1.1 CALIDAD DE VIDA
1.1.2 CALIDAD DE VIDA Y TRABAJO
(a) The Company has filed with or furnished to the SEC all forms, reports and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC since December 31, 2013 (such documents filed since December 31, 2013, and those filed by the Company with the SEC subsequent to the date of this Agreement, if any, including any amendments thereof, the “SEC Reports”). Each SEC Report (i) complied, or if filed subsequent to the date of this Agreement will comply, as to form in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the Exchange Act, as the case may be, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“ SOX”) and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and (ii) did not, at the time it was filed (or, if amended prior to the date hereof, as of the date of such amendment), contain, or if filed after the date hereof, at the time of filing will not contain, any untrue statement of a material fact, or omit to state a material fact, required to be stated therein or
necessary in order to make the statements made therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. No Company Subsidiary is required to file any form, report or other document with the SEC.
(b) Each of the consolidated financial statements contained in the SEC Reports (i) complied, or will comply, as the case may be, as of their respective dates of filing with the SEC, in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto, (ii) was, or will be, as the case may be, prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods indicated (except as may be indicated in the notes thereto), and (iii) fairly presents, or will fairly present, as the case may be, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated Company Subsidiaries as at the respective dates thereof and for the respective periods indicated therein (subject, in the case of unaudited interim statements, to normal and recurring year‑end adjustments).
(c) Except as and to the extent set forth on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and the Company Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2015, including the notes thereto, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year then ended as previously filed by the Company with the SEC (the “December 2015
Balance Sheet”), neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary has any liability or obligation of any nature
(whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise), and there is no existing condition, situation or set of
circumstances that would reasonably be expected to result in such a liability or obligation, except for (i) liabilities and obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business since the date of the December 2015 Balance Sheet that are not material the Company, (ii) liabilities and obligations under executory Contracts to which the Company or any
Company Subsidiary is a party as of (and as existing at) the date of this Agreement or entered into after the date hereof as permitted by the terms of this Agreement, other than as a result of a breach thereunder, and (iii) liabilities
and obligations incurred in good faith in connection with the preparation and negotiation of this Agreement or pursuant to this Agreement or in connection with the Transaction or potential alternative Transactions.
(d) Except as set forth on Section 3.7(d) of the Disclosure Schedule, as of the date of this Agreement, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any Indebtedness and none of their respective assets or properties is subject to any material Lien (other than Permitted Liens). The face value of the MTDC Notes on February 29, 2016 was $5.2 million.
(e) Each of the principal executive officer of the Company and the principal financial officer of the Company (and each former principal executive officer of the Company and each former principal financial officer of the Company, as applicable) has made all certifications required by Rule 13a‑14 or 15d‑14 under the Exchange Act or Sections 302 and 906 of SOX and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder with respect to the SEC Reports, and the statements contained in such certifications are true and correct. For purposes of this Section 3.7(d), “principal executive officer” and “principal financial officer” shall have the meanings given to such terms in SOX. Neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries has outstanding, or has arranged any outstanding,
“extensions of credit” to directors or executive officers within the meaning of Section 402 of SOX. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with SOX.
(f) Neither the Company nor any Company Subsidiary is a party to, or has any commitment to become a party to, any joint venture, off-balance sheet partnership or any similar contract or arrangement (including any contract or arrangement relating to any transaction or relationship between or among the Company and any Company Subsidiary, on the one hand, and any unconsolidated affiliate, including any structured finance, special purpose or limited purpose entity or person, on the other hand, or any “off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in Item 303(a) of Regulation S-K of the SEC)), where the result, purpose or intended effect of such contract or arrangement is to avoid disclosure of any material transaction involving, or material liabilities of, the Company or any Company Subsidiary in the Company’s or such Company Subsidiary’s published financial statements or other of the SEC Reports.
(g) The Company maintains a system of “internal controls over financial reporting” as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) of the Exchange Act.
(h) The Company’s “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act) (i) are reasonably designed to ensure that all information (both financial and non-financial) required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC and (ii) include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the management of Company, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure and to enable the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of the Company to make the certifications required under the Exchange Act with respect to such reports.
(i) The Company’s management has completed an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of SOX for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015, and such assessment concluded that such controls were effective. Since December 31, 2013, the Company has disclosed to the Company’s outside auditors and the audit committee of the Company (and made copies of such disclosures available to Parent) (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a‑15(f) of the Exchange Act) that are reasonably likely to adversely affect in any material respect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data, (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting, and (iii) any Claim of any of the foregoing. Since December 31, 2013, except as disclosed in the SEC Reports filed prior to the date hereof, the Company has not received from its independent auditors any oral or written notification of a (x) “significant deficiency” or (y) “material weakness” in the Company’s internal controls. For purposes of this Agreement, the terms “significant deficiency” and “material weakness” shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Statements of Auditing Standards 60, as in effect on the date hereof.
(j) The Company has made available to Parent copies of all comment letters received by the Company from the SEC since December 31, 2013, relating to the Company’s SEC Reports and all responses of the Company thereto. There are no outstanding unresolved comments with respect to the Company or the SEC Reports noted in comment letters or other correspondence received by the Company or its attorneys from the SEC, and, to the
Knowledge of the Company, there are no pending (i) formal or informal investigations of the Company by the SEC or (ii) inspection of an audit of the Company’s financial statements by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Since December 31, 2013, there has been no material written complaint, allegation, assertion or other Claim that the Company or any Company Subsidiary has engaged in improper or illegal accounting or auditing practices or maintains improper or inadequate internal accounting controls. Since December 31, 2013, no current or former attorney
representing the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries has reported in writing evidence of a material violation of securities laws, breach of fiduciary duty or similar violation by the Company or any of its officers, directors, employees or agents to the Company Board or any committee thereof or to any director or executive officer of the Company.
(k) To the Knowledge of the Company, since December 31, 2013, no employee of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries has provided or is providing information to any law enforcement agency regarding the possible commission of any crime or the violation or possible violation of any Law of the type described in Section 806 of SOX. Neither the Company nor any of the Company Subsidiaries nor, to the Knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, employee, contractor, subcontractor or agent of the Company or any such Company Subsidiary has discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed or in any other manner discriminated against an employee of the Company or any of the Company Subsidiaries in the terms and conditions of employment because of any lawful act of such employee described in Section 806 of SOX.
(l) The Company has adopted a code of ethics, as defined by Item 406(b) of Regulation S-K of the SEC, for senior financial officers, applicable to its principal financial officer, comptroller or principal accounting officer, or persons performing similar functions. The Company has promptly disclosed any change in or waiver of the Company’s code of ethics with respect to any such persons, as required by Section 406(b) of SOX. To the Knowledge of the Company, since December 31, 2013, there have been no material violations of provisions of the Company’s code of ethics by any such persons.