted dealing with the subject of
arbitration.
(ii) Except as
provided in Section
11(c)
hereof, all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any
relationship created by or in accordance with this Agreement shall be finally
settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce
(the “Rules”)
by three arbitrators. Judgment on the award rendered by the panel of
arbitrators shall be binding upon the Parties and may be entered in any court
having jurisdiction thereof. The Company, Parent and Seller, on the
one hand, shall nominate one arbitrator, and the Purchaser, on the other hand,
shall nominate one arbitrator. The arbitrators so nominated shall
jointly nominate the third arbitrator within fifteen (15) days following the
confirmation of both Party-nominated arbitrators. If the
Party-nominated arbitrators cannot agree on the third arbitrator, then such
third arbitrator shall be selected as provided in the Rules. The
place of the arbitration and all hearings and meetings shall be New York, New
York unless all Parties to the arbitration otherwise agree. The
arbitrator shall apply the governing law as set forth in this
Agreement. The language of the arbitral proceedings shall be
English. The arbitrators shall not issue any award, grant any relief
or take any action that is prohibited by or inconsistent with
the
provisions of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the
arbitrators may include attorney’s fees in any award. The arbitrators
may order the pre-hearing production or exchange of documentary evidence and may
require written submissions from the Parties, but may not otherwise order
pre-hearing depositions or discovery. Unless the Parties otherwise
agree, the arbitrators shall not have the power to appoint
experts. The Federal Rules of Evidence shall apply to the
arbitration. Each Party shall bear its own attorney’s fees in
connection with any arbitral proceedings.
(iii) No
arbitration pursuant to this Section 11(b) shall be
commenced until the Party intending to request arbitration has first given
thirty (30) days written notice of its intent to the other Parties and has
offered to meet and confer with one or more responsible executives of such other
Parties in an effort to resolve the dispute(s) described in detail in such
written notice. If one or more responsible executives of the Company,
Parent and Seller, on the one hand, and the Purchaser, on the other hand, agree,
within thirty (30) days after receipt of such written notice, to meet and confer
with the requesting Party, then no arbitration shall be commenced until the
executives have met and conferred in an effort to resolve the dispute(s) or
until sixty (60) days has elapsed from the date such written notice has been
given.
(iv) The
provisions of this Section 11(b) shall not be
construed as prohibiting any party to this Agreement from applying pursuant to
Section 11(c)
hereof to any court of competent jurisdiction for such specific performance,
injunctive and/or other equitable relief as may be necessary to protect that
party from irreparable harm or injury or to preserve the status quo pending
resolution of a dispute.
(c) Specific
Enforcement. The Parties agree that irreparable damage would
occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not
performed in accordance with their specific terms or were otherwise
breached. It is accordingly agreed that the Parties shall be entitled
to seek specific performance, injunctive and/or other equitable relief to
prevent breaches of this Agreement and to enforce specifically the terms and
provisions of this Agreement in any court of competent jurisdiction without bond
or other security being required, this being in addition to any other remedy to
which they may be entitled at Law or in equity.
(d) Expenses. Except
as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, each Party to this Agreement
will bear its respective Expenses.
(e) Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which will be
deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one and the same
instrument.
(f) Headings. The
headings and captions used in this Agreement are used for convenience only and
are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this
Agreement. All references in this Agreement to articles, sections,
paragraphs, exhibits and schedules will, unless otherwise provided, refer to
articles, sections and paragraphs hereof and exhibits and schedules attached
hereto, all of which exhibits and schedules are incorporated herein by
reference.
(g) Notices. All
notices required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing and may
be delivered by hand, by air mail, by internationally recognized private
courier
(for
delivery in no fewer than two (2) Business Days), or by
facsimile. Except as provided otherwise herein, notices delivered by
hand shall be deemed given upon receipt; notices delivered by air mail shall be
deemed given ten (10) days after being deposited in the mail system, postage
prepaid; notices delivered by internationally recognized private courier shall
be deemed given on the second Business Day following deposit with the private
courier for delivery in no fewer than two (2) Business Days; and notices
delivered by facsimile shall be deemed given twenty-four hours (24) after the
sender’s receipt of confirmation of successful transmission. All
notices shall be addressed as follows:
If to the
Company, Parent or Seller,
NextWave
Wireless Inc.
12264 El
Camino Real, Ste 305
San
Diego, CA 92130
Attn:
Frank A. Cassou
with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to,
Cooley
LLP
4401
Eastgate Mall
San
Diego, CA 92121
Attn:
Frederick T. Muto
J.
Patrick Loofbourrow
If to the
Purchaser,
NTT
DOCOMO, INC.
2-11-1,
Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
100-6150 Japan
Attn:
Managing Director, Product Department
with a
copy (which shall not constitute notice) to,
Squire,
Sanders and Dempsey L.L.P.
Gaikokuho
Kyodo Jigyo Horitsu Jimusho
Ebisu
Prime Square Tower, 16/F
1-1-39
Hiroo, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo
150-0012
Japan
Attn: Stephen
E. Chelberg, Esq.
and/or to
such other respective addresses and/or addressees as may be designated by notice
given in accordance with the provisions of this Section
11(g).
(h) Amendments. This
Agreement may be amended only with the written consent of the Company, Parent
and the Purchaser. Any amendment effected in accordance with
this
Section 11(h) will be
binding upon the Purchaser, Parent, the Company and their respective successors
and assigns.
(i) Reporting and
Publicity. Except as otherwise required by Law or applicable
stock exchange rules, press releases and other publicity concerning the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall be made only with the prior
agreement of the Company and Parent, on the one hand, and the Purchaser, on the
other hand (and in any event, the Parties hereto shall use all reasonable
efforts to consult and agree with each other with respect to the content of any
such required press release or other publicity). Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Purchaser agrees that Parent may describe
the terms of the Transactions in a press release and in a Current Report on Form
8-K to be filed with the SEC, and that it intends to file this Agreement as an
exhibit to a Parent periodic or current report. The Parent and Purchaser shall
cooperate with one another in determining whether to request, and if so, taking
reasonable steps to obtain, confidential treatment of portions of this
Agreement.
(j) Waivers. The
waiver by a Party of any breach of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of
this Agreement or of any right or privilege conferred by this Agreement shall
not be construed as a subsequent waiver of any such terms, covenants,
conditions, rights or privileges or as a waiver of any other terms, covenants,
conditions, rights or privileges. No waiver shall be effective unless
it is in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving
Party.
(k) Replacement of
Shares. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any
Purchased Shares is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall
issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon
cancellation thereof, or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate
or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the
Company of such loss, theft or destruction and customary and reasonable
indemnity, if requested.
(l) Severability. If
any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable under applicable
Law, such provision will be excluded from this Agreement and the balance of the
Agreement will be interpreted as if such provision were so excluded and will be
enforceable in accordance with its terms. Further, the Parties agree
to use commercially reasonable efforts to replace such unenforceable provision
of this Agreement with an enforceable provision that will achieve, to the extent
possible, the economic, business and other purposes of such unenforceable
provision.
(m) Entire
Agreement. This Agreement, together with the Stockholders’
Agreement and all exhibits and schedules hereto and thereto, constitutes the
entire agreement and understanding of the Parties with respect to the subject
matter hereof and supersedes any and all prior negotiations, correspondence,
agreements and understandings between the Parties with respect to the subject
matter hereof.
(n) Further
Assurances. From and after the date of this Agreement, upon
the request of the Company or the Purchaser, the Company and the Purchaser will
take such actions, including the execution and delivery of instruments,
documents or other writings, as is
reasonably
necessary or desirable to confirm and carry out and to effectuate fully the
intent and purposes of this Agreement.
(o) Meaning of “Include” and
“Including”. Whenever in this Agreement the word “include” or
“including” is used, it shall be deemed to mean “include, without limitation” or
“including, without limitation,” as the case may be, and the language following
“include” or “including” shall not be deemed to set forth an exhaustive
list.
(p) No Presumption Against
Drafting Party. Each of the Parties acknowledges that each
Party has been represented by counsel in connection with this Agreement and the
Transactions and that the Parties have participated jointly in the drafting of
this Agreement. Accordingly, in the event an ambiguity or question of
intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted
jointly by the Parties and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise
favoring or disfavoring any Party by virtue of the authorship of any of the
provisions of this Agreement.
(q) No Third-Party
Beneficiaries. This Agreement is not intended, and shall not
be deemed, to confer any rights or remedies upon any Person other than the
Parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns, to create any
agreement of employment with any Person, or to otherwise create any third-party
beneficiary hereto.
(r) Facsimile and E-mail
Signatures. Any signature page hereto delivered by facsimile
machine or by e-mail (including in portable document format (pdf), as a joint
photographic experts group (jpg) file, or otherwise) shall be binding to the
same extent as an original signature page, with regard to any agreement subject
to the terms hereof or any amendment thereto. Any Party who delivers
such a signature page agrees to later deliver an original counterpart to any
Party who requests it.
(s) Corporate Securities
Law. THE SALE OF THE SECURITIES THAT ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS
AGREEMENT HAS NOT BEEN QUALIFIED WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF CORPORATIONS OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE ISSUANCE OF SUCH SECURITIES OR THE PAYMENT OR
RECEIPT OF ANY PART OF THE CONSIDERATION FOR SUCH SECURITIES PRIOR TO SUCH
QUALIFICATION IS UNLAWFUL, UNLESS THE SALE OF SECURITIES IS EXEMPT FROM
QUALIFICATION BY SECTION 25100, 25102 OR 25105 OF THE CALIFORNIA CORPORATIONS
CODE. THE RIGHTS OF ALL PARTIES TO THIS AGREEMENT ARE EXPRESSLY
CONDITIONED UPON SUCH QUALIFICATION BEING OBTAINED, UNLESS THE SALE IS SO
EXEMPT.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Agreement to be executed and
delivered by their duly authorized signatories as of the date first above
written.
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Annex A
Resigning Directors and
Officers of the Company
Francis
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ANNEX B
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Board
of Directors
NextWave
Wireless Inc.
10350
Science Drive Center, Suite 210
San
Diego, CA 92121
Members
of the Board of Directors:
You
have requested our opinion as to the fairness from a financial point of
view to NextWave Wireless Inc. ( “Parent”) and
NextWave Broadband Inc (“Seller”), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent, of the Consideration (as defined below)
to be received by Seller pursuant to the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) to
be entered into by PacketVideo Corporation (the “Company”),
Parent, Seller and NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (“Acquirer”). As
more fully described in the Agreement, Acquirer will purchase from Seller
(the “Transaction”)
the 30,387,500 issued and outstanding shares of the class B common stock
of the Company, par value of $0.001 per share, held by Seller
(approximately 63.9% of the aggregate fully diluted common stock of the
Company) for an aggregate purchase price of $111.6 million in cash (the
“Consideration”). You
have advised us that the Consideration will be transferred by Seller to or
as directed by Parent.
We
have acted as your financial advisor in connection with the Transaction
and will receive a fee for our services, a significant portion of which is
contingent upon the consummation of the Transaction. We will
also receive a fee upon delivery of this opinion. In addition,
Parent has agreed to indemnify us for certain liabilities arising out of
our engagement. In the past, we have provided investment
banking and other services to Parent and its affiliates and we are
currently providing investment banking services to Parent and its
affiliates on other matters and received, and may receive, compensation
for the rendering of such services. This opinion was approved
by a Moelis & Company LLC fairness opinion committee.
Our
opinion does not address the underlying business decision of Parent,
Seller or the Company to effect the Transaction or the relative merits of
the Transaction as compared to any alternative business strategies or
transactions that might be available to the Company, Seller or Parent and
does not constitute a recommendation to any stockholder of the Company
(including Seller), Seller (including Parent) or Parent as to how such
stockholder should vote with respect to the Transaction or whether Seller
should sell shares in the Transaction or any other matter. We
express no opinion as to the prices at which the common stock of Parent
will trade at any time. At your direction, we have not been
asked to, nor do we, offer any opinion as to the material terms of the
Agreement or the form of the Transaction. In
rendering this opinion, we have assumed, with your consent, that the final
executed form of the Agreement does not differ in any material respect
from the draft that we have examined, and that Acquirer, Parent, Seller
and the Company will comply with all the material terms of the
Agreement. We have not been
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authorized
to and have not solicited indications of interest in a possible
transaction with the Company or with respect to Seller’s or Parent’s
interest in the Company from any party.
In
arriving at our opinion, we have, among other things: (i) reviewed certain
publicly available business and financial information relating to the
Company that we deemed relevant; (ii) reviewed certain internal
information relating to the business, including financial forecasts,
earnings, cash flow, assets, liabilities and prospects of the Company
furnished to us by the Company and Parent; (iii) reviewed the Stock
Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2009, and the Stockholders’
Agreement, dated as of July 2, 2009 (the “Stockholders’ Agreement”), each
by and among the Company, Parent, Seller and Acquirer; (iv)
reviewed the valuation materials related to the determination of the
Consideration pursuant to the Stockholders’ Agreement provided to us by
the Company; (v) conducted discussions with members of senior management
and representatives of the Company and Parent concerning the matters
described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this paragraph, as well
as the business and prospects of the Company generally; (vi) compared
certain financial information for the Company furnished to us by the
Company and Parent to publicly available financial information and stock
market data, including valuation multiples, for certain other companies in
lines of business that we deemed relevant; (vii) compared the proposed
financial terms of the Transaction with the financial terms of certain
other transactions that we deemed relevant; (viii) reviewed a draft of the
Agreement, dated July 27, 2010; (ix) participated in certain discussions
and negotiations among representatives of the Company, Seller, Parent and
Acquirer and their financial and legal advisors; and (x) conducted such
other financial studies and analyses and took into account such other
information as we deemed appropriate.
In
connection with our review, we have not assumed any responsibility for
independent verification of any of the information supplied to, discussed
with, or reviewed by us for the purpose of this opinion and have, with
your consent, relied on such information being complete and accurate in
all material respects. In addition, at your direction we have
not made any independent evaluation or appraisal of any of the assets or
liabilities (contingent, derivative, off-balance-sheet, or otherwise) of
the Company, nor have we evaluated the solvency of the Company, Seller,
Parent or Acquirer under any state or federal laws relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar matters. With respect to the forecasted
financial information referred to above, we have assumed, with your
consent, that they have been reasonably prepared on a basis reflecting the
best currently available estimates and judgments of the management of the
Company, Parent and Seller as to the future performance of the Company,
including the technology, products and services of the Company and the
validity of, and risks associated with, the technology, products and
services of the Company. We express no view as to such
forecasts or the assumptions on which they were based. We are
not legal, regulatory or tax experts and have relied on the assessments
made by advisors to the Company, Parent and Seller with respect to such
issues. We have further assumed that all material governmental,
regulatory or other consents and approvals necessary for the consummation
of the Transaction will be obtained without any adverse effect on the
Company, Parent or Seller.
Our
opinion is necessarily based on economic, monetary, market and other
conditions as in effect on, and the information made available to us as
of, the date hereof. It should be understood that subsequent
developments may affect this opinion and that we do not have any
obligation to update, revise, or reaffirm this opinion.
This
opinion is for the use and benefit of the Board of Directors of Parent in
its evaluation of the Transaction and may not be disclosed to any person
without our prior consent
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and
is not to be quoted or referred to, in whole or in part, or used or relied
upon for any other purpose, without our prior written
consent.
In
addition, you have not asked us to address, and this opinion does not
address, the fairness to, or any other consideration of, the holders of
any class of securities, creditors or other constituencies of the Company
(other than Seller), Seller (other than Parent) or Parent. We
also do not express any opinion as to the fairness of the amount or nature
of any compensation to be received by any of the officers, directors or
employees of the Company, Seller or Parent, or any class of such persons,
relative to the Consideration.
Based
upon and subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that, as the date
hereof, the Consideration to be received by Seller in the Transaction is
fair from a financial point of view to Seller and Parent.
Very
truly yours,
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ANNEX
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NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
On July
2, 2009, NextWave Wireless Inc. (“NextWave”) sold a 35% noncontrolling interest
in its PacketVideo Corporation (“PacketVideo”) subsidiary to NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
(“DOCOMO”), a customer of PacketVideo for $45.5 million. On August 2,
2010, NextWave announced the proposed transaction to sell the remaining 65%
interest in its PacketVideo subsidiary for net proceeds of $107.0 million, after
deducting estimated direct and incremental costs of $4.6 million (collectively,
the “Transactions”).
The
following unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements are
presented for NextWave to illustrate the effects solely of the sale of
PacketVideo to DOCOMO and the retention by NextWave of $37.5 million of the net
proceeds for general working capital purposes and permitted investments, to pay
estimated transaction costs and to retire outstanding debt. The unaudited pro
forma condensed consolidated balance sheet as of April 3, 2010 illustrates the
estimated effects of the sale of the remaining 65% interest in PacketVideo as if
the sale had occurred on April 3, 2010. The unaudited pro forma condensed
consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended April 3, 2010,
and for the years ended January 2, 2010 and December 27, 2008 illustrate the
estimated effects of the sales as if the Transactions were consummated on
December 30, 2007. These pro forma adjustments and assumptions are described in
the accompanying notes to the unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated
financial statements. Two years of unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated
income statements have been provided in anticipation that PacketVideo will be
included in discontinued operations in future filings.
The
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements have been
prepared using assumptions and estimates that NextWave management believes are
reasonable under the circumstances and are intended for informational purposes
only. They are not necessarily indicative of the financial results that would
have occurred if the transactions described herein had taken place on the dates
indicated, nor are they indicative of the future consolidated results of
NextWave. However, management believes that the estimates and assumptions used
provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects of the sale of
its PacketVideo subsidiary. Management also believes the pro forma adjustments
give appropriate effect to the estimates and assumptions and are applied in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
America.
The
following unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated balance sheet as of April
3, 2010 and the unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statements of
operations for the three months ended April 3, 2010, and for the years ended
January 2, 2010 and December 27, 2008 should be read in conjunction with the
historical consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes and
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations of NextWave for the three months ended April 3, 2010 (unaudited) and
for the years ended January 2, 2010 and December 27, 2008 (audited), including
the related notes, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form
10-Q on May 18, 2010 and on Form 10-K on April 2, 2010,
respectively.
NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
AS
OF APRIL 3, 2010
(in
thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASSETS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current
assets:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
|
$ |
7,893 |
|
|
$ |
32,972 |
|
(a)(b)
|
|
$ |
40,865 |
|
Restricted
cash and marketable securities
|
|
|
26,119 |
|
|
|
(389 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
25,730 |
|
Accounts
receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts
|
|
|
3,025 |
|
|
|
(3,025 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Accounts
receivable – related party
|
|
|
2,243 |
|
|
|
(2,243 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Wireless
spectrum licenses held for sale
|
|
|
62,773 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
62,773 |
|
Deferred
contract costs
|
|
|
1,261 |
|
|
|
(1,261 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Prepaid
expenses and other current assets
|
|
|
4,088 |
|
|
|
5,113 |
|
(a)(c)
|
|
|
9,201 |
|
Current
assets of discontinued operations
|
|
|
9,070 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
9,070 |
|
Total
current assets
|
|
|
116,472 |
|
|
|
31,167 |
|
|
|
|
147,639 |
|
Wireless
spectrum licenses, net
|
|
|
407,241 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
407,241 |
|
Goodwill
|
|
|
38,181 |
|
|
|
(38,181 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Other
intangible assets, net
|
|
|
13,376 |
|
|
|
(13,309 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
67 |
|
Property
and equipment, net
|
|
|
3,422 |
|
|
|
(3,322 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
100 |
|
Other
assets
|
|
|
7,696 |
|
|
|
(1,895 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
5,801 |
|
Total
assets
|
|
$ |
586,388 |
|
|
$ |
(25,540 |
) |
|
|
$ |
560,848 |
|
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current
liabilities:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts
payable
|
|
$ |
2,746 |
|
|
$ |
(1,189 |
) |
(a)
|
|
$ |
1,557 |
|
Accrued
expenses
|
|
|
10,317 |
|
|
|
(5,658 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
4,659 |
|
Current
portion of long-term obligations
|
|
|
86,222 |
|
|
|
(59,849 |
) |
(c)
|
|
|
26,373 |
|
Deferred
revenue
|
|
|
4,817 |
|
|
|
(4,817 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Deferred
revenue – related party
|
|
|
2,211 |
|
|
|
(2,211 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Other
current liabilities
|
|
|
559 |
|
|
|
(257 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
302 |
|
Current
liabilities of discontinued operations
|
|
|
12,350 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
12,350 |
|
Total
current liabilities
|
|
|
119,222 |
|
|
|
(73,981 |
) |
|
|
|
45,241 |
|
Deferred
income tax liabilities
|
|
|
90,200 |
|
|
|
(789 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
89,411 |
|
Long-term
obligations, net of current portion
|
|
|
648,675 |
|
|
|
(6,408 |
) |
(a)(d)
|
|
|
642,267 |
|
Other
liabilities
|
|
|
5,551 |
|
|
|
(1,380 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
4,171 |
|
Commitments
and contingencies
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stockholders’
deficit:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stockholders’
deficit attributed to NextWave
|
|
|
(293,601 |
) |
|
|
73,359 |
|
(e)
|
|
|
(220,242 |
) |
Noncontrolling
interest in subsidiary
|
|
|
16,341 |
|
|
|
(16,341 |
) |
(a)
|
|
|
— |
|
Total
stockholders’ deficit
|
|
|
(277,260 |
) |
|
|
57,018 |
|
|
|
|
(220,242 |
) |
Total
liabilities and stockholders’ deficit
|
|
$ |
586,388 |
|
|
$ |
(25,540 |
) |
|
|
$ |
560,848 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited pro forma condensed
consolidated financial statements.
NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR
THE THREE MONTHS ENDED APRIL 3, 2010
(in
thousands, except per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
Pro
Forma Adjustments (f)
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues
|
|
$ |
10,836 |
|
|
$ |
(10,836 |
) |
|
$ |
— |
|
Revenues
– related party
|
|
|
7,069 |
|
|
|
(7,069 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Total
revenues
|
|
|
17,905 |
|
|
|
(17,905 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Operating
expenses:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost
of revenues
|
|
|
5,151 |
|
|
|
(5,151 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Cost
of revenues – related party
|
|
|
303 |
|
|
|
(303 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Engineering,
research and development
|
|
|
5,256 |
|
|
|
(5,256 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Sales
and marketing
|
|
|
2,797 |
|
|
|
(2,797 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
General
and administrative
|
|
|
8,799 |
|
|
|
(2,970 |
) |
|
|
5,829 |
|
Total
operating expenses
|
|
|
22,306 |
|
|
|
(16,477 |
) |
|
|
5,829 |
|
Gain
on sale of wireless spectrum licenses
|
|
|
164 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
164 |
|
Loss
from operations
|
|
|
(4,237 |
) |
|
|
(1,428 |
) |
|
|
(5,665 |
) |
Other
income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest
income
|
|
|
95 |
|
|
|
172 |
|
|
|
267 |
|
Interest
expense
|
|
|
(44,090 |
) |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
(44,088 |
) |
Gain
on extinguishment of debt
|
|
|
37,988 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
37,988 |
|
Other
income, net
|
|
|
10,793 |
|
|
|
(261 |
) |
|
|
10,532 |
|
Total
other income (expense), net
|
|
|
4,786 |
|
|
|
(87 |
) |
|
|
4,699 |
|
Income
(loss) from continuing operations before income taxes
|
|
|
549 |
|
|
|
(1,515 |
) |
|
|
(966 |
) |
Income
tax provision
|
|
|
(275 |
) |
|
|
275 |
|
|
|
— |
|
Net
income (loss) from continuing operations
|
|
|
274 |
|
|
|
(1,240 |
) |
|
|
(966 |
) |
Loss
from discontinued operations
|
|
|
(3,190 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(3,190 |
) |
Net
loss
|
|
|
(2,916 |
) |
|
|
(1,240 |
) |
|
|
(4,156 |
) |
Less
net income attributed to noncontrolling interest in subsidiary –
continuing operations
|
|
|
(434 |
) |
|
|
434 |
|
|
|
— |
|
Net
loss attributed to NextWave
|
|
$ |
(3,350 |
) |
|
$ |
(806 |
) |
|
$ |
(4,156 |
) |
Amounts
attributed to NextWave common shares:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss
from continuing operations, net of tax
|
|
$ |
(160 |
) |
|
$ |
(806 |
) |
|
$ |
(966 |
) |
Loss
from discontinued operations, net of tax
|
|
|
(3,190 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(3,190 |
) |
Net
loss attributed to NextWave common shares
|
|
$ |
(3,350 |
) |
|
$ |
(806 |
) |
|
$ |
(4,156 |
) |
Net
loss per share attributed to NextWave common shares – basic and
diluted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Continuing
operations
|
|
$ |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
— |
|
Discontinued
operations
|
|
|
(0.02 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(0.02 |
) |
Net
loss
|
|
$ |
(0.02 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
(0.02 |
) |
Weighted
average shares used in per share calculation
|
|
|
169,625 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
169,625 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited pro forma condensed
consolidated financial statements.
NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR
THE YEAR ENDED JANUARY 2, 2010
(in
thousands, except per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
Pro
Forma Adjustments (f)
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues
|
|
$ |
50,693 |
|
|
$ |
(50,693 |
) |
|
$ |
— |
|
Revenues
– related party
|
|
|
9,537 |
|
|
|
(9,537 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Total
revenues
|
|
|
60,230 |
|
|
|
(60,230 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Operating
expenses:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost
of revenues
|
|
|
21,735 |
|
|
|
(21,735 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Cost
of revenues – related party
|
|
|
468 |
|
|
|
(468 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Engineering,
research and development
|
|
|
22,046 |
|
|
|
(22,046 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Sales
and marketing
|
|
|
8,832 |
|
|
|
(8,625 |
) |
|
|
207 |
|
General
and administrative
|
|
|
44,303 |
|
|
|
(11,118 |
) |
|
|
33,185 |
|
Asset
impairment charges
|
|
|
9,550 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
9,550 |
|
Restructuring
charges
|
|
|
3,841 |
|
|
|
(53 |
) |
|
|
3,788 |
|
Total
operating expenses
|
|
|
110,775 |
|
|
|
(64,045 |
) |
|
|
46,730 |
|
Gain
on sale of wireless spectrum licenses
|
|
|
2,664 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
2,664 |
|
Loss
from operations
|
|
|
(47,881 |
) |
|
|
3,815 |
|
|
|
(44,066 |
) |
Other
income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest
income
|
|
|
473 |
|
|
|
(15 |
) |
|
|
458 |
|
Interest
expense
|
|
|
(164,151 |
) |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
(164,149 |
) |
Other
expense, net
|
|
|
(8,715 |
) |
|
|
504 |
|
|
|
(8,211 |
) |
Total
other income (expense), net
|
|
|
(172,393 |
) |
|
|
491 |
|
|
|
(171,902 |
) |
Loss
from continuing operations before income taxes
|
|
|
(220,274 |
) |
|
|
4,306 |
|
|
|
(215,968 |
) |
Income
tax benefit
|
|
|
100 |
|
|
|
993 |
|
|
|
1,093 |
|
Net
loss from continuing operations
|
|
|
(220,174 |
) |
|
|
5,299 |
|
|
|
(214,875 |
) |
Loss
from discontinued operations
|
|
|
(70,111 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(70,111 |
) |
Net
loss
|
|
|
(290,285 |
) |
|
|
5,299 |
|
|
|
(284,986 |
) |
Net
loss attributed to noncontrolling interest in subsidiary – continuing
operations
|
|
|
104 |
|
|
|
(104 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Net
loss attributed to NextWave
|
|
$ |
(290,181 |
) |
|
$ |
5,195 |
|
|
$ |
(284,986 |
) |
Amounts
attributed to NextWave common shares:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss
from continuing operations, net of tax
|
|
$ |
(220,070 |
) |
|
$ |
5,195 |
|
|
$ |
(214,875 |
) |
Loss
from discontinued operations, net of tax
|
|
|
(70,111 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(70,111 |
) |
Net
loss attributed to NextWave common shares
|
|
$ |
(290,181 |
) |
|
$ |
5,195 |
|
|
$ |
(284,986 |
) |
Net
loss per share attributed to NextWave common shares – basic and
diluted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Continuing
operations
|
|
$ |
(1.40 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
(1.37 |
) |
Discontinued
operations
|
|
|
(0.44 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(0.44 |
) |
Net
loss
|
|
$ |
(1.84 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
(1.81 |
) |
Weighted
average shares used in per share calculation
|
|
|
157,742 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
157,742 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited pro forma condensed
consolidated financial statements.
NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
UNAUDITED
PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
FOR
THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 27, 2008
(in
thousands, except per share data)
|
|
|
|
|
Pro
Forma Adjustments (f)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenues
|
|
$ |
63,009 |
|
|
$ |
(63,009 |
) |
|
$ |
— |
|
Operating
expenses:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cost
of revenues
|
|
|
18,819 |
|
|
|
(18,819 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
Engineering,
research and development
|
|
|
26,370 |
|
|
|
(25,443 |
) |
|
|
927 |
|
Sales
and marketing
|
|
|
12,597 |
|
|
|
(10,752 |
) |
|
|
1,845 |
|
General
and administrative
|
|
|
63,641 |
|
|
|
(11,205 |
) |
|
|
52,436 |
|
Asset
impairment charges
|
|
|
6,837 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
6,837 |
|
Restructuring
charges
|
|
|
7,582 |
|
|
|
(203 |
) |
|
|
7,379 |
|
Total
operating expenses
|
|
|
135,846 |
|
|
|
(66,422 |
) |
|
|
69,424 |
|
Gain
on sale of wireless spectrum licenses
|
|
|
70,283 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
70,283 |
|
Income
(loss) from operations
|
|
|
(2,554 |
) |
|
|
3,413 |
|
|
|
859 |
|
Other
income (expense):
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest
income
|
|
|
3,048 |
|
|
|
(23 |
) |
|
|
3,025 |
|
Interest
expense
|
|
|
(99,338 |
) |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
(99,336 |
) |
Other
expense, net
|
|
|
(2,314 |
) |
|
|
(387 |
) |
|
|
(2,701 |
) |
Total
other income (expense), net
|
|
|
(98,604 |
) |
|
|
(408 |
) |
|
|
(99,012 |
) |
Loss
from continuing operations before income taxes
|
|
|
(101,158 |
) |
|
|
3,005 |
|
|
|
(98,153 |
) |
Income
tax benefit
|
|
|
1,777 |
|
|
|
1,107 |
|
|
|
2,884 |
|
Net
loss from continuing operations
|
|
|
(99,381 |
) |
|
|
4,112 |
|
|
|
(95,269 |
) |
Loss
from discontinued operations
|
|
|
(329,876 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(329,876 |
) |
Net
loss attributed to NextWave
|
|
$ |
(429,257 |
) |
|
$ |
4,112 |
|
|
$ |
(425,145 |
) |
Amounts
attributed to NextWave common shares:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss
from continuing operations, net of tax
|
|
$ |
(99,381 |
) |
|
$ |
4,112 |
|
|
$ |
(95,269 |
) |
Less:
Preferred stock imputed dividends
|
|
|
(22,769 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(22,769 |
) |
Accretion
of issuance costs on preferred stock
|
|
|
(230 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(230 |
) |
Exchange
of Series A Preferred Stock for Third Lien Notes
|
|
|
104,349 |
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
104,349 |
|
Loss
from continuing operations, including preferred stock dividends, costs and
exchange
|
|
|
(18,031 |
) |
|
|
4,112 |
|
|
|
(13,919 |
) |
Loss
from discontinued operations, net of tax
|
|
|
(329,876 |
) |
|
|
— |
|
|
|
(329,876 |
) |
Net
loss attributed to NextWave common shares
|
|
$ |
(347,907 |
) |
|
$ |
4,112 |
|
|
$ |
(343,795 |
) |
Net
loss per share attributed to NextWave common shares – basic and
diluted
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Continuing
operations
|
|
$ |
(0.17 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
(0.13 |
) |
Discontinued
operations
|
|
|
(2.99 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2.99 |
) |
Net
loss
|
|
$ |
(3.16 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
(3.12 |
) |
Weighted
average shares used in per share calculation
|
|
|
110,224 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110,224 |
|
The
accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited pro forma condensed
consolidated financial statements.
NEXTWAVE
WIRELESS INC.
NOTES
TO UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The
accompanying unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements and
explanatory notes present the financial statements of NextWave Wireless Inc. as
if the sale of our remaining 65% interest in PacketVideo had occurred on April
3, 2010 with respect to the unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated balance
sheet and as if the Transactions had occurred on December 30, 2007 with respect
to the unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations for
the three months ended April 3, 2010, and for the years ended January 2, 2010
and December 27, 2008. The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated
balance sheet also presumes of the $111.6 million in gross sales proceeds, $37.5
million is retained by NextWave for general working capital purposes and
permitted investments, $4.6 million is paid for estimated direct and incremental
transaction costs and the remainder of $69.5 million is used to redeem a portion
of our Senior Secured Notes, plus accrued interest, on April 3,
2010. Actual application of net proceeds to redeem outstanding Senior
Secured Notes and the amount of available working capital upon consummation of
the proposed transaction to sell the remaining 65% interest in PacketVideo will
be different due to additional indebtedness incurred after the April 3, 2010
balance sheet date.
The
unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements are presented
for illustrative purposes only and do not purport to represent what the
financial position or results of operations of NextWave would have been had the
Transactions occurred on the dates noted above, or to project the financial
position or results of operations of NextWave for any future
periods. The pro forma adjustments are based on available information
and certain assumptions that management believes are reasonable. The
pro forma adjustments are directly attributable to the Transactions and are
expected to have a continuing impact on the results of operations of
NextWave.
The
actual effect of the sales could differ from the pro forma adjustments projected
here. However, in the opinion of management, all adjustments
necessary to present fairly the unaudited pro forma financial statements have
been made.
2.
|
Notes
to Unaudited Pro Forma Adjustments
|
Unaudited
Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet
(a)
|
To
eliminate the assets and liabilities of PacketVideo anticipated to be sold
to DOCOMO.
|
(b)
|
To
record the sales proceeds and related impact including $37.5 million
retained by NextWave for general working capital purposes and permitted
investments, $4.6 million in estimated direct and incremental transaction
costs and the remainder of $69.5 million used to redeem a portion of our
Senior Secured Notes, plus accrued interest, on April 3, 2010 as
follows:
|
|
(in
thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
Gross
sale proceeds
|
|
$ |
111,600 |
|
|
Less
estimated direct and incremental transaction costs
|
|
|
(4,600 |
) |
|
Estimated
net sales proceeds
|
|
|
107,000 |
|
|
Less
assumed redemption of Senior Secured Notes and accrued interest on April
3, 2010
|
|
|
(69,500 |
) |
|
Eliminate
historical cash and cash equivalents balance of
PacketVideo
|
|
|
(4,528 |
) |
|
Pro
forma adjustment to cash and cash equivalents
|
|
$ |
32,972 |
|
(c)
|
To
eliminate the historical prepaid expenses and other current assets of
PacketVideo of $2.0 million and to record NextWave’s note receivable from
PacketVideo of $7.1 million that was previously eliminated in
consolidation and subsequently paid by
PacketVideo.
|
(d)
|
To
record the following:
|
|
(in
thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
Assumed
principal redemption of Senior Secured Notes on April 3,
2010
|
|
$ |
(67,423 |
) |
|
Reduction
in related unamortized discount
|
|
|
3,243 |
|
|
Assumed
payment of related accrued interest
|
|
|
(2,077 |
) |
|
Net
reduction in long-term obligations
|
|
|
(66,257 |
) |
|
Pro
forma adjustment to current portion of long-term
obligations
|
|
|
(59,849 |
) |
|
Pro
forma adjustment to long-term obligations, net of current
portion
|
|
$ |
(6,408 |
) |
Actual
application of net proceeds to redeem outstanding Senior Secured Notes and the
amount of available working capital upon consummation of the proposed
transaction to sell the remaining 65% interest in PacketVideo will be different
due to additional indebtedness incurred after the April 3, 2010 balance sheet
date.
(e)
|
To
record the gain on sale of assets, as if the transaction had occurred on
April 3, 2010. The actual gain on sale calculated as of the
actual transaction date may differ from the gain presented in these
unaudited pro forma financial statements. No pro forma adjustment to the
statement of operations has been recorded as this is a nonrecurring
item.
|
|
(in
thousands)
|
|
|
|
|
Sales
price
|
|
$ |
111,600 |
|
|
Less
estimated transactions costs
|
|
|
(4,600 |
) |
|
Estimated
net sales proceeds
|
|
|
107,000 |
|
|
Noncontrolling
interest in PacketVideo
|
|
|
16,341 |
|
|
Carrying
amount of assets and liabilities of PacketVideo
|
|
|
(46,687 |
) |
|
Estimated
net gain on sale
|
|
|
76,654 |
|
|
Interest
expense from accelerated amortization of unamortized discount and issue
costs on debt assumed to be paid
|
|
|
(3,295 |
) |
|
Change
in stockholders’ deficit attributed to NextWave
|
|
$ |
73,359 |
|
Unaudited
Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(f)
|
To
eliminate the revenues, operating expenses, other income (expense), tax
provisions (benefits) and noncontrolling interest share in net income
(loss) of PacketVideo that was
sold.
|