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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 9, 2005
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
ý |
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2005 |
Or |
o |
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
For the transition period
from to
|
Commission File No. 0-20570
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization) |
|
59-2712887 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.) |
152 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019
(Address of Registrant's principal executive offices)
(212) 314-7300
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Indicate
by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the
preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past
90 days. Yes ý No o
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act). Yes ý No o
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act). Yes o No ý
As of October 28, 2005, the following shares of the Registrant's common stock were outstanding:
Common Stock, including 146,002 shares of restricted stock |
|
293,780,991 |
Class B Common Stock |
|
25,599,998 |
|
|
|
Total outstanding Common Stock |
|
319,380,989 |
|
|
|
The
aggregate market value of the voting common stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant as of October 28, 2005 was $6,348,547,027. For the purpose of the
foregoing calculation only, all directors and executive officers of the Registrant are assumed to be affiliates of the Registrant.
PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Consolidated Financial Statements
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)
|
|
Three Months Ended
September 30,
|
|
Nine Months Ended
September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
|
|
Service revenue |
|
$ |
693,833 |
|
$ |
415,317 |
|
$ |
1,831,097 |
|
$ |
1,279,796 |
|
Product sales |
|
|
789,464 |
|
|
541,976 |
|
|
2,215,732 |
|
|
1,673,296 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net revenue |
|
|
1,483,297 |
|
|
957,293 |
|
|
4,046,829 |
|
|
2,953,092 |
|
Cost of salesservice revenue |
|
|
321,657 |
|
|
222,562 |
|
|
887,571 |
|
|
681,386 |
|
Cost of salesproduct sales |
|
|
482,493 |
|
|
322,649 |
|
|
1,352,310 |
|
|
1,024,155 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross profit |
|
|
679,147 |
|
|
412,082 |
|
|
1,806,948 |
|
|
1,247,551 |
|
Selling and marketing expense |
|
|
264,378 |
|
|
138,891 |
|
|
679,681 |
|
|
414,755 |
|
General and administrative expense |
|
|
168,234 |
|
|
119,912 |
|
|
488,493 |
|
|
356,018 |
|
Other operating expense |
|
|
35,134 |
|
|
22,839 |
|
|
87,585 |
|
|
63,260 |
|
Amortization of cable distribution fees |
|
|
17,403 |
|
|
18,046 |
|
|
51,183 |
|
|
53,079 |
|
Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,301 |
|
Amortization of non-cash compensation expense |
|
|
84,775 |
|
|
13,495 |
|
|
113,778 |
|
|
47,761 |
|
Amortization of intangibles |
|
|
50,176 |
|
|
46,605 |
|
|
133,933 |
|
|
142,636 |
|
Depreciation expense |
|
|
37,730 |
|
|
35,514 |
|
|
108,141 |
|
|
104,651 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income |
|
|
21,317 |
|
|
16,780 |
|
|
144,154 |
|
|
64,090 |
|
Other income (expense): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest income |
|
|
20,062 |
|
|
45,847 |
|
|
115,075 |
|
|
134,437 |
|
|
Interest expense |
|
|
(11,108 |
) |
|
(20,456 |
) |
|
(51,718 |
) |
|
(59,083 |
) |
|
Gain on sale of VUE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
523,487 |
|
|
|
|
|
Equity in income of VUE |
|
|
|
|
|
607 |
|
|
21,960 |
|
|
11,293 |
|
|
Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates and other |
|
|
14,263 |
|
|
(1,354 |
) |
|
33,753 |
|
|
13,475 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total other income, net |
|
|
23,217 |
|
|
24,644 |
|
|
642,557 |
|
|
100,122 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes and minority interest |
|
|
44,534 |
|
|
41,424 |
|
|
786,711 |
|
|
164,212 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(7,635 |
) |
|
(6,215 |
) |
|
(311,652 |
) |
|
(53,609 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(527 |
) |
|
(672 |
) |
|
(1,951 |
) |
|
(1,685 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
36,372 |
|
|
34,537 |
|
|
473,108 |
|
|
108,918 |
|
Gain on sale of EUVÍA, net of tax |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
79,648 |
|
|
|
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
33,117 |
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
210,327 |
|
|
98,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings before preferred dividends |
|
|
69,489 |
|
|
92,741 |
|
|
763,083 |
|
|
207,464 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
68,077 |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
755,145 |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings per share from continuing operations: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings per share |
|
$ |
0.11 |
|
$ |
0.09 |
|
$ |
1.40 |
|
$ |
0.28 |
|
|
Diluted earnings per share |
|
$ |
0.10 |
|
$ |
0.09 |
|
$ |
1.33 |
|
$ |
0.27 |
|
Net earnings per share available to common shareholders: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings per share |
|
$ |
0.21 |
|
$ |
0.26 |
|
$ |
2.27 |
|
$ |
0.57 |
|
|
Diluted earnings per share |
|
$ |
0.19 |
|
$ |
0.24 |
|
$ |
2.14 |
|
$ |
0.53 |
|
The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
2
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
|
|
September 30, 2005
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
(unaudited)
|
|
(audited)
|
|
|
($ in thousands)
|
ASSETS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
CURRENT ASSETS: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents |
|
$ |
909,398 |
|
$ |
999,698 |
Restricted cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
117,425 |
|
|
41,377 |
Marketable securities |
|
|
2,103,160 |
|
|
2,409,745 |
Accounts and notes receivable, net of allowance of $26,467 and $19,150, respectively |
|
|
497,822 |
|
|
353,579 |
Loans available for sale, net |
|
|
416,683 |
|
|
206,256 |
Inventories, net |
|
|
428,599 |
|
|
240,917 |
Deferred income taxes |
|
|
123,261 |
|
|
107,220 |
Other current assets |
|
|
182,713 |
|
|
100,148 |
Assets held for sale |
|
|
1,401 |
|
|
339,880 |
Current assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
4,602 |
|
|
316,947 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current assets |
|
|
4,785,064 |
|
|
5,115,767 |
Total Property, Plant and Equipment, net |
|
|
536,876 |
|
|
427,257 |
OTHER ASSETS: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Goodwill |
|
|
7,356,999 |
|
|
5,361,825 |
Intangible assets, net |
|
|
1,610,938 |
|
|
1,054,302 |
Long-term investments |
|
|
86,522 |
|
|
1,469,020 |
Preferred interest exchangeable for common stock |
|
|
|
|
|
1,428,530 |
Cable distribution fees, net |
|
|
42,767 |
|
|
77,484 |
Notes receivable and advances, net of current portion |
|
|
639 |
|
|
615 |
Deferred charges and other |
|
|
283,067 |
|
|
94,597 |
Non-current assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
7,473 |
|
|
7,369,468 |
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL ASSETS |
|
$ |
14,710,345 |
|
$ |
22,398,865 |
|
|
|
|
|
The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
3
|
|
September 30, 2005
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
|
(unaudited)
|
|
(audited)
|
|
|
|
($ in thousands)
|
|
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CURRENT LIABILITIES: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current maturities of long-term obligations and short-term borrowings |
|
$ |
817,325 |
|
$ |
562,953 |
|
Accounts payable, trade |
|
|
288,619 |
|
|
259,510 |
|
Accounts payable, client accounts |
|
|
290,645 |
|
|
176,921 |
|
Accrued distribution fees |
|
|
28,939 |
|
|
36,903 |
|
Deferred revenue |
|
|
123,146 |
|
|
99,258 |
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
|
287 |
|
|
|
|
Income tax payable |
|
|
628,035 |
|
|
56,672 |
|
Other accrued liabilities |
|
|
514,503 |
|
|
389,365 |
|
Liabilities held for sale |
|
|
|
|
|
295,773 |
|
Current liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
18,072 |
|
|
1,015,083 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total current liabilities |
|
|
2,709,571 |
|
|
2,892,438 |
|
Long-term obligations, net of current maturities |
|
|
962,975 |
|
|
796,715 |
|
Other long-term liabilities |
|
|
204,539 |
|
|
101,332 |
|
Non-current liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
8,319 |
|
|
423,521 |
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
|
1,346,371 |
|
|
2,130,386 |
|
Common stock exchangeable for preferred interest |
|
|
|
|
|
1,428,530 |
|
Minority interest |
|
|
5,237 |
|
|
20,639 |
|
SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred stock $.01 par value; authorized 100,000,000 shares; 846 and 13,118,182 shares issued and outstanding |
|
|
|
|
|
131 |
|
Common stock $.001 par value; authorized 1,600,000,000 shares; issued 394,146,237 shares and outstanding 301,711,634 shares, including 146,041 shares of restricted stock |
|
|
394 |
|
|
|
|
Class B convertible common stock $.001 par value; authorized 400,000,000 shares; issued 32,314,998 shares and outstanding 25,599,998 shares |
|
|
32 |
|
|
|
|
Common stock $.01 par value; authorized 1,600,000,000 shares; issued 348,491,650 shares and outstanding 316,509,775 shares, including 154,326 shares of restricted stock |
|
|
|
|
|
3,485 |
|
Class B convertible common stock $.01 par value; authorized 400,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 32,314,998 shares |
|
|
|
|
|
323 |
|
Additional paid-in capital |
|
|
14,312,440 |
|
|
14,062,605 |
|
Retained earnings |
|
|
15,009 |
|
|
2,428,760 |
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income |
|
|
33,211 |
|
|
81,051 |
|
Treasury stock 99,149,603 and 31,981,875 shares, respectively |
|
|
(4,882,755 |
) |
|
(1,966,053 |
) |
Note receivable from key executive for common stock issuance |
|
|
(4,998 |
) |
|
(4,998 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total shareholders' equity |
|
|
9,473,333 |
|
|
14,605,304 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY |
|
$ |
14,710,345 |
|
$ |
22,398,865 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
4
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
(Unaudited)
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Class B
Convertible
Common Stock
$.001 Par Value
|
|
Common
Stock
$.01 Par
Value
|
|
Class B
Convertible
Common Stock
$.01 Par Value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note
Receivable
From Key
Executive for
Common
Stock
Issuance
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred Stock
$.01 Par Value
|
|
Common Stock
$.001 Par Value
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Accum
Other
Comp.
Income
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addit.
Paid-in
Capital
|
|
Retained
Earnings
|
|
Treasury
Stock
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
$
|
|
Shares
|
|
$
|
|
Shares
|
|
$
|
|
Shares
|
|
$
|
|
Shares
|
|
$
|
|
Shares
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Balance as of December 31, 2004 |
|
$ |
14,605,304 |
|
$ |
131 |
|
13,118 |
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
$ |
3,485 |
|
348,492 |
|
$ |
323 |
|
32,315 |
|
$ |
14,062,605 |
|
$ |
2,428,760 |
|
$ |
81,051 |
|
$ |
(1,966,053 |
) |
$ |
(4,998 |
) |
Comprehensive income: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 |
|
|
763,083 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
763,083 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Increase in unrealized losses in available for sale securities |
|
|
(22,758 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(22,758 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Foreign currency translation |
|
|
(24,112 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(24,112 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net loss on derivative contracts |
|
|
(970 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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(970 |
) |
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|
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Comprehensive income |
|
|
715,243 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options, vesting of restricted stock units and other |
|
|
99,735 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
2,341 |
|
|
|
|
|
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|
54 |
|
5,458 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
99,679 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income tax benefit related to the exercise of stock options, vesting of restricted stock units and other, net |
|
|
5,247 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
5,247 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dividends on preferred stock |
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amortization of non-cash compensation |
|
|
169,805 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
169,805 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sale of VUE interests |
|
|
33,627 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,428,530 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,394,903 |
) |
|
|
|
Issuance of securities in connection with the Ask Jeeves acquisition |
|
|
1,736,788 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
379 |
|
37,856 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,736,409 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recapitalization of common stock(a) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
392 |
|
391,806 |
|
|
32 |
|
32,315 |
|
|
(3,918 |
) |
(391,806 |
) |
|
(323 |
) |
(32,315 |
) |
|
3,817 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Redemption of preferred stock |
|
|
(655,727 |
) |
|
(131 |
) |
(13,117 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(655,596 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spin-Off of Expedia to shareholders |
|
|
(5,812,352 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,643,456 |
) |
|
(3,168,896 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recognition of derivatives related to convertible notes and certain warrants, net |
|
|
105,400 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
105,400 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Purchase of treasury stock |
|
|
(1,521,799 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,521,799 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Balance as of September 30, 2005 |
|
$ |
9,473,333 |
|
$ |
|
|
1 |
|
$ |
394 |
|
394,147 |
|
$ |
32 |
|
32,315 |
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
$ |
14,312,440 |
|
$ |
15,009 |
|
$ |
33,211 |
|
$ |
(4,882,755 |
) |
$ |
(4,998 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax, is comprised of unrealized (losses) gains on available
for sale securities of $(5,209) and $17,549 at September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively, foreign currency translation adjustments of $40,800 and $64,912 at
September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively, and net losses from derivative contracts of $(2,380) and $(1,410) at September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004,
respectively.
- (a)
- The
recapitalization of common stock entitled the holder to exchange (i) each share of IAC $0.01 par value common stock into one share of IAC $0.001 par value common stock and
1/100 of a share of IAC Series 1 Mandatory Exchangeable Preferred Stock that automatically exchanged into one share of Expedia $0.001 par value common stock immediately following the
Spin-Off and (ii) each share of IAC $0.01 par value Class B common stock into one share of IAC $0.001 par value Class B common stock and 1/100 of a share of IAC
Series 2 Mandatory Exchangeable Preferred Stock that automatically exchanged into one share of Expedia $0.001 par value Class B common stock immediately following the
Spin-Off. The approximately 31 million shares of IAC Series 1 Mandatory Exchangeable Preferred Stock and 2.6 million shares of IAC Series 2 Mandatory
Exchangeable Preferred Stock that were issued in respect of IAC common stock and IAC Class B common stock held as treasury stock were redeemed prior to their exchange into Expedia shares. IAC
had no ownership interest in Expedia after the Spin-Off.
The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
5
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)
|
|
Nine Months Ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Cash flows from operating activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
$ |
473,108 |
|
$ |
108,918 |
|
Adjustments to reconcile earnings from continuing operations to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation and amortization |
|
|
242,074 |
|
|
247,287 |
|
|
Amortization of cable distribution fees |
|
|
51,183 |
|
|
53,079 |
|
|
Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense |
|
|
|
|
|
1,301 |
|
|
Amortization of non-cash compensation expense |
|
|
113,778 |
|
|
47,761 |
|
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
|
(1,054,605 |
) |
|
64,975 |
|
|
Gain on sale of VUE |
|
|
(523,487 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Equity in income of unconsolidated affiliates, including VUE |
|
|
(39,580 |
) |
|
(24,024 |
) |
|
Non-cash interest income |
|
|
(29,511 |
) |
|
(30,854 |
) |
|
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
1,951 |
|
|
1,685 |
|
|
Increase in cable distribution fees |
|
|
(20,067 |
) |
|
(17,770 |
) |
Changes in current assets and liabilities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts and notes receivable |
|
|
(6,450 |
) |
|
11,372 |
|
|
Loans available for sale |
|
|
(210,376 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Inventories |
|
|
(92,944 |
) |
|
(63,228 |
) |
|
Prepaids and other assets |
|
|
(12,031 |
) |
|
(2,516 |
) |
|
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |
|
|
548,778 |
|
|
(112,843 |
) |
|
Deferred revenue |
|
|
32,308 |
|
|
24,310 |
|
|
Funds collected by Ticketmaster on behalf of clients, net |
|
|
78,666 |
|
|
38,639 |
|
|
Other, net |
|
|
(4,963 |
) |
|
(2,661 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities |
|
|
(452,168 |
) |
|
345,431 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired |
|
|
(682,809 |
) |
|
(172,371 |
) |
|
Capital expenditures |
|
|
(175,660 |
) |
|
(120,448 |
) |
|
(Increase) decrease in long-term investments and notes receivable |
|
|
(28,707 |
) |
|
26,570 |
|
|
Purchase of marketable securities |
|
|
(1,943,180 |
) |
|
(2,726,133 |
) |
|
Proceeds from sale of marketable securities |
|
|
2,324,303 |
|
|
2,185,047 |
|
|
Proceeds from sale of VUE |
|
|
1,882,291 |
|
|
|
|
|
Proceeds from sale of Euvía |
|
|
183,016 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other, net |
|
|
31,334 |
|
|
1,175 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities |
|
|
1,590,588 |
|
|
(806,160 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows used in financing activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Borrowings |
|
|
80,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Increase in warehouse loans payable |
|
|
205,644 |
|
|
|
|
|
Principal payments on long-term obligations |
|
|
(38,344 |
) |
|
(1,060 |
) |
|
Purchase of treasury stock |
|
|
(1,420,402 |
) |
|
(429,507 |
) |
|
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, including stock options |
|
|
80,734 |
|
|
94,057 |
|
|
Redemption of preferred stock |
|
|
(655,727 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
Other, net |
|
|
(45,902 |
) |
|
658 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net cash used in financing activities |
|
|
(1,801,935 |
) |
|
(345,641 |
) |
Net cash provided by discontinued operations |
|
|
599,771 |
|
|
1,021,718 |
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
(26,556 |
) |
|
9,980 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
(90,300 |
) |
|
225,328 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
999,698 |
|
|
759,617 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
909,398 |
|
$ |
984,945 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The accompanying Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements are an integral part of these statements.
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IAC/INTERACTIVECORP AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
NOTE 1ORGANIZATION
IAC/InterActiveCorp operates leading and diversified businesses in sectors being transformed by the internet, online and offline
our mission is to
harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world. IAC/InterActiveCorp is referred to herein as either IAC or the Company.
IAC
consists of the following sectors:
-
- Retailing,
which includes U.S., including Cornerstone Brands, Inc. (since April 2005), and International;
-
- Services,
which includes Ticketing, Lending, Real Estate, Teleservices and Home Services (since September 2004);
-
- Media &
Advertising, which includes Ask Jeeves, Inc. (since July 2005); and
-
- Membership &
Subscriptions, which includes Vacations, Personals and Discounts.
On
December 21, 2004, IAC announced its plans to separate its travel businesses into an independent public company in order to better achieve certain strategic objectives of its
various businesses. In these consolidated financial statements, we refer to this transaction as the "Spin-Off" and to the new company that holds IAC's former travel and travel-related
businesses as "Expedia". IAC
completed the Spin-Off prior to the commencement of trading on August 9, 2005. Immediately prior to the Spin-Off, IAC effected a one-for-two
reverse stock split. Since the completion of the Spin-Off:
-
- Expedia
consists of the travel and travel-related businesses and investments that IAC operated (other than Interval and TV Travel Shop, which were not spun-off
by IAC with Expedia); and
-
- IAC
continues to operate and/or manage its remaining businesses and investments, which primarily consist of its Retailing, Services, Media & Advertising and
Membership & Subscriptions sectors. TV Travel Shop ceased operations in the second quarter of 2005.
In
addition, in March 2005, IAC entered into an agreement to sell its 48.6% ownership in EUVÍA. The sale closed on June 2, 2005.
Accordingly,
the results of operations and statements of position of Expedia, EUVÍA and TV Travel Shop have been classified as discontinued operations for all periods
presented. Further, all IAC common stock share information and related per share prices have been adjusted to reflect IAC's one-for-two reverse stock split.
Recent Developments
On April 1, 2005, IAC completed its acquisition of Cornerstone Brands, Inc. ("Cornerstone Brands"), a portfolio of leading print catalogs and online
retailing sites that sell home products and leisure and casual apparel, for approximately $715 million, principally in cash.
In
addition, on June 7, 2005, IAC completed a transaction with NBC Universal in which IAC sold its common and preferred interests in Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP
("VUE"), a joint venture formed in May 2002 between the Company and Vivendi Universal, S.A., for approximately $3.4 billion in aggregate consideration.
7
Further,
on July 19, 2005, IAC completed the acquisition of Ask Jeeves, Inc. ("Ask Jeeves"), a leading provider of world-class information retrieval technologies, brands
and services that are available to consumers across a range of platforms, including destination websites, downloadable search-based applications and portals. Under the terms of the agreement, IAC
issued 1.2668 shares of IAC common stock for each share of Ask Jeeves common stock in a tax-free transaction valued as of the date of the agreement at approximately $1.7 billion,
net of cash acquired. On May 5, 2005, IAC completed the buy back of 26.4 million shares of IAC common stock through its previously authorized share repurchase programs. These shares
represent approximately sixty percent of the number of fully diluted shares IAC issued for the Ask Jeeves acquisition, thus effectively offsetting a substantial portion of the dilution from the
transaction.
NOTE 2SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of Presentation
The interim consolidated financial statements and notes thereto of the Company are unaudited and should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated
financial statements and notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2004.
In
the opinion of management of the Company, all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of such consolidated financial statements have been included. Such adjustments consist of
normal recurring items. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year. The interim consolidated financial statements and notes thereto are presented as permitted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission and do not contain certain information included in the Company's annual audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.
Accounting Estimates
Management of the Company is required to make certain estimates and assumptions during the preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. These estimates and assumptions impact the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date
of the consolidated financial statements. They also impact the reported amount of net earnings during any period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
Significant
estimates underlying the accompanying consolidated financial statements include the inventory carrying adjustment, sales return and other revenue allowances, allowance for
doubtful accounts, recoverability of intangibles, including goodwill and other long-lived assets, deferred income taxes, including related valuation allowances, various other operating
allowances, reserves and accruals and assumptions related to the determination of stock-based compensation.
In
conjunction with the Spin-Off and the upcoming adoption of the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS")
No. 123(R), "Share-Based Payment," the Company conducted an assessment of certain assumptions used in determining the expense related to stock-based compensation which was completed in the
third quarter of 2005. The cumulative effect of the change in the Company's estimate related to the number of stock-based awards that are expected to vest resulted in a reduction in
non-cash compensation expense of $5.5 million which is included in continuing operations and $35.3 million related to Expedia which is
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included
in discontinued operations. The after-tax effect of this change in estimate on earnings and earnings per share from continuing operations, income from discontinued operations and net income
is $3.5 million or $0.01 per share, $22.0 million or $0.06 per share and $25.5 million or $0.07 per share, respectively.
Stock-Based Compensation
In December 2002, the FASB issued SFAS No. 148, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation Transition and Disclosure" ("SFAS No. 148"), which
amends SFAS No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation" ("SFAS No. 123"). SFAS No. 148 provides alternative methods of transition for a voluntary change to the fair
value-based method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation and amends the disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 123. The Company adopted the expense recognition provision of SFAS
No. 123 and is providing expense for stock-based compensation for grants made on or after January 1, 2003 on a prospective basis as provided by SFAS No. 148, and provided pro
forma information in the notes to financial statements to provide the results as if all equity awards issued in prior years were being expensed. For restricted stock units issued, the value of the
instrument is measured at the grant date as the fair value of IAC's common stock and amortized ratably as non-cash compensation over the vesting term. For stock options issued since 2003,
including unvested options assumed in acquisitions, the value of the options is measured at the grant date (or acquisition date, if applicable) at fair value and amortized over the remaining vesting
term.
In
connection with the Spin-Off, all outstanding share based-compensation instruments of the Company were modified. Accordingly, on August 9, 2005, the Company
recorded a modification charge of $67.0 million related to the treatment of vested stock options in connection with the Spin-Off. In addition, the Company recorded
$1.7 million of expense related to the modification of unvested options. Beginning August 9, 2005, as a result of the modification, the Company is recognizing expense for all stock-based
compensation instruments in the consolidated statement of operations, including options granted prior to January 1, 2003 that were previously accounted for under APB Opinion No. 25
"Accounting for Stock Issue to Employees".
9
The
following table illustrates the effect on net earnings available to common shareholders and net earnings per share if the fair value-based method had been applied to all outstanding
and unvested awards in each period:
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands, except per share amounts)
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders, as reported |
|
$ |
68,077 |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
755,145 |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net earnings, net of related tax effects |
|
|
37,510 |
|
|
35,371 |
|
|
104,727 |
|
|
111,380 |
|
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value-based method for all awards, net of related tax effects |
|
|
(17,338 |
) |
|
(40,151 |
) |
|
(86,794 |
) |
|
(125,720 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pro forma net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
88,249 |
|
$ |
84,698 |
|
$ |
773,078 |
|
$ |
183,335 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings per share available to common shareholders: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic as reported |
|
$ |
0.21 |
|
$ |
0.26 |
|
$ |
2.27 |
|
$ |
0.57 |
|
|
Basic pro forma |
|
$ |
0.27 |
|
$ |
0.24 |
|
$ |
2.33 |
|
$ |
0.53 |
|
|
Diluted as reported |
|
$ |
0.19 |
|
$ |
0.24 |
|
$ |
2.14 |
|
$ |
0.53 |
|
|
Diluted pro forma |
|
$ |
0.25 |
|
$ |
0.23 |
|
$ |
2.19 |
|
$ |
0.49 |
|
Pro
forma information is determined as if the Company had accounted for its employee stock options granted subsequent to December 31, 1994 under the fair market value method. The
fair value for these options was estimated at the grant date using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions for 2005 and 2004: risk-free
interest rates of 3.92% and 3.25%, respectively, a dividend yield of zero and volatility factors of 49.05% and 47.35%, respectively, based on the expected market price of IAC common stock based on
historical trends; and a weighted-average expected life of the options of five years. In addition, the deduction line item in the table above included in the determination of pro forma expense for the
three and nine months ended September 30, 2005, includes a favorable adjustment of $20.6 million due to the cumulative effect of the change in the Company's estimate related to the
number of stock-based awards that are expected to vest.
For
purposes of pro forma disclosures, the estimated fair value of the options is amortized to expense over the options' vesting period on a straight-line basis.
On
December 16, 2004, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 123 (R), "Share-Based Payment," which is a revision of SFAS No. 123. Statement 123(R)
supersedes APB No. 25 and amends SFAS No. 95, "Statement of Cash Flows." Generally, the approach in Statement 123(R) is similar to the approach described in SFAS No. 123.
However, Statement 123(R) requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the statement of operations
10
based
on their fair values. Pro forma disclosure is no longer an alternative. The Company is required to apply Statement 123(R) no later than the first quarter of 2006.
Currently,
the Company uses the Black-Scholes formula to estimate the value of stock options granted to employees and expects to continue to use this acceptable option valuation model
upon the required adoption of Statement 123(R) on January 1, 2006. Due to the modification related to the Spin-Off, the Company is recognizing expense for all stock-based compensation
instruments in the statement of operations after the Spin-Off. However, had the Company adopted Statement 123(R) in periods prior to the Spin-Off, the impact of that
standard would have approximated the impact of SFAS No. 123 as described above in the disclosure of pro forma net earnings and pro forma net earnings per share to the Company's consolidated
financial statements. Statement 123(R) also requires the benefits of tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation cost to be reported as a financing cash flow, rather than as an
operating cash flow as required under current literature. This requirement will reduce net operating cash flows and increase net financing cash flows in periods after adoption. The Company is
currently assessing the impact of this pronouncement on its consolidated statement of operations and statement of cash flows.
Reclassifications
Certain amounts in the prior period's consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the 2005 presentation related to Expedia,
EUVÍA and TV Travel Shop. Expedia, EUVÍA and TV Travel Shop are accounted for as discontinued operations and accordingly, are excluded from assets and liabilities of
continuing operations as of September 30, 2005 and from the results of continuing operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005. The December 31, 2004 balance
sheet and the statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004 have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation for Expedia,
EUVÍA and TV Travel Shop.
See
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 for a summary of all other significant matters relating to
accounting policies.
NOTE 3SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION
Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Transactions for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2005
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company incurred non-cash compensation expense of $113.8 million.
On
July 19, 2005, IAC completed the acquisition of Ask Jeeves. IAC issued an aggregate of 37.9 million shares of IAC common stock valued at $1.7 billion.
Prior
to the commencement of trading on August 9, 2005, IAC completed the Spin-Off. The net assets comprising the Expedia businesses, which were spun-off
by IAC, amounted to $5.8 billion and are included in the consolidated statement of shareholders' equity as a reduction to additional paid-in capital and retained earnings.
In
connection with IAC's sale of its common and preferred interests in VUE, IAC received 28.3 million IAC shares into treasury, valued at $1.4 billion, as part of the
consideration.
11
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company recognized $18.3 million of paid-in-kind interest income on the VUE Series A
Preferred interest received in connection with the formation of VUE.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company recognized pre-tax income of $39.6 million from equity income of unconsolidated affiliates, including
income of $22.0 million from its common interest in VUE.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company recognized non-cash revenues of $16.9 million as a result of deferred revenue recorded in connection
with its various acquisitions.
Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Transactions for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004
For the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company incurred non-cash compensation expense of $47.8 million and
non-cash distribution and marketing expense of $1.3 million. Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense consists mainly of expense recognized by
Ticketmaster and Match.com related to barter arrangements, which expired in March 2004, for distribution secured from third parties.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company recognized $30.0 million of paid-in-kind interest income on the VUE Series A
Preferred interest received in connection with the formation of VUE.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company recognized pre-tax income of $24.0 million from equity income of unconsolidated affiliates, including
income of $11.3 million from its common interest in VUE.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2004, the Company recognized non-cash revenues of $11.9 million as a result of deferred revenue recorded in connection
with its various acquisitions.
12
Discontinued Operations
Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Transactions for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2005
For the period ended August 8, 2005, Expedia incurred non-cash distribution and marketing expense of $5.8 million and
non-cash compensation expense of $58.0 million. Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense consists mainly of non-cash advertising secured
from Universal Television as part of the VUE transaction.
For
the period ended August 8, 2005, Expedia recognized pre-tax income of $0.6 million on equity earnings in unconsolidated affiliates.
Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Transactions for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2004
For the nine-months ended September 30, 2004, Expedia incurred non-cash distribution and marketing expense of $13.0 million
and non-cash compensation expense of $134.4 million.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2004, Expedia recognized pre-tax losses of $0.1 million on equity losses in unconsolidated affiliates.
For
the nine months ended September 30, 2004, Expedia recognized non-cash revenues of $0.1 million as a result of deferred revenue recorded in connection with
its various acquisitions.
NOTE 4OPERATING SEGMENTS
The overall concept that IAC employs in determining its operating segments is to present the financial information in a manner consistent with how the chief
operating decision maker and executive management view the businesses, how the businesses are organized as to segment management, and the focus of the businesses with regards to the types of products
or services offered or the target market. Expedia, EUVÍA, TV Travel Shop, Styleclick, ECS and Avaltus, a PRC subsidiary, are presented as discontinued operations and, accordingly, are
excluded from the schedules below.
During
the second quarter of 2005, and in contemplation of the Spin-Off, the chief operating decision maker and executive management realigned how they view the businesses
and how the businesses are organized. Accordingly, beginning in the second quarter of 2005, IAC introduced sector reporting that corresponds to the areas of interactivity in which the Company operates
and redefined its operating segments to present the results consistent with how the chief operating decision maker and executive management currently view the businesses. Further, during the third
quarter of 2005, the chief operating decision maker and executive management realigned how they view the Financial Services and Real Estate operating segment, which is included in IAC's Services
sector. Accordingly, beginning in the third quarter of 2005, IAC redefined its Financial Services and Real Estate operating segment to present the results of Lending and Real Estate each as a separate
operating segment in its Services sector. The new segment presentation is as follows: the Retailing sector includes the U.S. and International Retailing operating segments; the Services sector
includes the Ticketing, Lending, Real Estate, Teleservices and Home Services operating segments; Media & Advertising is its own sector and operating segment; and the Membership &
Subscriptions sector includes the Vacations, Personals and
13
Discounts
operating segments. In addition, IAC reports the performance of its Emerging Businesses and corporate expenses.
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Revenue: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
664,290 |
|
$ |
437,060 |
|
$ |
1,829,358 |
|
$ |
1,343,026 |
|
|
International |
|
|
85,234 |
|
|
72,002 |
|
|
280,652 |
|
|
244,583 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
749,524 |
|
|
509,062 |
|
|
2,110,010 |
|
|
1,587,609 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
227,517 |
|
|
181,979 |
|
|
696,654 |
|
|
579,343 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
142,783 |
|
|
39,870 |
|
|
352,234 |
|
|
114,087 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
16,299 |
|
|
8,067 |
|
|
43,003 |
|
|
18,199 |
|
|
Teleservices |
|
|
87,440 |
|
|
74,531 |
|
|
241,549 |
|
|
218,879 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
12,205 |
|
|
1,877 |
|
|
30,504 |
|
|
1,877 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
486,244 |
|
|
306,324 |
|
|
1,363,944 |
|
|
932,385 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
83,471 |
|
|
7,890 |
|
|
103,967 |
|
|
20,610 |
|
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
66,074 |
|
|
63,602 |
|
|
208,905 |
|
|
196,740 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
65,990 |
|
|
49,741 |
|
|
181,339 |
|
|
147,049 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
30,797 |
|
|
25,570 |
|
|
88,463 |
|
|
85,890 |
|
|
Intra-sector elimination |
|
|
(46 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(775 |
) |
|
(618 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
162,815 |
|
|
138,913 |
|
|
477,932 |
|
|
429,061 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
9,565 |
|
|
1,691 |
|
|
19,571 |
|
|
1,938 |
|
Intersegment elimination(a) |
|
|
(8,322 |
) |
|
(6,587 |
) |
|
(28,595 |
) |
|
(18,511 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
1,483,297 |
|
$ |
957,293 |
|
$ |
4,046,829 |
|
$ |
2,953,092 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating Income (Loss): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
41,072 |
|
$ |
29,892 |
|
$ |
127,841 |
|
$ |
86,589 |
|
|
International |
|
|
(3,079 |
) |
|
(3,261 |
) |
|
(1,195 |
) |
|
(2,255 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
37,993 |
|
|
26,631 |
|
|
126,646 |
|
|
84,334 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
42,799 |
|
|
25,210 |
|
|
138,148 |
|
|
106,356 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
25,270 |
|
|
2,585 |
|
|
46,622 |
|
|
3,324 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(5,442 |
) |
|
(2,797 |
) |
|
(23,908 |
) |
|
(8,243 |
) |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
4,380 |
|
|
5,899 |
|
|
10,999 |
|
|
13,265 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
2,596 |
|
|
218 |
|
|
7,766 |
|
|
218 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
69,603 |
|
|
31,115 |
|
|
179,627 |
|
|
114,920 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
(855 |
) |
|
(12,143 |
) |
|
2 |
|
|
(44,965 |
) |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
20,245 |
|
|
16,185 |
|
|
66,565 |
|
|
51,157 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
15,769 |
|
|
2,757 |
|
|
29,691 |
|
|
13,409 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
(8,641 |
) |
|
(12,129 |
) |
|
(36,576 |
) |
|
(36,612 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
27,373 |
|
|
6,813 |
|
|
59,680 |
|
|
27,954 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2,436 |
) |
|
(181 |
) |
|
(8,545 |
) |
|
(2,238 |
) |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(110,361 |
) |
|
(35,455 |
) |
|
(213,256 |
) |
|
(115,915 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
21,317 |
|
$ |
16,780 |
|
$ |
144,154 |
|
$ |
64,090 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
14
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Operating Income Before Amortization:(b) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
56,702 |
|
$ |
43,125 |
|
$ |
172,205 |
|
$ |
126,289 |
|
|
International |
|
|
(2,752 |
) |
|
(2,933 |
) |
|
(215 |
) |
|
(1,271 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
53,950 |
|
|
40,192 |
|
|
171,990 |
|
|
125,018 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
49,886 |
|
|
32,450 |
|
|
159,586 |
|
|
125,977 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
30,578 |
|
|
7,688 |
|
|
66,749 |
|
|
18,646 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(2,396 |
) |
|
(1,186 |
) |
|
(13,833 |
) |
|
(3,405 |
) |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
4,380 |
|
|
5,899 |
|
|
10,999 |
|
|
13,265 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
3,501 |
|
|
218 |
|
|
9,144 |
|
|
218 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
85,949 |
|
|
45,069 |
|
|
232,645 |
|
|
154,701 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
9,286 |
|
|
(2,362 |
) |
|
10,249 |
|
|
(11,371 |
) |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
26,550 |
|
|
22,490 |
|
|
85,480 |
|
|
70,072 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
16,645 |
|
|
4,490 |
|
|
32,495 |
|
|
20,360 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
(7,085 |
) |
|
(10,261 |
) |
|
(31,749 |
) |
|
(30,482 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
36,110 |
|
|
16,719 |
|
|
86,226 |
|
|
59,950 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2,424 |
) |
|
21 |
|
|
(8,305 |
) |
|
(1,754 |
) |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(26,603 |
) |
|
(22,759 |
) |
|
(100,940 |
) |
|
(70,756 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
156,268 |
|
$ |
76,880 |
|
$ |
391,865 |
|
$ |
255,788 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- (a)
- Intersegment
eliminations relate to services provided between IAC segments, and primarily include call center services provided by the Teleservices segment to other IAC segments of
$6.8 million and $5.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, and $24.7 million and $15.7 million for the nine months ended
September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
- (b)
- Operating
Income Before Amortization is defined as operating income excluding: (1) amortization of non-cash distribution, marketing and compensation expense,
(2) amortization of intangibles and goodwill impairment, if applicable, (3) pro forma adjustments for significant acquisitions, if applicable, and (4) one-time items,
if applicable. The Company believes this measure is useful to investors because it represents the consolidated operating results from IAC's segments, taking into account depreciation, which it
believes is an ongoing cost of doing business, but excluding the effects of any other non-cash expenses. Operating Income Before Amortization has certain limitations in that it does not
take into account the impact to IAC's statement of operations of certain expenses, including non-cash compensation, non-cash payments to partners, and acquisition-related
accounting. IAC endeavors to compensate for the limitations of the non-GAAP measure presented by also providing the comparable GAAP measure with equal or greater prominence, GAAP financial
statements and descriptions of the reconciling items and adjustments, including quantifying such items, to derive the non-GAAP measure.
15
The
following table is a reconciliation of consolidated segment Operating Income Before Amortization to consolidated operating income and net earnings available to common
shareholders.
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Operating Income Before Amortization |
|
$ |
156,268 |
|
$ |
76,880 |
|
$ |
391,865 |
|
$ |
255,788 |
|
Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,301 |
) |
Amortization of non-cash compensation expense |
|
|
(84,775 |
) |
|
(13,495 |
) |
|
(113,778 |
) |
|
(47,761 |
) |
Amortization of intangibles |
|
|
(50,176 |
) |
|
(46,605 |
) |
|
(133,933 |
) |
|
(142,636 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income |
|
|
21,317 |
|
|
16,780 |
|
|
144,154 |
|
|
64,090 |
|
Interest income |
|
|
20,062 |
|
|
45,847 |
|
|
115,075 |
|
|
134,437 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
(11,108 |
) |
|
(20,456 |
) |
|
(51,718 |
) |
|
(59,083 |
) |
Gain on sale of VUE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
523,487 |
|
|
|
|
Equity in the income of VUE |
|
|
|
|
|
607 |
|
|
21,960 |
|
|
11,293 |
|
Equity in income (losses) of unconsolidated affiliates and other(a) |
|
|
14,263 |
|
|
(1,354 |
) |
|
33,753 |
|
|
13,475 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(7,635 |
) |
|
(6,215 |
) |
|
(311,652 |
) |
|
(53,609 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(527 |
) |
|
(672 |
) |
|
(1,951 |
) |
|
(1,685 |
) |
Gain on sale of EUVÍA, net of tax |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
79,648 |
|
|
|
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
33,117 |
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
210,327 |
|
|
98,546 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
68,077 |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
755,145 |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- (a)
- Other
income (expense) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 includes a $9.4 million gain reflecting changes to the fair value of the derivatives that
were created in the Expedia Spin-Off. The derivatives arise due to IAC's obligation to deliver both IAC and Expedia shares upon the conversion of the Ask Jeeves notes and the exercise of
certain IAC warrants. In addition, other income (expense) for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 includes a $16.7 million gain on the sale of the Company's minority interest share
in the Italian home shopping operations, partially offset by $15.0 million of realized losses on marketable securities.
16
The
Company maintains operations in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and other international territories. Geographic information about the United States and
international territories is presented below.
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
Revenue |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
United States |
|
$ |
1,290,060 |
|
$ |
809,533 |
|
$ |
3,470,003 |
|
$ |
2,495,288 |
All other countries |
|
|
193,237 |
|
|
147,760 |
|
|
576,826 |
|
|
457,804 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
1,483,297 |
|
$ |
957,293 |
|
$ |
4,046,829 |
|
$ |
2,953,092 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
September 30, 2005
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
Long-lived assets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
United States |
|
$ |
543,910 |
|
$ |
465,734 |
All other countries |
|
|
35,733 |
|
|
39,007 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
579,643 |
|
$ |
504,741 |
|
|
|
|
|
NOTE 5PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
The balance of property, plant and equipment, net is as follows (in thousands):
|
|
September 30, 2005
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
Computer and broadcast equipment |
|
$ |
766,300 |
|
$ |
649,845 |
|
Buildings and leasehold improvements |
|
|
185,751 |
|
|
145,645 |
|
Furniture and other equipment |
|
|
161,832 |
|
|
135,268 |
|
Land |
|
|
20,623 |
|
|
21,160 |
|
Projects in progress |
|
|
103,559 |
|
|
64,321 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,238,065 |
|
|
1,016,239 |
|
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization |
|
|
(701,189 |
) |
|
(588,982 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total property, plant and equipment, net |
|
$ |
536,876 |
|
$ |
427,257 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NOTE 6GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS
The balance of goodwill and intangible assets is as follows (in thousands):
|
|
September 30, 2005
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
Goodwill |
|
$ |
7,356,999 |
|
$ |
5,361,825 |
Intangible assets with indefinite lives |
|
|
1,042,459 |
|
|
574,473 |
Intangible assets with definite lives |
|
|
568,479 |
|
|
479,829 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
8,967,937 |
|
$ |
6,416,127 |
|
|
|
|
|
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Intangible assets with indefinite lives relate principally to trade names and trademarks acquired in various acquisitions. At September 30, 2005,
intangible assets with definite lives relate principally to the following (in thousands):
|
|
Cost
|
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
|
Net
|
|
Weighted Average
Amortization
Life
(Years)
|
Distribution agreements |
|
$ |
244,900 |
|
$ |
(164,532 |
) |
$ |
80,368 |
|
5.0 |
Purchase agreements |
|
|
305,474 |
|
|
(168,550 |
) |
|
136,924 |
|
8.0 |
Customer lists |
|
|
197,084 |
|
|
(36,547 |
) |
|
160,537 |
|
7.6 |
Technology |
|
|
212,282 |
|
|
(79,316 |
) |
|
132,966 |
|
4.4 |
Merchandise agreements |
|
|
44,957 |
|
|
(25,105 |
) |
|
19,852 |
|
4.7 |
Other |
|
|
77,823 |
|
|
(39,991 |
) |
|
37,832 |
|
2.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
1,082,520 |
|
$ |
(514,041 |
) |
$ |
568,479 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
At
December 31, 2004, intangible assets with definite lives relate principally to the following (in thousands):
|
|
Cost
|
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
|
Net
|
|
Weighted Average
Amortization
Life
(Years)
|
Distribution agreements |
|
$ |
511,031 |
|
$ |
(405,945 |
) |
$ |
105,086 |
|
5.1 |
Purchase agreements |
|
|
291,941 |
|
|
(133,499 |
) |
|
158,442 |
|
11.6 |
Customer lists |
|
|
147,824 |
|
|
(22,320 |
) |
|
125,504 |
|
9.2 |
Technology |
|
|
89,482 |
|
|
(53,490 |
) |
|
35,992 |
|
3.9 |
Merchandise agreements |
|
|
41,957 |
|
|
(18,719 |
) |
|
23,238 |
|
5.8 |
Other |
|
|
56,920 |
|
|
(25,353 |
) |
|
31,567 |
|
3.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
1,139,155 |
|
$ |
(659,326 |
) |
$ |
479,829 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Amortization
of intangible assets with definite lives is computed on a straight-line basis and based on December 31, 2004 balances for the next five
years and thereafter is estimated to be as follows (in thousands):
Years Ending December 31,
|
|
|
2005 |
|
$ |
151,023 |
2006 |
|
|
103,123 |
2007 |
|
|
67,629 |
2008 |
|
|
48,694 |
2009 |
|
|
34,054 |
2010 and thereafter |
|
|
75,306 |
|
|
|
|
|
$ |
479,829 |
|
|
|
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The
following table presents the balance of goodwill by segment including the changes in carrying amount of goodwill for the nine months ended September 30, 2005
(in thousands):
|
|
Balance as of January 1, 2005
|
|
Additions
|
|
(Deductions)
|
|
Foreign Exchange Translation
|
|
Balance as of September 30, 2005
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
2,436,892 |
|
$ |
461,629 |
|
$ |
(5,916 |
) |
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,892,605 |
|
International |
|
|
108,779 |
|
|
1,311 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
110,090 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
2,545,671 |
|
|
462,940 |
|
|
(5,916 |
) |
|
|
|
|
3,002,695 |
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
1,036,019 |
|
|
17,410 |
|
|
(1,309 |
) |
|
(2,323 |
) |
|
1,049,797 |
|
Lending |
|
|
510,593 |
|
|
1,612 |
|
|
(10,481 |
) |
|
|
|
|
501,724 |
|
Real Estate |
|
|
81,872 |
|
|
1,724 |
|
|
(429 |
) |
|
|
|
|
83,167 |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
128,655 |
|
|
691 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
129,346 |
|
Home Services |
|
|
112,973 |
|
|
6,354 |
|
|
(14,939 |
) |
|
|
|
|
104,388 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
1,870,112 |
|
|
27,791 |
|
|
(27,158 |
) |
|
(2,323 |
) |
|
1,868,422 |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
|
|
|
1,538,854 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,538,854 |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
467,564 |
|
|
|
|
|
(60 |
) |
|
|
|
|
467,504 |
|
Personals |
|
|
221,728 |
|
|
249 |
|
|
(51 |
) |
|
(259 |
) |
|
221,667 |
|
Discounts |
|
|
256,750 |
|
|
1,451 |
|
|
(344 |
) |
|
|
|
|
257,857 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
946,042 |
|
|
1,700 |
|
|
(455 |
) |
|
(259 |
) |
|
947,028 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
5,361,825 |
|
$ |
2,031,285 |
|
$ |
(33,529 |
) |
$ |
(2,582 |
) |
$ |
7,356,999 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additions
principally relate to new acquisitions, primarily Ask Jeeves and Cornerstone Brands. Deductions principally relate to adjustments to the carrying value of
goodwill based upon the finalization of the valuation of intangible assets and their related deferred tax impacts and the income tax benefit realized pursuant to the exercise of stock options assumed
in business acquisitions that were
vested at the transaction date and are treated as a reduction in purchase price when the deductions are realized.
Ask Jeeves Acquisition
On July 19, 2005, IAC completed the acquisition of Ask Jeeves, a leading provider of world-class information retrieval technologies, brands and services
that are available to consumers across a range of platforms, including destination websites, downloadable search-based applications and portals. Under the terms of the agreement, IAC issued 1.2668
shares of IAC common stock for each share of Ask Jeeves common stock in a tax-free transaction valued as of the date of the agreement at approximately $1.7 billion, net of cash
acquired. Ask Jeeves joined IAC's Media & Advertising sector. IAC obtained a preliminary independent valuation of identifiable intangible assets acquired. This valuation identifies
$352.5 million of intangible assets other than goodwill. The trade name was identified as an indefinite-lived intangible and $195.9 million was allocated to this asset. Intangibles with
definite lives included existing technology ($116.4 million), distribution agreements ($12.7 million), customer lists ($17.0 million), advertising relationships
($4.2 million) and other ($6.3 million) and are being amortized over a weighted average period of 4.4 years. The purchase price paid for Ask Jeeves was based on
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historical
as well as expected performance metrics. The Company viewed Ask Jeeves' revenue, operating income, Operating Income Before Amortization, net income and cash flow as its most important
valuation metrics. The Company agreed to consideration that resulted in a significant amount of goodwill for a number of reasons including: (1) Ask Jeeves' market position and brand;
(2) Ask Jeeves' business model which complements the business models of the Company's other businesses; (3) growth opportunities in the markets in which Ask Jeeves operates; and
(4) Ask Jeeves' distinctly unique, proprietary and exclusive service lines which enable the Company to grow. As a result, the predominant portion of the consideration was based on the expected
financial performance of Ask Jeeves, and not the asset value on the books of Ask Jeeves at the time of acquisition.
Cornerstone Brands Acquisition
On April 1, 2005, the Company completed its acquisition of Cornerstone Brands, a portfolio of leading print catalogs and online retailing sites that sell
home products and leisure and casual apparel, for approximately $715 million, principally in cash. Cornerstone Brands joined IAC's U.S. Retailing operating segment. IAC obtained a preliminary
independent valuation of identifiable intangible assets acquired. This valuation identifies $309.1 million of intangible assets other than goodwill. The trade name was identified as an
indefinite-lived intangible and $269.4 million was allocated to this asset. Intangibles with definite lives included customer lists ($31.4 million), existing technology
($4.1 million), vendor and supply agreements ($3.0 million) and intellectual property ($1.2 million) and are being amortized over a weighted average period of 4.8 years.
The purchase price paid for Cornerstone Brands
was based on historical as well as expected performance metrics. The Company viewed Cornerstone Brands' revenue, operating income, Operating Income Before Amortization, net income and cash flow as its
most important valuation metrics. The Company agreed to a purchase price that resulted in a significant amount of goodwill for a number of reasons including: (1) Cornerstone Brand's market
leading position and brands; (2) Cornerstone Brand's business model which complements the business models of the Company's other businesses; (3) growth opportunities in the markets in
which Cornerstone Brands operates; and (4) Cornerstone Brand's distinctly unique, proprietary and exclusive product lines which will enable the Company to grow. As a result, the predominant
portion of the purchase price was based on the expected financial performance of Cornerstone Brands, and not the asset value on the books of Cornerstone Brands at the time of the acquisition.
NOTE 7RESTRUCTURING CHARGES
As of September 30, 2005 and December 31, 2004, the accrual balance related to restructuring charges was $1.7 million and
$1.8 million, respectively. The 2005 balance relates primarily to ongoing obligations for facility leases and employee termination agreements, and are expected to be paid out according to the
terms of these arrangements.
During
the nine months ended September 30, 2005, restructuring related expense, which is included in general and administrative expense in the accompanying statements of
operations, was $0.4 million. Included in this amount are additional severance costs incurred in connection with the shut down of certain HSN facilities as HSN migrates certain operations to
its new fulfillment center in Tennessee. In addition, during the nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company made payments of $1.4 million related principally to lease obligations
for abandoned facilities and employee termination costs. Also included in general and administrative expense in the accompanying statements of operations is restructure related income related to the
settlement of an uncollectible receivable that
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had
been previously written off related to the restructuring of HSN's UK offices which did not impact the restructure accrual. In addition, the restructure accrual at September 30, 2005
increased by $0.9 million related to liabilities assumed in the Ask Jeeves acquisition.
NOTE 8EQUITY INVESTMENTS IN UNCONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES
Through June 7, 2005, IAC beneficially owned 5.44% of the partnership common equity of VUE, plus certain preferred interests of VUE. This common interest
was accounted for using the equity method. On June 7, 2005, the Company sold its common and preferred interests in VUE to NBC Universal (see Note 12 for further discussion of the sale of
the VUE interests). Prior to the sale, the statement of operations data was historically recorded on a one-quarter lag due to the timing of
receiving information from the partnership. During the fourth quarter of 2004, VUE recorded a charge related to asset impairments. Due to the one-quarter lag noted above, that charge was
recorded by IAC in the first quarter of 2005. Equity in the income of VUE recognized in the nine months ended September 30, 2005 represents IAC's share in VUE's 2004 fourth quarter results as
well as IAC's share of VUE's results from January 1, 2005 through June 7, 2005.
Due
to the significance of the results of VUE in relation to IAC's results in 2005, summary financial information for VUE is presented below.
Summarized
balances of the partnership are as follows (in thousands):
|
|
As of March 31, 2005
and for the period
October 1, 2004 to
June 7, 2005
|
Current assets |
|
$ |
3,755,581 |
Non-current assets |
|
|
13,904,821 |
Current liabilities |
|
|
2,541,519 |
Non-current liabilities |
|
|
3,714,663 |
Net sales |
|
|
5,633,353 |
Gross profit |
|
|
1,707,191 |
Net income |
|
|
441,855 |
Summarized
aggregated financial information for the Company's remaining equity investments, including Jupiter Shop Channel (Japan), TVSN (China) and TM Mexico, as of and
for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 is as follows (in thousands):
|
|
As of and for the
nine months ended
September 30, 2005
|
Current assets |
|
$ |
180,975 |
Non-current assets |
|
|
67,112 |
Current liabilities |
|
|
120,082 |
Non-current liabilities |
|
|
28,037 |
Net sales |
|
|
504,668 |
Gross profit |
|
|
204,868 |
Net income |
|
|
49,046 |
In
April 2005, Ticketmaster acquired the remaining interest in its Australian joint venture. Accordingly, the Company began to consolidate the results of the
Australian joint venture effective April 2005.
In
connection with the Spin-off, the Company's investment in eLong was contributed to Expedia.
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NOTE 9EARNINGS PER SHARE
The following table sets forth the computation of Basic and Diluted GAAP earnings per share. All share information has been adjusted to reflect IAC's
one-for-two reverse stock split in August 2005.
|
|
Three months ended
September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended
September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
(In thousands, except per share data)
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Numerator: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
$ |
36,372 |
|
$ |
34,537 |
|
$ |
473,108 |
|
$ |
108,918 |
|
Preferred stock dividends(a)(b) |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings from continuing operations available to common shareholders |
|
|
34,960 |
|
|
31,274 |
|
|
465,170 |
|
|
99,129 |
|
Interest expense on convertible notes(c) |
|
|
412 |
|
|
|
|
|
412 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings from continuing operations available to common shareholders after assumed conversions |
|
$ |
35,372 |
|
$ |
31,274 |
|
$ |
465,582 |
|
$ |
99,129 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Denominator: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic shares outstanding |
|
|
326,421 |
|
|
346,702 |
|
|
332,426 |
|
|
348,239 |
|
Dilutive securities including stock options, warrants and restricted stock and share units |
|
|
24,834 |
|
|
20,191 |
|
|
23,859 |
|
|
24,518 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Denominator for diluted earnings per shareweighted average shares(d) |
|
|
351,255 |
|
|
366,893 |
|
|
356,285 |
|
|
372,757 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Numerator: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings before preferred dividends |
|
$ |
69,489 |
|
$ |
92,741 |
|
$ |
763,083 |
|
$ |
207,464 |
|
Preferred stock dividends(a)(b) |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
|
68,077 |
|
|
89,478 |
|
|
755,145 |
|
|
197,675 |
|
Interest expense on convertible notes(c) |
|
|
412 |
|
|
|
|
|
412 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders after assumed conversions |
|
$ |
68,489 |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
755,557 |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Denominator: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic shares outstanding |
|
|
326,421 |
|
|
346,702 |
|
|
332,426 |
|
|
348,239 |
|
Dilutive securities including stock options, warrants and restricted stock and share units |
|
|
24,834 |
|
|
20,191 |
|
|
23,859 |
|
|
24,518 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Denominator for diluted earnings per shareweighted average shares(d) |
|
|
351,255 |
|
|
366,893 |
|
|
356,285 |
|
|
372,757 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings per share: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings per share from continuing operations |
|
$ |
0.11 |
|
$ |
0.09 |
|
$ |
1.40 |
|
$ |
0.28 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
0.10 |
|
|
0.17 |
|
|
0.87 |
|
|
0.28 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic earnings per share from net earnings |
|
$ |
0.21 |
|
$ |
0.26 |
|
$ |
2.27 |
|
$ |
0.57 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations |
|
$ |
0.10 |
|
$ |
0.09 |
|
$ |
1.33 |
|
$ |
0.27 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
0.09 |
|
|
0.15 |
|
|
0.81 |
|
|
0.26 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diluted earnings per share from net earnings |
|
$ |
0.19 |
|
$ |
0.24 |
|
$ |
2.14 |
|
$ |
0.53 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- (a)
- On
August 8, 2005 and prior to the Spin-Off, approximately 13.1 million shares of the Company's preferred stock were redeemed for approximately
$656 million.
- (b)
- For
the nine months ended September 30, 2005, approximately 3.2 million shares of the Company's preferred stock were included in the calculation of diluted earnings
because their inclusion was dilutive. Accordingly, under the "if-converted" method, the preferred dividends were excluded from the numerator in calculating diluted earnings per share.
- (c)
- For
the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005, approximately 3.5 million and 1.2 million shares, respectively, of the convertible notes assumed in the
Ask Jeeves acquisition were included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share because their inclusion was dilutive. Accordingly, under the "if-converted" method the interest
expense on the convertible notes were excluded from the numerator in calculating diluted earnings per share.
- (d)
- Weighted
average common shares outstanding include the incremental shares that would be issued upon the assumed exercise of stock options and warrants and the vesting of restricted
stock units. For the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 and the nine months ended September 30, 2004, approximately 9.7 million shares issuable upon conversion of the
Company's preferred stock were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share because their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.
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NOTE 10GUARANTOR AND NON-GUARANTOR FINANCIAL INFORMATION
In December 2002, IAC issued $750 million of 7% Senior Notes (the "2002 Senior Notes"). The notes, by their terms, are fully and unconditionally
guaranteed by USANi LLC. USANi LLC is wholly owned by IAC. USANi LLC's guarantee will terminate on November 15, 2005 when the 63/4% Senior Notes due 2005 cease to be outstanding.
The
following tables present condensed consolidating financial information as of September 30, 2005 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 for:
(1) IAC on a stand-alone basis, (2) the guarantor, USANi LLC, on a stand-alone basis, (3) the combined non-guarantor subsidiaries of IAC (including the subsidiaries of
USANi LLC) and (4) IAC on a consolidated basis.
As
of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005:
|
|
IAC
|
|
USANi LLC
|
|
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries
|
|
Total
Eliminations
|
|
IAC
Consolidated
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets |
|
$ |
792,872 |
|
$ |
2,473,761 |
|
$ |
1,513,829 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
4,780,462 |
|
Current assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,602 |
|
|
|
|
|
4,602 |
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
|
|
|
|
26,269 |
|
|
510,607 |
|
|
|
|
|
536,876 |
|
Goodwill and other intangible assets, net |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,967,937 |
|
|
|
|
|
8,967,937 |
|
Investment in subsidiaries |
|
|
11,451,359 |
|
|
1,140,021 |
|
|
10,359,118 |
|
|
(22,950,498 |
) |
|
|
|
Other assets |
|
|
141,974 |
|
|
5,895 |
|
|
265,126 |
|
|
|
|
|
412,995 |
|
Non-current assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,473 |
|
|
|
|
|
7,473 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets |
|
$ |
12,386,205 |
|
$ |
3,645,946 |
|
$ |
21,628,692 |
|
$ |
(22,950,498 |
) |
$ |
14,710,345 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities |
|
$ |
24,583 |
|
$ |
1,360,581 |
|
$ |
1,306,335 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,691,499 |
|
Current liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,072 |
|
|
|
|
|
18,072 |
|
Long-term debt, less current portion |
|
|
744,946 |
|
|
|
|
|
218,029 |
|
|
|
|
|
962,975 |
|
Other liabilities and minority interest |
|
|
700,704 |
|
|
8,520 |
|
|
846,923 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,556,147 |
|
Intercompany liabilities |
|
|
1,442,639 |
|
|
(1,519,690 |
) |
|
77,051 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-current liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,319 |
|
|
|
|
|
8,319 |
|
Interdivisional equity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19,834,695 |
|
|
(19,834,695 |
) |
|
|
|
Shareholders' equity |
|
|
9,473,333 |
|
|
3,796,535 |
|
|
(680,732 |
) |
|
(3,115,803 |
) |
|
9,473,333 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity |
|
$ |
12,386,205 |
|
$ |
3,645,946 |
|
$ |
21,628,692 |
|
$ |
(22,950,498 |
) |
$ |
14,710,345 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
1,483,297 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
1,483,297 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
(24,521 |
) |
|
(1,437,459 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,461,980 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
(64,087 |
) |
|
76,744 |
|
|
(3,703 |
) |
|
|
|
|
8,954 |
|
Other income, net |
|
|
99,574 |
|
|
(6,915 |
) |
|
27,075 |
|
|
(105,471 |
) |
|
14,263 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7,635 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(7,635 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
885 |
|
|
|
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(527 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
36,372 |
|
|
45,308 |
|
|
60,163 |
|
|
(105,471 |
) |
|
36,372 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
33,117 |
|
|
|
|
|
32,946 |
|
|
(32,946 |
) |
|
33,117 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
|
69,489 |
|
|
45,308 |
|
|
93,109 |
|
|
(138,417 |
) |
|
69,489 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
68,077 |
|
$ |
45,308 |
|
$ |
93,109 |
|
$ |
(138,417 |
) |
$ |
68,077 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
4,046,829 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
4,046,829 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
(191,004 |
) |
|
(3,711,671 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(3,902,675 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
(226,519 |
) |
|
240,065 |
|
|
49,811 |
|
|
|
|
|
63,357 |
|
Other income, net |
|
|
699,786 |
|
|
695,367 |
|
|
93,065 |
|
|
(909,018 |
) |
|
579,200 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
|
|
|
(6,256 |
) |
|
(305,396 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(311,652 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
(159 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,792 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,951 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
473,108 |
|
|
738,172 |
|
|
170,846 |
|
|
(909,018 |
) |
|
473,108 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
289,975 |
|
|
3,326 |
|
|
286,478 |
|
|
(289,804 |
) |
|
289,975 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
|
763,083 |
|
|
741,498 |
|
|
457,324 |
|
|
(1,198,822 |
) |
|
763,083 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
755,145 |
|
$ |
741,498 |
|
$ |
457,324 |
|
$ |
(1,198,822 |
) |
$ |
755,145 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities |
|
$ |
(829,863 |
) |
$ |
13,668 |
|
$ |
364,027 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
(452,168 |
) |
Cash flows (used in) provided by investing activities |
|
|
(36,915 |
) |
|
1,524,434 |
|
|
103,069 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,590,588 |
|
Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities |
|
|
870,008 |
|
|
(1,812,612 |
) |
|
(859,331 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,801,935 |
) |
Net cash provided by discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
599,771 |
|
|
|
|
|
599,771 |
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
(3,230 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(23,326 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(26,556 |
) |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
|
|
|
681,215 |
|
|
318,483 |
|
|
|
|
|
999,698 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
406,705 |
|
$ |
502,693 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
909,398 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24
For
the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004:
|
|
IAC
|
|
USANi LLC
|
|
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries
|
|
Total
Eliminations
|
|
IAC
Consolidated
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2004: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
957,293 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
957,293 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
(74,678 |
) |
|
(865,835 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(940,513 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
42,978 |
|
|
(33,743 |
) |
|
16,156 |
|
|
|
|
|
25,391 |
|
Other income (expense), net |
|
|
(8,205 |
) |
|
12,502 |
|
|
2,786 |
|
|
(7,830 |
) |
|
(747 |
) |
Income tax expense |
|
|
|
|
|
(1,514 |
) |
|
(4,701 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(6,215 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
(236 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(436 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(672 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings (loss) from continuing operations |
|
|
34,537 |
|
|
(97,433 |
) |
|
105,263 |
|
|
(7,830 |
) |
|
34,537 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
|
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
(58,204 |
) |
|
58,204 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings (loss) |
|
|
92,741 |
|
|
(97,433 |
) |
|
163,467 |
|
|
(66,034 |
) |
|
92,741 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings (loss) available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
(97,433 |
) |
$ |
163,467 |
|
$ |
(66,034 |
) |
$ |
89,478 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2004: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,953,092 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,953,092 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
(237,279 |
) |
|
(2,651,723 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(2,889,002 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
104,024 |
|
|
(75,356 |
) |
|
46,686 |
|
|
|
|
|
75,354 |
|
Other income (expense), net |
|
|
36,482 |
|
|
67,863 |
|
|
3,952 |
|
|
(83,529 |
) |
|
24,768 |
|
Income tax (expense) benefit |
|
|
(31,352 |
) |
|
74,193 |
|
|
(96,450 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(53,609 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
(236 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,449 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,685 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings (loss) from continuing operations |
|
|
108,918 |
|
|
(170,579 |
) |
|
254,108 |
|
|
(83,529 |
) |
|
108,918 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
98,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
98,546 |
|
|
(98,546 |
) |
|
98,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings (loss) |
|
|
207,464 |
|
|
(170,579 |
) |
|
352,654 |
|
|
(182,075 |
) |
|
207,464 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings (loss) available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
$ |
(170,579 |
) |
$ |
352,654 |
|
$ |
(182,075 |
) |
$ |
197,675 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2004: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities |
|
$ |
72,140 |
|
$ |
(172,141 |
) |
$ |
445,432 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
345,431 |
|
Cash flows (used in) provided by investing activities |
|
|
(174,479 |
) |
|
(756,476 |
) |
|
124,795 |
|
|
|
|
|
(806,160 |
) |
Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities |
|
|
102,339 |
|
|
1,041,803 |
|
|
(1,489,783 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(345,641 |
) |
Net cash provided by discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,021,718 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,021,718 |
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
|
|
|
4,998 |
|
|
4,982 |
|
|
|
|
|
9,980 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
|
|
|
523,634 |
|
|
235,983 |
|
|
|
|
|
759,617 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
641,818 |
|
$ |
343,127 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
984,945 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25
On July 19, 2005, IAC completed the acquisition of Ask Jeeves. As part of the transaction, IAC irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed
Ask Jeeves' outstanding zero coupon subordinated convertible notes due 2008 in the principal amount of $115.0 million. Ask Jeeves is wholly owned by IAC.
The
following tables present condensed consolidating financial information as of September 30, 2005 and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 for:
(1) the guarantor, IAC, on a stand-alone basis, (2) Ask Jeeves, on a stand-alone basis, (3) the combined non-guarantor subsidiaries of IAC and (4) IAC on a
consolidated basis.
As
of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005:
|
|
IAC
|
|
Ask Jeeves
|
|
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries
|
|
Total
Eliminations
|
|
IAC
Consolidated
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current assets |
|
$ |
792,872 |
|
$ |
128,937 |
|
$ |
3,858,653 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
4,780,462 |
|
Current assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,602 |
|
|
|
|
|
4,602 |
|
Property and equipment, net |
|
|
|
|
|
46,699 |
|
|
490,177 |
|
|
|
|
|
536,876 |
|
Goodwill and other intangible assets, net |
|
|
|
|
|
1,804,134 |
|
|
7,163,803 |
|
|
|
|
|
8,967,937 |
|
Investment in subsidiaries |
|
|
11,451,359 |
|
|
1,204,400 |
|
|
10,294,739 |
|
|
(22,950,498 |
) |
|
|
|
Other assets |
|
|
141,974 |
|
|
140,045 |
|
|
130,976 |
|
|
|
|
|
412,995 |
|
Non-current assets of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,473 |
|
|
|
|
|
7,473 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total assets |
|
$ |
12,386,205 |
|
$ |
3,324,215 |
|
$ |
21,950,423 |
|
$ |
(22,950,498 |
) |
$ |
14,710,345 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities |
|
$ |
24,583 |
|
$ |
61,665 |
|
$ |
2,605,251 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,691,499 |
|
Current liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,072 |
|
|
|
|
|
18,072 |
|
Long-term debt, less current portion |
|
|
744,946 |
|
|
100,393 |
|
|
117,636 |
|
|
|
|
|
962,975 |
|
Other liabilities and minority interest |
|
|
700,704 |
|
|
236,268 |
|
|
619,175 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,556,147 |
|
Intercompany liabilities |
|
|
1,442,639 |
|
|
(42,694 |
) |
|
(1,399,945 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-current liabilities of discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,319 |
|
|
|
|
|
8,319 |
|
Interdivisional equity |
|
|
|
|
|
2,952,224 |
|
|
16,882,471 |
|
|
(19,834,695 |
) |
|
|
|
Shareholders' equity |
|
|
9,473,333 |
|
|
16,359 |
|
|
3,099,444 |
|
|
(3,115,803 |
) |
|
9,473,333 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity |
|
$ |
12,386,205 |
|
$ |
3,324,215 |
|
$ |
21,950,423 |
|
$ |
(22,950,498 |
) |
$ |
14,710,345 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
70,849 |
|
$ |
1,412,448 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
1,483,297 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
(73,778 |
) |
|
(1,388,202 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,461,980 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
(64,087 |
) |
|
(282 |
) |
|
73,323 |
|
|
|
|
|
8,954 |
|
Other income, net |
|
|
99,574 |
|
|
20,240 |
|
|
(80 |
) |
|
(105,471 |
) |
|
14,263 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
|
|
|
(479 |
) |
|
(7,156 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(7,635 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
885 |
|
|
|
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(527 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
36,372 |
|
|
16,550 |
|
|
88,921 |
|
|
(105,471 |
) |
|
36,372 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
33,117 |
|
|
|
|
|
32,946 |
|
|
(32,946 |
) |
|
33,117 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
|
69,489 |
|
|
16,550 |
|
|
121,867 |
|
|
(138,417 |
) |
|
69,489 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
68,077 |
|
$ |
16,550 |
|
$ |
121,867 |
|
$ |
(138,417 |
) |
$ |
68,077 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
70,849 |
|
$ |
3,975,980 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
4,046,829 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
(73,778 |
) |
|
(3,828,897 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(3,902,675 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
(226,519 |
) |
|
(282 |
) |
|
290,158 |
|
|
|
|
|
63,357 |
|
Other income, net |
|
|
699,786 |
|
|
20,240 |
|
|
768,192 |
|
|
(909,018 |
) |
|
579,200 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
|
|
|
(479 |
) |
|
(311,173 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(311,652 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
(159 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,792 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,951 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
473,108 |
|
|
16,550 |
|
|
892,468 |
|
|
(909,018 |
) |
|
473,108 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
289,975 |
|
|
|
|
|
289,804 |
|
|
(289,804 |
) |
|
289,975 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
|
763,083 |
|
|
16,550 |
|
|
1,182,272 |
|
|
(1,198,822 |
) |
|
763,083 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
755,145 |
|
$ |
16,550 |
|
$ |
1,182,272 |
|
$ |
(1,198,822 |
) |
$ |
755,145 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30 2005: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities |
|
$ |
(829,863 |
) |
$ |
18,207 |
|
$ |
359,488 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
(452,168 |
) |
Cash flows (used in) provided by investing activities |
|
|
(36,915 |
) |
|
101,983 |
|
|
1,525,520 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,590,588 |
|
Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities |
|
|
870,008 |
|
|
(42,804 |
) |
|
(2,629,139 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,801,935 |
) |
Net cash provided by discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
599,771 |
|
|
|
|
|
599,771 |
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
(3,230 |
) |
|
(271 |
) |
|
(23,055 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(26,556 |
) |
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
999,698 |
|
|
|
|
|
999,698 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
77,115 |
|
$ |
832,283 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
909,398 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2004:
|
|
IAC
|
|
Ask Jeeves
|
|
Non-Guarantor
Subsidiaries
|
|
Total
Eliminations
|
|
IAC
Consolidated
|
|
|
|
(In thousands)
|
|
Statement of operations for the three months ended September 30, 2004: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
957,293 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
957,293 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(940,513 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(940,513 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
42,978 |
|
|
|
|
|
(17,587 |
) |
|
|
|
|
25,391 |
|
Other income (expense), net |
|
|
(8,205 |
) |
|
|
|
|
15,288 |
|
|
(7,830 |
) |
|
(747 |
) |
Income tax expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(6,215 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(6,215 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
(236 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(436 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(672 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
34,537 |
|
|
|
|
|
7,830 |
|
|
(7,830 |
) |
|
34,537 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
|
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
(58,204 |
) |
|
58,204 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
|
92,741 |
|
|
|
|
|
66,034 |
|
|
(66,034 |
) |
|
92,741 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
66,034 |
|
$ |
(66,034 |
) |
$ |
89,478 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2004: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Revenue |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,953,092 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
2,953,092 |
|
Operating expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(2,889,002 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(2,889,002 |
) |
Interest income (expense), net |
|
|
104,024 |
|
|
|
|
|
(28,670 |
) |
|
|
|
|
75,354 |
|
Other income (expense), net |
|
|
36,482 |
|
|
|
|
|
71,815 |
|
|
(83,529 |
) |
|
24,768 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(31,352 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(22,257 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(53,609 |
) |
Minority interest |
|
|
(236 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,449 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(1,685 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
108,918 |
|
|
|
|
|
83,529 |
|
|
(83,529 |
) |
|
108,918 |
|
Discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
98,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
98,546 |
|
|
(98,546 |
) |
|
98,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
|
207,464 |
|
|
|
|
|
182,075 |
|
|
(182,075 |
) |
|
207,464 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
182,075 |
|
$ |
(182,075 |
) |
$ |
197,675 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Statement of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2004: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash flows provided by operating activities |
|
$ |
72,140 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
273,291 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
345,431 |
|
Cash flows used in investing activities |
|
|
(174,479 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(631,681 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(806,160 |
) |
Cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities |
|
|
102,339 |
|
|
|
|
|
(447,980 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(345,641 |
) |
Net cash provided by discontinued operations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,021,718 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,021,718 |
|
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,980 |
|
|
|
|
|
9,980 |
|
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
759,617 |
|
|
|
|
|
759,617 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
984,945 |
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
984,945 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
28
NOTE 11DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS
In
2004 and 2003, the Company entered into various interest rate swap agreements with notional amounts of $250 million and $150 million, respectively, related to a portion
of the 2002 Senior Notes. The interest rate swaps allow IAC to receive fixed rate amounts in exchange for making floating rate payments based on LIBOR, which effectively changes the Company's interest
rate exposure on a portion of the debt. As of September 30, 2005, of the $750 million total notional amount of the 2002 Senior Notes, the interest rate is fixed on $400 million
with the balance of $350 million remaining at a floating rate of interest based on the spread over 6-month LIBOR. To further manage risk, the Company sold swap agreements for
nominal gains during 2005 and 2004, which are being amortized over the remaining life of the 2002 Senior Notes. The changes in fair value of the interest rate swaps at September 30, 2005 and
2004 resulted in an unrealized loss of $5.3 million and an unrealized gain of $0.1 million, respectively. The fair value of the contracts is recorded in the accompanying balance sheet in
other non-current assets with a corresponding offset to the carrying value of the related debt. The gain or loss on the derivative in the period of change and the loss or gain of the
hedged item attributed to the hedged risk are recognized in the accompanying statements of operations and are offsetting.
LendingTree
Loans, in connection with its mortgage banking operations, is exposed to additional interest rate risk. The fair value of loans held for sale is subject to change primarily
due to changes in market interest rates. LendingTree Loans hedges the changes in fair value of the loans held for sale primarily by using mortgage forward delivery contracts. These hedging
relationships are documented as fair value hedges. The fair value of loans held for sale is determined using current secondary market prices for loans with similar coupons, maturities and credit
quality. For loans held for sale that are hedged with forward delivery contracts, the carrying value of the loans held for sale and the derivatives is adjusted for the change in fair value during the
time the hedge was deemed to be highly effective. The effective portion of the derivative and the loss or gain of the hedged item attributed to the hedged risk are recognized in the accompanying
statement of operations as a component of revenue and are offsetting. If it is determined that the hedging relationship is not highly effective, hedge accounting is discontinued. When hedge accounting
is discontinued, the affected loans held for sale are no longer adjusted for changes in fair value, however, the changes in fair value of derivative instruments are recognized in current earnings as a
component of revenue. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company recognized a less than $0.1 million loss and $1.2 million loss,
respectively, related to hedge ineffectiveness and $1.3 million and $0.7 million in gains, respectively, related to changes in the fair value of derivative instruments when hedge
accounting was discontinued. The fair value of the hedge instruments is recorded in other current assets in the accompanying balance sheet.
LendingTree
Loans enters into commitments with consumers to originate loans at a locked in interest rate (interest rate lock commitments"IRLCs"). IAC reports IRLCs as
derivative instruments in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 105, "Application of Accounting Principles to Loan Commitments" ("SAB 105"), and SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities," and determines the fair value of IRLCs using current secondary market prices for underlying loans with similar coupons, maturity and credit quality,
subject to the anticipated loan funding probability, or fallout factor. Similar to loans held for sale, the fair value of IRLCs is subject to change primarily due to changes in interest rates and
fallout factors. Under LendingTree Loans' risk management policy, LendingTree Loans hedges the changes in fair value of IRLCs primarily by entering into forward delivery contracts which can reduce the
volatility of earnings. Both the IRLCs
29
and
the related hedging instrument do not qualify for hedge accounting and are recorded at fair value with changes in fair value being recorded in current earnings as a component of revenue in the
accompanying statement of operations. The change in the fair value of these derivative instruments for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 resulted in a gain of
$2.8 million and $0.9 million, respectively, which has been recognized in the accompanying statement of operations. The fair value of the IRLCs is recorded in other current liabilities
in the accompanying balance sheet.
On
April 29, 2003, one of the Company's foreign subsidiaries entered into a five-year foreign exchange forward contract with a notional amount of $38.6 million,
which was used to hedge against the change in value of a liability denominated in a currency other than the subsidiary's functional currency. This derivative contract has been designated as a cash
flow hedge for accounting purposes and foreign exchange re-measurement gains and losses related to the contract and liability are recognized each period in the statements of operations and
are offsetting. In addition, the remaining effective portion of the derivative's gain or loss is recorded in other comprehensive income (loss) until the liability is extinguished. The change in fair
value of this foreign exchange forward contract at September 30, 2005 and 2004 resulted in an unrealized loss of $6.2 million and $6.1 million, respectively.
As
a result of the Ask Jeeves acquisition, upon conversion of the Ask Jeeves' subordinated convertible notes, holders would receive shares of IAC common stock. Following the
Spin-Off, IAC became obligated to deliver shares of both IAC and Expedia common stock upon conversion of the Ask Jeeves subordinated convertible notes. This obligation represents a
derivative liability in IAC's accompanying balance sheet because it is not denominated solely in shares of IAC common stock. This derivative liability was valued at $90.3 million at
September 30, 2005. Under the separation agreement relating to the Spin-Off, Expedia contractually assumed the obligation to deliver shares of Expedia common stock to IAC upon conversion by the
holders of the Ask Jeeves subordinated convertible notes. This represents a derivative asset in IAC's accompanying balance sheet valued at $88.2 million at
September 30, 2005. Both of these derivatives will be maintained at fair value each reporting period with any changes in fair value reflected in the statement of operations. The net change in
the fair value of these derivatives for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 resulted in a gain of $8.9 million, which has been recognized in other income (expense) in the
accompanying statement of operations. The derivative asset related to the Ask Jeeves subordinated convertible notes is recorded in other non-current assets and the derivative liability
related to the Ask Jeeves subordinated convertible notes is recorded in other long-term liabilities in the accompanying balance sheet.
In
connection with prior transactions, including among others, the acquisition of Ticketmaster, Hotels.com, and Hotwire.com, IAC assumed a number of warrants that were adjusted to become
exercisable for shares of IAC common stock. Following the Spin-Off, IAC remained the contractually obligated party with respect to these warrants and each warrant represents the right to
receive upon exercise by the holders thereof that number of shares of IAC common stock and Expedia common stock that the warrant holder would have received had the holder exercised the warrant
immediately prior to the Spin-Off. Under the separation agreement, Expedia contractually assumed the obligation to deliver shares of Expedia common stock to IAC upon exercise of these
warrants. This obligation of IAC to deliver shares of both IAC and Expedia common stock upon exercise of these warrants created a liability in the form of a derivative in IAC's accompanying balance
sheet that will be maintained at fair value each reporting period with any changes in fair value reflected in the consolidated statement of operations. The derivative liability was valued at
$4.3 million at September 30, 2005. The contractual
30
obligation
of Expedia to deliver shares of Expedia common stock to IAC upon exercise by the warrant holders also created a derivative asset in IAC's accompanying balance sheet valued at
$1.4 million at September 30, 2005. The net change in the fair value of these derivatives for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 resulted in a gain of
$0.5 million which has been recognized in other income (expense) in the accompanying statement of operations. The derivative asset related to the warrants is recorded in other
non-current assets and the derivative liability related to the warrants is recorded in other long-term liabilities in the accompanying balance sheet.
NOTE 12SALE OF VUE INTERESTS
On June 7, 2005, IAC completed a transaction with General Electric and Vivendi Universal in which IAC sold its common and preferred interests in VUE for
approximately $3.4 billion in aggregate consideration consisting of approximately $1.9 billion in cash, 28.3 million IAC common shares formerly held by NBC Universal and
$115 million of television advertising time that NBC Universal will provide through its media outlets over a three-year period. Based upon the closing price of IAC common stock on
June 7, 2005 of $49.28 (as adjusted for the August 2005 reverse stock split), the 28.3 million IAC common shares have a market value of approximately $1.4 billion. The
transaction resulted in an after-tax gain of $322.1 million. The after-tax gain was determined as follows (in thousands):
Proceeds received: |
|
|
|
|
|
Cash |
|
$ |
1,882,291 |
|
|
Value of 28.3 million IAC common shares |
|
|
1,394,903 |
|
|
Television advertising time |
|
|
115,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total proceeds received |
|
|
3,392,194 |
|
|
|
|
|
Book value of VUE interests: |
|
|
|
|
|
Common interest |
|
|
804,733 |
|
|
Preferred A interest |
|
|
632,444 |
|
|
Preferred B interest |
|
|
1,428,530 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total book value of VUE interests |
|
|
2,865,707 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Subtotal |
|
|
526,487 |
|
Less: Transaction costs |
|
|
(3,000 |
) |
|
|
|
|
Pre-tax gain |
|
|
523,487 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(201,384 |
) |
|
|
|
|
After-tax gain on sale of VUE interests |
|
$ |
322,103 |
|
|
|
|
|
NOTE 13DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
In March 2005, IAC, through its subsidiary HSN International, entered into an agreement to sell its 48.6% ownership in EUVÍA for
approximately $204 million. The sale closed on June 2, 2005 and resulted in a pre-tax gain of $129.3 million and an after-tax gain of $79.6 million.
EUVÍA operates two television channels, 9Live, an interactive game and quiz show-oriented television channel, and Sonnanklar, a travel-oriented television channel. In
addition, during the second quarter of 2005, TV Travel Shop ceased the sale of third-party travel products through its broadcast programming. Further,
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on
August 9, 2005, IAC completed the spin-off of its travel business, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire and TripAdvisor, into an independent public company,
Expedia, Inc. Accordingly, the results of operations and statements of position of these businesses are presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented. The 2005 results include
a tax benefit of approximately $62.8 million related to the write-off of the Company's investment in TV Travel Shop. The net revenue and net earnings, net of the effect of any
minority interest for the aforementioned discontinued operations for the applicable periods, were as follows (in thousands):
|
|
Three months ended
September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended
September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
Net revenue |
|
$ |
260,951 |
|
$ |
547,850 |
|
$ |
1,365,060 |
|
$ |
1,524,564 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income before income taxes and minority interest |
|
$ |
78,632 |
|
$ |
98,124 |
|
$ |
276,936 |
|
$ |
205,953 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(46,148 |
) |
|
(34,147 |
) |
|
(61,236 |
) |
|
(98,379 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
633 |
|
|
(5,773 |
) |
|
(5,373 |
) |
|
(9,028 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings |
|
$ |
33,117 |
|
$ |
58,204 |
|
$ |
210,327 |
|
$ |
98,546 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The
net assets transferred to Expedia as of August 9, 2005 and as reported as discontinued operations as of December 31, 2004 were as follows (in thousands):
|
|
August 9, 2005
|
|
December 31, 2004
|
Current assets |
|
$ |
544,511 |
|
$ |
308,391 |
|
|
|
|
|
Goodwill |
|
$ |
5,889,127 |
|
$ |
5,849,139 |
Intangible assets, net |
|
|
1,227,380 |
|
|
1,279,361 |
Other non-current assets |
|
|
126,453 |
|
|
232,219 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total non-current assets |
|
$ |
7,242,960 |
|
$ |
7,360,719 |
|
|
|
|
|
Current liabilities |
|
$ |
1,496,530 |
|
$ |
982,178 |
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred income taxes |
|
$ |
368,656 |
|
$ |
349,293 |
Other long-term liabilities |
|
|
109,933 |
|
|
68,683 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total non-current liabilities |
|
$ |
478,589 |
|
$ |
417,976 |
|
|
|
|
|
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Item 2: Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
GENERAL
Management Overview
IAC/ InterActiveCorp operates leading and diversified businesses in sectors being transformed by the internet, online and offline...our mission is to harness the
power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people all over the world. All references to "IAC," the "Company," "we," "our," or "us" in this report are to
IAC/InterActiveCorp.
IAC
consists of the following sectors:
-
- Retailing,
which includes U.S., including Cornerstone Brands, Inc. (since April 2005), and International;
-
- Services,
which includes Ticketing, Lending, Real Estate, Teleservices and Home Services (since September 2004);
-
- Media &
Advertising, which includes Ask Jeeves, Inc. (since July 2005); and
-
- Membership &
Subscriptions, which includes Vacations, Personals and Discounts.
On
December 21, 2004, IAC announced its plans to separate its travel businesses into an independent public company in order to better achieve certain strategic objectives of its
various businesses. We refer to this transaction as the "Spin-Off" and to the new company that holds IAC's former travel and travel-related businesses as "Expedia". IAC completed the
Spin-Off prior to the commencement of trading on August 9, 2005. Immediately prior to the Spin-Off, IAC effected a one-for-two reverse stock
split. Since the completion of the Spin-Off:
-
- Expedia
consists of the travel and travel-related businesses and investments that IAC operated (other than Interval and TV Travel Shop, which were not spun-off
by IAC with Expedia); and
-
- IAC
continues to operate and/or manage its remaining businesses and investments, which primarily consist of its Retailing, Services, Media & Advertising and
Membership & Subscriptions sectors. TV Travel Shop ceased operations in the second quarter of 2005.
In
addition, in March 2005, the Company entered into an agreement to sell its 48.6% ownership in EUVÍA. The sale closed on June 2, 2005.
Accordingly,
the results of operations and statements of position of Expedia, EUVÍA and TV Travel Shop have been presented as discontinued operations for all periods
presented. Further, all IAC common stock share information and related per share prices have been adjusted to reflect IAC's one-for-two reverse stock split.
On
April 1, 2005, IAC completed it acquisition of Cornerstone Brands, Inc. ("Cornerstone Brands"), a portfolio of leading print catalogs and online retailing sites that
sell home products and leisure and casual apparel, for approximately $715 million, principally in cash.
In
addition, on June 7, 2005, IAC completed a transaction with NBC Universal in which IAC sold its common and preferred interests in Vivendi Universal Entertainment, LLLP ("VUE"),
a joint venture formed in May 2002 between the Company and Vivendi Universal, S.A., for approximately $3.4 billion in aggregate consideration.
Further,
on July 19, 2005 IAC, completed the acquisition of Ask Jeeves, Inc. ("Ask Jeeves"), a leading provider of world-class information retrieval technologies, brands
and services that are available to consumers across a range of platforms, including destination websites, downloadable search-based applications and portals. Under the terms of the agreement, IAC
issued 1.2668 shares of IAC common
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stock
for each share of Ask Jeeves common stock in a tax-free transaction valued as of the date of the agreement at approximately $1.7 billion, net of cash acquired. On
May 5, 2005, IAC completed the buy back of 26.4 million shares of IAC common stock through its previously authorized share repurchase programs. These shares represent approximately sixty
percent of the number of fully diluted shares IAC issued for the Ask Jeeves acquisition, thus effectively offsetting a substantial portion of the dilution from the transaction.
Results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30,
2004
Set forth below are the contributions made by our various sectors, our emerging businesses and corporate expenses to consolidated revenues, operating income and
Operating Income Before Amortization (as defined in IAC's Principles of Financial Reporting) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004 (rounding differences may occur):
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2004
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2005
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2004
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
|
|
(Dollars in millions)
|
|
Revenue: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing |
|
$ |
749.5 |
|
51 |
% |
$ |
509.1 |
|
53 |
% |
$ |
2,110.0 |
|
52 |
% |
$ |
1,587.6 |
|
54 |
% |
Services |
|
|
486.2 |
|
33 |
% |
|
306.3 |
|
32 |
% |
|
1,363.9 |
|
34 |
% |
|
932.4 |
|
32 |
% |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
83.5 |
|
6 |
% |
|
7.9 |
|
1 |
% |
|
104.0 |
|
3 |
% |
|
20.6 |
|
1 |
% |
Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
162.8 |
|
11 |
% |
|
138.9 |
|
15 |
% |
|
477.9 |
|
12 |
% |
|
429.1 |
|
15 |
% |
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
9.6 |
|
1 |
% |
|
1.7 |
|
0 |
% |
|
19.6 |
|
0 |
% |
|
1.9 |
|
0 |
% |
Intersegment elimination |
|
|
(8.3 |
) |
(1 |
)% |
|
(6.6 |
) |
(1 |
)% |
|
(28.6 |
) |
(1 |
)% |
|
(18.5 |
) |
(1 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
1,483.3 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
957.3 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
4,046.8 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
2,953.1 |
|
100 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2004
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2005
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2004
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
|
|
(Dollars in millions)
|
|
Operating Income (Loss): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing |
|
$ |
38.0 |
|
178 |
% |
$ |
26.6 |
|
159 |
% |
$ |
126.6 |
|
88 |
% |
$ |
84.3 |
|
132 |
% |
Services |
|
|
69.6 |
|
327 |
% |
|
31.1 |
|
185 |
% |
|
179.6 |
|
125 |
% |
|
114.9 |
|
179 |
% |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
(0.9 |
) |
(4 |
)% |
|
(12.1 |
) |
(72 |
)% |
|
0.0 |
|
0 |
% |
|
(45.0 |
) |
(70 |
)% |
Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
27.4 |
|
128 |
% |
|
6.8 |
|
41 |
% |
|
59.7 |
|
41 |
% |
|
28.0 |
|
44 |
% |
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
(11 |
)% |
|
(0.2 |
) |
(1 |
)% |
|
(8.5 |
) |
(6 |
)% |
|
(2.2 |
) |
(3 |
)% |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(110.4 |
) |
(518 |
)% |
|
(35.5 |
) |
(211 |
)% |
|
(213.3 |
) |
(148 |
)% |
|
(115.9 |
) |
(181 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
21.3 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
16.8 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
144.2 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
64.1 |
|
100 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2004
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2005
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
2004
|
|
Percentage
of total
|
|
|
|
(Dollars in millions)
|
|
Operating Income Before Amortization: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing |
|
$ |
54.0 |
|
35 |
% |
$ |
40.2 |
|
52 |
% |
$ |
172.0 |
|
44 |
% |
$ |
125.0 |
|
49 |
% |
Services |
|
|
86.0 |
|
55 |
% |
|
45.1 |
|
59 |
% |
|
232.6 |
|
59 |
% |
|
154.7 |
|
60 |
% |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
9.3 |
|
6 |
% |
|
(2.4 |
) |
(3 |
)% |
|
10.2 |
|
3 |
% |
|
(11.4 |
) |
(4 |
)% |
Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
36.1 |
|
23 |
% |
|
16.7 |
|
22 |
% |
|
86.2 |
|
22 |
% |
|
60.0 |
|
23 |
% |
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
(2 |
)% |
|
|
|
0 |
% |
|
(8.3 |
) |
(2 |
)% |
|
(1.8 |
) |
(1 |
)% |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(26.6 |
) |
(17 |
)% |
|
(22.8 |
) |
(30 |
)% |
|
(100.9 |
) |
(26 |
)% |
|
(70.8 |
) |
(28 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
156.3 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
76.9 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
391.9 |
|
100 |
% |
$ |
255.8 |
|
100 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
IAC Consolidated Results
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue increased $526.0 million, or 55%, as a result of revenue increases of $240.5 million, or 47%, from the Retailing sector,
$179.9 million, or 59%, from the Services sector, $75.6 million, or 958%, from the Media & Advertising sector and $23.9 million, or 17%, from the Membership &
Subscriptions sector. The revenue growth from the Retailing sector was driven primarily by the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands on April 1, 2005 as well as improved top-line
results at HSN. The increase in the Services sector was driven by significant growth at Lending, fueled by direct loan originations and growth in the Lending exchange, as well as strong domestic
concert and sporting event ticket sales and international expansion at our Ticketing segment. The revenue growth from the Media & Advertising sector was driven primarily by the acquisition of
Ask Jeeves on July 19, 2005, while Membership & Subscription results were led by strong results at Personals, which increased worldwide subscribers by 19%.
Gross
profit increased $267.1 million, or 65%, reflecting improved results at the Services sector, which were primarily driven by the Lending and Ticketing results, and the
Retailing sector, which was primarily driven by the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands. The increase in gross profit also reflects improved results in the Media & Advertising sector due
primarily to the acquisition of Ask Jeeves and
to a lesser extent, improved results in the Membership & Subscriptions driven by the growth in Personals.
Selling
and marketing expenses increased $125.5 million, or 90%, primarily reflecting the impact of the Cornerstone Brands acquisition in the Retailing sector, increases at
Lending and the impact of the Ask Jeeves acquisition in the Media & Advertising sector. The Lending segment experienced increased selling and marketing expense in order to build its brands
through on-line and direct consumer advertising mediums. In addition, Personals' increased selling and marketing expenses primarily due to higher customer acquisition costs relating
primarily to the company's offline marketing campaign which began in the first quarter of 2005 and continued through the third quarter. As a percentage of revenue, selling and marketing expense
increased to 18% for 2005 from 15% in 2004 on a consolidated IAC basis.
General
and administrative expense increased $48.3 million, or 40%, due primarily to the inclusion of the results of LendingTree Loans, Cornerstone Brands and Ask Jeeves in the
2005 results as well as the acquisition of ServiceMagic in September 2004. In addition, several operating segments incurred higher employee costs in 2005 due in part to increased head count and
IAC incurred approximately $2.1 million of transaction expenses in connection with the Spin-Off in the third quarter of 2005.
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Depreciation
expense increased $2.2 million, or 6%, due primarily to capital expenditures of $58.3 million during 2005 and various acquisitions, partially offset by certain
fixed assets becoming fully depreciated during the period.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased $79.4 million, or 103%, due primarily to the strong growth from each of the principal sectors.
Operating
income increased $4.5 million, or 27%, reflecting the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization noted above, which was almost entirely offset by the significant
increase in non-cash compensation of $71.3 million. The increase in non-cash compensation was principally due to a $67.0 million charge related to the treatment
of vested stock options in connection with the Spin-Off and, to a lesser degree, non-cash compensation expense related to unvested stock options and restricted stock assumed in
the Ask Jeeves and Cornerstone Brands acquisitions. These increases were partially offset by a reduction in non-cash compensation expense of $5.5 million due to the cumulative
effect of a change in the Company's estimate related to the number of stock based awards that are expected to vest.
Interest
income decreased $25.8 million in 2005 compared with 2004 primarily as a result of decreased interest income earned on the VUE preferred securities as these interests
were sold on June 7, 2005. Interest expense decreased $9.3 million in 2005 compared with 2004 primarily as a result of lower amortization of investment premiums, partially offset by
interest expense on the Ask Jeeves convertible notes and interest expense on the warehouse lines of credit at LendingTree Loans.
The
Company sold its interests in VUE in June 2005 and therefore had no equity income from its investment in VUE for the three months ended September 30, 2005. The Company
realized $0.6 million of equity income from its investment in VUE for the three months ended September 30, 2004.
Equity
in income of unconsolidated affiliates and other increased by $15.6 million due primarily to a $9.4 million gain related to the change in fair value during the
period ended September 30, 2005 of the derivatives that were created in the Spin-Off. The derivatives arise due to IAC's obligation to deliver both IAC and Expedia shares upon the
conversion of the Ask Jeeves convertible notes and the exercise of certain IAC warrants. These derivatives are marked to market each quarter with the change in fair value recorded as "Other income
(loss)" in the accompanying statement of operations. Additionally, there was a $3.5 million increase in the equity income of unconsolidated affiliates of HSN International, including Jupiter
Shop Channel.
The
effective tax rate from continuing operations was 17% in 2005 and 15% in 2004. The 2005 effective tax rate was lower than the statutory rate of 35% due principally to the recognition
of a capital loss, a non-taxable gain associated with derivatives, interest received on IRS refunds, and net adjustments related to the reconciliation of provision accruals to tax returns.
These favorable items were partially offset by state taxes and non-deductible non-cash compensation. In 2004, the effective tax rate for continuing operations was lower than
the statutory rate due to tax-exempt interest and foreign tax credits, partially offset by state taxes and foreign losses for which no benefit was recognized.
Minority
interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries principally represents minority ownership of certain of Ticketmaster's international operations.
In
March 2005, the Company entered into an agreement to sell its 48.6% ownership interest in EUVÍA. The sale closed on June 2, 2005. During the second
quarter of 2005, TV Travel Shop ceased the sale of third-party travel products through its broadcast programming. Further, on August 9, 2005, IAC completed the Spin-Off to its
shareholders. Accordingly, the results of operations and statements of position of these businesses are presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented. Income from these discontinued
operations in the third quarter of 2005 and 2004 was $33.1 million and $58.2 million, respectively, net of tax. The 2005 amounts are principally due to the results of Expedia
36
through
August 8, 2005, as the Spin-Off was effected before the commencement of trading on August 9, 2005. The 2004 amounts reflect the results of Expedia for the full
quarter as well as EUVÍA and TVTS. Expedia's results for the third quarter of 2005 include a $35.3 million, or $22.0 million after-tax, favorable adjustment to non-cash
compensation expense related to the cumulative effect of a change in the Company's estimate related to the number of stock-based awards that are expected to vest.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue increased $1.1 billion, or 37%, as a result of revenue increases of $522.4 million, or 33%, from the Retailing sector,
$431.6 million, or 46%, from the Services sector, $83.4 million, or 404%, from the Media & Advertising sector and $48.9 million, or 11% from Membership &
Subscriptions. The revenue growth from the Retailing and Media & Advertising sectors were driven primarily by the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands and the acquisition of Ask Jeeves,
respectively. The increase in the Services sector was driven by significant growth at LendingTree, fueled in part by loan originations, as well as strong domestic ticket sales and international
expansion at our Ticketing segment. The growth in Membership & Subscriptions was led by Personals.
Gross
profit increased $559.4 million, or 45%, reflecting improved operating results at each of the principal sectors. The increase in gross profit at each of the sectors was
driven primarily by the same factors noted above in the three month discussion.
Selling
and marketing expense increased $264.9 million, or 64%. As a percentage of revenue, selling and marketing expense increased to 17% for 2005 from 14% in 2004. The increase
in selling and marketing expense primarily reflects the impact of the Cornerstone Brands acquisition in the Retailing sector, increases at Lending as noted above in the three month discussion, and the
acquisition of Ask Jeeves in the Media & Advertising sector. In addition, Personals experienced higher selling and marketing expenses related to higher customer acquisition costs relating
primarily to the company's offline marketing campaign as noted above in the three month discussion.
General
and administrative expense increased $132.5 million, or 37%, due primarily to the acquisitions noted above as well as the acquisition of ServiceMagic in Sepetmber 2004.
General and administrative expenses also reflect increased employee costs at several operating segments. In addition, IAC incurred approximately $16.1 million of transaction expenses in
connection with the Spin-Off in 2005.
Depreciation
expense increased $3.5 million, or 3%, due primarily to capital expenditures of $175.7 million during 2005 and various acquisitions, partially offset by
certain fixed assets becoming fully depreciated during the period.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased $136.1 million, or 53%, due primarily to the improved operating results at each of the principal sectors.
Operating
income increased $80.1 million, or 125%, reflecting the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization noted above, as well as decreased amortization of intangibles of
$8.7 million, or 6%, and decreased non-cash distribution and marketing expense of $1.3 million. Partially offsetting these decreases was an increase in non-cash
compensation expense of $66.0 million, or 138%, due primarily to the charge related to the treatment of vested stock options in connection with the Spin-Off as noted above in the
three month discussion.
Interest
income decreased $19.4 million in 2005 compared with 2004 as a result of a decrease in interest income earned on the VUE preferred securities, as these interests were
sold on June 7, 2005, partially offset by higher interest rates earned during 2005. Interest expense decreased $7.4 million in 2005 compared to 2004 due primarily to the factors noted
above in the three month discussion, partially offset by the impact of higher interest rates on interest rate swap arrangements.
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The Company realized a gain in 2005 of $523.5 million from the sale of its common and preferred interests in VUE to NBC Universal on June 7, 2005. In addition, the Company
realized equity income from its investment in VUE in 2005 of $22.0 million compared with $11.3 million in 2004. Equity income in 2005 represents IAC's share in VUE's fourth quarter 2004
and first quarter 2005 results, which IAC had previously consistently recorded on a one-quarter lag, and IAC's share in VUE's results from April 1, 2005 through the date of sale.
Equity
in income of unconsolidated affiliates and other increased by $20.3 million due primarily to a $16.7 million gain on the sale of our minority interest share in the
Italian home shopping operations, a $9.4 million increase related to the change in fair value of the derivatives that were created in the Spin-Off as noted above, an increase in
foreign currency exchange gains of $7.1 million, and a $4.6 million increase in the equity income of unconsolidated affiliates of HSN International. Partially offsetting these increases
were increased realized losses on the sale of marketable securities of $18.4 million.
The
effective tax rate from continuing operations was 40% and 33% in 2005 and 2004, respectively. The 2005 rate is higher than the federal statutory rate of 35% due principally to state
taxes, non-deductible transaction expenses related to the Spin-Off, and the amortization of non-deductible non-cash compensation. The 2004 rate was
lower than the federal statutory rate of 35% due principally to foreign tax credits and tax-exempt interest, partially offset by non-deductible amortization of intangibles and
state taxes.
Minority
interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries principally represents minority ownership of certain of Ticketmaster's international operations.
Income
from discontinued operations in 2005 was $210.3 million, principally due to the income of Expedia through August 8, 2005 and the results of EUVÍA
through June 2, 2005, as well as a tax benefit of $62.8 million related to the write-off of the investment in TV Travel Shop. Additionally, the Company recognized a gain on
sale of EUVÍA of $79.6 million, net of tax. Income from discontinued operations in 2004 was $98.5 million, principally due to the income of Expedia and
EUVÍA, partially offset by losses at TVTS.
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In
addition to the discussion of consolidated results, the following is a discussion of the results of each sector.
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September 30,
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September 30,
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2005
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|
2004
|
|
Growth
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
Growth
|
|
|
|
|
(Dollars in millions) |
|
Revenue: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
664.3 |
|
$ |
437.1 |
|
52 |
% |
$ |
1,829.4 |
|
$ |
1,343.0 |
|
36 |
% |
|
International |
|
|
85.2 |
|
|
72.0 |
|
18 |
% |
|
280.7 |
|
|
244.6 |
|
15 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
749.5 |
|
|
509.1 |
|
47 |
% |
|
2,110.0 |
|
|
1,587.6 |
|
33 |
% |
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
227.5 |
|
|
182.0 |
|
25 |
% |
|
696.7 |
|
|
579.3 |
|
20 |
% |
|
Lending |
|
|
142.8 |
|
|
39.9 |
|
258 |
% |
|
352.2 |
|
|
114.1 |
|
209 |
% |
|
Real Estate |
|
|
16.3 |
|
|
8.1 |
|
102 |
% |
|
43.0 |
|
|
18.2 |
|
136 |
% |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
87.4 |
|
|
74.5 |
|
17 |
% |
|
241.6 |
|
|
218.9 |
|
10 |
% |
|
Home Services |
|
|
12.2 |
|
|
1.9 |
|
550 |
% |
|
30.5 |
|
|
1.9 |
|
1,525 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
486.2 |
|
|
306.3 |
|
59 |
% |
|
1,363.9 |
|
|
932.4 |
|
46 |
% |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
83.5 |
|
|
7.9 |
|
958 |
% |
|
104.0 |
|
|
20.6 |
|
404 |
% |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
66.1 |
|
|
63.6 |
|
4 |
% |
|
208.9 |
|
|
196.7 |
|
6 |
% |
|
Personals |
|
|
66.0 |
|
|
49.7 |
|
33 |
% |
|
181.3 |
|
|
147.1 |
|
23 |
% |
|
Discounts |
|
|
30.8 |
|
|
25.6 |
|
20 |
% |
|
88.5 |
|
|
85.9 |
|
3 |
% |
|
Intra-sector elimination |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
N/A |
|
|
(0.8 |
) |
|
(0.6 |
) |
(26 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
162.8 |
|
|
138.9 |
|
17 |
% |
|
477.9 |
|
|
429.1 |
|
11 |
% |
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
9.6 |
|
|
1.7 |
|
466 |
% |
|
19.6 |
|
|
1.9 |
|
910 |
% |
Intersegment elimination |
|
|
(8.3 |
) |
|
(6.6 |
) |
(26 |
)% |
|
(28.6 |
) |
|
(18.5 |
) |
(54 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
1,483.3 |
|
$ |
957.3 |
|
55 |
% |
$ |
4,046.8 |
|
$ |
2,953.1 |
|
37 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
Growth
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
Growth
|
|
|
|
|
(Dollars in millions) |
|
Operating Income (Loss): |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
41.1 |
|
$ |
29.9 |
|
37 |
% |
$ |
127.8 |
|
$ |
86.6 |
|
48 |
% |
|
International |
|
|
(3.1 |
) |
|
(3.3 |
) |
6 |
% |
|
(1.2 |
) |
|
(2.3 |
) |
47 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
38.0 |
|
|
26.6 |
|
43 |
% |
|
126.6 |
|
|
84.3 |
|
50 |
% |
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
42.8 |
|
|
25.2 |
|
70 |
% |
|
138.1 |
|
|
106.4 |
|
30 |
% |
|
Lending |
|
|
25.3 |
|
|
2.6 |
|
878 |
% |
|
46.6 |
|
|
3.3 |
|
1,303 |
% |
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(5.4 |
) |
|
(2.8 |
) |
(95 |
)% |
|
(23.9 |
) |
|
(8.2 |
) |
(190 |
)% |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
4.4 |
|
|
5.9 |
|
(26 |
)% |
|
11.0 |
|
|
13.3 |
|
(17 |
)% |
|
Home Services |
|
|
2.6 |
|
|
0.2 |
|
1,091 |
% |
|
7.8 |
|
|
0.2 |
|
3,456 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
69.6 |
|
|
31.1 |
|
124 |
% |
|
179.6 |
|
|
114.9 |
|
56 |
% |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
(0.9 |
) |
|
(12.1 |
) |
93 |
% |
|
0.0 |
|
|
(45.0 |
) |
100 |
% |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
20.2 |
|
|
16.2 |
|
25 |
% |
|
66.6 |
|
|
51.2 |
|
30 |
% |
|
Personals |
|
|
15.8 |
|
|
2.8 |
|
472 |
% |
|
29.7 |
|
|
13.4 |
|
121 |
% |
|
Discounts |
|
|
(8.6 |
) |
|
(12.1 |
) |
29 |
% |
|
(36.6 |
) |
|
(36.6 |
) |
0 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
27.4 |
|
|
6.8 |
|
302 |
% |
|
59.7 |
|
|
28.0 |
|
113 |
% |
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
|
(0.2 |
) |
(1,244 |
)% |
|
(8.5 |
) |
|
(2.2 |
) |
(282 |
)% |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(110.4 |
) |
|
(35.5 |
) |
(211 |
)% |
|
(213.3 |
) |
|
(115.9 |
) |
(84 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
21.3 |
|
$ |
16.8 |
|
27 |
% |
$ |
144.2 |
|
$ |
64.1 |
|
125 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
Growth
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
Growth
|
|
|
|
|
(Dollars in millions) |
|
Operating Income Before Amortization: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
56.7 |
|
$ |
43.1 |
|
31 |
% |
$ |
172.2 |
|
$ |
126.3 |
|
36 |
% |
|
International |
|
|
(2.8 |
) |
|
(2.9 |
) |
6 |
% |
|
(0.2 |
) |
|
(1.3 |
) |
83 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
54.0 |
|
|
40.2 |
|
34 |
% |
|
172.0 |
|
|
125.0 |
|
38 |
% |
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
49.9 |
|
|
32.4 |
|
54 |
% |
|
159.6 |
|
|
126.0 |
|
27 |
% |
|
Lending |
|
|
30.6 |
|
|
7.7 |
|
298 |
% |
|
66.7 |
|
|
18.6 |
|
258 |
% |
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
|
(1.2 |
) |
(102 |
)% |
|
(13.8 |
) |
|
(3.4 |
) |
(306 |
)% |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
4.4 |
|
|
5.9 |
|
(26 |
)% |
|
11.0 |
|
|
13.3 |
|
(17 |
)% |
|
Home Services |
|
|
3.5 |
|
|
0.2 |
|
1,508 |
% |
|
9.1 |
|
|
0.2 |
|
4,099 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
86.0 |
|
|
45.1 |
|
91 |
% |
|
232.6 |
|
|
154.7 |
|
50 |
% |
Media & Advertising |
|
|
9.3 |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
NM |
|
|
10.2 |
|
|
(11.4 |
) |
NM |
|
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
26.6 |
|
|
22.5 |
|
18 |
% |
|
85.5 |
|
|
70.1 |
|
22 |
% |
|
Personals |
|
|
16.6 |
|
|
4.5 |
|
271 |
% |
|
32.5 |
|
|
20.4 |
|
60 |
% |
|
Discounts |
|
|
(7.1 |
) |
|
(10.3 |
) |
31 |
% |
|
(31.7 |
) |
|
(30.5 |
) |
(4 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
36.1 |
|
|
16.7 |
|
116 |
% |
|
86.2 |
|
|
60.0 |
|
44 |
% |
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
|
|
|
NM |
|
|
(8.3 |
) |
|
(1.8 |
) |
(374 |
)% |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(26.6 |
) |
|
(22.8 |
) |
(17 |
)% |
|
(100.9 |
) |
|
(70.8 |
) |
(43 |
)% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
156.3 |
|
$ |
76.9 |
|
103 |
% |
$ |
391.9 |
|
$ |
255.8 |
|
53 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating Income Before Amortization as a percentage of revenue |
|
|
11 |
% |
|
8 |
% |
|
|
|
10 |
% |
|
9 |
% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Retailing
Revenue, Operating Income Before Amortization and operating income for the Retailing sector increased in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005
driven primarily by the inclusion of Cornerstone Brands, which was acquired on April 1, 2005. U.S. Retailing also includes HSN, which modestly improved its year-over-year revenue growth in the
third quarter as compared to the second quarter of 2005. While still in the early stages, bringing Cornerstone Brands merchandise to the HSN audience is underway with a number of products now being
tested on HSN and HSN.com in anticipation of increased cross-selling in 2006.
U.S.
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
U.S. revenue grew 52% to $664.3 million and benefited from a 35% increase in units shipped, principally reflecting Cornerstone Brands as well as strong
online sales growth at HSN.com. In addition, revenue benefited from a 14% increase in average price point, partially offset by a 6% increase in return rates. Excluding the results of Cornerstone
Brands, HSN's revenue growth was 9% in the third quarter of 2005 compared with 2004.
Operating
Income Before Amortization grew 31% to $56.7 million, due primarily to the higher revenues noted above, partially offset by a decrease in gross profit margins of 60
basis points. Although U.S. Retailing benefited from higher gross margins at Cornerstone Brands, as the company's catalog
41
business
typically enjoy higher gross margins than its other retailing operations, gross margins at HSN declined primarily due to increased clearance sales and markdowns as well as increased shipping
and handling promotions and higher freight costs. Operating Income Before Amortization was also impacted by higher operating expenses at Cornerstone Brands as catalogs have relatively higher operating
expenses. The 2004 results were also negatively impacted by a $3.5 million impairment charge related to the closure of the warehouse facility in Salem, VA as well as the Florida hurricanes,
which resulted in programming disruptions and increased costs, due to mandatory evacuations, partially offset by a reversal of a reserve of $2.5 million as a result of the final resolution of a
legal dispute.
Operating
income grew 37% to $41.1 million due primarily to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above, partially offset by a $2.1 million
increase in amortization of intangibles primarily resulting from the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands and a $0.3 million increase in amortization of non-cash compensation expense.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 36% to $1.8 billion largely as a result of the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands in April 2005. Excluding the results of Cornerstone
Brands, revenue grew 7% as a result of increased units shipped, increased average price point and a slight decline in return rates.
Operating
Income Before Amortization grew 36% to $172.2 million, due primarily to the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands, growth in HSN revenue and an increase in gross profit
margins by 60 basis points
due primarily to the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands. Excluding the results of Cornerstone Brands, gross profit margins decreased 50 basis points due to the factors noted above in the three month
discussion. This decrease was partially offset by the impact of a $5.8 million favorable adjustment to certain accrued liabilities in the nine months ended September 30, 2005.
Operating
income grew 48% to $127.8 million due to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above, partially offset by a $4.4 million increase in
amortization of intangibles and a $0.3 million increase in amortization of non-cash compensation expense as noted above.
International
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 18% to $85.2 million in U.S. dollars due primarily to revenue growth across nearly all product lines at HSE-Germany, offset
partially by higher return rates. Foreign exchange had little impact on the results during the quarter. Weakness in the Wellness product line negatively impacted the 2004 results.
Operating
Income Before Amortization slightly improved to a loss of $2.8 million and operating loss slightly improved to $3.1 million, due to the increase of revenue noted
above partially offset by lower average gross margins resulting from the sale of clearance items and increased operating expenses.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 15% to $280.7 million in U.S. dollars, or 11% excluding the benefit of foreign exchange, due to the revenue factors described above as well as
improved overall return rates for the year-to-date period in comparison to the prior year. Operating Income Before Amortization improved to a loss of $0.2 million and
operating loss improved to $1.2 million, respectively, due to the growth in HSE-Germany noted above, partially offset by an unfavorable arbitration settlement in the second quarter
2005 related to a former Spanish language service.
42
In
the first quarter of 2005, the Company entered into an agreement to sell its 48.6% ownership interest in EUVÍA. The sale closed on June 2, 2005. Accordingly, the
results of operations and statement of position of EUVÍA are presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented.
Services
Revenue, Operating Income Before Amortization and operating income for the Services sector increased in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005,
driven primarily by significant growth at Lending, particularly from closing loans in its own name along with strong growth from the Lending exchange, as well as strong domestic growth in concert and
sporting event ticket sales and international expansion in our Ticketing segment. The segment formerly known as Financial Services & Real Estate is now being reported as separate segments,
Lending and Real Estate.
Revenue
includes $7.0 million and $5.5 million for the three months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, and $25.2 million and
$15.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004, respectively, for services provided to other IAC businesses.
In
addition to the operating segment results discussed below, the Services sector includes the results of the Teleservices and Home Services operating segments as noted on
pages 39 through 41. Home Services includes ServiceMagic which was acquired in September 2004. ServiceMagic acquired ImproveNet in August 2005 and these two businesses have
integrated their operations.
Ticketing
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 25% to $227.5 million driven by increases in both domestic and international revenue as total worldwide tickets sold increased by 28% to
28.9 million. Domestic revenue increased by 29% primarily due to strong concert and sporting event ticket sales compared with the prior year. International revenue increased by 16%, or 14%
excluding the benefit of foreign exchange, due primarily to Ticketmaster's purchase of the remaining interest in its Australian joint venture in April 2005, strong ticket sales in Canada, and
the acquisition in Finland in August 2004. These effects on international revenue were partially offset by the absence of non-recurring license income related to the Athens 2004
Summer Olympics.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased 54% to $49.9 million reflecting the higher revenue growth described above, a favorable mix of tickets sold through its distribution
channels and increased cross-selling on behalf of IAC businesses and other affiliates. These increases were partially offset by higher domestic ticket royalties as a percentage of revenue and
increased costs associated with the development and support of ticketing technology. We expect to continue to experience higher operating costs in certain areas, including the development and support
of ticketing technology. Domestic ticketing royalties are also expected to continue to increase as a percentage of revenue.
Operating
income increased 70% to $42.8 million reflecting the results discussed as well as a $0.2 million decrease in amortization of intangibles.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 20% to $696.7 million reflecting a 21% increase in the number of worldwide tickets sold. Domestic revenue increased by 18% due primarily to
the strength in the U.S. concert season and solid sporting event ticket sales in 2005. International revenue increased by 28%, or 24% excluding the benefit of foreign exchange, due to the factors
described above in the three month discussion, as well as increased revenues from the acquisition in Sweden in June 2004.
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Operating
Income Before Amortization and operating income increased 27% and 30% to $159.6 million and $138.1 million, respectively, reflecting the increase in revenue noted
above, partially offset by higher domestic ticket royalties as a percentage of revenue and increased costs associated with the development and support of ticketing technology. Further, operating
income was negatively impacted by a $2.1 million increase in amortization of intangibles related to recent acqusitions.
Lending
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 258% to $142.8 million, driven primarily by an increase in revenue from loans closed, reflecting LendingTree's strategy to close in its own
name a portion of the loans sourced through the LendingTree exchange which began in December 2004 with the acquisition of Home Loan Center (now known as LendingTree Loans), and increased growth
in the Lending exchange. The addition of LendingTree Loans resulted in a substantial increase in revenue per closing. Refinance mortgages performed strongly and increased as a percent of revenue from
the prior year period, while revenue from purchase and home equity loans also increased. The dollar value of closed loans in 2005 increased 45% to $9.9 billion. This includes refinance
mortgages of $5.8 billion, purchase mortgages of $2.4 billion and home equity loans of $1.5 billion. The dollar value of closed loans in 2004 was $6.9 billion, including
refinance mortgages of $3.0 billion, purchase mortgages of $2.0 billion and home equity loans of $1.6 billion.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased 298% to $30.6 million primarily due to growth in revenues reflecting in part higher revenue per closing as described above.
Operating Income Before Amortization grew faster than revenue due primarily to lower marketing expenses as a percentage of revenue as marketing efficiency benefited from higher revenue per closing
associated with loans closed in our own name, offset in part by lower gross margins as a percentage of revenue due to the higher costs of origination, funding and closing of such loans.
Operating
income increased 878% to $25.3 million due to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above, as well as a $0.1 million decrease in
amortization of non-cash compensation expense, partially offset by a $0.3 million increase in amortization of intangibles.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 209% to $352.2 million driven primarily by the factors described above. The dollar value of closed loans in 2005 increased 21% to
$25.5 billion. This includes refinance mortgages of $14.2 billion, purchase mortgages of $6.2 billion and home equity loans of $4.3 billion. The dollar value of closed
loans in 2004 was $21.0 billion, including refinance mortgages of $10.7 billion, purchase mortgages of $4.8 billion and home equity loans of $4.6 billion.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased 258% to $66.7 million in 2005 reflecting the growth in revenues described above as well as a decrease in marketing costs as a
percentage of revenue. These increases were offset in part by higher overhead costs incurred as a result of infrastructure changes resulting from the acquisition of LendingTree Loans in
December 2004 and the higher costs of originating, funding and closing loans as described above.
Operating
income increased to $46.6 million in 2005 primarily due to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above and a $0.5 million decrease in
amortization of non-cash compensation expense, partially offset by a $5.3 million increase in amortization of intangibles.
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Real Estate
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue from the real estate businesses grew 102% to $16.3 million, due to a 34% increase in closings primarily driven by the acquisition of iNest in
October 2004 and solid growth in the company's other real estate businesses.
Operating
Income Before Amortization loss increased 102% to a loss of $2.4 million in 2005 from a loss of $1.2 million in 2004 due to increased on-line
advertising expense and increased customer rebates as well as increases in overhead costs incurred as a result of the growth of the overall Real Estate businesses.
Operating
loss increased 95% to $5.4 million in 2005 primarily due to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization loss described above, a $1.4 million increase in
amortization of intangibles and a $0.1 million increase in amortization of non-cash compensation expense.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 136% to $43.0 million driven primarily by the acquisition of iNest and growth of the other real estate businesses as described above.
Operating Income Before Amortization loss increased 306% to $13.8 million reflecting increased marketing costs relating to a test advertising campaign for RealEstate.com, customer rebates for
real estate closings and increases in overhead costs as noted above. Operating loss increased 190% to $23.9 million in 2005 primarily due to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization
loss described above, a $5.1 million increase in amortization of intangibles and a $0.1 million increase in amortization of non-cash compensation expense.
Media & Advertising
Media & Advertising consists of the results of Ask Jeeves, Citysearch and Evite. Media & Advertising reflect the inclusion of Ask Jeeves, since its
acquisition on July 19, 2005.
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 958% to $83.5 million, primarily due to increased revenue from the acquisition of Ask Jeeves in July 2005 as well as increased traffic
at Citysearch which favorably impacted its pay-for-performance revenue.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased by $11.6 million primarily resulting from the Ask Jeeves acquisition. Additionally, Citysearch continues to benefit from higher
revenues along with cost cutting initiatives as it lowers operating costs.
Operating
loss improved to $0.9 million from an operating loss of $12.1 million in 2004 reflecting the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above,
partially offset by a $0.4 million increase in amortization of intangibles. The increase in the amortization of intangibles is due to the Ask Jeeves acquisition, partially offset by certain
Citysearch intangibles becoming fully amortized in 2004.
Comparing
Ask Jeeves' results on a standalone basis, for the full quarter, Ask Jeeves revenue increased 15% compared to the prior year period. Ask Jeeves revenue increase was primarily
driven by an increase in queries in North America and increased volume through new syndication partnerships. Site changes on the Ask Jeeves U.S. site launched in August 2005 had an adverse
impact on revenue growth and operating income in the third quarter 2005, as anticipated, and is expected to continue to adversely impact revenues and margins in the near-term. Ask Jeeves
was also adversely impacted by
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increased
selling and marketing expense incurred for a newly launched off-line marketing campaign and higher revenue share payments to third party traffic sources.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 404% to $104.0 million, primarily due to the factors described above in the three month discussion.
Operating
Income Before Amortization improved to $10.2 million in 2005, from a loss of $11.4 million in 2004 primarily driven by the Ask Jeeves acquisition and increased
revenue and reduced operating costs at Citysearch.
Operating
income improved $45.0 million in 2005, primarily due to the increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above. In addition, benefiting operating income in
2005 is a $23.0 million decrease in amortization of intangibles primarily resulting from certain Citysearch intangibles becoming fully amortized in 2004, partially offset by the increase in
amortization of intangibles resulting from the Ask Jeeves acquisition, as a well as a $0.4 million decrease in non-cash distribution and marketing expense.
Comparing
Ask Jeeves' results on a standalone basis, for the full nine months, Ask Jeeves revenue increased 57% compared to the prior year period. Revenue growth was primarily driven by
acquisitions made by Ask Jeeves in the second half of 2004 and the factors noted above in the three month discussion.
Membership & Subscriptions
Membership & Subscriptions sector results were led by record revenue and profits at the Personals segment.
In
addition to the operating segment results discussed below, the Membership & Subscriptions sector included results from the Discounts operating segment as noted on
pages 39 through 41.
Vacations
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Vacations grew revenues by 4% to $66.1 million, primarily driven by increases in membership revenue and higher average fees, partially offset by a decrease
in confirmed vacations. Revenue growth at Vacations was slower than in prior quarters due to inventory constraints reflective of high-occupancy levels in the travel industry. Total active members
increased 5% to 1.8 million.
Operating
Income Before Amortization and operating income increased 18% and 25% to $26.6 million and $20.2 million, respectively, due primarily to the higher revenue noted
above, and higher gross margins, partially offset by costs associated with its newly launched online travel and lifestyle membership club. Vacations confirmed online were 22% during 2005, compared
with 20% in the prior year.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Vacations grew revenues by 6% to $208.9 million, driven by increased membership revenue, higher average fees and increased confirmed vacations as compared
to the prior year. Operating Income Before Amortization and operating income grew by 22% and 30%, respectively, due to the factors described above.
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Personals
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 33% to $66.0 million, reflecting a 19% increase in paid subscribers to 1.2 million and an increase in the average revenue per paid
subscriber due to higher package prices implemented in early 2005. International subscribers grew 13% over the prior year period driven by expansion in several markets, most notably in Scandinavia and
Latin America.
Operating
Income Before Amortization increased 271% to $16.6 million due to the increased revenue noted above, partially offset by higher customer acquisition costs relating
primarily to the company's offline marketing campaign and start-up costs in connection with Chemistry.com, a newly launched premium relationship service. Results in the prior year period
were impacted by charges related to the elimination of non-core businesses.
The
increase in operating income of 472% to $15.8 million reflects an increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above and a $0.9 million decrease in
amortization of intangibles which resulted from certain intangibles becoming fully amortized in 2004 and early 2005.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Revenue grew 23% to $181.3 million, primarily driven by the factors described above as well as expansion in France and Spain. Operating Income Before
Amortization increased 60% to $32.5 million in 2005 as a result of increased revenue, partially offset by higher customer acquisition costs relating primarily to the company's
off-line marketing campaign noted above. Negatively impacting the 2004 results were charges related to the elimination of certain non-core business lines.
The
increase in operating income of 121% to $29.7 million reflects an increase in Operating Income Before Amortization described above and a $3.5 million decrease in
amortization of intangibles which
resulted from certain intangibles becoming fully amortized in 2004 and early 2005 and a $0.6 million decrease in non-cash distribution and marketing expense.
Corporate and Other
For the three months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2004
Corporate operating expenses for the third quarter of 2005 were $110.4 million compared with $35.5 million for the same period in 2004, of which
$83.8 million and $12.7 million relate to amortization of non-cash compensation in 2005 and 2004, respectively. The increase in amortization of non-cash
compensation was principally due to a $67.0 million charge related to the treatment of vested stock options in connection with the Spin-Off. To a lesser degree, amortization of
non-cash compensation expense increased due to expense related to unvested stock options and restricted stock assumed in the Ask Jeeves and Cornerstone Brands acquisitions. These increases
were partially offset by a reduction in amortization of non-cash compensation expense of $5.5 million due to the cumulative effect of a change in the Company's estimate related to
the number of stock-based awards that are expected to vest. Amortization of non-cash compensation related to equity awards assumed in acquisitions is recorded over the remaining vesting
period of the equity awards and therefore will decline over time as the awards vest. In addition, Corporate operating expenses include $2.1 million related to transaction expenses incurred in
2005 associated with the Spin-Off.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2004
Corporate operating expenses in 2005 were $213.3 million compared with $115.9 million in 2004, of which $112.3 million and
$45.2 million relate to amortization of non-cash compensation in 2005 and 2004, respectively. Amortization of non-cash compensation increased principally due to the
factors described above in the three month discussion. In addition, Corporate operating expenses include $16.1 million related to transaction expenses incurred in 2005 associated with the
Spin-Off.
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FINANCIAL POSITION, LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
All IAC common stock share information has been adjusted to reflect IAC's one-for-two reverse stock split in August 2005.
As
of September 30, 2005, the Company had $1.0 billion of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents and $2.1 billion of marketable
securities on hand, including $224.7 million in funds representing amounts equal to the face value of tickets sold by Ticketing on behalf of its clients.
Net
cash (used in) provided by operating activities was approximately ($452.2) million in 2005 and $345.4 million in 2004. Cash used in operations in 2005 was negatively impacted
by higher cash tax payments made, including $652.8 million related to the VUE gain, increases related to loans available for sale at LendingTree Loans which were not included in the prior year
period and higher uses of working capital, including higher inventory. Partially offsetting these declines were higher earnings and increased contribution to working capital from Ticketing client cash
of $78.7 million in 2005 compared with $38.6 million in 2004, primarily due to timing of settlements with venues. There tends to be a seasonal element to the inventory balances for the
Retailing sector and the Discounts segment as inventory tends to be higher in the third quarter in anticipation of the fourth quarter selling season. At September 30, 2005, inventory, net of
reserves, increased $187.7 million to $428.6 million from $240.9 million at December 31, 2004 due in part to the acquisition of Cornerstone Brands, which contributed
$118.0 million of the increase, as well as increases at HSN U.S., Discounts and HSE-Germany. The increases in inventory at HSN U.S. and HSE-Germany relate primarily to increased
merchandise purchases as well as lower than anticipated sales during the year. The total net cash tax payments impacting operating cash flows were $754.2 million in 2005 compared with
$48.6 million in 2004.
Cash
provided by investing activities in 2005 of $1.6 billion resulted from the proceeds generated from the sale of IAC's common and preferred interests in VUE of
$1.9 billion, net proceeds of $381.1 million generated from the sale of marketable securities and proceeds from the sale of EUVÍA of $183.0 million. Partially
offsetting these amounts were acquisitions, net of cash acquired, of $682.8 million and capital expenditures of $175.7 million. Cash acquisitions in 2005 primarily relate to Cornerstone
Brands. Cash used in investing activities in 2004 of $806.2 million relates primarily to net purchases of marketable securities of $541.1 million, acquisitions, net of cash acquired, of
$172.4 million and capital expenditures of $120.5 million. Cash acquisitions in 2004 primarily relate to ServiceMagic.
Cash
used in financing activities in 2005 of $1.8 billion was primarily due to the purchase of treasury stock of $1.4 billion and the redemption of IAC's convertible
preferred stock of $655.7 million, partially offset by increased borrowings under various warehouse lines of credit of $205.6 million at LendingTree Loans, $80.0 million of
borrowings under the Liberty Bond program (see below) and proceeds from the issuance of common stock pursuant to stock option exercises of $80.7 million. Cash used in financing activities in
2004 of $345.6 million was primarily due to the purchase of treasury stock of $429.5 million partially offset by proceeds from the issuance of common stock pursuant to stock option
exercises of $94.1 million.
As
of September 30, 2005, the Company has $1.8 billion in short and long-term obligations, of which $817.3 million, consisting primarily of
$360.8 million of 1998 Senior Notes due November 15, 2005 and various warehouse lines of credit, are classified as current. The warehouse lines of credit are used by LendingTree Loans to
fund mortgage and home equity loans that are held for sale. Interest rates under these lines of credit fall within a range of 30-day LIBOR plus 75-100 basis points in the ordinary course
of business, but may exceed this range under certain circumstances. Under the terms of these lines of credit, LendingTree Loans is required to maintain various financial and other covenants. The
balance of these warehouse lines of credit at September 30, 2005 was $405.1 million. IAC
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anticipates
that the repayment of the 1998 Senior Notes on November 15, 2005 will come from current cash balances. Repayments of the warehouse lines of credit will come from the sale of loans
held for sale by LendingTree Loans.
On
July 19, 2005, as part of the Ask Jeeves acquisition, IAC guaranteed $115.0 million par value of Ask Jeeves' Zero Coupon Convertible Subordinated Notes due
June 1, 2008. In addition, in connection with the financing of the construction of IAC's corporate headquarters, on August 31, 2005, the New York City Industrial Development Agency (the
"Agency") issued $80 million in aggregate principal amount of New York City Industrial Development Agency Liberty Bonds (IAC/InterActiveCorp Project), Series 2005 (the "Liberty Bonds"). The
Liberty Bonds pay interest at a rate of 5% per annum, payable semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year, commencing on March 1, 2006, and mature on September 1,
2035. IAC is obligated to make all principal, interest and other payments in respect of the Liberty Bonds pursuant to certain security and payment arrangements between IAC and the Agency, which
arrangements were entered into in connection with the closing of the Liberty Bond issuance. Liberty Bonds proceeds may only be used for certain expenditures relating to the construction of IAC's
corporate headquarters and may not be used for general corporate purposes. The convertible notes and the Liberty Bonds are classified as long-term obligations on the accompanying balance
sheet at September 30, 2005.
In
November 2004, IAC announced that its Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to 40 million shares of IAC common stock. This authorization was in addition to
the 11.4 million shares IAC had remaining under the two repurchase authorizations announced in March 2003 and November 2003, which initially covered a total of 40 million
shares. Pursuant to the Board's previous authorizations, during the nine months ended September 30, 2005, IAC purchased 36.3 million shares of IAC common stock for aggregate
consideration of $1.4 billion. Further, IAC repurchased an additional
10.8 million shares from October 1, 2005 through November 8, 2005 for aggregate consideration of $279.4 million. At November 8, 2005, IAC had 4.4 million
shares remaining in its authorizations. Going forward, IAC may purchase shares on an opportunistic basis over an indefinite period of time, on the open market or through private transactions,
depending on those factors IAC deems relevant at any particular time, including, without limitation, market conditions, share price and future outlook.
On
June 7, 2005 IAC completed a transaction with NBC Universal in which it sold its interests in VUE. After paying applicable taxes on the transaction, IAC expects to net
approximately $1.0 billion in cash. As part of the consideration in this transaction, IAC received 28.3 million IAC shares into treasury valued at $1.4 billion.
IAC
anticipates that it will need to invest in the development and expansion of its overall operations. The Company may make a number of acquisitions, which could result in the reduction
of its cash balance or the incurrence of debt. Furthermore, future capital expenditures are expected to be higher than current amounts over the next several years.
Future
demand for our products and services may be impacted by future economic and political developments. We believe that our financial situation would enable us to absorb a significant
potential downturn in business. As a result, in management's opinion, available cash, internally generated funds and available borrowings will provide sufficient capital resources to meet IAC's
foreseeable needs.
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IAC'S PRINCIPLES OF FINANCIAL REPORTING
IAC reports Operating Income Before Amortization as a supplemental measure to GAAP. This measure is one of the primary metrics by which we evaluate the
performance of our businesses, on which our internal budgets are based and by which management is compensated. We believe that investors should have access to, and we are obligated to provide, the
same set of tools that we use in analyzing our results. This non-GAAP measure should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with GAAP, but should not be considered a
substitute for or superior to GAAP results. We provide and encourage investors to examine the reconciling adjustments between the GAAP and non-GAAP measure which we discuss below.
Definition of IAC's Non-GAAP Measure
Operating Income Before Amortization is defined as operating income excluding: (1) amortization of
non-cash distribution, marketing and compensation expense, (2) amortization of intangibles and goodwill impairment, if applicable, (3) pro forma adjustments for significant
acquisitions, if applicable, and (4) one-time items, if applicable. We believe this measure is useful to investors because it represents the consolidated operating results from
IAC's segments, taking into account depreciation, which we believe is an ongoing cost of doing business, but excluding the effects of any other non-cash expenses. Operating Income Before
Amortization has certain limitations in that it does not take into account the impact to IAC's income statement of certain expenses, including non-cash compensation, non-cash
payments to partners, and acquisition-related accounting. IAC endeavors to compensate for the limitations of the non-GAAP measure presented by providing the comparable GAAP measure with
equal or greater prominence and descriptions of the reconciling items and adjustments, including quantifying such items, to derive the non-GAAP measure.
Non-Cash Expenses That Are Excluded From Our Non-GAAP Measure
Amortization of non-cash compensation expense consists of restricted stock and options expense, which
includes the expense related to modifications of options in connection with the spin-off of Expedia, unvested options assumed by IAC in its acquisitions and expense associated with grants
of restricted stock units for compensation purposes. These expenses are not paid in cash and we include the related shares in our fully diluted shares outstanding.
Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense consists mainly of the non-cash advertising secured
from Universal Television as part of the transaction pursuant to which VUE was created. The non-cash advertising from Universal is available for television advertising primarily on the USA and
Sci Fi cable channels without any cash cost. Ticketmaster and Match.com also recognized non-cash distribution and marketing expense related to barter arrangements, which expired in
March 2004, for distribution secured from third parties, whereby advertising was provided by Ticketmaster and Match.com to a third party in return for distribution over the third party's
network.
Amortization of intangibles is a non-cash expense relating primarily to acquisitions. At the time of an acquisition, the
intangible assets of the acquired company, such as supplier contracts and customer relationships, are valued and amortized over their estimated lives. While it is likely that we will have significant
intangible amortization expense as we continue to acquire companies, we believe that since intangibles represent costs incurred by the acquired company to build value prior to acquisition, they were
part of transaction costs and will not be replaced with cash costs when the intangibles are fully amortized.
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RECONCILIATION OF OPERATING INCOME BEFORE AMORTIZATION
The following table is a reconciliation of Operating Income Before Amortization to operating income and net earnings available to common shareholders for the
three months and nine months ended September 30, 2005 and 2004.
|
|
Three months ended September 30,
|
|
Nine months ended September 30,
|
|
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
2005
|
|
2004
|
|
|
|
|
(In thousands) |
|
Operating Income Before Amortization |
|
$ |
156,268 |
|
$ |
76,880 |
|
$ |
391,865 |
|
$ |
255,788 |
|
Amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1,301 |
) |
Amortization of non-cash compensation expense |
|
|
(84,775 |
) |
|
(13,495 |
) |
|
(113,778 |
) |
|
(47,761 |
) |
Amortization of intangibles |
|
|
(50,176 |
) |
|
(46,605 |
) |
|
(133,933 |
) |
|
(142,636 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating income |
|
|
21,317 |
|
|
16,780 |
|
|
144,154 |
|
|
64,090 |
|
Interest income |
|
|
20,062 |
|
|
45,847 |
|
|
115,075 |
|
|
134,437 |
|
Interest expense |
|
|
(11,108 |
) |
|
(20,456 |
) |
|
(51,718 |
) |
|
(59,083 |
) |
Gain on sale of VUE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
523,487 |
|
|
|
|
Equity in income of VUE |
|
|
|
|
|
607 |
|
|
21,960 |
|
|
11,293 |
|
Equity in income (losses) of unconsolidated affiliates and other |
|
|
14,263 |
|
|
(1,354 |
) |
|
33,753 |
|
|
13,475 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(7,635 |
) |
|
(6,215 |
) |
|
(311,652 |
) |
|
(53,609 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(527 |
) |
|
(672 |
) |
|
(1,951 |
) |
|
(1,685 |
) |
Gain on sale of EUVÍA, net of tax |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
79,648 |
|
|
|
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
33,117 |
|
|
58,204 |
|
|
210,327 |
|
|
98,546 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(1,412 |
) |
|
(3,263 |
) |
|
(7,938 |
) |
|
(9,789 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
68,077 |
|
$ |
89,478 |
|
$ |
755,145 |
|
$ |
197,675 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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RECONCILIATION OF NON-GAAP MEASURE
The following table reconciles Operating Income Before Amortization to operating income (loss) for the Company's reporting segments and to net earnings available
to common shareholders in total (in millions, rounding differences may occur):
|
|
For the three months ended September 30, 2005:
|
|
|
|
Operating Income
Before
Amortization
|
|
Amortization of
non-cash items
|
|
Operating income
(loss)
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
56.7 |
|
$ |
(15.6 |
) |
$ |
41.1 |
|
|
International |
|
|
(2.8 |
) |
|
(0.3 |
) |
|
(3.1 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
54.0 |
|
|
(16.0 |
) |
|
38.0 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
49.9 |
|
|
(7.1 |
) |
|
42.8 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
30.6 |
|
|
(5.3 |
) |
|
25.3 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
|
(3.0 |
) |
|
(5.4 |
) |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
4.4 |
|
|
|
|
|
4.4 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
3.5 |
|
|
(0.9 |
) |
|
2.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
86.0 |
|
|
(16.3 |
) |
|
69.6 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
9.3 |
|
|
(10.1 |
) |
|
(0.9 |
) |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
26.6 |
|
|
(6.3 |
) |
|
20.2 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
16.6 |
|
|
(0.9 |
) |
|
15.8 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
(7.1 |
) |
|
(1.6 |
) |
|
(8.6 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
36.1 |
|
|
(8.7 |
) |
|
27.4 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
|
|
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(26.6 |
) |
|
(83.8 |
) |
|
(110.4 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
156.3 |
|
$ |
(135.0 |
) |
$ |
21.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other income, net |
|
|
23.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes and minority interest |
|
|
44.5 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(7.6 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(0.5 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
36.4 |
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
33.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings before preferred dividends |
|
|
69.5 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(1.4 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
68.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
52
|
|
For the three months ended September 30, 2004:
|
|
|
|
Operating Income
Before
Amortization
|
|
Amortization of
non-cash items
|
|
Operating income
(loss)
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
43.1 |
|
$ |
(13.2 |
) |
$ |
29.9 |
|
|
International |
|
|
(2.9 |
) |
|
(0.3 |
) |
|
(3.3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
40.2 |
|
|
(13.6 |
) |
|
26.6 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
32.4 |
|
|
(7.2 |
) |
|
25.2 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
7.7 |
|
|
(5.1 |
) |
|
2.6 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(1.2 |
) |
|
(1.6 |
) |
|
(2.8 |
) |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
5.9 |
|
|
|
|
|
5.9 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
45.1 |
|
|
(14.0 |
) |
|
31.1 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
(2.4 |
) |
|
(9.8 |
) |
|
(12.1 |
) |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
22.5 |
|
|
(6.3 |
) |
|
16.2 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
4.5 |
|
|
(1.7 |
) |
|
2.8 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
(10.3 |
) |
|
(1.9 |
) |
|
(12.1 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
16.7 |
|
|
(9.9 |
) |
|
6.8 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
|
|
|
(0.2 |
) |
|
(0.2 |
) |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(22.8 |
) |
|
(12.7 |
) |
|
(35.5 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
76.9 |
|
$ |
(60.1 |
) |
$ |
16.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other income, net |
|
|
24.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes and minority interest |
|
|
41.4 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(6.2 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(0.7 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
34.5 |
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
58.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings before preferred dividends |
|
|
92.7 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(3.3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
89.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
53
|
|
For the nine months ended September 30, 2005:
|
|
|
|
Operating Income
Before
Amortization
|
|
Amortization of
non-cash items
|
|
Operating income
(loss)
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
172.2 |
|
$ |
(44.4 |
) |
$ |
127.8 |
|
|
International |
|
|
(0.2 |
) |
|
(1.0 |
) |
|
(1.2 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
172.0 |
|
|
(45.3 |
) |
|
126.6 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
159.6 |
|
|
(21.4 |
) |
|
138.1 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
66.7 |
|
|
(20.1 |
) |
|
46.6 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(13.8 |
) |
|
(10.1 |
) |
|
(23.9 |
) |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
11.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
11.0 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
9.1 |
|
|
(1.4 |
) |
|
7.8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
232.6 |
|
|
(53.0 |
) |
|
179.6 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
10.2 |
|
|
(10.2 |
) |
|
0.0 |
|
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
85.5 |
|
|
(18.9 |
) |
|
66.6 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
32.5 |
|
|
(2.8 |
) |
|
29.7 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
(31.7 |
) |
|
(4.8 |
) |
|
(36.6 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
86.2 |
|
|
(26.5 |
) |
|
59.7 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(8.3 |
) |
|
(0.2 |
) |
|
(8.5 |
) |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(100.9 |
) |
|
(112.3 |
) |
|
(213.3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
391.9 |
|
$ |
(247.7 |
) |
$ |
144.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other income, net |
|
|
642.6 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes and minority interest |
|
|
786.7 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(311.7 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(2.0 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
473.1 |
|
Gain on sale of EUVÍA, net of tax |
|
|
79.6 |
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
210.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings before preferred dividends |
|
|
763.1 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(7.9 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
755.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
54
|
|
For the nine months ended September 30, 2004:
|
|
|
|
Operating Income
Before
Amortization
|
|
Amortization of
non-cash items
|
|
Operating income
(loss)
|
|
Retailing: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
U.S. |
|
$ |
126.3 |
|
$ |
(39.7 |
) |
$ |
86.6 |
|
|
International |
|
|
(1.3 |
) |
|
(1.0 |
) |
|
(2.3 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Retailing |
|
|
125.0 |
|
|
(40.7 |
) |
|
84.3 |
|
Services: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ticketing |
|
|
126.0 |
|
|
(19.6 |
) |
|
106.4 |
|
|
Lending |
|
|
18.6 |
|
|
(15.3 |
) |
|
3.3 |
|
|
Real Estate |
|
|
(3.4 |
) |
|
(4.8 |
) |
|
(8.2 |
) |
|
Teleservices |
|
|
13.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
13.3 |
|
|
Home Services |
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
0.2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Services |
|
|
154.7 |
|
|
(39.8 |
) |
|
114.9 |
|
Media & Advertising |
|
|
(11.4 |
) |
|
(33.6 |
) |
|
(45.0 |
) |
Membership & Subscriptions: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vacations |
|
|
70.1 |
|
|
(18.9 |
) |
|
51.2 |
|
|
Personals |
|
|
20.4 |
|
|
(7.0 |
) |
|
13.4 |
|
|
Discounts |
|
|
(30.5 |
) |
|
(6.1 |
) |
|
(36.6 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total Membership & Subscriptions |
|
|
60.0 |
|
|
(32.0 |
) |
|
28.0 |
|
Emerging Businesses |
|
|
(1.8 |
) |
|
(0.5 |
) |
|
(2.2 |
) |
Corporate and other |
|
|
(70.8 |
) |
|
(45.2 |
) |
|
(115.9 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
$ |
255.8 |
|
$ |
(191.7 |
) |
$ |
64.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other income, net |
|
|
100.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations before income taxes and minority interest |
|
|
164.2 |
|
Income tax expense |
|
|
(53.6 |
) |
Minority interest in income of consolidated subsidiaries |
|
|
(1.7 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings from continuing operations |
|
|
108.9 |
|
Income from discontinued operations, net of tax |
|
|
98.5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Earnings before preferred dividends |
|
|
207.5 |
|
Preferred dividends |
|
|
(9.8 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net earnings available to common shareholders |
|
$ |
197.7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. The use of words such as "anticipates," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," and "believes," among others, generally identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
include, among others, statements relating to: IAC's future financial performance, anticipated trends and prospects in the various industries in which IAC and its businesses operate, IAC's business
prospects and strategy, and anticipated financial position, liquidity and capital needs. These forward-looking statements reflect the views of IAC management regarding current expectations and
projections about future events and are based on currently available information. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are
difficult to predict.
Actual
results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements included in this report for a variety of reasons, including, among others:
-
- changes
in economic conditions generally or in any of the markets or industries in which IAC's businesses operate;
-
- changes
in senior management at IAC and/or its businesses;
-
- adverse
changes to, or interruptions in, IAC's relationships with third party distribution channels, suppliers, advertisers and other parties with whom it has significant
relationships;
-
- the
rates of growth of the Internet, the e-commerce industry and broadband access, as well as the rates of online migration in the various markets and industries
in which IAC's businesses operate; changes affecting IAC's ability to efficiently maintain and grow the respective market shares of its various brands, as well as to extend the reach of these brands
through a variety of distribution channels and to attract new (and retain existing) customers;
-
- changes
to IAC's ability to commit resources to develop or acquire new technologies, including new features and functions for the websites of its various businesses, which
may be necessary to maintain or grow its businesses;
-
- future
regulatory and legislative actions and conditions affecting IAC, including:
-
- the
promulgation of new, and/or the amendment of existing, laws, rules and regulations applicable to IAC and its businesses; and
-
- changes
in the application or interpretation of existing laws, rules and regulations in the case of IAC and its businesses. In each case, laws, rules and regulations
include, among others, those relating to sales, use, value-added and other taxes, software programs consumer protection and privacy, intellectual property, the Internet and e-commerce;
-
- consumer
acceptance of new products and services offered by IAC's businesses;
-
- weaknesses
in the concert, special event and sporting event environments;
-
- general
declines in U.S. housing prices or activities in the U.S. housing market;
-
- interest
rate changes;
-
- changes
adversely affecting the ability of IAC to adequately expand the reach of its various businesses into various international markets, as well as to successfully manage
risks specific to international operations, including, but not limited to, the following:
-
- competition
from local businesses, which may better understand local consumers and their preferences, as well as have more established local brand recognition;
56
-
- developing,
managing and staffing international operations and the related difficulties resulting from distance, language and cultural differences; and
-
- fluctuations
in foreign exchange rates, which could cause results of international operations, when translated, to materially differ from expectations;
-
- the
successful integration of acquired businesses, including:
-
- the
successful integration of the operations, as well as the accounting, financial controls, management information, technology, human resources and other administrative
systems, of acquired businesses with IAC's existing operations and systems;
-
- the
retention of senior management and other key personnel at acquired businesses; and
-
- the
successful management of acquisition-related strain on IAC's management, operations and financial resources;
-
- competition
from other companies;
-
- changes
adversely affecting the ability of IAC and its business to adequately protect intellectual property rights, as well as to obtain licenses or other rights with
respect to intellectual property in the future, which may or may not be available on favorable terms (if at all);
-
- third
party claims alleging infringement of intellectual property rights by IAC and its businesses, which could result in the expenditure of significant financial and
managerial resources, injunctions or the imposition of damages, as well as the need to enter into formal licensing or other similar arrangements with such third parties, which may or may not be
available on favorable terms (if at all); and
-
- natural
disasters, acts of terrorism, war or political instability.
Certain
of these factors and other factors, risks and uncertainties are discussed in IAC's filings with the SEC. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could have a material adverse
effect on IAC's business, financial condition and results of operations.
In
light of these risks and uncertainties, the forward-looking statements discussed in this report may not occur. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, which only reflect the views of IAC management as of the date of this report. IAC is not under any obligation and does not intend to publicly update or review any of these
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, even if experience or future events make it clear that any expected results expressed or implied by
those forward-looking statements will not be realized.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Interest Rate Risk
The Company's exposure to market rate risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to the Company's short-term investment portfolio, loans
held for sale and long-term debt, including the current portion thereof, and its warehouse line of credit. The Company invests its excess cash in debt securities of government agencies and
high quality
corporate issuers. The portfolio is reviewed on a periodic basis and adjusted in the event that the credit ratings of securities held in the portfolio deteriorates.
Based
on the Company's total debt investment securities as of September 30, 2005, a 100 basis point increase or decrease in the level of interest rates would, respectively,
decrease or increase the fair value of the debt securities by approximately $28.8 million. Such potential increase or decrease are based on certain simplifying assumptions, including a constant
level and rate of debt securities and an
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immediate
across-the-board increase or decrease in the level of interest rates with no other subsequent changes for the remainder of the period. Conversely, since almost all of
the Company's cash balance of approximately $1.0 billion is invested in variable rate interest earning assets, the Company would also earn more (less) interest income due to such an increase
(decrease) in interest rates.
At
September 30, 2005, the Company's outstanding debt approximated $1.8 billion, a majority of which is fixed rate obligations. If market rates decline, the Company runs
the risk that the related required payments on the fixed rate debt will exceed those based on market rates. As part of its risk management strategy, the Company uses derivative instruments, including
interest rate swaps, to hedge some of this interest rate exposure. The Company's intent is to offset gains and losses resulting from this exposure with losses and gains on the derivative contracts
used to hedge it, thereby reducing volatility of earnings and protecting fair values of assets and liabilities. The Company's objective in managing its exposure to interest rate risk on its
long-term debt is to maintain its mix of floating rate and fixed rate debt within a certain range. During 2004 and 2003, the Company entered into interest rate swap agreements related to a
portion of the 2002 Senior Notes, which allow IAC to receive fixed rate amounts in exchange for making floating rate payments based on the LIBOR. As of September 30, 2005, of the
$750 million notional amount outstanding under the 2002 Senior Notes, the interest rate is fixed on $400 million at 7% and floating on $350 million, with the rate based on a
spread over 6-month LIBOR. In July 2005, the Company unwound swap agreements with a notional amount of $50 million and during 2004 the Company unwound swap agreements with a
notional amount of $250 million and $100 million for nominal gains, all of which are being amortized over the remaining life of the 2002 Senior Notes. The changes in fair value of the
interest rate swaps at September 30, 2005 resulted in an unrealized loss of $5.3 million.
The
majority of the Company's outstanding fixed-rate debt relates to the $750 million outstanding under the 2002 Senior Notes, the $360.8 million outstanding
under the 1998 Senior Notes and the $80 million outstanding under the New York City Industrial Development Agency Liberty Bonds (IAC/InterActiveCorp Project) Series 2005. Excluding the
$350 million under the 2002 Senior Notes which currently pays a variable interest rate as a result of the outstanding swap agreements noted above, a 100 basis point increase or decrease in the
level of interest rates would, respectively, decrease or increase the fair value of the fixed-rate debt by approximately $36.8 million. Such potential increase or decrease are based
on certain simplifying assumptions, including a constant level and rate of fixed-rate debt for all maturities and an immediate across-the-board increase or decrease
in the level of interest rates with no other subsequent changes for the remainder of the period. If the LIBOR rates were to increase
(decrease) by 100 basis points, then the annual interest payments on the $350 million of variable-rate debt would have increased (decreased) by $3.5 million. Such potential
increase or decrease are based on certain simplifying assumptions, including a constant level and rate of variable-rate debt for all maturities and an immediate
across-the-board increase or decrease in the level of interest rates with no other subsequent changes for the remainder of the period.
LendingTree
Loans is exposed to interest rate risk for loans it originates until those loans are sold in the secondary market ("loans held for sale") and as a party to interest rate lock
commitments ("IRLCs") to fund mortgage loans at interest rates previously agreed upon with the borrower for specified periods of time.
LendingTree
Loans hedges the changes in fair value of the loans held for sale primarily by using mortgage forward delivery contracts. These hedging relationships are designated as fair
value hedges. For loans held for sale that are hedged with forward delivery contracts, the carrying value of the loans held for sale and the derivatives are adjusted for the change in fair value
during the time the hedge was deemed to be highly effective. The effective portion of the derivative and the loss or gain of the hedged item attributed to the hedged risk are recognized in the
accompanying statement of operations as a component of revenue and are offsetting. If it is determined that the hedging relationship is not highly effective, hedge accounting is discontinued. When
hedge accounting is discontinued, the affected
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loans
held for sale are no longer adjusted for the changes in fair value, however, the changes in fair value of the derivative instruments are recognized in current earnings as a component of revenue.
For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005, the Company recognized a less than $0.1 million loss and $1.2 million loss, respectively, related to hedge ineffectiveness
and $1.3 million and $0.7 million in gains, respectively, related to changes in the fair value of derivative instruments when hedge accounting was discontinued.
IRLCs
are derivative instruments and, therefore, are required to be recorded at fair value, with changes in fair value reflected in current period earnings. To manage the interest rate
risk associated with the IRLCs the Company uses derivative instruments, including mortgage forward delivery contracts. These instruments do not qualify for hedge accounting. The changes in fair value
of these instruments for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2005 resulted in net gains of $2.8 million and $0.9 million, respectively, which have been recognized as a
component of revenue in the accompanying statement of operations.
The
Company formally designates and documents all hedging relationships as either fair value hedges or cash flow hedges, as applicable, and documents the objective and strategy for
undertaking the hedge transaction.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
The Company conducts business in certain foreign markets, primarily in the European Union and Canada. The Company's primary exposure to foreign currency risk
relates to investments in foreign subsidiaries that transact business in a functional currency other than the U.S. Dollar, primarily the Euro, British Pound Sterling and Canadian Dollar. However, the
exposure is mitigated since the Company has generally reinvested profits from international operations in order to grow the businesses.
As
the Company increases its operations in international markets it becomes increasingly exposed to potentially volatile movements in currency exchange rates. The economic impact of
currency exchange rate movements on the Company are often linked to variability in real growth, inflation, interest rates, governmental actions and other factors. These changes, if material, could
cause the Company to adjust its financing and operating strategies.
As
currency exchange rates change, translation of the income statements of the Company's international businesses into U.S. dollars affects year-over-year
comparability of operating results. Historically, the Company has not hedged translation risks because cash flows from international operations were generally reinvested locally.
Foreign
exchange gains and losses were not material to the Company's earnings in 2005 and 2004. However, the Company periodically reviews its strategy for hedging transaction risks. The
Company's objective in managing its foreign exchange risk is to minimize its potential exposure to the changes that exchange rates might have on its earnings, cash flows and financial position.
During
the second quarter of 2003, one of the Company's foreign subsidiaries entered into a foreign exchange forward contract with a notional amount of $38.6 million which was
used to hedge against the change in value of a liability denominated in a currency other than the subsidiary's functional currency. Foreign exchange re-measurement gains and losses related
to the contract and liability are recognized each period in the statements of operations and are offsetting. The change in fair value of this foreign exchange forward contract at September 30,
2005 resulted in an unrealized loss of $6.2 million.
The Company has a minimal investment in equity securities of publicly traded companies. These investments, as of September 30, 2005, were considered
available-for-sale and included in long-term
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assets
with the unrealized gain deferred as a component of shareholders' equity. It is not customary for the Company to make significant investments in equity securities as part of its marketable
securities investment strategy.
In
connection with the Spin-Off, derivative liabilities were created due to IAC's obligation to deliver shares of both IAC and Expedia common stock upon conversion of the Ask
Jeeves subordinated convertible notes and exercise of certain IAC warrants. Derivative assets were also created due to Expedia's contractual obligation to deliver shares of Expedia common stock to IAC
upon conversion by the holders of the Ask Jeeves subordinated convertible notes and upon exercise of the warrants. Both the derivative liabilities and derivative assets are marked to market each
quarter, and the changes in fair values, which are based upon changes in both IAC and Expedia common stock, are recognized in current earnings as a component of other income (expense).
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
The Company monitors and evaluates on an ongoing basis its disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting in order to improve their overall
effectiveness. In the course of this evaluation, the Company modifies and refines its internal processes as conditions warrant.
As
required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our
Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined by Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act). Based
upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective
in providing reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and
reported within the time periods specified in the Commission's rules and Forms, and include controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports
that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal
executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
As
required by Rule 13a-15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company, under the supervision and with the participation of the Company's management, including the Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, also evaluated whether any changes occurred to the Company's internal control over financial reporting during the period covered by this report that have
materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, such control. Based on that evaluation, there has been no such change during the period covered by this report.
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PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
In the ordinary course of business, the Company and its subsidiaries are parties to litigation involving property, personal injury, contract, and other claims.
The amounts that may be recovered in such matters may be subject to insurance coverage.
Rules
of the Securities and Exchange Commission require the description of material pending legal proceedings, other than ordinary, routine litigation incident to the registrant's
business, and advise that proceedings ordinarily need not be described if they primarily involve damages claims for amounts (exclusive of interest and costs) not exceeding 10% of the current assets of
the registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. In the judgment of management, none of the pending litigation matters which the Company and its subsidiaries are defending, including those
described below, involves or is likely to involve amounts of that magnitude. The litigation matters described below involve issues or claims that may be of particular interest to the Company's
shareholders, regardless of whether any of these matters may be material to the financial position or operations of the Company based upon the standard set forth in the SEC's rules.
Securities Class Action Litigation against IAC
This litigation, In re IAC/InterActiveCorp Securities Litigation, pending in the United States District Court for
the Southern District of New York and arising out of the Company's August 4, 2004 announcement of its earnings for the second quarter of 2004, is described in detail on pages 29-30
of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004. The consolidated amended complaint, filed on May 20, 2005, generally alleges
that the value of the Company's stock was artificially inflated by pre-announcement statements about its financial results and forecasts that were false and misleading due to the
defendants' alleged failure to disclose various problems faced by the Company's travel businesses. The plaintiffs seek to represent a class of shareholders who purchased IAC common stock between
March 31, 2003 and August 3, 2004. The defendants are IAC and fourteen current or former officers or directors of the Company or its former Expedia travel business. The complaint
purports to assert claims under Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, as well as Sections 11
and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933, and seeks damages in an unspecified amount.
The
two related shareholder derivative actions (Garber and Butler) have been consolidated
with the securities class action for pre-trial purposes. The consolidated shareholder derivative complaint, filed on July 5, 2005 against IAC (as a nominal defendant) and sixteen
current or former officers or directors of the Company or its former Expedia travel business, is based upon factual allegations similar to those in the securities class action and purports to assert
claims for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, waste of corporate assets, unjust enrichment, violation of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act, and contribution and
indemnification. The complaint seeks an order voiding the election of the Company's current Board of Directors, as well as damages in an unspecified amount, various forms of equitable relief,
restitution, and disgorgement of remuneration received by the individual defendants from the Company.
On
September 15, 2005, IAC and the other defendants filed motions to dismiss both the securities class action and the shareholder derivative suits. The plaintiffs' responses to
the motions are scheduled to be filed by November 15, 2005.
The
Company believes that the claims in the class action and the derivative suits lack merit and will continue to defend vigorously against them.
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Consumer Class Action Litigation against Ticketmaster
Illinois. On November 22, 2002, a purported class action was filed in Illinois state court,
challenging Ticketmaster's charges to customers for UPS ticket delivery. See Mitchell B. Zaveduk, Individually and as the Representative of a Class of Similarly Situated
Persons v. Ticketmaster et al., No. 02 CH 21148 (Circuit Court, Cook County). The lawsuit alleges in essence that it is unlawful for Ticketmaster not to
disclose that the fee it charges to customers to have their tickets delivered by UPS contains a profit component. The complaint asserted claims for violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and
Deceptive Business
Practices Act and for unjust enrichment and sought restitution to the purported class of the difference between what Ticketmaster charged for UPS delivery and what it paid UPS for that service.
On
May 20, 2003, the court granted Ticketmaster's motion to dismiss the common-law claim for unjust enrichment but declined to dismiss the claim under the Illinois
statute. On July 7, 2004, the plaintiff filed an amended complaint, adding claims for breach of contract and for violation of the California Consumers' Legal Remedies Act and
Section 17200 of the California Business and Professions Code. On August 13, 2004, the court granted Ticketmaster's motion to dismiss the claim under the California Consumers' Legal
Remedies Act. On October 28, 2004, the court granted Ticketmaster's motion to dismiss the claim for breach of contract but declined again to dismiss the claim under the Illinois statute. On
June 16, 2005, the court denied Ticketmaster's motion for summary judgment on the remaining Illinois and California statutory claims. Discovery in the case has been stayed.
California. On October 21, 2003, a purported representative action was filed in California
state court, challenging Ticketmaster's charges to online customers for UPS ticket delivery. See Curt Schlesinger et al. v. Ticketmaster, No. BC304565
(Superior Court, Los Angeles County). Similar to the Illinois case, this lawsuit alleges in essence that it is unlawful for Ticketmaster not to disclose on its website that the fee it charges to
online customers to have their tickets delivered by UPS contains a profit component. The complaint asserted a claim for violation of Section 17200 of the California Business and Professions
Code and, like the Illinois case, sought restitution or disgorgement of the difference between the total UPS-delivery fees charged by Ticketmaster in connection with online ticket sales
and the amount it paid to UPS for that service.
On
January 9, 2004, the court denied Ticketmaster's motion to stay the case in favor of the earlier-filed Illinois case. On December 31, 2004, the court denied
Ticketmaster's motion for summary judgment. On April 1, 2005, the court denied the plaintiffs' motion for leave to amend their complaint to include UPS-delivery fees charged in
connection with ticket orders placed by telephone. Citing Proposition 64, a recently approved California ballot initiative that outlawed so-called "representative" actions brought on
behalf of the general public, the court ruled that since the named plaintiffs did not order their tickets by telephone, they lacked standing to assert a claim based on telephone ticket sales. The
plaintiffs were granted leave to file an amended complaint that would survive application of Proposition 64.
On
August 31, 2005, the plaintiffs filed an amended class-action and representative-action complaint alleging (i) as before, that Ticketmaster's website disclosures in
respect of its charges for UPS ticket delivery violate Section 17200 of the California Business and Professions Code, and (ii) for the first time, that Ticketmaster's website disclosures
in respect of its ticket order-processing fees constitute false advertising in violation of Section 17500 of the California Business and Professions Code. On this latter claim, the amended
complaint seeks restitution or disgorgement of the entire amount of order-processing fees charged by Ticketmaster during the applicable statute-of-limitations period.
On
September 1, 2005, in light of the newly pleaded claim based upon order-processing fees, Ticketmaster removed the case to federal court pursuant to the recently enacted federal
Class Action
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Fairness
Act. See Curt Schlesinger et al. v. Ticketmaster, No. CV-05-6515 (U.S. District Court, Central District of California.
On October 3, 2005, the plaintiffs filed a motion to remand the case to state court, which Ticketmaster has opposed. This motion was argued on November 7, 2005, and remains pending.
The
Company believes that the claims in both the Illinois and the California lawsuits lack merit and will continue to defend vigorously against them.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
The following table sets forth purchases by the Company of its Common Stock during the quarter ended September 30, 2005:
Period
|
|
(a) Total Number of
Shares Purchased
|
|
(b) Average Price
Paid Per Share(1)
|
|
(c) Total Number of Shares
Purchased as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs(2)
|
|
(d) Maximum Number of
Shares that May Yet Be
Purchased Under Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs(3)(4)
|
July 2005 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,032,954 |
August 2005 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,032,954 |
September 2005 |
|
9,870,600 |
|
$ |
25.10 |
|
9,870,600 |
|
15,162,354 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total |
|
9,870,600 |
|
$ |
25.10 |
|
9,870,600 |
|
15,162,354 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- (1)
- Reflects
the weighted average price paid per share of IAC Common Stock.
- (2)
- Reflects
repurchases made pursuant to repurchase authorizations previously announced in November 2004.
- (3)
- Represents
shares that may yet be purchased pursuant to the November 2004 repurchase authorization, as adjusted to give effect to the reverse stock split completed on
August 9, 2005. Repurchases pursuant to this authorization may be made on an opportunistic basis over an indefinite period of time, on the open market or through private transactions, depending
on those factors that IAC deems relevant at any particular time, including, without limitation, market conditions, share price and future outlook.
- (4)
- During
the period from October 1, 2005 through November 8, 2005, IAC purchased approximately 10.8 million shares of IAC Common Stock at a weighted average price
per share of $25.87. See "Part IItem 2Management's Discussion of Financial Condition and Results of OperationsFinancial Position, Liquidity and Capital
Resources."
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Annual Meeting
On July 19, 2005, the Company's annual meeting of stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") was held. Stockholders present in person or by proxy, representing
537,023,990 shares of IAC Common Stock (entitled to one vote per share), 64,629,996 shares of IAC Class B Common Stock (entitled to ten votes per share) and 13,114,586 shares of IAC Preferred
Stock (entitled to two votes per share), voted on the following matters:
1. Election of Directorsthe stockholders elected the following ten directors of the Company, three of whom were
elected by holders of IAC Common Stock only, and seven of whom were elected by holders of IAC Common Stock, IAC Class B Common Stock and IAC Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class,
each to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders or until
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their
successors have been duly elected and qualified. In each case, the affirmative vote of a plurality of the total number of votes cast was required to elect each director. Stockholders eligible to
vote voted as follows:
Holders
of IAC Common Stock, voting as a separate class:
|
|
Number of Votes Cast in
Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast
Against or For Which
Authority Was Withheld
|
Donald R. Keough |
|
533,060,987 |
|
3,963,003 |
Bryan Lourd |
|
532,662,186 |
|
4,361,804 |
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
|
533,287,026 |
|
3,736,964 |
Holders
of IAC Common Stock, IAC Class B Common Stock and IAC Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class:
|
|
Number of Votes Cast
in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast
Against or For Which
Authority Was Withheld
|
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. |
|
1,205,550,216 |
|
4,002,906 |
Barry Diller |
|
1,177,878,108 |
|
31,675,014 |
Victor A. Kaufman |
|
1,177,905,762 |
|
31,647,360 |
Marie-Josée Kravis |
|
1,205,774,435 |
|
3,778,687 |
Steven Rattner |
|
1,205,955,933 |
|
3,597,189 |
Alan G. Spoon |
|
1,205,962,007 |
|
3,591,115 |
Diane Von Furstenberg |
|
1,175,942,878 |
|
33,610,244 |
2. The Spin-Off Proposalthe stockholders approved amendments to IAC's Certificate of Incorporation
that would effect the spin-off of Expedia, Inc. (the "Spin-Off"). The affirmative vote of (i) the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Common
Stock, voting as a separate class, (ii) the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Class B Common Stock, voting as a separate class, (iii) a majority of the voting
power represented by all outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class and (iv) a majority of the shares of IAC
Common Stock actually voting, excluding shares owned or controlled by IAC management, was required to approve the Spin-Off Proposal. Stockholders eligible to vote voted as follows:
Holders
of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, voting as a separate class:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
491,541,057 |
|
545,549 |
|
189,130 |
|
44,748,254 |
Holders
of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Class B Common Stock, voting as a separate class:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
646,299,960 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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A majority of the voting power represented by all outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
1,163,784,081 |
|
548,125 |
|
189,206 |
|
45,031,710 |
A
majority of the shares of IAC Common Stock actually voting, excluding shares owned or controlled by IAC management:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
358,772,827 |
|
545,549 |
|
189,130 |
3. The Reverse Stock Split Proposalthe stockholders approved amendments to IAC's Certificate of Incorporation to
effect a one-for-two reverse stock split of IAC Common Stock and Class B Common Stock. The affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power represented by all
outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class, was required to approve the Reverse Stock Split Proposal, which was
conditioned upon the completion of the Spin-Off. Stockholders eligible to vote voted as follows:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
1,148,639,075 |
|
1,801,096 |
|
14,081,241 |
|
45,031,710 |
4. The Corporate Opportunity Proposalthe stockholders approved the addition of new provisions to IAC's
Certificate of Incorporation that generally provide that no IAC officer or director who is also an Expedia officer or director will be liable for breach of fiduciary duty because such individual
directs a corporate opportunity to Expedia instead of IAC or does not communicate information regarding a corporate opportunity to IAC that the officer or director has directed to Expedia. The
affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power represented by all outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class, was
required to approve the Corporate Opportunity Proposal, which was conditioned upon the completion of the Spin-Off. Stockholders eligible to vote voted as follows:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
1,160,975,333 |
|
3,044,431 |
|
501,648 |
|
45,031,710 |
5. The Director Removal Proposalthe stockholders approved an amendment to IAC's Certificate of Incorporation
that deleted the provision regarding removal of directors so that IAC's Bylaws will govern director removal procedures under Delaware law. The affirmative vote of (i) the holders of a majority
of the outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, voting as a separate class, (ii) the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Class B Common Stock, voting as a separate
class and (iii) a majority of the voting power represented by all outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class, was
required to approve the Director Removal Proposal. Stockholders eligible to vote voted as follows:
Holders
of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, voting as a separate class:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
473,615,551 |
|
2,355,835 |
|
16,304,350 |
|
44,748,254 |
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Holders
of a majority of the outstanding shares of IAC Class B Common Stock, voting as a separate class:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
646,299,960 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
A
majority of the voting power represented by all outstanding shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
1,145,859,867 |
|
2,357,195 |
|
16,304,350 |
|
45,031,710 |
6. The 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan ProposalThe stockholders approved the IAC/InterActiveCorp 2005 Stock
and Annual Incentive Plan. The affirmative vote of a majority of the total voting power of those shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock present in person or
represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting, voting together as a single class, was required to approve the 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan Proposal. Stockholders eligible to vote voted as
follows:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
|
Number of Broker No Votes
|
1,109,095,884 |
|
55,003,991 |
|
421,537 |
|
45,031,710 |
7. The Auditor Ratification Proposalthe holders of IAC Common Stock, IAC Class B Common Stock and IAC
Preferred Stock, voting as a single class, also ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent auditors for the year ended December 31, 2005. The affirmative
vote of a majority of the total voting power of those shares of IAC Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and Preferred Stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting,
voting together as a single class, was required to approve the Auditor Ratification Proposal. Those shareholders eligible to vote voted as follows:
Number of Votes Cast in Favor
|
|
Number of Votes Cast Against
|
|
Number of Votes Abstaining
|
1,194,678,395 |
|
14,642,204 |
|
232,523 |
Item 6. Exhibits
Exhibit No.
|
|
Description
|
|
Location
|
2.1 |
|
Separation Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2005, between IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc. |
|
|
3.1 |
|
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of IAC/InterActiveCorp. |
|
Exhibit 3.1 to IAC's Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A, filed on August 12, 2005. |
3.2 |
|
Certificate of Designations of Series B Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock of IAC/InterActiveCorp. |
|
Exhibit 3.2 to IAC's Registration Statement on Form 8-A/A, filed on August 12, 2005. |
3.3 |
|
Amended and Restated ByLaws of IAC/InterActiveCorp. |
|
Exhibit 99.1 to IAC's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 20, 2002. |
|
|
|
|
|
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4.1 |
|
Second Supplemental Indenture (relating to the Zero Coupon Subordinated Convertible Notes of Ask Jeeves, Inc.), dated as of August 9, 2005, by and among IAC/InterActiveCorp, Ask Jeeves, Inc. and the Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as
Trustee. |
|
Exhibit 4.4 to IAC's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 22, 2005. |
4.2 |
|
In accordance with Item 601 (b) (4) (iii) (A) of Regulation S-K, certain instruments relating to long-term obligations of the Company have been omitted but will be furnished to the Commission upon request. |
|
|
10.1 |
|
Amended and Restated Governance Agreement, among IAC/InterActiveCorp, Liberty Media Corporation and Barry Diller, dated as of August 9, 2005. |
|
|
10.2 |
|
Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement between Liberty Media Corporation and Barry Diller, dated as of August 9, 2005. |
|
|
10.3 |
|
Tax Sharing Agreement between IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc., dated as of August 9, 2005. |
|
|
10.4 |
* |
Employee Matters Agreement between IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc., dated as of August 9, 2005. |
|
|
10.5 |
|
Transition Services Agreement between IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia, Inc., dated as of August 9, 2005. |
|
|
10.7 |
* |
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for the IAC/InterActiveCorp 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan |
|
|
10.8 |
* |
Stock Option Agreement between IAC/InterActiveCorp and Barry Diller, dated as of June 7, 2005. |
|
|
10.9 |
* |
Amendment No. 1, dated as of June 6, 2005, to Agreement dated as of February 5, 2004, between Victor Kaufman and IAC/InterActiveCorp. |
|
|
31.1 |
|
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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31.2 |
|
Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
|
|
32.1 |
|
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
|
|
32.2 |
|
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
|
|
- *
- Reflects
management contracts and management and director compensatory arrangements.
-
- Filed
herewith.
-
- Furnished
herewith.
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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.
November 9, 2005 |
|
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP |
|
|
By: |
|
/s/ BARRY DILLER Barry Diller Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Signature
|
|
Title
|
|
Date
|
|
|
|
|
|
/s/ BARRY DILLER Barry Diller |
|
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director |
|
November 9, 2005 |
/s/ THOMAS J. MCINERNEY Thomas J. McInerney |
|
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
|
November 9, 2005 |
/s/ MICHAEL H. SCHWERDTMAN Michael H. Schwerdtman |
|
Senior Vice President and Controller (Chief Accounting Officer) |
|
November 9, 2005 |
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PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION
PART II OTHER INFORMATION
SIGNATURES
Exhibit 2.1
EXECUTION COPY
SEPARATION AGREEMENT
by and between
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
and
EXPEDIA, INC.
Dated as of August 9, 2005
SEPARATION
AGREEMENT
This
SEPARATION AGREEMENT, dated as of August 9, 2005, is entered into by and
between IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware corporation (IAC), and Expedia, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation and wholly owned Subsidiary of IAC (Expedia).
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, the
Board of Directors of IAC (IAC Board) has determined it is appropriate
and desirable to separate IAC and Expedia into two publicly-traded companies by
separating IACs principal travel and travel-related businesses, and related
assets and liabilities, and contributing them to Expedia and effecting a
reclassification of the capital stock of IAC pursuant to the Charter Amendments
(as defined below);
WHEREAS, the
IAC Board has adopted a resolution approving an amendment to IACs restated
certificate of incorporation (the Reverse Stock Split Charter Amendment)
and recommended that the holders of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of
IAC (Old IAC Common Stock), holders of Class B common stock, par
value $0.01 per share, of IAC (Old IAC Class B Common Stock), and
holders of Series A Cumulative Convertible preferred stock, par value
$0.01 per share, of IAC (Old IAC Series A Preferred Stock, and
together with Old IAC Common Stock and Old IAC Class B Common Stock, the Old
IAC Capital Stock) approve and adopt the Reverse Stock Split Charter Amendment
in conformity with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware (the DGCL), pursuant to which IAC will effectuate a
one-for-two reverse stock split with respect to Old IAC Common Stock and Old
IAC Class B Common Stock (the Reverse Stock Split);
WHEREAS, the
IAC Board has adopted a resolution approving amendments to IACs restated
certificate of incorporation (the Spin-Off Charter Amendments, and
together with the Reverse Stock Split Charter Amendment, the Charter
Amendments) and recommended that the holders of Old IAC Capital Stock approve
and adopt the Spin-Off Charter Amendments in conformity with Section 242
of the DGCL, whereby, among other matters, the Old IAC Common Stock and the Old
IAC Class B Common Stock will be reclassified (the Reclassification)
as follows:
Each then
issued and outstanding share of Old IAC Common Stock will be reclassified into (a) one
share of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of IAC (New IAC Common
Stock) and (b) 1/100th of a share of Series 1 Mandatory
Exchangeable preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of IAC (the New
IAC Series 1 Preferred Stock), which 1/100th of a share of New IAC Series 1
Preferred Stock shall, pursuant to its terms, automatically and immediately
exchange into one share of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of Expedia
(Expedia Common Stock);
Each then
issued and outstanding share of Old IAC Class B Common Stock will be
reclassified into (a) one share of Class B common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, of IAC and (b) 1/100th of a share of Series 2
Mandatory Exchangeable preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of IAC (the New
IAC Series 2 Preferred Stock), which 1/100th of a share of New IAC Series 2
Preferred Stock shall, pursuant to its terms, automatically and immediately exchange
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into one share of Class B common stock,
par value $0.001 per share, of Expedia (Expedia Class B Common Stock);
WHEREAS, at
IACs Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on July 19, 2005, the holders of
Old IAC Capital Stock approved the Charter Amendments by the requisite votes
required under the DGCL (and otherwise);
WHEREAS, in
connection with the Reclassification, holders of Old IAC Series A
Preferred Stock will receive one of the following, at the holders option, in
respect of each share of Old IAC Series A Preferred Stock: (a) $50.00 in cash plus accrued and
unpaid dividends, (b) the securities that the holder would have received
had the share of Old IAC Series A Preferred Stock been converted based
upon the applicable conversion ratio into shares of Old IAC Common Stock
immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification or (c) one
share of Series A Convertible preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share,
of Expedia (Expedia Series A Preferred Stock) and one share of Series B
Convertible preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, of IAC (New IAC Series B
Preferred Stock);
WHEREAS,
pursuant to their terms, the warrants to purchase shares of Old IAC Common
Stock set forth on Schedule 1.01(a) (the Old IAC Severable
Warrants) will be converted into (a) warrants to purchase shares of
New IAC Common Stock (New IAC Unitary Warrants) and (b) warrants
to purchase shares of Expedia Common Stock (Expedia Warrants);
WHEREAS,
pursuant to their terms, the warrants to purchase shares of Old IAC Common
Stock set forth on Schedule 1.01(b) (the Old IAC
Integrated Warrants, and together with the Old IAC Severable Warrants, the Old IAC Warrants)
will be converted into warrants to purchase shares of New IAC Common Stock and
shares of Expedia Common Stock (New IAC Integrated Warrants);
WHEREAS, the
Parties wish to set forth in this Agreement the terms on which, and the conditions
subject to which, they intend to implement the measures described above; and
WHEREAS, IAC
and Expedia intend that the Separation (as defined below) and the Reclassification
will qualify for United States federal income tax purposes as transactions that
are generally tax free under Sections 355 and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code) and hereby adopt the
Agreement as a plan of reorganization.
NOW THEREFORE,
in consideration of the mutual agreements, covenants and other provisions set
forth in this Agreement, the Parties hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
INTERPRETATION
1.01. Definitions. The capitalized words and expressions and
variations thereof used in this Agreement or in its schedules, unless a clearly
inconsistent meaning is required under the context, shall have the meanings set
forth below:
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2005
Internal Control Audit and Management Assessments has the meaning set
forth in Section 12.01(b).
AAA
has the meaning set forth in Section 10.03.
Accounts
Receivable means in respect of any Person, (a) all trade accounts and
notes receivable and other rights to payment from customers and all security
for such accounts or rights to payment, including all trade accounts receivable
representing amounts receivable in respect of goods shipped or products sold or
otherwise disposed of or services rendered to customers, (b) all other
accounts and notes receivable and all security for such accounts or notes, and (c) any
claim, remedy or other right relating to any of the foregoing.
Action
means any demand, action, suit, countersuit, arbitration, inquiry, proceeding
or investigation by any Person or any Governmental Authority or before any
Governmental Authority or any arbitration or mediation tribunal.
Adjusted
Exercise Price has the meaning set forth in Section 4.03(a)(ii).
Affiliate
of any Person means any other Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with such first Person as of the date
on which or at any time during the period for when such determination is being
made. For purposes of this definition, Control
means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through
the ownership of voting securities or other interests, by contract or
otherwise, and the terms Controlling and Controlled have
meanings correlative to the foregoing.
Agent
has the meaning set forth in Section 4.04.
Agreement
means this Separation Agreement, including all of the Schedules and Exhibits
hereto.
Ancillary
Agreements has the meaning set forth in Section 2.09.
Applicable
Law means any applicable law, statute, rule or regulation of any
Governmental Authority or any outstanding order, judgment, injunction, ruling
or decree by any Governmental Authority.
Appurtenances
means, in respect of any Land, all privileges, rights, easements, servitudes,
hereditaments and appurtenances and similar interests belonging to or for the
benefit of such Land, including all easements and servitudes appurtenant to and
for the benefit of any Land (a Dominant Parcel) for, and as the
primary means of, access between, the Dominant Parcel and a public way, or for
any other use upon which lawful use of the Dominant Parcel for the purposes for
which it is presently being used is dependent, and all rights existing in and
to any streets, alleys, passages and other rights-of-way included therein or
adjacent thereto.
Asset-Related
Claims means, in respect of any Asset, all claims of the owner against
Third Parties relating to such Asset, whether choate or inchoate, known or
unknown, absolute or contingent, disclosed or non-disclosed.
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Assets
means assets, properties and rights (including goodwill), wherever located
(including in the possession of owners or Third Parties or elsewhere), whether
real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, in each case
whether or not recorded or reflected or required to be recorded or reflected on
the books and records or financial statements of a Person, including the
following:
(a) Real Property;
(b) Tangible Personal Property;
(c) Inventories;
(d) Accounts Receivable;
(e) Contractual Assets;
(f) Governmental Authorizations;
(g) Business Records;
(h) Intangible Property Rights;
(i) Insurance Benefits;
(j) Asset-Related Claims; and
(k) Deposit Rights.
Assumed
Liabilities has the meaning set forth in Section 2.06.
Business
Concern means any corporation, company, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated association or any other form
of association.
Business
Day means any day excluding (a) Saturday, Sunday and any other day
which, in New York City is a legal holiday or (b) a day on which banks are
authorized by Applicable Law to close in New York City.
Business
Records means, in respect of any Person, all data and Records relating to
such Person, including client and customer lists and Records, referral sources,
research and development reports and Records, cost information, sales and
pricing data, customer prospect lists, customer and vendor data, production
reports and Records, service and warranty Records, equipment logs, operating
guides and manuals, financial and accounting Records, personnel Records
(subject to Applicable Law), creative materials, advertising materials,
promotional materials, studies, reports, correspondence and other similar documents
and records.
Charter
Amendments shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Claim
Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(b).
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Code
has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Confidential
Information has the meaning set forth in Section 9.07(a).
Consent
means any approval, consent, ratification, waiver or other authorization.
Contract
means any contract, agreement, lease, purchase and/or commitment, license,
consensual obligation, promise or undertaking (whether written or oral and
whether express or implied) that is legally binding on any Person or any part
of its property under Applicable Law, including all claims or rights against
any Person, choses in action and similar rights, whether accrued or contingent
with respect to any such contract, agreement, lease, purchase and/or
commitment, license, consensual obligation, promise or undertaking, but
excluding this Agreement and any Ancillary Agreement save as otherwise expressly
provided in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement.
Contractual
Asset means, in respect of any Person, any Contract of, or relating to,
such Person, any outstanding offer or solicitation made by, or to, such Person
to enter into any Contract, and any promise or undertaking made by any other Person
to such Person, whether or not legally binding.
Corporate
Contract has the meaning set forth in Section 5.03.
Corporate
Contracts has the meaning set forth in Section 5.03.
Deferred
Beneficiary has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(b).
Deferred
Excluded Asset has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a).
Deferred
Separated Asset has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a).
Deferred
Transactions has the meaning set forth in Section 11.01(a)(ii).
Deferred
Transfer Asset has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a).
Deposit
Rights means rights relating to deposits and prepaid expenses, claims for
refunds and rights of set-off in respect thereof.
DGCL
has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Disclosing
Party has the meaning set forth in Section 9.08.
Dispute
has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02(a).
Dispute
Notice has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02(a).
Effective
Date means August 9, 2005.
Effective
Date Cash Balance has the meaning set forth in Section 5.05.
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Effective
Time means 9:15 a.m., New York City time, on the Effective Date.
EHS
Liabilities means any Liability arising from or under any Environmental
Law or Occupational Health and Safety Law.
Employee
Matters Agreement means the Employee Matters Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A.
Encumbrance
means, with respect to any asset, mortgages, liens, hypothecations, pledges,
charges, security interests or encumbrances of any kind in respect of such
asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under Applicable
Law.
Environmental
Law means any Applicable Law from any Governmental Authority (a) relating
to the protection of the environment (including air, water, soil and natural resources)
or (b) the use, storage, handling, release or disposal of Hazardous
Substances.
Escrow
Agent has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a).
Escrow
Agreement has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a).
Exchange
Act means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Excluded
Assets has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a).
Expedia
has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Expedia
Annual Report has the meaning set forth in Section 12.01(d).
Expedias
Auditors has the meaning set forth in Section 12.01(a).
Expedia
Claims has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(a).
Expedia Class B
Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Expedia
Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Expedia
Common Stock Escrow Account has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a).
Expedia
Conversion Obligations has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(c).
Expedia
Escrow Shares has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a).
Expedia Group means the Separated
Entities, the domestic and international businesses, Subsidiaries and
investments owned, operated and/or managed thereby and the assets and liabilities
contained therein.
Expedia
Group Balance Sheet means the combined balance sheet of Expedia Group as
of June 30, 2005, substantially in the form attached as Schedule 1.01(c).
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Expedia
Indemnified Parties has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03.
Expedia
Opening Balance Sheet has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(e).
Expedia
Parties has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(b).
Expedia
Releasors has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(a).
Expedia Series A
Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Expedia
Warrant Factor means 0.88933, which equals (x) $22.50, the closing
per-share price of Expedia Common Stock in the when issued market on August 8,
2005, as listed on the NASDAQ as of 4:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight time,
divided by (y) $25.30, the closing per-share price of Old IAC Common Stock
trading regular way on August 8, 2005, as listed on the NASDAQ as of
4:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight time.
Expedia
Warrants has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
GAAP
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(d).
Governmental
Authority means any local, state, national or supranational court,
arbitration panel, governmental or regulatory authority, agency, stock exchange,
commission or body in any jurisdiction in or outside of the United States.
Governmental Authorization means any
Consent, license, certificate, franchise, registration or permit issued,
granted, given or otherwise made available by, or under the authority of, any
Governmental Authority or pursuant to any Applicable Law.
Ground
Lease means any long-term lease (including any emphyteotic lease) of Land
in which most of the rights and benefits comprising ownership of the Land and
the Improvements thereon or to be constructed thereon, if any, and the Appurtenances
thereto for the benefit thereof, are transferred to the tenant for the term
thereof.
Ground
Lease Property means, in respect of any Person, any Land, Improvement or Appurtenance
of such Person that is subject to a Ground Lease.
Group
means IAC Group or Expedia Group, as the context requires.
Hazardous
Substance means any substance to the extent presently listed, defined,
designated or classified as hazardous, toxic or radioactive under any applicable
Environmental Law, including petroleum and any derivative or by-products
thereof.
IAC
has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
IACs
Auditors has the meaning set forth in Section 12.01(a).
IAC Board
has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
IAC
Businesses means the Separated Businesses and the Remaining IAC Businesses.
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IAC Claims
has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(b).
IAC Group
means IAC, its Subsidiaries (other than any member of Expedia Group) and their
respective domestic and international businesses, assets and liabilities.
IAC
Indemnified Parties has the meaning set forth in Section 7.02.
IAC
Parties has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(a).
IAC
Releasors has the meaning set forth in Section 7.01(b).
IAC
Warrant Factor means 1.11067, which equals (x) $28.10, the closing
per-share price of New IAC Common Stock in the when issued market on August 8,
2005, as listed on the NASDAQ as of 4:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight time,
divided by (y) $25.30, the closing per-share price of Old IAC Common Stock
trading regular way on August 8, 2005, as listed on the NASDAQ as of
4:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight time.
Improvements
means, in respect of any Land, all buildings, structures, plants, fixtures and
improvements located on such Land, including those under construction.
Indemnified
Party has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(a).
Indemnifying
Party has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(b).
Indenture
has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(b).
Information
means any information, whether or not patentable or copyrightable, in written,
oral, electronic or other tangible or intangible forms, stored in any medium,
including studies, reports, test procedures, research, records, books,
contracts, instruments, surveys, discoveries, ideas, concepts, know-how,
techniques, manufacturing techniques, manufacturing variables, designs,
specifications, drawings, blueprints, diagrams, models, prototypes, samples,
products, product plans, flow charts, data, computer data, disks, diskettes,
tapes, computer programs or other software, marketing plans, customer information,
customer services, supplier information, communications by or to attorneys
(including attorney-client privileged communications), memos and other
materials prepared by attorneys or under their direction (including attorney
work product), and other technical, financial, employee or business information
or data.
Insurance
Benefits means, in respect of any Asset or Liability, all insurance
benefits, including rights to Insurance Proceeds, arising from or relating to
such Asset or Liability.
Insurance
Proceeds means those monies (in each case net of any costs or expenses incurred
in the collection thereof and net of any applicable premium adjustments (including
reserves and retrospectively rated premium adjustments)):
(a) received by an insured from an insurance carrier; or
(b) paid by an insurance carrier on behalf of the insured.
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Intangible
Property Rights means, in respect of any Person, all intangible rights and
property of such Person, including IT Assets, going concern value and goodwill.
Intercompany
Accounts means all balances related to indebtedness, including any intercompany
indebtedness, loan, guaranty, receivable, payable or other account between a
member of IAC Group, on the one hand, and a member of Expedia Group, on the
other hand.
Inventories
means, in respect of any Person, all inventories of such Person wherever
located, including all finished goods, (whether or not held at any location or
facility of such Person or in transit to or from such Person), work in process,
raw materials, spare parts and all other materials and supplies to be used or
consumed by the Person in production of finished goods.
IT Assets
means computers, computer software, firmware, middleware, servers,
workstations, routers, hubs, switches, data communications lines, all other
information technology equipments and all associated documentation.
Jeeves
has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(b).
Jeeves
Notes has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(a).
Jeeves
Supplemental Indenture has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(b).
Land
means, in respect of any Person, all parcels and tracts of land in which the
Person has an ownership interest.
Liability
means, with respect to any Person, any and all losses, claims, charges, debts,
demands, actions, causes of action, suits, damages, obligations, payments,
costs and expenses, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, specialties,
indemnities and similar obligations, exoneration covenants, contracts,
controversies, agreements, promises, doings, omissions, variances, guarantees,
make whole agreements and similar obligations, and other liabilities and
requirements, including all contractual obligations, whether absolute or
contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, accrued or
unaccrued, known or unknown, joint or several, whenever arising, and including
those arising under any Applicable Law, Action, threatened or contemplated
Action (including the costs and expenses of demands, assessments, judgments,
settlements and compromises relating thereto and attorneys fees and any and
all costs and expenses, whatsoever reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing
or defending against any such Actions or threatened or contemplated Actions) or
Order of any Governmental Authority or any award of any arbitrator or mediator
of any kind, and those arising under any contract, commitment or undertaking,
in each case, whether or not recorded or reflected or otherwise disclosed or
required to be recorded or reflected or otherwise disclosed, on the books and
records or financial statements of any Person, including any Specified
Financial Liability, EHS Liability or Liability for Taxes.
NASDAQ
means the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. Automated Quotation
System.
New IAC
Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
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New IAC
Integrated Warrants has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
New IAC Series 1
Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
New IAC Series 2
Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
New IAC Series B
Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
New IAC
Unitary Warrants has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Notice
Period has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(b).
Occupational
Health and Safety Law means any Applicable Law designed to provide safe
and healthful working conditions and to reduce occupational safety and health
hazards, and any program, whether governmental or private (such as those
promulgated or sponsored by industry associations and insurance companies),
designed to provide safe and healthful working conditions.
Old IAC
Capital Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Old IAC Class B
Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Old IAC
Common Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Old IAC Series A
Preferred Stock has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Old IAC
Integrated Warrants has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Old IAC
Severable Warrants has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Old IAC
Warrants has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Order
means any order, injunction, judgment, decree, ruling, assessment or arbitration
award of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator.
Ordinary
Course of Business means any action taken by a Person that is in the
ordinary course of the normal, day-to-day operations of such Person and is
consistent with the past practices of such Person.
Parties
together and each Party individually, means the parties to this Agreement
and, in the singular, means either of them.
Person
means any individual, Business Concern or Governmental Authority.
Potential
Contributor has the meaning set forth in Section 7.06(a).
Prime Rate
means the rate which JPMorgan Chase & Co. (or any successor thereto or
other major money center commercial bank agreed to by the Parties hereto)
announces from time to time as its prime lending rate, as in effect from time
to time.
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Providing
Party has the meaning set forth in Section 9.08.
Real
Property means any Land and Improvements and all Appurtenances thereto and
any Ground Lease Property.
Reclassification
has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Record
means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in
an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
Registered
Securities means the shares of New IAC Common Stock, the shares of New Expedia
Common Stock, the shares of New IAC Series B Preferred Stock, the shares
of Expedia Series A Preferred Stock, certain of the New IAC Unitary
Warrants and certain of the Expedia Warrants.
Registration
Statement means the registration statement on Form S-4 first filed by
IAC and Expedia with the SEC on April 25, 2005 (together with all
amendments thereto) in connection with the registration under the Securities
Act of the Registered Securities.
Regulation
S-K means Regulation S-K of the General Rules and Regulations
promulgated by the SEC pursuant to the Securities Act.
Remaining
IAC Businesses means all IAC Businesses other than the Separated Businesses.
Remaining
IAC Entity means any Business Concern that is a member of IAC Group on and
after the Effective Time.
Representatives
means, with respect to any Person, any of such Persons directors, officers,
employees, agents, consultants, advisors, accountants or attorneys.
Requesting
Party has the meaning set forth in Section 9.01(a).
Response has the meaning set forth in
Section 10.02(a).
Retained
Liabilities has the meaning set forth in Section 2.06.
Retaining
Person has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(b).
Reverse
Stock Split has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Reverse
Stock Split Charter Amendment has the meaning set forth in the recitals
hereto.
SEC
means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Securities
Act means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Senior
Party Representatives has the meaning set forth in Section 10.02(a).
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Separated
Assets has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03.
Separated
Businesses means those domestic and international travel and
travel-related businesses, Subsidiaries and investments owned, operated and/or
managed by the Separated Entities.
Separated
Entities means those Business Concerns which are identified on Schedule 2.03(b) and
which on and after the Effective Time shall form part of Expedia Group.
Separation
means the transfer of the Separated Entities and Separated Businesses, directly
or indirectly, from IAC to Expedia.
Services has the meaning ascribed
thereto in the Transition Services Agreement.
Shared
Litigation Liability means any Liability from, relating to, arising out
of, or derivative of any matter, claim or litigation, whether actual or
potential, associated with any securities law litigation relating to any public
disclosure (or absence of public disclosure) with respect to the Separated
Businesses or the Separated Entities made by IAC prior to the Effective Time,
including the fees and expenses of outside counsel retained by IAC in
connection with the defense and/or settlement of any such matter. For purposes of this definition, the phrase securities
law litigation shall include claims alleging any untrue statement of material
fact or omission to state a material fact in alleged violation of the Securities
Act, the Exchange Act or any similar state law and any claims premised on,
related to or derivative of such alleged statements, omissions or violations,
whether payable to any current, past or future holders of IAC or Expedia
securities, to any of the co-defendants in such action or to any Governmental
Authority. For the avoidance of doubt,
Shared Litigation Liability shall include those matters set forth on Schedule 2.06(c).
Notwithstanding anything in Section 7.06
to the contrary, the amount of any Shared Litigation Liability shall be net of
any Insurance Proceeds actually recovered by or on behalf of any member of IAC
Group or any member of Expedia Group.
Specified
Financial Liabilities or SFLS mean, in respect of any Person, all
liabilities, obligations, contingencies, instruments and other Liabilities of a
financial nature with Third Parties of, or relating to, such Person, including
any of the following:
(a) foreign exchange contracts;
(b) letters of credit;
(c) guarantees of Third Party loans;
(d) surety bonds (excluding surety for workers compensation
self-insurance);
(e) interest support agreements on Third Party loans;
(f) performance bonds or guarantees
issued by Third Parties;
(g) swaps or other derivatives contracts;
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(h) recourse arrangements on the sale of receivables or notes;
and
(i) indemnities for damages for any
breach of, or any inaccuracy in, any representation or warranty or any breach
of, or failure to perform or comply with, any covenant, undertaking or obligation.
Spin-Off
Charter Amendments has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Subsidiary
of any Person means any corporation, partnership, limited liability entity,
joint venture or other organization, whether incorporated or unincorporated, of
which a majority of the total voting power of capital stock or other interests
entitled (without the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of
directors, managers or trustees thereof, is at the time owned or controlled,
directly or indirectly, by such Person.
Tangible
Personal Property means, in respect of any Person, all machinery,
equipment, tools, furniture, office equipment, supplies, materials, vehicles
and other items of tangible personal or movable property (other than
Inventories and IT Assets) of every kind and wherever located that are owned or
leased by the Person, together with any express or implied warranty by the manufacturers,
sellers or lessors of any item or component part thereof and all maintenance
Records and other documents relating thereto.
Tax
has the meaning set forth in the Tax Sharing Agreement.
Tax
Sharing Agreement means the Tax Sharing Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit B.
Third
Party means a Person that is not a Party to this Agreement, other than a
member of IAC Group or a member of Expedia Group, and that is not an Affiliate
thereof.
Third
Party Claim has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(b).
Third
Party Consent has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07.
Transfer
Impediment has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a).
Transition
Service Schedule has the meaning set forth in the Transition Services Agreement.
Transition
Services Agreement means the Transition Services Agreement attached hereto
as Exhibit C.
Trustee
has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04(b).
Unreleased
Liabilities has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02.
Unreleased
Person has the meaning set forth in Section 3.02.
1.02. Schedules. The following schedules are attached to this
Agreement and form a part hereof:
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Schedule 1.01(a)
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Old IAC Severable Warrants
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Schedule 1.01(b)
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Old IAC Integrated Warrants
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Schedule 1.01(c)
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Expedia Group Balance Sheet
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Schedule 2.03(a)
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Separated Assets
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Schedule 2.03(b)
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Separated Entities
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Schedule 2.06(a)
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Assumed Liabilities
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Schedule 2.06(b)
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Retained Liabilities
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Schedule 2.06(c)
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Shared Litigation Liabilities
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1.03. Exhibits. The following exhibits are attached to this
Agreement and form a part hereof:
Exhibit A
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Employee Matters Agreement
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Exhibit B
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Tax Sharing Agreement
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Exhibit C
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Transition Services Agreement
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ARTICLE II
THE
SEPARATION
2.01. Separation. To the extent not already complete, IAC and
Expedia agree to implement the Separation and to cause the Separated Businesses
to be transferred to Expedia and its Subsidiaries and the Remaining IAC Businesses
to be held by IAC and its Subsidiaries (other than Expedia or its Subsidiaries)
as of the Effective Time, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
in this Agreement. The Parties
acknowledge that the Separation is intended to result in Expedia, directly or
indirectly, operating the Separated Businesses, owning the Separated Assets and
assuming the Assumed Liabilities as set forth in this Article II.
2.02. Transfer
of Separated Assets; Assumption of Assumed Liabilities. On the terms and subject to the conditions
set forth in this Agreement, and in furtherance of the Separation, with effect
as of the Effective Time:
(a) To the extent not already complete, IAC agrees to
cause the Separated Assets to be contributed, assigned, transferred, conveyed
and delivered, directly or indirectly, to Expedia and Expedia agrees to accept
from IAC all of the Separated Assets and all of IACs rights, title and
interest in and to all Separated Assets, except with respect to the Deferred
Separated Assets and Unreleased Liabilities, if any.
(b) Expedia agrees to accept, assume and faithfully perform,
discharge and fulfill all of the Assumed Liabilities in accordance with their
respective terms.
2.03. Separated
Assets. For the purposes of this Agreement, Separated
Assets shall mean, without duplication, those Assets whether now existing,
used or contemplated to be used or held for use exclusively or primarily in the
ownership, operation or conduct of the Separated Businesses or relating
exclusively or primarily to the Separated Businesses or to a Separated Entity
including the following:
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(a) all Assets expressly identified in this Agreement
or in any Ancillary Agreement or in any Schedule hereto or thereto,
including those listed on Schedule 2.03(a), as Assets to be
transferred to, or retained by, Expedia or any other member of Expedia Group;
(b) the outstanding capital stock, units or other equity
interests of the Separated Entities (including the Assets owned by such Separated
Entities), as listed on Schedule 2.03(b);
(c) all Assets properly reflected on the Expedia Group
Balance Sheet (Schedule 1.01(c)), excluding Assets disposed of by
IAC or any other Subsidiary or entity controlled by IAC subsequent to the date
of the Expedia Group Balance Sheet;
(d) all Assets that have been written off, expensed or
fully depreciated by IAC or any Subsidiary or entity controlled by IAC that,
had they not been written off, expensed or fully depreciated, would have been
reflected on the Expedia Group Balance Sheet in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP);
(e) all Assets acquired by IAC or any Subsidiary or
entity controlled by IAC after the date of the Expedia Group Balance Sheet and
that would be reflected on the balance sheet of Expedia as of the Effective
Date (the Expedia Opening Balance Sheet), if such balance sheet were
prepared in accordance with GAAP; and
(f) all Assets transferred to Expedia or any member of
the Expedia Group pursuant to Section 11.01(a); provided, however,
that any such transfer shall take effect under Section 11.01(a) and
not under this Section 2.03.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, there shall be excluded from the definition of Assets under this
Section 2.03 Business Records to the extent they are included in or
primarily relate to any Excluded Asset or Retained Liability or Remaining IAC
Business or their transfer is prohibited by Applicable Law or pursuant to
agreements between IAC or any other member of IAC Group and Third Parties or
otherwise would subject IAC or any other member of IAC Group to liability for
such transfer. Access to such excluded
Business Records shall be governed by Article IX.
2.04. Deferred
Separated Assets. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in Section 2.03 or elsewhere in this Agreement, Separated Assets
shall not include the Deferred Separated Assets. The transfer to Expedia (or
any other member of the Expedia Group) of any such Deferred Separated Asset
shall only be completed at the time, in the manner and subject to the
conditions set forth in Article III.
2.05. Excluded
Assets. (a) Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in Section 2.03 or elsewhere in this Agreement, the
following Assets of IAC or of any other relevant member of IAC Group shall not
be transferred to Expedia (or any other member of Expedia Group), shall not
form part of the Separated Assets and shall remain the exclusive property of
IAC or the relevant member of IAC Group on and after the Effective Time (the Excluded
Assets):
(i) any Asset
referred to in Section 2.05(b); and
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(ii) any Asset
transferred to IAC or to any other relevant member of IAC Group pursuant to Section 11.01(a);
provided, however, that any such transfers shall take effect
under Section 11.01(a) and not under this Section 2.05.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Agreement, Excluded Assets shall not include the Deferred Excluded Assets. The transfer to IAC (or to the relevant member
of IAC Group) of any such Asset shall be completed at the time, in the manner
and subject to the conditions set forth in Article III.
2.06. Liabilities. For the purposes of this Agreement,
Liabilities shall be identified as Assumed Liabilities or as Retained
Liabilities under the following principles:
(a) any Liability which is expressly identified on Schedule 2.06(a) is
an Assumed Liability;
(b) any Liability which is expressly identified on Schedule 2.06(b) is
a Retained Liability;
(c) 50% of any Shared Litigation Liability shall be an
Assumed Liability and 50% of any Shared Litigation Liability shall be a
Retained Liability;
(d) any Liability of a Separated Entity, whether
arising or accruing prior to, on or after the Effective Time and whether the
facts on which it is based occurred on, prior to or after the Effective Time
and whether or not reflected on the Expedia Group Balance Sheet or on the
Expedia Opening Balance Sheet, is an Assumed Liability, unless it is expressly
identified in this Agreement (including on Schedule 2.06(b) or
any other Schedule) or in any Ancillary Agreement as a Liability to be assumed
or retained by IAC or any other member of IAC Group, in which case it is a
Retained Liability;
(e) any Liability relating to, arising out of, or
resulting from the conduct of, a Separated Business (as conducted at any time
prior to, on or after the Effective Time) or relating to a Separated Asset or a
Deferred Separated Asset (including any Asset of a Separated Entity) and
whether arising or accruing prior to, on or after the Effective Time and
whether the facts on which it is based occurred on, prior to or after the Effective
Time and whether or not reflected on the Expedia Balance Sheet or the Expedia
Opening Balance Sheet, is an Assumed Liability, unless it is expressly
identified in this Agreement (including on Schedule 2.06(b) or
any other Schedule) or in any Ancillary Agreement as a Liability to be assumed
or retained by IAC or any other member of IAC Group, in which case it is a
Retained Liability;
(f) any Liability which is reflected or otherwise
disclosed as a liability or obligation of Expedia Group on the Expedia Group
Balance Sheet is an Assumed Liability;
(g) any Liability which would be reflected or otherwise
disclosed on the Expedia Group Balance Sheet, if such balance sheet were
prepared under GAAP, is an Assumed Liability;
(h) any Liability pursuant to contracts entered into by
IAC, any member of the IAC Group and/or any IAC Affiliate (i) in
connection with the acquisition by IAC and/or any member
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of the IAC Group of any Separated Entity and/or Separated Business or (ii) otherwise
relating primarily to a Separated Entity and/or the conduct of a Separated
Business;
(i) any Liability of a Remaining IAC Entity, whether
arising or accruing prior to, on or after the Effective Time and whether the
facts on which it is based occurred on, prior to or after the Effective Time,
is a Retained Liability, unless it is determined to be an Assumed Liability
pursuant to clause (a), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h) above, in
which case it is an Assumed Liability;
(j) any Liability relating to, arising out of, or resulting
from the conduct of, a Remaining IAC Business (as conducted at any time prior
to, on or after the Effective Time) or relating to an Excluded Asset (including
any Asset of a Remaining IAC Entity) and whether arising or accruing prior to,
on or after the Effective Time and whether the facts on which it is based
occurred on, prior to or after the Effective Time, is a Retained Liability,
unless it is determined to be an Assumed Liability pursuant to clause (a), (c),
(d), (e), (f), (g) or (h) above, in which case it is an Assumed
Liability; and
(k) any Liability of Expedia or any other member of
Expedia Group under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement is an Assumed
Liability and any Liability of IAC or any other member of IAC Group under this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement is a Retained Liability.
2.07. Third
Party Consents and Government Approvals. To the extent that
the Separation or any transaction contemplated thereby requires a Consent from
any Third Party (a Third Party Consent) or any Governmental
Authorization, the Parties will use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain
all such Third Party Consents and Governmental Authorizations prior to the Effective
Time. If the Parties fail to obtain any
such Third Party Consent or Governmental Authorization prior to the Effective
Time, the matter shall be dealt with in the manner set forth in Article III.
2.08. Preservation
of Agreements. Expedia and IAC agree that all written
agreements, arrangements, commitments and understandings between any member or
members of Expedia Group, on the one hand, and any member or members of IAC
Group, on the other hand, shall remain in effect in accordance with their terms
from and after the Effective Time, unless otherwise terminated by the Parties.
2.09. Ancillary
Agreements. On or prior to the Effective Date, the
Parties shall execute and deliver or, as applicable, cause the appropriate
members of their respective Groups to execute and deliver, each of the
following agreements (collectively, the Ancillary Agreements):
(a) the Employee Matters Agreement;
(b) the Tax Sharing Agreement;
(c) the Transition Services Agreement; and
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(d) such other agreements and instruments as may relate
to or be identified in any of the foregoing agreements.
2.10. Resignations. (a) IAC agrees to cause each Person who
is a director or an officer of any Separated Entity and who will not be or
become an employee of Expedia Group (or any member thereof) on the Effective
Date to resign from such position with effect as of the Effective Date.
(b) Expedia agrees to cause each Person who is a
director or an officer of a Remaining IAC Entity and who will become an
employee of Expedia Group (or any member thereof) on the Effective Date to
resign from such position with effect as of the Effective Date; provided,
however, that this Section 2.10(b) shall not apply to Messrs. Barry
Diller and Victor A. Kaufman.
(c) Each of IAC and Expedia agrees to obtain all such
letters of resignation or other evidence of such resignations as may be
necessary or desirable in performing their respective obligations under this Section 2.10.
2.11. Cooperation. The Parties shall cooperate in all aspects of
the Separation and shall sign all such documents and perform all such other
acts as may be necessary or desirable to give full effect to the Separation;
and each of IAC and Expedia shall cause each other member of its respective
Group to do likewise.
2.12. Intercompany
Accounts Between IAC Group and Expedia Group. From and after the
Effective Time, Expedia agrees to cause any Intercompany Account payable by any
member of Expedia Group to any member of the IAC Group to be satisfied in full
when due. From and after the Effective
Time, IAC agrees to cause any Intercompany Account payable by any member of IAC
Group to any member of the Expedia Group to be satisfied in full when due.
2.13. Disclaimer
of Representations and Warranties. (a) Each of
the Parties (on behalf of itself and each other member of its respective Group)
understands and agrees that, except as expressly set forth herein or in any
Ancillary Agreement, no Party to this Agreement, any Ancillary Agreement or any
other agreement or document contemplated by this Agreement, any Ancillary
Agreement or otherwise, makes any representation or warranty, express or implied,
regarding any of the Separated Assets, Separated Entities, Separated
Businesses, Excluded Assets, Assumed Liabilities or Retained Liabilities
including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose,
or any representation or warranty regarding any Consents or Governmental
Authorizations required in connection therewith or their transfer, regarding
the value or freedom from Encumbrances of, or any other matter concerning, any
Separated Asset or Excluded Asset, or regarding the absence of any defense or
right of setoff or freedom from counterclaim with respect to any claim or other
Separated Asset or Excluded Asset, including any Account Receivable of either
Party, or as to the legal sufficiency of any assignment, document or instrument
delivered hereunder to convey title to any Separated Asset or Excluded Asset
upon the execution, delivery and filing hereof or thereof.
(b) Except as may expressly be set forth herein or in
any Ancillary Agreement, all Separated Assets and Excluded Assets are being
transferred on an as is, where is basis, at the
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risk of the respective transferees without any warranty whatsoever on
the part of the transferor, formal or implicit, legal, statutory or
conventional (and, in the case of any Real Property, by means of a quitclaim or
similar form deed or conveyance).
ARTICLE III
DEFERRED
SEPARATION TRANSACTIONS
3.01. Deferred
Transfer Assets. (a) If the transfer to, or retention
by, Expedia Group of any Asset that would otherwise constitute a Separated
Asset (a Deferred Separated Asset) or the transfer to, or retention
by, IAC Group (or the relevant member thereof) (that would otherwise constitute
an Excluded Asset or the relevant member thereof) of any Asset (a Deferred
Excluded Asset, and together with a Deferred Separated Asset, a Deferred
Transfer Asset) cannot be accomplished without giving rise to a violation
of Applicable Law, or without obtaining a Third Party Consent or a Governmental
Authorization (collectively, a Transfer Impediment) and any such Third
Party Consent or Governmental Authorization has not been obtained prior to the
Effective Time, then such Asset shall be dealt with in the manner described in
this Section 3.01.
(b) Pending removal of such Transfer Impediment, the
Person holding the Deferred Transfer Asset (the Retaining Person)
shall hold such Deferred Transfer Asset for the use and benefit, insofar as
reasonably possible, of the Party to whom the transfer of such Asset could not
be made at the Effective Time (the Deferred Beneficiary). The Retaining Person shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to preserve such Asset and its right, title and interest
therein and take all such other action as may reasonably be requested by the
Deferred Beneficiary (in each case, at such Deferred Beneficiarys expense) in
order to place such Deferred Beneficiary, insofar as reasonably possible, in
the same position as it would be in if such Asset had been transferred to it or
retained by it with effect as of the Effective Time and so that, subject to the
standard of care set forth above, all the benefits and burdens relating to such
Deferred Transfer Asset, including possession, use, risk of loss, potential for
gain, enforcement of rights against third parties and dominion, control and command
over such Asset, are to inure from and after the Effective Time to such
Deferred Beneficiary and the members of the Group to which it belongs. The provisions set forth in this Article III
contain all the obligations of the Retaining Person vis-à-vis the Deferred
Beneficiary with respect to the Deferred Transfer Asset and the Retaining Person
shall not be bound vis-à-vis the Deferred Beneficiary by any other obligations
under Applicable Law.
(c) The Parties shall continue on and after the
Effective Time to use commercially reasonable efforts to remove all Transfer
Impediments; provided, however, that neither Party shall be required
to make any unreasonable payment or assume any material obligations therefor.
As and when any Transfer Impediment is removed, the relevant Deferred Transfer
Asset shall forthwith be transferred to its Deferred Beneficiary at no
additional cost and in a manner and on terms consistent with the relevant
provisions of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements, including Section 2.13(b) hereof,
and any such transfer shall take effect as of the date of its actual transfer.
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(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision of
Applicable Law, a Retaining Person shall not be obligated, in connection with
the foregoing, to expend any money in respect of a Deferred Transfer Asset
unless the necessary funds are advanced by the Deferred Beneficiary of such
Deferred Transfer Asset, other than reasonable attorneys fees and recording or
similar fees, all of which shall be promptly reimbursed by the Deferred
Beneficiary of such Deferred Transfer Asset.
3.02. Unreleased
Liabilities. If at any time on or after the Effective
Time, any member of the IAC Group shall remain obligated to any Third Party in
respect of any Assumed Liability or any member of Expedia Group shall remain
obligated to any Third Party in respect of any Retained Liability, the
following provisions shall apply. The
Liabilities referred to in this Section 3.02 are hereinafter referred to
as the Unreleased Liabilities and the Person remaining obligated for
such Liability in a manner contrary to what is intended under this Agreement is
hereinafter referred to as the Unreleased Person.
(a) Each Unreleased Person shall remain obligated to
Third Parties for such Unreleased Liability as provided in the relevant
Contract, Applicable Law or other source of such Unreleased Liability and shall
pay and perform such Liability as and when required, in accordance with its
terms.
(b) IAC shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless each
Expedia Indemnified Party that is an Unreleased Person against any Liabilities
arising in respect of each Unreleased Liability of such Person; and Expedia
shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless each IAC Indemnified Party that is an
Unreleased Person against any Liabilities arising in respect of each Unreleased
Liability of such Person. IAC and
Expedia shall take, and shall cause the members of their respective Groups to
take, such other actions as may be reasonably requested by the other in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement in order to place IAC and Expedia,
insofar as reasonably possible, in the same position as they would be in if
such Unreleased Liability had been fully contributed, assigned, transferred, conveyed,
and delivered to, and accepted and assumed or retained, as applicable, by the
other Party (or any relevant member of the Group to which it belongs) with
effect as of the Effective Time and so that all the benefits and burdens
relating to such Unreleased Liability, including possession, use, risk of loss,
potential for gain, and dominion, control and command over such Unreleased
Liability, are to inure from and after the Effective Time to the member or
members of IAC Group or Expedia Group, as the case may be.
(c) The Parties shall continue on and after the
Effective Time to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause each Unreleased
Person to be released from each of its Unreleased Liabilities.
(d) If, as and when it becomes possible to delegate,
novate or extinguish any Unreleased Liability in favor of an Unreleased Person,
the Parties shall promptly sign all such documents and perform all such other
acts, and shall cause each member of their respective Groups, as applicable, to
sign all such documents and perform all such other acts, as may be necessary or
desirable to give effect to such delegation, novation, extinction or other
release without payment of any further consideration by the Unreleased Person.
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3.03. No
Additional Consideration. For the avoidance of doubt, the transfer or
assumption of any Assets or Liabilities under this Article III shall be
effected without any additional consideration by either Party hereunder.
ARTICLE IV
TREATMENT OF OLD
IAC SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK
AND OLD IAC WARRANTS IN THE SEPARATION
4.01. Old
IAC Series A Preferred Stock. Following the
Effective Time, a former holder of Old IAC Series A Preferred Stock will
receive one of the following forms of consideration, at the holders election,
in respect of each share of Old IAC Series A Preferred Stock held by such
Person prior to the Effective Time: (i) $50.00
in cash per share, plus accrued and unpaid dividends to the Effective Date,
payable by IAC, (ii) the securities that the holder would have received
had the share of Old IAC Preferred Stock been converted based upon the
applicable conversion ratio into shares of Old IAC Common Stock immediately
prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification, or (iii) one
share of New IAC Series B Preferred Stock and one share of Expedia Series A
Preferred Stock, each having the terms set forth in its respective certificate
of designation filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on August 9,
2005. Holders of Old IAC Series A
Preferred Stock that did not make an affirmative election by July 11, 2005
are deemed to have elected to receive $50.00 in cash per share, plus accrued
and unpaid dividends to the Effective Date, payable by IAC. Schedule 4.01 sets forth the
final elections, including default elections, by holders of Old IAC Preferred
Stock, as of the Effective Time.
4.02. Old
IAC Severable Warrants.
(a) At the Effective Time, the Old IAC Severable Warrants will
be adjusted based upon the following principles:
(i) the number
of shares of New IAC Common Stock subject to each New Unitary IAC Warrant will
equal one half the number of shares of Old IAC Common Stock underlying the Old
IAC Severable Warrant immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the
Reclassification;
(ii) the per
share exercise price of the New IAC Unitary Warrant (rounded up to the nearest
whole cent) will equal the per share exercise price of the Old IAC Severable
Warrant prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification multiplied by
the IAC Warrant Factor.
(iii) the number
of shares of Expedia Common Stock subject to the Expedia Warrant will equal one
half the number of shares of Old IAC Common Stock underlying the Old IAC
Severable Warrant immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification;
and
(iv) the per share
exercise price of the Expedia Warrant (rounded up to the nearest whole cent)
will equal the per share exercise price of the Old IAC Severable
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Warrant prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification
multiplied by the Expedia Warrant Factor.
(b) IAC shall be responsible for all obligations with respect to
the New IAC Unitary Warrants. Expedia
shall be responsible for all obligations with respect to the Expedia
Warrants. The warrant agreements, if
any, that currently govern the Old IAC Severable Warrants shall continue to
govern the New IAC Unitary Warrants, as adjusted in accordance with the terms
hereof and IAC shall be responsible for the obligations arising
thereunder. To the extent necessary to
memorialize and satisfy its obligations hereunder, Expedia shall enter into
warrant agreements with respect to the Expedia Warrants with the holders (or
the agent(s) therefor) of such Expedia Warrants and Expedia shall be
responsible for the obligations arising under any such agreements. The failure of Expedia to enter into any such
agreements shall not relieve Expedia of its obligations with respect to the
Expedia Warrants.
4.03. Old
IAC Integrated Warrants.
(a) Immediately following the Effective Time:
(i) each Old IAC
Integrated Warrant shall become a New IAC Integrated Warrant which will
represent the right to receive (x) a number of shares of New IAC Common Stock
equal to one half the number of shares of Old IAC Common Stock subject to the
Old IAC Integrated Warrant immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the
Reclassification; and (y) a number of shares of Expedia Common Stock equal to one
half the number of shares of Old IAC Common Stock subject to the Old IAC Integrated
Warrant immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification;
and
(ii) the exercise
price of the New IAC Integrated Warranted, expressed as an amount per share of New
IAC Common Stock and Expedia Common Stock, taken together (rounded up to the
nearest whole cent), will equal two times per share exercise price per of the
Old IAC Warrant prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification (such
exercise price, as adjusted, the Adjusted Exercise Price).
(b) From and after the Effective Time, as soon as reasonably
practicable following receipt of the Adjusted Exercise Price in connection with
the exercise of a New IAC Integrated Warrant, IAC shall remit to Expedia an
amount in cash equal to the product of (i) the aggregate amount of the
Adjusted Exercise Price, (ii) the Expedia Warrant Factor and (iii) 0.5,
such amount to be determined by IAC in good faith in its sole discretion.
4.04. Stock
Certificates and Related Matters. Subject to the
terms of this Agreement and the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set
forth in Article VI hereof, IAC and Expedia (as applicable) shall deliver
to the applicable agent or depositary (such agent or depositary, as the case
may be, the Agent) cash and securities (either in certificated or electronic
book-entry form at the option of IAC) representing all of the securities to be
issued in connection with the Reclassification and the transactions
contemplated by Sections 4.01 through 4.03 (except to the extent that IAC
determines in its sole discretion that currently outstanding certificates representing
Old IAC Capital Stock and/or Old IAC Warrants shall, following the Effective
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Time, shall represent the securities into
which such Old IAC Capital Stock and/or Old IAC Warrants are convertible in the
Reclassification and related transactions), and shall instruct the Agent to
distribute, on or as soon as practicable following the Effective Date, such
cash and/or securities (as applicable) to holders of record of Old IAC Capital
Stock and Old IAC Warrants on the Effective Date. Expedia agrees to provide all share
certificates or other similar documentation and any information that the Agent
shall require in order to effect the distributions contemplated by this Section 4.04.
All securities of IAC and Expedia issued
in connection with the Reclassification shall be duly authorized, validly issued,
fully paid and nonassessable. IAC and/or
Expedia may require that holders of Old IAC Capital Stock and/or Old IAC
Warrants return any certificates or instruments representing such securities
prior to IAC and/or Expedia issuing new certificates or instruments (if any)
representing the new securities or cash consideration into which such Old IAC
Capital Stock and/or Old IAC Warrants are convertible in the Reclassification
and related transactions.
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS
5.01. General
Covenants. Each Party covenants with and in favor of the
other Party that it shall, subject, in the case of IAC, to Article XIII:
(a) do and perform all such acts and things, and
execute and deliver all such agreements, assurances, notices and other
documents and instruments as may reasonably be required of it to facilitate the
carrying out of the intent and purpose of this Agreement;
(b) cooperate with and assist the other Party, both
before and after the Effective Date, in dealing with transitional matters
relating to or arising from the Separation, the Reclassification, this
Agreement or the Ancillary Agreements; and
(c) cooperate in preparing and filing all documentation
(i) to effect all necessary applications, notices, petitions, filings and
other documents; and (ii) to obtain as promptly as reasonably practicable
all Consents and Governmental Authorizations necessary or advisable to be
obtained from any Third Party and/or any Governmental Authority in order to
consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including all
approvals required under applicable antitrust laws).
5.02. Covenants
of Expedia. In addition to the covenants of Expedia
provided for elsewhere in this Agreement, Expedia covenants and agrees with and
in favor of IAC that it shall:
(a) use commercially reasonable efforts and do all
things reasonably required of it to cause the Separation and the
Reclassification to be completed, including cooperating with IAC to obtain: the approval for the listing of the Expedia
Common Stock and certain Expedia Warrants on the Nasdaq or such other
securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system as is reasonably
acceptable to IAC;
(b) use its commercially reasonable efforts to take all
such action as may be necessary or desirable under applicable state securities
and blue sky laws of the United States
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(and any comparable laws under any foreign jurisdictions) in connection
with the Reclassification;
(c) (i) use its commercially reasonable efforts to
cause any member of the IAC Group to be released, as soon as reasonably
practicable, from any guarantees given by any member of the IAC Group for the
benefit of any Separated Entity and (to the extent necessary to secure such
releases) to cause itself or one or more members of the Expedia Group to be
substituted in all respects for any member of the IAC Group in respect of such
guarantees, provided, that in the event that, notwithstanding the
commercially reasonable efforts of Expedia, Expedia is unable to obtain such guarantee
releases, Expedia hereby agrees to indemnify and hold IAC and the other members
of the IAC Group harmless from and against all Liabilities incurred by them in
connection with, arising out of or resulting from such guarantees; and
(d) perform and, as applicable, cause each member of
Expedia Group to perform each of its and their respective obligations under
each Ancillary Agreement.
5.03. Certain
Corporate Contracts. Each of the Parties hereto agrees to use its
commercially reasonable efforts to permit the other Party hereto to obtain the
benefits of contracts with nationally-based vendors and suppliers utilized by
both IAC Group and Expedia Group prior to the Effective Date until the
expiration of the primary term of such contracts (each such contract,
individually, a Corporate Contract and, collectively, the Corporate
Contracts). Each Party hereby
agrees to cooperate with respect to obtaining favorable prices under such Corporate
Contracts by combining or consolidating orders made under such Corporate
Contracts during the remainder of the primary term of such Corporate Contracts.
IAC shall administer these Corporate
Contracts and Expedia shall be responsible for the portions attributable to Expedia
Group of any order or delivery of goods and services received under each
Corporate Contract (including costs of administration). Any arrangement under any of the Corporate
Contracts relating to employee matters shall be governed by the terms of the
Employee Matters Agreement.
5.04. Expedia
Common Stock Escrow Account.
(a) Immediately following the Effective Time, Expedia shall
deposit 5,019,125 shares
of Expedia Common Stock (the Expedia Escrow Shares) into an escrow account
(the Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account) to be established by Expedia
and IAC with The Bank of New York (the Escrow Agent) to be held by the
Escrow Agent pursuant to the terms of an escrow agreement in customary form to
be agreed upon by IAC, Expedia and the Escrow Agent prior to the Effective Time
(the Escrow Agreement). The
Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account will serve as a source of shares of Expedia
Common Stock deliverable by Expedia upon (i) the exercise of New IAC
Integrated Warrants, and (ii) the conversion of the Ask Jeeves, Inc.
Zero Coupon Convertible Notes Due June 1, 2008 (the Jeeves Notes). Under the terms of the Escrow Agreement, any
shares of Expedia Common Stock designated for delivery upon conversion of the
Jeeves Notes that are not delivered to converting holders of notes shall be
returned to Expedia at the maturity of the Jeeves Notes and any shares of
Expedia Common Stock designated for delivery upon exercise of the New IAC
Integrated Warrants shall be returned to Expedia upon the expiration of the New
IAC Integrated Warrants in accordance with their terms. IAC and Expedia acknowledge that IACs obligation to issue shares of Old IAC
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Common Stock to
holders of Old IAC Integrated Warrants or to holders of the Jeeves Notes
relates to the businesses that were conducted by the IAC Group and the Expedia
Group prior to the Effective Time. Accordingly,
from and after the Effective Time, upon an exercise of New IAC Integrated
Warrants or a conversion of the Jeeves Notes, as between IAC and Expedia, Expedia
will exclusively bear the obligation to deliver shares of Expedia Common Stock
or cash in lieu of shares of Expedia Common Stock (including with respect to
the matters contemplated by Section 5.04(b) and (c)). The issuance and delivery by Expedia of the
Expedia Escrow Shares to the Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account is intended to
further Expedias satisfaction of such obligations following the Separation and
the Reclassification; provided, however, that if for any reason
the Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account does not satisfy such obligations, the
transfer to the Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account under this Section 5.04
is not in substitution of the obligations of Expedia under the immediately
preceding sentence to deliver shares of Expedia Common Stock. For the avoidance of doubt, any obligations with respect to
the delivery of Expedia Common Stock (or cash in lieu of Expedia Common Stock)
on account of the New IAC Integrated Warrants
or the Jeeves Notes, including any Liabilities resulting from Expedias
determinations or calculations contemplated by this Section 5.04 shall
be an Assumed Liability. If, at any time
or from time to time following the Effective Time,
(X) IAC reasonably determines in good faith
(which determination, absent manifest error, shall be final and binding) in its
sole discretion that the Expedia
Escrow Shares are insufficient to satisfy the obligations with respect to the
New IAC Integrated Warrants and the Jeeves Notes, IAC shall provide to Expedia
written notice indicating the number of additional shares of Expedia Common
Stock necessary to satisfy the obligations pursuant to the New IAC Integrated
Warrants and the Jeeves Notes and Expedia shall promptly deposit into the Expedia
Common Stock Escrow Account the number of shares of Expedia Common Stock indicated
in the written notice from IAC; or
(Y) Expedia undertakes any action, or any
event shall occur, that either (i) results in an adjustment to the number
of shares of Expedia Common Stock (A) into which Jeeves Notes are convertible
or (B) with respect to which New IAC Integrated Warrants are exercisable
or (ii) causes (A) that portion of the Jeeves Notes that would
otherwise have been convertible into Expedia Common Stock to become convertible
into another form of consideration or (B) that portion of the New IAC
Integrated Warrants that would otherwise have been exercisable for shares of
Expedia Common Stock to become exercisable into another form of consideration (in
the case of each of clauses (A) or (B), including, without limitation, in
conjunction with a merger of Expedia or reclassification of the Expedia Common
Stock), then, in each case, Expedia shall promptly deposit into the Expedia
Common Stock Escrow Account the number of additional shares of Expedia Common
Stock and/or the other consideration into which the Jeeves Notes are
convertible under the Indenture (as defined below) and/or with respect to which
the New IAC Integrated Warrants are exercisable.
(b) In connection with the Separation
and the Reclassification and in respect of the Jeeves Notes, IAC, Ask
Jeeves, Inc. (Jeeves) and The Bank of New York (as indenture
trustee, the Trustee)) entered into that certain Second Supplemental
Indenture, dated as of August 9,
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2005 (the Jeeves Supplemental Indenture)
to the Indenture dated as of June 4, 2003 between Jeeves and the Trustee
(as amended and supplemented from time to time, including pursuant to the
Jeeves Supplemental Indenture, the Indenture). Pursuant to the Jeeves Supplemental
Indenture, holders of Jeeves Notes shall be entitled to receive shares of New
IAC Common Stock and/or Expedia Common Stock and/or cash on the terms, and
subject to the conditions, set forth in the Indenture upon the conversion of
the Jeeves Notes. The Indenture provides
for, among other things, adjustments to the number of shares of New IAC Common
Stock and Expedia Common Stock issuable and the type of consideration issuable
upon conversion of the Jeeves Notes in the event of certain transactions,
including extraordinary distributions on either or both of New IAC Common Stock
and/or Expedia Common Stock, a reclassification of either or both of the New
IAC Common Stock or Expedia Common Stock and a merger of either IAC or Expedia
with another entity. If and to the
extent that Expedia undertakes any action, or any event shall occur, pursuant
to which holders of Jeeves Notes shall be entitled upon conversion of such
Jeeves Notes to receive additional shares of Expedia Common Stock or to receive
another form of consideration in lieu of Expedia Common Stock under the terms
of the Indenture, prior to such action or event Expedia shall provide written
notice to IAC of such action or event, including a (i) description of such
action or event, (ii) the expected timing of the record date in respect of
such action or event and the expected timing of its completion and (iii) an
estimate of the number of additional shares of Expedia Common Stock (or the
type and amount of any other form of consideration, as applicable) issuable
upon conversion of the Jeeves Notes on account of such action or event,
including a certificate signed on behalf of Expedia by a senior executive
officer to the effect that such estimate is reasonable and was made in good
faith. In the event that such action or
event results in the distribution of capital stock or other securities,
evidences of indebtedness or other non-cash assets, Expedia shall also include
in its notice a good faith estimate of the fair market value of such
securities, evidences of indebtedness or other non-cash assets as of the record
date of such distribution.
(c) Pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, IAC may, at its
option, settle the conversion of Jeeves Notes in whole or in part in cash. IAC hereby extends to Expedia the option,
upon Expedias timely election pursuant to the terms hereof, of delivering cash
in lieu of Expedia Common Stock in respect of the portion of any Jeeves Notes
that would have otherwise been settled in Expedia Common Stock upon conversion
of such Jeeves Notes (such portion, the Expedia Conversion Obligations). Expedia shall be entitled to deliver written
election notices pursuant to this Section 5.04(c) on a quarterly
basis, beginning on September 30, 2005, and on each December 30, March 31,
June 30 and September 30, thereafter.
The election indicated by Expedia in such notice shall specify the
proportion of the Expedia Conversion Obligations to be settled in cash and the
proportion to be settled in Expedia Common Stock and such election shall govern
until such time as Expedia makes an alternative election in accordance with
this Section 5.04(c). If at any
time Expedia elects to settle the Expedia Conversion Obligations in cash in
lieu of shares of Expedia Common Stock (whether in whole or in part), then
Expedia shall, at IACs direction from time to time, promptly deposit into the
Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account cash in amounts sufficient to satisfy such
settlement obligations. Absent any
affirmative election on the part of Expedia pursuant to the terms hereof to
settle the Expedia Conversion Obligations in cash in lieu of shares of Expedia
Common Stock, or if Expedia shall fail to timely deposit cash in respect of
such settlement in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, IAC is expressly
permitted to settle any Expedia Conversion Obligations with shares of Expedia
Common Stock from the Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account.
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(d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, in lieu of issuing fractional
shares of Expedia Common Stock upon the exercise of a New IAC Integrated
Warrant or conversion of a Jeeves Note, Expedia shall promptly deposit into the
Expedia Common Stock Escrow Account cash in lieu of such fractional shares in
an amount computed in accordance with the terms of such New IAC Integrated
Warrant or Jeeves Note, as applicable.
5.05. Cash Balance True-Up. In the
event that, after review and reconciliation, the amount of cash and cash equivalents
reflected on the Expedia Opening Balance Sheet plus the balance as of the
Effective Time of any note or notes of any member of the IAC Group held by any
member of the Expedia Group less the balance as of the Effective Time of any
note or notes of any member of the Expedia Group held by any member of the IAC
Group (the Effective Date Cash Balance) is greater than $100,000,000.00,
Expedia shall make one or more payments to IAC as promptly as practicable after
the Effective Date, but in no event more than ninety (90) days after the
Effective Date, totaling an amount equal to the excess of the Effective Date
Cash Balance over $100,000,000.00. In
the event that, after review and reconciliation, the Effective Date Cash
Balance is less than $100,000,000.00, IAC shall make one or more payments to
Expedia as promptly as practicable after the Effective Date, but in no event
more than ninety (90) days after the Effective Date, totaling an amount equal
to the excess of $100,000,000.00 over the Effective Date Cash Balance. Notwithstanding Section 14.08, payments
pursuant to this Section 5.05 shall not bear any interest. For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of
determining the Effective Date Cash Balance, the Parties shall not take into
account cash and/or cash equivalents that belong to eLong, Inc. or its
Subsidiaries, even if such amounts are reflected on the Expedia Group Balance
Sheet.
ARTICLE VI
CONDITIONS
6.01. Actions
Prior to the Completion of the Separation. (a) In
addition to, and without in any way limiting, IACs rights under Section 13.1,
completion of the Separation and the Reclassification is subject to the
fulfillment of each of the following conditions:
(i) no stop
order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have
been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or
threatened by the SEC;
(ii) the Expedia
Common Stock, Expedia Series A Preferred Stock and the Expedia Warrants to
be distributed pursuant to the Reclassification and related transactions shall
have been accepted for listing on the Nasdaq or such other securities exchange
or inter-dealer quotation system as is reasonably acceptable to IAC subject to
compliance with applicable listing requirements;
(iii) the Nasdaq
shall have confirmed that the New IAC Common Stock and New IAC Unitary Warrants
will continue trading in the same manner as the Old IAC Common Stock and Old
IAC Severable Warrants, respectively, following the Effective Date;
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(iv) no Order or
other legal restraint or prohibition preventing the consummation of the
Separation, the Reclassification or any of the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall be threatened, pending or in effect;
(v) any Consents
and Governmental Authorizations necessary to complete the Separation and the
Reclassification shall have been obtained and be in full force and effect;
(vi) the IAC Board
shall have approved the Separation and Reclassification and shall not have
abandoned, deferred or modified the Separation or the Reclassification at any
time prior to the Effective Date;
(vii) each of the
Ancillary Agreements shall have been duly executed and delivered by the parties
thereto and shall be in effect;
(viii) the IAC Board
shall have received a written solvency opinion in a form acceptable to the IAC
Board from Duff & Phelps, LLC regarding the Separation and other
transactions contemplated hereby, which opinion shall not have been withdrawn
or modified;
(ix) the IAC
Board shall have received an opinion of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &
Katz, in form and substance satisfactory to the IAC Board, to the effect that
the Separation and the Reclassification will qualify as transactions that are
generally tax free under Sections 355 and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code;
(x) the IAC
Board shall have received such other opinions or reports as the IAC Board may
reasonably request in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the IAC
Board; and
(xi) this
Agreement will not have been terminated as provided herein.
(b) The foregoing conditions are for the sole benefit
of IAC and shall not give rise to or create any duty on the part of IAC or the
IAC Board to waive or not to waive such conditions or in any way limit IACs
right to terminate this Agreement as set forth in Article XIII or alter
the consequences of any such termination from those specified in such Article XIII.
Any determination made by IAC prior to
the Separation and the Reclassification concerning the satisfaction or waiver
of any or all of the conditions set forth in this Section 6.01 shall be
final and conclusive.
ARTICLE VII
MUTUAL RELEASES;
INDEMNIFICATION
7.01. Release
of Pre-Separation Claims. (a) Except as provided in Section 7.01(c),
effective as of the Effective Time, Expedia does hereby, on behalf of itself
and each other member of Expedia Group, their respective Affiliates (other than
any member of IAC Group), successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any
time prior to the Effective Time have been
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stockholders (other than any member of IAC
Group), directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of Expedia Group
(in each case, in their respective capacities as such) (the Expedia Releasors),
unequivocally, unconditionally and irrevocably release and discharge each of
IAC, the other members of IAC Group, their respective Affiliates (other than
any member of Expedia Group), successors and assigns, and all Persons who at
any time prior to the Effective Time have been stockholders, directors,
officers, agents or employees of any member of IAC Group (in each case, in
their respective capacities as such), and their respective heirs, executors,
trustees, administrators, successors and assigns (the IAC Parties),
from any and all Actions, causes of action, choses in action, cases, claims,
suits, debts, dues, damages, judgments and liabilities, of any nature whatsoever,
in law, at equity or otherwise, whether direct, derivative or otherwise, which
have been asserted against an IAC Party or which, whether currently known or
unknown, suspected or unsuspected, fixed or contingent, and whether or not
concealed or hidden, the Expedia Releasors ever could have asserted or ever
could assert, in any capacity, whether as partner, employer, agent or
otherwise, either for itself or as an assignee, heir, executor, trustee,
administrator, successor or otherwise for or on behalf of any other Person,
against the IAC Parties, relating to any claims or transactions or occurrences
whatsoever, up to but excluding the Effective Time, including in connection
with the transactions and all activities to implement the Separation and the
Reclassification (the Expedia Claims); and the Expedia Releasors
hereby unequivocally, unconditionally and irrevocably agree not to initiate
proceedings with respect to, or institute, assert or threaten to assert, any
Expedia Claim.
(b) Except as provided in Section 7.01(c),
effective as of the Effective Time, IAC does hereby, on behalf of itself and
each other member of IAC Group, their respective Affiliates (other than any
member of Expedia Group), successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any
time prior to the Effective Time have been stockholders, directors, officers,
agents or employees of any member of IAC Group (in each case, in their
respective capacities as such) (the IAC Releasors), unequivocally,
unconditionally and irrevocably release and discharge each of Expedia, the
other members of Expedia Group, their respective Affiliates (other than any member
of IAC Group), successors and assigns, and all Persons who at any time prior to
the Effective Time have been stockholders (other than any member of IAC Group),
directors, officers, agents or employees of any member of Expedia Group (in
each case, in their respective capacities as such), and their respective heirs,
executors, trustees, administrators, successors and assigns (the Expedia
Parties), from any and all Actions, causes of action, choses in action,
cases, claims, suits, debts, dues, damages, judgments and liabilities, of any
nature whatsoever, in law, at equity or otherwise, whether direct, derivative
or otherwise, which have been asserted against an Expedia Party or which,
whether currently known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, fixed or contingent,
and whether or not concealed or hidden, the IAC Releasors ever could have
asserted or ever could assert, in any capacity, whether as partner, employer,
agent or otherwise, either for itself or as an assignee, heir, executor,
trustee, administrator, successor or otherwise for or on behalf of any other
Person, against the Expedia Parties, relating to any claims or transactions or
occurrences whatsoever, up to but excluding the Effective Time including in
connection with the transactions and all activities to implement the Separation
and the Reclassification (the IAC Claims); and the IAC Releasors
hereby unequivocally, unconditionally and irrevocably agree not to initiate
proceedings with respect to, or institute, assert or threaten to assert, any
IAC Claim.
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(c) Nothing contained in Section 7.01(a) or
7.01(b) shall impair any right of any Person to enforce this Agreement,
any Ancillary Agreement, any agreement, arrangement, commitment or
understanding that is contemplated by Section 2.08 or any other agreement,
arrangement, commitment or understanding that is entered into after the
Effective Date between any member of the Expedia Group, on the one hand, and
any member of the IAC Group, on the other hand, nor shall anything contained in
those sections be interpreted as terminating as of the Effective Time any
rights under any such agreements, contracts, commitments or understandings. For purposes of clarification, nothing contained
in Section 7.01(a) or 7.01(b) shall release any Person from:
(i) any
Liability provided in or resulting from this Agreement or any of the Ancillary
Agreements;
(ii) any
Liability provided in or resulting from any agreement among any members of IAC
Group or Expedia Group that is contemplated by Section 2.08 (including for
greater certainty, any Liability resulting or flowing from any breaches of such
agreements that arose prior to the Effective Time);
(iii) any
Liability provided in or resulting from any other agreement, arrangement, commitment
or understanding that is entered into after the Effective Date between any
member of the Expedia Group, on the one hand, and any member of the IAC Group,
on the other hand;
(iv) (A) with
respect to Expedia, any Assumed Liability and (B) with respect to IAC, any
Retained Liability;
(v) any Liability
that the Parties may have with respect to indemnification or contribution
pursuant to Article III of this Agreement or this Article VII for
Third Party Claims;
(vi) any Liability
for unpaid Intercompany Accounts; or
(vii) any Liability
the release of which would result in the release of any Person other than a
Person released pursuant to this Section 7.01.
In addition,
nothing contained in Section 7.01(a) or (b) hereof shall release
any Party from honoring its existing obligations to indemnify any director,
officer or employee of either Group who was a director, officer or employee of
such Party on or prior to the Effective Time, to the extent that such director,
officer or employee becomes a named defendant in any litigation involving such
Party and was entitled to such indemnification pursuant to then existing
obligations.
(d) Expedia shall not make, and shall not permit any
other member of Expedia Group to make, any claim or demand, or commence any
Action asserting any claim or demand, including any claim of contribution or
any indemnification, against IAC or any member of the IAC Group or any other
Person released pursuant to Section 7.01(a), with respect to any Liabilities
released pursuant to Section 7.01(a). IAC shall not make, and shall not permit any
other member of IAC Group to make, any claim or demand, or commence any Action
asserting
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any claim or demand, including any claim of contribution or any
indemnification, against Expedia or any other member of Expedia Group or any
other Person released pursuant to Section 7.01(b), with respect to any
Liabilities released pursuant to Section 7.01(b).
7.02. Indemnification
by Expedia. Except as provided in Sections 7.04 and 7.05
and subject to Section 14.01, Expedia shall, and shall cause the other members
of Expedia Group to, fully indemnify, defend and hold harmless IAC, each other
member of IAC Group and each of their respective current and former directors,
officers and employees, and each of the heirs, executors, trustees,
administrators, successors and assigns of any of the foregoing (collectively,
the IAC Indemnified Parties), from and against any and all Liabilities
of the IAC Indemnified Parties relating to, arising out of or resulting from
any of the following items (without duplication):
(a) any Separated Business, any Separated Entity, any
Separated Asset, any Assumed Liability or, subject to Article III, any
Deferred Separated Asset;
(b) any breach of, or failure to perform or comply
with, any covenant, undertaking or obligation of, this Agreement or any of the
Ancillary Agreements, by Expedia or any other member of Expedia Group; and
(c) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of
a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact
required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading, in each case to the extent relating to the Expedia Group contained
in the Registration Statement or any other filings made with the SEC in
connection with the Separation.
7.03. Indemnification
by IAC. Except as provided in Sections 7.04 and 7.05
and subject to Section 14.01, IAC shall indemnify, defend and hold
harmless Expedia, each other member of Expedia Group and each of their
respective current and former directors, officers and employees, and each of
the heirs, executors, trustees, administrators, successors and assigns of any
of the foregoing (collectively, the Expedia Indemnified Parties), from
and against any and all Liabilities of the Expedia Indemnified Parties relating
to, arising out of or resulting from any of the following items (without
duplication):
(a) any Remaining IAC Business or any Retained Liability;
(b) any breach of, or failure to perform or comply
with, any covenant, undertaking or obligation of, this Agreement or any of the
Ancillary Agreements, by IAC or any other member of IAC Group; and
(c) except to the extent set forth in Section 7.02(c),
any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission
or alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading contained in the
Registration Statement.
7.04. Procedures
for Indemnification of Third Party Claims. (a) All
claims for indemnification relating to a Third Party Claim by any indemnified
party (an Indemnified Party) hereunder shall be asserted and resolved
as set forth in this Section 7.04.
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(b) In the event that any written claim or demand for
which an indemnifying party (an Indemnifying Party) may have liability
to any Indemnified Party hereunder, is asserted against or sought to be
collected from any Indemnified Party by a Third Party (a Third Party Claim),
such Indemnified Party shall promptly, but in no event more than ten (10) days
following such Indemnified Partys receipt of a Third Party Claim, notify the
Indemnifying Party in writing of such Third Party Claim, the amount or the
estimated amount of damages sought thereunder to the extent then ascertainable
(which estimate shall not be conclusive of the final amount of such Third Party
Claim), any other remedy sought thereunder, any relevant time constraints
relating thereto and, to the extent practicable, and any other material details
pertaining thereto (a Claim Notice); provided, however,
that the failure to timely give a Claim Notice shall affect the rights of an
Indemnified Party hereunder only to the extent that such failure has a material
prejudicial effect on the defenses or other rights available to the
Indemnifying Party with respect to such Third Party Claim. The Indemnifying Party shall have thirty (30)
days (or such lesser number of days set forth in the Claim Notice as may be
required by court proceeding in the event of a litigated matter) after receipt
of the Claim Notice (the Notice Period) to notify the Indemnified
Party whether it desires to defend the Indemnified Party against such Third
Party Claim.
(c) In the event that the Indemnifying Party notifies
the Indemnified Party within the Notice Period that it desires to defend the
Indemnified Party against a Third Party Claim, the Indemnifying Party shall
have the right to defend the Indemnified Party by appropriate proceedings and
shall have the sole power to direct and control such defense, with counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party at its expense. Once the Indemnifying Party has duly assumed
the defense of a Third Party Claim, the Indemnified Party shall have the right,
but not the obligation, to participate in any such defense and to employ
separate counsel of its choosing. The
Indemnified Party shall participate in any such defense at its expense unless (i) the
Indemnifying Party and the Indemnified Party are both named parties to the
proceedings and the Indemnified Party shall have reasonably concluded that
representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due
to actual or potential differing interests between them, or (ii) the Indemnified
Party assumes the defense of a Third Party Claim after the Indemnifying Party
has failed to diligently defend a Third Party Claim it has assumed the defense
of, as provided in the first sentence of this Section 7.04(c). The Indemnifying Party shall not, without the
prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, settle, compromise or offer to
settle or compromise any Third Party Claim on a basis that would result in (i) the
imposition of a consent order, injunction or decree that would restrict the
future activity or conduct of the Indemnified Party or any of its Affiliates, (ii) a
finding or admission of a violation of Applicable Law or violation of the
rights of any Person by the Indemnified Party or any of its Affiliates or (iii) a
finding or admission that would have an adverse effect on other claims made or
threatened against the Indemnified Party or any of its Affiliates.
(d) If the Indemnifying Party (i) elects not to
defend the Indemnified Party against a Third Party Claim, whether by not giving
the Indemnified Party timely notice of its desire to so defend or otherwise or (ii) after
assuming the defense of a Third Party Claim, fails to take reasonable steps
necessary to defend diligently such Third Party Claim within ten (10) days
after receiving written notice from the Indemnified Party to the effect that
the Indemnifying Party has so failed, the Indemnified Party shall have the
right but not the obligation to assume its own defense; it being understood
that the Indemnified Partys right to indemnification for a Third Party Claim
shall not be adversely affected by assuming the defense of such Third Party
Claim.
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The Indemnified Party shall not settle a Third Party Claim without the
consent of the Indemnifying Party, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
(e) The Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party
shall cooperate in order to ensure the proper and adequate defense of a Third
Party Claim, including by providing access to each others relevant business
records and other documents, and employees; it being understood that the
reasonable costs and expenses of the Indemnified Party relating thereto shall
be Liabilities, subject to indemnification.
(f) The Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to avoid production of confidential
information (consistent with Applicable Law), and to cause all communications
among employees, counsel and others representing any party to a Third Party
Claim to be made so as to preserve any applicable attorney-client or
work-product privileges.
7.05. Procedures
for Indemnification of Direct Claims. Any claim for indemnification
made directly by the Indemnified Party against the Indemnifying Party that does
not result from a Third Party Claim shall be asserted by written notice from
the Indemnified Party to the Indemnifying Party specifically claiming indemnification
hereunder. Such Indemnifying Party shall
have a period of 45 days after the receipt of such notice within which to
respond thereto. If such Indemnifying
Party does not respond within such 45-day period, such Indemnifying Party shall
be deemed to have accepted responsibility to make payment and shall have no
further right to contest the validity of such claim. If such Indemnifying Party does respond within
such 45-day period and rejects such claim in whole or in part, such Indemnified
Party shall be free to pursue resolution as provided in Article X.
7.06. Adjustments
to Liabilities. (a) If an Indemnified Party receives
any payment from an Indemnifying Party in respect of any Liabilities and the
Indemnified Party could have recovered all or a part of such Liabilities from a
Third Party (a Potential Contributor) based on the underlying claim or
demand asserted against such Indemnifying Party, such Indemnified Party shall,
to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, assign such of its rights to proceed
against the Potential Contributor as are necessary to permit such Indemnifying
Party to recover from the Potential Contributor the amount of such payment.
(b) If notwithstanding Section 7.06(a) an
Indemnified Party receives an amount from a Third Party in respect of a
Liability that is the subject of indemnification hereunder after all or a
portion of such Liability has been paid by an Indemnifying Party pursuant to
this Agreement, the Indemnified Party shall promptly remit to the Indemnifying
Party the excess (if any) of (i) the amount paid by the Indemnifying Party
in respect of such Liability, plus the amount received from the Third Party in
respect thereof, over (ii) the full amount of the Liability.
(c) An insurer who would otherwise be obligated to pay
any claim shall not be relieved of the responsibility with respect thereto or,
solely by virtue of the indemnification provisions hereof, have any subrogation
rights with respect thereto, it being expressly understood and agreed that no
insurer or any other Third Party shall be entitled to a wind-fall (i.e., a
benefit they would not be entitled to receive in the absence of the
indemnification provisions) by virtue of the indemnification provisions hereof.
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7.07. Payments. The Indemnifying Party shall pay all amounts
payable pursuant to this Article VII by wire transfer of immediately
available funds, promptly following receipt from an Indemnified Party of a
bill, together with all accompanying reasonably detailed backup documentation,
for a Liability that is the subject of indemnification hereunder, unless the
Indemnifying Party in good faith disputes the Liability, in which event it
shall so notify the Indemnified Party. In
any event, the Indemnifying Party shall pay to the Indemnified Party, by wire
transfer of immediately available funds, the amount of any Liability for which
it is liable hereunder no later than three (3) days following any final
determination of such Liability and the Indemnifying Partys liability
therefor. A final determination shall
exist when (a) the parties to the dispute have reached an agreement in
writing, (b) a court of competent jurisdiction shall have entered a final
and non-appealable order or judgment, or (c) an arbitration or like panel
shall have rendered a final non-appealable determination with respect to disputes
the parties have agreed to submit thereto.
7.08. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in this Article VII
shall, for any reason, be unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless the
Indemnified Party hereunder in respect of any Liability, then each Indemnifying
Party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Party, contribute to the
amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such Liability,
in such proportion as shall be sufficient to place the Indemnified Party in the
same position as if such Indemnified Party were indemnified hereunder, the
Parties intending that their respective contributions hereunder be as close as
possible to the indemnification under Sections 7.02 and 7.03. If the contribution provided for in the
previous sentence shall, for any reason, be unavailable or insufficient to put
the Indemnified Party in the same position as if it were indemnified under Section 7.02
or 7.03, as the case may be, then the Indemnifying Party shall contribute to
the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such Liability,
in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits
received by and the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party on the one hand
and the Indemnified Party on the other hand with respect to the matter giving
rise to the Liability.
7.09. Remedies
Cumulative. The remedies provided in this Article VII
shall be cumulative and, subject to the provisions of Article X, shall not
preclude assertion by any Indemnified Party of any other rights or the seeking
of any and all other remedies against any Indemnifying Party.
7.10. Survival
of Indemnities. The rights and obligations of each of IAC and
Expedia and their respective Indemnified Parties under this Article VII
shall survive the distribution, sale or other transfer by any Party of any
Assets or the delegation or assignment by it of any Liabilities.
7.11. Shared
Litigation Liabilities. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Agreement:
(a) In order to facilitate the defense of any Shared
Litigation Liability, the Parties agree that (i) the Parties shall cooperate
in the defense of any Shared Litigation Liability; (ii) each Party shall
be responsible for the costs of its own in-house counsel and other internal
personnel in the defense of any Shared Litigation Liability; (iii) IAC
shall be entitled to control the defense and/or settlement of any Shared
Litigation Liability, although Expedia shall be
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entitled to observe with counsel of its own selection and at its own
expense; provided, however, that after the Effective Time IAC
shall not settle all or any portion of any Shared Litigation Liability unless
any remaining Liability of Expedia and its Affiliates and their respective
current and former officers and directors relating to the Shared Litigation
Liability will be fully released as a result of such settlement.
(b) The Parties agree to act in good faith and to use
their reasonable best efforts to preserve and maximize the insurance benefits
due to be provided under all policies of insurance and to cooperate with one
another as necessary to permit each other to access or obtain the benefits
under those policies; provided, however, that nothing hereunder
shall be construed to prevent any party or any other Person from asserting
claims for insurance benefits or accepting insurance benefits provided by the
policies. The Parties agree to exchange
information upon reasonable request of the other Party regarding requests that
they have made for insurance benefits, notices of claims, occurrences and
circumstances that they have submitted to the insurance companies or other
entities managing the policies, responses they have received from those
insurance companies or entities, including any payments they have received from
the insurance companies and any agreements by the insurance companies to make
payments, and any other information that the Parties may need to determine the
status of the insurance policies and the continued availability of benefits
thereunder.
(c) If any Party receives notice or otherwise learns of
the assertion by any person or entity (including a Governmental Authority) of a
Shared Litigation Liability, that Party shall give the other Party written
notice of such Shared Litigation Liability, providing notice of such Shared
Litigation Liability in reasonable detail. The failure to give notice under this subsection shall
not relieve any Party of its Liability for any Shared Litigation Liability
except to the extent the Party is actually prejudiced by the failure to give
such notice. IAC and Expedia shall be
deemed to be on notice of any Shared Litigation Liability pending prior to the
Effective Time.
ARTICLE VIII
INSURANCE
8.01. Insurance
Matters. (a) Expedia does hereby, for itself and
each other member of Expedia Group, agree that no member of IAC Group or any
IAC Indemnified Party shall have any liability whatsoever as a result of the
insurance policies and practices of IAC and its Affiliates as in effect at any
time prior to the Effective Time, including as a result of the level or scope
of any such insurance, the creditworthiness of any insurance carrier, the terms
and conditions of any policy, the adequacy or timeliness of any notice to any
insurance carrier with respect to any claim or potential claim or otherwise.
(b) IAC agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to
cause the interest and rights of Expedia and the other members of Expedia Group
as of the Effective Time as insureds or beneficiaries or in any other capacity
under occurrence-based insurance policies and programs (and under claims-made
policies and programs to the extent a claim has been submitted prior to the
Effective Time) of IAC or any other member of IAC Group in respect of periods
prior to the Effective Time to survive the Effective Time for the period for
which such interests and rights would have survived without regard to the
transactions contemplated hereby to the extent
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permitted by such policies, and IAC shall continue to administer such
policies and programs on behalf of Expedia and the other members of Expedia
Group, subject to Expedias reimbursement to IAC and the other relevant members
of IAC Group for the actual out-of-pocket costs of such ongoing administration
and the internal costs (based on the proportion of the amount of time actually
spent on such matter to such employees normal working time) of any employee or
agent of IAC of any other relevant member of IAC Group who will be required to
spend at least ten percent of his or her normal working time over any ten (10) Business
Days working with respect to any such matter. Any proceeds received by IAC or any other
member of IAC Group after the Effective Time under such policies and programs
in respect of Expedia and the other members of Expedia Group shall be for the
benefit of Expedia and the other members of Expedia Group.
(c) This Agreement is not intended as an attempted assignment
of any policy of insurance or as a contract of insurance and shall not be
construed to waive any right or remedy of any member of IAC Group in respect of
any insurance policy or any other contract or policy of insurance.
(d) Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to restrict
any member of Expedia Group from acquiring at its own expense any other
insurance policy in respect of any Liabilities or covering any period.
ARTICLE IX
EXCHANGE OF
INFORMATION; CONFIDENTIALITY
9.01. Agreement
for Exchange of Information; Archives. (a) Without
limiting any rights or obligations under any Ancillary Agreement between the
Parties and/or any other member of their respective Groups relating to
confidentiality, each of IAC and Expedia agrees to provide, and to cause its
Representatives, its Group members and its respective Group members Representatives
to provide, to the other Group and any member thereof (a Requesting Party),
at any time before, on or after the Effective Date, subject to the provisions
of Section 9.04 and as soon as reasonably practicable after written
request therefor, any Information within the possession or under the control of
such Party or one of such Persons which the Requesting Party reasonably needs (i) to
comply with reporting, disclosure, filing or other requirements imposed on the
Requesting Party (including under applicable securities laws) by a Governmental
Authority having jurisdiction over the Requesting Party, (ii) for use in
any other judicial, regulatory, administrative or other proceeding or in order
to satisfy audit, accounting, claims, regulatory, litigation or similar
requirements of the Requesting Party, in each case other than claims or
allegations that one Party to this Agreement or any of its Group members has or
brings against the other Party or any of its Group members, or (iii) subject
to the foregoing clause (ii) above, to comply with its obligations under
this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement; provided, however,
that in the event that any Party determines that any such provision of
Information could be commercially detrimental, violate any Applicable Law or
agreement, or waive any attorney-client privilege, the Parties shall take all
reasonable measures to permit the compliance with such obligations in a manner
that avoids any such harm or consequence. More particularly, and without limitation to
the generality of the foregoing sentence, the Parties agree
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that the provisions of the Tax Sharing
Agreement shall govern with respect to the sharing of Information relating to
Tax.
(b) After the Effective Time, Expedia and the other
members of Expedia Group shall have access during regular business hours (as in
effect from time to time), and upon reasonable advance notice, to the documents
and objects of historic significance that relate to the Separated Businesses,
the Separated Assets or the Separated Entities and that are located in archives
retained or maintained by IAC or any other member of IAC Group. Expedia and the other members of Expedia Group
may obtain copies (but not originals) of documents for bona fide business
purposes and may obtain objects for exhibition purposes for commercially
reasonable periods of time if required for bona fide business purposes, provided
that Expedia shall cause any such objects to be returned promptly, at Expedias
expense, in the same condition in which they were delivered to Expedia or any
other member of Expedia Group and Expedia and the other members of Expedia
Group shall comply with any rules, procedures or other requirements, and shall
be subject to any restrictions (including prohibitions on removal of specified
objects), that are then applicable to IAC or such other member of IAC Group. In any event, the foregoing shall not be
deemed to restrict the access of IAC or any other member of IAC Group to any
such documents or objects. Nothing
herein shall be deemed to impose any Liability on IAC or any other member of
IAC Group if documents or objects referred to in this Section 9.01 are not
maintained or preserved by IAC or any other member of IAC Group. Alternatively, IAC, acting reasonably, may
request from Expedia and any other member of Expedia Group that they provide
it, with reasonable advance notice, with a list of the requested Information
that relates to the Separated Businesses, the Separated Assets or the Separated
Entities and IAC shall use, and shall cause the other members of IAC Group who
are in possession of the Information requested to use, commercially reasonable
efforts to locate all requested Information that is owned or possessed by IAC
or any of its Group members or Representatives. IAC will make available all such Information
for inspection by Expedia or any other relevant member of Expedia Group during
normal business hours at the place of business reasonably designated by IAC. Subject to such confidentiality or security
obligations as IAC or the other relevant members of its Group may reasonably
deem necessary, Expedia and the other relevant members of Expedia Group may
have all requested Information duplicated. Alternatively, IAC or the other relevant
members of IAC Group may choose to deliver to Expedia, at Expedias expense,
all requested Information in the form reasonably requested by Expedia or any
other member of Expedia Group. At IACs
request, Expedia shall cause such Information when no longer needed to be returned
to IAC at Expedias expense.
9.02. Ownership
of Information. Any Information owned by a Party or any of
its Group members and that is provided to a Requesting Party pursuant to Section 9.01
shall be deemed to remain the property of the providing party. Unless specifically set forth herein or in any
Ancillary Agreement, nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed as
granting or conferring rights of license or otherwise in any such Information.
9.03. Compensation
for Providing Information. The Party requesting Information agrees to
reimburse the other Party for the reasonable costs, if any, of creating,
gathering and copying such Information, to the extent that such costs are
incurred for the benefit of the Requesting Party. Except as may be otherwise specifically provided
elsewhere in this Agreement, in the Ancillary Agreements, or in any other
agreement between the Parties, such
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costs shall be computed in accordance with
the providing Partys standard methodology and procedures.
9.04. Record
Retention. To facilitate the possible exchange of Information
pursuant to this Article IX and other provisions of this Agreement after
the Effective Time, the Parties agree to use commercially reasonable efforts to
retain, and to cause the members of their respective Group to retain, all
Information in their respective possession or control on the Effective Date in
accordance with the policies of IAC Group as in effect on the Effective Date or
such other policies as may be reasonably adopted by the appropriate Party after
the Effective Date. No Party will destroy,
or permit any member of its Group to destroy, any Information which the other
Party or any member of its Group may have the right to obtain pursuant to this
Agreement prior to the fifth (5th) anniversary of the Effective Date without
first using commercially reasonable efforts to notify the other Party of the
proposed destruction and giving the other Party the opportunity to take
possession of such Information prior to such destruction.
9.05. Other
Agreements Providing for Exchange of Information. The rights and obligations granted or created
under this Article IX are subject to any specific limitations, qualifications
or additional provisions on the sharing, exchange, retention or confidential
treatment of Information set forth in any Ancillary Agreement.
9.06. Production
of Witnesses; Records; Cooperation. (a) After the
Effective Time, but only with respect to a Third Party Claim, each Party hereto
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to, and shall cause the other
relevant members of its Group to use commercially reasonable efforts to, make
available to the other Party or any member of the Group to which the other
Party belongs, upon written request, its then former and current
Representatives (and the former and current Representatives of its respective
Group members) as witnesses and any books, records or other documents within
its control (or that of its respective Group members) or which it (or its
respective Group members) otherwise has the ability to make available, to the extent
that any such person (giving consideration to business demands of such
Representatives) or books, records or other documents may reasonably be
required in connection with any Action in which the Requesting Party may from
time to time be involved, regardless of whether such Action is a matter with
respect to which indemnification may be sought hereunder. The Requesting Party shall bear all costs and
expenses in connection therewith.
(b) If a Party, being entitled to do so under this
Agreement, chooses to defend or to seek to settle or compromise any Third Party
Claim, the other Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make
available to such Party, upon written request, its then former and current
Representatives and those of its respective Group members as witnesses and any
books, records or other documents within its control (or that of its respective
Group members) or which it (or its respective Group members) otherwise has the
ability to make available, to the extent that any such Person (giving
consideration to business demands of such Representatives) or books, records or
other documents may reasonably be required in connection with such defense,
settlement or compromise, as the case may be, and shall otherwise cooperate in
such defense, settlement or compromise, as the case may be.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, the Parties shall
cooperate and consult, and shall cause their respective Group members to
cooperate and consult, to the extent reasonably
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necessary with respect to any Actions (except in the case of an Action
by one Party against the other).
(d) The obligation of the Parties to provide witnesses
pursuant to this Section 9.06 is intended to be interpreted in a manner so
as to facilitate cooperation and shall include the obligation to provide as
witnesses inventors and other employees without regard to whether the witness
or the employer of the witness could assert a possible business conflict
(subject to the exception set forth in the first sentence of Section 9.06(a)).
(e) In connection with any matter contemplated by this Section 9.06,
the Parties will enter into, and shall cause all other relevant members of
their respective Groups to enter into, a mutually acceptable joint defense
agreement so as to maintain to the extent practicable any applicable
attorney-client privilege or work-product privileges of any member of any
Group.
9.07. Confidentiality. (a) Subject to Section 9.08, each
of IAC and Expedia shall hold, and shall cause its respective Group members and
its respective Affiliates (whether now an Affiliate or hereafter becoming an
Affiliate) and its Representatives to hold, in strict confidence, with at least
the same degree of care that applies to IACs confidential and proprietary
Information pursuant to policies in effect as of the Effective Date, all
confidential and proprietary Information concerning the other Group (or any
member thereof) that is either in its possession (including Information in its
possession prior to the date hereof) or furnished by the other Group (or any
member thereof) or by any of its Affiliates (whether now an Affiliate or
hereafter becoming an Affiliate) or their respective Representatives at any
time pursuant to this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby (any such Information referred to herein as Confidential
Information), and shall not use, and shall cause its respective Group
members, Affiliates and Representatives not to use, any such Confidential Information
other than for such purposes as shall be expressly permitted hereunder or
thereunder. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include Information that is or
was (i) in the public domain other than by the breach of this Agreement or
by breach of any other agreement relating to confidentiality between or among
the Parties and/or their respective Group members, their respective Affiliates
or Representatives, (ii) lawfully acquired by such Party (or any member of
the Group to which such Party belongs or any of such Partys Affiliates) from a
Third Party not bound by a confidentiality obligation, or (iii) independently
generated or developed by Persons who do not have access to, or descriptions
of, any such confidential or proprietary Information of the other Party (or any
member of the Group to which such Party belongs).
(b) Each Party shall maintain, and shall cause its
respective Group members to maintain, policies and procedures, and develop such
further policies and procedures as will from time to time become necessary or
appropriate, to ensure compliance with Section 9.07(a).
(c) Each Party agrees not to release or disclose, or permit
to be released or disclosed, any Confidential Information to any other Person,
except its Representatives who need to know such Confidential Information (who
shall be advised of their obligations hereunder with respect to such
Confidential Information), except in compliance with Section 9.08. Without limiting the foregoing, when any
Information furnished by the other Party after the Effective Time pursuant to
this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement is no longer needed for the purposes
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contemplated by this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, each Party
will promptly, after request of the other Party and at the election of the
Party receiving such request, return to the other Party all such Information in
a printed or otherwise tangible form (including all copies thereof and all
notes, extracts or summaries based thereon) and destroy all Information in an
electronic or otherwise intangible form and certify to the other Party that it
has destroyed such Information (and such copies thereof and such notes, extracts
or summaries based thereon). Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Parties agree that to the extent some Information to be destroyed
or returned is retained as data or records for the purpose of business
continuity planning or is otherwise not accessible in the Ordinary Course of
Business, such data or records shall be destroyed in the Ordinary Course of
Business in accordance, if applicable, with the business continuity plan of the
applicable Party.
9.08. Protective
Arrangements. In the event that any Party or any member of
its Group or any Affiliate of such Party or any of their respective
Representatives either determines that it is required to disclose any
Confidential Information (the Disclosing Party) pursuant to Applicable
Law or receives any demand under lawful process or from any Governmental
Authority to disclose or provide Confidential Information of the other Party
(or any member of the Group to which such Party belongs) (the Providing
Party), the Disclosing Party shall, to the extent permitted by Applicable
Law, promptly notify the other Party prior to the Disclosing Party disclosing
or providing such Confidential Information and shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Providing Party so that the Providing
Party may seek any reasonable protective arrangements or other appropriate
remedy and/or waive compliance with this Section 9.08. All expenses reasonably incurred by the Disclosing
Party in seeking a protective order or other remedy will be borne by the
Providing Party. Subject to the foregoing, the Disclosing Party may thereafter
disclose or provide such Confidential Information to the extent (but only to
the extent) required by such Applicable Law (as so advised by legal counsel) or
by lawful process or by such Governmental Authority and shall promptly provide
the Providing Party with a copy of the Confidential Information so disclosed,
in the same form and format as disclosed, together with a list of all Persons
to whom such Confidential Information was disclosed.
9.09. Disclosure
of Third Party Information. Expedia acknowledges that it and the other
members of Expedia Group may have in its or their possession confidential or
proprietary Information of Third Parties that was received under confidentiality
or non disclosure agreements with such Third Party while part of IAC Group. Expedia will hold, and will cause the other
members of its Group and its and their respective Representatives to hold, in
strict confidence the confidential and proprietary Information of Third Parties
to which Expedia or any other member of Expedia Group has access, in accordance
with the terms of any agreements entered into prior to the Effective Time
between one or more members of IAC Group (whether acting through, on behalf of,
or in connection with, the Separated Businesses) and such Third Parties.
ARTICLE X
DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
10.01. Agreement
to Resolve Disputes. Except as otherwise specifically provided in
any Ancillary Agreement, the procedures for discussion, negotiation and dispute
resolution set forth
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in this Article X shall apply to all
disputes, controversies or claims (whether sounding in contract, tort or otherwise)
that may arise out of or relate to, or arise under or in connection with this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, or the transactions contemplated hereby
or thereby (including all actions taken in furtherance of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby on or prior to the date hereof), or the commercial
or economic relationship of the Parties relating hereto or thereto, between or
among any member of IAC Group on the one hand and Expedia Group on the other
hand. Each Party agrees on behalf of
itself and each member of its respective Group that the procedures set forth in
this Article X shall be the sole and exclusive remedy in connection with
any dispute, controversy or claim relating to any of the foregoing matters and
irrevocably waives any right to commence any Action in or before any Governmental
Authority, except as otherwise required by Applicable Law.
10.02. Dispute
Resolution; Mediation.
(a) Either Party may commence the dispute resolution
process of this Section 10.02 by giving the other Party written notice (a Dispute
Notice) of any controversy, claim or dispute of whatever nature arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or the breach, termination, enforceability
or validity thereof (a Dispute) which has not been resolved in the
normal course of business. The Parties
shall attempt in good faith to resolve any Dispute by negotiation between
executives of each Party hereto (Senior Party Representatives) who
have authority to settle the Dispute and who are at a higher level of
management than the persons who have direct responsibility for the
administration of this Agreement. Within
15 days after delivery of the Dispute Notice, the receiving Party shall submit
to the other a written response (the Response). The Dispute Notice and the Response shall
include (i) a statement setting forth the position of the Party giving
such notice and a summary of arguments supporting such position and (ii) the
name and title of such Partys Senior Party Representative and any other
persons who will accompany the Senior Party Representative at the meeting at
which the Parties will attempt to settle the Dispute. Within 30 days after the delivery of the
Dispute Notice, the Senior Party Representatives of both Parties shall meet at
a mutually acceptable time and place, and thereafter as often as they reasonably
deem necessary, to attempt to resolve the Dispute. The Parties shall cooperate in good faith with
respect to any reasonable requests for exchanges of information regarding the
Dispute or a Response thereto.
(b) If the Dispute has not been resolved within 60 days
after delivery of the Dispute Notice, or if the Parties fail to meet within 30
days after delivery of the Dispute Notice as hereinabove provided, the Parties
shall make a good faith attempt to settle the Dispute by mediation pursuant to
the provisions of this Section 10.02 before resorting to arbitration
contemplated by Section 10.03 or any other dispute resolution procedure
that may be agreed by the Parties.
(c) All negotiations, conferences and discussions
pursuant to this Section 10.02 shall be confidential and shall be treated
as compromise and settlement negotiations. Nothing said or disclosed, nor any document
produced, in the course of such negotiations, conferences and discussions that
is not otherwise independently discoverable shall be offered or received as evidence
or used for impeachment or for any other purpose in any current or future
arbitration.
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(d) Unless the Parties agree otherwise, the mediation
shall be conducted in accordance with the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
Model Procedure for Mediation of Business Disputes in effect on the date of
this Agreement by a mediator mutually selected by the Parties.
(e) Within 30 days after the mediator has been selected
as provided above, both Parties and their respective attorneys shall meet with
the mediator for one mediation session of at least four hours, it being agreed
that each Party representative attending such mediation session shall be a
Senior Party Representative with authority to settle the Dispute. If the Dispute cannot be settled at such
mediation session or at any mutually agreed continuation thereof, either Party
may give the other and the mediator a written notice declaring the mediation
process at an end.
10.03. Arbitration. If the Dispute has not been resolved by the
dispute resolution process described in Section 10.02, the Parties agree
that any such Dispute shall be settled by binding arbitration before the
American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Wilmington, Delaware pursuant
to the Commercial Rules of the AAA. Any arbitrator(s) selected to resolve the Dispute
shall be bound exclusively by the laws of the State of Delaware without regard
to its choice of law rules. Any decisions of award of the arbitrator(s) will be
final and binding upon the Parties and may be entered as a judgment by the
Parties hereto. Any rights to appeal or review such award by any court or
tribunal are hereby waived to the extent permitted by law.
10.04. Costs. The costs of any mediation or arbitration
pursuant to this Article X shall be shared equally between the Parties.
10.05. Continuity
of Service and Performance. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, the Parties
will continue to provide service and honor all other commitments under this
Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement during the course of dispute resolution
pursuant to the provisions of this Article X with respect to all matters
not subject to such dispute, controversy or claim.
ARTICLE XI
FURTHER
ASSURANCES
11.01. Further
Assurances. (a) Except as provided in Section 13.1,
each Party covenants with and in favor of the other Party as follows:
(i) prior to, on
and after the Effective Time, each Party hereto shall, and shall cause the
other relevant members of its Group to, cooperate with the other Party, and
without any further consideration, but at the expense of the requesting Party,
to execute, acknowledge and deliver, or use commercially reasonable efforts to
cause to be executed and delivered, all instruments, assurances or documents,
including instruments of conveyance, assignments and transfers, and to make all
filings with, and to obtain all consents, approvals or authorizations of, any
Governmental Authority or any other Person under any permit, license,
agreement, indenture or other instrument (including any Consents or
Governmental Authorizations), and to take all such other actions as such Party
may reasonably be requested to take by the other Party hereto (or any member of
its Group) from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Agreement and
the Ancillary
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Agreements, in order to give effect to the provisions, obligations and
purposes of this Agreement and the Ancillary Agreements and the transfers of
the Separated Businesses and of the Separated Assets and the assignment and
assumption of the Assumed Liabilities and the other transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby; and
(ii) to the
extent that IAC or Expedia discovers at any time following the Effective Time
any Asset that was intended to be transferred to Expedia or any other member of
Expedia Group pursuant to this Agreement was not so transferred at the
Effective Time, IAC shall, or shall cause the other relevant members of its
Group to promptly, assign and transfer to Expedia or any other member of
Expedia Group reasonably designated by Expedia such Asset and all right, title
and interest therein in a manner and on the terms consistent with the relevant
provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, Section 2.13(b).
Similarly, to the extent that IAC or
Expedia discovers at any time following the Effective Time any Asset that was
intended to be retained by IAC or any other member of IAC Group was not so
retained at the Effective Time, Expedia shall, or shall cause the other
relevant members of its Group to promptly to, assign and transfer to IAC or any
other member of IAC Group reasonably designated by IAC such Asset and all
right, title and interest therein in a manner and on the terms consistent with
the relevant provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, Section 2.13(b).
For the avoidance of doubt, the transfer
of any Assets under this paragraph (a) shall be effected without any
additional consideration by either Party hereunder (such deferred transfers
being referred to as Deferred Transactions).
(b) On or prior to the Effective Time, IAC and Expedia,
in their respective capacities as direct and indirect parent companies of the
members of their respective Groups, shall each approve or ratify any actions of
the members of their respective Groups as may be necessary or desirable to give
effect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the Ancillary
Agreements.
(c) Prior to the Effective Time, if a Party identifies
any commercial or other service that is needed to assure a smooth and orderly
transition of the businesses in connection with the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby, and that is not otherwise governed by the
provisions of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, the Parties will
cooperate in determining whether there is a mutually acceptable arms length
basis on which the other Party can provide such service.
ARTICLE XII
CERTAIN
OTHER MATTERS
12.01. Auditors
and Audits; Annual and Quarterly Financial Statements and Accounting. Each Party agrees that during the one hundred
and eighty (180) days following the Effective Time and in any event solely with
respect to the preparation and audit of each of IACs and Expedias financial
statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, the printing, filing and
public dissemination of such financial statements, the audit of IACs internal
control over financial reporting and managements assessment thereof and
managements assessment of IACs disclosure controls and procedures, in each
case made as of December 31, 2005:
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(a) Date of Auditors Opinion. Expedia shall use commercially reasonable efforts
to enable Expedias auditors (Expedias Auditors) to complete their
audit such that they will date their opinion on Expedias audited annual
financial statements on the same date that IACs auditors (IACs Auditors)
date their opinion on IACs audited annual financial statements, and to enable
IAC to meet its timetable for the printing, filing and public dissemination of
IACs annual financial statements.
(b) Annual Financial Statements. Each Party shall provide to the other Party
on a timely basis all Information reasonably required to meet its schedule for
the preparation, printing, filing, and public dissemination of its annual financial
statements and for managements assessment of the effectiveness of its
disclosure controls and procedures and its internal control over financial reporting
in accordance with Items 307 and 308, respectively, of Regulation S-K and its
auditors audit of its internal control over financial reporting and managements
assessment thereof in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002 and the SECs and Public Company Accounting Oversight Boards rules and
auditing standards thereunder (such assessments and audit being referred to as
the 2005 Internal Control Audit And Management Assessments). Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, Expedia will provide all required financial and other Information
with respect to Expedia and its Subsidiaries to Expedias Auditors in a
sufficient and reasonable time and in sufficient detail to permit Expedias
Auditors to take all steps and perform all reviews necessary to provide
sufficient assistance to IACs Auditors with respect to Information to be included
or contained in IACs annual financial statements and to permit IACs Auditors
and IACs management to complete the 2005 Internal Control Audit and Management
Assessments. Similarly, IAC shall
provide to Expedia on a timely basis all Information that Expedia reasonably requires
to meet its schedule for the preparation, printing, filing, and public
dissemination of Expedias annual financial statements. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, IAC will provide all required financial Information with respect to
IAC and its Subsidiaries to IACs Auditors in a sufficient and reasonable time
and in sufficient detail to permit IACs Auditors to take all steps and perform
all reviews necessary to provide sufficient assistance to Expedias Auditors
with respect to Information to be included or contained in Expedias annual
financial statements.
(c) Access to Personnel and Books and Records. Expedia shall authorize Expedias Auditors to
make available to IACs Auditors both the personnel who performed or are performing
the annual audits of Expedia and work papers related to the annual audits of
Expedia, in all cases within a reasonable time prior to Expedias Auditors
opinion date, so that IACs Auditors are able to perform the procedures they
consider necessary to take responsibility for the work of Expedias Auditors as
it relates to IACs Auditors report on IACs financial statements, all within
sufficient time to enable IAC to meet its timetable for the printing, filing
and public dissemination of IACs annual financial statements. Similarly, IAC shall authorize IACs Auditors
to make available to Expedias Auditors both the personnel who performed or are
performing the annual audits of IAC and work papers related to the annual
audits of IAC, in all cases within a reasonable time prior to IACs Auditors
opinion date, so that Expedias Auditors are able to perform the procedures
they consider necessary to take responsibility for the work of IACs Auditors
as it relates to Expedias Auditors report on Expedias financial statements,
all within sufficient time to enable Expedia to meet its timetable for the
printing, filing and public dissemination of Expedias annual financial
statements. Expedia shall make available
to IACs Auditors and IACs management Expedias personnel and Expedia books
and records in a
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reasonable time prior to IACs Auditors opinion date and IACs
managements assessment date so that IACs Auditors and IACs management are
able to perform the procedures they consider necessary to conduct the 2005
Internal Control Audit and Management Assessments.
(d) Expedia Annual Report. Expedia will deliver to IAC a substantially
final draft, as soon as the same is prepared, of the first report to be filed
with the SEC that includes Expedias audited financial statements for the year
ended December 31, 2005 (the Expedia Annual Report); provided,
however, that Expedia may continue to revise such Expedia Annual Report
prior to the filing thereof, which changes will be delivered to IAC as soon as
reasonably practicable; provided, further, that IACs and Expedias
personnel will actively consult with each other regarding any changes which
Expedia may consider making to the Expedia Annual Report and related
disclosures prior to the anticipated filing with the SEC, with particular focus
on any changes which would have an effect upon IACs financial statements or
related disclosures.
Nothing in
this Section 12.01 shall require either party to violate any agreement
with any Third Party regarding the confidentiality of confidential and
proprietary Information relating to that Third Party or its business; provided,
however, that in the event that a Party is required under this Section 12.01
to disclose any such Information, such Party shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to seek to obtain such Third Party Consent to the disclosure of such Information.
ARTICLE XIII
SOLE DISCRETION
OF IAC; TERMINATION
13.01. Sole
Discretion of IAC. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, until the occurrence of the Effective Time, IAC shall have the sole
and absolute discretion:
(a) to determine whether to proceed with all or any
part of the Separation or the Reclassification, and to determine the timing of
and any and all conditions to the completion of the Separation and the Reclassification
or any part thereof or of any other transaction contemplated by this Agreement;
and
(b) to amend or otherwise change, delete or supplement,
from time to time, any term or element of the Separation or the Reclassification
or any other transaction contemplated by this Agreement.
13.02. Termination. This Agreement and all Ancillary Agreements
may be terminated and the transactions contemplated hereby may be amended,
supplemented, modified or abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Date by
and in the sole and absolute discretion of IAC without the approval of Expedia
or of the stockholders of IAC. In the
event of such termination, no Party shall have any liability of any kind to the
other Party or any other Person. After
the Effective Date, this Agreement may not be terminated except by an agreement
in writing signed by the Parties.
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ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
14.01. Limitation
of Liability. In no event shall any member of IAC Group or
Expedia Group be liable to any member of the other Group for any special,
consequential, indirect, collateral, incidental or punitive damages or lost
profits or failure to realize expected savings or other commercial or economic loss
of any kind, however caused and on any theory of liability (including
negligence) arising in any way out of this Agreement, whether or not such
Person has been advised of the possibility of any such damages; provided,
however, that the foregoing limitations shall not limit either Partys
indemnification obligations for Liabilities with respect to Third Party Claims
as set forth in Article VII. The
provisions of Article X shall be the Parties sole recourse for any breach
hereof or any breach of the Ancillary Agreements.
14.02. Counterparts. This Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement
may be executed in one or more counterparts, all of which shall be considered
one and the same agreement, and shall become effective when one or more
counterparts have been signed by each of the parties thereto and delivered to
the other party or parties.
14.03. Entire
Agreement. This Agreement, the Ancillary Agreements, and
the Schedules and Exhibits hereto and thereto and the specific agreements
contemplated hereby or thereby contain the entire agreement between the Parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all previous
agreements, oral or written, negotiations, discussions, writings, understandings,
commitments and conversations with respect to such subject matter. No agreements or understandings exist between
the Parties other than those set forth or referred to herein or therein.
14.04. Construction. In this Agreement and each of the Ancillary
Agreements, unless a clear contrary intention appears:
(a) the singular number includes the plural number and
vice versa;
(b) reference to any Person includes such Persons
successors and assigns but, if applicable, only if such successors and assigns
are not prohibited by this Agreement or the relevant Ancillary Agreement, and
reference to a Person in a particular capacity excludes such Person in any
other capacity or individually;
(c) reference to any gender includes each other gender;
(d) reference to any agreement, document or instrument
means such agreement, document or instrument as amended, modified, supplemented
or restated, and in effect from time to time in accordance with the terms
thereof subject to compliance with the requirements set forth herein or in the
relevant Ancillary Agreement;
(e) reference to any Applicable Law means such
Applicable Law as amended, modified, codified, replaced or reenacted, in whole
or in part, and in effect from time to time, including rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder, and reference to any section or other
provision of any Applicable Law means that provision of such Applicable Law
from time to time
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in effect and constituting the substantive amendment, modification,
codification, replacement or reenactment of such section or other provision;
(f) herein, hereby, hereunder, hereof, hereto
and words of similar import shall be deemed references to this Agreement or to
the relevant Ancillary Agreement as a whole and not to any particular article, section or
other provision hereof or thereof;
(g) including (and with correlative meaning include)
means including without limiting the generality of any description preceding
such term;
(h) the Table of Contents and headings are for
convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction or
interpretation hereof or thereof;
(i) with respect to the determination of any period of
time, from means from and including and to means to but excluding; and
(j) references to documents, instruments or agreements
shall be deemed to refer as well to all addenda, exhibits, schedules or
amendments thereto.
14.05. Signatures. Each Party acknowledges that it and the other
Party (and the other members of their respective Groups) may execute certain of
the Ancillary Agreements by facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature. Each Party expressly adopts and confirms each
such facsimile, stamp or mechanical signature made in its respective name (or
that of the applicable member of its Group) as if it were a manual signature,
agrees that it will not assert that any such signature is not adequate to bind
such Party to the same extent as if it were signed manually and agrees that at
the reasonable request of the other Party at any time it will as promptly as reasonably
practicable cause each such Ancillary Agreement to be manually executed (any
such execution to be as of the date of the initial date thereof).
14.06. Assignability. Except as set forth in any Ancillary
Agreement, this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement shall be binding upon
and inure to the benefit of the Parties hereto and thereto, respectively, and
their respective successors and assigns; provided, however, that
except as specifically provided in any Ancillary Agreement, no Party hereto or
thereto may assign its respective rights or delegate its respective obligations
under this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement without the express prior
written consent of the other parties hereto or thereto.
14.07. Third
Party Beneficiaries. Except for the indemnification rights under
this Agreement of any IAC Indemnified Party or any Expedia Indemnified Party in
their respective capacities as such and for the release under Section 7.01
of any Person provided therein and except as specifically provided in any
Ancillary Agreement, (a) the provisions of this Agreement and each Ancillary
Agreement are solely for the benefit of the parties hereto and thereto and
their respective successors and permitted assigns and are not intended to
confer upon any Person, except the parties hereto and thereto and their
respective successors and permitted assigns, any rights or remedies hereunder
and (b) there are no third party beneficiaries of this Agreement or any
Ancillary Agreement; and neither this Agreement nor any Ancillary Agreement
shall provide any Third Party with any remedy, claim, liability, reimbursement,
claim of action or other right in excess of those existing without reference to
this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement.
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14.08. Payment
Terms. (a) Except as expressly provided to the
contrary in this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, any amount to be paid
or reimbursed by one Party to the other under this Agreement shall be paid or
reimbursed hereunder within thirty (30) days after presentation of an invoice
or a written demand therefor and setting forth, or accompanied by, reasonable
documentation or other reasonable explanation supporting such amount.
(b) Except as expressly provided to the contrary in
this Agreement or in any Ancillary Agreement, any amount not paid when due
pursuant to this Agreement (and any amount billed or otherwise invoiced or
demanded and properly payable that is not paid within thirty (30) days of such
bill, invoice or other demand) shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to
the Prime Rate plus 2% (or the maximum legal rate, whichever is lower),
calculated for the actual number of days elapsed, accrued from the date on
which such payment was due up to the date of the actual receipt of payment.
14.09. Governing
Law. Except as set forth in Article X, this
Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement, shall be governed by and construed and
interpreted in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Delaware, irrespective
of the choice of laws principles of the State of Delaware, as to all matters,
including matters of validity, construction, effect, enforceability, performance
and remedies.
14.10. Notices. All notices or other communications under
this Agreement and, unless expressly provided therein, each Ancillary
Agreement, shall be in writing and shall be deemed to be duly given when
delivered in person or successfully transmitted by facsimile, addressed as
follows:
If to IAC, to:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
152 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Attention: General Counsel
Telecopier: (212) 632-9642
with a copy
to:
Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Attention: Pamela S. Seymon, Esq.
Telecopier: (212) 403-2000
If to Expedia,
to:
Expedia, Inc.
3150 139th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
Attention: General Counsel
Telecopier: (425) 679-7251
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Any Party may,
by notice to the other Party as set forth herein, change the address or fax
number to which such notices are to be given.
14.11. Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or any
Ancillary Agreement or the application thereof to any Person or circumstance is
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or
unenforceable, the remaining provisions hereof or thereof, or the application
of such provision to Persons or circumstances or in jurisdictions other than
those as to which it has been held invalid or unenforceable, shall remain in
full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated
thereby, so long as the economic or legal substance of the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby, as the case may be, is not affected in any
manner adverse to any party hereto or thereto. Upon such determination, the Parties shall
negotiate in good faith in an effort to agree upon such a suitable and
equitable provision to effect the original intent of the Parties.
14.12. Publicity. Prior to the Effective Date, IAC shall be
responsible for issuing any press releases or otherwise making public
statements with respect to this Agreement, the Separation, the Reclassification
or any of the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and Expedia
shall not make such statements without the prior written consent of IAC. Prior to the Effective Date, IAC and Expedia
shall each consult with the other prior to making any filings with any
Governmental Authority with respect thereto.
14.13. Survival
of Covenants. Except as expressly set forth in this
Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement, any covenants, representations or
warranties contained in this Agreement and each Ancillary Agreement shall
survive the Separation and Reclassification and shall remain in full force and
effect.
14.14. Waivers
of Default; Conflicts. (a) Waiver by any Party of any default
by the other Party of any provision of this Agreement or any Ancillary
Agreement shall not be deemed a waiver by the waiving Party of any subsequent
or other default, nor shall it prejudice the rights of the other Party. No failure or delay by any Party in exercising
any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor
shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
(b) Each Party acknowledges that each of the Parties
and each member of their respective Group are all currently represented by
members of IACs legal department and IACs outside counsel. Each of IAC (on behalf of itself and every
member of its Group), on the one hand, and Expedia (on behalf of itself and
every member of its Group), on the other hand, waives any conflict with respect
to such common representation that may arise before, at or after the Effective
Date.
14.15. Amendments. This Agreement may be amended, supplemented,
modified or abandoned at any time prior to the Effective Date by and in the
sole and absolute discretion of IAC without the approval of Expedia or of the
stockholders of IAC. After the Effective
Time, no provisions of this Agreement or any Ancillary Agreement shall be
deemed waived, amended, supplemented or modified by any Party, unless such
waiver, amendment, supplement or
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modification is in writing and signed by the
authorized representative of the Party against whom it is sought to enforce
such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification.
14.16. Controlling
Documents. To the extent that the provisions of the Employee
Matters Agreement, Tax Sharing Agreement or Transition Services Agreement
conflict with the provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of such other
agreement or agreements shall govern.
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Separation Agreement to be executed by
their duly authorized representatives.
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Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION COPY
AMENDED AND RESTATED
GOVERNANCE AGREEMENT
among
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP,
LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION,
and
BARRY DILLER
DATED AS OF AUGUST 9, 2005
EXECUTION COPY
Amended and Restated Governance Agreement
Amended and
Restated Governance Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2005, among IAC/InterActiveCorp,
a Delaware corporation (IAC, or the Company), Liberty Media
Corporation, for itself and on behalf of the members of its Stockholder Group (Liberty)
and Mr. Barry Diller (Mr. Diller) for himself and on behalf
of the members of his Stockholder Group.
WHEREAS, the
parties hereto have agreed that the Company, Liberty and Mr. Diller shall
enter into this Agreement in order to amend and restate in its entirety the
respective rights and obligations of the parties set forth in the Amended and
Restated Governance Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2001 (the 2001
Governance Agreement).
WHEREAS, the
Company, Liberty and Mr. Diller desire to establish in this Agreement
certain provisions concerning Libertys and Mr. Dillers relationships
with the Company.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual covenants and
agreements contained herein, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the Company,
Liberty and Mr. Diller hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
TRANSFEREES
No Third Party
Transferee shall have any rights or obligations under this Agreement, except as
specifically provided for in this Agreement and except that if such Third Party
Transferee shall acquire Beneficial Ownership of more than 5% of the
outstanding Total Equity Securities upon consummation of any Transfer or series
of related Transfers from a Stockholder, to the extent such Stockholder has the
right to Transfer a Demand Registration and assigns such right in connection
with a Transfer, such Third Party Transferee shall have the right to initiate
one or more Demand Registrations pursuant to Section 6.07 or any registration
rights agreement that replaces or supersedes Section 6.07 (and shall be
entitled to such other rights that a Stockholder would have applicable to such
Demand Registration), subject to the obligations of such Stockholder applicable
to such demand (and the number of Demand Registrations to which such Stockholder
is entitled under Section 6.07 hereof shall be correspondingly decreased).
ARTICLE II
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS AND RELATED MATTERS
Section 2.01. Board of Directors.
(a) Liberty shall have the right to
nominate up to two Liberty Directors so long as Liberty Beneficially Owns at
least 33,651,963 Equity Securities (so long as the Ownership Percentage of
Liberty is at least equal to 15% of the Total Equity Securities. Liberty shall have the right to nominate one
Liberty Director so long as Liberty Beneficially Owns at least 22,434,642
Equity Securities (so long as Libertys Ownership Percentage is at least equal
to 5% of the Total Equity Securities).
(b) The Company shall cause each
Liberty Director to be included in the slate of nominees recommended by the Board
of Directors to the Companys stockholders for election as directors at each
annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company and shall use all reasonable
efforts to cause the election of each Liberty Director, including soliciting
proxies in favor of the election of such persons.
(c) Within a reasonable time prior
to the filing with the Commission of its proxy statement or information
statement with respect to each meeting of stockholders at which directors are
to be elected, the Company shall, to the extent Liberty is entitled to
representation on the Companys Board of Directors in accordance with this
Agreement, provide Liberty with the opportunity to review and comment on the
information contained in such proxy or information statement applicable to the
director nominees designated by Liberty.
(d) In the event that a vacancy is
created at any time by the death, disability, retirement, resignation or
removal (with or without cause) of any Liberty Director, Liberty shall have the
right to designate a replacement Liberty Director to fill such vacancy, and the
Company agrees to use its best efforts to cause such vacancy to be filled with
the replacement Liberty Director so designated. Upon the written request of
Liberty, each Stockholder shall vote (and cause each of the members of its Stockholder
Group to vote, if applicable), or act by written consent with respect to, all
Equity Securities Beneficially Owned by it and otherwise take or cause to be
taken all actions necessary to remove the director designated by Liberty and to
elect any replacement director designated by Liberty as provided in the first
sentence of this Section 2.01(d).
The parties hereto hereby acknowledge that as of the date of this
Agreement there exist two vacancies with respect to which Liberty has the right
to designate Liberty Directors in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
and that, upon Libertys designation of Liberty Directors to fill such
vacancies, the Company will use its best efforts to cause such vacancies to be
filled within a reasonable period of time by such Liberty Directors so
designated.
Section 2.02. Management of the Business. Except as indicated in Section 2.03
below or as required by Delaware law or the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company and the By-Laws and the agreements contemplated thereby, Mr. Diller,
so long as he is CEO and has not become Disabled, will continue to have full
authority to operate the day-to-day business affairs of the Company to the same
extent as prior to the date hereof. The
Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause one Liberty Director designated
by Liberty for such purpose to be appointed as a member of a committee of the
Board of Directors and, to the extent such person qualifies under applicable law
(including stock exchange or NASDAQ requirements, as applicable, and tax laws)
and Section 16(b) under the Exchange Act or other similar requirements,
all committees and subcommittees of the Board of Directors that make
determinations relating to the compensation of executives of the Company.
Section 2.03. Contingent Matters. So long as Liberty or Mr. Diller
Beneficially Owns, in the case of Liberty, at least 29,912,856 Equity
Securities (including all Equity Securities held by the BDTV Entities) (so long
as such Ownership Percentage equals at least 5% of the Total Equity
Securities), or, in the case of Mr. Diller, at least five million Company Common
Shares with respect to which he has a pecuniary interest and the CEO
Termination Date (as defined in the Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement
and not as defined in this Agreement) has not occurred and Mr. Diller has
not become Disabled, neither the Company nor any Subsidiary
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shall take any of the following actions (any such action, a Contingent
Matter) without the prior approval of Mr. Diller and/or Liberty, whichever
(or both) satisfy the foregoing Beneficial Ownership requirements:
(a) any transaction not in the
ordinary course of business, launching new or additional channels or engaging
in any new field of business, in any case, that will result in, or will have a
reasonable likelihood of resulting in, Liberty or Mr. Diller or any
Affiliate thereof being required under law to divest itself of all or any part
of its Beneficial Ownership of Company Common Shares, or interests therein, or
any other material assets of such Person, or that will render such Persons continued
ownership of such securities, shares, interests or assets illegal or subject to
the imposition of a fine or penalty or that will impose material additional
restrictions or limitations on such Persons full rights of ownership (including,
without limitation, voting) thereof or therein.
This Contingent Matter will be applied based only on the Beneficial
Ownership of Company Common Shares, interests therein or other material assets
of Liberty or Mr. Diller or any Affiliate thereof as of the date hereof;
or
(b) if the Total Debt Ratio
continuously equals or exceeds 4:1 over a twelve-month period, then, for so
long as the Total Debt Ratio continues to equal or exceed 4:1:
(i) any acquisition or
disposition (including pledges), directly or indirectly, by the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries of any assets (including debt and/or equity securities) or
business (by merger, consolidation or otherwise), the grant or issuance of any
debt or equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other
than, in the case of any of the foregoing, as contemplated by Section 3.01
of this Agreement), the redemption, repurchase or reacquisition of any debt or
equity securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, by the Company or
any such Subsidiary, or the incurrence of any indebtedness, or any combination of
the foregoing, in any such case, in one transaction or a series of transactions
in a six-month period, with a value of 10% or more of the market value of the
Total Equity Securities at the time of such transaction, provided that the
prepayment, redemption, repurchase or conversion of prepayable, callable,
redeemable or convertible securities in accordance with the terms thereof shall
not be a transaction subject to this paragraph;
(ii) voluntarily
commencing any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company or any
material Subsidiary;
(iii) any material amendments
to the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company (including the issuance
of preferred stock pursuant to the blank check authorization in the
Certificate of Incorporation, having super voting rights (more than 1 vote per
share) or entitled to vote as a class on any matter (except to the extent such
class vote is required by Delaware law or to the extent the holder of such
preferred stock may have the right to elect directors upon the occurrence of a
default in payment of dividends or redemption price));
(iv) engagement by the Company
in any line of business other than media, communications and entertainment
products, services and programming,
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and electronic retailing and commerce, or other businesses engaged in
by the Company as of the date of determination of the Total Debt Ratio;
(v) adopting any
stockholder rights plan (or any other plan or arrangement that could reasonably
be expected to disadvantage any stockholder on the basis of the size or voting
power of its shareholding) that would adversely affect Liberty or Mr. Diller;
and
(vi) entering into any
agreement with any holder of Equity Securities in such stockholders capacity
as such, which grants such stockholder approval rights similar in type and magnitude
to those set forth in this Section 2.03.
Section 2.04. Notice of Events. In the event that (a) the Company
intends to engage in a transaction of a type that is described in Section 2.03,
and (b) the Company does not intend to seek consent from Liberty and/or Mr. Diller,
whichever (or both) are required to consent to a Contingent Matter (a Consenting
Party) due to the Companys good faith belief that the specific provisions
of Section 2.03 do not require such consent but that reasonable people
acting in good faith could differ as to whether consent is required pursuant to
such Section, the Company shall notify the Consenting Parties as to the
material terms of the transaction (including the Companys estimate of the
timing thereof) by written notice (including a statement of the Total Debt
Ratio) delivered as far in advance of engaging in such transaction as is
reasonably practicable unless such transaction was previously publicly
disclosed.
ARTICLE III
PREEMPTIVE RIGHTS
Section 3.01. Liberty Preemptive Rights. (a) In the event that after the date
hereof, the Company issues or proposes to issue (other than to the Company and
its Affiliates or Liberty and its Affiliates, and other than pursuant to an Excluded
Issuance) any Company Common Shares (including Company Common Shares issued
upon exercise, conversion or exchange of options, warrants and convertible
securities (other than shares of Company Common Stock issued upon conversion of
shares of Company Class B Stock) and such issuance, together with any
prior issuances aggregating less than 1% with respect to which Libertys
preemptive right has not become exercisable (including issuances prior to the
date hereof which would be included for purposes of calculating the 1%
threshold that have not previously been taken into account in connection with
the preemptive right last preceding the date of this Agreement pursuant to the
2001 Governance Agreement), shall be in excess of 1% of the total number of Company
Common Shares outstanding after giving effect to such issuance (an Additional
Issuance), the Company shall give written notice to Liberty not later than
five business days after the issuance, specifying the number of Company Common
Shares issued or to be issued and the Issue Price (if known) per share. Liberty shall have the right (but not the obligation)
to purchase or cause one or more of the Liberty Holdcos to purchase for cash a
number (but not less than such number) of Company Common Shares (allocated
between Company Common Stock and Company Class B Stock in the same
proportion as the issuance or issuances giving rise to the preemptive right hereunder,
except to the extent that Liberty opts to receive Company Common Stock in lieu
of
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Company Class B Common Stock), so that Liberty and the Liberty Holdcos
shall collectively maintain the identical percentage equity Beneficial Ownership
interest in the Company that Liberty and the Liberty Holdcos collectively owned
immediately prior to the notice from the Company to Liberty described in the
first sentence of this paragraph (but not in excess of 20.01% of the
outstanding Total Equity Securities) after giving effect to such Additional
Issuance and to shares of Company Common Stock that are to be issued to Liberty
and the Liberty Holdcos pursuant to this Section 3.01 by sending an
irrevocable written notice to the Company not later than fifteen business days
after receipt of such notice (or, if later, two business days following the
determination of the Issue Price) from the Company that it elects to purchase or
to cause one or more of the Liberty Holdcos to purchase all of such Company
Common Shares (the Additional Shares).
The closing of the purchase of Additional Shares shall be the later of
ten business days after the delivery of the notice of election by Liberty and
five business days after receipt of any necessary regulatory approvals.
(b) The purchase or redemption of
any Company Common Shares by the Company or any of its Affiliates shall not
result in an increase in the percentage of Company equity that Liberty may be
entitled to acquire pursuant to the preemptive right in paragraph 3.01(a) above.
Section 3.02. Investment Agreement. Section 1.7 and Section 1.8 of the Investment
Agreement shall be of no further force or effect and Liberty shall cease to
have any preemptive rights with respect to Equity Securities, except as otherwise
provided with respect to Liberty in Section 3.01 of this Agreement.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
Section 4.01. Representations and Warranties
of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to Mr. Diller
and Liberty that (a) the Company is a corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
the corporate power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to carry out
its obligations hereunder, (b) the execution and delivery of this
Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the part of the Company and no other corporate proceedings
on the part of the Company are necessary to authorize this Agreement or any of
the transactions contemplated hereby, (c) this Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of the Company, and, assuming this Agreement constitutes a valid and
binding obligation of each Stockholder, is enforceable against the Company in
accordance with its terms, (d) neither the execution, delivery or performance
of this Agreement by the Company constitutes a breach or violation of or
conflicts with the Companys Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws or any
material agreement to which the Company is a party and (e) none of such
material agreements would impair in any material respect the ability of the
Company to perform its obligations hereunder.
Section 4.02. Representations and Warranties
of the Stockholders. Each Stockholder, severally as to itself
(and, in the case of Mr. Diller, as applicable), represents and warrants
to the
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Company and the other Stockholder that (a) it is a corporation
duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its
jurisdiction of organization and he or it, as the case may be, has the power
and authority (corporate or otherwise) to enter into this Agreement and to
carry out his or its obligations hereunder, (b) the execution and delivery
of this Agreement by such Stockholder and the consummation by such Stockholder
of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all
necessary action on the part of such Stockholder and no other proceedings on the
part of such Stockholder are necessary to authorize this Agreement or any of the
transactions contemplated hereby, (c) this Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by such Stockholder and constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of such Stockholder, and, assuming this Agreement constitutes a
valid and binding obligation of the Company, is enforceable against such
Stockholder in accordance with its terms, (d) neither the execution,
delivery or performance of this Agreement by such Stockholder constitutes a
breach or violation of or conflicts with its certificate of incorporation or by-laws
(or similar governing documents) or any material agreement to which such
Stockholder is a party and (e) none of such material agreements would
impair in any material respect the ability of such Stockholder to perform its
obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE V
DEFINITIONS
For purposes
of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Section 5.01. 2001 Governance Agreement
shall have the meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
Section 5.02. Affiliate shall have
the meaning set forth in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act (as in effect
on the date of this Agreement). For purposes
of this definition, (i) natural persons shall not be deemed to be
Affiliates of each other, (ii) none of Mr. Diller, Liberty or any of
their respective Affiliates shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Company
or its Affiliates, (iii) none of the Company, Liberty or any of their
respective Affiliates shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of Mr. Diller or
his Affiliates, (iv) none of the Company, Mr. Diller or any of their
respective Affiliates shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of Liberty or its
Affiliates, and (v) the Company shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of Expedia, Inc.
based upon the common control of the Company and Expedia, Inc. by the
Stockholders.
Section 5.03. Amended and Restated
Stockholders Agreement shall mean the stockholders agreement dated as of
the date hereof between Liberty and Mr. Diller.
Section 5.04. BDTV Entities shall
have the meaning specified in the Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement.
Section 5.05. Beneficial Ownership or
Beneficially Own shall have the meaning given such term in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act and a Persons Beneficial Ownership of Company Common
Shares shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of such Rule; provided,
however, that for purposes of Beneficial Ownership, (a) a Person shall
be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of any Equity Securities which may be
acquired by such Person
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(disregarding any legal impediments to such Beneficial Ownership), whether
within 60 days or thereafter, upon the conversion, exchange or exercise of any
warrants, options (which options held by Mr. Diller shall be deemed to be exercisable),
rights or other securities issued by the Company or any Subsidiary thereof, (b) no
Person shall be deemed to Beneficially Own any Equity Securities solely as a
result of such Persons execution of this Agreement (including by virtue of
holding a proxy with respect to any Equity Securities), or the Amended and
Restated Stockholders Agreement, or with respect to which such Person does not
have a pecuniary interest, and (c) Liberty shall be deemed to be the
Beneficial Owner of all of the Company Common Shares held by each BDTV Entity.
Section 5.06. CEO shall mean the
Chief Executive Officer of the Company or any successor entity.
Section 5.07. CEO Termination Date shall mean the date that Mr. Diller no
longer serves as CEO.
Section 5.08. Commission shall mean
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Section 5.09. Company shall have the
meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
Section 5.10. Company Common Shares
shall mean shares of Company Common Stock and Company Class B Stock.
Section 5.11. Company Class B Stock
shall mean class B common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company.
Section 5.12. Company Common Stock
shall mean common stock, $0.001 par value per share, of the Company.
Section 5.13. Consenting Party shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 2.03 of this Agreement.
Section 5.14. Demand Registration shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 6.07(b) of this Agreement.
Section 5.15. Disabled shall mean the
disability of Mr. Diller after the expiration of more than 180 consecutive
days after its commencement which is determined to be total and permanent by a
physician selected by Liberty and reasonably acceptable to Mr. Diller, his
spouse or a personal representative designated by Mr. Diller; provided
that Mr. Diller shall be deemed to be disabled only following the
expiration of 90 days following receipt of a written notice from the Company and
such physician specifying that a disability has occurred if within such 90-day
period he fails to return to managing the business affairs of the Company. Total disability shall mean mental or
physical incapacity that prevents Mr. Diller from managing the business
affairs of the Company.
Section 5.16. EBITDA shall mean, for
any period, for the Company and its Subsidiaries, on a combined consolidated
basis: net income plus (to the extent reflected in the
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determination of net income) (i) provision for income taxes, (ii) minority
interest, (iii) interest income and expense, (iv) depreciation and
amortization, (v) amortization of cable distribution fees, and (vi) amortization
of non-cash distribution and marketing expense and non-cash compensation
expense.
Section 5.17. Equity Securities shall
mean the equity securities of the Company calculated on a Company Common Stock
equivalent basis, including the Company Common Shares and those shares issuable
upon exercise, conversion or redemption of other securities of the Company not
otherwise included in this definition.
Section 5.18. Exchange Act shall mean
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
Section 5.19. Excluded Issuance shall
mean any issuance of Company Common Shares (i) in a Sale Transaction, or (ii) which
is restricted stock or the ownership of which is otherwise subject to
forfeiture (Restricted Stock), provided that for purposes of this
definition and Section 3.01 of this Agreement any stock covered by the provisions
of clause (ii) shall be deemed to have been issued for purposes of Section 3.01
of this Agreement on the date (the Lapse Date) the restrictions on
such stock lapse or on which the stock is no longer subject to forfeiture.
Section 5.20. Fair Market Value for a
security publicly traded in the over-the-counter market (on either NASDAQ-NMS
or NASDAQ) or on a recognized exchange shall be the average closing price of
such security for the three trading days ending on the applicable day (or, if
such day is not a trading day, the trading day immediately preceding the
applicable day), and for all other securities or property Fair Market Value
shall be determined, by a nationally recognized investment banking firm which
has not been engaged by the Company or Liberty or their respective Affiliates (including,
with respect to the Company, for so long as Mr. Diller is Chairman of the
Board of Expedia, Inc., Expedia, Inc.) for the prior three years,
selected by (i) the Company and (ii) Liberty; provided that, if the
Company and Liberty cannot agree on such an investment banking firm within 10
business days, such investment banking firm shall be selected by a panel
designated in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration
Association. The fees, costs and expenses
of the American Arbitration Association and the investment banking firm so
selected shall be borne equally by the Company and Liberty.
Section 5.21. IAC shall have the
meaning set forth in the Recitals to this Agreement.
Section 5.22. Issue Price shall mean
the price per share equal to (i) in connection with an underwritten
offering of Company Common Shares, the initial price at which the stock is
offered to the public or other investors, (ii) in connection with other
sales of Company Common Shares for cash, the cash price paid for such stock, (iii) in
connection with the deemed issuances of Restricted Stock, the Fair Market Value
of the stock on the Lapse Date (as defined in the definition of Excluded
Issuance above), (iv) in connection with the issuance of Company Common
Shares as consideration in an acquisition by the Company, the average of the
Fair Market Value of the stock for the five trading days ending on the third
trading day immediately preceding (a) the date upon which definitive
agreements with respect to such acquisition were entered into if the number of
Company Common Shares issuable in such transaction is fixed on
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that date, or (b) such later date on which the consideration, or
remaining portion thereof, issuable in such transaction becomes fixed, (v) in
connection with a compensatory issuance of shares of Company Common Stock, the
Fair Market Value of the Company Common Stock, and (vi) in all other
cases, including, without limitation, in connection with the issuance of
Company Common Shares pursuant to an option, warrant or convertible security
(other than in connection with issuances described in clause (v) above), the
Fair Market Value of the Company Common Shares on the date of issuance.
Section 5.23. Liberty Director shall
mean (a) any executive officer or director of Liberty designated by
Liberty to serve on the Companys Board of Directors, provided that the Companys
Board of Directors is not unable, in the exercise of its fiduciary
responsibilities, to recommend that the Companys stockholders elect such
individual to serve on the Companys Board
of Directors, or (b) any other Person designated by Liberty who is reasonably
acceptable to the Company.
Section 5.24. Liberty Holdco shall
mean any holding company wholly owned by Liberty and reasonably acceptable to
the Company, formed solely for the purpose of acquiring and holding an equity
interest in the Company.
Section 5.25. Ownership Percentage means,
with respect to any Stockholder, at any time, the ratio, expressed as a
percentage, of (i) the Equity Securities Beneficially Owned by such
Stockholder (disregarding any legal impediments to such Beneficial Ownership)
and its Affiliates to (ii) the sum of (x) the Total Equity Securities and
(y) with respect to such Stockholder, any Company Common Shares included in
clause (i) that are issuable upon conversion, exchange or exercise of
Equity Securities that are not included in clause (x).
Section 5.26. Permitted Transferee
shall mean Liberty or Mr. Diller and the members of their respective
Stockholder Groups.
Section 5.27. Person shall mean any
individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, limited liability company,
trust, unincorporated organization, government or department or agency of a
government.
Section 5.28. Sale Transaction shall
mean the consummation of a merger, consolidation or amalgamation between the
Company and another entity (other than an Affiliate of the Company) in which
the Company is acquired by such other entity or a Person who controls such
entity, or a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to
another entity, other than a Subsidiary of the Company.
Section 5.29. Securities Act shall
mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
Section 5.30. Stockholders shall mean
Liberty and Mr. Diller.
Section 5.31. Stockholder Group shall
mean (a) in respect of Liberty, the Liberty Stockholder Group (as defined
in the Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement) and (b) in respect of Mr. Diller,
the Diller Stockholder Group (as defined in the Amended and Restated
Stockholders Agreement).
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Section 5.32. Subsidiary shall mean,
as to any Person, any corporation or other Person at least a majority of the
shares of stock or other ownership interests of which having general voting
power under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the Board of
Directors or similar governing body of such corporation or other entity
(irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any other class or classes
shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any
contingency) is, at the time as of which the determination is being made, owned
by such Person, or one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or
more of its Subsidiaries.
Section 5.33. Third Party Transferee
shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Amended and Restated
Stockholders Agreement.
Section 5.34. Total Debt shall mean
all obligations of the Company and its Subsidiaries for money borrowed, at such
time (including all long-term senior and subordinated indebtedness, all
short-term indebtedness, the stated amount of all letters of credit issued for
the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (without duplication)
all unreimbursed draws thereunder (but excluding trade letters of credit)), net
of cash (other than working capital) or cash equivalent securities, as shown on
the consolidated quarterly or annual financial statements, including the notes
thereto, of the Company and its Subsidiaries included in the Companys filings
under the Exchange Act for such period, determined in accordance with GAAP,
provided, however, that Total Debt shall not include hedging, pledging,
securitization or similar transactions involving securities owned by the
Company or its Subsidiaries to monetize the underlying securities, to the
extent such securities are the sole means of satisfying such obligations and
otherwise the fair value thereof.
Section 5.35. Total Debt Ratio shall
mean, at any time, the ratio of (i) Total Debt of the Company and its
Subsidiaries on a combined consolidated basis as of such time to (ii) EBITDA
for the four fiscal quarter period ending as of the last day of the most
recently ended fiscal quarter as of such time.
Section 5.36. Total Equity Securities
at any time shall mean, subject to the next sentence, the total number of the
Companys outstanding equity securities calculated on a Company Common Stock
equivalent basis. Any Equity Securities Beneficially
Owned by a Person that are not outstanding Voting Securities but that, upon
exercise, conversion or exchange, would become Voting Securities, shall be
deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing Total Equity Securities
and the percentage of Equity Securities owned by such Person but shall not be deemed to be
outstanding for the purpose of computing Total Equity Securities and the
percentage of the Equity Securities owned by any other Person.
Section 5.37. Transfer shall mean,
directly or indirectly, to sell, transfer, assign, pledge, encumber,
hypothecate or similarly dispose of, either voluntarily or involuntarily, or to
enter into any contract, option or other arrangement or understanding with
respect to the sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, hypothecation
or similar disposition of, any Company Common Shares Beneficially Owned by such
Stockholder or any interest in any Company Common Shares Beneficially Owned by
such Stockholder, provided, however, that, a merger or
consolidation in which a Stockholder is a constituent corporation shall not be
deemed to be the Transfer of any Company Common Shares Beneficially Owned by
such Stockholder
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(provided, that a significant purpose of any such transaction is
not to avoid the provisions of this Agreement).
For purposes of this Agreement, the conversion of Company Class B
Stock into Company Common Stock shall not be deemed to be a Transfer.
Section 5.38. Voting Securities shall
mean at any particular time the shares of any class of capital stock of the
Company which are then entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.
ARTICLE VI
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.01. Notices. All notices, requests and other
communications to any party hereunder shall be in writing (including telecopy)
and shall be given, if to Liberty Media Corporation, to:
Liberty Media
Corporation
12300 Liberty Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
Attention: General Counsel
Facsimile: (720) 875-5382
with a copy
to:
Baker Botts
L.L.P.
30 Rockefeller Plaza
44th Floor
New York, New York 10112
Attention: Frederick H. McGrath
Facsimile: (212) 408-2501
if to Mr. Diller,
to:
Barry Diller
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
IAC/InterActiveCorp
Carnegie Hall Tower
152 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
Facsimile: (212) 632-9642
with a copy
to:
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IAC/InterActiveCorp
Carnegie Hall Tower
152 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention: General Counsel
Facsimile: (212) 632-9642
with a copy
to:
Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention: Pamela S. Seymon
Andrew J. Nussbaum
Facsimile: (212)
403-2000
if to the
Company, to:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
Carnegie Hall Tower
152 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention: General Counsel
Facsimile: (212) 632-9642
with a copy
to:
Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, New York 10019
Attention: Pamela S. Seymon
Andrew J. Nussbaum
Facsimile: (212)
403-2000
or such
address or facsimile number as such party may hereafter specify for the purpose
by notice to the other parties hereto. Each
such notice, request or other communication shall be effective when delivered
personally, telegraphed, or telecopied, or, if mailed, five business days after
the date of the mailing.
Section 6.02. Amendments; No Waivers. (a) Any provision of this Agreement may
be amended or waived if, and only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and
signed, in the case of an amendment, by the party whose rights or obligations
hereunder are affected by such amendment, or in the case of a waiver, by the
party or parties against whom the waiver is to be effective. Any amendment or waiver by the Company shall
be authorized by a majority of the Board of Directors (excluding for this
purpose any director who is a Liberty Director as provided for in this
Agreement).
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(b) No failure or delay by any party
in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver
thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. The rights and remedies herein provided shall
be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
Section 6.03. Successors And Assigns. Except as provided in Article I, neither
this Agreement nor any of the rights or obligations under this Agreement shall
be assigned, in whole or in part (except by operation of law pursuant to a merger
of Liberty with another Person a significant purpose of which is not to avoid
the provisions of this Agreement), by any party without the prior written
consent of the other parties hereto. Subject
to the foregoing, the provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
permitted assigns.
Section 6.04. Governing Law; Consent To
Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with and governed by the internal laws of the State of Delaware, without
giving effect to the principles of conflicts of laws. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally consents to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the
courts of the State of Delaware, for any action, proceeding or investigation in
any court or before any governmental authority (Litigation) arising
out of or relating to this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby
and further agrees that service of any process, summons, notice or document by
U.S. mail to its respective address set forth in this Agreement shall be
effective service of process for any Litigation brought against it in any such
court. Each of the parties hereto hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of
any Litigation arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby in the courts of the State of Delaware, and hereby further irrevocably
and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court
that any such Litigation brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient
forum. Each of the parties irrevocably
and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
any and all rights to trial by jury in connection with any Litigation arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
Section 6.05. Counterparts . This Agreement may be signed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if
the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
Section 6.06. Specific Performance. The Company, Mr. Diller and Liberty each
acknowledges and agrees that the parties respective remedies at law for a breach or threatened breach of any of the
provisions of this Agreement would be inadequate and, in recognition of that
fact, agrees that, in the event of a breach or threatened breach by the Company
or Liberty of the provisions of this Agreement, in addition to any remedies at
law, Mr. Diller, Liberty and the Company, respectively, without posting
any bond shall be entitled to obtain equitable relief in the form of specific performance,
a temporary restraining order, a temporary or permanent injunction or any other
equitable remedy which may then be available.
Section 6.07. Registration Rights. (a) Liberty and Mr. Diller shall be
entitled to customary registration rights relating to Company Common Stock
owned by them as of the date
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hereof or acquired from the Company (including upon conversion of
Company Class B Stock) in the future (including the ability to transfer
registration rights as set forth in this Agreement in connection with the sale
or other disposition of Company Common Stock).
(b) If requested by a Stockholder,
the Company shall be required promptly to cause the Company Common Stock owned
by such Stockholder or its Affiliates to be registered under the Securities Act
in order to permit such Stockholder or such Affiliate to sell such shares in one
or more (but not more than (i) in the case of Liberty, four and (ii) in
the case of Mr. Diller, three) registered public offerings (each, a Demand
Registration). Each Stockholder
shall also be entitled to customary piggyback registration rights. If the amount of shares sought to be
registered by a Stockholder and its Affiliates pursuant to any Demand
Registration is reduced by more than 25% pursuant to any underwriters cutback,
then such Stockholder may elect to request the Company to withdraw such
registration, in which case, such registration shall not count as one of such
Stockholders Demand Registrations. If a Stockholder requests that any Demand
Registration be an underwritten offering, then such Stockholder shall select
the underwriter(s) to administer the offering, provided that such
underwriter(s) shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company. If a Demand Registration is an underwritten
offering and the managing underwriter advises the Stockholder initiating the
Demand Registration in writing that in its opinion the total number or dollar
amount of securities proposed to be sold in such offering is such as to
materially and adversely affect the success of such offering, then the Company
will include in such registration, first, the securities of the initiating
Stockholder, and, thereafter, any securities to be sold for the account of
others who are participating in such registration (as determined on a fair and
equitable basis by the Company). In
connection with any Demand Registration or inclusion of a Stockholders or its
Affiliates shares in a piggyback registration, the Company, such Stockholder
and/or its Affiliates shall enter into an agreement containing terms (including
representations, covenants and indemnities by the Company and such
Stockholder), and shall be subject to limitations, conditions, and blackout
periods, customary for a secondary offering by a selling stockholder. The costs of the registration (other than
underwriting discounts, fees and commissions) shall be paid by the Company. The Company shall not be required to register
such shares if a Stockholder would be permitted to sell the Company Common
Stock in the quantities proposed to be sold at such time in one transaction
under Rule 144 of the Securities Act or under another comparable exemption
therefrom.
(c) If the Company and a Stockholder
cannot agree as to what constitutes customary terms within ten days of such
Stockholders request for registration (whether in a Demand Registration or a
piggyback registration), then such determination shall be made by a law firm of
national reputation mutually acceptable to the Company and such Stockholder.
Section 6.08. Termination. Except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, this Agreement shall terminate (a) as to Liberty, at such time
that Liberty Beneficially Owns Equity Securities representing less than 5% of
the Total Equity Securities and (b) as to Mr. Diller, at such time
that the CEO Termination Date has occurred or at such time as he becomes
Disabled. In respect of Contingent
Matters, such provisions shall terminate as to Mr. Diller and Liberty as
set forth therein.
Section 6.09. Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or
restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, void or unenforceable, the
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remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this
Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be
affected, impaired or invalidated, provided that the parties hereto shall
negotiate in good faith to attempt to place the parties in the same position as
they would have been in had such provision not been held to be invalid, void or
unenforceable.
Section 6.10. Cooperation. Each of Liberty and Mr. Diller covenants
and agrees with the other to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the
Company to fulfill the Companys obligations under this Agreement.
Section 6.11. Adjustment Of Share Numbers and
Prices. If, after the effective time of this Agreement,
there is a subdivision, split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification or
similar event with respect to any of the shares of capital stock referred to in
this Agreement, then, in any such event, the numbers and types of shares of
such capital stock referred to in this Agreement and, if applicable, the prices
of such shares, shall be adjusted to the number and types of shares of such
capital stock that a holder of such number of shares of such capital stock
would own or be entitled to receive as a result of such event if such holder
had held such number of shares immediately prior to the record date for, or
effectiveness of, such event and the prices for such shares shall be similarly
adjusted.
Section 6.12. Effective Time. This Agreement shall become effective
immediately following the effective time of the Companys spin off of Expedia, Inc.
Section 6.13. Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein,
this Agreement, the Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement, and as
provided in Section 5.1 of the Amended and Restated Stockholders
Agreement, the 1997 Stockholders Agreement embody the complete agreement and
understanding among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter
hereof and thereof and supersede and preempt any prior understandings,
agreements or representations by or among the parties, written or oral, that
may have related to the subject matter hereof in any way (including, without
limitation, effective upon the date hereof, all stockholders agreements
relating to the Company (other than the Amended and Restated Stockholders
Agreement) between Liberty and Mr. Diller). Effective upon the effective time of this
Agreement, the 2001 Governance Agreement shall terminate and shall be superseded
by this Agreement.
Section 6.14. Interpretation. References in this Agreement to Articles and Sections
shall be deemed to be references to Articles and Sections of this Agreement
unless the context shall otherwise require.
The words include, includes and including shall be deemed to be
followed by the phrase without limitation. The words hereof, herein and hereunder
and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of such agreement or
instrument.
Section 6.15. Headings. The titles of Articles and Sections of this Agreement
are for convenience only and shall not be interpreted to limit or otherwise
affect the provisions of this Agreement.
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and Restated Governance Agreement
to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
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Gregory R. Blatt
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Executive Vice President
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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION
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/s/ Barry Diller
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BARRY DILLER
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE TO AMENDED AND RESTATED GOVERNANCE AGREEMENT]
Exhibit 10.2
EXECUTION COPY
AMENDED AND RESTATED
STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT
between
LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION
and
BARRY DILLER
Dated as of August 9, 2005
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
AMENDED AND
RESTATED STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT, dated as of August 9, 2005, between
Liberty Media Corporation, a Delaware corporation (Liberty),
for itself and on behalf of the members of the Liberty Stockholder Group and Mr. Barry
Diller (Diller), for himself and on
behalf of the members of the Diller Stockholder Group.
WHEREAS, the
parties hereto have agreed that Liberty and Diller shall enter into this
Agreement in order to amend and restate in its entirety the respective rights
and obligations of the parties set forth in the Amended and Restated Stockholders
Agreement, dated as of December 16, 2001 (the 2001 Stockholders Agreement);
and
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and
obligations hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1.
Certain Defined
Terms. As used herein, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
1997
Stockholders Agreement means the Stockholders Agreement, dated as of October 19,
1997, among Universal Studios, Inc., Liberty, Diller and The Seagram
Company Ltd., as in effect as of such date and without giving effect to any
termination of such agreement (including in connection with the execution of
any agreement intended to supersede such agreement).
Affiliate means, with respect to any Person,
any other Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with,
such specified Person, for so long as such Person remains so associated to the
specified Person. For purposes of this
definition, natural persons shall not be deemed to be Affiliates of each other,
and none of Liberty, Diller or the Company shall be deemed to be Affiliates of
any of the others. In addition, for
purposes of this definition, Expedia, Inc. and the Company shall not be
deemed Affiliates of one another as a result of such entities being under the
common control of the Stockholders.
Agreement means this Amended and Restated
Stockholders Agreement as it may be amended, supplemented, restated or modified
from time to time.
BDTV I means BDTV, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
BDTV II means BDTV II, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
BDTV III means BDTV III, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
BDTV IV means BDTV IV, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
BDTV Entities means, collectively, the BDTV
Limited Entities and the BDTV Unrestricted Entities.
BDTV Limited Entities means, collectively,
BDTV I and BDTV II.
BDTV Unrestricted Entities means BDTV III,
BDTV IV and each other BDTV Entity that may be formed subsequent to the date
hereof; provided that each of Liberty and Diller acknowledges and agrees
that any corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business
association hereafter formed by Diller and Liberty to hold Common Shares will
be a BDTV Unrestricted Entity and will be a corporation, partnership, limited
liability company or other business association having a capital structure and
governance rights substantially similar to that of BDTV III.
beneficial owner or beneficially
own has the meaning given such term in Rule 13d-3 under the
Exchange Act and a Persons beneficial ownership of Common Shares or Voting
Securities shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of such Rule; provided, however,
that for purposes of determining beneficial ownership, (i) a Person shall
be deemed to be the beneficial owner of any Equity which may be acquired by
such Person (disregarding any legal impediments to such beneficial ownership),
whether within 60 days or thereafter, upon the conversion, exchange or exercise
of any warrants, options (which options held by Diller shall be deemed to be exercisable),
rights or other securities issued by the Company, (ii) no Person shall be
deemed to beneficially own any Equity solely as a result of such Persons
execution of this Agreement (including by virtue of holding a proxy with
respect to any shares) or the Governance Agreement, and (iii) Liberty
shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of all of the Common Shares owned by
each BDTV Entity, other than for purposes of Articles III and V of this
Agreement. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, for purposes of calculating the Minimum Stockholder Amount, a Person
shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner only of Common Shares which are
issued and outstanding.
Board means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
Business Day shall mean any day that is not a
Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which banks are required or authorized by
law to be closed in the City of New York.
Capital Stock means, with respect to any
Person at any time, any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated, whether voting or non-voting) of capital
stock, partnership interests (whether general or limited) or equivalent
ownership interests in or issued by such Person.
Cause means (i) the conviction of, or
pleading guilty to, any felony, or (ii) the willful, continued and
complete failure to attend to managing the business affairs of the Company,
after written notice of such failure from the Board and reasonable opportunity
to cure.
CEO means the Chief Executive Officer of the
Company.
CEO Termination Date means the later of (i) such
time as Diller no longer serves as CEO and (ii) such time as Diller no
longer holds the Liberty Proxy (other than suspension of such proxy pursuant to
Section 3.3(e)).
Class B Common Stock means the Class B
common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company and any securities of
the Company issued in respect thereof, or in substitution
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therefor, in
connection with any stock split, dividend or combination, or any
reclassification, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, exchange or other
similar reorganization (other than Common Stock issued upon conversion of Class B
Common Stock).
Commission means the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and any successor commission or agency having similar powers.
Common Shares means, collectively, the Common
Stock and the Class B Common Stock.
Common Stock means the common stock, par value
$0.001 per share, of the Company and any securities of the Company issued in
respect thereof, or in substitution therefor, in connection with any stock
split, dividend or combination, or any reclassification, recapitalization,
merger, consolidation, exchange or other similar reorganization.
Company
means IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware corporation, and any successor by merger,
consolidation, or other business combination.
Contingent Matters shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in the Governance Agreement.
control (including the terms controlled by and under
common control with), with respect to the relationship between or
among two or more Persons, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the affairs or management of a
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, as trustee or executor,
by contract or otherwise.
Daily
Hedging Limit means a number of shares of Common Stock not to exceed on
any single day 25% of the average daily trading volume of the Common Stock
during the three full calendar months preceding the date of determination
(disregarding any sales by Liberty).
Diller Interest Purchase Price means the cash
amount (or cash value of Equity) contributed by Diller to a BDTV Entity
plus interest on such amount, from the date of such contribution to the date of
purchase of Dillers Interest in such BDTV Entity by a member of the Liberty
Stockholder Group, at the rate of interest per annum in effect from time to
time and publicly announced by The Bank of New York as its prime rate of
interest, compounded annually. For
purposes of BDTV I, BDTV II, BDTV III and BDTV IV, the cash amount (or cash
value of Equity) initially contributed by Diller was $100 in each such
BDTV Entity.
Diller Stockholder Group means (i) Diller
and (ii) any Affiliate of Diller which (A) Diller controls and (B) in
which Diller owns, directly or indirectly, 90% or more of the outstanding
Capital Stock or other ownership interests, which such Affiliate holds Equity
subject to this Agreement.
Director means any member of the Board.
Disabled means the disability of Diller after
the expiration of more than 180 consecutive days after its commencement which
is determined to be total and permanent by a
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physician selected
by Liberty and reasonably acceptable to Diller, his spouse or a personal
representative designated by Diller; provided that Diller shall be
deemed to be disabled only following the expiration of 90 days following
receipt of a written notice from the Company and such physician specifying that
a disability has occurred if within such 90-day period he fails to return to
managing the business affairs of the Company. A total disability shall mean mental or
physical incapacity that prevents Diller from managing the business affairs of
the Company.
Eligible Stockholder Amount means, in the case
of Diller, the equivalent of 2,200,000 Common Shares and, in the case of
Liberty (including, in the case of Liberty, all of the Common Shares owned by the BDTV Entities),
2,000,000 shares of Common Stock, in each case determined on a fully diluted
basis (taking into account, in the case of Diller, all unexercised Options,
whether or not then exercisable).
Equity means any and all shares of Capital
Stock of the Company, securities of the Company convertible into, or
exchangeable for, such shares, and options, warrants or other rights to acquire
such shares.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
Fair Market Value means, as to any securities
or other property, the cash price at which a willing seller would sell and a
willing buyer would buy such securities or property in an arms-length
negotiated transaction without time constraints.
FCC means the Federal Communications
Commission or its successor.
FCC Regulations means, as of any date, all
federal communications statutes and all rules, regulations, orders, decrees and
policies of the FCC as then in effect, and any interpretations or waivers
thereof or modifications thereto.
Governance Agreement means the Amended and
Restated Governance Agreement, among the Company, Diller and Liberty, of even
date herewith, as it may be amended, supplemented, restated or modified from
time to time hereafter.
Group shall have the meaning assigned to it in
Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.
Hedging
Transaction means any (i) short sale, (ii) any purchase, sale or
grant of any right (including, without limitation, any put or call option), or (iii) any
forward sale (whether for a fixed or variable number of shares or at a fixed or
variable price) of or with respect to, or any non-recourse loan secured by,
Common Stock or any security (other than a broad-based market basket or index)
that includes, relates to or derives any significant part of its value from
Common Stock, and such term includes (a) the pledge of Common Stock in
connection with any of the foregoing to secure the obligations of the pledgor
under a Hedging Transaction and (b) the pledge of a Hedging Transaction
itself to secure any extension of credit to a party based, in whole or part, on
the value thereof.
HSR Act means the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust
Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.
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Independent Investment Banking Firm means an
investment banking firm of nationally recognized standing that is, in the
reasonable judgment of the Person engaging such firm, qualified to perform the
task for which it has been engaged.
Liberty Stockholder Group means Liberty and
those Subsidiaries of Liberty that, from time to time, hold Equity subject to
this Agreement.
Market Sale means a brokers transaction within
the meaning of Section 4(4) of the Securities Act.
Minimum Stockholder Amount means Common Shares
representing at least 50.1% of the outstanding voting power of the outstanding
Common Shares.
Options means options to acquire Capital Stock
of the Company granted by the Company to Diller and outstanding from time to
time.
Permitted Designee means any Person designated
by a Stockholder, who shall be reasonably acceptable to the other Stockholder, to
exercise such Stockholders rights pursuant to Section 4.3.
Permitted Transferee means (i) with
respect to Liberty, any member of the Liberty Stockholder Group, and (ii) with
respect to Diller, any member of the Diller Stockholder Group. In addition, each of Liberty and Diller shall
be a Permitted Transferee of its respective Permitted Transferees.
Person means any individual, corporation,
limited liability company, limited or general partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization,
government or any agency or political subdivisions thereof or any Group
comprised of two or more of the foregoing.
Public Stockholder means any Person that,
together with its Affiliates (a) has sole or shared voting power with
respect to Voting Securities representing no more than 10% of the voting power of
the outstanding Voting Securities or (b) has sole or shared power to dispose
of Equity representing no more than 10% of the Equity to be tendered or
exchanged in any applicable tender or exchange offer, as the case may be.
Reference Rate means, for any day, a fixed
rate per annum equal to the yield, expressed as a percentage per annum,
obtained at the official auction of 90-day United States Treasury Bills most
recently preceding the date thereof plus 100 basis points.
Related
Hedging Transactions means a series of Hedging Transactions between
members of the Liberty Stockholder Group on the one hand, and the same counterparty or its Affiliates, on the
other hand, which Hedging Transactions each have specified maturity dates
occurring within a period of thirty days.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of
1933, as amended.
Stockholder means each of Liberty and Diller.
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Stockholder Group means one or more of the
Diller Stockholder Group and the Liberty Stockholder Group. For purposes of this Agreement, (i) prior
to the time that Liberty acquires Dillers interest in a BDTV Entity, each BDTV
Entity shall be deemed to be a member of the Liberty Stockholder Group except
as otherwise expressly set forth herein and (ii) a Stockholders Permitted
Designee shall be deemed to be a member of the designating Stockholders Stockholder
Group (other than for purposes of Section 4.1(a)(w)).
Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person,
any corporation or other entity of which at least a majority of the voting
power of the voting equity securities or equity interest is owned, directly or
indirectly, by such Person.
Third Party Transferee means any Person to
whom a Stockholder (including a Third Party Transferee subject to this Agreement
pursuant to Sections 4.5(b) and 4.5(c)) or a Permitted Transferee
Transfers Common Shares, other than a Permitted Transferee of such Stockholder
or a member of another Stockholder Group.
Transfer means, directly or indirectly, to
sell, transfer, assign, pledge, encumber, hypothecate or similarly dispose of,
either voluntarily or involuntarily, or to enter into any contract, option or
other arrangement or understanding with respect to the sale, transfer,
assignment, pledge, encumbrance, hypothecation or similar disposition of, any
Common Shares beneficially owned by a Stockholder or any interest in any Common
Shares beneficially owned by a Stockholder, provided, however,
that a merger or consolidation in which a Stockholder is a constituent
corporation shall not be deemed to be the Transfer of any Common Shares
beneficially owned by such Stockholder (provided, that a significant
purpose of any such transaction is not to avoid the provisions of this
Agreement).
Voting Securities means at any time shares of
any class of Capital Stock of the Company which are then entitled to vote
generally in the election of Directors.
Section 1.2.
Other Defined
Terms. The following terms shall have the meanings
defined for such terms in the Sections set forth below:
Term
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Diller
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Preamble
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Diller Termination Date
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Section 6.2(b)
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Exchange Notice
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Section 4.4(a)
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Expedia Shares
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Section 5.2
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Section 4.2(a)
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L/D Offer Notice
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Section 4.3(b)
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Section 4.3(c)
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Section 4.3(b)
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Section 4.3(a)
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Section 4.3(f)
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Section 3.3(a)
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Section 6.2(a)
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Section 6.14
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Settlement Threshold
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Section 4.3(e)
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Stock Lending Transaction
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Section 4.2(f)
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Tag-Along Notice
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Section 4.2(a)
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Section 4.2(a)
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Section 1.3.
Other Definitional
Provisions. (a) The words hereof, herein and hereunder
and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this
Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and
Article and Section references are to this Agreement unless otherwise
specified.
(b) The meanings given to terms
defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of such terms.
(c) For purposes of calculating the
amount of outstanding Common Shares or Equity as of any date and the number of
Common Shares or Equity beneficially owned by any Person as of any date, any
Common Shares held in the Companys treasury or owned by any Subsidiaries of
the Company shall be disregarded.
ARTICLE II
RESERVED
ARTICLE III
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Section 3.1.
Voting on
Certain Matters.
(a) In the event that Section 2.03
of the Governance Agreement is applicable, in connection with any vote or
action by written consent of the stockholders of the Company relating to any
matter that constitutes a Contingent Matter, Liberty and Diller agree (and each
agrees to cause each member of its Stockholder Group, if applicable), with
respect to any Common Shares with respect to which it or he has the power to
vote (whether by proxy, the ownership of voting securities of a BDTV Entity or
otherwise) (including all Common Shares held by any BDTV Entity), (x) to
vote against (and not act by written consent to approve) such Contingent
Matter (including causing each BDTV Entity to vote all Common Shares held by it
against approval of such Contingent Matter and not executing any written
consents with respect to such Common Shares held by any BDTV
Entity) unless Liberty and Diller (or, if either such Stockholders
consent is no longer required pursuant to the Governance Agreement, the
Stockholder whose consent is then required) have
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consented to such Contingent Matter in accordance with the provisions
of the Governance Agreement and (y) to take or cause to be taken all other
reasonable actions required, to the extent permitted by law, to prevent the
taking of any action by the Company with respect to a Contingent Matter without
the consent of Liberty and/or Diller (as applicable).
(b) Each Stockholder agrees to vote
(and cause each member of its or his Stockholder Group to vote, if applicable),
or act by written consent with respect to, any Common Shares with respect to
which it or he has the power to vote (whether by proxy, the ownership of voting
securities of a BDTV Entity or otherwise) (including all Common Shares
held by any BDTV Entity) in favor of each of the Director designees of
Liberty which Liberty has a right to designate pursuant to the Governance
Agreement.
(c) Upon the written request of
Liberty, Diller, in his capacity as a stockholder only, agrees to vote (and
cause each member of the Diller Stockholder Group to vote, if applicable), or
act by written consent, with respect to any Common Shares with respect to which
it or he has the power to vote (whether by proxy, the ownership of voting
securities of a BDTV Entity or otherwise) (including all shares held by
any BDTV Entity) and otherwise take or cause to be taken all actions
necessary to remove any Director designated by Liberty and to elect any
replacement Director designated by Liberty as provided in the Governance
Agreement. Unless Liberty and Diller otherwise
agree, neither Diller nor any member of the Diller Stockholder Group, shall
take any action to cause the removal of any Director designated by Liberty
except upon the written request of Liberty.
(d) Liberty will not be deemed to be
in violation of paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 3.1
as a result of any action by Diller (including actions taken by a BDTV Entity
as a result of an action by Diller) that is not within Libertys control.
Section 3.2.
Restrictions on
Other Agreements.
No Stockholder or any of its or his
Permitted Transferees shall enter into or agree to be bound by any stockholder
agreements or arrangements of any kind with any Person with respect to any
Equity (including, without limitation, the deposit of any Common Shares in a
voting trust or forming, joining or in any way participating in or assisting in
the formation of a Group with respect to any Common Shares, other than any such
Group consisting exclusively of Liberty and Diller and any of their respective
Affiliates, Permitted Designees and Permitted Transferees and, to the extent
contemplated by Section 4.5, any Third Party Transferee) and no
Stockholder (other than Liberty or any of its Permitted Transferees) or
any of its or his Permitted Transferees shall enter into or agree to be bound
by any agreements or arrangements of any kind with any Person to incur
indebtedness for purposes of purchasing Equity (other than to exercise Options
or to purchase Common Shares pursuant to Section 4.3 of this Agreement),
except (i) for such agreements or arrangements as are now in effect, (ii) in
connection with a proposed sale of BDTV Entity securities or Common Shares
otherwise permitted hereunder, (iii) for such agreements or arrangements
with a Permitted Designee as are reasonably acceptable to the other Stockholder
and not inconsistent with or for the purpose of evading the terms of this
Agreement, (iv) agreements between a Stockholder and its Permitted
Transferee that are reasonably acceptable to the other Stockholder and not
inconsistent with this Agreement or (iv) for Hedging Transactions as
contemplated by Section 4.2(e).
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Section 3.3.
Irrevocable
Proxy of Liberty.
(a) Subject to paragraphs (b) and
(c) below, until the earlier of the date that (x) Diller is no longer
CEO or (y) Diller is Disabled, Diller shall be entitled to exercise voting
authority and authority to act by written consent over all Common Shares
beneficially owned by each member of the Liberty Stockholder Group (the Liberty Proxy Shares), on all matters
submitted to a vote of the Companys stockholders or by which the Companys
stockholders may act by written consent, pursuant to a conditional proxy (which
proxy is irrevocable and coupled with an interest for purposes of Section 212
of the Delaware General Corporation Law) (the Liberty
Proxy); provided, that in the event that Diller is removed
by the Board as CEO for any reason other than Cause, Diller shall be deemed to
continue to be CEO for purposes of this Agreement and shall be entitled to the
Liberty Proxy set forth herein until the earlier of (A) such time as he
has abandoned efforts to cause his reinstatement as CEO and (B) the next
stockholders meeting of the Company at which he had an adequate opportunity to
nominate and elect his slate of directors (unless at such stockholders meeting
Dillers slate of directors is elected and Diller is promptly thereafter
reinstated as CEO).
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Liberty Proxy shall not be valid with respect to any of the Liberty Proxy
Shares (and Diller will have no right to vote the Liberty Proxy Shares) in
connection with any vote on (or consent to approve) any matter that is a
Contingent Matter with respect to which Libertys consent is required pursuant
to the terms of the Governance Agreement with respect to which Liberty has not
consented.
(c) The Liberty Proxy shall terminate
as provided for in Section 3.3(a) or, if earlier, (i) immediately
upon a material breach by Diller of the terms of Section 3.1(a), Section 3.1(b),
Section 3.1(c) or Section 3.3(b) of this Agreement, (ii) at
such time as Diller has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to, any felony
involving moral turpitude or (iii) at such time as Diller ceases to
beneficially own 5,000,000 Common Shares with respect to which he has a
pecuniary interest; provided, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above,
that Liberty sends notice of such termination to Diller within 30 days after
receiving notice of the event giving rise to such termination, in which case
the Liberty Proxy shall terminate immediately upon the receipt of such notice.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary set forth herein, the Liberty Proxy is personal to Diller and may not
be assigned by Diller by operation of law or otherwise and shall not inure to
Dillers successors without the prior written consent of Liberty.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing,
and without affecting the termination of the Liberty Proxy pursuant to Section 3.3
hereof, the Liberty Proxy will be suspended during any period in which Diller
has suffered a mental or physical disability preventing Diller from voting or
acting by written consent with respect to the Liberty Proxy Shares, and during
such period of disability, Liberty will be entitled to vote or consent in
writing with respect to all Liberty Proxy Shares. The Liberty Proxy will be reinstated (unless
sooner terminated in accordance with Section 3.3) upon Diller ceasing to
be so disabled.
Section 3.4.
Cooperation. Each Stockholder shall vote (or act or not act
by written consent with respect to) all of its Common Shares (and any
Common Shares with respect to which it has the power to vote (whether by proxy
or otherwise) and shall, as necessary or desirable, attend all meetings in
person or by proxy for purposes of obtaining a quorum, and
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execute all written consents in lieu of meetings, as applicable, to
effectuate the provisions of this Article III.
ARTICLE IV
TRANSFER OF COMMON SHARES
Section 4.1.
Restrictions on Transfer
by Liberty and Diller.
(a) Until the CEO Termination Date
or such time as Diller becomes Disabled, subject to the other provisions of
this Agreement, neither Liberty nor Diller shall Transfer or otherwise dispose
of (including pledges), directly or indirectly, any Common Shares beneficially
owned by its Stockholder Group other than (v) Transfers of Common Shares
by Diller in order to pay taxes arising from the granting, vesting and/or
exercise of the Options, (w) Transfers of Common Shares by Liberty to members
of the Liberty Stockholder Group or by Diller to members of the Diller Stockholder
Group, (x) a pledge or grant of a security interest in vested Common Shares
(other than the pledge of certain Common Shares pursuant to prior arrangements
between Diller and the Company) or pledges by a member of the Liberty
Stockholder Group of securities of a BDTV Entity that Liberty is entitled to
Transfer under (b)(ii) below in connection with bona fide indebtedness in
which the pledgee of the applicable Common Shares (or securities of such BDTV
Entity) agrees that, upon any default or exercise of its rights under such
pledge or security arrangement, it will offer to sell the pledged Common Shares
(or securities of such BDTV Entity) to the non-pledging Stockholder (or
its or his designee) for an amount equal to the lesser of the applicable
amount of such indebtedness and the fair market value of such pledged Common
Shares (or securities of such BDTV Entity), (y) Transfers of Options or
Common Shares to the Company by Diller or his Affiliates in connection with a cashless
exercise of the Options (including Options granted to Diller heretofore or in
the future), and (z) Transfers of Common Shares made pursuant to Sections 4.2,
4.3 and 4.4. The restrictions on
Transfer by Liberty provided in this Section 4.1 shall be for the sole
benefit of Diller and the restrictions on Transfer by Diller provided in this Section 4.1
shall be for the sole benefit of Liberty.
(b) Notwithstanding the restrictions
contained in subsection (a) above (and in addition to the foregoing
exceptions, but subject to the right of first refusal described in Section 4.3
on behalf of Diller (or his designee) with respect to Transfers by members
of the Liberty Stockholder Group and to a right of first refusal on behalf of
Liberty (or its designee) with respect to Transfers by members of the
Diller Stockholder Group (which rights shall be assignable)): (i) either Liberty or Diller may
Transfer all or any portion of the Common Shares beneficially owned by its Stockholder
Group (and, in the case of Liberty only, its entire interest in the BDTV
Entities) to an unaffiliated third party, provided, however,
that a Transfer by either Liberty or Diller of Common Shares to a third party
shall be subject to the tag-along right pursuant to Section 4.2, after, in
the case of any Transfer of Class B Common Stock, compliance with the
right of first refusal described in Section 4.3 and the swap provisions
described in Section 4.4, and (ii) either Liberty or Diller may Transfer
any portion of the Common Shares (including, in the case of Liberty, all or a
portion of a BDTV Entity interest) held by its Stockholder Group to an unaffiliated
third party; provided that, (a) following such Transfer such Stockholder
Group retains its Eligible Stockholder Amount of Common Shares and (b) in
the case of the Transfer of an interest in or Common Shares held by a BDTV
Limited Entity as of the date hereof, following such Transfer, the Liberty Stockholder
Group and the Diller
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Stockholder Group collectively beneficially own the Minimum Stockholder
Amount. Notwithstanding the previous
sentence and the restrictions contained in paragraph (a) above and subject
to the requirement, with respect to a Transfer by Liberty of an interest in or
Common Shares held by a BDTV Limited Entity as of the date hereof, that the
Stockholders and their respective Stockholder Groups collectively beneficially
own the Minimum Stockholder Amount, either Liberty or Diller may transfer any
of its Common Shares in one or more transactions that comply with the
requirements of Rule 144 or 145 (as applicable) under the Securities
Act.
Section 4.2.
Tag-Along for Diller
and Liberty for Transfers by the Other. (a) If either
Diller or Liberty shall desire to Transfer to any unaffiliated third party any
of the Common Shares beneficially owned by him or it or any member of his or
its Stockholder Group (other than the Transfers referred to in paragraphs (e) and (f) below), in one transaction or a series
of related transactions (the Tag-Along Sale),
Diller or Liberty, as applicable (the Initiating Party), shall give
prior written notice to the other (the Tag Party) of such intended Transfer. Such notice (the Tag-Along
Notice) shall set forth the terms and conditions of such
proposed Transfer, including the number of Common Shares proposed to be
Transferred (the Tag-Along Shares), the
purchase price per Common Share proposed to be paid therefor and the payment
terms and type of Transfer to be effectuated.
(b) Within ten days after delivery
of the Tag-Along Notice, the Tag Party will have the opportunity and right
(exercisable by such Tag Party by written notice to the Initiating Party not
later than the end of such ten day period) to sell to the acquiring Person in
such proposed Tag-Along Sale (upon the same terms and conditions as the
Initiating Party), subject to the following sentence, up to that number of
Common Shares beneficially owned by it (including, in the case of Liberty, all
of the Common Shares held by the BDTV Entities) as shall equal the product
of (x) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Tag-Along
Shares and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of Common Shares
beneficially owned as of the date of the Tag-Along Notice by the Initiating
Party (including all of the Common Shares held by the BDTV Entities if Liberty
is the Initiating Party), multiplied by (y) the number of Common Shares
beneficially owned by the Tag Party (including all of the Common Shares held by
the BDTV Entities if Liberty is the Tag Party) as of the date of the Tag-Along
Notice. The number of Common Shares that
Diller or Liberty may sell to an unaffiliated third party pursuant to Section 4.2(a) shall
be determined by multiplying the maximum number of Tag-Along Shares that such third
party is willing to purchase on the terms set forth in the Tag-Along Notice by
a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of Common Shares that such
Stockholder proposes to sell hereunder (subject to the maximum amount for
Diller or Liberty, as applicable, calculated pursuant to the preceding
sentence) and the denominator of which is the aggregate number of Common
Shares that Diller and Liberty propose to sell hereunder.
(c) At the closing of any proposed
Transfer in respect of which a Tag-Along Notice has been delivered, the Tag
Party shall deliver, free and clear of all liens (other than liens caused by
the acquiring Person in the Tag-Along Sale), to such third party certificates
evidencing the Common Shares to be sold thereto duly endorsed with Transfer
powers and shall receive in exchange therefore the consideration to be paid by
such third party in respect of such Common Shares as described in the Tag-Along
Notice. No transferee shall be required
to purchase shares of a BDTV Entity in connection with the Tag-Along Sale and
each of Liberty and Diller shall
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cooperate so that any transferee will be able to purchase directly any
Common Shares held by a BDTV Entity and not the shares of any BDTV Entity.
(d) Neither Diller and the members
of his Stockholder Group, on the one hand, nor Liberty and the members of its Stockholder
Group, on the other hand, shall effect any Transfer or Transfers constituting a
Tag-Along Sale absent compliance with this Section 4.2.
(e) This Section 4.2 shall not be applicable to
the Transfer by Diller or any member of his Stockholder Group (i) of an
aggregate of not more than 2,000,000 Common Shares within any rolling
twelve-month period, (ii) pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(v) or
4.1(a)(y), (iii) in a Market Sale, or (iv) following such time as
Diller is no longer CEO other than any Transfer made in connection with Diller
ceasing to be CEO. This Section 4.2
shall not be applicable to (i) the Transfer of Common Stock by the Liberty
Stockholder Group in a Market Sale, provided that the total volume of sales
effected on any single day shall not exceed the Daily Hedging Limit, or (ii) the
entry into, maintenance of, performance of obligations under and unwinding of
Hedging Transactions effected by the Liberty Stockholder Group, including,
without limitation, the Transfer of Common Stock in connection therewith
through the delivery of Common Stock to a third party in connection with the
settlement or satisfaction of a Hedging Transaction or the foreclosure and sale
by a secured party of any Common Stock pledged to secure the obligations of a
party under a Hedging Transaction or in respect of any extension of credit to a
party based, in whole or part, on the value of such Hedging Transaction;
provided, that: (A) no Hedging Transaction shall, prior to the settlement
of such Hedging Transaction, impair Dillers right to vote any shares of the
Common Stock pursuant to Section 3.3 (it being understood that a settlement of a Hedging Transaction
may result in a disposition of the shares subject to such Hedging Transaction
and that, upon such disposition, Diller will not have the right to vote such
shares); provided, that such right shall not be
deemed to be impaired to the extent that a counterparty to a Hedging
Transaction to whom Common Stock has been pledged has obtained the right to
vote or take consensual action with respect to the Common Stock so pledged as a
result of an event of default or termination event with respect to the Liberty
Stockholder Group under the Hedging Transaction; provided, further, that the
terms of such pledging arrangement shall permit the Liberty Stockholder Group
to exercise voting rights and to take consensual action with respect to the
Common Stock so pledged in circumstances where no event of default or
termination event has occurred; (B) a significant purpose of Libertys
engaging in the Hedging Transaction shall not be the circumvention of Dillers
tag along rights under Section 4.2 of this Agreement (and there shall be a
rebuttable presumption that no such purpose exists if the Hedging Transaction
is effected with a financial institution and neither Liberty nor its Affiliates
have any oral or written understanding or agreement with the financial institution
relating to the subsequent Transfer to any Person or group, if any, of the
shares of Common Stock subject to the Hedging Transaction); (C) if
pursuant to a Hedging Transaction or Related Hedging Transactions, a number of
shares of Common Stock representing 5% or more of the outstanding shares of
such class (determined as of the date the Hedging Transaction or the date of
the initial Hedging Transaction in any series of Related Hedging Transactions
is effected) (such 5% amount, the Settlement Threshold), could be
Transferred by the Liberty Stockholder Group to such counterparty in
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connection with the settlement of such Hedging
Transaction or Related Hedging Transactions, then Liberty shall cause such members
of the Liberty Stockholder Group to settle or satisfy the obligations with
respect to such Hedging Transaction or Related Hedging Transactions in such a
manner so that the number of shares delivered to such counterparty in
connection with the settlement of such Hedging Transaction or Related Hedging
Transactions does not exceed the Settlement Threshold unless the counterparty
has indicated to Liberty and Diller (if requested by Diller) that it will
utilize such shares of Common Stock to fill a preexisting short position in the
shares of Common Stock; (D) for each twelve-month period beginning on the
date hereof and each anniversary of the date hereof, Liberty shall ensure that
the Liberty Stockholder Group shall not enter into Hedging Transactions with
respect to more than one third (1/3) of the shares of Common Stock that the
Liberty Stockholder Group owns (including all shares of Common Stock owned by
the BDTV Entities) on the first day of such twelve-month period; (E) Liberty
will advise Diller (which may be oral) that it is contemplating entering into a
Hedging Transaction (including a brief description of the general structure of
the Hedging Transaction contemplated and the potential timing of such Hedging
Transaction) as far in advance as reasonably practicable prior to effecting
such Hedging Transaction, but in no event more than ten Business Days prior to
effecting such Hedging Transaction, and, if Diller (i) has determined in
good faith that such Hedging Transaction would adversely affect a contemplated
significant corporate transaction (including financing) of the Company, and
uses his reasonable best efforts to make such a determination as soon as practicable
(but in no event later than 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the second
Business Day immediately following the date of the giving of such notice by
Liberty) and requests that the Liberty Stockholder Group delay any such Hedging
Transaction because of the matters referred to in clause (i) above, then
Liberty shall cause the Liberty Stockholder Group to delay such Hedging
Transaction for a period not to exceed ten Business Days commencing on the
Business Day after the date Diller has been advised that Liberty is
contemplating a Hedging Transaction, and after such ten Business Day period, if
any, Liberty shall be entitled to effect such Hedging Transaction; and (F) Liberty
shall ensure that all sales or short sales in connection with establishing the
initial hedge with respect to one or more Hedging Transactions shall not,
taking all such sales or short sales during a particular day in the aggregate,
exceed the Daily Hedging Limit.
(f) During the term of this
Agreement, the Liberty Stockholder Group will be entitled to engage in Stock
Lending Transactions from time to time (which Stock Lending Transactions will
be deemed not to impair the proxy granted pursuant to Section 3.3) with
respect to the Common Stock subject to the following limitations: (i) the maximum number of shares of
Common Stock Beneficially Owned by the Liberty Stockholder Group which may be
lent at any one time to others in Stock Lending Transactions during the period
from the date hereof to the first anniversary of this Agreement may not exceed an
aggregate of 15,000,000 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment pursuant
to Section 6.13 hereof) (the Liberty Lending Limit); and (ii) following
such first anniversary the Liberty Lending Limit will be increased to an
aggregate of 16,250,000 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as
aforesaid). For purposes hereof, a Stock
Lending Transaction shall mean a transaction effected in connection with any
Hedging Transaction whereby the Liberty Stockholder Group lends shares of
Common Stock to a third party or permits a third party to sell, pledge,
rehypothecate, assign, invest, use, commingle or otherwise dispose of, or
otherwise use in its business such shares of Common Stock.
(g) Upon written request made from
time to time by Liberty, Diller will use reasonable efforts to cause the
Company to deliver to Liberty and Diller a written statement specifying the
number of shares of Company Common Stock, Company Class B Common Stock and
other Voting Securities issued and outstanding as of the most recent
practicable date.
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Liberty and Diller will, in connection with any applicable calculations
hereunder or under the Governance Agreement, be entitled to rely upon the
information set forth in such statement.
In the event such statement is not delivered to Liberty within five
Business Days following Libertys request therefor, Liberty and Diller (and
their respective successors and permitted assigns) shall be entitled to rely
for purposes of such calculations on the number of shares of Company Common
Stock, Company Class B Common Stock and other Voting Securities listed as
issued and outstanding in the Companys most recent quarterly or annual report
publicly filed with the Commission or the most recent statement from the
Company.
Section 4.3.
Right of First
Refusal Between Liberty and Diller. (a) Any Transfer
of shares of Class B Common Stock by a member of the Liberty Stockholder
Group or a member of the Diller Stockholder Group (the L/D Transferring Party) will be subject
to the right of first refusal provisions of this Section 4.3, other than a
Transfer by a member of the Liberty Stockholder Group or the Diller Stockholder
Group permitted by Section 4.1(a) hereof or a Transfer that is a sale
described in clause (i) of the first or second sentence of Section 4.2(e).
(b) Prior to effecting any Transfer
referred to in Section 4.3(a), the L/D Transferring Party shall deliver
written notice (the L/D Offer Notice) to
Diller, if the L/D Transferring Party is a member of the Liberty Stockholder Group,
or to Liberty, if the L/D Transferring Party is a member of the Diller Stockholder
Group (the recipient of such notice, the L/D Other
Party), which L/D Offer Notice shall specify (i) the Person to
whom the L/D Transferring Party proposes to make such Transfer, (ii) the
number or amount of the shares of Class B Common Stock to be Transferred, (iii) the
L/D Offer Price (as defined below), and (iv) all other material terms and
conditions of the proposed Transfer, including a description of any non-cash
consideration sufficiently detailed to permit valuation thereof, and which L/D Offer
Notice shall be accompanied by any written offer from the prospective
transferee to purchase such shares of Class B Common Stock, if available
and permitted pursuant to the terms thereof. The L/D Offer Notice shall constitute an
irrevocable offer to the L/D Other Party, for the period of time described
below, to purchase all (but not less than all) of such shares of Class B
Common Stock.
(c) For purposes of this Section 4.3,
L/D Offer Price shall mean the purchase
price per share of Class B Common Stock to be paid to the L/D Transferring
Party in the proposed transaction (as it may be adjusted in order to determine
the net economic value thereof). In the
event that the consideration payable to the L/D Transferring Party in a
proposed transaction consists of securities, the purchase price per share shall
equal the fair market value of such securities divided by the number of shares
of Class B Common Stock to be Transferred.
Such fair market value shall be the market price of any publicly traded
security and, if such security is not publicly traded, the fair market value
shall be equal to the Fair Market Value of such security determined as
follows: Each of Liberty and Diller
shall select an Independent Investment Banking Firm each of which shall
promptly make a determination (each such determination, an Appraisal) of the Fair Market Value of such
security. If the higher of such
Appraisals is less than or equal to 110% of the lower of such Appraisals, then
the Fair Market Value shall be equal to the average of such Appraisals. If the higher of such Appraisals is greater
than 110% of the lower of such Appraisals, then a third Independent Investment
Banking Firm (which shall be an Independent Investment Banking Firm that shall
not have been engaged by the Company, Expedia, Inc. (but only for so long
as Diller is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Expedia, Inc.) Liberty
or Diller in any significant matter for the three years prior to the date of
such
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selection) shall be selected by the first two Independent
Investment Banking Firms, which third Independent Investment Banking Firm shall
promptly make a determination of the Fair Market Value. The Fair Market Value shall equal the average
of the two of such three Appraisals closest in value (or if there are no such
two, then of all three Appraisals).
(d) If the L/D Other Party elects to
purchase the offered shares of Class B Common Stock, it shall give notice
to the L/D Transferring Party within ten Business Days after receipt of the L/D
Offer Notice of its election (or in the case of a third party tender offer or
exchange offer, at least five Business Days prior to the expiration date of
such offer, provided that all conditions to such offer that need to be
satisfied prior to acceptance for payment (other than with respect to the
number of shares of Class B Common Stock tendered) shall have been satisfied
or waived and the L/D Offer Notice shall have been provided at least ten
Business Days prior to the expiration date of such offer), which shall constitute
a binding obligation, subject to standard terms and conditions for a stock
purchase contract between two significant stockholders of an issuer (provided that
the L/D Transferring Party shall not be required to make any representations or
warranties regarding the business of the Company), to purchase the offered shares
of Class B Common Stock, which notice shall include the date set for the
closing of such purchase, which date shall be at least 20 Business Days following
the delivery of such election notice, or, if later, five Business Days after
receipt of all required regulatory approvals; provided that the closing shall
only be delayed pending receipt of required regulatory approvals if (i) the
L/D Other Party is using reasonable efforts to obtain the required regulatory
approvals, (ii) there is a reasonable prospect of receiving such regulatory
approvals and (iii) if such closing is delayed more than 90 days after the
date of the L/D Other Partys notice of election to purchase, then the L/D
Other Party agrees to pay interest on the aggregate L/D Offer Price at the
Reference Rate to the L/D Transferring Party from such date to the closing
date. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
such time periods shall not be deemed to commence with respect to any purported
notice that does not comply in all material respects with the requirements of
this Section 4.3(d). Liberty and
Diller may assign their respective rights to purchase under this Section 4.3
to any Person who is a Permitted Designee.
(e) If the L/D Other Party does not
respond to the L/D Offer Notice within the required response time period or
elects not to purchase the offered shares of Class B Common Stock, the L/D
Transferring Party shall be free to complete the proposed Transfer (to the same
proposed transferee, in the case of a privately-negotiated transaction) on
terms no less favorable to the L/D Transferring Party or its Affiliate, as the
case may be, than those set forth in the L/D Offer Notice, provided that (x) such
Transfer is closed within (I) 90 days after the latest of (A) the
expiration of the applicable period for the L/D Other Party to accept the offer
from the L/D Transferring Party, or (B) the receipt by the L/D
Transferring Party of notice declining the offer to purchase the shares of Class B
Common Stock or, in the case of (A) or (B), if later, five Business Days
following receipt of all required regulatory approvals; provided that
the closing shall only be delayed pending receipt of required regulatory approvals
if (i) the L/D Transferring Party is using reasonable efforts to obtain
the required regulatory approvals and (ii) there is a reasonable prospect
of receiving such regulatory approvals, or (II) in the case of a public
offering, within 20 days of the declaration by the Commission of the
effectiveness of a registration statement filed with the Commission pursuant to
this Agreement, and (y) the price at which the shares of Class B
Common Stock are transferred must be equal to or higher than the L/D Offer Price
(except in the case of a public offering, in which case the price at which the
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shares of Class B Common Stock are sold (before deducting
underwriting discounts and commissions) shall be equal to at least 90% of
the L/D Offer Price).
(f) If the L/D Other Party elects to
exercise its right of first refusal under this Section 4.3, the L/D Other
Party shall pay the L/D Offer Price in cash (by wire transfer of immediately
available funds) or by the delivery of marketable securities having an
aggregate fair market value equal to the L/D Offer Price, provided, that
if the securities to be so delivered by the L/D Other Party would not, in the
L/D Transferring Partys possession, have at least the same general degree of
liquidity as the securities the L/D Transferring Party was to receive in such
proposed transaction (determined by reference to the L/D Transferring Partys
ability to dispose of such securities (including, without limitation, the
trading volume of such securities and the L/D Other Partys percentage
ownership of the issuer of such securities)), then the L/D Other Party shall be
required to deliver securities having an appraised value (calculated in
accordance with the method described in Section 4.3(c)) equal to the
L/D Offer Price. If the L/D Other Party
delivers securities in payment of the L/D Offer Price, it will cause the issuer
of such securities to provide the L/D Transferring Party with customary
registration rights related thereto (if, in the other transaction, the L/D
Transferring Party would have received cash, cash equivalents, registered
securities or registration rights). Each
of Diller and Liberty agrees to use his or its commercially reasonable efforts
(but not to expend any money) to preserve for the other Stockholder, to
the extent possible, the tax benefits available to it in such proposed
transaction, and to otherwise seek to structure such transaction in the most
tax efficient method available. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if Diller pays the L/D Offer Price in securities, such
securities must be securities that Liberty is permitted to own under applicable
FCC Regulations.
(g) Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Section 4.3, the time periods applicable to an
election by the L/D Other Party to purchase the offered securities shall not be
deemed to commence until the Fair Market Value has been determined, provided
that, in the case of a third party tender offer or exchange offer, in no event
shall any such election be permitted within five Business Days prior to the
latest time by which shares of Class B Common Stock shall be tendered in
such offer if all conditions to such offer that need to be satisfied prior to
acceptance for payment (other than the number of shares tendered) have
been satisfied or waived. Each of Diller
and Liberty agrees to use his and its best efforts to cause the Fair Market Value
to be determined as promptly as practicable, but in no event later than ten
Business Days after the receipt by the L/D Other Party of the L/D Offer Notice.
Section 4.4.
Transfers of Class B
Shares. (a) Subject to the rights of first
refusal pursuant to Section 4.3 and subject to paragraph (c) below,
in the event that any Stockholder or any members of its Stockholder Group (the Transferring Stockholder) proposes to
Transfer any shares of Class B Common Stock, such Transferring Stockholder
shall send a written notice (which obligation may be satisfied by the delivery
of the applicable L/D Offer Notice) (the Exchange
Notice, which term will include any corresponding
L/D Offer Notice) to Diller, if the Transferring Stockholder is Liberty or
a member of the Liberty Stockholder Group, or to Liberty, if the Transferring
Stockholder is Diller or a member of the Diller Stockholder Group (the
recipient of such notice, the Non-Transferring
Stockholder), that such Transferring Stockholder intends to Transfer
shares of Class B Common Stock, including the number of such shares proposed
to be Transferred. The Non-Transferring
Stockholder shall give notice to the Transferring Stockholder within 10 Business
Days of its receipt of the Exchange Notice of its
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desire to exchange some or all of such shares of Class B Common
Stock proposed to be Transferred for an equivalent number of shares of Common
Stock or its election to purchase all such offered shares of Class B
Common Stock pursuant to Section 4.3.
If the Non-Transferring Stockholder desires to exchange some or all
of such shares rather than exercise its right of first refusal pursuant to
Section 4.3, such shares of Class B Common Stock shall be exchanged. Except to the extent necessary to avoid
liability under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act and subject to
applicable law, any such exchange shall be consummated immediately prior to the
consummation of any such Transfer.
(b) If any shares of Class B
Common Stock proposed to be Transferred are not exchanged pursuant to the
provisions of paragraph (a) above, prior to any such Transfer, the
Transferring Stockholder shall convert, or cause to be converted, such shares
of Class B Common Stock into shares of Common Stock (or such other
securities of the Company into which such shares are then convertible).
(c) The provisions of Section 4.4(a) and
4.4(b) shall not be applicable to any Transfers (i) to a member of
such Stockholders Stockholder Group, (ii) pursuant to a pledge or grant
of a security interest in compliance with clause (x) of Section 4.1(a),
or (iii) from Liberty, Diller or their respective Stockholder Group to the
other Stockholder or its or his Stockholder Group subject to the terms of this
Agreement.
Section 4.5.
Transferees. (a) Any Permitted Transferee or
Permitted Designee of a Stockholder shall be subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement as if such Permitted Transferee or Permitted
Designee were Liberty (if Liberty or a Permitted Transferee of Liberty is the
transferor) or Diller (if Diller or a Permitted Transferee of Diller is
the transferor). Prior to the initial
acquisition of beneficial ownership of any Common Shares by any Permitted
Transferee (or a Permitted Designee), and as a condition thereto, each Stockholder
agrees (i) to cause its respective Permitted Transferees or Permitted
Designees to agree in writing with the other parties hereto to be bound by the
terms and conditions of this Agreement to the extent described in the preceding
sentence and (ii) that such Stockholder shall remain directly liable for
the performance by its respective Permitted Transferees or Permitted Designees
of all obligations of such Permitted Transferees or Permitted Designees under
this Agreement. Except as otherwise
contemplated by this Agreement (including the terms of Sections 4.2, 4.3 and
4.4), (i) each of Diller and Liberty agrees not to cause or permit any of
its respective Permitted Transferees to cease to qualify as a member of such
Stockholders Stockholder Group so long as such Permitted Transferee
beneficially owns any Common Shares, and if any such Permitted Transferee shall
cease to be so qualified, such Permitted Transferee shall automatically upon
the occurrence of such event cease to be a Permitted Transferee for any
purpose under this Agreement and (ii) each Stockholder agrees not to
Transfer any Common Shares to any Affiliate other than a Permitted Transferee
of such Stockholder.
(b) No Third Party Transferee shall
have any rights or obligations under this Agreement, except:
(i) in
the case of a Third Party Transferee of Liberty (or any member of the Liberty
Stockholder Group) who acquires shares of Common Stock and who (together
with its Affiliates) would not be a Public Stockholder, such Third Party
Transferee shall
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be subject to the obligations of Liberty (but subject to the other
terms and conditions of this Agreement) pursuant to Section 3.1(a) (but
shall not have the right to consent to any Contingent Matters), Section 3.1(b),
Section 3.1(c), Section 3.2, Section 3.4, this Section 4.5
and Article VI; provided that such Third Party Transferee shall
only be subject to such obligations for so long as it would not be a Public
Stockholder; and
(ii) in
the case of a Third Party Transferee of Diller (or any member of the Diller
Stockholder Group) who (together with its Affiliates) upon consummation
of any Transfer would not be a Public Stockholder, such Third Party Transferee
shall be subject to the obligations of Diller (but subject to the other terms
and conditions of this Agreement) pursuant to Section 3.1(a) (but
shall not have the right to consent to any Contingent Matters), 3.1(b), Section 3.1(c),
Section 3.4, this Section 4.5 and Article VI; provided that
such Third Party Transferee shall only be subject to such obligations for so
long as it would not be a Public Stockholder.
(c) Prior to the consummation of a
Transfer described in Section 4.5(b) to the extent rights and
obligations are to be assigned, and as a condition thereto, the applicable
Third Party Transferee shall agree in writing with the other parties hereto to
be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement to the extent described
in Section 4.5(b). To the extent
the Third Party Transferee is not an ultimate
parent entity (as defined in the HSR Act), the ultimate parent
entity of such Third Party Transferee shall agree in writing to be directly
liable for the performance of the Third Party Transferee to the same extent
Liberty would be liable for the performance of its Permitted Transferees.
Section 4.6.
Notice of
Transfer. In addition to any other notices required by
this Agreement, to the extent any Stockholder and its Permitted Transferees
Transfer any Common Shares, such Stockholder shall, within three Business Days
following consummation of such Transfer, deliver notice thereof to the Company
and the other Stockholder, provided, however, that no such notice
shall be required to be delivered unless the aggregate Common Shares transferred
by such Stockholder and its Permitted Transferees since the date of the last
notice delivered by such Stockholder pursuant to this Section 4.6 exceeds
1% of the outstanding Common Shares.
Section 4.7.
Compliance with Transfer
Provisions. Any Transfer or attempted Transfer of Common
Shares in violation of any provision of this Agreement shall be void.
ARTICLE V
BDTV ENTITY ARRANGEMENTS
Section 5.1.
Management. The business and affairs of each BDTV Entity
will be managed by a Board of Directors elected by the holders of a majority of
the voting equity interests in such BDTV Entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the taking of
any action by a BDTV Entity with respect to (i) to the extent permitted by
applicable law, any matter that would have constituted a Fundamental Change
under the 1997 Stockholders Agreement (as applied to such BDTV Entity and to
the Common Shares, mutatis mutandis) or
(ii) any acquisition or disposition (including pledges) of any Common
Shares held by such BDTV Entity, in either
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case, will require the unanimous approval of the holders of all voting
and non-voting equity interests in such BDTV Entity.
Section 5.2.
Changes to BDTV Structures. Liberty and Diller agree, subject to applicable
law and FCC Regulations, to take such actions as may be reasonably necessary,
including but not limited to amending the certificate of incorporation of each
BDTV Entity, in order to provide Liberty with the ability to transfer, directly
or indirectly, such amounts of Common Shares as Liberty is permitted to sell
hereunder, and, if requested by Liberty, Diller agrees, subject to applicable
law and at Libertys sole cost and expense to take actions as are reasonably
necessary to permit each BDTV Entity to hold separately shares of capital stock
of Expedia, Inc. (Expedia Shares) to be held by it immediately
following the effective time of the Companys spin off of Expedia, Inc.,
to sell such Expedia Shares, directly or indirectly, separately from a sale of
the Common Shares (but only as permitted by the agreements between Liberty and
Diller with respect to the Expedia Shares), to reorganize the assets of any or
all of the BDTV Entities to reflect ownership of the Expedia Shares, including,
without limitation, to transfer Common Shares and/or Expedia Shares to a
Subsidiary of a BDTV Entity (and any such Subsidiary of a BDTV Entity that
holds Common Shares or other entity holding Common Shares as a result of such
reorganization shall be deemed a BDTV Unrestricted Entity or BDTV Limited
Entity, as applicable) or otherwise to enable Liberty to exercise its rights
hereunder with respect to Common Shares and under the agreements between
Liberty and Diller with respect to the Expedia Shares.
Section 5.3.
Transfers of
BDTV Interests.
Except as otherwise specifically provided
in this Agreement (including Section 4.1(b)), no transfers or other dispositions
(including pledges), directly or indirectly, of any interest in (a) any
BDTV Limited Entity by Liberty or (b) any BDTV Entity by Diller will be permitted
without the consent of the other; provided (i) Liberty shall be
entitled to transfer all or part of its interest in a BDTV Entity to members of
the Liberty Stockholder Group, (ii) at such time Liberty becomes the owner
of any voting securities of any BDTV Limited Entity, such BDTV Limited Entity
shall be deemed to be a BDTV Unrestricted Entity, and (iii) in connection
with any sale by Diller entitling Liberty to a right pursuant to Section 4.2,
Liberty and Diller shall take such reasonable action as may be required in
order for Libertys interest in a BDTV Limited Entity to be sold in any such
transaction. Without the prior written
consent of Liberty, Diller shall not Transfer any interest in a BDTV Entity
(other than to Liberty or, subject to Libertys reasonable consent, a member of
the Diller Stockholder Group).
For purposes
of determining whether Liberty is permitted to transfer the Common Shares held
by a BDTV Unrestricted Entity, (i) such BDTV Unrestricted Entity shall be
deemed to be a member of the Liberty Stockholder Group and the restrictions on
transfers of interests in BDTV Entities shall not apply to Liberty (subject,
however, to the other restrictions on transfer of Common Shares set forth
herein, including the Right of First Refusal applicable to the Class B
Common Stock) and (ii) in connection with any proposed sale by any
member of the Liberty Stockholder Group of the Common Shares held by a BDTV
Entity (or its equity interest in such BDTV Entity), such member of the Liberty
Stockholder Group shall be entitled to purchase Dillers entire interest in
such BDTV Entity for an amount in cash equal to the Diller Interest Purchase
Price or, at such purchasers election, require Diller to sell his interest in
such BDTV Entity to any such transferee for a pro rata portion of the
consideration to be paid by the applicable transferee in such transaction.
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At such time
as (i) the CEO Termination Date has occurred or Diller becomes Disabled or
(ii) the Diller Stockholder Group ceases to own its Eligible Stockholder
Amount of Common Shares, Diller shall be required to sell his entire interest
in the BDTV Entities to Liberty (or Libertys designee) at a price equal
to the Diller Interest Purchase Price.
ARTICLE VI
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.1.
Conflicting
Agreements. Each of the parties hereto represents and warrants
that such party has not granted and is not a party to any proxy, voting trust
or other agreement that is inconsistent with or conflicts with any provision of
this Agreement.
Section 6.2.
Duration of
Agreement. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement,
the rights and obligations of a Stockholder under this Agreement shall terminate
as follows:
(a) Each
of Liberty and Diller shall cease to be entitled to exercise any rights and
shall cease to have any obligations under this Agreement as of the date that
its Stockholder Group collectively ceases to own its Eligible Stockholder Amount
of Common Shares; provided that Liberty shall cease to be entitled to
exercise any rights and shall cease to have any obligations under Section 4.2
at such time as the Liberty Stockholder Group ceases to beneficially own at
least 5% of the outstanding Common Shares (the Liberty
Termination Date).
(b) Diller
and each member of his Stockholder Group shall cease to be entitled to exercise
any rights under this Agreement if the CEO Termination Date has occurred or
Diller has become Disabled (the Diller Termination
Date).
In addition,
at such time as the CEO Termination Date has occurred or Diller has become Disabled,
neither the Diller Stockholder Group nor the Liberty Stockholder Group shall
have any obligation under this Agreement with respect to the matters covered
under Sections 3.3, 4.1 and 4.3.
Section 6.3.
Further
Assurances. At any time or from time to time after the date
hereof, the parties agree to cooperate with each other, and at the request of
any other party, to execute and deliver any further instruments or documents and
to take all such further action as the other party may reasonably request in order
to evidence or effectuate the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby and to otherwise carry out the intent of the parties hereunder.
Section 6.4.
Amendment and
Waiver. This Agreement may not be amended, modified,
or waived except in a written instrument executed by the parties. The failure of any party to enforce any of
the provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be construed as a waiver of
such provisions and shall not affect the right of such party thereafter to enforce
each and every provision of this Agreement in accordance with its terms.
Section 6.5.
Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement
shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable
law, but if any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect under any
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applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, such invalidity,
illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision or any
other jurisdiction, but this Agreement shall be reformed, construed and
enforced in such jurisdiction as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable
provision had never been contained herein.
Section 6.6.
Effective Time. This Agreement shall become effective immediately
following the effective time of the Companys spin off of Expedia, Inc.
Section 6.7.
Entire Agreement. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein,
(a) this Agreement, (b) the Governance Agreement, (c) as
provided in Section 5.1 hereof, the 1997 Stockholders Agreement, and (d) as
provided in Section 5.2 hereof, the agreements relating to Expedia, Inc.,
embody the complete agreement and understanding among the parties hereto with
respect to the subject matter hereof or thereof and supersede and preempt any
prior understandings, agreements or representations by or among the parties,
written or oral, that may have related to the subject matter hereof in any way. Effective upon the effective time of this
Agreement, the 2001 Stockholders Agreement shall terminate and shall be
superseded by this Agreement.
Section 6.8.
Successors and
Assigns. Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights
or obligations under this Agreement shall be assigned, in whole or in part
(except by operation of law pursuant to a merger whose purpose is not to avoid
the provisions of this Agreement), by any party without the prior written consent
of the other party hereto. Subject to
the foregoing, this Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of and be
enforceable by the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.
Section 6.9.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in separate counterparts
each of which shall be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same agreement.
Section 6.10.
Liabilities
Under Federal Securities Laws.
The exercise by any party (or its
Affiliates or Stockholder Group, if applicable) (and including, in the
case of the Liberty Stockholder Group, its exercise of the preemptive rights
under Article III of the Governance Agreement) of any rights under
this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable delay as may be required to
prevent any party or its respective Stockholder Group from incurring any
liability under the federal securities laws and the parties agree to cooperate
in good faith in respect thereof.
Section 6.11.
Remedies. (a) Each party hereto acknowledges that
money damages would not be an adequate remedy in the event that any of the
covenants or agreements in this Agreement are not performed in accordance with
its terms, and it is therefore agreed that in addition to and without limiting
any other remedy or right it may have, the non-breaching party will have the
right to an injunction, temporary restraining order or other equitable relief
in any court of competent jurisdiction enjoining any such breach and enforcing
specifically the terms and provisions hereof.
(b) All rights, powers and remedies
provided under this Agreement or otherwise available in respect hereof at law
or in equity shall be cumulative and not alternative, and the
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exercise or beginning of the exercise of any thereof by any party shall
not preclude the simultaneous or later exercise of any other such right, power
or remedy by such party.
Section 6.12.
Notices. Except as otherwise provided herein, any
notice, request, claim, demand or other communication under this Agreement
shall be in writing, shall be either personally delivered, delivered by
facsimile transmission, or sent by reputable overnight courier service (charges
prepaid) to the address for such Person set forth below or such other
address as the recipient party has specified by prior written notice to the
other parties hereto and shall be deemed to have been given hereunder when
receipt is acknowledged for personal delivery or facsimile transmission or one
day after deposit with a reputable overnight courier service.
If to Liberty:
Liberty
Media Corporation
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12300
Liberty Boulevard
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Englewood,
CO 80112
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Attention:
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General
Counsel
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Telephone:
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(720) 875-5400
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Facsimile:
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(720) 875-5382
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with a copy
to:
Baker Botts
LLP
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30
Rockefeller Plaza
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44th
Floor
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New York, NY
10112
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Attention:
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Frederick H.
McGrath, Esq.
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Telephone:
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(212) 408-2530
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Facsimile:
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(212) 259-2530
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If to Diller:
c/o
IAC/InterActiveCorp
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152 West
57th Street
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New York, NY
10112
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Attention:
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General
Counsel
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Telephone:
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(212) 314-7274
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Facsimile:
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(212) 632-9642
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with a copy
to:
Wachtell,
Lipton, Rosen & Katz
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51 West 52nd
Street
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New York, NY
10019
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Attention:
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Pamela S.
Seymon, Esq.
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Andrew J.
Nussbaum, Esq.
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Telephone:
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(212) 403-1000
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Facsimile:
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(212) 403-2000
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Section 6.13.
Adjustment of
Shares Numbers.
If, after the effective time of this
Agreement, there is a subdivision, split, stock dividend, combination, reclassification
or similar event with respect to any of the shares of Capital Stock referred to
in this Agreement, then, in any such event, the numbers and types of shares of
such Capital Stock referred to in this Agreement (and if applicable, the share
prices thereof) shall be adjusted to the number and types of shares of such Capital
Stock that a holder of such number of shares of such Capital Stock would own or
be entitled to receive as a result of such event if such holder had held such
number of shares immediately prior to the record date for, or effectiveness of,
such event.
Section 6.14.
Governing Law;
Consent to Jurisdiction.
This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without giving
effect to the principles of conflicts of law.
Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
consents to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of
Delaware for any action, proceeding or investigation in any court or before any
governmental authority (Litigation) arising out of or relating to
this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and further agrees that
service of any process, summons, notice or document by U.S. mail to its
respective address set forth in this Agreement shall be effective service of
process for any Litigation brought against it in any such court. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any
Litigation arising out of this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby in the courts of the State of Delaware, and hereby further irrevocably
and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court
that any such Litigation brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient
forum. Each of the parties irrevocably
and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
any and all rights to trial by jury in connection with any Litigation arising
out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
Section 6.15.
Interpretation. The table of contents and headings contained in
this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not affect in any way the meaning
or interpretation of this Agreement. Whenever
the words include, includes or including are used in this Agreement, they
shall be deemed to be followed by the words without limitation.
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amended and Restated Stockholders
Agreement as of the date first written above.
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LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION
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BARRY DILLER
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[SIGNATURE
PAGE TO AMENDED AND RESTATED STOCKHOLDERS AGREEMENT]
Exhibit 10.3
EXECUTION COPY
TAX SHARING AGREEMENT
by and between
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
and
EXPEDIA, INC.
Dated as of
August 9, 2005
TAX SHARING AGREEMENT
This TAX SHARING AGREEMENT (this Agreement),
dated as of August 9, 2005, by and between IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware
corporation (Parent), and Expedia, Inc., a Delaware corporation
and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (SpinCo).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, Parent and SpinCo have entered into a
Separation Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2005 (the Separation
Agreement), providing for the Separation of the Parent Group from the
SpinCo Group;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Separation
Agreement, Parent will contribute all of the Separated Assets to SpinCo and its
Subsidiaries and will cause SpinCo and its Subsidiaries to assume the Assumed
Liabilities;
WHEREAS, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, it is
intended that the Contribution and the Spin-Off shall qualify as a tax-free transaction
under Sections 355(a) and 368(a)(1)(D) of the Code;
WHEREAS, at the close of business on the Effective
Date, the taxable year of SpinCo shall close for U.S. federal income tax
purposes; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto wish to provide for the
payment of Income Taxes and Other Taxes and entitlement to refunds thereof,
allocate responsibility and provide for cooperation in connection with the
filing of returns in respect of Income Taxes and Other Taxes, and provide for
certain other matters relating to Income Taxes and Other Taxes.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and
the representations, covenants and agreements herein contained and intending to
be legally bound hereby, Parent and SpinCo hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise
defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Separation
Agreement. For purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
Actually Realized or Actually Realizes
shall mean, for purposes of determining the timing of the incurrence of any
Spin-Off Tax Liability, Income Tax Liability or Other Tax Liability or the
realization of a Refund (or any related Income Tax or Other Tax cost or
benefit), whether by receipt or as a credit or other offset to Taxes payable, by
a Person in respect of any payment, transaction, occurrence or event, the time
at which the amount of Income Taxes or Other Taxes paid (or Refund realized) by
such Person is increased above (or reduced below) the amount of Income Taxes or
Other Taxes that such Person would have been required to pay (or Refund that
such Person would have realized) but for such payment, transaction, occurrence
or event.
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Aggregate Spin-Off Tax Liabilities shall mean
the sum of the Spin-Off Tax Liabilities with respect to each Taxing
Jurisdiction.
Business
Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which
banking institutions located in the State of New York are authorized or obligated
by law or executive order to close.
Carryback shall mean the carryback of a Tax
Attribute (including, without limitation, a net operating loss, a net capital
loss or a tax credit) by a member of the SpinCo Group from a Post-Distribution
Taxable Period to a Pre-Distribution Taxable Period during which such member of
the SpinCo Group was included in a Combined Return filed for such
Pre-Distribution Taxable Period.
Cash Acquisition Merger shall mean a merger
of a newly formed Subsidiary of SpinCo with a corporation, limited liability
company, limited partnership, general partnership or joint venture (in each
case, not previously owned directly or indirectly by SpinCo) solely for cash
pursuant to which SpinCo acquires such corporation, limited liability company,
limited partnership, general partnership or joint venture and no Equity
Securities of SpinCo or any SpinCo Subsidiary are issued, sold, redeemed or
acquired, directly or indirectly.
Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.
Combined Return shall mean a consolidated,
combined or unitary Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return that actually
includes, by election or otherwise, one or more members of the Parent Group
together with one or more members of the SpinCo Group.
Contribution shall mean those certain capital
contributions to SpinCo by Parent made in connection with the Spin-Off.
Distribution Date shall mean the date on
which the Spin-Off is completed.
Distribution-Related Proceeding shall mean
any Proceeding in which the IRS, another Tax Authority or any other party
asserts a position that could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the
Tax-Free Status of any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions.
EMA shall mean the Employee Matters Agreement
by and between Parent and SpinCo dated as of August 9, 2005.
Equity Securities shall mean any stock or
other securities treated as equity for tax purposes, options, warrants, rights,
convertible debt, or any other instrument or security that affords any Person
the right, whether conditional or otherwise, to acquire stock or to be paid an
amount determined by reference to the value of stock.
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Expedia Service Provider shall mean any Expedia
Employee as such term is defined in the EMA or any other provider of services
to any member of the SpinCo Group.
Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term for purposes of Sections 355(d) and (e) of
the Code.
Final Determination shall mean the final
resolution of liability for any Income Tax or Other Tax, which resolution may
be for a specific issue or adjustment or for a taxable period, (a) by IRS Form 870
or 870-AD (or any successor forms thereto), on the date of acceptance by or on
behalf of the taxpayer, or by a comparable form under the laws of a State,
local, or foreign taxing jurisdiction, except that a Form 870 or 870-AD or
comparable form shall not constitute a Final Determination to the extent that
it reserves (whether by its terms or by operation of law) the right of the
taxpayer to file a claim for Refund or the right of the Tax Authority to assert
a further deficiency in respect of such issue or adjustment or for such taxable
period (as the case may be); (b) by a decision, judgment, decree, or other
order by a court of competent jurisdiction, which has become final and
unappealable; (c) by a closing agreement or accepted offer in compromise
under Sections 7121 or 7122 of the Code, or a comparable agreement under the
laws of a State, local, or foreign taxing jurisdiction; (d) by any
allowance of a Refund or credit in respect of an overpayment of Income Tax or
Other Tax, but only after the expiration of all periods during which such
Refund may be recovered (including by way of offset) by the jurisdiction
imposing such Income Tax or Other Tax; or (e) by any other final
disposition, including by reason of the expiration of the applicable statute of
limitations or by mutual agreement of the parties.
IAC Service Provider shall mean any IAC
Employee as such term is defined in the EMA or any other provider of services
to any member of the Parent Group.
Income Tax (a) shall mean (i) any
federal, state, local or foreign tax, charge, fee, impost, levy or other
assessment that is based upon, measured by, or calculated with respect to (A) net
income or profits (including, but not limited to, any capital gains, gross
receipts, or minimum tax, and any tax on items of tax preference, but not
including sales, use, value added, real property gains, real or personal
property, transfer or similar taxes), (B) multiple bases (including, but
not limited to, corporate franchise, doing business or occupation taxes), if
one or more of the bases upon which such tax may be based, by which it may be
measured, or with respect to which it may be calculated is described in clause
(a)(i)(A) of this definition, or (C) any net worth, franchise or
similar tax, in each case together with (ii) any interest and any
penalties, fines, additions to tax or additional amounts imposed by any Tax
Authority with respect thereto and (b) shall include any transferee or
successor liability in respect of an amount described in clause (a) of
this definition.
Income Tax Benefit shall mean, with respect
to the effect of any Carryback on the Income Tax Liability of Parent or the
Parent Group for any taxable period, the excess of (a) the hypothetical
Income Tax Liability of Parent or the Parent Group for such taxable period,
calculated as if such Carryback had not been utilized but
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with all other facts
unchanged over (b) the actual Income Tax Liability of Parent or the Parent
Group for such taxable period, calculated taking into account such Carryback
(and treating a Refund as a negative Income Tax Liability, for purposes of such
calculation).
Income Tax Liabilities shall mean all
liabilities for Income Taxes.
Income Tax Return shall mean any return,
report, filing, statement, questionnaire, declaration or other document
required to be filed with a Tax Authority in respect of Income Taxes.
Indemnified Party shall mean any Person
seeking indemnification pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.
Indemnifying Party shall mean any party
hereto from which any Indemnified Party is seeking indemnification pursuant to
the provisions of this Agreement.
IRS shall mean the Internal Revenue Service
of the United States.
Losses shall mean any and all losses,
liabilities, claims, damages, obligations, payments, costs and expenses,
matured or unmatured, absolute or contingent, accrued or unaccrued, liquidated
or unliquidated, known or unknown (including, without limitation, the costs and
expenses of any and all Actions, threatened Actions, demands, assessments,
judgments, settlements and compromises relating thereto and attorneys fees and
any and all expenses whatsoever reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing
or defending against any such Actions or threatened Actions).
Option shall have the meaning ascribed to
such term in the EMA.
Other Tax Liabilities shall mean all
liabilities for Other Taxes.
Other Tax Returns shall mean any return,
report, filing, statement, questionnaire, declaration or other document
required to be filed with a Tax Authority in respect of Other Taxes.
Other Taxes shall mean all forms of taxation,
whenever created or imposed, and whether of the United States of America or
elsewhere, and whether imposed by a local, municipal, governmental, State,
federation or other body, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
shall include superfund, sales, use, ad valorem, value added, occupancy, transfer,
recording, withholding, payroll, employment, excise, occupation, premium or
property taxes (in each case, together with any related interest, penalties and
additions to tax, or additional amounts imposed by any Tax Authority thereon); provided,
however, that Other Taxes shall not include any Income Taxes.
Parent Consolidated Group shall mean the
affiliated group of corporations (within the meaning of Section 1504(a) of
the Code without regard to the exclusions in Section 1504(b)(1) through
(8)) of which Parent is the common parent (and any predecessor or successor to
such affiliated group).
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Parent Group shall mean (a) Parent and
each Person that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of Parent (including any
Subsidiary of Parent that is disregarded for U.S. federal Income Tax purposes
(or for purposes of any state, local, or foreign tax law)) immediately after
the Spin-Off after giving effect to the Spin-Off-Related Transactions, (b) any
corporation (or other Person) that shall have merged or liquidated into Parent
or any such Subsidiary and (c) any predecessor or successor to any Person
otherwise described in this definition.
Parent Separate Return shall mean any
Separate Return required to be filed by Parent or any member of the Parent
Group.
Permitted Transaction shall mean any transaction that satisfies the
requirements of Sections 4(c).
Person shall mean any individual,
partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, corporation,
association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or similar
entity or a governmental authority or any department or agency or other unit
thereof.
Post-Distribution Taxable Period shall mean a
taxable period that, to the extent it relates to a member of the SpinCo Group,
begins after the Distribution Date.
Pre-Distribution Taxable Period shall mean a
taxable period that, to the extent it relates to a member of the SpinCo Group,
ends on or before the Distribution Date.
Private Letter Ruling shall mean (a) any
private letter ruling issued by the IRS in connection with any of the Spin-Off-Related
Transactions or (b) any similar ruling issued by any other Tax Authority
in connection with any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions.
Private Letter Ruling Documents shall mean (a) any
Private Letter Ruling, any request for a Private Letter Ruling submitted to the
IRS, together with the appendices and exhibits thereto and any supplemental
filings or other materials subsequently submitted to the IRS, in connection
with the Spin-Off-Related Transactions, or (b) any similar filings
submitted to any other Tax Authority in connection with any such request for a
Private Letter Ruling.
Proceeding shall mean any audit or other
examination, or judicial or administrative proceeding relating to liability
for, or Refunds or adjustments with respect to, Income Taxes or Other Taxes.
Refund shall mean any refund of Income Taxes
or Other Taxes, including any reduction in Income Tax Liabilities or Other Tax
Liabilities by means of a credit, offset or otherwise.
Representative shall mean with respect to a
Person, such Persons officers, directors, employees and other authorized
agents.
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Restriction Period shall mean the period
beginning on the date hereof and ending on the twenty five (25) month
anniversary of the Distribution Date.
Separate Return shall mean (a) in the
case of any Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return required to be filed by any
member of the SpinCo Group (including any consolidated, combined or unitary
return), any such tax return that does not include any member of the Parent
Group and (b) in the case of any Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return
required to be filed by any member of the Parent Group (including any
consolidated, combined or unitary return), any such tax return that does not
include any member of the SpinCo Group.
Separation Agreement shall have the meaning
set forth in the recitals of this Agreement.
SpinCo Adjustment shall mean an adjustment of
any item of income, gain, loss, deduction or credit attributable to members of
the SpinCo Group (including, in the case of any state or local consolidated,
combined or unitary income or franchise taxes, a change in one or more
apportionment factors of members of the SpinCo Group) pursuant to a Final
Determination for a Pre-Distribution Taxable Period.
SpinCo Board shall mean the Board of
Directors of SpinCo.
SpinCo Business shall mean each trade or
business actively conducted (within the meaning of Section 355(b) of
the Code) by SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group immediately after the Spin-Off,
as set forth in the Tax Opinion Documents.
SpinCo Consolidated Group shall mean the
affiliated group of corporations (within the meaning of Section 1504(a) of
the Code without regard to the exclusions in Section 1504(b)(1) through
(8)) of which SpinCo is the common parent, determined immediately after the Spin-Off
(and any predecessor or successor to such affiliated group other than the
Parent Consolidated Group).
SpinCo Group shall mean (a) SpinCo and
each Person that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of SpinCo (including any
Subsidiary of SpinCo that is disregarded for U.S. federal Income Tax purposes
(or for purposes of any State, local, or foreign tax law)) immediately after
the Spin-Off after giving effect to the Spin-Off-Related Transactions, (b) any
corporation (or other Person) that shall have merged or liquidated into SpinCo
or any such Subsidiary and (c) any predecessor or successor to any Person
otherwise described in this definition.
SpinCo Separate Return shall mean any
Separate Return required to be filed by SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo
Group, including, without limitation, (a) any U.S. consolidated federal
Income Tax Returns of the SpinCo Consolidated Group required to be filed with
respect to a Post-Distribution Taxable Period and (b) any U.S.
consolidated federal Income Tax Returns for any group of which any member of
the SpinCo Group was the common parent.
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SpinCo Tax Benefit shall mean, with respect
to any Taxing Jurisdiction, any decrease in Income Tax Liability or Other Tax
Liability (or increase in a Refund) Actually Realized with respect to a
Combined Return that is attributable to a SpinCo Adjustment.
SpinCo Tax Liability shall mean, with respect
to any Taxing Jurisdiction, any increase in Income Tax Liability or Other Tax
Liability (or reduction in a Refund) Actually Realized with respect to a
Combined Return that is attributable to a SpinCo Adjustment.
Spin-Off shall mean the distribution of
Expedia Common Stock, Expedia Class B Common Stock and Expedia Series A
Preferred Stock pursuant to the Reclassification.
Spin-Off-Related Transactions shall mean the
Contribution together with the Spin-Off.
Spin-Off Tax Liabilities shall mean, with
respect to any Taxing Jurisdiction, the sum of (a) any increase in Income
Tax Liability or Other Tax Liability (or reduction in a Refund) Actually
Realized as a result of any corporate-level gain or income recognized with
respect to the failure of any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions to qualify
for Tax-Free Status under the income tax laws of such Taxing Jurisdiction
pursuant to any settlement, Final Determination, judgment, assessment, proposed
adjustment or otherwise, (b) interest on such amounts calculated pursuant
to such Taxing Jurisdictions laws regarding interest on tax liabilities at the
highest Underpayment Rate for corporations in such Taxing Jurisdiction from the
date such additional gain or income was recognized until full payment with
respect thereto is made pursuant to Section 3 hereof (or in the case of a
reduction in a Refund, the amount of interest that would have been received on
the foregone portion of the Refund but for the failure of any of the
Spin-Off-Related Transactions to qualify for Tax-Free Status), and (c) any
penalties actually paid to such Taxing Jurisdiction that would not have been
paid but for the failure of any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions to qualify
for Tax-Free Status in such Taxing Jurisdiction.
Tax Attribute shall mean a consolidated,
combined or unitary net operating loss, net capital loss, unused investment
credit, unused foreign tax credit, or excess charitable contribution (as such
terms are used in Treasury Regulations 1.1502-79 and 1.1502-79A or comparable
provisions of foreign, State or local tax law), or a minimum tax credit or
general business credit.
Tax Authority shall mean a governmental
authority (foreign or domestic) or any subdivision, agency, commission or
authority thereof or any quasi-governmental or private body having jurisdiction
over the assessment, determination, collection or imposition of any Tax (including,
without limitation, the IRS).
Tax Benefits shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 3(a) hereof.
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Tax Counsel shall mean tax counsel of
recognized national standing that is acceptable to Parent.
Tax-Free Status shall mean the qualification
of each of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions, as the case may be, (a) as a
transaction described in Sections 355(a) and 368(a)(1)(D) of the
Code, (b) as a transaction in which the stock distributed thereby is qualified
property for purposes of Section 361(c) of the Code, and (c) as
a transaction in which Parent, the members of the Parent Group, SpinCo and the
members of the SpinCo Group recognize no income or gain other than intercompany
items or excess loss accounts taken into account pursuant to the Treasury
Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 1502 of the Code.
Taxing Jurisdiction shall mean the United
States and every other government or governmental unit having jurisdiction to
tax Parent or SpinCo or any of their respective Affiliates.
Tax Opinion shall mean the tax opinion issued
by Tax Counsel in connection with the Spin-Off-Related Transactions.
Tax Opinion Documents shall mean the Tax
Opinion and the information and representations provided by, or on behalf of,
Parent or SpinCo to Tax Counsel in connection therewith.
Tax-Related Losses shall mean:
(a) the Aggregate Spin-Off Tax Liabilities,
(b) all accounting, legal and other
professional fees, and court costs incurred in connection with any settlement,
Final Determination, judgment or other determination with respect to such
Aggregate Spin-Off Tax Liabilities, and
(c) all costs, expenses and damages
associated with stockholder litigation or controversies and any amount paid by
Parent or SpinCo in respect of the liability of shareholders, whether paid to
shareholders or to the IRS or any other Tax Authority payable by Parent or
SpinCo or their respective Affiliates, in each case, resulting from the failure
of any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions to qualify for Tax-Free Status.
Underpayment Rate shall mean the annual rate
of interest described in Section 6621(c) of the Code for large
corporate underpayments of Income Tax (or similar provision of state, local, or
foreign Income Tax law, as applicable), as determined from time to time.
Unqualified Tax Opinion shall mean an
unqualified opinion of Tax Counsel on which Parent may rely to the effect that
a transaction will not disqualify any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions from
Tax-Free Status, assuming that the Spin-Off-Related Transactions would have
qualified for Tax-Free Status if such transaction did not occur.
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2. Filing
of Tax Returns; Payment of Taxes.
(a) Filing
of Tax Returns; Payment of Income Taxes and Other Taxes.
(i) Parent
Consolidated Returns; Other Combined Returns. Parent shall prepare and file or cause to be
prepared and filed (A) all U.S. consolidated federal Income Tax Returns of
the Parent Consolidated Group and (B) all other Combined Returns. Except as provided in Section (2)(a)(ii) hereof,
Parent shall pay, or cause to be paid, and shall be responsible for, any and
all Income Taxes and Other Taxes due or required to be paid with respect to or
required to be reported on any such Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return (in
each case, excluding any amounts which are SpinCo Tax Liabilities or otherwise attributable
to SpinCo Adjustments).
(ii) SpinCo
Adjustments. SpinCo shall pay, or
cause to be paid, and shall be responsible for, any SpinCo Tax Liabilities. Other than in connection with the initial
filing of Combined Returns and the payment of the tax liability shown as due
thereon provided for in Section 2(a)(i) hereof, SpinCo shall be
responsible for all SpinCo Tax Liabilities and shall be entitled to all SpinCo
Tax Benefits.
(iii) Parent Separate
Returns. Parent shall prepare and
file or cause to be prepared and filed all Parent Separate Returns. Parent shall pay, or cause to be paid, and
shall be responsible for, any and all Income Taxes or Other Taxes due or
required to be paid with respect to or required to be reported on any Parent
Separate Return (including any increase in such Income Tax Liabilities or Other
Tax Liabilities as a result of a Final Determination).
(iv) SpinCo
Separate Returns. SpinCo shall
prepare and file or cause to be prepared and filed all SpinCo Separate
Returns. SpinCo shall pay, or cause to
be paid, and shall be responsible for, any and all Income Taxes or Other Taxes
due or required to be paid with respect to or required to be reported on any
SpinCo Separate Return (including any increase in such Income Tax Liabilities
or Other Tax Liabilities as a result of a Final Determination).
(b) Preparation
of Tax Returns.
(i) Parent
(or its designee) shall determine the entities to be included in any Combined
Return and make or revoke any Income Tax elections, adopt or change any
accounting methods, and determine any other position taken on or in respect of
any Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return required to be prepared and filed by
Parent pursuant to Section 2(a)(i). Notwithstanding the immediately preceding
sentence, any Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return filed
by Parent pursuant to Section 2(a)(i) with respect to any Pre-Closing
Taxable Period shall, to the extent relating to SpinCo or the SpinCo Group, be
prepared consistent with Parents past practice for the filing of such returns and shall not include any tax election relating
to SpinCo or the SpinCo Group that is inconsistent with past practice (or,
where no such past practice exists, shall not reflect any tax return position
or include any tax election that would materially adversely affect SpinCo or
the SpinCo Group), except to the extent that SpinCo consents to such tax return
position or tax election (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld); provided,
however, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the allocation and pro-ration
of
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items of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit
for the period which includes the Spin-Off shall (to the extent allowable) be determined by
Parent in its sole discretion in accordance with Treasury Regulation Section 1.1502-76(b).
SpinCo shall, and shall cause each
member of the SpinCo Group to, prepare and submit at Parents request (but in
no event later than 90 days after such request), at SpinCos expense, all
information that Parent shall reasonably request, in such form as Parent shall
reasonably request including any such information requested to enable Parent to
prepare any Income Tax Returns or Other Tax Return required
to be filed by Parent pursuant to Section 2(a)(i). Parent shall make any such Income Tax Return
or Other Tax Return and related workpapers available for review by SpinCo to
the extent such return relates to Taxes for which SpinCo would reasonably be
expected to be liable or with respect to which SpinCo would reasonably be
expected to have a claim. If
practicable, Parent shall make such return available for review sufficiently in
advance of the due date for filing such return to provide SpinCo an opportunity
to analyze and comment on such return. Parent
and SpinCo shall attempt in good faith to resolve any issues arising out of the
review of such return.
(ii) Except
as required by applicable law or as a result of a Final Determination, neither
Parent nor SpinCo shall (nor shall cause or permit any members of the Parent
Group or SpinCo Group, respectively, to) take any position that is either
inconsistent with the treatment of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions as having
Tax-Free Status (or analogous status under State, local or foreign law) or,
with respect to a specific item of income, deduction, gain, loss, or credit on
an Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return, treat such specific item in a manner
which is inconsistent with the manner such specific item is reported on an
Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return prepared or filed by Parent pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof
(including, without limitation, the claiming of a deduction previously claimed
on any such Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return).
3. Indemnification for Income Taxes and Other Taxes.
(a) Indemnification
by Parent. From and after the
Distribution Date, except as provided in Section 3(b), Parent and each
member of the Parent Group shall jointly and severally indemnify, defend and
hold harmless SpinCo and each member of the SpinCo Group and each of their
respective Representatives and Affiliates (and the heirs, executors, successors
and assigns of any of them) from and against (i) all Spin-Off Tax
Liabilities incurred by any member of the Parent Group, (ii) without
duplication, all Income Tax Liabilities, and Other Tax Liabilities that any
member of the Parent Group is responsible for pursuant to Section 2, and (iii) all
Income Taxes and Other Taxes, Spin-Off Tax Liabilities and Tax-Related Losses
incurred by any member of the Parent Group or SpinCo Group by reason of the
breach by Parent or any member of the Parent Group of any of Parents representations
or covenants hereunder or made in connection with the Tax Opinion and, in each
case, any related costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable
attorneys fees and expenses); provided, however, that neither Parent
nor any member of the Parent Group shall have any obligation to indemnify,
defend or hold harmless any Person pursuant to this Section 3(a) to
the extent that such indemnification obligation is otherwise attributable to
any breach by SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group of any of SpinCos
representations or covenants hereunder (including any representations made in
connection with the Tax Opinion). If the
indemnification obligation of Parent or any member of the Parent Group under
this Section 3(a) (or the adjustment giving rise to such
indemnification obligation) results in (i) increased deductions, losses,
or credits, or (ii) decreases in income, gains
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or recapture of Tax credits (Tax Benefits) to SpinCo or any
member of the SpinCo Group, which would not, but for the indemnification
obligation (or the adjustment giving rise to such indemnification obligation), be
allowable, then SpinCo shall pay Parent the amount by which such Tax Benefit
actually reduces, in cash, the amount of Tax that SpinCo or any member of the
SpinCo Group would have been required to pay and bear (or increases, in cash,
the amount of Tax refund to which SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group
would have been entitled) but for such indemnification obligation (or
adjustment giving rise to such indemnification obligation). SpinCo shall pay Parent for such Tax Benefit
no later than five days after such Tax Benefit is Actually Realized.
(b) Indemnification
by SpinCo. From and after the
Distribution Date, SpinCo and each member of the SpinCo Group shall jointly and
severally indemnify, defend and hold harmless Parent and each member of the
Parent Group and each of their respective Representatives and Affiliates (and
the heirs, executors, successors and assigns of any of them) from and against (i) all
SpinCo Tax Liabilities, Income Tax Liabilities, Other Tax Liabilities, Spin-Off
Tax Liabilities and Tax-Related Losses that SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo
Group is responsible for under Section 2 or Section 4 (including,
without limitation, any Income Tax Liabilities, Other Tax Liabilities or
Spin-Off Tax Liabilities or Tax-Related Losses arising with respect to a
Permitted Transaction for which SpinCo is liable pursuant to Section 4(e)(i))
and (ii) all Income Taxes, Other Taxes, Spin-Off Tax Liabilities and other
Tax-Related Losses incurred by any member of the Parent Group or SpinCo Group
by reason of the breach by SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group of any of
SpinCos representations or covenants hereunder (including any representations
made in connection with the Tax Opinion) and, in each case, any related costs
and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys fees and
expenses). If the indemnification
obligation of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group under this Section 3(b) (or
the adjustment giving rise to such indemnification obligation) results in a Tax
Benefit to Parent or any member of the Parent Group, which would not, but for
the Tax which is the subject of the indemnification obligation (or the
adjustment giving rise to such indemnification obligation), be allowable, then
Parent shall pay SpinCo the amount by which such Tax Benefit actually reduces,
in cash, the amount of Tax that Parent or any member of the Parent Group would
have been required to pay and bear (or increases, in cash, the amount of Tax
refund to which Parent or any member of the Parent Group would have been
entitled) but for such indemnification (or adjustment giving rise to such
indemnification obligation). Parent
shall pay SpinCo for such Tax Benefit no later than five days after such Tax
Benefit is Actually Realized.
(c) Timing
of Indemnification. Any payment and
indemnification made pursuant to this Section 3 (other than a payment for
any Tax Benefit, the timing of which is provided in Sections 3(a) and 3(b) above)
shall be made by the Indemnifying Party promptly, but, in any event, no later
than:
(i) in
the case of an indemnification obligation with respect to any SpinCo Tax
Liabilities, Spin-Off Tax Liabilities, Income Tax Liabilities or Other Tax
Liabilities, the later of (A) five Business Days after the Indemnified
Party notifies the Indemnifying Party and (B) five Business Days prior to
the date the Indemnified Party is required to make a payment of taxes,
interest, or penalties to the applicable Tax Authority (including a payment
with respect to an assessment of a tax deficiency by any Taxing
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Jurisdiction or a payment made in settlement of an asserted tax
deficiency) or realizes a reduced Refund; and
(ii) in
the case of any payment or indemnification of any Losses not otherwise described
in clause (i) of this Section 3(c) (including, but not limited
to, any Losses described in clause (b) or (c) of the definition of
Tax-Related Losses, attorneys fees and expenses and other indemnifiable
Losses), the later of (A) five Business Days after the Indemnified Party
notifies the Indemnifying Party and (B) five Business Days prior to the
date the Indemnified Party makes a payment thereof.
4. Spin-Off Related Matters.
(a) Representations.
(i) Tax
Opinion Documents. SpinCo hereby
represents and warrants that (A) it has examined the Tax Opinion Documents
(including, without limitation, the representations to the extent that they
relate to the plans, proposals, intentions, and policies of SpinCo, its
Subsidiaries, the SpinCo Business, or the SpinCo Group) and (B) to the
extent in reference to SpinCo, its Subsidiaries, the SpinCo Business, or the
SpinCo Group, the facts presented and the representations made therein are
true, correct and complete.
(ii) Tax-Free
Status. SpinCo hereby represents and
warrants that it has no plan or intention of taking any action, or failing to
take any action or knows of any circumstance, that could reasonably be expected
to (A) cause any of the
Spin-Off-Related Transactions not to have Tax-Free Status or (B) cause any
representation or factual statement made in this Agreement, the Separation
Agreement, the Tax Opinion Documents or any of the Ancillary Agreements to be
untrue in a manner that would have an adverse effect on the Tax-Free Status of
any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions.
(iii) Plan or Series of
Related Transactions. SpinCo hereby
represents and warrants that, to the best knowledge of SpinCo, after due
inquiry, none of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions are part of a plan (or
series of related transactions) pursuant to which a Person will acquire stock
representing a Fifty-Percent or Greater Interest in SpinCo or any successor to
SpinCo.
(b) Covenants.
(i) Actions Consistent with Representations and
Covenants. Neither
Parent nor SpinCo shall take any action or permit any member of
the Parent Group or the SpinCo Group, respectively, to take any action, or shall
fail to take any action or permit any member of the Parent Group or the SpinCo
Group, respectively, to fail to take any action, where such action or failure
to act would be inconsistent with or cause to be untrue any material information,
covenant or representation in this Agreement, the Separation Agreement, the Tax
Opinion Documents or any of the Ancillary Agreements.
(ii) Preservation of Tax-Free Status; SpinCo Business.
SpinCo shall not (A) take
any action (including, but not limited to, any cessation, transfer or
disposition of all or any portion of any SpinCo Business; payment of
extraordinary dividends; and
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acquisitions or issuances of stock) or permit any member of the SpinCo
Group to take any such action, and SpinCo shall not fail to take any such
action or permit any member of the SpinCo Group to fail to take any such action,
in each case, unless such action or failure to act could not reasonably be
expected to cause any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions not to have Tax-Free
Status or could not require Parent or SpinCo to reflect a liability or reserve
with respect to any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions in its financial
statements, and (B) until the first day after the Restriction Period,
engage in any transaction (including, without limitation, any cessation,
transfer or disposition of all or any portion of any SpinCo Business) that could
reasonably be expected to result in it or any member of the SpinCo Group
ceasing to be a company engaged in any SpinCo Business.
(iii) Sales, Issuances and Redemptions of Equity
Securities. Until the first day after the
Restriction Period, none of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group shall, or
shall agree to, sell or otherwise issue to any Person, or redeem or otherwise
acquire from any Person, any Equity Securities of SpinCo or any member of the
SpinCo Group; provided, however, that (A) the adoption by
SpinCo of a shareholder rights plan shall not constitute a sale or issuance of
such Equity Securities, (B) SpinCo and the members of the SpinCo Group may
repurchase such Equity Securities to the extent that such repurchases meet the
requirements of Section 4.05(1)(b) of Revenue Procedure 96-30, (C) SpinCo
may issue such Equity Securities to the extent such issuances satisfy Safe
Harbor VIII (relating to acquisitions in connection with a persons performance
of services) or Safe Harbor IX (relating to acquisitions by a retirement plan
of an employer) of Treasury Regulation Section 1.355-7(d), and (D) members
of the SpinCo Group may issue or sell Equity Securities to other members of the
SpinCo Group, and may redeem or purchase Equity Securities from other members
of the SpinCo group, in each case, to the extent not inconsistent with the
Tax-Free Status of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions; provided, that,
SpinCo shall not be permitted to issue or redeem Equity Securities pursuant to
this clause (D).
(iv) Tender Offers; Other Business Transactions.
Until the first day after the Restriction Period, none of SpinCo
or any member of the SpinCo Group shall (A) solicit any Person to make a
tender offer for, or otherwise acquire or sell, the Equity Securities of
SpinCo, (B) participate in or support any unsolicited tender offer for, or
other acquisition, issuance or disposition of, the Equity Securities of SpinCo
or (C) approve or otherwise permit any proposed business combination or
any transaction which, in the case of clauses (A), (B) or (C),
individually or in the aggregate, together with any transaction occurring
within the four-year period beginning on the date which is two years before the
Distribution Date and any other transaction which is part of a plan or series
of related transactions (within the meaning of Section 355(e) of the
Code) that includes the Spin-Off, could result in one or more Persons acquiring
(except for acquisitions that otherwise satisfy Safe Harbor VIII (relating to
acquisitions in connection with a persons performance of services) or Safe
Harbor IX (relating to acquisitions by a retirement plan of an employer) of
Treasury Regulation Section 1.355-7(d)) directly
or indirectly stock representing a 40% or greater interest, by vote or value,
in SpinCo (or any successor thereto). In
addition, none of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group shall at any time,
whether before or subsequent to the expiration of the Restriction Period,
engage in any action described in clauses (A), (B) or (C) of the
preceding sentence if it is pursuant to an arrangement negotiated (in whole or
in part) prior to the first anniversary of the Spin-Off, even if at the time of
the Spin-Off or thereafter such action is subject to various conditions.
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(v) Dispositions of Assets.
Until the first day after the Restriction Period, none of SpinCo
or any member of the SpinCo Group shall sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of
or agree to dispose of assets (including, for such purpose, any shares of
capital stock of a Subsidiary and any transaction treated for tax purposes as a
sale, transfer or disposition) that, in the aggregate, constitute more than 30%
of the gross assets of SpinCo, nor shall SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo
Group sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of or agree to dispose of assets
(including, for such purpose, any shares of capital stock of a Subsidiary and
any transaction treated for tax purposes as a sale, transfer or disposition)
that, in the aggregate, constitute more than 30% of the
consolidated gross assets of the SpinCo Group.
The foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) sales, transfers, or
dispositions of assets in the ordinary course of business, (B) any cash
paid to acquire assets from an unrelated Person in an arms-length transaction,
or (C) any assets transferred to a Person that is disregarded as an entity
separate from the transferor for federal income tax purposes. The percentages of gross assets or
consolidated gross assets of SpinCo or the SpinCo Group, as the case may be,
sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of, shall be based on the fair market
value of the gross assets of SpinCo and the members of the SpinCo Group as of
the Distribution Date. For purposes of
this Section 4(b)(v), a merger of SpinCo or one of its Subsidiaries with
and into any Person shall constitute a disposition of all of the assets of
SpinCo or such Subsidiary.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 4(b)(v) to the
contrary, following the Spin-Off, SpinCo shall be permitted to make certain sales,
transfers, and other dispositions of assets, in each case, solely in the manner
described on Schedule 4(b) hereto.
(vi) Liquidations, Mergers, Reorganizations.
Until the first day after the Restriction Period, neither SpinCo
nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, or shall agree to, voluntarily dissolve or
liquidate or engage in any transaction involving a merger (except for a Cash
Acquisition Merger), consolidation or other reorganization; provided, that,
mergers of direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiaries of SpinCo solely with
and into SpinCo or with other direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiaries of
SpinCo, and liquidations of SpinCos subsidiaries are not subject to this Section 4(b)(vi) to
the extent not inconsistent with the Tax-Free Status of the Spin-Off-Related
Transactions. Notwithstanding anything
in this Section 4(b)(vi) to the contrary, following the Spin-Off,
SpinCo shall be permitted to engage in certain transactions involving
liquidations or reorganizations, in each case, solely in the manner described
on Schedule 4(b) hereto.
(c) Permitted
Transactions.
Notwithstanding the
restrictions otherwise imposed by Sections 4(b)(iii) through 4(b)(vi),
during the Restriction Period, SpinCo may (i) issue, sell, redeem or
otherwise acquire (or cause a member of the SpinCo Group to issue, sell, redeem
or otherwise acquire) Equity Securities of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo
Group in a transaction that would otherwise breach the covenant set forth in Section 4(b)(iii),
(ii) approve, participate in, support or otherwise permit a proposed
business combination or transaction that would otherwise breach the covenant
set forth in Section 4(b)(iv), (iii) sell or otherwise dispose of the
assets of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group in a transaction that would
otherwise breach the covenant set forth in Section 4(b)(v), or (iv) merge
SpinCo or any
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member of the SpinCo
Group with another entity without regard to which party is the surviving entity
in a transaction that would otherwise breach the covenant set forth in Section 4(b)(vi),
if and only if such transaction would not violate Section 4(b)(i) or Section 4(b)(ii) and
prior to entering into any agreement contemplating a transaction described in
clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), and prior to consummating any such
transaction: (X) SpinCo shall provide Parent with an Unqualified Tax Opinion in
form and substance satisfactory to Parent in its sole and absolute discretion,
exercised in good faith (and in determining whether an opinion is satisfactory,
Parent may consider, among other factors, the appropriateness of any underlying
assumptions and managements representations if used as a basis for the opinion)
or (Y) SpinCo shall request that Parent obtain a Private Letter Ruling in
accordance with Section 4(d)(ii) of this Agreement to the effect that
such transaction will not affect the Tax-Free Status of any of the
Spin-Off-Related Transactions and Parent shall have received such a Private Letter
Ruling, in form and substance satisfactory to Parent in its discretion,
exercised in good faith.
(d) Private
Letter Rulings and Restrictions on SpinCo.
(i) Private
Letter Ruling at Parents Request.
Parent shall have the right to obtain a Private Letter Ruling in its
discretion, exercised in good faith. If
Parent determines to obtain a Private Letter Ruling, SpinCo shall (and shall
cause each member of the SpinCo Group to) cooperate with Parent and take any and
all actions reasonably requested by Parent in connection with obtaining the Private
Letter Ruling (including, without limitation, by making any representation or
covenant or providing any materials or information requested by any Tax
Authority; provided that SpinCo shall not be required to make (or
cause any member of the SpinCo Group to make) any representation or covenant
that is inconsistent with historical facts or as to future matters or events
over which it has no control). In
connection with obtaining a Private Letter Ruling pursuant to this Section 4(d)(i),
(A) Parent shall, to the extent practicable, consult with SpinCo reasonably in advance of
taking any material action in connection therewith; (B) Parent shall (1) reasonably
in advance of the submission of any Ruling Documents or Private Letter Ruling
Documents, provide SpinCo with a draft copy thereof, (2) reasonably
consider SpinCos comments on such draft copy, and (3) provide SpinCo with
a final copy; and (C) Parent shall provide SpinCo with notice reasonably
in advance of, and SpinCo shall have the right to attend and participate in,
any formally scheduled meetings with any Tax Authority (subject to the approval
of the Tax Authority) that relate to such Private Letter Ruling.
(ii) Private
Letter Rulings at SpinCos Request.
Parent agrees that at the reasonable request of SpinCo pursuant to Section 4(c),
Parent shall (and shall cause each member of the Parent Group to) cooperate
with SpinCo and use its reasonable best efforts to seek to obtain, as
expeditiously as possible, a Private Letter Ruling from the IRS and/or any
other applicable Tax Authority for the purpose of confirming compliance on the
part of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group with its obligations under Section 4(b) of
this Agreement. Further, in no event
shall Parent be required to file any request for a Private Letter Ruling under
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this Section 4(d)(ii) unless SpinCo represents that (A) it
has read the request for the Private Letter Ruling and any materials,
appendices and exhibits submitted or filed therewith, and (B) all
information and representations, if any, relating to any member of the SpinCo
Group, contained in the Private Letter Ruling Documents are true, correct and
complete in all material respects.
SpinCo shall reimburse Parent for all reasonable costs and expenses
incurred by the Parent Group in obtaining a Private Letter Ruling requested by
SpinCo within 10 Business Days after receiving an invoice from Parent
therefor. SpinCo hereby agrees that
Parent shall have sole and exclusive control over the process of obtaining a Private
Letter Ruling, and that only Parent shall apply for a Private Letter Ruling. In connection with obtaining a Private Letter
Ruling pursuant to this Section 4(d)(ii), (A) Parent shall, to the
extent practicable, consult with SpinCo reasonably in advance of taking any
material action in connection therewith; (B) Parent shall (1) reasonably
in advance of the submission of any Private Letter Ruling Documents, provide
SpinCo with a draft copy thereof, (2) reasonably consider SpinCos
comments on such draft copy, and (3) provide SpinCo with a final copy; and
(C) Parent shall provide SpinCo with notice reasonably in advance of, and
SpinCo shall have the right to attend and participate in, any formally
scheduled meetings with any Tax Authority (subject to the approval of the Tax
Authority) that relate to such Private Letter Ruling.
(iii) Prohibition on SpinCo. SpinCo hereby agrees that, except to the
extent permitted by Section 4(d)(ii), neither it nor any member of the
SpinCo Group shall seek any guidance from the IRS or any other Tax Authority
(whether written, verbal or otherwise) concerning any of the Spin-Off-Related
Transactions (or the impact of any transaction on any of the Spin-Off-Related
Transactions).
(e) Liability
of SpinCo for Undertaking Certain Actions.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, SpinCo and
each member of the SpinCo Group shall be responsible for any and all
Tax-Related Losses that are attributable to, or result from:
(i) any
act or failure to act by SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group, which action
or failure to act breaches any of the covenants described in Section 4(b)(i) through
4(b)(vi) of this Agreement (determined without regard to the exceptions or
provisos set forth in such provisions or in Section 4(c), so that SpinCo
and each member of the SpinCo Group shall be responsible for any and all
Tax-Related Losses even if such Tax-Related Losses are attributable to or
result from any act or failure to act pursuant to an exception or proviso
described in Section 4(b)(i) through 4(b)(vi) or in Section 4(c)),
expressly including, for this purpose, any Permitted Transaction and any act or
failure to act that breaches Section 4(b)(i) or 4(b)(ii), regardless
of whether such act or failure to act is permitted by Section 4(b)(iii) through
4(b)(vi);
(ii) any
acquisition of Equity Securities of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group by
any Person or Persons (including, without limitation, as a result of an
issuance of SpinCo Equity Securities or a merger of another entity with and
into SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group) or any acquisition of assets of
SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group (including, without limitation, as a
result of a merger) by any Person or Persons; and
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(iii) Tax Counsel withdrawing
all or any portion of the Tax Opinion or any Tax Authority withdrawing all or
any portion of a Private Letter Ruling issued to Parent in connection with the
Spin-Off-Related Transactions because of a breach by SpinCo or any member of
the SpinCo Group of a representation made in this Agreement (or made in
connection with the Tax Opinion or any Private Letter Ruling).
(f) Cooperation.
(i) Without
limiting the prohibition set forth in Section 4(d)(iii), until the first
day after the Restriction Period, SpinCo shall furnish Parent with a copy of
any ruling request that any member of the SpinCo Group may file with the IRS or
any other Tax Authority and any opinion received that in any respect relates
to, or otherwise reasonably could be expected to have any effect on, the
Tax-Free Status of any of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions.
(ii) Parent
shall reasonably cooperate with SpinCo in connection with any request by SpinCo
for an Unqualified Tax Opinion pursuant to Section 4(c).
(iii) Until the first day
after the Restriction Period, SpinCo will provide adequate advance notice to
Parent in accordance with the terms of Section 4(f)(iv) of any action
described in Sections 4(b)(i) through 4(b)(vi) within a period of
time sufficient to enable Parent to seek injunctive relief pursuant to Section 4(g) in
a court of competent jurisdiction.
(iv) Each
notice required by Section 4(f)(iii) shall set forth the terms and
conditions of any such proposed transaction, including, without limitation, (A) the
nature of any related action proposed to be taken by the board of directors of
SpinCo, (B) the approximate number of Equity Securities (and their voting
and economic rights) of SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group (if any)
proposed to be sold or otherwise issued, (C) the approximate value of
SpinCos assets (or assets of any member of the SpinCo Group) proposed to be
transferred, and (D) the proposed timetable for such transaction, all with
sufficient particularity to enable Parent to seek such injunctive relief. Promptly, but in any event within 30 days,
after Parent receives such written notice from SpinCo, Parent shall notify
SpinCo in writing of Parents decision to seek injunctive relief pursuant to Section 4(g).
(v) From
and after the date Parent first requests a Private Letter Ruling pursuant to Section 4(d) until
the first day after the two-year anniversary of such date that Parent receives such
Private Letter Ruling (pursuant to Section 4(d)(i) or
4(d)(ii)), neither SpinCo nor any member of the SpinCo Group shall take (or
refrain from taking) any action to the extent that such action or inaction
would have caused a representation given by SpinCo in connection with any such
request for a Private Letter Ruling to have been untrue as of the relevant
representation date, had SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group intended to
take (or refrain from taking) such action on the relevant representation date.
(g) Enforcement. The parties hereto
acknowledge that irreparable harm would occur in the event that any of the
provisions of this Section 4 were not performed in accordance with their
specific terms or were otherwise breached.
The parties hereto agree that, in order to preserve the Tax-Free Status
of the Spin-Off-Related Transactions, injunctive relief is
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appropriate to prevent any violation of the foregoing covenants; provided,
however, that injunctive relief shall not be the exclusive legal or
equitable remedy for any such violation.
5. Refunds. Parent shall be entitled to all Refunds (and
any interest thereon received from the applicable Tax Authority) in respect of
Income Taxes and Other Taxes paid with respect to any Tax Return filed by
Parent or any member of the Parent Group (other than any SpinCo Separate Return
filed prior to the Closing Date), except to the extent such Refunds are solely
attributable to SpinCo Tax Benefits.
SpinCo shall be entitled to all Refunds (and any interest thereon
received from the applicable Tax Authority) in respect of Income Taxes and
Other Taxes paid with respect to any Tax Return filed by SpinCo or any member
of the SpinCo Group (including, without limitation, any SpinCo Separate Return
filed before the Closing Date) or which are solely attributable to SpinCo Tax
Benefits. A party receiving a Refund to
which another party is entitled pursuant to this Section 5 shall pay the
amount to which such other party is entitled within fifteen Business Days after
such Refund is Actually Realized. Each
of Parent and SpinCo shall cooperate with the other party in connection with
any claim for Refund in respect of an Income Tax or Other Tax for which any
member of the Parent Group or the SpinCo Group, as the case may be, is
responsible pursuant to Section 2.
6. Tax Contests.
(a) Notification. Each of Parent and SpinCo shall notify the
other party in writing of any communication with respect to any pending or
threatened Proceeding in connection with an Income Tax Liability or Other Tax
Liability (or any issue related thereto) of Parent or any member of the Parent
Group, or SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group, respectively, for which a
member of the SpinCo Group or the Parent Group, respectively, may be
responsible pursuant to this Agreement within ten (10) Business Days of
receipt; provided, however, that in the case of any
Distribution-Related Proceeding (whether or not SpinCo or Parent may be
responsible thereunder), such notice shall be provided no later than ten (10) Business
Days after Parent or SpinCo, as the case may be, first receives written notice
from the IRS or other Tax Authority of such Distribution-Related Proceeding). Each of Parent and SpinCo shall include with
such notification a true, correct and complete copy of any written
communication, and an accurate and complete written summary of any oral
communication, received by Parent or a member of the Parent Group, or SpinCo or
a member of the SpinCo Group, respectively.
The failure of Parent or SpinCo timely to forward such notification in
accordance with the immediately preceding sentence shall not relieve SpinCo or Parent,
respectively, of any obligation to pay such Income Tax Liability or Other Tax
Liability or indemnify Parent and the members of the Parent Group, or SpinCo
and the members of the SpinCo Group, respectively, and their respective
Representatives, Affiliates, successors and assigns therefor, except to the
extent that the failure timely to forward such notification actually prejudices
the ability of SpinCo or Parent to contest such Income Tax Liability or Other
Tax Liability or increases the amount of such Income Tax Liability or Other Tax
Liability.
(b) Representation
with Respect to Tax Disputes. Parent
(or such member of the Parent Group as Parent shall designate) shall have the
sole right to represent the interests of the members of the Parent Group and
the members of the SpinCo Group and to employ counsel of its choice at its
expense in any Proceeding relating to (i) any U.S. consolidated federal
Income Tax Returns of the Parent Consolidated Group, (ii) any other
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Combined Returns and (iii) any Parent Separate Returns. SpinCo (or such member of the SpinCo Group as
SpinCo shall designate) shall have the sole right to represent the interests of
the members of the SpinCo Group and to employ counsel of its choice at its
expense in any Proceeding relating to SpinCo Separate Returns.
(c) Power
of Attorney. Each member of the
SpinCo Group shall execute and deliver to Parent (or such member of the Parent
Group as Parent shall designate) any power of attorney or other document
requested by Parent (or such designee) in connection with any Proceeding
described in the first sentence of Section 6(b).
(d) Distribution-Related
Proceedings, Proceedings with Respect to SpinCo Tax Liabilities.
(i) In
the event of any Distribution-Related Proceeding or Proceeding relating to a SpinCo
Tax Liability as a result of which SpinCo could reasonably be expected to
become liable for Tax or any Tax-Related Losses and with respect to which
Parent has the right to represent the interests of the members of the Parent
Group and/or the members of the SpinCo Group pursuant to Section 6(b) above,
(A) Parent shall consult with SpinCo
reasonably in advance of taking any significant action in connection with such
Proceeding, (B) Parent shall consult with SpinCo and offer SpinCo a
reasonable opportunity to comment before submitting any written materials
prepared or furnished in connection with such Proceeding, (C) Parent shall
defend such Proceeding diligently and in good faith as if it were the only
party in interest in connection with such Proceeding, and (D) Parent shall
provide SpinCo copies of any written materials relating to such Proceeding
received from the relevant Tax Authority.
Notwithstanding anything in the preceding sentence to the contrary, the
final determination of the positions taken, including with respect to
settlement or other disposition, in (i) any Distribution-Related Proceeding,
or (ii) any other Proceeding relating to a SpinCo Tax Liability, which
other Proceeding would not reasonably be expected to result in a liability for additional
Taxes in an amount exceeding five (5) million dollars for a single tax
year, shall be made in the sole discretion of Parent and shall be final and not
subject to the dispute resolution provisions of Article 9. With respect to any Proceeding relating to a
SpinCo Tax Liability (other than any Distribution-Related Proceeding), which
could reasonably be expected to result in a liability for additional Taxes in
an amount exceeding five (5) million dollars for a single tax year, SpinCo
shall be entitled to participate in such Proceeding, and Parent shall not
settle, compromise or abandon any such Proceeding without obtaining the prior
written consent of SpinCo, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(ii) In
the event of any Distribution-Related Proceeding with respect to any SpinCo
Separate Return, (A) SpinCo shall
consult with Parent reasonably in advance of taking any significant action in
connection with such Proceeding, (B) SpinCo shall consult with Parent and
offer Parent a reasonable opportunity to comment before submitting any written
materials prepared or furnished in connection with such Proceeding, (C) SpinCo
shall defend such Proceeding diligently and in good faith as if it were the
only party in interest in connection with such Proceeding, (D) Parent
shall be entitled to participate in such Proceeding and receive copies of any
written materials relating to such Proceeding received from the relevant Tax
Authority, and (E) SpinCo shall not settle, compromise or abandon any such
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Proceeding without obtaining the prior written
consent of Parent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
7. Apportionment of Tax Attributes; Carrybacks.
(a) Apportionment
of Tax Attributes.
(i) If
the Parent Consolidated Group has a Tax Attribute, the portion, if any, of such
Tax Attribute apportioned to SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Consolidated
Group and treated as a carryover to the first Post-Distribution Taxable Period
of SpinCo (or such member) shall be determined by Parent in accordance with
Treasury Regulation Sections 1.1502-21, 1.1502-21T, 1.1502-22, 1.1502-79 and,
if applicable, 1.1502-79A.
(ii) No
Tax Attribute with respect to consolidated U.S. federal Income Tax of the
Parent Consolidated Group, other than those described in Section 7(a)(i),
and no Tax Attribute with respect to consolidated, combined or unitary State,
local, or foreign Income Tax, in each case, arising in respect of a Combined
Return shall be apportioned to SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group, except
as Parent (or such member of the Parent Group as Parent shall designate)
determines is otherwise required under applicable law.
(iii) Parent (or its designee)
shall determine the portion, if any, of any Tax Attribute which must (absent a
Final Determination to the contrary) be apportioned to SpinCo or any member of
the SpinCo Group in accordance with this Section 7(a) and applicable
law, and the amount of tax basis and earnings and profits to be apportioned to
SpinCo or any member of the SpinCo Group in accordance with applicable law, and
shall provide written notice of the calculation thereof to SpinCo as soon as
practicable after the information necessary to make such calculation becomes
available to Parent.
(iv) Except
as otherwise required by applicable law or pursuant to a Final Determination,
SpinCo shall not take any position (whether on a Tax Return or otherwise) that
is inconsistent with the information contained in the written notice delivered
by Parent pursuant to Section 7(a)(iii).
(b) Carrybacks. Except to the extent otherwise consented to
by Parent or prohibited by applicable law, SpinCo shall elect to relinquish,
waive or otherwise forgo all Carrybacks.
In the event that SpinCo (or the appropriate member of the SpinCo Group)
is prohibited by applicable law to relinquish, waive or otherwise forgo a
Carryback (or Parent consents to a Carryback), (i) Parent shall cooperate
with SpinCo, at SpinCos expense, in seeking from the appropriate Tax Authority
such Refund as reasonably would result from such Carryback, and (ii) SpinCo
shall be entitled to any Income Tax Benefit Actually Realized by a member of
the Parent Group (including any interest thereon received from such Tax Authority),
to the extent that such Refund is directly attributable to such Carryback,
within 15 Business Days after such Refund is Actually Realized; provided,
however, that SpinCo shall indemnify and hold the members of the Parent
Group harmless from and against any and all collateral tax consequences
resulting from or caused by any such Carryback, including (but not limited to)
the loss or postponement of any benefit from the use of tax attributes
generated by a member of the Parent Group or an Affiliate thereof if (x) such
tax attributes expire unutilized, but would have
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been utilized but for such Carryback, or (y) the use of such tax
attributes is postponed to a later taxable period than the taxable period in
which such tax attributes would have been utilized but for such Carryback. If there is a Final Determination that
results in any change to or adjustment of an Income Tax Benefit Actually
Realized by a member of the Parent Group that is directly attributable to a
Carryback, then Parent (or its designee) shall make a payment to SpinCo, or
SpinCo shall make a payment to Parent (or its designee), as may be necessary to
adjust the payments between SpinCo and Parent (or its designee) to reflect the
payments that would have been made under this Section 7(b) had the
adjusted amount of such Income Tax Benefit been taken into account in computing
the payments due under this Section 7(b).
8. Cooperation and Exchange of Information.
(a) Cooperation
and Exchange of Information. Each of
Parent and SpinCo, on behalf of itself and each member of the Parent Group and
the SpinCo Group, respectively, agrees to provide the other party (or its
designee) with such cooperation or information as such other party (or its designee)
reasonably shall request in connection with the determination of any payment or
any calculations described in this Agreement, the preparation or filing of any
Income Tax Return or Other Tax Return or claim for Refund, or the conduct of
any Proceeding. Such cooperation and
information shall include, without limitation, upon reasonable notice (i) promptly
forwarding copies of appropriate notices and forms or other communications
(including, without limitation, information document requests, revenue agents
reports and similar reports, notices of proposed adjustments and notices of
deficiency) received from or sent to any Tax Authority or any other
administrative, judicial or governmental authority, (ii) providing copies
of all relevant Income Tax Returns or Other Tax Returns, together with
accompanying schedules and related workpapers, documents relating to rulings or
other determinations by any Tax Authority, and such other records concerning
the ownership and tax basis of property, or other relevant information, (iii) the
provision of such additional information and explanations of documents and
information provided under this Agreement (including statements, certificates,
forms, returns and schedules delivered by either party) as shall be reasonably
requested by Parent (or its designee) or SpinCo (or its designee), as the case
may be, (iv) the execution of any document that may be necessary or
reasonably helpful in connection with the filing of an Income Tax Return or
Other Tax Return, a claim for a Refund, or in connection with any Proceeding,
including such waivers, consents or powers of attorney as may be necessary for
Parent or SpinCo, as the case may be, to exercise its rights under this
Agreement, and (v) the use of Parents or SpinCos, as the case may be,
reasonable efforts to obtain any documentation from a governmental authority or
a third party that may be necessary or reasonably helpful in connection with
any of the foregoing. It is expressly
the intention of the parties to this Agreement to take all actions that shall
be necessary to establish Parent as the sole agent for Income Tax or Other Tax
purposes of each member of the SpinCo Group with respect to all Combined
Returns. Upon reasonable notice, each of
Parent and SpinCo shall make its, or shall cause the members of the Parent
Group or the SpinCo Group, as applicable, to make their, employees and
facilities available on a mutually convenient basis to provide explanation of
any documents or information provided hereunder. Any information obtained under this Section 8
shall be kept confidential, except as otherwise reasonably may be necessary in
connection with the filing of Income Tax Returns or Other Tax Returns or claims
for Refund or in conducting any Proceeding.
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(b) Retention
of Records. Each of Parent and
SpinCo agrees to retain all Income Tax Returns and Other Tax Returns, related
schedules and workpapers, and all material records and other documents as
required under Section 6001 of the Code and the regulations promulgated
thereunder (and any similar provision of State, local, or foreign law) existing
on the date hereof or created in respect of (i) any taxable period that
ends on or before or includes the Distribution Date or (ii) any taxable
period that may be subject to a claim hereunder until the later of (A) the
expiration of the statute of limitations (including extensions) for the taxable
periods to which such Income Tax Returns, Other Tax Returns and other documents
relate and (B) the Final Determination of any payments that may be
required in respect of such taxable periods under this Agreement. From and after the end of the period
described in the preceding sentence of this Section 8(b), if a member of
the Parent Group or the SpinCo Group wishes to dispose of any such records and
documents, then Parent or SpinCo, as the case may be, shall provide written
notice thereof to the other party and shall provide the other party the
opportunity to take possession of any such records and documents within 90 days
after such notice is delivered; provided, however, that if such
other party does not, within such 90-day period, confirm its intention to take
possession of such records and documents, Parent or SpinCo, as the case may be,
may destroy or otherwise dispose of such records and documents.
(c) Remedies. Each of Parent and SpinCo hereby acknowledges
and agrees that (i) the failure of any member of the Parent Group or the
SpinCo Group, as the case may be, to comply with the provisions of this Section 8
may result in substantial harm to the Parent Group or the SpinCo Group, as the
case may be, including the inability to determine or appropriately substantiate
an Income Tax Liability or Other Tax Liability (or a position in respect
thereof) for which the Parent Group (or a member thereof) or the SpinCo Group
(or a member thereof), as applicable, would be responsible under this Agreement
or appropriately defend against an adjustment thereto by a Tax Authority, (ii) the
remedies available to the Parent Group for the breach by a member of the SpinCo
Group of its obligations under this Section 8 shall include (without
limitation) the indemnification by SpinCo of the Parent Group for any Income
Tax Liabilities or Other Tax Liabilities incurred or any tax benefit lost or
postponed by reason of such breach and the forfeiture by the SpinCo Group of
any related rights to indemnification by Parent and (iii) the remedies
available to the SpinCo Group for the breach by a member of the Parent Group of
its obligations under this Section 8 shall include (without limitation)
the indemnification by Parent of the SpinCo Group for any Income Tax
Liabilities or Other Tax Liabilities incurred or any Tax benefit lost or
postponed by reason of such breach and the forfeiture by the Parent Group of
any related rights to indemnification by SpinCo.
(d) Reliance
by Parent. If any member of the
SpinCo Group supplies information to a member of the Parent Group in connection
with an Income Tax Liability or Other Tax Liability and an officer of a member
of the Parent Group signs a statement or other document under penalties of
perjury in reliance upon the accuracy of such information, then upon the
written request of such member of the Parent Group identifying the information
being so relied upon, the chief financial officer of SpinCo (or his or her
designee) shall certify in writing that to his knowledge (based upon
consultation with appropriate employees) the information so supplied is
accurate and complete. SpinCo agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Parent Group and its directors,
officers and employees from and against any fine, penalty, or other cost or
expense of any kind attributable to a member of the SpinCo Group having
supplied, pursuant to this Section 8, a member of the Parent Group with
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inaccurate or incomplete information in connection with an Income Tax
Liability or Other Tax Liability.
(e) Reliance
by SpinCo. If any member of the
Parent Group supplies information to a member of the SpinCo Group in connection
with an Income Tax Liability or Other Tax Liability and an officer of a member
of the SpinCo Group signs a statement or other document under penalties of
perjury in reliance upon the accuracy of such information, then upon the
written request of such member of the SpinCo Group identifying the information
being so relied upon, the chief financial officer of Parent (or his or her
designee) shall certify in writing that to his knowledge (based upon
consultation with appropriate employees) the information so supplied is
accurate and complete. Parent agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each member
of the SpinCo Group and its directors, officers and employees from and against
any fine, penalty, or other cost or expense of any kind attributable to a
member of the Parent Group having supplied, pursuant to this Section 8, a
member of the SpinCo Group with inaccurate or incomplete information in
connection with an Income Tax Liability or Other Tax Liability.
9. Resolution of Disputes. The provisions of Article X
of the Separation Agreement (Dispute Resolution) shall apply to any dispute
arising in connection with this Agreement; provided, however,
that in the case of disputes arising under this Agreement, Parent and
SpinCo shall jointly select the arbitrator, who shall be an attorney or
accountant who is generally recognized in the tax community as a qualified and
competent tax practitioner with experience in the tax area involved in the
issue or issues to be resolved.
10. Payments.
(a) Method
of Payment. All payments required by
this Agreement shall be made by (i) wire transfer to the appropriate bank
account as may from time to time be designated by the parties for such purpose;
provided that, on the date of such wire transfer, notice of the
transfer is given to the recipient thereof in accordance with Section 11,
or (ii) any other method agreed to by the parties. All payments due under this Agreement shall
be deemed to be paid when available funds are actually received by the payee.
(b) Interest. Any payment required by this Agreement that
is not made on or before the date required hereunder shall bear interest, from
and after such date through the date of payment, at the Underpayment Rate.
(c) Characterization
of Payments. For all tax purposes,
the parties hereto agree to treat, and to cause their respective Affiliates to
treat, (i) any payment required by this Agreement or by the Separation
Agreement, as either a contribution by Parent to SpinCo or a distribution by
SpinCo to Parent, as the case may be, occurring immediately prior to the Spin-Off
and (ii) any payment of interest or non-federal Income Taxes by or to a
Tax Authority, as taxable or deductible, as the case may be, to the party
entitled under this Agreement to retain such payment or required under this
Agreement to make such payment, in either case, except as otherwise mandated by
applicable law or a Final Determination; provided that in the
event it is determined (A) pursuant to applicable law that it is more
likely than not, or (B) pursuant to a Final Determination, that any such
treatment is not permissible (or that an Indemnified Party nevertheless suffers
an Income Tax or Other Tax detriment as a result of such payment), the
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payment in question shall be adjusted to place the Indemnified Party in
the same after-tax position it would have enjoyed absent such applicable law or
Final Determination.
11. Microsoft Agreements and Options Treatment.
(a) Microsoft
Agreements. SpinCo
and each member of the SpinCo Group hereby assume any and all obligations of
Parent or any member of the Parent Group under (i) that certain agreement
by and among Microsoft Corporation, USA Networks, Inc. and Expedia, Inc.
dated as of November 9, 2001, a copy of which is attached hereto (the Microsoft
Compensation Deductions Agreement), (ii) that certain agreement by
and between Microsoft Corporation and Expedia, Inc., dated as of October 1,
1999, a copy of which is attached hereto (the Microsoft Tax Allocation
Agreement), and (iii) that certain agreement by and among Expedia, Inc.,
USA Networks, Inc., Taipei, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, and
Microsoft E-Holdings, Inc., dated as of July 15, 2001, a copy of
which is attached hereto (the July 15, 2001 Agreement). From and after the Distribution Date, SpinCo
and each member of the SpinCo Group shall jointly and severally indemnify,
defend and hold harmless Parent and each member of the Parent Group from and
against all liability arising out of or relating to the Microsoft Compensation
Deductions Agreement, the Microsoft Tax Allocation Agreement, and the July 15,
2001 Agreement.
(b) Options
Treatment.
(i) Deductions. To the extent permitted by law, Parent (or
the appropriate member of the Parent Group) shall claim all Tax deductions
arising by reason of exercises of Options or compensatory warrants held by IAC Service
Provider to acquire Parent common stock or SpinCo common stock, and SpinCo (or
the appropriate member of the SpinCo Group) shall claim all Tax deductions
arising by reason of exercises of Options or compensatory warrants held by
Expedia Service Provider to acquire Parent common stock or SpinCo common
stock. For purposes of this Section 11(b)(i),
Mr. Barry Diller shall be treated as an IAC Service Provider only with
respect to his Options to acquire Parent common stock and as an Expedia Service
Provider only with respect to his Options to acquire SpinCo common stock; provided,
however, if there is a Final Determination that Parent and not SpinCo is
entitled to a deduction with respect to any such SpinCo Options held by Mr. Barry
Diller, Parent shall pay to SpinCo, when Actually Realized, any Tax Benefit
relating thereto. For purposes of this Section 11(b)(i),
Mr. Victor A. Kaufman shall be treated as an IAC Service Provider.
(ii) Withholding
and Reporting. Parent shall, to the
extent required by law, withhold applicable Taxes and satisfy applicable Tax
reporting obligations with respect to exercises of Options or compensatory
warrants held by IAC Service Providers to acquire Parent common stock or SpinCo
common stock, and SpinCo shall, to the extent required by law, withhold
applicable Taxes and satisfy applicable Tax reporting obligations with respect
to exercises of Options or compensatory warrants held by Expedia Service Providers
to acquire Parent common stock or SpinCo common stock.
12. Notices. Notices, requests, permissions, waivers, and
other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have
been duly given upon (a) a transmitters confirmation of a receipt of a
facsimile transmission (but only if followed by confirmed delivery of a
standard overnight courier the following Business Day or if delivered by
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hand the following Business Day), or (b) confirmed
delivery of a standard overnight courier or delivered by hand, to the parties
at the following addresses (or at such other addresses for a party as shall be
specified by like notice):
If to
Parent, to:
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IAC/InterActiveCorp
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152 West 57th
Street
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New York, NY
10019
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Attention:
General Counsel
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Telecopier:
(212) 632-9642
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If to SpinCo
to:
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Expedia, Inc.
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3150 139th
Avenue SE
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Bellevue, WA
98005
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Attention:
General Counsel
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Telecopier: (425) 679-7251
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Such names and addresses may be changed by notice
given in accordance with this Section 12.
13. Designation of Affiliate. Each of Parent and
SpinCo may assign any of its rights or obligations
under this Agreement to any member of the Parent Group or the SpinCo Group,
respectively, as it shall designate; provided, however, that no
such assignment shall relieve Parent or SpinCo, respectively, of any obligation
hereunder, including any obligation to make a payment hereunder to SpinCo or
Parent, respectively, to the extent such designee fails to make such payment.
14. Miscellaneous. Except to the extent otherwise
provided in this Agreement, this Agreement shall be subject to the provisions of
Article XIV (Miscellaneous) of the Separation Agreement to the extent set
forth therein.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has caused
this Agreement to be executed on its behalf by its officers thereunto duly
authorized, all as of the day and year first written above.
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IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
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By:
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/s/ Gregory
R. Blatt
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Name:
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Gregory R.
Blatt
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Title:
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Executive
Vice President
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EXPEDIA,
INC.
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By:
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/s/ Keenan
M. Conder
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Name:
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Keenan M.
Conder
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Senior Vice
President
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Exhibit 10.4
EXECUTION
COPY
EMPLOYEE
MATTERS AGREEMENT
by and
between
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
and
EXPEDIA,
INC.
Dated as
of August 9, 2005
EMPLOYEE MATTERS
AGREEMENT
This Employee
Matters Agreement (this Agreement),
dated as of August 9, 2005, with effect as of the Effective Time, is
entered into by and between IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware corporation (IAC), and
Expedia, Inc., a Delaware corporation (Expedia).
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, IAC
and Expedia have entered into a Separation Agreement pursuant to which the
Parties (as defined below) have set out the terms on which, and the conditions
subject to which, they wish to implement the Separation (as defined in the
Separation Agreement) (such agreement, as amended, restated or modified from
time to time, the Separation
Agreement).
WHEREAS, in
connection therewith, IAC and Expedia have agreed to enter into this Agreement
to allocate between them assets, liabilities and responsibilities with respect
to certain employee compensation, pension and benefit plans, programs and
arrangements and certain employment matters.
NOW THEREFORE,
in consideration of the mutual agreements, covenants and other provisions set
forth in this Agreement, the Parties hereby agree as follows:
Unless
otherwise defined in this Agreement, capitalized words and expressions and
variations thereof used in this Agreement or in its Appendices have the
meanings set forth below. Capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth
in the Separation Agreement.
1.1 Affiliate
has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.2 Agreement
means this Employee Matters Agreement, including all the Schedules hereto.
1.3 Ancillary
Agreements has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.4 Approved
Leave of Absence means an absence from active service (i) due to an
individuals inability to perform his or her regular job duties by reason of
illness or injury and resulting in eligibility to receive benefits pursuant to
the terms of the IAC Short-Term Disability Plan or the IAC Long-Term Disability
Plan, or (ii) pursuant to an approved leave policy with a guaranteed right
of reinstatement.
1.5 ASO
Contract has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2(a).
1.6 Auditing
Party has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4(a).
1.7 Award
when immediately preceded by IAC, means IAC Restricted Stock and IAC
Restricted Stock Units and, when immediately preceded by Expedia, means
Expedia Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units.
1.8 Benefit
Plan means, with respect to an entity or any of its Subsidiaries, (a) each
employee welfare benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA)
and all other employee benefits arrangements, policies or payroll practices
(including, without limitation, severance pay, sick leave, vacation pay, salary
continuation, disability, retirement, deferred compensation, bonus, stock
option or other equity-based compensation, hospitalization, medical insurance
or life insurance) sponsored or maintained by such entity or by any of its
Subsidiaries (or to which such entity or any of its Subsidiaries contributes or
is required to contribute) and (b) all employee pension benefit plans
(as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), occupational pension plan or
arrangement or other pension arrangements sponsored, maintained or contributed
to by such entity or any of its Subsidiaries (or to which such entity or any of
its Subsidiaries contributes or is required to contribute). When immediately preceded by IAC, Benefit Plan means any Benefit Plan
sponsored, maintained or contributed to by IAC or an IAC Entity. When immediately preceded by Expedia,
Benefit Plan means any Benefit Plan sponsored, maintained or contributed to by
Expedia or any Expedia Entity.
1.9 Close
of the Effective Date means 11:59:59 P.M., Eastern Standard Time or
Eastern Daylight Time (whichever shall then be in effect), on the Effective Date.
1.10 COBRA
means the continuation coverage requirements for group health plans under
Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as
amended, and as codified in Code § 4980B and ERISA §§ 601 through
608.
1.11 Code
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor federal
income tax law. Reference to a specific
Code provision also includes any proposed, temporary or final regulation in
force under that provision.
1.12 Committee
has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(a).
1.13 Covered
Employees has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3.
1.14 Current
Term has the meaning set forth in Section 4.4(b).
1.15 Effective
Date has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.16 Effective
Time has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.17 Effective
Time Year means the calendar year during which the Effective Time occurs.
1.18 ERISA
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. Reference to a specific provision of ERISA
also includes any proposed, temporary or final regulation in force under that
provision.
1.19 Expedia
has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
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1.20 Expedia
Common Stock has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.21 Expedia
Employee means any individual who, immediately prior to the Effective
Time, is either actively employed by, or then on Approved Leave of Absence from,
an Expedia Entity.
1.22 Expedia
Entities means the Expedia Group as defined in the Separation Agreement
and any business or operations (whether current or historical regardless of
whether discontinued or sold) included in the Separated Businesses.
1.23 Expedia
Executive Benefit Plans means the executive benefit and nonqualified
plans, programs, and arrangements established, sponsored, maintained, or agreed
upon, by any Expedia Entity for the benefit of employees and former employees
of any Expedia Entity before the Close of the Effective Date.
1.24 Expedia
Flexible Benefit Plan means the flexible benefit plan to be established by
Expedia pursuant to Section 4.3 of this Agreement as in effect as of the
time relevant to the applicable provision of this Agreement.
1.25 Expedia
Long-Term Incentive Plan means the long-term incentive plan or program to
be established by Expedia, effective immediately prior to the Effective Date,
in connection with the treatment of Awards as described in Article V.
1.26 Expedia
Ratio means 1.12444, the
quotient obtained by dividing the IAC Stock Value by the Expedia Stock Value.
1.27 Expedia
Retirement Savings Plan means the 401(k) and profit sharing plan to be
established by Expedia pursuant to Section 3.1 of this Agreement, as in
effect as of the time relevant to the applicable provision of this agreement.
1.28 Expedia
Retirement Savings Plan Trust means a trust relating to the Expedia
Retirement Savings Plan intended to qualify under Section 401(a) and
be exempt under Section 501(a) of the Code.
1.29 Expedia
Stock Value means $22.50, the closing per-share price of Expedia Common
Stock trading in the when issued market on August 8, 2005, as listed on
the NASDAQ as of 4:00 P.M., Eastern Daylight Time.
1.30 Former
Expedia Employee means any individual who as of the Effective Time is a
former employee of the Expedia Group or the IAC Group, and whose last
employment with the Expedia Group or IAC Group, was with an Expedia Entity.
1.31 Former
IAC Employee means any individual who as of the Effective Time is a former
employee of the IAC Group or the Expedia Group, and whose last employment with
the IAC Group or Expedia Group, was with an IAC Entity.
1.32 Group
Insurance Policies has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2(a).
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1.33 Health
and Welfare Plans means any plan, fund or program which was established or
is maintained for the purpose of providing for its participants or their
beneficiaries, through the purchase of insurance or otherwise, medical, dental,
surgical or hospital care or benefits, or benefits in the event of sickness,
accident, disability, death or unemployment, or vacation benefits,
apprenticeship or other training programs or day care centers, scholarship
funds, or prepaid legal services, including any such plan, fund or program as
defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA.
When immediately preceded by IAC, Health and Welfare Plans means each
Health and Welfare Plan that is an IAC Benefit Plan. When immediately preceded by Expedia,
Health and Welfare Plans means each Health and Welfare Plan that is an Expedia
Benefit Plan.
1.34 HIPAA
means the health insurance portability and accountability requirements for group
health plans under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996, as amended.
1.35 HMO
means a health maintenance organization that provides benefits under the IAC
Medical Plans or the Expedia Medical Plans.
1.36 HMO
Agreements has the meaning set forth in Section 4.2(a).
1.37 IAC
has the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
1.38 IAC
Common Stock means, with respect to periods prior to the Separation,
shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of IAC, and with respect to
periods following the Separation, shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per
share, of IAC.
1.39 IAC
Compensation/Benefits Committee means the Compensation/Benefits Committee
of the IAC Board of Directors, or any subcommittee thereof.
1.40 IAC
Employee means any individual who, immediately prior to the Close of the
Effective Date, is either actively employed by, or then on Approved Leave of
Absence from, any IAC Entity.
1.41 IAC
Entities means the members of the IAC Group, as defined in the Separation
Agreement, and their respective Subsidiaries and Affiliates, excluding any
business or operations (whether current or historical, regardless of whether
discontinued or sold) that are included in the Separated Businesses.
1.42 IAC
Executive Benefit Plans means the executive benefit and nonqualified
plans, programs, and arrangements established, sponsored, maintained, or agreed
upon, by any IAC Entity for the benefit
of employees and former employees of any IAC Entity before the Close of the
Effective Date.
1.43 IAC
Executive Deferred Compensation Plan means the IAC Executive Deferred
Compensation Plan in effect as of the time relevant to the applicable provision
of this Agreement.
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1.44 IAC
Flexible Benefit Plans means the IAC Healthcare FSA and the IAC Dependent
Care FSA, as in effect as of the time relevant to the applicable provision of
this Agreement.
1.45 IAC
Incentive Plans means any of the annual or short term incentive plans of
IAC, all as in effect as of the time relevant to the applicable provisions of
this Agreement.
1.46 IAC
Long-Term Incentive Plans means any of the Silver King Communications, Inc.
1995 Stock Incentive Plan, HSN, Inc. 1997 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan,
USA Interactive Amended and Restated 2000 Annual Stock and Incentive Plan, IAC/InterActiveCorp
2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, Home Shopping Network, Inc. 1996
Stock Option Plan for Employees, Equity and Bonus Compensation Agreement with
Barry Diller, Expedia, Inc. 1999 Amended and Restated Stock Option Plan,
the Hotels Reservations Network, Inc. 2000 Stock Plan, Ticketmaster
Online-Citysearch, Inc. 1996 Stock Option Plan, Ticketmaster
Online-Citysearch, Inc. 1998 Stock Option Plan, Ticketmaster 1999 Stock
Plan, and Ticketweb, Inc. 2000 Stock Plan, Styleclick, Inc. 1995
Stock Option Plan, Servicemagic, Inc. Amended and Restated 1999 Stock
Option Plan and Precision Response Corporation Amended and Restated 1996
Incentive Stock Plan, Expedia, Inc. Amended and Restated 2001 Stock Plan,
1998 Stock Option Plan of LendingTree, Inc., Amended and Restated Stock
Incentive Plan of LendingTree, Inc., the Silver King Communications, Inc.
Directors Stock Option Plan, Hotwire, Inc. 2000 Equity Incentive Plan and
any other stock incentive plan of IAC, all as in effect as of the time relevant
to the applicable provisions of this Agreement.
1.47 IAC
Post-Separation Stock Value means $28.10, the closing per-share price of
IAC Common Stock in the when issued market on August 8, 2005, as listed
on the NASDAQ as of 4:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight time.
1.48 IAC
Ratio means 0.90036, the quotient obtained by dividing the IAC Stock Value
by the IAC Post-Separation Stock Value.
1.49 IAC
Retirement Savings Plan means the InterActiveCorp Retirement Savings Plan
as in effect as of the time relevant to the applicable provision of this
Agreement.
1.50 IAC
Severance Pay Program means any severance plan, policy, program or other
arrangement as in effect as of the time relevant to the applicable provision of
this Agreement.
1.51 IAC
Stock Value means $25.30, the closing per-share price of the IAC Common
Stock trading regular way with due bills on August 8, 2005, as listed on
the NASDAQ as of 4:00 P.M., Eastern Daylight Time.
1.52 Immediately
after the Effective Date means on the first moment of the day after the
Effective Date.
1.53 Liabilities
has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.54 Medical
Plan when immediately preceded by IAC, means the Benefit Plan under
which medical benefits are provided to IAC Employees established and maintained
by
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IAC. When immediately preceded by Expedia, Medical
Plan means the Benefit Plan under which medical benefits are provided to
Expedia Employees to be established by Expedia pursuant to Article IV.
1.55 NASDAQ
means the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. Automated Quotation
System.
1.56 Non-parties
has the meaning set forth in Section 6.4(b).
1.57 Option
when immediately preceded by Old IAC, means an option (either nonqualified or
incentive) to purchase shares of IAC Common Stock prior to the Effective Time
pursuant to an IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan.
When immediately preceded by New IAC, Option means an option (either
nonqualified or incentive) to purchase shares of IAC Common Stock following the
Effective Time pursuant to an IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan. When immediately preceded by Expedia,
Option means an option (either nonqualified or incentive) to purchase shares of
Expedia Common Stock following the Effective Time pursuant to the Expedia
Long-Term Incentive Plan.
1.58 Participating
Company means (a) IAC and (b) any other Person (other than an
individual) that participates in a plan sponsored by any IAC Entity.
1.59 Person
has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.60 Restricted
Stock when immediately preceded by IAC, means shares of IAC Common Stock
that are subject to restrictions on transferability and a risk of forfeiture
and are issued under an IAC Benefit Plan and, when immediately preceded by Expedia,
means shares of Expedia Common Stock that are subject to restrictions on
transferability and a risk of forfeiture and are issued under an Expedia Benefit
Plan.
1.61 Restricted
Stock Unit when immediately preceded by IAC, means units issued under an
IAC Benefit Plan representing a general unsecured promise by IAC to pay the
value of shares of IAC Common Stock in cash or shares of IAC Common Stock and,
when immediately preceded by Expedia, means units issued under the Expedia
Long-Term Incentive Plan representing a general unsecured promise by Expedia to
pay the value of shares of Expedia Common Stock in cash or shares of Expedia
Common Stock.
1.62 Reverse
Stock Split means the one-for-two reverse stock split of IAC Common Stock
that IAC will complete immediately prior to the Effective Time.
1.63 Separated
Businesses has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.64 Separation
has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
1.65 Separation
Agreement has the meaning set forth in the recitals to this Agreement.
1.66 Subsidiaries
has the meaning given that term in the Separation Agreement.
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1.67 Tax
Sharing Agreement means the Tax Sharing Agreement entered into as of the
date hereof between IAC and Expedia.
1.68 Transferred
Account Balances has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3.
1.69 U.S.
means the 50 United States of America and the District of Columbia.
1.70 VEBA
when immediately preceded by IAC, means the IAC Health and Welfare Benefit
Trust. When immediately preceded by
Expedia, VEBA means the Expedia Health and Welfare Benefit Trust to be established
by Expedia pursuant to Section 4.7 that corresponds to the IAC VEBA.
2.1 Employment
of Expedia Employees. All Expedia
Employees shall continue to be employees of Expedia or another Expedia Entity,
as the case may be, immediately after the Effective Time.
2.2 Assumption
and Retention of Liabilities; Related Assets.
(a) As
of the Effective Date, except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the IAC
Entities shall assume or retain and IAC hereby agrees to pay, perform, fulfill and discharge, in due
course in full (i) all Liabilities under all IAC Benefit Plans, (ii) all
Liabilities with respect to the employment or termination of employment of all
IAC Employees, Former IAC Employees and their dependents and beneficiaries, and
other service providers (including any individual who is, or was, an
independent contractor, temporary employee, temporary service worker,
consultant, freelancer, agency employee, leased employee, on-call worker,
incidental worker, or nonpayroll worker of any IAC Entity or in any other
employment, non-employment, or retainer arrangement, or relationship with any
IAC Entity), in each case to the extent arising in connection with or as a
result of employment with or the performance of services to any IAC Entity, and
(iii) any other Liabilities expressly assigned to IAC under this Agreement.
All assets held in trust to fund the IAC Benefit Plans and all insurance
policies funding the IAC Benefit Plans shall be IAC Assets (as defined in the
Separation Agreement), except to the extent specifically provided otherwise in
this Agreement.
(b) From
and after the Effective Date, except as expressly provided in this Agreement,
Expedia and the Expedia Entities shall assume or retain, as applicable, and Expedia hereby agrees to pay, perform,
fulfill and discharge, in due course in full, (i) all Liabilities under
all Expedia Benefit Plans, (ii) all Liabilities with respect to the
employment or termination of employment of all Expedia Employees, Former
Expedia Employees and their dependents and beneficiaries, and other service
providers (including any individual who is, or was, an independent contractor,
temporary employee, temporary service worker, consultant, freelancer, agency
employee, leased employee, on-call worker, incidental worker, or nonpayroll
worker of Expedia or any Expedia Entity or in any other employment,
non-employment, or retainer arrangement, or relationship with Expedia or an
Expedia Entity), in each case to the extent arising in connection with or as a
result of employment with or the performance of services to
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any Expedia Entity and (iii) any other Liabilities
expressly assigned to Expedia or any Expedia Entity under this Agreement.
2.3 Expedia
Participation in IAC Benefit Plans. Except
as expressly provided in this Agreement, effective as of the Close of the
Effective Date, Expedia and each other Expedia Entity shall cease to be a
Participating Company in any IAC Benefit Plan, and IAC and Expedia shall take
all necessary action before the Effective Date to effectuate such cessation as
a Participating Company.
2.4 Terms
of Participation by Expedia Employees in Expedia Benefit Plans. IAC and Expedia shall agree on methods and
procedures, including, without limitation, amending the respective Benefit Plan
documents, to prevent Expedia Employees from receiving duplicative benefits
from the IAC Benefit Plans and the Expedia Benefit Plans. With respect to Expedia Employees, each
Expedia Benefit Plan shall provide that all service, all compensation and all
other benefit-affecting determinations that, as of the Close of the Effective
Date were recognized under the corresponding IAC Benefit Plan shall, as of
Immediately after the Effective Date receive full recognition, credit and
validity and be taken into account under such Expedia Benefit Plan to the same
extent as if such items occurred under such Expedia Benefit Plan, except to the
extent that duplication of benefits would result or for benefit accrual to the
extent that Expedia adopts a final average pay defined benefit pension plan.
2.5 Commercially
Reasonable Efforts. IAC and Expedia
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to (a) enter into any necessary
agreements to accomplish the assumptions and transfers contemplated by this
Agreement; and (b) provide for the maintenance of the necessary
participant records, the appointment of
the trustees and the engagement of recordkeepers, investment managers,
providers, insurers, etc.
2.6 Regulatory
Compliance. IAC and Expedia shall,
in connection with the actions taken pursuant to this Agreement, cooperate in
making any and all appropriate filings required under the Code, ERISA and any
applicable securities laws, implementing all appropriate communications with
participants, transferring appropriate records and taking all such other
actions as may be necessary and appropriate to implement the provisions of this
Agreement in a timely manner.
2.7 Approval
by IAC as Sole Stockholder. Prior to
the Effective Time, IAC shall cause Expedia to adopt the Expedia 2005 Long-Term
Incentive Plan.
3.1 Savings
Plan. Effective as of the Effective
Date, Expedia shall establish the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan and the Expedia
Retirement Savings Plan Trust. As soon
as practical following the establishment of the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan
and the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan Trust, IAC shall cause the accounts of
the Expedia Employees to be transferred to the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan
and the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan Trust in cash or such other assets as
mutually agreed by IAC and Expedia, and Expedia shall cause the Expedia
Retirement Savings Plan to assume and be solely responsible for all Liabilities
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for plan benefits (but not
legal Liabilities, such as penalties for violation of law, if applicable,
relating to the administration of plan benefits by IAC prior to the Effective
Time and during such time as IAC owned 100% of an Expedia Entity with respect
to which IAC administered plan benefits, it being understood that Expedia shall
be responsible for such legal Liabilities incurred during such periods prior to
the Effective Time during which IAC did not own 100% of such Expedia Entities)
under the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan to or relating to Expedia Employees
whose accounts are transferred from the IAC Retirement Savings Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, IAC Common
Stock that is held in the accounts of Expedia Employees and any outstanding
participant loans to Expedia Employees whose accounts are transferred under the
IAC Retirement Savings Plan shall be transferred to the Expedia Retirement
Savings Plan in kind and shall thereafter be treated in the manner set forth in
Section 3.2. IAC and Expedia agree
to cooperate in making all appropriate filings and taking all reasonable
actions required to implement the provisions of this Section 3.1; provided
that Expedia acknowledges that it will be responsible for complying with any
requirements and applying for any determination letters with respect to the
Expedia Retirement Savings Plan.
3.2 Stock
Considerations. To the extent that
IAC Employees and Former IAC Employees receive shares of Expedia Common Stock
in connection with the Separation with respect to IAC Common Stock held under
the IAC Retirement Savings Plan, such shares will be deposited in an Expedia
Common Stock Fund under the IAC Retirement Savings Plan. To the extent that Expedia Employees and
Former Expedia Employees hold shares of IAC Common Stock in their IAC Common
Stock Fund under the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan following the transfer
from the IAC Retirement Savings Plan to the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan set
forth in Section 3.1, the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan shall permit
such employees to continue to hold such shares in an IAC Common Stock Fund
under the Expedia Retirement Savings Plan following such transfer. Following the Effective Date, Expedia
Employees and Former Expedia Employees shall not be permitted to acquire shares
of IAC Common Stock in the IAC Common Stock Fund under the Expedia Retirement
Savings Plan and IAC Employees and Former IAC Employees shall not be permitted
to acquire shares of Expedia Common Stock in the Expedia Common Stock Fund
under the IAC Retirement Savings Plan. IAC
and Expedia shall assume sole responsibility for ensuring that their respective
Savings Plans are maintained in compliance with applicable laws with respect to
holding shares of common stock of the other entity.
ARTICLE IV
HEALTH AND WELFARE PLANS
4.1 General.
(a) Establishment
of Expedia Health and Welfare Plans.
Effective as of the Effective Date, Expedia shall adopt Health and
Welfare Plans for the benefit of Expedia Employees, and Expedia shall be
responsible for all Liabilities relating to, arising out of or resulting from
health and welfare coverage or claims
incurred by or on behalf of Expedia Employees or their covered dependents under
the Expedia Health and Welfare Plans prior to, on or after the Effective Date.
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(b) Retention
of Sponsorship and Liabilities. Following
the Effective Date, IAC shall retain:
(i) sponsorship of all
IAC Health and Welfare Plans and any trust or other funding arrangement
established or maintained with respect to such plans, including any voluntary
employees beneficiary association, or any assets held as of the Effective
Date with respect to such plans; and
(ii) all Liabilities
relating to, arising out of, or resulting from health and welfare coverage or
claims incurred by or on behalf of IAC
Employees or Former IAC Employees or their covered dependents under the IAC
Health and Welfare Plans prior to, on or before the Effective Date.
IAC shall not
assume any Liability relating to health and welfare claims incurred by or on
behalf of Expedia Employees or Former Expedia Employees or their respective
covered dependents prior to, on or after the Effective Date, and such claims
shall be satisfied pursuant to Section 4.1(a). A claim or Liability (1) for medical,
dental, vision and/or prescription drug benefits shall be deemed to be incurred
upon the rendering of health services giving rise to the obligation to pay such
benefits; (2) for life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment
and business travel accident insurance benefits and workers compensation
benefits shall be deemed to be incurred upon the occurrence of the event giving
rise to the entitlement to such benefits; (3) for salary continuation or
other disability benefits shall be deemed to be incurred upon the effective
date of an individuals disability giving rise to the entitlement to such
benefits under the applicable disability policy; and (4) for a period of
continuous hospitalization shall be deemed to be incurred on the date of
admission to the hospital.
4.2 Vendor
Contracts.
(a) Third-Party
ASO Contracts, Group Insurance Policies and HMOs. IAC and Expedia shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to obligate the third
party administrator to each administrative-services-only contract with a
third-party administrator that relates to any of the IAC Health and Welfare
Plans (an ASO Contract), each group insurance policy that relates to
any of the IAC Health and Welfare Plans (Group Insurance Policies) and
each agreement with a Health Maintenance Organization that provides medical
services under the IAC Health and Welfare Plans (HMO Agreements), in
each case, in existence as of the date of this Agreement that is applicable to
Expedia Employees, to enter into a separate ASO Contract, Group Insurance
Policy and HMO Agreement, as applicable, with Expedia providing for
substantially similar terms and conditions as are contained in the ASO
Contracts, Group Insurance Policies and HMO Agreements, as applicable, to which
IAC is a party. Such terms and
conditions shall include the financial and termination provisions, performance
standards, methodology, auditing policies, quality measures and reporting
requirements.
(b) Effect
of Change in Rates. IAC and Expedia
shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause each of the insurance
companies and third-party administrators
providing services and benefits under the IAC Health and Welfare Plans and the
Expedia Health and Welfare Plans to maintain the premium and/or administrative
rates based on the aggregate number of participants in both the IAC Health and
Welfare Plans and the Expedia Health and
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Welfare Plans as of Immediately Prior to the
Effective Date through the end of the year in which the Effective Date occurs. To the extent they are not successful in such
efforts, IAC and Expedia shall each bear the revised premium or administrative
rates attributable to the individuals covered by their respective Health and
Welfare Plans.
4.3 Flexible
Benefit Plan. Effective as of the
Effective Date, Expedia shall establish the Expedia Flexible Benefit Plan. Prior to the Effective Date, IAC and Expedia
shall take all actions necessary or appropriate so that, effective as of the
Close of the Effective Date, (a) the account balances (whether positive or
negative) (the Transferred Account Balances) under the health care
reimbursement program, the transit and parking reimbursement program and the dependent
care reimbursement program of the IAC Flexible Benefit Plan (all of such
accounts, IAC Flexible Benefit Plan) of the Expedia Employees who are
participants in IAC Flexible Benefit Plan (the Covered Employees) shall be
transferred to the Expedia Flexible Benefit Plan; (b) the elections,
contribution levels and coverage levels of the Covered Employees shall apply
under the Expedia Flexible Benefit Plan in the same manner as under the IAC
Flexible Benefit Plan; and (c) the Covered Employees shall be reimbursed
from the Expedia Flexible Benefit Plan for claims incurred at any time during
the plan year of the IAC Flexible Benefit Plan in which the Effective Time
occurs submitted to the Expedia Flexible Benefit Plan from and after the
Effective Date on the same basis and the same terms and conditions as under the
IAC Flexible Benefit Plan.
4.4 Workers
Compensation Liabilities.
(a) Except
as provided below, all workers compensation Liabilities relating to, arising
out of, or resulting from any claim by an IAC Employee, Former IAC Employee,
Expedia Employee and Former Expedia Employee that results from an accident
occurring, or from an occupational disease
which becomes manifest, on or before the Close of the Effective Date shall be
retained by IAC. All workers
compensation Liabilities relating to, arising out of, or resulting from any
claim by an IAC Employee or Former IAC Employee that results from an accident
occurring, or from an occupational disease which becomes manifest, on or after
the Effective Date shall be retained by IAC.
All workers compensation Liabilities relating to, arising out of, or
resulting from any claim by an Expedia Employee or Former Expedia Employee that
results from an accident occurring, or from an occupational disease which
becomes manifest, on or after the Effective Date shall be retained by Expedia. For purposes of this Agreement, a compensable
injury shall be deemed to be sustained upon the occurrence of the event giving
rise to eligibility for workers compensation benefits or at the time that an
occupational disease becomes manifest, as the case may be. IAC, Expedia and the other Expedia Entities
shall cooperate with respect to any notification to appropriate governmental
agencies of the Effective Time and the issuance of new, or the transfer of
existing, workers compensation insurance policies and claims handling
contracts.
(b) The
parties acknowledge that Expedia and the Expedia Entities have been part of IACs
workers compensation insurance program for certain periods prior to the Effective Date.
For the program covering the term October 1, 2004 to the Effective
Date (the Current Term), IAC will continue to administer the program
and absorb all administrative costs associated with this obligation, and
Expedia agrees to the following cost adjustments. Expedia will receive a pro-rated return
premium covering the period from the Effective Date to October 1, 2005.
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The return premium will be received either on October 31,
2005 after Expedia fulfills its obligation of reimbursement to IAC for all
monthly insurance charges up to October 1, 2005 or through the forgiveness
of pre-paid insurance obligations of the Expedia Entities to IAC from the
Effective Date to October 1, 2005. In
addition, for both the program covering the Current Term and programs covering
periods prior to the start of the Current Term, the Expedia Entities will be
eligible for a one-time dividend, valued and payable on October 31, 2008,
based on ultimate loss development as advised by IAC broker/consultants or
recognized authority selected by IAC and reasonably acceptable to Expedia.
4.5 Payroll
Taxes and Reporting of Compensation.
IAC and Expedia shall, and shall cause the other IAC Entities and the
other Expedia Entities to, respectively, take such action as may be reasonably
necessary or appropriate in order to minimize Liabilities related to payroll
taxes after the Effective Date. IAC and
Expedia shall, and shall cause the other IAC Entities and the other Expedia
Entities to, respectively, each bear its responsibility for payroll tax
obligations and for the proper reporting to the appropriate governmental
authorities of compensation earned by their respective employees after the
Close of the Effective Date, including compensation related to the exercise of
Options.
4.6 COBRA
and HIPAA Compliance. IAC shall be
responsible for administering compliance with the health care continuation
requirements of COBRA, the certificate of creditable coverage requirements of
HIPAA, and the corresponding provisions of the IAC Health and Welfare Plans
with respect to IAC Employees and Former IAC Employees and their covered
dependents who incur a COBRA qualifying event or loss of coverage under the IAC
Health and Welfare Plans at any time before, on or after the Effective Time. Expedia or another Expedia Entity shall be
responsible for administering compliance with the health care continuation
requirements of COBRA, the certificate of creditable coverage requirements of
HIPAA, and the corresponding provisions of the Expedia Health and Welfare Plans
and/or the IAC Health and Welfare Plans with respect to Expedia Employees and
Former Expedia Employees and their covered dependents who incur a COBRA
qualifying event or loss of coverage under the Expedia Health and Welfare Plans
and/or the IAC Health and Welfare Plans at any time before, on or after the
Effective Time. The Parties hereto agree
that the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
the Separation Agreement shall not constitute a COBRA qualifying event for any
purpose of COBRA.
4.7 VEBA. Effective as of the Effective Date, Expedia
shall establish the Expedia VEBA for the purpose of funding certain Expedia
Health and Welfare Plans. As soon as
practicable following the Effective Date, IAC shall contribute a lump sum
amount in cash to Expedia equal to the excess, if any, of (a) IAC budget
rates for self-insured medical, dental and vision care plans applicable to
Expedia Employees and Former Expedia Employees, in each case, from January 1,
2005 through the Effective Date over (b) the sum of actual claims paid to
Expedia Employees and Former Expedia Employees from self-insured medical,
dental and vision care plans from January 1, 2005 through the Effective
Date, which amount shall be contributed by Expedia to the Expedia VEBA upon
receipt by Expedia from IAC.
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ARTICLE V
EXECUTIVE BENEFITS AND OTHER BENEFITS
5.1 Assumption
of Obligations. Except as provided
in this Agreement, effective as of the Effective Time, Expedia shall assume and
be solely responsible for all Liabilities to or relating to Expedia Employees
and Former Expedia Employees under all IAC Executive Benefit Plans and Expedia
Executive Benefit Plans. The Parties
hereto agree that none of the transactions contemplated by the Separation
Agreement or any of the Ancillary Agreements, including, without limitation,
this Agreement, constitutes a change in control, change of control or
similar term, as applicable, within the meaning of any Employee Benefit Plan.
5.2 IAC
Incentive Plans.
(a) Expedia
Bonus Awards. Expedia shall be
responsible for determining all bonus awards that would otherwise be payable
under the IAC Incentive Plans to Expedia
Employees for the Effective Time Year. Expedia
shall also determine for Expedia Employees (i) the extent to which
established performance criteria (as interpreted by Expedia, in its sole
discretion) have been met, and (ii) the payment level for each Expedia
Employee. Expedia shall assume all
Liabilities with respect to any such bonus awards payable to Expedia Employees
for the Effective Time Year and thereafter.
(b) IAC
Bonus Awards. IAC shall retain all
Liabilities with respect to any bonus awards payable under the IAC Incentive
Plans to IAC Employees for the Effective
Time Year and thereafter.
5.3 IAC
Long-Term Incentive Plans. IAC and
Expedia shall use commercially reasonable efforts to take all actions necessary
or appropriate so that each outstanding Option and Award granted under any IAC
Long-Term Incentive Plan held by any individual shall be adjusted as set forth
in this Article V. The adjustments
set forth below shall be the sole adjustments made with respect to Old IAC
Options, IAC Restricted Stock Units and IAC Restricted Stock in connection with
the Reverse Stock Split and the other transactions contemplated by the
Separation Agreement.
(a) Vested
Old IAC Options. As determined by
the Compensation/Benefits Committee of the IAC Board of Directors (the Committee)
pursuant to its authority under the
applicable IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan, each Old IAC Option that is vested as
of the Effective Time shall be converted into both an Expedia Option and a New
IAC Option and shall otherwise be subject to the same terms and conditions
after the Effective Time as the terms and conditions applicable to such Old IAC
Option immediately prior to the Effective Time; provided, however,
that from and after the Effective Time (i) the number of shares of IAC
Common Stock subject to such New IAC Option, rounded down to the nearest whole
share, shall be equal to one half the number of shares of IAC Common Stock
subject to such Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and
the Effective Time, (ii) the number of shares of Expedia Common Stock
subject to such Expedia Option, rounded down to the nearest whole share, shall
be equal to one half the number of shares of IAC Common Stock subject to the
Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective
Time, (iii) the per share exercise price of such New IAC Option, rounded
up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the
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quotient obtained by dividing (x) the per
share exercise price of such Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse
Stock Split and the Effective Time by (y) the IAC Ratio and (iv) the per
share exercise price of the Expedia Option, rounded up to the nearest whole
cent, shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the per share
exercise price of the Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse Stock
Split and the Effective Time by (y) the Expedia Ratio; provided, however, the exercise price, the number of shares of IAC Common Stock and
Expedia Common Stock subject to such options and the terms and conditions of
exercise of such options shall be determined in a manner consistent with the
requirements of Section 409A of the Code; provided, further, that, in the case of any Old IAC Option to
which Section 421 of the Code applies by reason of its qualification under
Section 422 of the Code as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, the
exercise price, the number of shares of IAC Common Stock and Expedia Common
Stock subject to such option and the terms and conditions of exercise of such
option shall be determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 424(a) of
the Code.
(b) Unvested
Old IAC Options Held by IAC Employees and Former IAC Employees other than Barry
Diller. As determined by the
Committee pursuant to its authority
under the applicable IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan, each Old IAC Option held by
an IAC Employee or a Former IAC Employee (other than Barry Diller) that is
unvested as of the Effective Time shall be subject to the same terms and
conditions after the Effective Time as the terms and conditions applicable to
such Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Effective Time; provided, however, that from and after the Effective Time (i) the number of shares
of IAC Common Stock subject to such New IAC Option, rounded down to the nearest
whole share, shall be equal to the product of (x) the number of shares of IAC
Common Stock subject to such Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse
Stock Split and the Effective Time and (y) the IAC Ratio and (ii) the per
share exercise price of such New IAC Option, rounded up to the nearest whole
cent, shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the per share
exercise price of such Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse Stock
Split and the Effective Time by (y) the IAC Ratio; provided, however, the exercise price, the number of shares of IAC Common Stock subject
to such option and the terms and conditions of exercise of such option shall be
determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of
the Code; provided, further, that, in the case of any Old IAC Option to which Section 421 of
the Code applies by reason of its qualification under Section 422 of the
Code as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, the exercise price, the
number of shares of IAC Common Stock subject to such option and the terms and
conditions of exercise of such option shall be determined in a manner
consistent with the requirements of Section 424(a) of the Code.
(c) Unvested
Old IAC Options Held by Expedia Employees and Former Expedia Employees other
than Barry Diller. As determined by
the Committee pursuant to its authority
under the applicable IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan, each Old IAC Option held by
an Expedia Employee or Former Expedia Employee (other than Barry Diller) that
is unvested as of the Effective Time shall be converted into an Expedia Option
and shall otherwise be subject to the same terms and conditions after the
Effective Time as the terms and conditions applicable to such Old IAC Option
immediately prior to the Effective Time; provided, however, that from and after the Close of the
Effective Time (i) the number of shares of Expedia Common Stock subject to
such Option, rounded down to the nearest whole share, shall be equal to the
product of (x) the number of shares of IAC Common Stock subject to such Old IAC
Option immediately prior to
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the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective Time
and (y) the Expedia Ratio and (ii) the per share exercise price of such
Expedia Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the
quotient obtained by dividing (x) the per share exercise price of such Old IAC
Option immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective Time by
(y) the Expedia Ratio; provided, however, the exercise price, the number of shares of
Expedia Common Stock subject to such option and the terms and conditions of
exercise of such option shall be determined in a manner consistent with the
requirements of Section 409A of the Code; provided, further, that, in the case of any Old IAC Option to
which Section 421 of the Code applies by reason of its qualification under
Section 422 of the Code as of the Effective Time, the exercise price, the
number of shares of Expedia Common Stock subject to such option and the terms
and conditions of exercise of such option shall be determined in a manner
consistent with the requirements of Section 424(a) of the Code.
(d) Unvested
Old IAC Options Held by Mr. Diller.
As determined by the Committee pursuant to its authority under the applicable IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan, each
Old IAC Option held by Barry Diller that is unvested as of the Effective Time
shall be converted into both an Expedia Option and a New IAC Option and shall
otherwise be subject to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time
as the terms and conditions applicable to such Old IAC Option immediately prior
to the Effective Time; provided, however, that from and after the Effective Time (i) the
number of shares of IAC Common Stock subject to such New IAC Option, rounded
down to the nearest whole share, shall be equal to one half the number of
shares of IAC Common Stock subject to such Old IAC Option immediately prior to
the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective Time, (ii) the number of shares
of Expedia Common Stock subject to such Expedia Option, rounded down to the
nearest whole share, shall be equal to one half the number of shares of IAC
Common Stock subject to the Old IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse
Stock Split and the Effective Time, (iii) the per share exercise price of
such New IAC Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to
the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the per share exercise price of such Old
IAC Option immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective Time
by (y) the IAC Ratio and (iv) the per share exercise price of the Expedia
Option, rounded up to the nearest whole cent, shall be equal to the quotient
obtained by dividing (x) the per share exercise price of the Old IAC Option
immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective Time by (y) the
Expedia Ratio; provided, however, the exercise price, the number of shares of IAC Common Stock and
Expedia Common Stock subject to such options and the terms and conditions of
exercise of such options shall be determined in a manner consistent with the
requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
Following completion of the Effective Time, the satisfaction of
conditions to vesting of Mr. Dillers New IAC Options governed by this Section 5.3(d) will
be determined based on Mr. Dillers employment with IAC, and the
satisfaction of conditions to vesting of Mr. Dillers Expedia Options
governed by this Section 5.3(d) will be determined based on Mr. Dillers
employment with Expedia.
(e) IAC
Restricted Stock Units Held by IAC Employees and Former IAC Employees. As determined by the Committee pursuant to its authority under the applicable
IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan, each IAC Restricted Stock Unit held by an IAC
Employee or a Former IAC Employee shall be subject to the same terms and
conditions after the Effective Time as the terms and conditions applicable to
such IAC Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Effective Time; provided, however, that from and after the Close of the Effective Time, the number of
shares of IAC Common Stock covered by each IAC Restricted Stock Unit, rounded
to
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the nearest whole share, shall be equal to the
product of (x) the number of shares of IAC Common Stock covered by such IAC
Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the
Effective Time and (y) the IAC Ratio.
(f) IAC
Restricted Stock Units Held by Expedia Employees and Former Expedia Employees. As determined by the Committee pursuant to
its authority under the applicable IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan, each IAC Restricted Stock Unit held by an
Expedia Employee or a Former Expedia Employee as of the Effective Time shall be
converted into an Expedia Restricted Stock Unit, and shall otherwise be subject
to the same terms and conditions after the Effective Time as the terms and
conditions applicable to such IAC Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to
the Effective Time; provided, however, that from and after the Close of the Effective Time, the number of
shares of Expedia Common Stock covered by such Expedia Restricted Stock Unit
held by the participant, as applicable, rounded to the nearest whole share,
shall be equal to the product of (x) the number of shares of IAC Common Stock
covered by such IAC Restricted Stock Unit immediately prior to the Reverse
Stock Split and the Effective Time and (y) the Expedia Ratio.
(g) IAC
Restricted Stock. Shares of IAC
Restricted Stock that are outstanding immediately prior to the Reverse Stock
Split and the Effective Time shall be
treated in the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification (as defined in the
Separation Agreement) in the same manner as other outstanding shares of IAC
common stock are treated in the Reverse Stock Split and the Reclassification
and will otherwise be subject to the same terms and conditions (including
vesting conditions) applicable to such shares of IAC Restricted Stock
immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split and the Effective Time.
(h) Foreign
Grants/Awards. To the extent that
the IAC Awards or any of the Old IAC Options are granted to non-U.S. employees under any domestic or foreign equity-based incentive program sponsored by an IAC
Entity, IAC and Expedia shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to
preserve, at and after the Effective Time, the value and tax treatment accorded
to such Old IAC Options and such IAC Awards granted to non-U.S. employees under
any domestic or foreign equity-based incentive program sponsored by an IAC
Entity.
(i) Miscellaneous
Option and Other Award Terms. After
the Effective Date, New IAC Options and IAC Awards adjusted pursuant to Section 5.3, regardless of by whom held, shall be
settled by IAC pursuant to the terms of the applicable IAC Long-Term Incentive
Plan, and Expedia Options and Expedia Awards, regardless of by whom held, shall
be settled by Expedia pursuant to the terms of the Expedia Long-Term Incentive
Plan. Accordingly, it is intended that,
to the extent of the issuance of such Expedia Options and Expedia Awards in
connection with the adjustment provisions of this Section 5.3, the Expedia
Long-Term Incentive Plan shall be considered a successor to each of the IAC
Long-Term Incentive Plans and to have assumed the obligations of the applicable
IAC Long-Term Incentive Plan to make the adjustment of the IAC Options and IAC
Awards as set forth in this Section 5.3.
The Effective Time shall not constitute a termination of employment for
any Expedia Employees for purposes of any New IAC Option or IAC Award and,
except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, with respect to grants adjusted
pursuant to this Section 5.3, employment with Expedia shall be treated as
employment with IAC with respect to New IAC Options or IAC Awards held by
Expedia Employees and employment with IAC shall be treated as employment with
Expedia with respect
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to Expedia Options and Expedia Awards held by
IAC Employees. Mr. Diller shall be
treated as an IAC Employee with respect to continued exercisability of vested
New IAC Options and Mr. Diller shall be treated as an Expedia Employee
with respect to continued exercisability of vested Expedia Options.
(j) Waiting
Period for Exercisability of Options and Grant of Options and Awards. The New IAC Options and Expedia Options shall
not be exercisable during a period
beginning on a date prior to the Effective Date determined by IAC in its sole
discretion, and continuing until the IAC Post-Separation Stock Value and the
Expedia Stock Value are determined after the Effective Time, or such longer
period as IAC, with respect to New IAC Options, and Expedia, with respect to
Expedia Options, determines necessary to implement the provisions of this Section 5.3. The IAC Restricted Stock Units and Expedia
Restricted Stock Units shall not be settled during a period beginning on a date
prior to the Effective Date determined by IAC in its sole discretion, and continuing
until the IAC Post-Separation Stock Value and the Expedia Stock Value are
determined immediately after the Effective Time, or such longer period as IAC,
with respect to IAC Restricted Stock Units, and Expedia, with respect to
Expedia Restricted Stock Units, determines necessary to implement the
provisions of this Section 5.3.
(k) Restrictive
Covenants. Following the Effective
Date, Expedia shall use commercially reasonable efforts to monitor the Expedia
Employees and Former Expedia Employees to determine whether any such Expedia
Employees or Former Expedia Employees have breached any of the restrictive covenants in the agreements evidencing the
terms of their New IAC Options and IAC Awards.
As soon as practicable following Expedias reasonable belief that an
Expedia Employee or Former Expedia Employee has breached any such covenant,
Expedia shall provide IAC in writing with the name and address of such employee
or former employee and the name and address of the enterprise in which such
employee or former employee is believed to have been engaged. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything in
any agreement evidencing the terms of any New IAC Options and IAC Awards or
otherwise to the contrary, it shall not be a violation of any IAC
non-competition or non-solicitation of clients or customers covenant for an
Expedia Employee to engage in acts on behalf of Expedia or an Expedia Entity
that are otherwise prohibited by the terms of such non-competition or
non-solicitation of clients or customers covenants and it shall not be a
violation of any Expedia non-competition or non-solicitation of clients or
customers covenant for an IAC Employee to engage in acts on behalf of IAC or an
IAC Entity that are otherwise prohibited by the terms of such non-competition or
non-solicitation of clients or customers covenants. In addition, following the Effective Time,
the restrictive covenants (including without limitation any proprietary rights
agreements or confidential information covenants) to which any Expedia Employee
or Former Expedia Employee are party shall run in favor of Expedia (and, to the
extent relating to IAC, shall run in favor of IAC to the same extent that they
ran in favor of IAC immediately prior to the Effective Time; provided,
that the Effective Time shall be treated as a termination of employment from
IAC for purposes of the duration of IACs ability to enforce the restrictive
covenant) and the restrictive covenants to which any IAC Employee or Former IAC
Employee are party shall run in favor of IAC.
Any employment agreement between IAC and an Expedia Employee or Former
Expedia Employee shall as of the Effective Time be assigned by IAC to Expedia
and assumed by Expedia.
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5.4 Registration
Requirements. As soon as possible
following the time as of which the Registration Statement (as defined in the
Separation Agreement) is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange
Commission but in any case before the Effective Date and before the date of
issuance or grant of any Expedia Option and/or shares of Expedia Common Stock
pursuant to this Article V, Expedia agrees that it shall file a Form S-8
Registration Statement with respect to and cause to be registered pursuant to
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the shares of Expedia Common Stock
authorized for issuance under the Expedia Long-Term Incentive Plan as required
pursuant to such Act and any applicable rules or regulations thereunder,
with such registration to be effective prior to the Effective Date. IAC agrees that, following the Effective
Date, it shall use reasonable efforts to continue to maintain a Form S-8
Registration Statement with respect to and cause to be registered pursuant to
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the shares of IAC Common Stock
authorized for issuance under the IAC Long-Term Incentive Plans as required
pursuant to such Act and any applicable rules or regulations thereunder.
5.5 IAC
Executive Deferred Compensation Plans.
Effective as of the Effective Date, Expedia shall establish a deferred
compensation plan that is substantially identical to the IAC Executive Deferred
Compensation Plan to provide benefits to Expedia Employees and Former Expedia
Employees from and after the Effective Date who were participants in the IAC
Executive Deferred Compensation Plan as of immediately prior to the Effective
Date.
5.6 Severance. An Expedia Employee shall not be deemed to
have terminated employment for purposes of determining eligibility for
severance benefits in connection with or in anticipation of the consummation of
the transactions contemplated by the Separation Agreement. Expedia shall be solely responsible for all
Liabilities in respect of all costs arising out of payments and benefits
relating to the termination or alleged termination of any Expedia Employee or
Former Expedia Employees employment that occurs prior to, as a result of, in
connection with or following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Separation Agreement, including any
amounts required to be paid (including any payroll or other taxes), and the
costs of providing benefits, under any applicable severance, separation,
redundancy, termination or similar plan, program, practice, contract,
agreement, law or regulation (such benefits to include any medical or other
welfare benefits, outplacement benefits, accrued vacation, and taxes).
ARTICLE VI
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
6.1 Sharing
of Participant Information. IAC and
Expedia shall share, and IAC shall cause each other IAC Entity to share, and
Expedia shall cause each other Expedia Entity to share with each other and
their respective agents and vendors (without obtaining releases) all
participant information necessary for the efficient and accurate administration
of each of the Expedia Benefit Plans and the IAC Benefit Plans. IAC and Expedia and their respective
authorized agents shall, subject to applicable laws, be given reasonable and
timely access to, and may make copies of, all information relating to the
subjects of this Agreement in the custody of the other Party, to the extent
necessary for such administration. Until
the Close of the Effective Date, all participant information shall be provided
in the manner and medium applicable to Participating Companies in IAC Benefit
Plans generally, and thereafter until December 31, 2006,
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all participant information
shall be provided in a manner and medium as may be mutually agreed to by IAC
and Expedia.
6.2 Reasonable
Efforts/Cooperation. Each of the
Parties hereto will use its commercially reasonable efforts to promptly take,
or cause to be taken, all actions and to do, or cause to be done, all things
necessary, proper or advisable under applicable laws and regulations to
consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each of the Parties hereto shall cooperate
fully on any issue relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement
for which the other Party seeks a determination letter or private letter ruling
from the Internal Revenue Service, an advisory opinion from the Department of
Labor or any other filing (including, but not limited to, securities filings
(remedial or otherwise)), consent or approval with respect to or by a
governmental agency or authority in any jurisdiction in the United States or
abroad.
6.3 No
Third-Party Beneficiaries. This
Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Parties and is not intended to
confer upon any other Persons any rights or remedies hereunder. Except as expressly provided in this
Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall preclude IAC or any other IAC
Entity, at any time after the Close of the Effective Date, from amending,
merging, modifying, terminating, eliminating, reducing, or otherwise altering
in any respect any IAC Benefit Plan, any benefit under any Benefit Plan or any
trust, insurance policy or funding vehicle related to any IAC Benefit Plan. Except as expressly provided in this
Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall preclude Expedia or any other
Expedia Entity, at any time after the Close of the Effective Date, from
amending, merging, modifying, terminating, eliminating, reducing, or otherwise
altering in any respect any Expedia Benefit Plan, any benefit under any Benefit
Plan or any trust, insurance policy or funding vehicle related to any Expedia
Benefit Plan.
6.4 Audit
Rights With Respect to Information Provided.
(a) Each
of IAC and Expedia, and their duly authorized representatives, shall have the
right to conduct reasonable audits with respect to all information required to
be provided to it by the other Party under this Agreement. The Party conducting the audit (the Auditing Party)
may adopt reasonable procedures and
guidelines for conducting audits and the selection of audit representatives
under this Section 6.4. The
Auditing Party shall have the right to make copies of any records at its
expense, subject to any restrictions imposed by applicable laws and to any
confidentiality provisions set forth in the Separation Agreement, which are
incorporated by reference herein. The
Party being audited shall provide the Auditing Partys representatives with
reasonable access during normal business hours to its operations, computer
systems and paper and electronic files, and provide workspace to its
representatives. After any audit is
completed, the Party being audited shall have the right to review a draft of
the audit findings and to comment on those findings in writing within thirty
business days after receiving such draft.
(b) The
Auditing Partys audit rights under this Section 6.4 shall include the
right to audit, or participate in an audit facilitated by the Party being audited, of any Subsidiaries and
Affiliates of the Party being audited and to require the other Party to request
any benefit providers and third parties with whom the Party being audited has a
relationship, or agents of such Party, to agree to such an audit to the extent
any such Persons are affected by or addressed
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in this Agreement (collectively, the Non-parties). The
Party being audited shall, upon written request from the Auditing Party,
provide an individual (at the Auditing Partys expense) to supervise any audit
of a Non-party. The Auditing Party shall
be responsible for supplying, at the Auditing Partys expense, additional
personnel sufficient to complete the audit in a reasonably timely manner. The responsibility of the Party being audited
shall be limited to providing, at the Auditing Partys expense, a single
individual at each audited site for purposes of facilitating the audit.
6.5 Fiduciary
Matters. It is acknowledged that
actions required to be taken pursuant to this Agreement may be subject to
fiduciary duties or standards of conduct under ERISA or other applicable law,
and no Party shall be deemed to be in violation of this Agreement if it fails
to comply with any provisions hereof based upon its good faith determination
that to do so would violate such a fiduciary duty or standard. Each Party shall be responsible for taking
such actions as are deemed necessary and appropriate to comply with its own
fiduciary responsibilities and shall fully release and indemnify the other
Party for any Liabilities caused by the failure to satisfy any such
responsibility.
6.6 Consent
of Third Parties. If any provision
of this Agreement is dependent on the consent of any third party (such as a
vendor) and such consent is withheld, the Parties hereto shall use commercially
reasonable efforts to implement the applicable provisions of this Agreement to
the full extent practicable. If any
provision of this Agreement cannot be implemented due to the failure of such
third party to consent, the Parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to
implement the provision in a mutually satisfactory manner. The phrase commercially reasonable efforts
as used herein shall not be construed to require any Party to incur any
non-routine or unreasonable expense or Liability or to waive any right.
7.1 Effect
If Effective Time Does Not Occur. If
the Separation Agreement is terminated prior to the Effective Date, then this
Agreement shall terminate and all actions and events that are, under this
Agreement, to be taken or occur effective immediately prior to or as of the
Close of the Effective Date, or Immediately after the Effective Date, or
otherwise in connection with the Separation Transactions, shall not be taken or
occur except to the extent specifically agreed by IAC and Expedia.
7.2 Relationship
of Parties. Nothing in this
Agreement shall be deemed or construed by the Parties or any third party as
creating the relationship of principal and agent, partnership or joint venture
between the Parties, it being understood and agreed that no provision contained
herein, and no act of the Parties, shall be deemed to create any relationship
between the Parties other than the relationship set forth herein.
7.3 Affiliates. Each of IAC and Expedia shall cause to be
performed, and hereby guarantees the performance of, all actions, agreements
and obligations set forth in this Agreement to be performed by another IAC
Entity or an Expedia Entity, respectively.
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7.4 Notices. All notices, requests, claims, demands and
other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given to
a Party when (a) delivered to the appropriate address by hand or by nationally recognized overnight
courier service (costs prepaid); (b) sent by facsimile with confirmation
of transmission by the transmitting equipment; or (c) received or rejected
by the addressee, if sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, in each
case to the following addresses and facsimile numbers and marked to the
attention of the person (by name or title) designated below (or to such other
address, facsimile number or person as a Party may designate by notice to the
other Parties):
(a) if
to IAC:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
152 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Attention: General Counsel
Facsimile No.: (212) 632-9642
with copies
to:
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Attention: Michael S. Katzke, Esq.
Facsimile No.: (212) 403-2345
(b) if
to Expedia:
Expedia, Inc.
3150 139th Ave SE
Bellevue, WA 98005
Attention: General Counsel
Fax: (425) 679-7251
7.5 Incorporation
of Separation Agreement Provisions. The
following provisions of the Separation Agreement are hereby incorporated herein
by reference, and unless otherwise expressly specified herein, such provisions
shall apply as if fully set forth herein mutatis mutandis (references in this Section 7.5
to an Article or Section shall mean Articles or Sections of the Separation
Agreement, and references in the material incorporated herein by reference
shall be references to the Separation Agreement): Article VII (relating to Survival and
Indemnification); Article XI (relating to Further Assurances); Article IX
(relating to Exchange of Information; Confidentiality); Article X
(relating to Dispute Resolution); Article XIII (relating to Sole
Discretion of IAC; Termination); Article XIV (relating to Miscellaneous).
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Employee Matters Agreement to be duly
executed as of the day and year first above written.
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IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
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By:
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/s/ Gregory
R. Blatt
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Name: Gregory
R. Blatt
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Title: Executive
Vice President
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EXPEDIA,
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By:
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M. Conder
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Name: Keenan
M. Conder
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Title: Senior
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Exhibit 10.5
EXECUTION COPY
TRANSITION
SERVICES AGREEMENT
by
and between
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
and
EXPEDIA,
INC.
DATED AS OF August 9, 2005
TRANSITION
SERVICES AGREEMENT
This TRANSITION SERVICES AGREEMENT, dated as
of August 9, 2005 (this Services Agreement), is entered into by
and between IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware corporation (IAC), and
Expedia, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned Subsidiary of IAC (Expedia). Capitalized terms used herein but not defined
herein shall have the meaning set for the in that certain Separation Agreement,
dated as of the date hereof, by and between IAC and Expedia (the Separation
Agreement).
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of IAC
has determined it is appropriate and desirable to separate IAC and
Expedia into two publicly-traded companies by separating IACs principal travel
and travel-related businesses, and related assets and liabilities, and
contributing them to Expedia and effecting a reclassification of the capital
stock of IAC;
WHEREAS, IAC and Expedia expect to enter into the Separation Agreement
on the date hereof, which sets forth, among other things, the assets,
liabilities, rights and obligations of each of the Parties for purposes of
effecting the separation of IAC and Expedia; and
WHEREAS, in connection therewith, (a) Expedia desires to procure
certain services from IAC, and IAC is willing to provide such services to
Expedia, during a transition period commencing on the Effective Date, on the
terms and conditions set forth in this Services Agreement; and (b) IAC
desires to procure certain services from Expedia, and Expedia is willing to
provide such services to IAC, during a transition period commencing on the
Effective Date, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Services Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, covenants and
other provisions set forth in this Services Agreement, the Parties hereby agree
as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
1.01. All terms used
herein and not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Separation Agreement.
ARTICLE II
Agreement To Provide and Accept Services
2.01. Provision of
Services.
(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions contained
herein, IAC shall provide, or shall cause its Subsidiaries and Affiliates and
their respective employees designated by IAC (such designated Subsidiaries,
Affiliates and employees, together with IAC, being herein collectively referred
to as the IAC Service Providers) to provide, to Expedia the services (IAC
Services) listed on the attached
Schedules (the Schedules) as being
performed by the IAC. Subject to Section 3.01,
any decisions as to which of the IAC Service Providers (including the decisions
to use third parties) shall provide the IAC Services shall be made by IAC in
its sole
discretion,
except to the extent specified in the applicable Schedule. Each IAC Service shall be provided in
exchange for the consideration set forth with respect to such IAC Service on
the applicable Schedule or as the Parties may otherwise agree in
writing. Each IAC Service shall be
provided and accepted in accordance with the terms, limitations and conditions
set forth herein and on the applicable Schedule.
(b) On the terms and subject to the conditions contained
herein, Expedia shall provide, or shall cause its Subsidiaries and Affiliates
and their respective employees designated by it (such designated Subsidiaries,
Affiliates and employees, together with Expedia, being herein collectively
referred to as the Expedia Service Providers and together with the IAC
Service Providers, the Service Providers) to provide, to IAC the services (Expedia
Services and together with the IAC
Services, the Services) listed on the
attached Schedules as being performed by Expedia. Subject to Section 3.01, any
decisions as to which of the Expedia Service Providers (including the decisions
to use third parties) shall provide the Expedia Services shall be made by
Expedia in its sole discretion, except to the extent specified in the
applicable Schedule. Each Expedia
Service shall be provided in exchange for the consideration set forth with
respect to such Service on the applicable Schedule or as the Parties may
otherwise agree in writing. Each Expedia
Service shall be provided and accepted in accordance with the terms,
limitations and conditions set forth herein and on the applicable Schedule.
(c) As used in this Services Agreement, the term Receiving
Party shall mean the Party receiving
Services.
2.02. Books and
Records; Availability of Information.
Each Party shall create and maintain accurate books in connection with
the provision of the Services performed by it and, upon reasonable notice from
the other Party, shall make available for inspection and copy by such other Partys
agents such records during reasonable business hours. Each Party shall make available on a timely
basis to the Service Providers all information and materials reasonably
requested by such Service Providers to enable them to provide the
Services. Each Party shall provide to
the Service Providers reasonable access to such Partys premises to the extent
necessary for the purpose of providing the Services.
ARTICLE III
Services; Payment; Independent Contractors
3.01. Services To
Be Provided. (a) Unless
otherwise agreed by the Parties (including to the extent specified in the
applicable Schedule), (i) the Service Providers shall be required to
perform the Services only in a manner, scope, nature and quality as provided by
or within IAC that is similar in all material respects to the manner in which
such Services were performed immediately prior to the Effective Date, and (ii) the
Services shall be used for substantially the same purposes and in substantially
the same manner (including as to volume, amount, level or frequency, as
applicable) as the Services have been used immediately prior to the Effective
Date; provided, however, that the applicable Schedule shall
control the scope of the Service to be performed (to the extent provided
therein), unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Each Party and the Service Providers shall act under this Services
Agreement solely as an independent contractor and not as an agent or employee
of any other Party or any of such Partys Affiliates.
(b) The provision of Services by Service Providers shall be
subject to Article V hereof.
(c) Each Party agrees to use its reasonable efforts to reduce
or eliminate its dependency on the Services as soon as is reasonably
practicable; provided that a breach of this Section 3.01(c) shall
not affect a Service Providers obligation to provide any Service through the
term applicable to such Service.
3.02. The Parties will
use good-faith efforts to reasonably cooperate with each other in all matters
relating to the provision and receipt of Services. Such cooperation shall include obtaining all
consents, licenses or approvals necessary to permit each Party to perform its
obligations hereunder; provided, however, under no circumstances
shall any Service Provider be required to make any payments to any third party
in respect of any such consents, licenses or approvals nor shall any Service
Provider be required to make any alternative arrangements in the event that any
such consents, licenses or approvals are not obtained.
3.03. Additional
Services.
(a) From time to time during the term, each of IAC and Expedia
may request the other Party (i) to provide additional (including as to
volume, amount, level or frequency, as applicable) or different services which
the other Party is not expressly obligated to provide under this Agreement if
such services are of the type and scope provided within IAC during fiscal year
2005 or (ii) expand the scope of any Service (such additional or expanded
services, the Additional Services).
The Party receiving such request shall consider such request in good
faith and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide such Additional
Service; provided, no Party shall be obligated to provide any Additional
Services if it does not, in its reasonable judgment, have adequate resources to
provide such Additional Services or if the provision of such Additional
Services would interfere with the operation of its business. The Party receiving the request for
Additional Services shall notify the requesting Party within fifteen (15) days
as to whether it will or will not provide the Additional Services.
(b) If a Party agrees to provide Additional Services pursuant
to Section 3.03(a), then a representative of each party shall in good
faith negotiate the terms of a supplemental Schedule to this Agreement
which will describe in detail the service, project scope, term, price and
payment terms to be charged for the Additional Service. Once agreed to in writing, the supplemental Schedule shall
be deemed part of this Agreement as of such date and the Additional Services
shall be deemed Services provided hereunder, in each case subject to the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
3.04. Payments.
(a) Statements will be delivered to the Receiving Party within
fifteen days after the end of each month by the Service Providers designated by
each Party for Services provided to the Receiving Party during the preceding
month, and each such statement shall set forth a brief description of such
Services, the amounts charged therefor, and, except as the Parties may agree,
such amounts shall be due and payable by the Receiving Party within 30 days
after the date of such statement.
Statements not paid within such 30-day period shall be subject
to late
charges, calculated at an interest rate per annum equal to the Prime Rate plus
2% (or the maximum legal rate, whichever is lower), and calculated for the
actual number of days elapsed, accrued from the date on which such payment was
due up to the date of the actual receipt of payment. Payments shall be made by wire transfer to an
account designated in writing from time to time by Service Provider.
3.05. Disclaimer
of Warranty. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET
FORTH IN THIS SERVICES AGREEMENT, THE SERVICES TO BE PURCHASED UNDER THIS
SERVICES AGREEMENT ARE FURNISHED AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF
MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. In the event that the
provision of any Service for the account of a Receiving Party by a Service
Provider conflicts with such Service Providers provision of such Service for
its own account, priority for the provision of such Service shall be allocated
in a equitable manner on an aggregate basis, and in a manner consistent with
the Receiving Partys level of use of such Service during fiscal year 2005 up
to the Effective Date (or as described in the applicable Schedule).
3.06. Taxes. In the event that any Tax is properly
chargeable on the provision of the Services as indicated on the applicable
Schedule, the Receiving Party shall be responsible for and shall pay the amount
of any such Tax in addition to and at the same time as the Service fees. All Service fees and other consideration will
be paid free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for or on
account of any Tax, except as may be required by law.
3.07. Use of
Services. The Receiving Party shall
not, and shall cause its Affiliates not to, resell any Services to any person
whatsoever or permit the use of the Services by any person other than in
connection with the conduct of the Receiving Partys operations as conducted
immediately prior to the Effective Date.
ARTICLE IV
Term of Services
4.01. The provision of
Services shall commence on the Effective Date and shall terminate no later than
18 months after the date hereof or as of the date indicated for each such
Service on the applicable Schedule; provided, however, that
subject to the applicable Schedule, any Service may be cancelled or reduced in
amount or any portion thereof by the Receiving Party upon 90 days written
notice thereof (or such other notice period if one is set forth for such
Service on the applicable Schedule) subject to the requirement that the
Receiving Party pay to the Service Provider the actual out-of-pocket costs
incurred by the Service Provider, as well as the actual incremental internal
costs incurred by the Service Providers, in each case directly resulting from
such cancellation (including employee severance and other termination costs),
which out-of-pocket and internal costs shall be set forth in a written
statement provided by the Service Provider to the Receiving Party; provided,
further, that such costs shall not exceed amounts payable hereunder in
respect of the applicable Service for the 90 days prior to such
termination. The forgoing
notwithstanding and subject to Section 7.02, (1) a
Service Provider may immediately terminate any individual Service provided to a
Receiving Party in the event
that the Receiving Party fails
to make payments for such Service under Section 3.02 and has not cured
such failure within 30 days of written notice of such failure from the Service
Provider, and (2) upon 90 days written
notice, the
Service Provider may terminate any Service provided to the
Receiving Party at such time as the Service Provider no longer provides the
same Service to itself for its own account.
4.02. In the event a
Receiving Party requests an extension of the term of provision of Services,
such request shall be considered in good faith by the Service Provider. Any terms, conditions or costs or fees to be
paid by the Receiving Party for Services provided during an extended term will
be on mutually acceptable terms. For the
avoidance of doubt, under no circumstances shall a Service Provider be required
to extend the term of provision of any Service if (i) the Service Provider
does not, in its reasonable judgment, have adequate resources to continue
providing such Services, (ii) the extension of the term would interfere
with the operation of the Service Providers business or (iii) the
extension would require capital expenditure on the part of the Service Provider
or otherwise require the Service Provider to renew or extend any Contract with
any third party.
ARTICLE V
Force Majeure
5.01. The Service
Providers shall not be liable for any expense, loss or damage whatsoever
arising out of any interruption of Service or delay or failure to perform under
this Services Agreement that is due to acts of God, acts of a public enemy,
acts of terrorism, acts of a nation or any state, territory, province or other
political division thereof, changes in applicable law, fires, floods,
epidemics, riots, theft, quarantine restrictions, freight embargoes or other
similar causes beyond the reasonable control of the Service Providers. In any such event, the Service Providers
obligations hereunder shall be postponed for such time as its performance is
suspended or delayed on account thereof.
Each Service Provider will promptly notify the recipient of the Service,
either orally or in writing, upon learning of the occurrence of such event of
force majeure. Upon the cessation of the
force majeure event, such Service Provider will use commercially reasonable
efforts to resume, or to cause any other relevant Service Provider to resume,
its performance with the least practicable delay (provided that, at the
election of the applicable Receiving Party, the applicable term for such
suspended Services shall be extended by the length of the force majeure event).
ARTICLE VI
Liabilities
6.01. Consequential
and Other Damages. Except as
otherwise provided in the Separation Agreement, none of the Service Providers
shall be liable to the Receiving Party with respect to this Services Agreement,
whether in contract, tort (including negligence and strict liability) or
otherwise, for any special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages
whatsoever (except, in each case, to the extent any such amount is paid to
third parties by a Receiving Party or its Affiliates) which in any way arise
out of, relate to or are a consequence of, the performance
or
nonperformance by it hereunder or the provision of, or failure to provide, any
Service hereunder, including with respect to loss of profits, business interruptions
or claims of customers.
6.02. Limitation
of Liability. Subject to Section 6.03
hereof, the liability of any Service Provider with respect to this Services
Agreement or any act or failure to act in connection herewith (including, but
not limited to, the performance or breach hereof), or from the sale, delivery,
provision or use of any Service provided under or covered by this Services
Agreement, whether in contract, tort (including negligence and strict
liability) or otherwise, shall be limited to actions or omissions resulting
from intentional breach of this Services Agreement or gross negligence, and, in
any event, such liability shall not exceed the fees previously paid to such
Service Provider under this Services Agreement.
6.03. Obligation
To Re-perform. In the event of any
breach of this Services Agreement by any Service Provider resulting from any
error or defect in the performance of any Service (which breach Service
Provider can reasonably be expected to cure by re-performance in a commercially
reasonable manner), the Service Provider shall use its reasonable commercial
efforts to correct in all material respects such error, defect or breach or
reperform in all material respects such Service at the request of the Receiving
Party.
6.04. Indemnity. Except as otherwise provided in this Service
Agreement (including the limitation of liability provisions in this Article VI),
each Party shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the other Party from and
against any Liability arising out of the intentional breach or gross negligence
of the indemnifying Party or its Affiliates, employees, agents, or contractors
(including with respect to the performance or nonperformance of any Service
hereunder).
ARTICLE VII
Termination
7.01. Termination. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, this Services Agreement shall terminate, and the obligation of the
Service Providers to provide or cause to be provided any Service shall cease,
on the earliest to occur of (i) the last date indicated for the
termination of any Service on the Schedules, as the case may be, (ii) the
date on which the provision of all Services has been terminated or canceled
pursuant to Article IV hereof, or (iii) the date on which this
Services Agreement is terminated by Expedia or IAC, as the case may be, in
accordance with the terms of Section 7.02 hereof; provided
that, in each case, no such termination shall relieve any Party of any
liability for any breach of any provision of this Services Agreement prior to
the date of such termination.
7.02. Breach of
Services Agreement; Dispute Resolution.
Subject to Article VI hereof, and without limiting a Partys
obligations under Section 4.01, if a Party shall cause or suffer to exist
any material breach of any of its obligations under this Services Agreement,
including any failure to make a payment within 30 days after receipt of the
statement describing the Services provided for pursuant to Section 3.04
with respect to more than one Service provided hereunder, and that Party does not
cure such default in all material respects within 30 days after receiving
written notice thereof from the non-breaching Party, the non-breaching
Party shall
have the right to terminate this Services Agreement immediately
thereafter. In the event a dispute
arises between the Parties regarding the terms of this Services Agreement, such
dispute shall be governed by Article X of the Separation Agreement.
7.03. Sums Due. In addition to any other payments required
pursuant to this Service Agreement, in the event of a termination of this
Services Agreement, the Service Providers shall be entitled to the immediate
payment of, and the Receiving Party shall within three Business Days, pay to
the Service Providers, all accrued amounts for Services, Taxes and other
amounts due under this Services Agreement as of the date of termination.
7.04. Effect of
Termination. Section 2.02
hereof and Articles V, VI, VII and VIII hereof shall
survive any termination of this Services Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
Miscellaneous
8.01. Incorporation
of Separation Agreement Provisions.
The following provisions of the Separation Agreement are hereby
incorporated herein by reference, and unless otherwise expressly specified
herein, such provisions shall apply as if fully set forth herein (references in
this Section 8.01 to an Article or Section shall mean Articles
or Sections of the Separation Agreement, and references in the material
incorporated herein by reference shall be references to the Separation
Agreement): Sections 14.02, 14.03,
14.06, 14.07, 14.09, 14.10, 14.11, 14.14
and 14.15.
8.02. Ownership
of Work Product. Subject to the
terms of the Separation Agreement, (i) each Service Provider acknowledges
and agrees that it will acquire no right, title or interest (including any
license rights or rights of use) to any work product resulting from the
provision of Services hereunder for the Receiving Partys exclusive use and
such work product shall remain the exclusive property of the Receiving Party
and (ii) each Receiving Party acknowledges and agrees that it will acquire
no right, title or interest (other than a non-exclusive, worldwide right of
use) to any work product resulting from the provision of Services hereunder
that is not for the Receiving Partys exclusive use and such work product shall
remain the exclusive property, subject to license, of the Service Provider.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Agreement to be
executed by their duly authorized representatives.
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Gregory R.
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Executive
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EXPEDIA,
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Exhibit 10.7
FORM OF
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT,
dated as of the award date (the Award Date) designated on the Summary of
Award referenced below, between IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware corporation
(the Corporation), and the employee of the Corporation or one of its
businesses (the Employee) designated as receiving an award of restricted
stock units (the Restricted Stock Units) by the Compensation/Benefits
Committee of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (or such other Committee
as the Board may from time to time designate) (the Committee).
All capitalized
terms used herein, to the extent not defined, shall have the meanings set forth
in the Corporations 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan (the Plan).
1. Award and Vesting of
Restricted Stock Units
(a) Subject
to the provisions of this Agreement and to the provisions of the Plan, the
Corporation hereby grants Restricted Stock Units to the Employee pursuant to Section 7
of the Plan. Reference is made to the Summary
of Award that can be found on the Smith Barney Benefit Access System at
www.benefitaccess.com. Your Summary of
Award, which sets forth the number of Restricted Stock Units granted to you by
the Corporation and the Award Date (among other information), is hereby
incorporated by reference into, and shall be read as part and parcel of, this
Agreement.
(b) Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the provisions of the Plan
[and subject to the satisfaction of performance goals approved by
the Committee on [DATE]], the Restricted Stock Units shall vest and no longer
be subject to any restriction (such period during which restrictions apply is
the Restriction Period):
Vesting Date
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anniversary of the Award Date
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20
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On the second
anniversary of the Award Date
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20
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On the third
anniversary of the Award Date
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20
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On the fourth
anniversary of the Award Date
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(c) Notwithstanding
the provisions of Paragraph 1(b), in the event the Employee
incurs a Termination of Employment by the Corporation for Cause,
or the Employee voluntarily incurs a Termination of Employment within two (2) years
after any event or circumstance that would have been grounds for a Termination
of Employment for Cause, the Employees Restricted Stock Units (whether or not
vested) shall be forfeited and canceled in their entirety upon such Termination
of Employment, and the Corporation may cause the Employee, immediately upon
notice from the Corporation, either to return the shares or cash issued upon
settlement of Restricted Stock Units which vested during
the two-year period after the events or circumstances giving rise
to or constituting grounds for such Termination
of Employment for Cause or to pay to the Corporation an amount
equal to the aggregate amount, if any, that the Employee had previously
realized in respect of any and all shares issued upon settlement of Restricted
Stock Units which vested during the two-year period after the events or
circumstances giving rise to or constituting grounds for such Termination
of Employment for Cause (i.e., the value of the Restricted
Stock Units upon vesting), in each case including any dividend equivalents or
other distributions received in respect of any such Restricted Stock Units.
(d) In
the event the Employee incurs a Termination of Employment
during the Restriction Period for any reason other than as set forth in
Paragraph 1(c), all remaining unvested Restricted Stock Units shall be
forfeited by the Employee and canceled in their entirety effective immediately
upon such termination.
(e) For
purposes of this Agreement, employment with the Corporation shall include
employment with the Corporations Affiliates (excluding Expedia, Inc.
and its subsidiaries) and its
successors. Nothing in this Agreement or
the Plan shall confer upon the Employee any right to continue in the employ of
the Corporation or any of its Affiliates or interfere in any way with the right
of the Corporation or any such Affiliates to terminate the Employees
employment at any time.
2. Settlement of Units
As soon as
practicable after any Restricted Stock Units have
vested and are no longer subject to the Restriction
Period (or at such later date specified by the Committee or in accordance with
the election of the Employee, if the Committee so permits), such
Restricted Stock Units shall be settled.
Subject to Paragraph 8 (pertaining to the withholding of taxes), for
each Restricted Stock Unit settled pursuant to this Section 2, the
Corporation shall (i) if the Employee is employed within the United
States, issue one share of Common Stock for each Restricted Stock Unit vesting
at such time and cause to be delivered to the Employee one or more unlegended,
freely-transferable stock certificates in respect of such
shares issued upon settlement of the vesting Restricted Stock
Units or (ii) if the Employee is employed outside the United States, pay,
or cause to be paid, to the Employee an amount of cash equal to the Fair Market
Value of one share of Common Stock for each Restricted Stock Unit vesting at
such time. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Corporation shall be entitled to hold the shares or cash
issuable upon settlement of Restricted Stock Units that have vested until the
Corporation or the agent selected by the Corporation to manage the Plan under
which the Restricted Stock Units have been issued (the Agent) shall have
received from the Employee a duly executed Form W-9
or W-8, as applicable.
3. Non-Transferability
of the Restricted Stock Units
During the
Restriction Period and until such time as the Restricted Stock Units are
ultimately settled as provided in Paragraph 2 above, the Restricted Stock Units
shall not be transferable by the Employee by means of sale, assignment,
exchange, encumbrance, pledge, hedge or otherwise.
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4. Rights
as a Stockholder
Except as
otherwise specifically provided in this Agreement, during the Restriction
Period the Employee shall not be entitled to any rights of a stockholder with
respect to the Restricted Stock Units.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Corporation declares and pays
dividends on the Common Stock during the Restriction Period, the Employee will
be credited with additional amounts for each Restricted Stock Unit equal to the
dividend that would have been paid with respect to such Restricted Stock Unit
if it had been an actual share of Common Stock, which amount shall remain subject
to restrictions (and as determined by the Committee may be reinvested in
Restricted Stock Units or may be held in kind as restricted property) and shall
vest concurrently with the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units upon which
such dividend equivalent amounts were paid.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends and distributions other than
regular quarterly cash dividends, if any, may result in an adjustment pursuant
to Paragraph 5.
5. Adjustment in the
Event of Change in Stock; Change in Control
In the
event of (i) a stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, share
combination, or recapitalization or similar event affecting the capital
structure of the Corporation (each, a Share Change), or (ii) a merger,
consolidation, acquisition of property or shares, separation, spinoff,
reorganization, stock rights offering, liquidation, Disaffiliation, or similar
event affecting the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries (each, a Corporate
Transaction), the Committee or the Board may in its discretion make such
substitutions or adjustments as it deems appropriate and equitable to the
number of Restricted Stock Units and the number and kind of shares of Common
Stock underlying the Restricted Stock Units.
In
the case of Corporate Transactions, such adjustments may include, without
limitation (i) the cancellation of the Restricted Stock Units in exchange
for payments of cash, property or a combination thereof having an aggregate
value equal to the value of such Restricted Stock Units, as determined by the
Committee or the Board in its sole discretion, (ii) the substitution of
other property (including, without limitation, cash or other securities of the
Corporation and securities of entities other than the Corporation) for the shares
of Common Stock underlying the Restricted Stock Units and (iii) in
connection with any Disaffiliation, arranging for the assumption of the
Restricted Stock Units, or the replacement of the Restricted Stock Units with
new awards based on other property or other securities (including, without
limitation, other securities of the Corporation and securities of entities
other than the Corporation), by the affected
Subsidiary, Affiliate, or division or by the entity
that controls such Subsidiary, Affiliate, or division following such
Disaffiliation (as well as any corresponding adjustments to any Restricted
Stock Units that remain based upon securities of the Corporation).
The determination of the
Committee regarding any such adjustment will be final and conclusive and need
not be the same for all Participants.
Unless otherwise
determined by the Committee, in the event of a Change in Control, the
provisions of Section 10 of the Plan shall apply.
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6. Payment of Transfer
Taxes, Fees and Other Expenses
The Corporation
agrees to pay any and all original issue taxes and stock transfer taxes that
may be imposed on the issuance of shares received by an Employee in connection
with the Restricted Stock Units, together with any and all other fees and
expenses necessarily incurred by the Corporation in connection therewith.
7. Other Restrictions
(a) The
Restricted Stock Units shall be subject to the requirement that, if at any time
the Committee shall determine that (i) the listing, registration or
qualification of the shares of Common Stock subject or related thereto upon any
securities exchange or under any state or federal law, or (ii) the consent
or approval of any government regulatory body, then in any such event, the
award of Restricted Stock Units shall not be effective unless such listing,
registration, qualification, consent or approval shall have been effected or
obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Committee.
(b) The
Employee acknowledges that the Employee is subject to the Corporations
policies regarding compliance with securities laws, including but not limited
to its Securities Trading Policy (as in effect from time to time and any
successor policies), and, pursuant to these policies, if the Employee is on the
Corporations insider list, the Employee shall be required to obtain
pre-clearance from the Corporations General Counsel prior to purchasing or
selling any of the Corporations securities, including any shares issued upon
vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, and may be prohibited from selling such
shares other than during an open trading window. The Employee further acknowledges that, in
its discretion, the Corporation may prohibit the Employee from selling such shares
even during an open trading window if the Corporation has concerns over the
potential for insider trading.
8. Taxes and
Withholding
No later than the
date as of which an amount first becomes includible in the gross income of the
Employee for federal, state, local or foreign income or employment or other tax
purposes with respect to any Restricted Stock Units, the Employee shall pay to
the Corporation, or make arrangements satisfactory to the Corporation regarding
the payment of, any federal, state, local or foreign taxes of any kind required
by law to be withheld with respect to such amount. The obligations of the Corporation under this
Agreement shall be conditioned on compliance by the Employee with this
Paragraph 8, and the Corporation and its Affiliates shall, to the extent
permitted by law, have the right to deduct any such taxes from any payment
otherwise due to the Employee, including deducting such amount from the
delivery of shares or cash issued upon settlement of the Restricted Stock Units
that gives rise to the withholding requirement.
9. Notices
All notices and
other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be
given by hand delivery to the other party or by facsimile, overnight courier,
or registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid,
addressed as follows:
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If to the
Employee: at the last known address on
record at the Corporation.
If to the
Corporation:
IAC/InterActiveCorp
Carnegie Hall Tower
152 West 57th Street, 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10019
Attention: General Counsel
Facsimile: (212) 314-7497
or to
such other address or facsimile number as any party shall have furnished to the
other in writing in accordance with this Paragraph 9. Notice and communications shall be effective
when actually received by the addressee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Employee consents to electronic
delivery of documents required to be delivered by the Corporation under the
securities laws.
10. Effect of Agreement
Except as otherwise
provided hereunder, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the
benefit of any successor or successors of the Corporation.
11. Laws Applicable to
Construction; Consent to Jurisdiction
The
interpretation, performance and enforcement of this Agreement shall be governed
by the laws of the State of Delaware without reference to principles of
conflict of laws, as applied to contracts executed in and performed wholly
within the State of Delaware. In addition
to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Restricted Stock
Units are subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, which are hereby
incorporated by reference.
Any and all
disputes arising under or out of this Agreement, including without limitation
any issues involving the enforcement or interpretation of any of the provisions
of this Agreement, shall be resolved by the commencement of an appropriate
action in the state or federal courts located within the state of Delaware,
which shall be the exclusive jurisdiction for the resolution of any such
disputes. The Employee hereby agrees and
consents to the personal jurisdiction of said courts over the Employee for
purposes of the resolution of any and all such disputes.
12. Severability
The invalidity or
enforceability of any provision of this Agreement shall not affect the validity
or enforceability of any other provision of this Agreement.
13. Conflicts and
Interpretation
In the event of
any conflict between this Agreement and the Plan, the Plan shall control. In the event of any ambiguity in this
Agreement, or any matters as to which this Agreement is silent, the Plan shall
govern including, without limitation, the provisions thereof pursuant to
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which the Committee has the power, among others, to (i) interpret
the Plan, (ii) prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations
relating to the Plan, and (iii) make all other determinations deemed
necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan.
In the event of
any (i) conflict between the Summary of Award (or any other information
posted on the Smith Barney Benefit Access System) and this Agreement, the Plan
and/or the books and records of the Corporation, or (ii) ambiguity in the
Summary of Award (or any other information posted on the Smith Barney Benefit
Access System), this Agreement, the Plan and/or the books and records of the
Corporation, as applicable, shall control.
14. Amendment
The Corporation
may modify, amend or waive the terms of the Restricted Stock Unit award,
prospectively or retroactively, but no such modification, amendment or waiver
shall impair the rights of the Employee without his or her consent, except as
required by applicable law, NASDAQ or stock exchange rules, tax rules or
accounting rules. The waiver by either
party of compliance with any provision of this Agreement shall not operate or
be construed as a waiver of any other provision of this Agreement, or of any
subsequent breach by such party of a provision of this Agreement.
15. Headings
The headings of
paragraphs herein are included solely for convenience of reference and shall
not affect the meaning or interpretation of any of the provisions of this
Agreement.
16. Counterparts
This Agreement may
be executed in counterparts, which together shall constitute one and the same
original.
17. Data
Protection
The Employee
authorizes the release from time to time to the Corporation (and any of its
subsidiaries or affiliated companies) and to the Agent (together, the Relevant
Companies) of any and all personal or professional data that is necessary or
desirable for the administration of the Plan and/or this Agreement (the Relevant
Information). Without limiting the
above, Employee permits his or her employing company to collect, process,
register and transfer to the Relevant Companies all Relevant Information
(including any professional and personal data that may be useful or necessary
for the purposes of the administration of the Plan and/or this Agreement and/or
to implement or structure any further grants of equity awards (if any)). Employee hereby authorizes the Relevant
Information to be transferred to any jurisdiction in which the Corporation, his
or her employing company or the Agent considers appropriate. Employee shall have access to, and the right
to change, the Relevant Information.
Relevant Information will only be used in accordance with applicable
law.
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IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, as of the date first above written, the Corporation has caused this
Agreement to be executed on its behalf by a duly authorized officer and the
Employee has hereunto set the Employees hand.
Electronic acceptance of this Agreement pursuant to the Corporations
instructions to Employee (including through an online acceptance process
managed by the Agent) is acceptable.
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Exhibit 10.8
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, dated as
of June 7, 2005, between IAC/InterActiveCorp, a Delaware corporation (IAC
or the Corporation), and Barry Diller (the Optionee).
W I T N E S S E T H
In consideration of the
mutual promises and covenants made herein and the mutual benefits to be derived
herefrom, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Grant of Stock Options.
Subject to the provisions
of this Agreement, the provisions of the IAC/InterActiveCorp 2005 Stock and
Annual Incentive Plan (the Plan) and approval of the Plan by the Corporations
stockholders, the Corporation hereby grants to the Optionee as of June 7,
2005 (the Grant Date) (i) an option
to purchase 4,800,000 shares of common stock of the Corporation, par
value $.01 per share (Common Stock), at the exercise price of $32.03 per
share and (ii) an option to purchase 2,800,000 shares of Common Stock at
the exercise price of $43.12 per share (collectively, the Stock Options). The Stock Options shall be Nonqualified Stock
Options. Unless earlier terminated
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Stock Options shall expire on the
tenth anniversary of the Grant Date.
Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in
the Plan.
2. Exercisability of the Stock Options.
The Stock Options shall
become vested and exercisable with respect to 100% of the shares of Common
Stock covered thereby on the fifth anniversary of the Grant Date, subject to
the Optionees continued employment through such anniversary and Paragraphs 4
and 6 of this Agreement. Upon the
Optionees Termination of Employment, the portion of the Stock Options that is
not vested as of such date, in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this
Paragraph 2 or the provisions of Paragraphs 4 and 6 of this Agreement, shall
cease vesting and terminate immediately.
3. Method of Exercise of the Stock Options.
(a) The vested portion of the Stock
Options shall be exercisable by delivery to the Corporation of a written notice
stating the number of whole shares to be purchased pursuant to this Agreement
and accompanied by payment of the full purchase price of the shares of Common
Stock to be purchased. The Stock Options
may not be exercised at any one time as to fewer than 100 shares (or such
number of shares as to which the Stock Options are then exercisable if less
than 100). Fractional share interests
shall be disregarded except they may be accumulated.
(b) The exercise price of the Stock
Options shall be paid: (i) in cash or by certified check or bank draft
payable to the order of the Corporation; (ii) by exchange (or attestation)
of shares of unrestricted Common Stock already owned by the Optionee and having
an aggregate Fair Market Value equal to the aggregate purchase price, provided,
that the Optionee represents and warrants to the Corporation that the Optionee
holds the shares of Common Stock free and clear of liens and encumbrances; (iii) unless
the Committee determines otherwise, by withholding a number of shares of Common
Stock having a Fair Market Value equal to the aggregate purchase price; or (iv) by
any other procedure approved by the Committee, or by a combination of the
foregoing.
4. Death or Disability of the Optionee or Termination by
Employee for Good Reason or by the Corporation without Cause.
In the event of the
Optionees Termination of Employment due to death, Disability, by the Optionee
for Good Reason or by the Corporation without Cause (each a Qualifying
Termination), the Stock Options shall vest and be exercisable with respect to
a percentage of the shares of Common Stock covered thereby equal to 20% for
each full year of the Optionees completed service with the Corporation from
the Grant Date through the Qualifying Termination. The portion of the Stock Options, if any,
which are exercisable at the time of such Qualifying Termination may be
exercised by the Optionee (or the Optionees guardian or legal representative
or beneficiary, in the event of the Optionees Disability or death) at any time
prior to the first to occur of (a) one (1) year after such Qualifying
Termination or (b) the expiration date of the Stock Options.
For purposes of this
Agreement, Good Reason means, any of the following actions taken without the
Optionees prior written consent: (A) a
reduction in the Optionees rate of annual base salary from the rate of annual
base salary in effect for the Optionee, (B) a relocation of the Optionees
principal place of business more than 35 miles from New York City or (C) a
material and demonstrable adverse change in the nature and scope of the
Optionees duties from those in effect on the Grant Date. Following the effective time of the spin-off
(the Spin-Off) of Expedia (Expedia) by the Corporation (the Effective Time),
the Optionees salary for purposes of determinations under clause (A) above,
and duties for purposes of determinations under clause (C) above, will be
based upon the salaries and duties, respectively, of Optionee at the
Corporation and Expedia, as applicable.
5. Termination of Employment by the Optionee without
Good Reason or by Corporation for Cause.
(a) In the event of the Optionees
Termination of Employment by the Optionee without Good Reason, the portion of
the Stock Options, if any, which is exercisable at the time of such Termination
of Employment (including any portion of the Stock Options that have vested as a
result of a Change in Control in accordance with Paragraph 6 of this Agreement)
may be exercised prior to the first to occur of (a) the first anniversary
of such Termination of Employment or (b) the expiration date of the Stock
Options.
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(b) In the event of
the Optionees Termination of Employment for Cause, the entire Stock Options
(whether or not vested) shall be forfeited and canceled in its entirety upon
such Termination of Employment. In the
event the Optionee exercised the Stock Options within one year prior to the
Optionees Termination of Employment for Cause, the Corporation shall be
entitled to recover from the Optionee at any time within two (2) years
following such exercise, and the Optionee shall pay over to the Corporation,
the excess of the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Common Stock subject to
such exercise on the date of exercise over the aggregate exercise price of the
Common Stock subject to such exercise.
(c) Nothing in this Agreement or the Plan
shall confer upon the Optionee any right to continue in the employ of the
Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates or interfere in any way
with the right of the Corporation or any such Subsidiaries or affiliates to
terminate the Optionees employment at any time.
6. Change in Control.
In the event of a Change in Control of the Corporation
(as defined below), each Stock Option shall vest and be exercisable with
respect to a percentage of the shares of Common Stock covered thereby equal to
20% plus an additional 20% for each full year of the Optionees completed
service with the Corporation from the Grant Date through the Change in
Control. For purposes of this Agreement,
Change in Control shall have the meaning set forth in the Plan; provided,
that, no Change in Control shall occur under this Agreement so long as
Optionee has sufficient voting power with respect to the Corporation (or
ultimate parent entity of the company resulting from such Change in Control
transaction) such that, taking into account all of the circumstances, he
effectively controls the election of a majority of the Board of the Corporation
or the board of directors of such ultimate parent entity (it being understood
that, depending upon the circumstances, the Optionee may exercise effective
control even if he has the right to vote shares representing significantly less
than a majority of the total voting power of the Corporation in the election of
directors). Following a Change in
Control, vesting of those portions of the Stock Options, if any, which did not
vest as a result of the Change of Control will continue pursuant to the other
terms of this Agreement.
7. Nontransferability of the Stock Options.
Unless the Committee
determines otherwise, the Stock Options are non-transferable by the Optionee
other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution or pursuant to a
qualified domestic relations order or, as set forth in Section 5(j) of the
Plan, to the Optionees family members or to a charitable organization, and the
Stock Options may be exercised, during the lifetime of the Optionee, only by
the Optionee or by the Optionees guardian or legal representative or any
transferee described above.
8. Rights as a Stockholder.
Neither Optionee nor any
transferee of the Stock Options shall have any rights as a stockholder with
respect to any shares covered by such Stock Options until the date of the issuance
of a stock certificate to such individual for such shares. No adjustment shall be made
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for dividends (ordinary or extraordinary, whether in
cash, securities or other property) or distribution of other rights for which
the record date is prior to the date a stock certificate is issued, except as
provided in the Plan.
9. Adjustment in the Event of Change in Stock.
Immediately following the
Effective Time, the Stock Options will be adjusted and vesting conditions will
be set in the manner set forth in Section 5.3(d) of the Employee
Matters Agreement by and between the Corporation and Expedia, Inc. (the EMA). Following the adjustments in Section 5.3(d) of
the EMA, the term Stock Options (when used in this Agreement) shall cover any
securities into which Stock Options are adjusted and the term Common Stock
(when used in this Agreement) shall cover any securities into which Common
Stock is adjusted, any adjustments of the Stock Options in the event of future
corporate transactions with respect to the Corporation or changes in the Common
Stock shall be effectuated based upon the adjustment provisions of the Plan or
any successor plan with respect to the Stock Options, and with respect to Stock
Options adjusted into stock options for the common stock of Expedia (Expedia
Common Stock) the term Corporation (when used in this Agreement) shall refer
to Expedia. Following the adjustments in
Section 5.3(d) of the EMA, employment with IAC, corporate transactions
with respect to IAC and changes in Common Stock of IAC shall not affect the
Stock Options for Expedia Common Stock, and employment with Expedia, corporate
transactions with respect to Expedia and changes in the Common Stock of Expedia
shall not affect the Stock Options for IAC Common Stock.
10. Payment of Transfer Taxes, Fees
and Other Expenses.
The Corporation agrees to
pay any and all original issue taxes and stock transfer taxes that may be
imposed on the issuance of shares acquired pursuant to exercise of the Stock
Options, together with any and all other fees and expenses necessarily incurred
by the Corporation in connection therewith.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Optionee shall be solely responsible
for any other taxes (including, without limitation, federal, state, local or
foreign income, social security, withholding, estate or excise taxes) that may
be payable as a result of the Optionees participation in the Plan or as a
result of the exercise of the Stock Options and/or the sale, disposition or
transfer of any shares of Common Stock acquired upon the Optionees exercise of
the Stock Options.
11. Other Restrictions.
The exercise of the Stock
Options shall be subject to the requirement that, if at any time the Committee
shall determine that (i) the listing, registration or qualification of the
shares of Common Stock subject or related thereto upon any securities exchange
or under any state or federal law, or (ii) the consent or approval of any
government regulatory body or (iii) an agreement by the Optionee with
respect to the disposition of shares of Common Stock is necessary or desirable
as a condition of, or in connection with, such exercise or the delivery or
purchase of shares pursuant thereto, then in any such event, such exercise
shall not be effective unless such listing, registration, qualification,
consent, or approval or agreement shall have been effected or obtained free of
any conditions not acceptable to the Committee.
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12. Taxes and Withholdings.
No later than the date of
exercise of the Stock Options granted hereunder, the Optionee shall pay to the
Corporation or make arrangements satisfactory to the Committee regarding
payment of any federal, state or local taxes of any kind required by law to be
withheld upon the exercise of such Stock Options and the Corporation shall, to
the extent permitted or required by law, have the right to deduct from any
payment of any kind otherwise due to the Optionee, federal, state and local
taxes of any kind required by law to be withheld upon the exercise of such
Stock Options. The Optionee may settle
this withholding obligation with Common Stock, including the Common Stock that
is otherwise to be received upon exercise of the Stock Options, unless the
Committee determines otherwise.
13. Notices.
All notices and other communications under this
Agreement shall be in writing and shall be given by hand delivery to the other
party or by facsimile, overnight courier, or registered or certified mail,
return receipt requested, postage prepaid, addressed as follows:
If to the Optionee:
Barry Diller
c/o IAC/InterActiveCorp
152 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
If to the Corporation:
IAC/InteractiveCorp
Carnegie Hall Tower
152 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Attention: General Counsel
Facsimile: (212) 632-9642
or to such other address or facsimile number as any
party shall have furnished to the other in writing in accordance with this
Paragraph 13. Notice and communications
shall be effective when actually received by the addressee.
14. Effect of Agreement.
Except as otherwise
provided hereunder, this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the
benefit of any successor or successors of the Corporation, and to any
transferee or successor of the Optionee pursuant to Paragraph 7.
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15. Laws Applicable to Construction.
The interpretation,
performance and enforcement of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of
the State of Delaware without reference to principles of conflict of laws, as
applied to contracts executed in and performed wholly within the State of
Delaware.
16. Severability.
The invalidity or enforceability of any provision of
this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other
provision of this Agreement.
17. Conflicts and Interpretation.
This Agreement is subject
to all the terms, conditions and provisions of the Plan. In the event of any
conflict between this Agreement and the Plan, this Agreement shall
control. In the event of any ambiguity
in this Agreement, any term which is not defined in this Agreement, or any
matters as to which this Agreement is silent, the Plan shall govern including, without
limitation, the provisions thereof pursuant to which the Committee has the
power, among others, to (i) interpret the Plan, (ii) prescribe, amend
and rescind rules and regulations relating to the Plan and (iii) make
all other determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration
of the Plan.
18. Headings.
The headings of
paragraphs herein are included solely for convenience of reference and shall
not affect the meaning or interpretation of any of the provisions of this
Agreement.
19. Amendment.
This Agreement may not be
modified, amended or waived except by an instrument in writing signed by both
parties hereto. The waiver by either
party of compliance with any provision of this Agreement shall not operate or
be construed as a waiver of any other provision of this Agreement, or of any
subsequent breach by such party of a provision of this Agreement.
20. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, which
together shall constitute one and the same original.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, as of
the date first above written, the Corporation has caused this Agreement to be
executed on its behalf by a duly authorized officer and the Optionee has
hereunto set the Optionees hand.
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Exhibit 10.9
AMENDMENT
NUMBER 1
TO
AGREEMENT
DATED
AS OF FEBRUARY 5, 2004
BETWEEN
VICTOR KAUFMAN
AND
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
This amendment (this Amendment) to
that Agreement (the Agreement), dated as of February 5, 2004, by
and between IAC/InterActiveCorp (the Company) and Victor Kaufman (Executive),
is effective as of the consummation of the spin-off (the Transaction) of
Expedia, Inc., a Delaware company (Expedia), from the Company, as
contemplated by the Registration Statement on Form S-4 initially filed on April 25,
2005 (the Amendment Effective Date).
All capitalized terms used herein without definition will have the
meaning given them in the Agreement.
WHEREAS, it is the intention of the parties
to amend the terms of the Agreement as a result of the Transaction as set forth
below.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
1. Upon
the Amendment Effective Date, the third sentence of Section 2 of the
Agreement shall be deleted and replaced with the following:
IAC acknowledges that Executive intends to
serve as Vice Chairman of Expedia.
During the Term, the Executive shall devote at least 80% of his business
time and attention (defined consistent with past practice) to his duties to the
IAC Group and Expedia, provided, that the Executive agrees that the
Executives duties to the IAC Group shall be the Executives first priority
among his business activities.
2. Upon
the Amendment Effective Date, Section 3 of the Agreement shall be deleted
in its entirety.
3. Neither
the Venture nor any activities undertaken by Executive on behalf of Expedia
shall be deemed competitive with the IAC Group.
4. In
the event that Executive ceases to be Vice Chairman of Expedia for any reason
whatsoever after the Amendment Effective Date but during the Term, the
amendment to the agreement contemplated by Section 1 and Section 2
hereof shall, from such point forward, be null and void.
5. In
the event the Company determines that Executive is in breach of the Agreement,
he shall be provided notice and a reasonable opportunity to cure.
6. Except
as explicitly set forth herein, the Agreement will remain in full force and
effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have
executed this Amendment as of June 6, 2005.
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Exhibit 31.1
Certification
I,
Barry Diller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp ("IAC"), certify that:
- 1.
- I
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of IAC;
- 2.
- Based
on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light
of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
- 3.
- Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
- 4.
- The
registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f))
for the registrant and have:
- a)
- designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating
to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
- b)
- designed
such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
- c)
- evaluated
the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation; and
- d)
- disclosed
in this quarterly report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this quarterly report that has
materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and
- 5.
- The
registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the
audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
- a)
- all
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
registrant's 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 the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
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Exhibit 31.2
Certification
I,
Thomas J. McInerney, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp ("IAC"), certify that:
- 1.
- I
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of IAC;
- 2.
- Based
on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light
of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
- 3.
- Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition,
results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
- 4.
- The
registrant's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f))
for the registrant and have:
- a)
- designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating
to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
- b)
- designed
such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
- c)
- evaluated
the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure
controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation; and
- d)
- disclosed
in this quarterly report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this quarterly report that has
materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and
- 5.
- The
registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the
audit committee of the registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
- a)
- all
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the
registrant's 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 the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
Date:
November 9, 2005
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Executive Vice President
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Exhibit 32.1
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I,
Barry Diller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp (the "Company"), certify, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350, that, to my knowledge:
- (1)
- the
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Company for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005 (the "Report") which this statement accompanies fully
complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)); and
- (2)
- the
information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
Dated:
November 9, 2005
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By: |
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/s/ BARRY DILLER Barry Diller
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
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Exhibit 32.2
CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
I, Thomas J. McInerney, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp (the "Company"), certify, pursuant to Section 906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that, to my knowledge:
- (1)
- the
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Company for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005 (the "Report") which this statement accompanies fully
complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78m or 78o(d)); and
- (2)
- the
information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
Dated:
November 9, 2005
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By: |
/s/ THOMAS J. MCINERNEY Thomas J. McInerney
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer |
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CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002