SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15-d-16 of
The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For April 15,
2008
Commission
File Number 000-17434
DRAXIS
HEALTH INC.
(Translation
of registrants name into English)
Suite 4700,
TD Bank Tower
Toronto Dominion Centre
Toronto, Ontario M5K 1E6
CANADA
(Address
of principal offices)
Registrant
files annual reports under cover of Form 20-F
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized.
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DRAXIS
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By:/s/
Alida Gualtieri
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General
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Dated: April 15,2008
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ARRANGEMENT
AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
JUBILANT
ORGANOSYS LTD.
AND
JUBILANT
ACQUISITION INC.
AND
DRAXIS
HEALTH INC.
DATED
APRIL 4
, 2008
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ARRANGEMENT
AGREEMENT
THIS ARRANGEMENT AGREEMENT
dated
April 4
, 2008,
B E T W E E N:
JUBILANT ORGANOSYS LTD.
, a corporation incorporated
under the laws of India (
Jubilant
)
- and -
JUBILANT ACQUISITION INC.
, a corporation incorporated
under the laws of Canada
(
Purchaser
)
- and -
DRAXIS HEALTH INC.
a corporation incorporated
under the laws of Canada (
DRAXIS
)
THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSES THAT in
consideration of the covenants and agreements herein contained and other good
and valuable consideration (the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged), the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
INTERPRETATION
1.1
Definitions
In this Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires:
2006 Stock Option Plan
means the stock option plan of DRAXIS approved by shareholders on May 18,
2006 and amended on May 17, 2007;
Acquisition Proposal
means, other than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and other
than any transaction involving only DRAXIS and/or one or more of its
wholly-owned subsidiaries, any offer, proposal, expressions of interest, or
inquiry from any person (other than the Purchaser or any of its affiliates)
after the date hereof relating to:
(a)
any acquisition, issuance or
sale, direct or indirect, of:
(i)
the assets of DRAXIS and/or
one or more of its subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate:
(A)
constitute 20% or more of the
fair market value of the consolidated assets of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries;
(B)
generate 20% or more of the
consolidated revenue of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries; or
(C)
generate 20% or more of the
consolidated operating income of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries; or
(ii)
20% or more of any voting or
equity securities of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries whose assets,
individually or in the aggregate:
(A)
constitute 20% or more of the
fair market value of the consolidated assets of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries;
(B)
generate 20% or more of the
consolidated revenue of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries; or
(C)
generate 20% or more of the
consolidated operating income of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries;
(b)
any take-over bid, tender
offer or exchange offer that, if consummated, would result in such person
beneficially owning 20% or more of any class of voting or equity securities of
DRAXIS; or
(c)
a plan of arrangement, merger,
amalgamation, consolidation, share exchange, share issuance, business
combination, reorganization, recapitalization, liquidation, dissolution or
other similar transaction involving DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries whose
assets, individually or in the aggregate:
(i)
constitute 20% or more of the
fair market value of the consolidated assets of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries;
(ii)
generate 20% or more of the
consolidated revenue of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries; or
(iii)
generate 20% or more of the
consolidated operating income of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries, but, in all
cases, excluding for greater certainty the ordinary course refinancing of
existing indebtedness of DRAXIS or its subsidiaries as permitted by the terms
hereof;
Advisor
has
the meaning set forth in Section 7.2(a);
affiliate
has
the meaning ascribed thereto in the Securities Act;
Agreement
means this arrangement agreement, together with the schedules, appendices and
the Disclosure Letter, as the same may
be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with the terms hereof;
Applicable Law
means, with respect to any person or property, any domestic or foreign federal,
national, state, provincial or local law (statutory, common or otherwise),
constitution, treaty, convention, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, order,
injunction, judgment, decree, ruling or other similar requirement enacted,
adopted, promulgated or applied by a Governmental Entity that is binding upon
or applicable to such person or property, as amended;
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Arrangement
means the arrangement under section 192 of the CBCA on the terms and subject to
the conditions set out in the Plan of Arrangement, subject to any amendments or
variations thereto made in accordance with Section 8.3 hereof or the Plan
of Arrangement or made at the direction of the Court in the Final Order with the consent of DRAXIS
and the Purchaser, each acting reasonably;
Arrangement Resolution
means the special resolution approving the Plan of Arrangement to be considered
at the DRAXIS Meeting, to be substantially in the form and content of Schedule
B hereto;
Articles of Arrangement
means the articles of arrangement of DRAXIS in respect of the Arrangement,
required by the CBCA to be sent to the Director after the Final Order is made
by the Court, which shall be in a form and content satisfactory to DRAXIS and
the Purchaser, each acting reasonably, subject to any amendments or variations
thereto made with the consent of DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting
reasonably;
business day
means any day, other than a Saturday, a Sunday and a statutory or civic holiday
in Montréal, Québec, Canada; Toronto, Ontario; Canada; New York, New York,
United States of America or Delhi, India;
CBCA
means the
Canada Business Corporations Act
and the
regulations made thereunder, as promulgated or amended from time to time (or
such other corporate statute that is DRAXIS governing corporate statute at the
relevant time);
Certificate of Arrangement
means the certificate of arrangement to be issued by the Director pursuant to
subsection 192(7) of the CBCA in respect of the Articles of Arrangement;
Change in Recommendation
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.2(a)(iii)(A);
Code
means the
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time;
Commitment Letter
has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2(f)(i);
Company Information
means DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record;
Competition Act
means the
Competition Act
(Canada), as amended
from time to time;
Confidentiality Agreement
means the letter agreement dated November 2, 2007 between Jubilant and
DRAXIS pursuant to which Purchaser has been provided with access to
confidential information of DRAXIS;
Consideration
means the consideration to be paid by the Purchaser to the DRAXIS Shareholders
as defined in the Plan of Arrangement;
Contract
means
any contract, agreement, license, franchise, lease, arrangement, commitment, or
other right or obligation to which DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries is a party
or by which DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries is bound or affected or to which
any of their respective properties or assets is subject other than purchase
orders;
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Court
means
the Québec Superior Court;
Data Room
means the DRAXIS data room posted on the datasite.merrillcorp.com web site as
in effect on April
3
,
2008 and the data room at the Montréal, Québec offices of McCarthy Tétrault LLP
as in effect on April
3
,
2008;
Deferred Share Unit Plan
means the deferred share unit plan for senior management employees of DRAXIS;
Depositary
means Computershare Investor Services Inc.;
Director
means
the Director appointed pursuant to section 260 of the CBCA;
Disclosure Letter
means the disclosure letter executed and delivered by DRAXIS to the Purchaser
in connection with the execution of this Agreement;
Dissent Rights
means the rights of dissent in respect of the Arrangement described in the Plan
of Arrangement;
DRAXIS Benefit Plans
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(y)(i);
DRAXIS Board
means the board of directors of DRAXIS as the
same is constituted from time to time;
DRAXIS Circular
means the notice of the DRAXIS Meeting and accompanying management information
circular, including all schedules, appendices and exhibits thereto, to be sent
to the DRAXIS Shareholders in connection with the DRAXIS Meeting, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time;
DRAXIS Employee
Participation Shares
means the employee participation shares in the
capital of DRAXIS, as currently constituted;
DRAXIS Financial
Statements
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(l);
DRAXIS Meeting
means the special meeting of DRAXIS Shareholders, including any adjournment or
postponement thereof, to be called and held in accordance with the Interim
Order to consider the Arrangement Resolution;
DRAXIS Option
means an option to purchase DRAXIS Shares granted under any of the DRAXIS Stock
Option Plans;
DRAXIS Preferred Shares
means the preferred shares in the capital of DRAXIS, as currently constituted;
DRAXIS Products
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(x)(v);
DRAXIS Public Disclosure
Record
means all documents and information filed by DRAXIS under
applicable Securities Laws on the System for Electronic Document Analysis
Retrieval (SEDAR) or the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval
System
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(EDGAR), during the period between December 31,
2004 and the business day prior to the date hereof;
DRAXIS Shareholders
means the holders of DRAXIS Shares;
DRAXIS Shares
means the common shares in the capital of DRAXIS, as currently constituted;
DRAXIS Stock Option Plans
means the Stock Option Plan and the 2006 Stock Option Plan;
DSUs
means
deferred share units granted to members of senior management of DRAXIS pursuant
to the Deferred Share Unit Plan and as set forth in Schedule 3.1(f) to the
Disclosure Letter;
Effective Date
means the date upon which the Arrangement becomes effective as provided in the
Plan of Arrangement;
Effective Time
has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Plan of Arrangement;
Employee Plans
means collectively the Deferred Share Unit Plan, the DRAXIS Stock Option Plans,
the 2008 DRAXIS Long Term Equity Incentive Plan,
the 2008 DRAXIS Pharma Long Term Equity Incentive Plan, the DRAXIS
Pharma Long Term Equity Incentive Plan, the DRAXIMAGE Long Term Equity
Incentive Plan, the DRAXIS Long Term Incentive Plan and any other incentive,
profit-sharing, deferred compensation, stock purchase, stock compensation or
other employee compensation plan of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries or
divisions;
Environmental Laws
means any Applicable Law relating to the environment, natural resources, or
pollutants, contaminants, wastes or chemicals or any toxic, radioactive,
ignitable, corrosive, reactive or otherwise hazardous or deleterious
substances, wastes or materials or to the protection of human health or safety;
Exchange Act
means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
Exchanges
means the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Global Select Market, and
Exchange
means any one of them;
Final Order
means the final order of the Court approving the Arrangement as such order may
be amended by the Court (with the consent of both DRAXIS and the Purchaser,
each acting reasonably) at any time prior to the Effective Date or, if
appealed, then, unless such appeal is withdrawn or denied, as affirmed or as
amended (provided that any such amendment is acceptable to both DRAXIS and the
Purchaser, each acting reasonably) on appeal;
GAAP
means
generally accepted accounting principles in the United States;
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Governmental Entity
means:
(a)
any multinational, federal,
provincial, state, regional, municipal, local or other government, governmental
or public department, central bank, court, tribunal, arbitral body, commission,
board, bureau or agency, domestic or foreign;
(b)
any subdivision, agent,
commission, board or authority of any of the foregoing;
(c)
any quasi-governmental or
private body, including any tribunal, commission, regulatory agency or
self-regulatory organization, exercising any regulatory, expropriation or
taxing authority under or for the account of any of the foregoing; or
(d)
any stock exchange, including
the Exchanges;
Hazardous Substance
means any pollutant, contaminant, waste or chemical or any toxic, radioactive,
ignitable, corrosive, reactive or otherwise hazardous or deleterious substance,
waste or material, including petroleum, polychlorinated biphenyls, asbestos and
urea-formaldehyde insulation, and any other material or contaminant regulated
or prohibited pursuant to, or that could result in liability under, any
Environmental Law;
HSR Act
means
the
Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of
1976
(United States), as amended from time to time;
including
means including without limitation, and
include
and
includes
have a corresponding meaning;
Intellectual Property
Rights
means all patents (and applications, renewals, provisionals,
re-issuances, continuations, continuations-in-part, divisions, revisions,
extensions and re-examinations thereof), inventions, trade-marks (both
registered and unregistered), trade names, service marks, copyrights, trade
secrets, know-how and all other intellectual property and proprietary rights that
are material for the conduct of the business of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries;
Interim Order
means the interim order of the Court providing for, among other things, the
calling and holding of the DRAXIS Meeting, as the same may be amended by the
Court with the consent of DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting reasonably;
Investment Canada Act
means the
Investment Canada Act
(Canada), as
amended from time to time;
Key Regulatory Approvals
means those sanctions, rulings, exemptions, Permits and other approvals
(including the lapse, without objection, of a prescribed time under a statute
or regulation that states that a transaction may be implemented if a prescribed
time lapses following the giving of notice without an objection being made) of
and from any Governmental Entity required to proceed with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement (other than the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization
or any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization) as set out in Schedule C
hereto;
Key Third Party Consents
means:
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(a)
those Third Party Consents
relating to customers set out in Schedule D; and
(b)
those Third Party Consents, if
any, not set out in Schedule 3.1(e) to the Disclosure Letter and
required to proceed with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (other
than the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization or any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization) other than Third Party Consents where the failure to obtain the
required consent or approval, would not be reasonably expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate a Material Adverse Effect;
Liens
means
any hypothecs, mortgages, pledges, assignments, liens, charges, security
interests, encumbrances and adverse rights or claims, other third person
interest or encumbrance of any kind, whether contingent or absolute, and any
agreement, option, right or privilege (whether by Law, contract or otherwise)
capable of becoming any of the foregoing;
Material Adverse Effect
means any change, effect, event or occurrence that individually or in the
aggregate with other such changes, effects, events or occurrences, is material
and adverse to the business, affairs, prospects, results of operations or
financial condition of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, provided
that any change, effect, event or occurrence resulting from:
(a)
the announcement of the
execution of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby or the
performance of any obligation hereunder;
(b)
changes in U.S. or Canadian
general, national or regional, political or general economic conditions or in
national or global financial or capital markets;
(c)
commencement, occurrence or
continuation of any war, armed hostilities or acts of terrorism;
(d)
any change in Applicable Laws
or in GAAP;
(e)
any natural disaster;
(f)
the failure, in and of itself,
of DRAXIS to meet internal or public forecasts or estimates of revenues or
earnings (it being understood that the causes underlying any such failure may
be taken into account in determining whether a Material Adverse Effect has
occurred);
(g)
any decrease in the market
price or any decline in the trading volume of DRAXIS Shares on either of the
Exchanges or any suspension of trading in securities generally on any Exchange
on which any securities of DRAXIS trade (it being understood that the causes
underlying a change in market price may be taken into account in determining
whether a Material Adverse Effect has occurred).
(h)
any change affecting the
industries in which DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries operate, as a whole;
(i)
any action specifically and
expressly contemplated by this Agreement or taken at the Purchasers request;
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(j)
the results of the Phase I
clinical trials of DRAXIMAGE MIBG; or
(k)
any reorganization of DRAXIS
and its subsidiaries specifically required by Section 5.4 of this
Agreement and the Plan of Arrangement (including a change in Applicable Law
relating to Taxes that adversely affects the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization,
any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization or any expected Tax benefits to
be realized in relation thereto);
will be deemed not to constitute a Material
Adverse Effect. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the events described in
clauses (b), (c), (d), (e) and (h), will constitute a Material
Adverse Effect to the extent those changes, effects, events or occurrences have
or would reasonably be expected to have a disproportionate impact on the
business, affairs, prospects, results of operations or financial condition of
DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries relative to other industry participants.
For purposes of this definition, [reference redacted] to the effect that the
[reference redacted] of [product name redacted] infringes a valid and
enforceable third party patent to which DRAXIS does not have rights will be
deemed to be a Material Adverse Effect;
Material Contracts
means any Contract:
(a)
under which DRAXIS or any of
its subsidiaries has directly or indirectly guaranteed any liabilities or
obligations of a third party (other than ordinary course endorsements for
collection) in excess of $500,000 in the aggregate;
(b)
relating to indebtedness for
borrowed money, whether incurred, assumed, guaranteed or secured by any asset
other than inter-company indebtedness;
(c)
providing for the
establishment, organization or formation of any joint ventures;
(d)
under which DRAXIS or any of
its subsidiaries is obligated to make or expects to receive payments in excess
of $
100,000
($150,000 in
respect of Contracts of employment) per annum excluding purchase orders in
respect of operating expenses issued in the ordinary course of business and
excluding Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business relating
to:
(i)
telecommunication services;
(ii)
information technology
software licenses and service agreements;
(iii)
uniforms, safety glasses and
shoes;
(iv)
food services;
(v)
office supplies;
(vi)
offsite storage for documents
and equipment;
(vii)
waste pick-up;
(viii)
copier services; and
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(ix)
courier services;
(e)
that limits or restricts
DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries from engaging in any line of business or any
geographic area in any material respect; or
(f)
in respect of which DRAXIS or
any of its subsidiaries has directly or indirectly given an exclusive license
regarding any of the Intellectual Property Rights or the Technology;
material fact
has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Securities Act and as used in the
Exchange Act and related rules and regulations;
Material Subsidiaries
means the following subsidiaries of DRAXIS :
(a)
DRAXIS Specialty
Pharmaceuticals Inc.;
(b)
4271513 Canada
Inc.;
(c)
DRAXIMAGE LLC;
(d)
DRAXIMAGE (U.K.)
Limited; and
(e)
Deprenyl Animal
Health, Inc.;
MD&A
has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(l);
Officer
means
any of Dan Brazier, Mark Oleksiw, Jean-Pierre Robert, Alida Gualtieri and Jerry
Ormiston and
Officers
means all of them.
ordinary course of business
,
ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice
, or any similar reference, means, with respect to an
action taken by a person, that such action is consistent with the past
practices of such person and is taken in the ordinary course of the normal
day-to-day business and operations of such person; provided that in any event
such action is not unreasonable or unusual;
OSC
means the
Ontario Securities Commission, and includes any successor thereto;
Outside Date
means
October 6, 2008
,
or such later date as may be agreed to in writing by the Parties;
Owned IP
has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(bb)(i)(K);
Parties
means
DRAXIS, Jubilant and Purchaser, and
Party
means
either of them;
Permit
means
any license, permit, certificate, consent, order, grant, approval, registration
or other authorization of and from any Governmental Entity;
person
includes an individual, partnership, association, body corporate, trustee,
executor, administrator, legal representative, government (including any
Governmental Entity) or any other entity, whether or not having legal status;
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Plan of Arrangement
means the plan of arrangement, substantially in the form of Schedule A, and any
amendments or variations thereto made in accordance with Section 8.3 or
the Plan of Arrangement or made at the direction of the Court in the Final
Order with the consent of DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting reasonably;
Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization
means the steps described in Schedule 5.4(c) together
with the steps described in paragraphs 2.3(a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
the Plan of Arrangement;
Products
has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(x)(i);
Product Registrations
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(x)(v);
Registered IP
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(bb)(i)(A);
Regulatory Authorities
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(x)(i);
Regulatory Authorizations
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(x)(iii);
Representatives
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.2(a);
Returns
means
all reports, forms, elections, estimates, declarations of estimated tax,
information statements and returns (whether in tangible, electronic or other
form) and including any amendments, schedules, attachments, supplements,
appendices and exhibits thereto required to be filed or prepared in connection
with any Taxes;
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
means the
United States Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
and
the rules and regulations promulgated under such Act;
SEC
means the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and includes any successor
thereto;
Securities Act
means the
Securities Act
(Ontario) and the rules,
regulations and published policies made thereunder, as now in effect and as
they may be promulgated or amended from time to time;
Securities Authorities
means the SEC, the OSC and the applicable securities commissions and other
securities regulatory authorities in each of the other provinces and
territories of Canada and the various states of the United States of America;
Securities Laws
means the Securities Act, together with all other applicable provincial and
United States federal and state securities laws, rules and regulations and
published policies thereunder, as now in effect and as they may be promulgated
or amended from time to time;
Shareholder Rights Plan
means the Shareholder Rights Plan Agreement dated April 23, 2002 between
DRAXIS and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as amended and reconfirmed
from time to time;
Special Committee
means the special committee of the DRAXIS Board;
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SRP Rights
means the rights issued pursuant to the Shareholder Rights Plan;
Stock Option Plan
means the stock option plan of DRAXIS approved by Shareholders on February 3,
1988 and amended on June 27, 2001 and May 17, 2007;
subsidiary
means, with respect to a specified body corporate, any body corporate of which
more than 50% of the outstanding shares ordinarily entitled to elect a majority
of the board of directors thereof (whether or not shares of any other class or
classes shall or might be entitled to vote upon the happening of any event or
contingency) are at the time owned directly or indirectly by such specified
body corporate and shall include any body corporate, partnership, joint venture
or other entity over which such specified body corporate exercises direction or
control or which is in a like relation to a subsidiary;
Superior Proposal
means any bona fide written Acquisition Proposal that is an unsolicited offer
made after the date of this Agreement (and not obtained in violation of Section 7.2)
that relates to 100% of the outstanding DRAXIS Shares and:
(a)
that is reasonably capable of
being completed without undue delay, taking into account all financial, legal,
regulatory and other aspects of such proposal and the person making such
proposal;
(b)
that is made to all
shareholders in Canada and the United States of America on the same terms and
conditions;
(c)
if applicable, in respect of
which financing commitment letters from recognized financial institutions with
conditions not more onerous in any material respect than those contemplated by
this Agreement, such financial institutions and the terms of such financing
commitment letters to be reasonably satisfactory to DRAXIS, have been furnished
to DRAXIS or, in the alternative, other evidence satisfactory to DRAXIS that
the purchaser has sufficient funds on hand to complete the transaction
contemplated by such proposal;
(d)
is not subject to a due
diligence condition; and
(e)
in respect of which the DRAXIS
Board determines, in its good faith judgment, upon the advice of its outside
legal and financial advisors, that:
(i)
failure to recommend such
Acquisition Proposal to the holders of DRAXIS Shares would be inconsistent with
its fiduciary duties under Applicable Law; and
(ii)
after taking into account all
the terms and conditions of such Acquisition Proposal, if consummated in
accordance with its terms (but not assuming away any risk of non-completion),
will result in a transaction more favourable to the holders of DRAXIS Shares from
a financial point of view than the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
taking into account any change proposed by the Purchaser pursuant to Section 7.3;
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Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.4(c);
Tax Act
means
the
Income Tax Act
(Canada), as amended from
time to time;
Taxes
means:
(a)
any and all taxes, imposts,
levies, withholdings, duties, fees, premiums, assessments and other charges of
any kind, however denominated and instalments in respect thereof, including any
interest, penalties, fines or other additions that have been, are or will
become payable in respect thereof, imposed by any Governmental Entity,
including for greater certainty all income or profits taxes (including United
States federal and state income taxes and Canadian federal, provincial and
territorial income taxes), payroll and employee withholding taxes, employment
taxes, unemployment insurance, disability taxes, social insurance taxes, sales
and use taxes, ad valorem taxes, excise taxes, goods and services taxes,
harmonized sales taxes, Québec sales tax, franchise taxes, gross receipts
taxes, capital taxes, business license taxes, alternative minimum taxes,
estimated taxes, abandoned or unclaimed (escheat) taxes, occupation taxes, real
and personal property taxes, stamp taxes, environmental taxes, transfer taxes,
severance taxes, workers compensation, Canada, Québec and other government
pension plan premiums or contributions and other governmental charges, and
other obligations of the same or of a similar nature to any of the foregoing,
which DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries is required to pay, withhold,
collect or remit, together with any interest, penalties or other additions to
tax that may become payable in respect of such taxes, and any interest in
respect of such interest, penalties and additions whether disputed or not; and
(b)
any liability for the payment
of any amount described in clause (a) of this definition as a result of
being a member of an affiliated, consolidated, combined or unitary group for
any period, as a result of any Tax sharing or Tax allocation agreement,
arrangement or understanding, or as a result of being liable to another persons
Taxes as a transferee or successor, by contract or otherwise;
Technology
has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(bb)(ii)(A);
Termination Fee
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.4(c);
Termination Fee Event
has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.4(d); and
Third Party Consents
means those consents, approvals and notices required by DRAXIS, to proceed with
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (other than the Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization or any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization) from any
third person, including from customers, in respect of any Contract of DRAXIS or
any of its Material Subsidiaries under which DRAXIS or any of its Material
Subsidiaries is obligated to make or expects to receive payments in excess of
$50,000 in the aggregate other than consents and notices relating to Contracts
entered into in the ordinary course of business relating to:
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(a)
telecommunication services;
(b)
information technology
software licenses and service agreements;
(c)
uniforms, safety glasses and
shoes;
(d)
food services;
(e)
office supplies;
(f)
offsite storage for documents
and equipment;
(g)
waste pick-up;
(h)
copier services; and
(i)
courier services.
1.2
Interpretation Not Affected by
Headings
The division of this Agreement into
Articles, Sections, subsections and paragraphs and the insertion of headings
are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect in any way the
meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.
Unless the contrary intention appears, references in this Agreement to
an Article, Section, subsection, paragraph or Schedule by number or letter or
both refer to the Article, Section, subsection, paragraph or Schedule, respectively,
bearing that designation in this Agreement.
1.3
Number and Gender
In this Agreement, unless the contrary
intention appears, words importing the singular include the plural and vice
versa, and words importing gender include all genders.
1.4
Date for Any Action
If the date on which any action is required
to be taken hereunder by a Party is not a business day, such action shall be
required to be taken on the next succeeding day which is a business day.
1.5
Currency
Unless otherwise stated, all references in
this Agreement to sums of money are expressed in lawful money of the United
States of America and $ refers to United States dollars.
1.6
Accounting Matters
Unless otherwise stated, all accounting
terms used in this Agreement in respect of DRAXIS shall have the meanings
attributable thereto under GAAP and all determinations of an accounting nature
in respect of DRAXIS required to be made shall be made in a manner consistent
with GAAP consistently applied.
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1.7
Knowledge
In this Agreement, references to the
knowledge of DRAXIS means the actual knowledge, without personal liability, of
Dan Brazier, Mark Oleksiw, Jean-Pierre Robert, and Alida Gualtieri, after
having made reasonable inquiry with the officers, directors and employees of
DRAXIS and its subsidiaries (in their respective areas of responsibility) who
would reasonably be expected to have knowledge of the fact or matter in
question.
1.8
Schedules
The following Schedules are annexed to this
Agreement and are incorporated by reference into this Agreement and form a part
hereof:
Schedule A
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Plan of Arrangement
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Schedule B
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Arrangement Resolution
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Schedule C
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Key Regulatory Approvals
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Schedule D
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Schedule 5.4(c)
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Pre-Acquisition Reorganization
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ARTICLE II
THE ARRANGEMENT
2.1
Arrangement
DRAXIS and the Purchaser agree that the
Arrangement will be implemented in accordance with and subject to the terms and
conditions contained in this Agreement and the Plan of Arrangement.
2.2
Interim Order
DRAXIS agrees that as soon as reasonably
practicable and in no event later than 30 days after the date hereof,
DRAXIS shall apply in a manner acceptable to Purchaser, acting reasonably,
pursuant to section 192 of the CBCA and, in cooperation with the Purchaser,
prepare, file and diligently pursue an application for the Interim Order, which
shall provide, among other things:
(a)
for the class of persons to
whom notice is to be provided in respect of the Arrangement and the DRAXIS
Meeting and for the manner in which such notice is to be provided;
(b)
that the requisite approval
for the Arrangement Resolution shall be two-thirds of the votes cast on the
Arrangement Resolution by DRAXIS Shareholders present in person or represented
by proxy at the DRAXIS Meeting;
(c)
that, in all other respects,
the terms, restrictions and conditions of DRAXIS articles of incorporation and
by-laws, including quorum requirements and all other matters, shall apply in
respect of the DRAXIS Meeting;
(d)
for the grant of the Dissent
Rights;
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(e)
for the notice requirements
with respect to the presentation of the application to the Court for the Final
Order;
(f)
that the DRAXIS Meeting may be
adjourned or postponed from time to time by DRAXIS (with the prior written
consent of the Purchaser, not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) without
the need for additional approval of the Court; and
(g)
for such other matters as the
Purchaser may reasonably require subject to obtaining the prior written consent
of DRAXIS, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
2.3
DRAXIS Meeting
(a)
Subject to the terms of this
Agreement, DRAXIS agrees to convene and conduct the DRAXIS Meeting in
accordance with the Interim Order, DRAXIS articles of incorporation and
by-laws and Applicable Law as soon as reasonably practicable but in any event
no later than June 3, 2008.
(b)
Subject to the terms of this
Agreement, DRAXIS will use commercially reasonable efforts to solicit proxies
in favour of the approval of the Arrangement Resolution, including, if so
requested by the Purchaser, using proxy solicitation services.
(c)
DRAXIS will give notice to the
Purchaser of the DRAXIS Meeting and allow the Purchasers representatives and
legal counsel to attend and speak at the DRAXIS Meeting.
(d)
DRAXIS will advise the
Purchaser as the Purchaser may reasonably request, and at least on a daily
basis on each of the last 10 business days prior to the date of the DRAXIS
Meeting, as to the aggregate tally of the proxies received by DRAXIS in respect
of the Arrangement Resolution.
(e)
DRAXIS will promptly advise
the Purchaser of any written notice of dissent or purported exercise by any
DRAXIS Shareholder of Dissent Rights received by DRAXIS in relation to the
Arrangement Resolution and any withdrawal of Dissent Rights received by DRAXIS
and, subject to Applicable Law, any written communications sent by or on behalf
of DRAXIS to any DRAXIS Shareholder exercising or purporting to exercise
Dissent Rights in relation to the Arrangement Resolution.
(f)
DRAXIS shall prepare or cause
to be prepared and provide to Purchaser lists of the holders of all classes and
series of securities of DRAXIS, including lists of the DRAXIS Shareholders, the
holders of DRAXIS Options, as well as a security position listing from each
depositary of its securities, including The Canadian Depositary for Securities
Limited and The Depository Trust Company, as soon as practicable after the date
hereof and will obtain and deliver to Purchaser thereafter on demand
supplemental lists setting out any changes thereto, all such deliveries to be
in printed form and, if available, in computer-readable format.
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2.4
DRAXIS Circular
(a)
DRAXIS shall prepare the
DRAXIS Circular in the English and, if required by the Purchaser, the French
languages in compliance with the Securities Laws and file on a timely basis the
DRAXIS Circular with respect to the DRAXIS Meeting in all jurisdictions where
the same is required to be filed and mail the same as required by the Interim
Order and in accordance with all Applicable Law, in all jurisdictions where the
same is required, complying in all material respects with all Applicable Law on
the date of mailing thereof and containing full, true and plain disclosure of
all material facts relating to the Arrangement.
(b)
DRAXIS shall ensure that the
DRAXIS Circular complies in all material respects with the terms of this
Agreement and all Applicable Laws, and, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, that the DRAXIS Circular will 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 contained therein not misleading in light of
the circumstances in which they are made (other than in each case with respect
to any information relating to the Purchaser) and shall provide DRAXIS
Shareholders with information in sufficient detail to permit them to form a
reasoned judgement concerning the matters to be placed before them at the
DRAXIS Meeting. Subject to Section 7.2, the DRAXIS Circular will include
the recommendation of the DRAXIS Board that DRAXIS Shareholders vote in favour
of the Arrangement Resolution, and a statement that each director of DRAXIS
intends to deposit his/her DRAXIS Shares (including DRAXIS Shares underlying
DRAXIS Options held immediately prior to the Effective Time) under the Plan of
Arrangement and to vote in favour of the Arrangement Resolution, subject to the
other terms of this Agreement. DRAXIS
shall indemnify and hold harmless the Purchaser against any costs and expenses
(including reasonable legal fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims and damages
and liabilities and amounts paid in settlement thereof with the consent of the
Purchaser (such consent not to be unreasonably delayed or withheld) to which
the Purchaser may be subject or may suffer in connection with any claim,
action, suit, proceeding or investigation that is based on or arises out of any
misrepresentation in the disclosure in the DRAXIS Circular other than in
respect of information concerning the Purchaser that is provided in writing by
or on behalf of the Purchaser for inclusion in the DRAXIS Circular.
(c)
The Purchaser will furnish to
DRAXIS all such information concerning the Purchaser as may be reasonably
required by DRAXIS in the preparation of the DRAXIS Circular. The Purchaser shall indemnify and hold
harmless DRAXIS against any costs and expenses (including reasonable legal
fees), judgments, fines, losses, claims and damages and liabilities and amounts
paid in settlement thereof with the consent of DRAXIS (such consent not to be
unreasonably delayed or withheld), to which DRAXIS may be subject or may suffer
in connection with any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation that is
based on or arises out of any misrepresentation or alleged misrepresentation in
the disclosure in the DRAXIS Circular that is provided in writing by or on
behalf of the Purchaser for inclusion in the DRAXIS Circular.
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(d)
The Purchaser and its legal
counsel shall be given a reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the
DRAXIS Circular, prior to the DRAXIS Circular being printed, mailed to DRAXIS
Shareholders and filed with the Securities Authorities, and reasonable
consideration shall be given to any comments made by the Purchaser and its
counsel, provided that all information relating solely to the Purchaser
included in the DRAXIS Circular shall be in form and content satisfactory to
the Purchaser, acting reasonably. DRAXIS shall provide the Purchaser with a
final copy of the DRAXIS Circular prior to the mailing to the DRAXIS
Shareholders.
(e)
Each of DRAXIS and the
Purchaser shall promptly notify the other if at any time before the Effective
Date it becomes aware (in the case of DRAXIS only with respect to DRAXIS and in
the case of the Purchaser only with respect to the Purchaser) that the DRAXIS
Circular contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
contained therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which they
are made, or that otherwise requires an amendment or supplement to the DRAXIS
Circular, and the Parties shall co-operate in the preparation of any amendment
or supplement to the DRAXIS Circular, as required or appropriate, and DRAXIS
shall promptly mail or otherwise publicly disseminate any amendment or
supplement to the DRAXIS Circular to DRAXIS Shareholders and, if required by
the Court or Applicable Laws, file the same with the Securities Authorities and
as otherwise required.
2.5
Final Order
If the Interim Order is obtained, the
Arrangement Resolution is passed at the DRAXIS Meeting by DRAXIS Shareholders,
as provided for in the Interim Order and as required by Applicable Law, and the
Key Regulatory Approvals are obtained, and subject to the terms of this
Agreement, DRAXIS shall as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter and in any
event within three business days thereafter take all steps necessary or
desirable to submit the Arrangement to the Court and diligently pursue an
application for the Final Order pursuant to section 192 of the CBCA.
2.6
Court Proceedings
Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the
Purchaser will cooperate with, assist and consent to DRAXIS seeking the Interim
Order and the Final Order, including by providing DRAXIS on a timely basis any
information required to be supplied by the Purchaser in connection therewith.
DRAXIS will provide legal counsel to the Purchaser with reasonable opportunity
to review and comment upon drafts of all material to be filed with the Court in
connection with the Arrangement, and will give reasonable consideration to all
such comments. DRAXIS will also provide legal counsel to the Purchaser on a
timely basis with copies of any notice of appearance or notice of intent to
oppose and any evidence served on DRAXIS or its legal counsel in respect of the
application for the Interim Order or the Final Order or any appeal
therefrom. Subject to Applicable Law,
DRAXIS will not file any material with the Court in connection with the
Arrangement or serve any such material, and will not agree to modify or amend
materials so filed or served, except as contemplated hereby or with the
Purchasers prior written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld, conditioned or delayed; provided that nothing herein shall require
the Purchaser to agree or consent to any increase in Consideration or other
modification or amendment to such filed or served
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materials that expands or increases the
Purchasers obligations set forth in any such filed or served materials or
under this Agreement.
2.7
Articles of Arrangement and
Effective Date
The Articles of Arrangement shall implement
the Plan of Arrangement. On the fifth business day after the satisfaction or,
where not prohibited, the waiver by the applicable Party in whose favour the
condition is, and subject to Applicable Law, of the conditions (excluding
conditions that, by their terms, cannot be satisfied until the Effective Date,
but subject to the satisfaction or, where not prohibited, the waiver by the
applicable Party in whose favour the condition is, of those conditions as of
the Effective Date) set forth in Article VI, unless another time or date
is agreed to in writing by the Parties, the Articles of Arrangement shall be
filed by DRAXIS with the Director. From
and after the Effective Time, the Plan of Arrangement will have the effect as
provided therein and by Applicable Law, including the CBCA. The closing of the
transactions contemplated hereby will take place at the offices of Osler,
Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Montréal, or at such other location as may be
agreed upon by the Parties.
2.8
Payment of Consideration
The Purchaser will, following receipt of
the Final Order and prior to the filing by DRAXIS of the Articles of
Arrangement with the Director, ensure that the Depositary has been provided
with sufficient funds in escrow to pay the aggregate Consideration to be paid
pursuant to the Arrangement.
2.9
Preparation of Filings
Purchaser and DRAXIS shall co-operate in
the preparation of any application for the Key Regulatory Approvals and any
other orders, registrations, consents, filings, rulings, exemptions, no-action
letters, notifications and approvals and the preparation of any documents
reasonably deemed by either of the Parties to be necessary to discharge its
respective obligations or otherwise advisable under Applicable Law in
connection with this Agreement or the Plan of Arrangement.
2.10
Announcement and Shareholder
Communications
Purchaser, Jubilant and DRAXIS shall each
publicly announce the transactions contemplated hereby immediately following
the execution of this Agreement by Purchaser, Jubilant and DRAXIS, the text and
timing of each such announcement in the form approved by Purchaser, Jubilant
and DRAXIS. Purchaser, Jubilant and DRAXIS agree to co-operate in the
preparation of presentations, if any, to DRAXIS Shareholders regarding the Plan
of Arrangement, and no Party shall issue any press release or otherwise make
public statements (which public statements shall not be deemed to include
responding to unsolicited communications from shareholders) with respect to
this Agreement or the Plan of Arrangement without the consent of the other
Party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and no
Party shall make any filing with any Governmental Entity or with any Exchange
with respect thereto without prior consultation
with the other Party; provided, however, that the foregoing shall be subject
to each Partys overriding obligation to make any disclosure or filing required
under Applicable Law, and the Party making such disclosure shall use all
commercially reasonable efforts to give prior oral or written notice to the
other Party and reasonable opportunity to review or comment on the disclosure
or filing, and if such prior notice is not possible, to give such notice
immediately following the making of such disclosure or filing; and provided,
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further, that, without limiting DRAXIS
obligations under Section 7.2,
DRAXIS shall have no obligation to consult with Purchaser or Jubilant
prior to any disclosure by DRAXIS with regard to an Acquisition Proposal. For
purposes of this Section 2.10, Jubilant and Purchaser shall be deemed to
constitute one and the same Party.
2.11
Withholding Taxes
Purchaser and DRAXIS shall be entitled to
deduct and withhold from any consideration payable or otherwise deliverable to
any person hereunder such amounts as Purchaser or DRAXIS may be required to
deduct and withhold therefrom under any provision of Tax law. To the extent that such amounts are so
deducted and withheld, such amounts shall be treated for all purposes under
this Agreement as having been paid to the person to whom such amounts would
otherwise have been paid.
ARTICLE III
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF DRAXIS
3.1
Representations and Warranties
DRAXIS hereby represents and warrants to
and in favour of Purchaser and Jubilant, except as specifically and expressly
provided in or permitted by this Agreement, as follows, and acknowledges that
Purchaser and Jubilant are relying upon such representations and warranties in
connection with the entering into of this Agreement:
(a)
Board Approval
. As of the date hereof, the DRAXIS Board, after
consultation with its financial and legal advisors, has determined unanimously
that the Plan of Arrangement is fair to the DRAXIS Shareholders and is in the
best interests of DRAXIS and has resolved unanimously to recommend to the
DRAXIS Shareholders that they vote in favour of the Arrangement
Resolution. The DRAXIS Board has
approved the Arrangement pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement and the execution
and performance of this Agreement.
(b)
Fairness Opinion
. The Special Committee and
the DRAXIS Board have received the opinion of Banc of America Securities Canada
Co., the Special Committees financial advisor, to the effect that, as of the
date of such opinion and based on and subject to the assumptions and
limitations described in such opinion, the Consideration to be received
pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement by the DRAXIS Shareholders is fair from a
financial point of view to such DRAXIS Shareholders.
(c)
Organization and Qualification
. DRAXIS and each of its
Material Subsidiaries is a corporation duly incorporated or an entity duly
created and validly existing under all Applicable Laws of its jurisdiction of
incorporation, continuance or creation and has all necessary corporate or other
power, authority and capacity to own its property and assets as now owned and
to carry on its business as it is now being conducted. DRAXIS and each of its Material Subsidiaries
is duly registered or otherwise authorized and qualified to do business and
each is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the character of its
properties, owned, leased, licensed or otherwise held, or the nature of its
activities makes such qualification necessary,
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except where
the failure to be so registered or in good standing would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d)
Authority Relative to this
Agreement
. DRAXIS has the requisite corporate power,
authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to perform its
obligations hereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by DRAXIS
and the performance by DRAXIS of its obligations under this Agreement have been
duly authorized by the DRAXIS Board and except as contemplated herein no other
corporate proceedings on its part are necessary to authorize this Agreement or
the Arrangement pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement. This Agreement has been
duly executed and delivered by DRAXIS and constitutes a legal, valid and
binding obligation of DRAXIS, enforceable against DRAXIS in accordance with its
terms, subject to the qualification that such enforceability may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws of general application
relating to or affecting rights of creditors and that equitable remedies,
including specific performance, are discretionary and may not be ordered.
(e)
No Violation
. Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(e) of
the Disclosure Letter, neither the authorization, execution and delivery of
this Agreement by DRAXIS nor the completion of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement or the Arrangement pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement, nor the
performance of its obligations thereunder, nor compliance by DRAXIS with any of
the provisions hereof will:
(i)
violate, conflict with, or
result (with or without notice or the passage of time) in a violation or breach
of any provision of, or require, except in respect of the Key Third Party
Consents, any consent, approval or notice under, or constitute a default (or an
event which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute a default)
or result in a right of termination or acceleration under, or result in the
creation of any Lien upon, any of the properties or assets of DRAXIS or any of
its Material Subsidiaries, or cause any indebtedness to come due before its
stated maturity or cause any credit commitment to cease to be available or
cause any material payment or other obligation to be imposed on DRAXIS or any
of its Material Subsidiaries, under any of the terms, conditions or provisions
of:
(A)
their respective articles,
charters or by-laws or other comparable organizational documents; or
(B)
any note, bond, mortgage,
indenture, loan agreement, deed of trust, Lien, license, permit, or other
Contract to which DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries is a party or to
which any of them, or any of their respective properties or assets, may be
subject or by which DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries is bound;
(ii)
subject to obtaining the Key
Regulatory Approvals:
(A)
result (with or without notice
or the passage of time) in a violation or breach of or constitute a default
under any provisions of any
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Applicable Law
applicable to DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties or assets; or
(B)
cause the suspension or
revocation of any Permit currently in effect in regard of DRAXIS or any of its
Material Subsidiaries,
(except, in the case of each of clauses (A) and
(B), for such violations, conflicts, breaches, defaults, terminations,
accelerations or creations of Liens which, or any consents (expressly excluding
the Key Third-Party Consents and Key Regulatory Approvals), approvals or
notices which if not given or received, would not, individually or in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have any Material Adverse Effect);
(iii)
The authorization of this
Agreement, the execution and delivery by DRAXIS of this Agreement and the
performance by it of its obligations under this Agreement, and the consummation
by DRAXIS of the Arrangement, will not, other than as disclosed in Section 3.1(e) of
the Disclosure Letter:
(A)
give rise to any rights of
first refusal or, trigger any change in control provisions or any restrictions
or limitation under any such Material Contract, or Permit, or result in the
imposition of any encumbrance, charge or Lien upon any of DRAXIS assets or the
assets of any of its Material Subsidiaries; or
(B)
result in the imposition of
any Liens upon any assets of DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries.
Schedule 3.1(e) of the Disclosure
Letter contains a complete list of Third Party Consents; or
(iv)
The execution, delivery and
performance by DRAXIS of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby require no action by or in respect of, or
filing with, any Governmental Authority other than:
(A)
the Interim Order and any
approvals required by the Interim Order;
(B)
the Final Order;
(C)
filings with the Director
under the CBCA; and
(D)
any actions or filings the
absence of which would not reasonably be expected to materially or adversely
impair the ability of DRAXIS to complete the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement (other than the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization or any Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization) on or prior to the Outside Date.
(f)
Capitalization
. The authorized share capital of DRAXIS
consists of an unlimited number of DRAXIS Shares, an unlimited number of DRAXIS
Preferred Shares and
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an unlimited
number of DRAXIS Employee Participation Shares. As of the close of business on
April 3
, 2008, there are
issued and outstanding only 42,067,538 DRAXIS Shares, no DRAXIS Preferred
Shares and no DRAXIS Employee Participation Shares. As of the close of business
on
April 3
, 2008, an
aggregate of up to 2,125,835 DRAXIS Shares are issuable upon the exercise of
the DRAXIS Options, there are no options, warrants, conversion privileges or
other rights, shareholder rights plans (other than the Shareholder Rights
Plan), agreements, arrangements or commitments (pre-emptive, contingent or
otherwise) of any character whatsoever requiring or which may require the
issuance, sale or transfer by DRAXIS of any shares of DRAXIS (including DRAXIS
Shares), or any securities or obligations convertible into, or exchangeable or
exercisable for, or otherwise evidencing a right or obligation to acquire, any
shares of DRAXIS (including DRAXIS Shares) or subsidiaries of DRAXIS. All
outstanding DRAXIS Shares have been duly authorized and validly issued and are
fully paid and non-assessable, and all DRAXIS Shares issuable upon the exercise
of rights under the DRAXIS Options in accordance with their respective terms
have been duly authorized and, upon issuance, will be validly issued as fully
paid and non-assessable, and are not and will not be subject to, or issued in
violation of, any pre-emptive rights. All securities of DRAXIS (including the
DRAXIS Shares and the DRAXIS Options) have been issued in compliance with all
Applicable Laws and Securities Laws.
Other than the DRAXIS Options, there are no securities of DRAXIS or of
any of its subsidiaries outstanding which have the right to vote generally (or
are convertible into or exchangeable for securities having the right to vote
generally) with the DRAXIS Shareholders on any matter. There are no outstanding contractual or other
obligations of DRAXIS or any subsidiary to repurchase, redeem or otherwise
acquire any of its securities or with respect to the voting or disposition of
any outstanding securities of any of its subsidiaries, other than the DRAXIS
Options. There are no outstanding bonds, debentures or other evidences of
indebtedness of DRAXIS or any in its subsidiaries having the right to vote with
the holders of the outstanding DRAXIS Shares on any matters. Schedule 3.1(f) of
the Disclosure Letter lists the beneficiaries, rights holders and participants
under each of the Employee Plans as well as the details of the grants, rights
or issuances outstanding thereunder.
(g)
Subsidiaries
. Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(g) of
the Disclosure Letter, other than the Material Subsidiaries, no direct or
indirect subsidiary of DRAXIS conducts or operates any activities, has or owns
any material assets, or has, owns, holds, any Intellectual Property Rights,
Permits, liabilities, employees, obligations, Regulatory Authorization, rights,
indebtedness of any nature whatsoever, owing to persons other than DRAXIS and
its affiliates, whether contingent or otherwise and whether arising under
Applicable Law, including any Environmental Law, under Contract or otherwise
and no such subsidiary is party to any Contract or is subject to or the object
of any claim, demand, action or proceeding including by any Governmental
Entity.
(h)
Shareholder Rights Plan
. DRAXIS has taken all corporate action
required for it to perform its obligations under Section 5.2(a).
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(i)
Reporting Status and
Securities Laws Matters
.
(i)
DRAXIS is:
(A)
a
reporting
issuer
and not on the list of reporting issuers in default under
the applicable Canadian provincial and territorial Securities Laws; and
(B)
a
foreign
private issuer
as defined in Rule 405 of the
U.S. Securities Act of 1933
, as amended and is not in
material default of any material requirements of any Securities Laws.
(ii)
No delisting, suspension of
trading in or cease trading order with respect to any securities of DRAXIS and,
to the knowledge of DRAXIS, no inquiry or investigation (formal or informal) of
any Securities Authority, is in effect or ongoing or, to the knowledge of
DRAXIS, expected to be implemented or undertaken.
(iii)
DRAXIS is not an investment
company registered or required to be registered under the U.S. Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(iv)
Schedule 3.1(i) of
the Disclosure Letter contains a list of all material correspondence received
by DRAXIS from the Securities Authorities relating to compliance or disclosure
and all responses thereto by DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries or their
representatives since December 31, 2004.
(j)
Ownership of Subsidiaries
. Schedule 3.1(j) of the Disclosure Letter
includes complete and accurate lists of all subsidiaries owned, directly or
indirectly, by DRAXIS, each of which is wholly-owned. All of the issued and outstanding shares of
capital stock and other ownership interests in the subsidiaries of DRAXIS are
duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and all such
shares and other ownership interests held directly or indirectly by DRAXIS are,
legally and beneficially, except pursuant to restrictions on transfer contained
in constituting documents, rights of first refusal and similar rights
restricting transfer contained in shareholders, partnership or joint venture
agreements for or pursuant to existing financing arrangements involving DRAXIS
or its subsidiaries (which transfer restrictions are disclosed in Schedule 3.1(j) of
the Disclosure Letter), owned free and clear of all Liens, and there are no
outstanding options, warrants, rights, entitlements, understandings or
commitments (contingent or otherwise) regarding the right to purchase or
acquire, or securities convertible into or exchangeable for, any such shares of
capital stock or other ownership interests in or material assets or properties
of any of the subsidiaries of DRAXIS, except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(j) of
the Disclosure Letter. There are no contracts, commitments, agreements,
understandings, arrangements or restrictions which require any subsidiaries of
DRAXIS to issue, sell or deliver any shares in its share capital or other
ownership interests, or any securities or obligations convertible into or
exchangeable for, any shares of its share capital or other ownership interests.
There are no outstanding options, rights, entitlements, understandings or
commitments (contingent or otherwise) providing to any third party the right to
acquire any shares or other
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ownership
interests in any subsidiaries of DRAXIS. All ownership interests of DRAXIS and
its subsidiaries are owned free and clear of all Liens of any kind or nature
whatsoever held by third parties. Except
in respect of those persons disclosed in Schedule 3.1(j) of the
Disclosure Letter, DRAXIS does not hold directly, or indirectly through any
subsidiary, any equity interest in or any options or rights to acquire any
equity interest in, any person or joint venture.
(k)
Public Filings
. The DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record includes
all documents required to be filed by DRAXIS in accordance with applicable
Securities Laws with the Securities Authorities or the Exchanges. No such
documents and information comprising the
DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record, as of their respective dates after giving
effect to any amendments, revisions, supplements, corrections, or other changes
thereto:
(i)
contained any untrue statement
of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances in which they were made, not misleading; or
(ii)
failed to comply in all
material respects with the requirements of applicable Securities Laws. All forms, reports, schedules, statements,
and other documents required to be filed by DRAXIS with the Securities
Authorities since December 31, 2004 have been filed on a timely basis with
the Securities Authorities or the Exchanges. DRAXIS has not filed any
confidential material change report with any Securities Authorities that at the
date of this Agreement remains confidential.
(l)
DRAXIS Financial Statements
. DRAXIS audited financial statements as at
and for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2007, 2006 and 2005 (including
the notes thereto and related managements discussion and analysis (
MD&A
)) (collectively, the
DRAXIS
Financial Statements
) were prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied (except (i) as otherwise indicated in such financial
statements and the notes thereto or, in the case of audited statements, in the
related report of DRAXIS independent auditors or (ii) in the case of
unaudited interim statements, are subject to normal period-end adjustments and
may omit notes which are not required by Applicable Law in the unaudited
statements) and present fairly in all material respects the financial
condition, results of operations and cash flows of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries
as of the dates thereof and for the periods presented in the DRAXIS Financial
Statements and reflect reserves required by GAAP in respect of all material
contingent liabilities, if any, of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis. There has been no
material change in DRAXIS accounting policies, except as described in the
notes to the DRAXIS Financial Statements, since December 31, 2007.
(m)
Books and Records
. The financial books, records and accounts of
DRAXIS and its subsidiaries, in all material respects:
(i)
have been maintained in
accordance with GAAP;
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(ii)
are stated in reasonable
detail and accurately record the material transactions and dispositions of the
assets of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries; and
(iii)
fairly reflect the basis for
the DRAXIS Financial Statements.
Since November 30, 2003, the corporate
records and minute books of DRAXIS and each Material Subsidiary contain, in all
material respects, complete and accurate minutes of all meetings of the
directors and shareholders of DRAXIS and each of its Material Subsidiaries, as
the case may be other than minutes which are not yet finalized, summaries of
which are contained in the Data Room.
(n)
No Undisclosed Liabilities
. Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(n) of
the Disclosure Letter, DRAXIS and its subsidiaries have no outstanding
indebtedness or liabilities and are not party to or bound by any suretyship,
guarantee, indemnification or assumption agreement, or endorsement of, or any
other similar commitment with respect to the obligations, liabilities or
indebtedness of any person, other than those reflected in the DRAXIS Financial
Statements or that have occurred in the ordinary course of business since December 31,
2007 that are not or would not individually or in the aggregate be reasonably
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(o)
No Material Change
. Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(o) of
the Disclosure Letter, since December 31, 2007, there has been no material
change (actual, contemplated or threatened) in the condition (financial or
otherwise), earnings, operations, properties, business, results of operations
or prospects of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, and the debt,
business and material property of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries taken as a whole
conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the
DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record; and since December 31, 2007
there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind
declared, paid or made by DRAXIS on any DRAXIS Shares.
(p)
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and
Internal Controls
. DRAXIS and,
to DRAXIS knowledge, each of its officers and directors are in material
compliance with and have complied in all material respects with the applicable
provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they apply to DRAXIS and its
subsidiaries and the Exchange Act.
DRAXIS has implemented and maintains a system of internal accounting
controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances regarding the reliability
of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in
accordance with GAAP. DRAXIS:
(i)
has implemented and maintains
disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of
the Exchange Act) to ensure that material information relating to DRAXIS,
including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the chief executive
officer and the chief financial officer of DRAXIS by others within DRAXIS; and
(ii)
has disclosed, based on its
most recent evaluation prior to the date of this Agreement, to its outside
auditors and audit committee:
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(A)
any significant deficiencies
and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over
financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange
Act) that would be reasonably likely to adversely affect DRAXIS ability to
record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
(B)
any fraud, whether or not
material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant
role in DRAXIS internal controls over financial reporting.
A true and correct copy of any disclosures
of the type referred to in clause (ii) above required since the coming
into force of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in respect of foreign private issuers is
set forth in the Item 18.17 of the Data Room.
(q)
Litigation
. Other than as set out in Schedule 3.1(q) of
the Disclosure Letter, there are no claims, actions, suits, grievances,
complaints or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, threatened
affecting DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries or affecting any of their
respective property or assets at law or in equity before or by any Governmental
Entity, including matters arising under Environmental Laws. Except as set out
in Schedule 3.1(q) of the Disclosure Letter, neither DRAXIS nor any of its
subsidiaries nor their respective assets or properties is subject to any
outstanding judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree, settlement agreement
or corporate integrity agreement entered into in connection with allegations of
healthcare fraud or abuse under the United States federal or state healthcare
statutes.
(r)
Taxes
. Except as set forth in Schedule 3.1(r) of
the Disclosure Letter:
(i)
DRAXIS and each of its
Material Subsidiaries have duly and timely filed all Returns required to be
filed by it prior to the date hereof and all such Returns are complete and
correct in all material respects;
(ii)
DRAXIS and each of its
Material Subsidiaries have paid on a timely basis all material Taxes due and
payable by it on or before the date hereof, other than those which are being or
have been contested in good faith and in respect of which reserves have been
provided in accordance with GAAP in the most recently published DRAXIS
Financial Statements;
(iii)
Except as provided for in the
DRAXIS Financial Statements, no deficiencies, litigation, proposed adjustments
or matters in controversy exist or have been asserted or proposed with respect
to Taxes of DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries, and neither DRAXIS nor
any of its Material Subsidiaries is a party to any action or proceeding for
assessment or collection of Taxes and no such event has been asserted or
proposed against DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries or any of their
respective assets, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
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(iv)
Since November 30, 2003
and, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, prior to November 30, 2003, no claim has
been made by any Government Entity in a jurisdiction where DRAXIS and any of
its Material Subsidiaries does not file Returns that DRAXIS or any of its
Material Subsidiaries is or may be subject to Tax by that jurisdiction;
(v)
There are no Liens for unpaid
Taxes (other than Taxes not yet due and payable) upon any of the assets of
DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries;
(vi)
DRAXIS and each of its
Material Subsidiaries has withheld or collected all amounts required to be
withheld or collected by it on account of Taxes and has remitted all such
amounts to the appropriate Governmental Entity when required by Law to do so,
except where the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(vii)
None of DRAXIS or any of its
Material Subsidiaries has any material liability for the Taxes of any person
under Treasury Regulation §1.1502-6 (or any similar provision of state, local,
or foreign law), as a transferee or successor, by contract, or otherwise. None of DRAXIS or any of its Material
Subsidiaries is a party to any agreement with any unrelated person relating to
the sharing, allocation or indemnification of Taxes, or any similar agreement,
contract or arrangement;
(viii)
In the last five taxation
years of the relevant entity, none of DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries
has distributed stock of another person, or had its stock distributed by
another person, in a transaction that was purported or intended to be governed
in whole or in part by Sections 355 or 361 of the Code;
(ix)
There are no outstanding
agreements extending or waiving the statutory period of limitations applicable
to any claim for, or the period for the collection or assessment or
reassessment of, Taxes due from DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries for
any taxable period and no request for any such waiver or extension is currently
pending;
(x)
Interests in DRAXIS and each
of its Material Subsidiaries do not constitute United States real property
interests within the meaning of Section 897 of the Code;
(xi)
DRAXIS and each of its
Material Subsidiaries have made available to Purchaser true, correct and
complete copies of all material income Tax returns for taxation years ending December 31,
2001 to December 31, 2006;
(xii)
None of DRAXIS or any of its
Material Subsidiaries has agreed, or is required to make, any adjustment under Section 481(a) of
the Code, and no taxing authority has proposed any such adjustment or change in
accounting method and neither DRAXIS nor any of its Material Subsidiaries will
be
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required to
include any material item of income in, or exclude any material item of
deduction from, taxable income for any Tax period (or portion thereof) ending
after the Effective Date, as a result of any instalment sale or open transaction,
or prepaid amount; and
(xiii)
None of the U.S. subsidiaries
of DRAXIS has any material (A) excess loss accounts or (B) deferred
gains, within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-19 or
1.1502-13, respectively.
(s)
Property
. Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(s) of
the Disclosure Letter, DRAXIS and each of its Material Subsidiaries has good
and sufficient title to its real and immoveable property interests, leases,
licenses, easements, rights of way, permits permitting the use of land or
premises by DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries, necessary to permit the
operation of its current businesses, as they are now being conducted, except
for such title defects to any real and immoveable property or failure to hold
such leases, licenses, easements, rights of way or permits as would not,
individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(t)
Contracts
. Schedule 3.1(t) of the Disclosure
Letter contains a list of all Material Contracts. Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(t) of
the Disclosure Letter:
(i)
none of DRAXIS, its Material
Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, any of the other parties thereto,
is in default or breach of, nor has DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries
received any notice of default or breach of, or termination under, any Material
Contract except for such defaults, breaches or notices which would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; and
(ii)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
there exists no state of facts which after notice or lapse of time or both that
would constitute a default or breach of such Material Contract except which
would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(u)
Permits
. DRAXIS and each of its Material Subsidiaries
has obtained and is in compliance with all Permits required by Applicable Laws,
which are necessary to conduct its current businesses as they are now being
conducted and such Permits are in full force and effect, other than where the
absence of such Permits or the failure to comply would not, individually or in
the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(v)
Competition Act, Investment
Canada Act and HSR Act
.
(i)
DRAXIS and its affiliates had
total assets with an aggregate book value of not more than C$200 million as at
the end of their most recently completed fiscal years, and generated aggregate
gross revenues from sales in, from or
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into Canada of
not more than C$200 million during that period, determined as prescribed in the
Competition Act and the regulations thereunder.
(ii)
DRAXIS and its subsidiaries
had total assets with an aggregate book value of not more than
C$295 million as at the end of their most recently completed fiscal years,
determined as prescribed in the Investment Canada Act and the regulations
thereunder.
(iii)
For the purposes of Section 14.1(5) of
the Investment Canada Act and the regulations thereunder, none of DRAXIS or any
of its subsidiaries:
(A)
engages in the production of
uranium or owns an interest in a producing uranium property in Canada;
(B)
provides a financial service;
(C)
provides any transportation service
for third parties for the generation of revenue; or
(D)
is a cultural business.
(iv)
DRAXIS and all entities
controlled by DRAXIS:
(A)
do not hold assets in the
United States (other than investment assets, voting or non voting securities of
another person) having an aggregate value of over US$63.1 million; and
(B)
did not have aggregate sales
in or into the United States of over US$63.1 million during their most
recent fiscal year, as determined in accordance with the HSR Act and the
regulations thereunder.
(v)
DRAXIS is a foreign issuer
as defined in 16 C.F.R. Sec. 801.1(e)(2)(ii) of the Regulations
issued pursuant to the HSR Act;
(w)
Environmental Authorizations
. Except as would not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect, DRAXIS, its Material Subsidiaries and their
respective properties, assets and operations are in compliance with, and hold
all material permits, authorizations and approvals which DRAXIS is required to
hold under Environmental Laws; except as would not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect,
there are no
past, present or to the knowledge of DRAXIS reasonably anticipated future
events, conditions, circumstances, activities, practices, actions, omissions or
plans that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any material costs or
liabilities to DRAXIS under, or to interfere with or prevent compliance by
DRAXIS with, Environmental Laws; DRAXIS and each of its Material Subsidiaries:
(i)
has not received any written
notice of any investigation or pending investigation or claim;
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(ii)
is not a party to or affected
by any pending or, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, threatened action, suit or
proceeding (whether judicial, administrative or otherwise);
(iii)
is not bound by any judgment,
decree or order (whether judicial, administrative or otherwise); or
(iv)
is not a party to any
agreement,
in each case relating to any Environmental
Law or any actual or alleged release or threatened release in violation of
Environmental Law or cleanup at any location of any Hazardous Substances in
compliance with Environmental Law.
(x)
Regulatory
.
(i)
DRAXIS and its Material
Subsidiaries have operated and are currently operating in material compliance
with all Applicable Laws, including all applicable rules, regulations,
guidelines and policies of the Canadian Department of Health (Health Canada),
the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA), the European Medicines
Agency, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the United States Nuclear
Regulatory Commission and with any other regulatory or governmental agency
having jurisdiction over DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries or their
respective activities or the therapeutic drug products (including pharmaceuticals,
radiopharmaceuticals and natural health products), medical devices, controlled
substances, precursors and nuclear substances and equipment (the
Products
) manufactured, fabricated, produced, packaged,
labelled, stored, tested, possessed, used, transported, sold, provided,
distributed, exported or imported (as the case may be) by DRAXIS and its
Material Subsidiaries for themselves or for third parties (collectively, the
Regulatory Authorities
);
(ii)
Except as set out in Schedule
3.1(x) of the Disclosure Letter, the Products manufactured, fabricated,
produced, packaged or labelled by DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries
(including product candidates used in clinical, pre-clinical and other studies
and tests conducted by or on behalf of or sponsored by DRAXIS or any of its
Material Subsidiaries) for themselves or for third persons were and are being
manufactured in material compliance with Applicable Laws, including current
Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) and in compliance in all material respects
with the manufacturing and any other applicable specifications provided to
DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries by their respective customers.
(iii)
DRAXIS and its Material
Subsidiaries have operated and are currently operating their respective businesses
in compliance in all material respects with all licenses, permits,
authorizations, certificates, orders, grants, approvals registrations and
consents of the Regulatory Authorities necessary to operate their respective
businesses (the
Regulatory Authorizations
), other
than where the absence of such Regulatory
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Authorizations
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and have
made all requisite material declarations, notices, filings, annual and other
reports (including adverse reports) with the Regulatory Authorities, except
where the failure to make such declarations, notices, filings, annual reports
(including adverse reports) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. Schedule 3.1(x) of
the Disclosure Letter contains a complete list of all Regulatory
Authorizations.
(iv)
Except as set out in Schedule
3.1(x) of the Disclosure Letter, DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries have
not received any written notices or other correspondence from any Regulatory
Authority regarding any circumstances that are alleged to have existed or
currently existing which could lead to a loss, suspension, or modification of,
or a refusal to issue, any material Regulatory Authorization relating to its
activities which would reasonably be expected to restrict, curtail, limit or
adversely affect the ability of DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries to operate
their respective businesses.
(v)
All Regulatory Authorizations
that are held by DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries related to a Product owned
by DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries (the
DRAXIS
Products
) and that are required for the investigation,
manufacturing, sale, distribution and/or marketing of the DRAXIS Products (the
Product Registrations
) and all
dossiers, reports, data and other written materials filed as part of the
Product Registrations are currently in good standing with the Regulatory
Authorities. To the knowledge of DRAXIS, no Regulatory Authority has commenced
or, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, threatened to initiate any action to withdraw
any Product Registration or request the recall of any DRAXIS Product or
commenced or, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, threatened to initiate any action to
enjoin any other activity in relation to any other Product, nor has DRAXIS or
any of its Material Subsidiaries received any written notices or other
correspondence from the Regulatory Authorities to such effect.
(vi)
The clinical, pre-clinical and
other studies and tests conducted by or on behalf of or sponsored by DRAXIS or
its Material Subsidiaries or in which DRAXIS or its Material Subsidiaries have
participated that are described in the DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record or the
results of which are referred to in such DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record were
and, if still pending, are being conducted in all material respects in
accordance with all Applicable Laws, the applicable experimental protocol,
accepted professional scientific standards, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and medical
standard-of-care procedures.
(vii)
DRAXIS and its Material
Subsidiaries have not received any written notices or other correspondence or,
to the knowledge of DRAXIS, other communications from any Regulatory Authority
requiring the termination, suspension or material modification of any clinical
or pre-clinical studies or
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tests that are
described in the DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record of the results of which are
referred to in the DRAXIS Public Disclosure Record.
(viii)
None of DRAXIS or its Material
Subsidiaries, or their officers, directors or to the knowledge of DRAXIS, their
employees has been debarred or has been convicted of a crime which could lead
to debarment, as that term is defined under Applicable Law relating to good
manufacturing practices by the United States Food and Drug Agency.
(y)
Employee Benefits
.
(i)
DRAXIS and each of its
Material Subsidiaries have complied, in all material respects, with the terms
of all agreements, health, welfare, supplemental unemployment benefit, bonus,
incentive, profit sharing, deferred compensation, stock purchase, stock
compensation, stock option, disability, pension or retirement plans and other
employee compensation or benefit plans, policies, arrangements, practices or
undertakings, whether oral or written, formal or informal, funded or unfunded,
insured or uninsured which are maintained by or binding upon DRAXIS or such
Material Subsidiary or in respect of which DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries
has any actual or potential liability (collectively, the
DRAXIS
Benefit Plans
) and with all Applicable Laws and with any
obligations contained in any collective bargaining agreements relating thereto.
(ii)
Schedule 3.1(y) of the
Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete list of the DRAXIS Benefit Plans.
Current and complete copies of all written DRAXIS Benefit Plans as amended to
date or, where oral, written summaries of the terms thereof, and all booklets
and communications concerning the DRAXIS Benefit Plans which have been provided
to persons entitled to benefits under the DRAXIS Benefit Plans have been
delivered or made available to the Purchaser together with copies of all
material documents relating to the DRAXIS Benefit Plans.
(iii)
Each DRAXIS Benefit Plan is
and has been established, registered (if required), qualified, invested and
administered, in all material respects, in compliance with the terms of such
DRAXIS Benefit Plan (including the terms of any documents in respect of such DRAXIS
Benefit Plan), all Applicable Laws and any obligations contained in any
collective bargaining agreement relating thereto.
(iv)
All obligations of DRAXIS and
its Material Subsidiaries regarding the DRAXIS Benefit Plans have been
satisfied in all material respects and no Taxes are owing or exigible under any
of the DRAXIS Benefit Plans except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(y) of the
Disclosure Letter. All employer and employee payments, contributions and
premiums required to be remitted, paid to or in respect of each DRAXIS Benefit
Plan have been paid or remitted in a timely fashion in accordance with its
terms and all applicable Laws except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(y) of
the Disclosure Letter.
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(v)
Each DRAXIS Benefit Plan is
insured or funded in compliance with the terms of such DRAXIS Benefit Plan, all
Applicable Law and any obligations contained in any collective bargaining
agreement relating thereto and is in good standing in all material respects
with such Governmental Entities as may be applicable and, as of the date
hereof, no currently outstanding notice of under-funding, non-compliance,
failure to be in good standing or other similar notice has been received by
DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries from any such Governmental Entities.
(vi)
(A)
To the knowledge of DRAXIS, no
DRAXIS Benefit Plan is subject to any pending investigation or examination;
(B)
no other proceeding, action or
claim has been initiated by any Governmental Entity, or by any other party
(other than routine claims for benefits); and
(C)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
there exists no state of facts which after notice or lapse of time or both
would reasonably be expected to give rise to any such investigation, examination
or other proceeding, action or claim or to affect the registration or
qualification of any DRAXIS Benefit Plan required to be registered or
qualified.
(vii)
Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3.1(y) of the Disclosure Letter, DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries
have no formal plan and have made no promise or commitment, whether legally
binding or not, to create any additional DRAXIS Benefit Plan or to improve or
change the benefits provided under any DRAXIS Benefit Plan.
(viii)
There is no entity other than
DRAXIS and any of its Material Subsidiaries participating in any DRAXIS Benefit
Plan.
(ix)
Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3.1(y) of the Disclosure Letter, none of the DRAXIS Benefit Plans
provide benefits beyond retirement or other termination of service to employees
or former employees or to the beneficiaries or dependants of such employees and
where there are such DRAXIS Benefit Plans disclosed in Schedule 3.1(y), each
such DRAXIS Benefit Plan may be amended or terminated at any time without incurring
any liability thereunder other than in respect of claims incurred prior to such
amendment or termination.
(x)
Except as disclosed in
Schedule 3.1(y) of the Disclosure Letter, neither the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by DRAXIS nor completion of the Arrangement pursuant
to the Plan of Arrangement nor compliance by DRAXIS with any of the provisions
hereof shall result in any payment (including severance, unemployment
compensation, bonuses or otherwise) becoming due to any director or employee of
DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries or result in any increase or
acceleration of
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contributions, liabilities or benefits or
acceleration of vesting, under any DRAXIS Benefit Plan or restriction held in
connection with a DRAXIS Benefit Plan.
(xi)
All data necessary to
administer each DRAXIS Benefit Plan is in the possession of DRAXIS or any of
its Material Subsidiaries or their respective agents and is in a form which is
sufficient for the proper administration of the DRAXIS Benefit Plan in
accordance with its terms and all Applicable Laws and such data is complete and
correct.
(z)
Labour and Employment
.
(i)
Schedule 3.1(z) of
the Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete list of all employees of DRAXIS and
any of its subsidiaries, together with their titles, service dates and material
terms of employment, including current wages, salaries or hourly rate of pay,
and bonus (whether monetary or otherwise).
Except as disclosed in Schedule 3.1(z) of the Disclosure
Letter, no such employee is on long-term disability leave, extended absence or
workers compensation leave. None of the employees listed in Schedule 3.1(z) of
the Disclosure Letter has indicated an intention to resign their employment.
All current assessments under applicable workers compensation legislation in
relation to the employees listed in Schedule 3.1(z) of the Disclosure
Letter have been paid or accrued by DRAXIS and its subsidiaries, as applicable,
and DRAXIS and its subsidiaries are not subject to any special or penalty
assessment under such legislation which has not been paid.
(ii)
Except for those written
employment contracts with salaried employees of DRAXIS and any of its
subsidiaries identified in Schedule 3.1(z) of the Disclosure Letter,
there are no written contracts of employment entered into with any such
employees who earn more than $150,000 per year or that deviate in a material
manner from the standard form employment contract provided in the Data Room or
oral contracts setting out specific terms and conditions of employment. Except
for those agreements or provisions described in Schedule 3.1(z) of
the Disclosure Letter, no employee of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries is
party to a change of control, severance, termination, golden parachute or
similar agreement or provision or would receive payments under such agreement
or provision as a result of the Arrangement.
(iii)
Schedule 3.1(z) of
the Disclosure Letter sets forth a complete list of the collective bargaining
agreements, either directly or by operation of law, between DRAXIS or any of
its subsidiaries with any trade union or association which may qualify as a
trade union. Except as set out in
Schedule 3.1(z) of the Disclosure Letter:
(A)
there are no outstanding or,
to the knowledge of DRAXIS, threatened labour tribunal proceedings of any kind,
including unfair labour practice proceedings or any proceedings which could
result in certification of a trade union as bargaining agent for any employees
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of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries not
already covered by a collective agreement;
(B)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
there are no threatened or apparent union organizing activities involving
employees of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries nor is DRAXIS or any of its
subsidiaries currently negotiating any of the collective agreements listed in
Schedule 3.1(z) of the Disclosure Letter;
(C)
there is no default or
violation under any collective bargaining agreement listed in Schedule 3.1(z) of
the Disclosure Letter; and
(D)
there is no strike or lockout
involving the employees covered by the collective bargaining agreements listed
in Schedule 3.1(z) of the Disclosure Letter.
(aa)
Compliance with Laws
. DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries have
complied with and are not in violation of any Applicable Law, other than
non-compliance or violations which would not, individually or in the aggregate,
have or be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(bb)
Intellectual Property
.
Except as set out in Schedule 3.1(bb) of the
Disclosure Letter:
(i)
(A)
a
true and complete list of all Intellectual Property Rights
that are subject of an
application, certificate, registration or other document issued by, filed with or
recorded by any authority
currently owned by or licensed to DRAXIS or
any of its Material Subsidiaries
is as set forth in
Schedule 3.1(bb)
to
the Disclosure Letter (
Registered IP
);
(B)
DRAXIS and its Material
Subsidiaries own or have obtained valid and enforceable licenses or other
rights to the Registered IP (and neither DRAXIS, nor its Material Subsidiaries
nor, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, the other parties to such licenses are in
material breach of such licenses) and, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, (1) DRAXIS
and its Material Subsidiaries own or have obtained valid and enforceable
licenses or other rights to the Intellectual Property Rights (and neither
DRAXIS, nor its Material Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, the
other parties to such licenses are in material breach of such licenses) and (2) all
Owned IP is valid and enforceable;
(C)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
the Intellectual Property Rights are sufficient for conducting the business of
DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries as presently conducted and as currently
proposed to be conducted by DRAXIS in respect of [product names redacted];
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(D)
the Intellectual Property
Rights that are owned by DRAXIS or any of the Material Subsidiaries, and to the
knowledge of DRAXIS, the Intellectual Property Rights that are licensed by
DRAXIS or any of the Material Subsidiaries, are, except as otherwise provided
in such licenses, free and clear of any Liens, and neither DRAXIS nor any of
its Material Subsidiaries has granted any rights into, and to the knowledge of
DRAXIS, no third parties have rights to, any Intellectual Property Rights owned
or exclusively licensed within a territory for the field of use by DRAXIS or
any of its Material Subsidiaries;
(E)
to
the extent any patent owned by DRAXIS or any Material Subsidiary that is
material for the conduct of the business of DRAXIS
as presently conducted or as currently
proposed to be conducted by DRAXIS in respect of [product names redacted]
has
been created in whole or in part by current or past employees or independent
contractors, any rights therein of such persons have been validly and
irrevocably assigned in writing to DRAXIS or a Material Subsidiary, as the case
may be, and such persons have waived all of their moral rights in the
Intellectual Property Rights except where the failure to waive would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have or would reasonably be expected to have
Material Adverse Effect;
(F)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
including in reliance on a [reference redacted], none of the DRAXIS Products as
currently, developed, manufactured or produced by DRAXIS or its Material
Subsidiaries and none of [product names redacted] infringes upon any third
partys valid and enforceable intellectual property and proprietary rights;
(G)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS, no
event will occur as a result of the transactions contemplated hereby that would
limit the scope of any such Intellectual Property Rights or would render
invalid or unenforceable any such Intellectual Property Rights and that would
individually or in the aggregate have or would reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect;
(H)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS
,
there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property Rights
owned, licensed or commercialized by DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries
which would prevent DRAXIS from conducting its business as currently conducted
and proposed to be conducted;
(I)
there
is no action, suit, proceeding or claim pending or, to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
threatened by others challenging DRAXIS rights in or to any Intellectual
Property Rights or the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights
owned, licensed or commercialized by DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries;
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(J)
there
is no action, suit, proceeding or claim pending, or to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
threatened by others that either DRAXIS, or any of its Material Subsidiaries,
infringes or otherwise violates any intellectual property rights of others;
(K)
since
November 30, 2003 and, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, prior to November 30,
2003, neither DRAXIS nor any of its Material Subsidiaries has failed to
diligently prosecute and maintain any application or registration relating to
the Registered IP that is owned by DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries (
Owned IP
), or comply with any agreement or order of any
court which would prevent it from owning, using or commercializing any Owned IP
used, commercialized or proposed to be used or commercialized in the current
conduct of its business;
(L)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS,
there is no third party patent or patent application that DRAXIS does not have
rights to that contains claims that would be the subject of an interference
proceeding before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with respect to the
issued or pending claims of any patents or patent applications of the
Intellectual Property Rights owned or licensed by DRAXIS or any of its Material
Subsidiaries
to the extent that such patents or patent applications or those of any of its
Material Subsidiaries are currently practised by DRAXIS or any of its Material
Subsidiaries and are material to their business as currently conducted and as
currently proposed to be conducted by DRAXIS in respect of [product names
redacted]
;
(M)
to the knowledge of DRAXIS
,
there is no prior art that may render any material patent application owned by
DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries of the Intellectual Property Rights
unpatentable that has not been disclosed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office or that may have been required to be disclosed to the Canadian
Intellectual Property Office or the European Patent Office;
(N)
to the extent that any
Intellectual Property Rights are confidential, the relevant employees and
contractors of DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries are subject to enforceable
legal obligations to maintain the confidentiality of such Intellectual Property
Rights to the extent prudent in the circumstances; and
(O)
since
November 30, 2003 and, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, prior to November 30,
2003,
the
Registered IP has not been used or enforced, or failed to be used or enforced,
by DRAXIS, nor to the knowledge of DRAXIS by its employees, directors, consultants,
independent contractors or other persons with access to the Registered IP, in a
manner that would result in its non-renewal, abandonment, cancellation or
unenforceability; and
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(ii)
(A)
all hardware, software and
firmware, processed data, technology infrastructure and other computer systems
used in connection with the conduct of the business, as presently conducted, of
DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries taken as a whole (collectively, the
Technology
), are up-to-date or in the process of being
brought up to date and sufficient for conducting the business, as presently
conducted, of DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(B)
DRAXIS and its Material
Subsidiaries own or have obtained valid and enforceable licenses to use (and
are not in material breach of such licenses) such Technology and have
commercially reasonable virus protection and security measures in place in
relation to such Technology; and
(C)
DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries
have reasonable back-up systems.
(cc)
Insurance
. As of the date hereof, DRAXIS and its
subsidiaries have such policies of insurance as are listed in Schedule 3.1(cc)
of the Disclosure Letter and DRAXIS is in compliance in all material respects
with all requirements with respect thereto.
3.2
Disclaimer of Additional
Representations and Warranties
Purchaser agrees and acknowledges that,
except as set forth in this Agreement, or the Schedules hereto, DRAXIS makes no
representation or warranty, express or implied, at law or in equity, with
respect to DRAXIS, its subsidiaries, their respective businesses, the past,
current or future financial condition or any of their assets, liabilities or
operations, or their past, current or future profitability or performance,
individually or in the aggregate, and any such other representations or
warranties are hereby expressly disclaimed.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, DRAXIS expressly
disclaims any representation or warranty that is not set forth in this
Agreement.
3.3
Survival of Representations
and Warranties
The representations and warranties of
DRAXIS contained in this Agreement shall not survive the completion of the
Arrangement and shall expire and be terminated on the earlier of the Effective
Time and the date on which this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its
terms.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PURCHASER AND JUBILANT
4.1
Representations and Warranties
of Purchaser
Purchaser hereby represents and warrants to
and in favour of DRAXIS, as of the date hereof and as follows, and acknowledges
that DRAXIS is relying upon such representations and warranties in connection
with the entering into of this Agreement:
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(a)
Board Approval
. As of the date hereof, the
board of directors of Purchaser has approved the Arrangement pursuant to the
Plan of Arrangement and the execution and performance of this Agreement by
Purchaser.
(b)
Organization and Qualification
.
(i)
Purchaser is a corporation
duly incorporated and an entity duly created and validly existing under all
Applicable Laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, continuance or creation
and has all necessary corporate or other power, authority and capacity to own
its property and assets as now owned and to carry on its business as it is now
being conducted.
(ii)
Purchaser has not carried on
any active business prior to the date of this Agreement other than activities
in connection with this Agreement, the document ancillary and the transaction
contemplated hereby and thereby.
(c)
Authority Relative to this
Agreement
. Purchaser has the requisite corporate power,
authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to perform its
obligations hereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement by
Purchaser and the performance by it of its obligations hereunder have been duly
authorized by its board of directors or supervisory body and, except as
contemplated herein, all corporate proceedings have been taken by Purchaser as
are necessary to authorize this Agreement or the Arrangement pursuant to the
Plan of Arrangement. This Agreement has
been duly executed and delivered by Purchaser and constitutes a legal, valid
and binding obligation of Purchaser enforceable against it in accordance with
its terms, subject to the qualification that such enforceability may be limited
by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other laws of general application
relating to or affecting rights of creditors and that equitable remedies,
including specific performance, are discretionary and may not be ordered.
(d)
No Violations
. Neither the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by the Purchaser nor the completion of the
Arrangement pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement nor compliance by the Purchaser
with any of the provisions hereof will violate, conflict with, or result in a
breach of any material provision of, require any consent, approval or notice
under, or constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time
or both, would constitute a default) under:
(i)
the articles of incorporation,
constating documents or Applicable Laws governing Purchaser;
(ii)
any material contract or other
instrument or obligation to which each of Purchaser is a party or to which any
of its properties or assets, may be subject or by which Purchaser is bound and,
in each case, individually or in the aggregate would materially adversely
affect Purchasers ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement; or
(iii)
violate any Applicable Law
applicable to Purchaser.
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(e)
Governmental Authorization
. The execution, delivery and
performance by Purchaser of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby require no action by or in respect of, or
filing with, any Governmental Authority other than:
(i)
the Interim Order and any
approvals required by the Interim Order;
(ii)
the Final Order;
(iii)
filings with the Director
under the CBCA; and
(iv)
any actions or filings the
absence of which would not reasonably be expected to materially or adversely
impair the ability of Purchaser to complete the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement (other than the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization or any Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization) on or prior to the Outside Date.
(f)
Litigation
. As of the date hereof, there
are no claims, actions, suits, grievances, complaints or proceedings pending
against, or, to the knowledge of the Purchaser, threatened against or affecting
the Purchaser that in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter
or materially delay the Arrangement or any of the other transactions
contemplated hereby.
(g)
HSR Act
. Purchaser is a foreign person as defined in
16 C.F.R. Sec. 801.1(e)(2)(i) of the Regulations issued pursuant
to the HSR Act.
4.2
Representations and Warranties
of Jubilant
Jubilant hereby represents and warrants to
and in favour of DRAXIS, as of the date hereof and as follows, and acknowledges
that DRAXIS is relying upon such representations and warranties in connection
with the entering into of this Agreement:
(a)
Board Approval
. As of the date hereof, the
board of directors of Jubilant
and has
approved the Arrangement pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement and the execution
and performance of this Agreement by Jubilant.
(b)
Organization and Qualification
. Jubilant is a corporation duly incorporated
and an entity duly created and validly existing under all Applicable Laws of
its jurisdiction of incorporation, continuance or creation and has all
necessary corporate or other power, authority and capacity to own its property
and assets as now owned and to carry on its business as it is now being
conducted.
(c)
Authority Relative to this
Agreement
.
Jubilant has the requisite corporate power, authority and capacity to enter
into this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder. The execution and
delivery of this Agreement by Jubilant and the performance by it of its
obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by its board of directors or
supervisory body and, except as contemplated herein, all corporate proceedings
have been taken by Jubilant as are necessary to authorize this Agreement or the
Arrangement pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement. This
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Agreement has been duly executed and
delivered by Jubilant and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of
Jubilant enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to the
qualification that such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other laws of general application relating to or
affecting rights of creditors and that equitable remedies, including specific
performance, are discretionary and may not be ordered. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, Jubilant is not subject to any sovereign immunity
or similar entitlement and no material Taxes are required to be paid by any
person in order for Draxis to enforce this Agreement against Jubilant.
(d)
No Violations
. Neither the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by Jubilant nor the completion of the Arrangement
pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement nor compliance by Jubilant with any of the
provisions hereof will violate, conflict with, or result in a breach of any
material provision of, require any consent, approval or notice under, or
constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse of time or both,
would constitute a default) under:
(i)
the articles of incorporation,
constating documents or Applicable Laws governing Jubilant;
(ii)
any material contract or other
instrument or obligation to which Jubilant is a party or to which it, or any of
its properties or assets, may be subject or by which Jubilant is bound and, in
each case, individually or in the aggregate would materially adversely affect
Jubilants ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement; or
(iii)
violate any Applicable Law
applicable to Jubilant.
(e)
Litigation
. As of the date hereof, there
are no claims, actions, suits, grievances, complaints or proceedings pending
against, or, to the knowledge of the Jubilant, threatened against or affecting
the Jubilant that in any manner challenges or seeks to prevent, enjoin, alter
or materially delay the Arrangement or any of the other transactions
contemplated hereby.
(f)
Commitment Letter
.
(i)
Prior to the execution and
delivery of this Agreement, Jubilant has delivered to DRAXIS a true and
complete copy of a commitment letter (the
Commitment Letter
),
which is unamended as of the date of this Agreement, evidencing the commitment
by a financial institution to provide
Purchaser
with debt financing in the amount of up to $
150 million
.
(ii)
The commitments described in
the Commitment Letter are not subject to any condition precedent other than the
conditions expressly set forth therein.
(iii)
As of the date hereof Jubilant
has no reason to believe that it will be unable to satisfy
on a timely basis any term or condition of closing of the financing to be
satisfied by it contained in the Commitment Letter and is not aware of
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any fact, occurrence or condition that may
cause such financing commitments to terminate or be ineffective or any of the
terms or conditions of closing of such financings not to be met or of any
impediment to the funding of the cash payment obligations of Purchaser under
the Arrangement.
(iv)
Purchaser has or will have
sufficient funds, assuming the financing contemplated in the Commitment Letter
is funded, to pay the aggregate Consideration to be paid pursuant to the
Arrangement and all related fees and expenses on the Effective Date.
(g)
Shareholder Approval
. No vote of the shareholders of Jubilant is
required by Applicable Law, the constating documents of Jubilant or otherwise
in order for Purchaser and Jubilant to consummate the Arrangement.
(h)
Security Ownership
. Jubilant and its
subsidiaries do not beneficially own any interest of DRAXIS or any of its
affiliates.
(i)
Investment Canada Act
. Jubilant is a WTO investor for purposes of
the Investment Canada Act, as that term is defined in the Investment Canada Act
and the regulations thereunder.
(j)
Competition Act
. Jubilant and its affiliates had total assets
in Canada with an aggregate book value of not more than C$200 million as
at the end of their most recently completed fiscal years, and generated
aggregate gross revenues from sales in, from or into Canada of not more than
C$200 million during that period, determined as prescribed in the
Competition Act and the regulations thereunder.
(k)
HSR Act
. Jubilant is a foreign person as defined in
16 C.F.R. Sec. 801.1(e)(2)(i) of the Regulations issued pursuant
to the HSR Act.
4.3
Survival of Representations
and Warranties
The representations and warranties of
Purchaser and Jubilant contained in this Agreement shall not survive the
completion of the Arrangement and shall expire and be terminated on the earlier
of the Effective Time and the date on which this Agreement is terminated in
accordance with its terms.
4.4
Disclaimer of Additional
Representations and Warranties
DRAXIS agrees and acknowledges that, except
as set forth in this Agreement, the Purchaser makes no representation or
warranty, express or implied, at law or in equity, with respect to the
Purchaser, its subsidiaries, their respective businesses, the past, current or
future financial condition or any of their assets, liabilities or operations,
or their past, current or future profitability or performance, individually or
in the aggregate, and any such other representations or warranties are hereby
expressly disclaimed. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the Purchaser expressly disclaims any
representation or warranty that is not set forth in this Agreement.
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ARTICLE V
COVENANTS OF DRAXIS AND PURCHASER
5.1
Covenants of DRAXIS Regarding
the Conduct of Business
DRAXIS covenants and agrees that, during
the period from the date of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective
Time and the time that this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its
terms, except as required by this Agreement, Applicable Law or any Governmental
Entities, DRAXIS shall, and shall cause each of its Material Subsidiaries to,
conduct its business in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, from the date of this Agreement until the earlier
of the Effective Time and the time that this Agreement is terminated in
accordance with its terms, except as required or permitted by this Agreement
(including as a result of a Pre-Acquisition Reorganization), DRAXIS shall not,
nor shall it permit any of its subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, without
the prior written consent of the Purchaser (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld, conditioned or delayed) and in any event the Purchaser shall respond
within five business days, failing which it shall be deemed to have consented:
(a)
take any action except in the
usual and ordinary course of business of DRAXIS and its Material Subsidiaries,
and DRAXIS shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain and preserve
its and its Material Subsidiaries business organization, assets, employees,
goodwill and business relationships;
(b)
(i) amend its articles, charter or by-laws or other
comparable organizational documents;
(ii)
split, combine or reclassify
any shares in the capital of DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries;
(iii)
declare, set aside for payment
or pay any dividend on or other distribution in respect of any DRAXIS Shares
unless (A) it is made in the ordinary course of business and (B) the
Consideration payable to each holder of DRAXIS Shares shall be reduced by the
amount of such dividend or distribution paid in respect of those DRAXIS Shares,
and shall not declare, set aside for payment or pay any dividend on or make any
other distribution in respect of the securities of any subsidiary owned by a
person other than DRAXIS other than, in the case of any subsidiary wholly-owned
by DRAXIS, any dividends payable to DRAXIS or any other wholly-owned subsidiary
of DRAXIS;
(iv)
issue, grant, deliver, sell or
pledge, or agree to issue, grant, deliver, sell or pledge, any shares of DRAXIS
or its Material Subsidiaries, or any options, warrants, securities or similar
rights convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, or otherwise
evidencing a right to acquire, shares or other securities of DRAXIS or its
subsidiaries, other than:
(A)
the issuance of DRAXIS Shares
issuable pursuant to the terms of the outstanding DRAXIS Options;
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(B)
the grant of DRAXIS Options
pursuant to the terms of contractual commitments described in Schedule 5.1(b) of
the Disclosure Letter for each of the DRAXIS Stock Option Plans, as applicable;
(C)
transactions in the ordinary
course of business and consistent with past practices between two or more
DRAXIS wholly-owned Material Subsidiaries or between DRAXIS and a DRAXIS
wholly-owned Material Subsidiary, and
(D)
as required under applicable
Law or existing Material Contracts set forth in Schedule 3.1(t) of the
Disclosure Letter,
(v)
redeem, purchase or otherwise
acquire, or offer to redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire, any outstanding
securities of DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries;
(vi)
amend the terms of any of its
securities, other than amendments to its stock option plans to permit the
cashless exercise of stock options;
(vii)
adopt a plan of liquidation or
resolution providing for the liquidation or dissolution of DRAXIS or any of its
Material Subsidiaries;
(viii)
amend its accounting policies
or adopt new accounting policies, in each case except as required in accordance
with GAAP or pursuant to written instructions, comments or orders from
Securities Authorities;
(ix)
except as required by
Applicable Law make, amend or revoke any Tax election, settle or compromise any
Tax liability not fully provided for in the DRAXIS Financial Statements, file
any amended Tax Return, surrender any right to claim a Tax refund, or consent
to the extension or waiver of the limitation period applicable to any Tax claim
or assessment; or
(x)
enter into, modify or
terminate any Contract with respect to any of the foregoing,
(c)
except in the ordinary course
of business consistent with past practice and except as set forth in Schedule
5.1(c) of the Disclosure Letter:
(i)
sell, pledge, hypothecate,
lease, license, sell and lease back, mortgage, dispose of or encumber or
otherwise transfer, any assets, securities, properties, interests or businesses
of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries;
(ii)
acquire (by merger,
amalgamation, consolidation or acquisition of shares or assets or otherwise),
directly or indirectly, any assets, securities, properties, interests,
businesses, corporation, partnership or other business organization or division
thereof, or make any investment either by the purchase of securities,
contributions of capital, property transfer, or purchase of any other property
or assets of any other person, for an amount greater than $
200,000
other than purchases by DRAXIS or its
Material Subsidiaries of
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raw materials,
inventory and replacement capital assets made in the ordinary course of
business;
(iii)
incur, create, assume or
otherwise become liable of, any indebtedness for borrowed money or any other
liability or obligation or issue any debt securities or assume, guarantee,
endorse or otherwise as an accommodation become responsible for the obligations
of any other person, or make any loans, capital contributions, investments or
advances, except
(A)
for refinancing of existing
debt on substantially the same or more favourable terms, and
(B)
under its operating facility
in the ordinary course of business, and
(C)
for incurring indebtedness
under DRAXIS existing credit facilities for the purpose of securing payment to
officers of DRAXIS of amounts payable to them in respect of DSUs, and to
employees of DRAXIS of amounts which will become payable to them pursuant to a
termination of employment (if applicable) following a change of control or
pursuant to any long-term incentive plan and to eligible persons under DRAXIS
option plans to secure the cashless exercise of stock options, in each such
case, as set forth in Schedule 5.1(c) to the Disclosure Letter;
(iv)
pay, discharge or satisfy any
material claims, liabilities or obligations;
(v)
waive, release, grant or
transfer any rights of material value; or
(vi)
authorize or propose any of
the foregoing, or enter into or modify any Contract to do any of the foregoing;
(d)
except in the ordinary course
of business, enter into or modify any Contract or series of Contracts resulting
in a new Contract or series of related new Contracts or modifications to an
existing Contract or series of related existing Contracts;
(e)
other than as disclosed in
Schedule 5.1(e) of the Disclosure Letter, as is necessary to comply
with any Applicable Law or Contract, or in accordance with the DRAXIS Benefit
Plans and other than usual annual increases in compensation granted in the
normal course of business, which increases are not to exceed [percentage
redacted] of the aggregate payroll of non-unionized employees of DRAXIS and its
Material Subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2007:
(i)
grant to any officer, employee
or director of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries an increase in compensation in
any form, or grant any general salary increase;
(ii)
make any loan to any officer
employee, or director of DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries;
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(iii)
take any action with respect
to the grant of any severance, change of control, bonus or termination pay to
or enter into any employment agreement, deferred compensation or other similar
agreement (or amend such existing agreement) with, or hire or terminate
employment (except for serious reason) of, any officer, director level or
manager level employee or director of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries other
than the hiring of employees on a temporary contract basis;
(iv)
increase any benefits payable
under any existing severance or termination pay policies or employment
agreements, or adopt or materially amend or make any contribution to any DRAXIS
Benefit Plan or other bonus, profit sharing, option, pension, retirement,
deferred compensation, insurance, incentive compensation, compensation or other
similar plan, agreement, trust, fund or arrangement for the benefit of
directors, officers or employees or former directors, officers, employees of
DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries;
(v)
increase compensation, bonus
levels or other benefits payable to any director, executive officer or employee
of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries;
(vi)
other than as expressly
provided for in this Agreement, provide for accelerated vesting, removal of
restrictions or an exercise of any stock based or stock related awards
(including stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance units and
restricted share awards) upon a change of control occurring on or prior to the
Effective Time; or
(vii)
establish, adopt or amend
(except as required by Applicable Law) any collective bargaining agreement or
similar agreement;
(f)
settle, pay, discharge,
satisfy, compromise, waive, assign or release
(i)
any action, claim or
proceeding brought against DRAXIS and/or any of its subsidiaries (other than
employee claims or claims in an individual amount of no more than $50,000 or no
more than $200,000 in the aggregate) except to the extent the cost of so doing
is not in excess of any reserve or accrual taken by DRAXIS for such purpose as
described in the Disclosure Letter or in the DRAXIS Financial Statements; or
(ii)
any action, claim or
proceeding brought by any present, former or purported holder of its securities
in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Plan
of Arrangement;
(g)
other than in the ordinary
course of business or as set forth in Schedule 5.1(g) to the
Disclosure Letter, enter into any agreement or arrangement that limits or otherwise
restricts in any material respect DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries or
any successor thereto, or that would, after the Effective Time, limit or
restrict in any material respect DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries
from competing in any manner;
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(h)
waive, release or assign any
material rights, claims or benefits of DRAXIS or any of its Material
Subsidiaries;
(i)
other than in the ordinary
course of business consistent with past practice;
(i)
enter into any agreement that
if entered into prior to the date hereof would be a Material Contract;
(ii)
modify, amend in any material
respect, transfer or terminate any Material Contract; or
(iii)
waive, release or assign any
material rights or claims thereto or thereunder;
(j)
take any action or fail to
take any action which action or failure to act would result in the material
loss or reduction in the value of the Intellectual Property Rights or the
Technology;
(k)
take any action or fail to
take any action which action or failure to act would result in the material
loss, expiration or surrender of, or the loss of any material benefit under, or
reasonably be expected to cause any Governmental Entities to institute
proceedings for the suspension, revocation or limitation of rights under, any
Regulatory Authorizations; or fail to prosecute with commercially reasonable
due diligence any pending applications to any Governmental Entities for any
Regulatory Authorization;
(l)
take any action or fail to
take any action that is intended to, or would reasonably be expected to,
individually or in the aggregate, prevent, materially delay or materially
impede the ability of DRAXIS to consummate the Arrangement or the other
transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
(m)
take any action or enter into
any transaction outside of the ordinary course of business consistent with
prior practice that would preclude the Canadian tax bump rules from
applying upon an amalgamation or winding-up of DRAXIS (or its successor by
amalgamation) by virtue of paragraph 88(1)(c) of the Tax Act, in
calculating the tax cost of non-depreciable capital property distributed to the
parent for purposes of paragraph 88(1)(d) of the Tax Act; or
(n)
agree, resolve or commit to do
any of the foregoing.
DRAXIS shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to cause the current insurance (or re-insurance) policies maintained by
DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries, including directors and officers
insurance, not to be cancelled or terminated or any of the coverage thereunder
to lapse, unless simultaneously with such termination, cancellation or lapse,
replacement policies underwritten by insurance or re-insurance companies of
nationally recognized standing having comparable deductions and providing
coverage equal to or greater than the coverage under the cancelled, terminated
or lapsed policies for competitive premiums are in full force and effect;
provided that none of DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries shall obtain or renew
any insurance (or re-insurance) policy for a term exceeding 12 months.
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Subject to compliance with applicable
competition or anti-trust laws, DRAXIS shall promptly notify Purchaser in
writing of any circumstance or development that, to the knowledge of DRAXIS, is
or could reasonably be expected to constitute a Material Adverse Effect.
DRAXIS will deliver to Purchaser, as soon
as they become publicly available or are filed, true and complete copies of any
material forms, reports, schedules, statements and other documents required to
be filed by DRAXIS with any Securities Authorities or Exchange subsequent to
the date hereof.
5.2
Covenants of DRAXIS Regarding
the Performance of Obligations
Subject to Section 7.2, DRAXIS shall
and shall cause its Material Subsidiaries to perform all obligations required
or desirable to be performed by DRAXIS or any of its Material Subsidiaries
under this Agreement, co-operate with Purchaser in connection therewith, and do
all such other acts and things as may be necessary or desirable in order to
consummate and make effective the transactions contemplated in this Agreement
and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, DRAXIS shall and, where
appropriate, shall cause its Material Subsidiaries to:
(a)
immediately defer the
separation time of the SRP Rights and continue to defer separation unless
otherwise requested by the Purchaser;
(b)
on or immediately prior to the
Effective Date or on such earlier date as Purchaser may request, waive, suspend
the operation of or otherwise render the Shareholder Rights Plan inoperative or
ineffective as regards the Plan of Arrangement, it being understood that DRAXIS
will have no obligation to take any such action until all other conditions to
the Plan of Arrangement have been satisfied or waived;
(c)
apply for and use commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain all Key Regulatory Approvals relating to DRAXIS or
any of its subsidiaries which are typically applied for by an offeree and, in
doing so, keep Purchaser reasonably informed as to the status of the
proceedings related to obtaining the Key Regulatory Approvals, including
providing Purchaser with copies of all related applications and notifications,
in draft form, in order for Purchaser to provide its comments thereon, which
shall be given due and reasonable consideration;
(d)
use
commercially
reasonable efforts
to obtain as
soon as practicable following execution of this Agreement all third party
consents, approvals and notices required under any of the Material Contracts,
and all Key Third Party Consents; and
(e)
defend all lawsuits or other
legal, regulatory or other proceedings against DRAXIS challenging or affecting
this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.
5.3
Covenants of Purchaser
Regarding the Performance of Obligations
(a)
Purchaser shall perform all
obligations required or desirable to be performed by the Purchaser under this
Agreement, co-operate with DRAXIS in connection therewith, and do all such other
acts and things as may be necessary or desirable in order to consummate and
make effective, as soon as reasonably practicable, the transactions
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contemplated
in this Agreement and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
Purchaser shall:
(i)
apply for and use commercially
reasonable efforts to obtain all Key Regulatory Approvals relating to the
Purchaser or any of Purchasers subsidiaries which are typically applied for by
an offeror and, in doing so, keep DRAXIS reasonably informed as to the status
of the proceedings related to obtaining the Key Regulatory Approvals, including
providing DRAXIS with copies of all related applications and notifications in
draft form (except where such material is confidential in which case it will be
provided (subject to Applicable Law) to DRAXIS outside counsel on an external
counsel basis), in order for DRAXIS to provide its reasonable comments
thereon;
(ii)
subject to the terms and
conditions hereof and of the Plan of Arrangement and Applicable Laws, pay the
aggregate Consideration to be paid pursuant to the Arrangement;
(iii)
defend all lawsuits or other
legal, regulatory or other proceedings against Purchaser challenging or
affecting this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby; and
(iv)
Jubilant will not pledge,
subject to a Lien, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of the Consideration
cash prior to the closing of the Arrangement.
5.4
Mutual Covenants
Each of the Parties covenants and agrees
that, except as contemplated in this Agreement, during the period from the date
of this Agreement until the earlier of the Effective Time and the time that
this Agreement is terminated in accordance with its terms:
(a)
it shall, and shall cause its
subsidiaries to, use commercially reasonable efforts to satisfy (or cause the
satisfaction of) the conditions precedent to its obligations hereunder as set
forth in Article VI to the extent the same is within its control and to
take, or cause to be taken, all other action and to do, or cause to be done,
all other things necessary, proper or advisable under all Applicable Laws to
complete the Plan of Arrangement, including using commercially reasonable
efforts to: (i) obtain all Key Regulatory Approvals required to be
obtained by it; (ii) effect all necessary registrations, filings and
submissions of information requested by Governmental Entities required to be
effected by it in connection with the Plan of Arrangement; (iii) oppose,
lift or rescind any injunction or restraining order against it or other order
or action against it seeking to stop, or otherwise adversely affecting its
ability to make and complete, the Plan of Arrangement; and (iv) co-operate
with the other Party in connection with the performance by it and its
subsidiaries of their obligations hereunder; in addition, subject to the terms
and conditions herein provided, none of the Parties shall knowingly take or
cause to be taken any action which would reasonably be expected to prevent or
materially delay the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby;
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(b)
it shall not take any action,
refrain from taking any commercially reasonable action, or permit any action to
be taken or not taken, which is inconsistent with this Agreement or which would
reasonably be expected to significantly impede the making or completion of the
Plan of Arrangement except as permitted by this Agreement; and
(c)
DRAXIS shall and shall cause its
subsidiaries to effect the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization. Further, DRAXIS
shall and shall cause its subsidiaries to effect such other reorganization of
its business, operations, subsidiaries and assets or such other transactions
disclosed in writing to DRAXIS prior to the Effective Date (a
Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization
), and the Plan of Arrangement, if required, shall be
modified accordingly; provided, however, that DRAXIS need not effect a
Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization which, in the opinion of DRAXIS,
acting reasonably:
(i)
would require DRAXIS to obtain
the prior approval of the shareholders of DRAXIS in respect of such
Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization other than at the DRAXIS Meeting or
any regulatory approval not otherwise contemplated herein;
(ii)
would impede or materially
delay the consummation of the Arrangement;
(iii)
would require DRAXIS or any
subsidiary to contravene any Applicable Law, their respective organizational
documents or any Contract; or
(iv)
where incremental taxes could
be imposed on, or any adverse tax or other adverse consequences could arise for
any DRAXIS Shareholder as a result of the consummation of the Arrangement
following any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization.
Without limiting the foregoing and other
than as set forth above, DRAXIS shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
obtain all necessary consents, approvals or waivers from any persons to effect
the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization and any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization, and DRAXIS shall cooperate with the Purchaser in structuring,
planning and implementing such Pre-Acquisition Reorganization and any
Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization provided however that a failure to
obtain any such necessary consents, approvals or waivers shall not affect the
consummation of the Arrangement or otherwise delay the filing of the Articles
of Arrangement pursuant to Section 2.7.
If the Arrangement is not completed due to the fault of the Purchaser to
fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, the Purchaser shall forthwith
reimburse DRAXIS for all reasonable fees and expenses (including any
professional fees and expenses) incurred by DRAXIS and its subsidiaries in
considering or effecting the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization and any
Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization.
Purchaser will, on an after Tax basis,
indemnify and hold harmless DRAXIS, its subsidiaries and their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and representatives from and
against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, claims, costs, expenses
(including Taxes, legal fees, professional fees, and disbursements),
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interest, awards, judgements and penalties
suffered or incurred by any of them in connection with, in respect of, or as a
result of the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization and any Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization, including any such amounts resulting from the
unwinding of the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization and any Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization should the Arrangement not be completed.
The Purchaser shall provide written notice
to DRAXIS of any proposed Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization at least
10 business days prior to the Effective Date.
Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the planning for and
implementation of the Pre-Acquisition Reorganization and any Supplemental
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization shall not be considered a breach of any covenant
under this Agreement and shall not be considered in determining whether a
representation, warranty or covenant of DRAXIS hereunder has been
breached. For greater certainty, DRAXIS
shall not be liable for any failure to properly implement the Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization and any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization or for the
failure of Purchaser to benefit from any anticipated Tax efficiency provided
that DRAXIS has acted in good faith in implementing the Pre-Acquisition
Reorganization and any Supplemental Pre-Acquisition Reorganization.
5.5
Stock Options and DSUs
(a)
Purchaser acknowledges that
subject to receipt of all appropriate regulatory approvals, and pursuant to the
provisions of the DRAXIS Stock Option Plans and the Deferred Share Unit Plan,
DRAXIS shall facilitate as necessary the acceleration of the vesting of any
unvested DRAXIS Options and DSUs as may be necessary or desirable to allow all
persons holding DRAXIS Options or DSUs to participate (but not vote) in the
Arrangement in respect of all vested and unvested unexercised DRAXIS Options
and DSUs. In accordance with the terms of the Plan of Arrangement, all DRAXIS
Options and DSUs will be transferred to and cancelled by DRAXIS for a cash
amount, if any, equal to (i) in the case of each DRAXIS Option, the
excess, if any, of the Consideration over the applicable exercise price (or if
the exercise price of such DRAXIS Option under the terms of such DRAXIS Option
is expressed in Canadian currency, the U.S. dollar equivalent of such exercise
price determined by using the U.S. Dollar/Canadian Dollar Daily Noon Rate as
published by the Bank of Canada on the business day prior to the Effective
Date), less any applicable withholdings, and (ii) in the case of each DSU,
the amount of the Consideration, less any applicable withholdings, and, for
greater certainty, all DRAXIS Options and DSUs will expire and terminate in
accordance with the Plan of Arrangement.
(b)
If the Purchaser concludes
that it is necessary or desirable to deal with the DRAXIS Options or DSUs in a
different manner than described in Section 5.5(a), having consequences
(including tax consequences) to the holders thereof and DRAXIS, which are
equivalent to or better than those contemplated in this Agreement (an
Alternative Plan
), and so advises DRAXIS in writing at
least 10 days prior to the mailing of the DRAXIS Circular, and DRAXIS so agrees
it shall cooperate with the Purchaser in implementing such Alternative Plan.
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5.6
Employment Agreements
Following the Effective Date, DRAXIS shall
honour its obligations, if any, under its employment agreements.
5.7
Assistance with Purchaser
Financing
Following the date of this Agreement and
until the earlier of the Effective Time or the date on which this Agreement is terminated
in accordance with its terms, DRAXIS shall use commercially reasonable efforts
to provide any cooperation reasonably requested by the Purchaser (provided that
such requested cooperation does not unreasonably interfere with the ongoing
operations of DRAXIS and its subsidiaries) in connection with obtaining
financing for the Arrangement. Neither
DRAXIS nor any subsidiary shall be required to participate in any marketing
activities or pay any commitment or other similar fee or incur any other cost or
liability in connection with such financing prior to the Effective Time.
ARTICLE VI
CONDITIONS
6.1
Mutual Conditions Precedent
The obligations of the Parties to complete
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are subject to the fulfillment,
on or before the Effective Time, of each of the following conditions precedent,
each of which may only be waived with the mutual consent of the Parties:
(a)
the Arrangement Resolution
shall have been approved and adopted by the DRAXIS Shareholders at the DRAXIS
Meeting in accordance with the Interim Order;
(b)
the Interim Order and the
Final Order shall each have been obtained on terms consistent with this
Agreement, and shall not have been set aside or modified in a manner
unacceptable to DRAXIS and the Purchaser, acting reasonably, on appeal or
otherwise;
(c)
no action, suit or proceeding,
shall have been taken under any Applicable Law or by any Governmental Entity,
and no Law, policy, decision or directive (having the force of Law) shall have
been enacted, promulgated, amended or applied, in each case:
(i)
to enjoin or prohibit the Plan
of Arrangement or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; or
(ii)
resulting in any judgment or
assessment of damages, directly or indirectly,
which, individually or in the aggregate,
has had or would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect with
respect to DRAXIS;
(d)
the Commissioner of
Competition appointed under the Competition Act shall not have filed an
application or threatened to file an application for an order under Part VIII
of the Competition Act, or any such application, order or threat shall have
been rescinded;
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(e)
all Key Regulations Approvals
shall have been obtained; and
(f)
this Agreement shall not have
been terminated in accordance with its terms.
6.2
Additional Conditions
Precedent to the Obligations of the Purchaser
The obligations of the Purchaser to complete
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall also be subject to the
fulfillment of each of the following conditions precedent (each of which is for
the exclusive benefit of the Purchaser and may be waived by the Purchaser):
(a)
all covenants of DRAXIS under
this Agreement to be performed on or before the Effective Time shall have been
duly performed by DRAXIS in all material respects, and the Purchaser shall have
received a certificate of DRAXIS addressed to the Purchaser and dated the Effective
Time, signed on behalf of DRAXIS by two senior executive officers of DRAXIS (on
DRAXIS behalf and without personal liability), confirming the same as at the
Effective Date;
(b)
all representations and
warranties of DRAXIS set forth in this Agreement (other than those contained in
first sentence of Section 3.1(c), Section 3.1(d) and Section 3.1(f))
shall be true and correct in all respects, without regard to any materiality or
Material Adverse Effect qualifications contained in them as of the Effective
Time, as though made on and as of the Effective Time (except for
representations and warranties made as of a specified date, the accuracy of
which shall be determined as of that specified date), except where the failure
or failures of all such representations and warranties to be so true and
correct in all respects would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect on DRAXIS and the representations and warranties of DRAXIS made
in the first sentence of Section 3.1(c), Section 3.1(d) and Section 3.1(f))
must be accurate in all respects when made and, except as contemplated by this
Agreement, on and as of the Effective Time, as though made on and as of the
Effective Time; and the Purchaser shall have received a certificate of DRAXIS
addressed to the Purchaser and dated the Effective Time, signed on behalf of
DRAXIS by two senior executive officers of DRAXIS (on DRAXIS behalf and
without personal liability), confirming the above as at the Effective Date;
(c)
since the date of this
Agreement, there shall not have been any event, occurrence, development or
state of circumstances that, individually or in the aggregate, has had or could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on DRAXIS;
(d)
all Key Third Party Consents
shall have been obtained; and
(e)
holders of no more than 10% of
the DRAXIS Shares shall have exercised Dissent Rights.
6.3
Additional Conditions
Precedent to the Obligations of DRAXIS
The obligations of DRAXIS to complete the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement shall also be subject to the
following conditions precedent (each of which is for the exclusive benefit of
DRAXIS and may be waived by DRAXIS):
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(a)
all covenants of the Purchaser
under this Agreement to be performed on or before the Effective Time shall have
been duly performed by the Purchaser in all material respects, and DRAXIS shall
have received a certificate of the Purchaser, addressed to DRAXIS and dated the
Effective Time, signed on behalf of the Purchaser by two of its senior
executive officers (on the Purchasers behalf and without personal liability),
confirming the same as of the Effective Date; and
(b)
all representations and
warranties of the Purchaser and Jubilant set forth in this Agreement shall be
true and correct in all respects as of the Effective Time, as though made on
and as of the Effective Time (except for representations and warranties made as
of a specified date, the accuracy of which shall be determined as of that specified
date), except where the failure or failures of all such representations and
warranties to be so true and correct in all respects would not reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the Purchaser or Jubilant; and
DRAXIS shall have received a certificate of the Purchaser and Jubilant,
addressed to DRAXIS and dated the Effective Time, signed on behalf of each of
the Purchaser and Jubilant by two senior executive officers of each of the
Purchaser and Jubilant (on the Purchasers or Jubilants behalf and without
personal liability), confirming the same as at the Effective Date.
6.4
Satisfaction of Conditions
The conditions precedent set out in Section 6.1,
Section 6.2 and Section 6.3 shall be conclusively deemed to have been
satisfied, waived or released when the Certificate of Arrangement is issued by
the Director.
ARTICLE VII
ADDITIONAL AGREEMENTS
7.1
Notice and Cure Provisions
Each Party will give prompt notice to the
other of the occurrence, or failure to occur, at any time from the date hereof
until the earlier to occur of the termination of this Agreement and the
Effective Time of any event or state of facts which occurrence or failure
would, or would be likely to:
(a)
cause any of the
representations or warranties of any Party contained herein to be untrue or
inaccurate in any material respect on the date hereof or at the Effective Time;
or
(b)
result in the failure to
comply with or satisfy any covenant, condition or agreement to be complied with
or satisfied by any Party hereunder prior to the Effective Time.
The Purchaser may not exercise its right to
terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iii)(B) and
DRAXIS may not exercise its right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iv)(B) unless
the Party intending to rely thereon has delivered a written notice to the other
Party specifying in reasonable detail all breaches of covenants,
representations and warranties or other matters which the Party delivering such
notice is asserting as the basis for the non-fulfilment or the applicable
condition or termination right, as the case may be. If any such notice is delivered, provided
that a Party is proceeding diligently to cure such matter and such matter
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is capable of being cured (except matters
arising out of the failure to make appropriate disclosure in the Data Room), no
Party may terminate this Agreement until the expiration of a period of fifteen
business days from such notice, if such matter has not been cured by such date.
If such notice has been delivered prior to the making of the application for
either Final Order or the filing of Articles of Arrangement with the Director,
such application and such filing shall be postponed until the expiry of such
period. For greater certainty, in the
event that such matter is cured within the time period referred to herein
without a Material Adverse Effect, this Agreement may not be terminated as a
result of the cured breach.
7.2
Non-Solicitation
(a)
Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Section 7.2, DRAXIS shall not, directly or indirectly,
through any officer, director, employee or representative (including any
financial or other advisor (
Advisors
)) of
DRAXIS or any of its subsidiaries (collectively, the
Representatives
):
(i)
solicit, initiate, facilitate
or knowingly encourage (including by way of furnishing information or entering
into any form of agreement, arrangement or understanding) the initiation of any
inquiries or proposals regarding an Acquisition Proposal;
(ii)
participate in any substantive
discussions or negotiations with any person (other than the Purchaser or any of
its affiliates) regarding an Acquisition Proposal;
(iii)
approve, accept, endorse or
recommend, or propose publicly to accept, approve, endorse or recommend, any
Acquisition Proposal;
(iv)
accept or enter into or
publicly propose to accept or enter into, any agreement, understanding or
arrangement or other contract in respect of an Acquisition Proposal; or
(v)
make a Change in
Recommendation.
(b)
Except as otherwise provided
in this Section 7.2, DRAXIS shall, and shall cause its subsidiaries and
Representatives to, immediately cease and cause to be terminated any
solicitation, encouragement, discussion or negotiation with any persons
conducted heretofore by DRAXIS, its subsidiaries or any Representatives with
respect to any Acquisition Proposal, and, in connection therewith, DRAXIS will
discontinue access to the Data Room (and not establish or allow access to
any other data rooms, virtual or otherwise) and shall as soon as possible
request, to the extent that it is entitled to do so (and exercise all rights it
has to require) the return or destruction of all confidential information
regarding DRAXIS and its subsidiaries previously provided to any such person or
any other person and will request (and exercise all rights it has to require)
the destruction of all material including or incorporating or otherwise
reflecting any material confidential information regarding DRAXIS and its
subsidiaries. DRAXIS agrees that neither
it nor any of its subsidiaries, shall terminate, waive, amend or modify any
provision of any existing confidentiality agreement relating to an Acquisition
Proposal or any
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standstill
agreement to which it or any of its subsidiaries is a party. DRAXIS undertakes to enforce all standstill,
non-disclosure, non-disturbance, non-solicitation and similar covenants that it
or any of its subsidiaries had entered into prior to the date hereof.
(c)
Notwithstanding Sections 7.2(a) and
7.2(b) and any other provision of this Agreement or of any other agreement
between the Parties or between DRAXIS and any other person, including the
provisions of any confidentiality or standstill agreement, if at any time
following the date of this Agreement and prior to obtaining the approval of the
Arrangement Resolution by DRAXIS Shareholders at the DRAXIS Meeting, DRAXIS
receives a written Acquisition Proposal that the DRAXIS Board determines in
good faith, after consultation with its financial advisors and outside counsel,
constitutes or could reasonably be expected to lead to, if completed in
accordance with its terms, a Superior Proposal, then DRAXIS may, provided it has
first complied with Section 7.2(b):
(i)
furnish information with
respect to DRAXIS and its subsidiaries to the person making such Acquisition
Proposal; and/or
(ii)
enter into, participate,
facilitate and maintain discussions or negotiations with, and otherwise
cooperate with or assist, the person making such Acquisition Proposal,
provided that
DRAXIS shall not, and shall
not allow its Representatives to, disclose any non-public information to such
person:
(A)
if such non public information
has not been previously provided to, or is not concurrently provided to the
Purchaser; and
(B)
without entering into a
confidentiality agreement with such person substantially in the form and
content of the Confidentiality Agreement and that contains terms that are no
more favourable to such person than those found in the Confidentiality
Agreement provided that such confidentiality agreement need not contain a
standstill provision.
(d)
DRAXIS shall promptly (and in
any event within 24 hours after it has received any proposal, inquiry, offer or
request) notify the Purchaser in the event it receives an Acquisition Proposal,
including the material terms and conditions thereof, and the identity of the
person or persons making the Acquisition Proposal, and shall include copies of
any such proposal, inquiry, offer or request, or any amendment to any of the
foregoing. DRAXIS shall also provide such other details of such proposal,
inquiry, offer or request, or any amendment to any of the foregoing, at the
Purchasers reasonable request. DRAXIS shall keep the Purchaser fully informed
as to the status, including any changes to the material terms, of such
proposal, inquiry, offer or request, or any amendment to any of the foregoing,
and shall respond promptly to all inquiries from the Purchaser with respect
thereto.
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(e)
Notwithstanding anything in
this Agreement to the contrary, but subject to Section 7.3, if at any time
following the date of this Agreement and prior to obtaining the approval of the
Arrangement Resolution by DRAXIS Shareholders at the DRAXIS Meeting, DRAXIS
receives an Acquisition Proposal which the DRAXIS Board concludes in good faith
constitutes a Superior Proposal, the DRAXIS Board may, subject to compliance with
the procedures set forth in Section 8.2, terminate this Agreement to enter
into a definitive agreement with respect to such Superior Proposal.
(f)
Provided that DRAXIS complies
with the other provisions of this Section 7.2, and Section 7.3,
nothing contained in this Agreement shall prohibit the DRAXIS Board from taking
any action or making a Change in Recommendation or from making any disclosure
to any securityholders of DRAXIS prior to the Effective Time, including for
greater certainty disclosure of a Change in Recommendation, if, in the good
faith judgment of the DRAXIS Board, after consultation with outside legal
counsel, failure to take such action or make such disclosure would be
inconsistent with the DRAXIS Boards exercise of its fiduciary duties or such
action or disclosure is otherwise required under Applicable Law (including by
responding to an Acquisition Proposal under a directors circular or otherwise
as required under Securities Laws), provided that for greater certainty in the
event of a Change of Recommendation and a termination by the Purchaser of this
Agreement pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iii)(A), DRAXIS shall pay the
Termination Fee as required by Section 7.4. In addition, subject to the
other provisions of this Section 7.2 and Section 7.3, nothing
contained in this Agreement shall prevent DRAXIS or the DRAXIS Board from
calling and holding a meeting of DRAXIS Shareholders, or any of them,
requisitioned by DRAXIS Shareholders, or any of them, in accordance with the
CBCA or ordered to be held by a court in accordance with Applicable Laws.
7.3
Right to Match
(a)
DRAXIS covenants that it will
not accept, approve, recommend or enter into any agreement, understanding or
arrangement in respect of a Superior Proposal (other than a confidentiality
agreement permitted by Section 7.2(b)) unless:
(i)
DRAXIS has complied with its
obligations under Section 7.2 and the other provisions of this Article VII
and has provided Purchaser with a copy of the Superior Proposal; and
(ii)
a period (the
Response Period
) of five business days shall have elapsed
from the date that is the latest of (A) the date on which Purchaser
received written notice from the DRAXIS Board that the DRAXIS Board determined,
subject only to compliance with this Section 7.3, to accept, approve,
recommend or enter into a binding agreement to proceed with the Superior
Proposal, and (B) the date the Purchaser received a copy of the Superior
Proposal.
(b)
During the Response Period,
the Purchaser will have the right, but not the obligation, to offer to amend
the terms of this Agreement and the Plan of
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Arrangement. Within five business days (the
Review Period
) of any such proposal by the Purchaser to
amend the terms of this Agreement and the Plan of Arrangement, including an
increase in, or modification of, the aggregate Consideration, the DRAXIS Board
shall review and determine whether the Acquisition Proposal to which the
Purchaser is responding would be a Superior Proposal when assessed against this
Agreement and against the Plan of Arrangement as they are proposed by the
Purchaser to be amended. Such
determination to be made by the DRAXIS Board shall be communicated to the
Purchaser by the end of the Review Period. If the DRAXIS Board does not so
determine, the DRAXIS Board, subject to Purchaser and DRAXIS entering into an
amendment to this Agreement in respect of the amended Plan of Arrangement, will
promptly reaffirm its recommendation of the Plan of Arrangement in the same manner
as described in Section 2.4. If the DRAXIS Board does so determine, DRAXIS
may approve and recommend that holders of DRAXIS Shares accept such Superior
Proposal and may terminate this Agreement pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iv)(A) to
accept or enter into an agreement, understanding or arrangement to proceed with
the Superior Proposal.
(c)
Each successive amendment to
any Acquisition Proposal that results in an increase in, or modification of,
the consideration (or value of such consideration) to be received by the
holders of the DRAXIS Shares shall constitute a new Acquisition Proposal for
the purposes of this Section 7.3 and Purchaser shall be afforded a new
Response Period in respect of each such Acquisition Proposal and the rights
afforded in paragraph 7.3(b).
(d)
In the event that DRAXIS
provides notice in accordance with Section 7.3(a)(ii) on a date which
is less than five business days prior to the DRAXIS Meeting, the Purchaser
shall be entitled to require DRAXIS to adjourn or postpone the DRAXIS Meeting
to a date that is not more than seven business days after the date of such
notice.
7.4
Expenses and Termination Fees
(a)
Except as otherwise provided
herein, all fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with this Agreement
and the Plan of Arrangement shall be paid by the Party incurring such fees,
costs or expenses, except that in the event this Agreement is terminated
pursuant to Sections 8.2(a)(ii)(A), 8.2(a)(ii)(C), 8.2(a)(iii)(B) or
8.2(a)(iii)(D), all fees, costs and expenses incurred by the Purchaser in
connection with the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and the Plan of
Arrangement shall be paid by DRAXIS to a maximum of $2,500,000.
(b)
If a Termination Fee Event
occurs, DRAXIS shall pay the Purchaser (by wire transfer of immediately
available funds) the Termination Fee in accordance with Section 7.4(e) less
any applicable withholding Taxes.
(c)
For the purposes of this
Agreement,
Termination Fee
means
$10,500,000.
(d)
For the purposes of this
Agreement,
Termination Fee Event
means the
termination of this Agreement:
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(i)
by the Purchaser pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iii)(A) or
Section 8.2(a)(iii)(C);
(ii)
by DRAXIS pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iv)(A);
or
(iii)
by any Party pursuant to
Sections 8.2(a)(ii)(A), 8.2(a)(ii)(C), 8.2(a)(iii)(B) or 8.2(a)(iii)(D) but
only if, in the case of this paragraph (iii), prior to the termination of
this Agreement or prior to the DRAXIS Meeting, a bona fide Acquisition Proposal
with respect to DRAXIS shall have been made or publicly announced or the
intention of any person (other than the Purchaser and its affiliates) to make
an Acquisition Proposal shall have been made public, and within six months
following the date of such termination:
(A)
an Acquisition Proposal is
consummated; or
(B)
DRAXIS or one or more of its
subsidiaries enters into a definitive agreement in respect of, or the DRAXIS
Board approves or recommends, a transaction contemplated by (A) above and
that transaction is subsequently consummated at any time thereafter;
provided that for the purposes of this
section, all references to 20% in the definition of Acquisition Proposal
shall be deemed to be 50%.
(e)
If a Termination Fee Event
occurs due to a termination of this Agreement by DRAXIS pursuant to Section 8.2(a)(iv)(A),
the Termination Fee shall be payable simultaneously with the occurrence of such
Termination Fee Event. If a Termination
Fee Event occurs due to a termination of this Agreement by the Purchaser pursuant
to Section 8.2(a)(iii)(A) or Section 8.2(a)(iii)(C), the
Termination Fee shall be payable within two Business Days following such
Termination Fee Event. If a Termination
Fee Event occurs in the circumstances set out in Section 7.4(d)(iii), the
Termination Fee shall be payable within two Business Days following the closing
of the applicable transaction referred to therein.
(f)
Each of the Parties
acknowledges that the agreements contained in this Section 7.4 are an
integral part of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement and that,
without those agreements, the Parties would not enter into this Agreement. Each
Party acknowledges that all of the payment amounts set out in this Section 7.4
are payments of liquidated damages which are a genuine pre-estimate of the
damages, which the Party entitled to such damages will suffer or incur as a
result of the event giving rise to such damages and the resultant termination
of this Agreement and are not penalties. DRAXIS irrevocably waives any right it
may have to raise as a defense that any such liquidated damages are excessive
or punitive. For greater certainty, each
Party agrees that, upon any termination of this Agreement under circumstances
where the Purchaser is entitled to the Termination Fee and such Termination Fee
is paid in full, the Purchaser shall be precluded from any other remedy against
DRAXIS at law or in equity or otherwise, and shall not seek to obtain any
recovery, judgment, or damages of any kind, including consequential, indirect,
or punitive damages, against DRAXIS or any of DRAXIS subsidiaries or any of
their respective directors, officers, employees, partners, managers, members,
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shareholders
or affiliates in connection with this Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby.
(g)
Nothing in this Section 7.4
shall relieve or have the effect of relieving any Party in any way from
liability for damages incurred or suffered by a Party as a result of an
intentional or wilful breach of this Agreement.
(h)
Nothing in this Section 7.4
shall preclude a Party from seeking injunctive relief to restrain any breach or
threatened breach of the covenants or agreements set forth in this Agreement or
the Confidentiality Agreement or otherwise to obtain specific performance of
any of such act, covenants or agreements, without the necessity of posting bond
or security in connection therewith.
(i)
For greater certainty, if
after making a payment pursuant to Section 7.4(a), it is subsequently
determined that the Purchaser is entitled to the Termination Fee, any such
payment under Section 7.4(a) shall be treated as payment against the
Termination Fee and not in addition to or in lieu thereof and in no event shall
DRAXIS be required to pay an amount under this Section 7.4 in excess of
the Termination Fee.
7.5
Access to Information;
Confidentiality
From the date hereof until the earlier of
the Effective Time and the termination of this Agreement, subject to compliance
with Applicable Law and the terms of any existing Contracts, DRAXIS shall, and
shall cause its subsidiaries and their respective officers, directors,
employees, independent auditors, accounting advisers and agents to, afford to
the Purchaser and to the officers, employees, agents and representatives of
Purchaser such access as Purchaser may reasonably require at all reasonable
times, including for the purpose of facilitating integration business planning,
to their officers, employees, agents, material customers and suppliers,
properties, books, records and Contracts, and shall furnish Purchaser with all
data and information as Purchaser may reasonably request. Purchaser and DRAXIS acknowledge and agree
that information furnished pursuant to this Section shall be subject to
the terms and conditions of the Confidentiality Agreement.
7.6
Insurance and Indemnification
(a)
Purchaser will, or will cause
DRAXIS and its subsidiaries to, maintain in effect without any reduction in
scope or coverage for six years from the Effective Date customary policies of
directors and officers liability insurance providing protection no less
favourable to the protection provided by the policies maintained by DRAXIS and
its subsidiaries which are in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date
and providing protection in respect of claims arising from facts or events
which occurred on or prior to the Effective Date; provided, however, that
Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that prior to the Effective Date, DRAXIS may,
in the alternative, purchase run off directors and officers liability
insurance for a period of up to six years from the Effective Date.
(b)
Purchaser agrees that it shall
directly honour all rights to indemnification or exculpation now existing in
favour of present and former officers and directors of DRAXIS and its
subsidiaries, which shall survive the completion of the Plan of
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Arrangement
and shall continue in full force and effect for a period of not less than six
years from the Effective Date.
(c)
The provisions of this Section 7.6
are intended for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable by, each insured or
indemnified person, his or her heirs and his or her legal representatives and,
for such purpose, DRAXIS hereby confirms that it is acting as agent and trustee
on their behalf.
7.7
Brokers
DRAXIS represents and warrants that, except
for Banc of America Securities Canada Co., no broker, finder or investment
banker is entitled to any brokerage, finders or other fee or commission from,
or to the reimbursement of any of its expenses by, DRAXIS in connection with
this Agreement or the Plan of Arrangement. DRAXIS has provided to Purchaser a
correct and complete copy of all agreements relating to the arrangements
between it and its financial advisors which are in effect at the date hereof
and agrees not to amend the terms of any such agreements relating to the
payment of fees and expenses without the prior written approval of Purchaser.
7.8
Jubilant Guarantee
Jubilant hereby unconditionally and
irrevocably guarantees the due and punctual performance by Purchaser of each
and every obligation of the Purchaser arising under this Agreement and the
Arrangement.
ARTICLE VIII
TERM, TERMINATION, AMENDMENT AND WAIVER
8.1
Term
This Agreement shall be effective from the
date hereof until the earlier of the Effective Time and the termination of this
Agreement in accordance with its terms.
8.2
Termination
(a)
This Agreement may be
terminated and the Arrangement may be abandoned at any time prior to the
Effective Time (notwithstanding any approval of this Agreement or the
Arrangement Resolution by the DRAXIS Shareholders or the Arrangement by the
Court):
(i)
by mutual written agreement of
DRAXIS and the Purchaser; or
(ii)
by either DRAXIS or the Purchaser,
if:
(A)
the Effective Time shall not
have occurred on or before the Outside Date, except that the right to terminate
this Agreement under this Section 8.2(a)(ii)(A) shall not be
available to any Party whose failure to fulfill any of its obligations or
breach of any of its representations and warranties under this Agreement has
been the cause of, or resulted in, the failure of the Effective Time to occur
by such Outside Date; or
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(B)
after the date hereof, there
shall be enacted or made any Applicable Law that makes consummation of the
Arrangement illegal or otherwise prohibited or enjoins DRAXIS or the Purchaser
from consummating the Arrangement and such Applicable Law (if applicable) or
enjoinment shall have become final and non-appealable; or
(C)
the Arrangement Resolution
shall have failed to receive the requisite vote for approval from DRAXIS
Shareholders at the DRAXIS Meeting (including any adjournment or postponement
thereof) in accordance with the Interim Order; or
(iii)
by the Purchaser, if:
(A)
prior to obtaining the
approval of the Arrangement Resolution by DRAXIS Shareholders, the DRAXIS Board
fails to recommend or withdraws, withholds, amends, modifies or qualifies, or
fails to reaffirm its recommendation of the Arrangement within seven business
days (or if the DRAXIS Meeting is scheduled to be held within such seven
business day period, prior to the DRAXIS Meeting) after having been requested
by the Purchaser to do so, in a manner adverse to the Purchaser, the approval
or recommendation of the DRAXIS Board in respect of the Arrangement (it being
understood that the taking of a neutral position or no position with respect to
an Acquisition Proposal beyond a period of seven business days (or beyond the
date scheduled for the DRAXIS Meeting, if sooner) shall be considered an
adverse modification) (a
Change in Recommendation
);
or
(B)
subject to Section 7.1, a
breach of any representation or warranty or failure to perform any covenant or
agreement on the part of DRAXIS (other than as set forth in Section 7.2)
set forth in this Agreement shall have occurred that would cause the conditions
set forth in Section 6.2 not to be satisfied, and such conditions are
incapable of being satisfied by the Outside Date; provided that the Purchaser
is not then in breach of this Agreement so as to cause any of the conditions
set forth in Section 6.1 or Section 6.3 not to be satisfied;
(C)
DRAXIS is in breach or in
default of any of the obligations or covenants set forth in Section 7.2 as
a result of a breach by an Officer, a member of the DRAXIS board or any
Advisor; or
(D)
the DRAXIS Meeting has not
occurred on or before
July 3
,
2008 provided that the right to terminate this Agreement under this Section 8.2(a)(iii)(D) shall
not be available to the Purchaser if the failure by the Purchaser to fulfil any
obligation hereunder is the cause of or resulted in the failure of the meeting
to occur on or before such date.
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(iv)
by DRAXIS, if
(A)
the DRAXIS Board authorizes
DRAXIS, subject to complying with the terms of this Agreement, to enter into a
binding written agreement relating to a Superior Proposal; provided that
concurrently with such termination, DRAXIS pays the Termination Fee payable
pursuant to Section 7.4; or
(B)
subject to Section 7.1, a
breach of any representation or warranty or failure to perform any covenant or
agreement on the part of the Purchaser set forth in this Agreement shall have
occurred that would cause the conditions set forth in Section 6.3 not to
be satisfied, and such conditions are incapable of being satisfied by the
Outside Date; provided that DRAXIS is not then in breach of this Agreement so
as to cause any of the conditions set forth in Section 6.1 or Section 6.2
not to be satisfied.
(b)
The Party desiring to
terminate this Agreement pursuant to this Section 8.2 (other than pursuant
to Section 8.2(a)(i)) shall give notice of such termination to the other
Parties.
(c)
Effect of Termination. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to
this Section 8.2, this Agreement shall become void and of no effect
without liability of any Party (or any shareholder, director, officer,
employee, agent, consultant or representative of such Party) to any other Party
hereto, except as otherwise expressly contemplated hereby, and except that the
provisions of this Section 8.2(c), the third paragraph of 5.4(c) and
Sections 7.4, 7.6, 7.8, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6 and 9.8 and the provisions
of the Confidentiality Agreement (other than the standstill provisions
contained therein) shall survive any termination hereof pursuant to Section 8.2(a);
provided that neither the termination of this Agreement nor anything contained
in this Section 8.2 will relieve any Party from any liability for breach
or default arising prior to such termination.
8.3
Amendment
This Agreement and the Plan of Arrangement
may, at any time and from time to time before or after the holding of the
DRAXIS Meeting but not later than the Effective Time, be amended by mutual
written agreement of the Parties, and any such amendment may, subject to the
Interim Order and the Final Order and Applicable Law, without limitation:
(a)
change the time for
performance of any of the obligations or acts of the Parties;
(b)
waive any inaccuracies or
modify any representation or warranty contained herein or in any document
delivered pursuant hereto;
(c)
waive compliance with or
modify any of the covenants herein contained and waive or modify performance of
any of the obligations of the Parties; and/or
(d)
waive compliance with or
modify any mutual conditions precedent herein contained.
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8.4
Waiver
Any Party may:
(a)
extend the time for the
performance of any of the obligations or acts of the other Party;
(b)
waive compliance, except as
provided herein, with any of the other Partys agreements or the fulfilment of
any conditions to its own obligations contained herein; or
(c)
waive inaccuracies in any of
the other Partys representations or warranties contained herein or in any
document delivered by the other Party;
provided, however, that
any such extension or waiver
shall be valid only if set forth in an instrument in writing signed on behalf
of such Party and, unless otherwise provided in the written waiver, will be
limited to the specific breach or condition waived and
provided
further that
for the purposes of this Section 8.4 Jubilant and
the Purchaser shall be deemed to constitute one and the same Party.
ARTICLE IX
GENERAL PROVISIONS
9.1
Notices
All notices and other communications given
or made pursuant hereto shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been
duly given or made as of the date delivered or sent if delivered personally or
sent by facsimile or e-mail transmission, or as of the following business day
if sent by prepaid overnight courier, to the Parties at the following addresses
(or at such other addresses as shall be specified by any Party by notice to the
other given in accordance with these provisions):
(a)
if to Purchaser or Jubilant:
1-A, Sector
16-A
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Noida, UP
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201 301
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India
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Shyan S. Bhartia, Chairman
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Telephone:
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120 251-6636
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Facsimile:
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+
91
120 251-6629
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E-mail:
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[email
address redacted]
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with a copy to:
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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
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Suite 2100
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Montréal, Québec
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H3B 4W5
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Attention:
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Shahir Guindi and Warren Katz
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Telephone:
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(514) 904-8126
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Facsimile:
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(514) 904-8101
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E-Mail:
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[email
address redacted]
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And to:
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John P. Reilly
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Leclair Ryan
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Two Penn Plaza East
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Newark, New Jersey
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07105
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Telephone:
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(973) 491-3354
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Facsimile:
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(973) 491-3492
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e-Mail:
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[email
address redacted]
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(b)
if to DRAXIS:
16751 Trans Canada Highway
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Kirkland, Québec
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H9H 4J4
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Attention:
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Dan Brazier
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Telephone:
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(514) 694-8220, extension 2865
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Facsimile:
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(514) 630-7159
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E-Mail
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[email
address redacted]
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with a copy to:
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16751 TransCanada Highway
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Kirkland, Québec
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H9H 4J4
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Attention:
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Alida Gualtieri
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Telephone:
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(514) 630-7060
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Facsimile:
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(514) 630-7159
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E-Mail:
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[email
address redacted]
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with a copy to:
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McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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Suite 4700
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Toronto Dominion Bank Tower
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Toronto, Ontario
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M5K 1E6
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Attention:
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Graham Gow, Benjamin Silver and Vanessa
Grant
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Telephone:
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(416) 601-7677
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Facsimile:
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(416) 868-0673
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E-Mail:
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[email
address redacted]
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and with a copy to:
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Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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Suite 4200
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Toronto Dominion Bank Tower
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Toronto, Ontario
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M5K 1N6
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Attention:
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J.A. Levin
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Telephone:
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(416) 865-4401
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Facsimile:
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(416) 354-7813
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E-Mail:
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[email
address redacted]
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9.2
Governing Law; Waiver of Jury
Trial
This Agreement shall be governed, including
as to validity, interpretation and effect, by the laws of the Province of
Québec and the laws of Canada applicable therein, and shall be construed and
treated in all respects as an Québec contract. Each of the Parties hereby
irrevocably attorns to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Province
of Québec in respect of all matters arising under and in relation to this
Agreement and the Arrangement. EACH
PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION,
PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
HEREBY OR THE ACTIONS OF THE PARTIES IN THE NEGOTIATION, ADMINISTRATION,
PERFORMANCE AND ENFORCEMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT.
For purposes of serving any legal
proceedings related to the exercise of the rights arising from this Agreement,
Purchaser hereby irrevocably elects domicile at the office of its Québec
attorneys at the following address:
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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Suite 2100
Montréal, Québec
H3B 4W5
9.3
Injunctive Relief
Subject to Section 7.4, the Parties
agree that irreparable harm would occur for which money damages would not be an
adequate remedy at law 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 an injunction or injunctions and other equitable relief to prevent breaches
of this Agreement, any requirement for the securing or posting of any bond in
connection with the obtaining of any such injunctive or other equitable relief
hereby being waived.
9.4
Time of Essence
Time shall be of the essence in this
Agreement.
9.5
Entire Agreement, Binding
Effect and Assignment
Purchaser may assign all or any part of its
rights under this Agreement to, and its obligations under this Agreement may be
assumed by, a direct or indirect subsidiary of Purchaser, provided that if such
assignment and/or assumption takes place, the Purchaser shall continue to be
liable jointly and severally with such subsidiary for all of its obligations
hereunder. This Agreement shall be binding
on and shall enure to the benefit of the Parties and their respective
successors and permitted assigns.
This Agreement (including the exhibits and
schedules hereto and the Disclosure Letter) and the Confidentiality Agreement
constitute the entire agreement, and supersede all other prior agreements and
understandings, both written and oral, between the Parties, or any of them,
with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and except as expressly
provided herein, this Agreement is not intended to and shall not confer upon
any person other than the Parties any rights or remedies hereunder. Except as expressly permitted by the terms
hereof, neither this Agreement nor any of the rights, interests or obligations
hereunder may be assigned by either of the Parties without the prior written
consent of the other Parties.
9.6
Severability
If any term or other provision of this
Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule or
Law or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement
shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or
legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any
manner materially adverse to any Party.
Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid,
illegal or incapable of being enforced, the Parties shall negotiate in good
faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original intent of the
Parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end that the
transactions contemplated hereby are fulfilled to the fullest extent possible.
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9.7
Counterparts, Execution
This Agreement may be executed in two or
more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original but all of
which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. The Parties shall be entitled to rely upon
delivery of an executed facsimile or similar executed electronic copy of this
Agreement, and such facsimile or similar executed electronic copy shall be
legally effective to create a valid and binding agreement between the Parties.
9.8
Fiduciary Duties of Directors
(a)
No director or officer of the
Purchaser or of any of its affiliates or subsidiaries shall have any personal liability
whatsoever to DRAXIS under this Agreement or any other document delivered in
connection with the transactions contemplated hereby on behalf of the Purchaser
or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries.
(b)
No provision of this Agreement
shall require DRAXIS to cause any of its directors to take any action, or
refrain from taking any action, that is required by such individual to fulfill
his/her fiduciary legal obligations as a director of DRAXIS, nor, so long as
DRAXIS has not breached Section 7.2 of this Agreement, shall any provision
of this Agreement prevent the DRAXIS Board from considering, negotiating,
approving, recommending to DRAXIS Shareholders or entering into an agreement in
respect of a Superior Proposal or from approving or recommending such Superior
Proposal. For greater certainty, a
modification, change or withdrawal by the DRAXIS Board of its recommendation in
respect of the Arrangement after the date hereof in the proper exercise of such
fiduciary duty shall not result in the representations in Section 3.1 of
this Agreement being considered to be untrue or incorrect. The foregoing shall not be interpreted to
diminish, limit, restrict or otherwise affect in any way any covenant or
agreement of DRAXIS under this Agreement or be construed as a forgiveness or
waiver of any breach.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF Purchaser, Jubilant and
DRAXIS have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first written
above by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized.
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JUBILANT ORGANOSYS LTD.
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Shyam
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Name: Shyam S.
Bhartia
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Title: Chairman
and Managing Director
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JUBILANT ACQUISITION INC.
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Shyam
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Name: Shyam S.
Bhartia
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Title:
President
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DRAXIS HEALTH INC.
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By:
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Dan
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Name:
Dan Brazier
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Title:
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Signature
Page to the Arrangement Agreement
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SCHEDULE A
TO THE ARRANGEMENT AGREEMENT
Plan of Arrangement
PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT UNDER
SECTION 192
OF THE
CANADA BUSINESS CORPORATIONS ACT
ARTICLE 1
INTERPRETATION
1.1
Definitions
In this Plan of Arrangement, unless there
is something in the subject matter or context inconsistent therewith, the
following terms shall have the respective meanings set out below and
grammatical variations of such terms shall have corresponding meanings:
2006 Stock Option Plan
means the stock option plan of DRAXIS approved by DRAXIS Shareholders on May 18, 2006
and amended on May 17, 2007;
427 Canco
means 4271513 Canada Inc.;
Applicable Law
means, with respect to any person or property, any domestic or foreign federal,
national, state, provincial or local law (statutory, common or otherwise),
constitution, treaty, convention, ordinance, code, rule, regulation, order,
injunction, judgment, decree, ruling or other similar requirement enacted,
adopted, promulgated or applied by a Governmental Entity that is binding upon
or applicable to such person or property, as amended;
Arrangement
means the arrangement under
section 192 of the CBCA on the terms and subject to the conditions set out
in this Plan of Arrangement, subject to any amendments or variations thereto
made in accordance with Section 8.3 of the Arrangement Agreement or this
Plan of Arrangement or made at the direction of the Court in the Final Order
with the consent of DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting reasonably;
Arrangement Agreement
means the arrangement agreement dated April
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, 2008 between the Purchaser and DRAXIS, together
with the schedules, appendices and the Disclosure Letter thereto, as it may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with its terms;
A
rrangement Resolution
means the special resolution approving the Plan of Arrangement to be
considered at the DRAXIS Meeting;
Articles of Arrangement
means the articles
of arrangement of DRAXIS in respect of the Arrangement, required by the CBCA to
be sent to the Director after the Final Order is made by the Court, which shall
be in a form and content satisfactory to DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting
reasonably;
business day
means any day, other than a
Saturday, a Sunday and a statutory or civic holiday in Montréal, Québec,
Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; New York, New York, United States of America
or Delhi, India;
CBCA
means the
Canada Business Corporations Act
and the
regulations made thereunder, as promulgated or amended from time to time (or
such other corporate statute that is DRAXIS governing corporate statute at the
relevant time);
Certificate of Arrangement
means the certificate of arrangement to be issued by the Director pursuant to
subsection 192(7) of the CBCA in respect of the Articles of Arrangement;
CM Business
means all of the assets, liabilities, undertaking and enterprise of DSPI
relating to its contract manufacturing business.
CM Business Transfer
Agreement
means the asset transfer agreement pursuant to which DSPI
will transfer the CM Business to DP Partnership;
Code
means the
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
Consideration
means the amount of $6.00 in cash per DRAXIS Share less the amount of any
dividend or distribution paid in respect of each DRAXIS Share from the date of
the Arrangement Agreement to the Effective Time;
Court
means
the Québec Superior Court;
Deferred Share Unit Plan
means the deferred share unit plan for senior management employees of DRAXIS;
Depositary
means Computershare Investor Services Inc.;
DHI Amalco
means the corporation continuing from the amalgamation of DRAXIS, DSPI and 427
Canco pursuant to Step 2.3(f) of the Arrangement.
DHI Amalco Share
means a common share in the capital of DHI Amalco;
Director
means
the Director appointed pursuant to section 260 of the CBCA;
Disclosure Letter
means the disclosure letter executed and delivered by DRAXIS in connection with
the execution of the Arrangement Agreement;
Dissent Rights
means the rights of dissent in respect of the Arrangement described in the Plan
of Arrangement;
Dissenting Shareholder
means a holder of DRAXIS Shares who has duly exercised its Dissent Rights and
has not withdrawn or been deemed to have withdrawn such exercise of Dissent
Rights, but only in respect of DRAXIS Shares in respect of which Dissents
Rights are validly exercised by such holder;
DP Partnership
means
a general
partnership,
the partners of which are DRAXIS and a wholly-owned subsidiary of DRAXIS;
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DRAXIS
means
DRAXIS Health Inc., a corporation existing under the laws of Canada;
DRAXIS Board
means the board of directors of DRAXIS as the same is constituted from time to
time;
DRAXIS Circular
means the notice of the DRAXIS Meeting and accompanying management information
circular, including all schedules, appendices and exhibits thereto, to be sent
to the DRAXIS Shareholders in connection with the DRAXIS Meeting, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time;
DRAXIS
Meeting
means the special meeting of DRAXIS Shareholders, including
any adjournment or postponement thereof, to be called and held in accordance
with the Interim Order to consider the Arrangement Resolution;
DRAXIS Option
means an option to purchase DRAXIS Shares granted under any of the DRAXIS Stock
Option Plans;
DRAXIS Shareholders
means the holders of DRAXIS Shares;
DRAXIS Shares
means the common shares in the capital of DRAXIS, as currently constituted and,
after the transaction described in Section 2.3(f) means the DHI
Amalco Shares;
DRAXIS Stock Option Plans
means the Stock Option Plan and the 2006 Stock Option Plan;
DSPI
means
DRAXIS Specialty Pharmaceuticals Inc.;
DSUs
means
deferred share units granted to members of senior management of DRAXIS pursuant
to the Deferred Share Unit Plan and as set forth in Schedule
3.1(f) to the Disclosure Letter;
Effective Date
means the date shown on the Certificate of Arrangement giving effect to the
Arrangement;
Effective Time
means
12:01 a.m.
on the
Effective Date;
Exchange Act
means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended;
Exchanges
means the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Global Select Market, and
Exchange
means any one of them;
Final Order
means
the final order of the Court approving the Arrangement as such order may be
amended by the Court (with the consent of both DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each
acting reasonably) at any time prior to the Effective Date or, if appealed,
then, unless such appeal is withdrawn or denied, as affirmed or as amended
(provided that any such amendment is acceptable to both DRAXIS and the
Purchaser, each acting reasonably) on appeal;
Governmental Entity
means any:
(a)
multinational, federal, provincial, state,
regional, municipal, local or other government, governmental or public
department, central bank, court, tribunal, arbitral body, commission, board,
bureau or agency, domestic or foreign;
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(b)
self-regulatory organization
or stock exchange;
(c)
any subdivision, agent,
commission, board, or authority of any of the foregoing;
(d)
any quasi-governmental or
private body exercising any regulatory, expropriation or taxing authority under
or for the account of any of the foregoing; or
(e)
any stock exchange, including
the Exchanges;
holders
means:
(a)
when used in reference to
DRAXIS Shares, except where the context otherwise requires, the holders of
DRAXIS Shares shown from time to time in the registers maintained by or on
behalf of DRAXIS in respect of DRAXIS Shares; and
(b)
when used in reference to the
DRAXIS Options or DSUs, the holders of DRAXIS Options or DSUs shown from time
to time in the registers or accounts maintained by or on behalf of DRAXIS in respect
of the DRAXIS Stock Option Plans or the Deferred Share Unit Plan;
Interim Order
means the interim order of the Court providing for, among other things, the
calling and holding of the DRAXIS Meeting, as the same may be amended by the
Court with the consent of DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting reasonably;
Letter of Transmittal
means the letter of transmittal forwarded by DRAXIS to DRAXIS Shareholders in
connection with the Arrangement, in the form accompanying the DRAXIS Circular;
Liens
means
any hypothecs, mortgages, liens, charges, security interests, encumbrances and
adverse rights or claims;
Option Consideration
means a cash
amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the product of the number of
DRAXIS Shares underlying the particular DRAXIS Option and the Consideration
over (ii) the aggregate exercise price payable under such DRAXIS Option by
the holder to acquire the DRAXIS Shares underlying such DRAXIS Option (or if
the exercise price of such DRAXIS Option under the terms of such DRAXIS Option
is expressed in Canadian currency, the U.S. dollar equivalent of such exercise
price determined by using the U.S. Dollar/Canadian Dollar Daily Noon Rate as
published by the Bank of Canada on the Business Day prior to the Effective
Date);
person
includes an individual, partnership, association, body corporate, trustee,
executor, administrator, legal representative, government (including any
Governmental Entity) or any other entity, whether or not having legal status;
Plan of Arrangement
means this plan of arrangement proposed under Section 192 of the CBCA, and
any amendments or variations thereto made in accordance with the Arrangement
Agreement or this Plan of Arrangement or made at the direction of the Court in
the Final Order with the consent of DRAXIS and the Purchaser, each acting
reasonably;
Purchaser
means Jubilant Acquisition Inc.;
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Stock Option Plan
means the stock option plan of DRAXIS approved by DRAXIS Shareholders on February 3, 1988
and amended on June 27, 2001 and May 17, 2007;
subsidiary
means, with respect to a specified body corporate, any body corporate of which
more than 50% of the outstanding shares ordinarily entitled to elect a majority
of the board of directors thereof (whether or not shares of any other class or
classes shall or might be entitled to vote upon the happening of any event or
contingency) are at the time owned directly or indirectly by such specified
body corporate and shall include any body corporate, partnership, joint venture
or other entity over which such specified body corporate exercises direction or
control or which is in a like relation to a subsidiary; and
Tax Act
means
the
Income Tax Act
(Canada).
1.2
Certain Rules of
Interpretation
In this Agreement:
(a)
Currency
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Unless otherwise stated, all references in this Plan of Arrangement to sums of
money are expressed in lawful money of the United States of America and $
refers to United States dollars.
(b)
Headings
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Headings of Articles and Sections are inserted for convenience of reference
only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.
(c)
Including
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Where the word including or includes is used in this Plan of Arrangement,
it means including (or includes) without limitation.
(d)
Number
and Gender -
Unless the context otherwise requires, words importing the singular
include the plural and vice versa and words importing gender include all
genders.
(e)
Statutory
References -
A reference to a statute includes all rules and regulations made
pursuant to such statute and, unless otherwise specified, the provisions of any
statute or regulation or rule which amends, supplements or supersedes any
such statute or any such regulation or rule.
(f)
Date of
Any Action -
Unless otherwise specified, time periods within or following which any
payment is to be made or act is to be done shall be calculated by excluding the
day on which the period commences and including the day on which the period
ends and by extending the period to the next Business Day following if the last
day of the period is not a Business Day.
(g)
Time
Time shall be of the
essence in every matter or action contemplated hereunder. All times expressed
herein or in the Letter of Transmittal is local time (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
unless otherwise stipulated herein or therein.
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ARTICLE 2
ARRANGEMENT
2.1
Plan of Arrangement
This Plan of
Arrangement constitutes an arrangement as referred to in Section 192 of
the CBCA and is made pursuant to, and is subject to, the provisions of the
Arrangement Agreement.
2.2
Binding Effect
This Plan of
Arrangement will become effective at, and be binding at and after, the
Effective Time on:
(a)
DRAXIS and all of its
subsidiaries;
(b)
the Purchaser;
(c)
all holders and all beneficial
owners of DRAXIS Shares, DRAXIS Options and DSUs, at and after, the Effective
Time without any further act or formality required on the part of any person,
except as expressly provided herein.
2.3
Arrangement
The following shall occur and shall be
deemed to occur in the following order without any further authorization, act
or formality:
(a)
at the Effective
Time, notwithstanding any vesting provisions to which a DRAXIS Option might
otherwise be subject (whether by contract, the conditions of a grant,
Applicable Law or the terms of the DRAXIS Stock Option Plans)
:
(i)
each
DRAXIS
Option
issued and outstanding at the time referred to in this Section 2.3(a) shall,
without any further action by or on behalf of any holder of such DRAXIS Option,
be deemed to be fully vested and transferred by the holder thereof to DRAXIS
(free and clear of any Liens) and cancelled
in exchange for a cash amount equal to the Option Consideration;
(ii)
with respect to
each DRAXIS Option, the holder thereof will cease to be the holder of such
DRAXIS Option, will cease to have any rights as a holder in respect of such
DRAXIS Option or under the DRAXIS Stock Option Plans, such holders name shall
be removed from the register of DRAXIS Options, and all option agreements,
grants and similar instruments relating thereto shall be cancelled; and
(iii)
the DRAXIS Stock
Option Plans shall be terminated;
(b)
at 5 minutes
following the Effective Time, notwithstanding any vesting provisions to which a
DSU might otherwise be subject (whether by contract, the conditions of a grant,
Applicable Law or the terms of the Deferred Share Unit Plan)
:
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(i)
each
DSU
issued and
outstanding at the time referred to in this Section 2.3(b) shall,
without any further action by or on behalf of any holder of such DSU, be deemed
to be fully vested and transferred by the holder thereof to DRAXIS (free and
clear of all Liens) and cancelled
in
exchange for a cash amount equal to the
Consideration
;
(ii)
with respect to
each DSU, the holder thereof will cease to be the holder of such DSU, will
cease to have any rights as a holder in respect of such DSU or under the
Deferred Share Unit Plan, such holders name shall be removed from the register
of DSUs, and all agreements, grants and similar instruments relating thereto
shall be cancelled;
(iii)
the Deferred
Share Unit Plan shall be terminated;
(c)
at 10 minutes
following the Effective Time, DSPI will make a payment to DRAXIS to reimburse
DRAXIS for the payments made by DRAXIS pursuant to Section 2.3(a)(i) to
the holders of DRAXIS Options that are employees of DSPI;
(d)
at 15 minutes following the Effective Time,
DSPI will
transfer the CM Business to DP Partnership pursuant to the CM Business Transfer
Agreement;
(e)
at 20 minutes
following the Effective Time, each of DSPI and 427 Canco will reduce the stated
capital accounts maintained in respect of each class of shares of each of DSPI
and 427 Canco to $1, respectively, without any distribution of assets or property therefor;
(f)
at 25 minutes
following the Effective Time, DRAXIS, DSPI and 427 Canco will Amalgamate to
form DHI Amalco with the same effect as if Section 186 of the CBCA were
applicable to the amalgamation, and in connection with the amalgamation:
(i)
each
DRAXIS Share will be converted into one DHI Amalco Share;
(ii)
each
outstanding share of DSPI and 427 Canco will be cancelled without any repayment
of capital with respect thereto;
(iii)
DHI
Amalco will possess all the property, rights, privileges and franchises and
will be subject to all liabilities, including civil, criminal and
quasi-criminal suits, and debts (except those owing between such amalgamating
entities) of each of DRAXIS, DSPI and 427 Canco and all contracts of each of
DRAXIS, DSPI and 427 Canco will become those of DHI Amalco;
(iv)
a
conviction against, or ruling, order or judgment in favour or against DRAXIS,
DSPI or 427 Canco may be enforced by or against DHI Amalco;
(v)
the
Articles of Arrangement will be deemed to be the articles of incorporation of
DHI Amalco and the certificate issued by the Director will be deemed to be the
certificate of incorporation of DHI Amalco;
(vi)
the
name of DHI Amalco shall be
DRAXIS Health Inc.
;
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(vii)
the
registered office of DHI Amalco shall be in the City of Montréal in the
Province of Québec;
(viii)
there
shall be no restrictions on the business which DHI Amalco is authorized to
carry on or on the powers DHI Amalco may exercise;
(ix)
the
authorized capital of DHI Amalco shall consist of an unlimited number of common
shares and an unlimited number of
preferred shares, issuable in
series;
(x)
the
rights, privileges, restrictions and conditions attaching to each class of
shares of Amalco shall be as set forth in the articles of amalgamation of
DRAXIS in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date;
(xi)
the
number of directors of DHI Amalco shall be such number, not less than one (1) and
not more than ten (10), as the board of directors of DHI Amalco may from time
to time determine;
(xii)
the
directors of DHI Amalco may appoint one or more directors who shall hold office
for a term expiring not later than the close of the next annual meeting of DHI
Amalco, but the total number of directors so appointed may not exceed one third
of the number of directors elected at the previous annual meeting of DHI
Amalco;
(xiii)
the
initial directors of DHI Amalco shall be those persons that are directors of
DRAXIS immediately prior to the Effective Date; and
(xiv)
the
by-laws of DHI Amalco shall be the by-laws of DRAXIS immediately prior to the
Effective Date until repealed, amended, altered or added to;
(g)
at 30 minutes
following the Effective Time:
(i)
all
DRAXIS Shares held by the Dissenting Shareholders in respect of which such
Dissenting Shareholders have exercised Dissent Rights and have not withdrawn
their notice of dissent will be deemed to have been transferred to the
Purchaser and such holders will cease to have any rights as shareholders other
than the right to be paid the fair value of their DRAXIS Shares as set out in Article 3;
(ii)
each DRAXIS
Share held by a DRAXIS Shareholder (other than a Dissenting Shareholder
described in Section 2.3(g)(i)) immediately prior to the time referred to
in this Section 2.3(g) shall be transferred by the holder thereof to
the Purchaser (free and clear of any Liens) in exchange for a cash amount equal
to the Consideration and the name of such holder will be removed from the
register of holders of DRAXIS Shares, and the Purchaser will be recorded as the
registered holder of such DRAXIS Share and will be deemed to be the legal and
beneficial owner of such DRAXIS Share free of any Liens, and the former holder
and beneficial holder of such DRAXIS Shares will cease to
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have any rights as a
shareholder in respect of such DRAXIS Shares and any other securities of
DRAXIS, DHI Amalco or its subsidiaries;
and
(iii)
all of the directors of DHI Amalco shall resign,
the
number of the directors of DHI Amalco shall be fixed at four and
l
,
l
,
l
, and
l
,
shall be the directors
of DHI Amalco
to hold office until the next annual meeting of DHI Amalco or until their
successors are elected or appointed
;
provided that none of the foregoing will occur or will be deemed to
occur unless all of the foregoing occurs.
2.4
Adjustments to Consideration
The Consideration payable with respect to
each DRAXIS Share transferred pursuant to Section 2.3(g), each DRAXIS
Option terminated and cancelled pursuant to Section 2.3(a) and each
DSU terminated and cancelled pursuant to Section 2.3(b) will be
adjusted to reflect fully the effect of any stock split, reverse split, stock
dividend (including any dividend or distribution of securities convertible into
DRAXIS Shares other than stock dividends paid in lieu of ordinary course
dividends), consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or other like
change with respect to DRAXIS Shares effected in accordance with the terms of
the Arrangement Agreement occurring after the date of the Arrangement Agreement
and prior to the Effective Time.
ARTICLE 3
RIGHTS OF DISSENT
3.1
Rights of Dissent
Holders of
DRAXIS Shares may exercise rights of dissent with respect to such shares
pursuant to and in the manner set forth in Section 190 of the CBCA and
this Section 3.1 (the
Dissent Rights
)
in connection with the Arrangement as the same may be modified by the Interim
Order or the Final Order; provided that, notwithstanding Subsection 190(5) of
the CBCA, the written objection to the Arrangement Resolution referred to in
Subsection 190(5) of the CBCA must be received by DRAXIS not later than
5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on the business day preceding the DRAXIS Meeting.
Holders of DRAXIS Shares who duly exercise such rights of dissent and who:
(a)
are ultimately determined to
be entitled to be paid fair value for their DRAXIS Shares, and who are paid
such fair value, shall be deemed to have transferred such DRAXIS Shares as of
the time referred to in Section 2.3(g), without any further act or
formality and free and clear of all Liens, claims and encumbrances, to
Purchaser; or
(b)
are ultimately determined not
to be entitled, for any reason, to be paid fair value for their DRAXIS Shares,
shall be deemed to have participated in the Arrangement on the same basis as a
non-dissenting holders of DRAXIS Shares.
In no
circumstances shall DRAXIS, the Purchaser, the Depositary or any other person
be required to recognize a person exercising Dissent Rights unless such person
is a registered holder of those DRAXIS Shares in respect of which such rights
are sought to be exercised. For greater
certainty, in
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no case shall
DRAXIS, the Purchaser, the Depositary or any other person be required to
recognize Dissenting Shareholders as holders of DRAXIS Shares after the time
referred to in Section 2.3(g), and the names of such Dissenting
Shareholders shall be deleted from the register of Shareholders at the time
referred to in Section 2.3(g).
3.2
Dissent Right Availability
A holder is
not entitled to exercise Dissent Rights with respect to such DRAXIS Shares if
such shareholder votes (or instructs, or is deemed, by submission of any
incomplete proxy, to have instructed his, her or its proxyholder to vote) in
favour of the Arrangement Resolution.
ARTICLE 4
CERTIFICATES AND PAYMENTS
4.1
Payment of Consideration
(a)
Following
receipt of the Final Order and prior to the filing of the Articles of
Arrangement with the Director in accordance with the terms of the Arrangement
Agreement, the Purchaser shall deposit for the benefit of holders of DRAXIS
Shares, cash with the Depositary in the aggregate amount equal to the payments
in respect thereof required by the Plan of Arrangement, with the amount per
DRAXIS Share in respect of which Dissent Rights have been exercised being
deemed to be the Consideration for this purpose
. The cash deposited with the Depositary shall be held in an interest
bearing
account, and any interest earned on such funds
shall be for the account of the Purchaser.
(b)
Upon surrender
to the Depositary for cancellation of a certificate which immediately prior to
the time described in Section
2.3(g)
represented
outstanding DRAXIS Shares that were exchanged for DHI Amalco Shares and were
transferred pursuant to Section
2.3(g)
, together with
a duly completed and executed Letter of Transmittal and such additional
documents and instruments as the Depositary may reasonably require, the holder
of DRAXIS Shares represented by such surrendered certificate shall be entitled
to receive in exchange therefor, and the Depositary shall deliver to such
holder, the cash which such holder has the right to receive under the
Arrangement for such DRAXIS Shares, less any amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4.3,
and any certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled.
(c)
As soon as
practicable following the Effective Date, DHI Amalco (or its successor) shall
deliver, on behalf of DRAXIS (or its successor), to each holder of DRAXIS
Options and DSUs as reflected on the register maintained by or on behalf of
DRAXIS in respect of DRAXIS Options and DSUs, a cheque representing the cash
payment, if any, which such holder of DRAXIS Options and DSUs is entitled to
receive pursuant to Sections 2.3(a) and 2.3(b), less any amounts required
to be withheld pursuant to Section 4.3.
(d)
Until
surrendered as contemplated by this Section 4.1, each certificate that
immediately prior to the time described in Section
2.3(g)
represented
DRAXIS Shares shall be deemed after the time described in Section
2.3(g)
to
represent only the right to receive upon such
surrender a cash payment in lieu of such certificate as
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contemplated
in this Section 4.1, less any amounts withheld pursuant to Section 4.3.
Any such certificate formerly representing DRAXIS Shares not duly surrendered
on or before the sixth anniversary of the Effective Date shall cease to
represent a claim by or interest of any former holder of DRAXIS Shares of any
kind or nature against or in DRAXIS or the Purchaser (or any successor). On
such date, all cash to which such former holder was entitled shall be deemed to
have been surrendered to the Purchaser or any successor.
(e)
Any payment made
by way of cheque by the Depositary pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement that has
not been deposited or has been returned to the Depositary or
that otherwise remains unclaimed, in each case, on
or before the
sixth
anniversary of the
Effective Date, and any right or claim to payment hereunder that remains
outstanding on the
sixth
anniversary of the Effective Date shall cease to represent a right or claim of
any kind or nature and the right of the holder to receive the consideration for
DRAXIS Shares pursuant to this Plan of Arrangement shall terminate and be
deemed to be surrendered and forfeited to the Purchaser or any successor, for
no consideration.
(f)
No holder of
DRAXIS Shares, DRAXIS Options or DSUs shall be entitled to
receive any consideration
with respect to such DRAXIS Shares, DRAXIS Options or DSUs
other than any cash payment to which such holder
is entitled to receive in accordance with Sections 2.3 and 4.1 and, for greater
certainty, no such holder with be entitled to receive any interest, dividends,
premium or other payment in connection therewith, other than any declared but
unpaid dividends.
4.2
Lost Certificates
In the event
any certificate which immediately prior to the Effective Time represented one
or more outstanding DRAXIS Shares that were transferred pursuant to Section 2.3
shall have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of
that fact by the person claiming such certificate to be lost, stolen or
destroyed, the Depositary will issue in exchange for such lost, stolen or
destroyed certificate, cash deliverable in accordance with such holders Letter
of Transmittal. When authorizing such payment in exchange for any lost, stolen
or destroyed certificate, the person to whom such cash is to be delivered shall
as a condition precedent to the delivery of such cash, give a bond satisfactory
to DRAXIS, the Purchaser, the Depositary and any successor in such sum as the
Purchaser may direct, or otherwise indemnify the Purchaser and DRAXIS in a
manner satisfactory to the Purchaser and DRAXIS, against any claim that may be
made against the Purchaser and DRAXIS with respect to the certificate alleged
to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
4.3
Withholding Rights
DRAXIS, the
Purchaser, the Depositary and any successor shall be entitled to deduct and
withhold from any consideration otherwise payable to any holders of DRAXIS
Shares, DRAXIS Options and DSUs under this Plan of Arrangement (including any
payment to Dissenting Shareholders), such amounts as DRAXIS, the Purchaser, the
Depositary and any successor is required to deduct and withhold with respect to
such payment under the Tax Act, the Code and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, or any provision of federal, provincial, state, local
or foreign tax law. To the extent that amounts are so withheld, such withheld
amounts shall be timely remitted by the party undertaking the withholding and
shall be treated for all purposes hereof as having been paid to the
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holder of the
DRAXIS Shares, DRAXIS Options or DSUs, as the case may be, in respect of which
such deduction and withholding was made, provided that such withheld amounts
are actually remitted to the appropriate taxing authority.
ARTICLE 5
AMENDMENTS
5.1
Amendments to Plan of
Arrangement
(a)
DRAXIS may amend, modify
and/or supplement this Plan of Arrangement at any time and from time to time
prior to the Effective Date, provided that each such amendment, modification
and/or supplement must:
(i)
be set out in writing;
(ii)
be approved by the Purchaser;
(iii)
filed with the Court and, if
made following the Meeting, approved by the Court; and
(iv)
communicated to DRAXIS
Shareholders if and as required by the Court.
(b)
Any amendment, modification or
supplement to this Plan of Arrangement may be proposed by DRAXIS at any time
prior to the Meeting (provided that Purchaser shall have consented thereto)
with or without any other prior notice or communication, and if so proposed and
accepted by the persons voting at the Meeting (other than as may be required
under the Interim Order), shall become part of this Plan of Arrangement for all
purposes.
(c)
Any amendment, modification or
supplement to this Plan of Arrangement that is approved or directed by the
Court following the Meeting shall be effective only if:
(i)
it is consented to by each of
DRAXIS and the Purchaser (in each case, acting reasonably); and
(ii)
if required by the Court, it
is consented to by DRAXIS Shareholders voting in the manner directed by the
Court.
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ARTICLE 6
FURTHER ASSURANCES
6.1
Further Assurances
Notwithstanding that the
transactions and events set out herein shall occur and be deemed to occur in
the order set out in this Plan of Arrangement without any further act or
formality, each of the parties to the Arrangement Agreement shall make, do and
execute, or cause to be made, done and executed, all such further acts, deeds,
agreements, transfers, assurances, instruments or documents as may reasonably
be required by any of them in order further to document or evidence any of the
transactions or events set out herein.
6.2
Paramountcy
From and after the
Effective Time:
(a)
this Plan of Arrangement shall
take precedence and priority over any and all rights related to DRAXIS Shares,
DRAXIS Options and DSUs issued prior to the Effective Time;
(b)
the rights and obligations of
the holders of DRAXIS Shares, DRAXIS Options or DSUs and any trustee and
transfer agent therefor, shall be solely as provided for in this Plan of
Arrangement; and
(c)
all actions, causes of
actions, claims or proceedings (actual or contingent, and whether or not
previously asserted) based on or in any way relating to DRAXIS Shares, DRAXIS
Options or DSUs shall be deemed to have been settled, compromised, released and
determined without liability except as set forth herein.
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SCHEDULE B
TO THE ARRANGEMENT AGREEMENT
Arrangement Resolution
BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
1. The arrangement
(the
Arrangement
) under Section 192 of
the
Canada Business Corporations Act
(the
CBCA
) involving DRAXIS Health Inc. (
DRAXIS
),
all as more particularly described and set forth in the Management Proxy
Circular (the
Circular
) of DRAXIS dated
·
, 2008, accompanying the
notice of this meeting (as the Arrangement may be modified or amended), is
hereby authorized, approved and adopted;
2. The plan of
arrangement, as it may be or has been amended (the
Plan of
Arrangement
), involving DRAXIS and implementing the Arrangement,
the full text of which is set out in Appendix C to the Circular (as the Plan of
Arrangement may be, or may have been, modified or amended), is hereby approved
and adopted;
3. The arrangement
agreement (the
Arrangement Agreement
) between
DRAXIS, Jubilant Organosys Ltd. and Jubilant Acquisition Inc., made as of April 4,
2008, the actions of the directors of DRAXIS in approving the Arrangement and
the actions of the officers of DRAXIS in executing and delivering the
Arrangement Agreement and any amendments thereto are hereby ratified and
approved;
4. Notwithstanding
that this resolution has been passed (and the Arrangement adopted) by the
securityholders of DRAXIS or that the Arrangement has been approved by the
Québec Superior Court, the directors of DRAXIS are hereby authorized and
empowered without further notice to, or approval of, the securityholders of
DRAXIS:
(a)
to
amend the Arrangement Agreement or the Plan of Arrangement to the extent
permitted by the Arrangement Agreement or the Plan of Arrangement; or
(b)
subject
to the terms of the Arrangement Agreement, not to proceed with the Arrangement.
5. Any officer or
director of DRAXIS is hereby authorized and directed for and on behalf of
DRAXIS to execute and deliver articles of arrangement and such other documents
as are necessary or desirable to the Director under the CBCA in accordance with
the Arrangement Agreement; and
6. Any officer or
director of DRAXIS is hereby authorized and directed for and on behalf of
DRAXIS to execute or cause to be executed and to deliver or cause to be
delivered, all such other documents, agreements and instruments and to perform
or cause to be performed all such other acts and things as in such persons
opinion may be necessary or desirable to give full effect to the foregoing
resolutions and the matters authorized thereby, such determination to be
conclusively evidenced by the execution and delivery of such document, agreement
or instrument or the doing of any such act or thing.
SCHEDULE C
TO THE ARRANGEMENT AGREEMENT
Key Regulatory Approvals
Nil.
SCHEDULE D
TO THE ARRANGEMENT AGREEMENT
Key Third Party Consents
[list of agreements redacted]
SCHEDULE 5.4(C)
TO THE ARRANGEMENT AGREEMENT
Pre-Acquisition Reorganization
Three (3) days prior to the Effective
Date, DRAXIS will cause a new corporation (
DP Subco
)
to be formed under the laws of Canada. The authorized capital will consist of
an unlimited number of common shares. On the incorporation date, DRAXIS will
subscribe for common shares of DP Subco for $2,500 cash.
On the incorporation date of DP Subco,
DRAXIS and DP Subco will form a general partnership (
DP
Partnership
) under the laws of Québec. The partnership agreement
will be in a form to be agreed upon and DRAXIS and DP Subco will each have an
entitlement defined by reference to their respective capital contributions. DP
Partnership will be capitalized with $22,500 contributed by DRAXIS and $2,500
contributed by DP Subco.
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